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Did you know that the Belletable House, now located at the Fort Rock Valley Historical Homestead Museum, is thought to be the largest home built in the Fort Rock Valley during the area's homestead era?
Did you know that the Nancy Lincoln Inn was once deemed an "unacceptable adjacent commercialization" to the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace N.H.S.?
Did you know that the Orb Aqueduct in Béziers, France, was opened in 1858 and carries the Canal du Midi over the Orb River at a height of 12 metres (39 ft)?
Did you know that the Petersen House, where Abraham Lincoln died after being shot, contains the bloodstained pillow that Lincoln laid on?
Did you know that the Soviet Union provided a site in northern Russia for the secret Nazi German naval base Basis Nord as a part of a broader bilateral relation which included strategic and commercial agreements?
Did you know that the numerous photographs of Charles Darwin—at least 53 (example pictured)—may have helped secure the singular connection between Darwin and the theory of evolution in popular thought?
Did you know that the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis is often considered the first significant result in what came to be called molecular biology?
Did you know that the title of Rao Bahadur was bestowed upon Indian historian S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar?
Did you know that three years before the Battle of the Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer faced the forces of Sitting Bull in battle at Honsinger Bluff?
Did you know that , according to architectural historian Neil Levine, Frank Lloyd Wright agreed to hold the 1930 Kahn Lectures for the "prestige of the venue and the bully pulpit it would afford him"?
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln's "earliest recollection" was of his boyhood home Knob Creek Farm?
Did you know that Charles Darwin's final scientific book discussed the formation of mould through the action of earthworms?
Did you know that Consort Zheng, concubine of Emperor Xianzong of Tang, was originally a servant girl for his wife Consort Guo?
Did you know that Emperor Xuānzong of Tang, the son of Emperor Xianzong by a concubine, suspected Xianzong's wife Consort Guo of being complicit in Xianzong's murder?
Did you know that Herbert Spencer, secretary of the Derby Philosophical Society, first suggested the term "survival of the fittest" after reading Charles Darwin's idea of evolution?
Did you know that India's imports fell by 47% and exports by 49% between 1929 and 1932 due to the Great Depression?
Did you know that Joe M. Rodgers, who spent six hours a day for four months learning French after being named U.S. Ambassador to France, later became CEO of language school operator Berlitz International?
Did you know that Lucian Piane created a satirical techno remix, "Bale Out", utilizing a verbal rant actor Christian Bale made on the set of Terminator Salvation?
Did you know that Paul Galloway and Bob Greene co-wrote Bagtime, a serial published in the Chicago Sun-Times about a fictional supermarket bagger, which was made into a stage musical and a pilot for a TV series?
Did you know that Sir Thomas Allin's service during the Second Anglo-Dutch War included covering the retreat at the Four Days Battle, and then leading the attack at the St. James's Day Battle?
Did you know that The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, Charles Darwin's first published theory, explains how coral atolls (example pictured) form?
Did you know that Tim Cole was the first person in Texas history to have his conviction posthumously overturned based on DNA evidence?
Did you know that Tsarong Dzasa was regarded by officials in British India as "the most powerful friend of His Majesty's Government in Tibet"?
Did you know that although Abbot Æthelwig of Evesham Abbey was known for his loyalty to William the Conqueror, he had an uncle who died fighting for King Harold, the man William deposed?
Did you know that because of the strict sex segregation of the era based on Confucianism, Korea's Joseon Dynasty created a class of specialist female physicians known  as Uinyeo?
Did you know that besides feeding on soybeans and transmitting viruses to them, a soybean aphid can also injure the plant by interfering with its photosynthetic pathways?
Did you know that during the Frankfort and Cincinnati Railroad's last week of passenger service, the superintendent transported the train's passengers in his own private vehicle?
Did you know that on its first day of open beta testing, 20,000 players created 100,000 player characters in the free online video game Runes of Magic?
Did you know that the Hechal Yehuda Synagogue in Tel Aviv is often referred to as the Seashell Synagogue due to its unusal shape, inspired by the seashells on the shores of Thessaloniki?
Did you know that the T4 rII experimental system enabled biologist Seymour Benzer to map a gene down to the level of one or two base pairs before the invention of DNA sequencing?
Did you know that the concept of "molecular disease" from the 1949 paper "Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease" became the basis for Linus Pauling's later views on molecular evolution and eugenics?
Did you know that the idea that molecular evolution is dominated by genetic drift originally took its name from the 1969 paper "Non-Darwinian Evolution"?
Did you know that the short-lived Republic of Biak-na-Bato ended after a pact was signed by Emilio Aguinaldo and Fernando Primo de Rivera?
Did you know that to help promote their single "Showdown", drum and bass band Pendulum released a Space Invaders themed video game?
Did you know that two species of bird's nest fungi, Cyathus olla and Cyathus stercoreus, have been researched for use in agriculture?
Did you know that , in the Faroe Islands, one way of preparing puffins as food is to stuff them with sweet cake dough, raisins, and spices?
Did you know that Akanthosuchus, an extinct crocodilian from the Paleocene, is the only known crocodilian with both spiked and bladed armor?
Did you know that Charles Darwin suspected some saxifrages to be protocarnivorous plants?
Did you know that Christ Bongo was one of only three Congolese footballers to score in final qualifying for the 2002 FIFA World Cup?
Did you know that Ionel Fernic made the first parachute jump in Romania on May 31, 1936, at an aviation meeting held on the Băneasa Airport in Bucharest?
Did you know that Irish musicians Lisa Hannigan and Damien Rice dueted on "Unplayed Piano", a Burmese protest song that charted in the UK and was praised by The Independent  as "a twinkly and beautiful thing"?
Did you know that Li Ning was made a crown prince of theTang Dynasty, but his mother, a consort, had to settle for a much lesser honour?
Did you know that Nancy Cartwright wrote an autobiography, later adapted into a one-woman play, called My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy?
Did you know that Ou Reang Ov District, Cambodia, was one of the 2008 sites for Operation Pacific Angel, a humanitarian mission of the U.S. Navy, Air Force, and Marines?
Did you know that Sir Donald Luddington was the last person in history to be appointed High Commissioner for the Western Pacific?
Did you know that Yohannan Sulaqa, to oppose the hereditary patriarchal succession, took a step unprecedented in the Church of the East: traveled to Rome and was there consecrated patriarch in 1553?
Did you know that after King Edward the Confessor ordered the death of Rhys ap Rhydderch, Rhys was killed and his head brought to Edward in January 1053?
Did you know that an anomalocaridid, a bizarre Cambrian organism, has been found 100 million years later, in the Devonian era?
Did you know that for the 1957 launch of Sputnik, Ben Blank filmed a golf ball attached to a clothes hanger rotating around a globe for use by CBS News in what has been described as the first newscast graphic?
Did you know that in addition to designing postage stamps, Armenian painter Arshak Fetvadjian also painted the monuments of the medieval Armenian city of Ani?
Did you know that model Jessica Hart, who was selected to appear in the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, is known for her gap tooth smile?
Did you know that the British band Echo & the Bunnymen's eighth studio album, What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?, was the first not to make it into the top 20 of the UK Albums Chart?
Did you know that the Kentucky Railway Museum, next door to an historic hotel, features the official state locomotive of Kentucky, a "Jim Crow" car, a four-star hotel on rails, and the only gas-powered motor rail car in the southeastern United States?
Did you know that the World War Memorial, built in 1928 in Kimball, West Virginia, was the first memorial to African-American veterans of World War I in the United States?
Did you know that the Zen rock garden in the grounds of Zuisen-ji temple, near Kamakura, Japan, is a nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty?
Did you know that the architect Maxwell Ayrton co-designed the old Wembley Stadium of 1923 with his partner John William Simpson?
Did you know that when called by the opposition to quit after the Kauhajoki school shooting, Finnish politician Anne Holmlund refused and compared resigning her post as Interior Minister to "desertion"?
Did you know that American composer Danny Elfman was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1990 for creating "The Simpsons Theme" and in 2005 for the Desperate Housewives theme?
Did you know that Bo Molenda played professional football, baseball and basketball and was the "workhorse" for the Green Bay Packers teams that won three consecutive NFL championships from 1929 to 1931?
Did you know that Bonnie Newman, a former chief of staff to Judd Gregg, had been named to replace him in the United States Senate until Gregg withdrew his nomination for Secretary of Commerce?
Did you know that Flemish artist Peter Tillemans was one of the founders of the sporting school of painting in England?
Did you know that Jangipara, a block in the Indian state of West Bengal, includes a mosque built in 1375?
Did you know that Joan Baez had a #8 hit single with "There but for Fortune" the same week her album Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2 reached #8?
Did you know that Kerry Kohansky Roberts attended New York University's film school at the same time as Peter Sollett, but did not meet him until they collaborated on Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist?
Did you know that NASCAR described its 2008 Crew Chief of the Year Steve Addington as the "complementary ice to driver Kyle Busch's fire"?
Did you know that Ponhea Kraek District was the home of Sek Yi, who died aged 120 years, claiming the title of Cambodia’s oldest man?
Did you know that Ralph Regenvanu has been described as Vanuatu's first anthropologist?
Did you know that Tom Brumley's performance on "Together Again" for Buck Owens was called "one of the finest steel guitar solos in the history of country music"?
Did you know that Walter of Albano, a papal legate to England in 1095, helped secure the recognition of Pope Urban II by King William II of England?
Did you know that actor and environmentalist Ron Hayes worked to establish the first Earth Day in 1970 and to preserve the Grand Canyon National Park?
Did you know that although Hungarian hammer thrower Balázs Kiss won the 1996 Olympic gold medal, his best result at the World Championships was two fourth places?
Did you know that as Governor of Madras, John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland, had Annie Besant arrested in 1917 for advocating home rule for India?
Did you know that during World War II, Kasper Idland was one of the four saboteurs who entered the Vemork heavy water facility to conduct heavy water sabotage?
Did you know that ice hockey coach Janne Karlsson has won two Swedish Championships, one World Championship, and one Olympic gold medal?
Did you know that merchants from ancient India brought Roman goods of styrax and frankincense to Han Dynasty China?
Did you know that near the altar of the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Chewton Mendip, Somerset, England, there is a stone seat for criminals taking sanctuary in the church?
Did you know that novelist Charlotte Turner Smith condemned her father for forcing her to marry and turning her into a "legal prostitute"?
Did you know that the Great Mosque of Al-Zaytuna, the oldest mosque in Tunis, Tunisia, was partly built using materials from the ruins of the ancient city of Carthage?
Did you know that the Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party was the sole Zionist party in Mandate Palestine to advocate national rights for Palestinian Arabs?
Did you know that the Irish student group Free Education for Everyone has blockaded prominent politicians in protests over tuition?
Did you know that the Japanese icebreaker Sōya survived a torpedoing by the USS Greenling in 1943 and rescued the Sakhalin Huskies Taro and Jiro from Antarctica in 1958?
Did you know that the Maasai common name for the plant Salvia merjamie is Naingungundeu, which means "smells of rats"?
Did you know that the Peterson-Dumesnil House in Louisville, Kentucky, was once the only club in the United States open exclusively to teachers?
Did you know that the RTÉ television series The Great Escape follows families as they relocate to countries such as South Africa, Australia, Austria, Italy, France and Spain?
Did you know that the first reported sighting of the bird's nest fungus Cyathus helenae was on mountain scree in the Canadian Rockies?
Did you know that the limestone quarries near Ein Yabrud in the Judean Mountains have produced the only fossils for the extinct snakes Pachyrhachis and Haasiophis?
Did you know that Allama Prabhu, the mystic-saint of 12th century Karnataka, India, was also an accomplished Vachana poet?
Did you know that American football star Albie Booth became famous after he scored all of Yale’s points in a 1929 upset win over Army?
Did you know that Dr Charles White, co-founder of the Manchester Royal Infirmary, kept the mummified body of one of his patients in a room of his house for 55 years?
Did you know that Eslanda Goode Robeson, wife of Paul Robeson, was the first black to head the Surgical Pathology Department at New York-Presbyterian Hospital?
Did you know that Grassroots, an organization formed by block club leaders, has had members elected to the Buffalo Common Council, New York State Senate and New York State Assembly?
Did you know that Hans Kristian Seip, the father of Jens Arup Seip, also had a career of his own in engineering and politics, until removed by the Nazi occupants in Norway in 1941?
Did you know that Isaac D. Barnard fought at the Battle of Plattsburg in the War of 1812, and later became Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania?
Did you know that Khan As'ad Pasha, built by Damascus governor As'ad Pasha al-Azem, is the largest khan in the city?
Did you know that Mira Rostova, Montgomery Clift's acting coach, was sent off the set of the 1960 film Wild River by director Elia Kazan after a single day of filming?
Did you know that Mule Bone, a play by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, had its world premiere in 1991, more than 60 years after it was written?
Did you know that Prey Chhor District, Cambodia, is home to an ancient temple built more than a thousand years ago?
Did you know that Surtshellir, named for the fire giant Surtr, is the longest lava cave in Iceland?
Did you know that Wictor Esbensen, a manager of the Compañía Argentina de Pesca, is the namesake of Esbensen Bay off South Georgia island?
Did you know that a radio station in Evergreen, Alabama, made national headlines in 1992 when the Supreme Court of Alabama ruled that state law allowed a disc jockey to be fired just because she is a woman?
Did you know that catastrophic flooding in 2000 destroyed 95% of the annual rice crop in Srey Santhor District, Cambodia?
Did you know that early favorites in the 2009 Kentucky Derby include the filly Stardom Bound?
Did you know that film art director Jeannine Oppewall was so heavily influenced by designers and filmmakers Charles and Ray Eames, she had her house built based completely around her Eames-designed furniture?
Did you know that in 2008 a Vincent Black Lightning sold for £221,500 becoming  the most expensive motorcycle sold at auction in the UK?
Did you know that on Stac an Armin, the highest stack in Scotland, the last great auk (example pictured) in the British Isles was clubbed to death in 1840 because it was thought to be a witch?
Did you know that the Philippine Overseas Labor Office estimates that 80% of Filipinos in Palau are undocumented immigrants?
Did you know that the extreme points of Norway include Rossøya, at 80° North, and arguably the South Pole?
Did you know that the seafaring adventures of Anne Jane Thornton inspired the ballad The Female Sailor Bold?
Did you know that while long jumper László Szalma won six medals in total at the European Indoor Championships, his best result at both the Summer Olympics and the World Championships was fourth place?
Did you know that 800 metres runner Andrew Hart was the fastest non-African in his event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games?
Did you know that Alan Scott was a blacksmith who designed and built brick ovens and promoted artisanal bread-making techniques and stone flour milling at the Callington Mill?
Did you know that Bobby Atherton was the last Hibernian captain to win the Scottish Cup, in 1902?
Did you know that Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen was born in a small village on the banks of the Mekong in Stueng Trang District?
Did you know that Monroe Sweetland was the first Democrat elected to represent Clackamas County, Oregon, in the Oregon House of Representatives in 20 years?
Did you know that Phoebe Omlie, the first licensed female transport pilot, was considered by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to be one of "eleven women whose achievements make it safe to say the world is progressing"?
Did you know that Polish historian, army officer, and independence activist Wacław Lipiński joined the anti-communist resistance, was arrested by communist secret police in 1947 and died in prison two years later?
Did you know that Sanggung was an official title of the senior fifth rank, the highest attainable for gungnyeo, a lady-in-waiting during the Joseon Dynasty of Korea?
Did you know that Sir Charles Knowles claimed that the theories on naval tactics expressed in his 1777 book were reflected in Lord Howe's victory in 1794?
Did you know that Timetoget bought diesel trains to operate on the Bratsberg Line, despite it being electrified?
Did you know that William Close, the physician father of actress Glenn Close, played a pivotal role in stemming the outbreak of the Ebola virus in Zaire in 1976?
Did you know that acqua pazza, an Italian herbed broth used to cook seafood, is literally translated as "crazy water"?
Did you know that an outburst by Christian Bale on the set of Terminator Salvation inspired the band The Mae Shi to write the song "R U Professional"?
Did you know that at Fort Glanville Conservation Park in Semaphore South, South Australia, there are regular firings of 19th-century RML 64 pounder 64 cwt guns?
Did you know that in January 2009, Mark Pollock became the first blind person to reach the South Pole?
Did you know that refugee mathematician Emil Grosswald's first three scientific papers were published under a pseudonym?
Did you know that the Comet, which sank in 1875, was described by the Evening News in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, in 1980 as the "only known treasure ship on the bottom of" Lake Superior?
Did you know that the German newspaper Illinois Staats-Zeitung, published in Chicago, played an important role in building the Republican Party in Illinois in the 1850s?
Did you know that the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals in Hillsboro, Oregon, is the biggest of its kind in the Pacific Northwest?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty's Princess Taihe, who became the Kedun (empress) of its ally Huigu, suffered through Huigu's collapse before she was able to return to the Tang?
Did you know that the discography of Lisa Hannigan includes collaborations with Mic Christopher, Mick Flannery, Cathy Davey and members of Snow Patrol and Bell X1, plus her well-known work with Damien Rice?
Did you know that upon entering the Stadio Olympica at the opening ceremonies of the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, the torch bearer tripped over a cable and fell, nearly extinguishing the Olympic flame?
Did you know that while most beers are vegetarian, some—like British cask ales which use fish parts to clear the finished product—are not?
Did you know that , unusually for an eighteenth-century novel, the heroine of Charlotte Turner Smith's Emmeline does not meet the man she marries until half-way through the story?
Did you know that Australian Frederick Hamilton March was awarded the Empire Gallantry Medal for his conduct during the assassination of the Governor-General of Sudan, Sir Lee Stack?
Did you know that His Majesty's Theatre in Perth, Western Australia, is thought to be Australia's only remaining working Edwardian theatre?
Did you know that Jack Kramer was the St. Louis Browns' Opening Day starting pitcher in 1944, the only season the Browns played in the World Series?
Did you know that Joe Dini, the owner of Dini's Lucky Club, a casino in Yerington, Nevada, was the longest serving member of the Nevada State Assembly?
Did you know that Levantine architect  of French descent Raymond Charles Père, who designed the landmark Izmir Clock Tower in Turkey, was a native of Izmir?
Did you know that Luke Smith left video game journalism to work for game developer Bungie, after he had called their game Halo 2 "broken"?
Did you know that Rascal Flatts' 2009 single "Here Comes Goodbye" was co-written by American Idol season 6 finalist Chris Sligh?
Did you know that actor and broadcaster Dean Miller, who played the son-in-law on CBS's December Bride, later bought what became WMVR-FM radio in his native Ohio?
Did you know that communities of the Dagaaba people of Ghana in the 1990s still used cowrie shells as an alternate currency, long after they had been replaced elsewhere by the Ghanaian cedi?
Did you know that detection of fungal infection by the wood-decay fungus Fuscoporia torulosa can be performed in six hours using the polymerase chain reaction?
Did you know that former fashion model Gail O'Neill refused to appear in advertisements for cigarettes or for sponsors with substantial investments in South Africa?
Did you know that on January 22 Barack Obama issued an executive order requiring interrogations by any U.S. agency to comply with the Army's Human Intelligence Collector Operations field manual?
Did you know that rolling meth labs used for the illegal production of methamphetamine have been known to explode, endangering motorists and police officers?
Did you know that the Dayton Triangles, a traveling team, folded after their 1929 season, losing their final seventeen games as a National Football League franchise by a combined score of 301–22?
Did you know that the Permanent University Fund's US$8.8 billion and 2.1 million-acre (840,000 ha) land assets help fund public higher education in Texas?
Did you know that the new Prime Minister of Somalia, Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, has Canadian citizenship and his family is based in Virginia, USA?
Did you know that the recipe for chicken fried bacon was developed in the small town of Snook, Texas, at Sodolak's Original Country Inn?
Did you know that the top of the Chapel of Saint-Michel at Parc naturel régional d'Armorique is the highest point in Brittany, France?
Did you know that "Cappy" Cappon, known for his "five-man weave" basketball offense, was mentor to Princeton athletes from the 1930s to the 1960s, including Bill Bradley and Frank Deford?
Did you know that Air Vice Marshal Joe Hewitt began his military career as a thirteen-year-old cadet in the Royal Australian Navy?
Did you know that Albert Bassermann, bearer of the Iffland-Ring, considered the ring cursed after all three of the successors he named died shortly after he named them?
Did you know that Christian Holtermann Knudsen was a founder of the Norwegian Labour Party and the newspaper Dagsavisen?
Did you know that Clussexx Three D Grinchy Glee, a Sussex Spaniel also known as "Stump", is the oldest dog to win Best in Show at the Westminster Dog Show?