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Did you know that the Gaiety Girls in shows produced by George Edwardes at the Gaiety Theatre were so popular that the restaurant where they dined became the centre of nightlife in London during the Victorian era?
Did you know that the Kentucky Irish American counted among its subscribers Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman?
Did you know that the earliest known athletics competition in Australia took place in Sydney in 1810?
Did you know that the influx of Irish to Louisville (example of Irish-built housing pictured) led to the diminishing of slaves in Louisville by 1860?
Did you know that when Drake University basketball player Adam Emmenecker was named 2008 Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year, the conference called him "perhaps the most improbable Player of the Year" in its history?
Did you know that , as a protection against abuses by a temporary majority, any two members of a deliberative assembly may postpone action to another day with a motion to reconsider and enter on the minutes?
Did you know that , during a conflict which split the Romanian far right, the antisemitic newspaper Sfarmă-Piatră oscillated between the fascist Iron Guard and the corporatist National Renaissance Front?
Did you know that Alexander Solzhenitsyn composed his 12,000-line-long poem Prussian Nights while imprisoned in a GULAG camp, writing down each day a few lines on a bar of soap?
Did you know that Archbishop John Ireland refused to allow the Irish in Saint Paul, Minnesota to have a Saint Patrick's Day parade due to previous celebrations turning into what he called "midnight orgies"?
Did you know that Bess Thomas, a former Australian librarian, became the first female to be given the position of "Chief Librarian" in New South Wales?
Did you know that Irish-born Major League Baseball player Jimmy Archer received a medal from the National Safety Council in 1931 for reviving two men overcome by carbon monoxide in the Chicago stockyards?
Did you know that King Lugaid mac Lóegairi was said by the Vita tripartita Sancti Patricii to have been struck dead by lightning because he mocked Saint Patrick?
Did you know that Ron Arias, a senior writer and correspondent for People magazine and People en Español, was influenced by twentieth-century Latin American literature?
Did you know that Stonehenge in its landscape, described by one reviewer as "one of the more important British archaeological publications this century", had a print run of just 800 copies?
Did you know that a 1970 bomb caused US$170,000 worth of damage at City Hall in Portland, Oregon, but no one was ever arrested for the crime?
Did you know that after Crewe Hall in Cheshire was gutted by fire in 1866, E. M. Barry was employed to restore it to a facsimile of the Jacobean original?
Did you know that former Chilean presidential spokesman Ricardo Lagos Weber was the main organizer of the 2004 APEC annual meeting held in Santiago, Chile that year, and the president of APEC's Senior Officials Meeting II?
Did you know that hard bop jazz drummer Roy Brooks, who played with Horace Silver and Max Roach, was sentenced to four years in prison for assault at age 62?
Did you know that the 1940 Battle of France forced 72-year-old British engineer William Binnie to work for his passage home as a cook's assistant on a collier?
Did you know that the current Northam Bridge in Southampton, England was the first major road bridge to be built using prestressed concrete in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that the indemnity money paid to the U.S. after the Boxer Rebellion was used to fund a scholarship program which led to the founding of Tsinghua University in Beijing?
Did you know that , buried in the porch of St Alkmund's Church, Whitchurch, is the heart of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, who was killed at the Battle of Castillon in 1453?
Did you know that Finnish film director Valentin Vaala was reportedly so disappointed with his first film that he dumped the original camera negatives into the sea?
Did you know that Japan Steel Works is the only company in the world which can make the central part of a nuclear reactor's containment vessel in a single piece, and a backlog may lead to a global delay in constructing nuclear power plants?
Did you know that Johnson Creek, one of the few free-flowing streams in the Portland, Oregon area, overflowed its banks 37 times between 1971 and 2006?
Did you know that Kenneth Woollcombe, a former Bishop of Oxford, was a member of the Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved when it granted a faculty for the controversial altar by Henry Moore?
Did you know that Major League Baseball player Sparky Adams was part of the St. Louis Cardinals team in 1930 when every single regular player had a batting average over .300, the only time in history this has happened?
Did you know that Max Noether, called "one of the greatest mathematicians of the nineteenth century", learned advanced mathematics mostly through self-study?
Did you know that Mike Menosky, a probation officer who was a former baseball player, helped to dismiss a court case by proving the defendant could not have thrown a rock 250 feet (76 m)?
Did you know that Mohamed Camara's 1997 film Dakan was the first West African film to explore homosexuality?
Did you know that Xue Ji was considered one of the four great calligraphers of the early Tang Dynasty?
Did you know that in 1745, Daniel Juslenius, a Finnish Fennoman, finished the first formal Finnish dictionary?
Did you know that military engineer Thomas Phillips, is depicted in a 17th-century painting with Brave Benbow, but an almost identical painting has him replaced by the Earl of Orford?
Did you know that over 90% of Lithuanian Jews perished in the first few months of Operation Barbarossa in the Holocaust in Lithuania?
Did you know that rock edicts of Emperor Ashoka, found at Brahmagiri in the present-day Karnataka state of India, indicated the southernmost extent of the Mauryan Empire?
Did you know that television pioneer Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. became the inventor of the video game when he took out a video game patent in 1948?
Did you know that the 2002 surge of the Kolka Glacier resulted in deaths of at least 125 people?
Did you know that the Baháʼí community in Brazil was established when Leonora Holsapple Armstrong, the first Baháʼí permanent resident in South America, arrived in Brazil in 1921?
Did you know that the Concessionary Bus Travel Act 2007 entitles all persons in England who are over the age of 60 or disabled to free bus travel throughout the country during off-peak hours?
Did you know that the Cone sisters were friends of Gertrude Stein and amassed a collection of artwork of Picasso, Renoir, Gauguin and van Gogh — now worth one billion US dollars?
Did you know that the Emberá in Panama use the hard, durable trunks of Dictyocaryum palms to construct coffins?
Did you know that the Landing Vehicle Tracked was developed after future admiral Edward C. Kalbfus showed a magazine article about an amphibious rescue vehicle to a Marine Corps general at a party?
Did you know that the contemporaries of Jean-Étienne Liotard regarded The Chocolate Girl as the artist's masterpiece?
Did you know that the history of aspirin has been marked by fierce competition, patent and trademark battles, and even an international conspiracy known as the Great Phenol Plot?
Did you know that the original Victoria Dam constructed in 1891 was the first dam in Western Australia, and it stood for almost 100 years before being replaced with the current dam?
Did you know that the practice of slavery in Wallachia and Moldavia lasted until the 1850s, and is what forced many local Roma people into sedentism?
Did you know that , before signing to Career/Arista Records in 1996 and charting three singles, country singer and pianist Tammy Graham was a regular performer at Caesars Palace?
Did you know that 2007 Colorado Buffaloes' starting quarterback Cody Hawkins was on ESPNU's reality show Summer House?
Did you know that Cassià Maria Just was one of the Catholic Church members in Spain who showed their opposition to Francisco Franco?
Did you know that Eugene, Oregon's The Register-Guard is the second largest newspaper in Oregon?
Did you know that Filipino jazz singer Katy de la Cruz was once a top-billed performer at the famed Forbidden City nightclub in San Francisco?
Did you know that Meeker's Hardware, a hardware store in  Danbury, Connecticut, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, sold Coca-Colas for five cents until 2005?
Did you know that Robert H. Pruyn, the second American Minister to Japan, was instrumental in negotiating reparations over the 1863 Bombardment of Shimonoseki?
Did you know that Samuel Lines' art lessons in Birmingham started at 5 a.m.?
Did you know that The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is the first major film or television production to be shot on location in Botswana?
Did you know that Thursday of the Dead is a springtime feast day shared by Muslims and Christians in the Levant that involves colouring eggs, visiting the cemetery and distributing food to the poor?
Did you know that a group of Forest Grove, Oregon residents posed nude for a calendar to raise funds to buy the Alvin T. Smith House?
Did you know that a skyscraper in Croydon has been nicknamed the 50p Building because it resembles a pile of 50p coins?
Did you know that about 63 dams with a capacity of over 100 million cubic metres account for 95% of the water storage capacity of Mexico?
Did you know that cell-free protein array technology attempts to simplify protein microarray construction by using cells from sources such as E. coli, rabbit reticulocytes and wheat germ?
Did you know that chemist Ernest Beaux created Chanel No. 5 perfume?
Did you know that despite being involved in high school theatre, Darla Vandenbossche only decided to pursue acting when she reached the age of 36?
Did you know that some Norton, Massachusetts residents complain they have trouble selling their homes because Lake Winnecunnett is  "a weed-infested, mosquito breeding swamp"?
Did you know that the Central Library in Portland, Oregon was one of the first libraries in the United States to feature an open plan design?
Did you know that the Joseon Korean official Choe Bu wrote a travel diary about his shipwrecked stay in Ming China that eventually became widely printed in Korea and Japan during the 16th century?
Did you know that the Māori name for the New Zealand Agency for International Development is Nga Hoe Tuputupu-mai-tawhiti, which means 'the paddles that bring growth from afar'?
Did you know that the military theories of the 18th-century Welsh soldier Henry Lloyd were studied by George Washington and George S. Patton?
Did you know that the palm Dictyosperma album in the Mascarene Islands is commonly called "hurricane palm" because of its ability to withstand strong winds by easily shedding leaves?
Did you know that the writer Mikhail Mikhalkov, brother of Sergei Mikhalkov, who wrote the Soviet anthem, was an NKVD agent acting in Nazi Germany and later a GULAG inmate?
Did you know that Cymric Oil Field has the fastest-growing production of any oil field in California?
Did you know that Gustave Courbet's erotic painting Femme nue couchée, recovered in 2005 after disappearing during World War II, had been given to a Slovak doctor in return for medical treatment?
Did you know that Hamilton Disston purchased four million acres of land—larger than the state of Connecticut—for just $1 million in 1881 in a failed attempt to drain the Everglades?
Did you know that Labour Party politician Hugh Brown was a British negotiator with Iceland during the third Cod War in the 1970s?
Did you know that Sami Hadawi, author of works on the land rights of Palestinian refugees, was exiled by Israel in 1948 and denied permission to have his remains returned to his native Jerusalem for burial in 2004?
Did you know that Sixty Rayburn, a 44-year member of the Louisiana State Senate who died in 2008, was the driving force behind the establishment of the Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine?
Did you know that Stanislav Konopásek lost five years of his ice hockey-playing career when he was imprisoned for allegedly trying to defect from Czechoslovakia in 1950?
Did you know that Still Restless, a 2004 album by country band Restless Heart, was their first album of all-new material in fourteen years?
Did you know that Tajikistan was one of the deadliest countries for journalists  in the 1990s, with  dozens of journalists killed, including Belarusian documentary filmmaker Arcady Ruderman and Bukharan Jewish journalist Meirkhaim Gavrielov?
Did you know that Van Nuys Boulevard, running through the heart of LA's San Fernando Valley, was a center of teenage cruising from the 1950s through the 1970s?
Did you know that Virgil Johnson, the lead singer of the doo wop group The Velvets, retired from his career as a school principal and is now a deejay in Lubbock, Texas?
Did you know that actor Daniel Dae Kim was arrested for driving under the influence just days before shooting "Ji Yeon", an episode of Lost's fourth season?
Did you know that after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, former President Ronald Reagan established the Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute to work toward a cure for Alzheimer's?
Did you know that despite its name, the Togian White-eye, a species of bird endemic to the Togian Islands of Indonesia, lacks the white eye rings typical of its genus?
Did you know that in 1964, units of No. 81 Wing RAAF were deployed to Darwin, Northern Territory as contingency in the event of an air attack on Australia during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation?
Did you know that the Eurymedon vase has been cited as evidence of Ancient Greek sexual mores?
Did you know that the Upper Brook Street Chapel in Manchester, designed by Sir Charles Barry shortly before he designed the Palace of Westminster, is said to be the first neogothic Nonconformist chapel?
Did you know that the Virginian Railway Passenger Station in Roanoke was named to the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places after it was extensively damaged in a fire?
Did you know that the creation of Grosvenor Museum, Chester was inspired by a society formed by Charles Kingsley, then a canon of Chester Cathedral?
Did you know that the discovery of horse bones at the archaeological site of Hallur in south India refuted the theory that horses were introduced to this region as part of the Indo-Aryan migration?
Did you know that the inbred villagers of Stoccareddo in Italy are a medical phenomenon, with unusually low frequencies of hypertension, strokes and heart attacks despite a high-cholesterol diet?
Did you know that traditional Easter games such as egg rolling, egg tapping, egg tossing, egg hunting and egg dancing date back hundreds of years to a time when the egg was considered a symbol of rebirth?
Did you know that British wine critic Stuart Pigott published five commandments regarding wine drinking and appreciation, including "for wine, there is no connection between price and quality"?
Did you know that English sculptor Henry Weekes' monument to Percy Bysshe Shelley, modelled on Michelangelo's Pietà, includes realistic touches such as seaweed wrapped around the drowned poet's arm?
Did you know that General Benjamin Tupper's horse was killed under him at the Battle of Monmouth during the American Revolutionary War?
Did you know that John Tavener's "Song for Athene", sung at the funeral of Princess Diana, combines texts from the Orthodox funeral service and Shakespeare's Hamlet?
Did you know that Joseph Canyon was named after Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe, who was born in a cave at the mouth of the canyon?
Did you know that Polish novelist Bolesław Prus, who had been a young soldier in the Polish 1863–65 Uprising, wrote a short story, "Fading Voices", whose protagonist had served in the 1830–31 Uprising?
Did you know that Scripps marine chemist Edward D. Goldberg suggested using mussels to measure the amount of pollution in the oceans?
Did you know that according to Hindu mythology, the deity Revanta was born from the union of the sun-god Surya and his wife Saranya in the form of horse and mare?
Did you know that after discovering a suitcase with US$800,000 in Maletinazo, policewoman Maria de Lujan Telpuk appeared on the cover of the Argentine and Venezuelan editions of Playboy?
Did you know that an honors student was suspended from a New Haven school for buying Skittles brand candy?
Did you know that four of the fifteen head coaches of the Green Bay Packers are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame?
Did you know that homoclines are tilted rock structures that can form ridges?
Did you know that in 1962 doctors went on strike in Saskatchewan for 23 days in an unsuccessful attempt to stop the introduction of universal health insurance?
Did you know that in the 1944 Battle of Murowana Oszmianka, the Polish resistance Armia Krajowa dealt a significant defeat to the Nazi-Lithuanian Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force?
Did you know that in the days immediately following the revelation of her role in the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, the MySpace page of Ashley Alexandra Dupré was viewed over 9 million times?
Did you know that microorganisms in the Archaea domain produce antimicrobial protein toxins known as archaeocins?
Did you know that several private homes in the Los Cerritos neighborhood of Long Beach, California have been used in movies, including depicting the Bueller family's Chicago home in the 1986 comedy film Ferris Bueller's Day Off?
Did you know that the British Expeditionary Force in 1914 included 90% of the British Army units normally based in the United Kingdom, leaving less than a division of regular soldiers for home defence?
Did you know that the Da Ming Hun Yi Tu‎ Chinese world map, painted on silk in 1389, includes the earliest surviving depiction of the Drakensberg mountains in southern Africa?
Did you know that the Rose bedeguar gall was used as a cure for baldness, colic and toothaches?
Did you know that the Zamość Uprising was one of the major operations of the Polish resistance movement in World War II, and succeeded in significantly delaying German plans to evict the Polish inhabitants and colonize the region?
Did you know that when built in 1868, Louisville's Fourteenth Street Bridge was the longest iron bridge in the United States?
Did you know that 1050 AM ESPN Radio in New York City was launched by American politician Rob Astorino?
Did you know that 15th-century heralds attributed a coat of arms to Jesus based on the instruments of the Passion?
Did you know that Bhutan has a low crime rate and is the first nation in the world to ban tobacco sales?
Did you know that Clarence Lightner was the first African-American elected mayor of any metropolitan Southern United States city?
Did you know that Edgar Allan Poe wrote "The Raven" while living at what is now called Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in the Fordham section of The Bronx in New York City?
Did you know that Hans Gude replaced Johann Schirmer as the professor of landscape painting at the Düsseldorf school, even though as a professor Schirmer had told Gude to give up painting?
Did you know that Helen Bee identified that people make both an inner and outer journey through adulthood?
Did you know that according to the old hexachordal principle, the sixth aria of Hexachordum Apollinis should have been in B-flat major, but the composer Pachelbel wrote it in 1699 as an F minor?
Did you know that after Norwegian film maker Odd F. Lindberg  made a documentary exposing inhumane Norwegian seal hunting methods, the hostile reaction encouraged him to emigrate?
Did you know that after the Aztec Coatlicue statue was discovered, it was buried again to prevent it becoming the object of a cult?
Did you know that chef and restaurateur Suzanne Goin won the 2006 James Beard award for Best Chef in California as well as being a five time James Beard foundation award nominee?
Did you know that from 1908 the Cone Mills Corporation (mill pictured) was the world's largest producer of denim fabric, making its founder Moses H. Cone the "Denim King?"
Did you know that one of Catherine de' Medici's court festivals featured an artificial whale that spouted red wine when harpooned?
Did you know that the Anekāntavāda philosophy of Jainism encourages its adherents to consider the beliefs of their rivals and opposing parties?
Did you know that the Eva archaeological site in Tennessee was inhabited from about 6000 to 1000 BC, but it is now below water?
Did you know that the Rev. James Hackman, Rector of Wiveton in Norfolk, was hanged for the murder of Martha Ray, mistress of the fourth Earl of Sandwich?
Did you know that the late 18th-century watercolor The Old Plantation contains the first known depiction of a banjo precursor in American art?
Did you know that the only black college to field a NCAA lacrosse team is the Morgan State University Lacrosse Bears?
Did you know that the script for the Lost episode "Meet Kevin Johnson" was completed on the day that the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike began?
Did you know that three-foot-tall stone slabs were placed every five miles to mark the boundary between Kentucky and Tennessee?
Did you know that African American artist James W. Washington, Jr. first gained visibility in 1938 working with the WPA in his native Mississippi, but was later associated with the Northwest School?
Did you know that Fahmida Mirza is the first female Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan?
Did you know that Peter Carl Fabergé crafted the Czarevich Fabergé egg in 1912 as a tribute to Czarevich Alexei after his survival from a hemophilia-related illness?
Did you know that Roman Catholic priests afflicted with alcoholism or other ailments can use unfermented grape juice, known as mustum, in place of sacramental wine during the Eucharist?
Did you know that Vaux-de-Cernay Abbey in Ile-de-France, founded in 1118, had a saintly abbot, was bought by a Rothschild and is now a hotel?
Did you know that Walter of Pontoise was the last person to be canonized in Western Europe by someone other than the Pope?
Did you know that in 1669, the Jesuit missionary and astronomer Ferdinand Verbiest persuaded the Kangxi Emperor to remove a month from the Chinese calendar?
Did you know that in his print Columbus Breaking the Egg William Hogarth attempted to draw parallels between himself and Christopher Columbus?
Did you know that since 2006 Beijing has had a legal limit of one dog per family?
Did you know that the 2003 documentary Prisoner of Paradise is a chronicle of the life of Kurt Gerron, a German Jewish actor who was forced to make a Nazi propaganda film and later murdered in a Nazi concentration camp?
Did you know that the American southern gospel group The Dixie Nightingales at one time included future Temptations lead singer David Ruffin among its ranks, and later evolved into the secular Stax Records soul group "Ollie & the Nightingales"?
Did you know that the Dragon Bridge is the first bridge in Slovenia paved with asphalt and the first reinforced concrete bridge in Ljubljana?
Did you know that the Intelligencer Journal of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, established in 1796, is one of the oldest newspapers in the United States?
Did you know that the U.S. Department of Defense pays the owners of the MV Baffin Strait (T-AK W9519) US$12,550 per day to carry cargo from Singapore to Diego Garcia?
Did you know that the blue bottle fly (Calliphora vicina), the green bottle fly (Lucilia illustris), the hairy maggot blowfly (Chrysomya rufifacies), the black blow fly (Phormia regina) and the coffin fly (Megaselia scalaris) are useful tools to forensic entomologists in determining the time of death of a corpse?
Did you know that the career of Tiia Piili, four-time FISAF World Champion in sport aerobics, was threatened when she got food poisoning attending a competition in Morocco?
Did you know that the cruise ship MS Columbus C. sank in Cádiz harbour after accidentally ramming the harbour's breakwater in 1984?
Did you know that the olive tree is the ultimate symbol of sumud, a key ideological theme among Palestinians since the 1967 war?