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Did you know that professional wrestler Ángel Blanco was killed in a car accident that left his long-time tag team partner Dr. Wagner an invalid?
Did you know that the 2005 Liberty Bowl was the first time Fresno State played a college football bowl game east of the Mississippi River?
Did you know that the Byzantine general Justinian plotted twice to overthrow Emperor Tiberius II, but was pardoned both times when the plot was discovered?
Did you know that the cover of The Byrds' compilation album, History of The Byrds, features the same David Gahr photograph as the band's Greatest Hits, Volume II album, which had been released just six months earlier?
Did you know that the engines of the Russian pre-dreadnought battleship Ekaterina II were disabled when the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutinied in June 1905 to prevent her from joining Potemkin?
Did you know that there was a Czech section of the Austrian Republikanischer Schutzbund, associated with the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers Party in Austria?
Did you know that Endre Berner, Bjørn Føyn, Carl Jacob Arnholm, Eiliv Skard, Harald K. Schjelderup and Anatol Heintz were among the professors at the University of Oslo who were arrested by Nazis during World War II?
Did you know that Julius Gehl, the vice president of the Senate of the Free City of Danzig, was a mason by profession?
Did you know that Nicolas Andry gave the field of orthopedic surgery its name with his 1741 book Orthopédie?
Did you know that Ossetian jurist and politician Alan Parastaev has been a member of the governments of both South Ossetia and Georgia?
Did you know that St Cuthbert, according to the Historia de Sancto Cuthberto, caused a Scottish army preparing to fight King Guthred of Northumbria to be swallowed up by the earth?
Did you know that Tinsley Green in West Sussex has hosted the World Marble Championships (venue pictured) every year since 1932?
Did you know that Towers Watson is world's largest employee-benefits consulting firm by revenue?
Did you know that Yakubu Mu'azu is one of a group of Nigerian former military administrators who formed the United Nigeria Development Forum, a political pressure group?
Did you know that Yale University's Street Hall (1867), designed by architect Peter Bonnett Wight, was the first collegiate art school in the U.S.?
Did you know that although he has composed music for over 20 video games and conducts the Video Games Live concert series, Jack Wall has a degree in civil engineering?
Did you know that although most famous for inventing the Quarter Pounder, Al Bernardin felt that his most important contribution to McDonald's was his development of frozen french fries?
Did you know that despite allowing the second most goals in the 2010 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Swiss goalie Benjamin Conz was selected an all-star and named the best goaltender of the tournament?
Did you know that during the Great Northern War, the army that relieved the Siege of Stralsund was forced to surrender when trapped in the Siege of Tönning?
Did you know that embryonic development in the bluntnose stingray does not start until several months after mating?
Did you know that in 2001, when Nina Frisak became the first female leader of the Norwegian Office of the Prime Minister, she left the position of Supreme Court Justice?
Did you know that in rodents, the position of the zygomatic plate varies from nearly horizontal to nearly vertical?
Did you know that longnose stingrays are born in relatively fresh water, move into saltier water soon after, and then move back into less salty water when they mature?
Did you know that musical style of Czech singer Zuzana Navarová was inspired by Latin American music?
Did you know that parts 2 and 3 of the BBC television documentary series Berlin were watched by approximately one million people in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that seven generations of Morya Gosavi – a prominent saint of the Ganapatya Hindu sect – were worshipped as incarnations of the god Ganesha, and his tomb still attracts many Ganesha devotees?
Did you know that the Italian producer Azienda Agricola Testamatta once had a wine banned in the U.S. because of its label's suggestive imagery that included the Firenze slang term for fellatio?
Did you know that the Jensen FF introduced anti-lock braking systems to the automotive world with the Dunlop Maxaret system, prompting Sports Illustrated to call it "the safest car in the world"?
Did you know that the Toledo Rockets played the Boston College Eagles in the 2002 Motor City Bowl, the first time that a bowl game was played in then-new Ford Field?
Did you know that the last known specimen of the Styre, a once-famous variety of cider apple, was felled in 1968?
Did you know that the palm Aiphanes deltoidea, which occurs across a broad area encompassing parts of Colombia, Peru and Brazil, is present at such low densities that it is considered a rare species?
Did you know that the town of Chase, Wisconsin, purchased the Daniel E. Krause Stone Barn and it is planning to create a park to preserve this historic barn?
Did you know that up to 2 million illegal immigrants are estimated to live in Pakistan's commercial capital Karachi alone?
Did you know that upon graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts, Hayato Matsuo went straight to work under Koichi Sugiyama, the composer for the Dragon Quest video game series?
Did you know that Brad Johnson, the deputy Lofty Craig on the western TV series Annie Oakley, portrayed one of six unnamed students in Ronald Reagan's 1951 film Bedtime for Bonzo?
Did you know that Frederick Hobbs, after singing leading roles from 1914 to 1920 with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, became its stage manager and then business manager for the last two decades of his life?
Did you know that Grete Prytz Kittelsen is known as the "Queen of Scandinavian Design"?
Did you know that Mallee Cliffs National Park has no public access in order to preserve the mallee eucalyptus habitat of the mallee fowl?
Did you know that Napaljarri artists include Biddy, Daisy, Susie, Kowai, Wentja, Peggy, Doris, Parara, Eileen, Louisa, Lucy, Helen, Linda, Kitty, Sheila, Valerie, Maggie, Topsy, Nora, Ada, Ngoia, Molly, Mona and Norah?
Did you know that Northwestern University's appearance in the 2003 Motor City Bowl marked the first time a Big Ten team played in that bowl game?
Did you know that Norwegian journalist Ivar Hippe is friends with the current Labour Prime Minister of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg?
Did you know that Vimcy received an award from the Kerala State Sports Council for his lifelong contributions to sports journalism?
Did you know that after travelling to Australia in 1888 aboard the Rynda (pictured in Sydney) for the colony's 26 January centenary, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich supported expanding relations between Russia and Australia?
Did you know that at the Dong Xuan night market in Hanoi, one can not only buy goods but also enjoy traditional performances such as ca trù or xẩm?
Did you know that attorney William Lair Hill codified the laws of both the states of Oregon and Washington?
Did you know that construction innovator Olav Selvaag started Norway's first music school?
Did you know that in 2001 the Richland County Public Library was named National Library of the Year by the Library Journal and the Gale Group?
Did you know that in November 1931, American country blues harmonicist Eddie Mapp was found stabbed to death at the age of 20 on an Atlanta, Georgia, street corner?
Did you know that mannerist architecture and sculpture in Poland (example pictured) were dominant between 1550 and 1650, when they were finally replaced with baroque?
Did you know that one of the victims in a recent rare shooting in Habikino, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, was the gunman's mother-in-law?
Did you know that poet Simbo Olorunfemi's Rhythm of the Coins was described as "a promise that the Nigerian literary scene is not entirely off-course?"
Did you know that the Chester architect John Douglas showed his designs for Wrexham Road Farm, Eccleston, and Saighton Lane Farm at the Royal Academy in 1888?
Did you know that the Cucuteni-Trypillian people experienced a considerable abundance of food, which contributed to why they had no evidence of war throughout their entire existence?
Did you know that the French poet Victor Segalen admired the four tortoises (later example pictured) that had glorified Prince Ancheng of Kang for almost one and a half millennia?
Did you know that the Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis, a 12th-century chronicle from Abingdon Abbey, describes the collapse of the abbey's church tower and the narrow escape the monks had?
Did you know that the Jain polemic Tamil epic Neelakesi was written as a rebuttal to the Buddhist epic Kundalakesi?
Did you know that the Star Wars video game Flight of the Falcon lets the player pilot not only the Millennium Falcon, but also an X-wing, a landspeeder, and a speeder bike?
Did you know that the electors of Inuvik Boot Lake have not voted in a Northwest Territories general election since 1999, as in every election since only one candidate has registered to run?
Did you know that the krill species Euphausia crystallorophias was first described from specimens caught from a hole bored during Robert Falcon Scott's Discovery expedition?
Did you know that the passage of the A.B. 390 by California's Public Safety Committee marked the first time in United States history that a bill legalizing marijuana passed a legislative committee?
Did you know that the pebble-mound mice of northern Australia construct mounds of stones around their burrows up to 10 m2 in area?
Did you know that the schools designed by John Douglas for the 1st Duke of Westminster in Eccleston and Waverton, Cheshire, are considered to be the best of his village schools?
Did you know that the wine industry in the Barossa Valley was founded by German immigrants fleeing persecution from the Prussian province of Silesia?
Did you know that 2001's European of the Year Tommie Gorman's half hour interview with a central figure in the 2002 Roy Keane incident became the most viewed television programme of May 2002?
Did you know that Aaslaug Aasland was Norway's first female head of a government ministry?
Did you know that American racehorse Goldsmith Maid set a world harness racing record at the age of 17?
Did you know that Bank Buildings, in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England, was built by the Bank of Liverpool, later occupied by Martins Bank, and now houses shops and offices?
Did you know that David Thomas Lenox was the captain of the first wagon train on the Oregon Trail to travel all the way to Oregon?
Did you know that HMS Alcmene's surgeon for nearly five years was William Beatty, who in 1805 attended the dying Horatio Nelson at Trafalgar?
Did you know that Milorg pioneer Arne Laudal, who was shot at Trandumskogen in 1944, was honoured with the British King's Commendation for Brave Conduct?
Did you know that Minuscule 543, a manuscript of the four Gospels, has additional non-biblical material – Limits of the Five Patriarchates?
Did you know that National Bolshevik Ernst Niekisch played an important role in formulating the ideological line of the Old Social Democratic Party of Germany?
Did you know that Suvarnadurg, on the west coast of India, which was called a "Golden Fort" and the pride of the Marathas, was a naval fortification built to defend against European colonialist attacks?
Did you know that Syrian-American Mohammed Loay Bayazid, a former member of al-Qaeda, was noted for "always teasing bin Laden"?
Did you know that Thor, scheduled for release in 2011, was envisioned and pitched to 20th Century Fox as early as 1990?
Did you know that Z Special Unit member F. G. L. Chester gained the nickname "Gort" due to his physical resemblance to the British Army Field Marshal John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort?
Did you know that a recent outbreak of "hat mania" surrounding RTÉ reporter Paul Cunningham's "woolly pancake" from "Pakistan's tribal areas" has led to a Facebook campaign for fans to gather in their own hats?
Did you know that according to clan tradition, the wife of chief Iain Ciar MacLeod had two of her daughters buried alive within the dungeon of Dunvegan Castle?
Did you know that according to the 10th century Jain text Dravyasamgraha, the three jewels of Jainism—rational perception, rational knowledge and rational conduct—are essential for achieving liberation?
Did you know that despite damage from a tramway, the Deffenbaugh Site is one of the most valuable archaeological sites in Fayette County, Pennsylvania?
Did you know that in 1862, Senator Samuel Pomeroy of Kansas proposed the colony of Linconia to fulfill U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's vision for African-American emigration to Central America?
Did you know that in 1974 an Air Mali Ilyushin Il-18 crashed after performing a night-time forced landing on the road from Ouagadougou to Niamey, killing at least 47 people?
Did you know that in 1985 the Canadian company Sound Ideas became the first to release a sound effects library on compact disc?
Did you know that the 2007–2008 Nazko earthquakes in British Columbia, Canada, are the only recorded earthquakes in the Canadian Cordillera away from the coast resulting from magma moving in the Earth?
Did you know that the American wine critic Robert Parker is credited with popularizing the use of numerical wine ratings?
Did you know that the English Statute of Enrolments, believed to have been emergency legislation, contains no preamble and was drafted by the Clerk of the House of Commons rather than a legislator?
Did you know that the Mastaba of Mereruka, Vizier to king Teti of the sixth dynasty Old Kingdom period of Ancient Egypt, is the largest and most elaborate of all the non-royal tombs in Saqqara?
Did you know that the Norwegian Seamen's Church in San Pedro, California, is visited by the crews of about 160 Norwegian ships every year?
Did you know that the Stark County Courthouse and the Zanesville Federal Building are both listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places and designed by architect George F. Hammond?
Did you know that the superior design of HMS Princess, a former Spanish ship captured in 1740, led to the Admiralty initiating a series of increases in British warship dimensions?
Did you know that Andy Hayman, the police officer in charge of investigating the 7 July 2005 London bombings, was awarded the CBE for his role?
Did you know that Cincinnatus Leconte, president of Haiti, died when the National Palace exploded in August 1912, just months after his nephew became the only black man to perish on the Titanic?
Did you know that Cultivator No. 6 was an enormous fighting machine conceived by Winston Churchill and developed in Britain early in World War II?
Did you know that Enoch Cobb left land in his will to be used to raise funds that would benefit public school students of the town of Barnstable, Massachusetts?
Did you know that Hurricane Barbara of 1953 uprooted trees left standing intact after the more intense Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944?
Did you know that John Sheridan commanded the bomb vessel HMS Terror during the Battle of Baltimore, the action that inspired the writing of the poem that became "The Star-Spangled Banner"?
Did you know that John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond, rescued Edward II of England from being captured by Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Old Byland?
Did you know that Jon Hippe, who suggested higher taxes as a way to reduce the gap between rich and poor, was appointed leader of the Norwegian Financial Crisis Committee by the Ministry of Finance?
Did you know that The Black Pearl, a 1996 limited series comic book written by Mark Hamill and Eric Johnson, was originally written as a screenplay?
Did you know that Victorian psychiatrist L. Forbes Winslow was involved in the cases of Jack the Ripper, Percy Lefroy Mapleton, Florence Maybrick, and Amelia Dyer?
Did you know that after being stranded by Ghana Airways at Banjul's international airport, a group of disgruntled passengers threatened to burn the airline's aircraft and offices at the airport?
Did you know that after engaging ten German fighters single-handed on 16 August 1917, Alexander Pentland found that four bullets had penetrated his flying suit without injuring him?
Did you know that after scouting him at South Carolina, current Philadelphia Eagles running backs coach Ted Williams advised the Eagles to take Duce Staley with a third-round draft pick in the 1997 NFL Draft?
Did you know that before captaining the Pinta on Columbus's first voyage, Martín Alonso Pinzón (statue pictured) had already sailed to the Canary Islands and Guinea?
Did you know that coal accounts for 86% of South Africa's carbon dioxide emissions?
Did you know that former Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker was initially delighted by the 1975 Stringband song "Dief Will Be the Chief Again" but later refused to comment about it?
Did you know that in 1920 Hungarian socialists such as Sándor Garbai, Zsigmond Kunfi and Vilmos Böhm, exiled after the crushing of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, founded the Világosság émigré group?
Did you know that seed of the flowering shrub Banksia dryandroides made its way from King George Sound to the United Kingdom, before it was finally described from plants growing in Bayswater, then a London suburb?
Did you know that the Byzantine emperor Justin II had his cousin, the general and former consul Justin, murdered in his sleep as a potential rival to the throne?
Did you know that the Great Western Railway operated ships in connection with their trains to provide services to Ireland, the Channel Islands and France?
Did you know that the Isaac M. Wise Temple in Cincinnati and the Old Main building of Bethany College in West Virginia are both U.S. National Historic Landmarks designed by architect James Keys Wilson?
Did you know that the Philippine Commission on Elections cited the Bible and the Koran to disqualify the Ang Ladlad LGBT Party from the 2010 party-list election?
Did you know that the Suite Vollard in Curitiba, Brazil, is the only building in the world in which floors can independently rotate 360° in either direction?
Did you know that the Swetman House was known as the "architectural gem" of Seward, Alaska?
Did you know that the assembly of the Vermont Republic voted in June 1781 to expand its borders into parts of New Hampshire and New York during the Haldimand Affair?
Did you know that the last two buildings used by the Makawao Union Church were built atop the foundation of a 19th-century sugarcane mill in Maui, Hawaii?
Did you know that when GNU Oleo became officially part of the GNU Project, a 1996 article in iX magazine dubbed it as "GNU's response to Excel"?
Did you know that American football defensive tackle O'Brien Schofield, who completed his college career for Wisconsin in 2009, is a cousin of the National Football League veterans Vonnie Holliday and Bobby Engram?
Did you know that Bredtveit is one of three women's prisons in Norway?
Did you know that Chekhov's White Dacha in Yalta, where he wrote his finest works, was visited by Leo Tolstoy, Feodor Chaliapin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maxim Gorky, Leonid Kuchma and Vladimir Putin?
Did you know that Donald Goerke invented SpaghettiOs, choosing the "O" over pasta shaped like baseballs, cowboys, and spacemen, and later ran the company's dog food division?
Did you know that L'ange de Nisida, an opera semiseria by Gaetano Donizetti, was completed but never performed due to the bankruptcy of the theater company Donizetti contracted?
Did you know that Muhammad Naguib, who would later lead a coup d'état in Egypt, was relieved of his command of a brigade for its failures in the Second Battle of Negba?
Did you know that Starobrno Brewery annually produces a special batch of green beer distributed only on Maundy Thursday?
Did you know that United States Supreme Court associate justice Antonin Scalia reportedly hates the word "choate", because it is a back-formation from "inchoate"?
Did you know that William Ashwell Shenstone, a published chemist, listed "experimental work" among his recreations in Who's Who?
Did you know that after decommissioning, the Commandant's Quarters of the Dearborn Arsenal was used as a library, American Legion hall, town hall, police station, school, newspaper office, and finally a museum?
Did you know that after retiring from professional wrestling, Ida Mae Martinez was one of the first nurses in Baltimore to work with AIDS patients?
Did you know that completion of the Howard A. Hanson Dam in 1961 ended a 70-year era of flooding in the Green River Valley, and by 1996, the dam had prevented an estimated US$694 million in flood damages?
Did you know that despite being a famous pre-war career criminal with a very controversial war record, Johannes "The Yellow Cheese" Andersen gained the friendship and patronage of King Haakon VII of Norway?
Did you know that during England's Peasants' Revolt in 1381, William d'Ufford, 2nd Earl of Suffolk had to flee the rebels disguised as a groom?
Did you know that in 1991, John C. Ensminger of Monroe defeated Frank Snellings, the husband of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu, for a seat in the Louisiana State Senate?
Did you know that many of the canopies at the light rail transit stations in the Salt Lake Valley of Utah are designed to resemble the canopy of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building?
Did you know that screenwriter Ian Brennan wrote the first draft of the musical comedy-drama Glee with the aid of Screenwriting for Dummies?
Did you know that singer-songwriter Gillian Welch met her musical partner David Rawlings at a successful audition for the only country band at Berklee College of Music?
Did you know that the American Delta blues pianist and singer, Willie Love, never employed his musician friend, Sonny Boy Williamson II, on any of his own recordings?
Did you know that the Bedford Village Archeological Site in Pennsylvania was discovered on the grounds of a living history museum?
Did you know that the Classic Period Maya site of El Zotz, in Guatemala, takes its name from the enormous quantity of bats that live in a cave under the ruins?
Did you know that the Hindu mythical beast Sharabha (pictured, god Shiva as Sharabha), described as mightier than the lion and elephant, is included in the list of edible animals in the Mahabharata?
Did you know that the Portuguese Socialist Party was the sole political party tolerated by the military regime after the 28 May 1926 coup d'état?
Did you know that the blind crustacean Polycheles typhlops preys on fish and on other crustaceans, probably acting as an ambush predator?
Did you know that the western outlaw L.H. Musgrove "calmly puffed a cigar to its bitter butt" as he awaited hanging by vigilantes in Denver, Colorado, in 1868?
Did you know that when James Cudworth introduced the 0-4-4T to the South Eastern Railway, they were the first locomotives of this wheel arrangement in England?
Did you know that 13-year-old Emer Jones's "Research and Development of Emergency Sandbag Shelters" helped her win the 2008 Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition, the youngest ever and her school's debut?
Did you know that Arne Rettedal, county mayor of Rogaland from 1988 to 1991, died on the birthday of his successor Odd Arild Kvaløy?
Did you know that Bob Matthewson, an English footballer and referee, was recently portrayed in the 2009 film The Damned United?
Did you know that Bracetti Plaza, an NYCHA development in the East Village, New York City, is named after Mariana Bracetti?
Did you know that Jacob Svetoslav (pictured on coin), a 13th-century Bulgarian noble of Russian origin and ruler of Vidin, twice changed allegiance between Hungary and Bulgaria and vice versa before possibly being poisoned?
Did you know that John Smith, a noted 18th century London housebreaker, managed to avoid execution three times, and was eventually transported to Virginia?
Did you know that Scorpions were transported to Cyprus in 1974 to protect the British Sovereign Base Areas during the Turkish Invasion?
Did you know that Shenandoah and Alison Krauss' "Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart" won a Grammy Award in 1995, and its b-side "Darned If I Don't (Danged If I Do)" was also nominated for one?