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Did you know that Mexican singer Edith Márquez received a gold certification in Mexico for an album that includes a cover of the number-one song "Tengo Todo Excepto a Tí"?
Did you know that Mona Bell, mistress of entrepreneur Samuel Hill, claimed to have performed in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show?
Did you know that Morrie Yohai, who created products for Old London Foods, lived opulently in Kings Point, New York, in "the house that Cheez Doodles bought"?
Did you know that St Nicholas Hospital, St Andrews, was originally a leper hospital?
Did you know that Tower Optical coin-operated binoculars can hold up to 2,000 US quarters and have kept their same distinctive look since first manufactured in 1932?
Did you know that William Morfill was the first professor of Russian in Britain?
Did you know that after seeing The Beverly Hillbillies and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In atop the Nielsen ratings, John Aylesworth created Hee Haw as a country variety show to combine the best of both genres?
Did you know that at the 1977 fight between Muhammad Ali and Earnie Shavers at Madison Square Garden, Eva Shain became the first female boxing judge at a heavyweight championship bout?
Did you know that during a fire at a nursing home in Nigel, South Africa, on August 1, 2010, a resident objected to being rescued as she was not properly dressed?
Did you know that several fossils of the recently described Early Cretaceous lizard Liushusaurus preserve scales, pigmentation, claw sheaths, cartilage, and small bones that make up the hemipenis?
Did you know that the 1995 Airstan incident, which ended 14 years ago today with Russian hostages escaping Taliban captivity via an Ilyushin Il-76, was made into the 2010 Russian movie, Kandahar?
Did you know that the Al-Bustan resort is part of a "construction boom" of recreational facilities in Gaza?
Did you know that the Alternative Center for Excellence, the alternative high school in Danbury, Connecticut, is housed in the only remaining 19th-century school building in the city?
Did you know that the Border Governors Conference, an annual meeting of the governors of the states that form the Mexico – United States border, was moved from Arizona to New Mexico this year?
Did you know that the English football club Trawden Forest never lost a home game in the FA Cup?
Did you know that the Welsh library educator Peter Havard-Williams served as Chief Librarian to the Council of Europe?
Did you know that the costumes of Lyo and Merly, the official mascots of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore, have inbuilt fans and optional vests lined with cool packs to keep wearers from overheating?
Did you know that the extinct hazel species Corylus johnsonii (fruit pictured) resembles three modern hazels found in China?
Did you know that the former Dominican friary in St Andrews, Blackfriars, was destroyed in 1559 by Scottish Protestants?
Did you know that the recently described notosuchian crocodyliform Pakasuchus had molar-like teeth that were as complex as those of carnivorous mammals?
Did you know that today, the 80th birthday of Walter Fink is celebrated at the Rheingau Musik Festival with compositions of Kirchner, Lachenmann, Rihm, Widmann and Hosokawa?
Did you know that when Robert Littell and Alison Littell McHose were elected in 2004 to the 24th Legislative District, they became the first father-daughter pair to serve together in the New Jersey Legislature?
Did you know that with 203 total yards and four touchdowns, Wali Lundy was named the Most Valuable Player of the American football 2002 Continental Tire Bowl?
Did you know that Albany, New York, has a life-size sculpture of its coat of arms that was sculpted by a local political cartoonist?
Did you know that Bruce Springsteen recorded the vocal of "Lonesome Day" live for each take of its music video, unlike common practice?
Did you know that Glass Joe is considered one of Nintendo's most iconic characters, and has been used as a term to signify failure or weakness?
Did you know that Juggalo Championship Wrestling's Bloodymania wrestling events have featured such competitors as former WWF Champion Diesel and UFC Hall of Famer Ken Shamrock?
Did you know that Merthyr MP Edgar Rees Jones served as head of the Priorities Division of the British Ministry of Munitions during World War I?
Did you know that Park51, an Islamic cultural center whose proposed site has sparked controversy, will include a mosque, a 500-seat auditorium, and a swimming pool?
Did you know that Sam Peckinpah, director of the The Wild Bunch, lived in a three-room suite at The Murray Hotel in Livingston, Montana, from 1979 to 1984?
Did you know that Sanath Jayasuriya scored the fastest fifty and the now second-fastest century in ODI cricket during the 1996 Singer Cup?
Did you know that Toshiba's 2008 television advertisement Time Sculpture holds the world record for the highest number of moving-image cameras used in a composite shot?
Did you know that US Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor encouraged a 1965 overthrow of South Vietnam's Nguyen Khanh, and the first attempt was then made by the communist agent Pham Ngoc Thao?
Did you know that Youngstown, Ohio, native Sylvester "Buster" Stanley won the 1993 Michigan football MVP and Dick Katcher awards?
Did you know that according to legend, Guru Padmasambhava subdued the spirits of the Khangchendzonga, Yabdean and Mahakaal at Enchey Monastery in Sikkim?
Did you know that after his acquittal at a court martial for the loss of HMS Greenwich, Captain Robert Roddam had the minutes printed, but was told they would have sold better had he been 'condemned to be shot'?
Did you know that artist Abel Pann created some of his most notable work when he got stuck in Europe during WWI?
Did you know that as part of efforts to balance New Jersey's $2.76 billion budget in 1976, State Senator James P. Vreeland proposed cutting the governor's annual salary by $2,500?
Did you know that con man Alexander Day used the name 'Marmaduke Davenport Esq.' to convince his victims that he was a member of the gentry in order to gain purchasing credit, which he would never repay?
Did you know that despite a slight build at 155 pounds, Jack Wheeler was the MVP of the undefeated 1930 Michigan football team and finished second in voting for the Chicago Tribune Silver Football?
Did you know that in 1975 Zimbabwean Kantilal Kanjee became the first non-white umpire to stand in a first-class cricket match in South Africa?
Did you know that it has been estimated that the navis lusoria, a type of a troop ship of the late Roman Empire, could reach speeds of about 10 knots?
Did you know that street pastors were founded to confront gang culture in UK cities, and are now known for handing out flip-flops to tottering clubbers?
Did you know that the 1949 Ambato earthquake, which killed 5,050 people, caused an entire town to sink 1,500 feet into the ground?
Did you know that the Bridge School in Raisinville Township was the first public school in Michigan, when founded in 1828?
Did you know that the December 1964 South Vietnamese coup prompted both US Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor and Vietnamese leader General Nguyen Khanh to tell one another to leave the country?
Did you know that the Late Cretaceous madtsoiid snake Menarana had several adaptations for head-first burrowing, but its large size may have made burrowing difficult or impossible?
Did you know that the Twin Pimples raid was carried out by No. 8 Commando and Australian Engineers in 1941, during the siege of Tobruk?
Did you know that the altarpiece of the Santa Veracruz Church in Mexico City is said to contain a splinter of the original cross of Jesus, authenticated by the Vatican?
Did you know that the fossil relative of the House Sparrow Passer predomesticus is known only from two upper jaw bones?
Did you know that the owner of the Afghani restaurant Teaneck Kebab House fled Kabul in 1985 during the Soviet war in Afghanistan?
Did you know that the platformer Bart Simpson's Escape from Camp Deadly was the first The Simpsons video game to be released on a handheld console?
Did you know that the platformer Bartman Meets Radioactive Man from 1992 heavily featured the character Radioactive Man from The Simpsons, even though he had rarely been seen on the show at that point?
Did you know that Ann Meyers signed with the New Jersey Gems in 1979, with her US$50,000 salary matching what she had been paid by the Indiana Pacers in her bid to become the first woman to play in the NBA?
Did you know that Arani Jayaprakash was the umpire at the bowler's end when Anil Kumble dismissed all 10 Pakistan batsmen in a Test cricket match in 1999?
Did you know that Ethiopian-born Meryem Erdoğan, impressed by her countrywoman Elvan Abeylegesse's success, illegally immigrated to Turkey at age 16 in order to become a distance runner?
Did you know that John McMillan's Log School, a Latin school that eventually developed into Washington & Jefferson College, is regarded as the oldest educational building west of the Allegheny Mountains?
Did you know that Nike's 2001 Tag ad campaign was voted one of the top ten advertisements of the decade by Campaign magazine?
Did you know that Roger Wilbraham founded the Widows' Almshouses in Nantwich, Cheshire, in memory of his wife, who died on the first anniversary of the death of their eldest son?
Did you know that Swedish artist Johan Christoffer Boklund taught painting to King Charles XV of Sweden at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts?
Did you know that The American Israelite, published in Cincinnati since 1854, helped advance American Reform Judaism and is the oldest English-language Jewish newspaper still circulated in the United States?
Did you know that a geomagnetic storm in 1882 resulted in unusual phenomena reported in various parts of the world as an "auroral beam", a "blood red" sky, and a "luminous mass, shaped somewhat like a torpedo"?
Did you know that all of the surviving individuals of the species listed in the The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates, which include the Silky Sifaka (Propithecus candidus), could fit into a single football stadium?
Did you know that apart from eating smaller lizards and amphibians, the Central American coral snake also feeds on other snakes?
Did you know that at the age of 16, Topsy Sinden was given the role of Violet Deveney in the 1894 hit Edwardian musical comedy The Shop Girl?
Did you know that at the age of 40, Randy Johnson pitched a perfect game, making him the oldest person to do so in Major League Baseball history?
Did you know that commercial director Frank Budgen filmed an advertisement that involved 50 stuntmen and acrobats?
Did you know that cricketer Gary Kirsten was the leading batsman in the 1996 Pepsi Sharjah Cup, scoring 356 runs in seven innings at an average of 89.0?
Did you know that entrants in the Sukkah City architecture contest are allowed to erect their structures atop a live camel?
Did you know that filmmaker David Lynch raised US$1 billion to help the Maharishi Vedic Education Development Corporation build 3,000 Maharishi Peace Palaces?
Did you know that in 2010, the Western Purple-faced Langur and the Niger Delta Red Colobus were both included among The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates?
Did you know that it took only six weeks for Max Tannone to mash parts of 30 Radiohead and Jay-Z songs for the album Jaydiohead?
Did you know that nickel production in New Caledonia ranks fifth in the world?
Did you know that satirical novelist William Thackeray was a student at Henry Sass's London art academy, which he later caricatured in his novel, The Newcomes?
Did you know that the 1255 Seal of Mindaugas, celebrated as the only surviving depiction of King of Lithuania Mindaugas, could be a medieval forgery by the Teutonic Knights?
Did you know that the 1995–96 Chicago Bulls are the only National Basketball Association team to win at least 70 games in a single season?
Did you know that the Charles Wintzer Building in Wapakoneta, Ohio, was built as a combination house-and-tannery?
Did you know that the Mission of the Guardian Angel was a Jesuit mission that existed in the vicinity of Chicago, Illinois, from 1696 to 1700?
Did you know that the Swimming Reindeer, a 13,000-year-old Ice Age sculpture, was originally thought to be two separate reindeer sculptures until Henri Breuil realised they fitted together?
Did you know that the Winchester Hoard jewellery, thought to be a diplomatic gift from the Romans, was so chunky that no "self-respecting" Roman would wear it?
Did you know that the drama film Obama Anak Menteng, a fictionalized recreation of Barack Obama's boyhood in Indonesia, was originally intended to première during his planned state visit?
Did you know that the series of small hills known as the Devil's Jumps near Churt in southern England was once said to have been kicked up by the Devil when he stole the cauldron from a local witch?
Did you know that "Please Please Me" is, arguably, The Beatles' first number-one single?
Did you know that Dan Kiesel was hired as physiotherapist for the Sri Lankan cricket team upon the recommendation of Australian fast-bowler Dennis Lillee?
Did you know that Kent Island, a national wildlife sanctuary in California's Bolinas Lagoon, was once just hours from becoming the future site of a 1,500-boat marina?
Did you know that Konocti Harbor, a now-closed resort and music venue in Lake County, California, was originally founded in 1959 as low-cost vacation housing for members of a plumbers union?
Did you know that Leonardo da Vinci may have designed the chess pieces for The Boredom Dodger?
Did you know that Prince Michael of Yugoslavia, a Bernard Madoff feeder fund executive, allegedly approached Charles, Prince of Wales about becoming a potential investor at a polo tournament in 2002?
Did you know that The Buckminster Fuller Challenge awards US$100,000 every year for solutions to solve pressing complex global problems?
Did you know that Thomas William Burgess, who, in 1911, became the second man to swim across the English Channel, trained Gertrude Ederle, who in 1926 became the first woman to swim across?
Did you know that according to (RED), providing health-restoring antiretroviral drugs to HIV positive people in Africa, as described in the documentary The Lazarus Effect, costs US$0.40 per person per day?
Did you know that in 1879, the first Pelton wheel was manufactured at what would become known as the Miners Foundry in Nevada City, California?
Did you know that in 1898, Pop Williams became the first attendee of Bowdoin College to play in Major League Baseball?
Did you know that in May 1982, the British Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) Michael Welsh was one of 69 MPs who called for an immediate halt to hostilities in the Falklands War?
Did you know that in the Battle of Flores (illustrated), a naval engagement of the 1585 Anglo-Spanish War, the Spanish fleet of warships outnumbered the English warships, 63 to 22?
Did you know that northwestern Ohio's Goll Homestead lies at the core of one of the few remaining areas of old-growth forest in the Great Black Swamp?
Did you know that renowned restaurateur and celebrity chef Marc Murphy cannot bring himself to like coffee?
Did you know that the 2001 book Madonna: An Intimate Biography, by J. Randy Taraborrelli, debuted and stayed on top of The New York Times Best Seller list for three months?
Did you know that the Agrarian Socialist League, a Russian revolutionary émigré organization, was founded at the funeral of Pyotr Lavrov in 1900?
Did you know that the Combe Haven Viaduct, on the Bexhill West Branch Line, contained over 9,000,000 bricks?
Did you know that the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles has a congregation of more than 19,000 members?
Did you know that the Mesopotamian Marshes were deliberately drained to 10% of their original size before beginning a recovery after the fall of Saddam Hussein?
Did you know that the Navachab Gold Mine is the only gold mine in Namibia?
Did you know that the Pomeranian Renaissance castle Veste Landskron was abandoned after it deteriorated during the Thirty Years' and Scanian Wars?
Did you know that under the Poughkeepsie plan, Catholic children attended public schools taught by nuns wearing religious habits?
Did you know that voice actress Maggie Roswell left The Simpsons in 1999 after a pay dispute with Fox Broadcasting Company, but returned in 2002?
Did you know that while time, war, and hazardous emissions continually wrecked the tomb of Nizami, a 12th-century epic poet, the tomb was finally rebuilt in solid granite in 1991 in Ganja, Azerbaijan?
Did you know that 20-year-old Ryan Gregson is the current Australian record holder in men's 1500 metre run, having broken Simon Doyle's old mark from 1991?
Did you know that Atlantic Coast High School is Jacksonville, Florida's first public high school opened since 1990?
Did you know that Captan Jack Wyly was a Democratic Party power broker in Lake Providence, Louisiana, which was labeled by Time magazine in 1997 as the poorest city in the United States?
Did you know that Cinema City Nablus in the West Bank, built in 2009, is the city's first cinema in over 20 years?
Did you know that Dr. Thomas C. Peebles, who went on to isolate the measles virus strain used in the measles vaccine, was initially rejected by Harvard Medical School because he had gotten a D in college biology?
Did you know that English scholar Ichabod Charles Wright (born in Mapperley Hall) translated the three instalments of Dante's Divina commedia; Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso?
Did you know that Enrique Tirabocchi had to appeal to Benito Mussolini to retrieve a trophy he received for swimming the English Channel, as it had been confiscated by customs officials when he reentered Italy?
Did you know that The Beatles had 17 number-one singles during the 1960s in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that The Lame Devil, Sacha Guitry's 1948 historical film, was blocked by French censorship and had to be turned into a successful play before being allowed filming?
Did you know that according to legend, a Jewish boy named Elhanan who was stolen from his parents later became the Jewish pope Andreas?
Did you know that former Jackson, Michigan, mayor Fred Janke was the captain of Fritz Crisler's first Michigan Wolverines football team?
Did you know that former professional wrestler Steve Rickard was once stranded in Greece after airports in the country were closed due to trouble with Turkey?
Did you know that government by itineration was a key mechanism of government in the Middle Ages in northern and eastern Europe?
Did you know that one of the windowpanes in the John H. Nichols House in Wapakoneta, Ohio, bears the incised names of several of Nichols' children?
Did you know that residents of the Kingman Park neighborhood in Washington, D.C., successfully lobbied the Washington Metro in 1977 to cancel the proposed Oklahoma Avenue Station on the Orange and Blue lines?
Did you know that the Dechencholing Palace has its own helipad despite no airport being in nearby Thimphu?
Did you know that the Durrës Archaeological Museum contains a collection of miniature busts of Venus, a testament to the time when the area was a centre of worship of the goddess?
Did you know that the Fraser Mansion in Washington, D.C., was the subject of a zoning battle before purchase at foreclosure auction by the Church of Scientology?
Did you know that the Hyderabad State Congress led a non-violent civil disobedience campaign for the union of Hyderabad State with India, declaring August 7, 1947, as "Join Indian Union Day"?
Did you know that the Museum of Apollonia, near Fier, Albania, is currently closed to the public after being looted in 1991?
Did you know that the Northern Rocky Mountains Wolf, a form of the Gray Wolf that used to live primarily in Yellowstone National Park, was court ordered to be re-listed under Endangered Species Act protections on August 6, 2010?
Did you know that the UPRM Planetarium is the only planetarium in Puerto Rico?
Did you know that the bend in the street occupied by Regent House in Nantwich, Cheshire, follows the line of the outer wall of the town's Norman castle?
Did you know that the duties of the Egyptian Labour Corps during World War I included forming an anti-mosquito squad?
Did you know that the extinct rove beetle genus Ektatotricha is known from 15 beetles trapped in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar?
Did you know that the flower Campanula zoysii is considered a symbol of the Slovenian Alps?
Did you know that the fruit of the Blush Condoo are eaten by the Wompoo Fruit Dove and the Topknot Pigeon?
Did you know that the historic P Ranch in Oregon, owned by cattle baron Peter French, covered 140,000 acres (570 km2) and required 500 miles of barbed wire fence for protection?
Did you know that the largest fireworks display ever performed on a military base took place at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree in Virginia?
Did you know that the long hidden ceilings of the Monheim Town Hall in Bavaria, a Jewish residence until 1741, depict scenes of the Tanakh that were only restored in 1978?
Did you know that troops of both the 28th Infantry Division and 75th Infantry Division were stationed at Seabank Hotel in Porthcawl, Wales, during World War II?
Did you know that 66 years ago today, 168 captured Allied airmen—accused by the Gestapo of being "Terrorflieger" (terror fliers)—arrived at Buchenwald concentration camp and subsequently formed the KLB Club?
Did you know that Amelia Gade Corson's successful swim across the English Channel was paid for by L. Walter Lissberger, who covered the US$3,000 cost and then collected US$100,000 from Lloyd's of London at 20–1 odds?
Did you know that Cheshunt Great House, once owned by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey from 1519 until 1529, was burned down in 1965?
Did you know that Cornbread Harris, who performed on Minnesota's first rock and roll record, is the father of record producer Jimmy Jam?
Did you know that Exercise Verity, a 1949 multilateral exercise involving over 60 warships, was described by a British newsreel as involving "the greatest assembly of warships since the Battle of Jutland?"
Did you know that Fritz Teufel was known as one of the "Spaßguerilla" (fun guerilla) who carried out the 1967 "Pudding Assassination" of U.S. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey during a state visit to West Berlin?
Did you know that Johann Ewald, a Hessian mercenary during the American Revolutionary War, was awarded the French Legion of Honor for his performance as a Danish Army general in the 1809 Battle of Stralsund?
Did you know that Oregon-based Electro Scientific Industries worked with Nike, Inc. to get a law passed that effectively prevents the neighboring city of Beaverton from annexing either company's property?
Did you know that a purchase of 80 paintings by Phoebe Hearst enabled artist Joseph Henry Sharp to devote himself to painting full-time in a log cabin at Little Big Horn?
Did you know that despite being offered a scholarship by college basketball powerhouse Indiana, Ryan Wittman chose to walk on to the Cornell basketball team?
Did you know that during English footballer Freddie Bunce's only season with Highlands Park FC, they won South Africa's 1964 National Football League?
Did you know that in 1923, Henry Sullivan became the third person, and the first American, to swim across the English Channel, finishing the crossing from Dover to Calais in 27 hours and 25 minutes?
Did you know that in the Cathedral of Mayagüez, Segundo Ruiz Belvis and Ramón Emeterio Betances bought, baptized and emancipated thousands of black slave children?
Did you know that local tradition in Lyndonville, New York, holds that Jackson Blood's family hauled all the cobblestones for their house down from Lake Ontario themselves?
Did you know that the Fandango Pass in the Warner Mountains is located at the convergence of two trails, the Applegate and the Lassen, that were traveled by emigrant pioneers between 1846 and 1850?
Did you know that the Giro di Castelbuono is one of Europe's oldest road running competitions, having been first held in Castelbuono, Sicily, in 1912?