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Did you know that Chilean cricketer John Jackson was once on the opposing side to his brother Alfred in an international match against Argentina?
Did you know that Chin Gee Hee (1844–1929) was a successful labor contractor in the United States and later a railroad entrepreneur in his native China?
Did you know that Eddy Brown, an English football player who had originally planned to take Holy Orders, was well known for his goal celebrations as early as the 1950s?
Did you know that Lowell Observatory staff resisted building the telescope used to discover the dwarf planet Pluto until trustee Roger Putnam ordered them to do so?
Did you know that Sarangapani Temple is named after Sarang, the bow of Rama?
Did you know that Somerset County Cricket Club player Peter Denning was known for an unorthodox shot called the Chewton carve?
Did you know that a catfish of the genus Helogenes is known to jump out of the stream during rotenone fishing by locals, and jump back afterwards?
Did you know that after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the population of the neighboring Hyde Park Township exceeded that of the devastated Chicago?
Did you know that approval in 1963 by Bishop Hermann Volk of Mainz resulted in a former Lutheran minister with two children becoming a Roman Catholic priest?
Did you know that architects Eggers & Higgins took over construction of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial after the death of John Russell Pope, despite protests that their appointment was "un-Jeffersonian"?
Did you know that in Tum Teav, a classic 19th century Cambodian tragedy, a novice monk named Tum sleeps with an adolescent girl named Teav and then is killed after kissing her at her wedding?
Did you know that in the PlayStation 2 live action adventure game 0 Story, two Japanese female actresses kiss while one is possessed by the player's ghost?
Did you know that silver coins in the 10th-century Viking Harrogate Hoard, recovered intact in Yorkshire, January 2007, came from as far as Afghanistan?
Did you know that the 1988 Chiado district fire caused more damage to the city of Lisbon than any catastrophe since the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake?
Did you know that the Australian town of Thangool, Queensland produces over 60% of the Australian market for squab?
Did you know that the Group C Nissan R90Cs won the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship three times, the 1000km Suzuka twice, and the 24 Hours of Daytona once in their four years of competition?
Did you know that the Wimbledon and Sutton Railway was opened in 1930, more than 20 years after the original plans were drawn up?
Did you know that the bagarius, a carnivorous catfish that lives on eating other fish, breeds in rivers prior to the beginning of the annual flood season in southeast Asia?
Did you know that the main Post Office for Minneapolis, Minnesota contained peepholes to protect the mail, and recreation rooms, a rifle range and a hospital unit for employees?
Did you know that the origin of the Azerbaijanis has been traced to indigenous Caucasians from more than a millennium ago?
Did you know that the title of Mary Wollstonecraft's conduct book Thoughts on the Education of Daughters alludes to John Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education, one of its primary philosophical influences?
Did you know that Captain William Walter Kouts located the son of the Medal of Honor recipient who died while saving Kouts during World War II after over sixty years of searching?
Did you know that Citoyenne Henri (illustration pictured) was only allowed to take a balloon trip with Andre-Jacques Garnerin after it was ruled that "there was no more scandal in seeing two people of different sexes ascend in a balloon than it is to see them jump into a carriage"?
Did you know that Dode Criss is considered by historian Bill James to be the first player to be used as a baseball pinch hitter regularly?
Did you know that Marcin Czechowic, a 16th-century Polish theologian, frequently changed his religious views as far as from Catholicism to Arianism?
Did you know that Quebec City's Clarendon Hotel originally hosted the Queen's Printers for Canada?
Did you know that Shalom Yoran, a Jewish partisan during World War II and the author of The Defiant: A True Story of Jewish Vengeance and Survival, played a major role in developing Israeli Aircraft Industries?
Did you know that Smederevo fortress survived for over 500 years without much damage, then was devastated in a single explosion during World War II?
Did you know that after Hugo Chávez's September 2006 speech to the United Nations, gas stations operated by the United Refining Company starting removing Citgo signs from their buildings?
Did you know that famous Mexican poet and politician Guillermo Prieto saved the life of President Benito Juárez by interposing himself between the guns of rebellious guardsmen and the president?
Did you know that it took four sword strokes for St. Bademus' terrified executioner to sever his head?
Did you know that the Gestapo and NKVD convened four conferences discussing the elimination of the Polish resistance movement?
Did you know that the Southern right whales off the coast of Argentina 'sail' by raising their flukes and catching the wind?
Did you know that the comprehensive metabolic panel is a suite of 14 blood tests routinely administered to screen for many different diseases?
Did you know that the saint Hermagoras of Aquileia gave his name to the Austrian city and district of Hermagor?
Did you know that Artine Artinian was used as a fictional character by two of the most prominent American writers of the 20th century?
Did you know that British general Frederick Barton Maurice was forced to resign after writing a letter accusing David Lloyd George of misrepresenting the strength of British forces during the Spring Offensive?
Did you know that Byzantium under the Komnenoi was the Medieval continuation of the Roman Empire, and played a key role in the history of the Crusades in the Holy Land?
Did you know that Captain Austin M. Knight was court-martialed for allowing the USS Puritan to sink, but nevertheless became a four-star admiral whose textbook Modern Seamanship was a standard shiphandling reference for over eight decades?
Did you know that David Feldman, philatelist, achieved the world’s record price of 2.5 million Swiss Francs for a single postage stamp, the Treskilling Yellow for which he appeared in the 1996 Guinness Book of World Records?
Did you know that Fancy Farm, Kentucky is recognized as the home of the world's largest picnic?
Did you know that Fort Greble was built so fast that there was no time to construct proper earthen magazines for artillery, and three years later company quarters had to be demolished to add them?
Did you know that John Salminen is an award-winning American watercolorist well known for his realistic urban landscapes?
Did you know that Rani Abbakka, who fought the Portuguese in the 16th century, is regarded as the 'first woman freedom fighter of India'?
Did you know that Samson was made by Academy Award winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda and blends the Biblical tale of Samson with his Holocaust coming-of-age story?
Did you know that Tang Choon Keng, who established Tangs and built the former Dynasty Hotel, was also known as the "Tin Trunk Man" in Singapore for his rags to riches legacy?
Did you know that The Land of the Settlers is a five-part documentary series made by Chaim Yavin, dubbed "Israel's Walter Cronkite", and was so controversial that his station refused to air it?
Did you know that Vikkamabahu was the first Sri Lankan monarch to mount an organised campaign to expel the Chola army which invaded the island in the 12th century?
Did you know that after reading the Vietnam War memoir When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, Oliver Stone realized that his films Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July lacked a Vietnamese perspective, leading to his directing of Heaven & Earth?
Did you know that construction of 'Tagore Castle' in Pathuriaghata, a Calcutta neighbourhood, was modelled on that of an English castle, a departure in the way of building residences in India?
Did you know that on January 27, 1987 83 workers of a shrimp farm in Kokkadichcholai, Sri Lanka were shot, allegedly by Special Task Force officers?
Did you know that one of the most influential people in Polish-French relations was Napoleon Bonaparte, still considered a hero in Poland and mentioned in the Polish national anthem?
Did you know that pioneer James Harrod established the first permanent European settlement in the U.S. state of Kentucky on June 16, 1774?
Did you know that pioneer claim clubs were used in the American Old West to protect land claims by settlers against claim jumpers and to promote claim jumping against absentee land owners?
Did you know that the Baptist Foundation of Arizona (BFA) filed for the largest bankruptcy of a religious organization in U.S. history after its 600 million dollar fraud went undetected by the same Big Five firm that audited Enron?
Did you know that the Roman marble head of a Polyclitan Diadumenos found at the Abbey of Vauluisant in Bourgogne, France suggests that the site was once a Roman villa?
Did you know that the landowner and grazier Joshua John Moore, was the first pastoralist to occupy the current day location of Canberra, Australia?
Did you know that the seeds of Prunus mahaleb, a spice, contain coumarin?
Did you know that 64Cu-ATSM (diacetyl-bis(N4-methylthiosemicarbazone)), a chemical with a radioactive isotope of copper, has been shown to increase the survival time of tumor-bearing animals with no acute toxicity?
Did you know that Anonymous Christian is Karl Rahner's controversial theological premise used to postulate that people can be saved through Christ even if they explicitly reject Christianity?
Did you know that Catherine Troeh, a Native American activist, often signed her letters "member of the Chinook Tribe Allottee 1865 Quinault reservation" as a reference to 80 acres of land granted to her by the U.S. federal government?
Did you know that Christina Lake, British Columbia is the first golf course in Canada to offer black sand traps?
Did you know that General Augusto Pinochet was once kept under house arrest at a house on the Wentworth Estate, an exclusive residential area surrounding the Wentworth Golf Club in Surrey, England?
Did you know that Len Waters was the first Australian Aboriginal military pilot, flying P-40 "Kittyhawk" fighter planes during World War II?
Did you know that Motza, founded in 1859, was the first modern village established near Jerusalem?
Did you know that Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Sazonov, who brought the country into World War I, was the brother-in-law of Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin?
Did you know that Silas Rhodes co-founded what would become the School of Visual Arts in order to help returning World War II veterans transition back to civilian life?
Did you know that Taiwanese alternative musician Deserts Chang wrote her first song at the age of 13 before she learned how to play a musical instrument?
Did you know that Thomas L. Bromwell is a former Maryland State Senator who, along with his wife, pleaded guilty to public corruption charges?
Did you know that Tom Wolfe's book Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers was set at a party hosted by composer Leonard Bernstein in which Manhattan socialites mingled with the Black Panther Party?
Did you know that a Cossack community existed in Beijing as early as 1685?
Did you know that in the Polish-Ottoman War of 1672-1676, a few years before crippling the Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was forced to sign an unfavorable treaty with the Empire?
Did you know that papal conclaves from the 14th to 17th centuries attempted to use capitulations to influence the popes they elected in matters from the appointment of cardinal-nephews to papal travel and construction projects?
Did you know that part of the first line  of the Berlin U-Bahn was built as an elevated railway, because the City of Berlin feared that an underground railway would damage one of its new trunk sewers?
Did you know that poet Sekou Sundiata taught alternative musicians Ani DiFranco and Mike Doughty?
Did you know that the 29 species in the fish genus Sillago are so similar they can only be positively identified by the shapes of their swim bladders?
Did you know that the Gangetic whiting is the only known species of fish to host the intestinal parasite Dichelyne alatae?
Did you know that the Jiu Valley miners' strike of 1977 was the largest protest movement against the Communist regime in Romania before the Romanian Revolution of 1989?
Did you know that the Stuart Oil Shale Project, the world’s first application of the Alberta-Taciuk Processor technology on oil shale, was in operation only five years?
Did you know that the discovery of the dinosauromorph Dromomeron, from the Late Triassic of New Mexico, indicates that dinosaurs did not rapidly replace their close relatives?
Did you know that Carpenter's Coffee House in Covent Garden, London, became known as "The Finish" as it was the place revellers went when all the other coffee houses and taverns closed?
Did you know that Choir is the site of the longest runway in Mongolia?
Did you know that Count Vladimir Lambsdorff managed to talk Nicholas II of Russia out of the projected Russian-German alliance against Britain?
Did you know that Edgar Allison Peers was an English Hispanist who coined the term "red-brick university"?
Did you know that Erasmus Darwin's sexualized poem The Loves of the Plants (illustration pictured) was a defense of Carl Linnaeus's botanical classification scheme?
Did you know that Jews of Iran is the first documentary film about Iran's Jewish minority?
Did you know that John Beckett is the only American football player to have been the team captain for two different Rose Bowl teams: the University of Oregon in 1917 and Mare Island in 1918?
Did you know that Pareuchiloglanis catfishes can be distinguished from other members of the Sisoridae family only by their premaxillary tooth bands?
Did you know that The French Connection led the Buffalo Sabres to the Stanley Cup Playoffs in each of the seven full seasons they were together except the one Gilbert Perreault's broken leg limited him to 55 games?
Did you know that according to a legend, Polish-Lithuanian noble Mikołaj Sapieha stole a Holy Painting from a private Papal chapel in Rome?
Did you know that double cloth or double-woven cloth is a type of weaving used in Pre-Columbian Peru and Victorian furnishing textiles in which two or more sets of warps and one or more sets of weft or filling yarns are interconnected to form a two-layered cloth?
Did you know that former sumo wrestler Asahikuni Masuo suffered from chronic pancreatic trouble and sometimes commuted to tournaments from a hospital?
Did you know that horses hauled both passenger and goods trains to Weston-super-Mare railway station, England, from 1841, when the railway opened, until 1851?
Did you know that in 1078 the Chinese statesman and poet Su Shi (1037-1101) wrote a memorial to the throne warning of the potential danger of bandits overrunning the iron industry of Xuzhou?
Did you know that in the years 1936–1939 about 3 million Poles gave their personal savings, jewelry and valuables to the Fundusz Obrony Narodowej (National Defence Fund), to improve the equipment of the Polish Army?
Did you know that of the sixty delegates to the Oregon Constitutional Convention, (Oregon Territory Seal pictured) thirty-four were farmers, while eighteen were lawyers, including three justices of the Oregon Supreme Court?
Did you know that prominent pops conductor and arranger Jeff Tyzik released six albums from 1981–1990 as a solo trumpeter?
Did you know that road maintenance depots have been used as fronts to disguise entrances to military installations?
Did you know that subjective logic can help you deal with uncertainty?
Did you know that the BBC reported that the John West Salmon's "Bear Fight" videos have been viewed over 300 million times making it the sixth most viewed online video?
Did you know that the Bilbie family produced more than 1,350 bells, from the late 1600s to the early 1800s?
Did you know that the Cody Caves are part of the setting of the children's book, The Kootenay Kidnapper by Canadian author Eric Wilson?
Did you know that the medieval Irish narrative The Sickbed of Cúchulainn gave its name to the first song on The Pogues' 1985 album Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash?
Did you know that the story of the video game Code Age Commanders is set in a fictional "intraglobular world" similar to a Dyson sphere?
Did you know that there were no police in Cascade City, British Columbia in 1897 and when thieves broke into a store, taking 150 pounds of tobacco, a book-keeper was sent to arrest the suspects?
Did you know that while under construction the Lena Water Tower in Lena, Illinois had to be demolished and rebuilt because it began to crumble?
Did you know that Christopher Wright, one of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot, could be the source of the letter that betrayed the plan?
Did you know that Russian parliamentarian Vasily Maklakov is suspected of having procured the poison that was used to murder Grigori Rasputin?
Did you know that Tan Howe Liang is Singapore's only Olympic Games medallist?
Did you know that William Gaskell, husband of the well-known Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, was a pioneer in the education of the working classes?
Did you know that algific talus slope ecosystems exist only in the Driftless Area of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa?
Did you know that besides writing 3000 songs during his life, Clifford Grey also competed for the United States in bobsledding while still a British citizen?
Did you know that the Austrian government gave the American soprano Teresa Stich-Randall the title of Kammersängerin given to esteemed artists?
Did you know that the Calendar of saints of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa includes feasts for a number of individuals from Africa, including Bernard Mizeki, Robert Gray, Manche Masemola, and Charles Frederick Mackenzie?
Did you know that the Esplanade in Calcutta, which formed a favourite promenade for "elegant walking parties" in the eighteenth century, now sees some 200,000 to 300,000 vehicles pass through during rush hour?
Did you know that the Javanese Damarwulan legend may be based on events during the reign of Queen Suhita of the Majapahit Empire?
Did you know that the Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important constitutional documents of the Commonwealth of Nations, is thought to have been unenforceable until the Harare Declaration twenty years later?
Did you know that the windowless skyscraper at 33 Thomas Street in New York City was designed to resist nuclear fallout and be self-sufficient for up to two weeks?
Did you know that Iraqi world-class wrestler and weightlifter Kadhem Sharif attempted to use a sledgehammer to bring down the statue of Saddam Hussein at Baghdad's Firdos Square?
Did you know that Johnny Ramensky was a Scottish criminal who used his safe-cracking abilities to help the British Army?
Did you know that Raine Island, a vegetated coral cay located off the North coast of Australia, harbours the largest population of Green Turtles in the world and is the most significant seabird rookery in the Great Barrier Reef?
Did you know that State Route 69 (road sign pictured) in the U.S. state of Utah was renumbered State Route 38 in 1993, due to sign theft caused by one connotation of the number?
Did you know that University Hall, Northwestern University's oldest building, is composed of Joliet limestone - the same kind used to build the Chicago Water Tower?
Did you know that catfish of the genus Leporacanthicus are also known as vampire plecostomus because of the presence of very long teeth on their upper jaw?
Did you know that in 1999, John Pollack quit his job as a Congressional speechwriter to build a boat made entirely out of corks?
Did you know that in terms of political ideology, American economists tend to be liberal?
Did you know that library@esplanade is Singapore's first public library for the performing arts?
Did you know that oleoresin extracted from Byadgi chilli is used in making nail polish and lipstick?
Did you know that the Cleeves Cove caves were used as a refuge for the local Covenanters, a religious group seeking religious freedom, during the time of their persecution by Charles II's government?
Did you know that the homosexual relationship between Bianca Montgomery and Maggie Stone only became a major on-screen plot line on All My Children after the series fans demanded it?
Did you know that the influence of singer Jeff Tweedy's side group Loose Fur on Wilco's 2002 album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot led to the dismissal of two other Wilco members?
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln helped bury the dead at Kellogg's Grove following the second Battle of Kellogg's Grove during the Black Hawk War?
Did you know that Auburn Tigers offensive coordinator Al Borges wrote both a book and an instructional video titled Coaching the West Coast Quarterback?
Did you know that East Perth Cemeteries' first recorded burial was of Private John Mitchell from the 63rd regiment who died on 6 January 1830?
Did you know that Ed Bruneteau was traded twice to the Detroit Red Wings within two years?
Did you know that Houston Hall at the University of Pennsylvania was America's first student union?
Did you know that Mozart was a frequent guest at the villa Bertramka on the outskirts of Prague and that the house is now a museum in his memory?
Did you know that Oscar the Cat was featured in the New England Journal of Medicine for his purported ability to predict the impending death of the terminally ill?
Did you know that Singapore's Burmese Buddhist Temple has the largest white marble statue of the Buddha outside of Myanmar?
Did you know that Thai actor Mitr Chaibancha died while filming a stunt for the final scene of the 1970 film, Insee thong?
Did you know that children who turn 16 during the validity of a Family Railcard may still travel at child fares until the card expires?
Did you know that in 2006 Gibraltar was granted a new constitution, giving it a modern constitutional relationship with the United Kingdom?
Did you know that members of the genus Breitensteinia have a longer body than other stream catfishes due to an increase in number of vertebrae?
Did you know that most species of catfishes of the subfamily Sarcoglanidinae are small and transparent?
Did you know that several British Royal Air Force Stations were used by the U.S. Strategic Air Command (emblem pictured) for almost 20 years?
Did you know that the Duncan Hunter presidential campaign, 2008 has been endorsed by both Chuck Yeager and Ann Coulter?
Did you know that the Jerusalem city hall at Safra Square was rebuilt in 1993 with help from Brazilian-Lebanese financier Edmond J. Safra?
Did you know that the children's group The Wiggles, Australia's most successful entertainers, have franchised their image and songs to groups in Taiwan and South America?
Did you know that the last archbishop of Bordeaux of the Hundred Years' War, Pey Berland, built annexed to the cathedral a tower that still bears his name: the Tour Pey Berland?
Did you know that the online business term Enterprise 2.0 originated with Participate Systems CEO Alan Warms in 2001 and has spawned an annual collaborative technologies conference of the same name?
Did you know that the praetorian prefecture of Africa, a Byzantine province established after the Vandalic War, saw continuous warfare and two major military mutinies during its first 15 years of existence?
Did you know that the winners at the inaugural World Series of Poker Europe in September, 2007, will receive the first WSOP bracelets ever awarded outside of Las Vegas?
Did you know that when severely disturbed, catfish of the genus Acrochordonichthys may release a milky-white mucus-like substance that can kill other fish?
Did you know that Bernard de Neufmarché was the first of the Norman conquerors of Wales, who annexed the Kingdom of Brycheiniog to England?