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Did you know that Rufus Wainwright's second studio album Poses features a song originally written by his father, Loudon Wainwright III?
Did you know that Samuel D. McDearmon played a critical role in developing the village of Appomattox Court House, where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant?
Did you know that St Joseph's Church, a Roman Catholic church in Brighton, England, was not officially dedicated until 100 years after building work started because a debt had not been settled?
Did you know that The Grove at Ole Miss was called "the mother and mistress of outdoor ritual mayhem" for its legendary football game day tailgating by The New York Times?
Did you know that although professional wrestler Max Bauer won the 2008 Toxic Waltz tournament, it was not counted because he competed under a mask?
Did you know that among French handball player Valérie Nicolas´ triumphs are victories at the World Championship, Champions League, EHF Cup, Cup Winners' Cup, and both French and Danish national championships?
Did you know that an 1830s newspaper article in Freedom's Journal in favor of the free produce movement determined that the sugar consumption of 25 people required the toil of one slave?
Did you know that in 1897, a Texas farmer discovered a UFO landed on his property: an airship operated by United States Army engineer Samuel Escue Tillman and inventor Amos Dolbear?
Did you know that in April 2009, Lim Hwee Hua became the first woman to be appointed a full Minister in Singapore's Cabinet?
Did you know that in the case of Ex parte Milligan, the convictions of Lambdin P. Milligan, Harrison H. Dodd and William A. Bowles were thrown out?
Did you know that several types of Turkish carpets are now named after Renaissance artists who depicted them in paintings (example pictured)?
Did you know that the "Devil's Cigar" is a mushroom found only in Texas and Japan?
Did you know that the Royal Navy accepted Gay Viking and Gay Corsair into their service during the Second World War, with another 12 Gay class fast patrol boats joining in the 1950s?
Did you know that the alfalfa grown on the Wendelin Grimm Farmstead in Carver County, Minnesota, became the source of varieties of alfalfa grown on 25,000,000 acres (10,000,000 ha) of the United States?
Did you know that the definition of monumental sculpture (example pictured) may vary depending on the period being discussed?
Did you know that the fictitious newspaper article written by the journalist in the Parks and Recreation episode "The Reporter" was featured as a PDF file on the official NBC website?
Did you know that the town of Shenkeng is popularly known in Taiwan as the "Tofu Capital"?
Did you know that the tugboat that towed log rafts across Upper Klamath Lake to the Algoma lumber mill in Algoma, Oregon, is now on display in the Collier Memorial State Park logging museum?
Did you know that when Richard Peek of Loddiswell became Sheriff of London, he paid for a missionary to visit the prisoners at Newgate Prison?
Did you know that when the Rogue River eroded andesitic lava in the Rogue Valley, it created the Upper and Lower Table Rock geologic formations?
Did you know that Ann-Kristin Olsen was the first female chief of police in Norway as well as the first female Governor of Svalbard?
Did you know that Fatma Aliye Topuz, whose portrait illustrates the reverse of the current 50 Turkish lira banknote, is credited as the first female Turkish and Muslim writer?
Did you know that Ida Henrietta Hyde was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. at the University of Heidelberg?
Did you know that Salbit, thought to have been the site of the biblical Shaalabbin, was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War?
Did you know that San Ildefonso College in Mexico City is considered the birthplace of Mexican muralism?
Did you know that V. Ramaswami was the first Justice of the Supreme Court of India to face impeachment proceedings in independent India?
Did you know that actor Jeff Bridges credits his mother, Dorothy Bridges, with passing down lessons she learned from acclaimed acting teacher Michael Chekhov to her children?
Did you know that after a dam created a reservoir for the Delaware and Hudson Canal during the 19th century, it was later named Silver Lake and became an attraction for guests at the summer resorts near Woodridge, New York?
Did you know that after being sentenced to a 14-year deportation in 1845, Norwegian Knud Bull became a pioneer in Australian landscape painting?
Did you know that charitable initiatives championed by current First Spouses of the United States have included blankets for the homeless and development assistance in Rwanda?
Did you know that environmentalists and ranchers worked with the Bureau of Land Management to restore riparian areas in the Trout Creek Mountains of southeastern Oregon?
Did you know that in 1907, the medieval Great Hall of Lytes Cary manor house was being used as a cider store?
Did you know that in a 1997 Alaskan expedition, pathologist Johan Hultin retrieved samples of the 1918 influenza virus from the lungs of flu victims preserved by permafrost?
Did you know that in his first TV series, Crusader (CBS, 1955–1956), Brian Keith portrayed fictional journalist Matt Anders, who during the Cold War liberates oppressed people from communism?
Did you know that the Caricature Museum of Mexico City has featured cartoons and sketches by Frida Kahlo and Jose Clemente Orozco?
Did you know that the application of a spray-on condom was based on the logistics of a drive-through car wash?
Did you know that the blacktip shark can reproduce asexually?
Did you know that the book Yellow Star is based on the true story of one of twelve children who survived the Lodz Ghetto?
Did you know that the cotton presses near Latta, South Carolina and Tarboro, North Carolina, are antebellum, animal-powered, handmade wooden presses?
Did you know that the encyclical Demandatam was issued in 1743 to ordain the full preservation of the Byzantine Rite in the Melkite Catholic Church?
Did you know that the library system of the University of Toronto  is the fourth-largest academic library in North America?
Did you know that when architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed his American System-Built Homes, he produced over 900 working drawings, which was more than he made for any other project?
Did you know that "Share the World/We Are!" made K-pop boy band TVXQ the only foreign artist to have six number one singles in Japan?
Did you know that Harriman Historic District in Bristol, Pennsylvania, originally built to house workers of the Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation, was the largest single housing project undertaken by the EFC in World War I?
Did you know that Hartvig Andreas Munthe, an aide-de-camp of King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway, was made Colonel in the turbulent year of 1905, only to die three months later?
Did you know that Johannes Gerckens Bassøe was Norway's first permanent Governor of Svalbard?
Did you know that Leroy E. "Ed" Parsons, co-founder of KVAS (now KKEE) in Astoria, Oregon, created the one of the first cable television systems in the United States?
Did you know that Quaker and abolitionist leader Levi Coffin, known as the President of the Underground Railroad, personally helped more than 2,000 slaves escape their masters?
Did you know that Rigoberto Torres and John Ahearn collaborated on the South Bronx Hall of Fame, monuments of ordinary people, as a response to the practice of enshrining public figures?
Did you know that South Africa's Take a Girl Child to Work Day started in 2003 to fight gender inequality in the workforce?
Did you know that Sultan Ghari, built in 1231 for Prince Nasiru'd-Din Mahmud, eldest son of Iltumish, was the first Islamic mausoleum  in the "funerary landscape of Delhi"?
Did you know that Wes Schulmerich turned down an offer to play football for Knute Rockne at Notre Dame, later becoming a Major League Baseball player?
Did you know that after an engagement initiated by HMS Cleopatra, captained by Sir Robert Laurie, the larger French frigate Ville de Milan captured her attacker, but was so badly damaged in the battle that both ships were later captured in turn by HMS Leander?
Did you know that an early Washington National Opera, unrelated to its modern namesake, presented Bidu Sayão in her 1936 U.S. operatic debut with organ, not orchestra, accompaniment owing to a financial dispute?
Did you know that in 1979, John Phillip Santos became the first Mexican-American Rhodes Scholar?
Did you know that in 1994, Joseph Takahashi and his collaborators identified the genetic basis for circadian rhythms in mammals?
Did you know that the Lipka Rebellion of 1672 was the only time that the Muslim Lipka Tatars mutinied against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth?
Did you know that the South Fallsburg, New York, Hebrew Association Synagogue  has a full sukkah in its basement?
Did you know that the film Best: His Mother's Son was made in 2009 without the consent of George Best's family?
Did you know that the host of The Political Cesspool was described as "ecstatic" that the show was included on the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hate Watch List?
Did you know that the original radio studios of the station now called KLMG were located in California's Old Sacramento State Historic Park?
Did you know that BoA's Best of Soul made her the first non-Japanese Asian singer to have two million-selling albums in Japan?
Did you know that Dunbrody Country House Hotel owner  Kevin Dundon and Thornton's Restaurant owner Kevin Thornton of Heat were featured on Guerrilla Gourmet alongside Café Paradiso owner Denis Cotter,  The Mustard Seed owner Dan Mullane and former Mint Restaurant proprietor Dylan McGrath?
Did you know that J.T. Alley, police chief of Lubbock, Texas, vowed in 1970 to shoot looters taking advantage of his city's devastating tornadoes?
Did you know that Jerzy Borejsza, in charge of the Polish communist cultural policy in the early postwar years, was so influential that his network was called an "empire" or "state within a state"?
Did you know that Microsoft's Chrome project was so widely criticized by web developers for failing to meet media standards that the project was cancelled before it was released?
Did you know that Queen Millennia was combined by Harmony Gold and Carl Macek with another Leiji Matsumoto series, Captain Harlock, to create Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years?
Did you know that Royal Navy officer Charles Elphinstone Fleeming was once challenged to a duel by his former subordinate, Charles John Napier?
Did you know that Rufus Wainwright's EP Waiting for a Want features guest appearances by family members Martha Wainwright and Suzzy Roche and musicians Teddy Thompson and Joan Wasser?
Did you know that Sergeant Len Siffleet was the subject of a famous photograph depicting an execution by the Japanese in World War II?
Did you know that Wandsworth Bridge has been described as "probably the least noteworthy bridge in London"?
Did you know that a major weakness of the Japanese RED cipher arose from the desire to save money on telegrams?
Did you know that actress Venida Evans has appeared as a "muse" in a series of IKEA television commercials which have been described as "surreal" and "creepy"?
Did you know that at the age of 61, Junko Akimoto is the oldest singer to have a number one single in Japan?
Did you know that during the 2008–09 flu season in the United States, only 14.1% of influenza tests were positive for influenza?
Did you know that in Dragon Ball Kai the story of Dragon Ball Z will be cut down to only one hundred episodes?
Did you know that in the comic fantasy sitcom ElvenQuest, "The Chosen One" who will find the sacred Sword of Asnagar is a dog called "Amis"?
Did you know that staff at KLYC in McMinnville, Oregon, reported a paranormal "presence" in the radio station's previous studio building?
Did you know that the 1905 film The Misadventure of a French Gentleman Without Pants at the Zandvoort Beach (screenshot pictured) is one of the oldest surviving Dutch fictional films?
Did you know that the 85-mile (137 km) Susquehannock Trail System hiking trail passes through the 30,253-acre (12,243 ha) Hammersley Wild Area, the largest area  in Pennsylvania without a road?
Did you know that the Corgi Motorcycle Co Ltd.'s Corgi scooter was branded the "Indian Papoose" for the United States market?
Did you know that the Nuestra Señora de Loreto Church in Mexico City may be in danger of collapsing?
Did you know that the Rivoli Theater in South Fallsburg, New York, was used as a fruit stand in the late 1990s?
Did you know that the first season of Celebrity Bainisteoir was said to have "brought the worlds of celebrity and GAA club football crashing together", and the second season features Working Girls and Wonderwomen star Katherine Lynch and Miss Universe contender Andrea Roche?
Did you know that the world's largest mathematical experiment, designed by Brian Butterworth, found women to be faster than men at subitizing?
Did you know that American spy Allen Dulles ran an intelligence organization from his house on Herrengasse, a street in the Old City of Berne, Switzerland, collecting information on the Nazis during World War II?
Did you know that Dion Boucicault introduced the combination company to England with his first tour of The Colleen Bawn?
Did you know that Jampa Tsedroen, the monastic name of German Buddhist nun Carola Roloff, means "loving kindness" and "lamp of life" in Tibetan?
Did you know that Migettuwatte Gunananda Thera  once served on the committee that designed the Buddhist flag in 1885?
Did you know that Robert F. Hale was serving as Executive Director of the American Society of Military Comptrollers when President Barack Obama appointed him Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)?
Did you know that Shadow Hare is a real-life superhero who wears a cape and mask while fighting crime in Cincinnati, Ohio?
Did you know that Susan Boyle's 2009 rendition of the song "I Dreamed a Dream" from the musical Les Misérables created an upsurge in public interest that elevated Patti LuPone's original version to #45 on the UK Singles Chart?
Did you know that Terry Riley: Cadenza on the Night Plain is the first record to result from the long and fruitful collaboration between American composer Terry Riley and the Kronos Quartet?
Did you know that although the Lord of the Rings fan film The Hunt for Gollum is completely unofficial, its creators "reached an understanding" with Tolkien Enterprises?
Did you know that gashing is a machining process used to rough out gears prior to final machining operations, like hobbing or shaping?
Did you know that radio station KSWB in Seaside, Oregon, was originally owned by Jerden Records founder Jerry Dennon and American folk group The Brothers Four?
Did you know that the Buddhist temple of Ta Som near Angkor, Cambodia, was built in the 12th century by the Jayavarman VII to honour his father Dharanindravarman II?
Did you know that the City Hall Post Office and Courthouse in New York City, designed by architect Alfred B. Mullett, was known as "Mullett's Monstrosity" until it was torn down in 1939?
Did you know that the Council of Bourges in November 1225 has been called the "fountainhead" of representational democracy in Western Europe?
Did you know that the Western Weald is to be included in the proposed South Downs National Park, an outcome which author Bill Bryson said would have been "a national tragedy" had it not happened?
Did you know that the largest striped bass ever caught in California, weighing 67.5 pounds (30.6 kg), was found in the O'Neill Forebay Reservoir in August 2008?
Did you know that the site of Kothduwa temple is reputed to be one of the places where the Buddha's tooth was hidden when it was brought to Sri Lanka (tooth smuggling pictured)?
Did you know that the song "Lo Mejor de Tu Vida" by Spanish singer Julio Iglesias held the record for biggest leap to number-one in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart for almost 20 years?
Did you know that the sports field at Ringstabekk, Norway, has hosted matches in the Bandy World Championships?
Did you know that "The Cowboy Culture Center" is a weekly three-hour block of cowboy poetry and western music on radio station KNND in Cottage Grove, Oregon?
Did you know that Aleksander Sulkiewicz was a Muslim Tatar who co-founded the Polish Socialist Party and probably saved the life of the future leader of Poland, Józef Piłsudski, by planning his escape from a mental hospital?
Did you know that American painters Robert Feke and Benjamin West were strongly influenced by the technique and compositions of English-born painter John Wollaston?
Did you know that Dylan McGrath's documentary The Pressure Cooker was criticised by Michelin star-winning French restaurateur Patrick Guilbaud but has been praised by L'Ecrivain owner Derry Clarke, a judge alongside Sammy Leslie on the Adare-produced Fáilte Towers?
Did you know that Five Tango Sensations by the Kronos Quartet was the last studio recording by tango music legend Ástor Piazzolla?
Did you know that Henrich Krummedige's 1502 murder of Knut Alvsson ended the feud started by their fathers, Hartvig Krummedige and Alv Knutsson, as well as Knut's leadership of the rebellion against King Hans' rule over Norway?
Did you know that Irving Phillips's comic strip The Strange World of Mr. Mum is cited as paving the way for later titles like The Far Side and Bizarro?
Did you know that MGM Group of Companies is the master franchisee of Marrybrown fast food chain for Southern India?
Did you know that Merle Fainsod based his book Smolensk under Soviet Rule on Soviet documents captured by the Wehrmacht during World War II?
Did you know that Moth Ki Masjid was a new type of mosque built in 1505 by Miya Bhoiya, Prime Minister during Sikander Lodi's reign in the fourth city of medieval Delhi of Delhi Sultanate?
Did you know that Nathaniel Henry Hutton was a civil engineer on routes for the Pacific Railroad Surveys and a wagon road used by the Butterfield Overland Mail in the years before the American Civil War?
Did you know that Old Bethpage Village Restoration  on Long Island, New York, has been preserving historic buildings as a living museum since 1970?
Did you know that Piero di Cosimo's painting The Death of Procris may contain allusions to the practice of alchemy?
Did you know that Rafael Nadal is the first player to win five consecutive titles at the Monte Carlo Masters?
Did you know that Stevie Smith's most famous poem, "Not Waving but Drowning", describes a man who drowns because onlookers mistake his thrashing for waving?
Did you know that Taiwan's first printed newspaper, the Taiwan Church News, was written in Pe̍h-ōe-jī, not Chinese characters?
Did you know that Woolmer Forest, a former royal hunting forest in Hampshire, is the only site where all twelve species of amphibians and reptiles native to England are found?
Did you know that a New Man magazine endorsement helped convince Chuck Norris  to support Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign?
Did you know that a former minister at Hove Methodist Church, England, spoke so forcefully during sermons that Communion cruets would sometimes be sent crashing to the floor?
Did you know that despite playing the position of wide receiver in American college football, LaShaun Ward was the third leading rusher for the University of California Golden Bears in 2001?
Did you know that one of the members of R&B girl group RichGirl was discovered through MySpace?
Did you know that the absence of dark matter halos (example pictured) and elliptical galaxies with axis ratios more extreme than 3:1 is probably due to the firehose instability?
Did you know that the band Dead Hot Workshop got their start at a Tempe club named Long Wong's, where bands such as the Gin Blossoms and The Refreshments also performed in the 1990s?
Did you know that the government of Tunisia initially believed the explosion caused by Niser bin Muhammad Nasr Nawar was accidental, until they learned he had sent a letter taking credit in the name of al-Qaeda?
Did you know that the grey reef shark is the first shark species known to perform a threat display to warn off divers who are too close?
Did you know that the suburb of South Dunedin in Dunedin, New Zealand, contains one of only three known preserved gasworks museums in the world?
Did you know that Abigail Bush, in 1848, was the first American woman to serve as president of a women's rights convention?
Did you know that Alberts Frères, one of the earliest film production companies in the Netherlands, filmed a stunt at a Maastricht market with a donkey and a suckling pig to promote the company?
Did you know that Changuu Island, Zanzibar, houses a collection of endangered Aldabra Giant Tortoises?
Did you know that Charlie Crowe started an appeal to raise money for a machine to prevent Alzheimer's?
Did you know that Humbug Mountain is one of the tallest mountains in Oregon to rise directly from the ocean?
Did you know that Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford had a father, a grandfather and a son, all with the same name?
Did you know that Margitta Gummel-Helmboldt was the first woman to throw a shot put more than 19 meters in the Summer Olympic Games?
Did you know that Peter Gummer, founder of Shandwick, went to Selwyn College, Cambridge wanting to be a priest?
Did you know that Price's Mill was one of the few remaining operating water-powered gristmills in 1970 in South Carolina?
Did you know that Timbaland's "Apologize" featuring OneRepublic was Canada's longest-running chart-topping single in 2007?
Did you know that Tofo in southern Mozambique draws foreign tourists to its beaches and population of whale sharks?
Did you know that critically-acclaimed Bolivian Aymara painter, Alejandro Mario Yllanes, disappeared from New York after winning, but not claiming, the Guggenheim fellowship in 1946?
Did you know that even though MacAdam/Cage was outbid for Audrey Niffenegger's novel The Time Traveler's Wife, Niffenegger chose the small, independent firm because of their desire to publish the work?
Did you know that in 1867, the Oregon Iron Company (furnace pictured) became the first company to smelt pig iron west of the Rocky Mountains?
Did you know that singer Matthew West's song "The Motions" was "brought to life" for him after having vocal surgery?
Did you know that singles from Stone Sour's self titled debut album received two Grammy Award nominations in consecutive years?
Did you know that the Billy Joel and Ray Charles duet, "Baby Grand", was originally produced because Charles had contacted Joel over Joel naming his daughter after Charles?
Did you know that the Dokos shipwreck is the oldest underwater shipwreck known to archeologists?
Did you know that the Gibson Mansion, once believed to be a haunted house, is now a historical museum with a working blacksmith?
Did you know that the Kentucky Route 2014 Bridge in Pineville, Kentucky, is one of only two bridges built in Kentucky by an in-state construction company?
Did you know that the Labour party lost control of Hartlepool council for the first time in 21 years after the 2000 Hartlepool Council election?
Did you know that the film version of Hello, Dolly used Garrison Landing, New York, for scenes set in 1890 Yonkers?
Did you know that the perpetrator of the Orly airport attack, Varujan Garabedian, was freed and deported to Armenia in 2001, after serving 17 years in jail?
Did you know that when the Chinese delicacy Buddha Jumps Over the Wall  was introduced to South Korea, the name ignited a controversy in the Buddhist community?
Did you know that "A Supermarket in California" is a poem by Allen Ginsberg published in 1956 and dedicated to Walt Whitman in the centennial year of the first edition of Leaves of Grass?
Did you know that Gene Lees wrote the English language lyrics to Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Corcovado" on a bus travelling to Belo Horizonte?
Did you know that George Cryer, Mayor of Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties, was allegedly controlled by the city's political boss Kent Parrot and vice king Charles Crawford, whose coterie of bootleggers and criminals was known as the "City Hall Gang"?