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Did you know that Kainai artist Faye HeavyShield created the artwork body of land using images of human skin printed on paper and made into little tipi-shaped forms?
Did you know that Mexican freedom fighter José María Jesús Carbajal was mentored as a teenager by Stephen F. Austin?
Did you know that Ozzie Cowles of Carleton, Dartmouth, Michigan and Minnesota was among the Top 15 winningest college basketball coaches of all-time when he retired at 59 in 1959?
Did you know that Sologubovka Cemetery, near St Petersburg, Russia, is the largest German war cemetery in the world and the final resting place of over 30,000 German war dead from World War II?
Did you know that St Andrew's Church, Gunton is the only building designed by Robert Adam in Norfolk, and his only complete church in England?
Did you know that Steens Mountain in southeastern Oregon is named in honor of United States Army Major Enoch Steen, who crossed the mountain pursuing a band of Indians in 1860?
Did you know that U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia mentioned "the perennial end-of-season slump of the Chicago Cubs" in his Waters v. Churchill concurrence despite the case having nothing to do with baseball?
Did you know that after defeating the Ottomans in the Battle of Ohrid, Skanderbeg distributed a large amount of ransom money to his men and dined off letnica with them?
Did you know that assassins of Aleksandar Stamboliyski cut off his hand because he used it to sign the 1923 Treaty of Niš?
Did you know that at 5.4 kilometres (3.4 mi) long, the Taiji Cave in Anhui Province is the largest karst cave in East China?
Did you know that miniaturist Amalia Küssner Coudert painted tiny watercolor-on-ivory portraits of royalty, including King Edward VII and Czar Nicholas II of Russia?
Did you know that the British destroyer HMS Hasty captured the German blockade runner SS Morea in the North Atlantic on 12 February 1940 en-route from the South Atlantic to the UK to refit?
Did you know that the video for industrial rock band KMFDM's new song "Krank" was simultaneously shot in Hamburg, Seattle, and Portland, Oregon?
Did you know that the works of Eugen Relgis, a Romanian-born anarcho-pacifist and eugenicist, were targeted by Nazi book-burners and communist censors?
Did you know that there is evidence that humans have been processing fish since the early Holocene?
Did you know that "Losing a Whole Year", one of Third Eye Blind's "catchiest" songs, stayed on Billboard's alternative chart for 14 weeks?
Did you know that Albert Nutter took 600 wickets in first-class cricket?
Did you know that Appalachian novelist Anne Armstrong was the first woman to lecture before the Harvard School of Business and Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business?
Did you know that Michigan's Arthur Karpus played for Big Ten championship teams in football, basketball and baseball?
Did you know that Polish neurologist Włodzimierz Godłowski was one of the victims of the Katyn massacre?
Did you know that Romania's Elena Fidatov is one of the most prolific runners at the World Cross Country Championships, having competed on 13 occasions?
Did you know that Samuel Rayner, who painted the Derby Exhibition in 1839, had one of his paintings exhibited in the Royal Academy when he was only 15?
Did you know that Sonora Market in Mexico City is known for its vendors selling items related to Santa Muerte, Santería, and other forms of the occult and magical practices (samples pictured)?
Did you know that U.S. Army Special Forces reservist Gary Rader was arrested in 1967 for draft-card burning?
Did you know that in the mid-nineteenth century Argentina successfully resisted a five-year naval blockade by France and the United Kingdom?
Did you know that not only is Old Hemp considered the father of the modern Border Collie, but he originated the working style of herding sheep commonly seen among the breed today?
Did you know that the English Puritan Thomas Posthumous Hoby has been claimed as the inspiration for Shakespeare's Malvolio?
Did you know that the Out Of The Ordinary Festival celebrates the autumn equinox in England with a variety of live music and talks about prehistoric culture and earth mysteries?
Did you know that the actions of the German armored frigate SMS Friedrich Carl during a rebellion in Spain nearly precipitated a war between the rebels and Germany?
Did you know that the extinct Phlebotominae sandfly Pintomyia falcaorum is known only from Miocene age Dominican amber found on Hispaniola?
Did you know that the steam-powered foghorn was first demonstrated successfully in 1859 on Partridge Island in the Port of Saint John?
Did you know that the town of Juneau, Alaska, was established after the 1880 discovery of gold in Silver Bow Basin by Richard Harris and Joe Juneau?
Did you know that while the Xinfengjiang Dam's reservoir in China was filling in 1962, there were several earthquakes near it, including one at 6.1-magnitude?
Did you know that 20th-century artists Eric Gill and Leon Underwood created works for Italianate parish churches in and around Oxford designed by architect T. Lawrence Dale?
Did you know that Abe Cohn, son of immigrant parents identified as "Russian Yiddish" by U.S. Census-takers, played for the Michigan Wolverines football and basketball teams while attending law school?
Did you know that EyesOn Design are events, including an annual car show and a fundraiser for the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology, focused on the emotion and character of automotive design?
Did you know that HMS Mendip (L60) served in the navies of three other countries after her use by the Royal Navy in World War II?
Did you know that Lyndon Watts, principal bassoonist of the Munich Philharmonic at age 22, was the first Australian woodwind player to win a prize at the ARD Competition?
Did you know that Saigō-no-Tsubone, or "Lady Saigo", was a concubine who advised Tokugawa Ieyasu before the 1575 Battle of Nagashino, a major turning point in the history of Japan?
Did you know that The Islamic Society of Greater Manchester is building the first mosque in New Hampshire?
Did you know that Władysław Marian Jakowicki, a Polish physician and rector of the Stefan Batory University, was one of 19 faculty members arrested by the Soviets in 1939 who disappeared without a trace?
Did you know that as a result of the 1900 Hoboken Docks Fire in New Jersey, the size of portholes on ships was increased so that they could be used as a means of escape in an emergency?
Did you know that professional basketball player Trey Johnson ended his college baseball career after suffering a ligament injury on his elbow that required a Tommy John surgery?
Did you know that the Alaska-Juneau Gold Mining Company's two stamp mills on Gold Creek were driven exclusively by water power?
Did you know that the Ithaca Discovery Trail, a collaboration among seven hands-on museums and the public library in Tompkins County, New York, hosts 2,900 students on field trips each year?
Did you know that the Taunton Tramway in Somerset closed down when its power was cut off during a dispute over the cost of electricity?
Did you know that the first public trains in Russia were horse-drawn on the railroad between Tsarskoye Selo and Pavlovsk (station pictured) in 1836?
Did you know that Barbara Staff, a co-chairman of the 1976 campaign of Ronald Reagan in Texas, became a Republican activist in reaction to her political science professor?
Did you know that Captain Philemon Pownoll, killed in battle in 1780, was a mentor for future admirals Sir John Borlase Warren and Sir Edward Pellew?
Did you know that Dennis Russell Davies conducted the Münchener Kammerorchester in works of Thomas Larcher with soloists Till Fellner and Kim Kashkashian?
Did you know that Joseph Barss, the first head coach of the Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey team, was born in Madras, India, in 1892?
Did you know that Juliette (1956–66), the Canadian variety series which followed Hockey Night in Canada, attracted more than a million viewers per episode?
Did you know that Professor Andor Harvey Gomme's first name was a family joke?
Did you know that Rebecca Black intends to donate profits from viral hit "Friday" to school arts programs and disaster relief efforts in Japan?
Did you know that The Donald O'Connor Show, a 1954 NBC musical sitcom, is based on the premise of two young, struggling songwriters seeking buyers for their compositions?
Did you know that according to its original constitution, the capital of the United Arab Emirates is Al Karama, but no such city actually exists?
Did you know that even though Norwegian architect Bernt Heiberg supported the communist league Mot Dag in the 1930s, he opposed the May 1968 revolts?
Did you know that female Sundevall's Roundleaf Bats have a large pair of false teats, whose only function may be to give their young something to hold on to?
Did you know that in Ancient Israelite cuisine, bread was primarily made from barley flour, even though wheat flour was regarded as superior?
Did you know that the Church of the Good Shepherd, damaged in the 2010 Canterbury earthquake, suffered significant damage in a subsequent vandalism attack?
Did you know that the Marathon Dam in Greece is coated with the same Pentelikon marble used to construct the Parthenon and is symbolic of the Battle of Marathon?
Did you know that the Norwegian ship broker Ragnar Stoud Platou  headed several golf clubs in Norway?
Did you know that the Treaty of Serbian-Albanian Alliance was signed in 1914 in the Banovina building in Niš; which is now the seat of the University of Niš?
Did you know that the air-tractor sledge, the first aeroplane to be taken to Antarctica, went without wings?
Did you know that the spire of All Saints Church in Haugham, Lincolnshire, with its ornate flying buttresses, is said to echo the similar but larger spire of St. James Church in Louth?
Did you know that when the ceasefire was issued to end the Battle of Ismailia, some Israeli paratroopers and Egyptian Sa'iqa found that they were no more than 20 meters apart?
Did you know that Aniba rosaeodora is processed by mobile distilleries transported by raft?
Did you know that Dear Friend Hitler, an Indian film, centres on letters written from Mahatma Gandhi to Adolf Hitler?
Did you know that Diosso Gorge is known as the "Grand Canyon of the Congo"?
Did you know that Keanu Reeves has signed on to star in a new film adaptation of the Forty-seven Ronin produced by Universal Pictures?
Did you know that Lady Gaga approved the use of her song "Born This Way" for the Glee episode of the same name before the single premiered?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines baseball player and coach Charles F. Watkins sustained severe burns from an X-ray machine, which ultimately resulted in his death?
Did you know that Michigan baseball player and coach Jerry Utley was the owner of a luxury hotel in Baja California and the promoter of the 1933 Max Schmeling – Max Baer heavyweight championship fight?
Did you know that Stafford L. Warren invented the mammogram?
Did you know that Timothy Brown was the soloist in Mozart's four horn concertos with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conducted by his sister Iona Brown?
Did you know that actress Jennifer Aniston's "sex tape" includes puppies, a talking parrot, dirty-dancing babies and a groin kick?
Did you know that over 2,000 years ago two Chinese armies traveled 10,000 km to find "Heavenly Horses", apparently infected with a tiny worm causing them to "sweat blood" from sores"?
Did you know that the 2010 BBC television pilot Dirk Gently was the first screen adaptation of Douglas Adams's novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency?
Did you know that the 2011 Crufts Best in Show winner, Vbos The Kentuckian, is a descendant of the 1980 winner?
Did you know that the German ironclad SMS Hansa's service career was cut short due to severe corrosion in her hull?
Did you know that the Philippine town of Daet, Camarines Norte, was the first place to celebrate Rizal Day with its construction of the first Rizal monument?
Did you know that the WiiWare video game Bit.Trip Void was designed to have a minimalistic style, reflected in the audio, visuals, and its HUD?
Did you know that the first international railway link built in Laos opened in 2009, bringing trains across the Mekong from Nong Khai to Thanaleng Railway Station?
Did you know that the legs of the statue of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott broke in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake?
Did you know that while the wilga is a valued fodder tree of rural Australia, it is not known why sheep like some trees and not others?
Did you know that California attorney Charles Stetson Wheeler built a temple to fishing at his hunting lodge on McCloud River?
Did you know that Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War was the last of several wars between the Burmese-speaking Upper Burma and the Mon-speaking Lower Burma, ending the Mon people's centuries-long dominance of Lower Burma?
Did you know that Lenny Kravitz was a guest musician on Backatown, the major label debut by his former apprentice Trombone Shorty?
Did you know that Mr. Universe Steve Reeves played an office boy in a 1954 episode of the ABC sitcom The Ray Bolger Show?
Did you know that Wilf Martin played for the 1964 NCAA championship Michigan Wolverines ice hockey team and later set the Denver Spurs' single-season and career records for goals, assists, and points?
Did you know that Wright of Derby's Indian Widow (detail pictured) was exhibited in 1785 at what may have been the first one-person-show in England?
Did you know that according to tradition Lectionary 300, a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, was written by the Emperor Theodosius († 395)?
Did you know that among winners of the Leonard Statuette, named after Einar Leonard Schanke, are Kari Diesen, Rolf Just Nilsen, Arild Feldborg, and Alfred Næss?
Did you know that in United States v. Lee (1882), the Supreme Court held that a jury had properly ordered that the U.S. government return Arlington National Cemetery to the heir of Confederate General Robert E. Lee?
Did you know that instead of being topped by a dome, the roof of the 6th-century Belovo Basilica in southwestern Bulgaria consisted of a row of baldachin-like arches?
Did you know that more than 120,000 votes were placed across the United States to choose the final design for the Pioneer Woman statue in Ponca City, Oklahoma?
Did you know that public transport in Valparaíso, Chile, includes trolleybuses that were built 60 years ago, by Pullman, and were declared a national monument in 2003?
Did you know that six years before being cast as Aunt Bee on The Andy Griffith Show, Frances Bavier played a similar role in the NBC sitcom It's a Great Life?
Did you know that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "A Many Splendored Thing" included a subplot based on a real-life murder committed over a pen?
Did you know that the Jimmy Eat World single "Work" that stayed on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart for 21 weeks was described as "tailor-made for teenage runaway fantasies"?
Did you know that the Supreme Constitutional Court, as defined by the Syrian constitution, may not examine laws passed by a referendum?
Did you know that the Texas State Representative James C. Spencer was a prisoner of war in the 1942 Bataan Death March?
Did you know that the disgruntled sailors of the Russian battleship Imperator Pavel I instigated the 1917 mutiny of the Baltic Fleet in Helsinki?
Did you know that the medieval Church of St John the Baptist in Asenovgrad, Bulgaria, features arrowslits for defence?
Did you know that when the German ocean liner SS Columbus was intercepted by the British destroyer HMS Hyperion off Cape Hatteras on 19 December 1939, she was scuttled by her crew to avoid capture?
Did you know that Entropezites, Mycetophagites, and Palaeoagaracites present the oldest evidence of fungal parasitism and hyperparasitism by other fungi in the fossil record?
Did you know that James Moody received his first Grammy Award for Moody 4B after he died?
Did you know that Moroccan runner Abderrahim Goumri has been the runner-up at the New York City Marathon, London Marathon (twice) and the Chicago Marathon?
Did you know that Pete Conway won 30 games as a pitcher for the Detroit Wolverines in 1888, "snapped a cord in his arm" in 1889, later worked as a mule skinner, and was dead by age 36?
Did you know that Sonoma wine producer Hanzell Vineyards was one of the first California wineries to produce barrel-aged Chardonnay?
Did you know that The Avenue is still used for London Irish's pre season friendlies despite being demoted to a training facility since their move to the Madjeski Stadium?
Did you know that architect Frank Lloyd Wright called the Wainwright Building, built by Ellis Wainwright in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1890–92, "the very first human expression of a tall steel office-building as Architecture"?
Did you know that bookmaker Ladbrokes paid out on bets that former UK Chancellor, Kenneth Clarke, would fall asleep during the 2011 budget speech?
Did you know that children's author Phoebe Gilman's inspiration for The Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs came from her daughter selling mice bookmarks?
Did you know that cricketer Bill Shipman played over 100 first-class matches for Leicestershire?
Did you know that the 1869 Atlantic hurricane season was the earliest year in the Atlantic hurricane database in which there were at least ten tropical cyclones?
Did you know that the German ironclad SMS König Wilhelm was the largest and most powerful warship in the Imperial Navy in the late 19th century?
Did you know that the Japanese have been regarded as demonstrating "gaman" in the wake of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami?
Did you know that with "Nearer My God to Thee", Isabella Hofmann joined the cast of Homicide: Life on the Street to add more sex appeal to the cast?
Did you know that workers undertaking the 2010 Canterbury earthquake repair were outside for lunch when the oldest part of Holy Trinity Avonside collapsed in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake?
Did you know that Alexander Briger conducted Don John of Austria, Australia's first opera, written by his great-great-great-great-grandfather Isaac Nathan?
Did you know that All Saints Church, West Stourmouth in Kent was damaged in an earthquake in 1382?
Did you know that Japanese seismologist Kiyoo Mogi proposed the "Mogi doughnut hypothesis" for predicting earthquakes?
Did you know that John Howell, who built St John's Church in Hastings, England, to the design of E.A. Wyon, arrived in town as a poor boy and became the mayor?
Did you know that Mo Li Hua (Jasmine Flower), a popular Chinese folk song used previously on many official occasions, was censored due to its association with the 2011 Chinese protests?
Did you know that Stan Hansen, a longtime "Gaijin heel" in Japanese professional wrestling, officially retired at the Giant Baba Memorial Spectacular?
Did you know that U.S. President William Howard Taft was a member of Cincinnati's First Unitarian Church?
Did you know that a novel type of aerodynamic arrowhead, the Abu Madi Point, was found at the prehistoric site of Abu Madi, Egypt?
Did you know that although it gave the game a "C" rating, The Video Game Critic praised A-VCS-tec Challenge for "some of the best graphics and audio you'll experience on your 2600"?
Did you know that migratory waterfowl can be seen in the winter in Mexico City at the Xochimilco Ecological Park?
Did you know that the Cayuga Nature Center has a rope climbing / rope bridge course?
Did you know that the Vaccines for Children Program provides free vaccines to uninsured or underinsured children in the United States?
Did you know that the music video for Rufus Wainwright's song "April Fools", which appeared on his eponymous debut album, featured cameo appearances by Melissa Auf der Maur and No Doubt's Gwen Stefani?
Did you know that the upcoming new Yes album Fly from Here features Benoît David, a former Yes cover band vocalist?
Did you know that 26-year-old John F. Kennedy swam in the freezing McCloud River while wintering with William Randolph Hearst at Wyntoon?
Did you know that ABC's Jukebox Jury began as a local musical program on KNXT-TV, then the CBS affiliate in Los Angeles?
Did you know that California Appellate Court Justice William A. Reppy, an appointee of Governor Ronald Reagan, was a member of the Stanford University track and field team and editor of the USC Law Review?
Did you know that Claude Arnulphy of Aix-en-Provence painted portraits of Royal Navy officers while their fleet was lying off Toulon?
Did you know that Imperial German Secretary of Justice Rudolf Arnold Nieberding  declared the German Lèse majesté laws as "not entirely reconcilable with the general sense of justice"?
Did you know that Israel allowed a highly unusual interfaith, mixed-gender worship service at the Western Wall's Wilson's Arch as part of a special welcome for the U.S. Sixth Fleet in 1983?
Did you know that John Giordano, named 1981 collegiate Coach of the Year by The Hockey News, was fired three years later when all 22 of his players signed a petition listing their grievances against him?
Did you know that Louisiana historian Henry E. Chambers received his Ph.D from Johns Hopkins University, where one of his instructors was future U.S. President Woodrow Wilson?
Did you know that Ruprecht of the Palatinate was so unpopular as Archbishop of Cologne that he was ultimately forced to sign a resignation in exchange for an annuity of 4,000 gold guilders?
Did you know that St Thomas' Church in East Shefford, Berkshire, contains the tomb of a member of the Portuguese royal family?
Did you know that an aerial shot of the festival featured in the Parks and Recreation episode "Harvest Festival" was the most expensive shot of the entire series?
Did you know that during the Second World War, the airfield at Saint-Inglevert, Pas-de-Calais, France, was used by the Armée de l'Air, the Royal Air Force, and the Luftwaffe?
Did you know that glamour model Linni Meister appeared nude in the music video for her single "My Ass" which was released as promotion for the 2009 Norwegian comedy-horror film Dead Snow?
Did you know that in the book The Oxford companion to Australian film, Morag Bellingham of Home and Away is described as a "soap opera super-bitch"?
Did you know that the Hotel de France in Conakry, Guinea, was the first project of the French architectural firm Atelier LWD and architect Guy Lagneau from 1953 to 1954?
Did you know that the Sign of the Kiwi was built as a toll house for the Christchurch Summit Road?
Did you know that the final Portrait of Père Tanguy was purchased by the sculptor Auguste Rodin and now resides in his museum in Paris?
Did you know that while inspecting the cargo of the freighter Victoria, Israeli naval commandos found 50 tons of weapons concealed beneath bags of cotton and lentils from Syria?
Did you know that Labweh, a village in Lebanon, has springs and a river named after it that flow northwards to form the Orontes River?
Did you know that Napua Stevens's 1949 Hawaiian hit "Beyond the Reef" was later recorded by Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, and The Ventures?
Did you know that Small Heath F.C. was not promoted to the Football League First Division after winning the inaugural Second Division title in 1892–93, while the second- and third-place teams were?
Did you know that Thomas Fitch was the lead attorney in defending Morgan, Virgil, and Wyatt Earp, along with Doc Holliday, when they were indicted for murder after the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral?
Did you know that Welsh artist Alfred Janes was part of The Kardomah Gang, which included poet Dylan Thomas?
Did you know that Wrath of the Titans, the upcoming sequel to the 2010 film Clash of the Titans, is being shot in 3-D rather than being converted to 3-D like its predecessor?
Did you know that a chest tomb in the churchyard of Old St Peter and St Paul's Church, Albury in Surrey commemorates the artists Arthur Devis and Anthony Devis?
Did you know that although true bugs eat aphids, they help the aphids by eating another predator, young lacewings?
Did you know that before becoming a state legislator and then railroad commissioner in Nebraska, Henry Clarke pitched with Cy Young for the Cleveland Spiders and coached Michigan Wolverines baseball?