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Did you know that Grey's Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey placed third in his class in the 2011 24 Hours of Daytona endurance race, won overall by a team comprising drivers Scott Pruett, Memo Rojas, Graham Rahal and Joey Hand?
Did you know that James Troy served as the light keeper of Cleveland Point Light for 50 years, the longest serving light keeper at one lighthouse in Australia?
Did you know that Julianna Margulies appeared in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Black and Blue" as a romantic interest to the much-older Ned Beatty?
Did you know that Richard Smith directed the Marx Brothers in their first film, Humor Risk?
Did you know that Saturday Night Live comedian Will Forte played a man obsessed with the Twilight series in "Time Capsule", an episode of the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation?
Did you know that St Michael's Church, Buslingthorpe, in Lincolnshire contains one of the earliest military brasses in England?
Did you know that Sunny South, a clipper ship captured in 1860 with a cargo of over 800 slaves, was built by a racing yacht designer, and outran the steam-powered HMS Brisk for four hours?
Did you know that courts have held that a Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo implementation statute extinguished all tribal aboriginal title in California?
Did you know that during the Boer War General Henry Hildyard told Winston Churchill that his Brigade was in "formation for taking advantage of ant-heaps"?
Did you know that in 1950, Arnold Cook was the first person to bring a guide dog to Australia?
Did you know that in the Caribbean, off Anguilla, the Flirt Rocks are north of the Prickly Pear Cays, while a channel separates the cays from Dog Island?
Did you know that indigenous customary law, known as usos y costumbres, is used for local elections in Mexico and Bolivia?
Did you know that the 150-million-year-old ink of the extinct, squid-like Belemnotheutis (artist's rendition pictured) was used to draw a picture that paleontologists called "the ultimate self portrait"?
Did you know that the New Zealand mushrooms Amanita australis, A. nothofagi, Entoloma haastii, Mycena cystidiosa, M. minirubra, and Oudemansiella australis were all described by Greta Stevenson as new to science?
Did you know that the Quicksilver GT500 is the first aircraft certified under Part 21.24 of the Federal Aviation Regulations?
Did you know that the Saint Usuge Spaniel was saved from extinction after World War II thanks to a priest in the Bresse region of France?
Did you know that the coffin of Rasputin rested in Chesme Church before his burial at Tsarskoye Selo in 1916?
Did you know that the main protagonist from the manga series Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Syaoran, ends up becoming one of the series' main antagonists?
Did you know that under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998, whistleblowers in Great Britain are protected from dismissal, but not from libel lawsuits if their allegations turn out to be false?
Did you know that Fringe actress Anna Torv considers "August" one of her favorite episodes?
Did you know that Olav Braarud remained the managing director of the Oslo light rail company Holmenkolbanen while it was controlled by the fascist Nasjonal Samling and the Nazi military during World War II?
Did you know that Oswald Hall, former residence of Richard Oswald, the British representative at the 1783 Peace of Paris after the American War of Independence, became a teaching farm in the 20th century?
Did you know that Pinocchio's sentence "My nose grows now" could be neither true nor false, which means his nose grows if, and only if, it does not grow?
Did you know that St Mary the Virgin's Church, Wiggenhall, Norfolk is notable for the quality of its carved wooden fittings?
Did you know that Sylvester H. Roper's steam velocipede of 1867–1869 is one of three candidates for the title of first motorcycle?
Did you know that Thomas Hislop enjoyed being Minister of Education, as his father was the author of the New Zealand Education Act?
Did you know that a brass in All Saints Church, Little Wenham is said to be one of the best pre-Reformation brasses in Suffolk?
Did you know that after the failed Siege of Phasis during the Lazic War against the Byzantines, the Sassanid Persian shah became so upset with his losing general that he had him flayed alive?
Did you know that all of the federal judges in South Carolina recused themselves from South Carolina v. Catawba Indian Tribe?
Did you know that although the Jura wine grape Poulsard is dark-skinned, the amount of color pigment in its skin is so low that it can be used to make white wine?
Did you know that for the 2009 independent feature film Jordon Saffron Taste This!, director Sergio Myers created a filmmaking style he calls "Free Flow Filmmaking"?
Did you know that legend says that Welsh noblewoman Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam was so beloved that when she died 3000 knights, nobles and weeping peasants followed her body to its burial place?
Did you know that scholars estimate that it takes two or three generations for a tradition to emerge?
Did you know that the Moyes Dragonfly ultralight aircraft was designed for the specialised role of towing hang gliders, but is also used for herding livestock?
Did you know that the Sigur Plateau is a wildlife corridor which is important for maintaining the genetic diversity of elephants and general biodiversity in South India?
Did you know that the United States Air Force's 14th Test Squadron was originally activated during the Cold War as the 14th Missile Warning Squadron and assigned to operate radar sites around the United States?
Did you know that the lawyer who argued Connick v. Myers before the U.S. Supreme Court for Harry Connick, Sr., had interviewed Sheila Myers, the appellee, when she had applied to work for Connick?
Did you know that the neighborhoods of the city of Cholula, Puebla, in Mexico have a complicated system for sponsoring its many religious festivals?
Did you know that the only high-ranking Byzantine official to die in the 557 Constantinople earthquake was a curator and honorary consul killed by a piece of decorative marble?
Did you know that the prehistoric archaeologist Johanna Mestorf was the first female museum director in Germany, and at 71 became the first or second female professor?
Did you know that while it took Wire three months to come up with a title for their last album, Object 47, the band immediately agreed on naming their current record Red Barked Tree?
Did you know that Adalbert Schneider was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for the sinking of HMS Hood on 24 May 1941 in the Battle of the Denmark Strait?
Did you know that Belgian Symbolist artist Félicien Rops called French writer Octave Uzanne "the Bibliophile's dream"?
Did you know that Brother Cajetan J. B. Baumann (1899–1969) was the first member of a religious order to ever be named to the American Institute of Architects?
Did you know that Dutch Major Lodewijk Thomson, second-in-command of the International Gendarmerie in Albania, was probably killed by an Italian sniper on 15 June 1914, in a peasant rebel attack on Durrës?
Did you know that Gabe Carimi, who is expected to be picked in the first round of the 2011 NFL Draft, fasted for Yom Kippur until an hour before game-time in his freshman year of college?
Did you know that Justice, a 1954 NBC TV legal drama, was based on cases of the Legal Aid Society of New York?
Did you know that Leonard Nimoy says that his work on Fringe, which began with the episode "There's More Than One of Everything", will be his last acting project?
Did you know that Michigan quarterback Ted Bank wore a specially constructed knee brace to allow him to play football after suffering a shrapnel injury in World War I?
Did you know that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman began the last of three lectures collected in The Meaning of It All by saying, "I have completely run out of organized ideas"?
Did you know that Oliver Lewis, founding member of the electronic music group Deviations Project, is considered to be the "world's fastest violinist"?
Did you know that Polish poet Juliusz Słowacki is one of the Three Bards of Polish literature?
Did you know that Romanian novelist Sergiu Dan survived deportation to Transnistria, spoke of it in one of the few local contributions to Holocaust literature, and was later imprisoned by the communist regime?
Did you know that W. P. Clark constructed Bustard Head Light, Double Island Point Light and Pine Islet Light, and started but did not complete the construction of Cape Cleveland Light and Dent Island Light?
Did you know that a woman immigrant from Frankfurt, the Countess Leon, founded the communal Germantown Colony established in 1835 in Webster Parish, Louisiana?
Did you know that comedian Nick Offerman said of filming the Parks and Recreation episode "Ron & Tammy: Part Two": "I remember there was lots of howling, and I came away very sore and scarred?"
Did you know that during the 1950s, the United States Navy intended to use Gorgons to deliver chemical weapons?
Did you know that in the 1990s Luobi Cave near Sanya, Hainan, China, yielded the oldest evidence of human settlement in Hainan, as well as China's most southern occurrence of Upper Paleolithic era stone tools?
Did you know that the 13th-century New Testament manuscript known as Minuscule 827 does not include John's account of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery?
Did you know that the AAM-A-1 Firebird (pictured on DB-26) was the first air-to-air missile to be developed following the end of World War II?
Did you know that the Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland had planned to be aboard Manx2 Flight 7100, which crashed on landing in February 2011?
Did you know that the Iron Age Meare Lake Village was built on a peat bog on the Somerset Levels?
Did you know that the Salaulim Dam in Goa, India, has a unique duckbill type of spillway located in the gorge section?
Did you know that the UK singer Don Charles, who had one top forty hit, later bought a Maltese night club with Rolf Harris?
Did you know that the ice hockey team Spektrum Flyers was disbanded after two years because its management moved it from Oslo to Bergen?
Did you know that uranates have been used to add various colors to glass (example pictured)?
Did you know that while Syrian President Hafez al-Assad was ill in 1983, Hikmat al-Shihabi, chief of staff of the Syrian Army, and Ali Duba, head of the Military Intelligence, were part of an interim ruling committee?
Did you know that "New Allegiances", the series seven premiere of the British television series Spooks, was partially filmed on location in Moscow, Russia, the first time in series history where filming took place outside the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Alan B. Slifka, who created the Abraham Fund Initiatives to promote coexistence of Jews and Arabs in Israel, was also the first chairman of the Big Apple Circus?
Did you know that British appeal court judge James Stirling was a Wrangler, a Devil, and an amateur bryologist?
Did you know that British botanist Charles Edward Hubbard was "the world authority on the classification and recognition of grasses"?
Did you know that Doomsday Gun (HBO, 2004) was the first television drama to deal with U.S. and British covert involvement with Saddam Hussein preceding the Gulf War?
Did you know that Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, who leads Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, was formerly defence minister under President Hosni Mubarak?
Did you know that Hemioniscus balani is called a "parasitic castrator" although its barnacle host remains a functioning male because the barnacle can no longer also function as a female?
Did you know that Master of the Blankney Hunt, Edgar Lubbock played in four FA Cup Finals, twice on the winning side?
Did you know that Michigan's 1915 quarterback Lawrence Roehm was called the "thinking type", "160 pounds of undaunted courage", and a "peppery" player who imbued his team with "do-or-die spirit"?
Did you know that Morefield's leather flower was first discovered in a vacant lot in 1982 by a 21-year-old botany student?
Did you know that Vidyasagar Setu, the longest cable-stayed bridge in India, was built over the course of 20 years?
Did you know that every no-hitter in franchise history for the Washington Nationals Major League Baseball club was thrown by a pitcher wearing an Expos uniform back when the team was based in Montreal, Canada?
Did you know that fortuitous finding of a colossal basalt lion in 1955 led to discovery of the Ain Dara temple near Aleppo in Syria, which was built in three structural phases between 1300 BC and 740 BC?
Did you know that from 1859 to 1931, the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens, Georgia, taught "orthodox southern moral and racial values" to young Southern women?
Did you know that in 1881, a tunnel was dug under St. Petersburg's shortest street, Malaya Sadovaya Street, as part of a Narodnik plot to assassinate Czar Alexander II?
Did you know that in 2004, the measurement of the size of a ski jumping hill was changed from the construction point to the hill size?
Did you know that legal action following the burial of a two-year old child in the churchyard of St Mary's Church in Akenham, Suffolk, led to a change in the law in 1880?
Did you know that the Marshall JCM800 series of amplifiers, used by many hard rock and heavy metal bands of the 1980s, owes its name to the owner's initials and his car number plate?
Did you know that the SSM-A-3 Snark and SSM-A-5 Boojum cruise missiles were named after beasts from Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark?
Did you know that the popularity of the Balancing Rocks formation grew when the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe featured it on certain issues of Zimbabwean banknotes, including the current series?
Did you know that the ruined Church of St Mary in Islington, Norfolk, has retained roofs only on its tower and chancel?
Did you know that the two leading sopranos in the 1711 world premiere of Handel's Rinaldo, Isabella Girardeau and Elisabetta Pilotti-Schiavonetti, were bitter rivals?
Did you know that while Nielluccio is sometimes described as indigenous to Corsica, the grape may actually have come to the island from Genoa and could really just be a clone of Sangiovese?
Did you know that Andy Lally and Brian Keselowski are competing for Rookie of the Year in the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series?
Did you know that French engineer Achille Collas invented a working machine to make engravings from medals, coins and other bas-reliefs, and another to copy sculptures at a reduced scale?
Did you know that Leach's spider crab lives with the snakelocks anemone, eats the anemone's food and mucus and is protected from predators by the anemone's stings?
Did you know that NASA engineers shook a Saturn V test vehicle (S-IC stage pictured) for over 400 hours to ensure it would withstand the rigors of launch?
Did you know that Sir James Rögnvald Learmonth was knighted in King George VI's bedroom after performing nerve surgery for his vascular disease?
Did you know that Soul Surfer is an upcoming film about Bethany Hamilton, who lost her left arm in a shark attack while surfing?
Did you know that Stephen Herbits spent three years as Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Hubert, a weak tropical cyclone, killed 85 people and left 35 more missing throughout Madagascar in March 2010?
Did you know that a Pacific tropical storm and a Gulf of Mexico hurricane contributed to flash flooding in Minnesota and Wisconsin in September 2010?
Did you know that in ecologically diverse Poinsett State Park in South Carolina one can see mountain laurels draped with Spanish moss?
Did you know that kabbalists believed that those who think of themselves as Ayin, a mystical symbol of Kabbalah, will ascend to a spiritual world where everything, including life and death, is equal?
Did you know that mountain coatis, a genus of small carnivorans from the Andes, were considered to represent a single species, until a second species was recognized in 2009?
Did you know that replicas of the Harley J. Earl Trophy, named after NASCAR's second commissioner, are sculpted by John Lajba and awarded to the winners of the Daytona 500?
Did you know that the 1973 Soviet economic reform initiated by Alexei Kosygin, the Premier of the Soviet Union, tried to reduce the powers of the central Ministries?
Did you know that the Centipede–Lake Way project, located at Lake Way, is scheduled to become Western Australia's second uranium mine by 2013?
Did you know that the Old Orchard Street Theatre in Bath was built as a provincial theatre before becoming a Roman Catholic Church and since 1865 a Masonic Hall?
Did you know that the dog breed the Tesem appears on monuments and in wall paintings of the Ancient Egyptians?
Did you know that the dwarf Seneb (sculpture pictured) overcame his diminutive size to become a high-ranking royal official in ancient Egypt, marry a priestess and own thousands of cattle?
Did you know that the first game to be considered a Yoshi game is the 1991 Nintendo Entertainment System game, Yoshi, which was developed by GameFreak?
Did you know that the first official United States silver dollar contained an illegal amount of silver?
Did you know that the month after the Montreal Canadiens lost to their provincial rivals, the Quebec Nordiques, in the 1982 NHL playoffs, Quebec's beer consumption fell by 9.5 percent?
Did you know that when the 1983 arcade game Up'n Down was ported to the Atari 2600, its "bluesy" background music was replaced with "a very unsettling version" due to limitations in the 2600's sound capabilities?
Did you know that Andrew L. Sevier, a Louisiana state senator from 1932 to 1962, was the scion of a family that traces its lineage to John Sevier of Tennessee?
Did you know that Bach's cantata for Septuagesimae 1724, Nimm, was dein ist, und gehe hin, BWV 144, is based on the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard?
Did you know that Patrick Sheltra, the 2010 ARCA Racing Series champion, was the first owner-driver to win the series title since Benny Parsons in 1969?
Did you know that TIGER grants are contributing to the construction of the Gateway Project, a high speed rail corridor between Newark Penn Station and New York Penn Station?
Did you know that The Daily Telegraph's Tom Hoggins stated that Body and Brain Connection created a new video game genre called "mathercise", a portmanteau of the words math and exercise?
Did you know that The Dante Quartet, an eight-minute experimental film, took six years to produce?
Did you know that Theodosius Dobzhansky was the first president of the Behavior Genetics Association?
Did you know that Tony Burrello's single "There's a New Sound" was described by Billboard magazine as "a studied attempt to be as screwy as possible", but went on to sell over 100,000 copies?
Did you know that at Isha Home School in Coimbatore, India, origami is used to teach mathematics?
Did you know that in 1143 the Byzantine-Norman nobleman John Rogerios plotted to usurp the throne of his brother-in-law Manuel I Komnenos, but was betrayed by his own wife?
Did you know that in 1999, a giant planet was hypothesized to exist in the outer Oort cloud of the solar system, but most astronomers are skeptical of its existence?
Did you know that in September 1864, Sitting Bull was shot in the hip while leading an attack on a wagon train commanded by Captain James L. Fisk?
Did you know that instead of pinnacles on the tower of St Margaret's Church, Abbotsley in Cambridgeshire, there are statues of four kings?
Did you know that mass strandings of the squat lobster Pleuroncodes planipes occur in California during El Niño years?
Did you know that megaphone can be crystallized from an ether-chloroform solution?
Did you know that the 1995 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships was hosted in Gjøvik Olympic Cavern Hall, the world's largest cavern hall for public use?
Did you know that the French wine grape Fer gets its name from the element iron, because of how hard the vine's wood stock is?
Did you know that the German armored cruiser SMS Prinz Heinrich set the design standard for all subsequent armored cruisers built for the Kaiserliche Marine?
Did you know that the Marshall JTM 45 was based on the Fender Bassman, but had different harmonic content because of increased feedback?
Did you know that the Mexican state of Sonora lost about half its territory in the mid-19th century to the United States?
Did you know that the city of Sulphur, Louisiana, once placed a memorial light on its water tower to honor Dr. Alvan Lafargue for having delivered 5,000 babies?
Did you know that the opening of the Italian Spring Offensive against Greek positions, in March 1941, was personally observed by Benito Mussolini?
Did you know that the spire of North Church has been called Portsmouth, New Hampshire's "landmark of record"?
Did you know that the track "Palermo" from the Chicago Underground Trio's album Slon contains recorded sounds from a Sicilian fish market?
Did you know that under Anton Mosimann, the restaurant of the Dorchester Hotel became the first hotel restaurant outside France with two Michelin stars?
Did you know that Ann Preston was the first female dean of any medical school?
Did you know that Arthur Cheetham's film of children playing on the beach at Rhyl is recognised as the first film of the Cinema of Wales?
Did you know that Callipogon relictus is the largest beetle of Russia, reaching a length of 110 mm (4.3 in)?
Did you know that Croatian mountaineer Stipe Božić is the second European, after Reinhold Messner, to climb Mount Everest twice?
Did you know that César Franck wrote his Violin Sonata as a wedding gift for violinist Eugène Ysaÿe?
Did you know that English professional cyclist Thomas Gascoyne set world records for both 25 miles and the 'flying start quarter mile'?
Did you know that Myotis vivesi is a species of bat that hunts marine fish and crustaceans?
Did you know that Pine Islet Light, now located at the Mackay Marina, Queensland, Australia, is the last fully functional kerosene powered lighthouse in the world?
Did you know that Saleh al-Ali led one of the first Syrian rebellions against the French mandate, and was sentenced to death in absentia by a French court-martial?
Did you know that Swiss-born Medal of Honor recipient Julius H. Stickoffer was the only U.S. soldier to receive the award for actions during the Black Hawk War in Utah?
Did you know that Syrian political cartoonist Ali Farzat's 1989 exhibition at the Arab World Institute in Paris brought him a death threat from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein?
Did you know that in 1805 Marguerite was the first slave to file a freedom suit in St. Louis, and she gained an end to Indian slavery in Missouri?
Did you know that sections of state highway M-37 in Michigan have been named for a Civil War general, a governor, and the road's "divine scenic and recreational delights"?
Did you know that the 1999 Bridge Creek – Moore tornado, ranked F5 on the Fujita scale, was the costliest tornado in United States history?
Did you know that the exoplanet Kepler-9b's "year" becomes four minutes longer every time it completes an orbit around its star?
Did you know that the first Iannotta San Francesco ultralight aircraft was built in a Capuchin Friary in Naples and named after the Capuchins' patron saint, St Francis of Assisi?
Did you know that the lowest stage of the tower of St John the Baptist's Church, Stanton, Suffolk, was left open to allow processions around the church?
Did you know that the snail Pittieria aurantiaca feeds on honeydew produced by the lantern bug Enchophora sanguinea, the first recorded trophobiotic interaction between a gastropod and an insect?
Did you know that when the Ottomans entered the castle gates during the Siege of Gvozdansko, they met no resistance because the defending Croatian soldiers were already dead of wounds, hunger and cold?
Did you know that British Major General Richard Barrons, who led efforts to incentivise Taliban soldiers to surrender in exchange for civilian jobs, was hand-picked for the role by U.S. General Stanley A. McChrystal?