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Did you know that the Albion River Bridge, the only wooden bridge on California State Route 1, has been proposed for replacement by the California Department of Transportation?
Did you know that the American Memphis blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Walter Vinson co-wrote the blues standard, "Sitting on Top of the World"?
Did you know that the Grand Lake St. Marys Lighthouse is the only historic lighthouse in landlocked western Ohio?
Did you know that the Maslenica Bridge carrying the Adriatic Highway was completely destroyed during the Croatian War of Independence and reconstructed 14 years later?
Did you know that the Woodlawn Preserve is one of the most biologically diverse habitats in Schenectady County, New York, due to the combination of swamp, wetlands, water bodies, and dune vegetation?
Did you know that the iron furnace at Old Furnace State Park in Connecticut produced horseshoes for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War?
Did you know that the winemaker of the eponymous Piemonte wine producer, Bruno Giacosa, is known as "the genius of Neive"?
Did you know that tomatoes were the first commercially available genetically modified food?
Did you know that while Romanian politician Viorel Hrebenciuc was pushing to have President Traian Băsescu removed from office, his son was dating the President's daughter Elena?
Did you know that with an area of over 40,000 square feet (3,700 m2), etnies Skatepark is the largest free to use skatepark in California?
Did you know that Dora Ratjen was stripped of the women's high jump gold medal from the 1938 European Athletics Championships because he was a man?
Did you know that Pedro Almodóvar's first film Pepi, Luci, Bom was based on a story titled "General Erections", which parodied the 1977 Spanish general elections?
Did you know that Peter Cushman Jones, who founded the Bank of Hawaii, arrived in Honolulu with only 16 cents?
Did you know that Roman Catholic priest Lawrence Boadt suggested that Christians "could gain some feeling for the Old Testament by attending a Friday night Sabbath service at a local temple or synagogue"?
Did you know that Ryan Mollett was the first player drafted in the first Major League Lacrosse Collegiate Draft?
Did you know that Winnipeg Blue Bombers star Jeff Nicklin was one of the first Canadians to jump into Normandy on D-Day and into Germany?
Did you know that a clinical trial on the treatment of scurvy was conducted in as early as 1747 aboard the 50-gun warship HMS Salisbury?
Did you know that a co-founder of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Mario G. Obledo, organized a boycott of the Taco Bell Chihuahua, citing the dog's stereotypical Mexican accent?
Did you know that a number of medieval English bishops each served over 60 times as papal judges-delegate?
Did you know that a person with sleep state misperception may believe they slept for only four hours while, paradoxically, sleeping a full eight hours?
Did you know that in November 1944, No. 4 Commando captured 1,200 German prisoners during the Battle of the Scheldt?
Did you know that in the 1765 Larache expedition against Larache in Morocco, the French Navy lost hundreds of men, some of whom were taken as slaves?
Did you know that in the Battle of Kalavrye, Alexios Komnenos rallied his scattered army, counterattacked, and drew the numerically superior enemy army into a successful ambush?
Did you know that mutations in the DHHC domain of the human enzyme, ZDHHC9, can cause sex-linked mental retardation?
Did you know that owners of the Empire State Building oppose construction of 15 Penn Plaza, a 1,216-feet skyscraper planned to be 900 feet away from what is now New York City's tallest building?
Did you know that the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly was first convened in 1970 as a body of 37 indirectly elected members when Meghalaya was an autonomous state within the state of Assam?
Did you know that the debut albums by rock bands Illinois Speed Press and Aorta, together with those by Chicago Transit Authority and The Flock, were released simultaneously in 1969 and were marketed as "the Chicago Sound"?
Did you know that the eastern mole is the most widely distributed mole in North America?
Did you know that the influential modernist poet of 1960s China Guo Lusheng now lives in a mental institution in Beijing?
Did you know that the opening of the Franjo Tuđman Bridge was controversial due to a public naming dispute?
Did you know that the redundant Church of St John the Baptist, Stanwick, North Yorkshire, stands within the earthworks of a settlement originating in the early Iron Age?
Did you know that Carrier Strike Group Ten can trace its organizational lineage to Destroyer Flotilla Two created during World War I by the U.S. Navy?
Did you know that Jon Hess, Chris Massey and Jesse Hubbard formed the 1996, 1997 and 1998 national champion Princeton lacrosse potent offense, while Christian Cook led the defense and Josh Sims developed as a midfield scoring threat?
Did you know that Jordan of Laron was once excommunicated with the entire regions of Limousin and Aquitaine?
Did you know that Kevin Noreen, current Minnesota Mr. Basketball, is the highest scoring basketball player in Minnesota high school history?
Did you know that Michigan's starting quarterbacks under head coach Bennie Oosterbaan included John Ghindia (1949), Lou Baldacci (1953–1954), and Jim Maddock (1954–1956)?
Did you know that Michigan's starting quarterbacks under head coach Bump Elliott included Stan Noskin (1957–1959), Dave Glinka (1960–1962), and Wally Gabler (1965)?
Did you know that Mikołaj Błociszewski was the Polish negotiator in the diplomatic negotiations whose failure led to the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War?
Did you know that Phule's Company by Robert Asprin follows the fictional adventures of Willard J. Phule in the Space Legion?
Did you know that Prudent Joye, the 1938 European Champion in the 400 m hurdles, escaped from a Nazi internment camp and joined the French Resistance?
Did you know that Ray Van Orman was expelled from Cornell University for "cribbing", but later returned to complete his veterinary doctorate and to coach the lacrosse and football teams?
Did you know that Schenectady, New York's Woodlawn neighboorhood makes up 22.5% of the city's land area, but generates only 17.9% of the city’s property tax revenue?
Did you know that St. Ninian's Church, Tynet looks like a barn because it had to be hidden from Protestants?
Did you know that Tatyana Dyachenko, daughter of President Boris Yeltsin, worked at Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center until 1994?
Did you know that a loan from one of its members, Benjamin Franklin, allowed the American Philosophical Society to complete its headquarters, Philosophical Hall?
Did you know that a new airport is being built in Indonesia as part of the government's plan to promote Lombok and Sumbawa as the number two tourist destination in the country after Bali?
Did you know that a newly constructed powership, a floating power plant, supplies 144 MW of electricity to Basra in south-eastern Iraq?
Did you know that a study found that around 50 out of the 70 examined specimens of the subantarctic octopus species Benthoctopus levis had fed exclusively on brittle stars?
Did you know that among mountain bike orienteers with multiple world championships gold medals are Michaela Gigon, Christine Schaffner, Ksenia Chernykh, Adrian Jackson and Ruslan Gritsan?
Did you know that both Patrol 35, based in Israel, and Tsagaan Khass, based in Mongolia, are openly neo-Nazi organizations?
Did you know that in Bulgarian mythology, the razkovniche is a magical herb that can open all locks and transmute iron into gold, but it can only be identified by a tortoise?
Did you know that in the last days of World War II, the Red Army's arrival in Demmin triggered a mass suicide of several hundred people?
Did you know that lacrosse defenseman and founder of Warrior Lacrosse David Morrow helped design the titanium lacrosse stick?
Did you know that on 12 December 1782, a single British frigate defeated five enemy ships (battle pictured), taking two as prizes?
Did you know that on Easter Monday, 1916, George Plunkett waved down a tram in Dublin with his revolver and paid for 52 tickets to get his heavily armed Irish Volunteers to take part in the Easter Rising?
Did you know that the American Delta blues guitarist and singer, Houston Stackhouse, taught Robert Nighthawk how to play the guitar?
Did you know that the Battle of Graveney Marsh on 27 September 1940 between British and German troops was the last action involving a foreign invading force to take place on mainland British soil?
Did you know that the French ironclad La Galissonnière bombarded the Tunisian port of Sfax in July 1881 as part of the French occupation of Tunisia?
Did you know that the Sam Mills company supplies 40% of the Romanian corn pasta market?
Did you know that the Youth Olympic champion in the girls' hammer throw, Alexia Sedykh, is the daughter of two current world record holders in athletics?
Did you know that the newly described Microhyla nepenthicola is the smallest species of frog in the Old World?
Did you know that the original nickname of Norman MacLeod, 22nd chief of Clan MacLeod, was "The Wicked Man", but a 20th century chief tried to change it to "The Red Man"?
Did you know that unitarian minister Hans Tambs Lyche was the founder and first editor of the periodical Kringsjaa?
Did you know that with its two-dollar coin (reverse pictured), Newfoundland was the only British colony to issue circulating gold coinage?
Did you know that American photographer Amelia Van Buren was the subject of one of Thomas Eakins' most famous paintings?
Did you know that California cult wine producer Scarecrow is named for its founder's connection to The Wizard of Oz?
Did you know that Cornish Saint Endelienta, a hermit, is believed to have subsisted solely on the milk of a cow who was also her only companion?
Did you know that Emmanuel Rodríguez's boxing championship at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics was Puerto Rico's first gold medal in an event sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee?
Did you know that Jurek Wilner, who took part in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, left his notebook of poems with the Dominican nuns in Wilno, where he hid during the early part of Nazi occupation of Poland?
Did you know that Major-General Humphrey Atherton's accidental death was seen by the Quakers as a punishment from God for his persecution of them?
Did you know that by winning the 2010 Irwin Tools Night Race, Kyle Busch became the first driver to win a race in all three major NASCAR divisions in the same weekend?
Did you know that cartoonist Suzy Spafford, creator of the whimsical animal characters known as Suzy's Zoo, has been drawing since she was three years old?
Did you know that in June 2010, a Ming-era tomb near Nanjing was identified as that of Hong Bao, one of the admirals of Zheng He's fleet?
Did you know that mattresses lined the inside of the gun turrets of the Swedish John Ericsson-class monitors in order to catch splinters?
Did you know that nobody was ever convicted for the 1949 Menarsha synagogue attack in Syria, which left 12 people dead?
Did you know that on 26 April each year, the 'El Retorno' festival is held in Ibarra to celebrate the return of the inhabitants in 1872, four years after the Ecuadorian town's destruction in an earthquake?
Did you know that radio station KRMS in Osage Beach, Missouri, was once partly owned by then-U.S. Senator John Danforth?
Did you know that soon after the creation of the Heu-Aktion, the systematic kidnapping of Polish children by Nazi Germany began?
Did you know that the 1956 Maryland Terrapins lost players to the military draft and jaundice, and The Baltimore Sun called the head coach and quarterback "the biggest fall guys in college football"?
Did you know that the 2,485 metres (8,153 ft) long Drežnik Viaduct is the longest viaduct in Croatia?
Did you know that the American Memphis blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, Joe Willie Wilkins, had the childhood nickname of "Walking Seeburg"?
Did you know that the Aqueduct of the Gier was one of four Roman aqueducts supplying Lugdunum (Lyon, France)?
Did you know that the Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum was first established in a mosque?
Did you know that the French ironclad Triomphante helped to capture the Pescadore Islands in March 1885 during the Pescadores Campaign of the Sino-French War?
Did you know that the Parke Lane Road Bridge is a rare cantilevered concrete arch, with two independent half-arches supporting a center slab rather than the full arch of the traditional arch bridge?
Did you know that the book Actors on Acting by Helen Chinoy, collections of essays about theatre, have been used widely as college text and remained in print for more than 50 years?
Did you know that the development of the Wikiscanner software by Virgil Griffith in 2007 revealed Church of Scientology editing on Wikipedia?
Did you know that the first two chairmen of the Committee of 100 on the Federal City were Frederic Delano (uncle of Franklin D. Roosevelt) and Owen Roberts, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice?
Did you know that the porcelain crab Pisidia longicornis is sometimes found among mussels and oysters in European fish markets?
Did you know that the term "the war to end war" was first used to describe World War I?
Did you know that two men, Gerald Brisco and Pat Patterson, wrestled in evening gowns at the WWF's 2000 King of the Ring event?
Did you know that Cat's Pee on a Gooseberry Bush and Goats Do Roam are examples of wine humour?
Did you know that Dale Warren was a conservatory-trained violinist whose work as an arranger for Stax Records and others has been a fruitful source of breakbeats?
Did you know that Edward Kean coined the word "cowabunga" and tried to put a puppet President in the White House?
Did you know that Linnaeus once named a plant after fellow Swedish botanist Johannis Browall, but later changed the name after discovering Browall courted his fiancée Sara Lisa while Linnaeus was working abroad?
Did you know that Mickell Gladness once recorded 16 blocks which set the NCAA Division I men's basketball single game record?
Did you know that Miss Russia 2010 Irina Antonenko presented a set of matryoshka dolls hand-painted with the pictures of the five most recent Miss Universe winners as her gift to the 2010 competition?
Did you know that Nathan Redmond became Birmingham City Football Club's second-youngest player ever when he made his first-team debut in August 2010 at the age of 16 years and 173 days?
Did you know that Palasë, on the Albanian Riviera, is built around a 100 year-old platanus (plane tree), which is the pride of the village?
Did you know that Ryan Boyle, who holds the Ivy League lacrosse career scoring record, once set the Maryland high school football single-season pass completion percentage record?
Did you know that Sarcoscypha dudleyi was named after the botanist William Russell Dudley?
Did you know that Southland Corp. v. Keating was described as "perhaps the most controversial case in the Supreme Court's history of arbitration jurisprudence"?
Did you know that Vuno, a village in the Albanian Riviera, was reported to have shown sympathy for the 1997 rebellion in Albania?
Did you know that Welsh half-back Jack Newnes was the only footballer ever to be capped at international level while playing for Nelson?
Did you know that astronomers have detected as many as seven planets orbiting the star HD 10180, making it the exoplanetary system with the most known planets to date?
Did you know that former slave Lisette Denison Forth worked as a maid, but willed her life savings to build the St. James Episcopal Church in exclusively white Grosse Ile, Michigan?
Did you know that in 1929, a crowd of 11,000 people attended an exhibition game between the Waco Cubs and the New York Yankees at Katy Park, which only held 4,000?
Did you know that lacrosse goaltender Trevor Tierney has won an NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship, a Major League Lacrosse Steinfeld Cup Championship and a World Lacrosse Championship gold medal?
Did you know that minor league baseball manager Tom Stouch advanced the career of player Shoeless Joe Jackson by signing him to the Greenville Spinners?
Did you know that soprano Gerlinde Sämann performed with La Petite Bande Bach's cantata for the 14th Sunday after Trinity, Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17?
Did you know that the Carnegie, a brigantine made almost entirely from non-magnetic materials, covered nearly 300,000 miles measuring Earth's magnetic field and discovered the Carnegie Ridge in 1929?
Did you know that the Krka Bridge comprises the longest span of all Croatian A1 motorway bridges, surpassing the Maslenica Bridge span by only 4 m (13 ft)?
Did you know that the Manila Police District, with the motto "Manila's Finest," was harshly criticized for its handling of the Manila hostage crisis?
Did you know that the Phobjika Valley welcomes the Black-necked Cranes as winter visitors from Tibet, in Bhutan, and in the process the cranes circle the Gangteng Monastery thrice on arrival and again on departure?
Did you know that the gun turret of the Brazilian Pará-class monitor was manually rotated by four men via a system of gears and required 2.25 minutes for a full 360° rotation?
Did you know that the manor of Nether Tabley in Cheshire, including Tabley Old Hall and Tabley House, was owned by the Leicester family for almost 700 years?
Did you know that the number-one song "Abrázame Muy Fuerte" performed by Juan Gabriel was featured as the theme song of a telenovela of the same title?
Did you know that the owners of MV Mariam intend to use it to cross the blockade of the Gaza Strip?
Did you know that the town of Tlayacapan, Morelos, Mexico, is the origin of the Chinelos dance?
Did you know that webcaps can be yellow, variable, cinnamon, frosty, bitter, goliath, bruising, gassy, or contrary?
Did you know that British illustrator Margaret Tarrant launched her career at the age of 20 with Kingsley's The Water Babies?
Did you know that Chinese Director of Religious Affairs Ye Xiaowen said that Buddhism has a "unique role in promoting a harmonious society"?
Did you know that Dutch publisher Luitingh-Sijthoff was founded in the "city of books" by Albertus W. Sijthoff, who opposed the Berne Convention because he felt copyright restrictions stifled the industry?
Did you know that Holy Trinity Church, Wensley, North Yorkshire, contains a screen moved from Easby Abbey at the Dissolution of the Monasteries?
Did you know that Jane Austen began writing her novel Pride and Prejudice (originally named First Impressions) after staying with her brother at Goodnestone Park, Kent, in 1796?
Did you know that Jirrawun Arts was founded in 1998 after Indigenous Australian artist Freddie Timms decided that AUS$300 and a cheap suit wasn't fair pay for a month's work painting pictures?
Did you know that Kai G. Henriksen, CEO of Norwegian alcohol monopoly Vinmonopolet, is the company's first managing director to achieve a wine trade education?
Did you know that Ottoman rule of Macedonia lasted for roughly 500 years?
Did you know that Philip Michael Faraday authored a standard book on property taxes before writing comic operas, including the curtain raiser to H.M.S. Pinafore?
Did you know that former Michigan halfback Darrell Harper scored the first points and kicked the first field goal and extra point in the history of the Buffalo Bills?
Did you know that in 1880, Rear Admiral Bergasse du Petit-Thouars, commanding the French ironclad Victorieuse, helped pacify the Marquesas Islands, conquered by his uncle Abel Dupetit Thouars in 1840?
Did you know that one of Albany, New York's former city halls was the location of the 1754 Albany Congress, where Benjamin Franklin proposed the Albany Plan of Union?
Did you know that professional baseball player Rogelio Álvarez failed to report to spring training with the Washington Senators in 1963 because he was unable to leave Cuba for the United States?
Did you know that the 11 provinces of Bắc Giang, Bắc Kạn, Cao Bang, Ha Giang, Lang Son, Lao Cai, Phu Tho, Quang Ninh, Thai Nguyen, Tuyen Quang and Yen Bai are part of the 59 administrative provinces and 5 municipalities in Vietnam?
Did you know that the 1876 clock on the east face of the tower of St James Church, Stretham, is by JB Joyce & Co of Whitchurch, Shropshire, the oldest firm of tower clockmakers in the world?
Did you know that the 40/4 stacking chair created by David Rowland, which won the grand prize at the 1965 Milan Triennale, got its name from the fact that 40 chairs could be nested in a stack 4 feet (120 cm) high?
Did you know that the Bartlett Dam is the first dam of its type constructed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation?
Did you know that the Brazilian river monitor Rio Grande bombarded the Paraguayan capital of Asunción on 24 February 1868, during the War of the Triple Alliance?
Did you know that the L'Hermitage Slave Village Archeological Site had one of the largest slave populations in Maryland, and was noted for its harsh conditions?
Did you know that the edible mushroom Lactarius sanguifluus can bioaccumulate heavy metals from polluted soil, such as near roadsides subject to heavy traffic?
Did you know that the first commander of the Air Force of Zimbabwe, Air Marshal Norman Walsh, resigned after Central Intelligence Organisation agents tortured his senior officers?
Did you know that the slimy mushroom Hygrophorus eburneus is commonly known as the "cowboy's handkerchief"?
Did you know that until it was razed in the 1940s, New York City's Little Syria, the "heart of New York's Arab world", existed just blocks away from the site of the controversial proposed mosque complex?
Did you know that "sailors' eyeballs" is one of the largest single-celled organisms?
Did you know that , in 1902, SS Doric brought over 33,000 pounds (15,000 kg) of opium to San Francisco, the largest such shipment to that date?
Did you know that E. Normus Johnson is a fictional advertising mascot depicted in comic art on Big Johnson T-shirts that use double entendres?
Did you know that Eugène Olaussen, a one-time personal acquaintance of Lenin, shifted views and wrote in Nazi publications during WWII?
Did you know that Jack Karwales spent time as a Wolverine, Bear, and Cardinal, and a coach of Billikens?
Did you know that Jackson Gillis, a screenwriter who spent decades working on such shows as Lassie and Columbo, watched little on television other than football, as "he thought most of what was on TV was junk"?
Did you know that Kensington (Olympia) station  lies on part of the grounds of Lee and Kennedy, the prominent nurserymen in Hammersmith, London, who introduced the Chilean fuchsia, Fuchsia magellanica, to English gardens in 1788?
Did you know that Michel Montignac developed a glycemic index-based plan to help himself lose weight, which led to a book promoting his Montignac diet which has sold 16 million copies worldwide?
Did you know that Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack gave Wayne Ambler money for tuition when he attended Duke University?
Did you know that Puerto Rican singer Lourdes Robles recorded a Spanish language cover version of The Beatles' "Long and Winding Road"?
Did you know that St Mary's Church, Lead, North Yorkshire, is known locally as the Ramblers' Church because it was saved in the 1930s by a local group of ramblers?
Did you know that Star Wars Uncut is a fan film made up of 473 15-second clips, submitted by Internet users, that amount to a shot-for-shot remake of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope?
Did you know that Vistula delta Mennonites founded the first Russian Mennonite settlement in  Chortitza in 1789?
Did you know that after John Cullen's National Hockey League career was ended by cancer, he operated a car dealership until Chrysler closed him down?
Did you know that although most of the bridges of the Dresden–Görlitz railway were destroyed near the end of World War II, the line was usable once again by late 1945?
Did you know that the 1957 Maryland Terrapins football season included a game attended by Queen Elizabeth II?
Did you know that the Double-headed serpent may have been given to Cortés when he invaded the Aztec Empire?