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Did you know that the Shreveport deejay Barney Cannon was particularly knowledgeable about the history of country music, his radio station KWKH-AM, and the former Louisiana Hayride?
Did you know that the marine fish Caranx sansun, first described in 1775, has no common name, has no known holotype, and is labeled a nomen dubium as the correct identification is unlikely to be made?
Did you know that the plane of the ecliptic (effect pictured) is the imaginary plane of the Earth as it orbits the Sun?
Did you know that the site of Riddle Ranch in eastern Oregon was a Native American settlement for over 1,000 years?
Did you know that while most Enlightenment scholars criticized the Byzantine system of the Eastern Roman Empire, Konstantin Leontiev, a scholar from the Russian Empire praised it for the very same reasons?
Did you know that Aaron Spelling's 56,500-square-foot mansion, known as The Manor, is the largest house in Los Angeles County?
Did you know that Henry Eckford, built in New York in 1824, was the world's first steamship to be powered by a compound engine?
Did you know that Joseph Wicks, a lawyer and judge in Washington State and the first city attorney of Grand Coulee, was an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation?
Did you know that Mexican singer Vicente Fernández selected the anniversary of the Battle of Puebla, to release his single "Necesito de Tí"?
Did you know that Norwegian geochemist Knut S. Heier was a member of the Apollo Project?
Did you know that Olga Taratuta, a Ukrainian anarcho-communist, escaped from a Russian prison in 1906 while serving a 17-year sentence?
Did you know that Stan Bunn ran for Congress in Oregon's 1st congressional district while his brother Jim ran for re-election in Oregon's 5th congressional district?
Did you know that The Maori Merchant of Venice was the first Maori language film adaptation of any of William Shakespeare's plays?
Did you know that The Orckestra's debut performance was at the Moving Left Revue, a Communist Party benefit concert in London in 1977?
Did you know that The Wire actress Felicia "Snoop" Pearson wrote an autobiography, Grace After Midnight, chronicling her drug-dealing days in Baltimore, imprisonment on murder charges and rehabilitation?
Did you know that a promising anti-cancer drug, swainsonine, causes pea struck in Australia, locoismo in Argentina, and locoweed poisoning in North America?
Did you know that according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, there are more than 100 million women "missing" in Asia?
Did you know that according to the Golden Legend, Saint Genebald left his wife around AD 499 to become Bishop of Laon, and was later imprisoned by her uncle, Saint Remigius, for sleeping with her when she visited?
Did you know that al-Mansur Ibrahim, the Ayyubid governor of Hims, ended Khwarezmid power in Syria after defeating them in a battle near Lake Hims?
Did you know that amended U.S. Presidential Executive Order 8389 ordered a freeze of the Baltic states' assets in the U.S.?
Did you know that bamboo coral specimens have been found that are 4,000 years old?
Did you know that in Ayapango, Mexico, older homes have names that are displayed on plaques?
Did you know that in the late 18th century, the Gotha Observatory  became an international center for astronomy, and the most modern astronomical institute specifically for its instruments?
Did you know that one of Germany's Kaiser-class battleships, SMS Prinzregent Luitpold, never received a planned diesel engine to supplement her turbines, so her range was much less than her sister ships?
Did you know that shortly before the 1989 Revolution, current Romanian Transport Minister Radu Berceanu was questioned at length by the Securitate for allegedly intending to flee the country using a hang glider he had built?
Did you know that spark testing is a quick and inexpensive way to determine the general classification of ferrous materials using only a grinding wheel?
Did you know that the 2007 dedication of the 1872-built Confederate Monument in Crab Orchard, Kentucky, included Kentucky governor Ernie Fletcher and the United States Army?
Did you know that the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad lost its appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court over a $25 penalty it had been ordered to pay to a farmer?
Did you know that the Sea Cloud, the first fully racially integrated United States warship in World War II, later served as a private yacht to racist dictator Rafael Trujillo?
Did you know that the Union Monument in Vanceburg, Kentucky, is the only monument south of the Mason–Dixon line that honors Union soldiers that is not in a cemetery?
Did you know that the little balls of fibers that appear on clothing due to wear are called pills?
Did you know that the painting of Robert Hollond, Monck Mason and Charles Green planning their record-making balloon trip also includes the artist, John Hollins?
Did you know that ABC Radio president Robert Pauley hired the then-little-known Howard Cosell in 1960 to host a weekly sports program after Cosell was able to get a relative's shirt company as a sponsor?
Did you know that Arlie Metheny, as public information officer in 1958 at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, handled media inquiries relating to the induction of Elvis Presley into the Army?
Did you know that Bob Bruce of the Abilene Reporter-News in Texas was considered a "superb raconteur" and versatile journalist whose "institutional memory" empowered his newsroom colleagues?
Did you know that Bronson Pinchot spent three months visiting psychics to prepare for his role in the 1989 comedy film Second Sight?
Did you know that Captain Thomas Baker played a significant role in bringing about three battles during the Napoleonic Wars: Copenhagen, Trafalgar, and Cape Ortegal?
Did you know that François Coignet was the first builder to use iron reinforced concrete?
Did you know that Gustav Natvig-Pedersen, a President of the Storting in Norway, also wrote orthographic dictionaries?
Did you know that M. D. Madhusudan, who received the Whitley Award for 2009, uncovered links between coffee production in Brazil and cattle ownership and grazing in Bandipur National Park?
Did you know that René Olry, the commander of the French Army of the Alps during the Battle of France (1940), was a polytechnicien?
Did you know that diplomat Sabrina De Sousa in 2009 sued the United States government to get diplomatic immunity?
Did you know that during the 20th century, many football players at the United States Military Academy also played Army lacrosse (modern player pictured) to stay physically fit during the off-season?
Did you know that former fur trader Michel Laframboise helped found Fort Astoria and later operated a ferry across the Willamette River?
Did you know that minimum orbit intersection distance is one of the measures used to determine if a near-Earth object, such as (4953) 1990 MU (orbit pictured), is a Potentially Hazardous Object?
Did you know that singer-songwriter Django Walker was named after Belgian guitarist Django Reinhardt?
Did you know that the 2008 Lower Saxony state election saw the Social Democratic Party have their worst performance in Lower Saxony since World War II, while the The Left party won seats for the first time?
Did you know that the Second Baptist Church is the only Greek Revival church remaining in Poughkeepsie, New York?
Did you know that the U.S. Department of Agriculture South Building was the largest office building in the world until the construction of the Pentagon?
Did you know that the first sea trials of a replica ship in Japan were those of the Naniwa Maru before it was placed in the Osaka Maritime Museum?
Did you know that the objective of the Nazi board game Juden Raus! (Jews Out) was to move figurines representing Jews across a map to "collection points" outside the city walls for deportation?
Did you know that the officers' mess hall at Camp Abbot military training center was built by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1944, and is now the "Great Hall" at Sunriver Resort?
Did you know that the song "Te Amo", performed by Panamanian singer-songwriter Makano, became his first number-one single in the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart?
Did you know that the zebra shark is striped when young and spotted when mature?
Did you know that 18-year-old Jay Weinberg is touring with Bruce Springsteen as the E Street Band's drummer while his father, Max Weinberg, prepares for the June premiere of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien?
Did you know that Atlantic herrings form immense fish schools containing up to three billion fish?
Did you know that California radio station KOWL's original radio studios were located inside the Harrah's Stateline Club, a casino in Stateline, Nevada?
Did you know that Carl Bødtker was a popular radio presenter for children during the early days of Norwegian broadcasting?
Did you know that Catherina Margaretha Linck is the last European known to have been executed for lesbianism?
Did you know that Håkon Stenstadvold, rector of the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry, was a member of the Bærum municipal council?
Did you know that John "Bam" Carney, a Republican member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, became well-known in his district through his work as a high school basketball coach?
Did you know that Marc Sautet started the philosophical cafe known as Café Philosophique?
Did you know that Ray H. Altman, as a Kentucky state representative from tobacco-growing Taylor County, opposed a bill in 1990 to ban smoking zones for students in public schools?
Did you know that Robert Lindahl, the recording engineer on The Kingsmen's famous version of "Louie Louie", lost his job as a disc jockey for KBKR because he refused to empty the Oregon station's chemical toilet?
Did you know that Time magazine editor Otto Fuerbringer was responsible for the controversial 1966 "Is God Dead?" cover?
Did you know that after his death, the amateur manga collection of the manga critic Yoshihiro Yonezawa was made into a library by his alma mater, Meiji University?
Did you know that despite strong support from England, all three Huguenot rebellions in southwestern France were suppressed by King Louis XIII?
Did you know that despite the decisive action of the Trafalgar Campaign being the Battle of Trafalgar, the final action was fought a fortnight later, at the Battle of Cape Ortegal?
Did you know that in 1853, Ole Thomesen signed the contract to build the paddle steamer Skibladner, which is still in operation in Norway?
Did you know that motorsport illustrator Michael Turner designed the original Formula One McLaren team logo?
Did you know that novelist Michael Crichton and seven Nobel laureates, among others, wrote the 1972 textbook Biology Today?
Did you know that rock band 21 Demands made chart history after finishing as runners-up in the fifth series of You're a Star, featuring 1992 Eurovision winner Linda Martin as a judge?
Did you know that some grass-endophyte symbioses produce loline alkaloids that are insecticidal and deterrent to various insects?
Did you know that songwriter Gordon Chambers credited his hometown of Teaneck, New Jersey, with fostering his dream of becoming a professional?
Did you know that the 12–6 curveball gets its name from the way the pitch breaks downward, looking like it moves from the number 12 to the number 6 on a clock?
Did you know that the 1960 indie film Weddings and Babies is considered to be the first fictional movie to be shot with a camera that recorded synchronized sound?
Did you know that the Confederate Monument in Augusta, Kentucky, is a gravestone placed forty-one years after the soldiers it honors died?
Did you know that the Vassar Home for Aged Men, in Poughkeepsie, New York, could not operate at full capacity until Matthew Vassar's wife died and left it the money to do so?
Did you know that the Vassar Institute in Poughkeepsie, New York,  now used for a local arts center, is on the former site of a brewery?
Did you know that the epaulette shark can survive for an hour without oxygen?
Did you know that the real name of Hagop Hagopian, the leader of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, was revealed only after his assassination in Athens in 1988?
Did you know that "I Don't Know What It Is", the first single from Rufus Wainwright's album Want One, samples Maurice Ravel's Bolero?
Did you know that 73 Mansion St., Poughkeepsie, New York, was architecturally inconsistent with the neighboring Balding Avenue Historic District, so it was later listed separately on the National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that Bettino Ricasoli, developer of the first "modern" Chianti wine recipe based on the Sangiovese grape, later became Italian Prime Minister?
Did you know that Don Zimmerman, once called the "best coach in college lacrosse", has traveled around the world promoting the sport, with the ultimate goal of having it once again become an Olympic event?
Did you know that Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weissenfeld was an Austrian aristocratic night fighter flying ace who fought for the German Luftwaffe in World War II?
Did you know that Elsie B. Washington was called the "mother of the African-American romance" for her 1980 novel, considered the first to feature African American characters by an African American author?
Did you know that John G. Cullmann was nearly assassinated after establishing a settlement of German immigrants in northern Alabama?
Did you know that Nevada City, California’s Doris Foley Library for Historical Research includes a Cornish Studies Collection?
Did you know that Price's Post Office in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, was a "publick house" and stagecoach stop in the early 19th century?
Did you know that The Torment of Saint Anthony has recently been identified as the earliest known painting by Michelangelo?
Did you know that Uruguay is known as the "Switzerland of the Americas" from its adoption of Swiss-based banking laws?
Did you know that Yohl Ik'nal, queen of the Classic Period Maya city of Palenque in Mexico, was the first known female Mayan ruler?
Did you know that after a hurdle was misplaced on the running track, Angelo Taylor said he would never again compete at the Adidas Track Classic?
Did you know that architect Richard Neutra used mirrors and reflecting pools to provide spaciousness for his home on a small lot, the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences, on Silver Lake in Los Angeles?
Did you know that by pinpointing three counter-cultural traits of Western Norway — Landsmål, temperance and laity — Gabriel Øidne laid the grounds for Norwegian voter sociology?
Did you know that former President of Poland Lech Walesa only won 1% of the vote in the 2000 Polish presidential election?
Did you know that in May 2009, the District of Columbia ruled that Third Church of Christ, Scientist could go forward with demolition of its brutalist-style building?
Did you know that neurosurgeon Keith Black, featured in a Time special issue on "Heroes of Medicine", is known for his discovery that the peptide bradykinin can be effective in opening the blood-brain barrier?
Did you know that the Latting Observatory, described as "New York's first skyscraper", was the tallest building in the United States at 315 feet (96 m) during its brief life from 1853 until it burnt down in 1856?
Did you know that the Nebraska House in Virginia was so named because Colonel Samuel D. McDearmon's wife refused to move to Nebraska?
Did you know that the Smith Tobacco Barn is one of the few remaining examples of intact flue-cured tobacco barns in Dillon County, South Carolina, built between 1895 and the 1950s?
Did you know that the South Carolina town which Biggin Church's chapel of ease, Strawberry Chapel, was built to serve, no longer exists?
Did you know that the candy was a traditional South Asian unit of mass, equal to twenty maunds?
Did you know that the image of Hindu deity Hanuman reportedly came alive and moved when installed at the  Hanuman temple in Sarangpur?
Did you know that the previous owners of KWVR in Enterprise, Oregon, actually lived at the radio station until they sold it in 2008?
Did you know that while still in college, children's author Eloise Greenfield realized that she was too shy to be a teacher and dropped out to work at the U.S. Patent Office?
Did you know that with a voyage of 59 days, the SS American set a 1901 record for the fastest New York – San Francisco ocean passage?
Did you know that American Slovenian-style polka musician Louis Bashell received Wisconsin's first National Heritage Fellowship grant from the National Endowment for the Arts?
Did you know that Cyrus C. Miller believed the United States and Canada would one day become a single nation and that lacrosse could be its official sport?
Did you know that Fireflight's song "Unbreakable" was inspired by a fan's question asked on MySpace?
Did you know that HMS Centurion had to be sent back to Britain for repairs in 1804, partly because she was infested with termites?
Did you know that Jack Billingham gave up Hank Aaron's record tying 714th home run as the Cincinnati Reds Opening Day starting pitcher in 1974?
Did you know that Louie Caporusso led the U.S. in goals scored through most of the 2008–09 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season, but when he only scored two in the last nine games, Michigan won eight of those nine?
Did you know that Reba McEntire starred in a television movie based on her 1992 hit single "Is There Life Out There"?
Did you know that Sigurd Bødtker was Norway's first full-time theatre critic?
Did you know that Spey casting is a two-handed fly fishing technique that was developed on the River Spey in Scotland?
Did you know that Sugar Babies, conceived by Ralph G. Allen, was based on his collection of more than 5,000 comedy sketches?
Did you know that The George Inn in Norton St Philip, Somerset, was used as an army headquarters during the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685, and then as a courtroom to try the rebels in the Bloody Assizes?
Did you know that The Last Nightingale was an album recorded to raise money for striking coal miners in the 1984–1985 UK miners' strike?
Did you know that Ty Cobb would hide black Detroit Tigers mascot Li'l Rastus in his room or under his train berth to evade Jim Crow laws?
Did you know that although the 1998 film Restless takes place in Beijing, only about 20 percent of the dialogue is in Chinese?
Did you know that each of the Chinese languages has over 100 classifiers, or "measure words", which must be used any time a noun appears with a number or a demonstrative?
Did you know that in 1991 the IRA attempted to assassinate John Major and his War Cabinet with a mortar attack on Downing Street?
Did you know that playwright Larry Kramer called Rodger McFarlane, the first paid executive director of the Gay Men's Health Crisis, someone who "did more for the gay world than any person has ever done"?
Did you know that the Byzantine corps of the Optimatoi originated as an elite Gothic cavalry regiment, but was downgraded to a corps of mule-drivers after participating in the failed revolt of Artabasdos?
Did you know that the Father Millet Cross on the grounds of Fort Niagara, at just 0.0074 acres (30 m2), was the smallest National Monument ever established in the United States?
Did you know that the Maya archaeological site of Xlapak in Mexico features well-preserved examples of the ostentatious Puuc style of architecture?
Did you know that the Niagara Engine House building is the only one of six engine company firehouses in Poughkeepsie, New York, still standing?
Did you know that the capture of Bologna on 21 April 1945 was the last battle of the Polish II Corps?
Did you know that the first of Thomas Eakins's William Rush and His Model paintings provoked controversy by its inclusion of the discarded clothes of William Rush's nude model?
Did you know that the nominees for the 25th Golden Raspberry Awards were announced by founder John Wilson at a book signing for The Official Razzie Movie Guide?
Did you know that the same month Willamette Falls Hospital in Oregon City, Oregon, announced a plan for the next 20 years, they announced they intended to merge with Providence Health & Services?
Did you know that the suffix "-up" in Western Australian place names means "place of" in a dialect of the Noongar language?
Did you know that tradition says that James Hoban, the architect of the White House, designed the William Seabrook House on Edisto Island, South Carolina?
Did you know that "The Snowman" was likely the product of Hans Christian Andersen's homoerotic ardor for Harald Scharff, a ballet dancer at the Royal Danish Theatre?
Did you know that Arkansas State Senator Kim Hendren authored a failed bill to require motorcyclists to wear helmets or offer proof of health insurance?
Did you know that Bundala National Park of Sri Lanka harbors 197 species of birds, the highlight being the Greater Flamingo, which migrate in large flocks?
Did you know that Faith Ireland won two national championships as a powerlifter while serving on the Washington Supreme Court?
Did you know that Jack Benny was so impressed with native Canadian singer Gisele MacKenzie that he was co-executive producer of her NBC variety show, The Gisele MacKenzie Show?
Did you know that Rai Purdy raised over C$250,000,000 for charity through his Telethon efforts?
Did you know that Shirley E. Flynn, a local historian in Cheyenne, Wyoming, is considered an authority on the history of the annual Cheyenne Frontier Days, one of the largest outdoor western celebrations in the world?
Did you know that Sid Laverents' 1970 film Multiple Sidosis, which features up to 11 different images of him simultaneously playing a song, is one of the few amateur films chosen for the National Film Registry?
Did you know that US TV series Parks and Recreation season finale "Rock Show" received positive reviews but the lowest ratings of the season, with only 4.25 million households tuning in?
Did you know that USS Nicholson and USS Fanning, a pair of American destroyers built before World War I, are credited with the United States Navy's first U-boat kill for sinking U-58 on 17 November 1917?
Did you know that Vice Admiral Henry Burrell initiated a Royal Australian Navy re-equipment program in the 1960s that included new helicopters, submarines, destroyers, minesweepers, and auxiliaries?
Did you know that Wernher von Braun's father Magnus von Braun was dismissed out of civil service for supporting the Kapp Putsch in 1920?
Did you know that according to Henry's Law and Dalton's Law, fizz keepers, which are claimed to pump air into bottles of fizzy drink and thereby stop them going flat, do not actually work that way?
Did you know that after the second Mong Kok acid attack, the initial 100,000 HK$ reward for information was tripled?
Did you know that although Kevin Daft set two records in NFL Europe, he was released by the Tennessee Titans in August 2002?
Did you know that as CEO of its U.S. subsidiary, Robert J. Sinclair had Saab-Scania build cars with turbochargers and convertible tops for America, while the company sold no-frills cars in its home market?
Did you know that from 1956 to 1986, radio station KYKN in Keizer, Oregon, was called "KGAY"?
Did you know that in 1899 Isaac Seneca became the first Native American to be named as an All-American football player while playing halfback for the Carlisle Indian School?
Did you know that in 1998, during the two IFMAR World Championship events for 1:10th scale gas powered radio-controlled cars held at the same weekend, all Top 10 positions were dominated by users of Serpent cars?
Did you know that information gathered by spy Peggy Taylor, who posed as a prostitute in France during the Second World War, was instrumental in planning D-Day?
Did you know that racehorse Clyde Van Dusen, winner of the 1929 Kentucky Derby, was named after his trainer?
Did you know that the Bergh-Stoutenburgh House, one of only two remaining Dutch Colonial stone houses in Hyde Park, New York, has been converted into a Japanese restaurant?
Did you know that the Goa Opinion Poll was the only referendum to have been held in  Independent India?
Did you know that the Khirki Masjid mosque and the Satpula weir were both built during the time of the Tughlaq dynasty in 14th century Delhi?