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Did you know that African American Methodist preacher and missionary John Marrant undertook a mission to the Cherokee while he was a teenager?
Did you know that American writer Elbert Hubbard traveled about McLean County, Illinois to collect past due fees from his father's clientele to complete the Hubbard House in 1872?
Did you know that Barthélemy d'Eyck was an Early Netherlandish artist, famous in the 15th century, who has only been attributed specific works (one pictured) in recent decades?
Did you know that Don White was the first-ever coach of the England national rugby union team?
Did you know that E.E. Roberts' Oak Park, Illinois architecture firm rivaled the studio of fellow architect Frank Lloyd Wright?
Did you know that Jeż Jerzy is a popular Polish comic, a satire on modern life, often making fun of subcultures like skinheads or dresiarze?
Did you know that Joseph Bowman was the only American officer killed during George Rogers Clark's campaign to capture the Illinois Country in the American Revolutionary War?
Did you know that Omaha, Nebraska's Little Italy neighborhood was largely the result of two brothers' efforts to help their countrymen?
Did you know that Shivappa Nayaka, a king in 17th century Karnataka, India, introduced a unique and variable tax system called Sist?
Did you know that Swedish emigration to North America was so high around 1900 that the Swedish Emigration Commission produced a 21 volume report on curbing it?
Did you know that a man was crushed to death during the construction of the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol?
Did you know that during the Soviet deportations from Estonia in 1940-1941 and 1944-1951 the Soviet Union forcibly transferred tens of thousands of Estonian citizens to Siberia?
Did you know that football players Billy and John McPhail are the only brothers to have both scored hat-tricks for Celtic F.C. against their Old Firm rivals, Rangers F.C.?
Did you know that in 1985, Texas Instruments became the first multinational to set up base in Bangalore?
Did you know that pioneering African American journalist Larry Whiteside was part of an expert panel that chose the Major League Baseball All-Century Team?
Did you know that sports agent David Falk represented Michael Jordan for the whole of the player's career?
Did you know that the Kisima Music Awards recognise talent from across East Africa?
Did you know that the USS Sandpiper, originally built as a minesweeping ship, was redesignated a seaplane tender?
Did you know that the anticancer agent Salinosporamide A (skeletal formula pictured), which recently entered clinical trials, is produced by marine sediment-dwelling bacteria?
Did you know that the initials of former Canadian Football League executive J.I. Albrecht stand for "Just Incredible"?
Did you know that Australian rules footballer Tom Lonergan returned to the sport ten months after losing a kidney as the result of an injury?
Did you know that British Labour MP Harry Ewing was joint chairman of the Scottish Constitutional Convention, formed in 1989 to plan for the devolution of Scotland?
Did you know that Czech saint Zdislava Berka ran away from home to live as a hermit when she was only seven years old?
Did you know that Francisco Sionil José is one of the most widely-read Filipino writers in the English language, and has been translated into 22 other languages?
Did you know that HNoMY Norge, one of only two Royal Yachts left in Europe, was produced by Camper and Nicholsons, the oldest leisure marine company in the world?
Did you know that Lake Ceauru in southwestern Romania does not exist, despite appearing on maps today?
Did you know that Richard Hanley's book South Park and Philosophy: Bigger, Longer, and More Penetrating analyzes issues of applied ethics as presented in South Park?
Did you know that Roman trade with India was so large as to drain gold resources from Rome and involved the despatch of 120 ships every year?
Did you know that Sergeant George Jordan received the Medal of Honor for repulsing 100 Chiricahua Apache warriors led by Victorio with 25 Buffalo Soldiers in the Battle of Tularosa?
Did you know that Sir John Gilmour Bt emulated his father by also winning the Distinguished Service Order, becoming a Conservative Member of Parliament, and twice serving as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland?
Did you know that St Andrews Church in Chew Stoke, Somerset, England, includes 156 statues of angels?
Did you know that U.S. President Chester A. Arthur, a known Stalwart, signed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, a piece of legislation that was drawn up by the rival Half-Breeds?
Did you know that baseball player Jack Lelivelt's International League-record hitting streak set in 1912 was not recognized by the International League until 2007, the year it was broken?
Did you know that capital punishment in the Vatican City was legal (but not carried out) between 1929 and 1969?
Did you know that in the Calgary Flames' 1988-89 season, they became the only visiting team to defeat the Montreal Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup in the Montreal Forum?
Did you know that on a clear day visitors to Holy Hill can view the Milwaukee skyline, located 30 miles (48 km) away?
Did you know that some dragonflies avoid overheating on sunny days by assuming a "handstand" position known as the obelisk posture?
Did you know that the Lakshminarayana Temple in Hosaholalu, Karnataka state, India is mounted on a platform (jagati), a style unique to Hoysala architecture?
Did you know that the beach where Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared in 1967, and presumably drowned, was named after the SS Cheviot that was wrecked nearby in 1887 with the loss of 35 lives?
Did you know that weather extremes in Minnesota include temperatures of −60 °F (−51 °C) and 114 °F (46 °C)?
Did you know that Dr. Joseph Rothrock is known as the "Father of Forestry" in Pennsylvania, and is the namesake for Rothrock State Forest?
Did you know that Eric Johnston, president of the MPAA, issued the Waldorf Statement in November 1947, marking the beginning of the Hollywood blacklist?
Did you know that Frederick Augustus Hely, a justice of the peace and public servant in colonial Australia, was the first man to settle permanently at Narara, Brisbane Water?
Did you know that Janowa Dolina, a model settlement built by the Polish state in interwar Poland, was razed barely ten years after its creation by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army during the Second World War?
Did you know that Mikveh Israel, the first modern Jewish agricultural settlement in the Land of Israel, was founded in 1870 by Charles Netter?
Did you know that the Brunel-designed Wharncliffe Viaduct of 1836, on the GWR main line in London, is home to a protected colony of bats?
Did you know that the award ceremony of Turkey's most important film festival, the Golden Orange, is held at the Roman amphitheatre of Aspendos in Antalya?
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln's short speech at the Peekskill Freight Depot was his only recorded public appearance in Westchester County?
Did you know that Ben Brocklehurst, one of the last amateur captains in county cricket and later owner and publisher of The Cricketer magazine from 1972 to 2003, is the grandfather of cricketer Ben Hutton?
Did you know that Challenge 1934 was the fourth and last FAI International Tourist Plane Contest, a major aviation event in pre-war Europe?
Did you know that Dum Diversas, promulgated by Pope Nicholas V in 1452, authorized Afonso V of Portugal to enslave indefinitely Saracens, pagans, and other "enemies of Christ"?
Did you know that Papyrus 45 may have been one of the earliest manuscripts to collect more than one New Testament genre into a single codex?
Did you know that Robert Clark made his own alcoholic drink, "Gut Rot 1916", while stranded on Elephant Island in 1916?
Did you know that Robert Worth Bingham purchased the Louisville Courier-Journal in 1918 using a bequest from his second wife, to whom he had been married for less than a year before her death?
Did you know that The Happy Land, a play by W. S. Gilbert and Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, was briefly banned in 1873 for portraying a singing, dancing Prime Minister Gladstone (newspaper illustration pictured)?
Did you know that The Jaguar Smile was the first book-length non-fiction work by author Salman Rushdie and was written during a break from the composition of The Satanic Verses?
Did you know that Unsung Heroes, a twenty-part North Korean spy film series, cast U.S. Army defectors Charles Jenkins and Joe Dresnok in the role of villains?
Did you know that before World War II, the Polish Army prioritized defence planning in case of Soviet attack over a plan against German invasion until the late 1930s?
Did you know that blackface minstrel dancer John Diamond won numerous "Ethiopian" dance competitions until he was defeated by a real black man known as Master Juba?
Did you know that it may take more than 220 years for eucalyptus trees to form hollows suitable for larger animals?
Did you know that like other bronzewing pigeons,  the Common Bronzewing releases a milky substance from its crop to feed its young?
Did you know that ten of the twenty-three Cardinal electors in the 1492 papal conclave—which elected Rodrigo Borja as Pope Alexander VI —were nephews of the popes that elevated them?
Did you know that the "helicopter" damselflies of family Pseudostigmatidae specialize in plucking spiders from their webs?
Did you know that the Chester-Hadlyme Ferry is the second oldest continuously operating ferry service in the United States?
Did you know that the Commander-in-Chief's Guard was a unit of the Continental Army that protected George Washington during the American Revolutionary War?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Bronston v. United States that statements made under oath which are literally truthful yet misleading cannot be prosecuted as perjury?
Did you know that the Wall Street Journal tracks median home purchase prices of starter homes as part of its real estate index?
Did you know that the oldest state government building in the US state of Oregon, the 1914 Supreme Court Building in Salem, has a stained glass skylight in the shape of the State seal?
Did you know that the state of Karnataka, particularly the region belonging to the coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi, is known as the cradle of banking in India?
Did you know that "Cherry Pie", the best-known song by the glam metal band Warrant, was a last-minute addition to their 1990 album?
Did you know that Britartist Tracey Emin's "tent", Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995, destroyed in the 2004 Momart warehouse fire, listed 102 names including her grandma and two foetuses?
Did you know that Canadian musician Richard Bell was a member of Janis Joplin's Full Tilt Boogie Band and became a member of The Band during the 1990s?
Did you know that Gubbi Veeranna's theatre company was the first one in the state of Karnataka, India to employ female artists to portray female characters on the stage?
Did you know that Herb Boxer was the first U.S.-born ice hockey player ever drafted by a National Hockey League team?
Did you know that Iraqi poet Nazik Al-Malaika was the first person to write in free verse in Arabic?
Did you know that Irene Jordan of the South Fort George suburb of Prince George, British Columbia had owned a popular brothel that later became the first City Hall of Prince George?
Did you know that Jeronima de la Asuncion was the foundress of the first Catholic monastery in Manila and the Far East?
Did you know that Kentucky philanthropist Eli Metcalfe Bruce contributed more than $400,000 of his personal fortune to aiding Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War?
Did you know that Linus Pauling and Emile Zuckerkandl proposed using protein sequences to estimate the time since genetic divergence, early in the history of molecular evolution research?
Did you know that Major Oscar F. Perdomo downed five Japanese aircraft in a single day and thereby became the United States' last "Ace in a day" of World War II?
Did you know that O. Rajagopal represented Madhya Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha, despite living in Kerala?
Did you know that Peter Cochrane and Les Carlyon were the joint inaugural winners of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History?
Did you know that Scotland rugby union player Duncan Macrae won a Military Cross for his actions as part of the 51st Highland Division at Saint-Valery-en-Caux?
Did you know that Semar, although depicted as a clown in Indonesian wayang shadow puppetry, is said to be the guardian spirit of Java and a god in human form?
Did you know that Serranus Clinton Hastings served as chief justice of both the Iowa and California Supreme Courts?
Did you know that Tom Dennison got a mayor elected eight times, instigated a race riot and controlled all sale of liquor, gambling and prostitution during his 30+ year reign as Omaha's political boss?
Did you know that after thirty-five ballots, Republican presidential candidates James G. Blaine and John Sherman withdrew their campaigns to support a dark horse candidate named James Garfield at the 1880 Republican National Convention?
Did you know that litigation in the Vice Admiralty Court was frustrated after Justice Jeffery Bent absconded with its seal when he was not re-appointed to the Supreme Court?
Did you know that of the more than one million photographic plates made in the studio of Henri Manuel, only five hundred survived World War II?
Did you know that the Kodava Hockey Festival held annually in the Kodagu district of the Indian state of Karnataka is one of the largest field hockey tournaments in the world?
Did you know that the Polish Coal Trunk-Line, one of the most important rail connections in Poland, was built because post-First World War border changes made old rail lines obsolete?
Did you know that the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting was dropped in favor of the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 2006, reestablishing a prize not awarded since 1952?
Did you know that the author of the term Third Reich predicted that "Germany might perish because of the Third Reich dream"?
Did you know that the bill of the Magpie Duck becomes green as the bird gets older, and its black crown may go completely white?
Did you know that the first online-only correspondence law school started operating in 1998 and graduated its first class in 2002?
Did you know that the semi-wooded lawn of the Lampert-Wildflower House in Belvidere, Illinois provides habitat for five different species of rare plants?
Did you know that 173 of the 198 Kwaio arrested during the Malaita massacre were hospitalized for dysentery while awaiting trial in Tulagi, the Solomon Islands?
Did you know that British Labour politician Piara Singh Khabra was the fifth Asian MP, and was the oldest MP sitting in the House of Commons and the only sitting MP to have served in the armed forces during the Second World War at the time of his death?
Did you know that Hancock Manor received wounded men from the Battle of Bunker Hill and entertained both Lafayette and George Washington?
Did you know that Key Highway, built to provide better access to the municipal piers in Baltimore in preparation for increased trade through the Panama Canal, is now a truck bypass of the historic Federal Hill neighborhood?
Did you know that Mexican singer-actor Antonio Aguilar made over 150 albums and 150 movies in his career?
Did you know that Ryszard Bartel's design, the Bartel BM-4, was Poland's first own aircraft built in series?
Did you know that Vlasina Lake in southeastern Serbia is famous for floating islands arising from chunks of peat broken off the shore?
Did you know that a decline of the population of brook trout in the Straight River in central Minnesota was caused by rising water temperatures, prompting government scrutiny of nearby irrigation operations?
Did you know that areas of the North Fly District in Papua New Guinea's Western Province experience a peak annual rainfall of ten metres?
Did you know that political boss John Henry Whallen influenced every election in Louisville, Kentucky from 1885 until his death in 1913?
Did you know that the Columbia detachment of the Royal Engineers built some of the first major roads in British Columbia?
Did you know that the Empire Gallantry Medal's design was changed twice in its seventeen year existence?
Did you know that the Frieda and Henry J. Neils House is Frank Lloyd Wright's only work with marble walls?
Did you know that the Friends Meeting House is the only remaining structure in the ghost town of Benjaminville, Illinois?
Did you know that the Indian state of Maharashtra has started a project for the location of suitable sites for Jatropha plantations?
Did you know that the Ordos culture includes some of the easternmost Scythians, who were settled for several centuries in an area about 300 kilometers from modern Beijing in China?
Did you know that Ba Cut (meaning Short Third), a military commander of the Hoa Hao religious sect in Vietnam, was so named because he cut off his third finger to remind him to fight French colonialism?
Did you know that Edwin Lemare was the most highly-paid organ virtuoso of his day?
Did you know that Glomeris marginata, a pill millipede, is often confused with the woodlouse Armadillidium, because they both roll themselves up into a ball when disturbed?
Did you know that Indian whisky is actually a distilled spirit made mostly from molasses?
Did you know that Iraqi refugee Wafaa Bilal was shot by more than 60,000 paintballs in a month-long performance art piece in Chicago?
Did you know that Józef Mianowski, a 19th-century Polish academic and personal physician of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna, falsified university records to give alibis to Polish insurgents in 1860s?
Did you know that Paul C. Barth, former mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, committed suicide after being ridiculed for a scandal involving the use of city funds to buy an expensive saddle horse?
Did you know that Rufous Whistler birds, unlike all other Whistler birds, never forage on the ground but high up in trees or other high places?
Did you know that a Court of Disputed Returns is an independent body that determines disputes about election results in some countries?
Did you know that according to legend, the Polish Princess Wanda would rather commit suicide than marry a leader of an invading German force?
Did you know that brownouts have claimed more helicopters in recent military operations than all other threats combined?
Did you know that stellar magnetic fields create loops of plasma that arc over the surface of a star?
Did you know that the Mexico tropical cyclone rainfall climatology tells us that one-third of the annual rainfall along the Mexican Riviera, and up to one-half of the annual rainfall within Baja California Sur, is due to tropical cyclones moving up Mexico's west coast?
Did you know that the Royal Navy ordered the construction of the destroyer HMS Ledbury two days after the outbreak of World War II?
Did you know that the Sicilian friar Antonio del Duca lobbied for decades for papal authorization of a more formal veneration of the Seven Archangels?
Did you know that the Suwa Shrine survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, although the nearby Urakami Cathedral and surrounding Catholic neighborhoods were completely obliterated?
Did you know that the Yellow-tufted Honeyeater of Eastern Australia was initially described as a thrush or a flycatcher, though related to neither?
Did you know that the foreman of the jury who acquitted Thomas Hardy of treason during the 1794 Treason Trials in Britain fainted after reading the verdict?
Did you know that the range of Nelson's Milksnake (Albino specimen pictured) from Mexico is linked to watercourses, and that it was thought to be the same subspecies as the more common Sinaloan Milksnake until 1978?
Did you know that the world's first birth control clinic was set up in 1930 in the Mandya district of the state of Karnataka, India?
Did you know that American Revolutionary War officer William Stacy narrowly escaped death by burning at the stake and was given a gold snuff box by George Washington?
Did you know that Ben Abell provided the St. Louis area with more than 120,000 weather forecasts?
Did you know that Dutch publisher Emanuel Querido published 110 works between 1933 and 1940 by German writers in exile?
Did you know that Enguerrand Quarton's Coronation of the Virgin appears to be unique in 15th century art in depicting Christ and God the Father as identical figures?
Did you know that Introitus et Exitus, a financial record of the Apostolic Camera from 1279 to 1524, has been used to authenticate the provenance of artworks and study past European exchange and interest rates?
Did you know that Julius Reubke composed his Sonata on the 94th Psalm for organ a year before dying aged 24?
Did you know that Kannada is the only language in which a Jain version of the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata exists?
Did you know that La Martiniere Boys' College in Lucknow, India is the only school in the world to be awarded a battle honour?
Did you know that Lough Hyne is a marine lake that was probably freshwater until rising ocean levels flooded it about 4000 years ago?
Did you know that Omaha chief Logan Fontenelle sold the Omaha land to the U.S. government and was subsequently killed by Brulé and Arapaho?
Did you know that Scottish footballer Billy McPhail launched a legal case claiming that heading heavy leather footballs contributed to him developing Alzheimer's disease?
Did you know that The Secret Battle (1919) was the first novel by A. P. Herbert, and the first war novel to deal with the soldiers "shot at dawn" during World War I?
Did you know that Vancouver police Chief Jamie Graham apologized for  leaving a paper target riddled with bullet holes on the desk of the city manager, his boss, as a joke?
Did you know that William Cooley was a salvager and pioneer whose family's 1836 murder during the Second Seminole War led to the abandonment of the New River Settlement near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States?
Did you know that among the toughest fighters of the Dahomey War were the corps of female warriors armed with rifles and double-edged machetes?
Did you know that despite being a key building of middle byzantine Architecture, the mosque of Eski Imaret is still one among the least studied monuments of Istanbul?
Did you know that in the 18th century the owners of Tom King's Coffee House developed their own argot, Talking Flash, to prevent informers learning of their misdeeds?
Did you know that the Australian town of Bundarra, New South Wales is home to a breeding colony of endangered Regent Honeyeaters, containing around thirty of the less than 1,500 birds remaining in existence?
Did you know that the Bangalore based SELCO company, which promotes solar power in rural India, has twice won an Ashden Award?
Did you know that the City and Town Hall in Rochelle, Illinois was constructed in 1884 following an 18-year disagreement over cost between the city and Flagg Township?
Did you know that the Frosty Leo Nebula was so named because it is the only known protoplanetary nebula whose circumstellar outflow is dominated by crystalline ice in the long-wavelength emission spectrum?
Did you know that the Greek Phlyax plays of South Italy might have been an influence on Roman comedies of Plautus?
Did you know that the New Zealand Railways Department dumped tank locomotives of the WB class in the Mokihinui River to protect against erosion beside the route of the Seddonville Branch line?
Did you know that the Salerno Mutiny of 1943 saw the largest number of men charged with mutiny at any one time in all of British military history?
Did you know that the Shtyki Memorial, which honors the defenders of Russia in the Battle of Moscow, is depicted on the flag and coat of arms of Zelenograd?
Did you know that the color signals of Israel Broadcasting Authority television transmissions were erased until 1981, when Minister of Communications Yoram Aridor authorized color television broadcasting?
Did you know that the rock band The Sidewinders changed their name to the Sand Rubies after being sued by a cover band over the use of their name?