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Did you know that Jonas Kubilius is one of the principal contributors to the Turán–Kubilius inequality theorem and organizer of the first mathematical olympiad in Lithuania?
Did you know that Mark Simpson tore his lateral meniscus thirteen games into the 1996–1997 indoor soccer season while playing for the Buffalo Blizzard?
Did you know that Medway Plantation in South Carolina was owned by a former Office of Strategic Services spy Gertrude Sanford Legendre?
Did you know that T. S. Eliot's Paradiso-like poems of the Four Quartets (Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding) are modeled on the structure of his Inferno-like poem The Waste Land?
Did you know that Vietnam and Hong Kong have fishing villages that float on water (Halong Bay village pictured)?
Did you know that William Rich Hutton  accompanied Edward Ord on an expedition to the Pueblo of Los Angeles in 1849 before returning east to work as a civil engineer on projects including the Washington Bridge?
Did you know that a huge Khmer Rouge airfield still lies in Rolea B'ier District, Cambodia?
Did you know that although Jim Brandstatter is best known as a color commentator for the Michigan Wolverines, his father and brother both played for the rival Michigan State Spartans?
Did you know that architect Henrik Bull designed several churches, but his most widespread works were coins designed for Norges Bank?
Did you know that despite being a valuable table fish and gamefish, the brassy trevally is almost never targeted by anglers because larger relatives occur within its range?
Did you know that during the Cold War, Canada permitted the United States to practice photo reconnaissance over Grey Goose Island with the RB-52C Stratofortress?
Did you know that naval historian William James declared that HMS Seine's victory over the French ship Vengeance showed that British ships were "more potent than American thunder"?
Did you know that reporter Leo Katcher became a newspaper's office boy at age 10 when he promised not to bounce balls against the building, and later got an exclusive with Lindbergh kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann?
Did you know that some Nazi German anti-partisan operations later became the basis for counterinsurgency policies developed by countries such as France and the United States?
Did you know that some music scholars have claimed that Chopin's Nocturnes Op. 37 and related pieces act as an "aphrodisiac" and were used by women to "comfort their repressed libido[s]"?
Did you know that the 1915 Avezzano earthquake killed over 30,000 people and flattened the town of Avezzano, Italy?
Did you know that the giant leucopax mushroom has bioactive compounds with antioxidative, antibiotic, and anti-cancer properties?
Did you know that the new Shia Family Law of Afghanistan has attracted criticism for including clauses that some analysts believe encourage spousal rape?
Did you know that the quarterback for the first College Football All-America Team in 1889 was Edgar Allan Poe?
Did you know that the sculpture Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science depicts what historians have described as "the modern fantasy of (female) nature willingly revealing herself to the (male) scientist"?
Did you know that the world's only museum dedicated to Lawn Bowls is in Brooklands, Taranaki?
Did you know that under the authority granted by the Reorganization Act of 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Reorganization Plan No. 1, which created the Executive Office of the President?
Did you know that American historian Marcus Lee Hansen was posthumously awarded the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860?
Did you know that Christian Schibsted established the publishing house Schibsted and the newspaper Aftenposten?
Did you know that Czech writer and sports reporter Ota Pavel was diagnosed with bipolar disorder following the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck?
Did you know that Daniel Gault worked as a teacher, newspaper editor, and postmaster, and served in the Oregon House of Representatives?
Did you know that Kampong Tralach District was home to Cambodia’s ancient capital of Lovek?
Did you know that Torstein Eckhoff, an authority on European Community law in Norway, opposed Norwegian membership in that institution?
Did you know that a former ingredient in 3M's Scotchgard, perfluorooctanesulfonamide, can uncouple oxidative phosphorylation and has been detected in slimy sculpin, dolphin, and people?
Did you know that as chairman of advertising agency Bozell & Jacobs, Charles Peebler oversaw the "Got Milk?" milk mustache advertising campaign, and "Pork. The Other White Meat" created for the National Pork Board?
Did you know that comedic actor Ed Helms performs an a cappella version of Paul Simon's "You Can Call Me Al" in the fifth season The Office episode, "Heavy Competition"?
Did you know that during the Battle of Yevenes, Polish lancers of the Legion of the Vistula lost all their banners, which caused the dissolution of the regiment?
Did you know that in April 1920, Texas Rangers expelled some 125 prostitutes from the oil boomtown of Desdemona in Eastland County east of Abilene, Texas?
Did you know that radio stations KSUH and KWYZ simulcast a mix of K-pop and Korean language news and talk to the Seattle metropolitan area?
Did you know that the 2008 Bandar Abbas earthquake leveled walls in the village of Zeynabi, Iran?
Did you know that the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner is the farthest north daily newspaper in North America?
Did you know that the Liberator that crashed in 1943 in New Zealand during World War II was transferring Japanese men, women and children from the consular corps to exchange for Allied POWs?
Did you know that the Sterling Hill Mining Museum and the nearby Franklin Mine together have over 345 minerals, including 90 that fluoresce and 35 that are found nowhere else?
Did you know that the Stone Creek Jamboree holds the world record for the largest potluck, with 882 dishes?
Did you know that the cross in the coat of arms of Colchester represents the True Cross, as discovered by Saint Helena, the patron saint?
Did you know that the fault block that forms the main ridgeline of the Pueblo Mountains in southeastern Oregon is tilted at a 45 degree angle?
Did you know that the musical style of Ayiesha Woods' album Love Like This has been said to "rival the likes of Corinne Bailey Rae for her pop-soul throne"?
Did you know that track cyclist Aksel Gresvig started a bicycle shop in 1901, which later developed into the largest chain of sports shops in Scandinavia?
Did you know that Baton Rouge attorney Dan Claitor was elected in 2009 to the Louisiana State Senate despite his fellow Republican, Governor Bobby Jindal endorsing his opponent?
Did you know that Benjamin Edwards, who expanded the privately-held A. G. Edwards into the largest U.S. brokerage firm headquartered outside of New York City, owned the world's largest collection of Imari porcelain?
Did you know that Captain (later Rear Admiral) Otto Becher was awarded both the Distinguished Service Order and United States Legion of Merit as commander of HMAS Warramunga during the Korean War?
Did you know that Festival Republic has replaced Aiken Promotions as co-organiser of Stradbally Hall's boutique Electric Picnic arts-and-music festival in 2009?
Did you know that Islam and Protestantism have an early history of mutual support against Catholicism, and share some common attitudes to faith, such as textual criticism and iconoclasm?
Did you know that Jeffrey Zients, the new United States Chief Performance Officer, was in a club that tried to buy the Washington Nationals baseball team?
Did you know that Joey Hamilton held five baseball records at Georgia Southern University until 1995?
Did you know that Johnny Madison Williams Jr., one of the most successful bank robbers in American history, was nicknamed "The Shootist" by the FBI because of his modus operandi of firing into the air at the beginning of each heist?
Did you know that Kevin Walton and Richard Butson were the first to climb several Antarctic peaks, with both of them going on to receive the Albert Medal for heroism and the Polar Medal?
Did you know that Ohave Shalom Synagogue was founded when the members of the existing synagogue in Woodridge, New York, had a dispute over who would be the community's ritual slaughterer of animals?
Did you know that Sofmap, a Japanese retailer, released a collector's box of Izuna 2: The Unemployed Ninja Returns that mirrors the design of erotic eroge games?
Did you know that Wilco's upcoming studio album is expected to feature a duet with Canadian singer Feist?
Did you know that a 1.5 million dollar land concession project in Sameakki Mean Chey District, Cambodia, will provide land to 732 of the poorest farming families?
Did you know that although the steam-powered SS Clan Alpine had a maximum forwards speed of 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h), on her final journey she went backwards at 35 knots (65 km/h)?
Did you know that an air well collects water by promoting the condensation of moisture from air?
Did you know that both members of Duo Crommelynck, a noted classical piano duo, committed  suicide in 1994, the only known such case in classical music history?
Did you know that children in the high-altitude gold mining town of Kimberly, Utah, attended school from April through November to avoid the deep snows of winter?
Did you know that in 2008, the Triumph Bonneville America was updated with electronic fuel injection to meet European legislation and had the fuel injectors concealed by dummy carburettors?
Did you know that the 1956 film Lovers and Lollipops, by indie filmmaker Morris Engel, was noted for its realism and New York City locations, and influenced the French New Wave?
Did you know that the Federal Works Agency funded and supervised the construction of housing, public health facilities, and schools for communities impacted by fast-growing defense industries during World War II?
Did you know that the Kröd Mändoon episode "Our Bounties Ourselves" included an almost verbatim parody of George W. Bush's famous "Fool me once" speech gaffe?
Did you know that the Kyshtym disaster was a serious nuclear accident in 1957, which resulted in permanent evacuation of about 10,000 people?
Did you know that the butterflyfish species Forcipiger longirostris  has the longest Hawaiian name for any fish: lauwiliwilinukunukuʻoiʻoi?
Did you know that the history of the underwire bra (patent pictured) dates back to 1893 when Marie Tucek patented a "breast supporter" that used a metal or cardboard support under the breasts?
Did you know that the problem of deforestation in Costa Rica in the 1980s and early 1990s was referenced in Michael Crichton's 1990 novel, Jurassic Park?
Did you know that the tiny commune of La Porta, with only 196 inhabitants (1999 census), has the most famous Baroque church and belltower in Corsica?
Did you know that American journalist Phelan Beale, Jr. was a son of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and a brother of Edith Bouvier Beale, whose lives were highlighted in the documentary Grey Gardens?
Did you know that Anshei Glen Wild Synagogue in Glen Wild, New York, is so small it has never had its own rabbi?
Did you know that Bobby Cowell only played for one professional club during his entire football career (Newcastle United)?
Did you know that Brian McMenamin graduated with a degree in political science, but is co-owner of the McMenamins chain of brewpubs?
Did you know that Disappearing Model, a body painting in which a model is painted so that she is indistinguishable from her background, is Joanne Gair's most famous work and was displayed on Ripley's Believe It or Not!?
Did you know that John Henry Turpin, who survived the catastrophic explosions of USS Maine in 1898 and USS Bennington in 1905, was one of the first African American Chief Petty Officers of the United States Navy?
Did you know that José Sabogal was "the most renowned early supporter" of the artistic indigenist movement of Peru?
Did you know that Poricy Park in New Jersey is known for allowing limited collecting at its Cretaceous-era fossil shell beds?
Did you know that The Wall Street Journal purchased computers belonging to al-Qaeda leaders found in the rubble of Mohammed Atef's house?
Did you know that Zen master Línjì Yìxuán once jumped up, grabbed a monk, shouted at him, and then called him a "shit stick" in an episode of Dharma combat?
Did you know that after Daniel Shanks and John Wrench calculated pi to 100,000 decimal digits, a bound, gold-inscribed printout of the digits was presented to the Smithsonian Institution?
Did you know that although Darius Danesh did not win the first series of Pop Idol, he still achieved a number-one single with "Colourblind"?
Did you know that director/screenwriter Kang Dae-ha from Jeju Island, South Korea, directed films related to Korean shamanism?
Did you know that during the First Great Migration, the majority of Shubuta, Mississippi, moved to Albany, New York, with some recreating a religious rural community in Rapp Road Community Historic District?
Did you know that having observed the four sights as a young prince, Gautama Buddha (statue pictured) realized the sufferings in life and started an ascetic life against his father's wish?
Did you know that in Breaking the Spell, the author discusses how she helped plan an assassination plot against a U.S. Attorney while at Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's commune in Rajneeshpuram, Oregon?
Did you know that openly gay actor John Barrowman was one of the final candidates for the role of the gay character Will in the pilot episode of Will & Grace, but lost to heterosexual Eric McCormack for not being "gay enough"?
Did you know that over 100 countries are represented and almost 170 languages are spoken in the ethnic enclaves of New York City?
Did you know that protected areas of Sri Lanka such as Sinharaja Forest Reserve account for 26.5 percent of the total area of Sri Lanka?
Did you know that the Anyangcheon, a river in Gyeonggi Province and Seoul City of South Korea, is home to a variety of wildlife such as goldfish, Grey Heron and Northern Shoveler?
Did you know that the Australian Army's 1965–6 secret incursions into Indonesia during  Australia's involvement in the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation were not officially acknowledged until 1996?
Did you know that the CQC-6 knife by Ernest Emerson was first developed for a US Navy SEAL Team, and went on to popularize the concept of the "tactical folding knife"?
Did you know that the Foothill Yellow-legged Frog secretes an anti-fungal protein from its skin to prevent infections by various fungi such as Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis?
Did you know that the day the Parks and Recreation episode "Canvassing" aired on NBC, it captured almost one million viewers more than its direct ABC time-slot competitor, Samantha Who?
Did you know that the ending of the South Park episode "Fatbeard" mirrors the resolution of the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama by Somalian pirates?
Did you know that the linguistic works of Daniel Gravius are used by modern scholars to shed light on the society of the 17th-century Siraya people of Taiwan?
Did you know that the term maverick, referring to an animal without a brand, came from Texas land baron Samuel Maverick who was notorious for not branding his cattle?
Did you know that then Conservative party leader William Hague and former Eastenders actor Michael Cashman campaigned for the 1999 Lichfield Council election?
Did you know that "Broke", a fifth season episode of The Office, was directed by lead actor Steve Carell himself?
Did you know that 14-year-old Raymond Steed was the youngest person in the British services to die in battle during the Second World War, when his ship SS Empire Morn was damaged by a mine?
Did you know that David Shaw, who won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for coverage of the McMartin preschool trial, got his first writing job at age 16 filling in at a motorcycle race for an absent reporter?
Did you know that George Habash, founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was a survivor of the Lydda Death March of July 1948?
Did you know that Gerhard Munthe, a painter, illustrator and chair of the National Gallery of Norway, lost his wife to explorer Fridtjof Nansen?
Did you know that Hamby Park in Hillsboro, Oregon, is named after the owner of a Chevrolet car dealership?
Did you know that James D. Hutton was a pioneer photographer of the northern Rockies who betrayed the plans for the Federal defense of Alexandria, Virginia, to the Confederacy early in the American Civil War?
Did you know that Jan Konopka was a Polish cavalry commander in the Napoleonic period, a general, a Baron of the French Empire, and was decorated with the Légion d'honneur?
Did you know that Leonard T. "Max" Schroeder Jr. was the first American soldier to land in Normandy from an assault boat on D-Day in World War II?
Did you know that NBC network executive Perry Lafferty produced the 1985 television movie An Early Frost, one of the first dramatic films to deal with the subject of HIV / AIDS?
Did you know that Patrick Murphy Malin was expected to become head of the family bank, but instead served as executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union?
Did you know that Queen Latifah's rendition of "I'll Be Seeing You" from the Broadway musical Right This Way during the 81st Academy Awards In Memoriam tribute was the annual tribute's first vocal accompaniment?
Did you know that South Korean boy band TVXQ became the first foreign artist to have four number-one singles on the Japanese single charts?
Did you know that after professional wrestler "the New Horror" Sami Callihan won the CZW Iron Man Championship, he renamed it the "CZW New Horror Championship"?
Did you know that al-Batani al-Sharqi, a depopulated Palestinian village near Gaza, was originally founded as a ranch by the Umayyad caliph Muawiyah I in the 8th century?
Did you know that although Leo Wolman was once director of research for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, his criticisms of unions led directly to the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947?
Did you know that before becoming director general of the Norwegian State Railways in 1924, Eivind Heiberg was the director of the manufacturing company Skabo Jernbanevognfabrikk?
Did you know that more than a quarter of freshwater fishes that have been discovered in  rivers and streams of southwestern Sri Lanka are endemic?
Did you know that patients with the congenital vascular malformation double aortic arch have two aortic arches, instead of one, which form a vascular ring that can compress the trachea?
Did you know that the 1957–1958 CBS sitcom Dick and the Duchess was one of the few American television series filmed in England?
Did you know that the 2009 World Wrestling Entertainment Draft featured seven selections that affected seven of the company's nine championships?
Did you know that the Boeng Tonle Chhmar wildlife sanctuary in Cambodia is home to many rare, vulnerable and endangered species including the Brahminy Kite?
Did you know that the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University began as a specialized U.S. Army training program during the Second World War?
Did you know that the Dragon Goby, which looks like a tiny dragon, is actually an almost blind and totally harmless fish?
Did you know that the Norwegian novelist and editor of Vinduet, Henrik Langeland, wrote a doctoral thesis on Marcel Proust?
Did you know that the Panzer Battle Badge was designed by Wilhelm Ernst Peekhaus, a designer of five other Wehrmacht badges?
Did you know that the Persian embassy to Europe in 1599–1602 aimed at establishing a Christian–Persian alliance against the Ottoman Empire?
Did you know that the erotic-philosophical film I + People = ? was created by Leonid Konovalov, a homeless Russian who has not showered in 19 years?
Did you know that the extreme luminosity observed for supernova 2005gj could be explained by the incidence of a quark nova?
Did you know that the first chapter of Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari, an eleventh-century Japanese tale, no longer exists?
Did you know that Archie Roe, who scored South Shields F.C.'s first ever goal in The Football League, was then signed by the team he had scored it against?
Did you know that Don Featherstone created over 750 plastic animals, but is most famous for the plastic flamingo?
Did you know that Frank Grouard, a famous scout during the Indian Wars, was believed by many to be an American Indian but actually came from the Society Islands in the South Pacific?
Did you know that Julian Myrick, an insurance businessman, was inducted in the International Tennis Hall of Fame for his promotion and administration of the sport in the United States?
Did you know that Major Caleb Huse purchased the majority of imported weapons used by the Confederate Army during the American Civil War?
Did you know that Studioteatret was started in Oslo by actors and students, including Jens Bolling, Liv Strømsted and Arne Thomas Olsen, who had secretly studied Stanislavski's theatre theories during World War II?
Did you know that William H. Lewis became the first African-American college football player in 1888 and the first African-American to serve as U.S. Assistant Attorney General in 1911?
Did you know that a 2.5 million dollar climate change project in Basedth District, Cambodia, aims to improve water supply and increase rice production?
Did you know that according to her autobiography Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas, Marguerite Johnson changed her name to Maya Angelou because it sounded more exotic?
Did you know that fluffy bums suck on passion vine juice?
Did you know that in 1950 former record-setting balloonist Thomas G. W. Settle was assigned to perform a nuclear test in the Aleutian islands?
Did you know that on 28 February 1828, dozens of people died when The Emma was launched on the River Irwell in Manchester?
Did you know that the Czech actor Bolek Polívka was involved in one of the oddest legal disputes in the history of the Czech Republic?
Did you know that the Kangchu system was instrumental in driving Johor's economy during the 19th century?
Did you know that the crucified figure in Francisco Zurbarán's  1628 painting Saint Serapion was based on a Mercedarian friar who fought and was martyred during the Third Crusade of 1196?
Did you know that the first series of British radio stand-up comedy show Mark Steel's in Town was recorded in Skipton, Boston, Lewes, Walsall, Merthyr Tydfil and the Isle of Portland?
Did you know that the fungus Hemileia vastatrix which plagued the coffee industry in Ceylon from 1869 contributed to the growth of commercial tea production?
Did you know that volcanoes in the Puyehue Volcano complex  may have produced some of the most primitive magmas in the Andes?
Did you know that when Henrik Ibsen's play Brand was first staged in Norway, 38 years after it was published, Egil Eide played the title role?
Did you know that Amalia Mesa-Bains, a Ph.D. psychologist, was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for her artwork?
Did you know that British flight instructor Valentine Baker taught such noted pupils as Edward, Prince of Wales, Amy Johnson, and Lord Londonderry of the Air Ministry?
Did you know that Johannes Sejersted Bødtker, Finland's Honorary Consul to Oslo, was held almost three years in a concentration camp during World War II?
Did you know that Johanson-Blizzard syndrome, a recessive congenital disorder, can cause abnormal development of the pancreas, nose and scalp, with mental retardation, hearing loss and growth failure?
Did you know that John Roach rose from humble origins to establish America's largest postbellum shipbuilding empire, John Roach & Sons, which included the Etna Iron Works, the Morgan Iron Works, and the former Reaney shipyard, renamed the Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works?
Did you know that John Ruskin had wallpaper made for his study at Brantwood based on the design of a tablecloth in a painting of 1499 by Marco Marziale?
Did you know that Pacnews stopped reporting on Fijian news rather than submit to government censorship in the wake of the 2009 Fijian constitutional crisis?