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Did you know that Udaya Wickramasinghe, the Sri Lankan cricket umpire is remembered for giving three lbw decisions which enabled Pakistani bowler Aaqib Javed to achieve a hat-trick and world record?
Did you know that as the Victoria Barge Canal was dredged near Guadalupe Bay, ancient artifacts and middens were discovered at what is now the Guadalupe Bay Archeological Site?
Did you know that baritone Günter Reich recorded the part of Moses in Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron with both Michael Gielen and Pierre Boulez?
Did you know that imprisoned former congressman Randy Cunningham spends his days at the U.S. Penitentiary at Tucson, Arizona, teaching fellow inmates to get their GED?
Did you know that in 1884, Norwegian Supreme Court accessor Frederik Platou cast a minority vote against the impeachment of Christian Selmer, a former government colleague?
Did you know that one of the many interpretations of the anecdotal meeting of Diogenes and Alexander was that of Samuel Johnson, who related it to wasting other people's time?
Did you know that radio station WGGH owner Jimmy "Fish" Fishback provided the imaging voice of the fictional "V-Rock" radio station in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories?
Did you know that since 2005, after a gap of a century, stone traps are allowed again for bird trapping in selected regions of France?
Did you know that soprano June Card appeared as Freia and Gutrune in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, conducted by Michael Gielen and staged by Ruth Berghaus at the Frankfurt Opera?
Did you know that the 1991 documentary The Search for Robert Johnson shows the first interview with Claude Johnson, who in 1998 was legally declared Delta blues legend Robert Johnson's son?
Did you know that the Australian pea flower Mirbelia rubiifolia was cultivated in Hammersmith in England as early as 1792?
Did you know that the Bombardment of Mogador was accomplished in 1844 by a French Navy fleet against the Moroccan city of Essaouira?
Did you know that the Church of La Soledad in Mexico City has been the site of an annual commemoration for sex workers?
Did you know that the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation oversees 900 acres (360 ha) of parks and 68 recreational facilities—including 25 outdoor swimming pools, 10 indoor pools, and 8 spray parks?
Did you know that the Dashaveyor was originally designed as a high-tech conveyor belt, but was later turned into an automated guideway transit system used at the Toronto Zoo?
Did you know that the George Hotel in Crawley, Sussex, has hosted Lord Nelson, a stranded Queen Victoria, illegal bare-knuckle prizefighters, horse auctions, the Acid Bath Murderer and public executions?
Did you know that the Nasiriyah Drainage Pump Station in Iraq helps siphon water under the Euphrates River and is the largest of its type in the Middle East?
Did you know that the current President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, was one of four Assembly for the Sovereignty of the Peoples politicians elected to parliament in 1997?
Did you know that the first gold medal of the Youth Olympic Games was awarded to Yuka Sato of Japan in the 2010 girls' triathlon?
Did you know that the medieval English archdeacon Osbert de Bayeux was accused of murdering an Archbishop of York by poisoning the communion chalice?
Did you know that the sports club Bygdø Monolitten IL is partly named after the sculpture The Monolith in Vigeland Sculpture Park?
Did you know that using cocaine while pregnant is thought to be less harmful to the baby than alcohol?
Did you know that Acacia leprosa 'Scarlet Blaze', a rare red-flowering form of Acacia, was discovered by bushwalkers in Australia in 1995?
Did you know that Bruce Springsteen was inspired to write his songs "Youngstown" and "The New Timer" after reading stories of dying steel towns in Dale Maharidge's book Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass?
Did you know that Bump was the billionth application downloaded on Apple's App Store?
Did you know that Chilean Eloísa Díaz was the first female doctor in South America?
Did you know that Drake had seven nominations at the 2010 MuchMusic Video Awards, the most of any artist?
Did you know that George Malley, whose St. Ignatius High School football team was once compared to Notre Dame under Knute Rockne, resigned from the University of San Francisco with a losing record?
Did you know that James Sumner received the Medal of Honor for his actions in a skirmish with Cochise during the Apache Wars?
Did you know that Jamila M'Barek demanded to be styled "Lady Shaftesbury" while being tried for the murder of Lord Shaftesbury?
Did you know that Kirkleatham's Owl and Endangered Species Centre is home to one of Britain's largest collections of owls?
Did you know that Operation Marlborough was a mission to kill Iraqi terrorist insurgents wearing suicide vests who were intending to target cafes and restaurants in Baghdad?
Did you know that Samuel Pepys drank purl in a bawdy house behind the House of Lords?
Did you know that St Briavels Castle, once the royal hunting lodge of King John of England, later became a notorious debtors' prison?
Did you know that Tadeusz Adamowski, a pioneer of ice hockey in interwar Poland, played the sport at Harvard, coached the Polish national team, and was imprisoned in a German Oflag during World War II?
Did you know that Wendy Barlow was inducted into the Greater Victoria Sports Hall of Fame, and that her father Bob Barlow played in 77 NHL games with the Minnesota North Stars?
Did you know that development proposals for Washington, D.C.'s Kingman Island have included an airport, a landfill, a public aquarium, stadium parking lots, and a theme park?
Did you know that in 1874, Nova Scotian MP and marine architect William D. Lawrence built the largest wooden ship ever built in Canada, the William D. Lawrence?
Did you know that medrogestone is a synthetic steroid with activity similar to the natural hormone progesterone, but unlike progesterone, is not transported by transcortin in the blood?
Did you know that on the American syndicated game show Jeopardy!, five-time champion Chuck Forrest held the regular winnings record from early Season 2 to early Season 6?
Did you know that radio host Siv Stubsveen starred in A Story About Love, a film on the Internet Movie Database's bottom 100 list?
Did you know that the 2009 Grammy-winning song "Rich Woman" was first released in 1955 by Li'l Millet and was written by himself and Dorothy LaBostrie?
Did you know that the 8th-century Sæbø sword has a runic inscription incorporating a swastika that has been interpreted as representing Thor?
Did you know that the Centro Urbano Benito Juárez apartment complex in Mexico City was mostly destroyed during the 1985 Mexico City earthquake?
Did you know that the Iron Age Witham Shield was originally decorated with the leather silhouette of a wild boar?
Did you know that the KunstHausWien, a private museum in Vienna, occupies the former building of the Thonet furniture factory, creator of the iconic bistro chair?
Did you know that the Memphite Formula, a standardized greeting on ancient Egyptian letters, was used so frequently that papyrus intended for use as letters would be prepared with the greeting already written?
Did you know that the Opernhaus Dortmund was opened in 1966 with Der Rosenkavalier, performed in Dortmund first in 1911?
Did you know that the Seaside Institute in Bridgeport, Connecticut, offered amenities for Warner Brothers Corset Company's female employees and was referred to as "an island of peace in the storm"?
Did you know that the cruiser SMS Bremse was scuttled at Scapa Flow in 1919, but was salvaged a decade later by Ernest Cox?
Did you know that the earliest accurate description of an action potential appears in the first issue of the physiology journal Pflügers Archiv?
Did you know that the gold medal winner of boys' triathlon at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, Aaron Barclay, had never previously raced outside Oceania?
Did you know that the office building that houses the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum was built by Freemasons and once held an auditorium said to be the second largest in the American West?
Did you know that when Nazi Germany invaded Poland, Polish-Jewish poet Rajzel Żychlińsky fled by taking a taxicab?
Did you know that Bolinas Ridge which runs parallel to California's San Andreas Fault has been the setting for numerous automobile television commercials?
Did you know that Glacier Bay in Alaska, US, known in the 18th century as the Grand Pacific Glacier, was a single glacier that has now retreated by 65 miles to the head of the bay at Tarr Inlet?
Did you know that Gukumatz (depiction pictured), one of the Feathered Serpent deities of the K'iche' Maya of Guatemala, was said to carry the sun across the sky in his jaws?
Did you know that Harvey B. Scribner oversaw the 1965 busing plan that made Teaneck, New Jersey, the first district in the US with a white majority to implement a voluntary school integration program?
Did you know that Ignace Michiels of St. Salvator's Cathedral has been the organist for the German-Flemish Reger-Chor in works such as Reger's Requiem?
Did you know that March 1862 purchases of Greek bonds in London were the result of a report that Prince Wilhelm of Baden was to be formally recommended as a candidate for the Greek throne?
Did you know that Niels Bohr inspired Indian physicist Alladi Ramakrishnan to create the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai?
Did you know that Olga Maturana was elected the first Mayoress of Pichilemu, Chile, in 1951?
Did you know that St. Mary's of Aransas in Refugio County, Texas, was home to philanthropist Clara Driscoll who is known for her efforts in restoring the Alamo Mission in San Antonio?
Did you know that Swedish death metal band Nirvana 2002 had to add the "2002" to its name after seeing an advertisement for Nirvana's 1988 debut single, "Love Buzz/Big Cheese"?
Did you know that Swedish-Norwegian television host Kristin Kaspersen is the daughter of Swedish singer Lill-Babs and Norwegian football goalkeeper Kjell Kaspersen?
Did you know that Thomas C. Molesworth designed furniture for the houses of the Rockefeller family and U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Did you know that Yolande Harmer, who was one of the most prominent Israeli spies in Egypt in 1948 is thought of as "Israel's Mata Hari"?
Did you know that cricketer Malcolm Jardine, the father of Douglas, was probably one of the first batsmen to play the leg glance?
Did you know that during the period of normalization in Czechoslovakia, writer Ludvík Kundera was banned from being published?
Did you know that energy executive William G. Higgs is both a Distinguished Eagle Scout and a Distinguished Graduate of the United States Military Academy?
Did you know that in 1663, Roger Wilbraham organised the replacement of Nantwich Bridge in Cheshire, and the new bridge was completed in time for his son to be the first corpse carried across it?
Did you know that in 1725 Bach composed a cantata text written by Salomon Franck in Weimar, Ihr, die ihr euch von Christo nennet, BWV 164, for the 13th Sunday after Trinity?
Did you know that over two days Sun Yingjie won both the Beijing Marathon and a silver medal in athletics at the 10th Chinese National Games, but lost her medal because a rival spiked her drink with steroids?
Did you know that publisher Moses Annenberg bought Ranch A in 1927 with US$27,000 cash that he had in his pocket?
Did you know that quarterback Steven Threet began his college football career at Georgia Tech, played for Michigan in 2008 and is now a member of the 2010 Arizona State team?
Did you know that the Caroline test of self-defence is based on a burning ship going over Niagara Falls?
Did you know that the Dortmunder Philharmoniker, the orchestra of the city of Dortmund, Germany, for opera and concert, founded in 1887, recorded its first CD in 2010?
Did you know that the Gileppe Dam was the first dam built in modern Belgium?
Did you know that the Kermadec Red-crowned Parakeet is the first documented example of a parrot recolonising an island after the removal of invasive predators?
Did you know that the Pyréolophore was probably the world's first internal combustion engine and was fuelled by burning powdered moss, coal granules and resin?
Did you know that the Western Union Defence Organization was a precursor to NATO, with its headquarters, personnel, and plans providing the structure for NATO's military command?
Did you know that the miniseries Nurse Jeffrey, a spinoff of House MD was originally released exclusively for Apple devices?
Did you know that the textual Family 1739 codex represents the Caesarean text-type in the Pauline epistles and Catholic epistles?
Did you know that the village of Edgehead in Midlothian, Scotland, is located on the site of the Roman road Dere Street?
Did you know that with over 1.2 million burials, the Bródno Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Warsaw, Poland?
Did you know that "Entrégate" involved a winemaker and a man with a bass guitar?
Did you know that "The Conquered Banner" was written by Father Ryan, the "poet-priest of the Confederacy"?
Did you know that Amin al-Hindi is believed to have been the last living person involved in the planning of the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Andrew Mack, prior to becoming Mayor of Detroit in 1834, had sailed around the world three times?
Did you know that Coretta Scott King called African-American civil rights activist Randolph Blackwell an "unsung giant" of nonviolent social change?
Did you know that Dimitry Laptev worked for Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union under different names?
Did you know that Elmwood Park in downtown Danbury, Connecticut, was once used for growing hay?
Did you know that James Conder, who collected coins and issued token coins, never knew that there was a hoard of Anglo-Saxon coins buried beneath the doorstep of his house in Ipswich?
Did you know that Jerry Nelson is the principal designer and project scientist for the Keck telescopes?
Did you know that John Lawson Walton's defence in an 1896 libel case led to the largest damages awarded by a British jury to that date?
Did you know that Latavious Williams rejected a US$100,000 contract offer from a Chinese team but opted to play minor league basketball in the United States for only US$19,000?
Did you know that Lou Gehrig may not have died of Lou Gehrig's disease after all, but may instead have succumbed to chronic traumatic encephalopathy?
Did you know that Minuscule 113 manuscript of the four Gospels contains 24 pictures?
Did you know that Neil Gardner holds the sixth-fastest recorded time for a Jamaican 400 m hurdler?
Did you know that Prince Ludwig of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg mysteriously disappeared from London society to the Philippines, where he was killed during a battle of the Philippine–American War?
Did you know that Qeparo is home to one of the nine churches in Albania dedicated to Saint Demetrius?
Did you know that Red Rock Job Corps Center is within Ricketts Glen State Park in Pennsylvania, uses the facilities of the former Benton Air Force Station, and is still home to an FAA radar?
Did you know that Sonny Bono produced rockabilly singer Roddy Jackson's "Hiccups"?
Did you know that Undershaw, which is currently proposed for redevelopment, was built as the family residence of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes?
Did you know that Watain received gold for Reaping Death?
Did you know that a single spoon-shaped lower jaw belonging to the goniopholidid crocodyliform Sunosuchus is the most well preserved fossil found from the Phu Kradung Formation in Thailand?
Did you know that although the team was founded in 1896, the first Connecticut Huskies bowl game did not come until the end of the 2004 college football season?
Did you know that cameline, a middle ages "cheap" fabric of camel's hair, is considered by some authorities to be what we call today cashmere?
Did you know that celebrated French courtesan Rosalie Duthé has been called history's first dumb blonde?
Did you know that comedian Bob Hope, U.S. President Gerald Ford and, according to the Washington Post, every great African American professional golfer except Tiger Woods have played at Langston Golf Course?
Did you know that empresario James Power was notified of the Mexican land grant offerings by the "Father of Texas" Stephen F. Austin?
Did you know that robbers stole $80,000 worth of jewelry from Lida, Princess Victor of Thurn and Taxis, but neglected to take a necklace valued at $400,000?
Did you know that the 1943 Filipstad explosion in Oslo shattered the glass in over 1600 buildings?
Did you know that the Cumberland Presbyterian Church was founded in 1810 in a log cabin in what is now Montgomery Bell State Park in Tennessee?
Did you know that the Onizuka Center for International Astronomy provides lodging for the 72 astronomers working at the Mauna Kea Observatory?
Did you know that the Sind Sparrow was not recorded for 36 years after it was first described, despite searches by noted ornithologists?
Did you know that the number of coho salmon spawning on the Ten Mile River in Mendocino County, California, has dropped precipitously since the 1960s?
Did you know that to secure sponsorship for his TV show, New York-based host Jake Sasseville talked his way onto a local broadcast 700 miles away, so he would be seen by executives at his target's headquarters?
Did you know that American blogger Pamela Geller has strongly defended former Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic and denied the existence of Serbian concentration camps?
Did you know that Benjamin D'Israeli, grandfather of the British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, traded as a merchant of straw hats and other Italian commodities?
Did you know that David Long of Computer Games Magazine described Superbike 2001's graphics as "almost photo-realistic"?
Did you know that Fehim Zavalani organized the Congress of Manastir, which decided the Albanian alphabet, in his own home?
Did you know that French general Jean Touzet du Vigier served four governments in World War II – the Third Republic, the Vichy regime, Free France, and the Fourth Republic?
Did you know that Grady Wallace of South Carolina beat out Elgin Baylor and Wilt Chamberlain to secure the 1956–57 NCAA men's basketball scoring title?
Did you know that Indian leader Syed Mahmud was released from prison after writing a letter of apology to the British Viceroy for participating in the Quit India movement?
Did you know that Iwan Tirta, who held a law degree, designed the batik shirts worn by world leaders at the 1994 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit?
Did you know that Loving Natalee, Beth Holloway's bestselling book about her missing daughter, was made into the Lifetime movie Natalee Holloway that suspect Joran van der Sloot himself reportedly watched?
Did you know that Ohio's Van Wert County Courthouse is crowned by an award-winning statue of Justice?
Did you know that Olav V of Norway competed in skiing for the club SFK Lyn?
Did you know that Qawmi primary education lasts six years, though it does not differentiate students by progressive grade levels?
Did you know that Romgaz is the largest natural gas producer in Romania?
Did you know that The Washington Post described Rock Creek Park Golf Course's back nine holes in 1999 as so steep they seem "to have been designed by a mountain goat"?
Did you know that Walter Hass, who helped reestablish the sport at the University of Chicago, played college football under three different Hall of Fame head coaches?
Did you know that after Pete Allen retired from professional baseball he enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and later became a physician?
Did you know that aspens and whitebark pines are keystones to the ecology of the Rocky Mountains?
Did you know that elderly Family Guy character Herbert's voice and design was inspired by a man that character creator Mike Henry met while working in a grocery store?
Did you know that on February 9, 1913, a procession of fireballs seen across Canada to Brazil likely represented the break-up of a short-lived natural satellite of the Earth?
Did you know that soon after the creation of the Łomża Ghetto, Nazi Germans killed all the Jews suspected of collaborating with the previous occupying power, the Soviet Union?
Did you know that the 1988 St Jean Bosco massacre in Haiti saw Jean-Bertrand Aristide's church burned down and at least 13 people killed?
Did you know that the 20th Premier of Quebec, Daniel Johnson Sr., who was instrumental in the construction of the Daniel-Johnson Dam, died the morning of its scheduled inauguration in 1968?
Did you know that the long-nosed god maskettes found throughout the American Midwest are believed to have been used in the ritual adoption of visiting tribal leaders?
Did you know that the music of In convertendo Dominus, a setting of Psalm 126 for mixed choir and organ by Jules Van Nuffel, has been compared to the style of Puccini and Vaughan Williams?
Did you know that the skeleton of a pregnant woman and her unborn child dating back to 3000 BC was found in the Kamenica Tumulus in Albania?
Did you know that the sports club Skeid, with a former top-level football team, has also won the Norwegian league in bandy?
Did you know that velvet bushes can be slender, shrubby, drooping or rusty?
Did you know that when African American golfers attempted to play at Washington, D.C.'s racially segregated East Potomac Park Golf Course in 1941, angry whites threw stones and threatened them with violence?
Did you know that when prisoner of conscience and philosopher Ukshin Hoti's sentence was complete, he was transferred to another prison instead of being released?
Did you know that Benjamin Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden (both pictured) made their debut as the band MGMT playing the theme to the movie Ghostbusters over and over for hours?
Did you know that CBS News journalist Elaine Quijano originally trained as an engineer?
Did you know that Giora Romm assumed command of Israeli Air Force 115 Squadron a day before the Yom Kippur War broke out, making his debut flight in the A-4 Skyhawk on a combat mission?
Did you know that Lugu Lake is the highest lake in China's Yunnan Province?
Did you know that Lusia Harris, who was drafted in the seventh round of the 1977 NBA Draft, was the first and only woman ever drafted in the NBA?
Did you know that Moustache, a French poodle, is said to have been awarded a medal by Marshal Jean Lannes for saving a regimental flag at the Battle of Austerlitz?
Did you know that Princess Anne of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg was the first woman to attempt, and to perish in, a transatlantic airplane flight?
Did you know that Wilson Industrial Park in Edmonton, Alberta, is named in honour of Herbert Charles Wilson, who served as the city's mayor in the late 19th century?
Did you know that although Haile Fida was an important political advisor to Mengistu Haile Mariam, the military ruler of Ethiopia, in 1977 Mengistu had him arrested and later executed?
Did you know that death is directly mentioned in 19 of the 38 poems in Maya Angelou's first book of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie?
Did you know that even though the Dollarway Road, Arkansas' first road, is now covered by Arkansas Highway 356, a portion of the road has been preserved by the National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that humorist Alonzo Delano made US$400 in three weeks by drawing portraits of whiskered gold miners at an ounce of gold dust per head?
Did you know that in 1838, Henriette d'Angeville, the first woman to climb Mont Blanc on her own strength, received a calling card from a Polish nobleman on her way to the summit, at 10,000 feet?
Did you know that prior to Count Luitpold of Castell-Castell's marriage proposal to Princess Alexandrine-Louise of Denmark, she had often been cited as a possible queen consort to Edward VIII of the United Kingdom?
Did you know that the 1939 Stanford Indians football team won its only game of the season after being told during halftime that they were "the worst group of players who have ever worn the Stanford red"?