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Did you know that International Olympic Committee founder Pierre de Coubertin, under a pseudonym, won a gold medal at the 1912 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that after George Jewett played for the 1892 Michigan football team, it was 40 years before another African-American played for the Wolverines?
Did you know that after winning the 1926 Belmont Stakes, Crusader set a course record at the Dwyer Stakes that year, and later became the first horse to win the Suburban Handicap two years in a row?
Did you know that in 1968 the rector of Wrocław University, Alfred Jahn, supported students who were striking against communist censorship and lost his position as a result?
Did you know that places of worship in the district of Chichester, West Sussex, include a Buddhist monastery and a tin tabernacle?
Did you know that prior to becoming the Bishop of Southampton, Arthur Lyttelton was the first Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge?
Did you know that the German architect Anna Heringer has contributed to sustainable architecture building hand-made schools in Bangladesh and Morocco with local craftsmen and materials?
Did you know that the Lhasa Apso Zentarr Elizabeth's victory at Crufts in 2012 was considered fitting due to the Diamond Jubilee year of Queen Elizabeth II?
Did you know that the berries of the alpine waxberry are eaten by lizards and ground weta?
Did you know that the life cycle of the parasitic marine fluke Homalometron pallidum involves three different hosts, one of which is the mummichog?
Did you know that three skulls were unearthed in a berry patch on Deadman's Island?
Did you know that Anton Bacalbaşa, who wrote the first Romanian introduction to Das Kapital, was elected to the Deputies' Assembly on a Conservative Party ticket?
Did you know that Chrisye was not alone on Sendiri (Alone)?
Did you know that Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies Jan Jacob Rochussen was father-in-law to another governor general and grandfather to a president of the League of Nations?
Did you know that in 1786, Prince William Henry, a naval officer and future king, entered Edward Hawker onto his ship's books when Hawker was just four years old?
Did you know that in 1979 the trade union Sindicato Obrero Canario labelled Spanish rule of the Canary Islands "colonial" in an appeal to the OUA?
Did you know that in portraying Marita Covarrubias in The X-Files, actress Laurie Holden spent hours learning fifteen seconds of Russian dialogue?
Did you know that individual cellular slime mould cells are of two distinct mating types?
Did you know that lemurs, lorises, and galagos have a special dental structure called a toothcomb (example pictured), which they use to comb their fur during grooming?
Did you know that the Indonesian novel Atheist was decried by religious figures, Marxist–Leninists, and anarcho-nihilists?
Did you know that the cookbook ''''' discusses the health benefits of cooking with animal fat?
Did you know that when architect John Russell Pope designed Branch House in 1916, the 28,000 sq ft (2,600 m2) private residence included designated storage rooms for carpets, china, paintings – and suits of armor?
Did you know that 2011–12 Ivy League teams Harvard and Princeton both defeated 2012 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament Champion Florida State?
Did you know that Greta Garbo threatened to return to Sweden rather than act in Women Love Diamonds?
Did you know that a couplet from Elton John's song "Elderberry Wine" has been called the worst of lyricist Bernie Taupin's career?
Did you know that a nor'easter in December 1992 (satellite image pictured) washed over 20 whales onshore along Cape Cod, killing seven of them?
Did you know that an employee who erases the hard drive of an employer-owned computer may be in violation of the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?
Did you know that in 1905, Bolckow Vaughan was easily Great Britain's largest producer of pig iron?
Did you know that in 2007 it was reported that Scroogle was becoming the preferred search engine of Internet civil libertarians?
Did you know that in 2008, nearly 40,000 acres of the former Irvine Ranch, including Bommer Canyon, were designated as the first California Natural Landmark?
Did you know that larvae of the toadfly make their way through the nostrils of the common toad (affected toad pictured) and eat its flesh?
Did you know that the 1884 Michigan football team's first game was part of a "field day" that included heavyweight boxing, "catch-as-catch-can wrestling" and "chasing greased pig"?
Did you know that the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, one of the largest covered markets in the world, attracts between 250,000 and 400,000 visitors daily?
Did you know that the Pyrenean brook salamander sometimes lives entirely underground in caves?
Did you know that Alexandru Al. Ioan, the natural son of Romanian ruler Alexandru Ioan Cuza and the half-brother of Serb king Milan I, was introduced by his own family as a rescued orphan?
Did you know that De Typhoon, a Dutch paper founded during World War II by the Dutch resistance, merged in 1992 with a competing local paper that had collaborated with the Germans during the war?
Did you know that Glacier Media, which owns the daily newspaper in Victoria, British Columbia, was originally a bottled water company?
Did you know that Keizan, Great Patriarch of Sōtō Zen Buddhism, founded Sōji-ji?
Did you know that National Masturbation Day, an annual event celebrated in the US in May, was first observed in 1995?
Did you know that Pauline Duvernay rose apparently naked from a cauldron surrounded by demons in Fromental Halévy's opera-ballet La tentation?
Did you know that People v. Diaz upholds the right of police in California to make warrantless searches of cell phones during a lawful arrest?
Did you know that Sir John Cordy Burrows is responsible for the Victoria Fountain at the Old Steine Gardens?
Did you know that South Korean band F.T. Island's mini-album Grown-Up debuted at number three on Gaon Chart's monthly albums chart for January 2012 with one day worth of sales?
Did you know that at least five people died due to torture during the 2011–2012 Bahraini uprising?
Did you know that dormice benefit from charcoal burning at Croes Robert Wood, near Monmouth?
Did you know that fifty-nine Major League Baseball player–managers, including Connie Mack, have been enshrined in the Hall of Fame?
Did you know that the 1879 Michigan football team defeated Racine College, 1–0, in the first intercollegiate football game in the school's history?
Did you know that the Chicago Housing Authority's renovation of the Dearborn Homes housing project includes adding neo-Georgian quoins and ball-topped gables to the brick high-rises?
Did you know that the German Bundesliga footballer Willi Kraus was sentenced to seven years in prison for bank robbery?
Did you know that the German teleplay Jeder stirbt für sich allein, about Otto and Elise Hampel, who were executed by the Third Reich, was directed by Falk Harnack, who lost several family members to Nazi executions?
Did you know that Australian bowler Shane Warne claimed that he had "nightmares" at the thought of bowling to Sachin Tendulkar after being dominated by him in the 1998 Coca-Cola Cup?
Did you know that Hector the Tax Inspector was replaced by Mrs Doyle in the Inland Revenue's advertising?
Did you know that NASCAR driver David Mayhew drove for Kevin Harvick Incorporated in two Camping World Truck Series races in 2011, and finished third in both races?
Did you know that Oh Moscow, by English musician Lindsay Cooper, is a song cycle that reflects on the Cold War?
Did you know that Prince Antasari, who led a war against Dutch colonists for over three years, was ultimately defeated by smallpox?
Did you know that a fire destroyed the house at Hilston Park, Monmouthshire in 1838 and a Palladian mansion was built to replace it?
Did you know that although Philip Michael Thomas coined the term "EGOT" (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony), only Edward James Olmos and Jan Hammer would win any of those awards working on Miami Vice?
Did you know that in 1977 AOA, a trade union linked to the Spanish urban guerilla movement FRAP, was founded?
Did you know that in one of its last acts, the Sejm of the Congress Poland dethroned Tsar Nicholas I of Russia from his position as the King of Poland?
Did you know that the Atlantic cranch squid has been nicknamed "Eddie McBlobbles" for its defensive behavior of inflating itself into a ball with its head and tail inside out?
Did you know that the northern kingcroaker is a fish that is unable to croak?
Did you know that the records of many of EMI's popular artists including The Beatles, Cliff Richard and Pink Floyd were manufactured at what is now The Old Vinyl Factory in Hayes in Greater London?
Did you know that though Mumbai's Phoenix Mills has been redeveloped into a shopping mall, its chimney has been retained?
Did you know that to house his collection of vintage steam locomotives the former CEO of Ohio Central RR built the Age of Steam Roundhouse, the first full-sized, working roundhouse built in the U.S. since 1951?
Did you know that 2011–12 Ivy League men's basketball season was the first time that four teams (Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale) played in the postseason?
Did you know that Amish dolls are left faceless, possibly to emphasize that "all are alike in the eyes of God"?
Did you know that Breitenbach, an archaeological site in Germany dated to the early Upper Palaeolithic, was discovered in 1925 by a local school teacher?
Did you know that Sebastian Weigle, named "Conductor of the Year" by Opernwelt three times between 2003 and 2006, performed Wagner's Ring Cycle at the Frankfurt Opera?
Did you know that al-Jawali Mosque was built in 1320 to enlarge the prayer space of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron?
Did you know that combat medic David B. Bleak was awarded the Medal of Honor in the Korean War after killing five Chinese soldiers, four using only his hands?
Did you know that in spite of being shot eight times, Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr. ordered his men to tie him to a tree so he could keep fighting, action for which he received the Medal of Honor?
Did you know that some of the leaders of pro-Venetian alliance during Skanderbeg's war against Venice were members of the Humoj family?
Did you know that the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan, produced by Nahua artists in the 1530s, is one of the earliest maps of what is now Guatemala?
Did you know that the disappearance of Rebecca Coriam from the Disney Wonder one year ago today was the first such incident in the history of Disney Cruise Line?
Did you know that the fungi Callistosporium vinosobrunneum, Marasmiellus hapuuarum, Marasmius koae, Mycena marasmielloides, and Pleurocybella ohiae, newly described in 2011, are known only from the wet forests of Hawaii?
Did you know that the racehorse Mystiko, winner of the European Free Handicap, 2000 Guineas and Challenge Stakes in 1991, never won a race outside the Newmarket Racecourse?
Did you know that American professional wrestler Otto Schwanz is also a high school athletics instructor in Four Oaks, North Carolina?
Did you know that Argentina is in a period of fiscal austerity?
Did you know that George William Spencer Lyttelton served as a private secretary to William Ewart Gladstone during three of his terms as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?
Did you know that HMS Amethyst was the only British wooden sailing ship to fight an armoured opponent after she engaged Peruvian Huáscar?
Did you know that Idrus wrote what may be the only satire of the Indonesian National Revolution?
Did you know that Sterling Cinema in Mumbai was the first cinema in India to introduce Dolby sound, Xenon projectors, Caramel popcorn, and matinee shows as well as late night shows?
Did you know that The Virginian (poster pictured) featured "yup and nope" actor Gary Cooper saying "if you wanna call me that – smile"?
Did you know that a "town fair" was set up in the middle of a military prison on Melville Island?
Did you know that although the Corsican Brook Salamander is quite common, the Sardinian Brook Salamander is considered to be an endangered species?
Did you know that paneer tikka is a vegetarian alternative to chicken tikka?
Did you know that the Roman Catholic Church of St. Mary Draperis in Istanbul has been leveled by earthquake, forcibly demolished by the Ottoman Government, and destroyed three times by fire?
Did you know that the cover art of the Gorillaz song "DoYaThing" portrays James Murphy as a baboon and André 3000 as a masked figure?
Did you know that the wooden screw corvette HMS Druid, launched in 1869, was the last ship to be built at Deptford Dockyard?
Did you know that Australian field hockey player Glenn Simpson is also an electrician?
Did you know that Dražen Bogopenec was one of the most powerful people of Hum?
Did you know that Jesse Thomas, founder of creative interactive agency JESS3, was involved in making a graphic novel about Steve Jobs' life?
Did you know that Les Palabres de Mboloko, despite being made by Europeans, have been called the first truly "African" films, since they incorporate elements of African folklore and music?
Did you know that Polish cabaret creator, Piotr Skrzynecki, founder of Piwnica pod Baranami, who became a "legend in his own lifetime", did not care for material wealth and for a time was homeless?
Did you know that Streptomyces scabies causes common scab on potatoes?
Did you know that Theodor Rowehl's high-altitude flights in a rented plane were Germany's first strategic aerial photoreconnaissance after World War I?
Did you know that Tree Hill Nature Center, a natural preserve in Jacksonville, Florida, started an arts program that includes an artist in residence, art workshops, sale of artists' work, and concerts?
Did you know that carcinologist Isabel Pérez Farfante and her family were blacklisted by the Cuban government because her husband refused to travel with Che Guevara?
Did you know that in Maryland, as per the recent case United States v. Graham, the government can order providers to disclose historical cell phone location data without a warrant or probable cause?
Did you know that murders in Millennium's "Gehenna" echo ritual sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible's Gehenna?
Did you know that the Shapoorji Pallonji Group built the Mumbai Central railway station for ₹16 million in 1930 and was commended by the then Governor of Bombay for completing the project within 21 months?
Did you know that the music company Discipline Global Mobile has the policy that copyrights belong to artists and consequently does not own even its corporate logo?
Did you know that there is no evidence that the 13th-century Morgraig Castle in Wales was ever completed or occupied?
Did you know that Augustus Brine's portrait was painted by John Singleton Copley when Brine was a thirteen-year-old midshipman?
Did you know that Ian Molyneux, who was awarded a posthumous George Medal for trying to disarm a murderous sailor on a nuclear submarine, had previously started and run an under-12 rugby league team?
Did you know that Madeline Rogero, the first woman mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee, was once an organizer for César Chávez's United Farm Workers?
Did you know that Millennium's "The Wild and the Innocent" episode has been compared to the works of Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy?
Did you know that Monmouth Town Council (town hall pictured) was created because of a monopoly on trade?
Did you know that Zaskia Adya Mecca found her pregnancy "perfect" for playing the role of Siti Walidah in The Enlightener, despite the fact the character was not pregnant?
Did you know that a Superior Court judge in the U.S. state of Georgia was prompted to resign after "Very Tough Love" was aired on the radio show This American Life?
Did you know that in 1997, after winning the 2000 Guineas, the racehorse Entrepreneur started with the shortest odds at the Epsom Derby in fifty years?
Did you know that residents and preservationists have fought to save the Julia C. Lathrop Homes from demolition by the Chicago Housing Authority?
Did you know that the Casting Crowns' song "East to West" received 78 adds in its first week, a record at Christian radio?
Did you know that the genus Sapajus has been proposed for the robust capuchin monkeys, such as the tufted capuchin, which split from the gracile capuchins about the same time as humans split from chimpanzees?
Did you know that the miniatures in the Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany show not only over 300 plants in detail, but influence from Leonardo da Vinci?
Did you know that the statue Kwakiutl, currently on display in a public park greenhouse in Brampton, Ontario, was originally set to be sited at local municipal offices before his exposed genitals caused controversy?
Did you know that whilst the Spanish trade union CSUT criticized other unions for links with political parties, it was itself heavily influenced by the Party of Labour of Spain?
Did you know that Colonel John Boyd's Patterns of Conflict, a presentation on military strategy, became so influential that he was summoned by Dick Cheney to help plan for Desert Storm?
Did you know that Pevsner called Arthur Blomfield's All Souls Church, Hastings a "serious town church", but claimed "absolutely nothing can be said" about the architect's St Leodegar's Church, Hunston?
Did you know that Scottish missionary to India Stephen Hislop discovered the fossil reptile Brachyops laticeps?
Did you know that after 42 years of being played in Las Vegas, the World Series of Poker has expanded to South Africa?
Did you know that during an 1888 visit to Ann Arbor, Michigan, Theodore Roosevelt quipped that it was "not healthy to get in the way of the U. of M. rugby team"?
Did you know that eight of Danish Kaneria's international cricket five-wicket hauls have come in victory for Pakistan, while three have been in defeats?
Did you know that in 1864 the world's first salmon cannery was established in North America on a barge in the Sacramento River?
Did you know that nearly 1,000 airmen such as Pruett Mullens Dennett who were killed on the Western Front and have no known grave are commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial?
Did you know that professional baseball player Scott Beerer briefly retired to become an emergency medical technician?
Did you know that the 2011 film October Baby was based on the experiences of abortion survivor Gianna Jessen?
Did you know that the Cwm in Llanrothal, a college on the Monmouthshire–Herefordshire border, was a "stronghold" of Roman Catholics like Henry Milbourne in the 17th century?
Did you know that the conversion to Catholicism of Princess Irene of the Netherlands (pictured with two of her sisters) and her marriage to Prince Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma, caused a constitutional crisis for her country?
Did you know that the countercultural Club 7 got its name because it should be "more than 6"?
Did you know that the larger of two varieties of Banksia oblongifolia described in 1987 was called minor?
Did you know that the now demolished Ida B. Wells Homes in Chicago were the location of both LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman's Peabody Award-winning radio documentary and Frederick Wiseman's Public Housing?
Did you know that when Herbert Ernest Hart was appointed Deputy Controller of the Imperial War Graves Commission based in Jerusalem, unrest in the region meant he had to live in Cairo instead?
Did you know that Aqsunqur Mosque gained the name "Blue Mosque" following its decoration with blue tiles over 300 years after the mosque's construction in 1347?
Did you know that Australian field hockey player Matthew Gohdes is the cousin of Kookaburras teammate Jamie Dwyer, and rooms with teammate Matthew Swann?
Did you know that British ecologist Arthur Tansley, founder of the British Ecological Society and the journal New Phytologist, introduced the concept of the ecosystem in 1935?
Did you know that George Harrison's 1973 solo song "Living in the Material World" includes all his former Beatles bandmates Paul McCartney, John Lennon and Ringo Starr?
Did you know that Rambhadracharya was deposed as an expert witness in the Ram Janmabhoomi Babri Masjid dispute in July 2003?
Did you know that a 7th-century grave in Cambridge discovered in 2011 held the remains of an Anglo-Saxon teenage girl who was lying on a bed, with a gold and garnet cross on her breast?
Did you know that as early as 1919, women's garden clubs in the United States were campaigning against highway billboards?
Did you know that before modern paleontology came about, fossils of Encrinus went by a number of names in Germany, including "sun wheels", "Saint Boniface's pennies", and "witches' money"?
Did you know that retired steam locomotive Illinois Central 790 was frequently put back into service during floods because any amount of water made the diesel-electric locomotives short out?
Did you know that the Beau Street Hoard, found in Bath, consists of an estimated 30,000 Roman silver coins and is the largest ever found in a former Roman town in Britain?
Did you know that the OsRox Mission secured the Hare–Hawes–Cutting Act, which divided the Philippine Legislature into two opposing camps, the Antis and the Pros?
Did you know that the tall everlasting daisy can grow to 2 m (7 ft) high?
Did you know that Africadoc, an organization for African documentary makers founded in 2002, initially expanded within French-speaking African countries?
Did you know that Aussie Spirit player Sandra Holden was drafted to represent Tasmania in softball one year when there were not enough players for an all-Tasmanian team in the Gilleys Shield?
Did you know that Etropole Monastery, the most important literary centre of northern Bulgaria in the 16th through 18th centuries, later sheltered national hero Vasil Levski in a specially built hideout?
Did you know that Fedor Baranov, a founding father of fisheries science, was saved from a Gulag by one of his students?
Did you know that Giorgio Strehler owned both the Piccolo Teatro in Milan and Teatro San Ferdinando in Naples, and that the latter once featured actors such as Enzo Petito?
Did you know that Oka Antara both starved and splurged for his role in The Dancer?
Did you know that Republic Steel executive Charles M. White authorized the spending of almost US$12,000 on tear gas and handguns in 1935, the year workers at one of the company's plants voted to form a union?
Did you know that part of the financing for the first published work by Romanian communist activist Mihail Roller reportedly came from Baptists?
Did you know that proximity fuzed anti-aircraft ammunition was used by ships in the European Theatre of World War II for the first time during the amphibious Battle of Gela in July 1943?
Did you know that the Days of our Lives character Nancy Wesley was used to promote food franchisor Mrs. Fields?
Did you know that the Iberian frog includes beetles, caddisflies and spiders in its diet?
Did you know that the art style of The Banner Saga, a forthcoming tactical role-playing video game about Vikings, is inspired by a 1959 Disney film?
Did you know that until its conviction for trafficking in wiretapping equipment, the Spy Factory was the largest chain of spy shops in the United States?
Did you know that "The Aleph" in Jorge Luis Borges's short story is an allusion to Cantor's cardinality of transfinite sets, demonstrating the influence of mathematics on his writing?
Did you know that Ali al-Sulayhi, originally an Ismaili missionary, brought all of Yemen under the control of his Sulayhid dynasty before capturing Mecca in 1063?
Did you know that Bernhard Kummer regarded the conversion of the Germanic peoples as a cultural catastrophe and thus titled his doctoral thesis Midgards Untergang?
Did you know that Borsig Palace, the German Vice-Chancellor's official residence and offices in Berlin, became the new headquarters of Hitler's Storm Troopers (SA) after the "Night of the Long Knives" in 1934?
Did you know that Havana on the Hudson takes its name from the influx of Cuban émigrés and exiles to towns on the Hudson River?
Did you know that Lazaret, a northern suburb of Niamey, Niger, contained the largest refugee camp in the Sahel during the extreme drought of 1973–1975?
Did you know that Marion, Utah, used to be called Denmark?