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Did you know that Ann C. Noble, inventor of the "Aroma Wheel", was the first woman hired as a faculty member of the UC Davis Department of Viticulture and Enology?
Did you know that Champagne has been featured prominently in popular culture from James Bond to hip hop?
Did you know that German rock band Grobschnitt have incorporated pyrotechnics and sketch comedy into their extended performances since the mid-1970s?
Did you know that Hallie Ford made the largest donation in the history of Willamette University in 2006, and the largest donation ever to a cultural group in Oregon in 2007?
Did you know that Keeley Hawes voices the character of Lara Croft in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Underworld, the eighth video game in the Tomb Raider series, as she did in Anniversary and Legend?
Did you know that Luigi Sturzo, a Roman Catholic priest and founder of the Italian People's Party (1919–1926), collaborated with the OSS while in exile in the United States?
Did you know that Paul Feyerabend's theory of epistemological anarchism in the philosophy of science led him to be labeled the "worst enemy of science" by his detractors?
Did you know that Robert Adley became on December 10, 2007, the newest Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate, just fifty-six days after he was easily reelected as a Democrat in the October 20 jungle primary?
Did you know that Rudyard Kipling wrote a short story about a group of World War I soldiers who were committed Janeites, that is, fans of Jane Austen novels?
Did you know that St Mary's Church in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, England, a Grade I listed building, was built in the 16th century and houses a stone cross dating to the 11th century?
Did you know that William Ohnesorge, Party member of the Third Reich, heavily participated in research toward a German atomic bomb while acting as President of the Reichspost, the German postal service?
Did you know that former Michigan Wolverines rushing leader and teammate of Russell Davis, Harlan Huckleby only scored 13 touchdowns in six National Football League seasons, but three were in a single game?
Did you know that glacial periods, commonly referred to as ice ages, are actually cold intervals within an ice age?
Did you know that harps are national musical instruments in Ireland, Wales and Paraguay?
Did you know that in 1289, when the Mamluks led by Qalawun captured Tripoli (depicted in artwork) in present-day Lebanon from the Franks, they ended 180 years of uninterrupted Christian rule, the longest of any of the major Frankish conquests in the Levant?
Did you know that one of the birth places of punk in the 1970s was a clothing store in Chelsea, London called Acme Attractions?
Did you know that the Stelo (plural: Steloj ) was a monetary unit in the Esperanto movement from 1945 to 1993?
Did you know that the highest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. state of Georgia is 112 °F (44 °C), while the lowest ever recorded is -17 °F (-27 °C)?
Did you know that the semantron, intended for summoning Eastern Orthodox Christians to worship, has been used as a deadly weapon in church brawls?
Did you know that the town of Rogersville, Tennessee was founded in 1789 by Irish-born pioneer Joseph Rogers and his father-in-law Thomas Amis?
Did you know that the very first news article on what became known as AIDS appeared in the New York Native, a now defunct gay newspaper in New York City?
Did you know that three of the four batters faced by Mike Palagyi in his one Major League game were later inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame?
Did you know that James B. Craig, an All-American football halfback and quarterback, was the brother of Ralph Craig, a sprinter and gold medalist at the 1912 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Jeanette Lee managed both The Cranberries and Pulp while signing The Strokes and The Libertines to her Rough Trade label?
Did you know that Polish General Jerzy Wołkowicki was not murdered by the Soviets in the Katyn Massacre probably due to his heroic past in the Russian Imperial Navy?
Did you know that Richard A. La Vay was a Republican in the Maryland House of Delegates for Montgomery County, Maryland and once shared his district with Mark K. Shriver, son of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver?
Did you know that Victorian winemakers sought to capitalize on the French phylloxera epidemic by making enough wine to satisfy the entire British market, but were thwarted when the insect infected their own vineyards?
Did you know that apart from extensive action in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, the observation squadron VMO-6 (insignia pictured) also represented the U.S. Marine Corps in National Air Races?
Did you know that drunken trees result from permafrost thawing?
Did you know that handmade lace often begins as crochet thread?
Did you know that over 200 towns and cities in Brazil are served with a sewer system known as condominial sewerage?
Did you know that some Tibetans once thought Britain’s Queen Victoria was a reincarnation of Palden Lhamo, the wrathful deity considered to be the principal Protectress of Tibet?
Did you know that the Champagne house Cattier resurrected its dormant de Brignac brand and it is now known for its distinctive, golden pewter bottles?
Did you know that the Hungarian politician and Nazi collaborator Andor Jaross was also president of the football (soccer) club Ferencvárosi TC?
Did you know that the Royal Danish egg is one of eight Fabergé eggs that are currently missing?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Foucha v. Louisiana  that a person found not guilty by reason of insanity cannot be committed to a mental institution if he has no mental illness?
Did you know that the first time that racing promoter Bob Barkhimer went to a midget car race, he wondered what racing had to do with "circus midgets" (little people)?
Did you know that "Majulah Singapura", the national anthem of Singapore, was originally a theme song for events held by Singapore's City Council during colonial times?
Did you know that Clinton Thomas Dent made eighteen failed attempts to climb the Aiguille du Dru before making the first ascent in September 1878?
Did you know that Enriqueta Favez, a Swiss woman, studied medicine and served as an army surgeon in the Napoleonic Wars disguised as a man, went to Cuba in the 1820s and married a local woman?
Did you know that French winemakers in Jurançon once promoted their white Manseng wines with the slogan "Manseng means Jurançon means Sex"?
Did you know that George Orwell spent a month in September 1931 living rough in a Hopper hut?
Did you know that German-born anarcho-syndicalist Rudolf Rocker's book Pioneers of American Freedom traces the origins of American anarchism back to Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln?
Did you know that HMCS Esquimalt was the last Royal Canadian Navy warship lost to enemy action in World War II?
Did you know that Jack Blott, an All-American football center for the Michigan Wolverines, had a Major League Baseball career with the Cincinnati Reds lasting only two games?
Did you know that Kurt Vonnegut's short story 2BR02B is mentioned in his later book God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, where it is attributed to Vonnegut's fictional alter ego Kilgore Trout?
Did you know that Mount Urpín is home to 35 endangered animal species, despite its proximity to downtown Banská Bystrica?
Did you know that Nationalism and Culture, the magnum opus of German anarchist Rudolf Rocker, was lauded by three Nobel Prize laureates?
Did you know that No. 112 Squadron RAF was the first unit from any air force to use the "Shark Mouth" logo on P-40 fighter planes?
Did you know that Peter Baume, Chancellor of the Australian National University from 1994 to 2006, was elected to the Australian Senate for the Liberal Party of Australia in the 1974 federal election?
Did you know that actor Ben Kingsley has been cast in the lead role of the upcoming film reportedly inspired by the life of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Guru of Sex?
Did you know that after placing fifth in the original Judgment of Paris wine tasting, the 1971 Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon made by Paul Draper of Ridge Vineyards won the 2006 rematch?
Did you know that cricketer Ian Meckiff was chaired off the ground by angry spectators as a hero after he was sanctioned for illegal bowling?
Did you know that pole splitting is a frequency compensation technique that can be used to improve the step response of an electronic amplifier?
Did you know that recreational parachutist Jacques-André Istel wrote a children's book claiming that the center of the world is located in Felicity, California, a town he founded?
Did you know that the 1957 accident on the Saint-Paul ramps claimed twenty-seven lives, making it among Réunion's deadliest road accidents?
Did you know that the Army Cyclist Corps, which operated the bicycle infantry of the British Army, only existed for four years?
Did you know that the Creusot steam hammer, with its massive 100 ton hammer and 750 ton anvil, was the world's largest steam hammer on its completion in 1877 and is the largest surviving steam hammer today?
Did you know that the Invasion of Minorca, 1781, by Spanish and French forces succeeded, after more than five months, because the British defenders had no fresh vegetables?
Did you know that the Joshua Hendy Iron Works - a struggling business with only 60 employees by the late 1930s - ended World War II having supplied the engines to almost 30% of America's 2,700 Liberty ships?
Did you know that the L class destroyer HMS Legion rescued 1,560 crew members of the torpedoed aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal?
Did you know that the community of West Union, Oregon, has the oldest Baptist church west of the Rocky Mountains?
Did you know that the conventional name of the Darius Painter, an Apulian red-figure vase painter, is derived from his name vase, which carries the depiction of Darius the Great of Persia?
Did you know that the energy elasticity of India in 2005 was 0.80?
Did you know that the first act of Paul John Hallinan as Archbishop of Atlanta, an office he assumed in 1962, was to order the desegregation of all Catholic schools and institutions in the Archdiocese of Atlanta?
Did you know that the man intensely reading in the oil portrait The Bookworm represents the inward looking attitudes that affected Europe during the time of its creation?
Did you know that the permanent headquarters of the United States Department of Justice was built 65 years after the creation of the department—and 146 years after the creation of the post of Attorney General?
Did you know that the phrase dental hygiene is credited to Alfred Fones who founded the first dental hygiene school and whose cousin was the first qualified dental hygienist?
Did you know that the star Alpha Persei is also known by the traditional name of Mirfak, Arabic for 'elbow', and the name Hinali'i, commemorating a tsunami in Hawaiian folklore?
Did you know that theatre director David Warren landed a directing role on Desperate Housewives after giving the show's creator, Marc Cherry, his first acting job twenty years prior?
Did you know that two of the four judges depicted in The Bench, a 1758 oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist William Hogarth, were half asleep in court?
Did you know that "Clash of the Choirs" was a quick reality talent contest miniseries between celebrity-led amateur choirs that was criticized for a lack of tension and actual judges?
Did you know that , upon exhumation, the 10th century saint Rasso was found to be 2 meters (6' 6") tall, although, given that his grave was 2 and a half meters, he had earlier been thought to be even taller?
Did you know that Christopher Erhardt was a product planner for companies such as Teledyne, and is now working on a doctoral dissertation on video game players' demographic considerations?
Did you know that Clifford Last, a son of the author of the Housewife, 49 diaries, migrated from Britain to Australia after the war and became a noted abstract sculptor?
Did you know that Cornelius Shea, the founding president of the Teamsters, spent more than five years in Sing Sing prison for slashing and stabbing his mistress 27 times?
Did you know that Frank Parr, an English chess player, won the Hastings Premier during his first and only appearance at the tournament in 1939/1940?
Did you know that Glenn Vaad was elected to seats on his local town board, school board, sanitation board, and county commission before winning election to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2006?
Did you know that Hector Munro Macdonald graduated as fourth Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos of 1889?
Did you know that Libya was the first country to purchase the Palmaria, an Italian-made self-propelled 155mm howitzer, ordering 210 units in 1982?
Did you know that Luv Ya Blue was the term given to a 1970s movement by fans of the Houston Oilers that featured fight songs, pom-pons and other gimmicks more reminiscent of college football than the NFL?
Did you know that Ron Halcombe was the first player to be called for throwing in major Australian cricket by three different umpires?
Did you know that Soma Cruz, the protagonist of Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, the third installment of the Castlevania video game series on the Game Boy Advance, is the reincarnation of the series' premier villain, Dracula?
Did you know that Stanley Green, the "Protein Man", walked up and down Oxford Street in London every day for 25 years, sometimes in green overalls to protect himself from spit, warning passers-by about the dangers of too much protein — and sitting?
Did you know that The Enchanter  is the last work of fiction written by Vladimir Nabokov in Russian but was first published in English after his death?
Did you know that Zinfandel was grown for table grapes in Boston long before it made wine in California?
Did you know that after serving as a border guard, Saint Claudius of Besançon became, successively, a priest, monk, abbot, bishop, and then an abbot again, in the 7th century?
Did you know that after sinking the SS City of Cairo, Kapitän zur See Karl-Friedrich Merten gave the survivors directions to the nearest land, and parted with the words "Goodnight, and sorry for sinking you"?
Did you know that as Oregon State University athletic director, Percy Locey agreed to play the 1942 Rose Bowl at the opposing team's home field due to the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Did you know that cricketer Barry Fisher had a metal pin surgically inserted into his shoulder to prevent injury while bowling, although he still suffered from persistent shoulder problems?
Did you know that stitch markers are mnemonic devices that demonstrate the underlying mathematical basis of crochet?
Did you know that the British shipping company Ellerman Lines lost 60 out of its 105-strong fleet of merchant vessels during the Second World War?
Did you know that the Little War was the smallest and least successful of the three conflicts in the Cuban War of Independence?
Did you know that the SAPPHIRE information network helped prevent epidemics in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, using Semantic Web technologies?
Did you know that the Tierpark Hagenbeck zoo of Hamburg, Germany was the first to use moats instead of cages to separate the animals from the public?
Did you know that the Zionist leader Leo Motzkin organized the Jewish delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 and led agitations against the Nazi Party?
Did you know that the pun riddle “What do you call a spicy missile? A hot shot!” was generated by computer as part of computational humor research?
Did you know that the world's most extensive deposits of eolianite (example pictured), rocks formed by the lithification of sediments deposited by wind, are located on the southern and western coasts of Australia?
Did you know that the writer and diplomat Maurice Francis Egan introduced President Theodore Roosevelt to William Butler Yeats at a White House lunch?
Did you know that there is currently significant controversy on college and university rankings like those used for business school rankings because some of the methodologies are deemed misleading?
Did you know that when the old All Saints Church, Marple was replaced by a new church 30 metres away in 1880, the tower from the old church was retained and is now used as a free-standing bell-tower?
Did you know that Frank Pitcher was the only cricketer in Australia history to be no balled for throwing in his debut match?
Did you know that Franz Kafka's 1917 "Jackals and Arabs" has been read as variously a Zionist critique of Western Jewry, a European critique of Jewish-Arab relations, and a paean to Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality?
Did you know that Philippine Christmas lanterns, called Parols, are also used in Christmas celebrations in Austria, Canada and California?
Did you know that Ron DeGregorio was elected in 2003 as the fourth president of USA Hockey since 1937?
Did you know that Shanhua, a township in Taiwan, is also known as Bakaloan and Tevoran?
Did you know that St. Thomas' Church, Mellor contains the oldest wooden pulpit in England, and possibly in the world?
Did you know that Viktor Pynzenyk, Ukraine's Minister of Finance, is also a professor of economics at Lviv University?
Did you know that according to the Christmas Price Index it will cost your true love US$78,100 to buy you all those gifts this year?
Did you know that after scoring the highest score for the Federated Malay States cricket team in 1933, Cyril Reed was playing against them for the Straits Settlements the following year?
Did you know that after turning up drunk at an official dinner, crowing cock-a-doodle-doos, and throwing himself on an ambassadress, J.B. Manson retired as Director of the Tate gallery and returned to painting flowers?
Did you know that before the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Jackson v. Indiana, an incompetent criminal defendant could be involuntarily confined indefinitely (as if given a life sentence) without a trial or a conviction?
Did you know that development of the 2008 film Dragonball began in 2002, when 20th Century Fox acquired the rights?
Did you know that in 1971, the Indian Claims Commission ordered US$74,856.50 to be paid to the Lower Skagit tribe to pay for land lost as a result of the Point Elliott Treaty?
Did you know that in the 1971 film Lawman, American actor Robert Ryan played the role of the sheriff under the name Cotton Ryan?
Did you know that spinning cones are sometimes used to lower the alcohol level of wine made from grapes with a high sugar content?
Did you know that the 18th century publisher Ralph Griffiths erected a sign outside his shop warning dunces that his Monthly Review would have no mercy in exposing and shaming dull authors?
Did you know that the Nobel laureate physicist Theodor W. Hänsch works at the faculty of the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics?
Did you know that the Zoological Garden of Hamburg built the world's largest primate house in 1915, only to see most of the monkeys starve to death during World War I and the zoo go bankrupt in 1920?
Did you know that to clear a jammed gun on the armored cruiser USS Brooklyn, Medal of Honor recipient Harry L. MacNeal crawled along its barrel during the Battle of Santiago de Cuba?
Did you know that when the Duke of Austria, Leopold III, established reign over the Italian city of Trieste one of his stipulations was that the city supply him each year with 100 urns of the region's best Ribolla wine?
Did you know that wine made from the Italian grape Schioppettino was served at weddings in 1282 and the grape is still being grown today?
Did you know that Ava Helen Pauling, an American human rights activist and wife of Nobel laureate Linus Pauling, was a three-time national vice president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom?
Did you know that German-American football center Adolph F. "Germany" Schulz is credited for developing the "roving center" technique, which became the basis for the linebacker position?
Did you know that Irish playwright George Farquhar originally planned on an acting career, but gave it up after accidentally wounding a fellow actor severely on stage with a sword?
Did you know that John Warren Davis, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, was indicted for receiving a bribe from film producer William Fox?
Did you know that Powderfinger's D.A.F. was named after its chord progression, rather than its subject matter like most popular songs?
Did you know that Richard Lloyd Racing's custom-built 956 GTi was structurally stronger than the standard 956's built by Porsche thanks to the introduction of aluminium composite honeycomb in the chassis construction?
Did you know that The Entrepreneur, the first video game created by famed game designer Peter Molyneux, sold only two copies?
Did you know that U.S. Salvation Army Christmas kettles have collected not only American Gold Eagles (coin pictured), but also gold teeth?
Did you know that according to literary critics, The Queen and Concubine, a 17th-century tragicomic stage play written by Richard Brome, is a critique of royal tyranny and courtly sycophancy in England at the time?
Did you know that although Louisiana per Perry v. Louisiana forbids the  forced medication of a death row inmate to make him competent for execution, some states allow it?
Did you know that as well as serving as the assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Global Health, Kent R. Hill has also published books and served as the president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy?
Did you know that during the Spanish Civil War Solidaridad Obrera, published by an anarchist labor union, was Spain's highest-circulation newspaper?
Did you know that in the 17th century, south-London prostitutes, nicknamed 'Winchester Geese' after the Bishop whose land they worked on, were buried in a special, unconsecrated graveyard called Cross Bones?
Did you know that indigenous Australian cricketer Jack Marsh was called for illegally throwing instead of bowling an Australian record seventeen times in one innings?
Did you know that people with patent foramen ovale, an atrial septal defect, are more likely to suffer from migraine headaches?
Did you know that the Abbey of Condat, founded in the 420s in the Jura Mountains by Romanus and Lupicinus, predated even Montecassino as one of the earliest monasteries in the West?
Did you know that the Brooklyn Hospital Center is the oldest hospital of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City?
Did you know that the Laetare Medal, an award for an American Catholic who has made an outstanding contribution to society, was first given to the historian John Gilmary Shea in 1883?
Did you know that the former Grand Opera House in Seattle, Washington, USA is now a car park?
Did you know that the four years between the two no ball decisions for throwing by cricketer Harold Cotton is the longest span during which a player was no-balled in major cricket in Australia?
Did you know that the skin of the Austrian white wine grape Zierfandler turns red just before it is ready to harvest?
Did you know that the well known white wine region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia also makes red wine from grapes like Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Pignolo?
Did you know that Associated Press correspondent Edward Kennedy violated a news embargo to break the story of the surrender of the Germans in World War II?
Did you know that Carlo Orelli was the last surviving Italian veteran to see service on Italy's entry into World War I?
Did you know that English botanist John Ralfs amassed a collection 3,137 microscopic slides, which he left in his will to the British Museum?
Did you know that Hinba, an island in Scotland of unknown location (possible location pictured), was the site of a small monastery associated with the church of St Columba on Iona?
Did you know that Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, a Nigerian Senator from the People's Democratic Party, is the daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo?
Did you know that Marine Attack Squadron 233 was the only squadron of the U.S. Marine Corps to have three commanders killed during the course of World War II?