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Did you know that as a child, B.A. Rolfe was billed as "The Boy Trumpet Wonder", and that he went on to become a bandleader and significant film producer?
Did you know that the Blijde Inkomst (the "Joyous Entry") of January 1356 was the basic charter of freedoms for Brabant, compared by Romantic historians to Magna Carta?
Did you know that the John Lennon song "Beautiful Boy" features the lines "Every day in every way/It's getting better and better", which were inspired by the mantra of French psychologist Émile Coué?
Did you know that the La Tour d'Auvergne family held three ducal titles in the Peerage of France - those of Duc de Bouillon, Duc d'Albret, and Duc de Chateau-Thierry?
Did you know that the earliest known patrilineal ancestors of the Romanov Dynasty of Russian tsars were a certain boyar Andrei, nicknamed "The Mare," and his son Fyodor, nicknamed "The Cat"?
Did you know that the parents of Chicana fiction writer and Cornell University English professor Helena Maria Viramontes met while working in the fields, and that the  impact of César Chávez and the United Farm Workers later influenced her fiction?
Did you know that you can find the acceleration and the displacement of a moving object by analyzing its velocity vs. time graph?
Did you know that Jorge Isaacs' only novel, María, became an immediate success in his native Colombia and is considered a representative work of the Spanish Romantic movement?
Did you know that Lawrence of Arabia and Gladiator were both filmed in the ksar Aït Benhaddou in Morocco?
Did you know that the Afro-Brazilian trader Octaviano Olympio dominated the politics of Lomé, Togo, for the first 50 years after its inception?
Did you know that the Cave Bath of Miskolc, Hungary is an unusual thermal bath with low salt content, in a natural cave, that allows people to take a bath for a longer time?
Did you know that the Russian Byzantine historian Alexander Vasiliev was persuaded by Michael Rostovtzeff to defect in 1925?
Did you know that the exhumation of Yagan's head in 1997 first required a sophisticated geophysical survey of the gravesite to ensure that the remains of 22 stillborn babies would not be disturbed?
Did you know that the race horse Flockton Grey did not even run in the race for which it is best remembered?
Did you know that the tiny municipality of Notre-Dame-des-Anges, Quebec was set up in 1722 to protect its only occupant, a hospital, from taxes?
Did you know that Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney was only twenty-eight years old when he helped found Pan American World Airways?
Did you know that Huangshan Pines are venerated in China for their unique rugged shapes, and are frequently portrayed in traditional Chinese paintings?
Did you know that Negro League catcher Biz Mackey was regarded in his prime as superior to Josh Gibson, won two batting titles, and mentored the young Roy Campanella?
Did you know that Rabbi David Wolpe proposed that the name of Conservative Judaism be changed to Covenantal Judaism to better encompass the view that rabbinic law is both binding and evolving?
Did you know that Tom Bauer is a lawyer and politician from Saint Louis, Missouri who was recalled after supporting several redevelopment proposals using eminent domain?
Did you know that the Inca Dove is a small New World dove that ranges from the southwestern United States and Mexico through Central America to Costa Rica?
Did you know that the Petrine Baroque style of architecture and design represented a drastic rupture with Byzantine traditions that had dominated Russian architecture for almost a millennium?
Did you know that there are more than 100 nature reserves in Russia, which cover an area of about 33 million hectares?
Did you know that French naturalist and explorer Théodore Monod had the same great-grandfather as biologist Jacques Monod and director Jean-Luc Godard?
Did you know that John Drainie was a Canadian actor and television presenter, who was called "the greatest radio actor in the world" by Orson Welles?
Did you know that John Surma is the president and chief executive officer of United States Steel Corporation?
Did you know that Palace Bridge in Saint Petersburg, Russia, is lifted every night, making communication between the downtown and Vasilievsky Island virtually impossible?
Did you know that Seattle-based company Sur La Table is the second-largest specialty cookware retailer in the United States, after Williams-Sonoma?
Did you know that Steadicam camera magazines are specially designed with a pair of moving spindles that gradually change position as the film rolls through the camera in order to maintain a steady center of gravity?
Did you know that Yusuf ibn Ali Karamanli, pasha of Tripoli, declared war on the United States in 1801 by ordering the flagpole of Tripoli's United States consulate cut down?
Did you know that a violent incident at Pont-de-Montvert in the Cévennes, July 24, 1702, sparked the rebellion of the French Protestant Camisards?
Did you know that broadcasting in the Soviet Union was so secretive that they didn't disclose the frequencies the domestic radio stations operated on, thus leaving SWLs wanting to tune into Soviet radio to memorize the frequencies and remember where the sites were?
Did you know that it took half a century to construct Bolshoi Kamennyi Bridge, which was the first stone bridge in the city of Moscow?
Did you know that prior to the construction of the Colonial Building the first legislative assembly for the Newfoundland government was held at a  tavern and lodging house owned and operated by a Mrs. Travers?
Did you know that string instruments are bowed, plucked, or have their strings struck, with three exceptions : the Aeolian harp uses air movement, the Hurdy gurdy a rotating wheel and for Ellen Fullman's Long String Instrument it will take rosined hands?
Did you know that the Adrar des Ifoghas, a sandstone massif in Mali's Kidal Region, is half the size of France?
Did you know that the American photographer Arthur Rothstein is famous mostly for his photographs of Gee's Bend in Alabama, a poor African American tenant community?
Did you know that the Château de Lusignan, now in ruins, was so impressive that a 14th-century legend credited its construction to a water faery, Melusine—as a love-gift?
Did you know that the Indian cricketer Bapu Nadkarni got the nickname Bapu—literally, father, and Mahatma Gandhi's sobriquet—for the curious reason that he used to wear loincloths (langotis) instead of modern underwear?
Did you know that California's Leonard Law applies the United States Constitution's First Amendment protections to students at private colleges and universities?
Did you know that Clinton v. Jones established that a President of the United States was not exempt from being sued by private citizens in civil lawsuits?
Did you know that Serge Chermayeff and Erich Mendelsohn designed the De La Warr Pavilion in 1934, and that the Pavilion is a significant work in the British modernist movement of architecture?
Did you know that the Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc was inscribed on the World Heritage List as "one of the most exceptional examples of the apogee of Central European Baroque artistic expression"?
Did you know that the Kanembu, an ethnic group of Chad, are generally considered the modern descendants of the Kanem-Bornu Empire?
Did you know that the National Museum of Mali is housed in a traditional mud brick structure?
Did you know that the doshpuluur is a two-stringed lute of Tuva commonly used to accompany throat singing?
Did you know that David Tweed is an Australian share market trader who has attempted to purchase shares from small investors for less than the market price?
Did you know that Francis Wayland Parker, creator of the Quincy Plan and founder of the School of Education at the University of Chicago, was called the "father of progressive education" by American educational reformer John Dewey?
Did you know that the Housing Act 1980 was an Act of Parliament that gave residents of council houses in Great Britain the right to buy their residence?
Did you know that the In Soviet Georgia advertisements for Dannon yogurt helped to reverse negative growth in the company's United States division?
Did you know that the Karamanli dynasty of 18th century Tripoli depended almost entirely on piracy for its income?
Did you know that the Nativity Church at Putinki was the last pyramidal church constructed in Muscovite Russia?
Did you know that the early Italian composer Gherardello da Firenze belonged to the Benedictine order of the Vallombrosa?
Did you know that the film I'm No Angel (1933) starred Mae West as a circus lion tamer, and that West did her own stunts including riding an elephant into the ring and putting her face between the lion's jaws?
Did you know that Cavenagh Bridge, the only suspension bridge in Singapore, was originally designed as a drawbridge but on its completion in 1869 was found to be suitable only as a fixed structure, and is now a pedestrian bridge?
Did you know that Krzysztof Zygmunt Pac sponsored the construction of Pažaislis monastery, one of the finest examples of baroque architecture in Lithuania?
Did you know that a historic Water Village built on stilts above a river is home to ten percent of the population of the country of Brunei?
Did you know that dead yellow patches in suburban Australian lawns are often the work of Christmas beetle larvae?
Did you know that forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union was considered as part of war reparations to cover the damages inflicted by Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union during the World War II?
Did you know that in 1994, Greg Landry was a key reason why Illinois had the second-best passing offense in the Big Ten, which eventually carried the team to a 30-0 win in the Liberty Bowl over East Carolina, the school’s first bowl appearance in 16 seasons?
Did you know that the defeat of the Welsh army in the Battle of Orewin Bridge effectively ended the independence of medieval Wales?
Did you know that while the Berber scholar Arsène Roux of France collected and studied an enormous amount of Sous Berber texts and manuscripts, almost nothing from his scholarly work actually saw publication during his lifetime?
Did you know that Dan Brown's depictions of core aspects of Christianity and the history of the Roman Catholic Church in his most famous novel have generated numerous criticisms of The Da Vinci Code among critics who feel that much of what he wrote is factually inaccurate?
Did you know that John Kemble, hanged in 1679 for his part in the Titus Oates plot, was subsequently canonized by the Roman Catholic Church?
Did you know that Khabarovsk Railway Bridge, the longest in Eurasia, was originally named Alekseyevsky after Tsesarevich Alexis?
Did you know that a new free trade agreement called  the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership between Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore will come into effect on 1 January 2006?
Did you know that a nineteenth century utopian socialist community known as Kaweah Colony identified the world's largest tree now called the General Sherman tree, and named it after Karl Marx?
Did you know that electrogas welding is an arc welding process commonly used in the shipbuilding industry?
Did you know that sand festivals are held all over the world and not only on sandy beaches?
Did you know that the 1966 New York City transit strike at the start of the mayoralty of John V. Lindsay was led by the defiant Irish-born TWU founder Mike Quill, who was briefly jailed for leading the illegal strike, and died before the month was out?
Did you know that the song "Wildwood Flower" evolved from a 19th century parlor song called "I'll Twine 'Mid the Ringlets" and that the song was most famously performed by the Carter Family?
Did you know that Cassiobury Park is the principal amenity area of Watford, Hertfordshire, in England?
Did you know that Italian Renaissance architect and stage designer Nicola Sabbatini discovered that the l'œil du prince ("the prince's eye") has the best perspective of the stage of any seat in a theater's audience?
Did you know that Lake Karachay in Russia is the most polluted spot on earth?
Did you know that Nottinghamshire and England cricketer Charles Wright was the first captain to declare an innings closed?
Did you know that Rickard D. Gwydir, an early settler of Washington state, was born in Kolkata and served in the Confederate army before being named Indian agent of the Colville Indian Reservation?
Did you know that Rue de l'Abbaye in Paris takes its name from an abbey where the Merovingian kings of France used to be interred?
Did you know that the first Superman character in Superman's publication history, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, was not a hero, but a villain?
Did you know that the former English football player Eric Brook is the all-time record goalscorer for Manchester City F.C. with 178 goals?
Did you know that Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet was Franklin's proposal for a spelling reform of the English language?
Did you know that Murray Raney, who developed the Raney nickel catalyst, did not attend high school?
Did you know that several cases of interactions between Buddhism and the Roman world are documented by Classical and early Christian authors?
Did you know that the American Bridge Company, builders of four of the world's tallest buildings, was founded on land in Ambridge, Pennsylvania that was bought from the Harmony Society whose celibacy practice led to their decline?
Did you know that the Dunmore Pineapple was a folly where pineapples were grown in Scotland from 1761 and that it was built by the 4th Earl of Dunmore, John Murray, who later became governor of Virginia Colony in North America?
Did you know that the greatest shrine of the Pochayiv Lavra in Ukraine is a footprint left by the Theotokos on the rock after she appeared to the monks in the shape of a column of fire?
Did you know that the short-lived Apple Network Servers were the last non-Macintosh computers manufactured by Apple?
Did you know that veduta was the most popular genre of landscape painting in the 18th century?
Did you know that Corry v. Stanford was a California court case that declared Stanford University's speech code illegal under the freedom of speech protections of the state's Leonard Law?
Did you know that Frank Ticheli is an American composer whose works have become particularly notable as standards in concert band repertoire?
Did you know that Garo Yepremian was voted as Kicker of the Decade by the Pro Football Hall of Fame between 1970 and 1980?
Did you know that Mifune Chizuko, a Japanese clairvoyant, was reported to have read messages written inside hidden envelopes?
Did you know that it was at Petersberg where the Bonn Agreement concerning Afghanistan was actually negotiated and signed?
Did you know that ministeriales formed the core of the knightly class in the 15th-century Germany?
Did you know that the 13th-century Tale of the Greenlanders is one of the main sources of information for the Norse colonization of the Americas?
Did you know that the 14th-century Lennoxlove House in East Lothian, Scotland contains many important artworks and artefacts, including the death mask of Mary, Queen of Scots?
Did you know that Dimba was the top goalscorer of the 2003 Brazilian football championship?
Did you know that Jöran Persson, King Eric XIV of Sweden's most trusted counselor, was executed by King John III of Sweden for his role in suppressing the nobility?
Did you know that Kellie Castle in Scotland dates back to 1150 and it is rumoured that the 5th Earl of Kellie hid there in a burnt-out tree stump for the entire summer following the Battle of Culloden in 1746?
Did you know that PSUC viu was formed by a group of hardline communists in Catalonia, Spain in 1997, as the historical Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) became dormant?
Did you know that Sesame Beginnings was spun-off the long-running Sesame Street, and is designed to increase family interactivity?
Did you know that The Berghoff restaurant in Chicago will close on 28 February 2006 after 107 years of operation by three generations of the Berghoff family?
Did you know that Wilson Peak in Colorado has been used in dozens of national and local advertising campaigns because of its charismatic and characteristically rugged mountain appearance?
Did you know that the Cumberland Gap Tunnel between Kentucky and Tennessee replaced a stretch of road that had been called "Massacre Mountain" because of the number of motorists killed there?
Did you know that the Imperial Railway Company of Ethiopia attempted unsuccessfully to build a railroad from Djibouti to Addis Ababa in the 1890s?
Did you know that the Moika River in St Petersburg was originally spanned by four bridges only: the Blue, the Green, the Yellow, and the Red?
Did you know that Go.com partnered with Goto.com in 2001, even though a judge had ordered Go.com to pay Goto.com $21.5 million earlier for having a similar logo?
Did you know that a dead-rubber is a term used in sporting parlance to describe a match in a series where the series result has already been decided by earlier matches?
Did you know that by the time American football player Nat Moore retired in 1986, he had broken almost every receiving record of the Miami Dolphins?
Did you know that the Family Viewing Hour was mandated by the FCC to keep the earliest one hour in U.S. prime-time television "safe" for the entire family?
Did you know that Earl Morrall was named the NFL's Most Valuable Player in 1968, after replacing the injured Johnny Unitas, and led the Colts into Super Bowl III?
Did you know that Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov was renowned for his expertise at artificially inseminating mares?
Did you know that some scientists, in response to the popular idiom dismissing the possibility, have conducted experiments to compare apples and oranges?
Did you know that the Sky Ride at the 1933 Chicago Century of Progress carried 4.5 million fairgoers in "rocket cars" 60 m above ground, before being demolished in 1934?
Did you know that Alice Nelson and Sam the Butcher were engaged to be married in the final season of the sitcom The Brady Bunch?
Did you know that James McClinton was the first African American mayor of Topeka, Kansas, appointed by the city council in December 2003, but that the electorate of the city passed a referendum the following year to strip the office of political power?
Did you know that James Sadleir was expelled from the British House of Commons in 1857 after helping his brother take £288,000 from the Tipperary Joint Stock Bank, fled from justice, and ended up murdered in Geneva?
Did you know that Space.com is a space and astronomy news website launched in 1999 by CNN anchor Lou Dobbs?
Did you know that Teatro Campesino or "farmworkers theater" began perfoming in 1965 on flat bed trucks in the fields with the United Farm Workers in Delano, California and still puts on performances today?
Did you know that The Squirrels, Seattle-based practitioners of the "Frankenstein method of song arrangement", recorded a "Stars on 45"-style medley of songs from The Wizard of Oz, which was among the 142 7-inch records that British DJ John Peel set aside in a box to grab if his house ever caught fire?
Did you know that a quadrature phase booster is a specialised form of transformer used to control the flow of electric power on electricity transmission networks?
Did you know that the Chickens War of 1537 was a protest in Kingdom of Poland, and it was named so by the victorious opposition, who claimed that the instigators only succeeded in nearly total consumption of chickens in Lesser Poland?
Did you know that the Cowboy Trail is the longest rails to trails conversion project in the United States?
Did you know that the Miranzai Valley is a fertile mountain valley in the Kohat district of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan?
Did you know that the campus of Michigan State University has 676 buildings, with a total of 2.073 million m² of floor space?
Did you know that using an orthotropic deck instead of a concrete deck reduced the mass of the Golden Gate Bridge by 11,160 metric tons?
Did you know that Ampelosaurus was a European dinosaur that bore spikes on its back up to 20 cm long?
Did you know that Estela Ruiz claims to have seen and spoken with the Blessed Virgin Mary in South Phoenix, Arizona continually from 1988 to 1998?
Did you know that a palinode is a type of retraction poem championed by Chaucer?
Did you know that although there are 75 West Indian women who have played one-day international cricket, only 54 of them have represented the West Indies?
Did you know that as part of Fukubukuro, a New Year's custom in Japan, merchants offer bags of merchandise for prices much lower than the normal value of the items inside?
Did you know that the Marian column on which Our Lady stands on Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome originally supported the vault of the Basilica of Constantine at the Roman Forum and was the only one such column to survive the Basilica's destruction in an earthquake?
Did you know that the first Australian national sporting team to wear the now traditional green and gold team colours were the Australian cricket team that toured England in 1899?
Did you know that the same visual hallucinations of geometric patterns, known as form constants, are seen in near-death experiences, synesthesia, and drug-enduced hallucinatory visions?
Did you know that Rattlesnake James, the last man to be hanged in California, was convicted of drowning his wife after a failed first attempt to kill her with rattlesnake venom?
Did you know that Richard Butler and his father were 31st and 23rd Premiers of South Australia, respectively?
Did you know that Robin Williams' A Night at the Met won a Grammy for Best Comedy Performance Single or Album, Spoken or Musical?
Did you know that the Pentastomida are parasitic invertebrates commonly known as tongue worms because of their resemblance to vertebrate tongues?
Did you know that Aliwalia is the earliest known carnivorous dinosaur, and was huge for its time?
Did you know that Central Fire Station, the oldest existing fire station in Singapore, had only four portable water pumps when it was completed in 1908?
Did you know that Henry Paget, known as "the dancing Marquess", inherited his peerage at the age of 23 and spent so much on clothes, jewelry and parties that he went bankrupt with debts of £544,000 at the age of 28?
Did you know that the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division was a Ukrainian military formation in the German armed forces during the World War II and that it fought against the Red Army in Graz, Austria?
Did you know that Albert Einstein's brain was preserved after his death, and has been used in debates about the correlation between neuroanatomy and genius?
Did you know that Chester Racecourse is the oldest horse racing course in the England, built on the site of a blocked harbour in 1533?
Did you know that Drayton Hall, built 1738–42, near Charleston, South Carolina, is considered one of the most handsome Neo-Palladian houses in North America?
Did you know that Paul Posluszny, a linebacker for Penn State's football team, was recently named college football's best defensive player of the year?
Did you know that Variation and Evolution in Plants is one of the four canonical texts of the modern evolutionary synthesis and that all four texts were compiled following the authors' presentation of the Jesup Lectures at Columbia University?
Did you know that a Knox County, Ohio, tradition credits members of the Snowden Family Band with writing the song "Dixie"?
Did you know that after Tony Kiritsis was declared "not guilty by reason of insanity" in 1977, Indiana legislators amended the law to provide for verdicts of "guilty but mentally ill" and "not responsible by reason of insanity"?
Did you know that botanist Edgar Anderson was a founding member of the Society for the Study of Evolution and an active member of the Religious Society of Friends?
Did you know that the Russian singer Alla Bayanova, who celebrated the 80th anniversary of her stage performance back in 2003, recently collaborated with Marc Almond on several duets?