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Did you know that Native Americans in Nebraska who live on reservations generally do not pay State of Nebraska taxes?
Did you know that Ontario politician Jan Dukszta, a psychiatrist by training, took time out of his 1981 re-election campaign to treat colleague Tony Lupusella who was suffering a nervous breakdown?
Did you know that The Voice of the Turtle, the ninth longest-running play in Broadway history, derives its name from a verse in the Bible’s Song of Solomon?
Did you know that Toledo Mud Hens relief pitcher Ian Ostlund is one of only two people in Virginia high school history to strike out the side in every inning of a complete game?
Did you know that almost all Pakistani pop music videos were forbidden to air on local television after Zia-ul-Haq's military coup in 1977?
Did you know that coffee production in Costa Rica in the 19th century created enough revenue to build the National Theater in the capital San José?
Did you know that future King Henry IV of England and Marshal of France Jean Le Maingre took part in the Lithuanian Civil War?
Did you know that philanthropist Bilquis Edhi, who helped save 16,000 babies, has been nicknamed "Mother of Pakistan"?
Did you know that the "Livingstone Tree" in Nkhotakota, Malawi, was never visited by David Livingstone (statue pictured), though when he travelled there he famously stopped under another tree?
Did you know that the Calabasas, California facilities for the private elementary school New Village Academy is funded by actor Will Smith?
Did you know that the Dorado Group is one of the richest galaxy clusters in the Southern Hemisphere and thought to be unvirialized which could explain its abundance of H I and spirals?
Did you know that the Valmet Nr II tram of the Helsinki tram network was redesigned to include air conditioning in the cockpit after a driver fainted in the summer heat and killed a motorcyclist in a collision?
Did you know that the first modern time capsule was Thornwell Jacobs’ Crypt of Civilization at Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia, due to be opened May 28, 8113?
Did you know that the journey described in Eat, Pray, Love, a memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert, was financed by an advance on the book she planned to write about the trip?
Did you know that the painter Cuno Amiet, a pioneer of modern art in Switzerland, created more than a thousand self-portraits?
Did you know that the title for Christian musician Matthew West’s album Something to Say had already been decided before he knew that he would have to be vocally silent for two months?
Did you know that Arthur Barret, the twenty-second mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, died after serving only eleven days in office?
Did you know that Dibeen Forest Reserve, established in 2004, is the newest nature reserve in Jordan?
Did you know that Hygrocybe coccinea is a bright red edible mushroom that grows in the grasslands of Europe and under Rhododendron in Nepal?
Did you know that Karl Wahl, in 1954, was the first former Nazi Gauleiter to publish his autobiography after having received permission from the denazification authorities to do so?
Did you know that Silas D. Alben proposed a model for more efficient turbine blades based on the bumpy flippers of humpback whales?
Did you know that age controversies in gymnastics once resulted in the North Korean women's team being banned from the World Championships?
Did you know that at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, basketballer Danny Morseu was the first Torres Strait Islander to represent Australia at the Olympic games?
Did you know that only a year after being established by car dealership owner Giuseppe Risi, the Risi Competizione team won their class at the 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans?
Did you know that the 2100 series of the Keihin Electric Express Railway produces a "do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do" tune when its propulsion system starts up?
Did you know that the Durga Vahini, the women's wing of the Vishva Hindu Parishad, have been accused of instigating violence against religious minorities in India?
Did you know that the Missouri University of Science and Technology Nuclear Reactor, built in 1961, was the first nuclear reactor in the U.S. state of Missouri?
Did you know that the United Nations Institute for Namibia, established in 1976 in Lusaka, Zambia, sought to promote Namibian independence as well as educate Namibians for after independence was achieved?
Did you know that the best result of German motorcycle rider Georg Braun, a second place, was achieved in a wet race in the 1954 Swiss motorcycle Grand Prix at Circuit Bremgarten?
Did you know that the modern coat of arms of Russia was designed by a former political prisoner, Yevgeny Ukhnalyov?
Did you know that the sittellas of Australasia were once thought to be nuthatches but are now considered their own family?
Did you know that the song "Shake a Fist" was almost included on the British electropop band Hot Chip's second album, The Warning, instead of their third?
Did you know that units in LA's Avenel Cooperative Housing Project, reportedly built as "a cooperative living experiment for a group of communists", were selling for US$300,000 in 2002?
Did you know that when wrestler George Scott and his brother Sandy were in Australia, they won the IWA World Tag Team Championship three times between 1966 and 1968?
Did you know that "Greenzo", an episode of 30 Rock, was part of NBC’s Green Week that aimed at having every primetime program aired during the second week of November 2007 contain an environmental theme?
Did you know that 29 Norwegian civilians were shot in reprisal by the Nazi regime in Norway following the Norwegian resistance's assassination of police chief Karl Marthinsen in February of 1945?
Did you know that Adolf Dietrich, one of Switzerland's leading painters of the 20th century, had no formal training and worked for most of his life as an untrained labourer?
Did you know that Art Ross, the first head coach of the Boston Bruins, served four stints as head coach?
Did you know that Blue Tilapia have become the most widespread foreign fish in Florida waters since their introduction in 1961, and are now a serious management problem in Everglades National Park?
Did you know that Cine City in Manchester, England, the third cinema to open in England in 1912 as "The Scala", has recently been demolished?
Did you know that English vinegar manufacturer and Liberal member of parliament Mark Hanbury Beaufoy wrote well-known verses on gun safety?
Did you know that George Edward Pendray coined the term time capsule and created the word laundromat?
Did you know that Jimmy Speirs won the Military Medal while serving with the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, six years after his goal helped Bradford City win the 1911 FA Cup Final?
Did you know that Rogers Morton was the only person in the 20th century from the East Coast of the United States to serve as Secretary of the Interior?
Did you know that Steve Adkins, on the day of his Major League debut, walked five consecutive batters, two short of the all time record of seven?
Did you know that Valri Bromfield performed stand-up comedy on the first episode of Saturday Night Live?
Did you know that a solitary pulmonary nodule, a mass in the lung smaller than 3 cm (1.2 in) in diameter, can be an incidental finding found in up to 0.2 percent of chest X-rays and about 1 percent of CT scans?
Did you know that lyric coloratura soprano Harolyn Blackwell replaced opera diva Kathleen Battle when she famously got fired from the Metropolitan Opera?
Did you know that primitive weevils of the Aglycyderini, Metrioxenini and Oxycorynini tribes are believed to have evolved in the Late Cretaceous or perhaps Paleocene period, some 100-60 million years ago?
Did you know that skeletons of many now-extinct animals, including saber-toothed cats and dire wolves, have been recovered from the tar pit in McKittrick Oil Field in Kern County, California?
Did you know that the "Australian Legends" in 2000, Walter Parker and Roy Longmore were among the last living veterans of the ANZAC who had served in World War I?
Did you know that the 1688 Siege of Bangkok (illustration pictured) ended with the total retreat of French troops from Siam, modern-day Thailand?
Did you know that the 1946 earthquake in Nankaidō, Japan caused a 6-meter (20-ft) tsunami that destroyed 2,100 homes?
Did you know that the Doctor Who episode "The Stolen Earth" features cameo appearances by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and comedian Paul O'Grady?
Did you know that the Erie Gauge War in 1853 was nicknamed the "Peanut War" because its outcome affected the street vendors who sold peanuts to travelers in Erie, Pennsylvania the most?
Did you know that the San Fernando Building in Los Angeles, California, recently converted into upscale lofts, was raided several times for illegal gambling operations between 1910 and 1930?
Did you know that the flesh of the poisonous mushroom Boletus legaliae smells of chicory?
Did you know that the identity of the language or dialect of the Cançó de Santa Fe, a hagiographical poem about Saint Faith, has been debated since the 16th century?
Did you know that the invention and military use of modern land mines are attributed to Brigadier General Gabriel J. Rains of the Confederate States Army?
Did you know that the melody of British electropop band Hot Chip's song, "One Pure Thought", was said to be reminiscent of New Order?
Did you know that the origin and significance of the picture stone known as the snake-witch remain a mystery?
Did you know that 1984 World Sportscar Champion Stefan Bellof was killed due to a collision with 1982 and 1983 World Champion Jacky Ickx at the 1985 1000 km of Spa?
Did you know that 19th-century archaeologist Isaiah Deck proposed pulping linen from Egyptian mummies into paper, to meet a paper shortage in America?
Did you know that Ad exstirpanda, promulgated in May 1252 by Pope Innocent IV, authorized the use of torture by the Inquisition for the purpose of eliciting confessions from alleged heretics?
Did you know that British psychoanalyst Montague David Eder was a non-commissioned military surgeon for the Bolivian Army?
Did you know that Canadian professional wrestler and promoter Bronko Lubich was influential in the careers of several wrestlers such as Mick Foley, Steve Austin and Percy Pringle?
Did you know that Dactylosaurus lived in the Middle Triassic period during the Anisian faunal stage of central Europe?
Did you know that Heroes' Day in Namibia, recognized by the United Nations as Namibia Day, commemorates the fighters killed during the Namibian War of Independence annually on 26 August?
Did you know that LA's Board of Trade Building, site of the California Stock Exchange, was the first office building on the Pacific coast with automated elevators?
Did you know that Old Trail Town in Cody, Wyoming, is the second burial site of the mountain man Liver-Eating Johnson, the inspiration for the 1972 film Jeremiah Johnson?
Did you know that Polish writer of youth literature Alfred Szklarski often compared Polish people to Native Americans?
Did you know that R. Thomas Flynn, retired president of Monroe Community College, won an athletic scholarship to Bradley University that he later lost due to injury?
Did you know that René Victor Auberjonois, one of the leading Swiss painters of the 20th century, was poorly received in the Romandie, where he lived most of his life?
Did you know that St. Maria ad Gradus, a former church in Cologne, Germany, was the burial site of Richeza of Lotharingia in 1063?
Did you know that after basketball coaches exploited the possession arrow rule, the University Athletic Association of the Philippines amended the rules for the 2008 season?
Did you know that due to shifting political winds, the production of the F-20 Tigershark for the Taiwanese Air Force failed to start on three separate occasions?
Did you know that in February 1428, President of Catalonia Felip de Malla wrote a letter to King Alfonso V describing an earthquake that had struck Barcelona?
Did you know that senior GDR diplomat Gottfried Lessing had taken part in the founding and been a leading member of the illegal clandestine Communist Party in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) during the 1940s?
Did you know that the FBI Buffalo Field Office (patch pictured) houses over ten different investigative programs and two different specialty programs?
Did you know that the Kucheng Massacre was one of the worst outrages against foreigners in China prior to the Boxer Movement?
Did you know that the inverted floral arrangement of Lacandonia schismatica, where the stamens are in the flower's center and are surrounded by the pistils, is unique among all known flowering plants?
Did you know that the music video for British electropop band Hot Chip's song "Boy From School" was said to invoke the memory of the children's art series, Art Attack?
Did you know that the partition of a uterine septum can extend caudally and result in a double vagina?
Did you know that when American General Horace H. Fuller asked to be relieved in 1944, he became the only division commander to be relieved in the Western New Guinea campaign in World War II?
Did you know that Admiral Herbert Sawyer had a son named Herbert Sawyer, who not only also became an admiral, but was even given his father's old command, the North American Station?
Did you know that Hibernian Park hosted the first football international match played in Edinburgh, Scotland?
Did you know that Major General William P. T. Hill, Quartermaster General of the United States Marine Corps had participated in Doctor Roy Chapman Andrews' expedition to the Gobi Desert while still a captain?
Did you know that The Legend of Chu Liu Xiang received the third-highest viewership of all television series broadcast in 2007 on CCTV-8, even though it was released in December of that year?
Did you know that Vic Aldridge, nicknamed the "Hoosier Schoolmaster", had the worst seventh game start for a pitcher in World Series history?
Did you know that Yukiko Iwai, at 4' 11'' (150 cm), was the shortest member of the 1980s all-girl Japanese pop group Onyanko Club?
Did you know that an art historian claimed The Fortune Teller, an oil painting by Georges de La Tour, is actually a forgery?
Did you know that circumstances of the 1977 death of Stanisław Pyjas, a Polish student and anti-communist activist, are still a mystery?
Did you know that no prints or negatives survive of the 1933 short film Hello Pop!, starring The Three Stooges before they began performing under that name?
Did you know that surviving examples of early Byzantine mosaics (example pictured) can still be found at Mount Nebo, where Moses died, and Tell Mar Elias, the birthplace of Elijah?
Did you know that the 1820 Indiana Supreme Court decision in the case of Polly v. Lasselle freed all slaves in the U.S. state of Indiana?
Did you know that the 1948 Headingley Test, in which Don Bradman's cricket team the Invincibles made a world record run-chase, remains the most attended Test on English soil?
Did you know that the 1948 film Terri Yaad was the first feature film to be released in Pakistan after the partition of India?
Did you know that the Australian Army adopted the Pentropic organisation in 1960, but returned to its previous unit structures in 1965 as the new organisation was found to be unsuited to Australia's strategic environment?
Did you know that the Banga Sena is a separatist organization which advocates formation of a separate homeland for Bengali Hindus in Bangladesh?
Did you know that the British radio sitcom Safety Catch is built around the moral dilemmas of a man who inadvertently became an arms dealer?
Did you know that the Jamaican Blackbird has evolved to fill the ecological niche more typical of woodcreepers and woodpeckers?
Did you know that the Lafayette Afro Rock Band, although little known during their time, is now considered as one of the standout funk bands of the 1970s?
Did you know that the Mineola, New York post office has no public art in its lobby, which is unusual for post offices of its size built during the Great Depression?
Did you know that the National Park Service originally rejected the application to create a second historic district in Roslyn, New York, suggesting the first one be expanded instead?
Did you know that the biopsychosocial model was theorized by George L. Engel at the University of Rochester Medical Center and putatively discussed in a 1977 article in the journal Science?
Did you know that the blue-green toadstool Stropharia aeruginosa is named for its similarity in colour to verdigris?
Did you know that the day after Nazi Germany declared war on the U.S., Adolf Hitler announced the extermination of the Jewish race to party leaders in a private meeting in the Reich Chancellery?
Did you know that the four brothers in Christian rock band Remedy Drive were performing over 200 concerts a year before signing onto a record label?
Did you know that the killing of filmmaker Hugh O'Connor in 1967 came to represent the conflict between outsiders and locals in Appalachia during the War on Poverty?
Did you know that the organisers of the Tour de France refused to hold the race during WWII, despite the German authorities' offer to open the borders between German-occupied France and Vichy France specially?
Did you know that the series of oil paintings by Nabil Kanso titled The Split of Life comprises over 80 mural-sized works?
Did you know that the superstructure of the Ship John Shoal Light was exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876, while inhabited by a lighthouse keeper?
Did you know that Canadian actor Kevin Durand, who plays antagonist Martin Keamy in the fourth season of the television show Lost, is a former rapper and stand-up comic?
Did you know that Dair Mar Elia, dating from the 6th century, is the oldest Christian monastery in Iraq?
Did you know that Dickie's Bladder-fern was first found in a yawn in Scotland, but that Victorian fern collectors may have removed every specimen from this site?
Did you know that El Cabrillo courtyard apartments, built in 1928 by Cecil B. DeMille and later home to transvestite actor Divine, are said to be "steeped in old Hollywood lore"?
Did you know that Elliott Cutler, who performed the world's first successful heart valve surgery in 1923, was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal twice for his distinguished service in the two World Wars?
Did you know that Garry Roggenburk, after his Major League Baseball career, became a general manager for the Winter Haven Red Sox in the farm system of his former team, the Boston Red Sox?
Did you know that Greek–Polish singer Eleni Tzoka has been awarded the Saint Rita of Cascia prize for the act of mercy towards the killer of her young daughter?
Did you know that Lamine Guèye from Senegal was the first Black African skier to take part in the Winter Olympics?
Did you know that Miroslav Macháček spent four months in an insane asylum because he criticised the communist approach in the Prague National Theatre in 1975, two years before Charter 77?
Did you know that Pryor Brock Farmstead is the best representation of a farmstead, with Italianate buildings, around Zionsville, Indiana?
Did you know that Samuel Jarvis was acquitted of manslaughter after winning Toronto's last duel on July 12, 1817, and married the daughter of the presiding judge the following year?
Did you know that The West Wing episode "Ways and Means" was co-written by Eli Attie and Gene Sperling, two former employees of the Bill Clinton White House?
Did you know that Uncommon Friends of the 20th Century is a 1999 documentary film about businessman James D. Newton's friendships with well-known figures such as Thomas A. Edison, Charles Lindbergh and Henry Ford?
Did you know that Vincent Gambi was one of several pirates associated with Jean Lafitte, and assisted him during the Battle of New Orleans?
Did you know that a World War II pilot from No. 466 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, escaped death when he fell onto a fellow crew member in mid-air and shared his parachute?
Did you know that a scene from "Rosemary's Baby", an episode of 30 Rock featuring Alec Baldwin and Tracy Morgan, was described by one critic as "one of the funniest scenes ... on TV this season"?
Did you know that during the Texas Revolution, soldiers in the Texian Army were not issued official uniforms, so many purchased US Army surplus uniforms to wear?
Did you know that in 1882, after Australia beat England at cricket, The Sporting Times published a satirical death notice which was the origin of The Ashes?
Did you know that mass lesions in the brain stem cause coma, a severe alteration in the level of consciousness, by affecting the reticular formation?
Did you know that the Broadway Theater District, with 12 movie palaces (example pictured) in six blocks, is the first and largest historic theater district listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that the Multi-Touch Collaboration Wall, a large multi-touch device, has been used by CNN during its coverage of the 2008 United States elections, and has been nicknamed "The Magic Wall"?
Did you know that the biography of a Douglas-fir, Tree: A Life Story, was inspired by a single tree at David Suzuki's home?
Did you know that the one-make Procar Championship was created in 1979 to help BMW produce the 400 M1 sports cars necessary to compete in the World Championship for Makes?
Did you know that the papal election in 1241 is often cited as the first papal conclave due to the confinement of the cardinal electors to the Septizodium?
Did you know that when the Japanese visual novel Suika was released for the PlayStation, it was retitled as Water Summer?
Did you know that "racing baron" Fritz Huschke von Hanstein won the 1940 Mille Miglia in a BMW 328?
Did you know that David William Thomas, mayor of Minden, Louisiana who also published newspapers, practiced law, and taught at the university level, was called "Renaissance man"?
Did you know that Eat This Book has been criticized as "basically a book-length infomercial" for the International Federation of Competitive Eating?
Did you know that Eric Borel, a teenager who killed 14 people in Cuers, Var, was the most deadly mass murderer in France since 1989?
Did you know that Long Island's Roslyn Grist Mill is one of the few surviving Dutch colonial timber frame commercial buildings in the U.S.?
Did you know that Major League Baseballer Willis Roberts signed as a free agent to play with the Cincinnati Reds on the same day he was released by the Detroit Tigers?
Did you know that Mike Scioscia, the current manager of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball club, was the first to lead the team to a World Series championship in 2002?
Did you know that Psilopterus was about the same size as the modern cariama, making it the smallest of the carnivorous prehistoric avians known as terror birds?
Did you know that The Towers, a residence in Didsbury, Manchester originally built for the editor of the Manchester Guardian, is now a cotton research facility?
Did you know that Ulf Sterner of Sweden was the first European player in the National Hockey League?
Did you know that a pilot of 818 Naval Air Squadron flying from HMS Ark Royal, crippled the German battleship Bismarck so that she could later be sunk?
Did you know that a statue of French general Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes in Bamako, Mali was torn down shortly after Mali's independence in 1960?
Did you know that actor Jiří Sovák played the role of a man who had a prophetic dream about the Velvet Revolution in the 1996 Czech film Kolya?
Did you know that current Toledo Mud Hens pitcher Francis Beltrán pitched the final inning of the final game played by the Montreal Expos before the club moved to Washington?
Did you know that in 1346, the Black Plague (illustration pictured) infected the first Europeans in the Crimea in what has been called one of the worst biological attacks in the history of warfare?
Did you know that in 1967, Ann Pellegreno and a crew of three successfully flew a similar aircraft, Lockheed 10A Electra, to complete a world flight that mirrored Amelia Earhart's 1937 flight plan?
Did you know that in the 1537 Battle of Ollantaytambo, an Inca army resorted to flooding the battlefield as a way to counter the Spanish cavalry?