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Did you know that anticuchos, one of the most popular dishes in South America, consists of skewered pieces of cow hearts?
Did you know that in 1878, Sam Lucas became the first African American actor to play the role of Uncle Tom in a serious production of Uncle Tom's Cabin, only to do the same for film 37 years later?
Did you know that the Central Railroad of Pennsylvania was a failed plan by the Central Railroad of New Jersey to avoid certain taxes from 1946 to 1952?
Did you know that the first unfurling of the new flag of the United States occurred at the Middlebrook encampment?
Did you know that Basheba Spooner was the first woman to be executed in the United States of America, for the murder of a Minuteman who had raped her?
Did you know that Edward Falkingham ordered the construction of prisons in Ferryland, Bonavista and Carbonear in 1732 while he was Governor of Newfoundland?
Did you know that Rapidan Camp, the rustic mountain fishing retreat of U.S. President Herbert Hoover located near Big Meadows in Virginia, was the forerunner of Camp David in Maryland?
Did you know that Redline was the last game published by Accolade before being acquired by Infogrames in 1999?
Did you know that Victoire Thivisol was the youngest winner ever of the Best Actress award at the Venice International Film Festival for her title role in the 1996 French film Ponette?
Did you know that Withering Abalone Syndrome can cause an abalone to eat its own foot?
Did you know that in 1712 Jane Wenham is commonly but erroneously regarded as the last subject of a witch trial in England?
Did you know that the first James Bond gun barrel sequence, in the film Dr. No, was filmed through the barrel of an actual gun?
Did you know that British singer Maxine Nightingale first charted on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 after a massive marketing push by her label, United Artists?
Did you know that Current Biography is a standard reference work in American libraries?
Did you know that Cécile Guillaume was the first female engraver of postage stamps in France?
Did you know that Francis Leon predated RuPaul's fame as an American one-named female impersonator by over 100 years?
Did you know that Hong Lim Green was Singapore's first public garden?
Did you know that Norwegian director Nils Gaup was nominated for an Academy Award for the Sami language film The Pathfinder?
Did you know that Saga Castle is one of the few medieval castles in Japan to be surrounded by a wall, instead of being built on one?
Did you know that Vladimir Nabokov described D.S. Mirsky's book A History of Russian Literature : From Its Beginnings to 1900 as "the best history of Russian literature in any language, including Russian"?
Did you know that at its creation in 1877, the 40-strong Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels was the largest blackface minstrel troupe to have ever been formed?
Did you know that in a British by-election in 1981, John Desmond Lewis ran for office under the name Tarquin Fin-tim-lim-bim-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olè-Biscuitbarrel, drawing inspiration from a Monty Python skit about silly elections?
Did you know that in the 1880s Billy Kersands was the most popular African American comedian in the United States?
Did you know that the Jawami ul-Hikayat is an 800-year-old handwritten book of Persian political anecdotes, which—at 2500 pages long—has never been printed in full, but only in abridged editions?
Did you know that the national sport of Nauru is Australian rules football?
Did you know that Francis Nicholson served as colonial governor or acting colonial governor of Nova Scotia, the Province of New York, the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, the Province of Maryland and the Province of South Carolina at various times during his career?
Did you know that Marlin Gray was executed on October 26 for his part in pushing two women off the Chain of Rocks Bridge over the Mississippi River in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1991?
Did you know that Tom Edur gave up a professional ice hockey career at the age of 24 to study Christianity?
Did you know that a traffic accident in New York City's Times Square eventually led to the downfall of the Joe K spy ring, headed by Kurt Frederick Ludwig?
Did you know that in the 17th century Jean Gery, a French deserter, later served as a guide and translator for the Spanish in North America?
Did you know that the Ao language is one of the few Kuki-Chin-Naga (Tibeto-Burman) languages that has been subject to acoustic analysis?
Did you know that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted the steroid hormone Prasterone orphan drug status in the treatment of Addison's Disease?
Did you know that the dummy of ventriloquist and magician Jay Marshall was actually his left hand dressed up as a rabbit?
Did you know that Captain Israel Pellew, brother of the more famous Sir Edward Pellew, sent his Captain of Marines to receive Admiral Villeneuve's surrender at the Battle of Trafalgar but in the heat of battle, Villeneuve's sword never reached him and it was later given to Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood who kept it much to Pellew's disgust?
Did you know that Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, a Yuan Dynasty painting by Huang Gongwang, now exists in two halves, one of which is kept in Mainland China while the other is kept in Taiwan?
Did you know that Lieutenant-Colonel John Nairne originally hoped to make his seigneurity, La Malbaie, a Protestant community?
Did you know that the Yuanwang-class of ships is used by the People's Republic of China for tracking and supporting their Shenzhou spacecraft?
Did you know that German naturalist Amalie Dietrich, who spent 10 years working in Australia, was the first person to collect the highly venomous snakes known as taipans?
Did you know that Herb Thomas was the first NASCAR race-car driver to win two championships in the modern NEXTEL Cup?
Did you know that Scotland's Craigellachie Bridge, a revolutionary cast iron structure built by Thomas Telford in 1814, inspired a popular Strathspey reel tune?
Did you know that the Shubert Theatre in New Haven was the location of the pre-Broadway premieres of five of the most famous Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, including Oklahoma!, The King and I and The Sound of Music?
Did you know that André Meyer quit school at age 16 to work as a messenger boy, and was later described as "the most creative financial genius of our time in the investment banking world" by David Rockefeller?
Did you know that Seatack, Virginia, named for an "attack by sea" during the War of 1812, has an Internet "Tower Cam" in the Old Coast Guard Station Museum on the boardwalk at Virginia Beach?
Did you know that former National Hockey League rookie Michel Briere's career was tragically cut short following an automobile accident in 1970?
Did you know that the 2012 Summer Olympic Games will be the third London Olympics, and that no other city has hosted the games three times?
Did you know that the 999-year-old Gonbad-e Qabus in Golestan, Iran is the world's tallest brick tower at 70 meters (230 feet)?
Did you know that the Alamosaurus, named after Fort Alamo, Texas, is considered to be the last of the sauropods?
Did you know that the Capitol in Williamsburg, Virginia was the first capitol building in America in 1705?
Did you know that there have been many toilet-related injuries throughout history, and that such injuries are also common in urban legend?
Did you know that Bernhard Cossmann was a renowned German cellist who taught at the Moscow Conservatory and that many of his cello etudes are still used today?
Did you know that Oliver W. Hill, a civil rights attorney, worked against racial discrimination and helped end the doctrine of separate but equal during a period of massive resistance to integration in Virginia's public schools?
Did you know that activist Jerry White is a  cofounder of the Landmine Survivors Network and that he has testified before the United States Senate?
Did you know that flood walls are man-made vertical barriers that are designed to temporarily contain the waters of a river or other waterway during seasonal or extreme weather events?
Did you know that the French Navy ship Redoutable was built in 1876 and was the first warship in the world to use steel as the principal building material?
Did you know that the all-time best-selling album of traditional Irish music in Ireland is Sharon Shannon's self-titled debut?
Did you know that the bootleg turn was invented by stock car racing legend Robert Glenn "Junior" Johnson?
Did you know that the only surviving fossils of Aegyptosaurus were destroyed in a 1944 bombing raid on Munich, Germany during World War II?
Did you know that Ammosaurus remains were originally mistaken by Othniel Charles Marsh as those of another dinosaur, Anchisaurus?
Did you know that Gary King became the first DJ to work for the UK's three national pop and rock networks when he joined Virgin Radio, having already presented for Atlantic 252 and BBC Radio 1?
Did you know that Hastings Wise is the sixth person to waive appeals of the death sentence in South Carolina since the state resumed executions after Gregg v. Georgia?
Did you know that Ice is a highly addictive methamphetamine and that when it is smoked it causes a massive release of dopamine in the brain?
Did you know that William Waldegrave, as Governor of Newfoundland, established a "Committee for the Relief of the Poor"?
Did you know that in the Hebrew Bible Moses' sister Miriam was turned snow-white by God for criticizing Moses' marriage to a Cushite wife?
Did you know that on December 26 and 27, 1969 during the War of Attrition the elite special forces unit Sayeret Matkal kidnapped a whole Egyptian P-12 radar system in a mission called Operation Rooster 53?
Did you know that the producers of the sitcom The Facts of Life masked Kim Fields' short stature by putting her character, Tootie Ramsey, in rollerskates?
Did you know that Richard Arrington, the first African American mayor of Birmingham, Alabama has a doctorate in zoology?
Did you know that a few years after Albert H. Wiggin, President of Chase National Bank, was lauded as a hero for committing bank funds to try to stop the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a Congressional investigation revealed he had secretly helped drive the stock market down in order to reap a multi-million dollar profit for himself by short selling Chase Bank shares?
Did you know that former National Hockey League player Jason Bonsignore is considered one of the worst draft choices in the history of the Edmonton Oilers?
Did you know that the Reps Theatre fought a legal battle with the Rhodesian government  over its refusal to segregate members according to race, in what became known as "The Battle of the Toilets"?
Did you know that Heinrich Schliemann claimed to have found Priam's Treasure in the ruin of Troy and that the treasure disappeared from Germany after World War II and has never been seen again?
Did you know that Peter Parker, the first Protestant medical missionary to China, introduced Western anesthesia in the form of sulphuric ether in 1835?
Did you know that a soda gun is a device used by bars to serve various types of drinks?
Did you know that the 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll is a list of the 100 most important living public intellectuals in the world, as voted by readers of Prospect Magazine?
Did you know that American Civil War-era novelist John William DeForest coined the phrase the Great American Novel in an 1869 essay?
Did you know that Mikhail Shtalenkov enjoyed a stellar career, including the win of a silver medal in hockey in the 1998 Winter Olympics, but never became a starting goaltender in the National Hockey League?
Did you know that Mina Wylie won silver at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden, and was one of the first two women to represent Australia in Olympic swimming?
Did you know that Russian native Emilio Kosterlitzky, known as the Mexican Cossack, spoke nine languages, jumped ship in Venezuela, fled to Mexico where he fought in the Apache Wars and in the Mexican Revolution, and eventually became an undercover operative for the U.S. government during World War I?
Did you know that ancient packrat middens (essentially, packrat nests) can provide important clues about long-term changes in climate or vegetation in an area?
Did you know that from 1836 to 1855, Chinese painter Lam Qua painted pre-operative portraits of physician Peter Parker's patients, particularly those with large tumors or other major deformities?
Did you know that the Codex Calixtinus, a 12th-century illuminated manuscript, is prefaced by a forged letter purporting the manuscript to be the work of Pope Callixtus II?
Did you know that the Taurid meteor shower, which peaks every 3000 years, may have been responsible for the Star of Bethlehem?
Did you know that American modern dancer and choreographer Bill Cratty quit his tap dance lessons as a child because his two brothers teased him, and he didn't dance again until high school?
Did you know that Jurong Falls, located at Singapore's Jurong BirdPark and featuring the world's most numerous bird collection, is the tallest man-made waterfall in the world at 30 metres (98 feet) high?
Did you know that Renaissance composer, instrumentalist and copyist Pierre Alamire was also a spy for Henry VIII, until he was revealed as a double agent?
Did you know that advertisements featuring the character Michael Power doubled Guinness sales in Africa between 1999 and 2003?
Did you know that targeted therapy is a type of chemotherapy which blocks the growth of cancer cells by interfering with specific targeted molecules needed for carcinogenesis and  tumor growth?
Did you know that the Maritime Museum of San Diego has in its collection one of the world's oldest seaworthy ships, the Star of India, built in 1863?
Did you know that the Overseas Railroad, completed in 1912 for 128 miles (206 kilometers) beyond the end of the Florida peninsula to Key West, was heavily damaged in the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 and not rebuilt?
Did you know that the United States Senate has met in closed session 54 times since 1929, but closed sessions of the United States House of Representatives have taken place only five times since 1825?
Did you know that Milan Obrenović II, who was the ruler of Serbia for less than two weeks in 1839, may have been too ill to ever have been aware of the fact?
Did you know that after Brad Vice's award-winning short stories were destroyed by his publisher because of a disputed plagiarism charge, remaining copies sold for hundreds of dollars?
Did you know that the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments have been standard regulation for medical laboratories in the United States since 1988?
Did you know that the Printemps department store on Boulevard Haussmann in Paris is home to a Jugendstil stained glass cupola?
Did you know that Alfred and Albert Stratton were the first men to be convicted of murder in the United Kingdom through fingerprint evidence,and that they did nothing wrong?
Did you know that Alistair Beaton predicted the flooding of New Orleans in his 2004 satirical novel A Planet for the President?
Did you know that American Jesuit priest Walter Ciszek was imprisioned by the Soviet Union between 1941 and 1963, and sentenced to 15 years hard labor, six of which were spent in Moscow's infamous Lubyanka prison?
Did you know that Dan Syvret, a rookie ice hockey defenceman with the Edmonton Oilers, captained the record-breaking 2004-05 London Knights?
Did you know that Fort Dallas, a military post used during the Seminole Wars, became the site of the new city of Miami, Florida in 1895?
Did you know that Salaga in northern Ghana was once one of the biggest slave markets in West Africa?
Did you know that Samuel Spencer, first president of the Southern Railway was killed in a train wreck in Virginia in 1906?
Did you know that Walchand Hirachand established India’s first shipyard, first aircraft factory and its first car factory?
Did you know that according to the traditions of the United States Senate, bean soup must appear on the Senate dining room menu every day?
Did you know that the Indian cricketer Chetan Chauhan stood in five elections to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament, winning two of them?
Did you know that the Law Library of Congress  created the Global legal information network in 1993 to provide free access to an online  searchable full text database of international legal documents, judicial decisions, legislation, statutes and other laws, from many countries, including Brazil, Costa Rica, Kuwait, Peru, and Romania?
Did you know that the two dams and reservoir that form the Bull Run Hydroelectric Project will be decommissioned in 2008 due to the rising costs of meeting environmental laws?
Did you know that American educator Septima Poinsette Clark, known as the "Grandmother of the Civil Rights Movement," worked for educational and civil rights for African-Americans decades before the rise of national awareness of inequality in the 1960s?
Did you know that Dennis Berry was a musician, composer, arranger and producer who not only produced the music to the first Monty Python film, but has also had his music featured on the BBC's Little Britain, MTV's The Osbournes and the Nickelodeon cartoon Spongebob Squarepants?
Did you know that Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete (English: Law of Muhammad the pseudo-prophet) was the first Qur'an translation into a Western language and often regarded as one of the sloppiest?
Did you know that the (???), Thirteen Factories referred to the limited area in Canton City, China where the Qing court first allowed Westerners to trade?
Did you know that Article 153 of the Constitution of Malaysia provides quotas and other affirmative action policies for the Malays and other indigenous people of Malaysia, but was intended as a temporary provision?
Did you know that Edward George Honey is credited with first proposing the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the armistice of World War I, which later resulted in the creation of Remembrance Day?
Did you know that New Orleans Creole  chef Leah Chase owns a restaurant named Dooky Chase which has served as a gallery for an extensive African American art collection since the 1950s,  was a gathering place for Civil Rights leaders?
Did you know that New York Sun columnist and critic Ward Morehouse stayed in so many hotels that he said his epitaph should read "room service, please?"
Did you know that Sir Collingwood Schreiber played a key role in the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and now has a township named after him?
Did you know that a few years after Richard Whitney had been heralded as Wall Street's "White Knight" for his efforts during the  Stock Market crash of 1929 and made president of the New York Stock Exchange, he was sentenced to 5-10 years in Sing Sing for embezzlement?
Did you know that both Charles Dibdin and Ira Aldridge were famed for their portayals of the black servant Mungo in the comic opera The Padlock?
Did you know that the 1959 Mexico Hurricane is the only known East Pacific hurricane to make landfall as a Category 5?
Did you know that Rudyard Kipling's 1890 poem "Danny Deever" caused the academic David Masson to cry "Here's literature! Here's literature at last!" to his students, and that it was later described as "Teddy Roosevelt's favourite song"?
Did you know that in the past 5 years, Colin Campbell, a former ice hockey defenceman and coach, handed some of the longest suspensions in NHL history to Marty McSorley and Todd Bertuzzi?
Did you know that the Buner reliefs depict scenes of ancient Greeks in India during the 1st century?
Did you know that the Witty worm self-replicating computer worm was the first worm to attack the pieces of software designed to defend against computer worms?
Did you know that Bacon's Castle—a stronghold in Surry County during Bacon's Rebellion in the Virginia Colony in 1676—was never occupied by leader Nathaniel Bacon?
Did you know that Bill the Goat is the mascot of the United States Naval Academy who first appeared at a Navy football game in 1893?
Did you know that Charles Hicks played a key role in the formation of Brooker and Clayton's Georgia Minstrels, the first successful blackface minstrel troupe composed of all African American performers?
Did you know that Cleese's Woolly Lemur is a newly discovered species of lemur that was named after John Cleese, due to his fondness for the creatures?
Did you know that Ketuanan Melayu is the belief that the Malays are the "lords" of the Malay peninsula or Malaysia in general?
Did you know that Mohammed Salman Hamdani was a Muslim citizen of the United States who was killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks and who is specifically mentioned in Section 102 of the USA PATRIOT Act?
Did you know that the 1904 Scottish yacht Medea and the battleship USS Texas are the only surviving vessels that fought in both world wars?
Did you know that the Japanese submarine I-8 was a World War II Imperial Japanese Navy submarine, famous for completing a technology exchange mission between occupation forces in France?
Did you know that A Commitment To Our Roots is the first charity devoted to helping comic book industry veterans in need?
Did you know that Capt. Robert Bartlett skippered the schooner Effie M. Morrissey to the Arctic 20 times in the name of science and research?
Did you know that Christopher Strauli was the actor recruited to fill the gap left by the early death of Richard Beckinsale when casting the movie version of Rising Damp?
Did you know that Rabbi Judith Hauptman has written extensively on the treatment of women in her scholarly articles on the Jewish Talmud?
Did you know that Yusuf Adil Shah was the founder of the Adil Shahi dynasty that ruled Bijapur for two centuries in South India?
Did you know that in September 1842, performer George Washington Dixon walked a 15-foot (4.5-meter) platform for 76 hours without sleep, part of the long tradition of pole-sitting?
Did you know that in the name of science, American nurse Clara Maass volunteered to be bitten by yellow fever-carrying mosquitoes seven times, caught the disease twice, and ultimately died from it?
Did you know that the "social contract" in Malaysia  refers to the agreement made by its founding fathers in the Constitution at independence?
Did you know that the Black Tree Fern is the largest of the tree fern species endemic to New Zealand?
Did you know that the Paper Clips Project of a small school in Tennessee received over 30 million paperclips from all over the world to honor the victims of the Holocaust?
Did you know that the autopsy depicted in Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, an oil painting by Rembrandt, was a real event which took place on 16 January 1632?
Did you know that there have been four attempts to make The Adventures of Ellery Queen into a TV series, starting in 1950 on the DuMont Network?
Did you know that under the New Hampshire state constitution citizens of that state have the right to revolution?
Did you know that fashion designer Katharine Hamnett once met with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher while wearing her own t-shirt with the slogan "58% Don't Want Pershing"?
Did you know that polydactyl cats, with extra toes as a genetic trait, were long considered good luck by many sailors, as the cats' extraordinary climbing and hunting skills were helpful in controlling shipboard rodents?
Did you know that the video for the Tori Amos single "Silent All These Years" is #98 on Rolling Stone 's top 100 videos of all time?
Did you know that the wedding of the parents of Anne of Cleves took place  at Schloss Burg, now the largest reconstructed castle in North Rhine-Westphalia?
Did you know that Chicanismo is a cultural movement by Mexican Americans to recapture their Mexican, Native American culture, which began in the 1930s in the Southwestern United States?
Did you know that Newman and Baddiel in Pieces was the final show on which the comic partnership of Robert Newman and David Baddiel worked together before going their separate ways?
Did you know that Sergeant Charles Ewart of the Scots Greys, in a famous engagement at the Battle of Waterloo, captured the regimental eagle of the 45e Régiment de Ligne?