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Did you know that Ed Trice, creator of the chess variant known as Gothic Chess, helped Jonathan Schaeffer solve the game of checkers, the largest game ever solved?
Did you know that Jeffrey Pollack, Commissioner of the World Series of Poker, won two Emmy Awards for the work he did as NASCAR's marketing director?
Did you know that all four deaths in the thirty annual Chicago Marathons have occurred in the last ten years?
Did you know that in 1926, author Helen Dore Boylston and Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, drove from Paris to Albania in a Model T Ford called "Zenobia"?
Did you know that just as there is a "Fifth Beatle," Phillip Wilcher is called the "fifth Wiggle" for leaving The Wiggles shortly before they became Australia's highest grossing entertainers?
Did you know that on 28 April 1285 at Girona, Jean Cholet crowned Charles of Valois with his galero and pronounced him King of Aragon, earning Charles the affectionate moniker roi du chapeau (king of the hat)?
Did you know that some catfishes of the subfamily Glanapteryginae live exclusively in sand?
Did you know that the Australian solicitor and politician, Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott was a Freemason, and the Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of NSW and ACT?
Did you know that the date of the translation of a Christian saint's relics was often observed as a separate feast day?
Did you know that the great-granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, Leela Gandhi, is a senior lecturer at La Trobe University in the English program?
Did you know that the two versions of Manfred on the Jungfrau, a watercolour by John Martin and an oil by Ford Madox Brown, were painted just five years apart?
Did you know that when  Nizah Morris, an African American transgender woman, was murdered, the medical examiner immediately labeled it a homicide, but the Philadelphia police took over a month to do so?
Did you know that writer and publisher Bernard d’Abrera is a fervent creationist who blames environmental problems on the "waste" of studying evolution?
Did you know that Admiral Louis R. de Steiguer was a legendary disciplinarian and martinet whose funeral instructions directed his former flag secretary to bury him with his hindquarters facing the Pentagon?
Did you know that Assyrian soldiers were used in Xerxes' expedition to Greece?
Did you know that Canada's syndicalist One Big Union kept itself alive for some time by running an illegal lottery in its weekly bulletin?
Did you know that Dang Hyang Nirartha founded the Hindu priesthood in Bali?
Did you know that Polycarp was a fictional Cajun character who hosted a local children's TV program in south Louisiana and lived in the swamp?
Did you know that United States Indian Agent Felix St. Vrain had his head, hands, feet and heart removed during the St. Vrain massacre?
Did you know that congressman Cyclone Davis earned his moniker after demolishing an opponent in a debate?
Did you know that singer Larry Stewart originally moved to Nashville, Tennessee in search of a career in baseball, but instead ended up as the lead singer of country-pop band Restless Heart?
Did you know that the Khmer Rouge of the 1970s influenced Cambodian clothing by strictly prohibiting brightly colored clothing and forcing all Khmer people to wear a checkered krama?
Did you know that the St. Eugene Mine in Moyie, British Columbia produced ten million dollars worth of ore between 1895 and 1905 and was considered to be the most important silver–lead mine in Canada?
Did you know that the coach in which King Philip II of Portugal travelled from Spain to Portugal in 1619 is preserved at the National Coach Museum in Lisbon?
Did you know that the launch of the protected cruiser Chitose in 1898, one of the few ships in the Imperial Japanese Navy built by the United States, was filmed by Thomas Edison?
Did you know that the period of Colonial Assam began with the Treaty of Yandaboo?
Did you know that the planned Marina Coastal Expressway is Singapore's most expensive expressway, and will cost S$2.5 billion for the 5-kilometre route?
Did you know that the proposed underground car park at the northern end of Lal Dighi will be the biggest in Calcutta and is located in a heritage zone?
Did you know that the siege of Anatoly Pepelyayev's forces in the Pacific port of Ayan in June 1923 was the last military action of the Yakut Revolt and the Russian Civil War?
Did you know that the writer and actor, Henryk Grynberg, is known as the "chronicler of the fate of the Polish Jews"?
Did you know that Artabanes was a 6th century Armenian noble who served both the Sassanid Persians and the Eastern Roman Empire, and became involved in a plot against Emperor Justinian I?
Did you know that Canadian sculptor John Hooper (sculpture pictured) previously lived in England, China, India, and South Africa, and was a captain in the British Army?
Did you know that Congressman Albert Richard Thomas brought the Johnson Space Center to Houston, Texas in 1961?
Did you know that Gabriel Garcia Márquez based his book  News of a Kidnapping on the fight by Colombian politician Alberto Villamizar against kidnappings in that country?
Did you know that Thomas Creede printed ten editions of William Shakespeare's plays, several of them poorly-written bad quartos?
Did you know that a galloping horse must breathe with every stride, due to the movement of the gut contents pushing forward and back on the diaphragm?
Did you know that any two friends who live together more than three years may be legally considered partners in an adult interdependent relationship in Alberta, just like spouses in a common-law marriage?
Did you know that at the age of 10, Megan Zheng became the first Singaporean to win a Golden Horse Award?
Did you know that during the American Civil War John Breckinridge Castleman was sentenced to death for spying, but his execution was suspended by Abraham Lincoln?
Did you know that even though the 1952 steel strike lasted 53 days and cost the U.S. $4 billion in lost economic output, it was settled on nearly the same terms offered by the union at the strike's beginning?
Did you know that the April 1920 Polish-Ukrainian agreement became the legal justification of the Kiev Offensive against Bolshevik Russia?
Did you know that the Asia Insurance Building in Singapore was the tallest building in Southeast Asia when it was completed in 1954?
Did you know that the Brand Junction shopping centre development in Melbourne, Victoria, is located on land known from 1937 until 1962 as the Janefield Colony for the Treatment of Mental Defectives?
Did you know that the Former Singapore Badminton Hall was marked as a historical site by Singapore's National Heritage Board in 1999, as it held two Thomas Cup tournaments and was the vote counting station for a landmark 1962 referendum?
Did you know that the Makuleke region of Kruger National Park is a natural history area with almost 75% of the diversity of the whole park?
Did you know that the Profane Oaths Act 1745, which criminalised "profane cursing and swearing" in the United Kingdom, was not fully repealed until 1967?
Did you know that the Trent Codices are the largest single music manuscript source of the entire 15th century?
Did you know that the famous black-and-white striped shirts of Italian football club Juventus were based on the kit of English Notts County, replacing the club's initial pink and black colours in 1903?
Did you know that the genus Prietella includes two threatened species of eyeless, unpigmented catfish adapted to living in caves?
Did you know that the recent treasure recovery by Odyssey Marine Exploration prompted international media attention and controversy with the Spanish government over the rights to the treasure?
Did you know that there is a mass grave of over 5,500 mental patients in the English countryside near the site of the former Hampshire County Lunatic Asylum?
Did you know that while anarcho-syndicalists are usually a minority in their respective labor movements, the anarcho-syndicalist General Confederation of Labour was not only the largest but the only union in post-World War I Portugal?
Did you know that Georgia Governor Carl Sanders declared May 16, 1964 to be George C. Griffin day, because of his service to Georgia Tech?
Did you know that Old College, the first building on Northwestern University's campus, stood for over 100 years, despite being built as a temporary structure?
Did you know that St James' and St Paul's Church, Marton in Cheshire, England, is one of the oldest timber-framed churches in Europe?
Did you know that fetal movement begins as early as seven weeks after conception?
Did you know that it has been suggested that using Incan agriculture technologies (such as the andenes) again, would solve the malnutrition problems of the modern Andean peoples for many decades?
Did you know that the 10-day battle for the Festung Kolberg in March 1945 was one of the most intense urban battles of the Polish First Army, destroying most of the city?
Did you know that the Alfathi brand of red meat from Nortura combines the strict Islamic rules concerning food preparation for slaughter with Norwegian cuisine?
Did you know that the character of Philostrate, the Master of Revels in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, may have been created as a way to poke fun at play censorship?
Did you know that 19th century cartoonist and artist Edward Jump gained a status of renown in the U.S. states of California and Washington, D.C. for his satirical caricatures?
Did you know that Bob Massie set a world record by being the first player to take 16 wickets on his Test debut in 1972?
Did you know that Jacques de Morgan in 1887-89 unearthed 576 ancient graves around Alaverdi and Akhatala, near the Tiflis-Alexandropol railway line?
Did you know that Polish-American journalist and politician Michał Kruszka was at constant odds with the American Catholic Church, with reading his newspaper declared sinful and many lawsuits being filed by both parties?
Did you know that Psalm 83 is cited by the Jehovah's Witnesses as a proof of Jehovah being God's personal name?
Did you know that The Princess Anne was elected Chancellor of the University of London in preference to Nelson Mandela and Jack Jones in the first contest in the history of the position?
Did you know that the Boot Monument at Saratoga National Historical Park donated by John Watts de Peyster is the only American war memorial that does not bear the name of its honoree?
Did you know that the Bull Stone House property in New York, is home to the only surviving New World Dutch barn?
Did you know that the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 killed four people and inspired Peter Benchley's novel Jaws (1974)?
Did you know that the Russian sailing ship STS Sedov features a glass-domed banquet hall with a stage and a movie theatre?
Did you know that the U.S. state of Utah built the Wendover Cut-off across the Great Salt Lake Desert in the early 1920s to force motorists to Southern California to take the Arrowhead Trail and remain in that state for about 200 miles (300 km) more?
Did you know that the West End Street Railway fired Cyrus S. Ching in 1901 after he was nearly electrocuted on the job, only to appoint him manager two months later?
Did you know that the childhood home of Emily Carr, one of Canada's most famous painters, is open to the public today as a museum known as Emily Carr House — and still contains the family Bible?
Did you know that the pinhole camera model is an ideal camera without lensing aberrations?
Did you know that Étienne-Gaspard Robert terrified audiences with his pioneering phantasmagoria shows and greatly influenced others with his ballooning feats?
Did you know that Black Entertainment Television comedy series We Got to Do Better, had its name changed from Hot Ghetto Mess amidst allegations of enforcing negative stereotypes of African Americans?
Did you know that John Singleton Copley's oil-on-canvas The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 is one of Britain’s largest oil paintings?
Did you know that Kathleen Parlow was the first foreigner admitted to the St. Petersburg Conservatory?
Did you know that Odile Crick sketched the DNA double helix for the 1953 paper in Nature by her husband Francis Crick and James Watson announcing its discovery?
Did you know that Wally Tatomir, head equipment manager of the Carolina Hurricanes, holds four patents on ice hockey-related equipment?
Did you know that despite being heavily outnumbered, Chief Black Hawk's forces held off the American militia at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights long enough for many civilians to escape?
Did you know that during the 537 Siege of Rome, the defenders used the statues from the Mausoleum of Hadrian as missiles?
Did you know that folktales claim that 19th century Ethiopian poet Gebre Hanna spread rumors of his own death to trick Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia into sending money for a proper funeral?
Did you know that in 1899, Sir Samuel Gillott lost the mayorship of Melbourne by one vote?
Did you know that professional wrestler Norvell Austin was part of the first mixed race bad guy tag team in the Southern United States?
Did you know that the 1758 British construction of Fort William in the heart of populous Gobindapur incited the whole colony to migrate  north of Calcutta?
Did you know that the Chester Roman Amphitheatre was the largest amphitheatre in Roman Britain, seating over 8,000 people?
Did you know that the buke shohatto, a Japanese code of conduct for feudal lords, served as the foundation of the bakuhan system of government?
Did you know that the group who buried the only casualty of the Buffalo Grove massacre were killed the following day?
Did you know that the term Art Deco was derived by abbreviating the words Arts Décoratifs in the title of the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes?
Did you know that when the roof of Dublin's Hellfire Club blew off, locals attributed it to Satan's punishment for using a cairn as building material?
Did you know that while the majority of Benin's formal workforce are represented by trade unions, nationwide use of child labour and forced labour continues?
Did you know that 17.5% of the murders in Colombia in 1993 were vigilante "social cleansings" of gays, transvestites, and prostitutes?
Did you know that ACS Chemical Biology is the first peer-reviewed scientific journal to publish 3D interactive chemical structures replicating printed figures?
Did you know that Albertan politician Joseph Unwin was arrested for producing an official leaflet urging the "extermination" of opposition leader David Milwyn Duggan and Senator William Griesbach?
Did you know that Archbishop Vasily Kalika of Novgorod was not appointed to his post, but was elected by the popular assembly?
Did you know that Bob Meusel was best known as a member of the fabled "Murderer's Row" of the New York Yankees championship teams of the 1920s?
Did you know that Colonel Johnston de Peyster raised the first U.S. flag over Virginia's Capitol Building since the state's secession in 1861?
Did you know that Henry Wallis' The Stonebreaker shows a dead labourer who appears to be resting?
Did you know that Hutti Gold Mines Limited, located in the state of Karnataka, is the only company in India that produces gold by mining and extracting it from its ore?
Did you know that Jordan Park, set up in 1889 as Kraków's first public playground, gave free meals to children?
Did you know that Nalvadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar, king of Mysore, set up a factory to manufacture Mysore Sandal Soap because World War I prevented any export of sandalwood?
Did you know that Robin Starveling, a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, may be a satire of one of Queen Elizabeth's suitors?
Did you know that Runme Shaw, philanthropist and founder of the Shaw Organisation, started his Singapore movie business in a makeshift timber cinema known as The Empire in 1927?
Did you know that Russian émigré Jerzy Bulanow captained the Poland national football team through the 1920s and early 1930s?
Did you know that St. Paul Roman Catholic Church in St. Paul, Oregon is the oldest brick building in the Pacific Northwest?
Did you know that Town Creek Indian Mound near Mount Gilead, North Carolina, preserves a ceremonial mound built by the Pee Dee with 563 burials?
Did you know that Weston-super-Mare's Birnbeck Pier has the longest lifeboat slipway in England?
Did you know that an image of Tesslynn O'Cull, a child abuse victim who was murdered by her stepfather at the age of two, was used in the Stop the Abuse poster for Oregon?
Did you know that even though Jefferson Smith had been shot three times he managed to escape an attack by Native Americans at Blue Mounds Fort?
Did you know that following the Battle of Waddams Grove members of the Illinois militia returned to Galena with the scalps of two Sauk warriors?
Did you know that in 2006, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency arrested an ex-bodyguard of Kim Jong-il for trading fake aphrodisiacs?
Did you know that in Puerto Rico alone, about two people die and 25 more are injured each year from celebratory gunfire?
Did you know that one of the survivors of the Spafford Farm massacre (memorial pictured) hid in the forest for days after the attack because he erroneously thought that a local fort was overtaken by the Menominee?
Did you know that some species of the catfish genus Cetopsis are only known by a single specimen?
Did you know that the French lawyer and historian Nicolas Chorier was also a writer of erotic fiction (work pictured)?
Did you know that the New England Seamount chain was once at or above sea level off the Massachusetts coast?
Did you know that the Polish Army in France continued to fight in the Battle of France despite Pétain’s call for armistice and demobilization?
Did you know that the Yangzhou riot of 1868 almost led to a Sino-British war because many Chinese believed that English missionaries were stealing children?
Did you know that the four catfish species of the genus Pseudolithoxus are only found in the Amazonas and Bolívar states of Venezuela?
Did you know that there are 59 conjectured reconstructions of the Olympia Master's work on the East pediment of the Temple of Zeus?
Did you know that two Italian towns competed over who would receive pieces of Saint Paternian — one ultimately receiving a finger, while the other took the rest?
Did you know that while working for the Department of Justice attorney Jacob Tanzer worked on the case that led to the movie Mississippi Burning?
Did you know that Archbishop Gennady of Novgorod commissioned the first complete Slavic translation of the Bible?
Did you know that Bob Case named the cyclone known as The Perfect Storm?
Did you know that Catholic bishop and Visigothic political leader Masona built the first hospital in Spain and endowed it with farms to provide its patients with food?
Did you know that Filipino Ilustrados originally demanded that the Philippines become a province of Spain instead of independence?
Did you know that Francis Julius LeMoyne built the first crematory in the United States and was its third crematee?
Did you know that Joaquín Camacho, an agitator for the Independence of Colombia, was executed by firing squad when he was 50 years old, blind, and paralyzed?
Did you know that Major Derek Cooper and his wife, Pamela, assisted with refugee relief efforts from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 to the Siege of Beirut in 1982, and established the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians in 1984?
Did you know that Oppa may have been both Bishop of Seville and King of the Visigoths at the time of the Umayyad conquest of Hispania?
Did you know that RMS Dunottar Castle transported Winston Churchill, Frederick Russell Burnham, Robert Baden-Powell, and Lord Roberts, among others, to and from Cape Colony, South Africa?
Did you know that Soviet diplomat Pyotr Voykov was assassinated in Warsaw for his part in the killing of Tsar Nicholas II and his family?
Did you know that Stanisław Patek, dropped from the Russian Empire's list of attorneys for defending political dissidents, was later involved in the creation of a new Polish legal system?
Did you know that Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's film directing debut was on Torment, a 1944 film about a sadistic Latin teacher?
Did you know that Tranby House is the oldest surviving brick building in Perth, Australia?
Did you know that high levels of ultraviolet colors on the neck of a male Platysaurus broadleyi, a type of lizard in the Cordylidae family, indicate dominance over other males?
Did you know that humans have lived near Nevada's Swan Lake Nature Study Area since 400 AD?
Did you know that in 1904, H. Chandler Egan won the U.S. Amateur golf championship, and was a member of both the U.S. college  championship and the gold medal-winning United States Olympic golf teams?
Did you know that in place of execution, Saint Cerbonius was exiled after the bear brought in to kill him instead licked his feet?
Did you know that it has not rained at the Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning since they began performing a virgin ritual?
Did you know that novelist Amelia Barr's most successful body of work is called the "Cherry Croft novels", after the summer house where she wrote them?
Did you know that novelist Wilhelm Stepper-Tristis actively supported the Hungarian Soviet Republic, lived part of his life as a vagabond, and probably died in a Nazi concentration camp?
Did you know that over 15,000 men of the battle-hardened 10th and 11th Divisions of the Imperial German Army were demobilised following World War I?
Did you know that the 1869 collapse of the 2,500-foot-long Hennepin Island tunnel resulted in cementing over the only major waterfall on the Mississippi River?
Did you know that the 850-ton Belle Tout lighthouse was pushed 17 metres (56 feet) away from a cliff face to save it from coastal erosion?
Did you know that the Beyoncé song "Suga Mama" features a sample of the song "Searching for Soul" by funk band Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers?
Did you know that the Greek frigate Hellas, the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy, was burned by the Admiral Andreas Miaoulis during a civil war in 1831?
Did you know that the RevoPower motorized bicycle kit was inspired by a visit to a bicycle taxi manufacturer?
Did you know that the Swiss Vetterli rifles, a series of Winchester-derived repeating rifles, were Europe's most advanced service rifles at the time of their introduction in 1869?
Did you know that the creators of stage musical Furry Tales were inspired by Anthrocon, the world's largest furry convention?
Did you know that the first reference to toilet paper was made in the year 589 AD by the Chinese scholar Yan Zhitui?
Did you know that the former head of the Royal Australian Navy, George Francis Hyde, was the first Australian naval officer to become an honorary aide-de-camp to King George V?
Did you know that through 1981, Arizona's silver mining industry had produced a cumulative total of 490 million troy ounces of silver?
Did you know that two people died outside of San Francisco's Pier 26 during the 1934 Bloody Thursday Riots?
Did you know that Éva Gauthier was the first classically trained singer to present the works of George Gershwin in concert?
Did you know that Ardencaple Castle is used as a navigational aid for shipping on the Firth of Clyde?
Did you know that British soldier and poet Patrick Hore-Ruthven met his wife while rusticated from Cambridge for biting a policeman's nose?
Did you know that Edward Kozłowski, the second Polish-American bishop, died after just a year in office?
Did you know that El Güegüense, a theatrical play written anonymously in the 16th century, is regarded as the first literary work of Nicaragua?
Did you know that Japanese writer Makoto Oda wrote a book on his travels through Europe and Asia on a budget of a dollar a day?
Did you know that Kunstnernes Hus is an early Functionalist structure from 1930, built by and for Norwegian artists to showcase their work?
Did you know that Major-General Andrew Gilbert Wauchope was killed by the opening shots of the Battle of Magersfontein?
Did you know that Marion Harris was the first widely known white singer to sing jazz and blues songs?