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Did you know that Maelsuthain O'Carroll, advisor to High King Brian Boru, was called the "chief doctor of the western world in his time" and "sage of Ireland"?
Did you know that Mimoides phaon was the first swallowtail butterfly of the genus Mimoides to stray into the United States?
Did you know that St Matthew's Church, Langford, Oxfordshire has two Anglo-Saxon carved stone reliefs of the Crucifixion, and that in one of them Christ's left and right arms have later been swapped over?
Did you know that St Saviour's Church, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, was built for the poorer people of the town who could not afford the pew rents at St Mary's Church?
Did you know that a myth from Choiseul Island has a man who betrayed a tribal chief punished by suffocation by the flatulence caused by the people around him eating the kernels of the Tahitian Chestnut tree?
Did you know that after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States tried to buy the last Almirante Latorre-class battleship from Chile?
Did you know that after winning the Welsh heavyweight boxing title on Boxing Day, Tom Norris held onto the title for just 100 days before being beaten by Dick Power?
Did you know that although the U.S. Supreme Court denied Clyde Summers the right to practice law in Illinois in 1945 in In re Summers, Summers later was a highly influential scholar in the field of labor law?
Did you know that as of 1996, Linda J. Wachner, then chief executive officer of Warnaco Group, was the highest paid female corporate executive in the United States?
Did you know that cardiologist Richard Bing worked with the Nobel Prize-winning surgeon Alexis Carrel and aviator Charles Lindbergh on the early development of machine perfusion?
Did you know that the Reverend David Sheppard took a sabbatical from his East End Mission for the MCC tour of Australia in 1962-63, making a century to win the Second Test at Melbourne and preaching to packed cathedrals from Perth to Brisbane?
Did you know that the owl, dog, pelican, opossum and squirrel sculptures decorating the Perelman Building in Philadelphia symbolize attributes of insurance: wisdom, fidelity, charity, protection, and frugality?
Did you know that the voyagers and adventurers in the Outline of canoeing and kayaking include Freya Hoffmeister, a German kayaker who was the first woman to complete a solo circumnavigation of Australia in 2009?
Did you know that the west gallery of St Mary Magdalene's Church, Stapleford, Leicestershire, contains a Coade stone fireplace, the Royal arms, and a dome decorated with putti?
Did you know that the winner of the Notre Dame–Stanford rivalry football game is awarded the Legends Trophy, which is a combination of Irish crystal and California redwood?
Did you know that two conductors shared performances of Verdi's Messa da Requiem in St. Martin, Idstein?
Did you know that two women wrestled in lingerie at the World Wrestling Federation's No Mercy (2001) event?
Did you know that Bogalay Kyaw Hlaing, Paw Oo Thett, U Aung Khin, U Aung Myint, U Ba Kyi, U Kin Maung, U Lu Tin, U Lun Gywe, U Ngwe Gaing and Po Po are all artists from Burma?
Did you know that Buckminster Fuller invented the Stockade Building System, which uses bricks made from wood fibers and plaster?
Did you know that Colombian singer-songwriter Ilona started her career singing on buses?
Did you know that HIP 13044 b (artist's impression pictured), discovered in November 2010, is the first known case of a planet which originated outside of our galaxy, but then got absorbed into it?
Did you know that Hranislav, a Bulgarian military commander in Byzantine service, was stabbed by his ally Roger de Flor, head of the Catalan Company?
Did you know that Kamadhenu, "the mother of all cows", was born from the burp or the vomit of a deity, according to some Hindu scriptures?
Did you know that Secretary of Guam Denver Dickerson was born in Nevada State Prison?
Did you know that Tel Zeror, an archaeological tel in the Sharon Plain, Israel, was excavated by a Japanese expedition in the 1960s?
Did you know that Temple Beth Israel in Plattsburgh is the only synagogue in New York north of Glens Falls that has a full-time rabbi?
Did you know that Thomas Hooman's obituary in The Times claimed that he scored the winning goal in the 1872 FA Cup Final, contradicting all known contemporary newspaper reports on the match?
Did you know that a Pirate ship was hit during the Action of 12 October 1950?
Did you know that a record store clerk once told Randy Newman that the 1970 album Nilsson Sings Newman nearly finished off Harry Nilsson's career?
Did you know that an illuminated manuscript, the Rochefoucauld Grail, contains what is regarded as the oldest and most comprehensive version of the legend of King Arthur and the Holy Grail?
Did you know that baseball player Dan Meyer, who would go on to play 12 seasons in Major League Baseball, was inducted into the Mater Dei High School baseball hall of fame in 1970?
Did you know that for the Game Boy Advance version of their Activision Anthology, Activision selected the Atari 2600 homebrew game Oystron, in which the player shoots "space oysters" to collect pearls?
Did you know that in 1999, James C. Kent ruled that the Government of Canada must answer discovery questions from the Six Nations pertaining to its handling of indigenous land on the Grand River?
Did you know that the 8th Viscount Galway, the fifth Governor-General of New Zealand, had his term twice extended because of World War II?
Did you know that the Areopagus sermon was the most dramatic and fullest speech of the missionary career of Apostle Paul?
Did you know that the Connellan air disaster of 1977 remains the only aircraft suicide attack in Australia's history?
Did you know that the Dutch ironclad HNLMS Prins Hendrik der Nederlanden transported troops during the occupation of Lombok and Karangasem in July 1894?
Did you know that the Pop's Props Pinocchio, an ultralight aircraft, was designed to resemble the Fokker Eindecker of Fokker Scourge fame?
Did you know that the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, is filled with narrow alleys, cobblestone streets and thoroughfares that are partially or fully underground (tunnel pictured)?
Did you know that the only active players with a career .330 batting average in Major League Baseball are Albert Pujols and Ichiro Suzuki?
Did you know that the round base of the original Archer Point Light, an 1883 lighthouse near Cooktown, Queensland, Australia, which was replaced in 1975, still exists at the location?
Did you know that the sinking of a North Korean troop ship in the Battle of Pusan on the first day of the Korean War is credited with preventing the fall of the South Korean port city of Pusan?
Did you know that there were concerns that the BBC-Marconi Type A microphone would infringe the patent of a similar, but more expensive, microphone made by RCA?
Did you know that while Burmese painters affiliated with the Burma Art Club accepted realistically painted nudes as art, very few of them attempted to paint nudity themselves?
Did you know that Amedeo Modigliani was commissioned to paint Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz for "ten francs a sitting and a little alcohol"?
Did you know that Frank Bruggy set Major League Baseball personal bests in batting average, home runs and runs batted in during the 1924 season, his rookie year?
Did you know that John Phillips, a prominent English master carpenter, builder and architect, constructed James Gibbs' wooden dome for the Radcliffe Camera, Oxford?
Did you know that Ladyhawke won six prizes at the 2009 New Zealand Music Awards?
Did you know that Psilocybe semilanceata is the world's most common psychoactive mushroom?
Did you know that Rygge Station, opened in 1879, became an airport rail link when Moss Airport, Rygge had its first flight in 2008?
Did you know that Spartacus: Blood and Sand actress Lesley-Ann Brandt was born in Cape Town, is fluent in Afrikaans and played competitive field hockey in South Africa?
Did you know that Theodore W. Kheel's deals ended various strikes in New York City, but Mayor Ed Koch blamed Kheel for overly generous pay packages that led to the city's fiscal crisis in the 1970s?
Did you know that baseball player Kevin Pasley hit his first and only major league home run in his final major league at-bat?
Did you know that brandy and wine seized from a Dutch ship on 18 August 1779 changed hands during the night, as the captain of the Monsieur and the squadron leader, John Paul Jones, both claimed it for themselves?
Did you know that disagreements over the classification of fossil primates within the infraorder Tarsiiformes lie at the heart of the debate over early primate evolution and the origins of "higher primates"?
Did you know that executioner Robert Baxter, who was blind in one eye, once caused his assistant to fall through a trapdoor along with the man sentenced to death by hanging?
Did you know that former college basketball standout Byron Larkin admitted that he "didn't put [his] best foot forward trying to make it" to the NBA?
Did you know that in 1945 the first motor lifeboat at Ilfracombe Lifeboat Station was sold to the Netherlands because that country was short of lifeboats after World War II?
Did you know that methoxyflurane, an emergency analgesic self-administered with a disposable inhaler, was first synthesized as a by-product of chemistry research on uranium enrichment in the Manhattan Project?
Did you know that the 1932 Changma earthquake in the China resulted in a surface rupture of approximately 116 km (72 mi), the largest rupture observed for a reverse-slip event in Asia in the 20th century?
Did you know that the Cavell Van (pictured before restoration) carried the bodies of Edith Cavell, Charles Fryatt and The Unknown Warrior?
Did you know that the Crissal Thrasher is a bird that runs more than it flies?
Did you know that the Ramses–Hattusili Treaty or Treaty of Kadesh, ratified by the Hittite Empire and Egypt in 1258 BC, is the oldest surviving international treaty?
Did you know that the economy of the Kanmaw Kyun in the Mergui Archipelago is dependent on rubber plantations?
Did you know that the extinct arum family plants Petrocardium and Montrichardia aquatica are known only from the Paleocene Cerrejón Formation rainforest in Colombia?
Did you know that the magnitude of the 1881 Nicobar Islands earthquake has been estimated with records from tide gauges set up by the Great Trigonometric Survey?
Did you know that the muscle cuirass is one of the elements that distinguished the attire of a senior officer in the Roman Army?
Did you know that the rowhouses at 322–344 East 69th Street on Manhattan's Upper East Side are a rare surviving group of the many rowhouses built after the completion of the Third Avenue El?
Did you know that Bay Rock Light, a lighthouse which originally stood on an islet northwest of Magnetic Island, near Townsville, Queensland, Australia, was relocated in 1992 to the Townsville Maritime Museum?
Did you know that Bruno Mars will drag a piano through Los Angeles in the music video for "Grenade"?
Did you know that Brutus Beefcake could not compete at the World Wrestling Federation's SummerSlam in 1990 after several bones in his face were broken in a parasailing accident?
Did you know that Charles Ross, who commanded a British Army division during World War I, was the younger brother of a Nobel laureate and the author of five mystery novels?
Did you know that Film Quarterly called the documentary The Truth According to Wikipedia "a sharp and wide-ranging overview of wiki-pistemology"?
Did you know that Master of the Mix is a reality television elimination competition among disk jockeys vying for a US$250,000 Smirnoff contract?
Did you know that St John the Baptist's Church, Avon Dassett, Warwickshire, built in 1868, contains a coffin lid inscribed with the effigy of a 13th-century tonsured deacon?
Did you know that United Nations forces had a decisive logistical advantage in the Battle of Pusan Perimeter in the Korean War, despite having no pre-established plan for fighting there?
Did you know that Wyoming received four times as much money per person from the Homeland Security Grant Program as did California and New York?
Did you know that after suppressing the Albanian Revolt of 1910, the Ottoman government prohibited publications written in the Albanian alphabet and closed the Albanian schools?
Did you know that although Janis Paige's sitcom It's Always Jan bombed, its cast included both Arte Johnson, who went on to fame in Laugh-In and Sid Melton in The Danny Thomas Show and Green Acres?
Did you know that in each of the 2001 NBDL and 2006 NBA Development League Expansion drafts, there were four players selected who had previously been chosen in NBA Drafts?
Did you know that minister Benjamin Rolfe, his wife and infant child were killed in an August 29, 1708 raid on Haverhill, Massachusetts, by a French and Indian force during Queen Anne's War?
Did you know that pitcher Fred Klobedanz once led the National League in winning percentage but, according to one analyst, actually deserved to have a losing record?
Did you know that previous winners of the Nevada City Classic, the second-oldest bicycle race in the US, include Greg LeMond (1979–81) and Lance Armstrong (2009)?
Did you know that several peaks of the Andean Cordillera de la Ramada, including the highest, Mercedario, were first climbed by a Polish expedition of 1934?
Did you know that the 1887 Michigan Wolverines football team taught the members of the newly formed Notre Dame team how to play the game of football?
Did you know that the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy was the first United States organization focused on preserving rare breeds of livestock?
Did you know that the First-tier Tribunal in the United Kingdom hears cases on such diverse subjects as freedom of information, war pensions and operating licences for gambling companies?
Did you know that the Swedish runestone Östergötland Runic Inscription MÖLM1960;230 is one of four runestones that mention guilds that existed in Sweden during the Viking Age?
Did you know that the orchid dupe wasp ejaculates visible amounts of semen as it tries to copulate with flowers of the leafless-, large- and tartan- tongue orchids, which it mistakes for a female wasp?
Did you know that the track cycling venue used for the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal was later converted into an indoor zoo?
Did you know that Ōkōchi Sansō, the villa of the Japanese film star Denjirō Ōkōchi, contains several buildings designated cultural properties by the Japanese government?
Did you know that , by 1900, there were so many Swedes in Omaha, Nebraska, that people started calling the north side of the city "Little Stockholm"?
Did you know that 500 kilometres (310 mi) separates populations of the shrub Adenanthos oreophilus?
Did you know that JFK in Ireland includes an account of a disagreement between John F. Kennedy and Éamon de Valera?
Did you know that John Stanley Booth survived being wounded in the Battle of France and a tour of duty with Bomber Command, only to be killed when the aircraft he was flying struck a landing light?
Did you know that Nomo, Mercker, Milton, Verlander, Lester, Zambrano and Sánchez pitched the latest major league no-hitters for the Dodgers, Braves, Twins, Tigers, Red Sox, Cubs and Giants, respectively?
Did you know that United States lightship WAL 539 was the last lightvessel constructed for the United States Lighthouse Service before it became part of the Coast Guard?
Did you know that a Roman road near Pertwood, unusually, was diverted around an ancient tumulus instead of going through it?
Did you know that a new fish species of the loach family was caught for the first time in 1993 in the Great Tenasserim River, located near the Burmese town of Tanintharyi?
Did you know that actress and chanteuse Raquel Meller attempted to book a deluxe suite for her five Pekingese on a 1926 transatlantic voyage aboard the SS Leviathan?
Did you know that after Armin Maiwald produced an award-winning children's film depicting his own childhood experience in the grim aftermath of WWII in Germany, he said he never wanted to see the film again?
Did you know that after a long career as an educator, David Dwight Baldwin published historic lists of Hawaiian land snails and liverworts?
Did you know that after right-wing, anti-Semite activist Ernst Werner Techow was released from jail he joined the French Foreign Legion and helped save hundreds of Jews during World War II?
Did you know that among the drawings by Andreas Bloch are caricatures in satirical magazines and illustrations in Fridtjof Nansen's book on the Fram expedition?
Did you know that both the British Royal Navy and German Kriegsmarine were dissatisfied with the results of the Action of 28 January 1945?
Did you know that disputes between rival railway companies during the building of the Cleveland Railway became so intense that they led to a "battle" on the River Tees?
Did you know that in March 1994, the communist-led Indian People's Front rallied tens of thousands of barefoot, starving workers, some of whom walked more than 100 kilometres (62 mi) to reach the venue?
Did you know that in defying Spanish dominance, locals built a chapel at a higher elevation next to Fort Santa Cruz in Oran, Algeria?
Did you know that in hippika gymnasia or Roman cavalry tournaments, riders wearing elaborate armour (helmet pictured) competed in teams to reenact battles from mythology such as those between the Greeks and Amazons?
Did you know that of the four German destroyers of the Type 1934 class, only Z4 Richard Beitzen survived World War II, while Z1 Leberecht Maass and Z3 Max Schulz were sunk in a friendly fire incident and Z2 Georg Thiele was scuttled at Narvik?
Did you know that only six of the U.S. Supreme Court's nine justices participated in a 1950 anti-communist oath case?
Did you know that previous winners of Wayne Rooney's Street Striker have won trips to Brazil and South Africa?
Did you know that the 12th-century Church of St Nicholas in Melnik, Bulgaria, may have owned and used one of the oldest extant church bells in Europe?
Did you know that the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb celebrates its holiday on 3 May, in memory of the 1995 rocket attack in which its building was hit, killing a student?
Did you know that the Upper Tribunal, which can set precedent and enforce its decisions without intervention from the High Court of England and Wales, is the first UK tribunal with the power of judicial review?
Did you know that the only surviving Marion Model 91 steam shovel, in Le Roy, New York, may have been used to dig the Panama Canal?
Did you know that unlike all later Winter Olympics, the venues of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, included separate bobsleigh and luge tracks used for competition?
Did you know that Adenanthos eyrei was formally named after Edward John Eyre, the first explorer known to have visited the only place where this Western Australian shrub has been found?
Did you know that Beth Israel Congregation of Chester County, the first American synagogue to hire a woman as senior rabbi, is Conservative?
Did you know that Cincinnati's Nast Trinity United Methodist Church was the first German Methodist Episcopal church in the world?
Did you know that Commonwealth Games boxing gold medallist Simon Vallily was once a football trainee at Middlesbrough Football Club?
Did you know that Cornell University labor law professor James A. Gross has worked as a labor relations mediator for the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball?
Did you know that French record producer and executive Michel Esteban, who co-founded ZE Records in New York in 1978, is now the director of a cultural center in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil?
Did you know that Gabriel Dessauer conducted in Wiesbaden the premiere of Max Reger's Hebbel Requiem in the organ version of Max Beckschäfer?
Did you know that Parque Batlle is considered the "lungs" of the city of Montevideo due to the large number of trees planted there?
Did you know that Regulus bulgaricus, the only fossil kinglet, is known from a single ulna?
Did you know that historian Dan Flores wrote a study of the Red River Expedition, which set out for the American Southwest in 1806 just as Lewis and Clark were returning from the Pacific Northwest?
Did you know that in 1929 the Hudson Motor Car Company ranked third in total U.S. production by targeting budget minded buyers, but introduced the Greater Eight, a premium line of cars, at the height of the Depression?
Did you know that in 1979, the Seattle Mariners team trainer was taking pitcher Byron McLaughlin's luggage through airport security when he was detained by authorities who discovered a .357 Magnum in his bag?
Did you know that in 2007 cashiers at Cencosud's Santa Isabel supermarkets in Chile were subject to strip searches, and many wore diapers because they had to work nine-hour shifts without bathroom breaks?
Did you know that some counseling sessions of the ex-gay group Homosexuals Anonymous included "desensitizing" naked massages, but led the men being counseled to begin having sexual encounters with each other?
Did you know that the 2007 home invasion murders in Cheshire, Connecticut, have been called "possibly the most widely publicized crime in the state's history"?
Did you know that the Douglas Aircraft Corporation's Cloudster II, intended for use as an executive transport, was powered by two engines but only had a single propeller?
Did you know that the Guisborough Helmet, an ancient Roman cavalry helmet discovered at Guisborough, North Yorkshire, was buried in mysterious circumstances far from any known Roman sites?
Did you know that the Jadeite Cabbage, a piece of jadeite carved into the shape of a Chinese cabbage with a locust and katydid camouflaged in the leaves, is the "most famous masterpiece" in Taiwan's National Palace Museum?
Did you know that the chemical element einsteinium was discovered in the debris of the Ivy Mike nuclear test in 1952?
Did you know that the creator of Kaboom!'s villainous "Mad Bomber" also programmed a series of Brain Games that have been said to improve memory?
Did you know that the execution of Witold Pilecki, Polish Righteous among the Nations, was carried out by the Mokotów Prison Staff Sergeant Piotr Śmietański?
Did you know that the foundation stones of Armstrong Chapel in Indian Hill, Ohio, are held together by earth rather than mortar?
Did you know that the solo parts of Joseph Haydn's oratorio Die Schöpfung were performed by Elisabeth Scholl, Daniel Sans and Andreas Pruys in the Basilika of Schloss Johannisberg?
Did you know that then-unknown singer Estelle featured on DJ Skitz's debut album in 2001?
Did you know that when Bernard de Nonancourt, a French Resistance member and future head of Laurent-Perrier, uncovered Adolf Hitler's wine cellar, he found hundreds of cases of 1928 Champagne Salon looted from France?
Did you know that American musician Jennifer Frautschi plays an Antonio Stradivari violin known as the "ex-Cadiz," dated to 1722?
Did you know that Bagyi Aung Soe, now recognized as one of Burma's most important modern artists, lived in poverty and was considered by some to be mad?
Did you know that French privateer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville died of yellow fever in Cuba on July 8, 1706 while organizing an attempt to capture the capital of the Province of Carolina (present-day South Carolina)?
Did you know that Guinean socialist politician Barry III was nicknamed "Little Elephant", due to the similarities of his political programme with that of Sékou Touré, whose nickname was "Elephant"?
Did you know that John Mills Houston, a stage actor, was one of 19 men selected to act as President Woodrow Wilson's honor guard during World War I?
Did you know that No. 71 Wing RAAF was active to the last day of World War II, flying its final mission only hours before news arrived of the Japanese surrender on 15 August 1945?
Did you know that Texas State Rep. Edmund Kuempel, while under anesthesia from surgery, hung up on former U.S. President George W. Bush in 2009, not realizing who was on the phone?