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Did you know that blind electrical engineer Jonathan Nash Hearder, when called to advise upon the Atlantic Cable in 1858, tested it by inserting his tongue into the 2000-mile-long circuit?
Did you know that historian and museum director Arnfinn Moland has also contributed to films, writing a book on Max Manus together with screenwriter Thomas Nordseth-Tiller?
Did you know that in gratitude for being introduced to her future husband Roland Bonaparte, Marie Blanc reportedly gifted his sister Jeanne Bonaparte one million francs?
Did you know that one of the English leaders in the successful defense of the 1705 Siege of St. John's, Newfoundland, was a mason?
Did you know that opposing admirals Adam Duncan and Jan de Winter played a game of whist in the aftermath of the Battle of Camperdown?
Did you know that slave-built Federal style Wilkinson-Martin House, in Pulaski, Tennessee, stayed in one family for 130 years?
Did you know that team MVP Gerald Ford recalled that Michigan's 1934 "Punt, Pass and Prayer" offense lost punter John Regeczi and passer "Hard Luck Bill" Renner and "all we had left was the prayer"?
Did you know that the Communist Party of Andalusia won 57.4% of the votes in the 1983 municipal election in Córdoba, Spain?
Did you know that the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt in southwestern British Columbia is the site of Canada's largest recorded Holocene explosive eruption 2,350 years ago at the Mount Meager massif?
Did you know that the Hirtz compass, a medical device invented in 1907 that was used to locate bullets and shrapnel in patients, usually gave results precise within 1–2 millimeters?
Did you know that the Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotive 520 had its boiler explode and pulled a "railfan special", before it was preserved in the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania?
Did you know that the goliath conch, Eustrombus goliath, is the largest of the true conchs?
Did you know that the pancakes called galettes originated in Upper Brittany and crêpes in Lower Brittany?
Did you know that the sight of the "gravity defying" Kyaiktiyo Pagoda or Golden Rock, in the Mon State of Myanmar, has been described as "enough to inspire a religious conversion"?
Did you know that the stems of the neotropical palm genus Cryosophila are covered with spines that are actually modified roots?
Did you know that when Sir Thomas Grosvenor became baronet, he was aged eight, and when he married at the age of 21, his wife was aged 12?
Did you know that "Have Ya Got Any Gum, Chum?", a 1944 novelty jazz song written by Murray Kane and performed by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, was inspired by a phrase used by British children towards American soldiers during World War II?
Did you know that Anura Tennekoon captained the Sri Lanka national cricket team during the inaugural Cricket World Cup of 1975?
Did you know that Archangel Gospel, the fourth oldest Eastern Slavic manuscript, was brought by a peasant from Arkhangelsk to Moscow in 1876?
Did you know that Channel 4 billed its Comedy Gala, held at the O2 Arena in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital, as "the biggest live stand up show in UK history"?
Did you know that Koto Hoxhi, who secretly taught students in Qestorat in Albanian, died in jail rather than reveal the name of his friends?
Did you know that La barca de Aqueronte is the most awarded work of art created by Filipino painter Félix Resurrección Hidalgo?
Did you know that former Texas legislator and motivational speaker Rick Green produced the 1994 video The Legacy of President Ronald Reagan: The Truth About the Eighties?
Did you know that not all complex questions are informal fallacies?
Did you know that of the 34 amphibians that became extinct in last 500 years, 19 were from Sri Lanka?
Did you know that the Clan Line ship Clan Matheson assisted in the eradication of the Coconut Moth from Fiji?
Did you know that the Commando Memorial erected in the remote Scottish Highlands is dedicated to the original World War II British Commandos, who were trained at nearby Achnacarry Castle?
Did you know that the Dutch marine artist Hendrick Dubbels opened a shop selling "caps, bonnets and stockings", but went bankrupt in 1665?
Did you know that the French architecture of St. Louis' Catholic Church in North Star, Ohio, is unique in the Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches?
Did you know that the Google Guys, composed of Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, are among the richest people in the world with a net worth of US$17.5 billion each?
Did you know that the Lost Man Booker Prize shortlist includes four dead people, one of whom would be "spinning in his grave" if his book won, and two living people, one of whom couldn't remember her own book's plot?
Did you know that the New Zealand member of parliament William Montgomery worked on the extension of the Little River railway to Akaroa?
Did you know that the Texas industrialist Jack Crichton was involved in the mining of gold, silver, nickel, copper, and zinc as well as the production of oil and natural gas?
Did you know that the endangered Mount Graham Red Squirrel was believed to be extinct in the 1950s until it was rediscovered in the 1970s?
Did you know that the fossil rodent Megapedetes, related to the living springhare, occurred from Greece to Namibia?
Did you know that the god Vishnu's avatar Yajna is an embodiment of the fire sacrifice?
Did you know that the leader of the Ibsen quotes art project in Oslo wanted it to become a "tourist attraction on par with Fram and Holmenkollen"?
Did you know that the type species of fungal genus Clavaria is commonly known as "fairy fingers"?
Did you know that where it passes Merrybent, Durham, England, the A1 road runs on the old track bed of the Merrybent railway?
Did you know that Blessed Denis of the Nativity was a famous cartographer before he joined the Discalced Carmelites and became a priest?
Did you know that Bob Tallman of Weatherford, Texas, has been called "the greatest rodeo announcer that ever lived"?
Did you know that Claude Phillips was the first keeper of the Wallace Collection, writing its first catalogue, and held that post from 1900 until his retirement in 1911 whereupon he was knighted for his service?
Did you know that Finn Thrana, Nazi "führer" in the county of Oppland during World War II, was a lawyer working with cases in the Supreme Court of Norway from 1966?
Did you know that Fort Jefferson, built as a supply depot, endured a three-year siege during the Northwest Indian War?
Did you know that HanWay Films was originally founded by British film producer Jeremy Thomas as an adjunct of his Recorded Picture Company?
Did you know that Hurricane Madeline caused major damage to Mexico in 1976?
Did you know that Karl Heinz Schneider, who used to organize battalions in the Hitler Youth, later moved to Israel, converted to Judaism and took the name of Abraham Reuel?
Did you know that Low Walworth, County Durham, England, once contained a gin gang?
Did you know that Maria Fortunata Viti, a Benedictine nun beatified by Pope Paul VI in 1967, remained illiterate her entire life?
Did you know that Montana's Shonkin Sag was created when glaciers blocked the Missouri River, forcing it to cut a new channel at right angles to the existing drainage valleys?
Did you know that Philippe Pastour de Costebelle, the French governor of Plaisance, Newfoundland, ordered the destruction of St. John's after its capture by French forces in 1709?
Did you know that Teme Sejko, rear-admiral of the Albanian navy, was executed in 1961 for being the leader of a pro-Soviet group aiming to overthrow the regime of Enver Hoxha?
Did you know that Tom Sidwell once got lost on the London Underground, missed the start of that day's cricket match, and was given out?
Did you know that author Mike Long has written speeches for national U.S. politicians, including President George W. Bush?
Did you know that even though he was a Filipino painter, Juan Luna's The Battle of Lepanto was commissioned by the Spanish Senate?
Did you know that footballer Arthur Bate scored a hat-trick on his league debut for Nelson, yet finished on the losing team in the match?
Did you know that marine art (example pictured) features in America's Most Wanted Painting and in its variants for several other countries?
Did you know that stamps of the British Egyptian Expeditionary Force were available in Syria between September 23, 1918 (1918-09-23) and February 23, 1922 (1922-02-23)?
Did you know that the 400-year-old Dhodar Ali in Assam is so called because some dhods ("lazy people" in Assamese) were assigned by the Ahom king to build it?
Did you know that the Dutch marine artist Jan van de Cappelle (1654 work pictured) is the only person known to have had his portrait painted by both Rembrandt and Frans Hals, but both paintings are now untraced?
Did you know that the Ebla tablets, found in ancient Ebla, Syria, and dating back to 2500 BC, reveal that the city produced a range of beers, including one that appears to be named "Ebla"?
Did you know that the Gaelic Journal, first published in 1882, was described as being "the first journal devoted to the living Irish language"?
Did you know that the Jewish Documentation Center has been responsible for uncovering more than 1000 Nazi war criminals, including Adolf Eichmann?
Did you know that the New York Society Library, the oldest cultural institution in New York City, also effectively served as the first Library of Congress?
Did you know that the Study club fire of 1929 in Detroit, Michigan, killed 22 and injured 50 people?
Did you know that the Ysleta Mission is the oldest parish in the state of Texas, and is built on the oldest continuously cultivated plot of land in the United States?
Did you know that the call of the Grey Currawong gives rise to its vernacular name of 'Clinking Currawong' in Tasmania, and 'Squeaker' in Western Australia?
Did you know that the opening angle of hollow carbon nanocones is not arbitrary, but has a few preferential values?
Did you know that two commanding officers of No. 219 Squadron RAF went on to become the Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Air Force, whilst a third became Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Pakistani Air Force?
Did you know that Anders Beer has been credited with founding the tanning industry in Norway?
Did you know that Colorado State Highway 57 is not marked throughout its length?
Did you know that Dos Abend Blatt was first Yiddish-language socialist newspaper in New York?
Did you know that England cricket team's decision to rest captain Andrew Strauss and select South African-born Craig Kieswetter caused controversy during their 2009–10 tour of Bangladesh?
Did you know that Fred Whishaw was the first to translate the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky into the English language?
Did you know that Hidalgo's winning silver medal for his painting Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho at the 1884 Madrid Exposition was hailed as a sign that Filipinos can participate in European culture?
Did you know that Hungarian-born Commando George Lane was spared execution after taking tea with Rommel?
Did you know that J. M. W. Turner's Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino is scheduled to go on sale in the open market for only the second time in the 171 years since it was painted?
Did you know that Justus van Effen has been recognized as one of the most important Dutch language writers of the eighteenth century and an influential figure of the Dutch Enlightenment?
Did you know that Sviatoslav of Kiev was invited by the Byzantine Empire to attack Bulgaria in order to force them to make concessions, but ended up conquering the country?
Did you know that gasteroid fungi (example pictured) release their spores passively?
Did you know that horticulturalist Ellen Willmott  had more than 60 plants named after her or her home, Warley Place, including Rosa willmottiae?
Did you know that owners of the East 80th Street Houses on Manhattan's Upper East Side have ranged from Clarence Dillon and Vincent Astor to Iraq?
Did you know that the "Bottoms" of Milford, Ohio, contain a Woodland period archaeological site?
Did you know that the Col. James Graham House was one of the first permanent homes in Summers County, West Virginia?
Did you know that the Dutch Republic successfully intervened in the Second Northern War, forcing the Swedish Empire to accept the Treaty of Elbing?
Did you know that the Journal of Pathology, founded in 1892, has been the official journal of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland since 1906?
Did you know that the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act proposes that two percent of proceeds from the sale of cannabis promote industrial hemp biodiesel, fiber, protein and oil?
Did you know that the Seventh-day Adventist Church campaigned for the separation of church and state under the Australian Constitution, which is now reflected in Section 116?
Did you know that the beaches of Roebuck Bay exhibit the fossil footprints of dinosaurs?
Did you know that the saw mill De Rat was moved from Zaanstreek, Noord Holland, to IJlst, Friesland, in 1828?
Did you know that violinist Hugh Maguire, leader of the London Symphony Orchestra in 1956, is on the coaching staff of the Leiston Abbey music school?
Did you know that Alice Dudeney was called one of the most powerful writers of fiction among modern English women by Putnam Magazine?
Did you know that Austrian socialist leader Robert Danneberg, one of the architects of 'Red Vienna', was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942?
Did you know that Frank Barrie portrayed Noël Coward in the original London production of Lunch with Marlene?
Did you know that Initiative 1068 was filed in January 2010 by Seattle activists hoping to remove criminal penalties from the adult use, possession and cultivation of marijuana in Washington?
Did you know that Thomas Carlyle agreed to pose for James McNeill Whistler's Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle after viewing Whistler's Mother?
Did you know that Walter Herries Pollock, editor of the Saturday Review, was close friends with a number of writers including Robert Lewis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde?
Did you know that a rare example of an intact malt kiln survives in Sound, Cheshire, England?
Did you know that after he was re-elected in Oregon's 1992 U.S. Senate election, Bob Packwood endorsed his defeated rival Les AuCoin for U.S. Secretary of the Interior?
Did you know that during the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916, SMS Deutschland took part in the last engagement between capital ships in World War I?
Did you know that following its 1994 national convention, the Progress Party of Norway lost its deputy leader and the four MPs Christiansen, Hillgaar, Wetterstad and Bråthen?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano Claudia Eder sang the parts of the Muse and Nicklausse in Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann on a recording with Plácido Domingo as Hoffmann?
Did you know that the Birmingham Americans won the only World Bowl ever held by the upstart World Football League?
Did you know that the Byzantine general Saborios began a revolt against Constans II, but was killed by his horse?
Did you know that the Hollandsche Spectator, inspired by the British Spectator, was one of the most important developments in Dutch literature during the Enlightenment period?
Did you know that the Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site includes the locations of Washington, D.C.'s first street light, train station, sewage pipe, and Chinatown?
Did you know that the Rudolf-Kalweit-Stadion in Hanover is home to three different kinds of football, hosting the Hannover Spartans, Arminia Hannover and the German rugby union team?
Did you know that the Tutelo language, once spoken by Virginia Indians, was recorded by scholars in the late 19th century, who found speakers on a reserve in Ontario?
Did you know that the Wat Phra Kaew, a Buddhist temple (temple complex pictured) in Bangkok, Thailand, has an idol of Emerald Buddha with a legend linked to India, five centuries after Buddha attained Nirvana?
Did you know that the barn at the McClelland Homestead near Bessemer, Pennsylvania, sits atop a spring?
Did you know that the fluke Lyperosomum intermedium infects the marsh rice rat, although its relatives mostly infect birds?
Did you know that the range of the Australian blenny may expand southwards due to increased temperatures and climate change?
Did you know that BanLec, a jacalin-related lectin isolated from the fruit of bananas, can induce a strong IgG4 antibody response and may be an important antigen involved in banana allergies?
Did you know that Beaux-Arts, Mediterranean Revival, and Hawaiian architectural styles can be seen in the Wailuku Civic Center Historic District?
Did you know that Benjamin Robbins Curtis was the first U.S. Supreme Court Justice to have a law degree?
Did you know that Christian Tobias Damm called for the letter h to be dropped from German orthography?
Did you know that Courier du Bas-Rhin, one of the leading European papers of the late 18th century Enlightenment period, and the main rivals of the Gazette de Leyde, was significantly controlled by the Prussian government?
Did you know that Judge C. R. Magney State Park in Minnesota contains the Devil's Kettle, a waterfall in which half of the Brule River disappears into a glacial kettle?
Did you know that Leopoldo Benites, the President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1973, had served eight months in a jail in Ecuador?
Did you know that Michigan quarterback James Baird supervised the construction of the Flatiron Building (video right), the Lincoln Memorial, and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?
Did you know that Michigan's James Duffy played seven years of college football and set a world record by drop kicking a football 168 feet, 7-1/2 inches?
Did you know that Richard Peabody was the first authority to proclaim that there was no cure for alcoholism, and his best-selling book, The Common Sense of Drinking, was a major influence on A.A. founder Bill W.?
Did you know that Sotsialisticheskii vestnik, the organ of the exiled Russian Menshevik Party, was published from New York until 1965?
Did you know that Sławomir Skrzypek, the Polish banker who died in the Tu-154 crash, had recently come into open conflict with the Council of Ministers of Poland?
Did you know that a fire set to destroy buildings infected by bubonic plague in 1900 destroyed most of the Chinatown of Honolulu?
Did you know that although the red flowerheads of the Monga waratah are less showy than the famous New South Wales waratah, they are more numerous?
Did you know that author H.B. Marriott Watson spent much of his childhood in Christchurch, New Zealand, later using it as a setting for many of his novels?
Did you know that following the firing of Arne Fjellbu as dean of Nidaros Cathedral, all bishops in the Church of Norway stepped down in protest?
Did you know that in 1892, the miller of De Hoop, Holwerd, left an estate worth ƒ32,567.92?
Did you know that in 1942, following the printing of the poem "Vi vil oss et land", an arrest order was issued on poet Per Sivle (1857–1904)?
Did you know that in the Battle of Bir Lahfan on December 29, 1948, Israel captured an Egyptian battalion commander, the most senior Egyptian officer captured in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War?
Did you know that it has been written of Floating Down to Camelot that "the ludic seems to eradicate the satiric"?
Did you know that later businessman and politician Hakon Lunde survived the sinking of the destroyer HNoMS Svenner on D-Day?
Did you know that salt can be extracted from the burned trunks of the Amazonian palm Itaya amicorum?
Did you know that the Battle of Bapheus in 1302 was the first major Ottoman victory, and led to their gradual conquest of Byzantine-controlled Bithynia?
Did you know that the FC St. Pauli rugby department was formed in 1933 when the club's complete 6th XI switched codes from football to rugby union?
Did you know that the PlayStation video game Muppet Monster Adventure featured an 'intuitive swimming system' that NGC Magazine compared favourably to the one in Super Mario 64?
Did you know that the documentary film Most Valuable Players was inspired when the producer accidentally found YouTube clips of The Freddy Awards, which honor high school musical theatre in the Lehigh Valley?
Did you know that Bermuda broadcasting and shipping magnate Fernance Perry, MBE, started his business career as a Piggly-Wiggly grocer?
Did you know that Eben Sadie, the winemaker of South African wine producer The Sadie Family, was previously a surfer?
Did you know that Ecuadorian archaeologist Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño believed that the Manteño civilization operated as a trading ring, like the Hanseatic League?
Did you know that Evile's 2007 debut album Enter the Grave was produced by Flemming Rasmussen, who produced three Metallica albums?
Did you know that Finn Støren has been called "Vidkun Quisling's informal Minister of Foreign Affairs"?
Did you know that FrameGang was recommended to users of Netscape Navigator 3 Gold Edition for html frame development because it did not support frames, even though the Netscape Navigator 3 browser did?
Did you know that Hilton Head White-Tailed deer are culled to prevent accidents despite being listed as a species of concern by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service?
Did you know that Holocaust survivor Otto Eisler designed the only remaining synagogue in Brno?
Did you know that Johan Støren, who was fired as a Church of Norway Bishop by Quisling's Nazi regime of WWII, was first cousin once removed of a high-ranking Nazi civil servant?
Did you know that Jonaki, the Assamese magazine published in the late nineteenth century, did not have an editorial?
Did you know that Juan Luna’s Chula series is a succession of portrait paintings depicting the working class “street women” of Madrid, Spain?
Did you know that Michigan's 1892/1893 captain George Dygert played professional football for a Butte, Montana, team sponsored by mine owners that defeated teams from Denver and San Francisco?
Did you know that Ocotlán de Morelos was the subject of much of Rodolfo Morales's artistic work?
Did you know that Radney Foster's "I'm In" has also been recorded by The Kinleys (whose version Foster produced) and Keith Urban?
Did you know that The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand was the first painting to demonstrate, based on systematic photographic analysis, how horses move?
Did you know that baritone Wolfgang Schöne premiered the role of the tomcat "Tom, Minette's lover" in the opera Die englische Katze of Hans Werner Henze at the Schwetzingen Festival?
Did you know that most of the buildings on East 73rd Street (168–174 E. 73rd, pictured) between Lexington and Third avenues on Manhattan's Upper East Side were originally carriage houses for the area's wealthy residents?
Did you know that the 14th name on one side of the Eiffel Tower is the engineer Charles Combes?
Did you know that the Grosse Pointe Presbyterian church was renamed the Grosse Pointe Memorial Church in 1925 after John and Truman Newberry paid for a new sanctuary in honor of their parents?
Did you know that the Italian socialist leader Dino Rondani represented Argentina in the Executive of the Labour and Socialist International?
Did you know that the Malankara Rite, a local Indian variant of the West Syrian Rite, contains some elements archaic in the wider West Syrian tradition, such as use of the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts in Lent?
Did you know that the Memorial Chorten in Thimphu, Bhutan, was built in 1974 to honor the King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck who had died two years previously?
Did you know that the candid treatment of "problematic sexuality" in Lars Berg's two first novels initiated a spirited debate in Norway in the 1930s?
Did you know that the collection of 82 stone stelae in the Temple of Literature is the second entry of Vietnam in the list of UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme?
Did you know that the former captain of U-43 , Wolfgang Lüth, went on to become one of the most successful U-boat commanders in World War II?
Did you know that the hamlet of Archdeacon Newton in Durham, England, contains the site of a lost settlement?