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Did you know that the Spinifex people are the last Aboriginal nomadic people in Australia, taking their name from the Spinifex grass that survives in the desert?
Did you know that the history of Swansea includes an epidemic of yellow fever in 1865, the only outbreak of that disease on the British mainland?
Did you know that Carl Zuckmayer wrote the script for the 1930 movie Der Blaue Engel starring Marlene Dietrich?
Did you know that Graham Berry (1822–1904), 11th Premier of Victoria, attempted to break the power of the Victorian Legislative Council, the stronghold of the landowning class?
Did you know that Quantum praedecessores was a papal bull issued on 1 December 1145 by Pope Eugenius III, calling for a Second Crusade?
Did you know that in the National Lacrosse League of North America, the Coach of the Year Award is named after the late Les Bartley?
Did you know that the Mann Gulch fire of 1949 was a wildfire in Montana which claimed the lives of 13 firefighters?
Did you know that Palwankar Baloo was a Dalit (also called Untouchable) who helped break down the Indian caste system with his prowess at cricket?
Did you know that bishop William McKendree (1757–1835) earned the nickname "Father of Western Methodism" for his travels through his vast see of Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, and Illinois?
Did you know that in the 1977 film That Obscure Object of Desire directed by Luis Buñuel, the leading role of Conchita is played by two actresses and voiced by a third?
Did you know that silent E is a convention in English spelling added to the ends of words, that makes short vowels long?
Did you know that the 1868 encounter between Kasuga and Kaiyō was the first naval battle between two modern fleets in Japan?
Did you know that the Chilean football club Cobreloa reached the finals of South America's principal club competition, the Copa Libertadores, in 1981, only four years after the club's founding?
Did you know that the group portrait Banquet of the Amsterdam Civic Guard in Celebration of the Peace of Münster by Dutch painter Bartholomeus van der Helst (1613–1670) was considered by Sir Joshua Reynolds to be the finest he had seen?
Did you know that until it was looted in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade, the Church of the Holy Apostles was the busiest place of worship in Constantinople?
Did you know that Kentucky State University, with 2,300 students, is the smallest of the public state universities in the U.S. state of Kentucky?
Did you know that the FTSE 100-listed company Hays plc dates back to the 1600s, when they owned warehouses and wharves on the River Thames?
Did you know that the predecessor to the Imperial Russian Navy first sailed during the Second Azov campaign of 1696 under Peter the Great?
Did you know that Bigleaf hydrangeas bloom in different colors depending on the soil pH?
Did you know that British actress Stephanie Beacham played a nun on American sitcom Sister Kate after playing the glamorous Sable Colby on the drama Dynasty?
Did you know that Ken Loach's 1995 film Land and Freedom tells the story of a British volunteer who joins the POUM militia and fights for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War?
Did you know that Kuttanad in Kerala, India, is the country's only region below sea level?
Did you know that Paula Ackerman was the first woman to serve as a rabbi in the United States?
Did you know that Temple Beth-El, built in 1876, is the oldest synagogue in the U.S. state of Florida?
Did you know that the Vietnam War protest song "War," originally recorded by the Temptations, was Motown artist Edwin Starr's only number-one hit?
Did you know that Australian tennis players Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde, known as The Woodies, are the most successful men's doubles pair in history, winning a record six Wimbledon titles?
Did you know that Didiereaceae is a family of cactus-like flowering plants that make up the spiny thickets of Madagascar?
Did you know that Harvey Hubbell (1857–1927) invented the electrical power plug?
Did you know that Jinnah House was the Mumbai residence of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan and is the centre of a property dispute?
Did you know that Microphallus is a genus of parasitic trematode, some species of which are notable for the manipulation of the behaviour and growth of their hosts?
Did you know that William Bergsma wrote an opera about a dog who turned into a man in 1920s Moscow as the result of a crazy experiment?
Did you know that the Iowa Interstate Railroad is being considered for high speed passenger train service between Wyanet, Illinois, and Iowa City?
Did you know that backlash from the 1897 Lattimer Massacre in Pennsylvania, an important event in the U.S. history of labor relations, resulted in the addition of some 15,000 new members of United Mine Workers of America union?
Did you know that extension conflicts helped give Macintosh computers a reputation for instability before the release of Mac OS X?
Did you know that footballer Antonín Panenka famously scored the winning penalty for Czechoslovakia in the 1976 European Championship final against West Germany by chipping the ball?
Did you know that the Scottish composer and pianist Ronald Stevenson composed an 80-minute passacaglia for solo piano based on the four-note motif D-E♭-C-B?
Did you know that Indian-born English cricketer Hugh Bartlett died whilst watching a cricket match at Hove in 1988?
Did you know that in Greek mythology, Antiope was the only Amazon known to have married?
Did you know that the Blister Beetles are so named because they secrete cantharidin, a poison causing blistering of the skin and painful swelling if consumed?
Did you know that the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago built the first nuclear reactor and achieved a self-sustaining nuclear reaction in December 1942?
Did you know that Fala, Franklin D. Roosevelt's beloved Scottish terrier and one of the most famous presidential pets, has a bronze statue in his likeness at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial?
Did you know that Leo Abse (born 1917) was a Labour Member of Parliament largely responsible for legalising male homosexual relations in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Nippon Steel Corporation, the Japanese steelmaking giant, once ventured into mushroom cultivation in an earnest bid to avoid layoffs?
Did you know that Tell Halaf in Syria contains the archaeological remains of a Neolithic culture characterized by glazed pottery painted with geometric and animal designs?
Did you know that Brancaleon, a 15th century Venetian painter who gained fortune, fame and notoriety in his adopted home of Ethiopia, is an example of early contacts between Europe and sub-Saharan Africa?
Did you know that Joseph Rainey became the first black person to serve in the United States House of Representatives on December 12, 1870?
Did you know that the 1st century Greek historian Nicolaus of Damascus reported the embassy of holy men from India to the Levant, Athens and Rome during the time of Jesus?
Did you know that the Runyang Bridge and the Jiangyin Suspension Bridge are the two largest suspension bridges in China and the fourth and sixth largest suspension bridges in the world?
Did you know that the short-lived Maryland Constitution of 1864 emancipated the state's slaves and disenfranchised Marylanders who fought for or supported the Confederacy?
Did you know that David Penhaligon (1944–1986) was a promising Liberal Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom but was killed in a car crash at the age of 42?
Did you know that the Defaka people of Nigeria are gradually abandoning their language in favour of the language of the Nkoroo, their close neighbours?
Did you know that the Washington State Capitol has been hit by three major earthquakes since its construction?
Did you know that Ars moriendi ("The Art of Dying") was a popular 15th century text on the proper etiquette of how to die?
Did you know that MOMO syndrome is a very rare genetic disorder characterised by macrosomia, obesity, macrocephaly and ocular abnormalities?
Did you know that the U.S. airlifted 22,325 tons of military supplies to Israel for use in the Yom Kippur War under Operation Nickel Grass?
Did you know that the reality television series Dr. 90210 got its name from the zip code for part of the Los Angeles suburb of Beverly Hills?
Did you know that a sideman is a professional musician who is hired to perform or record with a group of which he is not formally a member?
Did you know that facial symmetry is correlated with health, physical attractiveness, and beauty, and is a factor in interpersonal attraction?
Did you know that suffragist Louisa Lawson (1848–1920), publisher of Australia's first female-run journal, The Dawn, was also the mother of the great Australian poet Henry Lawson?
Did you know that the Terik language of Kenya is classified as endangered by UNESCO because the Terik people have increasingly become assimilated to the Nandi people in recent decades?
Did you know that Barstow, California, and Strong City, Kansas, are both named in honour of William Barstow Strong, former president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway?
Did you know that Chinese BASIC is the name given to several Chinese versions of the BASIC programming language?
Did you know that former England footballer Mick Channon is now a successful horse trainer?
Did you know that in the music video for the Crazy Frog song "Axel F", the frog's genitalia have been censored for broadcasting?
Did you know that Bruce Webster was so burned out from writing the computer game SunDog: Frozen Legacy for the Apple II, that he gave up programming for four years?
Did you know that Jack-Jack Attack is the first Pixar short not to be given a theatrical release?
Did you know that Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) signed an agreement in 1963 with Japanese company NEC which gave the latter partial ownership of PTV's network?
Did you know that the grunion is a sardine-sized fish only found off the coast of California and Baja California that comes up on sandy beaches at very high tides (during the new and full moons) to lay its eggs?
Did you know that Carolus Linnaeus the younger (1741–1783) was enrolled by his father at the University of Uppsala at the age of nine?
Did you know that Firpo Marberry was the first relief pitcher in Major League Baseball to record 100 saves in his career?
Did you know that Niccolò Da Conti (1395–1469) was a Venetian merchant who traveled around the Indian Ocean for 25 years in the early 15th century, and was made to relate an account of his travels as a penance for converting to Islam?
Did you know that the bending of starlight around the Sun during the solar eclipse of 1919 was a testimony to the predictive power of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity?
Did you know that Bono Manso, the capital of Bono state, was an ancient Akan trading town in present-day Ghana, which was frequented by caravans from Djenné as part of the Trans-Saharan trade?
Did you know that the 1960s singing duo Paul & Paula inspired such pairings as Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell?
Did you know that the Brimstone Moth has a variable life cycle of either one generation a year or two generations every three years?
Did you know that the scientific collections of Jacques Labillardière (1755–1834) were seized by the British in 1793 as spoils of war, but were returned after lobbying by Sir Joseph Banks?
Did you know that Kermit Roosevelt III, author of the 2005 legal thriller In the Shadow of the Law, is the great-great-grandson of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt?
Did you know that Saki's short story "Sredni Vashtar" plays an important role in Raymond Postgate's 1940 mystery novel Verdict of Twelve?
Did you know that anatomist Caspar Wistar  (1761–1818) developed a set of anatomical models from human body parts by injecting them with wax?
Did you know that there are parts of Canadian airspace where compasses are not useful because they are too close to the magnetic north pole?
Did you know that 1980s horror movie actress Ellie Cornell nearly broke out of her typecasting by appearing in the 1992 film A League of Their Own, but had to drop out because she became pregnant?
Did you know that American country music singer Mindy McCready was once engaged to actor Dean Cain?
Did you know that Irish chemist Robert Kane (1809–1890) showed that hydrogen is electropositive?
Did you know that Valerius Anshelm (1475–c. 1546), a Swiss chronicler, wrote a history of Berne from the Burgundy Wars to 1536 that  remained buried in the municipal archives of the city for 80 years?
Did you know that Cherrapunji in India is the wettest place in the world?
Did you know that Mick Mills was made captain of the England national football team which started the 1982 World Cup because Kevin Keegan was unable to play through injury?
Did you know that the Tarim mummies indicate that Caucasoid populations lived in Xinjiang in western China during the 1st millennium BCE?
Did you know that there are 17 candidates running in the June 14 Ohio second congressional district election to replace representative Rob Portman?
Did you know that Dr. Acacio Gabriel Viegas was credited with the discovery of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Mumbai in 1896, and later became the president of the Bombay Municipal Corporation?
Did you know that James Glynn, captain of the USS Preble, was the first American to negotiate successfully with Sakoku ("closed country") Japan, in 1848?
Did you know that MTV Canada will be converted into a digital television station called Razer, now that it is owned by CHUM Limited?
Did you know that Union Bridge across the River Tweed between England and Scotland was once the longest suspension bridge in the world and is now the oldest surviving?
Did you know that the 1985 film Into the Night is largely responsible for launching Michelle Pfeiffer to stardom?
Did you know that the race car driver Kurt Mollekens won three Formula Ford titles in 1992?
Did you know that the song "Nights in White Satin," largely ignored on its first release in 1967, reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 when it was re-released in 1972?
Did you know that the virtual economy of massively multiplayer online games sometimes attracts virtual crime, which is punishable by real laws in some countries?
Did you know that Otokichi (1818–1867) was a Japanese castaway, who circled the globe as he tried unsuccessfully to return to Japan?
Did you know that Xihoumen Bridge, a suspension bridge planned for the Zhoushan Archipelago in China will be the third largest suspension bridge in the world when completed?
Did you know that after Peter the Great's reform of the Russian military, serf recruits, and their children born after the recruitment, were liberated, with the boys being sent to specially created garrison schools?
Did you know that the U.S. children's television series Romper Room aired for over 40 years?
Did you know that Alan Mullery became the first England association football player to be sent off in a full international match during the 1968 European Championship semi-final against Yugoslavia?
Did you know that Philip of Poitou, Bishop of Durham from 1197 to 1208, quarrelled so fiercely with his monks that he tried to burn them out of a church, and later excommunicated the entire chapter?
Did you know that Samuel Green was jailed in 1857 for possessing a copy of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Did you know that chromoblastomycosis is a fungal skin infection that can be caught from a thorn or splinter?
Did you know that in 1978, Governor of Florida Reubin Askew gave the Bee Gees "honorary citizenship" after the success of their single "Night Fever"?
Did you know that singer Maureen McGovern was a secretary before she was signed to perform the Academy Award-winning song "The Morning After"?
Did you know that the 1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England predated, by 12 years, the first tour of England by white Australians?
Did you know that the history of nuclear weapons and the United States includes around 1,054 nuclear tests between 1945 and 1992?
Did you know that Captain Henry Trollope (1756–1839) of the Royal Navy, commanding the frigate Glatton, defeated a French squadron that outnumbered him six to one?
Did you know that Doc Cheatham (1905–1997) has been described as the only jazz musician to create his best work after the age of 70?
Did you know that no Punch and Judy performer can consider himself a Professor until he has swallowed his swazzle at least twice?
Did you know that the 1318 Mamluk Qala'un Mosque was considered the most glamorous mosque in Cairo until its wooden dome collapsed in the 16th century?
Did you know that Austrian mathematician Wilhelm Wirtinger (1865–1945) showed how to compute the fundamental group of a knot?
Did you know that HMS Adventure was the first ship to circumnavigate the globe from west to east?
Did you know that classical compounds make up much of the technical and scientific lexicon of Western European languages?
Did you know that for actress KaDee Strickland's role in The Grudge, she was inspired by Jane Fonda's Academy Award-winning performance in the 1971 film Klute?
Did you know that in the computer game Crush, Crumble and Chomp! the player controls a disaster movie monster and destroys cities?
Did you know that the Blondie song "Call Me" was only the third song from a soundtrack to be the highest-selling single in the United States?
Did you know that the Minnesota State Constitution initially had two versions: one signed by Republicans and the other by Democrats?
Did you know that unlike many of the Bee Gees' singles, which were recorded in Miami, Florida, "Stayin' Alive" was recorded at the Chateau d'Herouville in Paris?
Did you know that whole grains are often more expensive than refined grains because their higher oil content is susceptible to oxidation, complicating processing, storage, and transport?
Did you know that Swiss cyclist Hugo Koblet, a Tour de France winner and the first non-Italian to win the Giro d'Italia, died at age 39 under mysterious circumstances?
Did you know that Bend It Like Beckham was a crowd favorite at the ninth Pyongyang Film Festival in 2004?
Did you know that the Australian Blue Ant is not an ant at all, but a large solitary wasp?
Did you know that the light cruiser Oyodo of the Imperial Japanese Navy was Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa's flagship after the aircraft carrier Zuikaku was sunk during WWII's Battle of Leyte Gulf?
Did you know that American statesman John Milledge named Athens, Georgia, the city surrounding the University of Georgia, after Athens, Greece, the city of Plato's Academy?
Did you know that Jesuit priest John Nobili founded Santa Clara University in 1851?
Did you know that Nathaniel "Sweetwater" Clifton was the first African American to sign a contract to play in the National Basketball Association?
Did you know that Packet Storm is a non-profit organization comprised of computer security professionals whose goal is to provide the information necessary to secure computer networks?
Did you know that Roza Robota was hanged for her role in the Sonderkommando revolt?
Did you know that a postage stamp the United States Department of the Treasury issued in 1962 that commemorated the centennial of the Homestead Act  featured art based on a photograph by Fred Hultstrand?
Did you know that both the Silver Jubilee and Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II fell on the official Queen's Birthday holiday?
Did you know that prosector's wart is a skin lesion caused by contamination with tuberculosis of a diseased cadaver during its preparation for autopsy by a prosector, a preparator of dissections?
Did you know that the General Council of the Valleys, the parliament of Andorra, has only 28 members?
Did you know that Franco-Japanese relations were initiated by the 1615 visit of the Japanese samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga to the city of Saint-Tropez in Southern France?
Did you know that distinguished recipients of the Grawemeyer Award for music composition have included Witold Lutosławski, György Ligeti, Pierre Boulez and John Adams?
Did you know that "I Love to Singa," an Al Jolson song written by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg, is also the title of a popular 1936 Merrie Melodies cartoon?
Did you know that Japan and Poland are the world's largest krill fishing nations since Russia abandoned its operations in 1993?
Did you know that Love Israel, a cult in northern Washington, filed for bankruptcy and then sold their commune to the Union for Reform Judaism to become their 13th summer camp?
Did you know that Norwegian football commentator Bjørge Lillelien famously taunted Margaret Thatcher after Norway's victory over England in 1981?
Did you know that jockey Kent Desormeaux and his horse Real Quiet missed thoroughbred horse racing immortality by a few inches?
Did you know that Nickajack was the name of a proposed neutral state made up of Unionist areas of North Alabama and East Tennessee in the period leading up to the American Civil War?
Did you know that The Heart of Midlothian, the seventh of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels, was the first in the series to have a female protagonist?
Did you know that in 1911, Charles Rosher, working for David Horsley's production company, became Hollywood's first full-time cameraman?
Did you know that in the United States, a federal court can be classified as either an Article I or Article III tribunal?
Did you know that actor and amateur racing-car driver Skipp Sudduth performed almost all the high-speed driving done by his character in the movie Ronin?
Did you know that mastoiditis is an infection that can result from untreated middle ear infections?
Did you know that the Canadian postage stamp of Acadian Deportation 1755-2005 encorporates a stamp of Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, from 1930?
Did you know that the Turin Papyrus, prepared about 1160 BC for Ramesses IV's quarrying expedition to Wadi Hammamat near the Red Sea, is the earliest known geologic map?
Did you know that French Army soldiers killed between 15,000 and 45,000 Algerian civilians in the Setif massacre of May 8, 1945, the same day as V-E day in Europe?
Did you know that the 1984 Murray Head hit "One Night In Bangkok," from the musical Chess, gained newfound popularity in 2005 due to a remix by the dance act Vinylshakerz?
Did you know that the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee is the largest non-casino hotel in the world?
Did you know that the Right Hegelians took the philosophy of Hegel  in a politically and religiously conservative direction?
Did you know that the Waterloo Vase is a massive marble urn, 15 feet (4.6 metres) high and weighing 15 tons (13.6 metric tons), which was commissioned by French leader Napoleon but ultimately became an ornament in the British monarch's Buckingham Palace Gardens?
Did you know that the largest solar plant of the Alps was built on Loser mountain in Austria at 1,838 meters above sea level?
Did you know that the late Shana Alexander was the first female columnist for Life magazine?
Did you know that Malian playwright and novelist Massa Makan Diabaté was the descendant of a long line of Malinké griots?
Did you know that Sabine Ehrenfeld, the Overstock.com spokesmodel, is fluent in German, French, English, and Italian and that she is an experienced pilot and equestrian?
Did you know that in 1990, Czech and Slovak politicians "fought" the Hyphen War, a political battle over whether "Czechoslovakia" should be spelled with a hyphen?
Did you know that two widely-used maps of China's historical placenames independently published in Taiwan and China during the 1980s are both called Historical Atlas of China?
Did you know that J. Willard Marriott grew a small root beer stand to a huge hotel and resort chain, Marriott International?
Did you know that Massachusetts Avenue, home of Washington D.C.'s Embassy Row, is both the longest and widest avenue in the city?
Did you know that the Dictionary of the Middle Ages (1989) is the largest English language encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, covering over 100,000 topics?
Did you know that the Siglas Poveiras are a proto-writing system inherited from the Vikings and have been used for more than a thousand years by the fishermen of Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal?