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Did you know that John Popper, now frontman of the rock band Blues Traveler, once convinced a teacher to let him play harmonica in his high school band with an in-class solo performance of the song "She Blinded Me with Science"?
Did you know that Wilhelm Koppe, one of the chief Nazi Holocaust perpetrators in occupied Poland, escaped arrest and under false name managed a Bonn chocolate factory for over a decade?
Did you know that although it is commonly referred to as Fort Detroit, the fort William Hull surrendered to the British without a fight during the War of 1812 was actually named Fort Lernoult?
Did you know that many works of the Romanian Symbolist poet Traian Demetrescu survived as popular romanzas after their author died from tuberculosis in 1896?
Did you know that merchant, sugar grower and politician George Raff helped establish the Brisbane government and was the main substantiater of wool trade between Brisbane and London?
Did you know that mounting blocks (example pictured), stone or wood blocks for mounting and dismounting a horse or cart, began to fall out of use around 1790?
Did you know that the Colombian journalist Diana Turbay (monument pictured) was killed while kidnapped by the Medellin Cartel in order to create pressure against the Colombia-USA extradition treaty?
Did you know that the New Zealand Journal of Forestry was first published in 1925 with a title in Māori?
Did you know that the Spanish military engineer Julio Cervera Baviera, a veteran of the Spanish-American War, pioneered radio technology in his native country?
Did you know that the book South Park and Philosophy: You Know, I Learned Something Today analyzes the animated television comedy series South Park using philosophical concepts?
Did you know that the festival of Qoyllur Rit'i in the Cusco Region of Peru commemorates events which included the transformation of a boy into a bush with an image of Christ hanging from it?
Did you know that the first Hawaii showing of From Here to Eternity premiered at the Iao Theater?
Did you know that when former New Mexico Governor Tom Bolack died, his ashes were scattered over his ranch by 16 specially-made fireworks?
Did you know that American archaeologist and flintknapper Errett Callahan produces and sells obsidian scalpels that are 100 times sharper than the traditional surgical scalpels made of steel?
Did you know that American football coach Dick Anderson, who led Rutgers to its first victory over Penn State in 70 years, was a Penn State assistant coach before and after his time at Rutgers?
Did you know that English football referee Matt Messias once urged a  Portsmouth defender not to kick an opposing player during a match against Newcastle United because "the devil was trying to get him sent off"?
Did you know that Giles Clarke, chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, studied Arabic at the University of Damascus?
Did you know that James Roche became CEO and chairman of the board of General Motors without a college education?
Did you know that Mdm2, whose role in regulating p53 was discovered by British scientist Karen Vousden, is a potential target for anti-cancer drugs?
Did you know that Oscar M. Laurel, a south Texas Mexican-American Democratic state representative known for his flamboyant oratory, opposed a late 1950s bill that would have declared cactus peyote an "unlawful dangerous substance"?
Did you know that Yekaterina Zelenko was the only woman to perform an air ramming and the only female pilot in the Winter War?
Did you know that a U.S. government funded research project is concluding that racial discrimination is a significant factor when  jurors make death penalty decisions?
Did you know that a series of explosions destroyed two miles of Louisville, Kentucky's sewer system on Friday the 13th in February 1981?
Did you know that although he was an illegitimate child, the 13th century prelate of Scotland Albin of Brechin (Brechin cathedral pictured) had a successful career in the Roman Catholic Church after obtaining dispensation from  the Bishop of Porto?
Did you know that eleven months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. four-star admiral Charles P. Snyder opted to lose two ranks rather than serve under incoming Pacific Fleet commander Husband E. Kimmel?
Did you know that in 1890, future centenarian and four-star admiral Richard H. Jackson was commissioned ensign by special act of Congress after originally being cashiered from the Navy for poor grades at the U.S. Naval Academy?
Did you know that in the anonymous Breton lai Melion, one of King Arthur's knights was transformed into a werewolf by his wife using a magic ring before she ran off with another man to Ireland?
Did you know that the Austrian industrialist Johan E. Zacherl made a fortune in the late 19th century by selling dried flower heads of Chrysanthenum cinerariifolum as insecticide?
Did you know that the Church of South India, a union of Anglican, Methodist, Congregational, Presbyterian, and Reformed churches in South India, was inaugurated in 1947 at St. George's Cathedral in Madras (now Chennai)?
Did you know that the Finsch's Flycatcher-thrush, a flycatcher-like thrush of West African forests, sings four melodious whistles and responds to recordings of its own songs?
Did you know that the French space agency funded the operation of the Soviet space observatory Granat after the dissolution of the USSR?
Did you know that the Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu is considered the holiest Catholic shrine in Sri Lanka?
Did you know that the Zoroastrian (Faravahar pictured) religious ceremony Visperad consists of the rituals of the Yasna and is only performed between sunrise and noon on the six gahambar days?
Did you know that the election of Dominican friar Laurence de Ergadia as Bishop of Argyll in Scotland was voided by Pope Urban IV in 1274 on a technicality?
Did you know that though many troubadours wrote about the Crusades and either encouraged or mocked them as politics dictated, the jongleur Peirol was one of the few to actually travel to the Holy Land, on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1221?
Did you know that Andy Papathanassiou, a former college football player who was the first person hired as a NASCAR pit crew coordinator, started use of trained athletes to cut pit stop times from 19 down to 13 seconds?
Did you know that English actor, singer and playwright Arthur Williams, best remembered for his comic operas, Edwardian musical comedies and musical burlesques, played over 1,000 roles in his career?
Did you know that German nuclear physicist Heinz Barwich had illegal contacts to the Soviet secret police NKVD during Nazi rule, and then spied on the Soviet Union for the West while working in the East?
Did you know that Ove Karlsson is both the name of a Swedish sports player and a Swedish sports journalist?
Did you know that Senator Ron May is credited with installing the first wireless internet network in the Colorado State Capitol?
Did you know that Transfusion was the first EP by Powderfinger to receive significant commercial airplay, and was their first work to top the ARIA alternative music chart?
Did you know that between a half and two million Poles were deported from the Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union to the Regained Territories in the repatriation of 1944-1946?
Did you know that country musician Johnny Sea's spoken word recording "Day For Decision", a response to Barry McGuire's protest song, "Eve of Destruction", was a Top 40 hit in the U.S. and was nominated for a Grammy award?
Did you know that leading New Testament scholar C. F. D. Moule was Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, the oldest chair in the University of Cambridge, for 25 years?
Did you know that the Barnenez Mound in Brittany, France, is a cairn with 11 chambers built of 13,000 to 14,000 tons of stone dating to about 4500 BC, making it one of the earliest megalithic monuments in Europe?
Did you know that the White-browed Scrubwren, which inhabits dense undergrowth, can occur close to urban areas in Sydney?
Did you know that the population of the Falkland Islands was only 50 people in 1841?
Did you know that "Pick You Up" was the first Powderfinger song to be nominated for an ARIA Music Award; the 1996 award for "Song of the Year"?
Did you know that Alexey Ekimyan, the author of many Soviet hits, was considered the only popular composer in the world who ruled a law enforcement department at the same time?
Did you know that Andrew Winch, an award-winning yacht designer, has been selected to design the interior of a version of the Boeing 787, a commercial airliner?
Did you know that Colombia's 12th President, Carlos Eugenio Restrepo, was nicknamed Monsieur Veto for his common practice of vetoing many bills he considered were not in the best interest of his nation?
Did you know that Randle Holme III of Chester painted memorial boards without the permission of the English College of Arms resulting in its King of Arms, William Dugdale, travelling north on at least three occasions between 1667 and 1670  to destroy them?
Did you know that Sholom Schwartzbard was acquitted in the Schwartzbard trial despite pleading guilty to murder, and that the family of his victim was ordered to pay for the cost of the trial?
Did you know that South Africa and England had already  played each other during pool play before meeting in the 2007 Rugby World Cup Final?
Did you know that St Patrick's Marist College, the oldest school in Australia run by Marist Brothers, started out as a primary school?
Did you know that Stevens Arch is one of the many geological features formed from Navajo Sandstone along Coyote Gulch in southern Utah, USA?
Did you know that Turkish shadow puppet characters Karagöz and Hacivat are supposedly based on two laborers who were executed because their banter slowed down the construction of a mosque?
Did you know that Walter Plunkett's "barbecue dress" for Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind was one of the most widely copied dresses in fashion of the 1930s and early '40s, second only to the Duchess of Windsor's wedding dress?
Did you know that William Wallace disguised himself as a woman to hide at the castle in Riccarton, a village and parish in East Ayrshire, Scotland?
Did you know that a single raccoon reduced the entire population of White Cay iguanas to 140 males and 10 females in one year?
Did you know that cricketer Steve Atkinson has played for both the Netherlands and Hong Kong in international cricket?
Did you know that former Branch Davidian leader George Roden was shot twice in a gun battle with his rival David Koresh and  seven other Branch Davidians, before being evicted from the Mount Carmel Center near Waco?
Did you know that in Colombian folklore the legendary Alligatorman (Hombre Caiman) is said to be a fisherman converted by the spirit of the Magdalena River into an alligator, that returns every year on St. Sebastian´s Day to hunt human victims?
Did you know that road slipperiness causes over 53,000 accidents a year in the United Kingdom alone?
Did you know that some liverwort species in the class Haplomitriopsida rafted from Gondwana to Asia via the Indian subcontinent?
Did you know that the 1997 volcanic eruption of Pillan Patera on Jupiter's moon Io was the largest effusive eruption ever witnessed?
Did you know that the Hunt Memorial Building in Ellenville, New York, has served as a public library, an appliance store, and several other things?
Did you know that the Muslim Revolution of Agriculture industrialized sugar production, building the first  sugar refineries and sugar plantations in the 8th century?
Did you know that the Suevi of Gallaecia were converted from a form of Germanic paganism to Arian Christianity by a Celtic missionary, Ajax, sent by the Visigoths?
Did you know that the book You Don't Need Meat by Peter Cox, the first chief executive of the Vegetarian Society, is the best-selling vegetarian book of all time?
Did you know that the giant jellyfish Chrysaora achlyos is the largest invertebrate discovered in the 20th century?
Did you know that Anna Laetitia Barbauld's Lessons for Children (1778–79) revolutionized children's literature, introducing what novelist Frances Burney called a "new walk"?
Did you know that Belfast streetfighter "Buck Alec" Robinson kept two lions at his home, frequently walking them on the streets of the city?
Did you know that Douglas Bruce is so associated with Colorado's Taxpayer Bill of Rights that attempts to loosen its spending restrictions are known as "de-Brucing"?
Did you know that Edward Laurillard produced musical comedies in London and New York in the early 20th century, in partnership with George Grossmith, Jr.?
Did you know that Gershwin's musical Primrose had its Broadway première more than sixty years after its 1924 London debut?
Did you know that Harris Wash is a 40-mile long tributary of the Escalante River within the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah?
Did you know that Jüri Vilms, a member of the Estonian Salvation Committee, issued the Estonian Declaration of Independence in February 1918, and was executed by German troops less than two months later?
Did you know that London will soon have a Walk of Fame for dogs?
Did you know that Mafia turncoat Baldassare Di Maggio claimed that Cosa Nostra boss Totò Riina respectfully kissed former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti at a meeting?
Did you know that Molly Badham, co-founder of Twycross Zoo, trained the chimpanzees who appeared in the long-running Brooke Bond PG Tips television advertisements?
Did you know that Ron Cole was involved in a violent standoff with Amo Bishop Roden, the wife of former Branch Davidian leader George Roden, at the site of the compound destroyed in the Waco siege?
Did you know that Shripat Amrit Dange was a founding member of the Communist Party of India?
Did you know that Speak, Mnemosyne was replaced by Speak, Memory as the title of Vladimir Nabokov's autobiography for fear that people could not pronounce it?
Did you know that Unnale Unnale was the director of Jeeva's final film before his death?
Did you know that Zhenzhu Khan of Xueyantuo once offered 50,000 horses, 10,000 cattle or camels, and 100,000 goats to Emperor Taizong of Tang China to serve as bride price for a princess?
Did you know that a prosecution was started against Benjamin Robinson for starting a school in Findern in 1693?
Did you know that during a copper miners' strike in Michigan in 1913, labor leader Charles Moyer was shot in the back by unknown assailants and then expelled by Calumet city police while still bleeding?
Did you know that during the first six years of the Australian edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? nobody won the top prize of one million dollars?
Did you know that former Palermo mayor Vito Ciancimino explained that Italy without bribes would be "as though someone wanted to remove one of the four wheels of a car"?
Did you know that in Floyd's algorithm for cycle detection, the tortoise and hare move at very different speeds, but always finish at the same spot?
Did you know that it was John Hollingshead who brought together Gilbert and Sullivan in 1871?
Did you know that major league baseball player Terry Pendleton participated in the World Series in 1985, 1987, 1991, 1992 and 1996, but lost all five times?
Did you know that nine workers died at India's Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Limited due to a blast that occurred when leaking water was accidentally mixed with molten steel?
Did you know that numerous references to Wikipedia on The Colbert Report, an American satirical comedy series, defined the word Wikiality as "Truth by consensus, rather than fact"?
Did you know that the Blue-throated Piping-guan is a South American bird similar to a turkey?
Did you know that the Delaware and Hudson Canal was the first American business with a million-dollar market capitalization?
Did you know that the Jacobean play The Widow's Tears is thought to be the last comedy written by George Chapman?
Did you know that the Mourning of Muharram, observed by Shi'a Muslims, commemorates the anniversary of the death of Imam Husayn ibn Ali at the Battle of Karbala in 680?
Did you know that the Mustagh Pass crosses the Baltoro Muztagh range in the Karakorams, from Pakistan to China?
Did you know that the Praetorian Building, a high-rise in Dallas,  is regarded to be the first skyscraper constructed in the Southwestern United States?
Did you know that the Union Monument in Romania was unveiled in 1927, demolished in 1947 by the Communists, and rebuilt in 1999?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court held in Moyer v. Peabody (1909) that the U.S. government may imprison citizens without probable cause during an insurrection so long as it acts in good faith?
Did you know that the conditions at the chapel of St. Nicholas' Church, Tallinn in 1703 protected the unburied Duke Eugène de Croÿ from decaying and his body became an attraction remaining on display until 1897?
Did you know that the Đorđe Martinović affair, concerning a farmer hospitalised with a beer bottle in his rectum, was a major ethnic and political controversy in Serbia in 1985 and contributed to the collapse of Yugoslavia?
Did you know that American sports car racing driver Dick Thompson was known as the "Flying Dentist"?
Did you know that Derbyshire M.P. George John Venables-Vernon who enthused about Italian literature is the namesake of Vernon County in Australia?
Did you know that Harold E. Martin, a newspaper publisher and editor, won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1970 and served for twenty years on the board of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association?
Did you know that Heuneburg, an early Celtic settlement by the upper Danube, was already fortified with a massive ditch-and-bank enclosure by the Middle Bronze Age (15th to 12th century BC)?
Did you know that Professor Padraig O'Malley of the University of Massachusetts Boston helped bring 16 Iraqis to a conference in Finland, where they met with participants in the internal reconciliations in South Africa and Northern Ireland?
Did you know that Singapore’s Fort Tanjong Katong, one of the oldest military forts built by the British colonial government, never saw combat action and was nicknamed the "Wash-out Fort"?
Did you know that a dispute over the Sudanese region of Abyei may determine the fate of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended the 22-year civil war?
Did you know that in January 1859, over 30,000 people gathered on Dealul Mitropoliei in Bucharest in support of Alexander John Cuza in his election to become the first Domnitor of the United Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia?
Did you know that in his 1968 Declaration of Perth, British Conservative leader Edward Heath pledged his party's support for Scottish devolution, a policy later reversed by Margaret Thatcher?
Did you know that sculptor Tom Otterness delivered more than four times the amount of work commissioned for his popular "Life Underground" subway installation?
Did you know that the Louisiana Tigers Confederate Army brigade were a key part of the Army of Northern Virginia and developed a reputation as fearless, hard fighting shock troops?
Did you know that the NATO commander in Afghanistan labelled the Siege of Sangin against Taliban insurgents the most intensive engagement involving British soldiers since the Korean War?
Did you know that the US Navy Bayfield class attack transports USS Alpine, USS Barnstable, USS Callaway, USS Cecil and USS Goshen all found use as cargo vessels after World War II but were scrapped at Kaohsiung in Taiwan in the 1970s?
Did you know that the training exercises in Flash Focus were developed under the supervision of a professor at Japan's Aichi Institute of Technology?
Did you know that when Sir Francis Rodes bequeathed a yearly £20, it was enough to run a secondary school in the 16th century?
Did you know that Fermin Rocker, son of anarchist writer Rudolf Rocker, once sold a painting to rock star Mick Jagger?
Did you know that G. Venkatasubbaiah is regarded as the father of the modern Kannada dictionary?
Did you know that Goose Creek State Park, a North Carolina state park off Pamlico Sound, is in an inlet that once provided cover for Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet and other pirates?
Did you know that Joseph Throckmorton was called a "second Nero or Calligula (sic)" for his actions on his steamboat Warrior at the 1832 Battle of Bad Axe?
Did you know that Lothar Neethling of the South African Police confiscated and denied crash investigators access to the aircraft flight recorders from the wreckage of the air disaster which killed President Samora Machel of Mozambique in 1986?
Did you know that NASCAR founder Bill France, Sr. examined photographs and newsreels for three days before determining that unofficial 1959 Daytona 500 race winner Johnny Beauchamp had actually finished second behind Lee Petty?
Did you know that Piffles Taylor quarterbacked the Regina Roughriders to the Western Canada rugby championship in 1919 after losing an eye in World War I?
Did you know that Ugaritic culture hero Danel may have been a model for the Biblical Daniel of Ezekiel?
Did you know that artist R. B. Kitaj blamed the death of his second wife on the savagely negative reactions to his 1994 retrospective?
Did you know that despite being found guilty of conspiring with Mary, Queen of Scots to assassinate Elizabeth I, Charles Paget was given the manor of Weston-on-Trent?
Did you know that ethnic cleansing of Poles in 1943 Volhynia was resisted by the Defence of Przebraże?
Did you know that former Finance Minister of Israel Pinchas Sapir was famous for carrying a "black notebook" of economics-related observations in his travels?
Did you know that from 1955 to 1973, the United States conducted a scientific initiative aimed at producing gravity-manipulation technology?
Did you know that in 2004, the Children's Court of Victoria in Australia granted a teenager a "divorce" from his mother?
Did you know that intoxication is never recognized as an excuse for crime, but  settled insanity due to substance abuse is?
Did you know that the first film to take advantage of the relaxation of communism in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s was The Sun in a Net?
Did you know that the now-Polish Gliwice Canal was known as the "Adolf Hitler Canal" during WWII?
Did you know that the volcano Mount St. Helens is named after Alleyne FitzHerbert of Derby?
Did you know that wide receiver Mercury Hayes caught the game-winning touchdown in Lloyd Carr's Michigan coaching debut?
Did you know that Canada's first dedicated movie theater, the Ouimetoscope, was created in 1906 with an original investment of only seventy-five dollars?
Did you know that Charles Morris Woodford wrote a dispatch appointing himself the first Deputy Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate, and then convinced the High Commissioner to sign it?
Did you know that Chris Cosentino, a contestant on The Next Iron Chef famous for cooking offal, hated his grandmother's tripe as a child?
Did you know that Culbone Church is the smallest English parish church still holding services?
Did you know that José María Campo Serrano became President of Colombia after the resignation of the President and the dismissal of the Vice President by Congress?
Did you know that Michael G. Strain is Louisiana's first elected Republican commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry?
Did you know that Raspberry Island in the Gulf of Alaska boasts some of the largest Roosevelt elk ever recorded?
Did you know that Sumitro was a prominent Indonesian General in the early years of General Suharto's New Order, but retired after student riots in Jakarta in 1974?
Did you know that Varbola Stronghold was the largest circular rampart fortress and a trading center built in Ancient Estonia that only lost its importance in the 14th century?
Did you know that a 120-year old Bodhi tree in Jin Long Si Temple, standing over 30 m tall with a girth of 8.5 m, is the oldest and largest of its kind ever found in Singapore?
Did you know that at King of the Ring 1998, Mick Foley was thrown head first off a sixteen foot high cell onto a table by The Undertaker and it has since become one of the most famous moments in professional wrestling?