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Did you know that during a 2010 game, University of the Philippines basketball coach Boyet Fernandez told a player to deliberately cross the shaded lane while a free-throw was being attempted to force a jump ball?
Did you know that during the "Southbelt Shuffle" event on M-6 south of Grand Rapids, Michigan, horses were ridden on the partially completed freeway?
Did you know that members of the public are encouraged to climb and rearrange pieces of the Family sculpture in front of the Federal Building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin?
Did you know that psychologists have theorised that people interpret sensory information that their brains can easily process as beautiful?
Did you know that seven carpenters were required to build the Mt. Pleasant farmhouse near Indian Falls, New York?
Did you know that the 1493 Sejm held at the Piotrków Trybunalski Castle was the first two-chamber parliament in Poland?
Did you know that the Evangelical School of Smyrna was the most important Greek educational institution in İzmir, Turkey, possessing an archaeological museum, a natural science collection and a library?
Did you know that the Feathered Helmet that was included in the painting of Captain James Cook's death is said to be the helmet given to Cook when he first landed in Hawaii?
Did you know that the Sopwith Cobham triplane bomber was the only twin-engine aircraft built by the Sopwith Aviation Company?
Did you know that the Special Survey system allowed people to purchase areas of the Port Phillip District in New South Wales for as little as £1 per acre?
Did you know that the Tamaulipas massacre that occurred on 24 August 2010 has been described as "the worst known atrocity" of the Mexican Drug War?
Did you know that the pioneering journalist Pearl Rivers took her nom de plume from the river that ran near her home?
Did you know that the two finishes by a Toyota Celica LB Turbo (4th and 8th) in German championship auto racing marked the best results for a racecar that was not a Porsche 935?
Did you know that to maintain a low profile for their appearances at the Hampton Coliseum, the rock band Grateful Dead asked to appear on the billing as Formerly the Warlocks?
Did you know that 19th-century painter Robert Jenkins Onderdonk (example painting pictured), born in Maryland into a Dutch American family, became known as the "Dean of Texas's Artists"?
Did you know that 70 years ago on October 1, 1940, little "Whitey" Bernard was photographed running after his father who was marching to war?
Did you know that Arthur's Quest: Battle for the Kingdom was nominated for GameSpot's Worst PC Game of 2002 award?
Did you know that Cape Parry's Thick-billed Murre colony, located in Northwest Territories, Canada, is more isolated than any other murre colony in the world?
Did you know that Gene Swick was the first college quarterback to amass more than 8,000 career yards, but was cut by the Cleveland Browns during camp and never played professional football?
Did you know that Lucernaria janetae has eight lance-shaped gonads?
Did you know that Mecklenburg's Garden in Cincinnati used a ship model to inform patrons whether alcohol could be sold safely during Prohibition in the United States?
Did you know that Monte Robbins holds the Michigan Wolverines football records for longest punt at 82 yards and the highest career average for a punter?
Did you know that Portland, Maine's Eastern Promenade is home to a narrow gauge railroad museum, the mast of the WWII-era USS Portland heavy cruiser, and a mass grave of US prisoners of war from the War of 1812?
Did you know that a Pawnee creation account centered on Pahuk, a bluff overlooking the Platte River in Nebraska?
Did you know that a practice in Afghanistan, where a daughter in a family without sons is dressed in male clothing and acts as a boy, allowing her to do things she could not do as a girl, is called bacha posh?
Did you know that after the Nazi invasion of Norway, former naval officer Olaf Kullmann bicycled around Norway to agitate for pacifism?
Did you know that an early use of pascalization in the United States was the treatment of guacamole, extending its shelf life tenfold?
Did you know that as an attorney, William Coblentz represented Patty Hearst, Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead, and once called Ronald Reagan "a menopausal Cary Grant"?
Did you know that despite being eliminated from The Ultimate Fighter just weeks prior, Pablo Garza was signed by World Extreme Cagefighting to appear tonight at WEC 51?
Did you know that during the Ottoman–Mamluk War of 1485–1491, the Ottomans prevailed at sea, but the Mamluks consistently resisted them on land?
Did you know that gravediggers working within the ruins of northern Albania's Shirgj Monastery would often encounter mosaics from the old church?
Did you know that in 2010, the Swiss based Alpiq became the largest open market electricity trader in Romania?
Did you know that in Thomas Eakins' Self-portrait, the contrast between his formal attire and his unkempt grooming alludes to a rebellious nature restrained by cultural mores?
Did you know that oral historian Alessandro Portelli has compared the stories of industrial workers in his hometown of Terni, Italy, with those of coal miners in Harlan County, Kentucky?
Did you know that percussionist Ollie E. Brown has produced or performed on over 100 singles and albums, including Ray Parker, Jr.'s Ghostbusters, Michael Jackson's Bad, and the theme from Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo?
Did you know that severe floods, among the worst in the country's history, affected Slovenia two weeks ago?
Did you know that tensile testing is a fundamental materials science test used to find a material's ultimate tensile strength and maximum elongation before fracture?
Did you know that the 2007–08 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team included Ekpe Udoh who led both the Big Ten Conference and Big 12 Conference in blocked shots?
Did you know that the Adelaide leak could have landed the Australian economy in hot water?
Did you know that the Canadian Air-Sea Transportable Brigade Group, formed to rapidly reinforce Norway in wartime, disbanded after it took two years of planning and 21 days to cross the Atlantic?
Did you know that the remains of the San Juan de Silicia, a Spanish Armada ship which sank off the coast of Scotland, were mistaken for those of a treasure ship and destroyed by countless searches for gold?
Did you know that the true source of New York's official nickname, The Empire State, is not known?
Did you know that the work of "animation God" Bill Littlejohn includes Tom and Jerry, A Charlie Brown Christmas and an Oscar-winning short with Dizzy Gillespie debating the possibility of nuclear war?
Did you know that the Çubuk-1 Dam was the first concrete dam constructed in Turkey and is recognized as one of the country's top 50 engineering feats?
Did you know that American history researcher Ann Dexter Gordon leads a project at Rutgers University which has cataloged more than 14,000 papers related to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony?
Did you know that Australian Murray Sayle, known for his "rat-like cunning", was a war correspondent in Vietnam, tracked Che Guevara through the Bolivian jungle, climbed Mt. Everest and sailed solo across the Atlantic?
Did you know that Brett Beavers was the bandleader and bass player for both Martina McBride and Lee Ann Womack?
Did you know that Canadian charity Actua, which delivers educational programs to young people, received the 2009 Ontario Trillium Foundation Minister's Award?
Did you know that Fathi Osman's 1997 book Concepts of the Quran: A Topical Reading, in which he explained concepts in Islam for non-Muslims, was nearly 1,000 pages long?
Did you know that HIP Petrohemija is the largest petrochemical company in Serbia?
Did you know that Hornby Lighthouse, on South Head, New South Wales, Australia, was known as the "Lower Light", to distinguish it from Macquarie Lighthouse, the "Upper Light"?
Did you know that Kenneth Strong was Britain's first Director General of Intelligence?
Did you know that Padilla, Bolivia, is named in honor of Manuel Ascencio Padilla who was referred to as "a hero with the soul of a child and the heart of a lion"?
Did you know that Texas State Rep. Byron Cook is a leading supporter of maintaining the scenic Texas State Railroad from Rusk to Palestine?
Did you know that The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman was the first Chinese film to premiere at Midnight Madness at the Toronto International Film Festival?
Did you know that as CEO of Stanley Works, Donald W. Davis helped bring the do it yourself home improvement trend to the U.S. and coined the company slogan "Stanley helps you do things right"?
Did you know that consumption of the poisonous mushroom Inocybe maculata could lead to death by respiratory failure?
Did you know that in 1850 the area outside London's Westminster Abbey was a notorious slum called Devil's Acre?
Did you know that in the extremely rare 1983 video game Mangia, the player controls a boy whose mother attempts to feed him so much pasta that his stomach will explode?
Did you know that once completed, the Fântânele-Cogealac Wind Farm will be the largest onshore wind farm in Europe?
Did you know that sound engineer and record producer Paul De Villiers has worked with Yes, Marc Jordan, King Crimson and Mr. Mister, whose number-one hits "Kyrie" and "Broken Wings" he co-produced?
Did you know that the Anina mine supplied Crivina Power Station with oil shale?
Did you know that the British ironclad HMS Defence damaged her propeller and rudder when she was nearly blown ashore during a gale off Pantelleria in March 1872?
Did you know that the British ironclad HMS Hector was assigned as Queen Victoria's guard ship nearly every summer between 1868 and 1886 when she was in residence at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight?
Did you know that the Church of St Pothinus in Lyon holds a 17th century painting depicting St Paul in front of the Areopagus that was previously kept at the Notre Dame de Paris?
Did you know that the Miss Albany Diner, an Albany, New York, architectural landmark, was used as a set for the 1987 film Ironweed?
Did you know that the Nazis claimed the successful Blitzkrieg against France in 1940 saved the Soviet Union from an allied strategic bombing campaign called Operation Pike?
Did you know that the Sun and Pluto are only 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) apart on the Somerset Space Walk?
Did you know that the SweeTango is a new variety of apple, not a romantic dance?
Did you know that the band OK Go's music video for "White Knuckles" is a one-shot take of the band interacting with twelve trained dogs and a goat?
Did you know that the parish churches of Ormskirk, Purton and Wanborough are the only churches in England to have both a western tower and a central spire?
Did you know that the six movements of a Missa of Bach, a short mass consisting of Kyrie and Gloria, are parodies of his cantata music?
Did you know that there are several alternative explanations of Frédéric Chopin's illness?
Did you know that there is a border dispute between Canada and the United States over a part of the Beaufort Sea?
Did you know that virologist John R. Paul blamed better hygiene for polio's spread in the 20th century, saying early exposure to poliovirus would have given immunity?
Did you know that while Red-and-yellow Barbets (male pictured) are tame in areas where they are not persecuted, they are hunted by the Maasai for their feathers?
Did you know that British architect Charles Fitzroy Doll's design for the dining room for the Hotel Russell in London was also later used on the RMS Titanic?
Did you know that Brooke Fraser described her third album, Flags, as "a graduation"?
Did you know that Clarence River Light, a lighthouse in Yamba, New South Wales, Australia, was built in 1955, replacing a previous lighthouse built in 1880?
Did you know that George Munroe is a retired American professional basketball player, Navy veteran, Rhodes scholar, lawyer, and former CEO of Phelps Dodge Corporation?
Did you know that Grove Church Cemetery has been called "a cemetery for the living"?
Did you know that Marty Amsler was the first University of Evansville graduate to be drafted into the National Football League?
Did you know that Nagesh Kukunoor's 3 Deewarein was filmed at the then defunct and now demolished Musheerabad Jail in Hyderabad, India?
Did you know that Ned Sutton was the Melbourne Football Club's inaugural captain in the Victorian Football League in 1897?
Did you know that Richard Cantillon's treatise, Essai, was considered by economist William Stanley Jevons to be the "cradle of political economy"?
Did you know that according to a local legend, the medieval Church of St Demetrius in Patalenitsa, Bulgaria, was rediscovered thanks to a thunderbolt striking a cherry tree?
Did you know that according to local legend Dead Timber State Recreation Area in Nebraska is named for the "dead timbers" that were left over after a wildfire?
Did you know that actor and musician Chord Overstreet was named after the musical term of the same name?
Did you know that because of its height, the Gaza Baptist Church was commandeered by both Fatah and Hamas troops as an observation post during the Fatah–Hamas conflict?
Did you know that contralto Hildegard Laurich performed in Bach's cantata for Ratswahl (inauguration of the Leipzig town council) Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille, BWV 120?
Did you know that in the documentary television series about South American serial killers, Instinto Asesino (Killer Instinct), the death toll of the six criminals exceeds one hundred victims, mostly women and children?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano Petra Noskaiová recorded alto parts with La Petite Bande in Bach cantatas such as Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12?
Did you know that one of the best-preserved Viking settlements in Europe, Linn Duachaill, was founded at the same time as Dublin, in the 840s, and was unearthed and identified in September 2010?
Did you know that the "Parasol Protectorate" steampunk books Soulless, Changeless, and Blameless by Gail Carriger will be adapted as graphic novels by Yen Press?
Did you know that the American Honda Motor Company (headquarters pictured) was Honda's first U.S. subsidiary and the first Japanese automaker to build cars in the U.S.?
Did you know that the Battle of Nui Le was the last major battle fought by the Australian army during the Vietnam War?
Did you know that the Inca sites of Machu Picchu and Cusco became the first World Heritage Sites of Peru in 1983?
Did you know that the Windhoek Show was first held in 1899, when South-West Africa was still a colony of Imperial Germany?
Did you know that the World Golf Village is a golf resort near St. Augustine, Florida, created to showcase the World Golf Hall of Fame?
Did you know that the nave of the Church of All Souls, Bolton, Greater Manchester, was built without pillars to give the congregation an excellent view and to enable them to hear the sermon clearly?
Did you know that the suggestion of repressed sexuality in Thomas Eakins' Portrait of Maud Cook has been seen as both intriguing and disturbing?
Did you know that the word "constable" derives from the Byzantine office of comes stabuli or Count of the Stable, responsible for the horses and pack animals intended for use by the army and the imperial court?
Did you know that when Father Scott Pilarz became President of the University of Scranton he brought Georgetown University's mascot, Jack the Bulldog, with him?
Did you know that Bach scored a sopranino recorder to illustrate the morning star in the opening chorus of his cantata Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV 96?
Did you know that Benwick's High Street in Cambridgeshire is built on a rodham—another way of spelling roddon, an East Anglia term for an old watercourse?
Did you know that Gros-Mécatina on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, in Quebec, Canada, has excellent crab, lobster, and scallop fishing grounds?
Did you know that James Eccles made the first ascent of the second-highest summit in the Alps ninety years after the first ascent of the highest?
Did you know that Jim Cardwell gave up his engineering business to become full-time secretary for Melbourne Football Club, a post he held for 25 years?
Did you know that Maria Esperanza de Bianchini, a Venezuelan Servant of God, was reportedly witnessed levitating during mass and engaging in bilocation?
Did you know that NGC 3109 might be the smallest spiral galaxy in the Local Group?
Did you know that Oregon cattle baron Bill Hanley died in 1935 after attending Bill Hanley Day at the Pendleton Round-Up?
Did you know that Robert Twycross was a pioneer of the hospice movement during the 1970s?
Did you know that St Mary's Church, Elsing has, according to Nikolaus Pevsner, "the most sumptuous of all English church brasses"?
Did you know that The Battle of Waterloo, made in five days in 1913 at a cost of £1,800 by British and Colonial Films, has been called "the first British epic film"?
Did you know that U.S. Army officer Dan Tyler Moore, an aide to and sparring partner of Theodore Roosevelt, struck the President in the eye, causing him to lose sight in that eye?
Did you know that U2 wrote the song "Mothers of the Disappeared" about the Madres de Plaza de Mayo, whose children disappeared during the Dirty War?
Did you know that Wat Pasantidhamma was the first Thai Buddhist temple in the Tidewater (southeastern) region of Virginia?
Did you know that a fortune made as a merchant in Gothenburg enabled Thomas Erskine (later 9th Earl of Kellie) to buy back Cambo House, a property forfeited because of his family's Jacobite sympathies?
Did you know that after Julius Caesar's civil war military campaign, he planned to distribute land to about 15,000 of his veterans?
Did you know that although the competition for designing Old Christ Church, Waterloo, Merseyside, was won by a different firm of architects, Paley, Austin and Paley were commissioned to build it?
Did you know that an anti-abortion movement commercial, featuring a depiction of President Barack Obama, was CatholicVote.org's first advertisement and recorded over 700,000 hits?
Did you know that at age 25, Julius Caesar was captured by pirates, but after being ransomed, chased them, captured them, and had them crucified?
Did you know that bass-baritone  Stephen Varcoe recorded Bach cantatas with the Monteverdi Choir, including Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140?
Did you know that black South African footballer Darius Dhlomo went missing on his debut for Dutch club Heracles Almelo because he was unaware that blacks and whites were allowed in the same changing room?
Did you know that girl group Sophia Fresh's debut single, "What It Is", impressed Rihanna so much that she said she wished the song was hers?
Did you know that in the 1966 movie Hold On!, the children of American astronauts choose to name a NASA space capsule after the British band Herman's Hermits?
Did you know that the British Museum's oldest African-American object is the Akan Drum that was used to "dance the slaves"?
Did you know that the Former Residence of Soong Ching-ling was once used by Zaifeng, the father of Puyi, the last emperor of China?
Did you know that the Kirklees Priory in West Yorkshire is the supposed site of Robin Hood's grave?
Did you know that the Pied Crested Cuckoo, which is considered as a harbinger of the monsoon season due to the timing of its arrival, is frequently spotted at Hyderabad's Sanjeevaiah Park?
Did you know that the four statues of saints on the tower of St Andrew's Church, East Heslerton were originally intended for Bristol Cathedral, but were rejected because the dean said they were papist?
Did you know that the majority of the inhabitants of Saint-Augustin in Quebec, Canada, are Métis – descendants of Inuit and Europeans?
Did you know that the most valuable biosphere reserve in Poland's Puszcza Piska Forest is home to the Mute Swan, which arrives in numbers reaching up to 2,000 birds in time of moult?
Did you know that 19th-century publicist Anastas Byku held that the Albanians were descendants of the Pelasgians and the Illyrians?
Did you know that Bernard Carvalho, the current Mayor of Kauai, was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in 1984 after attending the University of Hawaii on a full football scholarship?
Did you know that Catholic judge John Callan considered resigning after Pope Pius XII talked about judges' duties with respect to divorce cases?
Did you know that Dubois' seasnake is one of at least seventeen sea snake species living in the Coral Sea, and has the world's most toxic sea snake venom?
Did you know that Hawaiian sugar plantation owner Albert Spencer Wilcox was the son of Abner Wilcox, a New England missionary teacher to Hawaii?
Did you know that Iranian caricaturist and satirist Javad has created a scientific/philosophical cartoon on the theory of relativity entitled 4D Humor?
Did you know that Jo Andrews, former political correspondent for ITN, was the first woman to join press conferences held by the Labour Party during the run-up to the United Kingdom general election of 2001?
Did you know that Larry Taylor returned a punt for a touchdown in each of the Connecticut Huskies football team's first two bowl games: the 2004 Motor City Bowl and the 2007 Meineke Car Care Bowl?
Did you know that Maui's present mayor, Charmaine Tavares, is the daughter of the island's longest-serving mayor, Hannibal Tavares?
Did you know that Michigan's All-American 60-minute man Tom Johnson was the second African-American player for the Green Bay Packers?
Did you know that Vinnie Doyle, one of the longest-serving editors in the newspaper business in Ireland, was editor of the Irish Independent for 24 years?
Did you know that a granddaughter of German businessman Paul Isenberg was the first manager of the Kauaʻi Museum?
Did you know that a veal and ham pie is a critical plot element in Beatrix Potter's The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan?
Did you know that according to Elizabeth Gaskell, Maria Brontë was the inspiration for the character of Helen Burns in Jane Eyre?
Did you know that all three singles from Scribe's debut album, The Crusader, including "Dreaming"/"So Nice", were double A-sides?
Did you know that during the Crimean War, Captains Arthur Cumming and Astley Cooper Key took control of the town of Libau with just 110 men, without firing a shot?
Did you know that eccentric tycoon Ian Stuart Millar's seafront home in Hove, England, was built of specially commissioned handmade bricks—the leftovers of which were reputedly buried elsewhere in Hove?
Did you know that following the London premiere of Fabio Campana's opera Esmeralda in 1870, The Saturday Review pronounced it "irredeemably bad"?
Did you know that for the 1999 reissue of The Cars' 1978 debut album, no usable demo of their single "Good Times Roll" could be found?
Did you know that in the season premiere episode of the fifth season of the television comedy series 30 Rock, the Jack Donaghy character makes reference to the Fabian strategy?
Did you know that people making speeches at Speakers' Corner in Singapore must use one of Singapore's four official languages – English, Malay, Mandarin or Tamil – or a related dialect?
Did you know that tenor Werner Güra recorded with Harnoncourt and the Arnold Schoenberg Chor at the Musikverein, Bach's cantata Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29?
Did you know that the Alexander Classical School building in Alexander, New York, is the only cobblestone building in North America used as a town hall?
Did you know that the Bulqizë, Kalimashi 1, Kalimashi 3, Krasta, Përroi Batrës, Qaf-Buall, Vlahna and Zogaj mines are the only mines in Albania to have reserves of over 1 million tonnes of chromium ore?
Did you know that the Jagiellonian tapestries became state property of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by the testament of King Sigismund II Augustus?
Did you know that the National D-Day Museum honored Beth Courtney, president of Louisiana Public Broadcasting, for co-hosting a three-hour, live tribute to World War II veterans from Louisiana?
Did you know that the archaic Greek letter Sampi has also been called san, enacosin, angma, sincope, charaktir, or even parakyisma, which literally means "spurious pregnancy"?