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Did you know that unlike most other forms of bacon, Zeeuws spek ("Zeeland bacon") from the Netherlands is sold pre-cooked?
Did you know that Bush vs. Kerry Boxing features Ralph Nader as a ring girl and Hillary Clinton as a referee?
Did you know that Lizzy Clark, in the 2008 BBC film Dustbin Baby, is the first actor with Asperger syndrome to portray a character having it?
Did you know that Move Like Michael Jackson, a BBC Three talent show which aims to find people who can dance like the late entertainer, is judged by Jackson's elder brother, Jermaine?
Did you know that Patrick Murphy tried to help rebels in Naco, Mexico, by dropping homemade suitcase bombs from his airplane?
Did you know that Scottish-born engineer Alexander Arthur spent millions of dollars in unsuccessful logging, mining, and resort enterprises in southern Appalachia in the late 19th century?
Did you know that Skorpa prisoner of war camp was the main Norwegian POW camp in Northern Norway during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign, holding some 500 German military and civilian prisoners?
Did you know that Valle Crucis Abbey, built by Madog ap Gruffydd Maelor in 1201, is home to the only remaining monastic fishpond in Wales?
Did you know that after a short career in films, Elaine Shepard was a journalist in Vietnam?
Did you know that after the Swedes twice failed to take Bremen, they founded a new town nearby?
Did you know that in May 2009, pentachlorobenzene was added to the list of chemical compounds covered by the Stockholm Convention, an international treaty which restricts the production and use of persistent organic pollutants?
Did you know that in Strategic Command, a series of turn-based strategy video games taking place during World War II, the player may persuade neutral states to join the conflict using diplomatic pressure?
Did you know that sales of Interpol's records have numbered more than two million worldwide?
Did you know that the Chancellor of the Kingdom of Cyprus gave a piece of the true cross to the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista in Venice?
Did you know that the Romanov Tercentenary Fabergé egg was made to celebrate 300 years of Romanov rule in Russia – four years before the end of the monarchy?
Did you know that the Vegreville egg, a giant egg sculpture in Vegreville, Alberta, rotates on its axis to the wind like a weather vane?
Did you know that the moisture-adapted asteracean plant Argyroxiphium grayanum represents one extreme in the adaptive radiation of its genus, which also includes drought-adapted mountain plants?
Did you know that the naturally rocky knoll Dùn Foulag, on the isle of Coll within the Scottish Hebrides, was once mistakenly thought to have been the ruined remains of a fortress?
Did you know that the three remaining Shakers live at and maintain Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, a National Historic Landmark in Maine?
Did you know that when Champoux Vineyard was first planted in Washington State, the aim was to produce grapes that rivaled the First Growth Bordeaux estate Chateau Lafite?
Did you know that when Miguelites loyal to the former king of Portugal blew up the brandy stores of the Douro Wine Company in 1852, nearly 3.4 million gallons of boiling hot Port flooded into the river Douro?
Did you know that Amaldus Nielsen has been called Norway's first naturalist painter?
Did you know that Beach House Park in Worthing, West Sussex, has a memorial to war pigeons?
Did you know that David Pearson set the NASCAR single-season win percentage record by winning 11 of the 18 events that he entered in 1973?
Did you know that Głos magazine was closed during the revolution in the Kingdom of Poland?
Did you know that Lê Văn Hưu was the first Vietnamese historian who praised the revolt of the Trưng Sisters against the Han Dynasty?
Did you know that after exhausting his shot fighting a privateer for two days, Commander Hugh Downman of HMS Speedy was reduced to firing nails at his opponent?
Did you know that after removal of a dam that blocked their migration for nearly a century, salmon and steelhead returned in 2009 to the Little Sandy River in Oregon?
Did you know that at least seven members of the Scottish Argentine Brown family have played international football for Argentina?
Did you know that classical guitarist and composer Fernando Sor's most popular work, Introduction and Variations on a Theme by Mozart, was written in 1821 and dedicated to his brother Carlos?
Did you know that former New Jersey State Senator Harry L. Sears secretly delivered a briefcase containing $200,000 from financier Robert Vesco to the 1972 campaign of Richard Nixon?
Did you know that in a manner unusual for snakes, the female Natal rock python guards its hatchlings for up to two weeks after they emerge from their eggs to protect them from predators?
Did you know that in capturing the Spanish frigate Santa Dorotea Captain Manley Dixon had two men wounded on his ship, compared to 20 killed and 32 wounded on the Santa Dorotea?
Did you know that the Chestnut Sparrow, which usurps nests from weavers, may be evolving into a brood parasite?
Did you know that the Heroninos Archive contains examples of a complex and standardized system of accounting used in 3rd century Roman Egypt?
Did you know that the Quartermaster General of the Luftwaffe, Hans-Georg von Seidel, said after World War II that "Hitler understood nothing about flying and cared less"?
Did you know that the larvae of the Silky Hairstreak secrete substances that attract ants?
Did you know that the population of the village of Dode was wiped out by the Black Death during the 14th century?
Did you know that the red pigment of the Christmas wreath lichen is one of several chemicals that help the organism survive inhospitable environments?
Did you know that the town of Yubileyny in Moscow Oblast, Russia, annexed a small strip of land to avoid being completely surrounded by the city of Korolyov?
Did you know that wine historians have speculated that the Italian grape Greco may have been used to make the Roman "cult wine" Falernian?
Did you know that , according to the pizza theorem, a circular pizza that is sliced off-center into eight equal-angled wedges can still be divided equally between two people?
Did you know that Christmas is traditionally celebrated in Agnone, Italy, with a torchlight parade known as Ndocciata? (2006 event pictured)
Did you know that Publishers Weekly criticized Cyber Rights by civil liberties lawyer Mike Godwin for the book's "unusually broad view of free speech"?
Did you know that Victorian policeman Thomas Arnold did not believe that Mary Kelly was a victim of Jack the Ripper?
Did you know that clarinetist Robert Lindemann played in the controversial American premiere of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire?
Did you know that in Nazi Germany, Christmas featured decorating Christmas trees with swastikas, Germanic "sun wheels" and SS-style Nordic sig runes?
Did you know that in response to rioting in Oporto over price increases for Port wine, the Marquis of Pombal had several members of the Factory House executed?
Did you know that most lake-dwelling grayling in the American West today can be genetically traced to Yellowstone Park's Grebe Lake, where millions of fish eggs were harvested and distributed from 1931 to 1956?
Did you know that rapper Lil Jon, porn star Savanna Samson, football coach Mike Ditka, actor Antonio Banderas and US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are among celebrities who own wineries and vineyards?
Did you know that the 1999 Christmas Eve edition of Morning Ireland was a tribute to those who died in The Troubles of Northern Ireland and featured contributions from Tony Blair and Bill Clinton?
Did you know that the Honduran milk snake's color resemblance to the coral snake, known as Batesian mimicry, helps protect it from potential predators?
Did you know that the Pfitzner Flyer, the first monoplane built and flown in the US, used telescopic wing-tips to avoid infringement of the Wright brothers' wing warping patents?
Did you know that the Swedish port of Gustavia was destroyed by Napoleon Bonaparte's forces only a year after its construction had begun?
Did you know that the constitution the Convention of 1833 proposed for Mexican Texas was the first to prohibit imprisonment for debt?
Did you know that the earliest surviving aristocratic wax seal from Spain is found on a 1179 document of Castilian nobleman Pedro Manrique de Lara?
Did you know that the main guns of the canceled Greek battleship Salamis were bought by the British to arm the Abercrombie-class monitors during World War I?
Did you know that the matswaniste movement in French Equatorial Africa, l'Amicale des Originaires, developed from a self-help group into a political movement and later into a messianic religious community?
Did you know that the twelve One Day International centuries scored by Marcus Trescothick is the most by an English cricketer?
Did you know that worldwide the major source of morphine for medical and scientific use is not opium but poppy straw?
Did you know that Alfhild Hovdan initiated the tradition of the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree, in 1947?
Did you know that Benjamin Britten helped to replace the Grancino double bass of Adrian Beers MBE, after it was destroyed in the Snape Maltings concert hall fire?
Did you know that Charles W. Howard, who portrayed Santa Claus in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade for 17 years, founded the world's oldest Santa Claus School?
Did you know that Christmas cookies can trace their origin to recipes from Medieval Europe?
Did you know that Dr. Ruth L. Kirschstein, appointed as the director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences in 1974, was the first woman to direct an institute at the National Institutes of Health?
Did you know that Helen Bright Clark was one of the first British women to sign the Open Christmas Letter which sought to extend the hand of peace "To the Women of Germany and Austria" during World War I?
Did you know that James Edgar has been credited as the first department store Santa Claus?
Did you know that Uruguayan footballer Vladas Douksas' father was a Lithuanian shopkeeper?
Did you know that at 42 meters tall, the Schlitz Christmas Candle in Schlitz, Germany, is believed to be the tallest non-wax candle in the world?
Did you know that future Confederate President Jefferson Davis was among the participants in the Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy on 24–25 December 1826, but escaped court-martial?
Did you know that luminarias, a Christmas Eve tradition in Santa Fe, New Mexico today, were described in colonial Mexico in the early 16th century?
Did you know that proposed sources of khutu have included narwhal, walrus, and mammoth ivory, the frontal bones of bulls, goats, and birds, the teeth of snakes, fish, and hippopotamuses, and the root of a tree?
Did you know that the 1901 film Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost is the oldest surviving film adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1843 novel A Christmas Carol?
Did you know that the Peace Candle of the World, a 50-foot candle-like structure in Scappoose, Oregon, is decorated with Christmas lights every holiday season?
Did you know that the Roman orator Cicero once publicly criticized Julius Caesar's father-in-law for enjoying too much Colli Piacentini wine?
Did you know that the painting Nativity at Night by Geertgen tot Sint Jans was influenced by a vision of the mystic Saint Bridget of Sweden?
Did you know that the swing group Big Bad Voodoo Daddy performed music for a special Christmas episode of Phineas and Ferb?
Did you know that the tradition of the Vatican Christmas Tree at Saint Peter's Square started in 1982 during the pontificate of Pope John Paul II, at his personal request?
Did you know that "Christmas Scandal", an episode of NBC's comedy series Parks and Recreation, marked the last in a string of guest performances by stand-up comedian Louis C.K.?
Did you know that Caroline Duby Glassman, who was born and raised in Oregon, was the first woman on the Maine Supreme Court?
Did you know that Julia Moon, daughter-in-law of Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon, performed Giselle with the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad?
Did you know that Maryam Jameelah, a New York-born convert from Judaism to Islam, became a prominent female advocate for conservative Islam?
Did you know that Oksbøl became the sixth largest town of Denmark because of the 37,000 inmates of the Oksbøl Refugee Camp?
Did you know that The Dog Who Saved Christmas won a "Yulie" on Entertainment Weekly's Popwatch column for "Best Use of Dean Cain"?
Did you know that after the restoration of independence in 1990, the Lithuanian society debated whether to remove a monument to writer Petras Cvirka due to his pro-Soviet attitudes?
Did you know that although 1989's "Second Chance" became the highest-charting U.S. song of 38 Special's career, A&M Records did not renew the band's contract?
Did you know that during his exile on Elba, Napoleon is said to have favored the island's wines made from the grape variety Aleatico?
Did you know that even after Peter Sutcliffe was convicted of the "Yorkshire Ripper" murders, Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield maintained that taunting letters and tape from Wearside Jack were connected to the case?
Did you know that in 2000, Indian Test cricketer Sourav Ganguly took the wicket of Lincolnshire's 'Father' Christmas?
Did you know that in the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny against the British Raj, European families, mostly women and children, were given refuge in the Jag Mandir, India, by Maharana Swaroop Singh?
Did you know that in the run-up to the 1946 French legislative and 1947 Congolese territorial elections, Congolese Progressive Party leader Jean-Félix Tchicaya condemned the system of separate electoral colleges?
Did you know that lethal congenital contracture syndrome, characterized by fetal immobility and leading invariably to pre-natal death, may be caused by mutations in chromosome 9?
Did you know that the Czech Christmas Mass by Jakub Jan Ryba is one of the musical symbols of Christmas in the Czech Republic?
Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines softball team in 2005 became the first team from east of the Mississippi River to win the Women's College World Series?
Did you know that the Peace Candle, a 106-foot (32 m) tower-like structure erected each Christmas season in Easton, Pennsylvania, is said to be the largest non-wax Christmas candle in the United States?
Did you know that the bloody-red mysid, a crustacean native to the Ponto-Caspian region, has recently invaded the North American Great Lakes?
Did you know that the number-one song "Cómo Fuí a Enamorarme de Tí" was also used as the title of a movie starring Mexican band Los Bukis?
Did you know that the video for Paul McCartney's Wonderful Christmastime was filmed at the Fountain Inn in Ashurst, West Sussex?
Did you know that Alemayehu Bezabeh, the 2009 European Cross Country Champion, had to have X-ray tests to estimate his age?
Did you know that Bruce Springsteen joined The Gaslight Anthem onstage at Glastonbury Festival 2009 to perform the band's 2008 song "The '59 Sound"?
Did you know that English dancer John D'Auban appeared in Robert the Devil at the opening of London's Gaiety Theatre in 1861, and was billed as one of the theatre's "principal grotesque dancers and pantomimists"?
Did you know that François-Marie Le Marchand de Lignery was awarded the Order of Saint Louis for his role in the French victory over British General Edward Braddock in the 1755 Battle of the Monongahela?
Did you know that Herbert Strutt, a High Sheriff of Derbyshire, bought the Glensanda estate where his son disappeared and was later found as a clothed skeleton?
Did you know that Stanford University biochemist Annette Salmeen was both an Olympic gold medalist and a Rhodes Scholar?
Did you know that after retiring from professional wrestling, Rafael Halperin helped create a credit card that would not work in Israel on Sabbath?
Did you know that despite being in different classes, Bradyrhizobium and Klebsiella pneumoniae have similar genes for fixing nitrogen?
Did you know that during World War II, later architect Rolv Enge participated in the first ever sabotage mission of Aks 13000?
Did you know that on July 20, 1964, the National Movement of the Revolution was declared the sole legal political party by law in the Republic of the Congo?
Did you know that shortly after World War II, Douglas Aircraft designed the prototype airliner DC-8 that had engines in the fuselage and propellors in the tail?
Did you know that ten acts, mostly newcomers in the Greek music industry, will vie for a chance to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010?
Did you know that the German armored cruiser SMS Scharnhorst sank with all hands, including Admiral von Spee, at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914?
Did you know that the Reformed Dutch Church of Claverack is the oldest institutional building in Columbia County, New York?
Did you know that the Stephen Miller House in Claverack, New York, features Dutch Colonial elements like a gambrel roof and Dutch door on a basic Federal style house?
Did you know that the Super Saturday weekend, the last weekend before Christmas, accounted for 13.6 percent of holiday retail sales in the United States in 2006?
Did you know that the carnivorous plant Drosera regia (pictured, with prey) is one of the most imperiled Drosera species, with a single small population estimated to consist of only 50 mature plants?
Did you know that Antonio de León y Gama described in his 1792 book the discovery of the Aztec sun stone?
Did you know that Brookbound is one of the few Second Empire-style buildings in the Claverack, New York, area?
Did you know that Final Battle 2009 was the first live pay-per-view event of professional wrestling Ring of Honor's?
Did you know that Frith Banbury directed plays on four continents without ever having obtained an academic degree?
Did you know that Isla Magueyes, an island 50 meters from the coast of Puerto Rico, is home to feral populations of Cuban iguanas and Rhesus monkeys which escaped from the local university?
Did you know that It's a Wonderful Life actors Jimmy Stewart and William Edmunds appeared in two other movies together, The Shop Around the Corner and The Mortal Storm?
Did you know that Parteniy Pavlovich from Silistra, an 18th-century Bulgarian cleric and writer, is regarded as the author of the first autobiography in South Slavic literature?
Did you know that after playing for over twenty clubs and enjoying only mild success, former professional footballer Fred Eyre made his name as a businessman, after dinner speaker, and author?
Did you know that artist Émile Friant was intended to be a chemist until he gained his father's permission to leave the lycée?
Did you know that buildings designed by Frederick Heath include Paradise Inn on Mount Rainier and the Pythian Temple in Tacoma, Washington, two properties listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that by kneeling before a cross the renowned 16th-century English performing horse Marocco saved his master from death by burning as a witch?
Did you know that in every second of normal fluent conversation, we pronounce roughly four syllables and ten or twelve phonemes?
Did you know that studies across 20 countries show a strong association between schizophrenia and smoking?
Did you know that the 1940 New Hampshire earthquake, the strongest earthquake in state history, had an intensity of VII (very strong)?
Did you know that the Aborigines regarded the corms of the Bulbine Lily as the sweetest of the Australian lily-like plants to eat?
Did you know that the Guinea hog breed of pig was kept by former US President Thomas Jefferson?
Did you know that the video game Gears of War revolutionized the cover system?
Did you know that vineyards in the Douro are graded on several factors, such as microclimate and which grape varieties are planted, that can influence the potential quality of Port wine?
Did you know that Île Vierge, in the southwestern corner of the English Channel, has the tallest stone lighthouse in Europe?
Did you know that 76-year-old Cookie is believed to be the oldest Major Mitchell's Cockatoo in any zoo?
Did you know that André Roch, a pioneer in avalanche research, was caught in avalanches three times?
Did you know that Botswana international footballer Donald Thobega was involved in the Test For Life campaign, which encourages supporters to get tested for HIV and AIDS?
Did you know that Frank Conner is one of only two men to have competed in the U.S. Open in both tennis and golf?
Did you know that London music festival Field Day hosts an annual village fête, featuring a sack race, tug of war and egg and spoon race?
Did you know that Long Creek Academy, which was a Christian school near Long Creek, South Carolina, is now the local headquarters of a whitewater rafting company?
Did you know that Wivi Lönn was the first woman to be awarded with the honorary title Professor by the Finnish Association of Architects?
Did you know that all eight endemic reptile species recorded in Minneriya National Park are listed as threatened?
Did you know that former footballer Christopher Bryan scored the Turks and Caicos Islands' first ever international goal?
Did you know that in 1989 Cuban singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan became the first artist to simultaneously reach number 1 in the Billboard Hot 100 and Top Latin Songs charts with her single "Don't Wanna Lose You"?
Did you know that the 1865 play Society by T W Robertson marked the London debut of actor Sir Squire Bancroft?
Did you know that the 1927 Weatherly Building in Portland, Oregon, was owned by an ice cream magnate?
Did you know that the 1951 film Marmayogi was the first Tamil film to receive an "Adult" rating?
Did you know that the Japanese Computer-controlled Vehicle System (CVS) originally started out as a show-floor exhibit at Expo '70 in Osaka, but developed into one of the most advanced personal rapid transit systems of its era?
Did you know that the Oriental Theatre's chandelier (ceiling pictured) in Portland, Oregon, United States, contained 3,000 light bulbs and weighed 2,000 pounds (910 kg)?
Did you know that the Phoenicians either introduced or encouraged the spread of winemaking to several areas like Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece?
Did you know that the Stephen Storm House in Claverack, New York, combines urban and rural applications of the Federal architectural style?
Did you know that the rare Banksia verticillata is threatened by three fungi – aerial canker, dieback and honey mushroom?
Did you know that the white wine grape Furmint is said to have been introduced to Hungary after the 13th-century Mongolian invasion, by immigrants recruited by King Béla IV?
Did you know that Alexander Faris composed the theme tune for the classic 1970s television drama series Upstairs, Downstairs?
Did you know that Coboconk, Ontario (station pictured), was renamed Shedden after the president of the Toronto and Nipissing Railway in 1873, but was changed back to Coboconk seven years later?
Did you know that Loteki Supernatural Being was the first dog to win both the Westminster Dog Show and the World Dog Show?
Did you know that Natural Law Party founder Bevan Morris suggested at a press conference that President Bush learn Transcendental Meditation?
Did you know that Puerto Rican a capella group Nota sang together for 15 years prior to winning The Sing-Off?
Did you know that Shmuel Flatto-Sharon successfully ran for election to the Knesset to avoid extradition to France, where he was wanted for embezzlement?
Did you know that Zodi Ikhia, the first Education Minister of the Republic of Niger, took part in a failed coup d'etat in 1963?
Did you know that because of the controversy about excluding mathematicians from the Central Powers at the 1920 and 1924 International Congresses of Mathematicians, from 1932 and on the ICMs are not numbered?
Did you know that despite losing star player Dionte Christmas, the 2009–10 Temple Owls men's basketball team is currently one of the top 25 best college basketball teams in the United States?