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Did you know that Danish wrestler Søren Marinus Jensen won two gold medals at an Olympic Games which is no longer considered to be an Olympic Games?
Did you know that naturalist Charles Darwin 's book Geological Observations on South America is based on travels during the second voyage of HMS Beagle ?
Did you know that Isaiah Wilkerson holds the NJIT Highlanders men's basketball program records for points and rebounds in their Division I era?
Did you know that last year's Richardson fire in Alberta, Canada, was the second largest in the province's recorded history at over 700,000 hectares (1,700,000 acres)?
Did you know that 2012 Olympic taekwondo competitor Jade Jones won Great Britain's first ever gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games ?
Did you know that Madrona Manor , on the United States' National Register of Historic Places , is now a bed and breakfast inn with a Michelin-starred restaurant ?
Did you know that Daisuke Sasaki wrestled with and defeated eight other men to become King of Stockholm?
Did you know that the first documented specimens of the spring beauty rust were collected by a former mayor of Buffalo, New York ?
Did you know that sculptor Chintamoni Kar received civilian awards from India and France and won an Olympic medal for Great Britain?
Did you know that Jane Lee is the first woman from Southeast Asia to climb the Seven Summits ?
Did you know that a research team from Gibraltar Museum and a dive club shared an award for investigating around a Detached Mole ?
Did you know that Zach Vincej won the Brooks Wallace Award , given to the best shortstop in college baseball , in 2012?
Did you know that Amaryllis was Gordon Ramsay 's first Scottish restaurant?
Did you know that 2012 Olympic javelin thrower Sean Furey spends time bomb-proofing electronics?
Did you know that California student Sarah Attar is one of Saudi Arabia's first female athletes at the Olympics, and is due to compete at the 2012 Games in an event she hasn't competed in since high school ?
Did you know that the fragments of Beethoven 's music in the soundtrack of Kagel 's film Ludwig van are modified to imitate the way the deaf composer heard his own work?
Did you know that Olympic high jumper Tora Harris , who was a four-time United States national champion, studied mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University ?
Did you know that High Roller was a roller coaster atop the Stratosphere Las Vegas , the tallest observation tower in the United States ?
Did you know that Yi Siling was both the first person to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics and the first person to win a gold medal at the Games?
Did you know that the dune brittlestem has a symbiotic relationship with marram grass ?
Did you know that Winona Beamer , who was expelled from school for dancing the hula , toured with her cousin Mahi Beamer performing both the hula and the Hawaiian art of storytelling?
Did you know that when she played for Great Britain against Australia on 28 July , Rose Anderson became Scotland's first Olympic basketball player?
Did you know that the nobleman Mochtar acted in 69 films in his nearly 60-year career?
Did you know that prior to the 2012 Summer Olympics American javelin thrower Craig Kinsley had never competed in an international competition?
Did you know that construction of the South Mole , a breakwater in the harbour of Gibraltar , was begun by the Spanish in 1620?
Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II made the German trumpeter and conductor Ludwig Güttler an officer of the OBE , in recognition of his efforts to reconstruct the Frauenkirche in Dresden ?
Did you know that 2012 Olympic BMX rider Caroline Buchanan was one of Australia's best BMX riders in 2008 but could not compete in Beijing because her youth made her ineligible?
Did you know that the extinct snakefly Amarantoraphidia ventolina is named for air beings of the Cantabrian mythologies ?
Did you know that the 19th-century Albany, New York, neighborhoods of Center Square and Hudson–Park were unnamed until neighborhood associations were formed in the 20th century?
Did you know that as a child, 2012 Australian Olympic BMX rider Lauren Reynolds would launch herself off the Bunbury jetty and into the river?
Did you know that " Oh Love ", the first single from Green Day 's album, ¡Uno! , is the third-ever song to make its debut at number one on the US Rock Songs chart ?
Did you know that when Eddy Rodríguez defected from Cuba , his boat nearly capsized and he had to eat ground coffee beans to survive?
Did you know that in 1965, British diplomacy proved helpless to stop Rhodesia 's Lisbon Appointment ?
Did you know that before she achieved the fourth longest long jump in the world this year during the U.S. Olympic Trials , Chelsea Hayes was described as "unheralded and unknown"?
Did you know that an egg of the extinct elephant bird given to David Attenborough in 1960 inspired the making of his 2011 documentary Attenborough and the Giant Egg ?
Did you know that 2012 Olympian Jack Green set new personal bests in both the 400 m and the 400 m hurdles just two weeks before the Games?
Did you know that Balthasar Kindermann wrote in 1658 a praise of beer, in 1660 a guidebook for speeches, and in 1664 the hymn on which Bach's chorale cantata BWV 94 is based?
Did you know that Brittany Borman improved her personal best javelin throw by nearly 7 feet (more than 2 meters) en route to making the 2012 U.S. Olympic team ?
Did you know that Russian space complex Moment analyses spacecraft by examining their radio transmissions ?
Did you know that the U.S. third party presidential campaign of former Congressman and current Constitution Party nominee Virgil Goode is polling at nine percent in the swing state of Virginia ?
Did you know that Vicky Holland , who competed in triathlon for Great Britain at the 2012 Olympics , only took up the sport in her second year of university?
Did you know that the Fantômas album The Director's Cut features a thrash metal cover of Nino Rota 's theme from The Godfather ?
Did you know that U.S. Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler Ellis Coleman is known for the "Flying Squirrel" takedown move in which he jumps over his opponent and grabs him from behind while flying over his back?
Did you know that in Liechtenstein , although there are exemptions, religious education is mandatory?
Did you know that " Sweet Life ", the third single in Frank Ocean 's debut album Channel Orange , was released a few days after he came out as a bisexual?
Did you know that in addition to being a competitive discus thrower, 2012 British Olympian Abdul Buhari works two days a week for investment bank Credit Suisse ?
Did you know that Ettore Petrolini is considered one of the most important figures of avanspettacolo , vaudeville , and revue ?
Did you know that the Gibraltar North Mole Lighthouse shares its name with the breakwater on which it stands in Gibraltar Harbour?
Did you know that Heather Stanning 's gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics was predicted in her school yearbook ?
Did you know that Lucy Hall and Stuart Hayes were selected for the Great Britain team at the 2012 Olympics ahead of higher-ranked triathletes because of their ability to act as domestiques ?
Did you know that Lonesome Glory , the first American steeplechaser to win more than US$1 million in prize money, was also the first American-trained horse to win a National Hunt race in Britain?
Did you know that 2012 Olympic discus thrower Jason Young almost gave up on the sport in 2011?
Did you know that Moscow's ZiL lanes are special lanes on main roads that are reserved for the use of top government officials?
Did you know that Andrew Still wanted to portray the stabbing of his character Joel Dexter realistically because stabbings had often occurred in Glasgow ?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic javelin thrower Kathryn Mitchell threw an Olympic A-qualifying distance in January, but since it was a club event, the throw did not count for Olympic qualification?
Did you know that "Miky", a bomb-sniffing police dog that only responds to commands in Hebrew, helped to revitalize the Jewish community in Helena, Montana , that built Temple Emanu-El ?
Did you know that the Pakistan Army established the Sabawoon Rehabilitation Center for brainwashed militants after a military operation in Swat ?
Did you know that " Pink Turns to Blue " was named one of the 500 best songs since punk rock began?
Did you know that Brett Morse , slated to represent Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics , was the first Welshman to win the discus at the UK Championships?
Did you know that Gervais Street Bridge was the only bridge across the Congaree River in Columbia, South Carolina , from 1928 until 1953?
Did you know that John Adamson produced the first calotype portrait in Scotland and instructed both his younger brother Robert and Thomas Rodger in this photographic process?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic canoeist Alana Nicholls was the 2011 Australian Canoeing Athlete of the Year?
Did you know that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nouakchott is located in Mauritania , even though census figures indicate that nearly 100% of the country's citizens are adherents of Islam ?
Did you know that artistic gymnast Elizabeth Price , a 2012 Olympics alternate, was not picked for the five-member U.S. team even though she finished fourth at the Olympic Trials?
Did you know that Beyoncé and Lady Gaga were the only artists to top the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart four times each during 2009?
Did you know that the North Mole Elbow Lighthouse in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar also serves as a control room for the Gibraltar Harbour?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic canoeist Naomi Flood was the 2009 overall winner for the Ironwoman Series ?
Did you know that as of August 2, Dan Straily led all American professional baseball pitchers in strikeouts for 2012?
Did you know that 136 villages have been completely submerged in the backwaters of the reservoirs constructed as a part of the Upper Krishna Project ?
Did you know that the parents of 2012 Olympian Lance Brooks successfully petitioned for him to compete as a one-person track and field team in eighth grade?
Did you know that 2012 Olympic synchronized swimmer Tamika Domrow of Australia works as an apprentice kennel technician and her teammate Francesca Owen is a model and photographer?
Did you know that the BBC nature documentary series Ocean Giants includes episodes about whale songs and the cognitive abilities of dolphins ?
Did you know that American sprinter Marlena Wesh chose to represent Haiti in the 2012 Olympics though she has never been there?
Did you know that the Sugababes ' first greatest hits album , Overloaded: The Singles Collection , sold half a million copies in the United Kingdom in less than a year after its release?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic canoeist Jo Brigden-Jones has participated in surf lifesaving competitions?
Did you know that Mohammad Hatta was vice president, prime minister, and minister of defence during his first cabinet ?
Did you know that Scottish botanist John Fraser was a plant collector for Catherine, Czar of Russia ?
Did you know that 2012 British Olympic steeplechaser Eilish McColgan is coached by her mother, Liz , a former world 10,000 metres champion?
Did you know that anarchist industrial music group Missing Foundation helped instigate the Tompkins Square Park Riot in August 1988 ?
Did you know that Tarren Otte , the oldest member of Australia's 2012 Olympic synchronized swimming contingent, has struggled to stay involved in the sport because of the financial costs of competing?
Did you know that a brigadier general commission for Confederate Colonel Francis Marion Walker arrived at his headquarters the day after he was killed at the Battle of Atlanta in the American Civil War ?
Did you know that in the Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands , naturalist Charles Darwin presents one of the earliest accounts of the process of magmatic differentiation ?
Did you know that although Rachel Lovell retired from canoeing prior to Great Britain's trials for its 2008 Olympics team, she immigrated to Australia and became a 2012 Australian Olympic canoeist ?
Did you know that Birgitte Grimstad ' s song repertoire has included a medieval ballad , songs by Bach , Grieg and Mortensen 's Til Ungdommen , and an adaptation of an Elvis Presley hit ?
Did you know that Australian 2012 Olympic equestrian jumper Julia Hargreaves was born in Hong Kong, grew up in the United States and Australia, and now resides in the Netherlands?
Did you know that the Schleswig horse is on the Food and Agriculture Organization 's list of endangered domestic animal breeds, having reached a low of only 5 stallions and 35 mares in 1976?
Did you know that Ukrainian-born wrestler Olga Butkevych is to compete for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics , despite only gaining British citizenship in May this year?
Did you know that Union Colonel James Cameron , killed at the American Civil War First Battle of Bull Run , was a brother of U.S. Secretary of War Simon Cameron ?
Did you know that " Conquistador " was one of the few Procol Harum songs in which the music was written before the lyrics?
Did you know that National Hero of Indonesia Adnan Kapau Gani was a film star and smuggler?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic synchronized swimmer Bianca Hammett became interested in the sport after seeing a newspaper advertisement for it?
Did you know that trilingual Olia Burtaev and South African-born Jenny-Lyn Anderson were selected to represent Australia in synchronized swimming at the 2012 Olympics ?
Did you know that scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology won the 2010 European Inventor Award for their work on the development of liquid wood ?
Did you know that Irish Olympian Caitriona Jennings achieved the qualifying standard for the 2012 Summer Olympics in just her second marathon?
Did you know that the song " I Protest " by MC Kash became a protest anthem in Jammu and Kashmir during the 2010 unrest ?
Did you know that a purported portrait of Anne Hathaway , dated 1708, may be the only surviving depiction of her?
Did you know that the first consumer treadmill for home use was developed in the late 1960s by aerospace engineer William Staub ?
Did you know that 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medalist Alethea Sedgman was selected over her boyfriend for the 2012 Olympics because national selectors wanted to send a female competitor?
Did you know that Scott Brash plans to compete in show jumping at the 2012 Olympics on the back of a horse that cost an estimated two million euros ?
Did you know that the Russian battleship Peresvet was scuttled during the Siege of Port Arthur in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, and was salvaged afterward and placed into service by the Japanese?
Did you know that in addition to competing as a duet team in synchronized swimming at the 2012 Olympics , Mary Killman and Mariya Koroleva are roommates?
Did you know that the ironsands steel production company started in New Zealand by John Chambers eventually failed because a bricklayer was shot?
Did you know that two-thirds of the population of the town of Qir in Iran were killed by an earthquake in 1972 ?
Did you know that 2012 Antiguan Olympic sprinter Afia Charles is the daughter of Ruperta Charles, who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that chef Skye Gyngell described her Michelin star as a "curse"?
Did you know that 2012 British Olympic shooter James Huckle took up the sport after his father bought a rifle to deal with a rat problem?
Did you know that Afro-Uruguayan intellectuals founded the Black Native Party in 1936, the third Black political party in Latin America?
Did you know that Australian Olympian Melissa Breen ran the 100 metres 27 times in 2012 trying to achieve an Olympic A qualifying time of 11.29 seconds?
Did you know that the list of threatened fauna of Michigan includes almost 400 endangered, threatened and special concern species?
Did you know that Masaharu Matsushita , president of Panasonic from 1961 to 1977, married the daughter of Panasonic's founder and adopted his family name before joining the company?
Did you know that 2012 Olympic equestrian jumper James Paterson-Robinson of Australia was not selected for the 2004 Olympics because his horse was injured?
Did you know that despite first opening in 1936, Mirabelle was named London's best new restaurant in 1999?
Did you know that to deprive his body of oxygen in the five months before the Olympic trials , Olympic steeplechaser Donald Cabral spent over 10 hours a day in a high-altitude tent he bought on Craigslist ?
Did you know that fewer than 1000 mature plants of the endangered rose mallee remain in the wild?
Did you know that racewalker Emerson Esnal Hernández , who is set to represent El Salvador at the 2012 Olympic Games , started competing in athletics after accompanying a shy friend to tryouts?
Did you know that Stuart R. Schram , biographer of Chairman Mao , started his career as a nuclear physicist working on the Manhattan Project ?
Did you know that video game Cannon Fodder , intended as an anti-war satire, drew controversy for juxtaposing violence and humour, as well for iconography resembling the remembrance poppy ?
Did you know that Australian Olympian Robyn van Nus took up her sport of shooting to help deal with chronic fatigue syndrome ?
Did you know that Morley Street , a two-time American Champion Steeplechase Horse , was named after a street in London?
Did you know that track cyclist Philip Hindes was born in Germany and did not take up cycling until 2008, but has been selected to represent Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that seed of the African teak tree is largely dispersed by fruit bats ?
Did you know that 2012 Olympian Janet Cherobon-Bawcom started running only as a means to get a college scholarship and says she never "really became interested" in the sport?
Did you know that Richard Hart , a Jamaican historian and politician, was expelled from the People's National Party in 1954 for his alleged communist views despite co-founding the party in 1938?
Did you know that the Vienna "pocket opera" Wiener Taschenoper took children to John Cage 's A House Full of Music and adults on Stockhausen's Michael's Journey Around the Earth ?
Did you know that Roberto Janet , who is representing Cuba at the 2012 Olympics , is a two-time hammer throw champion at both the Ibero-American and the Central American and Caribbean Championships ?
Did you know that the Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo , Sa'd al-Dawla , was denied entry to his own capital for much of his early reign?
Did you know that 2012 British Olympic heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson missed most of the 2010 season with jumper's knee ?
Did you know that Steve Hogan , the Republican mayor of Aurora, Colorado , was the Democratic congressional candidate who ran against Republican and Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert ?
Did you know that Kaila McKnight , a 1500 metres runner for Australia at the 2012 Olympics , spent three months competing overseas before the Olympic qualifiers?
Did you know that the Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party came to power in the 8th of March Revolution ?
Did you know that cricketer Brad Hodge has the highest batting average and the best bowling average among Kochi Tuskers Kerala players ?
Did you know that, as a child, 2012 Olympic triple jumper Amanda Smock believed she would one day be an Olympic gymnast like Nadia Comăneci ?
Did you know that the studio of Java Pacific Film was located in an old tapioca flour factory?
Did you know that the upcoming Wild West-themed Doctor Who episode, " A Town Called Mercy ", was mainly filmed around Almería , Spain, the same location used for many Westerns, including A Fistful of Dollars ?
Did you know that American weightlifter Sarah Robles , who has been called "the strongest woman in America", lived on less than USD$ 400 a month while training for the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that Rambhadracharya has received awards from several personalities, including A. P. J. Abdul Kalam , Somnath Chatterjee and Indira Gandhi ?
Did you know that Australian 1500 metre runner Zoe Buckman is one of ten University of Oregon alumni selected to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that "perhaps one of the most beautiful and enigmatic places to be found in Machu Picchu " is its Intihuatana , a solar clock stone?
Did you know that the Golden-crowned Sparrow is an important destroyer of weed seeds on the Pacific coast of North America?
Did you know that 2012 Olympic judo competitor Wodjan Shaherkani is required to be accompanied by a male guardian during the Games?
Did you know that Esther Armah and her family were placed under house arrest during the 1966 Ghana military coup while her father Kwesi Armah was on a diplomatic mission to Vietnam?
Did you know that 2012 Olympian Temi Fagbenle was born in the United States to Nigerian parents but plays basketball internationally for Great Britain ?
Did you know that devilled kidneys , a breakfast dish from the 19th century, are now being served as street food ?
Did you know that Helene Wildbrunn , a celebrated Wagnerian soprano at the Vienna State Opera and La Scala , began her career in 1907 as a contralto at the Stadttheater Dortmund ?
Did you know that 2012 British Olympic shooter Jonathan Hammond is the most successful athlete ever for Scotland at a Commonwealth Games , having won four medals in 2010 ?
Did you know that Millennium 's " The Pest House " has been compared to the 1996 film Scream ?
Did you know that Connor Jaeger qualified for the 2012 Olympics on what was only his fifth-ever swim of the 1500-meter freestyle in competition?
Did you know that the South Mole Lighthouse in the harbour of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar features two galleries?
Did you know that the Delaware House of Representatives has a Dennis Williams in the 1st district and a Dennis Williams in the 10th district?
Did you know that much of what we know of lost plays on Philoctetes by Aeschylus and Euripedes is based on Dio Chrysostom comparing them to Sophocles ' extant version ?
Did you know that Australian Olympic equestrian dressage competitor Lyndal Oatley is the cousin of fellow Olympian Kristy Oatley and wife of Swedish equestrian Patrik Kittel?
Did you know that the designer of Cannon Fodder 2 started writing a novella to accompany the game, but the publisher vetoed the project, leaving reviewers baffled by the game's lack of plot?
Did you know that although four people testified that he did not murder Thomas Bates , Oswald Grey was the last person hanged at Winson Green Prison ?
Did you know that Lauren Boden , a 2012 Olympian , has been mistaken for fellow Australian hurdler Jana Pittman ?
Did you know that 2012 Olympics track cyclist Melissa Hoskins took up the sport after participating in a talent identification event?
Did you know that the Cretaceous snakefly Necroraphidia arcuata takes its name, in part, from the Latin word for "bent" and the Greek word for "dead"?
Did you know that Norwegian footballer Kent Bergersen left the Greek club Panionios G.S.S. because the club didn't pay his salary?
Did you know that, after low first-run viewership, the Nielsen ratings of Cheers improved during the summer between the finale of the first season and the second season premiere ?
Did you know that 2012 Olympic 800 metre freestyle swimmer Jessica Ashwood started swimming when she was four years old?
Did you know that the last song to reach number one on the U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart of 2011 was Wale 's collaboration featuring Miguel , " Lotus Flower Bomb "?
Did you know that Kuldeep Joshi is a blind student who continuously played the tabla for twelve hours?
Did you know that during World War II , Brazilians fought Germans at Collecchio in Italy?
Did you know that Saudi Arabian professor and ACPRA co-founder Mohammad al-Qahtani expects a "snowball" loss of control by the Saudi government ?
Did you know that Liz Halliday said that her ambitions were to be the first woman to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans and to make the United States Equestrian Team ?