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Did you know that the Michael Jordan statue once wore the jersey of ice hockey player Jonathan Toews ?
Did you know that the Lionel Conacher Award for Canada's male athlete of the year was awarded to Hockey Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky a record six times?
Did you know that Sophie of Isenburg married Prince Georg Friedrich the same year the House of Hohenzollern celebrated its 950th anniversary?
Did you know that the rare fern Adiantum viridimontanum was first described from a specimen collected at an old asbestos mine in the Green Mountains ?
Did you know that the same Partition Sejm that acceded to the First Partition of Poland also created the celebrated Commission of National Education , seen as Europe's first ministry of education?
Did you know that after Robert Laws was made temporary head of the Livingstonia Mission , he kept the position for 50 years?
Did you know that the extinct hangingfly genera Formosibittacus , Jurahylobittacus , and Mongolbittacus are only known from the Middle Jurassic of China?
Did you know that the Constable Hook Cemetery is enclosed by a tank farm ?
Did you know that the Canadian Special Service Medal may be awarded under such varied criteria as service with the United Nations or NATO , serving in the Canadian Arctic at CFS Alert , or service as a Canadian Ranger ?
Did you know that the film Gerrymandering draws on the perspectives from different individuals, reporters, pundits and politicians including Arnold Schwarzenegger , Howard Dean , Bob Graham , Lani Guiner , Ed Rollins , and John Fund ?
Did you know that a horse was killed by the novel electrification system of the Torquay Tramways before it had even opened to the public?
Did you know that Dennis Russell Davies conducted the premiere of the Fifth Symphony Now and in the hour of death by Heinz Winbeck , which reflects Bruckner's Ninth Symphony ?
Did you know that racehorse Stay Thirsty ' s win in the 2011 Travers Stakes made him a front-runner for top American three-year-old colt honors?
Did you know that El Fua , originally made popular by an alcoholic Mexican man, has been used by Chilean students during the protests for free education in the country?
Did you know that the University of Lomé is the largest university in the African country of Togo with a student body of roughly 40,000?
Did you know that in June 2009, the price of Brent Crude went up to its highest point in eight months after one man spent less than three hours trading futures while drunk ?
Did you know that the concept of Nesting Orientalisms is based on the ideas of historian Larry Wolff and Edward Said's Orientalism ?
Did you know that Frank Ponta competed in five Paralympic Games , including the first in 1960, and coached several medal-winning Paralympic athletes including Louise Sauvage and Priya Cooper ?
Did you know that The Comic Strip Presents... film The Hunt for Tony Blair portrays former British Prime Minister Tony Blair as a fugitive on the run?
Did you know that Egyptian Healy had one of the lowest winning percentages of any Major League Baseball pitcher during the 1880s?
Did you know that the woollybutt is useful in the production of honey and railway sleepers ?
Did you know that one of Indonesia's " most sought-after movie songwriters " started her career by writing about flatulence and sexual deviancy?
Did you know that at the base of each tentacle of the sea anemone Sagartia troglodytes , there is a distinctive black mark shaped like a capital letter " B "?
Did you know that Miguel Ángel Coria 's first opera, Belisa , based on Lorca 's play Amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín , premiered in 1992 at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid?
Did you know that Echoes is a limited series comic partially inspired by Psycho ?
Did you know that hairdresser Vidal Sassoon was trained by ' Mr Teasy-Weasy ' ?
Did you know that the smallest member of the Boeing 737 Next Generation family will not be continued in the family's replacement, the Boeing 737 MAX ?
Did you know that Norrköpings Tidningar is Sweden's oldest continually published newspaper?
Did you know that the discoveries of Judge Joseph Pratt Allyn were published under the name "Putnam"?
Did you know that after Chasing Dreams Gita Gutawa was chosen for Love in Perth ?
Did you know that writer Elizaveta Polonskaya was the only female member of the Serapion Brothers ?
Did you know that from the day of his marriage till his death, Texas Governor Peter Hansborough Bell never set foot in the state?
Did you know that St James' Church, Daisy Hill in Westhoughton , Greater Manchester , has been described as "a masterly performance for relatively little cash"?
Did you know that the debut album of Gita Gutawa featured a song written by eight people?
Did you know that Andreas Munch was the first person to be granted a poet's pension by the Parliament of Norway ?
Did you know that Gid Gardner was part of the first known platoon arrangement in baseball ?
Did you know that Spreetshoogte Pass is the steepest mountain pass in Namibia ?
Did you know that peace activist Rachel MacNair founded the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List in 1993?
Did you know that the Nyorai , top-level Buddhist gods of Japan, are portrayed as almost human, but with very long arms, webbed fingers , and other unusual marks?
Did you know that Teguh Karya had to fight for Christine Hakim 's right to act in Cinta Pertama ( First Love ) after his producer said her breasts were too small?
Did you know that Ahmed al-Senussi , a member of the Libyan National Transitional Council , is related to Idris of Libya , Libya's only king?
Did you know that only four of the Capcom Five titles were released, and only one remained a Nintendo GameCube exclusive as originally announced in 2002?
Did you know that Mani Nagappa , who sculpted the statue of Thiruvalluvar near Halasuru Lake, Bangalore , was the son of Rao Bahadur M. S. Nagappa , who made statues of British governors and administrators?
Did you know that in 2009, Revolution Analytics named Norman H. Nie , one of the original SPSS developers, as their new CEO ?
Did you know that a 1934 novel by the Romanian H. Bonciu shows painter Egon Schiele and his muse in a sadomasochistic ménage à trois with the protagonist?
Did you know that hockey goaltender Robbie Moore finished in the top ten in the NHL in shutouts in the 1978–79 season, despite playing in only five games?
Did you know that the bacteria Ehrlichia chaffeensis and Ehrlichia ewingii were believed to be the only causes of ehrlichiosis in the United States until Ehrlichia Wisconsin HM543746 was discovered in 2009?
Did you know that Wolfgang Sawallisch conducted Helen Donath , Hermann Becht and the Bayerisches Staatsorchester in the first recording of the cantata Media in vita by Herbert Blendinger ?
Did you know that puppeteer Timothy M. Rose asked to portray Return of the Jedi 's Admiral Ackbar solely based on the character's looks?
Did you know that Major League Baseball player Emmett Seery was so patient during at bats that one newspaper wrote that he was "a good enough waiter to preside at a restaurant"?
Did you know that André Watson holds records for refereeing the greatest number of finals in the Rugby World Cup , Currie Cup and Super Rugby ?
Did you know that Indonesian band Kerispatih sang compositions by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on two albums?
Did you know that the National Farm Toy Museum , located in Dyersville, Iowa , has one of the largest cast iron farm toy collections?
Did you know that Tsang Kam To represented the Hong Kong football team for the 2009 East Asian Games and 2010 Asian Games ?
Did you know that FEMA determines the impact of a storm based on the service at Waffle House ?
Did you know that Apple Inc. 's Numbers has been called a page layout and presentation program disguised as a spreadsheet ?
Did you know that Indonesian writer Ajip Rosidi first became a magazine editor at the age of 15?
Did you know that, named for its "rope-like" stem , Marasmius funalis itself became the basis of another fungus's name, due to a morphological resemblance?
Did you know that baseball player Bloody Jake Evans , who once led the National League in outfield assists , injured his arm while throwing the ball and played his last game at the age of 28?
Did you know that many children have been injured or died while sweeping up cotton ?
Did you know that as a Major League Baseball rookie, Buster Hoover finished second in the league batting statistics even though his team did not complete the season?
Did you know that the Cross of Merit of the Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic is the highest award presented by the Czech Minister of Defence ?
Did you know that it is claimed that tavern sandwiches were first created in Sioux City, Iowa in 1924, at a restaurant that later became known as Ye Olde Tavern ?
Did you know that the art photographers Anna and Bernhard Blume created Kitchen Frenzy and Pure Reason ?
Did you know that the developers of Myth III: The Wolf Age turned their Fear & Loathing into Vengeance for the modding community ?
Did you know that Elli Hatschek , her husband Paul , and his daughter, Krista Lavíčková , were all executed by the Nazis within seven months of each other?
Did you know that some dark and eerie scenes in the film Cinta Pertama ( First Love ) reflect the director's previous experience in horror films?
Did you know that the world auction record for cars was set last month by a 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa at $16.4 million ?
Did you know that Eros Djarot 's biopic on Cut Nyak Dhien has been interpreted as attributing Indonesia's independence to her guerrilla campaign?
Did you know that in 1945 the British government denied that it supported Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi becoming king of Sudan ?
Did you know that before Tom Oberheim started Oberheim Electronics , he was the first ARP synthesizer dealer on the US West Coast, and sold an ARP synthesizer to Frank Zappa ?
Did you know that the original Melakarta scheme in Carnatic music , still in use today, has no scientific or mathematical rules?
Did you know that after joining the Boise State football team as a walk-on , Ryan Winterswyk appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated and was named to the school's All-Decade team?
Did you know that the Battle of Clervaux , part of the Battle of the Bulge , has been compared to the Alamo ?
Did you know that Alfred Baker , who scored England's first goal in international football , was an auctioneer by profession?
Did you know that Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag was the first publisher of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony ?
Did you know that the 2011–12 Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team returns all five starters from last season , including a Nigerian who did not play high school basketball and a Swede who is the son of a former NBA player ?
Did you know that the investigation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the first ever formal investigation to be opened by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court ?
Did you know that the London International Basketball Invitational was the first sporting tournament to take place within London's Olympic Park ?
Did you know that Buster Warenski made a replica, containing over 32 ounces of gold, of a dagger found in Tutankhamun 's tomb?
Did you know that in 1768, Duke Ernest Gottlob of Mecklenburg received an inoculation against smallpox alongside the future King William IV of the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that R&B singer Glenn Fredly credits Michael Jackson for inspiring him to do humanitarian work?
Did you know that Bach 's cantata Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut, BWV 113 , is based on a penitential chorale, matching the prescribed reading, the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector ?
Did you know that Charles Davis Lucas , the first person to be awarded the Victoria Cross , is buried in the churchyard of St Lawrence's Church in Mereworth , Kent ?
Did you know that Portia Iverson's Strange Son documents how an autistic Indian boy and his mother traveled from India to California to help Iverson's son communicate?
Did you know that Reel Moments is a competition in which Glamour readers submit short stories to be produced as short films by celebrity volunteer female directors?
Did you know that the new Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion in Peru aims to improve the quality of life of the poor?
Did you know that the Austrian ALEA Ensemble performed string quartets of Iván Erőd and Herbert Blendinger , and piano trios of these composers, Graham Waterhouse and their founder Gerhard Präsent ?
Did you know that when children's book illustrator Clare Turlay Newberry purchased a $500 ocelot for a live drawing model, The New York Times headline read "Still A Lot For Ocelot"?
Did you know that a clone of Desktop Dungeons was released for the iPhone before the developers had even finished the game?
Did you know that the original script written by Oliver Stone for Conan the Barbarian featured 10,000 mutants and was called a "total drug fever dream" by the film's director, John Milius ?
Did you know that Lake Rawa Pening in Indonesia may dry up within the next ten years?
Did you know that the Spanish conquest of Guatemala was a prolonged conflict against the Maya that lasted nearly two hundred years?
Did you know that at an estimated 4 metres (13 ft), Cratochelone is the largest of the three extinct protostegid sea turtles found in Australia?
Did you know that in 2012 Six Flags Magic Mountain plans to open Lex Luthor: Drop of Doom , the world's tallest vertical drop ride ?
Did you know that the Battle of Tripoli in 1825 was the result of the Sardinian consul's failure to provide Yusuf Karamanli , the ruler of Tripoli, with tribute?
Did you know that the extrasolar planet HD 85512 b is one of the best candidates for habitability ever discovered?
Did you know that in 1884, Major League Baseball pitcher Billy Taylor had a win–loss record of 25–4 before leaving his team in July?
Did you know that although St Lawrence's Church in Morecambe , Lancashire , is considered by Nikolaus Pevsner to be Paley and Austin 's best church in the town, it is now redundant ?
Did you know that the short story " Langit Makin Mendung " was banned in Indonesia partly because a character wore glasses?
Did you know that by winning in the 2011 PBA Governors' Cup Finals , the Petron Blaze Boosters prevented the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters from winning the first Grand Slam in the Philippine Basketball Association since 1996 ?
Did you know that the New York Court of Appeals denied the Cayuga people residing in Canada $500,000 in back annuities in 1885?
Did you know that the Soviet Union tried to reform workers' wages between 1956 and 1962?
Did you know that American football player Joe Iacone gained 3,983 rushing yards in three years and set PSAC rushing and scoring records that remained unbroken for decades?
Did you know that Solomon was accidentally castrated as an infant ?
Did you know that the Indonesian literary group Lekra was accused of having foreknowledge of the attempted coup d'état in 1965 ?
Did you know that the Thomas Hynes House , home to Nobu Matsuhisa 's restaurant in Aspen, Colorado , is considered to epitomize the city's early miners' cottages?
Did you know that Lesotho–Soviet relations suffered a setback after the January 1986 overthrow of Basotho Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan by Justin Lekhanya ?
Did you know that Orator Shafer 's 50 outfield assists in 1879 established a Major League Baseball record that has stood for over 130 years?
Did you know that in 1992 the future Peace in Africa destroyed the Terminator ?
Did you know that the trolleybus system serving Dayton, Ohio , in operation since 1933, is the second-oldest such system in the Western Hemisphere?
Did you know that evidence collected by Brazilian scientists indicates that there may be salty water flowing underneath the Amazon and into the Atlantic Ocean?
Did you know that while working on his 1897 painting of eleven Fox Terriers, The Totteridge XI , artist Arthur Wardle was repeatedly told to make the dogs appear closer to the breed standard ?
Did you know that Argentine president Juan Perón expelled the terrorist organization Montoneros from the Plaza de Mayo during the 1974 celebrations of the International Workers' Day ?
Did you know that Norman Rockwell 's The Problem We All Live With could not be displayed in a public area of the White House because of the racial slur painted behind Ruby Bridges ?
Did you know that Ptolemy 's Tetrabiblos , a 2nd-century astrology book, is still considered a basic text in Western astrology ?
Did you know that twice- capped Guyana international footballer Clydie Roberts is a cousin of England international Jermain Defoe ?
Did you know that the early 20th-century John Martin's Book was called the "most entertaining magazine" aimed at young children in the United States?
Did you know that a Muslim "pope" translated the Quran after being tried for blasphemy?
Did you know that The Longford Trust 's inaugural Longford Lecture was given by Cherie Blair in 2002?
Did you know that GrubHub Food Delivery & Pickup advertises its food delivery services as free, but has been sued for allegedly charging a customer an extra dollar?
Did you know that Robert Crawford , scorer of the first goal in international football , was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment with hard labour for causing a servant to be flogged to death?
Did you know that Ragusan diplomat Paladin Gundulić performed services for Eric of Pomerania , Ferdinand I of Naples and the Duchy of Saint Sava ?
Did you know that Yale University alumnus Ryan Lavarnway employs the "tools of ignorance" as a rookie for the Boston Red Sox ?
Did you know that the upcoming game Borderlands 2 allows players to throw their empty guns at enemies to injure them?
Did you know that the pollen of Texas wild rice becomes non-functional within one hour after it is released?
Did you know that before founding the humanitarian fashion label OmniPeace , Mary Fanaro considered selling chocolate to help end poverty in Africa?
Did you know that members of a club earn a special platinum prize for visiting 394 places in the US?
Did you know that it takes more muscles to smile than it does to frown ?
Did you know that John Millson went from being mayor of Windsor, Ontario , to president of its raceway?
Did you know that five National Basketball Association (NBA) teams own and operate their NBA Development League affiliates in the upcoming 2011–12 NBA Development League season ?
Did you know that the arch bridge on International Street in Canada's Wonderland is actually a structure hiding the computer system that controls lights and fountains?
Did you know that Mary P. Sinclair and her family were shunned and harassed for years after she spoke out against the nuclear power plant proposed for Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan ?
Did you know that phantom rides were often filmed by a cameraman tied to the front of a speeding train?
Did you knowthat QRpedia lets museum visitors quickly see Wikipedia articles about exhibits, on their mobile phones, in their own language?
Did you know that among those killed in the 1740 Batavia massacre were 500 prisoners and hospital patients?
Did you know that the 1924 Australian silent film Fisher's Ghost was not shown in Sydney because it was deemed "too gruesome"?
Did you know that Banksia plagiocarpa was undescribed for 112 years after it was first collected?
Did you know that Sir Geoffrey Francis Archer 's young lions almost caught General Edmund Allenby 's pet stork?
Did you know that John E. Carroll may have been the first baseball player to be nicknamed "Scrappy"?
Did you know that South Africa 's Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act was described by the Guttmacher Institute as "one of the most liberal abortion laws in the world"?
Did you know that the amount of personal information collected from kids on the Bomb Pops website, as of 1999, was used as an example of why children's privacy laws were needed?
Did you know that the production of the 2009 album Love's Harmony took place on four continents?
Did you know that Richard Bacon had a lengthy career in fishing, as well as serving in both World Wars?
Did you know that professional baseball player Thomas Jefferson Sullivan had two nicknames – "Sleeper" and "Old Iron Hands"?
Did you know that the first coal-mine pit in India was established at Narayankuri in Raniganj in 1777?
Did you know that Sister Agnes Mary Mansour left the Sisters of Mercy after three decades of service rather than make a statement against abortion ?
Did you know that some Home and Away viewers complained about character Miles Copeland eating too much food on-screen?
Did you know that the Canberra Roller Derby League has referees called Fair-as Bueller, Sin Bin Laden and Major Dyck?
Did you know that Hashim Abdul Halim served West Bengal as the Speaker of the House for 29 years before being replaced by Biman Banerjee in 2011?
Did you know that when she sang " Circle the Drain " in a 2011 concert, Katy Perry was dressed in a catsuit and the stage was decorated with meat?
Did you know that the extinct griffenfly genus Bohemiatupus inhabited peat-mires ?
Did you know that the first episode of the 2011 British-American television series Strike Back: Project Dawn gave the network Cinemax its best ratings since 2005?
Did you know that there was a widespread belief in 19th-century German psychiatry that all forms of mental illness were simple variations of a single unitary psychosis ?
Did you know that the bus service Coastliner 700 between Brighton and Southsea on the south coast of England, has been running for more than 35 years?
Did you know that approximately 100,000 psychedelic Psilocybe cyanescens mushrooms were once found growing on a racetrack ?
Did you know that Balgownie, the residence of Wellington businessman John Duthie , is believed to have been the first in the region to have had electricity?
Did you know that Michelle Hurd , who played Detective Monique Jeffries on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , was frustrated by the lack of material for her character and departed from the show?
Did you know that Fred Dunlap , who was once the highest paid player in professional baseball , died penniless at the age of 43?
Did you know that, in 1972, lesbian feminist Dolores Alexander opened "Mother Courage", the first feminist restaurant in the United States?
Did you know that 2,274 tonnes of sand was transported onto the Horse Guards Parade ground for the VISA FIVB Beach Volleyball International ?
Did you know that current New York Giants linebacker Jacquian Williams has been a teammate of Jason Pierre-Paul in junior college , college and now with the Giants?
Did you know that Edvard Grieg composed only one song cycle , '' Haugtussa '' for soprano and piano?
Did you know that the Caplan Collection at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is made up of 32,000 pieces of folk art and toys from 120 countries?
Did you know that his first fight against Gray Maynard was "a turning point" in Frankie Edgar 's career?
Did you know that professor emeritus Gerhard Tötemeyer dropped out of school because he spoke neither English nor Afrikaans , the official languages in South-West Africa ?
Did you know that buds of Tennessee yellow-eyed grass are forced open by the bee Lasioglossum zephyrum , seeking first access to the flowers' pollen?
Did you know that both the Tarnogród Confederation and the Silent Sejm were engineered by Russian Tsar Peter the Great to strengthen Russia's influence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ?
Did you know that while serving in the Nixon administration , Barry Locke also worked as a boxing manager?
Did you know that the 2008 album Kamar Gelap features both pop and waltz styles?
Did you know that the Illuminate Light & Laser Spectacular at Dreamworld features a segment that recreates Aurora Australis ?
Did you know that people in Berlin raised over a million gold marks for charity in World War I by hammering nails into a wooden statue of Hindenburg 12 metres (42 feet) high?
Did you know that the Old Church of Helsinki was intended to be a temporary building that could serve the parish until consecration of the Helsinki Cathedral ?