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Did you know that Miltonic verse , a style which influenced centuries of poetry, is found within the final three poetic works of John Milton , Paradise Lost , Paradise Regained , and Samson Agonistes ?
Did you know that the body of Fr. Solanus Casey , a candidate for sainthood, was exhumed and reinterred at Detroit 's St. Bonaventure Monastery where he had comforted and fed the hungry during the Great Depression ?
Did you know that despite being laughed off stage at a music contest as a young boy, mugham singer Alim Qasimov went on to win the International IMC – UNESCO Music Prize?
Did you know that actor Justice Leak and his sister Liberty were named for their father's love of the criminal justice system?
Did you know that under Hindu dietary law , a man is not allowed to eat while facing south if his mother is still alive?
Did you know that though they had lost all strategically and economically important locations of Luzon in the Battle of Luzon , pockets of Japanese forces held out until Japan surrendered in World War II ?
Did you know that mountaineer Barry Bishop , a member of the first American team to summit Mount Everest , lost all his toes to frostbite during the ascent?
Did you know that the Fen River was used to flood the city of modern-day Taiyuan in the Battle of Jinyang , and was later used to defeat the besieging army?
Did you know that in People v. Salem (1870), the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that public money could not be used to finance private railroad construction?
Did you know that Sir Charles Cornwallis , 2nd Baron Cornwallis of Eye, served at one point as a groom of the Stool ?
Did you know that Castle Crags Wilderness in California contains the site of the Modoc War 's 1855 Battle of Castle Crags?
Did you know that Swiss patron of composers and writers Werner Reinhart is memorialized in an Alice Bailly 1920 portrait as "The Man with the Golden Heart"?
Did you know that large amounts of α-Parinaric acid have been found in the seeds of an Impatiens species and an unrelated tree species?
Did you know that Sue K. Hicks , a prosecutor in the Scopes Monkey Trial who later became a judge in Tennessee , may have been the inspiration for the song, " A Boy Named Sue ," popularized by singer Johnny Cash in 1969?
Did you know that, rather being used to diagnose depression , depression rating scales provide an indication of the severity of symptoms for a time period?
Did you know that Church of England clergyman William Wayte also was a minor British chess master in the late 1800s?
Did you know that hypnotherapist , occultist and alleged Nazi sympathiser Alexander Cannon , who was known as the "Yorkshire Yogi", counselled British King Edward VIII shortly before his abdication in 1936?
Did you know that Moduin , a poet of the Carolingian Renaissance , characterises his era as a rebirth of " Golden Rome "?
Did you know that by the time he returned to England in 1878 after collecting plants in Colombia , German plant collector Guillermo Kalbreyer had lost more than half of his collection?
Did you know that the positive-stop foot gear change first used on the Velocette KTT motorcycle in 1928 has become the standard for motorcycles today?
Did you know that Jay Roach recommended that Jon Poll direct teen film Charlie Bartlett when Roach had to back out of the job himself?
Did you know that the village of Lamberley in Northumberland , England has on display a bell from a small convent of Benedictine nuns that was devastated by William Wallace in 1296?
Did you know that Vanessa Redgrave 's portrayal of transsexual Renée Richards in the 1986 biopic Second Serve was praised as embodying "every internal contradiction of the polymorphously perverse "?
Did you know that Toto 's seizure of power in Rome , Italy , in 767 is one of the first indications that the military aristocracy believed that supreme power in Rome rested with the papal office ?
Did you know that the human mouth forms when the opening that becomes the anus tunnels through the embryo and comes out the other side?
Did you know that the identity of the second police mole in the 2006 Toronto terrorism arrests has never been revealed?
Did you know that actor Scott Thompson Baker has had notable roles in each of the long-running soap operas General Hospital , All My Children , and The Bold and the Beautiful ?
Did you know that a council ward in the East End of London was renamed " Spitalfields and Banglatown " in 2001 to reflect the history of Bangladeshi immigration to that area ?
Did you know that at a 1972 re-election rally before a crowd of 15,000 at the Nassau Coliseum , Richard Nixon 's opening words were "This is the biggest and best rally, Joe Margiotta , I have ever seen"?
Did you know that the former Rabbi of New York City 's Fifth Avenue Synagogue , Emanuel Rackman , came under fire for helping agunot women obtain marriage annulments ?
Did you know that the band Fleet Foxes received over a quarter of a million MySpace plays in two months despite having never released any of their work?
Did you know that B-17 Flying Fortress tailgunner "Babe" Broyhill set a record by destroying two Messerschmitt ME-262 jet fighters in a mission over Berlin in March 1945?
Did you know that approximately 10,000 communist miners left the Czechoslovak Miners' Union in 1923, after the union had accepted 9–13 percent cuts in salaries?
Did you know that Estonian chemist Paul Kogerman , known for his study of oil-bearing shales , was deported by Soviet authorities with his family in 1941 to a prisoner camp in Sverdlovsk Oblast ?
Did you know that the director of Afghan Muscles ignored the role of Afghan women in bodybuilding , noting "It's men looking at men," and "60% [of men] have their first sexual experience with another man"?
Did you know that the radio station WHOS in Decatur, Alabama , aired an all- Elvis Presley format from October 1988 to April 1989?
Did you know that the German submarine U-558 sank ships as far north as Ireland and as far south as Trinidad during World War II ?
Did you know  that former Maryland Terrapins wide receiver Steve Suter set three NCAA and five Atlantic Coast Conference football records for kick returns despite his small stature and recurring injuries?
Did you know that from November to April every year Jammu is the capital of Jammu and Kashmir , the northernmost Indian state, and that during the summer Srinagar is the capital?
Did you know that Abyssobrotula galatheae lives deeper in the ocean than any other known fish?
Did you know that a portion of Virginia 's 71-mile (114 km) Massanutten Trail was built on orders from George Washington as a route of retreat should the Continental Army be defeated at Yorktown ?
Did you know that pianist Kathryn Stott first met long-term collaborator Yo-Yo Ma playing the cello in her flat in his underpants?
Did you know that the best-selling 1975 memoir The Education of Lev Navrozov established its author as a prominent Soviet dissident ?
Did you know that Barry Tabobondung was so excited to be drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft that he climbed over seats to get to the stage, and became stuck in a seat for two hours?
Did you know that Qatar was the first country on the Persian Gulf to allow women the right to vote ?
Did you know that the Petroleum fly , Helaeomyia petrolei , is the only known insect that develops in naturally occurring crude oil ?
Did you know that the 1986 children's picture book Juma and the Magic Jinn was awarded Honor Book in the illustrations category of the 1986 Golden Kite Awards ?
Did you know that the appointment of Sever Voinescu as Romanian ambassador to the United States was rejected by a Senate committee on grounds that he was too close to President Traian Băsescu ?
Did you know that the folklorist Sir Laurence Gomme , who persuaded London County Council to take on the blue plaque commemorative scheme, was himself honoured with the 800th blue plaque?
Did you know that the Zoia Horn Intellectual Freedom Award is named for a librarian who was jailed for refusing to testify in the 1972 trial of the Harrisburg Seven anti-war activists?
Did you know that the early poetry of John Milton (born 400 years ago today), including " Christ's Nativity ", " The Passion ", " Upon the Circumcision ", " Arcades ", " L'Allegro ", and " Il Penseroso ", was written as early as 1624 but not published until 1645?
Did you know that George Hardy , who headed the Service Employees International Union from 1971 to 1980, did his first union organizing among janitors in San Francisco ?
Did you know that the Cornish jack , a weakly electric fish , uses electricity to communicate with other members of its group?
Did you know that Romanian Symbolist poet, novelist, and critic Alexandru Macedonski sat on a throne during meetings of his esoteric circle?
Did you know that attorney Rachel Hirschfeld works in the field of pet rights, including the creation of pet trusts allowing pets to inherit property?
Did you know that White Tights are mysterious blonde female snipers from the Baltic states who have supposedly fought against the Russian Army in various conflicts?
Did you know that the later political works of John Milton (born 400 years ago today), including Tenure of Kings , Eikonoklastes , Defensio Secunda , Civil Power , and Ready and Easy Way , were controversial but still sold well ?
Did you know that Kunz von Kaufungen kidnapped Frederick II, Elector of Saxony 's two sons, Ernest and Albert , just four years after he commanded Frederick II's forces during the Saxon Fratricidal War ?
Did you know that while working on The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon , painter Edward Burne-Jones identified so strongly with King Arthur that he even assumed Arthur's pose when he slept?
Did you know  that the "noble polypore" (mushroom species Bridgeoporus nobilissimus ) was the first fungus to be listed as endangered by any private or public agency in the United States?
Did you know that two of the three character designers of the Japanese visual novel Flyable Heart have illustrated the Shakugan no Shana light novels and manga series, respectively?
Did you know that Scott Smith is the first person since 1966 to be elected Mayor of Mesa, Arizona without having first served on its City Council?
Did you know that Terry Murray replaced his brother Bryan as head coach of the Washington Capitals in the 1989–90 NHL season , and as head coach of the Florida Panthers in the 1998–99 season ?
Did you know that John Milton (born 400 years ago today) discusses his religious views in numerous antiprelatical tracts , including Of Reformation , Of Prelatical Episcopacy , Animadversions , Reason of Church-Government , and Apology for Smectymnuus ?
Did you know that, as a student activist in the 1940s, Indian politician Gangadhar Appa Burande was one of the founders of the Communist Party in the Marathwada region?
Did you know that the Indian Paint fungus ( Echinodontium tinctorium ), a member of the fungal family Echinodontiaceae , was used by Native Americans to make red pigments ?
Did you know that, during the 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition , Edward Norton set a world record for climbing height that stood until 1952?
Did you know that Jeremy Camp said his highest-debuting album to date Speaking Louder Than Before was "really aimed at" youth?
Did you know that during the Great Depression , Wisconsin dairy farmers conducted a series of strike actions aimed at increasing the prices paid to milk producers?
Did you know that Captain Ivan Castro is the only blind officer serving in the United States Army Special Forces ?
Did you know that many of Kentucky 's early political leaders were part of the Danville Political Club , a debating society whose existence was not known publicly until a century later?
Did you know that Polish Military Intelligence chief Tadeusz Pełczyński suggested before 1939 that, if war approached, Poland share her Enigma-cipher -breaking techniques with France and Britain ?
Did you know that before Dick Vitale began his Hall of Fame career as a basketball broadcaster, he was a head coach of the Detroit Pistons in the 1970s?
Did you know that the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Lancaster, Pennsylvania , stands on the site of a 1777 Second Continental Congress meeting?
Did you know that Eivind Reiten was chair of StatoilHydro , Norway 's largest company, for four days?
Did you know that Jane Couch MBE , nicknamed The Fleetwood Assassin , became the first female boxer to be granted a professional licence by the British Boxing Board of Control ?
Did you know that "ghost buster" Robert A. Baker was named one of the most outstanding scientific skeptics of the 20th century for his work on hypnosis , ghosts , alien abductions and false memory syndrome ?
Did you know that the Aquarama , built in 1945 as a Liberty ship , was converted into the largest passenger ship ever to operate on the Great Lakes ?
Did you know that Samuel McDowell fought in three wars and later presided over nine of the ten constitutional conventions needed to draft the first Kentucky Constitution ?
Did you know that filamentous fungi of genus Geomyces have been implicated in White-nose syndrome , a fungal disease causing high mortality in bats ?
Did you know that Davin Meggett , the Maryland Terrapins ' second-leading running back , is the son of Super Bowl champion and two-time Pro Bowl selection, David Meggett ?
Did you know that commuter rail stop Hall/Nimbus Station in Oregon includes artwork that features movable heads shaped like a pumpkin and a blue-colored skull?
Did you know that the element promethium was discovered in 1945 by Manhattan Project chemists Jacob A. Marinsky , Lawrence E. Glendenin and Charles D. Coryell ?
Did you know that the Magosternarchus genus of knifefish eats the tails of other knifefish, and many specimens have been found with regenerated tails?
Did you know that in World War II , David M. Jones , later a U.S. Air Force Major General , participated in events that formed the basis for two Hollywood movies : Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo and The Great Escape ?
Did you know that the most common symptoms in impingement syndrome are pain, weakness and a loss of strength at the shoulder ?
Did you know that Rabbi Tobias Geffen convinced the makers of Coca-Cola to change its secret formula in 1935 so he could certify that the beverage was kosher ?
Did you know that Lac-Simon , in Quebec , Canada , is named after Marie-Louise Cimon, the wife of an early settler?
Did you know that after Helmut Friedlaender sold most of his rare-book collection at auction in 2001, he bought back some of the books on the open market to give them a good home?
Did you know that although construction of two submarines each from the U-48 , U-50 , and U-52 classes of the Austro-Hungarian Navy began in 1916, none were completed by the end of World War I two years later?
Did you know that the Jews of Massena, New York , were falsely accused of the kidnap and ritual murder of a Christian girl in September 1928 in an incident known as the Massena blood libel ?
Did you know that Sri Lanka Army officer Lt. Col. Lalith Jayasinghe was killed while leading a special forces team on a reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines?
Did you know that Unverricht-Lundborg disease is the most common form of an uncommon group of genetic epilepsy disorders called progressive myoclonic epilepsy ?
Did you know that one of the most gifted portrait painters of the 17th century is known as Cornelis Janssens , although he never used that name to sign his paintings?
Did you know that the Woodland Public Library is the oldest, and one of the last functioning Carnegie -funded libraries in California ?
Did you know that footballer Johnny Warsap was signed by Gillingham F.C. after he played against the club for a team representing the Royal Berkshire Regiment ?
Did you know that the regulations issued by an outgoing U.S. president 's administration got the name midnight regulations when a record quantity of new rules was issued during Jimmy Carter 's last months in office?
Did you know that the Anglo-Norman Latin text De obsessione Dunelmi is the first-known history of an English earldom ?
Did you know that secondary students can take Yup'ik studies in the Yupiit School District , which is located in the Bethel Census Area of Alaska ?
Did you know that Tytus Filipowicz , nominally the first Polish ambassador to Georgia , was captured during the Soviet invasion and ultimately organized the first Polish embassy to the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club developed some of the earliest safe sex education material in the United States ?
Did you know that the Valley of Mexico has been one of the most heavily populated places on the planet for almost two millennia?
Did you know that Edwin Donayre , commander of the Peruvian Army , sparked an international controversy when a video surfaced in the media showing him making anti-Chilean remarks?
Did you know that the Central Commission of German Trade Unions organized 75 percent of unionized German workers in Czechoslovakia in 1921?
Did you know that Spanish footballer Paco Bienzobas was the first person to win the Pichichi Trophy , awarded to the top scorer in La Liga ?
Did you know that recent restoration efforts were said to have "breathed new life" into Ulsoor Lake, one of the largest lakes in Bangalore ?
Did you know that Norwegian illustrator Harald Damsleth was convicted for treason in 1950, for having drawn Nazi propaganda posters during World War II ?
Did you know that Kamilo Beach on the island of Hawaii , along with 2.8 miles (4.5 km) of adjacent shoreline, is considered one of the dirtiest beaches in the world because of accumulated marine debris from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ?
Did you know that David Rubinger was the first photographer to receive the Israel Prize ?
Did you know that the Moonlight Brewing Company sells its product only in kegs because the brewmaster believes the process of bottling beer "is cruel for the beer and a logistical nightmare"?
Did you know that Ian Chapman was the first former pupil of The Football Association 's School of Excellence to play in The Football League ?
Did you know that Aleksandr Pushkin 's 1827 poem The Gypsies inspired some eighteen operas and six ballets , including Rachmaninoff 's Aleko ?
Did you know that radio station WHAL in Phenix City, Alabama , used to broadcast from a defunct airport terminal ?
Did you know that so many people became custom harvesters in China in the late 20th century that it was no longer possible for them to generate a profit?
Did you know that during the Dead Rabbits Riot of 1857, residents of Mulberry Street in New York City were forced to barricade themselves in their homes?
Did you know that Emerson Rodwell , a former captain of the Tasmanian cricket team, scored 11,542 runs and took 331 wickets in his club career, as well as earning the Military Medal in Borneo during World War II ?
Did you know that when reporter George Crile compared San Francisco to Sodom and Gomorrah when interviewing Dianne Feinstein for the CBS documentary Gay Power, Gay Politics , she threw him out of her office?
Did you know that the 19th Golden Melody Awards ceremony in Taiwan featured Canadian recording artist Daniel Powter as a guest presenter?
Did you know that Confederate General John W. Frazer surrendered the Cumberland Gap during the American Civil War without a fight ?
Did you know that although only 170 cars were carried between Lympne and Le Touquet airfields in 1948, by 1951 the air ferry service was so successful that over 13,000 vehicles were carried that year?
Did you know that the Israeli government is considering recognizing Indian nanny Sandra Samuel as a Righteous among the Nations ?
Did you know that the Ulster cherry is named after Ulster County, New York , a region where sweet cherries are produced commercially?
Did you know that Midnight Madness is an annual pep rally -like event that celebrates the first day that U.S. college basketball teams are allowed to practice?
Did you know that the 1971 restoration of Westbury Court Garden , a 17th-century water garden in Gloucestershire , only used plants that had been introduced to the British Isles before 1700?
Did you know that at 700 days, Rob Van Dam had the longest ECW Television Championship reign ?
Did you know that Jose C. Abriol was the first person to translate the Catholic Bible into Tagalog ?
Did you know that the Austro-Hungarian U-27 class of submarines had more members than any other Austro-Hungarian Navy submarine class ?
Did you know that after retiring as a footballer , Mike Trusson worked as marketing manager for a football-themed restaurant in London ?
Did you know that one bacterial strain of Streptomyces griseus has the capacity to produce up to 34 different secondary metabolites including antibiotics ?
Did you know that one of the Roman soldiers in the Mesa Arizona Easter Pageant Jesus the Christ was played by NFL offensive lineman Deuce Lutui ?
Did you know that using the pseudonym "Tanta", Doris Dungey blogged on Calculated Risk about the U.S. housing bubble , including a 13-article series on the mortgage industry called The Compleat ÜberNerd ?
Did you know that ideational apraxia causes people to lose the ability to use everyday objects correctly, as they can no longer relate the object's purpose to the actions required to perform a task?
Did you know that Loyal B. Stearns served in the Oregon House of Representatives after his father served there, but before his father served in the Oregon State Senate ?
Did you know that Clewer Mill Stream , a backwater of the River Thames , used to be out of bounds to boys from nearby Eton College and a punishment of 100 lines could be handed down for going there?
Did you know that after the French city of Metz was captured by the U.S. Army in the World War II Battle of Metz , German units in nearby isolated forts continued to hold out?
Did you know that historical structures in Yellagonga Regional Park include the City of Wanneroo 's oldest residence and an early winery ?
Did you know that the 1947 film Juke Joint was considered a lost film until a print was located in Tyler, Texas , in 1983?
Did you know that Charles Ranken and Lord Randolph Churchill founded the Oxford University Chess Club in April 1869, with Ranken becoming its first president?
Did you know that typical symptoms of Urbach-Wiethe disease , a rare autosomal recessive disease, are a hoarse voice and beaded papules around the eyelids?
Did you know that what became Monster Worldwide , the parent company of the Monster.com jobs website, was started by Andrew McKelvey in 1967 as a Yellow Pages advertising company?
Did you know that although its design and construction are now appreciated for being modern and futuristic, the Westland Dreadnought monoplane crashed and was crippled on its inaugural flight?
Did you know that the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway Scandal forced the resignation of Alberta 's first Premier, Alexander Cameron Rutherford ?
Did you know that Singaporean backstroke swimmer Yip Pin Xiu , who has muscular dystrophy , won a gold and a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics , setting two world records in the process?
Did you know that Imero Fiorentino has served as a lighting designer for every U.S. President since Dwight D. Eisenhower ?
Did you know that the Barony of Ladyland was established by a poet and fervent Roman Catholic who was imprisoned for plotting to re-establish the Catholic faith in Scotland through a Habsburg Spanish invasion?
Did you know that Tadeusz Pyka was appointed in 1980 to lead a Polish government commission to negotiate with strikers at Gdańsk , despite vowing that he would have "nothing to do" with the strikers' main representative body ?
Did you know that when the Worcester Common Outlets shopping mall was completed in 1971, it had the world's largest parking garage ?
Did you know that Cyril Pullin designed the first successful British helicopter and his son was the pilot for its first flight in June 1938?
Did you know that gemstone irradiation processes enable the creation of certain gemstone colors that do not exist or are extremely rare in nature?