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Did you know that Michigan 's Don McEwen , two-time NCAA champion in the two-mile run, also won consecutive Big Ten cross country championships even though his school had no varsity cross country team?
Did you know that for more than thirty years, John Torreano has created "real fake art" by using fake gemstones in his one of a kind art works?
Did you know that Charlotte von Lengefeld , wife of Friedrich Schiller , wrote a posthumously published novel and corresponded with Charlotte von Stein and Goethe ?
Did you know that the Norwegian black metal band Burzum is to release its first album after its founder was freed from prison on parole ?
Did you know that the Harriet Phillips Bungalow in Claverack, New York , may be a catalog house built by a company other than Sears ?
Did you know that former Louisiana State Senator Art Lentini in 2004 led the move in his state to ban cloning , both for reproduction and research?
Did you know that production of the Triumph Tiger 80 British motorcycle ended with the outbreak of WW2 and never resumed after the Triumph works was destroyed in The Blitz ?
Did you know that Stanford 's Flint Hanner , winner of the first NCAA javelin championship , later coached the Fresno State Bulldogs to 27 track and field championships?
Did you know that despite the Allied siege , La Rochelle was the last French city to be liberated from German occupation in 1945?
Did you know that the Queen of Elphame , the fairy from Scottish folklore , has appeared in a number of accounts from witchcraft trials and confessions, including the confession of Isobel Gowdie ?
Did you know that in 1999, Haakon Bingen won a case in the Supreme Court of Norway , stopping circulation of an academic work written by Trond Bergh and Knut Einar Eriksen ?
Did you know that the ambush of a Turkish patrol in Reşadiye was the deadliest PKK attack since April 2009?
Did you know that the Connaught Theatre in Worthing , UK, is a rare example of a cinema being converted into a theatre in the 1930s, when the reverse was common?
Did you know that the premiere of Million Dollar Challenge on Fox Broadcasting Company was the most watched poker television show of all time?
Did you know that Breachacha crannog was originally an artificial island located in the middle of a Scottish loch , but today it stands in the middle of an arable field ?
Did you know that paper money was first introduced into Vietnam during the reign of the Trần Dynasty ?
Did you know that Eurogamer 's Tom Bramwell felt that Boxing Fever carried on the Punch Out!! legacy on the Game Boy Advance ?
Did you know that the landmark libel case People v. Croswell was tried at the First Columbia County Courthouse in Claverack, New York ?
Did you know that William Ganz co-invented the pulmonary artery catheter with Jeremy Swan in 1970?
Did you know that the New Japan Pro Wrestling -owned IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship was defended twice in the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion , while it was held by TNA wrestlers?
Did you know that the Joseph T. Smitherman Historic Building in Selma, Alabama , has housed a county courthouse, two schools, and three hospitals in its more than 160 year history?
Did you know that Calgary Flames forward Eric Nystrom once performed an on-ice striptease while in the minor leagues as a charity stunt?
Did you know that Sven-Ivar Seldinger , a Swedish radiologist , first introduced the procedure of obtaining safe access to blood vessels and other hollow organs by use of a wire?
Did you know that Colin Clouts Come Home Againe by the English poet Edmund Spenser has received little critical attention, yet has been called the "greatest pastoral eclogue " in the English language?
Did you know that Yosemite Valley big wall climber Chuck Pratt was "almost obsessive" about avoiding photos and publicity?
Did you know that since finishing in the top ten on the third season of America's Got Talent , Kaitlyn Maher has continued to sing publicly and played the voice of Tiny in the film Santa Buddies ?
Did you know that a number of Test match cricketers have represented Nelson Cricket Club , including Learie Constantine , Kapil Dev and Steve Waugh ?
Did you know that the Renaissance artist Paolo Veronese is entombed in the church of San Sebastiano in Venice ?
Did you know that while doing "absolutely nothing" as a history professor at Cambridge , Shallet Turner was elected to the Royal Society for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge ?
Did you know that opponents of Hans Feibusch ' s "violently masculine and brutal" Christ in Majesty mural at St Mary's Church, Goring-by-Sea took their case to a consistory court ?
Did you know that Bradley Quinn , the official photographer for the Northern Irish band Snow Patrol , was a school classmate of lead singer Gary Lightbody ?
Did you know that the Spencer family 's Wormleighton Manor in Warwickshire, England , was set ablaze by Royalist forces from Banbury during the English Civil War to prevent it becoming a parliamentary stronghold?
Did you know that Mark-Anthony Turnage composed Twice Through the Heart after being given a video of a programme about a woman who killed her husband?
Did you know that the Lake Shore Limited , which began in 1897, was the New York Central Railroad 's first regular luxury passenger train ?
Did you know that Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer had a small role as Sheriff Strunk in the 2007 film A Plumm Summer ?
Did you know that the soapy knight is actually a mushroom , so named because of its strong smell of soap ?
Did you know that the Ravensthorpe Nickel Mine , which cost US$2.2 billion to build, was sold by BHP Billiton for only $340 million in December 2009 after having operated for less than one year?
Did you know that Afognak Island State Park was established as a conservation area in 1892, but did not become an Alaska state park until 1994, as a result of the Exxon Valdez oil spill ?
Did you know that when Darryl Strawberry , a first-round draft pick of the New York Mets , left the Mets they received two first-round picks in compensation?
Did you know that Airlines of New South Wales was created after airline entrepreneur Reg Ansett flew nine planeloads of shareholders to a meeting to help take over rival Butler Air Transport?
Did you know that all apicomplexans are parasitic , creating a need for multiple radically different cellular morphologies ?
Did you know that Evonne Goolagong (Cawley) has made more Australian Open Final appearances than any other player?
Did you know that although their larvae have been known since 1887, the adults of the crustacean group Facetotecta have never been seen?
Did you know that nearly 20 percent of the territory of Andalusia lies in environmentally protected areas?
Did you know that Eduardo Ricagni scored his only hat-trick and won his only trophy with Boca Juniors on his debut?
Did you know that British lithographic firm Vincent Brooks, Day & Son reproduced the weekly caricatures published in Vanity Fair magazine between 1869 and 1906?
Did you know that the radical Congolese Youth Union , which took part in the overthrow of the Congolese President Fulbert Youlou in 1963, began as an offshoot of the youth wing of the French Communist Party ?
Did you know that the rodents Thomasomys ucucha from Ecuador and Oxymycterus hucucha from Bolivia were both named after the local Quechua word for "mouse"?
Did you know that Jamaican -born poet , playwright and screenwriter Evan Jones wrote the 1963 BBC television play Madhouse on Castle Street in which Bob Dylan made his acting début?
Did you know that Worthing Tabernacle , in West Sussex , reputedly obtained its first organ from Tudor fortress Walmer Castle ?
Did you know that British surgeon Theodore Dyke Acland was the son-in-law of Jack the Ripper suspect Sir William Gull ?
Did you know that male Coastal Petaltails have unique, bright orange anal appendages called 'petaltails' that are believed to be used to attract a mate?
Did you know that the Texas mental health activist Helen J. Farabee was the first female student body president at a Big Ten university?
Did you know that during the Six-Day War , the Golani Brigade participated in the battle of Tel Faher, where it lost 23 of its soldiers?
Did you know that in North Korea , the question "How good was the taste of sungeoguk (trout soup)" is used as a common greeting to people returning from Pyongyang ?
Did you know that the most expensive dress owned by Maria Augusta, Duchess of Württemberg was worth 500 florins , more than 30 times a servant's annual income?
Did you know that the entire collection of the Frissell Museum in San Pablo Villa de Mitla has disappeared?
Did you know that Dick Padden led the Chicago White Sox to an American League championship as a player-manager in 1900, one season before the American League became a major league ?
Did you know that the Harold Hall Australian Expeditions formed the last systematic collecting effort of Australian birds by an overseas institution?
Did you know that George Martin Lees became Chief Geologist of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company despite having no formal qualifications?
Did you know that E. (Mrs.) v. Eve was a landmark case of the Supreme Court of Canada which rejected non-therapeutic sterilization of people with mental disabilities?
Did you know that Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked is the first video game to use the Food Network license?
Did you know that four Byzantine emperors were imprisoned in the Prison of Anemas ?
Did you know that in 1814, the American privateer Syren captured HMS Landrail , and that in 1896, her namesake, the torpedo gunboat HMS Landrail , rammed and sank the four-masted clipper Siren ?
Did you know that after a wine fraud scandal involving adulterating Port wine with elderberry juice, Portuguese wine authorities ordered all elderberry plants in the Douro to be ripped out?
Did you know that Virginia House in Richmond, Virginia , was once a priory in Warwickshire , England , and was used to entertain Queen Elizabeth I ?
Did you know that the book Bacon: A Love Story includes jokes about bacon by comedian Jim Gaffigan ?
Did you know that the December 2003 New England snowstorm was among the most significant early season nor'easters on record?
Did you know that the 2009 Norwegian spiral anomaly was later confirmed to be a failed launch of a Bulava missile from a Russian submarine?
Did you know that before the capture of Chusan (1840) during the First Opium War , the Chinese rejected British demands for a peaceful surrender of the island?
Did you know that Barker Crossing , a Mabey bridge in Workington, England , was named after Bill Barker following a campaign by local teenagers on YouTube ?
Did you know that in 2006 Devon County Council first raised the flag of Devon , which was designed by a member of the public in 2002 via an online poll on BBC Devon ?
Did you know that excavations in 1887 and 1919 on Bussell Island uncovered a number of small, round graves of early inhabitants of present-day Tennessee , USA , circa 3000 BC to 1000 AD?
Did you know that Major-General Tim Cross was one of the most senior British military officers involved in the reconstruction of Iraq after the 2003 invasion ?
Did you know that merrilactone A , a natural compound found in the fruits of some star anise trees indigenous to Myanmar and China , is neuroprotective and promotes the growth of neurons ?
Did you know that during his lifetime, British chemist Colin Eaborn co-authored over 500 papers?
Did you know that although the fruits of the nightshade Solanum erianthum are considered poisonous and can be used in arrow poison , they can be cooked and eaten and are even made into curry in southern India ?
Did you know that Rodriguez Seamount , an underwater volcano near Central California , used to be above-surface, and still has remnants of black sand beaches on its slope?
Did you know that Cecil Bothwell 's election to the Asheville, North Carolina , city council was challenged on the grounds that the North Carolina Constitution does not allow for atheists to hold public office?
Did you know that Bald Eagle Creek Path along Bald Eagle Creek in central Pennsylvania was a major connecting path between the Iroquois in the north and the Carolinas in the south?
Did you know that American athlete Eric Wilson won the 220-yard dash at the first NCAA track and field championships in 1921 ?
Did you know that before the first season of the NBC series Parks and Recreation even aired, critics thought it would fail due to early reports of poor test screenings?
Did you know that the 1978 book The Green Cockatrice asserted that Irishman William Nugent was the real author of Shakespeare 's works?
Did you know that Helena, comtesse de Noailles wrapped silk stockings stuffed with squirrel fur around her forehead to prevent wrinkles ?
Did you know that "experienced Euro watcher" Tony Connelly wrote Don't Mention the Wars: A Journey Through European Stereotypes , examining the stereotypical views of Europeans ?
Did you know that Argentine President Juan Perón took refuge in the Libertador Building in Buenos Aires before he was deposed and exiled in a coup d'état in 1955 ?
Did you know that Norwegian Minister of Finance Olav Meisdalshagen was criticized by his predecessor Erik Brofoss for "lack of economical insight"?
Did you know that in Europe , the human consumption of pork , wild boar , and horse meat are the main sources of infection from the parasite Trichinella britovi ?
Did you know that the Gwent Wildlife Trust in Wales was originally formed to protect Magor Marsh, the last remaining major area of fenland on the Gwent Levels ?
Did you know that the Social Credit Board in Alberta , Canada, was disbanded in 1948 because of its radical policy proposals and antisemitic conspiracy theories ?
Did you know that Leonard Paulu won consecutive NCAA championships in the 100 yard dash despite war injuries that included the loss of an eye and a right-leg stride four inches shorter than his left?
Did you know that Dzongsar Monastery , in the historical Tibetan region of Kham , was founded in 746 AD and contained a Bönpo shrine for 1,300 years?
Did you know that six children of the British portraitist and marine painter Samuel Drummond also became artists?
Did you know that the book Nudge , written by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler , defends the political philosophy of libertarian paternalism ?
Did you know that Mitsuyo Seo , the director of Japan 's first feature length anime , Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors , a World War II propaganda film , was earlier arrested and tortured as a leftist ?
Did you know that in her teen years, actress Lillebil Ibsen played leading roles in Max Reinhardt 's pantomime productions?
Did you know that plexopathy , a disorder usually caused by trauma , can also occur idiopathically ?
Did you know that a Glasgow -born railway engineer, John Harley , was responsible for revolutionizing the way Uruguay played football ?
Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon , politician William H. Wehrung worked on both the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition and the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition ?
Did you know that radio station CKLW played " Wildflower " for three months before it was released as a single, in order for the station to meet Canadian content requirements?
Did you know that although the Benjamin Ten Broeck House north of Kingston, New York , was built by Dutch settlers , the layout of one of its additions suggests its residents were Palatine Germans ?
Did you know that Jacques Legrand , a former translator at the French embassies in Mongolia and China, has studied the anthropology of Mongolian pastoralism ?
Did you know that the Rugrats episode " A Rugrats Chanukah " was pitched to the series crew by Nickelodeon in 1992?
Did you know that Furnace Brook Parkway , a historic road in Quincy, Massachusetts , is named for a stream at the site of the first iron blast furnace in the United States, built in 1644?
Did you know that former National Football League wide receiver Tai Streets was named after former female figure skater Tai Babilonia ?
Did you know that the capture of Malacca in 1511 was accomplished by Afonso de Albuquerque with 1,200 men and less than 20 ships?
Did you know that cricketer George Nichols was a key member of the Somerset team that was unbeaten against other counties of England and Wales in 1890 ?
Did you know that ESPN sports commentator and physical therapist Stephania Bell has analyzed injuries of Tiger Woods and Alex Rodriguez ?
Did you know that Luiz Francisco Rebello was a founder of two of the most important experimental theatrical groups in Portugal in the postwar period?
Did you know that the Boston Park Board was given permission to review building designs for new structures along the Fenway to prevent unattractive buildings from depreciating property values?
Did you know that between 2001 and 2007 the German Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future" paid € 4.4 billion to more than 1,660,000 victims of forced labor in Germany during World War II ?
Did you know that the world's most expensive ice cream treat, the Golden Opulence Sundae , is covered in gold ?
Did you know that Smugglers Notch near Smugglers' Notch State Park in Vermont was used by smugglers circumventing the Embargo Act of 1807 , the Underground Railroad , and bootleggers ?
Did you know that K. A. Mathiazhagan supported M. G. Ramachandran when he was expelled from Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party in 1972?
Did you know that even though the first specimens of the Bolivian rodent Oecomys sydandersoni were collected in the 1960s, it was not formally described as a distinct species until 2009?
Did you know that the Autism Act 2009 is the first ever disability-specific legislation to be passed in the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that Jason Little was nominated for a Harvey Award and an Ignatz Award for his creation of the comic book Jack's Luck Runs Out ?
Did you know that Medal of Honor recipient John F. Auer 's medal was stolen before he left the United States Navy ?
Did you know that the Poison song " Unskinny Bop " was featured during a strip club scene in " Tom's Divorce ", an episode of the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation ?
Did you know that when the Canadian government attempted to move the land titles office out of Edmonton 's Land Titles Building to a rival town, an angry mob sabotaged the move and had an armed standoff with police?
Did you know that the Russell Watson song " Nothing Sacred – A Song for Kirsty " was released to raise money for the Kirsty Appeal ?
Did you know that Jody Trautwein , who attempted to convert Sasha Baron Cohen 's character Brüno from his gay lifestyle, recently ran for mayor of Birmingham, Alabama ?
Did you know that the 2009 Western Australian daylight savings referendum was the fourth time that Western Australia voted against introducing daylight saving time ?
Did you know that psychiatrist Marie Nyswander , who developed the methadone treatment for heroin addicts , was herself addicted to cigarettes ?
Did you know that the Indian God Rock was a popular tourist attraction for 19th-century steamboats on the Allegheny River ?
Did you know that the Texas politician Ray Farabee entitled his 2009 autobiography Making It Through the Night and Beyond because he unexpectedly survived his premature birth?
Did you know that nearly 15 years after playing in the 1966 Cotton Bowl , Louisiana State University Tigers quarterback Pat Screen was elected Mayor of Baton Rouge ?
Did you know that the RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned aerial vehicle was dubbed the "Beast of Kandahar" by an aviation expert before its existence was officially confirmed by the United States Air Force ?
Did you know that Arthur Lee Dixon was the last holder of a mathematical Chair at Oxford University to have a life tenure?
Did you know that the Forecastle Festival in Louisville, Kentucky , was named one of Outdoor Magazine's "Top 15 Outdoor Summer Music Festivals"?
Did you know that fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez discovered Jessica Lange , Grace Jones , and Jerry Hall ?
Did you know that the coastal tanker Empire Boy was lengthened in 1954 and that her triple expansion steam engine was replaced by a diesel engine in 1965?
Did you know that the author of Everything Tastes Better with Bacon decided to write the book after having an epiphany involving bacon and sugar ?
Did you know that in 1948, Arne Skaug became the first State Secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs ?
Did you know that the Type numbering system in Japan specified that the Mitsubishi A6M of 1940 would be designated "Type 0 Carrier Fighter", giving rise to the popular name "Zero"?
Did you know that part of the Occupiers' Liability Act 1984 , a piece of United Kingdom legislation on tort law , is intended to permit educational and recreational use of land?
Did you know that the Algerian communist trade union centre UGSA disbanded itself in 1957, after the rival nationalist UGTA had participated in the Leipzig congress of the World Federation of Trade Unions ?
Did you know that in 1893, the career of Irish nationalist politician John Deasy was cut short when he was tried for indecent assault ?
Did you know that the 1984 romantic TV miniseries based on the novel The Far Pavilions was filmed in the precincts of Samode Palace in Rajasthan , India?
Did you know that South Africa rugby captain Paul Roos helped choose the team nickname, "Springboks", to prevent the British press from inventing their own?
Did you know that, in 1965, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean while attempting to avoid a collision with an oncoming Pan American Airways Boeing 707 ?
Did you know that Penn State 's John Romig , the first NCAA champion in the two-mile run, later became an explosives expert?
Did you know that the Swedish film Hoppa högst was written by famous author Astrid Lindgren , who based the screenplay on a story from her book Kajsa Kavat ?
Did you know that in his clemency application to Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee , Maurice Clemmons claimed to have learned "to appreciate and respect the right of others"?
Did you know that the Pygmy Pine , a tiny creeping alpine plant growing in New Zealand, is believed to be the smallest conifer in the world?
Did you know that Colombian billionaire entrepreneur Carlos Ardila Lülle has expanded from his start in the soft drink business with television channels and a soccer team?
Did you know that in the siege of Cannanore (1507) in India , a Portuguese garrison of 150 resisted for four months against 60,000 attackers?
Did you know that the powerful Early Classic Mesoamerican city of Balberta , in Guatemala , abruptly collapsed around AD 400?
Did you know that the 1957 film Edge of the City , starring John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier , won acclaim from critics and civil rights groups for its portrayal of an interracial friendship?
Did you know that although he ceded the throne to his son in 1279, Trần Thánh Tông continued to co-rule Đại Việt for 11 years until his death in 1290?
Did you know that, despite being a genital ulcer , Lipschütz ulcer is not an STD , and is in fact most common in virgins ?
Did you know that Bob Ferguson played for and managed the Hartford Dark Blues Major League Baseball team from 1875 to 1877, the final three years of its four-year existence?
Did you know that nine new permanent competition venues will be constructed for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ?
Did you know that the district auditor investigating the rate-capping rebellion in Lambeth found his picture on a mock Wanted poster in his local supermarket?
Did you know that ornithologist James David Macdonald was employed in the bird section of the British Natural History Museum despite claiming complete ignorance about birds?
Did you know that both the Irish Pine and Irish Oak , which were chartered from the United States by Irish Shipping Ltd during the Second World War , were sunk by German U-boats despite their neutral status ?
Did you know that since the death of Kamehameha I in 1819, Hawaiian Chief Hoʻolulu and his descendants have served as caretakers of the royal tombs of the Kingdom of Hawaii ?