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Did you know that in 1584 Antonio Ricardo became the first printer in South America with the publication of the Doctrina Christiana , a book in Spanish, Quechua and Aymara ?
Did you know that the illegal loyalist paramilitary group the UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade was founded in 1972 by Billy Hanna , a decorated war hero?
Did you know that Ismaila Gwarzo , a former Nigerian National Security Advisor was accused of theft of US$2.45 billion and repaid a few hundred million?
Did you know that though located on the Eastern Michigan University campus, the Bruce T. Halle Library houses one of the largest collections of children's literature in the US?
Did you know that South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is the adopted son of Congressman Joe Wilson ?
Did you know that the SS Silesia was a German ship, a British ship, and then an Italian ship before being wrecked in Uruguay?
Did you know that the disused Såner Station was purchased by a family for 1.3 million Norwegian kroner in 2003?
Did you know that the religion editor Helen Derr was the first female deacon of the First Presbyterian Church of Alexandria, Louisiana?
Did you know that The Clash adopted the song " I Fought the Law " after Joe Strummer and Mick Jones heard it on a vintage jukebox at The Automatt ?
Did you know that the first report of the D–Day landings received in the British mainland was delivered by Gustav , a messenger pigeon?
Did you know that Edward Fitzgerald 's clients have included public hate-figures such as Myra Hindley , Mary Bell , Maxine Carr , Jon Venables , various IRA prisoners and Abu Hamza ?
Did you know that the Kotezi Viaduct was renamed twice before its official opening, following a naming dispute between two villages?
Did you know that sculptor Louise Nevelson had an affair with Diego Rivera , much to the dismay of Frida Kahlo ?
Did you know that the houseboat Vallejo , made an icon of Bay Area culture by artist Jean Varda and philosopher Alan Watts in the 1960s, originally served as a passenger ferry in Portland, Oregon in the 1870s?
Did you know that coal balls are not made of coal ?
Did you know that the Port of Rijeka , the largest Croatian port, was once the only Hungarian seaport?
Did you know that the historic Cuckoo house was damaged in the 2011 Virginia earthquake ?
Did you know that with a 150-millimetre (5.9 in) wingspan, Sinomeganeura is small for the Griffenfly family Meganeuridae, known for species with spans over 700 millimetres (28 in)?
Did you know that Kid Ory 's composition " Ory's Creole Trombone " was the first jazz record made by a black jazz band from New Orleans?
Did you know that shrimp, seaweed, and milkfish are found in Bone ?
Did you know that the album Ballad of Salah , released as an act of charity during Ramadan , includes songs based on the Quran and the life of Muhammad ?
Did you know that during B. B. Davis ' basketball career at Lamar University , his team won the conference championship every year?
Did you know that the men of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project took two weeks to assemble their first atomic bomb in December 1946 ?
Did you know that the discovery of the extinct golden silk orb-weaver species Nephila jurassica extended the fossil record of the genus by 130 million years?
Did you know that after the death of Alexander the Great Achaemenid subjects shaved their heads?
Did you know that American singer Soraya earned the first Latin Grammy Award for Best Singer-Songwriter Album in 2004 ?
Did you know that a fossil of the extinct monitor lizard Saniwa preserves cartilage , scales, and even a wind pipe ?
Did you know that British actor Michael Socha was injured at least seven times during filming of his scenes on the supernatural drama Being Human ?
Did you know that despite being captured on D-Day , 6 June 1944 by British paratroops , the Merville Gun Battery remained in German hands until 17 August?
Did you know that Emerentia was reputed in the late 15th century to be the great-grandmother of Jesus?
Did you know that in 1953, Paul Arizin won a belated most valuable player award for his performance in the previous year's NBA All-Star Game ?
Did you know that the tallest and fastest roller coaster in Canada will be Leviathan when it opens at Canada's Wonderland in 2012?
Did you know that Sam Greene , who covered Detroit sports from 1922 to 1963, was called "one of America's best known sports chroniclers," "a gentlemanly patriarch" and one of sport's "most beloved figures"?
Did you know that the Patriotic Party of the late 18th century Great Sejm succeeded in passing one of the first constitutions in Europe influenced by the Enlightenment ideals?
Did you know that despite the fact that the majority of submitted films are set in contemporary times, the Academy Award for Best Costume Design has only been awarded to films with such a setting twice since 1967?
Did you know that for most of its history, Ixtonton was the most important Maya city in the upper Mopan Valley of Guatemala ?
Did you know that the largest roller derby competition ever held outside of the United States was hosted by Adelaide Roller Derby and won by the Victorian VRDL All Stars ?
Did you know that the cotton manufacturer John Horrocks is commemorated twice by St Mary's Church, Penwortham , Lancashire ?
Did you know that Kristian House did not finish first in the London – Surrey Cycle Classic but did win its King of the Mountains award?
Did you know that, shortly before sunrise, mass spawning by sea grapes may create a green cloud?
Did you know that the first Bayfield group quarry opened in 1868 on Basswood Island ?
Did you know that Prahalada was remade 20 times in numerous languages, with most of the remakes box-office successes?
Did you know that Mark Knopfler 's publisher made a country-style tape of Knopfler's song " Water of Love " without his knowledge, which led to a cover of the song by The Judds ?
Did you know that in the central movement of Bach 's cantata Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101 , a "furious ritornello " of three oboes is followed unexpectedly by a line of the chorale?
Did you know that although the 1992 Flores earthquake was to its north, Babi Island may have been hit by tsunamis from both the north and south?
Did you know that the reformers of Kołłątaj's Forge popularized the ideals of the French Revolution in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ?
Did you know that the first film directed by actor Leon Herbert was the British comedy/drama Emotional Backgammon ?
Did you know that the recently deceased, long-time human rights figure Jerome J. Shestack may have survived a kamikaze attack during World War II by being Jewish?
Did you know that the fake report Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and Browser Usage hoaxed many global news organizations into reporting that Internet Explorer 6 users had remarkably low IQs?
Did you know that Heinie Peitz was on the receiving end of the famed "Pretzel Battery" in the 1890s?
Did you know that J.L. Forster 's school band played in Expo '67 , Expo '70 , and for Queen Elizabeth II ?
Did you know that wood of the Mexican logwood is used to make traditional medicines and bows for stringed instruments?
Did you know that after being developed for the National Aerospace Plane , HyperSizer software was used to improve the design of wind turbines and a one-of-a-kind airplane ?
Did you know that in 1730, rebels under the command of a silversmith named Alejo Calatayud seized control of Cochabamba , Bolivia ?
Did you know that the extinct monitor lizard Ovoo gurvel has "mystery bones" in its skull?
Did you know that Irish country singer Larry Cunningham and his band got their first break when Jim Reeves walked off the stage during a concert?
Did you know that Mammoth at Holiday World & Splashin' Safari will be the world's longest water coaster when it opens in 2012, taking the title from the park's Wildebeest water coaster?
Did you know that the actress who plays Amy Wyatt in the British soap opera Emmerdale has been nominated for two "Best Newcomer" awards?
Did you know that in 1622 a civil war broke out in present-day Bolivia between Basques and Vicuñas ?
Did you know that the Swiss cargo ship Nyon was 5.40 metres (17 ft 9 in) longer when she sank than when she was launched?
Did you know that Italian artist Sara Pichelli was the first to illustrate the half-black, half-Hispanic Spider-Man ?
Did you know that Urocyon progressus , a species of extinct fox, was formally described after two bones and a tooth were found?
Did you know that the Royal Burmese Army employed a conscription system that required local chiefs to supply men from their jurisdiction on the basis of population?
Did you know that "Little Luke" 's Ponzi scheme may lead to the " death penalty " for Miami ?
Did you know that the modern Warlander , a new Baroque horse breed derived from the Andalusian and Friesian breeds, was inspired by a historic war horse cross that has been bred since at least the 16th century?
Did you know that Nano Riantiarno 's works include the Cockroach , White Snake , and Constipation "operas"?
Did you know that, though cancer pain can usually be eliminated or controlled, nearly half of all patients receive inadequate treatment and suffer pain needlessly?
Did you know that despite saving hundreds of wounded soldiers during World War II, Ekaterina Mikhailova-Demina had to wait until 1990 to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that the male Cook Strait giant weta attracts mates using the aroma of its feces?
Did you know that after 26 nuns signed A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion , the Vatican stated that all but two had recanted, leading 11 others to issue a statement of solidarity denying that they had done so?
Did you know that Linton Park in Kent, England, has an avenue of Giant Sequoia trees planted in 1864?
Did you know that Singapore paid uneducated women to get sterilised as part of its Stop at Two campaign?
Did you know that Rod Stewart forgot the name of the mandolin player for his song " Mandolin Wind " ?
Did you know that although fair dealing in United Kingdom law is interpreted liberally, it is still narrower than the United States equivalent ?
Did you know that Philadelphia Phillies rookie Michael Schwimer was featured on ESPN while walking across a baseball field wearing a pink feather boa , and matching pink purse and pink backpack?
Did you know that the bottle for Katy Perry 's Purr perfume was inspired by her Catwoman stage costume?
Did you know that although the Muria generally encourage premarital sex , some communities punish young people who take the same sexual partner for more than three nights?
Did you know that the Hetman Party of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth called upon Russia to help defend their Golden Liberties ?
Did you know that Rex Putnam had a longer tenure as Oregon Superintendent of Public Instruction than did any other superintendent in history?
Did you know that even when LED street lighting produces less light than conventional forms of lighting, it can still cause more ecological light pollution ?
Did you know that Leo Suryadinata has written more than 50 books, with a focus on Chinese Indonesians ?
Did you know that Thomas Rigby of Liverpool , England, added medieval-style grotesques to Rigby's Buildings ?
Did you know that a survey found women in free-to-play massively multiplayer online games spent, on average, 50% more money than men?
Did you know that Mi Gao Huang Chen was beaten to death in 2005 by a large group of youths outside the Chinese takeaway he owned in Scholes, Greater Manchester ?
Did you know that the report Public Finance Balance of Smoking in the Czech Republic found that the "effect of smoking on the public finance balance in the Czech Republic in 1999 was positive"?
Did you know that the effigy of Jan Suchorzewski , who once threatened to kill his son to prevent the signing of the Constitution of 3 May , was hanged during the Kościuszko Insurrection ?
Did you know that the complete works of Brunette Coleman were not published until seventeen years after the death of Philip Larkin ?
Did you know that in 1992, Black British civil rights activist Frank Crichlow was awarded record damages of £50,000 for false imprisonment, battery and malicious prosecution?
Did you know that after going undrafted in the 2009 NFL Draft , current Kansas City Chiefs placekicker Todd Carter took a job at Tropical Smoothie Cafe ?
Did you know that the motor vehicle fleet in use around the world surpassed the one billion mark in 2010 and is expected to reach two billion motor vehicles by 2020?
Did you know that Detroit sportswriter E.A. Batchelor popularized a nickname for the Notre Dame football team by opening a 1909 game account, "Eleven fighting Irishmen wrecked the Yost machine this afternoon"?
Did you know that Detroit sportswriter Paul Bruske drove a Flanders "20" roadster from Quebec to Mexico City in 1910 and later managed Eddie Rickenbacker 's racing team?
Did you know that Digya National Park is the oldest protected area in Ghana ?
Did you know that future Chairman of the Federal Reserve William McChesney Martin and future Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford were tennis doubles partners in 1922 at Soldan High School in St. Louis, Missouri ?
Did you know that many pages of Herculaneum papyri carbonized by Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 were restored to legibility by multi-spectral imaging ?
Did you know that Željko Ivanek , who plays the title role in The X-Files episode " Roland ," was the first person to audition for the part?
Did you know that the World War II military dog Rifleman Khan was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery under heavy enemy fire?
Did you know that the Canon FL 300mm lens was the first to use synthetic fluorite crystals in its lens elements?
Did you know that National Endowment for Democracy President Carl Gershman worked during 1965–1967 for Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)?
Did you know that it took over half a century to identify Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1 ?
Did you know that disagreement about the expansion of the Namibian holiday settlement of Wlotzkasbaken went all the way to Supreme Court ?
Did you know that George Graves was a leading comedian in operetta and Edwardian musical comedies although he could neither sing nor dance?
Did you know that despite being a two-star recruit in 2006, American football player Scott Lutrus was a 2007 Freshman All-American at Connecticut ?
Did you know that the Vineyard Gazette , the only paid circulation newspaper on the island of Martha's Vineyard , was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of Hurricane Bob in 1991?
Did you know that after killing a man in a duel over dogs, Captain James Macnamara asked naval officers including Viscounts Hood and Nelson , Lord Hotham , Sir Hyde Parker and Sir Thomas Troubridge , to testify on his behalf?
Did you know that Deaf Wrestlefest provides funding for educational programs for hearing-impaired students?
Did you know that Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare is said to be the world's only shrine to William Shakespeare ?
Did you know that sportscaster Nat Allbright broadcast 1,500 games for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers to a network of more than 100 radio stations, though he never saw any of the games played?
Did you know that the Tosa Yamauchi Family Treasury and Archives contain the oldest extant manuscript of the Kokinshū , dating from the 11th century and designated a National Treasure of Japan ?
Did you know that Tufele Liamatua served as the first elected Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa ?
Did you know that the expression "going round the bend" is said to come from operators stationed on Telegraph Island who were desperate to escape to India by sailing round the bend in the Strait of Hormuz ?
Did you know that a Libyan hip hop artist using the pseudonym Ibn Thabit wrote "Benghazi" in support of the city of that name during the 2011 Libyan civil war ?
Did you know that handball goalkeeper Andrea Farkas won Olympic bronze and silver medals with the Hungarian national team ?
Did you know that the five largest public library systems in the United States are in Boston , New York , Cincinnati , Los Angeles , and Detroit ?
Did you know that the " Street Doctor ", who delivers food to the poor of Newark, New Jersey in his van and seeks to end street violence, spent 10 years in solitary confinement?
Did you know that the Fairey Stooge was a surface-to-air missile powered by air-to-ground rockets?
Did you know that South Sudan could be the location of "the biggest migration of large mammals on Earth"?
Did you know that Rear Admiral Ronne Froman , the first woman to serve as the "Navy Mayor of San Diego", became the Chief Operating Officer of the city of San Diego after retiring from the Navy?
Did you know that Vikram is only the third actor to receive a National Film Award for Best Actor in the Tamil film industry ?
Did you know that Joe S. Jackson founded the Baseball Writers Association after reporters at the 1908 World Series had "to climb a ladder to the roof of the first base pavillion and write in the rain and snow"?
Did you know that Sanzo Nosaka trained Japanese prisoners of war to fight for Mao Zedong ?
Did you know that Gerhard Präsent composed Partita sagrada for chamber orchestra, premiered by the ensemble Kontrapunkte at the Musikverein in Vienna in 2010?
Did you know that the Abrams Building , demolished in 1987 to make way for the Knickerbocker Arena , had one of the few remaining original storefronts in downtown Albany, New York ?
Did you know that Edward Leo Krumpelmann is one of the two Maryknoll priests who set up the Catholic parish of Kwun Tong , Hong Kong?
Did you know that a judge ruled that spectators were not entitled to any refund of their admission money when a match in Small Heath F.C. 's 1895–96 season was abandoned after only 37 minutes?
Did you know that the Franciscan friar Manuel Antonio de Rivas , who was tried for heresy in 1775 in Mexico, wrote the first science-fiction text in the Americas?
Did you know that sports editor Alan J. Gould invented college football's AP Poll in 1936 as an "exercise in hoopla," to fill space between games, and "to keep the pot boiling"?
Did you know that the Indian miners' union Sikasa was banned in 1992, accused of being a front organisation of the People's War Group ?
Did you know that Eden II , an art installation within the Indianapolis Museum of Art's 100 Acres, features a mock refugee ship to highlight the problem of climate change ?
Did you know that New Democratic Party strategist Kenneth Bryden introduced the concept of door-to-door election canvassing to Canada?
Did you know that 98 species of bug have been recovered from sally ?
Did you know that the American adaptation of the BBC cooking show MasterChef was hosted by famous British restaurateur Gary Rhodes for two series?
Did you know that sportswriter Bill Farnsworth teamed with Damon Runyon in promoting boxing bouts that raised more than $1 million for Hearst 's Free Milk Fund for Babies?
Did you know that there is little wildlife and game in Isangano National Park due to subsistence hunting practiced by those living in the park?
Did you know that the first industrial robot, the Unimate , was installed in 1961 by General Motors at its Inland Fisher Guide Plant in Ewing Township, New Jersey ?
Did you know that the Royal Commission on Opium , set up at the instigation of anti-opium campaigners, set back the anti-opium cause by 15 years?
Did you know that the Matthew Callahan Log Cabin is one of the few such structures left in Aspen, Colorado ?
Did you know that advanced plans were developed for a film version of the award-winning 2002 novel The Cutting Room involving actor Robert Carlyle and screenwriter Andrea Gibb ?
Did you know that Denmark has a network of cycle routes extending more than 12,000 kilometres (7,500 mi)?
Did you know that Lyall Smith successfully lobbied for the first post-bowl AP Poll in 1948 to settle competing championship claims by undefeated Notre Dame and Michigan football teams?
Did you know that in Bach 's cantata Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort, BWV 168 , virtuoso string writing underscores the "word of thunder"?
Did you know that the 2011–12 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team will be the first Michigan team to host ESPN 's College GameDay college basketball television show?
Did you know that Polish Jacobin activist, officer of the Polish Legions , Kazimierz Konopka , gained notoriety for his involvements in the unrest and hangings during the Kościuszko Uprising ?
Did you know that US Presidents Clinton and Bush were awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service by their respective Secretaries of Defense ?
Did you know that in 2010 Elinor Joseph became the first Arab woman to serve in a combat role in the Israel Defense Forces ?
Did you know that when Wilfred main cast member Fiona Gubelmann first read the script for the pilot, she "didn't quite get the whole guy in the dog suit thing"?
Did you know that The X-Files star David Duchovny "detested" the episode " Born Again ", despite appearing alongside his then-girlfriend Maggie Wheeler ?
Did you know that Archaeorhizomycetes is a class of fungi that was not described until 2011?
Did you know that the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum in Colonial Williamsburg , Virginia , contains more than 3,000 objects of folk art ?
Did you know that after the Battle of the Meander , a rumour spread amongst the crusaders that their successful counterattack had been led by an unknown white-clad knight?
Did you know that during the New England Patriots ' 1985–86 playoff run, an opposing player hit general manager Patrick Sullivan with a football helmet?
Did you know that during the 1946 Shibuya incident over a thousand Yakuza fought hundreds of Formosan gang members for control of the local black markets in Tokyo?
Did you know that after debunking Abner Doubleday as the inventor of baseball , Frank Menke was placed in "the class that would belittle Washington, Lincoln and other men who have played their part in American history"?
Did you know that " O Tú o Ninguna " performed by Mexican singer Luis Miguel received a nomination for Song of the Year at the 1st Latin Grammy Awards ?
Did you know that the extinct fern species Osmunda wehrii was named in honor of Northwest school painter and amateur paleobotanist Wesley C. Wehr ?
Did you know that Typhoon Pamela contributed to the wettest month on record in Guam after slowly crossing the island, dropping 27 in (690 mm) of rainfall in a 24 hour period?
Did you know that the congregation of her church was outraged when E.R. Shipp criticized her pastor in print, but he led them in a standing ovation when she won the Pulitzer Prize ?
Did you know that "legendary" Indonesian composer A. T. Mahmud wrote around 500 children's songs?
Did you know that the 1978 song Man Free by Linton Kwesi Johnson was about Darcus Howe , then editor of black political magazine Race Today ?
Did you know that the Eastern Bettong eats native cranberries ?
Did you know that S&P sovereign ratings division head David T. Beers is responsible for the recent downgrade of the U.S. credit rating?
Did you know that Emma Thompson earned twelve accolades for Sense and Sensibility , including the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ?
Did you know that Max Kase wrote in support of jazz and flappers in 1922, helped found the NBA in 1946, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1952 for exposing college basketball point-shaving scandals?
Did you know that Washington was the second largest tree of its kind until its collapse in 2005?
Did you know that the recent Budget Control Act of 2011 , which resolved the 2011 U.S. debt ceiling crisis , will not actually reduce the overall size of the U.S. public debt ?
Did you know that Perseverance IV is the last floating River Wey barge in existence?
Did you know that the Paleocene Alaskan maple Acer alaskense was described from a fossil leaf that may be atypical for the species?
Did you know that in 1912, during the First Balkan War , the Kingdom of Serbia established Durrës County on territory captured from the Ottoman Empire ?