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Did you know that archaeologist Vance Haynes challenged the right of Native Americans to rebury Kennewick Man —skeletal bone fragments about 9,000 years old—which Haynes said should be studied further?
Did you know that while accompanying her sister for her marriage in Florence, Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony met and eventually married the groom's father , becoming her sister's own step-mother-in-law?
Did you know that Ernest Hemingway 's True at First Light , a book about his 1953 safari , was not published until almost 40 years after his death?
Did you know that comedian Felix Herngren created, directed, wrote the scripts and plays a main character in the currently airing Swedish television series Solsidan ?
Did you know that among the items exhibited at the Bsous Silk Museum in Lebanon are silkworms and the traditional dresses and trousers worn by princesses in the 19th century?
Did you know that the American Chicago blues singer , harmonicist, and songwriter , Shakey Jake Harris , acquired his nickname from his previous career as a professional gambler ?
Did you know that the strike of the Calton weavers , during which six people died, was the first major industrial dispute in Scottish history?
Did you know that James Oliver invented a line of improved and specialized farm plows and produced up to 300,000 of them annually?
Did you know that the French Gothic Niederhaslach Church in Alsace was plundered in 1525 during the Peasants' War , burnt in 1633 during the Thirty Years' War , and became a slaughterhouse in 1744?
Did you know that the new champion of the culinary contest Bocuse d'Or USA 2010 is the sous-chef James Kent ?
Did you know that the establishment of the Marshal Foch Professorship of French Literature in Oxford was announced a few days after Marshal Foch signed the Armistice with Germany to end the First World War ?
Did you know that in U.S. college football , the 2010 East-West Shrine Game had the lowest attendance of any of the 85 East-West Shrine Games ?
Did you know that after his final Tarzan film , Johnny Weissmuller starred in the 1955–1956 TV series Jungle Jim , which features stories about a hunter, guide, and explorer?
Did you know that the English treatise Dialogus de Scaccario was written as a series of questions and answers between a learned lawyer and his pupil?
Did you know that "discoveries" by baseball scout Paul Krichell included future Hall of Famers Lou Gehrig and Whitey Ford ?
Did you know that Hindu pilgrims to Pushkar Lake in Rajasthan , India , considered it lucky to be devoured by the crocodiles there?
Did you know that Yongjiacaris represents the second report of freshwater caridean shrimp from the Mesozoic era?
Did you know that Isabel Ashdown 's acclaimed first novel Glasshopper was written as part of her BA and MA and work at the University of Chichester ?
Did you know that the 1893 New York hurricane virtually destroyed an entire island ?
Did you know that Alexander Milne served as an executor of Thomas Telford 's last will and testament ?
Did you know that Stephen Fry asked on Twitter for suggestions to name a BBC television series on the impact of the Internet , now called The Virtual Revolution ?
Did you know that a Maginot Line fortification became a mushroom farm after it was deactivated in 1972?
Did you know that British novelist Martin Amis believes his sister, Sally Amis , was one of the sexual revolution 's most spectacular victims?
Did you know that Virginia Bolten was deported from Argentina to Uruguay in 1902 because of her anarchist activities?
Did you know that Heart-kun is a Japanese puppy that was born with a heart-shaped patch of brown hair on its white-haired body?
Did you know that Westgate Hall , Canterbury's sole music and dance venue , is to be demolished by the Council in favour of a car park?
Did you know that the UK video game magazine Edge described Amy Hennig as one of the 100 most influential women in the video game industry ?
Did you know that Israel's Yiftach Brigade was transferred to the southern front for Operation GYS in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War , and returned after the operation?
Did you know that Bela S. Huntington was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives in 1897, but the legislature never organized in 1897 and he never served during another session?
Did you know that hundreds of words still in use today, including accident, cinnamon, desk, scissors, vacation, and Valentine , first appear in manuscripts written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 1300s?
Did you know that the Iranian embassy in London protested after The Queen's College, Oxford , established a scholarship named after Neda Agha-Soltan , who died in the 2009 Iranian election protests ?
Did you know that the Chrysler ball-stud hemi was intended to replace three engine block and two cylinder head designs with a single model?
Did you know that Somali - Norwegian writer Amal Aden (pseudonym) is a noted critic of the Norwegian integration policy, as well as the Somali community in Oslo itself?
Did you know that Abraham Shakespeare , an illiterate casual laborer, won a $17 million Florida Lotto jackpot in 2006, but was murdered three years later?
Did you know that tò he , a traditional toy in Vietnam which is often sold on the occasion of Tết , is edible because it is made from rice powder ?
Did you know that by the age of 22, Jean-Pierre Warner was an acting Major in the British Army ?
Did you know that when the Super Ball was first introduced in 1965, US presidential adviser McGeorge Bundy had five dozen shipped to the White House for the amusement of the staff?
Did you know that E Street Band member Clarence Clemons co-starred with Rick Springfield in the original 1990 pilot for ABC's Human Target TV series?
Did you know that in the stuffing of bánh chưng for vegetarians and Buddhists , pork is replaced by molasses or brown sugar ?
Did you know that the American journalist George Wilkes (d. 1885) was one of the men who introduced parimutuel betting into the United States?
Did you know that in one year during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the coal mine at Midlandvale, Alberta , operated for only 52 days?
Did you know that Gustavo de Greiff , Colombia 's first Attorney General responsible for prosecuting drug lords, advocated for drug decriminalization during the height of the United States 's War on Drugs in Colombia?
Did you know that according to a medieval source , Ingemund was supposed to have been declared king in the Hebrides , but his raping and pillaging enraged the locals, and he was slain on Lewis in 1097?
Did you know that the failed Deseret Manufacturing Company , created in Utah in the 1850s by Mormons to process sugar beets into sugar, was nicknamed the "Damn Miserable Company"?
Did you know that Pablo González , the Carranzistan chief responsible for Emiliano Zapata 's murder, was also known as "the general who never won a victory" during the entire Mexican Revolution ?
Did you know that according to the Michigan Department of Transportation , the first highway centerline in the US was painted on the first designation of M-15 in 1917?
Did you know that Cincinnati , Ohio , architect Rudolph Tietig designed a Jewish country club and two synagogues , including Temple K.K. Bene Israel for one of the oldest congregations west of the Allegheny Mountains ?
Did you know that the beetle Typhaea stercorea has been found in grain storages dating all the way back to the Iron Age ?
Did you know that two school board members of the Sheridan School District faced a recall in 1985 after religious leaders objected to them living together as an unmarried couple?
Did you know that in 1946, the first modern bikini was introduced at Piscine Molitor by Louis Réard , and modeled there by dancer Micheline Bernardini ?
Did you know that Howard Burnham , an American mining engineer , worked for France as a spy operating behind enemy lines, and used his wooden leg to secretly transport equipment?
Did you know that the English antiquarian John Joscelyn (d. 1603) wrote a history of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge that was not published until 1880, over 200 years after his death?
Did you know that the people of Stipp, Oregon, renamed their town Macleay for Portland merchant and banker Donald Macleay after he donated money for a school?
Did you know that the name-bearing type determines the application of specific and other names in zoological nomenclature ?
Did you know that British producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins ' first job in television was devising means of killing victims in the crime drama series Midsomer Murders ?
Did you know that St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Padua, Ohio , is distinguished by its pilasters ?
Did you know that the Ionian volcano Tawhaki Patera and the nearby valley Tawhaki Vallis are both named after the Māori lightning deity , Tāwhaki ?
Did you know that Nini Haslund Gleditsch participated in the flight of the Norwegian National Treasury in 1940?
Did you know that Asbjørn Bryhn and Gunnar Haarstad were both long-term leaders of the Norwegian Police Surveillance Agency ?
Did you know that in his film Close, Closed, Closure , Israeli director Ram Loevy describes the Gaza Strip as "a prison with one million inmates"?
Did you know that in a sign of a warming friendship between Vladimir Putin and Prince Albert II , a three-bedroom dacha was built by the Russians at Albert's Monte Carlo estate in 2008?
Did you know that according to some scholars, Christ's agony at Gethsemane was added to the New Testament to counter docetism ?
Did you know that the alférez Ponce de Minerva (died 1175), from southern France, served three Spanish kings on twelve military campaigns?
Did you know that the fossil horse Scaphohippus became extinct when tectonic barriers between the Great Plains and Great Basin of North America disappeared about 13 million years ago?
Did you know that Julius Hougen co-chaired the first large-scale charity fund-rasing campaigns in Norwegian radio ?
Did you know that Tacubaya , Mexico City, is the home to both the Mexican presidential residence and "The Lost City"?
Did you know that San Diego artist Salvador Torres led the movement to paint murals on the support columns of a freeway in Chicano Park ?
Did you know that the first successful sugar beet factory opening in Utah , built by the Mormon -owned Utah-Idaho Sugar Company , was celebrated by looting, bonfires, and free barrels of beer?
Did you know that Eva Nansen , Elisabeth Welhaven and Maren Sars contributed with music and storytelling in what was described as the "first salon " of Norway's capital ?
Did you know that the Byzantine general Constantine Diogenes , who was implicated in a conspiracy against Emperor Romanos III , committed suicide rather than revealing the names of his co-conspirators?
Did you know that American professional wrestler Frankie Arion won the NECW Television Championship two months after legitimately breaking his ankle and fibula ?
Did you know that United States Air Force Major General Caleb V. Haynes was the grandson of Chang Bunker , one of the  original " Siamese Twins "?
Did you know that buildings with Grade II* listed status in Brighton and Hove , England , include the Royal Albion Hotel , wrecked in 1998 by a fire that started in a pan of sausages?
Did you know that the book Scientology edited by James R. Lewis includes contributions from J. Gordon Melton , Anson Shupe , and Susan J. Palmer ?
Did you know that Littleberry Mosby Jr , captain and brigadier general during the Revolution and War of 1812 , disinherited his son, Littleberry Mosby III, for leaving Virginia ?
Did you know that as a child, Norwegian singer-songwriter Ingrid Olava taught herself to play " Do-Re-Mi " from The Sound of Music on her neighbor's piano?
Did you know that the founding of the Independent Labour Party 's Guild of Youth in Britain provoked the Labour Party to found a youth wing of its own?
Did you know that both the arrests of General Christian de Castries in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and of President Duong Van Minh ending the Ho Chi Minh Campaign were  by units commanded by General Lê Trọng Tấn ?
Did you know that Ralph Creffeild was knighted by Queen Anne in 1713, having presented her with thanks from the town of Colchester for the peace of Utrecht earlier that year?
Did you know that Lenny Kravitz wrote the recently leaked Michael Jackson song " Another Day "?
Did you know that the only damage suffered by the dome of the Hagia Sophia in the 1509 Istanbul earthquake was plaster covering up Byzantine mosaics fell off, revealing Christian images?
Did you know that René Boileau was given the pseudonym Rainy Drinkwater and promoted as being the first Native American in the National Hockey League by the New York Americans despite having no native blood?
Did you know that on July 30, 1970, Israeli and Soviet fighter pilots battled in the skies over Egypt in an engagement codenamed Rimon 20 ?
Did you know that Norwegian architect Hjalmar Welhaven ' s collection of old skis was the basis for the world's oldest ski museum in 1923  when it opened in Oslo ?
Did you know that the Ionian volcano Tupan Patera , whose activity was first detected by Galileo in 1996, was named after the thunder god of the Tupí - Guaraní indigenous peoples in Brazil ?
Did you know that the "extremely productive carcinologist" American Raymond B. Manning amassed the world's largest collection of mantis shrimp ?
Did you know that in 1985, the Austrian wine industry was hit by a scandal involving a few wineries illegally adulterating wines with the mildly toxic substance diethylene glycol to make them taste sweeter ?
Did you know that we know the exact birth time of the 5th-century poet Pamprepius thanks to a horoscope calculated by the Egyptian astrologer Rhetorius ?
Did you know that the 101 Dalmatians Musical has several performers working on 15" stilts to simulate a canine perspective, and uses 15 real Dalmatian dogs for several scenes?
Did you know that the unit trust was devised by the British Olympic rower Ian Fairbairn , son of  rower Steve Fairbairn ?
Did you know that Polhøgda , the home of Eva and Fridtjof Nansen , was an important location for social life of Norwegian intellectuals around 1900?
Did you know that during the Mandi Shivaratri Fair held in Mandi , India, Hindu religiosity is the theme that establishes synthesis of the worship by Vishnu and Shiva cults?
Did you know that despite not registering as a political party , the pro-independence Sąjūdis movement won a clear majority in the Lithuanian parliamentary election, 1990 ?
Did you know that publisher Richard Bentley hired Charles Dickens to edit his periodical, Bentley's Miscellany ?
Did you know that the Western Australian carnivorous plant Drosera derbyensis was first found by Allen Lowrie near the Boab Prison Tree just outside of Derby ?
Did you know that Shahidan Kassim and his brother Ismail have both held same seat for Arau in the Parliament of Malaysia ?
Did you know that Hurricane Inga in September and October 1969 is the third longest-lived Atlantic hurricane on record, having lasted 25 days?
Did you know that Sufyan ibn `Uyaynah performed the Hajj 70 times in his life?
Did you know that 2,273 passengers booked travel from Templecombe railway station , England in 1982, despite it being closed from 1966 to 1983?
Did you know that the Ionian volcano Masubi was first detected by the spacecraft Voyager 1 in 1979 and named after Homusubi , the Japanese deity of fire ?
Did you know that the early 13th century romance Guillaume de Dole is the first extant French literary work combining narrative and lyric , a form which by the end of the century had become canonical?
Did you know that when Nazis usurped and reorganized Norwegian broadcasting in 1940, Eyvind Mehle was considered as the successor of the deposed director Olav Midttun , despite being subordinate to Wilhelm F. K. Christie ?
Did you know that some Native Americans traveled up to 1,500 miles (2,400 km), from as far away as the Mississippi River , to participate in the 1757 Siege of Fort William Henry near Lake George , New York ?
Did you know that the depictions of fish on the medieval statue of St Christopher in Norton Priory , Cheshire , England, are so realistic that five different species can be identified?
Did you know that in 1984 Chet Upham , former chairman of the Texas Republican Party , introduced the first artificial snow in Colorado at his Loveland Ski Area near the Continental  Divide ?
Did you know that Lowell State College was the last state normal school established by the Massachusetts State Board of Education ?
Did you know that when R. Shamasastry discovered the Arthashastra , it altered the perception of ancient India and the view that Indians learned administration from the Greeks?
Did you know that the Hollenden Hotel , established in 1885 and demolished in 1962, provided accommodations for the five U.S. Presidents following Grover Cleveland when they visited Cleveland, Ohio ?
Did you know that Norway's first tank was a Landsverk L-120 with an improvised turret and makeshift armour ?
Did you know that in "The Baby Sitter" of ABC 's The Rifleman , Phyllis Avery plays a dance hall girl who asks Lucas McCain to hide her daughter from a bigoted grandfather?
Did you know that the decline of the gopher tortoise poses a threat to the Florida mouse , which forms the only mammal genus that occurs only in Florida ?
Did you know that the revelations of 14th-century Christian mystic Agnes Blannbekin , which included visions of the foreskin of Jesus , were considered too obscene for print until the 20th century ?
Did you know that French protests caused the Russians to award the contract for the Gangut -class battleship to a Russian firm rather than the German winner of the 1908 international design contest?
Did you know that Kim Spalding played Doc Holliday in an enactment of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in a 1954 episode of the syndicated TV series Stories of the Century ?
Did you know that the carnivorous plant Drosera meristocaulis is endemic to Pico da Neblina in South America , 17,000 km (11,000 mi) to the west of its most closely related species?
Did you know that Danny Goodwin , a first-round draft pick of the California Angels , is the only player to be selected first in the draft on two separate occasions?
Did you know that Anglo-Turkish piracy in the 17th century led to the enslavement of Catholic captives in North Africa , who could sometimes be liberated through a ransom ?
Did you know that blues scholars seem undecided if the American blues singer , guitarist and songwriter Ramblin' Thomas 's nickname referred to his style of playing, or itinerant nature?
Did you know that male Arabian carpetsharks competing for a mate have been known to bite the claspers of their rivals?
Did you know that Australian rules footballer Joe Misiti was inducted into the VFL/ AFL Italian Team of the Century in 2007?
Did you know that Bijjala II of the Kalachuri , a feudatory, eliminated Tailapa III and his family of the Chalukya Kingdom and ruled from Kalyana, now the Basavakalyana Fort , for five years?
Did you know that Tony Blair said that it was a mistake to say on Fern Britton Meets... that he would have still wanted to join the 2003 Iraq invasion if there were no weapons of mass destruction ?
Did you know that archivist and cricketer Tommy Finlayson , one of the Gibraltarian civilian evacuees during World War II , later wrote a book about this period of the history of Gibraltar ?
Did you know that the War of Internet Addiction is a video made by World of Warcraft players to protest internet censorship in the People's Republic of China ?
Did you know that Pádraig MacKernan , who served as Ireland's Ambassador to both France and the United States, had a public falling out with Minister for Foreign Affairs David Andrews in 1998?
Did you know that the sports hall of Europe 's largest prison complex in Istanbul was converted into a courtroom because the existing one was not big enough to accommodate the hearings of the Ergenekon trial?
Did you know that Lowes Cato Dickinson , portrait painter and Christian socialist ,  painted Gladstone's cabinet at 10 Downing Street in 1868?
Did you know that along with Ithonidae, Polystoechotidae are regarded as the most primitive living members of the insect order Neuroptera ?
Did you know that a Seattle Times journalist described Michael Jackson 's " Tabloid Junkie " as "a disingenuous attack on sensational news stories about him", most of which the singer "planted"?
Did you know that the 1707 Hōei earthquake was the largest in Japanese history , triggering a devastating tsunami and causing at least 5,000 casualties in Honshu , Shikoku and Kyūshū ?
Did you know that in 1865, William Carpenter Bompas protected his party of ox-carts from attacks by purportedly hostile Sioux by flying the Flag of England ?
Did you know that a double rotation in four dimensions has exactly two planes of rotation ?
Did you know that the Shady Lady Ranch , a licensed brothel in Nevada , just hired the state's first legal male prostitute ?
Did you know that upon his accession as the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh , John Tuigg found that the Panic of 1873 had left the diocese's property and finances in disarray?
Did you know that Old French literary genre of the chanson de toile consisted of songs supposedly sung by women weaving, songs about women in love who often sew as they relate their stories?
Did you know that Otilio Montaño , a Zapatista General, formally introduced Emiliano Zapata to Pancho Villa , but later was accused of rebelling against Zapata and executed while maintaining his innocence?
Did you know that architect Frode Rinnan designed sports venues such as the Holmenkollen ski jump and Bislett Stadion , both of which were torn down in the 2000s?
Did you know that volcanoes of the Milbanke Sound Group in British Columbia , Canada , remain mysterious because little is known about them and their origins are not well defined?
Did you know that R&B singer Margie Day , who had a hit record with " Little Red Rooster " in 1951 and also recorded "Take Out Your False Teeth Daddy", established a children's art project in Norfolk, Virginia ?
Did you know that Thai government and army officials have insisted on the effectiveness of the GT200 "remote substance detector", despite the BBC having found it to consist of an empty plastic case?
Did you know that the Lowell Technological Institute in Massachusetts almost went bankrupt during both World Wars due to the increased demand for soldiers and textiles?
Did you know that the Arab inhabitants of the Palestinian village of Hawsha , which was depopulated in 1948, kept a shrine named for the prophet Joshua ?
Did you know that Sweden established official diplomatic relations with Guinea-Bissau before Guinea-Bissau formally gained independence from Portugal in 1974?
Did you know that Klaus Sunnanå , Kristian Gleditsch and Karl Evang were among the former Mot Dag members who became involved in the first Norwegian development aid project?
Did you know that a major flood in the Tigris in 1936 caused the building site of the Kut Barrage in Iraq to be flooded entirely so that construction had to be temporarily halted?
Did you know that Wayne Morse won the Democratic primary in an attempt to reclaim his Senate seat in the 1974 Oregon United States Senate election but died prior to the general election?
Did you know that British billionaire Lawrence Graff purchased the Wittelsbach Diamond for approximately US$24.3 million and then recut it removing 4 carats ?
Did you know that Anne Jordan-Reynolds and her daughter Stephanie, founders of the non-profit HIP Haiti , escaped disaster at the Hotel Montana during the 2010 earthquake because of a glitch in their plans?
Did you know that the discovery of the Telfer Mine in Western Australia , officially attributed to Newmont Mining , has been claimed by French prospector Jean-Paul Turcaud ?
Did you know that the shrew Crocidura phanluongi , formally described on January 27, is the seventh new species of Crocidura to be described from Vietnam in as many years?
Did you know that Alasdair Crotach MacLeod is said to have prayed for six hours prior to ordering the massacre of almost the entire population of the Hebridean island of Eigg ?