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Did you know that "Fotos Y Recuerdos" was positioned at number four on the US Hot Latin Tracks the day Selena was murdered?
Did you know that El Manik went from being a vagrant to Citra Award-winning actor in six years?
Did you know that Ezedin Abdel Aziz Khalil, an alleged al-Qaeda operative based in Iran, is one of three designated terrorists in the Rewards for Justice Program's $10 million reward bracket?
Did you know that Portland Fire Station No. 7, built in Portland, Oregon in 1927, was the last of many firehouses designed by Lee Gray Holden, who died of a stroke while visiting it?
Did you know that Virginia Trotter, Assistant Secretary of Education from 1974 to 1977, was the first woman to hold the U.S. government's highest education post, although it did not become a cabinet-level position until 1979?
Did you know that both grandfathers of Ormond Wilson, New Zealand Labour Party MP, and one grandfather of his second wife, were Members of Parliament?
Did you know that people's preferred walking speed is correlated with their country's per capita GDP and purchasing power parity?
Did you know that singer-cum-writer Dewi Lestari, who draws much of her inspiration from spirituality, has called fundamentalists "crazy"?
Did you know that the Healdsburg Memorial Bridge in Healdsburg, California, was the first steel bridge across the Russian River?
Did you know that the Temple of Kwan Tai in Mendocino, California was founded by a survivor from a fleet of seven Chinese junks, two of which landed on the California coast in 1854?
Did you know that the beau gregory, a small damselfish, maintains a territory and drives away intruders?
Did you know that the perfume Truth or Dare was inspired by singer Madonna's memory of her mother's fragrance?
Did you know that Aaron Lockett holds two Big 12 Conference football records: single-season punt return average and longest pass reception?
Did you know that Bach ends his chorale cantata for Epiphany Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, BWV 123, by repeating the final lines of the last stanza softly?
Did you know that Bush the Old Fire Dog is memorialized at the Vigilant Firehouse?
Did you know that Mayan eccentrics were often buried under monuments and buildings?
Did you know that Montpelier Crescent in Brighton was unusually built facing the South Downs instead of the sea—but this view was blocked within ten years by Vernon Terrace?
Did you know that Nasida Ria, one of the oldest qasidah modern groups in Indonesia, received an organ from the mayor of Semarang?
Did you know that Polish writer and educator Konrad Prószyński, author of internationally recognized primers, had to struggle with the censorship in the Russian Empire?
Did you know that Singapore is said to espouse a "green-light" approach towards administrative law – that good government should be sought through the political process – given the government's focus on efficiency?
Did you know that a guest part on The X-Files helped drive Bryan Cranston to his role in Breaking Bad?
Did you know that discoveries in Wilson Butte Cave in Idaho, which formed as a lava tube, include both camel bones and the oldest evidence of human presence on the Snake River Plain?
Did you know that in the 1889 Scottish Cup Final, conditions were so poor that the players threw snowballs at each other?
Did you know that until the discovery in 1975 of the "living fossil" Neoglyphea inopinata, glypheoid crustaceans were thought to have been extinct since the Eocene?
Did you know that Archboldomys kalinga, a rodent of the genus Archboldomys, is found throughout the Central Cordillera on the island of Luzon in the Philippines?
Did you know that George Harrison's 1970 song "Beware of Darkness" marked his return to the spiritual concerns of such Beatles' songs as "Within You Without You"?
Did you know that James H. Horne, the first head coach of the men's basketball team at Indiana University, accidentally killed a man with a twelve-pound hammer?
Did you know that John Rinehart Blue, owner of a local Ben Franklin five and dime store, was appointed to fill a vacant seat in the West Virginia House of Delegates?
Did you know that a stable worker was bribed to allow Middleton to drink buckets of water, leaving the racehorse bloated, in a plan by bookmakers to prevent it from winning the 1825 Derby Stakes?
Did you know that construction of Roosevelt High School in St. Louis, Missouri, required the removal of a cemetery, yet not all bodies were removed and local children took bones away from the work site?
Did you know that molecular analysis of the genes of Hygrocybe virginea suggests that the fungus should not be classified into the genus Hygrocybe?
Did you know that one of the largest operations of the Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party became known as the Bloody Wednesday?
Did you know that the 400 people interviewed for an oral history of MTV's early years could not agree on what was the best video, but they all agreed Billy Squier's "Rock Me Tonite" was the worst?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court's decision in Lackawanna County District Attorney v. Coss concerned a prisoner who had been "adjudged a juvenile delinquent on five separate occasions"?
Did you know that the beach pea was used in traditional Hawaiian medicine to treat wounds?
Did you know that the celebration of the Dodoleglime festival by the Ve people of Ghana commemorates the escape, through a town wall hole, of their ancestors from a tyrant king in Togo?
Did you know that the leaves of Gardner's saltbush are an important source of nutrients for pregnant ewes?
Did you know that the town of Dhanushkodi in Tamil Nadu, India, was submerged during a 1964 cyclone and has not been resettled since?
Did you know that until 2007, the New Zealand Poet Laureate was not appointed by the New Zealand government, but by Te Mata Estates, a commercial winery?
Did you know that Chaim Walder's first book for Haredi children became one of Israel's all-time bestsellers?
Did you know that Chairil Anwar's most celebrated poem, "Aku" ("Me"), shows similarities to the philosophies of Ayn Rand and Friedrich Nietzsche?
Did you know that Ismail Saleh was the longest serving Minister of Justice of Indonesia?
Did you know that Nelson W. Fisk of Vermont played a key role in connecting Lake Champlain's Grand Isle to the Vermont mainland?
Did you know that despite the presence of a minor basilica, Plaza Miranda in Manila is a center for fortune-telling and the sale of lucky charms and amulets?
Did you know that historians called Harry Toulmin the "frontier Justinian" for his work in codifying the laws of Kentucky, Alabama, and Mississippi Territory?
Did you know that in the chess game Levitsky versus Marshall, legend has it that the winning move drew a shower of gold coins?
Did you know that on his debut in Test cricket, Sri Lankan bowler Dhammika Prasad took the wicket of his favourite player, Sachin Tendulkar?
Did you know that owing to his declining popularity as a priest in Christiania, Niels Wulfsberg decided to make a journalistic career, establishing amongst other newspapers the royal friendly Tiden?
Did you know that the Prison Officers Association threatened a job action when it was announced that both Birmingham and Oakwood Prisons were to be contracted to security company G4S?
Did you know that the Ratonero Valenciano was only recognized by the Spanish Kennel Club in 2004, despite having existed since the 16th century?
Did you know that the honeyeaters of the genus Manorina (Noisy Miners pictured) have a pale patch of skin behind their eyes giving them a cross-eyed look?
Did you know that the name of the Nuer White Army, a militant group in South Sudan, reportedly originated from the Nuer youths' use of light-colored insect repellents on their skin?
Did you know that the writer of The X-Files episode "Per Manum" has described it as being about "the way you perceive connections between people"?
Did you know that two of the 46 United Kingdom-born players to play in the National Hockey League have been inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame?
Did you know that British surgeon Victor Negus carried out pioneering research in comparative anatomy in the 1920s on the structure and evolution of the larynx?
Did you know that Chrisye had second album syndrome on his fifth album?
Did you know that Georg Christian Lehms, court librarian and poet in Darmstadt, was the author of Teutschlands galante Poetinnen (Germany's gallant poetesses)?
Did you know that Michael Plumb was the first (and, to date, only) equestrian inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame?
Did you know that Thomas Bailey Aldrich's The Story of a Bad Boy inspired a genre of "bad boy" literature that included Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?
Did you know that among the players in the 2011 Liberty Bowl were the grandson of civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy and the brother of Super Bowl-winning quarterback Aaron Rodgers?
Did you know that apart from The Cenotaph in Whitehall, London, Edwin Lutyens also designed The Southampton Cenotaph?
Did you know that recently appointed Indonesian justice minister Amir Syamsuddin has represented the former head of Golkar and Tempo magazine?
Did you know that the 2007 Murphy Complex Fire burned 652,016 acres (263,862 ha) of land and was the largest wildfire in Idaho in 97 years?
Did you know that the Eagles song "Already Gone" appeared on the Hot 100 chart and was included on the compilation albums Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) and The Very Best of Eagles?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court dismissed an important First Amendment case after it was found to be moot?
Did you know that the belah can be found with bimble box, black gidyea, brigalow, nealie, boonaree and wilga?
Did you know that the medieval Islamic brickwork technique of banna'i was used to cover whole buildings with names of Allah, Muhammad and Ali?
Did you know that the smooth trunkfish blows a jet of water into the sandy seabed to expose the invertebrates on which it feeds?
Did you know that Elias Abraham Rosenberg, a peddler from San Francisco, became an adviser to King Kalākaua of Hawaii due to his purported ability to predict the future?
Did you know that Greek writer Dido Sotiriou deals in her novels with the Asia Minor Catastrophe, the civil war and the postwar period in Greece?
Did you know that Jamestown College, North Dakota's oldest post-secondary institution, was founded in 1883, six years before North Dakota became a U.S. state?
Did you know that Love Song from High School, the third most viewed Indonesian film of 1979, featured a cameo from Chrisye meant to market his upcoming album?
Did you know that Muhsin al-Barazi, former prime minister of Syria, conducted secret negotiations with Israel and discussed the possibility of a summit between Ben-Gurion and al-Za'im in 1949?
Did you know that Tamil writer Bama had served as a Roman Catholic nun for seven years?
Did you know that former Philadelphia Eagles offensive lineman Wade Key started out as a member of the taxi squad in 1969 and eventually became the Eagles' longest-tenured player in 1979?
Did you know that if the sea ginger coral detects a sea fan growing nearby, it will send out "attack" branches to eventually smother it?
Did you know that impoverished shoemaker Richard Buxton was illiterate at 16 but published a botanical guide at the age of 62?
Did you know that in "Odorono", The Who sang about the consequences of body odour?
Did you know that one of the sanjakbeys of the Sanjak of Ohrid was Ballaban Badera, famous for his bloody battles against Skanderbeg?
Did you know that the British Houses of Parliament in London, rebuilt after a destructive fire in 1834, include ventilation systems by Scottish physician David Boswell Reid?
Did you know that the cover for Andrew Miller's 2011 Costa prize winning novel Pure was inspired by Francisco Goya's etching The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters?
Did you know that the extinct, Triassic, bivalve family Cassianellidae may have evolved from the family Bakevelliidae, which survived longer into the Eocene?
Did you know that with titles such as 1983's Kool-Aid Man, Mattel's M Network was an early developer of "promogames"?
Did you know that "Monday" was ranked among UGO Networks' 100 Greatest Moments in Time Travel?
Did you know that Chicken Hawks, a Pie, and a Pretzel have all played in Major League Baseball?
Did you know that Deep Throat's daughter is Monk's wife?
Did you know that Eleanor was the first of only six fillies to have ever won the Derby Stakes?
Did you know that French architect Léon Azéma, a prisoner of the Germans during World War I, designed the Douaumont ossuary to hold the bones of 130,000 unidentified soldiers of both sides?
Did you know that Scottish footballer Dan Friel played more than 300 matches for Burnley, many of them as captain?
Did you know that Siedlce pogrom in the Congress Poland was organized by the Russian Empire's secret police, and carried out by the Imperial Russian Army, whose soldiers were later decorated?
Did you know that footballer Adam Cunnington's strike partnership with Kevin Charley produced more than 50 goals for Barwell in 2009–10, helping the club win the Midland Football Alliance?
Did you know that in Jon Klassen's 2011 children's book I Want My Hat Back a bear eats the rabbit who stole his hat?
Did you know that in Mexico, tea prepared using tarbush, a shrub native to the Chihuahuan Desert, is consumed to treat indigestion and diarrhea?
Did you know that increased breeding of the threadsail filefish to enhance the stock has caused genetic differentiation between its hatchery and ocean populations?
Did you know that the Christmas Island Seamount Province, a group of 50 seamounts (submarine volcanoes) near Australia, formed during the breakup of Gondwana, up to 136 million years ago?
Did you know that the Tibet Improvement Party founded in 1939 by Pandatsang Rapga opposed the rule of the Dalai Lama government, and was supported by the Kuomintang in China?
Did you know that the grass Oplismenus can be used as a substitute for lawn?
Did you know that there are eight exceptions to the freedom of speech in the United States?
Did you know that Chrisye's album Beautiful Flower featured work by the son of former president Sukarno on every track?
Did you know that a group of Late Permian mammal relatives called Nanictidopidae (restoration pictured) may have eaten fruit because their small teeth were unsuitable for grinding most plant material?
Did you know that actors and audience in the Jacobs Well Theatre, a Georgian era playhouse in Bristol, England, could obtain drinks through a hole in the wall to an adjoining ale house?
Did you know that an 1851 match between Voltigeur and The Flying Dutchman (see painting) drew 100,000 spectators, the largest crowd at the Knavesmire since 1759?
Did you know that assaulting or obstructing a clergyman in the discharge of his duties is a non-fatal offence against the person in English law?
Did you know that because of competition from Costa Rican television broadcaster Repretel, Teletica Channel 7 was prompted to upgrade its programming and equipment?"
Did you know that in a chapter of Contemplative Practices in Action, Doug Oman suggests that meditation and other spiritual practices act "synergistically ... like ... complementary food groups"?
Did you know that members of the extinct bivalve family Bakevelliidae have shells made from rectangular calcium prisms and mother of pearl?
Did you know that the exploits of the Polish partisan People's Army were significantly exaggerated by the propaganda of the People's Republic of Poland?
Did you know that the winning nation (trophy pictured) at the UEFA European Football Championship was determined by a golden goal in two consecutive tournaments?
Did you know that under the prosperous and benign rule of Husayn Pasha, the city of Gaza was regarded as the capital of Palestine?
Did you know that Afghanistan returned to the Asian Games after the fall of the Taliban government in the midst of ongoing war?
Did you know that Afif al-Bizri, as chief of staff of the Syrian Army, forced Prime Minister Sabri al-Assali to follow a pro-Nasser policy under threat of arrest?
Did you know that Captain Walker of HMS Monmouth told his crew to wash "the stain off your characters in the blood of your foes"?
Did you know that Hugh Carless, who accompanied travel writer Eric Newby on an expedition to Northern Afghanistan in 1956, later served as the British ambassador to Venezuela?
Did you know that Prussia refused to meet its obligations from the Polish–Prussian alliance of 1790, and instead of aiding Poland during the Polish–Russian War of 1792, helped Russia to quell the Kościuszko Uprising the following year?
Did you know that The Fool's The Fool guitar helped Eric Clapton achieve his signature "woman tone"?
Did you know that cattle are being re-introduced to Rosenannon Downs in Cornwall, UK, to benefit the Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary butterfly?
Did you know that for five baseball seasons, including two of the team's National League championship seasons, the Baltimore Orioles' Opening Day starting pitcher was Sadie McMahon?
Did you know that over three million Chinese military and civilian personnel served in Korea during the Korean War?
Did you know that stipple engraving was used in the 18th century to make accurately sanguine reproductions of red chalk drawings by artists such as Watteau?
Did you know that the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin Mary is the largest Catholic church in Russia?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court once said that "there is no constitutional value in false statements of fact"?
Did you know that the efforts of the 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman Josce de Dinan to defend Ludlow Castle form the background to the medieval work Fouke le Fitz Waryn?
Did you know that 155 aftershocks were felt at Campo, California, in the first twelve hours after the 1892 Laguna Salada earthquake?
Did you know that Ernie Robinson worked as a coal miner before becoming a professional footballer?
Did you know that NASCAR Nationwide Series driver Joey Gase won two short track racing championships before graduating from high school?
Did you know that Rihanna's "Birthday Cake", said to resemble a real-life quickie, lasts just 78 seconds?
Did you know that after the 1860 Derby winner Thormanby died suddenly at age 18, its tail was mounted as a whisk in the hall of racehorse trainer Mathew Dawson's house?
Did you know that crazy fish are upside down sleepers?
Did you know that former Philadelphia Eagles left tackle Stan Walters started in 122 consecutive games and earned two Pro Bowl selections after being traded to the team in 1975?
Did you know that in 1903 the first ice hockey league in Europe was formed in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that in the chess game Rotlewi versus Rubinstein, Rubinstein sacrificed his queen and rook for two minor pieces but forced checkmate?
Did you know that the Lake Shore Drive Bridge in Eagle River, Michigan, has been restricted to pedestrian use since the opening of the Eagle River Timber Bridge in 1990?
Did you know that the night after the Lewis and Clark Expedition broke camp at Camp Disappointment was the only time during the entire expedition that they killed any Indians?
Did you know that the sargassum fish is a predator that can change its colour rapidly to blend in with its surroundings?
Did you know that when the Parliament of Croatia issued Croatia's declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, it left its usual building for fear that it would be bombed by the Yugoslav Air Force?
Did you know that "I love you ... and especially you, size nine" was one of the catchphrases of Dandy Dan Daniels, one of the Good Guys?
Did you know that Bobby Cummings was the first English footballer to score a hat-trick against Rangers in the Scottish League?
Did you know that Germanus of Winchester, an 11th-century English abbot, carried the newly discovered relics of a saint from their discovery location to Ramsey Abbey with his own hands?
Did you know that Saint Benedict wanted his monks to prefer nothing to the love of Christ?
Did you know that The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize for History, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize in 2011?
Did you know that a female taekwondo fighter, who wore a headscarf under her helmet, won the sole medal for Afghanistan at the 2002 Asian Games after the fall of the Taliban?
Did you know that although the American Racing Manual now only covers Thoroughbred horse racing, its earlier precursors also covered harness racing and other sports?
Did you know that between March and April of 1981, 298 cedar waxwings were killed trying to get fruits from thorny-olive shrubs growing along a highway in Brazos County, Texas?
Did you know that in 1898, the United States Navy attempted to purchase a battleship from Chile for use against Spain?
Did you know that in Egyptian mythology, the Eye of Ra slaughtered masses of people, got drunk, ran away from her owner, and was brought back by her husband?
Did you know that in a successful military ambush, every enemy soldier in the kill zone might be killed in less than one minute?
Did you know that the Oxford Canadians ice hockey team wore a red maple leaf on their uniform?
Did you know that the Pointe de la Torche in Brittany has a Mesolithic midden, a Megalithic passage grave, and a World War II German blockhouse?
Did you know that the Well-Manicured Man served as the "voice of reason" amongst The X-Files' antagonists?
Did you know that the light aircraft carrier Shōhō, sunk on 7 May 1942 during the Battle of the Coral Sea, was the first Japanese aircraft carrier to be sunk during World War II?
Did you know that the scallop Annachlamys flabellata (shell pictured) often exhibits protandric sex reversal, changing sex as it grows?
Did you know that American football linebacker Jake Ryan is the grandson of American jurist Francis E. Sweeney?
Did you know that Cuban-American singer Gloria Estefan became the first female performer to debut at number one at the Billboard Latin Songs chart with her song "Hotel Nacional"?
Did you know that Daguangba Dam, the largest dam in Hainan, is also the province's largest hydroelectric power station?
Did you know that Mikhail Sokolovsky's 1779 opera The Miller who was a Wizard, a Cheat and a Matchmaker was for many years mistakenly attributed to Yevstigney Fomin?
Did you know that Sim Bhullar, a 7-foot-5-inch (2.26 m) Indo-Canadian college basketball player at New Mexico State University, has been said to be "poised to become the world's first prominent men's basketball player of Indian descent"?
Did you know that Tommy Tebb scored Nelson's last goal in the Football League?
Did you know that a carved wooden lectern in the 900-year-old St Martin of Tours Church, Detling, has been called "the finest medieval fitting in any parish church in the county"?
Did you know that both Fordilla and Pojetaia, Cambrian members of the extinct bivalve family Fordillidae, are part of the Turkish small shelly fauna?
Did you know that female red-banded sand wasps dig burrows in sandy ground, provisioning each burrow with a food supply of paralyzed caterpillars, always laying one egg on the first caterpillar?
Did you know that maidencane is a keystone species of many wetlands, including the Everglades?
Did you know that the 1939 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show Best in Show Ferry v. Rauhfelsen of Giralda was the grandfather of the 1952–53 winner Rancho Dobe's Storm?
Did you know that the giant tube worm is not a worm at all?
Did you know that the newly inaugurated Baluarte Bridge in Mexico is the highest cable-stayed bridge in the world?
Did you know that the planehead filefish has a retractable spine on its head from which its age can be determined?
Did you know that Jambo OpenOffice was the first office suite in Swahili, a language spoken by about a hundred million people?
Did you know that during All-American basketball player Elliott Loughlin's U.S. Navy career, he earned two Navy Crosses, two Legions of Merit and one Silver Star?