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Did you know that due to the rarity of the recently-discovered Old World babbler Bugun Liocichla, no type specimen was collected; instead, feathers from the mist net and notes were used as the holotype?
Did you know that in 1935, David Townsend was the last England Test cricketer not to have played for one of the English first-class cricket counties?
Did you know that many plants avoid seed predation through a process called mass seeding, whereby so many seeds are produced at once that it is impossible for predators to eat all of them?
Did you know that only two months after abolitionist William W. Patton wrote new lyrics to the battle song "John Brown's Body" to glorify the attack by the "nineteen men so few", Julia Ward Howe wrote another set of lyrics—the iconic "Battle Hymn of the Republic"?
Did you know that the Battle of Shusha in May 1992 was the first significant Armenian military victory during the Nagorno-Karabakh War, and marked a turning point during the conflict?
Did you know that the Venus de' Medici's elegant arms are by Ercole Ferrata?
Did you know that Joint Forest Management between villagers and the government of India was started to prevent theft of forest resources at Arabari, but now accounts for the management of at least 14 million hectares in 27 states?
Did you know that Mordvin sculptor Stepan Erzya developed a project of transforming entire mountains in the Andes into monuments to the heroes of the war for independence?
Did you know that Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov referred to his opera Kashchey the Immortal as a "short autumnal fairy tale", as opposed to Snegurochka, a "spring fairy tale"?
Did you know that Proverb, a piece by Steve Reich, was influenced both by minimalist techniques and medieval polyphony?
Did you know that Walerian Łukasiński, a 19th century Polish Army officer, was sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment by the Russian Empire, and died in prison after 44 years, becoming one of the martyrs of the Polish struggle for independence under the partitions?
Did you know that an explosion in 1854 sparked off a great fire killing 53 and levelling significant parts of Gateshead and Newcastle?
Did you know that chef Austin Leslie, known as the Godfather of Fried Chicken, died in Atlanta after being evacuated from New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina?
Did you know that in 1961, retired bus driver Kempton Bunton stole Francisco Goya's painting Portrait of the Duke of Wellington as a protest, and demanded £140,000 to be donated to charity to allow the poor to pay for television licenses?
Did you know that in addition to 8,000 Scouts, the 1st World Scout Jamboree of 1920 also hosted, amongst other animals, an alligator, a crocodile, an elephant, and a lioness cub?
Did you know that the Blood In The Water match was one of the most famous matches in water polo history, and was won by Hungary after the match was stopped in the final minutes following crowd trouble?
Did you know that the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan is a rebel organization that gained de facto recognition from the Government of Pakistan on September 5, 2006 as a result of negotiations between Islamabad and local tribesmen to end the Waziristan War?
Did you know that "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically valid sentence?
Did you know that Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Johnston, Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office from 1981 to 1987, co-ordinated the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer and of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, and the funeral of the Duchess of Windsor?
Did you know that Matir Moina, a Bangladeshi film by Tareque Masud, was temporarily banned by censors in Bangladesh before becoming the country's first film to compete for the Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category?
Did you know that Peter and Jane are the main characters in a series of 36 children's early readers for the English language published by Ladybird Books that have been in print for over 40 years, and have sold over 80 million copies?
Did you know that Portugal's leading satirical poet of the 18th century, Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida, made the first literary reference to the "Brazilian modinha"?
Did you know that Vasyl Karazin, the founder of Kharkiv University, was not allowed to attend the opening ceremony?
Did you know that during the Gallic War Julius Caesar built the first bridge over the Rhine river in only 10 days and cut it down 18 days later?
Did you know that halomon (chemical structure pictured), a natural halogenated organic compound isolated from red algae, shows early preclinical promise as a potential antitumor agent?
Did you know that roll call is the only legal means to establish a quorum in the United States Senate and until the next roll call the quorum is assumed to be present, so that less important business may be performed even without physical presence of the whole quorum of 51 Senators?
Did you know that the Sidrapong Hydel Power Station is the oldest hydroelectric power station in India?
Did you know that the Wild Ass Wildlife Sanctuary in Gujarat, home to the endangered Asian Wild Ass, is the largest wildlife sanctuary of India?
Did you know that the first two books by Argentine author Ricardo Güiraldes were such a commercial and critical failure that he gathered up the unsold copies and threw them in a well?
Did you know that the nearly completed Sivand Dam project in Fars Province, Iran will flood 130 archaeological sites and hasten the destruction of the ancient Persian city of Pasargadae?
Did you know that Ansett Airlines Flight 232 from Adelaide to Alice Springs in 1972 was the first aircraft hijacking to take place in Australia?
Did you know that Dutch polymath Theodoor Jansson compiled a list of authors who plagiarized expressions from other writers?
Did you know that Joseph Maca played on the United States men's national soccer team in the 1950 FIFA World Cup even though he wasn't a U.S. citizen?
Did you know that Mehrauli, a neighbourhood of Delhi housing the famous Qutb complex, was the capital of the Slave dynasty from 1206 to 1290?
Did you know that Nathaniel Currier, of Currier and Ives, first achieved prominence creating newspaper illustrations of current events and political cartoons?
Did you know that Wavefront Technologies developed some of the very first off-the-shelf computer animation software, for which it received Academy Awards?
Did you know that a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment is a tool largely developed in the USA for analysis of real estate toxic liability, but its use has spread to much of the developed world?
Did you know that hemosuccus pancreaticus, a rare cause of bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract, can cause silver-coloured stools if the bleeding source obstructs the common bile duct?
Did you know that the Russian émigré writer Gaito Gazdanov earned a living by working as a tax collector and hosting a show at the Radio Liberty?
Did you know that the Swallow's Nest, constructed in 1911-1912 and located on top of a 40 meter cliff in Crimea, Ukraine, is a medieval-type castle which has survived an earthquake measuring 6-7 on the Richter scale?
Did you know that Italy's 1957 Eurovision entry, "Corde Della Mia Chitarra", was so long that it resulted in the introduction of length restrictions for competing songs?
Did you know that Narayan Debnath made the comic-strip character Batul The Great a superhero when the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 flared up?
Did you know that Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, a junior Foreign Office minister during the Suez Crisis in 1956, was sacked by new Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1957 for his private opposition to the invasion of Egypt?
Did you know that every proposal made by the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853 was defeated when placed before the voters?
Did you know that the most common food in Medieval cuisine for all social classes was bread and that almond milk and verjuice were among the most common ingredients?
Did you know that Eketorp is an Iron Age ringfort on the island of Öland, Sweden that was mysteriously abandoned for three centuries and rebuilt as a Medieval castle?
Did you know that Elizabeth Gould completed much of the preliminary illustration of her husband's seminal work The Birds of Australia, but died during its production and was not credited for most of her contributions?
Did you know that Garston Lock is the last remaining turf sided lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal and one of only two remaining in Britain?
Did you know that NicVax causes an immune response that prevents nicotine from reaching the brain?
Did you know that Russian painter Nikolay Karazin produced many works inspired by the Moscow Metro project that was rejected by the government in 1902?
Did you know that in their 1956 book Union Democracy, social scientist Seymour Martin Lipset and his colleagues describe how the International Typographical Union once defied  Michels' iron law of oligarchy?
Did you know that racehorse Lil E. Tee, who was deemed so worthless that even an auction company rejected him as unsaleable, won the 1992 Kentucky Derby?
Did you know that the French Military Mission to Japan (members pictured) of 1867 was the first Western military mission to that country, and that members of the mission participated on the rebel side to the ensuing conflict against the Meiji Restoration?
Did you know that the Haryana Tourism Corporation names its tourist complexes after local birds in the Indian state of Haryana?
Did you know that the Koichi Nakamura-designed computer puzzle game Door Door was the first game to be published by Enix?
Did you know that the cast for the Academy Award-nominated movie Little Terrorist had never acted in a movie before and that the crew worked for the movie free of charge, and even travelled to India at their own expense?
Did you know that the development of the Chrysler Sunbeam was funded by a British government grant?
Did you know that Great Cockup is a fell in the English Lake District that has a stout named after it?
Did you know that Justice Rana Bhagwandas was the first Hindu to serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan?
Did you know that Máel Sechnaill mac Maíl Ruanaid, a 9th-century "king of all Ireland", came to power after killing his brother?
Did you know that Tom Campbell was a popular radio personality on KYA San Francisco who used to loan his personal phonograph, record collection and even his personal automobile to his listeners?
Did you know that cricket was introduced to Slovenia in 1974 by a 13-year-old boy who had visited his pen pal in England and brought back a single bat and a copy of the Laws?
Did you know that over 58,000 Paleo-Indian artifacts were unearthed at Lake Ilo National Wildlife Refuge in North Dakota when lake waters were lowered on the lake in 1989 to reconstruct a dam?
Did you know that Giles Pellerin, known as the Super Fan, attended 797 consecutive USC football games over a period of 73 years?
Did you know that Henry Shelton Sanford, the founder of Sanford, Florida, was hired as an envoy to the United States by King Leopold II of Belgium?
Did you know that Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, had a peerage conferred upon him at the 3rd World Scout Jamboree?
Did you know that Scottish National Party politician Douglas Henderson was instrumental in passing the censure motion that led to the downfall of James Callaghan's Labour government in 1979, but narrowly lost his own seat in the ensuing general election?
Did you know that as a consequence of poverty in Pakistan 51% of tenants are bonded to their landlords in a feudal fashion?
Did you know that in the medieval Greek monastery of Hosios Loukas infirm pilgrims were encouraged to sleep by the side of the local saint's tomb in order to be healed by incubation?
Did you know that stereotypes of animals are common in television and film and usually emphasise particular traits of the species?
Did you know that the Battle of Kelbajar was the first time Armenian military forces crossed and captured a region of Azerbaijan during the Nagorno-Karabakh War?
Did you know that the Boston Transportation Planning Review was declared by the U.S. Department of Transportation as the prototype urban transportation evaluation?
Did you know that the Caspian Gull is regarded by some authorities as a subspecies of the Herring Gull or Yellow-legged Gull, and by others as a separate species?
Did you know that the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 made broad and sweeping changes to women's rights in the United Kingdom, allowing women to enter the professions or serve on juries?
Did you know that the first album of Taiwanese band 2moro includes a song which consists of excerpts from 23 songs by other singers?
Did you know that Interstate 10 in Texas is the longest continuous untolled freeway under a single authority in North America?
Did you know that Jeûne genevois, a public holiday in Geneva, Switzerland, has its origins in the persecution of Protestants that took place in Lyon, France, over 400 years ago?
Did you know that an attack on the USS Firebolt (PC-10) killed the first member of the United States Coast Guard to die in action since the Vietnam War?
Did you know that the Konevsky Monastery at Lake Ladoga takes its name from a huge boulder which was revered by pagan Finns?
Did you know that the Maya archaeological site of La Corona is the enigmatic and long-sought "Site Q"?
Did you know that the Portuguese film  Ala-Arriba! features real-life fishermen from Póvoa de Varzim in starring roles?
Did you know that Catherine the Great and other leaders of the Russian Enlightenment promoted further Europeanization of all aspects of Russian life?
Did you know that George J. Adler, one of the greatest linguists of the 19th century, went insane from the effort of publishing his Dictionary of German and English Languages?
Did you know that Louis Kaufman, an accomplished American classical violinist, played more than 400 solo performances in movie soundtracks, making him one of the world's most frequently heard violinists?
Did you know that NASA engineer Harvey Allen's "Blunt Body Theory" made possible the design of heat shields that protected the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts?
Did you know that St. Nilus reportedly foretold to princess Aloara of Capua, for her part in the murder of her husband's nephew, that none of her offspring should reign in Capua—a prophecy that came true in 999?
Did you know that between 1955 and 1998, under Article 19 of the Greek Citizenship Code which entitled the Greek government to strip non-ethnic Greeks who left the country of their citizenship, 46,638 members of the officially recognized Muslim minority of Greece lost their citizenship?
Did you know that even though Michigan State football coach Muddy Waters got fired for his losing 10-23 record, his fans still carried him off the field after his final 24-18 loss to Iowa?
Did you know that jewellery in the Pacific changed drastically when missionaries  began converting many Pacific nations to Christianity?
Did you know that on 2 January 1990, 26-year old Nivedita Bhasin of Indian Airlines became the youngest woman pilot in world civil aviation history to command a jet aircraft?
Did you know that prominent Soviet Armenian finswimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saved 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen from a dam into the Erevan reservoir?
Did you know that the Queen Elizabeth Walk in Singapore was built on reclaimed land in 1922 and that it was renamed in 1953 to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom?
Did you know that young celebrity chef Sam Stern joined fellow chefs including Jamie Oliver and Anthony Worrall Thompson at the "BBC Good Food Show" in London when he was just 15?
Did you know that Florence Mary Taylor was the first female architect in Australia?
Did you know that Kashmiriyat defines the way of life and identity of the Kashmiri people since medieval times, helping them preserve harmony amidst invasions of Kashmir?
Did you know that New York, Texas is near Athens while Texas, New York is near Rome?
Did you know that after three weeks of siege Kaunas Castle was taken by the Teutonic Order in 1362?
Did you know that although the Pandora's Box album Original Sin was a commercial failure, some of the tracks have gone platinum with other artists?
Did you know that at various times and in various cultures the first dance was the minuet, quadrille, waltz, or polonaise?
Did you know that the Athenian coup of 411 BC temporarily replaced the democratic government of Athens with a narrow oligarchy?
Did you know that "Giovanni Henrico Albicastro", the Baroque composer of music in a Corellian manner, was actually Johann Heinrich von Weissenburg, a cavalry officer born in Bavaria?
Did you know that Charles Dadant emigrated from France to Hamilton, Illinois, where he became a founding father of modern beekeeping?
Did you know that Difficult Run is a tributary of the Potomac River in the United States?
Did you know that Justice G.T. Nanavati headed a one-man commission to investigate the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots?
Did you know that Mancs the Hungarian rescue dog is commemorated by a statue in his hometown Miskolc?
Did you know that William Makepeace Thackeray may have based the novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon on exploits of the notorious soldier and duelist Tiger Roche?
Did you know that excavations of the Roman castrum at Charax, Crimea revealed drains made of clay pipes and a reservoir with a mosaic portrayal of an octopus?
Did you know that the Bruce Tunnel is the only tunnel on the Kennet and Avon Canal and the second longest navigable tunnel on Britain's canals?
Did you know that the Periyar National Park, Thekkady is located around the Periyar reservoir formed by the backwaters of the Mullaperiyar dam?
Did you know that the Swedish schlager singer Towa Carson competed in Melodifestivalen 2004 at the age of 68?
Did you know that the Tree of Hippocrates is a plane tree in Kos under which, according to legend, Hippocrates taught his pupils medicine?
Did you know that the Western Australian whaling industry (whalers pictured) operated for more than 140 years, until the last whaling station closed in 1978?
Did you know that the comic series Bahadur focused on rehabilitation of dacoits at a time when dacoity was prevalent in many parts of rural India?
Did you know that Dream Theater held a song contest to see who could write a song as similar as possible to "Stream of Consciousness", based solely on its arrangement charts posted from the studio prior to its release?
Did you know that Hamdard (Wakf) Laboratories, the world's largest manufacturer of Unani medicines, reinvests all its profits into charitable activities?
Did you know that Henry of Masovia, 14th century bishop of Płock, might have been poisoned by his wife, sister of Grand Duke of Lithuania, Vytautas the Great?
Did you know that a series of scandals in the 1970s involving the Royal Canadian Mounted Police resulted in the permanent loss of their right to oversee Canadian intelligence operations?
Did you know that between 1938 and 1943, C$13 million worth of gold bricks were shipped out of the small Vancouver Island community Zeballos?
Did you know that during World War II, more than 10,000 Soviet soldiers and civilians, cut off from the mainland, resisted for 170 days in the Adzhimushkay quarries in Crimea?
Did you know that the African-American dancer Lavinia Williams gave up ballet stardom in the United States to spend decades developing national schools of Caribbean traditional dance in Haiti, Guyana, and the Bahamas?
Did you know that the Kandariya Mahadeva is one of the best examples of Hindu temples preserved from the medieval period in India?
Did you know that the first Prime Minister of Italy, Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour was also one of the first landowners in Italy to use chemical fertilizers?
Did you know that the first Wearmouth Bridge in Sunderland was the longest single span cast iron bridge in the world when it opened in 1796?
Did you know that the little-known fortieth signer of the United States Constitution was the Convention's secretary, William Jackson?
Did you know that the “Deluxe” version of Outrage! is the most expensive board game in the world?
Did you know that "Miss Lucy Long" was possibly the most popular American song of the antebellum period?
Did you know that Arthur Brooke's narrative poem The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet was the chief source for William Shakespeare's famous play Romeo and Juliet?
Did you know that Chickies Rock contains the largest exposed anticline on the East Coast of North America?
Did you know that PWS-10 designed in late 1920s was the first Polish fighter to enter serial production?
Did you know that Sheffield Wednesday Ladies F.C. were formed at the Star Inn public house in Rotherham during 1971 following a charity match between men and women at the pub?
Did you know that Suriname's worst air disaster was Surinam Airways Flight 764, which crashed after the pilots ignored repeated warnings that they were flying too low?
Did you know that after France expelled the Vaudois Protestant group living in Piedmont in 1686, the latter fought their way back home during the War of the Grand Alliance?
Did you know that only two prototypes of PWS-33 Wyżeł, a Polish trainer aircraft, were built before the production was interrupted by German invasion of Poland?
Did you know that some astrologers claim Earth has a second moon they call Lilith?
Did you know that the Indian Opinion was founded by Mahatma Gandhi and served as the main vehicle for the Indian civil rights struggle in early-20th century South Africa?
Did you know that the Social Democrats under leader Hjalmar Branting won the Swedish general election in 1921, the first fully democratic parliamentary election in Sweden?
Did you know that the assassins of former Bangladeshi prime minister Mansur Ali were protected by the Indemnity Act and not arrested or tried for more than 20 years?
Did you know that the large number of Baroque buildings (Castle Mainau pictured) on the Upper Swabian Baroque Route are the result of immigration to depopulated areas of Upper Swabia, Germany and the following building boom at the end of the Thirty Years' War?
Did you know that the legend of the Gold of Polubotok says that Cossack Pavlo Polubotok deposited 200,000 gold coins at the Bank of England in 1723 and that the money owed to Ukraine is supposedly valued at twenty times the world's gold reserve?
Did you know that the rhinoceros botfly Gyrostigma rhinocerontis is the largest fly known in Africa?
Did you know that the small Toyota Publica was available in a range of 2-door body styles, including a pickup truck?
Did you know that the village of Naluvedapathy in Tamil Nadu, India remained unscathed by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami because of a record 80,244 casuarina saplings planted on the coast two years earlier?
Did you know that the water crisis is the ongoing worldwide shortfall of drinking water, sanitation and ecological support that finds 1.1 billion people without safe water?
Did you know that "Comme È Ddoce 'O Mare" was performed in the Neapolitan language, the only time the host country of the Eurovision Song Contest performed in a minority language?
Did you know that Astro Flight, Incorporated of Marina del Rey, California created the world's first practical electric-powered radio controlled model airplane and the world's first full-scale solar-powered airplane?
Did you know that British graphic designer Alan Fletcher designed the logo of 84 dots used by Reuters from 1965 to 1992, the "V&A" logo for the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1989, and the "IoD" logo of the Institute of Directors?
Did you know that Harry Brinkley Bass was awarded two U.S. Navy Crosses within a period of two months for combat actions in World War II and was killed in action two years later?
Did you know that Mexican scientist José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez published work showing that the hallucinogenic effects of the pipiltzintzintli plant are due to natural causes, not the work of the devil?
Did you know that Mikołaj Trąba, first primate of Poland, took part in the Battle of Grunwald and might have been a papal candidate during the Council of Constance?