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Did you know that the Hispaniolan greater funnel-eared bat is so similar to the Mexican funnel-eared bat that "no detailed description" was required for its formal species description?
Did you know that the House of Plantagenet derives its name from a royal heraldic badge used by Geoffrey of Anjou and his descendants, in the shape of a common broom plant (planta genista)?
Did you know that the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Tears of the Prophets" was the final episode to feature actress Terry Farrell, whose character was killed off?
Did you know that the crash of Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 410 led the Civil Aeronautics Board to establish national minimum flight altitudes?
Did you know that upcoming indie video game  Hohokum  features licensed and original music from indie record label Ghostly International?
Did you know that Howard Lindzon once passed on the opportunity to invest in Twitter but went on to found StockTwits?
Did you know that Jirayr Ohanyan Çakır, a former president of the Turkish Chess Federation, was of Armenian descent?
Did you know that Lord North and Grey was implicated in the Atterbury Plot, but no one would give evidence against him?
Did you know that Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark's incestuous feelings for his mother may have sparked his interest in marriages between one woman and several men?
Did you know that Simon Achikgyozyan, a geologist for 30 years, is considered a hero for his activities in the Nagorno-Karabakh War?
Did you know that Singaporeans commemorate the Birthday of the Monkey God (Monkey God pictured) by writing in blood?
Did you know that Wargaming West, developer of World of Tanks Xbox 360 Edition, was acquired by Wargaming.net after creating a prototype of their World of Tanks game "in mere days"?
Did you know that Wikipediocracy, a weblog and forum dedicated to criticizing Wikipedia, has assisted journalists reporting on controversies involving the online encyclopedia?
Did you know that a lottery winner paid some of his prize money to prevent the Norwegian football club Odd from selling Fredrik Semb Berge?
Did you know that in 1991 there were 34,633 births and 44,886 abortions in Latvia?
Did you know that the 1934 Jeanne Galzy novel Jeunes filles en serre chaude, with its seductive title, was deemed to contain "dangerous aberrations" and "strong emotional reaction[s] of an undesirable nature"?
Did you know that the Russian newspaper Moskovsky Korrespondent was shut down after running a story that President Vladimir Putin was to divorce his wife and marry gymnast Alina Kabaeva?
Did you know that the Third Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre will be used to launch missions of the Indian human spaceflight programme?
Did you know that the albums that shared the 1999 Lo Nuestro Award for Pop Album of the Year were nominated against each other at the 41st Grammy Awards?
Did you know that the original lens of the Grand Turk Lighthouse, dated to 1852, is on display in the Turks and Caicos National Museum?
Did you know that Alicia Keys is credited as the sole writer of "Fallin'"?
Did you know that Amrit Nahata was an Indian politician who published twelve books translated from English to Hindi, including works of Maxim Gorky, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi?
Did you know that Das neugeborne Kindelein, BWV 122, has been described as providing a "moral hangover" for listeners after Christmas overindulgence?
Did you know that Egyptian actress Naglaa Fathi, who started her career at age 16, has acted in over 80 films?
Did you know that Jacksonville Bolles School football coach Corky Rogers was drafted in 1966 by the Baltimore Colts and the United States Army?
Did you know that Khrushchev: The Man and His Era was based on over 70 personal interviews with members of Nikita Khrushchev's family and won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography?
Did you know that Project Loon (research balloon pictured) is a project by Google to send thousands of high-altitude balloons into the stratosphere to beam wireless Internet to remote locations worldwide?
Did you know that Sweden's Eva Brunne is the first openly lesbian bishop in the world?
Did you know that The Insider, a roman à clef, was Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao's first novel?
Did you know that a five-year investigation by Ben Radford into the chupacabra, detailed in Tracking the Chupacabra, revealed that the creature may have been inspired by the movie Species?
Did you know that drug lord Héctor Manuel Sauceda Gamboa intimidated journalists who dared to write about his criminal organization?
Did you know that the 2012 World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Index found the United States to have achieved gender equality in education, but ranked it only 55th for political empowerment?
Did you know that the Apple Macintosh was named after the McIntosh apple, until recently the most popular variety of apple in northeastern North America?
Did you know that the Millionaire's Church is a Jersey City landmark?
Did you know that Donald N. Bersoff is the first lawyer practitioner to serve as president of the American Psychological Association?
Did you know that Gavin Arthur, grandson of United States President Chester A. Arthur, worked as an astrologer and sexologist in San Francisco in the 1960s?
Did you know that Jack Torrance held the world record in shot put for almost fourteen years?
Did you know that Johann Hugo von Wilderer's Missa in G minor was copied out and performed by Bach?
Did you know that Kuwaiti electrochemist Faiza Al-Kharafi was the first woman to head a major university in the Middle East?
Did you know that Lucius Minicius Natalis Quadronius Verus was the first known Olympic champion to have been born in the Iberian Peninsula?
Did you know that New York Times photographer Du Bin was detained in China after releasing a documentary on the Masanjia Labor Camp?
Did you know that Roy Lichtenstein's Masterpiece is regarded as an ironic jest that accurately forecast Lichtenstein's career?
Did you know that The Long Short Cut is the first book printed completely by electronically controlled typesetting?
Did you know that actor John Wayne was the recipient of The Brass Balls Award from The Harvard Lampoon  for his "outstanding machismo and penchant for punching people" in 1974?
Did you know that although the protagonist of F.D.J. Pangemanann's novel Tjerita Si Tjonat is evil without a single redeeming feature, modern takes on the character portray him as Robin Hood?
Did you know that anti-government protesters in 1996 beat up the Armenian parliament speaker Babken Ararktsyan?
Did you know that garlic ice cream, according to garlic restaurant The Stinking Rose's recipe, is basically vanilla ice cream with garlic?
Did you know that in August 1975, almost the entire San Francisco Police Department staged a strike as the city refused a pay increase for them?
Did you know that in the 1920s, the Los Angeles Philharmonic began its summer series at the Hollywood Bowl?
Did you know that justiciability is a threshold issue in Singapore administrative law, and the Court of Appeal has held that exercises of prosecutorial discretion and the clemency power are justiciable?
Did you know that many family members and friends of Milorg member Kai Holst, who officially committed suicide, believed he was murdered?
Did you know that the Keith Car & Manufacturing Company built coffins for bodies exhumed during the building of the Cape Cod Canal, which was also responsible for the demolition of the plant when it was widened?
Did you know that the Prince of Anhua rebellion began when Zhu Zhifan massacred the officials invited to his banquet during the Ming Dynasty under the reign of the Zhengde Emperor?
Did you know that the grandfather of "Bobby" Peel was famous for his Parsley?
Did you know that the recording of "Faith of the Heart" by tenor Russell Watson was played four times on Space Shuttle missions?
Did you know that Costanzo Antegnati published his most famous work, L'arte organica, after suffering a stroke?
Did you know that Kismet, directed by Gyan Mukherjee, ran at the Roxy, Kolkata, for 3 years and 8 months?
Did you know that Louis Duret was the chief physician to King Charles IX and his brother King Henry III?
Did you know that Orval Overall is the only Major League Baseball player to strike out four batters in one inning in the World Series?
Did you know that Rolling Stone's Jody Rosen described Maroon 5's "Hands All Over" as a "big, silly arena-rock song reminiscent of Def Leppard"?
Did you know that Vauix Carter both coached and played for the 1882 Navy Midshipmen football team?
Did you know that Zhu Chenhao was sentenced to slow slicing for leading the Prince of Ning rebellion against the Ming Dynasty emperor Zhengde?
Did you know that a man with a scrotum estimated to weigh over 160 pounds (73 kg) is the subject of a Channel 4 documentary titled The Man with the 10-Stone Testicles?
Did you know that in 1925 Prince Christian of Hesse became the first person of German origin post-World War I to dine with King George V and Queen Mary at Buckingham Palace?
Did you know that in Die Wahl des Herkules, Hercules must choose between the good cop and the bad cop?
Did you know that in the Municipal Coat of Arms of Milizac a black lion with a golden crown adorns one half of the coat of arms?
Did you know that on the upcoming studio album Age Against the Machine, the Goodie Mob sings about White Power from a Black perspective?
Did you know that the US government turned two cents into one?
Did you know that the baronies of Akova and Patras were the two largest in the Principality of Achaea?
Did you know that when a French general saw the tunnels excavated by British Army Sergeant-Major Henry Ince, he is said to have exclaimed, "These works are worthy of the Romans"?
Did you know that "White Foxes", a 2012 single by singer-songwriter Susanne Sundfør, quickly grew to be the most downloaded song on iTunes in Norway?
Did you know that Bahraini former parliamentarian Abduljalil Khalil resigned his position in February 2011 in protest against government crackdown on anti-government demonstrations?
Did you know that Ernest Hemingway rewrote "The Revolutionist", first published as a vignette, for the 1925 American edition of In Our Time?
Did you know that The Company of Heaven, Benjamin Britten's 1937 composition for speakers, soloists, choir and orchestra, contains "metrical spoken (shouted) male chorus"?
Did you know that Whaam!, Bratatat! and Varoom! are among Roy Lichtenstein's most well-known onomatopoeic works?
Did you know that in World War II, Britain's Petroleum Warfare Department threatened to set the sea on fire (demonstration pictured)?
Did you know that inmates at the Gorgona Agricultural Penal Colony have partnered with the Frescobaldi family to produce high-end Italian wine?
Did you know that lifetime Zionist Jacobo Timerman survived arrest and torture in Argentina's Dirty War and reached Israel in 1979, only to return to Argentina five years later?
Did you know that one Belén López was nominated for the Newcomer Award for her role in The Distance (2006), while another Belén López was the inspiration of film director Franco Zeffirelli?
Did you know that some versions of the Ramayana narrate that the demon Ravana abducts an illusionary double of Sita, rather than the real one?
Did you know that the Georgian Oakley Hall in Hampshire is now a hotel and conference centre?
Did you know that the Pacific Ocean crash of Transocean Air Lines Flight 512 mobilized 19 United States Navy ships from Pearl Harbor, as well as 12 US Navy P2V Neptune aircraft?
Did you know that the military doctrine of command by negation, developed by the United States Navy in the 1980s, is similar to the Auftragstaktik doctrine used by German armed forces in the Second World War?
Did you know that the old Tudor house of what is now the Golden Lion pub was the oldest house in Fulham before demolition in April 1836?
Did you know that the scholar and mountaineer A. J. Butler disparaged "the fuss made about peak-climbing"?
Did you know that when the Merchandise Mart opened in Chicago in 1930, the $32 million, 4.2 million square foot (390,000 m²) building was the world's largest commercial building?
Did you know that with James Ince, Larry Phillips won two consecutive Winston Racing Series championships?
Did you know that Arena Corinthians will have the largest video screen in the world?
Did you know that Chinese courtesan Liu Rushi dressed up as a man in order to woo her husband Qian Qianyi?
Did you know that Gray's Almshouses in Taunton are probably the oldest brick buildings in Somerset?
Did you know that Justin Timberlake wrote "The Only Promise That Remains", a duet with country-music singer Reba McEntire, the day after the two met at the 2007 Grammy Awards?
Did you know that Maach, the folk theatre from Madhya Pradesh, derives its name from manch, the Hindi word for "stage"?
Did you know that Mary Anne Whitby, who had reintroduced sericulture to England in the 1830s, carried out selective breeding experiments on her silkworms which were published by Darwin?
Did you know that Takka Takka is a Roy Lichtenstein painting that depicts combat at the Battle of Guadalcanal?
Did you know that although the protagonist of F.D.J. Pangemanann's novel Tjerita Si Tjonat (cover pictured) is evil without a single redeeming feature, he was portrayed as a popular hero in wartime Indonesia?
Did you know that child actor Gus Lewis is said to have portrayed the only sympathetic character in the 2005 film Asylum?
Did you know that the Dinkey Creek Bridge is named after a dog?
Did you know that the National Council on Teacher Quality's first report and rankings of U.S. teacher preparation programs refer to the field as "an industry of mediocrity"?
Did you know that upcoming video game Just Dance 2014 features a competitive massively multiplayer online mode where all players worldwide dance to the same playlist?
Did you know that Bill Orr, the only First Gentleman of Nebraska, wrote a cookbook, with recipes by Johnny Carson and Warren Buffet, to raise money to refurbish the state governor's mansion?
Did you know that Bruce Springsteen praised the lyrics of Chuck Berry's "Nadine" by saying, "I've never seen a coffee-colored Cadillac, but I know exactly what one looks like"?
Did you know that Bunostegos was named for its unusually knobbly head?
Did you know that EA Sports put its Fight Night boxing video game series on hiatus to develop their upcoming mixed martial arts game, EA Sports UFC?
Did you know that Inoe Perbatasari's first films were Elang Darat (Land Hawk) and Poetri Rimba (Jungle Princess)?
Did you know that John Donne's Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is one of only seven printed works he acknowledged authorship of?
Did you know that Prince Leopold Clement's failure to marry his girlfriend led her to burn his face with acid and commit suicide after fatally wounding him?
Did you know that Rii Sen won a best actress award at Osian's Cinefan Film Festival for the movie Cosmic Sex?
Did you know that Texas-based Bikinis Sports Bar & Grill (Austin location pictured) has trademarked the term "breastaurant"?
Did you know that West Indies cricket star Garfield Sobers outraged supporters in 1970 by playing in Rhodesia?
Did you know that a pizza party resulted in no one receiving the DFL endorsement for mayor of Minneapolis this year?
Did you know that highly skilled fielder Jim Eaglestone had the distinction of being featured in two successive County Championship–winning cricket teams?
Did you know that medical doctor Moewardi organised security for both Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta?
Did you know that nearly 8,000 birds per hour can be gathered up with the chicken harvester?
Did you know that places of worship in the Surrey district of Tandridge include a Latter-day Saints' Temple, a Neo-Byzantine United Reformed church and a converted school building?
Did you know that the poems in Maya Angelou's Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well are best if read aloud?
Did you know that the second USS Arctic received her commission in spite of being described as slow, unwieldy and vulnerable to shellfire?
Did you know that Andjar and Ratna Asmara each earned 1,000 gulden for their roles in Noesa Penida?
Did you know that Bibi Amtus Salam, an associate of Gandhi's, played a role in popularising Jinnah's title of Quaid-e-Azam?
Did you know that Crak! is a Roy Lichtenstein lithograph used in marketing posters for Lichtenstein's 1963 exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery that included Whaam!, Drowning Girl, Torpedo...Los! and In the Car?
Did you know that Frederick Ashton's first ballet, A Tragedy of Fashion, was inspired by a chef who killed himself when his fish delivery was late?
Did you know that Henri de Kérillis supported Mussolini, opposed Hitler, supported de Gaulle, then opposed de Gaulle?
Did you know that Johannes Kuhn from Strassburg did the stucco work in St. Andreas, the court church in Düsseldorf?
Did you know that Santana's Supernatural won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and the Lo Nuestro Award for Pop Album of the Year in 2000?
Did you know that WikiLeaks's Sarah Harrison accompanied Edward Snowden on his flight from Hong Kong to Moscow en route to political asylum?
Did you know that according to EA Sports, its Ignite game engine for next-gen consoles allows players to act more like real athletes in having to make snap judgements and brace for impacts?
Did you know that although the 1822 Battle of Nauplia ended without any major losses on either side, it is considered a victory for the Greek admiral Andreas Vokos Miaoulis?
Did you know that in the poem The Hymn of Samadhi, Swami Vivekananda explained experiences of Nirvikalpa Samadhi?
Did you know that the King's Lines, Queen's Lines and Prince's Lines in Gibraltar were part of a British defensive system that the Spanish called the "Mouth of Fire"?
Did you know that the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute predicts that by the year 2100, tropical cyclone effects in Europe will greatly increase, including storms similar to 2012 Hurricane Sandy?
Did you know that the Virtuix Omni omnidirectional treadmill video game controller lets virtual reality gamers physically walk within virtual game environments?
Did you know that the olive ridley sea turtle nests on the beach in Carazo Department, Nicaragua?
Did you know that 13th-Century Benedictine nuns of Langley Priory claimed to belong to the Order of Cistercians as a means of avoiding land tax?
Did you know that ChinaAid, Bob Fu's legal aid organization for Christians in China, is largely funded by wealthy oil magnates from Midland, Texas?
Did you know that IDT Megabite Cafe is considered to be the world's first kosher cybercafe?
Did you know that according to Larry Loh of CNNGo, Milo Dinosaurs are a reason why Singapore is the best country in the world?
Did you know that although the Elgin half dollar was struck to celebrate the centennial of Elgin, Illinois (1835–1935), neither date appears on the coin?
Did you know that baritone Gerhard Faulstich takes an "unpretentious, conversational approach" to the part of Jesus in his recording of Bach's St Matthew Passion?
Did you know that blind singer Annie Landouw may have inspired a main character in Armijn Pane's Belenggu?
Did you know that despite writing moderate columns and playing the role of mediator, Mansoor al-Jamri was not spared from the effects of the Bahraini uprising?
Did you know that in 2009 the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia defended a 12-year-old boy who was arrested after being given a stolen chocolate Freddo Frog?
Did you know that in the upcoming video game The Crew, players can drive coast-to-coast across the United States in 90 minutes?
Did you know that the race horse Paynter survived a near-fatal case of colitis, laminitis and abdominal surgery, then won the first race of his 2013 comeback by 4+1⁄2 lengths?
Did you know that the rotunda of the New York Court of Appeals Building in Albany uses all three classical orders?
Did you know that when Garendon Hall was demolished in 1964, the building's rubble was used in the construction of the M1 motorway?
Did you know that "the world's most famous baby" is expected to be born in July 2013 and generate £260 million worldwide?
Did you know that Armenian soap operas have been criticized for "advocating aggression"?
Did you know that Dean H. Kenyon's Biochemical Predestination has been cited as "one of the most widely used graduate textbooks" which expounds that life arose through "natural forces within the constituents of matter itself"?
Did you know that Gabriela Rivadeneira, a 29-year old former local beauty queen, has been mentioned as a possible successor for President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa?
Did you know that Hinckley Priory in Leicestershire, England, was an alien monastery, dependent on Lyre Abbey in Normandy, France?
Did you know that Maribo open-air museum is the third-oldest open-air museum in Denmark?
Did you know that Winrich Kolbe pushed for a female captain in Star Trek: Voyager, and later dated the actress for about three years?
Did you know that both the Angelina Jolie Trapdoor Spider and Bono's Joshua Tree Trapdoor Spider inject their prey with venom after ambushing it from their burrows?
Did you know that in one of his 75 poems, Chairil Anwar predicted his place of burial?
Did you know that in the upcoming Xbox One "game maker" video game Project Spark, the player creates a world with programmed behaviors for specific objects, such as a rock that bounces when a player is nearby?
Did you know that multiple reviewers cited TowerFall as the preeminent game for the Ouya video game microconsole at the time of its launch?
Did you know that the 2013 film Arjun – Kalimpong E Sitaharan, based on the stories Sitaharan Rahasya and Khunkharapi by Samaresh Majumdar, is the first of a series of films to feature Arjun, a young fictional sleuth?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty conquest of Kucha, a kingdom in the northern Tarim Basin in Xinjiang and a Turkic vassal, was led by Ashina She'er, a Turkic Tang general?
Did you know that the soundtrack from a beer commercial, featuring the Abbey Tavern Singers, became the best-selling Irish record in Canada?
Did you know that upcoming indie video game Below uses tilt–shift photography to emphasize the tiny player-character's scale?
Did you know that American ice cream taster John Harrison has a tongue worth a million dollars?
Did you know that Formiscurra indicus, a caliscelid planthopper with ant-mimicking males, was described only in 2011?
Did you know that General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the tunnels of Gibraltar, his base for the November 1942 Allied invasion of North Africa, "the most dismal setting we occupied during the war"?
Did you know that Gustava Aigner made the first discovery of graptolites in the northern greywacke zone of the Alps, with her former fellow student, Ida Peltzmann, who named two species for her?
Did you know that Joan Wilkinson was a silkwoman to Anne Boleyn and supplied bonnets and frontlets to Lady Lisle?
Did you know that Matar Matar, who represented Bahrain's largest electoral constituency in the parliament, was imprisoned and allegedly tortured due to his role in the Bahraini uprising?
Did you know that Monty Oum, the creator of Rooster Teeth Productions' upcoming series RWBY, was concerned that the show focused on female characters but was being developed by a mostly male crew?
Did you know that Oscar S. Heizer reported that many Armenian children were put into boats, taken out to sea and thrown overboard during the Armenian Genocide?
Did you know that Philadelphia Distilling has created a bitters using a recipe from the family of 18th-century botanist John Bartram and bark from a tree in his garden?
Did you know that Vlambeer's iOS indie video game Ridiculous Fishing was beaten to market by a clone deemed an "overnight sensation" only to release their own version to "near-universal perfect scores"?
Did you know that one of the luxurious model 8 mandolins of Italian luthier Luigi Embergher was purchased by Maria Feodorovna, Empress of Russia?