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Did you know that although classified as a stingray, the porcupine ray does not have a stinging spine on its tail?
Did you know that following the Grue Church fire on Pentecost 1822 in Solør, Norway, in which at least 113 people perished, a law was passed prescribing that all doors of public buildings must swing outwards?
Did you know that seed swaps, potluck-style events where gardeners exchange seeds, help maintain biodiversity and preserve cultural and regional traditions?
Did you know that the Abelardo L. Rodriguez Market in Mexico City has about 1,500 square meters of mural work done by students of Diego Rivera?
Did you know that the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Zebras" earned higher ratings than an NBC special about Barack Obama, which aired the same night?
Did you know that the early homophile organization NACHO adopted the slogan "Gay is Good", modeled on the African American slogan "Black is Beautiful"?
Did you know that the exterior of the General Lew Wallace Study includes reliefs of characters of Wallace's novels?
Did you know that the fortified city of   Jahanpanah was the fourth city to be founded in Delhi when Muhammad bin Tughlaq established it in 1327?
Did you know that the marmoset genus Mico (Mico argentatus  pictured) was formerly considered a subgenus of Callithrix?
Did you know that the pendulum in the Hornsby Water Clock has the same four-second time cycle as the one in Big Ben, but a heavier counterweight?
Did you know that Adrienne Beames, the daughter of Australian rules footballer, first-class cricketer, and journalist Percy Beames, was the first woman to break the 3-hour barrier in the marathon?
Did you know that Beatriz Enriquez de Arana was the mistress of Christopher Columbus?
Did you know that Calcutta Polo Club, established in 1862, is considered the world's oldest polo club in existence?
Did you know that Evelyn Scotney, an Australian coloratura soprano, sang opposite Enrico Caruso in his final appearance on the opera stage?
Did you know that Iowa-based Gomaco Trolley Company, founded in 1982, makes replicas of 1902 streetcars?
Did you know that Islamic prophet Muhammad is said to have forbidden his followers to collect his sayings, and there is considerable criticism of such collections which have been said to form the basis of Islamic law?
Did you know that Ivory Williams competed against Usain Bolt in a 150-metre street race as part of the Great City Games in Manchester, England?
Did you know that Marian Massonius, a Polish university professor, wrote in 1920 about the Bolsheviks' rise to power as a new Russian oligarchy with the aid of Marxist ideology?
Did you know that Michael Jackson was unsuccessfully sued over allegations he plagiarized the song "Dangerous"?
Did you know that Sara Northrup Hollister, the second wife of L. Ron Hubbard, was a noted member of an occult society in Pasadena, California, who went on to play an important role in the development of Dianetics?
Did you know that a sex scandal in Boise, Idaho, in 1955 resulted in almost 1,500 people being interviewed and a list of 500 suspected homosexuals?
Did you know that according to legend, the Houses of the Mayorazgo de Guerrero were demolished by a jealous husband after they were given to his wife by the viceroy of New Spain?
Did you know that as Adam Best, David Proud will be the first visibly disabled adult actor to appear in the British soap opera EastEnders?
Did you know that as part of preparations for 1984's Tropical Storm Isidore, some citrus farmers burned seedlings potentially infected with canker to prevent heavy rains from spreading the disease?
Did you know that during five years of college football, E. J. Kuale played at three different colleges?
Did you know that editor-in-chief Andreas Norland left Norway's largest newspaper Verdens Gang to edit Osloavisen, which lasted less than a year?
Did you know that remnants of terracotta piping used in public baths during Roman times in Morocco are on display at the Rabat Archaeological Museum?
Did you know that the first Governor of colonial Maryland, Leonard Calvert, appointed his successor Thomas Greene only hours before Calvert's death?
Did you know that the most powerful recorded earthquake in Estonia, measuring 4.7 magnitudes in Richter scale, occurred in 1976 near the Baltic Sea island of Osmussaar?
Did you know that the presenter of The Marian Finucane Show has been compared to Jay Leno, Michael Parkinson and Jonathan Ross?
Did you know that "Dahil Sa Iyo", a song with Tagalog and English lyrics, is so popular that it has been suggested as a replacement for the Filipino anthem?
Did you know that Albert Bridge in London is the only significant surviving example of a bridge built using the 1858 Ordish–Lefeuvre Principle design?
Did you know that Byzantine official Peter the Patrician may have been responsible for the murder of Ostrogothic queen Amalasuntha, despite being instructed to secure her safety by emperor Justinian I?
Did you know that Christ Church, Rossett, Wrexham County Borough, Wales, was designed in 1886 but not built until 1891–92?
Did you know that Danuta Siedzikówna, a Polish nurse in anti-Nazi and anti-Communist resistance was only seventeen years old when she was sentenced to death and executed by the communist government of Poland in 1946?
Did you know that Edward Riou sailed with Cook, survived his ship hitting an iceberg, but died by being nearly cut in two aboard HMS Amazon at Copenhagen?
Did you know that Lemar is the  most successful Fame Academy graduate with six top ten singles in the UK singles chart?
Did you know that President Barack Obama has appointed two former Presidents of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to positions in his administration?
Did you know that Rwenzururu, a region in the Rwenzori Mountains of Uganda, was recognized as having a kingdom 40 years after one was declared?
Did you know that Tom Green is the winningest men's basketball coach in Fairleigh Dickinson University history and led the team to its first NCAA Tournament berth in 1985, losing 59–55 to top-seeded Michigan?
Did you know that before the Quarter Horse Barbara L became a racehorse, she demonstrated horse trailers for her owner, a trailer salesman?
Did you know that catcher Alicia Seegert set Big Ten Conference records for batting average, hits, total bases and RBIs while playing softball for the University of Michigan from 1984 to 1987?
Did you know that despite a 26 minute length, the 1965 album The Return of Roger Miller won the Grammy award for best country album, and five additional Grammys for its track "King of the Road"?
Did you know that future governor of Mississippi and Mexican-American War general John A. Quitman was born at the parsonage of the Old Stone Church in Rhinebeck, New York?
Did you know that one of Mooney's Blue Tits laid six eggs in the gardens of Irish President Mary McAleese?
Did you know that the Australian moth Abantiades latipennis is well-adapted to surviving clearfelling and thrives in regrowth forests?
Did you know that the Baudette Fire of 1910 burned down the twin towns of Spooner and Baudette, Minnesota, on October 7, 1910?
Did you know that the former Union Chapel, Brighton's oldest Nonconformist place of worship, was converted into a pub after 300 years of religious use?
Did you know that the winner of the 1996 Olympic air pistol competition, Italian Roberto Di Donna, also competes in the Bundesliga for the current German champions, SV Kelheim-Gmünd?
Did you know that video games with isometric graphics were regarded as the second-most cloned piece of software after WordStar?
Did you know that Aurangzeb, apart from imprisoning his brother Murad Baksh, had the dubious credit of incarcerating his eldest daughter Zebunnisa in the Salimgarh Fort in Delhi for 21 years till her death?
Did you know that Bob Dylan's song "On the Road Again" previews the grotesque characters that would feature in Dylan's later songs?
Did you know that Chief Engineer Oliver P. Echols arranged a high-level military demonstration for the Hughes H-1 Racer but Howard Hughes and the plane did not show up?
Did you know that Chopin's 21 nocturnes generally feature ternary form, a melancholy melody and a broken chord bass line?
Did you know that Governor of Indiana Warren T. McCray resigned from office and served three years in prison after being convicted of mail fraud?
Did you know that Hotel Woodland was designed by William Henry Weeks, a prominent architect, and was his 14th and last major work in Woodland, California?
Did you know that Hugo Jaeger's personal collection of photographs includes colour shots of Adolf Hitler on a cruise in 1939 and of the Nazi leader attending a Christmas party in 1941?
Did you know that Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti, who directed Antonello Grimaldi in the 2006 film Il caimano, starred in the 2008 film Caos calmo, directed by Grimaldi?
Did you know that Orange County, California, has an unincorporated area popularly known as the Gaza Strip?
Did you know that Oregon linebacker Casey Matthews is the son, grandson, brother, and nephew of National Football League players?
Did you know that Sebastian Petrycy (1554–1626), in Poland, created a vernacular philosophical terminology not much later than did philosophers in France and Germany?
Did you know that University of Michigan pitcher Herman Fishman set a Big Ten record in 1936 with a 0.86 ERA and was named to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency's Jewish All-American basketball team?
Did you know that all Imperial German Navy light cruisers of the First World War were patterned after the German Gazelle-class light cruiser, designed in 1895–96?
Did you know that although experts expected ethanol cars (example pictured) to underperform their petrol counterparts, Polestar Racing's E85-powered S60 won the first two races of the 2007 Swedish Touring Car Championship?
Did you know that country music singer George Strait discovered his backup band, the Ace in the Hole, after responding to a flyer posted around the Southwest Texas State University campus?
Did you know that in the 1986 case Posadas de Puerto Rico Associates v. Tourism Company of Puerto Rico,  the United States Supreme Court allowed Puerto Rico to ban legal casino advertising targeted at local residents?
Did you know that the Astor Home for Children in Rhinebeck, New York, was one of the first psychiatric facilities for children accredited by the Joint Commission?
Did you know that Brigadier Glyn Hughes, the officer who liberated Belsen concentration camp, once labelled rugby player John Taylor a Communist for opposing apartheid?
Did you know that Chelsea Bridge was little used at night when it first opened, because of its owners' policy of only turning the lighting on if Queen Victoria was spending the night in London?
Did you know that George Chesworth was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for sorties against the Chinese in the Korean War?
Did you know that Gumarcaj, in Guatemala, is archaeologically and ethnohistorically the best known of the Late Postclassic highland Maya capitals?
Did you know that Hockenhull Platts, three bridges on a medieval road in Cheshire, England, were crossed in 1353 by the Black Prince, in 1698 by Celia Fiennes, and in 1780 by Thomas Pennant?
Did you know that Ken Foster worked at Devonport Dockyard for 35 years before becoming the Lord Mayor of Plymouth?
Did you know that Mike Reid was a linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals before becoming a country music singer and releasing the single "Walk on Faith"?
Did you know that Tautiška giesmė, a poem by Vincas Kudirka written to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Varpas newspaper, became the Lithuanian national anthem?
Did you know that Upper Pine Bottom Run in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, was home to an iron furnace and sawmills in the 19th century, but today is home to state forest land and the 5-acre (2.0 ha) Upper Pine Bottom State Park?
Did you know that although threatened by habitat destruction, the endangered Nicobar Bulbul does not appear to have been impacted by the Red-whiskered Bulbul or the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami?
Did you know that carrier pigeons, known as the Bavarian Pigeon Corps, were fitted with chest-mounted cameras and sent behind enemy lines for aerial reconnaissance by the Bavarian Army in the early 1900s?
Did you know that during the offseason, Canadian football linebacker, Raymond Fontaine, works as a roughneck in the Alberta oil fields?
Did you know that had she been completed, the German aircraft carrier I would have been the largest German carrier of World War II, longer even than the Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers?
Did you know that the Agricultural Museum was the first agricultural periodical journal published in the United States?
Did you know that the Holt-Bragg Bridge will be named after the family who perished when the previous bridge collapsed during the June 2007 Hunter Region and Central Coast storms?
Did you know that the Manning–Kamna Farm near Hillsboro, Oregon, has ten buildings that were included in the National Register of Historic Places, including a privy?
Did you know that the Neher-Elseffer House is one of the few remaining pre-Revolutionary frame houses near Rhinebeck, New York?
Did you know that the West Point Rice Mill was proposed for a Pan Am seabase terminal in the 1930s?
Did you know that the song "Soy Así" was recorded by Mexican singer José José during a personal crisis that included a divorce and a change of management?
Did you know that the tiny rare green Mystery Orchid, Cooktownia robertsii, was named after Cooktown and its discoverer, Lewis Roberts, and is the only member of the genus Cooktownia?
Did you know that Albert Bridge in London is seriously structurally unsound in part because of rotting caused by dog's urine?
Did you know that Gazette de Leyde was likely the most important newspaper of the late 18th-century Europe, and the only one read by Louis XVI?
Did you know that Mexican singer-songwriter Ana Gabriel ranked third at the OTI Festival held in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1987 with the song "Ay Amor"?
Did you know that Patrick Swayze was the star of the first and only season of the 1982 television show The Renegades?
Did you know that The Tubridy Show's book club significantly boosted book sales in Ireland?
Did you know that Thrill the World is an international event in which participants (example pictured) simultaneously emulate the zombie dance from the music video of Michael Jackson's "Thriller"?
Did you know that Vegard Sletten, editor of Verdens Gang in his later life, saw his liberation from Berg concentration camp on his birthday?
Did you know that a full-scale riot at Luton Town's Kenilworth Road ground on 13 March 1985 led to a four-season ban on visiting supporters?
Did you know that a spherical wedge is a portion of a ball bounded by two plane semidisks and a spherical lune?
Did you know that historian Czesław Madajczyk, best known for his works on the occupation of Poland and Polish culture during World War II, has been criticized for being too malleable to the demands of the Polish communist regime?
Did you know that in blackjack, regardless of the casino's rules for betting and how the cards are played, it is always optimal to split aces and eights?
Did you know that the 1992 French film The Lover, the first Western film produced in Vietnam, is based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras?
Did you know that the Australian Pale-headed Rosella is partial to seeds of the introduced Scotch Thistle and Rough Cockleburr, as well as the native River Red-gum and tea tree?
Did you know that the KDN forest complex is the last large remaining rainforest in Sri Lanka other than Sinharaja?
Did you know that the Life without Death cellular automaton, a mathematical model of pattern formation,  is a variant of Conway's Game of Life in which cells, once brought to life, never die?
Did you know that the motor theory of speech perception proposes that people understand speech not only through sound, but also by seeing the movements of the mouth?
Did you know that A Fine Frenzy's debut album, One Cell in the Sea, launched the group to the top of Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart?
Did you know that Brett Swenson of Michigan State, one of college football's top placekickers, was passed over for the 2008 Lou Groza Award after missing three consecutive field goals against Michigan?
Did you know that Dustbot, the cleaning robot, responds to text messages and uses GPS to find homes and collect trash?
Did you know that Indian politician Erasmo de Sequeira rejected Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's offer to make him a Deputy Minister, stating that he wanted her post?
Did you know that James Scott became a top contender in the World Boxing Association's light heavyweight division while serving time at Rahway State Prison?
Did you know that Operation Antyk was the Polish Underground State's anti-communist propaganda department?
Did you know that Tom Kruse was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his work in the Australian outback?
Did you know that a copy of Sharlot Hall‎'s poem Arizona, which mocked efforts to merge Arizona Territory and New Mexico Territory into a single state, was given to every member of the U.S. Congress?
Did you know that a section of the former BUS M-28 in Newberry, Michigan, has also carried the designations M-28, M-48, M-117 or M-123 at different times in its history?
Did you know that cinematographer Lawrence Sher first developed an interest in photography after his father convinced him to take a 35mm camera on a Teaneck High School-sponsored trip to France?
Did you know that galleries with Henrik Sørensen´s artwork have been raised at two of his favorite painting locations?
Did you know that half of the regular advertisers for the ABC series thirtysomething pulled out of the episode "Strangers", costing the network some US$1.5 million, because it showed two men in bed together?
Did you know that in 1920 Bolsheviks attempted to stage a coup d'etat in Georgia?
Did you know that in 2006, a division of the Philippines' National Labor Relations Commission had confirmed resolving 2,697 labor disputes?
Did you know that motor officers, police jargon for motorcycle officers, go through weeks of motorcycle training, where they can expect to "drop" or crash their bikes dozens, even hundreds of times?
Did you know that the British Velocette MAC (WD) 350cc single was Velocette's first military motorcycle for World War Two?
Did you know that the brains of Mormyrinae, a subfamily of African freshwater fish, use 60 percent of their body's energy, three times more than humans, the animal with the next highest percentage?
Did you know that the first two classes  of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers were actually conversions of other ship types?
Did you know that the old Honolulu Police Station in Hawaii's Merchant Street Historic District was designed by American architect Louis Davis in the Mission Revival Style?
Did you know that when captured, the tawny nurse shark often spits a jet of water into the faces of its captors?
Did you know that while mayor of Gaza, Fahmi al-Husseini was imprisoned by British Mandate authorities on charges of opposing the British presence in Palestine during the 1936 Arab revolt?
Did you know that while training for World War I, American athlete Brooke Brewer played for the "Usaacs", a football team composed of soldiers from the U.S. Army's ambulance service?
Did you know that Barry Wood, Frank Sinatra's predecessor on the radio program Your Hit Parade, was promoted as America's "sweater boy"?
Did you know that Cromer Windmill has been dated dendrochronologically to 1681?
Did you know that Emirati marriage counselor Wedad Lootah claimed that many men in Saudi Arabia have their first sexual experiences with other men, due to its gender segregation?
Did you know that Garth Brooks released both live and studio recordings of his 1998 single "It's Your Song" to radio?
Did you know that John Verney became a Member of Parliament to gain contacts to help him in his career as a barrister?
Did you know that The Virgin of the Navigators is the earliest known painting about the discovery of the Americas?
Did you know that Tracy Kidder, a Pulitzer Prize winner for his second book, was so unhappy with his first book that he bought back the rights from the publisher so that it would not "see the light of day again"?
Did you know that after Winston Churchill handed Joseph Stalin the Sword of Stalingrad at the Tehran Conference, a clumsy Soviet general let it slip out of its scabbard?
Did you know that after performing the theme to the 1963 film Hud, country music singer Darrell McCall decided to take up acting, appearing in three films during the 1960s?
Did you know that in 1956, Christian A. R. Christensen was behind the first revision of the Ethical Code of Practice for the Norwegian Press?
Did you know that the 2006 MPC Computers Bowl featured the Miami Hurricanes, whose season had been marred by an on-field brawl, the termination of their head coach, and underachievement on the field?
Did you know that the 36-year-old Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund changed its name to LatinoJustice PRLDEF last year, partly due to fewer Puerto Ricans being in New York City's Latino population?
Did you know that the CZW World Tag Team Championship has been won by an individual wrestler once, when it is only supposed to be intended for tag teams?
Did you know that the People's Action Party has dominated the Government of Singapore by winning a majority of seats in every general election since 1959?
Did you know that upcoming MMORPG video game Final Fantasy XIV has been in development by Square Enix under the codename Rapture?
Did you know that when the future 9th, 10th and 11th Baronets of Cockburn were painted with Augusta Anne, the daughter of Francis Ayscough, Dean of Bristol Cathedral, she was the only one dressed?
Did you know that Fremantle Football Club defender Clancee Pearce is only the fourth player of Indian heritage to play  in the Australian Football League?
Did you know that Irish band Fight Like Apes named one of their 2007 EPs David Carradine is a Bounty Hunter Whos Robotic Arm Hates Your Crotch?
Did you know that Irish journalist Richard Downes secretly entered Zimbabwe disguised as a tourist to film an undercover report for the BBC's Newsnight during the 2008 Zimbabwean presidential election?
Did you know that Nicolas Jacques Pelletier was the first person to be executed by guillotine?
Did you know that Ninigret Pond is the largest of Rhode Island's nine salt ponds?
Did you know that Rafael Carrión, Sr. was one of the founders of Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, the largest bank in Puerto Rico and the largest Hispanic bank in the United States?
Did you know that after receiving more than 10,000 protest letters, the editors of the United Methodist Hymnal decided not to eliminate "Onward, Christian Soldiers" from it?
Did you know that although Telltale Games was formed after LucasArts abandoned adventure game development in 2004, the two companies are now collaborating to create a new series of adventure games?
Did you know that in 1984, Fort Worth billionaire Ed Bass committed $30 million to (and eventually spent over $150 million on) Biosphere 2, to experiment with "recreating the Earth" and potentially settling Mars?
Did you know that in the U.S. state of Michigan, no one is more than 6 miles (10 km) from a lake?
Did you know that prior to the 1929 Royal Mail Case, British accountants were not expected to use their moral and ethical judgment in making decisions?
Did you know that the "wrinkled peach" mushroom requires light from the red end of the visible spectrum to induce fruiting?
Did you know that the Association of Broadcasters of the Philippines advocates the 18 minutes of advertising per hour rule for Philippine TV stations?
Did you know that the Louisiana politician J. Frank Colbert was active during the 1920s and 1930s in Henry George's "Single Tax" Utopian movement?
Did you know that the Polish Righteous Krystyna Dańko rescued her Jewish friend's sister by "smuggling" her to Warsaw before most Jews from Otwock were deported to Treblinka?