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Did you know that some legislatures resort to literally stopping the clock in order to meet constitutional or statutory deadlines?
Did you know that television critics have speculated as to how the 30 Rock episode "MILF Island" will avoid explaining the meaning of "MILF" since the last letter stands for an obscene word?
Did you know that the 1979 Dechmont Woods Encounter in West Lothian, Scotland, is the only UFO sighting in the United Kingdom to have become the subject of a criminal investigation?
Did you know that the Azov Cossack Host was the only Cossack Unit in the Russian Empire that had a naval role?
Did you know that the Church of St Mary on the Rock, originally a house for the Céli Dé of St Andrews, was the first collegiate church in Scotland?
Did you know that the United Kingdom House of Commons serves an English white wine called Fumé, produced by Wickham Vineyards?
Did you know that the authorship of the Declaration of Arbroath has been attributed by some to Bernard the Abbot of Arbroath?
Did you know that the cabinet of former Norwegian Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland resigned following a 1.9% drop in the popular vote?
Did you know that the effects of Hurricane Dennis in Alabama included $127 million dollars (2005 USD) in damage and three injuries?
Did you know that the history of winemaking in Luxembourg, primarily in vineyards overlooking the Moselle River, goes back to Ancient Roman times?
Did you know that the postmodernist Romanian writer Ruxandra Cesereanu retold Arthurian legends and co-authored poems through e-mail with the American Andrei Codrescu?
Did you know that 16 of the 72 fiction authors with at least 100 million copies of their works in print did not write in English, and 16 of the 72 are women?
Did you know that Charles J. O'Byrne, Secretary to Governor David Paterson of New York, is a former priest who officiated at the marriage of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette in 1996 and presided over their funeral in 1999?
Did you know that City of Truro was the first railway locomotive to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h) while hauling a train near Wellington station on the Reading to Plymouth Line in England?
Did you know that Don Starkell and his son Dana paddled from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Belem, Brazil by canoe, a trip covering more than 12,000 miles (19,000 km)?
Did you know that Gibraltar passports are full British passports which are particularly issued to Gibraltarians and only differ in some wording?
Did you know that Kot Filemon is the hero of a Polish animated TV series by Academy Award-winning studio Se-ma-for?
Did you know that Lee Bible had no experience in driving at land speed record speed when he was hired to drive the White Triplex in an attempt to take the record back from Henry Segrave?
Did you know that Major General Douglas Alexander Graham was once rescued by Victoria Cross recipient Henry May?
Did you know that Robert Kennedy stayed at the Sportsmen's Lodge (sign pictured), formerly the "Hollywood Trout Farms", in Studio City, California the night before his assassination?
Did you know that antiquarian Antonio Francesco Gori is alleged to have stolen Galileo's finger when the scientist's remains were transferred in 1737 to Santa Croce, Florence?
Did you know that in 1877 the 4,000-seat Queen's Theatre staged a spectacular and expensive production of The Last Days of Pompeii that flopped: the earth did not quake, the volcano did not erupt, and acrobats fell onto the cast?
Did you know that leaders in Oswego, Oregon petitioned the United States Board on Geographic Names to change the name of the town's Sucker Lake to Oswego Lake?
Did you know that of Andrea Palladio's grand design for Palazzo Porto in Piazza Castello, Vicenza, ca 1571, only two bays were ever completed?
Did you know that residents of 22½ St. in Minneapolis petitioned the City Council and changed the street's name to Milwaukee Avenue because the '½' made them feel as if they lived in an alley?
Did you know that soon after John Gabriel Jones helped convince the Virginia General Assembly to create Kentucky County, he was killed in an ambush led by Mingo chieftain Pluggy?
Did you know that sunflowers have been used in rhizofiltration to remove radionuclides from contaminated water?
Did you know that the 1901 Royal Norwegian Navy torpedo boat HNoMS Sæl was sunk by three German Schnellboots in 1940?
Did you know that the 1990 Strangeways Prison riot at 25 days was the longest British prison riot?
Did you know that the Bordeaux winery Château Quinault was planned for destruction to build a new housing development?
Did you know that the Creeping Groundsel, a climbing succulent perennial native of South Africa, is a problem weed in New Zealand, but cultivated in parks in Spain and Germany?
Did you know that the Financial Stability Forum consists of officials from ministries and central banks of a dozen countries, who coordinate international financial stability?
Did you know that the Islamic Emirate of Bari in Southern Italy was conquered in 871 by Frankish and Lombard ground forces under Louis II of Italy, together with a Croatian fleet?
Did you know that the Taipei Metro Xinbeitou Branch Line, consisting of two stations, was severely restricted due to complaints of noise pollution?
Did you know that the acquisitions of Joseph Smith, British consul in Venice, formed the basis of the drawings collection in the Royal Collection and the "King's Library" of George III at the British Library?
Did you know that the economy of Omaha, Nebraska has expanded to embrace the burgeoning information technology sector since the city was labeled the "Motor Mouth City" by The New York Times?
Did you know that the free-floating fruit of Posidonia oceanica, a Mediterranean seagrass, is known as the "olive of the sea"?
Did you know that when Ahmad Said was appointed as Chief Minister of the Malaysian state Terengganu by King of Malaysia Mizan Zainal Abidin, it was against the wishes of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi?
Did you know that Antley-Bixler syndrome is a rare but severe congenital malformation disorder with symptoms that include flat forehead, closure of cranial sutures and fused bones in the limbs?
Did you know that Audrey Stubbart worked until age 105, becoming the oldest verified full-time employee ever in the United States?
Did you know that Claire Clairmont was the inspiration for Percy Bysshe Shelley's posthumously published poem "To Constantia, Singing"?
Did you know that Dovedale, a National Nature Reserve in the Peak District, England, attracts a million visitors a year?
Did you know that Elm Yellows is a disease of elm trees caused by mycoplasma-like organisms infecting the phloem?
Did you know that English printer John Day raided the printing premises of his son, Richard Day, after the latter had pirated his father's works and illicitly published his own versions?
Did you know that Gordon Dam, a 140-metre (460 ft) tall arch dam on the Gordon River, is the tallest in Tasmania, Australia?
Did you know that New Albany, Indiana's Cedar Bough Place is the only "private street" in a city near Louisville, Kentucky?
Did you know that New York Governor David Paterson's press secretary Errol Cockfield Jr. was previously Albany bureau chief of Newsday?
Did you know that Thurston Rostron is the fourth-youngest player in the history of the England national football team?
Did you know that among the effects of Hurricane Dennis in Georgia was the death of a Decatur man from a tree that fell on his bedroom?
Did you know that as a result of a 1972 referendum, the boundary between time zones in British Columbia ended up being different from the provincial boundary?
Did you know that books by the writer of romantic fiction Denise Robins sold more than one hundred million copies?
Did you know that compression of the duodenum by the aorta and the overlying superior mesenteric artery may lead to nausea, bilious vomiting, abdominal pain and weight loss?
Did you know that despite Herodotus's claim that the sundial was invented in Babylonia,  the oldest known example is from Egypt?
Did you know that during a period of widespread family ownership in the industry, the Falstaff Brewing Corporation was one of the few publicly-traded breweries in the United States?
Did you know that in 1128 Geoffrey, Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, became the first Abbot of Dunfermline?
Did you know that in 1985, overflowing from the Adolfo Ruiz Cortines Dam in Sonora, Mexico resulted in the evacuation of 20,000 people?
Did you know that nearly US$1 million worth of tickets were sold during the week following the first New York Times ad announcing Elizabeth Taylor's appearance in the 1981 Broadway revival of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes?
Did you know that no governing party in British Columbia has won a provincial by-election since 1981?
Did you know that the C-Leg microprocessor-controlled  prosthetic leg records the motion of the user?
Did you know that the Gens de Terre River in Quebec, Canada, has a 25 km (15.5 mi) section with continuous whitewater while flowing through 25 m (80 ft) high cliffs?
Did you know that the Hawai`i Institute of Marine Biology is the only research center in the world built on a coral reef?
Did you know that the USS Mount Vernon, a control ship in the cleanup of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, was destroyed off the coast of Hawaii in 2005?
Did you know that the barnacle Megabalanus can reach 7 cm (2.8 in) in length?
Did you know that the name of Mohrland, Utah was formed as an acronym from the surnames of the principal investors in its coal mining company?
Did you know that turquerie became popular in Europe and America primarily due to the writings of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu?
Did you know that Alojz Rebula is a Slovene author who wrote extensively about the philosophy of Jacques Maritain?
Did you know that Beinn an Tuirc windfarm in Scotland is trying to repel Golden Eagles from their turbines by reintroducing Mountain Hares?
Did you know that Etta Palm d'Aelders, whose salon in Paris was frequented by Jean-Paul Marat, François Chabot and other prominent political figures during the French Revolution, might have been an agent for the Dutch government?
Did you know that Johanne Sørensen became the first Bahá'í in Denmark in 1925, and the only Bahá'í in her country till 1947?
Did you know that Mid-State Regional Airport is a Keystone Opportunity Zone to promote economic growth, but, to protect the Pennsylvania state park and forest it was formed from, cannot legally expand?
Did you know that Moseley Wanderers represented Great Britain and Ireland at Rugby Union in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, winning the Silver medal despite losing their only game?
Did you know that Myer Lyon, hazzan of the Great Synagogue of London, doubled as opera star Michael Leoni whose contract excused him on the Sabbath?
Did you know that New York writer and socialite Anthony Haden-Guest is both son of the 4th Baron Haden-Guest and the brother-in-law of actress Jamie Lee Curtis?
Did you know that Polyandrococos, a genus of palm trees endemic to Brazil, is so named partly because of its hairy tomentum?
Did you know that Pullen Memorial Baptist Church is the first Baptist church in the Southern United States to have chosen an openly gay lead cleric?
Did you know that Shelby Place Historic District was begun due to the woodworking industries that revitalized New Albany, Indiana?
Did you know that Titanium La Portada is expected to briefly become the tallest skyscraper in Chile, before being overtaken by Torre Gran Costanera of the Costanera Center complex?
Did you know that despite its bitter taste, the heart of the palm tree Plectocomiopsis geminiflora is a delicacy in Borneo?
Did you know that despite its name, the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes does not contain a volume about badminton?
Did you know that in 1998, the Hopi Dictionary: Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni, the first comprehensive Hopi language dictionary, was almost prevented from being published for fear of having non-Hopis learning the language?
Did you know that natural gas in the Marcellus Formation could increase United States energy reserves by one trillion U.S. dollars?
Did you know that real-life medical cases in the book The Medical Detectives, by Berton Roueché, inspired many of the medical mysteries on the television show House?
Did you know that seven whaling ships escaped the Whaling Disaster of 1871, but were forced to abandon their catch in order to accommodate 1,219 people from 33 other ships trapped in ice off the Alaskan coast?
Did you know that the Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood is the oldest authenticated and extant work of Paolo Uccello?
Did you know that the Madras Bank, India's oldest Western-style banking institution, was established in 1683 by William Gyfford, the Agent of Madras at the time?
Did you know that the US National Park Service is funding improvements to county road H-58, the main access road to the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan?
Did you know that when Norman Rockwell's model for his World War II Willie Gillis series enlisted, The Saturday Evening Post demanded that Rockwell continue the character?
Did you know that when the senior officials Yuan Qianyao, Song Jing, and Zhang Shuo were commissioned with new offices in 729, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang held an elaborate ceremony, with music and food from the imperial kitchen?
Did you know that Adrianne Calvo is the youngest chef to have cooked for the United Nations?
Did you know that Banaag at Sikat, a novel by Lope K. Santos, was once considered the “Bible of Filipino laborers”?
Did you know that Comfort Stations No. 68 and No. 72 in the Rim Village Historic District of Oregon, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1988, are public restrooms built in the 1930s?
Did you know that Cyclone Jokwe killed 16 people in Mozambique and left at least 55,000 homeless?
Did you know that Dory Dean of the 1876 Cincinnati Reds was the first pitcher to include turning his back to the hitter in his delivery before pitching the ball?
Did you know that Dutch topologist Johannes De Groot is the academic grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather of his namesake via four different paths of academic supervision?
Did you know that Jacqueline Audry was the first commercially successful woman film director of post-war France?
Did you know that Jewish American surfer Doc Paskowitz helped bring surf boards to Gaza to help promote peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
Did you know that Princess Margaret of Prussia had her jewels stolen by American soldiers in the aftermath of World War II?
Did you know that Quilceda Creek Vintners Cabernet Sauvignon is the first American wine from outside California to earn perfect 100-point score reviews from wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr. in The Wine Advocate?
Did you know that Red Dog was such a well-known and beloved dog in Western Australia's Pilbara region that a statue was built in his honour?
Did you know that Rev. Thomas Dyche is credited with writing the first book in English published in Asia?
Did you know that The Guardian newspaper was founded 189 years ago in Manchester, England as a direct response to the Peterloo Massacre?
Did you know that a horreum was a type of public warehouse used in Ancient Rome to store foodstuffs such as grain and olive oil?
Did you know that despite writing a full action-and-dialogue screenplay for his film Raising Victor Vargas, Peter Sollett never showed the actors a script, so as to encourage authenticity through improvisation when filming?
Did you know that his son's infection with polio in 1930 led electrical engineer Reinhold Rudenberg to develop an electron microscope as a tool to study the poliovirus?
Did you know that kimchi bokkeumbap is a Korean fried rice made with kimchi and any available ingredients?
Did you know that sailors use a tool called a needlegun to remove old paint and corrosion aboard ships?
Did you know that the Alabama-Huntsville Chargers ice hockey team is the only Division I collegiate hockey team located south of the Mason-Dixon Line?
Did you know that the Battle of Sugar Point was the last major battle fought between Native Americans and the United States Army?
Did you know that the Chronicle of Man claimed William Russell to have been the first Bishop of the Isles consecrated by the pope, even though he was not consecrated by the pope, and even if he had been, he would not have been the first?
Did you know that the Danville 97s minor league baseball team name of 97s was selected as a tribute to the victims of the Wreck of the Old 97 train accident?
Did you know that the name of Lake Burrumbeet, a large but shallow eutrophic lake in Victoria, Australia, derives from the local aboriginal word burrumbidj, meaning "muddy or dirty water"?
Did you know that "the light arises in the East", an apparently pro-Soviet slogan coined by Romanian writer Mihail Sadoveanu in 1945, is seen by some as a coded warning to his fellow Freemasons about communization?
Did you know that Australian veterinary student Barry Larkin carried a fake Olympic Flame in the 1956 Summer Olympics as a protest, because he thought the flame was given too much reverence?
Did you know that Black Grace, an internationally-touring New Zealand contemporary-dance company, melds Maori and Pacific Islander indigenous dance with modern dance and hip hop?
Did you know that Canadian band Article One took their name from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights after hearing about it on U2's Vertigo Tour?
Did you know that Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, impressed with Zhang Jiazhen but forgetting his name, almost made Zhang Qiqiu chancellor instead of Zhang Jiazhen?
Did you know that English printer Thomas Adams published John Dowland's The Third and Last Booke of Songes or Aires out of his shop in St. Paul's Churchyard?
Did you know that Jeremy Dalton was suspended, and later expelled, from the British Columbia Liberal Party caucus in the provincial legislature?
Did you know that Josiah Failing became the fourth mayor of Portland, Oregon less than three years after moving there from New York City?
Did you know that Nathaniel Higginson (signature pictured), the first Mayor of Madras city and the second American-born President of Madras, was the son of Puritan minister John Higginson, a leading investigator in the Salem witch trials?
Did you know that Rear Admiral Ralph Christie of the U.S. Navy was so incensed by the decision not to award Samuel Dealey the Medal of Honor, he sent a blunt message to Thomas Kinkaid that some viewed as bordering on insubordination?
Did you know that actress Anna Kendrick was nominated for a Tony Award at the age of twelve, making her the youngest-ever Tony nominee as of 2008?
Did you know that after becoming Bishop of Brechin at the instigation of the Earl of Argyll, Alexander Campbell of Carco, still only a minor, handed most of his bishopric's lands over to the earl?
Did you know that film producer Neil Kopp stood in as a location scout, location manager, assistant director and grip while filming Old Joy?
Did you know that in 1989, the Popular Front of Moldova was initially backed by a range of ethnic groups, but quickly lost support from Russian speakers and Gagauz?
Did you know that the 1937 Western fiction book Buckskin Brigades was Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's first published novel?
Did you know that the Biographicon aspires to be an online directory of biographies for "all the people of the world"?
Did you know that the Emperor of Russia, Alexander III bought the art of Ukrainian realist painter Volodymyr Orlovsky?
Did you know that the Mill Mountain Zoo is host to three endangered species: the Red Panda, Snow Leopard and White-naped Crane?
Did you know that the Shoshone was the first of only two steamboats to be brought down through Hells Canyon, North America's deepest gorge, to the lower Snake River?
Did you know that the Spanish-introduced limestone house of the Ivatans was designed to withstand typhoons?
Did you know that the Taipei Metro C301 cars were built in the former Otis plant in Yonkers, New York, which was the first elevator factory in the world?
Did you know that the discovery of Lazarussuchus showed that choristoderes, a type of aquatic reptile, had not gone extinct in the Eocene, but persisted for millions of years after?
Did you know that the funerary art of many cultures includes psychopomps, like the Zapotec bat god, who conduct souls to the afterlife?
Did you know that the second-largest mobile operator in Slovenia, Si.mobil, was one of the first worldwide to offer EDGE?
Did you know that twenty out of the thirty five merchant ships of convoy SC-7 were sunk by German U-boats?
Did you know that yearly whale counts  of the endangered Humpback Whale in the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary  show their numbers are increasing by 7% per year?
Did you know that 39% of Israeli schoolchildren watch the educational television program Bli Sodot in their classroom?
Did you know that Charles Starr and Bruce Starr were the first father and son to serve at the same time in the Oregon State Senate?
Did you know that Irish computer programmer Gavin Walsh owns the world's largest collection of Sex Pistols records and memorabilia?
Did you know that Jessie Vasey was helping Australian war widows before she became one herself when her husband, George, died in an air crash?
Did you know that Monte Testaccio in Rome is an artificial hill, 35 m (115 ft) high and 1 km (3,300 ft) in circumference, consisting entirely of the fragments of 53 million ancient Roman amphorae?
Did you know that Naats'ihch'oh National Park Reserve takes its name from a Dene phrase meaning  "stands like a porcupine"?
Did you know that Paul Salamunovich, choir director since 1949 at St. Charles Borromeo Church in North Hollywood, has also conducted choirs for dozens of feature films, including The Devil's Advocate?
Did you know that Thaba Bosigo, a Basotho stronghold in Lesotho, was the only fortress to remain impregnable during the Free State–Basotho Wars?
Did you know that William Thomas Havard, who was bishop of two Welsh dioceses (St Asaph, then St David's), once represented Wales in an international rugby union match?
Did you know that a novel human polyomavirus is associated with Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare and highly aggressive form of skin cancer?
Did you know that despite being called the "Aladdin's Castle of George Francis Train," the Cozzens House Hotel in Omaha operated for only four years before sitting empty for several more?
Did you know that despite peaking at 38 in the UK Albums Chart, seven-year-old child singer Connie Talbot's debut album Over the Rainbow was rated gold in Britain shortly after its release?
Did you know that political opponents of Kentucky governor Thomas Metcalfe nicknamed him "Old Stone Hammer" because they felt his previous work as a stonemason was a background unbecoming a governor?
Did you know that the Adipose in the Doctor Who episode "Partners in Crime" were based on a stuffed toy that writer Russell T Davies owned?
Did you know that the Birhor people are a tribal forest people, traditionally nomadic, living primarily in the Indian state of  Jharkhand?
Did you know that the Blank family, the maternal ancestors of Vladimir Lenin, were relatives to Nazi field marshal Walter Model, archeologist Ernst Curtius, and President of Germany Richard von Weizsäcker?
Did you know that the Ligonier Valley Railroad's reliance on verbal orders resulted in a head-on collision between a freight train and a train carrying partygoers?
Did you know that the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Quail was mined in November 1943, but did not sink until May 1944?
Did you know that the SS Assyrian started life as a German merchant ship in the First World War and ended it as British merchant in the Second World War?
Did you know that the Samnite gladiator type likely went out of fashion in Ancient Rome when the people of Samnium, whom it was intended to mock, became assimilated into the Roman Empire?
Did you know that the use of multiple strains of rhizobacteria as composite microbial inoculants has been shown to benefit the cultivation of crops such as rice and barley?