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Did you know that Mexican ironwood carvings (example pictured) didn't become popular in other countries until University of Arizona students began buying them in the late 1960s?
Did you know that WWI British flying ace Valentine Collins, who scored his victories from a Bristol F.2b, teamed up with William Bostock, future air vice-marshal of the Royal Australian Air Force?
Did you know that Westmead Hawk, winner of the English Greyhound Derby in 2005 and 2006, sired Taylors Sky, the winner in 2011?
Did you know that before being forced to resign from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1987 for homosexuality, Joseph Steffan sang the U.S. National Anthem at two Army–Navy games?
Did you know that listeners have heard the backward message "You know Satan holds the keys" in Cheap Trick's 1979 song "Gonna Raise Hell"?
Did you know that low-growing willows, such as Salix hastata and S. brachycarpa, were found to have recolonized riparian habitats destroyed during the construction of the Trans Alaska Pipeline within four years?
Did you know that the  skull thought for almost 200 years to belong to the revered poet Friedrich Schiller was shown to be someone else's in 2008?
Did you know that the shelling of Stepanakert, during the Nagorno-Karabakh War, caused mass casualties and widespread damage?
Did you know that Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies is the home to the largest optical telescope in Sri Lanka?
Did you know that George Bazeley, Mark Paterson, Liam de Young, Tim Deavin and Andrew Charter moved to Perth so they could train with the Australia men's national field hockey team?
Did you know that Leona Lewis released Hurt: The EP as something for her fans to "bridge the gap" while she finishes recording for her third studio album, Glassheart?
Did you know that after winning the 2000 Guineas in 1932, the racehorse Orwell started as the 5/4 favourite for the Epsom Derby, but finished ninth and was found to be lame afterwards?
Did you know that child actress Nozomi Ōhashi, who sang the theme song for the 2008 film Ponyo, started acting when she was just three years old?
Did you know that despite missing their four best batsmen, the Matabeleland Tuskers cricket team won the final of the 2010–11 Logan Cup?
Did you know that since 1997, while the junior national softball team has won four Junior World Championships in a row, the Australia men's national softball team has only won one World Championship?
Did you know that the 1909 Michigan football team won the first battle for the Little Brown Jug, the oldest rivalry trophy in American college football?
Did you know that the Abbasid invasion of Asia Minor in 806 was the largest expedition ever launched by the Abbasid Caliphate, and forced Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I to pay a head tax for himself and his son?
Did you know that the Nevada–California–Oregon Railway Station in Lakeview, Oregon, was built in 1912 for $15,000?
Did you know that the front gate of Gambir Market (pictured in 1922) was rebuilt in a different traditional Indonesian style every year?
Did you know that the gender of an East Canary Gecko is determined by the temperature at which the egg is incubated?
Did you know that the music of Bach's cantata Alles, was von Gott geboren, BWV 80a, composed in Weimar for the Lenten Sunday Oculi, is lost, but he later expanded most of the music in BWV 80?
Did you know that Frank Lloyd Wright designed a dog house—and even its roof leaks?
Did you know that Mr Grumpy was once bombed by the Americans?
Did you know that Mr. Santoso was the first female cabinet member in Indonesian history?
Did you know that Nuns can fly at high altitudes?
Did you know that T. vagina have eyes hidden behind their skin?
Did you know that The Flying Fleet's female lead, Anita Page, described co-star Ramón Novarro as "something to dream about"?
Did you know that a Roman Catholic priest got five Super Bowl rings with the 49ers?
Did you know that a fish in a fishbowl is in a fish?
Did you know that an Italian Protestant fathered The Virgin Mary in 1950?
Did you know that ever since coming between neighbours, Funzie Girt has run almost the length of a Scottish island?
Did you know that following the example of Khader Adnan, Hana Shalabi began a hunger strike after her arrest in Israel, on February 16, 2012?
Did you know that if you want to talk to the anal it helps to speak their language?
Did you know that in 1985 differences of opinion on the tactics of general strikes led to a split in the Galician nationalist trade union movement and the founding of CXTG?
Did you know that in 2009, the urinal known as "The Carousel of Love", a well known place for gay cruising, was declared a Norwegian Cultural Heritage Site?
Did you know that people have cut off arms and legs because of Gigli?
Did you know that the City of Rio de Janeiro is located in San Francisco Bay?
Did you know that the Plan B song "ill Manors" was written in reaction to the 2011 England riots?
Did you know that the United States once fought 32 tons of shark fins, and the fins won?
Did you know that the male common midwife toad, like other members of the genus Alytes, carries his eggs around with him until they hatch?
Did you know that the opening of Eston railway station (pictured in 1902) enabled passengers to travel from Middlesbrough, England, to California in only 15 minutes?
Did you know that Dorothy Manley took unpaid leave from her job as a typist to compete in the 1948 Summer Olympics, where she won the silver medal in the women's 100 metres?
Did you know that Indonesian band Efek Rumah Kaca donated the royalties from ringback tone sales for one of the tracks on their self-titled debut album to the family of a human rights activist?
Did you know that Nintendo owns the rights to a pornographic film?
Did you know that Queensland teacher Jodie Bowering is also an Australian Olympic bronze medalist in softball?
Did you know that Ralph Dewey blows up animals for Jesus?
Did you know that Ratirahasya, a medieval Indian sex manual, classifies sexual intercourse into nine different types on the basis of the size of genitals?
Did you know that Santa Claus was a stud?
Did you know that The Panther, the favourite for the 1919 Epsom Derby, became agitated before the race and finished unplaced, possibly due to the presence of a mare ridden by a mounted policeman?
Did you know that Toronto officials considered replacing their moose with unicorns?
Did you know that World War I British flying aces Ralph Curtis and Desmond Uniacke battled Hermann Göring, future head of the Luftwaffe?
Did you know that despite winning consecutive conference championships, UC Riverside Highlanders football was discontinued following their 1975 season?
Did you know that some Chicago sports fans blame their team's recent failings on the absence of Honey Bears?
Did you know that the Croscat, the youngest volcano in the Iberian Peninsula, was quarried until 1991 and its internal structure is exposed as a result?
Did you know that the lower masts of the Briton-class corvettes of the Royal Navy were iron, but the rest of the masts were made of wood?
Did you know that the racehorse Colombo won £17,130 in 1933, a year after he was purchased for only 510 guineas?
Did you know that threats to the Blue Gum Forest in the Blue Mountains included logging, coal mining, a dam and growing walnuts?
Did you know that 2012 National Player of the Year Anthony Davis was unknown locally and nationally through his junior year of high school basketball?
Did you know that Bakri Siregar wrote the first history of modern Indonesian literature?
Did you know that Great Tew Circle was a group of intellectual and literary figures who gathered in the 1630s at the manor house of Great Tew, Oxfordshire?
Did you know that Julia Holter's debut album Tragedy (2011) was inspired by Euripides' Ancient Greek play Hippolytus?
Did you know that a controversy arose over the Tulsi Peeth edition of the Ramcharitmanas, when the author Rambhadracharya was accused of tampering with the epic?
Did you know that a review of Plastic Flowers, a 1977 Indonesian film directed by a man known for romances, found him unfit to direct but praised a robbery scene?
Did you know that before becoming a celebrity chef, Eric Lanlard served in the French Navy on board the flagship Jeanne d'Arc?
Did you know that during the Abbasid invasion of Asia Minor of 782 CE, Byzantine general Tatzates defected to the Arab side when the Byzantines already had the Abbasids surrounded and asking for negotiations?
Did you know that the 2005 TNA Super X Cup Tournament was also known as the "Christopher Daniels Invitational"?
Did you know that the Luba Crater Scientific Reserve may have the largest population of drills in the world?
Did you know that the Norwegian landowner Oscar Collett was the single largest benefactor of the old Norwegian Ornithological Society's academic journal?
Did you know that the flowers of the rough-barked apple are visited by flying foxes and jewel beetles?
Did you know that the longnose spider crab disguises itself by sticking bits of unpalatable seaweed and invertebrates on its shell?
Did you know that the racehorse St. Frusquin lost the 1896 Epsom Derby by merely a neck to his brother Persimmon, whose winning time of 2:42.0 set a new Derby record?
Did you know that when the footballer Svein Fjælberg joined Viking FK from Sola FK in 1979 for a transfer fee of 45,000 Norwegian kroner, he became the then most expensive player at the club?
Did you know that while Victoire Conroy was among the few companions allowed to associate with the young Queen Victoria, the queen disliked her?
Did you know that with an area of 1,865 square kilometres (720 sq mi), Siling Co in Xainza County is the second largest saltwater lake in the northern Tibetan Plateau?
Did you know that Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was the soloist in a recording of Max Reger's Requiem with the Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg in 1990?
Did you know that Samson Isberg's last beheadings were attended by about 5,000 spectators?
Did you know that Shuffle Master created the casino game Let It Ride to drive demand for its shuffling machine?
Did you know that a joint musical venture between a Dutch and Indonesian band resulted in Chaos & Warfare?
Did you know that according to art-historical analysis the 9th-century illuminated manuscript Codex Vaticanus Latinus 3868 was copied from a 3rd-century model?
Did you know that during the Popish Plot, on Sunday 17 November 1678, John Arnold of Monmouthshire captured Father David Lewis at St Michael's Church, Llantarnam, and he was later executed?
Did you know that film editing innovations by Lou Lombardo and Sam Peckinpah in 1969 still influence filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, John Woo, Kathryn Bigelow, and the Wachowskis?
Did you know that in the spring of 1941 the Swiss Socialist Federation was banned and its four national deputies (including Le Travail editor Léon Nicole and Jacques Dicker) were expelled from parliament?
Did you know that labor lawyer and activist Khaled Ali filed a landmark lawsuit against the Egyptian government in 2010 and won a higher minimum wage for all workers?
Did you know that most active filmmakers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, such as Monique Mbeka Phoba, live and work abroad?
Did you know that the Singapore High Court once held that, by refusing berths to a company running gambling cruises, the port authority had not fettered its discretion – a form of illegality in administrative law?
Did you know that various studies show prostitution exists among animals such as Adélie Penguins, chimpanzees, and crab-eating macaques?
Did you know that when the Basque trade union movement ELA-STV suffered a split in the 1970s, the dissident ELA-STV (Askatuta) was accused of being bankrolled by Opus Dei?
Did you know that "Zou Bisou Bisou" sung by Jessica Paré as Megan Draper on the March 25 season 5 premiere of Mad Men, was a 1960s yé-yé song that can be translated as "Oh! Kiss Kiss"?
Did you know that April the Fifth, the winning racehorse of the 1932 Epsom Derby, and his breeder, were both born on April the fifth?
Did you know that Atretochoana eiselti, the largest tetrapod to lack lungs, was until late 2011 known only from two museum specimens whose origin was unknown?
Did you know that Henry Knighton was the first historian of Lollardy?
Did you know that Minnie Fisher Cunningham helped convince both Senator Andrieus A. Jones and President Woodrow Wilson to support passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women suffrage?
Did you know that Olympic silver and bronze medalist Stacey Porter was the first Aboriginal member of the Australian women's national team to represent the country in softball at the Olympics?
Did you know that Soedjatmoko was expelled from medical school but went on to become rector of the United Nations University?
Did you know that The Kinks' song "The Hard Way" was based on a true incident in which Kinks' guitarist Dave Davies was caned and expelled from school?
Did you know that World Naked Gardening Day, celebrated in May to promote nude gardening, was first observed in 2005?
Did you know that softball player Brenda De Blaes represented Australia and Belgium at the Women's World Championship?
Did you know that the Devonian stem tetrapod Tinirau clackae, transitional between fish and land vertebrates, was named after the half-human half-fish character Tinirau in Polynesian legend?
Did you know that the Swiss-South African Association tried to lobby the Swiss government to recognize the Bantustan state Transkei?
Did you know that the largest of all billfishes, the Atlantic blue marlin, weighs up to 820 kilograms (1800 pounds) and has been classified as a vulnerable species?
Did you know that there were so many pubs in Monmouth's market place that they said "A gin court here, a gin court there, No wonder they call it Agincourt Square" (sign pictured)?
Did you know that Bach's St Matthew Passion is structured in 67 movements, according to the NBA, and tells the Passion based on the Gospel of Matthew, Picander's contemporary poetry, and chorales?
Did you know that Nicholas Dukagjini is mentioned in a song about an Albanian Romeo and Juliet written by Girolamo de Rada?
Did you know that Nicolae Xenopol, who wrote a satirical novel about a Yankee visiting "disgusting" Romania, was later Romania's first ambassador to Japan?
Did you know that a young spider crab, Libinia ferreirae, often lives inside the bell of the jellyfish Lychnorhiza lucerna?
Did you know that the Radiohead song "True Love Waits" became a highly requested song at their live shows in the 1990s despite having never been released?
Did you know that the role of the Rhodesian head of government gradually evolved, between 1890 and 1970, from that of a company-appointed administrator to the prime ministerial office of a republic?
Did you know that when Roger Bresnahan adopted the use of shin guards in Major League Baseball on Opening Day in 1907, angry fans threw snow onto the field?
Did you know that "Do Ya Thang" was described as a return to Rihanna's roots, which were notably present in the songs from her first studio album Music of the Sun?
Did you know that Fielding H. Yost opined that Germany Schulz gave "the greatest one-man exhibition of courage I ever saw on a football field" for the 1908 Michigan football team?
Did you know that George V gave the cradle that was said to be that of Henry of Monmouth (later Henry V who was at Agincourt) to the London Museum?
Did you know that Ghost Story, a 1972–73 television anthology series, was renamed Circle of Fear after 13 episodes?
Did you know that Giring Ganesha, the lead singer of Nidji, lost 11 kilograms (24 lb) for his role in The Enlightener?
Did you know that Margaret Wenzell's only home run in her professional baseball career was a game-winning inside-the-park home run, hit with her parents in attendance?
Did you know that Milko Bambič had to escape from Trieste to Yugoslavia to avoid arrest after he had published the first Slovene comic strip, a parody on Benito Mussolini?
Did you know that Robert Hiester Montgomery, one of the founders of the world's largest accounting firm, never graduated from high school?
Did you know that Samuel Barber derived his choral composition Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) from his successful Adagio for Strings, showing "the work's sense of spirituality"?
Did you know that artist Sydney John Bunney created over 500 works depicting the city of Coventry?
Did you know that isochrone maps have been used since 1972 or earlier, and that since 2009 online versions have been used by house hunters wishing to evaluate residential areas?
Did you know that journalist Ding Yu interviewed 226 death row prisoners for a popular television programme in China's Henan Province?
Did you know that the 1932 Alabama Crimson Tide football team's contest against Georgia Tech was the first Alabama football game that was broadcast live?
Did you know that until Judge Sonia Sotomayor ordered the creation of Krimstock hearings, there was often no way for thousands of owners to promptly recover their seized vehicles from the NYPD?
Did you know that with the help of the IDRF, Narayanan Komerath, a professor of aerospace engineering, launched a fund to aid families of people hurt in the war against terrorism?
Did you know that Christian rock band Casting Crowns' fourth studio album, Until the Whole World Hears, sold 167,000 copies in its first week?
Did you know that Danville, Kentucky's Constitution Square State Historic Site features a replica of the first Presbyterian meetinghouse in the state?
Did you know that Edward Espe Brown, author of The Tassajara Bread Book, was inspired as a child by his aunt's baking of homemade bread?
Did you know that Estonia's first major industrial strike occurred in 1872 at the Krenholm Manufacturing Company?
Did you know that Jamila and the President, submitted to the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, was initially written after the director received a UNICEF grant?
Did you know that John Garrels of the 1906 Michigan football team threw the school's first legal forward pass, won Olympic medals in the hurdles and shot put, and set a world record in the discus throw?
Did you know that Keith Meinhold, who came out publicly in 1992, was allowed to stay in the US Navy after a 1994 court decision as long as he did not say he was gay again?
Did you know that Radford University softball player and national team member Leigh Godfrey is from a softball family, with her aunt and mother both representing Australia in the sport?
Did you know that Stacey McManus represents Australia in softball, while her sister Brook plays softball for New Zealand's national team?
Did you know that Steve Jobs wanted to study Zen in Japan at Eihei-ji?
Did you know that before its restoration the Kasim Ağa Mosque in Istanbul was used as a shanty?
Did you know that in 1821–22 Aaron Manby built the world's first seagoing iron-hulled steamship, named after him, and patented the design of its oscillating engine?
Did you know that in his 1936 German melodrama, Schlußakkord, Douglas Sirk characterised and contrasted a Weimar new woman and a German expatriate mother through their reactions to Beethoven's 9th Symphony?
Did you know that in hot weather, the eastern spadefoot toad may aestivate in the deep burrow it has dug?
Did you know that in the 2011–12 Logan Cup, the Matabeleland Tuskers cricket team became the first to win consecutive titles during the franchise era of the competition?
Did you know that the 2002 funeral of John Entwistle, bassist for rock band The Who, was held at St Edward's Church in Stow-on-the-Wold?
Did you know that the Alfaguara project has photographed and identified over 350 individual blue whales?
Did you know that Admiral John Ferrier had friendships with Lord Exmouth and the Duke of Wellington, and served under Nelson, who called Ferrier "as steady as old Time himself"?
Did you know that Indonesian director Wim Umboh, who won nine Citra Awards, began his career in the film industry as a janitor?
Did you know that John Halsted kissed King George IV's hand twice, once when George was Prince Regent, and once as a monarch?
Did you know that Kaiser Wilhelm II called the Kurhaus in Wiesbaden "the most beautiful spa in the world" at the opening ceremony?
Did you know that according to Life, Florida's Bubble Houses (one pictured) are hurricane-proof, despite being built using an inflatable balloon?
Did you know that although George Harrison's 1973 song "Sue Me, Sue You Blues" was inspired by his own legal issues with his fellow ex-Beatles, he let Jesse Ed Davis record it first?
Did you know that debuting Major League Baseball pitcher Drew Smyly came within two outs of pitching a no-hitter in a college baseball tournament while a redshirt freshman at the University of Arkansas?
Did you know that fossil leaves indistinguishable from the living Tasmanian waratah have been dug up from lower Oligocene (28–34 million year old) rock strata?
Did you know that in 1953, Beaconsfield, Tasmania, became the first town in Australia to fluoridate the water supply?
Did you know that sixteen of Harbhajan Singh's international cricket five-wicket hauls have come in victory for India, while five have been in defeats?
Did you know that the 1999 documentary Private Dicks: Men Exposed, in which men were interviewed about their penises, was described by Ken Tucker as "quite literally touching"?
Did you know that the oldest volume in the Hereford Cathedral Library is the Hereford Gospels, dated to around the year 780?
Did you know that the racehorse Americus, despite being called "fat as a showyard bull", still finished fourth in the 1899 Steward's Cup at Goodwood?
Did you know that 1907 Michigan football team gave up an average of only one point per game and shut out Vanderbilt in front of the largest crowd to see a football game south of the Mason–Dixon Line?
Did you know that Ada Initiative co-founder Valerie Aurora chose Anita as her middle name, after the computer scientist Anita Borg?
Did you know that Cat Creek was the site of the first commercially successful oil field in Montana, producing oil so pure it could be used in Model T cars straight from the ground?
Did you know that Chelsea Forkin has represented Australia in the World Cup of Baseball and World Cup of Softball?
Did you know that King Arthur's Cave, near Ganarew, to the northeast of Monmouth, is reputedly the oldest Arthurian site?
Did you know that Matt Bomer suggested that Glee feature Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" in an episode, only to be cast a week later to sing it himself in the episode "Big Brother"?
Did you know that an 80-km-long, 6-m-high mound formed by the 1819 Rann of Kutch earthquake was known as the Dam of God?
Did you know that composer and cellist Graham Waterhouse dedicated his Three Pieces for Solo Cello, described as "rhapsodic movements of great expressive strength", to Siegfried Palm?
Did you know that following the 2011 civil war in Libya, the Muslim Brotherhood founded the Justice and Development Party, which is said to be the country's most organised political force?
Did you know that in the upcoming US Supreme Court case of Fisher v. University of Texas, a white woman argues that the university discriminated against her based on race?
Did you know that mackerel have vertical stripes on their sides which may help them stay in formation when they are schooling?
Did you know that prior to taking up athletics, Olympic long-distance runner Väinö Koskela was a member of the winning team at an under-18 cross-country skiing championship?
Did you know that slavery in Poland existed during the Middle Ages, but eventually disappeared with the transformation of slaves into serfs?
Did you know that the Bach cantata for Easter Ich lebe, mein Herze, zu deinem Ergötzen, BWV 145, was expanded after Bach's death by two leading movements, the second one composed by Telemann?
Did you know that the first non-white player in the National Basketball Association was an Asian-American who played in 1947?
Did you know that when Abdul Alkalimat wrote Malcolm X for Beginners, he was sued by the activist's widow?