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Did you know that Roystonea regia, also known as the Cuban royal palm, was the first monocotyledon found to have root nodules capable of nitrogen fixation?
Did you know that Washington Park Subdivision land owners signed 20-year restrictive covenants excluding renting to African Americans, leading to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case of Hansberry v. Lee?
Did you know that according to Iroquois tradition, Onondaga Lake was the site of a meeting of peace between Native American leaders Tadodaho, Hiawatha and Deganawidah?
Did you know that after the murder of Robert Eric Wone, his widow was represented pro bono by prospective United States Attorney General Eric Holder?
Did you know that during his Victoria Cross-winning action, Percy Statton rushed four machine gun posts before returning to his battalion lines where he was cheered by his fellow Australians?
Did you know that radio station WLWI in Montgomery, Alabama, founded in 1930 as WSFA, gave country music legend Hank Williams his start as a professional musician?
Did you know that secessionists in St. Augustine, Florida, captured the town's fort three days before Florida actually seceded from the United States?
Did you know that sprint canoer Thomas Zereske's life was commemorated by the dedication of his former teammate Christian Gille's gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the C-2 1000 m event?
Did you know that the Jola, the majority ethnic group in Carabane, are distinct from other major ethnic groups in Senegal by their lack of social hierarchy and their languages?
Did you know that the Kappe Residence, described as "a virtual tree house poised over a steep hillside", was named one of the top ten houses in Los Angeles by an expert panel selected by the Los Angeles Times?
Did you know that the imposition of an all-women shortlist caused the Labour Party to lose one of its safest UK Parliamentary seats in 2005?
Did you know that the world's first mono-motorcycle, the Uno, was invented by Canadian teenager Ben Gulak?
Did you know that , when writing about a homicide case in the Dexter episode "The Dark Defender", Timothy Schlattmann was inspired by a snow globe on his desk which he believed "could easily be a murder weapon"?
Did you know that Charles Leigh played six seasons as a running back in the National Football League despite never playing college football?
Did you know that David Logan, onetime mayor of Portland, Oregon, studied law under later U.S. President Abraham Lincoln?
Did you know that Heinrich Greinacher invented his voltage doubler circuit in 1913 because the 110 volt power supply in Zürich was insufficient for his newly invented ionometer which required 200 volts?
Did you know that Jeff Moronko is one of two Major League Baseball players to have attended Texas Wesleyan University, the other being Hall of Famer Tris Speaker?
Did you know that Major League Baseball player Barry Foote batted in eight runs, including a game-winning grand slam, in a single game against the St. Louis Cardinals?
Did you know that Namibian politician Jesaya Nyamu, who was expelled from SWAPO for writing a private note on how to undermine President Sam Nujoma, formed the Rally for Democracy and Progress in 2007?
Did you know that Operation Uranus led to the encirclement of the German Sixth Army and portions of the Fourth Panzer Army, as well as surviving remnants of two Romanian armies, totaling over 200,000 soldiers?
Did you know that Paul Hofmann, who served as an interpreter for the Germans in WWII, passed information to the anti-fascist resistance in Rome?
Did you know that The Coffee Pot historic roadhouse in Roanoke, Virginia, USA, features a 15-foot (4.6 m) stucco coffee pot atop its roof?
Did you know that Washington Park Court District is named after the Chicago Park District's Washington Park although it is neither in the park nor in the Washington Park community area?
Did you know that actor, writer and poet Stephen Haggard was the model for the character of Aidan Sheridan in Olivia Manning's novel sequence, the Fortunes of War?
Did you know that architect Nikolay Zherikhov decorated one of his buildings with erotic sculptures resembling Leo Tolstoy and Alexander Pushkin?
Did you know that educational games from Playnormous were designed with assistance from medical researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Baylor College of Medicine?
Did you know that no rhinoceros is ever seen on camera in the 1974 film Rhinoceros?
Did you know that operatic soprano Maria Zamboni was the first person to record the title role of Puccini's Manon Lescaut in its entirety?
Did you know that the 1981 warning strike in Poland was the biggest strike in the history of the Soviet Bloc, with 12 to 14 million participants?
Did you know that the Hershey Creamery Company, founded in 1894 by five brothers from the Hershey family, has actually been owned and operated by the Holder family since the 1920s?
Did you know that the Nintendo DS video game Texas Hold 'Em Poker allows players to mimic certain nuances such as a card player's tell?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Zheng Xunyu quit his responsibilities over an incident in which his colleague Wei Zhiyi left a chancellors' lunch to dine with Emperor Shunzong's close associate Wang Shuwen?
Did you know that the fluorotelomer alcohol 8:2 FTOH can biodegrade into the environmental contaminants PFOA and PFNA?
Did you know that the gokenin, Japanese feudal lords at the top of the power pyramid, were named after a semi-slave caste?
Did you know that the turnpike trusts in Greater Manchester (milestone pictured) had a huge impact upon the way business was conducted around Manchester, England?
Did you know that the village of Kodinji in Kerala, India, where multiple birth is a regular phenomenon, is home to over 204 pairs of twins?
Did you know that the word palengke, a type of public market in the Philippines, was actually derived from a Spanish word for palisades?
Did you know that when it was first described in the late 1600s, the earthstar fungus Geastrum fornicatum was named Fungus anthropomorphus for its resemblance to the human form?
Did you know that 180-pound (82 kg) guard Dominic Tomasi was selected as both captain and Most Valuable Player of the undefeated National Champion 1948 Michigan Wolverines football team?
Did you know that 85 percent of the tobacco grown in Cuba is produced by members of the National Association of Small Farmers?
Did you know that African American civil rights activist Mel Boozer was the first openly gay person nominated for the office of Vice President of the United States?
Did you know that Cape Wolstenholme of Ungava Peninsula is the northern-most tip of the Canadian province of Quebec?
Did you know that Charles Hawksley was elected President of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1901, nearly 30 years after his father, Thomas Hawksley, was elected to the position?
Did you know that Diane Geppi-Aikens, despite being paralyzed by a terminal brain tumor and confined to a wheelchair, coached the women's lacrosse team of Loyola College to the 2003 NCAA Final Four?
Did you know that Interim Self Governing Authority was a power-sharing proposal made by the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to the government of Sri Lanka to resolve the Sri Lankan civil war?
Did you know that Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, pastor of Gillfield Baptist Church in Petersburg, Virginia, USA, was a co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957?
Did you know that Royal Australian Navy commissioned the bulk carrier Jeparit in 1969 to overcome union protests against Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War?
Did you know that Schulze Baking Company Plant once housed the largest wholesale business in Chicago?
Did you know that The Pittsburgh Courier crusaded against the blue discharge, calling it "a vicious instrument that should not be perpetrated against the American Soldier"?
Did you know that a 1927 Wolseley motor car used in the 2008 BBC television adaptation The 39 Steps was previously used in the 1960s BBC television series Dr. Finlay's Casebook?
Did you know that a bounty jumper, Adam Worth, became the inspiration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional villain Professor Moriarty?
Did you know that after the 1862 trial of poisoner Catherine Wilson, the judge, John Barnard Byles, described her as "the greatest criminal that ever lived"?
Did you know that bridge scour is the most common cause of highway bridge failure (example pictured) in the United States?
Did you know that bush ballads are a folk music and poetry tradition in the Australian Outback?
Did you know that chee kufta is an Armenian raw meat dish similar to steak tartare?
Did you know that disc jockeys at WLWI-FM in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, have been nominated for Country Music Association Awards six times since 1981?
Did you know that for the recent Philippine film Iskul Bukol 20 Years After, stars Tito, Vic and Joey paid a sum of PHP 120,000 to bail actor Ritchie D'Horsie out of jail so that he could appear in the film?
Did you know that the Boulder Beer Company, the first microbrewery in the U.S. state of Colorado, was founded by two college professors who enjoyed homebrewing?
Did you know that the French government database Joconde has over 220,000 online images of objects from nearly 300 French museums?
Did you know that the Sion Causeway connected the island of Bombay with Salsette?
Did you know that the Skyscraper Index has shown that the world's tallest buildings have risen on the eve of economic downturns?
Did you know that turkey bowling, protested by animal rights activists, was invented as a pastime in the aisles of a grocery store?
Did you know that Dave Porter won the NCAA heavyweight collegiate wrestling championship twice and was subsequently drafted by the Cleveland Browns to play in the NFL?
Did you know that Edward Schalon, inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor as a golfer, later became the president of a Fortune 500 company, SPX Corporation?
Did you know that George Goldman put Book Soup, a "cultural fixture" of the Sunset Strip, up for sale on January 2, 2009, and died a day later?
Did you know that George R. Christmas, then known as Captain Christmas, received the Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism" in the Vietnam War?
Did you know that Indian historian V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar believed that ancient South Indians may have known of Australia and Polynesia before their discovery by Europeans?
Did you know that Judge Ronald Cicoria of Livingston County Court in Geneseo, New York (courthouse pictured), retired in 2005 as the longest sitting judge in New York State?
Did you know that Matt Smith, who will portray the Eleventh Doctor in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, is the youngest person to be cast in the title role?
Did you know that Nino Martini appeared in numerous Hollywood films during the 1930s and 1940s while simultaneously starring regularly in leading tenor roles at the Metropolitan Opera?
Did you know that Norwegian ski jumper Daniel Forfang retired due to body weight pressure in the sport, whose rules were earlier considered to fit Forfang "perfectly"?
Did you know that Perth is the first city to operate a reverse osmosis seawater desalination plant to provide drinking water in Australia?
Did you know that Susanna Clarke's novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell has 185 footnotes, which contain a meticulous false history of English magic and an entire fictional corpus of magical scholarship?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Du Huangshang was credited with setting in motion Emperor Xianzong's reassertion of imperial authority over warlords?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty official Yuan Zi wrote a five-volume work about his diplomatic mission to Nanzhao?
Did you know that Tommy James' 1971 single "Draggin' the Line" has appeared on 41 albums and in many media works, from Austin Powers 2 to a documentary on the pornographic film Deep Throat?
Did you know that Wallace Beery won the Academy Award for Best Actor and Frances Marion the Oscar for Original Screenplay for The Champ?
Did you know that William Glendon argued successfully before the U.S. Supreme Court that the Nixon Administration could not use prior restraint to prevent printing of the Pentagon Papers?
Did you know that a tropical greenhouse and sturgeon farm in the Swiss Alps, powered by geothermal energy from the world's longest land tunnel, is intended to produce two tonnes of caviar annually?
Did you know that after becoming the first basketball player to lead the Big Ten in both scoring and rebounds, Michigan's M.C. Burton turned down a contract to play in the NBA to attend medical school?
Did you know that at least 20 children were abducted during the 2008 Christmas massacres in the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
Did you know that college football wide receiver Torrey Smith of the Maryland Terrapins set the Atlantic Coast Conference record for single-season kick return yards, including a 99-yard return in a bowl game?
Did you know that in June 2008, Pat Fleming and Allen Hopkins became the 51st and 52nd pocket billiards players to be inducted into the BCA Hall of Fame?
Did you know that species in the fungal genus Cyathus produce bioactive compounds with antibacterial, antifungal, and antioxidative properties?
Did you know that the East German company Jenapharm synthesized steroids from hog bile because they lacked access to a source of the precursor diosgenin?
Did you know that the King Mojo Club in Sheffield, run by Peter Stringfellow, hosted the Small Faces' first gig outside London?
Did you know that the Norfolk, Connecticut-based performing arts venue Infinity Hall was built in 1883 as a combination opera house, barber shop and saloon?
Did you know that the Seattle's Pike Place Market was created partly in response to price gouging?
Did you know that the house at Borden Oaks in Greensboro, Alabama, features sidelights and transoms derived from an 1833 Asher Benjamin design?
Did you know that widespread economic crisis and food shortages resulted in several hunger demonstrations in Poland during the summer of 1981, with the biggest one taking place in Łódź?
Did you know that , despite being suspended for half the game, college football running back Da'Rel Scott set a school bowl record for rushing for the Maryland Terrapins in their 2008 Humanitarian Bowl victory?
Did you know that A. P. Patro inaugurated the Loyola College in Chennai, India, in 1925?
Did you know that Alexandra Penney, author of the best-selling book How to Make Love to a Man, has been credited as one of the creators and popularizers of the pink ribbon as a symbol for breast cancer awareness?
Did you know that Captain Woodes Rogers rescued Alexander Selkirk, the model for Robinson Crusoe, and later defeated the pirates of the Caribbean?
Did you know that Delaware State Park is not in the U.S. state of Delaware but rather in Ohio?
Did you know that Dorothy Lavinia Brown was the first African American female surgeon in the Southeastern United States and also first African American woman to serve in the Tennessee General Assembly?
Did you know that Gigantic, a film about a single man deciding to adopt a baby, was inspired by writer–director Matt Aselton's childhood wish for his parents to adopt a baby from China?
Did you know that Joseph Leavitt, nicknamed "Quaker Joe", was a conscientious objector during the American Revolutionary War, having laid down his weapon after three months of fighting for the Continental Army?
Did you know that Koradi Thermal Power Station, near Nagpur, India, was commissioned in 1974 and currently operates seven units with a total capacity of 1,080 MW?
Did you know that Link TV partnered with several world artists to write "The Price of Silence" to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
Did you know that Paschal Eze resigned as editor-in-chief of The Daily Observer, a newspaper in The Gambia, after being pressured by management not to publish stories about a certain politician?
Did you know that after being closed in 1978, Sandefjord Airport Station reopened in 2008 with a new name to serve Sandefjord Airport, Torp, Norway?
Did you know that author Beryl Bainbridge wrote a novel based on clergyman and translator John Selby Watson's 1871 murder of his wife?
Did you know that college football quarterback Brian Johnson led the Utah Utes to become the only undefeated team in the 2008 season, including an upset of fourth-ranked Alabama in the 2009 Sugar Bowl?
Did you know that former guerrilla James Tanis undertook a trip through some twenty fast-flowing rivers and creeks before being inaugurated as the second President of Bougainville?
Did you know that in Harold Nichols' 32 years as Iowa State wrestling coach, his wrestlers placed among the top three teams in the United States 25 times and won 38 individual and six team NCAA championships?
Did you know that one form of the general image filters invented by Otto Zobel is a particularly simple band-pass filter consisting of just resonators coupled by capacitors?
Did you know that sugar cream pie is being considered to become the official state pie of Indiana, USA?
Did you know that the "floating palaces" Bristol and Providence, built in 1867 by William H. Webb, contained 500 canaries in cages, each one personally named by shipowner Jim Fisk?
Did you know that the "orange tooth" fungus, Hydnellum aurantiacum, is considered critically endangered in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that the Cape Verde Shearwater is threatened by the harvesting of its chicks by local fishermen?
Did you know that the Lloyd Baron Rhododendron Garden in Rood Bridge Park includes some 550 varieties of rhododendron, the official flower of the city of Hillsboro, Oregon, USA?
Did you know that the body of Eadulf Rus, a man accused of killing Walcher, Bishop of Durham, was removed from the church of Jedburgh some years after it had been buried there on the orders of Turgot, Prior of Durham?
Did you know that the mass finishing manufacturing processes, tumble finishing and vibratory finishing, are often employed to deburr machined parts and clean up castings?
Did you know that the practice of agriculture in India had started by 9000 BCE?
Did you know that the translation of Sangiovese as the "blood of Jove" led to early theories that the grape's origins dated back to Roman times?
Did you know that American football tackle J.D. Maarleveld survived Hodgkin's lymphoma but was cut from the Notre Dame team anyway, transferred to Maryland, and became a consensus first-team All-American?
Did you know that Archbishop Edward Joseph Hanna was the chairman of the U.S. National Longshoremen's Board during the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike?
Did you know that Jackson Lake State Park in Ohio, USA, is now the location of a thriving second growth forest, but was once home to the iron, coal and salt industries?
Did you know that Jeffrey Lockwood provides historical examples of assassin bugs, buckets of scorpions, and catapulted "bee bombs" as entomological warfare in his book, Six-legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War?
Did you know that Jim McColl, the son of a butcher, reportedly became Scotland's richest man in 2008?
Did you know that Prince Charles, who in 2004 opened the village shop at Hewelsfield in Gloucestershire, England, described it as "a triumph of community spirit"?
Did you know that Satenik was the Alanian wife of Artaxias I, the king of Armenia and the founder of the Artaxiad Dynasty?
Did you know that an area of more than 60,000 square miles (160,000 km2) in the U.S. states of Georgia, North and South Carolina was exposed to airborne clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide during Operation Dew?
Did you know that as a means to challenge the Microsoft/Intel PC architecture, IBM executive Jack Kuehler formed the AIM alliance that created the PowerPC microprocessor used in Apple's computers from 1994 to 2006?
Did you know that despite being roughly only a square mile (2.6 km2) in area, the tiny atoll of Kaben in the Republic of the Marshall Islands actually has a functional airstrip?
Did you know that during the Battle for Height 776 in Chechnya, Mark Yevtyukhin ordered artillery fire on his company's position, an act which contributed to him being posthumously honoured as a Hero of the Russian Federation (medal pictured)?
Did you know that during the Song Dynasty, the people of Sichuan worshipped Tang Dynasty general Wei Gao as a local deity?
Did you know that labourers paving Saskatchewan Highway 641 in 1942 earned 35 cents an hour and a labourer with a tractor-drawn drag earned 50 cents an hour?
Did you know that music critic Herman Klein wrote in New York City from 1901 to 1909 and advised Columbia Records, but he acquired an unfavorable view of American musical life and returned to Britain?
Did you know that pitcher Jesse Barnes made the Opening Day start for the Boston Braves against the New York Giants in the 1925 baseball season, after making the Opening Day start for the Giants against the Braves in 1920?
Did you know that the 12"/50 caliber Mark 8 gun, an American naval gun mounted on the Alaska-class cruisers, "was by far the most powerful weapon of its caliber ever placed in service"?
Did you know that the American Iron and Steel Institute formed the Steelmark in 1960 to promote American steel, with the logo put on the helmets of the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1962 to further publicize the program?
Did you know that the Christmas carol Personent hodie, first published in the 1582 Finnish song book Piae Cantiones, is thought to be a parody of a 12th-century carol?
Did you know that the German rock group Tokio Hotel has released six singles and an album in English?
Did you know that the Lublin 1980 strikes marked the beginning of important socio-political changes in Poland, such as the creation of Solidarity and democratization of the country?
Did you know that the South Indian Hindu deity Shasta (statue pictured) is considered the son of Shiva and Mohini, a female form of Vishnu?
Did you know that the name of Shelldrake, a ghost town in the U.S. state of Michigan, was translated from the Ojibwa word for a kind of duck?
Did you know that the opening of State Fair Community College was delayed for more than two years because of a legal dispute over college districts in Missouri?
Did you know that the putrid stench of the "latticed stinkhorn" fungus Clathrus ruber attracts insects to help disperse its spores?
Did you know that thousands of people at Deekshabhoomi, a pilgrimage center in Nagpur, India, embraced Buddhism on October 14, 1956?
Did you know that to boost US sales the AMC marketing team rebranded the aging export AJS Model 16 with the new name The Sceptre?
Did you know that tropical botanist Paul H. Allen assembled one of the most important collections of banana germplasm?
Did you know that while the British indie rock band Bombay Bicycle Club were recording their debut EP, The Boy I Used to Be, they were in the same school year as Cajun Dance Party?
Did you know that 1941 NCAA backstroke champion and University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor inductee Francis Heydt later owned a business that sold camouflage clothing to the U.S. military?
Did you know that Benoît Sinzogan, described as "too timid to mount a coup" during the 1960s and 1970s, was "one of Dahomey's few senior officers not to attempt to"?
Did you know that Conolophus rosada, a newly described species of iguana, diverged some 5.7 million years ago, making it among the oldest incidents of evolutionary divergence recorded in the Galápagos archipelago?
Did you know that Czesław Wycech, Polish peasant movement activist, was also involved with underground education in occupied Poland during WWII?
Did you know that Leonid Plyushch, who sought to apply mathematical modeling to mental illness, was later diagnosed with sluggish schizophrenia for his dissident activities?
Did you know that Maria Kinnaird, who was adopted by the politician Richard "Conversation" Sharp, married the surveyor who first used the Drummond Light?
Did you know that Operation Barga helped improve the social status of bargadars (sharecroppers) in West Bengal, India?