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Did you know that the elaborate Greek Orthodox Malbis Memorial Church in rural Malbis, Alabama, has never had an active congregation?
Did you know that the floating barnacle Dosima fascicularis sometimes grows on turtles and even sea snakes?
Did you know that the music on Slut's album StillNo1 has been compared to a variety of different artists, amongst them Radiohead, Depeche Mode, The Divine Comedy, Sigur Rós and The Beatles?
Did you know that the size of Fish Lake in Oregon, USA, taking water over the Cascade Divide via the Cascade Canal from nearby Fourmile Lake, is now three times larger than it was before 1902?
Did you know that the world's first offshore oil wells began operations in as early as 1896 when oil was drilled from piers along the coast of Summerland, California, USA?
Did you know that trash cans in France are known as poubelles because Eugène Poubelle first imposed them on Paris?
Did you know that when actress Vanessa Marshall learned that she would be playing the character Mary-Jane Watson in the Spectacular Spider-Man episode "Catalysts", she dropped to her knees and began hyperventilating?
Did you know that "Lucky Man", a 1970 song by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, was written by Greg Lake when he was 12 years old?
Did you know that Archbishop of Rouen Walter de Coutances (d. 1207) had to pay the final 10,000 marks of King Richard I of England's ransom, as the archbishop was a hostage until it was paid?
Did you know that Arvid Johanson took over as Norway's second Minister of Petroleum and Energy in 1980, when Bjartmar Gjerde resigned due to high job pressure?
Did you know that Daithí Ó Drónaí and his electronic synthesised fiddle progressed to the final of the first series of The All Ireland Talent Show?
Did you know that Freddie Barnes, a wide receiver at Bowling Green, is one of three finalists for the Fred Biletnikoff Award?
Did you know that Harry Hurt created the Hurt Report, described as "the most comprehensive motorcycle safety study of the 20th century"?
Did you know that Mexican handcrafts and folk art (example pictured) blend European and native American influences?
Did you know that Navy Midshipmen's quarterback Ricky Dobbs runs a triple option offense and shares Tim Tebow's record for most rushing touchdowns for a college quarterback in a single season?
Did you know that Sara Stockfleth Christie was the second female deputy member in the history of the Parliament of Norway?
Did you know that Sword of Aragon, a video game published in 1989, frustrated players with its copy protection that prompted them with inaccurate information?
Did you know that although in theory a common mineral below the earth's surface, coyoteite has been found at the surface only in one volcanic pipe?
Did you know that an example of the extinct Toy Trawler Spaniel, bred by Judith Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth, is preserved at the Natural History Museum at Tring?
Did you know that during the invasion of Normandy, more than a million Rommelspargel poles placed to injure Allied paratroopers and glider infantry proved ineffective?
Did you know that footballer Roger Helland in 2004 scored Fredrikstad's first goal in the Norwegian Premier League in 20 years?
Did you know that in 1298, three brothers established the Myinsaing Kingdom after inviting King Kyawswa of Pagan to lead the dedication of a monastery, only to dethrone him and force him to become a monk?
Did you know that in an Alford plea a defendant in U.S. criminal court admits there is evidence to support a conviction and enters a guilty plea, while asserting innocence?
Did you know that on the Hindu festival Ratha Saptami, the icons of the Sun-god are carried in ceremonial processions in Mysore and Melkote?
Did you know that prior to being hired as a columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Katherine Kersten worked as a lawyer and banker?
Did you know that the Gasmouloi were the descendants of mixed Byzantine Greek and Latin unions, and were employed as marines in the Byzantine navy?
Did you know that Bruce's Beach, which opened in the early 1910s in Manhattan Beach, California, was an African-American resort in an "otherwise lily-white community"?
Did you know that Bulgarian physician and politician Georgi Stranski, best man to national poet Hristo Botev, was the only Commissar of South Bulgaria?
Did you know that Franz Baermann Steiner, whose parents were murdered in Treblinka and who later died of a heart attack in 1952 in Oxford, was called "one of Hitler's victims" by Iris Murdoch?
Did you know that Jean-Claude Biver has been credited with "saving the mechanical watch industry from the quartz movement"?
Did you know that Lee Boyd Malvo entered an Alford plea in 2004 for his role in the Beltway sniper attacks, as part of a plea deal to avoid the death penalty?
Did you know that Louis Lesser developed Barrington Plaza, the largest urban renewal project in the western United States under President John F. Kennedy, as well as many of Howard Hughes' properties?
Did you know that New Jersey Attorney General George F. Kugler, Jr. was the father of Pete Kugler who played in three Super Bowls for the San Francisco 49ers?
Did you know that Paul Eggers, the Texas Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1970, trailed his senatorial ticket mate, George H.W. Bush, by 34,000 votes, and both lost to Democrats?
Did you know that Philippine real estate company Megaworld Corporation renamed a condominum project from "The Trumps" to "One Central" after threats of legal action from Donald Trump?
Did you know that Rizong Monastery in Ladakh, Inidia, is known as “the paradise for meditation”?
Did you know that St George's Church, Worthing established three mission chapels in the town, including a tiny hut jokingly known as "The Cathedral"?
Did you know that according to a mediaeval Icelandic saga, Jarl Gilli dreamt of the violent death of Irish king, Brian Boru?
Did you know that although he was the first prince of Trần emperor Trần Thái Tông, Trần Quốc Khang was actually a son of the emperor's elder brother Trần Liễu?
Did you know that an attempted Russian conquest of Hawaii in 1815–1817 was led by a German physician?
Did you know that at the Tzintzuntzan pyramids huge fires were lit to signal the P'urhépecha kingdom that it was time to go to war?
Did you know that because of the Bambi effect, some people will not eat a whole fish?
Did you know that child actor Joey Pollari was 15 years old when he appeared in the Disney XD film, Skyrunners?
Did you know that for over a century after it was introduced into English the word "landscape" was only used for works of landscape art (example pictured)?
Did you know that since 1995 a quintet of untitled jazz musicians has been performing near Indiana Avenue in Indianapolis?
Did you know that the Gorgas-Manly Historic District in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, contains two of only seven buildings to survive the burning of the University of Alabama by the Union Army on April 4, 1865?
Did you know that the city of Minneapolis refused the gift from T. B. Walker that may have included a landscape by Frederic Edwin Church later sold for US$8.5 million?
Did you know that the fourth floor of Havnelageret in Oslo was used as an air-raid shelter during the Second World War?
Did you know that the large weight (55 tons) of the main cannon at the Bijapur Fort discouraged the British from carrying it as a trophy to England?
Did you know that the last empress of the Lý Dynasty, Trần Thị Dung, married her cousin, grand chancellor Trần Thủ Độ, who was responsible for the death of her first husband Lý Huệ Tông?
Did you know that the music video for alternative rock band Soul Asylum's 1995 song "Just Like Anyone" features actress Claire Danes?
Did you know that the statue of the Shakyamuni Buddha of Shey Monastery is believed to be the second largest such statue in the northern Indian region of Ladakh?
Did you know that there is an oil field underneath Los Angeles, California, called the Salt Lake Oil Field?
Did you know that Anthony Morabito was the first of thirteen West Australians drafted in the 2009 AFL Draft, when the Fremantle Football Club selected him with their first-round pick?
Did you know that David Colbert was given permission to publish the book The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter only if there was a note on the cover stating that it had not been approved by J.K. Rowling?
Did you know that Herne Bay Museum and Gallery contains the prototype Highball bouncing bomb, precursor of the Upkeep bouncing bomb used in the 1943 Dambuster raids?
Did you know that Sathyavani Muthu was one of the first two non-Congress members from Tamil Nadu to serve as a Union Minister in India?
Did you know that Schwa, an upscale restaurant in Chicago, employs no receptionist, waiters, or other support staff?
Did you know that Shraddha Jadhav, who was recently elected as the Mayor of Mumbai and chief of India's richest municipal body, is known for her "elegant dressing"?
Did you know that Sir William Sharington was pardoned after he was described in a sermon by Bishop Hugh Latimer as "an honest gentleman, and one that God loveth"?
Did you know that Slaughter County, Iowa, named after William B. Slaughter, was renamed because its citizens were dissatisfied with the name?
Did you know that Tsegaye Kebede, an Olympic and World Championship medalist in the marathon, worked as a child for 30 US cents a day so he could afford a daily meal and an education?
Did you know that William Edward White may have been the first African-American to play Major League Baseball when he appeared in one game for the 1879 Providence Grays?
Did you know that according to legend, Dunan Aula was the burial site of the Viking warrior 'Olaf, son of the King of Denmark'; after he was slain in combat against local Scots?
Did you know that arsonists set fire to the Cutts-Madison House in Washington, D.C., while Dolley Madison was living there?
Did you know that former Louisiana State Senator Bill Keith authored a creation science law that was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1987 case Edwards v. Aguillard?
Did you know that in 1854 the southern coast of Honshū, Japan, was hit by tsunamis caused by two great megathrust earthquakes on December 24 and 25?
Did you know that in 2004 Kenyan runner Florence Barsosio won the Florence Marathon in Florence, Italy?
Did you know that in the capture of Ormuz (1507), Afonso de Albuquerque subdued Hormuz Island and established a fort?
Did you know that rather than follow the usual practice of lip synching to prerecorded vocals, Bette Midler sang most of her songs live in the 1993 television movie Gypsy?
Did you know that tail length is not a reliable way to identify the longtail stingray, because its tail is often damaged?
Did you know that the Army of Flanders (Siege of Breda (1624) pictured) was the longest standing army in early modern history, operating from 1567 to 1706?
Did you know that the Atlantic torpedo can produce an electric shock of up to 220 volts, and was the namesake of the naval weapon?
Did you know that the Koshare Indian Dancers are a Boy Scouts of America Scout troop that travels the United States promoting the appreciation of American Indian culture through Indian dances?
Did you know that the Obudu Ranch International Mountain Race is known as "the world's richest mountain race" because of the large amounts of prize money on offer?
Did you know that the Swiss Alpine Museum has the world's largest collection of raised-relief maps?
Did you know that the Triassic reptile Vancleavea, which is specialized to live in the water, differs greatly from all other early archosauriforms?
Did you know that the development of the Oseberg oil field is one of the significant milestones in the creation of Norway's oil and gas industry?
Did you know that the mineral athabascaite was discovered in 1949 during a research study of radioactive materials collected from Lake Athabasca in Saskatchewan, Canada?
Did you know that three U.S. states do not accept the guilty plea known as the Alford plea?
Did you know that 32% of welding defects are from operator error?
Did you know that All in the Mind, the debut novel by former British government Director of Communications Alastair Campbell, drew on his experiences of depression and alcoholism?
Did you know that Benny Benson created the Alaskan flag while living at the Jesse Lee Home for Children, an orphanage in Seward, Alaska?
Did you know that Berbak National Park in Sumatra, Indonesia, forms part of the largest undisturbed swamp forest in southeastern Asia, and the peat swamp forest with the greatest number of palm species?
Did you know that Captain Charles Fryatt was executed by the Germans for trying to ram U-33 in March 1915 with his ferry SS Brussels?
Did you know that James Jones, a pitcher in college, entered the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft and was selected in the fourth round as an outfielder by the Seattle Mariners?
Did you know that Marvin Minoff, executive producer of The Nixon Interviews between former U.S. President Richard Nixon and journalist David Frost, began his career as a talent agent?
Did you know that NEADS/Dogs for Deaf and Disabled Americans relies on help from inmates from 15 New England correctional facilities to train many of its assistance dogs?
Did you know that Native Americans lived at the Canfield Island Site on the West Branch Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania for thousands of years, and now hold an annual pow wow there?
Did you know that actress Jessalyn Gilsig hoped viewers would warm to her Glee character Terri Schuester after the episode "Mattress", having previously experienced a fan backlash?
Did you know that climate change and rising ocean acidity are affecting fisheries and modifying fish distributions?
Did you know that crystals of campigliaite, first discovered in Tuscany, are transparent with a light or pale blue vitreous luster?
Did you know that despite most of its interments later being moved to larger rural cemeteries, Sharp Burial Ground in Kingston, New York, still has the graves of two former U.S. Congressmen?
Did you know that during his imprisonment in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, Fritz Weiss continued his collaboration with jazz orchestras outside of the camp?
Did you know that former Baton Rouge Mayor-President Bobby Simpson worked to end chronic homelessness in his city?
Did you know that horn player Neill Sanders commuted from Kalamazoo, Michigan, to London, where he played in the Melos Ensemble?
Did you know that if a Member of the Parliament of Singapore (Parliament House pictured) claims a division during a vote on a motion, MPs are locked inside the debating chamber until their votes have been tallied?
Did you know that in 1641, Bristol Corporation concluded a perambulation of the city boundaries with a duck hunt at Treen Mills on the River Malago?
Did you know that it was feared Seattle's Art Deco-styled Naval Reserve Armory would become a white elephant?
Did you know that the Naval Training Center San Diego was the home of a commissioned "non-ship" of the U.S. Navy, the USS Recruit, a concrete model of a warship built right into the ground and nicknamed the "USS Neversail"?
Did you know that the Thikse Monastery in India is called Mini-Potala because of its structural similarity to the former residence of the Dalai Lama, the Potala Palace in Tibet?
Did you know that the Tobias Van Steenburgh House was one of the few buildings in Kingston, New York, not burned by British troops in 1777?
Did you know that the first single from In the Room Up There, Australian band Elora Danan's debut album, was entitled "Door, Up, Elevator" and "inspired by elevator music, and the etiquette that goes on in elevators"?
Did you know that the former Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island is New York City's only landmarked ruins?
Did you know that the globular cluster Terzan 5 is likely the core of a disrupted dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way?
Did you know that the missing terminal of the golden Sedgeford Torc was found thirty-nine years after the original discovery of the artifact?
Did you know that unlike her predecessors, the Empress Regnant Lý Chiêu Hoàng was not worshipped in Lý Bát Đế Shrine because of her responsibility in the collapse of Lý Dynasty?
Did you know that Davidson Seamount, off the coast of California, is one of the largest seamounts in the world?
Did you know that Gordon Bastian, the Second Engineer of the Empire Bowman, was awarded an Albert Medal for rescuing two stokers after the ship was torpedoed by U-404?
Did you know that Monk McDonald played on the 1923–24 championship North Carolina basketball team, and then graduated and coached the team the next year?
Did you know that both the Irish Pine and Irish Oak, which were chartered from the United States by Irish Shipping Ltd during the Second World War, were sunk by German U-boats despite their neutral status?
Did you know that from 1765 to 1780 Meshullam Solomon and Tevele Schiff both claimed to be the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom?
Did you know that golf was introduced to Singapore by Sir John Tankerville Goldney in 1891 while he was Chief Justice for the Straits Settlements?
Did you know that in Teotitlán del Valle, it is possible to "steal" a bride?
Did you know that in the 1508 Battle of Chaul in India, a Mamluk-Gujarati fleet defeated a Portuguese fleet under Lourenço de Almeida?
Did you know that opera singer Zélie de Lussan sang 2,000 performances in the title role of Carmen?
Did you know that since the death of Kamehameha I in 1819, Hawaiian Chief Hoʻolulu and his descendants have served as caretakers of the royal tombs of the Kingdom of Hawaii?
Did you know that the American rodent tribe Oryzomyini includes species living in trees, in the water (including the Marsh Rice Rat, pictured), and on the Galápagos Islands?
Did you know that the Ross Casino in Pichilemu was the first casino in Chile?
Did you know that the design for the Main Building of the University of Santo Tomas, Philippines, was influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel in Tokyo?
Did you know that the oblique cord is a 3.4 cm long ligament in the forearm near the elbow, between the ulnar and radius bones, which has no known function and may be vestigial?
Did you know that the only known source of the mineral Macaulayite in the world is in a quarry at the foot of Bennachie, Aberdeenshire – but it may also be present on Mars?
Did you know that the red stingray and the Mekong freshwater stingray are characterized by their bright orange undersides?
Did you know that two of the residents of the Richard Upjohn-designed James and Mary Forsyth House in Kingston, New York, left it after being accused of financial wrongdoing?
Did you know that while passing through the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the Defective Premises Act 1972 was not at all debated in the House of Commons?
Did you know that Idaho Territorial Governor John N. Irwin objected to the U.S. Treasury placing his salary into their Conscience Fund?
Did you know that Penn State's John Romig, the first NCAA champion in the two-mile run, later became an explosives expert?
Did you know that for the 10 Seasons Awards, almost 750,000 football fans from 184 countries voted, in a celebration of the first ten years of the English Premier League (trophy pictured)?
Did you know that in 1893, the career of Irish nationalist politician John Deasy was cut short when he was tried for indecent assault?
Did you know that in 1948, Arne Skaug became the first State Secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs?
Did you know that in his clemency application to Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Maurice Clemmons claimed to have learned "to appreciate and respect the right of others"?
Did you know that in the siege of Cannanore (1507) in India, a Portuguese garrison of 150 resisted for four months against 60,000 attackers?
Did you know that nine new permanent competition venues will be constructed for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil?
Did you know that part of the Occupiers' Liability Act 1984, a piece of United Kingdom legislation on tort law, is intended to permit educational and recreational use of land?
Did you know that the 1957 film Edge of the City, starring John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier, won acclaim from critics and civil rights groups for its portrayal of an interracial friendship?
Did you know that the 1984 romantic TV miniseries based on the novel The Far Pavilions was filmed in the precincts of Samode Palace in Rajasthan, India?
Did you know that the Algerian communist trade union centre UGSA disbanded itself in 1957, after the rival nationalist UGTA had participated in the Leipzig congress of the World Federation of Trade Unions?
Did you know that the Ossabaw Island Hog has been used as a model organism for studying Type II diabetes in humans?
Did you know that the Pygmy Pine, a tiny creeping alpine plant growing in New Zealand, is believed to be the smallest conifer in the world?
Did you know that the Swedish film Hoppa högst was written by famous author Astrid Lindgren, who based the screenplay on a story from her book Kajsa Kavat?
Did you know that the powerful Early Classic Mesoamerican city of Balberta, in Guatemala, abruptly collapsed around AD 400?
Did you know that Jason Little was nominated for a Harvey Award and an Ignatz Award for his creation of the comic book Jack's Luck Runs Out?
Did you know that Jody Trautwein, who attempted to convert Sasha Baron Cohen's character Brüno from his gay lifestyle, recently ran for mayor of Birmingham, Alabama?
Did you know that Medal of Honor recipient John F. Auer's medal was stolen before he left the United States Navy?
Did you know that Sanath Jayasuriya has scored 28 ODI centuries, the second highest in the world and the highest for the Sri Lanka national cricket team?
Did you know that Smugglers Notch near Smugglers' Notch State Park in Vermont was used by smugglers circumventing the Embargo Act of 1807, the Underground Railroad, and bootleggers?
Did you know that fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez discovered Jessica Lange, Grace Jones, and Jerry Hall?
Did you know that nearly 15 years after playing in the 1966 Cotton Bowl, Louisiana State University Tigers quarterback Pat Screen was elected Mayor of Baton Rouge?
Did you know that psychiatrist Marie Nyswander, who developed the methadone treatment for heroin addicts, was herself addicted to cigarettes?
Did you know that the 2009 Western Australian daylight savings referendum was the fourth time that Western Australia voted against introducing daylight saving time?
Did you know that the Autism Act 2009 is the first ever disability-specific legislation to be passed in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that the Forecastle Festival in Louisville, Kentucky, was named one of Outdoor Magazine's "Top 15 Outdoor Summer Music Festivals"?
Did you know that the Hawa Mahal in Jaipur, India, has 953 small windows (jharokhas) which were built with the intention to allow royal ladies to view the street below without being seen?
Did you know that the Indian God Rock was a popular tourist attraction for 19th-century steamboats on the Allegheny River?
Did you know that the Poison song "Unskinny Bop" was featured during a strip club scene in "Tom's Divorce", an episode of the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation?
Did you know that the RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned aerial vehicle was dubbed the "Beast of Kandahar" by an aviation expert before its existence was officially confirmed by the United States Air Force?
Did you know that the Russell Watson song "Nothing Sacred – A Song for Kirsty" was released to raise money for the Kirsty Appeal?
Did you know that the author of Everything Tastes Better with Bacon decided to write the book after having an epiphany involving bacon and sugar?
Did you know that the brown stingray is the most common stingray found off the Hawaiian Islands?
Did you know that when the Canadian government attempted to move the land titles office out of Edmonton's Land Titles Building to a rival town, an angry mob sabotaged the move and had an armed standoff with police?
Did you know that Dzongsar Monastery, in the historical Tibetan region of Kham, was founded in 746 AD and contained a Bönpo shrine for 1,300 years?