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Did you know that punch bowls were occasionally used as baptismal fonts in dissenting families?
Did you know that soprano Meagan Miller, accustomed to wearing US$10,000 gowns on stage in her opera performances, chose to wear her mother's simple gown for her summer 2008 wedding?
Did you know that the Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired Massaro House has an 18-foot (5.5 m)-high living area illuminated by 26 triangular skylights?
Did you know that the French navigation authority Voies navigables de France manages 3,800-kilometre (2,400 mi) of canals and 2,900-kilometre (1,800 mi) rivers on the largest network of waterways in Europe?
Did you know that the Guatemalan Black Howler and Mantled Howler monkeys are sympatric over parts of Mexico and Guatemala?
Did you know that the Lazarus syndrome is named after Lazarus of Bethany, who the Bible says was raised from the dead by Jesus?
Did you know that the double balcony of Proctor's Theater in Troy, New York, made it ideal for showing motion pictures when that medium became popular in the 1920s?
Did you know that the head of the passerine bird, the Noisy Friarbird, is mostly bare of feathers?
Did you know that the snail Elimia virginica colonized the Oswego River but was out-competed from there by another non-indigenous snail?
Did you know that three roads in Guide Board Corners, New York were damaged and closed by Hurricane Agnes?
Did you know that two members of the French band Zebda ran for political office in Toulouse during the 2001 municipal elections, and won 12.38 percent of the vote?
Did you know that two white supremacists allegedly plotted to assassinate Senator Barack Obama as part of a supposed plan to murder more than 100 African Americans in Tennessee?
Did you know that "Guan ju", one of the oldest poems in Chinese literature, was praised by Confucius for its restrained emotions?
Did you know that "bleeding tooth fungus" is a member of the woody toothed fungus genus Hydnellum (example pictured)?
Did you know that Akkamma Cherian, an Indian freedom fighter, was popularly known as the "Jhansi Rani of Travancore?"
Did you know that Bowie Seamount on the British Columbia Coast of Canada is one of the most biologically rich submarine volcanoes on Earth and was an active volcanic island throughout the last glacial period?
Did you know that Bruce McLaren Motor Racing's first use of the color now known as "McLaren Orange" was on their McLaren M6As, which won the 1967 Can-Am Challenge Cup?
Did you know that Camp Beauregard, an American Civil War camp in western Kentucky, was abandoned in less than six months due to over 1,000 cases of typhoid and pneumonia?
Did you know that Cavallo's multiplier was an 18th-century electrostatic influence machine used to amplify electric charge?
Did you know that Floyd Rayford was the baseball player that Cal Ripken, Jr. replaced in the starting lineup to begin his streak of 2,632 consecutive games played?
Did you know that Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki attributed his phobia of earthquakes to the collapse of his family house in the 1894 Meiji Tokyo earthquake?
Did you know that Judith Wachs, who spent 30 years with her Sephardic music group Voice of the Turtle, first turned to music when she filled in for her husband who signed up for recorder lessons but could not attend?
Did you know that Kukkarahalli lake adjoining the University of Mysore, was created in 1864 during Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar's rule of the Kingdom of Mysore, to provide water for irrigation?
Did you know that Nebuchadnezzar, a colour monotype by William Blake, depicts the Babylonian king "crawling like a hunted beast" with "his wild eyes full of sullen terror"?
Did you know that Richard Petty and his crew chief Dale Inman presented the first artifact to the NASCAR Hall of Fame, the car that Petty drove to a record 27 victories in 1967?
Did you know that Swiss balloonist Eduard Spelterini was acclaimed for aerial photography before the development and proliferation of aeroplanes?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Jiang Gongfu was removed from office when he opposed Emperor Dezong's wish to build a pagoda in mourning his daughter Princess Tang'an?
Did you know that although the Ariel W/NG 350 was not initially selected by the British War Department, they were in great demand after the evacuation of Dunkirk in the World War II?
Did you know that in 1999, the government of India issued a postage stamp to commemorate Madras politician P. Kakkan?
Did you know that in his 2001 post-anarchist book From Bakunin to Lacan, Saul Newman questions how modernist anarchism can refrain from reproducing the forms of oppression that it tries to overcome?
Did you know that no multicellular organisms have ever evolved wheels or similar propulsion methods, although the Pleuroptya ruralis caterpillar can roll and a species of mantis shrimp performs somersaults?
Did you know that redistributive change is a theory of economic justice that promotes the recognition of poverty as a suspect classification under U.S. law?
Did you know that shortly after architect Ralph Anderson's early "modernist glass-box phase" he began rehabilitating turn-of-the-century buildings (example pictured) in Seattle's Pioneer Square district?
Did you know that the 20 deaths in the Donora Smog of 1948, called one of the worst air pollution disasters in American history, have been credited with leading to passage of the U.S. Clean Air Act in 1970?
Did you know that the Moon of Baroda, a 24.04-carat diamond, was worn by actress Marilyn Monroe and Empress Marie Therese of Austria?
Did you know that the Polish Righteous among the Nations, Alfreda and Bolesław Pietraszek, rescued families of 18 Jews during the Holocaust on their farm in Ceranów?
Did you know that the Shinbashi Enbujō in Ginza, Japan, today a major kabuki theatre, was originally built to serve as a venue for geisha dances?
Did you know that the award nominated film Lonesome Jim had a last minute budget cut from US$3 million down to US$500,000 and had to be shot in only 17 days?
Did you know that the controversial Scout Moor Wind Farm, which opened in September 2008, is presently the largest onshore wind farm in England?
Did you know that the documentary series Bertie and Haughey on the lives of former taoisigh Bertie Ahern and Charles Haughey were made by Mint Productions?
Did you know that the green flash is a by-product of a corresponding mirage of an astronomical object?
Did you know that the pilot edition of the BBC Radio 7 comedy A Series of Psychotic Episodes was nominated for a Sony Radio Academy Award?
Did you know that Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens, the son of novelist Charles Dickens, died in New York in 1912 while on a lecture tour celebrating the centenary of his father's birth?
Did you know that Byron recorded seeing the "tigers sup" at the Exeter Exchange menagerie in central London owned by Edward Cross?
Did you know that Estelle Reiner′s deadpan line —"I'll have what she's having"—after Meg Ryan's faked orgasm in When Harry Met Sally, was ranked by the AFI as one of the best ever movie quotes?
Did you know that Gants Mill is an historic watermill now generating hydroelectric power from the River Brue?
Did you know that Grandmaster Valentina Golubenko, the first and only World Youth Chess Champion born and raised in Estonia, is a Russian citizen playing under the Croatian flag?
Did you know that India's Sir Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar was the first President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council?
Did you know that James Wandin, the first Australian Rules footballer of aboriginal descent to play with St Kilda Football Club, was also the tribal leader of the Wurundjeri people?
Did you know that Lt. Henry B. Hidden is believed to be first officer of Union volunteer cavalry killed in the American Civil War?
Did you know that Paducah, Kentucky's Lloyd Tilghman Memorial honors a Marylander, and was built by an English immigrant from Boston?
Did you know that Rowland Lockey, an English painter and miniaturist, made copies of the work of other artists, including Hans Holbein the Younger (detail of one such copy pictured)?
Did you know that Symantec was originally founded by Gary Hendrix to focus on AI-related projects such as natural language processing?
Did you know that William David Davies was the first Welsh non-conformist to obtain a Bachelor of Divinity degree from the University of Oxford?
Did you know that a riot at Paducah, Kentucky's Woolfolk Home led to Ulysses S. Grant's promotion above his superior officer, Brigadier General Charles Ferguson Smith?
Did you know that after his diagnosis with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, tributes to Allan Rosenfield included a song dedication by Bono at a U2 concert?
Did you know that for building a giant reservoir, King Mahasen, who ruled Sri Lanka from AD 275 to 301, was declared a God by his subjects?
Did you know that in 1917, baseball managers John McGraw and Christy Mathewson were arrested after a game for playing on Sunday?
Did you know that in 2004, The Hershey Company released three flavors of a new product called Snack Barz?
Did you know that in geometric group theory, a Dehn function is an optimal function associated to a finite group presentation which estimates the area of a relation in that group in terms of its length?
Did you know that in his 1933 essay In Praise of Shadows, Junichirō Tanizaki includes monastery toilets in his reflections on Japanese aesthetics?
Did you know that many Norwegian political parties opposed the establishment of a State Secretary, only to expand that institution when in power?
Did you know that rather than await execution, Russian anarchist assassin Moishe Tokar doused himself in paraffin from his prison cell lamp and burned himself alive?
Did you know that the 1919 Ihlen Declaration, made by Norwegian Foreign Minister Nils Claus Ihlen on the subject of Greenland's sovereignty, led to an international court case?
Did you know that the 1925 Irish Senate election required a change in the law governing the layout of the ballot, to allow all 76 candidates to be listed?
Did you know that the 2008-09 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team is in its first season off of scholarship probation following the University of Michigan basketball scandal?
Did you know that the British War Office placed orders for the Norton 16H longer than for any other single make of motorcycle?
Did you know that the Egyptian Communist Organisation was nicknamed "Mishmish", meaning apricot in Arabic?
Did you know that the Observer Group was the first joint-United States Army/Marine unit to be organized and trained specifically for amphibious reconnaissance?
Did you know that the Sunday Closing Act of 1881, which restricted the opening of public houses in Wales, was the first legislation for over three centuries to recognise that country as distinct from England?
Did you know that the Valencian regional parliament, the Corts Valencianes, has its origins in assemblies established in the thirteenth century by King James I of Aragon?
Did you know that the Zlín International Film Festival for Children and Youth, one of the oldest youth film festivals, included over 500 films from 52 countries in 2008?
Did you know that the cruise ship MS Astor was ordered in 1985 as an ocean liner for Safmarine's UK–South Africa service, but the service was abandoned before the ship was completed?
Did you know that the entrance to Kaipara Harbour has treacherous sandbars known as "the graveyard", which are responsible for more shipwrecks than any other place in New Zealand?
Did you know that the original owner of the diamond Star of the South (replica pictured) sold it for a mere £3,000, and the buyer later deposited it in the bank of Rio de Janeiro for £30,000?
Did you know that the so-called "lobster mushroom" is a delicacy created by one fungus, Hypomyces lactifluorum, parasitising another, usually Russula brevipes?
Did you know that Ōe Taku, after spending 12 years in prison for treason, was elected to the lower house in the Diet of Japan in 1890?
Did you know that Amasa Holcomb was the first in the United States to manufacture telescopes?
Did you know that Clärenore Stinnes was the first person to circumnavigate the world by automobile in an Adler Standard 6?
Did you know that Ford Road in Dearborn, Michigan, was named for William Ford, father of Henry?
Did you know that India's Kanjli Wetland, a manmade wetland created in 1870, has been recognised by the Ramsar Convention for its rich biodiversity?
Did you know that Ingres painted Jupiter and Thetis to fulfill his obligations to the French Academy in Rome, a body famous for the patriarchal attitude that the work seeks to repudiate?
Did you know that Joseph C. Hare, American politician and lumberman, has a railroad station, railroad stop, and valley all named after him?
Did you know that Kentucky's Paducah Freight House was bigger than required because it was originally intended to service a larger rail network?
Did you know that Milan Bandić was elected in 2005 as the mayor of Zagreb, Croatia, with the support of only a seventh of eligible voters?
Did you know that Nationalist commanders offered 500 pesetas for each T-26 Spanish Army tank captured from the Popular Front during the Spanish Civil War?
Did you know that Nemattanew, a renegade Powhatan captain dubbed "Jack-of-the-Feather" in 1611 for his extravagant regalia, believed he was invincible to English bullets?
Did you know that Policeman Bluejay, a children's novel by L. Frank Baum of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz fame, was first published in 1907 under the pen name "Laura Bancroft"?
Did you know that Rear-Admiral Charles Austen′s family included Admiral of the Fleet Francis Austen, and the novelist Jane Austen?
Did you know that Schloss Vollrads claims to be the oldest winery of Germany?
Did you know that William Blake's painting The Ghost of a Flea caused some contemporaries to believe that he was a madman?
Did you know that William Munroe was the first manufacturer of pencils in the United States?
Did you know that William Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor,  also helped calculate the solar cell's Shockley-Queisser limit?
Did you know that Ylon Schwartz, main event finalist at the 2008 World Series of Poker, has gambled on backgammon, darts, horses, and his ability to toss lemons across a street onto the roof of a Burger King?
Did you know that Zaki Tun Azmi became the Chief Justice of Malaysia after serving just over one year in the superior courts of Malaysia?
Did you know that Zhang Yanshang, his father, son, and father-in-law were all Tang Dynasty Chinese chancellors?
Did you know that al-Karmil, an Arabic language newspaper first published in Haifa in 1908, was founded with the express purpose of "opposing Zionist colonization"?
Did you know that an outer jacket, magoja was introduced to Korea after the king's father, Heungseon Daewongun, returned from Manchuria in 1887?
Did you know that art historian Albert Boime theorized that Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night was based on positions of celestial objects at 4 a.m. on June 19, 1889?
Did you know that country music singer Jeremy McComb was once a tour manager for comedian Larry the Cable Guy?
Did you know that director Peter Ustinov instructed Richard Burton not to blink during his performance as the sociopath in the 1972 film Hammersmith is Out?
Did you know that the 1855 Wairarapa earthquake was the most powerful earthquake in New Zealand?
Did you know that the CZ 2075 RAMI was named by combining the first two initials of the two people who originally designed it?
Did you know that the California Milk Processor Board spent US$1.5 million in 2002 to popularize the Latin American drink licuado as a way to promote milk consumption?
Did you know that the Fodder Scam involved the alleged embezzlement of about Rs. 950 crore (US$ 199 million) from the treasury of the Indian state of Bihar?
Did you know that the Hart-Cluett Mansion in Troy, New York, is the only intact example of the luxury homes commonly built in early–19th century New York City?
Did you know that the Norwegian manufacturing company Thune, started in 1815 as a blacksmith's workshop, later expanded to build agricultural machinery, turbines and locomotives?
Did you know that the meaning of "Der Pleier", the pseudonym of the 13th-century author of the romance Garel, is unknown, though it might refer metaphorically to glassblowing?
Did you know that the restoration of the Tithe Barn, Pilton in Somerset, England was supported by profits from the Glastonbury Festival?
Did you know that the silhouette artist S. John Ross had a 60-year association with the Sydney Royal Easter Show, and created portraits of Vivian Leigh and Nicole Kidman?
Did you know that the steamboats Enterprise and Maria once had a monopoly on transport along the Fraser River in British Columbia?
Did you know that the threatened noonday globe land snail is known only from a two-mile (3 km)-long area inside the gorge of the Nantahala River in North Carolina?
Did you know that veteran Tour de France commentator Daniel Mangeas has been called a "talking encyclopedia of cycling" because he never needs notes?
Did you know that when Australian cricketer Jack Massie fought at Gallipoli, he wore a scarlet rag on his right arm to distract snipers from his bowling arm?
Did you know that Black Iraqis still maintain their African heritage in healing ceremonies?
Did you know that Clarence W. Spangenberger was the last president of Cornell Steamboat Company, whose more than sixty vessels once made it the largest tugboat company in the United States?
Did you know that General James Deshler was killed instantly by a Union cannon's artillery shell at the Battle of Chickamauga?
Did you know that India's Harike Wetland has a concentration of migratory waterfowl with a number of globally threatened species?
Did you know that Japanese admiral Mitsumi Shimizu authorized the midget submarine operation during the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Did you know that Lexington, North Carolina's urban revitalization efforts include the Pigs in the City public art initiative?
Did you know that Manny Harris was the first player to start for three consecutive Detroit Public School League Basketball Champions since Jalen Rose and Voshon Lenard?
Did you know that Mark Canton, producer of 300 and The Spiderwick Chronicles, started his movie career working in the mail room of Warner Bros.?
Did you know that Qualifying Industrial Zones are special free-trade zones in Jordan and Egypt created to take advantage of the free trade agreements between the United States and Israel?
Did you know that SM U-10 and SM U-11, which were U-10-class submarines constructed in Germany and shipped to Austria-Hungary by rail, were both commissioned into the German Imperial Navy and the Austro-Hungarian Navy during World War I?
Did you know that SM U-5, ceded to Italy in 1920 as war reparations, was the only member of the U-5-class submarines of the Austro-Hungarian Navy to survive World War I?
Did you know that Terence Tolbert, Nevada state director for Barack Obama's presidential campaign, died of a heart attack at age 44, two days before the 2008 U.S. presidential election?
Did you know that The ABC of Communism by Nikolai Bukharin and Evgenii Preobrazhensky was the most widely read political work in Soviet Russia?
Did you know that Tzvia Greenfeld is the first Haredi woman to serve as a member of the Knesset?
Did you know that William Louis Abbott, American doctor and philanthropist, went to Madagascar to enlist in the native army against the second French occupation of the island?
Did you know that Zeituni Onyango is the half-aunt of President-elect Barack Obama and a political asylum claimant from Kenya whose case was disclosed in the final days of the 2008 U.S. presidential election?
Did you know that according to musical analyst Sir Donald Tovey, every page of Opus 20, composed in 1772 by Joseph Haydn, is "of historic and aesthetic importance"?
Did you know that after serving in the Norwegian Parliament for four terms, Ingvald Godal involved himself in solidarity work for Chechnya?
Did you know that an initial €1 million was allocated for the new political foundations at European level in 2007–08?
Did you know that at Royal Rumble (1993), the winner was guaranteed a match for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania, which subsequently became an annual tradition?
Did you know that attorney P. Cameron DeVore died of an apparent heart attack, but jested in a self-written obituary that he had succumbed to "a surfeit of pâté de foie gras ice cream smothered in huckleberries"?
Did you know that before becoming a general in the American Civil War, Robert Alexander Cameron worked as a newspaper publisher?
Did you know that during one trial of the Mexican Inquisition, 123 men were accused of homosexuality but 99 managed to escape before the proceedings?
Did you know that in 1919, Poland tried to overthrow the Lithuanian government, but the Sejny Uprising resulted in the plan's failure?
Did you know that in 1966, Vin Denson became the first British rider to win a stage of the Giro d'Italia?
Did you know that memorials to the Confederacy in Mayfield, Kentucky include a fountain and a series of cemetery gates?
Did you know that pianist and composer Moshe Cotel chose to become a rabbi after meeting a Holocaust survivor who was so inspired by his retelling of the story of Alfred Dreyfus that she had returned to Judaism?
Did you know that the "Valley of Tears" in the Golan Heights was so named after it became the site of a major battle in the Yom Kippur War?
Did you know that the 1835 Greek Revival Cannon Building in Troy, New York was rebuilt with a mansard roof after several fires in the 1870s?
Did you know that the Arabian Hall of the Winter Palace was named after four "massive Negroes" who were attendants of the Tsar?
Did you know that the Bert Bolle Barometer in Denmark, Western Australia, is the largest barometer in the world?
Did you know that the Kohler-Andrae State Park consists of two separate state parks, one donated by an electric company president and another by Kohler Company?
Did you know that the Michigan Tech Huskies, from Michigan's Upper Peninsula, have won three NCAA Division I championships in ice hockey, with players such as Tony Esposito?
Did you know that the Urakami class destroyer Kawakaze of the Imperial Japanese Navy was built in Scotland, sold to the Regia Marina of Italy and sunk as a ship of the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany?
Did you know that the historic ranger's residence in the Clackamas Lake Ranger Station Historic District, no longer needed by park rangers, is now used mainly by recreational visitors?
Did you know that the subprime mortgage crisis, among several other factors, led to a negative demand shock in the U.S. economy, which causes demand for goods and services to decrease?
Did you know that the works of Azerbaijan-born artist Semyon Bilmes have been featured in Reader's Digest, The New York Times and in advertisements for AT&T and Citibank?
Did you know that Ann Nixon Cooper, the subject of Barack Obama's presidential acceptance speech, served for more than fifty years on the board of Gate City Nursery Association?
Did you know that B.P. Newman, a business entrepreneur from Laredo, began operations with a dairy distributorship but branched into restaurants, subdivisions, apartments, and ranches throughout much of Texas?
Did you know that Captain Odd Isaachsen Willoch, an uncle of later Norwegian Prime Minister Kåre Willoch, was lost with his ship in 1940 during the Battles of Narvik?
Did you know that David G. Booth gave US$300 million—the largest ever gift to a business school—to his alma mater, now renamed the University of Chicago Booth School of Business?
Did you know that Eugene Vaulot of the Waffen SS destroyed eight tanks during the Battle of Berlin in 1945, earning himself a Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross days before he was killed in action by a sniper?
Did you know that Foggerty's Fairy by W. S. Gilbert included a plot device that anticipates modern fantasy and science fiction stories like the film Back to the Future?
Did you know that Henri Joseph Fenet, a soldier in World War II, was awarded both the Croix de Guerre by France and the Knight's Cross by Germany?