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Did you know that biographer Andrew Lycett has claimed the spirit named 'Dodd' in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The New Revelation is that of cricketer Surgeon-Captain John Trask?
Did you know that colitis-X is a fatal form of acute colitis in horses, with severe diarrhea, abdominal pain, shock and dehydration, and near 100% mortality in less than 24 hours?
Did you know that during the Metropolitan Opera premiere of The Makropulos Case, tenor Richard Versalle suffered a fatal heart attack after singing the line "You can only live so long"?
Did you know that in 1935, the Italian Governor-General in Libya, Italo Balbo, founded the Arab Lictor Youth, a fascist youth movement that trained Arab youth for military service?
Did you know that in 2007 the Côte-Rôtie producer Guigal set the record for the most expensive Rhône wine ever released with the 2003 vintage of their single vineyard "La La" wines?
Did you know that poker tool software program SitNGo Wizard has a quiz mode that serves as poker's electronic analogue to flash cards?
Did you know that the Anevo Fortress, a medieval castle near Sopot in central Bulgaria, was the capital of a short-lived quasi-independent domain in the late 13th century?
Did you know that the Liverpool businessman Sir Arthur Forwood was the first shipowner to become an Admiralty minister, and the first serving town councillor to be appointed as a privy councillor?
Did you know that the Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 4859 pulled the first electric train from Philadelphia to Harrisburg in 1938 and was designated a state symbol of Pennsylvania in 1987?
Did you know that the Polonnaruwa Vatadage is considered the "ultimate development" in vatadage architecture?
Did you know that the Russian battleship Sinop was the first large warship to use triple expansion steam engines?
Did you know that the Surtees Society was founded in 1834 by James Raine in order to honour the memory of his friend and fellow-antiquarian Robert Surtees?
Did you know that the Yantai, blackish, and Chinese stingrays are the three most commonly sold stingrays in China?
Did you know that the ground floor of the Aceh Tsunami Museum is modeled on the design used by Acehnese houses that were best equipped to survive the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami disaster?
Did you know that the position of Laudian Professor of Arabic was established at the University of Oxford by William Laud, the Archbishop of Canterbury?
Did you know that using the Preston curve, Pritchett and Summers found that more than half a million child deaths in 1990 could have been prevented by higher income growth in the 1980s?
Did you know that Calgary Flames' defenceman Adam Pardy grew up in Bonavista, Newfoundland, a town of about 3,800 people?
Did you know that Saint Indract of Glastonbury was the subject of a lost work by William of Malmesbury?
Did you know that The West Wing actor Dule Hill voiced the audiobook of Jacqueline Woodson's young adult novel Miracle’s Boys?
Did you know that Villagers have toured with Tracy Chapman, are the only Irish act to have signed with Domino Records and were named sixth best band in Ireland by The Irish Times without releasing an album?
Did you know that Wallis Simpson said she fell in love with Prince Edward during a cruise in 1934 on W E Guinness's private yacht Rosaura?
Did you know that after winning the 1960 general election in Burma, premier-elect U Nu said, "I guess people like us"?
Did you know that during the period of hyperinflation in Germany of 1921–1923, there were reports of people suffering from zero stroke, a disorder where they had the desire to write endless rows of zeros?
Did you know that former Northern Ireland footballer Phil Hughes is the only goalkeeper ever to have won international caps while playing for Bury?
Did you know that in Jain cosmology, the universe is made up of six substances, called dravyas—souls, matter, the principle of motion, the principle of rest, space and time?
Did you know that it is said that when the 10th-century Viking leader Onlafbald invoked the power of his Norse gods Thor and Odin, he was miraculously killed by the spirit of the 7th-century English saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne?
Did you know that nearly all the trees and mangroves of La Ventanilla, Oaxaca, Mexico (landscape pictured), were destroyed by Hurricanes Pauline and Rick in 1997?
Did you know that the 13th and 14th century Hebridean chieftains Tormod and Torquil were once believed to have been brothers, and sons of Leod; but now Torquil is considered as a grandson of Tormod?
Did you know that the Hindu Morgaon Ganesha temple – the most important Ashtavinayak shrine – has four minarets around its boundary wall, suggesting Islamic architecture influence?
Did you know that the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society lodged a piracy complaint against the captain and the crew of the MV Shōnan Maru 2 in the Dutch courts following the sinking of the Ady Gil?
Did you know that the hand-cranked Saugatuck River Bridge is the oldest surviving movable bridge in the U.S. state of Connecticut?
Did you know that today – on Ganesh Jayanti (Ganesha's birthday) – the Hindu god Ganesha is worshipped by couples to beget a son?
Did you know that while serving as State Conciliator of Norway for eleven years, Preben Munthe was also economics professor at the University of Oslo?
Did you know that with 14 goals, Jordan Eberle is the highest scoring Canadian to participate in the International Ice Hockey Federation World Under-20 Championships?
Did you know that Afro-Abkhazians may be related to the descendants of Ethiopian Jews, and place names of Abkhazia resemble those in Ethiopia?
Did you know that Charles Benham invented a "miniature twin elliptic pendulum harmonograph" described as being "a good means of entertaining friends at home or elsewhere"?
Did you know that Eunice W. Johnson, who created Ebony together with husband John H. Johnson in the 1940s, suggested the magazine's title to match that of the fine black ebony wood?
Did you know that Isaac Crewdson's book A Beacon to the Society of Friends triggered a split in the Quakers which was like a "volcanic explosion"?
Did you know that Japanese film critic Nagaharu Yodogawa did not miss a single appearance in his 36 years as the host of TV Asahi's Sunday Western Movie Theatre until a week before his death?
Did you know that Kentucky political boss Thomas Rhea was instrumental in getting delegates from Southern states to vote to nominate Franklin D. Roosevelt for president at the 1932 Democratic National Convention?
Did you know that Making Our Economy Right, a free market think tank in Bangladesh, was established in 1991 by Nizam Ahmad?
Did you know that Mertens' Water Monitors are threatened by poisoning from eating Cane Toads?
Did you know that Rudyard Kipling's 1922 poem, The King's Pilgrimage, describes a journey made by King George V to the World War I cemeteries and memorials being built in France and Belgium?
Did you know that Schloss Rosenau, Coburg, was the "happy birthplace" of Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert?
Did you know that architect George J. Wimberly came to Hawaii in 1940 as a journeyman architect doing naval work at Pearl Harbor before establishing a successful reputation for the design of resorts?
Did you know that architects in the Pretzinger family designed several buildings in Dayton, Ohio, that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Dayton Daily News Building?
Did you know that because of the Rwandan Genocide, Air Rwanda stopped operating domestic flights within Rwanda in 1994?
Did you know that comedian Will Arnett starred alongside his real-life wife Amy Poehler in the Parks and Recreation episode, "The Set-Up"?
Did you know that due to the insistence of Joseph-Hyacinthe Bellerose, the record of debates in the Senate of Canada was translated into French as early as 1877?
Did you know that during the Cultural Revolution, after the crosses of St. Michael's Cathedral in Qingdao were cut from its steeples by the Red Guard, they were buried by loyal Catholics to protect them?
Did you know that fashion designer Charles Kleibacker earned the nickname "Master of the Bias" for the complex designs of his women's clothing, carefully cut from fabric at a diagonal to the weave?
Did you know that in 1919 Hungarian and German social democrats in Slovakia formed a party of their own, as they differed with the Slovak social democrats on the Hungarian Soviet Republic?
Did you know that nearly half of all horse chestnut trees in Great Britain (used by generations of children for the game of conkers) are now infected by the potentially lethal disease Bleeding Canker of Horse Chestnut?
Did you know that no man could own stock in the Woman's Temperance Publishing Association?
Did you know that researcher Günther Theischinger broke his ribs while on a trip to Tasmania to search for the larva of the dragonfly Synthemiopsis?
Did you know that the European great raft spider eats small fish and tadpoles?
Did you know that the Red Army prevented the incomplete Borodino class battlecruiser Izmail from being converted to a carrier by gaining control of a commission appointed to review the needs of the Navy?
Did you know that the origins of the baptismal font at St Bartholomew's Church, Liège, usually dated 1107–1118, have been much disputed by art historians?
Did you know that the thorntail stingray is one of the subjects of potential stingray ecotourism at Hamelin Bay, Western Australia?
Did you know that Elton John created the name by which he became famous out of the names of two of the musicians in his previous band Bluesology?
Did you know that Henry Stafford became 1st Baron Stafford despite his father being executed for treason?
Did you know that Israeli chess Grandmaster Ronen Har-Zvi first met his wife playing online chess at the Internet Chess Club?
Did you know that King Vasabha (67–111 AD) started a new dynasty and pioneered the construction of large scale irrigation works in Sri Lanka?
Did you know that Mazunte, now home to the Mexican National Turtle Center, was the site of a sea turtle slaughterhouse until 1990?
Did you know that Mel Brooks credited Sidney Glazier, the producer of the original The Producers, as "the man who made it happen"?
Did you know that Meru Betiri National Park in East Java is known as the last habitat of the Javan Tiger which is now considered extinct?
Did you know that Mickey Cochrane is the only catcher in Major League Baseball history with at least 3,000 plate appearances and a career .400 on-base percentage?
Did you know that Richard Reid, who in 2001 attempted to detonate a bomb hidden in his shoes aboard an aeroplane, used to attend the Brixton Mosque in London, England?
Did you know that Robbins Island is the largest freehold island in the Australian state of Tasmania?
Did you know that Togolese painter and sculptor Paul Ahyi, who designed the flag of Togo, was inducted as a UNESCO Artist for Peace in 2009?
Did you know that Yukon Eric lost part of his ear after a botched move in a professional wrestling match against Wladek Kowalski?
Did you know that at age 10, fiddler Ruby Jane Smith became the youngest invited player to perform at the Grand Ole Opry?
Did you know that disagreements about the appointment of Johannes Ording as theology professor at Royal Frederick University sparked the foundation of a new school of theology?
Did you know that film director Vicente Aranda used the Wharf of the Caravels, a museum in Palos de la Frontera, Spain, as a set for both Mad Love and Tirant lo Blanc?
Did you know that in 2007, three specimens of the Caspian whipsnake were found in Galaţi County, the first in Moldavia (eastern Romania) since 1937?
Did you know that plans for St Werburgh's Mount, Chester, should have been submitted at the same time as those for St Werburgh Chambers, but were delayed because its architect John Douglas was ill?
Did you know that tempest-tossed aboard the Niña (replica pictured) while returning from his first voyage, Christopher Columbus and his crew vowed to perform several vigils and pilgrimages should they live?
Did you know that the 1770 Port-au-Prince earthquake destroyed all the buildings of Port-au-Prince, in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (the future Haiti)?
Did you know that the Barnsley fern was first described by and named after a mathematician, and despite its name, it is not a real fern?
Did you know that the Ekaterina II-class battleship Georgii Pobedonosets was the only ship of her class to use guns in battle when she fired three rounds at the Goeben during her bombardment of Sevastopol in 1914?
Did you know that the Gaelic Athletic Association's inter county championships have taken place since 1887?
Did you know that the Gymnasticon was an eighteenth-century exercise machine claimed by its inventor to effectively treat gout, palsy, and other illnesses?
Did you know that the Topos de Tlatelolco volunteer professional search and rescue team is in Haiti assisting with relief efforts after the 2010 Haiti earthquake?
Did you know that the actor Tyler MacDuff played Billy the Kid in the 1954 film The Boy from Oklahoma, which inspired the Sugarfoot television series?
Did you know that the actor-stuntman Paul Stader broke both heels when he fell from the second floor of a burning building in the filming of the 1949 movie Mighty Joe Young?
Did you know that the sixteen-year cabinet term of Stephen Kakfwi is the longest in the Northwest Territories' history?
Did you know that 1090 Vermont Avenue was one of five new structures built in the late 1970s which helped rejuvenate Vermont Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.?
Did you know that Beccariophoenix alfredii, a newly discovered species of palm tree native to Madagascar, has a similar appearance to the Coconut palm, but is cold hardier?
Did you know that British sculptor Marcus Cornish has created a sculpture of the fictional Paddington Bear and a statue of Jesus Christ dubbed "Jesus in Jeans" by the media?
Did you know that Ilya Chaiken's film Liberty Kid won Critics' Pick from both The New York Times and New York magazine?
Did you know that John Ash partially owed his 1865 election to the Legislative Assembly of Vancouver Island to the Hudson's Bay Company, whose employees constituted the majority of the voting population?
Did you know that Manchester United Methodist Church in St. Louis, Missouri, originally had separate doors for men and women?
Did you know that Minuscule 541, a fragmentary manuscript of the New Testament, has an unusual number of iotacistic errors?
Did you know that Norwegian SOE agent Odd Starheim was killed in 1943 when the coastal steamer he and his team had seized off the coast of occupied Norway was sunk by German bombers?
Did you know that Rock 'n' Roll Prophet, the only album on which Rick Wakeman sang lead vocals, received criticising reviews that described it as "goofy", "novelty", and like "pressing the self-destruct button"?
Did you know that Spanish naval officer Ignacio de Arteaga y Bazán led an expedition in 1779 to Alaska, and performed a formal ceremony of possession at present-day Port Etches?
Did you know that Tim Westoll painted more than ten thousand bird species in watercolour?
Did you know that a study concluded that the ideal temple design described in the Hindu text Vishnudharmottara Purana is based on Dashavatara Temple, Deogarh (sculpture pictured)?
Did you know that although nebulium was discovered spectroscopically in 1864, it took until 1927 to show that it was actually doubly-ionized oxygen?
Did you know that animals recorded from Australian Pungalina-Seven Emu Sanctuary and adjacent waters include the Masked Owl, Spectacled Hare-wallaby, Loggerhead Turtle and Shovelnose Shark?
Did you know that during certain points in a grapevine's growing season, irrigation is often withheld in order to put the vine through water stress because it is believed to improve wine grape quality?
Did you know that during the 1880s, businessman Guillaume Bresse joined a syndicate which bought a railway from the Quebec government, and sold it to Canadian Pacific Railway for substantial profits?
Did you know that one of Canada's most prolific mass murderers, Dale Nelson, had been still hiding at the scene of his first killing when police left the scene?
Did you know that the Byzantine-Sassanid War of 602–628 critically weakened both the Byzantine and Sassanid Empires, allowing the rapid Muslim conquest of Persia, the Middle East, and North Africa?
Did you know that the Vintners Parrot pub in Worthing, West Sussex, occupies a Grade II-listed Greek Revival-style former wine merchants premises and a Grade II-listed former Methodist chapel?
Did you know that the acronym Vorb contained in Tama Easton's popular New Zealand internet forum vorb.org.nz stands for "Vaguely Organised – Ride Bikes"?
Did you know that the bleeding tooth fungus secretes a red juice that contains an anticoagulant similar in biological activity to heparin?
Did you know that the books of educator and mayor of Holmestrand, Norway, Fredrik Ording (1870–1929), were still being reissued as late as 1974?
Did you know that the fruit bodies of the fungus Agaricus texensis have adapted to growth in dry habitats?
Did you know that the medieval English monk Thomas of Marlborough wrote the Chronicon Abbatiae de Evesham to help Evesham Abbey's legal case against Mauger, Bishop of Worcester?
Did you know that the video game Obi-Wan's Adventures chronicles the events of the film Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, but from the perspective of Obi-Wan Kenobi?
Did you know that tufo is a Mozambican dance said to have originated when the Islamic prophet Mohammed migrated to Medina?
Did you know that Andy White replaced Ringo Starr on drums on The Beatles's first single, "Love Me Do"?
Did you know that Indians perform the second most Google searches for Ayn Rand after Americans?
Did you know that Michigan halfback Paul Magoffin later coached the George Washington "Hatchetites" on the White House Ellipse?
Did you know that Orval Prophet was among the earliest Canadian country music artists who recorded in a Nashville, Tennessee, studio?
Did you know that Roxxxy, described as the world's first sex robot, has an artificial intelligence engine programmed to learn the owner's likes and dislikes?
Did you know that a 19th-century antiquary considered that a saga character named Ljótólfr was the eponymous ancestor of the Clan MacLeod?
Did you know that despite describing county cricket as being "a little over done", Joseph Gibbs made five first-class appearances for Somerset County Cricket Club?
Did you know that former strongman Joe Rollino, who died at the age of 104, earned five medals, including three Purple Hearts, for military service during World War II?
Did you know that in the 1990s, the Government of Thailand ran a short-lived captive breeding program for endangered freshwater stingrays, including the marbled whipray and the white-edge freshwater whipray?
Did you know that psychiatrist Herbert Spiegel, whose work established hypnosis as a legitimate medical therapy, used "Sybil" as a demonstration case for his hypnosis classes at Columbia University?
Did you know that the Byzantine general Vitalian led a large-scale revolt against Emperor Anastasius I, was pardoned and named consul by his successor, Justin I, and was murdered seven months into his consulship?
Did you know that the German chemist Rudolf Christian Böttger synthesised the first organocopper compound, the explosive copper(I) acetylide Cu2C2, in 1859?
Did you know that the Pinzón brothers (statue pictured) played so crucial a role in Christopher Columbus's first expedition that some historians credit them as "co-discoverers" of America?
Did you know that the Upper Harz Water Regale, a network of dams, lakes, ditches, and tunnels built between 1536 and 1866 to supply water to the mines of the Harz mountains in Germany, is the largest of its kind in Europe?
Did you know that the Williamson trade-off model (graph pictured), which compares costs and benefits of horizontal mergers, has been used by the American legal scholar and former judge, Robert Bork, to evaluate antitrust laws?
Did you know that the corporate chambers in interwar Estonia were inspired by the example of Fascist Italy?
Did you know that the destroyer HMS Thanet evacuated Hong Kong on 8 December 1941, just hours after the Japanese began their attack?
Did you know that the first Premier of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, Hiram Blanchard, served for less than three months before his party was defeated in an election?
Did you know that the last execution by firing squad in France took place in 1963 at Fort d'Ivry in Ivry-sur-Seine, Paris?
Did you know that the mushroom Clavariadelphus truncatus contains clavaric acid, which slows tumor development in mice?
Did you know that the start and finish of the Via Crucis in Seville, Spain, have both changed over the years, as has the number of stations of the cross represented?
Did you know that the type specimen of Kinkonychelys represents the first turtle skull described from the pre-Holocene era in Madagascar?
Did you know that while at Leeds University, the late Sunday Mirror defence correspondent Rupert Hamer wrote a satirical column for the student newspaper titled "Rupert Hamer on Friday"?
Did you know that British literary critic Clement King Shorter turned his large Brontë-related literary collection into four books on the sisters?
Did you know that Charles Dickens wrote his novels Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit and A Tale of Two Cities at his Tavistock House home?
Did you know that Hunter-Schreger bands strengthen the enamel of the incisor in rodents?
Did you know that Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, the head of the Turkish delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, is also a member of parliament from Antalya Province?
Did you know that New Zealand's historic Arapuni Suspension Bridge received little mention when under construction as it was part of a much larger project?
Did you know that Nigeria's Bakolori irrigation project, one of the world's most expensive irrigation schemes, adversely affected downstream farming in the floodplains?
Did you know that Nottingham Catchfly is the county flower of Nottingham, even though it is not found anywhere in Nottinghamshire?
Did you know that Prince Rupert's white poodle Boye was given the rank of Sergeant-Major-General, and was believed by some to be the Devil in disguise?
Did you know that Rhodesian cricketer Ray Gripper's score of 279 not out in a 1968 game against Orange Free State was a Currie Cup record?
Did you know that St Symphorian's Church in Durrington, West Sussex, was wrecked during the English Civil War by Parliamentarian villagers, who disliked their rector's Royalist views and unintelligible preaching?
Did you know that although Esenbeckia runyonii is common in parts of Mexico's Sierra Madre Oriental, the type specimen was collected from a disjunct population of trees in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas?
Did you know that architect Frederick W. Garber based his design for the Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, on the rotunda of Thomas Jefferson’s University of Virginia?
Did you know that comedian Russ Meneve co-founded the "New York Comedians Coalition" in order to negotiate better payment for New York's comedians?
Did you know that despite losing his right arm and having no formal civil engineering education, Henry Perrine Baldwin oversaw a pioneering sugarcane irrigation system on the Hawaiian island of Maui in 1876?
Did you know that in order to play for the All-American Basketball Alliance, one must be a natural-born US citizen "with both parents of Caucasian race"?
Did you know that in response to sightings of Osama bin Laden in the United States, his face was added to facial recognition programs for the 2002 Olympics?
Did you know that it is thought that Rochdale Town Hall was so admired by Adolf Hitler that he wanted to ship it, brick-by-brick, to Nazi Germany had the UK been defeated in World War II?
Did you know that now-Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut Peter Taptuna was a participant in the first and only Inuit drilling crew on the Beaufort Sea?