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Did you know that Iron Duke, the lead ship of the Iron Duke-class battleships was the flagship of the British Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916?
Did you know that Japanese theoretical physicist Kazuhiko Nishijima is well-known for developing the concept of strangeness in particle physics?
Did you know that Kricogonia lyside can grow from egg to adult in as little as 13 days?
Did you know that Ola Lindholm hosted the 2004 version of Melodifestivalen, an annual music competition and the most watched television program in Sweden?
Did you know that Polish architect Chrystian Piotr Aigner used a range of styles including Classicist, Neoclassicist, Palladian, Neogothic, Empire and Romantic?
Did you know that Rafiq al-Tamimi helped establish al-Fatat, an anti-Ottoman Arab nationalist movement, despite working for the country's government?
Did you know that Samuel Wilbert Tucker organized an African-American civil rights sit-in at the Alexandria, Virginia, public library as early as 1939?
Did you know that William Weston may have been the first Englishman to have led an expedition to North America?
Did you know that fairy tale collector Nicolae Constantin Batzaria was an Aromanian representative among the Young Turks, an Ottoman government minister, and one of Romania's best-known creators of comic strips?
Did you know that in 1896, Christian IX of Denmark awarded Ramon Santamarina the Order of the Dannebrog, for supporting the settlement of Danish emigrants in Argentina?
Did you know that in 2004, Jørn Holme became the first active politician to be appointed as director of the Norwegian Police Security Service?
Did you know that koalas eat the leaves of the eucalyptus tree known as the Red Mahogany?
Did you know that the Australian Military Court was declared constitutionally invalid after a sailor accused of "teabagging" a superior officer challenged its validity in the High Court of Australia?
Did you know that the Byzantine regiment of the Vigla, which served as an imperial bodyguard unit in the 8th–11th centuries, had its origin in late Roman cavalry units of the 5th century?
Did you know that the Dagenham Roundhouse in East London featured acts including Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy and Pink Floyd during the early 1970s?
Did you know that the Hand of God in art (example pictured) often stands for the voice of God?
Did you know that the Jenisch house, a 19th-century country house, is located in the oldest landscaped park in Hamburg, Germany?
Did you know that the National Gallery of Victoria only purchased Australian artist Frederick McCubbin's triptych The pioneer after he reworked the painting to add a view of the city of Melbourne in the background?
Did you know that the cause of white pox disease killing Elkhorn coral tissue in the Caribbean is a common fecal intestinal bacterium found in humans and other animals?
Did you know that the death of John Lewis (better known as "Spanish Louie") was the first recorded use of a drive by shooting as a means of gangland execution in New York City?
Did you know that the music video for Pirates of the Mississippi's 1991 single "Feed Jake" was believed by some members of the gay community to have a homosexual theme?
Did you know that the primary line constants describe characteristics of copper transmission lines?
Did you know that with 665 Members taking part, the August 1892 vote of no confidence against the Marquess of Salisbury's government saw the most votes ever cast in Parliament ?
Did you know that , though ostensibly built to defend the city, the citizens of Cork pulled down Elizabeth Fort within two years of its first construction for fear that it would be used against them by James I?
Did you know that Egyptian military figure and politician Youssef Seddik  launched the first military procedures in the July 23 Revolution of 1952?
Did you know that Indonesian politician Ibnu Parna, leader and the sole MP of the communist Acoma Party, was killed in the 1965 massacres?
Did you know that Karl Evang and Torbjørn Mork, who consecutively headed the Norwegian Directorate for Health between 1938 and 1992, were both active members of the Labour Party?
Did you know that Polish actor Roman Kłosowski portrayed Nostradamus in the 2009 film Before Twilight?
Did you know that Polish historian and socialist activist Adam Próchnik was alleged to have been an illegitimate son of the Polish Prime Minister Ignacy Daszyński?
Did you know that The Play of the Weather by the Catholic playwright John Heywood is a plea for religious tolerance after the Reformation in the form of an allegory?
Did you know that after the Battle of Frankfurt an der Oder in 1631, it took six days to bury the dead in mass graves?
Did you know that an ancient pagoda on the Toe River in Ma-ubin, Burma, fell in 2002 due to river erosion and had to be rebuilt?
Did you know that because of his patriotic songs, Czech songwriter Karel Hašler died in Mauthausen concentration camp?
Did you know that director Henri-Georges Clouzot once drugged actress Brigitte Bardot to make her drool?
Did you know that in addition to leading a committee which investigated alleged communists, California State Senator Jack Tenney composed the popular song "Mexicali Rose"?
Did you know that since being dedicated for "park and parkway" purposes in 1909, Dickerman Park in Saint Paul, Minnesota, has been primarily used for parking lots and front yards of businesses?
Did you know that the 2008 single "Enfants", by microhouse producer Ricardo Villalobos, incorporates "no development over its seventeen minute length"?
Did you know that the Australian rainforest (and garden) plants Narrow-leaved-, Brown, and Native Gardenias of the genus Atractocarpus have fragrant flowers, much like the more familiar Common Gardenia?
Did you know that the Jewish cemetery in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, is one of the biggest historic Jewish cemeteries preserved in Central and Eastern Europe?
Did you know that the Kavala Archaeological Museum has been described as being the most important archaeological museum in Eastern Macedonia?
Did you know that the Krasiczyn Palace in southeastern Poland was built on the site of a 14th-century wooden complex called Sliwnica?
Did you know that the Wrinkle-faced Bat is able to bite 20% harder than other bats of a similar size allowing it to eat a wider range of fruits?
Did you know that the firearms of Japan go back to the 13th century, but were almost totally abandoned for 200 years during Japan's Seclusion period?
Did you know that the first shots by the United States in World War I were fired by the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry from El Morro Castle at a German ship in San Juan Bay, Puerto Rico?
Did you know that topologically, a mug is equivalent (see picture) to a doughnut?
Did you know that when the narrow Rock Creek Canyon Bridge in British Columbia was widened and strengthened in 1992, the works were carried out while keeping one lane open to traffic?
Did you know that Al Purvis played for the Edmonton Mercurys, an ice hockey team sponsored by a local car dealership, that won the gold medal at the 1952 Winter Olympics?
Did you know that Caney Lakes Recreation Area and nearby Lake Bistineau in northwestern Louisiana have been plagued with the giant salvinia fern, which impairs boating?
Did you know that Robert Sommers, who became British Columbia Minister of Forests in 1952, was the first cabinet minister in the British Commonwealth to be imprisoned for taking bribes?
Did you know that Titanic's sister ship Britannic was one of the hospital ships sunk during the First World War?
Did you know that Venezuelan performer José Luis Rodríguez "El Puma" received a Grammy Award nomination for his number-one song "Baila Mi Rumba"?
Did you know that a single bucket of water was used to extinguish a three-alarm fire at the Edith Green - Wendell Wyatt Federal Building in Portland, Oregon, USA?
Did you know that both scutching and heckling are steps in the process of turning flax into linen?
Did you know that five months after the 2nd Arizona Territorial Legislature created Pah-Ute County most of the county's land was given to Nevada?
Did you know that in the 1990s many users gained Internet access by using Slirp to emulate a TCP/IP connection via a dial-up shell account?
Did you know that journeyman Paul Bako has played for 11 Major League Baseball teams in his 12-year career, and was formerly Greg Maddux's personal catcher?
Did you know that the 1930 musical The New Yorkers received criticism for bad taste, and its song "Love for Sale" was subsequently banned from the radio?
Did you know that the 1st Special Squadron of the Imperial Japanese Navy was tasked with defending Australia and New Zealand during World War I?
Did you know that the Map of Rensselaerswyck shows that Kiliaen van Rensselaer originally named areas around the upper Hudson River, near Fort Orange, after the women in his life?
Did you know that the Mercury-Atlas 8 spaceflight in October 1962 was piloted by a Turtle?
Did you know that the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society's headquarters building was one of only two U.S. skyscrapers featured at the 1932 International style exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art?
Did you know that the Somali Ostrich faces eradication in the Horn of Africa?
Did you know that the documentary Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 gets its name from an actual headline in the Harvard Crimson?
Did you know that the extensive ornamentation on the Haverstraw, New York, post office may be due to the influence of Postmaster General James Farley, a native of the area?
Did you know that the practice of stacking dead bodies and covering them with soil instead of digging graves has left Postman's Park, a former burial ground in the City of London, elevated above street level?
Did you know that Alexander Gordon Lyle is one of only two dental officers ever to receive the United States' highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor?
Did you know that Auld Lang Syne was written by Robert Burns at Ellisland Farm near Dumfries, Scotland?
Did you know that Chisho Itoh, the winner of the 1988 Yokohama Film Festival Best New Director Award, went on to a career as the hardcore Japanese adult video director Tohjiro?
Did you know that Doryphora sassafras of southeastern Australia gains its name from the similarity of the odour of its leaves to that of the Sassafras of eastern North America?
Did you know that French author Honoré de Balzac found inspiration for his 1840 novelette Z. Marcas from a sign outside a tailor's shop in Paris?
Did you know that Giuseppe Ricciotti's book "Life of Jesus Christ" was edited in 1941 and reedited and reprinted several times?
Did you know that Giveamanakick's live performances involved gas masks and streamers and one of their albums was said to be "something akin to being battered round the head with a plank of wood for half an hour"?
Did you know that King Louis IX of France said that he would rather break clods behind a plough than accept the 1264 Peace of Canterbury?
Did you know that Mount Hope Estate is home to the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire, a winery, a brewpub, and a rare pre-1840 American formal garden?
Did you know that William Hutton, François Pierre La Varenne and Benjamin Disraeli wrote about game pie, and Josiah Wedgwood made cooking dishes for it?
Did you know that about a third of the population of Sheridan, Oregon, are criminals?
Did you know that all proceeds from the 2009 Radiohead song "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)" were donated to The Royal British Legion?
Did you know that as a result of the Okęcie Airport Incident in 1980, four top players of the Polish national football team were disqualified, and one of them never capped for Poland again?
Did you know that groups considered UFO religions by scholars include Aetherius Society, Heaven's Gate, Order of the Solar Temple, Raëlism, and Scientology?
Did you know that the 1966 film Alice of Wonderland in Paris reimagined the Lewis Carroll heroine as an American girl who is obsessed with visiting the French capital?
Did you know that the Castilian nobleman Fernando Núñez de Lara became a Knight Hospitaller on his deathbed in exile in Marrakesh?
Did you know that the Germantown Colony and Museum near Minden, Louisiana, preserves the remnants of a Utopian religious commune active between 1835 and 1871?
Did you know that the Indonesian political party Permai was also a mystical religious movement?
Did you know that the Intimidator roller coaster on the South Carolina side of the Carowinds amusement park takes its name from the nickname of former NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt?
Did you know that the Mansfield State Historic Site in western Louisiana commemorates an 1864 Confederate victory by General Richard Taylor, which prevented a pending Union invasion of Texas?
Did you know that the White-throated Round-eared Bat creates roosts inside the nests of the termite, Nasutitermes corniger?
Did you know that users in the upcoming MMORPG DUST 514 will be able to interact with users from another game, EVE Online, through mercenary assistance?
Did you know that Euanthe sanderiana, also called the Waling-waling, was proposed in the House of Representatives of the Philippines to replace the Sampaguita as the country's national flower?
Did you know that Henry Dorling, step-father of cookery writer Mrs Beeton, was the first Clerk of the Course of Epsom Racecourse?
Did you know that Martin Demaine founded the first one-man art glass studio in Canada and home-schooled his son Erik to become MIT's youngest ever professor despite not having a college degree himself?
Did you know that Med Hondo is an award-winning Mauritanian film director who dubbed the voice of Donkey in the French language version of Shrek?
Did you know that Norwegian professor of bacteriology Sverre Dick Henriksen was an honorary member of the Polish Chamber of Physicians and Dentists, despite having never worked in Poland?
Did you know that Sapta Puri represents the seven holy Hindu cities of Ayodhya, Dwarka, Haridwar, Ujjain, Kanchipuram, Mathura and the holiest, Varanasi?
Did you know that Triangle, the 1967 album by The Beau Brummels, was partially inspired by the Legion of Honor?
Did you know that William Blake's unfinished manuscript An Island in the Moon contains early versions of three of his famous Songs of Innocence?
Did you know that Winnfield, home of the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame, is known as "the birthplace of Louisiana politics" because three governors, Huey and Earl Long and O.K. Allen, were born there?
Did you know that critics praised The Spectacular Spider-Man episode "Natural Selection" for its action and fight sequences?
Did you know that in 1974, Louis Gaston Mayila became Deputy Personal Adviser to the then President of Gabon, Omar Bongo?
Did you know that many well-known works of Renaissance art passed through the hands of connoisseur art dealer Stefano Bardini of Florence?
Did you know that one of the largest fish culture stations in Quebec, Canada, is in Lac-des-Écorces?
Did you know that since 2006, a Gibraltarian no longer needs be a Member of Parliament to become Mayor of Gibraltar?
Did you know that the 1986 Vrancea earthquake in Romania, which damaged roughly 55,000 homes, was felt as far north as Poland and as far southwest as Italy?
Did you know that the 19th-century artillery of Japan (example pictured) utilized widely disparate technologies, from primitive wooden cannon to state-of-the-art breech loaders?
Did you know that the cargo of the Dalarö wreck, sunk in the Baltic Sea, included coal and several Bartmann jugs?
Did you know that the closure of the Tethys Sea 10–14 million years ago led to the sicklefin lemon shark and the lemon shark becoming separate species?
Did you know that the farmland at Ramstad, Norway, was affected by the 19th-century construction of both the Drammen Line and the European route E18?
Did you know that the rule of the Salt Hotel is "don't lick the walls"?
Did you know that the treadmill COLBERT (Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill) aboard the International Space Station was named after political satirist Stephen Colbert?
Did you know that De Eendracht, a smock mill in Anjum, Netherlands, is used as a tourist information office as well as being a working mill?
Did you know that Death Risk Rankings, nicknamed the "death calculator", allows users to view their chance of dying of sixty-six causes of death, such as murder, in a twelve-month span?
Did you know that English former footballer David Hamilton was Wigan Athletic's first ever full-time scout?
Did you know that George Quaintance was an American artist whose "idealized, strongly homoerotic" depictions of men appeared in physique magazines?
Did you know that Hamburg's Wellingsbüttel Manor was the former home of Duke Friedrich Karl of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, and used as a student's resident hall from 1964 till 1996?
Did you know that Helga Karlsen, who was the first female Member of Parliament from the Norwegian Labour Party, died only four days before she could be elected for a third term?
Did you know that John MacBride defeated Hercules and Mars in a single battle?
Did you know that Kielder Viaduct in Northumberland, England, was built in 1862 in a baronial style and decorated with a battlemented parapet and faux arrow slits in order to gain approval of the local landowner?
Did you know that Lake Bistineau in northwestern Louisiana was originally formed in 1800 by flooding stemming from a large log jam on the nearby Red River?
Did you know that Lewis A. "Tam" McArthur paid to have his book, Oregon Geographic Names, published in 1928 and that the book is still in print today?
Did you know that Romanian writer Alexandru Odobescu viewed antisemites preventing linguist Lazăr Şăineanu from obtaining naturalization as "cannibals" devouring "a civilized man"?
Did you know that Shirley Temple film vehicles Curly Top and The Littlest Rebel were both named to Variety's list of top box office draws for 1935?
Did you know that Tien Ang Tong is the first Methodist church built in China that provided services in the English language?
Did you know that in 1987, 13 years after its citizens voted to repeal the city's gay rights ordinance, Boulder, Colorado, became the only American city to adopt a gay rights law through popular referendum?
Did you know that in the 1894–95 Madagascar expedition, France lost only 25 men in combat, but as many as 4,800 men to diseases?
Did you know that knuckle-walking is done not only by chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas but also giant anteaters and platypuses?
Did you know that members of the 15th Arizona Territorial Legislature used a glass eye and the services of a prostitute to ensure passage of the session's first act?
Did you know that on New Year's Day in 1980, 60 people were killed by an earthquake in the Azores Islands?
Did you know that the Fiddler's Reach Fog Signal on Maine's Kennebec River originally had a bell run by a clockwork counterweight mechanism that had to be wound by hand every four hours?
Did you know that the Haverstraw King's Daughters Public Library is the oldest chartered public library in Rockland County, New York?
Did you know that the deepest living demersal fish ever retrieved, Abyssobrotula galatheae, was found in the Puerto Rico Trench at a depth of 8,370 metres (27,453 ft)?
Did you know that the former actress Sherry Boucher, formerly married to George Peppard, is now a Realtor in Bossier Parish, Louisiana?
Did you know that when designing The Spectacular Spider-Man, Victor Cook looked at the style of Hellboy: Blood and Iron, which he directed, for inspiration?
Did you know that African-American groom Eddie Sweat is depicted with Secretariat in a life-sized statue at the Kentucky Horse Park?
Did you know that Ford developed a people mover system known as ACT, but the only one to see passenger service was built between the Hyatt Regency hotel and Fairlane Town Center shopping mall on Ford-developed lands in Dearborn, MI?
Did you know that Gaylord Stinchcomb, one of the stars of Ohio State's first football victory over Michigan, also won the 1921 NCAA championship in the broad jump?
Did you know that Kirātārjunīya, a Sanskrit poem by Bharavi, is known both for its depth and its wordplay, including a symmetric verse that reads the same forward, backward, horizontally and vertically?
Did you know that Pope Pius XII appointed Hilarius Breitinger as Apostolic Administrator to the Reichsgau Wartheland, the portion of Poland annexed by Nazi Germany?
Did you know that Romanian DJ David Deejay was the first artist in the country to release two songs simultaneously, I Can Feel  and So Bizzare [sic], with the last becoming a number one hit?
Did you know that Singaporean author Rex Shelley wrote his first novel The Shrimp People, about the Eurasian community in Singapore, in 1991 at age 61?
Did you know that Travis Tritt's song "Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man" features Brooks & Dunn, T. Graham Brown, George Jones, Little Texas, Dana McVicker, Tanya Tucker and Porter Wagoner?
Did you know that Turner Contemporary, a visual arts venue in Margate, has begun construction atop a promenade so that it won't be destroyed by the North Sea?
Did you know that a eutactic star, so named because it is deemed to be "well-situated" or "well-arranged", may be used to prove that any form is "eutactic"?
Did you know that a turma signified a cavalry squadron of 30 men in the Roman army, but evolved into a regiment of up to 6,000 men in the Byzantine Empire?
Did you know that although Tennessee Williams co-wrote the screenplay for the 1950 film version of his play The Glass Menagerie, he called the film a "dishonest" adaptation of his work?
Did you know that ballet Romeo and Juliet by Sergei Prokofiev was premiered in Mahen Theatre, Brno, Czech Republic?
Did you know that during the 2009 Big Ten Conference football season nine teams open their seasons at home?
Did you know that in 1885, over 10,000 mourners attended the funeral of English maidservant Alice Ayres?
Did you know that the Edenton Tea Party was one of the first instances of political activism by women in the Thirteen Colonies?
Did you know that the English explorer Robert Machin, who has been credited with discovering the island of Madeira, may never have existed?
Did you know that the appearance of the decorated Pholiota at a 1994 North Carolina mushroom foray led to its re-classification two years later?
Did you know that British Isles and Australian rugby player Blair Swannell played every game in the same pair of unwashed breeches?
Did you know that Bulgarian–Italian Futurist painter Nikolay Diulgheroff, an honorary citizen of Turin, studied at the original Bauhaus in Weimar?
Did you know that Edward Atienza made his London theatrical debut in 1954, as the Mole in Toad of Toad Hall?
Did you know that Haitian pianist and composer Ludovic Lamothe was hailed as the "black Frédéric Chopin" after years of recitals to the Haitian elite?
Did you know that Holy Trinity Church, Trowbridge is known locally as "The Church on the Roundabout"?
Did you know that Japan's incoming First Lady Miyuki Hatoyama claims to have been abducted by aliens in a triangular-shaped UFO and to have known Tom Cruise when he was Japanese in a prior incarnation?
Did you know that No. 6 Commando, a British commando unit, used American uniforms and equipment during Operation Torch in an attempt to placate the Vichy French?
Did you know that San Jose Mercury News West Magazine received awards for reporting on Japanese American internment, environmental policies of the Reagan administration, and effects of Proposition 13?
Did you know that The Homestead, one of the oldest buildings in Haverstraw, New York, has been home to a state legislator and congressman, the county sheriff and the local school superintendent?
Did you know that a sarcophagus found in the Necropolis of Kerkouane (Kerkouane seaside pictured) is one of the only known Punic wood carvings still in existence?
Did you know that in 1947 a group broke away from the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) and founded the rival Red Communist Party, in protest of the PKI leadership's willingness to negotiate with the Dutch?