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Did you know that Markus Brunnermeier won the Germán Bernácer Prize for his work in financial economics on bubbles and crashes?
Did you know that Otomi grammar, the grammar of the indigenous Otomi language of Mexico has traits of active/stative alignment, but has no adjectives?
Did you know that Sir Arthur Lee donated Chequers, a country house in Buckinghamshire, for use as the official country residence of the British Prime Minister?
Did you know that Town Center Park was the first park in Wilsonville, Oregon, USA, with an interactive water feature when it was added in 2005?
Did you know that an eternal flame burns at Triyuginarayan Temple, believed to be the venue of the marriage of Hindu deities Shiva and Parvati?
Did you know that devotees believe that worshipping the Hindu god Ganesha at the Siddhivinayak Mahaganapati Temple will result in a successful marriage?
Did you know that in 1992, the crews of USS Baton Rouge and K-276 Kostroma failed to detect each other until the two nuclear submarines collided in the shallow waters of the Barents Sea?
Did you know that magnetic tapes afflicted with sticky-shed syndrome are unplayable, but they can be treated by baking?
Did you know that partaking in roadkill cuisine (roadkill pictured) is advocated by some vegans?
Did you know that the 16"/45 caliber Mark 6 guns aboard the battleship USS Massachusetts (BB-59) are believed to have fired the United States' first and last 16-inch shells of World War II?
Did you know that the Baekryulsa temple located in Gyeongju, South Korea, which was once the capital of the Silla kingdom, is believed to be associated with Ichadon, the first martyr for Buddhism in Korea?
Did you know that the Bayerischer Rundfunk caused a scandal in 1986 for refusing to relay the broadcast signal of the political cabaret show Scheibenwischer?
Did you know that the British officer James Scurry was held captive for ten years by Hyder Ali and Tippu Sultan at Seringapatam?
Did you know that the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement was given the unusual name at the request of India?
Did you know that the Ninth Fort massacres November 1941 were the first organized mass murders of Reich Jews?
Did you know that the Spanish cruiser Baleares was commissioned into service without one of its four main turrets?
Did you know that the first can opener (original drawing and a modern version pictured) was patented in 1855, more than 80 years after the introduction of canned food?
Did you know that Clive Ponting was found not guilty of violating the Official Secrets Act by a jury even after the judge, Sir Anthony McCowan, summed up strongly in favour of the prosecution?
Did you know that Englishman James McFarlane was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav for his eight-volume work Oxford Ibsen?
Did you know that Filipino comedian Tado's screen name is derived from a Tagalog cuss word?
Did you know that John Edward Marr spent 45 years at the University of Cambridge?
Did you know that Layforce was a brigade-sized British commando force named after their commander Robert Laycock?
Did you know that Michael Jackson's "Gone Too Soon" was dedicated to the memory of Ryan White, a teenager who died following a battle with HIV/AIDS?
Did you know that Prince Kamal el Dine Hussein, the only person in Egyptian history to voluntarily renounce his rights of succession to the throne, did so to pursue a life of discovery and travel?
Did you know that Sequalitchew Creek was the location of the original Fort Nisqually trading post established in 1833 by the Hudson's Bay Company?
Did you know that Theodore Roosevelt contracted Cuban fever during the Spanish–American War, and had recurring symptoms before, during, and after his time as President of the United States?
Did you know that during the Holocaust, of the four Jews rescued by Stanisław Jasiński and his daughter from Kostopol in Eastern Poland, only Szmuel Liderman survived the massacres?
Did you know that during the Roman Empire in Palestine, the road that connected Lydda to Jerusalem passed through Barfiliya?
Did you know that in the Sakuradamon incident in 1860, Japan's pro-foreign Chief Minister Ii Naosuke was assassinated by xenophobic samurai?
Did you know that the Byzantine general John Kourkouas, supreme commander of the Byzantine armies in the East for 22 years, was hailed by his contemporaries as "another Trajan or Belisarius"?
Did you know that the Phineas and Ferb episode "The Monster of Phineas-n-Ferbenstein" has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the category "Outstanding Special Class - Short-format Animated Programs"?
Did you know that the island of Orosay overlooks Traigh Mhòr, reputedly the only beach in the world used as a runway for scheduled aircraft flights?
Did you know that Franciszek Przysiężniak led partisan units into the largest battles of the anti-Nazi and anti-communist resistance?
Did you know that Freeheld is an Academy Award-winning documentary by Cynthia Wade that follows a New Jersey detective fighting for the right to pass on her pension to her female domestic partner?
Did you know that George "Snatchem" Leese was a member of the Slaughter House Gang who was known for being the official "bloodsucker" at prize fights in New York?
Did you know that HMAS Sydney was the first aircraft carrier owned by a British Commonwealth nation to serve in combat?
Did you know that Jadwiga of Żagań bore no sons to her husband, Casimir III the Great, which spelled the end of the Piast Dynasty in the Kingdom of Poland?
Did you know that John Heriot, a late-eighteenth-century British journalist, was secretly funded to publish two pro-government newspapers?
Did you know that Kenneth Bacon, a former spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Defense, served as president of Refugees International until his death in 2009?
Did you know that Norwegian actress Beate Eriksen is the granddaughter of Olympic gymnast Marius Eriksen, and daughter of World War II flying ace Marius Eriksen, Jr.?
Did you know that Rix Robinson's bill for women's suffrage was defeated during the drafting of the Michigan Constitution of 1850?
Did you know that Simon & Garfunkel did not know that Bobby Gregg was the drummer on their #1 single "The Sounds of Silence"?
Did you know that Yale University Press expunged all of the cartoons from The Cartoons that Shook the World?
Did you know that in August of 1948 the Labour Party of Indonesia merged with the Communist Party?
Did you know that in Jamali Kamali Mosque and Tomb, the tomb chamber has two graves, one of Jamali the poet, and another of an unknown Kamali, who might have been chosen because his name rhymes with Jamali?
Did you know that in the first 15 years of its logging in New Caledonia, 8,000 tonnes of sandalwood, especially Santalum austrocaledonicum, was harvested?
Did you know that infestation by Halofolliculina corallasia leads to Skeletal Eroding Band, the first coral disease known to be caused by a protozoon or by any eukaryote?
Did you know that the BBC radio producer R.D. Smith, husband of Olivia Manning and model for a character in her  Fortunes of War novels, was identified as a Soviet spy by MI5?
Did you know that the Fairy Flag is traditionally thought to have been a gift from the fairies to the chiefs of Clan Macleod?
Did you know that the Interim Government of India, which was formed on 2 September 1946, established diplomatic relations with the United States?
Did you know that the Japanese Buddhist monk Nichiji attempted to walk to Xanadu?
Did you know that the Keller Ferry, which operates as part of Washington State Route 21 was taken over by the Washington Department of Highways on September 1, 1930, although a cable ferry was operated during the early 1890s?
Did you know that the Will & Grace episode "Marry Me a Little, Marry Me a Little More" was the first time that a prime-time sitcom showed a Jewish protagonist marrying inside the faith?
Did you know that the former Palestinian Arab village of Khiyam al-Walid is believed to be a reference to the tents of Khaled ibn al-Walid's army which conquered the Levant in the 7th century?
Did you know that the former library of Kingston, New York, has been used as the offices for the janitors at the neighboring high school?
Did you know that the founders of the Socialist Party of Indonesia (Parsi) included a group of Indonesians who had participated in the anti-fascist resistance in the Netherlands during World War II?
Did you know that the interlace decorations in the Book of Kells (detail pictured) combine ribbon-like knotwork and animal style motifs?
Did you know that the script for the 1943 Hepburn–Tracy motion picture Keeper of the Flame includes information from the U.S. Office of War Information, a propaganda agency of the U.S. government?
Did you know that 2009 National Indigenous Art Award winner Danie Mellor once created a sculpture using ceramics, kangaroo skin, synthetic eyeballs, and stuffed birds?
Did you know that Asaga's Vardhaman Charitra (Life of Vardhaman), written in 853 CE, was the first Sanskrit language biography of Jain Tirthankara, Mahavir?
Did you know that Australian troops fought their last battle of the Korean War just hours before the ceasefire, fighting off numerous Chinese attacks during the Battle of the Samichon River?
Did you know that BBC defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt was born in Australia and adopted by a British diplomat?
Did you know that Bristol's classical chamber orchestra, the Emerald Ensemble, play standing up and have performed at a local nightclub?
Did you know that British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy's poem "Education for Leisure" was removed from study at GCSE level due to concerns about teenage knife crime?
Did you know that De Heidebloem, a smock mill in Erica, Drenthe, is used now as an instructional mill to train new millers?
Did you know that Empty Dwelling Management Orders, designed to help put empty housing back into use in the United Kingdom, have only been used twenty-four times in three years?
Did you know that Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill is a chain of 120 restaurants serving Jamaican patties, jerk chicken and curried goat?
Did you know that Rita Inos, a Doctor of Education, was the first female candidate for Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands?
Did you know that Terry O'Neill, new president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), campaigned for grassroots feminists across the United States?
Did you know that William Anderson, a surgeon and naturalist aboard Captain James Cook's HMS Resolution, wrote in 1777 that the Tasmanian Inchman had an "almost intolerable" bite?
Did you know that as the SS struggled to keep up sorting the valuables plundered from prisoners at Auschwitz, Karl Möckel stated that fifteen to twenty suitcases of them were sent to the WVHA quarterly?
Did you know that because the Foulées du Gois road running race is held on a tidal causeway, participants are sometimes forced to swim to the finish line?
Did you know that blue cake, a flaky pastry from the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, is not blue?
Did you know that in 1904, gymnast George Eyser won six Olympic medals, including gold in the vault, even though he had a wooden prosthesis for a leg?
Did you know that in the eight months after the Battle of Narva in 1700, Andrew Vinius melted one quarter of Russia's church bells to make cannon?
Did you know that it took two weeks and 23 vessels to free the battleship Missouri after she ran aground on 17 January 1950?
Did you know that linebacker Quincy Monk nearly had a football helmet drop kicked into his head during the 2003 NFL playoffs?
Did you know that on 13 August 2009, Egyptian fishermen taken hostage by Somali pirates overpowered their captors and escaped, taking along four prisoners?
Did you know that the Blue Bell in Chester, Cheshire, England, contains a chamber separated from the rest of the building which has been a ticket office for stage coach operators, a soda fountain bar and a barber's shop?
Did you know that the Frederick W. Panhorst Bridge, a concrete open-spandrel arch bridge in Russian Gulch State Park near Mendocino, California, replaced an earlier wooden trestle bridge in 1940?
Did you know that the coincidence of the global financial crisis with the release of Margaret Atwood's Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth led The Walrus to auction predictions by Atwood at a fundraiser?
Did you know that the largest concentration of the parasitic plant species Buckleya distichophylla can be found in the Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve of Roanoke County, Virginia, USA?
Did you know that the pilot episode of The Spectacular Spider-Man features Robert Englund -- best known for playing Freddy Krueger -- as the voice of supervillain Vulture?
Did you know that when Sir Edward Atkinson was appointed Director of Public Prosecutions he refused to believe it was true and walked out of the Home Office?
Did you know that 99 Fables, a posthumously published collection by William March, "emphasizes the platitudes of life by the platitudinous nature of his fables?"
Did you know that Eileen McKenney, who was the inspiration for the title character in My Sister Eileen, was killed in an automobile accident four days before the play opened on Broadway?
Did you know that Ernest Poole's book His Family received the first Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1918?
Did you know that HMS Fifi, a German warship captured and added to the Royal Navy during the First World War, was named to mean 'tweet-tweet' in French?
Did you know that Kari Gjesteby is the first female State Conciliator of Norway?
Did you know that Thomas E. Corcoran received the Medal of Honor for rescuing his crewmates from their sinking ship during the American Civil War?
Did you know that a British rower attempting to break the record for the quickest solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean abandoned his boat due to the approach of Hurricane Bill?
Did you know that a young Idi Amin was a reserve player for the East Africa rugby union team during the 1955 British Lions tour to South Africa?
Did you know that although John Fortescue listed ten Inns of Chancery, only nine are known?
Did you know that as part of the cortisol awakening response, the stress hormone cortisol normally increases by about half in the half hour after we awake?
Did you know that asteroids with two moons, like 1994 CC, comprise only 1% of the near-Earth objects?
Did you know that audiobook publisher Michael Viner produced the Incredible Bongo Band's often-sampled recording of "Apache", as well as a joke album called The Best of Marcel Marceau?
Did you know that country music singer Alan Jackson still likes bologna?
Did you know that during her 16 years of active service, Kaganovich was renamed twice to avoid being associated with disgraced members of the Communist Party?
Did you know that new evidence has revealed that Australian artist Tom Roberts painted much of his masterpiece Shearing the Rams on location en plein air, not in his Melbourne studio?
Did you know that oats have been ground at a watermill on the site of Barry Mill, in Scotland, since 1539?
Did you know that rock group The Beau Brummels sang "Laugh, Laugh" on a 1965 episode of The Flintstones as The Beau Brummelstones?
Did you know that the  Boga is also known as the Snit in Jamaica and as the Bonnetmouth in the Bahamas?
Did you know that the Hamsa-Sandesha is a Sanskrit love poem that tells the story of Rama and Sita in the style of Kalidasa's Meghaduta?
Did you know that the Oslo Sporveier tram company became the first company to be found guilty of homicide in Norway as a result of a 2001 fatal accident involving an SM91 tram?
Did you know that the Rijksmonument designation has been applied to about 55,000 sites in the Netherlands?
Did you know that the Rock Harbor Light, built in 1855, was used for only eight years before being permanently decommissioned?
Did you know that the mass-luminosity relation, first derived by Arthur Eddington in 1924, helps astronomers find the distances to binary star systems?
Did you know that the seven most obese nations in the world are all located in the Pacific?
Did you know that the toxic mushroom Amanita abrupta damages the liver in a manner similar to the destroying angel and the deathcap?
Did you know that 97% of the letters from viewers of The Rejected, the first documentary about homosexuality to air on American television, were positive?
Did you know that Alaska Airlines evolved from McGee Airways, which originated with a single three-seat Stinson plane?
Did you know that AltaRock Energy's demonstration project for generating renewable energy through geothermal power may increase the number of earthquakes in California?
Did you know that American theologian Jonathan Edwards, in his 1734 sermon The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners, condemns Jews for their strict observance of Mosaic Law?
Did you know that Art Attack is the longest running programme in the history of CITV?
Did you know that Charles Darwin's 1875 book Insectivorous Plants describes how he tried to feed meat and glass to carnivorous plants to get them to bite?
Did you know that Chromis abyssus was the first species entered into the ZooBank registry of zoological nomenclature?
Did you know that Dipak Patel once called Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa a "cabbage" and accused him of rigging his election, yet still went on to serve as his Minister of Commerce?
Did you know that Hijron Ka Khanqah is a pre-Mughal period monument of the fifteenth century  where some Hijras (eunuchs) of Delhi were buried during the Lodi dynasty's reign?
Did you know that My Boy Jack, a 2007 film starring Daniel Radcliffe and David Haig, is based on one of Haig's plays of the same name?
Did you know that Tom Roberts's painting "The Big Picture", commissioned to record the opening of the first Parliament of Australia in 1901, contains 269 recognisable likenesses?
Did you know that actors Nicolai Cleve Broch and Aksel Hennie have been referred to as "Norway's Ben Affleck and Matt Damon"?
Did you know that breech-loading swivel guns have been widely used since the 14th century, although breech-loading is usually considered a modern innovation?
Did you know that during the 1967 outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the United Kingdom, around 430,000 animals were slaughtered?
Did you know that in 1988, after flying to space with first Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Méndez, Yuri Romanenko was invited to an underwater fishing trip with Fidel Castro?
Did you know that linguist Dennis Baron has written about the English-only movement, peoples' relationships with their computers, and the grammar of the Second Amendment?
Did you know that semi-professional footballer Gareth Risbridger holds a UEFA 'B' Pro Licence coaching badge and is also a qualified referee, as well as working as a greenkeeper at Wycombe Heights Golf Club?
Did you know that the California lizardfish is not sought by most anglers because its flesh has a taste resembling iodine?
Did you know that the Canadian documentary film Act of God investigates the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning?
Did you know that the Kirov-class cruiser Molotov, named after politician and diplomat Vyacheslav Molotov, was the first Soviet ship to carry a radar?
Did you know that the Original Dixieland Jass Band's "Livery Stable Blues" (1917) was the first released jazz recording?
Did you know that the Portuguese Fireplace war memorial is the remains of a camp where Portuguese labourers helped the Canadian Forestry Corps in felling timber during World War I?
Did you know that the recording of "La Incondicional" by Luis Miguel broke several airplay records in Latin America, where it remained at the top of the charts for seven months?
Did you know that the world's largest mobile phone producer, Nokia, have announced their plans to release their first PC since 1991?
Did you know that three students were burnt to death in the 2000 Dharmapuri bus burning, an incident which resulted from the conviction of J. Jayalalitha for corruption?
Did you know that when the FBI celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2008, Walter Walsh, its oldest living former agent, was one year older than the agency itself?
Did you know that Albert Bates, partner of Machine Gun Kelly, participated in the kidnapping of oil tycoon Charles Urschel in 1933?
Did you know that Alfred Proksch won two gold medals at the 2009 World's Masters Championships because he was the only competitor in the 100+ age bracket for discus and shot put?
Did you know that American artist Duke Riley was arrested for driving his wooden submarine too close to the Queen Mary 2?
Did you know that Galerina sulciceps is considered the most toxic mushroom?
Did you know that Johannes Kvittingen, an exiled Norwegian bacteriologist in London in 1940, was asked to be head recruiter of Norwegian agents for the Special Operations Executive?
Did you know that Louisiana state Judge Henry L. Yelverton, facing mandatory retirement at 75, went on to work five years as a clerk for the appeals court in Lake Charles?
Did you know that Major League Baseball presents a variety of awards each season for individual performance, excellence in batting, pitching performance, and fielding prowess?
Did you know that Richard Petty's victory at the 1966 Daytona 500 was the first and only time that he captured the pole position, despite winning the event a record seven times?
Did you know that SS General Karl Wolff claimed to have foiled a plot to kidnap Pope Pius XII?
Did you know that Taking Woodstock, Elliot Tiber's memoir about the famed 1969 music festival, was the basis for the Ang Lee film of the same title?
Did you know that a portion of the Rhode Island Route 37 expressway was inadvertently constructed over a historic cemetery in Cranston, Rhode Island?
Did you know that critics were so harsh on Hans Christian Andersen's early installments of Fairy Tales Told for Children that he delayed publishing The Little Mermaid and The Emperor's New Clothes by a full year?
Did you know that despite being born in Harlow, England, Alex Stavrinou qualified to play for the Cyprus youth football team through his father's Cypriot heritage?
Did you know that during his 1988 presidential campaign, Congressman Ron Paul received the Libertarian Party's nomination over another candidate who wanted to "put handcuffs on all IRS agents"?
Did you know that in 1975 Phil Slocombe was Somerset County Cricket Club's first batsman to score 1,000 runs in his first full season?
Did you know that it was four years before the British government revealed that a Gazelle helicopter (example pictured) was shot down by friendly fire during the Falklands War?
Did you know that the English herald Ralph Brooke tricked Sir William Segar into granting a coat of arms to a London hangman?
Did you know that the French orientalist painter Étienne Dinet was so fascinated by Arab culture that he converted to Islam?
Did you know that the United Kingdom relied on the Imperial Japanese Navy and its North American Task Force to defend Canada's west coast during the First World War?
Did you know that the construction of Stalingrad-class battlecruisers was cancelled soon after their major supporter, Joseph Stalin, died in March 1953?
Did you know that there have been 57 celebrity housemates in the British version of Big Brother?
Did you know that Elvis  recorded his last number one hit, "Suspicious Minds", at American Sound Studio?
Did you know that Georgia Cottage, an 1840s house in Mobile, Alabama, was the home of Augusta Jane Evans, the first female author in the United States to earn more than $100,000 for her literary work?
Did you know that Glensanda was an ancient deserted settlement in the Highlands of Scotland, but is now a super-quarry which exports 6,000,000 tons of granite every year?
Did you know that Gus Hurdle rejected a chance to play international football for Barbados to help Crawley Town in their relegation match against Dorchester Town, saying it was the "bigger game"?
Did you know that Hitchcon, a convention celebrating the 30th anniversary of the publication of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, will feature a live commentary on Twitter given by Marvin the Paranoid Android?