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Did you know that prior to the 1962 Bou'in-Zahra earthquake, earthquake lights were sighted?
Did you know that some living people claim to have traced their genealogy back to Adam and Eve?
Did you know that the Church of the Transfiguration, Pyecombe, England, has a rare Tapsel gate, which has a central pivot and was designed to keep cattle out and allow coffins through easily?
Did you know that the Grenville Canal on the Ottawa River in Grenville, Quebec, Canada, was built as an alternative military supply route after the War of 1812?
Did you know that the pilot of Showtime's Dexter was filmed through three hurricanes in 2005?
Did you know that though fruiting as a typical "little brown mushroom", Inocybe lacera is easily identifiable microscopically due to its extremely long, distinctive spores?
Did you know that when Gordon Wilkie and his Michigan Wolverines teammates scored 21 points in a single ice hockey game against Ohio State University, their coach threatened to bench anyone else who scored?
Did you know that writer Paul Georgescu helped enforce Socialist Realism in Communist Romania while concealing his sympathy for Trotskyism?
Did you know that AAA's first Triplemanía event in 1993 attracted 48,000 people, setting the all-time attendance record for a Mexican professional wrestling event?
Did you know that Avadhanum Paupiah, Indian dubash of the British East India Company was convicted in 1792 of forging evidence against David Haliburton on behalf of the Holland brothers?
Did you know that Gordon McMillan from Saskatchewan, Wally Grant from Minnesota's Iron Range, and Wally Gacek from Manitoba led the Michigan Wolverines to the first ever Frozen Four NCAA hockey championship in 1948?
Did you know that John Bell, New Hampshire's 18th governor, was both the brother of 14th governor Samuel Bell and the father of 46th governor Charles Henry Bell?
Did you know that Kjell Magne Yri, a linguist at the University of Oslo, began his career as a Bible translator and priest in Ethiopia?
Did you know that Leif Tronstad, who helped establish the Norsk Hydro heavy water plant at Vemork, organized a sabotage mission against it later?
Did you know that Mayotte situated in the Indian Ocean, Kosovo and Montenegro in the Balkans, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon, off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, have adopted the euro as their national currency?
Did you know that Mel Wakabayashi, born in a wartime Japanese-Canadian internment camp, was called "perhaps the most unlikely star in the long history of Michigan sports, and surely one of the most inspirational"?
Did you know that Romania's Daewoo Mangalia shipyard has built over 127 new ships and repaired another 300 since its founding in 1997?
Did you know that Stanford Financial Group, whose assets were frozen in 2009 due to charges of investment fraud, was the lead financier of the 2007 film The Ultimate Gift?
Did you know that William Prowse joined the Royal Navy as an able seaman, saw action at the Glorious First of June, Cape St Vincent, Cape Finisterre and Trafalgar, and died a Rear-Admiral?
Did you know that depending on the author, the odor of the stinkhorn mushroom Phallus hadriani has been described as sweet, or fetid?
Did you know that despite support from Margaret Thatcher, the 1988 National Health Service Lottery was cancelled for contravening gaming regulations?
Did you know that in the 2001 Somaliland constitutional referendum, 97.1% of those who voted approved the constitution of Somaliland?
Did you know that paleolithic implements and a variety of speleothems have been found in the Borra Caves located in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh?
Did you know that pop entertainer Cathy Wayne was the first Australian woman killed in the Vietnam War, when a US Marine shot her on stage while she was performing?
Did you know that sprites, large but very brief reddish forms of lightning that occur high over thunderstorms, were not photographed until 1989?
Did you know that the Bay Area Puma Project is the first major study of mountain lions living in the San Francisco Bay Area?
Did you know that the Crusader was the largest ship commissioned into service with the Australian Army during World War II?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty warlord Wu Shaoyang often pillaged the tea-growing hills of neighboring Shou Prefecture?
Did you know that the Walter Hand House, in Cornwall, New York, was built in 1870 to serve as both a farmhouse and a tourist boarding house?
Did you know that the Wannsee Conference was held in a house that was sold to the Nazi security services by Friedrich Minoux while he was imprisoned for fraud?
Did you know that the diet of the Gold-whiskered Barbet (video shown) includes papaya and lizards?
Did you know that the syndicated TV series Sheriff of Cochise was created by co-star Stan Jones, best known for the Western song "Ghost Riders in the Sky"?
Did you know that the tanker ship CHANT 26 ended up discharging her cargo in a French field during the Second World War?
Did you know that though trained as a nuclear physicist, Peer Portner created the ventricular assist device, a pump that assists a patient's heart until a heart transplant can be performed?
Did you know that two members of the $100,000 infield have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame?
Did you know that welterweight mixed martial arts fighter Satoru Kitaoka cut down to lightweight in 2008 and captured the Sengoku Lightweight Championship?
Did you know that Battle of Britain pilot Paul Egger was later awarded the Knight's Cross as a Tiger tank commander in the Waffen-SS?
Did you know that Brigadier General Mark Perrin Lowrey, the founder of Blue Mountain College, died at age 56 while buying a train ticket?
Did you know that Cambodia's Mongkol Borei District was part of Thailand until the French demanded it back in 1907?
Did you know that Confederate forces won the last battle at the end of the American Civil War?
Did you know that Czech–Bulgarian architect Josef Schnitter, chief architect of Plovdiv from 1878 to 1914, is credited with shaping that city's modern appearance?
Did you know that Edmund Chojecki co-founded Le Temps,  predecessor to France's most popular modern newspaper, Le Monde?
Did you know that Harald Strøm's speed skating World Record in 5,000 metres set at Oslo's Frogner Stadion in 1922 lasted seven years?
Did you know that Hebron, now a ghost town in Utah, was destroyed by an earthquake in 1902?
Did you know that Horace Prettyman played eight years of "college" football for the University of Michigan from 1882 to 1890, some when he was in his 30s and no longer a student?
Did you know that Joseph Stalin personally rewrote Falsifiers of History to respond to U.S.-released information about the German–Soviet Axis talks?
Did you know that Olympic Rower Steven Coppola was the first athlete from Western New York's West Side Rowing Club to medal at the Olympic Games?
Did you know that Paul Kodish, best known as the current drummer for drum and bass band Pendulum, performed in 1986 with Brooklyn hip hop act Whodini?
Did you know that Reedville Creek Park had the first skatepark in a Hillsboro, Oregon, park when it opened in 2003?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty warlord Li Shidao, hoping to save his ally Wu Yuanji, assassinated the chancellor Wu Yuanheng, who was in charge of the campaign against Wu Yuanji?
Did you know that a cow once got stuck in Boot's Folly at Strines Reservoir, South Yorkshire, England, after climbing its staircase?
Did you know that adult land snails in the tropical genera Anostoma and Ringicella carry their oddly-shaped shells upside down (i.e. spire down)?
Did you know that an 1847 New York state law led to bodies buried in Manhattan graveyards being dug up for reburial in Brooklyn and Queens?
Did you know that archaeologists have discovered in Sagardighi, West Bengal, small Stone Age weapons not normally found in the Gangetic alluvial plains?
Did you know that at the Expert Committee on Questions of Population and Racial Policy, Nazi eugenicist Wilhelm Frick claimed that up to 20% of the German population had genetic disorders?
Did you know that child actor Robbie Kay made his acting debut in the 2006 film The Illusionist, but was eventually cut from the film?
Did you know that handball player Joachim Boldsen has participated in the Danish version of Dancing with the Stars?
Did you know that in spite of years of development no one was able to get a Chromatron color television set to work properly, prompting Sony to develop the famed Trinitron?
Did you know that nearly half the area of Estonia's 342 km2 (132 mi2) Alam-Pedja Nature Reserve was once a Soviet Air Force bombing range and its surrounding buffer zone?
Did you know that the Bluespotted trevally (Caranx bucculentus, pictured) is a major predator of prawns on the coasts of Northern Australia?
Did you know that the Indiana County Courthouse was featured with Indiana, Pennsylvania-native Jimmy Stewart on the cover of LIFE in 1945?
Did you know that the John Cassavetes film Husbands, praised by Time magazine as Cassavetes' finest work, was condemned by Pauline Kael and other prominent critics?
Did you know that the heads of some East Indian harvesting ant workers are ten times larger than other worker ants of the same species?
Did you know that the open access, peer reviewed journal Trials encourages publication of protocols, which the journal's editor Doug Altman has suggested may reduce data dredging and publication bias?
Did you know that Boxhill, a mansion near Louisville, Kentucky, sat vacant for years after it was the site of a double homicide, and was restored by the wife of a former Kentucky governor?
Did you know that George Washington gave Martha Parke Custis a miniature of himself as a wedding gift, and later left her 1/32 of his estate in his will?
Did you know that Kandurata province cricket team entered the finals of 2007/08 Sri Lankan Inter-Provincial limited over tournament unbeaten, but the game was rained out and they had to share the trophy?
Did you know that Knut Korsæth, former mayor of Lillehammer and County Governor of Oppland, is also an honorary member of the Norwegian Olympic Committee and Confederation of Sports?
Did you know that MBM, a Barcelona based architecture firm, showed 32 designs that were never built in a 2003 show titled Lost Architectures?
Did you know that NATO pilots flew more than 100,000 sorties over Bosnia during Operation Deny Flight?
Did you know that Polish caricaturist Eryk Lipiński worked for the Polish resistance during World War II, forging documents, and was imprisoned in Auschwitz?
Did you know that Pollicipes pollicipes, a goose barnacle found on rocky shores in the north-east Atlantic Ocean, is a delicacy in Spain where it may fetch up to €90 per kilogram?
Did you know that Royal Parker, who played a children's television show character on Baltimore's WBAL-TV, also broadcast the news bulletin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963?
Did you know that Svein Døvle Larssen, a newspaper editor by occupation, also served in three different municipal councils for the Conservative Party of Norway?
Did you know that Texas State Representative Tommy Merritt co-authored the bill which added "Under God" to the Texas Pledge of Allegiance in 2007?
Did you know that Walter A. McDougall received the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age?
Did you know that in February 2008, David Mendell received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Obama: From Promise to Power?
Did you know that the Alaska Conservation Society was the first grassroots environmental conservation organization created in the U.S. state of Alaska?
Did you know that the Arpechim Refinery owned by Petrom produces around sixty percent of all the bitumen used in Romania?
Did you know that the Massacre of the Latins occurred in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, in 1182?
Did you know that the Middle Colonies were the most ethnically diverse British colonies in North America?
Did you know that the Orbitron (pictured in restored state), an Ed Roth-built custom car, was feared lost until its 2007 rediscovery in dilapidated condition in front of a Ciudad Juárez adult bookstore?
Did you know that the Thika River supplies eighty percent of the water for Nairobi, Kenya?
Did you know that the plot of the "4-D" episode of The X-Files was inspired by French journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby, who could only communicate by blinking his left eyelid?
Did you know that the ruined Elizabethan mansion of Rocksavage in Runcorn was once the second-largest house in Cheshire?
Did you know that the winner of the 2005 Djiboutian presidential election, Ismail Omar Guelleh, said that he regretted having no opponent in the election?
Did you know that today Rare Disease Day, coordinated by the National Organization for Rare Disorders, is being observed in the United States for the first time ever?
Did you know that while a professor at the University of Wisconsin, future I.C.C. commissioner Balthasar H. Meyer taught what was said to be the first course in insurance in the U.S.?
Did you know that 1 SS Infantry Brigade took part in numerous anti-partisan operations and the Holocaust?
Did you know that Christ Church in Greenville, South Carolina, has a window depicting the Last Supper dedicated to Confederate general and bishop Ellison Capers?
Did you know that Cornwall Friends Meeting House is the oldest religious building in Cornwall, New York?
Did you know that Joseph Ferguson Peacocke, Archbishop of Dublin, was painted by Philip de László?
Did you know that Kentucky Jones featured Dennis Weaver, in his first TV series since Gunsmoke, as a widowed veterinarian and guardian of a 10-year-old Chinese orphan?
Did you know that Muzzammil Hassan is the CEO of Bridges TV, the first American Muslim television network to broadcast in English?
Did you know that Peter of Canterbury, who drowned near Boulogne, was the first abbot of what became St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury?
Did you know that Polish historical painter Juliusz Kossak was the progenitor of a family of painters and poets spanning four generations?
Did you know that Polkagris is a Swedish candy stick invented in 1859 by a widow in Gränna?
Did you know that Xiuhtecuhtli (mask pictured), the Aztec god of fire, was one of the nine Lords of the Night even though he was a solar deity?
Did you know that a series of innovative computers, including the first transistor computer and the world's fastest computer, were produced by a small team working at Manchester University between 1947 and 1977?
Did you know that according to Ernst Lohmeyer, "the Christian faith is only Christian as long as it retains in its heart the Jewish faith"?
Did you know that during World War II, the Tunnel Railway in Ramsgate, England, became part of an air-raid shelter capable of housing more than 60,000 people?
Did you know that during the filming of The Linguists in the Andes, the cast coped with altitude sickness by drinking coca leaf tea?
Did you know that haejangguk is a kind of Korean guk (soup) consumed as a remedy for hangovers?
Did you know that in the 1898 case Smyth v. Ames, the United States Supreme Court unanimously declared a Nebraska railroad tariff law unconstitutional?
Did you know that over 400,000 people consulted over 4 million documents during the Central Case Examination Group's investigation of President Liu Shaoqi of the People's Republic of China in 1968?
Did you know that the 1803 Treaty of Fort Wayne dictated that the Native Americans were given up to 150 bushels of salt?
Did you know that the 1909 silent short film Wilbur Wright und seine Flugmaschine is considered to be the first-ever use of aerial movie photography?
Did you know that the A. R. Bowman Memorial Museum in Prineville, Oregon, was opened in 1971 and is housed in the historic Crook County Bank Building?
Did you know that the Buckner homestead and farm is used by the National Park Service as an interpretive center to show visitors what pioneer life was like in Washington?
Did you know that the Dexter episode "Our Father", aired September 2008, was Showtime's highest-rated drama season premiere since 2004?
Did you know that the Palm Court, called "the most beautiful room in Los Angeles," has been the site of speeches by Presidents Taft and Wilson and balls where Rudolph Valentino danced with starlets?
Did you know that the U.S. Treasury Department was opposed to Georgina Klitgaard's mural of the nearby Historic Track in the Goshen, New York post office because it considered harness racing an inappropriate subject for public art?
Did you know that the highly-regarded edible mushroom Cortinarius caperatus is known as the granny's nightcap in Finland?
Did you know that the planned International Finance Complex in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, will be the tallest man-made structure in the country?
Did you know that the tunnel on the Busan-Geoje Fixed Link, under construction in South Korea, is slated to become the deepest immersed roadway tunnel?
Did you know that when 2001 Chicago Marathon winner Catherine Ndereba set the world record, she joined four-time winner Khalid Khannouchi with a current world record time set at the Chicago Marathon?
Did you know that Alfred J. Kahn spent 57 years on the faculty of the Columbia University School of Social Work, where he wrote multiple reports regarding child welfare in New York City for the Citizens' Committee for Children?
Did you know that J. Max Bond, Jr. ignored a Harvard professor's advice not to pursue a career in architecture due to his race and went on to oversee the museum at the National 9/11 Memorial?
Did you know that Kōmyō-ji, a Jōdo temple in Japan dedicated to the training of Buddhist priests and scholarly research, has a pet cemetery on its premises?
Did you know that Mario Duschenes was the widely admired conductor of young people's orchestra concerts across Canada?
Did you know that Nikolaus Pevsner, writing in 1965, described the recently built Crawley Hospital in the town's West Green neighbourhood as "easily the best building in Crawley up to date"?
Did you know that Paul Gauguin described the Tahitian goddess he sculpted in 1894, Oviri, as "monstrous and majestic, drunk with pride, rage and sorrow"?
Did you know that Phnom Srok District of Cambodia is home to the rare Eastern Sarus Crane?
Did you know that Rogatien Vachon, who was the head coach of the Los Angeles Kings for three non-consecutive stints, coached the fewest games of any of the Kings' head coaches?
Did you know that The Salt Box, one of the first Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments, was razed by fire seven months after being relocated to make room for a $500 million skyscraper development?
Did you know that University of Pittsburgh basketball player DeJuan Blair grew up 600 yards (550 m)* from the university's campus?
Did you know that a record 25 candidates stood in the 2005 Anguillan general election?
Did you know that although it was prohibited by a 1951 law, Pakistan now officially allows its citizens to hold dual citizenship with 16 other countries?
Did you know that conservation reliant species, which require continuing wildlife management interventions for their survival, comprise 80% of endangered species in the US?
Did you know that in 132 CE, Zhang Heng, a Chinese court astronomer during the Han Dynasty, produced a seismometer with an inverted pendulum that indicated the direction of earthquakes that occurred hundreds of kilometers away?
Did you know that in 1917, a fleet of 47 naval drifters, used by the British to blockade the Otranto Straits, was attacked by the Austro-Hungarian Navy?
Did you know that the Italian island of Asinara is inhabited by a wild population of albino donkeys?
Did you know that the M7 grenade launcher attachment for the M1 Garand rifle allowed it to fire grenades up to 350 metres (1,150 ft)?
Did you know that the Mount Zion Temple organized the first synagogue and was led by the first rabbi in Minnesota?
Did you know that the Soviet atheist magazine Bezbozhnik (cover pictured) accused some rabbis of having organized anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire?
Did you know that the Stand in the Schoolhouse Door was reenacted in the film Forrest Gump?
Did you know that the character of Lady Thisbe Crowborough in Max Beerbohm's 1919 satire Seven Men was probably drawn from real-life socialite Helen Vincent, Viscountess D'Abernon?
Did you know that the death of the chimpanzee Travis inspired a New York Post cartoon that was later called racist?
Did you know that the frontispiece of the medieval Liber feudorum maior shows King Alfonso II of Aragon and his scribe selecting documents for inclusion?
Did you know that the historic district in the Village of Monroe includes the factory where Velveeta was first made and the oldest Masonic lodge in New York state?
Did you know that the sports club Idrottslaget i Bondeungdomslaget i Oslo has co-organized the Bislett Games, an IAAF track and field event event,  since 1966?
Did you know that the towers of the Cymbalista Synagogue and Jewish Heritage Center at Tel Aviv University are an architectural squaring of the circle?
Did you know that , upon hearing they were to be laid off, 100 Waterford Crystal workers occupied the plant, accompanied by a Sinn Féin politician?
Did you know that Derrell Palmer, winner of both AAFC and NFL championships with the Cleveland Browns, was called one of the two best defensive tackles he ever coached by Paul Brown?
Did you know that English playwright David Edgar was the first pupil in Oundle School's 300-year history to be permitted to direct a school play?
Did you know that Hawaii House Bill 444 would allow civil unions in the state of Hawaii?
Did you know that Ludvig Meyer, the defender of writer Hans Jæger during the high-profile censorship case in 1886, later became the leader of the Norwegian Labour Party?
Did you know that The Concert Singer was Thomas Eakins' first full-length portrait of a woman?
Did you know that a foreshock before the 1930 Salmas earthquake caused residents of Dilman to sleep outside, probably saving thousands of lives from the actual earthquake?
Did you know that archaeologist Eigil Knuth was co-leader of the first Danish Greenland expedition to make use of an airplane, a Tiger Moth?
Did you know that earliest mention of the Slavs occurs in the 6th century, in De Bellis of Procopius?
Did you know that even though the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma only has 519 members, they created the first and only eagle rehabilitation center in Oklahoma?
Did you know that gigantotomy is the art of carving human-shaped hill figures such as the Cerne Abbas giant (detail pictured)?
Did you know that the  Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Baltimore Branch Office is located in a historic building designed in 1926 in the Second Renaissance Revival style?
Did you know that the ABC children's TV series The Marshal of Gunsight Pass, considered primitive even for 1950, was telecast live to stations on the West Coast and seen elsewhere by kinescope?
Did you know that the Japanese manga Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens went on a hiatus because the mangaka fell ill, though there was speculation that the hiatus was caused by a fan controversy over Nagi's virginity?
Did you know that the Pirate Party of the United States was formed after a 2006 raid by the Swedish police on the servers of The Pirate Bay, a popular file sharing website?
Did you know that the Umpqua Bank Plaza, a high-rise in Portland, Oregon, remained named for a failed savings and loan association for 15 years until adopting the present moniker?
Did you know that the winner of the first Coupe Charles Drago, predecessor of the Coupe de la Ligue, was decided by a coin-toss, after the scores finished equal after extra time?
Did you know that twin brothers Yuen and Yong Poovorawan from Thailand are both Outstanding Researcher Award-winning scientists, although in the different fields of computer science and medicine?
Did you know that 35 species of woodlice are native to the British Isles?
Did you know that German socialist politician Siegmund Glücksmann initiated the first socialist protests against the Piłsudski government in Poland?