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Did you know that the proposed Redlands Passenger Rail system would connect the University of Redlands with San Bernardino, California?
Did you know that the ravenberry and boreal sagewort are eaten by hoary marmots?
Did you know that Bulbophyllum nocturnum, first described in 2011, is the only orchid species known to flower at night?
Did you know that Louisiana State University defeated Alabama by a score of 9-6 in college football's latest so-called "Game of the Century", a game that did not feature a single touchdown?
Did you know that Reinhard Febel composed an opera on Caspar Hauser, Sekunden und Jahre des Caspar Hauser, which premiered in 1992 at the Opernhaus Dortmund?
Did you know that The Who's "Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand" has been interpreted as a song about masturbation?
Did you know that although the Cornell–Princeton lacrosse rivalry spans 73 games and dates back to 1922, the teams did not meet in the post season until the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship?
Did you know that many German communists fleeing Nazi persecution who initially found refuge in Moscow's Hotel Lux were killed in Josef Stalin's purges?
Did you know that near the Poplar River, a locomotive, briefly used for logging, lay abandoned for 20 years before being sold for scrap?
Did you know that one 19th-century writer condemned the partial demolition of the old church dedicated to St Nidan in Anglesey, Wales, saying that its replacement was "a painfully impressive example of architectural bad taste"?
Did you know that skippers, lycaenids and honeybees visit the flowers of Dampiera purpurea?
Did you know that smallmouth bass, introduced into Crescent Lake, have spread to every major lake in the upper Poplar River watershed of Minnesota?
Did you know that the Miller's Tower at Formakin House is dated "1694 DL", with DL standing for "damned lie", as it was built in the 1900s?
Did you know that the Rajaji Hall in Chennai, India, was constructed to commemorate a British victory over Tipu Sultan in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War?
Did you know that the scoring in Bach's cantata Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62, based on Luther's chorale for Advent, is said to be simple because Advent was a "season of abstinence"?
Did you know that the sparrow's-egg lady's-slipper is a lady's slipper orchid that resembles a sparrow's egg?
Did you know that trying to escape Hurricane Katrina, award-winning writer Jesmyn Ward and her family got stranded in a field full of tractors?
Did you know that Australian Paralympic medalist Marayke Jonkers won Cosmopolitan's "fun fearless female award" in 2007?
Did you know that CNN Radio news anchor Stan Case was also a licensed attorney in the U.S. state of Georgia?
Did you know that Gerrit Beneker's 1918 poster "Sure! We'll Finish the Job" sold over three million copies?
Did you know that Gherman Pântea, who facilitated Bessarabia's union with Romania in 1918, protected Odessan Jews targeted by Romanian troops during the 1941 Massacre?
Did you know that HMS Blanche was the first British destroyer sunk by the Germans during the Second World War?
Did you know that Lee Patterson portrayed newspaper editor Joe Riley as a member of the original cast of the American soap opera One Life to Live?
Did you know that Mark Antony aided Herod the Great's siege of Jerusalem?
Did you know that Nicolae Fleva, who helped prepare Romania's independence in 1877, allegedly sold his loyalty to the Central Powers in 1915?
Did you know that Rodion Markovits became "the best-known Transylvanian writer" with his account of World War I captivity and survival in the Russian Far East?
Did you know that a cardboard box in Kurt and Sid, about Sid Vicious trying to convince Kurt Cobain not to kill himself, was said to have more empathy than the script?
Did you know that although Glen Rice, Jr. scored 20 points six times during the 2010–11 college basketball season, he also scored 0 points three times?
Did you know that in 1998, Paul McCartney rearranged Wings' 1976 songs "She's My Baby" and "Warm and Beautiful" for string quartet for concerts in memory of his late wife Linda?
Did you know that publisher and collector George Arthur Plimpton is the namesake of "one of the world's most famous mathematical artifacts"?
Did you know that the Austro-Hungarian scout cruiser Helgoland was ceded to Italy on 19 September 1920 as part of the peace settlements that ended World War I?
Did you know that the Cathedral of the Unity of the People in Alba Iulia was built to commemorate the Union of Transylvania with Romania, in the city where the union was proclaimed?
Did you know that the invertebrate amphioxus serves as a model organism for studying the development of vertebrates?
Did you know that Australian Paralympians Karni Liddell, Branka Pupovac and Hamish MacDonald were all photographed for a nude calendar?
Did you know that Dude Harlino's given name is derived from his birthdate, 2 December?
Did you know that Jeff Koons' giant Banality sculptures feature Michael Jackson, Odie, Saint John the Baptist, The Pink Panther, and a porn star?
Did you know that Manuel Belgrano handed the command of the Army of the North to José de San Martín in 1814 (meeting pictured)?
Did you know that Russell J. Rickford moved into his parents' garage to write a biography of Betty Shabazz?
Did you know that Sam Nujoma, first president of the Republic of Namibia, spoke at the funeral of Michael Hishikushitja?
Did you know that Siegfried Strohbach composed a program of music for Advent for the Knabenchor Hannover, performed today at the Marktkirche?
Did you know that South Africa were coached by former New Zealand international Paul Matete at the 2000 Rugby League World Cup?
Did you know that a year after the Romanian Volunteer Corps was being forced out of Kiev, some of its troops were reluctantly holding the Trans-Siberian Railway for the Whites?
Did you know that during the Battle of Moon Sound on 17 October 1917, the Russian armoured cruiser Bayan was hit by a shell from the dreadnought SMS König, starting a fire that was not extinguished until the next day?
Did you know that in 506 BCE, Chu general Shen Yin Shu, wounded battling against Wu general Sun Tzu, author of The Art of War, asked an officer to kill him and bring his head home?
Did you know that the Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act, 1953 banned native Africans from taking strike action?
Did you know that the anti-religious campaign culminating in the Stalinist show trial of the Kraków Curia led to the imprisonment of 123 Polish Roman Catholic priests in just one year?
Did you know that the key inspiration for Palestinian-American performance poet Remi Kanazi was seeing Def Poetry Jam on Broadway?
Did you know that the periwinkle plant from which indigenous Carib in Dominica made tea to treat diabetes also provides ingredients for modern pharmacology?
Did you know that "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)", described as one of Squeeze's catchiest songs, is based on a band member's experiences at a holiday camp?
Did you know that , in supporting peace negotiations to end the Vietnam War and opposing a U.S. withdrawal, AFL–CIO President George Meany stated that "in Vietnam the AFL–CIO is neither hawk nor dove nor chicken"?
Did you know that Australian Paralympic medalist Elizabeth Wright published a paper about her prosthesis?
Did you know that Charles Richards, the designer of the Colt Peacemaker, later became chair of Mechanical Engineering at Yale University?
Did you know that Josh Romanski's mother was diagnosed with breast cancer the same day he was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team?
Did you know that Martell Bailey stole the basketball from his brother, David, and made a layup with 13 seconds left to put his team ahead in the 2002 Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournament championship game?
Did you know that Polish fashion blogger Glamourina participated in the Warsaw Fashion Weekend?
Did you know that Prostoma jenningsi, a ribbon worm found in a recreational fishing pond in Lancashire, England, is the county's only endemic species?
Did you know that Ruth von Mayenburg was born into an aristocratic German family, became a spy for the Soviet Union during World War II, and in the 1960s, wrote the first history of Hotel Lux?
Did you know that in the first phase of the defunct drug rehabilitation program Straight, Incorporated, teenage clients were led around by their belt loops?
Did you know that otium, a Latin term, has a variety of meanings including leisure time in which a person can enjoy eating, playing, resting, contemplation and academic endeavors?
Did you know that the Antarctic Peninsula has experienced subduction for over 200 million years?
Did you know that the Bishop of Ilagan described the 4th district special election of 2003 as the most fraudulent in the history of the Philippines' Isabela province?
Did you know that the Jurassic conifer Araucaria mirabilis (cone pictured) of Argentina may have been a primary food for sauropods?
Did you know that the Red Cross is a kitchen stove?
Did you know that the acoustics at Tarrytown Music Hall in Westchester County, New York, are so good that the Canadian Brass did not need amplification for a 2009 concert?
Did you know that the earnings from Isha Life's Chennai Wellness Centre are channeled into supporting education in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu?
Did you know that the historic Lake of the Woods Ranger Station was built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps at the north end of Lake of the Woods near the crest of the Cascade Range in southern Oregon?
Did you know that upon the death of Chief Rabbi Sholom Rivkin of St. Louis, Missouri, in October 2011, the institution of Chief Rabbi of a city in the United States came to an end?
Did you know that 211 hectares (520 acres) of woodland near Peterborough, UK, has recorded 462 species of plants?
Did you know that 49 people died and 135 were injured in the 1979 Warsaw gas explosion?
Did you know that Maria Teresa de Filippis, the first female driver in Formula One, finished in a career best of last place despite being told by five-time world champion Juan Manuel Fangio that she was "too fast"?
Did you know that One of Our Thursdays Is Missing, called "the funniest book you will see this year", has references to works by Charles Dickens and Samuel Pepys?
Did you know that Peter Harburn was named in the Great Britain football squad for the 1956 Olympic Games, for which, as a professional, he was ineligible?
Did you know that a 2007 analysis of tsunami deposits from the Sendai and Ishinomaki plains gave a 99% chance in 30 years of a great tsunami striking the coast that was devastated in 2011?
Did you know that a critic's calling The Clash a "garage band" that ought to be "returned to the garage ... with the motor still running" prompted the band to write the song "Garageland"?
Did you know that after HMS Porcupine was nearly split in two by a torpedo, the halves were nicknamed HMS Pork and HMS Pine?
Did you know that an anime music video was produced for the song "Perfect Day" on Supercell's album Today Is A Beautiful Day?
Did you know that anarchists from the Whiteaker neighborhood of Eugene, Oregon, played a key role in organizing black bloc tactics during the 1999 Seattle World Trade Organization Conference?
Did you know that bird's nest ferns grow in trees?
Did you know that in the 16th century the Church of St. Mary of Constantinople in Istanbul was the center of a quarter mainly inhabited by Italians deported from the city of Caffa in Crimea?
Did you know that the dotted gayfeather is a source of nectar for the rare Pawnee montane skipper butterfly?
Did you know that the extinct Eocene maple species Acer rousei is a possible ancestor to the vine maple?
Did you know that the false toadflax has an orange drupe?
Did you know that when Jimmy Iovine asked will.i.am who he wanted to collaborate with on "T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever)", will mentioned Mick Jagger because he felt it would never happen?
Did you know that Chrisye faced accusations of plagiarism due to similarities between the title song of his album Hip Hip Hura and "Footloose"?
Did you know that General of Division Samuel-François, Baron Lhéritier was wounded at the Battle of Waterloo while leading a combined division of cuirassiers and dragoons?
Did you know that Hans Krieger, an award-winning German essayist, influential in papers such as Die Zeit, wrote the text for a Christmas cantata by Graham Waterhouse that premieres today?
Did you know that Rajinikanth was given the "Superstar" title through the film Bairavi?
Did you know that Red Moor in Cornwall, UK, was likely to have been named for the loose tin-bearing gravels found and mined in the area?
Did you know that Swami Nirmalananda was a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa?
Did you know that Yehuda Tzadka started learning at Porat Yosef Yeshiva after his bar mitzvah, and remained there for nearly 70 years?
Did you know that if eaten by a pregnant cow, the silky lupine can cause the unborn calf to be deformed?
Did you know that the Glee episode "Extraordinary Merry Christmas" shares its title with an original song performed in the episode?
Did you know that the central chameleon cage in M. C. Escher's 1948 woodcut Stars has the shape of a compound of three octahedra?
Did you know that while normally associated with rockets and jet engines, shock diamonds can also be produced by artillery, volcanoes, and quasars?
Did you know that "Talk That Talk" is the third musical collaboration between Rihanna and Jay-Z?
Did you know that Confederate brigadier general Alfred E. Jackson was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson because of his kindness toward Johnson's family during the Civil War?
Did you know that Denis Law, the all-time top goalscorer for the Scotland national football team, played for the Italian League against the Scottish League XI?
Did you know that Melville Lyons of the New Zealand National Party unsuccessfully contested by-elections in 1935, 1939 and 1943?
Did you know that Peaches Golding, the first black High Sheriff of Bristol, England, is the daughter of Charlie Brady Hauser, who was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus in North Carolina?
Did you know that TAT Technologies Ltd. was established in 1969 in response to a French arms embargo that principally affected Israel?
Did you know that Vice President Garret Hobart not only advised President William McKinley, but also invested part of his salary for him?
Did you know that engineer and inventor William Mason worked for Remington, Colt, and Winchester in the 19th century and patented 125 inventions?
Did you know that fish-knives inscribed with Elokeshi's name were sold after her husband decapitated her with a fish-knife following her adulterous affair with a Hindu head-priest?
Did you know that four judges were chosen in the 2011 election for the International Court of Justice, but the UN General Assembly and Security Council deadlocked on the fifth?
Did you know that maté tea served in a traditional gourd cup should never be stirred with the straw according to Argentine tea culture etiquette?
Did you know that the Lope de Vega Theater in Seville has twice been flooded by the Guadalquivir river?
Did you know that the black velvet bolete is not the false one?
Did you know that ultrahigh energy gamma-rays can be detected by MAGIC?
Did you know that All Saints Episcopal Church is the oldest wooden-framed church in the city of Chicago?
Did you know that Bart Millard intended the music to the song "Word of God Speak" to mirror its overall lyrical theme?
Did you know that Dick Attlesey set two world records in the 110-meter hurdles in 1950 and was the gold medalist in this event at the first Pan American Games?
Did you know that Indian cricketer Ibrahim Khaleel recently set a record for the number of wicket-keeper dismissals in a first-class match, taking 14 of his team's 20 wickets?
Did you know that Section 20A of South Africa's Sexual Offences Act, which prohibited all sexual acts between men at a party, defined "party" as "any occasion where more than two persons are present"?
Did you know that according to ancient rhetorician Athenaeus, in Sophocles' satyr play Amphiaraus, a character "dances the letters" of words he is unable to read?
Did you know that cliffs on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall are a breeding site for the rare Cornish Chough?
Did you know that point guard Craig Lathen helped his high school set a record for 100-point performances and helped his college score 120, a school single-game record?
Did you know that the D.E. Frantz House is the only Victorian house in Aspen, Colorado, that still has its oriel window?
Did you know that the progressive feminist magazine On The Issues has also published articles about animal rights?
Did you know that American composer William Arms Fisher was called "a worthy pupil and disciple of Antonín Dvořák" in the February 1927 issue of The Crisis?
Did you know that East German politician Gustav Sobottka lost both of his sons; one died in a Communist prison and one shortly after liberation from a Nazi concentration camp?
Did you know that Elmer Stricklett is considered to have been the first baseball pitcher to master the spitball?
Did you know that Florence Violet McKenzie, Australia's first female electrical engineer, taught Morse code to thousands of sailors free of charge?
Did you know that Hieronim Ossoliński, a 16th-century Polish politician who helped to unite Poland and Lithuania, also wanted to establish a Protestant national church?
Did you know that Norwegian skiing pioneers Fritz R. Huitfeldt and Karl Roll were both active members of the exclusive ski club Ull, named after the Norse deity Ullr?
Did you know that Paris Mountain was named for the Indian trader Richard Pearis?
Did you know that West Alabama football head coach Will Hall won the Harlon Hill Trophy in 2003 as the top player in NCAA Division II college football?
Did you know that an airliner version of the supersonic B-58 bomber was expected to carry 52 passengers at over Mach 2?
Did you know that controversial American entomologist Alexandre Arsène Girault once described a new species of wasp from the planet Jupiter?
Did you know that in 1938, the Soviet Union secret police executed 40 teenagers and adults in pursuit of an alleged Hitler Youth Conspiracy, which was later found baseless?
Did you know that some important "bronzes" (example pictured) aren't bronze at all, but copper electrotypes?
Did you know that the "unassuming" villain of The X-Files episode "2Shy" has been compared to those from the earlier episodes "Squeeze" and " Irresistible"?
Did you know that the Gazi Race, named in honor of Gazi Mustafa Kemal, the founder of the Turkish Republic, was won by racehorses owned by succeeding presidents İsmet İnönü and Celâl Bayar?
Did you know that the Glenorchy Parish Church and the burial place of the Macgregor clan are both located on an islet in the River Orchy?
Did you know that Ed Walker, who reenlisted in the U.S. Army specifically to go to Alaska, was the last surviving member of Castner's Cutthroats?
Did you know that Heinrich Wiegand refused an appointment as State Secretary for the Colonies to remain head of the Norddeutscher Lloyd?
Did you know that Sevmorput is the only nuclear-powered cargo ship currently in service?
Did you know that Strict Baptists travelled from miles around to the remote Zoar Chapel in East Sussex, so stables for 40 horses were built at the back?
Did you know that The Who sang about a tattoo of "a lady in the nude"?
Did you know that in certain rural areas of Denmark such as Fanø, Læsø, and in parts of Western Jutland  local musical traditions dating back to the late 18th century were maintained well into the 20th century?
Did you know that painter and poet Fritz Graßhoff published the collection of poetry Halunkenpostille in 1947, made money with hits for singers Lale Andersen and Hans Albers, and translated poems from Latin and Swedish?
Did you know that the 10,000 year old Pesse canoe, the world's oldest known boat, was found in a Dutch peat bog?
Did you know that the 2011–12 Harvard Crimson men's basketball team was the first Harvard men's basketball team ever ranked in the AP Poll, leaving only seven schools that have never been ranked in it?
Did you know that the dark-scaled knight is in danger of extinction in the Netherlands?
Did you know that the granite gilia can grow in lava-based soils?
Did you know that the mansion that became the Weehawken Public Library was spared demolition during construction of the Lincoln Tunnel?
Did you know that the song "Another Nail in My Heart" has a "McCartneyesque" melody and peaked at No. 17 on the UK Singles Chart?
Did you know that Alexis Bachelot, who led the first Catholic mission to Hawaii, was suspected of being a covert agent of the French government by some Hawaiian chiefs?
Did you know that Caractacus, winner of the 1862 Epsom Derby, avoided disqualification because of the weight of his bridle?
Did you know that French photographer Constant Puyo was an advocate of pictorialism, aiming to emulate painting in his photographic images (example pictured)?
Did you know that The Who songs "Getting in Tune," "Going Mobile" and "Love Ain't for Keeping" were all originally conceived for Pete Townshend's abandoned Lifehouse project?
Did you know that Tonya Butler, while playing for the University of West Alabama under head coach Randy Pippin, became the first female to score a field goal in a NCAA college football game?
Did you know that numerous Polish formations fought in Russia from the First World War, through the Russian Revolution of 1917 up to the Polish–Soviet War?
Did you know that the electoral system for the 1883 elections in Egypt was said to have been based on the design of a pyramid?
Did you know that the first words of the first radio broadcast in Swedish history, transmitted from Boden Fortress Radio Bunker, were the profanity "jävlar anamma"?
Did you know that the giant plumose anemone can grow to a height of one metre (39 inches)?
Did you know that the newly discovered Puhinui Craters form the only cluster of three small maars in the Auckland volcanic field?
Did you know that the scene showing a dead woman with her lips sewn shut, in the music video for the song "Oh Father", was inspired by singer Madonna's memory of her mother's funeral?
Did you know that Marco Melandri became the 2002 250cc World Champion after a 0.007 second win over Fonsi Nieto at Phillip Island?
Did you know that Tadeusz Wrona, who safely landed LOT Flight 16 from New York to Warsaw after the landing gear failed to deploy, was awarded one of Poland's most prestigious awards?
Did you know that a junior officer on the USS Ancon refused King George VI entry to the ship's intelligence centre because no-one told him the King "was a Bigot"?
Did you know that although award-winning Indonesian director Hanung Bramantyo is "intrigued" with the left, his most successful films have been to the right?
Did you know that between 1887 and 1888 Alexandre Delcommune explored 12,000 kilometres (7,500 mi) of water routes in the Congo Basin?
Did you know that since its 16th-century closure, Bilsham Chapel in West Sussex has been two cottages, a shed and now a house?
Did you know that the 2000 concert recorded for Ravi Shankar's live album Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000 occurred 62 years after his first performance at Carnegie Hall?
Did you know that the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is often compared to Walden, a work on which author Annie Dillard based her master's thesis?
Did you know that the coloration of the veins on flower petals of the wood shamrock is intensified at lower elevations?
Did you know that Major General Alfred K. Flowers is the longest serving airman in United States Air Force history?
Did you know that Thomas Harrison's first commission was for Skerton Bridge, the first large public bridge in England to have a flat roadway, and his last commission was for Grosvenor Bridge, which has the longest masonry arch in Britain?
Did you know that Voltaire's tragedy Olimpie premiered in 1762 and Henze's opera Elegie für junge Liebende in 1961 at the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen?