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Did you know that although it was first classified as a reptile, the extinct genus Batropetes (restoration pictured) is now known to be a microsaur amphibian?
Did you know that during the 1960s Air Guinée was managed by Alaska Airlines and Pan American World Airways, each for a short time?
Did you know that during the construction of the Manila Film Center, its scaffolding collapsed, where at least 169 workers fell and were buried under quick-drying wet cement?
Did you know that former Louisiana State Senator Lawson Swearingen in 1990 cast one of three critical votes to sustain Governor Buddy Roemer's veto of a restrictive anti-abortion bill?
Did you know that former actress Esme Church founded a theatre school in Bradford, England, where stars such as Tom Bell, Bernard Hepton and Robert Stephens received their training?
Did you know that forty-three butchers' shops were built around the outside of Borough Market in Halifax, England, along with three pubs?
Did you know that if anyone appeals to the Pashtunwali doctrine of Nanawatai, even his sworn enemy will have to give him sanctuary?
Did you know that in 1894, after the Pall Mall Gazette mocked what became the Viking Society for Northern Research, a member wrote, "The fiercest warriors, even savages, drink tea and coffee nowadays"?
Did you know that in 1916, William Gilbert Gosling's 12-man governing commission of St. John's, Newfoundland, allowed for legal proceedings to be instigated against the town's tax evaders?
Did you know that in the United Kingdom, the military offence of looting carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment?
Did you know that of the six torpedoes fired to scuttle (result pictured) the Russian pre-dreadnought battleship Slava during the Battle of Moon Sound in 1917, only one worked?
Did you know that on the brink of the American Civil War, there was a movement in the mid-Atlantic states to secede from the Union and form a Central Confederacy?
Did you know that one of the patrons of The Ypres League was Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, whose son, Prince Maurice of Battenberg, had died in World War I at the First Battle of Ypres?
Did you know that settlement money given to the city to close the Harbour Island People Mover was utilized in the creation of an endowment to cover the operating costs of the TECO Line Streetcar in Tampa, Florida?
Did you know that the 900 South station was the first infill station constructed as part of the UTA TRAX light rail system in Salt Lake City, Utah?
Did you know that the Hatadage, Nissanka Latha Mandapaya, and Rankoth Vehera were all built by King Nissanka Malla of Sri Lanka?
Did you know that the Hill 50 Gold Mine was Australia's most profitable mine between 1955 and 1961?
Did you know that when Townsville financial advice company Storm Financial collapsed in 2009, victims included cricketer Andrew Symonds, who lost at least AU$1 million?
Did you know that 28 people died in a 1922 fire in the Palacio de la Aduana in Málaga, Spain?
Did you know that Barack Obama's most recent State of the Union address was almost scheduled to preempt the broadcast of "LA X", the final season premiere of the television show Lost?
Did you know that Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny, son of French World War II hero Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, was one of 21 sons of French marshals and generals to be killed in the First Indochina War?
Did you know that Concordia University in Portland, Oregon, is opening a law school in Boise, Idaho?
Did you know that David Haig-Thomas who rowed for Great Britain at the 1932 Summer Olympics was an ornithologist, arctic explorer and commando officer who was killed in action on D-Day?
Did you know that Fritz Bultman, an original Abstract Expressionist of the New York School, missed a photo shoot for the Life magazine article that established his colleagues' reputations?
Did you know that John Douglas' design for 78–94 Foregate Street, Chester was so unlike any of his previous architectural styles that it "shocked the City Council Improvement Committee"?
Did you know that Lý Anh Tông, the sixth emperor of the Lý Dynasty, was considered the first ruler of Đại Việt who promoted Buddhism as the state religion?
Did you know that Nallathambi marked the film debut for C. N. Annadurai, who later went on to become Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu?
Did you know that Pirot-born Krastyo Krastev, the first professional Bulgarian literary critic, was a shorthand writer for the National Assembly of Bulgaria while still a schoolboy?
Did you know that after a quiet tour, ball tampering allegations and problems with the review system caused controversy in the third and fourth Tests of the England–South Africa series in 2009–10?
Did you know that at age 19, Felix Barker became the youngest drama critic working on Fleet Street?
Did you know that during the 2001–02 season, Hibernian F.C. sacked manager Franck Sauzee just 69 days after he had been appointed?
Did you know that five of the seven German battlecruisers (SMS Von der Tann pictured) took part in the Battle of Jutland, where they sank three of their British rivals?
Did you know that if rugby union player Tom Prydie appears for Wales in the 2010 Six Nations, he will become the youngest cap in the team's history?
Did you know that in Early Medieval art Christ treading on the beasts often showed Christ trampling on a lion, asp, basilisk and dragon, all representing the devil?
Did you know that nearly 25% of all the wine grapes grown in Mendocino County are farmed organically – the largest percentage of any California county?
Did you know that pioneering aeroplane pilot and racing driver Henri Rougier won the inaugural Monte Carlo Rally in his Turcat-Méry car?
Did you know that the SOE assassination operation Bittern received severe criticism from the Norwegian resistance movement?
Did you know that the barbeled houndshark is the only shark with a spherical placenta?
Did you know that the character actor Tom Greenway, shot down as a pilot in World War II, spent more than a year in Italian and German POW camps?
Did you know that the land on which Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico, stands was under Lake Texcoco until the early 20th century?
Did you know that the omissions due to homoioteleuton are unusually frequent in Minuscule 544?
Did you know that Amador Salazar, a signatory of the Plan of Ayala and cousin of Zapata, was killed by a stray bullet and was buried in a pyramid shaped mausoleum in Tlaltizapán, dressed as a charro?
Did you know that Bernardo the Japanese, a disciple of Saint Francis Xavier, is the first Japanese person known to have set foot in Europe?
Did you know that Ludvig Daa, who lost a potential professorship to Peter Andreas Munch in 1837, later  denounced Munch's theory on immigration to Norway?
Did you know that Ngo Dinh Nhu (pictured right), a Hitler admirer, younger brother and chief adviser to President Diem of South Vietnam, tried to assassinate Sihanouk of Cambodia and publicly vowed to kill his father-in-law?
Did you know that Porfirio Diaz believed he could defend northern Mexico against Pancho Villa and Pascual Orozco, but Zapata's rebellion in Morelos convinced him to agree to the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez and resign?
Did you know that Ruth Humbel, member of the Federal Assembly of Switzerland, has won three bronze medals at the World Orienteering Championships?
Did you know that The Candle Problem, a cognitive test, was given to students of Stanford University and M.B.A. students at the Kellogg School of Management?
Did you know that a male ghost reputedly haunts the ladies' toilet at the Brewery Shades in Crawley, West Sussex?
Did you know that according to a stele found in the late 1930s, Đỗ Anh Vũ was a devoted Lý Dynasty official of noble character, in contrast to the traditional account in the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư?
Did you know that according to tradition, the horn that 14th-century clan chief Malcolm MacLeod supposedly broke off from a raging bull now exists as a drinking horn and heirloom of the chiefs of Clan MacLeod?
Did you know that all that remains of the type specimen of the Mediterranean slipper lobster is a 16th-century watercolour?
Did you know that although only a 11⁄2 mile (2.41 km) long section of the Cranbrook and Tenterden Light Railway was ever built, it is still in use today as part of the Kent and East Sussex Railway?
Did you know that department store mogul Roddy Burdine built Miami's first skyscraper?
Did you know that despite threatening the western coast of Florida, USA, 1950's Hurricane Love weakened prior to landfall and moved ashore with little fanfare?
Did you know that during the Lý Dynasty, Tô Hiến Thành was the only person outside the royal family who was titled Prince (Vương)?
Did you know that gold parting refers to the separation of gold and silver?
Did you know that in Harriton v Stephens, the High Court of Australia rejected a claim for damages brought by a disabled woman for her "wrongful life"?
Did you know that in the 1930s the Indian girl Shanti Devi related details of an alleged former life, and a commission set up by Gandhi deemed her claims to be accurate?
Did you know that of James Whistler's paintings Symphony in White, No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, only the last carried that name originally?
Did you know that photographs of test prototype cars, pioneered by Hans G. Lehmann, have led car manufacturers to take lengths to disguise their cars during a test session?
Did you know that prior to his death, Jack Barnes was the oldest former Football League player?
Did you know that professional wrestler Mascarita Dorada was the first Mini-Estrella to have a regular size wrestler, Mascara Dorada, named after him and not vice-versa?
Did you know that the Emerald Warriors are Ireland's first primarily gay rugby team?
Did you know that the Museo Picasso Málaga is located in the 16th century Buenavista Palace?
Did you know that the Winthrop, the last ship of the Massachusetts State Navy, was sold in 1783, not long before the American Revolutionary War ended?
Did you know that the actors Peter Helm and his sister Anne inherited a large estate from their banker-grandfather in the same month that Peter made his TV debut on CBS's Pete and Gladys?
Did you know that the church of Monkton Deverill was dedicated to King and Saint Alfred the Great?
Did you know that the colourful past of Australian former student police officer Kim Hollingsworth will be featured in the 2010 miniseries Underbelly: The Golden Mile?
Did you know that the devadasi (temple courtesan) system was outlawed in the Madras Presidency partly due to the efforts of Moovalur Ramamirtham, a former devadasi herself?
Did you know that the first sub-four-minute mile in athletics was achieved at the Roger Bannister running track, then known as the Iffley Road Track?
Did you know that the fungus Hypomyces tremellicola is a parasite that deforms the cap of the mushroom Crepidotus mollis?
Did you know that the short film Second Effort, starring former American football coach Vince Lombardi, has been called the best-selling training film of all time?
Did you know that there are large stone markers and cairns at the summit of each of the Tektek Mountains in southeastern Turkey?
Did you know that American country blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Son Bonds was accidentally shot to death in August 1947 by his short-sighted neighbor?
Did you know that Buddhism in Himachal Pradesh, where the Dalai Lama established his capital in exile in 1960, was cultivated by Guru Rinpoche in the 8th century?
Did you know that Connie Mack leads all managers in Major League Baseball with 3,731 wins and 3,948 losses?
Did you know that Edward J. Miers was paid 60 guineas for his monograph on the crabs of the Challenger expedition?
Did you know that Felipe Neri, a deaf Zapatista general, constructed explosives out of salmon cans and earned the nickname mochaorejas (clipper of ears) by cutting off ears of his prisoners and deserters?
Did you know that Lord Loch was a World War I British General who went to the dogs?
Did you know that NYCHA developments on the Lower East Side include Alfred E. Smith Houses, Baruch Houses, Gompers Houses, Hernandez Houses, LaGuardia Houses, Rutgers Houses, and Vladeck Houses?
Did you know that after being given the honor of performing the royal burial of Kamehameha I according to the Hawaiian religion in 1819, Hoapili became a patron of Christian missionaries?
Did you know that all of early 14th-century Europe was consecrated under the protection of Our Lady of Europe (statue  pictured) in Gibraltar where devotion has continued for over 700 years?
Did you know that architect Solomon Andrew Layton designed 22 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma, a state record?
Did you know that at the age of 13, English cricketer Joe Root  is the youngest person to have been awarded a scholarship to the Yorkshire County Cricket Club academy?
Did you know that baseball player Ben Paschal hit .360 as Babe Ruth's replacement while Ruth missed the first 40 games of the 1925 season with a stomach ailment?
Did you know that between 1917 and 1928, Boston's Park Drive had to be redesigned to accommodate an increase in ownership of automobiles in the neighborhood?
Did you know that bluegrass player and mandolin virtuoso David Harvey is Gibson's master luthier, responsible for all their mandolins, banjos, and dobros?
Did you know that both the Comte de Paris and the Prince of Wales enjoyed the services of the Digital Billiard Wonder?
Did you know that in 1920–21, Burnley were crowned champions of English football for the first time?
Did you know that most wine regions can be categorized by climate as Mediterranean (such as Tuscany), maritime (Bordeaux) or continental (Columbia Valley)?
Did you know that one burrow of the eastern chipmunk was found to contain 390 acorns?
Did you know that premature oxidation is a flaw that occurs when usually ageworthy wines, such as white Burgundy, are found to be prematurely oxidised and undrinkable for reasons not yet fully understood?
Did you know that the FX network aired a preview of the Archer episode "Mole Hunt" on September 17, 2009, without any prior promotion or announcement?
Did you know that the Government of Moscow owns 25% of the Moscow Monorail Transit System, for a monetary value of about $3,379,000?
Did you know that the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio's first commission in the city of Venice was an improved design for the façade of San Pietro di Castello?
Did you know that the National Animal Welfare Trust runs a centre at Trindledown Farm, which is the UK's only sanctuary for elderly pets?
Did you know that the ant Pseudomyrmex ferruginea kills insects such as crickets and stings the heads of animals such as goats, attacking any approaching creatures attracted to the leaves of the Bullhorn Acacia?
Did you know that the builder of the Rispenserpoldermolen, Easterein, the Netherlands, was described as a better millwright than a poet?
Did you know that the genre of Hispanic creative arts known as costumbrismo (example pictured) was influenced by Englishmen Joseph Addison and Richard Steele and Frenchmen Jouy and Louis-Sébastien Mercier?
Did you know that there are counties in Florida named for leaders of both sides of the Second Seminole War?
Did you know that within two years of her launching, HMS Wolverine was involved in two friendly fire incidents, one with a frigate and one with a slaver?
Did you know that Andy Dwyer, a character in the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, was only to appear in the first season, but was made a regular cast member because the producers liked actor Chris Pratt?
Did you know that Bob Welch, a first-round draft pick of the Los Angeles Dodgers, was a part of the Dodgers' 1981 World Series win and later, the Oakland Athletics who lost to the Dodgers in the 1988 series?
Did you know that Charles René Dominique Sochet, Chevalier Destouches, an admiral in the French Navy during the American Revolutionary War, was briefly imprisoned during the War in the Vendée?
Did you know that David M. Malone, a Canadian diplomat and specialist on international affairs, has worked extensively on relations with Haiti and used to stay at the Hotel Montana, destroyed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake?
Did you know that George Mans, captain of the 1961 Michigan football team, later served in the Michigan House of Representatives and as an assistant coach under Bo Schembechler?
Did you know that Glen P. Robinson, founder of Scientific Atlanta, now a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, was a ham radio enthusiast at age 14?
Did you know that James R. Graham was a member of the team which discovered Fomalhaut b, the first exoplanet directly imaged in visible light?
Did you know that Montague Druitt was a suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders?
Did you know that Norwegian journalist and anti-fascist Gerda Grepp was the first female reporter from Scandinavia to cover the Spanish Civil War as a war correspondent?
Did you know that Peter Stevens, the only known German-Jewish RAF bomber pilot in WWII, enlisted using a stolen identity and later won a Military Cross for his attempts to escape from POW camps?
Did you know that Pluma porgies are the most common member of the genus Calamus in the Antilles, where they are often used for food?
Did you know that Ringsjön is the second largest lake in Skåne County, Sweden, with an area of 41 square kilometres (10,000 acres)?
Did you know that Seattle Sounders FC won the 2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, becoming only the second Major League Soccer expansion team to do so in their inaugural season?
Did you know that Temple V of the Classic Period Maya archaeological site of Tikal, in Guatemala, was the first pyramid discovered at the site?
Did you know that Tom Smith was one of five Preston North End players to play for Scotland when they won 1–0 against England at Wembley in the 1938 British Home Championship?
Did you know that Tony Nader, a neurologist from Lebanon, was awarded his weight in gold and crowned First Sovereign Ruler of the Global Country of World Peace by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi?
Did you know that actress Aubrey Plaza conceived the idea of April Ludgate, her character on the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, having a "gay boyfriend" who also simultaneously dates another boy?
Did you know that after William Dubh MacLeod was killed in 1480 at the Battle of Bloody Bay, he was the last MacLeod chief to be buried on the isle of Iona?
Did you know that human sacrifices to the K'iche' Maya patron deity Tohil had their severed heads placed on a rack in front of the temple?
Did you know that oarsman and 1932 Olympic Champion Rowland George was awarded the Order of the British Empire and the Distinguished Service Order for his service during World War II?
Did you know that the American Security and Trust Company Building used to appear on the U.S. $10 bill?
Did you know that the Barbours Cut Terminal, part of the Port of Houston, was the first seaport in the United States to implement the international ISO 14001 environmental standards?
Did you know that the Essex Street Station in New Jersey, was once the terminus and headquarters of the Hackensack and New York Railroad?
Did you know that the Frank Chacksfield recording "Après Ski" was featured in the 2006 video game Saint's Row for the Xbox 360?
Did you know that the Royal Navy sloop HMS Beagle captured three French privateers during her ten years of service?
Did you know that the U.S. military base Camp Kearny, predecessor of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California, once housed a mooring mast for the Navy's helium dirigibles?
Did you know that the extensive mangrove destruction in Malaysia and Indonesia is a major threat to the endangered roughnose stingray?
Did you know that the indie role-playing video game The Spirit Engine 2 not only has a linear narrative, but also takes place entirely in two dimensions?
Did you know that the lower-ground floor of the Museum of Arts and Traditions of Sevilla in Spain, was originally an aeration chamber?
Did you know that the rare bowmouth guitarfish has been called "the panda of the aquatic world"?
Did you know that Arthur V. Dias, a Sri Lankan independence activist, pioneered a jackfruit propagation campaign by freely distributing seedlings and plants?
Did you know that Aziz Ansari's performance as Tom Haverford was considered one of the strongest elements of the first season of the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation?
Did you know that Chinese  influences on Islamic pottery (example pictured)  date back to the 8th century?
Did you know that Edna St. Vincent Millay's kitchen at Steepletop, her home in Austerlitz, New York, was the subject of a Ladies' Home Journal article in 1948?
Did you know that Lemony Snicket, author of the bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events, is releasing a new series in 2012 that will involve elements of his previous series, including the Great Unknown?
Did you know that Michael Jackson's hit song "Thriller", co-produced by him and Quincy Jones, was originally titled "Starlight"?
Did you know that One Main Place in Portland, Oregon, was reportedly sold in 2010 for US$12 million less than it was purchased for in 2006?
Did you know that Warne-Muralidaran Trophy is named after the two leading wicket takers of Test cricket, Muttiah Muralitharan and Shane Warne?
Did you know that a poster based on the picture book Let My Babies Go! A Passover Story was put on display at the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2007?
Did you know that all the images in Gal Vihara (seated image pictured) of Polonnaruwa have been carved on a single, large granite rock face?
Did you know that although Vietnamese chancellor Lê Văn Thịnh was charged with high treason by Emperor Lý Nhân Tông, today he is still worshipped by the people in his homeland of Bắc Ninh?
Did you know that at the 1815 Kandyan Convention which handed over Ceylon to Britain, Wariyapola Sri Sumangala took down the Union Jack and raised the flag of the Sinhalese kings?
Did you know that despite criticism of the strange scale of his 1859 Ovid among the Scythians, even among his admirers Baudelaire and Gautier, Delacroix painted a second version in 1862?
Did you know that during the Susa weddings in 324 BCE, Alexander the Great married both Parysatis II and her second cousin's daughter, Stateira II?
Did you know that four days after its building was moved to a new site and rededicated, St. Peter's Church in Spencertown, New York, changed its denomination from Congregationalism to Presbyterianism?
Did you know that images of the infant Jesus in Mexico can be dressed as Aztecs, football players, and even drug traffickers?
Did you know that the Battle of Be'erot Yitzhak was the last time that Egypt attacked an Israeli village in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and one of the war's last Egyptian offensive initiatives?
Did you know that the Buddhist monk S. Mahinda was born in Sikkim, identified himself as a Tibetan, and took part in the independence movement of Sri Lanka?
Did you know that the Hello Girls, female switchboard operators in World War I, were part of the U.S. Army Signal Corps?
Did you know that the John Singer Sargent painting The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit will in 2010 for the first time be exhibited alongside the painting that inspired it, Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez?
Did you know that the Lyme Caxton Missal, on display in Lyme Park, Cheshire,  is the only near-complete existing copy of the earliest known edition of a missal according to the Sarum Rite?
Did you know that the Montreal Stars, a professional women's hockey team in Canada, will be represented by three members at the 2010 Winter Olympics?
Did you know that the Palace of the Marqués del Apartado has an underground system pumping water to keep it from sinking?
Did you know that the Waikato River Trails was the project where Prime Minister John Key officially opened the construction of the New Zealand Cycle Trail?
Did you know that the estuary stingray is persecuted due to its supposedly voracious appetite for farmed shellfish, which has contributed to its decline?
Did you know that the famous anime director Hayao Miyazaki produced a television commercial inspired by the work of gag manga artist Shigeru Sugiura?