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Did you know that Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park, located in East Java, is the only conservation area in Indonesia that has a sand sea?
Did you know that Carl Sagan's book Cosmos, which accompanied the Cosmos television series, became the best-selling science book in 1980?
Did you know that Eustace fitz John, the founder of Alnwick Abbey who fought against his own countrymen at the Battle of the Standard, had only one eye?
Did you know that German traffic psychologist Karl Peglau designed the iconic East German Ampelmännchen traffic lights, one of the few GDR symbols to remain popular after reunification?
Did you know that Jason Little won two Ignatz Awards in consecutive years for his graphic novel Shutterbug Follies?
Did you know that Tales of Silversleeve, named ninth best album of the decade by The Irish Times, received its title after its creator neglected to wipe her runny nose?
Did you know that Terminator: TSCC's "Self Made Man" references franchise star Arnold Schwarzenegger with its Skynet plot to assassinate the Governor of California on New Year's Eve 2010?
Did you know that Unė Babickaitė, a Lithuanian actress who appeared in American silent films, was sentenced to five years in a Soviet gulag?
Did you know that Z Special Unit member Major G. S. Carter went on to found the Kundasang War Memorial and Gardens in Sabah?
Did you know that a 1760 m2 cyclorama, the Arrival of the Hungarians (fragment pictured), was painted in 1894 to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin in 895?
Did you know that before he won a record seven short course off-road racing championships, Carl Renezeder was an All-American in water polo?
Did you know that cellist Felix Wurman founded the Church of Beethoven, described by NPR as "a church for people who don't go to church," in an abandoned gas station off Route 66 in New Mexico?
Did you know that reproductions of The Moorish Chief, painted by Eduard Charlemont, are the best-selling paintings at the museum store of the Philadelphia Museum of Art?
Did you know that the 20-metre (66 ft) tall trestle bridge on the former Noojee railway line is the tallest surviving trestle bridge in Victoria, Australia?
Did you know that the BBC program Oz and Hugh Drink to Christmas was described in the press as Oz Clarke and Hugh Dennis divining that the true spirit of Christmas is "getting hammered"?
Did you know that the Black-winged Starling was once considered a potential problem for the threatened Bali Starling but is now an endangered species itself?
Did you know that the Major League Umpires Association's executive director and 22 umpires were fired after they tried a mass resignation campaign in 1999?
Did you know that the Metzgeriales always produce their sex organs on their backs?
Did you know that the Orange Bowl stadium first hosted the college football bowl game of the same name in 1938?
Did you know that the Phenes raptor dragonfly is the largest Odonata in Chile?
Did you know that the Todd Manning and Marty Saybrooke rape storylines from the American daytime drama One Life to Live have been the subject of various academic works, as well as outrage from leading anti-sexual assault organizations such as RAINN?
Did you know that the late Wyoming politician Tom Walsh made 14 trips to Southeast Asia at his own expense looking for Vietnam War POWs and MIAs?
Did you know that the release of Game Change, a book about the 2008 United States presidential election, led Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to apologize over remarks he made about President Barack Obama?
Did you know that the smalleye stingray may have convergently evolved a shape and swimming mode akin to that of manta rays?
Did you know that 51-year old Prince Hubertus of Hohenlohe-Langenburg will represent Mexico at the 2010 Winter Olympics?
Did you know that Andrew Lloyd Webber is concerned about casting a dog in the forthcoming BBC television series Over the Rainbow?
Did you know that Emanuel Chobot, chairman of the Polish Socialist Workers Party in interbellum Czechoslovakia, was active in the cooperative movement?
Did you know that Johannes Andenæs, himself a concentration camp prisoner of Nazis during WWII, criticized the harshness of the legal process against Nazis in Norway after the war?
Did you know that Jonathan Richardson wrote "the first significant work of artistic theory in English"?
Did you know that Rodrigo Pérez de Traba's knights unlawfully imprisoned Arias Muñiz, the archdeacon of Trastámara, in the Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela?
Did you know that according to a mediaeval chronicle, saga, and later clan tradition, Páll, son of Bálki blinded and castrated the son of a Manx king—a son who would in time become king himself?
Did you know that after losing his House of Commons seat, Denis Shipwright found he "cannot get work" and resorted to advertising in The Times?
Did you know that although the first season of the NBC series Parks and Recreation was critically panned, it was considered one of the best comedies of the year during its second season?
Did you know that in 1965 Congo-Brazzaville national airline Air Congo was renamed to avoid confusion with an airline of the same name from Congo-Kinshasa?
Did you know that in The Last Theorem, science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke moved the equator north to Sri Lanka to allow for the building of a space elevator there?
Did you know that in the first naval engagement of the War of 1812, the American privateer Dash captured HMS Whiting but the US released her, telling her captain to leave American waters as soon as possible?
Did you know that on December 14, 1947, a rival government-supported Iranian union, ESKI, carried out an attack on a club building of the Central Union of Workers and Peasants of Iran?
Did you know that only eastern Northern American strains of the bitter oyster, a widely distributed mushroom species, are bioluminescent?
Did you know that the Blue Vanga is the only vanga occurring outside of Madagascar?
Did you know that the Lalitha Mahal, a palace in Mysore, India, was built in 1921 on orders of the Maharaja of Mysore for exclusive stay of the Viceroy of India?
Did you know that the Mary Rose Trust, the charitable trust that salvaged the Mary Rose in 1982, played an important part in preserving historical shipwrecks in the UK from exploitation?
Did you know that the Nigerien politician Issa Lamine ignored the opposition calls for a boycott of the 2009 parliamentary election, and was elected as an independent?
Did you know that the Vardy Community School in Hancock County, Tennessee, was started by missionaries to educate children who were barred from public schools because they were Melungeons?
Did you know that the bombing of an Italian courthouse, the arrests of five Indian police officers, and the funeral for Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto's son are among the events in organized crime so far this year?
Did you know that the father and daughter, mathematics professor Ralph Tambs-Lyche and women's rights activist Guri Tambs-Lyche, were both members of left-wing organizations, Clarté and the Communist Party respectively?
Did you know that the fungal genus Polytolypa is known from a single specimen found growing on dung of the North American porcupine?
Did you know that the royal fly agaric was the German Mycological Society's "Mushroom of the Year" in 2000?
Did you know that the undefeated 1930 Michigan Wolverines football team was led by Harry Newman, referred to by the United Press as the "crack Jewish field general"?
Did you know that Duchess of Norfolk, a minesweeper in the Royal Navy during World War I, rejoined the Navy for World War II as Ambassador, but reprised her old role as a minesweeper?
Did you know that Edward Pritchard Gee discovered Gee's Golden Langur and was influential in the creation of Chitwan National Park, the first National Park in Nepal?
Did you know that Flower was intended by designer Jenova Chen to fill what he saw as a gap in the "emotional spectrum" offered by video games?
Did you know that Hans Christian Andersen Award-winning author and illustrator Wolf Erlbruch illustrated his first book so his son could boast, "Look, my papa made a children's book"?
Did you know that Hondo Creek, a tributary of the Frio River in Texas, was the site of both an 1842 battle between the Republic of Texas and Mexico, and an 1866 Indian attack?
Did you know that Howard C. Hillegas was the first journalist to report that the fighting between Britain and the Boers had started in the Second Boer War?
Did you know that Lenny Fant, as coach of the University of Louisiana at Monroe men's basketball team from 1957 to 1979, compiled eighteen consecutive winning seasons?
Did you know that May Day was first celebrated in Persia in 1922, and during the 1920s thousands of people participated in the May Day rallies of the Central Council of Trade Unions in Tehran?
Did you know that Old Ephraim, a giant grizzly bear that lived in Utah, was known as "Old Three Toes" by shepherds because of a congenital deformity on one foot?
Did you know that Orthalicus reses (shell pictured) lives only in tropical hardwood hammocks in Florida?
Did you know that Percnon gibbesi is the most invasive decapod species ever to enter the Mediterranean Sea?
Did you know that Royal Navy Captain Francis Laforey successfully sued the Admiralty over the amount of prize money he should be awarded for the capture of the French frigate HMS Castor at the frigate action of 29 May 1794?
Did you know that Slovakia recently sent explosives to Ireland on Danube Wings Flight V5 8230?
Did you know that a Spanish vessel blown into Texas' Saint Charles Bay by a storm, was allegedly stranded in a creek and later taken apart to construct houses?
Did you know that among the recipients of the Arts Council Norway Honorary Award are fiddler Sigbjørn Bernhoft Osa, actress Ella Hval, and long term editor of Arbeidermagasinet Nils Johan Rud?
Did you know that an inch-long bristly crab can carry 4000 eggs?
Did you know that disgruntled at not being rewarded for his capture of Antioch in 969, the Byzantine general Michael Bourtzes participated in the assassination of Byzantine emperor Nikephoros II Phokas?
Did you know that in Santa María Tonameca, Oaxaca, Mexico, there is a group of people called “pintos” or “Ñutis” who have patches of yellow, black, red, white and even blue on their skin due to a genetic mutation?
Did you know that pin-up girl Gloria Nord attracted more than a million people to her rolling skating exhibitions in 1942 and 1943 and later gave a command performance for Queen Elizabeth II?
Did you know that the District of Columbia Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C., is responsible for 144,000 trees adjacent to city streets and 241 bridges?
Did you know that the Hannah Robinson Tower in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, is named after a woman whose life of poverty had one of her last moments at an overlook over Narragansett Bay?
Did you know that the Master of SS Brighton committed suicide in a pub after he was blamed for the collision with the windjammer Preußen in 1905?
Did you know that the Renaissance-styled Hortus Palatinus gardens of Heidelberg included a collection of singing mechanical birds?
Did you know that the Simpsons episode "Million Dollar Maybe" will feature a new character created by the winner of a fan-contest organized by the staff of the show?
Did you know that 1960's Tropical Storm Brenda, which made its initial landfall in Florida, dropped record-breaking rainfall on New York City?
Did you know that 21 October is now an annual public holiday in the Bulgarian city of Kardzhali to commemorate a battle victory in 1912 during the First Balkan War?
Did you know that Aiphanes bicornis, a palm species known only from two locations in Ecuador, is named for the notched tips of its leaves which are said to evoke the horns of an antelope?
Did you know that Charles Gray was one of the original trustees of the British Museum?
Did you know that Htoo Group of Companies, among Myanmar's largest privately held companies, has been under sanctions by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) since 2008?
Did you know that Lowell, West Virginia, was first settled in 1770, making it the oldest community in Summers County?
Did you know that Texas' northernmost extensive beds of seagrass can be found in Redfish Bay, where they are protected by state law?
Did you know that before it was scientifically described, the stingray Dasyatis acutirostra was often confused with Dasyatis zugei?
Did you know that drummer Dave Clark was a stuntman who performed in over 40 films before he formed the 1960s British Invasion band The Dave Clark Five?
Did you know that during the English Civil War, Royalist soldiers fired artillery at Leicester from Raw Dykes Roman earthwork?
Did you know that fairy-like insect people feature in the classic Czech children's book Broučci by Jan Karafiát?
Did you know that in 1883, Carl Schotten and Eugen Baumann discovered how to synthesise amides from amines and acid chlorides?
Did you know that next to the 19th-century St Botolph's Church in Heene, West Sussex, stand the "somewhat scanty" remains of its 13th-century predecessor?
Did you know that soon after the annexation of Albania in 1939 Italian fascists set up the Albanian Lictor Youth, a branch of the Italian fascist youth movement?
Did you know that the English coin collector Roger Gale (d. 1744) not only donated his collection of coins to Cambridge University, but translated a book that helped new coin collectors avoid being cheated?
Did you know that the Snow Patrol song "An Olive Grove Facing the Sea" was recorded in two different studios, The Stables and Substation?
Did you know that the Will & Grace episode "Fagel Attraction" was actor Michael Douglas' first television acting role in almost thirty years?
Did you know that the York Imperial apple is easily identified by its lop-sided shape and was developed by Quaker Jonathan Jessop?
Did you know that the actor Jonathan Cecil, whose film roles include Hercule Poirot's assistant Hastings, has been called "one of the finest upper-class-twits of his era"?
Did you know that the first modern U.S. presidential debate between Thomas E. Dewey and Harold E. Stassen in 1948 was heard by approximately 40 million people?
Did you know that the most prominent leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia within the Polish minority, Karol Śliwka, died in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in 1943?
Did you know that the pinwheel Marasmius releases its spores in response to rain, rather than circadian rhythm like other mushrooms?
Did you know that today on Mattu Pongal, the bull riding sport Jallikattu – that has led to deaths in the past – is traditionally conducted in the villages of Tamil Nadu, India?
Did you know that with the Peace of Travendal, Sweden forced Denmark-Norway out of the Great Northern War in the first war year?
Did you know that within ten years bass singer Klaus Mertens recorded all vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir?
Did you know that workers employed at the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company were banned from reading the communist newspaper Rahbar, and could be fired if they did?
Did you know that Craig Biggio, a first-round draft pick of the Houston Astros, is a member of the 3000 hit club?
Did you know that Donald Trounson distributed chocolate to soldiers returning from Dunkirk, escorted captive Italians to prison camps in Algeria, and founded the National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife?
Did you know that Haim Bar Lev said that the Battle of Nirim decided the outcome of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War?
Did you know that Harrington Bridge is a listed building, except for the central section which crosses the River Trent into Derbyshire, England?
Did you know that Harrytown Catholic High School originated as a convent school within the 250 year old Harrytown Hall?
Did you know that Jain text Atma Siddhi propounds six fundamental truths: the soul exists, is eternal, is doer of action, enjoys or suffers its actions, liberation exists, and means to achieve liberation exists?
Did you know that St Oswald's Chambers in Chester, Cheshire, England, was built on land purchased by the architect John Douglas to enhance the view towards Chester Cathedral?
Did you know that Stephen Reay, Under-Librarian at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, was remembered by colleagues for his habit of "hovering over hot-air gratings in search of warmth"?
Did you know that a naval museum in Boca del Río, Veracruz, Mexico, has a battle simulation room based on the technology of the Xbox 360?
Did you know that although the current mayor of the Valle de Villaverde enclave belongs to the Regionalist Party of Cantabria, a previous mayor in 1987 advocated integrating it into the Basque province of Biscay?
Did you know that amongst the policies included in The People's Manifesto created by British satirist Mark Thomas are introducing a maximum wage and renaming Windsor "Lower Slough"?
Did you know that cutis rhomboidalis nuchae, a type of actinic elastosis caused by sun exposure to the back of the neck, is preventable with regular sunscreen use?
Did you know that following the Liberal Wars, the owner of Fonseca Guimaraens had to flee Portugal in an empty Port wine barrel because of his support of liberal reforms?
Did you know that music journalist Jim Carroll co-founded the Choice Music Prize, known for its tendency to come to "some pretty eccentric decisions"?
Did you know that one of Bodley's Librarians at Oxford University had been in the King's African Rifles, another wrote about French anarchy, another had sixteen siblings, another used boys for routine library tasks, and another later died of a "surfeit of cherries"?
Did you know that one of the Lugares colombinos is the Fontanilla, from which Christopher Columbus's crew, for his first voyage, are believed to have taken their drinking water?
Did you know that publishers at first considered Nora Roberts' debut novel Irish Thoroughbred to be too ethnic because the heroine was from Ireland?
Did you know that several publications, including GamePro and IGN, consider Jade to be one of video games' greatest heroines?
Did you know that the Australasian bird family Cinclosomatidae contains such birds as quail-thrushes (example pictured), jewel-babblers, whipbirds and wedgebills?
Did you know that the Dickson Tavern is the oldest building in Erie, Pennsylvania?
Did you know that the Enclave of Treviño in northern Spain is part of the territory of the Castilian-Leonese province of Burgos, but is completely surrounded by the territory of the Basque province of Álava?
Did you know that the Jarkov Mammoth was found when Simion Jarkov noticed the protruding tusks on a hunting trip?
Did you know that the Simon & Garfunkel song "The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine" is about the advertisement on Madison Avenue in New York City?
Did you know that the world's first air force, the French Aerostatic Corps, was founded in 1794 and used balloons for reconnaissance?
Did you know that while living in Saddam's Iraq, heavy metal band Acrassicauda was banned from head banging because it looked similar to Jews praying?
Did you know that Admiral John Elliot transported the members of the Carlisle Peace Commission to North America?
Did you know that Byzantine general Peter Phokas was originally born a slave and made a eunuch, but rose to become one of the senior-most commanders of the Byzantine Empire in the 960s and 970s?
Did you know that Calvisius Sabinus and Marcius Censorinus were the only two senators who tried to defend Julius Caesar during his assassination?
Did you know that Corta Atalaya in the province of Huelva, Spain, is the largest open-pit mine in Europe?
Did you know that Jean-Baptiste Aubert-Dubayet was born in French Louisiana in 1759, became Minister of Defense of France in 1795, and died as French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in 1797?
Did you know that Knut Getz Wold served as a State Secretary in a Labour Party cabinet despite belonging to the Liberal Party?
Did you know that Norman Lind, who among other things survived Operation Sunshine of World War II, was killed many years later by a landmine in Guatemala?
Did you know that Paul v. U.S. expressed the principle that the legal theories of res judicata and stare decisis do not apply to Congressional reference cases?
Did you know that Queensland produces 94% of Australia's sugar?
Did you know that St Andrew's Church in Worthing, West Sussex, stood unused for two years after its completion as controversy raged over the "Worthing Madonna"?
Did you know that Susan Bower, the Executive Producer of Neighbours, got her break into television writing by providing A Country Practice with medical information?
Did you know that Vivary Park in Somerset, England, is named for the medieval fish farm, or vivarium, for Taunton Priory on which it was laid out?
Did you know that despite the masculine pen name, British author George Paston was a woman?
Did you know that in a plebiscite of June 18, 1950, 57% of the people in North Rhine-Westphalia ratified its new constitution?
Did you know that recently knighted actor Patrick Stewart is the patron of domestic violence charity Refuge, which was founded in Chiswick in 1972 by Erin Pizzey?
Did you know that the Anemone hupehensis is often called the Japanese anemone, but is actually native to China?
Did you know that the Bethany settlement house in Laredo, Texas, serves nearly 300,000 free meals annually to the homeless and other indigent?
Did you know that the Gaelic Athletic Association's relaxing of Rule 42 allowed the staging of the 2008–09 Heineken Cup semi-final in Croke Park and the breaking of the rugby union club world attendance record?
Did you know that the John Tigard House in Tigard, Oregon, was moved and is still listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that the Wiltshire hundred of Whorwellsdown was named after a hill on which its court met under an oak or thorn tree?
Did you know that the freshwater whipray is the only Australian stingray restricted to fresh and brackish water?
Did you know that the marathon course at the 1972 Summer Olympics was designed to represent the first Olympic mascot, Waldi?
Did you know that the marriage settlement of Richard Basset (d. before 1144) still survives and assigns his wife Matilda a dowry of four knight's fees?
Did you know that the music video game Just Dance features MC Hammer's "You Can't Touch This", Technotronic's "Pump Up the Jam", and the Baha Men's "Who Let the Dogs Out?"?
Did you know that Arne Kjelstrup from the Norwegian heavy water sabotage team also participated in the anti-demolition operation Sunshine?
Did you know that Cliffe, Richmondshire, where the "clock stopped, never to go again", is surrounded by archaeological features including barrows, a Roman road and an English Civil War battleground?
Did you know that De Hoop and Zeldenrust are two windmills in Dokkum, the Netherlands that are fitted with a pair of Common sails and a pair of Ten Have sails?
Did you know that Hockey Hall of Famer Dan Bain, also a champion figure skater, trapshooter, gymnast, roller skater and cyclist, was named Canada's top athlete of the last half of the 19th century?
Did you know that John Douglas's design for a shop in Sankey Street, Warrington, Cheshire, was said to be influenced by Ruskin and G.G. Scott?
Did you know that Paduka, a footwear, is generally worn by mendicants and saints of Hindu and Jain religions, with significance in Hindu mythology linked to the epic Ramayana?
Did you know that Sealyham Terrier Efbe's Hidalgo At Goodspice, best in show at Crufts in 2009, sometimes sleeps next to his owner's toilet?
Did you know that Sir John Gurney first rose to fame as a barrister within two months of qualifying?
Did you know that after a falling out in 1877, Georgina Weldon refused to return Gounod's original score for his opera Polyeucte, forcing him to rewrite it?
Did you know that as the chairman of the U.S. Reform Party, Russ Verney asked its highest elected official, Governor Jesse Ventura of Minnesota, to resign from the party?