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Did you know that members of the Moldavian Kogălniceanu family contributed to the abolition of serfdom (1749), the abolition of slavery (1855), and several land reforms?
Did you know that prior to its passage of the Human Rights Act 2003, Nunavut was the only Canadian jurisdiction without protections against discrimination for its gay, lesbian and bisexual residents?
Did you know that the Froebel star, a common Christmas decoration in Germany, is created by folding and weaving four identical strips of paper?
Did you know that the National Gallery's purchase of The Family of Darius before Alexander (detail pictured) by Paolo Veronese sparked a debate in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom?
Did you know that the New York Yankees traded for Allie Reynolds on the advice of Joe DiMaggio?
Did you know that the lecture notes of Marcel Riesz were dubbed by physicist David Hestenes "the midwife of the rebirth" of Clifford algebras?
Did you know that the seeds of poverty grass can remain in the soil for decades before they germinate?
Did you know that when George Harrison's song "Awaiting on You All" was originally released on his All Things Must Pass album, lyrics critical of the Pope were omitted from the lyric sheet?
Did you know that Cliff at Christmas was the only album released during Cliff Richard's second period with music label EMI, to whom he'd previously been signed for over forty years?
Did you know that Gemiler Island, off the coast of Turkey, may have been the location of Saint Nicholas' original tomb?
Did you know that Joseph Farquharson's 1901 painting Beneath the Snow Encumbered Branches is a popular choice for Christmas cards?
Did you know that President Bill Clinton said he would personally pay the bill to keep the National Christmas Tree lit during the government shutdown resulting from disagreements on the 1996 federal budget?
Did you know that a 1640 Act of the Parliament of Scotland abolished the observation of Christmas in Scotland?
Did you know that during the Dunkirk evacuation on June 1, 1940, the British destroyer HMS Ivanhoe was hit by a German bomb that killed 26 men and knocked out two of her three boiler rooms?
Did you know that it is not known which of the three Le Nain brothers painted the Adoration of the Shepherds (detail pictured), now in London's National Gallery?
Did you know that one critic thought Hulk Hogan's acting in Santa with Muscles made "Arnold Schwarzenegger seem like Laurence Olivier"?
Did you know that salad spinners use centrifugal force to remove excess water?
Did you know that sculptor Alexander Finta, who worked for 20th Century Fox, studied with Auguste Rodin?
Did you know that the 1989 Ungava earthquake was the first earthquake in eastern North America known to be associated with ground rupture?
Did you know that the opening chorus of Bach's Christmas cantata Ich freue mich in dir, BWV 133, is thought to persuasively express "the essence, the exuberance and the sheer exhilaration of Christmas"?
Did you know that when high school junior Jabari Parker held an open practice, Mike Krzyzewski, Bruce Weber, Thad Matta, Bill Self, Roy Williams and Tom Izzo all attended?
Did you know that when sick, galaxy coral can be fed brine shrimps incorporating specific antibiotics?
Did you know that when the Thoroughbred racehorse Pinza won the 1953 Derby Stakes, it gave 25 times Champion Jockey, Gordon Richards, his first win after 27 previous starts in the race?
Did you know that Bach's earliest surviving Christmas cantata Christen, ätzet diesen Tag, BWV 63, which is scored lavishly but has "no music for the shepherds or for the angels", was performed in the Liebfrauenkirche in Halle?
Did you know that Frederick B. Karl served in the Florida House of Representatives, Florida Senate and Florida Supreme Court?
Did you know that Georges Bizet dedicated his song "Rêve de la bien-aimée" ("Dream of the beloved") to the Belgian coloratura soprano Léontine de Maësen?
Did you know that Graves's grave is unknown, but his memorial is not?
Did you know that Indonesian Minister of Justice Moeljatno attempted to ensure Prosecutor General Soeprapto's subservience to him by passing a law?
Did you know that Maya Angelou's sixth and final autobiography A Song Flung Up to Heaven is framed by the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Did you know that Muddy Waters switched from semi-acoustic guitar to electric guitar for his album At Newport 1960?
Did you know that Persimmon, a Thoroughbred race horse owned by Edward, Prince of Wales, broke the race record when he won the 1896 Derby Stakes?
Did you know that Plante and Sherman's Faith and Health states that highly religious people have a 29% higher odds of survival than less religious people?
Did you know that President Sukarno slighted Chief Justice Wirjono Prodjodikoro by inviting Ruslan Abdulgani for breakfast when Abdulgani was supposed to be before the Supreme Court of Indonesia?
Did you know that Tsukasa Fujimoto and Hikaru Shida, two actresses on the Japanese television series Muscle Venus, later became professional wrestling champions as a tag team also named Muscle Venus?
Did you know that Yorkshire fog occurs on the Cornish coast between Polruan and Polperro?
Did you know that holiday mail seeking a Christmas postmark continued to be sent to Christmas, Arizona, two decades after the town's post office had closed?
Did you know that millions of chickens have viewed life through rose-colored glasses?
Did you know that the Kupol Gold Mine north of the Arctic Circle is only accessible in winter via an ice road, which can only be built when temperatures are below −25 °C (−13 °F)?
Did you know that the Los Angeles Lakers recently signed Malcolm Thomas, whose father goes by the same name and also played college basketball?
Did you know that the early Oligocene maple, Acer ashwilli, is known from only eight places in Oregon?
Did you know that American painter and lithographer Bolton Brown was the first person to climb Mount Clarence King?
Did you know that Deep Throat was inspired by Deep Throat?
Did you know that Freemason and socialist writer Andrzej Strug declined to join the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature because he was upset by criticism of the Freemason movement?
Did you know that Swampy, the lead character in the game Where's My Water?, is the first original character created by Disney for a mobile video game?
Did you know that a documentary film by Ucu Agustin led to a prostitution district in Tulungagung, East Java, being shut down?
Did you know that although it ended peacefully, the Rotem Crisis of 1960 was later seen as a "trial run" for events leading to the 1967 Six-Day War?
Did you know that as minister of justice Sahardjo suggested rescinding Indonesia's civil and commercial codes?
Did you know that copyright infringement not involving profit was not a criminal offense in the United States between the 1994 U.S. v. LaMacchia ruling and the 1997 passage by Congress of the NET Act?
Did you know that during the Prohibition era in the United States, Marsoui in Quebec, Canada, was a favorite hideout for smugglers fleeing the Royal Canadian Mounted Police?
Did you know that in 1924 a rifle range was built in the basement of the parish hall at the Church of St. Barnabas in Irvington, New York?
Did you know that in Alpine countries, Saint Nicholas has a devilish companion named Krampus?
Did you know that merchant Solomon Warner was obsessed with building a perpetual motion machine?
Did you know that the Church of St Thomas the Martyr, and the adjoining Monnow Bridge, were both damaged by fire in the Battle of Monmouth in 1233?
Did you know that the European windstorm Friedhelm was colloquially called Hurricane Bawbag, from a Scots word for a scrotum?
Did you know that the Martin-Baker Mk.1, used by a test pilot to escape a crashing Armstrong Whitworth A.W.52, was the first ejection seat to save the life of a British pilot?
Did you know that the growth of thickspike wheatgrass in an area can inhibit the spread of weeds including Russian and diffuse knapweed?
Did you know that French baritone Jean-Vital Ismaël (caricature pictured), who sang in the premieres of Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles and Gounod's Mireille, had left home at age 16 to become a street singer?
Did you know that Russian-born pianist Alexander Zakin performed with violinist Isaac Stern for 37 years and played the piano at the White House under Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson?
Did you know that a reviewer described the film Khalifah as a "veiled warning" to Indonesians about wearing the niqab?
Did you know that although no deaths occurred, the United States Weather Bureau was criticized for its inadequate warnings in advance of Hurricane Debra?
Did you know that although the Dungarvan Town Council of County Waterford, Ireland, was formed in 1855, records indicate that a local authority existed in the town as early as the 15th century?
Did you know that during the 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia, the Relief Society of Tigray organized a mass exodus of Tigrayan villagers to camps in Sudan?
Did you know that the Grand Palace in Bangkok was once the home of the kings of the Chakri Dynasty and several thousand other inhabitants?
Did you know that the psychedelic mushroom Psilocybe yungensis is used in mystic rituals by the Mazatecs?
Did you know that the term sex and/or gender diverse is beginning to be used in Australia to replace transgender?
Did you know that the unorganized territory of Mont-Albert in Quebec, Canada, is a home to the only remaining herd of migratory woodland caribou south of the Saint Lawrence River?
Did you know that two New Zealand Members of Parliament, David Buick and Alfred Hindmarsh, died in the 1918 influenza epidemic?
Did you know that weeping lovegrass is used for funeral rituals in Lesotho, and sometimes hybridizes with Lehmann's lovegrass?
Did you know that Alabama's first superintendent of public education, Confederate brigadier general and college professor William F. Perry, had little or no formal education?
Did you know that May Night by Willard Metcalf was the first contemporary painting purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art?
Did you know that Rachel Feinstein, whose latest art work is inspired by The Snow Queen, is half of what the New York Times called the American art world's "power couple"?
Did you know that a dance at the Ritz Ballroom scheduled for May 22, 1955, featuring Fats Domino was cancelled by the Bridgeport Police Department, citing worries about rioting over rock and roll music?
Did you know that colonies of lobe coral are sometimes broken into fragments by the feeding activity of stone triggerfish?
Did you know that larval buckeyes eat bluehearts?
Did you know that the Thoroughbred racehorse George Frederick was named after the future King George V, and won the 1874 Derby Stakes on the young prince's birthday?
Did you know that the current speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut, Hunter Tootoo, is the last remaining member of the Legislative Assembly elected in Nunavut's first election in 1999?
Did you know that the grooved brain coral was featured on postage stamps from Belize and Mayotte?
Did you know that when goalkeeper Sam Gillam replaced Alf Pugh for Wales against Scotland on 15 April 1889, he became the first substitute in international football?
Did you know that Charles Howard McIlwain won a Pulitzer Prize for his analysis of the American Revolution as a disagreement over interpretation of the constitution of the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Kansas State's all-time leading wide receiver Kevin Lockett completed his only two National Football League pass attempts for touchdowns?
Did you know that New Zealand's Blue Lake has the clearest fresh water reported anywhere in the world?
Did you know that among Amir Hamzah's works are poems that are both explicitly religious and have an erotic element present?
Did you know that diplomat Barry Steers served as Canada's first Commissioner to Bermuda from 1976 to 1979?
Did you know that prospector John Brackett Allen‎ did not strike it rich until he turned to pies?
Did you know that the 14-volume The Kingdom of the Netherlands During World War II, a standard reference work written by Dr. Loe de Jong between 1955 and 1991, is now available for download?
Did you know that the Navajo tribe used sand sagebrush as toilet paper?
Did you know that the Triple Alliance of 1788, formed on the verge of the French Revolution, almost led to a war which would have pitted Great Britain and Prussia against Russia?
Did you know that the death of Jeannie Saffin has been cited as an example of spontaneous human combustion, due to witness reports that flames were coming from her mouth and she was roaring like a dragon?
Did you know that the deputy mayor of Safed was indicted for selling paintings from the museum that Emanuel Romano founded for his father, the sculptor Enrico Glicenstein?
Did you know that the high-pressure metamorphic rock whiteschist may be formed from both basaltic and granitic rocks by metasomatism?
Did you know that when the Dalai Lama visited Taiwan in 1997, he was treated as a Republic of China national without household registration?
Did you know that when wood carver Patrociño Barela premiered at the Museum of Modern Art, he was the "discovery of the year"?
Did you know that Lawang Sewu: Kuntilanak's Vengeance was described by a critic as "truly 'raping' an icon of Semarang", Lawang Sewu?
Did you know that Tyler Lockett, the only player in Kansas State Wildcats football history to return a kickoff for a touchdown in consecutive games, was a high school state champion in football and basketball?
Did you know that during the Aboakyer festival of Winneba in Ghana, warrior groups compete to be the first to capture a live bushbuck from a game reserve?
Did you know that playwright Jerzy Szaniawski, a member of the Polish Academy of Literature who married at age 76, was starved and physically abused by his wife, 20 years his junior, until his death in 1970?
Did you know that the Andrzej Fidyk's documentary Defilada about North Korea, despite its anti-totalitarian message, was initially praised both by communist Poland's censors and in North Korea itself?
Did you know that the extinct maple Acer dettermani is only known from the flank of a volcano?
Did you know that the factory in which the Messerschmitt P.1112 (concept model pictured) would have been built was occupied by Allied troops before construction of the aircraft's prototype could be started?
Did you know that the film Vana Mohini included an elephant among the credits?
Did you know that the first words of the first AFN broadcast from Allied-occupied Germany in July 1945 so enraged General Patton that he demanded that the responsible person be court-martialed?
Did you know that the flowers of the Sydney blue gum are eaten by the grey-headed flying fox?
Did you know that there is an electrical substation in the backyard of the McVickar House, the second oldest house on Main Street in Irvington, New York?
Did you know that Bach's cantata for New Year's Day, Herr Gott, dich loben wir, BWV 16, opens with Luther's German Te Deum and contains "an unusual and imaginative combination of aria and chorus"?
Did you know that Easwaran's Original Goodness describes the Beatitudes as a "discovery about the nature of the human spirit as revolutionary as Einstein's theories"?
Did you know that Hendy Woods State Park, an old-growth coast redwood forest in the Anderson Valley of northern California, is scheduled to be closed in 2012 because of state budget cuts?
Did you know that Joey Johnson, who won the landmark United States freedom of speech case on flag burning, was said to show up at protests with a bloody, severed pig's head on a leash?
Did you know that John Crockett, father of American folk hero Davy Crockett, crossed the Appalachian Mountains with the "Overmountain Men" to fight in the American Revolutionary War Battle of Kings Mountain?
Did you know that Rembrandt's Joseph and Potiphar's Wife is considered "unprecedented in its erotic candor"?
Did you know that Tom Loftin Johnson won a 1941 prize for his American Pietà, which substitutes an African American mother for the Virgin Mary and the black victim of a lynching for Jesus?
Did you know that bibliophile, literary historian and theatre director Jan Lorentowicz, who first published the complete works of Jan Kochanowski, was also an amazing father according to his daughter's memoirs?
Did you know that dancers over seven years of age are forbidden to dress up as Robin Hood in the Fancy Dress Festival (masquerade pictured) held on the first of January in Winneba in Ghana?
Did you know that in 1900, the year before Edward, Prince of Wales ascended to the throne, he was the leading owner in British flat racing and his horse Diamond Jubilee won the Triple Crown?
Did you know that the Bavarian municipality of Hainsfarth once had a population that was almost 40 percent Jewish and still has a Jewish cemetery and synagogue?
Did you know that the Partenair Mystere, a homebuilt aircraft, had an estimated building time of 1000 hours?
Did you know that the awns of porcupine grass drill its seeds into the soil?
Did you know that the salmon caught by grizzly bears during salmon runs contribute significantly to the nitrogen cycle in adjacent woodlands where bears urinate, defecate, and drop partially eaten fish carcasses?
Did you know that two men from Wisbech, constable William Wolsey and painter Robert Pygot, condemned for Christian heresy by the bishop's chancellor John Fuller at Ely, were burnt at the stake on 16 October 1555?
Did you know that American theologian Edward Fudge is the subject of an upcoming film, Hell and Mr. Fudge?
Did you know that Carrier Strike Group Seven (logo pictured) was disestablished effective 30 December 2011?
Did you know that Japanese flying ace Kaneyoshi Muto was compared to the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi?
Did you know that Viola Thompson, a left-handed pitcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1940s and a consultant for the 1992 film A League of Their Own, turns 90 years old today?
Did you know that much of the United States Bill of Rights is devoted to criminal procedure?
Did you know that the 2012 season of the ASEAN Basketball League includes the SSA Saigon Heat, the first international basketball team from Vietnam?
Did you know that the Lagan Canal was once one of the most successful canals in Ireland but closed in the 1950s after succumbing to competition from road and rail transport?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court upheld a requirement that federal judges have to pay taxes for Medicare in United States v. Hatter?
Did you know that the third Sochatchover Rebbe supervised the education of several hundred yeshiva students in the Warsaw Ghetto?
Did you know that three Davids (Shearer, Cunliffe and Parker) contested the 2011 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election?
Did you know that Ayu Utami's 1998 novel Saman launched an Indonesian literary movement focusing on women's views of sexuality?
Did you know that Bao Guo'an won the 1995 Golden Eagle Award for Best Actor for his role as Cao Cao in the 1994 television series Romance of the Three Kingdoms?
Did you know that Brian Eno described Kaddish, an album that reflects on the Holocaust, as "the most frightening record I have ever heard"?
Did you know that George Harrison wrote the song "Wah-Wah" in response to his frustration with Beatles bandmates John Lennon and Paul McCartney?
Did you know that Master L. Cz.'s depiction of Satan in The Temptation of Christ provided an important precedent for Albrecht Dürer's Knight, Death and the Devil?
Did you know that despite the devastation of the second U.S. Patent Office fire, in a supposedly fireproof building, not one patent was lost?
Did you know that in response to the Norwegian butter crisis, Danish people have donated thousands of packs to butter-starved Norwegians?
Did you know that novelist Matt Bondurant is the grandson of one of the main characters portrayed in his 2008 novel, The Wettest County in the World?
Did you know that the North Florida Ospreys men's basketball team made their first ever playoff appearance in the 2011 Atlantic Sun Tournament, in which they advanced to the conference final?
Did you know that the Russian nuclear-powered submarine K-114 Tula launched the R-29RMU Sineva missile for a record 11,547 km (7,175 mi) in 2008?
Did you know that the short story "A Stroke of Good Fortune" by Flannery O'Connor features early versions of characters from O'Connor's first novel, Wise Blood?
Did you know that Jeremy Doyle represented Australia on the wheelchair basketball team, the wheelchair hockey team, and at the World Cyber Games in Counter-Strike?
Did you know that artist and suffragist Adele Goodman Clark and her partner Nora Houston set up their easels on a downtown streetcorner in Richmond, Virginia, and canvassed passers-by about women's suffrage?
Did you know that in his book Life of Lincoln, Ward Hill Lamon speculated that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln may have been the illegitimate child of Nancy Lincoln and Kentucky politician Martin D. Hardin?
Did you know that the 1764 Russo-Prussian alliance, formed two years after the signatories clashed in the Seven Years' War, allowed them to intervene in internal matters of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth?
Did you know that the Four Counties Ring is a canal ring linking the English counties of Cheshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, and the West Midlands?
Did you know that the Frank Gehry-designed New World Center in Miami Beach features live outdoor "wallcasts" of the concerts going on inside?
Did you know that the Gregory Rift in East Africa contains the world's only active carbonatite volcano, Ol Doinyo Lengai?
Did you know that the Miocene maple Acer latahense is most similar in appearance to the living Honshū maple?
Did you know that the chamber choir Dresdner Kammerchor celebrated its 25th anniversary with Mendelssohn's Paulus in the Kreuzkirche, conducted by founder Hans-Christoph Rademann?
Did you know that Blair Athol won the 1864 Derby despite getting repeatedly kicked in the genitals by a lad paid by bookmakers to prevent him from competing, and later sired Silvio, who also won the Derby in 1877?
Did you know that Bostick's Store in Causeyville Historic District in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, has been in business continuously since it was built in 1895?
Did you know that My Week with Marilyn has earned three Golden Globe Award nominations?
Did you know that Newton's second law is not valid for variable-mass systems, such as rockets?
Did you know that Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's proposed Skybus rapid transit system became an issue in the 1969 mayoral campaign?
Did you know that Polish writer Ferdynand Goetel participated in the first delegation sent by the Nazis to confirm the discovery of the Katyn massacre perpetrated by the Soviets?
Did you know that Varda Viaduct, a 98 m (322 ft) high railway viaduct in the Taurus Mountains, will be a shooting location of the next James Bond movie Skyfall?
Did you know that a duel between Clay Beauford of the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature and a copper company's lobbyist was called off due to difficulties in finding French sabres?
Did you know that architect Andrew Geller designed quirky, eye-grabbing vacation homes on Long Island that he gave nicknames including the Box Kite, Milk Carton and Reclining Picasso?
Did you know that one of the early news reports on effects of the 1931 Oaxaca earthquake in Mexico came from Russian film maker Sergei Eisenstein?
Did you know that originally, "Unfaithful" was a dark and moody track, inspired from the works of American rock band Evanescence?
Did you know that the Estonian Maritime Museum paid 300 tons of scrap iron for the steam-powered icebreaker Suur Tõll?
Did you know that the fungi Aquamarina speciosa, Keissleriella rara, Massarina carolinensis and Paraphaeosphaeria pilleata were discovered growing on stems of dead black needlerush plants?
Did you know that when Tony Bennett broke a grand piano before a concert at the Brighton Dome, staff went to the Hounsom Memorial Church in Hangleton and borrowed theirs?