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Did you know that after calling for a polar bear, Disneyland and palm trees to be brought to Reykjavik in Iceland, The Best Party won the most seats in the 2010 Reykjavik City Council election?
Did you know that crystallization of polymers proceeds through the formation of spherulites (example pictured)?
Did you know that even though HMS Marlborough was hit by a torpedo at the Battle of Jutland, the crew suffered only four casualties?
Did you know that except for Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, Harry Goodwin photographed every single act that entered the Top 30 of the UK Singles Chart between 1964 and 1973?
Did you know that the Golden Cue Billiard Lounge is the only extant billiard hall in Albany, New York?
Did you know that the Italian protected cruiser Giovanni Bausan was designed to destroy battleships?
Did you know that the KNSM Island in Amsterdam, originally the docks for the Royal Dutch Steamboat Company and then long occupied by squatters, is now a haven for "Dockland chic"?
Did you know that the Peacock flounder can camouflage itself by matching its colors to its surroundings (process pictured)?
Did you know that the eastern North American destroying angel contains cyclic peptides that, if consumed, can cause kidney failure, liver failure, and/or death?
Did you know that the four rooms on the first floor of Hiddenhurst outside Millerton, New York, are decorated in different architectural styles?
Did you know that the ideas of Aesthetic Realism and Siegel's Theory of Opposites are the guiding principles of New York City's Terrain Gallery?
Did you know that the logo of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring, an industrial conglomerate of Nazi Germany, remained in use until the 1980s?
Did you know that the radar at Benton Air Force Station was once jammed by "the lady of the house" watching a soap opera?
Did you know that when the Finnish cargo ship SS Enso was lengthened in 1955–56, her gross register tonnage was reduced?
Did you know that 2004 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prizewinner for neurobiology, Hannah Monyer, can speak several languages and play the piano?
Did you know that Abkhaz writer Fazil Iskander publishes articles for the Russian newspaper Kultura?
Did you know that Associated Students, Chico is a student government with over $13 million in assets making it one of the largest non-profit organizations in Northern California?
Did you know that Brian Eno, one of the principal innovators of ambient music, played synthesisers on Coldplay's 2007 single "White Shadows"?
Did you know that Eduardo Delgado has recorded the full works of Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera?
Did you know that Tenzing Norgay, the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hilary, was once sent to Tengboche Monastery in Tengboche to be a monk?
Did you know that a part of the Parthenon Frieze currently at the British Museum used to be kept at Marbury Hall in Cheshire, England?
Did you know that all nine individuals who served as Michigan Wolverines head football coaches from 1900 to 1989 have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame?
Did you know that although the giant fossa, formerly one of the top carnivores of Madagascar, is thought to be extinct, there is some anecdotal evidence of very large living fossas?
Did you know that cattle infested with ticks can be treated with an extract from the African tree Margaritaria discoidea?
Did you know that during World War II, the Arkansas politician Jefferson W. Speck was a POW transported on the Japanese Hell ship, the Oryoku Maru?
Did you know that in 1931, frame-by-frame analysis of a movie was used to determine why the Gee Bee Model Z crashed?
Did you know that newspaper illustrator Salo Grenning became an honorary citizen of Middelburg, Netherlands, after helping liberate the city from Germany in 1944?
Did you know that over the course of more than 200 years, the Struve family produced renowned scientists including Jacob, Friedrich, Otto Wilhelm, Genrikh, Hermann, Ludwig, George Hermann, Wilfried and Otto Struve?
Did you know that the French battleship Gaulois was sunk on 27 December 1916 by the German U-boat SM UB-47?
Did you know that the K-105 ski jumping hill in Schanzen Einsiedeln is named after World Championships winner Andreas Küttel?
Did you know that the Literary Review said of a novel by Daisy Waugh "Cold Comfort Farm meets Goodbye, Mr. Chips"?
Did you know that the de Lackner Aerocycle was intended to be flown by infantrymen after only 20 minutes of flight training?
Did you know that the journalist and columnist Per Egil Hegge has been called a "housegod" of those dissatisfied with the development of the Norwegian language?
Did you know that the late Paleozoic environment of the Chaco-Tarija sedimentary basin of Bolivia has been likened to that of present-day Labrador Sea?
Did you know that the shooting ranges at Camp Curtis Guild in Reading, Massachusetts, were closed after a bullet ricocheted and nearly hit a mother and her toddler?
Did you know that 1912 Olympic champion Jim Thorpe was stripped of his track and field medals after it was discovered he had played baseball professionally?
Did you know that 1993 Eurovision Song Contest winner Niamh Kavanagh overcame voice and dress problems to make her return in the 2010 contest in Oslo, Norway?
Did you know that American sprinter Jeff Williams won his first World Championship medal at the age of 29 under the guidance of women's Olympic medalist Barbara Ferrell?
Did you know that Bonaventure Broderick ran a gas station for 40 years until Cardinal Francis Spellman restored him as an Auxiliary Bishop?
Did you know that Chinese Australian soldier Caleb Shang was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal partly for his skill with lamps?
Did you know that Juwan Howard was the first student–athlete to graduate on time along with his class after declaring early for the NBA Draft and joining the National Basketball Association?
Did you know that Lofty Large once floored a donkey with a single punch while fighting rebels in Oman?
Did you know that Madonna’s first producer purchased an old chandelier factory in 1981, which has been used to record tracks by Queen Latifah, INXS and Taking Back Sunday?
Did you know that Orientalism in early modern France started from the time of Francis I in the 16th century, with the work of Guillaume Postel?
Did you know that Pike Hill Signal Tower was built by the Romans as part of fortifying the Stanegate and was later incorporated into Hadrian's Wall?
Did you know that President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva recently launched TV Brasil Internacional, a Portuguese language television station aimed at 49 African nations?
Did you know that Yangluo Bridge near Wuhan, China, is tied with the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, United States, as the ninth longest suspension bridge in the world?
Did you know that although the hemline of the traje de flamenca rose as far as the knees in the 1960s and '70s, it has now returned to the traditional ankle length?
Did you know that baseball is the University of Pittsburgh's (1890s team pictured) oldest sport, with its first recorded game in 1869?
Did you know that completed in 1930, the Andrew Johnson Building was the tallest building in Knoxville, Tennessee, until 1979?
Did you know that it has been difficult to establish when the Oliver Barrett House near Millerton, New York, was built since there are no records of it until 14 years after its likely construction date?
Did you know that one of the outstanding Parisian Louis XV ébénistes remained a mystery until 1957, as his maker's stamp just reads BVRB?
Did you know that seifertite, one of the densest polymorphs of silica, is named after Friedrich Seifert and has only been found in meteorites?
Did you know that the Port of Jacksonville is the second busiest vehicle-handling port on the east coast of the United States?
Did you know that the estuarine, burrow-dwelling ghost shrimp Neotrypaea californiensis is used as bait, but is sometimes attacked with insecticides because it damages Pacific oyster farms?
Did you know that the extinct Hipposideros besaoka was the largest insectivorous bat of Madagascar?
Did you know that the four Ersatz Monarch-class battleships planned for the Austro-Hungarian Navy were expected to cost 82 million kronen each, but none were ever completed?
Did you know that the geology of New Zealand's Northland region includes exotic seafloor rocks, an extinct volcanic arc, and a massive tombolo?
Did you know that the oldest running wood-burning locomotive in Hawaii, now at Grove Farm Museum, one of two heritage railways in Kauai, was almost sold for $500 to the Disney Company in the 1970s?
Did you know that the opera Didone abbandonata (Dido Abandoned) of Domenico Sarro, successful in 1724, was revived by harpsichordist, conductor and musicologist Ludger Rémy?
Did you know that when he transferred his house near Millerton, New York, to his sons, Thomas N. Wheeler required that they allow their older sister to live there for the rest of her life?
Did you know that Aline Hofheimer painted a 126-foot fresco representing aviation history in Roosevelt Field, Long Island?
Did you know that Colorado State Highway 64 is named the Stegosaurus Freeway in Dinosaur?
Did you know that Frederik Due in 1841 became the first non-noble prime minister of Norway?
Did you know that Norway was the last country with a territorial claim of Antarctica to not operate an all-year research station, until the 2005 opening of Troll and Troll Airfield?
Did you know that Rønne, a town on the Danish island of Bornholm, was bombed by Soviet fighter aircraft during World War II?
Did you know that William Huggins enjoyed following a travelling animal circus?
Did you know that before Ferdinand II became Holy Roman Emperor, he settled claims with the other Habsburgs in the secret Oñate treaty?
Did you know that despite being paralysed from the chest down British Paralympic skier Talan Skeels-Piggins serves as a Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserves?
Did you know that if the remote supergiant Delta Canis Majoris were as close to us as Sirius, it would be as bright as a half-full moon?
Did you know that in Jewish mysticism, even angels cannot endure seeing the divine countenance directly?
Did you know that on 25 April 1916, Royal Flying Corps ace David Tidmarsh was awarded an aerial victory without firing a shot from his Airco DH.2, or getting within a quarter mile of his enemy?
Did you know that prior to the Recreational Charities Act 1958, the English courts refused to accept any charities involving recreational activities as valid?
Did you know that reliable water flow from the Sun Kosi, in mountainous Nepal, is proposed to be diverted through a 16.6 kilometres (10.3 mi) tunnel to the Kamala River for irrigation and other purposes?
Did you know that some of the functions of windmills in Leeuwarden (Froskepôlemolen pictured) were cement manufacture, fulling, oil extraction, producing dyes, gunpowder and paints, snuff production and tanning?
Did you know that the American soul-blues musician L.V. Johnson's track "I Don't Really Care", was sampled by Strong Arm Steady on their 2010 album In Search of Stoney Jackson?
Did you know that the Detroit blues singer Calvin Frazier's "This Old World's in a Tangle" was both the title of the first song he recorded, and of a 1993 compilation album issued by Laurie Records?
Did you know that the Via Josephina was commissioned in 1775 by Joseph II Holy Roman Emperor after he reportedly fell from his horse while traveling from Senj?
Did you know that the civil rights attorney Jesse N. Stone, Jr., was in the first graduating class in 1950 of the historically black Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge?
Did you know that the spires of both St Luke's and St Leonards-on-Sea United Reformed churches in Hastings, East Sussex, were destroyed in the Great Storm of 1987?
Did you know that the tick Ornithodoros erraticus spreads the African swine fever virus in the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal)?
Did you know that French porcelain (early example pictured) started in the 17th century by imitating Chinese blue and white porcelain?
Did you know that Jerome Tiger, a Native American painter from Oklahoma, was a high school dropout and worked as a laborer and prize fighter?
Did you know that Joe Mauer, a first-round draft pick of the Minnesota Twins, is the only catcher in Major League Baseball history to have won three batting titles?
Did you know that U-1022 was commissioned into the Kriegsmarine on June 7, 1944, the day after the Allied invasion of Normandy?
Did you know that U-64 was sunk on the eighth day of her first patrol?
Did you know that Vern Partlow's satirical song "Old Man Atom" was a hit record in the U.S. in July 1950, but a month later it was removed from store shelves for allegedly containing pro-communist propaganda?
Did you know that although its name means boundary ditch, the Mardyke is actually a river that flows into the Thames at Purfleet?
Did you know that audio innovator Fritz Sennheiser was recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with its Scientific and Engineering Award for his development of the MKH 816 shotgun microphone?
Did you know that in 1952, flutist Doriot Anthony Dwyer was the first woman to be named principal chair of a major US orchestra?
Did you know that in English law, trusts for the construction of tombs are invalid if the tombs are "capricious and wasteful"?
Did you know that in his depiction of the Denial of Peter episode, Rembrandt portrayed Jesus in the distance, his hands bound behind him, turning to look at Peter who faced away from him?
Did you know that in the Battle of Prinitza, 300 Achaean soldiers defeated a far superior Byzantine army, allegedly numbering 15,000 men?
Did you know that in the town of the Chau Doc massacre, anti-government forces spread the superstition that one can fly by killing 20 people, and become an angel by killing 100?
Did you know that in what The New York Times described as a "food fight", Assemblymember Clare Farragher argued that the tomato, rather than the blueberry, should be chosen as New Jersey's official state fruit?
Did you know that military historian and Purdue professor Gunther E. Rothenberg escaped the Nazis and served in the British Army, the Israel Defense Force, and the US Air Force before attending college on the GI Bill?
Did you know that the 2002 Mindanao earthquake, which caused flooding and a tsunami, was the sixth most powerful earthquake of 2002?
Did you know that the Bear River in Nova Scotia was once about 15 percent longer than at present as it is now a drowned river valley?
Did you know that the Ford Valve Plant was moving assembly line pioneer Henry Ford's first "Village Industry": a small factory located in a rural community and intended to stabilize the income of farmers?
Did you know that the Suffren was the flagship for a squadron of four French battleships in 1915 during the Dardanelles Campaign?
Did you know that the defeat of his army in the Siege of Berat ended Charles of Anjou's designs to invade the Byzantine Empire over land?
Did you know that the evangelist Elijah Cadman originated the idea that The Salvation Army should wear uniforms?
Did you know that while Archbishop of Adelaide, Leonard Faulkner refused to eliminate the practice of communal confession, despite pressure from the Vatican?
Did you know that white Republican State Senator Norman M. Robertson criticized New Jersey's 2001 redistricting plan, stating "that the map is racist" in reducing the voting strength of African-American voters?
Did you know that Banksia aemula is thought to have inspired "Banksia Men" – the villains in the children's story by May Gibbs?
Did you know that Bill Russell won two NBA Championships as a player-coach of the Boston Celtics?
Did you know that California's first State House was originally a hotel in San Jose owned by businessman Pierre "Don Pedro" Sainsevain and his associates?
Did you know that Cuneus Prophetarum is considered the most prominent work of early Albanian literature?
Did you know that Fossas have lengthy mating sessions because the male's erect penis has backwards-pointing spines along most of its length?
Did you know that Ingeborg Reichelt performed the soprano part of the Bach cantata Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39, written for the first Sunday after Trinity of 1726?
Did you know that John J. Matheussen introduced legislation in the New Jersey Senate in 1999 to implement the US$1 billion property tax rebate proposed by Governor Christine Todd Whitman?
Did you know that Madison Rayne currently holds both women's championships in TNA Wrestling?
Did you know that Montmorency River (falls pictured) in Quebec was visited by French explorer Samuel de Champlain, and the named river began appearing in maps as early as 1641?
Did you know that Queen Chennabhairadevi, who ruled for 54 years from Gersoppa under the Vijayanagara Empire in Uttara Kannada, India, was credited with building the Mirjan Fort in the 16th century?
Did you know that although it was intended for operation from 1930s aircraft carriers, the SNCAO CAO.600 had twin engines?
Did you know that as the mayor in the 1910s of Homer, Louisiana, Andrew R. Johnson worked to bring electric lights and water works to the municipality?
Did you know that before a man, Tor Halvorsen, replaced the deceased Sonja Ludvigsen as Minister of Social Affairs, a newspaper claimed that the only certain thing was that the new Minister "will be a woman"?
Did you know that defeated incumbent congressmen in the Philippine House of Representatives (Session Hall pictured) elections were expected "to raise hell" in the canvassing of votes for the presidential election?
Did you know that eight candidates have died fighting British general elections since 1918?
Did you know that flautist Marina Piccinini recorded Flute Sonatas of J.S. Bach, in collaboration with the Brasil Guitar Duo, who won a scholarship at the Concert Artists Guild, twenty years after Piccinini did so?
Did you know that in his youth, professional baseball player Kettle Wirts would play sandlot ball with Earl Kunz, another future professional player?
Did you know that now-retired professional wrestler Scotty Summers was once powerbombed during a match and had to be carried backstage on a stretcher?
Did you know that polonides are amongst the most stable compounds of polonium?
Did you know that the Forest Park Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri, was once owned by Harold Butler, founder of the restaurant chain Denny's?
Did you know that the Roman marble Sleeping Ariadne of the Vatican Museums was for centuries called Cleopatra because her armband was mistaken for Cleopatra's asp?
Did you know that the White Horse Prophecy, attributed to Mormon founder Joseph Smith, is "not embraced as Church doctrine" by the Mormon Church?
Did you know that the comedy film House!, called an "Ealing-style light comedy", tells the story of how an aged bingo hall deals with the encroachment of an international conglomerate?
Did you know that the marble column used for the Civil War Memorial in Adrian, Michigan, was originally part of the former Bank of Pennsylvania building in Philadelphia?
Did you know that the various state monuments to William Smeathers, a pioneer settler of Kentucky and Texas, use three different versions of his name (Smeathers, Smithers and Smothers)?
Did you know that Cam Fowler, a top prospect for the upcoming NHL Entry Draft, played on the J. Ross Robertson Cup, Memorial Cup and World Junior Ice Hockey Championship winning teams in 2010?
Did you know that Clifford Grodd bought out the clothing store Paul Stuart from his father-in-law, and transformed it into a label worn by Fred Astaire, Mel Brooks, Cary Grant, Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra?
Did you know that Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prizewinner Antje Boetius believes life forms she discovered may be able to help control future climate change through anaerobic digestion of methane?
Did you know that John G. FitzGerald prepared Canada's first locally-made rabies vaccine?
Did you know that Kachche Dhaage, the 1999 debut film of director Milan Luthria, stars Ajay Devgan as a smuggler delivering goods across the Rajasthan–Pakistan border?
Did you know that Kevin Killian's My Vocabulary Did This to Me won the American Book Award for poetry in 2008 and his Impossible Princess won the Lambda Literary Award as best gay erotic fiction in 2009?
Did you know that Marion Crecco sponsored a bill in the New Jersey Assembly promoting abstinence education in schools to prevent AIDS, stating that otherwise "we are allowing our children to play Russian roulette"?
Did you know that Norwegian Parliament member Olav Gunnar Ballo's book about the suicide of his daughter Kaja Bordevich Ballo became a bestseller in Norway?
Did you know that South Carolina's Redneck Shop, which sells Ku Klux Klan memorabilia, is located in a building owned by a black Baptist pastor?
Did you know that according to one theory, English secret trusts are entirely constructed by the courts?
Did you know that although American entomologist Harry Hoogstraal was an authority on ticks and tick-borne diseases, organisms bearing his name include a squirrel, a gerbil, a snake, and 200 other species?
Did you know that as executive director of the Kerner Commission, David Ginsburg warned in its 1967 report that the U.S. was "moving toward two societies—one black, one white, separate and unequal."?
Did you know that diallyl disulfide is a major cause of the garlic allergy (garlic bulbs pictured) which mostly affects chefs and housewives?
Did you know that in 1921, Spanish surgeon Fidel Pagés discovered epidural anesthesia, which is used in millions of childbirths and surgical operations every year worldwide?
Did you know that in the late 1970s, Tom Waits often performed his song "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis" as a medley with cover versions of "Goin' Out Of My Head" and "Silent Night?"
Did you know that some towns and villages throughout Great Britain were once nicknamed "Little Moscow", due to their strong links with the Communist Party?
Did you know that the Atherton oak and red bopple nut of Queensland, and the Chilean hazel of Chile are relatives of the macadamia which produce edible nuts?
Did you know that the Australian bush fly is responsible for the Aussie salute?
Did you know that the European Cenozoic Rift System extends from the Mediterranean to the North Sea?
Did you know that the Norbulingka Palace in Lhasa was added by UNESCO as an extension of the Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace in 2001?
Did you know that the Siberian Slippery Jack's subalpine European habitat is threatened by deforestation and skiing?
Did you know that the author of Lady Gaga: Queen of Pop previously wrote celebrity biographies on Michael Jackson, Kerry Katona, and Robbie Williams?
Did you know that the beetle Dermestes maculatus attacks and eats live turkeys?
Did you know that the fall of the Neuschwanstein meteorite (computer graphic pictured) in 2002 was observed by the European Fireball Network and outdoor witnesses through most of Central Europe?
Did you know that the valediction "have a nice day", typically spoken by service employees, is considered a trite phrase that has been castrated by excessive usage and pretense?
Did you know that two cannons brought as gifts to Louis XIV of France by the Siamese embassy of 1686 ended up being seized and used by revolutionaries in the Storming of the Bastille in 1789?
Did you know that "Ando Bien Pedo" helped Banda Los Recoditos' album ¡Ando Bien Pedo! peak at number one on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart?
Did you know that "white-out" from light reflections is a problem encountered during falloposcopy?
Did you know that Baudissin Glacier and Challenger Glacier on Heard Island were charted in 1874 by the Challenger expedition, revisited in 1903 by the 1st German AE, but not officially named by the ANCA until 1957?
Did you know that Erik Bakich oversaw the biggest increase in team batting average in school history as hitting coach at Vanderbilt University?