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Did you know that the Bahá'í community of Panama (Bahá'í House of Worship in Panama City pictured) was estimated to make up two percent of the national population?
Did you know that the Daily Express Building, an Art Deco former printing press, is one of Manchester's only listed buildings constructed in the 1930s?
Did you know that the Green Rosella of Tasmania was mistakenly believed by Johann Friedrich Gmelin to have originated from New Caledonia and named accordingly?
Did you know that the Indiana Canal Company was once believed to be a front for the conspiracy of former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr?
Did you know that the Papal conclave, 1592 was the fourth papal conclave during the year and a half after the death of Pope Sixtus V?
Did you know that the construction of the Cairo Apartments, one of the tallest buildings in Washington, D.C., prompted the U.S. Congress to pass a new law in 1899 to limit buildings to the height of the Capitol?
Did you know that the t:kort digital ticketing for public transport in Trøndelag, Norway was launched seven years behind schedule?
Did you know that Aberdeen's Northern Co-operative Society declared a loss of £7 million in 1992, and, unable to recover, went into receivership, bringing to an end a 132-year-old business?
Did you know that Anita West, one of the presenters of Blue Peter, was on the show for such a short period that no footage of her exists in the BBC archives?
Did you know that Grand Duchess Anna freed her husband Vytautas the Great of Lithuania from a prison in Kreva by dressing him in women's clothes?
Did you know that Luan Da of the Han Dynasty was granted 2,000 households to rule over due to his practice of mediumship?
Did you know that Nguyễn Trung Trực, who organized and led militia that fought against French colonial forces in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, was a local fisherman?
Did you know that ejecta from the impact that created Zunil crater in Athabasca Valles on Mars is a possible source of Martian meteorites?
Did you know that famous Benjamin Franklin impersonator Ralph Archbold is married to a woman who impersonates Betsy Ross?
Did you know that lenticular galaxy NGC 1553 is located at the center of the Dorado Group, and has a spiral feature that is only visible in X-rays?
Did you know that one of the eyes of Edward Oldcorne, who was tortured into revealing his participation in the Gunpowder Plot, is kept as a holy relic?
Did you know that the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario was established by the Government of Ontario in response to a recommendation in the Rae Report?
Did you know that the Hnojník château, now in the Czech Republic, was owned by the Beess family from 1736 until 1945?
Did you know that the International Checker Hall of Fame in Petal, Mississippi was home to the world's largest checkerboard?
Did you know that the Michigan-Wacker Historic District hosts Chicago's first permanent residence, Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite?
Did you know that the Montreux Convention of 1936 is an international treaty regulating the Dardanelles and Bosporus Straits?
Did you know that the Municipal Theatre of Corfu served as the place of assembly for the Serbian Parliament in exile from 19 January 1916 to 19 November 1918?
Did you know that the Nicaraguan Rice Rat is one of only two mammals endemic to Nicaragua?
Did you know that the first edition of Henry Fielding's final novel Amelia was published with 5,000 copies while his popular novel Tom Jones had only 3,500 copies for both its first and second edition?
Did you know that Daniel Page, the second mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, helped finance the construction of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad?
Did you know that Dr Nigel Cox is the only doctor ever to have been convicted in Britain for attempted euthanasia?
Did you know that Fort Concho, a United States Army outpost in San Angelo, Texas from 1867 to 1889, was the headquarters for the Buffalo Soldiers of the American West?
Did you know that George Zames pioneered the H-infinity methods which have revolutionized the field of  robust control?
Did you know that Keelung City, Taiwan was briefly occupied by the French military in the late 1880s?
Did you know that Olvir Hnufa, a famous 9th-century Norwegian skald quoted in the Prose Edda, was the great-uncle of the Viking Egil Skallagrimsson?
Did you know that San Francisco's 1873 Pigtail Ordinance was deemed unconstitutional because it discriminated against Chinese immigrants?
Did you know that Vaidila, depicted in the Lithuanian Chronicles as a kitchen assistant who entered nobility only through marriage, was the only Lithuanian duke known to marry a daughter of a Gediminid ruler?
Did you know that according to a letter written in 1428 by President Felip de Malla to Alfonso the Magnanimous, Catalonia was devastated by an earthquake on Candlemas that year?
Did you know that children's author Aleksandra Ishimova was the last correspondent of Alexander Pushkin before his death in a duel?
Did you know that construction of the courthouse of the Rochester Downtown Historic District may have spurred nearby buildings to have faux stones cemented upon them?
Did you know that in his 1570 book on religious images, theologian Molanus objected to showing the infant Jesus naked, among many other things?
Did you know that magnetic resonance neurography creates detailed medical images of nerves?
Did you know that the Citadel of Saigon, a stone fortress in Vietnam, was captured during the French invasion after less than a day of battle?
Did you know that the Columbus Monument in Barcelona, Spain, was built entirely using Spanish materials and Catalan labor?
Did you know that the Nigar Awards are the oldest awards of merit in the Pakistani film industry?
Did you know that the city of Strasbourg, France is the sole or main seat of over 20 international institutions?
Did you know that when the Gevingåsen Tunnel opens in 2012 it will cut rail travel time north of Trondheim, Norway, by five minutes?
Did you know that Abdur Rashid Kardar, a pioneer of the Pakistani film industry in Lahore, was a calligraphist who prepared posters for foreign-made films?
Did you know that Brad Paisley's 2008 single "Waitin' on a Woman" is a re-recording of a song that he originally recorded on his 2005 album Time Well Wasted?
Did you know that Charles Mathias, Jr. is the only Republican from Maryland to be elected to three terms in the United States Senate?
Did you know that Madonna, Michelangelo, Napoleon, Pelé and Voltaire are all mononymous persons — each is commonly known by a single name?
Did you know that Penelope Wensley, who will become the next Governor of Queensland this month, was the first female Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations in New York?
Did you know that South Park Lofts in Los Angeles, originally an eight-story parking garage, was converted to lofts, whereupon residents complained about a lack of parking?
Did you know that Thomas Kimmwood Peters was the only newsreel photographer to film the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906?
Did you know that chemist and science policy-maker Rudolf Mentzel, head of the German Research Foundation in the 1930s and later VP of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, was also an SS Brigadier?
Did you know that four players from the Morgan State University Football Bears are in the NFL Hall of Fame?
Did you know that gaming fads such as Bank Night contributed more than any other tactic to the resiliency of the U.S. film industry during the Great Depression?
Did you know that in 1870, the Indian Reform Association aimed at putting into practice some of the ideas that the Brahmo leader Keshub Chunder Sen was exposed to during his visit to Britain?
Did you know that many traumatic brain injuries have aspects of both focal and diffuse brain injury?
Did you know that mizuna is a cold-resistant mustard green grown extensively during winter in Japan?
Did you know that on the Mars Exploration Rover (artist's impression pictured), a technique known as visual odometry allowed the rover to estimate its position and orientation using only camera images?
Did you know that pteridomania is the Victorian-era craze for fern collecting and for fern motifs in decorative art?
Did you know that the Podgórski sisters—six-year-old Helena and her teenage sister Stefania—harbored thirteen Jews for over two years in the attic of their house during the Holocaust?
Did you know that the concept of hurricanes as "a moving vortex" was first developed by John Farrar after the Great September Gale of 1815?
Did you know that the cult of Saint Chiaffredo arose after the discovery of a sarcophagus containing a mysterious skeleton near the Italian town of Crissolo?
Did you know that the former general secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal, Keshar Jung Rayamajhi, turned royalist and became chairman of Nepal's  Royal Privy Council?
Did you know that the fungus gnat is often found around houseplants because it lays eggs in moist potting soil?
Did you know that the rough leaves of Australian fig species Ficus coronata have the texture of sandpaper?
Did you know that Adbot, one of the first internet advertising companies, was forced to close only seven months after opening due to the fraudulent source of its start-up funding?
Did you know that African slave Abu al-Misk Kafur’s rise to power in 946 as the ruler of Egypt and southern Syria is one of the first examples in Islamic history of a sovereign with the lowliest of origins?
Did you know that Australian Test cricketer Keith Miller once broke from his air force flying formation to fly over Beethoven's birthplace of Bonn?
Did you know that Captain Ralph Kerr, briefly commander of the Royal Navy's largest warship HMS Hood, had previously only commanded destroyers?
Did you know that Charles Thomas Bolton was the first astronomer to prove the existence of a black hole?
Did you know that Floyd Womack of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks was nicknamed "Pork Chop" because his mother thought he resembled professional wrestler Porkchop Cash?
Did you know that Humphrey Littleton informed on a priest wanted in connection with the Gunpowder Plot after seeing him give mass at Hindlip Hall?
Did you know that Johnny Oates, the only Texas Rangers manager to make it to the postseason, won the Manager of the Year Award in 1996?
Did you know that Lou Piniella, the only Mariners manager to lead a team into the playoffs, recorded a season with 116 wins, tying the major league record of wins in a season?
Did you know that Nara Bahadur Karmacharya is the sole surviving founding member of the Communist Party of Nepal?
Did you know that Walt Whitman and Theodore Roosevelt frequently visited Chichester's Inn in West Hills, New York?
Did you know that a subsidence crater resulting from a nuclear test in 1962 at Yucca Flat is listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that actor Michael Sharrett played the grandson of Clovis, played by Jimmy Stewart, in the 1978 musical film The Magic of Lassie?
Did you know that among other changes, the Hungarian Round Table Talks in 1989 led to a complete overhaul of the country's constitution?
Did you know that brightly colored leheria turbans were male business attire in Rajasthan, India during the 19th and early 20th centuries?
Did you know that every person detained by the International Criminal Court has a personal computer in his cell?
Did you know that in 1846, George Pope Morris was one of two founders of the periodical that would become Town & Country, which is still published today?
Did you know that robot-assisted surgery was recently performed to treat ovarian vein syndrome, a rare condition in which a dilated ovarian vein compresses the ureter, causing pain?
Did you know that the 1880s Victorian Hale House, with its exuberant ornamentation and color scheme, has been called "the most photographed house" in Los Angeles?
Did you know that the Australian banana fig is one of the few figs known to be pollinated by more than one species of fig wasp?
Did you know that the Dogger, a type of fishing boat, takes its name from the Dogger Bank, which was itself named after an earlier type of fishing vessel?
Did you know that the English Riviera Geopark in Torbay, United Kingdom is the world's only urban Geopark?
Did you know that the Gero Cross of about 970 AD is one of the earliest known depictions of the dead Christ on the cross?
Did you know that the Treaty of Dubysa was never ratified as the Teutonic Knights failed to reach the agreed-upon destination due to shallow water in the Neman River?
Did you know that the title of The West Wing episode "On the Day Before" refers to the Jewish holiday Erev Yom Kippur?
Did you know that A Driver for Vera, Ukraine's submission for the 77th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, was rejected because too much of the production was based in Russia?
Did you know that Fitzroy Football Club was so impressed by Allan Ruthven’s potential he was given guernsey number 7, made famous by Brownlow medalist Haydn Bunton?
Did you know that Francis Fox Tuckett was one of the main figures of the golden age of alpinism, making the ascent of 269 peaks and the crossing of 687 passes?
Did you know that Joseph Nathan Kane had personal possession of America's first fountain pen and the 1849 patent model for America's first safety pin?
Did you know that Knickerbocker Epes Sargent wrote Velasco for Ellen Tree, only to have Edgar Allan Poe damn it with faint praise?
Did you know that Korean writer Park Kyung-ni spent 25 years writing the 16-volume epic novel Land, which has been included in the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works?
Did you know that Santo Alcala’s age of 23 in 1976 made him the second youngest player on an aging Cincinnati Reds baseball team?
Did you know that Union Army officer Frank A. Haskell’s account of the Battle of Gettysburg was hailed by historian Bruce Catton as "one of the genuine classics of Civil War literature"?
Did you know that according to X-ray analysis, William Hogarth's painting Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse originally had a dog relieving himself on a pile of old master paintings?
Did you know that after capturing Amba Aradam during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, the Italians bombed the fleeing Ethiopian soldiers with mustard gas?
Did you know that instead of making a triumphant entry to Harar, Ethiopia after the Battle of the Ogaden, Italian general Rodolfo Graziani tripped and injured himself at a local church?
Did you know that microbial mats increase our understanding of evolution by helping to preserve soft-bodied organisms and soft parts of hard-shelled animals?
Did you know that shipping company Bastø Fosen operates the most trafficked car ferry route in Norway, from Moss to Halden?
Did you know that the 2001 feature film Cupid's Mistake was produced on a budget of US$980?
Did you know that the Electrosport was a US$11,900 electric car in 1971, when gasoline was 36 cents per gallon, and the company established the “World’s First Electric Car Expressway” between Detroit and Chicago?
Did you know that the Italian mountain Cimon della Pala appears on the coat of arms of the Guardia di Finanza?
Did you know that the Magnoliidae include species that produce safrole, the primary precursor for synthesis of Ecstasy (chemical structure pictured)?
Did you know that the Type 77 semi-automatic pistol is a common side arm used in the Chinese People's Liberation Army?
Did you know that the Vorwerk is the only breed of chicken to share its name with a brand of household appliance?
Did you know that the keepers of the Elbow of Cross Ledge Light slept in life jackets for fear of the lighthouse being struck by passing ships?
Did you know that the largest sports research library in North America is located on the grounds of LA's Britt House, a Colonial Revival mansion built in 1910?
Did you know that the public reaction after the death of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia caused Adolf Hitler to issue a decree barring all members of Germany's former royal houses from service in the military?
Did you know that Australian cricketer Keith Miller, while attending high school during his teenage years, had Test captain Bill Woodfull as his mathematics teacher, who gave him a zero on a geometry exam?
Did you know that Bartholomew Gilbert is responsible for the failure to establish a colony on Cape Cod in 1602 which would have been the first English colony in the Americas?
Did you know that Ficus obliqua, which may reach 100 ft (35 m) high in Australian rainforests, is well suited for use in bonsai?
Did you know that Mangalitsa is a lard-type pig breed that was the most prominent swine breed in Hungary until 1950?
Did you know that Pleistodontes froggatti, the fig wasp that pollinates the Moreton Bay fig, was intentionally introduced into Hawaii in 1921?
Did you know that Russian avant-garde poet and singer-songwriter Alexei Khvostenko is often referred to as the "grandfather of Russian rock"?
Did you know that SS Catalina, after reportedly carrying more passengers than any other ship anywhere, has been stuck half-submerged in Ensenada, Mexico for more than ten years?
Did you know that Therefore Repent! is a 2008 graphic novel set in a post-Rapture world where fundamentalist Christian eschatology has come true?
Did you know that U.S. statesman Frederick Douglass said that George William Alexander had spent "more than an American fortune" in promoting the anti-slavery cause?
Did you know that fossil collectors often call Polyptychoceras vancouverensis the "paperclip ammonite" or the "candy cane", due to its shape?
Did you know that in 1382, Jogaila arrested and imprisoned his 80-year old uncle Kęstutis when he arrived for negotiations during the Lithuanian Civil War?
Did you know that in the center of the Old Town Market Place in Warsaw, Poland is the Warsaw Mermaid Statue along with other Warsaw Old Town attractions?
Did you know that namsadang is a Korean itinerant troupe during the Joseon Dynasty that performed acrobatics (example pictured), dancing, and playing like a circus?
Did you know that over the course of five decades, Toshio Masuda directed 16 films which made the top ten list at the Japanese box office, a record surpassed by only one other director?
Did you know that the 17th-century Theatrum Chemicum is a comprehensive compendium on alchemy in the western world?
Did you know that the 2008 ILF Under-19 World Lacrosse Championships included three first-time participants Bermuda, Finland, and Scotland?
Did you know that the tablet known as Gabriel's Revelation, written in Hebrew before the birth of Christ, allegedly tells of a man killed by the Romans and resurrected after three days?
Did you know that "Gizzie" and "Slit" are two alternative common names for the Little Lorikeet of eastern Australia?
Did you know that Agile Mangabeys are known to contract the T-cell leukemia virus, similar to the leukemia virus that infects humans?
Did you know that Alex Perelson is the youngest professional skaterboarder in the vert field?
Did you know that Bill Stoneman, who pitched two no-hitters for the Montreal Expos and later ran the Major League Baseball club as the general manager, first joined the franchise in the 1968 expansion draft?
Did you know that Charles Marshall chose the location where Robert E. Lee's surrender ceremony took place near the end of the American Civil War?
Did you know that G. S. Khaparde earned the moniker "Nawab of Berar" because of his personal and political influence in the central Indian province?
Did you know that HMT Bedfordshire was one of 24 Royal Navy anti-submarine vessels sent to assist the United States after its entry into World War II?
Did you know that Mesotherium ("middle beast") (skull pictured) was so named because its discoverer believed it was an intermediate between rodents and pachyderms?
Did you know that St. Kazimierz Church in Warsaw was designed by the leading Dutch architect Tylman van Gameren?
Did you know that Watts Station was the only structure to remain intact along "Charcoal Alley" during the Watts Riots?
Did you know that a sotdae is a tall wooden pole or stone pillar with a sculptured bird atop, traditionally set up for the purpose of folk belief in Korea?
Did you know that according to legend, water from a holy well in Penrhys, Wales, can be used to cure rheumatism and poor eyesight?
Did you know that although chaotic, the Solar System is stable enough that its planets will not collide with each other for a few billion years?
Did you know that conceptual artist Joan Fontcuberta's works include a hoax exhibition of bizarre animals such as winged monkeys and snakes with 12 feet, incorporating fieldnotes, photographs and X-rays?
Did you know that dozens of congressional candidates have endorsed "A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq"?
Did you know that from October 2008, the Norwegian digital ticketing system t:kort will be valid on Kystekspressen?
Did you know that the Boreray is the most critically endangered breed of sheep in the United Kingdom, according to the Rare Breeds Survival Trust?
Did you know that the Glass Pavilion, a prismatic glass dome structure built for the 1914 Werkbund Exhibition, was destroyed after the exhibition?
Did you know that the Iraiyanar Akapporul ("Study of Stolen Love") contains the first major prose work written in the Tamil language?
Did you know that the Museum of Texas Tech University was housed in a basement for approximately thirteen years?
Did you know that the Young Romance comic book series, first published in 1947, is regarded as the first romance comic?
Did you know that the highest point on Cape Cod is not Scargo Hill in Dennis as is commonly believed,  but Pine Hill in Bourne?
Did you know that the relics housed within the chapel near the Church of St. Mary of Blachernae in Istanbul were credited by the Byzantines for victories against the Avars, Arabs, and Rus?
Did you know that when VOC forces led by Steven van der Hagen captured a Portuguese fort on Ambon in 1605, it was the first territory captured by the Dutch Republic in the East Indies?
Did you know that Atunda Ayenda is the first radio soap opera ever aired in Sierra Leone?
Did you know that Budweiser Bier Bürgerbräu, introduced in 1802, is offered by the Czech brewery in Europe as "Budweiser Bier", while in North America, is called "B. B. Bürgerbräu"?
Did you know that Dr David Moor admitted in a press interview to having helped up to 300 ill patients to die?
Did you know that Greek band ONIRAMA’s name comes from the Greek phrase "Onira Mas" meaning "Our Dreams"?
Did you know that Harold's Steer-In in Indianapolis' North Irvington Gardens Historic District was the site of a 2005 MasterCard commercial featuring quarterback Peyton Manning?
Did you know that Hendrik van den Bergh founded the South African Bureau of State Security in 1969 to coordinate intelligence gathering and suppress anti-apartheid dissidents?
Did you know that McDonald Clarke, known as the "mad poet of Broadway", drowned in prison after being subjected to an elaborate prank?
Did you know that Temple Sinai, a Reform synagogue in Oakland, California, grew out of Oakland's Hebrew Benevolent Society in 1875?
Did you know that Tookoolito and her companion were advertised as "Esquimaux Indians... from the arctic regions" and exhibited at Barnum's American Museum in 1862?
Did you know that an owner of the DeForest Skinner House was once the youngest railroad director in the United States?
Did you know that birds' eyes have three lids, including the nictitating membrane, which moves across the eyeball horizontally?
Did you know that in 2003, Chinese scientists invented a way of producing yarn from bamboo fibre?
Did you know that members of Scottish clans wear a sprig of a particular plant (example pictured), known as a clan badge, to identify their affiliation?
Did you know that notable residents of Colonnade Row included John Jacob Astor IV, Washington Irving and Cornelius Vanderbilt?
Did you know that radio collars for animal tracking were first tested at the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve?
Did you know that the Buffalo Treehopper is an insect named for its resemblance to the American Bison?