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Did you know that a colony of sex offenders forced to live under a highway bridge in Miami, Florida, numbered approximately 140 members as of July 2009?
Did you know that an inscription from Korba, Tunisia, records the town's fortification by Pompeian generals during the Roman civil war?
Did you know that as a variable-pitch turbofan aircraft engine, the Turbomeca Astafan could generate reverse thrust in midair without the use of a thrust reverser?
Did you know that in baseball, no Gold Glove Award-winning catcher posted an errorless season until Charles Johnson and Mike Matheny accomplished the feat twice in six years?
Did you know that in physics, a Trojan wave packet (animation pictured) is a type of wave packet that is nonstationary and nonspreading?
Did you know that ornithologist Robert Thomas Moore, who is credited with discovering more than 30 bird species and subspecies, also founded the 29-volume series of Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards?
Did you know that the 1969 Jefferson Airplane psychedelic folk-rock song "Good Shepherd" is derived from an early 1800s hymn from a backwoods preacher and a 1930s gospel blues recording by a blind axe murderer?
Did you know that the Chicago Tribune claimed that hundreds of applicants to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign between 2005 and 2009 had received "special consideration"?
Did you know that the Space Shuttle mission STS-8 flew Guy Bluford, the first African-American astronaut?
Did you know that the document known as the Remonstrances was presented in 1297, as England was on the brink of civil war?
Did you know that the earliest activities of the Port of Amsterdam, today the Netherlands' second largest port, date back to the 13th century?
Did you know that the fruit of the pondberry, an endangered wetland shrub, was used by children in the rural Southern United States as ammunition in toy pop guns made from hollowed-out elderberry stems?
Did you know that three armies surrounded the papal conclave, September 1503, held during the Italian Wars?
Did you know that when the public house The Falcon was a town house owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor in 1643, it was the first building to enclose its portion of the Chester Rows?
Did you know that 21-year-old professional poker player Sami Kelopuro experiences daily swings of up to one million dollars when playing online poker?
Did you know that Australian musician Monique Brumby, who has won two ARIA Awards, was selected for the national under-19 women's soccer team?
Did you know that Barbara Margolis, creator of a Rikers Island restaurant training program, was held in such regard by inmates that her car was returned after prisoners learned it was stolen from a prison lot?
Did you know that Bob Dylan sang his 1964 song "Chimes of Freedom" at Bill Clinton's 1993 presidential inauguration?
Did you know that John Ruskin's "wretched rant" influenced architects, artists and ecclesiologists?
Did you know that Kenneth W. Winters, a member of the Kentucky State Senate from Murray, did not begin his legislative service until he was 70 years old?
Did you know that Morgan Henry Chrysler was one of only four men who rose from private to major general during the American Civil War?
Did you know that National Football League All-Pro linebacker and Super Bowl champion Cato June was co-class president, salutatorian and a member of the National Honor Society in high school?
Did you know that Pink Dot  is a Los Angeles–based chain of grocery stores that offers delivery service of groceries, deli food, cigarettes, and alcohol?
Did you know that Rocketdyne's E-1 rocket engine never saw production, but gave NASA confidence to develop the F-1 that powered the Saturn V to the Moon?
Did you know that Weston Dressler of the Saskatchewan Roughriders set 19 school records in football at the University of North Dakota?
Did you know that a papyrus containing the Loyalist Teaching scripture, dated to the second half of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, survives to this day?
Did you know that astronomer William Herschel was the first organist at the Octagon Chapel in Bath?
Did you know that due to a violent intimidation campaign of the Federal Republican Party, no other political groups dared to contest the 1900 municipal elections in Las Villas, Cuba?
Did you know that during the 1700s, businesswoman Anna Krefting operated the largest ironworks in Norway?
Did you know that in 1901, two former political adversaries in Cuba, the Cuban National Party and the Republican Party of Havana, united behind the presidential candidature of Tomás Estrada Palma?
Did you know that in 1904, the whitewash was removed from the west wall of St. George's church, Trotton, leading to the discovery of an unprecedented 600-year-old wall painting?
Did you know that in Bishop Lloyd's House, Chester, Cheshire, is a fireplace with an overmantle containing a carving of Cupid riding on a lion?
Did you know that in each Summer Olympic Games since 1992, the women's singles gold medalist in table tennis has also won gold in either the doubles or team competition?
Did you know that many of the world's pelagic fish species are threatened with extinction, including the devil fish?
Did you know that the Battle of the Oranges is the largest organized food fight in Italy?
Did you know that the Central Economic Intelligence Bureau serves as the secretariat of the Economic Intelligence Council of India?
Did you know that the Netherlands and the Netherlands Antilles have eight properties of cultural and natural heritage (Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout pictured) listed on UNESCO's World Heritage List?
Did you know that the Shanta Creek fire has burned over 13,000 acres (53 km2; 20 sq mi) on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula since it was started by lightning on June 29, 2009?
Did you know that the invariant set postulate may help to resolve some of paradoxes of quantum mechanics aired in the Bohr–Einstein debates, using fractal geometry such as the Mandelbrot set?
Did you know that the marbleized appearance of the granite siding on the Gerard Crane House in Somers, New York, is a naturally occurring feature of the locally quarried stone?
Did you know that the westernmost and easternmost points in the United States by travel, in Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands, are both named "Point Udall," after brothers Mo and Stewart Udall?"
Did you know that Congregation B'nai Israel is the oldest synagogue in Bridgeport, and the third oldest in the U.S. state of Connecticut?
Did you know that Czech children's writer Ondřej Sekora was also one of the first propagators of rugby in Czechoslovakia?
Did you know that Felix Hathaway helped construct the first American-built ship in what is now the state of Oregon?
Did you know that Gordon Brown's independent advisor on ministerial conduct, Sir Philip Mawer who was given a knighthood in 2002, has also been a dame?
Did you know that Immigration Equality has been the main advocate for the Uniting American Families Act to give same-sex couples the same status as heterosexuals under the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act?
Did you know that John P. Charlton invented the first private postal card in 1861?
Did you know that Saint Ninian, the subject of Ailred of Rievaulx's  Life of Saint Ninian, is an "unhistorical doppelgänger" of the real-life British churchman Finnian?
Did you know that Tekno Team 2000, a "futuristic" professional wrestling tag team, was said to have the goal of bringing the World Wrestling Federation "into the 21st century"?
Did you know that Walter O. Bigby, who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives during the 1970s, was called the "Dean of the House" because of his reputation for integrity, fairness, and hard work?
Did you know that Ziegfield Girl Susan Fleming found Harpo Marx, despite his non-speaking film persona, to be "a warm, fun, darling man to talk to", and they married in 1936 after she had proposed to him three times?
Did you know that after helping Werner von Braun publish a book in post-war Germany, Heinz-Hermann Koelle joined von Braun's team at the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency, where he worked on Saturn rockets?
Did you know that an Australian football player was banned for life for umpire abuse?
Did you know that in partnership with McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co., the Adelaide Steamship Company developed the world's first purpose built container ship, MV Kooringa?
Did you know that molded parts with an undercut can still be molded with the use of a side action (animated)?
Did you know that of the 13 named storms in the 1996 Atlantic hurricane season, 6 were major hurricanes (Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale)?
Did you know that one mixed martial arts fight at the Insomnia Summer Show in Satu Mare, Romania, lasted only seven seconds?
Did you know that only one aircraft, a Bombardier Dash 8 of Amakusa Airlines, uses Amakusa Airfield?
Did you know that the Chichester to Silchester Way was discovered when the boundary banks of a mansio were seen by Ordnance Survey archaeologists on an aerial photograph?
Did you know that the Hunt-class destroyer HMS Badsworth was named after a fox-hunt in Yorkshire and adopted by the town of Batley, following a Warship Week campaign in March 1942?
Did you know that the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel lost an estimated $2.4 to $7 million because the owner donated $125,000 to help California Proposition 8?
Did you know that the Southern sennet, a member of the Barracuda family, has been linked to ciguatera poisoning?
Did you know that the St. Johns River was Florida's first tourist attraction and the primary travel route to the more remote parts of the territory before it was developed?
Did you know that the cam follower, which is a specialized type of roller bearing designed to follow cams, was invented in 1937 by the McGill corporation?
Did you know that the papal conclave, October 1503 was the shortest papal conclave in history due to the lack of a conclave capitulation?
Did you know that when Captain Robert Corbet suggested that captains be allowed to flog lieutenants, Rear-Admiral Edward Buller declared that admirals should therefore flog captains?
Did you know that when the Applegate River was dammed in 1980, the resulting lake completely submerged the town of Copper?
Did you know that Agaricus albolutescens, unlike other species of Agaricus, turns tawny-brown rather than yellow when bruised?
Did you know that Canadian professional wrestler Billy Two Rivers decided to move to the United Kingdom because of a coin toss?
Did you know that French philosopher Denis Diderot posed naked for a Berlin innkeeper's wife?
Did you know that Irish-born journalist and poet Daniel O'Connell worked for a number of newspapers in San Francisco and was one of the co-founders of the Bohemian Club?
Did you know that Jared C. Monti is only the second person to be awarded the Medal of Honor for actions during the War in Afghanistan?
Did you know that Kjell Fjalsett, Arnold Børud, Ivar Skippervold and Rune Larsen constitute the gospel group Frisk Luft, called the first Christian supergroup in Norway?
Did you know that Samuel Taylor Coleridge was accused of plagiarism over his poem "Hymn Before Sunrise"?
Did you know that Sir William Cheyne has been described as one of the most obscure Chief Justices of the King's Bench in the late medieval period?
Did you know that Snorri Thorfinnsson, son of explorers Thorfinn Karlsefni and Guðríðr Þorbjarnardóttir, is said to be the first European born in North America?
Did you know that T.H.E. Fox, drawn on a C64 KoalaPad and published on CompuServe, Q-Link and GEnie, is among the earliest online comics?
Did you know that after a massive expansion program in the 1980s, Lavalin's corporate bankers forced it to merge with the rival SNC Group, forming one of the largest civil engineering firms in the world?
Did you know that between 1909 and 1912, soprano Margarethe Siems sang leading roles in the world premieres of three operas by Richard Strauss—Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier and Ariadne auf Naxos?
Did you know that both Margot Marsh's Mouse Lemur and Arnhold's Mouse Lemur are separated from their closest relatives by species barriers?
Did you know that during June 1976 protests in Poland, the biggest demonstrations took place in Radom, where workers burned the local office of the Polish Communist party?
Did you know that during the Japanese conquest of Burma in 1942, the heavily defended Taukkyan Roadblock was unexpectedly abandoned overnight, allowing the Allied forces to escape safely from Rangoon?
Did you know that in 1941, the tower at St Michael and All Angels Church, Southwick, West Sussex was wrecked by an unexploded bomb which was found embedded in the churchyard two years later?
Did you know that in 2008 one of Jamaica's most wanted fugitives evaded police capture when a motorist flashed his headlights to warn of police activity ahead?
Did you know that in the mid-1880s, Nelson's Greenbrier Distillery dwarfed Jack Daniel's in its output of Tennessee whiskey?
Did you know that the 1973 parliamentary election was the last to be held under imperial rule in Ethiopia?
Did you know that the 74,500 capacity Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, "an icon of the modern Wales", is wholly owned by the Welsh Rugby Union, one of the governing bodies of sports in Wales?
Did you know that the French won a victory over the Royal Navy in a naval battle off Cape Breton  during the American Revolutionary War?
Did you know that the German battleship SMS König sank the Russian battleship Slava during Operation Albion in 1917?
Did you know that the Habeas Corpus Act 1862 was passed to prevent Britain's courts from issuing writs of habeas corpus in British colonies and dominions?
Did you know that the State Capitol of Pennsylvania is the third capitol building to be in Harrisburg, after the first one burned down in 1897 and the second was deemed "ugly" by its designer?
Did you know that the distinctive foliage of Hydrangea radiata, a shrub of the southern Appalachians, is dark green on one side but silvery white on the other?
Did you know that three conclavists—personal aides to cardinals during a papal conclave—have gone on to be elected Pope?
Did you know that American Racing Hall of Fame jockey Isaac Burns Murphy, now interred at the Kentucky Horse Park, was initially buried at African Cemetery No. 2?
Did you know that Bridge L-158 in Goldens Bridge, New York, the only extant double-intersection Whipple truss railroad bridge in the state, was moved there from Kingston 20 years after it was built?
Did you know that CEPPS is a cooperative agreement between the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs?
Did you know that Fritz Crisler called George Ceithaml, quarterback of the Michigan Wolverines's single-wing offense from 1941 to 1942, "the smartest player he ever taught"?
Did you know that Garboldisham Windmill was the only post mill standing in Norfolk in 1972?
Did you know that Heinz Lord, Secretary General of the World Medical Association, survived Moringen concentration camp and the sinking of prison ship Cap Arcona?
Did you know that Joan Baez has been regarded as the subject of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" and also covered the song herself?
Did you know that Mahesh Rangarajan is a researcher, author and historian who analysed present-day conservation conflicts in India and found their roots in India's colonial past?
Did you know that Monmouth County Sheriff Kim Guadagno, running mate of Republican gubernatorial nominee Christopher J. Christie, would become the first Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey if elected in November?
Did you know that Sylvia Levin registered more than 47,000 new voters in the Los Angeles area, an individual record both in California and the United States?
Did you know that Tahitian nationalist Pouvanaa a Oopa was elected to the French Senate representing French Polynesia following his return from exile in France?
Did you know that Walter Scott met the explorer Mungo Park by the banks of the Yarrow Water, and that William Wordsworth journeyed there with "The Ettrick Shepherd"?
Did you know that a 1955 "Speaker's Corner" experiment in Bangkok inspired the launching of a Thai Hyde Park Movement Party?
Did you know that descendants of 17th-century members of the congregation of the Vrouwekerk, a medieval church in Leiden, the Netherlands, include four U.S. presidents?
Did you know that during the 1960s, Texas lawyer John Ben Shepperd worked to obtain the land for the creation of Lyndon B. Johnson State Park and Historic Site along the Pedernales River?
Did you know that in April 2009, a team of scientists uncovered evidence suggesting that the endangered Visayan Spotted Deer survived in a tiny forest in Negros?
Did you know that mechanical plating, developed in the 1950s, is commonly used to overcome hydrogen embrittlement issues when electroplating hardened steel?
Did you know that players from the 1990 England and West Germany association football teams replayed their Italia '90 World Cup semi-final match in aid of charity, for the Sir Bobby Robson Trophy?
Did you know that professional wrestlers Timothy Well and Steven Dunn, of the tag team Well Dunn, were criticized for their ring attire, which mixed bow ties and thongs?
Did you know that the 2/48th Australian Infantry Battalion was Australia's highest decorated unit of the Second World War?
Did you know that the Azm Palace in Hama, Syria, has been regarded as "one of the loveliest Ottoman residential buildings in Syria"?
Did you know that the Cathedral of Our Lady of Tortosa in Tartus, built by the Crusaders in the mid-12th century, is among the best-preserved religious structures of the crusades?
Did you know that the Commanding Officer of RAAF Station Richmond in 1938–40, Group Captain "Kanga" De La Rue, was once locked up by his own guards when he tried to enter the base without a pass?
Did you know that the German Bayern-class battleships Bayern and Baden were the last dreadnoughts built by the Kaiserliche Marine?
Did you know that the Kölcsey Ferenc National College in Satu Mare, Romania, was established in 1557 as a subsidiary of the University of Debrecen?
Did you know that the building known as Three Old Arches in Chester, Cheshire, has a shop front which is considered to be the oldest in England?
Did you know that the game rock-paper-scissors has been used to determine the winner of several events at the World Series of Poker?
Did you know that unlike contempt of court, contempt of cop is not a crime in the United States?
Did you know that while Per Kristiansen chaired the training committee of the Norges Orienteringsforbund, Norway's orienteering team, from 1967 to 1973, team members won gold medals at three  world championships?
Did you know that "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" is a fraction?
Did you know that "She Belongs to Me" was one of the first anti-love songs?
Did you know that Bonneau du Martray is the only estate in Burgundy to make wine exclusively from grand cru vineyards?
Did you know that Howard Engle was the lead plaintiff in a class action suit in which a jury awarded a U.S. record punitive damage verdict of $145 billion against the tobacco industry?
Did you know that Hungarian handball player Anita Görbicz was voted World Player of the Year 2005 by the International Handball Federation?
Did you know that Jane Weinberger, wife of Caspar Weinberger, began writing and publishing children's books in response to budget cuts by the Reagan administration?
Did you know that Lorenzo Campeggio, the cardinal protector of England during the English Reformation, determined that Henry VIII's marriage could not be annulled?
Did you know that Louis Edward Gelineau, the American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who was succeeded by Robert Edward Mulvee in 1997, opposed a 1985 ordinance for the city of Providence to protect homosexuals from discrimination?
Did you know that Matt Kirshen's Bigipedia article on the "Bee Whisperer" was inspired by an article found using the random article function on Wikipedia?
Did you know that Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum in Scotland displays a collection of local incised Pictish stones dating to the 9th and 10th centuries AD (example pictured)?
Did you know that Tony Romano was the Peterborough Petes's leading scorer during the 2008–09 Ontario Hockey League season?
Did you know that a call of the Edwards's Fig-parrot of Northeastern New Guinea has been likened to "coins dropping on concrete"?
Did you know that a farewell gathering for entomologist Henry Edwards in the woods of Marin County in 1878 was the beginning of the Bohemian Club's tradition of a yearly encampment at the Bohemian Grove?
Did you know that baseball Hall of Famer Fred Clarke was the last Louisville Colonels manager?
Did you know that ex parte O'Brien was a test case seeking the release of between 80 and 100 people arrested under the Restoration of Order in Ireland Act 1920?
Did you know that in 1984, the National Day of Hatred was instituted in Kampuchea, to condemn the Khmer Rouge and their allies?
Did you know that in the 1960s, Israel trained Ethiopian forces for counterinsurgency operations against the Eritrean Liberation Front?
Did you know that in the late 1980s, the Mongolian pioneer movement, the Sukhe Bator Mongolian Pioneers Organization, had a membership of 360,000?
Did you know that special Great Western Railway wagons were designed to carry goods as diverse as fish, kaolin, sheets of glass and gunpowder (wagon pictured)?
Did you know that the Shahi Bridge across the Gomti River in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, was built in 1569 without the chhatris, which were added almost three centuries later?
Did you know that the United States' largest oak stand occupies 2 to 3 million hectares of the Great Plains and is composed of ancient Quercus havardii?
Did you know that the first steeple of the Old Dutch Church in Kingston, New York, collapsed a year after it was built because slate roofing was substituted for the tin in Minard Lafever's design?
Did you know that the names of the several "Blue" public houses and inns in Grantham have their origins in a time when the parliamentary constituency of Grantham was a pocket borough?
Did you know that the professional wrestling group Los Infernales were the first team to win both the Mexican National Trios Championship and the CMLL World Trios Championship?
Did you know that while developing Star Wars: Episode I: Battle for Naboo, Factor 5 put together a playable demo for Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader in 19 days to show at Nintendo's 2001 Space World?
Did you know that Alan Garnett Davenport, a Member of the Order of Canada, was the wind engineer on the World Trade Center, the Sears Tower, and the Tsing Ma Bridge?
Did you know that Geastrum triplex is considered the largest of the earthstar fungi?
Did you know that Grub Street, in London's Moorfields district, was home to hack writers, and later became a pejorative term for impoverished authors?
Did you know that Hartley Road, the shortest numbered route in the city of Kawartha Lakes, is entirely a causeway crossing the man-made Mitchell Lake?
Did you know that Kalpeshwar is the only temple in the Panch Kedar circuit, a group of five sacred Shiva temples in the Garhwal Himalayas, accessible throughout the year?
Did you know that Khaled Mohieddin, a former member of the Free Officers Movement, founded the leftist Taggamu party in Egypt?
Did you know that Leo Paquin, one of the Seven Blocks of Granite on the 1936 Fordham University football team, was nicknamed "Twinkletoes"?
Did you know that Sgt. James Crowley, who arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, has taught a course entitled "Racial Profiling"?
Did you know that Susan Mary "Lily" Yeats, the sister of Irish poet W. B. Yeats, was a professional embroiderer who studied the craft under May Morris?
Did you know that Washington, D.C. Chief of Police Richard H. Sylvester is credited with having coined the term "third degree" to refer to harsh means of extracting confessions from suspects?
Did you know that Wyatt Durette, co-writer of Zac Brown Band's "Toes", called Brown at 6:00 in the morning to give him the idea for the song?