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Did you know that evidence for domesticated dogs between 10,150 and 9320 BC has been found at Hatula in modern-day Israel?
Did you know that in 1681 the strength of the Imperial Army of the Holy Roman Empire (grenadier pictured) was fixed at 28,000 infantry and 12,000 cavalry?
Did you know that songwriter Doug Fieger has stated that The Knack's song "Baby Talks Dirty" was written about the same Sharona who inspired the group's No. 1 hit "My Sharona"?
Did you know that the International Broadcasting Bureau Greenville Transmitting Stations located in Greenville, North Carolina, were the most powerful international broadcaster in the world?
Did you know that the Kauai remya is threatened by the banana poka?
Did you know that the design of Robertsbridge United Reformed Church in England has been described as "truly horrible" and "most dissolute"?
Did you know that the reservoir of Morris Dam in Los Angeles County, California, was used as a testing site for torpedoes and underwater missiles beginning in World War II?
Did you know that the shadow of nearby mountains first hit the Tower of Jericho on the sunset of the summer solstice and then spread across the entire proto-city in c. 8000 BCE?
Did you know that East African Highland bananas are so important as staple food crops in Uganda that 'Matoke', the traditional meal made from steamed bananas, is synonymous with the word "food"?
Did you know that Joseph Stalin expelled an American Navy captain from Moscow after learning he had fathered a "love child" with a well-known Soviet film actress, who was then banished to Siberia for eight years?
Did you know that U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe Charles A. Ray was the first person to serve as U.S. Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam?
Did you know that Wally Heider engineered the remote recording of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival?
Did you know that Władysław Szpilman, whose life inspired the film The Pianist, was the most famous Robinson Crusoe of Warsaw, hiding in the ruins of Warsaw after the Nazis destroyed it?
Did you know that damage from the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake at the Peterborough Centre is estimated at NZ$12 million, only NZ$0.3M less than the insured value of this historic building?
Did you know that despite holding a degree in architecture, Erwin Gutawa became a composer and conductor?
Did you know that in 1960 Provincetown, Massachusetts, Town Manager Walter E. Lawrence requested financial aid from the state government to help fight the infiltration of beatniks into the town?
Did you know that in Bach's cantata Barmherziges Herze der ewigen Liebe, BWV 185 ("Merciful Heart of eternal love"), the closing chorale melody is prefigured in the first duet in dancing 6/4 time?
Did you know that in Handel's oratorio Messiah, Part III closes with the chorus "Worthy is the Lamb", from text in the Book of Revelation, and an extended Amen fugue?
Did you know that in the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships, Mayookha Johny became only the second athlete from India to win a gold medal in the long jump event?
Did you know that the East India Film Company, formed in 1932, was a pioneer in the production of films in Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu?
Did you know that the fastest supercomputer in Europe is in France?
Did you know that the late 19th-century novel Homo sapiens, although well received in Germany, was withdrawn from sale in the U.S. after being called obscene?
Did you know that Donald S. Nesti clashed with the Tamburitzans as president of Duquesne University?
Did you know that Fort Peck Lake is the largest lake by surface area in Montana?
Did you know that Indonesian "renaissance man" Mochtar Lubis, co-founder of the daily Indonesia Raya, wrote novels involving superstition, corruption, and erectile dysfunction?
Did you know that Late Gothic architect Benedikt Rejt rebuilt parts of Prague Castle and built the vault for St. Barbara's Church in Kutná Hora?
Did you know that May 3rd Constitution Day, among the most important Polish holidays, was banned in the former communist state, the People's Republic of Poland?
Did you know that Niccolò Machiavelli's military reforms were designed to create a citizen army in the style of Ancient Rome?
Did you know that as political prisoners were released due to the fall of communism in Poland, regular prisoners rioted, demanding better conditions and an amnesty?
Did you know that consumption of the poisonous mushroom Inocybe godeyi could lead to salivation, tears, urination, defecation, gastrointestinal pain and vomiting?
Did you know that military historian Lars Borgersrud's research includes taboo subjects like the fate of war children and Norwegian military officers with Nazi sympathies prior to and during World War II?
Did you know that on the Turban Head eagle, Liberty actually wears a cap, although it is disputed whether a Liberty cap was intended?
Did you know that the 200-year-old Dundee Royal Infirmary was one of the first UK hospitals to acquire a catSCAN head scanner?
Did you know that the Annunciation to the shepherds in Handel's Messiah, Part I, is the only scene from a Gospel in the oratorio?
Did you know that the United Nations Honour Flag was designed as a symbol of the Allies of World War II at the suggestion of Winston Churchill?
Did you know that the school started in 1843 by Edward Baigent's wife at their home in Wakefield is today New Zealand's oldest public school?
Did you know that Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme directed the first episode of the television series A Gifted Man?
Did you know that American NFL quarterback Robert Halperin was awarded the Navy Cross, won an Olympic bronze medal and a Pan American Games gold medal in sailing, and co-founded the Lands' End clothing retailer?
Did you know that Calvary Baptist Church, the oldest religious building in Ossining, New York, was built with marble quarried by inmates at nearby Sing Sing Prison?
Did you know that Italian Vincenzo Sarno was 11 years old when he signed to play professional football with Torino F.C.?
Did you know that Karen Stollznow writes for two skeptical magazines (Skeptic and Skeptical Inquirer) and hosts two skeptical podcasts (Point of Inquiry and Monster Talk)?
Did you know that Nama leader Simon Kooper received an annual allowance for not continuing his attacks on Imperial Germany's forces in German South-West Africa?
Did you know that Richmont Castle once overlooked the Chew Valley?
Did you know that Selman Riza's 1952 work on Serbo-Croatian grammar is regarded as a work of contrastive analysis, although the theory was not formulated until five years later by Robert Lado?
Did you know that a small single-runway airport serves Kapoeta South County in the Greater Kapoeta region of South Sudan?
Did you know that former Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Freddie Mitchell received threatening hate mail in 2003, apparently due to his appearance on a reality television show, A Dating Story?
Did you know that no. 224 of the North British Railway (pictured post-accident) was the first inside-cylinder 4-4-0 and the first tandem compound to run in Great Britain; and the locomotive involved in the Tay Bridge disaster?
Did you know that painter Vittore Grubicy de Dragon was largely responsible for introducing theories that led to divisionism in Italian painting?
Did you know that the name of Tarkio River, a non-navigable river that stretches from Iowa to Missouri, meant a "place where walnuts grow"?
Did you know that while the Jersey Bridge was being replaced, the only way for tourists to visit the Drake Well Museum was by train?
Did you know that All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes is author Maya Angelou's recounting of her years spent in Accra, Ghana, in the early 1960s?
Did you know that Clarence Crum's 15.43 earned run average was the worst on the 1918 Boston Braves?
Did you know that Duquesne University has named one of its colleges and a street on its campus in honor of Henry J. McAnulty?
Did you know that Empire Drum and Empire Dryden were both built in 1941 by William Doxford & Sons of Sunderland, UK, and that both ships were torpedoed and sunk by U-boats in April 1942?
Did you know that Glenn Doughty rushed for 329 yards in his first two college football games for the 1969 Michigan Wolverines and later played eight years for the Baltimore Colts?
Did you know that Orli Wald spent from 1936 to 1945 in Nazi prison and concentration camps for being a communist, only to leave the Communist Party in 1948 because of Stalinism?
Did you know that Rajinder Kaur Bhattal was the first female chief minister of Punjab, but only the eighth female chief minister of an Indian state?
Did you know that St Mary and All Saints' Church in Great Budworth is considered by architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner to be "one of the most satisfactory Perpendicular churches in Cheshire"?
Did you know that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes married at the Castello Orsini-Odescalchi?
Did you know that baobab ice cream is a feature of Angolan cuisine?
Did you know that disabled swimmer Priya Cooper won five gold medals for Australia at the 1996 Summer Paralympics?
Did you know that indigenous territories organized as Native Community Lands in Bolivia cover 16.8 million hectares (168,000 km2), over 15% of Bolivian territory?
Did you know that the adjacent Big Jacks Creek Wilderness and Little Jacks Creek Wilderness in Idaho have been designated as wild rivers?
Did you know that the national football teams of North Korea and South Korea have met on numerous occasions?
Did you know that Albany architect Marcus T. Reynolds' 1893 thesis, Housing of the Poor in American Cities, is still cited in scholarly work today?
Did you know that David Mendelblatt, an American former Optimist Pram National Champion, is the older brother of Olympian Mark Mendelblatt?
Did you know that Dermotherium, discovered in 1992, was the first unambiguous fossil colugo (Sunda colugo pictured) to be found?
Did you know that Jamie Sadlowski won the 2008 and 2009 RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship, and has a personal-best golf drive of 445 yards (407 m)?
Did you know that Li Lu, an associate of Warren Buffett, was one of the pro-democracy activists rescued by Operation Yellowbird in 1989?
Did you know that Orange Phelps, later mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon, opened the first movie theater in that city in 1908?
Did you know that Richard Weiner, one of the most important Czech writers of the twentieth century, wrote a regular fashion column under a female pseudonym?
Did you know that Sea Dogs were first seen running around Torbay in 1961?
Did you know that Shibuya-based video game localization company 8-4 is named after the final level of Super Mario Bros.?
Did you know that composer Gil Shohat denies that his opera The Child Dreams is about the Holocaust?
Did you know that the "carriage house" behind the Wheeler–Stallard House in Aspen, Colorado, was not built until 1976?
Did you know that the Bulldog Strathtay Prince Albert was the first non–terrier to win Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show?
Did you know that the Montenegrin part of Maglić massif has formed the Trnovačko Lake (mountain and lake pictured), said to be "one of the most beautiful of Montenegro?"
Did you know that the first two destroyers scheduled to be constructed by domestic shipyards for the Polish Navy were never completed due to the German invasion of Poland?
Did you know that the mother of Georgine Darcy, an actress in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, urged her to become a stripper?
Did you know that Empire Duke was lent to the team from Cambridge University Engineering Department to assist in the search for the cause of structural failures in a number of Liberty ships?
Did you know that Gründlehämmer was the first theatrical production of the Baltimore Rock Opera Society, an all-volunteer rock opera company formed in 2009?
Did you know that I Am a Camera is a 1955 British film that received an X certificate from the BBFC, but only after dialogue suggesting foot fetishism was removed?
Did you know that Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden earned 5 of HBO's 104 total nominations at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards?
Did you know that Princess Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg turned the East Wing of Schloss Johannisberg into a concert hall for the Rheingau Musik Festival?
Did you know that Sutjeska National Park (Perucica forest pictured) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the adjoining Durmitor National Park in Montenegro, demonstrate transboundary protected area co-operation in the former Yugoslavia?
Did you know that Swedish scientist Johan Rockström led a team that has initiated an international debate on planetary boundaries, the central concept in a new framework for sustainable development?
Did you know that artist Ginger Gilmour, first wife of David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, was given a British Red Cross Award for "Services to Humanity"?
Did you know that attorney Rizwana Hasan's focus on regulations for the shipbreaking industry in Bangladesh earned her the Goldman Environmental Prize?
Did you know that both David "Bakes" Baker and David "ODB" Baker have finished in the money at least four times in each of the last three World Series of Poker?
Did you know that data from Mariner 10 led to the discovery of Mercury's magnetic field in 1974?
Did you know that nearly half of all known RNA structures were determined through nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of nucleic acids?
Did you know that runner Garry Bjorklund qualified for the 1976 Summer Olympics in the 10,000 m despite losing a shoe during the U.S. Olympic Trials?
Did you know that the British 1st Airlanding Light Regiment used the American 75 mm pack howitzer during the Battle of Arnhem?
Did you know that the Nazis documented murder and genocide during their perpetration of the Holocaust with euphemisms such as Sonderbehandlung?
Did you know that 1000 years ago Japanese officials used bells to procure horses?
Did you know that Blood & Thunder is the biography of the creator of Conan the Barbarian?
Did you know that Carl Ward's 104-yard kickoff return in 1967 was the longest in the history of the Cleveland Browns?
Did you know that Lord Justice Brian Leveson of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales has been picked to lead the public inquiry into media regulation?
Did you know that New York Post art critic William Anderson Coffin was awarded the French Legion of Honor?
Did you know that Norlom was one of the eighteen ships sunk in the air raid on Bari on 2 December 1943?
Did you know that Rabotnitsa (1923 cover pictured) was the first socialist women's magazine?
Did you know that in his expedition to Lapland, Sweden, Carl Linnaeus found at least 100 previously undescribed plants?
Did you know that the 1973 second division game between Bavarian rivals FC Augsburg and TSV 1860 München was watched by 80,000 spectators, a record for the Olympic Stadium in Munich?
Did you know that the English country house of Chilston Park in Kent has been home to five members of Parliament and four members of the House of Lords?
Did you know that the North Star House of Grass Valley, California, built for Arthur De Wint Foote and his wife, Mary Hallock Foote, was one of architect Julia Morgan's first projects?
Did you know that the aquatic fungus Limnoperdon has been described as a floating puffball?
Did you know that Alberta has three provincially designated wilderness areas: Ghost River, Siffleur and White Goat?
Did you know that Balanus perforatus is a barnacle shaped like a volcano?
Did you know that Cursed Days consists of the diaries and notes of Nobel Prize-winning Russian anti-Bolshevik author Ivan Bunin about his country's first days under communism?
Did you know that English artist William Lakin Turner is not related to the famous artist, Turner, but he is a close relative of "Derbyshire's John Constable"?
Did you know that Eros Djarot formed Indonesia's Freedom Bull National Party after a disagreement with later-president Megawati Sukarnoputri?
Did you know that George Binney pioneered the use of seaplanes for arctic exploration, wrote The Eskimo Book of Knowledge, and organised blockade running in WWII?
Did you know that Lady Godiva's cross stands in the churchyard of St Bartholomew's Church, Penn, in the West Midlands of England?
Did you know that Michelle Obama performed the Dougie dance to promote her "Let's Move!" campaign?
Did you know that Polish-born cosmetics entrepreneur Lydia Sarfati is credited with introducing seaweed-based skin treatments in the United States?
Did you know that The Old Lady and the Pigeons lost the Oscar but won the Genie?
Did you know that former Illinois First Lady Lura Lynn Ryan organized schoolchildren to collect pennies for the construction of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, raising $47,000?
Did you know that table tennis world champion Gertrude Kleinová's first husband was the chairman of her table tennis division, and her second husband was her coach?
Did you know that the 18th-century Indian automaton Tipu's Tiger shows a near life-size European being mauled by a tiger, and emits wails and grunts as well as containing a pipe organ?
Did you know that the Fali people of Nigeria and Cameroon wash their dead in a decoction of the plant Cissus quadrangularis?
Did you know that the Middle Georgia Raceway, featured on a 2011 Dodge Durango commercial, was the location of a 300,000-person concert in which artists including Jimi Hendrix performed?
Did you know that the Palestinian Patriarchate was involved in redeeming formerly Jewish-owned land in Palestine?
Did you know that the representation of waves and water in Bach's cantata Siehe, ich will viel Fischer aussenden, BWV 88, was termed a barcarolle, after barca?
Did you know that the scientist Rainer Froese is the coauthor and coordinator of FishBase, an extensive online information system on fish?
Did you know that Benjamin West's painting of General Johnson Saving a Wounded French Officer from the Tomahawk of a North American Indian contrasts against Sir William Johnson's "White Savage" reputation?
Did you know that Burrough Hill, an Iron Age hillfort in England, contains over 400 maculae?
Did you know that Grevillea cyranostigma from Carnarvon National Park in Queensland was named for Cyrano de Bergerac?
Did you know that Handel's Messiah, Part II contains the famous Hallelujah Chorus and the oratorio's longest movement, the air for alto He was despised?
Did you know that Jim Brieske, who set multiple placekicking records, had his kicking foot amputated in 1967?
Did you know that Patriarch Joasaph I of Constantinople attempted suicide and was deposed because he opposed the second marriage of George Amiroutzes?
Did you know that following an electoral victory, Ollanta Humala visited Bolivia and called for the resurrection of the Peru–Bolivian Confederation?
Did you know that pornographic actress Saori Hara was cast in the Japanese parody film Horny House of Horror?
Did you know that quasi-opportunistic supercomputing aims for better performance than volunteer resource sharing?
Did you know that since 1888, the Engelberg Huller Company in New York has made a Brazilian engineer's device to remove the husks and shells from rice and coffee during milling?
Did you know that the 7 CSSB of the Australian Army supports the 7th Brigade and participated in Operation Slipper?
Did you know that the worldview of Conan the Barbarian has been described as existentialist?
Did you know that "Box Cutter", the fourth season premiere of the television series Breaking Bad, had a scene so bloody, it made actor Bryan Cranston's daughter faint?
Did you know that "seizing", "whipping", and "lashing" are all part of knot terminology?
Did you know that Al Lerner, 1940s pianist in the Harry James band, wrote the music for "So Until I See You", the closing theme for Tonight Starring Jack Paar in the early 1960s?
Did you know that Dorothy Reitman was the first woman president of the Canadian Jewish Congress?
Did you know that Gustaf Aspelin was the first Swedish consul in Kristiania?
Did you know that Kiever Synagogue was the first building of Jewish significance to be designated a historical site by the province of Ontario?
Did you know that a cherry blossom made Fariz RM famous?
Did you know that a plan to use HMS Endymion as a flagship at Harwich was abandoned due to the loss of HMS Vanguard?
Did you know that composer Danny Elfman agreed to score Sam Raimi's new film, Oz: The Great and Powerful, despite declaring he would never work with him again?
Did you know that in Bach's late chorale cantata Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, BWV 9, three bass recitatives deliver a Lutheran sermon on salvation, based on twelve stanzas of the chorale?
Did you know that olaflur, a toothpaste ingredient for the prevention of caries, is synthesized from cattle's tallow?
Did you know that same-sex couples in South Africa gained the right to adopt children jointly in 2002, four years before they gained the right to marry?
Did you know that the Furiiru people are interlacustrine, living between the African Great Lakes?
Did you know that the Wigman House, which has been named a City of Pittsburgh Designated Historic Structure, is the last remaining mansion from Carrick's "Millionaire's Row"?
Did you know that the extinct Eocene butterfly Prodryas persephone from the Florissant Fossil Beds is the best preserved fossil lepidopteran discovered to date?
Did you know that the male common box turtle has to lean back past the vertical to mate with the female?
Did you know that though it was decided as early as 1882 to install a lighthouse at Contendas Point on Terceira Island, the Ponta das Contendas Lighthouse was not built and inaugurated till almost 52 years afterwards?
Did you know that "She's a Fool", the third single recorded by Lesley Gore, charted in the top 5 in the US?
Did you know that Handel's Gloria, a setting of the Gloria for soprano and strings, was attributed to the composer in 2001?
Did you know that Haneji Dam in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, includes an airlift system which enables fish from downstream to go up into the reservoir formed by the dam?
Did you know that Okukubi Dam in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, will be the world's first trapezoidal cemented, sand and gravel dam?
Did you know that Praunus flexuosus, the first mysid shrimp ever to be described, may have been transported to North America during World War II?
Did you know that director Malcolm Venville planned to make a feature film entirely in sign language starring Orlando Bloom?
Did you know that former Michigan linebacker Mike Keller has played in the NFL and held executive positions in the USFL, XFL and World League of American Football?
Did you know that medium Leslie Flint sometimes performed séances from a cupboard?
Did you know that the 1872 main building at the Brandreth Pill Factory in Ossining, New York, was one of the first to have an Otis elevator installed?
Did you know that the Simon and Garfunkel song "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" has been interpreted both as a tribute to the eponymous architect and as a farewell from writer Paul Simon to partner Art Garfunkel?
Did you know that the Wicklow Mountains are the largest area of continuous high ground in Ireland?
Did you know that the actor Yoshio Harada, noted for playing antihero roles in his youth, won a Medal of Honor from the Japanese government?
Did you know that the extinct Hydriomena? protrita was the first geometer moth to be described from the American fossil record?
Did you know that the highest point in the Tatoosh Range is Unicorn Peak at 6,917 ft (2,108 m) of elevation?
Did you know that the northeastern bulrush has died out of Quebec, but is still found in some sinkholes in the Eastern United States?
Did you know that Buddhist temples in Japan are protected by special Shinto shrines called chinjusha?
Did you know that ERC, included with GNU Emacs since 2007, is one of a handful of IRC clients available for the text editor?
Did you know that Gigantolithic tools may predate agriculture?
Did you know that Russia planted a flag at the North Pole as part of its current arctic policy?
Did you know that SeaLifeBase is an online database, modelled on FishBase, that attempts to provide key information on all marine species apart from finfish?