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Did you know that the shrew Crocidura phanluongi, formally described on January 27, is the seventh new species of Crocidura to be described from Vietnam in as many years?
Did you know that theater producer William May was inspired to create Walking with Dinosaurs – The Live Experience after watching cranes constructing the Southern Cross railway station in Melbourne?
Did you know that under interrogation, Ahmad al-Naggar stated that Egyptian Islamic Jihad had raised funds by "renovating old houses in London"?
Did you know that Anglo-Turkish piracy in the 17th century led to the enslavement of Catholic captives in North Africa, who could sometimes be liberated through a ransom?
Did you know that Australian rules footballer Joe Misiti was inducted into the VFL/AFL Italian Team of the Century in 2007?
Did you know that Bijjala II of the Kalachuri, a feudatory, eliminated Tailapa III and his family of the Chalukya Kingdom and ruled from Kalyana, now the Basavakalyana Fort, for five years?
Did you know that Danny Goodwin, a first-round draft pick of the California Angels, is the only player to be selected first in the draft on two separate occasions?
Did you know that Europa regina wears a hoop crown?
Did you know that French protests caused the Russians to award the contract for the Gangut-class battleship to a Russian firm rather than the German winner of the 1908 international design contest?
Did you know that Kim Spalding played Doc Holliday in an enactment of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in a 1954 episode of the  syndicated TV series Stories of the Century?
Did you know that Lowes Cato Dickinson, portrait painter and Christian socialist,  painted Gladstone's cabinet  at 10 Downing Street in 1868?
Did you know that Otilio Montaño, a Zapatista General, formally introduced Emiliano Zapata to Pancho Villa, but later was accused of rebelling against Zapata and executed while maintaining his innocence?
Did you know that Pádraig MacKernan, who served as Ireland's Ambassador to both France and the United States, had a public falling out with Minister for Foreign Affairs David Andrews in 1998?
Did you know that R&B singer Margie Day, who had a hit record with "Little Red Rooster" in 1951 and also recorded "Take Out Your False Teeth Daddy", established a children's art project in Norfolk, Virginia?
Did you know that Tony Blair said that it was a mistake to say on Fern Britton Meets... that he would have still wanted to join the 2003 Iraq invasion if there were no weapons of mass destruction?
Did you know that a Seattle Times journalist described Michael Jackson's "Tabloid Junkie" as "a disingenuous attack on sensational news stories about him", most of which the singer "planted"?
Did you know that a double rotation in four dimensions has exactly two planes of rotation?
Did you know that along with Ithonidae, Polystoechotidae are regarded as the most primitive living members of the insect order Neuroptera?
Did you know that architect Frode Rinnan designed sports venues such as the Holmenkollen ski jump and Bislett Stadion, both of which were torn down in the 2000s?
Did you know that archivist and cricketer Tommy Finlayson, one of the Gibraltarian civilian evacuees during World War II, later wrote a book about this period of the history of Gibraltar?
Did you know that blues scholars seem undecided if the American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter Ramblin' Thomas's nickname referred to his style of playing, or itinerant nature?
Did you know that in 1865, William Carpenter Bompas protected his party of  ox-carts from attacks by purportedly hostile Sioux by flying the Flag of England?
Did you know that the 1707 Hōei earthquake was the largest in Japanese history, triggering a devastating tsunami and causing at least 5,000 casualties in Honshu, Shikoku and Kyūshū?
Did you know that the Mam Maya capital city of Zaculeu (fragment pictured) fell to Spanish conquistador Gonzalo de Alvarado y Chávez after a siege that lasted several months?
Did you know that the Shady Lady Ranch, a licensed brothel in Nevada, just hired the state's first legal male prostitute?
Did you know that the South Georgia Pintail, a small duck, scavenges at seal carcasses?
Did you know that the War of Internet Addiction is a video made by World of Warcraft players to protest internet censorship in the People's Republic of China?
Did you know that the carnivorous plant Drosera meristocaulis is endemic to Pico da Neblina in South America, 17,000 km (11,000 mi) to the west of its most closely related species?
Did you know that the sports hall of Europe's largest prison complex in Istanbul was converted into a courtroom because the existing one was not big enough to accommodate the hearings of the Ergenekon trial?
Did you know that upon his accession as the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh,  John Tuigg found that the Panic of 1873 had left the diocese's property and finances in disarray?
Did you know that volcanoes of the Milbanke Sound Group in British Columbia, Canada, remain mysterious because little is known about them and their origins are not well defined?
Did you know that when the giant flightless birds called moa were overexploited to the point of extinction, the giant Haast's Eagle that preyed on them also became extinct?
Did you know that 2,273 passengers booked travel from Templecombe railway station, England in 1982, despite it being closed from 1966 to 1983?
Did you know that Black Bike Week is the largest African American motorcycle rally in the US?
Did you know that Huáng bǎi, one of the fifty fundamental herbs of traditional Chinese medicine, contains the anti-inflammatory alkaloid berberine?
Did you know that Lowell State College was the last state normal school established by the Massachusetts State Board of Education?
Did you know that Norway's first tank  was a Landsverk L-120 with an improvised turret and makeshift armour?
Did you know that Norwegian architect Hjalmar Welhaven's collection of old skis was the basis for the world's oldest ski museum in 1923  when it opened in Oslo?
Did you know that Polhøgda, the home of Eva and Fridtjof Nansen, was an important location for social life of Norwegian intellectuals around 1900?
Did you know that Shahidan Kassim and his brother Ismail have both held same seat for Arau in the Parliament of Malaysia?
Did you know that according to Hindu mythology, goddess Savitri cursed her husband, the creator-god Brahma, only to be worshipped at Brahma temple?
Did you know that despite not registering as a political party, the pro-independence Sąjūdis movement won a clear majority in the Lithuanian parliamentary election, 1990?
Did you know that during the Mandi Shivaratri Fair held in Mandi, India, Hindu religiosity is the theme that establishes synthesis of the worship by Vishnu and Shiva cults?
Did you know that in "The Baby Sitter" of ABC's The Rifleman, Phyllis Avery plays a dance hall girl who asks Lucas McCain to hide her daughter from a bigoted grandfather?
Did you know that in 1984 Chet Upham, former chairman of the Texas Republican Party, introduced the first artificial snow in Colorado at his Loveland Ski Area near the Continental  Divide?
Did you know that in 1985, the Austrian wine industry was hit by a scandal involving a few wineries illegally adulterating wines with the mildly toxic substance diethylene glycol to make them taste sweeter?
Did you know that on July 30, 1970, Israeli and Soviet fighter pilots battled in the skies over Egypt in an engagement codenamed Rimon 20?
Did you know that publisher Richard Bentley hired Charles Dickens to edit his periodical, Bentley's Miscellany?
Did you know that some Native Americans traveled up to 1,500 miles (2,400 km), from as far away as the Mississippi River, to participate in the 1757 Siege of Fort William Henry near Lake George, New York?
Did you know that the "extremely productive carcinologist" American Raymond B. Manning amassed the world's largest collection of mantis shrimp?
Did you know that the Hollenden Hotel, established in 1885 and demolished in 1962, provided accommodations for the five U.S. Presidents following Grover Cleveland when they visited Cleveland, Ohio?
Did you know that the Ionian volcano Masubi was first detected by the spacecraft Voyager 1 in 1979 and named after Homusubi, the Japanese deity of fire?
Did you know that the Ionian volcano Tupan Patera, whose activity was first detected by Galileo in 1996, was named after the thunder god of the Tupí-Guaraní indigenous peoples in Brazil?
Did you know that the Western Australian carnivorous plant Drosera derbyensis  was first found by Allen Lowrie near the Boab Prison Tree just outside of Derby?
Did you know that the blind shark and the bluegrey carpetshark close their eyes when taken out of the water?
Did you know that the decline of the gopher tortoise poses a threat to the Florida mouse, which forms the only mammal genus that occurs only in Florida?
Did you know that the depictions of fish on the medieval statue of St Christopher in Norton Priory, Cheshire, England, are so realistic that five different species can be identified?
Did you know that the early 13th century romance Guillaume de Dole is the first extant French literary work combining narrative and lyric, a form which by the end of the century had become canonical?
Did you know that the island of Dominica has two endemic lizards, the Dominican Ground Lizard and the Dominican Anole?
Did you know that the revelations of 14th-century Christian mystic Agnes Blannbekin, which included visions of the foreskin of Jesus, were considered too obscene for print until the 20th century?
Did you know that the unit trust was devised by the British Olympic rower Ian Fairbairn, son of  rower Steve Fairbairn?
Did you know that we know the exact birth time of the 5th-century poet Pamprepius thanks to a horoscope calculated by the Egyptian astrologer Rhetorius?
Did you know that when Nazis usurped and reorganized Norwegian broadcasting in 1940, Eyvind Mehle was considered as the successor of the deposed director Olav Midttun, despite being subordinate to Wilhelm F. K. Christie?
Did you know that when R. Shamasastry discovered the Arthashastra, it altered the perception of ancient India and the view that Indians learned administration from the Greeks?
Did you know that American professional wrestler Frankie Arion won the NECW Television Championship two months after legitimately breaking his ankle and fibula?
Did you know that Asbjørn Bryhn and Gunnar Haarstad were both long-term leaders of the Norwegian Police Surveillance Agency?
Did you know that British producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins' first job in television was devising means of killing victims in the crime drama series Midsomer Murders?
Did you know that Ernest F. Coe was the primary force behind the creation of Everglades National Park, but at the dedication of it he considered his efforts a failure?
Did you know that Eva Nansen, Elisabeth Welhaven and Maren Sars contributed with music and storytelling in what was described as the "first salon" of Norway's capital?
Did you know that Julius Hougen co-chaired the first large-scale charity fund-rasing campaigns in Norwegian radio?
Did you know that Lenny Kravitz wrote the recently leaked Michael Jackson song "Another Day"?
Did you know that Littleberry Mosby Jr, captain and brigadier general during the Revolution and War of 1812, disinherited his son, Littleberry Mosby III, for leaving Virginia?
Did you know that San Diego artist Salvador Torres led the movement to paint murals on the support columns of a freeway in Chicano Park?
Did you know that St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Padua, Ohio, is distinguished by its pilasters?
Did you know that Tacubaya, Mexico City, is the home to both the Mexican presidential residence and "The Lost City"?
Did you know that United States Air Force Major General Caleb V. Haynes was the grandson of Chang Bunker, one of the  original "Siamese Twins"?
Did you know that according to some scholars, Christ's agony at Gethsemane was added to the New Testament to counter docetism?
Did you know that as a child, Norwegian singer-songwriter Ingrid Olava taught herself to play "Do-Re-Mi" from The Sound of Music on her neighbor's piano?
Did you know that both the arrests of General Christian de Castries in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and of President Duong Van Minh ending the Ho Chi Minh Campaign were  by units commanded by General Lê Trọng Tấn?
Did you know that buildings with Grade II* listed status in Brighton and Hove, England, include the Royal Albion Hotel, wrecked in 1998 by a fire that started in a pan of sausages?
Did you know that in a sign of a warming friendship between Vladimir Putin and Prince Albert II, a three-bedroom dacha was built by the Russians at Albert's Monte Carlo estate in 2008?
Did you know that in his film Close, Closed, Closure, Israeli director Ram Loevy describes the Gaza Strip as "a prison with one million inmates"?
Did you know that the 1,200–1,500 Chinkara, the key species in the Narayan Sarovar Sanctuary, Kutch, India, are also its most frequently observed animal?
Did you know that the Byzantine general Constantine Diogenes, who was implicated in a conspiracy against Emperor Romanos III, committed suicide rather than revealing the names of his co-conspirators?
Did you know that the Ionian volcano Tawhaki Patera and the nearby valley Tawhaki Vallis are both named after the Māori lightning deity, Tāwhaki?
Did you know that the Lamaling Monastery in Tibet, rebuilt in 1989, is one of the largest and most important monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism in Nyingchi County?
Did you know that the book Scientology edited by James R. Lewis includes contributions from J. Gordon Melton, Anson Shupe, and Susan J. Palmer?
Did you know that the first successful sugar beet factory opening in Utah, built by the Mormon-owned Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, was celebrated by looting, bonfires, and free barrels of beer?
Did you know that the founding of the  Independent Labour Party's Guild of Youth in Britain provoked the Labour Party to found a youth wing of its own?
Did you know that the frangipani (or plumeria), which is used to make leis in Hawaii, is native to Central and northern South America?
Did you know that the name-bearing type determines the application of specific and other names in zoological nomenclature?
Did you know that Abraham Shakespeare, an illiterate casual laborer, won a $17 million Florida Lotto jackpot in 2006, but was murdered three years later?
Did you know that Cincinnati, Ohio, architect Rudolph Tietig designed a Jewish country club and two synagogues, including Temple K.K. Bene Israel for one of the oldest congregations west of the Allegheny Mountains?
Did you know that Filipino men and women engage in a form of courtship (example pictured) that is far more subdued and indirect compared to Western cultures?
Did you know that Gustavo de Greiff, Colombia's first Attorney General responsible for prosecuting drug lords, advocated for drug decriminalization during the height of the United States's War on Drugs in Colombia?
Did you know that Howard Burnham, an American mining engineer, worked for France as a spy operating behind enemy lines, and used his wooden leg to secretly transport equipment?
Did you know that Israel's Yiftach Brigade was transferred to the southern front for Operation GYS in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and returned after the operation?
Did you know that Pablo González, the Carranzistan chief responsible for Emiliano Zapata's murder, was also known as "the general who never won a victory" during the entire Mexican Revolution?
Did you know that Somali-Norwegian writer Amal Aden (pseudonym) is a noted critic of the Norwegian integration policy, as well as the Somali community in Oslo itself?
Did you know that Westgate Hall, Canterbury's sole music and dance venue, is to be demolished by the Council in favour of a car park?
Did you know that according to a medieval source, Ingemund was supposed to have been declared king in the Hebrides, but his raping and pillaging enraged the locals, and he was slain on Lewis in 1097?
Did you know that according to the Michigan Department of Transportation, the first highway centerline in the US was painted on the first designation of M-15 in 1917?
Did you know that by the age of 22, Jean-Pierre Warner was an acting Major in the British Army?
Did you know that hundreds of words still in use today, including accident, cinnamon, desk, scissors, vacation, and Valentine, first appear in manuscripts written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 1300s?
Did you know that in 1946, the first modern bikini was introduced at Piscine Molitor by Louis Réard, and modeled there by dancer Micheline Bernardini?
Did you know that in one year during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the coal mine at Midlandvale, Alberta, operated for only 52 days?
Did you know that in the stuffing of bánh chưng for vegetarians and Buddhists, pork is replaced by molasses or brown sugar?
Did you know that the Iranian embassy in London protested after The Queen's College, Oxford, established a scholarship named after Neda Agha-Soltan, who died in the 2009 Iranian election protests?
Did you know that the Sultanate of Banten (capital city pictured) was once a great trading center in Southeast Asia, but was later overshadowed by Batavia and finally annexed by the Dutch East Indies in 1813?
Did you know that the UK video game magazine Edge described Amy Hennig as one of the 100 most influential women in the video game industry?
Did you know that the beetle Typhaea stercorea has been found in grain storages dating all the way back to the Iron Age?
Did you know that the failed Deseret Manufacturing Company, created in Utah in the 1850s by Mormons to process sugar beets into sugar, was nicknamed the "Damn Miserable Company"?
Did you know that the white colour of Dong Ho painting (example pictured), a genre of traditional Tết painting in Vietnam, is obtained from powder of egg shells?
Did you know that tò he, a traditional toy in Vietnam which is often sold on the occasion of Tết, is edible because it is made from rice powder?
Did you know that vine training systems (example pictured) help shape the canopy to allow adequate sunshine and air circulation so wine grapes can ripen and be less likely to develop grape diseases?
Did you know that "discoveries" by baseball scout Paul Krichell included future Hall of Famers Lou Gehrig and Whitey Ford?
Did you know that Alexander Milne served as an executor of Thomas Telford's last will and testament?
Did you know that British novelist Martin Amis believes his sister, Sally Amis, was one of the sexual revolution's most spectacular victims?
Did you know that Ernest Hemingway's True at First Light, a book about his 1953 safari, was not published until almost 40 years after his death?
Did you know that Hindu pilgrims to Pushkar Lake in Rajasthan, India, considered it lucky to be devoured by the crocodiles there?
Did you know that Isabel Ashdown's acclaimed first novel Glasshopper was written as part of her BA and MA and work at the University of Chichester?
Did you know that St. Henry's Catholic Church in rural St. Henry has been described as the most costly church in northwestern Ohio?
Did you know that Stephen Fry asked on Twitter for suggestions to name a BBC television series on the impact of the Internet, now called The Virtual Revolution?
Did you know that a Margaretville, New York, businessman named a new movie theater after Amelita Galli-Curci in return for her singing at its opening night?
Did you know that after his final Tarzan film, Johnny Weissmuller starred in the 1955–1956 TV series Jungle Jim, which features stories about a hunter, guide, and explorer?
Did you know that archaeologist Vance Haynes challenged the right of Native Americans to rebury Kennewick Man—skeletal bone fragments about 9,000 years old—which Haynes said should be studied further?
Did you know that comedian Felix Herngren created, directed, wrote the scripts and plays a main character in the currently airing Swedish television series Solsidan?
Did you know that freestyle BMX rider Craig Campbell pioneered the Rocket Air and the 540 wallride on a BMX bike?
Did you know that in U.S. college football, the 2010 East-West Shrine Game had the lowest attendance of any of the 85 East-West Shrine Games?
Did you know that in addition to serving as the Leader of the Opposition in Queensland, Nev Warburton was also noted as an enthusiastic lawn bowls player?
Did you know that the 14th century Sanskrit poem Madura Vijayam chronicles the conquest of Madurai Sultanate by the Vijayanagar Empire?
Did you know that the 1893 New York hurricane virtually destroyed an entire island?
Did you know that the American Chicago blues singer, harmonicist, and songwriter, Shakey Jake Harris, acquired his nickname from his previous career as a professional gambler?
Did you know that the French Gothic Niederhaslach Church in Alsace was plundered in 1525 during the Peasants' War, burnt in 1633 during the Thirty Years' War, and became a slaughterhouse in 1744?
Did you know that the barque Parma recorded the fastest ever time for a sailing ship from Australia to the United Kingdom?
Did you know that the establishment of the Marshal Foch Professorship of French Literature in Oxford was announced a few days after Marshal Foch signed the Armistice with Germany to end the First World War?
Did you know that the late Roman Red Church  near Perushtitsa in Bulgaria featured frescoes of apocryphal scenes such as the flight of Elizabeth and the murder of Zechariah, John the Baptist's parents?
Did you know that the new champion of the culinary contest Bocuse d'Or USA 2010 is the sous-chef James Kent?
Did you know that the strike of the Calton weavers, during which six people died, was the first major industrial dispute in Scottish history?
Did you know that to join the Australian  Flying Corps in 1917, future fighter ace Roy Phillipps falsified his age by declaring he was four years younger?
Did you know that while accompanying her sister for her marriage in Florence, Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony met and eventually married the groom's father, becoming her sister's own step-mother-in-law?
Did you know that Bình Ngô đại cáo is considered the second declaration of independence of Vietnam, after the poem Nam quốc sơn hà which was written by Lý Thường Kiệt in the early Lý Dynasty?
Did you know that David Brown's two years in jail was the longest sentence ever for violating the U.S. Sedition Act of 1798?
Did you know that Fanny Burney described a poem of George Huddesford's as "vile" because it revealed that she had written the novel Evelina?
Did you know that Graceland, a 2006 short film directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong, was the first Thai short film to be selected for the Cannes Film Festival?
Did you know that John Scagliotti's 2003 film Dangerous Living was the first documentary about the experiences of gay and lesbian people in the non-Western world?
Did you know that Sir David Veness was the United Nations' first Under-Secretary-General for Safety and Security?
Did you know that Spongiforma, a sponge-like bolete newly described in 2009, smells like coal tar?
Did you know that Timurid relations with Europe in the early 15th century led to the exchange of ambassadors and offers of offensive, defensive and commercial alliances?
Did you know that UMOPAR, the anti-narcotics forces in Bolivia, funded and trained by the U.S. government as part of the War on Drugs, staged an unsuccessful coup d'état against the Bolivian government in 1984?
Did you know that Whitstable Museum and Gallery holds a permanent display dedicated to the life of Hammer Films actor Peter Cushing, who lived in Whitstable, South East England?
Did you know that at age 20, cricketer Cameron White became the youngest ever captain of the Australian state-side, the Victorian Bushrangers?
Did you know that at the time of its 1914 construction, the Railway Exchange Building was the tallest building in St. Louis, Missouri?
Did you know that in 1865, Henry Martin Tupper founded the first historically black college in the American South, Shaw University of Raleigh, North Carolina?