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Did you know that although the Chapel Royal, Brighton was built to encourage the Prince Regent to attend church while in Brighton, he stopped worshipping there after being offended by a controversial sermon?
Did you know that an episode of 30 Rock, "Jack the Writer", contained a reference to Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, which both revolve around the off-camera happenings on a sketch comedy series?
Did you know that during the Great Depression, the New Order of Cincinnatus, accused by its opponents of fascist tendencies, successfully placed three candidates on the Seattle City Council?
Did you know that female Redtail Splitfin nourish their unborn young through organs known as  trophotaeniae that function similar to umbilical cords in mammals?
Did you know that on May 29, 1913, Johnny Beall was traded to the minor-league Milwaukee Brewers, only to return to his original major league team a month later?
Did you know that the "Howell Code", the legal code enacted by the 1st Arizona Territorial Legislature, was named after Judge William T. Howell?
Did you know that the British ship of the line HMS Colchester, launched in August 1744, was wrecked just two months later after running aground on her first commissioned voyage?
Did you know that the Ingolstadt-Kralupy-Litvínov pipeline does not start in Ingolstadt and does not run to Kralupy and Litvínov?
Did you know that the New Orleans-based family of master plasterer Earl Barthé has specialized in historical and decorative plasterwork since 1850?
Did you know that the Saffron Parasol is actually a small orange mushroom found throughout temperate regions of Europe and North America?
Did you know that the Silver Marten rabbit likes playthings to toss around its cage?
Did you know that the last Confederate general to surrender, Stand Watie, did so in Oklahoma?
Did you know that the last living veteran of the Civil War in Idaho died in 1952?
Did you know that the scientific name of Longnose trevally (Carangoides chrysophrys) means "golden eyebrow"?
Did you know that there are over 2500 miles of interstate and U.S. highways in Washington?
Did you know that unlike Jesus, the Avignon popes did not object to the close proximity of religious centers and the Avignon Exchange?
Did you know that Marilyn Roman was the first female Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey?
Did you know that Steve Brye, in his first and only season as a starting outfielder in Major League Baseball, led the Minnesota Twins in doubles?
Did you know that Union Army officials offered US$5,000 for the scalp of Confederate Cherokee William Holland Thomas?
Did you know that in 1922, the Chicago Police Department attempted to frame local labor leader Fred Mader for murder?
Did you know that law professor and anti-tobacco activist John F. Banzhaf III started his career as an electrical engineer?
Did you know that the Least Killifish is the smallest fish found in North America?
Did you know that the Manila Grand Opera House also served as a theater, residence, cinema and nightclub before its original building was demolished and re-constructed as a hotel?
Did you know that the Melaka Zoo is the second-largest zoo in Malaysia?
Did you know that the Passer Angelfish undergoes large changes in coloration during its transition from juvenile to sexually mature, going from bright orange, yellow, and blue to a drab brownish-black color?
Did you know that the Ryazan miracle in 1959 was an apparent tripling of agricultural production in the Soviet Union?
Did you know that the sudden collapse of the Pemberton Mill was one of the worst industrial accidents in American history?
Did you know that the yellow flesh of the edible mushroom Russula aurea distinguishes it from the peppery-tasting and inedible sickener?
Did you know that when the namesake of Yardley, Pennsylvania, William Yardley, moved from England to Pennsylvania in 1682, he took with him 40 pounds (18 kilograms) of shoes?
Did you know that Amedei Porcelana chocolate is used in a $1000 ice cream sundae?
Did you know that André Raponda Walker was the first Catholic priest from Gabon?
Did you know that Arts High School in Newark, New Jersey opened its doors to students in 1931 as the first U.S. public high school specializing in the visual and performing arts?
Did you know that British Columbia's Disaster Response Route network, while mostly consisting of roads, also includes marine routes?
Did you know that Carl Rungius was the most important big game painter and the first career wildlife artist in North America?
Did you know that Lola ya Bonobo near Kinshasa is the world's only sanctuary for orphaned bonobos?
Did you know that Pedro Pizarro, a Spanish chronicler and conquistador, took part in the Spanish conquest of Peru and wrote an account of it?
Did you know that Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes, an early Elizabethan stage play whose authorship is unknown, is thought to have influenced several of William Shakespeare's plays?
Did you know that The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five, a science fiction novel by Doris Lessing, was adapted for the opera in 1997 by Philip Glass?
Did you know that Vasili Blokhin, chief executioner of the Stalinist NKVD, led a company of executioners that performed more than 828,000 official executions during Joseph Stalin's reign, including tens of thousands by his own hands?
Did you know that West Indies Power is a company developing geothermal power in Nevis, Saba and Dominica?
Did you know that William Hogarth was paid sixty guineas to paint Taste in High Life (engraving pictured), a 1742 oil-on-canvas that pokes fun at the fashion of the upper class?
Did you know that a lantern in the steeple of St. Philip's Church in Charleston, South Carolina, was the rear lamp of the Fort Sumter Range Lights?
Did you know that according to Pliny the Elder, Quintus Valerius Soranus was the first writer to include a table of contents in his works?
Did you know that as a publicity stunt, Indy 500 driver Harry Hartz drove a car backwards across the United States?
Did you know that in 2007, the John Edwards's headquarters in the online game Second Life was attacked by the griefing group the Patriotic Nigras?
Did you know that in her début at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Tao Li broke the Asian record for the 100 m butterfly twice and became the first Singaporean swimmer to enter an Olympic final?
Did you know that international reaction to 2008 Tibetan unrest has included police protecting the Chinese embassy in Reykjavík, Iceland, from a peaceful demonstration?
Did you know that parts of the veiled stinkhorn Phallus indusiatus have been consumed by lifeforms as diverse as bees, flies, Chinese diplomats and Henry Kissinger?
Did you know that proposals in the 2008 Australian Federal budget included a A$3 billion increase in tax on alcopops?
Did you know that the American football team the Cardinals has had 36 head coaches?
Did you know that the Bardwell-Ferrant House in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was built in 1883 as a Queen Anne style house and then given onion-domed towers in an 1890 Moorish Revival makeover?
Did you know that the FC Büsingen, a German football club formed in 1924, had a nut tree in its playing field penalty area until 1927, when it was cut down?
Did you know that the Jolimont Workshops, part of Jolimont Yard, were built for Melbourne's new fleet of suburban trains in 1917?
Did you know that the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbany wanted a burial in Damascus because it was the place that gave him "the alphabet of Jasmine"?
Did you know that the first three residents of the John Kane House were a man nearly hanged for treason, a Patriot turned British Loyalist, and George Washington?
Did you know that the namesake family of Fuller's London Pride ale, live in Neston Park, an English country house in Wiltshire?
Did you know that David Pendleton Oakerhater, a Cheyenne warrior who fought at the Second Battle of Adobe Walls, was declared a saint of the  Episcopal Church in 1985?
Did you know that Delta, Minas Gerais in Brazil, despite having a population of 6,600, had no banks as of 2007?
Did you know that Edgar Stillman Kelley and his wife traveled around Europe lecturing on American classical music?
Did you know that Holyhead High School, located on the Welsh island of Anglesey, was the first British comprehensive school?
Did you know that Northern Irish singer Clodagh Rodgers received death threats from the IRA after performing "Jack in the Box" at the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest?
Did you know that Roger Connor, whose brother Joe Connor was also a baseball player, was the first to hit an over-the-wall home run at Polo Grounds?
Did you know that Stansted Mountfitchet Windmill is a Scheduled Ancient Monument?
Did you know that cricketer Roger Kimpton also won an Oxford University tennis tournament and a golf blue, and was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross as a Second World War fighter pilot?
Did you know that due to disappointing previous tests, the third prototype of Avro 533 Manchester plane (example pictured) was never fitted with engines?
Did you know that during his days as a community organizer in Chicago, Barack Obama worked as a consultant and trainer for the Gamaliel Foundation?
Did you know that in 1787–1788, Barthélemy de Lesseps traveled overland the full length of Russia to deliver reports from the  La Pérouse expedition to the French Ambassador in St. Petersburg and from there continued on to Paris?
Did you know that in building Arthur De Wint Foote's Foote's Crossing Road, Italian stonemasons constructed high embankment walls above the Middle Yuba River?
Did you know that in the 1972 census there were an estimated 580,000 Jamnapari goats in India?
Did you know that mountaineer Ger McDonnell, the first Irish person to summit K2, brought a hurley to the summit of Mount Everest in 2003?
Did you know that the 1998 film Goodbye, 20th Century! features a sequence where a man dressed like Santa Claus attends a wake that turns violent to the sound of Sid Vicious singing "My Way"?
Did you know that the 210-year old Gate of Mercy Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in Mumbai?
Did you know that the 30 Rock episode "Secrets and Lies" was performed live at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre to show support for the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike?
Did you know that the Paul MacCready-designed Solar Challenger was the first solar-powered aircraft capable of sustained, high-altitude flight?
Did you know that the Russian frigate Oryol was completed in 1669 as the first Russian naval ship, and flew the earliest recorded white, blue, and red Russian flag?
Did you know that the Spanish AMX-30E underwent an extensive modernization program between 1989 and 1993, dramatically improving the tank's mobility, firepower and accuracy?
Did you know that the Swiss manufacturer Synthes is the largest producer of implants to mend bone fractures?
Did you know that the colonels' group dominated the Polish government for most of the history of the Second Polish Republic?
Did you know that when the Common Tunnel opened in 1928 it made the Holmenkoll Line the first underground railway in Scandinavia?
Did you know that Šalata is the first neighborhood in Croatia to use digital homes?
Did you know that Blair Fairchild, Arthur Nevin, Preston Ware Orem, Thurlow Lieurance, and Carl Busch were among the American composers associated with the Indianist movement?
Did you know that Edwin Thumboo's 1979 poem Ulysses by the Merlion has influenced so many other Singaporean poets, it is joked that a true Singapore poet has to have written a "Merlion poem"?
Did you know that French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac once lived in the house on the Moika River Embankment which now hosts the Consulate-General of France in Saint Petersburg?
Did you know that German biologist Hubert Markl, who received the Bundesverdienstkreuz in 1992, was President of the Max Planck Society from 1996 to 2002?
Did you know that Horatio Nelson's first command in the Royal Navy was the brig HMS Badger?
Did you know that New Zealand politician John Key once promised Grey Power, a lobbyist group for people over 50, that he would resign if he ever lowered the superannuation?
Did you know that Orthodera novaezealandiae is a praying mantis native only to New Zealand?
Did you know that SS Pennsylvanian, an American cargo ship, was one of the first two steamships to travel eastbound through the Panama Canal after it opened in August 1914?
Did you know that Will Dockery, by building Dockery Plantation,  home of legendary bluesman Robert Johnson, was fundamental to the development of the blues?
Did you know that a Western Hartebeest can run at speeds of up to 80 km/h (50 mph), making it one of the fastest antelopes?
Did you know that although Paul Gondjout founded the Gabonese Democratic Bloc, Léon M'ba soon overthrew him?
Did you know that champion shooter Abhinav Bindra is the first Indian to win an individual gold medal at any Olympic Games?
Did you know that seal is the most important part of the Inuit diet?
Did you know that the Creation Evidence Museum sponsors hunts for living pterodactyls in Papua New Guinea?
Did you know that the disappearance of Ann Gotlib in broad daylight in 1983 helped spur the creation of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children?
Did you know that the population of Conquista, Minas Gerais decreased due to falling global demand for coffee, and the need for workers to create Brasilia?
Did you know that the potoos of the Neotropics have slits in their eyelids so that they can watch for danger without opening their large conspicuous eyes?
Did you know that the roller ship was a steamship, raised above the water like a hydrofoil and moving on several large wheels?
Did you know that unlike other cuckoos, the Chestnut-breasted Malkoha does not lay its eggs in other birds' nests?
Did you know that when Andy Stern challenged Richard Cordtz for the presidency of the SEIU labor union, Cordtz fired him for insubordination?
Did you know that Amherst College president Arthur Stanley Pease was an "indefatigable pedestrian" and mountaineer who studied plants in the White Mountains?
Did you know that Bulgarians in Romania helped construct the Black Church in Braşov, Transylvania?
Did you know that Charles Sawyer Russell commanded the 28th Regiment United States Colored Troops in the American Civil War, which suffered nearly fifty percent casualties at the Battle of the Crater?
Did you know that Charles T. Barney, president of the Knickerbocker Trust Company, committed suicide after the collapse of his company sparked the Panic of 1907?
Did you know that Francis Coleman worked as a conductor, magazine editor and musical director of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet before, at age 29, producing CBC's coverage of Elizabeth II's coronation?
Did you know that Irish television celebrity Bazil Ashmawy was born in Libya and is half Egyptian?
Did you know that Kevin Smith, a fan of the Degrassi franchise, had to cancel an appearance in the Next Generation pilot, "Mother and Child Reunion"?
Did you know that Queen Victoria had the ancient Stewart Sapphire set into the Imperial State Crown in 1838?
Did you know that Sherman Maxwell, who is believed to be the first African American sportscaster, was rarely paid for his radio broadcasts?
Did you know that Sir William Gregory was appointed Speaker of the House of Commons in 1679 after only a year in parliament?
Did you know that Stylianos Pattakos, a principal of the 21 April 1967 coup in Greece, after his conviction at the Greek junta trials, enjoyed amenities such as a pond with 21 goldfish while imprisoned?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Andrew, which caused 50 deaths, was the deadliest storm of the 1986 Atlantic hurricane season?
Did you know that adventurer Martin Johnson died when a Western Air Express Boeing 247 (example pictured) crashed into Pinetos Peak, but his wife Osa continued their lecture tour in a wheelchair despite neck and back injuries?
Did you know that during the 30 Rock episode "Cleveland", scenes set in Cleveland, Ohio were actually filmed in Battery Park City in Manhattan?
Did you know that ethnic Dayaks in Borneo resorted to the ancient practice of headhunting to chase away migrant Madurese during the Sampit conflict in 2001?
Did you know that following Neil Dewar’s transfer from the club, a Manchester United director was forced to resign due to his daughter eloping with the player?
Did you know that in 1895, the North Star Mine Powerhouse's Pelton wheel was the largest in the world?
Did you know that in 2008, the German Federation of Internal Medicine awarded its highest honor to Hans Joachim Sewering‎, a former Nazi?
Did you know that in addition to Boswell's famous Life (1791), major accounts of Samuel Johnson's life include Biographical Sketch (1784), Anecdotes (1786), the rival Life (1787), Essay (1792), and Thraliana?
Did you know that pomologist Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick devoted separate monographs to cherries, grapes, peaches, pears, and plums?
Did you know that the People's Republic of China made its Olympic debut at the 1952 Summer Games, but the team arrived in Helsinki too late to compete except for one race by a single swimmer?
Did you know that the Rufous Songlark is an Australian songbird that sometimes ends up as roadkill?
Did you know that the cape of Inamuragasaki was so named for its similarity in shape to a stack of rice at harvest time?
Did you know that the election of Pope Urban VI, the last non-cardinal to become pope, by the papal conclave, 1378 precipitated the Western Schism?
Did you know that the sawmill in Aumond, Quebec, built in 1862, also provided electricity and remained in operation until 1989?
Did you know that when scholar Spencer Barrett’s tax return was challenged, he showed that to understand a text of Pindar he had to know how Mount Etna had appeared to a passing sailor?
Did you know that American physician John Ziegler pioneered anabolic steroids but later said "... healthy athletes are putting themselves in the same category as drug addicts. It's a disgrace. Who plays sports for fun anymore?"
Did you know that Dengeki Gakuen RPG: Cross of Venus is being released for the 15th anniversary of the original manga, Dengeki Bunko?
Did you know that Elizabeth Howe was one of nineteen people found guilty of practicing witchcraft and executed in the Salem witch trials?
Did you know that Harriet Burns designed the original prototype models of Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle, Pirates of the Caribbean and New Orleans Square?
Did you know that John Webb's Mill, Thaxted has walls 4 feet (1.22 m) thick at the base, and that it was used for a time as a Scout hut?
Did you know that Pierre Trudeau was "known to paddle" the Kazabazua River in Quebec?
Did you know that Ratsimilaho established the Betsimisaraka who make up 15% of Madagascar's population?
Did you know that SS Dakotan, a 1910 American cargo ship, was transferred to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease during World War II and continued sailing into the 1960s?
Did you know that a flower robot mimics the appearance of a common flower and contains simple sensing and home appliance functionalities, thus making it a service robot?
Did you know that an HM V-type tram on the Helsinki tram network was converted into a pub, renumbered to 175 and renamed Spårakoff in honour of the 175th anniversary of the Finnish brewery Sinebrychoff?
Did you know that fashion designer Tory Burch, who has dated numerous celebrities and socialites, has a mother who dated Steve McQueen and a father who dated Grace Kelly?
Did you know that in 1937, Oscar Garcia Rivera, Sr. became the first Puerto Rican to hold public office in the United States?
Did you know that one member of the Dughlats, Mirza Abu Bakr Dughlat, conquered lands belonging to other members of the Dughlat clan?
Did you know that pseudodementia is a condition in older people where a treatable psychiatric illness such as depression may mimic dementia?
Did you know that the 1964 film Man in the 5th Dimension was shown in the 70mm Todd-AO widescreen process exclusively at the Billy Graham Pavilion during the 1964 New York World's Fair?
Did you know that the Duty to God Award gets its name from passage Alma 7:22 in the Book of Mormon?
Did you know that the Venetian Theatre in Hillsboro, Oregon, was renamed as the Town Theater in 1956 only to be renamed again as the Venetian in 2008?
Did you know that the book Passionate Minds is a novel about Voltaire and his mistress Émilie du Châtelet?
Did you know that the smallest Natural Area in Pennsylvania protects a stand of box huckleberry, but another stand nearby is the oldest plant in the United States?
Did you know that the winners of Oxford's Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse include the fictional Duke of Dorset in Max Beerbohm's 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson?
Did you know that urban survival syndrome can be seen as a version of the battered woman syndrome?
Did you know that Joseph II of the Holy Roman Empire was allowed to enter the papal conclave, 1769, in spite of restriction of the attendance to cardinals?
Did you know that Kristiania Sporveisselskab established the first tramway in Oslo, Norway, in 1875?
Did you know that Operation Strikeback had the first use of single-sideband voice communications for tactical operations by the U.S. Navy?
Did you know that Pinoy is a demonym referring to Filipino people in the United States, the Philippines and around the world?
Did you know that Rebecca Adlington, British Olympic Gold swimmer, went to The Brunts School?
Did you know that Robert Park acted simultaneously as a professor, a college football coach, and a minister?
Did you know that Seymour Reit, co-creator of Casper the Friendly Ghost, claimed that Da Vinci had painted two Mona Lisas, one of which was in a bank vault in New Jersey?
Did you know that Travel + Leisure named Wasque ("way-squee") on Chappaquiddick the number one beach in New England?
Did you know that a feather attributed to the ancestor of the Antillean Piculet has been found in 25 million year old amber?
Did you know that a laboratory accident by S. Donald Stookey led to the invention of CorningWare?
Did you know that a show horse belonging to Rielle Hunter was killed as part of an insurance fraud scheme, and that the event was adapted as part of the novel Story of My Life?
Did you know that mazzatello—a method of execution employed in the Papal States in the 18th and 19th centuries—involved smashing a mallet into the head of the condemned?
Did you know that some lava flows at the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field in British Columbia, Canada include unique, small, green nodules that come from the mantle?
Did you know that the 430-foot-tall (131 m) Kyoto Tower is the tallest man-made structure in the city of Kyoto, Japan?
Did you know that the 6th century Mahakuta group of temples in Karnataka, India, exhibit pan-Indian architectural forms?
Did you know that the Joseph H. Rainey House, was the Georgetown, South Carolina home of the first black United States Congressman, a former slave?
Did you know that the New Voices Campaign of PICO National Network is attempting to repeat at the national level the success of its California Project in giving low-income communities influence on public policy?
Did you know that the discovery of 189 fossils of the mid-Cambrian Odontogriphus thrust it into the centre of a heated debate about the evolution of molluscs, annelids and brachiopods?
Did you know that the sinking of the year-old American cargo ship SS Washingtonian with her $1,000,000 cargo of raw sugar in January 1915 contributed to a 9% rise in the price of sugar in the United States?
Did you know that the wild mushroom Lactarius piperatus, which oozes peppery milk when cut, has been used in the treatment of viral warts?
Did you know that there are Dinosaur Footprints in the Connecticut River Valley?
Did you know that Celebrity Bainisteoir is an Irish reality programme about managing Gaelic football clubs?
Did you know that Clara Fisher began her 72 year acting career at the age of six?
Did you know that England's Tom Brittleton is the oldest footballer ever to play a competitive match for Sheffield Wednesday?
Did you know that Guy de Bourgogne was violently disrobed by members of his militia upon his election as  Pope Callixtus II by the papal election of 1119?