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Did you know that the mud snail, great raft spider and Enochrus isotae water scavenger beetle, all rare in the UK, have been found in the ponds of Sound Heath in Cheshire?
Did you know that the song "No Me Doy Por Vencido" by Luis Fonsi was the first single to rank for two years in a row in the Billboard Top Latin Songs Year-End Chart?
Did you know that A.F.C. Aldermaston, a non-league football club from Berkshire, has been dubbed the "worst English football team in history" after losing 40 consecutive matches?
Did you know that Anne Holtsmark translated well-known works such as Heimskringla and the Prose Edda from Norse to Norwegian?
Did you know that Antonio Barluzzi, a Franciscan monk, became known as the Architect of the Holy Land due to the number of important churches he designed?
Did you know that Bahu Fort in Jammu, India, originally built by Raja Bahulochan some 3,000 years ago, was refurbished by the Dogra rulers in the 19th century?
Did you know that Georg Christoph Biller is the Thomaskantor, the conductor of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig, the 16th successor of Johann Sebastian Bach in this position?
Did you know that New York's Olana State Historic Site was named "Olana" by artist Frederic Edwin Church after he read about Olana, an ancient treasury in Artaxata, Armenia, overlooking the Araxes River?
Did you know that Petersburg Codex Syriac 1 is one of the two extant ancient Syriac manuscripts of the Eusebian Ecclesiastical History?
Did you know that Phebe Sudlow was the first female superintendent of a public school in the United States and the first female professor at the University of Iowa, despite having no formal college degree?
Did you know that Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago, features no roads between settlements?
Did you know that Zhuang Xiaoyan won China's first Olympic gold medal in judo in 1992?
Did you know that a field study found that koalas prefer the blue-leaved stringybark but only when it grows on shale-based soils?
Did you know that after a career with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, baritone Jeffrey Skitch became Principal of Elmhurst Ballet School?
Did you know that suitable age and discretion is a U.S. legal definition of maturity?
Did you know that the 13th–14th century Byzantine romance, Belthandros and Chrysantza, is considered by some critics to be superior in imaginative power to the Niebelungenlied?
Did you know that the Amar Mahal Palace in Jammu, India, built by a French architect on the lines of a chateau for Raja Amar Singh, is now run as a museum by the Hari-Tara charitable trust?
Did you know that the Ganges stingray may be the same species as the giant freshwater stingray, but this cannot be investigated as all known specimens of it have been lost?
Did you know that the Piber Federal Stud breeds Lipizzan horses and is the primary source of the stallions used by the Spanish Riding School?
Did you know that the Spanish bibliographer W.E. Retana, author of Vida y Escritos del Dr. José Rizal, is described as the foremost non-Filipino filipinologist?
Did you know that the biological father of Infanta María de la Paz of Spain  was not the  King of Spain, but one of the Queen’s lovers?
Did you know that the name partner of Orange County corporate law firm Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, Fritz Stradling, didn't join the firm until after it was founded?
Did you know that the specific name of Tambachia trogallas, the type species of the trematopid temnospondyl Tambachia, refers to the Thuringian bratwurst that was frequently eaten by the describers of the species?
Did you know that when Canadian nun and midwife Rosalie Cadron-Jetté founded the Hospice de Sainte-Pélagie in Montreal in 1845, it operated out of the attic of a house leased by her son?
Did you know that Austin Coates's Rizal: Philippine Nationalist and Martyr is the second biography of Filipino national hero José Rizal authored by a non-Filipino?
Did you know that Australian dance music duo Pnau's debut album Sambanova (1999), which was recalled from stores because of uncleared samples, won an ARIA Award for 'Best Dance Release' in 2000?
Did you know that Bandula Warnapura captained the Sri Lanka national cricket team on their first Test match, faced the first delivery and scored the first run?
Did you know that Charles John Wingfield served as Chief Commissioner of Oude?
Did you know that Czechoslovak communist censors banned the publication of the comic album Muriel a andělé?
Did you know that Frederick Edward Hulme, the only son of landscape artist Frederick William Hulme, painted flowers?
Did you know that H. Brett Melendy was the first chairman of the history department of San José State University, California?
Did you know that Nelson F.C. won the Football League Third Division North in the 1922–23 season?
Did you know that Nicola Kraus is said to have modeled Mrs. X in The Nanny Diaries on several women who lived at 1000 Park Avenue on Manhattan's Upper East Side?
Did you know that Ricotta's visual novel, Walkure Romanze, was originally designed with five heroines but the number was later cut down to four?
Did you know that Saint Jean Eudes was called the "father, teacher, and first apostle" of devotions to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary by two popes?
Did you know that St. Jean Baptiste Catholic Church was started in a rented hall above a stable on Manhattan's Upper East Side?
Did you know that after the Avondale Mine Disaster, legislation was passed by the Pennsylvania General Assembly that made Pennsylvania the first U.S. state to have laws regarding mine safety?
Did you know that city employees may attend Rodent Control Academy to learn how to deal with the problem of rats in New York City?
Did you know that the Braer Storm of January 1993 is the extratropical cyclone with the lowest central pressure ever known to have existed in the northern Atlantic Ocean?
Did you know that the Heritage of the March series was comprised of 185 vinyl albums featuring marches and galops?
Did you know that the Song of Armouris, is among the oldest surviving examples of Byzantine heroic poetry?
Did you know that the Texas Republican politician Kenn George was involved in the formulation of President Reagan's Caribbean Basin Initiative?
Did you know that the Tropenmuseum shared thousands of images (example pictured) from Indonesia with the world?
Did you know that the best known work of lecturer James Bass Mullinger is History of the University of Cambridge Down to the Decline of the Platonists, which took three decades to complete?
Did you know that the cover artwork of Danielson: A Family Movie depicts band leader Daniel Smith in a tree costume with fruits that symbolize the Fruit of the Holy Spirit?
Did you know that the name of the palm genus Chelyocarpus, which means "turtle carapace fruit", refers to the cracked surface of its fruit?
Did you know that when the stone Clemuel Ricketts Mansion was built in 1852 on the shores of Lake Ganoga in Pennsylvania, it was so remote it was nicknamed "Ricketts Folly"?
Did you know that while the Crusaders were besieging Nicaea, the Byzantine general Manuel Boutoumites persuaded the Turks to surrender to him instead by playing on their fears of a massacre by the Crusaders?
Did you know that Air Marshal Sir Michael Giddings, an RAF officer who flew Spitfires during World War II, chaired the infamous inquiry concerning the Archway Road A1 extension that would have demolished almost 200 homes?
Did you know that Arnold Frutkin was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal by Thomas O. Paine?
Did you know that Crucifix was an undefeated British-bred Thoroughbred racemare, as well as being the dam of three sires?
Did you know that Dunedin's Fortune Theatre once performed a play about William Larnach's family in the ballroom of Larnach Castle?
Did you know that Ewelme Cottage was used in the production for the 1993 Oscar-winning film The Piano?
Did you know that Ha-Yom, founded in 1886, was the first daily newspaper in Hebrew?
Did you know that Japanese pop group AAA's new single "Aitai Riyū/Dream After Dream (Yume Kara Sameta Yume)" was composed by Tetsuya Komuro, this being his first work for two years?
Did you know that Leonor Rivera was the greatest influence in preventing Filipino national hero José Rizal from falling in love with other women while traveling outside the Philippines?
Did you know that Louis Didier Jousselin built a 3 km long bridge in less than 3 months whilst the French occupied Hamburg?
Did you know that Ludvig Vibe left his position as professor of Greek to become principal of a secondary school?
Did you know that Manaslu is the eighth highest mountain in the world, located in the Mansiri Himal, part of the Nepalese Himalayas, in the west-central part of Nepal?
Did you know that MiKandi is the world's first mobile porn app store?
Did you know that Mockado is a woollen pile fabric made in imitation of silk velvet?
Did you know that Qamil Çami, a poet of the Albanian National Revival, was one the rilindas who opened the first Albanian-language school in Filiates?
Did you know that Risley C. Triche, originally a segregationist member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, testified years later to past racism in his state's public assistance programs?
Did you know that Roger Sherman (pictured in 1890) was accused of offering a football player $600 to play for Michigan and later served as president of the Chicago and Illinois State Bar Associations?
Did you know that U-42 was the fifth German U-boat sunk in World War II?
Did you know that UA 8699, a broken molar from the Cretaceous of Madagascar, may be a fragment of the only Mesozoic marsupial from the southern continents?
Did you know that during the Cold War, a USAF T-39 plane was shot down over Erfurt, Germany?
Did you know that in Canadian women's ice hockey history, the Fernie Swastikas were the 1923 champions of the Banff Winter Carnival?
Did you know that in the Brander–Spencer economic model, it is possible for a national government to increase a country's welfare through export subsidies but the policy is of the beggar thy neighbor type?
Did you know that tax law specialist Øystein Thommessen became Norwegian delegate to the UNICO conference in 1945 and the Paris Peace Conference of 1946?
Did you know that the Dewoitine HD.730, in order to avoid Axis prohibitions on the development of military aircraft, was described as a commercial liaison type despite having folding wings?
Did you know that the mathematician W. T. Tutte refused to admit that Blanche Descartes was a collective pseudonym?
Did you know that the popularity of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's cantata Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast, at the turn of the 20th century, rivaled that of Handel's Messiah and Mendelssohn's Elijah?
Did you know that the show group Dizzie Tunes won the Bronze Rose at the Festival Rose d'Or in Montreux in 1973 with Sim Sala Bim?
Did you know that the website Wikileaks released a video in April 2010 in which photojournalist Namir Noor-Eldeen and eleven others were killed during an airstrike by American helicopters in Baghdad?
Did you know that "Pa" Henninger, captain of the 1895 Michigan football team that outscored its opponents 266 to 14, was twice named to all-time All-Michigan teams?
Did you know that "womb veil" was the most common term for barrier contraception used by women in 19th-century America?
Did you know that Charron Island, near Montreal, has been known historically under at least four different names?
Did you know that Codex Marchalianus manuscript of Septuaginta has the same order of books as Codex Vaticanus?
Did you know that Doggles, a type of sunglasses for dogs, have been sent out to working military dogs in Iraq?
Did you know that Drita in 1883 was the first magazine in the Albanian language?
Did you know that Jack Agnew, a PFC member of the Filthy Thirteen World War II parachute regiment, loosely inspired the novel and film The Dirty Dozen?
Did you know that Jerry Wray of Shreveport, Louisiana, moved away from painting landscapes to emphasis on the abstract with Christian themes?
Did you know that Mandora Marsh contains the most inland occurrence of mangroves in Australia?
Did you know that Olaf Devik and Ole Andreas Krogness were instrumental in establishing a weather forecast for Northern Norway?
Did you know that St. Mary's Church in Chesham, England, incorporates a Bronze Age stone circle in its foundations?
Did you know that Swiss photographer Balthasar Burkhard, noted for his large-format photographs, invented a technique to expose his works directly onto the canvas?
Did you know that William Wordsworth was the model for Robert Browning's poem, The Lost Leader?
Did you know that a significant Fort Ancient archaeological site is located on a sod farm in southwestern Ohio?
Did you know that a study of schools in German states by Norwegian Frederik Moltke Bugge was awarded with a gold medal from Frederick Augustus II of Saxony?
Did you know that controversies related to the human experimentation in the United States led to the introduction of the institutional review boards?
Did you know that in September 1969, the Little River in northwest Florida rose 21 feet (6.4 m) in 24 hours due to rainfall from a tropical disturbance?
Did you know that in the South Park episode "Medicinal Fried Chicken" Eric Cartman gets involved with an underground KFC chicken ring that mirrors the cocaine organization of Tony Montana in the film Scarface?
Did you know that in the South Park episode "You Have 0 Friends", Stan Marsh gets literally sucked into the social-networking site Facebook, which resembles the virtual world in the science-fiction film Tron?
Did you know that nucleic acid design is used in DNA nanotechnology and DNA computing to create structures out of DNA, such as nanomachines, polyhedra (example pictured), and nanoscale origami?
Did you know that some athletes at the Winter Paralympic Games have broken their bones in order to gain a competitive advantage?
Did you know that the 2010 public information film Embrace Life, originally made for just the Sussex area of the UK, has been "praised by people around the world for its beauty"?
Did you know that the Battle of Soltau was the climax of the Hildesheim Stift Feud, which lasted from 1519 to 1523?
Did you know that the Edinburgh Advertiser was the first to print Robert Burns' poem, On the Commemoration of Rodney's Victory?
Did you know that the Griffin, the new athletics mascot for the College of William and Mary, beat out a king and queen, a phoenix, a pug, and a wren for the position?
Did you know that the browser game Corpse Craft: Incident at Weardd Academy features school children battling each other with zombies?
Did you know that the flute arrangement of the trio composition Gestural Variations was premiered in Munich by the composer, Graham Waterhouse, and two other composers?
Did you know that the introduction of the small Asian mongoose to Jamaica may have led to the extinction of the rice rat Oryzomys antillarum (skull pictured)?
Did you know that toxicologist Gabriel L. Plaa spent much of his career searching for a way to assess human hepatotoxicity of drugs from animal tests?
Did you know that American politician Dean Alfange held either appointments or nominations from four different political parties: the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, the American Labor Party, and the Liberal Party of New York?
Did you know that Annie Hall Cudlip, one of the most prolific writers of romantic fiction in the Victorian era, wrote over 100 novels and short stories from 1862 to 1900?
Did you know that Edward Preston Young designed the logo for Penguin Books?
Did you know that Emil Schreiner, whose 1871 Latin grammar book out-competed that of Johan Peter Weisse, later moved to appoint Weisse as a professor?
Did you know that Inventing the AIDS Virus, written by molecular biologist Peter Duesberg, argues that AIDS is not infectious and that HIV is an unrelated passenger virus?
Did you know that Mary Ruthsdotter of the National Women's History Project played an influential role obtaining resolutions from the U.S. Congress designating March as Women's History Month?
Did you know that Pelobates cultripes, the "Western Spadefoot Toad", produce spawn up to one metre long which can consist of 7000 eggs?
Did you know that The People's Parliament was a Channel 4 programme in which a random sample of citizens sat in a mockup of the House of Commons, debated and voted as a deliberative democracy?
Did you know that former Texas State Senator Max Sherman sold Bibles door-to-door in the mid-1950s to pay expenses toward attending Baylor University?
Did you know that in his short story "The Day the Dancers Came", Bienvenido N. Santos "memorialized the tenderness, nostalgia" and "bittersweet tale" of Filipino manongs living in the United States?
Did you know that just £1500 of funding was available for the athletes of Great Britain at the 2002 Winter Paralympics?
Did you know that only three of Ireland's Greatest forty people are women?
Did you know that the 1969 debut album Sweet Thursday by the group of that name was quickly undermined by the bankruptcy of Tetragrammaton Records?
Did you know that the 60 million years old Carmelo Formation is made out of thousands of layers of volcanic pebbles, sandstone and mudstone with fossils?
Did you know that the 63 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cheshire, England, include diverse wetlands, such as mosses, swamps, fens, meres, ponds and rare examples of inland salt marsh?
Did you know that the Albanian poet Haxhi Shekreti composed the epic Alipashiad in Greek, considering it a more prestigious language in which to praise his master, Ali Pasha of Ioannina?
Did you know that the Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand fought in World War I, a war started by the assassination of her namesake?
Did you know that the Mexican craft of alebrijes is attributed to Pedro Linares, who supposedly dreamed the creatures and the name while sick with a fever?
Did you know that the Saxon origin of the name of Walworth Gate in County Durham, England, refers to Welsh-speaking Britons who once lived there?
Did you know that the Wyoming aviation pioneer Ralph S. Johnson flew until he was 82, when he sold his general aviation business in Cheyenne and retired to Arizona?
Did you know that the first local bus service operated by BakerBus linked major pottery factories in Stoke-on-Trent?
Did you know that the popularity of alebrijes from San Martín Tilcajete, Mexico, and other towns have led to the overexploitation of the trees from which they are carved?
Did you know that until 2001, the Ohio River shrimp had not been seen in the Ohio River for 50 years?
Did you know that with the University of Washington Huskies, former New Orleans Saints running back Toussaint Tyler beat the Michigan Wolverines in the Rose Bowl as a freshman but lost to them as a senior?
Did you know that "Hello Goodbye" is the final episode of the comedy-drama series Ugly Betty?
Did you know that , despite having a prior award nomination for film writing, it was once said of Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod that their "resume reads like a catalogue of the past decade's most irritating films"?
Did you know that 2009 International Bowl MVP Donald Brown was the first Connecticut Huskies football player to be picked in the first round of the NFL Draft?
Did you know that Colorado State Highway 263 lies entirely within the city limits of Greeley, Colorado?
Did you know that J.W.F. Bennett, captain of the undefeated 1898 Michigan football team, later supervised the construction of the Algonquin, Ritz and Waldorf Hotels?
Did you know that Joan Horan won the first two gold medals for Ireland at the Paralympics?
Did you know that Native American jewelry includes beadwork on herbal bag necklaces, believed to increase the healing power of Medicine Men?
Did you know that Saw II, the video game sequel to Saw: The Video Game, will include the ability for the player to kill enemies using the environment?
Did you know that a poem written for the christening of historian Colm Kiernan was also read to mark the birth and death of John F. Kennedy, Jr.?
Did you know that after retiring from politics, Oregon U. S. Senate candidate Rick Bauman organized bicycle tours, including Cycle Vietnam, the first-ever American-led bicycle tour of Vietnam?
Did you know that although English author Mackenzie Bell was trained in law at Cambridge University, he chose to study abroad and lived in Portugal, Spain, Italy, France and Madeira?
Did you know that at the Extreme 19th, the world's highest and longest par 3 golf hole, a tee shot takes almost 30 seconds to land?
Did you know that in 1931 three people were killed in Estevan, Canada, when police opened fire on a Mine Workers' Union of Canada rally?
Did you know that in recommending their products, Amazon.com originally used the technology behind MovieLens, a website that suggested films to its users based on their preferences?
Did you know that roughly a million people participate each year in the Romería de El Rocío, a pilgrimage to the Hermitage of El Rocío, in honor of the Virgin of El Rocío?
Did you know that the Scottish post-prog and electronica band North Atlantic Oscillation joined a list of artists that includes The Flamingos, Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald by covering the 1934 song "I Only Have Eyes for You" and releasing it on their 2009 debut EP?
Did you know that the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, the successor to the Knights Hospitaller, has issued its own postage stamps since 1966?
Did you know that the ordination of St Cellach 23 September 1105 put an end to a 140-year period when the supreme head of the Irish Church had been a layman?
Did you know that the village of Walworth, County Durham, England, contains a 400-year-old castle?
Did you know that Antica Pizzeria Port'Alba, the world's first pizzeria, lines its oven with lava rocks from Mount Vesuvius?
Did you know that Banwell Castle served as the headquarters for a squadron of the Balloon Command of the Royal Air Force during World War II?
Did you know that Big Ten MVP Willis Glassgow was called the "Dancing Master" for his shiftiness on the gridiron and because he managed the most popular ballroom in Iowa City?
Did you know that Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster is reputed to have thrown either a Bible or a Prayer Book at the head of King George IV?
Did you know that Wicked Summer is a planned spinoff of the popular reality series Jersey Shore?
Did you know that baseball outfielder Domonic Brown, nicknamed the "Total Package" by Ryan Howard, originally intended to play wide receiver for the Miami Hurricanes football team?
Did you know that during the Vietnam War, the top half of Black Virgin Mountain was held by American forces while the bottom was controlled by the Vietcong?
Did you know that in the 1820s, several books on geography were written in collaboration by William Channing Woodbridge and Emma Willard, but the latter had to publicly assure readers that they were entirely written by Woodbridge so they would be taken seriously?
Did you know that rival Vikings in Ireland were called Dubgaill and Finngaill, which could be translated as black and white foreigners?
Did you know that the Little Golden Books illustrator Corinne Malvern was a former child actress who once played Madama Butterfly's son in front of the Japanese Ambassador to the US?
Did you know that the New Zealand Members of Parliament John Thomas Peacock, Francis James Garrick, John Evans Brown and Henry Richard Webb were brothers-in-law?
Did you know that the hulk of LST-480 is the only remaining evidence of the West Loch Disaster, the second tragedy to befall Pearl Harbor during World War II?
Did you know that the sinking of the Japanese super-dreadnought Tosa influenced the design of the Yamato class?
Did you know that theologian Pender Hodge Cudlip cowrote an article for the Helston Grammar School Magazine while still a teenager at Oxford?
Did you know that upon the death of the Hare Krishna founder in 1977, eleven prominent leaders were left to become initiating gurus under the ISKCON Guru System?