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Did you know that the abbot of Kinloss was a permanent member of the chapter of Fortrose Cathedral, seat of the medieval diocese of Ross?
Did you know that the font in St Mary's Church, Roecliffe, North Yorkshire, came from Holy Trinity Church, Hull, while the vestry door and marble steps came from York Minster?
Did you know that the leak of nine-year old singer Willow Smith's single "Whip My Hair" was covered by Billboard, Time, and CNN the day of its release, as well as garnering over 100,000 YouTube views?
Did you know that the lowest temperature ever recorded in Israel, −13.7 °C (7.3 °F), was measured in the Beit Netofa Valley on February 7, 1950?
Did you know that the radio station KOHI, in Columbia County, Oregon, broadcasts a late-night radio program dealing with paranormal topics?
Did you know that three main span girders on Croatia's Dobra Bridge collapsed into the Dobra River during construction in 2000?
Did you know that three separate wrestlers won the WWF Hardcore Championship in a single match at Unforgiven (2000)?
Did you know that Barbadian singer Rihanna's new single "Only Girl (In the World)" has been called a "stronger, sexier version of her" 2007 single, "Don't Stop the Music"?
Did you know that Barbara Holland enjoyed smoking cigarettes and drinking scotch and wrote her 2007 book, The Joy of Drinking, as a protest against what she saw as the rise of broccoli, exercise and Starbucks?
Did you know that Chirocephalus diaphanus is the only species of fairy shrimp to occur in Great Britain?
Did you know that Communist leader Haji Mohammad Danesh, a leader in the Tebhaga movement, served as vice-president and general secretary of the National Awami Party?
Did you know that Geastrum leptospermum, G. jurei, G. welwitschii and G. quadrifidum are species of earthstar fungi that elevate their spore sacs?
Did you know that Henry Howard was a 19th century banker, lumberman, alderman, and mayor of Detroit, and the unrelated Henry Howard was a 19th century banker, lumberman, alderman, and mayor of nearby Port Huron?
Did you know that IGN's Doug Perry felt that Moto Racer World Tour was one of the five best motorcycle racing video games for the PlayStation?
Did you know that M-66 is the only state highway that runs the length of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan?
Did you know that Scottish postman and mycologist Charles McIntosh was very likely the physical model for Mr. McGregor in Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit?
Did you know that Somerset cricketer Robert Porch was the first cousin of Winston Churchill's stepfather and first cousin once removed of political writer Walter Bagehot?
Did you know that Sugarloaf Point Light, near Seal Rocks, New South Wales, is one of only two lighthouses in Australia with an external stairway?
Did you know that Temple II, the most thoroughly restored pyramid at the Maya ruins of Tikal in Guatemala, was probably built by king Jasaw Chan K'awiil I to honour his wife, Lady Kalajuun Une' Mo'?
Did you know that The Child's Eye is the first Hong Kong horror film to be entirely shot in 3-D and high definition?
Did you know that a rock band did not survive playing for Rob Roy?
Did you know that accountant David J. Porter handily unseated Victor G. Carrillo in the 2010 Republican primary for Texas railroad commissioner?
Did you know that after Annie Louisa Walker heard Ira D. Sankey's hymn The Night Cometh she recognized that he had used her words?
Did you know that during World War II, Boeing's Plant 2 was camouflaged with houses made of plywood, cloth as well as fake streets?
Did you know that in Minuscule 788, manuscript of the four Gospels, some passages of text are relocated (Luke 22:43–44 and John 7:53–8:11)?
Did you know that in his will, temperance campaigner Joseph Livesey left a copy of his "malt liquor lecture" to every household in Preston, Lancashire?
Did you know that music of the Baroque composer Fortunato Chelleri on Don Quixote was recorded by organist Kalevi Kiviniemi on the Las Piñas Bamboo Organ?
Did you know that on 28 June 1816 five men were executed for their part in the Ely and Littleport riots?
Did you know that one-third of the structures in Heppner were swept away by Willow Creek in a flash flood on June 14, 1903, killing 247 people in the "most deadly natural disaster in Oregon's recorded history"?
Did you know that the Crosby Garrett Helmet, discovered this year, has a winged griffin on it, whereas the similar Ribchester Helmet may have had a sphinx on top, but the Newstead Helmet only had a plume holder?
Did you know that the Rawalpindi conspiracy was the first first coup attempt in Pakistani history and involved poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz?
Did you know that the Wyoming Supreme Court Justice Richard V. Thomas was once the Judge Advocate General at the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne?
Did you know that the aircraft industry of Russia is one of the backbones of the country's economy, employing around 355,300 people?
Did you know that the first highway centerline was painted on the Marquette–Negaunee Road by K.I. Sawyer in 1917?
Did you know that the hairpin ribozyme is an RNA that can encode genetic information and catalyze biological reactions?
Did you know that when St Gregory's Church, Vale of Lune, Cumbria, was built, the London and North Western Railway sent a scripture reader to the church to minister to the navvies building their Ingleton Branch?
Did you know that Bach scored an alto aria for two oboes d'amore and oboe da caccia in his cantata Bringet dem Herrn Ehre seines Namens, BWV 148 for the 17th Sunday after Trinity?
Did you know that Bach used four movements of his church cantata Es wartet alles auf dich, BWV 187 for his Missa in G minor, BWV 235?
Did you know that James Billington's use of a longer drop than usual when hanging the prisoner immortalized as "C.T.W" in Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol, stretched C.T.W's neck by eleven inches?
Did you know that Julia Pirie, longtime personal secretary to British Communist Party head John Gollan, was a British spy?
Did you know that Leiden University's Rolf Bremmer, an expert on Old Frisian language, published an alphabet book explaining the Christian aspects of concepts such as sin and foreskin?
Did you know that New York's New Hempstead Presbyterian Church (current building, pictured) was the first established in the colony west of the Hudson River by a congregation of English descent?
Did you know that Pat "Awesomely Awesome" Audinwood makes his Ultimate Fighting Championship debut in a match against Thiago Tavares today at UFC 119 in Indianapolis?
Did you know that Rewa Prasad Dwivedi won a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1991 for his Sanskrit epic poem Svatantrya-sambhavam that portrays the Indian national freedom movement?
Did you know that Richard Funkhouser, a geologist and former U.S. Ambassador to Gabon stated, "Oil men tend to divide government people as either 'for them' or 'against them'"?
Did you know that Riegeldale Tavern was opened by an owner of a mill?
Did you know that Romsilva owns and manages 4,000,000 hectares (9,900,000 acres) of forests, representing 63% of all forests in Romania?
Did you know that Seven Presidents Park in Long Branch, New Jersey, was the site of the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show, whose performers included Buffalo Bill Cody, Annie Oakley and Chief Sitting Bull?
Did you know that Superintendent John Perry Robinson was first elected because the supporters of the opposition candidate stayed away, as they never expected Robinson to be able to win?
Did you know that Warden Head Light, a lighthouse near Ulladulla, New South Wales, Australia, was relocated in 1889 to its current location?
Did you know that a TV ad "I'm not lovin' it" has a woman grieving over a dead man holding a half-eaten burger as a narrator says "High cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart attacks. Tonight, make it vegetarian"?
Did you know that at some Maya cities, the earliest production of stone stelae coincided with the establishment of dynastic rule?
Did you know that following The Office and Extras, the next sitcom from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant is Life's Too Short, starring Warwick Davis and about the life of a showbiz dwarf?
Did you know that glass discovered in craters at the Descartes Highlands, the landing site of Apollo 16 on the Moon, was described as having the appearance of dried mud by mission commander John Young?
Did you know that in his three total professional basketball seasons, Bob Kinney played in the BAA, NBA and NPBL?
Did you know that the 1994 documentary, Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys, brought increased attention to the pedophile group NAMBLA?
Did you know that the British breastwork monitors designed by Sir Edward Reed were the direct ancestors of the pre-dreadnought battleship and the dreadnought?
Did you know that the Dockum Drug Store sit-in that led to desegregation of lunch counters in Wichita, Kansas, started in July 1958, 18 months before the more widely publicized Greensboro sit-ins?
Did you know that the Kendall Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary in Canada's Northwest Territories is a traditional Inuvialuit whaling site?
Did you know that the Waterloo Helmet, dredged from the River Thames in 1868, is the only Iron Age helmet with horns ever to have been found in Europe?
Did you know that the architect Sir George Gilbert Scott considered All Souls, Halifax, West Yorkshire, now redundant, to be his finest church?
Did you know that the extinct species Trochodendron drachuckii is known from a single Eocene fossil found near Cache Creek, British Columbia?
Did you know that the predatory insect Orius insidiosus is mass-reared for use in the biological control of thrips?
Did you know that the recently described genus Koilamasuchus from the Early Triassic of Argentina is the best-known early archosauriform in South America?
Did you know that Catherine Chipembere was the first woman elected to the Malawi Parliament?
Did you know that Darwin's bark spider makes the longest known spider web, spanning distances of up to 25 metres (82 ft), using the toughest known biomaterial, that is ten times as tough as Kevlar?
Did you know that Detroit mayor De Garmo Jones was eulogized as "a sort of western Vanderbilt, with a great big head"?
Did you know that Louis Theroux traveled to Kansas to interview members of the Westboro Baptist Church for the documentary film The Most Hated Family in America?
Did you know that Major-General Sir Reginald Pinney was the subject of Siegfried Sassoon's 1917 poem The General, as the "cheery old card" who smiled to his men as they "slogged up to Arras"?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines men's basketball teams coached by Steve Fisher featured Fab Five stars Juwan Howard, Jalen Rose and Chris Webber, and include the 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96 and 1996–97 teams?
Did you know that Mickey Mangham, a walk-on player from Maryland, scored the only touchdown in the 1959 Sugar Bowl to secure a national championship for the undefeated 1958 LSU Tigers football team?
Did you know that Robert Abbott is the inventor of logic mazes?
Did you know that a 63 m (207 ft) length of hull of the German battleship Preussen, a veteran of World War I, was used as a torpedo target before being bombed and sunk by Allied bombers during World War II?
Did you know that a new section of U.S. Highway 2 in Michigan was detoured around the Cut River Bridge when the latter was delayed due to World War II?
Did you know that after teaching at Wānanalua Church and Punahou School, William Harrison Rice managed the first irrigation system for sugar plantations in Hawaii?
Did you know that an irrigation dam failed on Bully Creek in 1925, flooding the city of Vale, Oregon, with 3 feet (1 m) of water and causing US$500,000 in damage?
Did you know that golden-flowered Australian native daisy Xerochrysum bracteatum was developed into a wide variety of colours in Arnstadt, Germany, in the 1850s?
Did you know that in 1940, England was protected by 15,000 miles of scaffold tubing?
Did you know that in 2006, professional baseball player Fehlandt Lentini broke the Northern League's single-season triples record with 13, one more than the mark set during the previous year?
Did you know that in the mid-nineteenth century Argentina successfully resisted a two-year naval blockade by France?
Did you know that linaclotide has shown promise in clinical trials as a treatment for irritable bowel syndrome with constipation, a condition that may affect as many as 10 million Americans?
Did you know that pianist and session musician Don Randi claims to have played on over three hundred hit records?
Did you know that the 1958 Pakistani coup d'état led by General Ayub Khan was validated by the Supreme Court of Pakistan under the "doctrine of necessity"?
Did you know that the Dulit Frogmouth forms a superspecies with the Large Frogmouth?
Did you know that the Godwin-Knowles House was built as a home for an industrialist in East Liverpool, Ohio, but was later converted into a Masonic lodge?
Did you know that the Meyrick Helmet combines the shape of a Roman auxiliary helmet with Celtic La Tène style decoration?
Did you know that the Sanok Castle was the seat of Isabella Jagiellon, queen of Hungary after her escape from Transylvania?
Did you know that the Wal-Mart brand of women's clothing White Stag was originally a company that manufactured downhill skiing apparel in Portland, Oregon, in the 1930s?
Did you know that the case of Charles Stuart, a white man who murdered his wife and pretended that a black man did it, is often cited as an example of a racial hoax?
Did you know that the coastline of Bideford Bay incorporates both 60-metre (200 ft) high cliffs and one of the largest dune systems in Britain?
Did you know that the domed atrium of Indiana's West Baden Springs Hotel (inside pictured) was the largest free-spanning dome in the United States for over 50 years and in the world from 1902 to 1913?
Did you know that Alaska Territorial Governor Thomas Riggs, Jr. led the team which surveyed the Alaskan–Canadian border from the Pacific to the Arctic Ocean?
Did you know that American Industrialist Samuel T. Hauser lobbied for creation of Yellowstone National Park after he prospected along the Yellowstone River?
Did you know that Four Freedoms Park is being built from plans found in the architect's pocket when he died of a heart attack?
Did you know that Harrisburg, now a ghost town in Utah, was named after an early resident named Moses, and most of its residents left by 1895 due to grasshopper plagues and floods?
Did you know that James E. Winner Jr. created The Club (pictured in use), an anti-theft device for cars that had sold 14 million units by 1994 with the slogan "If you can't steer it, you can't steal it"?
Did you know that Jennifer Love Hewitt enthused about decorating her vulva with crystal glass while promoting her book The Day I Shot Cupid?
Did you know that Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity will go head-to-head with Stephen Colbert's March to Keep Fear Alive?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines men's basketball teams coached by Brian Ellerbe featured Robert "Tractor" Traylor and include the 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–2000 and 2000–01 teams?
Did you know that Symantec claims that the majority of systems infected by the computer worm Stuxnet were in Iran?
Did you know that Thomas Shea was the first New York City policeman ever to be tried for murder on duty due to his role in the 1973 shooting in South Jamaica, Queens?
Did you know that Tommy Amaker coached the 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06 and 2006–07 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball teams, winning the 2004 NIT and finishing runner-up in the 2006 NIT?
Did you know that a match at the World Wrestling Federation's Unforgiven (2001) event resulted from the destruction of a mop?
Did you know that as a member of the Minnesota Twins in 1997, baseball player Matt Lawton gave 38 tickets to his family so they could attend one of his games against the Houston Astros at the Astrodome?
Did you know that at least one incident of kleptoparasitism was documented at Bénoué National Park, a UNESCO-designated Biosphere Reserve in Cameroon?
Did you know that during the 1527 sacking of Rome, the Swiss Guards sacrificed themselves to protect the Pope's retreat?
Did you know that in 1892, Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen composed a Romanze in F major for clarinet and piano which had been influenced by the teachings of Johannes Brahms?
Did you know that in 1992, French mountaineer Catherine Destivelle became the first woman to complete a solo ascent of the Eiger's north face?
Did you know that the ADEOS II satellite (artist's drawing pictured), which cost 70 billion yen (US$570 million) to develop, failed 10 months into the mission after the solar panel malfunctioned?
Did you know that the H. R. Stevens House in New City, New York, shows the convergence of Dutch and English building traditions?
Did you know that the Ottoman replacement of Albanian-speaking pashas in 1844 led to a rebellion?
Did you know that the Serra da Mesa Dam creates the largest reservoir by volume in Brazil?
Did you know that the Southern Baptist missionary Chris Clarke carries the gospel to equestrian events, mostly in his home state of Kentucky?
Did you know that the designer of the Wag-Aero CUBy aircraft flew one to 20,000 ft to show that it would not suffer vapor lock from using automotive fuel as a power source?
Did you know that the finless sleeper ray may be the smallest cartilaginous fish, with the smallest adult specimen measuring 8.2 cm (3.2 in) long?
Did you know that the first American performance of Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci was conducted by Gustav Hinrichs with Giuseppe Campanari singing the role of Tonio?
Did you know that the plantation-era museum Francis Land House has a Georgian style exterior but a Federal style interior?
Did you know that the status of Bhutanese refugees located in seven U.N.-run camps in Nepal is a major issue affecting Bhutan–Nepal relations?
Did you know that via Urban Land Committees, more than 300,000 Venezuelan urban households have benefited from a land titling program?
Did you know that American nuclear physicist Leonardo Mascheroni has attempted to lobby U.S. Congress to fund his idea of using hydrogen fluoride lasers to generate nuclear fusion?
Did you know that Bill McKown went from being a youth with 200 model airplanes hanging from his bedroom ceiling to being a Navy E-2C Hawkeye pilot, commander of squadron VAW-114, and Distinguished Eagle Scout?
Did you know that Bud Ogden played for the Philadelphia 76ers, his younger brother played for the San Francisco Warriors and their father was a Medal of Honor recipient?
Did you know that Cape Town's Chavonnes Battery once served as a prison along with a quarantine and convalescent wing of the old Somerset Hospital?
Did you know that Dzanga-Ndoki National Park and Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve of the Dzanga-Sangha Complex of Protected Areas in the Central African Republic form the Sangha Tri National Landscape with Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo and Lobéké National Park in Cameroon?
Did you know that Flight from Folly is one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most-Wanted Films"?
Did you know that Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy predicts that the upcoming episode "Grilled Cheesus" will be the "most controversial episode of the series to date"?
Did you know that Gonggar County of Shannan Prefecture in Tibet contains the Gonggar Choide Monastery, a dzong, and a regional airport which serves Lhasa, despite being located about 62 kilometres (39 mi) from it?
Did you know that Hodo Sokoli, a 19th-century Albanian leader, publicly removed his Ottoman insignia and uniform and put on an Albanian national costume?
Did you know that Pope John Paul II's 1982 visit to the United Kingdom was the first made to that country by a reigning Pope?
Did you know that Rodolph Crandall replaced his brother-in-law as mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon?
Did you know that Scottish footballer John Durkin worked at a local coal mine while playing for Gillingham F.C.?
Did you know that Scribe's debut single "Stand Up"/"Not Many" was the number-one single in New Zealand for twelve weeks, the most by any New Zealand artist?
Did you know that The New York Times called Leonard Skinner, the namesake of Lynyrd Skynyrd, "arguably the most influential high school gym teacher in American popular culture"?
Did you know that after a journalist published an article criticising the leadership of Nigeria's Rivers State, the governor's aide-de-camp ordered that he be caned and have his head shaven with an old blade?
Did you know that after the Battle of Landriano, the French monarch Francis I was forced to concede defeat in the War of the League of Cognac?
Did you know that after winning a Pulitzer Prize at The Oregonian, Wallace Turner went on to The New York Times where he covered the murder of Harvey Milk?
Did you know that in The Color of Crime, Katheryn Russell-Brown writes that crime and young black men have become synonymous in the American mind, giving rise to the "criminalblackman" stereotype?
Did you know that it took over 26 years to plan and construct the Orangeville Bypass of Ontario Highway 9?
Did you know that journalist Amir Mir declined an award from former Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, criticizing him as a dictator who violated the Constitution of Pakistan?
Did you know that proteins from pokeweed have shown antiviral properties?
Did you know that the Edumanom Forest Reserve is the last known chimpanzee habitat in the Niger Delta?
Did you know that the Ian Tyson song "Someday Soon" has been a charted single for Judy Collins, Moe Bandy and Suzy Bogguss?
Did you know that the Itumbiara Dam is Eletrobras Furnas' largest power plant and the sixth largest in Brazil?
Did you know that the first proper society page in the United States was the invention of James Gordon Bennett, Jr. for the New York Herald?
Did you know that the first salvage license granted by South Carolina was for the wreckage of the SS Georgiana?
Did you know that the parakoimomenos Joseph Bringas opposed the rise of the general Nikephoros Phokas to the Byzantine throne, but was defeated after three days of street clashes in Constantinople?
Did you know that there is a James Bond Island in the Andaman Sea?
Did you know that "Peligroso Amor" was Chilean singer Myriam Hernández' first number-one song in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart in the United States?
Did you know that "Sirmilik", the name of a National Park in the northern part of Baffin Island, means "the place of glaciers" in the Inuktitut language?
Did you know that Fô Kankam, the founder of Batoufam, Cameroon, was a Tikar?
Did you know that George W. Rice was the only Canadian in the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition to the Canadian Arctic?
Did you know that Hong Kong-born Rebecca Nolin plays as a defender for the Atlanta Beat and helps coach the Kennesaw State Owls?
Did you know that Jonas Mouton was nationally ranked as a safety in high school football but has started for three seasons at weakside linebacker for the Michigan Wolverines?
Did you know that Samuel Colt only began producing the Colt Model 1878 double action revolver over twenty years after his patent on the design had expired?
Did you know that Zhuge Shuang rose from a street beggar to a military governor of the Tang China?
Did you know that according to Greek mythology, the Thriasian Plain was flooded by Poseidon after he lost control of Attica to Athena?
Did you know that artist and sculptor Samuel Rabin was also a professional wrestler and opera singer who appeared in The Scarlet Pimpernel and won a bronze medal in wrestling at the 1928 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that as a leader of the anti-Internet pornography organization Enough Is Enough, a former political sex scandal "other woman" became an influential Washington, D.C. lobbyist?
Did you know that before the construction of North Main Street School, schoolchildren in Spring Valley, New York, were attending classes in the local fire station?
Did you know that critics debate whether the differences between Thomas Eakins' two portraits of Mary Adeleine Williams (second portrait pictured) are the result of an affair between the pair?