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Did you know that total dissolved solids, a class of water pollutants, is useful as an indicator of aquatic biota health, yet harmful to the plumbing of aquaria and hot tubs? (pictured: water with dissolved solids)
Did you know that Michał Boym was one of the first Westerners to explore China and an author of many scholarly publications about the Far East?
Did you know that during the Battle of Beecher Island in 1868, 51 U.S. soldiers held out against some 700 Arapaho Indians and their allies for 9 days, surviving on nothing but muddy water and meat from their own fallen horses?
Did you know that the Coastal Zone Color Scanner provided the first global view of phytoplankton concentrations? (pictured: scan of Tasmania)
Did you know that the Confederation of the Equator was a short-lived state established in northeastern Brazil during her struggle for independence from Portugal?
Did you know that the rulers of Yogyakarta brought female bedhaya dancers with them into battle?
Did you know that there have been several proposals for space advertising projects, including a giant, 1km² billboard visible from Earth?
Did you know that Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens created the album Flamenco A Go-Go after seeing flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucía play live, and that the album spans many genres including dance, flamenco, blues and rock?
Did you know that Celia Rosser, Australian botanical illustrator has the Banksia species Banksia rosserae and the cultivar Banksia canei 'Celia Rosser'  named in her honour?
Did you know that Henryk Iwański, member of Armia Krajowa Polish resistance in WWII, commanded several incursions into the Warsaw Ghetto in support of the Warsaw Ghetto fighters?
Did you know that Lord Neaves, a judge on the supreme court of Scotland, was quoted by Darwin on evolution, but attributed the concept of evolution to Lord Monboddo, not Darwin?
Did you know that West Liberty Foods provides Subway restaurant franchises with over one million pounds of meat per week?
Did you know that a Navy shower is a method of showering that conserves both water and energy?
Did you know that both Denmark and Spain have plans to change their succession laws from male primogeniture to equal primogeniture, leaving Luxembourg and the United Kingdom as the only monarchies in the European Union not to have equal primogeniture?
Did you know that during the German occupation of Luxembourg in World War I, over 1% of the Luxembourgian population died fighting for France, even though Luxembourg remained officially neutral?
Did you know that hollowed-out books have been used in bombings, for smuggling, and for covertly photographing people?
Did you know that in 1908 Nikolai Panin became Russia's first Olympic champion by winning the figure skating special figures event, the only year in which it was an Olympic event?
Did you know that several months after Vasili III of Russia divorced his wife, Solomonia Saburova, on account of her barrenness, she is believed to have given birth to a son, who became the Cossack robber Kudeyar?
Did you know that student development theories are tools used by scholars and teachers in understanding how students gain knowledge?
Did you know that the Newfoundland Tricolour, a popular but unofficial flag of Newfoundland and Labrador, is one of the oldest flags of North America, and the oldest flag in the world to use the color pink?
Did you know that the Pernambucan Revolt of 1817 was a conflict to establish independence for the current Brazilian state of Pernambuco from Portugal?
Did you know that the Persoonia longifolia, known as the Upright Snottygobble, is a species of tall shrub characterised by its distinctive flakey paper-like dark red bark?
Did you know that the analysis of the FSH-receptor benefited from the work  by Gilman and Rodbell for which they won the 1994 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology?
Did you know that the highest scoring word in Scrabble is OXYPHENBUTAZONE, which uses a bingo, and can theoretically score 1778 in one go?
Did you know that Information International, Inc. (Triple-I) used the Super Foonly, the world's fastest PDP-10, to render 3D animation for the 1982 film Tron?
Did you know that Japanese designer Kenzo Takada developed his love for fashion by reading his sisters' magazines as a child?
Did you know that Perfect Imperfection, a 2004 science fiction novel by Polish writer Jacek Dukaj, raises the issues of technological singularity, transhumanism and the anthropic principle, and presents a unique model of human evolution?
Did you know that Saco Bay on the Maine coast was named in 1525 by the Spanish cartographer Esteban Gómez for the resemblance of its southern pool to the outline of a sack?
Did you know that Torre HSBC, home of the headquarters of HSBC Mexico, is expected to become the first building in Latin America to receive a LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council?
Did you know that U.S. diplomat Norman Armour disguised himself as a Norwegian courier to help a Russian princess—his future wife—escape the country after the collapse of the Russian Empire?
Did you know that in 1831, Russian painter Yakov Kolokolnikov-Voronin was deemed a "free artist" by the Imperial Academy of Arts?
Did you know that in the early 1900s, the Spruce Flats Bog in Forbes State Forest, Pennsylvania underwent a forced reversal from forest to bog, and is now slowly returning to a forest?
Did you know that parasocial interaction is a one-sided social relationship between the audience and the performers?
Did you know that the Helophilus pendulus is a European hoverfly, whose scientific name means "dangling swamp-lover"?
Did you know that the Oklahoma Aquarium has the world's largest collection of antique fishing tackle, with over 20,000 pieces?
Did you know that the Treaty of Viterbo transferred power over the Latin Empire from the last reigning monarch to the Angevin rulers of Sicily?
Did you know that "Hippias Major", one of Plato's dialogues dating back to the 4th century BCE, employed the plot device we now refer to as a "cliffhanger"?
Did you know that Austrian figure skater Herma Szabo practiced on the first artificial ice rink ever made, and went on to win five world championships?
Did you know that Edith S. Sampson was the first Black U.S. delegate to the United Nations and NATO?
Did you know that French poet and novelist Louis Pergaud was a pacifist who was killed in action during World War I in 1915?
Did you know that The Entrance Bridge was the site of a 1955 accident when the Number 11 Red Bus's brakes failed, whereupon it crashed through a wooden retaining wall and landed in The Entrance Channel?
Did you know that the Canadian judicial decision Re Burley (1865), was made in colonial times, and is still cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in extradition cases over a century later?
Did you know that the Presidential office of India operates from The Retreat at Mashobra in Himachal Pradesh, India at least once every year?
Did you know that the alloy hepatizon was highly valuable in classical antiquity, and was named due to its similarity to the colour of liver?
Did you know that the first performance of Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar (1836) was conducted by Catterino Cavos, who composed an opera on the same subject 20 years before Glinka?
Did you know that the invention of the tone variator in 1897 marked the advance beyond classical psychophysics, as it allowed the study of the perception of continuous changes in stimuli?
Did you know that Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge supports the largest surviving population of the endangered Fender's blue Butterfly which feeds upon the threatened Kincaid's lupine?
Did you know that Thai boxer Pongsaklek Wonjongkam holds the flyweight division records for fastest knockout (34 seconds) and consecutive title defenses (15)?
Did you know that rainwater tanks may be made from polyethylene, concrete, or galvanised steel, but not from clear plastic, because it would allow in sunlight, leading to algal blooms?
Did you know that the Abbey of Fontenay, near Dijon in France, was founded by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux in 1118 and is one of the oldest and most complete Cistercian abbeys in Europe?
Did you know that the Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894 is the only time in American history when a governor used the state militia to support rather than suppress a strike?
Did you know that the Polaris Music Prize is awarded annually to the best Canadian album, regardless of genre, sales, or record label?
Did you know that Helene Hayman, Baroness Hayman, elected the first Lord Speaker of the House of Lords in 2006, was the first woman to give birth while serving as a British Member of Parliament in the 1970s, and is reported to have been the first woman to breast feed at the Palace of Westminster?
Did you know that Józef Kossakowski, bishop and writer, was one of several prominent Polish politicians sentenced to hanging as traitors in the aftermath of the Warsaw Uprising?
Did you know that William T. Perkins, Jr., a United States Marine who covered an exploding hand grenade with his body, is the only combat photographer to be awarded the Medal of Honor?
Did you know that administrative law in mainland China has been used unsuccessfully by Chinese dissidents to sue the Communist Party of China?
Did you know that composer Veniamin Fleishman was killed early in WWII before he could complete his opera Rothschild's Violin, but that his teacher Dmitri Shostakovich rescued his sketches from besieged Leningrad, and completed the opera?
Did you know that in the 1869 Battle of Hakodate in Japan, French soldiers fought side-by-side with rebel samurai against the newly formed Imperial government, in an episode reminiscent of the movie The Last Samurai?
Did you know that loans made by Seattle brothel-owner Lou Graham saved some of the city's most prestigious families from bankruptcy after the Panic of 1893?
Did you know that the Directive Principles in India, which are guidelines for the government while framing laws and policies, were inspired by the Irish nationalist movement?
Did you know that the Esopus Wars led to the creation of the boundaries of Native American lands in 17th century New York?
Did you know that the Palmeral of Elche is the largest plantation of palm trees in Europe, with date palms covering over 3.5 square kilometres in and around the Spanish city of Elche?
Did you know that the starting point for the History of Australia is usually taken to be the first undisputed sighting of Australia by the Dutch in 1606, although many researchers alleged that other sightings took place a hundred years earlier?
Did you know that Operation Dewey Canyon was the last major U.S. Marine Corps offensive of the Vietnam War?
Did you know that That Summer Day is the first television drama for children about the bombings of the London public transport system on July 7, 2005?
Did you know that Yuktibhasa, written by Indian astronomer Jyeshtadeva, is considered to be the first mathematical treatise on calculus?
Did you know that homes in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Beverly Park average 20,000-30,000 ft², and that the homeowners association requires all dwellings to be larger than 5,000 ft²?
Did you know that one architectural style of 18th-century Spanish Baroque was named after a candy made from egg whites and sugar?
Did you know that openly gay novelist Gordon Merrick's book The Lord Won't Mind spent 16 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list in 1970, at a time when most authors would not write about homosexual themes for a mass audience?
Did you know that the Florida mangroves are vital to an estimated 75 percent of the game fish and 90 percent of the commercial fish species in South Florida?
Did you know that the Grodno Sejm of 1793, the last Sejm of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, passed the Second Partition of Poland with deputies bribed or coerced by the Russian Empire's army?
Did you know that the River Banksia (Banksia seminuda) was originally considered a subspecies of the Swamp Banksia (Banksia littoralis), as they share many similar characteristics?
Did you know that the T-18 tank, first produced in 1928, was the first tank designed and built in the Soviet Union, and that its design was based on the French Renault FT-17 of the First World War?
Did you know that the satirical German radio programme The Gerd Show reached no. 1 in Germany's 2002 Christmas single charts with a parody of "The Ketchup Song" which attacked Gerhard Schröder's tax policies?
Did you know that there is a long history of animals in sport, ranging from common horse racing and fox hunting events to the more unusual rabbit show jumping and camel wrestling competitions?
Did you know that Ash Lawn-Highland, the former home of U.S. President James Monroe, has been transformed into a 535-acre working farm, museum, and site for the performing arts?
Did you know that Russian composer Boris Sobinov was abducted from the Berlin American Zone by the NKVD and condemned to ten years in prison in the Soviet Union?
Did you know that Saint Gilbert of Dornoch was the last Scot to appear in the Calendar of Saints?
Did you know that Wogan Philipps was the only member of the Communist Party of Great Britain to sit in the House of Lords?
Did you know that cow fighting, unlike bull fighting, is a sport that does not have human participants but is fought between cows, and that it often does not include any physical contact?
Did you know that prior to the 1916 college football season, John R. Bender and Hall-of-Famer Zora G. Clevenger in effect traded jobs as head coach at Kansas State University and the University of Tennessee?
Did you know that supernumerary body parts can include fingers, toes, and ribs, or in some rare cases, additional sex organs or heads?
Did you know that the Chamber of Nationalities is a now-defunct chamber of the bicameral parliament of Myanmar?
Did you know that the Kiev tram was the first electric tramway in the Russian Empire, and the second one in Europe, after the Berlin Straßenbahn?
Did you know that the Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange, New Jersey, is the only zoo in the world that has a pair of Malaysian "black dragon" monitor lizards on display?
Did you know that the Worek Plan, a submarine operation by the Polish Navy in the early days of the Polish September Campaign, was a failure as the submarines did not manage to sink a single German vessel?
Did you know that the number of Jewish partisans during World War II exceeded 20,000?
Did you know that Ogyu Sorai is considered to be one of the most influential Confucian philosophers in Japan during the Tokugawa period?
Did you know that Piotr Włostowic, a 12th century voivode of the Kingdom of Poland, managed to break the alliance between Władysław II the Exile and Rus' princes while blinded, muted and exiled?
Did you know that Texas produces the most helium in the United States, all of which is won from the Cliffside gas field near Amarillo?
Did you know that The Mystery of Al Capone's Vault was a live television special in which Al Capone's secret vault was opened and shown to only contain a bottle of moonshine?
Did you know that after Harry Ashmore won the Pulitzer Prize in 1958, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus vetoed a resolution to rename Toad Suck Ferry to Ashmore Landing on the grounds that the name change would defame a well known landing?
Did you know that by using measurements of the flux of solar neutrinos within the framework of the Standard Solar Model physicists have estimated the temperature of the core of the sun to within 1%?
Did you know that in 1883, Southern Pacific Railroad tried to block the California Southern Railroad from installing a level junction across their tracks in Colton, California, by moving a locomotive slowly back and forth at the intersection point?
Did you know that in musique mesurée Renaissance composers attempted to bring back the musical traditions of Ancient Greece through the use of ancient meters and musical modes?
Did you know that the 144 km long Salso River, named for its saline content, is the longest river in Sicily?
Did you know that the American Meat Institute and the Federal Meat Inspection Act celebrate their hundredth anniversary this year?
Did you know that the Brownsea Island Scout camp held by Robert Baden-Powell in 1907 was the official start of the Scout movement and will be celebrated as part of the Scouting centenary in 2007?
Did you know that the CornerShot is a gun that can shoot around corners?
Did you know that the Mafra National Palace was built during the reign of King John V of Portugal, in consequence of a vow he made, promising to build a convent if his wife, the Queen Mary Anne of Austria, gave him descendants?
Did you know that the fish Echiodon rendahli has a portion of its intestine protruding from its belly, so that while living inside sponges it can defecate outside its shelter without being exposed to outside dangers?
Did you know that the monks of the Ross Errilly Friary in Ireland were evicted six times in the span of 118 years, but kept moving back in?
Did you know that there have been at least fifteen deaths at the Welsh cave Porth yr Ogof in the last twenty years, all but one in the seven-metre-deep Resurgance Pool?
Did you know that there is a pattern to the names of the class of medications called "monoclonal antibodies"?
Did you know that Luís Alves de Lima e Silva was a Brazilian military hero praised for his victories in the War of the Triple Alliance, and that his birthday is celebrated annually as Dia do Soldado?
Did you know that on September 21, 1995, statues of the Hindu pantheon (Ganesha pictured) in countries around the world were reported to be drinking spoonfuls of milk offered to them by worshippers?
Did you know that the WWE Video Library has an archive of over 75,000 hours of footage dating back more than fifty years, representing a very significant portion of the visual history of modern professional wrestling?
Did you know that the pellets regurgitated by some predatory bird species have been found to contain bird bands once attached to their prey?
Did you know that British paediatrician June Lloyd, Baroness Lloyd of Highbury is commemorated in the coat of arms of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, as a supporter holding a staff of Aesculapius entwined with a double helix rather than the traditional snake?
Did you know that in 2003 Erin Crocker became the first woman to qualify for the Knoxville Nationals sprint car race?
Did you know that in the Battle of Węgierska Górka, four unfinished and undermanned Polish bunkers held out against an assault of an entire German division for two days and two nights?
Did you know that the Bangladesh Nazrul Sena, founded upon the philosophy of Kazi Nazrul Islam, pioneered the introduction of computer science and multimedia education for children at the kindergarten level in Bangladesh?
Did you know that the Monastery of Alcobaça, founded in 1153, includes the first Gothic buildings built in Portugal?
Did you know that Hispanics have participated in every conflict in which the United States has been involved, and over forty Hispanics have been awarded the Medal of Honor?
Did you know that Lake Washington, the main reservoir for Newburgh, New York, holds enough water to supply the city for a year?
Did you know that Margherita Gonzaga d'Este ran her own balletto delle donne in the late 16th century, comprised entirely of women who frequently cross-dressed?
Did you know that Nicole Manske of Speed Channel and auto racer Danica Patrick were on the same cheerleading squad at their high school in Rockton, Illinois?
Did you know that Olympic pair skating champions Andrée Brunet and Pierre Brunet refused to defend their title at the 1936 Winter Olympics because Nazi Germany was hosting the Games?
Did you know that Other Songs, an award winning novel by Jacek Dukaj, a Polish science fiction writer, describes a unique world in which the ideas of Aristotle and Hegel replace the laws of physics?
Did you know that P57, a steroidal glycoside isolated from the African cactiform Hoodia gordonii, is believed to be the active chemical constituent responsible for the appetite suppressant activity of Hoodia extracts?
Did you know that SS Rajputana, a P&O liner traveling between Plymouth, England and Lahore, British India, was converted into a cruiser and eventually sunk by a German U-boat west of Iceland?
Did you know that Tortuguero National Park is the third-most visited park in Costa Rica, despite the fact that it can only be reached by airplane or boat?
Did you know that although the presence of Armenians in Bulgaria dates to the Early Middle Ages, their large-scale emigration to the country only began in the 19th century?
Did you know that at the end of his 13-match first class cricket career, John Howarth had a batting average of 0.00,  setting a new world record and leading to him being dubbed one of cricket's worst batsmen?
Did you know that some historians claim that Russian engineer Fyodor Pirotsky built the world's first electric tramway?
Did you know that Drei Chinesen mit dem Kontrabass is one of the most popular German children's songs?
Did you know that Lost and Found in Translation, an episode of Power Rangers: Dino Thunder, marks the first use of footage of Japanese Super Sentai actors in a Power Rangers series?
Did you know that Russian poet and dissident Vadim Delaunay was a descendant of the last governor of the Bastille, marquis Bernard-René de Launay?
Did you know that South African trade union legislation uses the term "conscientious objector" to refer to workers who do not want to join unions on the basis of personal beliefs?
Did you know that during the Beslan school hostage crisis 74-year-old school teacher Yanis Kanidis refused to leave his students and ultimately died to save their lives?
Did you know that in 1935, English cricketer Betty Snowball scored 189 runs against New Zealand in the fourth ever women's Test match, setting a world record that was not beaten for over 50 years?
Did you know that on arrival at Buckingham Palace, all 3,000 guests to the Children's Party at the Palace received a hamper with snacks put together by Jamie Oliver?
Did you know that the 18th-century Cabañas Hospital in Guadalajara was built on one level, so as to facilitate the movement of the sick, the aged, and children?
Did you know that the Banksia series Spicigerae is a taxonomic series of Banksia characterized by cylindrical inflorescences?
Did you know that the Christii fly primarily lives under the bark of smaller branches and twigs of dead aspen trees?
Did you know that the Christmas carol "Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella" was originally written as dance music for French nobility?
Did you know that the Fremantle Arts Centre was originally known as the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum and was built between 1861 and 1868 by British convicts?
Did you know that Onesimos Nesib, who translated the Bible into Oromo, was accused of blasphemy for delivering sermons in his native language and not Amharic, the language of the local Orthodox priests?
Did you know that Raymond Monvoisin was a French painter and Legion of Honor recipient invited by the Chilean government to establish an Academy of Painting in Santiago, and who also dabbled in mining and ranching?
Did you know that Roy Smeck's virtuoso ukulele performance in the 1926 sound film "His Pastimes" sealed his reputation as "Wizard of the Strings"?
Did you know that the natural history of Australia began over 2,500 million years ago when some of the world's oldest rocks formed the Yilgarn craton?
Did you know that "Everybody Knows", a song by Leonard Cohen and collaborator Sharon Robinson was described as a "bleak prophecy about the end of the world as we know it"?
Did you know that Egushawa, principal chief of the Ottawas, was one of the most influential Native Americans of the Great Lakes region in the late eighteenth century?
Did you know that Eric Schopler's research into autism led to the foundation of the TEACCH program?
Did you know that Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 2 (VMU-2),  a United States Marine Corps UAV squadron formed in June 1984, was the first Remotely Piloted Vehicle unit in the U.S. Armed Forces? (pictured: unit insignia)