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Did you know that six prehistoric meteorite impacts have created large astroblemes affecting the geology of Saskatchewan?
Did you know that the Appomattox Park has a Court-house, Tavern, Jail, Store and Prizery, the Bocock-Isbell, McLean, Peers and Wright houses, the Sweeney and Sweeney-Conner cabins, the Jones and Woodson law offices, ruins and cemeteries?
Did you know that the GDP of the Ming Dynasty  was 31 percent of the world's GDP, a percentage which is relatively higher than the GDP of the United States in 1997?
Did you know that the Old L & N Station in Bardstown, Kentucky, was the state's only dry stone railroad station?
Did you know that the burning sensation caused by red hot chili peppers or the warmth caused by camphor are due to the activation of different TRPV ion channels (TRPV1 pictured), which are also thermosensitive?
Did you know that the controversial 1982 anti-racism film White Dog was director Samuel Fuller's last American film due to his disgust with Paramount Pictures' refusal to release the film?
Did you know that the first head coach of the NBA club now known as the Atlanta Hawks was Roger Potter, whose tenure only lasted seven games into the team's inaugural season in 1949?
Did you know that the largest kilns for Ancient Roman pottery (example pictured) fired up to 40,000 pieces at a time?
Did you know that the small Croatian town of Jastrebarsko was home to two cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church, who were also both archbishops of the country's capital Zagreb?
Did you know that two members of the Boston Red Sox's Golden Outfield have been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame?
Did you know that Adolph C. Miller served as United States Assistant Secretary of the Interior before being appointed as an original Governor of the Federal Reserve System?
Did you know that Bardstown, Kentucky's Wickland, namesake of Shelbyville, Kentucky's Wickland, was the home of three different U.S. state governors?
Did you know that Chatuge Dam and Nottely Dam in the Tennessee Valley were originally constructed in 1942 solely for flood control to maximize hydroelectric production at Hiwassee Dam, but were only outfitted with power generators later in the 1950s?
Did you know that DSV 78/08 Ricklingen, the oldest rugby union club in Germany, was formed under the leadership of 15 year old Ferdinand-Wilhelm Fricke in 1878?
Did you know that Dutch architect Kees Christiaanse, a proponent of mixed communities, has described his buildings as "socializing machines"?
Did you know that English embroidery (example pictured) includes styles called Opus Anglicanum, stumpwork, crewel work and art needlework?
Did you know that Indonesia's largest container terminal, handling more than 3.5 million TEU's of freight in 2007, is in the Port of Jakarta?
Did you know that Jim Crockett Promotions hosted an unusual series of pro wrestling tag team matches in the 1970s, as heel (villain) teams such as the Blond Bombers (Rip Hawk and Swede Hanson) faced fellow heels Brute Bernard and Skull Murphy?
Did you know that Maurice Catarcio, at age 69, pulled an 80-foot (24 m) boat filled with 125 passengers while swimming 300 feet (91 m) in a lake, which earned him a place in The Guinness Book of World Records?
Did you know that Premier of Alberta John Edward Brownlee was forced to resign in 1934 due to a sex scandal?
Did you know that Thriller – Live is a new West End musical, directed by the creator of a Michael Jackson fansite?
Did you know that a predominance diagram purports to show the conditions of concentration and pH where a chemical species has the highest concentration in solutions in which there are multiple acid-base equilibria?
Did you know that an episode of the documentary series Hostage detailed Saddam Hussein's placing of two Irish civilians as "human shields" at sites of strategic importance during the Gulf War?
Did you know that only after the end of World War II was it publicly revealed that the Norwegian ships SS Irma and SS Henry had been sunk by the Royal Norwegian Navy?
Did you know that operatic tenor Andreas Dippel portrayed the title role in Alberto Franchetti Asrael in its United States premiere at the Metropolitan Opera?
Did you know that singer Amy Winehouse gained entry to the Guinness World Records in 2009 for having the most Grammy Awards won by a British female act?
Did you know that the Japanese band Daisy × Daisy provided the song "Brave your truth" as the opening theme song of the episodes of the Chrome Shelled Regios anime?
Did you know that the Wilkinson motorcycle failed to impress the British military – despite having a Maxim machine gun mounted on the handlebars?
Did you know that the first Filipinos to settle in Saudi Arabia arrived in 1973?
Did you know that the largest ship sunk by the Austro-Hungarian U-boat SM U-32 during World War I was carrying onions from Karachi, Pakistan?
Did you know that the recently defunct Pacific Magazine, a current affairs publication focusing on the Pacific Islands of Oceania, was the region's longest continuously published magazine?
Did you know that then-President Bill Clinton's selection to give the 2000 Jefferson Lecture, the U.S.'s highest humanities honor, was criticized as a politicization of the National Endowment for the Humanities?
Did you know that to open the swing door on the General Aircraft Hamilcar glider and allow vehicles to emerge, pilots had to climb out of the glider's cockpit and slide down 15 feet (4.6 m) of fuselage?
Did you know that 11th-century "minister of war and peace" Durgasimha wrote the Kannada language version of the Panchatantra, the first Indian vernacular adaptation of these fables?
Did you know that Angus Goetz played for Buffalo in the National Football League on the weekends while attending medical school at the University of Michigan?
Did you know that Chamkar Leu District in eastern Cambodia is home to a 6,000-hectare (15,000-acre) rubber plantation?
Did you know that Empress Dowager Wang, the mother of Tang Chinese Emperor Xianzong, was to be a concubine of his great-grandfather Daizong, but as she was young, was instead given to Xianzong's father, Shunzong?
Did you know that Joan Snyder, a MacArthur Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow, has had her paintings exhibited at Jewish Museum in New York?
Did you know that John Calvin's works include some 1,300 letters, making him "the great letter-writer of the Reformation age" according to B. B. Warfield?
Did you know that John Isaacs, signed out of high school by the all-Black New York Renaissance team, led the Rens over the Oshkosh All-Stars to win the first World Professional Basketball Tournament, held in 1939?
Did you know that Lucien Galtier, the first Roman Catholic priest in Minnesota, was responsible for renaming the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, from its previous name of Pig's Eye?
Did you know that Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels warned that their boycott of Jewish businesses "will be resumed... until German Jewry has been annihilated", if the Anti-Nazi Boycott of 1933 was not ended?
Did you know that Norwegian railway company Ofotbanen went bankrupt due to the minority owner Autolink starting the competitor Cargolink?
Did you know that Senegalese long jumper and triple jumper Ndiss Kaba Badji was the only person from his country to reach a final at the 2008 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Sinuessa, the last town of Latium on the Appian Way, was famous for its springs whose visitors included Horace, Virgil, and Julius Caesar?
Did you know that Skuon town in Cambodia's Cheung Prey District is famous for fried spiders seasoned with garlic and salt?
Did you know that Three Crosses were built on the same hill in Kalnai Park as the Crooked Castle, destroyed during the Lithuanian Civil War (1389–1392)?
Did you know that Victor Vacquier escaped Russia by sleigh across the frozen Gulf of Finland and went on to pioneer the use of submarine detectors for investigating plate tectonics?
Did you know that a civil rights lawsuit brought by Andrew W. Cooper led to the election of Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress?
Did you know that during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the Palmach referred to the Palestinian Arab village of Burayr as "the village of the killers"?
Did you know that every household in the Dhaniakhali bloc of West Bengal, India, has at least one loom, where handloom saris are made?
Did you know that in 1785, men between 16 and 50, who were not ministers, were required to help build Bardstown, Kentucky's Cobblestone Path or be subject to a fine?
Did you know that in 1946, Welsh international footballer Bert Turner became the first player to score for both sides in an FA Cup Final?
Did you know that most of U.S. Route 2 in Vermont was originally part of the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway, an early transcontinental North American auto trail?
Did you know that prior to becoming a chocolatier, Louis Barnett trained birds of prey at a falconry centre to gain permission to keep a pet eagle owl?
Did you know that sex workers across the world have organised since the mid-1970s to demand sex workers’ rights, including the decriminalisation of prostitution and equal protection under the law?
Did you know that singer Phil Ochs wrote "The War Is Over" in 1967 to declare that the Vietnam War was over, eight years before the war actually ended?
Did you know that the Apalachia Dam in North Carolina has an underground conduit carrying water from the dam's reservoir to its hydroelectric powerhouse 12 miles (19 km) away in the neighboring state of Tennessee?
Did you know that the Irish romantic comedy Little White Lie followed the attempts of an actor to attract the attention of a television presenter by pretending he was a psychiatrist?
Did you know that the Maryland Residence in Bethesda, USA, one of the few houses designed by César Pelli, consists of five pavilions linked by a central gallery?
Did you know that the World Wide Fund for Nature rates the Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin rain forests  bordering India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar (Burma) as "Globally Outstanding" in biological distinctiveness?
Did you know that the commune of Gory in south-western Mali is the subject of a $950,000 UNESCO–Mali educational project, funded by the Norwegian government?
Did you know that the critically endangered Philippine eagle is the namesake of the Agila 2 communications satellite?
Did you know that , when the München RFC played the Bad Tölz US Army in June 1978, it was the first game of rugby union played in Munich in almost 50 years?
Did you know that Bateay District in Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia, was the site of an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 virus in 2006?
Did you know that Deutsche Evangelische Oberschule, Cairo's oldest German school, has been running since 1873?
Did you know that Flip Saunders is the only Minnesota Timberwolves head coach to have been to the playoffs with the Timberwolves?
Did you know that Ira Eaker and Allen Zwerdling established Back Stage in 1960, considered the "casting bible" for theater performers?
Did you know that Isidore de Lara's Messaline was the first opera by an English composer to be produced at La Scala?
Did you know that Karl Graul, former director of Leipzig Lutheran mission and a Tamil scholar, believed that Christian missionaries in India should not interfere with the local traditions including the caste system?
Did you know that Peter Tsiamalili, the first chief administrator of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, also served as Papua New Guinea's ambassador to Belgium?
Did you know that Sammy Stephens, an internet sensation for his "It's just like a mini-mall" rap advertisements for Flea Market Montgomery, got his start in broadcasting at WMGY in Montgomery, Alabama, USA?
Did you know that Shirley Chisholm was the first African American candidate for president of the United States for a major political party when she campaigned during the 1972 election?
Did you know that William Henry Ellis's tenure as Master Cutler of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire lasted for four years instead of just one because of the First World War?
Did you know that after Noel Coward's play cycle Tonight at 8.30 premiered, he added four more plays, including Family Album and Still Life?
Did you know that although it has not been formally assessed by the IUCN, the plant Justicia flaviflora is considered critically endangered because it can only be naturally found on one mountain in Trinidad and Tobago?
Did you know that although it was founded in 1924, Congregation Beth Israel in Berkeley, California, did not hire its first rabbi until 1963?
Did you know that despite being a widely-used garden plant on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Salvia interrupta can only be found in nature in the Atlas Mountains in the African country of Morocco?
Did you know that during the reign of Emperor Shunzong of Tang, who was debilitated by a stroke, his concubine Consort Niu was one of the key decision-makers?
Did you know that in 1018, Byzantine general Eustathios Daphnomeles entered the stronghold of Ibatzes of Bulgaria and blinded and captured him, thereby ending Bulgarian resistance to the Byzantine conquest?
Did you know that in 2008, Unionsexpressen started a luxury intercity train service between Oslo and Stockholm, in competition with the state-owned SJ?
Did you know that it has been claimed that Clan Schaw descends from cup bearers to the Scots kings Alexander II or Alexander III; and that the clan's heraldry alludes to the office of cup bearer?
Did you know that operatic tenor Gustav Walter portrayed the role of Assad in the world premiere of Karl Goldmark's Die Königin von Saba?
Did you know that some Dartmoor crosses (example pictured) were probably used not for religious purposes, but rather to mark the tracks between Buckfast Abbey, Tavistock Abbey and Buckland Abbey?
Did you know that television chef Ingrid Espelid Hovig is considered the "culinary mother" of Norway?
Did you know that the prolific author Maxwell Gray, whose real name was Mary Gleed Tuttiett, was a permanent invalid who seldom left her home in Newport, Isle of Wight?
Did you know that the trees that gave Maple Lawn, a Frederick Clarke Withers-designed house in Balmville, New York, its name were later destroyed in a hurricane?
Did you know that to survive during Prohibition, some winemaking families in what is now California's Russian River Valley AVA converted to bootlegging operations that sold a water-based wine known as "jackass brandy"?
Did you know that unlike most other lemurs, the Collared Brown Lemurs do not demonstrate female dominance?
Did you know that water puppetry from North Vietnam dates back to the 11th century CE?
Did you know that within the Source Seine commune in France is the source of the Seine?
Did you know that , according to the Book of Tang, the Tang Dynasty official Wang Shuwen first became a staff member of then-Crown Prince Li Song because of his Go abilities?
Did you know that 19th-century French newspaper Le Constitutionnel established the reputation of critics such as Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve?
Did you know that Adolphe Colrat, the High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia, previously worked as the chief of staff for the police commissioner of Réunion?
Did you know that British novelist Mary Shelley was blackmailed by the Italian exile for whom she wrote the travel narrative Rambles in Germany and Italy?
Did you know that Carol Hutchins, coach of the first eastern team to win the Women's College World Series, is the winningest coach in the history of the University of Michigan in any sport?
Did you know that Francois-Gabriel D'Angeac, the first French governor of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, began his military career at age eight?
Did you know that Jack Brennan's accidental interruption of the Frost/Nixon interviews allowed Richard Nixon's staff to convince Nixon to offer a mea culpa?
Did you know that New York City's Stock Exchange Luncheon Club closed in 2006 after more than a century on Wall Street?
Did you know that Sammy Davis Jr.'s 1933 role in Rufus Jones for President is considered to be the first portrayal of an African American president of the United States in popular culture?
Did you know that a relative of the culinary herb sage, Salvia involucrata, has been found to contain compounds that can help prevent memory loss?
Did you know that a subspecies of the carnivorous plant Drosera stolonifera has only been collected from the summits of two mountains, Bluff Knoll and Toolbrunup in Western Australia?
Did you know that after being completed in October 2008, Tokyo's Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower is the second-tallest educational building in the world, at 204 metres (669 ft)?
Did you know that after the New York Central Railroad ended service to it, the Milton Railroad Station in Milton, New York, was used by a local winery for tastings?
Did you know that art and architecture collective Fashion Architecture Taste designed a bicycle shelter in the shape of a castle in Scheveningen that appeared on the 69c Dutch postage stamp?
Did you know that before a shogunate tribunal in 1787, the temples Myōhō–ji, Ankokuron-ji and Chōshō-ji in Kamakura all claimed to be the site where Nichiren, founder of Nichiren Buddhism in Japan, had his hermitage in a hut in the 13th century?
Did you know that despite what its scientific name implies, the perennial garden plant Salvia indica is not naturally found in India?
Did you know that film producers Keith Calder, Felipe Marino and Joe Neurauter acquired their first script within a week of forming their production company, Occupant Films?
Did you know that in 1716, Richard Phelps  cast the hour bell popularly known as "Great Tom" (illustration pictured) still in use at St Paul's Cathedral, London?
Did you know that in 1953, Jessurun Cardozo became the first rabbi to conduct Jewish High Holidays services in Madrid since the Alhambra Decree of 1492 expelled Jews from Spain?
Did you know that in 1995–96, fans of the NHL's Florida Panthers celebrated goals by throwing plastic rats on the ice as their team reached its first Stanley Cup final?
Did you know that in late 2008, Norwegian novelist Johan Harstad won the Brage Prize and was hired as the first in-house playwright at the National Theatre of Norway?
Did you know that of all head coaches of what are now the New Orleans Hornets, Basketball Hall of Famer Dave Cowens has had the best record, winning more than 60% of games in his three seasons coaching the team?
Did you know that taranakite, a mineral formed from the reaction of clays or aluminous rocks with materials derived from bat or bird guano, was first found in New Zealand's Sugar Loaf Islands in 1865?
Did you know that the airline Vildanden started its first route with wet leased aircraft (example pictured) from Coast Air?
Did you know that the indigenous flora of Saskatchewan (example pictured) is used for jellies, jams, pies, herbal teas, medicinal decoctions and technological products?
Did you know that the medieval Old Punch Bowl in Crawley, England, has been a house, a dairy farm, a tearoom, an officers' mess, a YMCA and a bank, and is now a pub?
Did you know that Alexis Belonio, for his innovations on the rice husk stove, becomes the first Filipino to receive a Rolex Award for Enterprise?
Did you know that Egypt's Fahd Armored Personnel Carrier has specialized variants ranging from an infantry fighting vehicle to a command post vehicle to deal with different threats?
Did you know that K-Space's third album, Infinity, was a new type of CD that is different every time it is played?
Did you know that Michael Jackson's autobiography, Moon Walk, was given the code name "Neil Armstrong", that of the first "moonwalker"?
Did you know that Sgurr nan Spainteach, a mountain in Glen Shiel, was named after the Spanish soldiers who retreated up it during the Battle of Glen Shiel?
Did you know that advertising executive turned vintner Robert Palmer was one of the first to export overseas wines produced in the North Fork of New York's Long Island?
Did you know that because he misidentified the stalked lattice stinkhorn fungus as a new species, George Atkinson was ridiculed in print by fellow mycologist Curtis Gates Lloyd?
Did you know that developmental biologist Aron Moscona's research on growth of embryos into complex tissues and organs led to the discovery of cadherins, which help cells recognize each other and cluster together?
Did you know that during the inauguration of Barack Obama, Macon Phillips, the White House Director of New Media, posted the first official Obama Administration blog entry from Whitehouse.gov?
Did you know that efforts taken by Roman Catholic missionary Henrique Henriques to publish religious books in local languages led him to be called The Father of Tamil press?
Did you know that in a festival at the Norse Temple at Uppsala, men and male animals were sacrificed by hanging?
Did you know that in some countries, digital DJ licensing is required before DJs can legally perform with a laptop?
Did you know that the 5,000-calorie Bacon Explosion was created in response to a Twitter challenge to develop "the ultimate bacon recipe"?
Did you know that the Dubois-Sarles Octagon in Marlboro, New York, has a recessed entrance and sidehall interior plan, both unusual in mid-19th century octagon houses?
Did you know that the English architectural historian Edward Hubbard wrote the definitive biography of the Cheshire architect John Douglas, but died before it could be published?
Did you know that the English village of Gresham, Norfolk, once had a 14th-century castle with four round towers and a moat, now ruined and overgrown by trees?
Did you know that the Milton-Madison Bridge, which carries U.S. Route 421 across the Ohio River, is considered structurally poor and unable to handle modern truck traffic?
Did you know that the didactic Jain literature, Vaddaradhane, written by Shivakotiacharya in c. 900, is the earliest available prose work in the Kannada language?
Did you know that the first ever mission of the U.S. Peace Corps to Cambodia began in the Kampong Siem District?
Did you know that the idea for the Red Scapular of the Passion approved by Pope Pius IX is said to have been given to a French nun by visions of Jesus and Mary in 1846?
Did you know that the old stone jail in Bardstown, Kentucky, an active prison from 1819 to 1987, is the last stone jail in operation in Kentucky, USA?
Did you know that the plant genus Tricarpelema contains seven Asian species from moist tropical forests and one African species found on dry inselbergs?
Did you know that the recently announced Marianna Fault in Arkansas was discovered due to the stretches of fine sand in otherwise fertile soil?
Did you know that the stag's horn fungus contains a sugar binding protein with potent anti-tumor properties?
Did you know that various species in the fungal genus Antrodia, used in Taiwan as traditional medicines, have been shown to have antioxidant and anticancer properties?
Did you know that when Hayden Edwards asked fellow empresario Stephen F. Austin to support the Fredonian Rebellion, Austin replied "You are deluding yourselves and this delusion will ruin you"?
Did you know that worldwide there are four million commercial fishing vessels, including 1.8 million undecked traditional craft still powered by oars or sail?
Did you know that American author Malcolm MacPherson was inspired to become a journalist after interviewing Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru while attending a high school summer program in New Delhi?
Did you know that Cinderella, as broadcast on CBS in March 1957, is the only Rodgers and Hammerstein musical written for television?
Did you know that Coast Aero Center and Norving were the first airlines with scheduled services at Geilo Airport, Dagali located in Hol, Norway?
Did you know that Hrelja, a 14th-century semi-independent feudal lord under Serbian suzerainty, built the defensive tower in Bulgaria's largest monastery, the Rila Monastery?
Did you know that Ignatz Urban's type collections of Caribbean plants were largely destroyed in the 1943 bombing of the Berlin Herbarium?