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Did you know that despite being with five different teams during the 2004 NFL season, cornerback Mike Echols did not appear in any games?
Did you know that the Benjamin Walworth Arnold House and Carriage House was Stanford White's only design in Albany, New York, and the city's first fully electrified house?
Did you know that the only fossil of the extinct moth Baltimartyria sat on a paleoentomologist's desk for a number of years before being described in 2011?
Did you know that the video game Iron Grip: Marauders changed from an isometric to a perspective camera during open beta?
Did you know that Il sogno di Scipione, an opera by Luca Antonio Predieri, was first performed in 1735 to celebrate the birthday of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor?
Did you know that Puerto Rican American policeman Nicholas Estavillo was the first Hispanic to become a three-star Chief in the NYPD?
Did you know that Titiek Puspa's stage name was given to her by President Sukarno?
Did you know that coral aquaculture may be becoming an effective tool for restoring coral reefs, which have been declining around the world?
Did you know that on 24 September, pro-Gaddafi forces launched a raid on the oasis town of Ghadames, held by the National Transitional Council and home to a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Did you know that the Aidanfield subdivision in Christchurch was developed over the last decade to raise funds for a Catholic order?
Did you know that the Port of Split in Croatia is the third largest passenger seaport in the Mediterranean?
Did you know that the Presidential Council for Minority Rights, a Singaporean body that ensures laws do not discriminate against racial or religious minorities, has not issued an adverse report since its creation?
Did you know that the tubers of the Potato Orchid taste of beetroot?
Did you know that Cyclone Hollanda (satellite image shown) of 1994 caused the worst cyclone impacts on Mauritius since 1975, destroying half of the island's sugar plantations?
Did you know that Dominica, Barbados, Solomon Islands, and Saint Kitts and Nevis were among ten nations that only won one bronze medal in the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games?
Did you know that Lojze Slak, a diatonic button accordion player, performed at rock festivals?
Did you know that a Danish vagabond named Eiler Larsen became famous as "The Greeter" of Laguna Beach, California?
Did you know that the Turnhalle building in Windhoek lent its name to a conference, an alliance, and two political parties?
Did you know that the city of Coimbatore in India was constructed by a 9th century Irula chieftain named Covan?
Did you know that MercyMe's song "Finally Home" was written after lead singer Bart Millard heard the group's guitarists improvising on an acoustic guitar riff?
Did you know that Scotsmen James and Robert Smith were the first pair of brothers to play international football?
Did you know that a white audience gave the black power sign and Little Richard is said to have "openly embraced androgyny" in Let the Good Times Roll?
Did you know that political novice Julie Hardaker beat the experienced incumbent Bob Simcock in 2010's contest for the mayoralty of Hamilton, New Zealand?
Did you know that poorly treated wastewater from raceways used in aquaculture can result in outbreaks of red tide?
Did you know that the 893 Ardabil earthquake is a 'fake earthquake', created due to a misreading of the original Armenian reports for the 893 Dvin earthquake?
Did you know that the Goethe–Schiller Monument in Syracuse, dedicated 100 years ago today, was the last of 13 US monuments honoring Friedrich von Schiller, the German "poet of freedom"?
Did you know that the Soviet Tupolev Tu-142 maritime patrol aircraft was developed in response to the American UGM-27 Polaris submarine-launched ballistic missile?
Did you know that American engineer Edward J. Wasp received the Elmer A. Sperry Award in 1981 for his work developing long distance slurry pipelines?
Did you know that Miró's The Caress of a Bird uses a turtle shell to show that the sculpture represents a woman?
Did you know that Om mani padme hum is engraved in the Lantsa, Tibetan, Uyghur, 'Phags-pa, Tangut and Chinese scripts on a 1348 stele, and in the Tibetan, Jurchen, Chinese, and Mongolian scripts on a 1413 stele?
Did you know that Vic Flowers is considered as the unofficial leader of the Barmy Army?
Did you know that after securing its first-ever bowl victory in the 1955 Gator Bowl, Vanderbilt did not win its second until the 2008 Music City Bowl?
Did you know that immunologist and AIDS advocate Robert Frascino considered himself privileged after being infected with HIV?
Did you know that on his first day filming "Pot of Gold", Glee newcomer and The Glee Project winner Damian McGinty was shoved into a locker 25 times?
Did you know that one of the oldest camellia trees in Europe was planted in the garden of Pillnitz Castle in 1801?
Did you know that the Edward Harden Mansion in Sleepy Hollow, New York, was the site of the first Montessori school in the United States?
Did you know that the extinct Cretaceous wasp family Plumalexiidae is known from only the two Plumalexius type specimens found in New Jersey amber?
Did you know that the upcoming video game Transformers: Fall of Cybertron will not be based on a movie, unlike the 2010 title, Transformers: Dark of the Moon?
Did you know that Ahmad Dhani once found Once to be the lead singer of Dewa 19?
Did you know that Daniel Abibi, Congolese permanent representative to the U.N. during the 1990s, was amongst the first Central Africans to obtain a doctorate in mathematics?
Did you know that Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, and Amy Winehouse have all had posthumous number-one albums in the UK?
Did you know that the most recently described member of the fungal genus Spongiforma is named after the cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants?
Did you know that "gill rot" in the Lost River sucker may be associated with ammonia contamination?
Did you know that Hanna Bergas was one of three teachers who, at Dovercourt, England, met thousands of children fleeing Nazi Germany without their parents on the Kindertransports?
Did you know that Jacques Borlée, the father and coach of Olympic medalist Olivia and twin athletes Jonathan and Kevin Borlée, won a silver medal at the 1983 European Athletics Indoor Championships?
Did you know that V. V. S. Laxman's 281 is the highest individual score by a batsman in an India–Australia Test match?
Did you know that after hearing a sermon by George Whitefield, a member of Ditchling Chapel said he would "tear the church to pieces" and founded his own church, the Bethel Chapel?
Did you know that baseball pitcher Ralph Bell led both the Western Association and Northern League in wins but appeared in only three major league games?
Did you know that completion of the Zrinski Bridge marked the end of 40-year long construction of Budapest–Zagreb–Rijeka motorway?
Did you know that during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Israel's Galilee Squadron was menaced by Syrian trainer aircraft?
Did you know that the 2009 film Tenshi no Koi was based on a Japanese cell phone novel?
Did you know that the African Confederation of Free Trade Unions was founded in 1958 on the basis of the French Charter of Amiens?
Did you know that An Anglo-American Alliance: A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future, published in 1906, has been described as the first lesbian science fiction novel?
Did you know that Fred Donovan was manager of the first professional baseball team that included future Hall of Famer Ray Schalk?
Did you know that John T. Alsap, operator of the first saloon in the Arizona Territory town of Prescott, was appointed the territory's first treasurer?
Did you know that Karet Bivak, Jakarta's second-largest cemetery, holds more than 48,000 graves in a space of 16.2 hectares (40 acres)?
Did you know that King Nicholas I of Montenegro supported the insurgents in the Albanian Revolt of 1911?
Did you know that Pliny the Elder's "White Aethiopians" may have been members of the Fulani ethnic group?
Did you know that physicists running the OPERA experiment detected neutrino particles apparently moving faster than light?
Did you know that the depopulated Palestinian Arab village of Al-Hamma had a station on the Jezreel Valley railway, linking the Hejaz Railway to Haifa?
Did you know that the effort put forth by the subject of Miró's 1937 Naked woman climbing a staircase and her heavy limbs are thought to reflect the tragedy of the Spanish Civil War?
Did you know that the trials of three people accused of involvement in assassination attempts on U.S. presidents were held at the District of Columbia City Hall?
Did you know that Alicia Aberley is a Paralympic swimmer who has held multiple world records and works for Amway?
Did you know that Irma Lozada was the first female police officer to die in the line of duty in New York?
Did you know that J. M. W. Turner's painting of HMS Temeraire has been voted Britain's favourite painting?
Did you know that John Clapp was the inaugural manager of baseball's New York Gothams, which became the modern-day San Francisco Giants?
Did you know that Lorado Taft's The Crusader uses a medieval knight to symbolize the character of Chicago Daily News publisher Victor Lawson?
Did you know that St Edern's Church, Bodedern, Wales, is dedicated to one of the knights of King Arthur?
Did you know that Uncle Tom once led a professional baseball league in stolen bases?
Did you know that Welsh lock Huw Richards, a former sheep shearing champion, was the first player to be sent off in a Rugby World Cup tournament?
Did you know that in "Love Me, I'm a Liberal", U.S. singer-songwriter Phil Ochs mocked the difference between what liberals say and what they do?
Did you know that the 1906 Florida Keys hurricane killed 135 of the Florida East Coast Railway's workers?
Did you know that the Sands of Samar, the last remaining sand dunes in Israel's Arava region, are being threatened by sand mining?
Did you know that Antonio Mohedano painted the main hall of the Archbishop's Palace in Seville?
Did you know that Bach finished the opening chorus of his cantata Wer sich selbst erhöhet, der soll erniedriget werden, BWV 47, with a repeat of the ritornello, adding the complete text of Luke 14:11?
Did you know that Captain Thomas Fortescue Kennedy was first-lieutenant of HMS Temeraire at Trafalgar in 1805, and her last commander at Sheerness in 1838?
Did you know that James Smith led an armed rebellion by colonists against British rule in North America in 1765, ten years before the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
Did you know that baseball player Ed Conwell struck out in his only major league at bat?
Did you know that poet Antonio Machado was born at the Palacio de las Dueñas in Seville?
Did you know that stock car drivers who set a track record at Darlington Raceway in qualifying for the Southern 500 would be rewarded with a white blazer?
Did you know that the parents of Australian Paralympic gold medalist Fabian Blattman installed an elevator in their home so he could get to his bedroom on the third floor?
Did you know that triathletes Chrissie Wellington and Emma Snowsill are among the World and Olympic champions who have been coached by Brett Sutton?
Did you know that when first launched, the Official Subscription Plays Chart tracked more than 3.2 million digital plays per week in the United Kingdom, across 340,000 unique songs?
Did you know that Nut Grove in Albany, New York, is the only extant Grecian country house designed by Alexander Jackson Davis?
Did you know that Pat Dillard set the Major League Baseball single-game record for putouts by a third baseman?
Did you know that Prince Royce's debut album peaked at number one 58 weeks after its release?
Did you know that Russian writer Ivan Goncharov called his debut novel A Common Story, while his memoirs (in which he tried to prove Ivan Turgenev had stolen his best ideas) are An Uncommon Story?
Did you know that SS Mantola sailed for less than a year before being sunk in 1917 while carrying around 600,000 ounces of silver?
Did you know that St George's Church, Heaviley has been described as "by far the grandest church of Stockport"?
Did you know that in 2004 Dewi Sandra was selected as one of the sexiest women in the world by FHM?
Did you know that soon after being ingested by the gregarious jellyfish, the larvae of the developing twelve-tentacled parasitic anemone will eat the jellyfish's gonads?
Did you know that the Church of St. George of Samatya in Istanbul may have been given to the Armenian community because of the intercession of a favorite of Sultan Ibrahim?
Did you know that the Montecito Inn was built by Fatty Arbuckle and Charlie Chaplin and their friends in 1928 and was the inspiration for the 1936 Rodgers and Hart song, "There's a Small Hotel"?
Did you know that Argo Tea is a chain of cafés focused on the world's most popular beverage after water?
Did you know that Atomatrix, who will skate for Team USA at the Roller Derby World Cup, has competed at the international level in inline and ice speed skating?
Did you know that Venezuelan singer-songwriter Franco De Vita received nominations for the Latin Grammy Awards for his album En Primera Fila and the song "Tan Sólo Tú"?
Did you know that although the Umpqua Mariposa lily is rare, up to 800,000 grow on Ace Williams Mountain in Oregon?
Did you know that in July 1946, the 6th Airborne Division placed a cordon around Tel Aviv and searched every building looking for those responsible for the King David Hotel bombing?
Did you know that so many people used Brighton's Jubilee Library on its opening day that the toilets stopped flushing?
Did you know that the Pythagorean tiling, a pattern of squares of two sizes that can be used to prove the Pythagorean theorem, appears in a painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Jacob Ochtervelt?
Did you know that the redfruit desertparsley is a wild carrot found only on the Blue Mountains of Oregon?
Did you know that American Sociological Association's annual award in the sociology of education is named after Willard Waller?
Did you know that New York State Assemblyman Louis DeSalvio co-authored a bill that allowed Castle Clinton to become a national monument, thus thwarting Robert Moses' plan to demolish it?
Did you know that despite posting 32 tackles for the 1994 Michigan Wolverines football team, Kerwin Waldroup did not earn a varsity letter?
Did you know that in 1919, Babe Ruth set a Major League Baseball record with 29 home runs, the last hit off pitcher Rip Jordan?
Did you know that the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra premiered the work "An Alaskan Symphony," which was written specifically for them by composer Adrienne Albert?
Did you know that the Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.4 floatplane, introduced in 1918, was the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service's first purpose-built trainer aircraft?
Did you know that the North Umpqua kalmiopsis was, for over 50 years, thought to be a form of the floral species Kalmiopsis leachiana?
Did you know that the alternative rock band Unified Theory is named after Albert Einstein's final hypothesis unified field theory?
Did you know that the dress worn by Ellen Terry in John Singer Sargent's painting of her portrayal of Lady Macbeth is decorated with 1,000 iridescent green beetle wings?
Did you know that the land for the Captors' Monument at Patriot's Park in Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown, New York, was donated by a free African American couple?
Did you know that Eucalyptus grandis seedlings can put on seven metres (23 ft) of growth in their first year?
Did you know that Lakes Mall in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida, home to the first Office Depot and Sports Authority stores, was otherwise completely vacant in August 1990?
Did you know that a reviewer for John Grisham's new novel The Litigators praised it for avoiding clichés such as somebody being murdered for "stumbling too close to the truth"?
Did you know that after the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake, dean Peter Beck was described as a "figurehead of the city"?
Did you know that during a 1963 presidential visit to Brazzaville, the Guinean president Sékou Touré called for the overthrow of the Congolese government?
Did you know that the eponymous bird in Paul McCartney's song "Bluebird" has been interpreted as a metaphor for love?
Did you know that the village of Pangani (village and river pictured) on the Pangani River's left bank, had a reputation for a high incidence of fevers?
Did you know that Catherine Sandoval is the first Hispanic member of the California Public Utilities Commission?
Did you know that EastEnders characters Anthony and brother Tyler were compared to EastEnders duo Phil and Grant Mitchell?
Did you know that Frank A. Mason was Harvard University's first full-time football coach?
Did you know that Lexicon Branding created the brand names Pentium, BlackBerry, PowerBook, Swiffer, OnStar, Subaru Outback and Forester, Toyota Scion, Dasani, and Embassy Suites Hotels?
Did you know that Russian classical poet Dmitry Khvostov was relentlessly ridiculed for being pompously archaic by younger Golden Age poets, including Pushkin?
Did you know that Sandra Dewi gave an "arousing" performance in Quickie Express, but has refused to do "vulgar" photo shoots?
Did you know that St Paul's Church, in Witherslack, Cumbria, was built in 1668–69 as a result of a bequest made by John Barwick, dean of St Paul's Cathedral?
Did you know that a Russian sect believes that Vladimir Putin is the reincarnation of Saint Paul?
Did you know that if roaming cages were used in offshore aquaculture, juvenile tuna starting out from Mexico could mature and be ready to market by the time they got to Japan?
Did you know that the medieval Church of St Peter, featuring "particularly remarkable" frescoes, once had an inscription by a Bulgarian tsar on its exterior?
Did you know that Adam Hiorth, Oluf Nicolai Roll, and Ole Gjerdrum were among the founders, in 1845, of a spinning mill that later developed into the largest textile company in Norway?
Did you know that Charles B. Gatewood was the United States Army lieutenant who encouraged Geronimo to surrender in 1886?
Did you know that Dira Sugandi was awarded the Indonesian Young Jazz Talent Award for her duet with Jason Mraz?
Did you know that Michael Schneider conducted an oratorio by Stradella, performed by students and teachers of the Frankfurt University of Music at Eberbach Abbey for the Rheingau Musik Festival?
Did you know that in 2009 the Toronto Star called Winnipeg's Manitoba Hydro Place, which uses 60% less energy than a typical large office tower, "the most important building in Canada"?
Did you know that the 1936 Marquette Golden Avalanche football team finished their season with a loss in the inaugural Cotton Bowl Classic?
Did you know that the 2005 Alabama Crimson Tide football team had all ten of its victories vacated by the NCAA, resulting in an official record of zero wins and two losses for the season?
Did you know that the Japanese anime film Magic Tree House is based on the American children's book series of the same name?
Did you know that the Miraflores Altarpiece (center panel pictured) by Rogier van der Weyden was a chronological reading of the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus?
Did you know that the Tayloe family of Richmond County, Virginia, including John Tayloe I, his son, John Tayloe II, and grandson, John Tayloe III, exemplified gentry entrepreneurship?
Did you know that Ian Bankier became Celtic F.C.'s 15th chairman in the club's 123-year history?
Did you know that Nia Dinata, director of controversial films on homosexuality and polygamy, started a children's film festival in 2009?
Did you know that at least 17 tropical cyclones in the East Pacific have existed during the off-season?
Did you know that baseball player Paddy Siglin once got punched in the face by an umpire?
Did you know that former couple Acha Septriasa and Irwansyah united for their last Love Story under the supervision of Irwansyah's future wife and direction of Hanny Saputra?
Did you know that microalgae is used widely in aquaculture and is now cultured itself in hatcheries?
Did you know that octopus aquaculture (common octopus pictured) is being seriously investigated because of overfishing, but so far it has been difficult to culture the early life stages?
Did you know that professional baseball pitcher Oscar Graham, who won 276 games in his career, worked as a rabbit hunter during the winter?
Did you know that the early Christian Martyrion of Saints Carpus and Papylus, which is part of the Church of Saint Menas complex in Istanbul, currently houses two shops, an iron workshop and a car wash?
Did you know that the lead ship of the Reina Victoria Eugenia class was to be named after King Alfonso XIII's English wife?
Did you know that with today's opening of the City Mall in Christchurch, the first part of the central business district reopens since the February earthquake, with 27 shops accommodated in shipping containers?
Did you know that 1911 journal Der yidisher arbeyter (The Jewish Worker) was the first Yiddish labour journal published in France?
Did you know that Jesse Baker, who was born in a log cabin, became the first person from Pierce County, Washington, to play in Major League Baseball?
Did you know that John Hurt received three award nominations for The Elephant Man, winning one of them?
Did you know that Lawrence James Baker's son married the sister of his architect, and the married couple lived in a house within the grounds of Haydon Hall designed by the bride's brother?
Did you know that St Beuno's Church, Aberffraw is a rare example of a church in Anglesey, Wales, with two naves?
Did you know that St Eugrad's Church, Llaneugrad, Wales, contains an Art Nouveau memorial to one of the officers who died in the wreck of the Royal Charter in 1859?
Did you know that an aria of "heart-stopping intensity" in Bach's solo cantata for alto Gott soll allein mein Herze haben, BWV 169, has been compared to "Erbarme dich" from his St Matthew Passion?
Did you know that by early polls, the opposition Serbian Progressive Party had higher ratings than the next three most popular parties combined in the upcoming elections in Serbia?
Did you know that professional baseball player Bill Bagwell led three different leagues in batting average?
Did you know that Henri Ford performed brain surgery with CNN correspondent Sanjay Gupta on a victim of the 2010 Haiti earthquake aboard the USS Carl Vinson?
Did you know that Lucifer died in 2011?
Did you know that Margaret Sanger coined the term birth control in 1914 in her monthly newsletter The Woman Rebel, which she published as part of a campaign to overturn anti-contraception laws?
Did you know that during his 43 years with the New York City Opera, tenor buffo Jack Harrold appeared in more than 100 productions?
Did you know that in nine days in August 1944, the 6th Airborne Division liberated 400 square miles (1,000 km2) of France and captured over 1,000 German prisoners?
Did you know that the ancient murals at St Mary's Church in West Chiltington include a wounded Christ standing on a wheel—a warning against breaking the Sabbath?
Did you know that the case of the Hammersmith Ghost was tried at the Old Bailey and the accused was sentenced to death by hanging and dissection?
Did you know that the entrance to the Schoenhofen Pyramid Mausoleum is modeled after the gateways at Egypt's Karnak Temple Complex?
Did you know that the purportedly haunted King House is now home to feral cats?
Did you know that the will of James Kidd sparked the Ghost Trial of the Century?
Did you know that Ghost Frogs roam the streams of South Africa?
Did you know that Harry Powers said that watching his victims die was more fun than a brothel?
Did you know that Johann Poppe, designing interiors of ocean liners for Norddeutscher Lloyd, moved the first class dining saloon to the centre of the ship, where it could rise two or more decks and have a skylight?
Did you know that Paul McCartney's song "Call Me Back Again" has been interpreted as his response to calls for a Beatles' reunion during the 1970s?
Did you know that according to folklore, people looking into the eyes of Eternal Silence will see a vision of their own death?