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Did you know that the fairy shrimp Branchinecta brushi lives at 5,930 m (19,460 ft) in the Chilean Andes, higher than any other crustacean in the world?
Did you know that when a diabetic passenger needed an emergency stop on a JetBlue flight, David Barger, now the company's CEO, personally apologized to every customer for the delay?
Did you know that Ekgmowechashala was the only North American genus of primate during the Late Oligocene?
Did you know that Figaro was brought back in 2008 for the Australian and northern sawtail catsharks?
Did you know that French comedy actor Louis de Funès made his film debut at the age of 31 with a 40-second appearance in The Temptation of Barbizon?
Did you know that Gin Pit was the first colliery belonging to Astley and Tyldesley Collieries, and its name suggests it had horse-driven winding gear and was on the site of even older coal workings?
Did you know that Jauja, located near Laguna de Paca, was the capital of Peru before the founding of Lima?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey won the NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament champions in both 1996 and 1998, but the 1996–97 team had the best record?
Did you know that Philadelphia School of Circus Arts teaches static trapeze, corde lisse, lyra, unicycling, tightwire, and Chinese acrobatics?
Did you know that Prince Abbas Hilmi, a great-grandson of both the last Ottoman sultan and the last Ottoman caliph, was the first foreign member of the London Stock Exchange?
Did you know that Robert Lee Bobbitt, a prominent Texas politician of the 1920s and 1930s, was a presidential elector in 1944 for the Roosevelt-Truman ticket?
Did you know that Robert Levin reconstructed for the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage missing parts of Ach! ich sehe, itzt, da ich zur Hochzeit gehe, BWV 162?
Did you know that William W. Norton wrote scripts for films starring John Wayne and Burt Reynolds, but when asked by a nurse if she would know any of his films, he replied, "I don't think your IQ is low enough"?
Did you know that during the 16th century, St Peter and St Paul's Church, Preston Deanery, Northamptonshire, was used as a dog kennel and a pigeon house?
Did you know that in addition to its rich wildlife, Lore Lindu National Park on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi contains megaliths dating from before 1300 AD?
Did you know that native Pennsylvanian Alexander Fulton named the Louisiana city that he founded, Alexandria, after himself?
Did you know that plans to restore the derelict Leah's Yard in Sheffield, England, have been put on hold because of government budget cuts?
Did you know that the 18,000-square-foot (1,700 m2) wave pool at Hyderabad's Jalavihar, which is the largest in India, can accommodate about 1,000 people at a time?
Did you know that the 2010 sockeye salmon run on the Adams River in British Columbia, Canada, is expected to be the largest since 1913, with an estimated 9 million fish returning to the river to spawn?
Did you know that the 2010–11 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team is coming off its first year with a postseason victory since the 1998–99 team won two games in the 1999 National Invitation Tournament?
Did you know that the Double-O Ranch Historic District in Harney County, Oregon, was once owned by cattle baron Bill Hanley and is now part of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge?
Did you know that the Grandview Apostolic Church was the second-oldest church in Brown County, Indiana, until it was burned last July?
Did you know that the New Jersey Historical Commission established the Mildred Barry Garvin Prize to recognize educators in the state for outstanding teaching of African-American history?
Did you know that the Sack of Amorium in 838 by the Abbasids discredited Byzantine Iconoclasm and led to the restoration of the veneration of icons?
Did you know that the first battle of the Crimean War led to an increased usage of the name Alma?
Did you know that the generation of Husák's Children was named after a communist president of Czechoslovakia?
Did you know that Adam of Kilconquhar, first husband of Robert the Bruce's mother Marjory of Carrick, died on crusade at Acre in 1271?
Did you know that Dinesh Dhamija went from selling tickets in a London tube station kiosk to a net worth of over £100m?
Did you know that Hyderabad-born Asher Noria is the only shooter in the world to win the double trap event of the International Shooting Junior World Cup for two consecutive years?
Did you know that Koserow church is reportedly the oldest church on Usedom's Baltic Sea coast?
Did you know that Lom prisoner of war camp, operated by the 2nd Division during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign, held both German PoWs and Norwegians suspected of collaborationism?
Did you know that Mrs. Thomasina Tittlemouse was depicted on a 1955 Huntley & Palmer biscuit tin?
Did you know that Oatka Creek disappears from an area north of Le Roy, New York, during the summer months?
Did you know that Philipsburg Manor, one of the four main manors of the Province of New York, was dissolved in 1779 because its owner was a loyalist?
Did you know that Podvugleš Tunnel is separated from neighboring Javorova Kosa Tunnel by a 30-metre (98 ft) section of the Croatian A6 motorway?
Did you know that according to a legend, the Heishi rock represents the God of the Sea of Japan?
Did you know that after the Paris Exposition of 1867, the London Times referred to the works of Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon (self-portrait pictured) as "the finest photographic portraits in the world"?
Did you know that architectural historians have described the Norman chancel arch of St James' Church, Stirchley, Shropshire, as "quite incongruously ornate"?
Did you know that despite being the largest church in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, St Mary's was declared redundant in 1987?
Did you know that in May 1958, eight months after John Cockroft had announced with great fanfare that the British-designed ZETA device had achieved nuclear fusion, he was forced to retract this claim?
Did you know that one of the Google driverless cars was able to drive itself down the narrow hairpin turns of San Francisco's Lombard Street?
Did you know that the Byzantine general Manuel the Armenian achieved the highest Byzantine military ranks, defected to the Abbasids, escaped back, and saved emperor Theophilos from captivity?
Did you know that the Italian tanker Gianna M was captured by the British Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Hilary in 1941?
Did you know that the New Academy, an 18th-century higher learning institute and center of Greek culture, in Moscopole, Albania, was nicknamed "the worthiest jewel of the city"?
Did you know that the Swedish monitor Folke was designed opposite of her sister ships, with a gun turret at the stern, so that she could protect them during a retreat?
Did you know that the Top Pops chart, which ran for less than three years, had 15 number-one singles that failed to top the official UK Singles Chart?
Did you know that the al-'Awasim was the fortified frontier zone established by the Ummayad and Abbasid caliphates along their border with the Byzantine Empire?
Did you know that the tower of St Bartholomew's Church, Richard's Castle, Herefordshire, is detached from the body of the church, standing about 10 metres (33 ft) to its east?
Did you know that Al-Musta'in was the only Cairo-based Abbasid caliph to hold both political and spiritual power?
Did you know that China labeled the decision to award the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned human rights activist Liu Xiaobo as a "blasphemy"?
Did you know that Chris Deschene is the first Native American to run for Secretary of State in Arizona?
Did you know that Cologne's Museum für Angewandte Kunst houses over 100,000 pieces of applied art?
Did you know that English football captain Bobby Moore was accused of stealing a bracelet in Bogotá, Colombia, during the run-up to the 1970 FIFA World Cup?
Did you know that Harry Thorneycroft was the first British Labour candidate to receive a letter of support from Winston Churchill and other leaders of the coalition government?
Did you know that Marshall Flaum, who won two Emmys for The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, earned an Academy Award nomination for best documentary feature for Let My People Go: The Story of Israel in 1965?
Did you know that Parfait-Louis Monteil made an epic land journey between 1890 and 1892 from Senegal in West Africa to Lake Chad and across the Sahara to Tripoli?
Did you know that Rich Iott, a first-time candidate in the 2010 House of Representatives elections in Ohio, came to media prominence due to his past participation in a World War II reenactment group?
Did you know that Seattle Community Access Network carried a TV show that ran uncensored pornography?
Did you know that Suiyo Seamount, a seamount near Japan, was thought to be extinct until a hydrothermal event in 1991 was brought to light?
Did you know that The Hollies had seven number-one singles on Wonderful Radio London's Fab 40 chart, six of which failed to top the UK Singles Chart in the 1960s?
Did you know that demolition of Manchester Courts, a Category I heritage building damaged in the 2010 Canterbury earthquake, starts today?
Did you know that during the 2002 season, Ateneo de Manila University prevented a 14–0 sweep of De La Salle University-Manila en route to their first men's college basketball championship since 1988?
Did you know that in 1854, Michel Maxwell Philip, the illicit son of a white planter and a slave, wrote Emmanuel Appadocca, the first Trinidadian novel?
Did you know that in a gesture of appreciation for his service in the Spanish Civil War, International Brigades veteran Sam Lesser was offered honorary Spanish citizenship in 1996?
Did you know that in the 1622 Siege of Montpellier, Huguenot troops were able to repel the Catholic troops of Louis XIII repeatedly, until the encounter had to end in negotiations?
Did you know that modern tribes in the area of the village of Negomano on the Mozambique–Tanzania border can be traced to the southern shores of Lake Malawi, and that their ancestors moved to escape severe drought?
Did you know that the 1629 Siege of Privas was one of the last events of the French Huguenot rebellions, and that it ended in the total plunder and destruction of the city of Privas by the troops of Louis XIII?
Did you know that the Constitution of Bhutan is based on Buddhist philosophy, International Conventions on Human Rights, public opinion, and existing laws, authorities, and precedents?
Did you know that the English artist Henry Clarence Whaite was one of the central figures in the formation of the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, Wales' first art academy?
Did you know that the Mexican state of Puebla is home to chiles en nogada, mole poblano and the China Poblana?
Did you know that the Patron of the Auto-Cycle Union which oversees the British Motocross Championship is HRH the Duke of Edinburgh?
Did you know that the SWAT team was called in to restrain unruly fans during the 2003 UAAP semifinals?
Did you know that the Swedish river monitor HMS Sköld had a combined hand and steam propulsion system designed by John Ericsson?
Did you know that the demolition of Mount Carmel High School, a historic landmark in Los Angeles, was filmed for the movie Rock 'n' Roll High School?
Did you know that the dumping of slag into Kilbirnie Loch by the local ironworks unearthed a set of logboats and a crannóg?
Did you know that 2.5-inch-long "nano-drones" now being developed for targeted killing will, like little killer bees, be able to follow their target, even entering a room through an open window?
Did you know that Clyde Lucas and His California Dons recorded background music for some of the early talkies?
Did you know that Jehiel Elyachar would not sell a tenement he owned to make way for 1 Lincoln Plaza, so the five-story building "sticks out like a sore thumb, or a finger—which is probably what [he] had in mind"?
Did you know that Joan Henry's Look on Tempests was the first play dealing explicitly with the subject of homosexuality to be approved for performance by the Lord Chamberlain?
Did you know that Norman O. Houston co-founded what was, in 1945, the largest business west of the Mississippi owned by an African American?
Did you know that St Cosmas and St Damian's Church, Stretford, Herefordshire, is dedicated to the patron saints of physicians and surgeons?
Did you know that Universal Pictures sold its 1946 horror B movie The Brute Man to another distributor to avoid accusations of having exploited star Rondo Hatton, who died of acromegaly before the film's release?
Did you know that Urraca the Asturian, born in 1132 as an illegitimate daughter of King Alfonso VII of León and Castile, became queen in a neighboring kingdom in 1144?
Did you know that William Rule published the first comprehensive history of the American city of Knoxville?
Did you know that before a population crash due to overfishing, the annual catch of Bering Sea Tanner crab was as much as 332,000,000 pounds (151,000,000 kg)?
Did you know that during the Second World War the Royal Navy escort carrier HMS Vindex still used the Fairey Swordfish biplane?
Did you know that during the Spanish–American War the Spanish gunboat Elcano captured the American bark Saranac, which was carrying 1,640 tons of coal from Newcastle, NSW, for Admiral Dewey's fleet?
Did you know that influential American wine critic Robert Parker is satirised in the French bande dessinée comic book Robert Parker Les sept pêchés capiteux (Robert Parker: The Seven Heady Sins)?
Did you know that producers for the sixth season of The West Wing originally cast Marley Shelton as Deputy Press Secretary Annabeth Schott?
Did you know that the 20 days between Dallas Braden's perfect game and Roy Halladay's was the shortest span between two perfect games since 1880?
Did you know that the Blue Monkey microbrewery produces award-winning beers including Ape Ale, Guerrilla Porter, and 99 Red Baboons?
Did you know that the British Conservative Party politician Pierse Loftus was a part-owner of Adnams Brewery?
Did you know that the Flag of Macha is considered to be the first physical flag of Argentina?
Did you know that the Liberty Green Historic District in Clinton, Connecticut, contains a time capsule that should be opened on 4 July 2976?
Did you know that the Messalo River flooded its banks in March 2000 during the 2000 Mozambique flood?
Did you know that the Resolute Desk is one of only five desks ever used in the Oval Office?
Did you know that the World War II search and rescue dog Jet of Iada was awarded both the RSPCA's Medallion of Valor and the Dickin Medal?
Did you know that the chief of the Chilean Army's meteorological office predicted the 1906 Valparaíso earthquake ten days in advance?
Did you know that the deck of Severinske Drage Viaduct, a part of the Croatian A6 motorway, is at a constant grade at one part of the viaduct, while vertically curved at the other?
Did you know that the first captain of Derbyshire County Cricket Club fled the United Kingdom after the club's captain in 1890 discovered embezzlement of £1000 from the club's coffers?
Did you know that the memorial in the churchyard of St. Mary's Church, Hadlow to the 30 hop-pickers who drowned in the River Medway on 20 October 1859 is Grade II listed?
Did you know that the parallel structures of Croatia's Hreljin Viaduct were built using different construction methods, since the original one proved cumbersome?
Did you know that the role of mosquitofish in the history of Sochi was acknowledged by a monument?
Did you know that when rugby union international player David Marques arrived with the British Lions in Australia, he stepped off the plane dressed as a city gent, complete with bowler hat and umbrella?
Did you know that "Smoke and Mirrors", the season-two finale of the BAFTA Award-winning TV series Spooks, was watched by over a third of the British television audience?
Did you know that Alaska Ballot Measure 2 (1998), the state constitutional amendment restricting same-sex marriages, passed through the Twentieth Alaska Legislature with a vote of 42 yeas to 18 nays?
Did you know that Archbishop of Adelaide John O'Reilly removed an "l" from his last name to save time and effort when signing documents?
Did you know that Colonia San Rafael in Mexico City is known for old mansions, theaters, and prostitution?
Did you know that Elina Ringa, who was the Latvian national pole vault champion on ten occasions, has also published a book about Microsoft Office?
Did you know that Entrepreneur magazine dubbed Michael Sedge "the wizard of marketing"?
Did you know that French priest Jean-Claude Faveyrial wrote the first recorded history of Albania?
Did you know that Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo paid US$1 million to build and furnish the four-story Rhinelander Mansion at Madison Avenue and 72nd Street in Manhattan, but never lived in it?
Did you know that Jovan Ćirilov has been the artistic director and selector of BITEF festival for 43 years, the longest term in the history of international theatre festivals?
Did you know that Ramón de Bonifaz (illustrated) broke the river defenses of Seville, leading to the city's capture from the Moors?
Did you know that San Beda College had a 28-year men's basketball championship drought until they won in the Philippine NCAA's 82nd season?
Did you know that Texas A&M women's studies professor and historian Sara Alpern wrote the definitive biography of Freda Kirchwey, editor of The Nation from 1933 to 1955?
Did you know that The Hangover 2, the upcoming sequel to the 2009 comedy film, is set to take place in Thailand?
Did you know that Virginia Governor William E. Cameron was lampooned in a comic opera after he personally led a failed expedition against illegal dredgers in the Oyster Wars?
Did you know that Wobogo's given name was Boukary Koutou, and that he lived in perpetual fear of assassination, according to Dr. Crozat?
Did you know that after Joe C. Carr enlisted during World War II, his wife took on his role as Tennessee Secretary of State, becoming the first female constitutional officer in the state?
Did you know that as a result of the approaching Soviet Red Army, Baroness Elisabeth of Wangenheim-Winterstein and her family were forced to flee eastern Germany, leaving most of their possessions behind?
Did you know that entertainment news journalist Roger Friedman was one of the producers of D. A. Pennebaker's documentary film about Memphis soul musicians, Only the Strong Survive?
Did you know that in addition to being made an officer of the Order of Canada, Myer Horowitz has received eight honorary doctorate degrees from various universities?
Did you know that the British Conservative Party politician Francis Lucas married the daughter of a Viscount of Portugal?
Did you know that the Church of St Edmund in Rochdale is unique among English churches for its overt Masonic symbolism?
Did you know that the Croatian A6 motorway crosses the Bajer Bridge, which spans Lake Bajer, and the Kamačnik Bridge, which spans a canyon that is protected landscape?
Did you know that the Danish folk high school Rødkilde Højskole owes its existence to the dowry of a Norwegian bride who did not live to see it open?
Did you know that the San José Mine in Atacama Region, Chile, began to be exploited in 1889?
Did you know that the directors of ForceSelect, a charitable foundation aimed at supporting military service leavers, include General Sir Mike Jackson and bestselling author Andy McNab?
Did you know that the original publishers of The Lord of the Rings also released the Slavic mythology-based short story collection Croatian Tales of Long Ago by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić 30 years earlier?
Did you know that the tainted wine from an antimonial cup (examples pictured) was used to make oneself vomit?
Did you know that American soprano Lauren Flanigan premiered the title role of Hugo Weisgall's opera Esther at the New York City Opera in 1993?
Did you know that Beles Hydroelectric Power Plant will be the largest power plant in Ethiopia when fully operational, but has been accused of aiming "to provoke Egypt’s anger"?
Did you know that Chesham tube station on the Chesham branch is both the northernmost and westernmost point of the London Underground?
Did you know that Codex Floriacensis, an Old Latin manuscript of the New Testament, begins from the Book of Revelation?
Did you know that Elizabeth Knollys served as Maid of Honour to Elizabeth I of England?
Did you know that IOC member Olaf Ditlev-Simonsen had five caps in football, two in bandy and an Olympic silver medal in sailing?
Did you know that Jameel Sayhood was shot down by Cesar Rodriguez mere minutes after achieving one of the few Iraqi aerial victories of the Gulf War?
Did you know that Louis Henkin slept on the couch of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter on Friday nights so he could attend the justices' weekly Saturday conference without violating the Jewish Sabbath?
Did you know that Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Halberstam's book The Breaks of the Game was listed as one of the best sports books ever written by Sports Illustrated?
Did you know that Robert L. Rutherford was the vice commander of the United States Air Force's Military Airlift Command and commander of both the Air Mobility Command and United States Transportation Command?
Did you know that Robert Tishman co-founded Tishman Speyer in 1978 with his son-in-law Jerry Speyer, a firm that is one of the largest owners and builders of office buildings in the United States?
Did you know that Rusty Mike Radio broadcasts over the internet to the two hundred and fifty thousand Anglos in Israel?
Did you know that Shamkir reservoir is the second largest reservoir in the Caucasus?
Did you know that Silvio D'Amico, first editor of the Encyclopedia of Performing Arts, gave his name to the state-funded Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico?
Did you know that The Waybacks, a four-piece band from San Francisco Bay, played covers from The Beatles' album Abbey Road at the 2010 MerleFest?
Did you know that Yvor Winters titled the third volume in his three-volume collection of literary criticism, examining the work of prominent writers associated with Modernist poetry, The Anatomy of Nonsense?
Did you know that a 13-year-old girl discovered Grotte du Vallonnet, a cave in the Alpes-Maritimes of France that contained stone tools dated to 1 million to 1.05 million years BC?
Did you know that after winning his last fight via 10-second knockout due to head kick, English welterweight Mark Scanlon was signed by the Ultimate Fighting Championship?
Did you know that completion of the Croatian A4 motorway on October 22, 2008 marked completion of the Budapest–Zagreb–Rijeka motorway route?
Did you know that despite suffering from asthma, Indian badminton player Parupalli Kashyap continues to play the sport?
Did you know that in 1995, Canada's lower Kazan River area, an important caribou crossing as well as the ancestral home of Harvaqtuurmiut, was designated the Fall Caribou Crossing National Historic Site?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano Débria Brown created the role of Tituba in the world premiere of Robert Ward's Pulitzer-winning opera, The Crucible, at the New York City Opera in 1961?
Did you know that puppeteer Van Snowden, who performed the puppetry for the H.R. Pufnstuf and Crypt Keeper characters, also developed the facial movements for Furby toys?
Did you know that running back Gerald White played football for Bo Schembechler at Michigan, Tom Landry at Dallas and Don Shula at Miami?
Did you know that tens of thousands of victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake were buried in multiple mass graves near Titanyen?
Did you know that the Rose Bowl was used as a velodrome as one of the venues of the 1932 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that the gills of Inocybe praetervisa change from whitish to clay brown as the mushrooms mature?
Did you know that the pattern of cracks (example pictured) in a painting can be used to detect forged art?
Did you know that the release of Future X-Cops was delayed, as time was needed to enhance the quality of the film's special effects?
Did you know that the term educology, referring to the fund of knowledge about the educational process, has been in use since the 1950s?