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Did you know that the spray-painting of graffiti on a Mass Rapid Transit train in a depot by Oliver Fricker and an accomplice in May 2010 caused an outcry over the security of protected installations in Singapore?
Did you know that the website The Oatmeal, with comics of subjects ranging from zombies, to horse care, to English grammar, receives over 20 million hits a month after existing for less than a year?
Did you know that using a continuously recording fathometer, WHOI scientists aboard RV Atlantis located and described the first abyssal plain in 1947?
Did you know that visitors can climb through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's temporary art installation, Big Bambú, which is constantly evolving as a crew of rock climbers builds it throughout its six-month run?
Did you know that , along with Michael Glynn and John Nihill, Henry Newman was awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry?
Did you know that , as a reserve player for the New Zealand All Blacks, Mark Donaldson set up the play that won the historic 1981 Auckland rugby union test match against the South African Springboks?
Did you know that , in an eventually successful effort to end the nation's longest losing streak, Eastern Michigan University football coach Bob LaPointe hired a local hypnotist?
Did you know that , in the South Korean legal system, litigants prefer to hire former judges or prosecutors as their lawyers, because they think sitting judges will treat them more favourably?
Did you know that Abu Dhabi generates more than half a million cubic metres of wastewater each day, and almost all is treated and re-used to irrigate green space in the city?
Did you know that State Senator John H. Ewing of New Jersey's 16th District opposed state funding for poorer school districts, as "some drive a Ford Taurus, like me", but "we can't pay for everyone to drive a Mercedes"?
Did you know that Stephen B. Shepard, a former editor of BusinessWeek and later dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism called Chris Welles "probably the premier business writer" of his generation?
Did you know that Theodore, the brother of Byzantine emperor Heraclius, was publicly humiliated and imprisoned due to his failure to counter the Muslim raids and his opposition to Heraclius' marriage with Martina?
Did you know that Walpole Old Chapel in Suffolk, now redundant, was originally a farmhouse?
Did you know that a tree planting marathon organized by Project GreenHands resulted in 852,587 saplings being planted in Tamil Nadu which resulted in the setting of a Guinness World Record?
Did you know that after serving in the Culpeper County Militia under Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, Mordecai Barbour embarked upon successful ventures in manufactories and toll bridges?
Did you know that common bracken's scientific name of Pteridium aquilinum is derived from its frond's resemblance to eagle wings?
Did you know that dramatist Theodore Ward, writer of Big White Fog, had his first attempt at writing a play thrown into a fire at age seven by his father?
Did you know that head coach Chris Scelfo's Tulane football team was forced to play all eleven of its games in different cities during the 2005 season after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans?
Did you know that male Monobia quadridens wasps will try to sting like a female, but have neither stinger nor venom?
Did you know that software company Arbor Networks sells network security and monitoring software in use by over 70% of all Internet service providers, giving it unique insight into Internet traffic?
Did you know that the 1907 Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific Expedition rescued the castaways of the Dundonald?
Did you know that the Arkansas Democratic politician Hayes McClerkin in 1970 challenged Governor Winthrop Rockefeller's "list" of militants disrupting college and university campuses?
Did you know that the El Corte River (meaning "The Cut River") got its name from the cutting of giant pines which were floated downstream to Coatzacoalcos to be used for masts and beams by the Spanish navy?
Did you know that the Ormside bowl is one of the finest pieces of Anglian silverwork ever found in England?
Did you know that the Strong-billed Honeyeater actually eats more insects than honey?
Did you know that the defeat of a joint Byzantine-Genoese fleet by a smaller Venetian fleet at the Battle of Settepozzi caused Byzantine emperor Michael VIII to distance himself from his alliance with Genoa?
Did you know that the only external feature that distinguishes the rice rat genera Transandinomys and Hylaeamys may be length of the whiskers?
Did you know that vegan cupcakes beat traditional cupcakes in the reality TV show Cupcake Wars?
Did you know that , after the Battle of Lucas Bend during the American Civil War, the opposing commanders floated insults and challenges to each other using buoys?
Did you know that , asked for his thoughts two decades after the 1970 Sterling Hall bombing that killed a physics researcher, Dwight Armstrong said "I don't care what public opinion is; we did what was right"?
Did you know that , in 2004, Portland City Grill became Oregon's first restaurant to make Restaurants & Institutions magazine's list of the "top 100 highest-grossing independent restaurants" in the United States?
Did you know that , seven years after California football coach Stub Allison's "nasty, opportunistic defense" helped win a national championship, he was fired for "shackl[ing] good material with a dull offense"?
Did you know that 2010 NBA Draft pick Magnum Rolle's first foul shot went over the backboard?
Did you know that Brandon Bess, a "surprise debutant" for the West Indies cricket team in June 2010, was rushed late to the ground, eventually arriving in the second over of the match?
Did you know that Claude Simons, Jr., son of a Tulane University basketball and baseball coach, followed in his father's footsteps by holding those same positions?
Did you know that English gaol keeper and animal breeder Daniel Lambert weighed 52 stone 11 lb (739 lb; 335 kg)?
Did you know that Henri-Pierre Picou has been called the most fashionable painter towards the close of the Second French Empire?
Did you know that Hinke Bergegren's Under röd flagg (cover pictured) was the first periodical to introduce detailed accounts of anarchist thought in Sweden?
Did you know that Indriði Indriðason, an Icelandic medium, was once claimed to levitate at chest-height in front of a window and seem in danger of being thrown through it?
Did you know that John Champe, American Revolutionary rebel double-agent sent to capture Benedict Arnold, was spotted and chased from the landmark the Three Pigeons by fellow rebels, before diving into the Hudson?
Did you know that Marlon Stockinger is the first Filipino to have won a formula race in Europe?
Did you know that Nui Coc Lake contains 89 islands?
Did you know that Saint Mary's Catholic Church in Rome, Georgia, was designed by a Benedictine Monk and architect from Belmont Abbey?
Did you know that despite being only 9.3 mi (15.0 km) long, South Carolina Highway 291 runs by two colleges and an airport in Greenville?
Did you know that funnyman and germ-phobic Howie Mandel released his autobiography in the midst of the H1N1 flu pandemic?
Did you know that hairy black cups are the type species of fungal genus Pseudoplectania?
Did you know that mathematician Lennart Carleson received his Ph.D. when he was 22 years old and later supervised the thesis of Svante Janson, who received his first Ph.D. on his 22nd birthday?
Did you know that the 1974–75 Buffalo Sabres had three separate 10-game unbeaten streaks during the 80-game season?
Did you know that the Italian Tocco family became the rulers of several Ionian Islands and formed the last dynasty of the Despotate of Epirus in Greece, before they were conquered by the Ottomans?
Did you know that the Miguel Cotto vs. Yuri Foreman boxing match was the first fight held at the new Yankee Stadium since the September 1976 bout between Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton, which took place in the original stadium?
Did you know that the congregation of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Katonah, New York, met in a warehouse and movie theater before the church was built?
Did you know that the first non-family member to become CEO of healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson was Philip B. Hofmann?
Did you know that the hedge fund Clarium Capital, which had US$7.8 billion in assets under management in June 2008, saw it drop to $1.5 billion a year later because investors feared the fund worsening?
Did you know that there are over 50,000 standard drill bushing configurations available in customary units?
Did you know that , after attempts were made to seize two works by Egon Schiele that he had bought, Rudolf Leopold insisted that he had not dealt in looted art, saying "I'm not a Nazi and I'm not a Nazi profiteer"?
Did you know that Alice in Wonderland, a Game Boy Color video game, begins with the player as Alice following the White Rabbit down its hole?
Did you know that All-American Rickey Dixon set several school interception records with the 1987 Oklahoma Sooners football team?
Did you know that British Insurance insured three sisters for £1 million if one of them gave birth to the Second Coming of Christ?
Did you know that Codex Glazier, Coptic manuscript of Book of Acts, is very close textually to the Greek manuscript Codex Bezae?
Did you know that Douglas Brand, chief police adviser to the Iraqi Interior Ministry in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion, was nicknamed "The Tower of London" due to his distinctive height?
Did you know that Malcolm Marshall has taken more Test and ODI wickets for the West Indies cricket team than any other Barbados born player?
Did you know that Professor Ernst von Dobschütz expanded the list of New Testament manuscripts?
Did you know that Radio23, a radio station based out of Portland, Oregon, provides an international artistic platform for home broadcasters around the world?
Did you know that Reichenbach Castle was once owned by Rudolf von Erlach, the legendary commander of the victorious Bernese in the Battle of Laupen?
Did you know that Selva Zoque is the largest intact tropical rainforest in Mexico, an important but threatened ecological area?
Did you know that according to a 13th-century saga, Þórketill Þórmóðsson, and two of his sons, were slain in a loch near the Isle of Skye, but another son survived by leaping onto a cask that floated by?
Did you know that all but one of U-109's successes took place during the six patrols she carried out under the command of the U-boat ace, Heinrich Bleichrodt?
Did you know that ice hockey defenceman Johan Fransson won a Swedish Championship in bandy?
Did you know that in 1944, the Lyon to Paris rail line was blown up 22 times by the Special Air Service during Operation Houndsworth?
Did you know that in the massacre of the Albanian beys, around 500 southern Albanian leaders (beys) and their forces were treacherously killed by Ottoman forces when they were invited to a ceremonial salute parade?
Did you know that the 4th century "Empress" pepper pot held pepper, and we know the Romans had pepper because translations of the Vindolanda tablets confirm it?
Did you know that the Bloody Sunday events of 1926 in Alsace were the starting point of cooperation between communists and clerical autonomists, which led to the expulsion of the Neue Welt group of Charles Hueber and Jean-Pierre Mourer from the French Communist Party and the formation of the Alsatian Opposition Communist Party?
Did you know that the Holy Soap website is the official British home of the Australian soap operas Home and Away and Neighbours?
Did you know that the La Peregrina pearl, which had been worn by the queens and queens consort of England and Spain for a few hundred years, was once almost eaten by a puppy in a Las Vegas casino?
Did you know that the Pyramids of Indianapolis were designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Kevin Roche?
Did you know that the Wright's Almshouses in Nantwich, Cheshire, which date from 1638, were moved in the 1970s to stand by the Crewe Almshouses?
Did you know that the extinct New Zealand Musk Duck was becoming more sedentary than its closest relative, the Australian Musk Duck?
Did you know that Bam Aquino became the youngest person in Philippine history to head a government agency when he was appointed at age 26 to become Chairman of the National Youth Commission?
Did you know that Charles E. Fairman was an American physician who had a personal herbarium of 23,000 fungi?
Did you know that Clemens von Delbrück received the Order of the Black Eagle on his dismissal as Vice-Chancellor of Germany?
Did you know that Dikken Zwilgmeyer's "Inger Johanne" books were popular around 1900, and are regarded as a significant innovation of Norwegian children's literature?
Did you know that Harry Söderman, who was in charge of the education of Norwegian police troops in Sweden during World War II, liberated the political prisoners at the Grini concentration camp on 7 May 1945?
Did you know that Harvard medical graduate Brenda Taylor reached the 2004 Olympic final in the 400-meter hurdles?
Did you know that John Adams Cummins was known as the "Prince of Entertainers" for his elaborate celebrations in the Kingdom of Hawaii?
Did you know that Oklahoma Sooners football head coach Barry Switzer won eight consecutive Big Eight Conference college football championships in his first eight years with the 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, and 1980 teams?
Did you know that Sergeant John O'Callaghan and Private Michael O'Regan were among thirty men in the same regiment to be awarded the Medal of Honor, one of the largest presentations ever made at the time?
Did you know that Sussex Heights, Brighton's tallest building, has a resident breeding pair of peregrine falcons with their own webcam?
Did you know that a German submarine sank the Soviet Revolution?
Did you know that art collective Vertical Submarine, winners of the President’s Young Talents award in 2009, placed gray sunflowers in the Singapore Botanic Gardens with a poem by the fictional Chien Swee-Teng?
Did you know that as of 2009, there had been 99 nuclear accidents worldwide?
Did you know that in the Fishman case Dick Anthony played a key role in convincing the court that Margaret Singer’s brainwashing theory lacked scientific support, leading to her rejection as an expert witness?
Did you know that on May 16, 2002, Susan Ershler and her husband Phil became the first married couple to reach all Seven Summits?
Did you know that the $45 million penthouse at One Madison Park comes with a free butler?
Did you know that the British wrecked the engines of the Russian battleship Evstafi during 22–24 April 1919 when they left the Crimea to prevent the advancing Bolsheviks from using her against the White Russians?
Did you know that the Friendship Games were dubbed the "Eastern Bloc's alternative Olympics" of 1984 by the Western press?
Did you know that the clientele of Diego's Hair Salon has included politicians, diplomats, and two U.S. Supreme Court Justices?
Did you know that the leaves of Duiker Berry trees in Southern Africa are used in traditional medicine as a mouthwash and to treat toothache?
Did you know that the remains of the ghost town of Copano, Texas, are at risk of falling into Copano Bay?
Did you know that the success of the album Dos by Myriam Hernández helped her to sign a recording contract with Warner Music?
Did you know that , according to the Bible, Jezebel was defenestrated in Jezreel?
Did you know that Bill Dague was the first consensus All-American football player from the United States Naval Academy?
Did you know that Chaim Sofer ruled that under Jewish law, abortions were not allowed in some cases?
Did you know that Corey Allen fought James Dean and cut him with a knife during filming of Rebel Without A Cause?
Did you know that Franklin Mountains State Park in El Paso, Texas, is the site of the only tin mine ever operated in the United States?
Did you know that Hugh Knox, son of the U.S. Secretary of State and Attorney General, was an All-American halfback at Yale?
Did you know that Liber Eliensis records that Ælfwaru granted to Ely Abbey the lands of Bridgham, Hingham, Weeting, Rattlesden, Mundford, Thetford, and fisheries around those marshes?
Did you know that Lithuanian art historian Paulius Galaunė studied psychoneurology at the University of St. Petersburg?
Did you know that a good wife is prescribed to propitiate Jyestha – the Hindu goddess of misfortune – to keep the goddess away from her home?
Did you know that a rough sketch of Peter Paul Rubens, his second wife Hélène Fourment and child, was discovered on the reverse side of the drawing of his first wife, Isabella Brant?
Did you know that according to Hindu cosmology, women seduce and increase the sexual energy of men who enter the first realm of the underworld by intoxicating them?
Did you know that composer Allyn Ferguson, co-creator of themes for Barney Miller and Charlie's Angels, was cited by Variety as being "among the most prolific composers of TV-movie scores in the past 40 years"?
Did you know that electric drive cars are so quiet at slow speeds that they pose a safety hazard for pedestrians, and will be equipped with electric warning sounds?
Did you know that in 1947, 72 out of 126 trade unions in Singapore were affiliated to the communist-led Singapore Federation of Trade Unions?
Did you know that in late 17th-century London, men put on women's clothing and walked the streets in hopes of catching the eye of Whipping Tom?
Did you know that in the Eccles by-election of 1890, Henry John Roby of the Liberal Party gained the seat from the Conservatives, which was seen as a setback for the Unionist government of Lord Salisbury?
Did you know that siege towers at the Siege of Coria in 1138 reached above the city walls, but the general leading the assault, Rodrigo Martínez, was killed while climbing one?
Did you know that the Albanian Songs of the Frontier Warriors are still sung by Albanian bards, who are assumed to be the very last traditional native singers of epic verses in Europe?
Did you know that the Landespartei, which represented the most radical wing of the Alsatian autonomist movement, moved closer to fascist positions during the 1930s?
Did you know that the a cappella ensemble amarcord, five former members of the Thomanerchor, won the CARA award "Best classical album" again in 2010, for Rastlose Liebe (Restless Love)?
Did you know that the cargo ship Nikolai Bauman was scuttled in 1964 with a load of nuclear waste?
Did you know that the election of Upendra J. Chivukula to the New Jersey General Assembly from the 17th Legislative District made him the first South Asian elected to the New Jersey Legislature?
Did you know that the history of Japanese Buddhist architecture (example pictured) was changed by the belief in a coming dark age?
Did you know that the racing roller coaster Derby Racer killed or critically injured at least five people in its 25 years of operation, leading to a Massachusetts Supreme Court case?
Did you know that , in one study on the aetosaur Redondasuchus, the orientation of a diagram in the paper may have contributed to the misidentification of its holotype as a left scute rather than a right?
Did you know that Arizona Beach State Recreation Site is not in the U.S. State of Arizona but rather in Oregon?
Did you know that Canada's Federated Co-operatives partnered with SeaChoice to promote sustainable seafood, like the spiny lobster, through its co-operatives?
Did you know that Frank Curto Park, named after a local horticulturist, contains a collection of unusual urban art pieces?
Did you know that Harry Oliver, Barney Stanley and Rusty Crawford, members of the Calgary Tigers in the 1920s, all went on to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame?
Did you know that Hwa Chong Institution, a pre-university educational institution in Singapore, has produced 50 President's Scholars, the most by any junior college in the country?
Did you know that Iran is Sri Lanka's largest foreign aid donor?
Did you know that Julia Child insisted on keeping her "wall oven with its squeaking door" in her kitchen, now on display at the Smithsonian?
Did you know that New Zealand MP William Downie Stewart's son, William Downie Stewart, became Mayor of Dunedin—and his daughter Mary served as Lady Mayoress?
Did you know that Truth was the first crime genre novel to win Australia's Miles Franklin Award?
Did you know that Yuri Matochkin, the first post-Soviet governor of Kaliningrad Oblast, favoured closer ties with the European Union?
Did you know that after the six-year study A Christian reflection on the New Age, the Catholic Church rejected all that is close to the New Age?
Did you know that at least four different knuckleball pitchers have been credited as the inventor of the knuckleball, first used in the 1907 or 1908 baseball season?
Did you know that early game warden for Monroe County, Florida, Guy Bradley, was shot and killed in 1905 after confronting plume hunters in the Everglades?
Did you know that in mycology, a sanctioned name refers to those used in early taxonomical works by Persoon or Fries?
Did you know that in the 19th century Albanian scholar and patriot Naum Veqilharxhi invented a brand new alphabet to write in the Albanian language?
Did you know that it is reputed that Salem Chapel, East Budleigh, Devon, was involved with smuggling during the 18th and 19th centuries?
Did you know that modernist architect Peter Womersley (1923–1993) designed a house and studio for the textile designer Bernat Klein, both of which are now Category A listed buildings?
Did you know that the Congregational Chapel of Nantwich, Cheshire, was founded in 1780 by a former captain of the dragoons preaching in a coachmaker's shop?
Did you know that the Family E is one of the earliest textual families of the Byzantine text-type?
Did you know that the Holocaust's Arab hero Khaled Abdul-Wahab is sometimes called an Arab Oskar Schindler?
Did you know that the Kildare Poems, one of the first documents of Irish English, contain a satire written by 14th-century Franciscan monks against the immoral lifestyle of other monks?
Did you know that the Oklahoma football team coached by Fred Ewing played one game that had a ten-minute half and was on a 75-yard field, the lines of which the players chalked themselves?
Did you know that video game critics were confused by the presentation of the game Battle Tag at Ubisoft's E3 2010 press conference?
Did you know that when Methodist George Whitefield preached in Nantwich, Cheshire, a mob tried to disperse his audience with a bull, but a Methodist Chapel later became the town's largest chapel?
Did you know that Andrew Balmford found that eight-year-old British children could identify 80% of Pokémon characters but only 50% of common species of British wildlife?
Did you know that Bach's solo cantata for alto Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170 for the sixth Sunday after Trinity, was recorded by Maureen Forrester, Andreas Scholl and Julia Hamari?
Did you know that Bill Long was Ireland's longest surviving heart transplant patient?
Did you know that Cherubim Dambui was the first premier of Papua New Guinea's East Sepik Province and the first Sepik person to be ordained a Catholic priest?
Did you know that Montana's Sleeping Giant Wilderness Study Area (namesake landform pictured) was designated a federal wilderness study area in 1981, delisted in 1982, and designated again in 1985?
Did you know that Paul the Octopus predicts Spain winning the World Cup today, while Mani the Parakeet tips a victory by the Netherlands?
Did you know that Robert de Munro, the first chief of the Clan Munro to appear in contemporary sources, was slain in about 1369?
Did you know that Willie Heston, rated by Knute Rockne as the greatest back of all time, helped Michigan outscore its opponents 2,326 to 40 in his four years with the team?
Did you know that a French expedition in Syria occurred in 1860–61, to reestablish order following the massacre of Maronite Christians by Druzes and Muslims?
Did you know that a telescope, high school, bridge, and locks and dam are among the places named for United States Senator Robert Byrd in the U.S. state of West Virginia?