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Did you know that Mien Ruys, a Dutch garden architect, started the fad of designing gardens using railroad ties (Dutch, bielzen), so much so that her nickname became Bielzen Mien?
Did you know that Pizzo Coca was formed with a post-glacial valley?
Did you know that Rocky Iaukea, a second generation American professional wrestler, is the son of King Curtis Iaukea?
Did you know that The Colm and Lucy Show began as a result of the death of Gerry Ryan, the presenter of The Gerry Ryan Show?
Did you know that according to the Hindu epic Mahabharata, the apsara Tilottama was so beautiful that the god-king Indra developed a thousand eyes on his body to see her?
Did you know that the 1992 College Baseball All-America Team included three future Major League All-Stars, two future Olympians and the Major League career recordholder for no-hitters caught?
Did you know that the Bloch MB.480, despite proving successful in testing, was cancelled by the French Navy in favour of landplanes?
Did you know that the Roa–Hønefoss Line (Jevnaker Station pictured) was built to allow the Bergen Line to both connect to Oslo, Norway, and be built with standard gauge?
Did you know that the Shcherbakov Shche-2 was used by the Soviet Air Force to resupply partisan forces during World War II?
Did you know that the Wadi Qelt Synagogue located in Wadi Qelt west of Jericho, is the oldest synagogue in Israel that has been found to date?
Did you know that the caterpillar of the moth Aglaope infausta can retract its head into its prothorax?
Did you know that the destruction of over 150 million reis-worth of Nyassa Company stamps was ordered in 1895 by the Portuguese government because the stamps had been printed in England and not Portugal?
Did you know that the medieval English monk Adam of Eynsham wrote the Magna Vita Sancti Hugonis, one of the fullest and most trustworthy hagiographies from the Middle Ages?
Did you know that the medieval English royal administrator William of Wrotham (d. c. 1217) was responsible for the development of royal dockyards at Portsmouth?
Did you know that Édouard Manet's 1879 Self-Portrait with Palette is expected to bring up to US$42.5 million at auction this June?
Did you know that Boeing's Phantom Ray UCAV was kept a secret even within the company for almost two years?
Did you know that British shooter Matt Skelhon shot a perfect 600 score whilst winning a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics?
Did you know that Denton Hall Turret is the easternmost surviving stretch of Hadrian's Wall?
Did you know that Gernot Bergold is considered the father of biochemical insect virology?
Did you know that Hermes o Logios was the longest-running Greek periodical prior to the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence (1821)?
Did you know that Louisiana State Sen. Robert M. Marionneaux was the first white elected to campus government at historically black Southern University in Baton Rouge?
Did you know that Nymphaea thermarum, the world's smallest water lily, was recently saved from extinction?
Did you know that Walter Conway's Tredegar Medical Aid Society was a model for Britain's National Health Service?
Did you know that a photograph of Wem Town Hall in Shropshire, England, taken during a fire, appears to show the ghost of a young girl standing amidst the flames?
Did you know that according to local tradition, the rental paid to the king for the Scottish castle and island of Fraoch Eilean was one snowball?
Did you know that after serving as personal assistant to Tom Cruise, Michael Doven became a film producer?
Did you know that baseball player Miguel Fuentes, who threw the last pitch in Seattle Pilots history, was murdered at the age of 23?
Did you know that bass Franz Kelch sang the role of Seneca in the first recording of Monteverdi's opera L'incoronazione di Poppea with Walter Goehr and the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich?
Did you know that bass singer Harry van der Kamp founded the Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam to perform madrigals of Carlo Gesualdo and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck?
Did you know that between 2005 and 2008, EContentplus funded over 60 digital content projects ‎in the European Union, including DIGMAP and Communia?
Did you know that during the Middle Ages, a papal legate holding a legatine council outranked all other council attendees?
Did you know that even though Gassed was voted picture of the year by the Royal Academy of Arts, E. M. Forster considered it too heroic?
Did you know that geographer Yngvar Nielsen published a travel guide book in 1879, which played an important role in the development of tourism in Norway?
Did you know that species of the jelly fungus genus Tremella are parasitic on wood-rotting fungi?
Did you know that the American Detroit blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, Bobo Jenkins, penned the politically motivated "Democrat Blues" on US Election Day in 1952?
Did you know that the Eastern Docklands in Amsterdam, which used to be an industrial harbor area, now attracts trendy professionals and young families with children?
Did you know that the Großes Torpedoboot 1913 class torpedo boat was the largest class of torpedo boats ever produced for the Kaiserliche Marine?
Did you know that the Littlehead porgy fish has been described as one of the most brightly colored members of the porgy family, which contains well over 100 species in 37 genera?
Did you know that the Spanish floating battery Duque de Tetuán was considered a failure as a ship of war?
Did you know that the Vilar Technology Center at Washington & Jefferson College was renamed the Technology Center, after its namesake reneged on a $18.1 million pledge to the college?
Did you know that the medieval poet Frithegod is best known for his Breviloquium Vitae Wilfridi, a Latin poem on the life of St Wilfrid that's been called "one of the most difficult Latin poems written in pre-conquest England"?
Did you know that the resignation of Sri Mulyani Indrawati as finance minister of Indonesia caused its stock exchange to drop by 3.8% and its currency value to drop by 1%, and was the fourth most talked about topic in Twitter?
Did you know that 2006 high school boys basketball All-Americans included 24 McDonald's All-American Game selectees of whom about 22 are expected to play in the National Basketball Association?
Did you know that 2⅓ miles (5.8 km) of Iowa Highway 316 form the border between Marion County and Warren County, Iowa?
Did you know that Alabama land- and slave-owner Benjamin Ogle Tayloe, reputed to be America's richest man in 1860, lost a half million dollars during the American Civil War?
Did you know that Albert W. Barney received an award from a day school and retired after sitting on the bench?
Did you know that Bogdan Žižić is the only film director whose first two feature films both won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film?
Did you know that Emil John Mihalik, the first Byzantine Eparch of Parma, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania?
Did you know that Frim Frimodig played high school football with The Gipper and held Michigan State's single-game basketball scoring record for 35 years?
Did you know that Gooch Gauthier coached a "little band of Battling Bishops" to victory over the Michigan Wolverines in the 1928 season opener at The Big House?
Did you know that HMS Laura, captured by the French in 1812, became an American privateer, only to be recaptured by the British less than a year later?
Did you know that Manusela National Park in Indonesia protects 14 endemic birds including the threatened Salmon-crested Cockatoo?
Did you know that Mysterious Walker, who played for or coached more than 30 baseball, basketball and football teams, earned his nickname pitching for the San Francisco Seals under a pseudonym and wearing a mask?
Did you know that Ole Jacob Broch founded Scandinavia's first life insurance company?
Did you know that Peter Deinboll was decorated with both the British Distinguished Service Order and Bar and the Norwegian War Cross with Sword?
Did you know that Richard Baker Wingfield-Baker served as High Sheriff of Essex, Deputy Lieutenant of Essex, and Member of Parliament for South Essex?
Did you know that during the Battle of Pindus (1940), the Italian Julia Division, after its initial advance, was surrounded and virtually wiped out by the Greek Army?
Did you know that each year on the Danish island of Bornholm, an artist is selected to have a street in the village of Østermarie named after him?
Did you know that following his defeat at Neopatras, John Palaiologos led the remnants of his army in a 40-mile overnight ride to come to the aid of the Byzantine fleet and win the Battle of Demetrias?
Did you know that painter David Alfaro Siqueiros was denounced as a thief when he attempted to take a votive painting from a Mexican church?
Did you know that the Lakes Argyle and Kununurra Ramsar Site sometimes holds up to 200,000 waterbirds, as well as large numbers of Freshwater Crocodiles?
Did you know that the black under-wing markings of the Letter-winged Kite resemble an M or W?
Did you know that the first fire-breathing dragon in English literature occurs in the Old English epic poem Beowulf?
Did you know that the listed buildings of Marbury cum Quoisley in Cheshire, England, include an obelisk, a lychgate, a churchyard wall, and half a bridge?
Did you know that to prevent flooding on Colorado State Highway 74, 34-foot high walls were constructed along the road?
Did you know that within a period of 13 years, the Austro-Hungarian Navy succeeded in producing 13 battleships?
Did you know that Al Martino had the first ever number-one single in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Chard Museum in Somerset, England, includes a collection of early articulated artificial limbs?
Did you know that HMS Erin, a Reshadieh class battleship, was flagship of the Nore reserve in 1919?
Did you know that Josephus, who provides the sole surviving account of the Siege of Yodfat, was not only a participant of the battle but in fact commanded Yodfat's defenders?
Did you know that Kassian Cephas, a court photographer of the Yogyakarta Sultanate, was the first indigenous person from Indonesia to become a professional photographer?
Did you know that New Jersey State Senator John P. Scott was described by The New York Times as "one of the most conservative Republicans in the Legislature"?
Did you know that Odd Øyen, active in Norway's WWII resistance, later became the first non-Swede in many years to be decorated with the Order of Vasa for participation in the Congo Crisis?
Did you know that Robert Deniston Hume, a late 19th-century salmon-cannery and hatchery owner on the lower Rogue River in the U.S. state of Oregon, referred to himself as a "pygmy monopolist"?
Did you know that Siobhán Parkinson recently became the first ever Laureate na nÓg?
Did you know that William Sharp, surgeon to paupers and a princess, commissioned a painting of his family playing music on a barge?
Did you know that William Sharp, the first science teacher in a British public school, resigned in 1850 and later published papers on homeopathy?
Did you know that in 1911, pioneer aviator George Dyott made one of the first nighttime flights in his Deperdussin in Nassau, carrying a searchlight powered by cables to the ground?
Did you know that it is estimated that 1.5 million Australians are descended from migrants who were received at the Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre?
Did you know that land diving, the precursor to bungee jumping, is done without any safety equipment by the men of Pentecost Island?
Did you know that not only was Wong Yu (黃裕) the sole survivor of an airline crash, he was also the hijacker of the plane?
Did you know that one of the duties of the medieval English justice Richard Herriard (d. 1208) was paying prostitutes for King John of England?
Did you know that over 100,000 people claim to have been at Thomond Park in 1978 when Munster became the only Irish rugby team to ever beat the All Blacks, although the stadium only had a capacity of 12,000?
Did you know that the American Chicago blues singer, harmonicist and songwriter, Golden "Big" Wheeler, got his enthusiasm for playing the harmonica when he was working as a taxicab driver?
Did you know that the Dyott monoplane, built in London, was flown over 2,000 miles (3,200 km) in the United States during 1913, and would have been flown in India had it not been commandeered by the Admiralty in 1914?
Did you know that the Italian ship Castore was commissioned as a gunboat, but was later redesignated as a barge, a minelayer, and a torpedo training vessel?
Did you know that the Russian frigate General Admiral evacuated Cretan insurgents and their families in 1868 during the Cretan Revolt against the Ottoman Empire?
Did you know that the pyjama shark and the leopard catshark ambush chokka squid by hiding in the squid's spawning grounds?
Did you know that the title track of Boogie Bill Webb's 1989 album, Drinkin' and Stinkin', was inspired by his encounter with three drunken women?
Did you know that theatre producer Fred O'Donovan worked with a range of people as diverse as Seán O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw, Peter O'Toole and Maureen Potter?
Did you know that thirty knights of Josselin Castle defeated the same number from Ploërmel at the Battle of the Thirty?
Did you know that American mezzo-soprano Susanne Mentzer created the role of the mother of Yueyang in Tan Dun's opera The First Emperor at the Metropolitan Opera in 2006?
Did you know that American sociologist Mildred Parten developed a theory on children's stages of play?
Did you know that Carmelita González, who earned $21 for her first film appearance, became a leading actress during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema?
Did you know that Dean Martin's song "The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane" was a number-one in the United Kingdom but is omitted by the UK Singles Chart?
Did you know that English suffragette Olive Wharry was imprisoned in 1913 for an arson attack at Kew Gardens?
Did you know that Estonian-Jewish chemist Moses Wolf Goldberg earned the Habilitation degree in 1935 despite increasing xenophobia at ETH Zurich?
Did you know that Frederick Booth-Tucker of The Salvation Army was awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind medal in 1913 for his work among the poor of India?
Did you know that Minuscule 714, the manuscript of the New Testament, contains also a fragment of Sentences of Peter Lombard?
Did you know that Peter I Island was the first land to be discovered south of the Antarctic Circle?
Did you know that Pythagoras, Kepler, and Galileo reside in a subway station under Cambridge, Massachusetts?
Did you know that Robert John Armstrong gave the benediction at a former farm boy's inauguration?
Did you know that a St. Petersburg Times investigation on deaths related to Scientology was recommended in an article of the Indiana International & Comparative Law Review?
Did you know that actor Matt Damon guest starred in the season finale episode of 30 Rock "I Do Do" after learning he was at the top of series creator Tina Fey's guest star wish list?
Did you know that as a result of her parents' divorce, Princess Alexandrine became the adopted daughter of her otherwise childless uncle Frederick William IV of Prussia?
Did you know that derivatives of diamond-like compound adamantane are used as drugs against flu and Parkinson's disease?
Did you know that dermatologist Henry Radcliffe Crocker was the first doctor to try to diagnose the condition of the Elephant Man, suggesting that his condition was related to the nervous system?
Did you know that director Vladimir Pogačić's 1951 film The Last Day is considered the first Yugoslav spy film?
Did you know that during the Battle of Jutland, the German dreadnought SMS Posen accidentally rammed the light cruiser SMS Elbing, which had to be scuttled due to the damage?
Did you know that in 1953, Austrian aerospace designer Ferdinand Brandner led a team that created the world's most powerful turboprop aircraft engine, the Soviet Kuznetsov NK-12?
Did you know that in 1976, Arkansas Republicans nominated for governor an unknown plumber, Leon Griffith of Pine Bluff, after a Minnesota Vikings football player declined the party's offer of support?
Did you know that the Action of 9 February 1799 fought between the frigates USS Constellation and L'Insurgente during the Quasi War was the first ever victory for the United States Navy?
Did you know that the North American XB-21 outperformed its competitor for a U.S. Army Air Corps bomber contract, but lost on price?
Did you know that the Old Nichol was a Cockney enclave and the East End of London's most notorious slum in Victorian times?
Did you know that the Swahili name Shetani (carving pictured), for evil spirits carved by the Makonde people of East Africa, is a borrowing from the Arabic Shaitan, which comes from the same source as Satan?
Did you know that the emission spectrum of GRB 020813 confirmed the relation between supernovae and gamma-ray bursts?
Did you know that the fungus Epidermophyton floccosum can cause the diseases tinea pedis, tinea cruris, tinea corporis and onychomycosis?
Did you know that Chilean-German pianist Alfredo Perl is the current conductor of the Detmold Chamber Orchestra?
Did you know that Minuscule 715, the manuscript of the New Testament, contains also extracts of Eulogius of Alexandria and of Hesychius?
Did you know that Montague Edward Smith, a Justice of the Common Pleas, was made both a Bencher and Treasurer of the Middle Temple, despite having been called to the Bar at a different Inn of Court?
Did you know that Triaenops goodmani, an extinct bat from Madagascar, is known only from three lower jaws?
Did you know that a coffee roasting plant has been built among the dairy farms historically located in the Coleman Station Historic District (landscape pictured) near Millerton, New York?
Did you know that a fire on the French battleship Justice nearly caused an explosion similar to one that had destroyed one of her sisterships?
Did you know that although the Italian battleship Impero was built in Genoa, it was moved to Trieste for completion?
Did you know that in English trusts law, beneficiaries of charitable trusts have no direct control?
Did you know that professional footballer James Caine's son Brian also played professionally?
Did you know that the Messina Palace in Valletta, a residence of wealthy naval officers for centuries, was purchased by the German-Maltese Circle in 1989, with assistance from the Federal Republic of Germany?
Did you know that the Quebec Remparts won the 1971 Memorial Cup, Canada's junior hockey championship, after a playoffs marred by fan violence and threats against players by the Front de libération du Québec?
Did you know that the Russian Empire built the Krepost Sveaborg fortress around Helsinki, Finland, during the First World War?
Did you know that the South Yuba Canal Office was the headquarters for the largest network of water flumes and ditches in California?
Did you know that the animators of the video game company Amanita Design created the designs of puppets for the film Kooky?
Did you know that the battleships of Spain included the smallest dreadnoughts ever built (España pictured)?
Did you know that the documentary film 9to5 – Days in Porn by Jens Hoffmann documents a year in the lives of members of the U.S. porn industry?
Did you know that the feathers of the Red Warbler contain alkaloids, which make the birds unpalatable?
Did you know that the popularity of the medieval historical work Gesta pontificum Anglorum, written by William of Malmesbury about 1125, pales besides that of its companion work the Gesta Regum Anglorum?
Did you know that water is fresh in the western part of Lake Balkhash and is saline in the eastern part?
Did you know that 13-year-old Jordan Romero recently became the youngest mountaineer to reach the summit of Mount Everest?
Did you know that Clarrie Isaacs, one of the founders of the Aboriginal Provisional Government, travelled to Libya on what he claimed was a valid Aboriginal passport but was denied re-entry to Australia with it?
Did you know that Czechoslovak General Heliodor Píka was accused of espionage and high treason on the basis of an "appalling" and "unimaginably inefficient bit of forgery"?
Did you know that Eiliv Austlid was awarded the War Cross with Sword for his command in the rescue of the Norwegian government during World War II, after Trygve Lie maligned him for it?
Did you know that Eledone moschata is an octopus that smells of musk?
Did you know that Jorge Wilmot's ceramic works (example pictured) blend Mexican and international influences?
Did you know that Mikhail Roshchin's play Valentin and Valentina was written in 1971 and performed the same year by theatre director Valery Fokin in Moscow?
Did you know that Paraguayan and jarocho harpist Celso Duarte began touring at age 10 and has performed with his band at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center and the Getty Center?
Did you know that Saint George's Church in Gavril Genovo, northwestern Bulgaria, features vernacular Gothic Revival details and "puzzling" archaic decoration?
Did you know that an English Heritage investigation found that Milecastle 9, on Hadrian's Wall, was one of two milecastles damaged by farming?
Did you know that four separate wrestlers suffered legitimate injuries at WWE's Over the Limit pay-per-view?
Did you know that in 1851, Jackey Jackey, a young Aboriginal Australian, was awarded a specially engraved silver breastplate for heroic deeds by the then-Governor of New South Wales?
Did you know that in southern France, people were inflicted with acute renal insufficiency because they confused Amanita ovoidea with the poisonous species Amanita proxima?
Did you know that members of the Arlington Ladies attend the funeral of every servicemember buried at Arlington National Cemetery?
Did you know that possible relatives of the extinct Madagascar mammal Plesiorycteropus include hedgehogs, aardvarks, and hyraxes, and its remains have been misidentified as rodents and the giant aye-aye?
Did you know that retired Sacramento bishop Alden John Bell was stabbed in his office while preparing for a trip to see Pope John Paul II?
Did you know that the Ancient Forest Alliance, founded in British Columbia to protect endangered old growth forests and ensure sustainable forestry jobs, grew to over 6,000 members in only two months?
Did you know that the Tibet Museum in Lhasa, established in 1999, is the first large-sized modern museum in the Tibet Autonomous Region?
Did you know that the fungal plant pathogen Taphrina padi turns the fruits of infected Bird Cherry trees into distinctive, elongated, tongue-like structures?
Did you know that the three Erzherzog Karl class battleships – SMS Erzherzog Karl, Erzherzog Ferdinand Max and Erzherzog Friedrich – helped quell a mutiny at Cattaro in 1918?
Did you know that the warship Kronan was one of the largest ships in the world when she foundered and exploded with the loss of 800 men at the battle of Öland in 1676?
Did you know that American Phelps Phelps, the first civilian Governor of American Samoa and an Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, was dismissed from Yale University for paying another student to take his tests?
Did you know that Barry Bonds was retired with the bases loaded twice during the 1998 National League Wild Card tie-breaker game?
Did you know that Christopher Columbus received a royal reward for the 1492 sighting of unknown light?
Did you know that Erie J. Sauder was a Mennonite cabinetmaker with only an eighth-grade education when he started the ready-to-assemble furniture industry?
Did you know that Hypogeomys australis, Nesomys narindaensis, and Brachytarsomys mahajambaensis are the only extinct rodents of Madagascar?
Did you know that The Skater, a 1782 oil painting by Gilbert Stuart, was the work that thrust him to sudden fame?
Did you know that Theresia L M Russ rescued the survivors from the Reichsmarine's training schooner Niobe?
Did you know that Thomas Darden, the last naval Governor of American Samoa, advocated for the integration of the United States Navy?
Did you know that a stained glass window in All Saint's Church in Eastchurch commemorates the deaths of aviation pioneers Charles Rolls and Cecil Grace?