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Did you know that the surface of the South African plant Peucedanum galbanum is covered with blister-causing toxins, and that exposure to sunlight could make the blisters worse?
Did you know that three different versions of "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" reached the radio airplay charts in the same year?
Did you know that Abo Elementary School in Artesia, New Mexico, was built entirely underground and equipped as a fallout shelter, in case of nuclear war?
Did you know that Allegro, the third musical of Rodgers and Hammerstein, was called "an out-and-out failure"?
Did you know that André Duchesne's group, Les 4 Guitaristes de l'Apocalypso-Bar (The 4 Guitarists of the Apocalypso Bar) was billed as a band from post-apocalypse Canada "inspired by the ghost of Jimi Hendrix"?
Did you know that California wine producer Tablas Creek Vineyard is the "sibling winery" of Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate Château de Beaucastel?
Did you know that Elmer Mitchell boasts the highest winning percentage in the history of Eastern Michigan Eagles men's basketball and is considered the father of intramural sports?
Did you know that François Rochebrune, the French commander of the Zouaves of Death, once disciplined panicked Polish troops by asking them what time it was, which was the only Polish he knew?
Did you know that General Nicolas-Marie Songis des Courbons served under Napoleon I, as commander of the Grande Armée artillery?
Did you know that Graciela Chichilnisky, who proposed the Kyoto Protocol's market for carbon credit trading, obtained her PhDs in mathematics and economics without ever having been an undergraduate?
Did you know that Jared Lee Loughner was detained at the Federal Correctional Institution at Phoenix after the 2011 Tucson shooting?
Did you know that Justice Thomas said the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Penry v. Johnson on the relevance of mental retardation in death penalty sentencing sent "mixed signals" to lower courts?
Did you know that Life magazine estimated 136 million people saw the photograph "Bloody Saturday" (detail pictured) after the August 1937 bombing of Shanghai?
Did you know that Miguel Angel Galluzzi's Ducati Monster is credited with both reviving the retro standard motorcycle and creating a new naked bike niche?
Did you know that Samrong Sen is a prehistoric archaeological site in Kampong Chhnang Province, Cambodia, consisting of a very large fluviatile shell midden?
Did you know that St Mary's Church, Pentraeth, Wales, was decorated in the 18th century with paper garlands, perhaps to celebrate parishioners' weddings?
Did you know that by 1961, Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, had trained "the largest number of black doctors and nurses in the world"?
Did you know that during World War II, George R. Salisbury, Jr., later a Wyoming rancher and state representative, was a Bronze Star-winning tank commander?
Did you know that minuscule 817 was used by Desiderius Erasmus in his Novum Instrumentum omne?
Did you know that public perception of graffiti in New York is slowly changing from an act of vandalism to a form of art?
Did you know that singer Gary Williams played Frank Sinatra in the West End production of The Rat Pack?
Did you know that the Cornubian batholith and Haig Fras granite are similar in age and have the same orientation, but are separate intrusions?
Did you know that the FBI and CIA used vein matching as evidence that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed of al-Qaeda had killed journalist Daniel Pearl?
Did you know that the Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary in Assam, India, is named after the only ape in India, the hoolock gibbon?
Did you know that the Nazi storyline in the Fringe episode "The Bishop Revival" was well-received by Entertainment Weekly for featuring a "good threat"?
Did you know that Anni Dewani was a Swedish woman who was kidnapped and murdered during her honeymoon in Cape Town, South Africa?
Did you know that International Commission of Control, established on October 15, 1913, to assume the administration of Albania, was composed of the representatives of each Great Power and one Albanian?
Did you know that RAAF Air Vice-Marshal Alan Charlesworth once survived an accident with future Governor of New South Wales Eric Woodward when their aircraft landed upside down on a fence?
Did you know that The Cars, The Primitives, The Lemonheads and Tarnation have all released recordings of The Nightcrawlers' "slightly bizarre nursery rhyme" "The Little Black Egg"?
Did you know that a memorial all-star game was held in 1937 to raise money for the family of Howie Morenz, who was said to have died of a broken heart in the belief a broken leg had ended his hockey career?
Did you know that bones of Hypsibema missouriensis, now the state dinosaur of Missouri, have only been found in Bollinger County, Missouri?
Did you know that bongo player Chaino, whose albums included Jungle Mating Rhythms, claimed to be an orphan from a lost tribe in central Africa but was actually born in Philadelphia and raised in Chicago?
Did you know that claims to unite the Ottoman vilayets of Kosovo, Shkoder, Monastir and Ioaninna into one, the Albanian Vilayet, often included the Salonica Vilayet too?
Did you know that cyanotoxins are produced by bacteria which float on lakes and oceans as a green scum and can kill animals by causing respiratory failure?
Did you know that during the Yuan administrative rule of Tibet, the Mongol approved d-pon chen, or "Great Administrator", was responsible for the administration of Tibet under the Yuan Dynasty?
Did you know that in 1776, to warn authorities in Halifax of the siege of Fort Cumberland, Redcoat Thomas Dixson successfully navigated the Minas Basin, home to the Earth's highest tides, in a small open boat?
Did you know that in 1941, RAAF Squadron Leader Peter Jeffrey introduced the radical concept of commissioned and non-commissioned pilots sharing a common mess while on combat duty?
Did you know that land for the defunct rural Ashland High School in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, was donated in 1907 by later State Senator Andrew R. Johnson?
Did you know that prior to authoring Freedom of Expression®, Kembrew McLeod successfully registered the phrase "freedom of expression" as a trademark in the United States?
Did you know that the Fringe episode "Brown Betty" was inspired by The Princess Bride?
Did you know that the Mayo Clinic argued in Mayo v. United States that medical residents, who work up to 80 hours a week and are paid approximately $50,000 a year, should be considered students instead of employees?
Did you know that the Vought XSB3U was designed as a result of the U.S. Navy's reluctance to embrace the monoplane for carrier operations?
Did you know that the earliest known fragment of the Testament of Ba, an account of the establishment of Buddhism in Tibet, was discovered in the British Library in 2009?
Did you know that the largest native land animal on Ascension Island is a crab, Johngarthia lagostoma?
Did you know that when first described in the 1890s, the Bornean Slow Loris was said to have the face of a bear, the hands of a monkey, and to move like a sloth?
Did you know that when the troops in front of his soldiers broke and fled at the Battle of Guilford Court House, General Edward Stevens told his brigade that the retreat was part of the battle plan?
Did you know that while Oregon's Willamette Valley is known primarily for Pinot noir, Cristom Vineyards in the Eola-Amity Hills has been growing Syrah since 2002?
Did you know that Carlina White, kidnapped when 19 days old, was reunited with her parents 23 years later as a result of her own investigative work, the longest recorded gap in a non-parental abduction?
Did you know that Elektro–L is the first Russian weather satellite to operate successfully in geostationary orbit?
Did you know that Eric Doeringer has sometimes sold up to US$1,500 worth of "bootlegs", small copies of paintings by eminent modern artists, in one day?
Did you know that Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Empire: 1875–1914 is a Marxist study of the period of the Belle Époque?
Did you know that George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow both lived in the same house on Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts?
Did you know that McCants Stewart, the first African American lawyer in Oregon, was the son of an Associate Justice of the Liberian Supreme Court?
Did you know that Stone Jam was Slave's second album to be certified Gold and was named by Jam-Master Jay of Run–D.M.C. as one of his favorite albums?
Did you know that Tony Lombardi, who took over when Rick Rasnick was fired, was the head coach of the Eastern Michigan Eagles football team for just five days?
Did you know that Tupaia miocenica, known from a single tooth, is among the few known fossil treeshrews?
Did you know that a 300-metre (980 ft) long bridge has been recently built near Tojg, in western Afghanistan, funded by the Commander's Emergency Response Program?
Did you know that after beginning his baseball career with the Philadelphia Phillies, right fielder George Durning led the Salisbury Indians in games played, times at bat, and hits in his first full season?
Did you know that both Thomas-Morse R-5s competed in the 1922 Pulitzer Trophy Race, but placed last among aircraft that completed the event?
Did you know that boxing promoter Don King was the subject of a U.S. Supreme Court decision in Cedric Kushner Promotions, Ltd. v. King?
Did you know that in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court in Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Wisconsin began the regulation of wellhead natural gas prices, which lasted until Congress deregulated them on January 1, 1985?
Did you know that in Booth v. Churner, over 30 U.S. states asked the United States Supreme Court to require prisoners to resolve all administrative claims before pursuing litigation?
Did you know that ryot and zerat were two labour-hiring processes practised by indigo planters in Bihar and Bengal during the Indian colonial period?
Did you know that several ordas (hordes) originated on the Eurasian Steppe, including the famous Golden Horde?
Did you know that the 2010–11 Colorado Buffaloes men's basketball team is the first since 2003 to record a win over a top-ten ranked team?
Did you know that the Chilean movie 03:34: Earthquake in Chile will narrate three different stories based on the events that occurred after the 2010 Chile earthquake?
Did you know that the Nordhordland Bridge, designed by Aas-Jakobsen, has no lateral anchorage because of the depth of Salhusfjorden?
Did you know that the book Beyond the First Amendment argues freedom of speech on the Internet is not easily addressed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution?
Did you know that the proposed Bridge Canyon Dam would flood Lava Falls, one of the most spectacular rapids on the Colorado River?
Did you know that the two largest Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir trees in the United States survived the B&B Complex Fires that burned 90,769 acres (367.33 km2) of forest in the Cascade Range of Oregon?
Did you know that when the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel opened in 1973 in Washington, D.C., the dedicatory festivities included a birthday party for author Anita Loos, and Carol Channing singing while seated upon a cake?
Did you know that while Swedish archaeologist Olov Janse originally argued for European rather than Chinese origins of Bronze Age culture in Vietnam, he reversed his view after he began excavating at Đông Sơn?
Did you know that American primatologist Harold J. Coolidge, Jr. was the inaugural vice president of the International Union for Conservation of Nature as well as a founding director of the World Wildlife Fund?
Did you know that Andreu Mas-Colell, currently the Minister of Economy and Knowledge of Catalonia, Spain, has studied general equilibrium theory by using differential topology?
Did you know that Bermuda hedge fund Juniperus Capital was named after the Juniperus bermudiana, Bermudian cedar trees that are extremely hardy in the face of adverse conditions?
Did you know that Brent Knoll Camp on the Somerset Levels was used for military purposes in the Iron Age and again in World War II?
Did you know that California Supreme Court Associate Justice Marshall F. McComb swore in Ronald Reagan as Governor of California?
Did you know that English classical singer Anna Reynolds recorded Bach cantatas with Richter's Münchener Bach-Chor, including Jesus schläft, was soll ich hoffen? BWV 81?
Did you know that German musicologist Alexander Ferdinand Grychtolik reconstructed Bach's homage cantata O angenehme Melodei, BWV 210a, from Bach's wedding cantata O holder Tag, erwünschte Zeit, BWV 210?
Did you know that Hungarian team handball player József Éles was top scorer at the 1993 World Championship?
Did you know that Joe Heitz of California wine producer Heitz Wine Cellars‎ is considered the first in the U.S. to champion single vineyard designated wine?
Did you know that Nepal's first public bus service was founded in 1959 by Karuna Ratna Tuladhar and his brother?
Did you know that Nicholas Longworth built America's first commercially successful winery with a pink sparkling wine made from Catawba?
Did you know that Penny and the Quarters are a "lost" soul band which came to prominence in 2010 after an unreleased demo of their song "You And Me" was used in the film Blue Valentine?
Did you know that Walter Baetke, who became a professor of Scandinavian studies and history of religion, wrote his doctoral thesis on children in English literature during and after Shakespeare's time?
Did you know that Wilmer Tanner (pictured with a tiger trophy), born 1909, described at least fifteen new species or genera?
Did you know that a standing stone near St Tyfrydog's Church, Llandyfrydog, Wales, is said to be a man turned to stone by St Tyfrydog for stealing a Bible from the church?
Did you know that although the Parks and Recreation third season premiere "Go Big or Go Home" was filmed immediately after the second season ended to accommodate actress Amy Poehler's pregnancy, the premiere was delayed until January?
Did you know that in Florida v. Thomas, the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed that a state court decision is not "final" if a trial has not concluded in a verdict?
Did you know that it took a replay and then eighty minutes of extra time for Brighton & Hove Albion reserves to win the 1920–21 Southern League title?
Did you know that law in Vanuatu combines a legacy of English common law, French law and indigenous customary law?
Did you know that one of the T-shirts found in a backpack bomb in Spokane referred to a play put on by high school students in Chewelah, Washington?
Did you know that the Hall XPTBH, a patrol torpedo bomber, was the only aircraft that ever received three mission designation letters in the U.S. Navy's aircraft designation system?
Did you know that the Sweetwater Dam near San Diego, when first constructed in 1888, was the tallest masonry arch dam in the United States?
Did you know that the highest point on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was 965 feet (294 m) above sea level, just to the east of Britannia railway station?
Did you know that the lunar crater Hell is named after a priest?
Did you know that the remains of Confederate soldiers buried at Camp Nelson National Cemetery were exhumed after the American Civil War and re-buried elsewhere?
Did you know that the sinking in October 1942 of the German prisoner transport Palatia off Lindesnes is the second deadliest ship disaster in Norwegian history?
Did you know that when built as currently planned, the Stad Ship Tunnel would allow ships to bypass Stad, one of the most dangerous sections of the Norwegian coast?
Did you know that Ben Roberts-Smith's receipt of the Victoria Cross for Australia for gallantry in Afghanistan, makes him the most highly decorated service person currently in the Australian Defence Force?
Did you know that Dave Downs pitched a complete-game shutout in his Major League Baseball debut with the Philadelphia Phillies?
Did you know that English soprano Joanne Lunn recorded Bach cantatas with the Monteverdi Choir, such as Herr, wie du willt, so schicks mit mir, BWV 73?
Did you know that Gulet Mohamed, an American citizen who was detained in Kuwait, was blocked from flying home by the U.S. "no-fly list" until a federal court intervened to allow him to return?
Did you know that Miller is one of the ten most popular typefaces used in American newspapers?
Did you know that Rebecca Breeds' Home and Away character Ruby Buckton will begin a relationship with Romeo Smith, played by Breeds' real life partner, Luke Mitchell?
Did you know that St Denys' Church, Little Barford, Bedfordshire, was built to serve a medieval village which has since been deserted?
Did you know that Themistokli Gërmenji, an Albanian nationalist, received the French Croix de Guerre in November 1917, but was executed shortly thereafter by a French military court?
Did you know that approximately 1500 tourists were trapped in the Torres del Paine National Park as a result of recent protests against the rising price of natural gas in the Magallanes Region of Chile?
Did you know that chess grandmaster Rosendo Balinas Jr. was a candidate in the 1994 special election for the seat of Rizal's first district in the House of Representatives of the Philippines?
Did you know that claspingleaf doll's daisy can grow underwater, produce an inflorescence above the surface, bloom and produce seeds, and thus propagate during floods?
Did you know that despite a fire, dismantling and having parts sold off since its first installation at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the Tiffany Chapel is now open to the public again in Florida?
Did you know that despite being home to Zihuatanejo and Ixtapa and near to Acapulco, most of Guerrero's "Big Coast" lacks significant tourism infrastructure?
Did you know that part of the bed of South Branch Kishwaukee River in Illinois was the plain of an ancient lake?
Did you know that repertoires of contention slowly change over time, and include such concepts as rough music, sit-ins and hacktivism?
Did you know that the Virginia–Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine serves as the state-supported veterinary school for both Virginia and Maryland?
Did you know that the bell from the wreck of SS Edmund Fitzgerald is on display at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum?
Did you know that the closure of the Clinton Falls Bridge in its 100th year led local residents to successfully push for its historic preservation?
Did you know that the decorations in St John's Church, Duxford range from medieval wall paintings to modern graffiti?
Did you know that the monkey-queen Tara (pictured with her first husband) is described in the Hindu epic Ramayana to have set a habit to visit her second husband Sugriva drunk before indulging in sex?
Did you know that the original Lady Elliot Island Light was the first lighthouse in Australia to be constructed of a timber frame clad with cast iron plates?
Did you know that the script to season one of the Swedish comedy series Solsidan has been sold to the American television network ABC, which plans to create their own version of the series in the United States?
Did you know that two destroyers of the Royal Navy's Fishery Protection Squadron, commanded by a commodore aboard a fishing trawler, once thwarted an Icelandic boarding attempt?
Did you know that when Winnington Hall in Cheshire was used as a girls' finishing school in the 19th century, it was visited by Sir Charles Hallé and John Ruskin?
Did you know that wine historians theorize that, during the Roman occupation of what is now Moravia, Grüner Veltliner and Welschriesling may have been introduced to the Czech wine region of Mikulovská?
Did you know that , in the case of White v Driver, Sir John Nicholl ruled that the will of an insane person could be valid provided the testator was lucid when making the will?
Did you know that Blue Peter's album, Falling, contained the song "Don't Walk Past", the video for which was inspired by the then-recent film Blade Runner?
Did you know that Charles Fletcher, the first European settler in what is now Navarro River Redwoods State Park, built an inn in 1865 that remained open until the 1970s?
Did you know that Charlie Webb was appointed manager of English association football club Brighton & Hove Albion while awaiting repatriation from a prisoner-of-war camp in Mainz, Germany?
Did you know that Dennis Day, a longtime cast member of The Jack Benny Program, had his own NBC comedy show, The Dennis Day Show, in the 1953 season?
Did you know that Mario Moraga, former regidor of Pichilemu, Chile, is popularly known as "El Sin Pelos en la Lengua", meaning "The One Without Minced Words"?
Did you know that Sixtine Vulgate (1590), prepared by Pope Sixtus V, differs in 4900 variants from Sixto-Clementine Vulgate (1592), prepared by Pope Clement VIII?
Did you know that St Andrew's Church, Willingale, Essex, shares its churchyard with the adjacent church of St Christopher?
Did you know that The Great White Wonder was named the best album of 1991 that 'You Didn't Hear' by Spin?
Did you know that Thomas-Morse's general plant superintendent called the company's MB-4 mail plane "the worst thing on wings"?
Did you know that U.S. Army Private Dale Maple was condemned to death in World War II for aiding two German prisoners of war in an unsuccessful escape attempt, though his sentence was commuted by President Roosevelt?
Did you know that in a diplomatic cable obtained by WikiLeaks, the U.S. embassy in Colombo implicated Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa in alleged war crimes committed during the Sri Lankan Civil War?
Did you know that the 2012 version of A Star Is Born, with Beyoncé Knowles slated to star, would be the fourth remake of the film?
Did you know that the Church of SS Peter and Paul is one of only three surviving Medieval Latin churches in Galata, Istanbul?
Did you know that the Hålogaland Bridge in Norway was considered being built as a symphony bridge, which combines the structural components of a suspension, cable-stayed and cantilever bridge?
Did you know that the Joseph Barker House near Marietta, Ohio, was built by the same man who built many boats for the Burr conspiracy?
Did you know that the Luoyang Museum collection includes Tang Dynasty figurines and a Western Han Dynasty house-like kitchen mingqi?
Did you know that the Royal Engineers used to go to Harewood Park, a rural estate speculated by the British media to be the future home of Prince William and his fiancee Kate Middleton, for demolition practice?
Did you know that the South Korean naval vessel Choi Young launched a rescue operation that freed the tanker Samho Jewelry from Somali pirates with only one hostage injured?
Did you know that the Walter Curtis House has been recognized as one of the best Greek Revival farmhouses in southeastern Ohio?
Did you know that the small rural town of Yecapixtla, Morelos, Mexico, is home to a World Heritage Site?
Did you know that 34 of 35 people aboard were killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashed in Hampshire in May 1957?
Did you know that American minister and Free Will Baptist theologian Ransom Dunn rode over thousands of miles of frontier on horseback, collecting donations for the opening of Hillsdale College?
Did you know that Brian K. Zahra was appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court by Governor Rick Snyder to replace Maura Corrigan, leaving appointees of Republican governors with a 4–3 majority on the court?
Did you know that Charles Asten, a member of the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War, received the Medal of Honor for completing his duties on the USS Signal despite being on the sick list?
Did you know that Elizabeth McCombs, who won the 1933 Lyttelton by-election succeeding her deceased husband, was the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament?
Did you know that Fred and Val Gregory were two of four brothers who were simultaneously contracted to Watford Football Club?
Did you know that Green-backed Trogons feed mostly on fruit?
Did you know that Henry Mann's 1949 book, Analysis and design of experiments, filled mathematical gaps in the statistical writings of Ronald A. Fisher?