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Did you know that both Australian aborigines and Māori ate the roots of the bracken Pteridium esculentum?
Did you know that in 1565 "commissioners for removing superstitious ornaments" took various idolatrous items from the first chapel on the site of Holy Trinity Church, Horwich, in Greater Manchester?
Did you know that in 1991 Judicial Commissioner K. S. Rajah annulled a marriage between a woman who underwent sex reassignment surgery and another woman, reasoning that a transsexual's gender was biologically determined?
Did you know that in the mass literacy campaign during Grenada's New Jewel Movement revolution, 65% of volunteer teachers were mobilized from the National Youth Organization?
Did you know that rock band Cave In released an album through RCA Records, but was subsequently dropped from the record label, which refused to fund the recording of an album with a heavier style?
Did you know that seven months after the reported execution in Budapest of Sári Petráss as a spy, she debuted on Broadway?
Did you know that the Bumblebee model, first used by Alan Kostelecký, is the simplest case of a theory with spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking?
Did you know that the Five talent show Don't Stop Believing was created based on the popularity of American musicals Glee and High School Musical?
Did you know that the Monument of the Holy Mother of God in Haskovo, southeastern Bulgaria, is the tallest statue of the Virgin Mary with the Infant Jesus in the world?
Did you know that the documentary Chords of Fame includes scenes in which its subject, U.S. singer-songwriter Phil Ochs, is portrayed by Bill Burnett?
Did you know that the music video for Japanese band Sakanaction's "Aruku Around" was shot in a single take using a Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera?
Did you know that the spits of Azov Sea are longer than its width?
Did you know that Asri Muda was ousted as the President of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party in 1982, and later joined the party's rival, the United Malays National Organisation?
Did you know that Fox Sports College Hoops '99 was the first college sports game for the Nintendo 64?
Did you know that James Anderson was one of six men awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry against a group of Plains Indians at the Wichita River in Texas?
Did you know that Louis XIV's personal physician Guy-Crescent Fagon recommended that the king only drink Côte de Nuits wines from Nuits St-Georges because of the wines' reported health-giving properties?
Did you know that New Caledonia, an island fragment of the sunken continent Zealandia since the Cretaceous, and home to the Kagu, has been likened to a "Jurassic Park"?
Did you know that Protestant Reformation in Italy was significantly hindered by the strong influence of the Roman Catholic Church?
Did you know that U.S. singer-songwriter Phil Ochs recorded "Kansas City Bomber" as the theme song to the Raquel Welch film of the same name, but it was rejected by the film's producers?
Did you know that after Leander Clark College went bankrupt and merged with Coe College, an heir of the school's namesake sued to have his donation returned?
Did you know that although Neil Bancroft was awarded the Medal of Honor, he had died by the time the government located him to issue the medal?
Did you know that character actor Vince O'Brien cherished his role on television and print advertisements as the Shell Answer Man, a job he felt was "like hitting the state lottery"?
Did you know that remnants of a gristmill, distillery and oil well have been found at Falling Waters State Park which also has the highest waterfall in Florida?
Did you know that the $1 million spent by Sean F. Dalton and the other candidates in the 1993 General Assembly race for New Jersey's 4th Legislative District was the most for any district in the state that year?
Did you know that the Lewisian gneiss, forms the basement to Torridonian and Cambro-Ordovician sedimentary rocks in the Hebridean Terrane?
Did you know that the Louisiana Tech University named its Endowed Professorship in History after historian John D. Winters?
Did you know that the Old Priory Barn, which now houses the Somerset Cricket Museum, is the only surviving building of the Augustinian Taunton Priory?
Did you know that the death of Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester, at the Battle of Bannockburn, set in motion a train of events that ended in the deposition of King Edward II of England?
Did you know that the film Out of the Clouds used one of Ealing Studios' largest ever sets to create the interior of the terminal building?
Did you know that the first missionary house in South-West Africa, today's Namibia, was erected in Warmbad in 1806?
Did you know that to preserve an archeological site in Guerrero, Mexico, a tunnel was dug under it for a highway joining Acapulco with Cuernavaca?
Did you know that while president of Pittsburgh Catholic College, Father John Tuohill Murphy formed a close personal association with the future saint Katharine Drexel?
Did you know that word of Dartmouth football coach Jackson Cannell's termination prompted a team petition and The New York Times to dismiss it as a "rumor [that] springs up every year"?
Did you know that 29-year-old writer Justin Halpern was catapulted to the top of The New York Times Best Seller list after moving back into his parents' home and starting a daily journal of his father's salty remarks?
Did you know that Aquilla Coonrod was one of only two men from Williams County, Ohio, to have ever received the Medal of Honor?
Did you know that Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a member of the Althing and spokesperson for Wikileaks, sponsored the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative?
Did you know that Erling Sandberg, installed as Finance Minister by Reichskommissariat when Nazis occupied Norway, was acquitted of collaboration with Nazis?
Did you know that Green Lake in Texas, is the largest natural freshwater lake entirely within the state, despite its proximity to the brackish waters of San Antonio Bay?
Did you know that J. A. "Daff" Gammons played professional baseball and football, coached the Brown University football team, founded a successful insurance agency, and was an accomplished amateur golfer?
Did you know that Vietnam, one of the world’s richest agricultural regions,  is the second-largest exporter worldwide and the seventh-largest consumer of rice?
Did you know that a cat, Oscar, has had a pioneering operation to add prosthetic feet, which could lead the way for similar treatment on humans?
Did you know that according to neuroeconomist Gregory Berns, the challenges and novel experiences we undergo while we strive to achieve an aim bring us more fulfillment than the achievement itself?
Did you know that although the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation was created in 2004 to implement a 20-year, $8 billion redevelopment plan in Washington, D.C., it was abolished after just three years?
Did you know that anti-apartheid activist Nico Smith and his wife were the only legal white residents of Mamelodi, South Africa, from 1985 to 1989?
Did you know that as he "didn't even know it was a paying job", Superintendent Carmine DeSopo donated his entire $35,000 salary as New Jersey Assemblyman to the Burlington County Special Services School District?
Did you know that author Ted McKeever cited Planet of the Apes as inspiration for his futuristic comic book series Meta 4, saying that it changed his life?
Did you know that during the 2006 student protests in Chile, students threw stones at the residence of Bishop Alejandro Goic Karmelic, although he had expressed a desire to mediate only hours before?
Did you know that economist Eric Jones is known for popularizing the term European Miracle?
Did you know that in his dissenting opinion in the case of Taylor v. Beckham, U.S. Supreme Court justice John Marshall Harlan wrote that the right to hold elected offices should be considered part of the definition of "liberty" and protected by the Fourteenth Amendment?
Did you know that mice were used to detect any concentrations of carbon monoxide inside the hull of the British petrol-engined B-class submarines?
Did you know that the 2008 Indonesian film Love was a remake of the 2006 film Cinto?
Did you know that the National Basketball Association (NBA) public relations director Haskell Cohen originated the idea for the first NBA All-Star Game?
Did you know that the church bells of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Wapakoneta, Ohio were moved from a previous church building?
Did you know that the first entomological article written by a New World native concerned the "Great Black Wasp"?
Did you know that the role of Mademoiselle Amy Jolly, played by Marlene Dietrich in the 1930 film Morocco, was inspired by the life of chanteuse réaliste Eugénie Buffet?
Did you know that the tower of the older Church of St Saviour, Ringley, Greater Manchester, was left in an isolated position when the present church was built on a different site?
Did you know that Agora was a proof of concept email-based web browser designed for non-graphic terminals and people without full access to the internet?
Did you know that HMS Concorde, a former French ship, was involved in the capture of the French frigates Engageante and Virginie, and almost captured the Bravoure?
Did you know that John Hartmann, a 24-year-old law student, won election to the New Jersey General Assembly's 15th Legislative District in 1991, making him the youngest Republican ever elected to the Assembly?
Did you know that John Thomson served for 55 years as the schoolmaster of Nantwich Blue Cap School in Cheshire, England, and the school closed some six months after his retirement aged 86 or 87?
Did you know that Judi Garman, raised by a Mennonite pastor on the Saskatchewan prairie, became the winningest coach in college softball history at Cal State Fullerton?
Did you know that Magdalene Thoresen became a model for several female characters in Norwegian literature, including Ibsen's "Rebekka West" and "Ellida Wangel", and Bjørnson's "Petra" and "Leonarda"?
Did you know that Medal of Honor recipient William R. Parnell died in San Francisco, California on August 20, 1910, after falling from a street car?
Did you know that Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson said that Bruce R. Bent and Henry B. R. Brown should be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for their invention of the money market fund?
Did you know that Rollover Pass, which connects East Bay with the Gulf of Mexico, was named after the practice of rolling exports and imports to avoid Customs during Spanish rule?
Did you know that St. Aloysius' Catholic Church in Carthagena, Ohio, had the first tall church tower in the Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches?
Did you know that a number of British pubs, bars and nightclubs operate a safety initiative called PubWatch that may ban individuals for drunken or anti-social behaviour?
Did you know that aviator Aristeidis Moraitinis, apart from being Greece’s only ace in World War I, was at the same time in command of the Hellenic Naval Air Service?
Did you know that bookbinder Richard Minsky was involved in a lawsuit with the creators of Second Life over the trademark registration of SLART?
Did you know that deer penis, which is said in traditional Chinese medicine to enhance virility in men, was added to the list of banned substances during the 2008 Beijing Olympics?
Did you know that drummer Kevin Kelley was the first non-original member to join the Los Angeles rock band The Byrds?
Did you know that in 1993, U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell suggested that William G. Austin's Medal of Honor be rescinded due to the controversial battle after which it was given?
Did you know that since 1997, The Georgetown Improv Association has hosted "Improvfest," one of the oldest improvisational theater festivals in the United States?
Did you know that the Anglican church in Amlwch, Wales, named after St Eleth, was built in 1800 with money derived from copper mining at nearby Parys Mountain?
Did you know that the Belgian early music ensemble, La Petite Bande, takes its name from Jean-Baptiste Lully's petite bande, a string orchestra at the court of Louis XIV?
Did you know that the Little Thetford flesh-hook is a late Bronze-age (1000–701 BC) artefact discovered in 1929 in Little Thetford, near Ely, Cambridgeshire, England?
Did you know that the Oyu Tolgoi mine will cost US$4.6 billion to complete, and will be the most expensive project in Mongolian history?
Did you know that the U.S. Coast Guard (vessel pictured) maintains a permanent command in the Middle East that supports six 110-foot patrol boats?
Did you know that the entire 30,000 km2 (12,000 sq mi) area of the Gulf of Finland may freeze in winter?
Did you know that the ornate Chesters' Stores building of 1911 in Nantwich, Cheshire, was likened to the Lusitania liner because of its porthole-like windows?
Did you know that the piano riff played by Johnny Parker on the 1956 song "Bad Penny Blues" has been suggested as a possible influence on The Beatles' "Lady Madonna"?
Did you know that the shrimp Periclimenes dardanicola resides on sea anemones on the shell of the hermit crab Dardanus pedunculatus, in one of the few associations between two decapods?
Did you know that , out of the 2,600 km (1,600 mi) of track in use in Vietnam's national railway network, 85% of passenger volume and 60% of cargo volume is transported along the 1,726 km (1,072 mi) North–South Railway line?
Did you know that City Councilman Amir Omar is believed to be the first Muslim and first Iranian-American to hold a political office in Texas?
Did you know that Elakala Falls may derive its name from the legend of Elakala, the story of a Native American princess who threw herself over the edge of the first waterfall when her lover scorned her?
Did you know that Huber's bills itself as the oldest restaurant in Portland, Oregon?
Did you know that Jesús Manuel Lara Rodríguez, the mayor of Guadalupe, was murdered in front of his family in the Mexican Drug War?
Did you know that Justin Verlander, a first-round draft pick of the Detroit Tigers, won the Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award in 2006?
Did you know that Lieutenant-General Sir Nick Parker is currently in command of 140,000 troops as acting commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan?
Did you know that Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1862 essay "Chiefly About War Matters" was censored because of his description of Abraham Lincoln?
Did you know that a gala performance of The Rose of Castille was given on 21 January 1858 as part of the nuptials of Queen Victoria's daughter, Princess Victoria, and Prince Frederick William of Prussia?
Did you know that before cola became widespread, the hamburger was typically served with coffee?
Did you know that during the 1973 Buffalo Bills season, O.J. Simpson set the current single-season National Football League record for average rushing yards per game?
Did you know that in 1995, the ROV Kaikō became the first vessel to visit the Challenger Deep since the landmark Trieste expedition in 1960?
Did you know that in the Victorian era the concept of a picture book for children, with illustrations dominating the text, was popularized with small books called toy books?
Did you know that in the wake of voter anger at tax increases enacted by Governor James Florio, New Jersey Assembly member Thomas P. Foy supported allowing voters to remove legislators from office by referendum?
Did you know that no American has won a medal in Olympic table tennis, but if one wins gold, USA Table Tennis will pay a $100,000 bonus?
Did you know that only five units of the production model PWS-5, a Polish liaison aircraft, were built?
Did you know that soprano Ursula Buckel recorded the cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147, which Bach had written for the feast of the Visitation always celebrated on 2 July?
Did you know that the 1874 Fichte-Bunker, the last surviving gasometer in Berlin, became an air-raid shelter in World War II and later housed refugees from East Germany?
Did you know that the Black Currawong of Tasmania has been observed covering itself with wet yellow clay for a 'dirt bath'?
Did you know that the designer of the Okryu Restaurant in Pyongyang, North Korea, would later spend 38 years in a South Korean prison for spying?
Did you know that the noise of the 1929 Murchison earthquake, which occurred on New Zealand's South Island, was so loud that it was heard in New Plymouth, over 250 km (160 mi) away on North Island?
Did you know that the violet coral fungus contains lectins that can cause white blood cells to clump together?
Did you know that when John Livingston Lowes taught Kubla Khan, he told his class "If there is any man in the history of literature who should be hanged, drawn, and quartered, it is the man on business from Porlock."?
Did you know that while still a boy, John Ross walked more than 600 km, crossing crocodile and hippopotamus-infested rivers, to obtain relief supplies for the settlement at Port Natal?
Did you know that Abraham Blum, a Bundist participant in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, was murdered by the Gestapo, but his wife Luba Blum-Bielicka, a nurse, survived the Holocaust and ran an orphanage in post war Poland?
Did you know that Carmine DeSopo was elected to office in 1995 in the New Jersey General Assembly's 7th Legislative District in the first legislative race in state history in which spending exceeded $1 million?
Did you know that Florida A&M football coach Joe Taylor has a career record of 214–82–4 and won four Black College Championships at Hampton?
Did you know that Gerald R. Stockman's support of fair housing efforts in New Jersey earned him recognition by The New York Times as "one of the Legislature's strongest open-housing advocates"?
Did you know that Grove Farm was founded in 1854 by Hermann Widemann, and kept in the estate of George Wilcox until 2000?
Did you know that Keith Piper successfully perpetuated the single-wing, "the formation-of-choice during football's leather-helmet era," for decades after it had been discarded by other teams?
Did you know that Salvador Cristau Coll, who is an Archpriest, was incardinated two times?
Did you know that Samuel Parker, the first Republican candidate for delegate to US Congress from the Territory of Hawaii, married the mother-in-law of the first Democratic candidate?
Did you know that Swiss photographer Antoine Sonrel created carte de visite portraits for Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Abbott Lawrence Rotch, and Anne Whitney?
Did you know that according to official North Korean sources, the opera The Flower Girl was written exclusively by North Korean leader Kim Il-sung?
Did you know that although technically edible, the fruit of Acronychia laevis have been said to taste like turpentine?
Did you know that contrary to most music festivals, The Edge Festival takes place across multiple different locations, with fifty artists performing across seven venues in 2009?
Did you know that ethylene oxide is a common disinfectant and a main component of thermobaric weapons?
Did you know that football coach Denny Douds, climbing the career wins list after decades at the same university, jumped with the U.S. Army Parachute Team in May 2010 at age 69?
Did you know that hand knotted Persian style rugs with Mexican indigenous designs are made in Temoaya, Mexico?
Did you know that in addition to having Central America's largest roller coaster, Xetulul Theme Park has replicas of Moulin Rouge, the Trevi Fountain, and the Tikal Temple of the Great Jaguar? (replica pictured)
Did you know that the 1930s American radio show, Palmolive Beauty Box Theater, drew an estimated 25 million listeners in its first season?
Did you know that the 21st Mechanized Corps, a Soviet Red Army formation, was disbanded in August 1941 due to failing to defend Lithuania and Latvia from Germany?
Did you know that the PWS-6 was the first Polish aircraft fitted with slats—but the prototype is the only model ever produced?
Did you know that the U.S. Army Reserve Center in Missoula, Montana, was named for Medal of Honor recipient Ernest Veuve?
Did you know that the farmyard of the 1844 John and Eliza Barr Patterson House still contains a rosebush, peonies, and daylilies dating from the late 19th and early 20th century?
Did you know that the first issue of Inspire, an English-language online magazine published by al-Qaeda, includes an article titled "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom"?
Did you know that the literary critic Francis Jeffrey declared William Wordsworth's Immortality Ode, printed in Poems in Two Volumes, "beyond all doubt, the most illegible and unintelligible part of the publication"?
Did you know that the mobile gaming magazine Pocket Gamer peaked at a circulation of 700,000 copies when it was published in all T-Mobile and O2 UK stores in the UK and on the websites of Vodafone and 3 UK?
Did you know that , after reaching Angola in the Dorsland Trek of the 1870s, many South African Boers turned back when the Portuguese tried to convert them to Catholicism and forbade their language in schools?
Did you know that , at 95,940 words in four volumes, the 1925 will of Frederica Evelyn Stilwell Cook is the longest ever, yet it disposed of only $100,000?
Did you know that , despite having served as a Confederate congressman during the American Civil War, Judge Horatio Washington Bruce was among the first Kentuckians to advocate that the testimony of African-Americans be considered admissible in court?
Did you know that , in September 1944 during Operation Loyton, a member of the French Resistance died eating plastic explosives he had mistaken for cheese?
Did you know that , in a niche on the corner of the Palais Equitable in Vienna, is the Stock im Eisen, a tree trunk that people have hammered nails into since the Middle Ages?
Did you know that , in his two Football League appearances, goalkeeper James Mangham conceded a total of ten goals?
Did you know that Avid Radiopharmaceuticals is developing a radioactive tracer which has the potential to detect Alzheimer's disease using PET scans?
Did you know that Bach arranged the central duet of his chorale cantata Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten, BWV 93, written for the fifth Sunday after Trinity, as one of his Schübler Chorales?
Did you know that Eric Hamilton, the youngest American college football head coach when hired by Trenton State College at age 23, has held the same job for 33 years?
Did you know that Gauleiter of Tyrol and Vorarlberg Franz Hofer arranged the surrender of the troops under his command with an American sergeant, and a Jewish emigrant from Germany, Fred Mayer?
Did you know that Grand Street was a magazine created by Ben Sonnenberg, who said "I thought a magazine would be a good way to give money to individuals whose writing I liked"?
Did you know that Mexican cuisine celebrity chef and author Marcela Valladolid has also been classically trained as a pastry chef in Paris?
Did you know that Somerset's Anya Shrubsole was conferred the Most Promising Young Women's Cricketer Award by The Cricket Society in 2008?
Did you know that all the internal fittings of Cote Baptist Church in Oxfordshire date from 1869?
Did you know that an Earl of Barrymore once rode his horse up an imitation bamboo staircase in Steine House, Brighton, to win a bet?
Did you know that every winter between 1895 and 1910, electric trams were running on the ice of the frozen Neva River?
Did you know that mycologist Olav Johan Sopp suggested classifying fungi as belonging to neither plantae nor animalia, but to a third kingdom, back in the 1890s?
Did you know that the Chetco were once one of the largest Native American tribes on the southern coast of Oregon, but now only about 40 of their descendants remain?
Did you know that the Hoxne Hoard, the largest hoard of Roman silver and gold discovered in Great Britain, includes pepper pots, silverware and a body chain?
Did you know that the church of Our Lady Star of the Sea and St Winefride in Amlwch, Wales, is shaped like an upturned boat to reflect the town's maritime heritage?
Did you know that the list of college football coaches with 200 career wins is topped by John Gagliardi, Eddie Robinson, and Joe Paterno?