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Did you know that the Sydenham Heritage Church, twice threatened by demolition since 1997, was demolished without authorisation after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake?
Did you know that to secure a guilty verdict, Dominick Sarsfield, Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas, urged jurors to beat the lone dissenter into submission?
Did you know that upon making his National Hockey League debut, Blake Geoffrion became the first fourth-generation player after his father Dan, grandfather Bernie, and great-grandfather Howie Morenz?
Did you know that "all-through jet training" on Macchis at the Royal Australian Air Force's No. 2 Flying Training School was called "an expensive way of finding out that some pupils lacked the aptitude to become military pilots"?
Did you know that Harry Whitney was at the center of the Peary–Cook controversy over who had reached the North Pole first?
Did you know that John Powell's score for the animated film How to Train Your Dragon was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA award, and won an Annie Award and an IFMCA award in 2011?
Did you know that Sedmoi Kontinent was the first Russian retail food company to make a public stock offering?
Did you know that Zynga, maker of hit games FarmVille and Mafia Wars, faces the pending class action lawsuit Swift v. Zynga, based on allegedly deceptive ads that ran in its games?
Did you know that authorization to use a company computer is not automatically conditional on the motives or loyalty of the employee, according to LVRC Holdings v. Brekka?
Did you know that deepwater rice can grow 25 cm (9.8 in) in a day, but only when underwater?
Did you know that movement on the newly discovered Mount Lebanon thrust is the most likely cause of the 551 Beirut earthquake and resulting tsunami, which left all the coastal cities of Lebanon in ruins?
Did you know that on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, the rare and endangered flowers Cyanea superba and Cyanea truncata are threatened by feral pigs and rats, while feral goats are threats to Cyperus trachysanthos?
Did you know that the Alaskan Baird Mountains were named for the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution?
Did you know that the Brezhnev Era in the Soviet Union began with high economic growth and soaring prosperity, but ended with social, political, and economic stagnation?
Did you know that the clock of the Victoria Clock Tower spent the first three years inside a tower, where its chime could be heard but its face could not be seen?
Did you know that the demo version of "Don't Hold Your Breath" was performed by Timbaland and Keri Hilson, and is distinctly different from the present version released by Nicole Scherzinger?
Did you know that the iLoo was a cancelled Microsoft project by British subsidiary MSN UK to develop a Wi-Fi-enabled Internet portable toilet for summer festivals?
Did you know that the interior of the Stone Chamber in the Canterbury Provincial Council Buildings was regarded as New Zealand architect Benjamin Mountfort's most impressive achievement?
Did you know that the ruins of St Peter's Church, Bristol, in Castle Park are a memorial to the victims of the 1940 Bristol Blitz?
Did you know that All Saints Church, East Horndon, Essex, has been damaged by a bomb, a tramp, and vandals?
Did you know that Belinda Meuldijk, whose father Wim Meuldijk created the Dutch TV character Pipo de Clown, continued her father's legacy with the 2003 movie Pipo en de p-p-Parelridder?
Did you know that Chris August received five 2011 Dove Award nominations, including the Song of the Year nod, for his debut single "Starry Night"?
Did you know that Ford's 1990s foray into electric vehicles ended after several of its Ecostar's sodium-sulfur batteries burst into flame during charging?
Did you know that Frank Barbour, coach of the Michigan Wolverines football team from 1892 to 1893, later led Beech-Nut into the chewing gum business?
Did you know that Murad Pasha Mosque in Damascus, Syria, served as a center for the Naqshbandi Sufi order?
Did you know that Romanian runner Iulia Olteanu won the 1999 European Cross Country Championships but lost her title because of a positive test for the steroid stanozolol?
Did you know that Sid Ferris was a one-eyed English cyclist who broke the records for "Land's End to John o' Groats", "Edinburgh-to-London", and "1,000 miles" in 1937?
Did you know that agriculture in Sierra Leone (rice farmer pictured) accounts for about 50 percent of the country's gross domestic product?
Did you know that although the Kern, Bolton and Wodehouse musical Leave It to Jane was written for the Princess Theatre, it premiered elsewhere because another musical by the same creators was already running there?
Did you know that historians believe the 893 Council of Preslav established Old Bulgarian as the official language and Preslav as the capital of the First Bulgarian Empire?
Did you know that in the aftermath of World War I, Polish agronomist Mieczysław Jałowiecki lost his renowned estates in Lithuania?
Did you know that it is both possible and potentially illegal to falsify who email is from, as learned by Kilbride in United States v. Kilbride?
Did you know that the White Star Line ocean liner SS Zealandic was disguised as a decoy version of the British carrier HMS Hermes during WW II and was sunk by German submarine U-106?
Did you know that the endangered Puerto Rican plant Daphnopsis hellerana is dioecious, with male plants bearing tubular flowers and females bearing bell-shaped flowers?
Did you know that American naval surgeon Charles Guillou had a papal patient Pius?
Did you know that Bushy Park Forest Reserve, home to giraffe weevils, glowworms, and huhu beetles, also has a kiwi creche and a tree named Ratanui?
Did you know that Did You Know People Can Fly? is the first full-length album by Kaddisfly?
Did you know that French airline Air Union lost two Farman F.60 Goliaths to accidents in 1923, one in May and another in August?
Did you know that Howard Davies, the director of the London School of Economics, resigned due to allegations over the school's links to the Libyan regime?
Did you know that MSN included Flying penguins, a BBC documentary, as one of its 12 "hoaxes of the decade"?
Did you know that Season 5 of the Intel Extreme Masters eSports tournament had a prize pool of US$130,000 spread over Starcraft II, League of Legends, Counter-Strike, and Quake Live?
Did you know that despite its name, the Chilean blue crocus, which was considered extinct until its rediscovery in the Andes mountains in 2001, is not a crocus?
Did you know that on 29 September 1940, two Avro Ansons collided in mid-air over Brocklesby, Australia, became locked together in "piggyback" fashion, and then successfully landed in a field?
Did you know that on her way back to Singapore, HMS Petard ran into a tornado, resulting in thousands of disoriented birds using the ship as a temporary perch?
Did you know that since St Mary at the Quay Church, Ipswich in Suffolk closed for worship, it has been used as headquarters for the Boys' Brigade, and a venue for performing arts?
Did you know that temperance activist Carrie Nation was the subject of a 1966 opera by Douglas Moore, starring mezzo-soprano Beverly Wolff?
Did you know that the 5000-year old settlement of Jemdet Nasr is the type site for the Jemdet Nasr period in ancient Mesopotamia?
Did you know that the German ancestry and strict discipline of its first commander earned No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAAF the nickname "Scherger's Concentration Camp"?
Did you know that the Italian wine Est! Est!! Est!!! gets its unusual name from the tale of a bishop's servant traveling ahead to Rome and marking Est ("It is") on inns where he found the best-tasting wines?
Did you know that the geebungs of the eastern states of Australia can be narrow-leaved, lance-leaved, broad-leaved, prickly, prostrate, or stiff?
Did you know that the west doorway of St Laurence's Church, Norwich, Norfolk, contains carvings of "St Edmund being arrowed and St Lawrence being grilled"?
Did you know that British Army officer Captain Stephen Healey of the Royal Welsh regiment, used to play football for Swansea City?
Did you know that Ch. Fiacre’s First and Foremost today becomes the first Dalmatian with a known low uric acid level to compete at Crufts?
Did you know that about 90% of the world's amber production comes from the Amber Coast of the Sambia peninsula on the Baltic Sea?
Did you know that according to legend, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony presented Cleopatra with several gourds of vinum acquense, an early forebear of the Italian wine Brachetto d'Acqui?
Did you know that during his stay in Ullinish, Samuel Johnson's views and denunciation of James Macpherson's Ossian were confirmed?
Did you know that entrances (example pictured) to Knoxville's Medical Arts Building are decorated with terra cotta buttresses, pointed arches, and transoms with Gothic tracery elements?
Did you know that in 1281, the Catholic Bishop of Greenland contributed walrus tusks to help fund the Crusades?
Did you know that in his youth, Karl Marx wrote a comedic novel, Scorpion and Felix?
Did you know that the 2010–11 Ivy League season champion Harvard Crimson team was the first men's basketball team in school history to win a league championship since the Ivy League was formed in the 1956–57 season?
Did you know that the 2011 Christchurch earthquake broke the neck on the Rolleston Statue?
Did you know that the Blue Note jazz clubs located in Greenwich Village, New York, helped define personal jurisdiction in the context of cyberlaw in Bensusan Restaurant Corp. v. King?
Did you know that the Russian battleship Poltava was designed and sometimes commanded by Peter the Great?
Did you know that the black-margined loosestrife beetle was introduced to North America for biological pest control against the invasive purple loosestrife?
Did you know that English oboist Peter Graeme recorded with the Melos Ensemble the oboe quintet of Arthur Bliss, dedicated to oboist Léon Goossens, his teacher?
Did you know that Harry Halpern was a prominent Conservative rabbi who served for almost 49 years at the East Midwood Jewish Center in Brooklyn, New York?
Did you know that Hugh Kennard was shot down and wounded during World War II while leading a squadron of American fighter pilots from No. 121 Squadron RAF?
Did you know that Matthieu Borsboom, the current head of the Royal Netherlands Navy, previously served with ISAF in Afghanistan until he was succeeded by German Major General Richard Rossmanith?
Did you know that Somerset amateur cricketer Herbert Fox edited a feature in the Westminster Gazette in which readers submitted Latin and Greek poetry?
Did you know that Willie Hume demonstrated the supremacy of John Boyd Dunlop's pneumatic tyres by winning all of the tyre's first races at Queen's College, Belfast in 1889?
Did you know that crime writer Agatha Christie used her face cream to clean the more than 2500-year-old Nimrud Ivories (example pictured) after their excavation?
Did you know that despite their names, white squirrel banana and yellow squirrel banana are not bananas, but rare custard apples in Florida, and their fruits are berries?
Did you know that each year in December, the life and works of Abedin, who painted by the Brahmaputra River, are discussed at the Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin Sangrahashala art gallery?
Did you know that in 1768, the Pennsylvania Province made violations of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 punishable by "death without the benefit of clergy"?
Did you know that in 1885, Somerset County Cricket Club suffered two of their heaviest-ever defeats under the captaincy of Edward Sainsbury?
Did you know that parachuting military dog Rob's Dickin Medal may have been awarded due to a hoax?
Did you know that the Federal Highway Administration director from 1981 to 1987, Ray Barnhart, streamlined procedures and upheld the soundness of the Highway Trust Fund?
Did you know that the Grammy-nominated album Now Is the Time features the Blood, Sweat & Tears horn section on two of its tracks?
Did you know that the font in St Peter's Church, Sudbury, was removed in the 17th century to be used as a horse trough, but was returned to the church when the horses refused to drink from it?
Did you know that the name of the Pensacola people means "long-haired people" in both the Pensacola language and the closely-related Choctaw language?
Did you know that when the Nassif Building in Washington, D.C., was renovated and renamed in 2006, security upgrades included steel-jacketed parking garage columns capable of withstanding an explosion?
Did you know that Emilia Carr is the first woman from Marion County, Florida to be sentenced to death since Aileen Wuornos in 1992?
Did you know that Lyttelton Timeball Station, one of only five remaining time balls in working order worldwide until the 2010 Canterbury earthquake, is to be demolished?
Did you know that Mary Hynes, who represents Virginia on the board of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, has promised to ride its Metrorail system to get to board meetings?
Did you know that Pandi Geço, author of the first Albanian academic textbooks of geography, was the first to regionalize Albania into four physical-geographic regions?
Did you know that Pleurotus citrinopileatus, an edible mushroom, has been found to lower blood sugar levels in diabetic rats?
Did you know that Singapore's first Chief of Defence Force, Winston Choo, is now the country's ambassador to Israel?
Did you know that Sir Harold Bowden, chairman of the Raleigh Bicycle Company, was also chairman of the British Olympic Association for the 1932 Olympic games in Los Angeles?
Did you know that Swedish actor Lasse Eriksson died on stage during the show Four happy men 2 at the Regina Theatre in Uppsala?
Did you know that The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan, a 1954 NBC sitcom created by Blake Edwards and Richard Quine, features Mickey Rooney as a studio page trying to become a serious actor?
Did you know that a fifth of all Dickin Medal recipients are buried at Ilford Animal Cemetery?
Did you know that former Republican California State Senator Becky Morgan served on the Board of Trustees of both her alma maters, Stanford University and Cornell University?
Did you know that in September 2007, Monty the meerkat made headlines in The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Sun, and other leading newspapers for his purported ability to take pictures with a digital camera?
Did you know that in the 1930s, the New Zealand government complied with netball in South Africa's request to leave Māori players at home when they competed against them?
Did you know that one of the minigames in the Wii video game Calvin Tucker's Redneck Jamboree involves exploding fish out of water?
Did you know that the 1833 newspaper Vorwärts!, edited by Karl Marx, has been described as the "most radical" European newspaper of its time?
Did you know that the small-toothed sportive lemur is the only sportive lemur to have evolved after dispersing along river corridors between western and eastern Madagascar?
Did you know that Kenyan athletes won every medal at the 2011 African Cross Country Championships held in Cape Town earlier this month, and then they all missed their flight back to Nairobi?
Did you know that Mark Pittman sued the U.S. Federal Reserve during the 2008 financial crisis for refusing to say how it distributed $2 trillion ($2,000,000,000,000) of taxpayer-funded bank bailout money?
Did you know that Rangaunu Harbour contains 15% of the mangrove habitat in New Zealand?
Did you know that Texas oilman and former mayor of Midland Ernest Angelo is partly credited with the spring revival of Ronald Reagan's 1976 United States presidential primary campaign?
Did you know that Vijay Hazare holds the record for most international cricket centuries (four) at Mumbai's Brabourne Stadium?
Did you know that adults with right hemisphere brain damage may have verbose, rambling and tangential speech?
Did you know that bone fragments of the Camelus moreli, an extinct species of giant camel, were found in 2005 at the archaeological site of El Kowm in Syria?
Did you know that during the 1995 filming of BBC's Persuasion, the crew often had to compete for props and costumes with fellow BBC and Jane Austen adaptation Pride and Prejudice?
Did you know that in the Raising Hope episode "Blue Dots", one of the main characters is revealed to be a registered sex offender?
Did you know that in the U.S., vampire facelifts are not approved by the FDA?
Did you know that the Church of St Cyriac and St Julitta, Swaffham Prior, in Cambridgeshire stands less than 100 feet (30 m) from the Church of St Mary, and shares the same churchyard?
Did you know that the first fatal accident suffered by Imperial Airways led to the first Public Inquiry into a civil aviation accident in the United Kingdom, and the expansion of Croydon Airport?
Did you know that the rare Floridian flowers Robin's mint and Garrett's mint used to be in the same species as the scrub balm until they were re-classified as separate species in 1981 and 1989, respectively?
Did you know that Bhumibol Dam and Sirikit Dam, which control 22% of the Chao Phraya River's annual runoff, are named after the reigning King and Queen of Thailand?
Did you know that Fred Rehor, a 256-pound pharmacy student from the University of Michigan, helped lead the 1917 Massillon Tigers to the "world's professional [American] football championship" against Jim Thorpe's Canton Bulldogs?
Did you know that Jimmy Lile, a knife maker from Russellville, Arkansas, made the knives for the movies First Blood and Rambo: First Blood Part II?
Did you know that Low Isles Light, an active lighthouse established in 1878 on Low Island, a coral cay near Port Douglas, was the first lighthouse in Far North Queensland?
Did you know that Norwegian meteorologist Ragnar Fjørtoft was part of a Princeton, New Jersey, team that performed the first successful numerical weather prediction using the ENIAC electronic computer in 1950?
Did you know that St Mary's Church, Bungay in Suffolk contains a panel depicting the Resurrection given to the church by the author H. Rider Haggard?
Did you know that The Dawn, Australia's first feminist magazine, was boycotted by unions because the publisher employed women to handle the printing?
Did you know that the Alaska-Gastineau Mine, near Juneau, Alaska, was the largest gold mine in the world for a brief period prior to World War I?
Did you know that the Mauro Solar Riser was the first manned aircraft to fly on solar power?
Did you know that the division of the city of Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, into San Pedro and San Andrés has its origins in the pre-Hispanic era?
Did you know that the endangered tree Allocasuarina portuensis is only known from suburban Nielsen Park in Sydney?
Did you know that there are only 70 individual plants of Molokai twinsorus fern (herbarium specimen pictured) remaining in the wild and they are all on Maui?
Did you know that 1952 Winter Olympic gold medalist Stein Eriksen once ran a ski shop in the La Fave Block, the second oldest brick commercial building in Aspen, Colorado?
Did you know that Bart Thane, managing director of the Alaska-Gastineau Mining Company, pioneered hydroelectric power in Juneau, Alaska?
Did you know that Choctaw-Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson was described by Jimmie Durham as the Miles Davis of contemporary Native American art?
Did you know that Dutch paleobotanist Willem van Zeist analyzed the first domesticated emmer wheat found at Tell Aswad, Syria?
Did you know that Norwegian entrepreneur Henrik Christian Fredrik Størmer was appointed official reporter of Norway at the Exposition Universelle of 1878 in Paris?
Did you know that William Randolph Hearst removed 10,000 stones of the Spanish monastery Santa Maria de Ovila, but never used them in a building?
Did you know that a significant difference between the Christian Evangelical Church of Romania and the Evangelical Church of Romania, which were united under the Communist regime, is the form of baptism each practices?
Did you know that after KV Pharmaceutical received an FDA-sponsored monopoly to exclusively market a drug that had been already available for five decades, it raised its price from about US$15 to US$1,500?
Did you know that although the fungus Aseroe floriformis was named for its resemblance to a flower, it smells like cow dung?
Did you know that as director-general of Norwegian State Railways, Edvard Heiberg became famous for the phrase "The railway is being strangled by impotent car users"?
Did you know that during World War I, future Norwegian politician and railroad chairman Egil Werner Erichsen was hit by the Spanish Flu, but did not spend one day in bed?
Did you know that during the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell's forces took lead from the roof of Oxhey Chapel in Hertfordshire to make musket balls?
Did you know that medieval historian Eleanor Duckett (1880–1976) and her lifelong companion, regional novelist Mary Ellen Chase, have adjoining halls named for them at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts?
Did you know that the Islamic Djamaat of Dagestan was a political entity, influenced by militant Wahhabism, that declared its independence from Russian rule in 1998?
Did you know that the actor voicing the creature in the Fringe episode "Night of Desirable Objects" placed pieces of orange in his mouth in order to have "a slobbery, sputtering voice"?
Did you know that Canadian architect Leslie R. Fairn, whose output ranged from Beaux Arts to Modernism, had a career lasting 65 years?
Did you know that General Lord Walker was the first commander of the ground component of NATO's Implementation Force in 1995?
Did you know that Glee's newest album includes two original songs that appear in the Glee episode "Original Song"?
Did you know that Grave Circle A in Mycenae, Greece, was the burial place of the 16th century BC Mycenaean ruling families?
Did you know that Jens-Daniel Herzog staged the opera Intermezzo of Richard Strauss, with Christiane Kohl as Christine, "the composer's formidable and frequently hysterical wife"?
Did you know that John Bell received the SIAM/ACM prize with Phil Colella for computational science and engineering in 2003?
Did you know that Lydia Cecilia Hill was an English dancer who became a favourite of the Sultan of Johor?
Did you know that Ojibwa artist Jim Denomie's painting Casino Sunrise depicts Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty standing behind Babe the Blue Ox with his pants around his ankles?
Did you know that Reza Abbasi abandoned his career as a Persian court painter to consort with wrestlers in a midlife crisis lasting some seven years until about 1610?
Did you know that Rob Lowe was originally expected to leave the comedy television series Parks and Recreation after the episode "Indianapolis", but he instead signed on as a permanent cast member?
Did you know that St George's Church in Goltho, Lincolnshire, is all that remains of a deserted medieval village?
Did you know that Steve Reich's composition, WTC 9/11, premieres today with a performance by the Kronos Quartet at Duke University?
Did you know that Wright of Derby's painting of Romeo and Juliet: the Tomb Scene depicts Juliet saying her final line "... Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!" in Shakespeare's play?
Did you know that in his only National Hockey League playoff game, Bill Moe fractured two vertebrae?
Did you know that the 1997 Central European flood was caused by some of the heaviest rains ever recorded?
Did you know that the Centro de Abasto (Groceries Center) market, the most important in Mexico, serves 300,000 people and handles 30,000 tons of merchandise per day?
Did you know that the anonymous Vita sancti Cuthberti, or "Life of Saint Cuthbert", is the earliest piece of English Latin hagiography?
Did you know that the sailing venue used for the 1976 Summer Olympics was the first and only one to take place in fresh water?
Did you know that "Huda the executioner" was recently deposed as mayor of Benghazi, Libya?
Did you know that Dutch child psychologist Bloeme Evers-Emden was deported to Auschwitz on the same train as Anne Frank?
Did you know that John McLaughlin's Grammy nominated album To the One was inspired by John Coltrane's album A Love Supreme?