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Did you know that the Sacramento River Delta is an inverted river delta and that it once had an extensive system of cable ferries?
Did you know that the singer Scott Walker produced an album for British band Pulp?
Did you know that the Chislehurst Caves of Kent are actually mines that were first worked in 1250?
Did you know that the collections of the Chicago Public Library began with the 8,000-volume "English Book Donation" which came in response to the Great Chicago Fire of 1871?
Did you know that Japanese Imari porcelain was made specifically for export to Europe?
Did you know that in Upper and Lower Canada, the colonial government used concession roads to define lots which were to be developed?
Did you know that residents of the old soldiers' home known as Royal Hospital Chelsea are called Chelsea pensioners?
Did you know that the Outlawries Bill has been read in the British House of Commons nearly every year since 1727?
Did you know that the U.S. Navy experienced its largest peacetime loss of ships in the 1923 Honda Point Disaster?
Did you know that Chicago's Lincoln Park was originally a cemetery?
Did you know that the Sitka is the largest species of spruce tree?
Did you know that 12 died in the 1959 Knox Mine Disaster when the Susquehanna River crashed into a Pennsylvania anthracite coal mine?
Did you know that Stonehenge is surrounded by 56 pits known as Aubrey holes?
Did you know that devout Catholics believe in the Perpetual Virginity of Mary?
Did you know that postoperative nausea and vomiting is an unpleasant complication affecting about two million people in the United Kingdom annually?
Did you know that the Royal Poinciana has been called the most colourful tree in the world?
Did you know that the ventral stream makes up one half of the visual cortex?
Did you know that Jacaranda grows almost everywhere in the world that does not have frost?
Did you know that Manscaping is the practice of a man shaving his body hair?
Did you know that since the introduction of antivenin in 1956, only one person has died from the bite of the Australian red-back spider, a cousin of the black widow?
Did you know that the 1922 Red Ruhr Army workers' revolt was a response to the Kapp Putsch?
Did you know that the longest-running show in Broadway theater history was Cats with 7,485 performances?
Did you know that Hurricane Audrey, which killed 390 in Louisiana in 1957, was one of the first hurricanes observed by weather radar?
Did you know that Occidental Petroleum head Armand Hammer bought into Church and Dwight in order to hold a stake in their Arm and Hammer baking soda trademark, apparently finding humor in the coincidence of their names?
Did you know that automatic differentiation is a method for evaluating the derivative of a function at a given point?
Did you know that in Canada there were once eight districts of the Northwest Territories?
Did you know that in linguistics, the La Spezia-Rimini Line separates eastern Romance languages from the western Romance languages using isoglosses?
Did you know that manscaping is the practice of men shaving their body hair?
Did you know that the Great Basin tribes of North America originated the Ghost Dance movement?
Did you know that the Iliad and the Odyssey were just two parts of the eight-part Trojan War cycle of epic poems?
Did you know that the Union Pacific Railroad still has offices in the historic Salt Lake City Union Pacific Depot?
Did you know that the dog called the Miniature Fox Terrier (or Mini Foxie) originated in Australia?
Did you know that king Naresuan ruled Thailand at its greatest territorial extent?
Did you know that American feminist magazine Ms. has not carried advertisements since 1989?
Did you know that the Brown Dog affair, a Edwardian era vivisection controversy, led to massive riots?
Did you know that the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis was sparked by a visit to Cornell by Lee Teng-hui?
Did you know that the ideal cellular network has evenly distributed hexagonal cells?
Did you know that the Pitstone Windmill in Buckinghamshire is believed to be the oldest windmill in the British Isles?
Did you know that the California Gull is the state bird of Utah?
Did you know that the United States Mint produced a half dime coin from 1792 until 1873?
Did you know that the edge of space is about 100 kilometers above mean sea level?
Did you know that the flags of the Yugoslav Socialist Republics were the old flags of the constituent nations, with a red star added to represent communism?
Did you know that a kammback is an aerodynamic drag-reducing car body style?
Did you know that both Cliff and Nina and Greg and Jenny are considered supercouples?
Did you know that the Honolulu Police Department became a deputized military force during World War II?
Did you know that while Tom Foley was the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, he was not re-elected by his constituents?
Did you know that a wrecking amendment is added to legislation in bad faith?
Did you know that in his later years Dick Dastardly was often Yogi Bear's nemesis?
Did you know that the Almanach de Gotha is a directory of European nobility first published in 1763?
Did you know that the Snellen chart is used to measure visual acuity?
Did you know that Dudley Pope wrote many of his books aboard a 54-foot wooden yacht?
Did you know that the Vietnam Women's Memorial is a memorial dedicated to the women who served in the Vietnam War?
Did you know that the tallest structure in California is a television antenna tower, while in Arizona it is a chimney?
Did you know that there are many uses for trigonometry?
Did you know that California's Owens River has been entirely diverted for irrigation and drinking water?
Did you know that Polish Communists forbade the use of Wymysojer shortly after World War II, and now only about 100 native speakers remain?
Did you know that a 1939 conflict between Soviet and Japanese troops in the village of Nomonhan is thought to have led to the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Did you know that the Communist League of America was formed after some members of the Communist Party USA were expelled for Trotskyism?
Did you know that Ruffini's rule allows the rapid division of any polynomial by a binomial of the form x - r ?
Did you know that dramatic structure has been diagrammed by both Aristotle and Gustav Freytag?
Did you know that the Frankfurt kitchen was the first built-in kitchen, and was designed with space efficiency in mind?
Did you know that the Pergamon Museum in Berlin hosts a reconstruction of a 113 meter long sculptural frieze?
Did you know that the political party at European level is a type of organization in the European Union eligible to receive funding from the Union, and is recognized in the Maastricht Treaty and the draft European Constitution?
Did you know that Asclepiodotus was King of the Britons, until he died in a battle fighting Coel?
Did you know that Shuri Castle is a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Did you know that the Great Salad Oil Swindle was an infamous attempt at cornering the market?
Did you know that Men's Olympic Football Tournament 2004 will feature U-23 (under 23-year-old) national teams?
Did you know that the Battle of Tarawa was the first time in World War II that the US faced serious opposition to an amphibious landing?
Did you know that the Siege of Malta cost 1,493 civilian lives?
Did you know that the Brimstone missile, an anti-tank guided missile, is carried by three Royal Air Force aeroplane types?
Did you know that bone age is usually determined by examining x-rays of the long bones?
Did you know that the tenth emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly has been resumed more times than any other?
Did you know that Primary Care Trusts are statutory bodies responsible for delivering improvements to their local area in the United Kingdom National Health Service?
Did you know that Mike Woodin was the Principal Speaker of the Green Party of England and Wales for 6 years and a city councillor for Oxford for 10 years?
Did you know that podestà was a powerful position in medieval north Italian cities?
Did you know that the Mexican War of Independence (1820–1821) resulted in an unlikely alliance between liberales and conservadores?
Did you know that the bulb of the Wavy-leafed Soap Plant can be used to wash your hair, to stun fish, to cure rheumatism and to make brushes?
Did you know that Daniel Ernst Jablonski in the 1690s tried to bring about a union between Lutheran and Calvinist Protestants?
Did you know that a Baja Bug is a Volkswagen Beetle that has been modified to operate on sand dunes?
Did you know that a madrigale spirituale is a madrigal with a spiritual rather than secular topic?
Did you know that the T-Mobile Team is currently racing in the 2004 Tour de France?
Did you know that there are fewer than 2000 Indian Rhinoceroses left in the wild?
Did you know that Cockaigne was a legendary peasant utopia of medieval Europe?
Did you know that the State Historical Museum in Moscow, Russia has 1.7 million coins in its collection?
Did you know that the case Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company established the precedents for UK contract law?
Did you know that the execution of Flor Contemplacion strained relations between Singapore and the Philippines?
Did you know that the phantom island of Brazil supposedly emerged from the mists only once every seven years?
Did you know that Joseph Guillemot, winner of the 5000 m at the 1920 Olympics, was a pack-a-day smoker?
Did you know that Lion Beer was Asia's first brand of beer?
Did you know that every film which actor John Cazale starred in received an Academy Award nomination for best picture?
Did you know that nine Irishmen died in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike?
Did you know that the Coconut Crab is the world's largest terrestrial arthropod?
Did you know that the Welsh language has three kinds of initial consonant mutation?
Did you know that when Lauri Lehtinen narrowly won his gold medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics, he was booed?
Did you know that Long Ashton Research Station closed in 2003 having served agriculture and horticulture for exactly 100 years?
Did you know that actress Hunter Tylo sued producer Aaron Spelling and won after she was fired from Melrose Place?
Did you know that the supercontinent Pannotia only lasted about sixty million years before disintegrating into four continents?
Did you know that the village name Ynysybwl, in South Wales, UK, is pronounced "Un-is-u-bull"?
Did you know that Chicago Freight Subway was abandoned in 1959 and the tunnels flooded catastrophically in 1992?
Did you know that Louis Mountbatten invented Mountbatten pink, a camouflage paint used during World War II?
Did you know that The Sun Sessions album included all of the Elvis Presley tracks recorded by Sam Phillips?
Did you know that Thomas Macaulay referred to Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times as "sullen Socialism"?
Did you know that a Greek hero cult usually focused on a great man of history (e.g. Oedipus) or the founder of a city (e.g. Battus of Cyrene)?
Did you know that holidays celebrated in Greece include Το Όχι, literally day of the "no", which honors Greece's refusal to surrender to the Axis Powers in 1940?
Did you know that items which were "Banned in Boston" (i.e. censored) came to be seen as more sexy and attractive elsewhere?
Did you know that sex determination in sports is no longer practiced at the Olympic Games?
Did you know that the Supreme Court of Pakistan meets in Islamabad?
Did you know that the Venetian polychoral style arose because of the unique architectural and acoustical characteristics of San Marco di Venezia, aka St. Mark's Cathedral, in Venice, Italy?
Did you know that the people of Thailand use the Thai six-hour clock in addition to the usual 24-hour clock?
Did you know that there are at least four methods of plastic welding?
Did you know that scientist Arvid Carlsson won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work leading to the treatment of Parkinson's Disease?
Did you know that the 1903 Tour de France often required riders to cycle through the night?
Did you know that the 1984 Summit tunnel fire in England may have been the biggest underground fire in transportation history?
Did you know that the Germanenorden had an early influence on mysticism in Nazi Germany?
Did you know that within Superman's Fortress of Solitude there is an apartment set aside for Supergirl?
Did you know that 18th century French salons were often led by those who were creating the Encyclopédie?
Did you know that Chetham's Library in Manchester, England is the oldest public library in the English-speaking world?
Did you know that Deepdene is believed to be the world's largest irradiated diamond?
Did you know that Dunash ben Labrat, a medieval Jewish writer, introduced Arabic language poetic meter into Hebrew poetry?
Did you know that Jane Avril was the inspiration for Nicole Kidman's character in the film Moulin Rouge!?
Did you know that Norman architecture is a form of the Romanesque?
Did you know that a forage harvester is used to create silage feed for livestock?
Did you know that blue boxes used for phreaking were also called Spiros, which was a reference to disgraced U.S. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew?
Did you know that bond convexity is a measure of the sensitivity of bond prices to interest rate changes?
Did you know that some Trotskyists described the Soviet system under Josef Stalin as one of bureaucratic collectivism?
Did you know that the Elton John-Bernie Taupin song "Candle in the Wind" is the bestselling single of all time?
Did you know that there are several different kinds of baseball gloves, including catcher's mitts, pitcher's gloves, first basemen's gloves and infield and outfield gloves?
Did you know that Chidiock Tichborne wrote his only known poem on the eve of his execution for treason?
Did you know that Kolkota, India is called the City of Palaces because of its abundance of European-style buildings?
Did you know that in basketball technical fouls are rule violations that occur outside the play of the game?
Did you know that seven countries have more than one capital city?
Did you know that sidewinding is unique to caenophidian snakes like vipers?
Did you know that Cairine Wilson was Canada's first female senator?
Did you know that actuarial notation uses a halo system with superscript or subscript symbols placed before or after the main letter?
Did you know that script breakdowns are the intermediate step between script and production in theater, film, television and comic books?
Did you know that the Fifth and Sixth Crusades were turned back by Al-Kamil, a nephew of Saladin?
Did you know that Youppi of the Montreal Expos was the first mascot to be thrown out of a major league baseball game?
Did you know that enharmonic scales are the third genus of musical scales?
Did you know that many of Ford Motor Company's car makes are based on the same automobile platform?
Did you know that no admiral has ever served as Commander-in-Chief of the Swedish Armed Forces?
Did you know that the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was responsible for American weights and measures from 1836 until the establishment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 1901?
Did you know that the creator of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups once worked as a dairyman for famed chocolatier Milton S. Hershey?
Did you know that the Dog Rose was often planted in victory gardens during World War II?
Did you know that the Malmédy Massacre Trial is often used in extreme right-wing German propaganda?
Did you know that Stella McCartney, the fashion designer daughter of Beatle Paul McCartney, studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design?
Did you know that according to Buys-Ballot's law wind travels counterclockwise around low pressure zones in the Northern Hemisphere?
Did you know that the U.S. Trade Representative tried to stop Singapore from hosting the first World Trade Organization ministeral meeting because of the caning of Michael P. Fay?
Did you know that the extreme points of the United Kingdom include Out Stack as the northernmost, Rockall as the westernmost, The Lizard as the southernmost and Lowestoft Ness as the easternmost?
Did you know that Colin Pitchfork was the first person to be convicted using DNA fingerprinting?
Did you know that Danielle Reyes finished second place on the American version of Big Brother in 2002?
Did you know that in Pac-Mania Pac-Man has the ability to jump?
Did you know that in the United States, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and its Republican counterpart promote the election of members of their respective parties to Congress?
Did you know that in the presence of risk, subjective expected utility is a valuable method used in economic decision theory?
Did you know that the IBM 350 was the first important milestone in early IBM disk storage?
Did you know that the casque of the Tarictic hornbill is hollow and made of keratin?
Did you know that the death toll from the 1942 Sook Ching Massacre is unknown, but probably lies between 25,000 and 50,000?
Did you know that members of the Coeur d'Alene nation refer to themselves in their own language as Schitsu'umsh?
Did you know that the Cementerio General de Chile is the final resting place for Chilean presidents?
Did you know that the casque of the Tarictic Hornbill is hollow and made of keratin?
Did you know that St. George, Bermuda was founded by sailors headed for Plymouth Colony in Virginia?
Did you know that chalcocite, a profitable and desirable kind of copper ore, was particularly plentiful in the now-depleted copper mines of Cornwall, England and Bristol, Connecticut?
Did you know that during the Great Depression confidence man Oscar Hartzell defrauded thousands of people with false promises of access to the estate of Sir Francis Drake?
Did you know that holy cards are an important devotional practice for many Roman Catholics?
Did you know that more than 50 members of the Japanese Diet were involved in the Recruit Scandal of the 1980s?
Did you know that the Death's Head moth is named for the mark on its back, which resembles a human skull?
Did you know that Germans consume up to 300 metric tons of döner kebab each day?
Did you know that Indiana's Eel River once served as informal boundary between the lands of the Potawatomi people in the north and Miami people in the south?
Did you know that in 1960 the American Ballet Theatre became the first American ballet company to dance in the Soviet Union?
Did you know that the Canis Minor Dwarf Galaxy is our nearest galactic neighbor?
Did you know that the Melisende Psalter, produced in the 12th century, is the most notable example of Crusader art?
Did you know that the Milky Way's galactic halo contains many globular clusters?
Did you know that the Thor, Baldur and Vidar are the best-known sons of Odin but that Snorri Sturluson names at least five others?
Did you know that Germans consume up to 300 tonnes of Döner kebab each day?
Did you know that Wingy Manone's "Tar Paper Stomp" was used as the basis for Glenn Miller's "In the Mood"?
Did you know that non-standard poker hands in five-card draw are determined by house rules and may have colorful names like Little Bobtail and Round the Corner Straight?
Did you know that the 1702 Spanish treasure fleet was destroyed in the Battle of Vigo Bay?
Did you know that the Gospel of Philip was one of the many Gnostic writings found in 1946 in the Egyptian village of Nag Hammâdi?
Did you know that the Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever attracts waterfowl by making a fool of itself?
Did you know that the source of the Naga fireballs of the Mekong river is a topic of much debate in Thailand?
Did you know that the sterile insect technique has been successfully used to fight malaria?
Did you know that Englog is English mixed with Tagalog words, while Taglish is Tagalog mixed with English words?
Did you know that Pennsylvania Hospital, cofounded by Benjamin Franklin, was the first hospital in the United States?
Did you know that Santa Maria sopra Minerva is the only Gothic church in Rome and holds the body of Saint Catherine of Siena, but not her head?
Did you know that a self number is an integer that cannot be generated by any other integer added up to its digits?
Did you know that the Canadian constitutional crisis known as the King-Byng Affair led to the Statute of Westminster 1931, which affected all the Dominions in the British Empire?
Did you know that the famed message "England expects that every man will do his duty" is misquoted on Nelson's Column in London?
Did you know that the primary Polish Scouting organization is Zwiazek Harcerstwa Polskiego?
Did you know that actress Patsy Kensit has married and divorced three different musicians?
Did you know that most of the Strigolniki were drowned in the Volkhov river in 1376 as a result of pressure from the Russian Orthodox Church?
Did you know that the 364-metre pier in Withernsea, England was struck by ships four times, finally leaving it only 15 metres long?
Did you know that the Norwegian heavy water sabotage was a key part of Allied efforts to prevent Nazi Germany from developing nuclear weapons?
Did you know that 43 nations currently participate in the Kimberley Process for keeping conflict diamonds from reaching market?
Did you know that Brownie Wise invented the Tupperware party?
Did you know that Michael Faraday did the first modern research into the nature of colloidal gold?
Did you know that Pickles is George W. Bush's nickname for his wife?
Did you know that seeds of the Hawaiian baby woodrose contain chemicals with effects similar to LSD?
Did you know that the British Royal Family announced the deaths of Katherine Bowes-Lyon and Nerissa Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother's nieces, when they were, in fact, merely under psychiatric care?
Did you know that the Turkish military coup of 1971 is known as the Coup by Memorandum?
Did you know that the golden age of arcade games began with the release of Space Invaders in 1978?
Did you know that an amateur airplane pilot's spatial disorientation during flight can lead to an irreversible graveyard spiral?
Did you know that blackwater fever causes red blood cells to burst, leaking hemoglobin into the plasma?
Did you know that soap opera actress Catherine Hickland starred in the Broadway production of Les Misérables as Fantine?
Did you know that the Alpine Ibex of Gran Paradiso were first protected in 1816?
Did you know that the ear's hair cells encode the information from the fluid waves of the cochlea for use by the auditory nerve?
Did you know that a pit stop in Formula One autosport involves about 20 mechanics?
Did you know that aboriginal whaling rights are granted to native populations in Greenland, Canada, the United States, Russia and several Caribbean island communities?
Did you know that the Diploma in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge has only a fail, pass and pass with distinction?
Did you know that the Serendib Scops Owl is Sri Lanka's most recently discovered bird?
Did you know that wheelbase dimensions are crucial to automobile steering and balance?
Did you know that Democrats Abroad began with two small committees in London and Paris in 1965, and has grown to be a large international organization?
Did you know that infant teeth emerge in pairs?
Did you know that the Osmond family, known for their musicality, have two siblings who were born deaf?
Did you know that the average lifespan of a feral cat who survives kittenhood is two years, compared to 16 years for house cats?
Did you know that Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism" is a poem written in heroic couplets?
Did you know that in England and Wales, most common land is actually privately owned?
Did you know that the Calayan Rail flightless bird is a significant recent species discovery, announced on 16 August 2004?
Did you know that bicycle helmets are not designed to be re-used after a major accident?
Did you know that one cause of the 21 years of military dictatorship in Brazil was the support of president João Goulart for a mariner rebellion, led by a disguised CIA agent, Cabo Anselmo?
Did you know that silent movie actress Florence Turner was originally known to audiences only as the Vitagraph Girl?