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Did you know that a word square found in Mamucium, a Roman fort in Manchester, may be one of the earliest examples of Christianity in Britain?
Did you know that after a painted garage door was destroyed, the Precita Eyes muralists salvaged it and merged it into a new one, said to be one of their most beautiful in San Francisco?
Did you know that areas around Mangochi (Lake Malawi pictured), Malawi, have recently been terrorised by elephants?
Did you know that attacks by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, led by Nigerian rebel Henry Okah, are believed to indirectly raise the price of oil?
Did you know that in his 2005 book Race Against Time, the UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa Stephen Lewis claimed the spread of AIDS across Africa is partly due to a succession of disastrous economic policies promoted by international financial institutions?
Did you know that social interface is a term used in social sciences both in a theoretical literature, and in a practical design of computer user interfaces?
Did you know that the National Taiwan Library (entrance pictured), founded in 1914, is the oldest public library in Taiwan?
Did you know that the Quatama Station light rail stop in Hillsboro, Oregon, includes a piece of art based on an arrangement created by a Japanese Macaque at the Oregon National Primate Research Center?
Did you know that the Rev. William Plenderleath's book Memoranda of Cherhill was first published 95 years after the author's death?
Did you know that the sinking of the SS Königin Luise was the first German naval loss of the First World War?
Did you know that 30-year Seattle City Council member David Levine served as Seattle's acting mayor on over 250 occasions?
Did you know that English headmistress Olive Willis founded Downe House School, where her chauffeur-architect-engineer slept in her bathroom?
Did you know that Pierre Abraham Lorillard was the first man to make snuff in North America?
Did you know that Quang Nhuong Huynh was the first Vietnamese to write fiction and non-fiction in English?
Did you know that Reinhard von Werneck gave Munich's Englischer Garten much of its current form by almost doubling its area and by creating a new lake, the Kleinhesseloher See?
Did you know that Riley Hern was the first professional ice hockey goaltender  to play on a Stanley Cup-winning team?
Did you know that Ukrainian Cossack Grégoire Orlyk was a spy of the French king Louis XV, fought in the Seven Years' War, received a title of a comte and was promoted to the general's rank of Maréchal de camp?
Did you know that a grand jury found Arizona Territory's "Thieving Thirteenth" legislature exceeded a US$4,000 legal limitation for operating expenses by US$46,744.50?
Did you know that after winning the 2002 Alaska gubernatorial election, Frank Murkowski appointed his daughter Lisa Murkowski to serve the rest of his term in the US Senate?
Did you know that architect/engineer Sir Owen Williams returned part of his design fee for the Dollis Hill Synagogue because the congregation was unhappy with the finished structure?
Did you know that following Australia's failure to win the 2003 Rugby World Cup, British pie retailer Square Pie produced a "humble pie" filled with kangaroo meat?
Did you know that lobbyist Stephen Payne was caught on hidden camera in July 2008 offering access to senior U.S. officials in return for a US$250,000 donation to the George W. Bush Presidential Library?
Did you know that the College of Letters and Science is the largest college of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?
Did you know that the Romanian poet Anatol E. Baconsky, who debuted as a socialist realist, came to depict the communist regime as an "anti-utopia" shortly before dying in the 1977 earthquake?
Did you know that the buildings with the sign Silver Dew Winery described by Pat Conroy in his autobiographical book The Water is Wide were once part of the Bloody Point Range Lights on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina?
Did you know that the world's first successful demonstration of laser surgery was held at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital in Melrose, Massachusetts?
Did you know that there are approximately 2,000 species of mantis (example pictured)?
Did you know that when playing at the 2008 NME Awards in support of their triple-nominated single "Flux", indie rock band Bloc Party were stunned by the scale of the gig?
Did you know that 29 percent of the population of Birds Landing, California can speak Spanish?
Did you know that Charles Martin Hall, working as an amateur chemist in a shed, developed what became the Hall-Héroult process for extracting aluminium?
Did you know that El Molino Viejo, a grist mill built in 1816 by native Indian converts from the San Gabriel Mission, is the oldest commercial building in Southern California?
Did you know that Emperor Peter III of Russia was deposed by his wife Catherine and her friend Ekaterina Dashkova after he had made public his plans to divorce Catherine and marry Ekaterina's sister Elisabeth?
Did you know that Herman Bagger, a Danish immigrant to Norway, became a member of the Norwegian Parliament and mayor of Gjerpen and Skien?
Did you know that India's Defence Attaché Brigadier Ravi Datt Mehta was killed in the suicide bombing on the Indian Embassy in Kabul and is being considered for the Kirti Chakra?
Did you know that MLB player Jim Adduci was traded to the San Francisco Giants by the Milwaukee Brewers, only to be returned one week later?
Did you know that Martynas Jankus, Lithuanian journalist and "Patriarch of Lithuania Minor", was penalized around forty times by Prussian authorities for his public activities?
Did you know that Merten de Keyser printed the first complete French and English Bibles in Antwerp?
Did you know that Norwegian politician Christian Birch-Reichenwald was brought in as a government minister by then-Crown Prince Charles in 1858, only to be provoked by the same person to resign three years later?
Did you know that Samuel Johnson bragged he could recite an entire chapter of Niels Horrebow's Natural History of Iceland?
Did you know that South Ockendon Windmill had a pair of millstones powered by a waterwheel?
Did you know that Viktor Nogin, mayor of Moscow during the Bolshevik Revolution, is buried in the Kremlin in Red Square, Moscow?
Did you know that a 15th-century bell from the Gokoku-ji Buddhist temple in Japan was sent to the U.S. in 1854 and rung when the Naval Academy at Annapolis won the annual Army-Navy football game?
Did you know that aviator Jack De Garis faked his own suicide by drowning before being the subject of an Australia-wide search in 1925?
Did you know that comedian Al Madrigal’s first television series, The Ortegas, was dropped from the Fox Network schedule in 2003 before any episodes were broadcast?
Did you know that in August 1934, Dillinger gang member Homer Van Meter was gunned down by police officers in Frogtown?
Did you know that in the Texas Revolution battle of Lipantitlán, Texian insurgents captured in 30 minutes a Mexican fort they described as a "second-rate hog pen"?
Did you know that the 17th-century Chinese world map Shanhai Yudi Quantu was derived from the work of Father Matteo Ricci of the Jesuit China missions?
Did you know that the 30 Rock episode "Somebody to Love" was the first scripted series, which aired during the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, to actually make reference to the strike?
Did you know that the Blade of the Immortal manga authored by Hiroaki Samura was adapted into an anime series by Bee Train, Production I.G and Pony Canyon?
Did you know that the Friend to Friend Masonic Memorial  depicts the historical event of an Union officer aiding a Confederate officer at the Battle of Gettysburg, due to both being Freemasons?
Did you know that the Masonic Widows and Orphans Home, founded by the Grand Lodge of Kentucky, is the oldest Masonic Home foundation in North America?
Did you know that the Plumed Whistling Duck eats by cropping vegetation rather than diving in water, as other ducks do?
Did you know that the Stephen Downing case, also known as the Bakewell Tart murder, has been described as the longest miscarriage of justice in British legal history?
Did you know that the first amateur radio operator in India was licensed in 1921?
Did you know that Hughie Lehman was the first ice hockey goaltender to pass the puck to his fellow players?
Did you know that John Liston's portrayal of the character Paul Pry was so popular, the image was stamped into butter?
Did you know that Juan de Borja Lanzol de Romaní, el mayor, the first of ten cardinal-nephews of Pope Alexander VI, crowned Alfonso II of Naples, the future father-in-law of Lucrezia Borgia?
Did you know that Laila Goody has been called "Norway's most awarded young actress"?
Did you know that Lithuanian artist Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas designed interiors for over sixty churches in the United States, Europe and Australia?
Did you know that Lubbock attorney Warlick Carr filed some thirty civil suits within 24 hours against the Pecos, Texas, financier Billie Sol Estes?
Did you know that Nevada City's Nevada Theatre is the oldest existing theater building in California?
Did you know that William Hayter was secretary of the UK delegation to the Potsdam Conference, later Ambassador to the Soviet Union, and then Warden of New College, Oxford?
Did you know that a Bulgarian choir and the Irish singer Joanne Hogg contributed to the soundtrack of the video game Xenogears?
Did you know that a low side window in the 12th-century St Helen's Church, Hangleton, may have been used as a hagioscope by lepers wanting to listen to services without entering the building?
Did you know that according to the official English account of the Battle of Skerries in 1316, the English army suffered only one casualty, yet lost the battle?
Did you know that film director Jens Lien said he was unable to sleep after first reading the script for the dystopian film Den brysomme mannen?
Did you know that former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack began his US presidential campaign in November 2006, nearly two years before the 2008 presidential election?
Did you know that in Burkina Faso, Bwa people use masks made of leaves to represent their god Dwo in performative rituals?
Did you know that in the 1920s and '30s, various countries such as Mexico, Brazil and Chile issued Art Deco stamps?
Did you know that the debtors' prisons in Accomac, Worsham, and Tappahannock, Virginia, have all survived to the present day?
Did you know that the origins of chromatography can be traced to the work of Russian botanist Mikhail Tsvet, but his work saw little use until the 1930s?
Did you know that the residents of Kasungu, Malawi, live in houses made from handmade bricks and straw roofing?
Did you know that the semi-arid, mostly agricultural Cuyama Valley was once one of the most productive oil regions of California?
Did you know that "Fart Proudly" is an essay about flatulence written by Benjamin Franklin?
Did you know that Congregation Beth Israel, a Conservative synagogue in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, was designed by Percival Goodman to mirror the barns of nearby Pennsylvania Dutch farmers?
Did you know that Francisco de Borja, a cardinal-nephew of Pope Alexander VI, died before learning of his excommunication by Pope Julius II?
Did you know that Mason County, Michigan's courts used an old farmhouse until the county courthouse was built?
Did you know that Mysore mallige,  a variety of Jasmine flower endemic to Karnataka state of India, is patented for its unique quality, attribution and reputation?
Did you know that Noel Moore was the civil servant responsible for managing the decimalisation of the United Kingdom's currency?
Did you know that Quang Nhuong Huynh's autobiography The Land I Lost won seven awards and was translated into four languages other than English?
Did you know that Royal Marine Matthew Croucher was awarded the George Cross for diving on a live hand grenade?
Did you know that Samuel Jackman Prescod became the first person of African descent elected to the Parliament of Barbados?
Did you know that Seattle, Washington's  3.7-mile (6.0 km) Queen Anne Boulevard is designated as a city landmark, but no street sign carries that name?
Did you know that Sphodromantis viridis, the Giant African Mantis, is kept worldwide as a pet?
Did you know that The Bryson, featured in Raymond Chandler's The Lady in the Lake and the neo-noir film The Grifters, has become a symbol of LA's film noir past?
Did you know that abolitionist George Bradburn was with Frederick Douglass on an 1843 anti-slavery lecture tour in Indiana, when they were attacked?
Did you know that cerebral vasculitis, an inflammatory condition of the blood vessels in the brain, is so rare that there are disagreements on how it should be diagnosed?
Did you know that country singer Johnny Cash covered the song "Johnny 99" by Bruce Springsteen and made it the title song of the album it appeared on?
Did you know that exhaled nitric oxide can be measured in a breath test for asthma and airway inflammation?
Did you know that the 2008 film Fifty Dead Men Walking is based on an autobiography by British secret agent Marty McGartland, who was later shot six times in an assassination attempt by the IRA?
Did you know that the Florida Railroad was the first railroad to connect the east and west coasts of Florida and the longest railroad to be completed in Florida before the start of the American Civil War?
Did you know that the Spring Street Financial District, known as the "Wall Street of the West", contains Los Angeles's first skyscraper and more than twenty historic financial buildings?
Did you know that the design of the flag of Tunisia was altered slightly in its 1999 codification?
Did you know that the margin of victory in the 1994 Alaska gubernatorial election was the smallest in Alaska's history?
Did you know that the papal conclave of 1294 was the only papal conclave celebrated during the lifetime of the preceding Pontiff?
Did you know that the red bolete mushroom Boletus rubellus, regarded as edible by some, tastes of soap?
Did you know that the screenplay for the upcoming film Maya, starring Tamil actress Namitha, was written by Indian film historian Randor Guy?
Did you know that though first deemed too young for the part, Aksel Hennie won a "Best Actor" Amanda Award in the title role of the Norwegian film Jonny Vang?
Did you know that two games after returning from injury in 2000, Reggie Taylor became the second-ever Scranton baseball player to collect five hits in a game?
Did you know that Childress, a small city in the Texas Panhandle, is named for George Campbell Childress, the author of the Texas Declaration of Independence?
Did you know that Elaine Stritch's appearance as Colleen Donaghy, in the 30 Rock episode "Hiatus", earned her a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series?
Did you know that Jacob Kielland, one of the richest persons in Norway in the 1860s, was also the grandfather of novelist Alexander Kielland?
Did you know that Norwegian Parliament member, Minister of the Navy and Counter Admiral Henrik Steffens Hagerup was also the father of later Norwegian Prime Minister Francis Hagerup?
Did you know that Sir Murray Maxwell, a celebrated Royal Navy officer, once spent weeks marooned on an island under attack from pirates following the loss of HMS Alceste in 1817?
Did you know that according to Hindu mythology, the "first king" Prithu chased the Earth in the form of a cow, who eventually agreed to yield her milk as all the world's grain and vegetation?
Did you know that early 20th-century immigrants to the United States are said to have seen New York for the first time from the decks of the ferryboat Yankee?
Did you know that in 1992, baseball player Steve Rodriguez was named one of the West Coast Conference's top fifty athletes of all time?
Did you know that in the 1981 Nepalese national election, one candidate was elected with just 3,137 votes, less than ten percent of what the top candidate received?
Did you know that in the early 1990s, Surət Hüseynov successfully led a military coup d'état in Azerbaijan to become the Prime Minister?
Did you know that non-heterosexual is an umbrella term, describing people who do not or no longer identify as heterosexual?
Did you know that on the very same day that baseball player Hector Mercado was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies, he was traded to the New York Mets for Mike Welch?
Did you know that singer Elvis Presley is said to have made an impromptu performance at Colonial Gardens in Louisville's Senning's Park, while visiting his nearby grandparents?
Did you know that the Harwich Force, under Commodore Reginald Tyrwhitt, oversaw the surrender of German U-boats at the end of the First World War?
Did you know that the brittlegill mushroom Russula betularum grows under birch, while the closely related Russula emetica is found under conifers?
Did you know that the diporus subspecies of the Bothrops neuwiedi pitviper is one of the main causes of snakebite injury in Argentina?
Did you know that the mother of Ivy Gordon-Lennox announced in The New York Times that her daughter was not engaged to marry the Earl Winterton?
Did you know that Anne Aghion won an Emmy Award in 2005 for her documentary film In Rwanda We Say…The Family That Does Not Speak Dies, which examined the situation in post-genocide Rwanda?
Did you know that Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for a campaign of disinvestment from Israel?
Did you know that Bouse Hutton played ice hockey, lacrosse, and Canadian football at the highest respective level of competition, winning championships in each sport?
Did you know that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's second novel Half of a Yellow Sun won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction?
Did you know that Drukair flights between Kathmandu, Nepal and Paro, Bhutan pass close to Mount Everest?
Did you know that Dustin Lance Black is the only writer on Big Love, a drama about Mormon fundamentalists, who was raised in the Mormon faith?
Did you know that International Association of Athletics Federations' third president, Adriaan Paulen, was part of the Dutch resistance during World War II?
Did you know that Japanese director Kei Kumai's Sandakan No. 8 lost the 1975 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film to a film by another Japanese director, Akira Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala?
Did you know that Mooers House, an example of West Coast Victorian architecture, is named for its owner who struck gold after years of prospecting in the Mojave Desert?
Did you know that Royal Spring Park may have been the site of the first bourbon whiskey production?
Did you know that Samuel Johnson's first published poems, Messiah and London, were directly inspired by the writings of Alexander Pope?
Did you know that South Vietnamese politician Truong Dinh Dzu once put his wife up as collateral?
Did you know that Sozin's Comet: The Final Battle, the two-hour finale for Avatar: The Last Airbender, was the most-watched cable television broadcast in the week of its transmission?
Did you know that Stream Cliff Farm is the oldest herb farm in Indiana?
Did you know that during the Great Depression, violence in Seattle's Smith Cove between longshoremen, strikebreakers and police ultimately resulted in the loss of much of the city's maritime traffic to the Port of Los Angeles?
Did you know that philanthropist Lorry Lokey has donated US$132 million to the University of Oregon?
Did you know that snakes were a favorite remedy of the medieval monk and healer Nicholas of Poland?
Did you know that the 1932 Southern German football championship final between Eintracht Frankfurt and Bayern Munich was halted seven minutes before the end due to Bayern supporters invading the pitch?
Did you know that the BEL Weapon Locating Radar was developed after engineers noticed that the Rajendra Radar could unexpectedly detect and track artillery shells?
Did you know that the General Board of the United States Navy was an advisory body of the United States Navy, effectively a naval general staff?
Did you know that the Ikazuchi class destroyers (example pictured), the first class of destroyers in the Imperial Japanese Navy, were all built in Scotland?
Did you know that the New York Mets traded Mike Welch to the Philadelphia Phillies for Hector Mercado, a player who was drafted and traded the same day, only for him to play against the Mets on his major league debut?
Did you know that the Pine Creek Path, a Native American trail along Pine Creek in Pennsylvania, was later used by lumbermen, then its course was followed by a railroad, and today it is a rail trail?
Did you know that the Revolt of the Comuneros against Charles V was partly provoked by the taxes raised in order to bribe prince-electors to elect him Holy Roman Emperor?
Did you know that there are over three thousand miles of interstate highways and U.S. Routes in the state of Utah?
Did you know that 80% of all British banknotes are contaminated with drugs?
Did you know that Australian ophthalmologist Sir Norman McAlister Gregg discovered the link between rubella and congenital disorders in newborn infants after overhearing several of his patients discussing their illness during pregnancy?
Did you know that Congregation Beth Israel of New Orleans, Louisiana, severely flooded after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, was flooded again in 2007?
Did you know that Henry A. Smith became the dominant landowner in what is now Interbay, Seattle, Washington by buying when so many others were selling during an 1855–56 Indian War?
Did you know that Raphael painted Felice della Rovere, the illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, into The Mass at Bolsena (pictured, della Rovere in black), commissioned for the Apostolic Palace?
Did you know that Sebastian Hardie were Australia's first symphonic rock band and released their debut album Four Moments in 1975?
Did you know that although he wrote six dozen German songs (or Lieder), Franz Liszt was accused by critics of never having had a proper grasp of the German Lied?
Did you know that at WWE's No Mercy (2005) pay-per-view, Randy Orton and his father, "Cowboy" Bob Orton, kayfabe locked The Undertaker in a casket and set it on fire?
Did you know that original stained glass from the Miller and Herriott House was removed to a restaurant near Disneyland, prompting one writer to compare the new glass to the wooden leg on Sarah Bernhardt?
Did you know that session steel guitarist Lloyd Green played professionally in night clubs starting at age ten?
Did you know that the Guarijío of Mexico prepare an herbal tea, malo en el cuerpo (pain in the body), from Wimmeria mexicana, chamomile, and cilantro?
Did you know that the Young Australia League was initially formed in 1905 to promote Australian rules football?
Did you know that the sexual script is a sociological analysis of what leads up to sexual intercourse?
Did you know that the waxcap mushroom Hygrocybe austropratensis has been declared an endangered species by the Government of New South Wales?
Did you know that young Heliobolus lugubris lizards scare off predators by imitating certain acid-squirting ground beetles?
Did you know that "Blooddrunk", a track by Finnish band Children of Bodom about self-destructive behaviour, debuted at number one in Finland?
Did you know that Christopher Smart's two oratorios, Hannah and Abimelech, are based on the story of biblical women who became fertile because of their devotion to God?
Did you know that David Nichtern, who wrote "Midnight at the Oasis", is the son of the first female to win a Tony Award?
Did you know that Donald Colman invented the football dugout in the 1930s while working as coach of Aberdeen?
Did you know that Eliza Ridgely of Baltimore and Hampton is Thomas Sully's Lady with a Harp?
Did you know that John Buckler created 13,000 drawings and paintings of historic British buildings, such as Ely Cathedral?
Did you know that New Year's Revolution (2005) was the first pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment to be held in Puerto Rico?
Did you know that Sidney Weighell, General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, played professional football with Sunderland for two seasons as an inside left?