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Did you know that the Maduru Oya, Wasgamuwa, Flood Plains, and Somawathiya national parks of Sri Lanka were established under the Mahaweli Development Project?
Did you know that the Milford Oyster Festival, billed as the largest one-day festival in New England and listed among the top 10 annual events in Connecticut, draws over 50,000 attendees each year?
Did you know that the Nazi government's withholding of Princess Sophie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach's passport was considered by the Dutch government to be "an insult to the Queen"?
Did you know that the Taurus-Littrow valley, the landing site of Apollo 17 on the Moon, is deeper than the Grand Canyon?
Did you know that the World Wrestling Federation's 1997 King of the Ring event led to a storyline in which Caucasian, African American, and Latino gangs fought each other?
Did you know that the Yukon Wolf Conservation and Management Plan involved controlling the population of the Yukon Wolf in the Yukon through aerial wolf hunting?
Did you know that the art historian Nikolaus Pevsner described St Peter's Church, Wintringham, as "the most rewarding church in the East Riding"?
Did you know that the crystal structure of boron-rich metal borides may contain extended atomic units shaped as "superpolyhedra" and "tubes"?
Did you know that the socialist-oriented newspaper Yorkshire Factory Times began as an off-shoot of a conservative publication in 1899?
Did you know that the title track of the album Who's That Girl made Madonna the first solo female performer to get six US number-ones in the 1980s?
Did you know that the usually plain-colored Jenkins' whipray has a spotted variant, the dragon stingray, once considered to be a different species?
Did you know that Alaska Territorial Governor Walter Eli Clark was interested in rose cultivation and was President of the American Rose Society?
Did you know that Michael Puntervold, Magnus Nilssen, Arne Magnussen and Olav Kringen were the Norwegian delegates at the Labour and Socialist International founding congress in 1923?
Did you know that Mississippi-born singer J.D. Short sang the blues after both his testicles were shot off?
Did you know that Walter Pilliet was a popular Resident Magistrate in the New Zealand settlement of Akaroa, where many French settlers lived, as he spoke both English and French?
Did you know that Winslow Homer sarcastically explained that the figure in The Gulf Stream "will be rescued & returned to his friends and home, & ever after live happily."?
Did you know that actress Ellen Hillingsø is the goddaughter of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark?
Did you know that as a member of the U.S. Army during World War II, professional baseball player Andy Anderson was taken captive by German soldiers and later rescued from a Stalag?
Did you know that despite the 1941 Stanford Indians being considered a favorite for the national championship, head coach Clark Shaughnessy correctly predicted at least two losses for his team?
Did you know that over one hundred Atari 2600 homebrew games, including Duck Attack!, have been created since that console was withdrawn from the market in 1992?
Did you know that the Appalachian cottontail is unique among cottontails because it eats conifer needles?
Did you know that the Hōshō served as a repatriation transport after the end of World War II, returning some 40,000 soldiers and civilians to Japan?
Did you know that the Milk Pail Restaurant, formerly known as Country Tea Room, was opened in 1926 by Max McGraw, the inventor of the Toastmaster?
Did you know that the NME chart placed the Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen" at number one even though the song was banned by some major retailers?
Did you know that the alabaster monuments in All Saints' Church, Harewood, West Yorkshire, comprise the largest collection of such monuments in an English parish church within the dates 1419–1510?
Did you know that the chancel and a chapel of Old Holy Trinity Church, Wentworth, South Yorkshire, were restored, but the nave is in ruins and the tower has been truncated?
Did you know that the eunuch official Nikephoritzes was the chief minister and de facto governor of the Byzantine Empire during most of the reign of Michael VII Doukas?
Did you know that the first five columns of Lectionary 283, a Greek manuscript of New Testament gospel lessons housed at the Biblioteca Communale in Siena, are written in gold?
Did you know that there are five different ways to earn the Scouter's Training Award?
Did you know that Arvid G. Hansen edited both Arbeideren and Arbeidet, the latter in a time when Arbeidet struggled because Arbeideren was prioritized by their common owner?
Did you know that Cornish MP Alexander Pendarves was listed as a member of the October Club, a group that posed a threat to the Harley administration?
Did you know that Gil Chapman was Michigan's career leader in kickoff return yards and the first African-American elected to office in Elizabeth, New Jersey?
Did you know that HMS Chatham was laid down at Flushing, in Holland, and launched at Woolwich in England?
Did you know that Israeli ace Amir Nachumi scored seven aerial kills while flying the F-4 Phantom II during the Yom Kippur War and seven kills flying the F-16 Fighting Falcon fighting over Lebanon in the early 1980s?
Did you know that Japanese pagodas, with very rare exceptions, have an odd number of tiers?
Did you know that LeFleur's Bluff State Park is named for a French Canadian trader who established a trading post in what is now Jackson, Mississippi?
Did you know that Malaysian graphic novel The Kampung Boy was not first published in the country's official language, but later translated back to it instead?
Did you know that Shoeless Joe Jackson's Black Betsy broke the record for the most expensive baseball bat in history, selling for US$577,610 in 2001?
Did you know that Soviet spy Ignace Poretsky was assassinated shortly after he defected?
Did you know that St. Luke's Hospital in Rathgar, Ireland, was awarded an RIAI Gold Medal for architecture?
Did you know that Sverre Krogh, a delegate at the Second Comintern Congress, worked as an informer for the Nazi Sicherheitspolizei many years later?
Did you know that The Right Reverend Bavi Edna Rivera is the first Hispanic woman bishop and the 12th woman bishop in the Episcopal Church?
Did you know that according to folklore, dwarfs guard treasures hidden in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's megalith tombs?
Did you know that after Penryn MP John Bettesworth-Trevanion rebuilt Caerhays as a Gothic-style castle, he fell into debt and fled abroad?
Did you know that angiomyolipomas are the most common benign tumour of the kidney and are composed of blood vessels, smooth muscle cells and fat cells?
Did you know that competitors of the Hamar newspaper Demokraten (later Arbeideren) refused to mention it by name in their columns?
Did you know that due to potential tax implications, Governor Wilford Bacon Hoggatt opposed granting territorial status to the District of Alaska?
Did you know that in 1935, Irish children's illustrator John Robert Monsell composed the songs and music and designed the sets for an operetta based on Sheridan's The Rivals?
Did you know that in 2009, Romania cultivated around 12,900 hectares (32,000 acres) of rice fields, ranking third in the European Union?
Did you know that in April 1945, Martin Dannenberg, a Jewish U.S. Army intelligence officer, found an original copy of the Nazi Nuremberg Laws signed by Adolf Hitler in a Bavarian bank vault?
Did you know that publication of British newspaper Labour Elector was discontinued in 1890 as its editor H. H. Champion travelled to Australia?
Did you know that soprano Erminia Frezzolini created the title role in Verdi's opera Giovanna d'Arco at La Scala in 1843 opposite her husband, Antonio Poggi, as Charles VII of France?
Did you know that the "big kiln" at La Graufesenque in Roman Gaul could fire up to 40,000 terra sigillata vessels (example pictured) at a time?
Did you know that the May 2010 Mogadishu bombings were the deadliest to occur in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, since the 2009 Hotel Shamo bombing?
Did you know that the Treaty of Bonn (7 November 921) was signed on a ship in the middle of the Rhine, the border between kingdoms of the two signatories, Charles the Simple and Henry the Fowler?
Did you know that to India's dismay, China's Zangmu Dam will be the first on the Brahmaputra River?
Did you know that two of the twelve 4-6-0T locomotives (E332 pictured) built for the Réseau Breton have been preserved?
Did you know that while historian Fred Bachrach was a Japanese prisoner of war, he was allowed to keep a copy of the works of William Shakespeare by convincing the guards that it was a "holy book"?
Did you know that American voice actors "kept slipping into a Jamaican accent" when voicing Malaysian characters in Kampung Boy?
Did you know that Canadian painter Lorne Kidd Smith designed a poster for Canada's Victory Loan campaign and worked in the art department at General Motors?
Did you know that Gioachino Rossini's opera Tancredi premiered in 1813 at Teatro La Fenice in Venice with Adelaide Malanotte performing in the title role?
Did you know that Jersey Circus is a webcomic mashup of images from The Family Circus newspaper comic strip and dialogue from MTV's Jersey Shore?
Did you know that Manhattan Project scientist Jacob Bigeleisen became an advocate for nuclear disarmament, saying "having lived through that time, that any further use of nuclear weapons is out of the question"?
Did you know that Rabbi David Einhorn of Har Sinai Congregation in Baltimore sermonized in 1861 in opposition to slavery and had to flee to Philadelphia after a mob sought to tar and feather him for his views?
Did you know that Reinert Torgeirson managed the publishing house of the Norwegian Labour Party until he changed party to Communist?
Did you know that Sergeant John A. Kirkwood received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Slim Buttes?
Did you know that Sir Richard Conyers, who built St Mary's Church, South Cowton between 1450 and 1470, also built South Cowton Castle nearby, but destroyed the village of South Cowton?
Did you know that Valerie Bettis was the first modern dance choreographer to work with a major ballet company?
Did you know that Walter Powell ended his term as MP for Malmesbury when he vanished over the English Channel in a hot air balloon?
Did you know that according to U.S. Senator Ernest Gruening, Alaska Territorial Governor J. F. A. Strong was not reappointed to the post because he was not a United States citizen?
Did you know that according to the visa policy of South Korea, Canada is the only country whose citizens receive six months of visa-free entry?
Did you know that actor George Roubicek had small roles in The Dirty Dozen, Doctor Who and the first Star Wars film before becoming a dialogue director who dubs foreign films into English?
Did you know that an Australian, Alexander Sutherland, was recommended for the U.S. Medal of Honor by General William Westmoreland after the Battle of Suoi Chau Pha on 6 August 1967?
Did you know that at the time of the Spanish Conquest, the Kaqchikel Maya city of Iximche was the second most important city in the Guatemalan Highlands?
Did you know that for building the Ukrainian city of Kherson, Empress Catherine II gave Russian General Ivan Gannibal two orders of chivalry, a jewel-encrusted snuff box, and a 20,000 desiatina estate?
Did you know that many of the renowned autoethnographic works of Absentee-Shawnee artist Ernest Spybuck are held by the National Museum of the American Indian?
Did you know that operatic soprano Shirlee Emmons won an Obie Award for her portrayal of Susan B. Anthony in the 1956 Off-Broadway revival of Virgil Thomson's The Mother of Us All?
Did you know that species of Azotobacter bacteria are used in the production of ice cream and instant puddings?
Did you know that suicide victim Princess Sophie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach is believed to have been the first royal woman to be cremated?
Did you know that the Church of Saint Laud's original, octagonal, Gothic-panelled font is buried under the church floor?
Did you know that the first Black church in Schenectady, New York, was begun by a White college student and located in the Hamilton Hill neighborhood in 1870?
Did you know that the operatic mezzo-soprano Adelaide Borghi-Mamo sang the part of Azucena in the French premiere of Verdi's Il trovatore at the Théâtre-Italien in Paris in 1854?
Did you know that there are eight different ways to earn the Scouter's Key Award?
Did you know that under the 1960 Iraqi Associations Law, Daud as-Sayegh's tiny faction (which published al-Mabda') was accorded recognition as the "Iraqi Communist Party", while the main communist group (which published Ittihad ash-Sha'ab) was denied legal status?
Did you know that Albanian nationalist Safet Butka killed himself because in Albania the war against fascism was degenerating into a civil war?
Did you know that American feminist author and journalist Inez Haynes Irwin estimated that between 500,000 and 750,000 women were killed in World War I?
Did you know that Francisco Drinaldo, better known as Massaranduba, is a Brazilian kickboxing champion with an undefeated professional mixed martial arts record?
Did you know that German Admiral Franz von Hipper was vilified as a "baby-killer" in the British press during World War I?
Did you know that Jacob Mayer resigned in 1876 from his position as rabbi of Baltimore's Har Sinai Congregation amid charges that he had been a convert to Christianity who worked as a missionary in Africa?
Did you know that Kelli Scarr completed a challenge with Moby by National Public Radio to write and perform a song in less than two days?
Did you know that Puerto Rican-American singer José Feliciano was awarded his sixth Grammy Award for his performance of the song "¿Por Qué Te Tengo Que Olvidar?"?
Did you know that Schenectady, New York's Mont Pleasant neighborhood had a residential vacancy rate of 28% in 2009, the third highest in the US state of New York?
Did you know that after the Mill Creek flooded Erie, Pennsylvania in 1915, it was diverted to a tube that is large enough for a pickup truck to drive through?
Did you know that all 17 then-current cast members made appearances in "Respect", the series finale of The Bill?
Did you know that during the Battle of the Bulge, a gun crew of the American 825th Tank Destroyer Battalion knocked out a Tiger II tank by making it reverse into a house?
Did you know that every year a mysterious dancing light is said to appear over the spot where Grace Sherwood, "The Witch of Pungo", was tested by ducking as part of her trial for witchcraft?
Did you know that guard Pete Ladygo went to Canada to play football for the Ottawa Rough Riders rather than accept a trade to the Detroit Lions?
Did you know that historian Hilda Ellis Davidson theorizes that the swastika symbol was used by Norsemen to represent Thor's hammer?
Did you know that in 1881, Florida granted 2.8 million acres of public land to the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad to build a rail line that ended the Panhandle's isolation from the rest of the state?
Did you know that in 1891, Somerset County Cricket Club regained first-class status, after remaining unbeaten against county sides in 1890?
Did you know that inhibiting protein pigeon homolog may provide a treatment for Alzheimer's disease?
Did you know that members of Senostoma kill their hosts when ready to emerge?
Did you know that soprano Nellie Melba and tenor Agustarello Affré made their debut together at the Paris Opéra in 1890 as Lucia and Edgardo in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor?
Did you know that the 19th-century Danish Golden Age did not just cover painting (example pictured) but a range of other cultural developments in architecture, sculpture, music and literature?
Did you know that the French ironclad Océan was assigned to the Northern Squadron that attempted to blockade Prussian ports on the Baltic Sea during the Franco-Prussian War until recalled on 16 September 1870?
Did you know that the French ironclad Marengo was on her sea trials in July 1870 when the Franco-Prussian War began and was immediately placed in reserve; she was not commissioned until after the war was over?
Did you know that the French ironclad Suffren was assigned to the international squadron gathered at Ragusa in 1880 to force the Ottoman Empire to carry out its obligations under the Treaty of Berlin and turn over the town of Ulcinj to Montenegro?
Did you know that the Harris Dental Museum in Bainbridge, Ohio, preserves the first dental school in the United States?
Did you know that the Kucadikadi are a band of Northern Paiute Native Americans, whose names translates to "brine fly eaters"?
Did you know that the Rin Grand Hotel in Bucharest, Romania, is the largest hotel in Europe with 1,459 rooms?
Did you know that the black-spotted whipray was at first thought to be the same as the brown whipray, which itself was at first thought to be the same as the honeycomb stingray?
Did you know that the international Reger-Chor celebrated its 25th anniversary, singing music of Bach, Van Nuffel, Ryelandt, and Reger's Hebbel-Requiem in Wiesbaden and Bruges?
Did you know that Åre Old Church remains the only stone church in the Scandinavian Mountains from the Middle Ages?
Did you know that Araneus angulatus was the first scientific name validly published in zoological nomenclature, when it appeared in Svenska Spindlar in 1757?
Did you know that Bach's cantata for the 15th Sunday after Trinity 1723, Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz, BWV 138, was criticized by Philipp Spitta and Albert Schweitzer?
Did you know that Bulgarian Roman Catholic archbishop and diplomat Petar Parchevich was made baron by the Habsburgs?
Did you know that HMS Aeolus was involved in the pursuit of USS Constitution and the capture of USS Nautilus, the first warship lost by either side in the War of 1812?
Did you know that Isaac Dian and Miria Harvent are characters of the Baccano! light novels and anime, set in the Prohibition-era United States, but also appear in the Durarara!! anime, set in modern Tokyo?
Did you know that Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee William "Moon" Evans, who twice led the United States in scoring, saw action in the Battle of Okinawa and the Battle of Peleliu?
Did you know that Lawrence E. Roberts was a pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen, a colonel in the United States Air Force, and the father of newscaster Robin Roberts?
Did you know that Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for history?
Did you know that Lucas Duda faced Tommy Hanson, whom he previously played against in high school, in his Major League Baseball debut?
Did you know that Plön Castle was once an elite Nazi school bearing the name of Ernst Röhm?
Did you know that Viktor Nemkov is an M-1 Global veteran who was approached by World Wrestling Entertainment to become a professional wrestler?
Did you know that association football club Bradford City's first game at Wembley Stadium in their 93-year history was the 1996 Football League Second Division play-off Final?
Did you know that during the 1689 Boston revolt, Puritan Bostonians overthrew their governor who was loyal to the Catholic James II of England?
Did you know that former mayor of Tirana, Qemal Butka, was the architect of the municipality building of Korçë?
Did you know that in 1931 Aziz Çami tried to assassinate Zog of Albania when the king was exiting the Vienna State Opera?
Did you know that quarterback George "Shorty" Chalmers was considered a triple threat man, and alongside Boze Berger, "one of the most dangerous pass–catch combinations in Maryland history"?
Did you know that scaly ink cap mushrooms can attack and consume soil bacteria by growing hyphae that secrete digestive compounds?
Did you know that soprano Ada Adini, a singer of Verdi's Gilda and Leonora, appeared as Brünnhilde in the Italian premiere of Wagner's Die Walküre at La Scala in 1893?
Did you know that the English educational reformer James Pierrepont Greaves (1777–1842) described himself as a "sacred socialist" and advocated vegetarianism, water drinking, hydrotherapy and celibacy?
Did you know that the Italian castrato Domenico Annibali made a sensational debut at the Royal Opera House in London in the title role of Handel's opera Poro?
Did you know that the Jacobean fittings in St John the Evangelist's Church, Leeds, West Yorkshire, have been described as the glory of the church?
Did you know that the Labrador Sea contains the Northwest Atlantic Mid-Ocean Channel, one of the world's longest underwater channels?
Did you know that the Neosho class monitors USS Osage and USS Neosho were saved by Bailey's Dam after being trapped at the Mississippi River's Alexandria Falls during the Red River Campaign in 1864?
Did you know that the New Jersey Americans were supposed to play a playoff game on their home court in the 1967–68 ABA season, but the Teaneck Armory was booked by the circus and the team had to forfeit the game?
Did you know that the USCGC Point Caution, an 82-foot USCG Point class cutter originally designated as WPB-82301, later acquired the name Point Caution when the Coast Guard started naming all cutters longer than 65 feet?
Did you know that the antifascist and freedom fighter Abaz Kupi was the founder of the Legality Movement, which aimed to return Zog of Albania back to his throne?
Did you know that the earliest Scottish surnames were already hereditary in England, before arriving in Scotland with Anglo-Norman settlers in the 12th century?
Did you know that the planned Marvel Comics superhero film, X-Men: First Class is intended to take place during the 1960s and will parallel the history of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X?
Did you know that the tower of St Michael's Church, Cowthorpe, North Yorkshire, has been described as "more like a castle fortification than a religious symbol"?
Did you know that "The Most Unwanted Song" includes bagpipes, a children's choir, and an opera singer who raps about cowboys?
Did you know that Basketball Hall of Famer Julius Erving has won the most American Basketball Association awards with five Most Valuable Player awards—three in the regular season and two in the playoffs?
Did you know that Corsair pilots of Caleb Bailey's Marine Aircraft Group 11 would make chocolate ice cream on missions in the Palau campaign during World War II?
Did you know that Leymah Gbowee organized a peace movement that ended the Second Liberian Civil War and led to the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first female president in Africa?
Did you know that Māori men achieved universal suffrage in the First Māori elections, midway through the term of the 4th New Zealand Parliament in 1868 and twelve years before the European colonists?
Did you know that Parachartergus apicalis will attack Camponotus atriceps if they try to tend their treehoppers?
Did you know that Puritan minister Thomas Tregosse was imprisoned for holding a Conventicle in Budock?
Did you know that Rena Kubota has been crowned world champion at the previous two Women's Shoot Boxing Tournaments?
Did you know that San Francisco Church in Valparaíso, Chile, was severely affected by a large fire in the middle of its reconstruction after the 2010 Chile earthquake?
Did you know that Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow argue in their new book The Grand Design, that without God "the universe can and will create itself from nothing"?
Did you know that a kulhar, a traditional handle-less terracotta cup from North India and Pakistan, gives the hot beverages it contains an "earthy" taste and aroma?
Did you know that after investing enough money to create a Million Dollar Backfield for the Chicago Cardinals, the team's owner died before he could see it defeat its championship rival?
Did you know that diplomats from some countries still wear ornate diplomatic uniforms on certain occasions?
Did you know that during the Vietnam War the South Vietnamese Army came close to "annihilating or capturing" the Vietcong leadership but was prevented from doing so by General Hoàng Văn Thái and his successful plan for the escape of the Provisional Revolutionary Government?