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Did you know that the Sakuradamon Incident of 1932 was an unsuccessful assassination attempt against Emperor Hirohito of Japan by a Korean nationalist?
Did you know that the citizens of Carmel, New York, felt that "Shaw's Pond" was too modest a name for a local body of water, so they appointed a committee that renamed it Lake Gleneida?
Did you know that the pink mushroom Gomphidius roseus appears to be parasitic on the related Suillus bovinus?
Did you know that the recently discovered smallest snake in the world, Leptotyphlops carlae, is thought to be near the evolutionary limit of how small any snake could be?
Did you know that the town of Kent, New York, dealt with an excess Canada goose population around Lake Carmel by rounding them up while they were molting and distributing the meat to the poor?
Did you know that Edward Harrison was the first person to perform a concerto for maraca soloist with symphony orchestra?
Did you know that L'Année philologique (The Year in Philology) annually gathers scholarly work related to ancient Greece and Rome from approximately 2,000 sources?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines men's basketball has a 16–0 record at Crisler Arena, its home stadium, during the National Invitation Tournament?
Did you know that Roger de Busli deliberately built Tickhill Castle directly on the Nottingham-Yorkshire border as he had authority in both?
Did you know that Scottish botanist Robert Kaye Greville has a mountain named after him in Queensland, Australia?
Did you know that Thyrocopa is a genus of flightless moth endemic to Hawaii?
Did you know that although Harold McCarter Taylor was a theoretical physicist and mathematician who worked with Ernest Rutherford, he is best known for a three-volume work on Anglo-Saxon architecture?
Did you know that confraternities, a type of Nigerian university student organization started by Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka, are now linked with organized crime?
Did you know that due to an error, the Pagsanjan Falls stamp, one of a series supposedly showcasing places of interest in the Philippines, actually shows a waterfall in California?
Did you know that for many years, Municipal Warehouse No. 1 at the Port of Los Angeles stored the railcar that carried Winston Churchill's body to burial?
Did you know that iOffer, an online trading community launched in May 2002, had nearly one million users by February 2008?
Did you know that plans to build the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant in the vicinity of Minsk were halted after the Chernobyl accident?
Did you know that the Bateleur is the official symbol of Kiang West National Park in The Gambia?
Did you know that the National Youth Orchestra of Wales has the distinction of being the first national youth orchestra in the world and is Europe's longest-standing national youth orchestra?
Did you know that the Patrick Tavern, built in 1793, is the oldest building in New York's Aurora Village-Wells College Historic District?
Did you know that the Phylax Society, the first German Shepherd Dog club, disbanded because members could not agree whether the dogs should be bred for working or appearance?
Did you know that the Polish Club Class glider SZD-59 "Acro" is competitive in both unlimited aerobatics and cross-country flying?
Did you know that the Woodard Bay Natural Resource Conservation Area is the location of a new type of habitat conservation program focused on restoring the native Olympia oyster?
Did you know that the orangespotted trevally is believed to be able to switch between silvery grey and orange-yellow colorations?
Did you know that the potato disease Zebra chip has cost the Texas economy over US$125 million and threatens similar economic harm across the U.S. and Guatemala?
Did you know that there are over 3,500 miles of state highways in Utah, with the shortest one being only 0.086 mi (138 m) long?
Did you know that "Brilliant Disguise" and "Tunnel of Love" gave Bruce Springsteen two consecutive #1 singles on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart from the Tunnel of Love album?
Did you know that Anna Borkowska, the mother superior of a Polish convent of Dominican Sisters in World War II, was the first to smuggle in grenades for the Vilnius Jewish ghetto insurgents?
Did you know that Filipino indie rock band Taken by Cars had two singles that reached the top of Manila's local radio charts before getting signed in a major record label?
Did you know that Michigan's Mason County District Library is an umbrella entity that administers two libraries?
Did you know that Open Access movement, a social movement in academia dedicated to the principle of open access—information sharing for the common good—traces its history to 1960s or earlier?
Did you know that Randy Orton defeated Rob Van Dam at Armageddon (2003) pay-per-view to begin the longest WWE Intercontinental Championship reign in over seven years at the time?
Did you know that Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae, a manga about a blind samurai, won the 1968 Shogakukan Manga Award?
Did you know that U.S. Navy transport ship USS Henry R. Mallory (ID-1280) successfully avoided a torpedo attack in World War I, only to be sunk by the same method during World War II?
Did you know that a yett is a latticed iron gate used in place of a portcullis in many Scottish castles and tower houses?
Did you know that according to Le Monde, Central African Republic Lieutenant Colonel and politician Alexandre Banza was killed in circumstances "so revolting that it still makes one's flesh creep"?
Did you know that child actress Jillian Clare has been nominated for five Young Artist Awards, winning twice?
Did you know that for over a century the sheriff of Putnam County, New York lived in the county courthouse, where his wife cooked for inmates at the county jail?
Did you know that in 1929, BSEIU President Jerry Horan offered US$125,000 to bootlegger Roger Touhy in exchange for protection from Al Capone and the Chicago Outfit?
Did you know that many types of car bomb use a tilt fuse, a tube-like device not dissimilar to a medical pill bottle, to trigger the explosion?
Did you know that pixel artists are featured in an annual juried art show, "Into the Pixel", at the E3 trade show for computer and video game industries?
Did you know that since hard suction hose is designed for fire engines drafting water, it is the only type of fire hose tested under suction instead of pressure?
Did you know that the CAFE Foundation holds races in which general aviation aircraft compete for performance efficiency?
Did you know that the Poitou Ass is a rare breed of donkey with a shaggy coat?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Jones v. United States that a person found not guilty by reason of insanity of a misdemeanor crime can still be committed indefinitely to a mental institution?
Did you know that the novels of Jane Austen became popular with the public only after the publication of A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1869?
Did you know that the television adaptation of Ellis Peters' novel The Rose Rent, set in 12th-century England, was actually filmed in Hungary?
Did you know that upcoming film Calvin Marshall's producers hired a casting director before they had raised enough funding to hire a well-known actor to attract further financiers?
Did you know that when Lepreum was attacked during the period of the Olympic truce, the Spartan attackers were given a fine equal to 200,000 times that of a skilled worker's daily wage rate?
Did you know that Art Stewart, who was recently inducted into the Kansas City Royals Baseball Hall of Fame, was responsible for the drafting of 70 people who eventually became Major League Baseball players?
Did you know that Das Königsprojekt was the first of three science fiction novels written by the German author Carl Amery?
Did you know that Lydia Becker, founder of the Women's Suffrage Journal, was also an amateur botanist and friend of Charles Darwin?
Did you know that Michigan's Ludington Public Library was claimed as the library that will last a thousand years?
Did you know that Mount Garmo in the Pamir Mountains has been confused with the higher peak, which for some years was called Pik Kommunizma, "Mount Communism"?
Did you know that Pope Pius VI was not elected till the 265th ballot at the papal conclave of 1774–1775?
Did you know that Tim Morehouse, a member of the U.S. fencing team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, originally took up fencing in order to be excused from his high school gym class?
Did you know that after Harvard was defeated in the 1921 Centre vs. Harvard football game—one of the greatest upsets in college football history—MIT students celebrated the win by tearing down Harvard's goalposts?
Did you know that after previously competing at the 2004 games in Athens, Brooklyn-bred Erinn Smart and her brother Keeth are again part of the U. S. Olympic fencing team at Beijing?
Did you know that cargo ship El Occidente fought off two German submarines in World War I, only to be sunk by one in World War II?
Did you know that flushwork (example pictured) is the decoration of flat external walls in contrasting colours of flint and stone, most often found in medieval churches in East Anglia?
Did you know that in spite of not participating in the planning of the 1964 Gabon coup d'état, Jean-Hilaire Aubame was sentenced to ten years of hard labor and ten years in exile?
Did you know that philanthropist Harriet Nevins left an animal shelter, a fountain, and a John LaFarge stained glass window to the people of Massachusetts?
Did you know that the 1869 anarchist manifesto Catechism of a Revolutionary, which established the importance of Russian anarchist Sergey Nechayev, portrays the revolutionary as an amoral avenger?
Did you know that the Dundas Valley Conservation Area contains a trailhead of Canada's first interurban multi-use trail system?
Did you know that the Haas Lola Formula One team's cars were not built or designed by Lola Cars International, but were entered as Lolas because Carl Haas was their official importer to the United States?
Did you know that the Shirakumo class destroyers (example pictured) were amongst the last destroyers purchased by the Imperial Japanese Navy from overseas shipyards?
Did you know that the Terminal Annex Post Office was LA's central mail processing facility for 50 years and became a filming location when it closed?
Did you know that the Virginids meteor shower can sometimes last between January and May each year?
Did you know that the bright red mushroom Hygrocybe miniata is found in rainforest and eucalypt forest in Australia and meadows in Europe and North America?
Did you know that the latest opera by composer Andy Vores is a 2008 chamber opera adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit?
Did you know that the niece of the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, Sirarpie Der-Nersessian, became the first woman to be awarded the Order of St. Gregory the Illuminator by the Catholicos of Armenia?
Did you know that the sales of the "miracle drug" Energon, consisting of calf brain, sugar and milk, were able to establish Pharmacia as a major pharmaceutical company in Sweden in the early 1900s?
Did you know that two Romanian cathedrals inspired by foreign models include Sibiu's, based on Hagia Sophia, and Iaşi's, which resembles Trinità dei Monti?
Did you know that "Methuen Duck Cloth", manufactured by David C. Nevins, Jr., was used to make sails and tents in the tropics?
Did you know that D. W. Griffith bought a house for his mother that had been used as a funeral home?
Did you know that Huta Stepanska, one of the largest Polish defense centers during the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia, was abandoned due to lack of ammunition?
Did you know that Jean Ralaimongo came to prominence in 1929 after 3,000 demonstrated following speeches in a cinema in Madagascar?
Did you know that Jean-Baptiste Belley, a former slave from Saint-Domingue, became a member of the National Convention of France, where in 1794 he took part in the decision to abolish slavery?
Did you know that Kenny Chesney's 2008 single "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" was initially recorded by George Strait, who had planned to include it on his 2008 album Troubadour?
Did you know that Max von Stephanitz, creator of the German Shepherd dog breed, also founded the Verein für Deutsche Schäferhunde?
Did you know that Rob Morris's first home in La Grange, Kentucky was burned to the ground, and his books had to be saved by the Union army?
Did you know that although it twice elected Abraham Lincoln, New York in the American Civil War had his prominent Democrat critic, Horatio Seymour, as its governor?
Did you know that in 1923, University of Nebraska running back Dave Noble scored the first touchdown in Memorial Stadium?
Did you know that legend says a quart of Bourbon whiskey rests under each of the six columns on the front of Giddings Hall at Georgetown College, the first Baptist college west of the Allegheny Mountains?
Did you know that the "Red Tower" of the Hackensack Water Company Complex completed in 1883 in Weehawken, New Jersey, combined offices and a 165,000-gallon water tank in a single 175-foot-high structure?
Did you know that the Choctaw Hog is a "critically rare" breed of pig found in the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma?
Did you know that the Convento Building is the largest adobe building in California and the largest original building at any of the Spanish missions in California?
Did you know that the Endicott Pear Tree, located in Danvers, Massachusetts, is thought to be the oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America?
Did you know that the Heights of Buildings Act of 1910 restricts the height of buildings in Washington D.C. to 20 ft (6 m) taller than the width of the street they face?
Did you know that the Norfolk Biffin apple appears in the works of Charles Dickens and was sent from Norfolk to London for Sir Robert Walpole?
Did you know that the Roanoke City Market in Downtown Roanoke is the oldest continuously operating farmers' market in the Commonwealth of Virginia?
Did you know that the SC Jülich 1910, record winner of the now defunct German amateur football championship, was the feature of a German television documentary?
Did you know that the Sultan Bayezid II Mosque is the oldest surviving Ottoman imperial mosque complex in Istanbul, Turkey?
Did you know that the funerary art on the gravestones at Gilead Cemetery in Carmel, New York, illustrates changes in Protestant views of the role of death in the later 18th century?
Did you know that "Fight Fiercely, Harvard" is a satirical college fight song written by a mathematician?
Did you know that 36 tropical and subtropical cyclones have formed outside the normal boundaries of an Atlantic hurricane season?
Did you know that Andronikos Kontostephanos was the leading general of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos, and that his career took him from Hungary to Egypt?
Did you know that Archie McCardell, the business executive who led both Xerox and International Harvester, later owned and subdivided the farm which gave Pepperidge Farm its name?
Did you know that Armant is a breed of dog which originated in Egypt?
Did you know that Bad Blood (2003), a professional wrestling pay-per-view event, was offered free of charge to members of the U.S. military returning from the Iraq war?
Did you know that Clyde Barnhart was second on his team with 114 runs batted in for the 1925 World Series winner Pittsburgh Pirates?
Did you know that Côte d'Ivoire once quasi-monopolised the world market on fresh pineapples?
Did you know that Johanna Brandt detailed spying for the Boers with her mother in her book Petticoat Commando?
Did you know that John Dorewood was Speaker of the House of Commons for the first parliaments of both Henry IV and Henry V of England?
Did you know that Larry Gowell′s baseball in the Baseball Hall of Fame was his first and only major league hit?
Did you know that Little Miss Sunshine producer David T. Friendly is the son of former CBS president Fred W. Friendly?
Did you know that Northern Irish housewife Sarah Conlon's campaign to clear the names of her wrongfully-convicted husband and son led to an apology from then British Prime Minister Tony Blair?
Did you know that Peruvian artist Jorge Eielson is considered a precursor of conceptual art for his quipus, reinterpretations of an ancient Andean device?
Did you know that Peter Edmund Jones is believed to be the first Status Indian to receive a Medical Doctorate in Canada?
Did you know that Reed Memorial Library is the oldest library building in Putnam County, New York?
Did you know that SS El Sol was the first of four sister ships launched by Newport News Shipbuilding for the steamship line of the Southern Pacific Company?
Did you know that St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Brewster, New York, had to be rebuilt months after it was finished due to a fire?
Did you know that WRNY began television broadcasting in August 1928 to thousands of New York City viewers with home made television sets?
Did you know that it took over 50 years to complete the foundation of Jesus College, Oxford, as one Principal lost the draft statutes and the next one kept the replacement copy in his study for several years?
Did you know that over 96% voted in a referendum in Latvia for a constitutional amendment that would allow voters to initiate a referendum to dissolve parliament?
Did you know that the Brühl, a single street in Leipzig, accounted for one-third of the world trade of furs in the 1920s?
Did you know that the C.E. Toberman Estate was used as the "trophy" house of Vincent Chase on the first two seasons of HBO's Entourage?
Did you know that the Fire Station No. 1 in Roanoke, Virginia was modeled after Philadelphia's Independence Hall?
Did you know that the Kaliningrad Nuclear Power Plant will be the first Russian nuclear power plant with foreign shareholding?
Did you know that the Minnesota Twins franchise has had four managers elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame?
Did you know that the New York City Fire Department lost 12 firefighters in the 23rd Street Fire in 1966, the department's largest loss of life in a single incident until 343 officers were killed on September 11, 2001?
Did you know that the Turin-Milan Hours is thought to have involved at least 11 artists, and became physically separated into at least five sections?
Did you know that the developers of the video game Chocolatier took the guided tour of Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker's factory to see how chocolate is made?
Did you know that the historic Oak Grove-Freedman's Cemetery in Salisbury, North Carolina was periodically violated causing destruction to all of the headstones and some of the bodies?
Did you know that Émile Boga Doudou was killed on September 19, 2002 in Abidjan in the worst outbreak of violence in Cote d'Ivoire since a military coup d'etat in 1999?
Did you know that Akersbanerne was founded in 1917 to build suburban tramways between Kristiania and Aker, Norway?
Did you know that Dharmachari Aryadaka was the first paid Buddhist prison chaplain in Washington state?
Did you know that Dutton-Waller Raised Tybee Cottage is one of few surviving historic raised cottages on Tybee Island, Georgia?
Did you know that John S. Preston was sent by South Carolina to convince Virginia to secede from the United States?
Did you know that Pisanosaurus, from 228 to 216.5 million years ago, is the oldest known ornithischian dinosaur?
Did you know that Walter Scott and T. S. Eliot declared The Vanity of Human Wishes as Samuel Johnson's greatest poem?
Did you know that after the First National Bank of Brewster, New York, closed in 1964 the Town of Southeast made the building its new town hall?
Did you know that all four remaining species of island raccoons (examples pictured), found only on small Central American and Caribbean islands, are considered endangered?
Did you know that ancient herds of White Park, a rare breed of horned cattle, have been preserved in Great Britain from the Middle Ages?
Did you know that blues musician Henry Gray is credited as helping to create the distinctive sound of the Chicago blues piano?
Did you know that chemosynthesis, the process enabling deep sea invertebrates to survive without sunlight, was discovered by Colleen Cavanaugh?
Did you know that enemies of Viking chieftain Tryggve the Pretender claimed he was the bastard son of a priest?
Did you know that hula master George Na'ope was designated a "Living Golden Treasure" by the state of Hawaii?
Did you know that in 1899, Bill Lange, a popular Major League Baseball player, retired during the prime of his career to marry a woman whose father forbid her to marry a baseball player?
Did you know that on July 11, 2008, the Kayelekera mine in Karonga, Malawi celebrated 1.5 million hours of accident-free uranium mining?
Did you know that only one of the cardinal electors in the papal conclave, 1304–1305, which elected Pope Clement V, who began the Avignon Papacy, was French?
Did you know that pink tide is a term for the growing influence of left-wing politics in Latin America?
Did you know that the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts, concluded 2 August 2008 in American Samoa, brought together about 2,000 artists from 27 countries across Oceania?
Did you know that the 1910 American cargo ship SS El Oriente was chartered by the Red Cross and was one of fourteen ships that sailed under the Swiss flag during World War II?
Did you know that the Walter Brewster House is the only Greek Revival home with a two-story colonnade in Putnam County, New York?
Did you know that the name of Kazabazua in Quebec comes from the Algonquin word kachibadjiwan, meaning "underground river", and refers to the Kazabazua River which disappears underground?
Did you know that the natural habitats of the Short-tailed Emerald are moist lowland forests and montanes and heavily degraded former forests in Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela?
Did you know that the protracted papal conclave, 1314–1316, the first of the Avignon Papacy, was mediated by three incumbent and future French monarchs in succession?
Did you know that though the mushroom Lactarius subdulcis is considered edible, it has a taste similar to ivy?
Did you know that white kimchi, Shiitake mushrooms, and rice cakes made with mung beans are elements of Korean temple cuisine?
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln called the Beefsteak Raid  "the slickest piece of cattle-stealing" he ever heard of?
Did you know that Andy Tillman (pictured, with llama) was the first North American llama breeder to win top honors at a major South American llama and alpaca show?
Did you know that Brookesia minima may be the smallest species of chameleon?
Did you know that Georgia Cayvan was the first person to wear a glass dress?
Did you know that Ireland's reality show Fáilte Towers takes its name from the BBC sitcom, Fawlty Towers?
Did you know that Jan de Baen was a popular portrait painter during the Dutch Golden Age?
Did you know that Kay Chorao's Cathedral Mouse was considered one of 1988's best picture books by the New York Times?
Did you know that Macleay's Spectre is a stick insect that grows up to 20 cm (8 inches) long?
Did you know that Mal Cochrane is the hooker in the New South Wales Rugby League's "Indigenous Team of the Century"?
Did you know that National Cleavage Day was started in South Africa in 2002?
Did you know that Puerto Rican journalist Héctor Feliciano has shed light on an estimated 20,000 works of art stolen by the Nazis during World War II?
Did you know that The Sunday Times art critic, Frank Rutter, sheltered suffragettes released from prison under the Cat and Mouse Act, sometimes helping them to flee abroad?
Did you know that Vittorio Sella’s images of mountains (example, Siniolchu, pictured) were described by fellow photographer Ansel Adams as inspiring "a definitely religious awe"?
Did you know that according to local tradition, on Midsummer's Eve the capstone of the Neolithic St Lythans burial chamber in Wales spins round three times, then all the stones bathe in a nearby river?
Did you know that after two previous buildings burned down, the Town of Southeast, New York, built its 1896 town hall of less flammable material?