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Did you know that penalties for possessing or supplying cannabis (dried flower pictured), one of the many drugs illegal in the UK, were reduced in 2004, only to be increased in 2009?
Did you know that relative to its body size, the horn shark has the strongest known bite of any shark?
Did you know that the 1963 Leopold Report was written in response to the controversial killing of an estimated 4,309 elk in Yellowstone National Park by the U.S. National Park Service?
Did you know that unlike other king parrots, the male and female Moluccan King Parrot are similar in appearance?
Did you know that while Justice Minister, Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim lobbied for decriminalization of the use of marijuana?
Did you know that 461 Fifth Avenue is a post-modern skyscraper noted for its use of a pre-cast concrete finish to mimic the appearance of limestone?
Did you know that 51 composers wrote a total of 83 variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli, which were published in 1823–24 as Vaterländischer Künstlerverein and included Beethoven's 33 Diabelli Variations?
Did you know that British civil engineer Thomas Page, who designed Westminster Bridge, suggested placing a submerged tube between England and France to be used as a tunnel?
Did you know that Canadian security guard Claude Brunelle, who was killed during the 1985 Turkish embassy attack in Ottawa, was awarded the Star of Courage?
Did you know that Charles Perrault's The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots existed in a handwritten and illustrated manuscript a full two years before its publication in Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697?
Did you know that Indian labour leader J. Hemachandran called for a ban on sales of Coca-Cola and Pepsi in the state of Tamil Nadu?
Did you know that James F. Calvert commanded the nuclear submarine USS Skate, the first ever to surface at the North Pole when it did so on August 11, 1958?
Did you know that Krijn is the common name for the first Neanderthal discovered in the Netherlands?
Did you know that Laura M. Cobb of the US Navy Nurse Corps was a Japanese POW in World War II for 37 months, during which time she continued to serve as Chief Nurse for ten other imprisoned Navy nurses?
Did you know that at night, the Pacific angelshark may use bioluminescent plankton to target its prey?
Did you know that baseball player Don Kelly was drafted by the Detroit Tigers, made his major league debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates, and later played his first game as a Tiger against the Pirates?
Did you know that colonization of mature black spruce trees by jelly drops helps protect them from future infection by rot-causing fungi?
Did you know that historian Philip D. Curtin challenged widely-used estimates that 20 million African slaves had crossed the Atlantic, estimating that 9.5 million had arrived in the Americas by 1870?
Did you know that in the Scottish village of Badbea, livestock and children were tethered to prevent them being blown over the cliffs?
Did you know that in tropical cyclone naming, the name "Hazel" is the only name to be retired in both the Atlantic and in the East Pacific?
Did you know that the New York Yankees refused to allow its logo to appear in the Homicide: Life on the Street three-part episode "Blood Ties", which featured a subplot involving a murderous Yankees fan?
Did you know that the inaugural 1993 Rugby World Cup Sevens took place in Scotland, the birthplace of the rugby sevens variant of rugby union?
Did you know that when former New Jersey Senate President George H. Large died in 1939, he was the last surviving participant in the first college football game ever played?
Did you know that while in Boston in 1768, sailors and marines from HMS Romney tried to confiscate a merchant vessel belonging to John Hancock?
Did you know that Air Vice-Marshal John Ernsting became a professor at King's College London and Imperial College, London after a successful military career of 35 years with the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine?
Did you know that Czech actress Olga Scheinpflugová suffered a heart attack directly on the stage, during her performance in the play Mother, written by her husband Karel Čapek?
Did you know that Dublin's Windmill Lane Studios is regularly visited by tourists wishing to view the U2-inspired graffiti adorning the walls?
Did you know that Hughie Lehman, the Blackhawks third head coach, was hired after yelling at the first Chicago Blackhawks owner Frederic McLaughlin?
Did you know that Israel's Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center, known for its association with Jerusalem Syndrome, was built on the site of a 1947 massacre?
Did you know that Joseph Anthony directed The Rainmaker, its 1956 film adaptation, and the musical version 110 in the Shade?
Did you know that Marie Taglioni made her 1830 London debut in Flore et Zéphire, the ballet credited with the introduction of dancing sur les pointes?
Did you know that Matthew Boulton's Soho Mint struck the first copper British pennies?
Did you know that Prescott, Arizona, Mayor Sam Steiger was criminally prosecuted for painting a crosswalk between the local courthouse and the saloons on Whiskey Row?
Did you know that Saint Afan's Church, Llanafan, near Aberystwyth, Wales, was originally founded by Saint Afan in the 6th century?
Did you know that Specific ion Interaction Theory is a theory used to estimate single-ion activity coefficients in electrolyte solutions at relatively high concentrations?
Did you know that Sverre Mitsem wrote the column "SORRY" in Norway's Aftenposten from 1946 to 1996, the year he turned 89 years old?
Did you know that Zalman Shapiro, who received a 2009 patent for a method of diamond synthesis at age 89, was instrumental in developing the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, the Nautilus, launched in 1954?
Did you know that a Royal Command Performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers was held before Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle in 1891?
Did you know that by the end of its second year in business, Participant Media's films had been nominated for 11 Academy Awards?
Did you know that despite being named one of the "top prospects of the decade" by Baseball America, American baseball pitcher Nick Neugebauer compiled a career record of just two wins and eight losses?
Did you know that due to rapids on the Rogue River, mules had to be used to transport mail to the post office at Illahe, Oregon?
Did you know that the 1979 Australian vampire-science fiction film Thirst drew influence from sources as diverse as Elizabeth Báthory and Soylent Green?
Did you know that the Ceylon Tree Nymph is the largest butterfly of the Danaidae family in Sri Lanka?
Did you know that the Little Red Schoolhouse in Brunswick, New York, served as a one-room schoolhouse from the 1830s until 1952?
Did you know that the New York Islanders's 2009–10 season will be the franchise's 38th season in the National Hockey League?
Did you know that the Rumford Prize, awarded for excellent contributions to the fields of heat and light, is one of the oldest scientific prizes in America?
Did you know that the Tonkin commemorative medal was awarded to the French soldiers and sailors who participated in the Tonkin campaign and the Sino-French War, between 1883 and 1885?
Did you know that the current minister at the First Presbyterian Church in Marcellus, New York, was ordained in 1956?
Did you know that the satellite GPS IIR-1, intended to become part of the United States Air Force Global Positioning System, was destroyed 13 seconds after launch?
Did you know that the song "Qué Te Pasa", performed by Mexican singer Yuri, became the longest running number-one single of the 1980s in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks?
Did you know that Charles Cameron, fired and deprived of his house by Paul I of Russia during the battle of the palaces, later lived in retirement in Paul's favorite palace?
Did you know that Edward Hanrahan, groomed to succeed Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley, saw his elected career end after a 1969 police raid that resulted in the death of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton?
Did you know that Francis Amasa Walker was brevetted a Brigadier General in the Union Army at the age of 24 and placed in charge of the 1870 United States Census at 29?
Did you know that Geary Eppley, an administrator at the University of Maryland, confiscated thousands of copies of the student newspaper when it printed an exposé on dormitory living conditions?
Did you know that Harvard historian Ernest May's 1997 book The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis was the primary source for the 2000 film Thirteen Days starring Kevin Costner?
Did you know that Japanese tenor Taro Ichihara made his Metropolitan Opera debut in the role of the Italian tenor in Der Rosenkavalier?
Did you know that Kendrick Moxon assisted Scientologists in filing 50 lawsuits against the Cult Awareness Network, which eventually led to the bankruptcy of the organization?
Did you know that Korea Aerospace Research Institute's STSAT-2 (Science and Technology Satellite-2) will carry two payloads, a satellite laser ranging and a Lyman-alpha Imaging Solar Telescope?
Did you know that St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden, Wales, contains monuments to W. E. Gladstone, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and his family?
Did you know that Stylianos Zaoutzes, the father-in-law of Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise, was one of only two people to ever be awarded the title of basileopator, meaning "father of the emperor"?
Did you know that around 30–40 endangered Sri Lankan elephants are present within Kumana National Park?
Did you know that during the tour in promotion of the album Rise to Power, the death metal band Monstrosity headlined the Rock Al Parque festival in Bogotá, Colombia, and performed in front of 80,000 people?
Did you know that in 1796, Abraham Bradley, Jr. published the first comprehensive postal route maps for the United States Post Office Department?
Did you know that in Albanian folklore, the zana, mountain fairies revered for their beauty and courage, are said to have watched approvingly over Albanian protests against the 1878 Treaty of San Stefano?
Did you know that in the course of its 150-year history, Haili Church has survived earthquakes, tsunamis, lava flows, fires, and heavy tropical rains?
Did you know that some historians argue that Haimo, a medieval royal official who died around 1100, was one of the first barons of the Exchequer?
Did you know that the 1906 firing of John McLean for paying an athlete to play college football was called "the biggest scandal in the history of Missouri athletics"?
Did you know that the 2001 Gator Bowl was the final collegiate game of American football star Michael Vick?
Did you know that the district office at the Bly Ranger Station in south central Oregon was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1937 at a cost of $1,700?
Did you know that the koa wood hull of a Hawaiian-style outrigger canoe named Mālia became the mold for modern fiberglass racing canoes?
Did you know that the song "Debo Hacerlo" written by Juan Gabriel has been covered by Aleks Syntek, Pandora, Nydia Rojas and Ana Gabriel?
Did you know that the strong, dark red timber of the Australian hardwood tree the Narrow-leaved Ironbark was used in Elizabeth Farm, Australia's oldest surviving European dwelling?
Did you know that the website United Kingdom Election Results is listed as a resource by the Parliament of Australia, The University of New South Wales, and The University of York?
Did you know that Aso Mining Company, which belongs to Prime Minister of Japan Aso Taro's family, allegedly forced prisoners of war to work in mines during World War II?
Did you know that Chitradurga Fort in Karnataka has so many interconnecting tanks  to harvest rain water, it was said it never ran out of water?
Did you know that Congregation Emanu-El in Victoria, British Columbia, built in 1863 in the building boom that followed the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, is the oldest surviving synagogue in Canada?
Did you know that Hans G. Furth, Professor in the Faculty of Psychology of the Catholic University of America, trained to become a concert pianist and performed for Jewish internment camps?
Did you know that Helena Palaiologina, Queen consort of Cyprus, gave orders for the nose of her husband's beautiful mistress to be cut off?
Did you know that Jan Władysław Dawid was a lecturer at the Flying University in Warsaw?
Did you know that Liam Jurrah, a Warlpiri from Yuendumu, is the first Indigenous Australian from a remote community in Central Australia to play in the Australian Football League?
Did you know that Liebotschaner Beer, produced by some United States breweries, was originally brewed in and named after the Czech village of Libočany?
Did you know that Mexican group Los Bukis won the Lo Nuestro Award for Best Regional Mexican Song in 1989 with their number-one single "Y Ahora Te Vas"?
Did you know that Milwaukee Brewers baseball player Dan Thomas was called the "Sundown Kid" because he refused to play on Sabbath?
Did you know that Nymphaea nouchali is the national flower of Sri Lanka where it is known as Nil Manel in Sinhala?
Did you know that Sacajawea Peak is the highest point in the Wallowa Mountains and the sixth highest peak in Oregon?
Did you know that San Francisco Chronicle pop music critic Joel Selvin was an early member of the rock and roll band Rock Bottom Remainders, made up of authors and journalists?
Did you know that Wushan Man, a species of Homo, was identified from a fossil jaw found south of the Yangtze River but is now thought to come from an extinct ape that lived in China two million years ago?
Did you know that choreographer Sergey Vikulov selected three lead couples where Jennifer Olayvar was one of the dancers chosen to perform in La Fille Mal Gardée?
Did you know that dominant white, a collection of related genetic conditions, causes horses to be born with no skin pigmentation and completely or partly white coats (example pictured)?
Did you know that during World War II, the Czech actor Oldřich Nový refused to divorce his wife, as a consequence of which they were both imprisoned in a German concentration camp?
Did you know that in 1906, Georgian Socialist-Federalists managed to seize 315,000 rubles during an attack on a Russian treasury in Dusheti?
Did you know that in 1992, the Utah Utes football team, coached by Ron McBride, ended a 28-year bowl game drought by appearing in the 1992 Copper Bowl?
Did you know that in September 2008, the Abu Dhabi Media Company established Imagenation, a subsidiary with access to more than US$1 billion with which to finance film production?
Did you know that the City of Carlisle is the largest city in England in terms of area, but is one of the smallest by population?
Did you know that the internal column (columella) of the shell of snail Holospira is hollow?
Did you know that there are more than 250 different crystalline forms of silicon carbide, and that some of them have a 301.5 nm lattice constant, about 1,000 times longer than usual lattice spacings?
Did you know that Alan Wagner, the first president of the Disney Channel, was also an opera critic and radio personality?
Did you know that Bishop Aloisius Muench (pictured, center), the liaison between the Vatican and the U.S. post-war occupation authority in Germany, referred to the latter as "other Hitlers in disguise"?
Did you know that Broderbund's computer game Orly's Draw-A-Story won the inaugural Interactive Achievement Award for Computer Innovation in 1998?
Did you know that Christian Zheng Sheng College on Lantau, Hong Kong, has a dormitory on Cheung Chau from which students take small ferries called kai-tos to get to school?
Did you know that Coleman Coker's work has been featured in the Cooper-Hewitt National  Museum, the New York City MoMA, the San Francisco MoMA, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and the National Building Museum?
Did you know that Duguetia tobagensis, a small tree  endemic to the island of Tobago, has only been collected three times since its original discovery in 1912?
Did you know that HMS Lively won five battle honours during the Second World War, despite a career lasting less than a year from commissioning to being sunk?
Did you know that Indian women's activist Moturu Udayam is said to have been the first woman to ride a bicycle in the state of Andhra Pradesh?
Did you know that Luchador Mascara Dorada had to outlast nine other wrestlers to win the CMLL World Super Lightweight Championship?
Did you know that Mika Tervala won gold medals in all the first five World Championships in mountain bike orienteering?
Did you know that Philipp Schoch is the only snowboarder to win two gold medals at the Winter Olympic Games?
Did you know that Pungent Stench's early demos compiled on Praise the Names of the Musical Assassins caused a "considerable amount of interest" in the group, leading them to sign a deal with Nuclear Blast?
Did you know that a "no ID, no sitting on the bench" rule will be implemented in the 2009 UAAP basketball season to avoid what happened last year when a coach was given a technical foul for not wearing his ID?
Did you know that as governor of Davao del Norte, Prospero Amatong oversaw the creation of nearby Compostela Valley, eventually serving as the new Filipino province's interim governor in 1998?
Did you know that the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building is the tallest building in Harlem?
Did you know that the British 21st Army Tank Brigade had so few tanks after the Battle of Dunkirk that two-thirds of the brigade was forced to serve as infantry?
Did you know that the Garfield School, a 19th-century schoolhouse in Brunswick, New York, is considered unique for its time period because its design was commissioned?
Did you know that the Los Angeles chapter of the Gay Liberation Front organized a project to take over the government of Alpine County, CA, to establish a gay separatist community called Stonewall Nation?
Did you know that the Maya archaeological site of El Tintal, in the northern Petén region of Guatemala, includes a triadic-style pyramid estimated to be 30 metres (98 ft) tall?
Did you know that the Quartermaster Award is the highest rank in the Sea Scouting program of the Boy Scouts of America?
Did you know that the first patron of St Mary's Church, Mold was Lady Margaret Beaufort, the mother of Henry VII?
Did you know that the publication of a rare memoir by concentration camp survivor Heinz Heger has been described as a turning point in the gay community's adoption of the pink triangle symbol?
Did you know that the unusual finger structure of the dinosaur Limusaurus gives clues on how dinosaur hands evolved into bird wings?
Did you know that while Chief of Defence Staff Jean Boyle was ridiculed for ordering the Canadian military to halt nearly all operations for one day to search for missing files, some were subsequently found?
Did you know that Centipede were an English jazz/progressive rock band with more than 50 members?
Did you know that Frank Bossard was the first spy caught with the aid of an electronic transmitter?
Did you know that Isambard Kingdom Brunel used light rails and heavy timber baulks for the Great Western Railway's baulk road track because existing technology could not produce strong rails?
Did you know that John Mayberry, Jr. hit his first two career home runs against the New York Yankees and the Toronto Blue Jays, the last two Major League Baseball teams for which his father John Mayberry played?
Did you know that Kelly Misa ranked 84th in the FHM Philippines' sexiest women of 2006?
Did you know that São Gabriel was one of the two ships of Vasco da Gama's armada that returned from the trip to India?
Did you know that Ukrainian naturalist, lecturer, artist and author John Lhotsky was credited as the first discoverer of gold in New South Wales?
Did you know that Wilsonville Memorial Park is both the oldest and largest park in Wilsonville, Oregon, and includes a barn built in 1901?
Did you know that a Maya ruler of Ixlu, a small ancient city in Guatemala, claimed to be the lord of the major Maya city of Tikal?
Did you know that although he headed the Royal Stables of Norway from 1945 to 1960, Richard Andvord only had responsibility for motor vehicles?
Did you know that although the Stonewall riots in 1969 are generally recognized as the beginning of the modern gay liberation movement, there were over a dozen pre-Stonewall LGBT rights actions in the US (Barbara Gittings pictured picketing)?
Did you know that despite having organized the first LGBT rights demonstration in the US, activist Randy Wicker denounced the Stonewall riots, saying that "throwing rocks through windows doesn't open doors"?
Did you know that during World War II, Richard Andvord conducted illegal resistance work through the company Rich. Andvord, founded in 1865 by his ancestor of the same name?
Did you know that industries that have shaped the Hudson, New York, historic district include whaling, antique shops and prostitution?
Did you know that the 1932 Colgate University football team was "undefeated, untied, unscored upon, and uninvited" after being snubbed by the Rose Bowl?
Did you know that the Atlantic flyingfish can glide 3 to 12 metres (10 to 39 ft) in the air after jumping out of the water?
Did you know that the LGBT rights group One Iowa held public forums during the landmark case Varnum v. Brien to discuss the importance of marriage equality (pro same-sex marriage rally pictured)?
Did you know that the Veterans Benevolent Association, an early organization for gay American veterans, worked with the NAACP to end the issuance of the less-than-honorable blue discharge?
Did you know that the classically-inspired porticoes on the Hudson, New York, post office echo those of the Columbia County courthouse across the square?
Did you know that the main theme of Indian novelist V.J.P. Saldanha's writings was the 18th-century captivity of 60,000 Mangalorean Roman Catholics at Seringapatam?
Did you know that the poet William Dickey finished a poem about the death of his mentor, John Berryman, shortly before his own death in 1994?
Did you know that the rarely seen Rufous Scrub-bird occurs on Mount Banda Banda in New South Wales, Australia?
Did you know that 20th-century medieval scholar Erika Cheetham interpreted Nostradamus' writings as prophecies of Napoleon, Hitler, and the establishment of modern Israel?
Did you know that Angeles University Foundation, Arellano University and the Emilio Aguinaldo College are the guest teams playing in the 2009 basketball season of the Philippine NCAA?
Did you know that Bernardo Peres da Silva, the only native Governor of Portuguese India in its 451-year history, was deposed after just seventeen days in office?
Did you know that Cherokee Chief J. B. Milam funded an expedition to Mexico in 1939 to find the grave of Sequoyah, the inventor of the Cherokee writing system?
Did you know that Earl Donnchadh of Carrick gave lands to Paisley Abbey so that he could found a new abbey at Crossraguel, but because the monks of Paisley wanted to keep the lands for themselves the foundation was delayed?
Did you know that HMS Canopus served for less than six months for the French Navy, and then for 89 years for the Royal Navy?
Did you know that Ingvald Smith-Kielland left his ambassadorship in the Czechoslovak Republic after the Prague Spring?
Did you know that Nanuli Shevardnadze, wife of the future president of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze, initially rejected his marriage proposal, fearing her family background would ruin his career?
Did you know that Pete Overfield won a professional American football championship in 1901 and was later nominated by U.S. President William Howard Taft as a federal judge in Alaska?
Did you know that Pigeon Island National Park contains some of the best remaining coral reefs of Sri Lanka?
Did you know that SN 2002cx was classified as a type Ia supernova, but does not have some features that define a type Ia supernova?
Did you know that University of Chicago fullback Clarence Herschberger has been credited as the first player to run the Statue of Liberty play?
Did you know that W. J. M. Lokubandara, the current Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka, assumed the position after he won the election by one vote?