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Did you know that the atrium cross of the 16th century church in Ciudad Hidalgo, Michoacán, Mexico, has an obsidian mirror, which was the symbol of the Aztec deity Tezcatlipoca?
Did you know that the newly released film Season of the Witch was scheduled to be released in March 2010, but the original distributor, Lionsgate, pulled it five weeks before the release date?
Did you know that the relationship between France and Monaco entails a Frenchman being chosen to oversee certain state affairs of Monaco?
Did you know that All Saints Church, Saltfleetby, in the marshlands of Lincolnshire, has a leaning west tower?
Did you know that Beauchamp Doran, a British Army general, was sacked from command of his brigade in 1914, reinstated, and sacked again from command of a division in 1916?
Did you know that Bhutan is also known as Drukyul, which means Land of the Thunder Dragon?
Did you know that Burnett, a village in Somerset, had a civil parish of 608 acres until it was merged into the neighbouring village of Compton Dando?
Did you know that Derby's Silk Mill is used as a design theme for the bobbins on the St Alkmund's Way Footbridge and a needle on the nearby swingbridge?
Did you know that Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein discovered the element that would later be named tellurium by Martin Heinrich Klaproth?
Did you know that Gene Kelly's first Broadway appearance was in the 1938 musical Leave It to Me!?
Did you know that Karl Marx wrote his Das Kapital while living in the building now occupied by Soho restaurant Quo Vadis?
Did you know that Queen Calafia, fictional ruler of the Island of California, was the subject of a sculpture garden designed by Niki de Saint Phalle?
Did you know that Vittorio Erspamer (1909–1999) discovered the chemical compound octopamine, isolating it from the salivary glands of an octopus?
Did you know that Washington wine grape grower Dick Boushey opposed the creation of the Rattlesnake Hills AVA because he felt that it would undermine his vineyard's appellation?
Did you know that a 1968 paper by Jack Ertle Oliver helped confirm the existence of continental drift, a theory that had been scoffed at by mainstream scientists when proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912?
Did you know that activity at Calabozos, a Holocene caldera complex, has produced stratovolcanoes, hot springs, and a complex volcano?
Did you know that an increased printrun for author Amish Tripathi's first book, The Immortals of Meluha, led him to switch to a bigger publisher?
Did you know that antitumor agents isolated from bohemic acid are named after the characters of the opera La bohème?
Did you know that convicted Indonesian serial killer Verry Idham Henyansyah became known as the "singing serial killer" after he entertained audiences at his prison cell by singing a song from his upcoming album?
Did you know that instruments played by Cardiff-based group Under the Driftwood Tree include the didgeridoo?
Did you know that thanks to the song "Sopa de Caracol", the musical ensemble Banda Blanca became the best-known Honduran band?
Did you know that the Google Science Fair is an online science competition sponsored by Google, Lego, CERN, and Scientific American?
Did you know that the Hudson Valley Rail Trail, once owned by a felonious charlatan, is patrolled by a police officer riding a Segway?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court has ruled that interscholastic athletic associations have police power?
Did you know that the Zouaves of Death, a Polish military unit of the January Uprising, drew their traditions from the French Zouaves of the Crimean War?
Did you know that the roots of lovage contain angelic acid?
Did you know that the winners of the 1871 Belmont Stakes – Harry Bassett, the 1872 Belmont – Joe Daniels, and the 1873 Belmont – Springbok, were all owned and trained by the same person?
Did you know that 1919 agitations by left-wing socialists in Småland resulted in the formation of a separate Farm Workers Union?
Did you know that Britney Spears' 2011 comeback single, "Hold It Against Me", broke the U.S. airplay record for the most number of radio plays in one day?
Did you know that Enver Hoxha was a teacher in the Albanian National Lyceum in Korçë, a French high school established in the Republic of Korçë in 1917?
Did you know that Essex Hall, where, in 1774, Theophilus Lindsey established the first such congregation in England, still serves as the headquarters for the British Unitarians?
Did you know that Ischaemia by New Zealand poet C. K. Stead won the £5,000 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine in 2010?
Did you know that Quest Crew, who competed on America's Best Dance Crew, appear in "Meatball It Up", the second episode of Shake It Up?
Did you know that Tiger Mask, Momotarō, Joe Yabuki, and Santa Claus have "donated" numerous randoseru and other goods to orphanages across Japan?
Did you know that a recording of a benefit concert for The Prince's Trust won producer Anthony Eaton a Grammy Award for Best Performance Music Video?
Did you know that a slogan of the Israeli–Palestinian Comedy Tour is "If we can laugh together, we can live together"?
Did you know that a system created by Husk Power Systems uses rice hulls, a waste product of rice milling, to generate power for under US$2 per month for thousands in India with no access to the electrical grid?
Did you know that nonagenarian Edward Proger died of cutting teeth?
Did you know that on December 13, 2005, Rashad Jones-Jennings became just the tenth NCAA Division I men's basketball player since 1973 to record 30 or more rebounds in a single game?
Did you know that only past participants of the popular talent shows Greek Idol and The X Factor were selected to compete to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011?
Did you know that the Diamondback air-to-air missile was originally known as the "Super Sidewinder"?
Did you know that the Edison Mall in Fort Myers, Florida, was the first mall to have both J. C. Penney and its rival, Sears, as anchor stores?
Did you know that the October 1926 crash of a Blériot 155 at Leigh, Kent, whilst trying to reach Penshurst Airfield was the result of the first mid-air fire on a civil airliner?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court has ruled in Daniels v. United States that a defendant cannot challenge previous convictions that were used to enhance his sentence?
Did you know that the apparent timber framing of St John's Church, High Legh, Cheshire is "a sham"?
Did you know that the bearded tylophora is now classified in the dogbane family?
Did you know that the development of the BQM-108 UAV was a response by the U.S. Navy to the threat of attack by advanced cruise missiles?
Did you know that the motif of acanthus leaves on the south doorway to St Andrew's Church, Sapiston, Suffolk, is unusual in the county?
Did you know that the oldest building in downtown Waterbury, Connecticut, has been so extensively altered that it is not a contributing property to the historic district?
Did you know that the rare mineral Matlockite (PbFCl) is named after a town in Derbyshire?
Did you know that the replacement for Norberto Romuáldez, who died a day before the 1941 Philippine Senate election, still won due to block voting in the Philippine senatorial elections?
Did you know that American singer "Weird Al" Yankovic received a Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video for "Fat", a parody cover version of Michael Jackson's song "Bad"?
Did you know that Borat Sagdiyev's son, who appeared in photos in the movie Borat, was actually trans woman and porn star Brittany CoxXx?
Did you know that Eric Bachmann from Crooked Fingers provided backing vocals on the song "Simple Hello" from the Damien Jurado album On My Way to Absence?
Did you know that Herbert McLeod invented the McLeod gauge?
Did you know that James Fenimore Cooper was very dissatisfied with his American Revolutionary War novel Lionel Lincoln, his only "strict attempt" at historical fiction?
Did you know that Jay-Eye-See, the horse named for Jerome Increase Case, briefly held records for both trotting and pacing?
Did you know that King George III wrote a letter about General Sir John Doyle's exploits in the American and French Revolutionary Wars ... "so that his zeal and exertions in our service may be known to posterity"?
Did you know that Oldfields, the 26 acre historic home once owned by J.K. Lilly, Jr., is an example of an American country place estate located on the grounds of the Indianapolis Museum of Art?
Did you know that St Mary's Church, Rhodogeidio, Wales, was built as a chapel of ease for St Ceidio's Church, but both are now disused and St Mary's is in ruins?
Did you know that a wreck off the coast of Argentina was identified in January 2008 as the passenger ship Ussukuma, which was scuttled in 1939?
Did you know that although the Vought XSO2U was judged superior to the Curtiss XSO3C by the U.S. Navy in a competition for a new scout aircraft for operation from cruisers, the Curtiss aircraft won the contract?
Did you know that bivariate analysis is one of the simplest forms of quantitative (statistical) analysis?
Did you know that composers Itaal Shur and Rob Thomas won the 1999 Grammy Award for Song of the Year for Santana's hit song "Smooth"?
Did you know that despite being that year's U.S. champion in the 200 m breaststroke, Iris Cummings still had to raise her own funds to travel to the 1936 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that most of French kings of the Bourbon era took oath on the Reims Gospel, a medieval book written in Old Church Slavonic languages?
Did you know that part of an inscribed medieval gravestone is set into a window sill at St Fflewin's Church, Llanfflewin, Wales?
Did you know that slavery of indigenous people in modern Bolivia was temporarily abolished during the First Upper Peru campaign?
Did you know that the 2007 Ajmer Dargah attack was carried out by explosives hidden in a Tiffin carrier?
Did you know that the Persian ruler Khosrau II used a man who he claimed to be Theodosius, the eldest son of the murdered Byzantine emperor Maurice, as a justification for launching a war against Byzantium?
Did you know that the US Supreme Court ruled in Shafer v. South Carolina that defendants must be allowed to inform a jury of an alternative sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams that the phrase "contracts of employment" in the Federal Arbitration Act actually does not refer to employment contracts?
Did you know that the Vigra Fixed Link had more debt after 22 years of toll collection, than when the project was originally finished?
Did you know that the arrival of the railway eventually left the Ault Store as the only remaining commercial building in Dundas, Minnesota's original business district?
Did you know that the executive office of the Organization of American Historians is located at Millen House in Bloomington, Indiana, a federally designated historic site?
Did you know that the original Cape Bowling Green Light was prefabricated in Brisbane, constructed in Cape Bowling Green, moved twice due to coastal erosion, and finally relocated to Sydney?
Did you know that three days before his wedding, Crown Prince Haakon of Norway thanked his family and fellow countrymen for not making his choice of bride a succession issue?
Did you know that Auditorio Monte do Gozo, a Spanish outdoor concert venue in Santiago de Compostela, has resulted in pop music stars coming where Christian pilgrims usually walk?
Did you know that Ely S. Parker, the prevailing Seneca plaintiff in Fellows v. Blacksmith (1857), later drafted the surrender at Appomattox and became the first indigenous Commissioner of Indian Affairs?
Did you know that Kaiǀkhauan Captain Andreas Lambert probably was the first traditional leader to be executed by the Germans in their South-West African colony?
Did you know that Malosco Castle in the Italian Province of Trento was once the residence of the Vicedomini Judge of Val di Non, commander of the Imperial Austrian royal court?
Did you know that Miller Reese Hutchison invented an early portable electric hearing aid?
Did you know that Sathyamangalam forest is the only reserve forest in South India with a significant presence of tigers, that is not yet declared as one of the tiger reserves in India?
Did you know that Textbook of Biochemistry originally came about because Alexander Thomas Cameron, not being a fluent speaker, would write out his university lectures in full?
Did you know that after Myrrha made love with her father, she was transformed into the myrrh-tree and gave birth to Adonis?
Did you know that alder trees have a symbiotic relationship with the bacterium Frankia alni which may have been exploited by the Incas to increase soil fertility?
Did you know that although he is not a Catholic bishop, Father Keith Newton will carry a mitre and crozier in his role as Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham?
Did you know that art historian André Grabar fled St. Petersburg a few days after the Russian Revolution, to become a leading expert in Byzantine and Medieval art?
Did you know that defunct Detroit-based music retailer Harmony House began in 1947 as a Hallmark Cards store?
Did you know that during Vedic times Makara, known as the "water monster vehicle", was the Vahana or vehicle of Varuna, the Vedic deity?
Did you know that future Hall of Famer Scotty Davidson was the first professional hockey player to volunteer with the Canadian Expeditionary Force on the outbreak of World War I?
Did you know that general Paul-Jean-Baptiste Poret de Morvan with his Guard Grenadiers was in the first line of fire during the final French assault at the Battle of Waterloo?
Did you know that in 1944, the Holy See received an envoy from Charles de Gaulle's French Committee of National Liberation?
Did you know that interments at the Gunnersbury Cemetery in London include a Polish president and Commander-in-Chief?
Did you know that occupation of the La Soledad de Maciel archeological site in Guerrero, Mexico, lasted for over 3,000 years?
Did you know that one 19th-century writer said that St Peirio's Church, Rhosbeirio was "one of the humblest ecclesiastical buildings in Anglesey"?
Did you know that the Dajti Castle near Tirana, Albania, is thought to have been built by Justinian I in the 6th century AD in order to protect the area from Slavic attacks?
Did you know that the Flys have played on the same bill as the Buzzcocks, The Psychedelic Furs, the Pretenders, and Black Slate?
Did you know that the Oregon Portage Railroad was the first railroad in Oregon, and had the first locomotive in the Pacific Northwest, the Oregon Pony?
Did you know that the Sega Toylet, an interactive urinal, allows users to play video games with their urine?
Did you know that the Toyota Prius V is the first spinoff from the Prius platform, and the Prius V hybrid gasoline-electric station wagon is scheduled to be released to the U.S. market by mid 2011?
Did you know that the second Ministry, led by Thomas Forsaith, was the shortest in New Zealand's parliamentary history?
Did you know that votive offerings used in Vietnamese lên đồng mediumship rituals may include sweets, alcohol, cigarettes, and even cans of Coca-Cola?
Did you know that Alberta's Beaver Hills were protected by Canada's first forest reserve in 1899?
Did you know that American Nisei Richard Sakakida, while working undercover as an interpreter for the Imperial Japanese Army, engineered a mass escape of about 500 Filipino prisoners during World War II?
Did you know that Diallo Telli, first Secretary-General of the Organisation of African Unity, died of starvation at Camp Boiro in Guinea?
Did you know that Fringe star John Noble considers "Johari Window" one of his favorite episodes?
Did you know that Low Head Lighthouse is Australia's oldest continuously used pilot station and was only the third lighthouse to be constructed in Australia?
Did you know that Lower Saxony's finance minister sold the important medieval archaeological site in Nienover to a horse breeder at a fire-sale price, without ensuring that 12 years of research could continue?
Did you know that Matterhorn Peak is the highest point in the Dunn Peak massif in the Shuswap Highlands of British Columbia?
Did you know that Rim Kin, the author of the first published novel in Cambodia, was president of the Khmer Writers' Association?
Did you know that illustrations from three of the Katie Morag series of children's picture books by Mairi Hedderwick have been used in a health promotion campaign to encourage breastfeeding?
Did you know that many years after Mughal Emperor Akbar's  manuscript of the Khamsa of Nizami was created, his son ordered a portrait of the scribe added?
Did you know that sports club Løkken IF was represented with one Norwegian, one American and one Swede at the 1950 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships?
Did you know that the Carlson Sparrow was declared Grand Champion ultralight aircraft at the Experimental Aircraft Association's 1987 Oshkosh Airshow?
Did you know that the Italian monitor Alfredo Cappellini was built during World War I by converting a floating crane?
Did you know that the New Harmony Toll Bridge, which opened in 1930, is owned by the only remaining joint state toll bridge commission chartered by the U.S. Congress?
Did you know that the Terasca sounding rocket's three stages were a combination of the existing Terrier, ASROC and Cajun rockets, respectively?
Did you know that the churchyard of St James' Church, Stanstead Abbotts, Hertfordshire has six monuments and a tomb that are all listed buildings?
Did you know that the inspiration for WePay originated when co-founder Rich Aberman had difficulty fundraising for his brother's bachelor party?
Did you know that the song "Es Demasiado Tarde", written and performed by Ana Gabriel, was the best-performing Latin single of 1991 in the U.S.?
Did you know that two of BYU's starting football players were suspended from playing in the 1998 Liberty Bowl for violating the Brigham Young University Honor Code?
Did you know that Ádahooníłígíí was the first newspaper written entirely in Navajo?
Did you know that Bob McCurdy, described by former basketball teammate Kevin Eastman as having virtually no quickness, dribbling skills, jumping ability or foot speed, led NCAA Division I in scoring in 1974–75?
Did you know that Frédéric Chopin dedicated his two Nocturnes, Op. 55, to his Scottish pupil Jane Stirling, who was interested in the arts and prison reform?
Did you know that Kevin Houston holds the U.S. Military Academy's men's basketball records for points in a game (53), season (953) and career (2,325)?
Did you know that New York Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas, one of the first two Greek American women elected to office in New York, was unopposed in her first general election?
Did you know that Obed "O.B." Borgen founded radio stations KFIL and KFIL-FM to serve Fillmore County, Minnesota?
Did you know that U.S. President Barack Obama gave a speech on January 12, 2011, honoring the victims of the 2011 Tucson shooting?
Did you know that Vince Gill and Patty Griffin provide background vocals to the song "Country Strong" by Gwyneth Paltrow?
Did you know that a Chinatown in St. Louis, Missouri, existed until its demolition for Busch Memorial Stadium in 1966?
Did you know that as a condition of paying for restoration work, a 19th-century benefactor of St Mary's Church in Bodewryd, Wales, required the church to have Islamic-style stained glass?
Did you know that bacon ice cream was originally created for April Fools' Day but went on to be one of Heston Blumenthal's signature dishes?
Did you know that squab pies, which Charles Dickens said inspired "hatred of the whole human race", are not actually made with squabs?
Did you know that the British Library Philatelic Collections has over 8 million items and was established in 1891 with Thomas Tapling's bequest?
Did you know that the European SARTRE Project conducted its first successful trial of an electronically controlled road train in January 2011?
Did you know that the March 2, 1957, disappearance of attorney Maud Crawford from her Camden, Arkansas, home remains officially unsolved?
Did you know that the Mitsubishi 1MF9 was the first Japanese-designed fighter intended for use from aircraft carriers?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 2001 securities fraud case that secret plans to disregard an oral contract are illegal?
Did you know that the University of Cambodia, established in 2003, bestowed an honorary doctorate degree to the Hong Kong actor and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Jackie Chan?
Did you know that the design of the Richmond Memorial Library in Batavia, New York, was inspired by the Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy, Massachusetts?
Did you know that the mushroom Auriscalpium vulgare is named for an instrument used for personal hygiene?
Did you know that the steam engines and boilers of the Russian ironclad Petr Veliky were so defective that they had to be replaced five years after she entered service in 1876?
Did you know that All Saints Church, Theddlethorpe, Lincolnshire, has been called the "Cathedral of the Marsh"?
Did you know that Alvin Young, cut from his high school basketball team every single year, went on to lead NCAA Division I in scoring in college?
Did you know that Cully Dahlstrom was the first American born player to win the Calder Trophy as the National Hockey League's rookie of the year?
Did you know that Dwight Eisenhower's Chance for Peace speech and his farewell address have been called the "bookends" of his administration?
Did you know that French encyclopédiste Claude Yvon was forced to flee to Holland because he was believed to have contributed to a controversial thesis published in 1752 by Jean-Martin de Prades?
Did you know that German musicologist Werner Neumann founded the Bach-Archiv Leipzig in 1950 and contributed Bach cantatas to the Neue Bach-Ausgabe?
Did you know that Gervasio won the international competition at the 1983 Viña del Mar International Song Festival?
Did you know that Prince Sozisa became the 'Authorised Person' of Swaziland (flag pictured) after the death of King Sobhuza II?
Did you know that Stage AE in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a concert venue partially owned by the Pittsburgh Steelers?
Did you know that after his professional basketball career ended, Boo Ellis worked as a security guard in his hometown of Hamilton, Ohio?
Did you know that controversy over New Brunswick's Common Schools Act of 1871 resulted in two deaths in the town of Caraquet?
Did you know that over 400 species of birds (state bird, Brown Thrasher, pictured) have been recorded in the American state of Georgia?
Did you know that some of the Chinit River diversion and canal structures of the Khmer Rouge era were built by forced labour and damaged by regime soldiers who were "grenade fishing"?
Did you know that the Douglas XCG-17 glider was converted from a C-47 transport that had originally flown for Northwest Airlines?
Did you know that the Emmanuel DeHodiamont House, a stone house built in 1830, shares the status of being the oldest house in St. Louis, Missouri?
Did you know that the I.S.T. XL-14 Maya, a light aircraft, was constructed primarily from woven bamboo?
Did you know that the Republic of Ireland has no honours system, though the issue has been considered by successive governments since 1930?
Did you know that the Royal Moroccan Navy is constructing a new naval base at Ksar es-Seghir?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court said Congress did not exempt certain federal banks from state taxes in Director of Revenue of Mo. v. CoBank ACB notwithstanding the landmark decision in McCulloch?
Did you know that the Wainwright Tomb was described as "the most sensitive and the most graceful" of the tombs designed by Louis Sullivan?
Did you know that the fossil primate ? Nycticebus linglom is known from a single tooth, which is said to be the smallest known prosimian molar?
Did you know that the recall of a weather ship for budgetary reasons was blamed for the minimal warning given in advance of the Great Storm of 1987 for Great Britain?