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Did you know that the Spined Loach is able to breathe through its intestine during times of oxygen scarcity, and can inflict an excruciating sting with the two-pointed spike under its eyes?
Did you know that the Swan Bells is an 82.5m belltower in Perth, Western Australia containing the largest set of change ringing bells in the world, several of which are 280 years old?
Did you know that the Mauritania Railway transports iron ore on trains up to three kilometers long?
Did you know that the leg break bowled by Shane Warne to Mike Gatting that turned around the 1993 Ashes cricket series is widely known as the Ball of the Century?
Did you know that the most popular deity worshipped by the Duala peoples of Cameroon is a mermaid called a jengu?
Did you know that though only 14% of all U.S. nuclear testing was conducted at the Pacific Proving Grounds, they comprised nearly 80% of the total explosive yields of all U.S. tests?
Did you know that adjustable pedals as well as an adjustable driver's seat were luxury features of the Renault Spider?
Did you know that several countries, including Sweden and Germany have started a nuclear power phase-out, with the goal of gradually shutting down all nuclear power plants?
Did you know that sociocracy is a form of government relying on principles of consensus?
Did you know that the Ever Victorious Army, consisting of Chinese imperial forces led by a European officer corps, was instrumental in putting down the Taiping Rebellion?
Did you know that the Philadelphia Metro is a free daily newspaper that was first published in 2000?
Did you know that Henri Blowitz, the Paris correspondent of the Times, averted a war between the French Third Republic and the German Empire in 1875?
Did you know that Lancashire cricketer Dick Barlow was immortalised in Francis Thompson's poem "At Lord's"?
Did you know that the African Grove theater was founded by free blacks in New York City in 1821—when New York was still a slave state—and that it launched the career of the great black Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge?
Did you know that the Cotswold Games were organized by Robert Dover as a protest against Puritanism in the early 17th century?
Did you know that Brendon Kuruppu was the first Sri Lankan cricketer to score more than 200 runs (a double century) in a Test innings?
Did you know that Foundation 9 Entertainment is the largest independent video game developer in North America?
Did you know that day beacons and other navigational aids vary in standard designation worldwide much like driving on the right or left?
Did you know that the Indian Shaker Church is a Christian denomination founded by an American Indian in 1881 which incorporates Catholic, Protestant, and indigenous beliefs, but traditionally rejects the Bible and other written scriptures?
Did you know that the Islamic Spaniard Judar Pasha led 4,000 Moroccans to victory against more than 40,000 Songhai troops at the Battle of Tondibi, putting an end to West Africa's Songhai Empire?
Did you know that the Khardungla Pass has been incorrectly claimed by Wikipedia to be the highest motorable road in the world?
Did you know that the definitive image of the African and Caribbean goddess Mami Wata was based on a poster of a Samoan snake charmer?
Did you know that three of the stars named after people, often thought to have traditional Arabic names, were in fact named for members of the Apollo 1 crew?
Did you know that urushiol-induced contact dermatitis accounts for 10% of all lost-time injuries in the United States Forest Service?
Did you know that Canadian media cannot legally reprint their own stories mentioning the name of convicted school shooter Todd Cameron Smith?
Did you know that Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav was independent India's first individual Olympic medalist when he won the wrestling bronze medal at the 1952 Helsinki games?
Did you know that Lake Enriquillo is the only saltwater lake in the world inhabited by crocodiles?
Did you know that Sergio Blass was the only singer to be a member of both Los Chicos and Menudo, Puerto Rican rival boy bands during the early 1980s?
Did you know that Stalking Cat is a San Diego man who has spent more than 150,000 US dollars on tattoos and cosmetic surgery working towards his goal of resembling a live tiger?
Did you know that about half of Ireland's citizens live outside of the Republic of Ireland?
Did you know that the Battle of Asal Uttar fought between India and Pakistan was the largest tank battle in the history of the Indian subcontinent?
Did you know that the Devil's Beef Tub was used to hide cattle stolen by the Border Reivers?
Did you know that the Narita Shinkansen from Tokyo to Narita Airport, which took nine years to build 9 km of track bed, is the only bullet train line ever officially cancelled?
Did you know that the Nurek Dam in Tajikistan is the tallest dam in the world, and in 1994 generated enough hydroelectric power to supply three-quarters of that country's generation capacity?
Did you know that Charles Atangana was the first Ewondo to be baptised Catholic in German Cameroon?
Did you know that Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences is a 1792 work of American art that depicts the Goddess of Liberty and is the first known painting to celebrate the emancipation of slaves in the United States?
Did you know that Simone Niggli-Luder from Switzerland won all four women's competitions at the orienteering world championships 2005 in Aichi, Japan, repeating her performance of 2003?
Did you know that a sea fan is a form of sessile colonial cnidarian, similar to a sea pen or a soft coral, found in tropical and subtropical seawater?
Did you know that although Archibald Leitch was the foremost football stadium architect in the United Kingdom in the early 20th century, only two of his works have been listed for preservation?
Did you know that detonating nuclear weapons is specifically forbidden in Britain under the Nuclear Explosions (Prohibition and Inspections) Act 1998?
Did you know that men who practice snake charming often also use their skills as a form of pest control?
Did you know that the 1888/9 South African cricket season marks the beginning of first-class cricket in South Africa?
Did you know that the Finnish speed skater Clas Thunberg is the oldest Olympic speed skating champion, winning gold at the 1928 St Moritz games at the age of 35?
Did you know that the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, founded in 1968, is one of the three inaugural satellite launch sites of the People's Republic of China?
Did you know that the border between Nilo-Saharan and Bantu languages among the languages of Uganda roughly coincides with the Victoria Nile?
Did you know that the defeat of Vijayanagara Empire at the Battle of Talikota in 1565 ended one of the last great Hindu kingdoms in South India?
Did you know that the largest organism in the world is a honey fungus which covers more than 3.4 square miles (8.9 km²) and is thousands of years old?
Did you know that umchwasho is a traditional chastity rite in Swaziland that restricts the sexual relations of unmarried women?
Did you know that Phil Spector considered the song "River Deep - Mountain High", his 1966 production for Ike & Tina Turner, his best work, despite its commercial failure in the United States?
Did you know that in 2001 Watercolour Challenge won a Royal Television Society award in the category of Best Features - Daytime television?
Did you know that the American toad is a common species of toad found throughout the eastern United States and Canada?
Did you know that the War of Canudos was an armed conflict in the 1890s in the Northeastern village of Canudos, Brazil, that was started by a Christian mystic and messianic leader Antônio Conselheiro and a band of fanatic followers and resulted in the death of more than 15,000 people?
Did you know that Antarctosaurus was one of the largest dinosaurs ever to live in South America?
Did you know that Closer Economic Relations is a free trade agreement between the governments of New Zealand and Australia?
Did you know that Liugong Island is considered the "birthplace of China's first navy" and is also the site of its defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War?
Did you know that in Elizabethan England anyone opening a message in a bottle without the approval of the Queen could face the death penalty?
Did you know that the Hungry i nightclub was instrumental in launching the careers of Lenny Bruce, Barbra Streisand and Woody Allen?
Did you know that Bryce State Mental Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA, has served as a model of both progressive and inhumane mental health treatment during its 144-year career?
Did you know that Charles Brooks, Jr., was the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States?
Did you know that Cherubina de Gabriak, subject of the famous duel between the two first-rank Russian poets Maximilian Voloshin and Nikolai Gumilyov, did not even exist?
Did you know that Rodger Penzabene, co-author of the 1968 Temptations hit "I Wish It Would Rain," used a real-life breakup as inspiration for the song and committed suicide when the song was released?
Did you know that in Angola, almost two out of every ten newborns die within one year, making it the country with the highest infant mortality rate in the world?
Did you know that the Delphic Hymns, written in stone between 138 and 128 BC in Ancient Greece, are the earliest surviving unambiguous notated music in the western world?
Did you know that the Presidio of Santa Barbara, built by the Spanish in 1782, is the second-oldest European building in the U.S. state of California?
Did you know that the uncommon triangulated frame of Hearst Tower, currently under construction in New York City, requires about 20 percent less steel than a conventional perimeter frame?
Did you know that Minnesota congresswoman Coya Knutson sang and played her accordion at campaign events?
Did you know that Yrausquin Airport in the Caribbean island of Saba has commercial air service despite prohibition for airline airplanes to land there?
Did you know that a Starets is a spiritual leader unique to the Russian Orthodox Church?
Did you know that bulk vending machine operators often spray Mike and Ikes and Hot Tamales with cooking spray to keep them from sticking together?
Did you know that the 1892 farce Charley's Aunt has been the basis of at least six different films, as well as the successful 1950s Broadway and West End musical, Where's Charley?
Did you know that the Minchiate was a deck of playing cards similar to the tarot, but with forty trumps?
Did you know that the Mongols, led by Genghis Khan's grandson Hulegu Khan, executed Al-Musta'sim, the Abbasid caliph of the Islamic state, following the 1258 Battle of Baghdad?
Did you know that the Muslim state of Ifat was completely annexed by Ethiopia in 1415?
Did you know that the only active volcano in South Asia is on Barren Island, one of India's Andaman Islands?
Did you know that Manitoba politician Colin H. Campbell is said to have won his seat in the 1907 election by a margin of one vote?
Did you know that Mount Pantokrator is the highest mountain on the island of Corfu at 914 metres tall?
Did you know that Simeon Solomon was a British painter who regularly had works displayed at the Royal Academy in the 1860s?
Did you know that on 14 August 1936 Rainey Bethea was hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, thus becoming the last person to be publicly executed in the United States?
Did you know that the Bassein Fort was at the centre of Portuguese operations in India during the 16th century?
Did you know that the Beehive House was constructed as a home for Brigham Young, a polygamist, and his wives?
Did you know that the California Pacific Conference has school members that range from members of the California State University system to religious and liberal arts colleges?
Did you know that the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Labrador was the first ship to circumnavigate North America?
Did you know that the jihad of Modibo Adama led to the spread of Islam and the Fulani ethnic group across northern Cameroon?
Did you know that the last African American jockey to win the Kentucky Derby was James Winkfield in 1902?
Did you know that a Northern Ireland naming dispute has existed since 1922, after the secession of the Irish Free State from the United Kingdom?
Did you know that teams in the International Basketball League  scored nearly 130 points per game in its first season?
Did you know that the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award is India's highest sporting honour?
Did you know that the anabolic steroid Oxandrolone was granted orphan drug status in treatment of alcoholic hepatitis, Turner's syndrome and HIV wasting syndrome?
Did you know that , before Wayne Rooney made his debut in February 2003, England's youngest ever football player was James F. M. Prinsep, who had held the record for more than 123 years?
Did you know that Eddie Gilbert was an Australian Aboriginal cricketer who bowled Don Bradman out for a duck during a match in 1933 and was later described by Bradman as the fastest bowler he'd ever faced?
Did you know that Massimo Morsello was the most prominent far right Italian songwriter?
Did you know that land under cultivation has grown from under 400,000 acres in 1976 to more than eight million acres in 1993 thanks to the irrigation in Saudi Arabia?
Did you know that the Black Seminoles are descendants of free African Americans and fugitive slaves traditionally allied with Seminole Indians in Florida and Oklahoma?
Did you know that the Tucson Bird Count monitors bird diversity at almost 1000 sites in urban Tucson, Arizona and is among the largest urban biological monitoring programs in the world?
Did you know that the U.S. maintains border preclearance facilities at a number of foreign ports and airports, whereby travellers pass through immigration and customs before boarding their plane or boat?
Did you know that the soybean cyst nematode is a significant pest affecting soybean production on three continents?
Did you know that "Flood," the sixth episode of The Young Ones, was the only one of the twelve episodes made which did not feature a live band during the show, instead using a lion tamer?
Did you know that Jack Broughton was the first person to develop a set of rules for boxing?
Did you know that in the Ukrainian Canadian internment of 1914 to 1920, about five thousand Ukrainian immigrants from Austro-Hungary were classified "aliens of enemy nationality", and interned in twenty-four work camps throughout Canada?
Did you know that recently-retired indigenous Australian rules footballer Darryl White was once approached by a member of an opposing team before leaving the field immediately after a match for a photograph with his hero?
Did you know that David Bergelson was a Yiddish language writer, who believed that the future of Yiddish literature lay in the Soviet Union and that he moved there from Berlin when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, but was ultimately executed during Josef Stalin's anti-semitic campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans"?
Did you know that Gingee Fort in Tamil Nadu, India was called the "Troy of the East" by the British for its inaccessibility and is one of the few forts still surviving in the state?
Did you know that Ruth Riley, an all-star center in the Women's National Basketball Association, also wrote a children's book?
Did you know that there have been many attempts to deliver mail by rocket, but none have met with much success?
Did you know that Green Mountain on Ascension Island is one of the world's very few large-scale artificial forests?
Did you know that Hershey Chocolate Company was the primary producer of US Army military chocolate rations during World War II?
Did you know that Jimmy Matthews is the only Test cricketer to have bowled two hat tricks in one match, a feat achieved during the 1912 Triangular Tournament in England?
Did you know that Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka was the scene of Mujibur Rahman's historic speech on March 7, 1971 that eventually led to Bangladesh's  Liberation War?
Did you know that during the 1970s the New York Philharmonic's Young People's Concerts were broadcast live on CBS during primetime and was syndicated in over 40 countries?
Did you know that in a landmark case, Dutch-born Jetta Goudal, one of the biggest Hollywood movie stars of the 1920s, successfully sued her film studio for breach of contract?
Did you know that the 1980s CBS sitcom Frank's Place was set in New Orleans, Louisiana?
Did you know that the Grandfather's House mentioned in the song "Over the River and Through the Woods" is a real house on the Mystic River in Medford, Massachusetts?
Did you know that the shipwreck of the HMS Orpheus was the biggest maritime disaster in New Zealand history?
Did you know that Ernst Litfaß was the inventor of the free-standing advertising column which bears his name?
Did you know that Fort Atkinson was the first U.S. Army post established west of the Missouri River?
Did you know that Hazelwood power station is the single largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in Australia, although it is only the sixth-largest power station?
Did you know that Rosa Montero is a leading author of contemporary feminist literature and a senior journalist for Spain's largest newspaper, El País?
Did you know that silent film actor Harrison Ford and present-day star Harrison Ford each have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
Did you know that the University Students' African Revolutionary Front was a political student group formed in 1967 at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania?
Did you know that the famous Wallace fountains in Paris were provided by English philanthropist Richard Wallace as a source of free water for the poor?
Did you know that the name of the Congolese writer Tchicaya U Tam'si means small paper, which speaks for a country in Zulu?
Did you know that the only remaining instance of active use of the death penalty in Europe is in capital punishment in Belarus?
Did you know that Caesar Augustus, his wife Livia and numerous other members of Julio-Claudian dynasty were entombed in the Mausoleum of Augustus?
Did you know that during the 1878 flood in Miskolc, Hungary, the water level rose 50 cm per minute and in some parts of the city water was 4 to 5 m high?
Did you know that in 1982, 68 kg of gold bars were stolen in a robbery that became known as the Perth Mint Swindle, and that seven years later 55 kg of the gold was found dumped outside a Perth television station?
Did you know that in the next five years, 40,000 African soldiers will be trained to conduct peace support operations and humanitarian relief under the African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance program?
Did you know that the Isles of Scilly and the Netherlands fought the Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War from 1651 to 1986, and that not a single shot was fired during this war?
Did you know that the Judean date palm, which was thought to have died out around 1 CE, was resurrected using a single seed found in the palace of Herod the Great on Mount Masada in southern Israel?
Did you know that the first U.S. state agricultural experiment station was established at Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1875?
Did you know that the naval victory of Travancore State over Dutch East India Company in the Battle of Colachel in 1741 is considered the first example of an Asian power defeating a European navy?
Did you know that Indra Lal Roy of the Royal Air Force became India's first flying ace after he achieved 10 victories in thirteen days during World War I?
Did you know that in 1910 the Kalem Company became the first American film studio to ever make a motion picture outside the United States when a film crew went on location in Ireland?
Did you know that the Perth Mint is the oldest operating mint in Australia and that it has produced over 4,500 tonnes of refined gold which represents about 3.25 percent of the total tonnage of gold ever produced?
Did you know that there were three more cancelled Apollo missions planned to land on the Moon after Apollo 17?
Did you know that "Blue Tail Fly" or "Jimmy Crack Corn" is a blackface minstrel song dating from the 1840s, and that on the surface, it is a black slave's lament over his master's death; the subtext is that he is glad his master is dead, and may have killed him by deliberate negligence?
Did you know that Raj Ghat and other memorials are sometimes considered India's modern day equivalent of Westminster Abbey?
Did you know that the anti-smuggling activities of the British frigate HMS Rose in 1775, provoked the Rhode Island government to commission the first warship, the Sloop-of-war Providence, in what became the U.S. Navy?
Did you know that the remains of Mungo Man are the oldest anatomically modern human remains found in Australia?
Did you know that Duke University anthropologist Anne Allison worked as a hostess girl for four months while researching Nightwork, her study of white-collar entertainment clubs in Japan?
Did you know that Neuromarketing is a new field of marketing that uses functional magnetic resonance imaging to scan consumers' brains in order to determine which products they subconsciously like?
Did you know that change of venue is the legal term for moving a jury trial away from a location where a fair and impartial jury may not be possible due to widespread publicity about a crime and/or the defendant?
Did you know that the Stavelot Triptych is a 12th century masterpiece of Mosan art created to display pieces of the True Cross?
Did you know that there have been six Indian Ocean Island Games, the latest being held on the isle of Mauritius in 2003?
Did you know that Fort Story at Cape Henry in Virginia Beach, Virginia was the site of the first landing of the Jamestown settlers in 1607, and the Cape Henry Lighthouse, first in the U.S., in 1792?
Did you know that Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, who helped found the Royal Academy of Music in 1822, was only in London because he had fled France five years earlier to avoid prosecution for multiple counts of forgery and fraud?
Did you know that at 23.8 hours, The Hazards of Helen is believed to be the longest motion picture serial ever made?
Did you know that the University of Dhaka is the oldest and largest public University in Bangladesh?
Did you know that the endangered American Burying Beetle is one of the only beetle species that exhibits parental care?
Did you know that Australian swimmer Fanny Durack was considered to be the world's greatest female swimmer from 1910 until 1918?
Did you know that Hendrick ter Brugghen was the artist primarily responsible for introducing the style of Caravaggio into Dutch painting?
Did you know that the Old Well at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a neoclassical rotunda modelled after the Temple of Love at the Palace of Versailles?
Did you know that the incisors of blesmols are visible even when their mouths are closed?
Did you know that American photographer George W. Ackerman took over 50,000 photographs during a nearly 40-year career with the United States Department of Agriculture?
Did you know that Dravidar Kazhagam formed in 1944 was the first fully Dravidian party in India?
Did you know that Serbia and Montenegro and Italy were co-hosts of the 2005 European Volleyball Championship?
Did you know that conifer Torreya taxifolia was one of the first plant species listed as endangered in the United States?
Did you know that the Buckingham Branch Railroad in Central Virginia  was formed in 1989 and has expanded from a 16-mile railroad to operate over 200 miles of track?
Did you know that the Emancipation Oak located on the campus of Hampton University is where the Virginia Peninsula's black community gathered in 1863 to hear the first Southern reading of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation?
Did you know that the Flying Dragon is a lizard that has skin membranes which it uses to glide distances over 7 metres?
Did you know that the modern Arms of the Principality of Wales are based on those borne by the 13th century Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great?
Did you know that Baqa'a is the largest refugee camp for Palestinians in Jordan?