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Did you know that the double-decker sight-seeing boat Jalakanyaka sank on 30 September in Thekkady, Kerala, killing 45 tourists?
Did you know that the stink-bug Nezara viridula can feed on plants from over 30 families, but its preference for legumes, such as beans and soybeans, make it an economically important pest on crops?
Did you know that Billy Lauder coached Baseball Hall of Famer Eddie Collins in college, and Collins later hired Lauder to coach the Chicago White Sox?
Did you know that David Davies was transported to Australia for his part in the Rebecca Riots, an uprising that saw the mob leaders cross-dressing as women?
Did you know that Dr. John J. Wild, credited with the first successful detection of breast cancer using ultrasonography, was awarded the $370,000 Japan Prize for his development of ultrasound imaging?
Did you know that Giuseppe Giulietti, a leader of the Italian seamen's union, once hijacked a ship that was transporting weapons to the White movement in Russia?
Did you know that Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul founded Marseilles, the oldest city of France, circa 600 BCE?
Did you know that Heinrich Roller invented a popular shorthand system in 1875 after having been sued unsuccessfully for publishing a popular textbook on Leopold Arends' shorthand system?
Did you know that Karl Wilhelm Scheibler, the "Cotton King" of Łódź, sold his stock at triple the price after the American Civil War broke out?
Did you know that Lee Robins "pioneered the field of psychiatric epidemiology" and "played a key role in determining the prevalence of mental problems in the United States and the world"?
Did you know that Mexican masked professional wrestler La Parka is the second man to wrestle under this ring name?
Did you know that Uncle Tom's Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe moved to Mandarin, Florida, to help educate emancipated slaves, which she wrote about in a memoir named Palmetto Leaves?
Did you know that Yana in Karnataka, India, offers treks to two rock outcrops of black crystalline limestone that house a cave temple where a "self-manifest" Shiva Linga is venerated?
Did you know that Yehuda Hiss has been the chief pathologist at Israel's National Institute of Forensic Medicine since 1988?
Did you know that a team of archaeologists has recently discovered the remains of a 5000-year old circle of bluestone monoliths, about 1 mile (1.6 km) from Stonehenge?
Did you know that due to scarcity of iron in Puerto Rico, the Spanish government contracted for the Arenas Bridge to be built by a Belgian firm in 1894, and shipped to be assembled in place?
Did you know that it is claimed that in 1888 Victorian medium Robert James Lees led police to the home of Jack the Ripper?
Did you know that marketing executive Edward Gelsthorpe, who introduced Ban roll-on deodorant and Manwich sloppy joe sauce, earned the nickname "Cran-Apple Ed" after developing the juice drink for Ocean Spray?
Did you know that the 1979 Abbotsford landslip was the biggest landslide ever in an urban area in New Zealand?
Did you know that the East Side Historic District of Saratoga Springs, New York, contains 379 structures including 82 buildings formerly used by Skidmore College?
Did you know that the Giant Bible of Mainz, on display at the U.S. Library of Congress, was seized from Mainz Cathedral as a prize of war by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden in 1631?
Did you know that the Kodaikanal–Munnar Road in Tamil Nadu and Kerala was built by the British in 1942 as an evacuation route in preparation for a possible Japanese invasion of South India?
Did you know that the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) found evidence that suggests a portion of Antarctica was once joined to southern Africa?
Did you know that the Quarter pony horse breed was developed from horses that did not meet the American Quarter Horse Association's original height requirement of 14.2 hands (58 inches, 147 cm) high?
Did you know that the architect John Douglas designed a pair of houses at 31 and 33 Dee Banks, Chester, Cheshire, England, one for his own use and the other probably as an investment?
Did you know that the deaths of coal and iron miners in the Forest of Dean are commemorated by an 11 feet (3.4 m) sculpture at New Fancy?
Did you know that the historic Streamline Moderne Greyhound Bus Depot in Columbia, South Carolina, is now the office for a plastic surgeon?
Did you know that the platform of Austro–Hungarian Jewish politician Benno Straucher, who represented his Bukovina constituency in the Reichsrat, has been called "a sort of half-hearted Zionism"?
Did you know that the spiny puffball, an edible fungus, can inhibit the growth of several bacteria pathogenic to humans?
Did you know that the star attraction of the Westminster Pit, a Victorian blood sport arena, was a dog named "Billy", who was reportedly able to kill 100 rats in five minutes?
Did you know that there are 1,000 species and subspecies of eucalypts at South Australia's 32 ha (79 acres) Currency Creek Arboretum?
Did you know that two steam trains were involved in a head-on collision on the Lößnitzgrundbahn heritage railway in Saxony, Germany, on 12 September 2009?
Did you know that 'Asta Bowen's novel Wolf: A Journey Home is based on the recorded lives of a pack of wolves relocated from Pleasant Valley, Montana, to Glacier Park in 1989?
Did you know that Al-Ard ("The Land") was a Palestinian nationalist movement made up of Arab citizens of Israel?
Did you know that Anders Haugen, one of the 104 medalists at the 1924 Winter Olympics, was awarded his bronze medal in ski jumping fifty years after the games ended?
Did you know that Arunah Shepherdson Abell, founder of the Baltimore Sun newspaper, used pony express routes, telegraphy, steamships, and even carrier pigeons to gather the news more quickly?
Did you know that Jeannette Kagame, the current First Lady of Rwanda, works to help victims of the Rwandan Genocide and HIV/AIDS?
Did you know that John Hyson published articles on the history of the toothbrush, George Washington's dentures, and one entitled "Did You Know A Dentist Embalmed President Lincoln?"?
Did you know that Raven Ridge displays sedimentary rock from  the K–T boundary, a time period  when numerous  plant and animal species, including dinosaurs, disappeared completely from the fossil record?
Did you know that World War II RAAF fighter ace John Waddy later became a Minister of the Crown, while British Army paratrooper John Waddy went on to command the SAS?
Did you know that although Spottail pinfish are known from both south Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, there are no confirmed reports of them from the West Indies?
Did you know that by 1984, less than 40 years after his death, Mori Koben had more than 2,000 descendants, who were Micronesians of Japanese descent?
Did you know that lots on the West Side (houses on Washington Street, pictured) of Saratoga Springs, New York, were so uniformly narrow that even bungalows were built with their sides facing the street?
Did you know that remains of Lund's Amphibious Rat, one of the largest living rice rats, have been found in association with saber-toothed cats, ground sloths, and glyptodonts?
Did you know that the Embassy of Russia in Copenhagen was designed by Danish architect Vilhelm Dahlerup, who also designed the Hotel D’Angleterre?
Did you know that the Meadowlands Rail Line can transport 10,000 fans per hour to and from events at Giants Stadium and other venues in the Meadowlands Sports Complex?
Did you know that the late Louisiana State Senator Bryan A. Poston was an aerial engineer gunner sergeant on a B-17 bomber?
Did you know that the popularity of Sunday night repeats of the 1967 BBC television drama The Forsyte Saga were said to be a threat to both publicans and clergymen?
Did you know that the work of Violet Tillard, a British nurse and relief worker who died during the Russian famine of 1921, was mentioned in the writings of Leon Trotsky?
Did you know that video game Jungle Strike was accused of jingoism?
Did you know that when the steamer SS Myron sank in 1919, she defied the adage that “Lake Superior seldom gives up her dead” when 17 of her crew were found frozen to death wearing their lifejackets?
Did you know that women's professional wrestlers Tammy Sytch and Dawn Marie resumed a ten-year-old feud when they were reunited in Women Superstars Uncensored?
Did you know that Benjamin Britten composed many viola parts for Cecil Aronowitz, a co-founder of the Melos Ensemble?
Did you know that Disciotis venosa,  Hygrophorus subalpinus, Mycena overholtsii, Plectania nannfeldtii, Ramaria botrytis, and Clitocybe glacialis are all mushrooms that grow in or near snowbanks?
Did you know that Hakgala Strict Nature Reserve is an important and isolated cloud forest, however its small size and isolation is jeopardizing its long term survival?
Did you know that Howell Peacock, while a medical student, coached the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team as well as future Governor of North Carolina Luther H. Hodges?
Did you know that Judge Peter T. Farrell presided over the trial of bank robber Willie Sutton, who claimed to have stolen  millions from banks in his career, and sentenced him to 30–120 years in Attica State Prison?
Did you know that Leigh Hunt's works involve: a juvenile poem about the pleasure palace, Hero's suicide, the jilted Ariadne, a diary with a calendar, poetic feasts, a masque, nymphs, and a deadly love affair?
Did you know that Sir George Power, 7th Baronet of Kilfane created the role of Ralph Rackstraw in Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore in 1878?
Did you know that St Mary's Cathedral in Perth, Western Australia, is expected to be completed in 2009, almost 80 years after expansions were halted due to the Great Depression?
Did you know that Voina is a Russian art collective whose provocative works have included public group sex and staged hangings?
Did you know that director Asit Sen received his first and only Filmfare Best Director Award for his 1970 film Safar?
Did you know that during World War II, James Hill captured two Italian tanks using only his revolver but was wounded while attempting to capture a third?
Did you know that in 1989, Carlos D. Ramirez led a group that purchased El Diario La Prensa, the oldest Spanish-language newspaper in the United States?
Did you know that naval architect and author W.I.B. Crealock designed a yacht that was inducted into the American Sailboat Hall of Fame?
Did you know that the Anatolic, Armeniac, Opsician, and Thracesian themes, the first four Byzantine themes to be established, descended from the field armies of the East Roman army?
Did you know that the Polish town of Polanów was completely destroyed during the Second World War?
Did you know that the United States Army's Camp Warner in south central Oregon was so cold that on several occasions the camp's entire detachment of soldiers had to walk in circles all night to keep from freezing?
Did you know that the first two movie theatres in Detroit opened in 1906 in the Monroe Avenue Commercial Buildings historic district, and by 1914 six of the 13 buildings housed movie theatres?
Did you know that the new Utah towns of Bryce Canyon City, Hideout, and Independence were incorporated under a controversial, short-lived state law?
Did you know that American economic historian John Ulric Nef was the co-founder of the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought?
Did you know that Baseball Rubbing Mud, used by every team in Major League Baseball to give baseballs a rougher texture, originates from a secret location on the Delaware River?
Did you know that Hugo Raudsepp, one of Estonia's greatest comedic playwrights, became a "non-person"?
Did you know that Judge Theodore Trautwein jailed a New York Times reporter for 40 days for refusing to turn over notes in a murder trial, saying that the reporter put his own rights above those of the defendant?
Did you know that Peg Mullen's change into an antiwar activist after her son's death in Vietnam by shrapnel fired from U.S. artillery, became the Emmy Award-winning 1979 film Friendly Fire starring Carol Burnett?
Did you know that Roman Catholic missionary Aengus Finucane often flew with Mother Teresa while delivering food supplies to Bangladesh?
Did you know that Takthok Monastery is the only monastery of the Nyingma sect of Tibetan Buddhism in Ladakh?
Did you know that a Polish railway worker, Wojciech Najsarek, was one of the first victims of World War II?
Did you know that a trirated cable is an electrical cable that meets the safety and performance requirements of three different international standards set by the Americans, the British and the Canadians?
Did you know that during a rouge test (example pictured), an experimenter places a colored dot on a child's nose to assess self-recognition when looking in the mirror?
Did you know that in the Polish–Muscovite War of 1577–1582, Muscovy failed in its attempt to gain access to the Baltic Sea?
Did you know that one scene of the Cold Feet television episode "Going to Australia" was filmed on a set that was physically falling apart as the camera was rolling?
Did you know that several coalition governments in Norway have operated with suicide paragraphs, meaning that the coalition will disintegrate if the question of Norway and the European Union is put on the agenda?
Did you know that the Bosworth fracture is named after the first non-Japanese to be awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure, American David M. Bosworth?
Did you know that the Czech Republic hosts more than fifty international music competitions in 2009?
Did you know that the French School at Athens, which provides archaeological discoveries for the Delos Archaeological Museum,  began excavating at Delos in 1872 and is still excavating the area today?
Did you know that the Gideon Putnam Burying Ground is the only extant remnant of the founder of Saratoga Springs, New York?
Did you know that the Hiram Charles Todd House was the very first property in Saratoga Springs, New York, to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that the Microsoft data loss of 2009 has been described as the biggest disaster to affect the concept of cloud computing?
Did you know that the Provost Marshal General (flag pictured) supervises all aspects of law enforcement within the United States Army, reporting to the Army Chief of Staff?
Did you know that the rodents of the Caribbean include the hutias and two extinct species: the bear-sized Amblyrhiza and the cat-sized Megalomys desmarestii?
Did you know that the socialist Romanian General Jewish Labour Bund had a strong presence in kehilla elections in Chişinău during the interbellum but largely lacked representation outside Bessarabia?
Did you know that the song created for The Coca-Cola Company's marketing campaign Open Happiness peaked at the number one spot on record charts in China?
Did you know that thoroughbred horse Lord Avie, bought for $37,000 in 1980, was put to stud after retiring in 1981 and by 2002 had sired 578 starters, including 429 individual winners with total earnings of $35 million?
Did you know that winemaker David Lake made Washington State's first Syrah and pioneered the use of single vineyard labeling in the state?
Did you know that Alexander the Great was one of the greatest supporters of Homonoia?
Did you know that Blackpool's director, Julie Anne Robinson, and writer, Peter Bowker, wanted to co-create a television serial set in Funny Girls, a British cabaret featuring male dancers in drag?
Did you know that Dallata was one of the villages that locals of Fir'im, Mughr al-Khayt and Qabba'a fled to in the first days of May 1948, when they were attacked during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War?
Did you know that Edmund Dummer, Surveyor of the Navy, founded Britain's Royal Navy dockyard at Devonport in the 1690s, but died bankrupt in the Fleet debtors' prison?
Did you know that Englishman Bob Bootland, who was the first foreigner to coach a football club in India, arrived in the country on holiday and never left?
Did you know that Kordian, a romantic drama by one of Poland's Three Bards, Juliusz Słowacki, is a polemic with Dziady, an earlier work by another of the Three Bards, Adam Mickiewicz?
Did you know that Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, who had been deputy chief of Navy intelligence in World War II, later narrated the NBC Cold War docudrama Behind Closed Doors, titled after one of his own books?
Did you know that Swedish figure skater Gillis Grafström, one of the 83 medal winners at the 1928 Winter Olympics, won the men's individual figure skating competition even though he was skating on an injured knee?
Did you know that although the teeth of the extinct rodent Holochilus primigenus are almost identical to those of Lund's Amphibious Rat, it is probably more closely related to marsh rats?
Did you know that an annual award for "outstanding state legislators" presented by the National Bar Association is named for Louisiana State Representative Pinkie C. Wilkerson?
Did you know that from 1946 to 1991, Ordnance Survey International provided a central survey and mapping organisation for British colonies and protectorates?
Did you know that in 1882, almost a century after the final partition of Poland, Polish explorer Stefan Szolc-Rogoziński tried to found a Polish colony in Cameroon?
Did you know that in 1913 Gravel Island National Wildlife Refuge became the twenty-ninth wildlife refuge in the U.S. and third in the Great Lakes region?
Did you know that lawyer Raymond A. Brown's clients included boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Black Liberation Army member Joanne Chesimard and "Dr. X" physician Mario Jascalevich?
Did you know that the Casa Alcaldia de Ponce has been used as a jail, for executions, and as the site of speeches from three Presidents of the United States?
Did you know that the Franklin Borough School District in rural New Jersey had a baseball field said to have been designed by Babe Ruth and local engineers to match the dimensions of the original Yankee Stadium?
Did you know that the Holding Institute, now a community center in Laredo, Texas, was formerly a boarding school destroyed in 1954 by Rio Grande floods, relocated, and thereafter closed for financial reasons?
Did you know that the Korean Painting of the Eastern Palace, is actually of two royal palaces to the east of Gyeongbokgung palace?
Did you know that the Saratoga Springs, New York, post office had one of the most elaborate lobbies in the state when it was opened in 1910?
Did you know that the September 1988 unemployment statistics for the United Kingdom were briefly over-recorded due to the 1988 United Kingdom postal workers strike?
Did you know that the Van Buren Street Bridge in Oregon is the last movable-span truss bridge constructed by the pin connection method located on the West Coast?
Did you know that the destruction of Ayn Ghazal by Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war was condemned by Count Bernadotte?
Did you know that the distribution of galaxy types found within the Eridanus Group provides evidence for the theory of cold dark matter?
Did you know that Josh Turner was "elated to discover that he wouldn't have to do any acting" in the music video for his single "Why Don't We Just Dance"?
Did you know that Sydney Rippon, father of a UK Cabinet minister, played in a first-class cricket match under an assumed name so that his employer, the Inland Revenue, would not find out?
Did you know that Victor G. Carrillo, chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission, completed law school at night while he worked as a geophysicist for Amoco Oil Company?
Did you know that a benefit concert taking place in Dublin tonight will be broadcast live to an audience in Gaza City?
Did you know that after Larry Niven's first attempt at writing a Star Trek: The Animated Series screenplay was rejected, Gene Roddenberry suggested he adapt one of his short stories which became "The Slaver Weapon"?
Did you know that during Operation Doomsday, the British 1st Airborne Division suffered 34 casualties, despite the Second World War having ended several days previously?
Did you know that during a scripted rivalry, professional wrestler Rhett Titus had the face of female professional wrestler Daizee Haze airbrushed onto his ring gear?
Did you know that in March 1997, Lucia Newman became the first United States journalist in twenty-seven years to be based in Cuba?
Did you know that one of Sydney's most expensive houses, Boomerang, includes a private cinema that at one time could seat 200 people?
Did you know that the 2.44-mile (3.93 km) long Iowa Highway 107 consists of two segments wholly within Meservey and Thornton, Iowa?
Did you know that the Georgia Marble Company supplied the marble used to build the statue of Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial?
Did you know that the Old St. Thomas Church, built in 1822–1824, is the burial site of a Canadian soldier who died in the Battle of Williamsburg in the American Civil War?
Did you know that the bark of the Caribbean tree Canella winterana can be used as a spice similar to cinnamon?
Did you know that the basement of Seattle's Temple De Hirsch was the site of Jimi Hendrix's first professional gig?
Did you know that the creation of the German parliamentary electoral district of Berlin Lichtenberg proved controversial, being perceived as disadvantageous to the Party of Democratic Socialism?
Did you know that while the rest of India worships the Hindu wealth-goddess Lakshmi, Bengalis venerate the fearsome goddess Kali today on Kali Puja?
Did you know that Gilberto Zaldívar's New York City-based Repertorio Español, called "a national treasure ... unmatched by any other Spanish-language theater company", has staged over 250 productions in 40 years?
Did you know that Irish politician John O'Donoghue resigned as Ceann Comhairle over various expense claims, including a £1 charity donation to UNICEF?
Did you know that Le Vélo's impassioned reporting of the Dreyfus affair led indirectly to the creation of the Tour de France?
Did you know that Leonie Pray House hosted recitals by Liberace and Risë Stevens and served as the home of Patrick Swayze's character in Donnie Darko?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines football player Obi Ezeh was invited to try out for the United States national rugby union team?
Did you know that Paul Miller, who later headed Gannett Company and the Associated Press, was the city editor of a Pawhuska, Oklahoma, newspaper before he started college?
Did you know that Prirazlomnaya oil platform on the Prirazlomnoye field is equipped with the topsides of the former Hutton oilfield's platform Hutton TLP, which was the first Tension Leg Platform ever built?
Did you know that Puerto Rican boxer José Ruíz Matos was the World Boxing Organization's first super flyweight champion?
Did you know that Puerto Rican singer Chayanne received a Grammy Award nomination for his self-titled 1988 album?
Did you know that Robert Walpole, father of England's first Prime Minister, holds the record for the longest overdue library book at 288 years?
Did you know that The Heartland Series, produced by a Knoxville, Tennessee, TV station, has been called "the nation's longest-running sociological video repository"?
Did you know that the Herschel graph is the smallest possible polyhedral graph that does not have a Hamiltonian cycle?
Did you know that the Japanese Manga de Dokuha series published a controversial manga version of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler?
Did you know that the Liberty Colored High School, built to replace a Rosenwald school for African-American students in Liberty, South Carolina, is now the Rosenwood community center?
Did you know that the Spotted Seal has a narrow snout like that of a dog?
Did you know that the genus name of the commonly grown Australian garden plants Dianella caerulea and D. tasmanica is derived from the goddess Diana?
Did you know that the mushroom Entoloma austroprunicolor of Tasmania's wet forests changes from bluish-purple, to reddish purple, to purplish grey as it ages?
Did you know that the yacht Adele served with the Royal Australian Navy in both world wars—as HMAS Franklin in the first and HMAS Adele in the second?