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Did you know that despite trailing by 20 points after half-time in the 1987 UAAP men's basketball finals, the Ateneo Blue Eagles rallied and won the championship?
Did you know that during the 2010 Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival in Des Moines, Iowa, the 600 guests ate approximately 30,000 strips of bacon?
Did you know that finds at the prehistoric Neolithic Tell Ghoraifé, located 22 kilometres (14 mi) east of Damascus, Syria, show the evolution that took place over a millennium, from wild to domesticated barley?
Did you know that former child actor Philip Amelio once taught English and coached baseball at Duanesburg High School in Upstate New York?
Did you know that in 1672, the Scottish botanist Robert Morison became the first person to write a "monograph of a specific group of plants", the Umbelliferae?
Did you know that offerings in the 4000-year old temple of Al-Rawda, Syria, came from as far as Egypt, Afghanistan and India?
Did you know that slippery Jills wear a baggy veil?
Did you know that the Employees' State Insurance scheme provides social security and health insurance to over 50 million Indians?
Did you know that the canals and chinampas of Xochimilco, a World Heritage Site in Mexico City, are in danger of disappearing within 50 years?
Did you know that the earliest known Maya city in the Maya lowlands of Mesoamerica dates to around 750 BC?
Did you know that Archelaus, the high priest of the Roman goddess of war in Comana, claimed to be the son of King Mithridates VI when he wooed, and subsequently married, Queen Berenice IV of Egypt?
Did you know that German paratrooper Walter Koch acted against the Commando Order and saved John Dutton Frost's British paratroopers from execution?
Did you know that Harry Marks, whose Financial News crusaded against fraudulent stock market schemes, was himself widely implicated in dubious share promotions?
Did you know that Ralph Stackpole's 81-foot (25 m) statue Pacifica was at one time planned for permanent construction on an island in San Francisco Bay?
Did you know that Stone Canyon Reservoir was used as a filming location for Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974)?
Did you know that Ulster loyalist Robert McConnell was implicated in several sectarian attacks and killings in Northern Ireland, but was never charged or convicted?
Did you know that Welsh boxer Barry Jones lost his WBO Super featherweight title through events caused by an anomaly in a brain scan?
Did you know that because director-writer Akiva Goldsman had an aversion to hospitals, he shot the mental hospital scenes in the Fringe episode "Bad Dreams" in a church?
Did you know that film pioneer William Haggar's 1903 short Desperate Poaching Affray is believed to have been a key influence on the "chase" sub-genre of early film?
Did you know that in the north, the North American paper wasp Polistes annularis has rust-red markings on a predominantly black thorax, but in the south, the thorax is mostly rust-red with black markings?
Did you know that the Cumberland false rosemary has three sets of chromosomes in its cells, one set more than other plants in the same genus?
Did you know that the Laplace distribution with a mean of zero is a special case of the geometric stable distribution?
Did you know that the Lockington Locks lay at the end of the highest point on the Miami and Erie Canal?
Did you know that the Maxberg specimen, one of only 10 Archaeopteryx specimens ever found, has been lost since 1991?
Did you know that the Wouri estuary is a global marine biodiversity hotspot?
Did you know that the ghost town of Estacado, Texas, was founded by Quakers as a farming community?
Did you know that the largest oil field in Turkey lies near the city of Batman and the Batman River?
Did you know that the medieval cross in the centre of the village of Ackworth, West Yorkshire, may have been built as a memorial to victims of the Black Death?
Did you know that 16th-century Mughal miniature painter and director of Akbar's imperial workshop, Abd al-Samad, may have been the same person as Persian miniature artist Mirza Ali (example pictured)?
Did you know that All Saints Church, Newton Green in Suffolk has been divided at the chancel arch, the chancel being used for worship, while the rest of the church is redundant?
Did you know that Donald S. Sanford, who wrote the screenplay for the World War II epic film Midway (1976), was a sonarman in the U.S. Navy during World War II?
Did you know that M-46 is only one of three trans-peninsular state highways in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan?
Did you know that Marilyn Monroe, Dr. Seuss, Elvis Costello, and Prince Philip all adopted matronymic surnames?
Did you know that Oliver H. Lowry's 1951 paper on the Lowry protein assay is the most-cited paper of all time?
Did you know that Phoenix civil rights leader Lincoln Ragsdale helped coordinate and fund a lawsuit that produced the first court decision in the U.S. declaring school segregation illegal?
Did you know that Sir James Hogg and the Duke of Brunswick each pressed charges against Barnard Gregory for libel because of articles that he published in The Satirist?
Did you know that University of Michigan fullback John Garrels won medals in both the 110 m hurdles and shot put at the 1908 Olympics in London?
Did you know that as mayor of Campbellsville, Kentucky, Robert L. Miller sometimes swept out the basements of people's houses after heavy rains?
Did you know that as part of its training program for up-and-coming Aboriginal filmmakers, the Canadian National Screen Institute hosts a "Spirit Day" with a traditional feast and pipe ceremony?
Did you know that cactus enthusiasts and collectors are major threats to the rare cacti Coryphantha ramillosa and Escobaria sneedii?
Did you know that during the takeover of the hijacked Mothers' Bus by the Yamam, the hijackers killed two mothers, of two and four children, giving the incident its name?
Did you know that golf course architect William Herbert Fowler, who redesigned the 18th hole at Pebble Beach Golf Links, was also an MCC cricketer?
Did you know that politicians discuss the ways in which they and their families have suffered because of Oprahization?
Did you know that the Anglo-Norman Lament of Edward II, written c. 1327, is traditionally credited to Edward II of England?
Did you know that the account of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery is found at the end of the Gospel of John in Minuscule 831, 1076, 1078 and 1356?
Did you know that the second USRC Virginia, assisted by Richmond and Eagle, captured the armed French schooner Louis and her cargo on 26 April 1799?
Did you know that Derby Museum has a diagram of Ecton Hill made from Ashford Black Marble and other minerals?
Did you know that Kathleen, Duchess of Newcastle purchased a dog from the Tsar of Russia in 1892 for a sum equivalent to nearly £20,000 in modern currency?
Did you know that Luke Matheny, whose hair was described as "a vast black bouffant that makes him look like an untidy microphone", began his Academy Award acceptance speech by joking, "I should've gotten a haircut"?
Did you know that Rhône winemaker Jean-Luc Colombo lamented the competition from California wines, describing their rise as "losing civilisation and vulgarising wine"?
Did you know that Scottish Rugby Union player Edward Innes Pocock was also a member of Cecil Rhodes' Pioneer Column?
Did you know that at one point in the Battle of Narvik, British destroyer HMS Hotspur found herself engaged in battle with five enemy destroyers?
Did you know that dancer Jean Babilée's performance in the ballet Le Jeune Homme et la Mort included being hung by the neck on a gallows for one minute?
Did you know that former Manchester City footballer Lee Crooks is soon scheduled to serve on the frontline in the War in Afghanistan?
Did you know that on a commission of the Érard company to show off the expressive range of its double-action pedal harp, Maurice Ravel composed Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet?
Did you know that the CWA and PWA provided grants and loans to assist with construction of the 1930s Juneau-Douglas Bridge, connecting Juneau, Alaska, with Douglas Island across the Gastineau Channel?
Did you know that the Wehrmacht used "stick grenades" (pictured in gun barrel) for its PaK-36 anti-tank guns?
Did you know that the coral reef crab Zosimus aeneus contains deadly poisonous neurotoxins?
Did you know that the historic Caccia Birch House in Hokowhitu includes a billiards room named after the Governor-General of New Zealand, Lord Plunket, who resided in the House temporarily?
Did you know that the rare borage Terlingua Creek cat's-eye grows only on gypsum-rich limestone near Big Bend National Park in Texas?
Did you know that the surface level of the Old Bavarian Donaumoos, once a bog covering 180 square kilometres (69 sq mi), has dropped by 3 metres (9.8 ft) since drainage began in 1790?
Did you know that Český Šternberk Castle appears several times in the Albanian-Czech film The Sorrow of Mrs. Schneider?
Did you know that Joanne Siegel was the original model for Lois Lane and later married Superman's co-creator?
Did you know that Joey DeFrancesco's tribute to Michael Jackson, Never Can Say Goodbye: The Music of Michael Jackson, was nominated for a Grammy Award?
Did you know that Kentucky historian Damon R. Eubank wrote a book on the family of U.S. Senator John J. Crittenden, whose sons fought on opposing sides in the Civil War?
Did you know that Mark Twain threatened to eat newspaper editor Henry Martyn Whitney?
Did you know that Maryland Route 24 parallels Deer Creek through Rocks State Park?
Did you know that Queen Victoria saved her pet spaniel Dash from a carriage accident?
Did you know that St Augustine's Church in Norwich has a monument to a textile manufacturer, raised by 600 weavers?
Did you know that Stanley Clarke's album The Stanley Clarke Band won the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album?
Did you know that a gun was fired during a melee in a 1987 basketball game between Ateneo de Manila University and the University of the Philippines?
Did you know that a top environmental issue in Russia is water pollution, affecting 75% of the country's surface water?
Did you know that humorist George Washington Harris's comic character Sut Lovingood, who figured in tales attacking Abraham Lincoln and other politicians, has been described as "Huck Finn on amphetamines"?
Did you know that the California Bay pea crab is one of only two marine crustaceans to be included on the IUCN Red List of endangered species?
Did you know that the Heinrich-Heine-Straße U-Bahn station in Berlin, opened in 1928, was a ghost station for nearly three decades and retains much of its original appearance?
Did you know that the Marvel Comics limited series 5 Ronin reimagines superheroes Wolverine, Psylocke, Punisher, Hulk and Deadpool as masterless samurai in 17th-century Japan?
Did you know that the ground beetle, Lebia grandis, can eat about 23 eggs or three larvae of the Colorado potato beetle every day?
Did you know that the life of 14th-century Bulgarian brigand and local ruler of the Rhodopes Momchil has been retold both as an opera and as a comic book?
Did you know that the song "Barcelona" by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé is considered an illustrative example of the difference between pop and classical singing?
Did you know that American multi-instrumentalist Levon Helm won the first Grammy Award for Best Americana Album in 2010 for the album Electric Dirt?
Did you know that Gary Aguirre, who predicted the 2008 financial crisis, was fired by the SEC for trying to investigate Wall Street banker John Mack, a major fundraiser to President Bush's 2004 campaign?
Did you know that Leif Rode, who competed in rowing at the 1912 Summer Olympics, was chairman of the Association for the Promotion of Skiing more than forty years later?
Did you know that Margaret Creek in Ohio was named after Margaret Snowden, the first white woman settler in Athens County?
Did you know that The Headshrinkers, who had last wrestled in the World Wrestling Federation in 1994, were reunited at the Yokozuna Memorial Show in 2001?
Did you know that Young Galaxy and producer Dan Lissvik of Studio collaborated across the Atlantic using Skype to produce their new album Shapeshifting?
Did you know that a Labrador Retriever named Sadie was awarded the Dickin Medal for sniffing out a pressure cooker filled with TNT while on the front lines in Afghanistan?
Did you know that for 30 years the Reuben Wells steam engine, now displayed at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, pushed train cars up the steepest railroad incline in the United States?
Did you know that historian Betty Jane Gorin-Smith penned a 2006 study of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's 1863 raids though central Kentucky?
Did you know that of the 1,401 species in the family Begoniaceae, Hillebrandia sandwicensis is the only one not in the genus Begonia?
Did you know that the Beeldenstorm was a wave of riotous destruction of church art and property that spread across the Low Countries in August 1566?
Did you know that the Commission for Polish Relief provided limited food and medical supplies to occupied Poland until late 1941, in spite of Britain's 1940 blockade of shipments to Nazi occupied Europe?
Did you know that the Durham Street Methodist Church, destroyed in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, was the first stone church in Canterbury, New Zealand?
Did you know that the Libyan opposition has embraced "Zenga Zenga", an Israeli-created auto-tuned song and viral YouTube video that parodies Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi?
Did you know that the Monty Python sketch "The Mouse Problem", a mockumentary about men who want to be mice, parodies 1960s TV documentaries on homosexuality?
Did you know that the entrance to a burial vault below St Mary's Church, Redgrave in Suffolk was accidentally discovered during a rehearsal for Quasimodo?
Did you know that the weevil Hylobius transversovittatus has been introduced into the United States and Canada to help control the invasive wetland plant purple loosestrife?
Did you know that with an area of 8.2 km2 (3.2 sq mi), Lake Sonfon is Sierra Leone's largest inland lake?
Did you know that "To Be Alone with You" was the first song Bob Dylan recorded for his 1969 album Nashville Skyline?
Did you know that 12 years after his team was disqualified, Jack Kirrane returned to the Olympics and captained the United States ice hockey team to a gold medal?
Did you know that Alice Waters lobbied the Clinton administration to replace White House Executive Chef Pierre Chambrin with an American chef?
Did you know that All Saints Church in Thurgarton, Norfolk, is notable for its medieval bench ends carved with poppyheads, an elephant, barrels, mythical beasts, a man, a lion, and fighting dogs?
Did you know that Bavarian criminal Theo Berger, despite escaping four times, spent 36 years in jail and committed suicide there in 2003?
Did you know that G. Topham Forrest used a plain neo-Georgian style for most 1920s and 1930s London County Council housing estates, but at Ossulston used a modernist style influenced by Viennese workers’ housing?
Did you know that General John M. Bacon of the 3rd US Infantry regiment was incorrectly reported killed with a hundred of his men after the 1898 Battle of Sugar Point?
Did you know that Papel Prensa produced 170,000 tons of newsprint for 170 dailies in 2009, accounting for 75% of the newsprint market in Argentina?
Did you know that after retiring from baseball, catcher Greg Goossen turned to acting and working as a stand-in for actor Gene Hackman?
Did you know that during the tenure of the Abbasid governor al-Fadl ibn Salih, the Egyptian cities of al-Fustat and al-Askar were merged into one large city?
Did you know that former California Assembly Republican Leader and California Republican Party Chair Robert W. Naylor was editor of The Stanford Daily while he was a student at Stanford University?
Did you know that in the first scientific study of fossils in English, William Martin speculated that horn coral was a kind of bamboo and said another fossil was not a small crocodile tail?
Did you know that the Galilee, a brigantine built by Matthew Turner in 1891, spent three years on charter to the Carnegie Institute of Washington as a magnetic observatory?
Did you know that the high medieval Patriarchal Cathedral atop the Tsarevets hill in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, has had its interior repainted in a modernist style?
Did you know that until Marcel Deiss petitioned the French authorities to change the wine laws in 2005, it was illegal to not list the grape variety on the labels of Grand cru Alsatian wine?
Did you know that Bruce Bawer's While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within was described both as "well written and well informed" and as using "wildly exaggerated statistics"?
Did you know that Hikmat Abu Zayd was the first female cabinet minister in Egypt?
Did you know that Merrythought is the last remaining teddy bear manufacturer in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Pauline Bebe was France's first female rabbi?
Did you know that Polish best-selling historian and dissident Paweł Jasienica, due to his criticism of the Polish communist government, had his books removed from distribution and prohibited from printing?
Did you know that Usher's 1997 song "You Make Me Wanna" is an acoustic guitar-based R&B, soul and pop ballad about "juggling three women"?
Did you know that after his election in 1998 as mayor of Campbellsville, Kentucky, Paul E. Osborne formed a team that attracted Amazon.com, among others, to replace two closed factories?
Did you know that after the Godley Statue toppled during the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, time capsules were discovered in its plinth?
Did you know that alleged German spy Despina Storch was described as "Turkish Delight", "Turkish beauty", and a "modern Cleopatra" in spy literature?
Did you know that around the west door of St John the Baptist's Church in Yarburgh, Lincolnshire, are carvings of a coat of arms, Adam and Eve and the serpent, a Paschal Lamb, and a pelican?
Did you know that award-winning poet and Cardiff resident Ivy Alvarez was born in the Philippines, grew up in Tasmania, has worked in Scotland, Ireland, and Spain, and had her first book published in the US?
Did you know that even in her thirties, Scottish coloratura soprano Anne Sharp was able to pass as a teenager, performing the role of Emmie Spatchett in Albert Herring at the first Aldeburgh Festival?
Did you know that in 1789 the Women's March on Versailles forced the King of France to accept the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
Did you know that mathematician Leonhard Euler discovered that a simple characteristic equation could be used to solve certain linear homogeneous differential equations?
Did you know that the women's race at the 2007 Tokyo Marathon was won by Hitomi Niiya, who at the time had never run in a marathon before?
Did you know that Anna Murray helped her future husband, Frederick Douglass, escape slavery by giving him sailor's clothes and a part of her savings?
Did you know that First Nations contemporary artist Dana Claxton is a descendant of Sitting Bull's followers?
Did you know that Max Boyce's 1975 recording We All Had Doctors' Papers is the only comedy album to reach number one in the UK Album Charts?
Did you know that Mikhail Lermontov, author of the poem "Valerik", won the Order of St. Vladimir for valor at the 1840 Battle of the Valerik River but was prevented from receiving his award by Czar Nicholas I?
Did you know that Picander used one of the sayings of Jesus on the cross for an aria in Bach's cantata Sehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem, BWV 159, for the last Sunday before Lent?
Did you know that ProtectMarriage.com was formed to pass California Proposition 8, a voter initiative against same-sex marriage?
Did you know that Richard Knill Freeman, who designed British churches, hospitals, municipal buildings, schools and museums, also designed a church in Moscow in the 1880s?
Did you know that Rose Catherine Pinkney developed dozens of American television shows, including The X-Files and Girlfriends?
Did you know that Spanish-language Regional Mexican station KMAK launched in 1990 as an English-language Christian radio outlet serving Fresno, California?
Did you know that a US-born ex-hippie Malati Dasi, despite fierce opposition, in 1998 became the first international female leader of the Hare Krishna movement?
Did you know that according to book critic Maureen Corrigan, today’s narratives of women’s suffering are breaking with a tradition going back to Homer, in that they show women talking – and fighting – back?
Did you know that author Lorene Cary was the second African American girl accepted at the "elite" St. Paul's boarding school in New Hampshire, and in 1991 published Black Ice, a memoir of her experiences?
Did you know that four first-round draft picks of the Oakland Athletics have won the Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award?
Did you know that people who suffer from Pleasure Dissociative Orgasmic Disorder are unable to feel pleasure from an orgasm?
Did you know that six of the nineteen winners of the National Basketball Association's IBM Award have played for the San Antonio Spurs?
Did you know that the House of Assembly of Bermuda appointed members to complain to King George III of the "tyranny and oppression" of Governor George James Bruere?
Did you know that the first independent study of water quality in Jordan's US$1.1 billion Disi Water Conveyance Project found the water to be highly radioactive?
Did you know that the rare and endangered bellflower Cyanea remyi is found only on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, and as of 2010, an estimated 24 individuals are known to be growing in the wild?
Did you know that when Gare de Bellegarde (current station building pictured) opened in 1858 as part of the Lyon–Geneva railway, the station building was built in the style of a Swiss chalet?
Did you know that Baron Le Roy, owner of the Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate Château Fortia, helped guide the creation of the Appellation d'origine contrôlée system that became the basis of French wine laws?
Did you know that Colorado's Aspen City Hall has previously been used as a roller rink, an armory, and a concert venue?
Did you know that Operation Moolah was an attempt during the Korean War by the United States Air Force to capture a fully operational Russian MiG-15?
Did you know that Papyrus Fouad 266 is the second oldest manuscript of the Septuagint?
Did you know that Papyrus Rylands 458 is the oldest known manuscript of the Septuagint?
Did you know that William Isarn, a Spanish count, was assassinated while trying to regain what he claimed was his family's land?
Did you know that a young Lernaeocera branchialis is an ectoparasitic crustacean on the gills of a flounder or lumpsucker, and it moves on to cod or related fishes after it has matured and mated (infested gills of a whiting pictured)?
Did you know that an American soldier, who was deployed to Iraq, adopted an Iraqi boy who could not walk because of cerebral palsy?
Did you know that collective leadership was seen as the ideal form of governance by Soviet ideologists during the rules of Georgy Malenkov, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev?
Did you know that several buildings of Cass Gilbert's Waterbury Municipal Center Complex use quotations from Abraham Lincoln as decorative motifs, despite Lincoln's lack of connection to that Connecticut city?
Did you know that shooting guard Tim Hardaway, Jr., the son of National Basketball Association All-Star Tim Hardaway, was the first Michigan Wolverines freshman to score 30 points in a game in eight years?
Did you know that the 1859 symphonic work Hiawatha composed by Robert Stoepel is based on Longfellow's epic poem The Song of Hiawatha?
Did you know that the Cork Examiner described the killing of Peter Cleary, the first person to be killed by the Special Air Service in Northern Ireland, as "an act of utter folly"?
Did you know that the Rose Historic Chapel was the first church designed by the Luttrell brothers, who subsequently became the unofficial architects of the Diocese of Christchurch?