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Did you know that efforts by George Tchobanoglous have contributed to UV disinfection of wastewater being accepted as a technology for water reuse?
Did you know that several pelagic gooseneck barnacles were once found attached to an American crocodile?
Did you know that singer Madonna appeared only as an animated fairy in the music video for her song "Dear Jessie"?
Did you know that the Rihanna song "Where Have You Been" contains compositional elements of Geoff Mack's "I've Been Everywhere"?
Did you know that the Tonhalle, a concert hall in Zurich praised for its acoustics, was inaugurated by Johannes Brahms conducting in 1895?
Did you know that the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs annually receives $1.7 billion of research and development funding for the Veterans Health Administration Office of Research and Development?
Did you know that the mother of Korean American composer Donald Sur was a picture bride?
Did you know that the rights to freedom of speech, assembly and association are guaranteed by Article 14 of the Singapore Constitution only to Singapore citizens?
Did you know that the seeds of Petrophile pulchella can be found germinating in bushland up to 700 days after bushfire?
Did you know that 1992 U.S. vice presidential candidate James Stockdale replied, "Who am I? Why am I here?" in response to a question from debate moderator Hal Bruno of ABC News?
Did you know that Bat-El Gatterer, Israeli women's taekwondo champion, is a religiously observant Jew who was born in the West Bank?
Did you know that Boston Celtics center Bill Russell won 11 NBA championships during his 13-year playing career, including two titles as player-coach?
Did you know that Ghirlandaio's An Old Man and his Grandson (detail pictured) portrays a man with a deformed nose sympathetically, in contrast to theories of the era by which external deformities imply character defects?
Did you know that Juan Martínez de Recalde was second-in-command of the Spanish Armada?
Did you know that Miró's Dona i Ocell, a sculpture in Barcelona, was decorated with colour by ceramicist Joan Gardy Artigas?
Did you know that Mt. Shasta Brewing Company's slogan, "Try Legal Weed", was initially refused by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau?
Did you know that Wroniec, a dark fairy tale by Jacek Dukaj, was a taboo-breaking take on martial law in Poland, which was in effect from 13 December 1981?
Did you know that during Royce White's two-and-a-half-year hiatus from competitive basketball, he spent time on his music career and learned how to play the piano?
Did you know that in November 1921, the schooner Cymric collided with a tram in Dublin?
Did you know that jewel beetle larvae live in galls on the stems of the Australian shrub Daviesia corymbosa?
Did you know that seven of the twenty-nine times when Duke and Michigan played one another in men's basketball, both teams were ranked in the top ten in the AP Poll?
Did you know that the Frank Kameny House in Washington, D.C., was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its significance in the gay rights activism of its namesake?
Did you know that the Grammy Award-winning album Bachata Rosa by Juan Luis Guerra brought bachata music into the mainstream in the Dominican Republic?
Did you know that the Left Column theater troupe left Germany on the eve of Nazism only to lose many members to the Stalinist purges?
Did you know that the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, opened in 1889, is the oldest purpose-built museum of portraits in the world?
Did you know that the goose barnacle is found attached to driftwood, flotsam and even whales?
Did you know that Jeff Wright, a county drain commissioner in Michigan, has also served as an FBI informant?
Did you know that Kazimierz Karwowski holds the record for being elected to the most Sejms of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth?
Did you know that Mojo Mathers became New Zealand's first deaf MP during the 2011 general election?
Did you know that Sancti Spiritu, the first European settlement in modern Argentina, was destroyed by natives two years later?
Did you know that The Who's 1971 song "Bargain" and 1981 song "Don't Let Go the Coat" were both inspired by Indian mystic Meher Baba?
Did you know that Three Sisters, a musical by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern, played for only two months in London in 1934, and didn't debut in America until 2011?
Did you know that Yad Sarah, the largest national volunteer organization in Israel, has over 6,000 volunteers – including its founder, Uri Lupolianski, former mayor of Jerusalem?
Did you know that an abolitionist pastor at New York's First Baptist Church of Tarrytown was succeeded by a Confederate veteran who had walked to the church from Alabama?
Did you know that before Brighton's Montpelier suburb developed, three people lived on the hilly site – including an eccentric corporal who lived in a cave and fired celebratory pistols on military anniversaries?
Did you know that the Glee episode "Hold On to Sixteen" featured covers of songs by Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, and The Jackson 5?
Did you know that the cliffs and offshore rocks from Godrevy Head to St Agnes are host to the largest colony of breeding Black-legged Kittiwakes in Cornwall, UK?
Did you know that the rare magic mushroom Psilocybe tampanensis was found after its discoverer skipped a "boring taxonomic conference" to go mushroom hunting?
Did you know that the sea whip, a colonial soft coral, produces chemicals which prevent algae, barnacles and bryozoans from growing on it?
Did you know that Count Grog's Southern Championship Wrestling once promoted a benefit show in Louisburg, North Carolina, from which all the proceeds went to a seriously injured wrestler?
Did you know that Georgia O'Keeffe praised her art teacher John Vanderpoel, whose book The Human Figure is a standard reference for art students (example drawing pictured), as "one of the few real teachers I have known"?
Did you know that Indonesian legal scholar Notonagoro, who married into royalty, placed the needs of individual citizens last in his hierarchy of government priorities?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines American football cornerback J. T. Floyd made his first two interceptions against Notre Dame, but in different seasons?
Did you know that Raphael's Portrait of Balthasar Castiglione was admired and copied by Titian, Rembrandt, Peter Paul Rubens and Henri Matisse?
Did you know that Ryan Van Bergen was ranked among the top-20 high school football players nationally as both a tight end and defensive end?
Did you know that Soepomo, Indonesia's first Minister of Justice, criticized Dutch colonialism in his thesis on the agrarian system of Surakarta?
Did you know that Traveler's Rest near Lolo, Montana, is the only place along the Lewis and Clark Trail where physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark Expedition has been found?
Did you know that architects Fisher & Fisher, the sibling partnership of Arthur and William Ellsworth Fisher, designed the oil company town of Parco, Wyoming, in a unified Spanish colonial style to foster community?
Did you know that future Minister of Justice Abdoel Gaffar Pringgodigdo reported losing much of his archive when the Dutch seized Yogyakarta?
Did you know that in December 2011, the Home Affordable Refinance Program was expanded so many U.S. homeowners can refinance their mortgage even if their home value is underwater?
Did you know that some music critics hear echoes of work by Diana Ross and Leslie Gore in Selena's song "Missing My Baby", which was featured on Entre a Mi Mundo?
Did you know that the annual European theatre festival Ruhrfestspiele (main venue pictured), which collaborates with companies such as The Old Vic, originated in a coal shortage in 1946?
Did you know that the coastline from Steeple Point to Marsland Mouth, in north Cornwall, was one of the last British breeding sites of the Large Blue butterfly, which was declared nationally extinct in 1979?
Did you know that Adolphe Braun, whose photos were published worldwide and shown in prominent museums, first took up photography to aid in designing floral patterns for textiles?
Did you know that Dolphin D. Overton became a flying ace in just four days during the Korean War, the fastest in history for a jet fighter pilot?
Did you know that Lost in Paradise is considered Vietnam's first gay film?
Did you know that according to one critic, Rihanna appeared to be "channelling" Swedish singer-songwriter and rapper Neneh Cherry on "Cockiness (Love It)" in a "pseudo-melodic" impersonation?
Did you know that of the 800 men who received Father Francis Gleeson's general absolution on 8 May 1915, 389 were killed or wounded in the subsequent Battle of Aubers Ridge?
Did you know that stores on Malkhei Yisrael Street, the Haredi urban shopping district in north Jerusalem, pay the same or even higher rents than stores in Israel's major malls?
Did you know that the 1842 Cap-Haïtien earthquake badly damaged the Sans-Souci Palace built by Henri Christophe?
Did you know that the 2013 United States federal budget may impose a 23% cut on the defense budget due to the Budget Control Act of 2011, according to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta?
Did you know that the Experiment was a boat powered by horses running on a treadmill and propelled by a then-novel type of screw propeller?
Did you know that the Indus River Delta in Pakistan is home to the largest arid zone mangrove forests in the world?
Did you know that the failed 2010 Brown–Kaufman amendment aimed to break up the largest U.S. banks based on Alan Greenspan's idea that "If they're too big to fail, they're too big"?
Did you know that the resilience of coral reefs may be improved to the point where they can resist coral bleaching (example pictured) if they are seeded with thermally-resistant zooxanthellae?
Did you know that the song "Cosas del Amor" has been performed by several female singers including Vikki Carr, Ana Gabriel, Milly Quezada, Jenni Rivera, Olga Tañón and Yuri?
Did you know that "Red Lipstick" was reminiscent of songs featured on Rihanna's fourth studio album Rated R (2009), with specific comparisons to "G4L" and "Wait Your Turn"?
Did you know that Bill Bellamy, who was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry as a tank commander in 1944, raised £30,000 by trekking across Cuba in 2005, at the age of 81?
Did you know that Dutch clergyman W.R. van Hoëvell, after being forced to resign his post in Batavia in 1848, became a radical and eloquent spokesman against Dutch colonialism and slavery in the East and West Indies?
Did you know that Israeli businessman Dan Gertler bought the Kolwezi tailings project for $20 million and two months later sold half of it for $175 million?
Did you know that Jerry Blackwell's Southern Championship Wrestling was the last "territorial" wrestling promotion in the U.S. state of Georgia?
Did you know that Kenneth Stewart Cole, an organizer of the Biophysical Society's first meeting, said that the meeting had "the ulterior motive of finding out if there was such a thing as biophysics"?
Did you know that Max Gresham, the 18-year-old 2011 NASCAR East Series champion, started racing at the age of 8?
Did you know that Polish model and fashion designer Joanna Horodyńska has presented a TV program while lying in a foam-filled bath tub, and posed three times for Playboy?
Did you know that Ruislip High School is the fictional "Rudge Park Comprehensive" from the E4 television series The Inbetweeners?
Did you know that Yongjia Xuanjue is believed to have written the 8th-century Song of Enlightenment, a text still popular with Zen practitioners nowadays?
Did you know that in Mesopotamian mythology, the Apkallu (relief sculpture pictured) were sent by the god Enki, from Dilmun to teach human beings various aspects of civilization?
Did you know that the British destroyer HMS Hurricane rescued 451 survivors from the passenger-cargo liner SS City of Nagpur and landed them at Greenock, Scotland, on 1 May 1941?
Did you know that the aerial photograph of Palembang taken in 1984 revealed the ancient canal network that is now Srivijaya archaeological park?
Did you know that the ideology of Ba'athism was developed mostly in Syria by Zaki al-Arsuzi, Salah al-Din al-Bitar and Michel Aflaq, who is considered the founder of Ba'athist thought, as a way to unite the Arab world into one nation?
Did you know that 26 new MPs were elected to the 50th New Zealand Parliament, including Julie Anne Genter and Denise Roche (both Greens), Rino Tirikatene (Labour), Maggie Barry, Paul Goldsmith and Alfred Ngaro (National), and Richard Prosser and Denis O'Rourke (both NZ First)?
Did you know that Euripides' posthumously produced lost play Alcmaeon in Corinth was part of a trilogy that won first prize at the Dionysia in Athens?
Did you know that Michelangelo's Study of a Kneeling Nude Girl for The Entombment is believed to be the earliest existent European drawing of a nude female model?
Did you know that according to The People's Book of Records, the record for the number of times a person has been licked on the buttocks by a dog in two minutes is 145?
Did you know that after suffering from polio as a youth, Maria Farida Indrati went on to become the first female justice of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia?
Did you know that blackfellows hemp is associated with turpentine?
Did you know that former Indonesian Minister of the Interior Hazairin released his own currency?
Did you know that in 1963, a whole farm—including machinery, staff and a pedigree herd of Hereford cattle—travelled by train from Tetbury railway station to Stranraer in advance of the Beeching Axe?
Did you know that in Wildwood by The Decemberists' Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis, "bespectacled, bike-riding, vinyl-­browsing, Kurosawa-­referencing" Portland kids save a baby kidnapped by a murder of crows?
Did you know that lithographer Adolph Friedländer's printshop produced over 9,000 posters (example pictured) for artists, magicians and circus and vaudeville performers?
Did you know that the spiny lobster Jasus caveorum lives only on one of the Foundation Seamounts in the southern Pacific Ocean?
Did you know that General George S. Patton praised the tactic of marching fire during World War II?
Did you know that Gustav Sobottka, Jr. was imprisoned by the Nazis at age 18 and by Stalin's secret police at age 23?
Did you know that Jean-Claude Bajeux was Haiti's culture minister under President Jean-Bertrand Aristide but later turned against him?
Did you know that Nikolaus Pevsner described All Saints' Church, Hertford, as "completely alien" in Hertfordshire?
Did you know that Perry Dorrestein's first start for the Michigan Wolverines football team was in a Michigan–Notre Dame football rivalry game?
Did you know that Rossetti overpainted the face of his former mistress in his painting of Lady Lilith (detail pictured) with the face of one of his later models?
Did you know that a trademark dispute between piano makers Steinway & Sons and Grotrian-Steinweg resulted in establishing the legal concept of "initial interest confusion"?
Did you know that after directing several episodes of Glee, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon directed large choreographed musical television advertisements for Chevrolet and T-Mobile?
Did you know that in zoos the Scarlet Ibis is often fed beetroots and carrots to maintain its plumage coloring, which in the wild comes from carotenoid pigments in shrimp and shellfish?
Did you know that the extinct, Miocene age, maple Acer browni ranged from southern Oregon to the north shore of the Haida Gwaii?
Did you know that the galaxy Markarian 501 produces very high energy gamma rays?
Did you know that the music video for the Tanglish song "Why This Kolaveri Di" had more than 10 million YouTube hits in the two weeks after its posting?
Did you know that the opening of San Francisco's Tiffany Building included a roast pig and a lion dance for good luck?
Did you know that tight end Martell Webb was a 2006 USA Today All-USA second team selection along with fellow Michigan matriculant Ryan Mallett?
Did you know that Cherokee and other Native American tribes used river cane to make items including blowguns, spears, flutes and candles?
Did you know that Gavin Bryars's Doctor Ox's Experiment is the third opera to be based on Jules Verne's science fiction novella "Dr. Ox's Experiment"?
Did you know that Peter Edward Stroehling's portrait of George III shows the king with an adoring spaniel?
Did you know that a spree killer from Ontario, saved from the death penalty by reason of insanity, later received a "hero's funeral"?
Did you know that although St Silas' Church in Blackburn, Lancashire, was designed in 1878, building did not start until 1894, and the tower was not completed until 1914?
Did you know that architect Peter Beaven founded New Zealand's first heritage lobby group?
Did you know that cyanobacteria can be washed up on the shore in a green scum, which may contain an acute neurotoxin known as the Very Fast Death Factor, which leads to fast death by paralysis?
Did you know that despite its name, the long-stolon sedge does not form stolons?
Did you know that mathematician Mikhail Kadets became interested in the theory of normed spaces after reading the Ukrainian edition of the French treatise by the Pole Stefan Banach?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano Martina Koppelstetter has recorded Lieder by Rudi Spring for BR, Bavarian Radio?
Did you know that one of the highest-ranking generals in China was injured in battle nine times?
Did you know that the seeds of six-weeks grama grass are eaten by desert kangaroo rats?
Did you know that Ania Bien's 1986 photographic installation on the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam, which was destroyed in a fire that killed 33 people, included images alluding to the Holocaust?
Did you know that Euripides' lost play Andromeda may have contained the first ever depiction of a man falling in love with a woman onstage?
Did you know that Jack Nicholson and Lou Adler bought the historic Newberry House so they would have a place in Aspen, Colorado, to watch televised Lakers games together?
Did you know that Karl Marx's theory of historical trajectory attempted to prove the long-term unsustainability of capitalism?
Did you know that Theodore M. Stuart, an end and halfback for the "Point-a-Minute" football teams at the University of Michigan in 1904 and 1905, was also the university's tennis champion?
Did you know that although William Jennings Bryan delivered the Cross of Gold speech at the 1896 Democratic National Convention, he was not even a delegate when the convention started?
Did you know that brothers Frank and John Rolleston were both simultaneously elected to the New Zealand Parliament in 1922 and defeated in 1928?
Did you know that the Théâtre de la Mode is an exhibit of small-scale fashion mannequins (examples pictured) crafted by Paris fashion designers to help revive the French fashion industry after World War II?
Did you know that the native swamp thistle of eastern North America is the sole food source for the caterpillars of the swamp metalmark butterfly?
Did you know that when architect Sir Robert Smirke planned St Philip's Church in Salford, Greater Manchester, he re-used his design for St Mary's Church in Bryanston Square, London?
Did you know that Arthur Duncan was a small Backscratcher in Chicago?
Did you know that Captain Joseph Spear married two women named Grace Grant?
Did you know that Gholhak Garden, a British diplomatic compound in northern Tehran, has been at the centre of diplomatic controversy between Britain and Iran?
Did you know that Papa Celestin's Golden Wedding featured Papa Celestin's final recording session before his death?
Did you know that The Naval and Military Magazine warned that people might not like the cut of Sir Henry Heathcote's jib?
Did you know that Wilopo, in office only 26 days, is the shortest-serving Foreign Minister of Indonesia to date?
Did you know that a Russian state prosecutor proposes to put a commented translation of the Bhagavad Gita on the same list of banned materials as Hitler's Mein Kampf?
Did you know that in 1884 Frederick Stanley Arnot determined that the Zambezi, the largest river flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa, rose near Kalene Hill?
Did you know that sand reedgrass is a food source for pocket gophers and California quail?
Did you know that some 3000 to 5000 people were killed in Haiti in 1804 in an ethnic cleansing that targeted white people?
Did you know that the 2007 Morocco–Spain diplomatic conflict arose after the announcement of the impending visit of the King of Spain to the Spanish autonomous cities Ceuta and Melilla?
Did you know that the British destroyer HMS Highlander escorted Convoy SC 122 through the largest convoy battle of World War II in March 1943 and was unsuccessfully attacked by U-441 and U-608?
Did you know that the songs of the Pied Butcherbird have inspired and been incorporated into musical compositions of Henry Tate, Olivier Messiaen, Elaine Barkin, John Rodgers, and John Williamson?
Did you know that the version of Rossetti's Lady Lilith in The Met was said to be mostly painted by Henry Treffry Dunn?
Did you know that what Matthew Morrison calls "the most spectacular [marriage] proposal I've ever seen" is scheduled to occur on Glee in January 2012?
Did you know that Compugen's first computer system, the "Bioccelerator," could analyze DNA sequences at speeds up to 1,000 times faster than other computers of its time?
Did you know that Helmut Damerius spent 18 years of his life in a gulag and banishment to Kazakhstan, and was finally released on condition that he never talk or write about it?
Did you know that Polish actor and singer-songwriter Andrzej Bogucki and his wife were awarded the title Righteous among the Nations for helping Polish Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman escape the Warsaw Ghetto?
Did you know that over 110 species of vascular plants have been discovered on the small Eastern Isles, of the Isles of Scilly, UK?
Did you know that over a 26-year span the Illinois Central Railroad's Land O'Corn used self-propelled cars, steam and finally diesel locomotives?
Did you know that the Mountaineer was the first passenger train Amtrak operated over the Norfolk and Western Railway?
Did you know that the Silverdale Hoard, discovered in Lancashire in September 2011, contains over 200 items of Viking treasure and has revealed the existence of a previously unknown Viking king?
Did you know that the banded wedge shell (shell pictured) is consumed by gulls that later regurgitate the shell fragments in "gobbets" on the beach?
Did you know that the extinct Miocene age maple Acer smileyi has been classified as closely related to the living Acer nipponicum?
Did you know that the only death in the Action of 5 November 1813 was accidental?
Did you know that "hardly a single aspect of life" lacks deep consideration in Bandura's 1997 book Self-Efficacy, "one of the most significant books of the last 50 years," according to reviewers?
Did you know that Egor the Animator, an early computer animation program released on February 6, 1996, by Sausage Software, was the first commercial software Java applet?
Did you know that Emmaus United Methodist Church has helped survivors of the 2004 Gatumba massacre in Burundi resettle in Albany, New York?
Did you know that Jan Sandström composed the Motorbike Concerto, and a setting of Es ist ein Ros entsprungen for two choirs a cappella: one in four parts, singing Praetorius, and the other in eight parts?
Did you know that Kyra Markham, whose images were used as propaganda against the Nazis, briefly had Frank Lloyd Wright as a father-in-law?
Did you know that Nemo Gaines is the only graduate of the United States Naval Academy to play in Major League Baseball?
Did you know that according to New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, the killing of Gadzhimurat Kamalov, founder of the newspaper Chernovik in Dagestan, Russia, is "a lethal blow to press freedom"?
Did you know that according to Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, Karol Hubert Rostworowski is most remembered for his tragedy about the killing of an unrecognised son?
Did you know that baseball pitcher Brad Boxberger was named to the Arizona Fall League's 2011 Top Prospects Team?