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Did you know that "Pretty Baby...." is the first soap opera episode to feature just a single character?
Did you know that Araneagryllus is named from a combination of the Latin aranea meaning "spider" and gryllus meaning "cricket"?
Did you know that Colleen LaRose, also known as "JihadJane", was living in suburban Pennsylvania when she was arrested for recruiting Islamic terrorists and plotting the murder of Swedish artist Lars Vilks?
Did you know that Gustav Storm's translation of Snorre Sturlason's Heimskringla into Norwegian in the late 1890s was the basis for a popular edition of this work?
Did you know that Israeli naval forces deployed explosive Italian motorboats to sink the Egyptian Navy flagship Emir Farouk in the naval campaign of Operation Yoav?
Did you know that Knut Kleve, known for his restoration of papyrus fragments, learned Latin while incarcerated in a Nazi concentration camp?
Did you know that Michigan's 1901 "Point-a-Minute" team, rated one of the greatest college football teams of all time, outscored its opponents 550–0 and beat Stanford 49–0 in the first Rose Bowl game?
Did you know that New Fairy Tales (illustration pictured) of 1844 is the most autobiographical of Hans Christian Andersen's several fairy tale collections?
Did you know that Stalin was first introduced to the ideas of Karl Marx when he joined the Mesame Dasi?
Did you know that Yanko Sakazov was one of the two first socialist parliamentarians in Bulgaria, elected to the National Assembly in 1894?
Did you know that at 100 years old, Sir Nicholas Winton was named a British Hero of the Holocaust?
Did you know that both Symmachus and Laurentius turned to Theodoric the Great to resolve their disputed succession as pope, the first recorded example of papal simony?
Did you know that conductor Helmuth Rilling, Gächinger Kantorei and Bach-Collegium Stuttgart finished the first complete recording of Bach's cantatas and oratorios on the composer's 300th birthday, 21 March 1985?
Did you know that fossil specimens of the extinct scorpionfly family Dinopanorpidae, which includes Dinopanorpa and Dinokanaga, sometimes have preserved dark with light to clear color patterning?
Did you know that in ca. 1304, the Byzantine emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos introduced a new silver coin, the basilikon, modeled after the Venetian grosso, to pay the Catalan Company?
Did you know that renowned magazine illustrator David Hunter Strother recounted a treacherous journey on the Moorefield and North Branch Turnpike in his recollections of the American Civil War in Harper's Magazine?
Did you know that the Art Pavilion gallery was originally built for an exhibition in Budapest and then transported to Zagreb, where it was re-built in 1898?
Did you know that the British battlecruiser HMS Lion fired seven torpedoes during the Battle of Jutland without success?
Did you know that the German submarine U-78 was the only U-boat to be sunk by land-based artillery fire in World War II?
Did you know that the canoe route through Oskélanéo, Quebec, was once so popular that it prompted the construction of locks on the Oskelaneo River?
Did you know that the current Mayor of Manukau is also its last one, as the Manukau City Council area is going to be incorporated into the Auckland super city?
Did you know that the largest known colony of mammals in the world is found in Bracken Cave near the small town of Bracken, Texas?
Did you know that the number-one single "A Puro Dolor", performed by Son By Four, was written by Omar Alfanno in ten minutes?
Did you know that this year's best in show at Crufts, Hungargunn Bear It'n Mind, was the first time a Hungarian Vizsla has won the competition?
Did you know that two plaster maquettes made by sculptor John Evan Thomas for House of Lords bronzes have just been found in Westgate, Canterbury, after being hidden in a tower for 100 years?
Did you know that wheelchair marathon athlete Lango Sinkamba was Zambia's first Paralympian?
Did you know that when Scottish soprano Muriel Dickson toured with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company to New York City in 1934–1935, she was invited to join the Metropolitan Opera?
Did you know that Adolf Claus suggested a structure for benzene in 1867, still known as Claus' benzene?
Did you know that Carey McWilliams described Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart as a social classic that reflected the experiences of Filipino immigrants in America?
Did you know that Governor Bobby Jindal named former State Representative Sean Reilly as board chairman of Blueprint Louisiana, a group promoting technology and economic development statewide?
Did you know that Lars Oftedal founded several social institutions in Stavanger, Norway, including an orphanage for boys and a home for women?
Did you know that Lionello Cecil sang the lead tenor part in the first complete microphone recording of Verdi's La traviata in 1928?
Did you know that Nick Joaquin's play, A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino, was described in The New York Times as an "engaging, well plotted metaphor for the passing of Old Manila"?
Did you know that Oregon House Representative Nancy Nathanson taught tap dancing for several years?
Did you know that Pope Stephen II in 752 became the first pope to cross the Alps?
Did you know that Princess Bamba, the last of the family who ruled the Sikh Empire, was said to have "lived like an alien in her father's kingdom"?
Did you know that Sky News described the free legal video sharing website MUZU TV as a likely rival for YouTube?
Did you know that Thistle, Utah, was destroyed in 1983 by the most costly landslide in United States history and was the first federal disaster area declared by the U.S. President in the state of Utah?
Did you know that actor Richard Stapley, who was sometimes known by the stage name Richard Wyler, published his first novel at age 17?
Did you know that acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis occur on average two to three times per year in a person suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
Did you know that after concluding his participation in the Second Schleswig War, priest and educator Christopher Bruun walked from Denmark to Rome?
Did you know that clients of wandering frontier lawyer John Ricord included Sam Houston and Hawaiian King Kamehameha III?
Did you know that during the annual Dutch book week, a book was occasionally published anonymously to let readers guess who the author was?
Did you know that former Scottish doctor Robert Crichton Wyllie proposed a plan for British colonization of California in the 1840s?
Did you know that indie rock band Fang Island took its name from a fictional location described in an Onion article as a secret hideaway of then U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld?
Did you know that soprano Annette Dasch appeared as Elettra in Mozart's Idomeneo at the reopening of the Cuvilliés Theatre, where that opera had been premiered in 1781?
Did you know that the Alkali Lake Chemical Waste Dump in Oregon contains 25,000 drums of chemical waste, dumped in 1969 by a predecessor of Bayer CropScience?
Did you know that the August 8–9, 1993, tornado outbreak in the American Midwest spawned the most recent single tornado to cause multiple deaths in Minnesota?
Did you know that the distribution of the Brazilian rice rat Euryoryzomys emmonsae may be unique among muroid rodents?
Did you know that the erotic Indian classical dance Mohiniattam is named after the "seductress supreme" of Hindu mythology – Mohini, the female avatar of the male god Vishnu?
Did you know that the nickname of Paro Taktsang in Bhutan, "The Tiger's Nest", derives from the legend which tells that Padmasambhava founded a meditation cave there after travelling on a tigress?
Did you know that the papal court resided in Viterbo, Italy, for twenty years in the 13th century?
Did you know that the village of Ulnaby was abandoned in the 16th century when labour-intensive arable farming gave way to pasture?
Did you know that when the Coucoucache Indian reserve was inundated by a new reservoir, the Canadian Government was compensated only $380 for the loss of land?
Did you know that "Grace, Replaced", the Will & Grace episode, attracted the series' highest ratings of the first season?
Did you know that American soprano Anna Fitziu was the singing instructor for Shirley Verrett?
Did you know that Carlbury hill was the site of an English Civil War battery emplacement for a Royalist contingent at the Battle of Piercebridge?
Did you know that Jack Donaghy calls the state of Florida "America's Australia" in the 30 Rock episode "The Natural Order"?
Did you know that Pina Bausch and conductor Thomas Hengelbrock staged Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice in Paris and the ancient theater in Epidaurus?
Did you know that RAAF pilot Allan Walters made use of his aerobatic skills while courting his wife-to-be in 1930, performing stunts above the church where her father was rector?
Did you know that actor Tom Cruise does not endorse a potent strain of cannabis called Tom Cruise Purple?
Did you know that because it could neither be repaired nor removed, a trolley bridge in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, was turned into a garden called the Bridge of Flowers?
Did you know that both Taklung Monastery and Riwoche Monastery belong to the Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism?
Did you know that despite being dismissed from the navy for disobeying orders, James Walker returned to fight at Camperdown and Copenhagen, and died a rear-admiral?
Did you know that during the Battles of Wenden (1577–1578), 300 people blew themselves up in Wenden Castle to escape capture?
Did you know that former State Rep. Kevin P. Reilly, Sr., once told People magazine that all Louisiana residents needed to be contented was "a pickup and a shotgun"?
Did you know that in 1560, the English helped the Scots lay siege to the French encampment at Leith?
Did you know that in 1656, Thomas Wiswall signed a petition that ultimately led to the founding of the city of Newton, Massachusetts?
Did you know that the Cape Sparrow successfully competes with its introduced relative, the House Sparrow?
Did you know that the New Zealand space scientist Ian Axford was a director of the German Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy?
Did you know that the Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto, by Pablo Picasso, is the most highly estimated work of art to be offered at an auction in Europe?
Did you know that the actor Sir Ian McKellen was the final guest to appear on Parkinson's Sunday Supplement and one of the first on Weekend Wogan, both Sunday morning programmes on BBC Radio 2?
Did you know that the color of barro negro or black clay pottery comes from the properties of the clay and not from painting?
Did you know that the discovery of a population of smaller, less spiny palms in Dominica has led to speculation that Aiphanes minima may not be the only species of Aiphanes on that island nation in the Caribbean?
Did you know that the falkuša sailboat raced in one of the oldest fishermen's regattas in Europe, held from 1593 to 1936 on the island of Vis, Croatia?
Did you know that the first Filipino full-length animated film, Adarna, was created by Gerry Garcia in the late 1990s?
Did you know that the magnitude-8.5 1922 Vallenar earthquake in Chile caused a series of tsunamis that reached as far away as Japan and Australia?
Did you know that the pygmy hardwood forest on the summit of New York's Graham Mountain is unique in the Catskills?
Did you know that today's Solar Turbines got its start in the gas turbine industry due to its expertise in high-temperature metallurgy learned by building 300,000 exhaust manifolds in World War II?
Did you know that when West Bromwich Albion won a Birmingham Senior Cup match 26–0 in the 1882–83 season, every player except the goalkeeper scored at least once?
Did you know that Adenanthos cuneatus has been called Sweat Bush, from the alleged propensity of horses to break out in a sweat after eating it?
Did you know that Argentine portrait painter Antonio Alice, who was expelled from school for drawing in books, was later awarded the Prix de Rome scholarship?
Did you know that Bamba Müller was the "Cinderella" who married Dalip Singh Sukerchakia, the Black Prince of Perthshire?
Did you know that Bienvenido Santos’s novel, The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor, narrates the experiences of Filipino migrants in the United States?
Did you know that Christopher O. Ward, Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, worked on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico before attending Harvard Divinity School?
Did you know that Francisco Ada, the first Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands, spearheaded the construction of the modern Saipan International Airport?
Did you know that James Cumming was known for his entertaining chemistry lectures in Cambridge University, during which he would literally shock the audience with a galvanic apparatus?
Did you know that Neville McNamara was only the second RAAF officer to be promoted Air Chief Marshal, and the last Chief of the Air Staff to be knighted before Australia abandoned imperial honours?
Did you know that Point Lonsdale Lighthouse's foghorn shed is the only one known from a lighthouse in Victoria, Australia?
Did you know that Siobhan Magnus, a current contestant on the ninth season of American Idol, started singing in public during an elementary school concert when she sang "Tomorrow" from the musical Annie?
Did you know that The Go-Betweens' "Cattle and Cane", although selected by Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) as one of the Top 30 Australian songs of all time, never charted in Australia?
Did you know that What A Guy!, a gag cartoon created in 1987, continued for eight years after writer Bill Hoest's death using a mix of his jokes and new gags written by his widow, Bunny Hoest?
Did you know that approximately 1 in every 10,000 to 20,000 babies are born with a laryngeal cleft, a gap between the oesophagus and trachea which allows food or fluid to pass into the airway?
Did you know that in only their third year of involvement in the series, Hexis Racing won the FIA GT3 European Teams Championship in 2009?
Did you know that more than twenty attendants of the Cécile DeWitt-Morette's summer school in the Alps were later awarded the Nobel Prize?
Did you know that near the exit from the Chee Kung Tong Society Building, a lintel once proclaimed, in Chinese, Everyone is Equal?
Did you know that pyridoxamine, a vitamer of vitamin B6, is being tested in clinical trials for the treatment of diabetic nephropathy?
Did you know that the 2010 World Junior Squash Championships will be held from July 27 until August 1, in Quito, Ecuador?
Did you know that the Fifth Dalai Lama established the Gandan Sumtseling Monastery in Zhongdian, Yunnan, in China in 1679?
Did you know that the Flader J55 jet engine used a supersonic compressor in order to achieve small size, which ultimately proved to be beyond the state of the art?
Did you know that the Palace of Omurtag, an archaeological site in northeastern Bulgaria, includes the episcopal see of an Arian Gothic bishop besides a medieval Bulgarian fort?
Did you know that the boreal felt lichen, one of the most endangered lichens in the world, begins its life by growing inside of the liverwort Frullania asagrayana (also pictured)?
Did you know that the phrase "peace on earth, good will to men" derives from the Annunciation to the shepherds, but reflects a dispute over a single letter in the Greek text of the New Testament?
Did you know that there is no evidence that Julius II or Leo X, two Renaissance popes, ever celebrated mass?
Did you know that when officials cracked down on vice in Texas during the 1940s and 1950s, some of Texas' most notorious crime figures helped establish major casinos in Las Vegas, including the Sands Hotel?
Did you know that British child actor Noah Marullo plays a character with Asperger syndrome on Tracy Beaker Returns, which he feels "helps children understand that everyone is different"?
Did you know that Canadian landscape ecologist André Bouchard used notarized acts to determine the composition of Quebec's forests at the time of colonization?
Did you know that Chenowth Advanced Light Strike Vehicles were used by United States Navy SEALs in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as during the Gulf War?
Did you know that Czech politician Petr Zenkl, who survived two Nazi concentration camps, was forced to escape to the West after communists took power in Czechoslovakia by coup d'état in 1948?
Did you know that Edward Richardson was the first person to build a rail tunnel through the side of an extinct volcano?
Did you know that Herb Graver scored five touchdowns in the 1903 Michigan–Ohio State game, a record that has not since been matched by a player for either team?
Did you know that Pope Clement VII built the Pozzo di S. Patrizio while taking refuge in Orvieto after the Sack of Rome (1527)?
Did you know that Sayuri Kokushō's 1986 debut single, Valentine Kiss, is the most popular Valentine's Day song in Japan, despite selling only 317,000 copies?
Did you know that The Master of Game is considered to be the first English language book on hunting?
Did you know that UdiWWW was among the first web browsers to support the HTML 3 specification?
Did you know that WuLi Records, owned by the Ministry's Louis Svitek, released an album by Lee DeWyze, a ninth season finalist of American Idol?
Did you know that a Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone is a political subdivision of a municipality or county in the state of Texas created to implement tax increment financing?
Did you know that before entering politics, two-time prime minister Said al-Ghazzi was one of the leading lawyers in Syria?
Did you know that citizen volunteers at The Jawa Report notified the FBI about the threat posed by Jihad Jane?
Did you know that college basketball guard A.J. Slaughter received scholarship offers from major conference schools Vanderbilt and West Virginia, but ultimately decided to play for Western Kentucky?
Did you know that in Villa de Zaachila, Mexico, the weekly tianguis or open air market has changed little over the centuries and the Zapotec language can still be heard?
Did you know that in the Sera Chöding Hermitage in Lhasa, Tibet, according to a local legend, the ‘local site-spirit’ used to enter through a small window to meet Tsongkhapa?
Did you know that more than 60% of the Confederacy's war finance came from printing money, which, along with bad military news, caused prices to increase 92 times over in the South during the American Civil War?
Did you know that the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner described All Saints Church, Boltongate as "one of the architectural sensations of Cumberland"?
Did you know that the aureole effect is an optical phenomenon seen in rippling water that creates sparkling light and dark rays radiating from the shadow of the viewer's head?
Did you know that the dum dum bullet invented by Neville Bertie-Clay was used by the British Army against African and Asian opponents but was considered "too cruel" for use against Europeans?
Did you know that the town of Otumba, Mexico, has an annual Donkey Fair where the animals feature in fashion shows and costume contests?
Did you know that 1968 was the deadliest year in the Vietnam war for the United States and its Vietnamese allies?
Did you know that Blazed Alder Creek, which supplies part of the drinking water for Portland, Oregon, was named for a 24-inch (61 cm) blazed (marked) alder tree used as a benchmark for early watershed surveys?
Did you know that Code of Vengeance starred Charles Taylor as David Dalton, a character created for a planned spin-off series from Knight Rider?
Did you know that Ernest Hemingway's 1950 novel Across the River and into the Trees was serialized in Cosmopolitan Magazine from February to May of that year?
Did you know that Marcus Larson, a prominent 19th-century painter from Sweden, worked for a saddle maker before becoming an artist?
Did you know that Martyrs' Lane in Baku, Azerbaijan, is dedicated to those killed by the Red Army during Black January and later to those killed in Nagorno-Karabakh War?
Did you know that U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's parents are buried in the cemetery of the First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, South Carolina?
Did you know that a 1996 National Geographic magazine map of the United States labeled the High Desert region of southeast Oregon as the Great Sandy Desert?
Did you know that a silent speech interface enables people to talk without making speech sounds, or those with laryngectomies to speak after losing their voice?
Did you know that campaigners against proposed urban expansion in Worthing, West Sussex, have been tree sitting in Titnore Wood since 2006?
Did you know that despite Dolores Porras’ innovations with the green glazed pottery tradition of Santa María Atzompa, she is poor and depends on her family economically?
Did you know that during the American Civil War, both the Union and the Confederacy developed new medical programs to treat sick and injured soldiers?
Did you know that in Albanian mythology, the drangue is a semi-human winged warrior who is born wearing a shirt and qeleshe?
Did you know that in the 2009–10 Rugby-Bundesliga season, with the Rugby Club Luxembourg, a team from Luxembourg competes in the German 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga?
Did you know that the Ananda Temple in Bagan, Myanmar, with four standing Buddhas facing the cardinal directions, is said to be an architectural wonder titled the "Westminster Abbey of Burma"?
Did you know that the Bolinas, California-based unconventional winemaker Sean Thackrey was previously an art dealer?
Did you know that the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros II allegedly insisted for taxes to be paid in the full-weight histamenon gold coin, but only paid back in the lighter tetarteron?
Did you know that the Christie’s auction house gave Juan Luna’s painting Las Damas Romanas (The Roman Maidens) a price tag of $1 million to $1.2 million?
Did you know that the South Park episode "Sexual Healing" parodied the recent sex scandal surrounding golf pro Tiger Woods, and satirized the media attention it generated?
Did you know that the association l'Affranchissement, founded in 1854, was the first rationalist organization in Belgium?
Did you know that the idea for MyTwoCensus, a political watchdog of the 2010 U.S. Census, was first conceived by journalist Stephen Robert Morse as he was looking for a job on Craigslist?
Did you know that the music website SongMeanings was created after its founder was inspired by a debate surrounding the meaning behind music group Ben Folds Five's song "Brick"?
Did you know that the specific name of Adenanthos macropodianus refers to it only being found on Kangaroo Island?
Did you know that the tree Erythrina velutina (inflorescence pictured) can make mice and rats sleepy and is the only Erythrina species pollinated by a lizard, the Noronha skink?
Did you know that with around 250 killed the UNITA 2001 Angola train attack was one of the deadliest terrorist attacks involving railways?
Did you know that Agrimonia gryposepala, a plant of the rose family (Rosaceae), was used by the Meskwaki and Prairie Potawatomi to cure nosebleeds?
Did you know that Barry Bowen owned Belikin, Belize's only domestically brewed beer brand, as well as the country's only commercial coffee farm?
Did you know that Baseball Hall of Fame member Mel Ott was struck out in his first at-bat of his Major League Baseball career by pitcher Wayland Dean?
Did you know that Doña Rosa Real discovered how to make Barro negro pottery in San Bartolo Coyotepec, a small town in southern Mexico?
Did you know that Fr. Martin Hehir, the fourth president of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, was affectionately known to students as "Daddy Hehir"?
Did you know that Gérard du Puy is said to have destroyed three papal tombs in Perugia (surviving tomb of Benedict XI pictured)?
Did you know that Joseph H. Allen, a volunteer infantryman and the 21st supervisor of the Town of Brunswick in New York, was brevetted lieutenant colonel by Abraham Lincoln in 1865?
Did you know that New York-based mix engineer Michael Brauer uses five compressors in his parallel compression method, to achieve the desired vocal sound for The Rolling Stones, KT Tunstall and Coldplay?