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Did you know that molecular evolutionist Morris Goodman used protein sequence data to reconstruct the evolutionary history of hemoglobin and called this the first "hard evidence of Darwinian evolution"?
Did you know that public support for the revitalization of Esther Short Park, located in Vancouver, Washington, increased in 1997 after the mayor was attacked by a transient in the park?
Did you know that the Cisternoni of Livorno (example pictured) are early examples of buildings with a utilitarian purpose concealed behind a Neoclassical façade?
Did you know that the Kościuszko Mound in Kraków, Poland, erected by Cracovians in 1823 and modeled after prehistoric mounds, became a strategic lookout for the occupying Austrian army?
Did you know that the Major League Baseball pitcher Carl Zamloch was also a professional magician?
Did you know that the Young Christian Workers movement, founded by Joseph Cardijn, had 2 million members in 69 countries at the time of his death?
Did you know that the book Historia naturalis palmarum, by German botanist Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, was described by E. J. H. Corner as "the most magnificent treatment of palms that has been produced"?
Did you know that the crown prince and princess of Denmark and Iceland helped lay the cornerstone for the post office in Rhinebeck, New York?
Did you know that the open habitat of grassy balds in the forested Appalachian Mountains may be relicts of grazing pressure from Pleistocene megaherbivores?
Did you know that the song "I Am a Child of God" is related to a phrase used in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a declaration of a basic belief of Mormonism?
Did you know that Downtown Omaha is home to 31 historic buildings, two historic districts, and the site of the largest loss of historic buildings ever from the National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that Franklin D. Roosevelt threatened Postmaster General James Farley and Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s jobs if they did not make sure a new post office was built in his hometown of Hyde Park?
Did you know that German leaders of the World Confederation of Labour were sentenced to Nazi concentration camps in the 1930s for their political opposition to the growth of authoritarian governments in Europe?
Did you know that Shushanik Kurghinian was the first revolutionary female poet in Armenian literature?
Did you know that Yingzao Fashi is a Chinese technical treatise on architecture and craftsmanship written during the mid-Song Dynasty?
Did you know that despite being portrait painter to Queen Victoria, John Partridge's career plummeted after a dispute with Ramsay Richard Reinagle over altering one of his paintings?
Did you know that rainbow sharks are Cyprinids, making them relatives of goldfish, carp and minnows?
Did you know that the Romanian politician and socialite Pantazi Ghica was identified as the "black-faced, hunchbacked and greedy" person depicted, alongside other liberals, in one of Mihai Eminescu's most famous poems?
Did you know that the S.S. Christopher Columbus, the only whaleback passenger liner ever built, carried 1.8 million passengers to and from the World's Columbian Exposition in a single season?
Did you know that the Vladimirka, a road by which convicts marched to the Siberian katorga, is mentioned in the works of Herzen, Nekrasov and Dostoevsky?
Did you know that the Weinhard Brewery managed to survive prohibition by producing near-beer, root beer and syrup, which were marketed as "Gourmet Elixirs"?
Did you know that when Democratic congressman A. Jeff McLemore opposed President Woodrow Wilson over the United States' entry into World War I, the Texas legislature redrew the state's congressional districts in 1917 to force him to run against another incumbent?
Did you know that British surgeon Richard Partridge apprehended the London Burkers gang of body snatchers, alerting the authorities while claiming to be getting change for a £50 note?
Did you know that Fr. Thiruchelvam Nihal Jim Brown barely escaped the April 2006 St. Phillip Neri church bombing only to disappear a week later?
Did you know that Illinois State Senator John H. Addams was the primary influence on his daughter Jane Addams' social activism?
Did you know that Jakub Karol Parnas, a prominent Polish–Soviet biochemist, despite having collaborated with the Soviet regime since its invasion of Poland, fell victim to a Stalinist purge in 1949?
Did you know that Malcolm X, James Brown, and the current President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva all worked as shoeshiners when they were young?
Did you know that Nobel Peace Prize recipient Jane Addams was born in the house at the John H. Addams Homestead?
Did you know that Oswald Tesimond, involved in the Gunpowder Plot, escaped severe punishment by stowing away on a cargo ship ferrying dead pigs to Calais?
Did you know that Vice-Admiral Sir Ian McGeoch lost the sight in one eye when his submarine, HMS Splendid, was sunk in 1943?
Did you know that Waddams Grove was the first settlement in Stephenson County, Illinois?
Did you know that a 300-page iPhone bill became the subject of a viral video by blogger Justine Ezarik viewed more than 3 million times?
Did you know that during the First Battle of Ypres, Edward Bulfin organized an impromptu formation of six battalions, later known as "Bulfin's force," that was instrumental in stopping the German advance?
Did you know that in 1989, some 300,000 people created a 300 mile human chain stretching from Lviv to Kiev on the 71st anniversary of the Act Zluky?
Did you know that in the folklore of the Celts, a fairy path is a route taken by these supernatural beings, usually in a straight line and between sites of traditional significance, such as Stone Age monuments?
Did you know that loose wheel nut indicators are fitted to vehicle lug nuts to allow mechanics to identify loose nuts before the wheel falls off?
Did you know that the German neo-Nazi German Alternative party was banned in 1992 after the group was associated with an arson attack on an asylum seeker refuge?
Did you know that the Indian Congress of 1893 drew more than 500 Native Americans representing 35 tribes to Omaha, Nebraska?
Did you know that the South American rubber boom ceased in 1912 when plantations in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and tropical Africa grown from seed smuggled out of Brazil 36 years earlier began producing rubber?
Did you know that the São Francisco Church in Salvador is known as the "Golden Church", because its interior, from floor to ceiling, is covered with intricate gold-leaf carvings?
Did you know that the Treaty of Kyakhta between the Russian and Qing Empires was negotiated by a Bosnian Serb from Dubrovnik, Sava Vladislavich?
Did you know that the medieval kingdom of Alania controlled the most practicable route through the Greater Caucasus?
Did you know that the popular YouTube star Christine Gambito attributes her nickname Happyslip to her Filipino mother's mispronunciation of half slip?
Did you know that the site of the hermitage of Ginés de la Jara retained its reputation for holiness even during Spain's Moorish occupation?
Did you know that the uniformly fine quality of surviving Roman copies of Lysippean bronze Hermes Fastening his Sandal indicates that it stood high in Roman esteem?
Did you know that Charles Chilton was the first person to be awarded a D.Sc. degree in New Zealand?
Did you know that Den, a fictional character in the Battle Angel Alita, is actually a giant remote-controlled slave unit run from a transmitter embedded in the chest of one of the story's main characters?
Did you know that Father Boleslaus Goral was one of the key persons in the "news war" between the Milwaukee Archdiocese and Michał Kruszka?
Did you know that Flight Lieutenant Wallace McIntosh was recognised as the most successful air gunner in RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War, having shot down eight German aircraft, including three during one mission?
Did you know that Frank Rosenfelt, CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1972 until 1982, was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge and received a Purple Heart for his injuries?
Did you know that Howe Yoon Chong played a key role in establishing Singapore's  Mass Rapid Transit system, Changi Airport and public housing?
Did you know that Hurricane Georges had the strongest effects on the Dominican Republic of any hurricane since Hurricane David in 1979?
Did you know that Kuryer Polski was the first daily Polish language newspaper in the USA?
Did you know that North Dakota's location in the Upper Midwest allows it to experience some of the most extreme weather in the United States?
Did you know that a camel is led through the streets of Béziers, France on the feast day of Saint Aphrodisius, a semi-legendary saint said to have come from Egypt?
Did you know that after publishing his National Book Award-winning Invisible Man in 1952, Ralph Ellison continued writing for a further 42 years without ever finishing his second novel, Three Days Before the Shooting?
Did you know that after spending seven years traveling across the Saskatchewan District, Rev. Robert Rundle was allowed to establish a mission in 1847, only to be forced to leave a year later due to health issues?
Did you know that during World War II, United States Army officer Colonel Louis Gonzaga Mendez, Jr. parachuted behind enemy lines to lead an attack that captured the town of Prétot, France leading the main Plaza of the town to be named "La Place du Colonel Mendez"?
Did you know that in 1967, a group of Latin American writers including Mexican Carlos Fuentes started a series of biographies depicting caudillos, which became the basis of the Dictator Novel genre?
Did you know that in 1973, Margaret Thatcher temporarily saved the Strand Grammar School, famous for its contribution of young men to the British Civil Service, from closure?
Did you know that members of Sub-Carpathian Reformed Church were persecuted by communists in the Soviet Union and were sent to Gulag labour camps in Siberia?
Did you know that the 13th-century troubadour Guilhem Figueira was a strong critic of the contemporary Papacy, going so far in his sirventes contra Roma as to consign Rome to hell?
Did you know that the 14 remaining children of the Jewish Orphanage in Oslo, Norway were evacuated to Sweden by the Norwegian resistance movement in November of 1942?
Did you know that the Chinese high fin banded shark (Myxocyprinus asiaticus) has 20 other common names in the aquarium trade?
Did you know that the Minnesota Twins made Joe Nathan their closing pitcher for the 2004 Major League Baseball season, despite the fact that Nathan only had converted one save in five opportunities?
Did you know that the Rani people, a West Slavic tribe inhabiting the island of Rugia, maintained their native paganism, its ritual, temple, and priesthood, well into the twelfth century?
Did you know that the leader of the Dick Cheney protests at Brigham Young University refused an offer to appear on The Daily Show, out of a concern that the show would poke fun at the university?
Did you know that the name Flying fox refers to bats as well as a freshwater algae-eating aquarium fish?
Did you know that 1965 Records was founded by James Endeacott, who also originally discovered The Libertines and The Strokes?
Did you know that Catholic priest Cornelius Loos was forced to recant his view in 1593 that witch trials in early modern Europe were not required as witchcraft didn't exist?
Did you know that Edward A. Halbach was the first official president of the Astronomical League?
Did you know that Héctor López was the first Panamanian-born Major League Baseball player to play in the World Series with the New York Yankees?
Did you know that Italian fascist propaganda referred to the Mediterranean Sea as Italian Mare Nostrum, as by 1942 Italy controlled nearly two-thirds of the sea's area?
Did you know that Joseph "Blueskin" Blake, accomplice of notorious 18th century thief Jack Sheppard, grievously wounded the self-styled "Thief-Taker General" Jonathan Wild outside the courtroom where he was subsequently convicted of burglary and sentenced to death, hastening Wild's fall from power?
Did you know that Kazys Lozoraitis was independent Lithuania's first ambassador to the Holy See and to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta?
Did you know that Puerto Rican third baseman Félix Torres, who only played three Major League seasons, topped the home run charts in the 1960 Caribbean Series?
Did you know that Sholakia, a tiny town in Bangladesh, draws 300,000 Muslims for Eid prayers every year on Eid ul-Fitr?
Did you know that Singaporean dancer, choreographer and teacher Neila Sathyalingam, who dances in the classical Indian style (example pictured), decided to devote her life to dance after performing for Queen Elizabeth II?
Did you know that Sir Cecil Hunter Rodwell was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal for bravery in the Second Boer War and went on to serve as Governor of Southern Rhodesia?
Did you know that Sooriyakanda mass grave is alleged to contain 300 bodies of school children but only few were recovered?
Did you know that Tawfiq Canaan, a Palestinian physician and medical pioneer, was also known for his research on Palestinian popular heritage?
Did you know that Utkala Brahmins  are the historical caretakers of the Jagannath Temple in Puri?
Did you know that W. H. Auden's poem "In Praise of Limestone" has been called topographic, sui generis, and a "postmodern pastoral"?
Did you know that William E. McAnulty, Jr., the first African American to sit on the Kentucky Supreme Court, injured himself playing basketball on Election Day in 1983 with future NBA star Allan Houston?
Did you know that a picture of Mary Ann Bevan, "the ugliest woman in the world", featured on a birthday card until a complaint led to its withdrawal?
Did you know that a pub in Old Whittington was the shelter for three men in 1688 who were plotting the replacement of James II of England with a Protestant foreigner?
Did you know that after the British took control of the Mysore Kingdom in the 19th century, they had a strong influence on Kannada literature?
Did you know that before the 17th century, it was believed that all organisms grew from miniature versions of themselves that had existed since the beginning of creation?
Did you know that children up to the age of five can find it difficult to distinguish between television programmes and toy advertising campaigns?
Did you know that in his 1915 Kentucky gubernatorial campaign, Augustus O. Stanley advocated a one dollar tax for every dog a person owned?
Did you know that male Shortnose sturgeon breed annually and live to age 30, while females breed triennially and live to age 67?
Did you know that of the twenty signatories of the Act of Independence of Lithuania in 1918, six were sent to prison or executed, and six died in exile?
Did you know that prior to the development of binoculars, bird collections, collections consisting of birds and parts of their anatomy, were the dominant method of bird observation and study among ornithologists?
Did you know that the 2006 Japanese film Hula Girls is set in the coal mining town of Iwaki in the 1960s when a Hawaiian spa resort was built to resolve the community's faltering fortunes?
Did you know that the Brazil's 1838 Balaiada uprising was named after the job of one of its leaders, a basketmaker?
Did you know that the Falklands Crisis of 1770 nearly caused a war between Great Britain and Spain?
Did you know that the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the Northwest, a precursor to the modern day Big Ten Conference, survived for only two seasons of college football competition before disbanding?
Did you know that the Polish Resettlement Corps was tasked with organizing the 250,000 members of the Polish Armed Forces in the West, over half of whom eventually chose to settle in the UK instead of returning to communist Poland?
Did you know that the Second Manifesto, a 1904 declaration made by Joseph F. Smith, the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, confirmed that the church was opposed to plural marriage?
Did you know that the Silpathorn Award is given to significant living Thai contemporary artists and that the name of the award means "upholder of art"?
Did you know that the automatic tide signalling system at Irvine harbour, North Ayrshire, invented and patented by its harbourmaster Martin Boyd, is probably unique?
Did you know that the dialogue Julius Excluded from Heaven, credited to Desiderius Erasmus, involves Pope Julius II trying to convince Peter to allow him into heaven by threats of armed force and excommunication?
Did you know that the northernmost miles of pavement of the Kettle Moraine Scenic Drive in Wisconsin were part of the original track circuit for Road America?
Did you know that to make space for passenger seats in the racing cars used in the TVR Tuscan Challenge, the fuel tank has to be moved from the driver's side to the rear of the car?
Did you know that 20th century attorney Joseph Scott made so many contributions to civic life in Los Angeles that he earned the nickname "Mr. Los Angeles"?
Did you know that Johnson's Seagrass was the first marine plant listed under the United States Endangered Species Act?
Did you know that Kentucky governor Christopher Greenup was one of Kentucky's first two Congressmen and was an original trustee of Transylvania University?
Did you know that Khotyn Fortress and Kiev Pechersk Lavra are among the Seven Wonders of Ukraine?
Did you know that Miran, an ancient oasis town in the Taklamakan Desert in present day Xinjiang, was also a thriving centre of Buddhism on the Silk Road, with many monasteries and stupas?
Did you know that University of Oregon athletic director Leo Harris gained the right to use Donald Duck as the school's mascot through an informal handshake deal he made with Walt Disney in 1947?
Did you know that a controversy about whether the real name of the first President of the Nigerian Senate in the Fourth Republic was Evan or Evans Enwerem led to his removal from office?
Did you know that a survey in 2001 of the New South Wales- Queensland border in Australia found an error of 200 metres (656 ft) in the original survey, indicating that the town of Jennings, New South Wales should actually be in Queensland?
Did you know that a zibellino, the jewelled pelt of a marten or sable, is a women's fashion accessory popular in the later 15th and 16th centuries?
Did you know that during his administration, Kentucky governor William J. Fields forbade drinking alcohol and dancing in the Governor's Mansion?
Did you know that during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore the Kempeitai East District Branch was the site of interrogation and torture of many civilians and that later the building housed the YMCA?
Did you know that in 1835, Warren A. Cowdery, an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement, accused a local Quorum of the Twelve of neglecting their fund-raising activities while serving as Mormon missionaries?
Did you know that influential makeup artist Pat McGrath takes between 30 and 50 bags of tools, materials, and reference books whenever she travels to fashion shows?
Did you know that one of the oldest captive alligators in Europe was named Čabulītis, which means sweet and tender creature in Latvian?
Did you know that soon after German reunification, the Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant in the former East Germany was shut down due to conflicting technical requirements with the West?
Did you know that the 2003 French musical film Not on the Lips had a predominantly enthusiastic reception in France, but caused indignation and incomprehension in Britain?
Did you know that the Chicago Race Riot of 1919, which resulted in 38 deaths, 537 injuries and approximately 1,000 displaced, was the worst riot of the Red Summer of 1919?
Did you know that the Phoenix Hotel in Lexington, Kentucky was used as a headquarters by Generals William "Bull" Nelson, Braxton Bragg, and Kirby Smith during the American Civil War?
Did you know that the ship breaking industry in Sitakunda began when a 20,000-ton ship was accidentally beached by a tidal bore in 1965?
Did you know that 12th-century troubadour Raimon Vidal de Bezaudun wrote a grammatical manual for Occitan poetry that influenced Dante Alighieri's De Vulgari Eloquentia, justifying the use of Italian vernacular?
Did you know that Admiral Harry D. Felt, a fervent anti-communist who planned for the use of tactical nuclear weapons during the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis opposed American military intervention in  Vietnam?
Did you know that Alex Leake was offered a £10 bribe by Manchester City player Billy Meredith to throw the final match of the 1904–1905 season?
Did you know that Bargil Pixner's identification of the biblical location of Bethsaida was based on artifacts found in trenches used by Syria in the Six-Day War?
Did you know that Baron Ijuin Gorō became Fleet Admiral and Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff in the pre-war Imperial Japanese Navy without ever having actually commanded a ship?
Did you know that Carcross Desert, the "world's smallest desert", measuring just over one square mile, is in fact not a desert, but a large series of northern sand dunes?
Did you know that Holbeach House served as the theatre for the final battle of the conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot, in which the conspirators undid themselves after they accidentally detonated their gunpowder store?
Did you know that Jane Storms was the first female war correspondent in American history?
Did you know that Jiffs was a derogatory propaganda term employed by military intelligence of British India to denote soldiers of the Indian Army in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II?
Did you know that John Lamb was accused of diverting money from the New York impost to publish the Federal Farmer pamphlets?
Did you know that Kentucky governor Charles Scott served as chief of intelligence for George Washington during his later campaigns in the American Revolutionary War?
Did you know that Scott Milanovich was the first pick in the 2001 XFL Draft, the only draft the league ever held?
Did you know that Space Industries Incorporated was founded in the 1980s in Houston for the purpose of building the first private space station, to be called the Industrial Space Facility?
Did you know that Tsar Alexander II allowed the construction of the Grand Choral Synagogue in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1880, at a time when most Russian Jews were forced to live in the Pale of Settlement?
Did you know that a week before Charles Dickens died, he willed his literary journal All the Year Round to his son Charles Dickens, Jr?
Did you know that painter Thomas Luny (example of his work pictured) created over 2,000 artistic works during the last 30 years of his life despite suffering from arthritis in both hands?
Did you know that the Egyptian Pyramid of Sahure and surrounding complex contained an estimated 10,000 m2 of fine relief carving?
Did you know that the Franco-Mongol alliance in the 13th century involved multiple embassies and military collaborations against the common Muslim enemy in the Holy Land?
Did you know that the Habakkuk Commentary of the Dead Sea scrolls accused the "Wicked Priest" of neglecting to circumcise the "foreskin of his heart"?
Did you know that the Prussian Nicola Marschall was the designer of the Confederate States of America's first flag, the Stars & Bars?
Did you know that the museum of the long-demolished Memel Castle, Lithuania is located in an underground chamber?
Did you know that the piaohao and the qianzhuang were financial institutions in ancient China?
Did you know that Aretas III commissioned the minting of the first silver Nabataean coins?
Did you know that Dick Merrill piloted a transatlantic flight known as the "Ping Pong Flight" because his client, singer Harry Richman, insisted on carrying 41,000 ping pong balls in case of a crash at sea?
Did you know that Duncan Spears Casper, an early Mormon pioneer, was driven from his home twice due to anti Mormon sentiments?
Did you know that Edwin Sherbon Hills, a well-known Australian geologist, had at first chosen undergraduate courses with the idea of becoming a chemist and took geology as a suitable ancillary?