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Did you know that a first edition of Darwin's On the Origin of Species is in the collection of the University of California, Santa Barbara Library?
Did you know that because of the Great Depression, the members of the Anshei Minsk synagogue offered to pay the builder with a lifetime membership in lieu of full fees for his services?
Did you know that during a hurricane in November 1861, a man charged two cents per ride to transport passengers by boat to and from a popular New York City bar surrounded by floodwaters?
Did you know that in "Judy's Turn to Cry", singer Leslie Gore gloats about the return of the boy she cried over in her previous hit song "It's My Party"?
Did you know that on 26 April 1881 HMS Doterel exploded, killing 143 of the 155 crew members?
Did you know that science fiction and horror author Jane Rice had been a professional author for over fifty years before the publication of her first book, The Sixth Dog?
Did you know that some species of the stick insect genus Timema (example pictured) have not had sex for over a million years?
Did you know that the 103-year-old Oregon Slough Railroad Bridge is one of only two surviving swing-span bridges in the Portland metropolitan area?
Did you know that the Mapuche military leader Alejo gave up his attack on Concepción, Chile, after having a military parley with his mother?
Did you know that when the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, a "free-market think tank," criticized Al Gore's energy use, CNN mistakenly called the organization an environmental group?
Did you know that wildfires are beneficial to the herb Nelson's checkerbloom?
Did you know that Bryan Cranston was cast as Breaking Bad protagonist Walter White based on his performance in an episode of The X-Files?
Did you know that Death in the Afternoon, a cocktail containing absinthe and Champagne, was popularized by Ernest Hemingway in a 1935 recipe book?
Did you know that Eynesbury Rovers are the most westerly football club ever to play in the Eastern Counties League?
Did you know that Guo Jie is the last surviving member of China's delegation to the 1936 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Samuel Fisk Green was a pioneering American missionary who founded Sri Lanka's first medical teaching hospital?
Did you know that Thomas "Amarillo Slim" Preston, champion of the 1972 World Series of Poker, won his title in a fixed match after an under-the-table tournament deal?
Did you know that a field study in Brazil found the territories of the 11.5 cm long Black-cheeked Gnateaters (adult male pictured) to average 2.94 hectares (7.3 acres)?
Did you know that construction of the Fukuji Dam was begun by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, but the Japanese government was responsible for its completion?
Did you know that journalist Leon Daniel was one of the few reporters to remain in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon?
Did you know that the Mermaid Inn in England has a strong connection with the notorious Hawkhurst Gang which used the inn in the 1740s?
Did you know that the Pilbara Toadlet has recently been identified as a new species using DNA analysis?
Did you know that the Type 79 radar was the first radar system deployed by the Royal Navy and was developed before World War II?
Did you know that the inscriptions in St Martin's Church, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, include a prayer for deliverance following the Gunpowder Plot?
Did you know that the sea cucumber Synaptula lamperti feeds on detritus from the elephant ear sponge?
Did you know that Australasian Robins can be Pink, White-rumped, White-browed, White-winged, Grey-headed, Black-sided, Black-chinned, Black-throated, Yellow, Ashy or Slaty?
Did you know that Frank Darabont, developer of the television series The Walking Dead, said he went through "four years of frustration" trying to get a network to pick up the pilot episode, "Days Gone Bye"?
Did you know that Gisborough Priory (ruins pictured) was one of the last monastic houses in England to fall victim to the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1540?
Did you know that after returning from the Crimean War and the Siege of Sebastopol, Richard Taylor took command of Fort George in Scotland?
Did you know that fossils of extinct giant cicadas were once misidentified as the oldest known butterflies?
Did you know that in 1944, the baseball team at Beaumont High School in St. Louis, Missouri, included five future Major League Baseball players?
Did you know that the Icelandic Phallological Museum collection of penises includes 55 from whales but only one from Homo sapiens?
Did you know that the bracken club fungus feeds on dead bracken as a saprotroph?
Did you know that the habitat of the wishbone blue-eyed grass is being seized by "the vine that ate the South"?
Did you know that the scheme of stained glass by Shrigley and Hunt in Christ Church, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, has been described as "one of their best and most important ensembles"?
Did you know that "Donde Quiera Que Estés" was recorded by Selena and the Barrio Boyzz to boost each others' fan bases in different parts of America?
Did you know that Bitar Mansion is the most expensive home ever sold in Southeast Portland, Oregon?
Did you know that James E. Lawrence was once "considered the greatest place-kicker the University of Michigan ever had"?
Did you know that Jim Eastwood became known as "Jedi Jim" because of his powers of persuasion on The Apprentice?
Did you know that T-Mobile myTouch 4G spokesperson Carly Foulkes has been cast in the FX Network television series Powers?
Did you know that according to the Hindu epic Ramayana, Jaya gave birth to fifty magical divine weapons?
Did you know that after a boiler explosion aboard the sternwheeler Sarah Dixon, survivors rowed four miles (6 km) to find medical assistance?
Did you know that after five previous attempts to evangelise the Kavango people in German South-West Africa, Joseph Gotthardt's journeys eventually led to the establishment of a mission station in 1910?
Did you know that although the Pacific sand crab can only crawl and burrow backwards, it can also tread water?
Did you know that despite originally being compared to a Kuntilanak (a female vampire in Indonesian mythology), Berlian Hutauruk's vocals on "Badai Pasti Berlalu" were well received?
Did you know that in his Florentine Chronicle, Baldassarre Bonaiuti, tells how during the Black Death of 1348 sick people in Florence were abandoned by their families?
Did you know that in the road movie Children of the Stork, which highlights themes of social exclusion and illegal immigration, a stork must obtain a forged passport to cross the Franco-German border?
Did you know that simply knowing about and understanding the illusion of transparency might help reduce speech anxiety?
Did you know that the cough suppressant medication pentoxyverine is used in experimental pharmacology as a sigma-1 receptor agonist?
Did you know that the title of a 2008 article by German journalist Julia Voss translates as "Jim Button saves the theory of evolution"?
Did you know that Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed was the second person in two years to die while in the custody of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission?
Did you know that Highland Cottage, the first concrete house in Westchester County, New York, was nicknamed "Mud House" during its construction?
Did you know that Italian sailors in the Middle Ages used trigonometry and the rule of Marteloio to navigate at sea?
Did you know that Leal Garcia v. Texas, a 2011 U.S. Supreme Court case, dealt with the relationship between international law, U.S. state law, and acts of Congress?
Did you know that Piva Monastery contains a psalm from the Crnojevic printing press (1493–1496), which was the first printing press in the Balkans?
Did you know that as a member of the Desinfektionskommando, one of Adolf Theuer's responsibilities was to insert the Zyklon B into the gas chamber at Auschwitz concentration camp?
Did you know that in Australia, basket ferns often contain amethystine pythons?
Did you know that in some places in the video game Beep, players must stack dead enemies in order to advance?
Did you know that the current Scotland national under-16 football team squad features players from Real Madrid and Liverpool?
Did you know that the prototype of the British Type 281 early warning radar was mounted on the light cruiser HMS Dido in October 1940?
Did you know that the soundtrack of the 2000 film Me You Them is also Gilberto Gil's tribute to Luiz Gonzaga, "The King of Baião"?
Did you know that the writing of the English play, The First Domino, was inspired by its author's injury in a 1999 nail bomb attack in Soho?
Did you know that Guillaume Rondelet performed a public autopsy on his infant son?
Did you know that Morris Meyerfeld, Jr. was called "the Rockefeller of Vaudeville"?
Did you know that Patriarch Dionysius I of Constantinople showed his penis to a synod, so that everyone could see that he was not circumcised?
Did you know that TV presenter George McGavin cooks and eat insects?
Did you know that U.S. Congressman Thaddeus McCotter mounted a 2012 campaign for president after being asked to run by Red Eye satirist Greg Gutfeld?
Did you know that after his successful Siege of Jerusalem, Pompey the Great entered the Temple's Holy of Holies (15th-century painting by Jean Fouquet, pictured), where none but the High Priest were allowed?
Did you know that from her work for the South Africa Conciliation Committee, Emily Hobhouse went on to publicise the suffering of Boer women in British concentration camps during the Second Boer War?
Did you know that scientists first discovered the biological screw joint in the Papuan weevil Trigonopterus oblongus?
Did you know that several defunct Roman amphitheatres, including the Arles Amphitheatre, were converted into churches or fortifications?
Did you know that the Alabama variety of the purpleflower pinkroot is found exclusively in Bibb County?
Did you know that the Nepalese Chamber of Commerce, Lhasa, formed in 1943, was the first chamber of commerce established by Nepalese traders in Tibet?
Did you know that the director of Battlefield Heroes wanted the film to show how countries such as China, Japan and the United States have affected Korea?
Did you know that the eggs and larvae of fish (salmon larva pictured) can be sampled as an index of the relative abundance of spawning adult fish?
Did you know that the extinct prehistoric moth species Tortrix? destructus and Tortrix? florissantana are each known from just one fossil found at Florissant, Colorado?
Did you know that Albert Schweitzer likened the bass line of an aria mentioning Satan in Bach's cantata Was willst du dich betrüben, BWV 107, "to the contortions of a huge dragon"?
Did you know that Belle Mina, completed in 1826, is one of the earliest examples of a columned plantation house in Alabama?
Did you know that Indian-born British soldier Edward Hay Mackenzie Elliot played association football for Scotland against England and cricket for the MCC?
Did you know that Michel Demazure, a mathematician from the pseudonymous Nicolas Bourbaki group, led two French science museums, the Palais de la Découverte and the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie?
Did you know that Olson House, made famous by its depiction in Christina's World, was designated a National Historic Landmark in June 2011?
Did you know that both the Spitzer and the Hubble Space Telescopes have probed SN 1961V to check Fritz Zwicky's 1964 claim that it's a supernova impostor?
Did you know that despite New South Wales having no political party system at the time, the Third Parkes ministry was a coalition government from 1878 to 1883 between former Premiers Henry Parkes and John Robertson?
Did you know that the Cuno strikes on August 11, 1923, helped force the resignation of the German chancellor and his entire cabinet on August 12 and inspired the Communist Party to plan a coup?
Did you know that the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences operates JAGO, the only manned research submersible in Germany?
Did you know that the San Francisco Peaks ragwort is found only around the peaks in Coconino County, Arizona?
Did you know that the Virginia spiraea may have become extinct in Pennsylvania due to damming of the Yough?
Did you know that the post-hardcore album The Drug in Me Is You by Falling In Reverse contains a hip-hop beat sample created by Dr. Dre and Eminem?
Did you know that the town of Fakfak has both pro-Indonesian and pro-independent Papua factions?
Did you know that two mummified cats hang from the wall in the Stag Inn at Hastings, England?
Did you know that Amitabh Bachchan is the most frequent winner since 2000 at the National Film Award for Best Actor (India), winning two awards?
Did you know that French engineering firm Colas Group has its origins from patents filed by two British scientists and a Dutch oil company?
Did you know that Henry Godwin's capture of Rangoon in 1852 was completed by the storming of the Great Dagon Pagoda?
Did you know that Holy Trinity Church, Northwich, was the largest of the three churches designed by Edmund Sharpe for the Weaver Navigation Trustees?
Did you know that US Air Force Major General Nels Running, a recipient of seven Distinguished Flying Crosses, had never boarded an airplane until he left his home town to attend the Air Force Academy?
Did you know that a gecko from the British Virgin Islands called the Virgin Islands dwarf sphaero is nearly as small as a U.S. dime and weighs at most 0.15 g (0.0053 oz)?
Did you know that art critic and cookbook collector Elizabeth Robins Pennell wrote the first independent biography of proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft?
Did you know that former Audio Adrenaline front-man Mark Stuart talked more than he sang on the self-titled debut album of his new project, the Know Hope Collective?
Did you know that the 1605 Keichō Nankaidō earthquake has been identified as a tsunami earthquake, because the recorded tsunami was much larger than would be expected from the estimated earthquake magnitude?
Did you know that the Davis Waite House in Aspen was home to the eighth governor of Colorado, a Bauhaus architect and an oil company executive?
Did you know that the Faial Botanical Garden aims to preserve the endemic plants of Faial Island in the Azores?
Did you know that the actions of Arthur Seymour contributed to the capital of the Marlborough Province, New Zealand, shifting from Blenheim to Picton and back to Blenheim five years later?
Did you know that the first Lutheran hymnal contained only eight hymns on five melodies by three poets, Martin Luther, Paul Speratus and probably Justus Jonas?
Did you know that the seeds of the European sedge Carex pilulifera may be dispersed by the ant Myrmica ruginodis?
Did you know that there is to be a US version of Jeremy Kyle's successful British talk series?
Did you know that Arthur Barnett founded a department store that was to become the most successful in the Otago Region?
Did you know that Mozart built the final scene of his opera The Magic Flute "upon a solemn fugato around the chorale Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein" by Martin Luther?
Did you know that Oscar Clayton (caricature pictured) diagnosed the Prince of Wales's typhoid?
Did you know that Parvathi is said to have worshipped Shiva while in the form of a peahen at the Mayuranathaswami Temple in Mayiladuthurai?
Did you know that US Army Master Sergeant Ernest R. Kouma was awarded the Medal of Honor in the Korean War for singlehandedly killing approximately 250 North Korean troops?
Did you know that William Randolph Hearst dispatched a "damn fool" to deliver a gold and diamond encrusted sword to Cuban independence leader Máximo Gómez?
Did you know that in 1966, the C. M. Russell Museum Complex in Montana wanted to tear down its namesake's home even as it was about to receive National Historic Landmark status?
Did you know that pink beard-heaths blossom around Sydney in spring?
Did you know that the Monarch Contemporary Art Center and Sculpture Park also includes boarding facilities?
Did you know that the North Bank Depot Buildings in Portland, Oregon, were built in 1908 as terminals for the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway?
Did you know that the pulpit in Christ Church, Barnton, Cheshire has been described as "Puginesquely elaborate"?
Did you know that Jerry Green was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005 and is one of four sports writers to cover each of the first 45 Super Bowls?
Did you know that Mike Cahill, director and screenwriter of Another Earth (2011), was National Geographic's youngest field producer, editor and cinematographer?
Did you know that Slalom was the first video game developed by UK-based video game company Rare?
Did you know that Ute lady's tresses are threatened by saltcedar and peppergrass?
Did you know that after its colonel was cashiered for drunkenness, the 68th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was commanded by a German prince?
Did you know that although shattered by his imprisonment at Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps, in 1952 Czech writer Norbert Frýd fearlessly protested a friend's arrest in Communist Czechoslovakia?
Did you know that during production tapis is warped and couched?
Did you know that pink fairy lilies usually produce flowers only after heavy rains?
Did you know that poet and minister Johann Heermann wrote the hymn Was willst du dich betrüben (Why do you want to distress yourself) during the Thirty Years' War?
Did you know that promin (molecule pictured) was one of the first effective treatments for leprosy?
Did you know that the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds was deliberately built to be wider than the British Museum Reading Room, on which it was modelled?
Did you know that the Great Terrestrial Globe in the lobby of New York's Daily News Building was made by American muralist and painter D. Putnam Brinley?
Did you know that the Indianapolis Museum of Art's outdoor sculpture The Three Graces is based on a c. 1797 painting by noted Italian artist Antonio Canova, but its sculptor is unknown?
Did you know that the Jug Tavern, possibly the oldest building in Ossining, New York, may not have been a tavern at all, or if it was did not serve liquor legally?
Did you know that the portraits of his parents (father's portrait pictured) that Albrecht Dürer painted when he was 19 are renowned for their depiction of the effects of ageing?
Did you know that tiny Paederus beetles may have caused some of the ten Plagues of Egypt?
Did you know that "Miracle Man" was the first episode of The X-Files written by Howard Gordon without his long-term collaborator Alex Gansa?
Did you know that Crothers Memorial Hall, one of two Stanford University dormitories funded by gifts from Judge George E. Crothers, was named in memory of the judge's mother?
Did you know that Dacian bracelets (example pictured) were used as currency and votive offerings?
Did you know that Ethical Oil, a book that argues in favour of the exploitation of the Athabasca oil sands, won the National Business Book Award in 2011?
Did you know that The Knack's second comeback attempt, the 1998 album Zoom, was described as their best since their debut album Get The Knack?
Did you know that Wat Tyler Cluverius, Jr., who died in 1952, was the last surviving officer of the sinking of the USS Maine?
Did you know that after the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority ordered the demolition of Wharetiki House, its powers were for the first time tested in the High Court?
Did you know that although Christchurch was an Anglican settlement, the first three mayors (Wilson, Anderson and Duncan) were all Presbyterian?
Did you know that at the beginning of 16th century the Sanjak of Elbasan had the highest population density of all Ottoman Balkan sanjaks?
Did you know that the Permian amphibian Trimerorhachis either brooded young in its mouth or ate them?
Did you know that the causeways over Lake Scugog on Ontario Highway 7A were constructed over a floating bridge built in 1856?
Did you know that the direction and photography in the Breaking Bad episode "Thirty-Eight Snub" was compared to the work of filmmakers Sergio Leone and Quentin Tarantino?
Did you know that the schooner Shearwater was hit by falling debris from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001?
Did you know that three-time Paralympian Amanda Fraser has won medals in both athletics and swimming?
Did you know that Comala, Colima, Mexico, may be the setting for Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo?
Did you know that Fantasy Studios was built on profits from hit songs by Creedence Clearwater Revival?
Did you know that HMS Phoenix (N96) was the 18th Royal Navy warship to carry the name Phoenix?
Did you know that Herb Kawainui Kane died on the 36th anniversary of the launch of the Hōkūle‘a, a voyaging canoe he designed?
Did you know that Murtaja, launched in 1889, was Finland's first state-owned icebreaker?
Did you know that Nickolaus Hirschl, in addition to winning two Olympic medals in wrestling, won Austrian national championships in shotput, discus, and pentathlon?
Did you know that Richard Chavez designed the black eagle logo of the United Farm Workers while his brother, César Chávez, chose the red and black coloring?
Did you know that The Throne's hip-hop single "Otis" was remixed as an alleged diss track by Game?
Did you know that The X-Files episode "Shapes" reunited Twin Peaks cast members David Duchovny and Michael Horse?
Did you know that a flattop crab, when trying to escape from a predator, can cast off limbs as a diversion, with the claws of a cast limb still gripping vigorously after separation?
Did you know that actor Ron Taylor performed the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner" at several sporting fixtures after playing a similar role in an episode of L.A. Law?
Did you know that after Kenneth R. Shadrick became the first U.S. foot soldier reported killed in the Korean War, his father traced the tragedy back to a stolen football uniform?
Did you know that after an injury during his 13th season of Major League Baseball, Duff Cooley was replaced by rookie Ty Cobb?
Did you know that following opposition calls for a boycott, voter turnout in the 1983 general elections in Jamaica was just 2.7%?
Did you know that in May 1933, the Nazis stormed the General German Trade Union Federation and all its member unions, seizing their assets and putting their leaders in "protective custody"?
Did you know that the BNSF Railway Bridge 5.1, in Portland, Oregon, which once had the world's longest swing span, was converted in 1989 to one of the world's highest vertical-lift spans?
Did you know that undefeated Boyd Melson donates all the money he earns in boxing matches to stem cell research?
Did you know that FBI special agent Herman Hollis was involved in the Bureau's shootouts with John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and possibly Pretty Boy Floyd?
Did you know that Flustra foliacea looks like a seaweed but is actually a colony of animals?
Did you know that Roscoe C. Wilson was the United States Army Air Forces liaison to the Manhattan Project?
Did you know that S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson, played by Clark Gregg in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, will appear as Peter Parker's school principal in the upcoming cartoon series Ultimate Spider-Man?
Did you know that Wacław Gluth-Nowowiejski's World War II memoir The Commonwealth of Ruins, about his experience of hiding in a destroyed city as a Robinson Crusoe of Warsaw, was adapted into a short comic?
Did you know that although the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division during the Battle of Pakchon (fragment pictured), the commander was later relieved of his position?
Did you know that although the slender devil's twine looks and behaves like dodder, it is a laurel?
Did you know that computer input methods are blamed for individuals forgetting how to write Chinese characters?
Did you know that in the Holmes' no Mokushiroku story arc of the Case Closed series, the character Minerva Glass was based on professional tennis player Steffi Graf?
Did you know that in translating the Republic of Plato, Desmond Lee preferred "magnificent myth" to what he considered the conventional mistranslation "noble lie"?