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Did you know that Ethiopia, Great Britain, Ireland, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Rhodesia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and the United States were among the 28 nations that competed in the 1968 Summer Paralympics?
Did you know that Geograpsus severnsi is the first crab species known to have become extinct?
Did you know that Kegasus, the centaur mascot of the infield party at the 2011 Preakness Stakes, has a nipple ring, body hair and a beer gut?
Did you know that Modernisme architect Joan Martorell headed the committee that in 1883 selected Antoni Gaudí to complete the still-unfinished Sagrada Família?
Did you know that Rhodes Twenty Four and Rhodes W1 are both London-based Michelin star restaurants of chef Gary Rhodes?
Did you know that according to the Parks and Recreation episode "Road Trip", the character played by actress Rashida Jones looks very good dressed like a prostitute?
Did you know that adivasi activist Kartam Joga has been accused of joining the deadliest Naxalite attack in India's history?
Did you know that as a senior in 1972–73, St. John's University basketball standout Billy Schaeffer averaged a school record 24.7 points per game en route to winning the Haggerty Award?
Did you know that bride-buying, although illegal, still takes place in some countries?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano opera singer Olivia Ward won season 11 of US television show The Biggest Loser?
Did you know that some species of giant stink bugs (example pictured) are edible?
Did you know that the 1854 funeral procession for London Ferrill, preacher of First African Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky, numbered 5,000, second only to that for the statesman Henry Clay?
Did you know that the Cambriae Typus map shows a sea monster in the Irish Sea?
Did you know that the Fasci Italiani all'Estero, the fascist movement for Italian expatriates, which was led by Giuseppe Bastianini, claimed to have groups in over 40 countries in 1925?
Did you know that the extinct giant ant genus Formicium is known only from forewings found in Dorset, England and Tennessee, US?
Did you know that the false potto may be a true potto?
Did you know that the late 7th-century Kentish law code, the Law of Hlothhere and Eadric, has no provisions regarding the church?
Did you know that there was only one survivor of the explosion which obliterated HMS Princess Irene and killed 352 people?
Did you know that Abdullah Rimawi, one of the founders of the Ba'ath Party in Jordan, became its secretary-general in 1952?
Did you know that French actress Isabelle Huppert is the most recent recipient of the British Film Institute Fellowship award?
Did you know that Fujiwara Shunzei once commented that "it is shocking for anyone to write poetry without knowing Genji"?
Did you know that José Zabala-Santos is one of the pioneers of Philippine comics?
Did you know that Juan Acevedo Pavez was elected regidor of San Bernardo, Chile, in 1950 and simultaneously he held office as mayor of the same commune from 1952 until 1953?
Did you know that Mayor Henry L. Bridges of Minden, Louisiana, succeeded a future governor in 1928 and defeated a subsequent lieutenant governor in 1930?
Did you know that a talking crow was buried near the temple of the Roman deity Rediculus?
Did you know that although Laotian women are constitutionally equal to Laotian men, due to inequalities in education only 63% are literate, compared with 83% of Laotian men?
Did you know that children's author Genevieve Foster was a four-time winner of the Newbery Honor?
Did you know that former Leinster Rugby and Scotland coach Matt Williams is a technical adviser to Irish rugby sevens team Shamrock Warriors RFC?
Did you know that the 2010 assessment of the collection and trade of amphibians in Cambodia was a joint initiative of the Angkor Centre for Conservation of Biodiversity and Fauna and Flora International?
Did you know that the Argentine The Cámpora political youth organization is named after Héctor José Cámpora?
Did you know that the Argentinian anarchist movement was the strongest anarchist movement in South America?
Did you know that the Columbia Club has hosted every Republican president while in office or campaigning since Benjamin Harrison in 1888?
Did you know that the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority of Ghana established online registration to increase efficiency and abolish the activities of middlemen?
Did you know that the ancient Roman Amphitheatre of Serdica in central Sofia, Bulgaria, was accidentally discovered during construction works in the 2000s?
Did you know that the creeping snowberry is assisted by solitary bees, bumblebees, bee-flies, hoverflies, chipmunks and deer mice in reproduction in its native environment?
Did you know that the orbit of WASP-43's one planet, which has the smallest orbit known amongst planets of its kind, has been attributed to the star's unusually low mass?
Did you know that Bach began his cantata, Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch, BWV 86, with a quotation from the Farewell discourse, sung by the bass as the Vox Christi?
Did you know that Colorado's governor-elect William Lee Knous formally opened Aspen's Ski Lift No. 1 in 1947 by breaking a bottle of champagne over one of its chairs?
Did you know that General Franco signed over the output of six mines to help pay for German involvement in the Spanish Civil War?
Did you know that San Pellegrino in Vaticano is one of the oldest churches in the Vatican City?
Did you know that Sofitel New York Hotel won the 2000 Emporis Skyscraper Award?
Did you know that a football team's travelling army of supporters is often referred to as its 12th man?
Did you know that a planet was discovered around the star MOA-2009-BLG-387L after it eclipsed a background star, refracting the star's light in a process called gravitational microlensing?
Did you know that after World War II, 252 men of the 13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion were charged with mutiny?
Did you know that baseball player Lou Raymond's career with the Philadelphia Phillies consisted of one game, during which he earned a single hit in two at-bats?
Did you know that former Columbia Lions men's basketball coach Gordon Ridings "never saw a harder worker" than John Azary?
Did you know that in the 2011 Manhattan terrorism plot, two Arab-Americans allegedly planned to attack a synagogue, and one of the suspects expressed interest in blowing up the Empire State Building?
Did you know that photographer Reid Blackburn, who was killed in the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, was supposed to remain on the mountain only until the day before the eruption?
Did you know that retired American baseball player Hank Aaron holds ten Atlanta Braves team records?
Did you know that sand may form 50% of the stomach contents of a Screaming Hairy Armadillo?
Did you know that the Grands Projets of François Mitterrand were commissioned in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution?
Did you know that the US$30 million development of Citygarden, an urban park and sculpture garden in St. Louis, Missouri, was funded solely by a local nonprofit organization?
Did you know that the mineral kurnakovite was named after the Russian chemist Nikolai Semenovich Kurnakov?
Did you know that Aníbal Pérez, a former First Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile, was also President of the O'Higgins football club?
Did you know that Benjamin Vulliamy, who designed the clock that defined time at the Prime Meridian, also designed clocks with porcelain cases?
Did you know that Clarence Clemons reached the studio at midnight to record the saxophone part on Lady Gaga's song "Hair" and finished by 3:00 am?
Did you know that Edward VII and his lover reportedly once got stuck in a too-narrow bathtub at the Hôtel Ritz Paris, which led to the tubs being enlarged?
Did you know that Greek has been taught at Sierra Leone Grammar School since 1845?
Did you know that Kenkoy was a Philippine comics character whose name became synonymous with the words joker, jester, or a hilarious person?
Did you know that Liang Huazhi led the Patriotic Sacrifice League in Shanxi to fight against the Japanese invasion of China?
Did you know that Peter Jackson's 1994 film Heavenly Creatures is based on the Parker–Hulme murder case involving two New Zealand girls who went to school at what became the Cranmer Centre?
Did you know that Stanford University's president wrote in 1907 that the career of Michigan center George W. Gregory illustrated "the evils of football"?
Did you know that a fossil of the extinct sea scorpion Eurypterus (restoration pictured) was once thought to be a catfish?
Did you know that botanist Alfred Byrd Graf's richly illustrated books included some of the more than 100 plant species he had discovered on his worldwide journeys, including the first known white African Violet?
Did you know that on May 18, 2011, the United States Government posted a blog and a couple of tweets to raise public awareness about incoming zombie apocalypse, natural disasters and pandemics?
Did you know that the Smålandsstövare originates from dogs brought home by soldiers in the 16th century wars of the Swedish Empire?
Did you know that three Welsh boxers have won the British super-featherweight title, Neil Haddock, Robert Dickie and Floyd Havard?
Did you know that under the supervision of archaeologists, the graduates of Cambodia's Artisans d'Angkor have been able to reproduce some portions of Kbal Spean's missing bas-relief carvings?
Did you know that American children's author Agnes Hewes, a three-time winner of the Newbery Honor, was born in Tripoli, Lebanon, to medical missionary parents?
Did you know that Bharattherium may have been among the first grazing mammals?
Did you know that Bible translations into Polish date from the 13th century?
Did you know that Edward Chiera considered the setting of the Debate between sheep and grain (example of sheep pictured) to be the Babylonian Garden of Eden?
Did you know that Efthimios Mitropoulos is the seventh and current Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization?
Did you know that Jean-Pierre Latz, like several other very prominent ébénistes in 18th-century Paris, was born in Germany?
Did you know that Robert W. Chandler bought the Bend Bulletin newspaper from Robert W. Sawyer in 1953 with only a US$6,000 down payment?
Did you know that as a result of the 2011 British privacy injunctions controversy, Ryan Giggs attempted to take legal action against Twitter?
Did you know that children's author Jeanette Eaton, a four-time winner of the Newbery Honor, was a feminist who also wrote for a socialist magazine and felt that women were inhibited by reading women's magazines?
Did you know that on June 2, 1933, Clarence Pickrel, a pitcher for Major League Baseball's Philadelphia Phillies, allowed the New York Giants to score four runs without recording a single out?
Did you know that the Confederate States Navy casemate ironclad CSS Missouri was the last Confederate ironclad to surrender during the American Civil War?
Did you know that the Isabella Psalter (named for Isabella of France) and the Queen Mary Psalter (for Mary I of England) are 14th-century devotional books that also contain bestiaries?
Did you know that the Titanic Engineers' Memorial in Southampton was unveiled in front of a crowd of 100,000, who gathered in Andrews Park on 15 April 1914, two years after the disaster?
Did you know that the comforts of the Association Residence Nursing Home, now the largest youth hostel in North America, have caused many people to wish they were old women?
Did you know that there was a segregated Filipino Infantry Regiment (insignia pictured) in the United States Army during World War II?
Did you know that Franquet's Epauletted Fruit Bat is one of three fruit-eating bats found to be a reservoir for Ebola virus in the wild?
Did you know that José de San Martín and Carlos María de Alvear helped depose Argentina's First Triumvirate?
Did you know that before Shackleford won the 2011 Preakness Stakes, his owners had tried to sell him, but no one wanted to meet their reserve price?
Did you know that in the strategy video game Armada 2526, players can develop bio-engineered squid hyperdrive ships?
Did you know that past and present churches in Arun, West Sussex, include one in the grounds of a luxury hotel, one in a former Penny School, one that became a market, and a "strangely towered" one?
Did you know that the 1994–95 South Pacific cyclone season was one of the quietest cyclone seasons on record, with only three tropical cyclones recorded within the South Pacific Ocean basin?
Did you know that the American Motor League (membership card pictured) was the first automobile organization formed in the United States?
Did you know that the American Repertory Theater and System of a Down's Serj Tankian dedicated their 2011 Prometheus Bound to jailed Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen?
Did you know that the Christian Council of Ghana, an umbrella group that unites 15 churches, was formed in 1929?
Did you know that the Silver Spurs Rodeo, billed as the largest rodeo east of the Mississippi River, was originally organized to encourage the purchase of war bonds?
Did you know that the discography of Case Closed contains 77 singles and 19 soundtrack albums during the anime's 15 year run?
Did you know that the endangered rough-leaved loosestrife of the Carolinas is threatened by the U.S. military?
Did you know that the rare Louisiana pancake batfish only lives in the area affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?
Did you know that the towers of architect Terunobu Fujimori's Lamune Onsen have pine trees planted on the apex of their roofs?
Did you know that Áed in Macáem Tóinlesc ("the lazy-rumped lad"), sometime king of Tír Eogain, got his nickname by refusing to stand for the High King of Ireland Muirchertach Mac Lochlainn?
Did you know that DVD Verdict refers to a child's performance in the 1952 film Actor's and Sin as "fingernails-on-a-blackboard grating"?
Did you know that Daniel and Anne-Margaretta Burr's eldest son, Higford, took an ancestor's surname – and was known as Higford Higford?
Did you know that Eugene Linden hitchhiked from Portland, Oregon, to Tacoma, Washington, at age 21 to establish the Tacoma Philharmonic?
Did you know that Howard P. Perry was the first African American recruit in the United States Marine Corps?
Did you know that James F. Sundah's 1977 song "Lilin-Lilin Kecil", as performed by Chrisye, originally placed fifth in a teenage songwriting competition, but is now considered among the best Indonesian songs of all time?
Did you know that Jigme Gyatso was re-arrested after his allegations of torture by Chinese security forces were re-played on Voice of America?
Did you know that New Zealand-born World War II pilots Roy Calvert, Fraser Barron, Gordon Cochrane, Bob Yule, and Reg Grant were between them awarded 4 DSOs, 11 DFCs, and 2 DFMs, while Frank Watkins was recommended for the Victoria Cross?
Did you know that Paula Barbieri was reportedly the last girlfriend of O. J. Simpson before the murder of Nicole Simpson and stuck with him during his trial?
Did you know that during the Ottoman wars in Europe, the Croat feudal lord Petar Kružić defended the Klis Fortress against Ottoman invasion for more than two decades until the final Siege of Klis?
Did you know that in 1893, stockbroker and Knight Templar Charles Edward Keyser bought Aldermaston Court – a mansion built by a student of his grandfather?
Did you know that obesity, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer have been associated with infectious pathogens such as Toxoplasma gondii?
Did you know that the 5th Parachute Battalion wore a Hunting Stewart tartan patch behind their cap badges?
Did you know that the England cricketer Ken Barrington died in Bridgetown, Barbados, where he had made his first Test century 21 years before?
Did you know that the Tobermory whisky distillery is located in the village made famous by the children's television show Balamory?
Did you know that the direct-to-video 1999 family comedy The Prince and the Surfer (with Linda Cardellini) was the directorial debut of stage and film actor Arye Gross?
Did you know that the scarlet honey myrtle, an ornamental garden shrub, is from the same genus as the punk tree?
Did you know that the secretary-general of the International Maritime Organization described Filipino seamen as "the unsung heroes of an unsung industry"?
Did you know that the soft coral dead man's fingers can live for 20 years?
Did you know that theologian David F. Ford of the University of Cambridge once applied for jobs at British Steel and Rolls-Royce?
Did you know that Alfredo Alcala's Voltar was described as one of the earliest epic comic book series to result from a single creator's vision?
Did you know that Bach chose an unusually complex instrumentation in his cantata for the feast of Ascension, Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein, BWV 128, "two horns, oboes of every kind, strings and continuo and latterly one trumpet"?
Did you know that Filipino comics illustrator Harold "Hal" Santiago took his pen name from his American idol Hal Foster, the creator of Prince Valiant?
Did you know that Florida's longest-serving state legislator, W. D. Childers, earned the nickname "Banty Rooster" for his eccentric mannerisms and colorful, folksy expressions?
Did you know that Jetsun Pema is going to marry Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, the King of Bhutan, in October 2011?
Did you know that John Dillinger is said to have frequented a bar in Cottage Home while preparing for his heist of the Massachusetts Avenue State Bank?
Did you know that Sabitri Mitra and Mamata Banerjee are the only women in the 38-member Cabinet of West Bengal?
Did you know that Saudi Arabian women's rights activist Manal al-Sharif was arrested after a video of her driving a car was posted on YouTube and Facebook?
Did you know that Tendai Mzungu made his Australian Football League debut in Round 9 of the 2011 AFL season, despite missing the previous ten weeks of football due to a knee injury?
Did you know that according to the Interaction Hypothesis, the efficiency of second language acquisition is greatly increased when there is a breakdown in communication?
Did you know that during his senior season at St. John's, basketball player Boo Harvey hit three buzzer-beating, game-winning shots?
Did you know that gold medal-winning Paralympian Ron Stein trained with the Chicago White Sox before falling ill with polio?
Did you know that participants in performance art by Polish-born American artist Olek are literally crocheted into her body suits, without fasteners?
Did you know that revenues from Tennessee's Hall income tax vary by as much as 26 percent from one year to the next, due to the "roller-coaster behavior" of capital gains from investments?
Did you know that the productions of American stage director Nathaniel Merrill at the Metropolitan Opera, "such as Dulcamara's arrival via hot-air balloon in Elisir, kept Met audiences diverted and amused for a generation"?
Did you know that the rare Hawaiian plant Lysimachia iniki was named for Hurricane Iniki after the cyclone aided in its 1992 discovery?
Did you know that Daddles the duck would "accompany" batsmen who were on their way to the pavilion after being dismissed for a duck?
Did you know that Lake Assal in Djibouti is the lowest point in Africa?
Did you know that Mitch Skandalakis attracted national attention when he upset Martin Luther King III in a 1993 special election for Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Fulton County, Georgia?
Did you know that actor Ed Westwick liked the idea of playing a "nice guy" in the British film Chalet Girl?
Did you know that after visiting Miami County Jail for his documentary Miami Mega Jail, Louis Theroux told The Sun newspaper that "it's a bit like walking through a zoo"?
Did you know that in 1212 Thomas of Galloway, brother of the Lord of Galloway, sacked and looted the Irish city of Derry in a raid of 76 ships, and returned in 1214 to devastate the city again?
Did you know that over 90% of Ghana's international trade depends on the country's sea ports?
Did you know that professional footballer Bill Yates also played Minor Counties cricket for Buckinghamshire?
Did you know that study of mitochondrial DNA shows that ancestors of the Masked Crimson Tanager and Crimson-backed Tanager diverged 800,000 years ago?
Did you know that the 2011 Anzac Day service was not held as usual at the William Trethewey-designed Citizens' War Memorial (detail pictured), as the Christchurch city centre has been cordoned off since the February earthquake?
Did you know that the Polish faculty expelled by the Nazis from Poznań University during World War II formed the underground University of the Western Lands?
Did you know that the Shannon Irish pub in Montevideo often features performances by the Celtic band Grianan, which is led by Conrad O'Neill, a fourth-generation Irish Uruguayan?
Did you know that the annual winner of the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History may receive as much as US$100,000?
Did you know that the killing of four students at Trisakti University eventually led to the resignation of Indonesian President Suharto?
Did you know that the lakes of Thirlmere Lakes National Park contain a bright green freshwater sponge, Radiospongilla sceptroides?
Did you know that the number-one song "Fruta Fresca" by Carlos Vives was named a "bridge" between tropical and pop music?
Did you know that while writing "Li'l Sebastian", the third season finale of Parks and Recreation, the staff decided to write the "juiciest, most exciting cliffhanger-y possible scenario"?
Did you know that Bolo Pasha, a Frenchman with an Egyptian title, was convicted and executed in France in 1918 for being a German spy using evidence collected by the New York Attorney General?
Did you know that Dan Savage indulged in the seven deadly sins during research for his book Skipping Towards Gomorrah?
Did you know that Howard Robertson, with Le Corbusier, Markelius, and others, was on the Board of Design which helped Wallace Harrison to design the United Nations Headquarters?
Did you know that Marga T's novel Badai Pasti Berlalu sold roughly 24,000 copies—remarkable for an Indonesian novel in the 1970s—and spawned a critically acclaimed film, album and song?
Did you know that Orgasm is a fake live album John's Children recorded in the studio with overdubbed screams taken from The Beatles's Hard Day's Night soundtrack?
Did you know that St Denys' Church, Sleaford has one of the oldest stone broach spires in England and an altar rail designed by Sir Christopher Wren?
Did you know that Tadeusz Vetulani was a pioneer of biodiversity research in Poland and conducted notable research into forest tarpan and the Polish koniks, launching restoration and breeding schemes?
Did you know that giggle incontinence, the involuntary release of urine in response to giggling or laughter, may be related to cataplexy, a sudden transient episode of loss of muscle tone often triggered by strong emotions?
Did you know that police officer and future Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Philip Primrose was a distant cousin to the Earls of Rosebery?
Did you know that professional cricketer George Nash was once dropped off every ball of an over bowled by the amateur Robert Ramsay?
Did you know that the 2011–12 season's television adaptation of The Firm is a sequel to a 1991 novel that sold 7 million copies and a 1993 film that grossed $270 million worldwide?
Did you know that the Linux distribution Nova is central to the Cuban government's desire to replace Microsoft Windows?
Did you know that the Manipur Bush Rat was described from the collection of A. O. Hume which he donated after his life's work of ornithological notes were sold by a servant as waste paper?
Did you know that the Parson Capen House in Topsfield, Massachusetts, was built in a style that reminded homesick immigrants of homes in England?
Did you know that the State Policy Network of conservative "free market" political think tanks in every U.S. state has been likened to a franchising arrangement?
Did you know that the fossil sawfly species Eriocampa tulameenensis was found along the Canadian Pacific rail line near Princeton, British Columbia?