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Did you know that the pillars of the cancelled Bangkok Elevated Road and Train System project have been described as "a Bangkok version of Stonehenge"?
Did you know that the stems of Asclepias cordifolia, or Heart-leaf milkweed, were made into rope and string by the Miwok and used for skirts and capes?
Did you know that , after returning to his native England, New York composer Manuel Klein suffered a trauma during the Zeppelin attacks in London during WWI that reportedly contributed to his early death?
Did you know that , in 1935, Jimmie Guthrie set five world speed records on a Norton International at the concrete bowl track in Montlhéry, France?
Did you know that Alec Bennett, riding the CS1 on its first race, won the Isle of Man Senior TT in 1927?
Did you know that Chris Robinson invited Buffalo Killers to open for The Black Crowes on a 2007 tour after hearing their 2006 album Buffalo Killers?
Did you know that Hwanbyeokdang, a pavilion in South Korea, is associated with a tale regarding a dragon and 16th century poet Jeong Cheol?
Did you know that Independence Dam State Park in Defiance County, Ohio, is named for a dam built for the Miami and Erie Canal and features some of the canal's ruins?
Did you know that Invincibles members Colin McCool, Doug Ring and Ron Hamence referred to themselves as "ground staff" because they were rarely given an opportunity to play cricket?
Did you know that John L. Stevens, a former Universalist pastor, helped stage a coup in the Kingdom of Hawai'i to overthrow Queen Lili'uokalani in 1893?
Did you know that Larry Dierker is the only Houston Astros manager to have had his uniform number retired by the Houston Astros franchise of Major League Baseball?
Did you know that Lieutenant General Stanley A. McChrystal commanded the Joint Special Operations Command forces responsible for the death of Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi?
Did you know that Time magazine predicted "Big Bill" Watson, the first African-American to win the U.S. decathlon championship, would be America's No. 1 hero at the 1940 Olympics, later cancelled due to World War II?
Did you know that William Phelps was foreman of the first grand jury in colonial America and played a key role in establishing the first written democratic town government at Windsor, Connecticut, in 1657?
Did you know that Winlock W. Steiwer founded the first bank in Wheeler County, Oregon, after he had pled guilty during the Oregon land fraud scandal?
Did you know that all species of the New Zealand parrot family Nestoridae (Kākā pictured) are either endangered or have gone extinct due to human activity?
Did you know that although done in spurts, it took until the mid-20th century to finish paving Pennsylvania Route 664?
Did you know that footballer Abe Hartley used to place a rolled-up cigarette behind his ear prior to kick-off and then smoke it in the changing room at half-time?
Did you know that in 1926, Albert Einstein solved the tea leaf paradox, which states that if the tea in a teacup is stirred, the tea leaves will collect in the middle rather than at the edges?
Did you know that in 1965, East German politician Albert Norden accused 1,900 politicians and other prominent personalities in West Germany of having worked for the Nazi regime?
Did you know that in Scotland, anybody who tries to prevent a mother from breastfeeding in a legally permitted public place can be fined up to £2,500?
Did you know that news of Rufus T. Bush's victory in a transatlantic yacht race took up the whole front page of the New York Times on March 28, 1887?
Did you know that the Cretaceous terrestrial crocodilian Araripesuchus is known from five distinct species, two from Africa and the other three from South America?
Did you know that the German-language socialist newspaper Volkswille in Katowice, Poland, went from daily to weekly publication after the 1933 Nazi takeover stopped the newspaper's financial subsidies from Germany?
Did you know that the al-Muallaq Mosque, also known as the Mosque of Dhaher al-Omar in Acre, Israel, is located on the site of the town's ancient synagogue?
Did you know that the chorus melody of "Be Alright", a track from DecembeRadio's 2008 album Satisfied, was written by bassist/vocalist Josh Reedy while showering?
Did you know that the piriform shape of the uterus is given as the reason for the predominance of cephalic presentations at term?
Did you know that the song "The Red Poppies on Monte Cassino", one of the best-known Polish war songs, was written during the Battle of Monte Cassino in May 1944?
Did you know that there are six monarchies in Oceania and five of them share Queen Elizabeth II as their respective head of state?
Did you know that "Barack the Magic Negro" is a controversial satirical song by Paul Shanklin which refers to Barack Obama as a magical Negro?
Did you know that , while serving as chancellor, Tang Dynasty official Cui Sun was responsible for rebuilding or repairing the funereal palaces at eight imperial tombs, one of which was Qianling?
Did you know that Arthur Ransome's fictional pirate Nancy Blackett, captain of the Amazon, does not use her real name Ruth because "Amazons are ruthless"?
Did you know that East German Olympic bronze medalist Wilfried Hartung was once married to two-time Olympic silver medalist Gabriele Wetzko?
Did you know that June Buchanan, co-founder of Alice Lloyd College, was mayor of Pippa Passes, Kentucky?
Did you know that Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf supported Barack Obama's 1996 Illinois Senate bid, telling him "someday you will be Vice President of the United States", to which Obama replied "Why vice president?"
Did you know that Rabbi Joshua L. Liebman’s self-help book Peace of Mind spent more than a year at #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list?
Did you know that Terrence Oglesby, a United States citizen, was the leading scorer for Norway's basketball team in the FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship?
Did you know that Zaprešić is the most densely populated city in Zagreb County, Croatia?
Did you know that according to tradition, al-Khadra Mosque in present-day Nablus is situated at the site where Jacob, a biblical patriarch, was presented with a blood-soaked tunic belonging to his lost son Joseph?
Did you know that at age 17 years and 331 days, Polish hammer thrower Kamila Skolimowska was the youngest Olympic champion in the 2000 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that authentic Picón Bejes-Tresviso cheese must be matured in traditional limestone caves until covered in Brevibacterium linens, the bacterium responsible for human foot odour?
Did you know that longtime Albert Speer associate Rudolf Wolters briefly worked with future West German president Heinrich Lübke in 1945 in an architectural office in Höxter?
Did you know that the 2008 New York Giants became the fifth National Football League team to have two players rush for at least 1,000 yards, Brandon Jacobs and Derrick Ward?
Did you know that the City of Clarence, Tasmania, was established in the traditional hunting grounds of the Moomairemener, eventually leading to the Black War?
Did you know that the Djibouti Francolin, a critically endangered species of bird, is only known from two isolated locations in Djibouti?
Did you know that the Nintendo DS video game, Cradle of Rome, requires that players match jewels of the same type to build the Roman Empire?
Did you know that the crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 634 on 8 January 2003 was the worst crash involving a BAe 146?
Did you know that the final screen role of BAFTA Award winning actor Sir Norman Wisdom was that of a vicar in the 2007 British short film Expresso?
Did you know that the former Youngstown and Southern Railway, Ohio's last interurban, was out of service for five years after being illegally sold to a scrap dealer?
Did you know that "The Flying Parson" Gil Dodds, record holder in the mile run in the 1940s, suffered a hernia in high school and ran with a truss to protect himself?
Did you know that Alexander John Scott, Nelson's chaplain at Trafalgar, was once struck by lightning while asleep in his cabin?
Did you know that Alvah Chapman, Jr. helped orchestrate the 1974 merger of Knight Newspapers and Ridder Publications to form Knight Ridder, the largest such transaction as of that time?
Did you know that Averill Park Central School District encompasses an area of approximately 120 square miles (310 km2)?
Did you know that Jerzy Putrament, a Polish communist writer and politician, in his youth flirted with the right-wing endecja movement?
Did you know that Joseph Dennie was one of the foremost men of letters in the United States during the Federalist Era?
Did you know that Kelly Point, where the Willamette River meets the Columbia River in Oregon, was part of the former Pearcy Island?
Did you know that Paul Verner fled Germany's nationalists and fought as a volunteer in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War?
Did you know that Simon Cowell signed the Teletubbies to his record label for their hit single "Teletubbies say Eh-oh!"?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty official Zhao Zongru served under six emperors—Emperors Dezong, Shunzong, Xianzong, Muzong, Jingzong, and Wenzong?
Did you know that a messenger pigeon named Commando received the Dickin Medal in 1945 for carrying crucial intelligence from agents in occupied France to Britain during World War II?
Did you know that a trading post was set up in Kangirsuk, Quebec, in 1921 but the Inuit did not settle there permanently until the 1960s?
Did you know that baseball player Esix Snead stole 507 bases in the minor-leagues but had just four stolen bases in the major leagues?
Did you know that by winning the 2008 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, 30-metre maxi yacht Wild Oats XI set a new record of four wins in a row?
Did you know that in 1978, American football fullback Roland Harper rushed for 992 yards for the Chicago Bears, falling just 8 yards short of 1,000 in the same season teammate Walter Payton rushed for 1,395 yards?
Did you know that one of Russia's most famous writers, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, was a proponent of the Russian autocracy?
Did you know that only one original building, St Michael and All Angels Church, survives in the former village of Lowfield Heath—destroyed by the expansion of London Gatwick Airport?
Did you know that polyamino carboxylic acid compounds have extensive applications in chemical, biomedical and environmental sciences?
Did you know that quantitative precipitation forecasts are issued up to five days into the future within the United States by the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center?
Did you know that the Battle of Suez was the last major battle of the Yom Kippur War?
Did you know that the Cape Grim massacre, in which four shepherds killed up to thirty Tasmanian aborigines, was an escalation of a previous fight over women?
Did you know that the East Ghor Main Canal diverts nearly all the annual flow of the Yarmouk River for irrigation in Jordan?
Did you know that the Southworth House has been a retirement home, a fraternity house, and an office building in Cleveland, Ohio?
Did you know that the prelude to Operation Pleshet saw Israel use its first ever fighter plane, the Avia S-199?
Did you know that the tiger in the Coat of arms of Singapore represents Malaysia?
Did you know that 12-year-old actress Caitlin Sanchez, selected to perform the voice of the title character in Nickelodeon's Dora the Explorer, grew up as a fan of the show with a Dora-themed bedroom and backpack?
Did you know that ABC's Howard K. Smith: News and Comment was cancelled after Smith aired a controversial and, as it proved, premature program in 1962 titled "The Political Obituary of Richard M. Nixon"?
Did you know that Edward Stirling Dickson, who would eventually rise to the rank of Vice-Admiral, joined the Royal Navy in 1772, at the age of seven?
Did you know that English primary school Watercliffe Meadow's decision to call itself "a place of learning" rather than a "school" was attacked as being too politically correct?
Did you know that Hal Fryar received a number of complaints from English teachers because he appeared in a film with the grammatically incorrect title The Outlaws Is Coming?
Did you know that John II, Bishop of Jerusalem, consecrated the Church of the Holy Zion on the day of Yom Kippur 394 CE?
Did you know that Operations Parthenon, Boris, Finery, Shed and Plan Giralda were all British plans for military intervention in Zanzibar following the 1964 revolution?
Did you know that as part of a team led by Oliver Lincoln Lundquist, Donal McLaughlin designed a logo for the 1945 UN Conference on International Organization that became the model for the Flag of the United Nations?
Did you know that bird's nest fungi from the genus Crucibulum (Crucibulum laeve pictured) rely on falling rain to help disperse their spores?
Did you know that despite producing 123 mph (198 km/h) winds, rainfall from the 1941 Florida hurricane reached only 0.35 in (8.9 mm) in Miami, Florida, USA?
Did you know that in 1846, the Austrian Empire encouraged a peasant revolt to weaken local nobility in Galicia who were planning a rebellion of their own?
Did you know that in a May 1983 attack on communist partisans, forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan killed 150 communist cadres in northern Iraq?
Did you know that in the Battle of Sio, Papuan Corporal Bengari and his five companions ambushed 29 Japanese soldiers and killed them all before they could fire a shot?
Did you know that music critic Claude Rostand described Olivier Messiaen's Trois petites Liturgies de la Présence Divine as a "work of tinsel, false magnificence and pseudo-mysticism"?
Did you know that one of the few criticisms against Tang Dynasty chancellor Du You was that, after the death of his wife, he married a concubine?
Did you know that the 20-storey Gillender Building, built in 1897, was demolished only thirteen years later to make way for 14 Wall Street?
Did you know that the American M47 bomb had a steel cover just 1/32 of an inch thick, causing it to leak when it carried sulfur mustard?
Did you know that the Canadian Parliamentary deadlock due to the "In and Out" political scandal was one of reasons for the snap election of 2008?
Did you know that the Marble Mountain Wilderness has one of only two stands of subalpine fir tree in California, and both are more than 50 miles (80 km) from the next closest stand in southern Oregon?
Did you know that the Swedish culture magazine Artes often featured future Nobel Prize in Literature laureates when edited by Östen Sjöstrand, a member of the Swedish Academy?
Did you know that the Tampa Bay Rays, a Major League Baseball team located in St. Petersburg, Florida, has had a losing record under each of its four managers?
Did you know that the U.S. E61 anthrax bomblet was perceived as superior to another, earlier anthrax weapon, the M114 bomb?
Did you know that the White-faced Heron's techniques to find food include standing still and waiting for prey, walking slowly in water, wing flicking, foot raking or chasing prey with open wings?
Did you know that the educational Nintendo DS video game futureU helps students prepare for the SATs?
Did you know that the original screenplay for A Life of Her Own was deemed "shocking and highly offensive" for its portrayal of "adultery and commercialized prostitution" and rejected by the Breen Office?
Did you know that the power station that powered the Terminal Arcade's interurbans from 1907 to 1940 had a 999-year lease?
Did you know that the talent of Norwegian ski jumper Jon Aaraas was first discovered in kindergarten?
Did you know that , during the Anshi Rebellion, the future Tang Dynasty chancellor Qi Kang took his mother and fled to Shaoxing?
Did you know that CP1600 microprocessors saw little use in their intended role, but millions were produced for use in the Intellivision video game console?
Did you know that IR-40, an Iranian heavy water reactor, could produce 10 kilograms (22 lb) to 12 kilograms (26 lb) of plutonium, enough to build two nuclear weapons, each year?
Did you know that Jean-Baptiste Hachème supervised the government of Maurice Kouandete, being the de facto head of state of Benin?
Did you know that Juan Davis Bradburn, commander of the Mexican fort at Anahuac, was described as "incompetent to such a command and ... half crazy part of his time"?
Did you know that Nobel Laureates James D. Watson and Eric Kandel lectured at Cullen Performance Hall in 2008?
Did you know that Paul Robeson's contract for the 1925 race film Body and Soul included a US$100 per week salary plus three percent of the gross after the first US$40,000 in receipts?
Did you know that World War I flying ace Friedrich Ritter von Röth was posthumously granted a lifetime pension by the Kingdom of Bavaria?
Did you know that according to Just Detention International, 67 percent of all LGBT people in prison report being assaulted?
Did you know that according to legend, a tunnel leads from the Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle to the Khotyn Fortress which is 20 kilometres (12 mi) away?
Did you know that actress Yanna McIntosh has been nominated for six Dora Awards, winning twice?
Did you know that architect Bennie Gonzales designed most of the major municipal buildings in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, including Scottsdale City Hall, which features a kiva for meetings?
Did you know that as well as the Nativity of Jesus, Olivier Messiaen's organ composition La Nativité du Seigneur was inspired by birdsong, the French Alps, and medieval stained glass?
Did you know that in the middle of the 1995–96 National Hockey League season, the head coach of the Dallas Stars, Bob Gainey, fired himself?
Did you know that some members of the fungal family Orbiliaceae can lasso nematodes using outgrowths of their hyphae?
Did you know that students from Tualatin Valley Junior Academy's Ring of Fire handbell choir performed at both inaugurations of U.S. President George W. Bush in 2001 and 2005?
Did you know that the American E23 munition failed in 1954 field trials causing the crew of an aircraft to be bitten by rat fleas?
Did you know that the FN-6, a third generation Chinese MANPAD, was specifically designed to be used against targets flying at low and very low altitudes?
Did you know that the Silesian Duke Henry V the Fat spent some of his youth at the court of Ottokar II of Bohemia in Prague?
Did you know that the Thimpu principles were put forward by Sri Lankan Tamil delegates at Thimpu, Bhutan?
Did you know that the crime television series Heist detailed the 1974 Irish Republican Army's seizure of nineteen well-known paintings estimated to be worth £8 million at Russborough House?
Did you know that African American actor Lorenzo Tucker, the star of the 1932 race film Veiled Aristocrats, was dubbed the "black Valentino" because of his striking good looks?
Did you know that Bugle Rock in Bangalore, India, is a peninsular gneiss formation from which warning bugle calls were made to alert citizens of intruders?
Did you know that Dick's Last Resort, an American bar and restaurant chain, encourages the staff to act obnoxiously towards their customers?
Did you know that First Baptist Church in Petersburg, Virginia, the first African-American Baptist congregation in the United States, had only black pastors until 1832?
Did you know that Fritz Otto Bernert, World War I flying ace, scored five victories in a twenty-minute timespan, earning the one-armed pilot the Pour le Merite in 1917?
Did you know that Gillfield Baptist Church, Virginia, the second oldest black congregation in Petersburg, USA, resisted a consolidation with the white congregation at Market Street Church in 1829?
Did you know that Ismo Alanko Säätiö's accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen has been dubbed the "Jimi Hendrix of the accordion" by the Finnish music press?
Did you know that Kelly Paris' three career home runs were all hit in 1988 in 44 at bats with the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball?
Did you know that Lesser Whistling Ducks are the most prominent species among the migratory birds that visit the lake in the Santragachhi area of Howrah, India, during winter?
Did you know that M. C. Rajah was the first member of the Dalit community to be elected to the Madras Legislative Council in India?
Did you know that Nubian queen Amanitore (relief pictured) ruled over so much building work that her reign is considered the most prosperous time in Meroitic history?
Did you know that Operation Winter Storm was an attempt by German Army Group Don to relieve the trapped Sixth Army in Stalingrad, during World War II?
Did you know that Petelo Vikena, one of the three reigning traditional monarchs within Wallis and Futuna, previously served in the French Army?
Did you know that Richard Martin, Lord Mayor of London in 1589 and 1594, is not the Richard Martin who was "thrashed" by the poet John Davies in the Hall of the Middle Temple in 1598?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty official Gao Ying, in his youth, offered to die in his father's stead when his father was captured by rebel Yan forces, causing Yan officers to release them both?
Did you know that WLVV, the oldest radio station in Mobile, Alabama, was once known as WMML (for "M-M-Mel") as a play on then-owner Mel Tillis' famous stutter?
Did you know that after the American E86 cluster bomb was canceled, its E14 sub-munition was altered to deliver yellow fever mosquitoes and rat fleas?
Did you know that after the Mexican War of Independence, the influence of positivists led to a renaissance of scientific activity in Mexico?
Did you know that the 1819 odes of English poet John Keats, including On Melancholy, To a Nightingale, To Psyche, and To Autumn, created "a new tone for the English lyric" according to critic W. Jackson Bate?
Did you know that the 1916 Early Modern Dodge House in West Hollywood, California, called one of the fifteen most significant houses in the United States, was demolished in 1970 to make way for apartments?
Did you know that the Grade I listed Franks Hall, in Horton Kirby, Kent, England, was used as a barn in the 1850s?
Did you know that the MC-1 bomb was the first non-clustered U.S. chemical weapon?
Did you know that the Russian fishing industry operates on the second longest coastline in the world, which gives it access to twelve seas in three oceans?
Did you know that the Slavic Silesian Duke and monastic patron Bolko I encouraged German settlement in his region and patronised German poetry?
Did you know that the airship Patrie broke free from its moorings at Souhesmes, France, blew across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and was eventually lost in the Atlantic Ocean?
Did you know that the bottle label of California "cult wine" producer Harlan Estate was ten years in the making?
Did you know that theologian and preacher Carl Fredrik Wisløff's 1946 book I Know in Whom I Believe was recognized in 2008 as one of Norway's most influential books of prose?
Did you know that toxic gadolinium is often injected for contrast enhancement in MRI scans (scanner pictured), but is prevented from harming patients by being administered as a DTPA complex that has a high stability constant?
Did you know that Carl Fredriksens Transport, an operation that saved 1,000 Norwegians during the Nazi occupation of Norway, was code-named after King Haakon VII's original name?
Did you know that Indianapolis claims Charles H. Black as the inventor of the first internal combustion engine automobile, although his vehicle's ignition called for a kerosene torch?
Did you know that Jamaican singer Bob Marley gave Vincent Ford writing credit for the song "No Woman, No Cry", but Marley's wife and manager were granted the rights after claiming that Marley had written it himself?
Did you know that Nizar Rayan, a top Hamas commander, sent his own son on a suicide attack mission?
Did you know that Pane ticinese, a white bread from the Swiss canton of Ticino, is made of small individual loaves intended to be broken off by hand?
Did you know that Pocahontas Island, where evidence of prehistoric Native American artifacts were found, would later become the first free black settlement in the U.S. state of Virginia?
Did you know that Rob MacCachren's victory at the 2007 Baja 1000 marked the first time that a Trophy Truck won the event's overall title?