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Did you know that Assyriologist Archibald Sayce discovered that the Hittite hieroglyphic system was predominantly syllabic?
Did you know that Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan severely injured his back while filming the blockbuster hit Kal Ho Naa Ho?
Did you know that Swedish adventurer Saloman Andrée died in 1897 while trying to reach the geographic North Pole by hot-air balloon?
Did you know that fetal hemoglobin synthesis is used to treat adults with sickle cell anemia?
Did you know that iron deficiency anemia is the final stage of iron deficiency?
Did you know that the "Pardoner's Prologue and Tale" in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is about three revellers who set out to kill Death?
Did you know that the story of Sada Abe, a woman who cut off her dead lover's genitals and carried them around with her for days, is one of Japan's most notorious scandals?
Did you know that writer Panait Istrati is known for his line, "All right, I can see the broken eggs. Where's this omelet of yours?"
Did you know that Orcas Island, named for the area's killer whales, is the largest of Washington state's San Juan Islands?
Did you know that few color blind humans have true monochromacy, but rather are dichromats or anomalous trichromats?
Did you know that in 1996 then New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman may have violated the civil rights of Sherron Rolax by frisking him?
Did you know that osteomyelitis, i.e. bone infection, is particularly common in the tibia, femur, humerus and vertebral bodies?
Did you know that religion in Canada is dominated by the Roman Catholic Church, the United Church of Canada and the Anglican Church?
Did you know that the Syrian Kalilag and Damnag fables originated in the Panchatantra, a collection of Sanskrit language animal stories written around 200 BC?
Did you know that the blood vessel present during fetal development that carries oxygenated blood from the placenta to the growing fetus is called the umbilical vein?
Did you know that there are only a handful of true freshwater lakes in Australia because of that continent's minimal amount of glacial and tectonic activity?
Did you know that Napoléon Bonaparte's defeat in what the Russians call the Patriotic War was the turning point in the Napoleonic Wars and the beginning of the end for the Emperor?
Did you know that William James Sidis, an eccentric—and once world-famous—genius, entered Harvard University in 1909 at the age of 11?
Did you know that the first firearm to use a flintlock mechanism was produced in 1610 for King Louis XIII of France?
Did you know that 1988's Hurricane Gilbert was the first to make landfall on Jamaica since 1955?
Did you know that Winston Churchill personally oversaw the Sidney Street Siege?
Did you know that leopard frogs are an environmental indicator species?
Did you know that the Hungarian monarch wears the Crown of St. Stephen?
Did you know that the Moro Rebellion was the second phase of the Philippine-American War?
Did you know that the corticospinal tract contains both sensory and motor axons?
Did you know that the soda ash, used in the production of glass, textiles, and paper, was historically made using the Leblanc process?
Did you know that in addition to human spaceflight, there have been many animals in space, including monkeys, apes, mice, dogs, guinea pigs, frogs, rats, cats, tortoises, fish, newts, insects, snails, spiders and nematodes?
Did you know that the Charioteer of Delphi, an almost-intact ancient Greek statue, was lost for nearly 2000 years?
Did you know that , following the Russian Revolution, the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was established by the Soviet Union as a homeland for the large Volga German minority in Russia?
Did you know that Tom Hanks was in a 1982 TV movie called Mazes and Monsters about a group of college students and their interest in the eponymous role-playing game?
Did you know that the Deluge involving Noah or Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh is a widespread theme in mythology?
Did you know that French Sinologist Paul Pelliot was caught up in the Boxer Rebellion and trapped in the siege of Peking?
Did you know that Wyndham Halswelle was winner of the controversial 400-metre run at the 1908 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that the Nicobar Pigeon is a large, heavy, 40-centimetre-long pigeon?
Did you know that the first military plane mass-produced in Germany was the Rumpler Taube in 1910?
Did you know that Grigol Peradze was a Georgian ecclesiastic figure who was gassed in Auschwitz?
Did you know that Labatt Park in London, Ontario, Canada is thought to be the oldest continually operating baseball diamond in the world?
Did you know that the USS Frank Knox was named in honor of Frank Knox, who was United States Secretary of the Navy during World War II?
Did you know that Bambaiya Hindi, a pidgin used in Mumbai, is a combination of English, Marathi, Gujarati and several other languages?
Did you know that Hans Guido Mutke claimed to be the first person to break the sound barrier?
Did you know that The Price of Loyalty claims that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was not a reaction to the attacks of September 11?
Did you know that a woman named Priscilla, wife of Aquila, was one of the first Christian evangelists?
Did you know that in 1990 Cecil Fielder became the first Detroit Tiger since Hank Greenberg (in 1938) to slug over 50 home runs in a season?
Did you know that the Monty Python joke-warfare sketch is an example of a motif of harmful sensation?
Did you know that the famous horny toad of North America is not an amphibian but a reptile officially known as the Short-horned Lizard?
Did you know that the Berry Islands of the Bahamas were settled in 1836 by a group of freed slaves?
Did you know that the Scarlet King Snake can be distinguished from the Coral Snake by the mnemonic "red and yellow, kill a fellow" and "red and black venom lack"?
Did you know that the Turin King List is an ancient Egyptian papyrus scroll, written in hieratic, which lists all the pharaohs and gods believed to have ruled over the Nile kingdom?
Did you know that the crown lands of the United Kingdom are different than crown lands in Canada and Australia, the latter being more like the public lands of the United States?
Did you know that the white eagle on the Coat of Arms of Poland references the story of Lech, the legendary founder of Poland, who saw a white eagle's nest and was inspired to establish the city of Gniezno (literally nest)?
Did you know that writers in the literary genre known as fantastique include Stephen King and Honoré de Balzac?
Did you know that American Miranda rights are named for Ernesto Miranda?
Did you know that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera seria Idomeneo is set on the island of Crete following the Trojan War?
Did you know that the Byzantine Senate survived from the end of the Roman Empire up until the time of the Fourth Crusade?
Did you know that the colorful Sri Lanka Junglefowl is part of the junglefowl family from which our modern domestic chickens derive?
Did you know that Tamale, Ghana obtains its electricity from Akosombo Dam in the central Ghana?
Did you know that the use of the term President in its current sense, meaning executive government officer, may have come from the colonial-era American university system?
Did you know that Beijing opera did not originate in Beijing but in the Chinese provinces of Anhui and Hubei?
Did you know that Russian humor thrived even during the Soviet stagnation period of the 1970s and 1980s?
Did you know that the British judicial practice of Quarter Sessions existed until 1972?
Did you know that the California Manroot has 5cm round fruits covered in 1cm spines, and a bitter taste?
Did you know that the Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier contains the remains of a Canadian soldier who died in France during World War I?
Did you know that the United States Navy practiced burial at sea as recently as World War II?
Did you know that weather lore is essentially folk meteorology and varies widely in its veracity?
Did you know that Boris Yeltsin wanted to remove the body of Vladimir Lenin from public display in Lenin's Mausoleum but failed to achieve his goal while in power?
Did you know that China's peaceful rise is the current non-threatening foreign policy doctrine of the People's Republic of China?
Did you know that Pale Flax may be an evolutionary predecessor to Common Flax, from which the fiber is derived?
Did you know that gravitational collapse is a leading cause of star death?
Did you know that the Schneider CA1 was the first French tank?
Did you know that the geology of the Grand Canyon area includes more than 40 identified rock layers?
Did you know that the history of the periodic table records at least two pre-Mendeleevian attempts to organize the elements?
Did you know that the lowest ranks in the Norwegian military are the menig (Army), flysoldat (Air Force) and Utskrevet menig (Navy)?
Did you know that Fort Caroline, near present-day Jacksonville, Florida, was the first permanent French colony in North America?
Did you know that June and Jennifer Gibbons communicated via a twin language?
Did you know that Russian military man Boris Shaposhnikov successfully transitioned from the armed forces of czarist Russia to those of the USSR?
Did you know that the Henrician Articles, passed in 1573, laid out the principles of government in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
Did you know that Cousin problems have nothing to do with difficult relatives?
Did you know that Herb Robert, a species of cranesbill, is believed by traditional herbologists to be a toothache palliative?
Did you know that Mickey Marcus is the only person buried at the United States Military Academy who died fighting under a foreign flag?
Did you know that The Most Dangerous Game has been repeatedly used as source material by television shows like Gilligan's Island?
Did you know that in the United Kingdom a County palatine was one which had special autonomy and was ruled by an Earl or Count?
Did you know that many Mexicans pray to a figure known as Saint Death?
Did you know that most garden flowers and herbs are forbs?
Did you know that the Allies organized the South East Asia Command, led by Lord Mountbatten, to manage operations in the southern Pacific Theater during World War II?
Did you know that the Battle of Blue Licks in Kentucky was the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War?
Did you know that the Von Willebrand factor is a blood protein used by the coagulation function of the circulatory system?
Did you know that there are at least 10 Malay-based creoles?
Did you know that Notre-Dame de la Paix Basilica in Yamoussoukro, Cote d'Ivoire is the world's tallest cathedral?
Did you know that high jumper Ulrike Meyfarth became the youngest individual Olympic champion in athletics?
Did you know that pole stars change over time because stars exhibit a slow but distinct drift with respect to the Earth's axis?
Did you know that the film The Titfield Thunderbolt was inspired by the restoration of the narrow gauge Talyllyn Railway in Wales?
Did you know that Taiwan celebrates a national Teacher's Day holiday each September 28?
Did you know that although opera contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink had a son fighting on the other side, she toured the United States to raise money for the USA in World War I?
Did you know that both serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors and novel antidepressants like bupropion work on multiple neurotransmitters?
Did you know that the HMS Finisterre replaced her sister-ship the Hogue in Far Eastern service after the latter was destroyed by a collision with an Indian cruiser?
Did you know that Dave Righetti was the first player in Major League Baseball history to pitch a no-hitter and lead the league in saves in a career?
Did you know that all members of the genus Zigadenus are unpalatable to livestock because of the presence of alkaloids?
Did you know that in 1169 Denny Abbey was handed over to the Knights Templar?
Did you know that the co-winner with Jane Addams of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize was Nicholas Butler?
Did you know that Broadmoor Hospital is the most famous mental institution in England?
Did you know that an American thoroughbred racehorse named Cigar was the first winner of the Dubai World Cup?
Did you know that the Three-Self Patriotic Movement is part of the only government-sanctioned Protestant church in the People's Republic of China?
Did you know that the longest extra inning game in professional baseball history was an International League game that lasted 33 innings?
Did you know that Abercrombie & Fitch was founded in 1892 and originally sold hunting, camping and fishing gear?
Did you know that in the 19th century the Wörthersee became an exclusive summer retreat for Vienna's nobility?
Did you know that the Maltese alphabet contains 29 letters but does not contain the Latin letter Y?
Did you know that the saliva of a Common Garter Snake may be toxic to amphibians and other small animals?
Did you know that most people on a raw food diet won't eat anything heated to more than 46°C (115°F)?
Did you know that the Diadochi were generals of Alexander the Great who sought power after his death?
Did you know that the Homomonument in Amsterdam commemorates all gay men and lesbians who have been subjected to persecution because of their sexual orientation?
Did you know that the first helicopter flight was in 1906 in Lisieux, France?
Did you know that the root of the Purple Salsify tastes of oysters?
Did you know that when released, the film Waterworld was the biggest failure, in terms of returns?
Did you know that the Exotic World Burlesque Museum is located on the site of an abandoned goat farm?
Did you know that Marcin Kromer was a 16th century Prince-Bishop of Warmia, cartographer, and historian in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
Did you know that the Siam Tulip is not a tulip, but is related to ginger?
Did you know that the so-called Loughall Martyrs were a group of eight men from the Provisional IRA's East Tyrone Brigade who were ambushed and killed on May 8 1987 by the British special forces, the SAS?
Did you know that the Duchy of the Archipelago was an alliance of islands in the Aegean Sea organized after the Fourth Crusade?
Did you know that the Homestead Grays were the Negro League world champs every year from 1937 through 1945?
Did you know that nearly half the eligible male population of New Zealand served in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during World War I?
Did you know that the Pascha greeting is an Easter custom amongst Orthodox Christians?
Did you know that the Vickers machine gun was the standard weapon on all British and French military aircraft after 1916?
Did you know that the All-China Youth Network Civilization Convention is a short statement promulgated by the authorities in the People's Republic of China, regulating the use of the internet by the Chinese youth?
Did you know that Groundskeeper Willie, a character on The Simpsons, coined the phrase cheese-eating surrender monkeys?
Did you know that One Hundred Years of Solitude is considered Gabriel García Márquez's magnum opus?
Did you know that Taiwan professional baseball was started in 1989, and the two leagues merged in 2003?
Did you know that on Dagen H, or H Day, (Sunday September 3, 1967) at 5:00 am, Swedes switched from driving on the left to the right?
Did you know that the Mid-Canada Line was a line of radar sites across Canada designed to be an nuclear attack early-warning system?
Did you know that the caterpillar of the Western Tiger Swallowtail butterfly has large yellow eyespots?
Did you know that what was probably the last living Spix's Macaw died in 2000?
Did you know that England brokered the 1617 Treaty of Stolbova between Sweden and Russia?
Did you know that former U.S. decathlete Rafer Johnson ignited the Olympic Flame during the opening ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that hoodoos are tall skinny spires of rock that protrude from the bottom of arid basins and badlands?
Did you know that it was the British geologist Joseph Prestwich who confirmed the findings of Boucher de Perthes?
Did you know that the Hubbard Glacier is the longest tidewater glacier in Alaska?
Did you know that Gatianus of Tours was one of seven bishops sent by Pope Fabian from Rome to Gaul to preach the Gospel?
Did you know that quantum optics is a field of research in physics, dealing with the application of quantum mechanics to phenomena of light?
Did you know that the evolution of sex is a major puzzle of evolutionary biology, due to the so-called two-fold cost of sex?
Did you know that the hyper engine was a hypothetical aircraft engine design meant to deliver 1 horsepower from 1 cubic inch of displacement?
Did you know that during the Cold War, Soviet leaders used "And you are lynching Negroes..." as an ad hominem attack against the U.S.?
Did you know that in architecture, there are at least five kinds of buttress: clasping, angle, flying, set-back and diagonal?
Did you know that residents of California buy more earthquake insurance than residents of any other U.S. state?
Did you know that the Lion's Mane Jellyfish is the biggest jellyfish in the world?
Did you know that the Temple Bar marks the western edge of the City of London?
Did you know that Pizza Hut was founded by Dan and Frank Carney?
Did you know that after the Red Baron, French ace René Fonck had the most confirmed World War I aerial victories?
Did you know that an apartment building known as Pavlov's House became a symbol of Soviet resistance during World War II's Battle of Stalingrad?
Did you know that authentic shrunken heads have nose hair?
Did you know that in 1934 Leonid Nikolaev was executed for the murder of Sergei Kirov, the popular chief of the Leningrad Communist Party?
Did you know that public broadcasting in New Zealand of color television began in 1975?
Did you know that the Australian Corps was the largest corps fielded by the British army in France during World War I?
Did you know that the cucumber sandwich is an integral part of polite tea?
Did you know that the first branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was located in Philly's city hall?
Did you know that rapid single flux quantum is an electronics technology that relies on quantum effects in superconducting materials rather than the present-day transistor standard?
Did you know that surgery patients who experience anesthesia awareness may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder?
Did you know that the Irish Supreme Court sits at the Four Courts building in Dublin?
Did you know that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned literacy tests as a voting qualification in the U.S.?
Did you know that Canada's tax policy does not include an inheritance tax?
Did you know that Emilio Carranza was known as "the Lindbergh of Mexico"?
Did you know that George Rogers Clark, older brother of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, captured two British forts during the American Revolutionary War?
Did you know that Kawaiahao Church is known as the Westminster Abbey of Hawaii?
Did you know that an oast house is a traditional Kentish structure for drying hops before brewing?
Did you know that corals, graptolites, brachiopods and trilobites are frequently used as index fossils?
Did you know that many old buildings near Government Center in Boston once hid fugitive slaves riding the Underground Railroad?
Did you know that the assassination in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria led to World War I? (Okay, you probably did know that one.)
Did you know that the most popular brand of absinthe was Pernod Fils?
Did you know that bag people were common in the USSR following the Russian Revolution?
Did you know that some people believe that the Angels of Mons helped protect British forces during World War I's Battle of Mons?
Did you know that the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption in Washington was the first major volcanic eruption to occur in the U.S. since the 1915 eruption of Lassen Peak in California?
Did you know that women are twice as likely as men to have pulmonary hypertension?
Did you know that in Irish politics, no ordinary referendum has ever occurred?
Did you know that Andante in C was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's first composition?
Did you know that Battleship Row bore the brunt of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor?
Did you know that Sale of the Century was Australia's longest-running game show?
Did you know that freak waves are common near Cape Algulhas off the southern tip of Africa?
Did you know that British Columbia provincial highway 2 is a short road from Dawson Creek to the B.C./Alberta border?
Did you know that four planes were simultaneously hijacked in the 1970 Dawson's Field hijackings?
Did you know that the caterpillars of the Anise Swallowtail butterfly like to eat fennel?
Did you know that Canada Dry ginger ale became a popular mixer during Prohibition, when its flavor helped mask the taste of homemade liquor?
Did you know that Chick Gandil was the ringleader of the 1919 Black Sox scandal in American baseball?
Did you know that Galileo's father Vincenzo Galilei was a noted Italian lutenist?
Did you know that the Oxford University Museum was the site of a major debate in evolutionary biology?
Did you know that toothed whales and baleen whales use different means to produce the sounds that comprise whale songs?
Did you know that Body surface area is an important measure used in medicine to calculate chemotherapy dosage?
Did you know that a "rain of fish" (a tornado that travels over the ocean, sucks up fish and then drops them over villages) is a common theme appearing in Honduran art - part of the Culture of Honduras?
Did you know that 1943 Triple Crown winner Count Fleet was both sire of and sired by Kentucky Derby winners?
Did you know that Charley Fox, a Canadian flight lieutenant, was credited with injuring Erwin Rommel?
Did you know that a "rain of fish" (a tornado that travels over the ocean, sucks up fish and then drops them over villages) is a common theme appearing in Honduran art - part of the culture of Honduras?
Did you know that body surface area is an important measure used in medicine to calculate chemotherapy dosage?
Did you know that the 1539 Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts, which mandated the use of French in official documents, contributed to the rise of French nationalism?
Did you know that the Brazil nut effect, a law of physics, dictates that when a mixture of granular material is shaken the biggest particles end up on the top?
Did you know that the indigenous peoples of Brazil domesticated cassava?
Did you know that the music genre known as bouncy techno originated in Scotland?
Did you know that the original orange-red Fiestaware dinnerware contained a substantial quantity of uranium?
Did you know that visually impaired musicians can begin learning Music Braille once they are competent in grade-two level literary Braille?
Did you know that Scandanavia's High North Alliance works to protect the whaling interests of member countries?
Did you know that the Humboldt River in Nevada is the longest river in the Great Basin and furnished the route of the Central Pacific segment of the transcontinental railroad?
Did you know that the Trumpeter Swan is the largest swan native to North American?
Did you know that the nectar of Yellow Jessamine causes brood death when gathered by honeybees?
Did you know that Azerbaijanis live in Iran, Georgia, Turkey, Iraq and the United States, as well as Azerbaijan?
Did you know that in physics, a Landau pole is the energy scale where a coupling constant of a quantum field theory becomes infinite?
Did you know that the Barnburners supported Martin Van Buren in the U.S. presidential election of 1848?
Did you know that there are 14 gases which are lighter than air?
Did you know that the radio industry can be divided into public service, commercial and community radio?
Did you know that a member of the Gelechiidae family of moths is used to control spotted knapweed?
Did you know that short leading men often stand on apple boxes to make themselves look taller on film?
Did you know that the London Charter of the International Military Tribunal established the legal basis for the Nuremberg trials?