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Did you know that Philadelphia Phillies rookie Michael Schwimer was featured on ESPN while walking across a baseball field wearing a pink feather boa, and matching pink purse and pink backpack?
Did you know that Rod Stewart forgot the name of the mandolin player for his song "Mandolin Wind"?
Did you know that Whiggism took different forms in England and Scotland?
Did you know that after 26 nuns signed A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion, the Vatican stated that all but two had recanted, leading 11 others to issue a statement of solidarity denying that they had done so?
Did you know that although fair dealing in United Kingdom law is interpreted liberally, it is still narrower than the United States equivalent?
Did you know that although the Muria generally encourage premarital sex, some communities punish young people who take the same sexual partner for more than three nights?
Did you know that decision fatigue can influence irrational impulse purchases at supermarkets?
Did you know that despite saving hundreds of wounded soldiers during World War II, Ekaterina Mikhailova-Demina had to wait until 1990 to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union?
Did you know that little Neptune grass forms meadows on the seabed and can be used to measure the movement of underwater dunes?
Did you know that the bottle for Katy Perry's Purr perfume was inspired by her Catwoman stage costume?
Did you know that the modern Warlander, a new Baroque horse breed derived from the Andalusian and Friesian breeds, was inspired by a historic war horse cross that has been bred since at least the 16th century?
Did you know that "Little Luke"'s Ponzi scheme may lead to the "death penalty" for Miami?
Did you know that Indonesian comedy band Project Pop originally sang about "food and martial arts fighters"?
Did you know that Italian artist Sara Pichelli was the first to illustrate the half-black, half-Hispanic Spider-Man?
Did you know that J.L. Forster's school band played in Expo '67, Expo '70, and for Queen Elizabeth II?
Did you know that Liverpool's Tower Buildings were among the first steel-framed buildings in England?
Did you know that Urocyon progressus, a species of extinct fox, was formally described after two bones and a tooth were found?
Did you know that a kichō is a portable multi-paneled silk partition used in aristocratic households during and following the Heian period in Japan?
Did you know that after being developed for the National Aerospace Plane, HyperSizer software was used to improve the design of wind turbines and a one-of-a-kind airplane?
Did you know that in 1622 a civil war broke out in present-day Bolivia between Basques and Vicuñas?
Did you know that in 1730, rebels under the command of a silversmith named Alejo Calatayud seized control of Cochabamba, Bolivia?
Did you know that supplejack, blackbutt and soapy box can be found along the Hacking River?
Did you know that Gun Hägglund was Sweden's first female TV news presenter?
Did you know that Mark Knopfler's publisher made a country-style tape of Knopfler's song "Water of Love" without his knowledge, which led to a cover of the song by The Judds?
Did you know that a giant elephant (engraving pictured) in Paris was protected by a man living in one of its legs?
Did you know that for most of its history, Ixtonton was the most important Maya city in the upper Mopan Valley of Guatemala?
Did you know that in the central movement of Bach's cantata Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101, a "furious ritornello" of three oboes is followed unexpectedly by a line of the chorale?
Did you know that the Niagara Whirlpool formed when the Niagara River intersected an ancient pre-glacial river gorge?
Did you know that the cotton manufacturer John Horrocks is commemorated twice by St Mary's Church, Penwortham, Lancashire?
Did you know that the first Bayfield group quarry opened in 1868 on Basswood Island?
Did you know that the first film directed by actor Leon Herbert was the British comedy/drama Emotional Backgammon?
Did you know that the largest roller derby competition ever held outside of the United States was hosted by Adelaide Roller Derby and won by the Victorian VRDL All Stars?
Did you know that the reformers of Kołłątaj's Forge popularized the ideals of the French Revolution in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth?
Did you know that American singer Soraya earned the first Latin Grammy Award for Best Singer-Songwriter Album in 2004?
Did you know that British actor Michael Socha was injured at least seven times during filming of his scenes on the supernatural drama Being Human?
Did you know that Sam Greene, who covered Detroit sports from 1922 to 1963, was called "one of America's best known sports chroniclers," "a gentlemanly patriarch" and one of sport's "most beloved figures"?
Did you know that a fossil of the extinct monitor lizard Saniwa preserves cartilage, scales, and even a wind pipe?
Did you know that despite being captured on D-Day, 6 June 1944 by British paratroops, the Merville Gun Battery remained in German hands until 17 August?
Did you know that during B. B. Davis' basketball career at Lamar University, his team won the conference championship every year?
Did you know that in 1953, Paul Arizin won a belated most valuable player award for his performance in the previous year's NBA All-Star Game?
Did you know that pink pores and a very bitter taste help identify Tylopilus species (T. felleus pictured) from other boletes?
Did you know that the album Ballad of Salah, released as an act of charity during Ramadan, includes songs based on the Quran and the life of Muhammad?
Did you know that the film career of Bruno Kastner began in 1914 with the silent film Engelein (Little Angel), opposite Asta Nielsen, and ended with the advent of sound, because he stammered?
Did you know that the first Arab settlements in Indonesia (family pictured) may date from the fifth century?
Did you know that the men of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project took two weeks to assemble their first atomic bomb in December 1946?
Did you know that Edward Fitzgerald's clients have included public hate-figures such as Myra Hindley, Mary Bell, Maxine Carr, Jon Venables, various IRA prisoners and  Abu Hamza?
Did you know that Kid Ory's composition "Ory's Creole Trombone" was the first jazz record made by a black jazz band from New Orleans?
Did you know that causes of the deaths at the Berlin Wall (examples of memorials pictured) included shooting, drowning, suffocation, suicide, and falling from a balloon?
Did you know that coal balls are not made of coal?
Did you know that during the Prohibition era, the National League's leading pitcher Heinie Meine operated a speakeasy known for "moose milk that would peel the paint off a battleship"?
Did you know that sculptor Louise Nevelson had an affair with Diego Rivera, much to the dismay of Frida Kahlo?
Did you know that shrimp, seaweed, and milkfish are found in Bone?
Did you know that the Port of Rijeka, the largest Croatian port, was once the only Hungarian seaport?
Did you know that the historic Cuckoo house was damaged in the 2011 Virginia earthquake?
Did you know that the houseboat Vallejo, made an icon of Bay Area culture by artist Jean Varda and philosopher Alan Watts in the 1960s, originally served as a passenger ferry in Portland, Oregon in the 1870s?
Did you know that Chintamani Temple at Theur, dedicated to the Hindu god Ganesha, was given a large European bell by Peshwa general Chimaji Appa?
Did you know that Greg Bear's 2008 science fiction novel City at the End of Time pays homage to William Hope Hodgson's 1912 novel, The Night Land?
Did you know that Indonesian prostitutes are sometimes marketed via Facebook?
Did you know that Operation Eagle is an Egyptian military campaign aimed at confronting Islamic insurgents and criminal gangs in the Sinai Peninsula?
Did you know that Pizza Hut's success in the People's Republic of China inspired the Norwegian pizza chain Peppes Pizza to open in Beijing?
Did you know that both the Tarnogród Confederation and the Silent Sejm were engineered by Russian Tsar Peter the Great to strengthen Russia's influence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
Did you know that buds of Tennessee yellow-eyed grass are forced open by the bee Lasioglossum zephyrum, seeking first access to the flowers' pollen?
Did you know that his first fight against Gray Maynard was "a turning point" in Frankie Edgar's career?
Did you know that professor emeritus Gerhard Tötemeyer dropped out of school because he spoke neither English nor Afrikaans, the official languages in South-West Africa?
Did you know that spines of the purple sea urchin provide shelter for large-headed Goby juveniles?
Did you know that the Illuminate Light & Laser Spectacular at Dreamworld features a segment that recreates Aurora Australis?
Did you know that the Old Church of Helsinki was intended to be a temporary building that could serve the parish until consecration of the Helsinki Cathedral?
Did you know that the suicidal civil servant Urmuz was depicted by posterity as Romania's first Dadaist?
Did you know that while serving in the Nixon administration, Barry Locke also worked as a boxing manager?
Did you know that 2,274 tonnes of sand was transported onto the Horse Guards Parade ground for the VISA FIVB Beach Volleyball International?
Did you know that Balgownie, the residence of Wellington businessman John Duthie, is believed to have been the first in the region to have had electricity?
Did you know that Dummy Taylor, once the highest salaried deaf person in the United States, was ejected from a baseball game for cursing out the umpire in sign language?
Did you know that Edvard Grieg composed only one song cycle, ''Haugtussa'' for soprano and piano?
Did you know that Fred Dunlap, who was once the highest paid player in professional baseball, died penniless at the age of 43?
Did you know that Michelle Hurd, who played Detective Monique Jeffries on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, was frustrated by the lack of material for her character and departed from the show?
Did you know that approximately 100,000 psychedelic Psilocybe cyanescens mushrooms were once found growing on a racetrack?
Did you know that current New York Giants linebacker Jacquian Williams has been a teammate of Jason Pierre-Paul in junior college, college and now with the Giants?
Did you know that the architecture of Liverpool's 1906 State Insurance Building has been described as "wiry," "sinuous" and "flamboyant Gothic"?
Did you know that the extinct griffenfly genus Bohemiatupus inhabited peat-mires?
Did you know that the right-trunked Ganesha icon of the Siddhivinayak Temple is considered to be very powerful and a giver of success and powers?
Did you know that there was a widespread belief in 19th-century German psychiatry that all forms of mental illness were simple variations of a single unitary psychosis?
Did you know that when she sang "Circle the Drain" in a 2011 concert, Katy Perry was dressed in a catsuit and the stage was decorated with meat?
Did you know that Charles Sylvester described toilets in 1819 at the new Derby Infirmary that cleaned themselves and exchanged foul air every time they were used (see diagram)?
Did you know that Princess Sophia, the fifth daughter of King George III, once remarked her life was so "deadly dull" that she wished she were a kangaroo?
Did you know that QRpedia lets museum visitors quickly see Wikipedia articles about exhibits, on their mobile phones, in their own language?
Did you know that Sir Geoffrey Francis Archer's young lions almost caught General Edmund Allenby's pet stork?
Did you know that Sister Agnes Mary Mansour left the Sisters of Mercy after three decades of service rather than make a statement against abortion?
Did you know that South Africa's Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act was described by the Guttmacher Institute as "one of the most liberal abortion laws in the world"?
Did you know that St Maxentius' Church in Bradshaw, Greater Manchester, is the only church in England dedicated to Saint Maxentius?
Did you know that Academy Hall was the first building at Edinboro University and is the oldest normal school building in Pennsylvania?
Did you know that John Millson went from being mayor of Windsor, Ontario, to president of its raceway?
Did you know that Mary P. Sinclair and her family were shunned and harassed for years after she spoke out against the nuclear power plant proposed for Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan?
Did you know that Ragusan diplomat Paladin Gundulić performed services for Eric of Pomerania, Ferdinand I of Naples and the Duchy of Saint Sava?
Did you know that Robert Crawford, scorer of the first goal in international football, was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment with hard labour for causing a servant to be flogged to death?
Did you know that The Longford Trust's inaugural Longford Lecture was given by Cherie Blair in 2002?
Did you know that Yale University alumnus Ryan Lavarnway employs the "tools of ignorance" as a rookie for the Boston Red Sox?
Did you know that before founding the humanitarian fashion label OmniPeace, Mary Fanaro considered selling chocolate to help end poverty in Africa?
Did you know that five National Basketball Association (NBA) teams own and operate their NBA Development League affiliates in the upcoming 2011–12 NBA Development League season?
Did you know that it takes more muscles to smile than it does to frown?
Did you know that one year ago today the 2010 Christchurch earthquake irreparably damaged much of the city's built heritage (example of a now-demolished building pictured)?
Did you know that the species name of the Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker means "bloodstained"?
Did you know that Argentine president Juan Perón expelled the terrorist organization Montoneros from the Plaza de Mayo during the 1974 celebrations of the International Workers' Day?
Did you know that Dairi farms produce coffee, corn, and fish?
Did you know that Lesotho–Soviet relations suffered a setback after the January 1986 overthrow of Basotho Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan by Justin Lekhanya?
Did you know that Norman Rockwell's The Problem We All Live With could not be displayed in a public area of the White House because of the racial slur painted behind Ruby Bridges?
Did you know that Orator Shafer's 50 outfield assists in 1879 established a Major League Baseball record that has stood for over 130 years?
Did you know that Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos, a 2nd-century astrology book, is still considered a basic text in Western astrology?
Did you know that Red-headed Honeyeater males fight each other by grappling in mid-air and falling close to the ground before disengaging?
Did you know that Tadeusz Rejtan is remembered in Poland for his dramatic gesture as a symbol of patriotism?
Did you know that in 1854, Charles S. Drew was appointed quartermaster general of the Oregon territorial militia by Democratic governor John W. Davis, but was removed from office when he joined the Know-Nothing Party?
Did you know that in 1992 the future Peace in Africa destroyed the Terminator?
Did you know that the Indonesian literary group Lekra was accused of having foreknowledge of the attempted coup d'état in 1965?
Did you know that the Thomas Hynes House, home to Nobu Matsuhisa's restaurant in Aspen, Colorado, is considered to epitomize the city's early miners' cottages?
Did you know that the trolleybus system serving Dayton, Ohio, in operation since 1933, is the second-oldest such system in the Western Hemisphere?
Did you know that twice-capped Guyana international footballer Clydie Roberts is a cousin of England international Jermain Defoe?
Did you know that while working on his 1897 painting of eleven Fox Terriers, The Totteridge XI, artist Arthur Wardle was repeatedly told to make the dogs appear closer to the breed standard?
Did you know that Solomon was accidentally castrated as an infant?
Did you know that St Michael's Church, Whittington, in Lancashire stands in the bailey of a former castle, and a sundial stands on the summit of its motte?
Did you know that although St Lawrence's Church in Morecambe, Lancashire, is considered by Nikolaus Pevsner to be Paley and Austin's best church in the town, it is now redundant?
Did you know that by winning in the 2011 PBA Governors' Cup Finals, the Petron Blaze Boosters prevented the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters from winning the first Grand Slam in the Philippine Basketball Association since 1996?
Did you know that in 2012 Six Flags Magic Mountain plans to open Lex Luthor: Drop of Doom, the world's tallest vertical drop ride?
Did you know that the Battle of Tripoli in 1825 was the result of the Sardinian consul's failure to provide Yusuf Karamanli, the ruler of Tripoli, with tribute?
Did you know that the original script written by Oliver Stone for Conan the Barbarian featured 10,000 mutants and was called a "total drug fever dream" by the film's director, John Milius?
Did you know that the seven armed starfish can "walk" and does not have an anus?
Did you know that the short story "Langit Makin Mendung" was banned in Indonesia partly because a character wore glasses?
Did you know that Bach's cantata Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut, BWV 113, is based on a penitential chorale, matching the prescribed reading, the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector?
Did you know that Buster Warenski made a replica, containing over 32 ounces of gold, of a dagger found in Tutankhamun's tomb?
Did you know that Charles Davis Lucas, the first person to be awarded the Victoria Cross, is buried in the churchyard of St Lawrence's Church in Mereworth, Kent?
Did you know that Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag was the first publisher of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony?
Did you know that Swedish television's first TV news presenter, Olle Björklund, was fired after his name appeared in a tobacco advertisement?
Did you know that in 1768, Duke Ernest Gottlob of Mecklenburg received an inoculation against smallpox alongside the future King William IV of the United Kingdom?
Did you know that the 2011–12 Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team returns all five starters from last season, including a Nigerian who did not play high school basketball and a Swede who is the son of a former NBA player?
Did you know that the Austrian ALEA Ensemble performed string quartets of Iván Erőd and Herbert Blendinger, and piano trios of these composers, Graham Waterhouse and their founder Gerhard Präsent?
Did you know that the London International Basketball Invitational was the first sporting tournament to take place within London's Olympic Park?
Did you know that the South Tar River Greenway (trailhead pictured) is the longest greenway in Greenville, North Carolina, and eventually will become part of the East Coast Greenway?
Did you know that the black brittle star and its associate the common brittle star may form beds on the sea floor extending hundreds of square metres and consisting of millions of individuals?
Did you know that the investigation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the first ever formal investigation to be opened by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court?
Did you know that Alfred Baker, who scored England's first goal in international football, was an auctioneer by profession?
Did you know that Elli Hatschek, her husband Paul, and his daughter, Krista Lavíčková, were all executed by the Nazis within seven months of each other?
Did you know that Eros Djarot's biopic on Cut Nyak Dhien has been interpreted as attributing Indonesia's independence to her guerrilla campaign?
Did you know that Hawaii–Tahiti relations during the 1800s included a proposal that Hawaiian Princess Kekāuluohi should marry a son of Tahitian King Pōmare I?
Did you know that after joining the Boise State football team as a walk-on, Ryan Winterswyk appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated and was named to the school's All-Decade team?
Did you know that before Tom Oberheim started Oberheim Electronics, he was the first ARP synthesizer dealer on the US West Coast, and sold an ARP synthesizer to Frank Zappa?
Did you know that in 1945 the British government denied that it supported Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi becoming king of Sudan?
Did you know that it is claimed that tavern sandwiches were first created in Sioux City, Iowa in 1924, at a restaurant that later became known as Ye Olde Tavern?
Did you know that some dark and eerie scenes in the film Cinta Pertama (First Love) reflect the director's previous experience in horror films?
Did you know that the Battle of Clervaux, part of the Battle of the Bulge, has been compared to the Alamo?
Did you know that the Cross of Merit of the Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic is the highest award presented by the Czech Minister of Defence?
Did you know that the art photographers Anna and Bernhard Blume created Kitchen Frenzy and Pure Reason?
Did you know that the developers of Myth III: The Wolf Age turned their Fear & Loathing into Vengeance for the modding community?
Did you know that the gonads of the sea urchin Sphaerechinus granularis are considered a delicacy in Italian cuisine?
Did you know that the original Melakarta scheme in Carnatic music, still in use today, has no scientific or mathematical rules?
Did you know that the world auction record for cars was set last month by a 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa at $16.4 million?
Did you know that the yellow bloodwood (bark pictured) tends to grow on the western slopes of plateaus and escarpments?
Did you know that André Watson holds records for refereeing the greatest number of finals in the Rugby World Cup, Currie Cup and Super Rugby?
Did you know that Apple Inc.'s Numbers has been called a page layout and presentation program disguised as a spreadsheet?
Did you know that FEMA determines the impact of a storm based on the service at Waffle House?
Did you know that Tsang Kam To represented the Hong Kong football team for the 2009 East Asian Games and 2010 Asian Games?
Did you know that Wolfgang Sawallisch conducted Helen Donath, Hermann Becht and the Bayerisches Staatsorchester in the first recording of the cantata Media in vita by Herbert Blendinger?
Did you know that baseball player Bloody Jake Evans, who once led the National League in outfield assists, injured his arm while throwing the ball and played his last game at the age of 28?
Did you know that many children have been injured or died while sweeping up cotton?
Did you know that puppeteer Timothy M. Rose asked to portray Return of the Jedi's Admiral Ackbar solely based on the character's looks?
Did you know that renowned poet William Wordsworth was inspired by a leech collector (leech pictured)?
Did you know that the Jewish folktale of Yossele the Holy Miser (tombstone pictured) speaks to one of the highest forms of charity in the Jewish tradition – giving anonymously?
Did you know that the National Farm Toy Museum, located in Dyersville, Iowa, has one of the largest cast iron farm toy collections?
Did you know that the elaborately Gothick Grade 1 listed Brizlee Tower was built by the third 1st Duke of Northumberland who declared "they are my orders, it is my planning"?
Did you know that Ahmed al-Senussi, a member of the Libyan National Transitional Council, is related to Idris of Libya, Libya's only king?
Did you know that Andreas Munch was the first person to be granted a poet's pension by the Parliament of Norway?
Did you know that Gid Gardner was part of the first known platoon arrangement in baseball?
Did you know that Mani Nagappa, who sculpted the statue of Thiruvalluvar near Halasuru Lake, Bangalore, was the son of Rao Bahadur M. S. Nagappa, who made statues of British governors and administrators?
Did you know that Neo-Confucianism during Japan's Edo Period (pioneer Fujiwara Seika pictured) believed that the universe could be understood through human reason, even if interpretations were different depending on the philosophical school?
Did you know that Pitt, Wellington, and Nelson are celebrated on the Camphill Column, Alnwick, now standing on an oval hillfort in the middle of a golf course?
Did you know that Spreetshoogte Pass is the steepest mountain pass in Namibia?