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Did you know that the Phiale of Megara may be the earliest attested example of local Doric Greek dialect written in ancient Macedonia, unless it actually comes from Megara?
Did you know that the giant stumptail stingray is only known from two specimens caught near Vladivostok, Russia, in Peter the Great Bay?
Did you know that the original "Three Little Maids from School" in Gilbert and Sullivan's 1885 opera The Mikado were Sybil Grey, Jessie Bond and Leonora Braham?
Did you know that the play Beunans Ke, discovered in 2000, was one of the most significant finds in the study of Cornish literature and language?
Did you know that the programmes of the National Civics Bureau, an agency of the Malaysian government, were accused of promoting the Malay supremacy and indoctrination?
Did you know that three airmen died testing the three prototypes of the Polikarpov SPB (D)?
Did you know that under the Policing and Crime Act 2009, it is now an offence in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland to persistently possess alcohol in a public place if you are under 18 years of age?
Did you know that African-American gay and transgender Ali Forney, once homeless himself, had a homeless LGBT youth center in New York City named after him for his work helping other youths?
Did you know that American countertenor Bejun Mehta began his musical career as a boy soprano, praised by Leonard Bernstein?
Did you know that Ayaan Ali Khan, son of famous Indian sarod player Amjad Ali Khan, hosted the TV music competition show Sa Re Ga Ma with brother Amaan?
Did you know that Czech bandleader Karel Duba died on 21 August 1968 in Mongolia, when the bus with his band fell into an abyss?
Did you know that Danskammer Generating Station was among the top ten releasers of pollutants by weight in New York, releasing 560 tonnes of hazardous emissions, in 2000?
Did you know that Horton Plains National Park supports the most extensive area of surviving cloud forest in Sri Lanka?
Did you know that Launcelot Percival was an England international rugby union player before becoming Deputy Clerk of the Closet to George VI of the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Orange County Community College in Middletown, New York, held its first classes in the Webb Horton House's garage?
Did you know that St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Glynwood, Ohio, was the only Irish church in an area settled primarily by German Catholics?
Did you know that according to legend, a beautiful widow drowned herself in the Adalaj Stepwell to avoid being remarried?
Did you know that actress Aubrey Plaza said "Hunting Trip", an episode of the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, could mark the start of a romance between her character and that of actor Chris Pratt?
Did you know that although USS Cocopa was built for service in World War II, she remains on active duty with the Mexican Navy as ARM Seri?
Did you know that among Korean regional cuisine, the luxurious style of Kaesong cuisine of North Korea is frequently compared with those of Seoul and Jeolla cuisines of South Korea?
Did you know that at 4,595 m above sea level, the fields at Korzok Monastery in India have been called the highest cultivated land in the world?
Did you know that both the father and son Johann Friedrich and Carl von und zu Mansbach, who spent much of their life in Hesse and Denmark, also served as commanders of Fredriksten Fortress in Norway?
Did you know that despite being over 90 years old, the Van Gilder Hotel in Seward, Alaska, is named after a man who owned it for just a few months?
Did you know that in 1943, Alec Cunningham-Reid fought a fellow MP in the British House of Commons?
Did you know that in April 1995, the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League drafted Derrell Robertson, even though he had died in a car accident in December 1994?
Did you know that in filmmaking, a screenwriter usually creates a production package that they hand out during their pitch, which generally includes a plot synopsis and budgeting information on their idea?
Did you know that one naval mine caused the loss of two Empire ships, Empire Blessing and Empire Seablue?
Did you know that pictures by amateur astrophotographer Steve Mandel help to explore faint nebulae of the Milky Way?
Did you know that the bat star has five to nine arms which resemble the wings of a bat?
Did you know that the sharpsnout stingray is caught by subsistence fishers, but not favored as food because its meat is a dark reddish color?
Did you know that Christian references in Islamic art include the Annunciation, the birth of Jesus and his baptism?
Did you know that Filipino social worker Efren Peñaflorida, 2009 CNN Hero of the Year, grew up in a slum near a garbage dump?
Did you know that Hawaiians named a tsunami after 18th century surfer and statesman Naihe?
Did you know that Kjell Borgen resigned as Norwegian Minister of Transport and Communications because of a decision about the location of Oslo Airport?
Did you know that Macedonia's Matka Canyon is home to one of the world's deepest caves?
Did you know that Matthew T. Dickerson is a computational geometer, scholar of J. R. R. Tolkien and the Inklings, novelist, blues musician, fly fisherman, maple sugar farmer, and beekeeper?
Did you know that Mihály Iglói coached Hungarian and American distance runners to set a total of 49 world records?
Did you know that Nokian Tyres, a Finnish company that designed the first winter tyre, must test its summer tyres in South Africa, Spain, and Germany because of the short summers in Finland?
Did you know that Quantula striata is the only land snail that gives off flashes of light?
Did you know that South Hobart's record of five championships in a row from 1919 to 1923 in Football Federation Tasmania's state championship has never been equalled?
Did you know that St Peter's Church, Barton-upon-Humber was the first example of Anglo-Saxon architecture identified using evidence contained in the building?
Did you know that Swiss Vice-Chancellor Thomas Helbling was the project manager for the Austria–Switzerland bid to host Euro 2008?
Did you know that after ramming U-405, crewmen of USS Borie (DD-215) fought the sub's crewmen with Tommy guns, rifles, pistols, shotguns and a flare pistol, and even by throwing a knife and an empty shell casing?
Did you know that although plans were made in 1944 to repair war damage to London's Inner Temple, the repairs were not completed until 1958?
Did you know that during a military campaign in 1312, Emperor Trần Anh Tông entrusted the temporary throne to his son Trần Minh Tông who was only twelve years old at that time?
Did you know that in April 1919, the crew of the French Courbet-class battleship Jean Bart mutinied while helping defend Sevastopol from the advancing Bolsheviks?
Did you know that in her 1875 book The Sexes Throughout Nature, Antoinette Brown Blackwell critiqued the androcentricity expressed by Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer?
Did you know that in the 1537 Siege of Corfu, the Ottoman Emperor Suleiman the Magnificent was joined by a French fleet under Baron de Saint-Blancard?
Did you know that in the original pitch for the animated television series Phineas and Ferb, the character Ferb Fletcher did not speak?
Did you know that opera singer Fisher Morgan, a former principal soloist with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, ended his career in pantomime?
Did you know that the 110 mph BSA Fury British motorcycle designed by Edward Turner  never went into production due to the colapse of the BSA Group?
Did you know that the Antioch Dunes Evening Primrose grows only in the Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge, the first wildlife refuge in the U.S. formed to protect endangered plant and insect species?
Did you know that the Brazilian fashion label Colcci has 1,659 stores in 31 countries, but only one in the United States?
Did you know that the controls of St. Clair Streett's biplane ceased to function at a record high altitude, where the temperature was −78 °F (−61 °C)?
Did you know that the opening of the Gesta principum Polonorum, a history of early Poland written sometime in the 1110s, is addressed to Martin I, Archbishop of Gniezno?
Did you know that the slave Quamina, who was executed by British colonial authorities in 1823, is considered a national hero in Guyana?
Did you know that "the wrong kind of snow" delayed British Rail services during the winter of 1990–1991?
Did you know that Bill Inman was the first medical graduate of University of Cambridge and delivered fifty babies from his adapted wheelchair?
Did you know that Bryant Hammett resigned from the Louisiana House of Representatives in 2006 to oversee disaster recovery for infrastructure impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita?
Did you know that Holby City hospital's disabled CEO Vanessa Lytton is played by Leslie Ash, whose own disability resulted from a hospital stay?
Did you know that John W. Reynolds was admitted to practice law in Oregon before he graduated from law school?
Did you know that LA's St. Cecilia Church, built in 1927, adapted to its multiethnic community by installing shrines to a beatified Nigerian priest, a Oaxacan Virgin, and a Guatemalan "Black Christ"?
Did you know that Oregon pioneer and politician Frederick Waymire was compared to Davy Crockett?
Did you know that Prince George Washington was Front Palace and Vice King of Siam from 1868 to 1885?
Did you know that Uruguayan Isabelino Gradín won South American championships in both football and track and field athletics?
Did you know that a Franco-Hungarian alliance was formed in October 1528 between Francis I of France and Zapolya of Hungary?
Did you know that a valid computer program supplied with correct data may still exhibit unspecified behavior?
Did you know that after being kicked out of his Michigan Militia, Norman Olson moved to Alaska to attempt to start a militia there?
Did you know that among the dead interred at the Calvert Vaux-designed Hillside Cemetery in Middletown, New York, are three Civil War Medal of Honor recipients?
Did you know that despite being only the son of Hát tuồng actors, Dương Nhật Lễ was enthroned as emperor of Đại Việt by his impotent predecessor Trần Dụ Tông?
Did you know that except for bats, nearly 90% of the native land mammals of the Caribbean, including all sloths and monkeys, are now extinct?
Did you know that former Louisiana Legislative Auditor Dan Kyle has joined a new company trying to rebuild Six Flags New Orleans, which has been closed since Hurricane Katrina?
Did you know that of the varieties of retained surgical instruments, the most common item left in the patient after surgery is a sponge?
Did you know that one part of Mendelssohn’s operetta Son and Stranger comprises only a few bars, all on the note F, because the composer’s brother-in-law, Wilhelm Hensel, had no ability as a singer?
Did you know that the Battle of Wawon is considered to be Turkey's first real combat action since the end of World War I?
Did you know that the Kirkland Hotel in Kingston, New York, is a rare surviving example of a wood-frame urban hotel?
Did you know that the Ventura Oil Field is the seventh largest oil field in California, and was at one point the 12th most productive oil field in the United States?
Did you know that the book Blown for Good describes the author's experiences practicing the Scientology technique auditing with actor Tom Cruise?
Did you know that the clock on St. Nicolas' Church, North Stoneham, Hampshire, England, has only one hand?
Did you know that the defense of Allenstein (Olsztyn) (castle pictured) in 1521 against a siege by the Teutonic Knights was successfully organized by the Catholic cleric and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus?
Did you know that the precuneus, a part of the human brain hidden in between the two cerebral hemispheres, is involved with episodic memory, visuospatial processing, reflections upon self, and consciousness?
Did you know that Kate Nesbitt, the first woman in the Royal Navy to be awarded the Military Cross for bravery in Afghanistan while attached to 3 Commando Brigade, is just 5 ft 0 in (1.52 m) tall?
Did you know that Memorial Park Site in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, contains prehistoric cultural deposits up to 8,000 years old?
Did you know that Sugar Blue, the American Grammy Award winning blues harmonicist, took his stage name from Sidney Bechet's track, "Sugar Blues"?
Did you know that Winifred Carney was the only woman present during the initial occupation of the GPO in the Easter Rising, entering the building armed with a typewriter and a Webley revolver?
Did you know that a new railway station was built in six days in Workington to enable residents north of the river to access the town centre following floods which split the town in two?
Did you know that actor and satirical illustrator Thoralf Klouman was among the pioneers of animated film in Norway?
Did you know that after litigation filed by former Scientologist Bonnie Woods reached the High Court of Justice, the Church of Scientology admitted it had made false claims about her?
Did you know that decades after its discovery in 1955 in Turkey's Bursa Province, bursaite was officially discredited as a mineral in 2006?
Did you know that during the CU project controversy "bolt weevils" destroyed 14 transmission towers of a power line under construction in Minnesota?
Did you know that in 1987, American blues pianist Whistlin' Alex Moore became the first African American Texan to be awarded the National Heritage Fellowship?
Did you know that in 1995, American blues harmonica player James Harman recorded a song named for the Zoo Bar club in Lincoln, Nebraska?
Did you know that in Ancient Egypt, servants of the pharaohs would agree to be sacrificed to provide their care in the afterlife?
Did you know that rotating radio transients are among the brightest astronomical sources of radio waves, yet are generally detectable for less than one second a day?
Did you know that solenodons, the only surviving soricomorphs of the Caribbean, are a distinct lineage that may date back to the Mesozoic?
Did you know that some Australian rodeo shows have been called Bushmen's Carnivals?
Did you know that square root biased sampling was originally developed as a way to sample long sequences of DNA?
Did you know that the 47-gun galleon Elizabeth Bonaventure carried 51½ tons of weaponry against the Spanish Armada?
Did you know that the Los Angeles Times wrote that a motorist passing the playground at Precious Blood Church might think "he'd been transported to a Catholic school in circa-1950s Chicago or Pittsburgh"?
Did you know that the author of Behind the Exclusive Brethren decided to research the Australian religious group after discovering its close access to Prime Minister John Howard?
Did you know that the captain of U-607 justified the sinking of the neutral Irish merchant vessel Irish Oak by claiming it was a Q-ship?
Did you know that the ex-monastery of San Francisco in Tzintzuntzan, Mexico, has a wax figure of Christ in a glass coffin, the limbs of which are claimed to be growing?
Did you know that the medieval English bishop Robert de Chesney was an early patron of Thomas Becket, later famous for his quarrel with King Henry II of England?
Did you know that the song "Speechless", by Lady Gaga, was written as a plea to her father to receive the open-heart surgery he needed for a bad aortic valve?
Did you know that when Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park in Arizona was a U.S. Army post from 1864 to 1877, up to 900 mules were kept there to help deliver supplies to five U.S. states?
Did you know that American entertainer Eve was asked to guest-star in the Glee episode "Hairography" after Whitney Houston declined to appear?
Did you know that English-born architect William Nichols designed and built statehouses for North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi in the early 19th century?
Did you know that Harvard lecturer Marshall Ganz is credited with devising the successful grassroots organizing model and training for Barack Obama’s winning 2008 presidential campaign?
Did you know that Holocaust survivor Rudy Kennedy led the campaign for compensation to British survivors who had worked for German companies under the Nazi policy of extermination through labour?
Did you know that Leopold Blaschka, who worked with his son to make detailed glass flowers and marine invertebrates (jellyfish pictured), began his career manufacturing glass eyes?
Did you know that Phil Vassar's high school art teacher painted the cover of his 2009 album Traveling Circus?
Did you know that Rohr, Inc.'s ROMAG personal rapid transit system used a unique arrangement of linear induction motors to provide both traction power and act as a magnetic levitation suspension?
Did you know that Shanti Stupa, Ladakh, inaugurated by the Dalai Lama in 1985, holds the relics of the Buddha?
Did you know that Waldo Hunt, "King of the Pop-Ups," could "make dinosaurs rear up, ships set sail and bats quiver in belfries"?
Did you know that after the attack on Pearl Harbor, director John Huston was forced to leave In This Our Life to fulfill an assignment for the War Department, and Raoul Walsh was called in to complete the film?
Did you know that both the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO and the North American Free Trade Agreement were signed in the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C.?
Did you know that carmaker Audi used the South Korean miniseries You're Beautiful to introduce their new Audi S4?
Did you know that cartoonist Edward Barker and writer Mick Farren published Nasty Tales, the first comic book to face charges for obscenity in Great Britain?
Did you know that royal visitors to Worthing, West Sussex, have included Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, who lived in a seafront hotel as a refugee?
Did you know that sports car racer, yachtsman and rower Robert Hichens was also the most highly decorated officer of the RNVR during the Second World War?
Did you know that the 1969 dedication of St. Basil Church in Los Angeles prompted a "club-swinging mob" of Chicanos to break into the church during Christmas Midnight Mass?
Did you know that "Moses," the first solo single by Cocteau Twins singer Elizabeth Fraser, is a tribute to ex-Echo & the Bunnymen keyboardist Jake Drake-Brockman, who had been a close friend?
Did you know that Akira Iwasaki was the only film critic arrested by the ideological police in wartime Japan?
Did you know that ESPN The Magazine's October 9, 2009, Body Issue sold more issues at the news stand than any other issue of the magazine in the prior two years?
Did you know that Idaho Territory Governor Mason Brayman negotiated the agreement which allowed the Mormons to leave Illinois following the Illinois Mormon War?
Did you know that John Baldwin Neil served as Rutherford B. Hayes' personal secretary before President Hayes appointed him Governor of Idaho Territory?
Did you know that Joseph Moir built the largest stone shot tower in the southern hemisphere?
Did you know that Luis Valdez called American activist Alice McGrath, who inspired his play Zoot Suit, "one of the heroines of the 20th century"?
Did you know that Paul Mantz was permitted to join the Associated Motion Picture Pilots, a union of Hollywood stunt fliers, after performing a world record 46 outside loops in a row?
Did you know that St. Bendt's Church in Ringsted, Denmark, where Danish kings and queens of the 12th to 14th centuries were buried, is the oldest brick church in Scandinavia?
Did you know that a noted 20th century antiquary considered the four most interesting ruinous fortifications on Coll to be Dùn an Achaidh, Dùn Anlaimh, Dùn Dubh, and Dùn Morbhaidh?
Did you know that after Eleanor Evans was appointed as Stage Director of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1949, a large number of performers, including Martyn Green, Ella Halman and Radley Flynn, left in the following years?
Did you know that although the Church of St. Michael and St. Anthony in Montreal is a Roman Catholic church, it features Byzantine architecture and a minaret-style tower?
Did you know that as the mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, W.W. Dumas called a curfew in 1969 to halt riots after the fatal shooting of a fleeing black suspect by a white police officer?
Did you know that during the latter part of the 20th century, Heekin Can was one of the largest U.S. manufacturers of food cans?
Did you know that following court directives, Indian BEST Bus launched limited 'disabled friendly' buses on exclusive routes in 2005?
Did you know that reform of trusts law eventually contained in the United Kingdom's Trustee Act 2000 had been requested since 1982?
Did you know that retiring Democratic state legislator David Farabee of Wichita Falls represents one of the most Republican-leaning districts in Texas currently held by a Democrat?
Did you know that the Government Cable Office in Seward, Alaska, provided the first telegraph service to the town from the continental United States?
Did you know that the Italian ambassador to the United States offered in the 1920s to disband the Fascist League of North America?
Did you know that the Kingston, New York, zoning code forbids new construction in the Stockade District to higher than 62 feet (19 m), the height of the base of the steeple of the Old Dutch Church?
Did you know that the Red Dragon was the flagship of the first voyage of the East India Company?
Did you know that the Regency era British women's magazine La Belle Assemblée featured original fiction and articles on politics and science in addition to fashion plates?
Did you know that the Super Falcon Submersible, which cost $1.5 million, is the world's fastest personal submarine?
Did you know that the poppy seed test is a simple, accurate, and inexpensive medical test for vesicointestinal fistula?
Did you know that Canadian police were called to a riot when "County Leitrim's favourite son" Pat Quinn brought The Rolling Stones to North America in 1965?
Did you know that Cleveland S. Rockwell used the sketches he made during topographical survey expeditions for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey as the basis for his landscape watercolor and oil paintings?
Did you know that David Morehouse, president of the Pittsburgh Penguins, served on the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and John Kerry?
Did you know that Franz Liszt's abandoned opera Sardanapale was in part inspired by Eugène Delacroix's painting, The Death of Sardanapalus?
Did you know that John Campbell, Earl of Loudoun, tried to blame the British loss in the 1756 Battle of Fort Oswego on William Shirley?
Did you know that Moghul Emperor Akbar became vegetarian, banned slaughter of animals, and gave up fishing and hunting after being influenced by Jain monk, Hiravijaya who preached non-violence?
Did you know that Penzance A.F.C. competed in ten of the first sixteen finals of the Cornwall Senior Cup, winning six of them?
Did you know that Pete Heine participated in the Berlin Airlift, then became the crew chief on an F-86 Sabre jet, and was later mayor of Baker, Louisiana?
Did you know that St. Timothy Catholic Church in Los Angeles, California, has an antique gold leaf altarpiece believed to have been made in Spain in the 1600s?
Did you know that Vietnamese scholar Đào Duy Từ was forbidden from taking Le Dynasty's court examination because his father was a folk singer?
Did you know that brothers Johan and Werner Christie both obtained the rank of Major General in the Royal Norwegian Air Force?
Did you know that in 1909, the Thamshavn Line became the first electrified railway in Norway?
Did you know that initial deliveries of the Polikarpov I-3 in 1929 were to units in the Belorussian Military District, where they replaced the Grigorovich I-2?
Did you know that opium poppy (seed pod pictured) is the source of poppyseed oil, which has several pharmaceutical uses, none related to opium?
Did you know that the Himariote Greek dialect retains several archaic features no longer found in standard modern Greek?
Did you know that the Irish Grand National steeplechase is hosted at the Fairyhouse Racecourse?
Did you know that the Royal National College for the Blind was the subject of the 2007 Cutting Edge documentary Blind Young Things?