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Did you know that the invasion of monsters from the Orange Planet in the Czech comic album Muriel a oranžová smrt was a satiric response to the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968?
Did you know that King Ndumbe Lobe Bell of the Duala assigned his sovereign rights to the German trading firm of Jantzen & Thormählen in 1884?
Did you know that All Saints Church in Thurgarton , Norfolk , is notable for its medieval bench ends carved with poppyheads , an elephant, barrels, mythical beasts, a man, a lion, and fighting dogs?
Did you know that 12 years after his team was disqualified , Jack Kirrane returned to the Olympics and captained the United States ice hockey team to a gold medal?
Did you know that G. Topham Forrest used a plain neo-Georgian style for most 1920s and 1930s London County Council housing estates , but at Ossulston used a modernist style influenced by Viennese workers’ housing?
Did you know that General John M. Bacon of the 3rd US Infantry regiment was incorrectly reported killed with a hundred of his men after the 1898 Battle of Sugar Point ?
Did you know that Bavarian criminal Theo Berger , despite escaping four times, spent 36 years in jail and committed suicide there in 2003?
Did you know that historian Betty Jane Gorin-Smith penned a 2006 study of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan 's 1863 raids though central Kentucky ?
Did you know that the Beeldenstorm was a wave of riotous destruction of church art and property that spread across the Low Countries in August 1566 ?
Did you know that Margaret Creek in Ohio was named after Margaret Snowden, the first white woman settler in Athens County ?
Did you know that Leif Rode , who competed in rowing at the 1912 Summer Olympics , was chairman of the Association for the Promotion of Skiing more than forty years later?
Did you know that Young Galaxy and producer Dan Lissvik of Studio collaborated across the Atlantic using Skype to produce their new album Shapeshifting ?
Did you know that of the 1,401 species in the family Begoniaceae , Hillebrandia sandwicensis is the only one not in the genus Begonia ?
Did you know that the entrance to a burial vault below St Mary's Church, Redgrave in Suffolk was accidentally discovered during a rehearsal for Quasimodo ?
Did you know that American multi-instrumentalist Levon Helm won the first Grammy Award for Best Americana Album in 2010 for the album Electric Dirt ?
Did you know that the Commission for Polish Relief provided limited food and medical supplies to occupied Poland until late 1941, in spite of Britain's 1940 blockade of shipments to Nazi occupied Europe ?
Did you know that Octavius Wigram was guarding a door of Westminster Abbey at the coronation of George IV when the Queen was turned away?
Did you know that the weevil Hylobius transversovittatus has been introduced into the United States and Canada to help control the invasive wetland plant purple loosestrife ?
Did you know that after Prince Ibrahim Mirza was killed on the orders of his brother-in-law, Shah Ismail II of Persia, his wife destroyed his Persian miniatures by washing them in water?
Did you know that the Monty Python sketch " The Mouse Problem ", a mockumentary about men who want to be mice, parodies 1960s TV documentaries on homosexuality ?
Did you know that Gary Aguirre , who predicted the 2008 financial crisis , was fired by the SEC for trying to investigate Wall Street banker John Mack , a major fundraiser to President Bush 's 2004 campaign?
Did you know that with an area of 8.2 km 2 ( 3.2 sq mi ), Lake Sonfon is Sierra Leone 's largest inland lake?
Did you know that Dr. Michael S. Gottlieb was instrumental in identifying AIDS in 1981 and thereafter treated actor Rock Hudson for the disease?
Did you know that The Headshrinkers , who had last wrestled in the World Wrestling Federation in 1994, were reunited at the Yokozuna Memorial Show in 2001?
Did you know that a Labrador Retriever named Sadie was awarded the Dickin Medal for sniffing out a pressure cooker filled with TNT while on the front lines in Afghanistan ?
Did you know that Stanley Clarke 's album The Stanley Clarke Band won the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album ?
Did you know that the Heinrich-Heine-Straße U-Bahn station in Berlin , opened in 1928, was a ghost station for nearly three decades and retains much of its original appearance?
Did you know that humorist George Washington Harris ' s comic character Sut Lovingood, who figured in tales attacking Abraham Lincoln and other politicians, has been described as "Huck Finn on amphetamines"?
Did you know that a top environmental issue in Russia is water pollution , affecting 75% of the country's surface water ?
Did you know that tandem bicyclists Ernie Mills and Bill Paul set a world record in 1937 that stood for 63 years?
Did you know that the Marvel Comics limited series 5 Ronin reimagines superheroes Wolverine , Psylocke , Punisher , Hulk and Deadpool as masterless samurai in 17th-century Japan?
Did you know that William Douglass was an 18th century American physician whose pamphlets on paper money led Adam Smith to call him "honest and downright"?
Did you know that Joey DeFrancesco 's tribute to Michael Jackson , Never Can Say Goodbye: The Music of Michael Jackson , was nominated for a Grammy Award ?
Did you know that California's Shine the Light Law requires companies either to provide an opt-out from personal information sharing or to disclose the data that they share?
Did you know that, in its campaign against a Romanian World War I alliance with the Entente Powers , the newspaper Seara employed conservatives , socialists and anarchists as contributors?
Did you know that Maryland Route 24 parallels Deer Creek through Rocks State Park ?
Did you know that a gun was fired during a melee in a 1987 basketball game between Ateneo de Manila University and the University of the Philippines ?
Did you know that Kentucky historian Damon R. Eubank wrote a book on the family of U.S. Senator John J. Crittenden , whose sons fought on opposing sides in the Civil War ?
Did you know that the song " Barcelona " by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé is considered an illustrative example of the difference between pop and classical singing?
Did you know that the California Bay pea crab is one of only two marine crustaceans to be included on the IUCN Red List of endangered species ?
Did you know that the life of 14th-century Bulgarian brigand and local ruler of the Rhodopes Momchil has been retold both as an opera and as a comic book ?
Did you know that Namibian trade unionist Ponhele ya France was an outspoken critic of the "Willing buyer, willing seller" land reform principle?
Did you know that Mark Twain threatened to eat newspaper editor Henry Martyn Whitney ?
Did you know that shortly after it was introduced, the Crash Position Indicator was credited with saving the life of a critically injured airman?
Did you know that on a commission of the Érard company to show off the expressive range of its double-action pedal harp , Maurice Ravel composed Introduction and Allegro for harp , flute , clarinet and string quartet ?
Did you know that the coral reef crab Zosimus aeneus contains deadly poisonous neurotoxins ?
Did you know that Rhône winemaker Jean-Luc Colombo lamented the competition from California wines , describing their rise as "losing civilisation and vulgarising wine "?
Did you know that former Manchester City footballer Lee Crooks is soon scheduled to serve on the frontline in the War in Afghanistan ?
Did you know that Luke Matheny , whose hair was described as "a vast black bouffant that makes him look like an untidy microphone", began his Academy Award acceptance speech by joking, "I should've gotten a haircut"?
Did you know that the CWA and PWA provided grants and loans to assist with construction of the 1930s Juneau-Douglas Bridge , connecting Juneau, Alaska , with Douglas Island across the Gastineau Channel ?
Did you know that the surface level of the Old Bavarian Donaumoos , once a bog covering 180 square kilometres (69 sq mi), has dropped by 3 metres (9.8 ft) since drainage began in 1790?
Did you know that the University of Redwood is fiction based on a copying of the entire Reed College website, raising concerns that it could be used to collect admission application fees fraudulently?
Did you know that in 2009 The Price is Right featured tickets to the B96 Pepsi SummerBash as a showcase showdown prize?
Did you know that the historic Caccia Birch House in Hokowhitu includes a billiards room named after the Governor-General of New Zealand , Lord Plunket , who resided in the House temporarily?
Did you know that dancer Jean Babilée 's performance in the ballet Le Jeune Homme et la Mort included being hung by the neck on a gallows for one minute?
Did you know that much of the stained glass in the Church of St John Maddermarket in Norwich was damaged by a gas explosion in 1876?
Did you know that Kathleen, Duchess of Newcastle purchased a dog from the Tsar of Russia in 1892 for a sum equivalent to nearly £ 20,000 in modern currency?
Did you know that the rare borage Terlingua Creek cat's-eye grows only on gypsum -rich limestone near Big Bend National Park in Texas ?
Did you know that at one point in the Battle of Narvik , British destroyer HMS Hotspur found herself engaged in battle with five enemy destroyers?
Did you know that Scottish Rugby Union player Edward Innes Pocock was also a member of Cecil Rhodes ' Pioneer Column ?
Did you know that the parishioners of Highweek petitioned the pope for their own graveyard?
Did you know that Oliver H. Lowry 's 1951 paper on the Lowry protein assay is the most-cited paper of all time?
Did you know that the Anglo-Norman Lament of Edward II , written c. 1327, is traditionally credited to Edward II of England ?
Did you know that University of Michigan fullback John Garrels won medals in both the 110 m hurdles and shot put at the 1908 Olympics in London ?
Did you know that the account of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery is found at the end of the Gospel of John in Minuscule 831 , 1076 , 1078 and 1356 ?
Did you know that golf course architect William Herbert Fowler , who redesigned the 18th hole at Pebble Beach Golf Links , was also an MCC cricketer ?
Did you know that Marilyn Monroe , Dr. Seuss , Elvis Costello , and Prince Philip all adopted matronymic surnames ?
Did you know that United States v. Payner is known as the "briefcase caper" case because it concerned the exclusion of evidence surreptitiously copied from a Bahamian banker's briefcase?
Did you know that during the takeover of the hijacked Mothers' Bus by the Yamam , the hijackers killed two mothers, of two and four children, giving the incident its name?
Did you know that as mayor of Campbellsville , Kentucky , Robert L. Miller sometimes swept out the basements of people's houses after heavy rains?
Did you know that Sir James Hogg and the Duke of Brunswick each pressed charges against Barnard Gregory for libel because of articles that he published in The Satirist ?
Did you know that the second USRC Virginia , assisted by Richmond and Eagle , captured the armed French schooner Louis and her cargo on 26 April 1799?
Did you know that Al Mar Knives was the first knife factory to sell a production knife for more than $US100?
Did you know that politicians discuss the ways in which they and their families have suffered because of Oprahization ?
Did you know that though the rare Central Florida legume Crotalaria avonensis was first collected in 1950, it took another 39 years to be recognized and named as a distinct species?
Did you knowthat Phoenix civil rights leader Lincoln Ragsdale helped coordinate and fund a lawsuit that produced the first court decision in the U.S. declaring school segregation illegal?
Did you know that as part of its training program for up-and-coming Aboriginal filmmakers , the Canadian National Screen Institute hosts a "Spirit Day" with a traditional feast and pipe ceremony ?
Did you know that M-46 is only one of three trans-peninsular state highways in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan ?
Did you know that Donald S. Sanford , who wrote the screenplay for the World War II epic film Midway (1976), was a sonarman in the U.S. Navy during World War II?
Did you know that in the north, the North American paper wasp Polistes annularis has rust-red markings on a predominantly black thorax , but in the south, the thorax is mostly rust-red with black markings?
Did you know that the medieval cross in the centre of the village of Ackworth , West Yorkshire , may have been built as a memorial to victims of the Black Death ?
Did you know that the Laplace distribution with a mean of zero is a special case of the geometric stable distribution ?
Did you know that film pioneer William Haggar 's 1903 short Desperate Poaching Affray is believed to have been a key influence on the "chase" sub-genre of early film?
Did you know that Nelly and Eminem won Grammys for Best Male Rap Solo Performance in the two years when the Best Rap Solo Performance Award was split into male and female categories?
Did you know that the Maxberg specimen , one of only 10 Archaeopteryx specimens ever found, has been lost since 1991?
Did you know that the ghost town of Estacado, Texas , was founded by Quakers as a farming community?
Did you know that Ulster loyalist Robert McConnell was implicated in several sectarian attacks and killings in Northern Ireland , but was never charged or convicted?
Did you know that the Wouri estuary is a global marine biodiversity hotspot ?
Did you know that Ralph Stackpole 's 81-foot (25 m) statue Pacifica was at one time planned for permanent construction on an island in San Francisco Bay ?
Did you know that because director-writer Akiva Goldsman had an aversion to hospitals, he shot the mental hospital scenes in the Fringe episode " Bad Dreams " in a church ?
Did you know that Welsh boxer Barry Jones lost his WBO Super featherweight title through events caused by an anomaly in a brain scan ?
Did you know that the Cumberland false rosemary has three sets of chromosomes in its cells, one set more than other plants in the same genus ?
Did you know that the hockey rivalry between the Universities of New Hampshire and Maine is sometimes referred to as the "Border War"?
Did you know that Stone Canyon Reservoir was used as a filming location for Roman Polanski 's Chinatown (1974)?
Did you know that Archelaus , the high priest of the Roman goddess of war in Comana , claimed to be the son of King Mithridates VI when he wooed, and subsequently married, Queen Berenice IV of Egypt ?
Did you know that the largest oil field in Turkey lies near the city of Batman and the Batman River ?
Did you know that physician Golding Bird invented the electric moxa in order to save patients from having to be burnt with glowing charcoal?
Did you know that the petite endangered cactus Escobaria minima bears 1.5-cm long flowers that may be larger than the cactus body itself, and fruits no more than 6 mm in length?
Did you know that RSBY , the National Health Insurance Programme of India , offers cashless health insurance of up to ₹ 30,000 to the poor for just ₹ 30?
Did you know that American singer Missy Elliott received the Grammy Award for Best Female Rap Solo Performance both years it was presented?
Did you know that Gulliver's Travels is reportedly the only book read by comedy writer Bill Dare , creator of BBC satirical radio comedy Brian Gulliver's Travels , while he was at university?
Did you know that despite trailing by 20 points after half-time in the 1987 UAAP men's basketball finals , the Ateneo Blue Eagles rallied and won the championship?
Did you know that during the 2010 Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival in Des Moines, Iowa , the 600 guests ate approximately 30,000 strips of bacon ?
Did you know that Ohinetahi , the historical home and formal garden in New Zealand owned by Sir Miles Warren , architect of the Christchurch Town Hall , was extensively damaged during the 2010 Canterbury earthquake ?
Did you know that Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave creates life-size, painted paper sculptures of wedding gowns , shoes , needlework lace , and strings of pearls ?
Did you know that finds at the prehistoric Neolithic Tell Ghoraifé , located 22 kilometres (14 mi) east of Damascus , Syria , show the evolution that took place over a millennium, from wild to domesticated barley?
Did you know that 12 years after the U.S. Department of Education gave Blue Ribbon status to the Howard C. Reiche School in Portland , Maine , it was declared deficient under No Child Left Behind ?
Did you know that British Army lieutenant Hubert G. Chevis was murdered in 1931 with a plate of poisoned partridge ?
Did you know that former child actor Philip Amelio once taught English and coached baseball at Duanesburg High School in Upstate New York ?
Did you know that offerings in the 4000-year old temple of Al-Rawda , Syria , came from as far as Egypt , Afghanistan and India ?
Did you know that artist Corwin Clairmont designed the Salish-Kootenai 's tribal seal when he was 15 and it is still used today?
Did you know that Creal Reef, Queensland , site of Creal Reef Light , was named after a No. 101 Flight RAAF pilot who assisted HMAS Moresby with her surveys ?
Did you know that Val McDermid 's novel A Darker Domain explores the social and emotional implications of the UK miners strike of 1984–1985?
Did you know that Edgar Gilbert investigated the mathematics of shuffling playing cards ?
Did you know that Bulgaria mobilized more than 600,000 soldiers , or 12–13% of its population, upon its entry to World War I ?
Did you know that the Employees' State Insurance scheme provides social security and health insurance to over 50 million Indians ?
Did you know that in 1672, the Scottish botanist Robert Morison became the first person to write a " monograph of a specific group of plants", the Umbelliferae ?
Did you know that Maersk Line 's Triple E Class are expected to be the largest ships in the world when they enter service?
Did you know that the earliest known Maya city in the Maya lowlands of Mesoamerica dates to around 750 BC ?
Did you know that ampelographer Pierre Galet suspects that the Provence wine grape Tibouren was likely introduced to Marseilles by the Ancient Greeks , but could also be Middle Eastern in origin?
Did you know that slippery Jills wear a baggy veil ?
Did you know that a 17th-century Yemeni Orphans' Decree requiring the conversion of orphans to Islam was still being enforced as late as 1948?
Did you know that Wilhelmine Reichard , the first German woman balloonist , fell unconscious at 7,800 metres (25,600 ft) during her third flight in 1811 and crash-landed in a forest?
Did you know that on April 15 , 2011, United States v. Scheinberg resulted in the end of online poker play for United States residents on the three online poker sites that account for approximately 95% of the market?
Did you know that despite being told by doctors that he might never walk again, British swimmer Graham Edmunds has won two Paralympic gold medals in world record times?
Did you know that as many as 6,400 human and animal illustrations, including Bir Hima Rock Petroglyphs and Inscriptions , have been recorded in Saudi Arabia 's southwest Najran area?
Did you know that Mormon bigamist Warren Jeffs spent a year in a prison called Purgatory ?
Did you know that the inscription on Leoš Janáček 's gravestone was inspired by his choral composition The Wandering Madman ?
Did you know that the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 was reportedly voted on without any committee members reviewing the actual language?
Did you know that despite questions about the suitability of his batting temperament, three of Andrew Strauss's centuries are among the five highest scores by England batsmen in ODI cricket ?
Did you know that Brigadier Philip Hicks , the commander of an airborne brigade , had to swim ashore during the Allied invasion of Sicily ?
Did you know that clips of VHS tapes from the website Everything is Terrible! include how to massage a cat, an anti- pedophilia yellow dinosaur, and a direct-to-video crime drama featuring Jay Leno ?
Did you know that Ryan Bourque , son of Hockey Hall of Famer Ray Bourque , has won four medals, including two gold medals, with Team USA in International Ice Hockey Federation tournaments?
Did you know that Barranquilla is the fourth most populous city of Colombia ?
Did you know that recently retired Fr. Daniel Coughlin was the first Catholic priest to serve as Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives ?
Did you know that the offices of Air India were attacked as part of the violent reaction to the Babri mosque demolition in Pakistan and Bangladesh ?
Did you know that the " Irish of Vincennes ", three Irish nationals arrested in Paris on terrorism charges in 1982, were framed by members of a Presidential secret police unit?
Did you know that John Haldeman , a journalist covering the Louisville Grays baseball team, was asked to play second base for the team for one game during the 1877 season?
Did you know that visually impaired skier Richard Burt won four Winter Paralympic medals for Great Britain ?
Did you know that despite losing an 1896 eminent domain case in the US Supreme Court , the battlefield tourist trolley between Gettysburg and Round Top operated over the Gettysburg National Military Park for 20 more years?
Did you know that La Voz de un Ángel by Yuridia ranked among the best-selling albums of the year in Mexico for three years in a row?
Did you know that photographer Mary Ellen Matthews has been responsible for the celebrity portraits used as commercial bumpers on Saturday Night Live since 1999?
Did you know that the interior part of the Mooghaun fort was demolished to facilitate its use as a picnicking spot?
Did you know that Mike Loan amassed a career batting average of .500 by hitting safely once in two at-bats in his only career Major League Baseball game?
Did you know that HMS Prince William was named for the future King William , who was present at the engagement she was captured in ?
Did you know that in 1919, the Pacific Coast Parks Association named Portland, Oregon 's Laurelhurst Park the "most beautiful park" on the West Coast ?
Did you know that Povilas Budrys was voted Best Actor by the Lithuanian Theatre Union for the 1991/92 season?
Did you know that Filep Karma is serving a 15-year jail sentence for raising the flag of West Papua in Jayapura , Indonesia ?
Did you know that writer-director Tom Shadyac made the documentary I Am after suffering post-concussion syndrome from a serious bicycle accident—and sleeping in his closet to avoid acute sensitivity to light and sound?
Did you know that controversy over Pedro Almodóvar 's 1990 film Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! led to the creation of the NC-17 rating?
Did you know that in 2007, the Amber Palace of Amer Fort in Rajasthan was visited by 1.4 million tourists?
Did you know that Wilson Onsare made the fastest ever marathon debut at the 2003 Paris Marathon , but never improved upon his debut time?
Did you know that the only known specimen of the extinct spider Palaeoperenethis is in the Royal Ontario Museum ?
Did you know that the churchyard of St James' Church in Cooling , Kent , is said to have provided the inspiration for the opening chapter of Charles Dickens ' book Great Expectations ?
Did you know that in his Major League Baseball debut , Marcos Mateo came into the game in the 11th inning, loaded the bases , then gave up a sacrifice fly to lose the game?
Did you know that the Gilgamesh restaurant in Camden , London , is said to be "an ostentatious replica of a Babylonian palace"?
Did you know that Lewis Milestone 's 1926 sports drama comedy silent film The New Klondike was the first film assignment of writer Ben Hecht ?
Did you know that Japanese composer Kenichi Maeyamada remixes anime and video game music under the pseudonym "Hyadain"?
Did you know that, unlike the closely related house mouse , the wild Algerian mouse clears away its own droppings?
Did you know that Burundian Internet journalist Jean-Claude Kavumbagu was arrested and charged with treason after writing a blog post criticizing his country's security forces?