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Did you know that in 2012 the World Bank presidential election will include non-American candidates for the first time?
Did you know that Australian field hockey player Matthew Gohdes is the cousin of Kookaburras teammate Jamie Dwyer , and rooms with teammate Matthew Swann ?
Did you know that a 7th-century grave in Cambridge discovered in 2011 held the remains of an Anglo-Saxon teenage girl who was lying on a bed , with a gold and garnet cross on her breast?
Did you know that as early as 1919, women's garden clubs in the United States were campaigning against highway billboards ?
Did you know that the Beau Street Hoard , found in Bath , consists of an estimated 30,000 Roman silver coins and is the largest ever found in a former Roman town in Britain ?
Did you know that the OsRox Mission secured the Hare–Hawes–Cutting Act , which divided the Philippine Legislature into two opposing camps, the Antis and the Pros?
Did you know that the 2011 album Gravity the Seducer by Ladytron has been described as having "a feminine warmth"?
Did you know that before modern paleontology came about, fossils of Encrinus went by a number of names in Germany, including "sun wheels", " Saint Boniface 's pennies", and "witches' money"?
Did you know that British ecologist Arthur Tansley , founder of the British Ecological Society and the journal New Phytologist , introduced the concept of the ecosystem in 1935?
Did you know that Hans Uwe Hielscher played the 1500th weekly organ recital during market time at the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden in a series he initiated some 30 years earlier?
Did you know that Rambhadracharya was deposed as an expert witness in the Ram Janmabhoomi Babri Masjid dispute in July 2003 ?
Did you know that at the age of 13 years and 268 days, Marjorie Gestring was the youngest competitor to win an Olympic gold medal?
Did you know that Pevsner called Arthur Blomfield ' s All Souls Church, Hastings a "serious town church", but claimed "absolutely nothing can be said" about the architect's St Leodegar's Church, Hunston ?
Did you know that when Herbert Ernest Hart was appointed Deputy Controller of the Imperial War Graves Commission based in Jerusalem , unrest in the region meant he had to live in Cairo instead?
Did you know that in 1864 the world's first salmon cannery was established in North America on a barge in the Sacramento River ?
Did you know that eight of Danish Kaneria 's international cricket five-wicket hauls have come in victory for Pakistan , while three have been in defeats?
Did you know that the countercultural Club 7 got its name because it should be "more than 6 "?
Did you know that the now demolished Ida B. Wells Homes in Chicago were the location of both LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman's Peabody Award -winning radio documentary and Frederick Wiseman ' s Public Housing ?
Did you know that after 42 years of being played in Las Vegas, the World Series of Poker has expanded to South Africa ?
Did you know that the Cwm in Llanrothal , a college on the Monmouthshire – Herefordshire border, was a "stronghold" of Roman Catholics like Henry Milbourne in the 17th century?
Did you know that United States v. Cotterman showed that property presented for inspection at a United States border can be seized and held for a reasonable time to be sent elsewhere for further examination?
Did you know that Henry C. Kellers of the U.S. Navy collected over 10,000 biological specimens from the Philippines for the Smithsonian Institution in 1929?
Did you know that Scottish missionary to India Stephen Hislop discovered the fossil reptile Brachyops laticeps ?
Did you know that during an 1888 visit to Ann Arbor, Michigan , Theodore Roosevelt quipped that it was "not healthy to get in the way of the U. of M. rugby team "?
Did you know that the 2011 film October Baby was based on the experiences of abortion survivor Gianna Jessen ?
Did you know that Colonel John Boyd 's Patterns of Conflict , a presentation on military strategy, became so influential that he was summoned by Dick Cheney to help plan for Desert Storm ?
Did you know that professional baseball player Scott Beerer briefly retired to become an emergency medical technician ?
Did you know that residents and preservationists have fought to save the Julia C. Lathrop Homes from demolition by the Chicago Housing Authority ?
Did you know that Ian Molyneux , who was awarded a posthumous George Medal for trying to disarm a murderous sailor on a nuclear submarine, had previously started and run an under-12 rugby league team?
Did you know that the miniatures in the Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany show not only over 300 plants in detail, but influence from Leonardo da Vinci ?
Did you know that the Casting Crowns ' song " East to West " received 78 adds in its first week, a record at Christian radio?
Did you know that in 1997, after winning the 2000 Guineas , the racehorse Entrepreneur started with the shortest odds at the Epsom Derby in fifty years?
Did you know that Millennium 's " The Wild and the Innocent " episode has been compared to the works of Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy ?
Did you know that Zaskia Adya Mecca found her pregnancy "perfect" for playing the role of Siti Walidah in The Enlightener , despite the fact the character was not pregnant?
Did you know that David Edward Cronin used his training at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf to paint Fugitive Slaves in the Dismal Swamp, Virginia based on what he saw as a Union Army officer?
Did you know that whilst the Spanish trade union CSUT criticized other unions for links with political parties, it was itself heavily influenced by the Party of Labour of Spain ?
Did you know that baseball Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson once said Chris Pittaro had "a chance to be the greatest second baseman who ever lived"?
Did you know that Madeline Rogero , the first woman mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee , was once an organizer for César Chávez 's United Farm Workers ?
Did you know that the natural approach is a method of language teaching in which teachers are recommended never to force their students to speak?
Did you know that co-founder of the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association Mohammed al-Bejadi spent most of 2011 in prison?
Did you know that a Superior Court judge in the U.S. state of Georgia was prompted to resign after " Very Tough Love " was aired on the radio show This American Life ?
Did you know that the statue Kwakiutl , currently on display in a public park greenhouse in Brampton, Ontario , was originally set to be sited at local municipal offices before his exposed genitals caused controversy?
Did you know that a storm in 1968 caused 20 deaths in Scotland, with 9 deaths in Glasgow alone?
Did you know that Theodor Rowehl ' s high-altitude flights in a rented plane were Germany's first strategic aerial photoreconnaissance after World War I?
Did you know that Les Palabres de Mboloko , despite being made by Europeans, have been called the first truly "African" films, since they incorporate elements of African folklore and music ?
Did you know that Des Abbott was the first Australian Aboriginal to represent Australia at the Olympic Games in men's field hockey?
Did you know that the occupants of the lifeboats of the RMS Titanic included a musical toy pig, two mysterious "orphans" and a Pekingese dog called Sun Yat Sen?
Did you know that Jesse Thomas , founder of creative interactive agency JESS3 , was involved in making a graphic novel about Steve Jobs ' life?
Did you know that Tree Hill Nature Center , a natural preserve in Jacksonville, Florida, started an arts program that includes an artist in residence, art workshops, sale of artists' work, and concerts?
Did you know that Polish cabaret creator, Piotr Skrzynecki , founder of Piwnica pod Baranami , who became a "legend in his own lifetime", did not care for material wealth and for a time was homeless ?
Did you know that murders in Millennium 's " Gehenna " echo ritual sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible 's Gehenna ?
Did you know that carcinologist Isabel Pérez Farfante and her family were blacklisted by the Cuban government because her husband refused to travel with Che Guevara ?
Did you know that Universal Pictures bought filming rights for the untitled Tom Cruise project from Disney after the latter refused to produce a PG-13 rated film?
Did you know that the Shapoorji Pallonji Group built the Mumbai Central railway station for ₹ 16 million in 1930 and was commended by the then Governor of Bombay for completing the project within 21 months?
Did you know that in Maryland, as per the recent case United States v. Graham , the government can order providers to disclose historical cell phone location data without a warrant or probable cause?
Did you know that Dražen Bogopenec was one of the most powerful people of Hum ?
Did you know that Czech football manager Jozef Weber took part in four national cup finals as a player, but was never on the winning team?
Did you know that the wooden screw corvette HMS Druid , launched in 1869, was the last ship to be built at Deptford Dockyard ?
Did you know that Australian field hockey player Graeme Begbie is an occupational health and safety officer?
Did you know that Idrus wrote what may be the only satire of the Indonesian National Revolution ?
Did you know that the cover art of the Gorillaz song " DoYaThing " portrays James Murphy as a baboon and André 3000 as a masked figure?
Did you know that the Roman Catholic Church of St. Mary Draperis in Istanbul has been leveled by earthquake, forcibly demolished by the Ottoman Government , and destroyed three times by fire?
Did you know that Argentina is in a period of fiscal austerity ?
Did you know that American professional wrestler Otto Schwanz is also a high school athletics instructor in Four Oaks, North Carolina ?
Did you know that the Iberian rock lizard is often found above the tree line in cold, mountainous areas?
Did you know that Robert Antoine Pinchon was referred to by Claude Monet as a "surprising touch in the service of a surprising eye"?
Did you know that Sterling Cinema in Mumbai was the first cinema in India to introduce Dolby sound, Xenon projectors , Caramel popcorn , and matinee shows as well as late night shows?
Did you know that although the Corsican Brook Salamander is quite common, the Sardinian Brook Salamander is considered to be an endangered species ?
Did you know that George William Spencer Lyttelton served as a private secretary to William Ewart Gladstone during three of his terms as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that Chilean jack mackerel are captured by encircling schools with purse seine nets?
Did you know that a "town fair" was set up in the middle of a military prison on Melville Island ?
Did you know that Sebastian Weigle , named "Conductor of the Year" by Opernwelt three times between 2003 and 2006, performed Wagner's Ring Cycle at the Frankfurt Opera ?
Did you know that in 1885, the racehorse Paradox won the 2000 Guineas in May by a head, but lost the Epsom Derby in June, also by a head?
Did you know that some of the leaders of pro-Venetian alliance during Skanderbeg 's war against Venice were members of the Humoj family ?
Did you know that 2011–12 Ivy League men's basketball season was the first time that four teams ( Harvard , Penn , Princeton and Yale ) played in the postseason?
Did you know that in spite of being shot eight times, Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr. ordered his men to tie him to a tree so he could keep fighting, action for which he received the Medal of Honor ?
Did you know that the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan , produced by Nahua artists in the 1530s, is one of the earliest maps of what is now Guatemala ?
Did you know that the fungi Callistosporium vinosobrunneum , Marasmiellus hapuuarum , Marasmius koae , Mycena marasmielloides , and Pleurocybella ohiae , newly described in 2011, are known only from the wet forests of Hawaii ?
Did you know that Australia men's national softball team pitcher Andrew Blackshaw participated in a battle of the sexes game between the Chicago Bandits and Schaumburg Flyers as a ringer for the men's team?
Did you know that Seton Medical Center was fined $100,000 when the cap of the breathing tube of an elderly woman was left on, suffocating the patient?
Did you know that a campaign by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver resulted in an increase in standards for school children's dinners in the UK?
Did you know that Breitenbach , an archaeological site in Germany dated to the early Upper Palaeolithic , was discovered in 1925 by a local school teacher?
Did you know that al-Jawali Mosque was built in 1320 to enlarge the prayer space of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron ?
Did you know that the racehorse Mystiko , winner of the European Free Handicap , 2000 Guineas and Challenge Stakes in 1991, never won a race outside the Newmarket Racecourse ?
Did you know that there are over five hundred state historical markers in the U.S. state of Indiana?
Did you know that deputies of the Sejm of the Duchy of Warsaw circumvented the restriction on debating by staying in the chamber after the session officially ended?
Did you know that in one of its last acts, the Sejm of the Congress Poland dethroned Tsar Nicholas I of Russia from his position as the King of Poland ?
Did you know that Australian bowler Shane Warne claimed that he had "nightmares" at the thought of bowling to Sachin Tendulkar after being dominated by him in the 1998 Coca-Cola Cup ?
Did you know that a fire destroyed the house at Hilston Park , Monmouthshire in 1838 and a Palladian mansion was built to replace it?
Did you know that Clara Holst was the first woman to study for a doctorate at a Norwegian university?
Did you know that Tarsius fuscus was resurrected in 2010 as the scientific name of a primate originally described in 1804?
Did you know that although Philip Michael Thomas coined the term " EGOT " ( Emmy , Grammy , Oscar and Tony ), only Edward James Olmos and Jan Hammer would win any of those awards working on Miami Vice ?
Did you know that in 1977 AOA , a trade union linked to the Spanish urban guerilla movement FRAP , was founded?
Did you know that Hector the Tax Inspector was replaced by Mrs Doyle in the Inland Revenue 's advertising?
Did you know that to house his collection of vintage steam locomotives the former CEO of Ohio Central RR built the Age of Steam Roundhouse , the first full-sized, working roundhouse built in the U.S. since 1951?
Did you know that a sermon by English clergyman Richard West required a vote in Parliament before it could be printed?
Did you know that though Mumbai 's Phoenix Mills has been redeveloped into a shopping mall , its chimney has been retained?
Did you know that after the death of François de Pâris in 1727, many people reported miracle cures through convulsions by consuming the earth around his grave?
Did you know that Oh Moscow , by English musician Lindsay Cooper , is a song cycle that reflects on the Cold War ?
Did you know that NASCAR driver David Mayhew drove for Kevin Harvick Incorporated in two Camping World Truck Series races in 2011 , and finished third in both races?
Did you know that Keizan , Great Patriarch of Sōtō Zen Buddhism , founded Sōji-ji ?
Did you know that Alexandru Al. Ioan , the natural son of Romanian ruler Alexandru Ioan Cuza and the half-brother of Serb king Milan I , was introduced by his own family as a rescued orphan?
Did you know that South Korean band F.T. Island 's mini-album Grown-Up debuted at number three on Gaon Chart 's monthly albums chart for January 2012 with one day worth of sales?
Did you know that National Masturbation Day , an annual event celebrated in the US in May, was first observed in 1995?
Did you know that the Chicago Housing Authority 's renovation of the Dearborn Homes housing project includes adding neo-Georgian quoins and ball-topped gables to the brick high-rises?
Did you know that the German teleplay Jeder stirbt für sich allein , about Otto and Elise Hampel , who were executed by the Third Reich, was directed by Falk Harnack , who lost several family members to Nazi executions?
Did you know that the 1879 Michigan football team defeated Racine College , 1–0, in the first intercollegiate football game in the school's history?
Did you know that dormice benefit from charcoal burning at Croes Robert Wood , near Monmouth ?
Did you know that De Typhoon , a Dutch paper founded during World War II by the Dutch resistance , merged in 1992 with a competing local paper that had collaborated with the Germans during the war?
Did you know that an actor in the film Somewhere I Have Never Traveled played the roles of two different people, one with long hair and a beard and one with short hair and clean-shaven?
Did you know that at least five people died due to torture during the 2011–2012 Bahraini uprising ?
Did you know that the German Bundesliga footballer Willi Kraus was sentenced to seven years in prison for bank robbery ?
Did you know that People v. Diaz upholds the right of police in California to make warrantless searches of cell phones during a lawful arrest ?
Did you know that Glacier Media , which owns the daily newspaper in Victoria, British Columbia , was originally a bottled water company?
Did you know that during the 1989 Kosovo miners' strike about 180 miners were hospitalized?
Did you know that Greta Garbo threatened to return to Sweden rather than act in Women Love Diamonds ?
Did you know that Gotthold Schwarz has been associated with the 800-year-old Thomanerchor boys choir in Leipzig as a member, a vocal coach since 1979, a bass soloist and an interim conductor?
Did you know that in 2007 it was reported that Scroogle was becoming the preferred search engine of Internet civil libertarians ?
Did you know that in 2008, nearly 40,000 acres of the former Irvine Ranch , including Bommer Canyon , were designated as the first California Natural Landmark?
Did you know that in 1905, Bolckow Vaughan was easily Great Britain 's largest producer of pig iron ?
Did you know that a couplet from Elton John 's song " Elderberry Wine " has been called the worst of lyricist Bernie Taupin 's career?
Did you know that an employee who erases the hard drive of an employer-owned computer may be in violation of the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ?
Did you know that Indonesian actress Titi Kamal paid to follow a poor woman around and learn about her lifestyle?
Did you know that Thurgood Marshall said of Lloyd L. Gaines "I have never lost the pain of having so many people spend so much time and money on him, just to have him disappear" 73 years ago today?
Did you know that the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul , one of the largest covered markets in the world, attracts between 250,000 and 400,000 visitors daily?
Did you know that the European leaf-toed gecko can change colour according to the temperature of its surroundings?
Did you know that 2011–12 Ivy League teams Harvard and Princeton both defeated 2012 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament Champion Florida State ?
Did you know that, according to legend, geologist John Marley discovered the Cleveland Ironstone by tripping on a rabbit hole?
Did you know that Anton Bacalbaşa , who wrote the first Romanian introduction to Das Kapital , was elected to the Deputies' Assembly on a Conservative Party ticket?
Did you know that the final episode of the television series Kaseifu no Mita was the second-most-watched television program in Japan in 2011?
Did you know that in 1786, Prince William Henry , a naval officer and future king, entered Edward Hawker onto his ship's books when Hawker was just four years old?
Did you know that the Roper River Scrub-robin being listed as extinct may be "a case of mistaken locality or a hoax"?
Did you know that Chrisye was not alone on Sendiri ( Alone )?
Did you know that the Indonesian novel Atheist was decried by religious figures, Marxist–Leninists , and anarcho-nihilists ?
Did you know that in portraying Marita Covarrubias in The X-Files , actress Laurie Holden spent hours learning fifteen seconds of Russian dialogue?
Did you know that the cookbook ''''' discusses the health benefits of cooking with animal fat ?
Did you know that a New Hampshire Supreme Court decision allowed an online publisher to protect the identity of an anonymous user, just like print publishers have the right to protect their sources?
Did you know that despite its name, there is speculation that Temple VI at the Maya city of Tikal was not a temple?
Did you know that, over his long career, African American attorney Conrad Lynn represented civil rights activists, Puerto Rican nationalists , and draft resisters during two U.S. wars?
Did you know that an estimated 100 million wildflower and grass seeds were spread at Graham Oaks Nature Park before it opened to the public?
Did you know that in 1979 the trade union Sindicato Obrero Canario labelled Spanish rule of the Canary Islands "colonial" in an appeal to the OUA ?
Did you know that, according to controversial Romanian anthropologist Henric Sanielevici , the Chinese eye fold comes from chewing rice?
Did you know that in 1968 the rector of Wrocław University , Alfred Jahn , supported students who were striking against communist censorship and lost his position as a result?
Did you know that after winning the 1926 Belmont Stakes , Crusader set a course record at the Dwyer Stakes that year, and later became the first horse to win the Suburban Handicap two years in a row?
Did you know that the life cycle of the parasitic marine fluke Homalometron pallidum involves three different hosts , one of which is the mummichog ?
Did you know that, in exchange for securing Welsh interests within the See of St David's , Bishop David fitzGerald renounced efforts for its elevation into an archbishopric?
Did you know that the 1885 Michigan Wolverines football team played a game on roller skates against the Princess football team?
Did you know that Tan Boon Teik was the longest-serving Attorney-General of post-independence Singapore, having held office for just over 25 years?
Did you know that Indian soft drink concentrate brand Rasna made an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the "world's biggest glass" in 2009?
Did you know that the German architect Anna Heringer has contributed to sustainable architecture building hand-made schools in Bangladesh and Morocco with local craftsmen and materials ?
Did you know that the berries of the alpine waxberry are eaten by lizards and ground weta ?
Did you know that three skulls were unearthed in a berry patch on Deadman's Island ?
Did you know that the GLOBE at Night project recruits citizen scientists to quantify light pollution in their locales?
Did you know that the Lhasa Apso Zentarr Elizabeth 's victory at Crufts in 2012 was considered fitting due to the Diamond Jubilee year of Queen Elizabeth II ?
Did you know that prior to becoming the Bishop of Southampton , Arthur Lyttelton was the first Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge ?
Did you know that International Olympic Committee founder Pierre de Coubertin , under a pseudonym, won a gold medal at the 1912 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that Saint Patrick was reputedly a priest at the monastery of St. Illtyd of Llantwit Major when he was abducted by Irish pirates, later becoming the patron saint of Ireland?
Did you know that the song " Bad Girl ", originally recorded by Rihanna and Chris Brown , was covered by The Pussycat Dolls ?
Did you know that Abbas Kazmi was asked, by a United States diplomat, to construct a brainwashing defense for Ajmal Kasab , the gunman who was tried for the 2008 Mumbai attacks ?
Did you know that Jan Gulbrandsen , president of the Norwegian Olympic Committee and managing director of the Norwegian Automobile Federation , won eight national championships in the 400 metres hurdles ?
Did you know that Pat Barker 's gritty first novel Union Street inspired the much lighter romantic film drama Stanley & Iris ?
Did you know that the right to vote is not expressly stated in Singapore 's Constitution ?
Did you know that although the adult southern kingcroaker is found in the Atlantic Ocean , its juveniles are often found in estuaries ?
Did you know that an anonymous poster on a Yahoo! message board successfully quashed a subpoena to reveal his identity by claiming a First Amendment right to anonymous speech?