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Did you know that entry into the Druze faith has been prohibited since Al-Muqtana Baha'uddin ended the Divine call in 1043 CE?
Did you know that the starfish Leptasterias polaris and Leptasterias tenera both brood their developing eggs ?
Did you know that The Backstreet Boys had a song called " Fuck Off "?
Did you know that Camelot 's bid to win this year's Triple Crown of English Thoroughbred Racing failed when he was beaten by three-quarters of a length at the St. Leger Stakes by Encke , a 25/1 longshot?
Did you know that the sale of William Robinson 's farm to the government paved the way for land reform in New Zealand?
Did you know that the Syrian village of Deir al-Bukht ("Monastery of the Bactrian Camel") was so named because the eighth-century Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik kept a bactrian camel at the site?
Did you know that Bose Ikard was an inspiration for the character of Josh Deets in Lonesome Dove ?
Did you know that because of how the 18th Arizona Territorial Legislature adjourned, they failed to authorize payment of territorial debts for the next two years?
Did you know that LdMNPV 's EGT gene is responsible for the infected larvae's 'zombie-like' behavior?
Did you know that the linguist Ekkehart Malotki refuted the common myth that the Hopi have no concept of time ?
Did you know that the Humble Oil Building was once the largest office building in Houston , and was the first office building in the city with central air conditioning?
Did you know that in 1947 Prince Philip held his stag night at The Hinds Head in Bray, Berkshire, which went on to win a Michelin star under chef Heston Blumenthal ?
Did you know that it is unclear whether William Augustus Hancock built the first building in Phoenix, Arizona , or only the first building after the town was established?
Did you know that the fungus Stereum ostrea gets its common name "False Turkey-tail" due to its great resemblance to the Turkey-tail ( Trametes versicolor )?
Did you know that the church choir Chor von St. Bonifatius celebrates 150 years today, singing in Wiesbaden the premiere of a Missa solemnis by Colin Mawby , conducted by Gabriel Dessauer ?
Did you know that the successful Byzantine defence in the Siege of Nicaea in 727 encouraged Emperor Leo III the Isaurian to proceed with his policy of iconoclasm ?
Did you know that Argentine actress Mirtha Legrand worked in La Dueña after 46 years without acting in television?
Did you know that Tennessee Governor William Trousdale fought in three U.S. wars and was nicknamed "War Horse of Sumner County"?
Did you know that police fingerprinted over 45,000 men to find the killer of June Anne Devaney , the first time mass fingerprinting had been used to solve a crime?
Did you know that human rights lawyer Suliman al-Reshoudi was convicted of possessing literature by social anthropologist Madawi al-Rasheed ?
Did you know that Jennifer Lopez 's partnership with American cable television network nuvoTV will see her work on the creative side of the network, as well as managing marketing and program production?
Did you know that only eight restaurants in the UK have been awarded three Michelin stars ?
Did you know that the musical work The Sinking of the Titanic by Gavin Bryars was originally a sheet of typed instructions?
Did you know that social engagement has been positively linked to health and happiness ?
Did you know that the truffle -like species C. argyrionus , C. basorapulus , C. caesibulga , C. cinereoroseolus , C. kaputarensis , C. maculobulga , C. nebulobrunneus , and C. sinapivelus , all newly described in 2010, are known only from New South Wales ?
Did you know that Paresh Mokashi 's debut film, Harishchandrachi Factory , depicts the making of India's first feature film, Raja Harishchandra (1913), and in 2009 was India's official entry to the Academy Awards ?
Did you know that the mineral collection of Lady Clive , a pioneer among female rock collectors, is one of the most important historic mineral collections at the National Museum Wales ?
Did you know that prior to the broadcast of Grey's Anatomy 's season nine premiere , ABC asked Patrick Dempsey to remove a spoiler photo from his Twitter ?
Did you know that the captain of the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team , Bridie Kean , is nicknamed "bird" because people in the United States could not pronounce her first name correctly?
Did you know that although its colonies are commonly known as "sewage fungus ", Sphaerotilus natans is bacterial ?
Did you know that Fly , a 2009 play about the Tuskegee Airmen , uses a tap-dancing Griot figure to express emotions through sound and dance for characters who had to control their behavior and hide their emotions?
Did you know that Gene Sharp 's book Gandhi as a Political Strategist seeks to rebut what it asserts are six mistaken views about Gandhi that have "masqueraded as 'realistic' assessments"?
Did you know that in May 1981 David Blatherwick advised the British Prime Minister on how to respond to criticism following the deaths of hunger strikers in Northern Ireland?
Did you know that Njoo Cheong Seng 's first film without his wife was 1941's Djantoeng Hati ?
Did you know that a blog was created on tumblr to cover the errors found on the new version of Apple Inc. 's map app ?
Did you know that when the newly discovered comet C/2012 S1 reaches its perihelion on 28 November 2013, it may appear brighter than the full moon?
Did you know that the Denkoroku by Keizan , the Great Patriarch of Sōtō Zen , is not historical fact?
Did you know that though Oliver Bosbyshell claimed to have been the first Union soldier wounded in the American Civil War , his name does not appear on official casualty lists?
Did you know that Fred G. Hughes , who served as President of the Council in the 19th Arizona Territorial Legislature , was a gambler and embezzler and was killed by a bolt of lightning ?
Did you know that the sand star can move across the seabed at the fast speed of 280 centimetres (9.2 ft) per minute?
Did you know that people were hunting bison in the Albuquerque Basin 12,000 years ago?
Did you know that Ariffien , who directed two Japanese propaganda films , was initially an Indonesian nationalist ?
Did you know that the constellation Telescopium has shrunk since its creation in the 1750s?
Did you know that Katy Perry made her maiden performance in India at the 2012 Indian Premier League opening ceremony ?
Did you know that the domicile cup fungus degrades wooden historical monuments in Moldavia ?
Did you know that the landlady's wig can be confused with the similar red alga Cordylecladia erecta , both of which grow on sand-covered rocks?
Did you know that Neill Brown resigned as U.S. Minister to Russia during his first winter in the country, saying the climate was "unfitting for the abodes of Man", but withdrew his resignation in the spring?
Did you know that the Zelter-Plakette has been awarded annually by the President of Germany since 1956 to German and foreign choirs which have served cultural life continuously for 100 years or more?
Did you know that three-time wheelchair basketball Paralympian Helen Turner has won four European Championship bronze medals?
Did you know that Stephen Elop , the CEO of Nokia , was once told that the Wilhelm Carpelan , the small green vessel moored in front of the company's head office in Finland, was a " Motorola spy ship"?
Did you know that the Laymoor Quag nature reserve in Gloucestershire, England , is a refuge for the Great Crested Newt ?
Did you know that Norwegian football club Kristiansund BK was founded in 2003 by local rivals Clausenengen FK and Kristiansund FK ?
Did you know that the Anglo-Saxon Bamburgh Sword is thought to be unique due to the number of strands of iron used to create the blade?
Did you know that Boletus abruptibulbus , Leccinum arenicola , and Phylloporus arenicola are the only North American Boletaceae mushrooms that grow in coastal sand dunes ?
Did you know that Byzantine aristocrat Manuel Maurozomes became the father-in-law of the Seljuk sultan Kaykhusraw I and helped him regain his throne?
Did you know that Bach based his chorale cantata Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost , BWV 114 , on the hymn by Johannes Gigas and first performed it on 1 October 1724, two days after his previous chorale cantata ?
Did you know that dark eggplant skins were historically used by aristocratic women in China to make black dye, which they often used to stain their teeth?
Did you know that the management regimen for Ridley Bottom nature reserve in Gloucestershire, England , calls for both hay cutting and grazing by sheep?
Did you know that six of Fred Young 's films have the word Solo in the title?
Did you know that the songs " Si Tú Me Besas " and " Ella Lo Que Quiere Es Salsa " helped Víctor Manuelle become the artist with the most number-one singles on the Billboard Tropical Songs chart?
Did you know that the Lepiota mushroom species L. ananya , L. anupama , L. babruka , L. babruzalka , L. harithaka , L. nirupama , L. shveta , and L. zalkavritha all have names derived from Sanskrit ?
Did you know that Jeptha Vining Harris , a Mississippi militia general during the American Civil War , was the son of Jeptha Vining Harris , a Georgia militia general during the War of 1812 ?
Did you know that Protostephanus was the first extinct wasp genus in the family Stephanidae to be described from a fossil?
Did you know that Rihanna described her 2012 single " Diamonds " as "happy and hippy rather than dancey"?
Did you know that when Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov ordered White Coke , President Truman quickly obliged?
Did you know that King Koko of Nembe captured a Royal Niger Company trading post and took hostages who were later eaten ?
Did you know that the Port Royal, Virginia , Horne's restaurant is the last remaining of the former chain?
Did you know that German organist Günther Kaunzinger studied with Maurice Duruflé , taught at the Catholic University of America , and recorded the complete works of Louis Vierne ?
Did you know that the shooting down of an F-117 in 1999 during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was the first confirmed downing of a stealth aircraft ?
Did you know that at the Royal Academy School , Peter Rouw trained Samuel Joseph , who is known for creating a statue of William Wilberforce ?
Did you know that the Sixth Asian Science Camp , hosted by Israel in Jerusalem , is the largest Asian Science Camp event to date?
Did you know that the first Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court , Alfred Franklin , withdrew from society and went to live alone in the desert?
Did you know that Palestinian rapper Shadia Mansour , the "first lady of Arabic Hip Hop", was born in London to Christian parents?
Did you know that Agatha Christie , in her novel Ordeal by Innocence , used the location of Royal Castle Hotel as inspiration for characterizing the Royal George in the novel?
Did you know that the Children's Memorial Health Institute was founded as a monument to the heroism and martyrdom of children during World War II ?
Did you know that the buffet for Matthijs Langhedul 's organ in Sainte Walburga, Veurne, is one of the oldest in Flanders ?
Did you know that in 2008, Heinz Baked Beans became "Heinz Beanz" because the company thought the original name "a bit of a mouthful"?
Did you know that inmates at Oregon State Penitentiary , a maximum-security prison, once operated the world's largest flax scutching plant?
Did you know that the followers of the rebel al-Harith ibn Surayj tried to persuade their opponents to join them through moral and religious arguments even during battles?
Did you know that the scenario writer for 07th Expansion 's visual novel series Rose Guns Days is also one of four character designers for the series?
Did you know that the locomotive depot near West Auckland railway station was the only one to be both closed completely and later reopened by the London and North Eastern Railway ?
Did you know that 13-time Irish tennis champion and world pro doubles champion George Lyttleton-Rogers was also an amateur boxer and cancelled a sparring bout with Don McCorkindale so as to retain his amateur status?
Did you know that the Legislative Sejm of 1919–21 was the first national parliament of Poland since 1793?
Did you know that the chalky buttercup and the buttercup lucine resemble each other but can be told apart by their scars ?
Did you know that in 1962, television director John Hefin graffitied a rock in support of a local politician?
Did you know that William V. B. Van Dyck coached football at Rutgers , worked on a project to light the Strait of Magellan and participated in the first chess game played by "wireless"?
Did you know that in his documentary film al-Manam , Syrian filmmaker Mohammad Malas interviews Palestinian refugees in Lebanon about their dreams?
Did you know that the first serekh of king Double Falcon was discovered by a peasant planting a palm grove?
Did you know that Ohio ' s Old Perry County Courthouse , built in 1829, is the oldest building in the former Northwest Territory continually used as a government building?
Did you know that John Emory Powers was the world's first full-time copywriter ?
Did you know that Michael Clarke is the only player to score four double centuries during a calendar year, and the third to achieve two double centuries in a series twice?
Did you know that the Chonga has become a Miami icon, influencing fashion in South Florida and beyond?
Did you know that a generic version of Viagra was launched the same day as the Supreme Court of Canada decided Teva Canada Ltd. v. Pfizer Canada Inc. ?
Did you know that Live 's discography includes an album that went eight times platinum in the United States?
Did you know that before he was elected to the United States House of Representatives , Andy Barr worked for Mitch McConnell , Jim Talent , and Ernie Fletcher ?
Did you know that the unfinished Ocean Tower was the tallest reinforced concrete structure to be imploded ?
Did you know that Princess Amelia's Battery , Princess Anne's Battery and Princess Caroline's Battery in Gibraltar were named after Amelia , Anne and Caroline , the daughters of King George II ?
Did you know that North Preston's Finest is a gang of pimps based just northeast of Metropolitan Halifax in Nova Scotia , Canada ?
Did you know that the Syrian village of al-Ziyarah has been identified as the ancient Aramaean town of "Ziara"?
Did you know that the Potomac, Fredericksburg and Piedmont Railroad cost less than US$1 million to build?
Did you know that Richard Rennison , the "anvil priest" from Gretna Green , took his 240-pound (110 kg) anvil with him on holiday to London?
Did you know that Philadelphia Athletics shortstop Charlie Engle did not get to bat in his 1925 debut against the New York Yankees , his only game in the season?
Did you know that will.i.am and Britney Spears 's 2012 single " Scream & Shout " contains a sample of the opening line of Spears' 2007 single " Gimme More ": "It's Britney, bitch"?
Did you know that when she is inaugurated as Secretary of State of Washington in January, Kim Wyman will be the only Republican elected to statewide office on the West Coast of the United States ?
Did you know that the Knifefish robot is intended to replace the U.S. Navy 's trained minesweeping dolphins ?
Did you know that Leo Righetti cost himself an opportunity to play in Major League Baseball when he launched a chair at a team official?
Did you know that Kappa Andromedae b , despite being only 12.8 Jupiter masses and located about 170 light years away, has been directly imaged by astronomers?
Did you know that according to Dan Martin for NME , the lyrical content of " Stay ", a song performed by Rihanna , "puts a vulnerable spin" on her relationship with Chris Brown ?
Did you know that on Election Day 2012 Christian Mitchell was elected to serve as the youngest member of the Illinois General Assembly ?
Did you know that The Making of a Teacher quotes spiritual teacher Eknath Easwaran as saying: "I never knew anyone in India who tried to become a spiritual teacher ... It's not a job you apply for – it finds you"?
Did you know that Charles Arundell has been claimed as the author of Leicester's Commonwealth , an anonymous work of propaganda which attacked Queen Elizabeth 's favourite the Earl of Leicester ?
Did you know that the Ferlo Desert occupies one-third of Senegal 's total area?
Did you know that the video for the Alicia Keys track " Not Even the King " features visual references to the art of Basquiat ?
Did you know that Larry Clark ' s 2012 film Marfa Girl was filmed in the same small Texas town as James Dean's last film ?
Did you know that tennis champion Rodrigo de Castro Pereira , a scion of the Portuguese royal family , worked as a laborer in a U.S. ironworks?
Did you know that Egyptologist Willem Pleyte was the father of Cornelis Pleyte , curator of the Ethnographic Museum Artis ?
Did you know that the early 20th-century fashion house Babani imported Japanese undergarments for Western women to wear as fashionable peignoirs ?
Did you know that Bab al-Faraj is the only surviving city wall gate in Damascus that was added after the Muslim conquest?
Did you know that Indian communist politician Satyanarayan Singh led a campaign of annihilation of class enemies in rural Bihar in the late 1960s?
Did you know that reading Spectropia will cause the reader to see spectres floating on the wall?
Did you know that the North Atlantic breakup resulted in the separation of Eurasia from North America, forming the North Atlantic Ocean?
Did you know that although Colonel Harold Van Heuvelen composed his Symphony No. 1 during World War II, it was only premiered in 2012?
Did you know that because of Theophilus Wilson , the laws of cricket changed?
Did you know that Pitbull 's song " Don't Stop the Party ", from his seventh studio album Global Warming , was originally entitled "Funky Vodka"?
Did you know that one can reportedly see 8 mm (0.31 in) high Roman characters by the light of a 100 cm 2 (16 in 2 ) piece of the bioluminescent tsukiyotake ?
Did you know that some Omphalotus mushrooms glow in the dark ?
Did you know that Ohio's Meigs County Courthouse has at-grade entrances on all three floors?
Did you know that Alicia Keys co-wrote her single " Brand New Me " with Scottish recording artist and writer Emeli Sandé ?
Did you know that international emergency medicine is concerned with the development of relevant skills in countries lacking mature emergency medicine services?
Did you know that Cal Young , the first head coach of the Oregon Ducks football team, was born in a log cabin?
Did you know that the 9.2 inch naval gun at O'Hara's Battery , Gibraltar , was capable of firing shells from Europe to Africa?
Did you know that a publicity campaign for The Boogie Man Will Get You had to be abandoned because film critics preferred the antagonists in Disney films?
Did you know that W. G. Grace captained Gloucestershire County Cricket Club for 29 years?
Did you know that with the appointment of Muhammad ibn Ra'iq in 936, the holder of the office of amir al-umara became the virtual regent of the Abbasid Caliphate ?
Did you know that double leg amputee Marty Mayberry worked with a prosthetist to develop new legs that help improve his skiing following the 2006 Winter Paralympics ?
Did you know that Damien Thomlinson , an Australian commando who lost both legs in Afghanistan in 2009, is a rally car navigator, swimmer and para-snowboarder?
Did you know that although he spent a total of less than six years in the position, Nawaz Sharif served longer as Prime Minister of Pakistan than anyone else?
Did you know that Happy Wars is Xbox Live Arcade 's first free-to-play game?
Did you know that Bill Ponsford scored a quadruple century in just his third first-class cricket match?
Did you know that during the production of Women Are Better Diplomats , the film's director and lead actress married each other?
Did you know that staff from Company magazine devised an internship storyline for the soap opera Hollyoaks after watching Esther Bloom discuss fashion on-screen?
Did you know that many orange elephant ear sponges are busy on an afternoon in late July shortly before the new moon ?
Did you know that netball in Malawi is the most popular women's sport in the country?
Did you know that Agustín Alberdi , Jason Archer and Paul Beck , Luis Miguel Leal , Israel Lugo , Jorge "Fish" Rodríguez and Alejandro Santiago Ciena earned the Latin Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video by directing artists such as three-time winners Calle 13 ?
Did you know that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez would have voted for U.S. President Barack Obama if he could?
Did you know that according to Serbian epic poetry , Djemo the Mountaineer was the brother of Musa the Highwayman ?
Did you know that two arias in Bach's "magnificently theatrical and terse" cantata Es reißet euch ein schrecklich Ende , BWV 90 , "paint a dismal picture"?
Did you know that the 2012 Guia Race of Macau was the last car race in which Chevrolet participated as a works team in the WTCC ?
Did you know that Lt-Col Sir Marshal Clarke lost an arm to a tiger while serving with the Royal Artillery in India?
Did you know that Sandy Island , although presented in some maps, does not actually exist?
Did you know that Richard Ford 's critically acclaimed novel Canada took him twenty years to write?
Did you know that Kodak Fortress was destroyed within weeks of its completion in 1635 during the Cossack Sulima Uprising ?
Did you know that American-born 2012–13 Canberra Capitals player Valerie Ogoke played against an Australian basketball team in Australia as a member of the 2005 Loyola Marymount University basketball team?
Did you know that Cyclone Yali killed one person in New Zealand ?
Did you know that U.S. Representative-elect Markwayne Mullin took over his father's plumbing business when he was 20 years old?
Did you know that upon the death of the Abbasid caliph al-Radi , his chief advisor and general Bajkam looted jewels and slave women from the caliphal palace?
Did you know that female specimens of the Hyperolius ocellatus are larger than the males?
Did you know that the Delhi Bridge is open to traffic even though it was destroyed by a tornado , whereas the Bell Road Bridge was hit by a drunk driver and is sitting on an overgrown river bank?
Did you know that Leonora Bilger was the 1953 recipient of the American Chemical Society's Garvan–Olin Medal ?
Did you know that no electricity has been generated by the barge-mounted electric power generating station that was delivered to Ghana in 2002?
Did you know that Chapal Bhaduri is, as of today, the last living female impersonator in Bengali folk theatre ?
Did you know that Cornwall Terrace was one of the earliest buildings constructed in Regent's Park ?
Did you know that Cyril Sewell was the leading run-scorer during a South African cricket tour of England at the age of just 19?
Did you know that the Roman Harbaqa Dam in the Syrian Desert was reused by the Umayyads in the eighth century to supply water to the nearby palace of Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi ?
Did you know that the timing of mountain building can alter the shape and thickness of alluvial fans ?
Did you know that Albert Berg , the first Purdue football coach, was a deaf-mute whose coaching reportedly "consisted of excited sign language and some rather bizarre sounds from his throat"?
Did you know that Argentine-Korean actor Chang Kim Sung made a parody of " Gangnam Style " in the TV series Graduados ?
Did you know that the charity album God Bless America , released after the September 11 attacks , reached number one on the Billboard album chart as part of a wave of patriotic and inspirational releases?
Did you know that excessive nutrients from volcanoes caused the loss of oxygen in the Western Interior Seaway which linked the Caribbean to the Arctic?
Did you know that Hollywood make-up artist Perc Westmore developed a prosthetic hand out of latex, which was reportedly adapted for use by the medical industry?
Did you know that Glenn Robinson III , the son of 1994 NBA first overall draft pick Glenn Robinson , was born three months premature?