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Did you know that the HMS Victory , containing the remains of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson , was towed into Rosia Bay , Gibraltar , after the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar ?
Did you know that successive Bishops of Râmnic played an important role in adopting Romanian as the liturgical language of the Romanian Orthodox Church , in place of Greek and Old Church Slavonic ?
Did you know that 1932 French Tennis Championships runner-up Giorgio de Stefani was ambidextrous but was banned from using two rackets , one in each hand?
Did you know that Saul Steinberg 's famous New Yorker cover, View of the World from 9th Avenue , was named the fourth greatest magazine cover in a 40-year survey?
Did you know that the Canon EOS-1D X is a full-frame flagship model for Canon ?
Did you know that Broad Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, went from vacant storefronts to a vibrant arts district in less than a decade?
Did you know that the humming frog aestivates in an underground burrow during the hottest part of the summer?
Did you know that after collaborating with actress Laura Dern on three films, David Lynch and a cow personally lobbied for her to win the Academy Award for Best Actress ?
Did you know that Realist painter Carlos de Haes (1829–1898) has been cited as the "first contemporary Spanish artist able to capture something of a particularly Spanish 'essence' in his work"?
Did you know that when the population size of the dinoflagellate Alexandrium monilatum increases, it can cause a red tide that kills fish?
Did you know that Cordell Schachter oversaw the development of a web-based application that reduces the duration of New York City street construction inspections to one day?
Did you know that actors playing Willy Loman in Arthur Miller 's Death of a Salesman on Broadway or in American cinema have earned acclaim such as three Golden Globe Awards and three Tony and Emmy nominations?
Did you know that the British garrison of Gibraltar relied on water from the medieval Nun's Well for making their supply of beer?
Did you know that Abd al-Karim al-Jundi presided over the state appropriation of Syrian farm land from its traditional owners after becoming the minister of agrarian reform ?
Did you know that " Bleeding Love ", a song performed by Leona Lewis , is her first and only song to reach number one on the US Billboard Adult Contemporary chart?
Did you know that World War II memoirist Kirsten Brunvoll , who survived Ravensbrück and Auschwitz , saw her husband and oldest son survive Sachsenhausen , while her youngest son was trained as a pilot in Canada?
Did you know that some graves in the Sanhedria Cemetery of Jerusalem are five times closer to residential housing than the law allows?
Did you know that Haseo , the protagonist of the .hack//G.U. games, is a reincarnation of Sora from the anime series .hack//Sign ?
Did you know that in Shadrake v. Attorney-General , where a British journalist was charged with scandalizing the Singapore courts , the Court of Appeal declined to apply the American " clear and present danger " test?
Did you know that Peter Stuart began writing material for his album, Propeller , at a songwriters' workshop held in a French castle by Miles Copeland III ?
Did you know that the Communist Party daily Aththa was the only Sinhala-language newspaper to cover the burning of Jaffna library ?
Did you know that American football linebacker Carlos Jenkins reportedly survived a motorcycle accident at 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) despite not wearing a helmet ?
Did you know that the most significant aspect of moral conversion is the withdrawal from the moral convictions of the past?
Did you know that Champion Bridge Co. was charged with criminal antitrust violations in 1906 as part of the Ohio Attorney General's "war on the bridge trust"?
Did you know that Friedrich Zehm composed four songs for men's choir that he called Grasshoffiade in honor of Fritz Grasshoff , the author of their lyrics?
Did you know that the September 2012 Camp Bastion raid was described as the worst loss of U.S. air-power in a single incident since the Vietnam War?
Did you know that after Norwegian footballer Jonatan Tollås posted a nude photo of a teammate on Twitter , he said that his goal was to upload one new photo every day?
Did you know that King Edward III of England ordered stars effaced from the coat of arms of Sir Amery of Pavy for trying to sell Calais , a seaport of which he was the governor, to the French?
Did you know that a remix version of The Police song " When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around " reached the UK Top 40 two decades after the song's initial release?
Did you know that the aquarium plant Anubias gigantea and the closely related species Anubias afzelii only differ by the shape of their leaf-blades?
Did you know that First & Main in Portland, Oregon , was the first new office tower in Portland's downtown in ten years?
Did you know that Pre-Tolstojan refers to the oldest period in the history of planet Mercury from its moment of formation?
Did you know that Downtown College Prep in San Jose was the first charter school in Santa Clara County, California ?
Did you know that the Nikon Coolpix S1000pj is the first compact digital camera of its kind with a built-in projector ?
Did you know that evangelist W. E. Biederwolf played football despite objections from his family?
Did you know that the works of Joseph C. Wells , a founding member of the American Institute of Architects , include "Old First" in Greenwich Village?
Did you know that Jacob the Liar was the first East German film to be entered into the Berlin International Film Festival and the only one to win a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ?
Did you know that on September 13, 2012, nearly 200,000 Argentines protested against the policies of the president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner ?
Did you know that Leona Lewis recorded an acoustic cover version of the Counting Crows song " Colorblind " for the deluxe edition of her third studio album, Glassheart ?
Did you know that snow mold , a type of fungus, can severely damage grass if it snows?
Did you know that, during preparations for Operation Barras , soldiers trained on a scale model of the village they were to assault?
Did you know that the 2011 Bengali film Abosheshey , about a son exploring his dead mother's life, was shot in Roopa Ganguly 's own house, where she plays the role of the mother?
Did you know that the inaugural Eclipse Stakes , at the time the largest prize in British horseracing, was won by the stallion Bendigo in 1886?
Did you know that the female Tornier's forest toad is viviparous and has been known to carry 35 young at one time?
Did you know that Alan Phillips wasn't allowed to compete in badminton for South Africa in the 1992 Olympics because he was too old at 36, but he played baseball in the 2000 Olympics at 44?
Did you know that the Eltanin Impact of a small asteroid in the Pacific Ocean resulted in the highest density of deposited meteoritic material on Earth?
Did you know that former Major League Baseball player Mike Capel pitched to a 135.00 earned run average in 1990?
Did you know that " Like You'll Never See Me Again ", a song performed by Alicia Keys , ranked as the number one R&B single of 2008 in the United States?
Did you know that Lemuel Moss ' s time as president of Indiana University saw the end of its schools of law and medicine?
Did you know that Turnbull Thomson Park in Invercargill , New Zealand , was used for growing crops during World War II ?
Did you know that Team AND1 's first international loss was against the debuting Puerto Rico Streetballers team after remaining undefeated for six years?
Did you know that Venezuela's second satellite, VRSS-1 , was launched at the end of September?
Did you know that by the time of his death in 1764 BC, Yarim-Lim I , king of Yamhad (modern-day Aleppo , Syria) was said to be the "mightiest ruler in the Near East outside of Egypt "?
Did you know that Orkla Mining Company was the largest mining company in Norway in the interwar period ?
Did you know that the shovelnose salamander and the blackbelly salamander both live in the Appalachian Mountains , but the former feeds exclusively in water while the latter mainly forages on land?
Did you know that in 1369, Count Eberhard I of Eppstein built a hunting lodge in the Schloßborn area?
Did you know that Onufry Zagłoba , a character in Henryk Sienkiewicz ' The Trilogy , has been compared to William Shakespeare 's Falstaff ?
Did you know that despite being a centre back , Norwegian footballer Edvard Skagestad has played most of his matches as a striker ?
Did you know that the Leiden Glossary , produced c. 800 in St. Gallen , possibly preserves glosses by Aldhelm from Eusebius 's Historia Ecclesiastica ?
Did you know that the Duchess of Marlborough kept a revolver in her bedroom in Blenheim Palace to prevent her husband from entering?
Did you know that a family in Whitehorse, Canada , was so afraid of animal aggression that the parents went fully armed to walk their children to school?
Did you know that the Duchess of Norfolk asked Captain James Cook to name an island after her, but died before he discovered Norfolk Island ?
Did you know that future College Football Hall of Fame coaches Earle Bruce and Don James faced off in the 1972 Tangerine Bowl ?
Did you know that the constellation of Pyxis represents a ship's compass ?
Did you know that Steve Woodmore , the world's current fastest talker, can articulate at 637 words per minute ?
Did you know that Carolyn Sampson was the first soprano to record all of Bach's aria BWV 1127 , which had been lost until 2005?
Did you know that no Irish-trained racehorse had won the 1,000 Guineas Stakes in more than five decades until Pourparler did so in 1964?
Did you know that the newly built Dikgatlhong Dam has far more capacity than the Gaborone Dam , formerly the largest in Botswana?
Did you know that the frogs Colostethus palmatus and Colostethus agilis are endemic to Colombia ?
Did you know that ten Florida fish cabins and icehouses built by the Punta Gorda Fish Co. have been listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you know that Selena 's " No Quiero Saber " was included in the official Latin album for the 1996 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that soldiers in the mixed-gender Israeli Caracal Battalion successfully thwarted what was described as "a very big terrorist attack" on 21 September 2012?
Did you know that the painting Les orangers by Gustave Caillebotte depicts his brother in the same outfit that Gustave was shown wearing in a painting by Renoir ?
Did you know that Millennium 's " Owls " was inspired by the earlier episode " The Hand of St. Sebastian "?
Did you know that a stained glass window in St Oswald's Church, Ravenstonedale , Cumbria , is to the memory of "the last female martyr burnt at Tyburn for the cause of the Protestant religion" in 1685?
Did you know that the black lines formed by Coccomyces dentatus result from antagonistic interactions between individuals of different genotypes ?
Did you know that geochemist Terry Plank , awarded a 2012 MacArthur genius grant , grew up in a schist quarry and in third grade was the youngest member of the Delaware Mineralogical Society ?
Did you know that the Canon EOS 6D is Canon 's smallest and lightest full-frame DSLR ?
Did you know that Paralympic equestrian Jonathan Wentz , who died September 30, posted the best performance of any American equestrian at the 2012 Olympic or Paralympic Games?
Did you know that the cookie star feeds on the cloud sponge ?
Did you know that in 1886, the filly Miss Jummy won the 1,000 Guineas Stakes by one and a half lengths and then defeated the same horse to win the Epsom Oaks by half a length?
Did you know that Channel 4 cancelled a public screening of Islam: The Untold Story because of security concerns?
Did you know that Faith Hill 's " American Heart " was the October 1, 2012, USA Today song of the week?
Did you know that trade union leader Lech Wałęsa was a target of fake police reports produced by the Communist secret service in the People's Republic of Poland ?
Did you know that the thallus of the umbrella alga , which grows up to 7 centimetres (2.8 in) tall, consists of a single large cell ?
Did you know that Marco Pierre White became the youngest chef to win two Michelin stars while at Harvey's in Wandsworth, London?
Did you know that Shibtu , wife of Zimrilim and queen consort of the ancient city-state of Mari , was described as "the most prominent of the Mari ladies"?
Did you know that Anil Kumble took the most economical five-wicket haul of the Indian Premier League in the 2009 season , and won the "Best breakthrough performance" award for it?
Did you know that St Columba's Church, Warcop , Cumbria , stands on the site of a former Roman camp, and in the medieval era was owned by Shap Abbey ?
Did you know that Alvin Leung serves an edible condom at his Hong Kong-based restaurant, Bo Innovation?
Did you know that the works of Henry W. Cleaveland , a founding member of the American Institute of Architects , include the original Palace Hotel, San Francisco ?
Did you know that if handled, the flaming gold bolete fungus will stain one's hands yellow?
Did you know that while " Let Yourself Go " was released on 5 September 2012, it had been played at Green Day 's secret show on 27 October 2011?
Did you know that in the "drinking and hacking" scene in The Social Network , Jesse Eisenberg , as Mark Zuckerberg , can be seen wearing an Ars Nova T-shirt which originally belonged to Eisenberg himself?
Did you know that Charles Johnson Pharazyn wore a sign around his neck walking through Wellington , New Zealand, to advertise that he had lost his spectacles?
Did you know that the Chicago Teachers Union was formed after unpaid teachers revolted against Chicago banks during the Great Depression?
Did you know that the 13th-century Treatise by Walter of Bibbesworth is one of the earliest books explicitly intended for children to hear and read?
Did you know that in 1943, the American cargo ocean liner SS Santa Paula was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine in the Arabian Sea?
Did you know that Retskrivningsordbogen , with around 64,000 words, contains a detailed guide to Danish orthography ?
Did you know that the church preceding the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Kamloops , British Columbia, was destroyed by fire on Ash Wednesday of 1919?
Did you know that although Mihal Zallari was an ardent Germanophile , he prevented the execution of the employees of the Albanian state radio service by the German Army , which suspected them of being communists ?
Did you know that the extinct termite Zophotermes ashoki is named after a " sage of Indian paleontology"?
Did you know that Richard Tylman , Mayor of Faversham during the reign of Elizabeth I of England , was a sole supplier of corn to the London merchants among the local exporters in 1580?
Did you know that the Tampa Spartans college football program was disbanded after their 1974 season?
Did you know that in his television special " How to Control the Nation ", illusionist Derren Brown attempted to stick viewers to their seats using a subliminal film?
Did you know that Columbia University failed to turn a profit on Fathom.com , an early online learning website?
Did you know that Khalid Nabi Cemetery in Iran is a notable example of phallic architecture and a major tourist attraction?
Did you know that the immunosuppressant and anti-cancer drug rapamycin was discovered in 1975 from a soil sample collected on Easter Island ?
Did you know that Tomahawk 's fourth album Oddfellows will be the first to feature new bass player Trevor Dunn ?
Did you know that the appressorium —a specialized cell typical of many fungal plant pathogens —can develop enough turgor pressure to puncture Mylar ?
Did you know that past human rights issues in Guinea include the black diet , a total lack of food and water which killed prisoners at Camp Boiro ?
Did you know that Baseball Hall of Fame manager Connie Mack said that selling Herb Pennock was his greatest mistake?
Did you know that the edible African species Amanita zambiana is sometimes called the "Christmas mushroom" because it is most abundant in December and early January?
Did you know that racehorses trained by George Dawson earned £77,914 of prize money in 1888, setting a record that stood for 43 years?
Did you know that despite such actors as Christopher Plummer and Orson Welles , New York Magazine described Oedipus the King as an "almost comical" film adaption of the dramatic play by Sophocles ?
Did you know that in 1963, Paddy Prendergast became the first Irish-based horse trainer to win the British trainers' championship , retaining the title for the succeeding two years?
Did you know that Rabbi Akiva Ehrenfeld , founder of Kiryat Mattersdorf , Jerusalem, was the guest of honor at an official reception hosted by the President of Austria in Vienna's Hofburg Palace in 1995?
Did you know that the Sacramento Mountain Salamander is preyed on by the western terrestrial garter snake ?
Did you know that Martin Dardis linked a Watergate burglar to US President Nixon 's reelection campaign with a check written by fundraiser Kenneth Dahlberg , a pilot Dardis had rescued in the Battle of the Bulge ?
Did you know that the extinct termite Prostylotermes is known from a female, male, and two eggs?
Did you know that during the Second Red Scare , Senator Joseph McCarthy declared that the United States Department of State had been infiltrated by 57 " card-carrying Communists "?
Did you know that Geastrum fimbriatum , Lycoperdon marginatum , P. rubicundus , Scleroderma polyrhizum , S. verrucosum , Clathrus crispus and the wood witch are fungi that have been featured on postage stamps?
Did you know that most of the film directors of the Dutch East Indies were ethnic Chinese ?
Did you know that the Loring Air Force Base Double Cantilever Hangar was capable of storing five B-36 Peacemaker or six B-52 Stratofortress aircraft?
Did you know that one reviewer called " A Single Blade of Grass " "yet another adventure in weird, Native American mysticism from the folks at 1013 Productions "?
Did you know that Johnny Cash took most of the lyrics of " Folsom Prison Blues " from Gordon Jenkins ' song " Crescent City Blues "?
Did you know that the late Azerbaijani president Heydar Aliyev's cult of personality has become a significant part of Azerbaijani politics and society in recent years?
Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II has owned over 30 corgis since she ascended the throne in 1952?
Did you know that the Russian ironclad Sevastopol was converted into an ironclad while still under construction in the 1860s?
Did you know that the stark color changes undergone by the mushroom Boletus pseudosulphureus led one author to suggest that its "personal grooming skills go to hell in a handbasket"?
Did you know that the name of the Syrian town Taftanaz is likely of Hittite origin?
Did you know that at the age of 15, Cody Bollinger made his mixed martial arts debut, winning two fights in one night?
Did you know that the Norwegian Troll Satellite Station in Antarctica 's Queen Maud Land is one of only two ground stations capable of communicating with all low Earth orbit satellites?
Did you know that the SoundHound mobile app can recognise a song even from a badly hummed version?
Did you know that part of John London 's punishment for his role in a failed plot against Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer was to ride through several towns seated backwards on a horse and be pilloried ?
Did you know that the 1946 Alabama Crimson Tide football team was the first Alabama squad to play in New England and fly to a game for their contest against Boston College ?
Did you know that Mostafa Hussein Kamel was appointed as the Egyptian Minister of State for Environmental Affairs after the Al-Nour Party rejected the position as "insulting"?
Did you know that the red-cheeked salamander , which is distasteful to predators , is mimicked by the harmless imitator salamander ?
Did you know that in 1967, Jack Jarvis became the first horse trainer to be knighted by the Queen ?
Did you know that the $10 million Battle of the Dance dinner theater in Anaheim, California , closed after 18 months, partly because the food was so bad?
Did you know that Tuber lijiangense , T. microspermum , T. microspiculatum , T. polyspermum , T. sinoalbidum , and T. sinoexcavatum are Chinese truffles that have been described as new species in the past two years?
Did you know that Edward Upcott , Acrobatic Gymnastics Men's Pairs world champion in 2010 and Spelbound flyer, has had chronic asthma since infancy, almost dying from his first attack?
Did you know that hundreds of thousands of art pieces were looted from Poland during World War II by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that Inoe Perbatasari 's last films all dealt with the Indonesian National Revolution ?
Did you know that the orange knobbly star produces dark eggs which drift with the current and orange eggs which sink immediately to the seabed ?
Did you know that Australian adventurer Ben Carlin travelled over 80,000 kilometres (50,000 mi) over land and sea in a modified Jeep , becoming the first person to circumnavigate the world in an amphibious vehicle ?
Did you know that the Cumberland Dusky Salamander is believed to hybridize with the Ocoee Salamander ?
Did you know that although set in Europe, parts of RED 2 , the upcoming sequel to the 2010 film RED , were filmed in Montreal ?
Did you know that Roestam Sutan Palindih was a farmer, politician, journalist, film director, and literary documentarian?
Did you know that the sponge brittle star is often found living on the surface of the red tree sponge ?
Did you know that Constance Stokes got the idea for her painting Girl in Red Tights when she walked in on a model who was getting undressed?
Did you know that Death of a Salesman , a 1966 television remake of Arthur Miller 's 1949 play by the same name , won three Primetime Emmy Awards at the 19th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1967?
Did you know that the black jumping salamander , the dwarf false brook salamander , the admirable false brook salamander , the Smith's false brook salamander and Thorius pennatulus are all endemic to Mexico, and critically endangered ?
Did you know that José Paniagua never returned to Major League Baseball after flipping off an umpire ?
Did you know that following the capture of Baldwin I of Edessa in 1104, the inhabitants of al-Fu'ah , Sarmin and Maarrat Misrin in northern Syria revolted against their Crusader rulers?
Did you know that Reiner Stach has written two of three volumes of his massive Franz Kafka biographical trilogy?
Did you know that the enforcement of a 2009 three strikes policy introduced to the copyright law of South Korea has led to tens of thousands of Koreans being disconnected from the Internet?
Did you know that future Hockey Hall of Famer Bill Cook scored the first goal in New York Rangers history in 1926?
Did you know that Arthur von Oettingen and his family lost their farm and family home in Kuremaa when Estonia expropriated all land from the Baltic nobility in 1919?
Did you know that Michael Le Bourgeois was the first Jerseyman to sign a professional rugby contract with Jersey ?
Did you know that the electoral support of the Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin Movement of Botswana increased by more than ten times between 1999 and 2009?
Did you know that Clandestine Childhood is Argentina's submission for the 2013 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ?
Did you know that the genus Clivia was named after Queen Victoria 's childhood governess, the Duchess of Northumberland , who was the first to cultivate those plants in Great Britain?
Did you know that Irish Republican politicians in the 1920s were expected to pay for their own meals in order to prevent political corruption ?
Did you know that Eva Naa Merley Lokko was the first female engineer to be employed at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation and is the first Vice Presidential Candidate of the PPP in Ghana ?
Did you know that the Christchurch , New Zealand, suburb of Linwood is named after Joseph Brittan 's house ?