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Did you know that torpedograss has been called "one of the world's worst weeds"?
Did you know that Tempair International Airlines never operated flights in its own right, but it flew on many other companies' behalf by leasing its aircraft?
Did you know that with a minimum pressure of 900 hPa (26.58 inHg), Cyclone Susan (1997–98) was one of the most intense tropical cyclones to exist in the South Pacific basin ?
Did you know that National Heroine of Indonesia Nyai Ahmad Dahlan worked for women's rights and against sun worship ?
Did you know that the Buryat people use the alcoholic beverage tarasun in their religious ceremonies?
Did you know that Canberra Capitals player Carly Wilson is renowned for wearing pink socks while playing basketball in the WNBL ?
Did you know that it is all but impossible to match up species known by leaves with those known by trunks in the prehistoric cycad-like genus Cycadeoidea ?
Did you know that fossils of the extinct bivalve family Praenuculidae have been found on every continent except Antarctica?
Did you know that Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall swapped Merthen for Tintagel Castle ?
Did you know that in local New Guinea folklore, the magic-man sends the Papuan black snake to kill enemies?
Did you know that a parishioner at the Methodist Church in Monmouth said she would buy an organ if the minister ever filled the church?
Did you know that the Nagle Warren Mansion , listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Cheyenne , hosted two U.S. Presidents ?
Did you know that in 1848, Surplice became the first racehorse to win both the Derby and the St. Leger Stakes since 1800?
Did you know that Save The Bay helped stop San Bruno Mountain from being destroyed to create landfill along 27 miles (43 km) of San Francisco Bay ?
Did you know that " Michael ", the Glee tribute episode to Michael Jackson , took more than a month to film and features performances of ten of his songs?
Did you know that cattle can experience ergotism if they eat tobosa infected with the fungus ?
Did you know that Božena Němcová was the only author who got paid for her contribution to the Czech literary almanac Máj ?
Did you know that Canberra Capitals players Alice Coddington and Brigitte Ardossi majored in marketing while attending university in the United States?
Did you know that National Hero of Indonesia Teuku Nyak Arif said of the Japanese occupation of Indonesia "we had driven out dogs only to have pigs come"?
Did you know that the Walter Merchant House is one of the few townhouses left in Albany, New York , with a rear carriage house ?
Did you know that the onyx seal of Jaazaniah dating from the 6th century BCE depicts one of the earliest known images of a fighting rooster ?
Did you know that Prisia Nasution , who won a Citra Award for her debut role, has a background in the martial art of pencak silat ?
Did you know that the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad was at the heart of a scandal that affected the Republican nomination for President in 1876 ?
Did you know that a year after winning the 1816 Derby Stakes , Prince Leopold was castrated for poor behaviour?
Did you know that oxide jacking has damaged St Paul's Cathedral and Farnsworth House ?
Did you know that Hynds Lodge in Wyoming 's Curt Gowdy State Park , built in 1922 of native rough granite, was donated to the Boy Scouts of America by Harry P. Hynds, who made a fortune in gambling saloons?
Did you know that in a chorale of Bach's cantata Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen, BWV 13 , two recorders and an oboe da caccia play with the alto, whereas the strings play an "optimistic, wordless answer" to its prayer?
Did you know that the Hanson brothers pioneered the rear-entry ski boot , but the bankruptcy of their company in the 1980s allowed European companies to take over the market they created?
Did you know that production babies , children born to the crew during the making of an animated film, were first listed in the end credits of Toy Story (1995)?
Did you know that Stanisław Samostrzelnik , the first Polish Renaissance painter known by name, portrayed Bishop Piotr Tomicki (pictured) ?
Did you know that the Chola expedition to North India between 1019 and 1024 was precipitated by a succession dispute in the Eastern Chalukya kingdom ?
Did you know that Johan van der Meer conducted the first historically informed performance in the Netherlands of Bach's St Matthew Passion in 1973, with Marius van Altena as the Evangelist and Max van Egmond as the Vox Christi ?
Did you know that Salvador Dalí lived at the Royal Suite in Hôtel Meurice in Paris for periods over a duration of 30 years?
Did you know that according to the Russian edition of Esquire magazine , Russian physicist and TU Delft professor Yaroslav Blanter deleted thousands of pages from Wikipedia ?
Did you know that Corsia is a genus of small plants which lack chlorophyll and parasitize fungi for nutrition?
Did you know that several Russian villages were flooded by the reservoir formed for the Uglich Hydroelectric Station ?
Did you know that for four consecutive seasons, current Cleveland Cavaliers player Mychel Thompson led the Pepperdine Waves men's basketball team in three-pointers scored?
Did you know that the Monmouthshire Show was started after John Rolls and the Duke of Beaufort contributed £30 in 1857 to fund it?
Did you know that " Glory " 's debut on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart meant that the first child of Jay-Z and Beyoncé Knowles became the youngest person in the history of Billboard to have a charted song?
Did you know that the " children of the water " were considered to be the "flesh of the gods"?
Did you know that in 2004, Arfa Karim became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional at the age of nine years?
Did you know that the Mirabito Outdoor Classic‎ was the first outdoor game in the 74-year history of the American Hockey League ?
Did you know that Jockie Soerjoprajogo has refused to give his blessings to God Bless to play " Kehidupan ", his composition and one of the band's biggest hits?
Did you know that in 1974, Ruben Ayala became the first person of Mexican-American descent elected to the California State Senate since 1911?
Did you know that a gravestone in St Mary's Priory Church in Monmouth says "Here lies John Renie" in 46,000 different ways?
Did you know that although banned in 1943, the Baklahorani carnival, in Istanbul , revived after nearly 70 years?
Did you know that one critic thought that The Artist ' s dog actor Uggie outperformed J. Edgar ' s Leonardo DiCaprio ?
Did you know that the Once Upon a Time episode " Desperate Souls " features actor Brad Dourif as a "beggar who befriends evil Rumpelstiltskin "?
Did you know that Stuart Robinson School was a settlement school in the Kentucky mountains that was operated as a Presbyterian mission from 1913 until the 1950s?
Did you know that the Antarctic sea urchin eats microscopic algae and small invertebrates, and feasts on seal faeces when available?
Did you know that production of The X-Files episode " Terma " involved an oil plume 300 feet (91 m) high?
Did you know that some Renaissance caskets decorated with pastiglia work mixed musk perfume into the material, and were believed to have an aphrodisiac effect?
Did you know that in his rookie season , Johnny Gildea led the National Football League in interceptions with 20 while  passing for either two or three touchdowns ?
Did you know that the granular poromya is a carnivorous, bivalve mollusc?
Did you know that Upper Michigan's Trinity Episcopal Church had to be rescued from floating down a canal ?
Did you know that Jambo OpenOffice was the first office suite in Swahili , a language spoken by about a hundred million people?
Did you know that in medieval typology , Isaac carrying wood up the mountain for his sacrifice is the most common parallel for Christ carrying the cross ?
Did you know that during All-American basketball player Elliott Loughlin ' s U.S. Navy career, he earned two Navy Crosses , two Legions of Merit and one Silver Star ?
Did you know that the oldest working theatre in Wales is said to be the Savoy Theatre in Monmouth ?
Did you know that the Vicinage Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution may allow for the commission of the " perfect crime " in Yellowstone National Park ?
Did you know that Sim Bhullar , a 7-foot-5-inch (2.26 m) Indo-Canadian college basketball player at New Mexico State University , has been said to be "poised to become the world's first prominent men's basketball player of Indian descent"?
Did you know that a carved wooden lectern in the 900-year-old St Martin of Tours Church, Detling , has been called "the finest medieval fitting in any parish church in the county"?
Did you know that the 1939 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show Best in Show Ferry v. Rauhfelsen of Giralda was the grandfather of the 1952–53 winner Rancho Dobe's Storm ?
Did you know that Tommy Tebb scored Nelson 's last goal in the Football League ?
Did you know that the outdoor parts of indoor-outdoor thermometers are used indoors by building service engineers by swinging them around?
Did you know that American football linebacker Jake Ryan is the grandson of American jurist Francis E. Sweeney ?
Did you know that maidencane is a keystone species of many wetlands , including the Everglades ?
Did you know that Daguangba Dam , the largest dam in Hainan , is also the province's largest hydroelectric power station?
Did you know that Mikhail Sokolovsky 's 1779 opera The Miller who was a Wizard, a Cheat and a Matchmaker was for many years mistakenly attributed to Yevstigney Fomin ?
Did you know that both Fordilla and Pojetaia , Cambrian members of the extinct bivalve family Fordillidae , are part of the Turkish small shelly fauna ?
Did you know that Roy Cooper was the first rodeo cowboy to exceed $2 million in earnings for his career?
Did you know that Set in Stone won the 2006 Costa Book Award for Best Children's Book, despite the recommendation that it should not be read by anyone less than 14 years old?
Did you know that American football linebacker Desmond Morgan had ten tackles in each of his final two games as a freshman?
Did you know that Cuban-American singer Gloria Estefan became the first female performer to debut at number one at the Billboard Latin Songs chart with her song " Hotel Nacional "?
Did you know that the light aircraft carrier Shōhō , sunk on 7 May 1942 during the Battle of the Coral Sea , was the first Japanese aircraft carrier to be sunk during World War II ?
Did you know that although the American Racing Manual now only covers Thoroughbred horse racing , its earlier precursors also covered harness racing and other sports?
Did you know that The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize for History , the Bancroft Prize , and the Lincoln Prize in 2011?
Did you know that a female taekwondo fighter , who wore a headscarf under her helmet, won the sole medal for Afghanistan at the 2002 Asian Games after the fall of the Taliban ?
Did you know that Saint Benedict wanted his monks to prefer nothing to the love of Christ ?
Did you know that the Pointe de la Torche in Brittany has a Mesolithic midden , a Megalithic passage grave , and a World War II German blockhouse ?
Did you know that the Well-Manicured Man served as the "voice of reason" amongst The X-Files ' antagonists?
Did you know that Bobby Cummings was the first English footballer to score a hat-trick against Rangers in the Scottish League ?
Did you know that in 1898, the United States Navy attempted to purchase a battleship from Chile for use against Spain ?
Did you know that in Egyptian mythology , the Eye of Ra slaughtered masses of people, got drunk, ran away from her owner , and was brought back by her husband?
Did you know that the Research Works Act proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives would ban open access mandates for federally funded research?
Did you know that in a successful military ambush , every enemy soldier in the kill zone might be killed in less than one minute?
Did you know that "I love you ... and especially you, size nine" was one of the catchphrases of Dandy Dan Daniels , one of the Good Guys ?
Did you know that Germanus of Winchester , an 11th-century English abbot , carried the newly discovered relics of a saint from their discovery location to Ramsey Abbey with his own hands?
Did you know that the horse fly Scaptia beyonceae was named after singer and actress Beyoncé Knowles because of its striking golden behind?
Did you know that Ernie Robinson worked as a coal miner before becoming a professional footballer ?
Did you know that the Medieval Chola king Rajendra Chola I sent a naval expedition to South-East Asia in 1025?
Did you know that in the chess game Rotlewi versus Rubinstein , Rubinstein sacrificed his queen and rook for two minor pieces but forced checkmate ?
Did you know that light artist Yann Kersalé saved boat lifts in Thieu and a submarine base in Saint-Nazaire by illuminating them?
Did you know that crazy fish are upside down sleepers ?
Did you know that the night after the Lewis and Clark Expedition broke camp at Camp Disappointment was the only time during the entire expedition that they killed any Indians ?
Did you know that after the 1860 Derby winner Thormanby died suddenly at age 18, its tail was mounted as a whisk in the hall of racehorse trainer Mathew Dawson 's house?
Did you know that NASCAR Nationwide Series driver Joey Gase won two short track racing championships before graduating from high school ?
Did you know that a single Antarctic scallop was found to have 10 different species of demosponge living on its shell?
Did you know that Rihanna 's " Birthday Cake ", said to resemble a real-life quickie , lasts just 78 seconds?
Did you know that in 1903 the first ice hockey league in Europe was formed in the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that 155 aftershocks were felt at Campo, California , in the first twelve hours after the 1892 Laguna Salada earthquake ?
Did you know that the explorer and big game hunter Thomas Alexander Barns undertook an expedition to the Congo in pursuit of a giant butterfly that he called "the Antizox"?
Did you know that former Philadelphia Eagles left tackle Stan Walters started in 122 consecutive games and earned two Pro Bowl selections after being traded to the team in 1975 ?
Did you know that controversial New Zealand politician and lawyer Trevor de Cleene kept a pump-action shotgun under his bed for personal protection?
Did you know that Stoke Edith House has been cited as a good example of Williamite architecture from the late 17th-century period?
Did you know that George Pechiney was the Cleveland Blues' Opening Day starting pitcher for the baseball franchise's first game in the Major Leagues in 1887?
Did you know that National Hero of Indonesia Teungku Chik di Tiro led a holy war against the Dutch in 19th-century Aceh?
Did you know that Afghanistan returned to the Asian Games after the fall of the Taliban government in the midst of ongoing war ?
Did you know that The Fool 's The Fool guitar helped Eric Clapton achieve his signature "woman tone"?
Did you know that Captain Walker of HMS Monmouth told his crew to wash "the stain off your characters in the blood of your foes"?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court once said that "there is no constitutional value in false statements of fact "?
Did you know that Afif al-Bizri , as chief of staff of the Syrian Army , forced Prime Minister Sabri al-Assali to follow a pro- Nasser policy under threat of arrest?
Did you know that stipple engraving was used in the 18th century to make accurately sanguine reproductions of red chalk drawings by artists such as Watteau ?
Did you know that the founder of Pinboard operates it by himself, although the website has 25,000 registered users?
Did you know that the 6th-century Byzantine official Athanasius was dispatched by Justinian I to Ravenna in 536 and Carthage in 545, and he ended up in prison on both trips?
Did you know that over three million Chinese military and civilian personnel served in Korea during the Korean War ?
Did you know that the efforts of the 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman Josce de Dinan to defend Ludlow Castle form the background to the medieval work Fouke le Fitz Waryn ?
Did you know that Hugh Carless , who accompanied travel writer Eric Newby on an expedition to Northern Afghanistan in 1956, later served as the British ambassador to Venezuela ?
Did you know that Prussia refused to meet its obligations from the Polish–Prussian alliance of 1790, and instead of aiding Poland during the Polish–Russian War of 1792 , helped Russia to quell the Kościuszko Uprising the following year?
Did you know that the exploits of the Polish partisan People's Army were significantly exaggerated by the propaganda of the People's Republic of Poland ?
Did you know that the 165-foot (50 m) smokestack at the Holden Lixiviation Works in Aspen was said to be the tallest in Colorado when it was in use?
Did you know that assaulting or obstructing a clergyman in the discharge of his duties is a non-fatal offence against the person in English law ?
Did you know that because of competition from Costa Rican television broadcaster Repretel , Teletica Channel 7 was prompted to upgrade its programming and equipment?"
Did you know that the Hogbetsotso festival of the Anlos of Ghana commemorates the escape of their ancestors from a tyrant king by walking backwards?
Did you know that Japhet Asher wrote and produced the TV film Peace on Borrowed Time for the American Broadcasting Company when he was 21 years old?
Did you know that in a chapter of Contemplative Practices in Action , Doug Oman suggests that meditation and other spiritual practices act "synergistically ... like ... complementary food groups "?
Did you know that NBA Development League team Iowa Energy broke the league's attendance record in their first ever home game?
Did you know that the first television transmission in Croatia was made by Philips engineer Eric Klaas de Vries at the Zagreb Fair on 26 August 1939?
Did you know that despite the commercial successes of earlier games in the 7th Guest series, Uncle Henry's Playhouse sold only 176 copies worldwide?
Did you know that the Freudenberg Group placed Vileda brand cleaning cloths on the market after noticing that their cleaning ladies were using scraps of their experimental fabrics?
Did you know that Chrisye 's album Beautiful Flower featured work by the son of former president Sukarno on every track?
Did you know that members of the extinct bivalve family Bakevelliidae have shells made from rectangular calcium prisms and mother of pearl ?
Did you know that under the prosperous and benign rule of Husayn Pasha , the city of Gaza was regarded as the capital of Palestine ?
Did you know that actors and audience in the Jacobs Well Theatre , a Georgian era playhouse in Bristol , England, could obtain drinks through a hole in the wall to an adjoining ale house?
Did you know that Scottish footballer Dan Friel played more than 300 matches for Burnley , many of them as captain ?
Did you know that writer Christian Keymann and composer Andreas Hammerschmidt collaborated on a hymn, the base for Bach's cantata Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht, BWV 124 ("I will not let go of my Jesus")?
Did you know that in Mexico, tea prepared using tarbush , a shrub native to the Chihuahuan Desert , is consumed to treat indigestion and diarrhea ?
Did you know that footballer Adam Cunnington 's strike partnership with Kevin Charley produced more than 50 goals for Barwell in 2009–10 , helping the club win the Midland Football Alliance ?
Did you know that " Monday " was ranked among UGO Networks ' 100 Greatest Moments in Time Travel?
Did you know that the Tibet Improvement Party founded in 1939 by Pandatsang Rapga opposed the rule of the Dalai Lama government , and was supported by the Kuomintang in China?
Did you know that Abdullah Atfeh was the first chief of staff of the Syrian Army following the country's independence?
Did you know that one unusual feature of a charter issued around 1141 by Roger de Valognes was that it mentions that Valognes was persuaded to be more generous than he had originally planned?
Did you know that in Jon Klassen ' s 2011 children's book I Want My Hat Back a bear eats the rabbit who stole his hat?
Did you know that Chicken Hawks , a Pie , and a Pretzel have all played in Major League Baseball ?
Did you know that the Christmas Island Seamount Province , a group of 50 seamounts ( submarine volcanoes ) near Australia, formed during the breakup of Gondwana , up to 136 million years ago?
Did you know that Siedlce pogrom in the Congress Poland was organized by the Russian Empire 's secret police , and carried out by the Imperial Russian Army , whose soldiers were later decorated?
Did you know that the grass Oplismenus can be used as a substitute for lawn ?
Did you know that Deep Throat 's daughter is Monk 's wife?
Did you know that avant-garde musician Harry Roesli helped over 36,000 street children before his death in 2004?
Did you know that Jamestown College , North Dakota 's oldest post-secondary institution , was founded in 1883, six years before North Dakota became a U.S. state ?
Did you know that Muhsin al-Barazi , former prime minister of Syria , conducted secret negotiations with Israel and discussed the possibility of a summit between Ben-Gurion and al-Za'im in 1949?
Did you know that Brad Sweet will be competing in both NASCAR stock car racing and World of Outlaws sprint car racing in 2012?
Did you know that the extinct, Triassic , bivalve family Cassianellidae may have evolved from the family Bakevelliidae , which survived longer into the Eocene ?
Did you know that former Philadelphia Eagles offensive lineman Wade Key started out as a member of the taxi squad in 1969 and eventually became the Eagles' longest-tenured player in 1979 ?
Did you know that one of the sanjakbeys of the Sanjak of Ohrid was Ballaban Badera , famous for his bloody battles against Skanderbeg ?
Did you know that Love Song from High School , the third most viewed Indonesian film of 1979, featured a cameo from Chrisye meant to market his upcoming album ?
Did you know that with titles such as 1983's Kool-Aid Man , Mattel's M Network was an early developer of " promogames "?
Did you know that the cover for Andrew Miller 's 2011 Costa prize winning novel Pure was inspired by Francisco Goya 's etching The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters ?
Did you know that the British Houses of Parliament in London, rebuilt after a destructive fire in 1834 , include ventilation systems by Scottish physician David Boswell Reid ?
Did you know that Hurricane Celeste in 1972 triggered evacuations due to a threat of nerve gas dispersal?
Did you know that Elias Abraham Rosenberg , a peddler from San Francisco , became an adviser to King Kalākaua of Hawaii due to his purported ability to predict the future?
Did you know that in " Odorono ", The Who sang about the consequences of body odour ?
Did you know that British surgeon Victor Negus carried out pioneering research in comparative anatomy in the 1920s on the structure and evolution of the larynx ?
Did you know that among the players in the 2011 Liberty Bowl were the grandson of civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy and the brother of Super Bowl -winning quarterback Aaron Rodgers ?
Did you know that the medieval Islamic brickwork technique of banna'i was used to cover whole buildings with names of Allah , Muhammad and Ali ?
Did you know that American torch singer Roberta Sherwood became a sudden nationwide success at age 43?
Did you know that a key event leading up to the 1984 Tanjung Priok massacre in Jakarta was a Christian entering a mosque without removing his shoes?
Did you know that the 2007 Murphy Complex Fire burned 652,016 acres (263,862 ha ) of land and was the largest wildfire in Idaho in 97 years?
Did you know that recently appointed Indonesian justice minister Amir Syamsuddin has represented the former head of Golkar and Tempo magazine ?
Did you know that the Russian ballistic missile submarine K-84 Ekaterinburg was the first submarine to attempt to launch all her missiles while submerged?
Did you know that Michael Plumb was the first (and, to date, only) equestrian inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame ?