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Did you know that Madonna's musical endeavors include reciting and recording poems?
Did you know that Meridian School alumnus Masa Fukuda, the founder of One Voice Children's Choir, writes and arranges music from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. in his basement studio, sleeping only three or four hours a day?
Did you know that Tina Allen's sculpture of Frederick Douglass is featured in the movie Akeelah and the Bee?
Did you know that a portable radio transmitter called Pocket FM enables people to create pirate radio networks in areas where authoritarian governments tightly control communications?
Did you know that after becoming a local hit in Texas, Gene Thomas' "Sometime" was reissued on the United Artists label and entered the national top 100?
Did you know that during the period of state control known as State Shinto, Japan lost 80,000 Shinto shrines?
Did you know that the album that Jimmy Greene wrote in tribute to his murdered daughter has been nominated for a Grammy Award?
Did you know that the white-bellied cinclodes may soon "pipe" no more?
Did you know that Donald Lavoie, a hit man for Montreal's Dubois Gang, escaped his intended execution at their hands by sliding down a laundry chute?
Did you know that Pura Vida Bracelets, which now sells over 125,000 bracelets a month, started when two friends brought 400 bracelets back from a vacation in Costa Rica?
Did you know that Teresia Sampsonia was born into a Christian Circassian family in Safavid Iran, and married the British adventurer Sir Robert Shirley?
Did you know that Vice Premier Kang Shi'en, China's "energy czar", received an unprecedented demerit of the first grade after an oil rig accident that killed 72 people?
Did you know that W. G. Grace, Jack Hobbs, Denis Compton and Don Bradman all scored first-class centuries at the Central Recreation Ground, Hastings?
Did you know that Zhou Youde became a local deity after helping to end the Great Evacuation?
Did you know that according to Lynne Kelly's theory, Stonehenge was used as a centre for recording and accessing knowledge?
Did you know that during the 1934 Muroto typhoon, a then-world record low land-based pressure of 911.9 hPa (26.93 inHg) was observed in Muroto, Japan?
Did you know that just before Operation Xieng Dong, the People's Army of Vietnam captured the King's farm?
Did you know that the Amani Nature Reserve in Tanzania is home to the elusive long-billed forest warbler and the unwanted umbrella tree?
Did you know that the Federal Reserve Bank Building in downtown Seattle, Washington, is one of the earliest surviving works of architecture firm NBBJ?
Did you know that the French General André Sordet's cavalry corps covered close to 1,500 km (930 miles) in the first month of World War I?
Did you know that the ancient text Nirvana Upanishad is written in Sutra-style and states that a solitary place is a monastery of bliss for a Hindu monk?
Did you know that the proposed sculpture Rebirth, projected as a deer with a human child's face, was meant to represent "the interaction between the nearby riparian forest and the people living in Oak Grove"?
Did you know that Calvin Coolidge described his beloved dog Rob Roy as a "stately gentleman of great courage and fidelity"?
Did you know that Cowbell Hollow's drainage basin is only 0.26 square miles (0.67 km2)?
Did you know that Framingham Railroad Station was the largest of nine stations that Henry Hobson Richardson designed for the Boston and Albany Railroad?
Did you know that John Kent was the first black police officer in Britain?
Did you know that Lisa Aschan was filmed in the audience at the 2016 Guldbaggen Awards, giving the finger and saying "Fuck You" to the winner in the Best Cinematography category?
Did you know that Sarah Tenant-Flowers has worked as an administrator for the Choir of the Year and as General Manager of "The Sixteen"?
Did you know that Stanley Booth-Clibborn, a former Bishop of Manchester, was shot during a robbery in Uganda?
Did you know that shortly after the forced conversions of Muslims in Castile, a fatwa was issued which allowed outward practice of Christianity while secretly keeping the Islamic faith?
Did you know that the Soviet RPG-1 anti-tank rocket was intended to combine the best features of the US's bazooka with those of the German Panzerfaust?
Did you know that the soprano Friederike Sailer appeared in the premiere of Werner Egk's Der Revisor at the Schwetzingen Festival, conducted by the composer?
Did you know that two earthquakes, both exceeding 7.0 on the moment magnitude scale, hit Fethiye, Turkey, within seven hours in 1957?
Did you know that Air France Flight 152, en route from Rome to Beirut, ended up in the Mediterranean Sea after one of the engines broke away in flight?
Did you know that Simone Ballard performed the title role in the premiere of Arthur Honegger's Antigone at La Monnaie?
Did you know that Swedish television presenter Jovan Radomir wrote the English translation of the Marija Šerifović song "Molitva", which went on to win the Eurovision Song Contest 2007?
Did you know that a fan-made video called "Shrek is love, Shrek is life" and its duplications garnered more than three million views by May 2014?
Did you know that for over 40 years, the one constant at the Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers has been Sharon H. Abrams?
Did you know that in 1898 Sir Joseph Terry died of heart failure due to over-exertion while attempting to win a by-election in York?
Did you know that in a broadcast episode of Hollyoaks, Harry Thompson, portrayed by actor Parry Glasspool, was erroneously called "Parry" by another character?
Did you know that in an era when women of African descent had little access to education or public role models, the Black Cross Nurses trained them in healthcare, allowing them to be seen in leadership roles?
Did you know that research into the psychology of eating meat suggests a correlation between meat-eating and support for hierarchy and inequality?
Did you know that the "Mother of the Probation" system, Sybil Joyce Hylton, is a National Hero of the Cayman Islands?
Did you know that the Thanjavur Art Plate, introduced by Rajah Serfoji-II during the Maratha rule, was made as a gift item by the artisans of Thanjavur?
Did you know that Angela Hartley Brodie's award-winning research led to the development of steroidal aromatase inhibitors as new treatments for breast cancer?
Did you know that Annelie Nordström resigned as general secretary after Swedish Municipal Workers' Union funds paid for a strip show by Puma Swede?
Did you know that Diwata-1 is the Philippines' first satellite to be developed solely by Filipinos?
Did you know that at the cineplex where Ten Years debuted, it outperformed Star Wars: The Force Awakens?
Did you know that at the end of the reconquista, Islamic jurist Ahmad al-Wansharisi argued that it was compulsory for Spanish Muslims under Christian rule to emigrate to Muslim lands?
Did you know that sandalwood oil is so important to the economy of Mysore, India, that it has been registered and trademarked?
Did you know that shortly after becoming the first woman and first African American television news anchor in Colorado, Reynelda Muse began wearing an Afro on the air to assert her identity?
Did you know that the 4th-century frescoes in the Roman Tomb of Silistra depict a procession of servants (example pictured) carrying gifts to the tomb's owners?
Did you know that the Racking Horse World Celebration has been held annually in Priceville, Alabama, for over 40 years?
Did you know that the then Iranian prime minister, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, defined the Bridgeton incident as "an irreparable blow on America's political and military prestige"?
Did you know that when Ilse Hollweg recorded the part of Blonde in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail with Sir Thomas Beecham, she was one of two soloists who also spoke the dialogue?
Did you know that when the White House postponed Operation Snake Eyes again, Captain Sirisouk quit the Laotian Civil War?
Did you know that 2001 Zambian presidential candidate Gwendoline Konie published a poem against male arrogance?
Did you know that Anna Korondi appeared at the Bavarian State Opera as Zdenka in Arabella by Richard Strauss and in a leading role in the premiere of Aribert Reimann's Bernarda Albas Haus?
Did you know that Assamese muga silk is naturally golden in colour?
Did you know that CR-39, used in the manufacture of plastic eyeglass lenses, was one of 200 polymers invented by Columbia-Southern Chemical Corporation during World War II?
Did you know that Colby Carthel is the son of fellow American football head coach Don Carthel?
Did you know that Gujarat's Sankheda furniture is named after the Sankheda village, where it is made with teak wood and lacquer and painted in traditional bright shades of maroon and gold?
Did you know that Lesley Lewis was one of four founding students of the Courtauld Institute of Art?
Did you know that Operation Bedrock was a successful rice denial mission?
Did you know that Randy W. Berry, who grew up on a cattle ranch in Colorado, is the first-ever Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons in the US Department of State?
Did you know that the 1753 opera Ciro in Armenia was created by Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, one of the earliest female Italian opera composers?
Did you know that the black Liberian scholar and educator, Princess Fatima Massaquoi, wrote of her challenging experiences in Nazi Germany and the U.S. South in a recently rediscovered autobiography?
Did you know that the pre-1st century text Mahanarayana Upanishad, literally "Great Vishnu Upanishad", glorifies not only Vishnu but also Shiva?
Did you know that An East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara (1762) by British Army officer Thomas Davies was the first eyewitness painting of Niagara Falls?
Did you know that Anthony Hill was naked, unarmed and suffering from mental illness when he was shot by police in the U.S. state of Georgia?
Did you know that Astrid Schirmer appeared in roles by Richard Wagner, both Venus and Elisabeth in his Tannhäuser, and in the Bayreuth Jahrhundertring as both Ortlinde and Sieglinde?
Did you know that Kashmir papier-mâché, a colourful painted handicraft of Kashmir that was brought by Shia Muslims from Persia in the 15th century, is based primarily on paper pulp?
Did you know that Maria Carbone appeared in 1931 as Desdemona in a complete recording of Verdi's Otello, one of her only two recordings?
Did you know that Tubercuoolithus is one of the fossil eggs from Sevenmile Hill, the oldest fossil egg site in the Two Medicine Formation?
Did you know that Wang Baosen, vice mayor of Beijing, committed suicide while under investigation for corruption?
Did you know that after graduating from high school, Korbin Forrister chose full-time stock car racing over baseball?
Did you know that in Abandon the Old in Tokyo, Yoshihiro Tatsumi wanted to depict postwar Japan, where he felt that the focus on economic growth was given precedence over the lifestyles of its people?
Did you know that redundant Snatch Land Rovers awaiting disposal were turned into Panama remote controlled vehicles?
Did you know that the 1628 Robletti edition of Il Primo Libro delle Canzoni by Girolamo Frescobaldi was dedicated to Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, who engaged him as a court musician?
Did you know that the Bangalore Blue variety of grape has been grown for the past 150 years exclusively in the districts of Bangalore Urban, Chikkaballapura and Kolar?
Did you know that the Wadamisaki Battery was the first national historic site registered in Hyōgo Prefecture?
Did you know that unlike the Marvel Comics adaptation of Planet of the Apes, IDW Publishing's Star Trek/Planet of the Apes: The Primate Directive could use the likeness of Charlton Heston?
Did you know that when Maria Benedita Bormann was called a female Émile Zola, it was not meant as a compliment?
Did you know that 42 Lomasney Way in Boston's West End has been called "The Last Tenement", and has survived two fires, decay, and urban renewal?
Did you know that Beatrice Helen Worsley wrote the first program for the Manchester Mark 1, received the first PhD in computer science, and holds the record among WRENs for the longest time at sea?
Did you know that Carthaginian currency commonly featured the goddess Tanit and a horse?
Did you know that Nate Parker produced a teaser in order to seek financing for Eden?
Did you know that Rare celebrated its 30th anniversary by releasing Rare Replay, a title compiling 30 video games which it created?
Did you know that Ravindra Jadeja is the only batsman to score three triple centuries in the Ranji Trophy?
Did you know that Rose Piper's 1946 painting Back Water was inspired by Bessie Smith's "Backwater Blues"?
Did you know that Ruhollah Khomeini, in his letter to Gorbachev, invited him to monotheism and Islam and also predicted the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc?
Did you know that Sivion's stage name is a misspelling of his old one, "Vision"?
Did you know that during filming of the Vietnam War documentary Introduction to the Enemy, a landmine killed a man near Jane Fonda, whose reaction to the death was kept in the film?
Did you know that the Carbajal Valley was carved by a glacier with ice 600–800 metres (2,000–2,600 ft) thick?
Did you know that two Silver Buckle companies attacked 50,000 enemy troops?
Did you know that C. C. Beall's 1945 Treasury poster of Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima was used for a World War II campaign which brought in $26 billion?
Did you know that Detty Kurnia is an Indonesian vocalist who sang Dari Sunda which was among the five best albums listed by Q Magazine?
Did you know that Michael Muhney did not know about his character's death on Veronica Mars until receiving the script for his final episode, "Mars, Bars"?
Did you know that Paulette Poujol-Oriol's literary works focus principally on the social and economic problems of Haiti, evoking moral options and suggesting solutions?
Did you know that Undulatoolithus, a kind of fossil egg from China, probably received intensive parental care?
Did you know that a distinctive diamond helped secure a bodyless murder conviction in the case of Robert Wykel, last seen 20 years ago today?
Did you know that director Naji Abu Nowar produced Theeb, Jordan's first film ever to be nominated for an Academy Award?
Did you know that the American policy analyst Gareth Porter, argues in his Manufactured Crisis that allegations of Iran's attempts to build nuclear weapons have been fabricated by Israel and the United States?
Did you know that the Bestiaire by Philip de Thaun is one of two medieval English sources for the story behind the phrase "crocodile tears"?
Did you know that the Green-legged Partridge of Poland is actually a chicken?
Did you know that the Norfolk headless body may have been a "duchess"?
Did you know that the flower of the cactus Echinopsis spachiana mainly opens at night?
Did you know that the losses sustained by the crew of patrol boat Phaethon, during the battle of Tillyria in 1964, were the first battle casualties of the Hellenic Navy after World War II?
Did you know that "America can't do a damn thing against us" was a slogan used by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the former Supreme Leader of Iran, during the hostage crisis?
Did you know that African-American Daniel Robert Alexander was described as a favorite of Ethiopian emperor Menelik II and blacksmith to Haile Selassie?
Did you know that Ferdinand's threat to Genoa during World War II allowed a Dragoon to achieve tactical surprise?
Did you know that Liang Siyong was one of the first Chinese archaeologists?
Did you know that Mariah Carey recorded a cover version of the Brenda K. Starr song "I Still Believe" as a thank you for helping her get into the music industry?
Did you know that Marianne Means was the first woman reporter to be assigned full-time coverage of the White House?
Did you know that Norma Cox Astwood, a clinical psychologist, became Vice President of the Senate of Bermuda?
Did you know that Norwich War Memorial, first unveiled in 1927, was relocated in 1938, and then rotated in 2011?
Did you know that Zvezdelina Stankova brought ideas from her Bulgarian mathematical education to California by founding the Berkeley Math Circle?
Did you know that at 81, horse trainer Bud Dunn became the oldest rider ever to win the Tennessee Walking Horse World Grand Championship?
Did you know that entrepreneur Ren Jianxin, founder of the world's 265th largest company, began with a loan of CN¥ 10,000?
Did you know that in the Battle of Dumpu, Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Honner, although covered in blood and black ants, refused to be carried from the field for fear it might endanger the stretcher bearers?
Did you know that the Indian state of Kerala celebrates over 10,000 festivals annually?
Did you know that the salt-tolerant plants Zygophyllum album, Nitraria retusa, and Tamarix nilotica dominate different vegetation zones at the Moghra Oasis in Egypt?
Did you know that the wildlife of Egypt no longer includes the elephants, rhinoceroses and gerenuk depicted in rock art at the village of Silwa Bahari?
Did you know that Carrie A. Tuggle established the Tuggle Institute, in Birmingham, Alabama, a boarding school to give free education for black children who were destitute orphans or juvenile defendants?
Did you know that Rahul Thakkar, an Indian-American software developer, jointly won the 2016 Academy Award for scientific and technical achievement?
Did you know that Zaila McCalla, first female Chief Justice of Jamaica, is also the Chancellor of the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands?
Did you know that a mysterious World War II airbase of the former Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service located at Nishiki, Kumamoto, is currently being surveyed with a view to eventually opening it up to tourists?
Did you know that in the music video for the title track from Wow to the Deadness, the members of Steve Taylor & The Danielson Foil throw water balloons at each other?
Did you know that one son of a former prime minister unveiled Mells War Memorial while another is commemorated on it?
Did you know that professional wrestler Atomic Star became the only rookie to compete in three El Protector tournaments when he won the 2016 El Protector?
Did you know that the Armada Memorial is built on Plymouth Hoe, the site where tradition holds Francis Drake wanted to finish a game of bowls (scene pictured) before defeating the Spanish Armada?
Did you know that the parents of the first white child born in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, settled on Glade Run?
Did you know that Ezubao attracted 50 billion yuan ($7.6 billion) from 900,000 Chinese investors before it was closed down as a Ponzi scheme?
Did you know that Gloria Wekker has been called "Holland's Angela Davis" for igniting debate on cultural racism?
Did you know that Jacksonville attorney Bill Birchfield referred to himself as the "Duke of Mayo"?
Did you know that Six Gentlemen by Ni Zan is thought to represent the isolation of scholar-recluses in Yuan dynasty China?
Did you know that after seeing a trailer for Oprah Winfrey's Belief series, Tim McGraw got Winfrey to provide footage for his "Humble and Kind" music video?
Did you know that in her colorful memoir When Denver and I Were Young, Edwina Hume Fallis warned against trying on another child's hat, because "you might bring home something you didn't like"?
Did you know that some scholars speculate that the "plague of emerods" described in 1 Samuel of the King James Bible was actually an outbreak of bubonic plague?
Did you know that the Whakamana Cannabis Museum, New Zealand's first museum dedicated to cannabis culture, opened in Caversham, Dunedin, in 2013?
Did you know that the composer Sterndale Bennett introduced cricket to Germany?
Did you know that the first waves of the landing at Lae were carried in four destroyer transports?
Did you know that the upcoming Dead & Company 2016 Summer Tour will be the first shows played at Fenway Park by members of the Grateful Dead?
Did you know that Halloween cake themes (example pictured) include cakes that resemble jack-o'-lanterns and the human brain, and cupcakes with bloody teeth emerging from them?
Did you know that Iarla Ó Lionáird sang "Casadh an tSúgáin" in Brooklyn?
Did you know that James Maxie Ponder, St. Petersburg, Florida's first African-American physician, began a medical practice out of his home and accepted payment in poultry, vegetables, and ham?
Did you know that Margaret Benyon has been called "the mother of British holography"?
Did you know that Puri hosts the famed Rath Yatra, attended by at least a million people every year?
Did you know that Zeng Junchen, one of 20th-century China's most successful drug lords, started out selling salt?
Did you know that a boring mill at the mouth of White Deer Creek in 1776 made gun barrels for the Continental Army?
Did you know that after the release of Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut, the original film was described as being the first "flop" to be given a director's cut?
Did you know that earlier this month, the town of Wangaratta was overrun by hairy panic?
Did you know that the Of–Bayburt road in northeastern Turkey is considered one of the most dangerous routes, with over 20 steep hairpin turns?
Did you know that the Olly Murs song "Please Don't Let Me Go" is based on one of his real-life experiences of a failed relationship?
Did you know that the Pac-12 Conference award for men's basketball coach of the year was renamed in honor of John Wooden?
Did you know that the activity of crabs helped glasswort, Arthrocnemum macrostachyum and Halocnemum strobilaceum to recolonise oil-polluted marshland?
Did you know that when a reporter told horse breeder Betty Sain that there were no coyotes in Tennessee, she presented him with a dead one?
Did you know that Ana Irma Rivera Lassén, who would later become president of the Bar Association of Puerto Rico, sued a judge in the 1980s so she could appear in court dressed in pants?
Did you know that Black Metropolis, a foundational American sociology text by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton, Jr., resulted from the work of as many as 200 researchers, typists, and copyists?
Did you know that Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto composed the original soundtrack for the 2015 film The Revenant during his recovery from throat cancer?
Did you know that Lebanese IT expert and U.S. permanent resident Nizar Zakka, detained in Iran since September 18, 2015, has been accused of being an American spy?
Did you know that Makrana marble was used in the construction of the Taj Mahal and the Victoria Memorial?
Did you know that Queen Elizabeth cake is named after Elizabeth II and is a popular cake in Canada?
Did you know that Soup the Chemist has been called the "Godfather of Christian hip hop"?
Did you know that W. Lair Thompson, the President of the Oregon Senate, lost his re-election bid in 1916 by one vote?
Did you know that after receiving her PhD in 1921, Georgiana Simpson, like other black women scholars, could only find a university position teaching home economics?
Did you know that anti-fascists, Islamists, and neo-Nazis rioted against a tennis match?
Did you know that chestnut cake may be prepared using flour from ground chestnuts?
Did you know that the director of Saving Mes Aynak presented Afghani leaders with a petition signed by 100,000 people in support of the preservation of the 5,000-year-old archaeological site (excavations pictured)?
Did you know that the plot for the Veronica Mars episode "Postgame Mortem" was based around a scene in an elevator, and the crew "wrote backwards" from that scene?
Did you know that Ficus neriifolia is an important food item of the black crested gibbon and eastern hoolock gibbon, and is used in bonsai?
Did you know that Hao Jianxiu, an illiterate teenage textile worker, became a model worker and a high-ranking politician after inventing a work method named after her?
Did you know that Hello From the Magic Tavern – hosted by a wizard and shapeshifting badger – was named one of iTunes' best podcasts of 2015?
Did you know that Hetty Reckless was born in 1776, escaped from Salem, and boasted of seeing George Washington?