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Did you know that the South African National Defence Force initially used the South African Defence Force Ensign, which contained the former flag of South Africa, despite the adoption of a new national flag?
Did you know that the title of Edna O'Brien's book, The Little Red Chairs, refers to performance art commemorating the 11,541 victims of Radovan Karadžić?
Did you know that American folklorist J. Mason Brewer broke the color barrier at the Driskill Hotel when he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters?
Did you know that bears are classified as carnivores, but most are omnivorous and the panda is almost entirely vegetarian?
Did you know that field goals in rugby union, which were worth the same number of points as tries, were abolished in 1905?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano Tanja Ariane Baumgartner has portrayed such characters as Schoeck's Penthesilea, and Cassandre in Les Troyens?
Did you know that Arthur Mailey's best Test bowling figures of 9 wickets for 121 runs has been the Australian cricket record for 96 years?
Did you know that Izydor Borowski was born in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth but later rose to the rank of general in Qajar Iran?
Did you know that John Blair, who served four times as acting governor of the Colony of Virginia, resigned his life appointment in 1770 so he would not be acting governor a fifth time?
Did you know that K. B. Sainis is the Indian representative to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation?
Did you know that Luis Miguel hinted that the title for his 1999 album Amarte Es un Placer (Loving You Is a Pleasure) was based on his relationship at the time with Mariah Carey?
Did you know that male black twig borers normally mate with their sisters?
Did you know that the opera Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen (Murderer, Hope of Women) was based on a play by an expressionist artist and was performed with stage set and choreography by a Bauhaus artist?
Did you know that Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery is buried in the graveyard of the Church of the Holy Cross in Binsted?
Did you know that Robert Lyster Thornton returned to Berkeley in 1942 to assist with the development of the calutron?
Did you know that Zeynab Begum was one of the most influential princesses of Iran's Safavid dynasty?
Did you know that the American contralto Margarethe Bence appeared as Marcellina at the Salzburg Festival, as Erda in Bayreuth, and in a premiere at the Schwetzingen Festival?
Did you know that the spotted imperial pigeon's specific name carola is derived from the name of a daughter of the ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte?
Did you know that this August, an all-woman crew plans to circumnavigate the globe on the Indian Navy's second ocean-going sailboat, INSV Tarini?
Did you know that American diplomat Herbert Reiner Jr. played a key role in capturing Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse in 1948?
Did you know that Chris Bertish is the first person to complete a stand-up paddle board crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, a 7,400 km (4,600 mi), 93-day journey that put him into The Guiness Book of World Records?
Did you know that during the Trunajaya rebellion, rebels overran Mataram's royal court at Plered and took at least 300,000 reals from the treasury?
Did you know that in 2015, Neri Oxman's architecture group and MIT's Glass Lab built the first 3D printer for optically transparent glass?
Did you know that pastor brothers John Blair and Samuel Blair both received their theological education at the Log College?
Did you know that when the Beethoven Orchester Bonn was founded as a professional orchestra in Beethoven's hometown in 1907, Richard Strauss conducted his own works?
Did you know that King John's Hill, near Alton, Hampshire, is topped by an unusually small Iron Age hillfort, and is thought to have been the site of a hunting lodge of King John?
Did you know that Mel Olson commissioned music from John Rutter for his choirs in Omaha, Nebraska, and traveled to England to discuss his specific wishes with the composer?
Did you know that the developers of the video game Wipeout 2048 speculated that they influenced design elements of the PlayStation Vita console, such as the inclusion of two analogue sticks?
Did you know that the population of Marysville, Washington, grew five-fold from 1980 to 2000?
Did you know that the DVD release of Final Destination 3 has a feature called "Choose Their Fate" that acts as an interactive movie, allowing viewers to alter the course of the film's story and the fate of the characters?
Did you know that the historic characters in Françoise de Rimini, the last opera by Ambroise Thomas, include not only Francesca da Rimini, but also Dante and Virgil?
Did you know that when it was revalued at $600 million in 2015, New York City's Trump Tower became the most expensive property owned by Donald Trump?
Did you know that Ken Vining was acquired by the Chicago White Sox as part of the White Flag Trade?
Did you know that Spencer Weisz was the Most Valuable Player of the 18-under basketball competition of the 2013 Maccabiah Games?
Did you know that in Mozart's early Piano Concerto in B-flat major, two oboes play in the outer movements, and two flutes instead in the Andante?
Did you know that the Samuel Noble Monument honors the founder of Anniston, Alabama?
Did you know that the yellow mangrove is very similar to the Indian mangrove, but the two can be distinguished when in fruit?
Did you know that warning signs and rotating shift work are forms of administrative hazard controls?
Did you know that Joaquín Vargas Gómez opened a restaurant in a retired North Star DC-4 parked near the Mexico City International Airport?
Did you know that President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent a congratulatory telegram upon the opening of the Bonfils Memorial Theatre in Denver?
Did you know that Priyanka Chopra played twelve different characters, one from each zodiac sign, in the film What's Your Raashee?
Did you know that Ron Hackenberger is selling his collection of 700 vehicles, including over 250 Studebakers?
Did you know that the Sierra de las Quijadas National Park contains a Lagerstätte-type fossil site, particularly famous for its pterosaurs?
Did you know that the publication of Earl Mazo's series of exposés on election fraud in the 1960 United States Presidential Election was stopped following the intervention of Richard Nixon?
Did you know that the soprano Leonore Kirschstein appeared as Alice Ford, with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Falstaff?
Did you know that use of the code phrase "London Bridge is down" will signal the death of Queen Elizabeth II?
Did you know that Danish artist Lucie Ingemann, known for her large altarpieces depicting biblical figures, also created flower paintings with religious and mystical themes?
Did you know that Egyptologist Caroline Ransom Williams supervised the reception and installation of the Tomb of Perneb at the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
Did you know that adult pumpkin beetles feed on the foliage of cucurbits, sometimes cutting and removing circular discs?
Did you know that "sorcery for your vagina" can result in second-degree burns?
Did you know that Associated Press war correspondent George E. Bria, known for his brevity as an editor, insisted that "the D-Day landings could be reported in 400 words"?
Did you know that Belgian mezzo-soprano Jeanne Deroubaix was a soloist in the premiere of Stravinsky's Threni, and performed with Boulez in his Le marteau sans maître at The Proms?
Did you know that Judge Rinder is not a judge?
Did you know that Soekarno demanded much of Soekarno, but Soekarno did not listen?
Did you know that The New Republic suspected the 1958 attack on Richard Nixon's motorcade was a hoax set up to help his chances in the 1960 United States presidential election?
Did you know that Thomas North Whitehead suggested that the United Kingdom give America one of the four surviving copies of the Magna Carta to win support for Lend-Lease?
Did you know that Thor Heyerdahl claimed that stone reliefs on the Marquesas Islands — now accepted to represent the extinct Marquesan Dog  — depicted llamas, so as to bolster his theory that Polynesia was settled from South America?
Did you know that an 1897 monograph by French artist Alphonse Allais included the print Dance of drunks in the fog?
Did you know that caterpillar inflation is a gut-wrenching process?
Did you know that in Portland, Oregon, an outhouse, or john, played a seminal role in public education?
Did you know that the 40 rays on the flag of Kyrgyzstan represent the number of tribes united by national folk hero Manas to fight against the Mongols?
Did you know that the name of the Wipeout series of video games was inspired by the instrumental song "Wipe Out" by The Surfaris?
Did you know that thrust into a difficult situation, horney dicks failed to satisfy?
Did you know that two major landmarks of Gwanghwamun Plaza in central Seoul are the statues of King Sejong and of Admiral Yi Sun-sin?
Did you know that Robin Hood sued the United States?
Did you know that a song about masturbation was written by Ivor Biggun and recommended by Johnny Rotten?
Did you know that a woman can open a bottle?
Did you know that baseball players fall down on the Grassy Knoll?
Did you know that the Roly Poly Goalie ate all the pies?
Did you know that the white-throated honeyeater used to be gay, but isn't any more?
Did you know that 19 people, including Brigadier General Robert F. Travis, were killed when a Boeing B-29 crashed with a Mark 4 nuclear bomb on board?
Did you know that Giyorgis of Segla was imprisoned by Ethiopian Emperor Dawit I because of his controversial views on the Sabbath?
Did you know that Moses Fleetwood Walker was the first openly black athlete to play in Major League Baseball?
Did you know that Gottfried von Hagenau, a physician and poet, introduced the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in Strasbourg in 1307?
Did you know that New Palace Yard, where part of the March 2017 terror attack in Westminster took place, was formerly used for tournaments, pilloryings, and executions?
Did you know that Schuyler Skaats Wheeler invented the first electric fan?
Did you know that in one of Ron Richards' plans for the defection of spy Vladimir Petrov to Australia, Petrov was going to buy a chicken farm outside Sydney?
Did you know that the Oakland Athletics' management refuses to remove the tarpaulin from Mount Davis unless the team reaches the World Series?
Did you know that Cascade Valley Hospital was the last independent hospital in Snohomish County, Washington, until it was acquired in 2016?
Did you know that New York Mets fans once booed the Home Run Apple for over two minutes because it was not raised for a Mets home run?
Did you know that cricketer Georgia Redmayne's 87-year-old grandfather vaulted the boundary fence and embraced her after she had become the first player to hit a WNCL century for Tasmanian Roar?
Did you know that termites developed agriculture some 31 million years ago?
Did you know that the Gutenberg Bible held by the Diocesan Museum in Pelplin survived World War II in Canada, kept in a vault at the Bank of Montreal until 1959?
Did you know that the severed head of Andrew Báthory, Prince of Transylvania, was sewn back on?
Did you know that the theme song for the television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is actually called "Yo Home to Bel-Air"?
Did you know that Antoine-Jean Gros's painting Napoléon on the Battlefield of Eylau influenced the works of Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix?
Did you know that Francis Poulenc composed his Violin Sonata at the insistence of violinist Ginette Neveu, and played the piano part when she premiered it?
Did you know that the 16,030 acres (6,490 ha) of Federal land in New Mexico's Sabinoso Wilderness are inaccessible without trespassing, because they are entirely enclosed in privately-owned property?
Did you know that the 18th-century Schloss Bruchsal in southwest Germany contains an elaborate Baroque staircase that has been described as "ingenious and ravishing"?
Did you know that the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, conferred its fellowship on Kanhu Charan Mohanty (1994) and Arjan Hasid (2013), and elected Ronald E. Asher (2007) as an honorary fellow?
Did you know that two women captured in Boston under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 were rescued during the Abolition Riot of 1836?
Did you know that the Black River is a "miserable ditch"?
Did you know that the artist René Beeh (self-portrait shown) was a surveyor on the World War I Western Front?
Did you know that Barbara Bradby was the first woman to ride a bicycle at Oxford University, where her academic prowess inspired a limerick?
Did you know that María Parrado won the first season of The Voice Kids Spain?
Did you know that by winning the 2016–17 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, the San Miguel Beermen became the second team in Philippine Basketball Association history to keep permanent possession of the Jun Bernardino Trophy?
Did you know that the halo on the Big A Sign lights up to tell passing motorists of a Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball win?
Did you know that George Escol Sellers was the basis for the fictional character Colonel Eschol Sellers in Mark Twain's novel The Gilded Age?
Did you know that Rose Cannabich was "a very beautiful and well-behaved girl", according to her piano teacher Mozart, who composed a piano sonata for her?
Did you know that the Australian television film Home and Away: An Eye for an Eye broke all first-day streaming records on Presto?
Did you know that the Rock Island Arsenal Museum is the second oldest museum of the United States Army?
Did you know that the upper quarters of the coat of arms of Andorra feature the arms of the Bishop of Urgell and the Count of Foix, the "two traditional protectors" of the principality?
Did you know that 43 million unique viewers watched SK Telecom T1 defeat Samsung Galaxy in the finals of the 2016 League of Legends World Championship?
Did you know that Australian actress Anna Bamford made her Broadway debut in Andrew Upton's production of The Present?
Did you know that Punch honoured Agnata Ramsay's exam success with a cartoon?
Did you know that Vijay Kumar, along with Debi Prasad Sarkar, demonstrated for the first time that HBx protein stimulated mitogen-activated signaling cascades in living animals?
Did you know that the Catholic hymnal Kirchenlied, first published in 1938, was not immediately banned by the Nazis because it also contained Protestant songs?
Did you know that in March 1998, the Ontario Court of Justice ruled that being topless while one engages in a commercial purpose such as prostitution is illegal?
Did you know that the Monument of States in Kissimmee, Florida, was erected in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor and built with stones donated from around the world?
Did you know that George Wilson, Jr. was a starting quarterback for the Miami Dolphins while his father, George Wilson, Sr., was the head coach?
Did you know that President Donald Trump criticized Snoop Dogg's remix music video of "Lavender" for having a scene in which Snoop fires a flag gun at a clown parody version of Trump?
Did you know that any baseballs that get hit and lodged in the Wrigley Field ivy score the batter a double?
Did you know that the title for Elizabeth Nunez's novel Anna In-Between (2009) was inspired by M. G. Vassanji's novel The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (2003)?
Did you know that Anil Kumar Mandal developed an alternative surgical protocol for treating pediatric glaucoma?
Did you know that Michelangelo destroyed parts of his own Sistine Chapel ceiling to make room for his Last Judgement (detail pictured)?
Did you know that the "I believe that we will win!" chant, used as a rallying cry by United States fans during the 2014 FIFA World Cup, was first used for the college football Army–Navy Game?
Did you know that Bach set a stanza from the evening hymn "Werde munter, mein Gemüte" (Become cheerful, my mind), which Johann Rist and Johann Schop created in collaboration, in his St Matthew Passion?
Did you know that Birendra Nath Mallick and his team demonstrated that increased production of noradrenaline triggered REM sleep-loss, resulting in brain excitability?
Did you know that Hank Azaria won a lawsuit for the rights to the title character of Brockmire?
Did you know that during the Bonville–Courtenay feud, the Earl of Devon's men stole all Nicholas Radford's horses and the sheets off his invalid wife's bed?
Did you know that the Andean flicker is unusual among woodpeckers in foraging on the ground and in often nesting colonially?
Did you know that the Nazi plunder of European treasures prevented Leonardo da Vinci's Rearing Horse and Mounted Warrior from falling into the hands of the Red Army?
Did you know that Bach wrote the chorale "O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig" (O Lamb of God, innocent) in red between the music for the two choirs in the beginning of his St Matthew Passion?
Did you know that Lillie Mae Bradford was arrested for refusing to leave the whites-only section of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, four years before Rosa Parks' 1955 prosecution for the same "crime"?
Did you know that Major Somnath Sharma, a Param Vir Chakra recipient, and General Vishwa Nath Sharma, former chief of the Indian Army, were brothers?
Did you know that tenor Max Ciolek performed the Evangelist in Bach's Passions, and the Mass in B minor with La Petite Bande in Australia?
Did you know that the Good Friday hymn "Take Up Thy Cross, The Saviour Said" was one of two American works included in the Church of England's Hymns Ancient and Modern?
Did you know that the world's first coal-fired power station was at Holborn Viaduct, London?
Did you know that Ellen Thayer Fisher's paintings of flowers (example pictured) were widely distributed as chromolithographs by Boston publisher Louis Prang?
Did you know that Helen King will be the first police officer to head an Oxbridge college?
Did you know that Paul Hindemith said of the third dance of his opera Das Nusch-Nuschi: "It is essential that this piece be danced (or rather wobbled to) by two eunuchs with incredibly fat and naked bellies"?
Did you know that Simeon Riro Kāinga, the last king of Easter Island, was suspected of having been poisoned when he died during a diplomatic trip to Chile?
Did you know that Tommy Blake was the first musician to record at RCA Studio B?
Did you know that Chocorua Island Chapel at Squam Lake, New Hampshire, part of the first summer youth camp in America, was built by the camp's boys with an erratic boulder, trees, and beach sand?
Did you know that Juan Tepano was proclaimed "king" of Easter Island by officers of the Chilean Navy, but no one – including Tepano – took the ceremony seriously?
Did you know that Queen Tamaeva V saved the Rimatara lorikeet from extinction through a royal taboo that forbade her people from harming or exporting the birds?
Did you know that Ursula Zollenkopf, a contralto of the NWDR Chor, performed solo and choral parts in a posthumous Schoenberg opera premiere and in an Easter cantata by Bach?
Did you know that a career-threatening knee injury to Tasmanian Roar cricketer Erin Burns was successfully treated with stem cell injections by the Sydney Swans' club doctor, Nathan Gibbs?
Did you know that passenger service on the Staten Island Railway's North Shore Branch was discontinued 16 years after it was rebuilt?
Did you know that the 20th-century Easter hymn "Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones" takes its melody from "Lasst uns erfreuen" (Let us rejoice), a tune published in 1623 by a German activist against witch-hunts?
Did you know that Bach's cantata for Easter Monday, Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, BWV 6, is based on the Road to Emmaus narration?
Did you know that Pendleton Dudley refused to talk about the work he did to launch Woodrow Wilson's political career?
Did you know that a week in honor of the prawn soup chupe de camarones took place in areas of Peru in 2016?
Did you know that at the 2017 Rey de Reyes, professional wrestler Johnny Mundo became a triple champion, holding the AAA Mega, Cruiserweight, and Latin American Championships?
Did you know that Jadwiga Szubartowicz (pictured aged 110), the oldest living Pole, witnessed the October Revolution?
Did you know that Michael I of Wallachia was still the co-ruler with his father Mircea I when in 1417 he refused to send the tribute that Mircea had promised to pay to the Ottoman Empire?
Did you know that for failing to collect their quotas of Congo rubber, many people lost their hands?
Did you know that in 1957 no fewer than 13 variations of the NWA World Tag Team Championship were in use across the U.S.: in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Kansas/Missouri, Chicago, Ohio/New York, Georgia, Iowa/Nebraska, Indianapolis, Idaho/Utah, West Texas, East Texas, Minneapolis, and Alabama/Tennessee?
Did you know that the feathers of birds are considered the most complex integumentary structures found in vertebrates, and a premier example of a complex evolutionary novelty?
Did you know that voice actress and singer Machico made a cameo as herself in the anime television series Seiyu's Life!?
Did you know that Angata, a Christian Rapa Nui prophetess, led a 1914 rebellion on Easter Island, claiming God wanted her people to kill and eat the island's livestock?
Did you know that Max Reger conducted the premiere of "An die Hoffnung" (To Hope), a setting of Hölderlin's poem and his only orchestral song, with contralto Anna Erler-Schnaudt?
Did you know that Sigismund Báthory, Prince of Transylvania, promised to restore the freedom of the Székely commoners if they joined his campaign against the Ottomans?
Did you know that the naked broomrape is a parasite of other plants?
Did you know that the website "Six Degrees to Harry Lewis" (Lewis pictured) was a precursor to Facebook?
Did you know that "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" means that it is advisable to follow the conventions of the area in which you are residing or visiting?
Did you know that Elder Charles D. Beck's boogie-woogie-based piano playing on "Memphis Flu" anticipated the style of rock and roll pianists?
Did you know that Hannibal sacked the Iberian settlement within the site of Sagunto Castle, an action that led to the Second Punic War?
Did you know that Ilse Hess, who was one of the first women to study at the University of Munich, remained a committed Nazi after World War II?
Did you know that microbiologist Jane Gibson established through her 1954 discovery that selenium, a trace element, is essential for coliform bacterial growth?
Did you know that the Hopkins County Museum and Heritage Park includes the Atkins House, the oldest brick building in Hopkins County, Texas?
Did you know that Anthony Harkness is considered the founder of the Cincinnati locomotive industry?
Did you know that Comedy Central advertised The President Show by faking a Russian hack?
Did you know that Steps' fifth studio album, Tears on the Dancefloor, is their first album in 17 years to consist mostly of original material?
Did you know that during the 1954 Paraguayan coup d'etat, President Federico Chávez tried to seek refuge in Paraguay's Military College, but was arrested by its director?
Did you know that the Australian teacher Lorna Hodgkinson was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Education at Harvard University?
Did you know that the MT GDF Suez Neptune, a floating production storage and offloading vessel, serves as Turkey's first floating liquified natural gas storage facility?
Did you know that General Marcial Samaniego, Paraguayan defense minister under Alfredo Stroessner, had a fascination with the religions of indigenous peoples in Paraguay?
Did you know that Public Service Broadcasting's new album depicts the history of the mining industry in Wales?
Did you know that weekends in ancient Rome came only every eight days?
Did you know that within a year of implementing express service (train pictured), San Francisco Bay Area commuter rail system Caltrain experienced a 12 percent increase in ridership?
Did you know that Kenny and the Kasuals' "Journey to Tyme" is considered one of the earliest songs to incorporate elements of psychedelic music?