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Did you know that Turkey's new presidential palace, Ak Saray, contains an office with no electrical outlets to prevent bugging?
Did you know that Wolfhouse Run is named for the lair of a human Wolf?
Did you know that for The Conquest of the Pole, Georges Méliès built a man-eating marionette frost giant that required twelve puppeteers to operate?
Did you know that the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy was West Indies' first major tournament win since the 1979 Cricket World Cup, defeating England in the final by two wickets?
Did you know that the tritone heard at the beginning of Jimi Hendrix's song "Purple Haze" was historically called "Devil in music" and to play it was considered comparable to ringing Satan's doorbell?
Did you know that Arvo Pärt began his choral composition Da pacem Domine (Give peace, Lord) two days after the 2004 Madrid train bombings?
Did you know that Etal Castle, located near the Anglo-Scottish border, lost its military value after the Union of the Crowns in 1603?
Did you know that Indian actor Akshay Kumar, who began learning martial arts at age nine, hosted a 2004 television mini-series demonstrating seven martial arts styles?
Did you know that Magic Cap's Telescript programming language included the ability to send bits of its programs to other computers to run remotely in the cloud?
Did you know that Secretary of State-elect of Rhode Island Nellie Gorbea is the first Hispanic to win statewide office in New England?
Did you know that Thirty Seconds to Mars retreated to the isolation of rural Wyoming to record their self-titled debut album?
Did you know that William Shatner was shocked by the negative feelings of the Star Trek cast when he interviewed them for his book, Star Trek Memories?
Did you know that during the Korean War, No. 391 Squadron RAAF ran a "Transit Hotel" that accommodated business people and entertainers, as well as military personnel?
Did you know that parent management training is one of the most effective ways to reduce child behavior problems?
Did you know that stele 14, erected by Yo'nal Ahk III, is considered one of the finest examples of niche stelae?
Did you know that when Confucius learned that his disciple Zilu had been pickled, he ordered all the pickled goods in his house to be thrown away?
Did you know that Terry Myerson compared the technological differences between Windows 10 and 7 to the differences between a Tesla and a first-generation Prius?
Did you know that a theoretical problem in the mobility analogy led to the inerter being proposed as a new theoretical element of mechanical networks and later fabricated as a real component in Formula One?
Did you know that motorists derisively refer to the elevated U-turns on Metro Manila's C-5–Kalayaan Interchange as the "ninth and tenth wonders of the world"?
Did you know that the title track from the Dave Brubeck Quartet's Bossa Nova U.S.A. was the last in the album to be recorded?
Did you know that Maximilian William, brother of King George I, was exiled for plotting to regain his inheritance, and his election as prince-bishop was invalidated because it was a Lutheran's turn?
Did you know that Swedish scientist Anders Bárány is the grandson of Nobel laureate Róbert Bárány?
Did you know that Thérèse de Dillmont's Encyclopedia of Needlework included product placement for Jean Dollfus's company in Mulhouse?
Did you know that Washington, D.C. held its first Attorney General election this year?
Did you know that Zhuansun Shi, a disciple of Confucius, started his own sect of Confucianism?
Did you know that although one of the tributaries of Little Catawissa Creek (Stony Run) is unable to support fish life, the other tributary (Trexler Run) is Class A Wild Trout Waters?
Did you know that only about 40 objects in the fifth-century Anglo-Saxon Quoit Brooch Style of metalwork (example pictured) are known?
Did you know that the 1852 University Boat Race saw the Oxford crew coached by former Cambridge cox Thomas Selby Egan?
Did you know that the 2014 drought in southern Brazil is believed to be due to failure of the flying rivers?
Did you know that the Muzaffar Ali-directed drama Aagaman (1982) marked the film debut of Anupam Kher?
Did you know that the annual Nobel Banquet is held in the Stockholm Stadshuset's red Blue Hall?
Did you know that the first Test match between Sri Lanka and India was in the 1982–83 cricket season?
Did you know that the music video for the song "A Criminal Mind" by Gowan won the 1985 Juno Award for Video of the Year?
Did you know that Marko Happich once narrowly lost a downhill race to Stephan Eberharter, the former in a sidecarcross and the latter on skis?
Did you know that Ohad's 2009 hit "Bo'i Kala", set to the words of the traditional song accompanying a Jewish bride to the chuppah, is a remake of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah"?
Did you know that Swedish radio presenter Carolina Norén took over the job of hosting the chart show Svensktoppen from Annika Jankell in 2007?
Did you know that U.S. President Lyndon Johnson approved Operation Triangle the month before the Tonkin Gulf Incident began the Vietnam War?
Did you know that although Guatemala is the world's largest producer of cardamom, local use is negligible?
Did you know that an eroge called Paizuri Cheerleader VS Sakunyuu Ouendan! allegedly ripped off one of the computer graphics samples from Kanojo x Kanojo x Kanojo?
Did you know that the 2012 satirical comedy drama OMG – Oh My God! was the first film produced by Grazing Goat Pictures Pvt. Ltd?
Did you know that the Somali tectonic plate is breaking into tectonic micro-plates, like the newly-formed Lwandle Plate?
Did you know that the color of Lime Green Icicle Tower, a 42-foot (13 m) glass sculpture at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, has been described as Kermit the Frog?
Did you know that the façade of Nuestra Señora de la Porteria Parish Church in the Philippines is made out of volcanic rocks?
Did you know that Sir Robert Risson is credited as "the man who saved Melbourne's trams"?
Did you know that both dancers in the cendrawasih dance, depicting the mating ritual of the "bird of the gods", are women?
Did you know that drinking from the Hoofprint of Einion's Horse, a petrosomatoglyph in Wales, was thought to cure what ailed you?
Did you know that the 1845 University Boat Race was the first time the event was contested along The Championship Course?
Did you know that the literary motif of "forced seduction" was called a male rape fantasy, an attempt by the hero to get to know the heroine, a useful lesson for women to not dress sexy, and an enjoyable fantasy?
Did you know that Armenian-American architect Mihran Mesrobian restored palaces in the Ottoman Empire and designed hotels in Washington, D.C.?
Did you know that Jack Lumber was the first game published by Sega's third-party publisher Sega Alliance?
Did you know that Mike Conte of the heavy metal band Early Man put "lots of riffage" into the score of Secret Mountain Fort Awesome?
Did you know that William E. Bradley, Jr. resigned less than a year after becoming the first President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics?
Did you know that although the Seeley G. Mudd Chemistry Building is Vassar College's youngest completed academic building, it is slated for demolition in 2016?
Did you know that during the corruption probe into Gu Junshan, investigators located a gold model boat, a gold Mao statue, and crates of luxury liquor in his family compound?
Did you know that following the 2014–15 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, CBS will broadcast the Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament for the 18th consecutive year?
Did you know that the Central Mental Hospital in Ireland, completed in 1850, was the first secure hospital in Europe?
Did you know that the High Line, once an abandoned elevated railway slated for demolition in New York City, is now a linear park with about 5 million annual visitors?
Did you know that the Maryland Terrapins field hockey team has won a record 56 games in the NCAA tournament?
Did you know that the N1 is Nokia's first new product since the sale of its mobile phone business to Microsoft?
Did you know that the extinct ants Azteca alpha carried larvae of the nematode Formicodiplogaster myrmenema?
Did you know that the largest leishu encyclopedia ever printed contained 852,408 pages?
Did you know that Davis Run is one of two streams in the watershed of Catawissa Creek that has a substantial population of brown trout?
Did you know that Northern Irish architecture firm Hackett Hall McKnight created the Belfast MAC, described as one of the "most stunning new British buildings of the century"?
Did you know that the 1842 University Boat Race was Oxford's first victory on "London water"?
Did you know that the niece of Pat Chan, Singapore's "Golden Girl", is also an international competitive swimmer?
Did you know that "the child welfare system failed Phoenix Sinclair"?
Did you know that Candidula spadae, a snail native to Central Italy, is at risk in part because of tourist activities?
Did you know that Singaporean swimmer Samantha Yeo was twelve years old when she competed at the 2009 Southeast Asian Games?
Did you know that among Confucius' disciples, Yan Yan was considered the most distinguished in the study of the classics?
Did you know that asking prices for the poorly received video game Cubic Ninja jumped to as much as $500 after it was used for the first Nintendo 3DS homebrew exploit?
Did you know that every member of the Cambridge crew that won the March 1849 University Boat Race came from Trinity College?
Did you know that hundreds of people in Salé stole goods salvaged from a capsized French ship, leading to the city's bombardment (representation pictured)?
Did you know that the Sutton Heritage Mosaic, one of the largest examples of wall art in Britain, consists of over 100,000 pieces?
Did you know that the original pioneering settlement of Wyangala, Australia, was submerged on completion of Wyangala Dam in 1935?
Did you know that the reverse of the 50,000 Colombian peso note features an image of writer Jorge Isaacs' house "El Paraiso"?
Did you know that while a hypothetical coup in South Vietnam was being played in the Sigma II-64 war game, a real coup was staged against General Nguyễn Khánh?
Did you know that Eystein Olafsson, King of Dublin, was "deceitfully" killed by Halfdan Ragnarsson, King of Jórvík?
Did you know that K'inich Yat Ahk II, the last ruler of Piedras Negras, defeated the rival state of Pomona before his capture by K'inich Tatbu Skull IV of Yaxchilan?
Did you know that Lem, Poland's first scientific artificial satellite, sees blue stars while Heweliusz, its second, sees red stars?
Did you know that Swedish politician Hjalmar von Sydow was murdered by his own son with an iron in March 1932?
Did you know that acute flaccid myelitis is suspected to be caused by enterovirus 68, a relative of the polio virus?
Did you know that reggaeton duo Wisin & Yandel won the Grammy, Latin Grammy, and Lo Nuestro Award for Urban Album of the Year for their album Los Extraterrestres?
Did you know that the American football players inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as "Gator Greats" include "All-American Waterboy" Tootie Perry, attorney Goldy Goldstein, and halfbacks Red Bethea and Larry Dupree?
Did you know that the National Museum of the Philippines declared San Juan Bautista Parish Church one of two National Cultural Treasures in the Bicol region?
Did you know that Benguela Province witnessed an influx of many IDPs during the Angolan Civil War?
Did you know that Chinese astronomer Qu Qinyue was sent to work at a coal mine during the Cultural Revolution?
Did you know that Johnny Burnett once had nine hits in a Major League Baseball game?
Did you know that at the time of description, the extinct Tilia johnsoni was the oldest basswood macrofossil occurrence?
Did you know that higher-speed rail is actually a lower train speed category than high-speed rail?
Did you know that in the wasp Metapolybia cingulata, queens and workers look alike and can only be distinguished by dissection?
Did you know that the Audenried Tunnel, the Catawissa Tunnel, the Green Mountain Tunnel, the Oneida Number One Tunnel, and the Oneida Number Three Tunnel were all built in the Catawissa Creek watershed in the early 1930s?
Did you know that the Balinese dance form panyembrama was designed as a secular welcoming dance, but is now also performed to welcome the gods?
Did you know that the Castilian raid of Salé resulted in the capture of 3,000 citizens of Salé who were taken as slaves for Seville?
Did you know that the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 won the International TV Award at the Ondas Awards, in Barcelona?
Did you know that Bambolinetta was probably the only duck species to propel itself underwater with its wings, like a penguin?
Did you know that Camera Obscura's album Let's Get Out of This Country was recorded in two weeks?
Did you know that Carl A. Wiley, inventor of synthetic aperture radar, published his concept of solar sails in a pulp mag under a pen name?
Did you know that Dead Rising: Watchtower, currently in production, is the first digital film to be produced by Legendary Pictures?
Did you know that Govanhill Baths is the last surviving Edwardian public bathhouse in Glasgow?
Did you know that Ming military leader Kong Youde defected to the Manchus, but committed suicide after being outflanked by the Ming army?
Did you know that during the beginning of the Italian occupation of Albania, Fashizmi was the sole daily newspaper published in the country?
Did you know that studio potter Carol McNicoll designed costumes for Brian Eno of Roxy Music?
Did you know that the London Philharmonic Orchestra recorded all of the 205 national anthems used at the medal ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that under the patronage of Matthias Corvinus, Hungary became the first country outside Italy to embrace the Renaissance?
Did you know that Bayume Mohamed Husen served in the German army but died at Sachsenhausen concentration camp?
Did you know that Confucius said, "I used to judge a person by his appearance and erred in Ziyu"?
Did you know that Fred Wesley Wentworth designed many of the buildings constructed after the devastating 1902 fire in Downtown Paterson, New Jersey?
Did you know that Halfdan Ragnarsson was one of the leaders of the Great Heathen Army?
Did you know that Morden station is at one end of a 27.8-kilometre (17.3 mi) long tunnel, the longest on the London Underground?
Did you know that St James the Less, Pimlico, designed by George Edmund Street, has been called "one of the finest Gothic Revival churches anywhere"?
Did you know that botanist Thomas W. Whitaker was honored for his work with squashes and pumpkins by having a squash variety named after him?
Did you know that the English harvest hymn "Come, Ye Thankful People, Come" is also a popular Thanksgiving song in the United States?
Did you know that the John F. Adams House has been described as the "finest late Italianate dwelling still standing in Pawtucket"?
Did you know that Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach conducted his Magnificat decades after he composed it, juxtaposed in the concert to his father's Credo?
Did you know that Dareka no Manazashi, the 6-minute 40-second Japanese anime film directed by Makoto Shinkai, was screened alongside his other film, The Garden of Words?
Did you know that K'inich Yo'nal Ahk I, ajaw of Piedras Negras, erected many stelae that became prototypes for monuments raised by his successors?
Did you know that on the Church of St Teresa of Avila, Birkdale, there is a flèche over the crossing, and a bellcote on the gable of the north transept?
Did you know that the Clinton administration abandoned plans to nominate Alicia Munnell to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors following protest by ten Republican Senators?
Did you know that the bee Coelioxys sodalis is a kleptoparasite?
Did you know that the character Miranda Sings, played by Colleen Ballinger, is ranked No. 7 among YouTube comedy channels?
Did you know that the only named tributary of Messers Run is called Negro Hollow?
Did you know that the ouster of Arthur Demoulas by Arthur Demoulas led to protests by employees and customers of Market Basket?
Did you know that Charles D'Almaine was the first person to make a record using the Stroh violin?
Did you know that London's Philharmonic Hall building once had one of 30 car showrooms all in the same street?
Did you know that Romanian Orthodox bishop Nicolae Bălan went from being an Iron Guard supporter to working with his country's new Communist regime in suppressing the Greek-Catholic Church?
Did you know that Royal Lao Army troops fled 150 km (93 mi) after their defeat at the Battle of Luang Namtha?
Did you know that TV Guide referred to Ezri Dax on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as "Ally McTrill", a reference to the television series Ally McBeal?
Did you know that The National is the first daily newspaper in Scotland to support independence for that country?
Did you know that Vincent Hanna, the lead character in both L.A. Takedown and its 1995 remake Heat, was inspired by real-life police officer Chuck Adamson?
Did you know that baseball player Jacob Hannemann is a cousin of Mufi Hannemann, the former Mayor of Honolulu?
Did you know that in the book Do You Believe in Magic? The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine, pediatrician Paul Offit criticizes the use of vitamin C to treat the common cold?
Did you know that the 1801 edition of The Encyclopaedia Londinensis volume III makes note of certain "remarkable" features of plumeless silver thistle?
Did you know that Bárid, King of Dublin, was made lame in 877 during a battle at Strangford Lough?
Did you know that Diego Costa scored a record seven goals in his first four Premier League matches?
Did you know that Duanmu Ci was said to have ridden a quadriga to visit Yuan Xian's tiny hut?
Did you know that Max Carey dropped out of seminary to play baseball?
Did you know that The Sunday Times termed the Sinclair C5 electric vehicle a "Formula One bath-chair"?
Did you know that among fossils found at Koonwarra, Victoria are those of horseshoe crabs, ginkgo and gnetophytes?
Did you know that illiterate Operation Hardnose spies used modified survival radios to count and report traffic on the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
Did you know that the Chinese land slug Rathouisia leonina is carnivorous?
Did you know that the Loon Church, built between 1855 and 1864, was reduced to rubble when a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Bohol in 2013?
Did you know that the Varagavank monastery was the site of Armenian resistance to Turkish government forces during the Armenian Genocide?
Did you know that Cologne-born character actor Erwin Hiller, portraying the Frenchman Marcel Hillaire, toured U.S. college campuses with a one-man stage show celebrating French literature?
Did you know that Fu Buqi was one of only two disciples that Confucius praised as a junzi in the Analects?
Did you know that Harrison B. Tordoff said he was passionate about restoring the peregrine falcon because his experience as a fighter pilot "was as close as a human could get to being a peregrine"?
Did you know that although it outnumbered its attackers at the Battle of Nam Bac, the Royal Lao Army was routed by the People's Army of Vietnam?
Did you know that nasal dwarfgobies live for only three months?
Did you know that scholars believe the relief carvings on the 12th-century Old Bridge (piers pictured) in Hasankeyf, Turkey, depict the page corps of Artuqid ruler Qarā Arslān?
Did you know that the Czech language contains a sound, ř (example: "řeka" (river)ⓘ), that does not occur in any other known language?
Did you know that the Northern Ice Field on Mount Kilimanjaro is the largest glacial remnant on the mountain with an area of 0.95 km2 (0.4 sq mi)?
Did you know that the song "Do or Die" by American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars features the contribution of the band's fans?
Did you know that Auguste Bonheur's award-winning painting La Sortie du pâturage was made a lottery prize by the French government as a way of promoting contemporary art?
Did you know that Ben Jones called Stone Quackers a "more pure, raw, uncut expression of the same artistic impulse" that manifested the character of Alfe in his other series, The Problem Solverz?
Did you know that James B. Weaver ran for President of the United States as a Greenbacker in 1880 and as a Populist in 1892?
Did you know that Núria Albó, author and mayor of La Garriga, is a Creu de Sant Jordi laureate?
Did you know that The Verge wrote that Google Inbox "feels a lot like the future of email"?
Did you know that during the recording sessions of From Elvis in Memphis, producer Chips Moman refreshed Elvis Presley's sound by incorporating Memphis soul?
Did you know that in the Balinese dance kebyar duduk, androgynously made-up men spin in circles while seated or half-seated?
Did you know that none of the artist Kate Lechmere's paintings have survived?
Did you know that the baptistry of Baclayon Church (interior pictured) has an unusual retablo housing the Santo Entierro in a glass coffin and the Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in the central niche?
Did you know that two future Admirals of the Royal Navy began their careers aboard HMS Aldborough, a sixth-rate coastal survey vessel?
Did you know that La tragedia del silencio was the first Colombian silent film to have a score?
Did you know that Mill Creek is named after a mill?
Did you know that Russian-American singer Willi Tokarev's parents named him Vilen in honor of Vladimir I. Lenin?
Did you know that The Rapture's dance-punk song "House of Jealous Lovers" was an influence on Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack"?
Did you know that a cafe in Manor Park, Sutton, is London's first energy-efficient building to use straw-bale construction?
Did you know that according to one source, John Komnenos was offered the crown of the Byzantine Empire after the abdication of his brother, Isaac I Komnenos, but refused?
Did you know that racing driver Anthony Kumpen, winner of the 2014 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series season, works for a bicycle maker?
Did you know that the Barrington Civic Center Historic District includes Barrington Town Hall, which incorporates a stone said to be hewn from Plymouth Rock?
Did you know that the London Evening Standard asked whether Richard Banks, the Chief Executive of the UK's "bad bank", was "Britain's best banker"?
Did you know that the atmospheric lighting and sets used in BBC's 1979 ghost story Schalcken the Painter were based on paintings by Vermeer?
Did you know that the use of Great Highland Bagpipes (carving of piper pictured) in Scotland was first attested during the early modern period of Scottish music?
Did you know that Loboc Church was patterned after San Ignacio Church in Intramuros?
Did you know that in his autobiography With the Century, North Korean dictator Kim Il-sung stated that his motto is "The people are my God"?
Did you know that television critic Marvin Kitman co-authored a book with George Washington?
Did you know that the Sigma Coronae Borealis star system is composed of three sun-like stars and two red dwarfs?
Did you know that the opening track from Le Tigre's debut album Le Tigre modifies the titular question from "Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)"?
Did you know that Cadwallon ap Gruffydd, son of the king of Gwynedd, was willing to murder three of his mother's brothers to gain power, but was himself later killed by another brother of hers?
Did you know that Charlotte Brontë's nom de plume for Jane Eyre uses the name of the "head of all female book collectors in Europe"?
Did you know that Last.fm users selected a single from Lucky Soul's debut album The Great Unwanted for a "Christmas Chart Attack"?
Did you know that New York's famous Sleepy Hollow was named after "Slapershaven", an old Dutch name for the Pocantico River?
Did you know that South Africa won the nine-nation ICC KnockOut Trophy in 1998, defeating West Indies by four wickets in the final?
Did you know that Woodhouse's toad seems to be displacing the Arizona toad in central Arizona?
Did you know that in 1942, a drunken pilot crashed his plane at Herdla Airport in occupied Norway, burning down the operations center?