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Did you know that Ralf Dujmovits is the first German to have climbed all 14 of the world's 8,000 metre mountains?
Did you know that baritone Eike Wilm Schulte, who performed more than 100 roles since 1966, stepped in at the Bayreuth Festival as Gunther in Götterdämmerung?
Did you know that billionaire William "Tex" Moncrief was inspired to become a wildcatter after witnessing the opening of his father's oil well?
Did you know that following the death of Major League Baseball pitcher Steve Bechler, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the use of ephedra?
Did you know that the British aircraft carrier HMS Formidable became known as "The Ship That Launched Herself" due to a surprising mishap before her launching ceremony?
Did you know that the design of Stadio della Roma, the newly proposed stadium for Italian Serie A team A.S. Roma, was inspired by the Roman Colosseum?
Did you know that the seal of Mali depicts the Great Mosque of Djenné at the centre?
Did you know that upon the announcement of the West End closure of The Full Monty, its writer Simon Beaufoy signed the petition against the closure?
Did you know that American singer Lady Gaga is performing the final seven concerts at the historic Roseland Ballroom in New York City?
Did you know that B. R. Ambedkar led the Mahad Satyagraha to assert the rights of Dalits to use a public water tank in Mahad?
Did you know that German wheelchair basketball player Gesche Schünemann was sidelined for three months to repair the tendons of her little finger?
Did you know that Michael Luciano edited twenty of the films directed by Robert Aldrich between 1954 and 1977, including Kiss Me Deadly and The Dirty Dozen?
Did you know that NASA's "Mr. Fix It", Jack Kinzler, used fishing rods to save Skylab?
Did you know that Woodward Iron Company president A. H. Woodward owned the Birmingham Barons minor league baseball team?
Did you know that a 13th-century painting associated with the Knights Templar, which is in the Church of St Mary, Abbas and Templecombe, was cleaned with Vim?
Did you know that hip hop choreographer Sonia Destri Lie recruited dancers from Brazil's favelas, without regard to their social backgrounds?
Did you know that the 1967 general election marked the introduction of ministerial rule in the British Virgin Islands?
Did you know that the call of the White-fronted Chat (male pictured) has been likened to the twang of a rubber band?
Did you know that American football linebacker Mike Junkin's style of play was compared to "a mad dog in a meat market?"
Did you know that Ancient Trader was developed using an old military map of Slovakia?
Did you know that Bernie Hayden made two trips by boat every day to light and extinguish the Essex Reef Light?
Did you know that Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna (detail pictured) by Frederic Leighton depicts a Madonna not by Cimabue, but one by another artist, because of a centuries-old misattribution by Giorgio Vasari?
Did you know that Emma Thompson garnered dual Academy Award nominations in 1993 for performances in The Remains of the Day and In the Name of the Father?
Did you know that GQ magazine ranked the Sip 'n Dip Lounge, a tiki bar in Great Falls, Montana, as the #1 bar in the world "worth flying for"?
Did you know that Hurricane Juan caused $1 billion of damage in one American state?
Did you know that Ronald MacKenzie co-sponsored legislation that would have killed the Green Monster?
Did you know that the Chester Rock Light was struck and carried away by a barge being towed by Sachem, a tugboat, on May 10, 1912?
Did you know that the Generali Building, a downtown Jerusalem landmark, was designed by the chief architect of the Italian Fascist regime?
Did you know that the President of the Senate of Jamaica, Floyd Morris, became the legislative body's first blind member in 1998?
Did you know that the chameleon goby has been known to nest in crevices, mollusc shells, or even discarded bottles and cans?
Did you know that the earliest surviving European drawing of an emu comes from the journal of a surgeon?
Did you know that Argentine actresses Mercedes Morán and Mercedes Scápola, who are mother and daughter, play as mother and daughter in the telenovela Guapas?
Did you know that Hissa Hilal, the first woman to reach the final of reality TV poetry contest Million's Poet, won one round with a poem criticizing fatwas?
Did you know that Kangana Ranaut was awarded the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for portraying a substance-abusing supermodel in Fashion?
Did you know that Leonard Wyburd was the first head of Liberty's Furnishing and Decoration Studio in the West End of London, aged only 18?
Did you know that Neenga Nalla Irukkanum (1992), a Tamil film on Prohibition, had Jayalalithaa, then chief minister, playing herself?
Did you know that Project Alberta was the section of the Manhattan Project which participated in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Did you know that Sturehov Manor has been described as one of the most beautiful manor houses dating from the reign of Gustav III of Sweden?
Did you know that control of the Papuan plantation termite has been attempted by the use of explosives?
Did you know that in 1924, 35 million tons of coal were mined in the 14-square-mile (36 km2) watershed of Newport Creek?
Did you know that the first vicar of the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Beckwithshaw, was Charles Farrar Forster?
Did you know that when Dickson Chumba and Tirfi Tsegaye won the 2014 Tokyo Marathon, they each set a new course record for the men's and women's competitions, respectively?
Did you know that American artist Adelia Armstrong Lutz most liked to paint flowers, especially hollyhocks?
Did you know that Battle of the Sittang Bend was the last significant land battle of the Western allied powers in the Second World War?
Did you know that Benjamín Galván Gómez, the former mayor of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, was recently kidnapped and killed?
Did you know that Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner, sponsor of the rival USA Freedom Act, said the FISA Improvements Act would "allow unrestrained spying on the American people"?
Did you know that HMS Algerine was sunk 20 months to the day after she was laid down?
Did you know that Nákladové nádraží Žižkov became a national cultural monument of the Czech Republic, a decade after closing?
Did you know that abolitionist Thaddeus Hyatt was jailed by the United States Senate after he refused to comply with a Congressional subpoena?
Did you know that after a bout with a toothache, Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote "Address to the Toothache"?
Did you know that the Boeing CQM-121A Pave Tiger and CGM-121B Seek Spinner (CGM-121B pictured) were intended to disrupt enemy air defences, sometimes explosively?
Did you know that the San Antonio Municipal Auditorium was built as a memorial to American soldiers killed in World War I?
Did you know that the single-celled Methanosarcina (Methanosarcina barkeri fusaro pictured) may have played a significant role in both the evolution of early life and the worst extinction event in history?
Did you know that Deadwood Draw was a staging area for freight wagons carrying supplies to the Black Hills during the gold rush?
Did you know that Denis Legersky was allowed to play for the Turkish national ice hockey team in a friendly match in 2014, even though he is a Slovak citizen?
Did you know that Dutch Jesuit priest Frans van der Lugt, who had lived in Syria since 1966 and ministered to Christians and Muslims alike, was shot dead in April 2014 in Homs?
Did you know that Guinevere Planitia, a lowland plain on Venus, has three main volcanoes: Atanua, Tuli, and Var Mons?
Did you know that Karma (1933) featured the longest kissing scene in the history of Indian cinema (screenshot pictured), lasting for about four minutes?
Did you know that Kelly Field is where Charles Lindbergh earned his wings?
Did you know that Kerry Teague once quit his ride in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series, saying he didn't have enough experience to compete?
Did you know that Lifeless Planet is an upcoming adventure game inspired by Cold War sci-fi B movies?
Did you know that although Old Pine Church in Purgitsville, West Virginia, was built in 1838, the earliest burial sites in its cemetery date from as early as 1759?
Did you know that although only 9 miles (14 km) long, the Mann's Creek Railroad serviced 193 beehive coke ovens?
Did you know that at the 1984 Summer Olympics, 15-year-old swimmer Sarah Hardcastle became the youngest ever British female to win an Olympic medal?
Did you know that because of opposition by the Polish communist government, the Warsaw Uprising Monument was constructed over 40 years after the event it commemorates?
Did you know that soprano Carmen Reppel performed several parts in the Jahrhundertring, Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle staged by Chéreau, and sang in Siegfried Wagner's Schwarzschwanenreich?
Did you know that the 15th Lancers (Cureton's Multanis), despite being a cavalry regiment fully manned by Muslim troops (officer pictured), used a Hindu salaam in place of a regulation military salute?
Did you know that the owners of the race horse California Chrome turned down an offer of $6 million for the horse prior to his win in the Santa Anita Derby?
Did you know that 300,000 people live within a 10-minute drive of the Ramot Mall, the second-largest shopping center in Jerusalem?
Did you know that Angie Epifano gained widespread media attention and millions of page views after she wrote an essay on her personal experience of sexual assault?
Did you know that Hideki Shirakawa, Alan Heeger, and Alan MacDiarmid received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of polyacetylene, an electronically conductive polymer?
Did you know that Indian-born Israeli Sarah Avraham converted to Judaism and moved to Israel after the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and became a Kickboxing World Champion?
Did you know that K. Rudzki i S-ka, an engineering firm from Poland, built roughly 20 percent of all rail bridges in Imperial Russia, including the Khabarovsk Bridge and Maurzyce Bridge?
Did you know that Mick Parker climbed five 8,000 metre mountains without the assistance of Sherpa guides or bottled oxygen?
Did you know that Saint Birgitta's chapel, on the Swedish island Öland, was likely a 13th-century pilgrimage church dedicated to the Irish Brigit of Kildare?
Did you know that The Wall Street Journal called 2048 (screenshot pictured) "almost like Candy Crush for math geeks"?
Did you know that according to legend, William II de Soules's tenants expressed their opinion of his management by boiling him alive at the stone circle of Ninestane Rig?
Did you know that all five compositions for harpsichord by Iannis Xenakis, among them Komboï, were dedicated to harpsichordist Elisabeth Chojnacka?
Did you know that the green orchid bee, native to Central America, has taken up residence in Florida?
Did you know that the stained glass windows of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Fawsley, incorporate George Washington's family coat of arms?
Did you know that when Michael Weiße published 157 songs in German for the Bohemian Brethren, it was the most extensive hymnal of his time, and the first organized by topic?
Did you know that 7th-grade science students at Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood, California, helped researchers discover a new series of Martian lava tubes?
Did you know that Invader's cousin is Mr. Brainwash?
Did you know that Iranian student activist Maryam Shafipour spent seven months in pre-trial detention, including more than two months in solitary confinement, before being sentenced to seven years in prison?
Did you know that Oswald Harding, Jamaica's longest serving senator, is the only person to have served two non-contiguous terms as President of the Senate of Jamaica?
Did you know that after their defeat in the Battle of Pljevlja during the Uprising in Montenegro, many Partisans deserted to the Chetniks?
Did you know that although the song "So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh" had a limited success during its initial release by Woody Guthrie, its popularity soared when it was recorded by The Weavers?
Did you know that for his actions during the Battle of Shok Valley in 2008, Combat Controller Zachary Rhyner became the first living recipient of the Air Force Cross since the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993?
Did you know that in Rajiv Malhotra's book Indra's Net: Defending Hinduism's Philosophical Unity (2014), Hindu gurus are compared to systems integrators, and Hinduism to an open architecture?
Did you know that legend holds that Holy Roman Emperor Louis the Pious, on hearing Theodulf of Orléans sing "All Glory, Laud and Honour", released Theodulf from exile and ordered the hymn sung every Palm Sunday?
Did you know that texts by the lawyer and successful opera librettist Christian Heinrich Postel are part of Bach's St John Passion?
Did you know that the Seumas McNally Grand Prize awards US$30,000 to indie game developers?
Did you know that "Ride On, Ride On in Majesty!" was once called one of the most popular Palm Sunday hymns?
Did you know that Annegret Brießmann was ranked in the top ten in the world in her class in the shot put and discus, and won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in wheelchair basketball?
Did you know that Pike's Lane was the venue of the first-ever goal scored in league football?
Did you know that Star Film was unable to complete its sixth film due to the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies?
Did you know that Zofia Daszyńska-Golińska taught at Warsaw's Flying University before she became a Polish senator?
Did you know that a January 1947 contest, on radio station WINC in Winchester, Virginia, was responsible for shorting out the telephone system for the entire city?
Did you know that a version of the astro pop cocktail is layered with red, white, and blue colors, and served in a shot glass?
Did you know that despite its single release being cancelled, "Blow" by Beyoncé debuted on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs at number 48?
Did you know that in 1901 Beatrice Tomasson and her teammates became the first to climb the south face of the Marmolada, which was then considered "the longest and most difficult climb in the Alps"?
Did you know that in China, the production, management and sales of all edible salt is regulated by a state-owned monopoly enterprise?
Did you know that the Alexandria, Virginia mansion Colross was disassembled and transported to Princeton, New Jersey, where it serves as a Princeton Day School administration building?
Did you know that the Church of St Cuthbert by the Forest in Mouldsworth, Cheshire, has a detached campanile?
Did you know that the Toluid Civil War, fought between Kublai Khan and his brother Ariq Böke for the title of Great Khan, permanently divided the Mongol Empire into separate autonomous khanates?
Did you know that the death of Polish Army chaplain Ignacy Skorupka at the battle of Warsaw became a political tool for opponents of military commander Józef Piłsudski?
Did you know that , according to the Blood Moon Prophecy, tonight's eclipse could be a sign that the end time is near?
Did you know that Ana María Martínez Sagi, a Spanish national champion in javelin, was a journalist for the Durruti Column?
Did you know that Bach used a stanza from "Vater unser im Himmelreich", Luther's versification of the Lord's Prayer, as a chorale in his St John Passion?
Did you know that Ivan Milutinović was one of the major exponents of the Leftist errors policy in Montenegro?
Did you know that John Silvanus Wilson, Jr., the 11th President of Morehouse College, previously led the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities?
Did you know that Sophie Ellis-Bextor's 2001 cover of "Take Me Home" by Cher received criticism from the latter for having "overtly sexual" new lyrics?
Did you know that architect William Swinden Barber (pictured in medieval costume) designed many 19th-century churches in northern England, often in a style based on buildings from the Middle Ages?
Did you know that as of 2013, Iran is one of only four countries known to carry out public executions?
Did you know that due to the alleged Operation Trojan Horse, Birmingham City Council has put a temporary freeze on appointing new school governors?
Did you know that former Hillsboro, Oregon mayor Miller M. Duris had six daughters whose first names all started with the letter "C"?
Did you know that the Great Captain Island Lighthouse started cracking only a decade into its lifetime?
Did you know that the first Seumas McNally Grand Prize award winner, 1999 indie game Fire and Darkness, was never finished?
Did you know that the proposed UEFA Nations League will largely replace friendly matches for UEFA member nations?
Did you know that three of 16 stanzas of Paul Gerhardt's hymn "O Welt, sieh hier dein Leben" appear in Bach's Passions, two in St John and two in St Matthew?
Did you know that two days after last year's Boston Marathon bombings, U.S. authorities received two applications to register the term "Boston Strong" as a trademark?
Did you know that Bob Mariano, CEO of Roundy's, was denied from five medical schools and thirteen pharmaceutical companies before starting work?
Did you know that New Zealand judge Thomas S. Weston moved from bench to bar?
Did you know that during the Tucker County Seat War in 1893, over 200 armed men seized Tucker County, West Virginia's court records and courthouse bell from St. George and transferred the county seat to Parsons?
Did you know that in 1953, Port Vale had a Steele Curtain?
Did you know that round Munsö Church was built to serve both a religious and a defensive purpose?
Did you know that salmon canning magnate Frank M. Warren, the only first-class passenger from Oregon to perish in the sinking of the Titanic, played for one of the first baseball teams in Portland?
Did you know that the minor planet Chariklo has a ring system (artist's rendering pictured), making it the smallest body known to be surrounded by rings?
Did you know that the soldiers who die by sword neither bravely nor cowardly are described as going to the abode of "the hidden ones" in Hinduism?
Did you know that the team developing Civilization: Beyond Earth, a spiritual successor to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, visited the latter's Wikipedia article for inspiration?
Did you know that wheelchair basketballer Marina Mohnen edged out Olympic gold medallists Britta Heidemann, Marion Rodewald and Oksana Chusovitina to become Cologne's Sportswoman of the Year?
Did you know that when he was 12, NASCAR Legends racer Gray Gaulding was sponsored by a gun-selling website?
Did you know that German coach Holger Glinicki celebrated his team's win at the 2012 Paralympics by plunging off Canary Wharf into London's River Thames?
Did you know that Herbert Garland taught Lawrence of Arabia how to use explosives?
Did you know that Li Xueqin, considered in China to be "the most important historian working today", never finished college?
Did you know that Redcliffe N. Salaman was the first person to identify genetic resistance to late blight in wild potatoes?
Did you know that Silver the Hedgehog, a character in the Sonic the Hedgehog video games, was originally intended to be orange?
Did you know that Tall Jawa is now known as "The Rock"?
Did you know that Victorian polymath Gordon Smith was a rower, mathematician, barrister, major and freemason who formed the finest collection of mint stamps of South Australia of his day?
Did you know that ghost craters on Mercury contain both graben and wrinkle ridges?
Did you know that ten copies of the Goražde Psalter (page pictured), printed in 1521, are known to exist today?
Did you know that the Assembly of Delvino ratified the Protocol of Corfu in 1914, which gave Northern Epirus autonomy inside Albania?
Did you know that the Sterbelied "Valet will ich dir geben" is described in a subtitle as a song of consolation, in which a pious heart bids farewell to this world?
Did you know that the kāhili standard of Hawaiian royalty was made from the bones of an enemy king and the feathers of a bird of prey?
Did you know that the meteorite EETA 79001, recovered from the Elephant Moraine, was found to have come from Mars?
Did you know that violinst Ignaz Schuppanzigh founded the Schuppanzigh Quartet, which played the premieres of several string quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven?
Did you know that Barney Berlinger won the United States decathlon championship in 1933 despite jogging through the final event, 1500 meters, so slowly he scored no points?
Did you know that Ben-Hur (publicity pictured) had so much unused footage, Charlton Heston used some in Antony and Cleopatra?
Did you know that Heike Friedrich played over 200 games of basketball with the national team before switching to wheelchair basketball?
Did you know that Joaquín Gutiérrez, a popular children's book author from Costa Rica, created a false identity for Soviet spy and future assassin Iosif Grigulevich?
Did you know that Percy Wyndham was denounced as a fraud by Percy Wyndham?
Did you know that Southport War Memorial consists of an obelisk, two colonnades, and gardens?
Did you know that according to the 2013 ruling of the court case In re Application of the United States for Historical Cell Site Data, the government can access cell site records without a warrant?
Did you know that all three major video game console manufacturers refuse to publish games that have been given the Adults Only rating by the Entertainment Software Rating Board?
Did you know that although Karl Ove Knausgård's family threatened legal action over his autobiographical novel series My Struggle, he published it anyway and sold half a million copies?
Did you know that members of The Australian and New Zealand Association of Bellringers perform full circle ringing in more than 60 bell towers?
Did you know that the 2005 University Boat Race featured eight Olympic rowers?
Did you know that the 63rd Cavalry of the Indian Army was given the epithet of "Ghost" during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971?
Did you know that the New Testament narratives of the mocking of Jesus are filled with irony?
Did you know that the digital board game Armello was pitched as "Game of Thrones meets Kung Fu Panda"?
Did you know that the partly submerged Mersey flat, Daresbury, is a scheduled monument?
Did you know that the third verse of Martin Schalling's death song "Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr" concludes Bach's St John Passion in its first and fourth version, ending with "praise you for ever"?
Did you know that Charlotte Montagu Douglas Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch served as Mistress of the Robes to Queen Victoria from 1841 to 1846 after being selected for the post by Robert Peel?
Did you know that Dr. Agnes Bluhm wrote that the "female psyche" is predisposed towards working for "racial hygiene"?
Did you know that Lyndon Johnson's biographer Robert Caro refused to meet Bryan Cranston, who plays Johnson in a new Broadway show, saying it might blur his image of the former president?
Did you know that Stop Watching Us, a protest against mass surveillance, was supported by an EFF video featuring director Oliver Stone and actor John Cusack?
Did you know that a European patent can only be granted jointly in respect of Switzerland and Liechtenstein, not for only one of these two countries?
Did you know that according to the Vulgate translation of the New Testament, Pontius Pilate said "Quod scripsi, scripsi" to Jewish priests who objected to his description of Jesus as King of the Jews?
Did you know that impala are known for their unique leaping ability, reaching heights up to 3 metres (9.8 ft)?
Did you know that in 2011 there were 19,945 non-Status Indians living in Alberta?
Did you know that in the structure of Bach's St John Passion (first page pictured), the centre of symmetry is "Durch dein Gefängnis ...", expressing: "By your prison ... came our freedom"?
Did you know that pointy ears are a common characteristic of numerous races in the fantasy genre?
Did you know that soprano Kristīne Opolais made two Met Opera debuts, as Puccini's Cio-Cio-San and Mimi, within a day?
Did you know that the Secrets of Rætikon (screenshot pictured) involve ancient machinery?
Did you know that the bikini bridge hoax was dubbed the new thigh gap?