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Did you know that Sam Manekshaw was the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal?
Did you know that after decades of prohibition, hemp in Kentucky is a legal crop?
Did you know that almost all the Cape parrots in captivity are actually uncape parrots?
Did you know that in the stratified social system of the African Zarma people, the lowest stratum inherited slavery?
Did you know that the British-Hawaiian politician Ferdinand William Hutchison was influential in the development of the leper colony of Kalaupapa, to which his son Ambrose K. Hutchison was exiled in 1879?
Did you know that the third wife of Bohemond III of Antioch was described as a witch by William of Tyre, and as a whore by Michael the Syrian?
Did you know that Brett Smitheram won the 2016 World Scrabble Championship?
Did you know that a landslide on Kambalny during the Holocene caused debris to travel for 20 kilometres (12 mi)?
Did you know that after becoming the first African-American to captain an athletic team at Notre Dame, Aubrey Lewis joined the first class to include blacks at the FBI Academy?
Did you know that destruction of ancient Assyrian sculpture by ISIL is reported to have increased in late 2016 with the Mosul offensive?
Did you know that the 72nd, 86th, and 96th Street stations along the Second Avenue Subway are part of the New York City Subway's first major expansion in over half a century?
Did you know that the mixed choir Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke, founded 70 years ago for sacred music, was a partner of the WDR from 1957, and performed in Israel and with Ian Anderson?
Did you know that when he was growing up, U.S. Representative-elect Raja Krishnamoorthi lived in public housing and received food stamps?
Did you know that Baxter Langley, who stood for the UK Parliament alongside William Gladstone, was later sentenced to hard labour?
Did you know that Gonzalo Castellot Madrazo was the first announcer to appear on Mexican television?
Did you know that after Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii died in 1917, her pet dog Poni was given to her confidante and final lady-in-waiting Lahilahi Webb?
Did you know that despite charting at only 96, "To Build a Home" by The Cinematic Orchestra has been streamed more than 60 million times and featured in several TV shows?
Did you know that low-level Schedule C political appointees in the United States sometimes attempt to "burrow in" by transferring to permanent merit-based positions?
Did you know that the Pu Songling short story "Stealing Peaches" describes the Indian rope trick?
Did you know that Dave Somers, the current executive of Snohomish County, Washington, was educated as a fisheries biologist?
Did you know that Michael Lane, who served as Chief Engineer of the Great Western Railway, started out as a bricklayer but became one of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's most trusted assistants?
Did you know that Solange Knowles performed a live cover of Nivea's song "Laundromat" in an actual laundromat?
Did you know that Steve Cooke and Beth Webster are the newest Eggheads?
Did you know that in 1951, Prime Minister of Iran Haj Ali Razmara was shot dead by Khalil Tahmasebi, a member of Fada'iyan-e Islam, while attending a memorial service at Tehran's Shah Mosque?
Did you know that when its cheek pouches are full, the lesser spot-nosed monkey's throat resembles a snowball?
Did you know that Hawaiian Colonel John Dominis Holt served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention with a prince?
Did you know that art dealer and gallerist Robert Mnuchin, and his sons Steven and Alan, all worked for Goldman Sachs?
Did you know that schoolteacher Mary Chase Walker was boycotted in 1866 in San Diego, California, after lunching in public with a black woman?
Did you know that since it honors a notionally illegal cult, suburban Shanghai's Tianfei Palace is officially classified as a museum?
Did you know that the World Health Organization says that a focus on reproductive health alone prevents progress in ensuring quality women's healthcare?
Did you know that under certain conditions, the woodland dormouse can enter a state of torpor?
Did you know that Christina Aguilera self-produced a 96-second music video for "Telepathy" as a gift to her fans as the song rose to number-one on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart?
Did you know that an inscription at the circa 10th-century Parshvanatha temple features one of the oldest known 4×4 magic squares?
Did you know that at Bexley Hospital, the patients looked after the farm animals, maintained the grounds, and did the cleaning?
Did you know that at age 22, Judith Hemmendinger helped rehabilitate nearly 100 child survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp, among them Elie Wiesel?
Did you know that Debatable panellists have included a former MP and a rapper?
Did you know that Guan ware is the "most frequently copied" of all Chinese pottery, despite the glaze being covered in cracks?
Did you know that Jan Rippe became well known to the Swedish public in his role as Roger in the television comedy series Macken?
Did you know that Josh White is a NASCAR driver and a member of the United States Marine Corps Reserve?
Did you know that Rudraveena (1988) was the second Telugu-language film to win the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration?
Did you know that when introducing actress Sharon Stone, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Monroe Karmin attributed her "wellness, fitness, and positive attitude" to her choice of undergarments?
Did you know that aluminium triacetate is used to treat aphthous ulcers and otitis, to relieve the itch from poison ivy, and as an astringent with Mortellaro disease in hoofed animals?
Did you know that during her 1895 trial, Queen Liliuokalani was defended by her former attorney general and tried by a military tribunal led by another former attorney general?
Did you know that the first director of the Tokyo National Museum was the samurai Machida Hisanari?
Did you know that the main hall of Shuri Castle was reused as the haiden of Okinawa Shrine before its destruction in the Battle of Okinawa?
Did you know that Becca Pizzi completed seven marathons on seven continents in seven days, and accepted a marriage proposal on the mound before throwing out the first pitch at Fenway Park?
Did you know that a plot led by Joseph Harmatz to poison 12,000 SS officers, held as POWs after World War II, was part of a revenge effort "to kill six million Germans, one for every Jew slaughtered by the Germans"?
Did you know that the 1937 Tamil-language film Bhaktha Sri Thyagaraja is based on the life of the Carnatic musician Tyagaraja?
Did you know that the Malagasy white-eye sometimes indulges in mutual preening?
Did you know that the Swarmjet system was a proposed short-range anti-ballistic missile that fired thousands of unguided rockets like a shotgun against incoming nuclear warheads?
Did you know that the idea for Through the Wilderness, a Madonna tribute album, came in a dream to Paul Beahan?
Did you know that Alice Bota, who writes for Die Zeit and studied in Germany and Poland, won an award for young journalists?
Did you know that Cheshire Cheese may be found in Essex?
Did you know that Hawaiian legislator Luther Aholo was compared to the Athenian statesman Solon?
Did you know that after the Mataram conquest of the Duchy of Surabaya, the son of its last duke married the sister of the conqueror, Sultan Agung?
Did you know that artwork at Othello station in Seattle, Washington, includes African dancers, an Asian-American "totem pole", and stormwater channels?
Did you know that during wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics, coaches threw plush dolls of Vinicius, the Olympic mascot, into the ring if they wished to challenge a referee's call?
Did you know that in 1980, newspaper editor Willis Tucker was elected the first county executive of Snohomish County, Washington?
Did you know that the Revolutionary Communist Party of India general secretary Sudhindranath Kumar served two terms as Food Minister of West Bengal?
Did you know that New England expatriate Thomas Wright Everett became the last Royal Governor of Maui?
Did you know that in the 1980s, the West Bengal Fisheries Minister Bhakti Bhushan Mandal declared himself to be an intermediary between the Government of India and exiled Naga leader Phizo?
Did you know that one critic described the novel Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks as starting a trend in the 1990s of British literature rethinking the legacy of the World Wars?
Did you know that the environment of Licancabur Lake in Chile has been compared to early lakes on Mars?
Did you know that Martin Schmeding recorded the complete organ works by Max Reger on thirteen different organs from the composer's period, including the Sauer organ at Berlin Cathedral?
Did you know that White House sentries were abolished by Gerald Ford but reinstated by Ronald Reagan?
Did you know that according to a hadith by the Islamic prophet Muhammad, sadaqa removes seventy gates of evil?
Did you know that independent candidate Anadi Das defeated the incumbent assembly speaker in the 1962 West Bengal election?
Did you know that seeds of the fossil fruit Suciacarpa have fossil fungi inside them?
Did you know that the €11 million reported to have been spent by AS Monaco FC in 2012 to sign Lucas Ocampos, was the most ever for a Ligue 2 player?
Did you know that Clementia Killewald, abbess of Eibingen Abbey, spoke about its founder Hildegard of Bingen at the ceremony when she was proclaimed a saint and Doctor of the Church by the pope?
Did you know that Hawaiian brothers John Timoteo Baker and Robert Hoapili Baker served as models for the Kamehameha Statues?
Did you know that Marylebone Lane is a "rustic diagonal" in an area laid out on a grid plan?
Did you know that Sir Joseph Rotblat, a Polish physicist who helped design atomic bombs for the Manhattan Project during World War II, won the Nobel Prize for Peace?
Did you know that before qualifying for Secret Service Counter-Assault Teams, agents of the United States Secret Service are required to do pull-ups while wearing a 45-pound (20 kg) weighted vest?
Did you know that Bertha Bracey was a Hero of the Holocaust?
Did you know that after High Priest Matua of Mangareva converted to Christianity in 1835, his long hair, sacred in the old pagan religion, was cut short?
Did you know that in 1967, President Hastings Banda established the Order of the Lion, Malawi's second-highest honor?
Did you know that in 2005, Howard Dean was elected as Chair of the Democratic National Committee, despite both Democratic Congressional leaders endorsing Tim Roemer instead?
Did you know that the Iazyges were a tribe of Sarmatians that migrated from Central Asia to the Pannonian Basin?
Did you know that the steering system on the Saint-Chamond tank weighed five tons?
Did you know that the third movement of the chorale motet Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme contains a quotation from a Bach cantata which composer J. C. F. Bach included as a tribute to his father?
Did you know that Cizhou ware was popular pottery not used by the Chinese Imperial court, and often made as ceramic pillows (example pictured)?
Did you know that HMS Tartar's Prize had oversized cannons, a leaky hull, and a smoky galley, and sank in the Mediterranean when her timbers gave way?
Did you know that Sadhan Gupta, elected from Calcutta South East in a 1953 by-poll, was the first blind parliamentarian in independent India?
Did you know that civil engineer Ernest William Moir invented the first medical airlock?
Did you know that in 2010, the association footballer Neil Alexander came on as a substitute for Queen of the South in a friendly against his own team, Rangers?
Did you know that the Advent hymn "O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf" was written against a backdrop of the Thirty Years' War, the plague, and witch trials?
Did you know that Ami Radunskaya, a mathematician who heads the Association for Women in Mathematics, spent ten years as a cellist and music composer between high school and college?
Did you know that Helmut Kahlhöfer conducted his choir Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke in recordings of Reger's Geistliche Gesänge, Op. 110, and Bach's Mass in B minor for the tricentenary of the composer's birth?
Did you know that in 1858 Santa Claus made his first Hawaiian appearance at Washington Place, the home of Mary Dominis?
Did you know that most modern nutcracker dolls (examples pictured) are not functional, but merely decorative?
Did you know that the Christian song "Give Thanks With a Grateful Heart" was credited as unknown authorship when first released in 1986, despite being written by Henry Smith in 1978?
Did you know that the Tongan Soakimi Gatafahefa, the first Polynesian to be ordained as a Catholic priest, studied in Rome and met Pope Pius IX?
Did you know that "The Babe in Bethlem's Manger" is thought to be a traditional Kentish folk carol but its tune is described as being "very much of the 18th century"?
Did you know that Adoration of the Kings by Gerard David was variously attributed to Gossaert, Memling, "School of van Eyck", "van der Weyden the younger", and the "Flemish School"?
Did you know that Jackie Evancho's 2016 album Someday at Christmas peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Classical Albums chart?
Did you know that in the carol "Vom Himmel hoch, o Engel, kommt", printed in 1622, the angels are requested to come from Heaven with musical instruments, to sing of Jesus and Mary, and for peace?
Did you know that the Taschenphilharmonie, called the world's smallest orchestra, earned prizes for classical music embedded in narration for young children?
Did you know that the mantou kiln, used for pottery in north China for some 2,000 years, is named after a type of steamed bread bun?
Did you know that Hawaii's first Protestant minister James Kekela saved an American sailor from cannibals and was presented with a gold watch from President Abraham Lincoln?
Did you know that The Foo Show is an interactive virtual-reality talk show?
Did you know that cyclist Eugenio Colombani also represented Egypt at the 1906 Intercalated Games in Greco-Roman wrestling?
Did you know that the Aravalli Mountains contain intensely deformed rocks?
Did you know that the spikes of the dragon in the sculpture Saint George and the Dragon by Bernt Notke are made of moose antlers?
Did you know that Natalie Sims co-wrote the Iggy Azalea song "Work", which sold over one million copies in the US?
Did you know that despite being a prolific artist of 19th-century London, Robert Blemmell Schnebbelie died of starvation in Camden Town?
Did you know that graduates of Middlebury College receive a replica of a cane owned by Gamaliel Painter?
Did you know that publicists promoted the 1999 edition of FHM's 100 Sexiest Women by projecting a 60-foot (18 m) naked image of the TV presenter Gail Porter onto the Palace of Westminster?
Did you know that the Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds, Washington, is located inside a former Safeway grocery store?
Did you know that when a Beecroft's flying squirrel brings food to its offspring, its cheeks expand to the size of a tangerine?
Did you know that 11-year-old Sarai Gonzalez plays a "nerdy" tween with a "sassy" and "confident" attitude in Bomba Estéreo's "Soy Yo" ("That's Me") music video?
Did you know that Colin de Grandhomme's performance of six wickets for 41 runs is the best by any New Zealander on Test debut?
Did you know that Filibus, a fictional sky pirate, has been called one of the first lesbian characters in cinema?
Did you know that the refrain of "Heaven" by Inna is written in a language invented by the singer and her label?
Did you know that Iris Murdoch's first book, Sartre: Romantic Rationalist, was the first book about Jean-Paul Sartre's work to be published in English?
Did you know that Mirjam Wiesemann made award-winning audiobooks for Cybele Records, introducing in music and conversation the composers Hartmann, Apostel, Henze, Boulez, Jacqueline Fontyn and Juan Allende-Blin?
Did you know that on 29 November 2016, Ben Woodburn became Liverpool's youngest ever goalscorer when he scored against Leeds United in the EFL Cup?
Did you know that the Petites Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry (page pictured) show the "rupture in style" that occurred in French illumination at the end of the fourteenth century?
Did you know that the now non-existent Lake Tauca formerly covered large parts of the Altiplano of South America?
Did you know that A.M.O. Ghani's popularity as a politician was credited to his provision of medical care to the poor?
Did you know that Jim Delligatti created the Big Mac?
Did you know that Operation PBFORTUNE, organized by the CIA to topple Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz, was terminated when the coup attempt became too widely known?
Did you know that Puaaiki, a blind preacher from Maui, was a former hula dancer for King Kamehameha II?
Did you know that the president of Denny-Renton Clay and Coal Company was the first boy born to the settlers of Seattle?
Did you know that Darwin introduced the theory of evolution by natural selection, but was not the first to use the term "survival of the fittest"?
Did you know that Momoiro Clover Z did not know they were making their music video for "The Golden History" until filming started?
Did you know that Queen Emma of Hawaii and her lady-in-waiting Kiliwehi were received by Queen Victoria and spent a night at Windsor Castle?
Did you know that the diet of the dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel includes bark and fruit, including the fleshy fruits of the umbrella tree?
Did you know that the name Pseudo-Jacquemart was assigned to the anonymous master illuminator (work pictured) for his collaboration with Jacquemart de Hesdin?
Did you know that Jollees was the UK's largest cabaret venue in the 1970s and hosted the World Professional Darts Championship?
Did you know that Nancy Sottos helped create the first polymeric self-healing material, announced in Nature in 2001?
Did you know that Protiva Mukherjee was the only female minister in the 1969 United Front government of West Bengal?
Did you know that The Shaker Quarterly, which began publication in 1961, helped revive interest in the Shakers?
Did you know that the Jōmon Venus was the first Jōmon period artifact to be designated a National Treasure of Japan?
Did you know that HBO's new daily news series Vice News Tonight was intended by Vice News to have "no ads, no anchors and no censors?"
Did you know that INS Vikrant was India's first aircraft carrier?
Did you know that in order to disguise the V-2 missile launch site in Blizna, the Nazis created an artificial village with plywood cottages and barns, and plaster people and animals?
Did you know that the Welsh singer-songwriter Charlotte Church criticised director Diane Martel's music video for the song "Lolita", calling it "an objectionable little number"?
Did you know that J. W. Lonoaea died because he voted for a king instead of a queen?
Did you know that Oskar Gottlieb Blarr, "the composer with the hat", visited Israel to experience where Jesus lived as a Jew?
Did you know that the philosopher Michael Fox became highly critical of animal testing following the publication of his The Case for Animal Experimentation, later writing a book in support of vegetarianism?
Did you know that when Seymour Cray designed the Cray-3 supercomputer, he insisted that the processor fit into a 1-cubic-foot (0.028 m3) block?
Did you know that Zorobabela Kaʻauwai accompanied his patron Hoapili into battle in the suppression of Humehume's rebellion?
Did you know that almost nothing is quite certain about the "multifaceted" and "very productive" Master of the Drapery Studies?
Did you know that although only a single example of the Eriksen M/25 machine gun was built, it saw service in the 1940 Norwegian Campaign?
Did you know that rapper Liv released the song "Sorry Mrs. Carter" as an "open letter" to Beyoncé?
Did you know that the 10-gun sloop-of-war HMS Stork was originally designed to resemble King George II's yacht Royal Caroline?
Did you know that the Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal reliefs from c. 640 BC show the king killing lions with swords, spears, and arrows?
Did you know that Irish immigrant, anarchist, strike organiser, and New York surgeon Gertrude Kelly is commemorated by a children's park in Chelsea, Manhattan?
Did you know that Slovenian ski jumper Peter Prevc became the first athlete to land a jump of 250 metres (820 ft)?
Did you know that in the United States, nuclear weapons are moved by trucks called Safeguards Transporters which were designed by the Sandia National Laboratories?
Did you know that the Cafe Royal Cocktail Book contains one of the first recorded recipes for the 20th Century?
Did you know that the Pakistan Communist Party ceased to exist just three weeks after it had been founded?
Did you know that Betty Campbell was the first black head teacher in Wales?
Did you know that George S. Zimbel's white dress shoot of Marilyn Monroe remained unpublished for 20 years after he took the photos?
Did you know that Raón Street in Manila was named after former Governor-General José Antonio Raón y Gutiérrez?
Did you know that the $2.3 billion Spring District in Bellevue, Washington, is the second largest construction project in the Puget Sound region?
Did you know that the Epiphany anthem "The Three Kings" describes the visit of the Biblical Magi to the baby Jesus?
Did you know that Caleb Orozco, who successfully challenged the Belize Criminal Code for violations to his privacy and freedom of expression, won the 2016 David Kato Vision and Voice award?
Did you know that Francis Poulenc's L'Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant for narrator and piano was inspired by children requesting him to play from the book Histoire de Babar?
Did you know that William Lister was listed as competing in water polo at the 1900 Summer Olympics, despite having died before the Games began?
Did you know that the 7th-century royal Anglo-Saxon Sutton Hoo helmet was excavated in more than 500 pieces?
Did you know that the art historian Rosemary Barrow specialised in the work of the once-neglected Victorian painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema?
Did you know that British and Chinese officials in Beijing cooperated in trying to solve the murder of Pamela Werner, which happened 80 years ago today?
Did you know that dikes in the Huangling Complex show that Australia was adjacent to the South China Craton prior to 825 million years ago?
Did you know that the National Composite Adversary Force conducts "simulated but realistic attacks" on U.S. nuclear power plants?
Did you know that the directors for The Chemical Brothers' music video "The Boxer" disliked the track itself?
Did you know that the p19 protein (dimer pictured) evolved in an arms race between plants and viruses?
Did you know that Lucy Finch founded the only remaining hospice in Malawi, a country where about a million people are living with HIV/AIDS?
Did you know that Solicitor General Warren Allmand introduced legislation that abolished the use of capital punishment in Canada?
Did you know that a crude oil tanker was named after Rama Raghoba Rane, a Param Vir Chakra recipient?
Did you know that at the 2016 Summer Olympics, badminton player Lee Chong Wei was the Malaysian flag bearer?
Did you know that the Ethiopian music group Fendika was started by a formerly homeless refugee?
Did you know that the Manhattan Project's liquid thermal diffusion plant was the only production-scale plant of its kind ever built?
Did you know that the estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop, which includes 9,557 acres (3,868 ha) inherited from her aunt ʻAkahi, funds the Kamehameha Schools?
Did you know that the mayor of Nice implored cooks to "never, never, I beg you, include boiled potato or any other boiled vegetable in your salade niçoise"?
Did you know that the Üçayak Byzantine Church (ruins pictured) was a double church?
Did you know that 71 years after the Lyngiades massacre in Greece, President Joachim Gauck was Germany's first official representative to visit the site and express his apologies for the Wehrmacht's atrocities?
Did you know that Admiral Elmo Zumwalt's 1976 book On Watch: A Memoir was called a "terrifying tale" of the Nixon administration?
Did you know that Henrietta Place in Marylebone, London, was named after Lady Henrietta Cavendish (depicted)?