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Did you know that in Renaissance Scotland, the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle was rebuilt for the baptism of James VI's son Henry, to mirror the proportions of the Temple of Solomon?
Did you know that in his fictional work "Surabaya", Idrus referred to the Indonesian revolutionaries as "cowboys" and the Allies as "bandits"?
Did you know that on 7 June 1998, the Swiss electorate rejected the Gene Protection Initiative, which would have banned scientific research using genetically modified animals?
Did you know that the 1st SAS Brigade, a World War II military unit, never actually existed?
Did you know that the British inquiry into the sinking of the RMS Titanic was criticised as a "whitewash" after Lord Mersey found that the disaster had not been caused by negligence?
Did you know that the Liturgy of Saint Cyril is one of the three Anaphoras currently used by Coptic Christianity?
Did you know that the film Thor 2 will have a "more Viking-influenced feel" than its 2011 predecessor, Thor?
Did you know that the male Forbes sea star (underside pictured) is sometimes castrated by Orchitophrya stellarum, a parasite which feeds on its gonads?
Did you know that the mineral shigaite (hexagonal crystal pictured) is named for the Japanese Prefecture where it was discovered in 1985?
Did you know that "She's a Mess", a song by English girl group Sugababes from their seventh studio album, had to be renamed because the band felt the lyrics were promoting binge drinking?
Did you know that Agus Kuncoro has acted in three films directed by Hanung Bramantyo?
Did you know that Blam was one of the works from Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition that was sold out in advance?
Did you know that Duke Xiang, ruler of the ancient state of Qi, had an incestuous relationship with his sister Wen Jiang and had her husband Duke Huan of Lu murdered?
Did you know that Expressionist Head is the name of many Roy Lichtenstein works of art, including six identical sculptures and various paintings?
Did you know that Great Eastern Railway engineers discovered chalk while digging the Narborough Railway Line?
Did you know that Hanung Bramantyo's horror film Red Lantern has been described as reminiscent of a history of the Indonesian Communist Party?
Did you know that Roy Lichtenstein's Drowning Girl was adapted from Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
Did you know that Rudy Árias was a replacement player during the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike, though he retired as a player in 1979?
Did you know that Tadashi Yamamoto, who promoted private sector relations between Japan and the United States, founded the Japan Center for International Exchange and the Shimoda Conference?
Did you know that children as young as eight were forced to work in a stone quarry in a Polenlager during the Nazi occupation of Polish Silesia?
Did you know that recent excavation at St James Square revealed the first evidence of Mesolithic human settlement in Monmouth, Wales?
Did you know that the Castillo de San Felipe de Lara, a Spanish colonial fort in Guatemala, was built in the 17th century to defend against frequent English pirate attacks?
Did you know that the Grande halle de la Villette, now a cultural center in Paris, was formerly a slaughterhouse?
Did you know that the United States Senate inquiry into the sinking of the RMS Titanic declared the disaster an "act of God" because nobody could be held liable for it under maritime law?
Did you know that the villain in Millennium's "Paper Dove" was based on real life murderers Edmund Kemper and Jeffrey Dahmer?
Did you know that writer David Wong's book John Dies at the End was made into a movie starring Paul Giamatti?
Did you know that Major League Baseball's new collective bargaining agreement addressed the issue that led to Barret Loux being declared a free agent?
Did you know that Mike Daniels, now a rookie for the Green Bay Packers, was first noticed by the American football team when they were scouting other Iowa linemen?
Did you know that Uthayan is the only newspaper in Jaffna which did not cease publication during the Sri Lankan Civil War, amid numerous attacks and threats?
Did you know that although the market price for Roy Lichtenstein's works in 1965 was $6,000, a collector paid $30,000 for M-Maybe?
Did you know that although the town of Saint Saëns provided 60,000 francs towards the construction of its own railway line, it was only enough to pay for the station?
Did you know that continuous flash suppression can suppress an image ten times longer than flash suppression or binocular rivalry?
Did you know that during the hunt for Pretty Boy Floyd, FBI special agent Melvin Purvis used the Travelers Hotel in East Liverpool, Ohio, as his headquarters?
Did you know that nisoxetine, a predecessor of Prozac, was never marketed but is widely used in scientific research?
Did you know that the 12th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry regiment captured 92 Confederate soldiers during the Battle of Gettysburg, including 7 officers?
Did you know that the Kuriyama is the southernmost river in Japan with a salmon run?
Did you know that the New York Yankees introduced Eduardo Núñez to Derek Jeter, his childhood idol, as Jeter's eventual replacement?
Did you know that the a cappella group Straight No Chaser changed its name to Another Round?
Did you know that the five brothers Prince Wukui, Duke Xiao, Duke Zhao, Duke Yi, and Duke Hui fought one another for the throne of the ancient state of Qi, and all succeeded, often by killing their predecessors?
Did you know that the mineral gatehouseite has been found in only one mine in South Australia?
Did you know that the pullet carpet shell is cultivated in "parks" on the seabed?
Did you know that the ruin of St Mary's Kirk, Auchindoir, in northeastern Scotland has a highly decorated, stone sacrament house set inside a former window?
Did you know that the spiny scallop camouflages itself with a sponge and can swim away from predatory starfish?
Did you know that there are two versions of Roy Lichtenstein's In the Car, one of which set the record for highest auction price for a Lichtenstein work?
Did you know that J. A. Chapman, a 19th-century mayor of Portland, Oregon, died after driving his buggy into a telephone wire?
Did you know that Kenmore was used by Colonel Walker of the Army of Northern Virginia as a headquarters during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in 1864?
Did you know that Millennium's "Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" makes reference to Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions?
Did you know that a farmer drove his tractor from Crawley to Buckingham Palace to protest the land acquisition policies of Crawley Development Corporation?
Did you know that according to Aristophanes of Byzantium, Euripides' lost play Antigone differed from Sophocles' famous play Antigone in three key respects, including that Antigone married Haemon?
Did you know that at the height of Romanticism in Scotland, George IV launched an international craze for tartan by wearing a kilt?
Did you know that in 737, the Umayyad Caliphate and the Turgesh Khaganate fought the Battle of the Baggage?
Did you know that the Maya International Cooperative Biodiversity Group was designed in 1998 to meet the highest ethical standards in bioprospecting, but was closed down in 2001 due to accusations of biopiracy?
Did you know that the U.S. Congress and President both had to give approval to build the Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain, which memorializes two men who died in the sinking of the Titanic?
Did you know that the acreage associated with National Register of Historic Places Woodhouse House in Virginia Beach, Virginia, has decreased to less than a fifth of what it was in the 1880s?
Did you know that the racehorse Bruni won the 1975 British Classic St. Leger Stakes by ten lengths?
Did you know that two National Heroes of Indonesia died in the crash of Dakota VT-CLA (replica of tail depicted)?
Did you know that upon receiving a personal letter from George Washington appointing him a lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army, Virginia militiaman Angus McDonald declined the offer?
Did you know that "Dinosaur", a song by American singer Kesha, was inspired by an encounter with an old man whom she perceived as "prehistoric" and "like a dinosaur"?
Did you know that Christian rock band MercyMe employed the London Symphony Orchestra to play strings on their album Undone?
Did you know that Eddie Sharp raced hydroplanes before winning the 1999 ARCA Racing Series championship as a crew chief?
Did you know that Leonte Răutu survived as the ideologist of Communist Romania under Stalinism, anti-revisionism and national communism, but was toppled when his own daughter emigrated to the West?
Did you know that Little Big Painting and Yellow and Green Brushstrokes, part of Roy Lichtenstein's Brushstrokes series, parody the gestural painting of abstract expressionism?
Did you know that Ohhh...Alright..., I Can See the Whole Room...and There's Nobody in It!, and Sleeping Girl set records for highest priced Roy Lichtenstein work sales at $42.6, $43.2, and $44.8 million, respectively?
Did you know that Shirley Reilly, winner of the women's wheelchair race at the 2012 Boston Marathon, has Inupiat heritage?
Did you know that after a police raid, Ali al-Ghanmi, a Bahraini police officer, left his guard post and joined protests because he could no longer support "a killer institution"?
Did you know that for Pentecost Monday, Bach added five wind parts to the opening of Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 to form the Sinfonia of Ich liebe den Höchsten von ganzem Gemüte, BWV 174?
Did you know that high-definition video was used for making Brownies?
Did you know that other RAAF units "happily disposed of their oldest airframes" to equip No. 4 Service Flying Training School (Avro Anson of the unit pictured) in 1941?
Did you know that the 1982 television film The Scarlet Pimpernel was expanded in length to allow for a subplot detailing the rescue of the Dauphin?
Did you know that the Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.7 floatplane trainer was intended as an interim solution, yet it served for several years after the introduction of its successor, the M.F.8?
Did you know that while the legume flower Utah sweetvetch provides habitat for the Sage Grouse, the seeds of legume roundhead bushclover are a food source for the Bobwhite Quail?
Did you know that Angampora, a martial art native to Sri Lanka which incorporates pressure point attacks, was banned by the British who gained control of the island in the early 19th century?
Did you know that Culture Freedom Day, celebrating free culture, has been inspired by the Software Freedom Day?
Did you know that German anarchist Johannes Holzmann edited twenty-five issues of the journal Der Kampf, but eleven of them were banned?
Did you know that Millennium's "Force Majeure" features stock footage from the 1996 Saguenay Flood in Quebec?
Did you know that Yan Gomes is the first Brazilian-born player to appear in Major League Baseball?
Did you know that a bikini-clad rendition of the "Cat Daddy" dance by the reigning Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover model Kate Upton was temporarily banned from YouTube?
Did you know that a game between Belfast's Big Two once led to a cockerel and a blue pig being released onto a football pitch?
Did you know that according to The New York Times, opera producer Robert Lepage and opera house general manager Peter Gelb "cut heroic figures in an epic adventure" in the 2012 documentary Wagner's Dream?
Did you know that due to his role in the national uprising, Bahraini human rights activist Mohammed al-Maskati received a number of death threats?
Did you know that foreign relations between France and Serbia, established in 1879, were briefly severed after France's participation in the bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999?
Did you know that the 2000 a cappella composition Lux Aurumque (Light and Gold) was recorded by a Virtual Choir of 185 singers from 12 countries, conducted by its composer Eric Whitacre?
Did you know that the German National Library of Science and Technology, the world's largest specialty library in its field, has 125 km (78 mi) of shelf space?
Did you know that the first 140 amino acids encoded by the gene TMEM106A are deleted along with BRCA1 during early-onset breast cancer?
Did you know that the first privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War was fought at Turtle Gut Inlet?
Did you know that while honored in France, the inventor of the smart card, Roland Moreno, received little public recognition outside of the country?
Did you know that Honeypot Wood was used as a bomb dump in World War II?
Did you know that National Hero Iswahyudi, dissatisfied with life in Australia, took a rubber boat back to Indonesia?
Did you know that Raymond P. Ahlquist's discovery of adrenergic receptor subtypes was at first largely ignored but eventually led to the development of widely prescribed beta blocker drugs?
Did you know that Sisera's mother, a biblical character, has been described as evil and sexually depraved?
Did you know that Sting supports Bees for Development?
Did you know that William Addams Williams, the MP for Monmouthshire, ensured that newspapers were notified when they incorrectly listed his votes?
Did you know that Wojciech Smarzowski's film Róża gained the Polish Film Award in seven categories in 2011?
Did you know that after Francys Arsentiev died while climbing Mount Everest, it was nine years before her frozen, preserved body could be moved from beside the main route to the summit?
Did you know that at St Athan, a wild fig tree grew out of the cement of the East Orchard chapel walls?
Did you know that in 567 BC Duke Ling of Qi annexed the neighbouring state of Lai, more than doubling the size of the state of Qi?
Did you know that strand swamps are home to Florida black bears and the endangered Florida panther?
Did you know that the 1984 American biopic drama film Pope John Paul II, directed by Herbert Wise, was actor Albert Finney's American television debut and the first script to ever be rejected by Finney upon a first reading?
Did you know that the Norwegian footballer Steffen Hagen has played every minute of 100 consecutive league-matches for Odd Grenland in Tippeligaen?
Did you know that the Soviet A-35 anti-ballistic missile system had a radar nicknamed the Dog House?
Did you know that the hirola is often referred to as the "four-eyed antelope" due to its large preorbital glands?
Did you know that the pro-gay rap song "BEN (Better Everything Now)" was inspired by the coming out of the artist's gay friend and the It Gets Better campaign?
Did you know that German conductor Konrad Junghänel and his vocal ensemble Cantus Cölln won the Gramophone Award for the first complete recording of Monteverdi's collection Selva morale e spirituale?
Did you know that Jan Matejko's painting Stańczyk, portraying a solemn court jester, is considered one of the most recognized and significant paintings of Poland?
Did you know that Leo Franklyn spent much of the 1940s as a Dame?
Did you know that Sarah, Duchess of York, observed a tradition by diving naked into the swimming pool at Hurst Lodge School at midnight on the eve of her last day there?
Did you know that among the mythical owners of Canis Minor were Orion, Icarius and Tobias?
Did you know that during a football match between FK Bodø/Glimt and Tromsø IL in 1995, Tromsø head coach Harald Aabrekk was brought to the hospital in an ambulance, despite not being injured?
Did you know that historian Max Hastings called Thaddeus Holt's book The Deceivers a "worthy celebration" of British deception during World War II?
Did you know that in 1983, in the Russian military town Serpukhov-15, the system controlling the Soviet Union's Oko satellites received warning of American ICBMs being launched?
Did you know that males with the genetic disorder familial hyperestrogenism may become feminized and often seek to have their enlarged breasts surgically removed?
Did you know that the American film All the Vermeers in New York was created as a tribute to the director's father?
Did you know that the Požega Valley is home to the oldest continuously operating wine cellar in Croatia, built by Cistercians in Kutjevo in 1232?
Did you know that the central premise of Millennium's "Covenant" may have been based on Albert Fish's history of self-harm?
Did you know that the ringback tone for the Indonesian music duo Ratu's song about friends with benefits was downloaded more than a million times?
Did you know that the size of a spherical bubble in an infinite body of liquid is described by the Rayleigh–Plesset equation?
Did you know that when Ottoman commander Esad Pasha surrendered after the 1913 Battle of Bizani, Greek Army officer Ioannis Velissariou personally led the Ottoman delegation to Greek headquarters?
Did you know that writer Frank Spotnitz has called "Sacrament" his favourite among the episodes he has written for Millennium?
Did you know that 12-year-old Tom Schaar is the only person to ever complete a 1080, described as "the holy grail of all skateboard tricks”?
Did you know that Arsenal went 995 minutes without conceding a goal in European football?
Did you know that Gerard Reve's The Fourth Man, commissioned by the Dutch foundation Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek for the 1981 Boekenweek, was turned down as too controversial?
Did you know that Limonana, a lemon and mint drink that is widely popular in the Middle East, was invented by an advertising agency?
Did you know that Lucio Fulci's 1977 film Sette note in nero has been compared to the later American film Eyes of Laura Mars?
Did you know that Niels Kaas was the chancellor of Denmark during the late 1500s?
Did you know that Power has been described as powerful?
Did you know that Reformed theologian G. I. Williamson, in the tradition of Puritan Sabbatarianism, says viewing television, newspapers or magazines is improper for Sunday Sabbath?
Did you know that Stanisław Klimecki served as the President of Kraków only for a few weeks before being fired and arrested by the Gestapo in September 1939, which led to his 1942 execution?
Did you know that according to Rap-Up magazine, the double-sided poster included in Rihanna's 2009 box set 3 CD Collector's Set is worth the price of the album alone?
Did you know that although ROCOSes are visible astronomical objects, it is impossible to determine whether or not they belong to our galaxy?
Did you know that the Monmouth Regimental Museum displays a variety of objects, including a mediaeval "crock pot" and a baby gas mask?
Did you know that the deluxe cover to Simian Mobile Disco's 2012 album, Unpatterns, is back to front and forms a moiré pattern with the CD image?
Did you know that the flowerheads of the fern-leaf spider flower, Grevillea longifolia, look like toothbrushes?
Did you know that the song "Si Piensas, Si Quieres" was the third number-one hit for Roberto Carlos and Rocío Dúrcal in the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart?
Did you know that Access2Research is petitioning U.S. President Obama to issue an open-access mandate for publicly funded research?
Did you know that Andrea Bianchi's Nude per l'assassino follows "the giallo formula almost to the letter"?
Did you know that Fashion Star season one winner Kara Laricks describes her design aesthetic as "modern-day Annie Hall meets a Japanese street style"?
Did you know that Glen Morgan and James Wong included several references to their cancelled series Space: Above and Beyond in their script for Millennium's "The Thin White Line"?
Did you know that Roy Lichtenstein's Portrait of Madame Cézanne is an ironic quotation of art historian Erle Loran's outline of the original Cézanne portrait?
Did you know that Stafanie Taylor, the 2011 ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year, is the only player to have scored half-centuries in three consecutive Twenty20 Internationals?
Did you know that Susan Clark and Diane Keaton received Emmy nominations for playing Amelia Earhart in made-for-TV movies on NBC in 1976 and on TNT in 1994?
Did you know that Titanic 2020: Cannibal City is a sequel to the apocalyptical fiction, Titanic 2020?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Beryl was the strongest North Atlantic tropical cyclone to ever make landfall during the month of May?
Did you know that cancer cell chromosomes undergo distinctive changes in addition to mutations?
Did you know that centenarian Sammy Cox of Carrick, Tasmania, may not have been as old as he claimed?
Did you know that despite writing many scientific papers at Yale University and having the time limit waived, carcinologist Martin Burkenroad never submitted a dissertation?
Did you know that in Nguyen v. INS, the US Supreme Court upheld a law making it harder for a foreign-born illegitimate child to inherit US citizenship from the father than from the mother?
Did you know that Camp Paxson Boy Scout Camp was used as a training camp for conscientious objector smokejumpers during World War II?
Did you know that Minori Hayakari, holder of the Japanese record in women's 3000 m steeplechase, has won six consecutive national titles since the event was introduced in 2006?
Did you know that Richard Wickes was the first American casualty of the American Revolutionary War in New Jersey?
Did you know that Roy Lichtenstein's Roto Broil was sold at Sotheby's for $75,000 in 1976?
Did you know that St. Oswald's church, Oswaldkirk, hosted the first sermon of the future Archbishop of Canterbury and chaplain to Charles II, John Tillotson?
Did you know that at age nine, Robertson Davies was paid for writing an article published in the Renfrew Mercury, his father's newspaper?
Did you know that certain birds are assisted by the presence of other members of their species in raising their young, a phenomenon known as the Fraser Darling effect?
Did you know that during the Stalinist terror Baron Jerzy Waldorff defamed Catholic priests while serving as an editor of the popular Kraków magazine Przekrój?
Did you know that growing on the shell of the Pacific pink scallop helps the sponge Myxilla incrustans avoid being swamped by shifting sediment on the seabed?
Did you know that the 1970 film Le foto proibite di una signora per bene features a bossa nova-influenced score that has been compared to the work of Antônio Carlos Jobim?
Did you know that the Mexican Uriarte workshop still creates Talavera pottery using 16th-century methods?
Did you know that the Monmouth Methodist Church in Monmouth, Wales, was set back behind the houses along St James Street by law?
Did you know that the village of Guimerà accounts for 24 of the structures on the government of Catalonia's list of architectural heritage monuments?
Did you know that wood wasps and their fungal symbionts, Amylostereum fungi, may cause a total economic loss of $254 million per year for the Canadian forest industry over the next 20 years?
Did you know that Daresbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, received a supreme award for renovation some weeks after it suffered significant earthquake damage?
Did you know that Get Married 2 was released not long after its director got married?
Did you know that J. K. Rowling agreed to let North Foreland Lodge girls' school perform Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, but later withdrew consent as this would have been a world premiere?
Did you know that according to Micronesian mythology, trickster god Olifat created much discord among the gods, but gave humanity the secret of fire?
Did you know that an Anglo-Saxon princess (reconstruction pictured) was buried on a bed with her jewellery in the Street House Anglo-Saxon cemetery?
Did you know that comedienne Connie Ediss, in a string of popular London musicals from 1896, became known for her "buxom bourgeoise" characters?
Did you know that diplomat Karol Boscamp-Lasopolski was executed by an angry mob during the Kościuszko Uprising?
Did you know that in State v. Ben Kuhl (mugshot pictured), precedent was set, extending identification of individuals in criminal cases to include palm prints, not just fingerprints?
Did you know that polio eradication efforts in Pakistan were hampered by a vaccination campaign conducted by the CIA as cover in the search for Osama bin Laden?
Did you know that stock car driver Casey Roderick was described as a "legitimate protege of Bill Elliott"?