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Did you know that as governor of Ōita Prefecture, Morihiko Hiramatsu initiated the One Village One Product movement?
Did you know that selected "imaginators"—characters created through the video game Skylanders: Imaginators—will be printed by 3D printers and turned into real-life toys?
Did you know that the stipple-throated, the ornate, and the rufous-tailed antwren are all of the genus Epinecrophylla and specialise in extracting insect prey from dead leaves?
Did you know that through its Forum Arts Program, East Texas State College students had the opportunity to see Lyndon B. Johnson, Alex Haley, the Ballet Folklórico de México, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band?
Did you know that when "Straf mich nicht in deinem Zorn", a hymn by Johann Georg Albinus paraphrasing Psalm 6, was first printed, it appeared with a dance tune?
Did you know that Max Reger's Zwölf Stücke, Op. 80, for organ contains nine pieces composed in 1904 and three from 1902?
Did you know that suffragettes may have burned down Tunbridge Wells Cricket Club's pavilion (current pavilion pictured) because a Kent official denying there was a ban on women asked "who do you think makes the teas"?
Did you know that the K2 tax scheme was called "morally wrong" by British Prime Minister David Cameron?
Did you know that the Star Wars expanded universe villain Grand Admiral Thrawn will be reintroduced into the franchise's official canon in an upcoming episode of the animated series Star Wars Rebels?
Did you know that the main event of Vilenica International Literary Festival takes place inside a cave?
Did you know that the philosopher Rachel Cooper has written book-length analyses of both the fourth and fifth editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
Did you know that Bradley Cooper is the tenth man to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting in three consecutive years?
Did you know that Don Ingalls first met Gene Roddenberry when they worked at the Los Angeles Police Department, and went on to be credited with writing two episodes of Star Trek?
Did you know that Gary Hutzel was nominated for more than 20 Emmy Awards, winning two for Battlestar Galactica and one each for Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine?
Did you know that Gene Roddenberry was the surviving flight officer from the crash of Pan Am Flight 121 in the Syrian desert in 1947?
Did you know that Madison Janssen, a national and world champion as a junior BMX rider, set a world record and won a world championship on a tandem bicycle with skier and athlete Jessica Gallagher?
Did you know that Michael Piller felt that the mention of Spock in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Sarek" opened the doors to further references to The Original Series?
Did you know that Star Trek's Commander Riker used MainView to advertise its use for other enterprises?
Did you know that after Bruce Mars's acting career, which included three appearances on Star Trek, he became a monk in the Self-Realization Fellowship?
Did you know that after Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett transported some old Star Trek footage from a film vault, it was sold as film clips by Lincoln Enterprises?
Did you know that an advance video release from The Black Parade/Living With Ghosts sparked rumors of a possible reunion tour of the American rock band My Chemical Romance?
Did you know that during the development of Spock, both DeForest Kelley and Martin Landau were offered the role before Leonard Nimoy?
Did you know that following the arrest of Rolf Harris, no one knows the location of his painting, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II – An 80th Birthday Portrait?
Did you know that in 1977, it was announced that Star Trek would return to television with the series Phase II?
Did you know that new Cornell basketball head coach Brian Earl's Ivy League career games started and three-point field goals records were broken by Cornell's Ryan Wittman?
Did you know that prior to casting Andrea Martin as the female Ferengi Ishka on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, David Livingston suggested Wallace Shawn in drag?
Did you know that serving as a juvenile court judge motivated William Gant to create the Daviess County Children's Center to provide housing for children in his hometown of Owensboro, Kentucky?
Did you know that the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Family" was the first episode of the franchise not to have any scene set on the bridge?
Did you know that the novel miniseries Star Trek: The Lost Era was intended to fill in a 70-year gap between the death of Captain Kirk and the start of Star Trek: The Next Generation?
Did you know that the phrase "It's life, Jim, but not as we know it" did not originate in Star Trek, but instead in the parody song "Star Trekkin'"?
Did you know that "World Enough and Time", an episode of the fan production Star Trek: New Voyages, was nominated for both a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award, competing against professionally made episodes?
Did you know that Ro Laren was intended to be a main character in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but actress Michelle Forbes rejected the role?
Did you know that Scott Bakula was the only actor considered to play Jonathan Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise?
Did you know that Victor Lundin, who portrayed the first Klingon seen in Star Trek, had auditioned for the role of Spock?
Did you know that in exchange for the model kit license for Star Trek, Aluminum Model Toys built full-size props of the Galileo shuttlecraft?
Did you know that set designer Linda DeScenna was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction on five occasions, for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner, The Color Purple, Rain Man, and Toys?
Did you know that with the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode "The Infinite Vulcan", Walter Koenig became the first Star Trek actor to write for the franchise?
Did you know that Jesús Sesma Suárez has represented San Luis Potosí and Jalisco in the federal Chamber of Deputies, and was a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District?
Did you know that Kunwar Singh Negi, winner of both the Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan, has transcribed 300 books in various Indian languages into Braille?
Did you know that for his 1929 first recording of By the Blue Hawaiian Waters, composer Albert Ketèlbey used a saxophone for a Hawaiian "love-call"?
Did you know that the A7FL American football league does not use helmets?
Did you know that the Jurassic Coast reveals 185 million years of the geological history of southern England?
Did you know that the annual Kentucky Avenue Renaissance Festival commemorates the R&B and jazz nightspots that once lined this street in Atlantic City, New Jersey?
Did you know that Hollyoaks producer Bryan Kirkwood believed he had let Tamara Wall down with the initial characterisation of her character Grace Black?
Did you know that Tony Sainsbury is the chef de mission of the Independent Paralympic Athletes Team at the 2016 Summer Paralympics?
Did you know that singer Syster Sol won the award for Best Reggae/Dancehall at the 2014 Kingsizegala?
Did you know that the Bristol and Bath Science Park includes an open area where children come to skateboard?
Did you know that the Jurassic La Negra Formation in northern Chile contains products of submarine volcanism?
Did you know that Eleonore Büning wrote in the FAZ that Patrice Chéreau's staging of the Jahrhundertring revolutionised the understanding of Wagner in Germany?
Did you know that Sharon Jarvis, Lisa Martin, Katie Umback, and Emma Booth have been selected to represent Australia in para-equestrian at the 2016 Rio Paralympics?
Did you know that Spencer Jones played the 16th-century actor William Kempe in the sitcom Upstart Crow as a parody of Ricky Gervais?
Did you know that Swedish astronomer Anders Spole, by the order of King Karl XI, travelled to Torneå and Kengis with Johannes Bilberg to study the midnight sun?
Did you know that in 2006, a King created a world record when riding the Severn bore?
Did you know that the 18th-century Burmese court treatise Mani Yadanabon has been described as "a repository of historical examples illustrating pragmatic political principles worthy of Machiavelli"?
Did you know that the unsolved shooting death of Henryk Siwiak 15 years ago today is officially the only homicide that occurred in New York City on 9/11?
Did you know that Changes, a 1987 advert for the Volkswagen Golf, is said to have "spawned a new era in car advertising"?
Did you know that Sarajevo-born musician Tomo Miličević emigrated to the United States and played in a number of local bands, including Morphic, before joining Thirty Seconds to Mars?
Did you know that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opened its first foreign-speaking mission in French Polynesia?
Did you know that actor Kit Harington publicly apologized for "lying to everyone" about the onscreen fate of his Game of Thrones character Jon Snow?
Did you know that after Razer announced a partnership with Riot Games, a League of Legends style Razer Naga Hex was released?
Did you know that after sacking his deputy as Governor of Barbados, Lord Willoughby wrote "My late Deputy Coll: Codrington hath harrassed them to death wth heedless improssitions"?
Did you know that the Numfor and Biak paradise kingfishers are island species that have diverged from the common paradise kingfisher?
Did you know that Daniel Michel is the first Australian boccia player selected to compete at the Paralympic Games since 2000?
Did you know that Susan Stover has received multiple awards for her research into the causes and prevention of performance-related injuries in racehorses?
Did you know that before he became Chief Justice of Manitoba, Richard J. Scott served as the trial judge in R v Lavallee, a case which granted legal recognition to battered woman syndrome as a defence?
Did you know that the melody for the hymn "Herzlich tut mich verlangen" was taken from a love song and became the tune of "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded"?
Did you know that Elaine D. Harmon's mother thought Women Airforce Service Pilots "were all just awful, just probably loose women"?
Did you know that about 100 people were arrested in several European countries in connection with a terror plot against the 1998 FIFA World Cup?
Did you know that construction of Inuvik's circular "Igloo Church" began without a building permit?
Did you know that contrary to popular belief, the EU did not attempt to ban prawn cocktail crisps?
Did you know that in 1967, at the age of 16 years and 102 days, Stanley Bish became the youngest player ever to represent PSV Eindhoven in the Eredivisie?
Did you know that Daieishō would rather push and thrust than grip the belt?
Did you know that Seagate Technology faced a class action over the failure rates of its ST3000DM001 3TB hard disk drives?
Did you know that T. J. Friedl's signing bonus from the Cincinnati Reds is the largest ever for a player not taken in the MLB draft?
Did you know that a local newspaper criticized the PRI's nomination of Marco Antonio García Ayala to represent Baja California, saying he "doesn't even belong to this state"?
Did you know that the music video for DJ Shadow's "Nobody Speak", featuring Run the Jewels, has been described as "brutal" and "politically charged"?
Did you know that while the Turkish female wheelchair shooters Ayşegül Pehlivanlar and Çağla Baş compete for the first time at the Paralympics, Aysel Özgan takes part for the third time?
Did you know that Paralympian shot putter Angela Madsen has also rowed across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans?
Did you know that Satoshi Mitazono, newly-elected Governor of Kagoshima Prefecture, wants operations at the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant to be suspended?
Did you know that the Israeli software company NSO Group has been identified as the possible developer of the iOS spyware Pegasus?
Did you know that the Women's Antifascist Front of Bosnia and Herzegovina's 1947 campaign against the face veil was supported by the Grand Mufti Ibrahim Fejić, who called it an obstacle to gender equality?
Did you know that the illustrations in medical missionary Benjamin Hobson’s influential Treatise on Physiology were derived from William Cheselden's century-old work?
Did you know that Rollers selected to compete in Rio include Joshua Allison, Adam Deans, Matthew McShane, Tom O'Neill-Thorne, and Shawn Russell, who will be playing in their first Paralympics?
Did you know that a committee of eight Portland, Oregon, residents purchased the Madison Street Bridge in 1891 for $145,000?
Did you know that pages of the Great Mongol Shahnameh (illustration pictured), a Persian manuscript of the 1330s, were pulled apart to increase their value?
Did you know that the entomologist Alice Gray became known as the "Bug Lady" for her work with the public at the American Museum of Natural History?
Did you know that Cleveland Browns rookie safety Derrick Kindred played his entire senior year of college football with a broken collarbone?
Did you know that Helen Freeman was an Athletic All-American in each of the five years she was at the University of Illinois, and an Academic All-American in three of them?
Did you know that Jane Elizabeth Manning James was one of the first recorded African-American women to travel to Utah as a Mormon pioneer?
Did you know that in their second year of providing a free mobile laundry service for the homeless, the co-founders of Orange Sky Laundry were jointly awarded Young Australian of the Year?
Did you know that the Devonshire White Paper of 1923 affirmed that African interests were paramount over those of settlers in British Kenya?
Did you know that the Wonder Gardens jazz and R&B nightclub in Atlantic City, New Jersey provided early exposure for Dan Fogel, Harvey Mason, George Benson, and the Commodores?
Did you know that Eastern Region, Nigeria, spent up to one-third of the government budget on education in the 1950s and 1960s?
Did you know that Virginia E. Haines was appointed to the Ocean County, New Jersey, board of chosen freeholders in January 2016, only the second woman to serve since the governing body was formed in 1850?
Did you know that after performing at Atlantic City's 500 Club, Sammy Davis Jr. often visited his mother (pictured together) at Grace's Little Belmont, where she was a barmaid?
Did you know that alt-right media hub The Right Stuff has a core principle of ethnic nationalism?
Did you know that Kyler Murray was the first player to compete in both the Under Armour All-America Baseball Game and Under Armour All-America Football Game?
Did you know that Project Y designed an atomic bomb that used explosive lenses (illustration pictured) to focus an explosion onto a sphere?
Did you know that in 1747, the Custom House in Poole was raided by 30 smugglers, led by members of the Hawkhurst Gang?
Did you know that philosopher Jessica Pierce argues that some animals may have a sense of morality?
Did you know that the grey-headed imperial pigeon, the Sulawesi thrush, and the great shortwing are found only on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, while the Sula megapode is restricted to nearby Banggai and Sula Islands?
Did you know that California High-Speed Rail's Kings River Viaduct is planned to be over 2 miles (3.2 km) long due to the effects of floods in 1861 and 1867?
Did you know that Joy Ufema's fellow nurses felt she had been given too much autonomy when she started granting last wishes to dying patients?
Did you know that opposition to what was called the "one-man one-vote" system used in elections in Jordan led to it being replaced for the 2016 general election?
Did you know that the grounds of Dyrham Park include an emparkment granted in 1511 and still populated by fallow deer?
Did you know that after sponsoring a bill requiring Atlantic City casinos to have table games with a $2 minimum bet, Dennis L. Riley was kicked out of two that claimed he was card counting in blackjack?
Did you know that in 1920, Irvin S. Cobb, a writer for The Saturday Evening Post, organized a hunting trip to Oregon looking for a lava bear specimen?
Did you know that the 2015 Rural Olympics, part of Isha Gramotsavam, featured 7,680 players in 640 teams, with Sachin Tendulkar as chief guest?
Did you know that the Anglican priest Roly Bain used to enter church on a unicycle, open the service with the invocation "Let us play!", and preach while balancing on a slackrope?
Did you know that the Grid Compass was allegedly designed to match the dimensions of the company founder John Ellenby's briefcase?
Did you know that the Regent Street Cinema, which in 1896 screened the first moving footage in the United Kingdom, was also the first UK cinema to show an X-rated film?
Did you know that 254 species of fish and 154 species of coral have been recorded in South Penghu Marine National Park?
Did you know that PC Gamer negatively compared video game parody Star Warped to the Star Wars Holiday Special?
Did you know that Tamil film director M. Manikandan started as a wedding photographer?
Did you know that William Beck, who played Dylan Keogh in Casualty, was told by the producers that Dylan should not smile?
Did you know that according to James Oberg, most UFO sightings can be explained by super-high plumes, twilight shadowing or "space dandruff"?
Did you know that after winning the Military Medal for bravery in the First World War, the nurse Violetta Thurstan studied weaving and ran camps where displaced Bedouin women made carpets?
Did you know that Dick Cresswell, the first commander of an RAAF jet squadron in combat, was court-martialled for firing a shot at the feet of another officer who had apparently been annoying him?
Did you know that Mathilda Twomey is the first female judge in Seychelles?
Did you know that domestic activities such as washing clothes can threaten the survival of the endangered Mexican water mouse?
Did you know that newly elected Hong Kong legislator Lau Siu-lai was arrested for hawking squid?
Did you know that the Black Middens were avoided by aligning the Lights of North Shields?
Did you know that the Smith Canal was created to carry food to the Stockton State Hospital, California's first psychiatric hospital?
Did you know that Mike Ross disassembled two attack aircraft for his sculpture Jet Kiss, which hangs above Capitol Hill station in Seattle?
Did you know that Sharad Kumar won gold in the high jump at the 2014 Asian Para Games, breaking a 12-year Asian Games record?
Did you know that in 2015, Taylor Swift's video for the single "Blank Space" became the fastest to reach one billion views on Vevo?
Did you know that two beer barrels ended Claude Blair's active military service?
Did you know that Ben Barton was able to cheaply purchase a large amount of land in what would become Redlands, California, due to Brigham Young's recall of the Mormon outpost there?
Did you know that Snowbound was the first American horse to win individual gold in the Olympics?
Did you know that the iPhone 7 was criticized for not featuring a headphone jack?
Did you know that Anthony M. Villane cosponsored a bill to use a blimp to provide surveillance of waste dumping along the Jersey Shore, despite his concerns that it would elicit a "giggle factor"?
Did you know that an administrative error by New Zealand Football prevented Alex Jones from completing his loan move to Wellington Phoenix?
Did you know that guest lecturers at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry (students pictured) included W. E. B. Du Bois, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Margaret Sanger?
Did you know that the Mexican National Welterweight Championship, one of the Mexican National Championships, is the oldest still-promoted professional wrestling championship?
Did you know that the mercy plea of the couple sentenced to death in the Poonia murder case was rejected by Indian President Pranab Mukherjee?
Did you know that virologist Stephen Straus, first head of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, said he did not use alternative medicine?
Did you know that during World Championship Wrestling's Battlebowl show, Rip Rogers won the match for his tag team without performing a single move?
Did you know that in 1976, the Admiral Von Tromp fishing trawler was shipwrecked at Saltwick Bay?
Did you know that singer Rock-Olga recorded an album in 1972 using ABBA members Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad as backing vocalists?
Did you know that the 1928 Florida Gators football team scored 336 points led by its "Phantom Four" backfield, which included Clyde Crabtree who could pass and kick with either hand or foot?
Did you know that the Paralympic rower Laurence Whiteley searched for over two years for a partner with whom to compete before teaming with Lauren Rowles?
Did you know that the extinct sawfly Cuspilongus has a down curved ovipositor almost as long as its forewing?
Did you know that in addition to becoming the first female full professor at Northwestern University, botanist Margery C. Carlson had a nature preserve named after her?
Did you know that the South African passport retained the former coat of arms of South Africa for seven years after its official replacement?
Did you know that the aster leafhopper transmits the plant disease aster yellows?
Did you know that Daniel Dalton has a graduate degree in public administration, but called his work in a U.S. congressman's office "the greatest education I've ever had"?
Did you know that Elin Rombo played Sister Blanche in Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites in a 2011 production at the Royal Swedish Opera?
Did you know that Timber Sycamore is a covert CIA program that arms and trains rebels in the Syrian civil war?
Did you know that the CMLL 68th Anniversary Show was the first time that a steel cage match was held at a CMLL anniversary show?
Did you know that the Sunday Mirror recommended that players stumped by video game Myst should get Pyst?
Did you know that when King George Tupou II of Tonga married Lavinia Veiongo instead of ʻOfakivavaʻu, there were riots in the streets of Nukuʻalofa?
Did you know that Channel 4's 2016 Paralympics trailer "We're the Superhumans" featured a big band comprised of musicians with disabilities?
Did you know that Jordan has remained one of the safest countries in the Middle East, despite regional turmoil?
Did you know that St Leonard's Court in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames has a Grade II listed underground air-raid shelter (entrance pictured) built in the 1930s?
Did you know that Zufar al-Kilabi was given a high position in the Umayyad court and army in return for abandoning his support for the rebellion of Ibn al-Zubayr?
Did you know that the stories of Italian author and Holocaust survivor Rubino Romeo Salmonì were an inspiration for Roberto Benigni's 1997 film Life Is Beautiful?
Did you know that Akiyama Tokuzō, once referred to as the "Japanese Escoffier", became Master Chef of the Imperial Court of Japan at only 25 years of age?
Did you know that Emma Wiggs, a gold medallist in paracanoe at the 2016 Paralympics, competed at the 2012 Paralympics as a sitting volleyball player?
Did you know that in honor of Georgia Tech's 1929 Rose Bowl victory, running back Stumpy Thomason was given a bear cub by a local businessman, which he drove around Atlanta and fed Coca-Cola?
Did you know that in the 1990s Disney created animated storybook video games for The Lion King, Pocahontas, Toy Story, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 101 Dalmatians, Hercules, The Little Mermaid, and Mulan, as well as 1966 and 1974 shorts based on Winnie the Pooh?
Did you know that the pygmy goosefoot, a plant endemic to New Zealand that was thought to be extinct, was rediscovered in 2015?
Did you know that the statistician Kai-Tai Fang's dissertation was written in two weeks but not published for 19 years because of the Cultural Revolution?
Did you know that Swedish journalist Lena Sundström was a foundling?
Did you know that in the 1970 Florida gubernatorial election, Claude Kirk called Reubin Askew a "momma’s boy who wouldn't have the courage to stand up under the fire of the legislators"?
Did you know that to reduce injuries, professional tennis tournaments are no longer played on carpet courts?
Did you know that Chinese Ding ware of the 11th century has been described both as porcelain and as stoneware?