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Did you know that the Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse Lord Kanaloa was said to be "a pioneer for Japanese sprinters" by his trainer?
Did you know that the Sullivan County Courthouse is located in the highest county seat in Pennsylvania?
Did you know that the Yangon-based Myanmar National Symphony Orchestra, founded in 2001, was permitted to perform just three public concerts in its first dozen years of existence?
Did you know that Denis Redman received the Order of the British Empire in 1942 for his work in the Middle East and in the 1963 New Year Honours, he was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath?
Did you know that Emperor Aizong of the Jin committed suicide in the Mongol siege of Caizhou after escaping from the besieged city of Kaifeng during the Mongol–Jin war?
Did you know that Michigan's Alma Downtown Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013, contains 72 structures?
Did you know that a medal by John Croker marked the Act of Grace of 1717, which freed from prison hundreds of Jacobites, but not quite all?
Did you know that although Maya Angelou is best known for her autobiographies, she has also been successful as a poet?
Did you know that fashion blogger Chiara Ferragni has become a model for Guess?
Did you know that the concept of hinged dissections was popularized by Henry Dudeney, who introduced the hinged dissection of a square into a triangle in his 1907 book The Canterbury Puzzles?
Did you know that two dharani pillars erected in Baoding in 1502 are inscribed with the latest known examples of the Tangut script?
Did you know that when the 1920 Alabama Crimson Tide football team played LSU, it marked the first homecoming game in school history?
Did you know that "Turn Me Out", originally by Praxis featuring Kathy Brown, has been covered by 2 Shoes and Russ Chimes?
Did you know that AAP politician Dharmender Singh contested the 2013 Delhi election after the original candidate, his sister Santosh Koli, died in a hit-and-run accident?
Did you know that Ann Thwaytes paid for the Clock Tower in Herne Bay, Kent, England, to be built in 1837?
Did you know that Billy Bates raced against an unchained cheetah – and won?
Did you know that George Carleton has been suggested as the real author behind the pseudonym Martin Marprelate?
Did you know that Mary Barra has been named the next CEO of General Motors, which will make her the first female leader of a major automaker?
Did you know that Wilhelm Zahn was one of the commanding officers during the sinking of MV Wilhelm Gustloff, which has been described as "Adolf Hitler's Titanic"?
Did you know that a dead elephant is buried under a road junction in Brighton's Bear Road area?
Did you know that according to the Imperial War Museum, the youngest authenticated British soldier in World War I was a 13-year-old machine gunner at the Somme who had enlisted at age 12?
Did you know that after its victory over the University of Virginia in a 1982 men's basketball game, Chaminade University canceled a plan to rename itself the University of Honolulu?
Did you know that fossils of larvae and pupae are known from the extinct ant Anonychomyrma geinitzi?
Did you know that Bach set Johann Gramann's hymn "Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren" in a cantata reflecting the end of the year with praise?
Did you know that Doug Manchester, owner and publisher of U-T San Diego, built several of the tallest buildings in San Diego?
Did you know that Judith Pipher has been referred to as the "mother of infrared astronomy?"
Did you know that Stoke sub Hamdon Priory is not, and never has been, a priory?
Did you know that after the Curiosity rover landed on Mars, it took its first space selfie, which was posted on its Facebook account the following day?
Did you know that in 1958, No. 486 Squadron became responsible for maintaining the Lockheed C-130 Hercules, the first turboprop aircraft operated by the RAAF?
Did you know that in deleterious environmental conditions, the White Mountain saxifrage closes up its leaf rosettes to prevent dehydration and photoinhibition?
Did you know that students need to enter a lottery to attend Beaverton Health & Science School, a public school that was rated as below average by the state of Oregon?
Did you know that the BBC First World War centenary season will include 130 newly commissioned programmes to mark the centenary of the First World War?
Did you know that the Lydia Pinkham House, on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places since 2012, is being reviewed for selection as a National Historic Landmark for its association with the Pinkhams?
Did you know that the Pakistan Army Chief Raheel Sharif is the brother of Major Shabbir Sharif who died in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and received the Nishan-e-Haider?
Did you know that tonight across Scotland, people celebrating Hogmanay will go first-footing with a black bun?
Did you know that Bridget Holmes emptied the chamber pots of four kings of England?
Did you know that Cossinia trifoliata trees endemic to New Caledonia have become vulnerable to extinction, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's 1998 assessment?
Did you know that Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux orchestrated her husband's release from a concentration camp after he was captured by the Gestapo?
Did you know that Michael Fenton was one of the "Patriotic Six" who resigned their seats in the Tasmanian Legislative Council to frustrate the financial policy of Governor John Eardley-Wilmot?
Did you know that Stefan Vladislav of Serbia founded the Mileševa monastery?
Did you know that octogenarian poet Joyce La Mers donated $500,000 to Light Quarterly, the US's only literary magazine devoted to light verse?
Did you know that the Argentine telenovela Mis amigos de siempre features actors Osvaldo Laport and Soledad Silveyra as a couple, as in the older telenovela Campeones de la vida?
Did you know that the ancient Assyrian Balawat Gates were discovered by the first Assyrian archaeologist, Hormuzd Rassam?
Did you know that the first elevator in Northern California was installed in the E. Janssen Building in Eureka?
Did you know that when Julia Louis-Dreyfus won an Emmy for playing Selina Meyer, she became the first comedic actress to win Primetime Emmy Awards for three different regular cast roles?
Did you know that Anthony Carleton's son-in-law Hercules Underhill confirmed the sale of New Place to Shakespeare?
Did you know that Aquilo caught fire and sank in 1966, and all aboard were rescued by the intervention of USCGC Point Ledge?
Did you know that Bruton Dovecote has over 200 pigeon holes?
Did you know that China, with over 34,687 species of animals and vascular plants, is the third-most biodiverse country in the world?
Did you know that Kathy Kinney was originally intended to be a one-off guest star in the pilot episode of The Drew Carey Show, but was later promoted to series regular?
Did you know that Portrait of a Commander sold for £9 million ($13.7 m) in 2010, despite doubts over its authenticity as a Rubens?
Did you know that after Illinois Secretary of State Paul Powell had died in 1970, $750,000 in cash was found stashed in shoeboxes and various containers in his room at Springfield's St. Nicholas Hotel?
Did you know that crossover experiments are used to study the mechanisms of chemical reactions?
Did you know that despite the Apollo statue (shown reassembled) already being in 121 pieces, Robert Murdoch Smith was concerned that local Arabs would further destroy them?
Did you know that in 1931 at Kimberley Downs, 80 cattle were found to have pleuropneumonia in one muster?
Did you know that the Philippines grabbed their sixteenth gold medal in men's basketball at the Southeast Asian Games as they went undefeated in the 2013 tournament?
Did you know that the Scottish island of Stroma was inhabited for thousands of years but was abandoned in 1962, with the last islanders leaving their houses to fall into ruin?
Did you know that the Wright Opera House Block, a three-story Italianate commercial building constructed of cream-colored brick, was built for $20,000?
Did you know that Joe D'Cruz won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Korkai, which is based on history and the lives of Parathavars?
Did you know that Kim Chol-man pioneered North Korea's munitions industry, the country's economic base?
Did you know that Lancelot de Carle, an eyewitness to the trial and execution of Anne Boleyn, wrote a poem detailing her life and the circumstances surrounding her death?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Jebi damaged 320 homes and 200 hectares (490 acres) of crops in Quảng Ninh Province?
Did you know that a costume created for Hilary Swank in the 2003 film The Core later appeared in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Anomaly"?
Did you know that a speech delivered by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was sampled and used by American singer Beyoncé Knowles in a song called "Flawless"?
Did you know that after the Titanic sank, Sophie Radford de Meissner, a former lady-in-waiting in the Russian court, requested an audience with the U.S. President to deliver a message from one of the victims?
Did you know that footballer Ian Bennyworth paid his own transfer fee to move from Nuneaton Borough to Scarborough?
Did you know that goalkeeper Dean Lyness, an unused substitute for his first three league clubs as a teenager, finally made his Football League debut with his fourth?
Did you know that sakte-tv (English: slow-TV) was named word of the year in Norway in 2013?
Did you know that the PL-01 is a new tank design which was developed in Poland?
Did you know that the UK series The Taste marks Nigella Lawson's return to Channel 4 after 10 years?
Did you know that the creation of the Warsaw Gay Movement was a counter-reaction of Polish gays against Operation Hyacinth?
Did you know that video game Cart Life, winner of three Independent Games Festival awards including the grand prize in 2013, is the first game that Richard Hofmeier developed?
Did you know that 2014 puzzle game Monument Valley's visual style took inspiration from M. C. Escher, Japanese prints, minimalist sculpture, Fez, and Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP?
Did you know that Arne Pedersen, the most successful player in Fredrikstad FK history, won six league titles and three cups with the club?
Did you know that Christopher Helt represented retired Army colonel Richard J. Thomas in a 1997 lawsuit against his wife, claiming that her smoking was a violation of the Clean Air Act?
Did you know that Da Chu, a dynasty formed during the Jin–Song wars, was barely a month old when the Song Dynasty abolished it?
Did you know that Giles Gilbert Scott submitted two designs for the Chester War Memorial, but both were rejected?
Did you know that Peter the Great had outlawed stone buildings in Tartu before the Great Fire of 1775?
Did you know that Studio Killers member Chubby Cherry wrote a song based on her crush with a person named "Jenny"?
Did you know that a collection of diaries by sailors and soldiers has been listed on the UNESCO-associated Australian Memory of the World Register?
Did you know that during his 64-year career, animator Bob Givens created the first official design for Bugs Bunny?
Did you know that in 1417, heiress Elizabeth Beauchamp, Countess of Warwick, refused to accept her family's entail to her cousin James Berkeley, starting a lawsuit which lasted until 1609?
Did you know that in the inaugural Sydney Marathon, the women's winner had never run a marathon before?
Did you know that it took roughly 32,000 sandbags to repair a single flood defense breach caused by Typhoon Vera?
Did you know that surgeons at the St. Joseph Medical Center in Houston were credited with developing early silicone gel implants for breast augmentation?
Did you know that the Amitabh Bachchan Award for Youth Icon of the Year was instituted in his honour at the recently concluded 11th Chennai International Film Festival?
Did you know that the Tamil Communist Party leader V. Ponnambalam later regretted having contested the 1975 Kankesanthurai by-election?
Did you know that the true painter of Magistrate of Brussels was only identified in 2013?
Did you know that the tsunami fish drifted thousands of miles on a ghost ship wrecked by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami before being discovered on the coast of Washington?
Did you know that American singer-songwriter Katy Perry's "Legendary Lovers" is a worldbeat song that discusses Eastern philosophy?
Did you know that Estelle Ramey's name was formalized so that she could go to school?
Did you know that James P. Hagerstrom is one of seven pilots to be a flying ace in two wars—World War II and the Korean War?
Did you know that Mexican feather work was prized by both Aztec and European rulers?
Did you know that Rachmat Kartolo, son of actors Roekiah and Kartolo, initially did not want to enter the film industry but ultimately completed more than 40 movies?
Did you know that Skederid Church was built by the father of Saint Bridget of Sweden, who also had some of her first religious visions there?
Did you know that Track 61, which previously carried freight to the South Boston Army Base and South Boston Naval Annex, is the proposed location of a new passenger train service?
Did you know that William de Greystoke was given permission to crenellate "his dwelling place" in October 1353, which would later become known as Greystoke Castle?
Did you know that at the 2005 Bound for Glory pay-per-view event, Kevin Nash had to be removed from his NWA World Heavyweight Championship match and replaced with Rhino due to a medical emergency?
Did you know that historian John Vincent called the New Social Alliance a "poor man's Young England"?
Did you know that longhorn crazy ants often share their nests with parasitic wingless ant crickets which steal food from them?
Did you know that of the 29 listed buildings in Crewe, only one dates from before the arrival of the railway in 1837?
Did you know that the Lafayette dollar (obverse pictured) was the first US coin to depict an American citizen?
Did you know that the Tumin is an alternative currency used in the municipality of Espinal, Veracruz, Mexico?
Did you know that the carol "We Three Kings" (Magi pictured) was the first American Christmas carol to be featured in the "prestigious" and "influential" British collection Christmas Carols Old and New?
Did you know that the film Once Upon ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara! had its name changed three times owing to its producer's belief in numerology?
Did you know that the religious festival "Fiesta del milagro" in the Argentine province of Salta started because of the 1692 Salta earthquake?
Did you know that Begum Akhtar Riazuddin, the first woman to write modern Urdu travelogues, was one of the 1000 PeaceWomen nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005?
Did you know that Edward Kirk Warren, who invented featherbone as an alternative to whalebone in corsetry, is the namesake of two state parks in Michigan?
Did you know that Frank Macey scored two of the Amateurs' six goals against the Professionals in both the 1925 and 1926 FA Charity Shields?
Did you know that Herbert Thomas Johnson's grave is near that of William H. Gilmore, one of Johnson's predecessors as adjutant general of the Vermont National Guard?
Did you know that Jürgen Klinsmann disliked the parody song "Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Jurgen Klinsmann?" because he felt it compared him to Hitler?
Did you know that Lilford's wall lizard acts as pollinator for some plants endemic to the Balearic Islands?
Did you know that Nigerian feminist writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is sampled on Beyoncé Knowles' new album Beyoncé?
Did you know that Severe Tropical Cyclone Hina, which formed in March 1997, was the worst tropical cyclone to affect Tonga since Cyclone Isaac in 1982?
Did you know that following the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, there was an anti-Serb pogrom in Sarajevo?
Did you know that missionary Ernest Yarrow spoke about an "organized, systematic attempt to wipe out the Armenians"?
Did you know that the Black Duck Joint Venture uses helicopter surveys to identify trends in breeding populations of the American Black Duck?
Did you know that the Cordemais Power Station is the largest thermal power station in France?
Did you know that the United Kingdom government's Open Government Licence is compatible with the CC-by licence?
Did you know that up to 100,000 pairs of the BBC's LS3/5A loudspeaker have been put into circulation during its two-decade-plus production period?
Did you know that whilst the exact etymology is uncertain, the colour yellow and the Italian mountainous plateau La Sila have been offered as possible etymologies for Silaum, a genus of flowering plants?
Did you know that Baron Karl Eduard von Liphart discovered a new Leonardo da Vinci painting (angel pictured)?
Did you know that Chinese athlete Wu Shujiao set an East Asian Games record in 100 metres hurdles when she won gold in the 2013 Games in Tianjin?
Did you know that Henry John Elwes described Wellingtonia Avenue as "by far the best avenue" of giant sequoia that he had seen?
Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon, politician Katie Eyre Brewer was honored for helping to save a heart attack victim's life by performing CPR?
Did you know that Iosif Vulcan changed the name of a young literary debutant to Mihai Eminescu, later Romania's national poet?
Did you know that Lucy Deane Streatfeild in 1898 was one of the first to raise concerns about the health risks arising from exposure to asbestos?
Did you know that The Dalles Mint in Oregon helped stop a fire?
Did you know that West House, Chelsea, was the London home of Withnail's flamboyantly gay Uncle Monty in the 1987 cult film Withnail and I?
Did you know that an agent liked the sound of Onzy Matthews's band and music but expressed concern after seeing the band was racially mixed?
Did you know that in the 1972 New Year Honours, Patrick Kay was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath?
Did you know that the "bad-guy cue" used in hundreds of features and cartoons comes from the 1914 photoplay tune Mysterioso Pizzicato?
Did you know that the 1979 British Classic St. Leger Stakes was won by a 20/1 long-shot, the French Thoroughbred Son of Love?
Did you know that the decision of China and the Holy See to establish diplomatic ties in 1918 did not succeed due to France's objection?
Did you know that the grass Vetiveria nigritana is grown in farms in Nigeria to control soil erosion, provide pest control, and improve the yield of crops such as maize?
Did you know that the social network Stage 32 is named after the old RKO Soundstage 17 where Orson Welles' Citizen Kane was filmed; now known as Paramount's Stage 32?
Did you know that the song "Lungi Dance" is actually a tribute to Rajinikanth, a leading South-Indian actor?
Did you know that the spines of the false stonefish are venomous and can inflict a painful wound?
Did you know that Addison Cresswell, agent to Jonathan Ross and Michael McIntyre, founded a company with Paul Merton and Julian Clary?
Did you know that Adrian Piper, a black, female conceptual artist, has said that she was kicked out of the art world for her race and gender?
Did you know that Barzillai J. Chambers, the Greenback Party's 1880 nominee for Vice President of the United States, was not active during the campaign after he was injured falling from a train?
Did you know that David Bosco served as deputy director of a joint United Nations–NATO project on refugee repatriation in Sarajevo?
Did you know that De Scheepsjongens van Bontekoe (three main characters pictured), the 1924 Dutch children's book based on a real-life shipwreck in 1618, has sold more than 250,000 copies?
Did you know that Stein Reinertsen is the first bishop of Church of Norway since Reformation who was not appointed by the Norwegian government?
Did you know that Stewart Mell scored Scarborough's first goal in the Football League?
Did you know that V603 Aquilae was the brightest nova recorded, outshone by only Sirius and Canopus?
Did you know that at 1,025 route kilometers, Tiruchirappalli forms the second largest division of India's Southern Railway zone?
Did you know that during the Second World War, the Luftwaffe landed planes on a frozen lake at Trondheim Airport, Jonsvatnet, where the ice was 1 metre (3 ft) thick?
Did you know that indie games designer Phil Fish said in a scene of Indie Game: The Movie that he would kill himself if he didn't release his game, which later sold a million copies?
Did you know that the Gratiot County Courthouse, a Classical Revival structure, was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1957 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976?
Did you know that the first Test of India's 2013–14 series against South Africa saw wicket-keepers from both teams bowling in the same match for the first time ever in Test cricket?
Did you know that the music video for Tupac Shakur's song "Temptations" does not feature Shakur because he was incarcerated at the time?
Did you know that the principal of the Communist Party of Burma Medical School, Yebaw Tun Maung, was killed in an army attack in 1968?
Did you know that Batool Fatima has played 76 One Day International cricket matches, the most by a Pakistani woman player?
Did you know that Benjamin Clementine was discovered by a record company agent while busking on the Paris Métro?
Did you know that Gary Loveman was a Harvard professor before his present occupation as CEO of Caesars Entertainment, and his career became a business case study at Stanford?
Did you know that Hezekiah Balch helped found Tusculum College, one of the first American colleges west of the Appalachian Mountains?
Did you know that June Newton chose the pseudonym "Alice Springs" for her photography work by blindly stabbing a pin into a map of Australia and landing on the town of the same name?
Did you know that Stephen Rubin turned the Liverpool Shoe Company into Pentland Group, the UK's largest sports apparel company and owner of Berghaus, Mitre, Speedo and several other brands?
Did you know that before his rugby career, Luke Baldwin competed in track and field in secondary school?
Did you know that in the early 16th century Andrea Cambini wrote a notable history of the Ottoman Empire, although he had never left Italy?
Did you know that instead of repairing their damaged ships at the Venetian arsenal in Corfu, many captains chose to sink them?
Did you know that physician and relief worker Ruth A. Parmelee reported during the Armenian genocide that thousands of people "drop dead from hunger, thirst, and fatigue"?
Did you know that preservationists saved the tower of the Walnut Hills United Presbyterian Church, even though the rest of the building was demolished?
Did you know that radicals can be stabilized by the captodative effect?
Did you know that the African Children's Choir appears on Steven Curtis Chapman's 2012 Christmas album Joy?
Did you know that the winner of two-player dueling indie game Nidhogg is eaten by the mythological Norse serpent Níðhöggr?
Did you know that there are two war memorials in Crewe, one with a statue of a soldier, and the other with a statue of Britannia?
Did you know that when the Statue of Richard Grosvenor was created in the 1860s, it was said to have been the largest sculpture in Britain to be carved from a single block of marble?
Did you know that Edgar Lee Masters wrote a poem dedicated to Chicago Symphony Orchestra benefactor Bryan Lathrop?
Did you know that England national football team colleagues Glenn Hoddle and Chris Waddle reached number 12 on the UK Singles Chart with "Diamond Lights"?
Did you know that Hallelujah! The Welcome Table (2004) is author and poet Maya Angelou's first cookbook?
Did you know that Koeda Sembrani was the last romance which partnered Roekiah and Djoemala?
Did you know that London's oldest operational fire station, with an extension designed in the 1890s by Robert Pearsall, closed on 9 January 2014?
Did you know that No. 482 Squadron RAAF's main hangar, upgraded in preparation for the entry into service of the F-111C swing-wing bomber, was nicknamed the "Taj Mahal"?