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Did you know that Us Conductors, the debut novel by Sean Michaels depicting a fictionalized account of the relationship between Léon Theremin and Clara Rockmore, won the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize?
Did you know that larvae of the red-headed pine sawfly are gregarious, and when they have defoliated a tree, move as a group to a neighbouring one?
Did you know that sopa de fideo, a soup in Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisine, may have originated in Spain?
Did you know that under Operation Temperer, thousands of British Army troops can be deployed to support police in guarding key sites in the UK against terrorist threats?
Did you know that Douglas Putnam served in the Battle of Shiloh during the American Civil War, and later published an eyewitness account of the battle?
Did you know that Pu Songling wrote "Tian Qilang" with a Chinese killer in mind?
Did you know that a Lebanese postage stamp featuring Anissa Rawda Najjar was issued in 2014, soon after her 100th birthday?
Did you know that human sacrifices were performed on Pichu Pichu, an extinct volcano near Arequipa?
Did you know that table tennis player and model Soo Yeon Lee has coached numerous celebrities and is a brand ambassador for a chain of table tennis bars?
Did you know that the total known population of the critically endangered shrub Persoonia pauciflora is within 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) of the type specimen?
Did you know that "Fatshe leno la rona", the national anthem of Botswana, was reportedly not the government's preferred choice because it was composed by the co-founder and leader of an opposition party?
Did you know that Australia have held the Frank Worrell Trophy since 1995?
Did you know that Jordyn Huitema scored her first goal for the Canadian women's national soccer team in an exhibition game against Costa Rica, and scored her second goal less than a minute later?
Did you know that Tui Manu'a Matelita, the Samoan queen of Manu'a, was described by Robert Louis Stevenson as "a little slip" of a girl, "who sits all day in a pink gown, in a little white European house"?
Did you know that although New Brunswick was confederated into Canada 150 years ago today, the province's flag was not adopted until 1965?
Did you know that rioters burned the first permanent provincial seat of Canada?
Did you know that Richard Painter, chief ethics lawyer to President George W. Bush, is suing President Trump for his alleged violation of the US Constitution?
Did you know that basketball player Alex Owumi was trapped in a Benghazi apartment for weeks during the Libyan Civil War?
Did you know that in 2013, Poland became the world's largest producer of mead made according to traditional methods (example pictured)?
Did you know that the hymn "Breathe on Me, Breath of God" was described as being so simple it belied the education and knowledge of its author, Professor Edwin Hatch?
Did you know that the video game Remember Me was appraised by its developer as the digital view of human identity compared to its analog counterpart, Life Is Strange?
Did you know that Gottfried von Einem's opera Der Prozeß, based on the novel by Franz Kafka, was premiered at the Salzburg Festival?
Did you know that Henry W. Sawyer argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark Establishment Clause cases of Abington School District v. Schempp and Lemon v. Kurtzman?
Did you know that Typhoon Agnes was the last one to affect the Philippines during the 1984 Pacific typhoon season?
Did you know that ecotourism resort Hotelito Desconocido was reportedly a money laundering front for a Mexican drug cartel?
Did you know that the "Prayer of Saint Francis" is a 20th-century peace prayer mistakenly attributed to the 13th-century saint?
Did you know that the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Modern Gothic cabinet is considered one of the finest American examples of the style?
Did you know that Benjamin Franklin suggested to George Washington that he adopt the Flag of the East India Company as the flag of the United States?
Did you know that David Hermann staged a Mozart opera at the Salzburg Festival at age 29, and combined three Krenek operas in Frankfurt?
Did you know that Irish director Neasa Hardiman won both an IFTA and a BAFTA award for her work on Happy Valley?
Did you know that NASCAR Hall of Famer Bud Moore was a machine gunner who participated in the Normandy landings?
Did you know that a "food innovation district" and farmers' market are proposed for the immediate vicinity of Rainier Beach station?
Did you know that one of the final Quranic chapters revealed in Mecca, called "The Sundering", talks about the Day of Judgment?
Did you know that the New Zealand cricketer Richard Hadlee was twice the man of the series in the Trans-Tasman Trophy?
Did you know that after the death of pediatric neurologist Bronson Crothers, Harvard Medical School established a professorship in his name?
Did you know that sailors under Magellan may have guessed that Samborombón Bay was the birthplace of the phantom island of Saint Brendan?
Did you know that the leader of the US-trained Anti-Terror Units (fighters pictured) in the Syrian Civil War was suspected to have been assassinated by Turkish Intelligence operatives for conducting "terror operations"?
Did you know that the upcoming film The Darkest Minds is the live-action directorial debut of animation director Jennifer Yuh Nelson?
Did you know that Kolkata mayor Sovan Chatterjee is the first mayor of any city of India to get Z-plus security cover?
Did you know that at the beginning of his reign, Muhammad III of Granada allied his kingdom with Castile and Aragon against the Marinids, while at the end those three powers were allied against him?
Did you know that elevated parks are becoming more common, inspired by the success of New York's High Line?
Did you know that the Adelphi School is considered to be the last free-tuition charity school building still standing in Philadelphia?
Did you know that the Hotel Manger once used a steam locomotive to heat the building?
Did you know that the Nugent–RajanBabu reagent can be used to prepare a key intermediate in the synthesis of vinorelbine, a treatment for non-small-cell lung cancer?
Did you know that the Porco caldera in Bolivia, a major source of silver for the Inca, is now Bolivia's largest zinc mine?
Did you know that the flag of the Solomon Islands was designed by a Kiwi?
Did you know that the predatory beetle Rhizophagus grandis was imported to the United States from Belgium in an attempt to control the black turpentine beetle?
Did you know that while Maximilian II replaced Alard du Gaucquier as Kapellmeister, he thought highly enough of him to grant a patent of nobility?
Did you know that Claudia Barainsky performed operatic title roles including Daphne, Lulu, Medea, and Melusine?
Did you know that Full Fact fact-checked the Brexit referendum?
Did you know that Governor-elect of the State of Mexico Alfredo del Mazo Maza's father, grandfather, and cousin all held the office before him?
Did you know that during the civil war of the Ottoman Interregnum, at one time or another Junayd Bey, ruler of the Beylik of Aydın, supported four different Ottoman princes vying for the throne?
Did you know that the Vintage Grill & Car Museum in Weatherford, Texas, features President Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 Lincoln Continental and a 1975 Trabant?
Did you know that the novel The Princess of the Moon: A Confederate Fairy Story by Cora Semmes Ives depicts a lunar invasion by Yankee carpetbagger balloonists?
Did you know that the upcoming film Velipadinte Pusthakam will be the first collaboration between director Lal Jose and actor Mohanlal?
Did you know that Ajige beheaded Shen Shikui for his refusal to surrender Ka Island?
Did you know that Ernest Addison, the fifteenth Governor of the Bank of Ghana, is a Mfantsipim alumnus?
Did you know that Truth Serum, Tove Lo's debut EP, is a concept record that describes her most intense love affair, from the happy beginning to trying to move on after the breakup?
Did you know that William A. Dwyer Jr. and Joseph T. Murphy were opponents in a 1960 Philadelphia City Council election but were later colleagues on the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas?
Did you know that the Arkansas Air & Military Museum displays Walmart founder Sam Walton's first aircraft, an Ercoupe 415C?
Did you know that the Chiliques volcano is of cultural importance to the town of Socaire, Chile, where it was considered to be the source of water?
Did you know that the Kölner Rundfunkchor, the radio choir of the WDR in Cologne, premiered Karlheinz Stockhausen's Momente in 1962?
Did you know that the Taylor Force Act, proposed by US Senator Lindsey Graham, would prevent the Palestinian National Authority from using American economic aid to pay terrorists?
Did you know that the naval architect Robert Logan designed the first steel train ferry?
Did you know that the season three premiere of Rick and Morty was first aired unannounced as a part of Adult Swim's annual April Fools' joke?
Did you know that when comedian Peter Sellers visited his friend Spike Milligan at Monkenhurst naked as a practical joke, he was sent away still naked?
Did you know that white-footed ants protect red scale insects, a major pest of citrus in South Africa?
Did you know that Banksia hookeriana plants are larger when they grow on road verges?
Did you know that Château d'Ainay-le-Vieil once belonged to the House of Bourbon?
Did you know that Edward H. Phelps was wounded at the Battle of Missionary Ridge, and while still leading his men forward was shot a second time and killed?
Did you know that Fest- und Gedenksprüche are three motets composed by Johannes Brahms for the ceremony in which he was named an honorary citizen of Hamburg?
Did you know that Marc Kasowitz has represented Donald Trump in bankruptcies, sexual misconduct allegations, and the Russian election interference investigation?
Did you know that The Beast is the first book written by CPJ International Press Freedom Award-winning journalist Óscar Martínez?
Did you know that Virginia Apuzzo was a nun until shortly after the Stonewall riots, when she left her convent and became a gay rights and AIDS activist?
Did you know that after its dissolution in 1973, some members of the Labour Party of Scotland left to work for a pirate radio station?
Did you know that despite his role as a medic to the Decepticons, the character of Knock Out in Transformers: Prime was created as a foil to Bumblebee?
Did you know that stockbroker Tony Rudd was recruited by the future British Home Secretary to be an extra in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral?
Did you know that the book The Plot to Hack America by Malcolm Nance describes Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections?
Did you know that there are many more female than male great spruce bark beetles, and incestuous matings are normal?
Did you know that when his candidacy was vetoed in the 1669–70 papal conclave, Scipione Pannocchieschi d’Elci became so embarrassed that it was said to be the cause of his death shortly thereafter?
Did you know that Christopher Hitchens called the book The Terrorists of Iraq by Malcolm Nance "a highly potent analysis" of jihadism?
Did you know that Dara Hobbs appeared as Wagner's Isolde at many venues, including Theater Bonn, Stadttheater Minden, and Schloss Neuschwanstein?
Did you know that Dominic Nitiwul has been involved in the fight against galamseyers?
Did you know that Frank Beermann conducted the first recording of Bruno Maderna's Requiem, and the German premiere of Péter Eötvös's opera Love and Other Demons at the Chemnitz Opera?
Did you know that Rhacotis, the Egyptian predecessor of Alexandria, may have been a thriving city centuries before the birth of Alexander?
Did you know that Richard H. Carmichael was shot down on 20 August 1944 while leading the 462d Bombardment Group in the bombing of Yawata, the first daylight air raid on Japan since the Tokyo Raid in 1942?
Did you know that Yoshiki, star of rockumentary We Are X, must wear a neck brace while drumming and keeps oxygen tanks backstage due to asthma?
Did you know that due to several accidents, only six cars finished on the lead lap at the 2017 Rainguard Water Sealers 600?
Did you know that the 49th chapter of the Quran compares backbiting, a sin in Islam, to "eating the flesh of one's brother"?
Did you know that the Flag of the Orange Order was based on what was purportedly the personal standard of King William III at the Battle of the Boyne?
Did you know that the Penstemon digitalis cultivar "Husker Red" was named after the Nebraska Cornhuskers?
Did you know that the golden-naped, yellow-tufted, white-fronted, and yellow-fronted woodpecker are included in the genus Melanerpes, which is characterised by black, white, red and yellow plumage?
Did you know that there was an amphibious invasion of Long Island in 1943?
Did you know that Compendium ferculorum ("A Collection of Dishes"), the oldest cookbook in Polish, inspired the description of a traditional banquet (illustration pictured) in the Polish national epic?
Did you know that Italian immigrant Mario Peruzzi was the co-founder and president of Planters Peanut company (Mr. Peanut pictured)?
Did you know that Neal McDonough's appearance in the Marvel One-Shot short Agent Carter was supposed to be filmed in a pool, but could not because of the muscle suit he wore to portray Dum Dum Dugan?
Did you know that Scissor Sisters and MNDR conceived the song "Swerlk" to commemorate the anniversary of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting?
Did you know that Terrorist Recognition Handbook by Malcolm Nance discusses signs of terrorist planning?
Did you know that a classically conditioned stimulus can affect operant behavior and motivation through Pavlovian-instrumental transfer?
Did you know that a plume of gas rises from fumaroles on Putana volcano?
Did you know that during the Siege of Thessalonica in 1422–1430, the city changed hands from the Byzantine Empire to the Republic of Venice, and finally was captured by the Ottoman Empire?
Did you know that the 59th Ariel Awards will be held despite a 77% cut to the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences' budget?
Did you know that the Government of Bihar started a bidding process to get an industry partner for the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bhagalpur, but no bidder emerged?
Did you know that the decline of book review sections in newspapers was the impetus for the founding of the New York Journal of Books?
Did you know that the release of Los Gatos' debut single "La balsa" on July 3, 1967, is widely considered to be the origin of Argentine rock?
Did you know that Chris Young was deposed in 1924 by the Governor of American Samoa after he took the Samoan royal title Tui Manu'a, because the idea was incompatible with the US Constitution?
Did you know that Dutch politician Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello was the first person to introduce protection of lesbian rights and anti-discrimination measures at an official UN conference?
Did you know that Martin Luther wrote the song of praise "Die beste Zeit im Jahr ist mein" ("The best time of the year is mine") as part of a poem, not as a hymn?
Did you know that Seattle's passenger-only ferries, blamed for beach erosion, were forced to slow down because of a class-action lawsuit?
Did you know that the 34th chapter of the Quran was named after Sheba, but does not talk about the Queen of Sheba?
Did you know that the Ludington family included a teenage girl (statue pictured) whose night-long ride to alert the Continental Army of an imminent British attack has been compared to the ride of Paul Revere?
Did you know that the call letters of radio stations KFAS and KFAS-FM were adopted to honor minority owner Francis Albert Sinatra?
Did you know that white reformist Northern women founded the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery, Alabama, to educate black girls, who included Rosa Parks and Johnnie Carr?
Did you know that Ivan and Nina Efimov, known as the Adam and Eve of Russian puppetry, lived for six years largely on earnings from their traveling puppet show?
Did you know that Matthias von Stegmann made German voice-overs for The Simpsons, staged Wagner's Ring Cycle for children, and directed the first production of Wagner's Rienzi at the Bayreuth Festival?
Did you know that Robert Heinlein's 1959 novel Starship Troopers is a critique of US society of the 1950s, and advocates for corporal and capital punishment?
Did you know that after surviving a shooting incident, Boakye Agyarko immigrated to the US as a political refugee and rose to become a vice president of the Bank of New York?
Did you know that model Sofia Richie played soccer until she broke her hip in a Segway accident?
Did you know that the Karimata Strait, today in Indonesia, was used by the British fleet in the 1811 invasion of Java?
Did you know that the documentary Trump: The Kremlin Candidate? presented by John Sweeney was featured at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy?
Did you know that the first United States vessel to enter the Black Sea was owned by Ezra Weston II, a Massachusetts shipbuilder known as "King Caesar"?
Did you know that the first ice rink in South Africa was created for the 1936 Empire Exhibition?
Did you know that Eddie Baxter was a Continental organist?
Did you know that Foxwarren Park was the inspiration for Toad Hall, a location for Robin Hood and test site for the bouncing bomb?
Did you know that Lioba Braun, who became known appearing as Brangäne in Bayreuth in 1994, was the first soloist to record Reger's Die Weihe der Nacht?
Did you know that a traditional town fair in Zagreb, Croatia, has its roots in a Mongol invasion?
Did you know that after lobbying to regulate the licensing of nurses in Colorado, Louie Croft Boyd applied for and became the first licensed nurse in the state?
Did you know that during the reign of Muhammad II, Granada survived simultaneous attacks by Castile and the Marinids, its two larger neighbors?
Did you know that economist Peter Schmidt's 1977 work on stochastic frontier models is considered one of the most influential Journal of Econometrics papers of all time?
Did you know that living glass anemones can be dissected in the laboratory and then put back in an aquarium, where they will heal?
Did you know that pimento cheese (example pictured) is a type of cheese spread that has been referred to as "pâté of the south" and "Carolina caviar"?
Did you know that the Superliner was the last rail passenger car manufactured by Pullman-Standard?
Did you know that the book Insane Clown President by Matt Taibbi debuted on bestseller lists for both The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times?
Did you know that "Wonderous Stories" by the progressive rock band Yes remains their highest charting UK single with a peak at number 7 in 1977?
Did you know that Canadian theoretical physicist Helen Freedhoff was doctoral advisor to Schrödinger's grandson?
Did you know that Georgia Ann Robinson was the first African-American policewoman in the Los Angeles Police Department?
Did you know that Muhammad I of Granada, founder of the last Muslim state in Spain, helped Castile take Córdoba and Seville from the Muslims?
Did you know that Sam Panopoulos "invented" the Hawaiian pizza?
Did you know that Science Express, a scientific exhibition for children mounted on a train, is included in the Limca Book of Records for being the largest, the longest running and the most visited mobile exhibition?
Did you know that during the final hours of operation for the Douglas County Library System, supporters held a wake?
Did you know that mail artist Pauline Smith created the Adolf Hitler Fan Club?
Did you know that the BBC medical drama series Casualty received criticism for a series 29 episode which featured a crash that viewers believed resembled the 2014 Glasgow bin lorry crash?
Did you know that the book Think Big and Kick Ass, by Donald Trump and Bill Zanker, was the highest selling personal finance work on Amazon.com in 2015?
Did you know that the city hall of Bellevue, Washington, was previously a Qwest telecommunications office?
Did you know that the slave-owner and MP William James received £4,713, equivalent to about £6 million today, as compensation following the British Slavery Abolition Act of 1833?
Did you know that Confidencen is the oldest Rococo theatre in Sweden?
Did you know that Dorothy Hazard, a preacher's wife, led a group of women in the defence of Bristol during the English Civil War?
Did you know that Jackie Chan DC Racing, owned by David Cheng, is the first team based in mainland China to race in the FIA World Endurance Championship?
Did you know that Lamborghini's first hybrid vehicle was its concept car Asterion?
Did you know that Pia Miller was drawn to the role of Kat Chapman in Home and Away when she realised the character was not sexualised?
Did you know that after Catholic bishop Gaston Marie Jacquier was assassinated in Algiers, Archbishop Duval ordered priests not to wear clerical clothing or display the cross in public?
Did you know that the album Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall features a concert that celebrated Clint Eastwood's contributions to jazz?
Did you know that the upcoming video game The Artful Escape is described as "David Bowie traveling off from London on an interstellar trip to create Ziggy Stardust"?
Did you know that Doris Frankel won an Emmy for her work on All My Children?
Did you know that Marjan Šarec started his career as a comedian, but was later elected Mayor of Kamnik and recently announced his candidacy for President of Slovenia?
Did you know that St. Cajetan Church, part of the World Heritage Site Churches and convents of Goa, is modeled on St. Peter's Basilica?
Did you know that Typhoon Betty killed 101 people in the Philippines?
Did you know that Ursula K. Le Guin's 1971 novel The Tombs of Atuan tells the coming-of-age story of a female character, a choice unusual to fantasy of the time?
Did you know that a rhyming passage from Mihai Eminescu's novel Poor Dionis proposes "that this world is merely dreamland and a cat's fantastic vision"?
Did you know that during the 1623 papal conclave, the election of Pope Urban VIII was supposedly foretold by a swarm of bees?
Did you know that several freight cars of the Disneyland Railroad (locomotive pictured) originally had no seats because Walt Disney wanted passengers to feel like cattle riding in a real cattle train?
Did you know that the book Time to Get Tough by Donald Trump was written with the assistance of editors from Breitbart News?
Did you know that when Brasheedah Elohim signed with an Israeli women's basketball team in 2007, her unusual surname prompted local media to quip, "God has arrived in Israel"?
Did you know that 35 years ago today, Tucson, Arizona, radio station KIKX shut down after losing its FCC license over a 1974 kidnapping hoax involving one of the station's DJs?
Did you know that Byattaba, the rebel ruler of Martaban, was paid in gold by King Binnya U so that he would acknowledge the King as his overlord?
Did you know that Indian Member of Parliament Mohammad Asrarul Haque polled the highest number of votes in his state of Bihar in the 2014 general election?
Did you know that Mazaalai, the first Mongolian satellite in space, is named after the endangered Gobi bear?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Winona, which struck Japan in August 1990, originated from a northerly displaced monsoon trough?
Did you know that Uwe Eric Laufenberg, General Manager of the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, presented his staging of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Internationale Maifestspiele in 2017?
Did you know that after being thrown into the Atlantic Ocean by Hurricane Sandy, the Star Jet roller coaster (wreckage pictured) was replaced—safely inland—by Hydrus?
Did you know that in Norwegian fjords, the sea anemone Actinostola callosa feeds heavily on the helmet jellyfish?
Did you know that in the opera Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho, Georg Philipp Telemann characterized the noble people by elements from the opera seria, and the peasants by Spanish folk music?
Did you know that since first being built in 1888, Main Building at St. Edward's University has been burned down, torn open by a tornado, and used as a military academy?