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Did you know that due to the effects of climate change on wine production, the northern boundary of European viticulture is shifting northward?
Did you know that like all ekadashis, the god Vishnu is worshipped but in particular his fifth avatar of Vamana is worshipped, on Varuthini Ekadashi?
Did you know that the Tso Kar is a salt lake in Ladakh, in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir?
Did you know that the music video for the song "Menor Que Yo" cost $60,000?
Did you know that the upcoming TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs event will include a fight for the World Heavyweight Championship?
Did you know that Dennis Franks, an American football offensive lineman, participated in figure skating to develop his agility and leg strength?
Did you know that Desmond Dekker's 1967 single "007 (Shanty Town)" was the first Jamaican-produced song to reach the UK Top 20?
Did you know that Esme Tombleson's career covers reciting Shakespeare, ballet, civil service, farming, membership of the New Zealand Parliament, and MS advocacy?
Did you know that Eugene Turenne Gregorie was a designer of the 1936 Lincoln-Zephyr, referred to as "the first successfully streamlined car in America"?
Did you know that Happy Days producer Bob Brunner created Fonzie's nickname and penned Henry Winkler's character's catchphrase, "Sit on it"?
Did you know that Ron Ball defeated former UK government minister James Plaskitt to become the first Police and Crime Commissioner of Warwickshire?
Did you know that Stamp Stampede, an organization devoted to "Getting Money Out of Politics", was founded by Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen?
Did you know that due to the large number of pilgrims who visit Bahrain during Muharram (Muharram procession pictured), the country has been referred to as the "Karbala of the Gulf"?
Did you know that in the Battle of Sidi Bou Othman, French Army Colonel Mangin formed his 5,000 troops into a single large square with the artillery units placed at the center of the infantry formations?
Did you know that musicologist Klaus Hofmann reconstructed a trio sonata for violin, viola and basso continuo, and attributed it to both Johann Sebastian Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach?
Did you know that part of the reason Arthur Dobbs, colonial governor of North Carolina, ordered the construction of Fort Dobbs in 1755 was to protect 200,000 acres of land he owned?
Did you know that several Slovak newspapers founded in the United States in the late 19th century, including Slovák v Amerike and Amerikánsko-Slovenské Noviny, were initially written in Eastern Slovak dialects?
Did you know that the Mediterranean crab Brachynotus sexdentatus also lived in Swansea Docks, where the water was warmed by a power station?
Did you know that the Russian ship of the line Tsesarevich was transferred to the Baltic Fleet before her steam engine was installed because the Black Sea was demilitarized after the end of the Crimean War?
Did you know that the inscription on the Statue of Iddi-Ilum of ancient Mari warns: "Whosoever erases this inscription will have his line wiped out by Inanna"?
Did you know that Carl Breer was one of the core engineering people who formed the present day Chrysler Corporation?
Did you know that David Robidoux has composed more than 850 works for NFL Films?
Did you know that Free Syrian Army general Ahmad al-Fajj prohibited Islamists from serving under his command during the Siege of Base 46?
Did you know that Ricardo Arjona's compilation album, Trópico, includes performances by Elvis Crespo, Marc Anthony and Gilberto Santa Rosa?
Did you know that Robert Falcon Scott was educated at Stubbington House School, "the cradle of the Navy", which closed in 1997?
Did you know that William Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, was on the commission which condemned to death Archbishop Scrope, the first English prelate to suffer judicial execution?
Did you know that a tunnel constructed in 1901 by the Beaver Dam Railroad of Tennessee was originally too low for trains to pass through?
Did you know that in the Baltic Sea, the brittle star Ophiura albida is the favourite food of the starfish Luidia sarsi?
Did you know that on certain beaches of Java, people are warned not to wear green clothes due to the belief that the color may offend the queen of the sea and cause the person to drown?
Did you know that the Ashanti celebrate the Adae, Adae Kese, Akwasidae, Awukudae, and Yam festivals?
Did you know that the Khmer Rouge destroyed Phnom Penh's Notre Dame Cathedral by tearing it down stone by stone?
Did you know that the Mahagujarat Movement in 1956, led by Indulal Yagnik, resulted in formation of Gujarat and Maharashtra states on May 1, 1960, by dividing Bombay state?
Did you know that the original title of "Loveeeeeee Song" by Rihanna featuring Future was "Love & Affection"?
Did you know that "Off to the Races" by Lana Del Rey has been lyrically described as "a freak show of inappropriate co-dependency"?
Did you know that Alastair Cook has scored the highest number of Test centuries for England, and is the youngest batsman to score more than 7,000 runs in Test cricket?
Did you know that Buffalo River State Park preserves one of the largest and highest-quality prairie remnants in Minnesota?
Did you know that Giacomo Bove was icebound in the Arctic Ocean, shipwrecked off Tierra del Fuego and fever-stricken on the Congo River?
Did you know that Mitchell Olenski coached the Alabama Informals in 1943 and later played for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League?
Did you know that Nakba scholar Rosemarie Esber has been a consultant for the World Bank?
Did you know that Princess Teriivaetua was given precedence ahead of any children born to her uncle King Pōmare V and his part-English wife Queen Marau in order to secure a pure-Tahitian heir to the throne?
Did you know that Torkilstrup's 17th-century post mill was in operation until 1945, but is now a windmill museum?
Did you know that baked beans have hairy eyes and iridescent antennae?
Did you know that the 1952 film Anhonee had Nargis enacting a dual role, and also marked the first occasion in Bollywood where an actor was cast in such a role?
Did you know that the 2007 film Atonement received fourteen nominations from the British Academy Film Awards, the most of any film that year?
Did you know that the Namib sand gecko spends the day underground, emerging at night to feed on small arthropods?
Did you know that Coty Award-winning jewelry designer Clifton Nicholson currently breeds peafowl and pheasants?
Did you know that Daniel Hough and Edward Galloway were the first two deaths of the American Civil War?
Did you know that Fatima-Zahra Mansouri's father, who was pasha (deputy governor) of Marrakech for eight years, died the evening Fatima won the mayoral elections?
Did you know that Frances Hashimoto, who became CEO of Mikawaya confectionery company at the age of 27, invented mochi ice cream?
Did you know that Sam Pek Eng Tay was The Teng Chun's first in a series of film adaptations of Chinese myths?
Did you know that San Francisco police supervised the controversial North American premiere of Al-Nakba at the Castro Theater?
Did you know that Scottish suffragette Jessie Stephen led attacks on Glasgow pillar boxes in 1913?
Did you know that Stotts Island Nature Reserve is home to the endangered Mitchell's rainforest snail?
Did you know that according to Lucille Ball, God was a New York hairdresser called Kenneth?
Did you know that although Mykola Leontovych's secular music was well known in the twentieth century, his Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom was little known because of a ban on sacred music in the Soviet Union?
Did you know that at the funeral of his uncle, from whom he inherited the earldom, John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford, received an axe brought into the church by a mounted horseman?
Did you know that cattle are brought to the uninhabited island of Kalvø for summer grazing in a small barge, three or four at a time?
Did you know that chef Joël Robuchon has twelve "L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon" restaurants around the world, including in London and Hong Kong?
Did you know that the 1950s American automobile culture (tail fin pictured) led to the McDonald's double arch sign and suburbia?
Did you know that the drupes of boobialla were eaten by the Aborigines?
Did you know that the extinct Oligocene-age vulture Phasmagyps may be the oldest New World vulture from North America?
Did you know that tight end Doug Marsh was Michigan's leading receiver in 1979 and later played seven NFL seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals?
Did you know that 21 players from the 1976 Michigan football team went on to play in the NFL, and another opted instead to play Major League Baseball?
Did you know that Bai Yansong, a leading news anchor for China Central Television, established China's first live news commentary program?
Did you know that Goodenia paniculata can grow in acidic soils with pH as low as 2.5?
Did you know that Guy Murdock, the MVP of football's Chicago Fire, joined with the Winds after the Fire was extinguished?
Did you know that Maurice Le Glay fought against Mouha ou Hammou Zayani in the Zaian War but later wrote a book praising Zayani's leadership skills?
Did you know that after twice fleeing civil unrest in Nigeria, Amina Mama moved to South Africa, where she became director of the African Gender Institute and founding editor of its peer-reviewed journal, Feminist Africa?
Did you know that during World War II, German actress Inge Keller entered a sham marriage to avoid enlistment into the Reich Labour Service?
Did you know that half of the town of Mori, Hokkaido, Japan, was destroyed by fire in 1961?
Did you know that in spite of challenges from the left, all incumbent parliamentarians from Tripoli City were re-elected in 1968?
Did you know that leaves of the fossil maple Acer palaeorufinerve resemble the living redvein maple?
Did you know that professional baseball player Derek Dietrich is an accomplished juggler, performing at hospitals and community events?
Did you know that the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, site of Willy Brandt's Warschauer Kniefall in 1970, was made from labradorite intended to be used in monuments in Nazi Germany?
Did you know that the Native American grass dance originated in the warrior societies on the Northern Great Plains?
Did you know that the Noisy Pitta uses an anvil when it feeds on the giant panda snail?
Did you know that the listed buildings in Wrenbury cum Frith, Cheshire, include three timber lift bridges (example pictured) constructed by Thomas Telford?
Did you know that there are mermen on the pulpit of St James' Church, Cardington, in Shropshire?
Did you know that Ahmad Tohari's Kubah (Cupola), which follows a man's induction into communism, has been characterized as Islamic preaching?
Did you know that Dutton Horse Bridge on the River Weaver in Cheshire is one of the earliest surviving laminated timber structures?
Did you know that Greg Morton, college football's defensive player of the year for 1976, collected exotic flora, including a purple passion plant he named Claudine?
Did you know that Hamka's novel Tuan Direktur (Mr Director) has been read as anti-materialist and anti-superstition?
Did you know that Hayazn burned the Hungarian flag after Ramil Safarov's release to Azerbaijan?
Did you know that Marienborg Manor incorporates designs by Vilhelm Walther and Axel Berg?
Did you know that Shania Twain's Las Vegas residency show, Shania: Still the One, marks her first live performance show since the Up! Tour in 2004?
Did you know that Tristan Bancks was selected from a group of 200 actors to play the role of Tug O'Neale in Australian soap opera Home and Away?
Did you know that Vishvarupa should have as many arms as possible?
Did you know that the 9.2-inch gun at Gibraltar's Spur Battery was transferred to the Imperial War Museum Duxford in Project Vitello?
Did you know that the earliest head coaches of the Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team include John C. B. Pendleton, Henry Van Hoevenberg, Alfred Ellet Hitchner, and Arthur P. Robinson, all four combining for a record of 12–33?
Did you know that the flowers of the dwarf apple attract a wide variety of beetles?
Did you know that video game studio Crystal Dynamics is the developer of the Legacy of Kain, Gex and Tomb Raider video game series?
Did you know that Antoine de Bosc de la Calmette excavated Møn's Neolithic burial mound, Klekkende Høj, in 1797 while he was governor?
Did you know that Kučuk Alija killed Hadži Mustafa Pasha, a vizier of the Belgrade pashalik, at the end of 1801?
Did you know that Marty Friedman left Megadeth only to get mixed up with bodacious space pirates?
Did you know that Ohio's first archaeological investigation was conducted at the Marietta Earthworks?
Did you know that Pringle Stokes, captain of HMS Beagle on its first voyage, and Robert FitzRoy, captain on the second voyage, both committed suicide?
Did you know that Showtime was inspired by a nightclub frequented by Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss?
Did you know that following the death of Pope John Paul II, some 40,000 Catholics gathered in front of the Bishop's Palace in Kraków for a night vigil and prayer?
Did you know that her experiences with girls on the street led philosopher Bertrand Russell's "stern and gloomy" Aunt Maude to write Clubs for Working Girls?
Did you know that land-acquisition costs for the old post office in Albany, New York, went so far over budget the building's architectural style had to be changed?
Did you know that numerous Olympic and World weightlifting champions from Armenia hail from Gyumri, a city with a population of 150,000?
Did you know that the Dawson river blackbutt indicates sodic soil?
Did you know that the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, led by future poet laureate Sam Ragan, was the first cabinet-level department in the United States focused solely on the arts and history?
Did you know that the Singapore Government believes representative democracy is better understood as focusing on the electorate choosing political parties than individual Members of Parliament (Parliament House pictured)?
Did you know that the conquest theory of state formation in anthropology has its roots in work by Ibn Khaldun, who wrote in the 14th century?
Did you know that there is an Elfstedentocht display at the Fries Scheepvaart Museum?
Did you know that Body of Proof episode "Hunting Party" was directed by Paul Holahan and featured Jeri Ryan, both of whom had worked on the legal drama Shark?
Did you know that Hidden Cave, an archaeological cave site located in the Great Basin near Fallon, Nevada, got its name because its entrance was difficult to find?
Did you know that Rekha's portrayal of a classical courtesan in Umrao Jaan fetched her the National Film Award for Best Actress?
Did you know that decorator crabs stick camouflage on their backs using Velcro-like curved hairs?
Did you know that in the video game The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, monsters (one pictured) have taken over, and Abraham Van Helsing's son must fight them?
Did you know that the Sargassum nudibranch travels the world's oceans on seaweed?
Did you know that the auricular style of Baroque ornament (example pictured) is so called because it can resemble the inside of the human ear?
Did you know that the commanding officer of the New Zealand Army's 4th Division for part of 1942 and 1943 was also the professor of agriculture at Massey University?
Did you know that the star of Pah Wongso Pendekar Boediman, Indonesia's first detective film, was best known as a social worker?
Did you know that "Normal", the twentieth episode of American TV series New Girl, inspired a real-life drinking game with rules released by Fox?
Did you know that Ivo Puhonny created the Baden-Baden puppet theater in 1911, and many of his marionettes are preserved in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden?
Did you know that a few years after earning two degrees in marine toxicology, Riki Ott became unexpectedly involved with the Exxon Valdez oil spill?
Did you know that award-winning realist artist Zygmunt Ajdukiewicz (artwork pictured) illustrated the Imperial 24-volume encyclopedia initiated and sponsored by Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria?
Did you know that the Chouf District had the highest number of voters in the 1968 Lebanese parliamentary election?
Did you know that the USCGC Smilax (WLIC-315), a 100-foot inland construction tender, is the current "Queen of the Fleet" of the United States Coast Guard?
Did you know that the upcoming video game Demon Gaze is a sequel and will include new half-machine demons?
Did you know that the video game Street Fighter X Mega Man was developed by one fan with the support of Capcom?
Did you know that Amdavad ni Gufa, a cave-like underground art gallery in Ahmedabad designed by B. V. Doshi, exhibits works of M F Husain?
Did you know that Andy McDonald, the newly elected Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough, has already worked with parliamentarians as a special adviser to the Defence Select Committee?
Did you know that Daggerfall, the second game in Elder Scrolls series of video games, has a game world claimed to be of the size of Great Britain?
Did you know that Hermann Hogeback's entire bomber crew was decorated with the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II, a unique distinction in the Luftwaffe?
Did you know that Mal Sanders, the winner of the Mike Marino Memorial Shield, had been travelling with Marino when he died on the M20 motorway in 1981?
Did you know that defence may not have been the primary function of Cornwall's cliff castles?
Did you know that the sea urchin order Echinothurioida was known only from fossils until deep water exploration discovered living species such as Calveriosoma gracile?
Did you know that the video game Wizorb was originally released for a game console, but the developers recommend using a mouse over a gamepad for the PC version?
Did you know that the year 1930 in tennis saw the record for the most match points saved in a match of the Davis Cup Inter-Zonal Zone final between Giorgio de Stefani and Wilmer Allison?
Did you know that three alleged miracles drew pilgrims to Kippinge Church?
Did you know that Israel Keyes confessed to murder, rape, arson, and bank robbery in several states before committing suicide in his jail cell in Anchorage, Alaska?
Did you know that Orson Welles used a pseudo-documentary sequence in his film Citizen Kane?
Did you know that Tarsar Lake is separated from its twin sister in the Kashmir Valley by a mountain?
Did you know that in the Hindu epic Ramayana, Maricha assumed the form of a golden deer studded with gems to facilitate the kidnapping of the heroine?
Did you know that on some Celtic imitations of the Kingdom of Macedonia's gold philippeioi, the chariot on the reverse side was replaced by a single horse sporting a humanoid head?
Did you know that the Mexican gang Los Ántrax is named after the disease anthrax?
Did you know that the creator of the TV series Homeland, Gideon Raff, is the son of a former Accountant General in Israel's Ministry of Finance?
Did you know that the eldest son of Richard Neville, 2nd Baron Latimer, was married to Catherine Parr before she was King Henry VIII's Queen?
Did you know that when Oprah Winfrey saw American model Jasmine Tookes perform on the runway at Lincoln Center, she extolled Tookes' "butter" soft skin and requested that Tookes "rub your face against mine"?
Did you know that Japanese industrialist Inabata Katsutaro, a member of the House of Peers, put on Japan's first projected film programme?
Did you know that Noori is the first pashmina goat to be cloned by using the process of nuclear transfer?
Did you know that Tongan Prince Vuna Takitakimālohi (pictured with his parents) was King George Tupou I's only surviving legitimate son according to Christian law, and his early death in 1862 left his father without an heir?
Did you know that Walt Downing, the seventh All-American center for Michigan, won a Super Bowl with the 1981 San Francisco 49ers?
Did you know that a 27-year-old law student was the sole challenger against the candidature of Maronite strongman Suleiman Frangieh in the 1968 election in the Zgharta constituency?
Did you know that all Armenian parliamentarians elected from the Beirut I constituency in 1968 ran unopposed?
Did you know that by the end of the Third Siege of Gibraltar in 1333, the city's inhabitants were reduced to eating their shoes because the town's governor had stolen the money meant to pay for food?
Did you know that philosopher Bertrand Russell feared the ridicule of his grandmother, Lady Stanley of Alderley, best known for defending the "right of women to the highest culture hitherto reserved to men"?
Did you know that professional mixed martial arts fighter Abel Trujillo was expected to make his UFC debut at UFC 151, but it became the first-ever cancelled event in the organization's history?
Did you know that the Iron Confederacy, an alliance of North American Plains Indians, expanded its power base from what is now northern Manitoba in the 1690s to Montana by the 1850s?
Did you know that today is the day when Krishna gave the holy sermon of the Bhagavad Gita to the Pandava prince Arjuna, as described in the Mahabharata?
Did you know that 99 years ago on December 24, Italian Hall in Calumet, Michigan, was the site of a fatal stampede from a Christmas party organized by Anna Clemenc and the Western Federation of Miners?
Did you know that Charles Garabed Atamian's paintings of the beach in Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie consolidated his reputation as an artist?
Did you know that Chhota Bheem and the Curse of Damyaan, a 2012 Indian animated film, was a surprise success at the box office?
Did you know that South Carolina's U.S. Senate seat for the 2014 special election should be filled by Stephen Colbert, according to a Public Policy poll?
Did you know that an employee of the Bank of England's incinerator plant in Debden helped to steal more than £600,000 over four years by stuffing banknotes into her underwear?
Did you know that before founding his own production company, Iddo Patt appeared in a remake of the game show Twenty One?
Did you know that the 1966 film The Sons of Great Bear was East Germany's first Western, presenting the Oglala Lakota as heroes struggling against the villainous Whites?
Did you know that the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, a cooperative effort involving six Christian denominations, has been described as "one of the more successful ventures in black ecumenism"?
Did you know that the Miocene maple Acer traini may be the same species as the living Douglas Maple (fruits pictured)?
Did you know that the upcoming video game Johann Sebastian Joust has no graphics and does not even use a video screen?
Did you know that while travelling in Italy in 1898, American hydraulic engineer Clemens Herschel found an ancient manuscript about the water system of Rome, and translated and published it in English?
Did you know that with the addition of Bhutan, Grenada, and Andorra in 2012, the Ramsar Convention has 163 contracting countries with 2,065 wetlands of international importance?
Did you know that Christmas jumpers (example pictured) have become popular in the UK during the 2010s?
Did you know that Cliff Richard's 1990 UK Christmas number one song "Saviour's Day" was succeeded by Iron Maiden's "Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter"?
Did you know that Hans Pfitzner composed Das Christ-Elflein (The Little Elf of Christ, sometimes given as The Little Christmas Elf) first as incidental music, then in 1917 as an opera?
Did you know that Pasterka, a Midnight Mass of Christmas celebrations across Poland, can be held three times on Christmas Eve, including at midnight?
Did you know that The Big Bang Theory episode "The Santa Simulation" features a Christmas-themed Dungeons & Dragons game?
Did you know that William Hatteclyffe served King Edward IV as physician, King's Secretary, and diplomat?
Did you know that a Viking torc and an 18th century harpsichord are exhibited at Falsters Minder?
Did you know that in New South Wales, the mountain beech can hybridise with the native holly and the crinkle bush?