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Did you know that Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory is a Bristol-based theatre company that aims to produce Shakespeare's plays in an intimate manner, but with large casts?
Did you know that Tan Tjoei Hock's "in every way successful" film Matula centres on a disfigured man, a shaman, and a life debt?
Did you know that William Grefé was paid trading stamps for directing The Psychedelic Priest?
Did you know that in 2007, three people died in an arson attack on the office of Indian newspaper Dinakaran?
Did you know that the Christchurch area now known as Victoria Square was formerly part of Puari, a Waitaha settlement, an early Māori iwi?
Did you know that the Singaporean food business Botak Jones sells halal American cuisine?
Did you know that the two colossal statues of Imyremeshaw were usurped by Aqenenre Apepi and Ramses II?
Did you know that Cape Mountain on Cape Prince of Wales is the northern terminus of the Continental Divide of the Americas?
Did you know that Clarence Chesterfield Howerton, aka Major Mite, was billed as the world's smallest man?
Did you know that Mahendra Singh Dhoni has played the greatest number of matches as a captain in the Indian Premier League?
Did you know that Sue Falsone of the Los Angeles Dodgers is the first and only female head athletic trainer in the major American professional sports leagues?
Did you know that architectural historians regard the Church of Holy Trinity and St George in Kendal to be the best of the three churches in the town designed by George Webster?
Did you know that in 1994 Partha Pratim Majumder wrote, choreographed and staged The Nightmare which was the first mimodrama focused on child abuse to be staged in South Asia?
Did you know that the "fastest speedway in the world" was destroyed by the 1926 Miami hurricane?
Did you know that the Mesoamerican sculptures known as chacmools (example pictured) held receptacles to receive sacrificed human hearts?
Did you know that the board game K2 gives players a realistic simulation of climbing a mountain?
Did you know that the mint plant Florida betony was the Florida Department of Agriculture's "Weed of the Month" for February 2010?
Did you know that the title of Marquis of Veere and Flushing was so powerful that it was abolished to prevent the abuse of power, but is now one of the titles of the Dutch king?
Did you know that Ann Arbor's County Farm Park occupies the land that was once home to Washtenaw County's poor house?
Did you know that Henry III of England competed in piety with his brother-in-law Saint Louis IX of France, washing the feet of lepers and touching sick people, but was never sainted because his son was sceptical?
Did you know that Johnny Greene, a converted lineman, was nicknamed the "Cinderella Kid" when he became one of the leading pass receivers in the NFL in the late 1940s?
Did you know that Mattersey Priory's church was destroyed by fire and never rebuilt?
Did you know that Rugosodon eurasiaticus is the oldest known species of multituberculata, the most successful lineage of mammals in history?
Did you know that Swahili is the official language in more countries than Mandarin Chinese, the language with the most native speakers?
Did you know that Thado Dhamma Yaza I of Prome is identified in Thai history as the Burmese commander who slew Queen Suriyothai on her war elephant in the first Burmese invasion of Siam?
Did you know that in the 19th century, the residents of four hamlets in Apinac voted to become part of Estivareilles because of a spiritual connection?
Did you know that one of the world's hardest crack climbing routes is along Century Crack in Canyonlands National Park?
Did you know that the 1983 Luzon earthquake collapsed the church in Sarrat that hosted the wedding of President Ferdinand Marcos' daughter Irene, crushing its altar?
Did you know that the Alpine shrew can live at altitudes of up to 2,500 metres (8,200 ft) and above the tree line?
Did you know that the large-eared pika lives in high mountains and is listed by the IUCN as "Least Concern" while the Helan Shan pika is restricted to a single mountain and is listed as "Critically Endangered"?
Did you know that Cristóbal Oudrid, founding father of Spanish musical nationalism, was known for his "many contributions to the zarzuela genre"?
Did you know that Dylan Covey turned down $1.6 million to play professional baseball when he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes?
Did you know that Państwowa Fabryka Karabinów, a major firearms producer in interwar Poland, also designed its own weaponry, including an anti-tank rifle?
Did you know that Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty played first string quarterback ahead of NFL hall-of-famer Terry Bradshaw in college at Louisiana Tech University?
Did you know that Profeti della Quinta, a male vocal ensemble from Israel based in Basel, performed Italian madrigals and Hebrew psalms by Salomone Rossi in a documentary of the composer's life?
Did you know that Xu Ming, formerly China's eighth-richest person, testified at Bo Xilai's trial that he gave Bo's wife more than $3 million to buy a villa in France?
Did you know that almost all kings of Hungary after 1046 descended from Michael, the second son of Grand Prince Taksony?
Did you know that because taiko group Ondekoza could not replicate the rhythms in the original version of Yatai-bayashi, they actually played it faster?
Did you know that buffalo clover is a legume and a golf course weed?
Did you know that freethinker Harriet Law was the only woman on the general council of the First International, and was praised by Eleanor Marx and Karl Marx?
Did you know that termite nests can be nearly 7 m (23 ft) tall, that bald eagle nests can weigh 2 tonnes (4,400 lb), and that the extinct Sylviornis likely made a nesting mound 50 m (160 ft) in diameter?
Did you know that Amtrak introduced an eponymous new train as part of the Expo '74 world's fair in Spokane, Washington?
Did you know that Anne Yvonne Gilbert's controversial, fetish-themed cover of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's 1983 single "Relax" became "one of the most famous record sleeves of all time"?
Did you know that Diane Harper, who formerly worked on the clinical trials of the HPV vaccine, has since questioned the vaccine's safety and efficacy?
Did you know that Fred Schule won a gold medal in the hurdles at the 1904 Olympics, and was a member of the 1903 Michigan football team that outscored opponents 565 to 6?
Did you know that Lady Diana Spencer failed to secretly marry the Prince of Wales because the Prime Minister found out about the scheme?
Did you know that basketball player Miles Aiken, although not drafted by an NBA team after a college knee injury, rebounded to lead Real Madrid to back-to-back Euroleague championships?
Did you know that in Swabia, the length of a housefly's penis is an idiomatic expression for a very short length?
Did you know that only two and a half pages survive today of the Bible of Queen Sophia, a priceless artifact of the Old Polish language?
Did you know that the Argentine miniseries Culpables received the Golden Martín Fierro award?
Did you know that the Ziva David captivity storyline from the American police procedural drama NCIS was analyzed by various columnists, academics, and a rabbi for its portrayal of the Mossad and Israel–United States relations?
Did you know that the birthday of the Egyptian goddess Isis was celebrated officially in the Roman Empire on August 12 at the Lychnapsia, a lamp-lighting festival?
Did you know that Ben Gunn, imprisoned 32 years for killing a friend when he was 14, earned a Master of Arts degree in peace and reconciliation?
Did you know that Cal McLish was named after Calvin Coolidge, Julius Caesar, and Tuskahoma, Oklahoma?
Did you know that Joseph Bishara both composed the score and starred as the demonic antagonist for the 2011 horror film Insidious?
Did you know that Madrid's Teatro Español was built on a site which featured an open air theater in medieval times?
Did you know that after the overthrow of Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah in a military coup, he was declared the president of Guinea?
Did you know that an alleged first cousin of the King of Spain, Alfonso de Bourbon, was killed by a truck while dumpster diving?
Did you know that despite its appearance, Hemaris thysbe is not a hummingbird, but rather a moth?
Did you know that it is important to manage poverty levels in London?
Did you know that the British aircraft maintenance carrier HMS Unicorn was the only aircraft carrier ever to conduct a shore bombardment during wartime when she shelled North Korean positions during the Korean War?
Did you know that the constellation of Pavo was named for a Green rather than a Blue Peacock?
Did you know that the first single from the Goodie Mob's 2013 album Age Against the Machine, "Special Education", supports being unusual?
Did you know that Bharatiya Janata Party politician Harsh Vardhan has never lost an election to the Delhi Legislative Assembly?
Did you know that English and French monarchs were believed to possess the supernatural touch that could cure a form of tuberculosis known as the King's Evil (ritual pictured)?
Did you know that George of Izla's execution was instigated by Gabriel of Sinjar after a theological debate in Ctesiphon?
Did you know that Lord Cheylesmore bequeathed over 10,000 prints to the British Museum, and The Execution of Lady Jane Grey to the National Gallery?
Did you know that Malcolm Marshall took 13 of his 22 five-wicket hauls in Test cricket against Australia and England?
Did you know that Project Camel was part of the Manhattan Project and took place at a Naval base in the Mojave Desert?
Did you know that Zurich recently opened its first sex drive-in?
Did you know that by the end of the nineteenth century, the black wildebeest had nearly been hunted to extinction?
Did you know that finishing funds for the independent film Decampitated were provided by Troma Entertainment?
Did you know that the February 1975 assassination of Sidon mayor Maarouf Saad was a catalyst for the Lebanese Civil War?
Did you know that the Givors canal (Tartaras lock pictured) replaced 1,200 mules?
Did you know that the Polish book Kamienie na szaniec describing the lives of three Polish underground scouting members was published shortly after their deaths in occupied Poland?
Did you know that the music of Giuseppe Verdi's secular cantata Inno delle nazioni—his first collaboration with Arrigo Boito—incorporates the tunes of three different national anthems?
Did you know that Charles Thomas Wooldridge was the "C.T.W." to whom Oscar Wilde dedicated The Ballad of Reading Gaol?
Did you know that Chirlane McCray, who wrote the "groundbreaking" 1979 essay "I Am a Lesbian" for Essence, later married Bill de Blasio?
Did you know that Cleveland Hall was the base for anarchists and international revolutionaries in London?
Did you know that Daniel Scott was an investor in a company that paid for Fremantle prisoners to build a tunnel that gave easy access between the High St. and the beach, and which ran beneath their prison?
Did you know that Derrick Green, rated the No. 1 running back in the college football recruiting Class of 2013, has been described as follows: "Look at him from the back and the side, he's a huge human being"?
Did you know that Jeff Tuel might become the first undrafted free agent to start at quarterback in the first game of his first professional year in the modern era?
Did you know that Joseph P. Kennedy II was among the 187 hostages of a hijacked Lufthansa Jumbo Jet?
Did you know that Jungle Moon Men (1955), which features tiny "Moon Men" in an African jungle, was inspired by H. Rider Haggard's She: A History of Adventure (1887)?
Did you know that Monte Westmore's workload as makeup supervisor on Gone with the Wind was blamed for his death by heart attack?
Did you know that a pet feed, which is now manufactured in several countries, originated from a recipe devised and cooked by a French vet in his garage?
Did you know that a reindeer station and the Russo-American Telegraph Expedition's regional headquarters were located near Grantley Harbor?
Did you know that the Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin often uses a piece of snakeskin in the lining of its nest?
Did you know that the blushing morel, previously known only from western North America, was found growing in Israel in 2009?
Did you know that the idols of Morning Musume influenced character types in the arcade game The Idolmaster?
Did you know that the makeup for Johnny Knoxville's character in Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa took three hours to apply?
Did you know that the yellowspotted catshark and the West African catshark both lay eggs enclosed in egg cases?
Did you know that 96-year-old Olivia Robertson is the High Priestess of the Fellowship of Isis?
Did you know that Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire, died of an uncertain cause during his second, punitive campaign against Western Xia in China?
Did you know that Indian school teacher Barun Biswas was murdered for protesting against rape in Sutia, West Bengal?
Did you know that Joel Stebbins discovered that Beta Aurigae and Delta Orionis were eclipsing binaries?
Did you know that Mary Higham, who created an emporium on the High Street in Fremantle, hosted a meeting at her house that was the start of the City of Cockburn?
Did you know that St Michael's Church, Garston, is located between gas holders and a railway?
Did you know that The Lone Wolf and His Lady (1949) was the final Lone Wolf film produced by Columbia Pictures?
Did you know that a hand lotion manufacturer used Abbey Records to indirectly promote its product?
Did you know that a police escort was provided to transport killer whale Morgan from the Dolfinarium Harderwijk?
Did you know that in April 1947, halfback Mel Groomes became the first African-American player signed by the Detroit Lions?
Did you know that the Common Grasshopper Warbler is more often heard than seen?
Did you know that the fungus Exophiala hongkongensis, described as new to science in 2013, was isolated from the nail clipping of a big toe?
Did you know that the original office for The Bulletin, the first newspaper in Bend, Oregon, was in a cabin located on the banks of the Deschutes River?
Did you know that the world's first Afrikaans language heavy metal album, Swaar Metaal, was released in March 2007?
Did you know that when three of Whitney Houston's recorded songs on her first album became number-one singles, it was the first time three songs from a debut album reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100?
Did you know that British historian David Baldwin successfully predicted the location of King Richard III's remains over 25 years before they were discovered?
Did you know that Elaine West was in charge of the renovation of housing for Royal Air Force personnel before becoming the highest ranking female in the British Armed Forces and the first to hold a two-star rank?
Did you know that Hyposwiss Private Bank reappointed to its board of directors a lawyer who had pleaded guilty to money laundering?
Did you know that after evacuating his base in Dutch Timor following bombing by the Japanese in 1942, Frank Headlam returned to Darwin, Australia, the same day it suffered its first air raid?
Did you know that muzzle-loading guns should never be loaded directly from a powder flask or horn?
Did you know that the Corral de comedias de Almagro was discovered in 1953 during renovation of the Plaza Mayor (both pictured)?
Did you know that the Korean hare was at one time considered to be a subspecies of the Chinese hare?
Did you know that the Oxford United and Reading football clubs nearly merged in 1983 to form "Thames Valley Royals"?
Did you know that the yeast Candida keroseneae grows in airplane fuel?
Did you know that AC/DC fans who want to "have a beer with Bon" go to the "most visited grave" in Australia at Fremantle Cemetery?
Did you know that American aid workers Heather Mercer and Dayna Curry's memoir, Prisoners of Hope, recounts them killing 150 flies a day during their 2001 imprisonment by the Taliban?
Did you know that Founders Tower in Oklahoma City was the second building in the United States to have a revolving restaurant?
Did you know that Last Frontier Uprising (1947), which was directed by Lesley Selander, centers around two men fighting over a woman's horses?
Did you know that Scott Dixon lost the 2013 GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma after hitting Will Power's pit crew?
Did you know that Sybil Campbell, who was appointed a stipendiary magistrate in 1945, was the first woman to become a professional judge in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Wang Changshun, a former airline regulator, now serves as the chairman of Air China?
Did you know that a vast British newspaper empire grew from a horse racing tip sheet published in Victorian Manchester by the enterprising son of a weaver?
Did you know that the Kumarakottam Temple is one of the 21 major temples in Kanchipuram and an important pilgrimage centre?
Did you know that the bank vole is alert to the alarm calls of tits warning of aerial predators?
Did you know that the memoirs of American missionary Rose Lambert document her experiences in Ottoman Turkey during the 1909 massacre of Armenians?
Did you know that the smoking tobacco brand Bigger Hair was originally named Nigger Hair?
Did you know that writer David R. George III did not enjoy the time pressures when writing an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, and went on to write several Star Trek novels instead?
Did you know that , based on its pilot episodes, one critic stated that Danny Antonucci's Ed, Edd n Eddy was the worst Cartoon Network show, and another said that the funniest thing about it was its title?
Did you know that Francis John Williamson sculpted a statue of theologian and natural philosopher Joseph Priestley for Birmingham, and the Jubilee bust of Queen Victoria?
Did you know that Richard Hill, the first minister of St James' Church, Sydney, travelled to the colony with 160 male convicts?
Did you know that Roslags-Bro Church was built by an important sea-route that has since vanished?
Did you know that San Diego County, California, has been referred to as the "Craft Beer Capital of America", with 71 licensed craft breweries and brewpubs and 39 more on the drawing boards?
Did you know that West Indian cricketer Desmond Haynes scored eleven of his international cricket centuries against Australia?
Did you know that despite efforts to shorten the service, many noblemen attending the 1937 coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were carrying sandwiches in their coronets?
Did you know that high casualty rates among Dutch troops during the Siege of Galle (1640), gave rise to the proverb "Gold in Malacca, lead in Galle"?
Did you know that the British Defence-class ironclad was considered by the naval architect Sir Nathaniel Barnaby to have only one quarter the combat value of the preceding Warrior class?
Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines women's soccer team is currently coached by former United States women's national team head coach Greg Ryan?
Did you know that the toxic mushroom pigment norbadione A confers a protective effect against the damaging effects of ionizing radiation?
Did you know that Albert Einstein lived for several years after surgeon Rudolph Nissen wrapped the scientist's abdominal aortic aneurysm with cellophane?
Did you know that Colombian singer Shakira has refused to re-release her debut album Magia, or her second, Peligro, because of their "immaturity"?
Did you know that Kevin Pillar became a Major League Baseball player, despite being the 979th player drafted in 2011?
Did you know that Margaret of Burgundy, a princess as "plain as an owl", was twice envisaged to become Queen of France, but ended up married to a man she considered too beneath her in rank?
Did you know that Pink Panther Milan Poparić was broken out of a Swiss jail by two accomplices firing AK-47s?
Did you know that in August 1942 HMCS Trail rescued survivors from the American passenger ship Chatham that had been torpedoed and sunk by Nazi submarine U-517?
Did you know that paleontologists have discovered the fossilized eggs of cephalopods, fishes, and reptiles, with some dinosaur eggs being preserved with pathological shell deformities?
Did you know that the Bururi long-fingered frog, believed to be extinct, was rediscovered in 2011 amidst the wildlife of Burundi?
Did you know that the lesser cane rat is eaten as bushmeat?
Did you know that the winner of the 2013 Kentucky Oaks, Princess of Sylmar, was a 39/1 outsider?
Did you know that water passing through the Yucatán Channel provides most of the seawater inflow into the Gulf of Mexico?
Did you know that when rehearsing Dvořák's Eighth Symphony, conductor Rafael Kubelík said: "Gentlemen, in Bohemia the trumpets never call to battle –  they always call to the dance!"?
Did you know that when the 1971 Bollywood song "Chadti Jawani Meri Chaal Mastani" was remixed in 2003, Mumbai Police received complaints from citizens for its obscene video?
Did you know that Alan Chan, the CEO of Singapore Press Holdings, once served as Lee Kuan Yew's Principal Private Secretary?
Did you know that Clermont Steel Fabricators is the manufacturer of Bolliger & Mabillard roller coasters?
Did you know that Gus the polar bear was the first zoo animal in history to be treated with Prozac?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines basketball player Milt Mead won the 1953 NCAA Championship in the high jump?
Did you know that William Blake sketched a series of portraits of historical individuals (example pictured), including ancient Greeks, medieval royalty and characters of folklore, who appeared to him in late night visions?
Did you know that although its edibility is not definitively established, one source suggests that the rare mushroom Tubaria punicea tastes similar to "bland beef"?
Did you know that although the majority of insects lay eggs, aphids can give birth to live young?
Did you know that an episode in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream may have been a "riff" on the medieval German poem Der Busant?
Did you know that during the weeks before the 2013 Ghouta attacks, Lakhdar Brahimi and Ban Ki-moon worked closely with Russian and US diplomats towards a possible Geneva II Syrian peace conference?
Did you know that since 1376 Godfrey de Foljambe, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, and his wife have appeared to look out of a window at All Saints Church, Bakewell in Derbyshire?
Did you know that socialist Unitarian minister Frederic O. MacCartney was elected to four terms in the state legislature of Massachusetts as a member of the Social Democratic Party of America?
Did you know that the genocide of indigenous peoples in Brazil began in 1549?
Did you know that the order Rajiformes contains thirteen families including the guitarfish and skates?
Did you know that the settlement of Llanilid in Wales is home to a medieval church, the remains of an early fortification and a film studio?
Did you know that Abbotsford Bridge was the last lift span bridge to be constructed over the Murray River?
Did you know that Florence Koehler was one of the best-known jewelers of the Arts and Crafts movement?
Did you know that Mithun Chakraborty won the National Film Award in the Best Supporting Actor category for his portrayal of Ramakrishna in the 1998 film Swami Vivekananda?
Did you know that Osuwa Daiko was one of the first groups to popularize taiko music through its performance at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo?
Did you know that during World War II, HMCS Port Arthur participated in both the Allied invasion of North Africa and invasion of Normandy?
Did you know that in 1963 Trevor Storer sold his car to set up a home business, which by 2013 was selling 600 million pies a year?
Did you know that prior to their senior seasons Shane Morris and Max Browne were the only two 5-star rated quarterbacks in the high school class of 2013 according to Rivals.com?
Did you know that the Ponn Humpback Covered Bridge, built to replace an arsoned bridge, was itself set alight three months ago?
Did you know that the butt fumble, an infamous play in American football, was retired as an undefeated champion of SportsCenter's "Worst of the Worst" poll, having won a record-breaking 40 weeks in a row?