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Did you know that Mika Yamamoto, the fifteenth journalist killed in Syria in 2012, was the first Japanese reporter to be killed in the ongoing armed political conflict in Syria?
Did you know that Tim Hunter, director of "Episode 4" of Twin Peaks, was inspired by Otto Preminger's use of small sets in 1945's Fallen Angel?
Did you know that a Philippine Basketball Association team that successfully defends the Philippine Cup for three consecutive times, will permanently keep the Jun Bernardino Trophy?
Did you know that in August 2012, an employee of Gibraltar-based Profield Contractors was arrested on suspicion of being a member of a terrorist cell?
Did you know that in the Kinks' song "Sitting in My Hotel", singer and songwriter Ray Davies muses about the cost of stardom in terms of loneliness and losing touch with his roots?
Did you know that the 2011 film Love's Kitchen starring Dougray Scott, Claire Forlani and featuring chef Gordon Ramsay in a cameo role, took £121 on its opening weekend?
Did you know that the Church of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel in Brăila, Romania, is the country's only former mosque converted into an Orthodox church?
Did you know that the Danube bleak, a migratory fish, has had its traditional routes blocked by the building of dams?
Did you know that the Dras River, a tributary of Suru River in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, originates from the Machoi Glacier?
Did you know that the June 26, 2012, Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances has been criticized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation?
Did you know that the extinct lacewing Undulopsychopsis (fossil pictured) is the only psychopsid to have wavy wings?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair racer Rosemary Little had to raise AUD$8,000 to replace her racing wheelchair following a collision at the 2011 City2Surf?
Did you know that Abdullah Al Rabiah, once named the world's 45th most influential Arab by a business magazine, used to work as a surgeon who separated conjoined twins?
Did you know that Indonesian journalist Saeroen operated a chain of hotels named after bats?
Did you know that Michelin starred chef Lisa Allen has an allergy to shellfish?
Did you know that a California casino is putting up a million dollars to save the Chukchansi language, which has eight fluent speakers?
Did you know that according to T. E. Lawrence, the Syrian town of Tafas was the site of an infamous massacre perpetrated by retreating Ottoman troops during World War I?
Did you know that early mycologists classified species from the class Myxogastria (random species pictured) as "fungus animals"?
Did you know that in 1924, Izetta Jewel became the first woman to address a major political party  convention to second a U.S. presidential nomination?
Did you know that in 2008, the only songs to spend two weeks at number one on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Songs chart were Madonna's "4 Minutes", featuring Justin Timberlake, and Donna Summer's "Stamp Your Feet"?
Did you know that the Sooty Oystercatcher forages for two hours on either side of low tide?
Did you know that the Umayyad military leader Abdallah al-Battal became a popular hero in medieval Arabic and Turkish tradition for his exploits against the Byzantines?
Did you know that the filly Lady Carla won the 1996 Epsom Oaks by nine lengths, the fourth-widest margin of victory of this race in the 20th century?
Did you know that the seven highest National Basketball Association league leading minutes per game averages have been by Wilt Chamberlain?
Did you know that John Hilliard's Cause of Death (1974) suggested four different interpretations of one photographic negative?
Did you know that Kara Mustafa Pasha, the founder of the Ridwan dynasty, was a former gate-slave of Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent?
Did you know that Mayer Zald and John D. McCarthy developed the resource mobilization theory, which became one of the major theories on social movements?
Did you know that Mississippi's Spanish Fort is neither Spanish nor a fort?
Did you know that Prince Rupert's cube, named for Prince Rupert of the Rhine, can pass through a square hole drilled into a smaller cube?
Did you know that Rabbi Aryeh Tzvi Frumer, a leading rosh yeshiva in prewar Poland, was forced to work in a Warsaw Ghetto factory making footwear for German soldiers?
Did you know that Varietease, starring Lili St. Cyr and Bettie Page, was Irving Klaw's first feature length documentary film about 1950s burlesque?
Did you know that after pressure from his mamluks, the Burji sultan Sayf ad-Din Inal supported James II with a naval fleet in his attempt to gain the throne of Cyprus?
Did you know that beer distributor Ron Fowler led a group that included golfer Phil Mickelson that was approved by Major League Baseball to purchase the San Diego Padres for $800 million?
Did you know that during World War II, civilians evacuated from Gibraltar (memorial pictured) were moved to Morocco, Madeira, England and Jamaica?
Did you know that leading the Our Greatest Team Parade will be two giant lion heads?
Did you know that the Alcatraz Gang (member pictured) was a group of eleven American POWs singled out for extra harsh treatment by their North Vietnamese captors because of their fierce resistance to captivity?
Did you know that the Glee episode "Britney 2.0" features Britney Spears mashed up with Justin Bieber?
Did you know that the orange sea lily and the beaded crinoid conceal their bodies in crevices while they extend their arms to filter feed?
Did you know that upon the release of Mariah Carey's 12th studio album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, her song "Betcha Gon' Know (The Prologue)" peaked at number 66 on the U.S. Hot Digital Songs chart?
Did you know that water polo goalkeeper Chay Lapin set the all-time saves record at the University of California, Los Angeles?
Did you know that Libby Houston received the 2012 H. H. Bloomer Award from the Linnean Society of London?
Did you know that Monsieur d'Amour married four times, once to a 14-year-old girl?
Did you know that Rear Admiral Charles Boarman was a member of the U.S. Naval Board in Washington during the American Civil War while two of his sons-in-law served in the Confederate Army?
Did you know that Shane Warne has taken more wickets than any other Rajasthan Royals cricketer?
Did you know that Victoria's Secret Angel model Chanel Iman plays Usher's love interest in the music video for "Dive"?
Did you know that after failing to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics in triathlon, American Mary Beth Ellis went on to win five Ironman Triathlons, including the 2012 U.S. Championships at Ironman New York?
Did you know that during the Liverpool Exchange by-election in 1897, the Liberal candidate Russell Rea was denounced by a Conservative Party politician as a "white slave" of Irish Nationalists?
Did you know that for the portrayal of Trevor Raznik in the film The Machinist, Christian Bale lost 63 pounds (28.5 kg)?
Did you know that in 2009, Arawak artist and archaeologist George Simon and a team of researchers uncovered evidence of human settlements in Guyana that date back to 3,000 BCE?
Did you know that it is not compulsory for a place of worship in England and Wales to be officially registered, but doing so makes the premises exempt from Council Tax?
Did you know that minuscule 880, a 15th-century manuscript of the New Testament, was written by George Hermonymus, a teacher of Reuchlin and Budeus?
Did you know that scenes in "Episode 5" of Twin Peaks were filmed in Angeles National Forest?
Did you know that the Abbasid vizier al-Fadl ibn al-Rabi' was the main instigator of the civil war between brothers and rival caliphs al-Ma'mun and al-Amin?
Did you know that the Alcatraz gun gallery was situated in the recreation yard, mounted on one of the dining hall's exterior walls?
Did you know that the Musidora Stakes, an annual race held at York, was named in honour of the 1000 Guineas and Epsom Oaks-winning filly Musidora?
Did you know that the Old English Lambeth Homilies (c. 1200), written in the Middle English period, share five homilies (and the Poema Morale) with the Trinity Homilies (c. 1200–25), which likewise preserve Old English forms?
Did you know that Jamal Fyfield assisted Matty Blair's winning goal for York City in the 2011–12 FA Trophy semi-final second leg against Luton Town with a cross from the left flank?
Did you know that Japanese child actress Miyu Honda is also a figure skater?
Did you know that Jeff Powers and Jesse Smith played on the United States men's national water polo team at the 2004, 2008, and 2012 Olympic games?
Did you know that NYPD detective Barney Ruditsky once stopped a robbery with the help of his wife on their wedding anniversary?
Did you know that Roderich Kreile, the 28th cantor at Dresden's Kreuzkirche, led the boys' choir Dresdner Kreuzchor in recording music by Gottfried August Homilius, the 15th cantor?
Did you know that a week before he graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Hugo Johnstone-Burt was approached to play Fish Lamb in Cloudstreet?
Did you know that an annual bike tour in Memphis, Tennessee, takes place at midnight?
Did you know that chef Alain Ducasse opened his restaurant Le Louis XV following a challenge by the Prince of Monaco?
Did you know that during Operation Mardonius in 1943 SOE agents used magnetic limpet mines to sink ships at Oslo harbour?
Did you know that in 1955, two years after interviewing American actor Gregory Peck for the newspaper France Soir, French journalist Veronique Passani became Peck's wife?
Did you know that the Alcatraz water tower was covered in graffiti during the island's occupation by Native Americans?
Did you know that the Royal Naval Hospital Gibraltar was the first military hospital to receive a Baby Friendly Award from UNICEF?
Did you know that the Suru River, a tributary of the Indus River, originates from the Panzella glacier and flows entirely in the Kargil district of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir?
Did you know that the butter-foot bolete and red-capped butter bolete are in the same section?
Did you know that the filly Saucy Sue won the 1000 Guineas, the Epsom Oaks, and the Coronation Stakes in 1925, helping Lord Astor become Britain's champion owner that season?
Did you know that to date, the 2009 song "The Climb" performed by Miley Cyrus, is her first and only single to peak at number one on the U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary chart?
Did you know that wheelchair tennis player Andrew Lapthorne won the doubles tournament at his very first Grand Slam?
Did you know that Christian Garcia reached Major League Baseball despite enduring three elbow surgeries?
Did you know that Colonel Joseph H. Tucker, twice commander of the Camp Douglas (Chicago) prison camp during the American Civil War, was never mustered into the Union Army?
Did you know that Ed, Edd n Eddy's TV movie series finale, Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show, premiered on November 8, 2009, and achieved high ratings success for Cartoon Network?
Did you know that Ryan Westmoreland, considered one of the best prospects in baseball, has had brain surgery twice to correct a cavernous malformation?
Did you know that Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo, a onetime resident of Yonkers, New York, personally chose the location for the city's new post office in 1916?
Did you know that before the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary began operations in 1934 there was a citadel on Alcatraz Island?
Did you know that in May 1936, on orders of the Nazis, Expressionist artworks were burnt in the furnace of the Kronprinzenpalais, which housed the modern art division of the Berlin National Gallery?
Did you know that indigenous Australian rapper Briggs toured with Ice Cube, who he described as "my favourite rapper since I was a kid", just a year after releasing his first EP?
Did you know that nearly half the students in the Harvard "Introduction to Congress" course were implicated in a cheating investigation?
Did you know that of the two roller coasters in New Jersey named "Jumbo Jet"—one closed without a single rider, and another was sold for two rail cars of ketchup to a Soviet amusement park?
Did you know that tenor Martin Petzold, a former member of the boys' choir Thomanerchor and a singer of Bach's Evangelist parts with the group, co-published 800 Years Thomana?
Did you know that the Dutch television series De Kris Pusaka draws from Indonesian stories about krisses?
Did you know that the Madras State awarded 75 acres (30 ha; 0.117 sq mi) to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research for the establishment of Central Leather Research Institute?
Did you know that the Pyrenean desman is believed to be almost extinct in the southern area of its range in the Iberian Peninsula due to changes to its habitat?
Did you know that the town of Muzayrib in southern Syria served as the first major resting place along the Hajj caravan route from Damascus to Mecca during the Ottoman era?
Did you know that the village of Najran in Syria was named after the Najran of South Arabia, whose inhabitants, the Balharith, fled to Syria in the 520s?
Did you know that two men and a dog died during the 1909 Portola Road Race in Oakland, California?
Did you know that 2012 British Paralympian Helena Lucas was the only female sailor in the 16-boat fleet for the 2.4 mR event, in which she won her nation's first ever Paralympic sailing gold medal?
Did you know that Abraham Avigdorov received the Hero of Israel citation for his actions in the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine?
Did you know that Edmond Panariti, the current minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania, is the first Albanian government minister to visit Australia?
Did you know that George Bray's association with Burnley F.C. as a player, coach, kit man and supporter spanned seven decades?
Did you know that George M. Stratton founded Berkeley's psychology department?
Did you know that Jane Stanford, co-founder of Stanford University, ordered her jewels to be sold to provide funding for the Stanford University Libraries?
Did you know that Moubray House, one of the oldest buildings on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, was once the premises of Archibald Constable, the owner of the Encyclopædia Britannica?
Did you know that Mulford Winsor was Arizona Territory's first Territorial Historian?
Did you know that NASCAR driver Mike Olsen is known for being sponsored by Little Trees?
Did you know that Philip Bell was governor of the puritan Providence Island colony, which turned into a haven for pirates?
Did you know that Poczta Królewiecka, published 1718–20 in Królewiec (Königsberg), was the second oldest Polish newspaper?
Did you know that Podoserpula has a unique form of fruit body not known in any other fungi?
Did you know that although Czech psychiatrist and neuropathologist Oskar Fischer made significant contributions to the description of Alzheimer's disease, his works largely remained unknown until 2008?
Did you know that despite being over 70 years old, the Byzantine general Bessas was entrusted with overall command of the Byzantine forces in the Lazic War?
Did you know that during the bird flu pandemic of 2005, chef Alexis Gauthier removed bird related products from the menu at his Michelin starred restaurant in London?
Did you know that fakanau, considered by Christian missionaries to be evil dancing, eventually disappeared from Tuvalu?
Did you know that in 1977, the Douglas Stenstrom Bridge in Indian Mound Village, Florida, replaced the Osteen Bridge, a 1920s hand-turned swing bridge that had become an unsafe driving hazard?
Did you know that the Ouachita Dusky Salamander, the Fourche Mountain Salamander, and the Rich Mountain Salamander are all endemic to the Ouachita Mountains in Arkansas and Oklahoma?
Did you know that the cyanobacterium Nostoc commune can withstand desiccation and repeated freezing and thawing?
Did you know that the silver modius (specimen pictured) on display at the Forum Amastrianum in Constantinople represented the standard for this Roman unit of capacity in the Byzantine Empire?
Did you know that 2012 British Paralympic medallist Stephanie Millward set the British record for the 100 metre backstroke at the age of 15, before she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis?
Did you know that Annie Lowrie Alexander was the first licensed female physician in the Southern United States?
Did you know that Iranian space rocket Kavoshgar-5 will contain a rhesus monkey?
Did you know that Jacques Pic became a chef to win back the Michelin stars that had been lost at his family's restaurant?
Did you know that John Van Antwerp MacMurray predicted the American war with Japan in a 1935 memorandum commissioned by the U.S. State Department?
Did you know that St Matthew's Church in Burnley, Lancashire, England, was rebuilt after it burnt down on Christmas Day in 1927?
Did you know that Tonga was one of the 45 countries that sent only a single athlete for the 2012 Summer Paralympics?
Did you know that Tyler Cowen, an economics blogger, argues in the ebook The Great Stagnation that the Internet has not made us richer?
Did you know that Yusak Pakage was sentenced to ten years in prison after raising a flag?
Did you know that in 1985, Random House paid Karleen Koen $350,000 for the rights to Through a Glass Darkly, at the time a record sum for a new novelist?
Did you know that most of 2012 Paralympic wheelchair rugby player Cody Meakin's classmates walked to their year 12 formal, donating saved transportation money for his post-accident rehabilitation?
Did you know that the Braldu River is a river in Skardu District of Gilgit–Baltistan, that originates from the Baltoro and Biafo Glaciers?
Did you know that the Collegiate Church of San Gimignano has a fresco cycle (sample pictured) said to have been painted by a man who never lived?
Did you know that the Duvensee paddle on display at the Archaeological Museum Hamburg is the world's second oldest known paddle?
Did you know that the Meadowbrook State Parkway was dedicated in 1998 in memory of Norman J. Levy, the New York State Senator who sponsored the first U.S. law requiring seat belts while driving?
Did you know that the Sharif family is a Pakistani political family, largely involved in the country's politics through the Pakistan Muslim League (N)?
Did you know that the The brothers collaborated on Rentjong Atjeh?
Did you know that the final Clark's Point Light was specially constructed to resist cannon fire?
Did you know that the night-light mushroom is one of over 70 species of bioluminescent fungi?
Did you know that the upcoming comedy film, The Hangover Part III, is set in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Tijuana?
Did you know that Charles Hazlewood formed the first British orchestra consisting entirely of performers with a disability?
Did you know that Dedeline Mibamba Kimbata, a member of DR Congo's first Paralympic team, competed in a wheelchair donated by Kenyan Paralympian Anne Wafula Strike?
Did you know that Ian McEwan dedicated his latest novel, Sweet Tooth, to his friend, the late Christopher Hitchens?
Did you know that Japan's first wooden roller coaster appeared in Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla?
Did you know that Jordan Winston Early was a licensed exhorter?
Did you know that Tracey Shelton had to run from the debris cloud after photographing the explosion from a tank shell in Aleppo, Syria, that killed three opposition fighters?
Did you know that U.S. volleyball player Phil Eatherton set three career records at Ball State University and made it to the "Showcase Showdown" on The Price is Right?
Did you know that at 270 feet (82 m), the US 12–St. Joseph River Bridge is the longest surviving camelback bridge in the U.S. state of Michigan?
Did you know that chef Martin Hadden left Ockenden Manor shortly after winning a Michelin star?
Did you know that excavations at the town of Jayrud in the Qalamoun Mountains of Syria produced microliths, blades, scrapers and other lithic tools dating back to the Natufian culture?
Did you know that it is theorized that Jews' Gate Cemetery in Gibraltar was founded on Windmill Hill due to the expulsion of Jews mandated under the Treaty of Utrecht?
Did you know that it took 120 years before it was discovered that deep-water Stokes waves, named after George Gabriel Stokes, are unstable?
Did you know that more than half of the Kappa V Archaeological Site (flooding pictured) has been destroyed by wave wash erosion?
Did you know that people are able to implicitly learn underlying sequential structure in a series using sequence learning?
Did you know that sociology in Russia was declared a "bourgeois pseudo-science" and banned from the 1930s to the 1950s?
Did you know that the Waiʻoli Tea Room in Hawaii began as a Salvation Army job skills program?
Did you know that Alexandros Kasmeridis saved two penalties in Thrasyvoulos' penalty shoot-out victory over Levadiakos in the fourth round of the 2011–12 Greek Football Cup?
Did you know that Alicia Keys' debut performance of her new single "Girl on Fire" featured a gymnastics display by 2012 Olympics gold medalist Gabby Douglas?
Did you know that Banbhore is an ancient city in Pakistan dating back to the first century BC, which contains the remains of one of the earliest mosques in the region?
Did you know that Dave Frishberg wrote the lyrics to "Van Lingle Mungo" while reading a baseball encyclopedia?
Did you know that Lanre Oyebanjo scored York City's second goal in their 2–0 victory over Newport County in the 2012 FA Trophy Final, hosted at Wembley Stadium?
Did you know that Palmeira Square in Hove, England, occupies the site of the Anthaeum—whose spectacular collapse the day before it opened made its promoter Henry Phillips go blind from shock?
Did you know that Romanian Sandu Tudor, once a Futurist poet and libelous journalist, was proposed for canonization?
Did you know that a tomahawk may be used to split an angle into three equal parts, despite the impossibility of doing so with compass and straightedge?
Did you know that after Theo van Gogh's murder, Ebru Umar took over his regular column in Metro?
Did you know that after retiring from baseball, Allie Clark worked for the Iron Workers Local 373 for thirty years and served on the city council of South Amboy, New Jersey?
Did you know that after starting his culinary career making bacon sandwiches in a café, Steve Drake went on to win a Michelin star as head chef at two restaurants?
Did you know that at 58 feet (18 m), the Buddha Statue in Hyderabad is the world's tallest monolithic statue of Buddha?
Did you know that in 1920, British Commander (and later Admiral of the Fleet) Bruce Fraser was imprisoned in the Black Hole of Baku?
Did you know that ten female chefs in the United States won a Michelin star in 2012, including Carrie Nahabedian, Missy Robbins, April Bloomfield and Melissa Perello?
Did you know that the fossil genus Astreptolabis is one of four described Burmese amber earwigs?
Did you know that the split-nose crab was first found at a depth of 500 metres (1,600 ft) in the waters near the Aleutian Islands?
Did you know that Canadian wheelchair basketball player Patrick Anderson retired in 2008 to become a musician, but returned to win his third Paralympic gold medal at London 2012?
Did you know that Leopold Loeffler, who worked on commissions for the court of Franz Joseph, became the professor at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków on the invitation of national painter Jan Matejko?
Did you know that Pleuni Touw had the first nude scene in Dutch television on 1974's The Hidden Force?
Did you know that Ragnar Hvidsten was the first Norwegian to play in the FA Amateur Cup?
Did you know that Steve Donoghue won his fourteenth and final British Classic Race at the 1937 Epsom Oaks, riding the filly Exhibitionnist (sic)?
Did you know that Stewart Iron Works was once the U.S.'s largest supplier of cemetery fences and gates?
Did you know that Sultan al-Atrash's decisive victory near the town of al-Mazraa in 1925, inspired Syrian nationalists in Damascus and the countryside to join the rebellion against the French occupation?
Did you know that an independent Gibraltar Port Authority was formed three hundred years after Queen Anne granted Free Port status to Gibraltar?