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Did you know that the hat designer Otto Lucas died when the plane he was on crashed, killing all 63 people onboard?
Did you know that where their ranges overlap, the Italian cave salamander sometimes hybridises with Ambrosi's cave salamander?
Did you know that Kawasaki made a "supercharged" Ninja bike with wings called the Ninja H2?
Did you know that Luftwaffe fighter pilot Karl-Gottfried Nordmann later became president of Mercedes-Benz in North America?
Did you know that Makode Linde made and decorated a cake in the shape of a black Venus of Willendorf for his art piece Painful Cake?
Did you know that Robotomy is the shortest-running show on Cartoon Network?
Did you know that Singaporean swimmer Amanda Lim won the women's 50-metre freestyle event in the 2009, 2011, and 2013 Southeast Asian Games?
Did you know that Stephen Simpson, writing under the pseudonym Brutus, in 1810 criticized the First Bank of the United States as primarily serving foreign interests?
Did you know that The Skating Minister is among the famous pieces of Scottish art in the eighteenth century?
Did you know that The Utility of Force, by General Sir Rupert Smith, has been described as an update of Clausewitz's On War for our times?
Did you know that according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Facebook's real-name policy "disproportionately affect[s] the LGBTQ community"?
Did you know that bass Michael Pospíšil and his ensemble Ritornello recorded music from the hymnal Capella Regia Musicalis, "one of the jewels of Czech musical history"?
Did you know that six systems commands not only design, construct, and maintain the U. S. Navy's military hardware, but also include the chiefs of two of the Navy's eight staff corps?
Did you know that English model Jean Shrimpton caused a global sensation by wearing a daring white minidress to Derby Day in Melbourne, Australia, on 30 October 1965?
Did you know that Sir Hugh Beadle, Rhodesia's Chief Justice, recognised Ian Smith's post-UDI government as legal in 1968?
Did you know that Warren Delabere Barnes, a member of the Malayan Civil Service who conducted an expedition in Pahang in 1900, had a plant in the Loranthaceae family named after him?
Did you know that efforts are underway to help Mahikeng Airport, a former air force base in South Africa, regain its status as an international airport?
Did you know that in the motet Locus iste, composed for the dedication of the votive chapel of Linz Cathedral, Anton Bruckner requests a pause "by carefully measuring out five beats"?
Did you know that the Golden Hall received its name when the walls were decorated with mosaics created by the artist Einar Forseth on a proposal by the architect Ragnar Östberg?
Did you know that the first president of Poland, Gabriel Narutowicz, was assassinated five days after taking office, amidst a right-wing propaganda campaign accusing him of being "an atheist, a Freemason, and a Jew"?
Did you know that the long-tailed marmot spends seven or eight months of each year in hibernation?
Did you know that the newly-discovered Dumfriesshire Hoard (gold bird pin pictured) has been described by experts as "one of the most significant Viking hoards ever found in Scotland"?
Did you know that "Beck's Bolero" begins with a reworking of Ravel's two-chord progression, transposed to the key of A?
Did you know that Australia's defeat of New Zealand in cricket's 2009 ICC Champions Trophy Final was their fifth consecutive win after becoming finalists in multi-team tournaments since 1999?
Did you know that Romeyn Beck Hough's American Woods is a set of over 1,000 paper-thin wood slices collected from 354 different tree species?
Did you know that a revealing red frock by Australian designer Ruth Tarvydas had more coverage than Jennifer Hawkins when she won Miss Universe 2004?
Did you know that according to Nomina im Indogermanischen Lexikon, the Lithuanian word for "pelvis" is derived from a Proto-Indo-European word stem meaning "deep"?
Did you know that according to one review of The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin, Shostakovich would be "horrified" by the film's "mickey-mousings" of his music?
Did you know that several 19th-century buildings were integrated into the design of Jerusalem's outdoor Mamilla Mall, including the Convent of St. Vincent de Paul?
Did you know that the capital of Madagascar, Antananarivo, was founded in 1625 by King Andrianjaka on the site of a village occupied by Vazimba, the island's earliest inhabitants?
Did you know that visitors to the Florentine villa of Theodosia Trollope found the atmosphere less intense than that at the nearby home of Elizabeth Barrett Browning?
Did you know that when a Mercedes-Benz CLR somersaulted almost 15 metres (49 ft) airborne at the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans, it ended the model's racing career?
Did you know that Caitlin Doughty, whose web series Ask a Mortician humorously explores death, wrote the 2014 bestseller Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory?
Did you know that Idstein Castle has a witches' tower?
Did you know that Operation All Clear was the first operation conducted by the Royal Bhutan Army?
Did you know that Starfucker's third studio album, Reptilians (2011), includes snippets in which British-American philosopher Alan Watts discusses his beliefs about death?
Did you know that Swiss feminist Meta von Salis was horrified when someone suggested she marry her friend Friedrich Nietzsche?
Did you know that a law professor and a journalist are among those arrested in the 2014 Malaysian sedition dragnet?
Did you know that during the Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards reputedly moved out of Chaonei No. 81, "Beijing's most celebrated haunted house", because they were scared?
Did you know that the Neuquén-Cipolletti railway bridge was the first construction project in Argentina to use compressed air?
Did you know that the extinct witch-hazel Langeria is named for American philosopher Susanne Langer?
Did you know that tiella refers to several dishes in Italian cuisine, including one prepared with potato, rice, onion, and mussels?
Did you know that Bhumibol Adulyadej, the King of Thailand, once stood on his head for Sir Martin Gilliat?
Did you know that Jeremi Wiśniowiecki was one of the wealthiest magnates of Poland and Lithuania, ruling over 200,000 subjects living on estates in what is today Ukraine?
Did you know that according to the impedance analogy, a spring is analogous to an electrical capacitor?
Did you know that in 1130 during the Jin-Song Wars, Wanyan Wuzhu's troops were trapped at Huangtiandang for 48 days?
Did you know that in a reign of ten years, Stephen III of Hungary had his throne usurped twice and fought a series of wars with the Byzantine Empire, before dying at the age of 25?
Did you know that the Arabian partridge sometimes hybridises with Philby's partridge or the rock partridge?
Did you know that the flag of Eritrea bears a resemblance to the Eritrean People's Liberation Front's flag?
Did you know that while serving as chair of the US Atomic Energy Commission, Dixy Lee Ray was chauffeured to and from her office along with her Scottish deerhound and miniature poodle?
Did you know that Antananarivo Province was excluded from the republic proposed by the other five of Madagascar's provinces in 2002?
Did you know that Barton Currie edited the Country Gentleman and the Ladies' Home Journal, and hired Zane Grey to write for both?
Did you know that BlackBerry CEO John Chen joked about the iPhone 6 "bendgate" incident while introducing the Passport?
Did you know that Momoko Kuroda is known for her "haiku pilgrimages", some of which spanned decades?
Did you know that among P. S. Krøyer's paintings of his wife Marie is a double portrait in which they painted each other?
Did you know that composer Dennis McCarthy called the soundtrack album for Enterprise "the hardest recording session of my entire career" because of the September 11 attacks?
Did you know that in 1806 Franciscan friar Paškal Jukić was an editor of Il Regio Dalmata – Kraglski Dalmatin, the first Croatian-language newspaper?
Did you know that some kinds of supernova may create zombies in space?
Did you know that the 2014 romantic comedy film Anjada Gandu represents actor Sathish Neenasam's first commercial film role as a solo hero?
Did you know that the Iowa Hawkeyes field hockey team was the first from a Midwestern university to win the NCAA Championship?
Did you know that the crest of No. 77 Squadron RAAF (F/A-18 Hornet pictured) features an oriental temple lion nicknamed the "grumpy monkey"?
Did you know that when Walter Zinn attempted to demonstrate the safety of the boiling water reactor in the BORAX Experiments, things did not go according to plan?
Did you know that Cengiz Aktar was part of a campaign calling for an apology from the Turks to Armenians for the Armenian Genocide?
Did you know that Henry Blundell built two substantial buildings to house his art collection on the grounds of Ince Blundell Hall?
Did you know that India is raising the Sikkim Scouts to defend its 222 km (138 mi) border with China in Sikkim?
Did you know that Murata Jukō created the Japanese tea ceremony?
Did you know that Packers Run flows near Devils Feather Bed?
Did you know that although a battle near Mérida in 1546 established Spanish control in the north of the Yucatán Peninsula during the Spanish conquest, the last Maya kingdom in the south did not fall until 1697?
Did you know that physician Newton Adams was known as "the teacher with three coats" by the Zulu?
Did you know that the Australian raven is the commonest crow-like bird in urban Canberra, Sydney, and Perth?
Did you know that the Los Angeles Angels, a 1961 Major League Baseball expansion team, played their first season at Wrigley Field?
Did you know that the facial markings in this photo of Māori chief Tuterei Karewa may have been enhanced by the photographer using black paint?
Did you know that "Father of Logology" Dmitri Borgmann earned $10,000 for coining the name Exxon, making him (at $2000 per letter) the world's highest-paid writer?
Did you know that Anton Bruckner's Ave Maria for seven voices, the first motet composed after his studies, was sung by his choir in the Linz Cathedral?
Did you know that Argentine thrash metal band Hermética was part of the 1994 edition of the Monsters of Rock festival in Argentina, alongside Black Sabbath, Slayer, and Kiss?
Did you know that Grace Boelke, a physician, was employed by the lingerie manufacturer Berlei to ensure their garments were anatomically correct?
Did you know that Phuti Mahanyele was chosen as ForbesWoman Africa Business Woman of the Year in 2014?
Did you know that Richard Hamming introduced what is now called the Hamming distance (illustrated), the number of positions in which two code words differ?
Did you know that Tafelberg School for children with special learning needs is one of over 250 schools in the United Kingdom and South Africa linked for mutual benefit via Afri Twin?
Did you know that in the game Saints Row: Gat out of Hell, players progress by increasing Satan's wrath?
Did you know that the Charles Cryer Theatre, opened by Prince Edward in 1991 in Carshalton, was given the name of a man who campaigned for creation of the local Secombe Theatre?
Did you know that the Sardinian long-eared bat is the only remaining mammal endemic to Sardinia after others, such as Hensel's field mouse, became extinct after the arrival of humans on the island?
Did you know that the Tijuana Cross-border Terminal will let passengers check in while in the U.S., walk across a bridge over the border, and catch a flight at Tijuana Airport in Mexico?
Did you know that Bob Healey, founder of the Cool Moose Party, ran for Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island in 2010 in order to abolish the office?
Did you know that London's Henrietta Street once had five pubs, but by 1970 had none?
Did you know that Lord Zoltan was one of the first American pro wrestlers to start wearing facepaint?
Did you know that Smiley, an American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) living at Gothenburg's Maritime Museum, died after the heat was turned down in her pond to save money?
Did you know that before he was Illinois Secretary of State, George H. Harlow was personal secretary to Governor Richard J. Oglesby?
Did you know that in 1914, a disgruntled worker killed seven people at Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studio, and set it on fire?
Did you know that the Princeton Lectures in Analysis are based on Elias M. Stein's Princeton lectures in analysis?
Did you know that Australian physician Claudia Burton Bradley was one of the first diabetics to be treated with insulin?
Did you know that Ciceri e Tria is an Apulian pasta dish that originated from Arabs who at one time ruled the region?
Did you know that in the Byzantine Empire, the office of orphanotrophos, head of the imperial orphanage, ranked among the higher offices of state?
Did you know that rhapsodomancy was so vague, Virgil wrote against it in The Aeneid?
Did you know that the Dispatch sternwheeler carried as many as 400 passengers over two hours downriver from Coquille to Bandon, Oregon, to attend baseball games there?
Did you know that the Queen Anne house at the Allen Centennial Gardens was home to four deans of the University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences?
Did you know that the film St. James Place depicts James B. Donovan's negotiations for release of American Francis Gary Powers, shot down over the Soviet Union in the 1960 U-2 spyplane incident?
Did you know that the stream Shingle Run is actually named after sawmills?
Did you know that twin settlements of Mikuszowice and Komorowice were divided by a state border for hundreds of years, but are now unified in one country, separated only by a river?
Did you know that while testifying in a 2004 lawsuit involving the meaning of the word steakburger, a corporate CEO was grilled on the witness stand?
Did you know that Big Girls Don't Cry is a nonfiction book that argues that "the women's liberation movement found thrilling new life" as a result of the 2008 U.S. presidential election?
Did you know that Deborah Luster produced more than 25,000 images, many of them using tintype, focusing on crime?
Did you know that Mumba Cave contains a large assemblage of archaeological evidence for the transition between the Middle Stone Age and Late Stone Age in East Africa?
Did you know that San Pablo Cathedral was a parish church prior to a new diocese being established in 1966?
Did you know that South Africa has a hotline to report illegal parking in bays designated for disabled drivers?
Did you know that Swami Bodhamayananda, director of the Vivekananda Institute of Human Excellence, teaches a "philosophy of strength and fearlessness"?
Did you know that Winners & Losers producer Maryanne Carroll helped actor Damien Bodie secure the role of Jonathan Kurtiss?
Did you know that it is not known why river chubs have disappeared from Little Catawissa Creek?
Did you know that other millers viewing the fully-automated flour mill designed by Oliver Evans could not appreciate its advantages?
Did you know that there are rubber rooms below the launch pads at Kennedy Space Center?
Did you know that victory celebrations for the 2004 Subway 500 were canceled due to the Hendrick Motorsports aircraft crash?
Did you know that "The Flame", the first published short story by Bertie Louis Coombes, concerned a miner in imminent danger of being blown up?
Did you know that Aaron Guzikowski's first film, Prisoners, was released almost six years after he completed the script?
Did you know that Basement Jaxx feature a twerking robot in their "Never Say Never" music video?
Did you know that Långholmens spinnhus was a women's prison located on the island of Långholmen in Stockholm, Sweden?
Did you know that dragons, octopuses, diver flippers and flowers have been washing up on the beaches of Cornwall after they fell off the Tokio Express in 1997?
Did you know that part of Little Pine Creek was designated a public highway in 1837?
Did you know that the eyes of the sand diver have an iridescent surface layer?
Did you know that Barney Burman, Joel Harlow and Mindy Hall won an Academy Award for makeup in 2009 for Star Trek, the first Oscar in the history of the franchise?
Did you know that Bruckner's third setting of the gradual Christus factus est, composed 40 years after the first, reaches a dramatic climax and ends pianissimo?
Did you know that Kim Kyu-jong was disappointed that he didn't look like a woman on the cover of his EP Turn Me On?
Did you know that Martinus Rørbye's painting View from the Artist's Window is considered one of the highlights of the Danish Golden Age of painting?
Did you know that Matilda Cullen Knowles is considered the founder of modern studies of Irish lichens?
Did you know that Ronny and Ragge, a popular TV duo created by Swedish comedian Peter Settman, put out their own album with musician Christer Sandelin?
Did you know that of the provinces (now abolished) of Madagascar, Fianarantsoa had the highest fertility rate?
Did you know that physicists Wallace Leland and Harold Agnew put a shark in the bed of Marshall Holloway, director of the Ivy Mike thermonuclear test?
Did you know that the development team for Cities: Skylines, which has been called more ambitious than SimCity, consists of only nine people?
Did you know that twenty-five years ago tonight, Stasi officer Harald Jäger gave the order to open the gate at his border crossing on the Berlin Wall?
Did you know that Dirk Mudge was minister before and after Namibian independence, following the 1978 elections, in the Transitional Government of National Unity, and in Namibia's first National Assembly?
Did you know that Eddie Einhorn organized the International Wrestling Association in 1975 with the goal of building the first nationwide business promoting wrestling?
Did you know that drummer Shannon Leto co-founded Thirty Seconds to Mars in 1998 with his younger brother Jared Leto?
Did you know that hundreds of Colorado high school students protested a proposed curriculum change?
Did you know that in Menace from the Moon, a lunar colony‍—‌founded in 1654 by a Dutchman, an Englishman, an Italian, and "their women"‍—‌promises Earth heat-ray doom unless it helps them escape their dying world?
Did you know that journalist Hanna Stjärne was announced as the new CEO of Sveriges Television in September 2014 and will take the post within six months?
Did you know that the Battle of Baguio involved the U.S. 33rd and 37th Infantry Divisions, and the guerrilla organization USAFIP–NL?
Did you know that the Mabitac Church is known for its panoramic view, but you have to climb 126 steps to see it?
Did you know that CIA case officer James William Lair recruited Vang Pao, and they founded a covert 30,000-man guerrilla army?
Did you know that Command Sergeant Major William McLeroy was the first amputee to serve in Operation Iraqi Freedom?
Did you know that George Bacon fought as a Green Beret during the Vietnam War, a CIA paramilitary in the Laotian Civil War, and a mercenary in Angola, all by age 30?
Did you know that John Lewger, Maryland's first practicing attorney and its first Attorney General, is considered the father of the Maryland Bar?
Did you know that Major Arthur Moon enlisted four prisoners of war who were artists to create a unique record of camp conditions during construction of the Thailand-Burma Railway, then buried those works?
Did you know that Neil Douglas Findlay was the first British general to be killed during the First World War?
Did you know that No. 91 (Composite) Wing was responsible for administering all Royal Australian Air Force units deployed in the Korean War?
Did you know that although Ran Qiu was severely criticized by Confucius, he is still considered one of the Master's top ten disciples?
Did you know that engineer Benjamin Bevan had a heart attack while watching an eclipse?
Did you know that in his 1989 book Homecoming, Bob Greene reprinted scores of letters from Vietnam veterans who claimed they were spat upon when they returned from the war zone?
Did you know that the $10 banknote of the Canadian Journey Series includes an excerpt from the iconic Remembrance Day war poem "In Flanders Fields"?
Did you know that the museum Nordland fylkesmuseum bought the Nordlandsjekt Anna Karoline after their first choice, Brødrene, was shipwrecked?
Did you know that "Cowpuncher's Cantata" was the only record by a British male artist to appear in the first UK Singles Chart?
Did you know that Amy Robertson is the only head coach in the 15-year history of the Indiana Hoosiers field hockey program?
Did you know that Jeff Banister overcame bone cancer in high school and paralysis in college to play in Major League Baseball?
Did you know that Nik Wallenda's walk across Chicago was telecast with a 10-second delay in case something went wrong?
Did you know that following criticism, the UK suicide prevention charity Samaritans discontinued their Twitter-based Samaritans Radar service nine days after launch?
Did you know that shrikethrushes (grey shrikethrush pictured) have calls described as "strong, mellow and beautiful"?
Did you know that the Guatemalan Revolution (celebratory mural pictured), which lasted from 1944 to 1954, included an agrarian reform program that granted land to half a million landless peasants?
Did you know that under Hector Bell, the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board displeased the religious community by introducing Sunday-morning tram services?
Did you know that while on the faculty of Arizona State University, Harry K. Newburn served as the acting president of Cleveland State University?
Did you know that Jack Newton was killed in action as a bomber pilot, 55 days after being elected to the Parliament of Western Australia?
Did you know that Selena was inducted into the Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame three months after her death?
Did you know that a 2003 study reported that 87% of reservoirs supplying water to residential buildings in Kolkata, India, were contaminated?
Did you know that new school tattoos (example pictured) are not limited to traditional subjects and have included cultural icons like the USS Enterprise?
Did you know that one of the arrangements on Glenn Branca's Lesson No. 1 includes a sledgehammer?
Did you know that the "War Edition" of the sheet music for "My Belgian Rose" was physically smaller in order to conserve paper for World War I?
Did you know that the title of Annie's The A&R EP refers to her and producer Richard X?
Did you know that Bruckner scored his second setting of Christus factus est for eight vocal parts, trombones, and strings, but added, "Besser ohne Violinen" (Better without violins)?
Did you know that Eddie Golden, a third-generation professional wrestler, has teamed with his real-life uncle Jimmy Golden on the independent circuit?
Did you know that Lou Reed directed a short film?
Did you know that a coffee extract used in Starbucks' discontinued Mazagran beverage was later used in the formulation of the company's line of bottled frappuccino beverages?
Did you know that after R. H. Naylor was credited with predicting the R101 airship crash, he became Britain's first regular astrology columnist?
Did you know that during the American Civil War, Middletown, Virginia's St. Thomas Chapel was used first as a Confederate hospital and later as a Union stable?
Did you know that in his legal defence of Saddam Hussein, Hussein Mjalli argued that "Iraq, Iraqi people, Iraqi law, and the Iraqi president were hijacked"?
Did you know that the Balinese dance condong is said to have come to a sick prince in a dream?
Did you know that Bruckner dedicated Os justi, his motet for eight voices in strict Lydian mode, to the choir master of St. Florian abbey?
Did you know that Dark Run is one of the few fertile streams in the watershed of Catawissa Creek that supports fish life?
Did you know that Gelae baen, Gelae balae, Gelae donut, Gelae fish, and Gelae rol are beetles of the genus Gelae?
Did you know that Sant Nirankaris were expelled from the Sikh community after the 1978 Sikh-Nirankari clashes, in which 13 Sikhs and 3 Sant Nirankaris were killed?