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Did you know that Edward Iacobucci has followed in his father Frank Iacobucci's footsteps as dean of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law?
Did you know that Ingmar Bergman based his script for the Palme d'Or-winning film The Best Intentions on the life of his father Erik Bergman, salvaged from scattered notes, stories, and conversations?
Did you know that Laurence Fishburne played Josh Hall, a member of "daytime television's first African American family," on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live?
Did you know that the Wrecking Crew supplied the instrumental tracks on dozens of hits recorded in Los Angeles during the 1960s, including "California Dreamin'", "Mr. Tambourine Man", "He's a Rebel", and "Good Vibrations"?
Did you know that the oldest known human footprints in continental Europe are called "devil's trails" by locals?
Did you know that when Talbieh Refugee Camp first opened, most of its inhabitants were displaced persons, as opposed to refugees?
Did you know that Duayne Boachie was nominated for a "Best Newcomer" award at the 2016 British Soap Awards for his portrayal of Zack Loveday?
Did you know that John Harvard may have been inspired by Clio?
Did you know that Moise Poida, the Vanuatuan national football team manager, has played against World Cup winner Zinedine Zidane?
Did you know that Ravana had promised Kalanemi half his kingdom if he killed Hanuman?
Did you know that Wash's Restaurant served up soul food dishes to Atlantic City beach-goers by day and its nightclub-hoppers by night?
Did you know that in 1998, The Boston Globe said the girls' video game market was "exploding" with titles such as The American Girls Premiere?
Did you know that Carnethy 5, an annual hill race held in the Pentland Hills, commemorates the Battle of Roslin?
Did you know that Max Esposito and his sister Chloe were the first Australian athletes to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that although the Beatles had a more successful version, the first recording of "Twist and Shout" was by The Top Notes, and was produced by Phil Spector—who later went on to produce the Beatles?
Did you know that cheese slaw is sometimes used as a topping for hot dogs?
Did you know that different measurements of the size of the hydrogen atom nucleus when a muon replaces an electron is an unsolved problem in physics known as the proton radius puzzle?
Did you know that the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane caused at least 2,500 deaths in Florida, making it the second deadliest tropical cyclone in the US, behind the 1900 Galveston hurricane?
Did you know that the naturalisation of Handel as a British citizen came via an Act of Parliament which required him to enter into communion with the Church of England?
Did you know that American germander is visited by bees, butterflies and hummingbirds, but avoided by grazing animals?
Did you know that actress Georgina Bouzova feared that people would spit at her because of the behaviour of her character Ellen Zitek?
Did you know that the BBC's Daud Junbish is one of the few journalists in the world to have met former Taliban chief Mullah Omar?
Did you know that Guiseley A.F.C. were accused of "disgraceful unsporting behaviour" when a player broke an unwritten fair-play convention to score past goalkeeper Tom King?
Did you know that a reviewer of Zwölf Stücke, Op. 65, twelve organ pieces by Max Reger, wrote that the composer was "still in his storm and stress period"?
Did you know that after admitting he took $10,000 to help a fictitious Arab sheikh, Joseph A. Maressa argued that "it would be patriotic to take some of this OPEC oil money and get it back to the United States"?
Did you know that in 1960, two barges collided with the 4,162-foot (1,270 m) Severn Railway Bridge, causing two bridge spans to fall into the river?
Did you know that research by Columbia Law School professor Jeffrey Fagan into stop-and-frisk in New York City was a major factor in Judge Shira Scheindlin's decision to rule the practice unconstitutional in 2013?
Did you know that swarms of dykes have intruded into Uruguay?
Did you know that the South Africa Red Ensign was raised over Windhoek following the British conquest of German South West Africa in 1915?
Did you know that After the Deluge was described by Walter Bayes as "a kind of sublimation of all the most poetic elements in nature"?
Did you know that Charles Brantley was the first person in the Tennessee Walking Horse industry to be inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame?
Did you know that Gadis Arivia established Indonesia’s first journal of feminist theory?
Did you know that in 1985, China–Hong Kong football rivalry resulted in China's first recorded case of football hooliganism?
Did you know that of the 482 coins found in the Viking Age Sundveda Hoard outside Stockholm, only one came from Western Europe?
Did you know that the Cuban national Order of Playa Girón, named after the location of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, was first presented to the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin?
Did you know that George Strait recorded several songs written by Clay Blaker?
Did you know that horse trainer Jeff Givens was killed when his horse trailer overturned?
Did you know that in the 2015 Jhabua-Ratlam Lok Sabha constituency by-election, Janata Dal (United)'s candidate was supported by five other parties?
Did you know that the Florida predatory stink bug (nymph pictured) is considered beneficial because it feeds on various pest insects?
Did you know that the Hiroshima Lightning was the only active team refused entry into Japanese basketball's B.League?
Did you know that the States of Jersey were obliged to ask permission from Queen Elizabeth II in order to adopt the Jersey Red Ensign, because it contained the Jersey Arms with the Plantagenet crown?
Did you know that David Suhor opened proceedings for a meeting of the Pensacola City Council by delivering a Satanic prayer?
Did you know that in 1595, the Chantry House in Bunbury, Cheshire, was leased for 2,000 years for the rent of a red rose?
Did you know that professional Street Fighter player Daigo Umehara lost an exhibition match of Street Fighter V to rapper Lupe Fiasco?
Did you know that the number of traffic collisions at the TEDES-monitored intersections and fast lanes in Gaziantep, Turkey, declined by about 40% within two months of its installation?
Did you know that Queen Salote College was named after the Tongan Queen Sālote Lupepauʻu, who was named after the British Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz?
Did you know that Robert Rutman invented the steel cello, a giant sheet metal instrument?
Did you know that artist Michael Lark spends ten or more hours a day working on the comic Lazarus?
Did you know that the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Library at Brigham Young University houses Max Steiner's scores for King Kong and Gone with the Wind?
Did you know that the Royal Stables of Sweden were established in 1535 and still serve the Swedish Royal Family?
Did you know that the rice root aphid can complete its whole life cycle on plum trees?
Did you know that the soprano Katharine Fuge took part in John Eliot Gardiner's Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, both as a member of the Monteverdi Choir and as a soloist?
Did you know that Tony Award-winning Broadway actress and singer Lillian Hayman played Sadie Gray on the American soap opera One Life to Live for 17 years?
Did you know that after Edmund Kalau spent his childhood in the Hitler Youth, he converted to Christianity and served in Palau and Yap in the Liebenzell Mission?
Did you know that both the 5-8 Club and Matt's Bar, two Minneapolis eateries on the same street, claim to have invented the Juicy Lucy cheeseburger?
Did you know that if you bend indium it might cry?
Did you know that the band The Mutants developed from the idea of an album set out to retrace the roots of punk, new wave, and ska, featuring an all-star cast of punk musicians?
Did you know that the science fiction video game Tharsis, inspired by the sinking of the whaling ship Essex, allows the crew of the player's spacecraft to use cannibalism to survive?
Did you know that Henri Laborit recognized the psychiatric uses of chlorpromazine, which helped reduce asylum populations and "change the face of serious mental illness"?
Did you know that in 1974, Barbara Thoman Curtis led the establishment of the American Nurses Association's first political action committee?
Did you know that missionary Thorarinn Thorason's wife threatened to drown herself due to his missionary efforts in Iceland, but instead he drowned later that year?
Did you know that since 1912, Spanish association football club Athletic Bilbao only fields players with ancestry from the Basque Country?
Did you know that the Flag of Guernsey is based on a banner used by Duke William the Bastard of Normandy during the Battle of Hastings?
Did you know that American football coach Pop Warner's only experience with the game in his youth was using an inflated cow's bladder?
Did you know that James Kaliokalani and his brother, the future King Kalākaua, reportedly witnessed the execution of their grandfather Kamanawa II when they were children?
Did you know that golfers share the 18-hole Cape Wickham Links on King Island with short-tailed shearwaters?
Did you know that the Yale Institute of International Studies was a bastion of international relations realism?
Did you know that the first appearance of superhero Captain Atom was in an Australian comic?
Did you know that two-year-old Ruth Schwarz was rescued from the Sambor Ghetto by Polish Righteous Alojzy Plewa (both pictured)?
Did you know that Siti Nurhaliza has recorded songs in Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Indonesia, English, Mandarin Chinese, and Arabic?
Did you know that after winning a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympics, Sara Ahmed became the first Egyptian woman to stand on an Olympic podium?
Did you know that in 1777, after George Washington's war council recommended that John Hazelwood lead the American fleet up the Delaware River to safety, he did so without the British firing a single shot?
Did you know that the Seattle Times Building was called a "death trap"?
Did you know that the archaeologist Don Brothwell served two months in prison as a conscientious objector?
Did you know that the blue alfalfa aphid, native to Asia, had reached California by 1974 and Maryland by 1992?
Did you know that George Frederic Watts's Mammon depicts the Biblical embodiment of greed, which crushes "whatever is weak and gentle and timid and lovely"?
Did you know that plans are underway to convert the Akıncı Air Base, bombed during the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt, into a "democracy park"?
Did you know that politician Sara Skyttedal participated in  Miss Sweden in 2006?
Did you know that the Grand Theatre was reportedly the first in Australia to be lit entirely by neon lights?
Did you know that the contralto Dorothy Gill was so popular during the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's visit to New York in 1934 that American fans petitioned for her return?
Did you know that Alan Hale, who discovered Comet Hale–Bopp, said that he "predicted" its appearance would trigger suicides‍—‌and it turned out he was right?
Did you know that Imagen Televisión, which launches today, is the first new commercial television network in Mexico since 1993?
Did you know that soccer video game Breakaway has encouraged children in the West Bank not to discriminate by gender, thereby challenging social norms?
Did you know that the Ağın Bridge reestablished a direct road connection between Ağın and Elazığ 40 years after the creation of the Keban reservoir?
Did you know that Ralph Jean-Louis managed the Seychelles national football team to a gold medal at the 2011 Indian Ocean Island Games?
Did you know that as William Mostyn-Owen's three older brothers all died in the Second World War, he inherited Aberuchill Castle, where he and his wife lived in a wing of "23 rooms or so"?
Did you know that as a United States Attorney, David Kustoff prosecuted John Ford following his arrest in Operation Tennessee Waltz?
Did you know that during the Blitz, staff of the Foyles Building stacked copies of Hitler's Mein Kampf on the roof in lieu of sandbags?
Did you know that in Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia by Claude Lorrain, the figures are "impossibly elongated‍—‌Ascanius, in particular, is absurdly top-heavy"?
Did you know that recorded sightings of the Malayan whistling thrush in the Cameron Highlands after the 1960s may have actually been a subspecies of the blue whistling thrush?
Did you know that the developers of the video game Osiris: New Dawn wanted players to have to "Matt Damon yourself out" of situations?
Did you know that Akigin Stadium sits next to a field of dreams?
Did you know that Ernest F. Schuck ran for re-election in 1977 on a platform supporting New Jersey's new state income tax, as many residents of his district would see a net gain from the plan?
Did you know that basketball player Cliff Clinkscales demonstrated his dribbling skills on national TV before he was a teenager?
Did you know that prior to Matt Monro's "My Kind of Girl", it had been three years since a British artist had cracked the US Top 20?
Did you know that the 1976 novel The Word for World Is Forest shares narrative themes with the 2009 film Avatar?
Did you know that Aldana Sandoval helped plot the 1944 Guatemalan coup, but did not actually participate in it?
Did you know that Swedish theologian Johannes Bilberg published a work on the midnight sun?
Did you know that at an 1892 rally attended by anti-lynching activist Ferdinand Lee Barnett, participants refused to sing "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" until the United States was more truly a "sweet land of liberty"?
Did you know that the Taunton Flag was one of the first flags used in British North America prior to the American Revolution to express dissent against the British authorities?
Did you know that the main event of last month's Máscara vs. Máscara professional wrestling show has been called IWRG's biggest Lucha de Apuestas ("bet match") in years?
Did you know that the reclining Buddha at the Dafo Temple, Zhangye, is 35 metres (115 ft) long?
Did you know that Brazilian Minister of the Environment Carlos Minc supported the creation of what he called a "green sheath" around BR-319?
Did you know that John Travolta will play New York mob boss John Gotti in an upcoming film?
Did you know that Martine van Hamel won a gold medal at the 1966 Varna International Ballet Competition, one of the most prestigious dance competitions in the world?
Did you know that after he died, daredevil Larry Donovan's mother said, "I told him that jumping off bridges was a poor way of earning a living"?
Did you know that medieval works praising cities often follow rules laid down in Ancient Greece?
Did you know that the French Association for Scientific Information criticised Paris Descartes University's decision to award Élizabeth Teissier a doctorate for a sociology thesis of "pro-astrological advocacy"?
Did you know that the extension to Poole Methodist Church was nominated for the 2016 Carbuncle Cup?
Did you know that Johanna Umurungi was the only female Rwandan swimmer at the 2016 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Lisbeth Hockey was the first nurse to be awarded an honorary fellowship by the Royal College of General Practitioners?
Did you know that Max Reger composed the chorale fantasia Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott, Op. 27, for Karl Straube, who premiered it before it was published?
Did you know that after being ousted from his emirate in Aleppo, Mansur ibn Lu'lu' commanded a Byzantine army unit?
Did you know that in the video game Bound, the protagonist moves mainly by dancing?
Did you know that the intense fumes emitted by the crushed leaves of the so-called headache vine cause one to feel like one's head is "exploding" ... making the inhaler forget all about the headache?
Did you know that James M. Turner was removed from the New Jersey Senate after being convicted of trying to frame his political rival Kenneth A. Gewertz by having 6,500 amphetamine-like tablets planted in his home?
Did you know that Reads Landing School features a brick water table?
Did you know that after Joan Risch's apparent abduction from her home 55 years ago today, it was discovered she had borrowed books on missing-person cases from the local library?
Did you know that argon oxide, an argon compound, interferes with the detection of iron-56 in inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry?
Did you know that the 1955 Tamil language film Doctor Savithri is a contemporary adaptation of the story of Savitri and Satyavan?
Did you know that Quantum Break was described as a "transmedia action-shooter video game and television hybrid"?
Did you know that Thomas Aldersey gave the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, now an educational charity, their first school?
Did you know that the 1949 film Passport to Pimlico is dedicated to the memory of Second World War British food and clothing ration coupons?
Did you know that the Divisional Railway Hospital in Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli, India, is the oldest in its zone?
Did you know that the Irish footballer Jeff Chandler was "never the same player" after suffering a knee injury in Bolton Wanderers' fourth game of their 1987–88 season?
Did you know that Cortana correctly predicted the winners of the first 14 matches of the 2014 FIFA World Cup knockout stage?
Did you know that New London Union Station was the largest, last, and—according to biographer Henry-Russell Hitchcock—"best" railroad station designed by Henry Hobson Richardson?
Did you know that a Duke of Burgundy has been spotted on Bratton Downs?
Did you know that basketball player Billy White started in the most games in San Diego State history?
Did you know that in Hale v. Henkel, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the self-incrimination clause of the Fifth Amendment did not apply to corporations?
Did you know that after declaring independence from the Ava Kingdom, Thinkhaya III of Toungoo built his own palace, but left out the royal white umbrella?
Did you know that in 2012, a small Ru ware bowl from the Song dynasty was sold for HK$207.86 million (US$26.7 million)?
Did you know that the Craigievar Express is driven by a steam engine previously used in a sawmill?
Did you know that Daniel Catán's opera Il Postino is set in Italy but sung in Spanish?
Did you know that Trenton, Georgia, adopted a version of the previous state flag to protest against the state changing its flag?
Did you know that argonium, an ion composed of an argon atom and a proton, was the first noble gas molecular ion to be found in interstellar space?
Did you know that during World Championship Wrestling's Capital Combat show, RoboCop saved Sting from the Four Horsemen?
Did you know that Shriya Saran played the female lead in the 2007 film Sivaji, India's most expensive film to that point?
Did you know that former German ambassador to China Erwin Wickert was an alumnus of Dickinson College of Carlisle, Pennsylvania?
Did you know that the dairy-farming area of Warmingham, Cheshire, is the source of around half the pure salt (brine pump pictured) manufactured in the UK?
Did you know that Mary Kitson Clark's 1935 book A Gazetteer of Roman Remains in East Yorkshire is still a basic guide to the study of the Roman presence in northern England?
Did you know that no men competed for Chad at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that the Talking Gravestones of Amrum and their counterparts on Föhr (example pictured) display detailed biographies of the deceased?
Did you know that before he became mayor of Charleston, West Virginia, Danny Jones worked as a gravedigger?
Did you know that early in the history of pterosaur research, these flying Mesozoic reptiles were variously mistaken for aquatic animals, bats, birds, and even the spawn of Satan?
Did you know that the "Gates of Hell" could be found in Washington, D.C.?
Did you know that the French punished a queen by sending her to Hellville?
Did you know that the racket-tailed roller makes a racket as it rockets?
Did you know that John F. Good's role in the Abscam sting operation was portrayed in the 2013 film American Hustle, though he felt if it was more like real life "it would be a very boring movie"?
Did you know that the 1973 Indian film Kaadu, which won the National Award for Second Best Feature Film, was based on the novel of the same name by Srikrishna Alanahalli?
Did you know that the Burmese court treatise Zabu Kun-Cha is believed to have been written by Chief Minister Min Yaza of Ava?
Did you know that the Ukrainian mixed chamber choir OREYA won a special prize for the best interpretation of a religious choral work at the 14th International Chamber Choir Competition Marktoberdorf?
Did you know that the artwork of the West African Senufo people inspired Pablo Picasso?
Did you know that Robert Swinhoe called the Taiwan whistling thrush the "Formosan Cavern-bird"?
Did you know that in 2013, the production of Oxford Blue cheese created around 50,000 litres (13,000 US gal.) of waste whey per month, which was processed using an anaerobic digester?
Did you know that the 1987 Czechoslovak film Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker is based on a fairy tale by Communist writer Jan Drda?
Did you know that the Mapenduma hostage crisis lasted for more than four months?
Did you know that Captain America: Civil War was originally going to feature the Madbomb storyline from the comics, where Captain America would fight other heroes who had been zombified?
Did you know that Slovenian gymnast Anton Malej, a bronze medallist in the 1928 Summer Olympics, died after falling from the rings on the first day of competition at the 1930 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships?
Did you know that harpsichordist Jean Rondeau has been called a classical music "sex symbol"?
Did you know that the greenbug is the vector of several plant viruses?
Did you know that tsunamis build up their height according to Green's law, as they travel from the ocean towards the coast?
Did you know that Jason Graae had to use his ad libbing skills when a fake moustache "started to take on a life of its own" on the opening night of Little Me?
Did you know that Nike Wagner removed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony from the program of the festival Beethovenfest?
Did you know that in order to increase his name recognition, Lawton Chiles walked 1,003 miles (1,614 km) across Florida for his United States Senate campaign in 1970?
Did you know that scholars in the field of Mongolian studies are often referred to as Mongolists?
Did you know that while Sydney Robert Elliston was vicar of St Thomas, Killinghall, his fellow clergy appreciated an "improvement in their incomes"?
Did you know that while working for the American Fur Company, trapper Warren Angus Ferris was one of the first people to map and describe Yellowstone?
Did you know that Charles Husband was the engineer behind what was, on completion, the world's largest fully-steerable radio telescope?
Did you know that French physician Victor Despeignes thought that cancer was a parasite which could be killed with radiation?
Did you know that Horsey Island in Essex was the basis for Swallow Island in Arthur Ransome's Secret Water?
Did you know that in the 1966 Championship Game, Texas Western became the first team to field an all-African-American starting lineup in an NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament final?
Did you know that peace activist Margaret Thorp was punched, scratched, and kicked by women at a pro-conscription rally?
Did you know that the prototype Rogožarski IK-3 crashed during a test flight when its windscreen detached and half a wing broke off?
Did you know that Archive of Our Own hosts over two million stories and artworks by fans of media franchises?
Did you know that Peter Reulein composed the oratorio Laudato si‘ for five soloists, choirs, organ and orchestra to be premiered in Limburg Cathedral?
Did you know that hurdler Ned Justeen Azemia was the youngest member of the Seychelles team at the 2016 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that in 2014, West Horsley Place was "accidentally" inherited by Bamber Gascoigne?
Did you know that the Russian gay propaganda law has been blamed for an alleged increase in homophobic attacks?
Did you know that Adrian Moss was named Indiana Mini Mr. Basketball when at high school?