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Did you know that Honiara, capital of the Solomon Islands, contains a College of Higher Education, an international school and a branch of the University of the South Pacific?
Did you know that James Francis Carney was the first Archbishop of Vancouver born in the city?
Did you know that Little Birds is loosely based on the life of director and former Friends Stand United founder Elgin James?
Did you know that Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have co-written the last five James Bond movies as well as the Bond spoof Johnny English?
Did you know that Yadira Silva, who twice represented Mexico in the Olympic Games, was born in Cuba?
Did you know that a whole new shipbuilding facility had to be created to build the 90-metre (300 ft) luxury yacht Nero?
Did you know that an electrical engineer and interim president of Georgia Tech, Henry C. Bourne, Jr., funded an academic chair in poetry?
Did you know that as per Hindu beliefs, people who have sex with animals are tortured in Hell after death?
Did you know that during Operation Fluid Drive, one family abandoned their Lebanon-evacuation efforts when told their dog would need to stay behind?
Did you know that in the 1946 Wimbledon Championships Polish tennis champion Ignacy Tłoczyński was declared stateless by the People's Republic of Poland because of his Allied affiliations in World War II?
Did you know that over 15,000 miracles have been attributed to the newly canonized Saint Anna Schäffer since 1929?
Did you know that the Andrés Bello Catholic University is the oldest of all private universities in Venezuela?
Did you know that the Hillsboro, Oregon, based Hops minor league baseball team is the first professional sports team to be named after the beer ingredient?
Did you know that the earliest known variant of "The dog ate my homework" as an excuse dates to 1905?
Did you know that Brookside's producer Paul Marquess received letters complaining that Lance Powell, a character featured in the soap opera, was a "betrayal of all gay men"?
Did you know that Graham Waterhouse composed Rhapsodie Macabre for piano and string quartet as an homage to Franz Liszt and played the cello part in Munich and London?
Did you know that Katya Crema was one of two Australian women to compete at the Olympic debut for women's Ski cross?
Did you know that Ricardo Arjona released a compilation album under the same name as Alejandro Fernández, Rocío Dúrcal and Sin Bandera did?
Did you know that Robert Gill spent 15 years in India copying (example pictured) the painted murals of the Ajanta Caves, but most of his work was destroyed in two fires in London?
Did you know that a horse, an execution, alcohol, and lots of dancing are part of a celebration designated as Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Czech Republic?
Did you know that artist Fred Andrews made thirty thousand roof tiles for his house himself?
Did you know that by promoting Bill Geivett, the Colorado Rockies broke with baseball tradition?
Did you know that crofelemer, a substance found in dragon's blood, is being studied for the treatment of diarrhoea?
Did you know that pharmacologist Edith Bülbring's work on catecholamines and smooth muscle led to her election as a Fellow of the Royal Society?
Did you know that the West Indian sea egg decorates itself with bits of seagrass and fragments of shell held on by its tube feet?
Did you know that the action in the play James Baldwin: A Soul on Fire takes place immediately before a real meeting between author James Baldwin and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy?
Did you know that the detection dog Theo was awarded the Dickin Medal in 2012, described as the animals' Victoria Cross?
Did you know that the programme King George and Queen Mary explains that the arranged marriage between George V and Mary of Teck occurred because Prince Albert Victor, Mary's original fiancé, died from influenza?
Did you know that two times British Hard Court tennis champion Kho Sin-Kie raised money for the Malaya Patriotic Fund in WWII?
Did you know that 1968's La morte ha fatto l'uovo has been compared to the works of Michelangelo Antonioni, David Lynch and Luis Buñuel?
Did you know that Ba Zaw, the Burmese watercolor painter, was afraid of the colors green and violet, but passionate about orange and red?
Did you know that Connie B. Gay is credited with coining the term "country music" which had until then been called "hillbilly music"?
Did you know that Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Isaac, and Hurricane Sandy have all been claimed to be divine retribution by one or more religious leaders?
Did you know that Interstate 75 is the only highway on both of Michigan's Upper and Lower peninsulas?
Did you know that painter Franciszek Ksawery Lampi specialized in Romantic depictions of attractive women (example pictured)?
Did you know that the 14th-century Cloud Platform at Juyongguan in Beijing is inscribed with Buddhist texts in six different scripts: Lanydza, Tibetan, 'Phags-pa, Old Uyghur, Tangut and Chinese?
Did you know that the Royal Gibraltar Yacht Club was one of the first yacht clubs to be founded outside of Britain?
Did you know that the ancient Roman city of Volubilis (Basilica pictured) in Morocco was excavated by thousands of German prisoners of war during World War I?
Did you know that Bach created a "musical sleep scene ... that could have graced any opera of the time" in his chorale cantata Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit, BWV 115?
Did you know that Bernabé Aráoz, the first and only President of the Republic of Tucumán, was executed by firing squad?
Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon, native Colt Lyerla played running back and linebacker in high school, but now plays at the tight end position for the Oregon Ducks football team?
Did you know that Mino Guerrini's direction of Omicidio per appuntamento has been compared to that of Mario Bava?
Did you know that Ottoman sultan Selim I ordered construction of a tower in Ghabaghib, a stop on the hajj route from Damascus?
Did you know that although Wellek and Warren's Theory of Literature was imprinted with three copyright dates, none were the year it was published?
Did you know that at Sheikh Badr Cemetery in central Jerusalem, bodies were placed in caskets and left above-ground?
Did you know that in "Ice Cream" by Hyuna, Psy makes a cameo appearance and starts the music video eating ice cream cones?
Did you know that in the Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations, names of the Holocaust rescuers are engraved on Walls of Honor according to country?
Did you know that one can be sued for encouraging others to cybersquat on a trademarked domain name?
Did you know that the Genoese military engineer Giovan Giacomo Paleari Fratino designed and built the world's first Martello tower?
Did you know that British mathematician Margaret Meyer was the first woman to be elected to the Royal Astronomical Society?
Did you know that Catherine and Charles Dickens were married in London in 1836 at St Luke's Church, Chelsea, 12 years after it was finished?
Did you know that Edmon Marukyan, the only non-partisan member of the Armenian parliament, has a Master of Laws degree from the University of Minnesota Law School?
Did you know that Geneva in Switzerland was devastated by a tsunami despite being 275 km (171 mi) from the sea, and may still be at risk?
Did you know that Margaret Thatcher allowed herself to be photographed driving a Naylor TF 1700 sports car as part of an effort to boost small British manufacturers?
Did you know that Quadzilla can leap fourteen people in a single bound?
Did you know that over fifty organizations helped director Stanley Kubrick to imagine the technologies in 2001: A Space Odyssey?
Did you know that the Holmes County Courthouse in Millersburg, Ohio, has an area for horse-and-buggy parking for the county's heavy Amish population?
Did you know that the McDonald's Gospelfest, held annually in Newark, New Jersey, has been described as "the largest collection of gospel talent ever assembled"?
Did you know that the USS Ling, a World War II submarine, is trapped in silt just upstream of the Court Street Bridge?
Did you know that the William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History exhibits an internally spiked ring meant to slip over a sleeping man's penis shaft, so as to prevent nocturnal emission?
Did you know that the score Elliot Goldenthal composed for the 2002 film Frida earned him five accolades, including an Academy Award?
Did you know that the second-millennium-BC stele of Baal with Thunderbolt shows the king of Ugarit receiving divine protection from the Semitic god of storm Baʿal?
Did you know that the winning run for Harvard over Yale in the 1902 baseball series was scored in front of 9,000 fans by William Clarence Matthews, the only African-American player in the game?
Did you know that David Gwilym Morris Roberts helped design Baghdad's first sewage treatment system?
Did you know that German novelist, playwright and poet Thaddäus Troll also wrote a sex education book in Swabian dialect?
Did you know that Ibrahim Hananu, the leader of the 1919 Syrian Revolt, was born in the northern Syrian town of Kafr Takharim?
Did you know that John Wosky designed a number of historic structures at Yosemite National Park, including Crane Flat Fire Lookout and the Generals' Highway Stone Bridges?
Did you know that King George III placed the "deeply-deplored" Princess Charlotte of Wales under the superintendence of the pious Martha Elgin?
Did you know that a matrix mixer (example pictured) may be used during a concert to stream a different blend of sound to distant audiences?
Did you know that in the 1994 case Chan Hiang Leng Colin v. Public Prosecutor the Singapore High Court held that a ban on Jehovah's Witnesses and their publications did not violate their freedom of religion?
Did you know that in the BBC series Masters of Money, Stephanie Flanders speculates as to how John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, and Karl Marx would have responded to the current economic crisis?
Did you know that the 11th-century Japanese fictional work Shinsarugakuki provides insights into Chinese trade, comic sketches, lion dances, puppets, rice-planting songs, and solo sumo wrestling?
Did you know that the French author of the World War II anti-war slogan Why Die for Danzig?, Marcel Déat, later became a Nazi collaborator?
Did you know that the Orthodox metropolitan bishops Gregory and Ambrosios were executed by the Turkish Army in 1922, at the end of the Greco-Turkish War?
Did you know that the former trolley barn in Yonkers, New York, is the only remnant of the city's trolley system and the only such structure remaining in Westchester County?
Did you know that Bai Anqi, a Chinese swimmer, is nicknamed "White Angel"?
Did you know that Cynthia McKinney, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton tried to release sealed FBI files on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Did you know that Erich Barke, professor of microelectronic systems and since 2005 president of the University of Hannover, was elected as president for a second term?
Did you know that Idaho politician Marvin Richardson had his name legally changed to Pro-Life?
Did you know that Polish minority politician in Czechoslovakia, Augustyn Łukosz, was a deputy in the autonomous Silesian Parliament in Poland before his death at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp?
Did you know that Pyramid Mound in the U.S. state of Indiana really isn't a mound?
Did you know that Russia has the largest number of brown bears, believed to exceed 100,000, while estimates in the U.S. are around 33,000, Canada 25,000, and Europe (excluding Russia) 14,000?
Did you know that Singaporean sprinter C Kunalan's feat of 10.38 seconds in the 1968 Summer Olympic Games 100 metres was a national record for 33 years?
Did you know that Steinitz' prawn goby shares a burrow excavated by a shrimp?
Did you know that although the 1931 adaptation of Kwee Tek Hoay's Boenga Roos dari Tjikembang kept the Chinese characters, the 1975 one did not?
Did you know that aquatic botanist Marietta Pallis studied the floating reed systems of the Danube Delta?
Did you know that in 2011, a major fire occurred in the attic of the Haus Cumberland in Charlottenburg, Berlin, causing the left side of the roof to collapse?
Did you know that software functions that are "locked" and disabled still infringe on patent protection laws?
Did you know that the Abruzzo wine Trebbiano d'Abruzzo was praised by Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes in his Novelas ejemplares for its high quality?
Did you know that the Charles V Wall was built by Spain to keep the Barbary pirates out of Gibraltar, but ended up being used by the British to keep the Spanish out?
Did you know that Brann's goalkeeper Håkon Opdal scored the goal that eliminated Bodø/Glimt from the 2004 Norwegian Football Cup?
Did you know that Hertha Ayrton's 1902 candidature to be the first woman elected Fellow of the Royal Society was turned down on the basis that as a married woman she had no standing in law?
Did you know that Izena Island was the birthplace of Shō En (1415–76), the first king of the second Shō Shi Dynasty of the Ryūkyū Kingdom?
Did you know that Luke Messer served as John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign co-chair in Indiana?
Did you know that Neil Young's 2012 autobiography Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream reveals the musician's love for model trains?
Did you know that Val Demings became the first female Chief of Police for the Orlando Police Department?
Did you know that a television pilot of Melissa de la Cruz's Witches of East End is being made starring Julia Ormond and Jenna Dewan?
Did you know that at over 400 years old, a Žametovka vine growing in Maribor, Slovenia, is believed to be the world's oldest grapevine still producing fruit?
Did you know that the 1974 Indonesian film Atheis reused a sequence from the 1925 Russian film Battleship Potemkin?
Did you know that the Hallway Series is named after the 70 feet (21 m) separating the locker rooms of the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers in Staples Center?
Did you know that the Roman Theatre at Apamea in Syria is one of the largest surviving theatres of the Roman world?
Did you know that the Venetian Towers in Barcelona are modelled on the Campanile of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice?
Did you know that the Wongs' Indonesia Malaise, targeted at native Indonesians, was paired with a film meant for Dutchmen?
Did you know that the book Wine Grapes details the history of 1,368 varieties including Zinfandel's origins as a Croatian grape known as Tribidrag?
Did you know that while rescuers freeing people trapped in grain run the risk of heat illness, the victim may suffer from hypothermia due to moisture in the grain?
Did you know that Almindingen, Dueodde, Hammeren, Jons Kapel, Paradisbakkerne, and Rytterknægten, as well as Denmark's tallest lighthouse, are on Bornholm island?
Did you know that Dan Kildee's efforts to revitalize Flint, Michigan, by demolishing abandoned buildings are being adopted in other cities, including Detroit, Baltimore, Memphis, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh?
Did you know that San Francisco Conservatory of Music faculty member Indre Viskontas has performed research into the neurological basis of memory, reasoning, and self-identity?
Did you know that Shelli Yoder, a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, was Miss Indiana in 1992?
Did you know that after joining Vålerenga from the Norwegian Second Division team Skeid, Dawda Leigh immediately became a regular in Vålerenga's starting line-up in Tippeligaen?
Did you know that most Russian-speakers in the United States are Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union?
Did you know that openness correlates with liking jazz and that extraversion correlates with liking pop?
Did you know that phycologist Mary Parke first described the oyster larvae food Isochrysis galbana?
Did you know that the Smithsonian Gardens' orchid collection contains over 8,000 plants representing 256 genera?
Did you know that the loss of the full-rigged ship Ellen Southard (ship's wreckage pictured) off Liverpool in 1875 led to a change in U.S. law permitting the awarding of Lifesaving Medals to non-Americans?
Did you know that the name of the Tinner's Arms pub in Zennor, Cornwall, is derived from the tinners (tin miners), a historic industry in the region?
Did you know that the superzoom bridge camera Pentax X-5 automates the creation of time-lapse video?
Did you know that two Toyota 92C-Vs were the only cars in their class (Group C2) to start at the 1992 24 Hours of Le Mans?
Did you know that whilst the Yiddish newspaper Di Tsayt was published in Saint Petersburg, its editorial team was based in Vienna?
Did you know that Cranmer Court, Samuel Farr's most famous design and a New Zealand Historic Places Trust Category I heritage building, has recently been demolished?
Did you know that Michelle Rzepecki, a member of the 2011–12 Australia women's national goalball team, scored an own goal in the team's final London Paralympics game against Sweden?
Did you know that Operation Bertram deceived Rommel about the timing and location of the El Alamein attack, using camouflage and dummies?
Did you know that Paul Kelpe was criticized for painting murals which were too abstract, but an abstract arts group asked him to resign because his work (example pictured) wasn't abstract enough?
Did you know that Rabbi Herbert Tarr, author of The Conversion of Chaplain Cohen, left the pulpit to write novels because he believed that "religion is basically out of touch with people"?
Did you know that congresswoman-elect Michelle Lujan Grisham served as director of New Mexico's Agency on Aging under three different governors?
Did you know that during the partitions of Poland, on the lands of the Austrian partition, the Polish parliamentary tradition was continued first by the Sejm of the Estates and later, by the Sejm of the Land?
Did you know that in 1997 the Belgian socialist daily Le Peuple, founded in 1885, was acquired by the Rossel media group?
Did you know that in Bach's chorale cantata Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott, BWV 139, the part of a second obbligato instrument for a tenor aria is missing?
Did you know that in the 1980 case Ong Ah Chuan v. Public Prosecutor, the Privy Council held that fundamental liberties in the Singapore Constitution should be given a "generous interpretation"?
Did you know that professional baseball player Josh Sullivan walked on to Auburn University's college football team, backing up Jason Campbell at quarterback?
Did you know that the village of Borzęcin was first mentioned in historical documents by the Polish chronicler Jan Długosz in his Liber beneficiorum?
Did you know that write-only memory, devised as an insider joke, does have real uses and may even increase the power of a quantum computer?
Did you know that Bob Montgomery was the last Major League Baseball player to bat without wearing a batting helmet?
Did you know that Colonel John Bevan's contribution to military deception planning during World War II was kept secret until the 1970s?
Did you know that Loring AFB alert crews would scramble from a mole hole, run to awaiting jets on a christmas tree (both within the alert area), and perform an elephant walk and a MITO, all within fifteen minutes?
Did you know that Peter Stuart, who formed the band Dog's Eye View, toured with Paula Cole by following her tour bus in his rental car?
Did you know that Shoaib Akhtar took 16 five-wicket hauls during his career in international cricket?
Did you know that according to an Islamic tradition regarded as fabricated, Ya`fūr was a talking donkey owned by the Prophet Muhammad that was descended from Jesus's donkey?
Did you know that architect Robert Venturi's first major work, Guild House, was commissioned by a Quaker organization to house low-income elderly tenants?
Did you know that art can make people angry?
Did you know that geologist Sydney Mary Thompson discovered a glacial erratic that redefined the westernmost extent of the Irish Sea Glacier?
Did you know that parts of Russia lie on the same tectonic plate as Japan?
Did you know that some of the breakdowns in the 2011 Singapore MRT disruptions were the worst in its operator SMRT's 24-year history?
Did you know that the Gibraltar Cross of Sacrifice commemorates the sailors, soldiers and airmen of the Commonwealth of Nations who died in the two World Wars?
Did you know that the Shakespeare Garden in Evanston, Illinois, was the first Shakespeare garden constructed in the United States?
Did you know that the Solluba are considered remnants of pre-Semitic peoples that once dominated Arabia?
Did you know that the live telethon Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together, broadcast November 2 on NBCUniversal channels, featured performers and speakers who were from areas suffering after the storm?
Did you know that Adam Markovitz of Entertainment Weekly called Maroon 5's 2012 single "Daylight" "a Coldplay-ish song"?
Did you know that Akon met, signed and helped launch Lady Gaga's career after the two co-wrote "Hypnotico", a song that was later recorded by Jennifer Lopez?
Did you know that Australian bushranger Ned Kelly, author of the 8000-word Jerilderie Letter, was the only Australian bushranger known to have attempted to justify his actions in writing?
Did you know that Bach composed his motet for double choir Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf, BWV 226 (autograph pictured), for the funeral of Johann Heinrich Ernesti at the Paulinerkirche?
Did you know that Mark Takano is set to be the first non-White openly gay member of the United States House of Representatives?
Did you know that Patrick White's The Hanging Garden was published posthumously, despite him leaving orders to have it burned?
Did you know that Queen Tehauroa outlawed the sale of land and declared that Protestantism was the only authorized religion in the Polynesian Kingdom of Raiatea?
Did you know that Red Onion State Prison helped to triple the Black population of Wise County, Virginia?
Did you know that Russian is spoken in Israel by about 20% of the total population?
Did you know that after Alexander Nadj had played 13 minutes for Lillestrøm SK, the head coach Henning Berg decided to use the youth goalkeeper instead?
Did you know that before directing the award-winning film Keep the Lights On, Ira Sachs shot and directed The Delta in his hometown?
Did you know that colour vision with resolution and clarity are the most prominent features of eagles' eyes, and hence the epithet given to sharp-sighted people is "eagle-eyed”?
Did you know that footballer Steve Redmond became Manchester City's youngest ever captain when appointed to the role in 1988?
Did you know that the Plated Leaf Chameleon is sometimes kept as a pet?
Did you know that the original Fremantle Traffic Bridge was built between 1863 and 1867 using convict labour?
Did you know that the seventh-century Jain cave-temple, in the abode of great saints, includes images painted in fresco-secco technique?
Did you know that "The Role You Were Born to Play" was part of Blake Jenner's prize for winning The Glee Project?
Did you know that 28 U.S. states have asked the Supreme Court to allow police dogs (example pictured) to sniff at the front door of any house – without a search warrant or probable cause – despite assertions of unreliability?
Did you know that Claire Taylor was the first woman to be named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year?
Did you know that Danielle Harold was the second person to act out a birth in a live episode of a soap opera, in EastEnders' 4466th episode?
Did you know that Jean-Baptiste Lynch fled to England during the Hundred Days, but returned during the Bourbon Restoration and became a Peer of France?
Did you know that St Giles' Church, Barrow, is one of the earliest surviving churches in Shropshire, and contains the county's only Saxon chancel?
Did you know that chickens are fed with tiny rocks?
Did you know that congressman-elect Eric Swalwell served on the city council of College Park, Maryland, while a student at the University of Maryland, College Park?
Did you know that in 1924, Estonia's Tallinn Power Plant became the world's first power plant to use oil shale as the primary fuel to generate electricity?