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Did you know that the video game Escape from Woomera, which was built to criticize the treatment of asylum seekers in Australia, was funded by the Australian government's art funding body, the Australia Council?
Did you know that "The Little Things Give You Away" berates George W. Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina?
Did you know that Dragoljub Jeličić, who fought against the invading Austro-Hungarian Army at the age of 12, was mentioned in the WWI memoirs of criminology pioneer Archibald Reiss?
Did you know that Indian reverend P. B. M. Basaiawmoit‎ led campaigns against uranium mining in Meghalaya?
Did you know that a World Heritage Site in Romania contains the fortified churches of Biertan, Câlnic, Prejmer, Saschiz, Valea Viilor, Viscri, and Dârjiu?
Did you know that at age 41, snowboarder Trent Milton was the oldest Australian competitor at the 2014 Winter Paralympics?
Did you know that footballer René Bolf won the Gambrinus Liga with Sparta in his first season with the club, but returned to his former club, Ostrava, during the following season?
Did you know that half of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission-approved trout waters in Union County are in the watershed of Buffalo Creek?
Did you know that jockey Tom Goodisson won the Epsom Derby in 1813 on the black colt Smolensko, one of only two black horses to ever win the Derby?
Did you know that the 1901 Louisiana hurricane was the first hurricane to strike the state in the month of August or earlier since 1888?
Did you know that the star T Ursae Minoris is thought to have undergone a helium flash, seen from Earth in 1979?
Did you know that Arthur Edmund Grimshaw, the organist at Leeds Cathedral for 30 years, was replaced by an 11-year-old boy?
Did you know that Czech footballer Roman Týce captained his country in the 2000 Summer Olympics football tournament?
Did you know that Julia Archibald Holmes, a suffragist and friend of Susan B. Anthony, was also the first woman to climb Pikes Peak?
Did you know that King Star King was released online as part of Adult Swim's pilot development contest, partnered with KFC?
Did you know that marine zoologist Daphne Gail Fautin, described as the world authority on sea anemones, lives and works in landlocked Lawrence, Kansas?
Did you know that the British fourpence was known as a "joey" after MP Joseph Hume, who spoke in favour of its introduction?
Did you know that the September 1948 Florida hurricane was considered the worst tropical cyclone in Key West since 1919?
Did you know that the annual "Fatties versus Skinnies" soccer match in San Pedro de Santa Bárbara, Costa Rica, was started so people could identify each team's players, since they had no uniforms?
Did you know that the first commercial stereoscopic video game was released in 1982?
Did you know that the hymnal Praxis pietatis melica (cover pictured) by Johann Crüger contained first publications of songs by Paul Gerhardt?
Did you know that Medal of Honor recipient Victor Vifquain attempted to kidnap Confederate President Jefferson Davis?
Did you know that Pavle Đurišić emerged as one of the main commanders of the Uprising in Montenegro?
Did you know that business author Liane Davey uses the label "bobblehead" for a team that underperforms due to excess conformity?
Did you know that in September 1864, a thousand soldiers of the United States Army searched the valley of West Branch Fishing Creek for an alleged fortress manned by 500 armed deserters and draft evaders?
Did you know that outsider art dealer Monika Kinley started her career in the art world by selling postcards at the Tate Gallery?
Did you know that the 2001 Pepsi 400, the first race at Daytona International Speedway after Dale Earnhardt's death, was won by his son?
Did you know that the Green Point Lighthouse is the oldest operational lighthouse in South Africa?
Did you know that writer and pharmacist Hagop Terzian was imprisoned, deported, and ultimately murdered during the Armenian Genocide?
Did you know that Bosnian nobleman Vukosav Nikolić died during the Bosnian-Ragusan War?
Did you know that Jane Pauley, Margaret Mead, and Gloria Steinem were Supersisters?
Did you know that Liebe Sokol Diamond, who was born without several fingers, became an orthopedic surgeon specializing in children's hand deformities?
Did you know that Prime Prep Academy, which was co-founded by professional football player Deion Sanders, later fired him as the school's head coach?
Did you know that Thomas and Gilbert Murray Simpson designed "a distinguished group of board schools" (one pictured) in the Victorian era for suburban areas of Brighton such as Elm Grove and Prestonville?
Did you know that Titanfall won a record-breaking six E3 Critics Awards at the 2013 Electronic Entertainment Expo?
Did you know that after the birth control pill was subsidized in the U.S. for poor Americans, black militants claimed that this was a form of black genocide?
Did you know that as a teenager, Courtney Love performed at Mary's Club in Portland, Oregon?
Did you know that dancing frogs, found in the Western Ghats in India, wave their hindlegs while calling to attract mates?
Did you know that in 1917, Czechoslovak Legionnaires on a Russian ship buried a Romanian socialist off the coast of Shetland?
Did you know that it was estimated that a band had accumulated at least $20,000 in royalty payments from an album of silence on Spotify?
Did you know that the crescent on the flag of Uzbekistan represents Islam, while the twelve stars symbolize the months of the Islamic calendar and the zodiac constellations?
Did you know that the large claws of the mantis shrimp Squilla empusa are unfolded rapidly to spear, slash, and immobilise its prey?
Did you know that Fay Crocker is the oldest golfer to win a major championship on the LPGA Tour?
Did you know that Garret Anderson is the most recent Major League Baseball hitter to bat in 10 runs in one game, accomplishing the feat on August 21, 2007?
Did you know that Lilian Helen Alexander was one of the first five women to study medicine at the University of Melbourne and the first female student admitted to an Australian residential college?
Did you know that NXT Arrival was the first live professional wrestling event streamed online via the WWE Network?
Did you know that Nitro is a roller coaster that features five inversions during each cycle of two and a half minutes?
Did you know that in a famous story in the Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi woke up from a dream wondering whether he was Zhuangzi dreaming of being a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming of being him?
Did you know that the prince James of Aragon refused to have sex with his wife, renounced the crown, and became a monk?
Did you know that Col. José María Pinedo took part in Argentina's War of Independence, Civil Wars, and Cisplatine War, but failed to resist the British return to the Falkland Islands?
Did you know that Tsering Samphel, a Congress Party candidate in the 2014 Indian general election, is a past president of the Ladakh Buddhist Association?
Did you know that the Gothic Revival mansion Spring Hall, Halifax has been a boarding house, a ballet studio, a hospital and a register office?
Did you know that the last murdered Jews of the Mińsk Mazowiecki Ghetto came from the iron foundry of K. Rudzki i S-ka?
Did you know that the roots of the cycad Macrozamia spiralis contain cyanobacteria, which assist their host by fixing nitrogen?
Did you know that the selection shadow concept states that the effects of aging are the result of old age being non-adaptive?
Did you know that 16-year-old Bobby Byrne replaced Tommy Dorsey upon The Dorsey Brothers' split?
Did you know that Albania became one of the main hubs for exiled Indonesian communists following the mass killings of 1965–66?
Did you know that Drexel 4175, a music manuscript commonplace book belonging to the New York Public Library, is an important source for seventeenth-century English song?
Did you know that James Earl Jones and Carrie Fisher appeared in The Big Bang Theory episode "The Convention Conundrum"?
Did you know that Medal of Honor recipient Luther Kaltenbach was granted a pension of twenty-four dollars a month by an Act of Congress?
Did you know that Paul Palaiologos Tagaris was an Orthodox monk and impostor, who at one point claimed to be the Patriarch of Jerusalem, and even managed to be named Latin Patriarch of Constantinople by the Pope?
Did you know that Princess Marie Amelie of Baden, the wife of a Scottish duke, attended the 1856 baptism of Napoléon, Prince Imperial?
Did you know that a 36-year-old yeshiva student in Kiryat Shomrei Emunim, Jerusalem, discovered a bomb planted in a garbage can and dismantled it himself before calling police?
Did you know that despite Georges Clemenceau's claim that the Saar contained 150,000 Frenchmen, just 2,124 of the territory's voters supported a French annexation of the Saar in a 1935 referendum?
Did you know that footballer Vratislav Lokvenc won five league titles in six seasons with Sparta Prague?
Did you know that the accumulation of blood in the uterus can occur as a complication of surgery or the result of congenital abnormalities?
Did you know that the blue band on the flag of the Gambia represents the river that gives the country its name?
Did you know that there are six floors in the staircase model of terrorism?
Did you know that Matthaios Kofidis, former member of the Ottoman parliament, was among the Greek notables hanged in Amasya by the Turkish National Movement?
Did you know that The Allman Brothers Band recorded their first live album, At Fillmore East, over three successive nights in March 1971?
Did you know that a 1650-year-old wine bottle found in Germany has been called the world's "oldest existing bottle of wine"?
Did you know that cricketing lawyer Arthur Coleridge, great-nephew of the poet, organised the first full performance of Bach's Mass in B minor in England?
Did you know that in 1931, Lick Run was said to be "one of the best streams in this section of Clearfield County", but was found to be entirely devoid of fish 52 years later?
Did you know that in James Wilson's first senior football match for Manchester United, he scored two goals that won the game?
Did you know that many Alaska legislators wear kuspuks to work on Fridays?
Did you know that tall, blonde photographer Henk Jonker disguised himself as a female nurse during World War II while working for the Dutch resistance?
Did you know that the Kizlar Agha, the chief eunuch of the Ottoman Sultans' harem, ranked third in the state hierarchy after the Grand Vizier and the Shaykh al-Islām?
Did you know that the architect of the Clal Center, the first upscale, indoor shopping mall in Jerusalem, candidly added the project to an Israeli exhibition titled "Bad Jobs"?
Did you know that twelve years after its release, GamesRadar called the 1997 Mischief Makers "possibly the most underrated and widely ignored game on the N64"?
Did you know that Christopher Gibbs and Robert Fraser are credited with inventing "Swinging London"?
Did you know that Fishergate Baptist Church in Preston, Lancashire, contains four wheel windows?
Did you know that Lowangcha Wanglat, BJP candidate in the 2014 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, is from the Namsang-Borduria royal family?
Did you know that Sessue Hayakawa, who played the role of Tsuru Aoki's father in the film The Wrath of the Gods, married her the same year the film was released?
Did you know that T. Veerabhadram was the Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate with the most votes outside Kerala and West Bengal in the 1998 Indian general election?
Did you know that a cobbler taught the first lessons at Santa Bárbara de Heredia's public school when it opened in 1860?
Did you know that despite Frederick Law Olmsted's wishes, Francis Allen had Vassar College's Lathrop House built directly north of Strong House?
Did you know that film star Xu Lai, who worked as a secret agent during World War II, died in prison following political persecution by Madame Mao?
Did you know that nasal strips are worn both by race horses (California Chrome pictured) and by human athletes?
Did you know that the Kota Kinabalu City Mosque is home to a fish farm?
Did you know that while Mexican drug lord Inés Coronel Barreras was officially listed as a cattle rancher in Durango, the neighbors claimed he was growing marijuana and opium poppies?
Did you know that Duke Dumont's "I Got U" contains "all the summertime essentials: steel drums, Balearic synths and a myriad of earworm hooks"?
Did you know that Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, went from being congratulated by the King to being attainted and his son taken to the Tower of London?
Did you know that Jean D'Costa's novels for children have narrative in Standard English and dialogue in Jamaican Creole?
Did you know that Jesuit priest Carlos G. Vallés was awarded Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak, the highest literary award in the Gujarati language, in 1978?
Did you know that Propaganda followed up his Excellent album with his fourth solo release, Crimson Cord?
Did you know that in the British game show Ejector Seat, contestants who give wrong answers find their chairs moving backwards?
Did you know that the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning play, The Flick, is about three movie theater ushers?
Did you know that the Hezilo chandelier and the Azelin chandelier, treasures of Hildesheim Cathedral, are symbols of the heavenly Jerusalem?
Did you know that the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's Sun Lounges featured lamps made from driftwood?
Did you know that Bill Gates topped Forbes' annual list of the world's billionaires in 2014, after not having topped the list in 2013, 2012, 2011, or 2010?
Did you know that Christopher Senyonjo, a retired bishop of the Church of Uganda who opposed "draconian" anti-gay legislation, was honored by former US president Bill Clinton?
Did you know that Granny, also known as J2, is the oldest known orca at an estimated 103 years old?
Did you know that all countries in South America use their own currency, except Ecuador?
Did you know that despite being born to a Shia family and influenced in childhood by the Islamic revival, Bahraini cultural critic Nader Kadhim refused to be classified as an Islamist or a Shia intellectual?
Did you know that private estate houses in Scotland originate from extensive building and rebuilding of royal palaces, probably starting under James III?
Did you know that the 1928 Hindi novel Nirmala uses fiction to promote social reform of the dowry system in India?
Did you know that the Bedford Road Historic District has been described as the first residential subdivision in Armonk, New York?
Did you know that "El Gran Carlemany", the national anthem of Andorra, proclaims the microstate as the "only remaining daughter of the Carolingian empire"?
Did you know that Iggy Azalea's "Black Widow", co-written by Katy Perry, was originally intended to be a duet with both singers?
Did you know that Olympian Murray Buchan originally wanted to work in mountain rescues?
Did you know that during the 17th century many couples performed "erotic" acts near The Iron Lady, and it was thrown into the river twice for being an object of pagan veneration?
Did you know that the Prosecutor General of Crimea, Natalia Poklonskaya, is barred from entering European Union countries?
Did you know that Harvard Business School professor Charles M. Williams survived the sinking of the USS Lexington by swinging from a line onto the deck of a rescuing destroyer?
Did you know that House From Hell was a 1998 precursor to Big Brother Australia?
Did you know that Operation Overlord (detail pictured), the Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II, was the largest seaborne invasion in history?
Did you know that Rosa 'Line Renaud' won the National Horticultural Society of France's 2009 Grand Prix de la Rose in all categories?
Did you know that T. K. Bellis, the "Turtle King", imported live turtles from Jamaica to London so that the Lord Mayor of London would not have to eat mock turtle soup?
Did you know that as of June 5, 2014, at least 35 U.S. veterans are known to have died while waiting for Veterans Health Administration care in the Phoenix VHA system?
Did you know that despite having supporting air groups Yokosuka D4Y dive bombers and Aichi E16A reconnaissance aircraft, neither of the Ise-class battleships used them in combat?
Did you know that long hair on men was once banned in Singapore?
Did you know that the film Merdeka 17805, about the fight for Indonesian independence, was described as a "two-fisted, hinomaru-waving, blood-and-guts ode to the soldiers who died for the glory of the emperor and for Dai Nippon"?
Did you know that the site of the Cheddar Palace is within the grounds of The Kings of Wessex Academy?
Did you know that "I will sing with the spirit" was composed by John Rutter for the Royal School of Church Music?
Did you know that Alajuela Province, Costa Rica, is home to gothic, neo-classical, art deco, and neo-colonial churches, including a church constructed with sheet metal?
Did you know that David Ames auditioned for another Holby City character prior to winning the role of Dominic Copeland?
Did you know that France and Estonia were the first countries to contribute troops for the EU peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic?
Did you know that Rudolf Nadolny, a German diplomat, replied that the conversation had just begun after Adolf Hitler declared it had finished?
Did you know that Soraya Post was the first Romani in Swedish history to top the ballot for a political party at the European Parliament elections in 2014?
Did you know that fires in Sundsvall and Lilla Edet, Sweden, broke out on the same day as the Great Fire of Umeå?
Did you know that in the Caribbean, a small octopus mimics the bursts of swimming activity of the plate fish?
Did you know that the June 4th Museum (temporary location pictured) is the permanent exhibition museum for the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989?
Did you know that the rusty silky oak had different everyday and taboo names in the local Dyirbal language?
Did you know that the seemingly unremarkable Catt family – father Ronald "Scott" Catt and his children, Hayden and Abigail – pulled off several bank robberies in Oregon and Texas?
Did you know that Crown Princess Yaza Datu Kalaya is the subject of some of the "most beautiful poems in Burmese literature" by her nephew and husband Natshinnaung?
Did you know that Cumberland Island horses are considered "feral, free-ranging and unmanaged" by the U.S. National Park Service?
Did you know that Cymbiola nobilis is vulnerable due in part to overcollection for the shell trade?
Did you know that Gopal Kalan Tandel defeated Narayan Fugro in the first Lok Sabha election for the Daman and Diu seat?
Did you know that Martin Luther created the Pentecost hymn "Komm, Heiliger Geist, Herre Gott" by adding two stanzas to an earlier German version of "Veni Sancte Spiritus", keeping its melody?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Zelda destroyed 95% of Marshall Islands' crops?
Did you know that in the last ten years, Lisa Kewley has won a Hubble postdoctoral fellowship, the Annie J. Cannon Award, the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize, and been elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science?
Did you know that the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Our Man Bashir" was based in part on James Bond films, something Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was not happy about?
Did you know that the four miles of stacks aisles in Harvard's 3.5-million-volume Widener Library are so labyrinthine that one student felt she ought to carry "a compass, a sandwich, and a whistle" when entering?
Did you know that the northwest tower of St James' Church, Handsworth, used to be its western tower?
Did you know that while Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 was poorly received critically in comparison to Close Range: Wyoming Stories, one of the short stories in the collection won the 2004 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction?
Did you know that China's Qing dynasty (1644–1912) bestowed the title Marquis of Extended Grace on a member of the former Ming imperial clan who presided at ceremonies at the Ming tombs?
Did you know that Sri Lankan Tamils commemorate 18 May, the day when the civil war ended, as Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day?
Did you know that The Sun Also Rises is the first version of Hemingway's novel en pointe; The Sun Also Rises increases the story's death count; and The Sun Also Rises is known for its award-winning sound design?
Did you know that chief justice Thomas Balmer was once the managing partner of American law firm Ater Wynne?
Did you know that in 1966 Indonesian ambassador Djawoto was granted political asylum in China, following the mass killings of 1965–66?
Did you know that seven-year-old brain cancer patient Jack Hoffman scored a touchdown for Nebraska and subsequently met with President Barack Obama?
Did you know that the Equality Parade in Warsaw, Poland, held since 2001, is the oldest pride parade in a former European Communist bloc country?
Did you know that the Neighbours plane crash was nominated for Best Storyline at the 2006 Inside Soap Awards?
Did you know that the live extended play MTV Unplugged by Thirty Seconds to Mars features musicians from the Vitamin String Quartet, a gospel choir and the contribution of the band's fans?
Did you know that American writer and actor Henry Howard Paul became famous in Great Britain after appearing on stage with his wife?
Did you know that Cassandra Pickett Durham was the first woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S. state of Georgia?
Did you know that Eric A. Walker continued as a professor at Cambridge University and published more books after being lobotomised?
Did you know that Kent vs Lancashire at Canterbury was originally hung in the Lord's Pavilion when Kent County Cricket Club were unable to afford to insure it?
Did you know that Ontario Highway 23 was extended from Highway 8 to Highway 7 as part of a Depression-era relief program?
Did you know that before they moved to their current home of Odsal Stadium, Bradford Northern spent 26 years based at Birch Lane?
Did you know that despite being Australian artists of a war, neither Jessie Traill nor Iso Rae were Australian war artists?
Did you know that despite being The Rolling Stones' business adviser and financial manager for nearly 40 years, Prince Rupert Loewenstein preferred the music of The Beatles?
Did you know that on the album Tunnel Vision, Tunnel Rats leader Dax Reynosa responded to claims that his group was too aggressive with the line "I pull a pistol out my pocket and I cock it"?
Did you know that punter Pat O'Donnell recorded more bench press repetitions at the NFL Scouting Combine than first-overall draft pick Jadeveon Clowney?
Did you know that the Germany–Poland border after WWII mostly follows the Oder–Neisse line, dividing several towns?
Did you know that the University of Mississippi Field Station originally had 220 experimental ponds and was once a fish farm?
Did you know that the blue nuthatch protects its corneas from falling debris when prospecting on trees by contracting the bare skin around its eyes – an adaptation apparently unique to the species?
Did you know that the father of Iran's nuclear program, Akbar Etemad, had said that neither Israel or the US are in a position to attack Iran?
Did you know that the ideological concept of a primary stage of socialism explains the use of capitalist methods in the Chinese economy by the Communist Party of China?
Did you know that the magazine Man About Town, in advertising itself, declared "that a fool and his money are soon parted"?
Did you know that "The Summons" includes 13 questions asked in the voice of Jesus?
Did you know that Dutch zoologist C. A. W. Jeekel is credited with launching the "modern era" of millipede taxonomy?
Did you know that Justina Ford was the only African American woman to be licensed as a physician in Denver for nearly 50 years?
Did you know that Korengal examines the military life and experiences of the same men who were in Restrepo?
Did you know that Lang Jingshan was the first Chinese art photographer to use nude models (earliest photo pictured)?
Did you know that Polish-American philosopher and sociologist Florian Znaniecki coined the terms culturalism and humanistic coefficient?