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Did you know that the Goa Vikas Party, which has two seats in the 40-member legislature of the Indian state of Goa, is a part of the ruling coalition in the state?
Did you know that the Reverend Linton's book has Rubus durescens in gold leaf on its cover?
Did you know that the Welsh have songs about the abilities of the strong woman and harpist Marged ferch Ifan?
Did you know that the name of crescentina bread is derived in part from the Italian word crescere, which means "to grow?"
Did you know that 1334 medals were awarded in the 2015 National Games of India?
Did you know that Jewel Freeman Graham, the second black woman president of the World YWCA, joined the organization as a teenager in the colored division in Springfield, Ohio in 1939?
Did you know that Joseph Hobson designed the first underwater railroad tunnel to a foreign country?
Did you know that Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun, the second Tulunid ruler, reportedly lay on air-filled cushions floating on a basin filled with quicksilver to be rocked to sleep?
Did you know that Woodrow Wilson believed that Beautiful Isle of Somewhere was bad for children?
Did you know that the Les Ferreres Aqueduct, built in Roman times in the Province of Tarragona, is part of a World Heritage Site?
Did you know that the Turkish-Danish women's handballer Sara Keçeci played for Turkey in her homeland Denmark against the Danish women's team at a European championship match in 2015?
Did you know that there are around 18,500 species of butterfly (Old World swallowtail pictured)?
Did you know that when Bach composed Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir, BWV 38, on Luther's 200-year old hymn based on Psalm 130, he let four trombones, two oboes and strings all play with the voices?
Did you know that Emilie von Berlepsch described herself as "fighting against the prejudice that wants to grant women neither a will of their own nor the courage to express it"?
Did you know that Hergé was inspired to develop the plot for The Red Sea Sharks after reading a magazine article detailing the continued existence of the slave trade within the Arab world?
Did you know that Isabelle Eberhardt's first story, published in 1895, was about a medical student's physical attraction to a woman's corpse?
Did you know that Marsh Creek is "tiny", but is one of the major tributaries of Bowman Creek?
Did you know that Tracy Dahl's voice has been described as "filled with sunshine, rainbows and laser light"?
Did you know that Villablino in northern Spain has large reserves of bituminous coal?
Did you know that Willard Libby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960 for his role in the development of radiocarbon dating?
Did you know that according to the occultist Aleister Crowley, Alice Coomaraswamy became pregnant using "sex magic"?
Did you know that exhibits in the DakshinaChitra museum highlight cultural aspects of the Brahminical people, and the craft traditions of heritage homes (examples pictured) of South India?
Did you know that in "Spit & Eggs", an episode of Veronica Mars, director Rob Thomas used 27 camera angles in a scene that took up to 11 hours to film?
Did you know that the South American snowy-crowned tern was first described by Audubon from a bird found in New Jersey?
Did you know that the University of Michigan sports anthem, "Let's Go Blue", "went viral" after the Michigan Marching Band's performance during the national telecast of the 1976 Orange Bowl?
Did you know that Chilly McIntosh, who was nearly assassinated for agreeing to sell Creek tribal lands, later became a respected and influential figure in the Creek Nation?
Did you know that Evangelienmotetten – Gospel motets – are settings to music of verses from the New Testament?
Did you know that Henri Gaudier-Brzeska created a portrait bust of his friend Horace Brodzky?
Did you know that Marathwada did not become part of India until it was liberated on 17 September 1948, 13 months after Indian independence?
Did you know that Omar Gonzalez scaled the fence of the White House and was able to intrude into the building, as the doors were unlocked?
Did you know that after escaping a massacre, painter Vartan Mahokian continued to paint and earned himself a Legion of Honor?
Did you know that an international jazz festival is held annually in the French town of Souillac?
Did you know that conservation architect Beatriz del Cueto restored Puerto Rico's oldest lighthouse, Cape San Juan Light?
Did you know that the "Dragon Lady" complained that American Architects ran a "gentleman's club"?
Did you know that the Fizeau experiment (setup pictured) was one of the key experimental results that shaped Einstein's thinking about relativity?
Did you know that the counter at the London sushi restaurant The Araki is made from 200-year-old wood donated by musician Ryuichi Sakamoto?
Did you know that Alberto Contador won the 2015 Giro d'Italia, without winning any stage victories?
Did you know that British/Kenyan architect Dorothy Hughes's most renowned designs include the Cathedral of the Holy Family and a nightclub in the red-light district of Nairobi?
Did you know that Douglas Lambert scored a record five tries on his international rugby union debut?
Did you know that Haute-Loire was the birthplace of Claude-Jean Allouez, 17th-century missionary and explorer in North America?
Did you know that Keizō Hayashi was a Japanese civil servant and general officer who was instrumental in the founding of the Japan Self-Defense Forces in 1954?
Did you know that My Scientology Movie by Louis Theroux re-enacts scenes of alleged abuse in the Church of Scientology's punishment facility, the Hole?
Did you know that Richard Nixon lived in two houses designed by Eleanore Pettersen?
Did you know that Sigala co-wrote "Good Times" by Ella Eyre?
Did you know that prior to working on Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry was a combat pilot for the US Army Air Force and an LAPD officer?
Did you know that rice is grown in the Province of Cremona in northern Italy?
Did you know that the Huawei Watch is the company's first smartwatch?
Did you know that the Ukraine–EU Association Agreement will be subjected to a referendum in the Netherlands?
Did you know that the music video for Adele's song "Hello" was the first to be filmed using IMAX cameras?
Did you know that 95 years after the first documented use of the name "Boile Run" for a tributary of the Susquehanna River, government officials recommended adopting it?
Did you know that Country Joe and the Fish was initially formed with only Country Joe and The Fish?
Did you know that Ernst Beyeler, "the greatest art dealer since the war", left a collection worth at least $1.85 billion when he died in 2010?
Did you know that although cats have an unprecedented popularity on the internet, no one is entirely sure why?
Did you know that although the town clerk, Edward Hart, wrote the Flushing Remonstrance of 1657, no one knows who most inspired its moving appeal for freedom of conscience in colonial New Netherland?
Did you know that an acquisition this year by the National Gallery was made possible by the family of Estée Lauder?
Did you know that the cathedral architect Corinne Bennett's interest in stone came from her father, a geology professor?
Did you know that the highland tuco-tuco has bright yellowish-orange teeth?
Did you know that the premiere of Aaron Copland's Connotations, on September 23, 1962, "sent shock waves through the world of music"?
Did you know that wind turbines in Conca de Barberà help power Catalonia?
Did you know that 17th-century reformist defenders of Giambologna's 1571–73 sculpture of a woman bathing justified her nudity by identifying her as either Bathsheba or Venus?
Did you know that Dutch architect Tonny Zwollo was featured in Life magazine for building 35 schools in Oaxaca, Mexico, and convincing the community members to help build them for free?
Did you know that Ni no Kuni was conceived as a project for Level-5's tenth anniversary?
Did you know that contrary to what its interpretive plaque says, the Fireweed Studio log cabin in Yellowknife was never used as a blacksmith's shop?
Did you know that during his 2000 campaign for U.S. president, Donald Trump named Oprah Winfrey as his ideal running mate?
Did you know that the Llanos long-nosed armadillo typically has quadruplets, all developed from a single zygote?
Did you know that the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award, was instituted in 1954, and the "father of the Indian bomb" was one of its first recipients?
Did you know that the extinct ant genus Protopone is known from both amber and compression fossils?
Did you know that the romantic comedy film Obvious Child was praised for its portrayal of abortion?
Did you know that the supplication of Abu Hamza al-Thumali was recited by Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin, the fourth Shia Imam, on every night or dawn of Ramadan?
Did you know that Lucio Fulci's 1979 film Zombi 2 has been released under eleven different titles?
Did you know that The Apparition of Mrs. Veal, attributed to Daniel Defoe, has been called the first modern ghost story?
Did you know that The Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror XXV" features the guest voice of Pixar's John Ratzenberger as a computer-generated Homer Simpson?
Did you know that Yusuf al-'Azma's death confronting the French Army's push towards Damascus during the Battle of Maysalun made him a national hero in Syria and the Arab world?
Did you know that mammals present in the Boise National Forest include mule deer, elk, moose, black bear, pronghorn, mountain lion, coyote, bobcat, yellow-bellied marmot, beaver, and gray wolf?
Did you know that the "vampire squirrel" of Borneo, which is reputed to eat the livers and hearts of chickens and deer, has the largest-known tail-to-body-size ratio of any mammal?
Did you know that the demon core killed Manhattan Project scientists Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin?
Did you know that the early American minister Francis Doughty had a proclivity for witch-hunting?
Did you know that the lead designer of XCOM: Enemy Unknown called his game "basically a 20-hour tutorial" for the partial conversion mod Long War?
Did you know that "even the dead sit for Buehman"?
Did you know that Mahmood Yakubu is the first and only Northern Nigerian with a first-class degree in history?
Did you know that Ryan Adams's album 1989 is a cover of a Taylor Swift album of the same name?
Did you know that a "monster" confessed dramatically, "My heart swims in blood"?
Did you know that environmental issues in Tehran include severe air pollution and a high risk of earthquakes?
Did you know that metal corsets probably served a medical purpose rather than being a "cruel, tortuous fashion" enforced by a dominant 16th-century queen?
Did you know that professional wrestler El Hijo de Dos Caras needed an opponent's help to hold a ladder so he could win a ladder match?
Did you know that serial killer Lizzie Halliday was the first woman sentenced to die in the electric chair?
Did you know that the Russian authorities claimed the Svans had murdered Harry Fox, but they almost certainly did not?
Did you know that the U.S. President's Guest House is larger than the White House?
Did you know that the werewolves of Ossory were said to be descended from the brother of an Irish king?
Did you know that there is a large horseshoe in downtown Zagreb, Croatia?
Did you know that vampires were caught on camera in Prague?
Did you know that Cecile Hoover Edwards, an expert on African-American nutrition, sought to identify low-cost foods with an optimal amino acid composition?
Did you know that Godalming's Roman Catholic, Quaker, and Unitarian places of worship, former Congregational chapel, and former Salvation Army hall are all Grade II listed buildings?
Did you know that Harry Alexander was captain of England for just one match?
Did you know that Whiplash won the Grand Jury Prize as well as the Audience Award at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, where it premiered?
Did you know that in 1888, Vasile Morțun became the first socialist elected to the Romanian Assembly of Deputies?
Did you know that one variety of pasticciotto (example pictured) pastry is filled with meat but topped with sugar?
Did you know that the Pakistani politician, ex-colonel, and ex-commander of the 13th Lancers Shuja Khanzada was recently assassinated by suicide bombers?
Did you know that the director of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter says it really will be the final chapter of Resident Evil?
Did you know that the yellow-faced myna may pair for life?
Did you know that when George Givot played Mae West's character's lover in blackface in a 1931 Broadway play, producers had him remove his wig after each performance to show patrons he was white?
Did you know that 43 termite species (examples pictured) are used as food by humans or are fed to livestock?
Did you know that Constance Leathart, one of the first women to fly over the Alps, flew heavy bombers in the Second World War?
Did you know that Gabriel Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine is often performed with his Requiem, although he composed it much earlier as a student (pictured in school uniform)?
Did you know that Mark Slonim, professor of Russian literature at Sarah Lawrence College in the 1950s, was once offered a job by Benito Mussolini?
Did you know that a burial urn on display in Aydın Archaeological Museum depicts destiny's gods Moirai, the god of the underworld Hades, the judges of the underworld, and Hades' three-headed guard dog Cerberus?
Did you know that architect Eva Vecsei has designed projects in Hungary, Canada and Pakistan?
Did you know that the BBC's pre-match coverage of the 2002 FA Cup Final included a sketch featuring Ricky Gervais?
Did you know that the Commonwealth of Independent States may be an example of the international relations concept of nesting?
Did you know that the actor Ewan McGregor is making his directorial debut with American Pastoral, after the original director left?
Did you know that the anime series Charlotte has been described as defying the "moe anime" stereotype?
Did you know that Arba'een Pilgrimage, the world's largest annual gathering, is held every year 40 days after Ashura for the commemoration of Husayn ibn Ali's death?
Did you know that Dominik Wörner, winner of the 2002 International Bach Competition, recorded Lieder from Vienna written in the fin de siècle period, including works by Berg, Schönberg, Schreker and Wolf?
Did you know that Tomoya Kawakita, a Japanese-American convicted of treason against the United States after World War II, was arrested after a former POW recognized him in a Los Angeles department store?
Did you know that Tony Award-winning Broadway producer Elizabeth Williams is also an archaeologist and art historian who has taught at Columbia University and UC Berkeley?
Did you know that in September 2015, the portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit broke the record as the most expensive works by Rembrandt sold at auction?
Did you know that incoming Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has announced he will live in Rideau Cottage instead of 24 Sussex Drive?
Did you know that pink earth lichen was once thought to be in the same genus as the similar-looking brown beret lichen, until DNA sequencing proved otherwise?
Did you know that the 2012 drama film Smashed was partly funded by Minnesota Vikings owner Zygi Wilf?
Did you know that the music video for Adam Lambert's "Another Lonely Night" features a transgender woman as its protagonist?
Did you know that while Brock Lesnar was stripped of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship by New Japan Pro Wrestling, Inoki Genome Federation continued to recognize him as the IWGP Heavyweight Champion?
Did you know that "Bad Timing", an Adventure Time episode, is visually framed to have its main action occur in the center, while polygonal creatures comprise the outer margins?
Did you know that Joshua Wheeler was both the first American service member killed in action by ISIL militants, and the first killed in action in Iraq since 2011?
Did you know that L'Isle-Adam is a picturesque town with a beach beside the River Oise in Val-d'Oise?
Did you know that San Andrés del Rabanedo is one of the fastest-growing towns in the Spanish Province of León?
Did you know that William Donald Scherzer invented the first rolling lift bridge (animated)?
Did you know that at the 85th Academy Awards, Silver Linings Playbook became the first film in 31 years to be nominated in all four acting categories?
Did you know that jazz violinist Karen Briggs received the moniker "Lady in Red" while featuring as a soloist in Yanni's Live at the Acropolis tour?
Did you know that the BBC was accused of ignoring women architects when Patty Hopkins was removed from a photograph of The Brits Who Built the Modern World?
Did you know that the Bailo of Corfu also administered the affairs of the Venetian dependencies of Butrinto and Lepanto?
Did you know that the Jersey cow mushroom is thought to be parasitised by the rosy spike-cap (both pictured)?
Did you know that the eleventh-century Chinese military compendium Wujing Zongyao contains the earliest known written formulas for gunpowder?
Did you know that the mutineers of the Argentine 1987 Carapintada mutiny were named "Carapintadas" ("Painted Faces") for their use of military camouflage?
Did you know that the naval historian Peter Padfield was on the maiden voyage of Mayflower II?
Did you know that the yellow fly is Florida's most aggressive horse-fly?
Did you know that ATR-16 syndrome causes very similar symptoms to ATR-X syndrome, despite being on different chromosomes?
Did you know that Ni no Kuni: Dominion of the Dark Djinn was shipped on a 4-gigabit game card, in order to fit the orchestral music?
Did you know that Post Malone coined the song name "White Iverson" after getting braids in his hair, a reference to professional basketball player Allen Iverson?
Did you know that Silvana Imam and her girlfriend Beatrice Eli performed together in 2015 under the stage name Vierge Moderne?
Did you know that Stella Bloch headlined in New York after she returned from learning Javanese dance at the Prince of Solo's palace?
Did you know that Teresa Borsuk's interest in architecture was sparked partly by Lego?
Did you know that although pinol, a beverage made with toasted barley flour, unrefined sugar, and spices, was invented in the 20th century, it is already considered a traditional food of Ecuador?
Did you know that by 1975, the year Marcy Cottrell Houle's book Wings for My Flight documents, only 324 pairs of peregrine falcons resided in the United States?
Did you know that historian Victor Langlois was tasked with researching the relations between Armenians and the French during the Crusades?
Did you know that police struggled to investigate double murderer Stephen Farrow, because of his nomadic lifestyle?
Did you know that press agent Harry Brand had 20th Century Fox insure Betty Grable's legs for $1 million?
Did you know that some sushi machines can automatically produce sushi rolls from start to finish?
Did you know that the University of Southern California sports anthem "Tribute to Troy" has been called one of the "top 10 most annoying college football fight songs"?
Did you know that the queen Bombus hyperboreus kills the queen of another bumblebee species and takes over its colony?
Did you know that three days before committing a mass shooting and then suicide at Umpqua Community College, Christopher Harper-Mercer reportedly uploaded a documentary on the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting?
Did you know that Edwin McMillan and Glenn T. Seaborg were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951 for their discovery of the transuranium elements?
Did you know that Harry Anthony replaced John Bieling in the American Quartet?
Did you know that Ion Buzdugan, poet and deputy of the Romanian nationalist Bessarabian Peasants' Party, was chided for his poor grasp of the Romanian language?
Did you know that Osaka Tōin High School's baseball team became national champions in just their fourth year of existence?
Did you know that Roshanara, who was born and trained in India, taught Bette Davis to dance?
Did you know that although Wolf Run is only 0.9 miles (1.4 km) long, it was historically used as a water supply for the Lehigh Valley Railroad?
Did you know that it took only six months to complete the production of Frozen Fever?
Did you know that scholars have uncovered the record books of the Tripoli Jewish community and 18th-century manuscripts in the study hall of Hakham Saul Adadi?
Did you know that the Program for Action, a transportation proposal in New York City, was drastically truncated in the 1970s due to a lack of funds?
Did you know that the Walker Art Gallery changed the name of Giovanni Segantini's painting The Punishment of Lust to avoid offending the Victorian public?
Did you know that the funicular at Valle de Trápaga-Trapagaran provides panoramic views over the Estuary of Bilbao?
Did you know that the little owl was sacred to the goddess Athena, from whom it gets the generic name?
Did you know that the social and economic status of the owners of a Javanese traditional house (example pictured) can be ascertained by the shape of the roof?
Did you know that the title of Mariah Carey's song "H.A.T.E.U." is an acronym for "Having A Typical Emotional Upset"?
Did you know that 19th-century con man C. L. Blood falsely claimed to have invented nitrous oxide, which he touted as a cure for consumption?
Did you know that a Zeppelin helped the Allies during World War II?
Did you know that according to the commander of the Aerospace Force of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, there are underground missile bases in all the provinces and cities of Iran ready for launch at the Supreme Leader's order?
Did you know that although Monica Pidgeon's father persuaded her not to study architecture, she went on to edit Architectural Design for almost three decades?
Did you know that following the recent Dadri mob lynching, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi urged Hindus and Muslims to fight against poverty and not against each other?
Did you know that iHeartRadio bet Leona Lewis $5 to sing her name in the style of Jason Derulo at the beginning of her performance of "Thunder" live on air?
Did you know that the 2015 FA Women's Cup Final was the first edition to be staged at Wembley Stadium?
Did you know that the P&O ocean liner Strathmore was one of five "Beautiful White Sisters"?
Did you know that the film Iron Man 2 was dedicated to the memory of DJ AM?
Did you know that the fuchsia gall mite, a serious pest of Fuchsia, was probably introduced into Europe accidentally by a Fuchsia enthusiast?
Did you know that Avonmouth railway station was developed from a halt for the construction workers of the Avonmouth Docks, built in 1868?
Did you know that Daniel Bogado has seen Antonov military aircraft in the Nuba Mountains, and a deaf child in Uganda learning sign language?
Did you know that Netflix paid $60 million to buy distribution rights to the War Machine?
Did you know that Pink Floyd's Richard Wright was a keen collector of Persian rugs?
Did you know that Ronald Reagan Cross County Highway in Hamilton County, Ohio, was the first highway to be named after U.S. President Ronald Reagan?
Did you know that Yellowknife's Ragged Ass Road was formerly known as Privy Road because it had many outhouses?
Did you know that corruption in South Sudan is surpassed only by Somalia, North Korea, Sudan, and Afghanistan?
Did you know that moviegoers in 1924 saw Justin Victor get away with murder because It Is the Law?
Did you know that starting in 2020, The Ocean Cleanup will endeavour to rid the Great Pacific garbage patch of plastic debris?
Did you know that the French destroyer Jaguar was unique among the Chacal-class destroyers in being fitted to serve as a flagship and she was fitted to accommodate the admiral and his staff?
Did you know that the first woman to notoriously wear lipstick in Honduras is said to now be their premier woman poet?
Did you know that with a head shape likened to a gharial, the dinosaur Baryonyx (illustrated) is thought to have eaten fish?
Did you know that Alice Alldredge, an expert on marine snow, has been in the top 0.1% of the Web of Science's highly cited researchers list since 2003?