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Did you know that Onfim, a 13th-century boy from Novgorod, did his homework on pieces of birch bark, writing psalms and drawing images of himself, animals, and his teacher?
Did you know that Rabbi Ezra Schochet, dean of Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad, Los Angeles, is also the yeshiva's CEO, curriculum supervisor, and senior professor of Talmud?
Did you know that Sinaloa Cartel drug lord El Chino Ántrax raffled cars and other gifts to his followers on social media?
Did you know that Veganz, Europe's first vegan supermarket chain, opened in Berlin in 2011 and plans to open in London in 2014?
Did you know that Whisper has been called "the anti-Facebook"?
Did you know that in 1942 McKissack & McKissack received $5.7 million to design and build an airfield for the Tuskegee Airmen – the largest contract that the U.S. government had ever awarded to a Black company?
Did you know that singer Rebecca Simonsson and the other members of the music group Sunblock, all glamour models, have been called  "the sexiest thing since The Pussycat Dolls"?
Did you know that the bulk of the founders of the Socialist Party of Honduras had been members of the Christian Democratic Party?
Did you know that the three-generation Kim dynasty government of North Korea (monuments pictured) is similar to a royal family, unlike all other communist countries?
Did you know that the western three-toed skink is sometimes persecuted because it is mistakenly thought to be venomous?
Did you know that Abhilash Tomy, the first Indian to complete a solo, non-stop circumnavigation under sail, used the INSV Mhadei for his voyage?
Did you know that American football player Jim Collier scored the New York Giants' only touchdown in the 1962 NFL Championship Game by recovering a blocked punt in the end zone?
Did you know that C-Band All Sky Survey (C-BASS South pictured) aims to map the entire sky with two telescopes?
Did you know that Ching Lau Lauro played at The Theatre, Leeds, England, in 1834?
Did you know that Francis Bacon's 1949 painting Head VI was his first of almost 50 works based on Diego Velázquez's c. 1650 Portrait of Pope Innocent X?
Did you know that Gandhi was "the best policeman the Britisher had in India", according to Subhas Chandra Bose in The Indian Struggle?
Did you know that Hadidjah was not partnered with her husband as a supercouple, but rather a footballer?
Did you know that Julián Ladera was born in a ghost village?
Did you know that MTV initially refused to broadcast the music video for The Pursuit of Happiness' song "I'm an Adult Now" because of its references to drugs, alcohol, and sex?
Did you know that Peter Riegel devised a simple formula for predicting race times?
Did you know that Queen Saw Omma, when told she was to be killed lest she pass to another man, replied to her would-be killer "Nga Nu, aren't you a man?"
Did you know that Thomas Davies, a Royal Artillery officer, was the first to illustrate and describe the Superb Lyrebird?
Did you know that award-winning crossword constructor Bernice Gordon, who turns 100 this month, is the oldest living contributor to The New York Times crossword puzzle and still creates new puzzles every day?
Did you know that in 1927 the Ben Gold-led Fur Workers Industrial Union was founded by New York locals expelled from the AFL-affiliated union?
Did you know that the Gerhard Marcks Museum in Bremen is dedicated to the creator of the Musicians of Bremen sculpture?
Did you know that French priest François Ponchaud was one of the first people to publicise the genocide in Cambodia?
Did you know that Gavin Patterson, the new CEO of BT, is known for his open shirt collar?
Did you know that Robert Loftus Owen Versfeld used imported kikuyu grass to create the first grass rugby pitch in the Transvaal?
Did you know that St. Henry's Catholic Church is the only stone building in its rural locality?
Did you know that according to charters issued by the Nemanjić rulers of Serbia, the fortified Ratac Abbey had a hospital for poor people?
Did you know that after the 1936 crash-landing of his Fahlin SF-2 Plymocoupe, nicknamed Sea-Aska, Russel Owen telegraphed his sponsors: "Sea-Aska on her asska in Alaska"?
Did you know that because of the Texas Vampires, permission is needed to study blood from Newfoundlanders?
Did you know that even Nazi occupiers bowed to Dame Sibyl Hathaway, the feudal ruler of the island of Sark, who was later described as a "benevolent dictator" and a "lady of unusual personality"?
Did you know that in 2011, a report of the Karnataka Lokayukta exposed the biggest mining scam in India?
Did you know that parts of The Drew Carey Show episode "Drew Cam" were broadcast simultaneously on the television and the Internet, a first for a primetime show?
Did you know that the 53-year span between Hockey Hall of Famer Marcel Pronovost's first Stanley Cup championship, as a player in 1950, and eighth, as a scout in 2003, is a record?
Did you know that the UFO-like Kielce Bus Station has been praised as "one of the most valuable" architectural designs of the last decades of the People's Republic of Poland?
Did you know that the corals Pocillopora verrucosa and Pocillopora damicornis can reproduce by fragmentation, by releasing their gametes into the sea or by brooding their eggs?
Did you know that the extinct ant Afropone was first described from fossils in kimberlite?
Did you know that the racehorse One in a Million was rated at 116p?
Did you know that the thousand-year-old Anglo-Saxon high cross at Stapleford was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "by far the most important pre-Conquest monument" in Nottinghamshire?
Did you know that Batei Saidoff, a Jerusalem courtyard neighborhood built in 1911 with two water cisterns and an outdoor bathroom tower, was considered luxurious for its time?
Did you know that Chanel CEO Maureen Chiquet has been called a Francophile?
Did you know that Icy Strait Point, the only privately owned cruise destination in Alaska, has won awards for its preservation and economic reinvigoration of local culture?
Did you know that Mary E. Clarke was the first woman to achieve the rank of major general in the United States Army?
Did you know that Ohio's Brumback Library was the first county library in the United States?
Did you know that Stonewall Jackson once woke his men by singing "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken" out of tune?
Did you know that Timothy Massad is President Barack Obama's nominee for chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission?
Did you know that although Tianyi Studio was destroyed during the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, its offshoots, led by Run Run Shaw, later dominated the film-making and television industries of Hong Kong?
Did you know that as of December 2012, 40.9% of Filipinos in Belgium were considered "irregular", living there without legal residency status?
Did you know that in Lady of Sherwood, Jennifer Roberson chose to write about the demise of Richard I because the "death of a popular monarch always provide fodder for novelists"?
Did you know that the Asus Transformer Book Duet uses both Microsoft Windows and Android as operating systems?
Did you know that the Hanlon Expressway is named after Felix Hanlon, who helped cut the first tree to inaugurate Guelph, Ontario?
Did you know that the Swedish bishop Åke Bonnier is a billionaire in Swedish kronor?
Did you know that the daily load of manganese in Tangascootack Creek is 101 times higher than the maximum load allowable by the Environmental Protection Agency?
Did you know that the existence of Stateroom was revealed by Edward Snowden during the 2013 Global surveillance disclosure?
Did you know that 18 different official currencies are currently in use in the countries of North America?
Did you know that Cyclone Amara caused a complete suspension of flights to and from Rodrigues?
Did you know that Game Informer wrote that Max: The Curse of Brotherhood's central conceit was a "gimmick that simply doesn't work all that well"?
Did you know that Orangina's bottle, shaped like an orange, with a glass texture designed to mimic the fruit, was introduced by Jean-Claude Beton in 1951?
Did you know that Sir Richard Paget encouraged his daughter to fall from the open platform of a London bus, to demonstrate his theory that a person could do so safely due to air currents?
Did you know that Wappocomo was built in 1774 with bricks that were used as ballast to stabilize ships loading tobacco in the James River?
Did you know that a New York Times reviewer wrote that Xiu Xiu's 2013 Nina Simone tribute album Nina accentuated Simone's "spooky, unsettling side"?
Did you know that after Argentine heavy metal guitarist Osvaldo Civile's death by suicide, newspapers printed photos of him playing truco with the Grim Reaper?
Did you know that female infanticide in India has a history spanning centuries?
Did you know that multi-award winning solar astronomer John Wainwright Evans chose the name for the town of Sunspot, New Mexico?
Did you know that one reviewer said Christina Aguilera's song "Save Me from Myself" "cracks open the super diva to reveal something like a real person inside"?
Did you know that ruins found underneath a Cairo market in 2006 could belong to the largest sun temple built by Ramesses II?
Did you know that the 1932 jazz standard "Moten Swing" was an important development in the move towards a freer form of orchestral jazz and the development of swing music?
Did you know that the creation of Birmingham Crematorium was supported by three bishops and a principal?
Did you know that the megafauna on the seabed of the Porcupine Abyssal Plain is dominated by sea cucumbers such as Oneirophanta mutabilis, Psychropotes longicauda, and Amperima rosea?
Did you know that 2013 YP139 is the first discovered asteroid from the NEOWISE program, and is considered potentially dangerous?
Did you know that Bethesda Presbyterian Church in Russellville, Tennessee, closed after its congregants' sympathies split between the opposing sides of the American Civil War?
Did you know that Dean Semler was the first recipient of the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Dances with Wolves?
Did you know that Elsa the Snow Queen, a protagonist in Walt Disney's Frozen, was originally written as a villain?
Did you know that Francis Fletcher made a map of "Elizabeth Iland" while travelling around the world with Sir Francis Drake?
Did you know that Gus Hetling was awarded an automobile in 1912 as the most valuable player in the Pacific Coast League?
Did you know that John Rutter composed "The Lord bless you and keep you" for the memorial service of his former music teacher at Highgate School?
Did you know that Wolfgang Rösch, who studied mechanical engineering and theology, administers the Diocese of Limburg during the absence of the bishop?
Did you know that at least three members of the orchestra Lief Java also acted in films?
Did you know that completion of 4+1⁄2 mi (7.2 km) of Interstate 80 in Utah marked the last portion of Interstate 80 to be completed?
Did you know that the 1958 Asian Games torch was carried in relay from the US administered Okinawa Island to Kyushu?
Did you know that the Linn Isobarik loudspeaker is named after the isobaric loudspeaker?
Did you know that the aerial suspension illusion was first recorded in the early 19th century in India?
Did you know that unlike other cemeteries in Turkey that accommodate one religion only, Mersin Interfaith Cemetery includes graves of Muslims, Christians and Jews?
Did you know that 4-Methylcyclohexanemethanol (chemical structure pictured) spilled into the Elk River in Charleston, West Virginia, upstream from the intake for tap water servicing up to 300,000 people?
Did you know that East Wind Over Weehawken sold for a record price?
Did you know that Marie Collings, a wealthy pirate's daughter, purchased an island and became its hereditary ruler but never visited it?
Did you know that Tom Crutchfield was instrumental in producing the first captive-bred albino Burmese pythons?
Did you know that Western Australian architect Michael Cavanagh was responsible for redesigning St Mary's Cathedral, where he was married 27 years earlier?
Did you know that at one point, there was more automotive production in Massachusetts than in Detroit, Michigan?
Did you know that during World War II, Commander Sherman E. Burroughs, Jr., was in charge of a Naval base in the Mojave Desert?
Did you know that friends of Dan Tan, the Singaporean accused of fixing soccer matches on four continents, say he rarely watches the game?
Did you know that the American Horror Story: Coven episode "The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks" was inspired by rumors about Stevie Nicks and witchcraft?
Did you know that the Mills Community House is the only remaining building from Benzonia Academy?
Did you know that the Old College Hill Post Office in Cincinnati, Ohio, was converted into a house after closing in 1892?
Did you know that the building of St Robert's Church, Pannal, North Yorkshire, was begun by brothers of the Trinitarian Order in the 14th century?
Did you know that the family of George Washington established several plantations in West Virginia (Blakeley pictured)?
Did you know that to prepare for his role in 1926's Subway Sadie, Jack Mulhall rode a subway for "practically an entire day"?
Did you know that Sana Mir has captained the Pakistan women's cricket team in 33 Twenty20 Internationals, and is the team's leading wicket-taker?
Did you know that Siti Nurhaliza was anxious when performing with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra for her 2013 concert, despite having worked with London Symphony Orchestra?
Did you know that Sounds of HIV sets the genome of the HIV/AIDS virus to music?
Did you know that The Silence of the Lambs is the only post-studio era film that went into wide release during the winter dump months to win the Academy Award for Best Picture?
Did you know that West Indian Twenty20 cricketer Deandra Dottin was the first woman to score a century in a women's Twenty20 International?
Did you know that as a young girl, Margaret George became interested in Cleopatra because they both had dark hair, and later wrote a best-selling novel about her?
Did you know that city planners initially opposed the building of Jerusalem's first high-rises, the 17-story Wolfson Towers, saying they would "dwarf the Knesset"?
Did you know that evidence of Iron Age and Romano-British settlement has been found at Hanger Wood?
Did you know that physicist Ted Paige, a Fellow of the Royal Society, started researching haemochromatosis when he found out he was suffering from the disease?
Did you know that the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay was the inspiration for the British sitcom Fawlty Towers?
Did you know that the Japanese Shinto shrine Omi Jingu, dedicated to Emperor Tenji, holds karuta and water clock festivals and has been recently popularized by the manga Chihayafuru?
Did you know that "Por Amarte Así" won an ASCAP Latin award in categories Pop/Ballad, Salsa and Duranguense for Alejandro Montalbán and Eduardo Reyes?
Did you know that Butterly House in Toodyay, Western Australia, is at town lot 1?
Did you know that Danilo Kiš's 1965 novel Garden, Ashes mixes fact and fiction, with both the narrator and the author having lost their fathers in the Holocaust?
Did you know that Janice Eberly was the first female National President of Future Farmers of America and then Chief Economist for the U.S. Treasury Department?
Did you know that John Mohardt played baseball for the Detroit Tigers with Ty Cobb and football for the Chicago Bears with Red Grange?
Did you know that Ronald Reagan designated a week in June to be National Dairy Goat Awareness Week?
Did you know that Sardi was Indonesia's first professional music supervisor?
Did you know that St John's Church, Egremont, has the largest unsupported ceiling in Merseyside?
Did you know that after almost 75 years, the Dowding system remains the canonical example of force multiplication, having achieved 100% effectiveness on several occasions?
Did you know that film producer Bernard Glasser, whose debut was a Three Stooges film, had previously worked as a teacher?
Did you know that in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series, Dr. Watson was first told about Holmes in the Criterion Bar?
Did you know that the Lord's Grace Gates were nearly moved as they were being damaged by turning lorries?
Did you know that the Mangrove Robin consumes a significant amount of crab in its diet, in addition to its primary prey of insects?
Did you know that the Minar-i Pakistan was designed by Russian-born Pakistani architect Nasreddin Murat-Khan?
Did you know that the corvette Kulish is named after the weapon of the Indian mythological god Indra?
Did you know that the three-cent nickel was once more common than the five-cent one in the United States?
Did you know that "Rakkamma Kaiya Thattu", composed by Ilaiyaraaja, was named the fourth most popular song of all time in a 2002 online poll conducted by ‏BBC World Service?
Did you know that Arsenal exited the FA Cup and Football League Cup, and lost the UEFA Cup Final, on penalties in the 1999–2000 season?
Did you know that Bascom Lamar Lunsford sold "Good Old Mountain Dew" to Scotty Wiseman for US$25 so he could buy a train ticket home?
Did you know that Bonnie McKee has co-written eight number one singles, five of which were sung by Katy Perry?
Did you know that Polish economist and MP Killion Munyama did not originally plan to stay in Poland, but the fall of communism changed his mind?
Did you know that Robert V. Short, a tailor by training, was a member of the Oregon Constitutional Convention?
Did you know that Warren Bardsley was the first cricketer to score centuries in each innings of a Test match?
Did you know that White Bull is South Sudan's first beer brand?
Did you know that during a renovation in 2013, medieval coins and children's graves were found under the floor of Enåker Church, Sweden?
Did you know that one of the Hillsboro Fire Department's earliest pieces of equipment was previously used in Sacramento, California, Portland, Oregon, and Albany, Oregon?
Did you know that prior to commanding a Confederate company, Isaac Parsons served as a Virginia House Delegate and was involved in a dispute with U.S. Congressman Charles J. Faulkner over legal fees?
Did you know that the Asian clam is causing trouble in San Francisco Bay?
Did you know that the Indian submarine museum Kursura is the first of its kind in South Asia and is visited by about 250,000 people each year?
Did you know that the Lavaggi LS1 was the first Le Mans Prototype race car to be designed and built in Monte Carlo?
Did you know that the architecture of the German Courthouse in Bremen was inspired by the French Château de Blois?
Did you know that the crimes of Linda Taylor became the basis for Ronald Reagan's mythical "welfare queen" during his 1976 presidential campaign?
Did you know that Andrew Stevovich's work (example pictured) has been described by art critic Carol Diehl as a marriage of simplicity and complexity?
Did you know that Bill Hooper scored Darlington's first Football League goal, which was "in all probability" the first goal scored in the Third Division North?
Did you know that Dread Pirate Roberts is the founder of the "Amazon.com of illegal drugs"?
Did you know that Lepidotus was a genus of prehistoric fish that existed from the Late Triassic (Rhaetic) to the middle Cretaceous (Cenomanian)?
Did you know that Mathew Ahmann (pictured next to Martin Luther King, Jr.), a Catholic layman, made a speech preceding King's I Have a Dream during the 1963 March on Washington?
Did you know that Ming China's armies deployed their cannons to defeat the Oyirad Mongol hordes at the Kerulen and Tula rivers in 1414?
Did you know that Olga Tañón, now the most awarded performer at the Lo Nuestro Awards, did not win when she was nominated for the Award for Tropical New Artist back in 1993?
Did you know that Polish writer Irena Jurgielewiczowa was also an underground teacher and a resistance fighter in WWII?
Did you know that Tunisia's new interim prime minister, Mehdi Jomaa, is trained as an engineer?
Did you know that at completion, the 80-meter-high Aciliu Viaduct will be the highest in Romania?
Did you know that earnings management involves the alteration of financial reports to mislead stakeholders, and may be difficult for individual investors to detect?
Did you know that the Aurora Film Corporation, founded in 1906, produced India's first newsreel and first children's film?
Did you know that the Indonesian wayang theatre developed from the Ravana Chhaya puppet theatre of Odisha, India?
Did you know that the Yamaha NS-10 sounded so bright that Bob Clearmountain had to hang tissue paper over the tweeter?
Did you know that the navigator was the sole survivor of Tajikistan Airlines Flight 3183 which crashed near Sharjah, killing 85 people?
Did you know that while Li (character pictured), shared by more than 100 million people, is one of the most common surnames in the world, Li and Li are far less common?
Did you know that County Yard is the site of a planned "train haven"?
Did you know that Cusi Cram based one of her plays on a controversy involving two lesbian mothers and the U.S. Secretary of Education that began with an episode of PBS's Postcards from Buster?
Did you know that George Packer's book The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America won the 2013 National Book Award for Nonfiction?
Did you know that S. N. Cooke gave Birmingham a war memorial with a Twist?
Did you know that although Robert fitzRoger owed his offices to the Chancellor William Longchamp, unlike most of Longchamp's appointees, fitzRoger retained those offices after Longchamp's fall from power?
Did you know that articles in The Accounting Review, a top accounting journal, have become increasingly mathematically rigorous over the past decades?
Did you know that the Henry Powell House was renovated to change its architectural style from Greek Revival to Second Empire?
Did you know that the Monument to Captain John Francis Egerton commemorates a soldier who was killed in the First Anglo-Sikh War?
Did you know that the RAF's pip-squeak system kept track of their fighters during the Battle of Britain using their voice radio sets?
Did you know that the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra (anointing of the Queen pictured) was postponed because the King required immediate surgery?
Did you know that the octopus Velodona togata was named for the large, distinctive membranes on its arms?
Did you know that 95 churches in the USA and one in Haiti are both Primitive and Progressive?
Did you know that Anglican priests established St Mary's Mission Station in Odibo, northern Namibia, in 1924?
Did you know that Ernst Roth, general manager of Boosey & Hawkes, published four late songs by Richard Strauss in 1950 after the composer's death, naming them Four Last Songs?
Did you know that Frederick August Wenderoth and Charles Christian Nahl often painted together, including the large scale gold rush scene Miners in the Sierras?
Did you know that NHS Blood and Transplant stated several people had asked to be removed from the UK organ donor register as a result of a storyline involving Holby City character Mo Effanga?
Did you know that a Norwegian school was named for Thor and built by a hammer?
Did you know that a former Elks lodge in Montrose, Colorado, has since housed a college, a social services agency, and city offices?
Did you know that in August 1924 Adolf Dobrovolný presented commentary of the first broadcast sports event in Europe on Czech Radio – a heavyweight boxing match?
Did you know that in the plays of Kenneth Horne, virgins "offer themselves up, with some degree of apprehension, for ravishment"?
Did you know that in the starlet sea anemone, genes involved in the formation of the column base are identical to those responsible for the development of the head in vertebrates?
Did you know that over 2,200 acres (8.9 km2) of protected lands bound the Great Salt Lake Legacy Parkway Scenic Byway?
Did you know that since dozens of Elliot Marbles (example pictured) were brought to the British Museum their ownership has been uncontested?
Did you know that the Queen Victoria Monument in Birkenhead is in the form of an Eleanor cross?