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Did you know that actor Toby Jones underwent 20 minutes of daily vocal warm up exercises to recreate Alfred Hitchcock's distinctive accent for the 2012 film The Girl?
Did you know that animator Nickson Fong is the first Singaporean to receive an Academy Award?
Did you know that audiences laughed at Astaman for playing a king with matador's clothes?
Did you know that country music singer Sheila Andrews' voice changed following an operation to remove a tumor from her thyroid?
Did you know that in an attempt to sound different from previous Final Fantasy video games, the music of Final Fantasy XIII-2 includes rap, heavy metal, and electronic pieces?
Did you know that on the first ascent of the Cordier Couloir on the Aiguille Verte, Thomas Middlemore, John Oakley Maund and Henri Cordier were nearly obliterated by rockfall?
Did you know that the Paget Marsh Nature Reserve in Bermuda has been called the "best surviving example of native cedar, palmetto, and mangrove forests", yet at one point the island lost 99% of its cedar trees?
Did you know that the anthropologist Herman ten Kate, the junior, son of the artist Herman ten Kate, the senior, wrote about skulls of decapitated criminals?
Did you know that the current Mechanicsburg United Methodist Church was the congregation's fifth church building in eighty years?
Did you know that the film Fruitvale, which won two major awards at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, is based on a real-life police shooting?
Did you know that the grained seastar is the only starfish known to reproduce by parthenogenesis?
Did you know that "One Day I'll Fly Away" is Randy Crawford's highest-charting single, reaching #1 in Belgium and the Netherlands, and #2 in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that American film composer Nathaniel Motte co-wrote the song "Love Somebody" by Maroon 5?
Did you know that Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, the sister of Stephen Colbert, is running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives?
Did you know that Meek's Pygmy Parrot is one of seven birds named after Albert Stewart Meek, the English bird collector and naturalist?
Did you know that Minnesota Wild prospect Mathew Dumba captained Canada's Under-18 hockey team to a gold medal at the 2011 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament?
Did you know that Misbach Yusa Biran's Sejarah Film 1900–1950 (History of Film 1900–1950) has been called a "sacred text from a film warrior"?
Did you know that Pakistan could have more nuclear weapons than the United Kingdom within a decade?
Did you know that Prince Charles was one of the first passengers on the Airlink helicopter?
Did you know that Spring Street has both New York City's #1-ranked Israeli restaurant (Taïm), and #2-ranked French brasserie (Balthazar)?
Did you know that cricketer Travis Head was hit by a car shortly after completing a four-day match for South Australia?
Did you know that in Viggo Stuckenberg's poetry, men were often depicted as weak and lazy dreamers while women showed will and ability?
Did you know that in the upcoming Bengali film Khasi Katha– A Goat Saga, a goat about to be slaughtered narrates the story of a female boxer to a butcher?
Did you know that planter Thomas Polk was elected by the North Carolina General Assembly to the Congress of the Confederation, but did not attend any of its sessions?
Did you know that the American three-dollar coin may have been designed to make buying stamps easier?
Did you know that the Yukon Hotel in Dawson City, built in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush, was sold for $1?
Did you know that the appointment of Mo Cowan to the U.S. Senate marks the first time two African Americans served concurrently?
Did you know that the former Royal Air Force Station near Peterhead, Scotland, is used for flying model planes?
Did you know that the widowed philanthropist Mary Hemenway, impressed with Frank Cushing's anthropological work among the Zuni, sponsored the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition?
Did you know that "Episode 523" from the Australian soap opera Neighbours marked the wedding of popular couple Scott and Charlene?
Did you know that Baltimore Ravens assistant special teams coach Chris Hewitt was hired by Ravens head coach John Harbaugh, who had coached Hewitt as a 17-year-old freshman with the Cincinnati Bearcats?
Did you know that Bertel Thorvaldsen's Jason with the Golden Fleece was inspired by the Apollo Belvedere and Doryphoros?
Did you know that Charles Chaplin, Sr. was a popular entertainer long before his famous son?
Did you know that Frederik V on Horseback was designed by Jacques Saly and cast by the Danish Asiatic Company?
Did you know that Noureddine Aba wrote a series of love poems inspired by a young couple dying at the time of Algeria becoming independent from France?
Did you know that Republican David Pendleton was the Hawaiian House Minority Floor Leader from 1998 to 2002, and now sits on the Hawaii Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board as an administrative law judge?
Did you know that World War II pilot James Muri's only means of escape, after attacking the Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi, was to fly down along the line of her flight deck?
Did you know that Yoko Ono opens her song "Sisters, O Sisters" by referring to the engineer as a "male chauvinist pig"?
Did you know that after graduating from Duke and Harvard, scientist Herman Postma returned to high school to learn Russian?
Did you know that current Ohio Bobcats men's basketball player D. J. Cooper is "among the best" point guards in college basketball according to analyst Jay Bilas?
Did you know that in 1833, Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen, director of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, conducted the first performance of Bach's St John Passion after the composer's death?
Did you know that in centerless grinding, the workpiece is held in place by nothing more than the friction of both grinding wheels?
Did you know that the accidental discovery of sea daisy species Xyloplax medusiformis in the Pacific inspired the search that found X. turnerae in the Atlantic?
Did you know that Alabama in 1959 defeated Tulane for both its football program's 100th Southeastern Conference victory and head coach Bear Bryant's 100th career victory?
Did you know that American  news anchor and lawyer Jami Floyd was a White House Fellow who served both First Lady Hillary Clinton and Vice President Al Gore?
Did you know that Chrisye's album Recession found inspiration in The Police?
Did you know that Clinton Romesha, who today is being awarded the Medal of Honor, joined the United States Army after deciding not to be a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
Did you know that Indians living in Bahrain account for 31% of the country's total population?
Did you know that Jais Nielsen's biblical works (glass mosaic windows pictured) and his creations for Royal Copenhagen overshadowed his paintings?
Did you know that Landon Carter Haynes once shot rival newspaperman and politician William G. "Parson" Brownlow, who later accused him of stealing corn and selling diseased hogs?
Did you know that Lionel Richie's Just for You, released soon after his divorce, was dedicated to himself?
Did you know that Namling in Tibet contains a prominent fortress which has been likened to castles along the Rhine?
Did you know that U.S. Hockey Hall of Famer Gary Suter won a silver medal at the 2002 Olympic Games, 22 years after his brother Bob won gold?
Did you know that Vichna Kaplan, the prize pupil of Sarah Schenirer and founder of the first Bais Yaakov high school in America, was initially rejected from joining Schenirer's teachers seminary in Poland?
Did you know that cultural homogenization in the context of the global spread of Western culture has been described under such names as McDonaldization, coca-colonization, Americanization or Westernization?
Did you know that in letterpress printing, composition rollers are used to apply ink to the bed of type?
Did you know that protests were organized against and calls were made out to expel writer Ekrem Eylisli‎ from his native Azerbaijan following the publication of his novella?
Did you know that the Ako Bicol Political Party, which won the most votes in the 2010 Philippine party-list election, may be disqualified from fielding candidates for the 2013 election?
Did you know that the Type 26 revolver was produced until destruction of the Koishikawa Arsenal by the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake?
Did you know that under the management of Alex Ferguson, Aberdeen defeated Real Madrid 2–1 in the 1983 European Cup Winners' Cup Final?
Did you know that Charles-Auguste Lebourg designed sculpture (example pictured) for over 100 drinking fountains scattered throughout France?
Did you know that Dennis To, who played the Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man in the 2010 film The Legend Is Born – Ip Man, won a gold medal in duilian together with two teammates at the 2005 East Asian Games?
Did you know that Gaddafi was criticized in the Middle East for failing to extract sufficient Western concessions in exchange for relinquishing his WMDs and nuclear weapons program?
Did you know that Huwen op Bevel, advertised as the first talkie in what is now Indonesia, was the director's last film in that role?
Did you know that Leona Lewis became a victim of internet hacking when her song "Don't Let Me Down", a collaboration with Justin Timberlake, was leaked?
Did you know that Lieutenant Colonel Roger Fleetwood-Hesketh and his brother, Captain Cuthbert, were WW2 intelligence officers and members of Ops (B), which was involved in D-Day deception planning?
Did you know that Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain, in New York's Adirondacks, is thought to get its name from a corruption of the Algonquin "Pohqui Moosie", for "place of broken smooth rocks"?
Did you know that according to music critic Cameron Adams of Herald Sun, the Maroon 5 song "Doin' Dirt" is a "disco monster"?
Did you know that after writing a positive review for the film Kedok Ketawa, Saeroen wrote two scripts for its production company?
Did you know that basketball player Bill Hanson played in Spain and won the 1963–64 FIBA European Champions Cup, after declining to play in the NBA?
Did you know that in 2012, Fiona Apple recorded "Dull Tool", her first original song written for a film soundtrack, for the comedy film This Is 40?
Did you know that the Bandhi community of Karnataka seeks divine approval for marriage from the Ganesha of Idagunji?
Did you know that the Countess of Rutland, mother of 11, had to inform the English queen Anne of Cleves that receiving a goodnight kiss was not enough to conceive a child?
Did you know that the Dutch linguist Lambert ten Kate was an early phonetician?
Did you know that the Smooth Fox Terrier Warren Remedy is the most successful dog ever at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show?
Did you know that "Like You" was Daddy Yankee's second best performing single in the United States in 2005 behind "Gasolina"?
Did you know that 17-year-old Holy Roman Empress Maria Leopoldine died giving birth to her cousin's child?
Did you know that English footballer Ben Everson played for Icelandic Úrvalsdeild team Breiðablik when they qualified for the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round?
Did you know that John Collins Covell served as principal of both the Virginia and West Virginia schools for the deaf and blind?
Did you know that Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews' story about Abraham Lincoln may be the most popular book ever published about the 16th President?
Did you know that Miguel Galindo Garces won a gold medal at the 2010 Winter Paralympics, although he does not have a disability?
Did you know that Norwegian footballer Ola Kamara was forced to move home to his mother after signing with Strømsgodset IF?
Did you know that Pope Benedict XIV arranged for Jonathan Sisson's instruments to be installed in the Bologna Academy?
Did you know that RNAS Longside at Lenabo, near Longside, Aberdeenshire was the most northerly air ship station in Britain?
Did you know that Ratha Kalpana is a metaphor used in Hindu scriptures to describe the relationship between the senses, mind, intellect and Self?
Did you know that Richard Hovannisian called the Armenian National Congress "the most comprehensive Eastern Armenian gathering since the Russian conquest of Transcaucasia"?
Did you know that Sir Walter Buckler was secretary to Queen Katherine Parr and chamberlain to Princess Elizabeth?
Did you know that Sooranporu, a folk ritual performance in the Southern Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, is a reenactment of the killing of Asuras by Murugan?
Did you know that some of the elements for the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "The Forge" were based on an episode from Star Trek: The Animated Series?
Did you know that the Christian town of al-Sawda became a dynamic center in coastal Syria during French Mandate rule largely because its residents did not take part in the 1919 Syrian Revolt?
Did you know that the Richard Austin House is one of the few left completely intact, inside and out, from the early years of the suburbanization of Ossining, New York?
Did you know that the only commercial copper deposit in Southeast Alaska situated north of Prince of Wales Island was located in William Henry Bay?
Did you know that the song "Dat Sexy Body" was released in 1998 but didn't gain chart success until five years later?
Did you know that when Bangkok's power plants were bombed during World War II, two Matchanu-class submarines were used as electric generators to keep city trams running?
Did you know that Alfred Planyavsky "has given his life to the double bass", playing with the Vienna Philharmonic, writing a history of the instrument, and collecting the Kontrabass-Archiv?
Did you know that Anna Litvinova, the winner of Miss Universe – Russia 2006 contest, died on 22 January 2013 in a hospital in Germany, after suffering from cancer for one year?
Did you know that Broadway's 48th Street Theatre was the site of dancer Martha Graham's professional debut, screenwriter June Mathis's death, and the premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvey?
Did you know that Edina Müller was part of a team that was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf, Germany's highest sporting honour, in 2012?
Did you know that Giuseppe Verdi's biographer Mary Jane Phillips-Matz once characterized the modern opera business as "monstropera"?
Did you know that John Treadwell's mining complex "put Juneau on the map"?
Did you know that Ro Khanna raised US$1.2 million to run for the United States House of Representatives in 2012, but did not run?
Did you know that Tabo is the oldest continuously operating Buddhist enclave in both India and the Himalayas?
Did you know that Tim Barrow, the current British ambassador to Russia, was formerly the ambassador to Ukraine?
Did you know that gunmen broke into a cemetery and stole the corpse of drug lord Efraín Teodoro Torres?
Did you know that in Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs v Yunus Rahmatullah the UK Supreme Court ruled that the detention of a suspected al-Qaeda fighter, prima facie, breached the Geneva Convention?
Did you know that in his 2013 book, Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir, food personality Eddie Huang relates his past activities, which include practising law, performing stand-up comedy, and dealing marijuana?
Did you know that nearly thirty years passed between the first Mass in Mechanicsburg, Ohio, and the construction of St. Michael's Catholic Church?
Did you know that stagshorn corals such as Acropora pulchra and Acropora aspera are fed on preferentially by the crown-of-thorns starfish?
Did you know that the International Criminal Court is conducting an investigation into alleged war crimes in Mali?
Did you know that the truthfulness of many of the facts in U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas's best-selling 1974 memoir Go East, Young Man has been questioned?
Did you know that when the cargo ship Sirius was sunk by a German bomber during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign, the 55-year-old steamer broke in two lengthwise and "opened up like a book"?
Did you know that Alfred Aboya teamed with Darren Collison and Josh Shipp to form the winningest class in UCLA Bruins men's basketball history?
Did you know that Bayanqolu, the governor of China's Jilin Province, is a Mongol?
Did you know that British Royalist Andrew Sprowle founded the United States Navy's longest continuously operating naval shipyard in 1767?
Did you know that Capella Cracoviensis received enthusiastic reviews from the critics by switching to period instruments?
Did you know that Jack Spigot's mother killed the mother of one of his racing rivals?
Did you know that Mexican drug lord Óscar Guerrero Silva was nicknamed Winnie Pooh?
Did you know that Sally Jewell, President Barack Obama's nominee for United States Secretary of the Interior, has climbed Vinson Massif, the tallest peak in Antarctica?
Did you know that according to Adam Levine of band Maroon 5, "Sad" is his most personal track on their album Overexposed?
Did you know that dignitaries travelled from as far afield as Yugoslavia to look at Tilgate's "impressive" shopping parade, one of Crawley's 58 locally listed buildings?
Did you know that on May 30, 1969, thousands of oil workers rioted on the small, normally tranquil Caribbean island of Curaçao, causing some $40 million in damage?
Did you know that the Auke people picked nagoonberries at Berners Bay?
Did you know that the Fulmar sank off the coast of Kilkee, Co. Clare, exactly 50 years to the day after the Intrinsic did?
Did you know that the Mediterranean feather star is often found clinging to sea whips?
Did you know that unlike most other brittle stars, the reticulated brittle star makes use of its tube feet during locomotion?
Did you know that Ali Maow Maalin was the last person in the world to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox?
Did you know that Anakalang is a society and a megalithic site in Sumba, Indonesia noted for its quadrangular adzes and numerous megalithic tombs?
Did you know that Blanche of France was made a nun at the age of seven in order to atone for her aunt Blanche's adultery?
Did you know that Catholic priest T. Lawrason Riggs was forbidden to celebrate mass at Yale University?
Did you know that Gustavo González Castro left the Mexican Army, and later became a drug trafficker for Los Zetas?
Did you know that Kenneth Feder's teenage interest in the paranormal led to a career in archaeology studying it?
Did you know that Kia Makarechi of The Huffington Post wrote that Usher's song "Go Missin'" contains "serial killer-esque undertones" in its lyrics?
Did you know that Princeton, led by 2012 unanimous All-Ivy selection Ian Hummer, entered the 2012–13 season as the Ivy League men's basketball favorite, since a cheating scandal has ensnared Harvard?
Did you know that The Virginia Argus and Hampshire Advertiser was a Democratic weekly newspaper published in Romney, Virginia (now West Virginia) prior to the American Civil War?
Did you know that a chicken sandwich from Slow's Bar BQ in Detroit, Michigan, made it to the final of Adam Richman's Best Sandwich in America?
Did you know that each of the five heroines from Hindu epics, venerated as exemplary chaste women, is recorded to have "known" at least one man other than her husband?
Did you know that former North Carolina Loyalist militia commander John Hamilton was appointed as the British Consul to Norfolk, Virginia, after the American Revolutionary War?
Did you know that in 2011 the Thailand automotive industry was the largest in Southeast Asia and the 15th largest in the World?
Did you know that the  Municipal Museum documents three periods in Algeciras's history: Roman-Byzantine Algecir, the Andalusian city, and the modern era?
Did you know that the discoverer of Scotland's ancient Stanydale Temple thought it was patterned after temples in Malta?
Did you know that the new far right party the British Democratic Party was established by current Member of the European Parliament Andrew Brons?
Did you know that the stained glass donor portrait of the 23-year-old German queen Beatrice of Falkenburg, widow of Richard of Cornwall, is among the oldest still intact?
Did you know that visually impaired skier Andrés Boira represented Spain at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Paralympics with different ski guides?
Did you know that "Pobre Corazón", recorded by Divino, was included on Ivy Queen's Sentimiento as a part of her evolution in reggaetón?"
Did you know that Bengali actor Gurudas Banerjee was a "specialist" at portraying Sri Ramakrishna, a role he "almost monopolized" on both stage and screen?
Did you know that Brunei's Ulu Temburong National Park can only be reached by longboat?
Did you know that Project Lead the Way, a pre-engineering program used in secondary schools, was started in the Shenendehowa Central School District in New York?
Did you know that Ryan Allen twice won the Ray Guy Award as the best college football punter?
Did you know that Sandy Dukat, Paralympic alpine skiing medalist in 2002 and 2006, was also a Paratriathlon World Champion in 2008?
Did you know that despite being developed with female focus groups, and being available in a plum color, the HTC Rhyme smartphone was not explicitly marketed towards women?
Did you know that in 1924 the White Lady, known locally as the "Widden Wife", was shipwrecked in the vicinity of Gossabrough in Scotland?
Did you know that in the Kufenstechen festival held in Feistritz an der Gail, unmarried men ride bareback on Noriker horses and break a barrel to splinters with an iron club?
Did you know that the Monroe Doctrine Centennial half dollar was struck as part of a plan to bring Hollywood good publicity?
Did you know that the first oil pipeline in the Russian Empire, laid by the Nobel brothers, fed the refineries in Black City, Baku, now in the Republic of Azerbaijan?
Did you know that the great West Indian sea lily can break free from its stem in order to evade predators?
Did you know that Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo is the Honorary President of the Spanish Paralympic Committee?
Did you know that King James the Conqueror of Aragon left his leper wife, Teresa Gil de Vidaure, in order to pursue an incestuous relationship?
Did you know that Queen Elizabeth I nicknamed Elizabeth Wolley her "sweet apple"?
Did you know that Slamet Rahardjo garnered three Citra Award nominations for the film Ponirah Terpidana?
Did you know that Spanish visually impaired guides Aleix Suñé, Félix Aznar and Arnau Ferrer all skied with blind para-alpine skier Gabriel Gorce?
Did you know that UN criticism of the exclusion of women from the line of succession to the Liechtensteiner throne was rejected by Hans-Adam II, who noted that the rule was older than the state itself?
Did you know that at the Battle of Newton, Alabama, the commander of the Federal force was a former Confederate officer?
Did you know that author and educator Jane Andrews was the first student to enroll at Antioch College?
Did you know that cinematographer Gerald Finnerman, who worked on Moonlighting and Star Trek, was the sole survivor of a plane crash in 1969?
Did you know that during the construction of the Brookville Tunnel in Virginia, repairs to two major cave-ins were prevented by a landslide that blocked the tunnel's western entrance?
Did you know that members of the Norman Cob horse breed represent France in international driving competitions?
Did you know that more than three-quarters of Alaska's lode gold was mined from the Juneau gold belt?
Did you know that one of the critical/endangered ecoregions in Poland is home to the heaviest surviving wild land animal in Europe?
Did you know that the International Association of Applied Linguistics holds a World Congress every three years?
Did you know that the Oram Nincehelser House was built to impress Nincehelser's new bride, who deserted him just a few years later?
Did you know that the Russian ship of the line Oryol was laid down in 1851 as a sailing ship of the line, but was lengthened and fitted with a steam engine while still on the stocks?
Did you know that the University of North Texas' Tony Mitchell is a projected lottery pick in June's 2013 NBA Draft?
Did you know that the first McColley's Chapel was the oldest Methodist church in Georgetown Hundred?