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Did you know that the white dwarf star GD 61 was once likely orbited by a rocky planet or asteroid with water?
Did you know that when Queen Elizabeth II visited Melbourne in 2011, she rode a specially decorated tram driven by a Brunswick tram depot driver?
Did you know that Air Centrafrique was conceived to provide feeder services to Air Afrique?
Did you know that Alan Kirby won the FAI Cup four times?
Did you know that Composite Squadron 6 of the United States Navy deployed two North American AJ Savage bombers to K-3 Air Base in Korea in July 1953 to act as a nuclear deterrent?
Did you know that Green Bay Packers rookie Nate Palmer was a high school teammate to Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose?
Did you know that K. A. P. Viswanatham was the first secretary of India's Justice Party?
Did you know that Marine Gate was the most bombed building in Brighton during World War II, but only one resident—a Hollywood child star—died?
Did you know that Nora Lilian Alcock was the Scottish government's first plant pathologist?
Did you know that The Vulcan, a historic public house in Cardiff, Wales, was completely dismantled in 2012 and is planned to be rebuilt at the National History Museum?
Did you know that Ticasuk Brown was the first Native American to have a school named after her in Fairbanks, Alaska?
Did you know that Zingiber spectabile is often known as the beehive ginger, due to its inflorescences which resemble beehives?
Did you know that a young Mao Zedong lived at the home of Wang Renmei‎, who grew up to become a movie star nicknamed the "Wildcat of Shanghai"?
Did you know that film composer Leo Erdody's potentially noble ancestry led to him occasionally billing himself as simply "Erdody"?
Did you know that footballer Petr Vrabec won six Czechoslovak league titles with Sparta Prague?
Did you know that the Dharma Wiratama Museum is located in the first headquarters of the Indonesian Army?
Did you know that the song "Ermutigung" by Wolf Biermann, encouraging people not to become hardened in hard times, was written for Peter Huchel, then under house arrest?
Did you know that when Jonathan Kaufer directed Soup for One, he became the youngest director at the time to be hired by a major studio?
Did you know that Australian cricketer David Boon scored eight of his international cricket centuries against India?
Did you know that Berek Lajcher chose a hot summer day to launch a prisoner revolt at the Treblinka death camp while German and Ukrainian guards went swimming in the nearby Bug River?
Did you know that Myer Feldman exchanged memos written in rhyming couplets with Ted Sorensen while the two men were serving together in the Kennedy administration?
Did you know that President J. R. E. Lee was able to secure higher salaries for teachers and administrators at Florida A&M University despite Governor Cone's statement that "no Negro was worth $4000 a year"?
Did you know that Rama Ravi is an Indian Carnatic vocalist who has also learned the Bharata Natyam Indian dance form and plays two musical instruments, the veena and the mridangam?
Did you know that actor Vic Morrow died in the Twilight Zone tragedy, a helicopter crash during the filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie?
Did you know that after the death of the first Abbasid caliph, al-Saffah, his uncle Abdallah ibn Ali led a revolt and tried to claim the throne from al-Saffah's brother, al-Mansur?
Did you know that artist Situ Qiao was imprisoned and deported by the U.S. government for trying to sell his own paintings (example pictured)?
Did you know that college baseball player Nick Burdi can throw a 100-mile-per-hour (160 km/h) fastball?
Did you know that despite having the common name pepper saxifrage, Silaum silaus is neither a saxifrage nor tastes of pepper?
Did you know that impressionist painter Harry Fidler, who was born into farming, became known for painting farm horses?
Did you know that in 1310, the pirate John Crabbe seized a ship carrying jewels, gold, silver, and other goods worth £2000 belonging to Alice of Hainault?
Did you know that the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's new Ozark State Zephyr streamliner was christened by Mollie Stark, the daughter of then-Missouri Governor-elect Lloyd C. Stark?
Did you know that the five-star InterContinental Geneva, near the UN European headquarters, was the site of a 1985 summit between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev?
Did you know that the recently revealed Lockheed Martin SR-72, the successor to the SR-71, is designed to fly at six times the speed of sound?
Did you know that when Ottoman commander from Ohrid Hamza Pasha attacked Skanderbeg's rebels in Modrič in 1452, he was defeated and captured by his namesake, Hamza Kastrioti?
Did you know that 22 countries in Europe use the Euro, including several that are not part of the European Union?
Did you know that Chen Liting's 1931 play Put Down Your Whip inspired Xu Beihong's 1939 painting that broke the Chinese auction price record in 2007?
Did you know that Cuvier's dwarf caiman is collected from the wild for the pet trade?
Did you know that Eknath Ranade published the book Rousing Call to Hindu Nation in 1963, the centenary year of the birth of Swami Vivekananda?
Did you know that Jeffrey Trammell married Stuart Serkin at the United States Supreme Court building, in a ceremony presided over by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor?
Did you know that Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the Promontory Apartments in Chicago, Illinois, after Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Le Corbusier, and Walter Gropius all rejected offers to design it?
Did you know that Walter Burton Harris, correspondent for The Times in Morocco, travelled to off-limits parts of the country by disguising himself as "the complete fanatical-looking type"?
Did you know that a major event in the history of Chincoteague, Virginia, was the 1947 publication of a children's book about a local horse?
Did you know that although the painter John Gendall curated the art collection for Exeter's Royal Albert Memorial Museum, he never saw it displayed?
Did you know that former New Zealand MP Jonathan Hunt is credited with the idea of integrating private schools into the state system?
Did you know that in quarterback Tony Robinson's only appearance in the NFL, he led the Washington Redskins to a victory that has been called one of the greatest upsets in league history?
Did you know that in the 1895 play Trilby, the role of Svengali was created by American actor Wilton Lackaye?
Did you know that the Flying Merkel was painted in bright orange?
Did you know that the screenwriter for the 1940 film Earthbound proposed including a pair of lovers wearing gas masks?
Did you know that two leads of the upcoming Bengali film Ashchorjyo Prodeep sing a song inspired by musicals like Fiddler on the Roof, The Sound of Music and My Fair Lady?
Did you know that Csák I Hahót built the castle of Čakovec, Croatia, then part of the Kingdom of Hungary?
Did you know that Harry Elmer Barnes called Summerhill, a book about the eponymous school, one of the most exciting and challenging books in the field of education since Rousseau's Émile?
Did you know that Imtiaz Ali Taj was a 20th-century Urdu dramatist who wrote Anarkali, the romance behind the 1960 Indian feature film Mughal-e-Azam?
Did you know that John Davis Pierce was the United States' first state superintendent of public schools?
Did you know that Madonna influenced Michael Torke's composition of Vanada, a work initially dismissed as "dangerously close to the corruption that's happening to all American music"?
Did you know that Pakistani woman Test cricketer Kiran Baluch's score of 242 runs in an innings is the highest in Women's Test cricket?
Did you know that Patrice Chéreau, the stage director of the centenary Ring Cycle in Bayreuth, directed the film Intimacy, which "sparked a debate about unsimulated sex on screen"?
Did you know that a French team created the Jahrhundertring (scene pictured) of Wagner's Ring Cycle at the centenary Bayreuth Festival in 1976, causing "a near-riot"?
Did you know that although Kosta Manojlović was instrumental in the establishment of the Belgrade Music Academy, serving as its first rector, he was forced to retire from it for political reasons?
Did you know that award-winning production designer Eve Stewart described her experience as art director on Mike Leigh's Naked as "a bit of a shock"?
Did you know that the City of Tigard in Oregon started a public library, but didn't fund it?
Did you know that the Dr. Robert Hohf House near Kenilworth, Illinois, features an experimental solar cooling system on the roof?
Did you know that the centenary of naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace on 7 November 2013 is being commemorated worldwide?
Did you know that the founders of gun-control organization Americans for Responsible Solutions, Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly, are gun owners?
Did you know that the new species of frog Pristimantis jamescameroni from Venezuela was named after the film-maker James Cameron?
Did you know that 703 cloud seeding missions took place in Fujian Province to increase rainfall following Tropical Storm Morakot?
Did you know that Adam Render, a German-American hunter, found the ruins of Great Zimbabwe by accident in 1867?
Did you know that Callender's Cableworks Band was a prolific broadcaster in the early years of BBC Radio?
Did you know that Doug Stone was the only artist that Epic Records' Bob Montgomery signed without seeing a live performance first?
Did you know that Green Bay Packers safety M. D. Jennings was involved in the controversial ending of the 2012 Green Bay Packers–Seattle Seahawks game?
Did you know that Kasim Pasha allegedly resigned from the position of Rumelian beglerbey?
Did you know that Nyari Welly was the first woman elected to the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly?
Did you know that Wilfred Byng Kenrick, who served Birmingham as chair of the education committee and mayor from 1922 to 1943, donated The Feast of Peleus by Edward Burne-Jones to the museum?
Did you know that a "great ruby stone" that Christopher Schutz wished to present to Queen Elizabeth I was never seen again after it came into the hands of Martin Frobisher?
Did you know that in the few years after the formation of the exclusively female Sacred Twenty, military nursing tasks during World War I were still often done by untrained men?
Did you know that manhua artist Ye Qianyu (work pictured) was imprisoned for seven years during the Cultural Revolution and then worked as a janitor?
Did you know that no women were elected in the 1978 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election?
Did you know that only two U.S. states, New Jersey and California, have laws criminalizing revenge porn?
Did you know that the American colonial newspaper publisher John Holt has been labeled by a modern day historian "the most important Radical printer outside Boston" during the American Revolution?
Did you know that the British film Stalled, about a man trapped in a woman's bathroom being attacked by zombies, has screened at Korean and Swedish film festivals?
Did you know that American frontier doctor Charles Boarman Harris delivered over 3,000 babies in Pembina County, North Dakota, during his 60-year medical career?
Did you know that Dan Cohen lost the 1969 Minneapolis mayoral election despite holding endorsements from the DFL, the Republican Party, and President Richard Nixon?
Did you know that Ségolène Royal became the first woman nominee of a major party for President of France after she won the French Socialist Party presidential primary of 2006?
Did you know that a fort is being excavated in Unnao, India, for a possible 1000 tons of gold treasure?
Did you know that a photograph taken by Elena Mrozovskaya at the 1903 Ball in the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, was exhibited in the Hermitage Rooms in London 100 years later?
Did you know that according to some politicians, the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014, which resolved the 2013 U.S. government shutdown and debt-ceiling crisis, is just "kicking the can down the road"?
Did you know that college basketball players Zak Irvin and Derrick Walton, who are true freshmen for the 2013–14 Michigan Wolverines, were Boys Basketball Gatorade Players of the Year for Indiana and Michigan, respectively?
Did you know that drug lord Homero Cárdenas Guillén is believed to be the new leader of Mexico's Gulf Cartel?
Did you know that the Illinois Central Railroad's Green Diamond debuted in 1936 with IC 121, the last new fixed-consist articulated streamliner built in the United States in the 1930s?
Did you know that the wasp Cystomastacoides kiddo was named after Beatrix Kiddo from the film Kill Bill?
Did you know that "Berzerk", produced by Rick Rubin, and "Survival", which appears in Call of Duty: Ghosts, are both songs from Eminem's eighth studio album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2?
Did you know that Australian cricketer Richie Benaud took ten of his five-wicket hauls against India and South Africa?
Did you know that Garry Medeiros, writer-director of The Terror Factor, was forced to become the film's main protagonist when its original star abruptly left the project?
Did you know that Kjell Moe and Reidar Olsen, the two oldest footballers to make their debut for the Norwegian national team, made their debut in the same match?
Did you know that Singaporean politician Penny Low, a Member of Parliament for the Pasir Ris-Punggol Group Representation Constituency, used to work at the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation?
Did you know that after winning the Calder Cup last year, several hockey players from the Grand Rapids Griffins were called up to the Detroit Red Wings in their 2013–14 season?
Did you know that during the 1950s, communist propaganda for the war against the potato beetle depicted red and white striped bugs (potato beetle pictured) dropped by "US imperialists" marching across East Germany?
Did you know that in 1953 the Louisville and Nashville Railroad upgraded its Pan-American passenger train with Pine-series sleeping cars?
Did you know that the Japanese TV series National Kid was more popular in Brazil than in its home country?
Did you know that the Poncan Theatre was closed for about ten years after it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that the Royal Calcutta Turf Club (old stands pictured) was the main horse racing authority in the British Raj?
Did you know that the emerald crab can be used to control bubble algae in reef aquaria?
Did you know that the rents from the dilapidated houses of Jack the Ripper's Whitechapel had helped to maintain the equestrian painter Charles Cooper Henderson?
Did you know that "Tom Ford", the second single from Jay-Z's twelfth studio album Magna Carta Holy Grail, is an ode to fashion designer Tom Ford?
Did you know that 2013–14 Harvard Crimson men's basketball team recruit Zena Edosomwan is the first Harvard basketball recruit rated among the top 100 players in the country by Scout.com?
Did you know that Catalaphyllia jardinei, known commonly as elegance coral, can reproduce either sexually or asexually?
Did you know that Hong Kong's Law Uk is the sole surviving village house and the last example of traditional Hakka housing in Chai Wan, a former Hakka village?
Did you know that Kathy Ritvo, the first woman race horse trainer to win the Breeders' Cup Classic, is also the recipient of a heart transplant?
Did you know that New Jersey Assemblywoman-elect Maria Rodriguez-Gregg plays for a local roller derby team?
Did you know that Orel Hershiser's scoreless inning streak spanned a Major League Baseball record 59 consecutive innings in 1988, but was not ended until the following season?
Did you know that Polish-Jewish publisher Samuel Orgelbrand financed the printing of his Universal Encyclopedia, the first modern Polish encyclopedia, with proceeds from sales of the Babylonian Talmud?
Did you know that Roesia si Pengkor was the first film by The Teng Chun targeted at native Indonesians?
Did you know that Sidney Riesenberg's Over the Top for You was featured at an exhibit of World War I posters at the Smithsonian American Art Museum?
Did you know that T.S. Eliot's 1928 poem "A Song for Simeon" includes passages from the Nunc dimittis prayer with allusions to the writings of Lancelot Andrewes, Dante, and John of the Cross?
Did you know that at the age of 23, Helge André Njåstad became Norway's youngest mayor?
Did you know that in 1951 the Revolutionary Socialist Party expelled its entire Uttar Pradesh branch?
Did you know that part of the feeding ritual for larvae of the wasp Polistes carnifex involves an adult drumming with its antennae?
Did you know that the 2013 Anglo-French crime drama The Tunnel, based on the Scandinavian series The Bridge, is billed as the first bilingual series in British and French television?
Did you know that the Arts and Crafts Trmal's Villa in Prague was designed by "the founder of modern Czech architecture"?
Did you know that when the Maine State Legislature came to inspect Eastern Maine Medical Center in 1897, patients were told to "smile, look comfortable, and not require bedpans"?
Did you know that Alexander Stewart Herschel helped identify the connection between comets and meteor showers?
Did you know that Armenian writer Levon Larents, who was among the Armenian leaders deported during the Armenian Genocide, was ultimately killed?
Did you know that Giorgio Moroder won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score in the 1984 ceremony for Flashdance instead of Scarface, for which he was also nominated?
Did you know that Güstrow Castle contains a museum related to the male line of Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg's family?
Did you know that Kamala Khan, also known as Ms. Marvel, is the first Muslim character to headline a comic book at Marvel Comics?
Did you know that Mucho Macho Man, winner of the 2013 Breeders' Cup Classic, was named after the Village People song "Macho Man"?
Did you know that Spencer Cox, the new Lieutenant Governor of Utah, plays bass guitar in a garage band?
Did you know that U2's autobiography U2 by U2 was inspired by The Beatles Anthology?
Did you know that advertisements emphasised the simplicity of Wu Tsun's 1941 film Ajah Berdosa?
Did you know that after switching its affiliation from the Vancouver Canucks to the St. Louis Blues, the Chicago Wolves rehired their previous long-time coach John Anderson in their 2013–14 season?
Did you know that anatomist Hermann Stieve, the youngest physician ever appointed the head of a German medical faculty, liked to give lectures in an academic robe?
Did you know that archer Thomas Scott holds the distinction of being the oldest person to compete in an archery event at the Summer Olympics?
Did you know that even the originator of the term thought that "Boredom is a requisite of the Roman Counter-Maniera style" in painting (example illustrated)?
Did you know that in April 1968, Nell Truman and her sister Christine became the first winners of an open tennis event by winning the women's doubles title at the British Hard Court Championships?
Did you know that in a recent academic study, Who's Afraid of Peer Review?, a fake manuscript sent to open-access publishers was accepted by 157 and rejected by 98?
Did you know that pedestrians walking along Malet Street in London hear the sound of a stick hitting an iron railing ... though there's no railing in sight?
Did you know that the BBC Two documentary Iceland Foods: Life in The Freezer Cabinet, about the Iceland supermarket chain, includes the chain's reaction to the 2013 meat adulteration scandal?
Did you know that the Plaga Zombie film series is the first and only zombie horror film trilogy to come out of Latin America?
Did you know that the Shenyang Chairman Mao statue is one of the largest remaining Cultural Revolution-era monuments in China?
Did you know that the bird-dropping spider mimics excrement on a leaf?
Did you know that Alexander Siddig was the first choice to play Commander Benjamin Sisko, but was later cast in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Dr. Julian Bashir instead?
Did you know that Confederate captain Christian Streit White later served as a county court clerk and president of the West Virginia Fish Commission?
Did you know that Geoff Unwin demonstrated how to play the Mellotron, a tape-based sampling keyboard, on the children's television show Blue Peter?
Did you know that Grand Tower Island is located on the "wrong" side of the Mississippi River?
Did you know that Jacques Schmidt designed costumes for the Bayreuth Jahrhundertring and for Prokofiev's War and Peace, where 650 "historically appropriate costumes" were needed?
Did you know that John Saylor Coon, the first Mechanical Engineering Professor at Georgia Tech, made the first dynamo electric machine built in the United States when he was a student at Cornell University?
Did you know that Larabanga Mosque is one of the eight ancient mosques in Ghana, and is considered the "Mecca of West Africa"?
Did you know that Max Factor helped to design the beauty micrometer, a "Clockwork Orange style device" used to detect tiny imperfections on women's faces?
Did you know that Monopoly and Altair, horses of Canadian equestrian athlete Beth Underhill, received fan mail?
Did you know that Robert Soutar was a cast member in the original production of Thespis, the first Gilbert and Sullivan opera, and his son Farren starred in Edwardian musical comedies in London and on Broadway?
Did you know that William Carr Smith, the Christian Socialist rector of St James' Church, Sydney, challenged the Diocese by introducing Anglo-Catholic practices?
Did you know that racing driver Mason Mingus (2013 car pictured) was a three-sport athlete in high school?
Did you know that synergistic catalysis works by activating both reacting substrates simultaneously?
Did you know that the American Car and Foundry Company's Astra Dome dome cars included the only dome dining cars ever operated by a railroad in the United States?
Did you know that the Isle of Man Pure Beer Act meant that from 1874 to 1999 it was illegal to use anything other than water, malt, sugar, and hops for brewing beer?
Did you know that the Knack's song "(She's So) Selfish" was prevented from being the follow-up single to "My Sharona" and "Good Girls Don't" because the band refused to edit out the dirty lyrics?
Did you know that the attorney who owned the M.E. Blanton House in Aloha, Oregon, lost an appeal over a road project that removed part of the house's yard?
Did you know that the young Willy Brandt wrote for Sozialistische Arbeiter-Zeitung?
Did you know that André Diot designed the lighting for the Jahrhundertring in Bayreuth in 1976, for the opening ceremony of the 1992 Winter Olympics, and for Così fan tutte at the Paris Opera in 2013?
Did you know that Angelo Ciccone lapped the entire field, but didn't win a point in the Men's Madison at the 2008 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Chen Liting's film Women Side by Side (poster pictured), now recognized as a classic, was denounced as a "huge poisonous weed" during the Cultural Revolution?
Did you know that Elmer Flick made his own baseball bat with his father's lathe?
Did you know that Ivar Knudsen led the development of the MS Selandia the biggest and most advanced diesel powered vessel of its time?
Did you know that Leonhard Euler wrote 234 letters between 1760 and 1762 to Friederike Charlotte of Brandenburg-Schwedt?
Did you know that Sahoyúé-§ehdacho is the largest National Historic Site of Canada at almost the size of the province of Prince Edward Island?
Did you know that Tony Basgallop's first whodunit television series is What Remains?
Did you know that after The Execution of Gary Glitter, a 2009 mockumentary showing Gary Glitter being hanged, the subject's complaint to Ofcom was turned down?
Did you know that after a lease dispute during their 2013–14 season the Houston Aeros ice hockey team moved to Des Moines and became the Iowa Wild?
Did you know that caterpillars of the Cape lappet moth are described as "gregarious" because they clump together in great numbers for unknown reasons?
Did you know that minor league baseball shortstop Nolan Fontana is the grandson of former Major League Baseball All-Star Lew Burdette?