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Did you know that in the 1960s, Inuit musician Willie Thrasher formed Inuvik's first rock 'n' roll band?
Did you know that several other nations also expressed their interest in participating in Combined Task Force 150 in some way when a Pakistani admiral took its command?
Did you know that the truncated spire of St Paul's Church, Seacombe (pictured during reconstruction) was restored to its original height using a stainless-steel frame?
Did you know that James Colliander, Gigliola Staffilani, and Terence Tao are part of a collaborative group of mathematicians called the I-team?
Did you know that singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist Ole Børud was a member of Arnold B. Family, a gospel group that achieved second place in Norway's 1995 finals for the Eurovision Song Contest?
Did you know that the Gibraltar Range waratah was only recognised as a species in 1991?
Did you know that the Lord's Slope affects cricketers but not archers?
Did you know that the invention of Bard the Bowman could have been inspired by Wiglaf from the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf?
Did you know that university students in particular are at risk for poor sleep hygiene?
Did you know that Ann Hopkins successfully sued her employer, accounting giant Price Waterhouse, in a landmark U.S. sex-discrimination case?
Did you know that Ferdinand de Rothschild's will stipulated that the Renaissance treasures of the Waddesdon Bequest (example pictured) be displayed in their own room in the British Museum?
Did you know that Lou Tepe made the 1955 Pittsburgh Steelers, while future superstar quarterback Johnny Unitas was cut from the team?
Did you know that Operation Raindance was followed by a Stranglehold?
Did you know that Rahul Sinha is president of the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party, but his brother is a member of the Trinamool Congress party?
Did you know that William Maurice built a three-story library just for his personal book collection?
Did you know that the Belgrade printing house, established in 1552, was the first in Belgrade?
Did you know that the George Rymph House is the oldest stone house, and second-oldest house, in Hyde Park, New York?
Did you know that the barnacle Megatrema anglicum lives semi-parasitically on such corals as the Devonshire cup coral?
Did you know that the mouths of Rough Run and Peterman Run are only 0.06 miles (0.1 km) from each other?
Did you know that the upcoming video game Adrift is a metaphor for the controversy caused by developer Adam Orth's comments on the Xbox One's proposed digital rights management strategy?
Did you know that Lou Ferrigno was reminded of his role in The Incredible Hulk when he appeared in the Star Trek Continues episode "Lolani"?
Did you know that Luther's German Te Deum, "Herr Gott, dich loben wir", was set by Bach in cantatas for New Year's Day and by Mendelssohn to celebrate the millennium of the German Reich?
Did you know that Mellcene Thurman Smith was the first woman sworn in as a member of the Missouri General Assembly?
Did you know that actor Don Terry was discovered by a Fox screenwriter at Café Montmartre?
Did you know that people tend to exhibit a negativity bias, such that negative experiences have a greater impact than positive experiences on psychological states and processes?
Did you know that the British Captain William Leslie was buried with military honours after the Battle of Princeton by the American General George Washington?
Did you know that the Umbrella Movement transformed an eight-lane highway running through Hong Kong's financial district into an artistic canvas (statue pictured)?
Did you know that the diterpene Bipinnatin J can be isolated from the bipinnate sea plume?
Did you know that Crickhowell Bridge, at 128m (426 ft) long, is claimed to be the longest stone bridge in Wales?
Did you know that Lionel Palairet and Herbie Hewett scored 346 runs together while playing for Somerset County Cricket Club in 1892, setting a record first-wicket partnership in first-class cricket?
Did you know that Men of the Docks, by George Bellows, was the first major American painting to be acquired by the National Gallery in London?
Did you know that Queen Pwa Saw, who wielded considerable political power for at least four decades in 13th-century Burma, was the subject of the novel She Was a Queen by Maurice Collis?
Did you know that the Symphonic Prelude was first performed in 1981 as a work by Gustav Mahler and in 1997 as a work by Anton Bruckner?
Did you know that the hymn Vatapi Ganapatim – dedicated to the god Ganesha – is sung at the beginning of many Carnatic music concerts?
Did you know that Fred Phillips created Spock's ears for Star Trek by baking them?
Did you know that George A. Zentmyer, professor emeritus at the University of California, Riverside, has an avocado cultivar named after him?
Did you know that M.U.L.E. Returns, a licensed remake of the 1983 strategy game M.U.L.E., was shown at the 2013 World of Commodore in Toronto?
Did you know that Marilyn Monroe was discovered while building drone aircraft at Radioplane Company in 1945?
Did you know that Naomi Grossman shaved her head in preparation for her role in American Horror Story: Asylum?
Did you know that Walter de Clare was the founder of Tintern Abbey, whose ruins inspired Wordsworth's poem "Tintern Abbey"?
Did you know that Wiki, the leader of New York rap group Ratking, took his stage name from an online encyclopedia?
Did you know that adjacent colonies of the lobed brain coral may grow together to form a composite colony?
Did you know that football club Dukla Prague achieved their record win, 10–0, under the management of Jiří Lopata?
Did you know that in the 1984 Indian Tamil film Achamillai Achamillai, a dwarf character named "Suthanthiram" (literally, "Freedom") metaphorically depicts that the freedom of the nation is stunted?
Did you know that little is known about The Lady's Realm's publishing history because many records were destroyed during the Blitz?
Did you know that the novels of Lady Mary Hamilton may have influenced the naming of characters in Jane Austen's books?
Did you know that after merging with the Theta Xi fraternity at Amherst College, Sigma Delta Rho (ΣΔΡ) moved into its new home, "the Zoo"?
Did you know that cars in Grand Theft Auto V's re-release feature functional speedometers?
Did you know that coins found in the Cuerdale Hoard may indicate that Sichfrith Jarl reigned as King of Jórvík?
Did you know that footballer Evan Dimas scored on his debut for Indonesia?
Did you know that prior to becoming Kraft Foods' chief executive officer, Tony Vernon worked for Johnson & Johnson for over two decades?
Did you know that residents of the Percy and Wagner Almshouses in Brighton were given two gowns, a black bonnet, and a duffel cloak "not to exceed 21 shillings" from Hanningtons department store?
Did you know that the Apollo Hotel Amsterdam is situated near the confluence of five canals?
Did you know that the Northwestern Wildcats field hockey team won four of its six Big Ten regular-season titles in the 1980s under head coach Nancy Stevens?
Did you know that Mohammad Beg, the vizier of the Safavid king of Persia, was an ethnic Armenian who once served as a "military slave"?
Did you know that The Economist compared Ezra Klein's aspirations for Vox, his new Vox Media news website, with John Keats's negative capability?
Did you know that a flash mob by Commodore PET-wielding members of the Toronto PET Users Group is the subject of a 2014 Starbucks documentary?
Did you know that in the late 19th century china painting (illustrated) was considered a useful occupation for women "who have nothing better to do than novel reading"?
Did you know that none of the three major professional sports teams owned by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment have won a championship since 1967?
Did you know that the 19th-century forger and swindler Monroe Edwards once used forged letters to get money from Lord Spencer, but later repaid the nobleman with funds obtained from a later fraud?
Did you know that the Adventure Time episode "Furniture & Meat" was referred to as a throwback episode by The A.V. Club for not dealing with the serial elements of surrounding episodes?
Did you know that the Ban Naden raid was the only successful rescue of prisoners of war during the Vietnam War?
Did you know that the non-photosynthetic plants of the subfamily Monotropoideae depend on both mycorrhizal fungi for food and bumblebees for pollination?
Did you know that Dr. Mary Cannon's research group found that more than one-fifth of Irish 11- to 13-year-olds have experienced "auditory hallucinations"?
Did you know that HMS Emerald was separated from Nelson's squadron in a storm and thus missed the Battle of the Nile?
Did you know that Heinrich Gerhard Kuhn was the first physics fellow at Balliol College, Oxford?
Did you know that Kim Hyung Jun released and promoted the Japanese version of his single "Always Love You" at around the time that both his film and television series were scheduled to premiere?
Did you know that Shingle Mill Run is the only named tributary of West Branch Fishing Creek to enter it from the right?
Did you know that a Swedish New York Ranger was Fast?
Did you know that as much as 80 percent of government spending continued during the 2011 Minnesota state government shutdown?
Did you know that brothers Andy and Fränk Schleck were meant to compete for Luxembourg at the 2012 Summer Olympics, but were unable to after Andy suffered an injury and Fränk failed a drug test?
Did you know that reproduction in the sea wasp Carybdea marsupialis involves a sexual reproduction phase, budding and fragmentation?
Did you know that the Ives Lake cisco is a freshwater whitefish known to only one lake, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula?
Did you know that the Telescopic Bridge in Bridgwater, which carried trains over the River Parrett, could be retracted to allow ships to pass?
Did you know that the filmography of director J. Gordon Edwards includes over twenty appearances of silent film vamp Theda Bara?
Did you know that the yellow-browed sparrow has spread from its former habitats along the Amazon River into grasslands, towns and roadsides throughout much of the Amazon basin?
Did you know that #JeSuisCharlie (sign pictured) has become one of the most popular hashtags in Twitter's history?
Did you know that Fullbright shared a house while making the 2013 video game Gone Home, which later won "Best Debut" from the 2014 BAFTA and GDC Awards?
Did you know that Guiuan Church is known in the Philippines for the extensive shell ornamentation in its interiors?
Did you know that The Bishop's Eye is one of the entrances to Wells St Andrew?
Did you know that William Beverley spurred settlement west of the Blue Ridge Mountains by settling his patent of 118,941 acres (481.34 km2) in Virginia with Irish and Scotch-Irish families?
Did you know that Wimmenau in France was levelled during the Thirty Years' War, then resettled by Swiss immigrants?
Did you know that a 2009 BBC adaptation of Henry James's 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw set the story in the 1920s rather than the 1840s?
Did you know that fighter pilot Theodor Weissenberger was killed in a car racing accident at the Nürburgring?
Did you know that the USS Delaware vs La Croyable resulted in the first capture of a naval vessel by the United States Navy?
Did you know that the swede midge has invaded North America?
Did you know that Filipino nanny Xyza Cruz Bacani has been compared to American street photographer Vivian Maier?
Did you know that Manchester United F.C.'s victory in the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final came 40 years after the team's first European Cup title and 50 years after the Munich air disaster?
Did you know that René Echevarria became a screenwriter after selling an unsolicited script to Star Trek: The Next Generation?
Did you know that plastiglomerates are rock formations that contain plastic?
Did you know that silent film actor Frank Erlanger made—and lost—a fortune as a gold prospector?
Did you know that the Liberal Party chose to contest the 1887 by-election in Taunton, Somerset, in order to generate debate on the devolution of power to Ireland?
Did you know that the chat flycatcher eats blind snakes?
Did you know that under suspicion of having nationalist sympathies, Armenian priest Garegin Srvandztiants was closely monitored by the Ottoman government?
Did you know that Elk Run received its name when one of the few elk in northeast Pennsylvania was killed in the stream?
Did you know that Jeong Seon (likely self-portrait pictured), one of the most famous Korean painters, introduced the "true-view" style of landscape painting?
Did you know that L. D. Williams joined Wake Forest's 1,000-point club in his final college basketball game?
Did you know that Liu Cigui, the acting governor of Hainan in China, worked as a rusticated youth and studied oceanography?
Did you know that after The American Review's owner expressed admiration for Hitler and Mussolini, a former contributor said he wouldn't write for it again "if it were the last publication left in America"?
Did you know that both of São Tomé and Príncipe's athletes at the 2012 London Games finished last in their heats?
Did you know that one of John Cunningham's buildings was featured in the BBC television series Restoration?
Did you know that praise can promote positive behavior in adjacent, non-praised individuals?
Did you know that the Cronica Walliae helped popularise a legend that the Welsh discovered America in about 1170, a tale used to justify English encroachments on the early colonies of the Spanish Empire?
Did you know that Helen-Ann Hartley is the first woman ordained in the Church of England to become a bishop?
Did you know that after moving from Canada, Akeel Lynch learned American football and was named New York Gatorade Player of the Year?
Did you know that before airing in the United States, We Bare Bears won the "Young Amsterdam Audience" award after screening in the Netherlands?
Did you know that controversy arose over dissatisfaction with a Korean airline official's nut bag?
Did you know that if the solar storm of 2012 had hit Earth, it might have taken several years to recover from the resulting widespread destruction of electronic equipment?
Did you know that some of the doors of the Fru Alstad Church, Sweden, have bullet holes dating to the 17th century?
Did you know that the 1880 Greenback National Convention nominated James B. Weaver for President of the United States and passed a resolution supporting women's suffrage?
Did you know that the North Korean military has a cyberwarfare agency named Bureau 121?
Did you know that two works by the self-taught 19th-century Ceylonese artist J. L. K. van Dort are housed in the Royal Collection?
Did you know that Culley Run's official name has been said to be erroneous?
Did you know that Julia Roberts was the first actress to earn $20 million for a film?
Did you know that King Narathihapate of Pagan compared his Chief Minister Yazathingyan, who had just put him on the throne, to unnecessary scaffold before exiling him to Dala?
Did you know that although giant mouse lemurs breed easily in captivity, a managed population of 62 individuals of the endangered species fell to only six within twenty years?
Did you know that during the German bombardment of Scarborough in December 1914, Rev Charles Mackarness continued the Holy Communion service at St Martin's Church, despite the noise and damage to the church?
Did you know that in 1990, Helen Rollason became the first female presenter of the BBC sports programme Grandstand?
Did you know that the Tuyamuyun Hydro Complex on the Amu Darya River irrigates land in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan?
Did you know that the chronicler Roger of Wendover called the 12th-century English nobleman Peter de Maulay one of King John of England's "evil counsellors"?
Did you know that the sword of the god Vishnu symbolizes knowledge?
Did you know that Gary Mills became the youngest player to appear in a European Cup final when playing in Nottingham Forest's 1–0 win over Hamburger SV in the 1980 final?
Did you know that Polish saint Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz?
Did you know that Vidya Balan won four consecutive Filmfare Awards, three for Best Actress and one for Best Actress (Critics), for her starring roles from 2009 to 2012?
Did you know that following Commodore's demise, the Toronto PET Users Group revived the successful World of Commodore computer expos, which continue to this day?
Did you know that in 1961 the Tabernacle Chapel in Cardiff hosted the first-ever programme of the long-running BBC TV series Songs of Praise?
Did you know that one person was injured and six died in a killing spree in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania?
Did you know that people objecting to militarism in "Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus" do not stand to sing it?
Did you know that the Mother series is big in Japan, but not in the West, where it only has a resilient and enduring cult following?
Did you know that the chronicle Gesta Hungarorum explicitly mentions only the Khazars and Székelys as peoples who inhabited the realm of Duke Menumorut around 900?
Did you know that the tunicate Molgula citrina may have travelled to Alaska in a sea chest via the Northwest Passage?
Did you know that "an esoteric teaching of the science of Brahman" explains the structure of Om and its sound?
Did you know that Big Run drains an area of only half a square mile?
Did you know that a special election will be held to fill the term of U.S. Representative Michael Grimm, who resigned after pleading guilty to tax evasion?
Did you know that although it is not a shark, the shortfin devil ray is used in shark fin soup?
Did you know that more than one hundred unidentified bodies, mostly females and children, were found floating in the Ganges in January 2015?
Did you know that one man was the model for three of the figures representing the stages of a Scouting career in Norman Rockwell's Growth of a Leader, and the man's son was the model for the fourth?
Did you know that the 2013 film Despicable Me 2 was predicted to be the most profitable film in the history of Universal Studios?
Did you know that the Museum of Death owns the head of Bluebeard and a Kevorkian suicide machine?
Did you know that the RIMS Warren Hastings was said to be "practically unsinkable" because of its 33 watertight compartments?
Did you know that ABC's television film adaptation of Robert J. Serling's The President's Plane Is Missing was completed in 1971 but postponed until one year after Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China?
Did you know that Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge is a shape-changing flap for aircraft wings intended to substantially reduce fuel cost and noise?
Did you know that Preity Zinta essayed the role of a prostitute hired as a surrogate mother in the 2001 film Chori Chori Chupke Chupke?
Did you know that a "big boned policy" is used to draft the Japanese budget?
Did you know that although the Greek Orthodox bishop of Korçë, Photios, took initiatives for the promotion of the local education, he was assassinated in 1906 for not supporting Albanian cultural activity?
Did you know that in describing the Battle of Malvern Hill, Confederate officer D.H. Hill wrote, "It wasn't war; it was murder"?
Did you know that the 1982 Wimpy Operation marked the start of armed resistance against Israeli troops in Beirut?
Did you know that the Chandos Glass Cone was used for pottery and brick manufacture for much longer than it was for glassmaking?
Did you know that the Jiuduansha shoals off Pudong are the spawning ground for hairy crab, a Shanghainese delicacy?
Did you know that the valley of Laurel Run is the only place in the USGS quadrangle of Elk Grove where Wisconsinan Flow-Till occurs?
Did you know that when Mary Brodrick applied to study Egyptology at the Sorbonne in Paris, she was told, "But we do not take little girls here"?
Did you know that while fullback Nick Bobeck lettered all four years at Central Oklahoma, he didn't carry the ball until his second-to-last game?
Did you know that Emilio Madero saved Pancho Villa from execution?
Did you know that Florentijn Hofman created a 30-foot (9 m) tall pink cat in Century Park, Shanghai?
Did you know that Gene Roddenberry blamed religious executives of Paramount Studios for its rejection of Star Trek: The God Thing?
Did you know that New Zealand's marine engineer, designer of the country's tallest lighthouse on Dog Island, drowned enroute to the funeral of a colleague‍—‌who had also drowned?
Did you know that Robert Simpson broke the old high hurdles world record seven times in one year?
Did you know that in 1982 the original manuscripts of four string quartets in Joseph Haydn's Opus 50 (1787) were handed to conductor Christopher Hogwood in a plastic shopping bag?
Did you know that the rhythm parts for Steely Dan's "Aja" were so long and complex that each player needed three music stands to hold the charts?
Did you know that the scientist Lisa-Ann Gershwin, who has discovered 200 species of jellyfish, is related to George Gershwin?
Did you know that "Operation Nine Connect" resulted in the July 2006 arrest of some sixty members of the Nine Trey Gangsters?
Did you know that American chemical weapons researcher and oceanographer Thomas Gordon Thompson sold his stamp collection to pay for his private island?
Did you know that Jean-François Champollion's first major publication on the decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs was reviewed anonymously by Thomas Young, his main rival?
Did you know that Thomas Ince: Hollywood's Independent Pioneer, is the first biography of the producer/director known as the "Father of the Western"?
Did you know that Virgin Hotels Chicago‍—‌the first of Richard Branson's Virgin Hotels‍—‌has no check-in desk and relies on a mobile app named Lucy to perform many services?
Did you know that a former MP for Taunton, Edward Wickham, accompanied both the Shah of Persia and the King of Afghanistan on tours?
Did you know that on parallel computers, processors can steal work from each other?
Did you know that the 2014 film The Theory of Everything received ten nominations from the British Academy Film Awards?
Did you know that the building of the Chester Burn viaduct was delayed for twenty years by the downfall of railway financier George Hudson?
Did you know that "Trouble" was the promotional single for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, and was described by Billboard as being as goofy as the film?
Did you know that Grabaciones Accidentales, established in 1981, was one of Spain's first independent record labels?
Did you know that Seattle Sounders FC's trip to the 2014 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final was their fifth in six years?
Did you know that Shortia galacifolia was rediscovered nearly 100 years after its first sighting?
Did you know that a man shot two New York City police officers to death, ostensibly in revenge for the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, and then committed suicide?
Did you know that the Belleville and North Hastings Railway didn't reach either Belleville or North Hastings?
Did you know that the Pennsylvania Game Commission maintains riprap on Hemlock Run?
Did you know that the god Vishnu's mace represents his wife?
Did you know that the pipe organ at the Old Salem Visitor Center was constructed by David Tannenberg, who has been called "the most important eighteenth-century American organ-builder"?
Did you know that David Ogilvy's quotation "The customer is not a moron" has been reused by the BBC and the CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi?
Did you know that Empire marks the television directorial debut for Academy Award–nominated director Lee Daniels?
Did you know that John Venn said of James Halman's time as Master of Caius College that "his brief career in that capacity has left no perceptible impression behind"?
Did you know that The sacred duck was seen widely across Germany until the Third Reich silenced it?
Did you know that despite a "perfect" performance in goal, William Merriman was on the losing side in the first FA Cup Final?
Did you know that the collages of the Victorian photographer Lady Jocelyn were said to have "subverted the realistic nature of photography"?