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Did you know that Washington at Verplanck's Point, a gift from John Trumbull to the president's wife, Martha Washington, was praised as “the most perfect extant” by her grandson?
Did you know that the Sceriman family, a wealthy Safavid merchant family of Armenian ethnicity, gained Roman citizenship in 1696?
Did you know that the plant species Antirrhinum filipes has been discovered on slopes in the Grand Canyon, within the Mojave Desert, and within the Sonoran Desert?
Did you know that Big Chief Restaurant in Wildwood, Missouri, is all that remains of a tourist complex that opened on U.S. Route 66 in 1928?
Did you know that Caleb Swanigan went from being a 360-pound (160 kg) eighth grader to an NCAA basketball consensus first-team All-American?
Did you know that Filipino director Jerrold Tarog has planned a film adaptation of the graphic novel The Mythology Class by Arnold Arre?
Did you know that Muhammad's first wife Khadija and uncle Abu Talib died in the same year, traditionally known as the Year of Sorrow?
Did you know that during the Holocaust in Italy, doctors at Fatebenefratelli Hospital protected Jews from the Nazis by diagnosing them with a fictitious disease called "Syndrome K"?
Did you know that two students at Traian National College in Turnu Severin, Romania, were executed in 1949 for being part of the anti-communist resistance movement?
Did you know that Namibia is considering abolishing winter time?
Did you know that Rishabhanatha (statue pictured), the traditional founder of Jainism, was said to be born in the age when there was happiness all around with no work for men to do?
Did you know that professional figure skaters Stéphane Lambiel and Nobunari Oda had cameos in the anime series Yuri on Ice?
Did you know that the Australian cricketer Veronica Pyke was the second highest wicket-taker in the inaugural Women's Big Bash League season in 2015–16?
Did you know that the Palau ground dove prefers limestone islands to volcanic islands?
Did you know that the US military refers to Death Valley's Rainbow Canyon as Star Wars Canyon?
Did you know that when Marshall L. Shepard said the opening prayer at the 1936 Democratic National Convention, segregationist Senator Ellison D. Smith left in protest?
Did you know that "Christ ist erstanden", an old German hymn mentioned as early as the 12th century, was set for choir in the 21st century?
Did you know that civil rights activist Unita Blackwell was the first African-American woman to be elected mayor in the state of Mississippi?
Did you know that despite topping his class at Sandhurst, John Gellibrand found the prospects for promotion in the British Army so bleak that he resigned his commission and moved to Tasmania to grow apples?
Did you know that many reviewers compared the superhero comic Ultra to the television series Sex and the City?
Did you know that soldiers lined up on the sinking British troopship SS Tyndareus began to sing "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" while waiting for orders?
Did you know that the film The Brainwashing of My Dad received funding from Kickstarter?
Did you know that the recently named fossil egg Suchoolithus dates to the Late Jurassic, making it tied for the oldest-known crocodylomorph egg?
Did you know that the term elastance, the inverse of capacitance, was coined by Oliver Heaviside to promote an analogy of a capacitor as a spring rather than a container of charge?
Did you know that "The Devil of Christmas", a 2016 episode of Inside No. 9, was filmed using authentic 1970s cameras?
Did you know that John Henderson is the oldest living former Texas Longhorns football player?
Did you know that anthropologist Verrier Elwin's autobiography The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin was published posthumously and won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1965?
Did you know that during the Trunajaya rebellion, Pangeran Adipati Anom expected a fake engagement at the Battle of Gegodog, but instead his army suffered a decisive defeat?
Did you know that star wars took place in Mexico 1,500 years ago?
Did you know that the electric fire engine had numerous advantages over the 19th-century steam fire engine (both pictured), but was not put into service because a storm could knock out the power?
Did you know that Alf Ramsey led Ipswich Town to become English football champions four years before leading England to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup?
Did you know that Min Bala staged a coup against King Hkun Law of Martaban, only to give up the throne at his wife's insistence?
Did you know that the NDR Chor performed in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony for the opening of the Elbphilharmonie?
Did you know that Britain's first motorway, the Preston By-pass, had to close within weeks of opening due to frost damage?
Did you know that Lewis Ludington founded the city of Columbus, Wisconsin, but never resided in the state?
Did you know that Loma Linda Foods and Worthington Foods were the largest manufacturers of soy-based foods in the U.S. in the 1960s?
Did you know that after the Duluth lynchings, the African-American suffragist Nellie Griswold Francis initiated, drafted, and lobbied for a state anti-lynching bill that was signed into law in 1921?
Did you know that the Altenberger Dom was restored with support from a Prussian king who decreed that Catholics and Protestants had to use it simultaneously?
Did you know that Loser.com used to redirect at different times to Kanye West's and Donald Trump's Wikipedia entries?
Did you know that Santosh G. Honavar treated more than 2,000 children affected with retinoblastoma, with a reported success rate of over 85 percent?
Did you know that the Aphaenogaster dlusskyana ant fossil was collected in 1972 and described in 2016?
Did you know that the Fort Custer Maze featured a new design each week?
Did you know that the Swedish film The King of Ping Pong won the Grand Jury Prize for world cinema at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival?
Did you know that Falcon Nest is the tallest single-family home in North America?
Did you know that after Mitch McConnell said, "Nevertheless, she persisted" in reference to Elizabeth Warren's silencing during a U.S. Senate debate, more than 100 women in Minneapolis got tattoos (example pictured) of that meme?
Did you know that the communion hymn "Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele", with lyrics by Johann Franck and a melody by Johann Crüger, was translated to "Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness"?
Did you know that the privately held Dunn Gardens in Seattle were designed by the Olmsted Brothers, who also designed the city's park system?
Did you know that a rented flat in Grosvenor Gardens House may have been the birthplace of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother?
Did you know that the Javanese prince Pangeran Pekik was killed by order of his son-in-law, Amangkurat I?
Did you know that the tall roof spaces of Japanese houses in the Historic Villages of Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama were built with two or three levels in them for rearing silkworms and storing mulberry leaves?
Did you know that the volcanic area of Kula Geopark was mentioned by the Ancient Greek geographer Strabo in the encyclopedia Geographica as Katakekaumene, literally "Burnt Land"?
Did you know that when the Vikings occupied Seville in 844, they tried unsuccessfully to burn the city's great mosque?
Did you know that Indonesian Constitutional Court Justice Saldi Isra twice failed university entrance exams, but later went on to be awarded summa cum laude?
Did you know that PFE Albee is considered the first "Avon Lady", and was followed by over half a million others?
Did you know that at a show during the 2nd Global Indian Film Awards, around ₹2.2 million (US$26,000) was raised by auctioning off costumes of Bollywood actors?
Did you know that Annelies Van Parys has composed music for Muziektheater Transparant, including her first opera, Private Views, which premiered in 2015?
Did you know that James Niehues, who paints ski resort trail maps, has been called "the Michelangelo of snow" and "Monet of the mountain"?
Did you know that St Trophimus' Church, Eschau, houses relics of St Sophia and her daughters Faith, Hope and Charity?
Did you know that in late 14th-century England, John of Gaunt built up a massive affinity of supporters which his son Henry later used as an army to depose King Richard II?
Did you know that part of the Kansas highway K-99 honors the war dead of Frankfort, which lost more men per capita in World War II than any other community in the United States?
Did you know that The Big Treehouse covers 5,000 square feet (460 m2) and has 12 levels that reach five and a half stories tall?
Did you know that gay Jewish poet Jacob Hiegentlich committed suicide days after the Nazis invaded the Netherlands?
Did you know that the Indian reservation for the Cowlitz Tribe of Washington state was established for the construction of a casino?
Did you know that the leafhopper species Eurymela distincta is often accompanied by ants that eat its sugary excrement?
Did you know that the military historian Clifford Kinvig, whose surname is an anagram of Viking, came from a Manx family?
Did you know that over 60,000 pieces of stained glass were used to create the Roots of Knowledge installation at Utah Valley University?
Did you know that professional wrestler King Kaluha was the hand-picked opponent for Dr. Death's comeback match after battling throat cancer?
Did you know that the earliest visual depiction of the Finding of Moses is a fresco of c. 244 AD in the Dura-Europos synagogue?
Did you know that William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse, the first airman to receive the Victoria Cross, is buried at Parnham House?
Did you know that a Pickett-Hamilton fort (example pictured) could be lowered into the ground when not in use and raised for combat?
Did you know that foreigners who openly call for a boycott of Israel may be banned from entering the country?
Did you know that the main characters of Zombie Killers: Elephant's Graveyard fight zombies with paintballs?
Did you know that Gail G. Shapiro was the first democratically elected president of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology?
Did you know that Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy by Jaggi Vasudev has been described as recasting Patanjali's Yoga Sutra in layman's terms?
Did you know that Peter Par Jiek, who had fought alongside Riek Machar for over ten years during the Second Sudanese Civil War, was later killed by rebels loyal to Machar?
Did you know that The Great Friendship had distinctly unfriendly consequences?
Did you know that U.S. citizens are prohibited from engaging in business transactions with Antonio Oseguera Cervantes?
Did you know that hotpants (example pictured) were originally short shorts made from materials such as velvet, silk, and fur?
Did you know that in 1759, when she was ten years old, Fenix carried the new king, Carlos III, from Naples to Barcelona?
Did you know that S. C. Jain, together with Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan, developed a method for the measurement of thermal conductivity at high temperatures in solids?
Did you know that Yves Bélanger had been working as a cinematographer for more than twenty years when he made his breakthrough with Dallas Buyers Club?
Did you know that coon hunting dogs can bark as many as 150 times per minute?
Did you know that due to the English North-South divide, Craig, a character in "The Bill", is unfamiliar with diddlums, piss-mints, and bluecocks?
Did you know that the residence of the Counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Bouxwiller was pillaged during the French Revolution and completely destroyed soon thereafter?
Did you know that Anne Penfold Street, one of Australia's leading mathematicians, earned bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry before switching to mathematics?
Did you know that E. S. Raja Gopal held the position of a CSIR emeritus scientist at both the National Physical Laboratory of India and the Indian Institute of Science?
Did you know that French singer-songwriter Indila, who has described herself as a "child of the world", is of Algerian, Cambodian, Egyptian, and Indian descent?
Did you know that in 2007, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that a sperm donor was not obligated to pay child support?
Did you know that the Kurşunlu Mosque and Complex hosts a museum that exhibits handmade meerschaum pipes?
Did you know that the flag of Weihaiwei was redesigned to include Mandarin ducks, as it was felt inappropriate to have a Chinese imperial dragon on a British flag?
Did you know that the lascivious lyrics of The Band's "Jemima Surrender" inspired Naomi Weisstein to form the Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band?
Did you know that Chinmoy Sankar Dey developed an insulin-resistant in-vitro skeletal muscle model for screening anti-diabetic medication, for which he holds a U.S. patent?
Did you know that a number of insect species were named in honour of Dutch entomologist Jacobus van der Vecht?
Did you know that sociologist, feminist, and campaigner for lesbian and gay rights Mary Susan McIntosh was deported from the U.S. in 1960 for speaking out against the House Un-American Activities Committee?
Did you know that some critics noted that Demi Lovato's song "Fix a Heart" has references in its lyrics to the singer's past issues with self-harm?
Did you know that the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens was selected for the United States' National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that the Dark Hedges tree tunnel, a popular tourist destination since it was used as the King's Road in Game of Thrones, might not last twenty years?
Did you know that the abrupt collapse of Broken Down Dam at Fergus Falls, Minnesota, in 1909 caused other downstream dams to collapse?
Did you know that 90 years after Beatrice Alexander founded the Alexander Doll Company, the company issued a doll in her likeness, priced at US$1,499.95?
Did you know that Arlington, Washington, was locally known as the "Shingle Capital of the World"?
Did you know that Turkish journalist Erol Önderoğlu, a campaigner for freedom of the press, was arrested for spreading "terrorism propaganda" in favor of the Kurdistan Workers' Party?
Did you know that V. S. Sangwan developed a treatment protocol for corneal injuries using cultured limbal stem cells?
Did you know that conquistador Pedro de Portocarrero founded the first Spanish colonial town within the territory of the modern Mexican state of Chiapas?
Did you know that in 2000, Lloyds Bank RFC's ground was sold by Lloyds TSB, which meant the club had to groundshare with a rival bank?
Did you know that proteins from a bacterium toxic to pests have been incorporated into crop plants for biological pest control?
Did you know that the German cities of Duisburg, Essen, and Kiel all had their populations increase five-fold or more between 1875 and 1910?
Did you know that Krityunjai Prasad Sinha secured a second doctorate from the University of Bristol based on his post-doctoral work at Maurice Pryce's laboratory?
Did you know that after conquering and uniting most of ancient Greece, Philip II of Macedon (bust pictured) was assassinated while in Aegae for his daughter’s wedding and was succeeded by his son Alexander the Great?
Did you know that in his song cycles, Graham Waterhouse has used a cello, a string quartet, or a Pierrot ensemble to complement the singer?
Did you know that the Train Track Park, containing 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) of walking and biking trails, was built over the century-old route of the Jaffa–Jerusalem railway?
Did you know that the name of Japanese electronic rock band The Sixth Lie is a reference to a quotation from Claude Debussy?
Did you know that the pendulum car was an experimental forerunner of the tilting train, but was not widely adopted on American railroads?
Did you know that "'Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr" is one of the oldest hymns of the Reformation?
Did you know that a steep catwalk leads to the top of the 175-foot (53 m) high Cornell Pulpwood Stacker?
Did you know that during the Balfour Mission 100 years ago, Arthur Balfour became the first Englishman to address both houses of the U.S. Congress?
Did you know that in his 2014 exhibition Using Beauty as a Remedy for Life, Pakistani artist Mahmood Hayat questioned whether objective standards of beauty exist?
Did you know that several buildings by Ellamae Ellis League are listed in the National Register of Historic Places, including the home she built for herself?
Did you know that the Japan Medical Association deployed 6,054 medical and support personnel during the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami?
Did you know that the Rugrats episode "Mother's Day" addressed the absence of Chuckie Finster's mother by revealing that she had died of a terminal illness?
Did you know that the big blue octopus often forms a midden outside its den?
Did you know that Arlington, Texas, was the largest city in the United States without public transportation until it launched the Metro Arlington Xpress in 2013?
Did you know that Chanchal Kumar Majumdar developed the Kohn-Majumdar theorem with his mentor, Walter Kohn, and the Majumdar–Ghosh model with his student, Dipan Ghosh?
Did you know that Japanese singer-songwriter Anly began playing songs by ear on her guitar when she was in third grade?
Did you know that the snap and rattle tree (blossom pictured) is native to Australia?
Did you know that Five Nights at Freddy's appeared in the Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition, breaking the record for the most sequels released in a year?
Did you know that Leon Day pitched a no-hitter on Opening Day after a nearly three-year absence from the Negro leagues?
Did you know that Max Thurn, who founded the NDR Chor in 1946, conducted a series of Bach cantatas and prepared the choir for a live recording of Isang Yun's Om mani padme hum in 1964?
Did you know that a cryptic crossword central to "The Riddle of the Sphinx", an episode of Inside No. 9, was published in The Guardian the same day the episode aired?
Did you know that although socialism is one of its four fundamental principles, the Constitution of Bangladesh also allows cooperative and private ownership alongside state ownership?
Did you know that the McLoughlin Promenade sits on a bluff in Oregon that was occupied by the Molala people thousands of years before the arrival of settlers of European ancestry?
Did you know that when the Red Rock Bridge was no longer needed for trains, it was converted to carry the auto traffic of U.S. Route 66 over the Colorado River?
Did you know that Gordian Fulde, the director of one of the busiest emergency departments in Australia, was named Senior Australian of the Year in 2016?
Did you know that Günter Jena, for decades a church music director in Hamburg, conducted the NDR Chor in a recording of the complete a cappella works by Johannes Brahms?
Did you know that although the lyrics of the Chick Corea song "500 Miles High" express romantic love, it became a hippie drug anthem?
Did you know that kenchin jiru may have originated several centuries ago from the Japanese Kenchō-ji temple?
Did you know that the newly established Women's Super Rugby league will include Gloucester-Hartpury Women, Harlequins Ladies, Loughborough Students (Lightning), and Waterloo Ladies, but will exclude a team that has been in the top flight for 15 years?
Did you know that Electrada Corporation, a 1960s-era conglomerate, ran into difficulties after its management reportedly spent more time on acquisitions and financial markets than on actually running the business?
Did you know that Katy Perry first teased the release of her song "Bon Appétit" with a cherry pie recipe?
Did you know that Kong Tai Heong, the first Chinese woman to practice medicine in Hawaii, was credited by Ripley's Believe It or Not! as having delivered over 6,000 babies?
Did you know that Robert Grace was the first manufacturer of the Pennsylvania fireplace, designed by Benjamin Franklin, which heated rooms more efficiently than an open fireplace?
Did you know that Shyam Sunder Kapoor contributed to the establishment of a pelletron accelerator facility at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research?
Did you know that in 1959, an Alabama state senator said a children's book about two fuzzy rabbits, The Rabbits' Wedding, was "propaganda for integration and intermarriage" and tried to get the book banned?
Did you know that in 1970, Austrian Post issued a commemorative postage stamp honoring the composer and bass singer Thomas Koschat?
Did you know that the family Laridae (European herring gull pictured) are the only shorebirds known to have developed ultraviolet vision?
Did you know that Jepara was the only town on the north coast of Mataram not to be taken by Trunajaya's North Coast offensive, after a successful joint defense by Mataram and the Dutch East India Company?
Did you know that Wawatam Lighthouse started out as an architectural folly at a highway Welcome Center, was moved more than 300 miles (480 km), and is now an operating Coast Guard-approved aid to navigation?
Did you know that EuropaChorAkademie, a choir formed by students from two universities, participated in an award-winning recording of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Requiem für einen jungen Dichter?
Did you know that Jimmy Wales wants WikiTRIBUNE to counter fake news?
Did you know that Mariano Gagnon was a Franciscan friar who organized airlifts to help refugees escape the Shining Path?
Did you know that Simon Pagenaud's victory at the 2017 Desert Diamond West Valley Phoenix Grand Prix was his first-ever IndyCar Series win on an oval track?
Did you know that Sudhanshu Shekhar Jha was guided in his doctoral studies by Felix Bloch, 1952 Nobel laureate, and in his post-doctoral work by Nicolaas Bloembergen, 1981 Nobel laureate?
Did you know that the Stumptown scud, a crustacean endemic to the Portland metropolitan area, looks like a "cross between a prawn and a potato bug"?
Did you know that there was a fashion in England for pregnancy portraits (example pictured) in the decades around 1600?
Did you know that "The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show" was based on old minstrel and medicine shows, but was interpreted as an allegory on the dangers of success in the music business?
Did you know that Hans Peter Blochwitz, who appeared as Mozart's Don Ottavio at the Metropolitan Opera, premiered Hans Zender's Schubert's "Winterreise" with the Ensemble Modern in 1993?
Did you know that Vidhu Vincent is the first woman to win the Kerala State Film Award for Best Director?
Did you know that the white-barred piculet hybridises with the ochre-collared, varzea, ocellated, and white-wedged piculets where their ranges overlap?
Did you know that Emma Ahuena Taylor, a supporter of women's suffrage, organized knitting units on behalf of Native Hawaiian soldiers fighting in World War I?
Did you know that Quintus Publilius Philo, Rome's first proconsul, was described as a "popular dictator"?
Did you know that six government reviews have recommended Australia adopt "fair use" into its copyright law?
Did you know that the tenth chapter of the Quran is named after Jonah, even though only 1 of its 109 verses mentions him?
Did you know that visitors can stay overnight free of charge in any of over ninety bothies (Corrour Bothy pictured), but must bring their own fuel in order to watch "bothy TV"?
Did you know that Argentine chef Federico Tobares disappeared while driving in Jalisco, Mexico?
Did you know that Rosalie Keliʻinoi, the first female legislator in the Territory of Hawaii, passed a bill which gave married women the right to sell their property without their husbands' permission?
Did you know that it takes Barn the Spoon between twenty minutes and two hours to carve a spoon out of green wood?
Did you know that the 2017 French presidential election was not fought between left and right, but between open and closed?
Did you know that the Grand Canyon's Thunder River is the steepest in the United States?
Did you know that the epicenter of the 2009 Bhutan earthquake was 10 miles (16 km) away from Trashigang Dzong, and caused wide cracks to appear in the 350-year-old structure?
Did you know that thousands of escaped slaves created a free colony on Edisto Island, South Carolina, during the American Civil War?
Did you know that Albert Pierce Taylor, author of Under Hawaiian Skies, attempted to join the Cuban War of Independence but was deported by the Spanish?