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Did you know that the foundation of Napata's Temple of Amun is attributed to the Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III?
Did you know that the pigment on the dark-coloured eggs of the parasitic Shining Bronze Cuckoo rubs off easily?
Did you know that the stables of Oakfield Manor have been used to house lions?
Did you know that volleyball player Courtney Thompson set the NCAA record for career assists per game?
Did you know that Albertus Soegijapranata, Indonesia's first Catholic bishop, was born a Muslim?
Did you know that British singer-songwriter Pixie Lott co-wrote the song "You Broke My Heart" for Alexandra Burke's debut studio album Overcome in 2009?
Did you know that Garima Chaudhary represented India as the country's sole judoka at the 2012 Olympics?
Did you know that Grand Casemates Square, once the site of public hangings, is now one of Gibraltar's main squares and nightlife hubs?
Did you know that José de San Martín, national hero of Argentina, died 162 years ago today in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France?
Did you know that Liga Geral dos Trabalhadores de Angola, an exiled Angolan trade union linked to FNLA, received funding from the AFL–CIO during the 1960s?
Did you know that SS Principessa Jolanda, the largest Italian ocean liner built up to that time, capsized in 1907 while being launched and was declared a total loss?
Did you know that Taylor Brook won the Lee Ettelson Composer's Award with a piece for violin accompanied only by a drone that is 14 cents flat of F♯?
Did you know that The Bear Bryant Show regularly preempted live coverage of National Football League games that aired during the same time in Alabama?
Did you know that after screenwriter Sarah Williams approached Ecosse Films about making Becoming Jane, the company hired Kevin Hood to further develop its script?
Did you know that an axe from the collection of the new Märkisches Provinzialmuseum in Berlin was used to execute Max Hödel after his attempt to assassinate the Kaiser?
Did you know that collinsite was discovered in British Columbia and named for the director of the Geological Survey of Canada?
Did you know that just before the invasion of Poland, members of the German minority from Deutscher Volksverband were trained in sabotage by the Abwehr agents arriving in Poland from Germany?
Did you know that the 48th Georgia Infantry Regiment of Confederate Lt. Colonel Reuben Walker Carswell was in a brigade commanded by Carswell's mentor as a lawyer, Brigadier General Ambrose R. Wright?
Did you know that the Portland, a restored 1947 sternwheeler based in Portland, Oregon, was the last steam-powered tugboat built in the United States?
Did you know that the statue of George IV which stands in Trafalgar Square was originally meant to be on top of the Marble Arch?
Did you know that CPJ International Press Freedom Awards recipients (1991 recipient Tatyana Mitkova pictured) have faced imprisonment, raids, and assassination?
Did you know that Croatian sports shooter Giovanni Cernogoraz, gold medalist in men's trap at the 2012 Olympics, works full time as a waiter at his father's restaurant in Novigrad?
Did you know that Danny Gatton's 1991 album 88 Elmira St. featured a version of "The Simpsons Theme", with the added sound effect of a fart?
Did you know that India ranked first in the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games medal table?
Did you know that P. C. Sreeram is an alumnus of the Madras Film Institute?
Did you know that Pisanello's medal of the Byzantine emperor John VIII Palaeologus was the first Renaissance portrait medal?
Did you know that Venetian architect Girolamo Sartorio, the brother of composer Antonio Sartorio, designed the first German public opera house, the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg?
Did you know that a gutter predated the Cape Cod Canal by almost two hundred years?
Did you know that around 20 buildings and more than 40 monuments will be built in Skopje, Macedonia, as part of the Skopje 2014 project?
Did you know that during the American Revolutionary War, HMS Kingfisher served in the Burning of Norfolk and the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet, and was ultimately burnt by her own crew to avoid capture?
Did you know that in 1904, Joseph R. Burton (R-KS) became the first United States Senator to be convicted of a crime?
Did you know that most of Margaret Bernadine Hall's works have disappeared, but her painting Fantine hangs in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool?
Did you know that of the 54 cricketers who have appeared in Twenty20 cricket for the Delhi Daredevils, Virender Sehwag has played the most matches?
Did you know that the documentary The Rubber Room claimed that troubled teachers were being held in reassignment centers by the NYC Department of Education?
Did you know that the flash fiction short story "El emigrante" by Luis Felipe Lomelí has only four words?
Did you know that the mineral rapidcreekite was discovered in Yukon, Canada, in 1983?
Did you know that there is a marina in Gibraltar which is between a mole and a runway?
Did you know that "Episode 1" of Twin Peaks has drawn comparison to the 1990 film The Grifters?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair tennis player Ben Weekes has played piano at the Sydney Opera House?
Did you know that 2012 Paralympic swimmer Aaron Rhind trains with Australian Olympic swimming medalist Adam Pine?
Did you know that American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey wrote her new single "Triumphant (Get 'Em)" while her husband Nick Cannon was in the hospital for kidney failure?
Did you know that Full Moon was the most successful local film ever released in the Dutch East Indies?
Did you know that John Harrison Clark, a reputed outlaw from the South African Cape, settled alone in modern-day Zambia in 1887 and in the early 1890s became the local people's chief?
Did you know that Königsberg printer Hans Weinreich issued the first printed books in Lithuanian and Old Prussian, as well as the first Polish translation of Luther's Small Catechism?
Did you know that Mariah Carey's song "Mine Again" was nominated at the 2006 Grammy Award ceremony for Best Traditional R&B Performance?
Did you know that Mirgissa was the largest of eleven forts built between the second and third cataracts during the reign of Senusret III?
Did you know that an episode of the 2012 nature documentary series A Year in the Wild featured Britain's largest national park, the Cairngorms?
Did you know that an undersea volcanic eruption which produced a pumice raft covering approximately 10,000 square miles (26,000 km2), was not discovered until several weeks had passed?
Did you know that it is not publicly known where exactly Okno-S is?
Did you know that several works in the filmography of David Lynch have been collaborations with Mark Frost?
Did you know that the Olympic Flame once burned at 2,000 degrees Celsius to ensure that it stayed alight under water?
Did you know that the bones of infants with parastremmatic dwarfism look "flocky" on X-rays?
Did you know that the manuscript collection known as the Cetinje chronicle begins with text about Skanderbeg?
Did you know that the newly described lacewing species Semachrysa jade was discovered in a photo (at right) posted to Flickr?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Leanne Del Toso played able-bodied basketball prior to being diagnosed with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy?
Did you know that Danish designer Henrik Vibskov, creator of the "Big Wet Shiny Boobies Collection", was inducted into the Chambre Syndicale de la Mode Masculine?
Did you know that Halcyon, the upcoming album by Ellie Goulding, was recorded in a barn?
Did you know that Jeffrey Tambor was nominated for two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor for portraying George Bluth, Sr. on the comedy Arrested Development?
Did you know that Marblehead Harbor, the birthplace of the predecessor of the U.S. Navy, was also the birthplace of Marine Corps Aviation one hundred years ago today?
Did you know that Mark Kharitonov was awarded the first Russian Booker Prize in 1992 for his novel Lines of Fate?
Did you know that a television station's sting operation led to the banning of five Indian Premier League cricketers?
Did you know that about one-third of Iowa's population lives along the I-80 corridor?
Did you know that although her character had been dead from the beginning of the series, Sheryl Lee was asked to return for "Episode 3" of Twin Peaks?
Did you know that in 1634, Boston innkeeper Samuel Cole established the first tavern in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which was featured in Longfellow's play John Endicott?
Did you know that in June 2012, the Ocean Village Marina hosted the Gibraltar Diamond Jubilee Flotilla?
Did you know that philosopher Gottfried Leibniz referred to Gervase of Tilbury's 1214 encyclopedia Otia Imperialia as a "bagful of foolish old woman's tales"?
Did you know that satellite Kosmos 2481 was launched by a rocket called Rokot?
Did you know that the Church of Saint Benoit in Istanbul is the oldest Roman Catholic church in the city still in use?
Did you know that the German Central Library for the Blind, founded in Leipzig in 1894, is the oldest library of its kind in Germany?
Did you know that the destruction of the oldest house in the Delavan Terrace Historic District (Otis and John Houses, pictured) led to new attempts to promote historic preservation in Yonkers, New York?
Did you know that Abdulredha Buhmaid died three days after being shot in the head during a peaceful protest in Bahrain?
Did you know that Betty Jane Watson created the role of Laurey in the first London production of Oklahoma!?
Did you know that G. Kruger directed the first talkie in what is now Indonesia?
Did you know that Ginn's Furniture Store is a rare survivor of repeated Ohio River floods that destroyed most of downtown Milton, Kentucky?
Did you know that Molde FK did not want to send Martin Høyem on loan to Hønefoss BK, because the two clubs were scheduled to meet in the semi-final of the 2005 Norwegian Football Cup?
Did you know that Operation Head Start, the predecessor to Operation Chrome Dome, was based at Loring Air Force Base?
Did you know that Roman Chatov painted the silk scarf that caused American dancer Isadora Duncan's accidental death?
Did you know that Russian military stations Krona and Krona-N are named after the crown of a tree?
Did you know that for the film Samaantharangal (1998), Balachandra Menon worked on nine aspects of the film-making and also won the National Film Award for Best Actor at the 45th National Film Awards?
Did you know that on August 15, 2012, Félix Hernández threw the 23rd perfect game in Major League Baseball history?
Did you know that the Boston Caucus, of which American patriot Samuel Adams was a leader, was an early example of the "smoke-filled room" in politics?
Did you know that the Bristol Naturalists' Society of Bristol, England, celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2012?
Did you know that the University of Minnesota Libraries holds the world's largest collection on Sherlock Holmes and his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
Did you know that the depiction of "monsters" in J. M. W. Turner's painting Sunrise with Sea Monsters may have been influenced by his use of a drug related to morphine?
Did you know that the tunnel beneath Parson's Lodge Battery originally carried a railway built to take stone to improve the Gibraltar Harbour?
Did you know that the upcoming Doctor Who episode "The Power of Three" was partially inspired by the story of the MSC Napoli?
Did you know that "A Million Miles Away", performed by Rihanna, impacted the Spanish Singles Chart in November 2009, three and a half years after the initial release of A Girl like Me?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic goalball player Michelle Rzepecki introduced children with visual impairments in Bolivia to goalball?
Did you know that All Saints Church, Hollingbourne, England, contains memorials by John Michael Rysbrack and the Culpeper needlework, a 17th-century embroidered funeral pall?
Did you know that George Kontos was named Illinois' high school baseball player of the year in 2003?
Did you know that Laborintus II, a collaboration between Mike Patton and Ictus Ensemble, is only the third recording of the titular piece since its composition in 1965?
Did you know that Shelton State Community College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is named for J. P. Shelton, who lobbied for the building of trade schools in the area?
Did you know that according to Bleacher Report, Antonija Mišura was the most beautiful female competitor at the 2012 Olympics?
Did you know that after MGM's rights to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Night Flight expired in 1942, the film was not shown again until 2011?
Did you know that in 1578 Reverend Francis Marbury, the father of Anne Hutchinson, was called by the Bishop of London an "ass, an idiot, and a fool", then sent to Marshalsea Prison for two years for his impudence?
Did you know that out of the 56 cricketers who have played for Kings XI Punjab, Shaun Marsh has scored the most runs?
Did you know that pioneer American aviator Charles K. Hamilton, the "crazy man of the air", survived over 60 crashes, only to succumb to the effects of tuberculosis?
Did you know that the Roberts House in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, built in the 1790s, is the last remaining building from Jefferson College?
Did you know that the Wallowa County Courthouse in northeastern Oregon is a massive Romanesque style building with Queen Anne architectural elements in some exterior features?
Did you know that the land now comprising the Knox Street Historic District in Albany, New York, was originally a nursery for the first successful American strawberry cultivar?
Did you know that the mare Apology's win in the St. Leger Stakes led to a scandal in the Church of England?
Did you know that the number of murders in Jamaica dropped 20% during Mark Shields' first year as Deputy Police Commissioner of the Jamaica Constabulary Force?
Did you know that the video game Symphony generates Galaga-style gameplay based on the player's choice of music?
Did you know that Édgar Morales Pérez, the mayor-elect of Matehuala, San Luis Potosí, was assassinated before taking office?
Did you know that Danish painter L. A. Ring won the bronze medal at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris for his painting In the Garden Doorway, The Artist's Wife?
Did you know that Fifi Young, known for playing mother figures, acted in 86 films in 34 years?
Did you know that Finnish priest Kalervo Kurkiala, a chaplain in the Waffen-SS, believed that military service was good for "country boys" and for "numerous bookworms and spoilt sloppy idlers"?
Did you know that Job Edward Lousley took over thirty years to write and publish the Flora of the Isles of Scilly?
Did you know that Mike Hoolboom's Letters from Home was based on a speech by LGBT activist Vito Russo?
Did you know that Norwegian Olympians Øistein Saksvik, Tor Torgersen and Pål Benum all won national championships in 5,000 and 10,000 metres?
Did you know that Ottla Kafka, the youngest and dearest sister of Franz Kafka, died in the Holocaust because she divorced her Catholic husband?
Did you know that Sir Richard Hadlee took fourteen of his five-wicket hauls against Australia in Test cricket, and was the first bowler to reach 400 Test wickets?
Did you know that in 2007, French chef Anne-Sophie Pic became only the fourth woman to win three Michelin stars?
Did you know that in Gibraltar, a mole's elbow is a site of control for the harbour?
Did you know that the Armenian Heritage Park is a memorial park in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, dedicated to the victims of the Armenian Genocide?
Did you know that the Deccan Chargers cricketers, who finished last in the first season of Indian Premier League, became the champions of the second season?
Did you know that the Neustädter Kirche was built in Hanover's Calenberger Neustadt in the 17th century as one of the earliest aisleless churches in Lower Saxony?
Did you know that the decoration on some of the Norman piers (example pictured) in St Mary's Church, Kirkby Lonsdale, is similar to that on the piers in Durham Cathedral?
Did you know that the deluxe version of Coheed and Cambria's album, The Afterman: Ascension, will give a song-by-song experience using a hardcover coffee-table book?
Did you know that volleyball player Janet Cobbs set nine school records at North Dakota State University?
Did you know that volleyball player Lori Endicott was named the best setter of the 1992 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that 1928's Lily of Java was the first Chinese-produced film in Indonesia?
Did you know that Bach composed two cantatas with similar music at the same time: Ihr Tore zu Zion, BWV 193, to celebrate the new town council on 25 August 1727, and the secular BWV 193a for 3 August that year?
Did you know that German painter Friedrich Eckenfelder (self-portrait pictured) received an order from the Nazi headquarters to paint a portrait of Hitler?
Did you know that Matty Blair scored the winning goal for York City in the 2012 Conference National play-off Final, which saw the club return to the Football League after an eight-year absence?
Did you know that Mongolian shamanism (which comes in yellow and black) reveres a white old man besides ongod such as Dayan Deerh and 99 or possibly 102 tngri?
Did you know that Stanisław Baranowski Spitsbergen Polar Station is named after the Polish glaciologist Stanisław Baranowski who died in a coma following an accident at the Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station?
Did you know that Teen Wolf actor Colton Haynes will play Leona Lewis' love interest in the upcoming music video for her new single "Trouble"?
Did you know that a Cardinal, three Browns, a Dupree, and a King have all played for the Minnesota Timberwolves?
Did you know that artist and academician Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, who taught and inspired Poland's national painter Jan Matejko, gave private art classes for free to struggling artists?
Did you know that despite his strong interest in education, Matthew Oram was not appointed Minister of Education, but became Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives instead?
Did you know that the Doda River in the Zanskar Valley of Ladakh rises from the Drang-Drung Glacier and forms the Stod valley?
Did you know that the Gibraltar Diamond Jubilee Flotilla was inspired by the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant?
Did you know that the Tsarap River, a tributary of the Zanskar River in Ladakh, is fed by the Lingti, Yunan and Sarchu rivers at Sarchu and by the Kargyag river at Purne?
Did you know that the work of Jimmy Robinson was mistaken for that of Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page?
Did you know that theatre music can be traced to the very origins of theatre in Ancient Greece?
Did you know that when Nadia Santini's restaurant Dal Pescatore was awarded three Michelin stars in 1996, she was the first female chef in Italy so honored?
Did you know that Adam Steltzner, the lead engineer of the Mars Curiosity rover landing, said he spent high school "studying sex, drugs and rock and roll"?
Did you know that Henry Dircks created a ghost to prove that others could not?
Did you know that Matt Byrne, Terry Bywater, Gaz Choudhry, Peter Finbow, Abdi Jama, Jon Hall, Dan Highcock, Ade Orogbemi, Simon Munn, Jon Pollock, Ian Sagar, and Matt Sealy have been selected to play wheelchair basketball for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics?
Did you know that Michel Roux, who went on to open the first restaurant to win three Michelin stars in Britain, was awarded a medal whilst enlisted in the French forces in Algeria?
Did you know that Mike Hoolboom made a "film that's not quite a film"?
Did you know that Roekiah and Rd Mochtar were the first celebrity couple in the Dutch East Indies, despite Roekiah being married?
Did you know that Twin Peaks, a restaurant chain promising "scenic views" of scantily clad waitresses, was sued by Hooters for stealing trade secrets?
Did you know that a spectator who threw a bottle at the men's 100 metres race in the 2012 Olympics was immediately confronted by judo bronze medalist Edith Bosch, who happened to be next to him?
Did you know that dozens of members of the United States Congress have been convicted of public corruption crimes?
Did you know that in 1971 Mauricio Luvualu, leader of the exiled Angolan trade union UGTA, was handed over to the Portuguese by the government of Congo-Kinshasa?
Did you know that in 1971, bishop Albert Ndongmo was sentenced to death for allegedly plotting with Ernest Ouandié to assassinate President Ahmadou Ahidjo?
Did you know that the 1876 span across Cedar Creek is the last surviving covered bridge in Wisconsin?
Did you know that two of the Russian Peresvet-class battleships were salvaged by the Japanese after the end of the Russo-Japanese War and incorporated into the Imperial Japanese Navy?
Did you know that "If We Are the Body", Christian rock band Casting Crowns' debut single, utilizes the violin, mandolin, and accordion in its arrangement?
Did you know that 16-year-old Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen won two gold medals and broke two records at the 2012 Olympics?
Did you know that 84-year-old Menachem Cohen has finished a 30-year quest to correct approximately 1,500 mistakes in the Old Testament?
Did you know that Allison Weston was named by Sports Illustrated the best ever female athlete born in Nebraska?
Did you know that Archaeoindris, a recently extinct giant lemur from Madagascar, was the largest known lemur, comparable in size to a male gorilla?
Did you know that Australian artist Sidney Nolan's 1946 painting Footballer is based on Bill Mohr of the St Kilda Football Club?
Did you know that Body of Proof episode and season one finale "Broken Home" was nominated at the 21st Annual Environmental Media Awards?
Did you know that Guyanese artist Donald Locke started painting in a class taught by Edward Rupert Burrowes?
Did you know that Teofila Ludwika Zasławska and her second husband owned Baranów Sandomierski Castle and three other palaces designed by royal architect Tylman van Gameren?
Did you know that a book cover depicting Hugo d'Oignies and Saint Nicholas was presented to Oignies Abbey?
Did you know that both sons of the Byzantine general Nikephoros Phokas the Elder followed him in the post of Domestic of the Schools, in effect commander-in-chief of the Byzantine army?
Did you know that chef Cyrus Todiwala cooked country captain for Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh as part of the 2012 Diamond Jubilee celebrations?
Did you know that former Blue's Clues host Steve Burns released the indie rock album Songs for Dustmites with help from The Flaming Lips?
Did you know that former soldier Derek Derenalagi was pronounced dead in 2007, but is due to compete in the discus for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics?
Did you know that on Good Friday, 6 April 1612, Malkin Tower was alleged to be the location of a witches' coven?
Did you know that the 1981 Playa Azul earthquake ruptured the central part of the Michoacán seismic gap?
Did you know that the oblong rocksnail, which is endemic to the Cahaba River, was last collected in 1933, declared extinct in 2000, and rediscovered in 2011?
Did you know that the pro-Catholic trade union C.A.T.C-A.E.F held the Brazzaville P.O. Box 666?
Did you know that when a square is cut into triangles of equal area, the number of triangles is always even?
Did you know that 1992's Marathi film Ek Hota Vidushak featured P. L. Deshpande's first new screenplay with dialogue since 1953, after a hiatus of 39 years?
Did you know that Annie Wyatt, the driving force behind Australia's National Trust, was also a prison visitor to some of Sydney's most notorious women criminals?
Did you know that Isaac B. Desha was twice convicted of murder and sentenced to hang before being pardoned by his father, Kentucky Governor Joseph Desha?
Did you know that Jock Collier, Tom Mitchell and Viv Busby are the only former York City F.C. players with fewer than 25 appearances to have managed the club?
Did you know that Renoir, a crater on Mercury, is one of two with a volcanic plain inside its central peak ring?
Did you know that Royal Mail painted a post box gold (example pictured) to commemorate each gold medallist for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics?