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Did you know that Nadav Ben Yehuda, an Israeli mountain climber, abandoned his attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest to rescue a fellow climber?
Did you know that Rudolf Koller painted "the Swiss national animal" running in the road in front of traffic?
Did you know that one of the founders of Lemurs' Park near Antananarivo is the grandson of Pierre Boiteau, the Founding Director of the Tsimbazaza Zoo?
Did you know that the antagonists of the indie horror video game Five Nights at Freddy's drew comparisons to Chuck E. Cheese's and Weeping Angels?
Did you know that the commemorative stela of Nahr el-Kalb include inscriptions dedicated to Ramesses II in hieroglyphics, Esarhaddon in cuneiform, Caracalla in Latin, Barquq in Arabic and Napoleon III in French?
Did you know that the underparts of the male Sicilian wall lizard may be suffused with orange, pink or red during the breeding season?
Did you know that Chest Creek is the first major canoeable tributary of the West Branch Susquehanna River?
Did you know that M. Stanley Livingston and Hans Bethe were the first to demonstrate that the neutron has a magnetic moment?
Did you know that Marcus Morris, the founder of the Eagle comic, was vicar of St James' Church, Birkdale in the 1940s?
Did you know that in 2013, Chris Davis led all American League baseball players with 53 home runs?
Did you know that the Pacific International was Amtrak's first international passenger train?
Did you know that the South African cricketer Jacques Kallis was the first player to take a five-wicket haul in the ICC Champions Trophy?
Did you know that the fatal crash of Aero Flight 217 occurred in poor visibility at Mariehamn Airport, Finland, where local land disputes had prevented the installation of an instrument landing system?
Did you know that the historian Jalmari Jaakkola, who was criticized for overtly nationalist assertions and extensive speculation, chose the words "The seer of early Finnish history" for his memorial medal?
Did you know that the physicist Edward Creutz published a paper on a rare flower found only on the island of Raiatea in French Polynesia?
Did you know that the second album of the Argentine band Kamikaze had low sales because of the 1989 Argentine hyperinflation?
Did you know that Father Mapple in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick preaches from a pulpit in the form of a ship's prow?
Did you know that Sanath Jayasuriya's six centuries at the Asia Cup are the most by any player in the tournament's history?
Did you know that The Who's album Tommy has sold in the order of 20 million copies since its release in 1969?
Did you know that in the 2014 National League Wild Card Game, Brandon Crawford hit the first Major League Baseball postseason grand slam by a shortstop?
Did you know that the African giant toad resembles a dead leaf?
Did you know that the American racehorse Bayern was named after soccer team Bayern Munich, and nicknamed "Little Dude" after fellow racehorse Game On Dude?
Did you know that the results of a Royal Commission into the Torbanlea Colliery Disaster were shelved until a similar accident in which 75 workers were killed two decades later?
Did you know that 94% of the members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences are male?
Did you know that Electric Light Orchestra, Nina Simone, James Brown and John Barry all influenced Labrinth's "Let It Be"?
Did you know that Gustav Mahler said that the Vertegrand – the same type of piano as used by The Beatles on "Lady Madonna" – could "satisfy a musician's requirements in every respect"?
Did you know that Martin Lücker played 3,000 free organ concerts at the Katharinenkirche in Frankfurt?
Did you know that Miss Corner's Historical Library raised many questions?
Did you know that after College Football Hall of Fame inductee Buck Flowers returned two punts for touchdowns, a writer suggested that the opposition Auburn Tigers made a dying request: "Please omit Flowers"?
Did you know that the 1971 Salem, Illinois derailment was Amtrak's first fatal accident?
Did you know that the Cape starling is a host to the greater honeyguide, a bird that lays its eggs in other birds' nests?
Did you know that three of the eleven five-wicket hauls in the Asia Cup tournament were taken by Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga, the most by any player?
Did you know that 1 is a documentary film about Formula One's progress from multiple fatalities per season in its early years to the 1994 death of Ayrton Senna, its most recent?
Did you know that Eloy Mestrelle, the man who introduced machine-struck coinage to England, was executed for coin counterfeiting?
Did you know that Jovan Albanez was the first commander of the Serbian Hussar Regiment of the Imperial Russian Army?
Did you know that Sidney L. Jones held the same senior position in the U.S. Department of the Treasury under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush?
Did you know that the 966-foot (294 m) Callicoon Bridge connecting New York and Pennsylvania is the longest on the Upper Delaware River?
Did you know that the Karnataka politician and former minister B.T. Lalitha Naik wrote dialogue for, and acted in, the Banjara film Zadero Pankheru?
Did you know that the Loreto Church and the St. Anthony Shrine are known as the "twin churches of Sampaloc"?
Did you know that the Prosphorion Harbour in Constantinople could have derived its name from the goddess Hecate?
Did you know that the Three Sisters in Oregon are part of a complex volcano?
Did you know that Anastasios Tsonis's research has concluded that, as a result of natural processes, the Earth might have entered a new "climate state" in 2001 or 2002?
Did you know that Hoylande Young was the first woman division head at the Argonne National Laboratory?
Did you know that Reginald's Tower in Ireland has served as a fortified tower, a mint, a prison, a military storehouse, an air raid shelter, and a museum?
Did you know that Wan Laisheng's teachings on martial arts pre-dated Bruce Lee's by about 50 years?
Did you know that at the request of an encomendero to the rector of the Society of Jesus in Manila, the Jesuits were assigned to Silang Church in 1599?
Did you know that in 1855 three passengers, believing they had arrived at their destination, fell to their deaths when they stepped from a train that had halted on Dinting Viaduct?
Did you know that the Greek rock lizard often has two blue spots above the shoulder?
Did you know that the discovery of the fossil of Shenshou, a squirrel-like early mammal from the Tiaojishan Formation, pushed the origin of mammals back to the Late Triassic, 220 million to 200 million years ago?
Did you know that the prickly foliage of Grevillea juniperina makes it a good shelter for birds in the garden?
Did you know that GamersGate was the result of Paradox Interactive's decision to allow an Argentine fan to download a game?
Did you know that Karolina Lassbo, creator of A Glamour Princess Blog, competed in the Miss Sweden beauty pageant in 2006?
Did you know that Twitterature has been called a literary genre, but is more accurately an adaptation of various genres to social media?
Did you know that prior to becoming the film commissioner of Belize, Nigel Miguel spent seven years as the body double for Michael Jordan?
Did you know that public service trade union General Secretary Barry Reamsbottom refused to stand down after the election of his successor Mark Serwotka, until a high court judge forced him out?
Did you know that shoddy tunnel construction in the 1840s forced the Hastings Line to use a restricted loading gauge and special narrow-bodied trains (Class 33/2 locomotive pictured) until 1986?
Did you know that the 1982 dungeon crawler Telengard began as a hobbyist game for the PDP-10 mainframe computer and later joined what Gamasutra called "The Silver Age" of computer role-playing games?
Did you know that the 1989 film Masque of the Red Death, produced by Roger Corman, is a remake of the 1964 picture of the same name which was directed by him?
Did you know that Kiswe Mobile's app for the WNBA's Washington Mystics was the first where a U.S. professional sports team streamed live games to its local viewing area via a mobile application?
Did you know that Uzo Aduba won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress as Orange Is the New Black's "Crazy Eyes", while Taylor Schilling was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress as Piper Chapman?
Did you know that a pharmacist, a newspaper publisher, an alcoholism counsellor, and the state Transportation Secretary were among those indicted in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority kickback scandal?
Did you know that actress Florence Pernel portrayed Nicolas Sarkozy's second wife Cécilia in the 2011 film La Conquête?
Did you know that although he was the leading Democratic candidate for most of the 1885 U.S. Senate election in Illinois, William Ralls Morrison only received one vote on the legislature's final ballot?
Did you know that despite a legislator's warning to refrain from mixing art with politics, Hong Kong's upcoming M+ museum of visual culture has acquired 26 works by artist-activist Ai Weiwei?
Did you know that the Swedish illustrator John Bauer is best known for his illustrations of gnomes and trolls (example pictured)?
Did you know that Mother 3 was in development for over a decade and then translated from Japanese into English by its fans?
Did you know that Shloime Gertner has been called "the Hasidic Robbie Williams"?
Did you know that a supercargo on an East Indiaman could take a sloop from Whampoa anchorage to Jack-ass Point at the Thirteen Factories?
Did you know that in 1996 Jamie Nabozny sued school officials for failing to protect him from years of homophobic bullying?
Did you know that the 2014 Internet Slowdown Day (logo pictured) has been compared to the Internet Blackout Day of 2012?
Did you know that the Queen's Building in Wolverhampton started life as the carriage entrance to the town's railway station?
Did you know that the Republic of Cuba's silver certificates were designed and produced by the US Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and Printing?
Did you know that the majority of the Mikea people live in and around the spiny Mikea Forest on the southwestern coast of Madagascar, between Morombe and Toliara?
Did you know that Bruce Mozert took underwater photographs in Silver Springs, Florida, as early as the 1940s?
Did you know that Du Xinwu's opium habit led his teacher to dangle him by the hair from a bridge?
Did you know that Harutyun Shahrikyan was tortured and killed during the Armenian Genocide?
Did you know that a molecular gyroscope can spin at 2,400,000,000,000 revolutions per second?
Did you know that after the construction business of 12-year-old Bill Walker's family was ruined in the 1964 Alaska earthquake, he worked as a janitor?
Did you know that poor education and an immature pension system are contributing to high levels of poverty in Cyprus?
Did you know that the Cemetery for North Korean and Chinese Soldiers in Paju, South Korea, contains the graves of North Korean agents killed on espionage missions in the South?
Did you know that the Ermita Church is home to what is considered to be the oldest Marian image in the Philippines?
Did you know that the original Five Mile Point Lighthouse (1805) was a 30-foot (9 m) octagonal wooden tower, its fixed white light supplied by eight oil lamps with 13-inch (330 mm) parabolic reflectors?
Did you know that the record label PC Music has never produced a physical release?
Did you know that Andrew Garfield has been described by the media as an LL Bean Boyfriend?
Did you know that Florian Znaniecki was the founder of sociology in Poland?
Did you know that Illinois State Senator Lorenzo D. Whiting was the father of journalist Lilian Whiting?
Did you know that Mostafa Salameh rang his partner, his parents, and the King of Jordan via satellite phone from Mount Everest?
Did you know that Paul Emile Diou, described as a "shy and timid" subaltern, fell while leading his troops as a brigade commander in the First World War?
Did you know that at 1034 letters, Howard Bergerson's poem "Edna Waterfall" was once recognized as the world's longest English palindrome?
Did you know that even as Brian Kim was speaking on CNBC as a guest expert on the legality of dark pools, he was running an illegal Ponzi scheme?
Did you know that the Japanese people who conserve Article 9 were among the favourites to win the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, but lost to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai?
Did you know that the Swedish actress Görel Crona played an ex-prostitute in the television series Varuhuset?
Did you know that the first Wikipedia Monument in the world will be unveiled in Słubice, Poland, in late October 2014?
Did you know that the tiered belltower of Tumauini Church resembles a wedding cake?
Did you know that when the gynecologist Thomas Ashby died in 1916, he was the only University of Maryland faculty member to have served in the Maryland State Legislature?
Did you know that MacArthur Fellow Tami Bond, known for her study of black carbon, became interested in engineering after her car broke down?
Did you know that after his speech in the trial of Thomas Paine, a crowd unhitched Thomas Erskine's horses and pulled his carriage home?
Did you know that certain crabs injected with calitoxin, found in the nematocysts of the sea anemone Calliactis parasitica, are paralysed within one minute?
Did you know that in 1920 Louise Pearce tested a cure for the fatal epidemic of African sleeping sickness in the Belgian Congo?
Did you know that the Hasidic singer Yehuda Green, who performs in the style of Shlomo Carlebach, has been called "more Carlebach than Carlebach"?
Did you know that the Nobel Banquet is held each 10 December, after the Nobel Prize ceremony?
Did you know that the composer Joseph Maria Wolfram became mayor of Teplice?
Did you know that the first U.S. revenue stamps (example pictured) were issued in 1862 to raise money for the American Civil War?
Did you know that the logo of No-Li Brewhouse depicts the Skyride over Spokane Falls?
Did you know that the triangles on the flag of Saint Lucia represent the Pitons, two volcanic plugs on the island that are a national symbol of the country?
Did you know that Broadbottom Viaduct, originally of wooden construction, was replaced with a wrought iron structure less than 20 years after its completion?
Did you know that Clarence N. Hickman, a developer of the bazooka, was also the "Father of Scientific Archery", and is an AMICA Hall-of-Famer for his improvements to player pianos?
Did you know that German TV broadcaster ZDF used Dominik Kuhn's (Dodokay's) fandub of a Romney-Obama debate to start reporting on the outcome of the 2012 U.S. presidential election?
Did you know that Hugh Bolton Jones exhibited at New York's National Academy of Design for sixty years?
Did you know that Stewart Gray was a "heroic dreamer" who originated the back-to-the-land movement in the UK and started an artists' colony in London?
Did you know that burglars attacking a Barretville, Tennessee, bank vault with blowtorches in 1930 failed to steal any money, but burned down the adjacent general store?
Did you know that less than four months after Guatemala declared independence from the Spanish Empire, it was annexed by a different empire?
Did you know that part of Ashutosh Gowariker's Everest has been filmed at over 17,000 feet (5,200 m) above sea level?
Did you know that the French singer Christophe got the inspiration for the title of his 1965 hit song "Aline" during a visit to the dentist?
Did you know that the Swedish stand-up comedian Robin Paulsson became known for his imitations of footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović?
Did you know that the first Canadian Platinum Maple Leaf coin was struck by a Japanese?
Did you know that Gertrude Melville was nicknamed the "grand old lady of the Labor Party" despite serving only one term in parliament?
Did you know that Kate Vaughan, who developed the skirt dance, was considered the greatest dancer of her time?
Did you know that Lindita Arapi's first book of poetry, Am Meer, nachts ("By the sea, at night") was the first such work written by an Albanian poetess in German?
Did you know that Narendra Modi got the idea for the Bharatiya Janata Party slogan for the 2014 Indian general election, Achhe din aane waale hain ("Good days are coming"), from his opposition leader, Manmohan Singh?
Did you know that Stephen Phillips originally auditioned to play the Winners & Losers character Doug Graham, but was cast as Zach Armstrong instead?
Did you know that film titles like India Speaks, Africa Speaks!, and Mussolini Speaks gave Duke Ellington the idea to call his song "Harlem Speaks"?
Did you know that the Italian pool frog has been introduced into the United Kingdom?
Did you know that the Ocala Star-Banner considered John Ritter's comedy style in the 1983 film Sunset Limousine to be the "magic ingredient" for the film's success?
Did you know that the Romanian communist Constantin Doncea made a well-publicized break from prison, finding his way to Moscow and then to the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War?
Did you know that The GNOME Project's Free and Open Source Software Outreach Program for Women started because no women were among the 181 applicants to a student mentorship program in 2006?
Did you know that Theora mesopotamica was once given the name Abra cadabra, because a scientist believed it "had been dead for a long time, and could be described as a cadaver"?
Did you know that during work on a predecessor to the Royal Air Force's Airborne Interception radar, Mark VIII, Herbert Skinner would use its klystron as a cigarette lighter?
Did you know that in order to write the novel Strike Zone, author Peter David spoke with actress Marina Sirtis to gain insight into her character in Star Trek: The Next Generation?
Did you know that in putting together episodes of Off the Air, series creator Dave Hughes seeks clips "with some kind of truth or integrity to them"?
Did you know that populations of the Chinese goral are declining, probably due to over-hunting?
Did you know that Frank Facer's recruiting was seen as a key factor in the success of the St. George Dragons, including eleven straight titles between 1956 and 1966?
Did you know that Iron Foot Jack, "a more agreeable kind of Alistair Crowley in a poorer way of business", was an inspiration for a young Ian Dury?
Did you know that John Messinger, the first Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, helped to set the state line between Illinois and Wisconsin?
Did you know that Ralph Landau, a chemical engineer and economist, formulated the concept of technology as capital?
Did you know that accommodation in the Butterfly Valley, Fethiye at the Turkish Riviera is possible only in tents or wooden bungalows because any type of construction is prohibited by law?
Did you know that in World War II, Zenon B. Lukosius and his crew mates captured the U-505 submarine, which had an important German code book on board?
Did you know that the 6th-century Kızıl Kilise is one of the oldest churches in Turkey's Cappadocia region?
Did you know that the death of a Dutch fascist in Amsterdam in February 1941 was an excuse for the German authorities to start raids in the Jewish Quarter and install a Judenrat?
Did you know that the experimental Ebola drug candidate ZMapp is manufactured in the tobacco plant Nicotiana benthamiana in a bioproduction process known as "pharming"?
Did you know that Amsterdam businessman Maup Caransa lent his name to the ugliest building in the country and to the sons of the gods?
Did you know that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was elected to represent Vadodara, Gujarat, in the parliament by a victory margin of 570,128 votes in 2014, the second highest ever?
Did you know that Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model Emily Ratajkowski is featured in the music video for "Blurred Lines", which was the number one song of 2013 in several countries?
Did you know that a beaver attack killed a fisherman in Belarus?
Did you know that one of the designers of the Swedish Navy stealth ship HSwMS Visby said it looked like a "lunchbox"?
Did you know that the upcoming film Our Brand Is Crisis, based on the documentary of the same name, is about Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada's 2002 Bolivian presidential election campaign managed by James Carville?
Did you know that under Orfeo Vecchi, the Santa Maria alla Scala Cathedral returned to a place of musical prominence in Milan?
Did you know that young Iberian wall lizards sometimes have blue tails?
Did you know that Alvin C. Graves was badly injured in the 1946 laboratory criticality accident at Los Alamos that killed Louis Slotin?
Did you know that Kira Kazantsev is the third consecutive Miss New York to win Miss America?
Did you know that Lloyd M. Smith created the world's first glow-in-the-dark DNA sequencer?
Did you know that Swedish bus maker Scania has delivered its first ethanol-powered bus made in India to Nagpur Mahanagar Parivahan Limited for trial runs?
Did you know that despite Anthony William Hall's claim to the English throne in the 1930s, King George V didn't want him to be imprisoned?
Did you know that in 1849 Henry Jacob Bigelow presented Phineas Gage to the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, immediately following a phallic stalagmite?
Did you know that the book The Road from Home is the true story of a girl whose father, mother, brothers, and sisters all died during the Armenian Genocide?
Did you know that the model Dolores was a "happy prisoner" of the sculptor Jacob Epstein?
Did you know that the oil painting The Fog Warning by Winslow Homer shows a lone fisherman in danger of being lost at sea?
Did you know that Roger Sant, after whom Liopropoma santi (the spot-tailed golden bass) was named, participated in a manned submersible dive in which an exemplar of the fish was collected?
Did you know that Swedish-American John Alvin Anderson documented and photographed influential Sioux over a 45-year period?
Did you know that The Drew Carey Show episode "In Ramada Da Vida" featured guest appearances by Lisa Loeb, Slash, Joey Ramone, and other musicians?
Did you know that after Ji Dengkui helped Hua Guofeng purge the "Gang of Four", he himself was ousted as a member of the "Little Gang of Four"?
Did you know that in his album Sinema, rapper Swoope asks listeners to examine themselves to discover their selfish desires?
Did you know that one of Lilian Shelley's jobs at The Cave of the Golden Calf was to feed Madame Strindberg's monkey each evening at the Savoy Hotel?
Did you know that psychologist Jonas Wood explores the psychological effects of various spaces through art?
Did you know that the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series have seen multiple actors, such as Clark Gregg and Hayley Atwell, reprise their roles from the MCU films?
Did you know that the ceiling of St Mary's Church, Little Crosby is painted with the Litany of Our Lady?
Did you know that the podcast Serial was number one on the iTunes Store even before it debuted?
Did you know that the upcoming film Ricki and the Flash will be the second in which Meryl Streep and her daughter Mamie Gummer appear together, the first being 1986's Heartburn?
Did you know that toads found in Egypt around 1909 and identified as Degen's toad are now considered a separate species, the Nile Delta toad?
Did you know that Megaponera analis raid termite mounds so effectively they have been nicknamed after the fierce Matabele tribe of the 19th century?
Did you know that a lawsuit over the construction of the Cochecton–Damascus Bridge led to a ruling that sovereign immunity does not extend to states' joint bridge commission?
Did you know that following a fire in 1972, three new vestries in Modernist style were added to the apse of the chancel of St Luke's Church, Great Crosby?
Did you know that security considerations forbade the judge performing Priscilla Duffield's marriage from knowing the surnames of the bride and groom?
Did you know that the Wandervogel, the Hitler Youth, the Swing Kids, the bright young things, the flappers, and the Boy Scouts are all featured in the 2013 film Teenage?
Did you know that the film The Fault in Our Stars is based on John Green's novel of the same name, inspired by the late Esther Earl's life?