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Did you know that Khmer, the language of Cambodia and the Khmer Empire, has a 1400-year written history?
Did you know that Le coq blanc (detail pictured) at the Musée Guimet draws on the myth of the Japanese sun goddess?
Did you know that Macklemore's controversial critiques of Iggy Azalea in White Privilege II are actually criticisms of his own white privilege?
Did you know that Roman Kukleta was top scorer of the 1990–91 Czechoslovak First League?
Did you know that cobblers known as Mochis were trained in the art form of Kutch Embroidery by the Muslim Sufi saints of Sindh?
Did you know that in 1947, police stood by to ensure that Paul Robeson did not make a speech while giving a concert at Philip Livingston Junior High School in Albany, New York?
Did you know that mods are credited as one of the main reasons behind Minecraft's success?
Did you know that the Peterhouse partbooks and Forrest-Heyther partbooks both contain music by the English composer Robert Fayrfax?
Did you know that Antonia Fahberg, a lyric soprano of the Bavarian State Opera for 25 years, recorded Bach with Karl Richter, including an aria described as "a beguiling and beautifully restrained performance"?
Did you know that Dorothy Galton, a beekeeper, was suspected by MI5 of being a Russian spy?
Did you know that Maine food educator and columnist Mildred Schrumpf claimed that the brownie was invented in Bangor?
Did you know that The Times' suggestion that Insert Name Here made Sue Perkins the first woman to host a UK mainstream comedy TV panel show was refuted by Weaver's Week?
Did you know that for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, use of the alien race Sneepers was initially rejected by Marvel's legal department because it sounded too similar to snípur, the Icelandic word for clitoris?
Did you know that in the patent case Bowman v. Monsanto Co., Justice Elena Kagan delivered the unanimous decision against Bowman's "blame-the-bean defense"?
Did you know that people in Syria are using small, portable radio transmitters to create Syrnet, a network of pirate radio broadcasts committed to oppose the Assad regime?
Did you know that the 1835 opera La casa disabitata, composed by Princess Amalie of Saxony, received its first modern performance in 2012 after its previously lost score was discovered in a library in Moscow?
Did you know that the Little Mix song "Love Me like You" garnered comparisons to The Ronettes and The Supremes for its retro doo-wop style?
Did you know that the medieval era text Sarasvati-rahasya Upanishad calls Sarasvati the goddess of wisdom who manifests as syllables, words, sentences, and understanding?
Did you know that the pinkmottle woodwax can grow in fairy rings?
Did you know that Hans Memling's Portrait of Maria Portinari was probably commissioned as a triptych wing by her politically ambitious Italian husband so he could gain favour with Lorenzo de' Medici?
Did you know that Rashan Gary, the first player to be unanimously rated as the top American football prospect, committed in February 2016 to play for the Michigan Wolverines?
Did you know that Santiniketan Leather Goods (pencil boxes pictured) are generally made of East India Leather from sheepskin and goatskin?
Did you know that Zorns Lemma by Hollis Frampton was the first experimental feature film screened at the New York Film Festival?
Did you know that in India, plum cake is served around the time of the Christmas holiday season, and may have additional ingredients such as rum or brandy?
Did you know that the band OK Go filmed their music video for "Upside Down & Inside Out" in zero gravity using a reduced gravity aircraft?
Did you know that within a month of the release of Rise of Mana, the game had over one million registered players?
Did you know that Hurricane Danny in 2015 was the first major hurricane to develop between the Lesser Antilles and West Africa since Hurricane Julia in 2010?
Did you know that Laxman Gole, a contemporary Indian Gandhian described as a real-life Munnabhai, won the Zindagi Live National Award given by IBN-7?
Did you know that Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last monarch of the Pahlavi dynasty, left Iran for exile nine days after it was suggested at the Guadeloupe Conference?
Did you know that the ears of the sitatunga are so specialized that they can pinpoint the direction of the origin of a sound?
Did you know that the first female chief servant in the history of the White House, Elizabeth Jaffray, was hired in 1909?
Did you know that the gospel music duo Mary Mary's two sister songstresses' Erica Campbell and Tina Campbell have released solo albums that have charted on The Billboard 200?
Did you know that the video game Her Story features entirely live-action footage?
Did you know that the web series Go Princess Go has been cut by about a third by Chinese censors concerned about its themes of sex and time travel?
Did you know that though Thailand was not at war with Communist China, it still fought Operation Sourisak Montry VIII in 1972?
Did you know that when Jessie Jack Hooper ran for the United States Senate in 1922 against Robert M. La Follette Sr., her husband was one of only two men who donated to her campaign?
Did you know that Bach applied for the Thomaskantor post with Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn, BWV 23, ending in an elaborate setting of the German Agnus Dei from a lost Passion?
Did you know that Debopriya and Suchismita Chatterjee, the "flute sisters", are Indian instrumentalists trained by Hariprasad Chaurasia?
Did you know that General Liu Zhenwu, the first commander of the People's Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison, outranked his British predecessors?
Did you know that Laurie G. Lachance is the first alumna to serve as president of Thomas College of Waterville, Maine, in the school's 118-year history?
Did you know that Mark Sanders scored only one first-class century in his cricket career?
Did you know that Sir Clifford Boulton, the 44th Clerk of the House of Commons, was a fan of the soap opera Coronation Street?
Did you know that St John the Baptist Church in Rochdale was designed by a dead architect?
Did you know that the 18th-century shipwright Joseph Tucker is best known for designing a 170-gun ship with five tiers of guns that was never built?
Did you know that the inauguration of Argentine president Mauricio Macri was completed by the acting president Federico Pinedo, and not by outgoing president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner?
Did you know that while Bulgaria's most famous long-distance trail, Kom–Emine, typically takes 20 to 25 days to complete, the record stands at under 5 days?
Did you know that "Un-American Graffiti" is the first episode of Veronica Mars not to feature a mystery that takes place over several episodes?
Did you know that Adam Frazier has set baseball records for the Mississippi State Bulldogs?
Did you know that Ali Brownlee covered over 1,000 Middlesbrough Football Club matches for BBC Tees and Century FM?
Did you know that Canada's status as a bilingual country inspired Janet Werker to study language acquisition?
Did you know that Min Huifen, called the "Queen of Erhu", performed in support of the student protesters of Tiananmen Square?
Did you know that Rachel Browne established Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers, Canada's longest-running modern dance company?
Did you know that Royal Lao Government casualties outnumbered the People's Army of Vietnam defenders in Operation Sayasila?
Did you know that Toda Embroidery, made exclusively by women of the Toda pastoral community in the Nilgiri mountains, appears like a woven cloth?
Did you know that the Hindu text Vajrasuchi Upanishad questions social classes, and asserts that any human being can achieve the highest spiritual state of existence?
Did you know that the contralto Elisabeth Schärtel, known for performing many Wagner parts at the Bayreuth Festival, sang Verdi's Meg Page alongside Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Falstaff?
Did you know that the destruction of ivory has been called "indispensable in the fight against trafficking of threatened species"?
Did you know that when Naborr, an Arabian stallion, was imported to America via ship in 1963, the ship ran low on hay and the horse lost 50 pounds (23 kg)?
Did you know that while Maine nutrition educator Katherine O. Musgrave criticized the Fit for Life diet plan, she praised the nutritional benefits of the whoopie pie, Maine's official state treat?
Did you know that Cibolo Creek Ranch, where Antonin Scalia died, was a shooting location for the films The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, There Will Be Blood, and No Country for Old Men?
Did you know that Jewish lecturer Joseph Yasser was interested in Chinese organs?
Did you know that Kris Leonard, vocalist of the band Viola Beach, commented that the lyrical content of their songs was inspired by their "very grey and industrial" hometown of Warrington, Cheshire?
Did you know that Margaret Forster's biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning rewrites the myth of the invalid poet guarded by an ogre-like father?
Did you know that Thomas White taxied his aircraft some 24 kilometres (15 mi) past enemy encampments in Mesopotamia during World War I, in what was later described as a "Keystone Cops adventure"?
Did you know that as a child, transplant physician Fritz Bach escaped Nazi Germany in the Kindertransport?
Did you know that the Rochdale Cenotaph was one of the most ambitious of Sir Edwin Lutyens' war memorials to come to fruition?
Did you know that the Southend-on-Sea War Memorial was originally designed as a cenotaph but was changed to an obelisk?
Did you know that the process of creating Orissa Ikat, a unique silk art in which the warp and weft threads are tie-dyed before weaving, has been termed "poetry on the loom"?
Did you know that Afro-Curaçaoan writer and educator Joceline Clemencia advocated for Papiamento to become an official language of Curaçao?
Did you know that Christiane Floyd was the first female professor of computer science in Germany?
Did you know that He Xiangning, a feminist and revolutionary who refused to have her feet bound, organized China's first International Women's Day rally 92 years ago today?
Did you know that Lt. Col. Udney Hay, although highly recommended by Gen. George Washington, was not appointed Quartermaster General by the Congress?
Did you know that President Eisenhower praised Mary F. Hoyt, the first woman appointed to the US federal civil service in 1883, as a leader for the hundreds of thousands of women who followed her?
Did you know that a golden ice axe was presented to Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, when he officially opened the Skyway Monte Bianco, a new cable car system in the Alps?
Did you know that during World War II, Office of Strategic Services agent I. S. Dorfman maintained liaisons with exiled socialist leaders of the Stockholm-based "Little Internationale" such as Willy Brandt, Bruno Kreisky, and Ernst Paul?
Did you know that the Babe Didrikson Zaharias Museum features Zaharias's three 1932 Summer Olympics medals and a set of her golf clubs?
Did you know that the Daily Mail described The Getaway Car as "the worst TV spin-off since Joey Tribbiani got his own series"?
Did you know that the text Pancabrahma Upanishad, composed before 7th-century CE, discusses the symbolism behind the many faces of the Hindu god Shiva?
Did you know that women's rights activist Meaza Ashenafi noted that Amharic proverbs that place women only in domestic roles are to blame for the degrading of women in Ethiopia?
Did you know that Deolinda Rodríguez de Almeida became known as Angola's "Mother of the Revolution"?
Did you know that Doris Sands Johnson, who wrote a how-to book for voting, lost her initial attempt to run for office but later became the premier woman President of the Bahamian Senate?
Did you know that Fox is presenting a U.S. adaptation of the Dutch television special The Passion in New Orleans?
Did you know that Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment was founded by Billy Graham's grandson to help evangelical groups prevent and deal with sexual abuse in their midst?
Did you know that Hana Blažíková is a soprano with the Bach Collegium Japan, conducted by Masaaki Suzuki, for the project to record the complete Bach cantatas?
Did you know that Parsonsia straminea was initially named to honour mathematician and botanist Israel Lyons?
Did you know that Sonia M. Johnny, the first woman ambassador to the United States from Saint Lucia, has also represented CARICOM nations' interests in a trade dispute over bananas?
Did you know that Woman, Demon, Human, directed by Huang Shuqin, is considered to be China's first feminist film?
Did you know that a Bogotan Civil Order of Merit María Currea de Aya is given annually on International Women's Day in honor of the first female president of the Bogotá City Council?
Did you know that in September 2003, the Zoological Society of London released crickets of the endangered species Gryllus campestris into the wild at the Arundel Castle Cricket Ground?
Did you know that testaroli pasta dates back to ancient history, originating from the Etruscan civilization of Italy?
Did you know that the Mamluk emir Qawsun had Sultan al-Mansur Abu Bakr deposed, executed and replaced by the latter's five-year-old half-brother al-Ashraf Kujuk?
Did you know that the first US Army hospital named for a woman or nurse was named after US Army Nurse Corps Lieutenant Ruth M. Gardiner?
Did you know that the medieval era text Subala Upanishad influenced the development of the qualified monism school of Hindu philosophy called Vishishtadvaita?
Did you know that Delores Ziegler, who teaches voice at the University of Maryland, appeared as Dorabella in Mozart's Così fan tutte for her debut at La Scala, and in the film by Ponnelle and Harnoncourt?
Did you know that Eivind Astrup helped introduce the combination of dog sleds and skis on polar expeditions?
Did you know that Ghazir was the headquarters of the Assaf dynasty, which at its peak administered the region between Beirut and Homs on behalf of the Ottoman authorities?
Did you know that Huang An's 1993 album, New Dream of Butterfly Lovers, sold one million copies in Taiwan and six million worldwide, making it one of the country's best-selling albums?
Did you know that Janet McNeill, a prolific Irish writer of adult and children's fiction, peopled her adult novels with "menopausal, middle-aged, middle-class Protestants"?
Did you know that Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia, a collaborative cantata by Mozart and Salieri, was lost but found in a music museum in Prague in 2015?
Did you know that Shahid Afridi's 45-ball century at the Green Park Stadium in 2005 is the fastest by a batsman in One Day Internationals in India?
Did you know that World War II Stuka pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel helped protect the identity of former SS-doctor Josef Mengele?
Did you know that many fonts named Garamond, such as that included with Microsoft Office, are actually based on work by Jean Jannon more than 50 years after Claude Garamond's death?
Did you know that the Canadian Commander-in-Chief Unit Commendation has been awarded to seven military units, including one in the U.S. Army?
Did you know that the ponds in the former headquarters of Albany International (main building pictured) were originally built as reservoirs for firefighting?
Did you know that the tower attached to All Saints Church in Huntsham, Devon dates to the 14th century, but the rest of the church was completely rebuilt by Benjamin Ferrey in 1854–56?
Did you know that Bruce Woolley's version of "Video Killed the Radio Star" recorded for English Garden was considered by many writers to be much better than the Buggles' rendition?
Did you know that Dapeng, a second-millennium BC Chinese state, probably practised human sacrifice?
Did you know that Enzo Ferrari ordered the removal of prancing horse badges from Ferraris modified by Koenig Specials?
Did you know that Olga Tufnell assisted in unearthing the biblical city of Lachish?
Did you know that Red Reese, long-time coach and athletic director at Eastern Washington University, coached the Second Air Force American football team to a victory in the 1943 Sun Bowl?
Did you know that Sir Edwin Lutyens designed four memorials in the same Surrey churchyard, including the Busbridge War Memorial?
Did you know that during the mid-1850s Harriet Windsor-Clive, 13th Baroness Windsor, paid for the construction of the same church twice?
Did you know that the brightly coloured Chamba Rumal or "Chamba handkerchiefs", promoted by the former rulers of the Chamba kingdom, are a common gift in marriages?
Did you know that the composer of Die Versuchung Jesu, a Gospel motet on the temptation of Christ, has the devil speak, not sing, at times in canon?
Did you know that the flower spikes of Banksia sceptrum take six to seven months to develop?
Did you know that Al-Hoda, established by Naoum Mokarzel in 1898, was the longest-running Arabic newspaper in the United States?
Did you know that Caroline D. Gentile, named "most athletic" in her high school yearbook, taught health, physical education, and recreation at the University of Maine at Presque Isle for nearly 60 years?
Did you know that Nashik is known as the "Wine Capital of India" due to the Nashik valley wine?
Did you know that Ren Zhiqiang, a property tycoon and outspoken critic of the government, has been called "China's Donald Trump"?
Did you know that S. M. Holden, the only candidate ever to stand for the National Prohibition Party in England, had previously campaigned for a minimum wage and old age pensions?
Did you know that in "A Sequel to the Yellow Millet Dream", a Chinese scholar becomes prime minister, then a woman, before waking up with a monk on his bed?
Did you know that some specimens of Microolithus, a type of Paleogene bird egg, preserve embryonic bones?
Did you know that the Antarctic Sound was named after the first vessel to navigate it, which was later crushed by ice?
Did you know that the Texas and Pacific's Silver Slipper two-car train had rubber-tired wheels and was prone to derailing?
Did you know that the use of an aquatic weed harvester was recommended by Uganda's Ministry of Agriculture to reduce water hyacinth growth, which has caused a scarcity of fish in Lake Victoria?
Did you know that Colonel Ann Hawkes Hay, born in Jamaica, lost his Haverstraw, New York house to British raiders?
Did you know that Cottalango Leon, an Indian-American computer graphics technician, jointly won the Academy Award in 2016 for scientific and technical achievement?
Did you know that Ibn Muljam assassinated the fourth caliph Ali at the request of his lover whose father and brother were killed by Ali's forces at the Battle of Nahrawan?
Did you know that Lady Reading Poetry by Ishibashi Kazunori has been designated one of the Prefectural Cultural Properties of Shimane, Japan?
Did you know that Lucinda Lee Dalton, an early Mormon feminist, argued that polygamy allowed many women to marry the few good men?
Did you know that Sladen's hatchetfish makes daily vertical migrations in the ocean?
Did you know that The Red and the Green is the only historical novel by Iris Murdoch?
Did you know that a fan-animated video for the Mystery Skulls song "Ghost" received more than two million views on YouTube in under a month?
Did you know that pianist Marquesa del Ter founded one of the first feminist organizations in Spain and received the Medal of French Gratitude for her aid to hospitals during World War I?
Did you know that possible color patterning is preserved on the wings of the extinct neuropteran Rafaelnymphes?
Did you know that the China Artists Association organizes China's biggest art exhibition once every five years?
Did you know that the hip hop album Nephilim: Act of God 1 is titled after the Nephilim mentioned in the Bible?
Did you know that Carl Edgar Myers invented an air-bicycle (illustrated) that navigated through the air like a bicycle?
Did you know that Mabel Sine Wadsworth sent teams of outreach workers door to door in rural Maine in the 1950s and 1960s to teach women about birth control?
Did you know that Suzanne Duigan was a botanist who specialised in palynology, particularly the study of fossil pollen?
Did you know that Thelma C. Swain endowed a scholarship at each of the seven colleges of the Maine Community College System?
Did you know that in "The Bookworm", a Chinese scholar fathers a child with a character in his books?
Did you know that seeds of the grass Aeluropus lagopoides can germinate at concentrations of salt roughly equivalent to that of seawater?
Did you know that the Laotian military's Operation Thao La failed to find the crucial NVA transshipment point Binh Tram 37?
Did you know that the York City War Memorial was built on land donated by the North Eastern Railway, who also built their own war memorial in York?
Did you know that the second movement of Louis Moreau Gottschalk's first Symphony is probably the first orchestral setting of a samba?
Did you know that the village of Petite Savanne, Dominica, was destroyed by Tropical Storm Erika in August 2015, forcing the permanent relocation of all its residents?
Did you know that the wrestlers Yohei Komatsu and Sho Tanaka work in Mexico using the ring names Fūjin and Raijin, the Japanese gods of wind and thunder?
Did you know that 100 years ago, the Welsh rugby player Lou Phillips was shot in the chest while out on a wiring party?
Did you know that Kagiso Rabada has taken the best bowling figures on ODI debut at the Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium?
Did you know that Neil Druckmann wrote A Second Chance at Sarah based on his own interest in traveling back in time to meet his wife at a younger age?
Did you know that Wan Shaofen, China's first female provincial party chief, did not complete her term because of the downfall of Hu Yaobang?
Did you know that Yung Gud, producer of rapper Yung Lean's Sad Boys group, first produced psychedelic trance music as a child, before he got into hip hop?
Did you know that a SpaceX prize moves Hyperloop from hype to prototypes?
Did you know that after the lynchings of eleven Italians 125 years ago today in New Orleans, Italy recalled its ambassador to the U.S. in protest?
Did you know that during Campaign 74B in the Laotian Civil War, smog from swidden farming clogged the air?
Did you know that the 18th-century organist Richard Langdon held the positions of master of the choristers and organist at Exeter Cathedral, positions that had not been combined for more than 100 years?
Did you know that the Acid Bath Murderer met his first victim in The Goat?
Did you know that the Pampas, one of the main climatic regions of Argentina, witness some of the most intense thunderstorms in the world?
Did you know that the fictional Shakespearean actor-manager Chuffer Dandridge, a regular on Wake Up to Wogan, was the creation of two civil servants?
Did you know that the medieval era text Niralamba Upanishad states that happiness is realizing one's innate bliss, experiencing satcitananda?
Did you know that Bilikiss Adebiyi planned to collect rubbish in the streets of Nigeria while taking her MBA at MIT?
Did you know that FC Barcelona and Sevilla FC, who will contest this year's Copa del Rey Final, also played in the 2015 UEFA Super Cup?
Did you know that because Bank of America customers who invest less than $250,000 usually do not receive counsel from Merrill Edge employees, the discount brokerage service plans to offer customers robo-advisors?
Did you know that despite appearances, the Friargate Bridge in Derby is actually two bridges?
Did you know that during Operation Maharat, neutralists besieged neutralists?
Did you know that for TNGHT, his collaboration with Hudson Mohawke, Lunice wanted to start producing much simpler music instead of weird tracks that were "all over the place" ?
Did you know that living in rural rather than urban areas is a fertility factor, associated with an increased number of children?
Did you know that of an estimated 100,000 German Jews who served in the German Army in World War I, 12,000 were killed in action?
Did you know that the 1912 testimony of 14-year-old child laborer Carmela Teoli spurred labor reforms in Massachusetts, helped settle a strike, and raised wages for working men and women?