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Did you know that former Michigan Wolverines softball player Amanda Chidester hit a grand slam to lead Team USA to a victory over Brazil in the 2012 World Cup of Softball?
Did you know that the Beatles played at New Brighton Tower a total of 27 times, more than any UK venue except the Cavern Club?
Did you know that the Carsaig Arches are a natural formation to the west of Carsaig Bay on the Isle of Mull?
Did you know that the Hyde Park Holocaust memorial of Hyde Park, London, was the first public memorial in Great Britain dedicated to the Holocaust?
Did you know that the inaugural Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi Memorial Lecture was given by former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar?
Did you know that the lyrics to Bob Dylan's 1979 song "Man Gave Names to All the Animals" were turned into a children's book 20 years later?
Did you know that Australian Brigadier Simone Wilkie was Assistant Chief of Staff to General David Petraeus during the Iraq War troop surge of 2007?
Did you know that Bartlesville, Oklahoma, was officially renamed Bootsville for one day—honoring Boots Adams on his 66th birthday?
Did you know that Josh Clayton-Felt's album Spirit Touches Ground was released two years after his death?
Did you know that chef Jason Atherton was keen to prevent the menu from being "too scary" at his London-based restaurant Pollen Street Social?
Did you know that in 2010, Bangladesh became only the second country after Malaysia, among the developing nations, to have successfully sequenced a plant genome?
Did you know that in order for organisms to adapt their membrane's fluidity to their environment, they can change the lipid composition of their cell membrane?
Did you know that the SS manager of Ostindustrie complained about his businesses becoming valueless through the "withdrawal" of Jewish slave labor in 1943?
Did you know that the US GuLF Study is visiting 20,000 clean-up workers from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill to collect blood, hair, urine, toenail and domestic dust samples, looking for health effects?
Did you know that the failure of the Slavic siege of Patras c. 805/807 marked the end of independent Slavic rule in the Peloponnese?
Did you know that Jean Swank, who studied black holes and neutron stars, was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal?
Did you know that Kefaya activist Mahmoud Badr is the co-founder and lead spokesman of Tamarod, the grassroots movement which organized mass demonstrations that led to Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi's ouster?
Did you know that New York Mets mascot Mrs. Met debuted in the 1960s, shortly after Mr. Met, making her one of Major League Baseball's oldest mascots?
Did you know that Second Harvest North Florida was selected as a favorite charity by the Jacksonville Jaguars?
Did you know that according to the Gilbert–Shannon–Reeds model of probability distribution, a deck of playing cards should be riffled seven times in order to thoroughly randomize it?
Did you know that the Rotolactor was the first invention for milking a large number of cows successively and largely automatically?
Did you know that the fastest spreading ocean ridge is the East Pacific Rise at 15 cm/yr, located along the floor of the Pacific Ocean, while the slowest is the Gakkel Ridge in the Arctic Ocean at 2.5 cm/yr?
Did you know that the title role of Boris Blacher's last opera, Yvonne, Prinzessin von Burgund, is performed by a mute dancer?
Did you know that Baranagar Math was the first monastery of the Ramakrishna Order, where Narendranath Datta and his brother disciples took refuge after their Master's death?
Did you know that Haylie Wagner, a Michigan Wolverines softball player, was unanimously selected as the 2012 Big Ten Pitcher of the Year after compiling a 32–7 record and 1.53 ERA as a freshman?
Did you know that King & Maxwell is a television show based on David Baldacci's novels?
Did you know that Riverside Park Dance Pavilion is one of the few remaining dance halls of its type in Nebraska?
Did you know that Samantha Findlay led the Michigan softball team to a national championship with a home run in the 10th inning of the championship game at the 2005 Women's College World Series?
Did you know that the Asana archaeological site, occupied over the course of 8,000 years, is located by the Asana River, a tributary of the Osmore River (river valley pictured)?
Did you know that the Croatian Institute for Health Insurance was created in 1993 in order to consolidate the decentralized health care system that had been inherited from SFR Yugoslavia?
Did you know that the Grenada National Museum is situated in a building which at various times served as a barracks, prison, hotel, and warehouse?
Did you know that the hardline faction Al Khawalid was so empowered during the reign of King Hamad of Bahrain that they were considered a "new royal family"?
Did you know that Alice Candy was only the second woman academic at Canterbury College, now the University of Canterbury?
Did you know that Dodi Princess was first called Grains Maid?
Did you know that The Monk As Man: The Unknown Life of Swami Vivekananda is one of the many books written on Swami Vivekananda?
Did you know that The Verge called Terry Myerson "the most important man at Microsoft" after the company's July 2013 executive reorganization?
Did you know that Yianni Papoutsis gave up his job at the English National Ballet to become a "street food pioneer"?
Did you know that Zou Jiahua served as Vice Premier of China for seven years?
Did you know that a plant can be grown into two individual plants by simple layering?
Did you know that although Víctor Jara was killed in Estadio Chile during the 1973 Chilean coup, his last poem/song "Estadio Chile" escaped in the memory of other detainees and on scraps of paper?
Did you know that the Tujue wanted a princess, and got an invasion?
Did you know that the western jumping mouse hibernates for up to ten months each year?
Did you know that "Slow Train" was called both "possibly the most irresponsible song" Bob Dylan had written and "nothing less than Dylan's most mature and profound song about America"?
Did you know that Douglas Dayton, who was the first president of Target Corporation, said that he found donating money more satisfying than making it?
Did you know that Edward Burne-Jones's 1888 painting The Nativity was donated to the Carnegie Museum of Art by Andrew Lloyd Webber?
Did you know that Hammet Street in Taunton was built as a result of an Act of Parliament?
Did you know that Jessica Merchant was captain of Michigan Wolverines softball's 2005 national championship team and National Pro Fastpitch Offensive Player of the Year in 2006?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines softball player Sara Driesenga compiled a 31–9 record in 2013 and pitched a complete-game shutout in the 2013 Women's College World Series?
Did you know that after the Tang annexation of Karakhoja (Karakhoja ruins pictured), the equal-field system mandatory in all Chinese prefectures was implemented in the former kingdom?
Did you know that iOS 7 will feature fewer skeuomorphic elements than previous versions?
Did you know that the Qaisracetus, a genus of extinct early whales, was named after a tribe in Pakistan?
Did you know that the death of Sarah Guyard-Guillot was the first on-stage fatality in the 30-year history of the Cirque du Soleil?
Did you know that Alistair Hinton persuaded composer Kaikhosru Sorabji to relax the ban he had placed on performance of his music, including the four-hour Opus clavicembalisticum?
Did you know that Edwin L. Sabin wrote the first seriously researched biography of frontiersman Kit Carson?
Did you know that Honey Creek State Park, located in Iowa, is 828 acres (335 ha), 45% of which is a fish hatchery?
Did you know that Inspector Morse was often portrayed listening to a Xerxes?
Did you know that Julius I Kán, a faithful supporter of Andrew II of Hungary, was imprisoned by the new king Béla IV of Hungary in 1235?
Did you know that Swedish singer Jasmine Kara has performed in front of singers Beyoncé Knowles and Jay-Z?
Did you know that after he retired from professional baseball, Preston Larrison opened a youth baseball academy?
Did you know that at the 2013 World Series of Poker, Christian Harder and Ronnie Bardah tied the record for most consecutive World Series of Poker main event in the money finishes?
Did you know that current Ohio State softball coach Kelly Kovach Schoenly was twice named Big Ten Pitcher of the Year while playing for Michigan?
Did you know that drug lord Aurelio Cano Flores worked for a drug trafficking organization while still serving as a police officer?
Did you know that historians once believed that King John's Palace, Southampton, was the residence of John, King of England?
Did you know that the Sikorski Memorial commemorates the death of Polish General Władysław Sikorski in the 1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash?
Did you know that the subjects of Marjorie Senechal's books include quasicrystals, Albania, and silk?
Did you know that Ecco Ripley in the City of Ipswich is expected to be Australia's largest master-planned community?
Did you know that Henry W. Marshall refused to be paid for his services as president of Purdue University?
Did you know that Satsar Lake consists of seven small alpine lakes set in a cascade formation in the Kashmir Valley?
Did you know that St John the Evangelist's Church, Corby Glen has extensive early 15th-century wall paintings?
Did you know that Swedish journalist Elisabet Höglund is a former national cycling champion?
Did you know that in the film Chupkatha, singer Silajit Majumder made his debut as a film music composer?
Did you know that the photograph of the execution of Jews near Ivanhorod, Ukraine, by members of the SS Einsatzgruppe was intercepted by the Polish resistance at the Warsaw post office in 1942?
Did you know that the song "Synthetic Substitution" by Melvin Bliss, despite being sampled in over 94 songs, originally started life as a throwaway B-side?
Did you know that there were over 2,500 Armenian churches in Turkey before the Armenian Genocide, and fewer than 40 are functioning today?
Did you know that when Great George Street Congregational Church, Liverpool, closed in 1967, it was converted into the first community arts project in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Connie Gilchrist, Countess of Orkney, was a former child actress and model once photographed by Lewis Carroll?
Did you know that Mingyi Swe, Viceroy of Toungoo (r. 1540–1549) and the father of King Bayinnaung, started out as a royal household servant of King Tabinshwehti of Toungoo Burma?
Did you know that Tan Shaowen was a member of the 14th Politburo of the Communist Party of China, one of the most powerful political bodies in the nation?
Did you know that current Indiana softball coach Michelle Gardner was the Big Ten Player of the Year in 1988 while playing for Michigan?
Did you know that homeless people in Rhode Island have a legal right to equal treatment in public spaces?
Did you know that scholars are not sure who is portrayed in Rembrandt's painting A Polish Nobleman?
Did you know that the "fantasy opera" Gormenghast by Irmin Schmidt was performed at the UNESCO World Heritage Site Völklingen Ironworks?
Did you know that the Battle of Hulao in 621 decided the outcome of the civil wars, which followed the end of the Sui Dynasty, in favour of the Tang Dynasty?
Did you know that the Medieval Town of Toruń, one of the World Heritage Sites in Poland, is recognized as an excellent example of a European medieval town?
Did you know that the Terwilliger curves, a six-lane section of Interstate 5 in Portland, Oregon, had an average of 100 car accidents per year between 1995 and 2005?
Did you know that the orchestral suite Mont Juic was composed jointly by Lennox Berkeley and Benjamin Britten on Catalan dances they heard together on Barcelona's Montjuïc?
Did you know that Anthony Steen did not record a penalty or allow a quarterback sack, while playing college football for Alabama during their 2012 season?
Did you know that Atlas is a humanoid robot designed to perform tasks such as navigating rough terrain, opening doors, and operating power equipment?
Did you know that Betty Spindler's ceramic hot dog is on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum?
Did you know that Brattata, Jet Pilot, Okay Hot-Shot, Okay!, and Bratatat! are Roy Lichtenstein works featuring pilots in cockpits during air combat, while Mr. Bellamy is an inside joke about a military officer?
Did you know that British journalist Kirsty Milne was awarded a Nieman Fellowship in Journalism at Harvard University?
Did you know that French Sudan, which would become Mali, was the second French colony to vote for increased autonomy in 1958?
Did you know that Friedrich Meyer-Oertel staged the Ring Cycle at the Opernhaus Wuppertal and the premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's Die Hamletmaschine at the Nationaltheater Mannheim?
Did you know that Hannah Louise Shearer was on the staff of both Knight Rider and Star Trek: The Next Generation, but left each show before the second season?
Did you know that Ziad al-Hariri was the chief leader of the 1963 Syrian coup d'état, commanding the brigade stationed on the frontline with Israel to occupy Damascus?
Did you know that before James Hinchcliffe led a track-record 226 laps in the 2013 Iowa Corn Indy 250, he had led only 33 laps on an oval?
Did you know that flamenco percussionist Tino di Geraldo produced Jackson Browne's album Love Is Strange: En Vivo Con Tino, in which he was featured?
Did you know that hexaethyl tetraphosphate was called "another of DDT's rivals for fame" in a 1948 book?
Did you know that the Black Hawk County Soldiers Memorial Hall in Waterloo, Iowa, was built by the Grand Army of the Republic?
Did you know that the Dr. Hun Houses in Albany, New York, were demolished and delisted from the National Register of Historic Places within three months of being listed?
Did you know that the embryo of the roundel skate develops in a mermaid's purse?
Did you know that "Caged Bird", which refers to author Maya Angelou's first autobiography, is contained in Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?, her fourth volume of poetry?
Did you know that All-American second baseman Kelsey Kollen-Putz and husband J. J. Putz met while both were student-athletes at the University of Michigan?
Did you know that Bill Endean, son of John Endean, was the first sitting New Zealand National Party MP who failed to be re-selected by the party for a general election?
Did you know that Nadia Comăneci has won the most medals of all the Olympic female gymnasts for Romania?
Did you know that Norwegian footballer Aleksander Solli did not want to celebrate his match-winning goal against Vålerenga, his former team?
Did you know that Sean McColl was the second person to climb Dreamcatcher?
Did you know that Sir Thomas Tuddenham was beheaded on Tower Hill on 23 February 1462 for allegedly plotting to murder King Edward IV?
Did you know that The Butcher of Amritsar took three years to write?
Did you know that William Harper, born in Calcutta, was a signatory of Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965, fearing "the same mistake" as the granting of independence to India?
Did you know that character names in the indie video game Broforce parody "bros" and fictional action heroes?
Did you know that in 1794, Old Windsor Road was the second major road in Sydney?
Did you know that in the 2013 New York City Comptroller Election, a former governor who resigned over a sex scandal is running against a madam who supplied him with call girls?
Did you know that the emblem of Hongcheon County, consisting of a leaf and dew, symbolises its clean environment?
Did you know that the golden thorius, with a total length of 57 millimetres (2.2 in), is one of the largest species of Mexican pigmy salamanders?
Did you know that the grade II* listed Pinner House in Middlesex is now used as a home for the elderly?
Did you know that the siege at Badajoz in 1812 was reported to be Wellington's bloodiest siege?
Did you know that the streets in Jamestown, in the Western Cape province of South Africa, are named after varieties of the main agricultural crop grown there since 1902?
Did you know that "Hello It's Me" on Todd Rundgren's Something/Anything? was rehearsed and recorded live in under two hours by a pick-up band that had less than 48 hours notice?
Did you know that Krzysztof Meyer's opera Cyberiada is based on a series of humorous science fiction stories by Stanislaw Lem?
Did you know that Parisian and Italian musicians in the music scene of Paris played the accordion in the Bal-musette style?
Did you know that all education in Medieval Scotland was originally controlled to some extent by the Christian Church, with most of the schoolmasters being clergy?
Did you know that at the 2013 World Series of Poker, Marco Johnson, Loni Harwood and Matthew Ashton won their first World Series of Poker bracelets and Michael Gathy, Matt Perrins and Athanasios Polychronopoulos became multiple bracelet winners?
Did you know that in his 2012 election for the Pennsylvania State House, Steve McCarter won every precinct in his district?
Did you know that included on the grounds of the Gene Stratton-Porter Cabin, in Rome City, Indiana, is the burial place of author Gene Stratton-Porter and her daughter?
Did you know that long-toed water beetles, despite being referred to as aquatic insects, cannot swim?
Did you know that the Merseyside Skeptics Society organised a mass overdose of homeopathic preparations?
Did you know that the Saugus Branch Railroad is being replaced with the Northern Strand Community Trail?
Did you know that the upcoming 2013 science fiction platform video game Flashback is directed by the 1992 original Flashback's lead designer, Paul Cuisset?
Did you know that whale watching brings tourists and conservationists to Pasaleng Bay in the Philippines?
Did you know that what has been called the strangest battle of World War II was fought at a medieval castle, and was the only battle of the war in which American and German soldiers fought as allies?
Did you know that Ágnes Keleti has won the most medals of all the Olympic female gymnasts for Hungary?
Did you know that Basava, a 12th-century leader of Hindus in Karnataka, protested against the caste system and favoured equality among all classes?
Did you know that Canute's Palace had no connection with King Canute, nor was it a palace?
Did you know that Harold Tovish was an American sculptor who took classes sponsored by the Works Progress Administration, and as a perfectionist, threw out most of the works he made?
Did you know that Kwee Tek Hoay's stage play Allah jang Palsoe was published seven years before the first canonical Indonesian drama?
Did you know that Swedish National Socialist Party (meeting pictured) leader Birger Furugård sought to invite Adolf Hitler as a guest speaker in 1931, but police authorities refused to issue a permit?
Did you know that Wee Kheng Chiang, the founder of United Overseas Bank, was described as the "uncrowned King of Sarawak"?
Did you know that Women's Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Trish Roberts played in the inaugural Olympic women's basketball game and scored a record 51 points in her first game for the Tennessee Lady Vols?
Did you know that after being named Big South Coach of the Year, Chris Holtmann left his head coaching job to become an assistant coach at Butler?
Did you know that an ancestor of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, worked to create educational opportunities for women, and co-founded Leeds Girls' High School in 1876?
Did you know that cricketer Tejashwi Yadav is one of the nine children of former chief ministers of Bihar Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi?
Did you know that the 1989 film Edge of Sanity mixes aspects of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with Jack the Ripper?
Did you know that the Irish-bred, British-trained racehorse Lethal Force set a new course record when he won this year's July Cup at Newmarket by one and a half lengths?
Did you know that the Old City of Zamość, one of the World Heritage Sites in Poland, is recognized as an "outstanding example of a Renaissance planned town"?
Did you know that the Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton Railway was the first railroad to have a guarded third rail?
Did you know that the modern study of human anatomy is considered to have been founded by Andreas Vesalius (anatomical drawing pictured) in the sixteenth century?
Did you know that the present theatre building of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus has been described as "organic architecture"?
Did you know that to promote his upcoming album The 20/20 Experience: 2 of 2 and its predecessor, Justin Timberlake announced his second world concert tour?
Did you know that when separated from its host, the badger flea jumps repeatedly in an effort to reconnect?
Did you know that while the dominant languages of the Roman Empire were Latin and Greek, most regions were multilingual in Syriac, Punic, Coptic, Celtic or other languages?
Did you know that "almost every medieval lapidary" or book of gems included lyngurium, a gemstone supposedly formed of solidified lynx urine (creation illustrated), first described by Theophrastus?
Did you know that Charles Agnew's most popular recording, in a career spanning the early 1930s through the late 1960s, was "Don't Blame Me"?
Did you know that Johnnie Jones set rushing records at the University of Tennessee before playing pro football for the CFL's Hamilton Tiger-Cats?
Did you know that The Voice UK has had six top 40 and twelve top 75 singles on the UK Singles Chart and two top 50 albums on the UK Albums Chart, including one top 10 placing on each chart?
Did you know that a 78-year-old bachelor had a 53-room mansion built for him in Christchurch, New Zealand?
Did you know that a fellow artist said of Allen Butler Talcott that "no one was his peer in the knowledge of trees and how to paint them" (painting of oak pictured)?
Did you know that according to an urban legend, coconuts kill more people than sharks each year?
Did you know that actor Adnan Kapau Gani, star of Asmara Moerni, went on to become a National Hero of Indonesia?
Did you know that after the destruction in 1941 of most of St Mary's Church, Walton-on-the-Hill, it was later rebuilt, retaining the exterior as before but creating a new interior?
Did you know that retirement benefits for veterans of the Imperial Roman army were paid from the aerarium militare, a military treasury funded primarily by an inheritance tax?
Did you know that the Burj Qatar, a $125 million building designed by French architect Jean Nouvel, rises to a height of 232 metres (761 ft) and has 46 storeys?
Did you know that the Jacobean mansion Bramshill House (south façade pictured) is reportedly inhabited by 14 ghosts, including one of a bride who locked herself in a chest on her wedding night and wasn't found for 50 years?
Did you know that the Kelly bag, originally a saddle carrier, became a high-priced status symbol after a namesake princess used it to conceal her baby bump from the paparazzi?
Did you know that the Port of Paulsboro is targeted to become assembly and logistics center for the development of wind power off the coast of New Jersey?
Did you know that the first coach of the Michigan Wolverines women's basketball team was the son of Polish movie actor Kurt Katch?
Did you know that the lined topminnow has black teardrops?
Did you know that the upcoming film Suite française is based on Irène Némirovsky's 2004 eponymous novel?
Did you know that Charles Wennergren of Sweden was a six-time national tennis champion and two-time Olympian?
Did you know that Danish basketball player Anne Thorius holds the Michigan Wolverines career record with 537 assists?
Did you know that Geoffrey Binnie was the third generation of his family to enter civil engineering?
Did you know that Selli Engler, a pioneer of the lesbian movement in 1920s Germany, later wrote a play titled "Heil Hitler"?
Did you know that The Avengers: Age of Ultron, the upcoming sequel to the 2012 film The Avengers, is not based on the comic book series, Age of Ultron?
Did you know that a Hong Kong architect has designed a 344 sq ft (32.0 m2) microapartment with sliding walls that convert the space into 24 different rooms?