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Did you know that Max Ehrich listens to the music of John Mayer and Bruno Mars to get into the mind of his character, Fenmore Baldwin, on The Young and the Restless?
Did you know that Paitchau contains "the best remaining 'primary' forest" in East Timor?
Did you know that Prince Pierre, Duke of Penthièvre, fought for the Union Navy during the American Civil War even though he was French royalty?
Did you know that according to James Joyce, Édouard Dujardin's 1887 novel Les Lauriers sont coupés is the first example of the stream of consciousness technique?
Did you know that the Jersey theatre scene includes Jersey French?
Did you know that the New Zealand Coot and the Chatham Coot were both likely hunted to extinction by the Māori people?
Did you know that the architects who designed the Northern Pacific Railroad Depot in Missoula, Montana also designed the Grand Central Terminal in New York City?
Did you know that the artists' group Generación del 13 derives its name from a joint exhibition held in 1912 at the salon of the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio?
Did you know that when the small Cheslatta River in British Columbia was turned into the Nechako Reservoir's spillway, three Cheslatta Carrier Nation graveyards were washed away?
Did you know that Chip Ganassi Racing's 1–2–3 finish at the 2013 Pocono IndyCar 400 was the first time a team swept the podium at a Triple Crown race since 1979?
Did you know that Helen F. Holt was the first woman to hold a statewide office in West Virginia?
Did you know that Louis Stodder was the USS Monitor's turret officer and the first person injured at the Battle of Hampton Roads, surviving a direct hit to Monitor's gun turret?
Did you know that Rapa Nui National Park is home to dozens of moai statues attributed to the Rapa Nui people who inhabited Easter Island around AD 300?
Did you know that Reževići Monastery in Budva, Montenegro, was allegedly built by Stefan Nemanjić in the 13th century on the place where he drank wine from a wine vessel that was kept for thirsty passersby?
Did you know that at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships, Germany's Heinrich Popow and Australia's Scott Reardon were both awarded a gold medal after a dead heat in the T42 100 metre final?
Did you know that in the science fiction film I Was a Zombie for the F.B.I., aliens, criminals, and a reptilian monster attempt world domination?
Did you know that magic realist painter Lodewijk Bruckman has a permanent exhibition in Museum de Oude Wolden, located in Bellingwolde, the Netherlands?
Did you know that staff and alumni of Adams College in South Africa have included (future) presidents of Uganda and Botswana, ambassadors, ministers, a Nobel laureate and a past West Indian Cricket captain?
Did you know that the Government House in New York, built in 1790 by the state, was intended to be the executive mansion of President George Washington, but he never occupied it?
Did you know that the wildlife of Chile is res nullius?
Did you know that D. J. M. Mackenzie was the last non-Chinese person to hold the post of Director of Medical and Health Services of Hong Kong, from 1958 to 1963?
Did you know that HMS Superb played a pivotal role in the Battle of Cape Passero, tracking the enemy through the night, then forcing the surrender of the Spanish flagship the following day?
Did you know that Rusty Wallace led the most laps in the 2001 Protection One 400 NASCAR race, but lost after being penalized for speeding on the pit road?
Did you know that Shankarrao Salvi's birthday is observed as Kabaddi Day in Maharashtra for his lifetime of efforts in the sport?
Did you know that jazz organist Joey DeFrancesco obtained a stake in Diversi after playing one of their clonewheel organs?
Did you know that the Tomb of Safdarjung, built in 1754 in the latter years of the Mughal Empire, was described as "the last flicker in the lamp of Mughal architecture"?
Did you know that the main building at Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts in Kyoto belongs to one of the Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan?
Did you know that the theft of rice or potatoes is considered a political crime in North Korea?
Did you know that when President Mills died, Kofi Wampah became acting governor of the Bank of Ghana?
Did you know that when the 1980 Honduras earthquake struck, it gave a man a fatal heart attack?
Did you know that Franz Liszt's favorite protégé became a Discalced Carmelite friar who opened monasteries of his order in both France and England, and is being considered for canonization by the Catholic Church?
Did you know that George St Lo was reprimanded for allowing the designer of the Eddystone Lighthouse, and the crew building it, to be captured by a French privateer?
Did you know that South Korea's crime rate dropped by 21 percent during the first ten days of the 2002 FIFA World Cup?
Did you know that The Wreckage in Ocean Park, Washington, is a log cabin built in 1912 from shipwreck debris and other materials salvaged from the shoreline?
Did you know that Wilford Ketz won an NCAA championship for throwing a hammer nearly 164 feet (18 meters) and later served as president of the IC4A?
Did you know that in 1806, the former Dutch State Printing House, Sdu, was one of the first Dutch companies to be called "royal"?
Did you know that in April 2000, Russian President Vladimir Putin spent a night in the nuclear submarine K-18 Karelia, at a depth of over 50 metres (160 ft)?
Did you know that in an urban legend, babies are roasted and fed to their parents?
Did you know that publicly accessible art in Paris includes the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo?
Did you know that retired NFL placekicker Fuad Reveiz holds the University of Tennessee record for longest field goal, at 60 yards?
Did you know that the 1904 earthquake destroyed 540 houses on Samos?
Did you know that the Northwestern Shoshone were paid less than $0.50 per acre in 1968 for lands promised by the United States in the 1863 Box Elder Treaty?
Did you know that Conor McNicholas, former editor of NME, credits "the X factor" as the one thing that all entries on NME's Cool List have in common?
Did you know that George Washington and Henry Clay visited the Snodgrass Tavern in Berkeley County, West Virginia?
Did you know that John Lloyd Wright, the son of Frank Lloyd Wright, invented Lincoln Logs?
Did you know that K. Balachander is the second personality and the first director from Tamil cinema to receive the Dadasaheb Phalke Award?
Did you know that Singaporean film director Anthony Chen's Ilo Ilo (2013) earned him the Caméra d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival?
Did you know that Swedish singer Linnea Henriksson's song "Enastående" was part of the soundtrack to the Swedish movie Once Upon a Time in Phuket?
Did you know that Yongle Emperor took over the Ming Dynasty throne by launching the Jingnan Campaign?
Did you know that after a 2013 recall of Fonterra dairy products, China banned the import of milk powder products from New Zealand?
Did you know that in the 2006 USG Sheetrock 400, race leader Matt Kenseth was spun by Jeff Gordon, ran out of fuel, and was involved in a second wreck?
Did you know that the International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Kashmir has found 2,700 unknown and unmarked graves in Jammu and Kashmir?
Did you know that the first Jews in Namibia settled there in the 19th century?
Did you know that the rood screen in the Church of All Saints, Norton Fitzwarren, tells the story of the Dragon of Norton Camp?
Did you know that British manufacturer Karrimor's formidable reputation for ground-breaking outdoor pursuit equipment was a direct result of its location in Lancashire, and a CEO who was an avid climber and trekker?
Did you know that Bulla Felix was a legendary bandit who mocked and eluded Imperial Roman authorities for years, until betrayed by a lover and condemned to the beasts in the arena?
Did you know that Charles Alexander Bruce is considered the father of the tea industry in India?
Did you know that Nelson Mandela wrote that Anton Lembede's "views struck a chord with me ... I came to see the solution as militant African Nationalism"?
Did you know that before the inception of the Latin Grammys, the Lo Nuestro Awards were considered the Latin equivalent to the Grammy Awards?
Did you know that in the United States Mexican arrowwood is known only from a single locality near the town of Madera Springs, Texas?
Did you know that the First Symphony by Joachim Raff, subtitled An Das Vaterland (To the Fatherland), won the first prize out of 32 entries at a competition in Vienna?
Did you know that the Guadalcanal American Memorial was established on 7 August 1992 as a tribute to the Americans and their Allies who lost their lives during the Guadalcanal Campaign?
Did you know that the Milwaukee Road's North Woods Hiawatha was the first passenger train outside the Chicago–Twin Cities service to carry the Hiawatha brand?
Did you know that the Toruń Castle, one of the first castles of the Teutonic Knights, was demolished by rebellious burghers a century or so after its construction, at the beginning of the Thirteen Years' War?
Did you know that the ancient Maya architectural complex of Tazumal, in El Salvador, contained some of the earliest known metal artefacts from Mesoamerica?
Did you know that Holly Campbell from Keweenaw Peninsula won the 1930 NCAA Championship in the hammer throw?
Did you know that in spite of an egg throwing incident, Richard and Adam Johnson eventually finished third in Britain's Got Talent?
Did you know that the Burka Avenger is Pakistan's first animated female superhero?
Did you know that the Deming Armory in Deming, Luna County, was a training center for U.S. troops during the Mexican Revolution?
Did you know that the Federal District is the Brazilian federative unit with the highest Human Development Index?
Did you know that the Ram Jam Inn allegedly got its name from a confidence trick pulled by Dick Turpin, that involved ramming and jamming thumbs in barrels?
Did you know that the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel The 34th Rule was intended to be an allegory for the Japanese American internment during the Second World War?
Did you know that the Tower Belle, built by Armstrong Whitworth on the Tyne in 1920 as the Wincomblee, worked on the Thames in London after World War II before moving to Bristol in 1976?
Did you know that the Treaty of Shaoxing established the Huai River as the boundary between the Jin Dynasty and Song Dynasty during the Jurchen campaigns against the Song?
Did you know that the owner of the Lavabit e-mail service said he cannot legally disclose the reasons for its mysterious closure, which occurred soon after Edward Snowden's use of the service was disclosed?
Did you know that tricks performed by Olate Dogs include a back flipping dog, a dog jumping rope, and a dog riding a scooter?
Did you know that Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University has affiliations with more than 60 engineering colleges and 30 polytechnic colleges in Chhattisgarh, India?
Did you know that Dominican monks may have preached for a crusade against Livonia, Courland and Prussia in Lau Church on the Swedish island of Gotland?
Did you know that Lye Church on the Swedish island of Gotland contains the best preserved set of medieval stained glass windows in all the Nordic countries?
Did you know that Tennessee State Senator Mark Green spent 24 hours with Saddam Hussein after Hussein was captured?
Did you know that author Vincent Starrett used Chicago Cubs pitcher Jimmy Lavender's name for the central character in his 1944 compilation The Case Book of Jimmie Lavender?
Did you know that in 1877 Schneider et Cie built the world's largest steam hammer, capable of delivering a 100 ton blow?
Did you know that seven films have had multiple cast members nominated for a Citra Award for Best Supporting Actress?
Did you know that the makeup artist for the film Luther the Geek refused to be credited?
Did you know that the razor grinder of eastern Australia is so named because its call is reminiscent of a metal grinder?
Did you know that two different U.S. Representatives once lived in the Rombach Place in Wilmington, Ohio?
Did you know that Borley Church in Essex is known for its ghosts, its topiary walk, and its grave monuments?
Did you know that Diego García de Moguer was a 16th-century pioneer in exploring the Paraná River, as well as the Sierra de la Plata of the Río de la Plata?
Did you know that Governor Jiang Minkuan's proposal to link Sichuan's economy more closely to that of the Soviet Union was rejected by premier Zhao Ziyang as "unrealistic"?
Did you know that James K. Johnson shot down ten enemy aircraft during the Korean War?
Did you know that Proteus has been described as an anti-game, due to its lack of clear objectives?
Did you know that Richard Doty, an olfactory researcher, argues in The Great Pheromone Myth that human pheromones do not exist?
Did you know that Tennessee Williams coined the term memory play to describe his play The Glass Menagerie?
Did you know that before he was ordered to be executed, jailed communist leader Juan Pablo Wainwright is said to have spat in the face of Guatemalan dictator Jorge Ubico?
Did you know that between 1955 and 1960, Hassan Mamoun issued 11,992 fatwas ("edicts"), more than any other Egyptian grand mufti?
Did you know that the film Killer Nerd was filmed in Ravenna, Ohio, with a prosumer grade camcorder?
Did you know that , in 1747, German educator Johann Julius Hecker started a high school that prepared students for careers in practical fields and emphasized hands-on instruction instead of rote learning?
Did you know that Dominican singer Juan Luis Guerra was a triple nominee for Tropical/Salsa Song of the Year at the 1991 Lo Nuestro Awards?
Did you know that after suddenly losing his vision at age 17, Gustavo Nieves Campello left football to compete in athletics?
Did you know that the Meems Bottom Covered Bridge is the longest covered bridge in the U.S. state of Virginia?
Did you know that the associate producer of Grotesque was Linda Blair, who also starred in the film?
Did you know that the first British victim of World War I, Henry Hadley, was shot by a Prussian officer before the United Kingdom entered the war?
Did you know that the fort at Upper Zohar, once thought to be a part of Roman frontier defenses, may have been constructed for economic reasons?
Did you know that the musicians of the chamber orchestra Kammerorchester Basel accompanied Andreas Scholl in Bach cantatas and also sang the closing chorale?
Did you know that the species name for rattlesnake root honors the Seneca people, who used the plant to treat snakebite?
Did you know that the title of Nabiha's song "Mind the Gap" can refer to the gap between her front teeth, and was inspired by warning signs in the London Underground stations?
Did you know that when Mahatma Gandhi visited Sirsi in 1933 during his campaign to abolish untouchability, he refused to visit Marikamba Temple, as animal sacrifice was a prevalent practice there?
Did you know that while medieval popes ordered Europeans to kill them, cats are so revered in Islam for their neatness and Muhammad's love for them that an Egyptian sultan set up a charitable trust for them?
Did you know that Howard Hoffman, the 1922 NCAA Champion in the javelin throw, was posthumously inducted into the University of Michigan Track and Field Hall of Fame in 2012?
Did you know that Wasim Akram was the first bowler to reach 300, 400 and 500 ODI wickets?
Did you know that director Shana Feste was a nanny for the daughter of Tobey Maguire and that he later produced her second film Country Strong?
Did you know that in June 1942, HMCS Edmundston rescued 31 crew of SS Fort Camosun, which had been torpedoed off Cape Flattery, Washington by a Japanese sub?
Did you know that the Hamish Hay was the first cast iron bridge in New Zealand?
Did you know that the Sesame Street segment "Elmo's World" was replaced by "Elmo the Musical" in 2012?
Did you know that the larvae of most of the beetle species in the genus Bruchus develop inside beans?
Did you know that while on its way to India from the Soviet Union, the nuclear submarine INS Chakra was tracked by Australian and American P-3 Orion aircraft?
Did you know that xkcd creator Randall Munroe recently finished a self-updating webcomic strip that spanned 3,099 frames over 123 days?
Did you know that you should swear when you hurt yourself?
Did you know that French children learn the mnemonic Mais où est donc Ornicar ? to help them remember their language's coordinating conjunctions?
Did you know that Kumaravel Premkumar is the Indian national record holder in long jump?
Did you know that Pricasso, an Australian artist who paints with his genitals and buttocks, studied furniture design after failing to get an art degree?
Did you know that Princess Maria-Pia and Prince Stefan of Liechtenstein have both served their principality as ambassadors to more than one country, including Austria, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland?
Did you know that The White Mandingos' first album, The Ghetto Is Tryna Kill Me, is a concept album influenced by The Who's Tommy?
Did you know that in 1326, pagan Lithuanians were allowed by Pope John XXII to raid Brandenburg, part of the Holy Roman Empire?
Did you know that in 2006, Puerto Rican singer Zion embarked on his solo career, which includes "The Way She Moves" with R&B singer Akon?
Did you know that kosynierzy, the war scythe-wielding peasantry militia, became one of the symbols of the struggle for Polish independence?
Did you know that the exiled HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen was wrecked off the volcanic island Jan Mayen in November 1940, after striking a previously uncharted rock west-southwest of Eggøya in the northern part of Rekvedbukta?
Did you know that Odakalu Bimba was Indian playwright Girish Karnad's return to directing after more than thirty years?
Did you know that Prague's Franz Joseph Bridge became the first bridge built using the Ordish–Lefeuvre system because the construction of its London counterpart was delayed, but no longer survives?
Did you know that Simon Jackson, Britain's most successful judoka, also won gold medals in tandem cycling races?
Did you know that Sir John Crosby's former mansion in Bishopsgate, Crosby Hall, is the "only extant example of domestic architecture built for a London merchant in the Middle Ages"?
Did you know that according to Armenia's first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Armenia would not have lost some of its territories if the country had been Sovietized sooner?
Did you know that former Alabama golfer Brooke Pancake was the first female golfer to be recognized as Academic All-America Team Member of the Year?
Did you know that in 2007, Frederic Hauge appeared on Time magazine's list of "Heroes of the Environment"?
Did you know that members of the Byzantine family of Gabras rebelled against the Byzantine emperors, governed as independent rulers and ruled a principality in the Crimea?
Did you know that the Swedish country music group Cookies 'N' Beans appeared on the tribute album of Leonard Cohen, Cohen – the Scandinavian Report with the song "First We Take Manhattan"?
Did you know that the medieval triumphal cross in Öja Church on the Swedish island of Gotland has been called "Gotland's most admired wooden sculpture"?
Did you know that Angel Unchained (1970), featuring bikers and hippies against village folk, marked the film debut of T. Max Graham?
Did you know that Barking Abbey's former abbesses include three saints, three queens, two king's daughters, and the sister of Thomas Becket?
Did you know that William Cantelo invented an early machine gun, then mysteriously disappeared?
Did you know that amongst the twenty-six players who have taken more than 300 Test wickets, Muttiah Muralitharan has the highest aggregate with 800 wickets?
Did you know that architect Joseph Nunan wrote about escaping from a moving train for his convict ship's weekly newspaper?
Did you know that the film There's Nothing Out There, about a frog-like alien who tries to mate with female campers, was compared to Scream?
Did you know that the innovative Edna S. Purcell House, built in 1913, has a rare example of an original kitchen and bathroom, nearly untouched since the house was built?
Did you know that the likely-lost film Wanita dan Satria (The Woman and the Hero) was said to "give a clear picture of the precarious position of Indonesian women"?
Did you know that there are proposals to build a 2 km tall mountain in the Netherlands?
Did you know that Arundhati Roy argues in Kashmir: The Case for Freedom that Kashmir was never an integral part of India?
Did you know that Cowan Creek Circular Enclosure in Ohio was once part of a group of archaeological sites that has since been submerged by a reservoir?
Did you know that Oprah Winfrey has stated that the gospel hymn "I Surrender All" played a pivotal role in her life?
Did you know that Toshi Seeger executive produced a PBS documentary on her husband, Pete Seeger, when she was 85 years old?
Did you know that Yugoslav communist Karlo Štajner survived 17 years in the Gulag camps, and later wrote a book titled Seven Thousand Days in Siberia?
Did you know that after nearly dying, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in July 1874 at his father's home, the Bell Homestead?
Did you know that places of worship in the Surrey district of Reigate and Banstead include a mosque in an old Methodist chapel, a church decorated with ancient artefacts from Constantinople, and a windmill?
Did you know that the 11th century Thầy Temple is one of the oldest pagodas in Vietnam?
Did you know that the Argentine mini-series El puntero received the Golden Martín Fierro Award?
Did you know that the Bangui Agreement was signed in 1997 after a crisis the previous year, which included three mutinies within the Central African Armed Forces?
Did you know that the Kawahiva, an uncontacted tribe of people in Brazil, were recently caught on video for the first time?
Did you know that the Lautten Compagney played Monteverdi's Vespers for the Rheingau Musik Festival's annual Marienvesper, which was sung by ensemble amarcord and guests?
Did you know that Paul Acquah was with the International Monetary Fund prior to his appointment as governor of the Bank of Ghana?
Did you know that Russian victory at the Battle of Warsaw in 1831 ended the Polish November Uprising?
Did you know that The Lone Wolf in Mexico (1947) was the last film to have Gerald Mohr play the title character?
Did you know that Thio Tjin Boen's novel Tjerita Oeij Se, with a man who becomes rich after finding a kite made of paper money, has been read as a condemnation of interethnic marriage?
Did you know that critics complained that a bronze statue of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal standing in San Francisco's Civic Center more closely resembled the Sumerian king Gilgamesh?
Did you know that in what has been described as a "surrealistic twist", Neil Young's "Pocahontas" brings Marlon Brando and Pocahontas together in the Astrodome following an Indian massacre?
Did you know that one of the unofficial mottos of Poland, God, Honor and Fatherland, likely originated from the Napoleonic motto of the Legion of Honour order?
Did you know that physicist M. Brian Maple presided over the "Woodstock of physics" in 1987?
Did you know that the dry, hooked fruits of the Louisiana unicorn-plant are particularly suited for catching on "the fetlocks of ungulates"?
Did you know that writer Anuradha Ramanan is the granddaughter of Tamil actor R. Balasubramaniam?
Did you know that 75 years ago, Major League Baseball player Monte Pearson pitched the first no-hitter at the original Yankee Stadium?
Did you know that HMCS Morden of the Royal Canadian Navy sank the Nazi submarine U-756?
Did you know that Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner's biography of her father, Charles Bradlaugh, the first atheist member of the British House of Commons, was considered "preposterously long" at over 800 closely printed pages?
Did you know that NGC 6752, containing 100,000 stars, is the third brightest globular cluster in the sky?
Did you know that Roderick Cox, the 1933 NCAA Champion in the hammer throw, played college football with Gerald Ford at the University of Michigan?