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Did you know that in 1616 Ben Jonson described the prodigy houses (Wollaton Hall pictured) of his day as "proud, ambitious heaps", "built to envious show"?
Did you know that one of goalkeeper Jimmy Whitehouse's 59 league appearances for Manchester United F.C. (then Newton Heath) was as an inside left?
Did you know that the Elisha Atherton Coray Mill on Sutton Creek is listed on the Historic American Buildings Survey?
Did you know that the World War II photograph Kozarčanka, showing a female Partisan, became iconic in Socialist Yugoslavia?
Did you know that the black-chinned siskin is native to the southern tip of South America including Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands?
Did you know that Adirondack Railway revived passenger train service between Utica and Lake Placid, New York for the 1980 Winter Olympics?
Did you know that Charlotte Hogg is the most senior woman in the Bank of England's history?
Did you know that Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde National Park, a World Heritage Site in Colorado?
Did you know that Derrick Morgan's "Moon Hop", later covered by Symarip, was written to commemorate the Apollo Lunar Module?
Did you know that Franz Ferdinand's fourth album Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action was recorded in studios in Glasgow, London, and Stockholm?
Did you know that Freeze Out and Rebound are both summer replacements for The Chase?
Did you know that Salvatore A. Cotillo was the first Italian-American to serve in both houses of the New York State Legislature and as a Justice of the New York Supreme Court?
Did you know that South Carolina Circuit Court judge J.C. Nicholson is the presiding judge for the trial of Dylann Roof, even though he officially retired in 2009?
Did you know that specimens of the Perijá tapaculo were classified as being from four different bird species before being identified as a separate species?
Did you know that the Scottish footballer Colin Hamilton joined Heart of Midlothian as a teenager in 2009, alongside his younger brother Jack?
Did you know that the first edition of Romanian writer Calistrat Hogaș's collected works was destroyed because it contained too many typos, while nearly all copies of the second burned in a fire?
Did you know that "Tracy's Theme" was written for The Philadelphia Story and released under a fictitious name?
Did you know that Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim founded the new capital of Samarra to avoid clashes between his foreign troops and the populace of Baghdad?
Did you know that BBC One's 5-Star Family Reunion involves teams of four alternating between multiple-choice questions and quick-fire questions for four rounds?
Did you know that General Song Puxuan commanded the elite 54th Group Army during the relief efforts of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake?
Did you know that Grace Eldering, along with Pearl Kendrick, developed the first successful pertussis vaccine and large-scale controlled trial for it?
Did you know that Mary Isenhour contributed to the campaigns of U.S. Senator Bob Casey, Jr. and Pennsylvania Governors Ed Rendell and Tom Wolf, who all won their elections?
Did you know that a New Jersey Forest Fire Service firewarden can summon any person aged 18 to 50 to assist in putting out wildfires—and it is against the law to refuse?
Did you know that crown shyness may occur between trees of different species?
Did you know that during the history of the Province of Savona, the capital city and shipping in the port were destroyed several times by Genoa?
Did you know that the Yugoslav national hero Vahida Maglajlić used her status as a Sharia judge's daughter to organize resistance against Fascist authorities during World War II?
Did you know that the first Italian public balloon flight was organized by Count Andreani in Brugherio?
Did you know that Doris Cole wrote the first book on female architects from the United States?
Did you know that Elizabeth Keawepoʻoʻole Sumner composed the Hawaiian love song Sanoe with Queen Liliuokalani, about a love affair in the Hawaiian royal court?
Did you know that Mary Kom won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment?
Did you know that although the lilac-brown bolete is eaten in the Hengduan Mountains, it has reportedly poisoned people in New England?
Did you know that harper by Harper's Bazaar is a resurrection of Harper's Bazaar's Junior Bazaar?
Did you know that the Kandariya Mahadeva Temple, meaning "the Great God of the Cave", is the largest and most ornate Hindu temple in the medieval temple group at Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh?
Did you know that the footballer Adam Stansfield, who died in 2010, is featured on banknotes local to the English city of Exeter?
Did you know that thousands of books from the Bavarian State Library were housed in the chapel of Schloss Haimhausen during World War II?
Did you know that virtually all of the Panther Run watershed is forested?
Did you know that Lucille Farrier Stickel was the first woman to become director of a United States national research laboratory?
Did you know that The Dawn of Love has been described as "one of the most unpardonable sins against taste"?
Did you know that at different times in its history, West Chester, Pennsylvania, led the U.S. in production of peach trees and penicillin?
Did you know that because many girls at the Beth Rivkah school in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, have the same first name, teachers call on them by their surnames?
Did you know that commercial director Gary Shore made his feature film directorial debut with Dracula Untold?
Did you know that hundreds of thousands of artisanal miners are involved in gold mining in Sudan?
Did you know that only the government of Tunisia is allowed to own the country's mines?
Did you know that the consecration of the Bosnian Croat prelate Berislav Grgić as the first non-German leader of the world's northernmost Catholic bishopric took place in a Norwegian Protestant cathedral?
Did you know that Colla mac Báirid, King of Limerick, may have been a son of Bárid mac Ímair, King of Dublin?
Did you know that Hedley Sparks, a Biblical scholar, was awarded a scholarship to Oxford University after he was the only person to show up to the exam?
Did you know that Kotaku's Patrick Klepek was at a loss for words to describe Sonic Dreams Collection?
Did you know that gridiron football player Lemar Durant achieved both the single-game conference record for touchdowns and season conference record for catches in his first year with the Simon Fraser Clan?
Did you know that in the United States, the right to privacy is located in the Constitution's penumbra?
Did you know that more than 50 years after being designated as one of the most unremunerative railway lines in Great Britain, part of the Waverley Route has been rebuilt as the Borders Railway?
Did you know that television producer Anita Jacoby arranged the final media interview with fugitive Australian businessman Christopher Skase?
Did you know that the Hüseyindede vases (example pictured) are Early Hittite vases depicting festive activities, including bull-leaping?
Did you know that the banded butterflyfish can act as a cleaner fish, removing parasites from other fish?
Did you know that the flail space model models how a passenger will move in a collision with a roadside feature like a guardrail, since crash test dummies are not accurate in such cases?
Did you know that the gold rush at Diabougou has made it the largest site of informal mining in Senegal?
Did you know that "The Simpsons Guy", a 2014 crossover between The Simpsons and Family Guy, was described by one critic as a "blight on humanity itself"?
Did you know that Indian cricketer Javagal Srinath was the first to take a five-wicket haul in a One Day International at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium?
Did you know that Obsidian Entertainment almost developed a Snow White prequel and an Aliens role-playing video game?
Did you know that U.S. Navy Captain John Hoskins, his foot severed by an explosion aboard USS Princeton (CVL-23) during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, became first commander of the new USS Princeton (CV-37) the next year?
Did you know that a calculus textbook by David J. Foulis was used as a prop in The Sure Thing?
Did you know that in the early 1900s, Shamokin Creek was said to be the worst stream in Pennsylvania's Coal Region?
Did you know that in the order Blattodea, termites can be considered "eusocial, juvenilized cockroaches"?
Did you know that mathematician Ed Posner wrote the University of Chicago's shortest doctoral thesis, only 26 pages long?
Did you know that novelist Nuruddin Farah's sister died in a terrorist attack, similar to how a character dies in his then newly finished novel Hiding in Plain Sight?
Did you know that the Australian rugby union player Jack Verge took six wickets for 20 runs playing cricket against Melbourne University?
Did you know that the Sardinian Province of Medio Campidano contains the World Heritage Site of Su Nuraxi?
Did you know that the Scottish footballer Omar Kader was signed by Alloa Athletic after playing against them in a play-off game for Forfar?
Did you know that the Slovak National Council was created to act as the highest representative of the Slovak nation and evolved into the parliament of Slovakia?
Did you know that Amelia Bence, an actress of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema, was born to Belarusian Jewish immigrants from Pinsk and Minsk?
Did you know that Cincinnati chili is not actually chili?
Did you know that Garrison Point Fort in Sheerness, Kent, is a rare example of a two-tiered casemated sea battery of the 1860s?
Did you know that Sarah Spiegel has received continuous funding for nearly 20 years from the National Institutes of Health to research the S1P molecule, which she discovered?
Did you know that Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a fatwa banning acquisition, development, and use of nuclear weapons?
Did you know that a biochronology based on mammal fossils is defined for every continent except Antarctica?
Did you know that according to Gerda Lerner, Holocaust victim Käthe Leichter "personifies the highest ideals of feminism"?
Did you know that besieged in the city of Stade, the troops of Sir Charles Morgan survived by eating cats and dogs?
Did you know that gridiron football fullback Matthew Rea was selected in the 2015 CFL Draft, despite playing only three games as a backup fullback in college?
Did you know that the game Alphabear uses honey as a currency?
Did you know that the text of Bach's Fürchte dich nicht, BWV 228, a motet for a double choir composed for a funeral, contains two verses by Isaiah that both begin with "Do not fear"?
Did you know that the unsolved murder of Michael Nigg in Hollywood 20 years ago today may be related to the O. J. Simpson murder case?
Did you know that Carden Wallace was in the team that discovered mass spawning on the Great Barrier Reef?
Did you know that Dabangg is the highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2010?
Did you know that Toni von Langsdorff was inspired to become a physician because of spinal tuberculosis, but was almost foiled by an ophthalmologist?
Did you know that brothers Antonio and Anthony Anderson both played for the Saint John Mill Rats in 2012?
Did you know that in 1849, Captain William H. Warner led a survey party into the upper Pit River area of northeastern California, but was killed in an ambush just south of the Oregon border?
Did you know that methyldiborane, dimethyldiborane, trimethyldiborane and tetramethyldiborane burst into flame on exposure to air?
Did you know that more than 70% of all Mexican radio stations operate on the FM band?
Did you know that the Scottish footballer Darren Brownlie was signed to Queen of the South by his former Cowdenbeath teammate James Fowler?
Did you know that the black, thick-billed, and olivaceous siskins all live at high altitudes in South America?
Did you know that the first UK Album Downloads Chart number one of the 2000s was This New Day by the British band Embrace?
Did you know that the first miner to be injured in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, was working near Coal Run?
Did you know that the story of the People of the Ditch, mentioned in the Quran, occurred in 520 or 523 A.D in the time of Dhu Nuwas, the last Himyarite king?
Did you know that "Devil Pray" is about Madonna's experience of taking drugs such as ecstasy?
Did you know that AVI Records was the second record label to use expanded grooves, after Motown?
Did you know that Nabeel Qureshi made his feature film directorial debut with Na Maloom Afraad?
Did you know that Travis Tope passed on roles in The Gambler and November Criminals to star in the film Men, Women & Children?
Did you know that Until Dawn, a survival horror video game, has a game mechanic called "butterfly effect"?
Did you know that Utica, New York, was once larger than Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland?
Did you know that as of 2011, the mining industry of Morocco was the world's third largest producer of phosphate?
Did you know that the Washington Doctrine of Unstable Alliances was formulated by Thomas Jefferson?
Did you know that Australia-based Riot City Wrestling ran a Mexican-themed lucha libre event at the 2014 Adelaide Fringe Festival?
Did you know that Charles Orlando Bridgeman commanded HMS Rattlesnake, and Talavera Anson kept the ship's log, while they were cruising the coast of Greece?
Did you know that Lieutenant Edwin P. Ramsey led the last US cavalry charge in history and drove off a much larger Japanese infantry force in the Philippines during the early part of World War II?
Did you know that Philadelphia Phillies' pitcher Ken Giles routinely throws fastballs in excess of 100 miles per hour (160 km/h)?
Did you know that Winnie the Pooh: Adventures in the 100 Acre Wood was the first Winnie the Pooh game to be released for a video game console?
Did you know that new names of Soviet origin included "Vilen" for V.I. Lenin, "Oktyabrina" for October Revolution, "Gertruda" for Hero of Labour and even "Barrikad"?
Did you know that the Netherlands was one of the first European countries to establish diplomatic relations with Singapore?
Did you know that when it debuted in 1970, Allen Jones' work Hatstand, Table and Chair was met with furore by feminists?
Did you know that Bernard Sumner of the English post-punk band New Order described their 1985 song "Love Vigilantes" as "a redneck song"?
Did you know that John Kevan McDowall, an ex-member of the Unionist Party, was a founding member of the Scottish National Party?
Did you know that St. Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata, the largest in the city, was the first Episcopal Church of Asia and the first to be built in the overseas territory of the British Empire?
Did you know that at the 2014 Shangri-La Dialogue, Chinese general Wang Guanzhong accused Shinzō Abe and Chuck Hagel of provocation, in response to their criticism of China's actions in the South China Sea?
Did you know that in August 2015, David Denson became the first active baseball player affiliated with a Major League Baseball organization to publicly come out as gay?
Did you know that the British pharmacist Stafford Allen assisted Harriet Ann Jacobs as she led efforts to help ex-slaves after the American Civil War?
Did you know that the Hawaiian chief William Keolaloa Sumner was considered a more popular choice for superintendent of the leper colony of Kalaupapa than Father Damien?
Did you know that the hoist of the Sainte Marie Coal Mine should have been used only during shaft mining, but was used after this, leading to the entrapment of five miners when it broke?
Did you know that the slippery jack can protect its host pine trees from copper and cadmium toxicity?
Did you know that Canadian football player Josh Aladenoye was released from the practice squad of the BC Lions, only to be re-signed and make his professional debut a week later?
Did you know that Cut Like Wound is Indian novelist Anita Nair's first work of detective fiction?
Did you know that Korrie Layun Rampan, author of several hundred books, left an election commission to run in the election?
Did you know that Kyra Vassiliki, wife of the Ottoman ruler, Ali Pasha, was a member of the Greek patriotic organization, Filiki Eteria?
Did you know that Manuel de Irujo advocated an Iberian federation bringing together Spain, Portugal, the Basque Country and Catalonia?
Did you know that Miss Massachusetts 2015, Meagan Fuller, earned a Master of Public Health degree from the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine?
Did you know that Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez made statements critical of ISIS before he shot and killed five U.S. military personnel in Chattanooga?
Did you know that Raveena Tandon won the National Film Award for Best Actress for the 2001 drama film Daman?
Did you know that Susan Bailey, a British specialist in child psychiatry, appeared as an expert witness in the James Bulger murder trial?
Did you know that Vito Scaletta, the protagonist of Mafia II, will feature as one of the main characters in Mafia III?
Did you know that although Libya may have one of the world's biggest iron ore deposits in the Wadi ash-Shati', it is not mined because of its remote location?
Did you know that during the mythological Battle of the Lacus Curtius, Romulus prayed to Jupiter and promised to devote a temple to him if his armies were victorious?
Did you know that sand cockroaches vary in colour according to what food they eat?
Did you know that star campaigners in the 2008 Simaria Legislative Assembly seat by-election included Yashwant Sinha, Lalu Prasad Yadav and Ajay Maken?
Did you know that the view of the Great Lakes on the Cleveland Centennial half dollar (reverse pictured) has been described as "nothing short of incomprehensible"?
Did you know that Ester Claesson is considered Sweden's first female landscape architect?
Did you know that Jim Baggott calls multiverse, superstring theory, and supersymmetry "fairy tale physics"?
Did you know that William Hood Dunwoody was a silent partner in what was to become General Mills?
Did you know that according to one theory, Sibu is named the Swan City because swans supposedly flew over the city after a famine?
Did you know that activist Arif Yunus, a supporter of a peaceful resolution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, is now in jail?
Did you know that during World War II, Roman Gross was rescued from the Jewish Tarnopol Ghetto by Józef Regent, whom he in turn had rescued from deportation earlier in the war?
Did you know that occupational hazards can be as diverse as infectious diseases, asbestos, poison ivy, and noise?
Did you know that the sugar plantation in Spreckelsville, Hawaii, US, was once the largest in the world?
Did you know that Ahmad ibn Muhammad Ardabili was the Grand Ayatollah of the Shiites in Najaf after the death of Shahid Thani?
Did you know that Imademo was Kim Hyun-joong's last album release before his mandatory military service in South Korea?
Did you know that Lieutenant General Tan Benhong is the commander of the People's Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison?
Did you know that Martin Allwood translated Gunvor Hofmo's "Alt jeg bad om, det er også skjedd, / og hjertet—men jeg er bare redd!" as "All I asked for has been granted me—Yet I am scared, although my heart is free."?
Did you know that Sakaye Shigekawa estimated that she delivered between 20,000 and 30,000 babies in her career as an obstetrician?
Did you know that Sussex County Cricket Club won the Twenty20 Cup for the first time in 2009?
Did you know that a golf course probably contributes to the impairment of Rolling Green Run?
Did you know that if the United States Congress is late in passing 2016 spending legislation, it will not trigger across-the-board cuts as in 2013?
Did you know that in Eastern Africa and islands in the Indian Ocean, shark meat has been a significant source of protein for centuries?
Did you know that the 1962 Major League Baseball expansion was first announced by the National League in 1960, before the announcement of the American League's 1961 expansion?
Did you know that the Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Center and Museum is home to a working telegraph station, an 1894 telephone switchboard, and the Ezekiel Airship?
Did you know that the nomination of Azita Raji, an Iranian American, for the post of Ambassador to Sweden in October 2014, was widely reported in the Indian press because of her Indian-sounding name?
Did you know that the town of Angera in northern Italy was the birthplace of the Spanish historian Peter Martyr d'Anghiera?
Did you know that Chinese general Li Zuocheng was named a "war hero" during the Sino-Vietnamese War?
Did you know that Dianna Agron made her first appearance on Veronica Mars in "President Evil"?
Did you know that Somalatha Subasinghe was only 24 when she debuted in the role of an old woman in Ediriweera Sarachchandra's Raththaran?
Did you know that after the theatrical release of The Interview was cancelled due to Sony Pictures being hacked, it earned over $40 million from an online release?
Did you know that the Huguenot-Walloon half dollar was controversial for being sponsored by a religious group?
Did you know that the Mohale Dam won South Africa's 2005 Fulton Award for "Best Construction Engineering Project and Best Construction Technique"?
Did you know that the bentfin devil ray is threatened by overfishing, both as a targeted species but also as bycatch?
Did you know that the horse-fly can transfer blood-borne diseases from one animal to another while feeding?
Did you know that Lieutenant General Gao Jin is president of China's top military research institute?
Did you know that Nagy's painting Egyptian Revival, which had been displayed in the Paris Salon and honored with a gold medal, is now in the Mohamed Nagy Museum?
Did you know that producer Denise Di Novi's directorial debut is Unforgettable?
Did you know that the William Sauntry House and Recreation Hall is a rare example of Moorish Revival architecture in Minnesota?
Did you know that the bare-knuckle prize fighter Owen Swift killed at least three opponents, leading to the rewriting of the rules of boxing?
Did you know that the black-chested, orange-breasted, golden-breasted, green-and-black, masked, barred and band-tailed fruiteater are all native to montane forests in the Andes, but the fiery-throated fruiteater is only found in the foothills?
Did you know that the first Woman's World's Fair was held in Chicago in 1925?
Did you know that "Photograph" was the first properly finished record for Ed Sheeran's second studio album?
Did you know that Belle of Temagami was the largest vessel ever to cruise Lake Temagami?
Did you know that Bipasha Basu is the first actress in Bollywood to play conjoined twins?
Did you know that MC Kinky's "Get Over It" charted on the UK Singles Chart after being featured on an episode of The Word?
Did you know that Miss Georgia 2014 Maggie Bridges wore 3D printed, laser-cut shoes fashioned after Georgia Tech's "Ramblin' Wreck" mascot for Miss America's "Show Us Your Shoes" parade?
Did you know that Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou is the first female Prime Minister of Greece, though never elected to parliament?
Did you know that exhibits in the Konya Archaeological Museum relate to the Neolithic, Bronze Age,Iron Age, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman and the Byzantine periods?
Did you know that male lovely and blue cotingas are quite different in appearance to the females?
Did you know that six days after the 2013 Tiananmen Square attack, General Peng Yong was removed from the Communist Party governing body in Xinjiang and replaced by Liu Lei?
Did you know that the Gol Talab pond is an official heritage site, designated by the city administration of Dhaka?
Did you know that the author Colin Thompson originally intended only to be a book illustrator?
Did you know that Harold A. Fidler was decorated for his World War II service in Berkeley?
Did you know that Rena Vlahopoulou, the star of the film The Countess of Corfu, was born in Corfu?
Did you know that Trinity Chain Pier was built in 1821, eaten by worms, repaired, destroyed in a storm in 1898, then became a pub where in the 1960s the landlady used weapons to chase customers away?