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Did you know that critics questioned Kevin Warwick's claim that Eugene Goostman was the first chatbot to pass a Turing test?
Did you know that mathematician and author C. Stanley Ogilvy was an avid sailor who frequently competed in the Star World Championships?
Did you know that the 1960 Typhoon Ophelia had devastating impacts on the small atoll of Ulithi in the Caroline Islands?
Did you know that the Center of Alcohol Studies was the first institute dedicated to alcohol research to emerge in the US following its repeal of Prohibition?
Did you know that the Centre Party, active in New South Wales during the 1930s, evolved from what has been called Australia's first fascist movement?
Did you know that Bud Osborn, a poet from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, advocated for supervised injection sites?
Did you know that Swedish sport journalist Johanna Frändén had the special task of following Zlatan Ibrahimović's career for SVT?
Did you know that Winfield, Kansas, was named in honor of Winfield Scott in return for his promise to build the town a church?
Did you know that a limited edition of the Aquos Phone SH-06D is based on the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion?
Did you know that a piece of carpet installed at 400 SW Sixth Avenue in Portland, Oregon, in 1959 was said at that time to be the largest ever laid in the Pacific Northwest?
Did you know that actress Pom Klementieff trained three hours per day, for two months, to fight Josh Brolin?
Did you know that after Capesthorne Hall in Cheshire (garden front pictured) was badly damaged by fire in 1861, it was rebuilt by Anthony Salvin who generally followed Edward Blore's earlier plans?
Did you know that after he and his family escaped Nazi Germany, Manfred Kirchheimer made a documentary film about graffiti on New York subway trains?
Did you know that baseball player Frank Ringo, who was "inordinately fond" of whiskey, married in January 1889 and killed himself in April of that same year?
Did you know that filmmaker Ingmar Bergman is buried in the cemetery of Sweden's Fårö Church?
Did you know that the flag of the Bahamas was first hoisted 41 years ago today when the islands became independent?
Did you know that the historic U.S. Custom House in San Ysidro, San Diego, lies 50 feet (15 m) north of one of the busiest land border crossings in the world?
Did you know that to retrieve a music demo for "Galau", a representative of Universal Music Group (Malaysia) had to travel more than 2500 kilometres (1600 mi) to East Java?
Did you know that to support his claim that Java Man was the "missing link", discoverer Eugène Dubois argued that it looked like a "giant gibbon"?
Did you know that André Mellerio (pictured, left) was a member of the family that owned Mellerio dits Meller, considered the world's oldest jeweller and Europe's oldest family-owned company?
Did you know that Ethan Allen and Philip Skene planned to create a new British colony in the region around Lake Champlain, with Skene as its governor?
Did you know that German wheelchair basketball player Laura Fürst helped win the national collegiate championship for the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Warhawks, and also made the Dean's List?
Did you know that The Cockroaches were the precursor of The Wiggles?
Did you know that Tory Member of Parliament Admiral Theobald Jones (1790–1868) laid the foundation of Irish lichenology?
Did you know that pitcher Ed Beatin, who had "the most astonishing slow ball that was ever offered up to a batter", was twice a 20-game winner?
Did you know that some employees of Moon Studios, developers of Ori and the Blind Forest, had never met face to face until the game was unveiled at the 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo?
Did you know that the bells of Roma Church, Sweden, originally came from a Swedish-speaking village in Ukraine?
Did you know that the c. 8th-century medical text Al-Risalah al-Dhahabiah, attributed to Ali al-Ridha, is also known as the "Golden Treatise"?
Did you know that the popular children's book The Discovery of America (1781) portrayed Christopher Columbus as a hero, and Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro as antiheroes?
Did you know that the white-striped, the gray, the black and the brown dorcopsis are endemic to New Guinea and inhabit parts of the island in the north, south, east and west respectively?
Did you know that OK Go used around 60 takes to make sure all the optical illusions were filmed correctly during a continuous shot for the video to their song "The Writing's on the Wall"?
Did you know that Victoria became the first Australian state to adopt a floral emblem when it adopted the pink heath, a form of Epacris impressa?
Did you know that after the 2006 Boat Race, the Cambridge coach complained that his team had to "row with a boat full of water"?
Did you know that in the 1900 painting Homage to Cézanne Paul Gauguin is represented by one of his paintings?
Did you know that the Trout Inn in Lechlade was originally a 13th-century almshouse?
Did you know that the viewing area in the Garbage Museum, an operating recycling facility in Stratford, Connecticut, allowed visitors to watch the processing of recyclables?
Did you know that Eurogamer described their 2012 game of the year, Fez (cover art pictured), as like a surreal, Shigeru Miyamoto version of 2001: A Space Odyssey?
Did you know that Hawaiian legislator Joshua Kekaulahao served as a member of the Board of Land Commissioners, in charge of addressing land claims of the Great Māhele, from 1850 to 1855?
Did you know that Turkey's first ever bird ringing station was established at Lake Kuyucuk, which is an internationally-designated Ramsar site and an European Destinations of Excellence (EDEN)?
Did you know that catcher Sy Sutcliffe, who reportedly "threw like a catapult", died of Bright's disease four months after his final major league game?
Did you know that critics called Kylie Minogue's 2004 single "Red Blooded Woman" similar to the works of American music artists Justin Timberlake and Timbaland?
Did you know that no one knows who created "The Lord in Heaven"?
Did you know that sediment on the East Tasman Plateau records the formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current?
Did you know that the Oxford crew in the 2010 Boat Race included the Winklevoss twins, who had competed at the previous Olympics?
Did you know that 19th-century actor Maurice Curtis said his hugely successful characteri­za­tion of a Jewish traveling salesman was based on "one of the most comical men that I ever met"?
Did you know that Geistliche Chormusik, a collection of 29 motets by Heinrich Schütz containing a "plea for peace", appeared in 1648, when the Thirty Years' War ended?
Did you know that Peter Sellers, billed as "Britain's answer to Gene Krupa" at the Aldershot Hippodrome in 1948, complained later that the band was four bars behind because they were eating sandwiches?
Did you know that Tim Rogers, originator of New Games Journalism and co-founder of Action Button Entertainment, applied his thoughts on Super Mario Bros. 3's "sticky friction" to his game design for Ziggurat and Videoball?
Did you know that Tom Cushing's 1926 play The Devil in the Cheese features a Greek bandit posing as a priest, an Egyptian god, adventures in the South Seas, and a bit of mummified cheese?
Did you know that Weib, was weinest du, the "Easter dialogue" composed by Heinrich Schütz, was performed at the first Schütz festival in Dresden?
Did you know that actress Sarah-Jane Potts filmed her own audition for the role of Eddi McKee in Holby City, after she was approached by the show's casting director?
Did you know that after an indictment against him was quashed, John N. Cole received three cheers from the Massachu­setts House of Represen­ta­tives?
Did you know that art dealer C. T. Loo fell in love with a French milliner, but married her 15-year-old daughter instead?
Did you know that in 1944 the Barsala tourist lodge in Azad Kashmir hosted the future founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah?
Did you know that in 1995, a businessman scaled Quezon City's Welcome Rotonda and staged a hunger strike to urge disquali­fi­ca­tion of Chinese Filipino candidates from running in that year's election?
Did you know that in the 1990 Back Bay rail accident, Amtrak's Night Owl jumped the track and hit an MBTA commuter train, causing both to jackknife through the tunnel roof to the street above?
Did you know that the 1991 Argentine quota law, which sets minimum quotas of female candidacies to legislatures, was emulated by eleven other Latin American countries?
Did you know that the Nazis called the paintings of Hans Baluschek (example pictured) "degenerate art"?
Did you know that the Sun-like star HD 41248 may have two super-Earths in a 5:7 orbital resonance?
Did you know that the song "Asia Minor" was banned by the BBC because it parodied classical music?
Did you know that two incommunicado game show contestants can use the 100 prisoners problem to maximize the odds of sticking Monty Hall with the goat?
Did you know that Jalen Brunson is a left-handed point guard, as is his father Rick Brunson, a nine-year National Basketball Association veteran?
Did you know that The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour, a tour by Beyoncé, was so called after her husband, Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter?
Did you know that in the 1993 Boat Race, Cambridge used cleavers?
Did you know that Frances McConnell-Mills' father, a doctor, refused to pay for her medical school tuition because he thought medicine was "too hard a life for a woman"?
Did you know that James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, and Ralph Ellison have depicted the Harlem Riot of 1943 in their writings?
Did you know that John Crittle's mother mistook Jimi Hendrix for Jesus?
Did you know that Josef Masopust was awarded the Ballon d'Or after helping the Czechoslo­vakian national football team reach the 1962 FIFA World Cup Final?
Did you know that cyclist Ellen van Dijk was the best rider of the Specialized–lululemon team's 2013 season, finishing 3rd in the UCI World Ranking?
Did you know that in discussing his film Departures, director Yōjirō Takita drew parallels between cellists and morticians?
Did you know that the Spanish believed that the fierce Chinamita Maya were cannibals?
Did you know that the baseball career of Charlie Bennett, who reportedly invented the chest protector, ended when his legs were run over by a train?
Did you know that the video game Thralled was made to focus on "love and caring" and to humanize the tens of millions in modern slavery?
Did you know that when Etheostoma variatum are seen, rivers are probably clean?
Did you know that Frank Cunningham headed an inquiry into the 1935 "On-to-Ottawa" march, was a war-crimes judge in Singapore, and became speaker of the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly?
Did you know that Olivia Pope was spoofed by Jennifer Hudson when the Obama administration needed a spokesman for its Affordable Care Act?
Did you know that Su Rong is the highest-ranking Chinese official to come under investigation for corruption during the presidency of Xi Jinping?
Did you know that Utamaro was known for his depictions of Japanese beauties?
Did you know that as a boy, golf course designer Archie Simpson was the favourite caddy of Sir Alexander Grant, Principal of the University of Edinburgh?
Did you know that flooding in New Market, caused by a tropical depression over Jamaica in 1979, had not fully subsided after six months?
Did you know that much of the history of the Principality of Nitra remains uncertain?
Did you know that skeptic Joe Nickell was an advisor on the 2007 horror film The Reaping, in which actress Hilary Swank plays an investigator of the paranormal?
Did you know that the 1944 One Million Plan was the first time Jewish immigration from Arab and Muslim countries became official policy of the Zionist leadership?
Did you know that the AI Mk. IV, the first air-to-air radar, was developed under conditions that "would have caused a riot in a prison farm"?
Did you know that the bus services in Surat are operated by private partners for the Surat Municipal Corporation under a public–private partnership?
Did you know that with her 1906 ascent of Pinnacle Peak (22,735 ft or 6,930 m) in the Himalayas, Fanny Bullock Workman set an altitude record for women that stood until 1934?
Did you know that Adrian P. Thomas's videotaped confession regarding the death of his four-month-old son is the center of a documentary film on coerced confessions, Scenes of a Crime?
Did you know that Arthur Adams spent two years drawing the six issues of Longshot and his artwork was called the miniseries' "one major saving grace"?
Did you know that Elsa Collin was the first woman at any Swedish university to be part of a student spex show?
Did you know that Flass, an English country house in Cumbria, was built by opium traders in the nineteenth century and used for cannabis cultivation in the twenty-first?
Did you know that Khar Bii, a reality television show consisting of a search for Senegal's most beautiful ram, was the country's most popular television show in 2012?
Did you know that Paul G. Risser served as president of Miami University and Oregon State University as well as chancellor of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education?
Did you know that Philippe Capdenat's 2001 opera Une Carmen re-imagined Bizet's Carmen in Morocco?
Did you know that Torberry Hill in West Sussex is the site of an Iron Age hill fort and supports a mound known as the Fairy Bed, where fairies are said to dance every Midsummer Eve?
Did you know that at the time of its discovery, S Antliae had the shortest period of any known variable star?
Did you know that journalists compared the Costa Rican video game Fenix Rage to a cross between Super Meat Boy and Flappy Bird?
Did you know that performance artist Milo Moiré claims her naked works are inspired by the script theory of cognitive psychology?
Did you know that the runaway binary star system BL Telescopii is 11,000 light-years off the galactic plane?
Did you know that when the mayor of Saskatoon, John Hair, said in 1930 that unemployment in his city was "under control", he was "terribly wrong"?
Did you know that Beatles, birds and crickets contributed to "You Never Give Me Your Money"?
Did you know that Marvel Studios considered making stand-alone short films‍—‌known as Marvel One-Shots‍—‌for Loki, Black Panther, and Damage Control?
Did you know that Mary Francis Hill Coley, an African-American lay midwife in Georgia, was featured in a 1952 instructional film used in training midwives around the world?
Did you know that although possibly illiterate, Dinah Nuthead was one of the first licensed women printers in the Thirteen Colonies?
Did you know that the Philaletheis Society (production pictured) was Vassar College's first student organization?
Did you know that the revival of the Sakata Minato-za, the oldest cinema in Sakata, Yamagata, Japan, has been called "like something out of a movie"?
Did you know that Alonzo Davis and his brother were inspired to found the Brockman Gallery while driving back to Los Angeles following the Meredith March?
Did you know that American military history expert John C. McManus is the author of Grunts?
Did you know that Operation Goodwood was the last in a series of "intensely disap­point­ing" attempts to sink the German battleship Tirpitz?
Did you know that Tansen, directed by Jayant Desai and based on the life of musician Tansen, was the second-highest grossing Indian film of 1943?
Did you know that alligator gars are "living fossils" that can breathe in both air and water?
Did you know that at the 2013 Boat Race, for the second consecutive year Cambridge had only one British rower in its crew?
Did you know that in 1765, Scottish nabob John Johnstone, aged 31, returned from India with a fortune equivalent to £25 million in 2014?
Did you know that the Dota 2 esports tournament The International 2014 has a prize pool of more than US$10 million—​larger than that of the 2014 Masters Tournament?
Did you know that the European Court of Justice was asked the meaning of parody by the Court of Appeal of Brussels ?
Did you know that the Speaker of the Niuean Assembly is responsible for ensuring the Seal of Niue is not misused?
Did you know that there are 122 erosion sites on East Branch Chillisquaque Creek?
Did you know that Bangladeshi nationalism was popularized by President Ziaur Rahman as a substitute for Bengali nationalism?
Did you know that Dhaka Racing is the first 3D video game developed in Bangladesh?
Did you know that Halichoeres maculipinna can change its sex, and engages in lek mating?
Did you know that Hammond House has hosted Lyme disease research, a "hodge-podge" historic house museum, folk hootenan­nies, and possibly a Revolu­tion­ary War military conference?
Did you know that The Mighty Kacy was the first woman to reach the finals of American Ninja Warrior?
Did you know that Vantablack, a material made from carbon nanotubes, is the blackest substance known?
Did you know that William H. Herriman donated artworks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum, and his sister founded the world's first skyscraper hospital?
Did you know that Willie Nelson sold "Family Bible" to a guitar instructor for US$50 and the cost of his dinner?
Did you know that a key target for the Normandy landings, Caen, was not captured by the Allies until 21 July 1944?
Did you know that the documentary film We Were So Beloved asks, in the aftermath of the Holocaust, whether survival is an end in itself?
Did you know that "Jaga Dia Untukku", a song by Siti Nurhaliza, was inspired by feelings about her husband's motorcycle accident?
Did you know that Ilie Moscovici was detained for instigating the Romanian strike of 1920, though he "did not wish for a revolution", and for his party's Comintern affiliation, though he had opposed it?
Did you know that Paratropis tuxtlensis, a newly discovered species of spider, coats its body in soil, apparently to conceal itself?
Did you know that Swedish director Brita von Horn was the first to stage a Chekhov play in Sweden?
Did you know that after Arsenal's defeat in the 2005 FA Community Shield, manager Arsène Wenger stated, "no-one regards it as a trophy so I do not mind anymore"?
Did you know that newly signed Alex Rae was made captain of Jersey RFC?
Did you know that on Kuntry Livin', recording artist Big Smo blends country music and hip hop in a style known as hick hop?
Did you know that the short-lived MGM-Pathé Communications was formed in 1990 when Giancarlo Parretti purchased MGM/UA Communications Inc. and merged it with his Pathé Communications Group?
Did you know that you can buy a monkey's fist at Arthur Beale?
Did you know that Émilie Tremblay grew radishes and lettuces on the sod roof of her cabin in the Yukon?
Did you know that Elmo Hope survived being shot by New York police to become an influential jazz pianist?
Did you know that Kenyan Simon Maina, the 1998 Commonwealth Games champion over 10,000 metres, was deported from Japan after being injured in 2007 and dropped from the Toyota team?
Did you know that New Zealand television news anchor Angela D'Audney caused a national furore in 1982 by appearing topless in the TV comedy play The Venus Touch?
Did you know that a rough cut of "Deep Breath", the first episode of the eighth series of Doctor Who, was leaked online six weeks before the episode was due to air?
Did you know that in 1920 socialist politician Valentino Pittoni argued that the Italian city of Trieste should become a state in the Austrian republic?
Did you know that independent video game artist Greg Wohlwend designed Threes!, Ridiculous Fishing, Hundreds, Gasketball, Puzzlejuice, and Solipskier (icons pictured)?
Did you know that male pichis have a penis that is 60% of their body length, even though the females have no vagina?
Did you know that only five times in Philippine Basketball Association history has a team won the Grand Slam?
Did you know that the Habsburgs' frequent practice of royal intermarriage led to severe inbreeding?
Did you know that the Toungoo Dynasty's decisive victory over Ava and its allies in the Toungoo–Ava War (1538–45) cemented the upstart kingdom's emergence as the largest polity in Burma since 1287?
Did you know that Arinn Young was the youngest player on the Canadian team that won the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship?
Did you know that Denmark's Kvinden & Samfundet (Woman & Society), published since 1885, claims to be the world's oldest women's magazine?
Did you know that Fanny Lú's album Lágrimas Cálidas mixes pop music with Caribbean rhythms?
Did you know that Lindon Meikle signed for Eastwood Town following a trial, after his father suggested he join his brother Deon at the club?
Did you know that Sailor Moon Crystal celebrates the 20th anniversary of the shōjo manga series Sailor Moon?
Did you know that Woodspring Priory was an Augustinian community for over 300 years and can now be rented as holiday accommodation from the Landmark Trust?
Did you know that an x-ray of catcher Deacon McGuire's gnarled left hand showed "36 breaks, twists or bumps all due to baseball accidents"?
Did you know that over 500 comets, asteroids, and novae have been discovered by three members of the Astronom­i­cal Society of New South Wales?
Did you know that the Brazilian singer Lourdinha Bittencourt, a member of the Trio de Ouro, had been a foundling?
Did you know that the former Canandaigua, New York post office is one of only three in the state designed by private architects under the Tarsney Act, and the only one outside of New York City?
Did you know that the massacre in Józefów was committed by the men of Reserve Police Battalion 101, who were too old for the regular army?
Did you know that the music video for Siti Nurhaliza's song "Lebih Indah" also serves as a commercial for her SimplySiti range of products?
Did you know that Florestano Di Fausto was described as the "Architect of the Mediterra­nean" for his works in Italy, Albania, the Dodecanese (building in Rhodes pictured) and Libya?
Did you know that Janey Ironside was a "style icon" who taught fashion to Antony Price, Ossie Clark and Zandra Rhodes?
Did you know that Robban Andersson ate thirteen sausages in two minutes for Talang 2010?
Did you know that many kindergartens in Poland were named after the children's television series Jacek i Agatka?
Did you know that the fashion designer Sally Tuffin created clothes on James Wedge's billiard table?
Did you know that the main star of FF Aquilae is a pulsating supergiant 39 times the diameter of the Sun?
Did you know that the trilingual 14th-century Sankt Florian Psalter (page pictured) contains one of the oldest texts in Polish?
Did you know that the wealthy couple who built the Episcopal church in Cumberland Furnace, Tennessee, had shocked Nashville society with their 1864 marriage?
Did you know that typographers at the Fann Street Foundry created the first lower-case sans serif typeface, and the first patented one?
Did you know that Art Whitney helped the New York Giants win the 1888 and 1889 World Series?
Did you know that Felisa Vanoff was the first female choreographer for the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, and became a lead dancer for the New York City Opera?
Did you know that Ganga Bruta was "Humberto Mauro's best film", but was also called "the worst film of all time"?
Did you know that Kalix Church in Sweden has twice been pillaged by Russian troops?
Did you know that Teresa Magbanua was the only woman to command combat troops in the Visayan region during the Philippine Revolution?
Did you know that Tranquility Bass's debut album Let the Freak Flag Fly was recorded on Lopez Island in Washington over a period of more than two years?
Did you know that in 1977, Kenton Grua was the first person in recorded history to walk through the entire length of the Grand Canyon?
Did you know that on the album The Night We Called It a Day, vocalist Listener reads a verse complete with its punctuation?
Did you know that pianist Anna Kravtchenko, trained in Ukraine and Italy by the same teacher, won the Busoni competition at the age of 16?
Did you know that the 2000 CECAFA Cup final was between Uganda and Uganda?
Did you know that the Meadowlark was the last Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad passenger train to serve Southern Illinois?