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Did you know that the convent of San Isidro Labrador Parish in Lazi, Siquijor is one of the largest convents built during the Spanish colonial era in the Philippines?
Did you know that Arshad Warsi won the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Comic Role for Lage Raho Munna Bhai?
Did you know that Ernest Cashel, who once escaped from a moving train by jumping out the bathroom window, was hanged on this day in 1904?
Did you know that The Guardian's iOS game of 2014, Vainglory, was chosen to demonstrate the iPhone 6's graphics capabilities at the phone's launch event?
Did you know that Tomislav Smoljanović's "guerrilla science approach" uncovered financial ties between medical researchers and an American pharmaceutical company?
Did you know that after Lionel de Jersey Harvard died in World War I, a fellow officer wrote, "If Harvard College made him what he was, I want my sons to go there that it may do the same for them"?
Did you know that in the Church of St John the Divine, Holme Chapel, is a misericord depicting a mermaid with a mirror?
Did you know that the Beda people are the smallest officially recognised tribe in Jammu and Kashmir?
Did you know that the Lisburn Distillery Predators were the first Northern Irish team to play in the UEFA Women's Cup?
Did you know that the fringed filefish and the fan-bellied leatherjacket both have dewlaps?
Did you know that the migrating island of Hengsha was finally stopped by Shanghai's "educated youth" and other workers during the 1960s?
Did you know that the only source on the life of Gelou, the Vlach ruler of Transylvania, is the chronicle Gesta Hungarorum?
Did you know that the rare clouds that shower in the desert are called "Uttanka's clouds"?
Did you know that Alexandra Aitken, daughter of former British politician Jonathan Aitken, converted to Sikhism and changed her name to Uttrang Kaur Khalsa?
Did you know that James C. Marshall was the first Chief Engineer of the Manhattan District?
Did you know that Renoir's harem scene, Parisian Women in Algerian Costume, was rejected for the Paris Salon of 1872?
Did you know that The Legend of Lucky Pie was called the Chinese "knock-off" of Adventure Time?
Did you know that Thomas Reardon was for a time Microsoft's entire Internet Explorer development team?
Did you know that as head of the rabbinical court in Tripoli, Libya, Abraham Hayyim Adadi levied a 5 percent tax on local merchants to pay for teachers for poor children?
Did you know that football player Brad Craddock of the Maryland Terrapins was tutored by NFL Pro Bowler Matt Stover?
Did you know that in Roger Scruton's musical vision of the eccentric love-life of Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, a leading lady is sung by a baritone?
Did you know that new colonies of the carpet sea squirt can form by "dripping"?
Did you know that the French satirical cartoonist Charb, a victim of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris in January, had been on Al-Qaeda's "most wanted list" since 2013?
Did you know that the United States accounts for 37% of all global military spending?
Did you know that the tail of the ornate shrew is bicolored?
Did you know that the victors in Operation Diamond Arrow abandoned the battlefield?
Did you know that there is an ongoing proposal within the UK to restrict encryption?
Did you know that "Won't Get Fooled Again" was the last song Keith Moon ever played live with The Who?
Did you know that Francisco D'Andrade appears in his signature role Don Giovanni in three paintings by Max Slevogt?
Did you know that Gloucester, Massachusetts, mayor David I. Robinson chose to resign rather than sign a liquor license?
Did you know that Till Nowak's German mockumentary short film The Centrifuge Brain Project incorporates computer-generated imagery to create seven realistic fictional amusement park rides?
Did you know that a popular form of entertainment at jilt shops was rat-baiting?
Did you know that despite breaking a collarbone after only ten minutes, Lieut. Edmund Creswell played the whole of the first FA Cup Final?
Did you know that during the apartheid era, South Africa's National Party won a by-election in Oudtshoorn after waging a "Boerehaat campaign"?
Did you know that schools of Ammodytes americanus bury themselves in sand each night to avoid predators?
Did you know that six different sects share one parliamentary seat in Lebanon?
Did you know that the Garuda Upanishad, dedicated to the "Lord of birds", includes spells claimed to cure wounds inflicted by poisonous snakes, ghosts, and demons?
Did you know that the Hôtel d'Alluye hosted Scarface's brother in 1588?
Did you know that the Market Cross in Cheddar has stood for 500 years, but been damaged by traffic twice since 2000?
Did you know that the New Synagogue, which once served the Russian Jews in Shanghai, has been demolished?
Did you know that video game character Jill Valentine was almost a Jill sandwich?
Did you know that Australia defeated West Indies in the final of the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy by eight wickets, winning the title for the first time?
Did you know that Canadian children's author Sheree Fitch was the poet laureate of a golf tournament in the Arctic?
Did you know that as rocks are compressed, sinking down into an oceanic trench, they release water that causes volcanoes to form above?
Did you know that during his recent visit to the Philippines, Pope Francis said mass before a record gathering of six million people?
Did you know that most of Fox Film's silents were lost in the 1937 Fox vault fire?
Did you know that particle physicist and Columbia professor Michael Tuts is often mistaken for horror author Stephen King?
Did you know that sculptor Jim Dolan portrayed Albert Einstein throwing a Frisbee?
Did you know that several major skating events, including the 2010–11 Speed Skating World Cup, have been held at the ice rink in the small Bavarian town of Inzell?
Did you know that the 1890 Jolly Darkie Target Game (cover pictured), one of many games of its time having themes of violence against black people, is now part of collectable black memorabilia?
Did you know that the larvae of the harlequin fly are blood red due to haemoglobin?
Did you know that the upcoming Coen brothers film Hail, Caesar!, set in the 1950s Hollywood film industry, was originally planned to have a 1920s setting?
Did you know that the vetch aphid only produces winged aphids after three generations?
Did you know that Edmond Debeaumarché (1906–1959) was a French postal worker who was honored with a stamp for his service with the French Resistance?
Did you know that General Francesco Ferruccio compared the ranks of 16th-century Corsican condottiero Pasquino Corso to tabby cats, beautiful but unable to catch mice?
Did you know that Maitland Volcano in northern British Columbia is a prehistoric shield volcano of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province?
Did you know that Minnie Evans, chair of the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, prevented termination of her tribe and won reparations for her people from the Indian Claims Commission?
Did you know that Musa McKim painted a mural in a U.S. Forest Service building along with her husband, abstract artist Philip Guston?
Did you know that according to the book Ozu's Anti-Cinema, Japanese film director Yasujirō Ozu "did not trust actors' performances"?
Did you know that self-taught botanist Wilhelm Nikolaus Suksdorf is the namesake of the type species Suksdorfia violacea?
Did you know that the 5300-tonne (12 million lb) Brooke Street Pier is Australia's largest floating building?
Did you know that the Caproni Ca.60 Transaereo eight-engine, nine-wing flying boat prototype was intended to become a 100-passenger transatlantic airliner, but crashed on its second flight?
Did you know that the Parker Training Academy Dutch Barn in Red Hook, New York, is one of the last built in the Hudson Valley?
Did you know that the West Virginia Legislature adopted the state's first official flag (present flag pictured) in 1905, based on the flag used by West Virginia's committee at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition?
Did you know that the position of Thomaskantor in Bach's time has been described as "one of the most respected and influential musical offices of Protestant Germany"?
Did you know that when first proposed in 2013, the Canada Job Grant was described as "economic sabotage" by Quebec's finance minister Nicolas Marceau?
Did you know that Alan Resnick's house was transformed into the set of the television special he hosts?
Did you know that Booker T. Washington was the protégé of American General Samuel Chapman Armstrong, as described in his 1999 biography Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited?
Did you know that Hans Rosenfeldt‍—‌creator of the Scandinavian crime series The Bridge, which has spawned two international adaptations‍—‌briefly worked as a sea lion trainer?
Did you know that Pedro Rivera, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf's nominee to become education secretary, was honored by the White House as a "champion of change"?
Did you know that Ralph Benatzky wrote both libretto and music of the musical comedy Bezauberndes Fräulein, inspired by the French farce La petite chocolatière?
Did you know that Shanghai's Ohel Rachel Synagogue, described as "second to none in the East", was on the World Monuments Watch's list of most endangered sites?
Did you know that Wilhelm von Humboldt created a revolutionary model of higher education at the University of Berlin?
Did you know that after hackers stole confidential information from Sony Pictures Entertainment, former employees sued the company for failing to protect their data?
Did you know that the cemetery of Capon Chapel is the burial place of free and enslaved African Americans, Union and Confederate American Civil War veterans, and two state legislators?
Did you know that Graeme Swann's 18 five-wicket hauls in international cricket ties him with James Anderson for third-highest for England?
Did you know that Phisit Intharathat was saved in the only successful rescue of POWs during the Second Indochina War?
Did you know that The Abbot's Fish House is the only surviving monastic fishery building in England?
Did you know that Yuraygir National Park boasts 48 beaches?
Did you know that during a lull in fighting in the Lebanese Civil War, some 100,000 people gathered in Beirut to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide?
Did you know that in 1693 Julije Balović wrote a multilingual dictionary on five languages, including Albanian?
Did you know that in retaliation for trains' killing of their cattle, farmers would spread lard on the tracks of the Lake Simcoe Junction Railway?
Did you know that over $20,000 was spent trademarking the name Max Heat before the character was renamed Max Payne?
Did you know that the Anglo-Norman baron William Pantulf cleared himself from suspicion of murdering his lord's wife by undergoing a trial by ordeal?
Did you know that the use of Lord Kitchener's image in recruiting advertisements was so ubiquitous that Lady Asquith began referring to him as simply "the poster"?
Did you know that Amlaíb Conung was the first King of Dublin?
Did you know that North Nicosia, the capital of Northern Cyprus, has a population of around 61,000 and hosts over 34,000 university students?
Did you know that Olympic bronze medalist Richard W. Mayo was a brigadier general in the Korean War?
Did you know that Romanian writer Ion Agârbiceanu was influenced in his work by the four years he spent as a parish priest in the Apuseni Mountains?
Did you know that artefacts from Glastonbury Lake Village are on display at The Tribunal?
Did you know that disappointment led to the creation of Retox?
Did you know that images of Nandanar, Vayilar, Sakkiya, Idangazhi, Anaya, Kalikamba, Kaliya, Satti, Pusalar, Kungiliya Kalaya, Sadaiya, Murthi, Murkha, Nami Nandi Adigal, Somasi Mara, Isaignaniyar, Viralminda, Eyarkon Kalikkama, Pugal Chola, Eripatha, Manakanchara, Kotpuli, Enathinathar, Sirappuli, Seruthunai, Amaraneedi, Nesa, Pugazh Thunai, Kutruva, Kalarsinga, Munaiyaduvar, Ilayankudi Maranar, Meiporul, Iyarpagai, Tiru Nilakanta Yazhpanar, Tirunilakanta, Tiruneelanakka, and Apputhi Adigal are among the 63 Nayanar saints paraded during processions at temple festivals in Tamil Nadu?
Did you know that male and female Potomac sculpins prefer to live in different habitat conditions?
Did you know that the Portrait of an African Man is the first portrait of a black man in European painting and might depict an archer, nobleman, Saint Maurice or Zwarte Piet?
Did you know that the necklaced spinetail sometimes sings from inside its globular nest?
Did you know that Ian Bell has scored 21 centuries in Test cricket for England?
Did you know that Shanghai's Beth Aharon Synagogue provided refuge to 400 rabbis and students of the Mir yeshiva, the only Eastern European yeshiva to survive the Holocaust intact?
Did you know that St. Vincent's single "Digital Witness" was released on a limited-edition gold die-cut vinyl triangle?
Did you know that according to the Atharvashikha Upanishad, Om represents the Hindu Trinity, the Vedic scriptures, Vedic poetic meters and holy fires?
Did you know that during the Korean War, No. 30 Communications Unit RAAF undertook "Operation Haggis", the delivery of 180 lb (82 kg) of haggis to the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders?
Did you know that four months after Major General Stephen Twitty enacted measures to correct inadequate security at Fort Bliss, the response to the 2015 Fort Bliss shooting was described as "a model of how to respond"?
Did you know that the 2012 London Games was Sierra Leone's tenth appearance at the Summer Olympics?
Did you know that the future Béla III of Hungary was for a time the chosen successor of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos, who created the title despotes for him?
Did you know that the green hellebore was used as a folk remedy to treat worms in children, and topically for lice?
Did you know that the hairstyle, sideburns, life and death of Austrian poacher Pius Walder inspired the Tatort police procedural film Elvis lebt! (Elvis lives!)?
Did you know that when the solitary octocoral Taiaroa tauhou was discovered in 1973, it was at first thought to be a sea anemone?
Did you know that Brother Richard Withers, an American hermit in Philadelphia, does not own a television or car but does own a computer?
Did you know that General Vang Pao's dream of enemy troops hidden on the Operation Pigfat landing zone was verified by refugee interrogation?
Did you know that Marija Bursać was the first woman to be proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia?
Did you know that Muddy Waters' 1951 blues song, "Long Distance Call," was inspired by Blind Lemon Jefferson's 1929 song, "Long Distance Moan"?
Did you know that Robert Smirke painted a series of seven paintings derived from a monologue in As You Like It?
Did you know that during World War II, Japanese invasion money for Oceania was issued for use in the Gilbert and Solomon Islands, New Britain, and Papua New Guinea?
Did you know that in addition to escargot, some snail farms also produce snail caviar?
Did you know that of the eight tied Twenty20 International cricket matches, three were between New Zealand and the West Indies?
Did you know that the INTEGER Millennium House incorporates numerous environmental technology features, including a green roof and a geothermal heat pump?
Did you know that the Sahifah of al-Ridha is a collection of 240 hadiths narrated by Ali ibn Musa al-Ridha, the eighth Shia Imam?
Did you know that the Sikh politician Darshan Singh Pheruman died after 74 days on hunger strike, demanding inclusion of Chandigarh and other Punjabi-speaking regions into Punjab?
Did you know that two and a half years before the Tonkin Gulf Incident, the Sigma I-62 war game concluded that American intervention in Vietnam would be unsuccessful?
Did you know that Afro-German advocate Ika Hügel-Marshall, the child of a German woman and an African-American soldier, never met another black person until she was 39?
Did you know that Arthur Phillips composed a setting of "The Requiem, or, Liberty of an Imprisoned Royalist" by Thomas Pierce?
Did you know that Japanese movie producer Nagamasa Kawakita introduced Kurosawa's Rashomon at the 1951 Venice Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion?
Did you know that Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey win horse races with Kittens?
Did you know that Paganini published the world's first Arabic-language printed edition of the Quran?
Did you know that both mountainous star coral and boulder star coral are susceptible to coral diseases and bleaching?
Did you know that the Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge was originally built in 1874 on the South Branch Potomac River, but was moved to its current location on the Cacapon River in 1938?
Did you know that the T28E1 Combination Gun Motor Carriage, a version of the M15 Half-Track, shot down 39 aircraft during the Battle of Kasserine Pass?
Did you know that the children's album Pombo Musical is based on the fables of Colombian poet Rafael Pombo?
Did you know that the extinct earwig Toxolabis was preserved with two earwig nymphs?
Did you know that the title of the children's magazine The Brownies' Book alludes to black Americans being used as servants?
Did you know that Beyond: Two Souls, despite being a video game, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival?
Did you know that Govind Nihalani's Hindi film Tamas (1988) was initially aired as a television series?
Did you know that Hoyt Wilhelm was the first relief pitcher elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum?
Did you know that Kapellmeister Mattheus Le Maistre's request for retirement was denied, yet he was granted a stipend?
Did you know that Lalji Singh is popularly known as the "Father of DNA Fingerprinting" in India?
Did you know that Madness had to pretend they were a jazz band to get a gig at the Dublin Castle, Camden?
Did you know that Nissan used a commercial during Super Bowl XLIX to debut their GT-R LM Nismo race car?
Did you know that filmgoers incorrectly believed that Blackrock was a factual account of the murder of Leigh Leigh?
Did you know that the Bleu Horses near Three Forks, Montana, are 8 feet (2.4 m) tall?
Did you know that the family support group The Mariposa Trust has been partly funded by charity sky dives?
Did you know that Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's government is trying to force the impeachment of the judge investigating her in the Hotesur scandal?
Did you know that Jennifer Rush's "Higher Ground" was covered by Mario Pelchat and Celine Dion in French as "Plus haut que moi"?
Did you know that John Shannon Munn, one of the few first-class cricketers from Newfoundland, was killed in the wreck of a ship owned by his stepfather's company?
Did you know that Louis Edmund Blaze was responsible for introducing rugby to schools in Ceylon?
Did you know that Richmond Park in London is three times the size of Central Park in New York?
Did you know that Tsgabu Grmay was the first Ethiopian to win an international cycling event?
Did you know that freelance programmer and author Martin Pistorius was believed to be in a persistent vegetative state but was actually suffering from locked-in syndrome?
Did you know that ribonuclease V1, an enzyme used to study the structure of transfer RNA, is found in the venom of the Caspian cobra?
Did you know that screenwriter Lucy Alibar raised money through online crowdfunding so she could afford to attend her film's screening at the Cannes Film Festival?
Did you know that swimmer Mary Wayte won the first of four Olympic medals by defeating former world record-holder Sippy Woodhead in the final of the women's 200-meter freestyle at the 1984 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that the "goddess of music" on the Cincinnati Musical Center half dollar has been described as having "the same appeal of a dancer with cramps"?
Did you know that the Hayagriva Upanishad is dedicated to a horse-headed god?
Did you know that A-Force, the upcoming ongoing comic book series to be published by Marvel Comics, will feature Marvel's first all-female team of Avengers?
Did you know that HBO used some 160 lawyers to vet its film Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief because of the notorious litigiousness of the Church of Scientology?
Did you know that Huda Zoghbi, the physician–scientist who identified the gene that causes Rett syndrome, originally wanted to study literature?
Did you know that Iran's Supreme Leader, Khamenei, is alleged to be the first senior Islamic cleric directly addressing western youth about his religion?
Did you know that John Norton, future United States Army lieutenant general, was college roommates with George Scratchley Brown, future Air Force Chief of Staff?
Did you know that New York Yankees' prospect Ty Hensley was allegedly assaulted by another athlete because Hensley did not want to discuss his $1.2 million signing bonus?
Did you know that Peter Landesman made his directorial debut with the 2013 film Parkland, based on a non-fiction book's excerpt titled "Four Days in November"?
Did you know that a nineteenth-century author wrote, "there is not a more complete system of fortifications extant, in any part of the world, than the cordon of defensive structures at Malta"?
Did you know that although only two of Zhang Ruoxu's poems have survived, one of them was called "the poem of all poems" by Wen Yiduo?
Did you know that in Compulsory Miseducation, Paul Goodman proposes that school be made non-compulsory?
Did you know that the 2015 McDonald's All-American Boys Game is the 38th annual McDonald's All-American Game and 5th consecutive at Chicago's United Center?
Did you know that the Le Conte's thrasher can run faster than a trotting horse?
Did you know that the theme for World Youth Day 1995, "Tell the World of His Love", was performed multiple times during the visit of Pope Francis in the Philippines?
Did you know that Giuseppina Brambilla, one of five opera-singer sisters, was a prima donna in Barcelona and Odessa?
Did you know that India is one of the most dangerous places in the world to drive?
Did you know that Tripoli Jewish community leader and historian Abraham Khalfon lost two sons in his lifetime – one in a plague and one who was burned at the stake?
Did you know that Walter Buckley's venture capital firm Internet Capital Group, once worth over US$50 billion, lost 99% of its value when the dot-com bubble burst in 2001, but continues to operate today?
Did you know that as a result of the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show, a dancer known as the "Left Shark" became an internet meme?
Did you know that in 1886, the United States Naval Academy football team beat close rival Johns Hopkins with a last-second double lateral?
Did you know that in the 1969 Lusaka Manifesto, black-ruled African states offered dialogue with apartheid South Africa?
Did you know that production has begun on Creed, a spin-off of Rocky and the seventh film in the Rocky series?
Did you know that the 2013 documentary The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers is based on the 2010 book The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership?
Did you know that the Plaka Bridge in western Greece, formerly the largest single-arch stone bridge in the Balkans, survived bombing by the Luftwaffe, but was destroyed by floods on 1 February 2015?
Did you know that the bookwheel was one of the earliest devices that allowed a person to read multiple books in one location?
Did you know that the gum produced by the gum karaya is used as a laxative and an aphrodisiac?
Did you know that the sea battles of the Echinades and of Amorgos in 322 BC led to the defeat of Athens in the Lamian War, ending Athenian naval power and independence?
Did you know that 64% of Utah is federal land, and Utah wants it?
Did you know that Alfred Sisley's The Port of Moret-sur-Loing (1884) was one of nearly 1,000 items looted from the Lévy de Benzion collection by Nazi agents during the Second World War?
Did you know that Bonne of Bourbon, countess of Savoy, had to sell her jewelry to re-equip her husband at war in Italy?
Did you know that Fabrice Aragno's cinematography in Jean-Luc Godard's 3D film Goodbye to Language introduced a new kind of camera shot?
Did you know that Jean-Baptiste Pastor, an orphan immigrant in 1880, founded Monaco's "second dynasty"?