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Did you know that Robert Forward invoked van Vogt's short story "Far Centaurus" when discussing the problem of interstellar travel?
Did you know that during the Second World War, Kenneth Le Couteur worked at Bletchley Park on Tunny?
Did you know that flipping water bottles has been banned in some U.S. and British schools?
Did you know that when queen consort ʻAnaseini Takipō and King George Tupou II did not have a son, his daughter from his first marriage, Sālote Tupou III, ascended to the throne of Tonga upon his death?
Did you know that Christiana Willes is sometimes incorrectly attributed as the founder of roundarm bowling?
Did you know that Gertrude Foster Brown encouraged New York women to exercise their new right to vote in her 1918 book Your Vote and How to Use It?
Did you know that Māori tribal leader and baptized Mormon Mere Mete Whaanga and her sister-in-law made quite a spectacle on the streets of Salt Lake City sporting traditional facial tattoos?
Did you know that Paul Nahaolelua was president during the elections of two kings of Hawaii?
Did you know that Rhodesian athletes were permitted to attend their events at the 1972 Summer Olympics, but not participate in them?
Did you know that the author of Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future argues we are living in a golden age?
Did you know that John J. Horn supported New Jersey's proposed Illegal Alien Employment Prohibition Act, stating "illegal aliens holding jobs represent more than half of our total unemployed"?
Did you know that athletes from more than 50 countries who had a prior doping offence were allowed to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that no official conservation measures are in place to protect the critically endangered Iris cedreti, endemic to Lebanon?
Did you know that nurse Inès de Bourgoing was named Honorary Corporal of the Foreign Legion after she established a convalescent hospital in Morocco and a retirement center in France for French soldiers?
Did you know that the Zimbabwean prophetess Mai Chaza, who called herself a messenger from God, was regarded by her followers as an African reappearance of Christ?
Did you know that al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, was leveled to the ground by Wahhabis in 1806 and in the mid-1920s?
Did you know that the British long-distance runner Andy Vernon won silver and bronze at the 2014 European Athletics Championships, losing out to Mo Farah both times?
Did you know that Alfred Harmsworth was the father of two viscounts, one baron, and two baronets?
Did you know that Burundian Abraham Niyonkuru finished fourth in the 10,000 metres at the 2005 Jeux de la Francophonie despite being only 0.03 seconds behind the silver medallist?
Did you know that ancient Indian texts include as many as 64 different lipi?
Did you know that flowerpots for the Ming emperors were made in official Jun ware?
Did you know that Alastair Storey ended celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's two-year reign as "most influential" in the British hospitality industry?
Did you know that Comoran Olympian Maoulida Darouèche has competed in both the 400 metres hurdles and the javelin throw?
Did you know that Rafael María de Aguilar y Ponce de León was the longest serving Governor-General of the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period?
Did you know that Salar de Coipasa, Salar de Uyuni and Lake Poopó were formerly part of the larger Lake Minchin?
Did you know that Tommy Tucker, a male pet squirrel wearing women's clothes, became famous during World War II, selling war bonds and entertaining children?
Did you know that before she became a famous aviator, Amelia Earhart was a social worker at Denison House in Boston?
Did you know that the Tolpuddle Martyrs were tried in the Shire Hall at Dorchester?
Did you know that the first paper mill in Scotland was located in Dalry, Edinburgh?
Did you know that "eloquent" Holbrook, "popular" Humble, ex-Congregationalist Miller, and Pilling who feared "plottings", were all vicars of St Mark's, Huddersfield, England?
Did you know that Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, starring Todd McKenney (pictured waltzing with Nancye Hayes) in his first non-musical role, is the "most successful" play in the Ensemble Theatre's 58-year history?
Did you know that seeking to challenge both Fatah and Hamas, five left-wing factions united to jointly contest the 2016 Palestinian local elections, which have since been postponed?
Did you know that the Güney Waterfall, a natural monument, was reestablished 50 m (160 ft) to one side after a landslide swept away its original location?
Did you know that the auction in 1973 of 50 pop art works from the collection of Robert Scull was viewed by the art establishment as the "nouveaux riches cashing in"?
Did you know that the setting of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is heavily based on the city of Miami?
Did you know that Hugues Fabrice Zango was Burkina Faso's only medalist at the 2015 Summer Universiade?
Did you know that the 1257 eruption of Samalas (caldera pictured) was one of the largest eruptions of the Holocene, and may have triggered the Little Ice Age and famines in Europe?
Did you know that the English footballer Roy Jennings scored 60 goals during his career, 51 of which were penalties?
Did you know that the Franciscan Helmut Schlegel wrote the lyrics of an oratorio Laudato si', including writings by Francis of Assisi and Pope Francis, and the Magnificat?
Did you know that the Tumbuka people's Vimbuza tradition uses dance, music, and singing to heal illness?
Did you know that the eighth-century Umayyad Painting of the Six Kings is badly damaged, partly as a result of Alois Musil's attempts to remove it from its site in Quseir Amra, Jordan?
Did you know that Gisèle Rabesahala was the first woman to lead a political party and become a government minister in Madagascar?
Did you know that Jackie Stedall won the 2013 Neumann Prize for the best English-language book on the history of mathematics?
Did you know that a hoard of 800 gold coins (example pictured) of king Govindachandra was discovered at Nanpara?
Did you know that descendants of the first settlers of the tiny rural hamlet of Kingston, Mississippi, include actors William Holden and Patrick Swayze?
Did you know that the hosts of the podcast Chapo Trap House popularized the "Baseball Crank" Twitter meme to mock anti-Donald Trump conservatives?
Did you know that the short story "Black Destroyer" was the basis for A. E. van Vogt's lawsuit against 20th Century Fox, as the plot of the movie Alien matched it so closely?
Did you know that women conductors lead only 4.1% of "big budget" American symphony orchestras?
Did you know that "Dirgahayu", by Malaysian artists Faizal Tahir and Siti Nurhaliza, serves as a theme song for a 100-episode television series?
Did you know that Moses Bensinger helped organize the American Bowling Congress, which standardized the rules of modern ten-pin bowling?
Did you know that SMS Novara was ceded to France as a war prize under the terms of the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye?
Did you know that Taslima Akhter's photograph "Final Embrace" became an iconic image of the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse?
Did you know that at the suggestion of a group of fourth-graders, Thomas J. Shusted and John A. Rocco introduced legislation that made Hadrosaurus foulkii New Jersey's official state dinosaur?
Did you know that the Katihar Medical College campus includes a 590-bed general hospital and a branch of the State Bank of India?
Did you know that the white-backed night heron is hunted for traditional medicine in Nigeria?
Did you know that 13-year-old Togolese swimmer Adzo Kpossi was the youngest athlete at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Warratyi, the oldest known site of human habitation in inland Australia, was discovered by a man looking for somewhere to go to the toilet?
Did you know that composer Charles E. King was taught music by Queen Liliuokalani, and at her funeral led a choir in her composition "Aloha ʻOe" as her catafalque was carried out of Iolani Palace?
Did you know that each larva of the lesser clover leaf weevil damages three or four clover inflorescences?
Did you know that when the Latvian town of Talsi became part of the Russian Empire, sixty percent of its population was Baltic German?
Did you know that Christoph Bartneck wrote a nonsense submission for a predatory conference using iOS's autocomplete function and it was accepted within three hours?
Did you know that Odile Ahouanwanou broke the Beninese record for the 100 metres hurdles at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that at the age of 23, Roman Tmetuchl was placed in the 11th grade at George Washington High School?
Did you know that in breeding pairs of the orange ground thrush, the female consistently weighs more than the male?
Did you know that in the geography of Somerset, rough ground where lead was once mined is called "gruffy"?
Did you know that the Banda people of Central Africa carved wooden slit drums (example pictured) in the shape of animals?
Did you know that the Warner Estate provided social housing in East London for over 110 years?
Did you know that Aroup Chatterjee was one of two Devil's advocates during the beatification of Mother Teresa of Calcutta?
Did you know that cerium saved the writer Primo Levi's life in Auschwitz?
Did you know that fencer Salah Dessouki also served as the Governor of Cairo?
Did you know that women first joined Chile's La Moneda Palace Guard in 2001?
Did you know that "Inspirasi" was written by Faizal Tahir as a tribute to Siti Nurhaliza and her achievements in the Malaysian music scene for the past 20 years?
Did you know that Alfred Clark pioneered continuity, plot, and special effects in The Execution of Mary Stuart?
Did you know that dual graphs can explain why the halls and walls of many mazes (example pictured) form interlocking trees?
Did you know that tap dancer Ayodele Casel developed her style under the influence of salsa music?
Did you know that the curve of the roof of Oriam, Scotland's new national sports training centre, was inspired by Roberto Carlos's goal that "defied physics"?
Did you know that Jin Chae-seon was the first female master of pansori, a male-dominated Korean folk opera genre?
Did you know that Marc Bassingthwaighte is a two-time medalist at the Namibian National Road Race Championships?
Did you know that Streitraum, a regular series of panel discussions with Carolin Emcke, has been called "an intelligent and aggressive public lecture series"?
Did you know that resists can be used in dyeing textiles, pottery, painting, metalwork, and semiconductor fabrication?
Did you know that the Vaile Mansion, built in 1881 in Independence, Missouri, contains chandeliers originally intended for the White House?
Did you know that the black-and-white 1923 Western Wild Bill Hickok starring William Hart was the first film to depict Wyatt Earp?
Did you know that Dr. J. Butz, founded in 1924, has published sacred music by English composers such as Colin Mawby, Christopher Tambling, and Robert W. Jones in Germany?
Did you know that Eugen Eckert, who wrote the lyrics of more than a thousand songs in the Neues Geistliches Lied genre, is the minister for a sports stadium in Frankfurt?
Did you know that Mauritian boxer Kennedy St-Pierre has won two gold medals at the African Games, one in the middleweight division and one in the heavyweight division?
Did you know that Queen Emma of Hawaii never knew her father George Naʻea because he had contracted leprosy?
Did you know that The Vine in Vancouver, Washington, will be the first bus rapid transit system in the Portland metropolitan area?
Did you know that daisy bushes can be downy, viscid, twiggy, or clammy?
Did you know that in 2016, Rachel Freier became the first Hasidic Jewish woman to be elected as a civil court judge in the state of New York?
Did you know that "Danke", one of Germany's best-known sacred songs, was considered a sin against music and religion when first released?
Did you know that Monique Luiz, star of the famous 1964 political advertisement Daisy, did not see it for herself until 2000?
Did you know that events at Los Angeles' Fiesta Park included a reception for President William McKinley, the Los Angeles Auto Show, and USC Trojans football games?
Did you know that the 308th Infantry Regiment  was the first United States National Army regiment in the First World War to be presented with its regimental colors?
Did you know that the Eider Canal was first proposed as part of Ducal Holstein, built under Danish rule, conquered by Prussia, and decommissioned under the German Empire?
Did you know that the Liberian Welington Zaza is the African junior record holder in the men's 110 metres hurdles?
Did you know that the Madagascar succulent woodlands are home to the world's smallest primate?
Did you know that with a modest force of Bedouin horsemen, Shibl al-Dawla Nasr defeated a much larger Byzantine army led by Emperor Romanos III?
Did you know that Conservative Member of Parliament Sarah Wollaston switched from supporting to repudiating the pro-Brexit Vote Leave group, calling its repetition of debunked claims "post-truth politics"?
Did you know that Soledad Alatorre, known for her labor activism and advocacy of civil rights, previously worked as a model for bathing suits?
Did you know that a kronkåsa was used by the Swedish nobility as a drinking vessel during the Renaissance?
Did you know that after a Duke of Holstein-Gottorp became a Russian emperor, his wife and son traded away his ancestral lands in the Treaty of Tsarskoye Selo?
Did you know that the USS Helianthus, built as a private motorboat, went on to serve as a patrol boat for the U.S. Navy, and then for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey?
Did you know that while writing Here I Am, Jonathan Safran Foer would move between rooms of his house whenever he experienced a "Jonathan block"?
Did you know that "gold thread and iron wire" Ge ware has two sets of cracks in the glaze, accentuated by staining in different colours?
Did you know that W.Z. Ahmed's film Roohi was the first to be banned in Pakistan?
Did you know that in her Gloria, Hyo-Won Woo combines elements from Korean music and Western contemporary composition techniques?
Did you know that three days of smog in New York City 50 years ago today increased public awareness of air pollution and led to the passage of the 1967 Air Quality Act?
Did you know that when Barbara Berman and Mary Keating Croce took office in 1978, they became the first pair of women to represent a single legislative district in the New Jersey General Assembly?
Did you know that Göran Fredrik Göransson was the first to successfully implement the Bessemer process for steel production on an industrial scale?
Did you know that Martin Gotthard Schneider wrote the lyrics and music for the hymn Danke, which made it to the German charts in 1963?
Did you know that in the run-up to the 1953 Philadelphia municipal election, a Democratic nominee died and the office he was running for was abolished?
Did you know that per-capita consumption of primary energy in the Faroe Islands is about 60% higher than that in continental Denmark?
Did you know that the Communist Party of Pakistan was founded on the sidelines of the 1948 Second Party Congress of the Communist Party of India in Calcutta?
Did you know that the Sentry anti-ballistic missile was packed into a container that looked like an MX missile?
Did you know that with A Wrinkle in Time, Ava DuVernay is the first woman of color to direct a live-action film with a budget over $100 million?
Did you know that Air-Cobot is a French research and development project for a wheeled collaborative mobile robot able to inspect aircraft during maintenance operations?
Did you know that Cybele Records has published award-winning audiobooks, "portraits" of living composers, and in 2016 the complete organ works of Max Reger?
Did you know that Montreal architect Maxwell M. Kalman designed more than 1,100 buildings, including Canada's first shopping centre?
Did you know that Slovenian gymnast and Olympic medallist Boris Gregorka later coached the double gold Olympic medallist Miroslav Cerar?
Did you know that the Palace of Cerro Castillo is the summer residence of the President of Chile?
Did you know that 4A Games hoped that Metro: Last Light would "rekindle memories of Half-Life 2"?
Did you know that Suzuka Mambo was a Japanese racehorse sired by the American 1989 Kentucky Derby winner Sunday Silence?
Did you know that a speech by Egon Bahr at the Evangelische Akademie Tutzing (main building pictured) influenced the Ostpolitik of chancellor Willy Brandt toward the German Democratic Republic?
Did you know that during the 1895 counter-revolution, Joseph Heleluhe, private secretary to Hawaii's deposed queen Liliuokalani, was "stripped of all clothing and placed in a dark cell without light, food or water"?
Did you know that since the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, ultra-royalists in Thailand have criticized and harassed those who did not wear mourning black?
Did you know that the United States' team at the 2016 Kabaddi World Cup consisted entirely of athletes with experience in other sports, but none in kabaddi?
Did you know that Sydney Eardley-Wilmot was one of four brothers who served as officers in the British military?
Did you know that it is not known whether the Marquis Léonce de Tarragon named the rosy-throated longclaw (Macronyx ameliae) for his wife or his mother?
Did you know that the chamber orchestra Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen, founded in 1958, is the only orchestra to regularly perform at the historic Villa Hügel?
Did you know that Muzoon Almellehan has been called the "Malala of Syria" for her work to keep girls in school?
Did you know that according to popular legend, Edward William Purvis gave his nickname, meaning "jumping flea", to the ukulele?
Did you know that although Egypt boycotted the 1956 Summer Olympics, it still sent three athletes to the Games?
Did you know that in 1880, Stephen P. Moss and Charles A. Cogswell founded the Lake County Examiner to advocate their Democratic political views in southern Oregon?
Did you know that in La Science Amusante, Arthur Good constructed imaginative scientific apparatus such as the "soap-bubble chandelier" (illustrated) using common items like bottles, candles, and soap?
Did you know that the Sindh Mohajir Punjabi Pathan Muttahida Mahaz was the first Pakistani party to use the term "Muhajir" in a political context?
Did you know that the funeral of the author Lewis Carroll was held at St Mary's Church in Guildford?
Did you know that Don Martina, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles, successfully campaigned for a slave leader to become a national hero?
Did you know that King Kalākaua of Hawaii was the first foreign leader to head a state visit to the United States (reception pictured)?
Did you know that eleven publishers vied for the rights to Jessie Burton's debut novel The Miniaturist?
Did you know that in 1981 Bobbi Campbell became the first person to publicly identify as a person living with HIV/AIDS?
Did you know that the first known specimen of the dinosaur Tongtianlong limosus, which may have died trapped in mud, was nearly blown up by Chinese workmen?
Did you know that the Washington state 1960 gubernatorial election was the first in state history to include televised debates?
Did you know that the larva of the beetle Acanthinodera cumingii (adult pictured) can reach 13 centimetres (5 in) in length?
Did you know that the positions of nonzero digits in two reciprocal irrational numbers, 1/3.30033000000000033... = 0.30300000303..., are given by the Moser–de Bruijn sequence and its double?
Did you know that to the speakers of the Ngan’gityemerri language, the flowering of the red-flowering kurrajong marks the time that freshwater crocodiles are laying eggs?
Did you know that Beatriz de la Cueva, the first female colonial governor in the New World, died in a September 11 disaster two days after taking office?
Did you know that King Henry IV's invasion of Scotland in 1400 has been described as "utterly futile"?
Did you know that caterer Sir Joseph Lyons staged Venice in London (programme pictured) in 1891 using 100 gondolas imported from Venice – along with their gondoliers?
Did you know that in 2003, PSLV-C5 deployed the IRS-P6 satellite, then the heaviest and most sophisticated remote sensing satellite built by the Indian Space Research Organisation?
Did you know that 7th- and 8th-century Chinese pottery Tang dynasty tomb figures include cross-dressing women playing polo (example pictured)?
Did you know that Asian Paints Ltd's former mascot Gattu, a mischievous boy with a paint bucket, was created by Indian cartoonist R. K. Laxman?
Did you know that Michael Stevens, creator and host of Vsauce, uploaded his first YouTube videos under the username "pooplicker888"?
Did you know that Tamar Halperin recorded music by Erik Satie, playing piano, harpsichord, Hammond organ, and Wurlitzer piano?
Did you know that fictional journalist Carl Diggler correctly predicted the results of more 2016 presidential primaries than Nate Silver's statistics blog FiveThirtyEight?
Did you know that the 1970 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games, held in Edinburgh, lacked day-to-day television coverage by British broadcasters?
Did you know that "Zhang Hongjian", a short story by Chinese writer Pu Songling, was adapted into two plays?
Did you know that Hannah Dadds was the first female train driver on the London Underground?
Did you know that Malian taekwondo practitioner Ismaël Coulibaly won a gold medal at the 2015 African Games?
Did you know that during their conquest of Surabaya, Mataram forces dammed the Brantas River to limit water supply to the city of Surabaya?
Did you know that the Beti people were misrepresented in the Tarzan books and films (poster pictured)?
Did you know that Guinea-Bissau's participation at the 2012 Summer Paralympics was the country's first at a Paralympic Games?
Did you know that Jane Caferella's play e-baby (Ensemble Theatre performance pictured) was called "a very rare theatrical beast", as it explores the visceral experience of two women joined by gestational surrogacy?
Did you know that U.S. Representative-elect Stephanie Murphy and her family left Vietnam when she was six months old, and were rescued by the U.S. Navy?
Did you know that Helen Boyle was the first female president of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association?
Did you know that XGRS was a Nazi-operated radio station in Shanghai during World War II?
Did you know that an ace member of the Eagle Squadrons, Richard L. Alexander, was one of the first pilots of the P-47 Thunderbolt?
Did you know that the 2006 Argentine book Abzurdah by Cielo Latini details the author's youthful struggle with anorexia?
Did you know that the European Commission ruled the Republic of Ireland's tax benefits to Apple were an illegal form of state aid, and the company would have to pay €13 billion in back tax as a result?
Did you know that the multiplayer fan project developed for Just Cause 2 was recognized by Avalanche Studios as the game's official downloadable content?
Did you know that Merian C. Cooper, director of King Kong, destroyed nearly all 5,000 copies of his autobiography Things Men Die For?
Did you know that Pharrell Williams wrote the song "Sexify" based on headlines from the women's fashion magazine Cosmopolitan?
Did you know that Wilhelm von Debschitz founded an art school in Munich which provided a model for the Bauhaus?
Did you know that journalist Shafiqa Habibi was one of only three women candidates in the 2004 Afghan presidential election?
Did you know that the doucai style (example pictured) in Chinese porcelain uses colours both over and under the glaze?
Did you know that the reliquary of the 11th-century Buddhist monk Miaoyuan was rediscovered in the 1970s during repairs to Songjiang's Square Pagoda?
Did you know that Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath explores "shocking stories of abuse, heartbreak and harassment" of former members of the Church of Scientology?
Did you know that Neues Geistliches Lied, a genre of contemporary songs for use at church, was performed by around 1,895 choirs and bands in German dioceses according to a 2001 report?