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Did you know that Thirty Seconds to Mars released the song "Conquistador" before the album's release, as a way of saying thanks to their fans?
Did you know that Thomas Eshelman set an NCAA single-season record for fewest walks per nine innings pitched?
Did you know that at the end of eight years of conflict in the East Indies theatre of the French Revolutionary Wars, Britain was allowed to retain only Ceylon?
Did you know that before pianist Vince Cardell was discovered by Liberace, he drove a truck for a diaper company?
Did you know that deep-fried crickets are eaten in southeast Asia?
Did you know that plantations on the mountains in Alto Paraguay Department close to Asunción proved viable for coffee production in Paraguay?
Did you know that the 1922 Princeton vs. Chicago football game, won by Princeton's "Team of Destiny", was the first to be nationally broadcast on radio?
Did you know that the Game of Thrones episode "Hardhome" is considered by critics as a "ridiculous turnaround" compared to the rape scene in "Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken"?
Did you know that the lawn game bocce became popular during the English Renaissance?
Did you know that the lesser valley coral attacks and may kill less aggressive species, such as the larger star coral?
Did you know that when the frigates Forte and HMS Sybille fought the Action of 28 February 1799, the opposing captains were both killed?
Did you know that Fredrick Obateru Akinruntan, Africa's second richest king, saw a car for the first time in 1961?
Did you know that Massachusetts was the first state in the United States to legalize same-sex marriage?
Did you know that Paul Gerhardt's hymn "Du meine Seele singe" (You my soul sing), a paraphrase of Psalm 146, became known for a melody beginning with a rocket motif?
Did you know that SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei August Meyszner was hanged in 1947 for overseeing the killing of as many as 8,000 Jewish women and children using a gas van?
Did you know that St John's Church, Silverdale, is notable for the high quality of the stone carvings in its interior?
Did you know that a track from The Ventures album Wild Things! was given its title by one of Mel Taylor's sons?
Did you know that besieged by British troops with his mentor Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, Yusuf Abu Durra managed to escape to become one of the main rebel leaders of the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine?
Did you know that during the 2014 Irish cricket season, the bowler Craig Young became the ninth cricketer to take five wickets on One Day International debut?
Did you know that for his composition Tre Motetter, Carl Nielsen and his wife selected texts from three psalms, he composed the music reflecting the mood, and later he added the words?
Did you know that in the Atharvasiras Upanishsad, the Devas offer prayers to Rudra extolling him as immortal and indestructible?
Did you know that the tiny horrid ground-weaver stopped a building development?
Did you know that while the Beijing headquarters building of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation is meant to evoke the prow of an oil tanker, locals thought it looked like a giant toilet bowl?
Did you know that Carl Nielsen composed At the Bier of a Young Artist for the funeral of the promising painter Oluf Hartmann?
Did you know that Fall Brook falls over Fall Brook Falls?
Did you know that Ivory Coast is one of the largest producers of robusta in the world?
Did you know that Kyle Gallner did not know that his character in Veronica Mars, Cassidy "Beaver" Casablancas, would be revealed as a murderer in the second season finale, "Not Pictured", until a costumer told him?
Did you know that Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' (detail pictured) has been described as "a titillating moral test for spectators to both enjoy and overcome"?
Did you know that Shelley Cronau, who suffered serious injuries in a fall, joined the Be the Influence advertising campaign to warn others about the dangers of binge drinking?
Did you know that Tyus Battle won a gold medal in the final of the 2014 FIBA Under-17 World Championship?
Did you know that at Bobby Chinn's self-titled restaurant in Hanoi, dishes are influenced by his time in France, including filet mignon in spring rolls?
Did you know that before he became senior vice president of Disney Television Animation, Eric Coleman helped develop SpongeBob SquarePants?
Did you know that oncologist Alan Coates was once lowered through the ceiling of St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney?
Did you know that the Game of Thrones episode "Mother's Mercy" contains unpublished material from the novel The Winds of Winter?
Did you know that the future Marshal of the Royal Air Force John Slessor was lame as a result of polio and only gained his commission as a second lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps in 1915 with the help of family connections?
Did you know that the right to name Congregation Albert, a synagogue in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was auctioned off for $250?
Did you know that the small trees and shrubs Myrcianthes coquimbensis, Myrceugenia rufa, Myrceugenia colchaguensis, and Myrceugenia leptospermoides are endemic to the coastal region of Chile and are all endangered?
Did you know that Bach's cantata Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21, probably served for both a memorial service and for job applications, and certainly for the Third Sunday after Trinity in 1714 and 1723?
Did you know that Canadian artist Jillian Tamaki, of This One Summer fame, wrote the Adventure Time episodes "Astral Plane" and "The Diary"?
Did you know that Conrad Black feared that Tom Bower's biography Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge was going to be "a heartwarming story of two sleazy, spivvy, contemptible people"?
Did you know that Guadeloupe's coffee heritage (coffee field pictured) is being promoted through ecotourism?
Did you know that Lixia Zhang coined the term "middlebox"?
Did you know that the "P"-badge for Polish forced laborers was the first official, public badge introduced by Nazi Germany, preceding the "Jewish yellow star" by over a year?
Did you know that the Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray was awarded both India's highest civilian award and France's highest decoration?
Did you know that the first known building designed by Romanian architect Cristofi Cerchez, "Stătescu Villa", in Câmpulung, later became a registered historic monument?
Did you know that the larva of Aphidius nigripes, a parasitoid of the potato aphid, can control the behaviour of its host?
Did you know that 18-year-old Israeli swimmer Ziv Kalontarov, who won a gold medal at the 2015 European Games, was trained by his parents?
Did you know that Boris Volkoff performed and choreographed under his mother's family name?
Did you know that Manny Pacquiao recorded his own entrance song for his fight against Floyd Mayweather, Jr.?
Did you know that Martha E. Sloan was the first female president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers?
Did you know that Sir William Cunningham Dalyell of the Binns, 7th Baronet, took part in covert operations during the Napoleonic Wars?
Did you know that Swedish fashion designer Per Holknekt placed second in the first Swedish Big Brother season before starting the clothing company Odd Molly?
Did you know that a monument was built to commemorate American soldiers who fought in the 1918 Battle of Saint-Mihiel near Montsec, Meuse?
Did you know that more than 35,000 local governments in the US are served by 556 regional councils of governments?
Did you know that the fortifications of Portobelo-San Lorenzo, at one time the "most heavily fortified Spanish coastal control point in the Americas", are a World Heritage in Danger site?
Did you know that the song "Going Back to My Roots" was inspired by a book by Alex Haley?
Did you know that Arthur S. Brisbane, the then-public editor of The New York Times, said that the 2012 creation of NewsDiffs imposed a "forced transparency" on The Times?
Did you know that Philomena Lynott insisted on washing Brian Robertson's hair before he performed on TV with Thin Lizzy?
Did you know that Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball was commissioned from England's foremost painter of nudes by a Conservative Member of Parliament who wanted a picture of his daughters?
Did you know that Swedish fruit soup is typically served as a dessert dish?
Did you know that during the 2003 Cricket World Cup, Zimbabwean cricketers Andy Flower and Henry Olonga wore black armbands?
Did you know that in 1773, during the voyage of James Cook's HMS Resolution, crew members referred to the beer on board the ship that was prepared from malt as experimental beer?
Did you know that in the unsold 1958 TV pilot, Tales of Frankenstein, Don Megowan played the Monster in the style of Boris Karloff?
Did you know that sponges, worms, and molluscs bore into the stony skeleton of the intermediate valley coral?
Did you know that ten Cuman chieftains took their customary oath upon a dog cut into two at the wedding of Stephen V of Hungary and Elizabeth the Cuman?
Did you know that the Moulin de Vertain, Templeuve was sold on 24 Vendémiaire 6, as its owner had fled France?
Did you know that the ancient basalt doors in Khan al-Sabil are the largest of their kind in the Aleppo region of Syria?
Did you know that the owner of the world's largest collection of Nazi memorabilia sleeps in Hitler's bed, but has "changed the mattress"?
Did you know that "Praise to the Living God" can be used in both Jewish and Christian worship as a hymn written for interfaith use?
Did you know that A. S. Neill liked the 1972 intellectual biography about himself, Fifty Years of Freedom, but thought it "wasn't critical enough"?
Did you know that Clarks Creek is one of the few remaining wild trout streams in the Lackawanna Valley?
Did you know that Cofix is the first coffee shop chain to be traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange?
Did you know that María Eugenia Suárez, who plays a victim of anorexia in the film Abzurdah, lost 6 kg (13 lb) during production?
Did you know that New Tavern Fort (6 in gun pictured) in Gravesend, Kent, was built to protect London and the Thames from a possible French invasion during the American War of Independence?
Did you know that Suicide Sarah was Idi Amin's favourite wife?
Did you know that Toussaint Coffee Liqueur is named after the revolutionary fighter Toussaint Louverture?
Did you know that after the shooting of Walter Scott—an African-American—in North Charleston, South Carolina, the state government proposed a bill named after him to equip more police officers with body cameras?
Did you know that the flat broom was originally made in the Shaker broom vise?
Did you know that the game engine used for games such as Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto V was first used for a table tennis simulation game?
Did you know that 18th-century Indian artist Nainsukh is known for his unusually informal paintings of a raja, whose ashes he eventually consigned to the river Ganges?
Did you know that Andrew Brown was strongly critical of the role of Charles Lawrence, acting governor of Nova Scotia, in the Acadian Expulsion?
Did you know that Mount Harriet National Park in the Andaman Islands is a butterfly hotspot?
Did you know that an organization to help young African American men avoid gangs and prison was co-founded by law professor Nekima Levy-Pounds?
Did you know that biologist Robert C. Stebbins once dosed Galápagos lava lizards with radiation and tracked them with a Geiger counter?
Did you know that during World War II, James Franck's gold Nobel Prize medal was dissolved in aqua regia and stored in a bottle on a shelf to prevent it from falling into German hands?
Did you know that in 1882, midshipman Charles Cabaniss was killed by a bullet that ricocheted twice off the deck and once off a gun on the USS Swatara?
Did you know that in a 2013 case, the Singapore Court of Appeal held that the Prime Minister was wrong to say he had discretion under the Constitution not to call a by-election to fill a parliamentary vacancy?
Did you know that kongsi federations such as the Lanfang Republic once controlled a large part of western Borneo?
Did you know that the Alfred Bog is the largest high-quality bog in Southern Ontario, Canada?
Did you know that the exhibition of Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm (detail pictured) prompted the comment that "no decent family can hang such sights against their wall"?
Did you know that the former site of the Old White Horse Cellar, one of the most famous coaching inns in England during the 18th and 19th centuries, is now the location of The Ritz?
Did you know that the snack kue gapit is more popular among tourists than local residents of Cirebon?
Did you know that the visually impaired Romanian poet Mihai Codreanu walked with a cane that concealed a blade of Toledo steel, which he used to ward off jealous husbands?
Did you know that Géza II of Hungary was crowned king at the age of eleven?
Did you know that Jules Verne's play Journey Through the Impossible, featuring Captain Nemo and other heroes from Verne's novels, was presumed lost until 1978?
Did you know that Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, who commissioned Beethoven's Mass in C major for his wife's name day, found it "unbearably ridiculous and detestable"?
Did you know that Thomas Corbett, a Shaker doctor, developed an electrostatic medical device in 1810 as a "cure" for rheumatism?
Did you know that Voyager 1 (artist's impression pictured) is expected to reach the Oort cloud in around 300 years?
Did you know that professional Canadian box lacrosse player Curtis Manning is also a physician?
Did you know that the 9-minute pilot for Long Live the Royals won its creator a Primetime Emmy Award and earned the show an order from Cartoon Network?
Did you know that the intense lighting of The Wrestlers highlights the curves, musculature, and sweat of the participants' naked bodies as they embrace and grapple?
Did you know that the sequel to the Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars video game is simply called Rocket League, an easier to remember title?
Did you know that the writer of the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Unity" based the episode on the destruction of the Tower of Babel?
Did you know that For Honor, a hack and slash game, was called "a shooter with swords" by its creative director?
Did you know that Gordon Ramsay once called Spanish chef Omar Allibhoy the "Antonio Banderas of cooking"?
Did you know that Uvais Karnain was the first cricketer to take a five-wicket haul on his One Day International debut?
Did you know that Victoria Price, the daughter of horror icon Vincent Price, is not a fan of horror films?
Did you know that a toilet service, containing as many as 48 pieces in silver or silver-gilt for the dressing-table, was a wedding present for rich women from the 17th century onwards?
Did you know that after the attack at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, the mother of one of the gunmen said her son had been brainwashed and she did not blame the police for killing him during the event?
Did you know that one of the towers of Bissau Cathedral is used as a lighthouse to guide ships to the Port of Bissau?
Did you know that players can ride on dinosaurs in Ark: Survival Evolved?
Did you know that the film Mahler on the Couch deals with a love triangle between Alma Mahler, Walter Gropius, and Gustav Mahler, and Gustav's consultation with Sigmund Freud?
Did you know that Archduke John of Austria met his wife, the future Countess von Meran, while she was posing as a boy?
Did you know that Polish Catholic midwife Stanisława Leszczyńska delivered 3,000 babies at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust in occupied Poland?
Did you know that excavations by Yosihiko H. Sinoto in Hane in the Marquesas Islands in 1964–5 uncovered more than 12,000 bird bones?
Did you know that in the early 1900s, Pennsylvania's Price Creek—unlike its tributary Pancoast Creek—was partially filled with culm?
Did you know that some scholars fear the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Schmerber v. California will one day be used to justify the involuntary mind reading of criminal suspects?
Did you know that the 2009 All-SEC football team included two Heisman Trophy winners, Tim Tebow of Florida and Mark Ingram, Jr. of Alabama, as well as future convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez?
Did you know that the indie band Allo Darlin' recorded the album We Come from the Same Place in London while their vocalist Elizabeth Morris lived in Florence, Italy?
Did you know that the online platform VyRT was founded by Jared Leto as a live video streaming service?
Did you know that under Dudley Snell, the fifth and last Chairman of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board, the first tram extensions in over two decades opened in Melbourne?
Did you know that while artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada, Reid Anderson also performed as a character dancer?
Did you know that Hillary Clinton's coffee table book, An Invitation to the White House: At Home with History, described the traditional aspects of her time as First Lady of the United States?
Did you know that Qasim al-Ahmad, from the fortified village of Beit Wazan, led the 1834 Peasants' Revolt in Palestine against Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt?
Did you know that U.C. Berkeley professor Richard M. Eakin gave lectures dressed as Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, and other famous scientists, one of whom he knew personally?
Did you know that highlights from 19th-century ichnology include the discovery of protomammal tracks in England, dinosaur footprints in Massachusetts, and the mysterious hand-shaped Chirotherium tracks?
Did you know that the 1941 Michigan Wolverines football team outscored opponents 147 to 41, losing only to the eventual champions, Minnesota?
Did you know that the Lummelunda Cave (entrance pictured) is one of the longest caves in Sweden?
Did you know that the best-quality coffee produced in Panama is grown in Boquete?
Did you know that the soundtrack of 1982 film Ezhavathu Manithan featured songs from a pre-recorded album of L. Vaidyanathan, composed using the lyrics of Subramania Bharati's poetry?
Did you know that "Le Mulâtre" (The Mulatto) by Victor Séjour of New Orleans, published in 1837, is the earliest known short story by an African-American writer?
Did you know that "Terbaik Bagimu", a single from Siti Nurhaliza's latest album, was chosen as a theme song for a Malay drama and a telemovie?
Did you know that Aaron Novick was one of the inventors of the chemostat?
Did you know that Benjamin Franklin Baker wrote a cantata about a burning ship?
Did you know that Buddhist monks are said to have forecast the future by studying the changing colours of Lake Tsomgo?
Did you know that Israeli judoka Sagi Muki was coached by Olympian Oren Smadja for 19 years before he won the 2015 European Judo Championships?
Did you know that Jamaica exports more than 80 per cent of its production of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee to Japan?
Did you know that Orlanda Velez Isidro was Madame Mao in a Dutch production of John Adams' Nixon in China?
Did you know that Savitri Upanishad, which has 15 verses, begins with an invocation hymn seeking blessings for strong functioning of motory and sensory organs?
Did you know that Ubisoft consulted locals during the development of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands, a game set in Bolivia?
Did you know that during the 20th century, the first large-scale excavation of dinosaur footprints was undertaken in Texas for an exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History?
Did you know that the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad operates a steam locomotive that was once operated by the McCloud Railway?
Did you know that Mary Whitcher wrote the first published Shaker cookbook?
Did you know that archaeological excavations at Lake Küçükçekmece near Istanbul, Turkey, revealed the existence of an ancient port city?
Did you know that the asthmatic prince Sancho of Majorca became king because his older brother wanted to be a monk and his younger brother was at odds with their father?
Did you know that the constellation Norma depicts a set square and/or ruler?
Did you know that the original Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (replacement pictured) was burned to the ground after Denmark Vesey, one of the church's founders, was implicated in a slave revolt plot?
Did you know that Christian Kracht's novel Imperium was debated in German newspapers in 2012 when it was accused of signaling a "racist worldview"?
Did you know that Climate Hawks Vote rated Bernie Sanders as the senator with the highest score for climate leadership in the 113th United States Congress?
Did you know that Lycodon chrysoprateros, a snake species endemic to the Philippines, is considered critically endangered because its range is only 52 square kilometres (20 sq mi)?
Did you know that Mariana Fabbiani and Guido Kaczka, hosts of the 45th Martín Fierro Awards ceremony, received awards of their own during the event?
Did you know that Miss Florida 2015, Mary Katherine Fechtel, won her first pageant title, Junior Miss Leesburg 2007, at age 12?
Did you know that The World Before the Flood (detail pictured) was described on its initial exhibition as a "deadly sin against good taste"?
Did you know that although it is generally used as a racist slur, some British Pakistanis are attempting to reclaim the word "Paki"?
Did you know that architectural historians have commented that the battlements of St John the Evangelist's Church, Yealand Conyers, are clumsy and the hood moulds lumpy?
Did you know that it is unclear who first used Franz Wilhelm Ferling's oboe études for the study of the saxophone?
Did you know that roving reference engages patrons beyond the traditional library?
Did you know that the fruit bodies (mushrooms) of Rubroboletus rubrosanguineus smell like hay?
Did you know that the titular character of Simon Vestdijk's 1934 novel Terug tot Ina Damman, the third in the Anton Wachter cycle, was based on a girl who rejected the writer at age 14?
Did you know that Chien-Shiung Wu conducted the Wu experiment, which contradicted the hypothetical law of conservation of parity?
Did you know that Eliza Meek, the part-Hawaiian daughter of Captain John Meek, was the mistress of the bachelor King Lunalilo?
Did you know that Pennsylvania's Lake Rose was built by a squatter?
Did you know that U.S. swimmers Mike Heath, David Larson, Jeff Float and Bruce Hayes were dubbed the "Gross Busters" after beating German star Michael Gross and his team in the 4×200 m relay at the 1984 Olympics?
Did you know that Zambian writer Namwali Serpell, winner of the Caine Prize for African fiction in English, said she would share the prize money with the other nominees since "fiction is not a competitive sport"?
Did you know that as a child, Indian actress Sargun Mehta and her brother auditioned for the dance reality show Boogie Woogie, but were rejected?
Did you know that in his tone poem The Oceanides, Finnish composer Jean Sibelius "applied the impressionist method of scoring to the bass instruments, thereby achieving effects of sonority hitherto unknown"?
Did you know that locusts are the swarming phase of certain species of short-horned grasshoppers?
Did you know that musician Craig Taborn, winner of a Doris Duke Artist Award worth up to $275,000, does not have, or want, his own website?
Did you know that the Godavari Maha Pushkaram festival (Godavari River pictured), being held from 14 July 2015, takes place once every 144 years?
Did you know that the north celestial pole is located in Ursa Minor?
Did you know that the tiki is a common figure in Marquesan wood carving?
Did you know that Constanze Backes performed the leading female part in Joseph Schuster's rediscovered opera Il Marito Indolente?
Did you know that Francisca Fernández Hall, the first woman to earn an engineering degree from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, became Guatemala's chargé d'affaires in Israel?
Did you know that a New York City police detective likened the way evidence was developed in the Ramona Moore murder case to the Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window?
Did you know that a painting of Fiddle Lake Creek is on long-term display at the William J. Nealon Federal Building and United States Courthouse?