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Did you know that Armenian inventor Stephen Stepanian's patent for the first concrete mixer truck was initially rejected, reportedly due to a belief that a truck couldn't support the weight of a concrete mixer?
Did you know that Ballinamallard United's club chairman has speculated that their matches are poorly covered on TV because it is deemed too expensive to send cameras to Ferney Park?
Did you know that Bruce Rondón, a Venezuelan baseball player, was described as a "rare talent" by General Manager Dave Dombrowski of the Detroit Tigers?
Did you know that Colan Church contains a brass plaque with a bullet hole?
Did you know that Lie Tek Swie's Siti Noerbaja (film still pictured) was the first adaptation of Marah Roesli's novel of the same name?
Did you know that Major K. A. Gamage posthumously received the Parama Weera Vibhushanaya, Sri Lanka's highest military award for gallantry, for his actions just one month before the end of the civil war?
Did you know that Maxine Feldman's song "Amazon" is traditionally performed at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival?
Did you know that Nehru's eulogy for Gandhi following the latter's assassination has been called one of the great speeches of history?
Did you know that Papeete's Notre Dame Cathedral contains Stations of the Cross that were influenced by Paul Gauguin?
Did you know that Torment: Tides of Numenera became the first video game project to raise $1,000,000 in under seven hours on the crowd funding platform Kickstarter?
Did you know that Ukrainian helicopter pilot hero Mykola Melnyk made 46 sorties over the highly-radioactive Chernobyl Power Plant, and then continued firefighting flights into his fifties?
Did you know that Zelma Long is considered to be one of the female pioneers of wine production in the U.S. state of California?
Did you know that about 90% of the plants found in Libya have been recorded growing in El-Kouf National Park?
Did you know that baseball player Nate Freiman caddies for golfer Amanda Blumenherst?
Did you know that the fortress of Qalaat al-Madiq, located outside ancient Apamea in northern Syria, was ordered built by the Zengid sultan Nur ad-Din?
Did you know that 47 plant species of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., including Ceanothus greggii, are named in honor of Josiah Gregg?
Did you know that Jacob Grimm described The Building of Skadar, recorded after the singing of Old Rashko, as "one of the most touching poems of all nations and all times"?
Did you know that Katharine Hepburn recruited Hilda Crosby Standish to be medical director of the first birth control clinic in Connecticut?
Did you know that Philemon Holland claimed that he wrote out the whole of his translation of Plutarch's Moralia with a single quill pen?
Did you know that Rita Hayworth's song and dance performance in Gilda helped demonstrate the stability of the newly invented strapless dress?
Did you know that although Ralph Horween was the National Football League's oldest living player in 1994, the league mistakenly honored another player as such?
Did you know that although the Stone Mountain Memorial half dollar was intended in part to honor the deceased US president Warren G. Harding, no mention of him appears on the coin?
Did you know that the Japanese I-351-class submarine was designed to support up to three flying boats with fuel, ammunition, water, and even replacement aircrew?
Did you know that the Toronto Blue Jays wear an alternate jersey in the national colours of Canada on Canada Day?
Did you know that the ammonite Hildoceras bifrons has been used as an index fossil to help identify the age of rocks?
Did you know that the medieval royal official Hugh de Cressy was one of the first persons summoned as a Serjeant-at-Law when he was summoned in 1176 by King Henry II of England?
Did you know that English watercolour painter and engraver Francis William Topham was one of Charles Dickens' "splendid strollers"?
Did you know that Wallace found Kayoa's virgin forest "a glorious spot" full of beetles?
Did you know that developments in the Polish film industry during the Interbellum saw the emergence of stars like Pola Negri?
Did you know that in 2003, Aishwarya Rai was the first Indian actress ever to be appointed a member of the Cannes Film Festival jury?
Did you know that officials added Verdigris, Oklahoma, to a highway exit sign because of the large crowds basketball player Rotnei Clarke attracted during high school?
Did you know that teacher Mary Louise Graffam hid hundreds of Armenian girls from the Ottoman Empire during the Armenian Genocide?
Did you know that the San Francisco Giants drafted Brock Bond when they meant to draft Casey Bond?
Did you know that the architecture of the Church of St. Wenceslaus in New Prague, Minnesota, is based on a church in Prague, Czech Republic?
Did you know that the effects of Hurricane Isaac in Florida forced the cancellation of the first day of the 2012 Republican National Convention?
Did you know that the listed buildings in Dodcott cum Wilkesley, Cheshire include a former monastery, game larder, icehouse, folly with kennels, battlemented water tower, clock tower and a sundial?
Did you know that the main character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was inspired by a group of rare genetic disorders known as progeroid syndromes?
Did you know that Josh Linkner was awarded a Champion of Change award in the youth entrepreneur category by President Barack Obama?
Did you know that Tio Ie Soei uncovered Sair Tjerita Siti Akbari's origins, leading to a scandal?
Did you know that at the Battle of Fornham on 17 October 1173, not only was the losing commander Robert de Beaumont the Earl of Leicester captured, but his wife, Petronilla, who was in armour, was too?
Did you know that baseball umpire Fieldin Culbreth umpired in the first no-hitters thrown by pitchers for both the Tampa Bay Rays and the New York Mets?
Did you know that century-old vines of Bouchalès exist in Bordeaux, having likely survived phylloxera due to an old vineyard practice of flood irrigation disrupting the life cycle of the louse?
Did you know that having been awarded over two dozen medals, Armenian American Marine Victor Maghakian is considered one of the most decorated American soldiers of World War II?
Did you know that in 1975, an award named in honor of nurse and professor Luther Christman was created by the American Assembly for Men in Nursing?
Did you know that most epic poems about the Babi Yar massacres were written by Russian and Ukrainian Jews who managed to survive the Holocaust?
Did you know that obsolete Type 88 shells from the 41 cm/45 3rd Year Type naval gun were modified to create the Type 99 armor-piercing bomb used during the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Did you know that the St. Joseph Catholic Church in San Antonio, Texas earned the moniker "St. Joske's" after a department store called Joske's was built around its three sides?
Did you know that the seed and stem of Eriophorum angustifolium are edible and are used in traditional Native American cuisine?
Did you know that there are figures of many gods as well as, unusually, a tortoise, on the steps to the Saptashrungi temple, built in 1710 AD?
Did you know that Bache Hall in Cheshire, a former country house, now provides accommodation for students of the University of Chester?
Did you know that Berkeley, California, rapper Lil B's Rain in England is an ambient hip hop album without any beats or profanity?
Did you know that Franz Schubert regarded his fifth mass so highly, he contemplated dedicating it to the Holy Roman Emperor Francis II?
Did you know that New York Yankees prospect Vidal Nuño has also been a Wildcat, Scrapper, Captain, Wild Thing, and RiverDog?
Did you know that Polish-American George S. Wise was the first president of Tel Aviv University?
Did you know that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's religious compositions, especially his All-Night Vigil, were responsible for the revival of interest in Russian Orthodox music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
Did you know that a build-up in numbers of the brittle star Amphiura filiformis in the North Sea may have been caused by eutrophication?
Did you know that in the United Kingdom, 5,675, 5,608, and 6,045 people aged 15 and over committed suicide in 2009, 2010, and 2011 respectively?
Did you know that tenor Martin Lattke performed with the ensemble amarcord in the Frauenkirche Dresden Bach's lost St Mark Passion in a reconstruction by Diethard Hellmann?
Did you know that the Ararat Massis Armenian Cemetery contains the graves of many prominent figures of Armenian and American history such as Soghomon Tehlirian, Victor Maghakian and William Saroyan?
Did you know that the brawny bolete mushroom may contain the antabuse-like compound coprine?
Did you know that the first production of Ghost Patrol, a chamber opera composed by Stuart MacRae, won the 2013 South Bank Sky Arts Award for Opera?
Did you know that the future Norwegian king Harald Hardrada led the Byzantine Varangian Guard against the Lombards and Normans in the Battle of Montemaggiore in Italy?
Did you know that the postmodern architecture of the mixed-use development Washington Harbour has been described as "pop art" and "cartoonish"?
Did you know that Grumpy Cat's signature facial expression is permanent and probably caused by feline dwarfism?
Did you know that Kevin Shields used a "slapdash approach" to recording while producing "City Girl"?
Did you know that Leslie Finer's reports during the 21 April 1967 coup d'état in Greece prompted the junta to buy all the newspapers which carried his articles?
Did you know that Sasipada Banerji is credited with founding the first women's journal in Bengali and Bharat Sramajivi, the first Indian journal of the working class?
Did you know that circular layouts, in which the nodes of a graph are drawn on a circle, have been used to visualize the cyclic parts of metabolic networks?
Did you know that dhumpa sangita is a musical art form from Odisha, India, created by the Oriya poet Kavisurya Baladev Rath?
Did you know that in addition to aircraft maintenance, No. 1 Aircraft Depot RAAF was responsible for research flights in Australia and the Pacific, such as the 1927 Papuan Survey Flight (Seagull III pictured)?
Did you know that multi-bacterial infection resulting from the contamination of wounds by oral flora often complicates the recovery for survivors of leopard attacks?
Did you know that the One Direction song "Rock Me" was composed in a single-day collaboration between Peter Svensson of the Swedish band the Cardigans, Allan Grigg, and Sam Hollander?
Did you know that the music video for "Amor Puro" was filmed at the St. Bernard of Clairvaux, a building built in 1133 AD in Spain and dismantled and sent to New York in more than 11,000 crates in 1925?
Did you know that the testimony of Holocaust survivors like Louis Micheels helped to acquit an SS physician, Hans Münch, at the 1947 Auschwitz trials?
Did you know that the uncommon mineral aguilarite, named for discoverer Ponciano Aguilar, is known from the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australasia?
Did you know that when Ruben Yttergård Jenssen was signed by Tromsø IL in 2006, the head coach claimed it was better in some respects than signing Ronaldinho?
Did you know that Corporal K. Chandana, a member of a Sri Lanka Army LRRP unit, was killed in 2008 while he covered the retreat of his team deep behind enemy lines?
Did you know that Dr. Frank William Green worked on horseback as a physician along the Canadian Pacific Railway?
Did you know that Franz Schubert's sixth and final mass was not performed until October 1829, almost a full year after his death?
Did you know that Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley, is said to have rebuilt Caludon Castle in about 1580 after its deterioration following the 1398 banishment from England of Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk?
Did you know that Lilac rabbits are penalized at British shows for having white hairs in their armpits?
Did you know that Patrick J. Hanratty, the "father of CAD/CAM", is a gold prospector?
Did you know that Sergeant H. G. S. Bandara posthumously received the last Parama Weera Vibhushanaya of the Sri Lankan Civil War, having distinguished himself in battle just two days before it ended?
Did you know that a Serbian monk named Lazar built the first mechanical clock in Russia in 1404, one of the first in Europe, at the request of Vasily I of Moscow?
Did you know that a view of the Rock of Gibraltar has hung since the 18th century in a lady's art gallery in the Netherlands?
Did you know that in 1814, Franz Schubert composed his first mass, a missa solemnis in F major, for the centennial celebration of the Lichtental parish church, also known as Schubertkirche?
Did you know that in art Doubting Thomas normally thrusts his fingers into the wound of Jesus, but the Gospel of John does not say whether he did this?
Did you know that isolated sheilings were ideal for "sexual experiment"?
Did you know that one of the Easter traditions in Poland includes making and displaying of the Easter palm, the tallest of which can reach over 30 metres (98 ft)?
Did you know that the University of Michigan, founded twenty years before the Michigan Territory became a U.S. state, is Michigan's oldest university?
Did you know that Bach performed his cantata Der Himmel lacht! Die Erde jubilieret, BWV 31, festively scored for Easter Sunday, probably in the town church St. Peter und Paul in Weimar?
Did you know that Chrisye performed a new song, "Eternal Ballad", five years after his death?
Did you know that Elvis' greatest shit was dropped in 1982?
Did you know that James Bond played briefly in the National Football League after completing his military service?
Did you know that Jean Hurault de Boistaillé, ambassador of France, used his appointment at the embassy to collect manuscripts?
Did you know that Mugeary, which is 25 miles from Glenelg in Scotland, is the namesake of a rock found millions of miles away but just a few hundred feet from Glenelg?
Did you know that Norwegians built Gibraltar's first school in the 1860s?
Did you know that Polish girls are getting wet and spanked today, but will have their revenge tomorrow?
Did you know that Shitterton has been voted to be worse than Scratchy Bottom or Brokenwind?
Did you know that Siemens is in Püssi?
Did you know that Wikipedia was discovered in 2008 between Mars and Jupiter?
Did you know that a Lady twin produced a Bachelor's Double?
Did you know that a Norwegian organization established a women's fart team?
Did you know that according to the 1850 US Census, Massachusetts and Rhode Island were the first U.S. states to become urban-majority, 70 years before the U.S. as a whole?
Did you know that happiness is Dean Martin?
Did you know that sheep enjoy snacking on Pecorino?
Did you know that some schmuck tried to get the U.S. Supreme Court to let him off for mail fraud because all he did was roll back odometers?
Did you know that the voice of blood is violet and makes no sound?
Did you know that Dick Wick Hall's frog never learned to swim?
Did you know that English actor Clive Mantle (portrait pictured) beat up Clint Eastwood?
Did you know that John le Fucker's name probably did not mean what you might think it means?
Did you know that Jörg Faerber was the artistic director of the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn for more than four decades and recorded piano concertos by Shostakovich and Haydn with Martha Argerich?
Did you know that Mark Koenig was the last surviving member of the Murderers' Row?
Did you know that Soho Pam liked to give her patrons a cuddle?
Did you know that The Three Musketeers  were the nucleus engineers of the Chrysler Corporation?
Did you know that Walter Baxter wrote about the gay Batman–Kent relationship?
Did you know that a mouldy old film was screened at Cannes?
Did you know that an armless freak had a chimpanzee as his partner?
Did you know that fragments of the coral Acropora grandis (pictured with hawkfish) have been successfully transplanted to a nursery bed and used to regenerate a damaged coral reef?
Did you know that inscriptions in the extinct Bactrian language can be found at Shatial?
Did you know that one reviewer describes Rihanna's "Jump" as one of two tracks that "see sex wriggling everywhere" on the album Unapologetic?
Did you know that the Buddhist court attendant who wrote an anti-Daoist text converted from Daoism after negative experience with Daoist sexual practices?
Did you know that the Lebang Boomani dance is performed by the Tripuri people of Tripura, India, as part of the jhum cultivation cycle?
Did you know that the Steps of Cincinnati once stretched over 30 miles (48 km)?
Did you know that the churchyard gates (church pictured) in the small Cheshire village of Burleydam come from Lleweni Hall, and were described as "of great elegance" by Samuel Johnson?
Did you know that while plantings of Gros Verdot have been banned in Bordeaux, the grape can still be used to make Bordeaux-style Meritage wines outside of France?
Did you know that "Leafy" Burnham, co-founder of the Barmy Army, got his nickname from the cockney rhyming slang for "thief" while working at British Airways?
Did you know that Franz Schubert's fourth mass, a missa solemnis in C major, shows a perceived "lightness of touch" in the tradition of Mozart and Michael Haydn?
Did you know that Franz Schubert's third mass in B flat major is by its short duration a missa brevis, but by its large orchestral force of brass, woodwinds, and timpani a missa solemnis?
Did you know that Horween Leather Company makes the National Football League's footballs, colloquially known as "pigskins", out of steer hides?
Did you know that Operation Ironside was a Second World War military deception, targeting the Bay of Biscay, in support of the D-Day landings?
Did you know that Parley Common in Dorset has at least 147 species of spider among its fauna, including the very rare Ero aphana, and Xysticus robustus?
Did you know that Shell Beach in Western Australia is entirely composed of empty shells of the heart cockle?
Did you know that a vineyard crossing of Peloursin and Syrah produced the wine grape variety Petite Sirah?
Did you know that although the medieval cleric Burchard du Puiset was called the nephew of Hugh du Puiset, the Bishop of Durham, it is possible that Burchard was really Hugh's son?
Did you know that despite having 6 centimetre (2.4 inch) thorns, Acacia ehrenbergiana is an important food for camels, goats, and sheep?
Did you know that in 2013, Singaporean politician Desmond Lim set a new record for the lowest percentage garnered in an election since the independence of Singapore in 1965?
Did you know that in The Malay Archipelago, Wallace is greeted by 50 exuberant Papuan Ké Islanders, naked but for shells and Cassowary plumes?
Did you know that in the film Debipaksha (2004), a Bengali priest named his three daughters Rebati, Haimanti and Jayanti, the names of Hindu goddess Durga?
Did you know that the Quaker meetinghouse in the Old Chappaqua Historic District, the oldest building in New Castle, New York, was used to treat Continental Army casualties of the Battle of White Plains?
Did you know that the punishments in Hell that Ralph of Coggeshall's "Vision of Thurkill" claimed would happen to medieval judge Osbert fitzHervey included being forced to eat and then vomit back up hot coins?
Did you know that when force-fed to mice, the toxin ustalic acid, isolated from the mushroom Tricholoma ustale, makes them crouch—hesitant to move—before it kills them?
Did you know that A. M. B. H. G. Abeyrathnebanda, who was killed in action at 19 years of age, is the youngest recipient of the Parama Weera Vibhushanaya?
Did you know that Admiral Eduard von Capelle was responsible for writing the legislation that funded the battleships of the German High Seas Fleet before World War I?
Did you know that Amanda Clement was the first woman paid to umpire a baseball game?
Did you know that Ferndown Common in Dorset supports such rare heathland species as the Sand Lizard (Lacerta agilis) and Smooth Snake (Coronella austriaca)?
Did you know that Graduados is the first remake produced by the Chilean TV channel Chilevisión?
Did you know that Grand Duke Leszek the White and a number of other Polish Piast dukes were ambushed in their baths during the 13th-century regicide and massacre at Gąsawa?
Did you know that John Knox's  journals provide one of the most complete accounts of the British Army's campaigns in North America from 1757 to 1760?
Did you know that Justin Timberlake's song "Strawberry Bubblegum" contains references to "Pop", a song by his former band 'N Sync?
Did you know that Kentucky established a record with six blue chip recruits from a single school being selected to the 2013 McDonald's All-American Boys Game?
Did you know that Miss Calypso, a 1957 album by future poet and writer Maya Angelou, was reissued in 1995, probably as part of the "exotica-space age pop revival"?
Did you know that Pinus densiflora is a dominant forest component of the flora of North Korea?
Did you know that Sir Roger Townshend's portrait was among those on a tapestry commemorating the destruction of the Spanish Armada which hung in the House of Lords until the tapestry was destroyed by fire in 1834?
Did you know that Zoebaida kept audiences focused by using alternating long shots and close-ups?
Did you know that for all species of bats native to Canada, there have been five total recorded cases of bat to human rabies transmission since 1925?
Did you know that in the Gossaum fights during Korean New Year, the straw constructions are deliberately mismatched to give the preferred team an advantage?
Did you know that new South Alabama head basketball coach Matthew Graves is one of three brothers from the tiny town of Switz City, Indiana, to play basketball for Butler?
Did you know that offensive tackles Mitchell Schwartz and Geoff Schwartz are the first Jewish brothers to play in the National Football League since Arnold Horween and Ralph Horween, in 1923?
Did you know that the Coorabulka station in Australia lost 4,000 square miles (10,360 km2) of grazing lands during a rat plague in 1940?
Did you know that the French ship Hercule had been in commission just 24 hours when captured by HMS Mars at the Battle of the Raz de Sein?
Did you know that the song "Tunnel Vision" by Justin Timberlake features several voyeuristic references?
Did you know that 2012–13 Atlantic 10 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year, Khalif Wyatt, was considered "high maintenance" early in his career by his head coach, Fran Dunphy?
Did you know that Bikenibeu, a settlement in Kiribati, could be completely flooded if sea levels rise by one metre?
Did you know that Circassians in Syria occupied many villages, including Murayj al-Durr, having been relocated to the country by the Ottoman authorities in an effort to combat rising local dissent during the nineteenth century?
Did you know that India got their first Test cricket win against England in 1952 at the Madras Cricket Club Ground?
Did you know that Mario Poli replaced Jorge Bergoglio as Archbishop of Buenos Aires when the latter was elected as Pope Francis?
Did you know that Mir Hazar Khan Khoso is the current caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan?
Did you know that Robert of Ghent, a 12th-century Lord Chancellor of England, once tried to prevent an Archbishop of York from entering the city of York?
Did you know that areas along the Tubutulik River contain abnormal radioactivity?
Did you know that astrophysicist Joan Feynman, sister of noted physicist Richard Feynman, discovered that auroras are caused by the solar wind's magnetic field interacting with Earth's magnetosphere?
Did you know that by 1940, Mount Mary College president Edward Fitzpatrick was considered one of the United States' "foremost authorities in military conscription"?
Did you know that general Ants Kurvits became the first head of the Estonian Border Guard in 1922, and held that position almost continuously for the whole interwar period?
Did you know that in the chancel wall of Holy Trinity Church, Holdgate, Shropshire, is a sheela na gig?