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Did you know that the first concert of the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra (hall pictured) in postwar Poland took place three months ahead of the end of World War II in Europe?
Did you know that the myrtle orange is a fungus?
Did you know that the percentage of Latinos among New York City's total population increased from 2% to 29% between 1940 and 2010?
Did you know that three years after a Tremont Group employee wrote an encyclopedia entry on the importance of due diligence, his company paid $1 billion for failing to conduct due diligence in the Madoff scandal?
Did you know that Henry Bell Gilkeson served as a House Delegate, State Senator, and school principal in West Virginia, as well as his county's schools superintendent and bar association dean?
Did you know that Jason Newsted has recorded songs with Metallica, Voivod and several musical supergroups?
Did you know that Kevin Ray's Boudreaux's Butt Paste Ford had the fifth-scariest paint scheme in NASCAR history, according to ESPN The Magazine?
Did you know that NGC 2467 is also known as the "Skull and Crossbones nebula"?
Did you know that Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 282 was used for redating Papyrus 46, a manuscript of the New Testament?
Did you know that Sir Philip Magnus began his career as an educational reformer while working as a rabbi at the West London Synagogue?
Did you know that Vice Admiral Shōji Nishimura refused to abandon ship when his flagship, the battleship Yamashiro, was capsizing during the Battle of Surigao Strait in 1944?
Did you know that Whalsay Parish Church is dedicated to the Holy Rood?
Did you know that Yoko Ono's song "Born in a Prison" has been credited with anticipating ideas that would be proposed by French philosopher Michel Foucault?
Did you know that para-alpine sit skier Nathalie Carpanedo, a member of the first women's adaptive ski team in Spain, was awarded the Real Orden del Mérito Deportivo Español?
Did you know that television executive Lukas Reiter was a mock trial national champion in law school?
Did you know that the Blauer Enzian, a German / Austrian express train, was named after a mountain flower, the Blue (or Spring) Gentian (Gentiana verna)?
Did you know that the Musgum mud huts in Cameroon are adobe structures in the reverse catenary arch form, which can bear maximum weight with least use of building material?
Did you know that the commander of Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command, MajGen Mark A. Clark, first got involved in special operations through an officer exchange program with the U.S. Air Force?
Did you know that the names of 3,500 "fans" will appear in the credits of a film promoting a brand of beer?
Did you know that the political career of John C. Breckinridge included service as Vice President of the United States and Confederate States Secretary of War?
Did you know that Allan Hills A81005 was the first lunar meteorite found on Earth?
Did you know that Chen Be-yue's nomination to Taiwan's constitutional court led to a proposal to bar public servants from holding permanent residency in foreign countries?
Did you know that Christian reinterpretation of pagan traditions, sacred sites, and lore was officially sanctioned as a means to facilitate Christianization?
Did you know that John Eaves designed the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E), first seen in the movie Star Trek: First Contact?
Did you know that Johnny Ray set a world speed record for tractor-trailers in 1975 at Talladega Superspeedway?
Did you know that Seth Jones, a projected top pick in the 2013 National Hockey League Entry Draft, is the son of former National Basketball Association player Popeye Jones?
Did you know that Société Parisienne was a French manufacturer of velocipedes, bicycles, tricycles and automobiles?
Did you know that after surviving the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and the Munich Massacre, Israeli Shaul Ladany set a world record in race walking?
Did you know that any Roman Catholic baptised male is eligible for election as pope in March 2013?
Did you know that at 33, Frank Zullo was the youngest person to be elected mayor in the history of Norwalk, Connecticut?
Did you know that historian and Tufts University professor Christina Maranci conducts research in five languages including classical Armenian?
Did you know that in the square of a graph, all vertices with a distance of no more than two in the original graph are adjacent?
Did you know that precarious rock formations were evaluated to estimate the peak ground acceleration of the 1952 Kern County earthquake?
Did you know that the Australian mushroom Amanita ochrophylla has an odour reminiscent of ants?
Did you know that the Lochamer-Liederbuch, a manuscript of songs (sample pictured) and organ works, is regarded as "one of the most important surviving collections of music from fifteenth-century Germany"?
Did you know that the golden sea cucumber is able to reproduce asexually by splitting in half?
Did you know that the megalithic site of Hirebenkal, built over 2000 years ago, is reportedly the largest necropolis in South India?
Did you know that the nomoli statues discovered in Sierra Leone are of unknown origin?
Did you know that First Congregational Church in Salt Lake City was the first non-Mormon church in Utah?
Did you know that Gary Connery is the first skydiver in history to land from a 2,400-foot (730 m) jump without a parachute?
Did you know that Giovanni Battista Agucchi, who became secretary to the Pope in 1623, was a friend of artists and a writer on Baroque art theory?
Did you know that Minuscule 890 once belonged to Cardinal Bessarion?
Did you know that Norwegian footballer Stian Dyngeland participated in the singing contest Idol?
Did you know that Sir Christopher More, stepuncle of Saint Thomas More, was one of the first officers in the Exchequer with formal legal training?
Did you know that Usmar Ismail incorrectly labeled Anak Perawan di Sarang Penjamun (The Virgin in the Robbers' Nest) as the first film adaptation of an Indonesian novel?
Did you know that in "Mirrors", Justin Timberlake sings to a lover about "coming to the realization" that she is his "other half"?
Did you know that polyps of the brain root coral (skeleton pictured) can recognise their clones and "help" them when they need assistance?
Did you know that the Independent International Commission on Kosovo's assessment was that NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was illegal but legitimate?
Did you know that the admirers of poet Mary Elizabeth McGrath Blake included Theodore Roosevelt and Oliver Wendell Holmes?
Did you know that the engraver Jacopo Caraglio fled to Venice from the Sack of Rome in 1527, before moving to Poland as court goldsmith?
Did you know that the establishment of the Afghan Local Police (officers pictured) in 2010 was opposed by President Hamid Karzai?
Did you know that the new biopic, The Light: Swami Vivekananda, was released in early 2013 as a tribute for the 150th anniversary of the Swami's birth?
Did you know that Guernsey RFC's ladies team was rejected from joining the RFU leagues on logistical grounds, despite the men's team playing in the RFU's National League?
Did you know that Hilde Levi helped develop the radiocarbon dating equipment used to date the Grauballe Man?
Did you know that Karamokho Alfa led the jihad that established the Imamate of Futa Jallon in present-day Guinea?
Did you know that Murray Battery in Hong Kong was demolished in the 1950s and replaced with the Central Government Offices?
Did you know that Slick Johnson's best finish in NASCAR competition occurred because he failed to qualify for the Daytona 500?
Did you know that Tayyare Apartments in Istanbul, originally built in 1922 for the victims of a fire disaster, houses a five-star hotel today?
Did you know that during the 1974 Vladivostok Summit with the Soviet Union, the U.S. delegation took its breaks outside in sub-zero temperatures due to fear of being bugged?
Did you know that in 1990, Michael Beaumont, feudal ruler of Sark, overcame a nuclear physicist's one-man invasion attempt and remains the only inhabitant allowed to keep pigeons and unspayed dogs?
Did you know that in the 1880s, H.W. Crabb's vine collection was one of the largest in the world?
Did you know that in the BBC Four documentary Treasures of Ancient Rome, Alastair Sooke sets out to debunk the myth that Roman art is unoriginal?
Did you know that one owner of the Williams–DuBois House in New Castle, New York, was a sea captain who planted tree specimens from the Far East on the property?
Did you know that poverty in Poland is more likely to affect young than old people?
Did you know that the Poeh Museum presents the history of the Pueblan people through visual arts, without using any text?
Did you know that the SEC commissioner denied a request by the 1960 Alabama football team to allow for a "sudden death" overtime period in the event of a tie in their game against Georgia Tech?
Did you know that the appearances of Maria Malibran in Nicola Vaccai's opera Giovanna Gray marked the last time she performed at La Scala?
Did you know that the original producers of Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann relocated its second act to Venice to include "Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour" (the Barcarolle), the opera's most famous piece?
Did you know that the wildlife of Cameroon (gorilla pictured), considered one of the wettest parts of Africa, records Africa's second highest concentration of biodiversity?
Did you know that Abbie Farwell Brown received permission from Lewis Carroll for her school newspaper to be named The Jabberwock?
Did you know that Guo Jia, an advisor to Cao Cao, had already foreseen that Cao would win the Battle of Guandu against Yuan Shao when he pointed out ten advantages Cao had over Yuan four years before the battle?
Did you know that Lynn D. Stewart, a co-founder of the Hooters restaurant chain, played offensive guard for the University of Illinois' Fighting Illini, which won the 1964 Rose Bowl?
Did you know that Minuscule 888  has an unusual order of Gospels: Matthew, John, Mark, Luke?
Did you know that North Devon's Biosphere Reserve was the first "new style" UNESCO-designated Biosphere Reserve in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Swiss computer science academic Bernhard M. Hämmerli is a specialist in the field of critical infrastructure protection in the European Union?
Did you know that a 1997 Management Master Plan for the preservation and conservation of the biodiversity of the Waza National Park is reported to be the first of its kind in Cameroon?
Did you know that after Brad Pitt complained of his children's "horrible diaper rash", responders to a People request for advice overwhelmingly recommended Boudreaux's Butt Paste?
Did you know that although Losang Jamcan is the chairman of Tibet Autonomous Region, he is subordinate to Chen Quanguo, the Communist Party Chief?
Did you know that during the Argentine Decembrist revolution, José María Paz was captured when his horse was entangled with bolas?
Did you know that during the eight-year course of making The Decay of Fiction, in which he honors the past of the Ambassador Hotel, director Pat O'Neill collaborated with 45 actors and spent US$250,000?
Did you know that the 1961 squad was the first of six Alabama football teams that Bear Bryant led to the national championship as head coach of the Crimson Tide?
Did you know that the Sealyham Terrier was created at Sealyham House in Pembrokeshire, Wales?
Did you know that the protagonist in Ben H. Winters' The Last Policeman is trying to solve a murder amid the disruptions caused by an impending asteroid impact?
Did you know that while Betsy Blackwell was editor-in-chief of Mademoiselle, the magazine's circulation rose from 178,000 to nearly a million?
Did you know that British king William IV's daughter, Lady Mary Fox, wrote a feminist narrative about a mysterious land now known as Australia?
Did you know that Eddy Martadinata, one of the founders of the Indonesian Navy, died when his plane crashed into a mountain?
Did you know that Glee's 500th filmed musical number, "Shout", is set to be shown in its 81st episode?
Did you know that Lou Qinjian, governor of China's Shaanxi Province, began his career as a rusticated youth?
Did you know that Major G. S. Jayanath is the only Commando to receive the Parama Weera Vibhushanaya, Sri Lanka's highest military award for gallantry?
Did you know that Morro Solar in Peru, the site of the Battle of Chorrillos, is also the location of an astronomical observatory?
Did you know that Ottoman politician Cemal Azmi was known as the "butcher of Trabzon" for his role in the Armenian Genocide?
Did you know that Peter the Wild Boy, a feral child brought to Great Britain in the spring of 1726, is the subject of Daniel Defoe's pamphlet Mere Nature Delineated?
Did you know that Royal Tunbridge Wells has a church dedicated to King Charles I that had no vicar for 33 years, an opera house that became a pub, and a rugby club whose alumni include an RFU regional administrator and aftershave-drinking Colin Smart?
Did you know that Tankiz, the 14th-century Mamluk Viceroy of Syria, commissioned the repair and construction of a number of architectural works including nearly 40 in Damascus alone?
Did you know that famines have repeatedly led Scandinavians to eat bread made partially out of bark?
Did you know that in the upcoming Bengali film Kangal Malsat, the marginal and downtrodden people of society wage a war against the government?
Did you know that many protected areas of Cameroon are still in "pristine" condition, mostly because there is less tourism in Cameroon than other regions of Africa?
Did you know that the Palais Leuchtenberg in Munich was built from 1817 to 1821 at a cost of 770,000 guilders, which was the entire construction budget of Bavaria for 1819?
Did you know that the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "North Star" was filmed on the Western sets at Universal Studios, including one used in the 1940 film My Little Chickadee?
Did you know that Bach's congratulatory cantata Preise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen, BWV 215, was first performed for August III with a torch-light procession of 600 students?
Did you know that Dakshayani Velayudhan, the first dalit woman graduate in India and a member of the Cochin Legislative Council, was the only dalit woman member of the Constituent Assembly of India?
Did you know that French Olympian Félix Debax was killed in battle in the first month of the First World War?
Did you know that Madonna makes reference to her 1989 single "Express Yourself" in her 2012 song "Some Girls"?
Did you know that Norwegian tennis champion and Olympic doubles quarterfinalist Jack Nielsen was a professional brewmaster and the president of Rotary International?
Did you know that Queen Wilhelmina visited the First Church in Albany, the second-oldest congregation in New York, on the occasion of its 300th anniversary?
Did you know that Sameh Fahmi, Egypt's former oil minister, has been sentenced to fifteen years in prison for exporting natural gas to Israel at lower prices than market rates?
Did you know that a reviewer praised Roekiah's "demure" acting in Gagak Item (Black Raven)?
Did you know that a sign of Jesus was removed from The Oval in Belfast because it hadn't earned the owner any money for a number of years?
Did you know that after Swami Vivekananda gave a lecture on Vedanta Philosophy at the Graduate Philosophical Society of Harvard University, he was offered a faculty position?
Did you know that ants act as an intermediate host to complete the life cycle of the worm Raillietina tetragona, a parasite that infests in the intestines of birds such as chicken and pigeons?
Did you know that due to Kvik losing 8–2 against Hødd in the decisive match of the 1965 Norwegian Second Division, Kvik's rivals Rosenborg were not promoted on goal difference?
Did you know that during the Kościuszko Uprising in 1794, Tadeusz Kościuszko's army successfully defended the Polish capital of Warsaw from forces under Frederick William II of Prussia?
Did you know that for over a hundred years, the subject of the painting now identified as the Martyrdom of Saints Crispin and Crispinian (close-up pictured) by Aert van den Bossche was a mystery?
Did you know that former General Hospital star Steve Burton shows more of his "own personality" while portraying his newest role, Dylan McAvoy, on The Young and the Restless?
Did you know that in the early days of NightWash, Klaus-Jürgen Deuser performed his comedy show on a platform next to tumble dryers?
Did you know that the Budokwai in London is the oldest judo dojo in Europe and that Guy Ritchie, Kylie Minogue, Mick Jagger, and William Hague have all trained there?
Did you know that John Blackadder, while a young officer in the Scottish Army, killed a fellow officer in a duel in 1691?
Did you know that Justin Timberlake's song "FutureSex/LoveSound" has been seen as heavily influenced by David Bowie's 1974 album Diamond Dogs?
Did you know that Krikor Apikoğlu founded Apikoğlu, the first company to mass produce meat products in Turkey?
Did you know that Lascaris Battery, an artillery battery in Malta built in 1854, housed the headquarters for the defence of the island during World War II?
Did you know that Thomas Ellison captained the first officially sanctioned New Zealand rugby union team in 1893?
Did you know that a large sculpture (smaller version pictured) by Caroline Shawk Brooks was listed by customs officials not as a work of art, but as "110 lbs. of butter"?
Did you know that after the Greek War of Independence broke out in 1821, Greeks were the targets of mass executions, pogroms, and looting in the Ottoman capital of Constantinople?
Did you know that former UCLA Bruins basketball player Bob Myers was a walk-on, but appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated, met President Bill Clinton, and was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno?
Did you know that in "New York City", John Lennon responded to U.S. government officials who wanted to deport him, singing that "the Statue of Liberty said come"?
Did you know that in 2009, Tiger Woods set the course record at Nova Scotia's Fox Harb'r?
Did you know that the Bruise Brothers helped the San Diego Chargers lead the National Football League (NFL) in sacks in 1980?
Did you know that the Druze village of Kaftin in northwestern Syria was well-known for its pigeon houses?
Did you know that the Singapore High Court can grant the remedy of declaring void a law inconsistent with the Constitution enacted before its commencement, even though Article 4 seems to say otherwise?
Did you know that the site of the factory established by Charles Wigg in 1865 is now a nature reserve?
Did you know that American football player Kevin Minter set an LSU Tigers record for most tackles in a bowl game?
Did you know that Battery Path was located on Hong Kong Island's waterfront when it opened, but is now situated further inland due to the amount of land reclamation?
Did you know that Colonel Jack by Daniel Defoe shares many plot elements with his other work Moll Flanders, the two novels being published within a year of each other?
Did you know that Karsten Whitson turned down US$2.1 million from the San Diego Padres in order to play college baseball?
Did you know that Kate Nash paid for her 2013 album Girl Talk through crowd funding?
Did you know that Kostas Tournas' 1972 progressive-psychedelic rock opera Aperanta Horafia is considered a landmark of Greek rock?
Did you know that Madura Station occupies an area greater than Brunei yet has only nine permanent employees?
Did you know that Sir William Drury's name appears in the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales?
Did you know that by the age of 20, future Tisch School of the Arts dean David Oppenheim was an accomplished clarinetist?
Did you know that in 1937 The Literary Digest described Father Bernard R. Hubbard, "the Glacier Priest", as the highest-paid lecturer in the world?
Did you know that in 1969 the Trans Europ Express Catalan Talgo began providing through train service between Spain and Switzerland despite a break-of-gauge at the Spanish–French border?
Did you know that in the first version of the chamber opera In the Penal Colony, based on the short story by Franz Kafka, composer Philip Glass included the character of Kafka as narrator?
Did you know that the Buitenmolen, the Grafelijke Korenmolen, the Torenmolen van Gronsveld and the Zwaan are the oldest tower mills in the Netherlands?
Did you know that the Crusade of Romanianism, a far-right movement "against capitalism, oppression and violence", was pro-fascist but anti-Nazi?
Did you know that the Hope City technology park being built in Ghana is expected to include Africa's tallest building?
Did you know that the Military Association of Atheists & Freethinkers provides "atheists in foxholes" with advocacy, community and education?
Did you know that the edible mushroom Boletus badius turns blue when cut or bruised?
Did you know that the extinct rose species Stonebergia columbiana is named for its type locality of British Columbia?
Did you know that the publication of Daniel Defoe's political pamphlet The Shortest Way with the Dissenters led to his arrest on the charge of seditious libel?
Did you know that Joseph Merk, principal cellist at the Vienna Court Opera, helped to bring Beethoven's Triple Concerto out of obscurity?
Did you know that Lada St. Edmund, a go-go dancer on the 1960s American television show Hullabaloo, later became the highest-paid stuntwoman in Hollywood history?
Did you know that Lytle Park in Cincinnati, Ohio was the first park to be located above a freeway?
Did you know that Martha Hackett appeared in thirteen episodes of Star Trek: Voyager as Seska, including two after her character died on screen?
Did you know that Saeed Abedini, an Iranian American Christian pastor, was sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran on charges of undermining national security?
Did you know that Stephanie Kopelousos is the youngest person and the first woman to head the $8 billion Florida Department of Transportation?
Did you know that cricketer Matt Prior once accidentally smashed a window in the Lord's Pavilion?
Did you know that due to quicksand, passengers on the new London and Birmingham Railway detrained for over five months at Denbigh Hall station to continue their journey by stagecoach?
Did you know that in 1976, U.S. President Gerald Ford tried to prevent Major League Baseball from awarding an expansion franchise to Toronto?
Did you know that in Juliet H. Lewis Campbell's novel Eros and Antieros the hero raises and marries the daughter of his unrequited love?
Did you know that slave Austin Dabney was the only African American granted land by the Southern state of Georgia for his military service in the American Revolutionary War?
Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines women's basketball team is currently coached by Kim Barnes Arico, a former two-time Big East Coach of the Year?
Did you know that the RAe TEE II electric trainsets used by the Gottardo, a Trans Europ Express (TEE) train, could operate at four different overhead line voltages?
Did you know that welfare in Poland is covered by the constitution of Poland, which contains an article dedicated to social security as a right of all citizens?
Did you know that Émile Zola wrote that Gustave Caillebotte's Young Man at His Window represents "anti-artistic painting ... because of the exactitude of the copying"?
Did you know that Armenian historian Barlow Der Mugrdechian was instrumental in the establishment of a student exchange program between California State University, Fresno and Yerevan State University?
Did you know that Bhatt Mathuranath Shastri pioneered several new genres in Sanskrit literature by writing radio plays, essays, travelogues, short stories, Ghazals, Thumris, Dadras and Dhrupads in Sanskrit?
Did you know that J. W. Bhore, chairman of the Health Survey and Development Committee, better known as the Bhore Committee, was an ICS officer who had served as the Diwan of Cochin?
Did you know that Julian Assange did not participate in the filming of Alex Gibney's 2013 film We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, and tweeted a denouncement of the film without seeing it?
Did you know that Loretta Lynn, Mary Breckinridge, and Thelma Stovall are all Kentucky Women Remembered?