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Did you know that the underground Fortress of Mimoyecques was built by Nazi Germany to bombard London with 10 shells a minute using the V-3 supergun?
Did you know that the wasp Dinocampus coccinellae can turn a ladybird into a "zombie bodyguard"?
Did you know that Hailee Steinfeld, who starred in the 2010 version of True Grit, is the 73rd performer nominated for an Academy Award in a screen debut?
Did you know that Maurice Fargues was the first diver to die while using an aqua-lung?
Did you know that Mexican pointy boots, made by elongating the toes of normal boots by as much as 5 feet (1.5 m), are popular among Mexican men in parts of Mexico and the U.S.?
Did you know that Michael Jackson played professional baseball?
Did you know that Tuckerbil is an important site for flocking Brolgas?
Did you know that in the French India municipal election, 1946, the National Democratic Front won control over all 22 municipalities?
Did you know that the 50 poems in I Hope Like Heck were created from excerpts of emails written by Sarah Palin during her time as Governor of Alaska?
Did you know that the Baku Museum of Modern Art was designed by Jean Nouvel as part of a projected "eco-cultural zone" on the waterfront in Baku, Azerbaijan?
Did you know that the Concilium Germanicum, a Frankish synod held in 742/3 to reform the Austrasian church, has been described as the acme of Saint Boniface's career?
Did you know that the Moran Dam, one of the largest proposed hydroelectric projects in North America, was defeated by environmentalists well before the time of anti-dam environmentalism?
Did you know that the defence counsel in The Case of the Dean of St Asaph was given the Freedom of the City of Gloucester, even though the defendant was found guilty?
Did you know that the history of Australian naval aviation dates back to 1911?
Did you know that the polychaete worm Chaetopterus variopedatus can regenerate its whole body from a single segment?
Did you know that the waistcoat of Haiti's Toussaint Louverture had 18 buttons that were decorated with reproductions of Agostino Brunias's paintings (one pictured)?
Did you know that the wildlife of Zanzibar included its own subspecies of leopard (mounted specimen pictured) that survived from the ice age but may now be extinct?
Did you know that 94 pieces of Spanish colonial silver and 22 New Mexican santos are part of the University of New Mexico Art Museum's collection?
Did you know that Ismaila Gwarzo, a former Nigerian National Security Advisor was accused of theft of US$2.45 billion and repaid a few hundred million?
Did you know that South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is the adopted son of Congressman Joe Wilson?
Did you know that The Clash adopted the song "I Fought the Law" after Joe Strummer and Mick Jones heard it on a vintage jukebox at The Automatt?
Did you know that The Dominica Museum in Roseau contains an example of the pwi pwi, a miniature raft native to Dominica?
Did you know that Union, a German-Hungarian trade union council, had substantial following amongst agricultural labourers in southwestern Slovakia after the First World War?
Did you know that as part of the DC Universe reboot, Justice League Dark has been launched featuring some of DC Comics' more bizarre and supernatural characters?
Did you know that during the Second World War, 10 countries formed Convoy HX 300, which consisted of 166 ships covering an area 9 miles (14 km) wide and 4 miles (6.4 km) long?
Did you know that in 1584 Antonio Ricardo became the first printer in South America with the publication of the Doctrina Christiana, a book in Spanish, Quechua and Aymara?
Did you know that musician David Rothenberg appears in a YouTube video playing jazz with cassini periodical cicadas, insects noted for their synchronized rhythm?
Did you know that the American wildflower clay phacelia is one of Utah's most endangered species and one of the nation's rarest plants?
Did you know that the coach house, dovecote and the Eastcote House Gardens are all that remain of the 16th-century Eastcote House?
Did you know that the first report of the D–Day landings received in the British mainland was delivered by Gustav, a messenger pigeon?
Did you know that the illegal loyalist paramilitary group the UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade was founded in 1972 by Billy Hanna, a decorated war hero?
Did you know that the stone pulpit in the Roseau Cathedral in Dominica was carved by prisoners who were kept on Devil's Island?
Did you know that Doris Lessing's book The Sweetest Dream was originally intended to be volume three of her autobiography, but she made it a novel to avoid offending people?
Did you know that Frederick Settle Barff invented a device, similar to a catalytic converter, to remove SO2 and CO2 from the exhaust fumes of locomotives in the 1860s?
Did you know that Hockey: Canada's Royal Winter Game, published in 1899, was the first book on ice hockey, and only four copies are now known to exist?
Did you know that Mount Ida Plantation in Talladega County, Alabama, burned to the ground after being struck by lightning?
Did you know that Riella is the only liverwort to grow as a submerged aquatic?
Did you know that Russian forces killed Abdulla Kurd, al-Qaeda's top operative in Chechnya, one day after U.S. forces killed al-Qaeda head Osama bin Laden?
Did you know that although the first six of Ben Lamb's World Series of Poker in the money finishes were in Texas hold 'em, all three of his final tables have been in pot limit Omaha hold 'em?
Did you know that jelly babies are considered inedible?
Did you know that other than the Second World War, there has never been a declaration of war by Canada?
Did you know that the 87th season of the Philippines' NCAA kicks off today at the Araneta Coliseum?
Did you know that the Austin Powers films won 20 awards, including one for Beautiful Stranger sung by Madonna?
Did you know that the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve contains a "stone tree"?
Did you know that the Lake Cachí dam project, opened in 1966, is one of Costa Rica's earliest hydroelectric projects?
Did you know that the Stave Falls Dam (original power house pictured), completed in 1912 and formerly the largest source of hydroelectric power in British Columbia, is a Canadian National Historic Site?
Did you know that Bach's chorale cantata Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10, is based not on a chorale, but on the Magnificat sung by Mary when she visited Elizabeth?
Did you know that Madmen in the Yard, a drawing by the Croatian painter Ignjat Job, was influenced by his two-year stay in a mental hospital?
Did you know that The Last Ringbearer, an English translation of a Russian alternative retelling of Lord of the Rings, has been published as a non-commercial ebook after a 10-year delay due to fears of litigation?
Did you know that after the Ottoman general Turahanoğlu Ömer Bey wiped out one of Dracula's armies in 1462, he deposited 2,000 severed heads at the feet of Sultan Mehmed II?
Did you know that during World War II, an officer from a British airborne forces unit recommended a German NCO for the Iron Cross?
Did you know that during World War II, the Germans built a bomb- and gas-proof bunker on Jerbourg Point, the southeastern point of Guernsey in the English Channel?
Did you know that the Grade II* listed Lower Huxley Hall in the English town of Huxley, Cheshire, is approached by a Grade II* listed bridge and archway, and stands on a moated site that is a scheduled monument?
Did you know that the Nehru Setu, built in 1900, was the longest railway bridge in India until a longer one was opened in February 2011?
Did you know that the Ritz-Carlton in Atlantic City was home to Nucky Johnson, the political boss portrayed in the American television series Boardwalk Empire?
Did you know that the Robert Hull Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont includes a complete set of the Description de l'Égypte, a book series based on the French campaign in Egypt under Napoleon?
Did you know that the hairy rubber cup fungus kills nematodes?
Did you know that "Déjame Entrar" by Colombian singer-songwriter Carlos Vives was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Tropical Song?
Did you know that Die Elenden sollen essen, BWV 75, performed in 1723 in the Nikolaikirche, was the first cantata of Bach's annual cycles, each containing works for the Sundays and church holidays through a year?
Did you know that Louisiana Tech University English professor Robert C. Snyder worked on the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, during World War II?
Did you know that Odessa, Texas oil industialist and banker Bill Noël also raised pecans for commercial food production on a ranch in Sutton County?
Did you know that Theodore W. Brevard, a military officer who served with the Confederate States Army, was captured by General George Custer's cavalry?
Did you know that Tonogayato Garden in Kokubunji, Tokyo is built on the terraced cliffs of Musashino, with a lawn on the hilltop overlooking a bamboo forest and pond at the bottom?
Did you know that a May 2011 flood along the Musselshell River was one of several floods that resulted in a state of emergency being declared in 51 Montana counties, cities, and Indian reservations?
Did you know that a pauper received a state burial in Namibia two days ago?
Did you know that despite Spider-Man 2 being the most critically praised entry in the franchise, it is also the lowest grossing in the trilogy?
Did you know that journalist Nils Vogt was the first chairman of the Norwegian Press Association?
Did you know that retired hockey goaltender Rick St. Croix and his sons Chris and Michael were all drafted in the 4th round of the NHL Entry Draft, albeit in different years?
Did you know that the Philippine play Walang Sugat ("Not Wounded") was a statement against imperialism by its author, the father of the Tagalog zarzuela?
Did you know that the Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, first formed in 1920, has since been renamed three times, most recently as the Udmurt Republic in 1991?
Did you know that the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, Iraq, reputedly gained its tilt after it bowed to the prophet Muhammad?
Did you know that the memoir I Married Wyatt Earp, supposedly by Wyatt Earp's wife Josephine, was regarded as factual and cited by scholars, but was discovered to be a "fraud" and a "hoax" after 23 years?
Did you know that O moj Shqypni has been described as one of the most influential and most important poems written in Albanian?
Did you know that Slobodan Branković ran in the men's 400 metres (1,300 feet) race in the 1992 Barcelona Games as an Independent Olympic Participant?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Debra developed from a cold low and a tropical wave?
Did you know that U.S. Army pilot Mayhew Foster in 1945 transported Luftwaffe chief Hermann Göring from Austria to Germany, where Göring stood trial for war crimes at Nuremberg?
Did you know that according to an account by a British officer, the marksmanship of Kentucky rifleman Ephraim McLean Brank contributed more than anything else to the US victory at the Battle of New Orleans?
Did you know that despite winning seven national championships from 1899 to 1912, the Yale football team had 14 head coaches in those 14 years, including a lingerie manufacturer, "the phantom line cleaver", a manufacturer of machine guns, a victim of typhoid fever, a Harvard law student, the senior partner of Smith Barney & Co., the grandfather of a noted documentary filmmaker, the nephew of the U.S. Secretary of State, and the president of a historically black university?
Did you know that scholars debate whether the Torrs Pony-cap and Horns of c. 200 BC in the Museum of Scotland were intended to be worn by a horse, a human or a statue?
Did you know that the 1995 novel Angel Angel is being adapted into the film Long Time Gone starring Meg Ryan?
Did you know that the Gudea cylinders are the longest literary composition ever found in the Sumerian language?
Did you know that the Shankar Mahadevan Academy is an online music academy founded by award-winning composer and singer Shankar Mahadevan?
Did you know that the benefactor of Soldiers Chapel, near Big Sky Resort, wrote that hillbilly Bible thumpers, conscientious objectors, and those refusing to salute the US flag should be excluded from the chapel?
Did you know that the rose garden at Lymm Hall in Cheshire, England, was Edward Kemp's first recorded commission?
Did you know that unlike the 1990 film version starring Johnny Depp, the 2005 theatrical adaptation of Edward Scissorhands was set in the 1950s and performed to musical accompaniment?
Did you know that young mushrooms of Pholiota communis are sticky?
Did you know that , in 1933, when attempts were made to restore the monarchy in Bavaria to stall the Nazis' rise to power, Adolf Hitler warned the Bavarian government that this would lead to a "terrible catastrophe"?
Did you know that Alfred Ronalds' The Fly-fisher's Entomology (1836) (plate pictured) was the first work on fly fishing to illustrate named artificial flies and their counterpart natural insects?
Did you know that Benjamin Wistar Morris, III designed the first skyscraper in Portland, Oregon?
Did you know that Green Seamount, an underwater volcano, could have taken up to 260,000 years to reach its present height?
Did you know that Herlinatiens' first novel about lesbian relationships is considered the "coming out" for Indonesian writings about gays and lesbians?
Did you know that Mietek Pemper, who was forced to work as Amon Göth's secretary, compiled and typed Oskar Schindler's famous list, which saved 1,200 Jewish prisoners from the Holocaust?
Did you know that Robert Louis Stevenson, who stayed in Tautira, Tahiti for two months, called it “The Garden of the World” in his letters to his friends?
Did you know that The Herald said the character Manda from Alan Warner's 2010 novel The Stars in the Bright Sky was "the most vivid, aggravating lynchpin in recent Scottish fiction"?
Did you know that although Jeremy Howard-Williams was a fighter pilot, he wrote the "classic account of the sail-maker's art"?
Did you know that among the Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland the most populous was the Warsaw Ghetto with over 400,000 inhabitants crammed into an area of 1.3 sq mi (3.4 km2)?
Did you know that despite failing eyesight, Fred Townsend played for the 1887 Michigan football team and later became chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party?
Did you know that despite starting in the 1959 VFL Grand Final, Australian footballer Graham Leydin only started two games in the 1961 season?
Did you know that shortly before Doris Lessing's Alfred and Emily was published, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist announced it was her final book?
Did you know that the African Methodist Episcopal University is the second largest university in Liberia?
Did you know that the British steamship Nancy Moller was intercepted in 1951 by HMS Cossack whilst carrying a cargo of rubber to China in contravention of a United Nations embargo imposed due to the Korean War?
Did you know that the Cherry Hill Farmhouse in Falls Church, Virginia, appears in the works of American poet James Whitcomb Riley?
Did you know that when the SS Ava was wrecked off the coast of Ceylon in February 1858, her passengers included Lady Julia Inglis and her sons, John and Alfred, who were evacuees from the Siege of Lucknow, and the ship's doctor, James Little, who was later to become Honorary Physician to King George V?
Did you know that when yeshiva students learn with their chavrusas, they may wave their hands and shout at each other?
Did you know that American perennial candidate Jack Fellure, whose platform is based on the Authorized 1611 King James Bible, received the 2012 presidential nomination of the Prohibition Party?
Did you know that Bach has a trumpet tell God's glory in cantata Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, BWV 76, first performed in the Thomaskirche, but oboe d'amore and viola da gamba express "brotherly devotion"?
Did you know that Gottfried Schloemer  (pictured with car) is considered by some to have built the first practical gasoline automobile in the United States?
Did you know that Keechaka Vadham was the first silent film made in South India?
Did you know that Marimba Ani first introduced the term Maafa to describe the African holocaust?
Did you know that Mitch Schock, who earned his first World Series of Poker bracelet at the 2011 World Series of Poker has finished in the money at least five times in each of the last three World Series of Poker?
Did you know that on 12 June 1944, during the Battle of Breville, friendly fire killed the commander of the attacking force and wounded two British brigadiers?
Did you know that one of the oldest churches in Costa Rica, Iglesia de Nuestra Senora de la Limpia Concepcion, built in the 1560s in Ujarrás, has been proposed as a World Heritage Site?
Did you know that the  McArthur Mining Company  was Michigan's first coal mine?
Did you know that the Kentucky physician and Yale alumnus Forest Shely was for 56 years a trustee of the Baptist institution Campbellsville University?
Did you know that the Nigerian NAPEP poverty reduction program has been a recent target for hacktivists?
Did you know that the critically acclaimed 2010 novel And the Land Lay Still by James Robertson won the prestigious Scottish Book of the Year Award?
Did you know that the movies Green Street Hooligans and Cass are based on West Ham United F.C. supporters?
Did you know that American journalist Charles Franklin Hildebrand earned the Purple Heart and Silver Star for his World War I service in the battles of the Marne River and Argonne Forest?
Did you know that Charles S. Mitchell, goalkeeper on the first Michigan football team, became the editor-in-chief of the Washington Herald?
Did you know that Duchy of Opole and Racibórz, one of many Duchies of Silesia, was created in the 13th century, split by the end of it, and recreated in the 16th by the last Piast?
Did you know that Juan Gualberto Gómez was the most conspicuous Afro-Cuban leader during the Cuban War of Independence?
Did you know that following a landmark decision of the United Kingdom's Supreme Court, the same judge passed sentence on each of the six politicians in separate trials charged in relation to the 2009 Parliamentary expenses scandal?
Did you know that in Azerbaijan, the Heydar Aliyev Foundation builds more schools than the Ministry of Education?
Did you know that in the 1948 municipal polls in Pondicherry, largely assumed to have been rigged, the French India Socialist Party won all 102 seats?
Did you know that in the 2011 NBA Draft, reigning NBA champion Dallas Mavericks selected Qatari basketball player Tanguy Ngombo, even though his age and eligibility were disputed?
Did you know that students at the Stella Maris Polytechnic university in Monrovia, Liberia, pay only US$5 tuition per credit?
Did you know that the Theil–Sen estimator can accurately fit a line to a set of sample points even when up to 29% of the points have been arbitrarily corrupted?
Did you know that the anarchist Revolutionary Avengers group from 1910 to 1914 has been described as the most radical terrorist organization in the history of Poland?
Did you know that the music video for "Pon de Floor", a dancehall and funk carioca song by Major Lazer, contains scenes of people dry humping and incorporates daggering choreography?
Did you know that witnesses have reported ghostly lights and phantom fires emanating from the Dr. John R. Drish House in Tuscaloosa, Alabama?
Did you know that writer Arthur Mee was once advised not to mistake Greatham Church for a haystack?
Did you know that Christine Jorgensen Reveals is a docudrama about the first celebrity transsexual, who was called the world's most famous woman at the time?
Did you know that Georgia O'Keeffe's first skull painting which is held by the Arizona State University Art Museum references the memento mori concept?
Did you know that Makhdoom Mohiuddin, the president of the All Hyderabad Trade Union Congress, was arrested at the founding meeting of the organization in 1946?
Did you know that Martin Camaj's novel Rrathë is considered to be the first psychological novel in Albanian?
Did you know that St Mary de Crypt Church was an ammunition factory during the First English Civil War?
Did you know that The Warring States is a 2011 film based on the rivalry between two ancient military tacticians, Sun Bin and Pang Juan?
Did you know that during the First World War, the sail-steamer SS Lanthorn was attacked by a German U-boat, and although her crew was rescued, she sank while under tow?
Did you know that swimming instructor Robert Emmet Odlum died from the first jump off the Brooklyn Bridge?
Did you know that the Battle of Leitzersdorf cost the Holy Roman Empire the Archduchy of Austria?
Did you know that the Ruskin Dam has been a filming location for the TV series The X-Files, MacGyver, Smallville, Dark Angel and the movie The Invisible?
Did you know that the construction of One Liberty Place was in breach of a "gentlemen's agreement" not to build any building taller than the statue of William Penn on Philadelphia City Hall (both buildings pictured)?
Did you know that the object of worship at Omura Shrine is a sword?
Did you know that Elizabeth Gatford, who endowed a charity that distributed bread to the poor at Horsham General Baptist Chapel, was buried in four coffins?
Did you know that Martin Wines was the first state representative from Greene County, Indiana?
Did you know that Pepsi allowed Madonna to retain her $5 million fee, despite cancelling their sponsorship deal following the controversy over the music video for "Like a Prayer"?
Did you know that a Spanish fort attacked the US schooner Rampart and USS Macedonian on two separate days in the Callao Affair during the Peruvian War of Independence even though the US was neutral in the war?
Did you know that an episode of Living TV's Most Haunted claimed that there have been over 3000 reported experiences of ghosts at the Schooner Hotel since 1998?
Did you know that during the Popish Plot, John Plessington was seized at Puddington Old Hall in Cheshire, England, and hanged at Chester Castle in 1679?
Did you know that military investigative reporter Carl Prine was accused by the Railroad Development Corporation's owner, Henry Posner, of "profiting from the promotion of hysteria"?
Did you know that not only will Jennifer Westfeldt make her directorial debut with Friends with Kids, but also write, produce and act in it?
Did you know that one of Jupiter's moons, Io, is an X-ray source?
Did you know that ophthalmologist John Chase commanded the Colorado National Guard in the Colorado Labor Wars, the arrest of Mother Jones, and the Ludlow Massacre?
Did you know that the Dutch novel Van de koele meren des doods (1900) was made into a movie in 1982 by Nouchka van Brakel, with Renée Soutendijk starring as the sexually repressed main character?
Did you know that the Gorno-Altai Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic lasted for only nine months as an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which turned it into the Altai Republic?
Did you know that the Passemant astronomical clock, designed to work until the year 9999, was the first clock used to set the official time in France?
Did you know that the endangered Hawaii bog orchid is the rarest orchid species native to Hawaii?
Did you know that there is a storytelling scene in the novel Ang mga Anak Dalita where the Philippines is compared to a pearl, Spain to a fish, and the United States to a leech?
Did you know that Anino ng Kahapon is one of the few pro-American novels written while the Philippines was still a territory of the United States?
Did you know that Clemenstone, a hamlet in south Wales near Wick, was the seat of several high sheriffs of Glamorganshire?
Did you know that Simon Cowell conceived the idea for Red or Black?, the most expensive game show ever made?
Did you know that Sir William Young, 1st Baronet, in his will gave four Caribbean estates to his son, but the father's 1788 death left behind £110,000 in debt, a figure equal to at least £11 million today?
Did you know that a de Cock decorated the ceiling at Breda Palace?