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Did you know that the superhero Breeze Barton, created by Jack Binder, could survive a year without water in the Sahara?
Did you know that Bugby Chapel—a former place of worship in Epsom—has been used by Calvinists, Unitarians, Strict Baptists and Jews since it opened in 1779?
Did you know that Josephine MacLeod, an American devotee of Swami Vivekananda considered the day she met the Swami for the first time as her "spiritual birthday"?
Did you know that Mark Sutton portrayed a skydiving James Bond during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Rev. Samuel Merrill Woodbridge, a Rutgers College and New Brunswick Theological Seminary professor and minister, was the 11th generation in a family of clergymen stretching back to 1493?
Did you know that a letter in the hand of Sir George Browne, later beheaded, containing the cryptic message "It shall never come out for me", survives among the Paston letters?
Did you know that after Arizona Territorial Governor Myron H. McCord resigned to serve in the Spanish–American War, the conflict ended before his unit saw combat?
Did you know that around 200 years ago, Chinese artisans painted a panorama of Indigenous Australians around Sydney Harbour on two ceramic punchbowls (one pictured)?
Did you know that in 1915 the U.S. government built a combined post office and mine rescue station in Jellico, Tennessee?
Did you know that singer and actress Coralie Blythe was the sister of ballroom dancer Vernon Castle?
Did you know that the American wandering spider only stores up to 10 μl of crude venom in its glands, and uses lower amounts of it on smaller victims?
Did you know that the Baroque orchestra L'arpa festante produced the first recording of a Passion by Telemann and played Bach's Mass in B minor in the Cathedral of Trier?
Did you know that the Columbian was the first train to use the Milwaukee Road's new depot in Tacoma, Washington when it opened in 1954?
Did you know that the National War Dog Cemetery is a memorial to the 25 Doberman Pinschers killed in action during the Second Battle of Guam?
Did you know that two 12th-century payas are situated near the Irrawaddy Bridge?
Did you know that Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached, originally a sloka of Katha Upanishad, was Swami Vivekananda's message to the Hindus to get out of their hypnotized state of mind?
Did you know that John Irwin, one of the founders of Toronto book publisher Clarke, Irwin & Company, left the company in 1943, only to have it purchased more than forty years later by a company run by his son?
Did you know that Kaapa Tjampitjinpa's award-winning 1971 artwork Gulgardi was painted on an old cupboard door that still had rusty nails in it, and holes where the handle used to be?
Did you know that after HMS Grasshopper was sunk following the Battle of Singapore, two of the crew managed to sail 2,680 miles (4,310 km) to India using a map torn out of a child's atlas?
Did you know that populations of the endangered Albanian water frog are declining due to over-collection for the food industry and pet trade?
Did you know that sisters Ada and Andrine Hegerberg scored one goal each when the Norwegian team won 2–1 against Canada in the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup?
Did you know that the 1943–44 Michigan basketball team included three athletes, "Crazy Legs" Hirsch, Don Lund, and Bob Wiese, who later played in the National Football League or Major League Baseball?
Did you know that the World War I-era Warrior-class cruiser had "the reputation of being the best cruisers we ever built" by the Royal Navy, according to naval historian Oscar Parkes?
Did you know that "Talking Union" was originally written as new verses of Woody Guthrie's "Talking Dust Bowl Blues"?
Did you know that Bandit, formerly the world's fastest roller coaster, races by hundreds of blossoming cherry trees and is called the fastest "flower viewing" in the world?
Did you know that Brockton Point is the most easterly part of Vancouver's Stanley Park?
Did you know that Mickey Free was a bounty hunter who tracked the Apache Kid?
Did you know that Rick Bay has served as COO of the New York Yankees, president of the Cleveland Indians, athletic director at Ohio State and Oregon, and wrestling coach at Michigan?
Did you know that Robert Blair's graveyard poem The Grave (1743) was illustrated by William Blake ("Death's Door" pictured), whose original watercolors were lost until 2003?
Did you know that a Mediterranean pine vole, which was captured twice at intervals of 33 months, is believed to exhibit the maximum life span ever recorded for a vole?
Did you know that chef Gordon Ramsay has a restaurant on the airside area of London Heathrow Terminal 5 called Plane Food?
Did you know that only the female grasshopper nematode has an eye?
Did you know that over 40,000 people died during the occupation of Belgium by Nazi Germany (German soldiers in Belgium pictured) in World War II?
Did you know that the Kenneth and Phyllis Laurent House in Rockford, Illinois, was the only house that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for a physically disabled client?
Did you know that the West Indian cricketer Curtly Ambrose has the highest number of five-wicket hauls in Test cricket at the Queen's Park Oval?
Did you know that Arnold Ross ran his Ross Mathematics Program, a number theory summer program for gifted high school students, for over forty years?
Did you know that Bob Willis took seven of his 16 five-wicket hauls against Australia, including eight wickets for 43 runs at Headingley in 1981?
Did you know that Craig Fugate, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, uses the Waffle House Index to determine the level of aid a disaster area requires?
Did you know that French artist Maximilien Luce (self-portrait pictured) published an album of lithographs documenting his experiences as a political prisoner?
Did you know that Harold Urey showed that Earth's early atmosphere might spontaneously produce amino acids, commonly considered the building blocks of life?
Did you know that Jack Holt, who was afraid of flying, starred in The Great Plane Robbery?
Did you know that Paul Tibbets, the pilot who carried out the Bombing of Hiroshima, was once George S. Patton's personal pilot?
Did you know that Sir Charles Saxton commanded ships during the Seven Years' War and American War of Independence, and was commissioner at Portsmouth during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars?
Did you know that Time journalist Michael Grunwald said, "I can't wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out [WikiLeaks founder] Julian Assange"?
Did you know that a former German ambassador, Gerhard Fischer, received the Indian government's Gandhi Peace Prize for his work with leprosy and polio patients?
Did you know that although the Bunyoro rabbit is hunted locally, the IUCN lists it as being of "Least Concern"?
Did you know that the Natchez language had a specific way of speaking used for impersonating a cannibal?
Did you know that the extinct sumac Rhus malloryi was first described in 1935?
Did you know that the red-flanked duiker has glands on its snout with which it marks its territory?
Did you know that though Amir Hamzah's poetry collection Buah Rindu was published after Nyanyi Sunyi, the works were written earlier?
Did you know that Bay Area Bike Share, the first large-scale bike sharing service deployed on the West Coast of the United States, opened to the public in five cities on August 29, 2013?
Did you know that Dave Barclay, winner of the 1947 NCAA golf championship, worked for more than 30 years at a gaseous diffusion plant that produced enriched uranium?
Did you know that O Heeriye, Ayushmann Khurrana's first non-film single, was released on 14 September 2013 to coincide with his birthday?
Did you know that Peter Beck caned the Duke of Cornwall for "ragging"?
Did you know that Rob Zettler will start his first full season as Syracuse Crunch head coach in their 2013–14 season?
Did you know that at a tournament before Queen Elizabeth I at Whitehall in 1581, Sir Thomas Perrot and 16 others defended the Castle of Beauty against the Earl of Arundel and Sir William Drury?
Did you know that in a bid to improve the water supply in Gibraltar, much of the east side of the Rock of Gibraltar was covered with giant metal catchments to trap rainwater?
Did you know that the owner of an unofficial Trader Joe's reseller, Pirate Joe's, tried to use cross-dressing to evade his ban from a store, but got mistaken for a robber?
Did you know that the poem Nachuk Tahate Shyama, written by Swami Vivekananda, relates to one's surrender to the Hindu goddess Kali?
Did you know that though it was based on a Chinese legend, advertising for The Teng Chun's Ouw Peh Tjoa emphasised its Malay dialogue?
Did you know that while the European ground squirrel is hibernating, it may use up 90% of its fat reserves?
Did you know that Boynton Beach, Florida, was founded by Byrd S. Dewey, not Nathan Boynton, who was erroneously credited up to last year?
Did you know that Hungarian secretary of state Zoltán Illés said to fellow member of parliament Bernadett Szél, "just because you're pretty doesn't also mean you're smart"?
Did you know that Nigeria is the world leader in cassava production?
Did you know that Salomée Halpir, a Lithuanian Catholic born in 1718, learned medicine from a doctor she married at age 14, and eventually became a physician to the harem of the Ottoman Empire's Sultan?
Did you know that Stephen Rhodes was the first openly gay driver in NASCAR competition?
Did you know that West Virginia railroad and timber executive William B. Cornwell was rendered unconscious by a falling longcase clock?
Did you know that on 20 September 1893, Swami Vivekananda stated at the Parliament of the World's Religions that Religion was not the crying need of India?
Did you know that one of the main cast of Pawn Stars UK, Mark Andrew "Big Mark" Manning, used to work at a crematorium before becoming a pawnbroker?
Did you know that the China Art Museum, housed in the former China Pavilion of the Shanghai Expo, is the largest art museum in Asia?
Did you know that the former site of Nottingham's Greyfriars Friary is now occupied by a shopping centre?
Did you know that the knifetooth sawfish and the longcomb sawfish can be told apart by the number of teeth on their saws?
Did you know that the two British Duke of Edinburgh-class cruisers captured three German merchantmen while on convoy escort duties in the Red Sea shortly after the start of World War I in 1914?
Did you know that Hudson Stuck, Harry Karstens, Walter Harper, and Robert Tatum were the first to successfully climb Mount McKinley?
Did you know that India's 1996–97 series in South Africa was Sachin Tendulkar's first overseas Test tour as captain?
Did you know that Jakob Pistiner served as editor of the newspaper Vorwärts, in Cernăuți (present-day Chernivtsi)?
Did you know that Ryszard Siwiec, protesting the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, was the first political protester to commit suicide by self-immolation in Central and Eastern Europe?
Did you know that William Blake's character Spectre, which represents unchanging reason in his spiritual mythology, may have been inspired by the poet William Cowper?
Did you know that an airplane formerly owned by Hermann Göring was used to transport delegates to the founding congress of the African Democratic Rally?
Did you know that art historians often find it difficult to judge whether 17th-century merry company paintings (example illustrated) show scenes of prostitution?
Did you know that as of the 2013 AAA 400, Nick Harrison has served as crew chief for eleven different drivers during the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season?
Did you know that for the first time in 20 years, the Portland Pirates will not be playing in Portland for their 2013–14 season?
Did you know that in November 2003, Prince Charles visited the restored Nakhal Fort during an official visit to Oman?
Did you know that the bolete mushroom Tylopilus intermedius is named for its appearance, considered intermediate between T. peralbidus and T. rhoadsiae?
Did you know that the directors of Chipotle Mexican Grill's short film The Scarecrow took inspiration from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and Metropolis?
Did you know that "genius" has not been a term used in IQ classification since 1937?
Did you know that Ed Gagnier, the first gymnast to represent Canada at the Olympic games, later coached three NCAA national championship teams at Iowa State?
Did you know that Eknath Ranade, who founded the Vivekananda Kendra in Kanyakumari, was honoured as a Karmayogi?
Did you know that Red Ruffing became a Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher despite losing four toes in a coal mining accident as a child?
Did you know that despite officially being impartial, Pope Pius XII acted as an intermediary between the German Resistance and the Allies during World War II?
Did you know that during World War II, HMCS Midland and HMCS New Westminster escorted supply convoys on the "Triangle Run", the route between New York, Boston and St. John's?
Did you know that during the 1984 European Cup Semi-Final between Liverpool and Dinamo Bucharest, Graeme Souness punched Lică Movilă in the face, breaking his jaw, but it wasn't seen by the referee?
Did you know that historian Stanley Mordaunt Leathes and physiologist John Beresford Leathes were the sons of Hebrew scholar Stanley Leathes?
Did you know that more than fifty pharmacies in North Dakota deliver pharmaceutical care without a pharmacist present using telepharmacy?
Did you know that scramble competition is one of the causes of the large population swings experienced by the field vole?
Did you know that the 3 October Festival in Leiden, Netherlands, features a free meal of herring and white bread handed out in the Weigh House?
Did you know that when Edinburgh Trams commence service in May 2014, it will have been fifty-eight years since the closure of Edinburgh's previous tramway?
Did you know that Clitocybe albirhiza, Floccularia albolanaripes, Geopora cooperi, Hygrophorus goetzii, H. marzuolus, H. purpurascens, Lentinellus montanus, Ramaria magnipes and Tricholoma vernaticum are snowbank mushrooms?
Did you know that Indian Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda asserted that "Buddhism was the fulfilment of Hinduism"?
Did you know that Nakayama Tadayasu was exceptionally awarded the Order of the Chrysanthemum in his own lifetime?
Did you know that Ohio's Morrow County Courthouse was originally built without a tower?
Did you know that Pavel Fedorovich Zhigarev was the Commander of the Soviet Air Forces during the entirety of Operation Barbarossa?
Did you know that for many years, Jørgen Olufsen's House was known as Ellen Marsvinsgaard even though Ellen Marsvin, Christian IV's mother-in-law, never had any connections with it?
Did you know that in 1983, the Irish Thoroughbred Stanerra became the first European-trained racehorse to win the Japan Cup?
Did you know that in January 1948, during the civil war in Mandatory Palestine, the Palestinian Arab residents of Ijlil al-Shamaliyya pledged neutrality with the Haganah, but left the village months later?
Did you know that in the 1930s, Maurice Yvain's operettas were translated and performed in Germany, Hungary and Austria as well as on Broadway where Ta Bouche was presented over a hundred times?
Did you know that the Great Bustard has been known to eat the giant pasture puffball?
Did you know that the character Nilkantha Bagchi in Jukti Takko Aar Gappo (1977) and Meghe Dhaka Tara (2013), resembled film director Ritwik Ghatak's personality?
Did you know that the episode "Shades of Gray" was created as a clip show for Star Trek: The Next Generation and was later described by a critic as "god-awful"?
Did you know that wildlife cameraman Eric Ashby, nicknamed "The Silent Watcher", refused to film tame animals?
Did you know that Little Red Wagon Foundation founder Zach Bonner's story was selected from among a pool of 6,000 candidates and made into the 2012 docudrama Little Red Wagon?
Did you know that Oregon judge Harl H. Haas, Jr. used to help babysit Rush Limbaugh?
Did you know that Pavel Rychagov, a Commander of the Soviet Air Forces, was executed as part of the purge of the Red Army in 1941?
Did you know that brown bear numbers are declining in Fairy Meadows?
Did you know that director Robert Wise personally selected Ettington Hall for exterior shots in the 1963 horror film, The Haunting?
Did you know that for season nine of How I Met Your Mother, a cast member—Cristin Milioti—is being promoted to the main cast for the first time in the show's history?
Did you know that out of about 20,000 Clarno Formation fossils, only 5 were from the extinct dogwood Cornus clarnensis?
Did you know that the 1942 film Duke of the Navy was an attempt to make a "light funster" out of Ralph Byrd?
Did you know that the 1981 Entumbane Uprising threatened to cause a fresh civil war in Zimbabwe barely a year after the end of the Rhodesian Bush War?
Did you know that the Easterners split into the Southerners and Northerners, they themselves having split from the Sarim?
Did you know that the Verre in Dubai was Gordon Ramsay's first restaurant outside Great Britain?
Did you know that the World Access for the Blind has helped over 7,000 blind people to use human echolocation?
Did you know that the chemical element lawrencium is named after Ernest Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron (pictured, with his 60-inch cyclotron)?
Did you know that the former manor of Gladsaxehus in Sweden was once bequeathed to become a nunnery of Dominicans, but Queen Margaret preferred it to remain a strategic royal fief?
Did you know that the incisor teeth of rabbits, hares and pikas (European rabbit pictured) continue to grow throughout their lives?
Did you know that the primary building of the St. Jacobs Farmers' Market, Canada's largest year-round farmers' market, was built in the late 1970s and destroyed by fire in 2013?
Did you know that "Know It All Ed" (November 26, 1999), the first episode of the second season of Danny Antonucci's hit Cartoon Network series Ed, Edd n Eddy, was considered a highlight episode of its season by DVD Talk?
Did you know that American frontier doctor Charles Boarman, a founding member of the Society of California Pioneers, died fighting a smallpox epidemic in Amador County, California?
Did you know that Emil Reich became well-known to London high society by giving lectures on Plato at Claridge's Hotel?
Did you know that John Chuang, the co-founder of chocolate manufacturer Petra Foods, is the twenty-second richest person in Singapore, with an estimated net worth of $965 million?
Did you know that Lie Kim Hok's Tjhit Liap Seng (Seven Stars) amalgamated two European novels?
Did you know that Lina Beecher's Flip Flap Railway was tested with monkeys and sandbags but still produced injuries because of its circular loop, an issue which was corrected with later looping coasters at Coney Island, Atlantic City, and Olentangy Park?
Did you know that Sidaz Jack, the winner of the 2013 English Greyhound Derby is the son of two-time winner Westmead Hawk?
Did you know that St. Louis Cathedral in Fort-de-France is the seventh church to be erected on the site since 1657, due to the natural disasters that have plagued the city over the years?
Did you know that according to legend, the hermit Xu You was offered the royal throne by Emperor Yao, but he declined and even washed his ears out in embarrassment?
Did you know that the museum in Geology Hall at Rutgers University displays a Ptolemaic-era female Egyptian mummy?
Did you know that utilitarian genocide was defined in 1975 by genocide scholar Vahakn Dadrian?
Did you know that Gloria Long Anderson, a chemist and school administrator, was appointed by President Richard Nixon to serve on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's board?
Did you know that Irish cricketer Kevin O'Brien holds the record for the fastest century scored in a World Cup?
Did you know that Namath: From Beaver Falls to Broadway interviewed Suzy Kolber, who was asked by the film's subject to be allowed to kiss her?
Did you know that it is owing to Sir John Paston that we have an account of a famous tournament in England between Paston's friend, Earl Rivers, and the Bastard of Burgundy?
Did you know that supergroup 8in8, featuring Ben Folds, Amanda Palmer, Neil Gaiman, and Damian Kulash, tried to write and record eight songs in eight hours with the help of their Twitter followers?
Did you know that the 1947–48 Michigan Wolverines hockey team won the first "Frozen Four" NCAA hockey championship in March 1948?
Did you know that the Rigveda dictum Bahujana sukhaya bahujana hitaya cha ("for the happiness of the many, for the welfare of the many") was advocated by Gautama Buddha and Swami Vivekananda?
Did you know that the Sava River is the largest tributary of the Danube in terms of discharge and the second-largest in terms of catchment area?
Did you know that the busts of Miklós Zrínyi and Sultan Suleiman, rivals at the Siege of Szigetvár in 1566, stand in the Hungarian-Turkish Friendship Park side-by-side rather than confronting one another?
Did you know that the first issue of the Singapore Tamil weekly Singai Nesan commemorated the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria?
Did you know that the groom was not always a willing participant in a knobstick wedding?
Did you know that writer Chris Sheridan, who has received three Emmy Award nominations for his work on Family Guy, initially feared that writing for it would end his career?
Did you know that 16th-century world landscape paintings (example pictured) showed "an idealized composite of the world taken in at a single Olympian glance", according to Simon Schama?
Did you know that Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna wanted to have the documentary film The Punk Singer feature women as experts?
Did you know that Cheng Wai Keung, the thirtieth richest person in Singapore, is the Chairman of Wing Tai Holdings, a garment company-turned-real estate firm?
Did you know that Jamie Fleeman, the last Scottish family jester, was better known than the laird who employed him?
Did you know that Kristoffer Olsson was offered a trial at Chelsea, but failed to attend, and later went through two trials before signing for Arsenal?
Did you know that Pullman-Standard's Super Dome was the first full-length dome car to enter service?
Did you know that St Ambrose's Church, Speke, claims to be the first Roman Catholic church in England to be completed to a rectangular plan with a free-standing altar?
Did you know that a concrete mural by Pablo Picasso was damaged in the 2011 Norway attacks?
Did you know that five Arabian oryx from the San Diego Zoo were released into Oman's Jiddat al-Harasis desert after the species had become extinct in the wild?
Did you know that genetic studies revealed birds of the family Calcariidae, namely longspurs and snow buntings, are more closely related to tanagers, New World warblers and cardinals than they are to buntings?
Did you know that in the early 1900s, numerous sewers discharged into the stream that provided the main water supply for the community of Montgomery, Pennsylvania?
Did you know that the Bengali anthology Sangeet Kalpataru (1887), edited by Narendranath Datta and Vaishnab Charan Basak, was republished in 1963 as Sangeet Sadhanay Vivekananda O Sangeet Kalpataru?
Did you know that the success of the Ferko String Band would ultimately result in the launch of Bill Haley's career?
Did you know that there are three living and two extinct species of badger in the genus Meles?
Did you know that Maribel Domínguez is captain and all-time leading scorer of the Mexico women's national football team and plays for the Chicago Red Stars in the National Women's Soccer League?
Did you know that Nasib al-Bakri refused to serve his appointment as Syria's ambassador to Saudi Arabia because of ideological opposition to that country's rulers?
Did you know that Russian painter and art historian Fedor Solntsev is considered one of the founders of modern Russian icon painting canon?
Did you know that a reviewer of the film Go Go Tales said that "all anyone wanted to talk about was the sequence in which Asia Argento's exotic dancer tongue-kissed a dog onstage"?