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Did you know that the 1841 conservation agreement between the owners of the land where the Saw Kill (falls pictured) drains into the Hudson River is one of the earliest in American history?
Did you know that the Guilden Morden boar may have adorned a helmet like those worn by the poetical warrior Beowulf?
Did you know that the extinct Nicarao people of pre-Columbian Nicaragua shared many cultural traits with the Aztecs of Mexico, including their calendar, screenfold books, and human sacrifice?
Did you know that the extinct ant species Cephalotes hispaniolicus was first described from a single Miocene fossil found in amber on Hispaniola?
Did you know that Foreign Minister Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen promised that Romania would only "take a few badly aimed potshots" at Soviet planes entering its airspace during the Munich Crisis?
Did you know that Mahant Chandnath, a Member of the Indian Parliament, is also the head of the Nath sect of Hinduism?
Did you know that following the death of Nicole van den Hurk, her stepbrother falsely confessed to killing her to get her body exhumed for DNA testing?
Did you know that in 2017 Dan Botwe, a former political exile, became a cabinet member and minister in Ghana's newly created Ministry of Regional Reorganization and Development?
Did you know that the Chinese Expeditionary Force in the Burma Campaign was commanded by an American general?
Did you know that the rock-cut structure Qadamgah near Persepolis, once thought to be an unfinished Achaemenid royal tomb, may actually be a completed work with a possible religious function?
Did you know that Ghanaian-born Major Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah is the first black equerry to a British monarch?
Did you know that Sonam Kapoor won the National Film Award and the Filmfare Award for the 2016 biographical thriller Neerja?
Did you know that a hotel shaped like a starship, based on the Star Wars franchise, is planned for Walt Disney World?
Did you know that in the 1970s Amtrak had two new locomotives, the GE E60 and the EMD SDP40F, which had trouble staying on the tracks?
Did you know that the Slovenian soprano Sabina Cvilak was Puccini's character Mimi in Washington, Wagner's Sieglinde in Wiesbaden, and performed Britten's War Requiem in London on the composer's centenary?
Did you know that Baa Baa Land, an eight-hour slow cinema film containing nothing but long shots of grazing sheep, is described by its producers as "the dullest movie ever made"?
Did you know that Laurie Davidson was inspired for his role as William Shakespeare in Will by Straight Outta Compton and 8 Mile, but not by modern depictions of Shakespeare such as Shakespeare in Love?
Did you know that San Francisco's Julius' Castle on Telegraph Hill was once painted pink?
Did you know that Tarabya, the self-proclaimed king of Pegu, was executed on the order of King Wareru of Martaban, who was his father-in-law and son-in-law?
Did you know that Typhoon Gene resulted in the cancellation of the final round of the 1990 Top Cup Tokai Classic?
Did you know that the dunes of the Hagal dune field on Mars (detail pictured) look like dots and dashes, and are called the "Martian Morse Code"?
Did you know that the obituary of Dewey Readmore Books, a library cat, appeared in more than 270 national and international newspapers?
Did you know that "5,6,7,8" is the third-highest selling and most streamed song of Steps' career, despite being one of their lowest charting?
Did you know that Kojo Armah once chaired a parliamentary committee to investigate the substitution of cocaine with corn dough in the Police Narcotics Exhibit Room of the Ghana Police Service?
Did you know that commander Seth Ledyard Phelps helped hoist the American flag over the Confederate Fort Henry after it fell to the Union?
Did you know that the CAMS 54 long-range flying boat attempted an east-west transatlantic crossing, but was returned to France by ship from the Azores?
Did you know that the scorpion Cheloctonus jonesii has been reported killing the red-billed quelea?
Did you know that Knuckles' Chaotix was not developed by Sonic Team, but rather a separate, internal development team at Sega?
Did you know that London Fog 1966 features the earliest known live recordings by the Doors?
Did you know that Minneapolis–Saint Paul's Metro system (train pictured) provided 23 million rides across its 37 light rail stations in 2016?
Did you know that the Theater Bonn opened a new opera house in 1965?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court recently decided that "lines, chevrons, and colorful shapes" on cheerleading uniforms could be eligible for copyright protection?
Did you know that Isaac Asiamah, Ghana's new Minister for Youth and Sports, was at one time the country's youngest legislator?
Did you know that Rano M. Shaiza helped further the Naga peace accord by brokering a meeting between her uncle, the founder of the Naga separatist movement, and the Prime Minister of India?
Did you know that the Mexican Seismic Alert System provided Mexico City 80 seconds of advance notice prior to the 2012 Oaxaca earthquake?
Did you know that the grey-headed woodpecker was split into three separate species in 2014?
Did you know that Clint Dempsey has 57 international goals, ranking third among active male footballers behind Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi?
Did you know that William A. Starrett, builder of the Empire State Building, sent his steel construction technology to Japan to help design buildings to resist earthquakes?
Did you know that the "Whacky Tobaccy" music video from the Toby Keith album The Bus Songs contains a cameo appearance by Willie Nelson?
Did you know that Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the Japanese regent from 1585 to 1591, ordered the construction of the Golden Tea Room, a chashitsu that was completely covered in gold?
Did you know that a story about the state of American football in the year 17776 has been compared to the work of Don DeLillo, Italo Calvino, Thomas Pynchon, and robot trolls on Reddit?
Did you know that the opera Alceste, composed by Anton Schweitzer with a libretto by Wieland, is regarded as a milestone of German opera?
Did you know that the site of Kayak Point County Park was originally proposed as an oil refinery?
Did you know that "Gotta Get a Grip" is one of two new singles by Mick Jagger, his first solo material since the album Goddess in the Doorway was released in 2001?
Did you know that Ayn Rand found the title for her novel The Fountainhead, her first major success, in a thesaurus?
Did you know that Schloss Ledenburg, the residence of several families in succession, housed music that seemed lost?
Did you know that Seyyed Abdollah Behbahani, a Shia theologian and leader of the constitutional movement, was assassinated in Iran and buried in Iraq?
Did you know that during the early winter, the amphipod Paramoera walkeri nearly cover the underside of Antarctic ice sheets?
Did you know that surgeon Pankaj Chandak and his colleagues are believed to be the first surgical team to act in a television drama, namely The Crown?
Did you know that video game Godville is a zero-player game, requiring no player interaction with the main character?
Did you know that Abebe Bikila set a world record winning the 1960 Men's Olympic marathon, running barefoot?
Did you know that French composer Pascal Dusapin wrote the English libretto for his opera Faustus, the Last Night, which premiered in Germany in 2006?
Did you know that KFKU, the AM radio station of the University of Kansas, ceased operations because its time-share partner went silent due to financial difficulties?
Did you know that Presidents Warren G. Harding and Franklin D. Roosevelt each created a Federal Real Estate Board?
Did you know that Marvel Comics briefly operated an imprint dedicated to comics about musicians?
Did you know that Titian's painting of Venus and Adonis exists in "two-dog" and "three-dog" versions?
Did you know that current places of worship on the Isle of Wight include two of England's oldest Catholic churches and several Anglican churches by Thomas Hellyer, an architect described by Pevsner as "very individualistic"?
Did you know that four members of the Hawkins family died violent deaths after winning their lawsuit against Shaw, Mississippi?
Did you know that in his memoir Interventions: A Life in War and Peace, Kofi Annan asserts that internal African politics and leadership are largely responsible for Africa's problems?
Did you know that Frederick the Great felt sure he had lost the Third Silesian War after his defeat at the Battle of Kunersdorf in 1759, until a "miracle" restored his hopes?
Did you know that Gao Minglu, founder of the Chinese avant-garde movement, was a herdsman in Outer Mongolia during the Cultural Revolution?
Did you know that Titian's Flaying of Marsyas (1570s) shows a satyr being skinned alive by Apollo, and was once the prize in a lottery?
Did you know that award-winning soprano Christiane Karg appeared as Sophie at the Frankfurt Opera, the Semperoper and La Scala, and in Mahler's Second Symphony at the Rheingau Musik Festival?
Did you know that the Thukkachi Abatsahayesvar temple was greatly expanded by Vikrama Chola after he was supposedly cured of vitiligo by praying to the presiding deity for 48 days?
Did you know that "Neon Blue" is about coming out?
Did you know that James A. Wetmore's name is inscribed on more federal buildings than any other U.S. citizen?
Did you know that Kwesi Amoako Atta, Ghana's Minister for Roads and Highways, announced that 50 percent of toll booth collectors will be people with disabilities?
Did you know that the composer Giselher Klebe wrote the libretto for his opera Die tödlichen Wünsche based on Balzac's La Peau de chagrin?
Did you know that the extended play To the Edge of the Earth by Thirty Seconds to Mars was conceived to raise public awareness of global warming and green politics?
Did you know that the sycamore lace bug, native to North America, was first observed in Italy in 1964 and has since spread to much of Southern and Central Europe?
Did you know that the town of East Redmond, Washington, was found by the Washington Supreme Court to have been "illegally incorporated"?
Did you know that Alma Lutz was the biographer of women's rights activists including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Emma Willard?
Did you know that Aribert Reimann composed Medea for the Vienna State Opera, based on the drama by Franz Grillparzer?
Did you know that German poet Betty Paoli was a companion to Princess Maria Anna Schwarzenberg?
Did you know that Martin County, Florida, was named after Governor John W. Martin while he was in office?
Did you know that Romans like to drink out of large noses?
Did you know that Star Sports' Mauka Mauka advertising campaign for the 2015 Cricket World Cup match between India and Pakistan was a huge hit in India, but ignited significant opposition in Pakistan?
Did you know that the sponge-dwelling branched worm Syllis ramosa has a single mouth and many anuses?
Did you know that Juliet Starrett, a world whitewater rafting champion, and her husband Kelly Starrett, a national whitewater champion, co-founded one of the world's first CrossFit gyms?
Did you know that Tvrtko I, the first King of Bosnia, maintained cordial relations with all three churches in his realm—Bosnian, Catholic, and Orthodox?
Did you know that Vera Nemirova staged Lulu at the Salzburg Festival and The Ring for the Frankfurt Opera?
Did you know that pharmacists sometimes "QuEST" during over-the-counter counseling?
Did you know that the Martian dunes of the Abalos Undae may have formed from erosion of Rupes Tenuis, the polar scarp?
Did you know that the action RPG Moon Hunters changes depending on the players' choices in what the developer has described as a "personality test"?
Did you know that Akhamaman, the self-proclaimed king of Pegu, began his career as a rower on the royal yacht of King Narathihapate of Pagan?
Did you know that John O'Brien presided over the military court that tried and acquitted Japanese Admiral Soemu Toyoda?
Did you know that U.S. citizens are prohibited from engaging in business transactions with the owners of the Mexican newspaper Unomásuno?
Did you know that a marine organism described in 1971 as a new species of gastrotrich was later identified as the larva of a bristleworm, probably Polydora ciliata?
Did you know that in 1999 three perfectly-preserved child mummies were found on the summit of Llullaillaco, a 6,700 m (22,000 ft) volcano, where they had been sacrificed under the Inca Empire 500 years earlier?
Did you know that regrelor, a new experimental antiplatelet drug, was withdrawn during a phase II clinical trial due to an increased risk of bleeding?
Did you know that when signing to MCA Records, Gregg Alexander allegedly received a $600,000 advance for the New Radicals' Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too?
Did you know that 500 copies of Vietnamese singer Son Tung M-TP's compilation album M-tp M-TP sold out in 30 minutes?
Did you know that Caroline Risque made the bronze busts of the four founders of Stix Baer & Fuller?
Did you know that art curator Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi described sound artist Emeka Ogboh's workⓘ as capturing "the maddening hyper-visuality of Lagos"?
Did you know that the shooter game Privates was created to raise awareness about sexually transmitted infections?
Did you know that Ghanaian Member of Parliament Kwesi Ankama died on an official government delegation to the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Thomas Lyle Williams had the idea to create the first mascara, Maybelline, after seeing his sister Mabel use a mix of petroleum jelly and burnt cork to darken her eyelashes?
Did you know that Traci Hunter Abramson used her experience as a swim coach and a CIA employee to write Undercurrents, a novel about an Olympic-hopeful swimmer in witness protection?
Did you know that of the 64 first-round draft picks made by the New England Patriots, 20 have been selected to play in the Pro Bowl?
Did you know that the Sydney Metro Blues are the 2017 Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League champions?
Did you know that the History of Medicine Society, founded by Sir William Osler in 1912, is one of the oldest in the world?
Did you know that the Stadttheater Minden, a municipal theatre without an ensemble, received international attention for its Wagner opera project?
Did you know that the prize in a tournament of Urban Jungle, a driving game developed and set in Croatia, was free real-world driving lessons?
Did you know that when St Peter's Church in Henfield needed a bell in the 17th century, the churchwarden stole one from St Leonard's Church in Aldrington?
Did you know that Anne Curtis plans to perform her own stunts in the upcoming Philippine action film Buy Bust?
Did you know that C. Louise Boehringer, the first female Superintendent of Schools in Yuma County, has often been called "the mother of the Arizona educational system"?
Did you know that Cecilia Dapaah, Ghana's minister for aviation, has vowed to start a new national carrier and make the country the aviation hub of West Africa?
Did you know that Maria Riccarda Wesseling appeared as Gluck's Orfeo in Paris and at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, and as Henze's Phaedra in Berlin?
Did you know that the first Croatian fictional film, Brcko in Zagreb, is now considered lost?
Did you know that the sea slug Alderia modesta transfers sperm to a partner by hypodermic injection?
Did you know that Amabel Anderson Arnold, a St. Louis lawyer and law professor, received degrees from both Benton College of Law and City College of Law and Finance within a five-day period?
Did you know that Christian William Miller, inventor of a water desalination device promoted by Franklin D. Roosevelt, was considered one of the most beautiful men in the 1940s New York gay society?
Did you know that Joseph and Amalie Joachim received two songs from Johannes Brahms, one to begin their marriage, the other decades later to repair it?
Did you know that in 1978, airline captain Gordon Vette rescued a Cessna pilot who was lost over the Pacific Ocean and running out of fuel?
Did you know that supporter liaison officers are claimed to be a major factor in the 20 percent reduction of crowd disorder in Swedish football?
Did you know that the Jugendkulturhaus Dynamo, a youth center in Zürich, was built from an old brewery after youth riots in the city were sparked by a grant of 61,000,000 Swiss francs to the Zürich Opera?
Did you know that after gunmen murdered her father in a pub, Irish politician Emma Rogan campaigned with the Loughinisland Justice Group to uncover their identities?
Did you know that early occupational epidemiology studies established health risk factors for gold and silver miners, chimney sweeps, and workers using asbestos?
Did you know that in 1975, Barbara May Cameron, a member of the Hunkpapa Lakota, co-founded the first gay Indian organization in San Francisco?
Did you know that producer Mara Brock Akil was hesitant to cast Tia Mowry as Melanie Barnett due to the actress's wholesome image from Sister, Sister?
Did you know that the former Imperial Square of Strasbourg is decorated with ginkgos that were presented by Emperor Meiji of Japan to the German Emperor?
Did you know that Dolomedes schauinslandi, one of New Zealand's largest spiders, could be capable of ballooning between islands?
Did you know that E. Joy Johnson wrote The Foreman of the J.A.6. based on her experience owning a ranch in frontierland Wyoming?
Did you know that as CEO of Nestlé Mexico, Eugenio Minvielle Lagos pushed for the "pull strategy"?
Did you know that surgeon Sir Terence English, who performed the first successful heart transplant in the UK in August 1979, had an earlier career in mining engineering?
Did you know that the Thirteenth Doctor, to be portrayed by Jodie Whittaker, will be the first female incarnation of the Doctor in the continuity of Doctor Who?
Did you know that American Jewish cuisine has been influenced by a geographical gefilte fish line?
Did you know that Elisabeth Kulman, Gora in the premiere of Reimann's Medea at the Vienna State Opera, changed from soprano to mezzo, and from opera singer to concert singer?
Did you know that Ghanaian entrepreneur and journalist Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, who heads the newly created Ministry of Business Development, has pledged to triple the country's GDP?
Did you know that Lillie Rose Ernst, the first woman assistant superintendent of instruction in the St. Louis public school system, was the mentor of The Potters?
Did you know that Steve Smith has scored seven of his twenty Test centuries against India?
Did you know that the Daniel Webster Debate Society of Phillips Exeter Academy, founded in 1818, is the oldest secondary school literary society in the United States?
Did you know that when Helen Huntington Hull inherited Among the Sierra Nevada, California by Albert Bierstadt, she had it glued directly to a wall of her mansion?
Did you know that Carol Smith appeared as Verdi's Eboli, Amneris and Azucena at the Opernhaus Zürich, and recorded his Mrs. Quickly in German?
Did you know that Transformers character Bumblebee will feature in his own film, which is currently in production in California?
Did you know that tango music composer Cátulo Castillo was once featherweight champion of Argentina, and went to the 1924 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that the artificial lake Auesee has become a popular recreation spot known as the "jewel" of Wesel?
Did you know that the navigator and cartographer Matthew Flinders is thought to be buried under Platform 15 at Euston railway station?
Did you know that Kofi Dzamesi, the Minister for Chieftancy and Religious Affairs in Ghana, survived an assassination attempt in 2008?
Did you know that Manon Antoniazzi gave Welsh lessons to Prince William, the son of the Prince of Wales?
Did you know that Michael M. York and Jeffrey A. Marx received death threats for their 1986 Pulitzer Prize-winning series exposing improper cash payoffs to Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball players?
Did you know that an Edmonton man who unknowingly bought a $1.2 million artwork stolen six years ago today, kept it in his bedroom next to Star Wars figures and stuffed animals?
Did you know that the Casualty episode "Exile" was filmed entirely in Bucharest?
Did you know that Geneve L. A. Shaffer, known as the "Skyscraper Girl", was the United States' first woman glider pilot?
Did you know that after appearing in more than 50 films, Priyanka Chopra's first-ever audition was for the American television series Quantico?
Did you know that the largest theft in Canadian history occurred 45 years ago today, when jewellery and 18 paintings (example pictured) were stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts?
Did you know that the social thriller film genre has been popularized in the United States by Get Out director Jordan Peele and in India by Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan?
Did you know that thousands of Jews fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War?
Did you know that Adeline Palmier Wagoner wrote Madame Beaulieu: A Colonial Dame, a biography of her ancestor, a social leader in Cahokia?
Did you know that Danish historian Elisabeth Munksgaard was given a "fine finale" to her career with a costumed eleventh-century king?
Did you know that Jingu Bashi bridge in Tokyo is a tourist attraction frequented daily by cosplay, visual kei, and gothic Lolita fashion fans?
Did you know that the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki co-wrote the German libretto of Ubu Rex, his only opera buffa, based on the French play Ubu Roi?
Did you know that though Mohsin Raza was made the Minority Affairs Minister of an Indian state, he was a member of neither the state legislative assembly nor the legislative council?
Did you know that Bipin Ganatra, an electrician by trade, has voluntarily helped Kolkata firefighters battle more than 100 fires over the past 40 years?
Did you know that Oshkosh Alpha's ShieldAll armor incorporates research conducted for NASCAR after the death of Dale Earnhardt?
Did you know that according to reviewers, soprano Simone Schneider of the Staatsoper Stuttgart "expresses Alcestis' agitation, nobility and joy with a moving simplicity" and "was a headstrong, vibrant Empress"?
Did you know that one reviewer thought that voice samples from Lindsay Lohan would have "pepp[ed] things up" for the video game Herbie: Fully Loaded?
Did you know that the Bartley-Fox Law mandated a one-year prison sentence for anyone convicted of illegally carrying a firearm in Massachusetts?
Did you know that the Brazilian coastal defense ship Deodoro was once mistaken for a war-bound privateer?
Did you know that with Classics in 2014, the musical duo She & Him charted their fourth consecutive number-one album on the Billboard charts for Folk Albums?
Did you know that Cardiff City F.C. is the only non-English team to have won the FA Cup?
Did you know that a Buncombe County, North Carolina, deputy sheriff interrupted his convalescence from back surgery to investigate a body discovered 20 years ago today and crushed his sciatic nerve as a result?
Did you know that an animal called the "Seaweed of Death from Hana" has caused poisonings of aquarium hobbyists?
Did you know that former Howard University professor George Gyan-Baffour opposed Ghana's decision to seek a bailout from the International Monetary Fund?
Did you know that the bell of the First Presbyterian Church in Portland, Oregon, was cast from Civil War cannons?
Did you know that the premiere of the opera Wintermärchen by Philippe Boesmans, based on Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, featured jazz-rock music by the Belgian group Aka Moon?
Did you know that Adele Schulenburg Gleeson, an American sculptor active in Missouri and Connecticut, studied sculpture under George Julian Zolnay and Charles Grafly?
Did you know that Donald Trump's handshake with Emmanuel Macron at the Bastille Day celebrations was 29 seconds long?
Did you know that Fantasia's single "Sleeping with the One I Love" was described as "five minutes of slow-burning flame"?
Did you know that Helaine Olen and Harold Pollack wrote a book based on an index card?