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Did you know that John C. Bowers was a founder of the first African-American Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in Pennsylvania?
Did you know that Josephine Brown and Susan Paul were the first African American women biographers?
Did you know that Rocket Fizz, a candy company and franchise chain, produces and markets a ranch dressing-flavored soft drink?
Did you know that even though the range of the Beautiful Nuthatch is very large, approaching 376,000 km2 (234,000 mi2), the species is nevertheless rare, being highly localized in its distribution?
Did you know that in 1975, the former general secretary of the Israeli Communist Party, Shmuel Mikunis, joined the dissident Israeli Communist Opposition?
Did you know that wrestlers Cody Rhodes and Goldust are sons of WWE Hall of Famer "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes?
Did you know that Belgian tennis champion Philippe Washer lent his Ferrari 250 Europa GT Pinin Farina Coupé to his cousin, driver Olivier Gendebien, who then finished third at the 1955 Liège-Rome-Liège rally?
Did you know that Grammy Award-winning anthropologist Luis Kemnitzer posed naked for a calendar when he was in his mid-seventies?
Did you know that Igone de Jongh, principal dancer with the Dutch National Ballet, is featured in Anouk's music video Birds, the official Netherlands entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2013?
Did you know that Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is the first film ever to be shot at casino Wynn Las Vegas, by permission of casino developer Steve Wynn?
Did you know that Portuguese Captain André Furtado killed Puvirasa Pandaram, king of the Jaffna Kingdom, in 1591?
Did you know that at age 23, poet Armen Dorian was arrested in the middle of the night and ultimately murdered during the Armenian Genocide?
Did you know that in 2012–13, the Himadri Station, India's first research base in the Arctic, was manned for 185 days, with 25 scientists visiting it to carry out studies?
Did you know that in the 1972 by-election to the Gird seat in the Madhya Pradesh assembly, Vijaya Raje Scindia's candidate was defeated by the communist Balkrishna Sharma?
Did you know that the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance commissioned a survey which found that 72% of consumers said they knew little or nothing about farming or ranching?
Did you know that the first act of the 1893 play Anatol earned playwright Arthur Schnitzler the title of "psychological depth researcher" from Sigmund Freud?
Did you know that the flower spikes of Banksia praemorsa can reach 27 cm (11 in) high?
Did you know that Assam state communist leader Drupad Borgohain was born on the anniversary of the October Revolution?
Did you know that Marcel Hug, "The Silver Bullet", has won the Paris, Berlin, New York and London wheelchair marathons?
Did you know that actress Samira Wiley works on Orange Is the New Black alongside a writer and another cast member with whom she became friends while attending the Juilliard School?
Did you know that the Berkshire No. 7, Elmer S. Dailey, and Priscilla Dailey, which sank together in 1974, are the only National Register of Historic Places-listed shipwrecks in Connecticut?
Did you know that the newest Interstate Highway designation in Michigan is Interstate 73, but it has never been built?
Did you know that "Onward, Christian Pilgrims" has replaced "Onward, Christian Soldiers" in some British hymnals?
Did you know that Euthymius, the metropolitan bishop of Sardis, played a leading role in the ending of the first period of Byzantine Iconoclasm, and was martyred during the second?
Did you know that Kalman Mann, a seventh-generation Jerusalemite, passed the entrance exam at the London School of Economics though he could barely speak English?
Did you know that organist Karl Ludwig Gerok, who studied and taught at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart, composed chorale preludes on "Aus tiefer Not" and "Gelobt sei Gott"?
Did you know that the Carta marina, a 16th-century map of Scandinavia by Olaus Magnus, depicts otter fishing?
Did you know that there are nearly 900 macroinvertebrates per square meter in the lower reaches of West Creek?
Did you know that Betty Bone Schiess is one of the Philadelphia Eleven, leaders in the movement to allow the ordination of women in the Episcopal Church?
Did you know that Chicagoland was produced to help CNN be less dependent upon the 24-hour news cycle?
Did you know that Devika Rani, the first recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, is credited as having sung Bollywood's first English song?
Did you know that Exeter Chiefs hosted the New Zealand national rugby union team's first game in the Northern Hemisphere, where they became known as the All Blacks?
Did you know that Maia Makhateli felt it was hard to be paired with her brother David Makhateli while dancing the ballet Romeo and Juliet?
Did you know that Purvis Short is the Golden State Warriors' seventh all-time leading scorer?
Did you know that a painting by Mallica "Kapo" Reynolds was selected by the Jamaican government as a gift for the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana?
Did you know that early members of the Ladies' Scottish Climbing Club would often take off their long skirts to climb in knickerbockers?
Did you know that the Thousand-year Rose is believed to be the world's oldest rose?
Did you know that B. R. Ambedkar published Annihilation of Caste, his speech intended for an anti-caste conference, after his invitation to present it was withdrawn?
Did you know that DNA base flipping is used in DNA replication, DNA methylation and RNA transcription?
Did you know that Nicholas Snowman is the third generation chairman of the jewellers Wartski, who made the ring for the 2011 Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton?
Did you know that Teri Gender Bender has incorporated raw meat into her performances and has been compared to both Björk and Siouxsie Sioux?
Did you know that Turkish painter İbrahim Balaban's talent was discovered in prison by fellow inmate and famous Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet Ran, who called him "my peasant painter"?
Did you know that after the Hildesheim Cathedral, a World Heritage Site, was destroyed in World War II, the westwork was restored without the additions made in 1840?
Did you know that an imperforate hymen is the most common congenital cause of vaginal obstruction?
Did you know that part of The Black Eyed Peas' song "Boom Boom Pow" was inspired by Bizarre Inc's "I'm Gonna Get You"?
Did you know that the National Library of the Czech Republic won the inaugural UNESCO Jikji Prize?
Did you know that the new bark of Eucalyptus alba is pink?
Did you know that Antonín Kinský was part of the Czech Republic squad at UEFA Euro 2004 and the 2006 FIFA World Cup, although he played at neither tournament?
Did you know that People's Park, Chengdu, has a monument commemorating those who died protecting railways?
Did you know that the 2014 adaptation of Rosemary's Baby starring Zoe Saldana is set in Paris rather than New York City like the original novel?
Did you know that the foreman of a grand jury in the Wham Paymaster Robbery case complained that judge William H. Barnes was exerting inappropriate influence on government witnesses?
Did you know that two Boeing 747s landed on a 50-foot (15 m) wide runway when they were delivered to the South African Airways Museum Society?
Did you know that David Leyonhjelm, who will sit in the Australian Senate from July, has been described as a "libertarian purist", and compared to Ron Paul?
Did you know that Doris Huestis Speirs, after whom an annual prize bestowed by the Society of Canadian Ornithologists is named, exhibited her paintings with the Group of Seven and the Canadian Group of Painters?
Did you know that Umeå Energi set up lamps in bus shelters to avoid people getting SAD?
Did you know that Xining's People's Park was designed by a recent college graduate?
Did you know that actress Camilla Arfwedson attended three auditions to secure the role of Holby City character Zosia March?
Did you know that despite winning the Baja 1000 four times (twice overall) in off-road competition, Mark Stahl never finished better than 16th in NASCAR Winston Cup Series stock cars?
Did you know that in 1869 St Thomas' Church, Preston, contained a curtained pew that was occupied by the local Member of Parliament?
Did you know that the Three Virtues bothered Christine de Pisan until she got out of bed and wrote The Treasure of the City of Ladies?
Did you know that the coat of arms of Fiji was retained after independence from the United Kingdom in 1970, partly because of its links to the last Fijian king, who ceded his country to Britain?
Did you know that the syndicalist Léa Roback opened the first Marxist book store in Montreal?
Did you know that Serbian Orthodox monk Jovan Maleševac collaborated in 1561 with the Protestant reformer Primož Trubar to print religious books in Cyrillic?
Did you know that a silver bowl from the 4th-century Carthage Treasure shows chased and hammered pastoral scenes in relief around the edge?
Did you know that the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee reported a resolution to the full Senate in preparation for the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide?
Did you know that the United States Agency for International Development covertly developed ZunZuneo, the "Cuban Twitter", allegedly as a means of fomenting dissent similar to that of the Arab Spring?
Did you know that the upcoming television series, Agent Carter, was inspired by a short film, also titled Agent Carter?
Did you know that American journalist and author William Honan helped solve a 1945 heist in Quedlinburg, Germany, in which over US$200 million worth of items were stolen?
Did you know that Mount St Mary's Church, Leeds, was built on an abandoned mine and has a bricked-up access to the mine from the sacristy?
Did you know that Peder Kolstad's cabinet supported a private Norwegian occupation of Eastern Greenland?
Did you know that Pevensey Castle (gatehouse pictured), originally a Roman Saxon Shore fortress, was reoccupied by the British, Canadian, and United States armies in 1940 to guard against a German invasion?
Did you know that at one time Nortel's Carling Campus in Ottawa, Canada, represented the city's aspirations of becoming a technology hotbed?
Did you know that for Glee's "Back-up Plan", Shirley MacLaine sang a Janis Joplin song for the first time?
Did you know that in field hockey, the penalty shoot-out format no longer involves penalty strokes?
Did you know that in the first episode he wrote for Glee, starring actor Chris Colfer cast himself as Peter Pan?
Did you know that since 1995, the National Weather Service office in Miami, Florida, has been co-located with the National Hurricane Center on the campus of Florida International University?
Did you know that the "Billy Boys" was ruled as a tolerated historic song by UEFA despite it being banned in Scottish football grounds due to sectarianism?
Did you know that the songs "Wop" (2011) and "Don't Drop That Thun Thun" (2012) were both popularized in 2013 by viral videos involving twerking?
Did you know that City Church, Preston, which is now Pentecostal, was originally a Wesleyan Methodist Church?
Did you know that Euthymius I became Patriarch of Constantinople because his predecessor, Nicholas Mystikos, refused to sanction Emperor Leo VI's un-canonical fourth marriage?
Did you know that J. J. Abrams cast the unknown Daisy Ridley over Academy Award-winner Lupita Nyong'o in Star Wars Episode VII?
Did you know that PETA's browser games regularly satirize popular franchises like Mario and Pokémon?
Did you know that aspiring politician Will Straw is the candidate for a constituency next to his father's?
Did you know that at full capacity the Cruachan Power Station drains 200 cubic metres (260 cu yd) of water per second from Cruachan Reservoir?
Did you know that footballer František Rajtoral was one of two players sent off in the inaugural Czech Supercup?
Did you know that the viral video I Am a Ukrainian (scene pictured) has had by far the greatest impact of any video from the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, according to the BBC?
Did you know that "Good Old Arsenal" was the first FA Cup Final record released?
Did you know that Beijing's Dongcheng District (view from Dongzhimen, pictured) has more than a quarter of the city's Major National Historical and Cultural Sites?
Did you know that Chase Williamson graduated from USC weeks before being cast in John Dies at the End?
Did you know that Emanuel Snowman was famous for dealing in Easter eggs, one of which sold for a world record $9.6 million in 2002?
Did you know that Turkish-Romani musician Selim Sesler was called "the Coltrane of the clarinet"?
Did you know that after originating the role of Lady Sangazure in The Sorcerer, Mrs Howard Paul walked out of the cast of H.M.S. Pinafore when her part was reduced?
Did you know that although Emil Tamsen fought for the British in the First Boer War, he became a friend of the Boer leader Paul Kruger?
Did you know that during World War I, Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland, converted her London house into a hospital?
Did you know that musicians often mimic barnyard animal sounds with voices and instruments in the American blues song "Little Red Rooster"?
Did you know that the male of the frog species Allobates femoralis carries his tadpoles to pools of water?
Did you know that there is a 19th-century German cannon in People's Park, Nanning, China?
Did you know that when two members of alternative rock band Too Much Joy posted 13 songs online under the name Wonderlick, they made $12,000 from online donations alone?
Did you know that 65% of male and female prisoners in New South Wales were sexually abused as children?
Did you know that Akrotiri and Dhekelia is one of the only two British Overseas Territory without its own unique flag?
Did you know that Arsenal reached the 2014 FA Cup Final today without leaving London?
Did you know that Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta is one Cuba's most famous social reformers?
Did you know that Relicanthus daphneae, originally thought to be one of the sea anemones, is so distinct from them that it belongs in a new order of its own?
Did you know that a special effects expert faked a moon landing using black velvet, a rolling chair, and a heavily made-up actor?
Did you know that despite being a Nevada resident at the time, Octavius D. Gass served as President of the Council (upper house) during the 4th Arizona Territorial Legislature?
Did you know that rapper Rich Homie Quan is featured on Mariah Carey's song "Thirsty"?
Did you know that the ancient Scottish estate of Killiechassie, now the home of J. K. Rowling, is noted for its dovecote?
Did you know that the home of David Hudson, founder of Hudson, Ohio, also served as the town's first post office, tavern, and court room?
Did you know that "Cirrus" by Bonobo was featured in a mobile phone advert?
Did you know that Anne Nicol Gaylor started a medical fund that has raised money to help pay for nearly 19,000 abortions?
Did you know that Auschwitz prisoner Father Józef Kowalski was one of 108 Polish Martyrs beatified in front of 600,000 people by Pope John Paul II during a ceremonial mass?
Did you know that Dieter Bortfeldt, an expert in detecting forged stamps, won 15 gold medals for his displays of the philately of Colombia?
Did you know that Glee's fifth season finale completed shooting 11 days before it was broadcast?
Did you know that St Joseph's Church, Preston, was built in a district of the town containing cotton mills, and was dedicated to Saint Joseph, the patron saint of workers?
Did you know that anyone convicted of insulting "Namibia, Land of the Brave" can be imprisoned for five years?
Did you know that before entering politics, British Member of Parliament Ayscoghe Boucherett became friends with Sir Thomas Lawrence, whose painting The Children of Ayscoghe Boucherett is now held in The Louvre?
Did you know that chemist Madeleine M. Joullié developed indanediones, used by the U.S. Secret Service to detect fingerprints?
Did you know that having defended a heavy water factory in the 1940 Norwegian Campaign, Captain Rolf Hauge led No. 5 Norwegian Troop of the No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando in the 1944 assault landings at Walcheren?
Did you know that the northern birch mouse is a skilful climber?
Did you know that A. R. Rahman, who won India's National Film Award for Best Music Direction for Roja, was initially tied with Ilaiyaraaja before the jury's chairman cast the deciding vote?
Did you know that Marvin Gabrion was sentenced to death in Michigan despite the state's ban on capital punishment?
Did you know that Nas' "I Gave You Power" is written from the perspective of a gun?
Did you know that Pattycake was one of 338 captive gorillas in North American zoos when she died in 2013?
Did you know that Umeå, a 2014 European Capital of Culture, is near an arboretum that specializes in growing plants for use at northern latitudes?
Did you know that communist parliamentarian Bhan Singh Bhaura survived the crash of Indian Airlines Flight 440?
Did you know that in 1927, while he was President of the Oregon State Senate, Henry L. Corbett served as acting Governor of Oregon twice?
Did you know that inter-crater plains form the oldest surface on Mercury?
Did you know that the Archbishop of Arezzo, Gentile de' Becchi, was employed as a tutor to a boy who became a cardinal at 13 and pope at 38?
Did you know that the DeCSS haiku was written in part to demonstrate the notion of computer code being considered as free speech?
Did you know that the Mexican kingsnake is sometimes killed because it is misidentified as a venomous coral snake?
Did you know that the oldest Hasidic yeshiva in Israel is located in Shikun Chabad, Jerusalem?
Did you know that the threatened sandpaper wattle is extinct at the site it was first collected?
Did you know that Alice Davis Menken's experience working with her synagogue sisterhood's settlement house led to her lifelong interest in assisting female Jewish immigrant juvenile delinquents?
Did you know that Kim Booth, leader of the Tasmanian Greens, ran a sawmill in Meander, Tasmania?
Did you know that Machiavelli expert Lawrence Burd owned 8000 Penny Blacks?
Did you know that first impressions can be influenced by how many people you are with?
Did you know that four women who received lab-grown vagina transplants recently reported normal function during sexual intercourse?
Did you know that the remains of the Swamp Ghost are being restored at the Pacific Aviation Museum on Pearl Harbor?
Did you know that Canis Major (depicted) contains the brightest star in the night sky?
Did you know that Glarentza was the most important town and main port of the Principality of Achaea in Frankish Greece?
Did you know that José Mário Vaz, the newly elected President of Guinea-Bissau, is popularly nicknamed "Jomav"?
Did you know that Union Films' 1941 film Soeara Berbisa was advertised as "civilised" enough for European audiences?
Did you know that approximately one in 80,000 females is born without a cervix?
Did you know that fashion professor Louise Wilson's students included Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders, and Alexander McQueen?
Did you know that the  Lexington Historical Museum  is housed within an 1846 Presbyterian church?
Did you know that the Silent Unseen Wacław Kopisto was one of the 1943 rescuers of Armia Krajowa prisoners tortured at the Pinsk prison?
Did you know that the tower of Emmanuel Church, Preston, has gargoyles in the form of winged beasts?
Did you know that twelve pairs of cranial nerves control facial expression, and transmit facial sensation and the special senses of taste, hearing, balance, vision, and smell?
Did you know that when recording The Allman Brothers Band, Duane Allman's slide guitar solo on "Dreams" reduced the rest of the band to tears?
Did you know that 14-year-old Australian snowboarder Ben Tudhope was the youngest competitor at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi?
Did you know that Eastgate House, Rochester is featured in Charles Dickens's novels The Pickwick Papers and The Mystery of Edwin Drood?
Did you know that Edmund Abel, who designed and patented the Mr. Coffee automatic drip coffeemaker, did not drink coffee?
Did you know that Oprah donated her Black Angel Collection to the Angel Museum?
Did you know that Sanur, the fortified throne village of the Jarrar clan, withstood two sieges by Jezzar Pasha, the Ottoman governor of Acre?
Did you know that after Tamil regions of Travancore merged with Tamil Nadu, the leaders of Travancore Tamil Nadu Congress joined with Congress?
Did you know that most non-Peronist political parties in Argentina have united in the political coalition Broad Front UNEN?
Did you know that the Indian town of Mannargudi developed around the Rajagopalaswamy temple?
Did you know that the penalty circle on a field hockey pitch isn't really a circle?
Did you know that John Calvin Ferguson, a Canadian-born American, had a road named after him in the French concession of Shanghai, China?
Did you know that Star Trek: The Next Generation's Commander Riker once advertised products for Boole & Babbage?
Did you know that Stop the Music, the debut album by brother-sister hip hop duo New Breed, features a Latin influence that highlights the duo's Puerto Rican heritage?
Did you know that Union Films' action film Harta Berdarah was released during Eid?
Did you know that because of the Heartbleed bug, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft joined the Core Infrastructure Initiative to help fund software projects like OpenSSL?
Did you know that in 1881, nine years after Lord Edward Thynne ran off with Marquess Townshend's wife, the Marquess attacked him with a horse whip?
Did you know that in the 2014 ship collision off Po Toi, Zhong Xing 2, the ship that sank, was a third of the length of the other ship in the collision?
Did you know that the 1855 death of law enforcement officer Andrew Bolon contributed to the outbreak of the Yakima War?
Did you know that the Martian soil simulant used by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is made from Hawaiian volcanic ash?
Did you know that the hymn "Jesu, meine Freude" (Jesus, my joy) by Johann Franck and Johann Crüger mentions singing in defiance of the "old dragon", death, and fear?
Did you know that the leaves of two species of the fossil plant genus Banksieaeformis resemble those of the living Banksia serrata?
Did you know that when feeding, the grey red-backed vole prefers bilberry to northern crowberry?
Did you know that Christian IV of Denmark-Norway had Altenhus Fortress built in the far north of Norway, to defend his territorial claims there and secure the salmon fisheries of the Alta River?
Did you know that Joany Badenhorst, the first female snowboarder to represent Australia at the Winter Paralympics, was forced to withdraw after injuring herself in training on the morning of her event?
Did you know that Mahantango Creek is only 2 miles (3.2 km) long, but drains an area of 86 square miles (220 km2)?
Did you know that Setangan Berloemoer Darah was the second novel to be adapted to Indonesian film?
Did you know that as a result of the royal baccarat scandal, Edward, Prince of Wales, became the first heir to the English throne to appear involuntarily in court for 480 years?
Did you know that footage from 12 oz. Mouse makes a cameo appearance in Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters?
Did you know that in colonial Russian America, Alaskan parchment scrip currency was sometimes printed on walrus hide?
Did you know that the 20-cent U.S. Parcel Post stamp of 1912 had the distinction of being the first stamp in history to depict an airplane, six years before the U.S. Post Office issued an airmail stamp?
Did you know that the German feminist newspaper Courage was named after the main character of Mother Courage and Her Children?
Did you know that the May 2014 bombing of the Carlton Citadel Hotel in Aleppo, Syria, was nearly identical to an attack on the same building three months earlier?
Did you know that the National Football League's New York Giants traded two first-round NFL draft picks to the Minnesota Vikings for Fran Tarkenton in 1967, only to trade him back to the Vikings in 1972?
Did you know that the Poland–Ukraine border, the most often crossed eastern border of the European Union, is also a major smuggling route?