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Did you know that after Akari Hayami left Momoiro Clover, the girl group changed its name to Momoiro Clover Z?
Did you know that chef Heston Blumenthal sought to super-size food in his Channel 4 series Heston's Fantastical Food, including making a pub out of pies?
Did you know that it is not known who built the Peruvian site of Cerro Sechin?
Did you know that long-time television journalist Belva Davis recalls being chased out of the 1964 Republican National Convention by attendees who yelled racial slurs?
Did you know that nonmagmatic is a term used in meteoritics to describe iron meteorites that were originally thought to have formed by non-igneous processes?
Did you know that photographer Howell Conant considered Grace Kelly's jaw her only flaw, and hid it with a dog or baby?
Did you know that the giant barnacle is used in Chilean cuisine?
Did you know that the nudibranch Flabellina verrucosa incorporates stinging cells from its prey into its own tissues?
Did you know that the television-based video game Family Guy Online will be shut down in January 2013?
Did you know that Christina Aguilera describes "Army of Me" as an "updated version" of her 2002 song "Fighter"?
Did you know that Donnie Andrews was the main inspiration for the character of Omar Little on The Wire?
Did you know that English cricketer Carol Valentine was a part of the first ever Women's Test match that was played between England and Australia?
Did you know that General Noël Garnier-Duplessis' commands during the First World War included troops from France, Russia and the US?
Did you know that Hashim Amla is the only cricketer to score a triple century for South Africa, and the fastest batsman to reach 2,000 and 3,000 runs in One Day International cricket?
Did you know that Richard von Hegener was a primary organizer of the Nazi Action T4 adult and child euthanasia program, whose method of gassing victims was a forerunner to the gas chambers of the Holocaust?
Did you know that St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Albany, New York, still has a silver communion service set given as a gift by Queen Anne?
Did you know that author Terry McMillan based a character in her book How Stella Got Her Groove Back on author Doris Jean Austin, her best friend?
Did you know that in "My Mummy's Dead", John Lennon used the tune of the nursery rhyme "Three Blind Mice" and achieved a chilling effect?
Did you know that inside All Saints Church, Claverley, Shropshire, is a carving of two dragons nibbling a human head?
Did you know that the 1943 death of the Polish government in exile leader, general Władysław Sikorski, led to a number of conspiracy theories?
Did you know that the McDonald Farm near Xenia supplied Ohio's portion of the Washington Monument?
Did you know that the Pambamarca Fortress Complex is a large installation of many Inca Pucarás?
Did you know that the grass octopus puts on a deimatic display of brownish red with white spots to scare predators?
Did you know that "The Lass of Richmond Hill", said to be one of George III's favourite songs, was written by an Irish republican revolutionary leader who became a British government double agent?
Did you know that Axel Törneman's friends were able to locate him by following the sketches he left in Paris cafés?
Did you know that Dave Brubeck's wife Iola wrote the lyrics to "In Your Own Sweet Way"?
Did you know that Jarman Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia is the site of the first European settlement in the mountain area near Albemarle County?
Did you know that Shatrunjaya is a sacred site for Jains, containing hundreds of Palitana temples?
Did you know that a Turkish Armenian soldier was killed on the Armenian Genocide remembrance day?
Did you know that fashion magazine Marie Claire's co-founder Marcelle Auclair also wrote biographies of socialist Jean Jaures and Catholic Saints Teresa of Avila and Bernadette of Lourdes?
Did you know that for Homme, David Beckham wanted to create a modern, masculine fragrance that reflects his own personal style?
Did you know that poet Henry Constable was imprisoned in both the Tower and the Fleet?
Did you know that the Distinguished Service to Music Medal, presented by Kappa Kappa Psi for "exceptional service to American bands and band music", has been awarded 137 times since 1964?
Did you know that the Kpove War or Dung Pot War got its name when Ndawa had a large hole dug and filled with dung, threatening to throw any of his troops into the hole if they left battle?
Did you know that the National Intercollegiate Band, established in 1947 by Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma, is the oldest intercollegiate band in the United States?
Did you know that the Sana'a manuscript was discovered in the attic of the Great Mosque in 1972?
Did you know that the White Elephant Cave (similar cave pictured) in Phnom Sorsia mountain, Cambodia, is named after the many stalagmites which have the shape of white elephants?
Did you know that the four Kalamazoo-class monitors, begun during the American Civil War, were eventually scrapped because the unseasoned wood of their hulls rotted while they were still on the building stocks?
Did you know that the upcoming video game War for the Overworld has players digging and building dungeons?
Did you know that Attapeu, Bokeo, Bolikhamxai, Champasak, Houaphan, Khammouane, Luang Namtha, Luang Prabang, Oudomxai, Phongsali, Sainyabuli, Salavan, Savannakhet, Sekong, Xiangkhoang and the Vientiane Province and Prefecture form the provinces of Laos (mapped)?
Did you know that Nicholas de Sigillo, Archdeacon of Huntingdon from around 1164 to after 1187, may be the same person as the donor of a Great Bible to Lincoln Cathedral?
Did you know that Progressive American journalist Benjamin Orange Flower once defended Christian Science, claiming its followers were the recipients of a "persistent campaign of falsehood, slander and calumny"?
Did you know that SWAPO's partisan radio station Voice of Namibia employed a number of staff that today are high–ranking Namibian government officials, including Minister of Labour and Social Welfare Doreen Sioka?
Did you know that Tulsa football running back Trey Watts' father, J.C. Watts, is a former United States congressman and quarterback of the Oklahoma Sooners?
Did you know that Wallace wrote about, and Poulton published James Wood-Mason's flower mantis drawing?
Did you know that a large mosaic covers the entire floor of the Byzantine-era Church of the Holy Martyrs, built in 442 CE, in the Syrian town of Taybat al-Imam?
Did you know that during the Battle of Żownin, Cossack forces constructed a bridge under the cover of darkness to relocate their camp?
Did you know that in the Phnom Sampeau hills, during the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge, many victims were bludgeoned and tossed into holes that served as skylights to the caves?
Did you know that the Saxxy Awards is a competition for films that are created using the video game Team Fortress 2?
Did you know that the eastern Syrian town of al-Asharah on the Euphrates River is the site of the Bronze Age city of Terqa?
Did you know that the video game Party Place is Zynga's first 3D mobile game?
Did you know that Abdul Qadir took eight of his Test five-wicket hauls against England and his best bowling figures in an innings were 9 wickets for 56 runs against them?
Did you know that Jack Crossland was expelled from county cricket for living in the wrong place?
Did you know that Lamington National Park was established due to Romeo Lahey's tireless campaigning and petitioning?
Did you know that Northwest Africa 7034 is a type of Martian meteorite never before seen, and has more water in it than any other yet discovered?
Did you know that Phnom Santuk hill is the most sacred mountain of the Kampong Thom in Cambodia with several reclining Buddhas?
Did you know that Welsh actress Tara Bethan was babysat by Giant Haystacks?
Did you know that a modified version of a chemical naturally occurring in the mushroom Strobilurus tenacellus is the world's biggest-selling fungicide?
Did you know that dishes based on perfumes (DKNY adaptation pictured) are served at El Celler de Can Roca, ranked second in The World's 50 Best Restaurants?
Did you know that in the Chicken Kiev speech, then-US President George Bush encouraged Ukraine to remain within the Soviet Union?
Did you know that in the Southern Hemisphere, the coral Acropora secale normally spawns in November, six days after the full moon?
Did you know that on 18 July 1967, the Fourth Legislative Assembly of Madras state unanimously adopted a resolution to change the name of the state to Tamil Nadu?
Did you know that scientist Stuart Firestein uses an analogy of finding a black cat in a dark room to describe the scientific method?
Did you know that short animation film Tadeo Jones contains elements from Raiders of the Lost Ark?
Did you know that the Bengali prayer song Khandana Bhava–Bandhana was composed by Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda?
Did you know that the attack against Mehmed Ali Pasha was the first military operation of the League of Prizren?
Did you know that the orchid bee Euglossa bazinga was named after the catchphrase of Sheldon Cooper from the television show The Big Bang Theory, despite the character's allergy to bees?
Did you know that the unusual name Quinyambie is the Aboriginal word for excreta?
Did you know that the war film Janur Kuning (Yellow Coconut Leaves) has been read as portraying General Sudirman with mystic powers?
Did you know that Body of Proof episode "Missing" featured Slaine as the episode's murderer, a role which was his first venture into network television?
Did you know that English cricketer Graham Gooch is the only centurion in Test cricket history to have been dismissed by handling the ball?
Did you know that George Williamson Crawford, a New Haven city official, activist, and freemason, was the second black graduate of Yale Law School?
Did you know that Talite Vaioleti was an LDS missionary in Australia before becoming a rugby union international for Tonga?
Did you know that The Sesame Street Dictionary contains around 1,300 illustrations of Muppets?
Did you know that Vishvaksena is described as the commander-in-chief of the army of the god Vishnu and the gate-keeper and "chamberlain" of Vishnu's abode Vaikuntha?
Did you know that a fictional alien race in Star Trek called Bolians were named after television director Cliff Bole, who directed 42 episodes of the franchise?
Did you know that because of the 1963 coup d'état the government of Togo was not invited to the conference which created the Organisation of African Unity?
Did you know that customarily, in a Minangkabau marriage, the bridegroom lives with his sister and visits his wife's house only at night?
Did you know that in Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit the prince of Hell is a rubber duck-loving rabbit?
Did you know that soprano Rachel Nicholls, a performer of Wagner's Brünnhilde, sang in Bach's dialogue cantata Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen (Dearest Jesus, my desire) "a clear Lutheran analogy to a love duet"?
Did you know that the 2012 film Django Unchained received eight award nominations from the St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association, the most of any film?
Did you know that the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which addressed the U.S. fiscal cliff, was passed by the houses of the U.S. Congress near the beginning and near the end of New Year's Day 2013?
Did you know that the Saleh Mosque, built in Sana'a in 2008 at a cost of US$60 million, was considered too expensive in relation to the 42% of Yemenis who live in poverty?
Did you know that the frog Paedophryne swiftorum was discovered by a student on a 2008 Cornell University expedition to Papua New Guinea?
Did you know that 60% of Filipinos in Kuwait are employed as domestic workers?
Did you know that Admiral John M. Richardson received the James Bond Stockdale Leadership Award?
Did you know that Gerald Feldman, an American historian, conducted research and published books on the role of business in Nazi Germany?
Did you know that Lepiota castaneidisca mushrooms smell like cod-liver oil?
Did you know that Nahapet Rusinian wrote the lyrics to an Armenian song called "Giligia"?
Did you know that Nathan Hannay was appointed as captain of Jersey Rugby Football Club after rejecting advances from Exeter Chiefs?
Did you know that Pengantin Pantai Biru, based on a 1908 novel, was banned as pornographic?
Did you know that a prehistoric mound is located on the U.S. Air Force's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio?
Did you know that highly charged HZE ions make up just 1% of galactic cosmic rays, but they cause as much biological damage to astronauts as protons, which make up 85%?
Did you know that in the video game The Splatters players detonate bombs by flinging anthropomorphized globs of goo at them?
Did you know that out of thirty-one international cricket centuries scored by Aravinda de Silva, eleven were made against Pakistan?
Did you know that sports journalist Dick Beddoes ate one of his columns with borscht when he wrongly predicted that Canada's hockey team would sweep the Summit Series?
Did you know that the Proteaceae plant genus Roupala (R. montana pictured) spread into South America as it split off from Gondwana 110 million years ago and then into Central America six million years ago?
Did you know that the first Indonesian novel by a woman, Kalau Tak Untung, deals with an "inexorable fate" which all humans must face?
Did you know that the video game Scarygirl puts players in control of a young girl with an eye patch, a sewn-shut mouth, and a hook-capped tentacle for one arm?
Did you know that when the Plaza Mayor of Manila was renamed Plaza de Roma in 1961, the city of Rome reciprocated by renaming one of its squares "Piazza Manila"?
Did you know that François Roudaire proposed flooding the Sahara by a channel cut from the Mediterranean to the Chott el Fejej, an event which was portrayed in Jules Verne's last novel, and later was re-imagined with nuclear explosives?
Did you know that IL Hødd goalkeeper Ørjan Nyland was signed by Tippeligaen champions Molde after being named man of the match in the 2012 Norwegian Football Cup Final?
Did you know that Israel expressed objections to the newly launched Turkish reconnaissance satellite Göktürk-2, fearing that high resolution imagery of Israel would eventually fall into the wrong hands?
Did you know that John Gatins, the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Flight, got into scriptwriting when a fellow Vassar graduate offered him $1,000 to pen a screenplay?
Did you know that John Lennon's "I'm Losing You" and Yoko Ono's "I'm Moving On," both from the 1980 Double Fantasy album, reflect the couple's diverse reactions to their marital tensions?
Did you know that Mount Cunningham on South Georgia was named after John Crabbe Cunningham who died after being struck by waves off Holyhead?
Did you know that Riza Cerova, an anti-monarchist activist of interwar Albania, became regarded as a hero after the final overthrow of monarchy in the post-WWII era?
Did you know that Sir Robert Constable was a descendant of Richard, Earl of Cambridge, executed for his part in the Southampton Plot against King Henry V?
Did you know that Yoko Ono's 1969 song "Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)" was inspired by a custody battle over her daughter, with whom she didn't reunite for another 25 years?
Did you know that after assassinating a former warlord, Shi Jianqiao distributed pamphlets explaining her deed?
Did you know that as part of their May 1975 occupation of Thổ Chu Island, the Khmer Rouge kidnapped over 500 islanders and razed several villages?
Did you know that due to a campaign in Turkey, speaking a language other than Turkish was illegal in many parts of the country?
Did you know that the Gaulden Manor ceiling depicts Judgement Day?
Did you know that the exact copy of Our Lady of Lourdes from the Grotto of Apparitions pilgrimaged by John Paul II adorns the main altar of the Church of the Holy Virgin Mary of Lourdes in Kraków?
Did you know that the rule of mixtures predicts composite material properties ranging from ultimate tensile strength to electrical conductivity?
Did you know that 82% of land-based Filipinos in Norway are women?
Did you know that Australia's Warren Bardsley and Charles Kellaway were only listed on the Lord's Honours Boards 98 years after they had fulfilled the requirements, due to the lack of a neutral board?
Did you know that Ivy Queen performed the English version of "Papi Te Quiero" on Good Morning America?
Did you know that Paul Michaux became the first president of the Conférence Olivaint, France's oldest student society, in 1897?
Did you know that St Mary's Church, Cleobury Mortimer, in Shropshire is notable for its twisted spire?
Did you know that Tsholofelo Thipe, who represented South Africa in the 400 metres at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, failed drug tests in 2012 due to her contraceptive?
Did you know that Weldon Chan eluded the Mounties for over three years?
Did you know that a reviewer called the narrator in the game Defenders of Ardania "booze-obsessed", with a voice that sounds like "a Dalek doing an impression of Sean Connery"?
Did you know that after Tim Breslin's death the American Hockey League's Chicago Wolves created a team award in his honor?
Did you know that although Gabrielle Matthaei did the majority of the work in determining the role of temperature in photosynthesis, the biochemical reactions are named after Frederick Blackman?
Did you know that crime reporter Dolores Guadalupe García Escamilla was accused of collaborating with the Gulf Cartel, a Mexican drug trafficking organization?
Did you know that in 1970, the English Court of Appeal found that Scientology does not engage in religious worship?
Did you know that in the video game Frog Fractions, the player travels from a lily pad on Earth to Mars, where they must obtain a work visa to continue working on the planet?
Did you know that opera singer Thérésa was "admired" by Napoleon III?
Did you know that shells of the Eastern Pacific giant conch, Lobatus galeatus, were used as wind instruments by a pre-Incan civilization nearly 3000 years ago?
Did you know that tantalum pentaethoxide is used in the production of optical, electrochromic, and semiconductor devices?
Did you know that the contract for the four ironclad Milwaukee-class monitors was awarded to James Eads, partly due to the influence of Missouri Congressman Frank P. Blair, Jr.?
Did you know that Alfie Fripp, the longest-serving and oldest-surviving British prisoner of war of World War II, "liberated" tools used in the excavation of the Great Escape tunnel?
Did you know that American singer-songwriter Kelis co-wrote the song "Waiting" for Cheryl Cole's second album Messy Little Raindrops?
Did you know that Gary Kirsten's 275 against England is the second longest innings in the history of Test cricket, lasting for almost 14 hours?
Did you know that John Lennon thought that his song "Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out)" would be ideal for Frank Sinatra?
Did you know that Kankalamurti carries a staff on which the bones of the arms and legs of the slain person are tied?
Did you know that Kepler-47c is a circumbinary planet orbiting in the habitable zone of Kepler-47, a binary star system?
Did you know that Mundrabilla I is the eleventh largest meteorite fragment ever found?
Did you know that Raymond D. Tarbuck, a U.S. Navy captain on General Douglas MacArthur's staff, predicted the Battle of Leyte Gulf but was ignored?
Did you know that Roz Howard's 1958 NASCAR season was cut short by a highway crash that left him in a body cast?
Did you know that Sudha Varghese established the Prerna schools to educate Musahar girls of Bihar, deemed the "untouchables" in the caste system in India?
Did you know that at the Battle of Dubienka, Tadeusz Kościuszko repulsed an attack from Imperial Russian Army forces five times the size of his own?
Did you know that at the age of 24 Holger Stromberg was the youngest chef in Germany to be awarded a Michelin star?
Did you know that filmmaker René Vautier received thirteen indictments and a year in prison because of his documentary Afrique 50?
Did you know that in 1964 historian Mary C. Wright became the first woman to be named as a full professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University?
Did you know that in his memoir Who I Am, Pete Townshend of The Who says that Mick Jagger "is the only man I've ever seriously wanted to" have sex with?
Did you know that novelist Mary Angela Dickens, the oldest grandchild of Charles Dickens, died on the 136th anniversary of his birth?
Did you know that temperature and salinity variations produced by ocean tides and freshwater rivers in estuaries make them ideal habitats for studying how these factors affect the growth of shells?
Did you know that the Hagia Triada Greek Orthodox Church in Istanbul was burnt during a riot in 1955?
Did you know that the medieval royal official Reginald de Warenne (died 1179) was one of the first persons summoned as a Serjeant-at-Law, when he was summoned in 1168 by King Henry II of England?
Did you know that the mineral abelsonite probably formed from chlorophyll and is the only known crystalline geoporphyrin?
Did you know that Ankarafantsika National Park in Madagascar is home to the rhinoceros chameleon and the greater big-footed mouse?
Did you know that Australian magician Leslie George Cole created the impaling illusion?
Did you know that Clemente Susini's "Little Venus" has removable layers that reveal her internal organs, including her pregnancy?
Did you know that Hurricane Carla ranks as the most intense U.S. tropical cyclone landfall on the Hurricane Severity Index?
Did you know that John Hemmingham was banned from Sheffield United's Bramall Lane stadium because of concerns that playing music might structurally damage the stands?
Did you know that Lieutenant-Colonel René Laverdure, who commanded French forces at the Battle of El Herri, entered the army as a private soldier?
Did you know that Simon Favre was an interpreter of the Muskogean languages for four different governments in West Florida, and with a Choctaw mistress became the ancestor of a well-known NFL quarterback?
Did you know that Sir James Hales' suicide by drowning inspired the gravedigger's speech in Shakespeare's Hamlet?
Did you know that Young Women for Change is a women's rights non-profit organization in Afghanistan that has held the first anti-harassment march in Afghan history, in July 2012?
Did you know that an Israeli military convoy descended the Scorpion Pass at night in Operation Lot of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and many drivers refused to go down the path out of fear?
Did you know that baseball player Kentrail Davis credited working in construction with helping him gain the upper body strength to become a power hitter?
Did you know that caterpillars of the Red-necked Footman feed on lichens?
Did you know that the 9.2-inch gun of Spur Battery, one of fourteen once mounted on Gibraltar, was moved to Imperial War Museum Duxford after its role was taken over by Exocet missiles?
Did you know that the Battle of Marj Rahit in 684 helped solidify the division of the Arab tribes between "northern" and "southern", whose rivalry lasted in Palestine until the 19th century?
Did you know that the Hindu scriptures describe how a boar rescued the earth, which had been kidnapped and hidden in the primordial waters?
Did you know that the premise of the Fringe episode "Power Hungry" began with the idea of a computer virus being able to spread to humans?
Did you know that the song "Detrás de Mi Ventana" written by Ricardo Arjona has been recorded in banda, mariachi, merengue and pop versions by different performers?
Did you know that transformation belts were used in the filming of the music video for "Z Legend: Neverending Revolution" by Momoiro Clover Z?
Did you know that Abd al-Malik Abd al-Wahid, the one-eyed son of Moroccan sultan Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman, captured Gibraltar in 1333 but fell victim to a Castilian ambush six years later?
Did you know that Austro-Hungarian consul in Shkodër Theodor Anton Ippen was photographed in 1900 wearing an Albanian costume?