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Did you know that a door in the medieval Bunge church on Gotland island still bears marks made by crossbow bolts and pikes?
Did you know that mole crickets of the genus Scapteriscus not only attack crops such as rice, but are also major pests that damage turf on golf courses?
Did you know that the AC/DC song "Whole Lotta Rosie" has an opening riff directly mimicking a track from the Dave Brubeck Quartet album Countdown—Time in Outer Space?
Did you know that the Travolta dress, one of Diana, Princess of Wales's most famous dresses, named after actor John Travolta, was auctioned for £240,000 in 2013?
Did you know that Dale D. Myers refused to accept the position of Deputy Administrator at NASA until president Ronald Reagan made a personal request?
Did you know that Franz von Suppé's operetta Fatinitza stars a Russian army lieutenant who, while dressed as a woman, wins the love of a hot-tempered elderly general?
Did you know that Genovese sauce, named after Genoa and later popular in Paris, was invented in Naples, Italy?
Did you know that Nørreballe's Romanesque Østofte Church is noted for its well-preserved medieval frescos?
Did you know that The Times described Bobby Beasley's victory riding Captain Christy in the Cheltenham Gold Cup as "the greatest comeback since Lazarus"?
Did you know that former Michigan Wolverines softball outfielder Kellyn Tate won the Women's Pro Softball League batting title in 1999 with a .320 batting average?
Did you know that in the Opernhaus Wuppertal production of The Rite of Spring (revival pictured), choreographed by Pina Bausch, the dancers performed on a stage covered with soil?
Did you know that in the murder of Liu Hong Mei, the victim's body was deposited into various boxes?
Did you know that many soldiers and generals of the Tang Dynasty were of Turkic ancestry?
Did you know that root extracts from the tree species Pycnanthus angolensis can be used to treat parasitic infections, such as schistosomiasis?
Did you know that scientists have invented a type of electronic skin capable of healing itself?
Did you know that the Byzantine office of Drungary of the Watch began as a military commander tasked with the emperor's security, became a senior judicial post, and ended as a sinecure and court dignity?
Did you know that the Duluth Armory hosted a performance by Buddy Holly three days before his death?
Did you know that the artistic heroes of illustrator Thomas Fluharty are Rembrandt and Bouguereau?
Did you know that the paper Korea Strategy by Huang Zunxian has been described as "a work of destiny that determined the modern history of East Asia"?
Did you know that British record producer Naughty Boy described his debut album, Hotel Cabana, as having a concept that made it "more like a film in some respects"?
Did you know that Campus Point, previously a whaling site and an air station for the United States Marine Corps, was purchased in 1950 by the University of California?
Did you know that King John of Bohemia brought poet Guillaume de Machaut to the Siege of Medvėgalis so that his crusading deeds could be commemorated in songs and poems?
Did you know that Limerick-born jockey Martin Molony won six consecutive Irish Champion Jump Jockey titles?
Did you know that Marte Dalelv, a Norwegian woman, received a prison sentence of sixteen months in Dubai after she reported a man to the police for rape?
Did you know that Nelle Richmond Eberhart wrote the first opera commissioned for American radio?
Did you know that Nino Konis Santana National Park, the first national park of East Timor, is named after a national independence movement hero?
Did you know that a July 2013 project called Gromit Unleashed saw 80 decorated giant fibreglass sculptures of Aardman Animations' character Gromit displayed in and around Bristol, England?
Did you know that actress Erin Brown said that Duck! The Carbine High Massacre was a "crappy little movie" which "has permanently staked its place in underground cult cinema"?
Did you know that both the silver pearlfish and the pinhead pearlfish live inside the body cavity of a sea cucumber?
Did you know that every knotted polygon in three-dimensional space can be touched at four points by a quadrisecant line?
Did you know that the atmospheric composition of an alien planet may signal the presence of an extraterrestrial civilization?
Did you know that "Tuya Soy", one of Ivy Queen's better-known songs which featured on a number of compilation albums, failed to chart as a single in Billboard magazine?
Did you know that 112-year-old Salustiano Sanchez is the world's oldest living man?
Did you know that Black Twitter has been compared to signifyin' and the dozens?
Did you know that Fredrik Pettersson won a gold medal at the 2013 IIHF World Championship, where he scored seven points in nine games?
Did you know that Hezekiah Usher was the first known colonial bookseller in the thirteen colonies?
Did you know that a fresco in Podmaine Monastery, in Budva, Montenegro, depicting a modern version of the Last Judgment, allegedly presents Josip Broz Tito among the damned?
Did you know that as head of the English-language section of the Vatican Secretariat of State, Leo Cushley has been responsible for accompanying the Pope during all his visits to English-speaking countries?
Did you know that cryobiologist Audrey Smith's scientific papers include "A Simple Method for Reanimating Ice-cold Rats and Mice" and "Resuscitation of Hamsters after Supercooling or Partial Crystallization"?
Did you know that dog surfing dates back as far as 1920 and was depicted in the silent film On the Waves in Waikiki?
Did you know that more than 200 performers appeared on recordings by The Beatles, playing instruments such as an alarm clock and a heap of gravel?
Did you know that one naviduct cost over €55 million?
Did you know that produced by Sudhakar Bokade, the incomplete Bollywood film Kalinga was actor Dilip Kumar's first directorial venture?
Did you know that the Mali Federation, combining Mali and Senegal, only lasted for two months until political differences split the federation apart?
Did you know that the Ponte Vella rises steeply above the Minho River to ensure safe passage during flash floods?
Did you know that the United States Post Office Beacon, New York, was the first of several in the state built of fieldstone during the Depression?
Did you know that the architect of Punta della Dogana's recent €20 million renovation, Tadao Ando, intends the art museum's design to symbolize "the union of past, present, and future"?
Did you know that I Shall Not Be Moved, Maya Angelou's fifth book of poetry, has been described as "exquisitely simple worksong"?
Did you know that Meka Whaitiri, New Zealand's newest Member of Parliament, used to be a member of the Silver Ferns?
Did you know that Motunau Island, with an area of just 3 ha (7.4 acres), is a breeding habitat for 5,000 White-flippered Penguins and thousands of other seabirds?
Did you know that Ted Andrews' book Animal Speak aims to help the reader learn how "to listen with animal ears and to see through animal eyes"?
Did you know that Trish Andrew, nicknamed the "human eraser", holds the Michigan Wolverines women's basketball career and single-season records in both rebounds and blocks?
Did you know that Vijayakumar made his cinematic debut as a child actor in the 1961 Tamil film Sri Valli?
Did you know that West German authorities were accused of having tolerated the hijacking of a Lufthansa jet in order to "get rid of three murderers"?
Did you know that a giant blue cock standing 4.7 metres (15 ft) high has been erected in Trafalgar Square?
Did you know that ahead of the 1977 election, the leader of the Spanish Democratic Socialist Party traveled to Brussels to secure support from the European socialist movement?
Did you know that anti-rape organization Take Back the Night has expressed concerns over Justin Timberlake's song of the same name?
Did you know that at the time of her much-heralded 1926 debut, 19-year-old Marion Talley was the youngest prima donna to perform at the Metropolitan Opera?
Did you know that during the 1997 Interstate Batteries 500, a large stretch of Texas State Highway 170 had to be closed for use as a parking lot?
Did you know that in June 1863, at the Battle of Fairfax Court House (courthouse pictured), 87 men of the Union Army charged a division of at least 2,000 Confederate soldiers?
Did you know that the Indies film Bajar dengan Djiwa, with a father selling his daughter to a loan shark, was advertised as a "realistic" depiction of family life?
Did you know that this year, House of Cards' Frank and Claire Underwood were two of the first three Primetime Emmy Award-nominated web television leading roles and "Chapter 1" was the first webisode to earn such a nomination?
Did you know that "Part II (On the Run)" became Jay-Z and Beyoncé Knowles's (pictured together) first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 chart after they got married in April 2008?
Did you know that Catatonia performed the title track from their album International Velvet at the opening ceremony of the 1999 Rugby World Cup?
Did you know that El Puerto, from 1908, was the first newspaper published in the beach resort of Pichilemu, Chile?
Did you know that Joseph Shivers, one of the developers of Spandex in the 1950s, received the Olney Medal from the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists?
Did you know that Saw Binnya, Viceroy of Martaban, in 1541 offered half of his treasury to become a vassal of Goa in exchange for Portuguese military assistance against Toungoo Burma?
Did you know that Town Range was once known as the filthiest spot in Gibraltar?
Did you know that a Korean war horse named Sergeant Reckless was awarded two Purple Hearts and promoted to Staff Sergeant of the United States Marine Corps in 1959?
Did you know that a violent scene from the film Night of the Scarecrow, about a murderous scarecrow, was said to be similar to a scene from Dark Night of the Scarecrow?
Did you know that actress Kelly Thiebaud, known for her role as the antagonistic Britt Westbourne on General Hospital, previously appeared in music videos for French disc jockey David Guetta?
Did you know that on the last meeting of the Drobnjaci clan held in Podmalinsko Monastery in 1840 they decided to inform Njegoš about their intention to kill Smail-aga Čengić?
Did you know that the 19th-century physician Alice Vickery, the first qualified woman chemist and druggist in Britain, advocated free love and believed that marriage was "legal prostitution"?
Did you know that the current Chief Justice of India, P. Sathasivam, was the first law graduate in his family and his entire village?
Did you know that Charlene Downes, a fourteen-year-old teenager from Blackpool, United Kingdom, disappeared on 1 November 2003?
Did you know that Eagle Peak is the highpoint of Yellowstone National Park?
Did you know that Jim Motavalli, a senior writer for E–The Environmental Magazine, has his own syndicated column in The New York Times?
Did you know that John C. Best became the first prisoner in Essex County, Massachusetts, to be sentenced to the electric chair after he was found guilty of murdering George E. Bailey?
Did you know that Kailasanathar Temple is the oldest extant structure in Kanchipuram?
Did you know that Lake Ira Lalaro is the largest lake in East Timor?
Did you know that Providence Chapel—a former church in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England—was once a Napoleonic-era officers' mess and "would not be out of place in the remotest part of East Kentucky"?
Did you know that Sonja Schlesin was slapped by her boss, Mohandas Gandhi, in South Africa?
Did you know that The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou is the author's first collection of poetry, published after she read her poem at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993?
Did you know that Vince Lombardi said of the 1966 Crimson Tide, "I don't know, we haven't played Alabama yet", when asked how it felt to have the world's greatest football team after winning Super Bowl I?
Did you know that basketball player Andrew Smith was a high school All-American his senior year despite missing half the season with a stress fracture?
Did you know that it would take about 300 billion years without sleep to view every possible combination of content in the video game The Idolmaster Live For You!?
Did you know that the Jurchens captured the Song Dynasty emperor Qinzong and the former emperor Huizong during the second siege of Kaifeng in 1126?
Did you know that until 1989, the village of Broadholme in Lincolnshire was located in Nottinghamshire?
Did you know that widespread permafrost explains why the whole landscape in the midlatitudes of Mars appears softened?
Did you know that Klondike, based upon a book by Charlotte Gray, is slated to be the Discovery Channel's first original scripted miniseries?
Did you know that Willie Louis has been called a hero of the Civil Rights Movement for testifying in 1955 against two white men accused of murdering 14-year-old Emmett Till?
Did you know that although George Livermore dropped out of school at the age of 14, he was given an honorary master of arts degree by Harvard College?
Did you know that architectural historians have described Goodwyns as "unusually good" for a council estate, with "more elegant than average" tower blocks?
Did you know that bookless libraries consist of all-digital collections instead of printed works?
Did you know that businessman Berthold Beitz saved hundreds of Jews, including tailors, hairdressers and Talmudic scholars, by designating them as essential to Nazi Germany's war effort?
Did you know that judging from sculptures discovered in the ancient Maya city of Río Azul, it is believed that the local elite was sacrificed after a takeover by Tikal?
Did you know that some 50 years before archaeologist Wang Zhongshu won the Japan-based Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize, he was a refugee fleeing from the Japanese invaders?
Did you know that the 1768 journal An Account of Corsica (engraved illustration pictured) was so successful its author Boswell became widely known as "Corsica Boswell"?
Did you know that the 1798 poem "On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture" was written by William Cowper in memory of his mother, who died when he was six years old?
Did you know that the 1970 Colombia earthquake, which measured 8.0 on the Richter scale, was the largest earthquake with a deep focus until the 1994 Bolivia earthquake?
Did you know that the Church of St. Francis of Assisi in Kraków Old Town in Poland displays an exact replica of the Shroud of Turin, consecrated by Pope John Paul II at the Vatican in 2003?
Did you know that two dancing girls (statue pictured) performed an erotic dance in front of Tuyuhun soldiers, while Chai Shao of Tang attacked them from the rear with his cavalry?
Did you know that while the year 1837 is inscribed on TWG Tea's logo, it was founded in 2008?
Did you know that Addleshaw Tower in Chester is the first free-standing bell tower to be built for an English cathedral since the 15th century?
Did you know that Argentine actor Luciano Castro worked with Natalia Oreiro in Amanda O, a telenovela distributed directly by internet?
Did you know that Benjamin Britten wrote out the Latin text for Cantata academica in one of his old German exercise books?
Did you know that Felley Priory received charters of confirmation from three popes: Alexander III, Celestine III and Gregory IX?
Did you know that Helmer Molander was the sole member of Zeth Höglund's Communist Party in the Second Chamber?
Did you know that Image Lake, a popular hiking destination in Washington state, is near the site of a failed proposal to open an open-pit copper mine?
Did you know that Mon admiral Smim Payu switched to supporting the Burmese Toungoo and led a naval attack that ended his former kingdom?
Did you know that Victor Edelstein, a former couturier to the British Royal Family, painted a portrait of Miss Manners that now hangs in the U.S. National Portrait Gallery?
Did you know that cellist Toby Saks was one of the first female members of the New York Philharmonic?
Did you know that directors who were asked to direct the 1970s film Star Trek: Planet of the Titans included Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, but Philip Kaufman took the job?
Did you know that even after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Congress unconstitutionally withheld Robert M. Lovett's salary, the House Appropriations Committee did not appropriate funds to pay him?
Did you know that mushrooms of the genus Xerocomellus (X. armeniacus pictured) are often brightly coloured?
Did you know that of the three playable pop idols in the video game The Idolmaster Dearly Stars, the sole cross-dresser has been called the cutest?
Did you know that the 1987 film Psychos in Love, about a couple who are murderers, was adapted into a play at Broom Street Theater?
Did you know that the steeple of St Oswald's Church, Old Swan, Liverpool, was designed in the 1840s, and the body of the church was designed in the 1950s?
Did you know that the suffragist Hugh Franklin, in protest against police brutality, once attacked Winston Churchill with a whip?
Did you know that Jack Warhop gave up Babe Ruth's first two career home runs?
Did you know that Kinnairdy Castle was once owned by a man accused of witchcraft?
Did you know that Mkhululi Nyathi was a commissioner at the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, which was staffed as part of a political agreement?
Did you know that United States president Theodore Roosevelt had a resort near East Branch Fishing Creek?
Did you know that architect Carl Moritz designed an opera house in Cologne (opened in 1902, destroyed in 1943), the Opernhaus Wuppertal, and theatres in Düren and Stralsund?
Did you know that before making her acting debut through Nenjathai Killathe Suhasini Maniratnam worked as an assistant cinematographer to Ashok Kumar?
Did you know that five-horn smotherweed is so toxic to sheep, they have been known to die after just one feeding?
Did you know that it costs nearly US$170 to buy all three versions of the iOS video game The Idolmaster Shiny Festa, and that it would be cheaper to import the PlayStation Portable version?
Did you know that the Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand, got soggy when it rained?
Did you know that the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "The Council" was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects, but lost to the following episode?
Did you know that the first female professor at Glasgow University, Delphine Parrott, was especially good at vivisecting mice?
Did you know that Alan D. Eames claimed to have found a six-thousand-year-old advert for beer, depicting a headless woman with large breasts holding goblets of beer in each hand?
Did you know that David Lynch's first film was projected on a custom-built screen constructed from plaster casts of his own head?
Did you know that Jesse B. Jackson is known for saving thousands of lives during the Armenian Genocide?
Did you know that The Maire of Bristowe is Kalendar is a late 15th-century manuscript recording the histories of England and of Bristol, the civic customs and list of mayors?
Did you know that in 1950 Pittsburgh Steelers head coach John Michelosen christened the Morning Steeler, then the Pennsylvania Railroad's newest passenger train?
Did you know that one reviewer for TrekNation complained about the gratuitous female sexuality seen in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Rajiin"?
Did you know that pork-knockers ate pickled pork of wild pig?
Did you know that soldiers in Cromwell's army were issued a soldier's pocket version of the Geneva Bible, with just 16 pages of verses all of which pertained to war?
Did you know that the Thinkwell Group helped create a Harry Potter studio tour and the US theme park?
Did you know that without the efforts of British stenographer J. J. Goodwin, a good number of lectures of Indian philosopher Swami Vivekananda would have been lost?
Did you know that Charlie Kimball's win in the 2013 Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio was his first in any racing series since 2006?
Did you know that Jackie Davis, who had a bit part in Caddyshack, was an accomplished jazz organist, preceding the better known Jimmy Smith by several years?
Did you know that Mozart wrote a cat duet for The Philosopher's Stone?
Did you know that William and Ida Belle Wilcox "sacrificed all that they had in solidarity with the South African people"?
Did you know that although Ethiopia is rich in mineral and quarry resources (microcline pictured), the mining sector has only contributed about 1% towards the country's GDP with an investment of 14 billion birr?
Did you know that former British fighter pilot Ronald Nixon became widely revered as a Hindu saint and was hailed as a "great soul" by Indian President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan?
Did you know that in her 1992 Robin Hood novel Lady of the Forest, Jennifer Roberson sought to depict how seven "very different" people would come together to fight the "inequities of medieval England"?
Did you know that the Belgian Congo provided both soldiers and material assistance to the Allies during World War II?
Did you know that the jellyfish Bazinga rieki was named in part for the catchphrase uttered by Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory?
Did you know that La Feria Chapultepec Mágico is a Mexican amusement park which once had the world's tallest roller coaster, Montaña Rusa?
Did you know that Lake Bell wrote the female-protagonist-driven In a World... after being intrigued that the prototypical movie trailer voice was male?
Did you know that Nelson Mandela went especially to Ohlange High School to see a grave and to place his vote in South Africa's first free election?
Did you know that Ny Dag publisher Knut Olsson was sentenced to eight months of hard labour for articles published regarding the 1931 Ådalen riots?
Did you know that Terry McDaniel, who later became an NFL cornerback, won his state's high school championships in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes?
Did you know that it took Tan Qixiang more than 30 years to finish his most important work, the Historical Atlas of China?
Did you know that the Sun in the Sands pub gets its name from the sight of the setting sun amidst dust, kicked up by drovers' sheep travelling from Kent to London?
Did you know that the bushshrikes, helmetshrikes, Ioras, vangas and woodswallows all belong to a group of shrike-like songbirds known as the Malaconotoidea?
Did you know that the mating song of the male Slate-colored Boubou, a member of the Bushshrike family, depends more on his mate's hormone levels than his own?
Did you know that Battle Metal, the début album by the Finnish folk metal band Turisas, contains lyrics from an actual battle march?
Did you know that Elizabeth Press worked with Rodney Porter for 25 years, contributing significantly to his 1972 Nobel Prize?
Did you know that Jim Reid curated the 1992 Rollercoaster Tour as a British equivalent to Lollapalooza?
Did you know that Narendra Modi is the longest-serving chief minister from the Bharatiya Janata Party?
Did you know that Shikhin was one of the first Jewish villages located in Galilee?
Did you know that The Negro Motorist Green Book provided advice on how African-American drivers could avoid dangers and discrimination on the road in Jim Crow-era America?
Did you know that in "Trials and Tribble-ations", actors from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine were digitally inserted into the The Original Series episode "The Trouble with Tribbles"?
Did you know that ruins of the Maillezais Cathedral in Maillezais, France, were declared a heritage monument in reflection of its Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance forms?
Did you know that the oval-leaf adenanthos is known from only three populations covering less than 0.31 km2 (77 acres) in Fitzgerald River National Park?
Did you know that the twenty-dollar Liberty Head double eagle was minted after the California gold rush as the "most efficient way to coin a given quantity of gold bullion"?
Did you know that Belgian politician Charles Vilain XIIII read the new Constitution of Belgium at the inauguration of King Leopold I?