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Did you know that Ashley Tisdale became the first female artist to have two songs debut at the same time on the US Billboard Hot 100, with "What I've Been Looking For" and "Bop to the Top"?
Did you know that Geoffrey Bles bought his employee's publishing firm and thus acquired the rights to the Narnia series by C. S. Lewis?
Did you know that Philip Rosenthal was inspired to write "Italy", the two-part season five premiere of Everybody Loves Raymond, based on a conversation with Ray Romano about their plans for the summer?
Did you know that ajaw Itzam K'an Ahk II's reign of Piedras Negras, from 729 to 757 AD, was one marked by hegemony over neighboring kingdoms?
Did you know that breeding in the southern toad can be triggered by heavy rain?
Did you know that illegal forms of gambling in Manila included jueteng, masiao, and "last two"?
Did you know that solar activity and related events (solar flare pictured) have been recorded since the time of the Babylonians in the 8th century BCE? (TAFI)
Did you know that the baseball player Dick Burns's "up-shoot" was called "a beauty"?
Did you know that Beyoncé's perfume Rise was inspired by a Maya Angelou poem?
Did you know that Queen Elizabeth's godmother Venetia James was so frugal that she reused unwanted milk from her cat's dish and hosted Catholics on Fridays, when they could not eat expensive meat?
Did you know that Randi Blehr co-founded and chaired the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights, and was married to a Norwegian Prime Minister?
Did you know that Sheila was the first non-military dog to be awarded the Dickin Medal, considered the animals' Victoria Cross?
Did you know that Walt Disney's first interest in animatronics came after he happened upon a toy animatronic bird by chance while on vacation? (TAFI)
Did you know that a critic from The Atlantic wrote that "Jealous" was one of the most notable songs in Beyoncé's music catalog?
Did you know that babies will instinctively hold their breath underwater until the age of six months?
Did you know that in 2012 there were 83.3 million dogs in the United States, with about 47% of American households owning one?
Did you know that several wind and rain machines were used to create the storm effects for the Neighbours tornado storyline?
Did you know that the artist Kate Downie recently interviewed the Forth Road Bridge?
Did you know that two days into her career, the fashion model Jill Kennington was chosen for a major UK tour by Norman Hartnell, who declared, "Darling, you are going to be my mascot"?
Did you know that Darol Froman was the scientific director of the Operation Sandstone nuclear tests at Enewetak Atoll in 1948?
Did you know that René Just Haüy modeled octahedral crystals mathematically as polycubes made of a centered octahedral number of cubes?
Did you know that after he released his 2014 Japanese single "Hot Sun", the Korean singer Kim Hyun-joong was the first foreign male artist to reach number one twice on the Oricon Singles Weekly Chart?
Did you know that at 500 feet (150 m), the interactive screen of Wonder Mountain's Guardian, at the Canada's Wonderland amusement park, is the longest in the world?
Did you know that in 1958 the US Air Force was sued for $54,000 by the family of victims injured by the accidental release of a nuclear bomb over Mars Bluff, South Carolina?
Did you know that in 2014 Mukund Varadarajan was posthumously awarded Ashok Chakra, India's highest peacetime gallantry award, for killing three Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists?
Did you know that in French cuisine, lettuce soup is usually served poured atop thin slices of lightly toasted French bread?
Did you know that little is known of the breeding habits of the fiery-shouldered parakeet?
Did you know that the trans woman activist Miss Major was meeting with her girlfriend at the Stonewall Inn during the police raid that precipitated the Stonewall riot?
Did you know that Frankenstein, MD is PBS Digital Studios' first scripted show?
Did you know that Pile chose her stage name after the pile that is on towels?
Did you know that Robert Lewin worked with Gene Roddenberry both on Star Trek: The Next Generation and on Mission: Impossible?
Did you know that in ant colonial society, gamergate females occupy an intermediate caste between queens and workers?
Did you know that the German Shepherd Lucky was posthumously awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery for tracking communist forces during the Malayan Emergency?
Did you know that the Swedish king Eric XIV was imprisoned, and ultimately died, in Örbyhus Castle?
Did you know that the former American Idol finalist Matthew Rogers once hosted a cooking game show entitled Beat the Chefs?
Did you know that the golden wattle was proclaimed the floral emblem of Australia on 1 September 1988, and in 1992 this date was formally declared "National Wattle Day"?
Did you know that the state of Washington's supreme court meets in the Temple of Justice?
Did you know that Freddie Sessler was "almost a father" to Keith Richards?
Did you know that Marie Antoinette's hairdresser, Léonard Autié, invented the pouf and founded the Théâtre de Monsieur?
Did you know that Walter Wu, a blind Canadian swimmer and three-time gold medalist at the Paralympics, was a torchbearer for the 2010 Winter Paralympics after his retirement in 2004?
Did you know that according to a tradition a passage under Constantinople linked the Byzantine Cistern of Aspar with the Hagia Sophia?
Did you know that in the comic Nowhere Men, "Science is the new Rock-N-Roll"?
Did you know that the 2014 Beijing ePrix was won by Lucas di Grassi after a final-turn collision between Nick Heidfeld and Nicolas Prost?
Did you know that the most stable known isotope of ununpentium, 289Uup, has a half-life of only 220 milliseconds?
Did you know that when asked why he writes such strong female characters, Joss Whedon replied, "Because you're still asking me that question"?
Did you know that 33 species of fish have been identified in Towanda Creek?
Did you know that Jean-François Autié was one of three brothers who worked as Marie Antoinette's hairdresser Monsieur Léonard, and he fled Paris to escape the guillotine?
Did you know that Lü Zushan succeeded Xi Jinping, now President of China, as Governor of Zhejiang province?
Did you know that Martin Manulis was the producer of Playhouse 90, voted the greatest television series of all time in a 1970 poll of television editors?
Did you know that William Lever used nearly thirty architects to plan houses for his workers in the model village of Port Sunlight (example pictured), and vetted all the designs himself?
Did you know that the Angolan Cuanza Sul Province has a high density of landmines left over from the country's civil war?
Did you know that the Byzantine Neorion Harbour (pictured in ancient map), lying on the southern shore of the Golden Horn, was the first port to be built in Constantinople?
Did you know that the French Minister of Economy Emmanuel Macron was an assistant to philosopher Paul Ricœur?
Did you know that the National IQ Test assessed whether people who support Aussie rules are more intelligent than those who follow rugby league?
Did you know that the video for "Louder" features Neon Jungle singing in a giant metallic dome?
Did you know that "Angola Avante", the national anthem of Angola, is used as a nickname for an inter-community football competition held in Portugal?
Did you know that Eric Lawson was the first directly elected MP in the Solomon Islands?
Did you know that William George Hoskins' The Making of the English Landscape (1955) is widely used as a text in local and environmental history courses?
Did you know that after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, all new oil tankers built for use between U.S. ports were required to have full double hulls?
Did you know that in 2013 Wikimedia Ukraine contributed to the preservation of kobzar music, an effort begun in 1901 in Kharkiv?
Did you know that in Sicily, maccu may be prepared on Saint Joseph's Day to clear out the pantry and make room for new spring vegetables?
Did you know that one can see all of the London Borough of Sutton's European twin towns without needing a passport?
Did you know that the Lumban Church was built in Lumban, Laguna, in 1586 and finished in 1600 under San Pedro Bautista?
Did you know that the Swedish playwright Martina Montelius hosted an episode of the popular radio show Sommar that was described as "controlled madness and seductive"?
Did you know that the parasitic ant species Mycocepurus castrator evolved from its host while sharing the same nest?
Did you know that the yellow band on the flag of Gabon represents the Equator, which cuts across the republic?
Did you know that Madonna's 2004 concert tour was chronicled in a documentary film?
Did you know that Warren Spector began planning the development of Deus Ex after connecting his wife's fascination with The X-Files to "conspiracy stuff"?
Did you know that a porn parody of the "Soup Nazi" episode of Seinfeld starred James Deen as "Gerry" Seinfeld?
Did you know that in addition to appearing in TV shows such as Star Trek: The Next Generation and Space: Above and Beyond, Lanei Chapman was a kindergarten teacher?
Did you know that the chef Delia Smith was criticised after the publication of How to Cheat at Cooking for the use of canned mince and frozen mashed potato?
Did you know that the original image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the Philippines' Pagsanjan Church was a gift from Mexico, and was installed at the main altar in 1688?
Did you know that the size of its automotive industry makes Poland the second largest producer of light vehicles in Central and Eastern Europe?
Did you know that the ugliest building in Amsterdam was demolished in 1994?
Did you know that the use of thick pieces of asparagus can enhance the flavor of cream of asparagus soup?
Did you know that Professor of Ancient History John Crook tried to get his colleagues to sing "Waltzing Matilda" in Latin, with the chorus for swag of "ambiclitella! ambiclitella!"?
Did you know that U.S. television broadcasters have used local marketing agreements to work around government policies regulating local media consolidation?
Did you know that bellflower resin bees were among the first insects noted to use synthetic materials in manufacturing nests?
Did you know that in 1969 Terry Miller submitted a proposal to the British Railways Board for what became the InterCity 125?
Did you know that scheduled monuments in the ceremonial county of Somerset range in age from neolithic to World War II?
Did you know that the Charlotte Medal, said to be the first work of Australian colonial art, was created in 1788 by a British convict to commemorate the First Fleet's voyage to Botany Bay?
Did you know that the Knockeen Portal Tomb is one of the finest examples of a dolmen in Ireland?
Did you know that the Malagonlong Bridge is the longest bridge made during the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines?
Did you know that the main predator of the little desert pocket mouse is the barn owl?
Did you know that when his company went public in 1965, John Michael Ingram had 17 stores and was a flag-bearer for Swinging London, exporting worldwide?
Did you know that Gabriela Eibenová flew from Prague to Frankfurt to fill in for a soprano in Bach's Mass in B minor in St. Martin, Idstein, a year ago?
Did you know that Ichharam Desai compiled the Brihat Kavyadohan, an eight-volume anthology of the medieval Gujarati poets and poetry?
Did you know that Victoria Cleland is the first woman to be Chief Cashier of the Bank of England?
Did you know that about three quarters of the Sicilian land devoted to growing Fiano grapes is in the Province of Agrigento?
Did you know that both Miguel Laurencena and his son, Eduardo, served as governor of Uruguay's Entre Ríos Province?
Did you know that despite being fairly common, little is known of the breeding behaviour or diet of the Peruvian thick-knee?
Did you know that the Dodoma Region in Tanzania is roughly the same size as Switzerland?
Did you know that the entomologist-to-be Alfred M. Boyce was arrested by Italian authorities after the SS Philadelphia mutiny?
Did you know that Raven Creek may have once been known as Raving Creek?
Did you know that The Finest Hours, currently in production, is a film based on the US Coast Guard's 1952 rescue of the crews of two oil tankers which had broken apart during a storm?
Did you know that Whychus Creek, a perennial stream that flows through Sisters State Park, has its headwaters in the Three Sisters Wilderness area of Oregon?
Did you know that a Strati, the world's first 3D-printed electric car, was printed in 44 hours?
Did you know that the Filipino journalist Betty Go-Belmonte co-founded the newspapers Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Philippine Star, and Pilipino Star Ngayon?
Did you know that the Indian filmmaker Balu Mahendra saw the shooting of David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) on a school trip?
Did you know that the captured British spies Captain Stewart and Captain Trench were pardoned and released by the German Kaiser as a present to the Duke of Brunswick when the duke married the Kaiser's daughter, Victoria Louise?
Did you know that the violinist Mela Tenenbaum recorded in the US works that Dmitri Klebanov had composed for her in Ukraine, including Japanese Silhouettes for soprano, viola d'amore and ensemble?
Did you know that Lieutenant Jenny Lewis, killed in a helicopter crash in 2002, was believed to be the first female Royal Navy pilot or observer to die on duty?
Did you know that September Morn survived the October Revolution, caused widespread controversy in the United States, and was featured on bottle openers, calendars, and candy boxes, but is now in a warehouse?
Did you know that Tang Yijie, who died in September 2014, spearheaded a project to compile all the known classics about Confucianism?
Did you know that Viktor Pietschmann's photographs of deportees during the Armenian Genocide of 1915 were unearthed in 2007?
Did you know that in 1899 the eccentric journalist and politician Ture Malmgren started building Tureborg Castle, a faux-medieval castle in Uddevalla, Sweden, inspired by his journeys in the Rhine Valley?
Did you know that the Aqueduc de Roquefavour is the world's largest stone aqueduct?
Did you know that the Japanese common toad eats certain ants and beetles that are unpalatable to other predators?
Did you know that the current director of the University of Oklahoma's Carl Albert Center is also the Mayor of Norman?
Did you know that the small dorcopsis is sometimes preyed on by New Guinea singing dogs?
Did you know that Dattatraya Parchure, also called the "second Savarkar", was initially convicted but later acquitted in the assassination case of Mahatma Gandhi?
Did you know that Rona Fairhead is the preferred candidate for the Chair of the BBC Trust, and if confirmed, would be the first woman to hold that post?
Did you know that Susann Müller was top scorer at the 2013 World Women's Handball Championship, and further elected to the All-Star team of the tournament?
Did you know that a pub may have existed at the site of the East India Arms since 1645?
Did you know that an abnormal basal metabolic rate can be caused by both hot and cold environments, or even a fever?
Did you know that in his NFL debut season, Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Len Ford was injured so severely in a game he required plastic surgery to "virtually rebuild" his face?
Did you know that in the 1956 Hindi film Raj Hath (Royal stubbornness), the prominent actress Madhubala dressed up as a man?
Did you know that the companion-piece pair of paintings by Gabriël Metsu, Man Writing a Letter and Woman Reading a Letter (both pictured), were stolen and recovered twice?
Did you know that the demonic poison frog is critically endangered because its total range is less than 10 square kilometres (4 sq mi) and its habitat is threatened by gold mining?
Did you know that the rivalry between Alexander Leith Hay and the Gordon family extended to the British Army, with Leith Hay's 109th Regiment of Foot competing for recruits with the Gordon Highlanders?
Did you know that Jean Gordon, the first woman elected to the Yukon Territorial Council, said she decided to run because "I couldn't keep my mouth shut"?
Did you know that John Calhoun, publisher of the first newspaper in Chicago, was originally apprenticed to be a carpenter in Watertown, New York?
Did you know that Martin Scorsese's first British film, Tomorrow, marks the directorial debut of his long-time script supervisor, Martha Pinson?
Did you know that Vekuii Rukoro "had to fight back tears" when accepting his election as Paramount Chief of the OvaHerero people?
Did you know that acquacotta, an Italian peasant food dating to ancient times, was originally devised to make stale bread palatable?
Did you know that one enters the wine cellar of 5 North St, a Michelin star restaurant, through a trapdoor in the women's bathroom?
Did you know that parts of Château de Kerjean, damaged during the French Revolution, were dismantled for sale as building material?
Did you know that the Carpathian newt sometimes hybridises with the smooth newt?
Did you know that the Marcos GT had a plastic body, a wooden chassis, and a cast-iron engine?
Did you know that the Nagcarlan Church was first built from light materials in 1583 under the chaplaincy of Franciscan missionary Tomas de Miranda, who also pioneered the cultivation of wheat in the country?
Did you know that the Nuwara Eliya Racecourse is the only remaining horse racing track in Sri Lanka?
Did you know that the tomb of Zu Dashou, a Ming dynasty Chinese general, is in Toronto, Canada?
Did you know that "Life Is a Minestrone" was originally released as the lead single from The Original Soundtrack due to 10cc's reluctance to release "I'm Not in Love"?
Did you know that Jella Haase won the Bavarian Film Award for Best young actress in 2012 for her roles in Lollipop Monster and Kriegerin?
Did you know that Max Harzof once owned the book that reputedly inspired Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick?
Did you know that Southport Arts Centre, Southport Town Hall, and the Atkinson Art Gallery and Library form a group of listed buildings in Lord Street, Southport?
Did you know that in his essay The Analytical Language of John Wilkins, Jorge Luis Borges speculated that, "it is not impossible to think of a language where the name of each thing says all the details of its destiny, past and future"?
Did you know that in the Bellevue War, Iowa Territory politician Thomas Cox led a posse that killed one of his political rivals?
Did you know that members of the Demoulas family include a race car driver, a college hockey player, a bar owner, and an Archon Depoutatos?
Did you know that the Conversations with an Executioner are between the man who destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto (pictured, left) and a fellow prisoner?
Did you know that the choir of Holy Trinity Church, Southport, apart from the two cathedrals, is the only choir in the Diocese of Liverpool to regularly sing a full midweek choral evensong?
Did you know that the lizard catshark is considered a "vulnerable species" because trawling is damaging the patches of coral in which it breeds?
Did you know that the remains of greater long-tailed shrew tenrecs have been found in a cavern alongside bones of the extinct elephant bird?
Did you know that Lieutenant General Raymond A. Thomas was deployed to Afghanistan for part of every year for over a decade, except for one year when he was sent to Iraq?
Did you know that St George's Church, Southport, has a tall broach spire with two tiers of lucarnes?
Did you know that after Gabriel Wells bought a book whose 1,050-jewel binding had required two years to complete, he decided to send it to the U.S. via a passenger on the RMS Titanic?
Did you know that communists once had considerable influence in the DMV?
Did you know that some users of popular Web sites such as Facebook are being tricked into attacking their own Web browser?
Did you know that the 1828 self-portrait Beauty Revealed, by Sarah Goodridge, has been considered to "erase" her body by drawing attention to her breasts?
Did you know that the 18th century merchant Jean Abraham Grill was Sweden's first major drug runner?
Did you know that the Indian state of Nagaland's first member of parliament, S. C. Jamir was elected unopposed?
Did you know that the Swedish film director Anna Odell staged a suicide attempt and psychosis for her film Okänd, kvinna 2009–349701?
Did you know that the fashion designer Michael Sherard was employing 40 assistants at the time of the Queen's coronation?
Did you know that the first European tofu factory was opened outside Paris in 1908 by the Chinese anarchist Li Shizeng?
Did you know that Acacia cultriformis is so named for the resemblance of its foliage to knives?
Did you know that a consultative referendum on whether Ukraine should federalise was held in the Donbass region during the 1994 parliamentary election, twenty years prior to the disputed 2014 status referendums in the same region?
Did you know that after Athena Farrokhzad hosted a show on Sveriges Radio, the Moderate Party's Gunnar Axén claimed to have thrown out his TV so he could stop paying the license fee (which also supports radio)?
Did you know that before the Trinity nuclear test, Enrico Fermi offered to take bets on whether the atmosphere would ignite, and if so whether the entire planet would be destroyed?
Did you know that in the Battle of Halmyros, the Catalan Company annihilated much of the nobility of Frankish Greece and conquered the Duchy of Athens?
Did you know that patags once used in combat are especially valued?
Did you know that the Detroit Red Wings' new arena will anchor a $650 million redevelopment project in Downtown Detroit?
Did you know that the Maribojoc Church, with one of the remaining fourteen Spanish-era pipe organs in the Philippines, was destroyed in the 2013 Bohol earthquake?
Did you know that the architects Maxwell and Tuke designed Blackpool Tower and the even taller (since demolished) New Brighton Tower?
Did you know that the diarist Teresa Wilms Montt attempted suicide before escaping from a convent?
Did you know that the first African American elected to the Washington State Legislature from King County was Charles Stokes?
Did you know that David A. Randall obtained the typescripts of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels for the Lilly Library?
Did you know that India and Sri Lanka were declared the joint winners of 2002 ICC Champions Trophy after the  final was washed out twice?
Did you know that Margaret McLean was president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria for almost a decade, and was appointed an honorary vice-president after her retirement?
Did you know that Philip Somerville designed hats for Queen Elizabeth, Diana, Princess of Wales, and two James Bond villainesses?
Did you know that despite the upper reaches of the Crooked Run being acidic due to acid rain, the creek is still considered Class A Wild Trout Waters?
Did you know that during dry weather, the Texas toad remains dormant?
Did you know that the Kray twins allegedly extorted Esmeralda's Barn from Peter Rachman?
Did you know that the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad's Merchants Limited was the last all-parlor car passenger train in the United States?
Did you know that the Redmond–Bend Juniper State Scenic Corridor serves as a buffer of natural high desert habitat along U.S. Route 97 between the cities of Bend and Redmond in central Oregon?
Did you know that the elongated rostrum of the planktivorous American paddlefish is used like an antenna to locate swarms of zooplankton?
Did you know that thirteen years after directing the first episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Jean de Segonzac returned to direct the 300th?
Did you know that when the Transcendentalist poet and banker Samuel Gray Ward became a merchant rather than a painter, it deeply disappointed his friends Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Did you know that Mthatha Airport was turned into a military zone and no-fly zone to accommodate the body of Nelson Mandela and heads of state attending his funeral in the nearby village of Qunu?