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Did you know that Temerl Bergson, a wealthy businesswoman and patroness of Hasidic Jews in 19th-century Poland, "distributed money like ashes"?
Did you know that a cyclone caused historic flooding in Yemen in 1996?
Did you know that at a length of 3 m (10 ft), Phosphorosaurus was small for a mosasaur?
Did you know that at the age of 10, Zuriel Oduwole became the world's youngest person to appear in Forbes?
Did you know that biologist Ralph Vary Chamberlin is said to have been banned from Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology by Ernst Mayr?
Did you know that the California/Nevada border passes through both the main dining room and the swimming pool of the Cal Neva Lodge & Casino?
Did you know that Agnes Okoh, an illiterate Nigerian, founded Christ Holy Church International?
Did you know that Dreams, an upcoming sandbox video game, has an impressionist art-style?
Did you know that Etta Federn received Nazi death threats because of her  Walther Rathenau biography?
Did you know that Francis Fowler, architect of London's Metropole Hotel, was found guilty of corruption and was forced to resign from the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1888 after 20 years of service?
Did you know that Frank H. Winter presented the American Astronautical Society's first Goddard Memorial Lecture and received a medal for it?
Did you know that Keenan Reynolds is the only Navy quarterback to win all four games against Army?
Did you know that after music producer Tom Collins' receptionist asked him to make a record of her singing, it won BMI's Song of the Year and she won the Academy of Country Music's Female Vocalist of the Year?
Did you know that goalkeeper Sakura Hauge joined the Japan women's national handball team in 2015, after years of trying to get a place on the Norwegian team?
Did you know that it was once a tradition for the English to consume Crécy soup, a type of carrot soup (example pictured), on the anniversary of the Battle of Crécy?
Did you know that nearly one thousand rock carvings from the Bronze Age have been found on the island of Åmøy?
Did you know that the Kvitsøy Lighthouse is the oldest stone tower lighthouse still in operation in Norway?
Did you know that the horned dinosaur Hualianceratops was the size of a spaniel?
Did you know that the suicide of Chinese silent film actress Ai Xia inspired a film starring Ruan Lingyu, who also committed suicide soon after the film's release?
Did you know that Elvis Presley's hairstylist Larry Geller was also his spiritual advisor?
Did you know that Meherzia Labidi Maïza was proud of including women's rights in the post-Arab Spring Tunisian constitution?
Did you know that Natalia Lafourcade sought inspiration for her album Hasta la Raíz in Agustín Lara's repertoire and her native country, Mexico?
Did you know that at the pulpit of the synod of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, Arenda Haasnoot said, "This is my calling. Here I am in my place"?
Did you know that beer jam may be sweet or savory, and some have a syrupy consistency?
Did you know that drummer, singer, and songwriter Emily Estefan was born in 1994 after her mother, Gloria Estefan, had been told she would never give birth following a 1990 tour-bus crash?
Did you know that in the 1907 Tour de France, some participants treated the race as a pleasure ride, stopping for lunch when they chose and spending the night in the best hotels they could find?
Did you know that in the Sharabha Upanishad, Shiva, incarnating as Sharabha in a fierce anthropomorphic form of an eagle, lion, and man, slays Narasimha, an incarnation of Vishnu?
Did you know that real ear measurement used by audiologists involves insertion of a probe to within 6 mm of the eardrum?
Did you know that 138 years after establishment of the Anglican Diocese of Nassau, Angela Palacious became its first woman deacon in 1999?
Did you know that Ardina Moore, a fluent speaker of Quapaw, created her own workbook, tapes, and classes to help preserve and teach the language to younger members of her tribe?
Did you know that Bara Gumbad, built during the Lodi dynasty in 1490 CE, is believed to have the earliest constructed full dome of any building in Delhi?
Did you know that Elisabeth Abegg, a teacher who provided shelter to Jews during the Holocaust, also tutored Jewish children at her home?
Did you know that after almost drowning during his foray into water polo, Ka'imi Fairbairn returned to American football and was named the top college kicker in the nation?
Did you know that an opposing basketball coach praised UCLA Bruins freshman Aaron Holiday's defense by comparing him to a Tasmanian devil?
Did you know that by 1566, Fukuda was home to more than 1,000 Catholic Kirishitans?
Did you know that in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Baekje Historic Areas, about 4,600 antiquities were discovered in good condition in the Royal Tomb of King Muryeong?
Did you know that music from Bach's cantata for New Year's Day, Gott, wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm, BWV 171] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), appears in his Mass in B minor?
Did you know that perennial ryegrass staggers is a disease of livestock caused by an endophytic fungus sometimes present in perennial ryegrass?
Did you know that the Yedigöller National Park in Turkey is best known for its seven lakes formed by landslides?
Did you know that the abolitionist Eliza Ann Gardner made her living as a dressmaker?
Did you know that British media have compared the Scottish footballer Ryan Gauld to Lionel Messi?
Did you know that Edvard Munch's painting Love and Pain sold for more than US$38 million in 2008?
Did you know that Ismail Pasha al-Azm laid the foundations for the Azm family's political dominance in Damascus during Ottoman rule?
Did you know that Maria Corsini, Italian writer and Roman Catholic lay person, was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 31 October 2001 along with her husband, Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi?
Did you know that Operation Maeng Da translates as "Operation Pimp"?
Did you know that Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller, a senior faculty member at Neve Yerushalayim College for Women, has thousands of students around the globe?
Did you know that The X Factor winner Louisa Johnson initially applied for Britain's Got Talent?
Did you know that Vernon Arnold Haugland was the first civilian to receive the Silver Star medal, normally awarded only to members of the United States Armed Forces?
Did you know that a ban on women Shinto priests ended after World War II?
Did you know that a few cockroach species (example pictured) are kept as pets, and several species are raised as food for insectivorous pets?
Did you know that during the American Revolution, Loyalist spy Joseph Bettys failed in his mission to capture General Philip Schuyler because Bettys left his unit and went off to visit his girlfriend?
Did you know that the minaret adjoining the Malé Friday Mosque has a wide base like a ship's funnel and resembles a wedding cake?
Did you know that Harald Sigtryggsson was installed as King of Limerick by his cousin Olaf Guthfrithson, King of Dublin?
Did you know that Judd Nelson, who played Joe Hunt in the 1987 TV movie Billionaire Boys Club, is playing the character's father in the upcoming film of the same name?
Did you know that Polish football player Łukasz Cieślewicz was named player of the year in the Faroe Islands in 2011 and 2015?
Did you know that Qian Zhuangfei, a Communist secret agent credited with saving the life of Premier Zhou Enlai, was the father of Li Lili, nicknamed "China's Mae West"?
Did you know that after Rachel Henderlite's 1965 ordination as a minister, a retired pastor sent her a postcard every year quoting the biblical injunction, "Let the women keep silent in the churches"?
Did you know that devout Muslim Mohamed Hadid, a lifelong teetotaler, owns a 5,000-bottle wine cellar and a Beverly Hills winery?
Did you know that the 1981 election of Kathryn J. Whitmire as mayor heralded a major change in the city politics of Houston, Texas?
Did you know that the Magdala stone may show the oldest known image of the Temple Menorah?
Did you know that the Welsh rugby league prop Morgan Evans made his national debut in a charity match against Keighley Cougars in honour of the rugby league footballer Danny Jones?
Did you know that the first popular bootleg rock album was Bob Dylan's Great White Wonder?
Did you know that the house of the Chief or King of the community, at the southwestern end of Bawomataluo village, is said to be the "oldest and largest on Nias"?
Did you know that the plot for the 200th episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit was partly inspired by the strip search phone call scam?
Did you know that Appian Way Productions has produced The Aviator (2004) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), both of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture?
Did you know that Aviel Barclay, the first woman to be traditionally trained and certified as a Jewish scribe, completed her first Torah scroll in 2010?
Did you know that Christian Ramsay, an honorary member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, died with a list of plants in her hand?
Did you know that Ernie Blake helped interrogate Nazis Hermann Göring and Albert Speer, and adopted his code name as his real name, before founding Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico?
Did you know that Marianne Katoppo, who wrote the book Compassionate and Free. An Asian Woman's Theology, found the term feminist theology "too loaded"?
Did you know that a recitative in Bach's cantata for the Sunday after New Year's Day, Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid, BWV 58, retells the prescribed gospel about the Flight into Egypt?
Did you know that former slave Lucy Goode Brooks helped found the Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans, which still serves families in Richmond, Virginia, as the Friends' Association for Children?
Did you know that six different species of gibbon are among the animals found in Laos?
Did you know that the funeral march In Memoriam by Jean Sibelius was conceived in memory of Eugen Schauman, who shot a Governor-General in 1904?
Did you know that the virtually abandoned Rukai slate village of Kucapungane is an "endangered site" according to the World Monuments Fund?
Did you know that Edith Irby made national news when she was accepted in 1948 as the first African American medical student in the Southern United States?
Did you know that Israeli filmmaker Yael Reuveny says she only really got to know her mother by interviewing her for Farewell Herr Schwarz, her documentary about her family's history?
Did you know that Melchior, Caspar, and Balthazar are the traditional names of the Biblical Magi who visited the baby Jesus, though they are not named in the Bible?
Did you know that binary logarithms can be used to determine the number of octaves between two musical tones?
Did you know that the "Mauthausen Trilogy", composed by Mikis Theodorakis, has been described as the "most beautiful musical work ever written about the Holocaust"?
Did you know that the Demarest Building built by Aaron T. Demarest was the first building with an electric elevator?
Did you know that the Khpal Kor Foundation, which operates an orphanage in Pakistan's Swat District, established a Child Assembly that Malala Yousafzai once chaired?
Did you know that the guitar/drum duo Two Gallants are named after a short story by James Joyce?
Did you know that the ice-breaking in the title Islossningen i Uleå älv, a 1889 composition for narrator, men's chorus, and orchestra by Jean Sibelius, was a political statement?
Did you know that Al-Maghtas, in Jordan, is considered by Christians as the location for the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist?
Did you know that Julian Lage's album World's Fair was inspired by Andrés Segovia?
Did you know that Mary Docherty, a Scottish communist, was treated for tuberculosis while visiting the Soviet Union?
Did you know that Saimaluu Tash, a petroglyphs site, has black-and-white rock paintings which are a globally important collection of rock art?
Did you know that Sergeant  Donald Nichols correctly forecast that the Korean War would start within a certain three-day period?
Did you know that Victoria Bricker has studied the languages, astronomy, and ethnobotany of the Maya?
Did you know that William Walker was the last underarm bowler to have played for Tasmania?
Did you know that an altarpiece by Bror Hjorth was the only item saved from a 1993 fire in Salabacke Church in Uppsala?
Did you know that avocado cake (example pictured) may be topped with an avocado-based fool, a pressed fruit mixture or fruit purée mixed with custard or cream?
Did you know that four years after Han Qing set the Asian Games record in the 200 metres sprint, she tested positive for using dihydrotestosterone and was given a ban that effectively ended her career?
Did you know that players can fire teddy bears strapped to sticks of dynamite in Sunset Overdrive?
Did you know that the upcoming film The Bleeder is about Chuck Wepner (portrayed by Liev Schreiber), who challenged Muhammad Ali for the world's Heavyweight title in 1975?
Did you know that while Caroline Stephen's book was considered a "Quaker classic" even 100 years after publication, her brother had dismissed it as "another little work of hers"?
Did you know that Hu Di, a top Communist Chinese secret agent, was executed by the Communist commander Zhang Guotao?
Did you know that Indian composer and singer Shankar Mahadevan made his acting debut in the 2015 Marathi film Katyar Kaljat Ghusali?
Did you know that Ju Zheng was persuaded to oppose Chiang Kai-shek's candidacy for president of China in 1948 and received 10 percent of the vote in the National Assembly, with Chiang elected overwhelmingly?
Did you know that Khandro Rinpoche of the Mindrolling lineage is considered the present reincarnation of Urgyen Tsomo?
Did you know that despite using forward air control operations during the Korean War, the U.S. military could not agree on a common doctrine between 1946 and 1966?
Did you know that stale beer tends to smell like cat urine and then cardboard?
Did you know that the firehouse from Ghostbusters is to be released as a 4,500-piece Lego set?
Did you know that the music of Red Dead Redemption was inspired by Ennio Morricone's work on the Dollars Trilogy?
Did you know that the title of Monica Byrne's drama What Every Girl Should Know is drawn from a sex education column in the New York Call by Margaret Sanger?
Did you know that 100 years ago, Robert Burgess was killed after being knocked off his bike by a shell?
Did you know that Ananda Thuriya, a chief minister, general, and son-in-law of King Sithu II of Pagan, began his career in the royal security detail?
Did you know that The Human Comedy by French sculptor Ernest Christophe inspired Baudelaire's poem "The Mask"?
Did you know that a Palestinian, Muhammad Najati Sidqi, wrote a book in 1940 arguing that Nazism was incompatible with Islam?
Did you know that although designed as an input for gaming controllers like joysticks, the Atari joystick port was also used as a serial port for devices like modems?
Did you know that basketball player Kobe Bryant was the first guard to play 20 seasons in the NBA?
Did you know that in David v. Poe, the Senate Electoral Tribunal of the Philippines declared that Grace Poe, formerly a foundling, is a "natural-born Filipino", allowing her to remain in the Philippine Senate?
Did you know that the Army and Navy Union (badge shown) is the oldest veterans' organization in America?
Did you know that the Austrian physician Gisela Januszewska, famed for her work among Bosnian Muslim women and highly decorated for her World War I service, died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp?
Did you know that the pharmaceutical drug patiromer lowers potassium levels in the blood but is not absorbed from the gut?
Did you know that Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, the second holiest mosque of Islam, was built by Muhammad partly on a burial ground?
Did you know that Jeanette Rubio was a Miami Dolphins Cheerleader before she married Senator Marco Rubio?
Did you know that Ode de Pougy, abbess of Notre Dame aux Nonnains and niece of Manassès II de Pougy, was excommunicated after throwing the Archbishop of Tyre out of the Church of St Urbain?
Did you know that Sir George Kenning called his Derby car showroom Morris House and it was opened by Sir William Morris?
Did you know that a mountain guide whose client was killed whilst climbing the Tour Ronde near Mont Blanc was successfully sued for negligence by the client's six-year-old son?
Did you know that despite its name meaning "quick, active, swift" in Old English, the River Tale is noted as being "sluggish"?
Did you know that in 1920, a deadly arson attack occurred at the offices of the Federación Obrera de Magallanes trade union in Punta Arenas, Chile?
Did you know that in Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, Lisa Randall offers a credible but "far from compelling" hypothesis for why dinosaurs became extinct?
Did you know that in December 2015, Trent Zimmerman became the first openly gay man to be elected to the Australian House of Representatives?
Did you know that , while studying interfacial phenomena, Heather C. Allen discovered that halides such as bromide are located close to the surface of water?
Did you know that Afghanistan's vineyards cover an area larger than do Austria's despite alcohol being officially forbidden?
Did you know that Bach composed the cantata for the Sunday after Epiphany, Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen, BWV 32, as a dialogue of the Soul and Jesus, using elements of contemporary opera?
Did you know that Miriam Goldberg succeeded her husband as publisher of the Intermountain Jewish News, which he had bought for one dollar?
Did you know that November 14, 1976 was proclaimed by Governor Boren as Opaline Wadkins Day to honor the first African American to earn a master's degree in nursing education from the University of Oklahoma?
Did you know that Porcupine was the first Native American to derail a train during the Indian Wars?
Did you know that choreographer and TV artist Davina Delor became a Buddhist nun after meeting the Dalai Lama, and converted her country home in Haims to a monastery?
Did you know that distinguishing science from non-science is an unsolved problem in the philosophy of science, so an "I know it when I see it" standard is sometimes used to recognize pseudoscience?
Did you know that in Dick Hogan's last film role, in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Rope, his character is murdered at the start and concealed in a chest at a dinner party?
Did you know that in the painting A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms, a handwritten sign in Flemish is posted on a wood placard that scholars have stated represented a warning to society at that time?
Did you know that mazamorra is an historical corn stew of the indigenous peoples in South America?
Did you know that the ant tribe Prionomyrmecini has two members, the genus Prionomyrmex, which is extinct, and Nothomyrmecia, which is critically endangered?
Did you know that Edith Mansford Fitzgerald invented the Fitzgerald Key, which at one time was used by 75% of the US schools teaching the hearing impaired?
Did you know that Theodore Komnenos Doukas founded the short-lived Empire of Thessalonica and came close to restoring the Byzantine Empire before his defeat and capture by the Bulgarians?
Did you know that a young Cincinnati artist, Joseph Mason, painted uncredited plant-life backgrounds for more than 50 of John James Audubon's bird studies?
Did you know that during Operation Junction City Jr., members of Bataillon Commando 203 fled from a crowd of refugees they mistook for enemy troops?
Did you know that during the Naqib al-Ashraf Revolt, the rebels and inhabitants of Jerusalem engaged in virtual self-rule in the city for over two years?
Did you know that medical self-experimenter Nicholas Senn had nearly six litres of hydrogen pumped into his anus?
Did you know that professional golfer Eddie Loos accidentally hit Walter Hagen's ball in the 1931 Los Angeles Open, earning a two-stroke penalty and a loss to Ed Dudley?
Did you know that rock reliefs (example pictured) have been made in many cultures, and were especially important in the art of the ancient Near East?
Did you know that the Muslims of Granada revolted against their Catholic rulers seven years after the conquest of Granada, triggered by forced conversions imposed by Cardinal Cisneros?
Did you know that the cedar of Lebanon, an iconic part of Lebanon's wildlife, is under threat?
Did you know that Carrie Mac, a Canadian author specializing in Young Adult fiction, is a winner of the CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize, the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize, and the Arthur Ellis Award?
Did you know that Cyclone Ilona produced record rainfall over Pilbara, Western Australia, in December 1988?
Did you know that Justin Bieber asked his Twitter followers to get charity record "A Bridge over You" to the UK Singles Chart Christmas number one ahead of his own song?
Did you know that Liza Levy, a board member and past president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, originally joined the group as a way to make friends and retain her Jewish identity?
Did you know that Nellie Campobello's Cartucho is the only canonical literary representation of the Mexican Revolution written by a woman?
Did you know that Ruth B's debut single started off as a Vine video?
Did you know that a legal challenge by Zunera Ishaq resulted in allowing the niqāb to be worn while taking the Canadian Oath of Citizenship?
Did you know that during the start up of Chicago Pile-1, Norman Hilberry stood ready with an ax to cut the scram line?
Did you know that some fans consider Rey from Star Wars: The Force Awakens to be a "Mary Sue"?
Did you know that the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens designed dozens of war memorials, but the Gerrards Cross Memorial Building was the only one with a functional purpose?
Did you know that the midday jird, the Libyan jird and the northern three-toed jerboa all colonised Aralkum, a man-made desert?
Did you know that when Otto Hackbarth nearly defeated eventual winner Jim Barnes in the second round of the 1919 PGA Championship, The New York Times described the match as "the proverbial close shave"?
Did you know that Arii Matamoe, an 1892 painting of a Pacific Islander's severed head, may have been inspired by the death of Pōmare V shortly after Paul Gauguin's arrival in Tahiti?
Did you know that Donald Trump's spokesperson Katrina Pierson appeared on CNN with a necklace made of bullets?
Did you know that Emma Dench, a British classicist and the McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University, appeared in a film alongside her aunt Judi Dench in 1968?
Did you know that Ian McDonald's 2015 science fiction novel Luna: New Moon has been called "Game of Thrones in space"?
Did you know that Ida Silverman logged over 600,000 air miles traveling the world, speaking and fund-raising for the creation of a Jewish state?
Did you know that Lord Minginish is the first Gaelic-speaking Chairman of the Scottish Land Court?
Did you know that the Sacred Heart Church in Exeter, England is the earliest surviving architectural work of Leonard Stokes?
Did you know that the type fossil of the damselfly Electropodagrion consists only of a thorax, leg, and wing portions?
Did you know that American Samoan association football team Utulei Youth had a perfect season in 2014, winning every game in the Senior League and taking home the President's Cup?
Did you know that Belgian cartoonist Hergé died before completing Tintin and Alph-Art, the final volume in the The Adventures of Tintin, leaving the character's fate unexplained?
Did you know that David Dewhurst's campaign for Lieutenant Governor of Texas released disco-themed "Lt. Gov. You've Gotta Love" and "Frozen", a parody of "Let It Go", as political advertisements?
Did you know that King Abdullah II donated two helicopters to Jordan's newly established Air Ambulance Center?
Did you know that Larycia Hawkins, American professor at Wheaton College, was suspended after she wore a hijab and made comments regarding Christianity and Islam in December 2015?
Did you know that a reviewer of a solo exhibition by Lena Gurr said that the American artist "painted with the gusto of a Goya"?