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Did you know that the music video for "Runnin' (Lose It All)" was performed by two freedivers who had to hold their breath for up to six minutes at a time while shooting?
Did you know that to avoid arrest in Azerbaijan, Emin Huseynov flew out of the country after hiding for almost a year in a Swiss embassy?
Did you know that Arvo Pärt composed De profundis, a setting of Psalm 130 in Latin for men's choir, organ and optional percussion, after he left Estonia for the West?
Did you know that Pantaleon Hebenstreit invented the pantalon, a keyboard instrument?
Did you know that art stored in Schloss Weesenstein was saved from destruction during the bombing of Dresden in World War II?
Did you know that the flowers of Echinocereus reichenbachii open for just one day?
Did you know that Araguaia National Park is located on Bananal Island, which is believed to be the largest inland river island in the world?
Did you know that Cerro Blanco is the site of the largest known Holocene volcanic eruption in the Central Andes?
Did you know that Egypt's Mohamed Nagy was the recipient of the golden prize of the Salon de Paris for his "Egypt Renaissance"?
Did you know that Haiti's first-ever Olympic medal was won at the 1924 Summer Olympics by a team composed entirely of members of the U.S.-backed collaborationist police?
Did you know that Mariah Carey was the first singer to supplant herself at number-one on the United States' Pop Songs chart?
Did you know that Pennsylvania's North Branch Shamokin Creek is too acidic to support aquatic life?
Did you know that despite reports to the contrary, Justice James Edelman is not the youngest person to be appointed to the Supreme Court of Western Australia?
Did you know that in Kirby's Block Ball, players control paddles to knock Kirby into destructible bricks?
Did you know that on the first day of filming The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist, the set was blessed by a priest?
Did you know that the fossil fly Elephantomyia bozenae was described from a single male preserved in amber?
Did you know that the word "kissing" was altered in the song "Don't Say You Love Me" as it was considered inappropriate for the Pokémon: The First Movie soundtrack?
Did you know that Hungary's new Minister of Defence, István Simicskó, was the only MP who voted against the country joining the European Union?
Did you know that Richard Roma—"a shark in a sharkskin suit"—has won his portrayers two Tony Awards and an Olivier Award, but missed out at the Oscars?
Did you know that Russian-Armenian general Arshak Ter-Gukasov‎ rescued Russian troops from Ottoman forces in a "really brilliant" operation?
Did you know that Slovak sociologist and politician Anton Štefánek campaigned for the unification of the Czechs and Slovaks and promoted the concept of Czechoslovakism?
Did you know that Swedish television presenter Rickard Olsson won an Emmy Kids Award for his work on the children's game show Wild Kids?
Did you know that Upnor Castle in Kent only saw action once, in 1667, but failed to prevent one of the worst defeats ever suffered by the Royal Navy?
Did you know that from 1927 to 1930, writer Håkon Evjenth lived with his wife in a turf hut on the Varanger Peninsula?
Did you know that in 2015, Anushka Sharma appeared on The Huffington Post's list of "100 most influential women on Twitter"?
Did you know that in her chronicle of daily life Mrs Funnybones, author Twinkle Khanna never mentions her husband Akshay Kumar by name?
Did you know that the 2011 animated film The Tragedy of Man, directed by Marcell Jankovics, was produced over a period of 23 years?
Did you know that two wildfires, the Lava Fire and the Barry Point Fire, burned large areas of Lake County, Oregon during the summer of 2012?
Did you know that New Logie Green is the only stadium outside Glasgow to have hosted a Scottish Cup final?
Did you know that Romanian politician George Panu lost his only chance to enter the cabinet, when Lascăr Catargiu died the same day he was named prime minister?
Did you know that a Red Revenue stamp (example pictured) was sold for HK$6.9 million in a 2013 auction?
Did you know that in Cobra Triangle, the player races a cannon-equipped speedboat against other watercraft through 25 stages of gradated difficulty?
Did you know that many Tennessee cave salamanders and Berry Cave salamanders are paedomorphic, remaining permanently in their larval state?
Did you know that the Overseas Passenger Terminal, Sydney, is part of the buffer zone of the Sydney Opera House listing for UNESCO World Heritage?
Did you know that the Sierra de Perijá National Park in Venezuela is home to the Perijá tapaculo, a bird first described in 2015?
Did you know that Banks expressed displeasure over Neon Jungle's decision to cover her then-new song "Waiting Game" for their album Welcome to the Jungle?
Did you know that Cerro Chao is the largest known silicic lava flow of the Quaternary?
Did you know that Isaac Dripps invented the railroad locomotive cowcatcher?
Did you know that Jeffery Rowthorn was born in the United Kingdom, but was later elected a bishop in the Episcopal Church of the United States?
Did you know that Luther Atwood invented "coup oil", the first oil extracted from coal?
Did you know that as a detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department, Joe Kenda solved 92 percent of assault cases?
Did you know that at least five of the London pubs designed by A. E. Sewell are now listed buildings (one pictured)?
Did you know that female Exoneura robusta, a species of Australian "reed bee," will often co-found a new colony with other unrelated females?
Did you know that film producer Elisabeth Holm used to work at Kickstarter, helping other filmmakers to fund their projects?
Did you know that scenes on Iron Age Luristan bronzes (example illustrated) from Iran include "odd-looking demons and animals apparently involved in cultic and mythological activities"?
Did you know that the Central and South American genus Oligoryzomys includes the straw-colored, yellow, and destructive pygmy rice rats, and the Magellanic pygmy rice rat which is common on Tierra del Fuego?
Did you know that traditional gunplay and vehicle gameplay featured in the Far Cry series were removed in Far Cry Primal because the latter is set in prehistory?
Did you know that German SS-Hauptscharführer Gustav Laabs worked as a gas van operator at the Chełmno extermination camp in Wartheland?
Did you know that Sheela was the first recipient of the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress?
Did you know that Trigona corvina is a highly aggressive species of stingless bee?
Did you know that a park was established on the site of Prior Park Landscape Garden in 1100 AD by John of Tours?
Did you know that after fleeing the Mongol conquest of the Qara Khitai, the ruler Kuchlug was captured by hunters in Afghanistan?
Did you know that construction materials for the Waste House included floppy disks, VHS cassettes, bicycle inner tubes, old jeans and 20,000 toothbrushes?
Did you know that male surf bream become female after the spawning season?
Did you know that the Dormition of the Theotokos Church in Labovë e Kryqit, founded by Emperor Justinian I, is one of the most representative examples of Byzantine architecture still standing in Albania?
Did you know that the Manhattan Project's calutrons used 14,700 short tons (13,300 t) of silver?
Did you know that the protagonist of the 2005 film Anniyan is a grim reaper-style serial killer whose website depicts all the punishments that await sinners in hell?
Did you know that the regional railway Erfurter Bahn, serving the capital of Thuringia, designed a special train to celebrate Leipzig's millennium?
Did you know that the row hammer effect has been used in some privilege escalation computer security exploits?
Did you know that Andrew Garfield is playing the real-life character Desmond Doss in the World War II-set film Hacksaw Ridge?
Did you know that Daniel 4 is the only chapter in the Book of Daniel that is in the form of a letter from King Nebuchadnezzar?
Did you know that E. E. Holman's gender was deliberately disguised to secure architectural contracts, like those for the National Park Seminary's Aloha Dormitory?
Did you know that Emma Martin formed an organisation with George Holyoake to help defend people charged with blasphemy?
Did you know that Lhasa City contains the city of Lhasa?
Did you know that Wendy Tan White, the CEO of Moonfruit, laid off her co-founder and future husband to save the company after the dot-com crash?
Did you know that William Francis Channing invented the first citywide electric fire alarm system?
Did you know that a letter by the Quaker minister Abiah Darby is used to determine the start of the Industrial Revolution?
Did you know that chemist and science diplomat Nancy B. Jackson was the first implementer of the U.S. State Department's Chemical Security Engagement Program?
Did you know that in Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56, (Kreuzstab pictured) called a cantata by Bach himself, life is compared to a sea voyage, while addressing death to come?
Did you know that the scaly-throated, the black-tailed, and the short-billed leaftosser flick aside dead leaves as they forage for small invertebrates?
Did you know that Entrepreneur First, a London-based accelerator co-founded by Alice Bentinck, helped establish 50 startups valued at $210 million in its first four years?
Did you know that Multix is a personal utility vehicle manufactured by Eicher Motors which can be used as a people carrier, goods carrier and also as a power generator?
Did you know that Selena was called the "Queen of Tejano music", and was described as "the most important and popular Tejano star of all time"?
Did you know that UCSD biophysicist Rommie Amaro co-mentored a teen who won the 2013 Siemens Competition, the 2013 Google Science Fair, and the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search?
Did you know that Vicious Pink sampled Russian choirs for their single "Cccan't You See" in an effort to defuse tensions over the Cold War?
Did you know that a searcher for the source of the Nile was raised as an orphan, traded as a slave, and died Lady Florence Baker?
Did you know that polymath Lina Eckenstein saw a link between the tomb of Pharaoh Seti I and the death of Cock Robin?
Did you know that some mantises mimic flowers convincingly enough to attract insect prey?
Did you know that the fifth Bourne film will be set in "a Post-Snowden World"?
Did you know that the vision of architects Pravina Mehta, Charles Correa, and Shirish Patel for the New Bombay project has been compared to that of a popular Bollywood film?
Did you know that Azel Backus was the first president of Hamilton College, New York?
Did you know that Jupiter Heliopolitanus's oracle in Baalbek, Lebanon, answered the emperor Trajan's question by giving him a broken vine staff?
Did you know that Lasioglossum figueresi is named after Costa Rican patriot, José Figueres Ferrer?
Did you know that Roscoe Simmons, the nephew of Booker T. Washington, was the first African-American columnist for the Chicago Tribune?
Did you know that Swedish fashion designer Lars-Åke Wilhelmsson is known for his dragshow character Babsan?
Did you know that Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken became one of the leading European producers of rayon?
Did you know that West Virginia's largest American sycamore, the Webster Sycamore, survived an arson attack and inspired a proposed name for the state's health insurance marketplace?
Did you know that even on −50 °C (−58 °F) days when other offices in Yellowknife close, the Greenstone Building, opened ten years ago today, is warm enough for workers to stay at their desks?
Did you know that in Gunfright, the player takes the role of a sheriff in the town of Black Rock and is tasked with eliminating outlaws who are scattered throughout the settlement?
Did you know that liquor is one of the offerings made to the deity at the Kal Bhairav temple in Ujjain, India?
Did you know that the production of Chablis wine in the department of Yonne was devastated in the nineteenth century by powdery mildew, Phylloxera and the development of the railways?
Did you know that the song "Everything" by M2M was aimed at Zac Hanson?
Did you know that Amman, the capital of Jordan, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world?
Did you know that Juan Astigarrabía was made a scapegoat for the fall of the Basque front during the Spanish Civil War?
Did you know that The Star—despite being an asset of community value—was converted into an estate agency in April, leaving St John's Wood with just three pubs but 13 estate agents?
Did you know that Wilhelm Boden was the first Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate?
Did you know that rapper Pitbull wanted to be like Alejandro Sosa?
Did you know that some claim the biblically-inspired Ezekiel Airship (replica pictured) flew in Texas in 1902, a year before the Wright Flyer?
Did you know that the 1963 film Violated Paradise, featuring female pearl divers, was filmed entirely in Japan?
Did you know that the Lehigh Valley Railroad historically stocked Mill Run with brook trout?
Did you know that the flowers of the bush allamanda can appear year-round?
Did you know that the missionary and doctor Jane Elizabeth Waterston was given the South African name of Noqataka, "the mother of activity"?
Did you know that Dr Johnston took six Afro-Caribbeans to central Africa to follow in the footsteps of Dr Livingstone?
Did you know that Greenhouse Software has provided recruiting software for technology companies such as Airbnb, Snapchat, and Uber?
Did you know that an unfinished ending was found for Satoshi Kon's manga series Opus after his death and included in the collected volume?
Did you know that baby panda Bei Bei was given his name by the first ladies of both China and the United States?
Did you know that basketball player Will Cummings was named to the First Team All-American Athletic Conference and then signed with the NBA team, Houston Rockets?
Did you know that in 1904 Hermann Pauly described the Pauly reaction, which detects the presence of two amino acids in proteins?
Did you know that sculptor Carolina Benedicks-Bruce was called a Swedish "Mrs. Pankhurst"?
Did you know that the Argentine Naval Prefecture was sued by the families of the victims of a 2004 school shooting?
Did you know that the Dwarakadhisa Temple, a five storied edifice in Dwarka, has a 78-metre (256 ft) spire on which is hoisted a large flag with symbols of the sun and moon?
Did you know that the department of Mayenne has extensive mineral resources and produces much cider?
Did you know that the iPhone 6S features technology known as 3D Touch?
Did you know that American artist Louise Upton Brumback (painting pictured) said of artists as teachers that "the great ones won't teach their secrets, and the little ones have none to teach"?
Did you know that DEC's VT1000 X terminals were designed for simplicity after the firm found their expensive workstations were being used mostly as glorified text terminals?
Did you know that Shia Muslims believe a future ruler of Yemen, named al-Yamani, will appear as one of the signs of the reappearance of Muhammad al-Mahdi?
Did you know that Sonam Kapoor is the first Indian actress to star in a film produced by Walt Disney Pictures?
Did you know that Split, the debut novel by Swati Avasthi, an Indian American writer and teacher, was published in 2010 and received a plethora of awards?
Did you know that Ty Isaac's 515-yard rushing performance was an Illinois High School Association championship game record?
Did you know that the Greek Constitution of 1973 is the second in modern Greek history to have resulted from a failed coup by the Hellenic Navy?
Did you know that the buildings of Schlössle Hotel in Tallinn date from the Middle Ages?
Did you know that the grey-crested finch and the black-crested finch both have distinctive headgear?
Did you know that with its campaign for Shadowrun Returns, Harebrained Schemes became the third video game studio to break $1 million on Kickstarter?
Did you know that Agnes Ellen Harris began "Tomato Clubs" in Florida which later became part of an international youth organization?
Did you know that Garni Crater, which provides evidence of liquid water on Mars, is named after a village in Armenia?
Did you know that Hazel Findlay has free climbed El Capitán three times on three different routes, including two first female ascents?
Did you know that Mayfield Mall, now a Google office building, was the first air-conditioned enclosed mall in Northern California?
Did you know that Teddy's Bigger Burgers' business plan was formulated during casual backyard barbecues?
Did you know that The Brimstone Sluggers is Crazy Town's first studio album in 13 years?
Did you know that a previously unknown script found on an altar at the Grakliani Hill archeological site in Georgia is 1000 years older than any other script in the Caucasus?
Did you know that over the course of centuries, the Province of Mantua was overrun by the Celts, Romans, Visigoths, Vandals, Ostrogoths and Lombards?
Did you know that sandstone sculptures of the Pilak site, which represents a heterodox culture of Hinduism and Buddhism from the 8th to 13th centuries, are on display at the Tripura Government Museum?
Did you know that the animation style of "Guardians of Sunshine" was called a return to the first depictions of virtual reality in fiction?
Did you know that the former Royal Marine Pen Farthing created a charity to reunite servicemen with dogs they met while on duty in Afghanistan?
Did you know that the principal defensive function of the Barrage Vauban in Strasbourg was to enable the flooding of all the lands south of the city, making them impassable to the enemy?
Did you know that the rodent genus Microryzomys contains two species, Microryzomys minutus and Microryzomys altissimus, both from the mountains of South America?
Did you know that Forte Tenors met in person only two days before their audition for America's Got Talent—their first-ever performance together?
Did you know that Leonhardt Schröter lost his job, so he became a librarian?
Did you know that Turkey and Syria launched a plan for an "EU of the Middle East" in 2010, less than a year before Turkey reacted to the Syrian uprising with economic sanctions?
Did you know that Walter Loving is believed to have been the first African American to conduct a musical performance at the White House?
Did you know that a street in Rome is named after female Italian mathematician Pia Nalli?
Did you know that black tooth, the type species of genus Phellodon, is used in mushroom dyeing?
Did you know that social activist Natwar Thakkar, who has been working in the Indian state of Nagaland since 1955, is known as "Nagaland's Gandhi"?
Did you know that Australian actress Georgia Flood was initially told she was too young to play Alice Ross-King in the miniseries ANZAC Girls?
Did you know that Mariah Carey's greatest hits album #1 to Infinity features all 18 of her U.S. Hot 100 number-one songs?
Did you know that Orit Adato, the first female commissioner of the Israel Prison Service, allowed Palestinian security prisoners to study for university degrees, as long as they did so in Hebrew?
Did you know that according to the Sita Upanishad, Sita emerged while furrowing, at the edge of the plough?
Did you know that the Agris helmet, found in France in 1981, was covered in 99 percent pure gold?
Did you know that the National Association of Seadogs was the first Nigerian confraternity?
Did you know that the hairy long-nosed armadillo used to be considered a "vulnerable species", but is now rated as "data deficient" because so little is known about it?
Did you know that the song "Tenerife Sea" was ranked 14th in Spotify's list of the most-streamed tracks in the "sleep" category?
Did you know that when the polity was centered at Meroë, Shanakdakhete (statue pictured) was the earliest known ruling African queen of ancient Nubia?
Did you know that Jules Knight auditioned for the role of Holby City's Harry Tressler four times before he was cast?
Did you know that Mohamed Nasheed, the jailed former president of the Maldives, was visited by barrister Amal Clooney at the Maafushi Prison prior to a court hearing on his imprisonment?
Did you know that Swedish television presenter Karin Frick won a scholarship which allowed her to play tennis at a college in Miami?
Did you know that as President and CEO of Wawa Inc., Chris Gheysens carries business cards that identify him as the company's "Lead Goose"?
Did you know that beneath the 50-metre (160 ft) high trees in the Amazônia National Park, there is an understorey of vines, lichens, mosses, and orchids?
Did you know that the Brazilian arboreal mouse can be told from the  long-tongued arboreal mouse by the absence of spines among its hair?
Did you know that the Château de Sully-sur-Loire is one of many historic châteaux in the department of Loiret?
Did you know that the South Shore Line station Kemil Road was funded with a personal check?
Did you know that the artist Theyre Lee-Elliott, who created the Speedbird logo, represented England at table tennis?
Did you know that the construction of the Panama Canal and Mount Rushmore used cranes from American Crane Corporation?
Did you know that the first female architect from the West Indies was the Jamaican Verma Panton?
Did you know that when the early telephone was being developed, John Peirce invented the mouthpiece that was used for the hand-held version?
Did you know that B*Witched reunited in 2012, and in 2014 released Champagne or Guinness, their first EP in over a decade?
Did you know that George E. Morrow, the founder of the Morrow Plots at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, was also president of Oklahoma State University?
Did you know that Ioan Missir, twice mayor of Botoșani, Romania, was born in New Jersey?
Did you know that Navroji Mistri's soft drinks business was so successful that he was able to purchase the entire Caldecott Hill Estate?
Did you know that Norwegian painter Karl Uchermann is known for his many portraits of dogs (example pictured)?
Did you know that Roddy Piper and Keith David, who throw punches at each other in They Live (1988), provided their voices for "The Red Throne" in which their characters engage in a similar fight?
Did you know that Swiss biologist Max Birnstiel was one of the first scientists to purify a single gene?
Did you know that abandoned mine drainage (effects pictured) impacts thousands of miles of streams in the eastern United States?
Did you know that although players can use created characters in Sword Art Online: Lost Song's story mode, the story will progress as if protagonist Kirito had been used?
Did you know that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police believe Atsumi Yoshikubo intended to disappear when she was last seen on Yellowknife's Ingraham Trail a year ago today, but won't be specific about why?
Did you know that the common walkingstick hangs about in trees?
Did you know that the extinct ant Cananeuretus was preserved in amber from Alberta?
Did you know that the holder of the Scottish title Baron of Dunure is a Canadian telecoms billionaire from Montreal?
Did you know that Carole J. Olshavsky was the first woman to be appointed state architect for Ohio?
Did you know that Sorber Run and Cider Run are the only two Wilderness Trout Streams in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania?
Did you know that according to members of the United States House of Representatives, the October 2015 election to succeed John Boehner as Speaker of the House has turned the body into a "banana republic"?
Did you know that despite having the highest per capita GDP of all African nations, Equatorial Guinea is ranked one of the lowest countries by measure of the quality of life due to corruption?
Did you know that it took Jun Maeda only about a month to write all 13 tracks on his concept album Owari no Hoshi no Love Song?
Did you know that singer Lady Gaga used a Bea Szenfeld design for herself and her background dancers in the music video for the song "G.U.Y."?
Did you know that the Astor markhor, an endangered species of wild goat, is found in the Naltar Wildlife Sanctuary in Pakistan?