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Did you know that award-winning film The Dancer, about a traditional dancer, is one of only three Indonesian films addressing the country's anticommunist purges of 1965–66?
Did you know that due to the popularity of the item numbers Munni Badnaam Hui and Sheila Ki Jawani, the actresses Malaika Arora Khan and Katrina Kaif were pitted against each other in what was called the Munni vs Sheila debate?
Did you know that in "Schoolin' Life", Beyoncé Knowles channels the friskiness of American singer Prince in his prime and employs guttural vocals to address many life lessons to everyone from their 20s to their 50s?
Did you know that one of Aeroflot's worst accidents occurred in August 1979 (1979-08), when two Tupolev Tu-134s collided over Dniprodzerzhynsk in the Ukrainian SSR, claiming 178 lives?
Did you know that racing legend Bobby Allison's sons, Davey and Clifford Allison, both died within the span of eleven months in 1992–1993?
Did you know that the 17th-century Swedish scholars Olaus Verelius and Johannes Schefferus disputed bitterly over the location of the heathen temple at Uppsala?
Did you know that the Derg military junta supported the formation of the Union of Ethiopian Marxist-Leninist Organizations, but eventually crushed or disbanded its member organizations (Meison, Seded, Echat, Waz and Malerid)?
Did you know that the archaeological site of Tel Michal in Israel owes its name to an ancient identification of Apollo with the Semitic god Reshef?
Did you know that the black sea cucumber can split into two by transverse fission?
Did you know that the filly Dancing Rain was the first British-trained horse to win the Preis der Diana?
Did you know that 8 million visitors to Expo 67 in Montreal saw Probošt's mechanical Christmas crib, a unique Czech nativity scene?
Did you know that Alexander is the first solo album created by Alex Ebert, lead singer of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Ima Robot?
Did you know that Canberra Capitals player Hannah Bowley also plays Australian rules football?
Did you know that Georgios Stavros, who appeared on various Greek banknotes issued before 1932, was the founding governor of the National Bank of Greece?
Did you know that Indonesian songstress Vina Panduwinata outperformed Janet Jackson and David Pomeranz at the 1985 World Popular Song Festival?
Did you know that Lorna Kesterson worked as a newspaper journalist and editor until her election as the first female mayor of Henderson, Nevada?
Did you know that Rapid Ranger was only the third Greyhound to win the English Greyhound Derby on two occasions?
Did you know that Saeed Malekpour, an Iranian web designer and Canadian permanent resident, has been sentenced to death by Iran for allegedly designing and moderating pornographic websites?
Did you know that The Art of Woo, starring Sook-Yin Lee and Adam Beach, was funded by a grant from the Canadian Film Centre's Featured Film Project?
Did you know that former U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes spoke at the ceremony to lay the cornerstone of the Sandusky County Jail and Sheriff's House in Fremont, Ohio?
Did you know that former journalist hostage Terry A. Anderson led a campaign for the release of Turkish editor Ocak Işık Yurtçu?
Did you know that in Bach's mature 1735 chorale cantata Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit, BWV 14, the cantus firmus of Luther's hymn is played by horn and oboes, while the voices perform a counter-fugue?
Did you know that the Bozeman Carnegie Library was intentionally built across from Bozeman, Montana's red-light district and opium dens?
Did you know that the Society of Friends of the Constitution, formed in 1791 to support the Constitution of 3 May, was the first Polish political party?
Did you know that the basket star, Gorgonocephalus eucnemis, resembles an animated bush when trying to catch prey?
Did you know that the film 10 Promises to My Dog is based on a novel that was inspired by The Ten Commandments of Dog Ownership?
Did you know that there is no official list of the world's most wanted criminal fugitives?
Did you know that wild black currants are commonly made into jam and jelly?
Did you know that Avram Miletić, who wrote Serbian songs, was a grandfather of Svetozar Miletić, the 19th-century leader of Serbs in Vojvodina?
Did you know that Basil Salvadore D'Souza, Bishop of Mangalore Diocese from 1965 until his death in 1996, was the longest-serving bishop in the diocese's history?
Did you know that Ciudad Deportiva Millito Navarro, a multi-sport complex currently being built in Ponce, Puerto Rico, is named after Emilio Navarro, the first Puerto Rican to play in Negro league baseball?
Did you know that after winning the 1819 Derby Stakes, the racehorse Tiresias overcame his jockey's restraints, left the racecourse and galloped into town?
Did you know that although "A Scandal in Belgravia", the first episode of the second series of Sherlock, was well-received by reviewers, the BBC got complaints for showing its nude scene too early in the evening?
Did you know that author Lucy O'Brien was criticized for giving too much emphasis to singer Madonna's discography in the biography Madonna: Like an Icon?
Did you know that current Canberra Capitals players Molly Lewis and Mikaela Dombkins both played for the AIS and Sydney Uni Flames?
Did you know that former Syrian prime minister, Lutfi al-Haffar, was an active participant and organizer of the 1936 Syrian general strike?
Did you know that in his speech of June 9, 1989, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping implicitly compared the Tiananmen Square shootings to the 1970 Kent State shootings?
Did you know that it took almost 10 years for the Swedish power metal band Timeless Miracle to release its début album?
Did you know that juvenile cushion stars look so different from their seniors that they were thought to belong to a species in a different biological family?
Did you know that motifs of joy in the strings connect recitative and chorale in a movement of the Bach cantata for Purification, Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125, on the Nunc dimittis canticle of Simeon?
Did you know that the Ellerslie Eagles, a club in the Auckland Rugby League celebrating its centenary later this year, did not officially become known as the Eagles until 1971?
Did you know that the First Congregational Church of Litchfield, now regarded as iconic, was replaced in 1873 after being said to have "not a single line or feature ... suggesting taste or beauty"?
Did you know that the Steven Curtis Chapman song "Long Way Home" features the ukelele, an instrument which Chapman said "you can't frown and play"?
Did you know that the bangalay can live for 600 years and its base can reach six metres (20 ft) in diameter?
Did you know that "Missing My Baby" was one of the first songs to be played on radio stations after Selena was murdered?
Did you know that Australian basketball player Rebecca Haynes played basketball for three different American universities?
Did you know that BJ Birdy, the first mascot of the Toronto Blue Jays, also starred in a Toronto Star comic strip created by the mascot's performer?
Did you know that Central VPA High School in St. Louis, Missouri, is the oldest public high school west of the Mississippi River?
Did you know that Daisy Burrell was talent-spotted for The Valley of Fear while playing Cinderella?
Did you know that Emilius and his sons Priam and Plenipotentiary were all winners of the Derby Stakes?
Did you know that Jacksonville, Florida's most populous city and largest in area, has the only consolidated city-county government in the state?
Did you know that Littlehampton Fort was the first in Britain to be built with a Carnot wall?
Did you know that Novo Sancti Petri in Chiclana de la Frontera contains a golf course designed by Severiano Ballesteros?
Did you know that Pres Mull was one of the first Distinguished Alumni of Appalachian State University?
Did you know that athletes from 17 of the 21 competing NPCs won at least one medal in the 1964 Summer Paralympics?
Did you know that effects unit builder Robert Keeley attributes his commercial success to low tolerance?
Did you know that elimination of the United States Department of Commerce has been proposed by both President Barack Obama and former Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry?
Did you know that mandatory, prohibiting and quashing orders, and the order for review of detention, which are remedies available in Singapore administrative law, derive from ancient British prerogative writs?
Did you know that members of the Canadian indie rock band Reverie Sound Revue sent sound files to each other via e-mail in order to record their first studio album?
Did you know that the gray sea star can be found eating the coot clam in Tampa Bay, Florida?
Did you know that the main building of Hamburg's university of fine arts, Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, was designed by architect  Fritz Schumacher and completed in 1913?
Did you know that , in the 1840s, the congregation of the First Congregational Church in Guilford, Connecticut, underwent a split due to differing views on the abolition of slavery?
Did you know that French manufacturer Vétra built trolleybuses (example pictured) for transit systems in 12 countries, on three continents?
Did you know that Major League Baseball's Detroit Wolverines used a Lady as their Opening Day starting pitcher in 1887, the year they won the World Series?
Did you know that Michael Pineda's fastball averaged 94.7 miles per hour (152.4 km/h) in 2011, leading Major League Baseball rookies with at least 100 innings pitched?
Did you know that Mündig never competed on a racecourse prior to winning the 1835 Derby Stakes, and bookmakers were misled to lengthen his odds based on false information fed to them by his trainer?
Did you know that Vashon High School in St. Louis, Missouri, has won 14 state basketball championships since 1934?
Did you know that Wu Ying, named China's sixth richest woman at the age of 25, has been sentenced to death for financial fraud?
Did you know that XTERRA World Champion Lesley Paterson plans to co-produce a remake of the Oscar-winning 1930 film All Quiet on the Western Front?
Did you know that in 1992 the leader of the Gambela People's Liberation Movement, Agwa Alemu, was killed by his own troops?
Did you know that in some areas of northern Alaska, the willow species Salix alaxensis (twig pictured) constitutes over 95% of winter food for moose?
Did you know that in the early phase of the Ethiopian revolution, the underground publication Yäsäffiw hezb dems was widely distributed in spite of military censorship?
Did you know that one of the essays in William Gibson's new non-fiction collection Distrust That Particular Flavor caused Wired magazine to be banned in Singapore?
Did you know that the architecture of Turkey has been influenced by many architects from Germany and Austria invited between 1924 and 1942 to work in Ankara?
Did you know that the ending to Miami Vice's "Out Where the Buses Don't Run" "set a new standard for TV direction"?
Did you know that the racehorse Young Eclipse, winner of the second Derby ever held, later sired a second horse named Young Eclipse, who came second in the 1802 Derby?
Did you know that while the fifty-seventh episode of Glee features newly cast actors to introduce Rachel's two fathers, the actors cast to play them in 2009 were cut from the second episode?
Did you know that Aboubakr Jamaï went on a hunger strike after his newspapers were banned in Morocco?
Did you know that Afghanistan, Burma, India, Pakistan, and Philippines were the first five members of the Asian Games Federation?
Did you know that Dwyane Wade has played more minutes, scored more points, made more field goals, made more free throws and recorded more assists than any other player in Miami Heat history?
Did you know that Jeremy Irons guest-starred in The Simpsons episode "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches" as the voice of a bar rag?
Did you know that Rossetti's Found, a painting about prostitution, featured a white calf (detail pictured)?
Did you know that Têtes Noires was the first all-female rock band from Minneapolis?
Did you know that a mildly retarded man gives away his family's fortune in Eudora Welty's The Ponder Heart?
Did you know that according to one critic, Rihanna appeared to embody the same "spiraling dance-floor siren" persona on "Complicated" as she did on the album's lead single, "Only Girl (In the World)"?
Did you know that after being selected third overall in the 2008 MLB Draft, Eric Hosmer was given a six million dollar signing bonus, the largest in Kansas City Royals history?
Did you know that each of the three volumes of Taylor Branch's history of the civil rights movement were given names from aspects of the Book of Exodus?
Did you know that in the 1945 Canadian federal election, Yukon Communist Tom McEwen came within 162 votes of being elected to parliament?
Did you know that the 1727 Bach cantata for a solo soprano Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Glücke, BWV 84, one of few works Bach named "Cantata" himself, shows the spirit of the beginning Enlightenment?
Did you know that the 1913 Michigan Wolverines football team featured running by Jimmy Craig, a "Hawaiian yell," and snake dancing behind the Michigan band?
Did you know that the Caribbean seagrass elysia, a sea slug, prefers star grass to other seagrasses?
Did you know that the Gilbert-Sinton neighborhood grew rapidly along Cincinnati's first streetcar line?
Did you know that the hosts of C-SPAN series American Writers visited a meat processing plant to discuss Upton Sinclair's The Jungle?
Did you know that the last Batak priest-king Sisingamangaraja XII was shot and killed by Dutch troops in 1907, ending his thirty-year war against the colonisation of Sumatra?
Did you know that the winner of the 1831 Derby Stakes, Spaniel, was also the smallest horse in the race?
Did you know that 70 metres (230 ft) down Sima de las Cotorras, a giant sinkhole inhabited by thousands of parakeets, there are rock paintings on the sheer cliff wall painted 5–10 thousand years ago?
Did you know that Blücher was at Epsom when Blucher won the Derby?
Did you know that Gabriel Duvall has been called the least significant justice in the history of the Supreme Court of the United States?
Did you know that Moses won the 1816 Derby Stakes wearing the Duke of York's colours, and became the third racehorse owned by British Royal Family to win the Derby?
Did you know that Photo Bits, a soft porn magazine published from 1898 to 1914, was the first pin-up magazine in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Vincent van Gogh's Road with Cypress and Star is said to reflect his increasing awareness of his upcoming death?
Did you know that in 1781 both a Dutch zoologist and a Swedish naturalist described the transverse ladybird?
Did you know that the Rosemount ski boot, one of the earliest all-plastic designs, was invented by a company better known for aerospace instruments?
Did you know that the actress Helen Barry, who starred in London and New York, married an ex-Mayor of Monmouth?
Did you know that the fruit of mountain snowberry honeysuckle is eaten by the yellow-billed magpie?
Did you know that , as a publisher and literary critic, Drago Siliqi increased translation of foreign literature into Albanian and encouraged Ismail Kadare to write his first novel, The General of the Dead Army?
Did you know that Al-Ashraf Musa's defection from the Mongol coalition was critical for the Mamluks' victory during the Battle of Ain Jalut?
Did you know that Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, was a member of the anti-Islam group Norwegian Defence League, a sister organization of the English Defence League?
Did you know that Arodys Vizcaíno's fastball has been recorded as fast as 101 miles per hour (163 km/h)?
Did you know that Bob Wasserman served as police chief, city councilman, and mayor of the city of Fremont, California?
Did you know that Canadian national Naser al-Raas was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for attending a rally of the 2011 Bahraini uprising?
Did you know that Nick Castellanos received a $3.45 million signing bonus from the Detroit Tigers, the highest ever for a player not drafted in the first round in the Major League Baseball Draft?
Did you know that Steven Gan took advantage of a loophole in Malaysian Internet law to create the country's first independent news source?
Did you know that after his victory in 1802, Tyrant was described by a contemporary sports writer as "one of the worst horses that ever won a Derby"?
Did you know that after the Thoroughbred racehorse Bloomsbury won the 1839 Derby Stakes, his identity was questioned and bookmakers refused to pay out on "winning" bets?
Did you know that despite many critics writing that "Stupid in Love" was about Rihanna and Chris Brown's altercation on the night of the 51st Grammy Awards, the song was written two days before the event?
Did you know that it is claimed that the Reiterdenkmal, an equestrian monument in the centre of Windhoek, Namibia, is the only monument in the world where an ordinary soldier is placed on horseback?
Did you know that pediatric neurologist Paul M. Ellwood, Jr. coined the term "health maintenance organization" (HMO) in the American health care system?
Did you know that the desert plants pale wolfberry and Berlandier's wolfberry were both used by native Americans for medicinal purposes?
Did you know that the disused Barnes Cemetery in Barnes, west London, is said to be haunted by a ghostly nun hovering over the grave of the victim of a notorious murder?
Did you know that the stems of blaspheme vine are "viciously armed" with prickles?
Did you know that Christmas Gift Evans House was not a Christmas gift?
Did you know that Ekso Bionics develop intelligent exoskeletons that can be strapped on as wearable robots, and can enhance the strength, mobility, and endurance of soldiers and paraplegics?
Did you know that Jineth Bedoya Lima was abducted, tortured, and raped following her reporting on Colombian paramilitary groups?
Did you know that Robert Runyon photographed significant events of the Mexican Revolution, discovered several new plant species, and was mayor of Brownsville, Texas?
Did you know that Tuhama Ma'rouf of the Syrian Communist Labour Party was designated a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International after her arrest in February 2011?
Did you know that a hacker tried to hold journalist Rowenna Davis' email account for ransom?
Did you know that according to legend, Robert Kirk was taken to fairyland for revealing the secrets of the Good People?
Did you know that by winning the 2011–12 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters became the first team in 27 years to successfully defend an All-Filipino Championship?
Did you know that eleven of journalist Ignacio Gómez's colleagues at El Espectador were murdered in the first fourteen years of his career?
Did you know that following the death of Samir Ghawshah, Ahmed Majdalani succeeded him as secretary-general of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front?
Did you know that the Malloch Building was used to represent Lauren Bacall's apartment in a film with Humphrey Bogart?
Did you know that the commotion following the racehorse Smolensko's victory at the 1813 Derby Stakes resulted in an overthrown phaeton and a broken arm amongst the spectators?
Did you know that the setting for the children's show The Adventures of Abney & Teal was inspired by Victoria Park, London?
Did you know that the son of Hans Dessauer, a coloured paper manufacturer in Aschaffenburg, left Germany in 1929, changed his name to John H. Dessauer and wrote the book My Years with Xerox, The Billions Nobody Wanted?
Did you know that the woodcuts of modernist printmaker Blanche Lazzell were influenced by ukiyo-e?
Did you know that Michael Choice is the first University of Texas at Arlington baseball player to be drafted in the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft?
Did you know that Russian Presidential press attaché Natalya Timakova, rated the third most powerful woman in Russian politics in 2011, allowed Wikipedia to use materials from the Presidential website Kremlin.ru?
Did you know that Shieh Chung-liang was sued for libel after reporting that Taiwan's Kuomintang political party had offered a donation to Bill Clinton's re-election campaign?
Did you know that a broken right ankle prevented Earl Belcher from playing in the NBA, and he is now a professional jazz musician?
Did you know that ablaq is an Arabic term for the use in stonework of alternating or fluctuating rows of light and dark color stone?
Did you know that due to a dead heat, the racehorse Cadland had to run twice to win the 1828 Derby Stakes?
Did you know that in June 1956, the British submarine HMS Telemachus briefly went missing during a hydrographic survey off the coast of the Australian Antarctic Territory?
Did you know that in humans, 1-lysolecithin can be hydrolyzed by at least ten different enzymes?
Did you know that since Lange's 1962 invention of the first plastic ski boots (example pictured), they have been on the feet of five times as many World Cup medal winners as any other brand?
Did you know that the Umayyad defeat in the "Day of Thirst" led to the almost complete loss of Muslim control over Transoxiana over a period of fifteen years?
Did you know that the Zuihō class aircraft carriers were originally built as submarine tenders which could be converted into light aircraft carriers or fleet oilers?
Did you know that the first uterus transplant in the world with an organ taken from a cadaver was performed by Dr. Ömer Özkan and his team at the Akdeniz University?
Did you know that the prototype of the Kaproni Bulgarski KB-11 Fazan, a Bulgarian Army liaison aircraft of World War II, was nicknamed "Quasimodo"?
Did you know that Caesar led the funeral procession of King Edward VII, ahead of nine kings and a number of other heads of state?
Did you know that Don Eigler shared the 2010 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience for using a scanning tunneling microscope tip to arrange 35 xenon atoms to spell out the letters "IBM"?
Did you know that Eugene Eisenmann worked as a lawyer before writing The Species of Middle American Birds for the Linnaean Society of New York?
Did you know that Larry Jeffries was twice named the Southland Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year while playing for the Trinity Tigers?
Did you know that although the title of the postwar satirical journal Ulenspiegel means "owl mirror" in High German, in Low German it means "kiss my behind"?
Did you know that five years after winning a Military Cross for "conspicuous gallantry" in the Great War, Roy Royston was playing leading man on stage in Little Nellie Kelly?
Did you know that in a 1998 case the Singapore Court of Appeal held the Internal Security Act contained no precedent facts as Parliament clearly intended that detention decisions were to be made by the Government?
Did you know that the Adriatic Sea receives one third of freshwater flowing into the Mediterranean?
Did you know that the Darmstadt Windspiel, a German sailplane which set a 1934 world distance record, was silk covered and weighed less than its pilots?
Did you know that the cargo ship MV Delta Mariner, which struck a bridge over the Tennessee River in January 2012, transports rocket parts from the manufacturer in Alabama to Cape Canaveral?
Did you know that the development of Danish sculpture was greatly influenced by Jacques Saly, a Frenchman, who designed the statue of King Frederick V?
Did you know that the racehorses Assassin, Hannibal, Cardinal Beaufort, Election and Lap-dog won the Derby Stakes in 1782, 1804, 1805, 1807 and 1826 respectively, making the 3rd Earl of Egremont the first-ever owner of five Derby winners?
Did you know that the rock scallop has an orange mantle and blue eyes?
Did you know that Carina Vance Mafla's campaign to shut down "torture clinics" that try to turn lesbians straight began years before she was appointed Ecuador's Minister for Public Health?
Did you know that Downing Hall was once the home of naturalist Thomas Pennant, who described it as being "incapable of being improved into a magnitude exceeding the revenue of the family"?