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Did you know that Drexel 4041, a manuscript in the New York Public Library, is a major source of music for the 17th-century British composer William Lawes?
Did you know that Gene Dale's expulsion from baseball for match fixing provided the precedent for banning the Black Sox Scandal conspirators?
Did you know that Ross Broadfoot became part of London Irish's squad while still a student at the University of Cambridge?
Did you know that South Africa's 1996–97 tour of India marked their first ever Test appearance against India in the subcontinent?
Did you know that Tomahawk's third album Anonymous was based on Native American compositions researched by guitarist Duane Denison?
Did you know that Tony Minson developed a new way of disabling viruses for vaccines?
Did you know that Yoko Ono's song "Death of Samantha" was inspired by John Lennon's boorish behavior at a party, and seemed to describe the vigil for Lennon's death?
Did you know that an estimated 90 per cent of Saudi Arabia's workforce is made up of foreign workers?
Did you know that maps by Nicolas de Fer became Bourbon propaganda when he was official geographer of Louis XIV?
Did you know that the Dutch warship Koningin Regentes, her sister ship De Ruyter and the protected cruiser Zeeland bombarded the city of Denpasar, Dutch East Indies, on 16 and 17 September 1906?
Did you know that the Ladak pika is thought to survive the winters of the Himalayan Plateau by eating roots?
Did you know that the starfish Luidia quinaria produces the steroid asterosaponin, which may help in treating coughs and asthma?
Did you know that the title track of the celtic punk album Toil has been compared to the Bruce Springsteen album Wrecking Ball?
Did you know that when Lilian Bland built an aircraft in 1910, she used her aunt's ear-trumpet and a whisky bottle to feed petrol to the engine?
Did you know that 3 Gourmohan Mukherjee Street, Kolkata, is the birthplace of Indian monk Swami Vivekananda?
Did you know that Alessandro Cagno, the winner of the inaugural Targa Florio in 1906, was the third employee recruited by Fiat?
Did you know that Charlotte Higgins compared the depiction of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge in Paul Emsley's portrait to a character in The Twilight Saga?
Did you know that Christian princes, counts and writers flocked to the court of the first Sadigura Rebbe, Avrohom Yaakov Friedman?
Did you know that Heidi Range portrays a stripper in the music video for "Stronger"?
Did you know that Henry Archer, an English Fifth Monarchist, predicted in 1642 that Jesus would return in around 1700?
Did you know that IIAB meteorites (example pictured) have the lowest concentration of nickel of all iron meteorite groups?
Did you know that Lord William Hamilton, Vice-Chamberlain to Caroline of Ansbach, was so poor that the Queen described him and his wife as "handsome beggars"?
Did you know that Shane Warne's last competitive game at the Lord's Cricket Ground was the British Asian Cup?
Did you know that Sydney Barnes took 24 five-wicket hauls in 27 Test cricket appearances?
Did you know that Varahanatha Temple has erotic sculptures and amorous couples carved on its outer wall?
Did you know that a Greek Hospital in Istanbul has been in service since 1753?
Did you know that according to The Cleanest Race, a book about North Korean propaganda, the Government of North Korea is guided by a derivation of Japanese fascism?
Did you know that during the eighteenth century, guards posted at Middle Hill Battery on Middle Hill, Gibraltar, to prevent desertion sometimes deserted themselves?
Did you know that the Swara Samrat festival was dedicated to Indian sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankar and sarod player Ustad Ali Akbar Khan?
Did you know that the controversial Argentine governor Juan Manuel de Rosas, who died in Southampton in 1877, was repatriated over a century later?
Did you know that the spider genus Predatoroonops received its name after its species' similarities to the creature from Predator?
Did you know that Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the upcoming sequel to the 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger, will feature the Falcon, the first African American superhero?
Did you know that Dennis Tinerino was a four-time Mr. Universe winner, a pimp, and an Evangelist Christian minister?
Did you know that Gervase de Cornhill, a medieval English royal official and merchant, loaned money to Queen Matilda around 1143, and when the queen did not repay, got the mortgaged lands at Gamlingay instead?
Did you know that Harris's antelope squirrel doesn't sweat, but instead salivates in order to keep cool?
Did you know that Hurricane Debbie in September 1961 produced record-breaking winds across parts of Ireland, gusting up to 114 mph (183 km/h) off the coast of Arranmore?
Did you know that Napoleon III, Emperor of France, bought the American ironclad Dunderberg in 1867 over the objections of his own navy, which preferred a home-built ship?
Did you know that Nello Carrara coined the term "microwave"?
Did you know that Sister Margaret McKenna and other activists were arrested for participating in a "die-in" on the lawn of The Pentagon?
Did you know that Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds (example woodcut pictured) was the book thrown at Jane Eyre when she was ten?
Did you know that author Elizabeth Jordan edited the first two novels of Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis?
Did you know that during the Siege of Mecca by the Umayyads in 683, the Kaaba caught fire and burned down?
Did you know that the Etruscan Regolini-Galassi tomb, which dates to the 7th century BC, was discovered in 1836 in an undisturbed condition?
Did you know that the Wong brothers' film Fatima reportedly earned 200,000 gulden on a 7,000 gulden investment?
Did you know that the film El Presidente, an official 2012 Metro Manila Film Festival entry, is possibly the most expensive Filipino film of all time?
Did you know that the former "Nazi proconsul" Rudolf Rahn confirmed there had been a German plot to kidnap Pope Pius XII?
Did you know that the only squad led by Bear Bryant during his tenure as head coach at Alabama that did not participate in a bowl game was the 1958 team?
Did you know that the release of "Suit & Tie", Justin Timberlake's first solo single in six years, was used to tie in with the re-launch of Myspace?
Did you know that Bobbi Sue Luther claimed that her costume in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Borderland" was skimpier than her normal outfits as a lingerie and bikini model?
Did you know that Harry Redford, the cattle duffer and drover upon whom the character Captain Starlight was based, drove the first mob of cattle to and later managed Brunette Downs Station?
Did you know that James Hogun, a general in the Continental Army, asked to be held as a POW after the Siege of Charleston in order to prevent the British from recruiting soldiers among the enlisted Patriot POWs?
Did you know that Japanese idol group NEWS became the third group in history to earn their fifteenth consecutive number-one single on the weekly Oricon singles chart with "World Quest/Pokopon Pekōrya"?
Did you know that Mosconi was the first Italian restaurant in the Benelux nations to receive a Michelin star?
Did you know that Patience Latting was not just the first female Mayor of Oklahoma City, but also the first woman to serve as mayor of any U.S. city exceeding 350,000 people?
Did you know that Teresa Perales is the most decorated Spanish paralympian in history?
Did you know that a Roman-era temple in al-Sanamayn, originally dedicated to the Greek goddess Tyche in the 2nd century CE and later converted into a mosque, is one of the best preserved edifices in Syria?
Did you know that in the 1889–90 Currie Cup, Charlie Finlason was made to bat last for the Transvaal cricket team because he had criticised the team's captain in the press?
Did you know that the Lesbian Herstory Archives hold the library of the New York City chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis?
Did you know that the Russian ship of the line Gangut was credited with sinking two Ottoman frigates, a fire ship, and destroying a shore battery during the Battle of Navarino in 1827?
Did you know that the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Affliction" explains why Klingons look different in the original series compared to the movies and later series?
Did you know that the Viscount Vane's offer of a reward in the newspapers for information about his eloped wife was compared to a search for "some favourite spaniel bitch"?
Did you know that the characters of Che'r Cycle, a 2009 Bengali drama, included Che Guevara, Aleida March, Fidel Castro, and Raul Castro?
Did you know that though Balasaraswati was called "a revolutionary Bharata Natyam dancer", she was only filmed at the age of 58 in Bala, a documentary made by Satyajit Ray?
Did you know that unlike the living golden-club Orontium aquaticum, the extinct species Orontium mackii may not have needed wetlands to grow?
Did you know that Barrie Edgar produced the first television broadcast from a submarine?
Did you know that Dave Gunness designed concert loudspeakers used by Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Iron Maiden, Pearl Jam, Usher, and Snoop Dogg?
Did you know that French General Jean Théveney was mentioned in dispatches seven times during the First World War and the occupation of Morocco?
Did you know that Kareem Joseph scored a pair of goals in the 2011 First Citizens Cup final to give Caledonia AIA their first league cup in club history with a 2–1 victory over T&TEC?
Did you know that The Bay Lights art installation uses 25,000 white LED lights, programmed to create a series of abstract patterns that ascend and descend the cables on the San Francisco Bay Bridge?
Did you know that Toby Love called his song "Tengo Un Amor" the "door-opener" for all of his future success?
Did you know that Usmar Ismail's Darah dan Doa has been considered both his directorial debut and the first Indonesian film, although he had already directed two films?
Did you know that after his map was stolen, Harry Yates navigated by the Leaning Tower and landed his plane in a volcano crater?
Did you know that before the Ba'ath Party took power in Syria, Tell Touqan was a feudal village where most residents worked as laborers for land owned by seven families?
Did you know that in 1961, Zarzaitine was considered to be the largest oil field of the eastern Sahara, with primary reserves of 80 million tons?
Did you know that in his memoir, The Tower of Babble, Richard Stursberg reveals the details of his negotiations with Gary Bettman to extend Hockey Night in Canada's NHL broadcasting rights?
Did you know that the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity is the largest Orthodox Christian church in the Western Hemisphere?
Did you know that the Austrian tenor Karl Beck became a master baker after his singing career, which included creating the title role in Wagner's opera Lohengrin, was cut short by a deterioration in his voice?
Did you know that the European birch aphid and silver birch aphid were thought to be the same species until chromosomal differences between them were found?
Did you know that the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party proposed that a main road in Gibraltar should be Devlin's instead of the Devil's?
Did you know that the India-sponsored Pan-African e-Network project aims to link all member states of the African Union with each other and India through a satellite and submarine cable network?
Did you know that the Singaporean film Taxi! Taxi! marks local YouTube star Dr Jia Jia's film debut?
Did you know that the town of Plogonnec in Brittany is twinned with Llandysul in West Wales?
Did you know that while poverty in South Korea, particularly absolute poverty, has significantly declined since mid-20th century, relative poverty has recently risen?
Did you know that Elaine Didier, director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum in Michigan, sewed her own wedding dress?
Did you know that Frankie Fryer is an imitation of Danny Dyer?
Did you know that Helen Wright researched the history of telescopes?
Did you know that IBM physicist Leroy L. Chang, honoured for his work on superlattice heterostructures, moved to HKUST university in 1993 owing to Hong Kong's impending 1997 transfer to Chinese control?
Did you know that NeocoreGames uses their own game engine called Coretech to develop video games?
Did you know that actress Jenni Blong portrayed her character as "a fragile simp with a dirty secret" in her 1998 performance in the play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Did you know that archeologist Anna Curtenius Roosevelt, the great-granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt, described a pre-Columbian civilization in Brazil as having "outstanding indigenous cultural achievements"?
Did you know that at live performances of "Ikuze! Kaitō Shōjo", the audience can see a shrimp jump?
Did you know that historian Ron Chernow based his biography Washington: A Life on recently unearthed documentation and materials from the Papers of George Washington?
Did you know that in 1933, Lady Simon received a damehood for her efforts to combat slavery and racial discrimination?
Did you know that in St Edith's Church, Eaton-under-Heywood, Shropshire, there are bosses carved with grotesques?
Did you know that the Kootznahoo Formation, consisting of conglomerate, sandstone, siltstone, shale and coal, is located in Alaska's Kootznahoo Inlet?
Did you know that the Soldier Artificer Company (members pictured in working dress) was the British Army's first unit of military artificers and labourers?
Did you know that the film The Mirror Never Lies was co-produced by a former Miss Indonesia winner?
Did you know that Handkäse mit Musik, popular in Hessian cuisine, gets its name from the flatulence it causes?
Did you know that Jeff Gordon won the 2004 Pepsi 400 after teammate Jimmie Johnson pushed him past Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and Tony Stewart?
Did you know that Michael Piller likened the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Lessons" to the film Brief Encounter?
Did you know that Sioux K. Grigsby maintained a law practice for nearly 70 years in addition to serving in the South Dakota state house, senate and as lieutenant governor?
Did you know that despite covering the works of a Christian theologian, the Thomas Aquinas Dictionary does not contain entries for "Redemption", "Incarnation" or "Trinity"?
Did you know that in the 2012 Race of Champions, driver Romain Grosjean won the Champions of Champions title, while Germany won their sixth consecutive Nations Cup?
Did you know that the "Dima Yakovlev Law" forbidding American parents from adopting Russian children was named after a Russian toddler who died after his adoptive American father left him in a car for nine hours?
Did you know that the Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green song "Make the World Move" features a "bonkers arrangement"?
Did you know that the Juneau Raptor Center, run by an all-volunteer staff, treats any species of bird brought to it for treatment?
Did you know that the Rama VIII Bridge in Bangkok has tower bases designed to resemble an elephant's feet?
Did you know that the art in the video game Dokuro was inspired by children's storybooks?
Did you know that two years after her departure from the Sugababes, Siobhán Donaghy released her debut single "Overrated", which according to one critic is directed at the group's members?
Did you know that when Pope Alexander VI issued his bull Dudum siquidem, the mention in it of India caused consternation in Portugal?
Did you know that woodcarver Abel Schrøder, who crafted the altarpieces for the churches of Vester Egesborg, Undløse, and St Martin's, was also St Martin's organist?
Did you know that Christian hip hop artist Sho Baraka attracted controversy when he used the word "nigga" on the album Talented 10th?
Did you know that James Allen quit football to become a rapper but decided to return two weeks later?
Did you know that Meenakshi Shirodkar stunned the traditional audience when she appeared in a swimsuit in the 1938 Marathi film Brahmachari?
Did you know that Noël Paymal Lerebours's Excursions Daguerriennes consisted of aquatints made by hand from daguerreotype photographs?
Did you know that Sir Hercules Read of the British Museum advised the Ashmolean to decline the loan of the Anglo-Saxon Fuller Brooch, which he wrongly believed to be a modern fake?
Did you know that The Hunter by Julia Leigh has been translated into nine languages?
Did you know that Wiohstan sold five hides at Up Marden (church pictured) to Bishop Wulfhun to take his family on a journey to Rome?
Did you know that an ice spike is a rare phenomenon in nature but they can be grown in an ice cube tray in a domestic refrigerator using distilled water?
Did you know that in 1898, Frank Hudson, a five-foot, three-inch quarterback from the Laguna Pueblo tribe, became the first Native American to be selected as an All-American football player?
Did you know that one resident of Springfield's East High Street Historic District lived there while governor of Ohio?
Did you know that the 660-megawatt Tracy Thermal Generating Station, a heavy fuel oil-fired power station in Quebec, will be dismantled by the end of 2013?
Did you know that the Assassins' medieval fortress of al-Qadmus was the seat of the Ismaili sect in Syria well into the 19th century during Ottoman rule?
Did you know that the Taku people fish for sockeye salmon at Port Snettisham?
Did you know that the first television role for actor Tommy Lee Jones was as fictional adulterous murderer Dr. Mark Toland on the American soap opera One Life to Live?
Did you know that the medieval royal administrator Henry de Cornhill was responsible for assembling part of the fleet for King Richard I of England's efforts in the Third Crusade?
Did you know that the trumpet tree, a fast-growing tree native to the American tropics, is considered one of the hundred worst invasive alien species in the world?
Did you know that vocalist Mike Patton described the tour schedule to promote Tomahawk's Mit Gas as "a lot of time to be sitting in some stinking-ass club with some guy puking in your purse"?
Did you know that Adam Markovitz for Entertainment Weekly thought that the Maroon 5 song "Lucky Strike" was one of the best on their album Overexposed?
Did you know that Ervin Marton, an internationally known Hungarian photographer based in Paris, was part of the French Resistance during World War II?
Did you know that Frank McCormick won the National League's Most Valuable Player Award in 1940?
Did you know that Huawei unveiled a 6.1-inch phablet smartphone at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show?
Did you know that after the Nazis forced him to sweep the streets of Vienna during the Anschluss, the third Sadigura Rebbe fled to Tel Aviv and swept the streets there instead?
Did you know that although some hooch maids were known to service servicemen during the Vietnam War, they were also described as being "good Catholics who ... would never date an American soldier"?
Did you know that film director Lee Toland Krieger became "hooked" on filmmaking as a teenager when his neighbor, a film producer, brought him to a set?
Did you know that future Hockey Hall of Famer Steamer Maxwell's disdain for professional sport caused him to quit playing in 1915 after learning fellow players were getting paid?
Did you know that in 2013 the Bornean slow loris (Nycticebus menagensis) was split into three additional species: N. kayan, N. bancanus, and N. borneanus?
Did you know that in January 2013 the cybercrime Virut botnet was partially taken down through the actions of the Polish domain registrar, NASK?
Did you know that many of Stefan Batory's captains in the Livonian War had served in Obrona Potoczna ("Current Defense"), which defended Polish-Lithuanian borders from Tatar raids in the sixteenth century?
Did you know that recently deceased Frank Esposito was the longest serving mayor in the history of Norwalk, Connecticut?
Did you know that since being closed in 1973 for desegregation, Washington School in Ossining, New York, has been used as offices and a church?
Did you know that the Penthouse Club of the Streamline Hotel, where NASCAR was founded, is now a gay bar?
Did you know that the Tokatlıyan Hotels are considered one of the first European-style hotels to be built in Turkey?
Did you know that the listed buildings in Great Budworth, Cheshire, include a sundial, stocks, a lychgate, a guidepost, two wellhouses, and a telephone kiosk?
Did you know that when David Milch created the HBO television series, Deadwood, the first book he bought for research was by Black Hills historian Watson Parker?
Did you know that Blaufränkisch is known as Lemberger in Washington but winemakers there are having a difficult time marketing the wine because of consumers associating it with a smelly cheese?
Did you know that Cherokee Indian Mayes McLain held college football's single-season scoring record for more than 60 years and engaged in professional wrestling as the "Masked Manager"?
Did you know that Greece was stripped of the 2013 Mediterranean Games hosting rights due to its financial crisis?
Did you know that Karl Hugo Strunz was the creator of the Nickel-Strunz classification?
Did you know that Knut Schoch appeared as the tenor soloist on many volumes of Pieter Jan Leusink's complete recording of the Bach cantatas with the Holland Boys Choir, including cantatas BWV 1, 2, 3, ... 198?
Did you know that Sheldon Kurland, who contributed to the "Nashville sound" as a session musician and arranger, trained as a classical musician at the Juilliard School?
Did you know that Star Trek: Enterprise actor Anthony Montgomery thought it would be a good idea to feature his character's family, something which occurred in the following season episode "Horizon"?
Did you know that Usmar Ismail's film Enam Djam di Jogja was censored because of its depiction of Dutch soldiers?
Did you know that Wendell Gilliard had the Ku Klux Klan labeled a terrorist group while serving on the city council of Charleston, South Carolina?
Did you know that Yuki Saito's 1985 debut single, Sotsugyō, was used as an image song for a line of instant ramen?
Did you know that on the country album Jan Howard Sings Evil on Your Mind, artist Jan Howard sings "Evil on Your Mind"?
Did you know that stings from Tamoya ohboya, named for the exclamation "oh boy", cause severe pain and skin damage?
Did you know that the 4th-century Brescia Casket has been called "among the most formidable and enduring enigmas in the study of early Christian art"?
Did you know that the Romanesque church St. Peter in Syburg, now a suburb of Dortmund, is surrounded by a graveyard with stones dating back to the ninth century?
Did you know that the first etymological dictionary of the Turkish language was written by Bedros Keresteciyan, an ethnic Armenian?
Did you know that the rare Grevillea shiressii is only found along two tributaries of the Hawkesbury River north of Sydney?
Did you know that the video for The Cure's 1987 single "Why Can't I Be You?" featured Robert Smith dancing in a bear suit?
Did you know that "Kanashimi yo Konnichi wa" was used not only as a theme for the anime series Maison Ikkoku, but also as an image song for Shiseido shampoo?
Did you know that German art designer Erich Kettelhut was tasked with creating a life-size mechanical dragon for Fritz Lang's 1924 movie Die Nibelungen?
Did you know that Hasan ibn Zayd, the founder of the Zaydid emirate of Tabaristan, was succeeded by his brother Muhammad, who lost it to the Samanids?
Did you know that Jasuben Shilpi, the Indian sculpture artist, was known as "The Bronze woman of India"?
Did you know that Michael Winner wanted to greet future visitors to Woodland House as a talking waxwork statue?
Did you know that Percy White was a leading contributor to Britain's first nuclear bomb?
Did you know that brushing your hair can cause fainting or seizures?
Did you know that the Botik of Peter the Great was considered to be the reason Peter the Great built the Russian Navy?
Did you know that the Fifth Siege of Gibraltar came to a sudden end in March 1350 when King Alfonso XI of Castile became the only monarch to die in the Black Death?
Did you know that the Nauru Reed Warbler is found exclusively on the remote Pacific island of Nauru?