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Did you know that the eastern backdrop of the Veerabhadra Temple, Lepakshi features a granite boulder with a carving of a coiled multi-hooded serpent providing shade over a linga?
Did you know that the first white settlers in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, settled near Keyser Creek?
Did you know that the footballer Raphael Rossi Branco's favourite player is fellow Brazilian defender David Luiz?
Did you know that Albert Fish inserted 27 or more needles into his groin?
Did you know that Cornelia Parker has made an embroidered representation (detail pictured) of the Wikipedia article on Magna Carta?
Did you know that New York City's Akeem Dodson was one of only four American-born players in the U.S. national cricket team's squad for its most recent major tournament?
Did you know that Oscar Holderer, an engineer for Nazi Germany who later worked on the Apollo space program, brought America's first rocket wind tunnel from Germany?
Did you know that Teddy Osei, who was born in Ghana, played flute, drums, and saxophone for the Afro-pop band Osibisa, which he helped create?
Did you know that in The Machine Question, David Gunkel argued that the other minds problem implies that a proper understanding of consciousness is impossible?
Did you know that molybdenum ditelluride has potential for use as an infrared detector?
Did you know that some of the most popular nautical fiction works, including those about Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubrey, were based upon the real adventures of the "sea wolf" – Lord Cochrane?
Did you know that the Paul McCartney and Wings song "Band on the Run" was only released as a single at the insistence of Capitol Records promotion man Al Coury?
Did you know that the extinct mantidfly Feroseta prisca has bristle-covered pterostigma?
Did you know that the mezzo-soprano Marga Schiml, an academic voice teacher in Karlsruhe, appeared as a Rhinemaiden and a valkyrie in the Jahrhundertring?
Did you know that Alan Clark, CEO of SABMiller, the world's second largest brewer, used to be a clinical psychologist?
Did you know that Chants for Socialists is an album by Darren Hayman based on the 19th-century protest poetry of William Morris?
Did you know that Clarence Darrow claimed judges would say, when passing a death sentence, "May God have mercy upon your soul", because they felt they didn't have the authority to destroy souls?
Did you know that Kirkton of Bourtie stone circle has the longest recumbent stone of any recumbent stone circle?
Did you know that according to legend, Sorapiss, a mountain in the Dolomites near Cortina d'Ampezzo, is the embodiment of a king?
Did you know that footballer Erik Lima won the best newcomer award at the end of the 2014 Brasileirão season?
Did you know that out of only 25 episodes of the TV series The Next Step Beyond, 14 were remakes from One Step Beyond?
Did you know that the 2001 Pan Celtic Festival was cancelled due to the United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak?
Did you know that the Devil's Feather Bed is near Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 115?
Did you know that the source of Lake Run is in both Henry Lake and Eagle Lake?
Did you know that Abdoulaye Demba was playing football in England's fifth division for Yeovil Town in October 2002, but in January 2004 was playing at the Africa Cup of Nations?
Did you know that European cartographers initially considered the Pacific Ocean to be Ptolemy's Great Gulf?
Did you know that Liam Neeson agreed to say any line that the writers of the Family Guy episode "Fighting Irish" wrote – except one?
Did you know that Limassol District contains one of the Painted Churches in the Troödos Region, a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Did you know that Osorkon IV saved his kingdom with a dozen horses?
Did you know that Scottish judge William Honyman, Lord Armadale, was one of the initiators of the Highland Clearances?
Did you know that University of California political science professor Charles R. Adrian wrote two articles considered seminal works in the study of nonpartisanship?
Did you know that gadgets (rotary evaporator pictured) used by Michelin-starred chef Homaro Cantu include a class IV laser, a centrifuge, and a hand-held ion particle gun?
Did you know that highlights from the history of dromaeosaurid research include a skeleton of Velociraptor preserved in combat with a Protoceratops, the gigantic Utahraptor, and tiny four-winged Microraptor?
Did you know that one can hear parts of Sonic Youth's 1987 album Sister in quiet sections of the band's 1994 album Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, because it was recorded over the same master tapes?
Did you know that writs against Peter Wilmshurst, after he published negative findings from clinical trials, were a catalyst for the UK's libel reform of 2013?
Did you know that Abel Gonzales invented both Fried Coke and deep-fried butter?
Did you know that Andreas Tscherning, author of Deutscher Getichte Frühling (Spring of German Poems), was the first to translate Arabic poetry into German?
Did you know that Elizabeth Handley-Seymour created Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's 1937 Coronation dress and her 1923 wedding dress?
Did you know that Korean nationalist Yun Bong-gil used a bomb to assassinate Japanese officials gathered in Shanghai's Hongkou Park?
Did you know that Lady Katherine Sophia Kane was the first woman to be elected to the Botanical Society of Edinburgh?
Did you know that Synageva, a company with no marketed products and a net loss of US$60 million in the most recent quarter, recently entered into an agreement to be sold for US$8.4 billion?
Did you know that at the 2015 FA Cup Final, a 64-person choir, comprising one fan for each team which reached the third round of competition, sang "Abide with Me" before kick-off?
Did you know that in Keqrops, a composition for piano and orchestra by Iannis Xenakis, melodies are played in cluster lines?
Did you know that kosha mangsho, a type of mutton curry, is traditionally prepared as part of the celebration of Kali Puja?
Did you know that the British billionaire Adam Fleming is the nephew of James Bond novelist Ian Fleming?
Did you know that the RAAF's Fighter and Seaplane Squadrons (Supermarine Southampton pictured) actually belonged to No. 1 Flying Training School, and were "really little more than flights"?
Did you know that until 1918, Fort Kosmač in Montenegro was the southernmost fortress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire?
Did you know that Cameron Park in Waco, Texas, will open a new limestone pavilion this summer?
Did you know that Ernst Pepping composed symphonies, a German mass in 1938, a Latin mass in 1948, and Jesus und Nikodemus?
Did you know that The Big Short is a drama about a crisis?
Did you know that Wickedly Welsh Chocolate held a Willy Wonka-themed "golden ticket" promotion?
Did you know that a set of cards had a police escort?
Did you know that the 1984 All-Big Ten Conference football team included Heisman Trophy winner Keith Byars and national receiving leader David Williams?
Did you know that the Badshahi Mosque functions as both a mosque and an idgah?
Did you know that the organ in the village church of Störmthal was approved by Bach and dedicated with a cantata written for the occasion?
Did you know that the scorpionfly family Eorpidae has a single genus, Eorpa, described in 2013?
Did you know that violinist Carolin Widmann played with her brother when he was composer and artist in residence at the Rheingau Musik Festival?
Did you know that while on tour in Brazil to promote its new album Omen, the band Antestor was attacked by Satanist black metal fans angered by the Christian beliefs of the band members?
Did you know that Daniel Brustlein, known as a cover artist for The New Yorker, received critical praise as a "painter's painter"?
Did you know that Lalitgiri, a major Buddhist complex in India, forms part of the "Diamond Triangle" with nearby sites Ratnagiri and Udayagiri?
Did you know that North Korean leader Kim Il-sung credited his Chinese teacher Shang Yue with introducing him to Chinese classics and Russian literature?
Did you know that erotic sections of two drawings by Joachim Wtewael for his paintings of Mars and Venus Surprised by the Gods (detail pictured) were cut out by later collectors?
Did you know that gay and bisexual boys who adopted more feminine gender roles at a younger age are at higher risk for suicide, sexual abuse, and drug abuse than other gay and bisexual youth?
Did you know that the 2015 Tour of California was won by three seconds and a bike throw?
Did you know that the Archaeological Museum of Lamia exhibits Bronze Age artifacts from the Kynos excavations, including gold ornaments?
Did you know that the Askam Borehole, which was built by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, discharges thousands of gallons of acid mine drainage into Nanticoke Creek every minute?
Did you know that the Steven Universe–Uncle Grandpa crossover was promoted with the release of a mobile game for the former?
Did you know that the wreck found off the coast of Isla San Telmo was established by James P. Delgado as one of the first submarines ever built?
Did you know that Chaetostoma microps, a suckermouth armored catfish species from Ecuador, has been found climbing a cave wall?
Did you know that Cullerlie stone circle in Aberdeenshire has a unique layout, with eight stones surrounding eight small cairns?
Did you know that Leonard's Bakery is known for popularizing the malasada, a Portuguese doughnut, into the cuisine of Hawaii?
Did you know that Lieutenant General Ragnar Garrett initiated the Australian Army's short-lived reorganisation into a "pentropic" structure?
Did you know that Mark Wahlberg is playing real-life hero Mike Williams in the upcoming film Deepwater Horizon?
Did you know that Ture Malmgren created a tomb for himself at the foot of the mountain Fjällsätern, but was buried elsewhere by the local authorities after his death in 1922?
Did you know that highlights from the history of troodontid research include the discovery that troodontids (example pictured) were among the most intelligent dinosaurs?
Did you know that homework helps patients practice the skills they learn in therapy?
Did you know that in Niuean mythology, Fao is one of the five principal gods (tupua) of the island?
Did you know that the Michigan State Spartans, under Big Ten Coach of the Year George Perles, placed seven first-team players on the 1987 All-Big Ten Conference football team?
Did you know that the first newspaper to be printed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, issued by Sopron's Printing House, had "a decidedly Serb orientation", while its owner and editor was an ethnic German?
Did you know that U.S. Brigadier General Palmer E. Pierce was the first president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association?
Did you know that comic book artist Brandon Graham wrote "Jermaine", his first episode for Adventure Time?
Did you know that in 1287 Shin Ditha Pamauk, a Buddhist monk, negotiated with Emperor Kublai Khan for a treaty that ended the Mongol occupation of northern Burma in exchange for annual tribute?
Did you know that in 1943 several airplanes landed on the highway near C. W. E. Jennings' store in Valley Falls, Oregon, and taxied up to the store's gas pump to refuel?
Did you know that in 2010, the Maharashtra government blocked Moneycontrol.com and bseindia.com in its headquarters, Mantralaya?
Did you know that in 2013 the Rönninge Show Chorus achieved the highest-ever score at the Sweet Adelines International competition for women's barbershop?
Did you know that the Seoul slum of Guryong lies across the street from the luxurious Dogok-dong Ward of Gangnam District?
Did you know that the viral Early 35 kDa protein may be useful in gene therapy as a universal inhibitor of programmed cell death?
Did you know that 245 teams entered the 2009–10 FA Women's Cup, which was eventually won by Everton?
Did you know that Adolphe Demange painted the Duchesse d'Uzès working on a huge sculpture of Joan of Arc?
Did you know that George Kuchar's Hold Me While I'm Naked was ranked 52nd in the Village Voice Critics' Poll of the 100 best films of the 20th century?
Did you know that La Promenade shows the influence of the Rococo Revival and the high-key palette of Impressionism?
Did you know that Madhuri Dixit holds the record for the most nominations (14) for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress?
Did you know that Yao Yuan Hao swam in a lake on a cold day for a scene in Big Red Riding Hood, then ran a half marathon in his birthday week?
Did you know that Zainab Sultan Begum, a wife of Mughal emperor Babur, was also his cousin?
Did you know that in South Carolina v. North Carolina, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on issues related to the equitable apportionment of water from the Catawba River?
Did you know that on 16 March 1942 (the day before St Patrick's Day), St Patrick was toasted in the conning tower of U-boat U-753 as they awaited orders from Germany on whether or not to sink the Irish Willow?
Did you know that the National Transportation Safety Board found that a track gauge 5⁄16 of an inch (7.9 mm) too wide caused a garbage train to derail in the Bronx?
Did you know that the only building in its street to survive the London Blitz was demolished by property developers, who have been ordered to rebuild it "brick by brick"?
Did you know that Bach's Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue for keyboard was regarded as "unique" and "second to none" by Bach's first biographer, Johann Nikolaus Forkel?
Did you know that Cillian Sheridan, who currently plays for APOEL in Cyprus, started his professional career with Scottish club Celtic?
Did you know that Dampiera linearis is a suitable plant for hanging baskets?
Did you know that Easter Aquhorthies stone circle is one of the best preserved examples of a recumbent stone circle?
Did you know that Malta's new Parliament House was designed by Renzo Piano?
Did you know that Scott's restaurant in London was the favourite of the James Bond author Ian Fleming?
Did you know that in an 1884 edition of the Railroad Gazette, railroad engineer Horatio Allen reported that he was the operator of the first locomotive run on a railroad in the United States?
Did you know that neither recipient of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize retained his UK parliamentary seat in 2005?
Did you know that oviraptorosaurs were thought to be egg-eaters after the discovery of Oviraptor on a nest of presumed Protoceratops eggs, until the nest was recognized as belonging to Oviraptor itself?
Did you know that the Louisiana Digital Media Archive is the first media collections collaboration between an American state archive and a public broadcaster?
Did you know that the writing system of the Maya civilization was the most sophisticated in Mesoamerica, and was one of the most outstanding accomplishments of the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas?
Did you know that Baron von Münchhausen was furious at the creation of Baron Munchausen?
Did you know that Christian Marclay's Graffiti Composition was written by the people of Berlin?
Did you know that Grace Kelly won the Best Actress Oscar in 1955, then retired from acting the following year at the age of 26?
Did you know that Interstate 94 in Michigan, completed 1960, was the first toll-free interstate highway completed border to border in a U.S. state?
Did you know that Phineas Waller's heirs were surprised by how much they received from his estate?
Did you know that an unusual feature of the Pothundi Dam earth dam is the core wall, which is constructed with a mixture of jaggery and quicklime?
Did you know that at the Battle of Apamea in 998, a lone Kurdish rider killed the Byzantine commander Damian Dalassenos, throwing Damian's initially victorious army into panic and leading to an important Fatimid victory?
Did you know that goat meat pepper soup has been described as the most popular of the Nigerian pepper soups?
Did you know that openwork‍—‌decoration or construction featuring openings or gaps‍—‌may be seen on everything from hand­ker­chiefs to cathedral spires?
Did you know that the propaganda activities of the 16th century papal diplomat Aleksandar Komulović were continued by an even greater supporter of Pan-Slavism, Bartol Kašić?
Did you know that there are about 9.2 million horses in the United States and 4.6 million Americans are involved in the horse business?
Did you know that Audrey Hepburn won the Best Actress Oscar for her first Hollywood role?
Did you know that Indian Cave Creek flows over a 40-foot (12-meter) waterfall to reach White Oak Run?
Did you know that South Bay Salt Works is the second longest-running business in San Diego?
Did you know that Wajxaklajun is unusual among Classic-period highland Maya cities in its use of stelae?
Did you know that Walter "Tiger" Mayberry, a running back inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great", died in a Japanese POW camp on the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea?
Did you know that highlights from the history of coelophysoid research include a bone bed preserving thousands of Coelophysis in New Mexico, the large Gojirasaurus, and the Asian coelophysoid Panguraptor?
Did you know that if it were not for the new points system that was adopted, Kent would have won the 1911 County Championship rather than Warwickshire?
Did you know that soprano Josepha Duschek, who premiered Ah! perfido, advertised it as "an Italian scena written by Beethoven for Mad. Duschek"?
Did you know that the burial shroud of Moldavian Princess consort Maria of Mangup is both the oldest found in a Romanian monastery and "the most beautiful one"?
Did you know that the fungus Penicillium psychrosexualis, described as new to science in 2010, was discovered growing in a crate of moldy apples?
Did you know that Ímar founded a dynasty which provided multiple kings of Dublin, Northumbria and the Isles?
Did you know that Claudico, an artificial intelligence computer program, won a Texas hold 'em poker championship for computers, but it was defeated by a team of humans?
Did you know that Ximena Bedregal was the editor of La Jornada's supplement, Triple Jornada?
Did you know that art around 1600 AD illustrating the proverb Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus freezes may reflect the patronage of Haarlem's brewers?
Did you know that the Great Britain men's and women's national rugby sevens teams cannot select Northern Irish players for the Olympics due to the Irish Rugby Football Union?
Did you know that the songs in Kim Hyung-jun's Japanese single "Long Night" were used as Korean soundtracks before and after the single was released?
Did you know that though Ali Mardan Khan was a successful engineer and administrator his tomb in Lahore is considered a shrine by the locals?
Did you know that Lady Strangford is honoured in Bulgaria for her work following the Batak massacre?
Did you know that Vilhelm Andersen wrote the libretto for Carl Nielsen's opera Maskarade based on a comedy by Ludvig Holberg?
Did you know that grasshoppers lay their eggs in pods in the ground?
Did you know that the 16th-century Ragusan merchant, Jesuit, and linguist Marin Temperica believed that the purest and most beautiful version of the Serbian language was spoken in Bosnia?
Did you know that the Kamran ki Baradari, built by Kamran Mirza, was the first Mughal structure in Lahore, Pakistan?
Did you know that the bridge near P Street was built so that motorists would not have to use the P Street Bridge?
Did you know that the hypothesis that the pachycephalosaurian dinosaurs used their domed skulls in head-butting competitions was first proposed in a work of science fiction?
Did you know that the musical Groundhog Day reunites the creative team behind Matilda the Musical?
Did you know that the upcoming film How to Be Single is based on Liz Tuccillo's debut novel of the same name?
Did you know that Arizona Territorial Delegate Ralph H. Cameron held a contract to operate a toll road inside the Grand Canyon?
Did you know that Network Rail temporarily banned the West Coast Railway Company from Britain's rails following a SPAD?
Did you know that Rogen Nature Reserve contains Sweden's entire population of wild muskoxen?
Did you know that Valdemar Tofte, who studied with Joseph Joachim, instructed hundreds of violinists at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, including Carl Nielsen?
Did you know that chips and dip gained significant popularity in the United States circa 1954, in part due to an advertising campaign that promoted using Lipton dehydrated onion soup mix to prepare dip?
Did you know that paraplegic woman writer Zhang Haidi has been hailed as China's Helen Keller?
Did you know that the American Society for Virology, the first independent scientific society specifically for virologists, was founded only 34 years ago?
Did you know that the President of India, Giani Zail Singh, attended the centennial celebration of the Knesset Eliyahoo synagogue in Mumbai in 1985, and India Post issued a commemorative stamp?
Did you know that Chicken in the Rough, established in 1936, was one of the first restaurant chain franchises in the United States?
Did you know that Leó Szilárd teamed up with Albert Einstein to build a refrigerator?
Did you know that Patrick Doyle received his first Academy Award and BAFTA nominations for composing the musical score to Sense and Sensibility, written by and starring his friend Emma Thompson?
Did you know that gold coral has one of the longest lifespans of any organism on Earth?
Did you know that in 2012, the gates of the Pazhassi Dam failed to open and caused a flood?
Did you know that in the first of the two Battles of Ramadi in 1917, the temperatures‍—‌as high as 71 °C (160 °F) in the sun‍—‌caused more British casualties than did enemy fire?
Did you know that the 1971 play Stallerhof features an old farmer masturbating?
Did you know that the anatomical term "mesentery" is derived from the Greek mesos, meaning "in the middle", and enteron, "intestine"?
Did you know that the neo-classical Arabic poet Badawi al-Jabal led parties of rebels in night-time raids against French military checkpoints during the Great Syrian Revolt?
Did you know that the star R Sagittae has 90% of the mass and 10,000 times the luminosity of the Sun?
Did you know that Don Revie changed the playing strip of Leeds United from blue and yellow to all-white, to mimic Real Madrid?
Did you know that from June to August 1944, Albert Ouzoulias coordinated the Francs-Tireurs Partisans' military action in the Paris region?
Did you know that the Ayyubid sultan Saladin attempted, but failed, to capture the fortress of Masyaf, which served as the headquarters of the Assassins in Syria?
Did you know that the film Dimension 5 featured many cast members who had appeared, or would appear, on Star Trek, including three who appeared on the pilot episode "The Cage"?
Did you know that Beat the Brain has been berated for graphics that look like they were "designed on one of Alan Sugar's old Amstrads"?
Did you know that John Weaver was elected mayor of Philadelphia with the support of the city's political machine, but later sided with reformers against it?
Did you know that Mary Jane Veloso was granted a last-minute stay of execution to provide evidence against her alleged trafficker?
Did you know that Millicent Sowerby, known for her children's book illustrations (Alice in Wonderland, pictured), illustrated several books by her sister, the playwright Githa Sowerby?
Did you know that Priyanka Chopra won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress for portraying a femme fatale who murders her seven husbands in 7 Khoon Maaf?
Did you know that a high-definition remastered version of 2002's Resident Evil became Capcom's fastest-selling digital game ever, across both North America and Europe?
Did you know that a wasp, a fly and a roundworm are being used to control southern, tawny and shortwinged mole crickets in Florida?
Did you know that in June 1910, the Royal Hotel, Cardiff hosted a fundraising banquet for Captain Robert Falcon Scott two days before his ship departed for Antarctica?
Did you know that over the course of the history of stegosaur research, their iconic back plates have been thought to function as armor plating, to regulate body temperature, or to attract mates?