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Did you know that St. Joseph's Church in Semarang, Indonesia, is the oldest Catholic church in the city?
Did you know that a river in Honduras swelled 15 meters (50 feet) above its normal level during torrential rains from a hurricane in 1935?
Did you know that according to hip-hop artist Hopsin, his album Knock Madness was inspired by dissatisfaction with life and a need to "find" himself?
Did you know that although the New York Giants signed Walt Nielsen in 1939, he spent that season with the minor-league Jersey City Giants, reportedly because of his hay fever?
Did you know that in 1991 the lone Communist Party of India (Marxist) member in the Orissa Legislative Assembly, Radhakanta Sethy, left the party?
Did you know that the Manche Ch'ol, a Maya people encountered by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés in 1525, were nearly extinct by 1770?
Did you know that the butter boletes, such as B. appendiculatus, are so named for their butter-yellow stalks and pores?
Did you know that the white-throated robin-chat is sometimes parasitised by the red-chested cuckoo?
Did you know that 19th-century baseball player Count Campau could reportedly run the bases in 14 seconds, and once converted an infield popup into a home run?
Did you know that Frozen is currently the highest-grossing animated film of all time, and the fifth highest-grossing film?
Did you know that Intermediate School 318's chess team was the first from a middle school to win the US high school championship, despite 87% of its members coming from families below the poverty line?
Did you know that Lady Harriet Cavendish's marriage to Granville Leveson-Gower was arranged by her aunt, who had been his lover for seventeen years?
Did you know that Swedish engineer Rudolf Fredrik Berg's brother was King Oscar II's medical doctor and had to attend at the king's deathbed, preventing him from visiting Rudolf who died on the same day?
Did you know that on June 13 the Tsavo Trust reported that Satao, one of the world's largest African elephants, was killed in Tsavo East National Park (elephants pictured) by a poacher's poisoned arrow?
Did you know that the South African concert pianist Adolph Hallis made the first complete recording of Debussy's Préludes, and wrote film scores for Alfred Hitchcock?
Did you know that the blue band on the flag of Sierra Leone represents the "natural harbour" of Freetown, the country's capital city?
Did you know that the courthouse on the public square in Shelbyville, Tennessee, is the successor to earlier courthouses that were destroyed by tornado, wartime misadventure, and a lynch mob?
Did you know that Boniface of Verona, once a poor knight who sold his own castle to equip himself, became one of the richest lords of Frankish Greece?
Did you know that British airman Tom Rees was killed in the first official victory credited to German flying ace the Red Baron?
Did you know that Buck's Fizz was invented at Buck's Club in London's Clifford Street?
Did you know that Canadian politician Percy Klaehn was the high school coach of Ethel Catherwood, who won a gold medal in high jump at the 1928 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Charles Dickens' son was sent to Momba Station in Australia before his 16th birthday?
Did you know that Mahaganapati is a depiction of the Supreme Being?
Did you know that Mekayla Diehl forgave the attacker who molested her as a child, and was the first woman of Native American descent to win Miss Indiana USA?
Did you know that after ordering the bombardment of Fort Sumter which started the American Civil War, General P. T. Beauregard watched the attack from the Edmondston-Alston House?
Did you know that at the time, King William IV's public mourning of his son-in-law, the husband of his illegitimate daughter Lady Augusta FitzClarence, was considered scandalous?
Did you know that super-yacht builder Jonathan Quinn Barnett also made model Klingon ships for Star Trek IV and renovated the Rubicon Estate Winery mansion for Francis Ford Coppola?
Did you know that the 1967 song "Days of Pearly Spencer" features a "strange 'phoned-in' chorus"?
Did you know that the Frankish Tower on the Acropolis of Athens, part of the palace of the Frankish Dukes of Athens, was demolished in 1874 in what has been called "an act of vandalism"?
Did you know that the plot of the 1901 film Kansas Saloon Smashers was based on an editorial cartoon?
Did you know that American band Paramore's "Ain't It Fun" became their first song to reach the top 10 of the US Billboard Hot 100?
Did you know that Florence Stoney was the UK's first female radiologist and one of the first women doctors hired by the War Office in World War I?
Did you know that Ivy Parker was the first woman to receive a PhD in chemistry from the University of Texas?
Did you know that Richard Strauss reportedly composed "Traum durch die Dämmerung" ("Dream in the Twilight"), from a love poem by Otto Julius Bierbaum, in 20 minutes?
Did you know that San Diego's civic celebration Fiesta del Pacifico featured a theatrical production billed as "the biggest non-movie spectacle ever produced anywhere"?
Did you know that The Saturday Evening Post claimed that efforts to extinguish the Carbondale mine fire would move more earth than the construction of the Panama Canal?
Did you know that a special Detroit commuter train transported the CBS production crew from the Renaissance Center to Super Bowl XVI at the Pontiac Silverdome?
Did you know that art dealer Grace Nicholson designed the building that now houses the USC Pacific Asia Museum?
Did you know that first the death, then resurrection, of foxhunting celebrity Charles Loraine Smith were imagined in lighthearted verse while he was still very much alive?
Did you know that in 2013 Malek Fahd Islamic School was the largest Islamic school in Australia?
Did you know that one of Hrithik Roshan's first acting roles was as the adopted son of Rajinikanth's character in the 1986 film Bhagwaan Dada?
Did you know that the Hindu elephant-headed god Ganesha may be depicted as a crawling infant eating sweets?
Did you know that the Indian communist politician L.B.G. Rao led guerrilla squads during the Telangana armed struggle?
Did you know that the Left and Secular Alliance and BJP opposed each other in the 2014 Indian general election, but later sent a joint delegation to lodge a complaint with the Election Commission?
Did you know that the Top 10 New Species of the past year include a 40 foot (12 m) tall tree, a crustacean that looks like a skeleton, a protist that acts like a sponge, and a fungus named after the King of the Netherlands?
Did you know that the University of Tübingen has a giant stone vagina that weighs 32 tons?
Did you know that the fungus toxin aspergillomarasmine A is capable of inhibiting an antibiotic-resistance enzyme produced by superbugs?
Did you know that thirteen different political parties are represented in the 5th Democratic Parliament of South Africa?
Did you know that Dr. Naim Dangoor lost everything when he left Ba'athist Iraq, then built another fortune in the UK, helped endow 4,000 student bursaries and donated over £1 million to Cancer Research UK?
Did you know that Gryta Church preserves paintings attributed to a student of Albertus Pictor?
Did you know that Keith Martin developed a technique for printing eye cells?
Did you know that London's Denmark Street, home to several music shops, is thought to have been named after Prince George of Denmark?
Did you know that VetUK, which has annual revenues of more than £10 million as of 2010, initially operated out of the living room of co-founder Iain Booth?
Did you know that a crossroad near Gujarat University, where Gujarati author Bholabhai Patel taught, is named after him?
Did you know that although deaconess Margaret Rodgers could not be ordained as a priest because of her gender, she was cited as "one of the most powerful people in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney"?
Did you know that construction of the Riverview Theater marked the beginning of a "theater-building orgy" in Minneapolis?
Did you know that in 1966, parliamentarian Rungsung Suisa proposed confederation as a solution to the Indo–Naga conflict?
Did you know that in North America the red sauce for prawn cocktail includes ketchup and horseradish?
Did you know that more than thirty bird species inhabit the vicinity of Pennsylvania's Little Shickshinny Creek, including ten kinds of warbler?
Did you know that the Chinese surnames Ji, Ji, and Ji are pronounced differently in Cantonese?
Did you know that the action video game The Legend of Korra is intended to be visually indistinguishable from the animated TV series on which it is based?
Did you know that the antebellum bestseller Cotton Plantation Record and Account Book taught plantation owners how to use modern cost accounting principles to measure the productivity of their slaves?
Did you know that when the British Slavery Abolition Act 1833 compensated slave-owners, the largest single payment went to Tory Member of Parliament James Blair for his 1,598 slaves in British Guiana?
Did you know that Carrie Underwood's 2012 single "Two Black Cadillacs" was certified Platinum by the RIAA, signifying US sales of at least 1 million units?
Did you know that Colombian-American Orange Is the New Black actress Diane Guerrero's parents and older brother were deported to Colombia when she was 14 years old?
Did you know that Herbert Sears' father ran a fish and chip shop in Saskatoon and Herbert himself worked at a bakery before becoming the city's mayor?
Did you know that Juozas Gabrys worked to liberate Lithuania, but became "virtually an unperson" in that country?
Did you know that Louis John Gill was the original architect of the San Diego Zoo?
Did you know that Millennium's composer Mark Snow praised the use of operatic music in the episode "Roosters"?
Did you know that Philadelphia Phillies catcher Carlos Ruiz earned the nickname "Señor Octubre" for his strong postseason performances?
Did you know that Sir Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake, twelve-time mayor of Maidstone, England, kept lions, tigers and elephants on his estate?
Did you know that composer Heinrich Schütz published Psalmen Davids, including polychoral settings for many of the included psalms, on his wedding day?
Did you know that in 1944 Romanian pathologist Francisc Rainer correctly diagnosed himself with lung cancer, predicted the time of his death, and left instructions for his own embalming?
Did you know that seafarers have used the tower of Sweden's Rone Church as a navigational aid since the Middle Ages?
Did you know that American chemist Barbara Askins invented an imaging method that dramatically decreased X-ray doses for routine medical tests?
Did you know that Andrew Hay was killed defending the Church of St Etienne during the final engagement of the Peninsular War?
Did you know that North Fork Tangascootack Creek in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, has a thriving trout population and macroinvertebrate system?
Did you know that Pat McDonagh designed costumes for The Beatles, leather catsuits for Diana Rigg as Emma Peel in The Avengers, and the "Mrs Obama coat"?
Did you know that The Lost Boys invented a finisher that had one man "hoisting their victim onto his shoulders" and the other "executing a moonsault that sends the opponent crashing to the mat"?
Did you know that an account in the Illuminated Chronicle holds that King Coloman of Hungary ordered the castration of his nephew, the future Béla II, but the soldier assigned the task brought him dog testicles instead?
Did you know that in 1921, Maulana Hasrat Mohani and Swami Kumaranand tabled the first motion to call for full Independence in the All India Congress Committee?
Did you know that in his first season playing Major League Baseball, Detroit Wolverines pitcher George Derby pitched 55 complete games, won 29 games, and led the National League in strikeouts?
Did you know that the 2013 short film Right There is a homage to comedies of the silent film-era?
Did you know that the fire bell for Forest Grove Fire and Rescue, Oregon, used to be kept at the Old College Hall on the campus of the local college?
Did you know that the movements of some Manistee Watch Company pocket watches (example pictured) had 17 jewels of heliotrope garnet, and were the first in the United States to use non-magnetic hairsprings?
Did you know that A New View by philomath Edward Hatton is a guide to the streets, churches, and life of London after the Great Fire of 1666, even detailing the lawyers' robes and workhouse rations of the time?
Did you know that Colonel Alexander Mackay was appointed commander of British forces in Boston, Massachusetts, in summer 1768, but did not arrive until April 1769 and stayed for just five months?
Did you know that Lee Harvey Oswald, the sniper who assassinated John F. Kennedy, proposed to Ella German while living in the Soviet Union?
Did you know that Raspberry Island on the Mississippi River is the last true island in Saint Paul, Minnesota?
Did you know that Stephen II of Hungary invaded Dalmatia while the Venetians were on a naval expedition, only to lose the territory when they returned?
Did you know that Yank Robinson, who set a major league record for single-season walks, died of tuberculosis at 34?
Did you know that a reviewer wrote that tenor Georg Poplutz's performance of Schubert's Winterreise created a "cosmos of emotions"?
Did you know that a transgender human clone is introduced as a new character in the Orphan Black episode "Variable and Full of Perturbation"?
Did you know that although once celebrated, a renovation completed in 1914 of medieval Dalhem Church has been called a "harsh and loose reconstruction of the Middle Ages"?
Did you know that at the end of World War II, the Soviet Union forced Finland to return 55,000 Finnic evacuees from Ingria, only to deport them to interior areas of central Russia?
Did you know that in 1903, Charles Whitman Cross and three other geologists created a method of analyzing rocks known as the CIPW norm, elements of which are still in use today?
Did you know that in the trials following the rapes during the Sierra Leone Civil War, forced marriage was found to be a crime against humanity?
Did you know that the 2013 Stadium Super Trucks season's race at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was on the first asphalt track laid at the stadium?
Did you know that the ten existing Philippine Basketball Association teams can "protect" twelve players in their roster in the upcoming 2014 PBA Expansion Draft?
Did you know that when Dascha Polanco was cast on Orange Is the New Black, it was her first full-time job as an actress?
Did you know that Armand Point's poster for the fifth Salon de la Rose + Croix featured Perseus holding the severed head of Emile Zola?
Did you know that Charles Gauthier's sculpture of the suicide of Cleopatra was thought to be by Albert Darcq until it was cleaned?
Did you know that Jayanta is said to have pecked the goddess Sita's breast as a crow?
Did you know that Taylor Dugas set new Alabama Crimson Tide baseball career records for hits, singles, doubles, and triples?
Did you know that a 1951 cyclone made landfall in Hawaii three times?
Did you know that drive-through banking stands operated in the 1960s outside Ympyrätalo in Helsinki, Finland?
Did you know that in recognition of his service to Belgian relief during the First World War, the former mayor of Victoria, British Columbia, John L. Beckwith, was decorated by the Belgian king?
Did you know that in the 1964 Tamil film Bommai, a doll played the central character?
Did you know that the Polish resistance stole over a million US dollars in młynarki, a currency named after Polish economist Feliks Młynarski?
Did you know that the puffball Calbovista subsculpta can be distinguished from the similar pyramid puffball by the antler-like branching of its capillitia?
Did you know that video game journalist Ian Bogost described gameplay in the puzzle game Hundreds (screenshot pictured) as a "multi-touch ballet"?
Did you know that Bright Blue Bird, In A Grey Red Sky, composed by Mansoor Hosseini for violin and orchestra based on a Persian legend, premiered at the Allerheiligen-Hofkirche?
Did you know that Maud Wagner was the first known female tattoo artist in the United States?
Did you know that a Pro Wrestling Illustrated writer called "Beef Stew" his "least favorite nickname" in professional wrestling?
Did you know that the 58-year-old Berlin club Knaack, named after a German communist, was gentrified out of its formerly punk/bohemian neighborhood?
Did you know that the rood screen in St John the Evangelist's Church, Kirkham, designed by Augustus Pugin in the 1840s, was moved and altered in the 1890s by the parish priest?
Did you know that the silvery grebe visits saline lakes in Patagonia where it is often found in the company of flamingoes?
Did you know that the video for Lady Gaga's "G.U.Y." was shot at Hearst Castle?
Did you know that "Chicken Fat", an exercise song used in an Apple Inc. commercial for its new iOS 8, was originally composed for John F. Kennedy's President's Council on Physical Fitness campaign?
Did you know that Family Affairs actress Rebecca Blake disposed of some of her character's outfits because she thought they made her look dowdy?
Did you know that Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play retells an episode of The Simpsons that parodies a movie which is a remake of another movie which is based on a book?
Did you know that Rock on Top of Another Rock is a rock on top of another rock?
Did you know that a long-ago occupant of Brooksby Hall was the ancestor of sixteen British Prime Ministers, including Anthony Eden, Winston Churchill and David Cameron?
Did you know that at her house in London's New Burlington Street, Mary Boyle, Countess of Cork, held "pink" parties and "blue" parties?
Did you know that during the Yugoslav Wars, Dutch journalist Robert Dulmers walked around Osijek in a tuxedo and slept among the pickles in the basement of a clergy house?
Did you know that in producing the Tintin comic King Ottokar's Sceptre, Hergé was influenced by the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938?
Did you know that in the Sita Puranamu, Sarama is admonished as the woman who turned her husband Vibhishana against his brother Ravana?
Did you know that the Beverly Hills 9/11 Memorial Garden is centered around a 30-foot bent steel beam from the wreckage of the World Trade Center?
Did you know that the Hawaiian chief Kamanawa poisoned his wife Kamokuiki and was convicted and executed under the criminal laws of Hawaii's first constitution?
Did you know that the dining-out meal dubbed Britain's favourite of the 1980s included a dessert of Black Forest gâteau?
Did you know that when he came aboard in 1936, Dick Joy, aged 21, was the youngest staff announcer in CBS Radio history?
Did you know that would-be assassin Bogdan Žerajić was mentioned in a song written by Gavrilo Princip?
Did you know that Commander Alex Stuart-Menteth read his own obituary in the newspaper?
Did you know that Ontario politician Harinder Malhi is the daughter of Canadian politician Gurbax Singh Malhi?
Did you know that a crown was added to the flag of Liechtenstein after it was discovered at the 1936 Summer Olympics that its prior flag was identical to the flag of Haiti?
Did you know that author and science journalist Faye Flam has also published in Parade under the name Higgs the Science Cat?
Did you know that bee expert Dave Goulson jokingly blames the extinction of the British short-haired bumblebee on Adolf Hitler?
Did you know that in 1889 Cleveland Spiders baseball player Larry Twitchell hit for the cycle, hitting a single, a double, three triples, and a home run in six at bats?
Did you know that it is thought that South African activist Nokutela Dube lost her marriage and her place in history because she could not have children?
Did you know that on the music chart week ending November 30, 2013, Wrapped in Red was the only non-Universal Music Group release to chart inside the Billboard 200's top ten?
Did you know that the Angevins are considered by many historians to be the distinct Royal House that provided the English monarchs Henry II, Richard I and King John?
Did you know that the Corfu Channel Case resulted in an £843,947 International Court of Justice award to the United Kingdom in 1949, which was settled in 1996 along with an Albanian claim to 2339 kg (5156 lb) of Nazi gold?
Did you know that Australian actress Zoe Tuckwell-Smith made her major television acting debut playing Bec Gilbert in Winners & Losers?
Did you know that Charles Gauthier's statue of Sergent Blandan in Nancy contains Blandan's ashes in its base?
Did you know that Damien Miller is the first Indigenous Australian to be an Australian ambassador?
Did you know that Frederic Bonney took photographs of the Paarkantji people, whom he respected for their loyalty and integrity?
Did you know that Governor Mataio Kekūanāoʻa appointed two Lahainaluna Seminary graduates, including John Kalili, as circuit judges of Oʻahu in 1848?
Did you know that Simone Kues was a member of the team that won the silver medal at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto?
Did you know that although the Kampoeng Rawa tourist attraction (dock pictured) was meant to raise awareness of the ecology of Lake Rawa Pening, it has been criticised for potentially damaging the ecosystem?
Did you know that in over two decades as Tristan da Cunha's only police officer, Conrad Glass has never had to put anyone in a holding cell?
Did you know that the Skogssame people had intricate ceremonies related to bears?
Did you know that the economy of Revò is highly dependent on the Golden Delicious?
Did you know that the heavy cruiser Dorsetshire took part in the Bismarck's last battle in May 1941?
Did you know that the music video for Enrique Iglesias' "Héroe" earned a Lo Nuestro Award for Video of the Year and was nominated for four MTV Video Music Awards in 2002?
Did you know that the music video for Kylie Minogue's 2004 single "Chocolate" features a 40-second ballet routine which took the singer four days to rehearse?
Did you know that there is an annual jogging event in Stockholm in which participants run in black suits, imitating bodyguards from the Swedish Security Service?
Did you know that "No Kohl without Bohl" was used to describe the close working relationship between Friedrich Bohl, former head of the German Chancellery, and Chancellor Helmut Kohl?
Did you know that American circus pioneer Hachaliah Bailey likened the 22-by-32 foot (7-by-10 m) West Somers Methodist Episcopal Church in Somers, New York, to a tiger's cage?
Did you know that Jan O. Jansson has the nickname "Nude-Janne" because he walked around nude in most episodes of the two seasons he participated in The Farm?
Did you know that Jaratkaru insisted on marrying a virgin with his own name?
Did you know that Tomáš Rosický won his first trophy in English football in 2014, eight years after joining Arsenal?
Did you know that a bridge between India and Sri Lanka is said to have been built by a monkey?
Did you know that among sugar candies, translucent, rock-hard boiled sweets such as lollipops are not considered crystalline candies?
Did you know that in 1912 Henry Wilson-Fox, manager of the British South Africa Company, suggested that submarines could avoid collisions by imitating whales?
Did you know that the Brazil-nut poison frog sometimes places its tadpoles in water-filled capsules that have fallen from the  Brazil nut tree?
Did you know that the early animated film Katsudō Shashin (frame pictured) lasts just three seconds?
Did you know that Amy Allison's debut album The Maudlin Years was included on Elvis Costello's list of "500 Essential Albums" in Vanity Fair?
Did you know that Cyclone Bobby broke numerous February rainfall records in parts of Western Australia's Goldfields-Esperance region?
Did you know that Jonah Kapena, a graduate of Lahainaluna, represented the Kuhina Nui Kīnaʻu in the drafting of the first constitution of Hawaii in 1840?
Did you know that Kentrosaurus (fossil K. aethiopicus pictured) had extensive osteodermal covering, forming very elongated spikes?
Did you know that Panamanian rapper Flex's "Te Quiero" won the Latin Grammy and the Lo Nuestro for Urban Song of the Year?