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Did you know that independent South African online newspaper Daily Maverick was influenced by defunct South African business magazine Maverick and American news websites The Daily Beast and The Huffington Post?
Did you know that the Indian Navy's anti-submarine warfare corvette INS Kiltan is named after Kiltan, a coral island of India's Union Territory of Lakshadweep?
Did you know that the Second Street Bridge in Allegan, Michigan, was rehabilitated by rolling it ashore and disassembling it?
Did you know that the Tswana ruler and rainmaker Sechele I, denounced for polygamy by David Livingstone, was one of the most successful Christian missionaries of the 19th century?
Did you know that the novel Passing by Nella Larsen, with its focus on "jealousy, psychological ambiguity and intrigue" has been described as a "skillfully executed and enduring work of art"?
Did you know that the wildlife of Libya includes the Mediterranean monk seal, which is listed as Critically Endangered?
Did you know that Josh Rutledge was named the California League's player of the week twice in his second professional baseball season?
Did you know that Latvian-American mathematician Lipman Bers was also a human rights activist and a founder of the Committee on Human Rights of the National Academy of Sciences?
Did you know that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom was the first unified musical setting of the Divine Liturgy?
Did you know that Vito Alessio Robles  was one of the first romantic revolutionaries of Mexico?
Did you know that actors in Norway went on strike in 1941 after work permits for six actors, including Elisabeth Gording and Lillemor von Hanno, were revoked for refusal to perform on Nazi-controlled radio?
Did you know that although the medieval Lord Chancellor Ralph de Warneville was a friend of Arnulf of Lisieux, Ralph helped to force Arnulf's resignation as Bishop of Lisieux?
Did you know that it is hoped that Arsenal's game against Indonesia, to be played as a warm up match for Arsenal's 2013–14 season, will help ease an internal dispute between the PSSI and KPSI?
Did you know that removal of "doggers" has caused much of Warren Hill to slip away?
Did you know that the Citra Award for Best Director, established in 1955, once went to Teguh Karya of November 1828?
Did you know that the appearance of the British Invincible-class battlecruisers in 1908 rendered the Japanese Ibuki-class armored cruisers obsolete before they were commissioned?
Did you know that the horse genome contains 2.7 billion DNA base pairs, and horses have over 90 hereditary diseases similar to those found in humans?
Did you know that the last Polish red złoty were the so-called "insurgent ducats" minted at the Warsaw mint in 1831, on the eve of the November Uprising?
Did you know that the national colours of Greece were specified in the Greek Constitution of 1822, drafted during the Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire?
Did you know that the only sides that have beaten England in women's Test cricket are Australia and India?
Did you know that the pink and black sea cucumber is eaten as "bêche-de-mer" in China and Indonesia?
Did you know that the west portal and the main windows in the Church of St Christopher, Norris Green, Liverpool, are hyperbolic in shape?
Did you know that American, Belgian and British soldiers attended the funeral of Walter Waddington, along with an entire French cavalry brigade?
Did you know that Dmitry Bortniansky was the most prolific composer of choral concertos, short compositions for unaccompanied voices to be sung in the Divine Liturgy?
Did you know that Elizabeth, queen of Henry VII of England, bought a belt that had touched the Girdle of Thomas (legend illustrated) to help her pregnancy?
Did you know that Felix Robertson, the first white child born in what is today Nashville, Tennessee, would later serve twice as the city's mayor?
Did you know that Glenn Curtiss became "the fastest man alive" for going faster than anything on land, sea or air on a motorcycle with an aircraft V-8 engine, setting an unofficial record that stood for 30 years?
Did you know that Patrick Keogh was recruited into the 1888–1889 New Zealand Native football team despite being born in Birmingham, England?
Did you know that Polish postmodernism met with severe impediments not so much from the communist establishment as from Solidarity and the Catholic Church?
Did you know that Wolf Creek, which originates on Banner Mountain, has a heavily mined watershed?
Did you know that ex-slave Mary Fields was forced to leave St. Peter's Mission Church and Cemetery (pictured in 1884) by the bishop?
Did you know that the Hundertwasser Toilets are the most photographed toilets in New Zealand?
Did you know that the Indio Comahue Monument, commemorating the native inhabitants of the Comahue region of Argentina, was built in 1964 for the first National Comahue Fair?
Did you know that the Loire wine grape Pineau d'Aunis was a favorite of King Henry III of England?
Did you know that the Minotaur-class cruisers of 1906 have been described by naval historian R. A. Burt as "cruiser editions of the Lord Nelson-class battleship"?
Did you know that the Syrian village of Marj al-Sultan, near Damascus, served as a major transit point for Circassian migrants heading south to the Golan Heights and Transjordan?
Did you know that the octagonal tower of St Luke's Church, Hodnet, is the only tower of its type in Shropshire?
Did you know that the statues of Castor and Pollux (detail pictured) at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, were created by Max von Widnmann, who studied and taught there?
Did you know that Al Green said that recording his song "Love and Happiness" was "like mixing explosive chemicals – everything had to be added at just the right time and at just the right dose"?
Did you know that Bangui (picture of a boat race in the river) was once considered to have "the most remote radio station in Africa"?
Did you know that Berkeley law dean Frank C. Newman, whose work on international human rights law was prompted by a sabbatical year in Geneva, Switzerland, was appointed to the Supreme Court of California in 1977?
Did you know that Everett Hughes was General Dwight D. Eisenhower's "right-hand man" during the European campaign of World War II?
Did you know that Junior Aaron Craft was the Academic All-America Team Member of the Year on the 2013 NCAA Men's Basketball All-American team?
Did you know that King Stephen of England threatened to hang Roger le Poer, his ex-Lord Chancellor, in order to force Roger's mother to surrender the castle she held?
Did you know that NIRDESH in Kozhikode district of Kerala is India's first centre for research and development in defence shipbuilding?
Did you know that T. W. Wood told Darwin that the Argus pheasant he was illustrating for him could not be explained by Darwin's theory?
Did you know that William J. Powell founded a flying club in honor of Bessie Coleman and in 1931 hosted the first ever all-Black air show in the United States?
Did you know that Wounds of Armenia, the first Armenian novel, was published 10 years after the disappearance of its author Khachatur Abovian?
Did you know that during the Manhattan Project, physicist Robert Bacher served on the Cowpuncher Committee?
Did you know that the 1664 bridge on Getar River was one of the few buildings that survived the 1679 earthquake?
Did you know that the London scrivener, Thomas Brend, was the owner of the land on which the Globe Theatre was built?
Did you know that the Mars Cheese Castle, a Wisconsin "cheese landmark", was visited by U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden while he campaigned for the 2012 presidential election?
Did you know that the Nettleton Mill in Wiltshire, an 18th-century Grade II Listed building, is now a country retreat?
Did you know that the ironclad HMS Resistance was the first capital ship in the Royal Navy to be fitted with a ram and was given the nickname of Old Rammo?
Did you know that the west front of the Church of St Dunstan, Liverpool, has been described as "impressive if rather curious"?
Did you know that "Change" was considered a contender for the UK Singles Chart Christmas number one, but only managed to reach number 13?
Did you know that Elizabeth Bacon has been identified as the Lady Nevell of My Ladye Nevells Booke, a manuscript of keyboard music by William Byrd?
Did you know that Frédéric Chopin and Napoleon III were both in love with Maria Wodzińska?
Did you know that José Maria Larocca spent reported millions on the horse Okidoki for the 2012 Summer Olympics, but the horse died two years before the event?
Did you know that Mound 72 at Cahokia in pre-Columbian western Illinois was the site of ritual human sacrifice, including a pit burial containing 53 young women?
Did you know that Towson University men's basketball player Jerrelle Benimon was not even selected to the 2012–13 preseason all-conference team, yet went on to become its player of the year?
Did you know that a Kabbalistic decoding of the Book of Genesis by Charles George Gordon suggested Vallée de Mai in Seychelles is the Garden of Eden?
Did you know that according to Thomas Jefferson, U.S. House Representative Alexander White reluctantly supported the Funding Act of 1790 bill "with a revulsion of stomach almost convulsive"?
Did you know that the BIL gates technology recently entered into the public domain?
Did you know that the Better Farming Train promoted the latest agricultural research in Saskatchewan, Canada between 1914 and 1922?
Did you know that throughout the 400-year history of Combermere Abbey, various of its abbots and priors were excommunicated, assaulted, murdered, and accused of forgery and covering up murder?
Did you know that Piddles Wood in Dorset was once home to the Pearl-bordered Fritillary (Boloria euphrosyne), now believed to be extinct in Dorset?
Did you know that after NBC shuffled its 2012–13 television schedule, Ready for Love was given a two-hour timeslot following The Voice, starting April 9?
Did you know that an American football injury almost ended Ryan Pressly's baseball career?
Did you know that cartoonist Winsor McCay created comic strips and animation about explosive sneezes and exploding mosquitoes, the dreams of children and of adults, a dancing dinosaur, and the World War I torpedoing of the RMS Lusitania?
Did you know that conservation areas in Crawley, West Sussex, include some 1930s almshouses, 1950s flats and two 1970s housing estates?
Did you know that human sacrifice among the pre-Columbian Maya was performed in a number of ways, including decapitation, heart extraction, shooting with bow and arrows and disembowelment?
Did you know that mountain rockets are found in alpine and subalpine parts of Tasmania?
Did you know that reporter Merrill Mueller was removed from the European Theatre during World War II because he reported that the Soviets weren't communicating with Supreme Commander Eisenhower during the Battle of the Bulge?
Did you know that the 1933 film Eskimo (poster pictured) was the first movie with sound in a Native American language?
Did you know that the Monbar Hotel attack was the deadliest carried out by the GAL, a death squad established by officials of the Spanish state?
Did you know that the NYU Violets men's basketball team, twice national champions before the creation of the NCAA tournament, had to be disbanded in 1971 due to a budget crisis?
Did you know that the Norwegian pretender Sigurd Slembe was brutally tortured, mutilated and executed following his capture in the Battle of Holmengrå?
Did you know that the honeysuckle tunicate often grows intertwined with the bryozoan Amathia vidovici?
Did you know that the intro to "Already There", a song by Christian rock band Casting Crowns, was compared to U2's "Beautiful Day"?
Did you know that while boarding the frigate Créole, Toussaint Louverture issued his famous statement that "the tree of liberty will spring up again from the roots, for they are many and they are deep"?
Did you know that winemakers used to add urea to grape must as a nitrogen source for wine yeast?
Did you know that Beirut's Saint George Greek Orthodox Cathedral sits on the vestiges of three earlier church structures dating back as early as the 5th century AD?
Did you know that INS Kadmatt is the second of four anti-submarine warfare corvettes being built for the Indian Navy by the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, Kolkata, under Project 28?
Did you know that James Nelson Barker's play The Indian Princess is largely responsible for the modern version of the Pocahontas story?
Did you know that John Ireland's Fantasy-Sonata was inspired by Satyricon and the composer's wartime evacuation from Jersey?
Did you know that Scott Bakula gave a video interview from the set of the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "The Shipment" on Good Day Live, to promote a different episode of the show?
Did you know that Sir Godfrey Haggard directed the American Forces Liaison Division of the Ministry of Information after his retirement as the British Consul General at New York?
Did you know that Sir Michael Stanhope was beheaded on Tower Hill on 26 February 1552 after having been convicted of conspiring to take the life of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, and others?
Did you know that histone methylation helps regulate gene expression by controlling whether DNA is exposed to proteins and transcription factors?
Did you know that in June 1537 Elizabeth Bourchier's servant received two shillings as a reward for bringing strawberries and cream to the future Queen Mary?
Did you know that in his 1570 cookbook Opera dell'arte del cucinare, Bartolomeo Scappi included a recipe for crostata using "the viscera of any sort of turtle"?
Did you know that in the wildlife of Niger, the Dama gazelle species is a symbol that appears on the badge of the Niger national football team?
Did you know that the first fashion show of Ahmedabad was held under Calico Dome?
Did you know that Christian rock band Casting Crowns' song "American Dream" became the band's first music video?
Did you know that Korean dancer Ha Po-gyong continued performing well into his eighties?
Did you know that Lesley Yellowlees is the first female president of the Royal Society of Chemistry and is the subject of two portraits in the National Portrait Gallery?
Did you know that Mutya Buena's single "Just a Little Bit" contains Motown influences?
Did you know that Picasso's poetry has lines like "my grandmother's big balls are shining midst the thistles" and that one of his works depicts Franco as a jackbooted phallus?
Did you know that creature and concept designer Neville Page portrayed minor roles in soap operas, including General Hospital?
Did you know that dozens of baseball players have defected from Cuba during events such as the Mariel boatlift and the 1996 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that in 2013 Kerala High Court judge Manjula Chellur refused the plea of the Leader of the Opposition for an early hearing in another investigation of the "Ice Cream Parlour sabotage case"?
Did you know that pastis magnate Paul Ricard created the Paul Ricard Oceanographic Institute on the Île des Embiez, and the Universal Exposition of Wines and Spirits on the Île de Bendor?
Did you know that the Albany office and laboratory of paleontologist James Hall will soon be part of the first bilingual Montessori school in upstate New York?
Did you know that the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Exile" was seen as a play on the Beauty and the Beast story, and one critic thought that the new sets reminded her of a Disney Castle?
Did you know that the creators of the Kickstarter-funded Star Trek: Renegades hope to use it as a pilot for a new series on CBS?
Did you know that the general public cannot visit the Connecticut wildlife center where the recent birth of an endangered Rothschild's giraffe  (adult pictured) received extensive media attention?
Did you know that there have been fourteen sieges of Gibraltar, making it one of the most fought-over places in Europe?
Did you know that while researching his 1964 book The Mare's Nest, David Irving discovered the existence of the Allied programme to break the Enigma code but agreed to keep it secret?
Did you know that Israeli lightweight MMA fighter Ido Pariente lost to American welterweight Jake Shields, after accepting the fight without realizing Shields fought at a heavier weight?
Did you know that Kevin Ware's broken leg during the Elite Eight resulted in sympathetic comments from Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, and Kevin Durant?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines football in the Kipke years (Kipke pictured) included a four-year stretch in which the team won two national championships and had three undefeated seasons?
Did you know that Norris Bradbury replaced Robert Oppenheimer as director of the Los Alamos Laboratory?
Did you know that Vidal Blanc is grown just 500 miles (800 km) south of the Arctic Circle and used to make ice wine in Sweden?
Did you know that William Leveson was sued by the Virginia Company in 1613?
Did you know that William of Canterbury, author of a hagiography of the murdered Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket, was an eyewitness to the murder?
Did you know that a 1911 show of paintings by Max Weber (1916 painting pictured) resulted in "one of the most merciless critical whippings that any artist has received in America"?
Did you know that former Chicago Bears chairman Ed McCaskey tried out for Harry James' band, but lost out to Frank Sinatra?
Did you know that in 1987 the Revolutionary Palestinian Communist Party and the Palestinian Communist Party switched places as members of the PLO?
Did you know that in World War II's top-secret Operation Fish, the United Kingdom shipped more than a billion dollars in gold and securities to Canada, and not one ship was lost?
Did you know that ten of the twenty McDonnell Douglas A-4G Skyhawk aircraft operated by the Royal Australian Navy between 1967 and 1984 were destroyed in accidents?
Did you know that the tunicate Oikopleura cophocerca lives in a disposable house on plankton broth?
Did you know that the wall panels on the Enterprise were nicknamed "Mees panels" in Star Trek scripts after set decorator Jim Mees?
Did you know that to portray battalion commander LtCol Stephen "Godfather" Ferrando in the 2008 miniseries Generation Kill, actor Chance Kelly spent five months filming in Africa?
Did you know that "Shooting Star", the eighteenth episode of the fourth season of Glee, has been characterized as "unsettling" and "harrowing" by pre-broadcast reviewers?
Did you know that Drew Cannon is believed to be the first person hired by a college basketball team to perform statistical analysis?
Did you know that King's Bastion (model pictured), instrumental in defending Gibraltar during its Great Siege, was later used as a generating station and is now a leisure centre?
Did you know that Long Churn Cave contains the "Cheesepress"?
Did you know that Michael Piller's original idea for Star Trek: Insurrection was based on the Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness?
Did you know that Paleolithic human remains were discovered on Ishigaki Island, Japan, during the construction of New Ishigaki Airport?
Did you know that Ralli Hall in Hove—founded 100 years ago today—has been an Anglican church hall, a Jewish place of worship, a wartime drill hall, a cinema, and a zumba venue, among other things?
Did you know that a hwahyejang (traditional Korean shoemaker) can take as long as a week to create a pair of shoes?
Did you know that although Kokis is considered a traditional Sri Lankan dish, its name is believed to be of Dutch origin?
Did you know that contrary to the racist stereotype that African Americans eat more watermelon than average (1909 illustration pictured), a survey showed that they actually eat less?
Did you know that following the crushing of the 1982 Hama revolt, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood formed a broad alliance with Arab nationalist factions?
Did you know that football player Ebenezer Assifuah scored in all of Ghana's 2013 African U-20 Championship group matches en route to the finals?
Did you know that in his book In Secret Tibet, author Theodore Illion relates how he twice saw what he called "flying lamas" who could supposedly sit on an ear of barley without bending its stalk?
Did you know that in rugby union, Sid Going won the Tom French Cup a record six times between 1967 and 1972?
Did you know that the Japanese pagoda at the Museums of the Far East in Brussels, Belgium is nearly 50 metres (160 ft) high?
Did you know that the Lulua Mosque in Cairo, built in 1015–16 during Caliph al-Hakim's reign, partially collapsed in 1919 and was restored in 1998 by the Dawoodi Bohras, a community of Indian Muslims?
Did you know that Horace Greeley's daughter donated family land to be used for a new train station in Chappaqua, New York, on the condition that a small public park always be maintained in front of it?
Did you know that Julia Pierson is the first female Director of the United States Secret Service?
Did you know that Scott Rice played in minor league baseball for 14 seasons before a 2013 promotion to Major League Baseball?
Did you know that Swabhiman Sanghatana, headed by Nitesh Narayan Rane, set a Guinness World Record by conducting a job fair which gave over 25,000 jobs to unemployed youth?
Did you know that after Flamur Kastrati was injured in a match between MSV Duisburg and Energie Cottbus, both teams stopped playing football?
Did you know that chopped pork shoulder barbecue sandwiches served with coleslaw atop them are common in Memphis, Tennessee?
Did you know that cockroach racing started in Australia in 1982, and is also held at the Loyola University Maryland, under the name "Madagascar Madness: The Running of the Roaches"?
Did you know that in 1925, an assault by Druze rebels against French troops based in al-Musayfirah resulted in the French Mandate's first victory during the Great Syrian Revolt?
Did you know that the 2013 boxing-related death of Michael Norgrove was the first in the United Kingdom in 18 years?
Did you know that the Baroli Temples (temple complex pictured), one of the earliest temple complexes in Rajasthan, India, are reported to have been built during the Gurjara-Pratihara Empire in the 10th-11th centuries?
Did you know that the European Underwater and Baromedical Society was formed in 1971 to further education and research in diving and hyperbaric medicine?
Did you know that the cursed Ring of Silvianus may have inspired J. R. R. Tolkien to write The Hobbit?
Did you know that the release of Tunisian director Néjia Ben Mabrouk's debut film Sama was delayed for six years because of a dispute with the production company?
Did you know that the wines of Maury are still made using the technique of halting fermentation with grape spirits perfected in 1299 by Catalan alchemist Arnaldus de Villa Nova?
Did you know that when José Fernández defected from Cuba, his mother fell overboard and he jumped in to save her life?
Did you know that Annika Zeyen and Maria Kühn were both members of the wheelchair basketball team that was awarded Germany's highest sporting honour, the Silver Laurel Leaf?
Did you know that Bach composed Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt (The Lord Is My Faithful Shepherd) in 1731, to complete his 1724 cycle of chorale cantatas?
Did you know that Doaksville, Choctaw Nation, was the largest town in the Indian Territory in 1850?
Did you know that Faroese girls would test their boyfriends' readiness for marriage by presenting them with woolly willy warmers?
Did you know that Kenneth Bowra helped to develop the first human rights policy for American special forces soldiers?
Did you know that Max Reinhart made his National Hockey League debut for the Calgary Flames, the same franchise his father Paul began his career with?
Did you know that Tonia Marketaki's psychological crime film John the Violent is based on an actual murder which happened in Athens in the 1960s?
Did you know that baseball umpire Nelson Díaz gained prominence in Cuba after shoving an American coach?
Did you know that neural folds turn into the central nervous system?
Did you know that superior artillery created by Jean Bureau helped France achieve victories in several important battles of the Hundred Years' War?