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Did you know that the oldest pre-Hispanic tomb in the Americas has been found in Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas, Mexico?
Did you know that the phenomenon of feudal fragmentation has had a significant impact on European history, particularly during the Middle Ages?
Did you know that when Dan Savage's book Savage Love was published, his advice column of the same name had 4 million readers?
Did you know that Christoph Wolff termed the two oboe da caccia and two oboe d'amore in recitatives of Bach's cantata for Exaudi, Sie werden euch in den Bann tun, BWV 183, "opulent oboe scoring"?
Did you know that Dandeniya Gamage Jayanthi founded the group "Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared" following the abduction, shooting, and burning of her fiancé?
Did you know that England international rugby player Rupert Inglis became an army chaplain in World War I and was killed at the Battle of the Somme?
Did you know that Jones's Wood, a wooded estate on the island of Manhattan overlooking the East River, was touted as a site for what became Central Park?
Did you know that Lola Sanchez  was a spy during the American Civil War who provided information to the Confederate Army, which led them to a victory over the Union Forces in the "Battle of Horse Landing"?
Did you know that Mel Mazzera's performance for the minor league San Diego Padres led to the observance of a "Mel Mazzera Day" on August 30, 1942?
Did you know that Norwegian Jens Bache-Wiig, a former professor of engineering, resigned from his position at IT&T in 1935 in protest against New York head office intervention in his area of responsibility?
Did you know that Source London, a newly launched network of electric vehicle charging points, is the first to operate city-wide?
Did you know that Tennessee governor Newton Cannon's animosity toward fellow Tennessean Andrew Jackson, who was U.S. president during his governorship, may have started with gambling losses at Jackson's racetrack?
Did you know that a Hawker Sea Hurricane (example pictured) from Empire Darwin was involved in the last action flown from a CAM ship, shooting down a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 on 28 July 1943?
Did you know that a committee in the 1920s raised the funds to turn a collection of tracks into Anzac Avenue, the longest World War I memorial road in Queensland?
Did you know that all five of the medalists for Argentina at the inaugural Paralympic Games were swimmers?
Did you know that marine technology involves other technologies that may either safeguard or exploit the marine environment?
Did you know that on Anzac Day 1923, Lord Jellicoe laid the cornerstone for the Bridge of Remembrance and an invocation was made by Archbishop Churchill Julius?
Did you know that some of the earliest activities of the Canadian intelligence system involved guarding the Canada-United States border, and preventing U.S. infringement on Canadian neutrality during the U.S. Civil War?
Did you know that the Sturgeon House in Fairview is a rare example of a saltbox house in northwestern Pennsylvania?
Did you know that the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas is the largest organization of Filipino writers?
Did you know that the square-shaped Phnom Bok hill temple in Cambodia is dedicated to the Trimurti images (893–927 AD) installed in individual sanctums?
Did you know that Forrest McClendon earned a 2011 Tony Award nomination for his début performance on Broadway?
Did you know that Nazi scientists claimed to have trained a dog to call "Adolf Hitler" as "Mein Führer"?
Did you know that Philip Craven, current President of the International Paralympic Committee, competed in athletics, swimming and wheelchair basketball for Great Britain at the 1972 Summer Paralympics?
Did you know that Tambora, a Papuan language, was once spoken in the middle of Indonesia near Bali, far to the west of Papua, until the trading state that used it was wiped out by the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815?
Did you know that Tanzania hosts more than 1100 bird species including the Grey Crowned Crane?
Did you know that Vivienne Osborne was offered a role in Douglas Fairbanks's last silent film, the Musketeer film sequel The Iron Mask, following her earlier role in the Flo Ziegfeld musical The Three Musketeers?
Did you know that Volkswagen's new Chattanooga Assembly Plant is built near the remaining storage bunker of a plant that manufactured up to 30 million pounds of TNT per month for the Second World, Korean and Vietnam Wars?
Did you know that Will June, grandfather of a National Football League Pro Bowler and Super Bowl champion linebacker, is the oldest player to officially bowl consecutive 300-games?
Did you know that at the 1964 Summer Paralympics, Argentina won 37 medals, including 6 golds?
Did you know that award-winning journalist Paul Kamara has also been a priest, a cabinet minister, and the manager of Sierra Leone's national football team?
Did you know that phonon noise is a major source of noise in cryogenically cooled superconducting transition edge sensors?
Did you know that the 1945 Augustów roundup which resulted in the disappearance and likely murder of about 600 Polish citizens by the Soviet Union is considered the largest crime committed in Poland after World War II?
Did you know that the 2011 Slave Lake wildfire caused the evacuation of all 7,000 of Slave Lake's residents?
Did you know that the 2011 book Among the Truthers argues there is growing popularity in the US for far-fetched, paranoid conspiracy theories?
Did you know that the African Owl is actually a pigeon?
Did you know that the Armored Rat has spines which grow up to 33 millimetres (1.3 in) in length?
Did you know that the Irish comedy duo Damo and Ivor is one person?
Did you know that the Titanic Musicians' Memorial in Southampton features the hymn, "Nearer, My God, to Thee", commonly believed to have been played as the ship went down?
Did you know that the libretto for Phyllis Tate's opera The Lodger was written by singer and broadcaster David Franklin?
Did you know that the oldest parts of St Giles' Church in Ickenham were built in 1335?
Did you know that the powerful teeth and jaws of Heliopithecus may have played a key role in the spread of Hominoids from Africa into Eurasia, 17 million years ago?
Did you know that Civil Courage Prize laureate Ali Salem was ostracized by the Egyptian intellectual community following a 1994 book in which he promoted peace with Israel?
Did you know that Colonel Ambrosio José Gonzales, a Confederate soldier during the American Civil War, once fought for the US annexation of Cuba?
Did you know that Hamill, an upcoming biographical film about deaf mixed martial artist Matt Hamill, will use sporadic sound and incomplete subtitles?
Did you know that Joseph Wright of Derby's painting of Miravan's revulsion as he breaks open a tomb is based on a story retold by John Gilbert Cooper?
Did you know that La Esmeralda Dam supplies 8% of Colombia's power demand?
Did you know that Modeste Mutinga won an international prize for his journalism before being elected to the Senate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
Did you know that Muhammad Al-Saqr won an International Press Freedom Award for his work as a journalist before becoming chairman of the Arab Parliament?
Did you know that Troy Yocum, who is currently hiking 7,000 miles (11,000 km) across the United States, once tried to set a Guinness world record for marathon drumming?
Did you know that Walter Egerton, last Governor of Lagos Colony, initiated annual "pacification patrols" in southeast Nigeria which usually achieved submission without using force?
Did you know that both candidates in the 2011 special congressional election in Ilocos Sur's 1st district claimed they had the endorsement of the Liberal Party of the Philippines?
Did you know that during his tenure as mayor of Minden, Louisiana, Connell Fort worked to rid his city of mosquitoes, laid natural gas lines, and built the municipal sewerage system?
Did you know that inspired by a trip to the highly active Mount Yasur volcano in 1999, French video game creator Eric Chahi designed the video game From Dust?
Did you know that khat, which induces a state of euphoria and is endemic to Djibouti, is chewed by 90% of the local men?
Did you know that the 1939–40 NYU Violets men's basketball team, led by Ben Auerbach, finished the regular season with an 18–1 record yet did not play in a postseason tournament?
Did you know that the Basters under Hermanus van Wyk were ready to pay £2,750 for their land around Rehoboth, but got it for free after they signed a protection treaty with Imperial Germany?
Did you know that the Gita Dhyanam, known as the Invocation to the Bhagavad Gita, compares the Upanishads to cows, and claims that God's grace can make the dumb speak?
Did you know that the Leipzig University Library houses 43 leaves of the Codex Sinaiticus?
Did you know that the Royal Australian Air Force's No. 1 Long Range Flight was formed to compete in the 1953 London to Christchurch air race?
Did you know that the ninth-century Codex Vindobonensis 751 contains a selection of the correspondence of Saint Boniface, as well as a mysterious palindrome and the oldest English poetic proverb?
Did you know that the richly decorated medieval churches of Saint Paraskevi and the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel in Nesebar, Bulgaria, were both surmounted by bell towers which have not been preserved?
Did you know that the skeleton of the last Bosnian king, Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia, currently lies in the Franciscan monastery of Saint Luke, Jajce?
Did you know that the terrier Beauty is considered to be "the original rescue dog"?
Did you know that two condemned Swedish prisoners spared in the 1599 Åbo Bloodbath also survived the 1600 Linköping Bloodbath?
Did you know that when workers staged a 1978 wildcat strike for higher wages at Volkswagen's new Westmoreland Assembly Plant that built the Rabbit model, the picketers shouted "No Money, No Bunny"?
Did you know that Angel Delgadillo helped inspire the film Cars and has been called the "guardian angel of Route 66"?
Did you know that Ballylough is home to a ruined castle that was once a stronghold of the MacQuillans and the MacDonnells?
Did you know that Franc Fernandez, designer of Lady Gaga's meat dress and "Bad Romance" "diamond crown" costume, was mostly self-trained?
Did you know that Indiana's Epsilon II is a rare example of a well-preserved upland archaeological site from the Archaic period?
Did you know that Peter Aucoin, a professor emeritus at Dalhousie University, has served as an advisor to all three levels of the government of Canada?
Did you know that Puerto Banús is visited by 5 million people annually and contains a three-ton statue of a rhinoceros by Salvador Dalí?
Did you know that Qatar sent only male athletes to the inaugural Asian Para Games?
Did you know that Royal Ulster Constabulary officer John Weir, who was convicted of a sectarian killing, had once considered joining the Irish Garda Síochána?
Did you know that Russian journalist Nadira Isayeva called her 2010 trial "a test for the institution of press freedom" in Dagestan?
Did you know that Thomas Erskine's speech in the case of R v Baillie earned him a standing ovation?
Did you know that archaeological excavations at the Banteay Kdei in Cambodia revealed relics of 274 Buddhist statues made in sandstone?
Did you know that earthquake sensitives such as geologist Jim Berkland claim they have the ability to predict earthquakes?
Did you know that in 2001, James Hedges of Thompson Township, Fulton County, Pennsylvania, became the first Prohibition Party member elected in a partisan election since 1959?
Did you know that jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal's first live album At the Pershing: But Not for Me, recorded in 1958, has sold over one million copies?
Did you know that reindeer were introduced to South Georgia by Norwegian whalers?
Did you know that the Tema Motorway, which was commissioned in 1964, is Ghana's only motorway?
Did you know that the bankrupt dandy "Champagne Charlie" sold his inheritance including the painting Earthstopper on the banks of the Derwent (detail pictured)?
Did you know that the duet aspect of Sonny & Cher's first recorded hit single, "Baby Don't Go", was not originally planned but established the pair's unusual harmonic style?
Did you know that there were two Carlisle Houses in 18th-century London's Soho Square; one housing Domenico Angelo's fencing and riding school and another Madame Cornelys' masquerades and illegal operas?
Did you know that when the male Yellow-crowned Bishop is ready to mate, his head and back turn a brilliant yellow color?
Did you know that A. Forward was a forward?
Did you know that Capt. John Jackson Dickison led the Confederate forces that captured the USS Columbine in the only known incident in US history where a cavalry unit sank an enemy gunboat?
Did you know that David Lucas, who produced and sang backup on Blue Öyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" also wrote AT&T's "Reach out and touch someone" jingle?
Did you know that New Waddell Dam in Maricopa County, Arizona, submerged the Old Waddell Dam and both receives and provides water to the Central Arizona Project?
Did you know that Nike, Alfa Romeo, Red Bull and Ginsters are all advertised in the first person football video game I Am Playr?
Did you know that WASP-44b, an extrasolar planet the size of Jupiter, orbits the star WASP-44 every 58 hours?
Did you know that a preposition is something that a sentence can end with?
Did you know that although baseball player Chuck Ricci never played for the Cleveland Indians, he appeared in the 1994 film Major League II as a member of the team and later worked for the club as a scout?
Did you know that although the continued attack by the German auxiliary cruiser Michel on Empire Dawn after she had surrendered was considered to be a war crime, Michel's captain was acquitted of the charge?
Did you know that during World War II the Polish Teachers' Union was mostly active through the Secret Teaching Organization?
Did you know that the Argentine city of Villa Gesell was built after the afforestation of a dune field?
Did you know that the Chester city walls (section pictured) form the most complete circuit of Roman and medieval defensive town walls in Britain?
Did you know that the Paperbark Flycatcher never uses the "scissors-grinding" call of the closely related Restless Flycatcher?
Did you know that the last standard gauge steam locomotive in use in Israel was a Palestine Railways H class 4-6-0 originally built for the British Army's Palestine Military Railway?
Did you know that the popularity of Tagalog pocketbooks helps establish the national language in the Philippines, a country with over 100 languages?
Did you know that the setting of Nippur in the Sumerian creation myth of Enlil and Ninlil has been noted as "civitas dei", existing before the "axis mundi" and the creation of man?
Did you know that "father of Indonesian anthropology" Koentjaraningrat joined the student militia as an English and history teacher during the Indonesian National Revolution?
Did you know that Aodh Méith refused to meet with the King of England, because the King was unwilling to give hostages as surety?
Did you know that Milton J. Durham, a former official in the U.S. Treasury Department, once bloodied a Lexington Leader newswriter's face in a dispute over information that appeared in the newspaper?
Did you know that Mitch McDeere, Tom Cruise's character in Sydney Pollack's 1993 US$270 million-grossing film adaptation of John Grisham's The Firm that sold seven million copies, will reappear in a television series?
Did you know that Papyrus 49 is one of three early manuscripts with the text of the Epistle to the Ephesians?
Did you know that Thomas Jefferson grew Lacinato kale, an heirloom kale also known as Dinosaur kale, in his Monticello garden?
Did you know that although Dizzy Nutter's professional baseball career lasted eight years, Nutter only played in eighteen Major League games?
Did you know that comedian and former Parks and Recreation producer Dana Gould made a cameo appearance in "The Bubble", a third season episode?
Did you know that during his career, Chrisye released albums that sold like "chicken shit", were recorded with studio executives locked out, raised controversy for being "against Asian mores", went double platinum on his birthday, and had to be recalled to replace the cover design?
Did you know that electric circuit theorist Vitold Belevitch discovered a mathematical basis for Zipf's law from linguistics?
Did you know that in 2000 American newspaper executive and conservationist Edward H. Harte established the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at the Texas A&M University with a US$46M endowment?
Did you know that millionaire banker Baron Frédéric Alfred d'Erlanger was also a noted composer who wrote an opera based on Thomas Hardy's novel, Tess of the d'Urbervilles?
Did you know that part of the High Fens reserve in Belgium is closed in spring because of the breeding of the endangered black grouse?
Did you know that the 2011 New England tornado outbreak (EF3 in Springfield pictured) resulted in Massachusetts' first tornado fatalities since the 1995 Great Barrington tornado?
Did you know that the 7th-century Law of Wihtred, a law code from Kent, provides that any slave forced to work on Sabbath be given freedom?
Did you know that the Animation Council of the Philippines, Inc. sponsors a yearly festival that features the works of Filipino animators?
Did you know that the Djibouti Francolin is endemic to the Mabla Mountains and the Day Forest National Park?
Did you know that the novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh about the Armenian Genocide played a role in organizing the Jewish resistance under Nazi rule?
Did you know that the opera Die Stadt hinter dem Strom, composed by Hans Vogt and based on Hermann Kasack's novel of the same name, was first staged at the Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden in 1955?
Did you know that the world's first automobile powered by an internal combustion engine, the De Rivaz engine (model pictured), was made in 1807?
Did you know that Bach may have performed his cantata Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten, BWV 59, in Leipzig at the University Church at Pentecost 1723, before he took up his cantor position in Leipzig?
Did you know that Irlo Bronson sold the land that is present-day Walt Disney World for about US$100 per acre?
Did you know that Native American Taos Pueblo artists Albert Looking Elk, Juan Mirabal, and Albert Lujan were known as the "Three Taos Pueblo" painters?
Did you know that Nínay, the first Filipino novel, provides a "folkloristic tour" of the distinctive culture of the Philippines?
Did you know that Reginald Byng Stephens led the British 5th Division to Italy as part of his country's participation in the First World War's Italian campaign?
Did you know that Selskabet for Oslo Byes Vel, a non-profit association for the benefit of Norway's capital city, celebrates its 200-year anniversary this year?
Did you know that WGRM-FM founder Clay Ewing had been mayor of Greenwood, Mississippi?
Did you know that a Popular Mechanics article noted it is possible to die from "parasitic asphyxiation", as shown in the Fringe episode "Snakehead"?
Did you know that after the Nyon Conference, The Times likened the happy delegates to cricketers, "reviewing their innings, over by over"?
Did you know that between October 1944 and January 1945 the 127th (Parachute) Field Ambulance (badge pictured) treated 628 casualties and carried out 214 surgical operations?
Did you know that in 2004, 30-year-old rookie Brian Dallimore hit a grand slam for his first hit in Major League Baseball?
Did you know that the Brazilian government's order for dreadnought battleships (one pictured) led to a South American naval arms race?
Did you know that the Holy Ghost ipomopsis, a rare flower found in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in New Mexico, is predicted to become extinct within 50 years?
Did you know that the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria asked the courts to annul the decree that chartered their rival, the Association of National Accountants of Nigeria?
Did you know that the Venezuelan port Nueva Cádiz was the first Spanish town to be established in South America?
Did you know that the campaign of George Tyler Wood for Governor of Texas was aided by Isaac Van Zandt dying from yellow fever?
Did you know that the loy is an early Irish spade used for manual ploughing prior to and during the Irish Potato Famine?
Did you know that the town of Cassel in France is located on a hill that is said to have been created when two giants (nineteenth century representation pictured) tripped and dropped a heap of earth that they were carrying?
Did you know that tourism is Ghana's fourth highest foreign exchange earner?
Did you know that transit service in Portland, Oregon, in the 1960s was provided solely by privately owned companies, with Rose City Transit in the city proper and the "Blue Bus" lines in the suburbs?
Did you know that visual effects supervisor Jay Worth found inspiration for the "Ash Man" storyline in the Fringe episode "Earthling" from holding his grandmother-in-law's hands at her funeral?
Did you know that "Donde quiera que estés", a collaboration with Mexican-American singer-songwriter Selena, became the first number-one hit for the Barrio Boyzz?
Did you know that Beatrice Mtetwa, "Zimbabwe's top human rights lawyer", has secured the release of reporters from The New York Times and The Sunday Telegraph?
Did you know that Bill Foley's photograph "The Last Smile" shows Anwar Sadat only moments before his assassination?
Did you know that Edmund Ser, owner of Malaysian fashion labels Edmund Ser, Spade, and SER, was a guest judge on Project Runway Malaysia?
Did you know that Fox 2000 Pictures postponed its upcoming film adaptation of Yann Martel's 2001 novel Life of Pi a week to avoid direct competition with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey?
Did you know that Judith Trim, the first wife of Roger Waters of Pink Floyd, cried the first time she heard The Dark Side of the Moon?
Did you know that Siberian-born Noldi Schreck, set decorator for the 1965 drama Love Has Many Faces, was nicknamed "the architect of Zona Rosa"?
Did you know that Tom Kahn organized American unions' $300,000 aid to the Polish labor union Solidarity in 1980–1981, despite Secretary of State Muskie's warnings that this aid might provoke a new Soviet invasion?
Did you know that cyclist Gerhard Schönbacher stopped and kissed the road before he finished last in the 1979 Tour de France?
Did you know that despite the nation being banned from the 1972 Olympics because of the policy of apartheid, 25 athletes competed for South Africa at the 1972 Summer Paralympics?
Did you know that in 2006, San Diego Padres outfielder Luis Durango was timed running the 90 feet (27 m) from home plate to first base in only 3.4 seconds?
Did you know that in Bach's cantata for Pentecost Monday, Erhöhtes Fleisch und Blut, BWV 173, a verse from the meeting of Jesus and Nicodemus is paraphrased in a unique duet, illustrating the theme exaltation?
Did you know that planet WASP-13b, despite a radius 25% larger than Jupiter's, has less than half the mass?
Did you know that television writer Dennis Marks not only provided episodes of Batfink and The Beatles, but he was also the voice of the Green Goblin?
Did you know that the London Necropolis Railway was used to relocate the exhumed contents of at least 21 London graveyards to Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey?
Did you know that the White-headed Buffalo Weaver builds nests with multiple rooms and a downward-facing entrance?
Did you know that the racing track Charles River Speedway was designed by a firm co-founded by Frederick Law Olmsted?
Did you know that "Who Says" is said to be inspired by the hate Selena Gomez received online due to her relationship with Justin Bieber?
Did you know that Ales Bialatski earned a PhD in Belarusian literature before becoming the vice president of the International Federation for Human Rights?
Did you know that Asafo Interchange was the first flyover to be built in Kumasi in the Ashanti region of Ghana?