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Did you know that Jingdezhen ware (example pictured) has dominated Chinese porcelain for over 600 years?
Did you know that Mexican performers Marco Pérez, Sofía Espinosa, Noé Hernández, and Adriana Paz received the Ariel Award for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress, respectively, at the 2016 ceremony?
Did you know that Piru Singh threw a grenade at the enemy even after he was shot in the head, and was awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military decoration?
Did you know that Seattle will begin issuing "democracy vouchers" in 2017?
Did you know that U.S. Representative Clay Higgins has been dubbed the "Cajun John Wayne"?
Did you know that mathematician Moon Duchin was inspired to break gender barriers in mathematics by a book on baseball player Jackie Robinson's struggles against racism?
Did you know that the Old Depot Museum has an immersive audio exhibit about the Pottawatomie massacre?
Did you know that the footballer Billy James was forced to retire after playing just six league games due to the physical effects of his time in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp?
Did you know that Australian World War II fighter ace Alan Rawlinson had "Sweet FA" in the Middle East before he got "up you" in the South West Pacific?
Did you know that Mildred Barker was awarded the National Heritage Fellowship in 1983 for her work in preserving Shaker music?
Did you know that Polish Jewish writer Rokhl Auerbakh worked overtly as the director of a soup kitchen and covertly as a member of a secret group that chronicled daily life in the Warsaw Ghetto?
Did you know that William V. Thompson preferred the title "Dean of Bowling" over "Father of Bowling" in recognition of his work promoting and standardizing ten-pin bowling?
Did you know that in 1429, John Beaumont, 1st Viscount Beaumont, was knighted by a seven-year-old king?
Did you know that rapper YG claimed his recent song "FDT" prompted calls from the Secret Service?
Did you know that the European Hansemuseum is the largest museum in the world dedicated to the history of the Hanseatic League?
Did you know that the Left Front governed the Indian state of West Bengal for 34 years, winning the elections of 1977, 1982, 1987, 1991, 1996, 2001, and 2006?
Did you know that the courtyard of the Bisaldeo temple is now partially submerged by the waters of the Bisalpur Dam reservoir?
Did you know that Amy Satterthwaite is the only bowler to take a six-wicket haul in a women's Twenty20 International cricket match?
Did you know that Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin's rulings on labor law and labor relations were said to have furthered the rights of workers more than those of any other Israeli judge?
Did you know that Fred Pfeffer, Tom Burns, and Ned Williamson each had three hits in the same inning of an 1883 major-league baseball game, and no other player had a three-hit inning until 1953?
Did you know that during her 2016 concert, Siti Nurhaliza performed "Memories", a tribute duet with vocals by Whitney Houston which had been recorded when she was 19?
Did you know that in the Eutaw riot in Alabama, several black citizens were killed by the Ku Klux Klan during a campaign of terror that led to the election of Democratic governor Robert B. Lindsay?
Did you know that more than 5,000 hen fleas (specimen pictured) were recorded from the nest of a coal tit?
Did you know that naval officer and MP Olav Bergersen wrote several books on the 18th-century vice admiral Tordenskiold?
Did you know that the idea for Disney's MagicBands came from a magnetic therapy bracelet found in SkyMall?
Did you know that the semi-aquatic grasshopper Cornops aquaticum is being trialled in South Africa as a biological control agent for the invasive water hyacinth?
Did you know that the video game ReCore can be played on both Microsoft Windows and Xbox One, regardless of which platform it was initially purchased for?
Did you know that under the terms of a 1931 bequest to the University of Washington, if the university president does not live at Hill-Crest, the property must be sold?
Did you know that Bloomberg Businessweek asked, "Is Wikipedia woke?"
Did you know that Czech actress Simona Stašová was named Best Actress at the 2015 Seoul International Drama Awards?
Did you know that Jose Esteves, the Filipino American mayor of Milpitas, California, was succeeded by the city's first Vietnamese American mayor, Richard Tran?
Did you know that Lasith Malinga is the only bowler to take a six-wicket haul in the Big Bash League?
Did you know that Nils Mönkemeyer was the first to record a viola concerto by Antonio Rosetti, and played Schubert songs and Bach arias on the viola?
Did you know that in June 1940 the SS Broompark brought French scientists, heavy water, and diamonds to Britain?
Did you know that over the history of Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction research, scientists have attributed the demise of the dinosaurs to their large size, small brains, or, more likely, an asteroid impact?
Did you know that the Alliance Building Society's sports club was established in 1935 with "a second-hand table tennis table and dartboard" in the basement of Princes House in Brighton?
Did you know that the root of the wild sweet potato can weigh 10 kilograms (22 lb) or more?
Did you know that while competing for Tanzania at the 2016 Summer Olympics, swimmer Hilal Hemed Hilal set a national record winning his 50 m freestyle heat, but did not advance?
Did you know that Gui Minhai, whose four bookseller colleagues also disappeared in mysterious circumstances, reappeared three months later on Chinese television confessing to killing a girl in a 2003 DUI accident?
Did you know that Ibrahim ibn al-Ashtar killed Umayyad commander Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad at the Battle of Khazir?
Did you know that Martin Luther paraphrased in his hymn "Mitten wir im Leben sind mit dem Tod umfangen" the Latin "Media vita in morte sumus" (In the midst of life we are in death), including its Trisagion?
Did you know that a cave in the Cliff Cave County Park has been used as a tavern and a wine cellar?
Did you know that an extract of Alchemilla diademata, a plant endemic to Lebanon, shows antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus?
Did you know that drag queen Violet Chachki's EP Gagged was inspired by her time working as an assistant to a dominatrix?
Did you know that it was not illegal to possess or use cannabis in Poland until 1997?
Did you know that on January 14, 1893, William Pūnohu White and Joseph Nāwahī were made Knight Commanders of the Royal Order of Kalākaua for their patriotism and loyalty to the Kingdom of Hawaii?
Did you know that the opium merchant Ezekiel Saleh Manasseh, who died in Changi Prison during the Japanese occupation of Singapore, built Eden Hall and co-owned the Goodwood Park Hotel with his brothers?
Did you know that Faith Spotted Eagle became the first Native American to receive a presidential electoral vote after Robert Satiacum Jr. cast a faithless vote for her during the 2016 United States election?
Did you know that Kim Chŏn-il raised a civilian militia to fight the Japanese invasion during the Imjin War?
Did you know that Salinee Tavaranan and her Border Green Energy Team installed solar panels and micro-hydro turbines at the Mae La refugee camp?
Did you know that Ululani Lewai Baker and Lanihau were the last female governors of the Kingdom of Hawaii?
Did you know that a Roman hoard of 11,000 silver pieces was found in the village of Oakhanger in Hampshire?
Did you know that the opening number for the 2016 musical film La La Land was shot in a six-minute single take on a 130-foot (40 m)-high freeway ramp in South Los Angeles?
Did you know that the organ of the Neanderkirche has served summer concerts for more than 50 years?
Did you know that when amateur astronomer Thomas Bopp co-discovered comet Hale–Bopp, he had never seen a comet before and was using a borrowed telescope?
Did you know that Alibabavum 40 Thirudargalum (1956) was the first full-length colour film in Tamil cinema?
Did you know that BuzzFeed described Pat Loika as "the closest thing comics has to an Oprah"?
Did you know that David Kahalekula Kaʻauwai, his father and brother served in the Kingdom of Hawaii legislature, while his niece became a princess?
Did you know that Ernest Ambler, a British-born, Oxford-educated physicist, became the director of the National Bureau of Standards in the United States?
Did you know that Guendolen Plestcheeff was known as "Seattle's Grand, Grand Lady" and "the most elegant woman in Seattle"?
Did you know that J. J. Abrams consulted Pablo Hidalgo up to three times a day while filming Star Wars: The Force Awakens?
Did you know that M2M appeared on an episode of Dawson's Creek to promote their album The Big Room?
Did you know that Mildred Albert, nicknamed the "Mighty Atom", produced thousands of fashion shows during her career?
Did you know that following the success of the album Barney Bentall and the Legendary Hearts, the eponymous Canadian band received the 1989 Juno Award for Most Promising Group of the Year?
Did you know that over the history of mosasaur paleontology (example pictured), clams, fish, toothed birds, plesiosaurs, sharks, turtles, and even other mosasaurs have been discovered preserved in the bellies of these marine lizards?
Did you know that the 90% purchase of New York's Chrysler Building by the Abu Dhabi Investment Council was a prominent example of petrodollar recycling?
Did you know that 19th-century German publisher Ernst Keil conceived the idea, while in prison, of what was to become one of the most widely read magazines?
Did you know that Australian cricketer Ian Moran took unpaid leave from his teaching job to play in the 2012 Champions League Twenty20?
Did you know that Gwen Stefani's unreleased song "Start a War" was compared to Sia Furler's solo work?
Did you know that Jesé won the Golden Boot Award at the 2012 UEFA European Under-19 Championship?
Did you know that The Red Shoes dance in part to the strains of Citizen Kane?
Did you know that a single jumbo slice may contain over 1,000 calories?
Did you know that after Karl G. Maeser tutored Brigham Young's 56 children, he went on to help found Brigham Young University?
Did you know that in a 1955 protest, nearly 1000 protesters from the Lok Sewak Sangh marched more than 300 mi (480 km) over 16 days to demand the incorporation of Bengali-speaking areas of Bihar into West Bengal?
Did you know that on January 13, 1893, Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii appointed four new cabinet ministers – Samuel Parker, William Cornwell, John Colburn, and Arthur Peterson – whose opposition to a new constitution led to her overthrow on January 17?
Did you know that pyrithione is used to prepare medicated shampoos to treat dandruff and seborrhoeic dermatitis?
Did you know that "The Student", one of Anton Chekhov's shortest stories, was also his favorite?
Did you know that America's 60 Families was said to be comparable to Karl Marx's Capital?
Did you know that Kjell Eriksson stated he was terrified to answer his telephone for fear that singer Carola would yell at him after an incident at Melodifestivalen 2008?
Did you know that Samuel K. Pua, assistant editor of an anti-annexationist Hawaiian newspaper, was severely injured when a goat attacked him at Waikiki?
Did you know that endemics among the wildlife of Morocco include more than six hundred species of vascular plants and a single species of bird?
Did you know that the Salīhids, an Arab Christian tribe, preceded the Ghassanids as the main Arab federates of the Byzantine Empire?
Did you know that the city of Glen Cove, New York, once tried to foreclose on the Soviet diplomatic retreat at Killenworth, and later denied its residents beach permits?
Did you know that the classical pianist Yara Bernette was praised for her interpretation of Variations on a Theme from the Northeast of Brazil by the composer, Camargo Guarnieri?
Did you know that David William Pua submitted petitions from the people of the Kingdom of Hawaii asking for the abrogation of the Bayonet Constitution, which had allowed him to be elected to the House of Nobles?
Did you know that a large lake once occupied the Central Valley of California?
Did you know that a recent United States Supreme Court case began when insurance adjusters claimed they were instructed to falsely categorize damages after Hurricane Katrina?
Did you know that quarterback Sam Darnold's high school footage submitted to college football coaches consisted of his basketball highlights?
Did you know that the OVC project supports the education of disadvantaged young people in Adigrat, Ethiopia?
Did you know that the geological deformation of Iceland is resulting in cracks opening up in the surface (example pictured)?
Did you know that the soup and sandwich combination (example pictured) has been a popular lunch dish in the United States since the 1920s?
Did you know that "Im April" from Max Reger's Sechs Lieder, Op. 4, has been called "one of Reger's sunniest songs"?
Did you know that Bernardo Putairi succeeded as the final Prince Regent of Mangareva after his predecessor Arone Teikatoara kissed a girl on the street?
Did you know that Pinchinthorpe railway station closed 13 years before the rest of the Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway fell victim to the Beeching Axe?
Did you know that a newly described moth species, Neopalpa donaldtrumpi, was so named because its yellowish head scales reminded a scientist of Donald Trump's hair?
Did you know that as its natural habitat is converted to cropland, Goldman's pocket mouse is threatened by the increased use of rodenticides?
Did you know that the 100th Brigade of the United Kingdom attacked High Wood during the Battle of the Somme?
Did you know that the British scientist John Challens received the American Medal of Freedom for his work on the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket?
Did you know that "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" helped popularize Indian instrumentation in rock music?
Did you know that Caspar Ziegler, who wrote a hymn on which Bach based a Christmas cantata, was professor of law and Rektor of the University of Wittenberg?
Did you know that Chinese dragon kilns for pottery (excavated kiln pictured) ran up hillsides, could be 135 metres (443 ft) long, and could fire tens of thousands of pieces at a time?
Did you know that Chinese-Hawaiian lawyer and politician Joseph Apukai Akina became the first Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Territory of Hawaii?
Did you know that Clarence W. Macfarlane initiated the Transpacific Yacht Race in 1906, sailing from Honolulu to the California coast around the time of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake?
Did you know that David distributed raisin cake?
Did you know that Sir William Napier wrote part of his History of the Peninsular War sitting at a stone table in the grounds of Freshford Manor?
Did you know that a levee break at Mound Landing, Mississippi – now an isolated ghost town on the banks of the Mississippi River – began one of the worst floods in American history?
Did you know that the 14th-century Moroccan scholar Ibn Marzuq wrote a hagiography of the Marinid sultan Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman?
Did you know that "When This Cruel War Is Over" was one of the most popular sentimental ballads of the American Civil War, sung by both Union and Confederate troops?
Did you know that at the end of the Trunajaya rebellion, King Amangkurat II stabbed the defeated rebel leader Trunajaya to death?
Did you know that for Givat Brenner's 25th anniversary, kibbutz theatre director Shulamit Bat-Dori staged an open-air play with a cast and crew of 1,000, before an audience of 10,000?
Did you know that monasteries and public buildings are illuminated during the Galdan Namchot festival marking the beginning of new year celebrations in Ladakh, India?
Did you know that one of the goals of King Kalākaua's world tour (Kalākaua pictured) was to save the declining population of Native Hawaiians?
Did you know that sea slug Chelidonura fulvipunctata is likely an anti-Lessepsian migrant?
Did you know that the Church of England Marriage Measure 2008 gave couples the legal right to get married in any parish where their parents or grandparents were married, but not in any cathedral?
Did you know that the newly designated Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah protects 100,000 archaeological sites, including Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings more than 3,500 years old?
Did you know that "lamprophrenia", a portmanteau of the Greek words lampron (bright) and phrenia (mind), was coined by Czech–Finnish musical artist Sonja Vectomov as the title of her debut album?
Did you know that Franklin Seaver Pratt was removed from his post as diplomatic agent for defending the claim of his royal wife Elizabeth Kekaʻaniau Laʻanui to the Crown Lands of Hawaii?
Did you know that Lady Canning, India's first vicereine, has been described as one of the country's most memorable women botanical illustrators?
Did you know that Spanish association footballer Xiker joined Athletic Bilbao's academy when he was just ten years old?
Did you know that during 1968 revisions to the United States Army Field Manuals, there was an attempt to eliminate the use of bayonets for crowd control?
Did you know that in 1088 the Anglo-Norman nobleman Robert Pantulf was accused of stealing 6 pounds (2.7 kg) of silver from the nuns of Holy Trinity Abbey, Caen?
Did you know that in 1603, more than 1,000 rōnins rebelled at Rokugō in a "final suicidal gesture" for their former lord, Onodera Yoshimichi?
Did you know that in 1968, Indian philosopher and statesman Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was the first recipient of the Sahitya Akademi fellowship?
Did you know that in The Field of Fight, new US National Security Advisor Michael T. Flynn argues that Bolivia, China, Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela are allied with Al-Qaeda and ISIS?
Did you know that rabbit stew sometimes includes rabbit blood as an ingredient to thicken and enrich it?
Did you know that scholars have been puzzled by a motif in Chinese Swatow ware, where a pagoda is split "almost like a volcanic eruption"?
Did you know that the Swedish release of M2M's debut album Shades of Purple was delayed by a legal dispute with another band named M2M?
Did you know that Alice Brown, a professor of politics who advised the new Scottish Parliament on governance, went on to become the first Scottish Public Services Ombudsman?
Did you know that EJay Day, the first finalist ever eliminated from American Idol, also placed in the top 20 on Popstars: USA?
Did you know that Randy Edsall, UConn football's all-time leader in games coached and wins as a head coach, was re-hired for 2017 after an absence of six seasons?
Did you know that after six decades subscribing to left-wing ideology, German-Israeli novelist Naomi Frankel adopted right-wing ideology and moved to the West Bank?
Did you know that the Mangal Shobhajatra has been declared an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO?
Did you know that Bill Roe made the highest score in cricket at the time when he scored 415 runs during an inter-college match at Cambridge University?
Did you know that Giovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca wrote the libretto for Solimano, first set by Hasse and produced in Dresden with live elephants and camels?
Did you know that Herschel K. Mitchell, Roger J. Williams, and Esmond E. Snell isolated folic acid from four tons of processed spinach?
Did you know that small gobies are often associated with diploastrea brain coral?
Did you know that sundial cannons (example pictured) were triggered by the sun to fire at noon?
Did you know that the Mazu Temple in Lugang, Taiwan, includes wood carvings of the "Four Best Things in Life": stretching, ear-cleaning, nose-picking, and scratching?
Did you know that the fossil leaves of the maple species Acer whitebirdense had earlier been misattributed to the genera Viburnum, Platanus, and Rubus?
Did you know that the science fiction novella Paradises Lost was adapted as an opera?
Did you know that Francis Poulenc composed the four motets Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence at different times, three of them on responsories for the Holy Week?
Did you know that Grace Bochenek, an engineer and director of the U.S. National Energy Technology Laboratory, is the acting Secretary of Energy?
Did you know that Gufran-Ullah Beig is the first Indian scientist to receive the Norbert Gerbier-Mumm International Award of the World Meteorological Organization?
Did you know that Lvinaya Past was the site of the largest Holocene volcanic eruption in the Southern Kurils?
Did you know that Sheikh Morteza Ansari's Makasib, authored more than 150 years ago, is still taught in Shia seminaries?
Did you know that during World War II, International Hat Company was one of the two main manufacturers of the sun helmet, one of the longest-used helmets of the United States military?
Did you know that the Mexican Southern Railroad was originally run by executives from the United States, including former President Ulysses S. Grant?
Did you know that the part-Hawaiian Carlos A. Long was unanimously elected captain of the 1899 Georgetown Hoyas football team at Georgetown University?
Did you know that there are eight churches on Antarctica?
Did you know that when the theologian Patrick Dehm was suspended by the Bishop of Limburg, he founded an ecumenical association to continue the work for contemporary church music?
Did you know that zoological gardens were added to Sudhir Chandra Das's ministerial portfolio in 1971?
Did you know that Bach composed five organ settings of the hymn "Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend", which was translated by Catherine Winkworth for communion as "Lord Jesus Christ, be present now!"?
Did you know that German architect August Soller died during construction of his greatest work, and was buried there before it was finished?
Did you know that Pulitzer Prize-winning sportswriter Arthur Daley wrote more than 10,000 columns for The New York Times?
Did you know that William Hoapili Kaʻauwai traveled to Europe with Queen Emma, but made an unauthorized side trip to New Zealand to recruit Māori immigrants for the Kingdom of Hawaii?
Did you know that on May 24, 1985, over 100 villagers in Oliveto Citra claimed to have seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary?
Did you know that the Sri Lankan Christmas tree is claimed to be the world’s tallest artificial Christmas tree?
Did you know that the Walt Disney World Railroad, with 3.7 million passengers each year, is one of the most popular railroads in the world powered by steam locomotives?
Did you know that to prepare for his role as surgeon Raf di Lucca in Holby City, actor Joe McFadden watched open-heart surgery?
Did you know that Elizabeth Plankinton, known as the "municipal patroness" for her philanthropy, gifted a 9-foot (2.7 m) high bronze George Washington sculpture to the citizens of Milwaukee?
Did you know that Fei Xiaotong's book From the Soil was banned in China for being "rightist", and in Taiwan for the author's perceived support for Communism?
Did you know that according to family tradition, George Charles Beckley designed the Flag of Hawaii, which was passed down as an heirloom in the form of a child's frock?
Did you know that before starting her pioneering genetic studies of complex human diseases such as atherosclerosis, Nobuyo Maeda researched sea snake venoms?
Did you know that in November 2016 Peter Reulein conducted the premiere of his oratorio Laudato si', described as a Franciscan Magnificat, with more than 250 performers at the Limburg Cathedral?
Did you know that pacer Always B Miki set a world record of 1 minute 46 seconds, the fastest mile in Standardbred history?
Did you know that the Franco-Tahitian War (1844–1847) culminated in the defeat of the Tahitians at Fort Fautaua?
Did you know that the Hongwu Emperor copied the text of Zhen Dexiu's work The Expanded Meaning of the Great Learning onto the walls of his palace?
Did you know that the Indian Government Mint in Hyderabad was established in 1803 by the Nizam of Hyderabad, Asaf Jah III, and was taken over by the Government of India in 1950?
Did you know that the face of the Timex Expedition WS4 resembles the shape of the rear window of a Land Rover?