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Did you know that stuffed pelts of lesser grisons have been used to make ritual offerings to Pachamama?
Did you know that Alice Mary Longfellow, daughter of the poet, was instrumental in founding the Harvard Annex, now Radcliffe College, which has a building named in her honor?
Did you know that Augustus Henry Mounsey's 1879 history contains the most detailed descriptions of the military campaigns of the Satsuma Rebellion?
Did you know that Kassiopi Castle in Corfu is considered one of the most imposing architectural remains in the Ionian Islands?
Did you know that Sholaye-e Inquilab ("Flame of the Revolution") was the first Tajik Persian newspaper founded in Soviet Turkestan?
Did you know that Virginia Mae Brown, the "'First Lady of Transportation", was the first woman chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission since its inception in 1887?
Did you know that caregiving behaviour is evolutionarily hardwired?
Did you know that the Egyptian Olympic Committee distributed counterfeit Nike gear to its delegation to the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that the Statue of Tara from Sri Lanka (partly pictured) was kept hidden for 30 years in the British Museum because it was considered too erotic?
Did you know that King Louis I of Naples had one cousin murdered so he could marry another, and was described by Petrarch as "violent and mendacious, prodigal and avaricious, debauched and cruel"?
Did you know that Sammy Drake and his brother Solly Drake were the first two African-American brothers to play in Major League Baseball?
Did you know that Welsh singer Bessie Jones was the first to record Noël Coward's earliest stage lyric, "Peter Pan", from the revue Tails Up!?
Did you know that a freeway segment of U.S. Highway 31, delayed for many years because of the Mitchell's Satyr butterfly, is now on hold due to funding issues?
Did you know that although the 1996 reunion of the Argentine band V8 was not advertised, it was recorded in the live album Homenaje?
Did you know that despite some reviewers praising ATV: Quad Frenzy's graphics and soundtrack, VideoGamer.com's review said it was "quite disgraceful" that it "even made it onto the store shelves"?
Did you know that in 1975 TIME magazine named Schwester Selma, head nurse at Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, as one of the world's "living saints", alongside Mother Teresa and Sister Annie?
Did you know that the 14th-century John Grandisson Triptych was made from elephant ivory?
Did you know that when a person's belief is disconfirmed, it can actually lead to stronger conviction?
Did you know that Hermética's EP Intérpretes includes a thrash metal cover version of the tango "Cambalache"?
Did you know that although the pear limpet feeds on the coralline alga Spongites yendoi, their relationship could be considered mutually beneficial?
Did you know that as President of the American Physical Society, James A. Krumhansl advocated for more visas and immigration opportunities for Chinese scholars following the Tiananmen square massacre?
Did you know that during the 2012–13 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season one school advanced to the Sweet Sixteen round in each region of the 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament?
Did you know that the 9.5-metre (31 ft) wide Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St John the Baptist (detail pictured) by Bartholomeus Strobel is also an allegory of the Thirty Years' War, with portraits of many leading figures?
Did you know that the Lebombo cycad is a different species from the Lebombo cycad?
Did you know that the Wealth Partaking Scheme is a cash disbursement policy by the Macau Government to all the holders of a Macau Resident Identity Card?
Did you know that when the Alid Muhammad the Pure Soul launched his abortive uprising against the Abbasids, Caliph al-Mansur is said to have remarked that at last he had "enticed the fox out of his hole"?
Did you know that China's Four Seas were metaphorical?
Did you know that John Marshall Hamilton, the 18th Governor of Illinois, first became active in politics when he was thirteen years old?
Did you know that Lyndon B. Johnson's dual appointment of Thomas C. Mann was called "a declaration of independence, even perhaps a declaration of aggression against the Kennedys"?
Did you know that Mark Williams-Thomas researched and presented The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, an award-winning ITV Exposure documentary?
Did you know that Shirley Erena Murray's hymns are published in more than 140 hymnals?
Did you know that USNS Lewis B. Puller (T-MLP-3/T-AFSB-1) will be the first purpose-built afloat forward staging base (AFSB) support vessel for the United States Navy?
Did you know that in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the Arabic weekly al-Tilmiz was the most important journal for North Caucasian intellectuals?
Did you know that the 2013 Little India riot, which had about 400 participants, resulted in 25 emergency vehicles being damaged?
Did you know that the Black Squirrel Creek Bridge was demolished a little under ten years after it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that the Tamil Nadu Fire and Rescue Services was the first fire department in India to have female fire officers?
Did you know that Edge referred to Deathrow as a substance-less and "contrived clone" of the 1990 Speedball 2?
Did you know that Philipp Nicolai wrote the hymn "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme", the base for Bach's cantata, after the plague hit his hometown?
Did you know that Subir Banerjee, who played Apu in Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali (1955), never acted in any film afterwards?
Did you know that The King's Hall, Herne Bay, England, was designed by F.W.J. Palmer?
Did you know that architect Richard Rogers' house for his parents, 22 Parkside, inspired his work on the Centre Pompidou and the Lloyd's building?
Did you know that hōchōdō (庖丁道; the way of the cleaver) is a traditional Japanese culinary art form of filleting a fish or fowl without touching it with one's hands (demonstration pictured)?
Did you know that the British destroyer HMS Beagle rescued 600 survivors of the ocean liner Lancastria, sunk by German aircraft during the evacuation of St. Nazaire on 17 June 1940?
Did you know that the Kim Mitchell song "Patio Lanterns" was broadcast on Canadian radio stations more than 100,000 times within 10 years of its 1986 release?
Did you know that the Nový Smíchov shopping centre in Prague has hosted rock climbing?
Did you know that when Roy Conacher was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1998, he joined his brothers Lionel and Charlie as the only trio of siblings so honoured?
Did you know that Charles Voysey's remodelling of Garden Corner in London ensured that politician Emslie Horniman's wife had sliding shelves, to bring the morning tea-tray over her bed?
Did you know that Cobrapost conducted a sting operation which led to the expulsion of eleven MPs from the Parliament of India?
Did you know that Elizabeth Burchenal, considered America's leading authority on folk dancing, organized large folk dance gatherings – one in particular involving 10,000 schoolgirls?
Did you know that Hong Kong's Central Government Offices, Office of the Chief Executive and Legislative Council Complex are located on Tamar Park?
Did you know that Meralda Warren and several children on Pitcairn Island wrote the first book published in both English and Pitkern, a South Pacific creole language?
Did you know that during the exile of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, his eldest son Edmund Mortimer was imprisoned at Windsor Castle?
Did you know that the General John Frelinghuysen House, originally a c. 1756 tavern and town hall, is now the public library in Raritan, New Jersey?
Did you know that the Song fleet, armed with bombs launched by trebuchets, defeated the Jin navy in the Battle of Caishi on the Yangtze River during the Jin–Song wars?
Did you know that the extinct ant Agroecomyrmex duisburgi (head pictured) was first described in 1868?
Did you know that the totem pole in the Great Court of the British Museum is 39 feet (12 m) high?
Did you know that Dick Dodd, drummer and lead singer on the 1966 Billboard hit "Dirty Water", bought his first snare drum from fellow Mouseketeer Annette Funicello for $20?
Did you know that Kaiser Wilhelm set a record in minor league baseball that was not fully confirmed for almost a hundred years?
Did you know that Sir Denis Wright, former U.K. ambassador to Iran, was brought out of retirement on a covert mission to inform the deposed Shah that he would not be granted asylum in Britain?
Did you know that Swan House was called the "finest Queen Anne Revival domestic building in London"?
Did you know that four U.S. highways, including US-64, converge in a traffic circle surrounding the Cimarron County Courthouse in Boise City, Oklahoma?
Did you know that nuns sought donations in saloons to build the first St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton, Oregon?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court case FTC v. Actavis, Inc. challenged "pay-for-delay" settlements in the pharmaceutical industry?
Did you know that the building which houses the National Press Monument was once an office of the Indonesian Red Cross Society?
Did you know that the link between marriage and health is related to cancer and heart attacks?
Did you know that American frontiersman James Caudy purportedly fought off Native American fighters by nudging them off a rock formation one by one with his rifle barrel?
Did you know that Danilo Kiš's final work, the 1983 collection The Encyclopedia of the Dead, helped make him one of the most important figures for the post-Yugoslav generation of writers?
Did you know that Faik Ali Ozansoy is known for having saved thousands of lives during the Armenian Genocide?
Did you know that Macau's Time Capsule is scheduled to be opened on December 19, 2049?
Did you know that Tom Bayer, formerly serving in the United States Army, gave up his U.S. citizenship to become a citizen of Vanuatu?
Did you know that Xiu Xiu's upcoming Angel Guts: Red Classroom was influenced by the Japanese erotic film of the same name and its frontman's move to a dangerous area of Los Angeles?
Did you know that in the 1952 Hyderabad State Assembly election, the communist People's Democratic Front won all seats from the Nalgonda district?
Did you know that the inscription on Bridget Chaworth's monument commemorates her 25 years of service as a gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber to Elizabeth I and 14 years of service to Anne of Denmark?
Did you know that the sale of Saying Grace has left an "irreplaceable hole" in the Norman Rockwell Museum's collection, according to the museum's director?
Did you know that the sängerfest (postcard pictured) origins can be traced to educator Carl August Zeller and composer Hans Georg Nägeli, protégés of Swiss pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi?
Did you know that 2012 Spanish Paralympic blind footballer Antonio Jesús Martín Gaitán scored his team's bronze medal winning goal in a shootout watched by the Duchess of Lugo?
Did you know that Angus Wallace performed surgery on another passenger on a British Airways flight?
Did you know that Deborah Rutter, the first woman named to head the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, applied in German for her first art job in Los Angeles?
Did you know that Hällingsåfallet, a waterfall along the Vildmarksvägen route, has been described as "Sweden's answer to Niagara Falls"?
Did you know that SS Oropesa sank after being hit with a torpedo by German submarine U-96?
Did you know that Wenilo took an annual tribute of "one horse and a shield and lance" from the monastery of Saint-Rémy in Sens?
Did you know that critics praised the band Stryper for featuring their classic 1980s sound on their latest album No More Hell to Pay?
Did you know that the cause of the 1956 Anjar earthquake, which killed at least 115 people, was reverse faulting?
Did you know that the claim that over 80% of South Africans use traditional healers is greatly exaggerated, according to Africa Check?
Did you know that the thirteen figures (example pictured) who guarded the tomb of General Liu Tingxun in 728 AD are now in London?
Did you know that the town of Stora Blåsjön, Sweden, has a moose farm featuring a pair of moose named Hilda and Herbert?
Did you know that Benjamin Disraeli claimed he wrote his novel Vivian Grey at Hyde House?
Did you know that Deborah Sussman designed the visual landscape for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles?
Did you know that Gerry Brand kicked the longest drop goal ever recorded in rugby union?
Did you know that Golda Meir sold shares for the New York newspaper Di Tsayt?
Did you know that Münchsmünster Abbey was closed in 1556 during the upheavals of the Reformation?
Did you know that Paradesi was the 1953 film that launched the career of Sivaji Ganesan, though it was not his first release?
Did you know that Raja Casablanca will be the first host nation champion to play in a FIFA Club World Cup final since 2000 when they play Bayern Munich in the 2013 FIFA Club World Cup Final?
Did you know that Sir Geoffrey Harrison was recalled as British Ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1968 after he admitted to an affair with his Russian maid, who was a KGB "honey trap"?
Did you know that the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League was dissolved in 1955 and later renamed as the Ivy League?
Did you know that the grand architecture of the Carnegie Free Library of Beaver Falls helped to influence Andrew Carnegie's decision to require simpler designs for Carnegie libraries?
Did you know that the music video for the song "Malang" had a production cost of ₹50 million (US$590,000)?
Did you know that Guildford Road in Perth, Western Australia was supposed to be called the Great Eastern Highway?
Did you know that Johnny Jebsen was a WWII Artist whose kidnap by the Gestapo put at risk the Allied deception cover for D-Day?
Did you know that Tommy Graham scored one of the goals that inflicted "one of the most humiliating Cup defeats" in Chelsea's history?
Did you know that a wealthy Augsburg patrician was one of the financial sponsors of Johann Georg von Lori's education?
Did you know that the Big Apple has "apple green" taxis?
Did you know that the Picture Rock Pass Petroglyphs (diagram pictured) in Lake County, Oregon, were probably created during the Clovis or Stemmed Point period between 7,500 and 12,000 years ago?
Did you know that the Swedish result in the PISA 2012 student survey was called a national crisis by social democratic leader Stefan Löfven?
Did you know that the fungus Phialemonium curvatum can be identified through the use of PCR and DNA sequencing of its internal transcribed spacer?
Did you know that the hip-hop group Beautiful Eulogy experiments with other music styles such as folk, electronic, hymn tunes, and contemporary worship music?
Did you know that the statue illustrated holds a sword in its proper right hand?
Did you know that Adrienne Augarde suffered a fatal attack of appendicitis while her show was playing at the Majestic Theater in Chicago?
Did you know that England's Robert Webb took a saw to his mellotron and played only the right half?
Did you know that Mikio Mizuta founded Josai University in between two of his terms as the finance minister of Japan?
Did you know that Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Jake Diekman attended a high school in Nebraska that did not field a baseball team, yet still made the major leagues?
Did you know that Summer Leys in Northamptonshire, England, is a nature reserve in an area of international importance for wintering wildfowl?
Did you know that the Communist Party of Australia candidate Fred Paterson won almost 25% of the votes in the 1936 by-election in Bowen, Queensland?
Did you know that the J.J. Deal and Son Carriage Factory became the largest factory built in Jonesville?
Did you know that the computer model for the future version of the Enterprise seen in the Star Trek:Enterprise episode "Azati Prime" was created in only a few hours?
Did you know that the experience of Emil Rebreanu, an Austro-Hungarian Romanian military officer executed during World War I, inspired his brother Liviu to write the novel Forest of the Hanged?
Did you know that the giant spiny frog is the largest frog in Hong Kong?
Did you know that when homologous chromosomes do not separate correctly, it can lead to fertility problems and cancer?
Did you know that Arthur Hulme was the first Brighton & Hove Albion footballer to be awarded a benefit match?
Did you know that Leyla Güngör scored a goal against Spain in her first game as a member of the Turkey women's national football team?
Did you know that Turkestan cockroaches are replacing crickets as feeder insects?
Did you know that Wesley Gray took a four-year sabbatical from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business to serve in the United States Marine Corps?
Did you know that a painting by Keith Henderson was shown at the first WAAC Britain at War exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art despite it provoking fury in the Air Ministry?
Did you know that flow cytometry bioinformaticians use methods from computational statistics and machine learning to analyse single cell data gathered by flow cytometry for cancer and  HIV/AIDS research?
Did you know that for the first season of Masters of Sex, Michelle Ashford assembled a majority-female writing staff, although she says this was unintentional?
Did you know that in 2012, painter Aleah Chapin became the first American woman to win the UK National Portrait Gallery's BP Portrait Award?
Did you know that in the year following Herbert Hoover's nomination for President of the United States, more than 17,000 people visited his birthplace in West Branch, Iowa?
Did you know that the declaration of Christmas Peace is read publicly on Christmas Eve at the Old Great Square in the Finnish city of Turku, and has been almost every year since the 14th century?
Did you know that the fossils of the dinosaur Arcovenator escotae were found through preliminary digging before construction took place on the A8 motorway in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France?
Did you know that when the Bronze Heads from Ife (example pictured) were found in Nigeria in 1938, Leo Frobenius said they were Ancient Greek and explained the Atlantis myth?
Did you know that Andrew Lusk Shields tried to persuade Major General Christopher Maltby to surrender Hong Kong, but he fought on until "Black Christmas" 1941?
Did you know that Malplaquet House in Stepney, London, uninhabited for over a century, is "possibly the most superbly restored, privately owned Georgian house in the country"?
Did you know that Sondre Bratland's Christmas album Rosa frå Betlehem was recorded in the Church of the Nativity?
Did you know that Vincenzo Negrini's earliest recorded performances were at the Teatro Comunitativo where he appeared in Mercadante's opera Didone abbandonata and Rossini's Semiramide?
Did you know that arctic or snowy wood-rush has been described as one of the most ecologically important of all arctic plants?
Did you know that the Fraternal Society of Patriots of Both Sexes met in the Jacobins convent which also hosted meetings of the Jacobin Club?
Did you know that the Laura Seddon Greeting Card Collection includes Britain's first commercially produced Christmas card?
Did you know that the Lincoln Road–Pine River Bridge, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999, was completed in 1922 at a total cost of $18,186.15?
Did you know that the extinct ant Anonychomyrma constricta has been placed in four different genera since it was first described in 1868?
Did you know that the world's largest gingerbread house (example pictured) had edible walls and measured 2,520 square feet (234 m2)?
Did you know that A Boy was Born, the first major vocal composition by Benjamin Britten, received its premiere in 1934 as a BBC broadcast?
Did you know that Danny Dyer, who is set to debut as Mick Carter in EastEnders on Christmas Day, was also approached to play Carl White in the show?
Did you know that Die Singphoniker recorded Schubert's complete part songs and Singphonic Christmas, European Christmas carols?
Did you know that Leona Lewis recorded her first Christmas album, Christmas, with Love, on the recommendation of Simon Cowell?
Did you know that Les cadeaux de Noël, an opera in one act by Xavier Leroux, premiered on Christmas Day at the Opéra-Comique during World War I?
Did you know that Oh for Joy, the first Christmas studio album from David Crowder Band, reached a peak position of six on Christian Albums?
Did you know that The X Factor winner Sam Bailey, who got the 2013 UK Christmas number one with a cover version of "Skyscraper", has the nickname "screwbo", a portmanteau of "screw" and "SuBo"?
Did you know that William Cooke gave Selwyn College "five thousand rare, valuable, and useful patristic, liturgical, and other works"?
Did you know that a polar bear sketch by William Gordon Burn Murdoch, who painted an 1892 Antarctic Expedition, has been used as a Christmas card?
Did you know that in his Nativity, Petrus Christus symbolizes the first mass by showing the angels dressed in vestments for the Eucharist?
Did you know that mazurek cakes are traditionally served in Poland during Easter and Christmas?
Did you know that the arctic–alpine woodrush Luzula wahlenbergii has the common name Reindeer Wood-rush?
Did you know that Department S's second single, "Going Left Right", has been described as "among the finest songs of the entire post-punk early '80s"?
Did you know that Nowell Parr was responsible for an Old Packhorse and Three Horseshoes?
Did you know that Sandycombe Lodge, a Grade II* listed house designed by and built for artist J. M. W. Turner in 1813, was added to English Heritage's Heritage at Risk Register in 2013?
Did you know that Virginia House Delegate Isaac Parsons served as a militia officer during the American Revolutionary War and operated a ferry across the South Branch Potomac River?
Did you know that exactly 1,000 years after "Good King Wenceslas" died, Saint Wenceslas Church was built in commemoration of the event?
Did you know that in a survey of 270 Americans, none of them knew how global warming works?
Did you know that it has been said of painter Vardges Sureniants that he "will live as long as the Armenian people"?
Did you know that the third key of alchemist Basil Valentine may describe a complex chemical process known as the volatilization of gold chloride?
Did you know that Dorle Soria, a founder of Angel Records, helped promote Leonard Bernstein's 1943 debut with the New York Philharmonic?
Did you know that Frederick Fox designed hats for Queen Elizabeth II and other members of the British Royal Family?
Did you know that South Sudanese Minister of Health Riek Gai Kok has been a member of the parliaments of both Sudan and South Sudan?
Did you know that during the Siege of Kaifeng (1232), the Jin Dynasty (Jin envoys pictured) used extensive gunpowder technology, including trebuchet bombs and fire lances?
Did you know that in 1940 the Supreme Court of Estonia accepted an order, given by the government of the Estonian SSR, to disband itself?
Did you know that the 1953 Tamil film Thirumbi Paar was written by M. Karunanidhi, a prominent member of the Dravidian Progress Federation, as a satire on the ruling Indian National Congress?
Did you know that the recent derailment in the Bronx of a Metro-North commuter train caused the first passenger deaths in the railroad's history?
Did you know that the satirical novel Er ist wieder da was priced at €19.33, a deliberate reference to Hitler's ascent to power in that year?
Did you know that Carol Channing, Donald Trump and Nicholas Turturro made cameo appearances on the sitcom The Drew Carey Show in the episode "New York and Queens"?
Did you know that Lord Nairne was one of the first to rally to the cause of the Old Pretender in the Jacobite rising of 1715?
Did you know that Scintillate was rated an "inferior" winner of the Epsom Oaks?
Did you know that Stefan Marinović printed his first book in the printing house of Vićenco Vuković?
Did you know that at the Battle of Tawahin between the Abbasids and the Tulunids, the commanders of both armies fled the battlefield?
Did you know that the Battle of Shela was a major change in the history of the coast of Kenya?