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Did you know that director Frank Stähle revived the choir and orchestra of Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium and conducted them in Mozart's Requiem for the centenary of the Lutherkirche?
Did you know that physical paintings of Pepe the frog have been put up for sale on eBay?
Did you know that porpoises were one of the most accessible species for early cetologists, because they could be seen very close to land, inhabiting shallow coastal areas?
Did you know that the Andes have risen significantly in the last 30 million years?
Did you know that the photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur was the "main human subject" of the 2013 documentary film The Ghosts in Our Machine?
Did you know that Rapid Vienna won the 1941 German football championship on the same day that Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union?
Did you know that Stanisław Lem's character pilot Pirx defeats a perfect robot thanks to human imperfection?
Did you know that Surinam-born Dutch author Astrid Roemer is the first Caribbean writer selected to receive the highest Dutch literary prize, the P. C. Hooft Award?
Did you know that after she treated injured students in the 1981 protests in Kosovo, Sehadete Mekuli was denied a full professorship at the University of Pristina and forced into early retirement?
Did you know that artist Naziha Mestaoui's One Heart, One Tree installation at COP21 will support the planting of 52,677 trees?
Did you know that at General Aung San's request, Myint Swe used to play the violin while Khin Kyi sang the hits of the day?
Did you know that hors d'oeuvre trays served on a table may be referred to as buffet-style, while those held and passed by servers are part of butler-style service or butlered hors d'oeuvres?
Did you know that of the ten songs written by Brad Neely for China, IL's "Magical Pet", three are performed by Cat Power?
Did you know that the Church of St George the Exiler in Famagusta has been used as a Nestorian church, a stable for camels, a Greek Orthodox church, and a cultural center over its 650-year history?
Did you know that the Texas A&M–Commerce Lions women's volleyball team plays its home games at the University Field House, which George Dahl designed to resemble an airplane hangar?
Did you know that the hydrology of the Daecheong Dam, on the Geum River in South Korea, is influenced by seasonal monsoons?
Did you know that Brigitte Boehme, the president of the Protestant Church of Bremen who moved the German Evangelical Church Assembly 2009 to the town, was baptized in her forties?
Did you know that Philippine presidential candidate Roy Señeres hopes he will not be declared a "nuisance candidate" by the Comelec during the upcoming election?
Did you know that a father and son received the death penalty for the Woodburn bank bombing, which accidentally killed two policemen?
Did you know that a lotus medallion and a 9-foot (2.7 m)-long pillar depicting the Buddha as fire were stolen from the Chandavaram Buddhist site?
Did you know that at least seven denominations trace their history to a Pentecostal church founded by Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate, the first American woman to serve as bishop in a nationally-recognized denomination?
Did you know that the Baltit Fort, which also functioned as a palace, was built when the village of Karimabad was under the rulership of the Mir of Hunza?
Did you know that the Mediterranean saltwort, a climax plant on the Syrian steppe, is part of the varied wildlife of Syria?
Did you know that the Yoga-kundalini Upanishad is one of the most important texts on Kundalini yoga?
Did you know that the first reported Shinto wedding ceremony was in the 1880s?
Did you know that Isopogon ceratophyllus is known as the wild irishman and horny conebush?
Did you know that Norman C. Pickering, co-founder of the Audio Engineering Society, was caught off guard by the introduction of the LP record?
Did you know that Sarah Hay has been nominated for a Golden Globe, a Satellite Award, and a Critics' Choice Television Award for what she considers to be her first acting role?
Did you know that Turkish football referee Yeliz Topaloğlu is the first FIFA-listed female beach soccer official?
Did you know that Wided Bouchamaoui, the leader of UTICA, was one of those accepting the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet?
Did you know that a museum collection of Irish film costumes compiled by Eimer Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh included a set of underwear worn by Daniel Day-Lewis in In the Name of the Father?
Did you know that as many as 3.3 million newborns die each year, of which 23.4% succumb to neonatal infection?
Did you know that at the time of its introduction on the Elkhorn Grade, the N&W LC-1 was the largest and heaviest electric locomotive in the United States?
Did you know that in 1573, Emperor Akbar had set up his military base camp near Gopi Talav during the siege of Surat?
Did you know that in Christ, the Messenger, Swami Vivekananda attempted to analyze the life and messages of Jesus through Vedanta?
Did you know that residents in the English village of Clovelly operated their own rescue services from 1988 to 1998, because Clovelly Lifeboat Station was closed by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution?
Did you know that the Palestinian Liberation Front left the PLO in protest against the 1993 Oslo Accords?
Did you know that the eponymous story in the manga Trash Market is based on the author's experience working at a blood bank?
Did you know that the pianist Staffan Scheja had a well-publicized feud with comedian Jonas Gardell when he tried to teach Gardell how to play the violin in the series Stjärnorna på slottet?
Did you know that Rakel Wärmländer's real-life friend, actress Josephine Bornebusch, played her friend in the film Love and Lemons?
Did you know that dak bungalows are "about as handsome as a stack of hay"?
Did you know that during his 50-year acting career, John Marriott originated the role of Joe Mott in Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, and played the asthmatic security guard in the film Dog Day Afternoon?
Did you know that during the governorship of Ridwan Pasha, founder of the Ridwan dynasty, Ottoman authority in Yemen largely collapsed?
Did you know that in 1965 a USGS employee found everyone he met in and around Freeburg, Pennsylvania, knew a nearby stream as "Susquehecka Creek", but only two knew how to spell the name?
Did you know that in the early 1940s, the New York Yankees used the Salamanca Erie Railroad station as a rest stop because of a delayed game with the Cleveland Indians?
Did you know that literary scholar Hana Wirth-Nesher grew up with her father reading to her in Yiddish, her mother and grandmother speaking to her in German, and her friends conversing with her in English?
Did you know that the Ornithological Dictionary; or Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds is George Montagu's best-known work, and the one that established his reputation as a pioneer of British ornithology?
Did you know that the hydrochloride salt of benzylamine (molecular model pictured) was given to NASA astronaut John Glenn as a treatment for motion sickness in the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission?
Did you know that varieties of macun were served in Turkey as both a medicine and as a confectionery during the time of the Ottoman Empire?
Did you know that while Julien Baker was writing the songs on Sprained Ankle, she didn't intend to release them as an album?
Did you know that "one of the most significant 20th-century examples of funerary sculpture" can be found in East Sheen Cemetery?
Did you know that Gaylord Wilshire's electric belt used a weak magnetic current to purportedly cure most diseases and improve health?
Did you know that Poe Dameron, portrayed by Oscar Isaac, was initially scripted to be killed off in Star Wars: The Force Awakens?
Did you know that President Obama shared a Death by Chocolate cake with the crew of Air Force One?
Did you know that Richard Honeywood established best practices for video game localization at Square after going through "pure hell" while translating Xenogears?
Did you know that flooding has been known to occur on Dry Run?
Did you know that high school best friends Zofia Glazer and Cypora Zonszajn saved Rachel while separated by circumstances beyond their control during the Holocaust in occupied Poland?
Did you know that in The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton, January 3, 1777, the painter used the general's son as a model?
Did you know that the footballer Rafa Jordà scored six goals in the 2007–08 season, which saw his side being promoted to La Liga?
Did you know that the image of Marianna Dolińska's dead children has been falsely used to represent victims of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army?
Did you know that Jessica Plummer started her singing and acting careers in 2013?
Did you know that Lionel Royce, who fled Europe due to the Nazi persecution of Jews, became well known in American films for playing a Nazi?
Did you know that Sergio Casas was elected Governor of La Rioja Province, Argentina after serving as vice-governor?
Did you know that Sudanese citizens report that the police are the most corrupt institution in Sudan?
Did you know that one failed candidate for Toulouse's Capitoulate tearfully complained in court that his 4000-livre bribe had bought him nothing?
Did you know that photographer Jarrad Seng pranked music festivalgoers by disguising himself as American DJ Steve Aoki?
Did you know that screenwriter Kelly Fremon is making her directing debut with the upcoming film Besties?
Did you know that some fans had a racist reaction to the character of Finn in Star Wars: The Force Awakens?
Did you know that the wildflower Isopogon latifolius is the showiest of the drumstick genus Isopogon?
Did you know that while Ben Musa served as an Oregon state senator, his wife was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives, representing approximately half of his senate district?
Did you know that Crab Run is listed as being impaired by abandoned mine drainage, even though no mining has been done in its watershed?
Did you know that French economist Laurence Tubiana, appointed Special Ambassador to the COP21 climate change meeting in Paris, managed the negotiations that led to a new agreement signed by 195 countries?
Did you know that South Hams District Council in Devon offers seagull-proof refuse sacks to reduce waste and injuries caused by the birds?
Did you know that VPRO founder Nicolette Bruining was honored as Righteous Among the Nations for assisting Jews during World War II?
Did you know that a small fish, the California grunion,  buries its eggs in sand high on a beach?
Did you know that one historian described the family relationships of Alan de Neville (floruit 1168) as "a veritable labyrinth into which many a genealogical enquiry has vanished without trace"?
Did you know that the Alliance of Palestinian Forces, formed in 1993 by Hamas and nine other groups who rejected the Oslo Accords, was marginalized by the time of the Second Intifada in 2000?
Did you know that the National Education Association started a teacher legal defense fund with monies left over from collections for Kate Frank's case to be rehired by Muskogee schools?
Did you know that the geology of the Sharyn Canyon is sedimentary red sandstone, which has weathered to create unusual formations?
Did you know that the soul sampling in Porter Robinson's hip-hop- and disco-influenced track "Flicker" was inspired by Daft Punk's second album Discovery?
Did you know that the video for the rap number "An Open Letter to Honey Singh", which was written in one hour, received around a million hits in five days?
Did you know that King Henry II of England supposedly said of Alan de Neville, his chief forester, that an abbey could have his body, the king would have his money, and "the demons of hell his soul"?
Did you know that Swedish journalist Per Sinding-Larsen has interviewed musicians such as Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, and Madonna during his years at ZTV?
Did you know that between 1995 and 2003, table tennis player Jing Junhong won medals at five consecutive Southeast Asian Games?
Did you know that brain surgery can be done while the patient is awake?
Did you know that physicist Ronald Mickens was a member of the founding council of the Edward Bouchet Abdus Salam Institute, which supports collaboration among African and American physicists?
Did you know that professional wrestler Sean Royal was once managed by a robot?
Did you know that reconnaissance aircraft were flown into tropical cyclones in the Australian region only during the 1978–79 season?
Did you know that the black-bellied tern, an endangered species, breeds by rivers and is threatened by human activities?
Did you know that the debut single "Talk Talk" by The Music Machine has been attributed to influencing The Doors and Iron Butterfly, as well as future punk bands?
Did you know that the first baby born on the London Underground was delivered at the Elephant & Castle tube station in 1924?
Did you know that the steeple of the Readington Reformed Church was blown over by a cyclone on January 3, 1913, and restored one hundred years later?
Did you know that the world's largest star sapphire, The Star of Adam, is valued at $100 million?
Did you know that "Zueignung" (Dedication), the first published song by Richard Strauss, was dedicated to Heinrich Vogl, the principal tenor of the Munich Court Opera?
Did you know that 2015 auction prices for pieces from the Meissen porcelain Swan Service of 1737–1742 (example pictured) include £31,250 for a teacup and saucer?
Did you know that The Pink Assassin was a flamboyant masked villain from Fire Island, New York?
Did you know that comedian Rachel Mohlin made her acting debut in the soap opera Vänner och fiender, appearing in 695 episodes?
Did you know that in Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid, BWV 3, a chorale cantata based on Moller's hymn in 18 stanzas, the first cantus firmus is sung by the bass supported by a trombone?
Did you know that in the viral ad video Heimkommen, a German grandfather fakes his own death to reunite his family?
Did you know that the Forty Hadith authored by Ayatollah Khomeini is a collection of personal interpretations of 40 traditions attributed to the prophet Muhammad and The Twelve Imams?
Did you know that the Mamluk sultan an-Nasir Ahmad ruled from the desert fortress of al-Karak instead of the Mamluk capital in Cairo?
Did you know that the nearly 2000-year-old Hindu text Jabala Upanishad discusses what makes Varanasi holy?
Did you know that when General Vang Pao begged senior generals for reinforcements to stave off defeat in Campaign 139, they were busy with parade practice?
Did you know that Clara Henry wrote the book I've Got the Period, So What? about female menstrual periods and why women should not be ashamed to talk about them?
Did you know that Methane Pioneer was the world's first oceangoing LNG tanker?
Did you know that Patricia M. Collins and Donald Collins were the first married couple to each serve as mayor of Caribou, Maine?
Did you know that Sankofa is the fossilized remains of eggs that were probably laid by a transitional species from dinosaurs to birds?
Did you know that botanist Pieter Baas was convinced that Queen Beatrix helped in the formation of the National Herbarium of the Netherlands, which the responsible minister denied?
Did you know that former Rajya Sabha member Lakhiram Agrawal was detained under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act in 1975 during The Emergency?
Did you know that in 19th-century America, any amateur hunter could kill six passenger pigeons in a single shot (shooting pictured)?
Did you know that the Bulgarian idiom "Ideal Petrov", denoting something of excellent quality, derives from the name of an actor?
Did you know that Bridget Tan, who founded the Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics to provide services to abused migrant workers, was honored for her work by Hillary Clinton?
Did you know that Edmund Wainwright was considered to be amongst those who resurrected South Australian cricket?
Did you know that Project Copper began and ended military cooperation between the Khmer Republic and the Kingdom of Laos?
Did you know that Suzanne Humbert, the wife of former French Governor of Indochina Jean Decoux, is buried in the Domaine de Marie Catholic convent in Da Lat, Vietnam?
Did you know that five protesters were shot during demonstrations against the shooting of Jamar Clark?
Did you know that in the Maitreya Upanishad, Sakayanya expounds the nature of human life, stating that "Artha is Anartha", or "objects of senses are in truth worthless"?
Did you know that many Iranian women chose not to leave their houses, and a few even committed suicide, to avoid removing their hijabs due to Reza Shah's Kashf-e hijab decree?
Did you know that the Australian shrub Isopogon anemonifolius was first cultivated in the UK in 1791?
Did you know that to get her first job in television, Melissa Bachman worked for free, drove 150 miles (240 km)* daily, and supported herself as a waitress?
Did you know that until 1989 a wide downtown Yangon street was named after Htaw Lay, a 19th-century defector to the British and principal restorer of the Shwedagon Pagoda?
Did you know that City Oval, Pietermaritzburg and St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury, are the only two first-class cricket grounds with a tree inside the boundary?
Did you know that Paul I. Richards published one of the earliest theoretical models of traffic waves?
Did you know that Star Wars: The Force Awakens character Captain Phasma's creation was inspired by a rejected costume design for Kylo Ren?
Did you know that after winning the 1977 Indian general election from the Kutch constituency, Anant Dave rose to the status of "giant killer"?
Did you know that although all copies of William Ketel's work on the miracles of John of Beverley are lost, a previous transcription of the work forms the basis for the edition printed in Acta Sanctorum?
Did you know that an 18th-century waxworks exhibition on Fleet Street featured a woman whose father avoided starvation by sucking her breast?
Did you know that many female ghostly seadevils never encounter a male in the ocean depths in which they live?
Did you know that Cicely Blair discovered that people with albinism cannot get blackheads?
Did you know that Mile Run is almost two miles (3.2 km) long?
Did you know that New York Mets fans mark games started by Jacob deGrom with the Twitter hashtag #hairwego?
Did you know that an unusual number of recipients of the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military honour for gallantry, are buried in Richmond Cemetery?
Did you know that brothers Abe Moffat and Alex Moffat were trade unionists and communist activists who became successive presidents of the National Union of Scottish Mineworkers?
Did you know that in the 1819 Rann of Kutch earthquake, the Shiva Temple, Kera, was substantially damaged, leaving only the main spire and inner sanctum in a good condition?
Did you know that lack of parachutes cut flying at No. 1 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF (pupil pictured) before "permission was granted to continue training without them until supplies were forthcoming"?
Did you know that pianist Mina Miller founded Music of Remembrance to perform music by and about victims of the Holocaust?
Did you know that the silver mylossoma, an Amazon basin fish, feeds on fruit and seeds?
Did you know that to promote athletics in India, only Indian nationals are eligible for the prize money in the Kolkata Marathon?
Did you know that while interviewing for the post of dean of women at Bates College, Judith Magyar Isaacson was asked if she had ever resided in a dormitory and she replied, "Yes, at Auschwitz"?
Did you know that Alfonsina Orsini, though not elected, directed the decisions of the government of the Republic of Florence from 1515?
Did you know that Birdsill Holly invented a water pumping system for city mains that not only supplied drinking water for domestic service, but also furnished water under pressure for fire hydrants (Holly fire hydrant pictured)?
Did you know that Conor McGregor became the cover athlete of EA Sports UFC 2 by defeating José Aldo at UFC 194?
Did you know that Johan Ludvig Holstein was one of the co-founders of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters?
Did you know that Operaphone Records did not release recordings of operas?
Did you know that Turkish-German women's footballer Filiz Koç acted as a model, performed in a TV-series episode and worked as a sideline reporter?
Did you know that a verse from the Hindu text Maha Upanishad which regards the entire world as a family is engraved in the hall of the Parliament of India?
Did you know that bass-baritone Louis D'Angelo sang in the world premieres of seven operas at the Metropolitan Opera, including Puccini's Gianni Schicchi?
Did you know that during the Napoleonic occupation of the Principality of Erfurt, the French introduced street lighting and a tax on foreign horses to pay for maintaining the road surface?
Did you know that in 1929 John Watson became Solicitor General for Scotland in the UK's second Labour government, despite not being a member of the party?
Did you know that in Christine de Pizan's dream allegory Le livre du chemin de long estude (1402–03), she takes the place of Dante and replaces Virgil with his own Sibyl?
Did you know that the only description of the mystery rites of the goddess Isis comes from a Roman novel about a man who is transformed into a donkey?
Did you know that tumbling puffballs have been used as charms by the Chippewa people of North America?
Did you know that Agnieszka Popielewicz hosts the behind-the-scenes episodes of the Polish version of Dancing with the Stars?
Did you know that Gertrude Pitzinger, who toured Europe and the United States singing Lieder, recorded the alto part of Mozart's Requiem, conducted by Ferenc Fricsay?
Did you know that Jedi Training: Trials of the Temple features Darth Maul and lets children duel Darth Vader or the Seventh Sister?
Did you know that Tapastic was created as a "YouTube for comics"?
Did you know that Typhoon Fran in 1976 produced a then record 1,140 mm (44.8 in) of rain in 24 hours, in Hiso, Japan?
Did you know that after Bethany Decker disappeared, five years ago today, someone continued to send messages to her friends via her Facebook account?
Did you know that before becoming a successful pulp magazine illustrator, Modest Stein was an aspiring assassin until he dumped his dynamite in a Pittsburgh outhouse?
Did you know that prior to opening Trylon Microcinema, Take-Up Productions' first film screening was projected against a white brick wall behind a coffee shop?
Did you know that schoolboy Pranav Dhanawade broke a 116-year-old cricket world record by scoring 1,009 runs not out?
Did you know that the Indonesian composer Koesbini changed the final lines of his song "Bagimu Negeri" at the request of Sukarno?
Did you know that the archaeological finds reported from Chirand are from the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Iron Age periods, including a cache of 88 Kushan period coins?
Did you know that the artist Charles Haslewood Shannon is commemorated by a plaque in St Botolph's Church in Quarrington, where his father was rector for nearly 50 years?
Did you know that Cecil Thomas won the competition to design the first coinage for Queen Elizabeth II, but his design was used on only two British coins?
Did you know that Christ's Hospital, the forerunner of today's Stormont–Vail HealthCare complex in Kansas, was deeded to the city of Topeka for one dollar?
Did you know that Dreaming of You, the fifth and final studio album by American singer Selena, became the best-selling Latin album of all-time in the U.S.?
Did you know that F.C. United of Manchester's Broadhurst Park stadium includes a recycled stand previously used at another football ground?
Did you know that Zesh Rehman is the first Pakistani international footballer to play in the AFC Cup?
Did you know that during the photo shoot for the cover of Take Back, Kumi Koda did not even know what that shoot was for?
Did you know that in Assam, which has one of the largest elephant populations in India, the practice followed to trap them was the khedda system, also known as Mela Shikar?