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Did you know that Łazienkowska Thoroughfare, the most famous road in Poland, is part of the main transportation route for UEFA Euro 2012 connecting Okęcie Airport to the National Stadium in Warsaw?
Did you know that Algeripithecus, a 46–50 million year old fossil primate, was once crucial for the African origins of simians (monkeys and apes), but now suggests African origins for lemurs and lorisoids?
Did you know that Domenico Ghirlandaio finished the frescoes of the Santa Fina Chapel (detail pictured) three years before the cult of Santa Fina was authorized by Pope Sixtus IV in 1481?
Did you know that Duncan Curry, sometimes called the "Father of Baseball", was the president of the first organized baseball team and helped draft the first written rules of the game in 1845?
Did you know that Giuseppe Lorenzo Gatteri painted the ceiling in the Gravisi-Barbabianca Palace?
Did you know that Gojko Balšić, one of the founders of the League of Lezhë in 1444, was Skanderbeg's nephew?
Did you know that Haxhi Qamili, the main leader of the Peasant Revolt in Albania in 1914, was arrested by Serbian forces, tried in a court presided over by Xhelal Bey Zogu, and sentenced to hanging?
Did you know that Marta met the Sierra Leone women's national football team in 2011 as part of the United Nations Development Programme?
Did you know that Ryan Hanigan hit the first Major League Baseball pitch thrown to him for a double?
Did you know that Steve Waugh was the first cricket player to score 150 runs in an innings against all Test-playing nations, a Guinness record?
Did you know that The Alley piano bar has walls papered with thousands of business cards, including ones from Jerry Brown and Gregg Allman?
Did you know that the 2012 deployment of Carrier Strike Group Twelve will be the last for its famous flagship, the soon-to-be decommissioned aircraft carrier Enterprise?
Did you know that the Best Male Vocalist at the 2009 Indonesian Music Awards, Afgansyah Reza, never had any vocal training?
Did you know that the Druid's Head Inn, an old public house in Monmouth, Wales, now serves as the headquarters of the Monmouth Rugby Football Club?
Did you know that the family of Miami Zombie victim Ronald Poppo, a graduate of Manhattan's Stuyvesant High School, believed he had died 30 years ago?
Did you know that the first time the Chase Court considered an appeal from a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the circuit courts, Congress withdrew the U.S. Supreme Court's power to hear those appeals?
Did you know that the mineral motukoreaite is named for Motukorea, the island in New Zealand where it was discovered?
Did you know that the white rock shell (empty shell pictured) and the mulberry whelk both feed on other molluscs, but the white rock shell is also a cannibal?
Did you know that Carl Lachmund, who wrote detailed diaries on his studies with Franz Liszt, conducted a concert at the request of President William McKinley for the survivors of USS Maine?
Did you know that Hindustan Zindabad, a nationalistic slogan, translates to "Long Live India"?
Did you know that National League's 1934 Most Popular Umpire Dolly Stark created a women's clothing line named the "Dolly Stark Dress"?
Did you know that Punsari, a small village in Gujarat, was awarded with the "Best Panchayat in Gujarat" title?
Did you know that Roy Lichtenstein's Engagement Ring marks his transition from his prior painterly work to his subsequent more polished mechanical-looking work?
Did you know that Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn was a prisoner of war of the Japanese on the Burma Railway before becoming Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire and of Clwyd?
Did you know that Swedish author Edith Unnerstad wrote her first book at age 11 for a sister who had been hospitalized with scarlet fever?
Did you know that development of the Ten Broeck Triangle (houses on Hall Place, pictured) in Albany, New York, was spurred by the 1845 removal of a cemetery whose bodies and coffins kept washing out in heavy storms?
Did you know that the Jewish Orphanage of Berlin-Pankow was originally intended to be a home for refugee children who escaped pogroms after the assassination of Alexander II of Russia?
Did you know that the third digit in the banking industry's "3-6-3 Rule" refers to bankers being able to "tee off at the golf course by 3 p.m."?
Did you know that while flying accidents were commonplace at RAAF training establishments during World War II, No. 8 Service Flying Training School's first fatality was from drowning?
Did you know that 2008 silver-medal-winning Australian Opal Suzy Batkovic used to sneak out to concerts with basketball teammate Lauren Jackson while on scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport?
Did you know that Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott worshipped at St Saviour's Chapel in Lyttelton, New Zealand, before embarking on the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition?
Did you know that Bozh, the first Slavic ruler known in history, was captured and crucified together with his sons and 70 of his nobility by the invading Ostrogoths?
Did you know that British sport shooter Peter Wilson is coached by a member of the Dubai royal family?
Did you know that General Ulysses S. Grant held an outdoor council of war with his top generals on pews taken from the Massaponax Baptist Church?
Did you know that Jennifer Lopez's song "Goin' In", featuring Flo Rida, is featured on the soundtrack of the dance film Step Up Revolution?
Did you know that Jennifer Screen's first international basketball tournament with the Australian Opals was the 2006 World Championships in Brazil, where her team took home a gold medal?
Did you know that The Runaways' second album Queens of Noise features guitar solos from both lead guitarist Lita Ford and rhythm guitarist Joan Jett?
Did you know that although the first two fossils of Indraloris to be found were misidentified as a carnivoran and a loris, it is in fact a member of the extinct adapiform primates?
Did you know that chef Daniel Clifford serves garlic and bay leaf ice cream at his restaurant, Midsummer House?
Did you know that on 13 March 2012, BBC News reported that 17 police stations in South East Wales would close to the public, including the Monmouth Police Station?
Did you know that the 1976 song "Let Poland be Poland" by Jan Pietrzak became one of the anthems of Solidarity?
Did you know that the French ice hockey team, the Dragons de Rouen won both the regular season and Coupe Magnus in the 2011–12 Ligue Magnus season?
Did you know that the Puneri Pagadi (on head, pictured), a turban, is an intellectual property of the Indian city Pune?
Did you know that the Rhodesian Special Air Service was formed during the Malayan Emergency?
Did you know that the independent comedy drama film The Taiwan Oyster, co-starring British actress Leonora Moore and shot in Taiwan, has been described as a Texas road film?
Did you know that the success of the multi-language wall poems in Leiden, South Holland, inspired similar projects in Sofia, Bulgaria, and in Paris, France?
Did you know that three ten-foot-high (3 m) bronze horses (one pictured) in the City of London by English sculptor Althea Wynne have been nicknamed "Sterling, Dollar, and Yen"?
Did you know that Australian Opal Abby Bishop has played basketball professionally for the Seattle Storm, Canberra Capitals, Dandenong Rangers and Adelaide Lightning?
Did you know that David Stremme placed the Inception Motorsports car 16th on the grid in the team's very first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race attempt?
Did you know that Estonian Paralympian Marge Kõrkjas was awarded 100,000 krooni (about 6,400 euros) from the government following the 2004 Summer Paralympics?
Did you know that Japanese tennis player Ryosuke Nunoi served in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II and committed suicide at the end of the Burma Campaign?
Did you know that Jennifer Lopez's song "Until It Beats No More" was used as background music in her commercial for the Fiat 500?
Did you know that Kat Driscoll's performance at the 2011 World Championships earned Great Britain a trampolining place at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that St John's in Monmouth, Wales, has been described as "one of Monmouth's best-kept secrets"?
Did you know that Stichting Oud Politieke Delinquenten, a Dutch organization of convicted WW2 collaborators, included 1951 founders NSB "judge" Jan Wolthuis and Waffen-SS volunteer Jan Hartman, and Paul van Tienen who turned it into a political party?
Did you know that Walker–Grant School was the first public high school for black students in Fredericksburg, Virginia?
Did you know that although linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf is best known for the "Sapir-Whorf hypothesis", he never stated a hypothesis, writing instead about the "principle of linguistic relativity"?
Did you know that during the American Civil War, General Robert E. Lee ordered the destruction of the mansion at Fall Hill because it blocked his view of advancing Union Army troops?
Did you know that in his 2012 book, Scotty Bowers reveals Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars?
Did you know that the A968 in Shetland is Britain's northernmost A road?
Did you know that the National Gallery in Berlin has now expanded from its original 1876 building into five others, including a Schinkel church and two palace outbuildings in Charlottenburg?
Did you know that the mineral diaboleite was so named out of desperation?
Did you know that the name of the 1983 Bollywood film Log Kya Kahenge (What Will People Think?) refers to a social yardstick in India and the expectations surrounding women and marriage?
Did you know that the only medical school and law school in South Dakota are at the University of South Dakota?
Did you know that , as a U.S. Senator, future Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth drafted a statute that authorized punitive, court-ordered dissection of convicted murderers' corpses?
Did you know that All Saints Church, Helmsley, contains two chapels dedicated to different saints?
Did you know that Citra Award-winning actress Laura Basuki has been compared to Japanese AV idol Maria Ozawa?
Did you know that Glendower Street Congregational Church stood derelict for forty years before its conversion into the award-winning Glendower House?
Did you know that Nové Spojení, a series of railway tunnels and bridges built in Prague, won the transport category of the Czech Construction of the Year award in 2009?
Did you know that St Mary's Church, Whitby, was the setting for a scene from Bram Stoker's Dracula?
Did you know that World Suicide Prevention Day (10 September) builds awareness of suicides, including that one third are committed with pesticides like United Nations-banned organophosphates?
Did you know that You're Gonna Get Your Fucking Head Kicked In is chanted at opponents of pro wrestler Bryan Danielson?
Did you know that although Stracimir was the eldest son of Lord Balša, the youngest, Đurađ, became the major figure of the family?
Did you know that dental similarities in Afrotarsius, an African fossil primate, and Afrasia, a newly described fossil primate from Myanmar, add support to the hypothesis that simians first evolved in Asia?
Did you know that the Yemen women's national football team has four training sessions a week?
Did you know that the crash of an Australian National Airways Stinson in 1945 was believed by investigators to be the first in-flight structural failure attributable to metal fatigue?
Did you know that the mineral bobfergusonite has been found only in Canada and Argentina?
Did you know that the stadium at the Maury School in Fredericksburg, Virginia, was home to the annual Fredericksburg Dog Mart, which began in 1698?
Did you know that the upcoming film Anna Karenina will be the third collaboration between director Joe Wright and actress Keira Knightley?
Did you know that Allan W. Eckert claimed Incident at Hawk's Hill, his Newbery Honor novel about a boy who survives on the Canadian prairie with help from a mother badger, was based on a real event?
Did you know that Bahraini boy Ali Hassan is one of the youngest detainees since the national uprising began fourteen months ago in February 2011?
Did you know that Berchtesgaden National Park in Bavaria, Germany, was designated a Biosphere Reserve in 1990 by UNESCO?
Did you know that Bo Xilai is the pioneer of the Chongqing model?
Did you know that British swimmer Liam Tancock has taken up ballet in order to improve his medal chances at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Easwaran's Love Never Faileth seeks to "bring to light ... volcanic forces that work far, far below the surface strata of consciousness"?
Did you know that Foxley Wood is the largest ancient area of woodland in Norfolk and was mentioned in the Domesday Book?
Did you know that Jack Enzenroth in 1910 was the captain of the first baseball team to be coached by Branch Rickey?
Did you know that Julie Otsuka has won an Alex Award, a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and an Asian American Literary Award for her works on Japanese Americans?
Did you know that Roy Lichtenstein's Mural with Blue Brushstroke incorporates elements of his earlier works as does Artist's Studio—Look Mickey, which includes most of Look Mickey, the artist's first work to use Ben-Day dots and a speech balloon?
Did you know that according to an Alaskan report, a tribe of Eskimo cook the swamp cranberry with fish eggs and blubber?
Did you know that quantum mechanics can be formulated entirely in phase space if a quantum system is represented by a quasi-probability distribution?
Did you know that the Church of the Good Shepherd in Hadspen, Tasmania, took over ninety years to complete?
Did you know that the Estonian Sports Museum has helped organise an exhibition to celebrate Estonia's first Olympics in London?
Did you know that Bryan Holaday won the Johnny Bench Award in 2010, given to the top catcher in college baseball?
Did you know that Tom Luckey, creator of multi-story climbing structures known as Luckey Climbers, is paralyzed from the neck down?
Did you know that Umberto Lenzi's 1972 film Il coltello di ghiaccio features thematic and directorial elements which one reviewer found similar to the works of Lucio Fulci?
Did you know that When the Emperor was Divine, a historical fiction novel about Japanese American internment, was described as "a meditation on what it means to be loyal to one's country and to one's self"?
Did you know that boys from a Monmouth, Wales, prep school housed in The Grange won the British under-11 chess championship in 2003?
Did you know that it was Giovanni Lusieri who suggested that his employer should remove the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon?
Did you know that players will be able to jam electronics, tap cell phones, and manipulate traffic lights in order to track and kill a target in Ubisoft's upcoming video game, Watch Dogs?
Did you know that the Hessentag, the annual state festival of Hesse held since 1961, attracted more than 1.2 million visitors in Wetzlar in 2012?
Did you know that the PhD robes of Stanford University are stylistic copies of those used by Cambridge University in England?
Did you know that the inventory of Emery Walker's former home at 7 Hammersmith Terrace includes a lock of William Morris's hair and Dante Rossetti's teapot?
Did you know that two ministers in Kenya's government died in a helicopter crash in June 2012?
Did you know that while Réunion women's national football team is not recognised by FIFA, the team has played full internationals against South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe?
Did you know that "Kriss Kross" / "Clarion", a 2008 single by multinational band Guillemots, featured a live cover of "Black and Gold" by Sam Sparro as its B-side?
Did you know that Abdulbaset Sieda, the new head of the opposition Syrian National Council, used to be a university professor in Libya?
Did you know that Bach's chorale cantata Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein, BWV 2, based on Luther's hymn, is part of "the largest musical project that the composer ever undertook"?
Did you know that Blessed Elizabeth is said to have been the lawful heiress to the Hungarian throne but was harassed and forced to join a convent by her evil stepmother, Queen Agnes?
Did you know that Crulic: The Path to Beyond, released in 2011, was the first Romanian animated feature film in two decades?
Did you know that LinkedIn was hacked on June 7, 2012, resulting in the release of over 6 million user passwords?
Did you know that Syrian poet and writer Maryana Marrash revived the tradition of literary salons in the Middle East at the end of the 19th century?
Did you know that York City have recorded more league victories against Rochdale than against any other club, having beaten them 43 times from 100 attempts?
Did you know that a curator at the National Air and Space Museum, Louis Purnell, flew 88 bomber escort missions during World War II as a Tuskegee Airman, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross?
Did you know that despite the Seychelles women's national football team having played only two games up to June 2012, a national football tournament for women has been around in the country since the late 1990s?
Did you know that earthenware fragments from Odai Yamamoto I have a calibrated radiocarbon date of as early as 14,500 BC, before the warming at the end of the Pleistocene?
Did you know that the "Godfather of BBQ", Johnny Trigg, was the first person to win the Jack Daniels World Championship BBQ Invitational twice?
Did you know that the Houston College Classic is seen as the beginning of the college baseball season in Texas?
Did you know that the call of the Red-necked Avocet has been likened to a dog barking?
Did you know that the stable block of Newton Court, in Monmouth, hosts one of only three known breeding sites of the Greater Horseshoe Bat in Wales?
Did you know that twenty Bahraini health workers (some pictured) were sentenced to up to fifteen years' imprisonment by a military court in a trial that lasted for only a few minutes?
Did you know that 1972's Sette scialli di seta gialla was one of several "imitative whodunits" released after the success of Dario Argento's L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo?
Did you know that ARCA driver Darrell Basham's race shop was demolished by a tornado in March 2012?
Did you know that Book of Spells, an upcoming Wonderbook for PlayStation 3, is a companion to Harry Potter?
Did you know that Byzantine style frescos from 1380 in the Transfiguration Church in Novgorod Oblast, Russia, were destroyed during World War II and finally restored in the 1960s (example pictured)?
Did you know that R. L. Holdsworth reached the summit of Kamet, the highest mountain climbed at the time?
Did you know that The Chimneys' roof framing utilizes techniques common in the construction of ships' hulls at the time it was built in 1771?
Did you know that Third Eye Blind's discography includes an album that sold six million copies?
Did you know that Third Eye Blind's song "Blinded" is about a man who spies on his ex-lover in the bathroom?
Did you know that audience laughter during a scene in the Cheers episode "Coach's Daughter" between Coach and his daughter Lisa was muted out in the final cut?
Did you know that composer Włodzimierz Korcz received most recognition for the music to a protest song, which was adopted as an informal anthem of the Solidarity trade union in Communist Poland?
Did you know that composer, music theorist and hymn-writer Cyriakus Schneegass corresponded with Martin Luther and Caspar Creuziger?
Did you know that in the music video for her single "Me Haces Falta" (2007), Jennifer Lopez portrays an undercover FBI agent who surrenders her lover to the police and has regrets afterwards?
Did you know that items on display at the Royal New Zealand Navy's Torpedo Bay Navy Museum include the Māori warrior's skirt which the captain of the battlecruiser HMS New Zealand wore for good luck in battle?
Did you know that the 2012 election for mayor of Gaborone, Botswana, was contested when a councillor on the Gaborone City Council cut his ballot in half to vote twice?
Did you know that the Cornish folk tale of the Mermaid of Zennor was likely to have been inspired by chair carved with a mermaid at St Senara's Church in Zennor?
Did you know that the Yawata Steel Works were identified as the target for the bomb that fell on Nagasaki?
Did you know that the death of racer Pete Orr was a driving force for insurance reform in Florida?
Did you know that the freshwater crab Guinotia dentata prefers shady rivers to sunny ones?
Did you know that Bach's chorale cantata Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7, for St. John's Day, is based on Luther's hymn about the baptism of Jesus?
Did you know that Barry Stuppler submitted a $50 million bid for the Berlin Wall and helped create the California State Quarter in 2003?
Did you know that Dr. O'Dowd is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films?
Did you know that Israel plans to build a railway from the Red Sea city of Eilat to its Mediterranean ports that will compete with the Suez Canal?
Did you know that Jennifer Lopez's song "Good Hit" was momentarily removed from her seventh studio album Love? following its negative response when a snippet leaked online?
Did you know that Kyle Larson won the first stock car race he ever competed in?
Did you know that NAAFI Canteen Manager John Leake was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for manning a machine gun onboard HMS Ardent during the Falklands War?
Did you know that Naomi Fischer-Rasmussen will be the first woman to represent Australia in boxing when she competes at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Stooshe were inspired by the musicals Dreamgirls and Hairspray for their video accompanying their single "Black Heart"?
Did you know that a network of beacons in Okinawa (pictured on Taketomi) helped enforce the Tokugawa policy of "national seclusion"?
Did you know that over five hundred Ainu hilltop forts, known as chashi, have been identified in Hokkaidō?
Did you know that professional wrestler Ric Converse, a victim of childhood bullying, was inspired by Hulk Hogan at age eight to become a wrestler himself?
Did you know that the Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris, now part of BNP Paribas, was founded by a revolutionary government's decree?
Did you know that the Royal Navy's Kil class gunboats were designed to confuse observers in U-boats with their dazzle camouflage and double-ended hulls?
Did you know that the cider house at Great Manson Farm in Monmouth, Wales, has a rare, stone and wood cider mill?
Did you know that the persecution of the Catholic Church in Mexico as depicted in the 2012 film Cristiada has been compared to the Obama administration's birth control mandate?
Did you know that Canadian artist Jubal Brown deliberately vomited primary colors on paintings in the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Gallery of Ontario?
Did you know that Luciano Ercoli's 1972 film La morte accarezza a mezzanotte stars the director's wife, Nieves Navarro?
Did you know that Malaysian born Renuga Veeran and South Australian born Leanne Choo will represent Australia in the women's doubles badminton competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Norwegian IOC member Gerhard Heiberg recommended Oslo to bid with Hafjell and Kvitfjell as Alpine Skiing venues instead of Norefjell, to reduce their chances to host the 2018 Winter Olympics?
Did you know that after defeating the Vietnamese Hồ dynasty in the Ming–Hồ War, the Chinese Ming empire annexed northern Vietnam as Jiaozhi province?
Did you know that pale spear-nosed bats have up to twenty different calls, a similar vocal repertoire to many non-human primates?
Did you know that rats treated with methylazoxymethanol acetate (molecular model pictured) during gestation are an animal model of schizophrenia?
Did you know that the 1969 Italian film Una sull'altra was filmed on location in the United States, including a scene shot in San Quentin State Prison's gas chamber?
Did you know that the NOT Tower in Kraków was nicknamed Skeletor after it had been abandoned by the Polish Federation of Engineering Associations and left unfinished for 30 years?