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Did you know that Yan Yan Chan, whose band Acid released Burma's first hip hop album, spent nine months in prison for involvement in the pro-democracy group Generation Wave?
Did you know that a reviewer unfavourably compared the dialogue in the BBC docudrama Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend to that of Holby City?
Did you know that between 1970 and 1977, Kenya lost more than half of its elephants to hunting?
Did you know that double-tailed tent spiders have to fend off food-stealing dewdrop spiders who take up residence in their webs?
Did you know that escaped slaves using the Underground Railroad hid in tunnels beneath the train track in Ypsilanti, Michigan's Depot Town?
Did you know that historian W. Darrell Overdyke spent more than three decades researching the colonial and antebellum plantation homes in his adopted state of Louisiana?
Did you know that prior to Ghana's independence, the Ghana Immigration Service was known as the Immigration and Passport Unit and was a unit under the Colonial Police Force of the Gold Coast?
Did you know that seismologist Fusakichi Omori of the  Imperial University of Tokyo, who mapped the effects of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, later designed and donated the equipment to found the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory?
Did you know that television dramas have portrayed criminals riding around Weston-super-Mare on an open-top bus?
Did you know that the Manhyia Palace in Ghana is the seat of the Asantehene (ruler of the Ashanti people) as well as his official residence?
Did you know that the heathlands of Ben Boyd National Park and Nadgee Nature Reserve are habitat for the endangered Eastern Bristlebird?
Did you know that the journalism of Siamak Pourzand ranged from film criticism for Cahiers du cinéma to coverage of the "Chain Murders" of Iranian dissidents?
Did you know that "Musica proibita" by Italian composer Stanislao Gastaldon was the first of six songs for which he also wrote the lyrics under the pseudonym "Flick-Flock"?
Did you know that Androids can now play streamed music using Music Beta by Google?
Did you know that Anna, the first wife of 13th-century Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II, was retired to a monastery and became a nun shortly after her husband's accession?
Did you know that Lewis Milestone began directing the 1926 silent film Fine Manners but left the project after quarreling with actress Gloria Swanson, leaving first-time director Richard Rosson to finish the film?
Did you know that Sanmenxia Dam on the Yellow River in the People's Republic of China was hailed as an engineering success after completion and its picture was printed on banknotes?
Did you know that Scottish businessman Craig Whyte bought the controlling interest in Rangers Football Club from David Murray for £1?
Did you know that Willie Nelson, Wynton Marsalis and Norah Jones recorded a live tribute album covering songs of Ray Charles?
Did you know that Zaw Htet Ko Ko, a photographer for the pro-democracy 88 Generation Students Group, is serving an 11-year prison sentence for his involvement in Burma's "Saffron Revolution"?
Did you know that a conman impersonating Oskar Daubmann received international fame, caused an incident in French-German relations, and helped the Nazis win the 1932 German elections?
Did you know that basketball players Jimmy Alapag and Jason Castro were named co-Finals MVPs of the 2011 PBA Commissioner's Cup Finals?
Did you know that extreme temperature, small orbit and large size made Kepler-5b a possible case study of extreme extrasolar planets?
Did you know that in the Camp Ashraf massacre, the Iraqi Army used armed force against unarmed civilians, killing 34 people and injuring another 318?
Did you know that over 70,000 cubic yards (54,000 m3) of sand was excavated to extricate the Liberian steamship Santa Kyriaki from a beach in the Netherlands?
Did you know that the James Fort Prison in Accra, which is run by the Ghana Prisons Service, is almost 400 years old?
Did you know that the Lacandon Jungle is one of the last forests in North America large enough to support jaguars?
Did you know that the first people to visit the South Pole since Robert Falcon Scott (1912) arrived in 1956 in a U.S. Navy R4D Skytrain of the VX-6 squadron?
Did you know that , based on the research of historian Momčilo Spremić, it is possible that Vuk Branković really betrayed his Serbian allies during the Battle of Kosovo in 1389?
Did you know that 20-year-old Jennifer Lawrence's Best Actress Academy Award nomination, which made her the second youngest nominee ever in that category, was one of a number of accolades received by Winter's Bone?
Did you know that Arizona State Jewish studies professor Norbert M. Samuelson, who lectures at university-level conferences around the world, gives a weekly class on Maimonides's Mishneh Torah to rabbis in Phoenix?
Did you know that Carex riparia, a Eurasian plant up to 130 cm (51 in) tall, is Britain's largest sedge?
Did you know that English footballer Walter Anderson died of pneumonia four days after collapsing at Craven Cottage, having ignored doctors' advice to rest?
Did you know that Federico Fernández Cavada, Commander-in-Chief of Cuban forces during the Ten Years' War, and his brother Adolfo, were both former Union Army officers and US Consuls?
Did you know that Khun Htun Oo, a former head of Burma's Shan Nationalities League for Democracy, is now serving a 93-year sentence for treason?
Did you know that Linwood Pendleton discovered that 49% of U.S. economic output comes from estuaries and coasts, which account for only 13% of its land?
Did you know that M-134 is one of three state highways in Michigan on an island, and one of two to use a ferry?
Did you know that Rabbi Nosson Meir Wachtfogel, mashgiach (spiritual supervisor) of the Lakewood Yeshiva, was so removed from worldly concerns that he called his house an "inn" and his furniture "lumber"?
Did you know that Ukrainian-born Alexi Salamone, a gold medalist for the United States at the 2010 Winter Paralympics, was adopted by a family from Buffalo, New York, at the age of six?
Did you know that competitors in triathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics will swim in the Serpentine, run in front of Buckingham Palace, and cycle through Wellington Arch?
Did you know that in March 2011, Ghana's National Disaster Management Organization announced it would set up five refugee camps for Ivorians fleeing post-election violence in their country?
Did you know that industrialist Wellington Burt, once among the richest Americans, left his fortune to descendants yet unborn in his lifetime; his will's conditions were met in 2010—92 years after his death?
Did you know that serial killer Richard Laurence Marquette was the first person to be an eleventh name on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list?
Did you know that the Argentine philologist María Rosa Lida de Malkiel was an Arthurian-Hispanist pioneer?
Did you know that the discovery of the fossil giant ant Titanomyrma (pictured with a hummingbird) in Wyoming indicates that warmth-loving fauna spread through the north between Europe and America during hot spells in the Eocene?
Did you know that the newly discovered mineral krotite likely was one of the earliest minerals formed in the Solar System?
Did you know that 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America, a 2011 dystopian novel by Albert Brooks, was originally written as a movie script?
Did you know that Indian sitarist Janardhan Mitta was a student of sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar?
Did you know that Roger Sutton might be the most important appointment of the year for the Government of New Zealand?
Did you know that St Wilfrid's Chapel, Church Norton inspired a Kipling poem in which the priest preached Midnight Mass to a donkey and a bullock when nobody else turned up?
Did you know that Warblington Castle near Langstone in Hampshire was granted to two different 1st Earls of Southampton?
Did you know that before appearing in the episode "Eagleton", actress Parker Posey long wanted to appear on the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation, and grew frustrated by the time taken to be asked?
Did you know that during World War II, a Luftwaffe pilot, observing that there were several wounded crewmen on a United States Army Air Corps's plane, declined to fire and safely escorted it to the North Sea?
Did you know that early female tennis players in Australia had to pay as much as a week's wages to buy a racquet?
Did you know that the Gandhi Sagar Dam forms India's second-largest reservoir area, attracting more than 20,000 waterfowl each year?
Did you know that the Irish bishop and saint, Dagan, may have attempted to excommunicate the Roman missionaries sent by Pope Gregory the Great to convert the Anglo-Saxons by refusing to eat with them?
Did you know that the Kingdom of the Little People theme park in Kunming, China, requires its performers to be less than 51 inches (130 cm) tall?
Did you know that the first all-female crew to open up Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station was a Lockheed LC-130 crew of VXE-6 squadron (insignia pictured) in 1991?
Did you know that unusual archosauromorph reptile Teraterpeton from the Late Triassic of Nova Scotia had nostril openings in its skull that were longer than its eye sockets?
Did you know that Adam Mansbach's bedtime-book Go the Fuck to Sleep was No. 1 on Amazon.com's bestseller list on May 12, 2011—a month before its release—thanks to free advance copies emailed via PDFs?
Did you know that Gidleigh Park, a hotel-restaurant in Chagford, Devon, England, is located in a Tudor-style country house set in 54 acres of gardens and woodlands?
Did you know that Jesse Levan, winner of multiple minor league batting championships, was the last person banned by baseball's governing organizations for conspiring to fix games?
Did you know that Lauren Beukes wore a fake sloth draped over her shoulders to the ceremony in which she won the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award for her novel Zoo City?
Did you know that Michigan football coach William Ward later became a physician who experimented with the surgical creation of artificial vaginas?
Did you know that Montenegrin nationality law first recognised the right of renunciation of citizenship in 1905 during the reign of Nicholas I?
Did you know that Ugandan Rolling Stone editor Giles Muhame alleged that a gay rights group conspired with Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab in the July 2010 Kampala suicide bombings?
Did you know that Walt Disney's Riverfront Square in St. Louis, Missouri, was to have been entirely indoors, with artificial lighting simulating weather and time of day?
Did you know that Women's League of Burma activist Khin Ohmar evaded arrest during Burma's pro-democracy 8888 Uprising when a Japanese diplomat allowed her and other students to hide from police in his home?
Did you know that all the equipment for the power plant of the Rana Pratap Sagar Dam in India was imported from Canada?
Did you know that the 15.5-metre (51 ft) floodgate that protected Fudai, Iwate, Japan, from the recent tsunami was derided as a waste of public funds when it was built in the 1970s?
Did you know that the Belgian Entertainment Association, established in February 2008, represents the interests of the music, video and video game industries in Belgium?
Did you know that the German destroyer Friedrich Eckoldt was sunk during the 1942 Battle of the Barents Sea when she mistook the British light cruiser Sheffield for the German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper?
Did you know that the Isthmian Alligator Lizard, native to Costa Rica and Panama, was not seen for 50 years?
Did you know that the Mexican city San Cristóbal de las Casas has a "Zapaturismo" industry of tourists interested in the Zapatista uprising of 1994?
Did you know that the church of Saints Martin and Sebastian of the Swiss is the private chapel of the Pontifical Swiss Guards in the Vatican City?
Did you know that the meat dress of Lady Gaga was to be preserved by being made into a type of jerky?
Did you know that under the presidency of Father Francis P. Smith, Duquesne University founded WDUQ, Pittsburgh's first college radio station?
Did you know that Bardhyl Ajeti, a journalist from Kosovo, was killed in a drive-by shooting on 28 June 2005?
Did you know that Deborah Nadoolman Landis, designer of Michael Jackson's red Thriller jacket, also designed Indiana Jones's jacket in Raiders of the Lost Ark?
Did you know that Elastica's 1995 song "Waking Up" resulted in the band being sued for plagiarism?
Did you know that a chorale in Bach's cantata Wo gehest du hin? BWV 166, is sung by the soprano, accompanied by the violins and viola in unison "of great vigour and determination"?
Did you know that a poll published in The Daily Telegraph voted Björk's swan dress the ninth most iconic red-carpet dress of all time?
Did you know that according to Hindu mythology, the god-king Indra was cursed with having a thousand vagina marks on his body for having extra-marital sex with Ahalya?
Did you know that after World War II the 8th (Midlands) Parachute Battalion had to deal with riots in Tel Aviv?
Did you know that although Ray Charles and Nancy Sinatra solos of "Here We Go Again" made Billboard's Hot 100, Charles' 2004 duet with Norah Jones became the second Grammy Record of the Year that did not?
Did you know that during his student days, working on spermatogenesis, UCSF Medical Center pediatric cardiologist Julien Hoffman developed a close relationship with Sydney Brenner and Phillip V. Tobias?
Did you know that first baseman Mike Pasquella played two games in Major League Baseball—his first for the Philadelphia Phillies and his last opposing them?
Did you know that in 2010, Wipas Raksakulthai became the first Thai man arrested for committing lèse majesté on Facebook?
Did you know that in the 1980s Gciriku king Sebastian Kamwanga allowed PLAN guerrilla fighters to use his farm as operational base in the Namibian War of Independence?
Did you know that the Classic Aircraft Aviation Museum in Hillsboro, Oregon, once bought a fighter jet from a car dealership?
Did you know that the Pisa Griffin is the largest known medieval Islamic metal sculpture, and may have been designed to emit noises?
Did you know that the genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is predicted to contain 45 copies of vapBC?
Did you know that the golden penda can flower at any time of year?
Did you know that when the 5,800-seat Four Seasons Arena was built at Montana ExpoPark in 1979 it lacked air conditioning?
Did you know that "Dirty Dancer", a song by Enrique Iglesias, Usher and Lil Wayne, was performed by Iglesias on American Idol on May 12, 2011?
Did you know that Burmese democracy activist Ohn Than is serving a life sentence for holding up a poster in front of the US Embassy in Yangon?
Did you know that Charlotte Shaw, who drowned in Walla Brook on Dartmoor, is the only person to have died on a Ten Tors expedition?
Did you know that Colonel Waldemar Quintero of the Colombian National Police was shot and killed by the Medellín Cartel?
Did you know that Don't take it personally, babe, it just ain't your story has been described as a profoundly moving video game about love, sex and the internet?
Did you know that Echobelly's 1994 song "Insomniac" is a "gentle warning of the dangers of snorting too much speed"?
Did you know that Filipino comic book illustrator and writer Francisco Coching is regarded as the King of Philippine comics?
Did you know that Henry Graham was dismissed by Queen Anne's husband for marrying the natural daughter of King Charles II?
Did you know that Hermann Kasack's first novel Die Stadt hinter dem Strom, published in 1947, "catapult[ed] his name into the literary limelight" and won the 1949 Fontane prize of Berlin?
Did you know that Romanian scholar Nicolae Iorga constructed a conservative vision of world history, contrasting Max Weber's Protestant Ethic?
Did you know that South East Forest National Park in the southeastern corner of New South Wales is a haven for the uncommon Olive Whistler and endangered Smoky Mouse?
Did you know that Will Rogers's engraved portrait Queen Elizabeth Standing in a Room with a Lattice Window is based on a drawing by Isaac Oliver?
Did you know that after his term as President of Argentina, Bartolomé Mitre wrote a biography of José de San Martín: Historia de San Martín y de la emancipación sudamericana?
Did you know that families of farmers and fishermen affected by submergence of the Upper Wardha Dam, in Maharashtra resorted to agitation, seeking fishing rights in the reservoir as an economic incentive?
Did you know that the 2003 Bollywood comedy drama Freaky Chakra, directed by V. K. Prakash, was the only Hindi film for which Ouseppachan composed the music?
Did you know that the Franklin House, built on a lot once owned by the University of Georgia, has held a hotel and a hardware company, and now leases office space to the university?
Did you know that the Pullman cars at the former Croton North station in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, were never used in the state but are still contributing resources to its National Register listing?
Did you know that Charles Brady King made and drove the first automobile in Detroit—three months before Henry Ford made his?
Did you know that HMS Beagle's chronometers (example pictured) were so important to its mission that John Lort Stokes rescued one despite being speared in the chest by an indigenous Australian?
Did you know that Hugh Boustead deserted the Royal Navy to fight in the trenches during World War I, and later became an Olympic pentathlete, explorer and diplomat?
Did you know that New York Judge Charles Fraser MacLean earned the first U.S. Ph.D. in philosophy and was among the first non-combatants to enter Paris after the French surrender in the Franco-Prussian War?
Did you know that St. Vital Bulldogs' leading rusher had to reschedule his wedding four times due to changing dates for the Canadian Amateur Football Association championship game against the Bramalea Satellites?
Did you know that U.S. President Barack Obama delivered the 2011 commencement speech at Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis, Tennessee?
Did you know that in the Battle of Byczyna, Chancellor and Hetman Jan Zamoyski of Poland-Lithuania took Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria prisoner, ending the brief War of the Polish Succession?
Did you know that some English fans, including members of Combat 18, gave the Nazi salute to the Irish national anthem before the Lansdowne Road football riot?
Did you know that taaffeite, one of the world's rarest gemstones, is the first mineral known to contain both beryllium and magnesium as essential components?
Did you know that the Jain universal history is composed of the deeds of 63 illustrious persons known as Salakapurusas?
Did you know that the clock tower of the Chief Post Office in Christchurch, New Zealand, is reputed to be a replica of London's Big Ben?
Did you know that the dayflower family genus Cartonema is completely restricted to Australia except for one species that occurs on Trangan Island in Indonesia?
Did you know that the first Jewish chaplain in the U.S. Navy wore a cross?
Did you know that the then-closed Hayford Mill in Cambusbarron, Scotland, now a Category A listed building, was used during World War I as a training base by the King's Own Scottish Borderers?
Did you know that David Duchovny said, "I'm sure that nobody is looking at me", when standing beside Jennifer Lopez who was wearing her "jungle" Versace dress?
Did you know that Oguntola Sapara infiltrated and exposed a secret society in Nigeria that was deliberately spreading smallpox?
Did you know that Phoenix Suns president and CEO Rick Welts became the first prominent American sports executive to come out as gay when he did so in an interview with The New York Times on May 15, 2011?
Did you know that University of Virginia professor Peter Ochs, who coined the term "scriptural reasoning", believes that this mode of interfaith dialog could achieve peace in the Middle East?
Did you know that a motocycle is not a two-wheeled bicycle with an engine, but a four-wheeled automobile?
Did you know that according to The Dog Pillow, wearing armour without underwear makes one's hair stand on end?
Did you know that at the 2008 Games, Nick Woodbridge and Sam Weale became the first British men to compete in Olympic modern pentathlon since 1996?
Did you know that feminist writer Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan rallied with an organization which argued that union with Romania had harmed the women of Transylvania?
Did you know that the 1946–47 Ashes series was arranged when Australian Attorney-General Dr. H. V. Evatt made a personal appeal to the MCC for the resumption of Test cricket after the Second World War?
Did you know that the Canadian Opimian Society wine purchasing cooperative is named after Roman consul Lucius Opimius?
Did you know that the European Parliament issued a resolution condemning the drug arrest of Azerbaijani activist Jabbar Savalan?
Did you know that the Lorca Castle of medieval origin built in Lorca, Spain, between the 9th and 15th centuries suffered serious damages to its walls and the Espolón Tower during the 2011 earthquake?
Did you know that the documentary Oil on Ice won the 2004 International Documentary Association Pare Lorentz Award for best representing the "democratic sensibility, activist spirit and lyrical vision" of Lorentz?
Did you know that the evergreen juniper haircap moss is believed to be a powerful diuretic?
Did you know that the icon of "the Death of Death" is popular in South India?
Did you know that the many examples of extinct 48-million year old bat genus Palaeochiropteryx (life restoration pictured) found in the Messel lake may have drowned after being rendered unconscious in flight by poisonous volcanic gases?
Did you know that 19th-century shipwright Thomas Morton invented the widely used patent slip because he couldn't afford a dry dock?
Did you know that 84-year-old Gus Douglass, who was first elected as West Virginia Agriculture Commissioner in 1964, is the longest-serving state agriculture commissioner in United States history?
Did you know that Arthur Bedford commanded HMS Kent in the 1914 Battle of the Falkland Islands and sank the German cruiser Nürnberg?
Did you know that Parks and Recreation star Amy Poehler wrote the script for the episode "The Fight", the filming for which she called "the most fun I've ever had"?
Did you know that Swiss painter Anton Graff made portraits of almost 1,000 contemporaries, including Frederick the Great, Goethe, Schiller, and Herder?
Did you know that Welsh footballer Dickie Morris became the first Plymouth Argyle player to be capped at senior international level in April 1908?
Did you know that a paper by the academic Rod Thornton was censored for criticising the UK's arrest of a student who downloaded a copy of an Al-Qaeda training manual from a US government web site?
Did you know that having "killed" her alter ego Sasha Fierce in 2010, Beyoncé Knowles planned to create her own mix of music genres with her fourth studio album, 4?
Did you know that residents of a street in the British city of Preston went without council services for six weeks as part of a BBC documentary?
Did you know that the 2011 indie film Return, directed by Liza Johnson and starring Linda Cardellini, was the only U.S. film selected for this year's 25-film Cannes Film Festival Directors' Fortnight?
Did you know that the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission is named for the only Holocaust survivor ever to serve in the United States Congress?
Did you know that the approximately 1,400 caves of China's Longmen Grottoes contain about 100,000 statues, some of which are only 1 inch (25 mm) high, while the largest Buddha statue is 57 feet (17 m) in height?
Did you know that the bodyguard to the Pet Shop Boys was a leader of Arsenal FC's hooligan firm during the 1980s?
Did you know that the first settlers of Tell Halula brought fully domesticated forms of wheat, barley and flax from somewhere else, circa 7750 BC?
Did you know that the top prize on Al Murray's Compete for the Meat is a frozen chicken?
Did you know that 10% of skiers were expected to suffer an injury in the era of cable ski bindings, earning them the nickname "bear traps"?