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Did you know that bassoonist and composer Victor Bruns, who played at the Leningrad Opera and with the Staatskapelle Berlin, composed six ballets and four bassoon concertos?
Did you know that carbon neutral fuels have been proposed to store wind power, minimizing intermittency problems and enabling its use with conventional vehicles and existing natural gas pipelines?
Did you know that even remembering can cause forgetting?
Did you know that one television critic was "freaked out" by the lack of swearing in Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Cookery Course?
Did you know that the 821st Main Space Intelligence Centre maintains the Russian catalogue of satellites?
Did you know that the Avery Road–Galien River Bridge, the Blossomland Bridge, and the now demolished North Watervliet Road–Paw Paw Lake Outlet Bridge are in the same county in Michigan and were added to the NRHP the same day?
Did you know that the Cameron D-96 was the world's first thermal airship, while the D-38 set records for altitude and flight time?
Did you know that the Finnish Voima, launched in 1952, was the first icebreaker in the world with two bow propellers?
Did you know that the Tribune covering Hillsboro, Oregon, is Pamplin Media Group's first new paper in a decade?
Did you know that the World War I American War Memorial at Gibraltar also commemorates Operation Torch of World War II?
Did you know that the green sea urchin shades itself from the sun with bits of vegetation and shell but the jewel sea urchin prefers to hide in crevices during the day?
Did you know that "Episode 7" was the only episode of Twin Peaks directed by its co-creator Mark Frost?
Did you know that 2009's Marathi film Gandha, written and directed by Sachin Kundalkar, blends three different stories with a common factor of the human sense of smell?
Did you know that Numaga was one of the leaders of the Paiutes during the Paiute War of 1860 on Pyramid Lake, Utah Territory?
Did you know that after New Zealand became the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote in parliamentary elections, suffragist Kate Sheppard enrolled women at Tuam Street Hall?
Did you know that an elephant-headed goddess, often referred to as the female Ganesha, exists in the Hindu pantheon?
Did you know that fragments of wall painting from the Japanese Buddhist temple of Kamiyodo Haiji (site pictured) have been dated to the late Asuka period, as early as those of Hōryū-ji?
Did you know that gooks protected bal maidens from sunlight, noise and flying debris?
Did you know that in 1997 Zaire-born baseball player Ntema Ndungidi became the highest ranked Major League Baseball draftee from Quebec?
Did you know that the Jiwani Coastal Wetland in Pakistan is an important nesting site for the endangered olive ridley and green turtles?
Did you know that the Poland–Russia border, now only 232 km (144 mi) long, used to be much longer?
Did you know that the Rose of Venezuela (flower pictured) and Inga thibaudiana are trees that grow in seasonally flooded tropical forests?
Did you know that the Tantric Japanese form of the Hindu Ganesha – "God of Bliss" – depicted as an elephant-headed human couple in a sexual embrace, represents the unity of opposites?
Did you know that the red cushion star turns part of its stomach inside out and engulfs sponges, other invertebrates and detritus?
Did you know that there are ruins of an ancient Roman temple off of the road between Rashaya and Aaiha?
Did you know that thousands of foreign-born Lone Soldiers serve alongside locals in the Israel Defense Forces?
Did you know that three years after arriving at the Fäviken estate as a sommelier, Magnus Nilsson had become head chef and the restaurant was ranked the 34th best in the world?
Did you know that Albert Einstein's letter to the 1948 World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace was censored to remove his call for a world government?
Did you know that Eye on It by TobyMac beat Slaughterhouse for the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200, and was the first Christian album to hit No. 1 since 1997?
Did you know that Scope, once the best-selling English magazine in South Africa, was repeatedly banned during the Apartheid era?
Did you know that adaptive rower Oksana Masters posed for ESPN The Magazine's "Body Issue" and won the first ever U.S. Paralympic medal in trunk and arms mixed double sculls?
Did you know that land mullets can be found in Sea Acres National Park?
Did you know that the Irish-bred British-trained racehorse Chief Singer won the 1984 St. James's Palace Stakes by eight lengths and set a track record at Royal Ascot?
Did you know that the Prentice Women's Hospital Building in Chicago, a cloverleaf-shaped building which pioneered computer-aided design techniques, is threatened with demolition?
Did you know that the Wong brothers (one pictured) were bankrupted, then made rich, by working with the same man?
Did you know that the caecilians Chthonerpeton indistinctum and Typhlonectes compressicauda both give birth to live young?
Did you know that the death of hydroplane racer Dean Chenoweth led to enclosed cockpits being adopted for Unlimited class hydroplanes?
Did you know that the decision to make Fabiana García Lago's character in the telenovela Sos mi vida a Paraguayan immigrant came after she tried the Guaraní language accent during the first day of filming?
Did you know that the fossilized remains of the knobby brain coral and the symmetrical brain coral have been found in Puerto Rico dating back to the Pleistocene?
Did you know that the song "Mayday" by Lecrae has "chaotic" and "funky" production?
Did you know that the survivors of the bombing of HMS Pandora were onboard HMS Olympus when she was sunk?
Did you know that the town of Shakotan is home to the three great capes of the Shakotan Peninsula: Kamui, Shakotan, and Ōgon?
Did you know that 120 Polish miners died in the rubble when the newly built train tunnel collapsed along the Poprad River Gorge in the Beskid Mountains?
Did you know that Klaus Martin Ziegler championed new church music as an organist, the founder and conductor of choirs in Kassel and Stuttgart, and as a festival director?
Did you know that Pederson's shrimp, the spotted cleaner shrimp and the anemone mysid are all found living in close association with the ringed anemone?
Did you know that Your Majesty won the St. James's Palace Stakes and the St. Leger Stakes and earned £19,268 in 1908, helping Persimmon and Jack Joel become the leading sire and the champion owner that year?
Did you know that Yule marble from Treasure Mountain, Colorado, was used in the building of the Lincoln Memorial?
Did you know that a replica of the Long Tan Cross is one of only two memorials to foreign military forces permitted in Vietnam?
Did you know that major-thirds guitar-tuning is a repetitive tuning in which chords are raised an octave by shifting all notes by three strings on the same frets (illustrated)?
Did you know that members of the gymnastics Fierce Five won all three medals of the senior all-around at the 2011 City of Jesolo Trophy?
Did you know that the 1978 film Absolution was not released in the United States until 1988, four years after the death of its star Richard Burton?
Did you know that the Tibetan Army was trained and sold supplies by the British government?
Did you know that the Walthamstow by-election in 1910 was fought partly over the Osborne judgment?
Did you know that the artwork for Christina Aguilera's single "Your Body" sees her "bodacious curves on full display"?
Did you know that the lekythion, a metric pattern in Greek poetry, was named after a joke involving people losing their little oil flasks?
Did you know that the reformer Konrad Hubert assisted Martin Bucer for 18 years at St. Thomas, Strasbourg, making Bucer's ideas and concepts readable?
Did you know that the village of Janabiyah in Bahrain is home to hundreds of prehistoric burial mounds and that artefacts obtained from excavations show that the Dilmun civilisation of Bahrain engaged in trading with the Indus Valley civilisation?
Did you know that wild monkeys can be seen in Florida along the Silver River?
Did you know that Eduardo Castro Luque, the deputy-elect of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico, was assassinated two days before he was to enter office?
Did you know that Haesindang Park, on the eastern coast of South Korea, is also known as "Penis Park", due to its statues representative of phallic architecture?
Did you know that Harley Peyton, writer of "Episode 6" of Twin Peaks, found it difficult to write for Kyle MacLachlan's character Dale Cooper?
Did you know that Tissa David, the second woman to direct an animated feature film, also animated the Raggedy Ann character for the 1977 film, Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure?
Did you know that Vacha Dam is the tallest dam in Bulgaria?
Did you know that Yair Shamir, who has recently entered politics in Israel, served as the director of Israel Aerospace Industries from 2005 to 2011 without pay?
Did you know that a bank robbery led to a career in bowls for Steve Glasson?
Did you know that although British sculptor John Angel spent much of his career in America, he designed the Exeter and Bridgwater War Memorials in the 1920s?
Did you know that brothers Caleb and Corban Joseph were both selected in the 2008 Major League Baseball Draft?
Did you know that the 13th-century Old French Roman d'Alexandre en prose describes the adventures of Alexander the Great, including flying into the air and travelling under the sea?
Did you know that the North-West University Botanical Garden is currently the only botanical garden in the North West Province of South Africa?
Did you know that the Swedish feminist network Bara Bröst won the right for women to bare breasts at swimming pools in Malmö, but the city's ruling did not result in any significant difference?
Did you know that the Syrian town of Assal al-Ward was long famous for its flower produce which supplied the attar makers of nearby Damascus?
Did you know that the Syrian village of al-Mushannaf has a well-preserved temple, dated to the first century BC, that was dedicated to Zeus and Athena?
Did you know that the Tolowa people of California will refrain from performing the Nee-dash dance for the rest of 2012 so as to honor the late Eunice Bommelyn?
Did you know that the award-winning, romantic Japanese anime film, Hotarubi no Mori e, has been likened to the works of Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli?
Did you know that the scalybark gives its name to an ecological community found only on 126 hectares (310 acres) of Lord Howe Island?
Did you know that winners of William Proxmire's Golden Fleece Award for wasteful U.S. government spending include the Department of Justice for researching why prisoners want to escape?
Did you know that "Accrington Stanley, Who Are They?" was originally scripted to use Tottenham Hotspur instead of Accrington Stanley?
Did you know that Confederate Colonel William Henry Harman was killed at the Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia, the town where he was born?
Did you know that Enedina Arellano Félix, the leader of the Tijuana Cartel, is the first female Mexican drug lord?
Did you know that Frederik Magle required the use of the thigh bone from a giraffe as an instrument in his symphonic suite Cantabile?
Did you know that Joe Molloy, a school teacher, and Robert Nederlander, a theatre executive, served as managing partners of the New York Yankees when George Steinbrenner was banned from baseball?
Did you know that Johann Sebastian Bach composed the cantata Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131, as a young organist at Mühlhausen's Divi Blasii church?
Did you know that John J. Mullen was elected Mayor of Everett, Massachusetts, while he was suspended from his position on the Board of Aldermen?
Did you know that Jubho Lagoon in Pakistan is home to around six thousand vulnerable Dalmatian Pelicans?
Did you know that Memorial Hall was the first building shared by male and female students at the University of Delaware?
Did you know that NASCAR driver Jeff Choquette's grandfather, Jack Choquette, won the 1954 NASCAR Modified Division championship?
Did you know that Romeo Acop is the incumbent representative of Antipolo City's Second Legislative District?
Did you know that even though Panajotis Dimitriadis is a midfielder, his play as a centre back got him on TV2's list as one of the five best players in the 2012 Norwegian First Division?
Did you know that the Russian Space Command is responsible for controlling Russia's military satellite constellation?
Did you know that the Tomb of Bibi Jawindi is considered the most ornate of the five monuments in Uch?
Did you know that the majority of Chicago-based Calumet Photographic's retail stores are in Europe?
Did you know that the restaurant The Cube (pictured in Milan) has "popped up" in Milan, Stockholm, Brussels, and London?
Did you know that the shortstripe goby and the yellowline goby always live in association with a sponge?
Did you know that the wattle Acacia riceana, native to Tasmania, was named after the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time of its discovery?
Did you know that Arizona Territorial Delegate Mark Smith was accused of receiving gold from the Wham Paymaster Robbery?
Did you know that Autism Cymru worked with the Welsh Government to develop the first national autism online community?
Did you know that Hans Thamm, who founded the boys' choir Windsbacher Knabenchor in 1946 and conducted them for 31 years, recorded Bach's cantata Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17, in 1961?
Did you know that Kelly Heath received his only Major League Baseball at-bat because of a case of hemorrhoids?
Did you know that Meow, once the world's heaviest cat, gained international attention due to his weight loss plan?
Did you know that Roekihati bucked a trend of intellectualising films in the Dutch East Indies?
Did you know that a year after capturing Ahlat, Arjish and Van in Anatolia, the Ayyubid prince al-Awhad Ayyub faced revolts in each of those cities?
Did you know that al-Shaykh Saad in the Hauran region of Syria was mentioned by several Christian scholars and pilgrims, including Eusebius, Egeria and Jerome, as the town of St. Job?
Did you know that demand for beer from Pittsburgh's East End Brewing Company spiked after the Pittsburgh Steelers won Super Bowl XLIII?
Did you know that in a lost commentary on the Book of Genesis, Nerses IV the Gracious related the story of how some Armenian monks were allowed to see the Garden of Eden?
Did you know that in the music video for "Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)", American singer Ne-Yo "channels" Michael Jackson in his dance moves?
Did you know that satirist Păstorel Teodoreanu embarrassed his fellow Romanian Masons when he showed up drunk for his initiation ceremony?
Did you know that the Indonesian album AkustiChrisye was inspired in part by Frank Sinatra's rearrangements of his hits?
Did you know that the account of life in the Yertsevo labor camp, described in the book A World Apart by Herling-Grudziński, preceded Solzhenitsyn's revelations about gulags by a decade?
Did you know that the author of Adab al-Tabib, called the "crowning achievement" in early Islamic medical ethics, may actually have been a Christian?
Did you know that the first-century Blacas Cameo shows the Emperor Augustus clothed only in a goatskin aegis?
Did you know that the original Cathedral of Saint Demetrius in Craiova, Romania, formed part of the unwalled city's defenses?
Did you know that yellow fairy cups are one of the most common small discos?
Did you know that Amanda Carter was the oldest member of the Gliders at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, and the only one who had participated in 1992, 1996 and 2000 Summer Paralympics?
Did you know that Chamant's win over Brown Prince and Silvio in the 2,000 Guineas Stakes in 1877 was misreported as a victory by 2,000 men under "Chamat Croun" and "Prince Silvio" in the ongoing Russo-Turkish War?
Did you know that Loras College, Iowa's oldest post-secondary institution, was founded in 1839, seven years before Iowa became a U.S. state?
Did you know that Robert Draper's book Do Not Ask What Good We Do reveals that a meeting of Republicans in 2008 took place to "put the brakes" on Barack Obama's presidency?
Did you know that actress Ashleigh Cummings sat her Year Eleven exams early, so she could take part in the Australian film Tomorrow, When the War Began?
Did you know that although Kylie Gauci is a 2 point player, she was the only player on her team to score a three point basket at the 2012 Paralympics?
Did you know that civic activist and former toymaker Carl Berner is the oldest living man in New York City?
Did you know that filmmaker and Eagle Scout David Lynch was declared medically unfit for conscription, was arrested for detonating a pipe bomb, and was present at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy?
Did you know that in his new book Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years, linguist Geoffrey Nunberg traces the origin of the insult "asshole" to the soldiers of World War II?
Did you know that journalist A.A. Hamidhan turned down a chance to be Kalimantan's first governor?
Did you know that of the 21 Grade I listed buildings in Coventry, 11 date back to the 14th century?
Did you know that reproduction in the East African toads Nectophrynoides viviparus and Nectophrynoides laevis involves females giving birth to live young?
Did you know that the Camberwell Collegiate School in London was designed by the architect of the city's Fishmongers' Hall?
Did you know that the Shri Laxmi Narayan Mandir is one of the oldest functioning temples in Karachi?
Did you know that the Syrian village of Hit contains a 4th-century Byzantine church dedicated to the martyrdom of Saint Sergius?
Did you know that when African-American former slave Jordan Anderson was asked to come back and work for his old master, he replied with a deadpan letter asking for 52 years' back pay as proof of good faith?
Did you know that when the mineral paramelaconite was first described, it was not recognized as a valid species?
Did you know that Brooks Kieschnick is the first Major League Baseball player to hit a home run as a pitcher, designated hitter and pinch hitter in the same season?
Did you know that Enamorada de Ti included previously recorded songs by American singer Selena, which were turned into duets with other artists?
Did you know that French tennis player Christian Boussus was part of the victorious French Davis Cup squad who held the title between 1929 and 1932, as "the Fifth Musketeer", although he never played a match?
Did you know that Muhammad al-Khuli was removed as the Syrian Air Force Intelligence chief by Hafez al-Assad due to international pressure regarding Khuli's alleged involvement in the Hindawi affair?
Did you know that Solomon Islands dance on Tikopia is "almost obsessional behavior"?
Did you know that The World's 100 Most Threatened Species includes one with only five surviving mature individuals?
Did you know that despite early concerns that the race course would be too long for Black Jester, the colt won the 1914 St. Leger Stakes by five lengths and set a new record time?
Did you know that fossilized seeds of the extinct tree Eucommia montana are found from British Columbia to Colorado?
Did you know that the Australian tree Agathis atropurpurea is known as the black kauri or the blue kauri because of the colour of its bark?
Did you know that the Chashme Shahi, a Mughal garden in Srinagar, was built by Ali Mardan who was a governor of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan?
Did you know that the Theatre Royal is the oldest surviving theatre building in Manchester?
Did you know that the proverbial phrase "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade" was first coined by Christian anarchist writer Elbert Hubbard in 1915?
Did you know that the round symbol on the coat of arms of Toppenstedt represents the Tangendorf disk brooch, an Iron Age fibula discovered at a Bronze Age tumulus in the German municipality in 1930?
Did you know that the school of surgery founded by Charles Illingworth, Glasgow's Regius Professor of Surgery from 1939, "came to dominate academic surgery in Britain for a generation or more"?
Did you know that when it first appeared in the list of the World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2010, Claude Bosi's restaurant Hibiscus was one of only three UK-based restaurants in the list?
Did you know that when the Texas landmark Steves Homestead was restored by the San Antonio Conservation Society in the 1950s, Yale University donated an 1857 Chickering grand piano?
Did you know that Caine's Arcade, a short documentary on nine-year-old Caine's cardboard arcade, has raised over $200,000 towards his college fund and the creation of a non-profit organization?
Did you know that Cancrocaeca xenomorpha, the world's most highly cave-adapted crab, lives only in the Maros karst of Sulawesi?
Did you know that Henry Herx, a film critic for Catholics, was upset that Siskel and Ebert walked out on a film, as "his job was to sit there and watch it and give an honest review" no matter how bad?
Did you know that Heston Blumenthal's restaurant The Fat Duck in Bray, England, serves dishes such as egg and bacon ice cream, and snail porridge?
Did you know that Josh Falkingham scored a goal during his first match in the Scottish Football League First Division?
Did you know that Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels gave a violin to Nejiko Suwa that might have been a stolen Stradivarius?
Did you know that Tsankov Kamak dam is the first double-curvature arch dam in cupola shape in Bulgaria?
Did you know that Veer Hamirji - Somnath ni Sakhate is the first ever Gujarati film to be shortlisted for an Oscar nomination?
Did you know that according to Hazel Robinson of California Literary Review, the title of Chris Brown's song "Bassline" is a metaphor for "penis"?
Did you know that bridges carrying 12 Mile Road and 23 Mile Road both cross the Kalamazoo River in Calhoun County, Michigan, and were added to the National Register of Historic Places the same day?
Did you know that in 1955, Vimy became the first foreign horse to win the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, and captured the largest prize in British horse-racing that year?
Did you know that in 1971, Alex Johnson said he would prefer "playing in hell" than remaining with the California Angels?
Did you know that in 2007 Özlem Cekic became the first woman of Muslim immigrant background in the Danish Parliament?
Did you know that in Armenia, chess is one of the country's most popular sports?
Did you know that near the former Auschwitz concentration camp, the International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim now fosters dialogue and reconciliation between Germans and Poles, Christians and Jews?
Did you know that the Altes Stadthaus in Bonn was built for French occupation forces after World War I?
Did you know that the Bristol Pound, launched on September 19, 2012, is the largest alternative currency in the UK to the official pound sterling?
Did you know that the official video for One Direction's "Live While We're Young" was premiered four days early following a leak of it online?
Did you know that "Kill the DJ" by Green Day was released on 14 August 2012, but it was also played at a secret show by the band eight days earlier?
Did you know that Ibn Ra'iq ordered the destruction of the Nahrawan Canal to stop a mutinous army from advancing on Baghdad, even though it was the main irrigation network for the fields that fed the city?
Did you know that Liverpool journalist John A. Willox, the winner of the 1892 Everton by-election, had become a newspaper editor at the age of 21?
Did you know that Magnus Sylling Olsen's first goal in Tippeligaen was named the best goal of the round?
Did you know that Pieter Nieuwland, an 18th-century child prodigy and polymath who died a year after becoming a professor, has been called the Dutch Isaac Newton?
Did you know that St Laurence's Church, Morland, has the only Anglo-Saxon tower in Cumbria?
Did you know that although John Tarchaneiotes was the nephew of Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, he became one of the leaders of the Arsenites, who denounced Michael's legitimacy?
Did you know that although he appeared in eight films with his wife, Kartolo was never cast as her lover?