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Did you know that on Christmas Day in 1997, a One Day International between India and Sri Lanka became the first international cricket match to be called off because of a dangerous pitch?
Did you know that the fortune of England's richest commoner, William the Miser, was lost in lawyers' fees in 117 years of litigation over his estate?
Did you know that the rights for Rambo: The Video Game were secured in part because of the scheduled release of the Sylvester Stallone action film The Expendables 2?
Did you know that Catalan flamenco guitarist "Chicuelo" has been the music director of Shōji Kojima's dance company in Japan since 1992?
Did you know that Erdene Zuu Monastery in Mongolia has a 24-inch penis?
Did you know that William I of Germany was crowned King of Prussia in the Schlosskirche within Königsberg Castle?
Did you know that a single HVDC converter can convert up to two thousand megawatts of electric power from DC to AC?
Did you know that besides being India's second longest serving prime minister, Indira Gandhi was also the world's second longest serving female prime minister?
Did you know that in Dandy Dick Whittington, Dick is a circus rider who goes to Siam to secure love and fortune?
Did you know that it has been suggested that Father Christmas in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Father Christmas Letters may have been an inspiration for Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings?
Did you know that junitoite and ruizite were both discovered in Christmas, Arizona?
Did you know that the Adoration of the Shepherds (1607–10, pictured) by Domenichino shows the newborn Jesus listening to bagpipe music?
Did you know that the Tamale Teaching Hospital, the third teaching hospital in Ghana, started as the Tamale Regional Hospital in 1974?
Did you know that the second single from Leona Lewis' third studio album Glassheart was originally going to be "Fireflies", but "Lovebird" was released instead?
Did you know that Bach's cantata for the second day of Christmas, Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes ("For this the Son of God appeared"), BWV 40, is his first Christmas cantata composed for Leipzig?
Did you know that Benin adopted a Presidential Council system with three political rivals serving as president together to prevent civil war following the 1970 elections?
Did you know that Jean Forbes-Robertson, a Shakespearean actress, frequently played Peter Pan?
Did you know that John Lennon's ballad "Out the Blue" expressed his devotion to wife Yoko Ono, even though Lennon and Ono were separated at the time?
Did you know that Kānekapōlei prevented the kidnapping of her husband King Kalaniʻōpuʻu and their sons by Captain Cook, one of the events that led to Cook's death in Hawaii?
Did you know that Norman Claxton won the South Australian National Football League twice, scored 199 not out in first-class cricket, and was inducted into the Baseball Australia Hall of Fame?
Did you know that Paul Thurmond, the youngest son of Strom Thurmond, was born when his father was 73 years old?
Did you know that in Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government was obligated to pay in full any contracts that it had entered into with Indian tribes?
Did you know that jewelled chameleons are threatened by the burning of their grassland habitat?
Did you know that news of the conquest of Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay came to the outside world by a runner bearing a coded message?
Did you know that the 15.4-metre (51 ft) long Anantashayana Vishnu at Saranga is the longest sculpture of a reclining Vishnu in India?
Did you know that the video game Rotozoa is part of Nintendo's Art Style series?
Did you know that A Is for Acid, a biopic of Acid Bath Murderer John Haigh, was filmed in Scarborough because of the town's similarity to parts of 1940s London?
Did you know that Amala Shankar, the Indian danseuse, is the wife of Uday Shankar and sister-in-law of Ravi Shankar?
Did you know that Dr. Moshe Wallach, founder and director of Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Hospital for 45 years, lived in the hospital and was buried beside it?
Did you know that Edda Goering played in a fifty-metre-long replica of Frederick the Great's Sanssouci palace, built for her by the Luftwaffe in an orchard at Carinhall?
Did you know that Gibraltar's North Bastion and South Bastion were built by Spain to protect the city against attacks from either direction?
Did you know that Lupton City in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was created in the 1920s as a planned community for a thread mill and its workers?
Did you know that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg made a cameo appearance in the series finale of Gossip Girl?
Did you know that Owen Ray Skelton is credited with engineering a rubber engine mount system for cars known as "floating power" to greatly cut down on engine vibration to the chassis?
Did you know that above the north doorway of St Laurence's Church, Church Stretton, is a sheila-na-gig?
Did you know that at the age of 16, Karl Towns was named to play on the Dominican Republic national basketball team while he was a student at St. Joseph High School in New Jersey?
Did you know that though Japanese girl group Momoiro Clover Z member Momoka Ariyasu claims to be stupid, other members say she is very studious, even studying backstage?
Did you know that today is the birthday of Dattatreya, the combined form of the Hindu Trinity?
Did you know that María Isabella Cordero, a former Mexican anchorwoman on Televisa, was killed in Mexico's most violent state in 2010?
Did you know that The 1975 became popular because of Sex?
Did you know that according to WAD Magazine, identical twin brothers Larry and Laurent Bourgeois of the French dance duo Les Twins started walking at five months old?
Did you know that renowned antebellum potter Christopher Haun was executed for his participation in the East Tennessee bridge-burning conspiracy?
Did you know that the BBC comedy-drama Lapland was set in Finland but filmed in Norway, where the cast stayed in army barracks?
Did you know that the Defense Officer Personnel Management Act instituted an "up or out" promotion system across the United States Armed Forces?
Did you know that the Gibraltar Heritage Trust is a non-profit charity responsible for preserving and promoting Gibraltar's manmade and natural heritage?
Did you know that the Prince Regent sometimes stayed at Moulsecoomb Place, where he would sit in a dovecote and practise the flute?
Did you know that the USS Clifton was originally named the SS Dilworth?
Did you know that the authors of Crisis and Transformation conclude that the erotic novel The Carnal Prayer Mat was not written by 17th-century Chinese scholar Li Yu?
Did you know that the song "Otome Sensō" by Momoiro Clover Z can be interpreted as the girl group's declaration of war for the top of the Japanese idol music scene?
Did you know that the trout population in Mann Lake was once threatened by goldfish, prompting the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to intervene?
Did you know that Australian bass-baritone Horace Stevens was also a dentist, teacher, tennis player, sculler, and World War I Army officer?
Did you know that French Army officer Henri Simon helped to produce the 1934 film Itto?
Did you know that Jamil Mihhu, contesting the Beirut II constituency in the 1968 election, was the first Kurd to run for office in Lebanon?
Did you know that Townsend F. Dodd was the first US pilot to receive the Distinguished Service Medal in World War I?
Did you know that Zuber Usman was an early pioneer of Indonesian literary criticism?
Did you know that a "magnificent" furniture depository in Hove, England, designed by local architects Clayton & Black, later became an insurance office and—in November 2012—the Montefiore Hospital?
Did you know that during the early 20th century, Halfaya, in central Syria, was a village where collective farming was practiced by the twelve clans who inhabited it?
Did you know that in 2011, geneticist Riin Tamm was chosen as one of 26 scientists to travel around Estonia and take part in events at schools and academic institutions?
Did you know that middle to upper Paleolithic sites have been found along the Shetrunji River?
Did you know that six conductors took part in the retirement concert for Stephen Gray, including Simon Rattle, whose career Gray promoted?
Did you know that the Maya city of Dzibanche in southeastern Mexico was the early capital of the Kan dynasty, which later ruled from Calakmul?
Did you know that the Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Meteora in Greece was featured in the 1981 James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only?
Did you know that the building of the Bangas Gymnasium in Korcë, Albania, was erected with the support of the Lasso, a local community fund aimed at the promotion of Greek education and culture?
Did you know that Bach created "colourful and delicate effects" by scoring 1714's Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn, BWV 152, a dialogue of Jesus and the Soul, for recorder, oboe, viola d'amore and viola da gamba?
Did you know that Charles W. Adams, a Confederate colonel during the American Civil War, was a grandfather of Helen Keller?
Did you know that Dancing Barry started as a Houston Rockets counterpart to Dancing Harry and later performed with Paula Abdul for the Los Angeles Lakers?
Did you know that Elizabeth de Vere, Countess of Oxford, was abducted by the half-brother of her intended bridegroom?
Did you know that Kaiser Wilhelm II ordered plans drawn up for Germany to invade two US cities: Boston and New York?
Did you know that cricketer Allan Border holds the record for making the most number of consecutive appearances (153 matches) in Tests?
Did you know that forest degradation and illegal exports threaten the survival of the Rainforest Chameleon?
Did you know that in 1906, ties between England and Spain were sufficiently strong that King Edward VII and King Alfonso XIII became joint patrons of the Royal Calpe Hunt?
Did you know that over 10 million people visited the Africa Joint Pavilion during Expo 2010?
Did you know that over 130 works of literature were published in the propaganda newspaper Asia Raja?
Did you know that with their victory over Mississippi State, the 1956 Alabama Crimson Tide football team ended a 17-game losing streak and gave Ears Whitworth his first win as head coach?
Did you know that Ernst Hechler, a bomber pilot during World War II, was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross as a U-boat commander?
Did you know that Sandra Eisert was the first White House picture editor, and later designed the cover photo for the 1988 Monsters of Rock Tour?
Did you know that before it was moved to the opera house, the post office in Jamestown, Ohio, sometimes changed locations once per week?
Did you know that before the success of his debut LP, 2, Canadian musician Mac DeMarco participated in medical experiments for money?
Did you know that the Galapagos Penguin is outnumbered well over ten thousand to one by Macaroni Penguins?
Did you know that the Samuel N. Patterson House survived the destruction of most of its neighborhood in the 1974 Xenia tornado?
Did you know that the first specimens of benstonite (mineral pictured) were collected on New Year's Eve, 1954?
Did you know that the sermon regarded as the "first set-piece confrontation of the English Reformation" was preached on Christmas Eve 1525 at St Edward King and Martyr on St Edward's Passage, Cambridge?
Did you know that Armenian King Varazdat was one of the last Ancient Olympic champions in boxing?
Did you know that Frederick Morrell Zeder  became chief engineer of Studebaker Automobile Company at the age of 28?
Did you know that French disc jockey David Guetta co-wrote and co-produced Rihanna's song "Right Now"?
Did you know that Hans Severus Ziegler proposed the name "Hitler-Jugend" (Hitler Youth) for the Nazi youth movement?
Did you know that Lady Henry Somerset scandalised 1870s society by revealing her husband's homosexuality, but was later voted the best choice to be the United Kingdom's first female prime minister?
Did you know that One Direction band member Louis Tomlinson thinks that their video for their new song "Kiss You" is "pure stupidity"?
Did you know that Vannevar Bush's use of the torque amplifier solved a problem with the ball-and-disk integrator that Lord Kelvin found when he first thought of the differential analyser over 40 years earlier?
Did you know that in Hindu mythology Lakshmi ordered her consort's chariot damaged when he left her behind for his annual vacation to Gundicha Temple?
Did you know that record producer Tyshane produced his first song at age 10?
Did you know that the New Year's Day carol "Levy-Dew" was a part of a Welsh water-blessing ritual?
Did you know that the South Korean Cyber Terror Response Center raided Korean Google offices over concerns about Google Street View?
Did you know that the first Legislative Assembly of Madras State was constituted in May 1952?
Did you know that the traditional Htou-tjyen playing cards of Korea were about half an inch (a bit over 1 cm) wide?
Did you know that the village of Cold Spring, New York, rejected a thousand-dollar offer for the Richard Upjohn-designed The Grove as "insultingly low" despite restoration estimates a thousand times that?
Did you know that 13th Avenue, a commercially successful Orthodox Jewish shopping district in Brooklyn, New York, has 18 banks in the space of 10 blocks?
Did you know that Christina Aguilera wore a "cinched in corset" designed by The Blonds for her performance of "Let There Be Love" at the 2012 American Music Awards?
Did you know that Mount Sage National Park, the British Virgin Islands's first national reserve, was acquired in 1964 following a grant provided by Laurance Rockefeller?
Did you know that Palestinian Christian Vera Baboun, Bethlehem's first female mayor, holds a master's degree in African-American literature?
Did you know that Sir Marmaduke Constable was the great-grandfather of the poet, Henry Constable, author of Diana, one of the first English sonnet sequences?
Did you know that Theodore Roosevelt attacked Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom for "wild absurdities" like the book's depiction of "camouflaged" roseate spoonbills?
Did you know that a part of Antarctica nearly double the area of the United Kingdom was named Queen Elizabeth Land to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee year?
Did you know that had The Keep not been built, 900 years worth of East Sussex's historical records could have been moved from the existing unsuitable building to another part of England?
Did you know that in 2011, Victoire Pisa became the first Japanese-trained Thoroughbred racehorse to win "the world's richest race", the Dubai World Cup?
Did you know that in the video game Long Live The Queen, players must keep a princess alive until she turns 15 and can be crowned?
Did you know that the Piping Plover, which numbers 12–13 thousand, has its very own census?
Did you know that the Tiger of Mysore did not have his meal until he heard the bell of the Srirangapatna Ranganatha temple, one of the Pancharanga Kshetrams?
Did you know that the fourth-century Byzantine mosaic discovered in Maryamin, in central Syria, is one of the few artifacts that give an indication on how the organ instrument was used in antiquity?
Did you know that the third season of Cheers has a new psychiatrist, a pregnant waitress, a romantic childless triangle, and a dead coach?
Did you know that Florbetapir is an FDA-approved diagnostic tool for detecting Alzheimer's disease?
Did you know that HD 179821, a bright star in the Aquila constellation, is a supernova candidate?
Did you know that John Cunningham of Drumquhassle escaped one charge of treason, only to be hanged for another?
Did you know that Lee-Sak "PartinG" Won took first place at the 2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series held in Shanghai?
Did you know that Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI (Treachery of G30S/PKI) may have become the most-viewed Indonesian film of all time because of its use for pro-Suharto propaganda?
Did you know that Vaikuntha Chaturmurti, a four-headed aspect of the Hindu god Vishnu, is mostly found in Kashmir?
Did you know that William Green, who served as chief engineer throughout the Great Siege of Gibraltar, was later depicted in two paintings of the siege by John Singleton Copley and George Carter?
Did you know that in order to save the Rollstone Boulder from being demolished, it was blown up?
Did you know that poet William Neville made himself a cloak of linen and buckskin which was supposed to render him invisible?
Did you know that the Rebellion Beer Company, a microbrewery in Marlow Bottom, South East England, uses the chalky water of the local Chiltern Hills, which has high levels of minerals and salts?
Did you know that the larvae of Biorhiza pallida (adult pictured) cause oak apples, which may also contain up to twenty other species of gall wasp larvae, most of them hyperparasites?
Did you know that there are quite a few smews?
Did you know that wine from Verduzzo, the grape behind the modern Italian wine Ramandolo, was first recorded being served at a 1409 banquet honoring Pope Gregory XII?
Did you know that Arab soap operas are a type of serialized fiction on television in the Arab world that are similar in style to Latin American telenovelas?
Did you know that Green Bay Packers tackle Buford "Baby" Ray was named to the NFL's All-Decade Team for the 1940s?
Did you know that Horus Sa may have been a pharaoh of Egypt?
Did you know that IVB meteorites as a group have the most extreme chemical composition of all iron meteorites?
Did you know that Sir William Francis has held the positions of vice-chairman and chief operating officer of Tarmac Plc?
Did you know that Whitelaw Reid's home still stands near the village of Cedarville, Ohio?
Did you know that actress Jean Aylwin inspired a new dress style "in crepe and lace"?
Did you know that five auspicious events in the life of each Jain Tirthankara are known as Kalyanaka?
Did you know that the Illinois Central railroad station in Bloomington, Indiana, has two rooflines?
Did you know that the Japanese racehorse Daiwa Major won the Mile Championship by a neck two years in a row?
Did you know that the hydrozoan Obelia longissima sometimes disperses by rafting?
Did you know that the single release of John Lennon's "Meat City" has a backwards message to "check the album", on which the song has a vulgar backwards message instead?
Did you know that "supremely talented" Christophe Coin was conductor and cellist in recording Bach's ten cantatas with violoncello piccolo, including the chorale cantata Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, BWV 41, for New Year's Day?
Did you know that 2012 College Football All-American Venric Mark holds the Northwestern records for both single-game kickoff and single-game punt return yards?
Did you know that Colonel Noel Wild, head of Ops (B), was one of the architects of Operation Fortitude, the deception plan to cover the 1944 Normandy landings?
Did you know that Extra Virginity, a 2011 book about olive oil, was criticized by The New York Times as "an unintentional master class in how to say waxy and embalming things about fresh food"?
Did you know that Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan was not released in Canada until August 2011, six months behind schedule and from a different publisher, yet it won that year's Scotiabank Giller Prize?
Did you know that Hema Malini was initially promoted as the "Dream Girl of Bollywood", and even acted in a film of the same name in 1977?
Did you know that Indian composer A. R. Rahman, known for Slumdog Millionaire, released his single "Infinite Love" to "instill faith and optimism in people" prior to the predicted doomsday on 21 December 2012?
Did you know that Nikola Stoyanov, the financier who led negotiations on Bulgaria's foreign debt during the interwar period, also authored the first Bulgarian astronomical study printed abroad?
Did you know that No. 78 Squadron RAAF took part in the last major air battle between the Royal Australian Air Force and Japanese air units during World War II?
Did you know that Robert J. Parks and Jack N. James of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory received the 1967 Stuart Ballantine Medal for their work on Mariner 4, the first spacecraft to return pictures from Mars?
Did you know that a line from John Lennon's "Well Well Well" has been interpreted as both a reference to cannibalism and a sexual metaphor?
Did you know that in Marxism, withering away of the state is the process which should lead to a stateless communist utopia?
Did you know that on Vaikuntha Chaturdashi, a Hindu festival day, worshippers offer earthen lamps and cotton wicks to Shiva and Vishnu at the Varanasi Shiva Temple?
Did you know that the Rimac Concept One has been described as the world's first electric supercar?
Did you know that the Zaklodzie meteorite was found near a village of the same name in Lublin Voivodeship, Poland?
Did you know that the free-to-play video game Gravity Bone uses id Software's Quake 2 engine and incorporates music by Asian filmmaker Wong Kar-wai?
Did you know that the listed buildings in Lymm, Cheshire, include three aqueducts, a cross, a water tower, a well, an icehouse, a pigeon house, a mounting block, a milepost and the stocks?
Did you know that the top secret, World War II dual observation post of Operation Tracer was constructed in the tunnel system of Lord Airey's Shelter?
Did you know that 7,000 fans attended MineCon 2012, a convention celebrating the video game Minecraft?
Did you know that Adelina Domingues was the world's oldest person between May 2002 and August 2002?
Did you know that Marquis Flowers was named the defensive MVP of college football's 2012 New Mexico Bowl?
Did you know that Nyarroh, a female chief of the Barri region of Sierra Leone, hosted multiple negotiations between the British and Mende tribes in the 1880s and 1890s?
Did you know that Ohio's Indian Mound Reserve includes two prehistoric earthworks (one pictured) and a canyon where a battle was reputedly fought?
Did you know that Sariamin Ismail was the first female novelist in Indonesia?
Did you know that Sir Gary Sobers's 365 not out is the highest maiden century by a batsman in Test cricket?
Did you know that during the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944, James D. Ramage led dive bombers from the USS Enterprise in an attack on a Japanese aircraft carrier?
Did you know that in Even the Stars Look Lonesome, author Maya Angelou defends her controversial support of Clarence Thomas?
Did you know that scientist Joseph Priestley is believed to have lived at Sweetbriar Hall, in Nantwich, Cheshire, and another scientist, Sir William Bowman, was born there?
Did you know that the Venus flytrap sea anemone has been found in large numbers near decaying gelatinous carcases on the seabed?
Did you know that the durian-scented food flavouring 1,1-ethanedithiol smells so bad that it is sold as a 1% solution?
Did you know that the relative distance of Maskanah, a town in northern Syria, to the Euphrates has varied over the years due to changes in the river's bed?
Did you know that the upcoming video game Godus is the spiritual successor to Peter Molyneux's Populous?
Did you know that Buffy Sainte-Marie's song "Now That the Buffalo's Gone" originally mentioned that the Kinzua Dam broke the Treaty of Canandaigua?
Did you know that Easwaran's Conquest of Mind gives advice on how to become a skilled juggler in controlling one's mental "likes and dislikes"?
Did you know that Iggy's has been named the best restaurant in Asia by both the Miele Guide and The World's 50 Best Restaurants?
Did you know that Indonesian historian and minister of education Nugroho Notosusanto had a film-writing credit?
Did you know that Kulap are small funerary sculptures from New Ireland associated with death rituals?
Did you know that O'Hara's Tower was built in the mistaken belief that it would enable the garrison at Gibraltar to spy on ships massing at Cadiz?
Did you know that Sonrise Church in Hillsboro, Oregon, is housed in a former Toshiba Ceramics America facility?
Did you know that actress Leonor Varela, who played Marta Del Sol in Dallas, watched YouTube videos to research her character's bipolar disorder?