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Did you know that at one point, more than half of all Mexican radio stations were affiliates of Radio Programas de México?
Did you know that during this past season, Thomas Welsh became the UCLA Bruins' first 7-foot (2.1 m) basketball player in almost a decade?
Did you know that percussionist Babette Haag and her ensemble played Orff's Carmina Burana with the Bachchor Mainz and Anthony and Joseph Paratore in the 1,000th concert of the Weilburger Schlosskonzerte?
Did you know that swimmer Marc Hinawi, who won a bronze medal representing Israel at the 2015 European Games, is a Christian Arab?
Did you know that the 1970 general elections in Montserrat saw Percival Austin Bramble's Progressive Democratic Party defeat the ruling Montserrat Labour Party, led by his father William Henry Bramble?
Did you know that the Mortal Kombat series inspired a character in The Last of Us: American Dreams?
Did you know that the Warangal Fort of the Kakatiya Dynasty has four ornamental gates known as Kakatiya Kala Thoranam, which form the official Emblem of Telangana?
Did you know that while the Jerusalem neighborhood of Kiryat Itri was built for American Jewish immigrants, the apartments were small by American standards?
Did you know that 90% of the Arabica coffee produced in Peru is either typica or caturra?
Did you know that Alex Bregman, who was selected with the second pick of the 2015 Major League Baseball Draft, is the grandson of a former general counsel of the Washington Senators?
Did you know that Australia's leading Battle of Britain ace, Pat Hughes, is thought to have died after his Spitfire collided with debris from a German bomber he intercepted?
Did you know that Lake Jean has been partly drained to repair a dam control tower?
Did you know that Soraya Syed, a British classically-trained Islamic calligrapher, incorporates modern technologies such as holography into her art?
Did you know that William-Adolphe Bouguereau's painting Première rêverie has been considered one of the top exhibits of the New Orleans Museum of Art?
Did you know that compounds of the difluorophosphate ion (model pictured) resemble perchlorates?
Did you know that the ISIL-owned radio station al-Bayan has been compared to National Public Radio for its production style and quality?
Did you know that the Tamil film Uyarndha Manithan was adapted from the 1966 Bengali film Uttar Purush?
Did you know that the deep sea, solitary Dactylotrochus cervicornis is now included in a family of otherwise shallow-water, colonial corals?
Did you know that Jamie Porter took a wicket with the fifth ball he bowled in first-class cricket?
Did you know that John D. Voelker wanted to be appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court because he "needed the money", but he resigned two years later to be an author instead?
Did you know that President Barack Obama awarded Meryl Streep the 2010 National Medal of Arts and in 2014 the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
Did you know that allegations have been made that the 2009 film Avatar plagiarised the 1992 film FernGully: The Last Rainforest?
Did you know that contralto Hildegard Rütgers recorded Bach's Magnificat with Christmas interpolations with Helmuth Rilling?
Did you know that during World War II, Max Nord lived with Simon Carmiggelt and Wim van Norden, and their families, in the same house where they edited the illegal newspaper Het Parool?
Did you know that in spite of his fascist past, Romanian literary historian Petre P. Panaitescu escaped serious punishment by the communist regime?
Did you know that on the same day George Palmer presented a 49-acre park to the town of Reading, grateful townsfolk gave a bronze statue of the biscuit manufacturer?
Did you know that some analysts have suggested that the United States Supreme Court's decision in Rodriguez v. United States was influenced by ongoing protests in Ferguson, Missouri?
Did you know that the British colonies of Demerara and Essequibo issued banknotes denominated in Joes?
Did you know that the fragile habitat of the silver-leaf sunray is threatened by off-road recreational vehicles?
Did you know that under the Thai/United Nations Crop Replacement and Community Development Project, coffee has been experimented with as a replacement crop for opium?
Did you know that Cannon Hall, Hampstead was the childhood home of novelist Daphne du Maurier, the author of Rebecca?
Did you know that Darwin's Arch sits like a bridge on an irregularly shaped, rocky, submerged plateau, nicknamed "the theatre"?
Did you know that Eugene Vielle is said to have piloted 150 different types of aircraft by the end of his career with the Royal Air Force?
Did you know that Gay Life was the United Kingdom's first LGBT television series?
Did you know that Johann Lukas Legrand, a ribbon maker, was the first president of the Directory of the Helvetic Republic?
Did you know that Sanatkumara told Gautama that Hamsopanishad is a compendium of mystic knowledge propounded by Parvati?
Did you know that billionaire Jim Justice built a US$30 million training facility for the New Orleans Saints in West Virginia?
Did you know that indium sulfate does not remain in solution when diluted, but precipitates as a basic salt?
Did you know that the inner bark of the rare Caribbean lacebark tree has been used for centuries to make clothing, including a dress for Queen Victoria?
Did you know that the intruder who shot J. P. Morgan, Jr. and bombed the US Senate in 1915 was identified by "Harvard Cop No. 1" Charles Apted as a deranged, wife-poisoning, ex-Harvard German instructor?
Did you know that the parasitoid wasp Gonatopus clavipes lays its eggs inside the bodies of 31 different species of leafhopper?
Did you know that various dates have been attributed to the 1630 Crete earthquake, which occurred in the Kythira Strait?
Did you know that Australian swimmer and Olympic silver medallist Mark Stockwell successfully led Australia's bid for the 2018 Commonwealth Games?
Did you know that Nabakalebara 2015 is the first 21st-century occurrence of an ancient ritual in which images of the gods Jagannath, Balabhadra, Subhadra and Sudarshan are replaced by new ones at Puri?
Did you know that Simeon I of Bulgaria was crowned the first Tsar in history during the Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 913–927?
Did you know that Wisconsin's Jug Girard, dubbed "Mr. Versatility", was a quarterback, end, halfback, punter, and kickoff returner in 10 years in the NFL?
Did you know that cell biologist Zena Werb changed her undergraduate major from geophysics to biochemistry after being told there was no accommodation for women at a field site?
Did you know that during the Doolittle Raid, the B-25 piloted by William G. Farrow, named Bat out of Hell, was the last aircraft to depart from the USS Hornet?
Did you know that jellyfish ice cream is "slightly chewy" because it is made from real jellyfish?
Did you know that lawyer and West Virginia state senator William C. Clayton was an incorporator of two railroad companies and principal of at least three schools, including the Romney Classical Institute?
Did you know that male Ephemera vulgata congregate in swarms in which each insect moves repeatedly up and down as part of a "nuptial dance"?
Did you know that on 6 May 1527, the Landsknechts of Charles V of Habsburg burst into Rome through the garden of Palazzo Cesi Armellini?
Did you know that the widest of the Roman and Byzantine domes was that of the Pantheon, but the pendentives of Hagia Sophia form part of a theoretical hemisphere seven percent wider?
Did you know that Alexandre Desplat's musical score to the 2003 film Girl with a Pearl Earring raised his international profile and led to a career composing major productions like The King's Speech?
Did you know that Conchita Wurst, who represented Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014, had previously attempted to represent Austria at the 2012 contest?
Did you know that Edinburgh's "forgotten heroines", Eliza Wigham, Jane Smeal, Priscilla Bright McLaren, and Elizabeth Pease, were associated with the Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society (logo pictured)?
Did you know that a wooden bridge connecting the two towers of the Holy Cross Church in Lehre, Germany, was jokingly called the highest bridge in Lower Saxony?
Did you know that a year after the successful British invasion of the Cape Colony in 1795, a Dutch reinforcement convoy was forced to surrender at the Capitulation of Saldanha Bay?
Did you know that according to the Ekakshara Upanishad, all that pertains to Vishnu "shines in lovely fashion like gold in some other sky"?
Did you know that after Roberto Orci exited the movie Star Trek Beyond, Edgar Wright was rumoured to direct it, but Justin Lin got the job?
Did you know that an icon of Saint Nicholas was installed on the new lighthouse at Zourafa, a Natura 2000-designated Greek rock in the northeastern Aegean Sea?
Did you know that biological anthropologist David Tab Rasmussen enjoyed working in the Neotropics because it allowed him to study both primates and birds, his two favorite subjects?
Did you know that each of the top five highest-earning American game show contestants of all time have played on Jeopardy!?
Did you know that gridiron football player Bryan Burnham suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament to end his college career, and a lacerated spleen to end his first professional season in the Canadian Football League?
Did you know that in 1933, Warner B. Snider was a delegate to Oregon's convention that voted to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment and end prohibition in the United States?
Did you know that the flashes of folk humour in I. I. Mironescu's published stories reflect his reported talent as a raconteur?
Did you know that the lyrics of "The Art of Seduction", the lead track on the album Life by Heo Young-saeng, tell a story that is the complete opposite of its music video's plot?
Did you know that Neepaulakating Creek, New Jersey, was apparently unnamed until 2004?
Did you know that Nrisimha Tapaniya Upanishad is one of the first sectarian theologies of Hinduism which focuses on Nrisimha's three forms of Om, Atman, and Brahman?
Did you know that according to the philosopher Julian Baggini, "Vegans are the only group who can oppose China's Yulin Dog Meat Festival (typical dish pictured) without any fear of hypocrisy"?
Did you know that all Nazi symbols and references were removed for the German release of Wolfenstein: The New Order?
Did you know that an upcoming untitled film is the directorial debut by brothers Mark & Robb Cullen?
Did you know that in the 1955 election, Philadelphians chose a veteran of World War I for mayor and a veteran of both World Wars for district attorney?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano Ruth Sandhoff performed a soprano part in the Magnificat by Johann Sebastian Bach and an alto part in his son's Magnificat?
Did you know that the Byzantine nobleman Marianos Argyros supported Stephen Lekapenos in the overthrow of his father, Romanos I Lekapenos, and only weeks later supported Constantine VII in sidelining Stephen?
Did you know that the crayfish Cherax pulcher was popular in aquariums worldwide before even being recognized as a new species?
Did you know that Austroboletus mushrooms (Austroboletus occidentalis pictured) can be distinguished from other boletes by their pitted stems?
Did you know that Avalanche Studios, the developer of the Just Cause series, almost developed an open world Star Wars game with LucasArts?
Did you know that Experiments and Observations on Electricity  is Benjamin Franklin's only scientific book?
Did you know that Glenn Close's daughter Annie Starke is making her acting debut in The Greens Are Gone?
Did you know that Hachim Mastour is the youngest person to play international association football for Morocco?
Did you know that Saladin's brother Tughtakin ibn Ayyub solidified Ayyubid control over Yemen in the late 12th century?
Did you know that Transylvanian journalist Ion Clopoțel, imprisoned for his wartime political writings, was released in time to participate in the assembly that ratified his province's union with Romania?
Did you know that Winfield Creek is the final named tributary to join the West Branch Susquehanna River?
Did you know that in 1867, a whole wing of the Palazzo Serristori in Rome was destroyed by an attack against the Papal Zouaves?
Did you know that in the Surya Upanishad, the sages Atharvangiras extol the virtues of the Sun God Surya?
Did you know that petroglyphs dated 5,000 years ago show eruption activity from the Porak volcano at the border of Armenia and Azerbaijan?
Did you know that the success of Mark Ronson's "Ooh Wee" prompted him to return to the UK?
Did you know that zoologist Thomas Harrison Montgomery, Jr. was the first to propose that chromosomes play a dominant role in determining an organism's sex?
Did you know that Joseph Kaiha, mayor of the French Polynesian island of Ua Pu, has lobbied for a helicopter to serve the Marquesas Islands for medical emergencies?
Did you know that Kashtariti led an unsuccessful campaign against Assyrian king Esarhaddon?
Did you know that Keturah, the woman Abraham married after the death of Sarah, has been called "the most ignored significant person" in the Hebrew Bible?
Did you know that Leonardo DiCaprio has been nominated for five Academy Awards, including three as Best Actor?
Did you know that USS Colorado (BB-45) survived two kamikaze hits during the Battle of Leyte Gulf?
Did you know that Valerie Toranian, the chief editor of Elle in France, has also written a book about the Armenian Genocide?
Did you know that professional wrestling referee Mark Curtis made an unannounced appearance at Curtis Comes Home, his own benefit show?
Did you know that the Bharatiya Janata Party won a majority in the 2014 Indian parliamentary election, the first time any political party had done so since 1984?
Did you know that the Castle of Zafra in Spain is a filming location for the next season of Game of Thrones?
Did you know that the electrical principles of an electrostatic machine invented by a Shaker doctor in 1810 for medical treatment were later used by Thomas Edison?
Did you know that the hippie-like hair of Chinese Indonesian publisher Tan Khoen Swie has been described as a form of anti-colonial resistance?
Did you know that the night scenes in the film Mad Max: Fury Road were filmed during the day?
Did you know that Cooling Castle was the first castle in England to be designed for the use of gunpowder weapons?
Did you know that Jessica Alba spent a year training in martial arts, gymnastics and motorcycle riding for her lead role in the series Dark Angel?
Did you know that Robert Dirks, a research chemist known for his work in DNA nanotechnology, died in the 2015 Valhalla train crash?
Did you know that Russian billionaire German Sterligov sold most of his assets and now lives in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic?
Did you know that Taiwanese actor Yao Yuanhao's humorous haircut in the TV series Big Red Riding Hood was inspired by that of a character in the Japanese manga Musashi no Ken?
Did you know that every manned NASA spaceflight since Apollo 7 has carried commemorative Robbins medallions?
Did you know that on 5 July 1943, Nazi Germany launched its final major offensive against the Soviet Union in the Battle of Kursk?
Did you know that on this evening a year ago, the swarm of mayflies near La Crosse, Wisconsin was so vast that it could be detected on weather radar?
Did you know that the 1968 Michigan Wolverines football team was ranked No. 12 in the final AP Poll in its last season under head coach Bump Elliott?
Did you know that the capital of Japan was once in Hyōgo?
Did you know that Austin Nola's name appears on the front and back of his baseball uniform?
Did you know that Bach's earliest solo church cantata, Widerstehe doch der Sünde, BWV 54, for an alto voice on a text by Lehms, begins with a dissonance?
Did you know that Elvis Presley released a concert album that contains no music at all?
Did you know that I Am Jazz, the first reality show about a transgender teen, debuted on TLC at the same time Caitlyn Jenner was receiving the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs?
Did you know that Peg Plunkett, brothel keeper, had the leader of the Pinking Dindies gang sent to jail after she lost her baby?
Did you know that Ray Holley, who installed air conditioners until April 2015, became a starting running back in the Canadian Football League in June?
Did you know that after signing a professional contract with Italian club Palermo, Norwegian footballer Arne Kotte injured his knee five minutes into his first training match, and was out of action for six months?
Did you know that during the O.J. Simpson murder trial, judge Lance Ito applied a legal rule that has been described as a "discredited doctrine"?
Did you know that six of the species native to Dilek Peninsula-Büyük Menderes Delta National Park are not found anywhere else in the world?
Did you know that the Maluti temples have been declared one of the world's twelve most endangered cultural heritage sites by the Global Heritage Fund?
Did you know that the second season of the television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. introduced the Inhumans race to the Marvel Cinematic Universe ahead of their own film?
Did you know that there are many more male than female little brittle stars, probably because the males fragment more frequently?
Did you know that Coffea arabica accounts for one-fifth of the total production of coffee in the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
Did you know that Ralph Waldo Emerson commemorated the Emancipation Proclamation by composing "Boston Hymn" and surprising a crowd of 3,000 with its debut reading?
Did you know that a controversial pool, built at South African president Jacob Zuma's Nkandla compound and deemed as a "fire pool", has faced "public condemnation"?
Did you know that in 1934, participants in a political rally in Kelayres, Pennsylvania, were gunned down as they marched past the house of the local opposition party boss?
Did you know that in Paramahamsa Parivrajaka Upanishad, Adi Narayana explains that a renouncer is an intelligent person who has learned the Vedic scriptures the hard way through a guru?
Did you know that it was Benjamin Loxley's house key that was used by Benjamin Franklin for his kite experiment to attract lightning?
Did you know that not all Croats were Croats?
Did you know that the No. 106 Squadron IAF was awarded a total of nine gallantry medals, including a Maha Vir Chakra and four Vir Chakras, during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971?
Did you know that the cricket Anurogryllus muticus makes its burrow close to its preferred food plant?
Did you know that the death of Freddie Gray in police custody sparked the 2015 Baltimore protests?
Did you know that the lyrics for "Crying", the lead track on Heo Young-saeng's 2012 EP Solo, were written by Heo himself?
Did you know that the upcoming film Gold recounts the true story of Bre-X's mining scandal?
Did you know that Clark Janell Davis entered the 2015 Miss Kentucky pageant as Miss Horse Capital of the World?
Did you know that Maputeoa's tomb lies in a chapel behind St. Michael's Cathedral in Rikitea, Gambier Islands?
Did you know that Marcelo Odebrecht is the grandson of the founder of the Latin American conglomerate, Odebrecht?
Did you know that Max Winston, who directed a short for Uncle Grandpa, is a drummer for a band that includes other crew members of that show?
Did you know that an English computer was awarded a silver medal by the Vatican?
Did you know that the Burmese royal title Queen of the Southern Palace, with rare exceptions, was reserved for the chief queen consort only?
Did you know that the Charlie Charlie Challenge is a "killer case study in virality"?
Did you know that the Doncaster Round Barn, named after an English horse, was the Montana birthplace of the racehorse Spokane?
Did you know that the Jabali Upanishad explains the significance of the three sacred streaks of ash drawn across the forehead of a brahamachari or sanyasi?
Did you know that the music video for "Bitch I'm Madonna" features Beyoncé making a "Vogue" pose and Miley Cyrus giving the finger?
Did you know that the research interests of American Indologist Philip Lutgendorf include Indian popular cinema and the culture of tea in India?
Did you know that Australian power pop group Sunnyboys issued their nation's first cassette single, "Happy Man", in June 1981?
Did you know that Danielle Wineman, Miss Montana 2015, is the older sister of Alexis Wineman, Miss Montana 2012?
Did you know that Hong Kong Free Press was established in response to concerns of declining press freedom?
Did you know that Kim Hyung-jun used his own car in the music video for his single "Better"?
Did you know that Paul Gauguin's Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake is a companion piece to his portrait of Dutch artist Meijer de Haan?
Did you know that Romanian literary critic Barbu Lăzăreanu was cremated in a ceremony capped by the singing of "The Internationale"?
Did you know that candyroot tastes like licorice?
Did you know that cannonballs fired during the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 were manufactured at Demirköy Foundry, an archaeological site today?
Did you know that in 2002, Mark Davis scored his maiden first-class century during a record partnership with Robin Martin-Jenkins?
Did you know that in the Paramahamsa Upanishad, Brahma explains that by discerning the staff of knowledge, one may become a paramahamsa?
Did you know that the Koma Kulshan Project was built on Mount Baker, a volcano called Koma Kulshan by the Lummi people?
Did you know that the ghost jellyfish may have a goose barnacle hanging from its bell and little fish swimming among its tentacles?
Did you know that until recently, ISIS would give you a manicure in New York?
Did you know that when Lieutenant (later Lieutenant General Sir) Reg Pollard got married, his wife cut the cake with the Sword of Honour he had been awarded at the Royal Military College, Duntroon?
Did you know that Fanling Lodge, the summer residence for the then Governor of Hong Kong, served as a venue for secret discussions between China and the United Kingdom in the years preceding the 1997 handover?
Did you know that Thomas Asen Palaiologos, a Byzantine exile and possible grandson of the governor of Corinth, Matthew Palaiologos Asen, financed the construction of the first Orthodox church in Naples?
Did you know that Vaughn Armstrong's role as Maxwell Forrest in the Star Trek: Enterprise cast was one of thirteen characters he played in the Star Trek franchise?
Did you know that although Mathilde Wurm's death was ruled a suicide, some believed she was killed by the Gestapo?
Did you know that before starring in Focus, Adrian Martinez felt like he had "been running in a marathon for 20 years"?
Did you know that former John Bartram High School basketball player Tyrone Garland scored the third-most points in Philadelphia Public League history, being surpassed only by Maureece Rice and Wilt Chamberlain?
Did you know that it is believed that Ramagiri Fort inspired the Sanskrit poet Kālidāsa to write his lyric poem, Meghadūta?
Did you know that the Igogo festival has been active for over 400 years?
Did you know that the Navalakaha, a palace in Gondal, India, means "nine lakhs" (INRs 900,000), which was its cost of building?
Did you know that the film Miracles from Heaven is based on a memoir by Christy Beam about her sick daughter, who was miraculously cured after surviving a near-death experience?
Did you know that the fossil crane fly Elephantomyia baltica is known from a single male in amber?
Did you know that the normally frugivorous crested quetzal can catch small vertebrates while raising its young?
Did you know that "you half expect to find the leaders of the Evil Empire ... plotting the demise of Luke Skywalker" in the Rarig Center?
Did you know that Carl Thompson, Britain's heaviest man, gained 30 stone (190 kg; 420 lb) over the last three years of his life?
Did you know that Charlotte Manning was the first Mistress of Girton College?
Did you know that Dutch journalist Frans Goedhart illegally founded a newsletter during World War II, was sentenced to death, escaped, and served in the House of Representatives for 25 years?