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Did you know that Fil and Filippa: Story of Child Life in the Philippines is a 1917 novel written by American writer John Stuart Thomson?
Did you know that Giammaria Biemmi's work on Skanderbeg raised controversy among historians over his sources' authenticity?
Did you know that Parks and Recreation character Chris Traeger has been described as "one of the great comedic creations of the past couple years" and one of Rob Lowe's funniest performances?
Did you know that Stephen Fry was an engineer and aspiring jazz pianist before he captained South Africa's rugby team against the British Lions?
Did you know that Turakhan Beg was commander of one of the Ottoman armies during the Battle of Niš in November 1443?
Did you know that after Lord George Gordon incited a riot that killed 300 people and damaged more buildings than the French Revolution, he was found not guilty?
Did you know that glamour model Sofia Hellqvist, the current girlfriend of Swedish Prince Carl Philip, appeared in a photoshoot for the men's magazine Slitz in which she posed wearing only bikini bottoms and a live python?
Did you know that in 1930, the first linum factory in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, was opened in Ilyinsko-Podomskoye in Vilegodsky District?
Did you know that journalist Ahmad Taufik was acquitted after being taken to court by both the Suharto government and Tomy Winata, one of Indonesia's richest businessmen?
Did you know that sculptor Alfred Gerrard wore the same clothes for decades?
Did you know that shortly after the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, politician Anselmo Sule, along with several supporters of the Unidad Popular, were detained and taken to Dawson Island?
Did you know that the American neuroscientist Jacqueline Crawley has been President of both the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society and the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society?
Did you know that the BBC used commentators for the first time at the 1936 FA Cup Final, where Sheffield United was captained by Harry Hooper?
Did you know that the Good Shepherd is the theme of Bach's cantata for Pentecost Tuesday, Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen, BWV 175, illustrated in pastoral music of three recorders?
Did you know that the Sumerian Kesh temple hymn (similar temple pictured) is one of the oldest texts?
Did you know that the ancient Mundeshwari Temple, dedicated to the worship of Lord Shiva and Shakti, is one of the oldest Hindu temples in Bihar, India?
Did you know that the idea for the 2009 experimental comedy-horror film Lo came after the director watched Jan Švankmajer's 1994 film Faust?
Did you know that the nests of White-winged Widowbirds are built exclusively by males?
Did you know that the pink dress which Marilyn Monroe wore in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) was emulated by Madonna in her video to Material Girl?
Did you know that , after the 1906 Earthquake, Sid Grauman (pictured, left), owner of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, showed movies in a tent with a sign that read "Nothing to fall on you but canvas if there is another quake"?
Did you know that Emily and Anne Brontë's Gondal was an early form of science fiction?
Did you know that Ismail Ndroqi served the longest term as mayor of Albania's capital Tirana in the pre-WWII era?
Did you know that Javier González Fraga was appointed as vice president candidate for the Ricardo Alfonsín ticket for the 2011 Argentine general election?
Did you know that Katerina Kazelis got to audition in front of singer Basshunter for a chance to record the Big Brother 2011 anthem during her participation in Big Brother Sweden?
Did you know that Saint John Sea Dogs defenceman Nathan Beaulieu continued to play for the ice hockey team even after they fired his father as head coach?
Did you know that Samuel Ward was given a diamond ring as reward for being Bonnie Prince Charlie's food taster?
Did you know that Temple Owls men's basketball player Juan Fernandez has been called "Pepe Sanchez with a jump shot"?
Did you know that blues legend B.B. King made his broadcast debut playing live gospel music on WGRM in Greenwood, Mississippi?
Did you know that builder Charles Luney used "every piece of scaffolding available in the South Island" of New Zealand for the construction of the Westpac Centre?
Did you know that in 1933, Harmon Caldwell Drew, a Louisiana circuit court judge, got into a confrontation with then U.S. Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr., after Long had sullied Drew's reputation?
Did you know that many Buddhist temples in Japan have a hidden roof?
Did you know that supporting Kanak traditions, Conservation International's partnership with the Coral Reef Initiative for the South Pacific included underwater species guides to the Kanak people?
Did you know that the 1562 Danish-Russian Treaty of Mozhaysk has been called a milestone in European history?
Did you know that the 1st Parachute Brigade earned their nickname Red Devils during the Tunisian Campaign?
Did you know that the Black Bishop is not just a chess piece?
Did you know that the FPSO Kwame Nkrumah floating vessel, which processes crude oil off the coast of Ghana, is 330 metres (1,080 ft) long?
Did you know that the Hymn to Enlil is part of a sequence of Sumerian scribal training scripts called the Decad?
Did you know that the Kölnbrein Dam is the tallest dam in Austria?
Did you know that the Spanish coup of July 1936 is considered ideologically catastrophic?
Did you know that the Sultan of Johor's Oxford-educated wife, Raja Zarith Sofia, earned her degree in Chinese studies and advocates the use of English in Malaysia?
Did you know that the Uruguayan city of Chuy is only separated from the Brazilian city of Chuí by an avenue?
Did you know that the development of wind power in New Jersey could lead to the construction of the first American windfarm using offshore wind power?
Did you know that Ako Adjei Interchange, the first flyover to be built in Ghana, was at one time named after Captain Thomas Sankara – a military ruler of Burkina Faso?
Did you know that Alfred Vellucci, a former mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, once proposed a motion to the City Council that would have designated the Harvard Lampoon Building as a public urinal?
Did you know that American singer Madonna, the artist with the most MTV Video Music Awards, won twenty from sixty-eight nominations?
Did you know that Bizunesh Deba won the 2011 San Diego Marathon in a California state record time, beating Joan Benoit's record from the 1984 Olympic Marathon?
Did you know that Captain Lionel Queripel of the 10th Parachute Battalion was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for his actions during the Battle of Arnhem?
Did you know that Haki Stërmilli's novel Sikur t'isha djalë (English: If I Were a Boy) is his best known work and the first literary work in Albanian that dealt with the subject of the emancipation of women?
Did you know that Iñigo Ed. Regalado wrote the novel May Pagsinta'y Walang Puso in 1921 when adultery was a sensitive topic in Philippine literature?
Did you know that Rogier van der Weyden's painting Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin (c. 1435; pictured) may contain a self-portrait of the artist as Saint Luke, displaying his affinity with the patron saint of the arts?
Did you know that Solidarity's victory in the Polish legislative election, 1989, ushering the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, was a surprise to both the communists and the opposition?
Did you know that Tetteh Quarshie Interchange in Accra replaced the Akuafo Circle, which was Ghana's largest roundabout?
Did you know that anti-communist activist Gheorghe Briceag pledged to shave his well-known Solzhenitsyn beard if Moldova united with Romania?
Did you know that during the May 1998 riots in Indonesia, three generals in charge of security in the capital Jakarta were absent from the city?
Did you know that fox predation is probably the biggest natural threat to the Hooded Dotterel?
Did you know that the 96,000 people who visited the The Derby Exhibition of 1839 were able to view a coconut?
Did you know that the Common Diving-petrel is almost indistinguishable from the South Georgia Diving-petrel, which can dive to at least 48.6 m (159 ft)?
Did you know that the Tema Oil Refinery, the only refinery in Ghana, cannot refine crude oil produced from the country's newly discovered Jubilee oil field?
Did you know that the city of Jisr ash-Shugur has twice risen in revolt against the government of Syria, in 1980 and again in 2011?
Did you know that the eighth place of Richard Kruse at the 2004 Games is the best Olympic result for any British fencer since 1964?
Did you know that while captaining Somerset County Cricket Club, Jake Seamer carried an old train sign saying "To Tonbridge" in his bag?
Did you know that while the album Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons only reached number 197 on the Billboard 200, it peaked at number two on Billboard's Top Kid Audio and remained on that chart for 17 weeks?
Did you know that with an estimated skull size of 87.5 mm (3.4 in), Coloniatherium was the largest mammal in the La Colonia Formation?
Did you know that "Vote Communist to save Spain from Marxism" was a Socialist joke during the 1936 Spanish general election?
Did you know that A.B. Quintanilla III and his father/manager Abraham Quintanilla Jr remixed five unreleased Selena songs that were recorded prior to signing a contract with EMI Latin, in 1989, to release a new studio album?
Did you know that Aretino had the largest spindle hole, at three inches (76 mm), of any phonograph record?
Did you know that Armson, Collins and Harman was one of the two oldest architectural firms in New Zealand?
Did you know that British short track speed skater Sarah Lindsay, a three time Winter Olympian, missed 15 months of competition after rupturing a spinal disc in 2007?
Did you know that Filipina TV host Daphne Oseña-Paez got her big break by waiting for a network executive in the ABS-CBN parking lot to show him a TV program that she filmed, shot, and edited herself?
Did you know that Selena y Los Dinos's album The New Girl in Town was never released outside of South Texas due to copyright concerns?
Did you know that Tegucigalpa's dining (sample dish pictured) includes traditional Honduran cuisine—a fusion of the African, Spanish and indigenous cuisines?
Did you know that The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) has been banned by the British Board of Film Classification?
Did you know that according to the obsolete Paratheria hypothesis, sloths, armadillos, anteaters, and allies are neither marsupials nor placentals?
Did you know that although Vityaz Chekhov selected Jonathan Huberdeau fifth overall in the 2011 Kontinental Hockey League Junior Draft, he doesn't want to play for them?
Did you know that an apprentice who served on board Empire Deben later became the captain of Canberra during the Falklands War?
Did you know that college football coach Mike Pecarovich appeared in several movies with Bing Crosby and was an acclaimed public speaker who some compared to Knute Rockne?
Did you know that if the Glacier View Dam had been built it would have inundated more than 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) of Glacier National Park in Montana?
Did you know that in Waugh's Scott-King's Modern Europe (1947), Scott-King concludes that "It would be very wicked indeed to do anything to fit a boy for the modern world"?
Did you know that the Blockhaus d'Éperlecques was built in France by the Nazi Organisation Todt during World War II to launch V-2 missiles against England?
Did you know that the Flåm Line, originally operated with El 9 locomotives, is the steepest standard gauge railway in Europe?
Did you know that the Malfatti circles, three tangent circles inside a triangle, are named after Malfatti because of an incorrect conjecture he made, and were studied earlier by Ajima and di Cecco?
Did you know that the Medieval Merchant's House in Southampton was being used as a brothel when bomb damage during the Blitz revealed the building's important medieval architecture?
Did you know that the Sumerian "river of paradise", the Hubur, derived partly from real geography before becoming a demonic fantasy?
Did you know that the tall tower of the Anglican Church of St Mark in Preston, Lancashire, was built to rival the height of the steeple of the nearby Catholic Church of St Walburge?
Did you know that Aelita Andre, an Australian artist who recently sold US$30,000 worth of paintings at a New York exhibition, is just four years old?
Did you know that German texts by the blind Alsatian writer Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel were the basis of two songs by Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, and of an opera by Joseph Haydn?
Did you know that Indonesian politician Mohammad Roem moved to Pekalongan as a child to escape an outbreak of cholera?
Did you know that Somerset County Cricket Club named three official captains for the 1948 season?
Did you know that after Roger Marie Bricoux, cellist on the RMS Titanic, drowned in the disaster, he was declared a "deserter" by the French army and not officially registered dead until 2000?
Did you know that after publishing bestsellers Father Goose and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the George M. Hill Company was compelled in 1902 to declare bankruptcy?
Did you know that after winning two medals at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, British equestrian Simon Laurens was named South West Disabled Sports Personality of the Year by the BBC?
Did you know that association footballer Chris Smith, just months after signing for York City, was assaulted by a gang in an attack while on a night out?
Did you know that before Blues Hall of Fame musician Little Milton signed his first recording contract he hosted a radio show on WGVM in Greenville, Mississippi?
Did you know that former Indonesia foreign minister Agus Salim was considered an "intellectual ulama" by Sukarno?
Did you know that sculptor Richard MacDonald was a successful commercial illustrator until his late 30s when a fire destroyed his entire art studio along with all his illustrations and paintings?
Did you know that the Harvard Institute for International Development co-developed the Harvard Analytical Framework, which showed the importance of channeling foreign aid to women?
Did you know that the Kingdom of Africa was established by the Sicilian Normans in the 12th century in what is now Algeria, Tunisia and Libya?
Did you know that the SS Empire Deed, a British Second World War cargo ship, ended up being sold in turn to shipping companies in Panama, Greece, Liberia and Taiwan?
Did you know that the ancestors of the Kanak people (male Kanak pictured) are thought to have come to New Caledonia from New Guinea?
Did you know that the diet of Mangrove Pitta and Blue-winged Pitta includes hard-shelled snails?
Did you know that the release of Auckland, New Zealand's new HOP card transit system was timed to be in place for the 2011 Rugby World Cup?
Did you know that the white dress that Marilyn Monroe wore in the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch is up for auction today and may fetch up to two million US dollars?
Did you know that there are 16 subspecies of the Red-cheeked Parrot?
Did you know that Bach's cantata for Trinity Sunday, Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott, BWV 129, a chorale cantata on five stanzas, ends like his Christmas Oratorio, "punctuated by brass and orchestral fanfares"?
Did you know that Christ Church in Ashford, Kent, became known as "the railwayman's church" because most of the money for its construction was provided by the shareholders of the South Eastern Railway Company?
Did you know that Croatian cello duo 2Cellos are currently touring with singer Elton John after he saw the cellists' cover of "Smooth Criminal" on YouTube?
Did you know that Duployan shorthand can be used to write French, English, German, Spanish, Romanian and Chinook Jargon?
Did you know that Elastica's debut single, "Stutter", is about drunken male impotence?
Did you know that Francis Cotes's portrait of Edward Knowles was painted after Knowles had disappeared at sea?
Did you know that James Bremer, commander-in-chief of British forces in the First Anglo-Chinese War, took formal possession of Hong Kong Island for the United Kingdom at Possession Point?
Did you know that Jerry Della Femina, head of the ad agency that came up with the singing cat for Meow Mix, wrote a book in 1970 which inspired the television series Mad Men?
Did you know that The Magpie is considered one of Claude Monet's best snowscape paintings?
Did you know that a major cause of death for Gould's Petrels on Cabbage Tree Island used to be entanglement with the sticky fruits of the Bird-lime Tree?
Did you know that as the mayor of Oakdale, Louisiana, George B. Mowad in 1985 secured the establishment of the largest U.S. federal correctional institute of its time in his city?
Did you know that following Galima Bukharbaeva's eyewitness account of the Andijan massacre, the Uzbek government charged her with providing "informational support to terrorism"?
Did you know that in 1999, Texas Secretary of State Elton Bomer assisted then Governor George W. Bush in the acquisition of the Prairie Chapel Ranch near Crawford, Texas?
Did you know that in the upcoming video game Gotham City Impostors, teams of people dressed as Batman and The Joker try to kill each other?
Did you know that more than ten works by Kalispell, Montana, architect Fred Brinkman have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that the Aaron Copland House in Cortlandt Manor, New York, is the only U.S. National Historic Landmark connected to a classical music figure?
Did you know that the Bearded Mountaineer visits tobacco plants along the roadsides in Peru?
Did you know that the Godavari Arch Bridge in Andhra Pradesh in India is said to be one of the longest-span prestressed concrete bridges in Asia, probably in the world?
Did you know that the Lament for Ur which describes the fall of Ekur, c. 2000 BC, is similar in style to the Book of Lamentations which bewails the destruction of Jerusalem in the 6th century BC?
Did you know that the Paulinerkirche, the university church of Leipzig where Luther preached, Bach performed and Mendelssohn premiered Paulus, was dynamited in 1968 in communist East Germany?
Did you know that the debates to enact the Rizal Law (José Rizal pictured) in 1956 is compared to the current Reproductive Health Bill debate in the Philippines?
Did you know that the jumping spider Portia fimbriata in Queensland plays a deadly game of hide-and-seek with its favorite prey, Jacksonoides queenlandicus, another jumping spider?
Did you know that the market of the city of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico, is dominated by women, with men subject to ridicule if they enter?
Did you know that 1998 Chicago Marathon winner Ondoro Osoro was selected for the Kenyan Olympic squad, but missed the 2000 Sydney Olympics after he was shot in a carjacking?
Did you know that Andrew Marvell wrote poems accusing Vice-Admiral Sir William Berkeley of cowardice, even after Berkeley's death in battle?
Did you know that Bach used the music of his cantata Durchlauchtster Leopold, BWV 173a, composed in Köthen for the birthday of his employer, for two Pentecost cantatas in Leipzig?
Did you know that Brazilian band A Banda Mais Bonita da Cidade was little known until one of its music videos went viral, attracting international media attention?
Did you know that Charles Darwin described the English Pouter as "... the most distinct of all domesticated pigeons"?
Did you know that Queensland's worst maritime disaster occurred at Princess Charlotte Bay in 1899 after Cyclone Mahina struck Cape York Peninsula?
Did you know that Sir Evelyn Wood was one of only four Victoria Cross recipients to reach the rank of Field Marshal?
Did you know that Tisa Chang's father performed in school plays at Nankai University together with Zhou Enlai, who went on to become the Premier of the People's Republic of China?
Did you know that William Hopkinson Cox, who was Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky from 1907 to 1911, was believed to be a descendent of William the Conqueror?
Did you know that Wollemi Stringybark, a tree that grows to 45 metres (148 ft) high northwest of Sydney, remains officially undescribed?
Did you know that a new species of decim periodical cicada was discovered by studying the songs of Brood XIX, now re-emerging in 2011 after 13 years underground?
Did you know that according to legend, the Chiapa people committed suicide by jumping off the Sumidero Canyon in Chiapas, Mexico, rather than submit to Spanish domination?
Did you know that at the 1933 première of the film Das häßliche Mädchen there was a Nazi-instigated riot in which tomatoes and rotten eggs were thrown, because of the male lead, Max Hansen?
Did you know that in 1463 Thomas Bettz left £26 13s 4d in his will—a fortune in those days—to help pay for the repair of the bells of St Martin's Church in Ruislip?
Did you know that in 1972, Enoch T. Nix, president of the Louisiana State Board of Education, proposed the closing of historically black Southern University at New Orleans, an issue revived in 2011 by Governor Bobby Jindal?
Did you know that in the computer game Steg, players must feed young slugs maggots caught in bubbles?
Did you know that independent filmmaker Frank Sudol wrote, animated, voiced, directed, and composed all of the music for his film Dead Fury?
Did you know that one of the worst radiation spill accidents occurred when ignorant thieves broke a steel container with about 90 grams of radioactive caesium chloride?
Did you know that one outpost of Uruguay's Fuerte San Miguel has a wall and small window that appears like a cave or an animal burrow?
Did you know that the Ghana Trades Union Congress, an umbrella group that unites various workers' groups in Ghana, was established in 1945?
Did you know that the bar and restaurant Dux de Lux was once the home of zoologist Charles Chilton?
Did you know that walls and the ceiling of the Unionskirche (Union Church) in Idstein are covered with 38 oil paintings from the Dutch Golden Age school of Rubens?
Did you know that when railway telegrapher Alfred Atherton was accused of manslaughter for his role in the Canoe River train crash, he hired his MP, John Diefenbaker as defence counsel, who won an acquittal?
Did you know that , to avoid a league rule that banned participation, American football coach Bill Sargent agreed to release (and later re-sign) his players before an all-star game organized by boxer Joe Louis?
Did you know that 36 people have owned Warwick Castle since 1068?
Did you know that A Glorious Way to Die is a book about the World War II kamikaze mission of the world's largest battleship, the Yamato, against the American Pacific Fleet?
Did you know that American William P. Cronan, once described as "the most popular man in the Navy", lost two fingers when he shoved his hand in a breechblock to prevent a potentially deadly explosion?
Did you know that China's first female director was adopted by the first Premier of the People's Republic of China (pictured together in Moscow)?
Did you know that Daysland, Alberta, is named after the Canadian politician Edgerton W. Day?
Did you know that Den Brook Wind Farm in Devon, England, received planning permission in 2009 after two public inquiries and a judicial review?
Did you know that Jill Dawson, in her biographical novel The Great Lover, integrated quotes from letters of Rupert Brooke's contemporaries into the fictional narrative?
Did you know that Lincoln Park in Jersey City, New Jersey, boasts the world's largest concrete monument, a fountain?
Did you know that María de las Mercedes Barbudo is known as Puerto Rico's first female freedom fighter for her strong advocacy for Puerto Rico's independence from Spain?
Did you know that Owen Land's Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc. features looped footage of a woman blinking, as well as edge lettering, sprocket holes and dirt particles?
Did you know that a significant part of the former Santo Domingo monastery in Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas, is taken up by a museum dedicated entirely to lacquerware?
Did you know that actor Eddie Quillan's first film appearance was in the 1922 silent comedy/drama Up and at 'Em, written by William A. Seiter and Lewis Milestone?