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Did you know that USA Network gave out free Häagen-Dazs ice cream in five cities to promote the broadcast of the Suits pilot episode?
Did you know that Yazawin Thit, the first historical document in Southeast Asia written in consultation with epigraphic evidence, was rejected after being judged too critical of the prior Burmese chronicles?
Did you know that auto polo was promoted by a Kansas car salesman to sell Model Ts?
Did you know that the Body of Proof episode "Buried Secrets" was directed by director David Platt?
Did you know that the Hollister Carnegie Library has an unusually inhibited form of classicism?
Did you know that the Maldives' human rights issues include flogging, which is carried out behind court buildings?
Did you know that the Somali Confederation of Labour was banned following Siad Barre's coup d'état in 1969?
Did you know that the flat-twin in the 1919–1923 Model W was Harley-Davidson's first flathead engine?
Did you know that the fuzztop mushroom was named for being "cow-colored"?
Did you know that water polo player John Mann won an NCAA Championship and the Peter J. Cutino Award?
Did you know that when Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery was about to exhibit Bill Henson's artworks in 2008, police seized over 20, following complaints claiming they were child pornography?
Did you know that 2012 Paralympic swimmer Mitchell Kilduff mentors other swimmers with autism?
Did you know that Brazilian swimmer Daniel Dias (pictured with President Dilma Rousseff) was the most successful athlete at the 2008 Paralympics, winning nine medals, including four golds?
Did you know that India's National Metallurgical Laboratory was inaugurated by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1950?
Did you know that Kabaret Starszych Panów (sculpture of two main characters, pictured) was a cult Polish cabaret, poking fun at the reality of the early People's Republic of Poland?
Did you know that Kick-Ass, Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre de Pichilemu's English debate team, ranked second in a 2011 regional tournament?
Did you know that Marvel NOW!, an upcoming relaunch of Marvel comic books, will see the return of Jean Grey, whose character died in 2004?
Did you know that Narbona Pass in New Mexico is named after Narbona, a Navajo headman killed in 1849 during peace negotiations with the United States?
Did you know that Sally Tanner wrote California's lemon law?
Did you know that Shane Williams scored the last of his 60 international rugby union tries on the final play of his last test match?
Did you know that Southampton City Council proposed selling off artworks by Munnings and Rodin to fund the creation of SeaCity Museum?
Did you know that Turid Birkeland became Head of Concerts Norway in April 2012, succeeding Åse Kleveland, whom she had also succeeded as Minister of Culture in 1996?
Did you know that after hundreds of legal threats, Lendink was shut down?
Did you know that both Michael J. Anderson and Dexter Fletcher were considered for the title role in David Lynch's unfinished film Ronnie Rocket?
Did you know that in 1922, Franz Kafka's story "Ein Hungerkünstler" first appeared in Die neue Rundschau, a German literary magazine founded in 1890 and still in print?
Did you know that in Kulubnarti, a village on an island in the Nile, the domed church contains incised graffito in Greek, Coptic and Old Nubian?
Did you know that the song "Need You Now", performed by Lady Antebellum, ranked as the number-one song on the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart on the Billboard 2010 year-end list?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic rower Gavin Bellis was an army sergeant diesel mechanic before being discharged following a diagnosis of spinocerebellar ataxia?
Did you know that 2012 Paralympic wheelchair rugby player Andrew Harrison was part of a campaign called "Don't Drink and Dive" which encouraged people to be careful when diving?
Did you know that Harry Truman was the poorest U.S. President since 1929?
Did you know that IBM's Mira is listed by TOP500 as the third-fastest supercomputer in the world as of June 2012?
Did you know that Michael Jackson had a Jheri curl hairstyle in the 1980s?
Did you know that a 2,600-year-old human brain, thought to be one of the oldest ever found, was discovered on the site of the University of York's new campus?
Did you know that a beak-shaped mask did not save plague doctor Majus' life in the Great Northern War plague outbreak?
Did you know that among the Mongolian divinities, Qormusata Tngri ranks higher than Sülde Tngri, though the latter is often identified with Gengis Khan?
Did you know that despite starting as a 50-to-1 longshot, the filly Jet Ski Lady won the 1991 Epsom Oaks by ten lengths, the second widest winning margin in the race's history?
Did you know that philosopher George Santayana reportedly called The Sense of Beauty, his book on aesthetics, a "wretched potboiler" that he wrote mainly for tenure?
Did you know that some athletes have been known to break their own toes and electrocute their own testicles to gain a performance boost?
Did you know that the BBC documentary Nature's Microworlds covers the wildlife of microclimates ranging from the Serengeti grasslands in Africa to the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard?
Did you know that the red supergiant NML Cygni is the largest star currently known, at about 1,650 times the Sun's diameter?
Did you know that the right to push the button for the implosion of Radio Network House received the third-highest views ever on New Zealand auction website TradeMe?
Did you know that volleyball player Brian Thornton set single-season and career assists records at the University of California, Irvine?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralaympic sailor Jonathan Harris competed in the 1983 and 1985 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic shooter Luke Cain broke his neck playing Australian rules football?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Jannik Blair has a partial wheelchair basketball scholarship from the University of Missouri?
Did you know that Constance Kgosiemang was the political leader of Tswanaland, a bantustan in South-West Africa?
Did you know that Herb Mitchell, a former stockbroker who became an actor, performed in commercials as spokesman for a brokerage firm?
Did you know that Jack Swift, a 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor, was a finalist for the 2011 Victorian Cleo Bachelor of the Year?
Did you know that Mus`ab ibn `Umair, a sahabi (companion) of Mohammad, was the first ambassador of Islam?
Did you know that Rachel Henderson, a 2012 Australian Paralympic goalball player, represented South Australia in swimming and athletics but gave up both sports in 2010 to pursue goalball?
Did you know that Roy Stanbrook, who "ran away to sea as a boy", is now Captain of the Port of Gibraltar?
Did you know that botanist Sara Plummer Lemmon authored the legislation to make the golden poppy the state flower of California?
Did you know that following 1805's United States v. More, the U.S. Supreme Court did not hear ordinary appeals in federal criminal cases until 1891, or, for some crimes, until 1911?
Did you know that in the Glee fourth season premiere, "The New Rachel", Lea Michele and Dean Geyer sing a duet "running around in New York"?
Did you know that the CS Chamarel, then known as CS Vercors, laid the first Israeli-made submarine communications cable EMOS-1 in 1991?
Did you know that the ancient Arabs saw Phoenix as a boat?
Did you know that the butterfly Kallima paralekta is highly conspicuous in flight, but can instantly turn invisible upon landing?
Did you know that the child star of Malin Kundang got the part for his knowledge of the source material?
Did you know that the filly Intrepidity's winning time of 2:34.19 at the 1993 Epsom Oaks established a new course record which still stands today?
Did you know that the mother of Irish horsetrainer Mouse Morris was awarded an  MBE for her work as a cryptographer at Bletchley Park during World War II?
Did you know that the quotient filter, a new type of hash table, supports fast lookup, merge, and resize and, unlike the traditional Bloom filter, scales beyond main memory?
Did you know that 2008 South African Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Nick Taylor was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Paralympics?
Did you know that Dr. James West, the founding medical director of the Betty Ford Center, was an alcoholic when he was a student and later wrote as a newspaper columnist about alcoholism and alcohol abuse?
Did you know that Saqlain Mushtaq took 19 five-wicket hauls during his career in international cricket, and achieved two hat-tricks in One Day International matches, both against Zimbabwe?
Did you know that among the fifty-seven active lighthouses in Maine are the easternmost in the country and the first completed in the United States after its independence from Great Britain?
Did you know that among the thousands of shrimp and prawn species are mantis shrimps which can knock their prey out with powerful punches?
Did you know that blind 2012 Paralympic swimmer Tim Antalfy also surfs, water skis and wakeboards?
Did you know that despite being nearly deaf, David Smith played volleyball at the 2012 Olympics?
Did you know that eating paradise nuts can cause nausea, vomiting and hair loss?
Did you know that the female Black Mountain Salamander broods her eggs?
Did you know that the hairy geebung is endangered by too frequent fires?
Did you know that the wooden racing surface of the Los Angeles Motordrome was treated with crushed sea shells to improve traction?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic goalball team captain Meica Christensen plays the song "The Final Countdown" before competitions?
Did you know that Dexter Bean's BlackJack Racing team, which he drove for in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series, was so named because his father formed the team after winning big in Vegas?
Did you know that John P. Bennett, the Arawak priest and linguist, wrote An Arawak-English Dictionary at a time when the Arawak language was thought to be near extinction in Guyana?
Did you know that Olive Garden successfully participated in Coca-Cola's H2NO program, which sought to steer customers away from tap water in favor of buying soft drinks and bottled water?
Did you know that Selwyn in New Zealand, which celebrates its 150th birthday this month, was planned for 2,000 residents, but was depopulated by flooding and now has many derelict buildings (ruins pictured)?
Did you know that adaptive rowers Pam Relph, Naomi Riches, James Roe and David Smith, alongside cox Lily van den Broecke, won a gold medal at the 2011 World Rowing Championships and have been selected to represent Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics?
Did you know that basketball player Kobe Bryant went to Germany to receive Orthokine treatments that have not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration?
Did you know that during the tenure of Jerry Glanville, Portland State set a Football Championship Subdivision record for most points scored in a loss against Weber State in 2007?
Did you know that half of Lie Tek Swie's films were literary adaptations?
Did you know that in 1937 the Nazis organized the Degenerate Art Exhibition attempting to discredit modern art, which Hitler declared to be degenerate?
Did you know that in 1960, Martial became the first Irish racehorse to win the British Classic 2,000 Guineas Stakes?
Did you know that in some portrayals of the marriage of the Hindu deities Shiva and Parvati, their yet-unborn sons are depicted?
Did you know that the county of Dorset in England has one of the most studied coastlines in the world?
Did you know that the mite Brevipalpus phoenicis reproduces primarily by parthenogenesis and almost all individuals are female?
Did you know that wheelchair tennis player Peter Norfolk must tape a tennis racket to his hand in order to play?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic goalball player Tyan Taylor participated in two extreme sports: skydiving and bungee jumping?
Did you know that 2012 Paralympian Chris Bond is missing both legs below his knees, his left wrist and his right four fingers as a result of a severe infection from a flesh-eating disease?
Did you know that Bach composed his chorale cantata Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 33, on a hymn by Konrad Hubert with a melody by Paul Hofhaimer, and first performed it on 3 September 1724?
Did you know that Brother Esteban de Perea was the reluctant jailer of New Mexico governor Pedro de Peralta, founder of Santa Fe?
Did you know that Dennis Lillee took seven out of his twenty-three Test five-wicket hauls at the Melbourne Cricket Ground?
Did you know that Eichwald's toad was first described in 2008, having previously been considered to be a subspecies of the Caucasian toad?
Did you know that Indonesian T46 runner and Paralympic hopeful Martin Losu set two regional records at the 2011 ASEAN ParaGames?
Did you know that Joss Whedon is developing a television series based on the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Did you know that Madhu Trehan, an Indian journalist, had to apologise for publishing an article rating Delhi High Court judges?
Did you know that Sanjay Hazare is the first international cricket umpire from Vadodara, and second from Gujarat?
Did you know that U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall wrote that he did not have "the privilege of dividing the court when alone"?
Did you know that Władysław Machejek was a political hack writer during the Stalinist reign of terror in Poland following World War II?
Did you know that in the novel Corrupting Dr. Nice by John Kessel, several versions of Jesus Christ are transported to the twenty-first century?
Did you know that sediments from the Sendai River in Tottori Prefecture, Japan, created and replenish the Tottori Sand Dunes?
Did you know that the 1895 Quchan earthquake had a lower death toll than the one that struck the town in 1893, partly because most of the rebuilt houses used a lighter form of construction?
Did you know that the Faizrakhmanist sect, including 27 children, was discovered to be living underground in catacomb-like chambers in Kazan in Tatarstan?
Did you know that the fungus Pluteus nevadensis was named after the Colima volcano?
Did you know that the future of the tropical tree Milicia regia for timber production is threatened by a gall fly, Phytolyma lata?
Did you know that the recently discovered Trogloraptor of Oregon is the namesake and sole member of an ancient family of cave-dwelling spiders with hook-like feet?
Did you know that two-time world champion water skier and 2012 Paralympic athletics competitor Scott Reardon was the first person with a disability to win his state's water skiing championship?
Did you know that "the one who cried" is often depicted shaking Mount Kailash in Indian art?
Did you know that 2012 Australia Paralympic equestrian Grace Bowman was featured on ABC's Race to London?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair rugby player Josh Hose became a quadriplegic after a car rollover?
Did you know that Chan Yan-tak was the first Chinese chef to win three Michelin stars?
Did you know that DARPA director Arati Prabhakar was the first female director of National Institute of Standards and Technology, and also the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in applied physics from Caltech?
Did you know that Indonesian Paralympic competitor Setyo Budi Hartanto is the son of fishmongers?
Did you know that Millennium's "Sense and Antisense" underwent several rewrites to lessen its focus on race relations?
Did you know that a grey sandstone wall is all that remains of Caludon Castle in Coventry, whose history stretches back to pre-Norman times?
Did you know that a reviewer called the gay pornographic film Dream Team an allegory of gay liberation?
Did you know that after giving up professional football to serve in World War II, Jack Roberts escaped from a POW camp and walked 400 miles to freedom with a broken neck?
Did you know that an alleged Burmese drug lord and nine Thai anti-narcotics soldiers are accused of committing the 2011 Mekong River massacre, the deadliest attack on Chinese nationals abroad in modern times?
Did you know that at 12,095 feet (3,687 m) in elevation, Colorado's Independence Pass is the highest paved crossing of the Continental Divide in the United States?
Did you know that in May 2011 a sullage tank exploded near the Gibraltar Cruise Terminal?
Did you know that mathematician Fredrik Lange-Nielsen was elected into several governmental commissions?
Did you know that ruisreikäleipä is a Finnish rye hole loaf which was stored for all the Nordic winter's length and is still a main component of the Finnish diet?
Did you know that the music of Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, and Arnold Schoenberg inspired jazz-guitarist Ralph Patt to invent major-thirds tuning?
Did you know that the villous deadly carrot is used to stun fish?
Did you know that 2012 British Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Terry Bywater made his Paralympic debut in 2000 in Sydney?
Did you know that Anuya Bhagvath makes her Bengali cinema debut in Gora, a film based on a novel by Rabindranath Tagore?
Did you know that Mike Chase hoped to be NASCAR Rookie of the Year in the Winston Cup Series in 1995, but was released from his team after failing to qualify for the year's first race?
Did you know that Sarpsborg 08 rejected Brescia's attempt to get Magnar Ødegaard on a trial, because it was in the middle of the Norwegian football season?
Did you know that South African Paralympic swimmer Achmat Hassiem had his leg severed in an attack by a great white shark?
Did you know that Vanguard Cave is one of four caves in Gibraltar which have been nominated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Did you know that film-maker David Lynch acts opposite his real-life partner Isabella Rossellini in Tina Rathborne's semi-autobiographical film Zelly and Me?
Did you know that the DOX BOX International Documentary Film Festival, founded by Syrian filmmaker Orwa Nyrabia in 2008, quickly grew into the most important documentary film gathering in the Arab world?
Did you know that the Syrian city of Tell Rifaat dates back to the Iron Age when it was an Aramaean settlement known as "Arpad"?
Did you know that the Teen Age Message was sent by Russian scientists from the Eupatoria radio telescope, and was humanity's first musical Active SETI broadcast?
Did you know that the extinct wasp Deinodryinus areolatus is one of two Deinodryinus species known from Baltic amber?
Did you know that the odor of the mushroom Cortinarius camphoratus has been likened to old goats, burnt horn, and sweaty feet?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympian Rachael Dodds, who has cerebral palsy, was introduced to athletics by her physiotherapist?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic table tennis player Melissa Tapper started her competitive playing career competing against able-bodied athletes even though she has Erb's palsy?
Did you know that Blessed Guerric's relics, located at Igny Abbey in Arcis-le-Ponsart, are still venerated?
Did you know that Mike Kenny is the most successful British Paralympian, having twice retained his gold medals in three swimming events?
Did you know that Shane Warne served both as a captain and a coach for Rajasthan Royals, and led his cricket team to win the 2008 Indian Premier League Final?
Did you know that a 19th-century brick synagogue in Radzanów designed with Moorish-style motifs, serves as a public library since there are now no Jews in Radzanów?
Did you know that according to her memoirs, African American preacher Zilphia Elaw gave over a thousand sermons in Victorian Britain?
Did you know that during the Albanian Revolt of 1432–36, forces under Gjergj Arianiti defeated 10,000 Ottoman troops under Ali Bey near the valley of Shkumbin?
Did you know that in 1332 Taynal, the Mamluk governor of Tripoli, was transferred to Gaza as punishment by the viceroy of Syria, only to be reassigned to Tripoli three years later?
Did you know that in 1915, British ship-owner Joseph Hoult offered a reward of £500 each to the next four British merchant ships that sank German U-boats?
Did you know that the Hanajira tribe inhabited the area between Gaza and Beersheba before being expelled to the Gaza Strip during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War?
Did you know that the Mexican burrowing caecilian is viviparous, with the young feeding on glandular secretions in the oviduct?
Did you know that the Vätsäri Wilderness Area in Lapland, which covers an area of 1,550 square kilometers (600 sq mi), includes taiga forests of Scots Pine and thousands of small lakes?
Did you know that the clouded salamander stayed at home in Oregon while the wandering salamander travelled by bark from California to Vancouver Island?
Did you know that when he was a lieutenant colonel, General Larry O. Spencer was the first Air Force officer to serve as assistant chief of staff at the White House Military Office?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Matthew Silcocks has Poland's syndrome, a syndrome he had at birth, that caused development problems with his right arm?
Did you know that 2012 Paralympics competitor and Gold Coast Wheelchair Rugby Titans captain Ben Newton was a member of the undefeated 2011 Australia national wheelchair rugby team?
Did you know that Ben Burns, a pioneering white editor of black publications, answered if he was "Negro or white" by saying: "Neither, I'm Jewish"?
Did you know that Brad Teague was fastest in third-round qualifying for the 1989 Daytona 500, but did not compete in the event?
Did you know that British record producer Shahid "Naughty Boy" Khan started his career by winning twice in one year, once for The Prince's Trust and then on Deal or No Deal?
Did you know that British swimmer James Crisp has won medals in every different competitive stroke style?
Did you know that Canadian S10 swimmer Summer Mortimer won a medal in each of her individual events at the 2012 Paralympics, breaking two of her own world records?
Did you know that Jan Nepomucen Głowacki, considered the father of the Polish school of landscape painting, was the first to devote an entire series of works to the Tatra Mountains (painting pictured)?
Did you know that Karen Gillan, who portrays Amy Pond, was so moved by her exit from Doctor Who that she could not read the script without crying?
Did you know that Lucy Spraggan's song "Last Night" reached number eleven in the UK charts despite being pulled midweek?
Did you know that a Japanese bank funded a project to improve the quality of Hussain Sagar reservoir in Hyderabad, India?
Did you know that a minimal surface of revolution can be visualized as soap film stretched between two circular wires, and C. W. B. Goldschmidt discovered mathematical solutions describing cases in which the film breaks?
Did you know that each of the three Russian Petropavlovsk-class battleships (Poltava pictured) had a different type of steel armor?
Did you know that in her film debut Kris of Mataram, Fifi Young stabs herself with the titular weapon?
Did you know that of all the county bridges currently in use in Wyoming, EDZ Irigary Bridge has the longest clear span?
Did you know that the wasp Deinodryinus velteni is one of only three Deinodryinus species described from the fossil record?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Damien Bowen has previously competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics and 2010 Commonwealth Games?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic swimmer Kayla Clarke has a scholarship from the Queensland Academy of Sport and receives athlete support grants from the Australian government?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Sarah Vinci made her national team debut at the 2011 Osaka Cup?
Did you know that Bird Island Nature Reserve has no introduced animals?
Did you know that Conflict Kitchen, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a take-out restaurant that only serves food from nations with which the United States is in conflict?
Did you know that Henry Nock, the maker of the seven-barrelled volley gun used by Patrick Harper in Sharpe episodes, founded a company which became Wilkinson Sword?