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Did you know that the Bishop of Cambrai was benefactor of the monastic library at Groenendael Priory?
Did you know that the Nandu River Iron Bridge was built by the Imperial Japanese Army in Hainan, China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War as the first bridge to span the Nandu River?
Did you know that the Saxon Tithe Barn was a filming location for the TV series Robin of Sherwood, doubling as Nottingham Castle's great hall?
Did you know that the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Demons" guest starred Peter Weller, who is set to appear in the 2013 film Star Trek Into Darkness?
Did you know that the moated Baroque Holzhausenschlösschen, completed in 1729 as a summer residence of the Frankfurt Holzhausen family, has served as a cultural venue since 1989?
Did you know that the wildlife of Vietnam includes the saola, an antelope-like animal unknown to Western science until found in 1992 in the Bach Ma National Park?
Did you know that until the 1970s there were more plantings of the hybrid grape Couderc noir in France than of Cabernet Sauvignon?
Did you know that while trying to disavow the Rudd Concession, King Lobengula of Matabeleland sent emissaries to meet with Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle?
Did you know that Akokan, Roberto Fonseca's sixth studio album, features some "lovely sax work"?
Did you know that Canada's Glacier National Park contains moonmilk?
Did you know that James Hall's 1883 history of Nantwich remains one of the chief sources for the Cheshire town's history?
Did you know that actor Andrew Robinson wrote the novel A Stitch in Time, which is about his character from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine?
Did you know that between the first white settlement in 1856 and the end of the Mendocino War in 1860, the Native American population in Mendocino County, California, decreased by 80%?
Did you know that during the Great Syrian Revolt, rebel commander Hasan al-Kharrat led the capture of the Azm Palace, aiming for Maurice Sarrail, the High Commissioner of the French Mandate?
Did you know that during the six months that the 824th Tank Destroyer Battalion served in the European theater of World War II, its officers and men were awarded six Silver Stars and thirty-one Bronze Stars?
Did you know that in the poem Kali the Mother written by Swami Vivekananda in 1898, the poet worshipped the terrible form of Hindu goddess Kali?
Did you know that the Childers Incident of 1793 was the first action between British and French forces in the French Revolutionary Wars?
Did you know that the Church of St Paul, Liverpool, was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, who also designed Liverpool Cathedral?
Did you know that the Great Moonbuggy Race is underway right now?
Did you know that the food featured in the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding was provided by the Greek restaurant Papa Cristo's?
Did you know that the name of the newly defined genus of macadamia-like trees, Lasjia, is derived from the initials of Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson?
Did you know that the name of the search engine Shodan, which searches devices linked to the Internet, is based on the character of the same name in the System Shock game series?
Did you know that when the 1962 Alabama Crimson Tide football team lost to Georgia Tech, it ended a 19-game winning and 26-game unbeaten streak that dated back to their 1960 season?
Did you know that woodcarver Park Chan-su, one of Korea's Important Cultural Assets, drives his chisel with a wooden fish instead of a mallet?
Did you know that Earl Rose performed autopsies on J. D. Tippit, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Jack Ruby, but was not permitted to examine President John F. Kennedy?
Did you know that Holy Trinity Church, Wavertree, was described by John Betjeman as Liverpool's best Georgian church?
Did you know that Karlheinz Oswald created sculptures of Cardinal Volk, Pierre de Coubertin, and Hildegard of Bingen?
Did you know that Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded led Good Girl Gone Bad to reach a 930% increase in sales?
Did you know that Syrian veteran officer Sa'id al-'As was killed in action commanding Arab rebels in a confrontation with British forces near Jerusalem during the 1936 Palestine Revolt?
Did you know that a liver bird survives in the bombed-out Church of St Luke, Liverpool?
Did you know that following the Tay Bridge disaster, a viaduct on the North British, Arbroath and Montrose Railway became so seriously distorted during testing that a new one had to be designed and built?
Did you know that former German secretary Margot Wölk's background as Adolf Hitler's personal food taster was revealed on her 95th birthday?
Did you know that in the late 19th century the residents of al-Sahwah, a Syrian village in the Hauran, paid the Druze chiefs of the area to gain access to a water canal south of the village?
Did you know that most of the Central African Republic is covered by the Bangui Magnetic Anomaly (pictured as large red anomaly in central Africa), the result of an igneous intrusion or meteorite impact?
Did you know that settlers of the American frontier in the 19th century sometimes fell victim to prairie madness, in which social isolation and other hardships of life on the prairie caused them to develop mental illness?
Did you know that the Great Eastern Hotel in Kolkata, built in 1840 or 1841, may have been the first hotel in India with electricity?
Did you know that the Great Eastern Hotel, near Liverpool Street station, London, used to have fresh sea water brought in for guests' baths?
Did you know that the Lichtental Church, consecrated in 1730 to the Fourteen Holy Helpers, is known as the Schubertkirche, because Schubert was baptised and conducted his sacred music there?
Did you know that the Sugababes' song "Angels with Dirty Faces" was promoted through Cartoon Network's animated television series The Powerpuff Girls?
Did you know that Amir Garrett was ranked the 68th best college basketball recruit and could throw a 96-mile-per-hour (154 km/h) fastball?
Did you know that Arnold Horween married his wife because Harvard beat Yale in a football game?
Did you know that Binod Bihari Chowdhury, who died on 10 April 2013 at the age of 102, was the last surviving revolutionary from the Chittagong armoury raid?
Did you know that Ezra Meeker traveled the Oregon Trail by ox cart in 1852, and crossed the United States by airplane in 1924 at age 93?
Did you know that Italy ranked first in the 2009 Mediterranean Games medal table?
Did you know that Singaporean politician Abdul Rahim Ishak at different points in time served as ambassador to Ethiopia, Indonesia, Lebanon, the United Arab Republic, and Yugoslavia?
Did you know that William Markwick's "Sheep's fescue" was not suitable for sheep?
Did you know that a draftsman may have misinterpreted the notation "? Name" as "C. Nome"?
Did you know that adaptations of the wildlife of Antarctica (icefish pictured) to survive the cold include growing blubber, having antifreeze in their blood, and digesting themselves into a juvenile state?
Did you know that before the Armenian Genocide, the Karin dialect was spoken in two provincial centers in eastern Turkey?
Did you know that by the time of his death in 1842, Admiral William Taylor was the last surviving officer from Cook's third and final voyage of discovery?
Did you know that composer Graham Waterhouse was the cellist in a performance of his string trio Zeichenstaub at his former school, playing the U.K. premiere with two members of the Münchner Philharmoniker?
Did you know that for General Hospital's 50th anniversary the soap opera's fictional Nurses' Ball was connected for the first time with a real HIV/AIDS non-profit organization?
Did you know that the Chakmas welcome their new year with the Bizhu dance?
Did you know that the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece was ruled as the "Kingdom of the Morea" by the Republic of Venice in 1688–1715?
Did you know that the radar dome on Cass Peak, with the hill being named for the surveyor Thomas Cass, is part of a network that monitors aircraft position data in New Zealand?
Did you know that Alaska's Candle Creek, a tributary of Kiwalik River, derived its name from the ice-covered willow twigs along its banks resembling candles?
Did you know that Christian rock band Casting Crowns have performed their song "Who Am I" at a Bush-Cheney '04 campaign rally and the 2009 Spring Friendship Art Festival in North Korea?
Did you know that Daniel Ortúzar Cuevas, a former member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile, was also a farmer?
Did you know that H. A. Gade, described as a "painters' painter", was one of independent India's pioneering abstract expressionist painters?
Did you know that Luke Hancock is the first reserve player to be named Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament?
Did you know that Queen's Building was called Hong Kong's "most prestigious commercial building" when it opened in 1899?
Did you know that Saura painting of Odisha has a visual semblance to Warli painting from Maharashtra?
Did you know that Thomas Savage, Shakespeare's trustee in the purchase of shares in the Globe Theatre, was a friend of John Jackson, Shakepeare's trustee in the purchase of the Blackfriars Gatehouse?
Did you know that Untied.com has logged 25,000 customer complaints and 200 employee complaints about United Airlines?
Did you know that William O. Cushing, writer of the words of the hymn that inspired Rangers' Follow Follow anthem, gave his entire life savings to a blind girl for her to receive an education?
Did you know that actor Anthony Wong was drunk when director Herman Yau asked him to portray the title character in Ip Man: The Final Fight?
Did you know that after being caught at sea trying to defect, Cuban baseball player Andy Morales wasn't asked to participate in the 2000 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that at hotels in Israel, the Israeli breakfast is commonly presented as a self-service buffet?
Did you know that correspondence with Thomas Pennant formed the basis of part of Gilbert White's Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne?
Did you know that in 1587 Sir Rowland Hayward entertained Queen Elizabeth I at his home of King's Place, which had once been owned by her father, King Henry VIII?
Did you know that in Fifehead Wood one may find a White Admiral with a Purple Hairstreak among some Five-faced Bishops?
Did you know that the Atiq Mosque in Libya is lit and ventilated by openings in its conical domes?
Did you know that the Cebongan Prison raid in Indonesia was declared a human rights violation by the National Commission on Human Rights, but not by Defence Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro?
Did you know that the College of Aesculapius and Hygia was a dining club and burial society in ancient Rome?
Did you know that Gresley Parish Church was originally an Augustinian priory, founded in the 12th century?
Did you know that Joseph Partridge, a former waggoner, wrote the first history of the Cheshire town of Nantwich?
Did you know that Korean sedge-weavers, known as wanchojang, can take up to two weeks to complete one box?
Did you know that London-based engraver Peter Mazell bungled an image of the Common Tailorbird?
Did you know that Marian Cruger Coffin, one of America's first female landscape architects, set up her own highly successful practice because male-dominated firms would not employ her?
Did you know that NASA has plans to tug an asteroid to the Moon?
Did you know that Victorian detective Jack Whicher was the inspiration for The Suspicions of Mr Whicher?
Did you know that although the species name of the tree Alloxylon brachycarpum means "short fruit", it has the largest fruit of its genus?
Did you know that baritone Berthold Possemeyer performed songs by John Dowland, Gerald Finzi and Thomas Morley in a parody chamber musical after Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream?
Did you know that chocoholism is frequently claimed in surveys to be the most common form of food craving?
Did you know that former Israeli Ambassador to Russia Anna Azari is married to a rabbi who leads a congregation in Tel Aviv?
Did you know that in 1566, Richard Carmarden funded the printing of an edition of the Great Bible in English at Rouen?
Did you know that in 2012 Jewish Universalist rabbi Steven Blane, who encourages converts to join his online rabbinical school, ordained an ex-Muslim as a rabbi?
Did you know that making kalu dodol is a labour-intensive process that can take up to nine hours?
Did you know that ocellated icefish Chionodraco rastrospinosus have blood as clear as water?
Did you know that the Bank of Chester County, chartered in 1814, was the first bank in the county?
Did you know that the Church of St. Margaret of Antioch was the centre of Anglo-Catholicism in 19th-century Liverpool?
Did you know that American basketball player Sugar Rodgers scored a record number of points (2,518) at Georgetown University?
Did you know that Commodore Lejoille, who captured British warships on three occasions during the French Revolutionary Wars, had been a sailor since the age of seven?
Did you know that Dahlia Hill in Midland, Michigan, plants over 250 different cultivars of dahlia (example pictured) each year?
Did you know that Henry Seidu Daanaa is the first blind person to be called to the Ghana Bar?
Did you know that One Night in Malaysia was enough to make Nico Pelamonia Best Director?
Did you know that Peter Lauritson's directorial debut, the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Inner Light", was awarded the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation?
Did you know that consumption of sweetened beverages has been linked to obesity and related health problems?
Did you know that it is not known how the Paris Codex (pages pictured), one of only three surviving pre-Columbian Maya books, came to be in the collection of the Bibliothèque Imperiale in Paris in the 19th century?
Did you know that one of the leaders of the Kraków Uprising in 1846 was killed while leading a religious procession?
Did you know that the Gustav Adolfs Kyrka in Liverpool was W. D. Caroe's first independent commission to design a church?
Did you know that the Muslim conquest of Sicily lasted from 827 to 902 AD?
Did you know that the medieval manor house of Fiddleford Manor may have been built for William Latimer, sheriff of Dorset and Somerset, in around 1370?
Did you know that violet root rot can damage crops such as carrots?
Did you know that when Charles O'Rear took a photograph of a green, lush hillside near Napa Valley, he did not expect it to be "the most viewed image of the world"?
Did you know that with "enormous dramatic impact", Bach inserted a recitative for the voice of Christ in the opening chorus of his cantata Ihr werdet weinen und heulen, BWV 103?
Did you know that Eric Newby's A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush has been described as a "comic masterpiece" and among the "best travel books of all time"?
Did you know that Gene Hobbs, a regular contributor to Wikipedia's scuba articles, was named the 2010 Divers Alert Network/Rolex Diver of the year?
Did you know that Leonard Nimoy's 1975 autobiography was entitled I Am Not Spock?
Did you know that Manny Coto compared the Vulcans in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Awakening" to the Catholic Church during the Protestant Reformation?
Did you know that Norwegian footballer Erik Midtgarden won the Estonian Meistriliiga with Flora Tallinn in 2011?
Did you know that Sophie Matisse's reinterpretation of Pablo Picasso's Guernica was regarded as a strange idea for an artist whose great-grandfather, Henri Matisse, was known to be an artistic rival of Picasso?
Did you know that Tiffany Porter was called a "Plastic Brit" by a newspaper for refusing to recite the words of "God Save the Queen"?
Did you know that according to Jaś Elsner, "style art history" was "the indisputable king of the discipline", but is now "dead"?
Did you know that defects in Coca-Cola's MagiCans led a child to mistakenly drink foul-tasting liquid used to replace actual cola?
Did you know that during its initial run of episodes, Glee fans lobbied for Idina Menzel to be cast as the biological mother of Lea Michele's character due to the strong resemblance between the two actresses?
Did you know that merchants at horse fairs appreciated the Auxois horse because its chestnut coloration might conceal dirt better than that of the light gray Percheron or black Nivernais?
Did you know that the Aldabra atoll in Seychelles, called "one of the wonders of the world" by David Attenborough, has about 100,000 giant tortoises, the largest concentration in the world?
Did you know that the former Customs House in Porsgrunn, Norway, originally contained three restaurants and a liquor store?
Did you know that the jurists of the ancient Law School of Beirut played a major part in drafting the Justinian body of civil law?
Did you know that the upset victory of Ebor in the 1817 St Leger Stakes was ascribed to the overconfidence of Blacklock's jockey?
Did you know that to finance the completion of the Petit Serail, the Wāli of Syria had to take a loan, mortgage public buildings and impose new taxes?
Did you know that while Claude Raguet Hirst's painting A Gentleman's Table was commissioned by a men's club, it offers a subtle critique of male culture?
Did you know that Anthony Musgrave, the son of Anthony Musgrave, was related to Anthony Musgrave?
Did you know that Fir Hill Manor was the subject of a BBC documentary in 1994, which documents the search for absentee landlord John Paget Figg-Hoblyn?
Did you know that Lilik Sudjio received the first Citra Award for directing his father?
Did you know that Luke Thomas was Britain's youngest head chef?
Did you know that Star Trek: The Next Generation: Klingon Honor Guard was the first video game other than Unreal itself to use the Unreal Game engine?
Did you know that an early version of the Facebook-developed software on the HTC First was code-named "Buffy"?
Did you know that anyone who entered Emperor Ashoka's Hell was not allowed to come out alive?
Did you know that despite the family being of rather humble origin, Thomas Gapes and his father James both served as Mayor of Christchurch?
Did you know that mento artist Lord Flea helped start the calypso craze, was covered by Harry Belafonte, and wrote a song about a monkey who followed him around?
Did you know that painter Johann Heinrich Baumann was called the "Münchhausen of Courland" for his tales of his hunting adventures?
Did you know that sheep grazier Thomas Gibson Sloane was an expert on tiger beetles?
Did you know that the Aurore wine grape is named after Aurora, the Roman goddess of the dawn?
Did you know that the Lockheed C-130 Hercules entered service with the RAAF in 1958, making Australia the first country after the United States to operate the aircraft?
Did you know that the Norwegian king Magnus Barefoot may have shot Hugh of Montgomery dead with an arrow through his eye in the Battle of Anglesey Sound?
Did you know that the Whitehorse Ranch in southeast Oregon voluntarily removed its cattle from 50,000 acres (200 km2) of its BLM grazing allotment for three years to allow watershed and riparian areas to recover?
Did you know that the authenticity of the supposedly Maya Grolier Codex is disputed, even though it uses pre-Columbian paper?
Did you know that the gardens of Gibraltar in Wilmington, Delaware, were designed by a pioneering female American landscape architect?
Did you know that the real life mother and daughter, Jyoti and Amruta Subhash, have played the same relationship in the 2009 Marathi film Gandha?
Did you know that French nobleman Louis Philippe Marie Léopold d'Orléans (1845–1866) was not only the last Prince of Condé but also the first royal visitor to the continent of Australia?
Did you know that Highnam Court in Gloucestershire was built in 1658 to replace the manor that was damaged in the English Civil War?
Did you know that René Maturana Maldonado was the last Mayor of Pichilemu to be appointed by the military regime of Augusto Pinochet?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Agatha caused a 100-foot (30 m) deep sinkhole to open in 2010 in Guatemala City, killing 15 people?
Did you know that a month after the Palestinian Arab leadership confirmed Abd al-Rahim al-Hajj Muhammad as general commander of the 1936 Palestine revolt, he was killed in a clash with British authorities in March 1939?
Did you know that child actor Jared S. Gilmore was the third person to play Bobby Draper in six years when he was cast in the American television series Mad Men?
Did you know that in the late 1820s, Cherry Hill was host to both the Marquis de Lafayette and a sensational murder that led to the last public hanging in Albany, New York?
Did you know that less than two weeks after Elis won the 1835 St. Leger Stakes, 21 horses were withdrawn from the colt's next scheduled race?
Did you know that sawfishes, a family of rays with a long rostrum resembling a saw, are threatened with extinction?
Did you know that sheng nu is a pejorative term promoted by the Government of China to pressure unwed women into marriage in response to the gender imbalance caused by the one-child policy?
Did you know that the Armada Service, rumoured to have been made from New World silver captured from the Spanish Armada, was buried during the English Civil War and lay hidden until 1827?
Did you know that the Marechal Joffre and Marechal Foch wine grapes were named after the World War I generals Joseph Joffre and Ferdinand Foch?
Did you know that the UNESCO-inscribed Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram of the Pallava Period include: Ganesha Ratha; the Pancha Rathas of Dharmaraja, Arjuna, Bhima, Draupadi, and Nakula Sahadeva; several cave temples such as Varaha, Krishna, Mahishasuramardini, and Panchapandava; the structural temples of Olakkannesvara and Shore; and the Descent of the Ganges, one of the largest open-air bas-reliefs in the world?
Did you know that the World Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map depicts features such as the Richat Structure, Atlantic ridge, Paris Basin and Chicxulub crater?
Did you know that the extinct Choiseul Pigeon, which was endemic to the island of Choiseul in the Solomon Islands, was so tame that the indigenous hunters could pick it up off of its roost?
Did you know that the season three premiere episode of Game of Thrones was dedicated in the memory of its cinematographer, Martin Kenzie?
Did you know that the statue of General Casimir Pulaski in Washington was sculpted by Kazimierz Chodziński?
Did you know that Jennifer Gove is South Africa's leading run-scorer in women's Test cricket?
Did you know that John Lightfoot provided the first British records for the chanterelle and the summer truffle?
Did you know that Sukur is Africa's first cultural landscape to receive World Heritage List inscription?
Did you know that historical maps and descriptions include nine different names for Lake Débo in Mali?
Did you know that mathematician Andrew Gleason liked to say that proofs (example pictured) "really aren't there to convince you that something is true—they're there to show you why it is true"?
Did you know that nuclear physicist Katharine Way co-edited a 1946 bestseller which included essays by Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer, and sold over 100,000 copies?
Did you know that tariffs will increase for thousands of goods imported to Canada from 72 nations as a result of the 2013 Canadian federal budget?
Did you know that the 2002 EA Sports 500 featured no cautions despite Talladega Superspeedway being known for "The Big One"?
Did you know that the Newborn monument in Pristina, Kosovo, was unveiled on the day of the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence?
Did you know that the Sclerodermatineae include boletes, earthstars, and pretty mouths?
Did you know that the church of St. Severin in Keitum on the island of Sylt, first mentioned in 1240, is furnished with an early Renaissance pulpit from Denmark?
Did you know that the father of Bob Feller (signed baseball pictured) changed the crop on the family farm from corn to wheat so that the future baseball Hall of Fame pitcher could play more baseball?
Did you know that the most common sources of added sugar consumption are sweetened beverages?
Did you know that the world's oldest known harbor and Egypt's oldest known papyrus documents were both discovered at Wadi al-Jarf?