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Did you know that Gurlen is a major centre for cotton production in Uzbekistan?
Did you know that Jack Manning played for four different football clubs during their debut seasons in the Football League?
Did you know that Upper Paleolithic wall paintings in the Lascaux Cave in France are now threatened by Ochroconis anomala, a new species of fungus recently discovered in black stains on the wall inside the cave?
Did you know that an 1847 painting by Theodor Sockl, the portrait of his future wife Clara, is considered representative for the Biedermeier period in Transylvania?
Did you know that an Admiral was believed to have kept alligators in a bath at Pitfour in rural Aberdeenshire?
Did you know that each Sunday until 1870 the Jews of the Roman Ghetto had to attend compulsory sermons in front of the church of San Gregorio della Divina Pietà?
Did you know that the 11th century church at Cocking, West Sussex had no dedication until, in April 2007, the congregation agreed to dedicate it to St Catherine of Siena?
Did you know that the Institute of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture is housed in a former stables, built in a dramatic architectural style named for a British Queen, in a park honoring a  famous German?
Did you know that the Singaporean Satay Club re-sold leftover sticks of satay?
Did you know that the film Panggilan Darah, about two orphaned girls, may have been sponsored by a cigarette factory?
Did you know that the flame lily is the national flower of Zimbabwe?
Did you know that the lime trees of Duncliffe Wood are reputedly among the oldest living things in the county of Dorset?
Did you know that the mushroom Buchwaldoboletus lignicola is parasitic on another fungus – Phaeolus schweinitzii?
Did you know that "In the Hands of the Prophets" was the Star Trek debut of Louise Fletcher, who won several major acting awards for her role as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
Did you know that 18th-century Virginia pioneer and physician Robert White previously served as a surgeon in the Royal Navy and was the father of U.S. House Representative Alexander White?
Did you know that Cicindela albissima is a beetle found only in the Coral Pink Sand Dunes of southern Utah and has a population of less than 1800?
Did you know that Frank J. Lowry was awarded the Navy Cross for his service as captain of the cruiser USS Minneapolis at the Battle of the Coral Sea?
Did you know that Knuthenborg Safaripark, a major tourist attraction of Lolland, is the largest safari park in northern Europe and the largest natural playground in Denmark?
Did you know that Lilian Faithfull, the first women's hockey captain at Oxford University, was the first to suggest the Lady Blue for women competing in a game between Oxford and Cambridge?
Did you know that Ruut Veenhoven knows a lot about happiness?
Did you know that Singaporean politician Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat was "Singapore's first Malay minister"?
Did you know that an 11th-century pagoda was demolished in order to construct Hanoi's St. Joseph's Cathedral in 1886?
Did you know that businessman Hoo Ah Kay is considered "one of the most influential Chinese (Cantonese) tycoons in Singapore"?
Did you know that in Nano Riantiarno's Semar Gugat the main character Semar, traditionally a symbol of the people, uses a magic fart?
Did you know that music critics have compared Justin Timberlake's 2013 song "Let the Groove Get In" to Michael Jackson's 1983 single "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"?
Did you know that on the Great Barrier Reef, the coral Acropora loripes breeds synchronously five or six days after the full moon in November and December?
Did you know that the  edifice was the focal point for the Constitutional Convention and signing of the Declaration of Independence of Venezuela in the nineteenth century, hence known as the "cradle of independence”?
Did you know that the Bach cantata Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten, BWV 74, includes both "childlike openness" and "manic chortling"?
Did you know that the story of Khachadour Garabedian, the only known Armenian to have fought during the American Civil War, started at a flea market?
Did you know that there is an Indian Salt Service?
Did you know that two years after the mission that killed Osama bin Laden, HBO aired a documentary on the decade-long hunt, narrated by the CIA agents involved?
Did you know that Arshavir Shirakian assassinated two Turkish officials for their role in the Armenian Genocide?
Did you know that Black Mesa is the highest point of Oklahoma?
Did you know that China is the world's leader of lettuce production, producing approximately half of the world's lettuce?
Did you know that David Jay Brown wrote about the possible use of MDMA ("ecstasy") to treat post-traumatic stress disorder?
Did you know that Despot Badžović wrote an alphabet book for schools in Macedonia?
Did you know that IronE Singleton's stint as T-Dog in The Walking Dead was only supposed to last a few episodes, but ended up spanning three seasons?
Did you know that John Eliot Gardiner, conductor of the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, noted the "immensity, vigour, flexibility and imagination of the opening chorus" of Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39?
Did you know that Larry Itliong's Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee began the Delano grape strike before Cesar Chavez's National Farm Workers Association joined the picket lines?
Did you know that Lockheed made microcomputers?
Did you know that Princeton University's alma mater "Old Nassau" was originally sung to the melody of "Auld Lang Syne"?
Did you know that Theodore Garman was painted, but not acknowledged, by his father?
Did you know that although the first overall selection in the 1987 Major League Baseball (MLB) Draft became a 13-time All-Star, the second overall selection never played in an MLB game?
Did you know that the house where Simón Bolívar was born is now a national monument in Venezuela?
Did you know that the lyrics of Kelly Rowland's song "Dirty Laundry" speak candidly about her envy of Beyoncé Knowles?
Did you know that the success of DavisWiki, which is used by at least half of Davis, California, residents, led to the creation of LocalWiki?
Did you know that the velvet roll-rim, larch milkcap, and sooty milkcap use a wound-activated defense system to deter predation?
Did you know that Amanda Vaill was an editor at Viking Press alongside Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis?
Did you know that English botanist Richard Eric Holttum wrote the first book on gardening in Singapore?
Did you know that Minneapolis's only dedicated long form improv theater is HUGE?
Did you know that New York City police officer Adrian Schoolcraft was confined involuntarily to a psychiatric ward after criticizing the city's "stop and frisk" policy?
Did you know that Up the Women was the last sitcom to be filmed before an audience at BBC Television Centre?
Did you know that fauna of Bangladesh includes Trigona fuscobaltiata, the only species of stingless bees found in the country?
Did you know that in 1905, Fredrikke Marie Qvam as head of a women's voting rights organization gathered about 300,000 signatures from women in support of the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden?
Did you know that in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, pointy flower heads of the herb Thonningia sanguinea are often tied to the ankles of young children to help them learn to walk?
Did you know that the Bach cantata Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 100, includes up to 24 demisemiquavers per bar?
Did you know that the Chopo University Museum building in Mexico City was designed by Bruno Möhring as a pavilion for a 1902 art and textile exhibition in Düsseldorf, Germany?
Did you know that the Coronation of Queen Victoria (illustrated) in 1838 was described by the writer Harriet Martineau, who was present, as "highly barbaric"?
Did you know that the Dhambalin archaeological site, discovered in 2007 by Somali archaeologist Sada Mire, has the earliest known rock art pictures of sheep in Somalia?
Did you know that the US Army's Nike Ajax was the world's first operational surface-to-air missile?
Did you know that the story Janko Muzykant was one of Henryk Sienkiewicz's works mentioned in a speech during his 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature ceremony?
Did you know that Charlotte Bobcats head coach Steve Clifford was an assistant to Jeff and Stan Van Gundy, and regards both brothers as mentors?
Did you know that Eduardo Parraguez Galarce recalled that he "fought against" the mayors of Marchigüe and Santa Cruz for Pichilemu to become capital of the Chilean province of Cardenal Caro?
Did you know that Hu Zhengyan's Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting and Calligraphy (excerpt pictured) remained in print for around 200 years?
Did you know that Singaporean businessman Lien Ying Chow was the first non-American recipient of the American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award?
Did you know that Swami Vivekananda said it would not have been possible for him to do anything for India without the help of Ajit Singh, eighth king of Shekhawat dynasty of Khetri, Rajasthan?
Did you know that Tan Tjoei Hock's Black Wolf was inspired by Zorro?
Did you know that as British poet Tony Harrison finished his speech as the Spirit of Phrynichos in his play The Labourers of Herakles, one of the labourers exclaimed: "Who the fuck was that?"?
Did you know that for the Encore shot, 145 ponderosa pines were transported to the Nevada Test Site, set in concrete, and subjected to an atomic blast?
Did you know that porn star Danny Wylde and his girlfriend contributed a film of themselves having sex to a website that aims to provide more realistic representations of sex than are found in hardcore pornography?
Did you know that the Bliss-Leavitt torpedo remained in service for 41 years, until the end of World War II?
Did you know that the Hongwu Emperor was so fond of Gao Ming's play The Lute that he ordered it to be performed every day at court?
Did you know that the historic Siskiyou Pass is within a mile of Siskiyou Summit, the highest elevation on Interstate 5?
Did you know that the name of the Zarafshan Range is believed to refer to gold deposits found in the river of the same name that flows through it?
Did you know that the only landward road to Gibraltar formerly ran along a narrow causeway next to an artificial lake called the Inundation?
Did you know that while American "Cabernet blanc" is made from Cabernet Sauvignon in a style similar to White Zinfandel, an actual Cabernet blanc grape does exist?
Did you know that American singer Romeo Santos received an award for Frankie J's cover of "Obsesión"?
Did you know that Bancroft Shed gave up kissing the shuttle for health reasons?
Did you know that Clara Leach Adams-Ender was the first woman to receive her master's degree in military arts and sciences from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College?
Did you know that Dabba won the Critics Week Viewers Choice Award, also known as Grand Rail d'Or, at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival?
Did you know that Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV 143, may be too unpretentious to be a Bach work?
Did you know that Malaysian chef Kwan Swee Lian's youngest son is the head of Madam Kwan's restaurant?
Did you know that Ranjit Sinha, director of India's Central Bureau of Investigation, unearthed a major cash-for-posts scam by tapping the phone of a colleague he reportedly had a grudge against?
Did you know that World Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney was a member of the Committee of Catholics to Fight Anti-Semitism, co-founded in 1939 by Catholic Worker leader Dorothy Day?
Did you know that a British ambassador, a Polish pianist and a Filipino president were once entombed at the USS Maine Mast Memorial, though none of them died when the ship exploded and sank?
Did you know that a slotted line for microwave measurement can be made for roughly one ten-thousandth of the cost of a network analyzer?
Did you know that the Bach cantata Sei Lob und Ehr dem höchsten Gut, BWV 117, includes "the palpitations of an excited heartbeat"?
Did you know that the Indian animation film Chhota Bheem and the Throne of Bali (2013) was released in three different languages – Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu?
Did you know that the National Art Gallery in Caracas has a wall with sculptural reliefs by Francisco Narvaez, Venezuela's first modernist sculptor?
Did you know that the Transylvanian Saxon noble family Soterius von Sachsenheim (coat of arms pictured) has its origins in the village Stein (part of Jibert commune, Romania)?
Did you know that the tunicate Ascidia mentula may have a pea crab, bivalve mollusc or copepod living in its body cavity?
Did you know that Cathreim Thoirdhealbhaigh, an account of the wars of Thomond in 13th-century Ireland, is noted for both historical accuracy and vivid descriptions of banshees?
Did you know that Karera Wildlife Sanctuary, established to conserve the Great Indian Bustard, is being denotified due to opposition by the local people and the disappearance of the bird locally?
Did you know that Kuiu Wilderness and Tebenkof Bay Wilderness are accessible only by boat or floatplane?
Did you know that Major League Baseball pitcher Preston Claiborne is a major contributor to a website that gives tips on surviving the rigors of minor league baseball?
Did you know that Michelle Nunn, CEO of Points of Light, the largest organization in the U.S. devoted to volunteer service, is considering running for the U.S. Senate, where her father once served?
Did you know that Sarla Behn's and Mirabehn's work in Kumaon and Garhwal, respectively, played a key role in bringing focus on issues of environmental degradation and conservation in independent India?
Did you know that Stefan Strandberg was the captain of the Norwegian team that qualified for the 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship?
Did you know that baseball pitcher Ramón Arano is one of only two players ever to pitch professionally in six different decades, and is the only pitcher to win at least 300 career games in a single minor league?
Did you know that leading 1950s New York model Mary Jane Russell won damages after an altered photograph of her reading in bed was used to advertise bed sheets? ...
Did you know that on this day 200 years ago, Australian explorers returned from the first successful colonial expedition to cross the Blue Mountains?
Did you know that plans for an elephant to appear in the Guano Apes' circus-themed music video "You Can't Stop Me" were cancelled after the elephant's owner threatened a rival circus family?
Did you know that the Batmobile was the pace car at a NASCAR race?
Did you know that the Golden Eagle Regional Park in Sparks, Nevada, is the sports complex with the most artificial turf space in North America, at 1,400,000 sq ft (0.13 km2)?
Did you know that the Neo-Gothic renovation of Venezuela's Palacio de las Academias gave the façade forty bays containing windows or doors?
Did you know that the Royal Australian Air Force's No. 38 Squadron was equipped with DHC-4 Caribou transport aircraft for 45 years?
Did you know that the geology of North America includes the core of the supercontinent Laurentia?
Did you know that the laryngeal tube is a rescue device used for airway management in difficult situations to enable ventilation of the lungs?
Did you know that upon relegation to the 2013–14 RFU Championship, London Welsh looked to groundshare with Oxford University instead of returning to their home ground?
Did you know that Arvind Mahankali won the 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee by correctly spelling knaidel?
Did you know that Bigbury Camp, the only confirmed Iron Age hill fort in east Kent, is thought to be a fortress that Julius Caesar's Seventh Legion stormed in 54 BC?
Did you know that Lotika Sarkar was the first Indian woman to graduate and to receive a Ph. D. degree in law from the University of Cambridge?
Did you know that Mughalsarai marshalling yard is the largest in Asia?
Did you know that Ravi Shankar, the world-renowned Indian sitar player, was a musician from Varanasi?
Did you know that Sharmila Biswas, an Indian Odissi dancer, was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, conferred by the Sangeet Natak Akademi in 2012?
Did you know that Singapore has lost 90% of its natural forests?
Did you know that Zainal Abidin acted in over 150 films but won only two Citra Awards?
Did you know that a team of filmmakers and scientists searching for the legendary "lost city of gold," la Ciudad Blanca, found multiple large-scale archeological sites?
Did you know that an Albert Swinden mural, one of very few of his early paintings not destroyed in a studio fire, was painted over and thought lost, before being rediscovered and restored?
Did you know that in 1976, Jack McAuliffe founded the New Albion Brewing Company, considered the first modern American microbrewery?
Did you know that the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve is the first biosphere reserve in Singapore?
Did you know that the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, a communist front co-chaired by Dorothy Parker, boycotted Nazi film-maker Leni Riefenstahl's visit to Los Angeles to meet Walt Disney?
Did you know that the Idaho-endemic sedge Carex aboriginum was not seen again for nearly 90 years after its initial discovery?
Did you know that two of the three hill complexes of Booti Booti National Park were islands during the Pleistocene?
Did you know that Abujmarh, a hilly forest area in India, was proposed as a biosphere reserve by the country's Ministry of Environment and Forests in 2008?
Did you know that Alfred Beckley, the founder of Beckley, West Virginia, found the townsite a "perfect wilderness"?
Did you know that Debby Applegate studied pornographic writing techniques for her Pulitzer-winning The Most Famous Man in America?
Did you know that Francisco Esteban Gómez is honored in Venezuela as a hero of the Battle of Matasiete?
Did you know that Hauptsturmführer Karl Streibel, who took part in the Nazi extermination of Jews as storm leader of SS Battalion Streibel, was acquitted of any wrongdoing in 1976?
Did you know that Knuthenborg was once Denmark's largest private estate?
Did you know that Said Amirov, the mayor of Makhachkala, has survived fifteen assassination attempts, including one that left him wheelchair-bound?
Did you know that Wan Long, chairman of Shuanghui, is known as China's "number one butcher" due to the number of pigs his company slaughters?
Did you know that after building the first concrete barn in the United States on his farm in Chappaqua, New York, Horace Greeley said it would be "abidingly useful long after I shall have been utterly forgotten"?
Did you know that fungi of the mycorrhizal genus Austropaxillus (A. infundibuliformis pictured) are closely related to the brown rot genus Serpula?
Did you know that in the wildlife of Nepal, Rhododendron is the most widely found national flower of the country and its red flower, known locally as Lal Guran, forms the wreath round the national symbol?
Did you know that season two of Star Trek: The Next Generation featured the first appearance of Whoopi Goldberg, after she requested to appear on the show?
Did you know that the Bach cantata Süßer Trost, mein Jesus kömmt, BWV 151, opens in a "mood of iridescent transparency"?
Did you know that the Tomb of King Tongmyong is one of 63 individual tombs believed to belong to the ancient Goguryeo kingdom of Korea that were given UNESCO World Heritage status in 2004?
Did you know that the oil industry in Singapore generates five percent of the country's gross domestic product?
Did you know that Ashvin Sivakumar won the Big Spell 2013 by correctly spelling pulchritudinous?
Did you know that British poet Tony Harrison created the film-poem The Blasphemers' Banquet partially in response to the Salman Rushdie controversy surrounding his publication of The Satanic Verses?
Did you know that Hardy Town, an encampment established by the civilians of Gibraltar to escape the Spanish bombardment of the Great Siege of 1779–83, was called the "Cowards' Retreat" by the British garrison?
Did you know that Muthu Alagappan's big data-driven basketball statistical analysis identifies 13 distinct player positions as opposed to the traditional five?
Did you know that R. Nataraja Mudaliar, acknowledged as the father of Tamil cinema, was the first Indian to sell automobiles?
Did you know that after Worcester Priory lost Coenwulf's gift of Salwarpe (church pictured), St Wulfstan failed to recover it?
Did you know that bullets are found in central and northern Australia after monsoonal rains?
Did you know that critics claimed Tarmina only won its Citra Awards because of influence from Djamaluddin Malik?
Did you know that in the UK, social workers do not have the power to remove children without a court order, yet police do?
Did you know that only two small fragments remain from 1,333 square feet (123.8 m2) of Giotto's Navicella mosaic (copy illustrated) in Old St. Peter's Basilica?
Did you know that the Gardens of Stone National Park is so named for the natural stone pagodas within its boundaries?
Did you know that the black and white bands on the Flag of Botswana represent the stripes of the zebra, the country's national animal?
Did you know that 18-year-old Crown Prince Hussein of Jordan, son of King Abdullah II and Queen Rania, has served as regent several times since reaching the age of majority?
Did you know that 67th Tony Awards Best Musical nominee A Christmas Story: The Musical was adapted from a 1980s film and Best Revival of a Play nominee The Trip to Bountiful had been adapted into a 1980s film?
Did you know that Dejan was one of the prominent figures of the Serbian Empire?
Did you know that Kothandaramaswamy Temple, believed to be the place where Vibhishana asked Rama for refuge, was the only structure in Dhanushkodi to survive the 1964 Rameswaram cyclone?
Did you know that Lauren Ward and Keala Settle are nominees for Best Featured Actress in a Musical at the 67th Tony Awards for performances in Matilda the Musical and Hands on a Hardbody, respectively?
Did you know that Operation Peppermint was the World War II codename for preparations to counter the danger that the Germans might disrupt D-Day with radioactive poisons?
Did you know that Roy Lichtenstein's Woman with Flowered Hat established a new auction record for the artist when it sold for over $56 million in May 2013?
Did you know that Singaporean make-up artist Clarence Lee has done make-up for Zhang Ziyi, Stefanie Sun, The Spice Girls, and Chris Isaak?
Did you know that according to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Eddie Dee is "your rapper's favorite rapper"?
Did you know that adventurer Theodore Morde claimed to find the legendary "Lost City of the Monkey God" in 1940 and presented thousands of artifacts to support his claim?
Did you know that non-Muslims are not allowed to enter the Grand Mosque of Dubai, except the minaret from where photography is permitted?
Did you know that recently deceased Nora Ephron's last play and Tom Hanks' Broadway theatre debut, Lucky Guy, is, along with The Assembled Parties, The Testament of Mary and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, a 67th Tony Awards Best Play nominee?
Did you know that the flag of American Samoa features a Bald Eagle, even though the bird does not live in the territory?
Did you know that the hamburgers at Umami Burger (product pictured) earned the restaurant chain Burger of the Year honors from Alan Richman of GQ?
Did you know that the iron bridge to Normanskill Farm in Albany, New York, built in 1867, is one of only a few in the United States to use both cast and wrought iron?
Did you know that the nuns of Medingen Abbey produced a wealth of illuminated manuscripts in which they expanded Latin liturgy with vernacular prayers, lay-songs and meditations?
Did you know that with their combined wealth estimated at $1.6 billion, Singaporean couple Ong Beng Seng and Christina Ong are among the richest people in Singapore?
Did you know that Herbert Schmertz, former vice president of public affairs for Mobil Corporation, was appointed to the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy by Ronald Reagan in 1983?