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Take a close look at #ReligiousArt from the past 700 years. Notice anything consistent? Mary is almost always decked out in blue while #Jesus typically wears red. #DidYouKnow Marian blue, as the shade has become known, became the Madonna’s official color? https://t.co/ZaEJ4EICS2
#Didyouknow that our ships badge is arranged to represent our name so well? A surge is a swelling wave that rolls into the shore - The counterchanged waves represent the breaking wave and the scallop shell on a yellow background represents the beach. #Thursdaythought 🏖
🐧 Yes, it's true! We've gone Penguin bonkers in our latest issue! #Didyouknow there are 18 species of penguin (although some experts say 19), all a little different. Which is your favourite? 🐧
#penguins #penguinlover #knowyourpenguins
#DidYouKnow @SAPNextGen @StartupGuideHQ guidebook is a resource that provides info & advice from companies, programs, investors & experts, & officially kicks-off in JHB @TshimologongIT this week Thursday! Watch this space for details! #startup #LaunchEvent #innovation
Hello @didyouknowgamin and @_ShaneGill_, I was wondering if you ever made an episode on the #Shantae series. With its history of failed pitches and abandoned prototypes in the 90', before its success in the 00', I find it interesting to study ! #DidYouKnow #RetroGaming #Indiedev
#DidYouKnow increased economic prosperity in the nineteenth century meant that the idea of the ‘weekend’ emerged - working families began taking day trips to the seaside and parents began to spend more time with their children #SeenAndHeard https://t.co/AlnHCrYfnI.ukseenandheard
#DidYouKnow they also use a Munsell Color Chart for fries?
Fry color was indicated by a designation of extra light, light, medium light, medium, or dark. And thus was born the Munsell French Fry Color Chart. #FunFactFriday for Archaeologists 🤭.
#DidYouKnow that in the first 14 years of Queen Victoria’s 61-year reign, she gave birth to nine children. Her motherly image was part of the reason for the cultural shift in how the public perceived the role of children in society #SeenAndHeard info > https://t.co/r4xCh40CfA
The time is here! Here is the first episode of “Did You Know?”! Please, tell your friends and help support a couple of budding artists! https://t.co/xmPWlzLFmn. #animatedvideo #animated #cartoon #cartoons #didyouknow #insanitoons @GoodAaron @Katie_Masters29 @paulGtremblay
Poland’s relationship with coffee is a surprising one. #DidYouKnow that European café culture is mixed up in it? Time to drink in this heady brew of coffee history! ☕️--> https://t.co/v7uCzZ4tyt
@PLInst_Budapest @PLinSydney @PLinColombia @PLinItalia @PLinSwitzerland
#DidYouKnow The Reinastella flying car from #LeVisionarium actually has its own backstory?
"For safety, the structure of Reinastella was modified to make it incompatible with a mammal and thus avoid any phenomenon of assimilation." WTF? 😂
▶️ https://t.co/7MkbTP07f2
#DidYouKnow that Antonio #Stradivari, known as violin craftsmanship genius #Stradivarius produced more than 1100 violins! He personally searched in the forests of the #Dolomites perfect wood for his instruments. Do not miss in #Cremona its #MuseodiViolino 🎻🎼 #dcqitalia #Italy
#DidYouKnow? Confectioners starting making synthetic #chewinggum following WWII when it was popularised due to inclusion in soldiers' rations. Before, it was made of natural latex #chicle tapped from #Manilkarazapota ~ the #sapodilla tree. Looks like chicle is making a comeback.
#DidYouKnow? that #Uffizi are #Italy's greatest #art gallery and also one of the first modern museums in history. They were built in 1560-80 to house offices (uffici) for Duke Cosimo I and as a gallery for Francesco I to display the Medici art treasures. #dcqitalia #Florence
#DidYouKnow one of the last residents at Aston Hall was James Watt Jr, son of the famous engineer?
Here's a great artefact from our collection: a golden fob watch containing a portrait of the young James!
Where do you keep your favourite photos?
@BMTconservators
#DidYouKnow that an #elephant was used as the family motif by James Watt Jr. - one of the last residents at Aston Hall
You can tell which rooms he altered by the appearance of an #elephantintheroom! We also have his coach badges on display here!
#WorldElephantDay
#DidYouKnow that Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the author of The Little Prince, was also a pilot?
Like the narrator in the book, he crashed his plane in the Sahara desert 125 miles outside of Cairo.
🛩️More about #TheLittlePrinceSA: https://t.co/HVvuXECIWJ
#DidYouKnow that according to a 2008 National Institute of Health study, only 12% of people dream in black & white. When a similar study was conducted before the invention of color TV, 75% of people said they dreamed in black & white.
#tpiotd #dreams #television #media
#DidYouKnow that 1 of the secret bosses in Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past is The Almighty himself. If he is defeated in at most 20 turns, he will give the party a reward. Afterward, he sees that humanity no longer needed his guidance & withdraws from the world.
#Didyouknow Cook's voyage went as far south as the Antarctic? These drawings by expedition artists Georg Forster and William Hodges are the first depictions of a then completely unknown part of the world. #BLCookVoyages (Loaned from Mitchell Library, @statelibrarynsw)