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Did you know that in 1889, a US company built the Miami Railway Station in Canada, now a National Historic Site and museum?
Did you know that judge William Henry Daniels committed suicide in 1897, three years after being dismissed for not taking an oath of allegiance to the Provisional Government of Hawaii?
Did you know that the river Pärnu has been called "the Mississippi of Estonia"?
Did you know that the rock dormouse sometimes lives in association with rock hyraxes?
Did you know that Abu Omar al-Turkistani, an al-Qaeda militant from China who fought in the Battle of Tora Bora in Afghanistan, eventually died during the Syrian Civil War?
Did you know that Alice Hirson played Eileen Riley Siegel, an Irish Catholic married to a Jew, on the soap opera One Life to Live?
Did you know that Bill Gulley, who for years was responsible for the nuclear football, was officially on the U.S. Post Office payroll, to make the president's staff look smaller than it was?
Did you know that Bobby Egan, the owner of a New Jersey roadside barbecue restaurant, has been criticized for participating in diplomatic negotiations between North Korea and the United States?
Did you know that Mexican Federal Highway 95D passes under an archeological site uncovered during its construction?
Did you know that Missionary Day, celebrated on 5 March in French Polynesia, commemorates the 1797 arrival of the Protestant missionaries in Tahiti aboard the Duff?
Did you know that bus rapid transit was chosen for Seattle's RapidRide G Line, because Madison Street was considered too steep for streetcar service?
Did you know that every single ballot cast for the Canadian Football League all-star team in 1989 included a vote for Gerald Alphin, but he did not make the squad?
Did you know that investigative journalist Andrew Schneider's work earned back-to-back Pulitzer Prizes in 1986 and 1987?
Did you know that the Packhorse Inn, a Somerset pub, has been designated as an asset of community value?
Did you know that Chinese legend holds that Han Zhuo tried to feed the archer Houyi's body to his sons and killed them when they refused to eat it?
Did you know that Masashi Kishimoto has a five-step process for drawing the characters for the manga Naruto?
Did you know that Rudyard Kipling's first novel, The Light That Failed, was published in at least four different versions over a two-year period?
Did you know that according to research by Roger P. Minert, local church records in the United States are more likely than naturalization records to have information about the birthplaces of German immigrants?
Did you know that construction of 1000 Second Avenue in downtown Seattle, Washington, required demolition of a building that had been donated for fire testing?
Did you know that in 1910, the British aviator Claude Grahame-White landed his biplane on West Executive Avenue and then lunched with United States Secretary of War Jacob Dickinson?
Did you know that in his cantata Sécheresses, French composer Francis Poulenc set four poems by the English surrealist Edward James?
Did you know that last month, four members of the U.S. House of Representatives formed the Congressional Cannabis Caucus?
Did you know that seen from Bolívar Square, Bogotá, the Sun on the solstices rises directly over Monserrate and Guadalupe, the two best known Eastern Hills?
Did you know that the Ashkelon dog cemetery, which contains possibly thousands of dog burials, may have been created by an ancient cult that treated dogs as healers?
Did you know that the United and Cecil Club, a British dining club, was the single largest donor to Conservative Party candidates in marginal seats in the run-up to the last general election?
Did you know that three Bangla Congress ministers, Charu Mihir Sarkar, Bhabatosh Soren, and S.K. Dhara, resigned on the same day in 1970 from the West Bengal government?
Did you know that when completed in June 2017, Küçük Çamlıca TV Radio Tower will replace most of the steel communications masts in the area, which cause visual pollution?
Did you know that while jailed on charges of violating the Sedition Act, Matthew Lyon was re-elected to Congress?
Did you know that Barbara B. Smith created the Monument to Women Memorial Garden to defend traditional women's values from the perceived threat of the Equal Rights Amendment?
Did you know that Donnell L. Cunningham, an original Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, once lost everything in a fire except for a single office chair?
Did you know that India's third highest civilian award was bestowed upon Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand in 2017?
Did you know that M2M were going to call themselves M&M until they realised the name was already being used by a type of candy?
Did you know that Mary Hogarth is believed to be the inspiration for Charles Dickens' characters Rose in Oliver Twist and Little Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop?
Did you know that Perdur Radhakantha Adiga identified N-oxalyldiaminopropionic acid in grass pea as the cause of neurolathyrism?
Did you know that Rosemary Vrablic has been called "Trump's personal banker"?
Did you know that Super flumina Babylonis is the first of Jules Van Nuffel's psalm settings for choir and organ written for Mechelen Cathedral?
Did you know that a senior British general described Winston Churchill's proposal to invade Arctic Norway, Operation Jupiter, as "not merely dangerous but useless"?
Did you know that besides reporting on Aimee Semple McPherson's visit to Denver in 1921, Helen Marie Black arranged publicity stunts to show off the evangelist's preaching and faith healing skills?
Did you know that descendants of the family who settled Toronto's Ashbridge Estate were still living on the same property over 200 years later?
Did you know that the Cão de Gado Transmontano is a giant livestock guardian dog that is used to defend flocks of sheep from the Iberian wolf?
Did you know that the Detachment Hotel nuclear bunker on Peanut Island, Florida, was constructed in less than two weeks?
Did you know that the soprano Erna Ellmenreich appeared in the premieres of Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss and of Hindemith's Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen, the latter causing a scandal?
Did you know that Alice Bowman, Mission Operations Manager of the New Horizons Pluto exploration mission, is also a bassist and clarinetist?
Did you know that Arachne used a crossword puzzle to protest police corruption in the investigation of the murder of Daniel Morgan?
Did you know that Kokichi Sugihara's illusions make marbles appear to roll uphill and circular pipes look rectangular?
Did you know that LDS Relief Society president Belle S. Spafford directed the Singing Mothers at the 1964 World's Fair?
Did you know that Mary Boggs and her first husband won the competition to create the United States post office mural in Newton, Mississippi?
Did you know that Rheidol, a former locomotive on the Vale of Rheidol Railway in Wales, was originally called Treze de Maio, after the date that slavery was abolished in Brazil?
Did you know that Viaduto do Chá, São Paulo's first viaduct, was originally constructed from German iron before being replaced by a concrete span?
Did you know that composer Jessica Curry has won a BAFTA award for her video game scores, and has also worked with a Poet Laureate?
Did you know that in 1837, nativist rioters in Boston attacked the Montgomery Guards, an Irish-American militia company?
Did you know that the Montreal Alouettes won the 37th Grey Cup in 1949 but did not make the playoffs the following season?
Did you know that the diary of Mary Hardy provides a detailed record of an 18th-century English farming and brewing business?
Did you know that tree debris from Cyclone Tessi in Townsville, Queensland, was processed into 25,000 m3 (880,000 ft3) of mulch and used in local botanical gardens?
Did you know that tsukemen became a popular dish at Taishoken restaurant in Tokyo soon after its 1961 invention there, and has since become popular throughout Japan?
Did you know that "Better Place" was inspired by the engagement of Rachel Platten's sister?
Did you know that 2017 is the 100th anniversary of the composition of "Hail, America" by the German-born George Drumm?
Did you know that Fitzsimons station in Aurora, Colorado, was moved away from the Anschutz Medical Campus after concerns that vibrations and electromagnetic interference from trains would affect research equipment?
Did you know that Simon Kidston's car collection includes the last Lamborghini Miura SV (example pictured) ever produced?
Did you know that in the Sasak language, the verb "to eat" differs depending on the social status of the speaker and the addressee?
Did you know that men and women from the Sidama people sing radically different songs about Queen Furra?
Did you know that the Seattle City Council approved a street vacation for an Amazon.com office building in 2016, provided that a public "free speech zone" be designated at the site?
Did you know that the leaf beetle Zygogramma suturalis was introduced into Russia in 1978 in an attempt to control the invasive plant common ragweed?
Did you know that the lightning rod fashion (lightning rod umbrella shown) was a fad in 18th-century Europe?
Did you know that Edward C. Cardon was given command of the Second United States Army upon its reactivation in 2014 because he was already commander of the United States Army Cyber Command?
Did you know that John Rutter set Psalm 23 in The Lord is my Shepherd for choir and organ, and later included it in his Requiem?
Did you know that a Tofu Curtain divides two neighborhoods in Melbourne and two counties in Massachusetts?
Did you know that although he left school at the age of 14, Paul D'Ortona later served for two decades on the Philadelphia City Council?
Did you know that in 2016, the Parliament of Canada passed a motion condemning Islamophobia in the country?
Did you know that pangolins (example pictured) are believed to be the world's most trafficked mammal?
Did you know that pharyngeal aspiration is a widely used method for studying the respiratory toxicity of carbon nanotubes?
Did you know that professional wrestler Sam Adonis has been described as the "most hated man" in Mexico for his pro-Donald Trump character?
Did you know that the Xbox Game Pass has been described as "Netflix for video games"?
Did you know that the hymn "Herr Jesu Christ, wahr Mensch und Gott" ("Lord Jesus Christ, true man and God") by the Lutheran Paul Eber appeared in Catholic hymnals from 1567?
Did you know that the physics of a bouncing ball (motion shown) can be used to understand supernovae and gravitational slingshot manoeuvres?
Did you know that the salumeria originated in Italy and dates to the Middle Ages?
Did you know that Birdy, the first feature film partially shot with the Skycam camera system, was described by a reviewer as "a heavy adult drama about best friends and the after-effects of war"?
Did you know that Joe Biden went door-to-door with Stephanie Hansen to help her win a recent special election to the Delaware Senate?
Did you know that Rafael Brache was declared a traitor to the Dominican Republic for denouncing the "parsley massacre"?
Did you know that Snugburys, a British ice cream manufacturer, has constructed a series of large sculptures made of steel-reinforced straw, including one of the Lovell Telescope?
Did you know that Villa-Lobos State Park in São Paulo, named after composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, was created on the site of a landfill in 1989 and now has around 37,000 trees?
Did you know that gas chromatography–mass spectrometry equipment, first developed by Robert E. Finnigan, was fundamental to the EPA's ability to carry out environmental testing in the 1970s?
Did you know that gunmen of Mexican drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes shot down a Mexican Army helicopter using a rocket-propelled grenade?
Did you know that the 2017 Manchester Gorton by-election was called after the death of the Father of the House?
Did you know that the Adiyogi Shiva statue is the world's tallest bust of the Hindu god Shiva?
Did you know that the Rhodesian folk song "The U.D.I. Song" was written by a Northern Rhodesian and first performed by a South African?
Did you know that the founders of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund are husband and wife?
Did you know that the molecular biologist Nessa Carey cites the slight figure of actress Audrey Hepburn to illustrate the possible impacts of epigenetics?
Did you know that video game character Chris Redfield was suspected of abusing steroids?
Did you know that Beacon Hill, on the South Downs in West Sussex, supports the remains of a Bronze Age hillfort, an Anglo-Saxon burial mound, and a late 18th-century telegraph station?
Did you know that Charmian Gooch's investigation into the Cambodian timber trade deprived Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge regime of US$90 million a year?
Did you know that Euclidean space can be completely filled without overlaps by copies of any plesiohedron, a type of convex shape whose known examples have up to 38 sides?
Did you know that Richard Nixon and his longtime valet, Manuel "Manolo" Sanchez, sometimes communicated using "words that only the two of them understood"?
Did you know that Therese Benedek submitted to a five-month training analysis under an associate of Freud before embarking on her own career in psychoanalysis?
Did you know that Théophile Schuler illustrated Verne, Hugo, and an alphabet for children?
Did you know that a hat-trick was taken during Phillip Gillespie's first-class debut as a cricket umpire?
Did you know that according to local lore, Texarkana's Ace of Clubs House was built with US$10,000 won in a game of poker with an ace of clubs?
Did you know that despite the Reich Ministry of Transport running trains to extermination camps during the Holocaust, the US later ruled some of their personnel only had "lukewarm" connections to the Nazi Party?
Did you know that the Church of Scientology used espionage, front groups, private detectives, and over 2,500 lawsuits to gain tax exemption in the United States?
Did you know that the family of Yue Yi-chin, a Chinese flying ace of the Second Sino-Japanese War, claim to be descended from the Song dynasty general and folk hero Yue Fei?
Did you know that the soprano Émilie Ambre was portrayed by artist Édouard Manet in the title role of Bizet's Carmen?
Did you know that the top-three finishers in the 2010 Pepsi Max 400 all drove Chevrolets?
Did you know that Canadian football player Jeff Almon was drafted by the Calgary Stampeders after leaving a favourable impression on coach Mike Benevides, whom he happened to be seated near on a flight?
Did you know that Canadian football player Jim Ambrose collapsed during a game and later died due to inflammation of the brain?
Did you know that Petra Hřebíčková was named Best Actress in a Play at the 2008 Thalia Awards?
Did you know that TLC rapper Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes wrote two verses for the song "Kick Your Game", recapping a dialogue between herself and someone who was trying to flirt but did not "pass the cleverness test"?
Did you know that after the disappearance of Dora Bloch, Britain cut all diplomatic ties with Uganda?
Did you know that in 17th-century French medicine, hospitals were not staffed by doctors, but mostly by sisters from the Daughters of Charity?
Did you know that in 1945, Lieutenant James B. Thayer and his platoon liberated the Gunskirchen Lager concentration camp, saving thousands of Jewish and political prisoners from starvation?
Did you know that in Operation Hurricane, an atomic bomb was exploded in the hull of HMS Plym?
Did you know that the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery is not a monastery and actually contains close to 13,000 Buddha statues?
Did you know that when the stalls of a Jerusalem shuk close, Solomon Souza's spray-painted portraits (example pictured) become visible?
Did you know that while exploring whether a person's name affects the job they choose, Don Celender wrote to a dentist named Toothman and a rectal surgeon named Butts?
Did you know that 50 years after a mural by Fay E. Davis depicting Native Americans in battle was installed in the post office in Oglesby, Illinois, a janitor claimed it was pornographic?
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln probably named his horse Old Bob to differentiate it from his son, "Young Bob"?
Did you know that Bonnie Burnard's 1999 debut novel, A Good House, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize?
Did you know that Erythranthe peregrina is a rare example of a species developing in multiple locations from parents that normally produce sterile hybrids?
Did you know that Shyam Swarup Agarwal studied the genetic effects of the Bhopal gas tragedy?
Did you know that a Bricard octahedron can change its shape without changing the shapes of its faces?
Did you know that in 1938, Georg Thurmair co-published the hymnal Kirchenlied, which had an ecumenical approach and became the germ cell for a common German Catholic hymnal?
Did you know that the Sack of Shamakhi was used as the casus belli by the Russian Empire in order to launch the Russo-Persian War of 1722–1723?
Did you know that the mezzo-soprano Iris Vermillion, who became known for Mozart roles with Harnoncourt in 1988, received a prize for her portrayal of Schoeck's Penthesilea at the Semperoper 20 years later?
Did you know that the phonograph and gramophone company Edison Bell was required to use Edison's name?
Did you know that Albert Horne conducted Gershwin's Porgy and Bess for the Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden, with the chorus of the Cape Town Opera and the Wiesbaden orchestra?
Did you know that Bob Dylan's "Nothing Was Delivered" has inspired interpretations ranging from a failed drug deal to Judas Iscariot's betrayal of Jesus?
Did you know that Home Kidston owned a Bugatti Type 37A (example pictured) while still a schoolboy at Eton?
Did you know that Lutheran children's educator Magdalena Heymair was the first woman to have her works listed as heretical in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum?
Did you know that Max Reger recorded some of his 52 Chorale Preludes, Op. 67, on the Welte Philharmonic organ?
Did you know that Nancy Run in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, is named after an old fortune teller?
Did you know that Undurti Narasimha Das provided evidence that gamma-linolenic acid inhibited the progress of human gliomas?
Did you know that the United States gave nuclear weapons to Britain as part of Project E?
Did you know that the sitter in Titian's A Man with a Quilted Sleeve has been thought to be the poet Ludovico Ariosto, a Venetian patrician, or Titian himself?
Did you know that Denver, Colorado, philanthropist Helen Bonfils inherited US$14 million from her father and US$10 million from her mother?
Did you know that Hans Larwin painted Soldat und Tod in 1917 when he was the official war painter for the Austria-Hungary dual monarchy?
Did you know that London's Hanover Lodge sold for £120 million in 2012, but the underground swimming pool, which converts into a ballroom, is considered "too small"?
Did you know that Robert Lockhart Hobson compiled catalogues of the British Museum's English pottery and porcelain?
Did you know that fossils from the Paleocene period have been found near Saunders Creek, Alberta, including an upper molar from a possible pantodont?
Did you know that in the upcoming film LAbyrinth, Johnny Depp portrays a detective investigating the murders of Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.?
Did you know that the American Leonie Turpeau, the Nicaraguan Maymie de Mena, and the Jamaican Madame Aiken were the same person?
Did you know that the São Vicente Suspension Bridge, constructed 1911–1914, was one of the first suspension bridges in Brazil, and was originally conceived to carry a sewage pipeline?
Did you know that the voice of Hawaiian soprano Nani Alapai was compared to the music of the singing snails?
Did you know that Free Radio presenter Andy Goulding thought that "Scared of the Dark" by Steps should have been the United Kingdom's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2017?
Did you know that Karl Kessler's 1874 description of the Balkhash perch as a new species was based on specimens collected on Alexander von Schrenk's expedition to Turkestan in 1842?
Did you know that Liza Ferschtman used seven different violins for her "tour de force" performance of the Rosary Sonatas?
Did you know that Roz Chast's graphic memoir Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, about her parents in their final years, was No. 1 New York Times Bestseller in 2014?
Did you know that Susanna Elm's book Virgins of God draws on little-known sources such as the Letter to the Virgins Who Went to Jerusalem?
Did you know that Susannah Fox, the U.S. government's former chief health technology executive, cited the maker movement as a promising source of future healthcare innovation?
Did you know that according to their martyrdom account, Crispus, Crispinianus, and Benedicta (fresco pictured) went to comfort John and Paul, only to become buried next to them?
Did you know that in earlier paintings of a sacra conversazione ("holy conversation"), the figures are rarely shown speaking (example pictured)?
Did you know that the most effective way to control a hazard is to eliminate it?
Did you know that Bryant McIntosh holds the single-season and career assist records for Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball?
Did you know that Peter Van Hoesen, an American Civil War deserter, was paid $300 to enlist by a drafted man, and performed a Medal of Honor-worthy deed at Fort Fisher in 1864 for which he got no credit?
Did you know that civil rights activist Theodora Lacey helped lead the campaign which, in 1964, resulted in Teaneck, New Jersey, becoming the first town in the United States to vote for school integration?
Did you know that the 2014 annexation of Crimea by "little green men" was typical of a long history of Russian military deception dating back to the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380?
Did you know that the Peñol de Cerquín, a Lenca fortress in southern Honduras, successfully resisted the Spanish conquistadores for months?
Did you know that when Siegfried Wagner wrote the libretto for his opera An allem ist Hütchen schuld!, he used themes from many fairy tales?
Did you know that Christian ethicist Henlee Hulix Barnette was investigated by the FBI after meeting Nikita Khrushchev and marching with Martin Luther King?
Did you know that Licancabur volcano was venerated by the Atacamenos?
Did you know that Yu Zigao's expedition against the Dutch on Penghu Island was responsible for their colonization of Taiwan?
Did you know that the 2015 film Ringan, set against the backdrop of farmers' suicides in India, won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Marathi?
Did you know that the Romans built a temple possibly dedicated to a boar cult within the prehistoric Chanctonbury Ring hillfort?
Did you know that the first female British professor of Greek, Dorothy Tarrant, analysed Plato's style to conclude that he did not write the Socratic dialogue on beauty?
Did you know that the release of Wipeout HD was delayed for a few months because it had failed epilepsy tests?
Did you know that Canadian Football League player Randy Ambrosie helped oversee the league's expansion into the United States?
Did you know that Narinder Kumar Mehra identified that a subtype of the serotype HLA-DR2 made humans susceptible to diseases such as leprosy and tuberculosis?
Did you know that despite the loss of Trunajaya's rebel court at the Battle of Surabaya, his forces captured and sacked the Mataram royal court one month later?
Did you know that the 17th-century German hymn "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan" has been described as "one of the most exquisite strains of pious resignation ever written"?
Did you know that the Rest on the Flight into Egypt is a popular subject in Christian art, but the earliest known example only dates to about 1379?
Did you know that Guillotière Cemetery in Lyon, France, was mistakenly bombed by the American military during the Second World War?
Did you know that Y. D. Sharma established a genomic library of Plasmodium vivax, a protozoan parasite, at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi?
Did you know that the Sacramento Valley Development Association built a life-sized bear out of prunes for the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair?