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Did you know that Urmila Eulie Chowdhury was chief architect of the state of Punjab from 1976 to 1981?
Did you know that a baby in a bathtub purportedly haunts Jewett House?
Did you know that brigadier Andrew Massey served in Oman, Dhofar, and Northern Ireland before retiring?
Did you know that in porting Heavy Gear II's 3D sound implementation to Linux, Loki Software created the OpenAL API?
Did you know that the 1993 Tropical Storm Bret was the deadliest natural disaster in Venezuela since the 1967 Caracas earthquake?
Did you know that the cultivation of the ancient grain amaranth was banned by Spanish colonial authorities due to its religious significance to the Aztecs?
Did you know that the harvest and Thanksgiving hymn "We Plough the Fields and Scatter" was parodied by John Betjeman as a protest against modern farming methods?
Did you know that the reapportionment of Electoral College seats resulting from the 2020 United States Census may have a significant impact on the 2024 U.S. presidential election?
Did you know that Arsenal's victory in the 2015 FA Community Shield was manager Arsène Wenger's first win over his opponent José Mourinho in 14 attempts?
Did you know that Eric Church's album Mr. Misunderstood was released with no prior warning and sent to his fan club members the day before it went on sale?
Did you know that Guadalupe Marín and Diego Rivera's daughter Ruth Rivera Marín was the first woman to study architecture at the National Polytechnic Institute?
Did you know that Money Pit's producer described the show as a "legal minefield"?
Did you know that Semisulcospira libertina is the most common freshwater snail in Japan?
Did you know that after advocating for the bill funding construction of the Arizona Territorial Capitol, Prosper P. Parker was Speaker of the House during the first legislative session to meet there?
Did you know that in one of the matches that the England cricket team played between 1920 and 1939, they won by the largest margin of any team in Test cricket?
Did you know that noted explorer and aviator Charles S. Strong wrote The Hardy Boys book The Hooded Hawk Mystery and the Nancy Drew book The Scarlet Slipper Mystery, and once machine-gunned a shark from an airplane?
Did you know that seductive details may have a negative effect on learning?
Did you know that the 14th-century William of Nottingham—and not the 13th-century one—was the author of the Commentary on the Gospels based on Clement of Llanthony's One from Four?
Did you know that the 15th-century Ardstinchar Castle was quarried in the 1770s to provide stone for construction of a three-arch bridge over the River Stinchar?
Did you know that Junri Namigata won her first ITF tennis tournament while still a student at Waseda University?
Did you know that Kohei Shibata was billed as "Akahoshi Jr." months before he was drafted by the Hanshin Tigers?
Did you know that Laverne Cox has been cast as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the upcoming "reimagining" of The Rocky Horror Picture Show?
Did you know that Samuel J. Briskin founded the independent film company Liberty Pictures with his longtime friend, director Frank Capra?
Did you know that Synapse Software's 1982 video game Slime was reviewed as having sound effects that were the "worst ever heard on any computer game"?
Did you know that basketball player Stefan Bonneau has been called one of the top players to ever play in the Icelandic Premier League?
Did you know that during the 19th century, Calshot Castle was used by coastguards as a base for combating smuggling?
Did you know that the Celsiella, a type of glass frog, was named after Josefa Celsa Señaris?
Did you know that the Tomb of Sikandar Lodi, built in 1518 CE, is the earliest surviving enclosed garden tomb in India?
Did you know that the community reaction to Dead Island's announcement trailer made the game developer Techland adjust the game's tone?
Did you know that the heart of Portland Castle is the keep, comprising a central tower with two wings on either side and a gun battery to the front?
Did you know that the ruddy shelduck is a mainly nocturnal bird?
Did you know that A Boyar Wedding Feast (detail pictured) by Konstantin Makovsky was once in the art collection of the creator of Ripley's Believe It or Not!?
Did you know that Charles Beetham was a four-time United States champion in the 800-meter run, but fell in the final at the 1936 United States Olympic Trials and failed to qualify for the Olympics?
Did you know that Enrique Luis Graue Wiechers is the tenth medical doctor to become rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico?
Did you know that Hanlin, Burma, was inscribed by the UNESCO List of World Heritage Sites in October 1996 for its archaeological heritage traced to more than 1,000 years between 200 BC and 900 AD?
Did you know that Thorn EMI's video game Submarine Commander was called "the underwater Star Raiders", referring to the Atari 8-bit's killer app?
Did you know that the Devi Upanishad reveres Devi, the Hindu goddess, as the highest principle and ultimate truth in the universe?
Did you know that the Lenape potato was withdrawn because it was toxic, but it is used to breed other varieties for potato chips?
Did you know that the Palais des Fêtes in Strasbourg has hosted famous conductors and anonymous anime fans?
Did you know that the herald of the winter is highly slimy?
Did you know that towards the end of her life, biologist Mary Cynthia Dickerson had hallucinations of the Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson?
Did you know that Ida Shepard Oldroyd curated the world's second largest collection of mollusk shells?
Did you know that Millennium's "Collateral Damage" featured Coast to Coast AM host Art Bell playing himself?
Did you know that Spanish footballer Jorge Alonso studied civil engineering?
Did you know that Tsuruko Haraguchi, the first Japanese woman to receive a PhD, helped establish an experimental psychology laboratory at Japan Women's University?
Did you know that a remix of "We Used to Be Friends" by The Dandy Warhols was used for the third season premiere of Veronica Mars, "Welcome Wagon"?
Did you know that bat flips are popular in Asian and Latin American baseball leagues?
Did you know that despite being ranked 158th out of 164 in his West Point class, A. Arnim White still managed to reach the rank of major general?
Did you know that new Le Moyne College basketball head coach Patrick Beilein says he was born the day before his father, John Beilein, became the Le Moyne basketball head coach?
Did you know that of the three Baolis of Mehrauli, the Gandhak ki Baoli (step well pictured) was built during the 13th century by Iltutmish of the slave dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate who ruled in Delhi?
Did you know that the Colombo Marathon is Sri Lanka's oldest marathon?
Did you know that the Mittagong- and Bargo geebungs can be found on road verges?
Did you know that the inverted-F antenna, the antenna used in mobile phones, was originally developed for missile telemetry?
Did you know that Cypora Zonszajn could not live without her closest family and returned to the Siedlce Ghetto to perish along with them (deportation pictured)?
Did you know that Ranjit Roy Chaudhury was the first Indian doctor to receive a Rhodes Scholarship?
Did you know that Tebello Nyokong is helping to pioneer a safer method of cancer detection and therapy that does not have the harmful side effects of chemotherapy?
Did you know that after Olga Fedchenko's husband died on Mont Blanc in 1873, she was asked to continue their work by Moscow's Society of Natural Scientists?
Did you know that in the past three years, Odyssey Opera has performed the Boston premieres of Korngold's Die tote Stadt and Massenet's Le Cid?
Did you know that the Russia–Syria–Iran–Iraq coalition may have been devised during a visit by Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution's elite Quds Force, to Moscow in July 2015?
Did you know that the Simtokha Dzong, built in 1629 by Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal, functions as a monastic and administrative centre and is the oldest dzong to survive in its original form?
Did you know that the main proponent of the Hamilton Canal, Gavin Hamilton, was found to have embezzled £19,675 from the Colonial Government, following his death in 1803?
Did you know that Bean Boots are still manufactured in Maine and are stitched by hand?
Did you know that Frances Gertrude McGill, a Canadian forensic pathologist, was referred to as the "Sherlock Holmes of Saskatchewan"?
Did you know that Omowunmi Sadik has developed highly sensitive microelectrode biosensors that can detect explosives?
Did you know that UNESCO recently declared an emergency action plan to protect cultural sites in Yemen from destruction?
Did you know that a "creepy puzzle" mailed to a Swedish tech blogger was found to contain coded messages implying a threat against the President of the United States?
Did you know that a post in the Arizona Territory was not the first or even second choice of future Arizona Territorial Supreme Court justice Owen Thomas Rouse?
Did you know that the Circuit des Champs de Bataille, a stage race held across devastated northern France, Belgium and Luxembourg in spring 1919, has been described as the toughest cycle race in history?
Did you know that the Coexist symbol used on bumper stickers started life as a 3 m × 5 m (9.8 ft × 16.4 ft) outdoor poster in a juried art exhibition in Jerusalem?
Did you know that the U.S. Army Herald Trumpets use drums designed by the vaudeville musician Gus Moeller?
Did you know that the artist Eric Kennington claimed to have walked 500 miles (800 km) while painting The Kensingtons at Laventie?
Did you know that the powership MV KPS Ayşegül Sultan went to Ghana and the MV KPS Zeynep Sultan to Indonesia the same day, following a farewell ceremony at the Sedef Shipyard in Tuzla, Istanbul?
Did you know that A New System of Domestic Cookery (frontispiece pictured) has been called "a publishing sensation" and "the most famous cookery book of its time"?
Did you know that Archibald Main, who was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1939, was Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Glasgow?
Did you know that Cambodia's Angkor Wat International Half Marathon was introduced in 1996 by the Japanese Olympian Yuko Arimori?
Did you know that Chinese soprano Guanqun Yu won the Belvedere International Singing Competition and placed 2nd in Operalia, The World Opera Competition?
Did you know that Henderson's bookshop was used to shelter fugitive activists for women's suffrage?
Did you know that body-camera footage led to the arrest of two police officers in the shooting of six-year-old Jeremy Mardis?
Did you know that fractures of the hyoid bone are often caused by strangulation?
Did you know that in the armies of Mycenaean Greece, chariots were initially used as fighting vehicles, but by the 13th century BC their role was probably limited to battlefield transport?
Did you know that over three million visitors attended the Seoul Lantern Festival in 2014?
Did you know that soprano Ying Fang has won the Golden Bell Award, the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, and the Lincoln Center Segal Award?
Did you know that the Armitt Library is named for the polyglot Mary Louisa Armitt?
Did you know that the Himalayan field rat is closely related to the brown rat?
Did you know that tourism in Iraq is in danger because of the ongoing war against ISIS?
Did you know that Mexican singer-songwriter Natalia Lafourcade won three Latin Grammy Awards for her song "Hasta la Raíz"?
Did you know that Patricia Numann founded the Association of Women Surgeons, chaired the American Board of Surgery, and was president of the American College of Surgeons?
Did you know that although General Qiu Huizuo was persecuted at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, he authorized the torture of 462 people after returning to power, causing eight deaths?
Did you know that former Khmer Rouge official Sar Kheng is currently Minister of the Interior, Deputy Prime Minister, and a Member of the Cambodian Parliament?
Did you know that in the mystery manga series Zodiac P.I., teenage detective Lili Hoshizawa uses astrology to solve cases?
Did you know that the Narayana Upanishad states that one who worships with the mantra "Om Namo Narayanaya" goes to Vishnu's heaven, and becomes free from birth and saṃsāra?
Did you know that the National Museum of Vietnamese History, redesigned by architect Ernest Hébrard, is a blend of French colonial and Vietnamese architecture, called Indochina architecture?
Did you know that the site upon which Saint Stephen's Church, Negombo, was built in 1876 is located near the former Dutch Fort?
Did you know that Dorothea Leighton is one of the founders of the field of medical anthropology?
Did you know that German astrophysicist Hanna von Hoerner designed the cosmic dust analyser onboard Rosetta?
Did you know that Operation Eikonal delivered data about European defense projects to the National Security Agency?
Did you know that Yueh-Lin Loo invented nanotransfer printing, a technique that allows electrical circuits to be printed onto plastic surfaces?
Did you know that even after defeating the Mughals at the Battle of Lahore, Ahmed Shah Abdali retained the Mughal governor Mir Mannu?
Did you know that in a recent United States Supreme Court decision, one Justice suggested the Court may soon become "a veritable Supreme Board of Sign Review"?
Did you know that olive baboons tend to mate promiscuously?
Did you know that the Cokato Temperance Hall was the social hub of a Finnish American community even though its members had to pledge to abstain from alcohol?
Did you know that the extinct ant Messelepone was described from two fossils, a male and a queen?
Did you know that Canada's first-ever match between André the Giant and Hulk Hogan took place in Lutte Internationale, preceding their more famous showdown at WrestleMania III by seven years?
Did you know that Jaccoud arthropathy is associated with systemic lupus erythematosus?
Did you know that Ming dynasty official Zhao Wenhua is reviled as a "treacherous minister" in the History of Ming despite having been rewarded for his role against the Jiajing wokou raids?
Did you know that Renard battled against the HMS Swallow?
Did you know that cortiços, large houses divided into very small rooms for rent, originated in São Paulo, Brazil, and were developed by Italian immigrants?
Did you know that during the Hananu Revolt against French rule in Syria, the first rebel band organized by Ibrahim Hananu consisted of seven men from his hometown?
Did you know that during the Valletta Summit on Migration, President of the European Council Donald Tusk called the European migrant crisis a "race against time" to save the Schengen Agreement?
Did you know that only a year after joining the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company at age 21, Eileen Sharp was promoted to be the company's principal mezzo-soprano?
Did you know that the Cathedral Basilica of the Holy Family replaced a church that was the first stone building in Nairobi?
Did you know that the video game Life Is Strange was originally going to be called What If but was retitled due to the film of the same name?
Did you know that when specimens of Platygyra contorta coral were studied in 1977, they were identified as examples of P. rustica?
Did you know that when the Estrella de Chile ran aground in 1888, the crew climbed into the rigging to escape the rising water?
Did you know that writer Thomas B. Marquis once drove into the back of another car while conversing with Thomas H. Leforge in Plains Indian Sign Language?
Did you know that American artist Lily Furedi had an ekphrastic poem called "Eyes Alive" written about her often-reproduced painting The Subway?
Did you know that Sarah Kalley and her husband started the first Protestant church in Brazil?
Did you know that Snöfrid, an "improvisation for narrator, mixed choir and orchestra" by Jean Sibelius, opens with music depicting a storm?
Did you know that Stephanie Burns, an organosilicon chemist, served as President and CEO of Dow Corning?
Did you know that WSTRN bandmember Akelle Charles is the brother of Angel?
Did you know that actress Charlize Theron made her debut in an uncredited role in the 1995 horror film Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest?
Did you know that gastroenterologist S. K. Sama, known for his pioneering research on non-cirrhotic portal fibrosis and hepatitis B, received the Padma Shri award in 2004?
Did you know that in 1865, the first alpine climbers to reach the summit of the Aiguille de Bionnassay arrived in a thunderstorm, their ice axes humming with electrical activity?
Did you know that the beginning of Cassazione, composed by Jean Sibelius in 1904, is similar to the 1962 James Bond Theme?
Did you know that the earliest known historical find of cotton in Pakistan is from artifacts in a Neolithic-era burial site in Mehrgarh?
Did you know that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that "my India resides in people like Imran Khan"?
Did you know that J. S. Guleria and his son Randeep Guleria are both doctors at All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi and were both awarded the Padma Shri?
Did you know that Jean Sibelius described his string quartet Voces intimae as the "kind of thing that brings a smile to your lips at the hour of death"?
Did you know that Mai Pokhari, a wetland in the Ilam District of Nepal, designated a Ramsar site in October 2008, is a pilgrimage center for both Hindus and Buddhists?
Did you know that Vera Fedorovna Gaze, who discovered around 150 emission nebulae, had a minor planet and a crater on Venus named for her?
Did you know that the Floriana Lines are considered to be among the most complicated and elaborate of the Hospitaller fortifications of Malta?
Did you know that the ancient fortifications of Xi'an were used as air raid shelters in World War II?
Did you know that the critically endangered Arabian leopard is among the wildlife found in Yemen?
Did you know that the victory of Sultan al-Atrash over French forces in the Battle of al-Kafr commenced the Great Syrian Revolt?
Did you know that ASI Corp., a wholesale distributor of computer components founded by Christine Liang, is one of the largest women-owned businesses in the United States?
Did you know that Charlotte Sahl-Madsen introduced multiple intelligences into the Universe?
Did you know that Kathryn Parsons co-founded a startup that teaches people how to "code in a day"?
Did you know that Paul Weller's first solo UK top ten hit, "The Changingman", sampled Electric Light Orchestra's "10538 Overture", which in turn sampled The Beatles' "Dear Prudence"?
Did you know that Singaporean fungi expert Gloria Lim once assisted her country's Ministry of Defence when its storage bunkers developed mold?
Did you know that Vera Faddeeva's 1950 book Computational methods of linear algebra was one of the first publications in that field of mathematics?
Did you know that leonite has been found on Mars?
Did you know that on 2 April 1662, the Old Fortress of Livorno was the location of an experiment designed to test Galileo's principle of the independence of motions?
Did you know that the Burkhan Khaldun mountain or its locality is believed to be the birthplace of Genghis Khan, as well as the location of his tomb?
Did you know that Catherine A. Lozupone created the UniFrac algorithm, which has allowed researchers to plot the relationships between microbial communities in the human gut?
Did you know that General Zhang Tingfa commanded the Chinese Air Force during the Sino-Vietnamese War?
Did you know that The Daily Telegraph has called Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook's vice president for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, "the most powerful woman in the British tech industry"?
Did you know that Una Ryan and Una Ryan both emigrated from their countries, studied infectious disease, and were honored with the Order of the British Empire and Prime Minister's Prizes for Science, respectively?
Did you know that although Format:B have had their own vanity label for the past six years, their most recent single was released on Ministry of Sound?
Did you know that biochemist Kathryn Ferguson Fink developed radiolabeling techniques that were used to study the success of chemotherapy?
Did you know that the Cadet Nurse Corps (recruiting poster pictured), established during World War II, influenced the way in which nurses would be educated and trained in the United States?
Did you know that the Magellan Shrine memorial tower was erected in 1866 in honor of the explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who was killed in the Battle of Mactan in 1521?
Did you know that while the Huawei Honor 4X was in the same price range as the second generation Moto G and the Sony Xperia M2, the Honor 4X is a phablet?
Did you know that Chicago's 1000 South Michigan is a supertall skyscraper planned to rise to over 1,000 feet (300 m), even though it is in a historic district zoned for buildings up to 425 feet (130 m)?
Did you know that Chinese opera singer Ao Li has won both the Operalia, The World Opera Competition and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions?
Did you know that Frank Sinatra and the 3 Flashes, newly renamed the Hoboken Four, performed in blackface in a short film aired at Radio City Music Hall?
Did you know that Frank Sinatra's 1966 cover of "Summer Wind" was the final top 40 hit for lyricist Johnny Mercer?
Did you know that Hank Sanicola, a boxer turned music manager, was Frank Sinatra's "song plugger"?
Did you know that Her Humble Ministry, featuring Florence Lawrence as a character rehabilitated by nuns, was called "one of the most wisely conducted films" with a religious motif?
Did you know that Herbert Grove Dorsey invented the first practical fathometer for ships?
Did you know that John Martin, the first Chief Justice of the Cherokee Supreme Court, had no formal legal training?
Did you know that after gaining a job as a singing waiter in 1938, Frank Sinatra boasted that he would "become so big that no one could ever touch him"?
Did you know that at his solo nightclub debut at the Riobamba, Frank Sinatra sang two songs "with trembling lips" and brought the house down?
Did you know that publicist Jim Byron once got into a fist fight with Frank Sinatra on the Sunset Strip?
Did you know that the Anatolian diagonal is a significant feature in the distribution of the flora of Turkey?
Did you know that American music critic Robert Christgau called Frank Sinatra "the greatest singer of the 20th century"?
Did you know that Frank Sinatra Enterprises was founded in 2007 to manage the singer's recordings at Reprise Records?
Did you know that Frank Sinatra had a number 1 hit with "Oh! What it Seemed to Be" in 1946, and then recorded it again for 1963's Sinatra's Sinatra?
Did you know that Frank Sinatra was a secret courier for the Haganah?
Did you know that Frank Sinatra, Jr. was first offered the part which was later developed into the Rat Pack-style character Vic Fontaine in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine?
Did you know that Mahbub Alam was arrested just after filing his nomination paper for the 2014 Indian general election?
Did you know that after Frank Sinatra was happy with his recording of the song "That's Life", producer Jimmy Bowen annoyed him by asking him to do it again?
Did you know that the Shwezigon Pagoda is like a bell-shaped stupa, in traditional Mon architectural style, which became the prototype architectural feature for many stupas built in Myanmar?
Did you know that Christopher John O'Neill, now a Broadway actor, was discovered by a casting director for The Book of Mormon while performing comedy at Edinburgh Festival Fringe?
Did you know that Lidija Liepiņa worked with a team of other scientists in a mobile laboratory in a train boxcar, testing filters to create Russia's first functional gas mask?
Did you know that Minnesotan actor Odin Biron moved to Moscow speaking almost no Russian but went on to become a popular character on the top-rated Russian sitcom Interns?
Did you know that Qing dynasty ambassador to the United States Liang Cheng was a star baseball player for Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts?