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Did you know that Norwegian female academic pioneers from the 19th century included Dagny Bang, Kristine Munch, Louise Isachsen, Helga Eng and Rikke Nissen?
Did you know that Sir Robert Drury was among the first to support Mary Tudor's claim to the throne in July 1553?
Did you know that Tultepec, Mexico, the host of the country's National Pyrotechnic Festival, produces around half of the nation's fireworks with sixty percent of the town's population involved in the business?
Did you know that after success in a naval battle, Lord George Graham was featured in the portrait Captain Lord George Graham in his Cabin by William Hogarth, alongside a dog in a wig?
Did you know that beetles act as an intermediate host to complete the life cycle of the worm Raillietina cesticillus, a parasite that infests the intestines of chickens?
Did you know that criticisms made by John Cotton about the doctrine of preparationism were a factor in the Antinomian Controversy and Anne Hutchinson's banishment from Massachusetts in 1638?
Did you know that gold miner Louis Ah Mouy built the very first houses in South Melbourne and Williamstown?
Did you know that suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt told guests she bought Juniper Ledge, her house near Briarcliff Manor, New York, to keep its berries from being made into gin?
Did you know that the 1940 cartoon Ants in the Plants, about an ant colony that defends itself against an anteater, was called a war allegory that possibly referred to France's Maginot Line?
Did you know that the 1987 novel The Firebrand, written by American author Marion Zimmer Bradley, depicts the Trojan War from the perspective of the prophet Kassandra, daughter of King Priam?
Did you know that the Peach Palm is being tested as a replacement to supply hearts of palm previously harvested from the Fiji Sago Palm, which became a threatened species due to Fiji's tourist industry?
Did you know that the genus Bactris, believed to have evolved 26 to 36 million years ago in South America, is one of the six palm genera found to show the highest speciation rates?
Did you know that Birendra Nath Datta is an Indian folklore researcher, who received Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award of the country in 2009?
Did you know that George Gershwin worked as an extra in the Yiddish Theater District, and Walter Matthau worked as a cashier?
Did you know that Giedroyc Doctrine, developed by émigré publicist Jerzy Giedroyc in 1970s, shaped the eastern policy of Poland after 1989?
Did you know that Jon Challinor's first victory in a Conference play-off final came in 2012, after he appeared in finals in 2004, 2007, and 2009?
Did you know that Ma Mati Manush is a political slogan coined by All India Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee which helped her party to defeat the Left Front in the elections of West Bengal?
Did you know that Miami Hurricanes point guard Shane Larkin, the son of Barry Larkin, quit baseball after a Little League coach told him the tutoring he had received from Tony Pérez and Pete Rose was "all wrong"?
Did you know that after a 42-year career documenting the neighborhoods and buildings of Jerusalem, architectural historian and popular author David Kroyanker moved to Tel Aviv?
Did you know that after several decades, U.S. Air Force pilot Ray Melikian reunited with the aircraft he flew in World War II?
Did you know that despite his hectic schedule, Chen Hanwei agreed to act in Ghost Child – for a plate of "cheap chicken rice"?
Did you know that during the Paris Peace Conference after World War I, Emmanuel de Martonne helped make changes to borders in Romania and the Balkans?
Did you know that in the Bengali film Ami Aadu, a poor Indian village girl writes a letter to US President George W. Bush informing him about the troubles of her life caused by the 2003 invasion of Iraq?
Did you know that the Holocron is a database of the Star Wars Expanded Universe and Star Wars canon, including its characters, creatures, languages, locations, vehicles, and weapons?
Did you know that the Maryland Food Collective, founded in 1975 at the University of Maryland, operates under the motto "Food for people, not for profit"?
Did you know that the black sea cucumber can emit a mass of sticky cuvierian tubules to enmesh a potential predator?
Did you know that the centre piece of Battalion Park, at west Calgary, is 16,000 large whitewashed stones, arranged on a hill slope representing the battalions numbered 137, 113, 151, and 51?
Did you know that the destination of the first commercial flight in the Northern Territory by Qantas was Austral Downs?
Did you know that the official seat of the Government of Estonia, Stenbock House, was originally designed as a courthouse?
Did you know that Alacahisar, the Turkish name of Kruševac, means "colorful town"?
Did you know that Armenian American inventor Oscar H. Banker is considered the "father of the automatic transmission"?
Did you know that Australian cricketer Stan Sismey, who was wounded in action as a pilot during World War II, once left the field of play during a game because shrapnel was working its way out of his body?
Did you know that Fingle Bridge, in a deep Dartmoor gorge, is built on the historic crossing point between the hillforts of Prestonbury Castle and Cranbrook Castle?
Did you know that New Zealander Leo McKendry was both the last Mayor of Blenheim and the first Mayor of Marlborough?
Did you know that Newry City AFC was launched by the Northern Ireland manager after the winding-up of the former club?
Did you know that Robert Silverberg's short story "Good News from the Vatican" features the election of a robot to the position of Pope of the Catholic Church?
Did you know that Sara Bard Field traveled by automobile from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. in 1915 to deliver a petition with 500,000 signatures for women's suffrage to Woodrow Wilson?
Did you know that a stage adaptation of Kwee Tek Hoay's novel The Rose of Cikembang was made before he even finished writing it?
Did you know that after a common career span of 27 years, Madhuri Dixit and Juhi Chawla are costarring for the first time in the upcoming film Gulaab Gang?
Did you know that although Penn Symons was mortally wounded in the stomach at the Battle of Talana Hill he remounted his horse and rode out of sight of his troops before asking for help?
Did you know that in 1999, winemaker Daniel Baron persuaded Cabernet Sauvignon producers Silver Oak Cellars to establish Twomey Cellars, to pursue Merlot production?
Did you know that in the Pingyao's tortoise-shaped city plan, the Shuanglin Temple is rated as the city's third treasure characterized by its over 2,000 coloured art sculptures on display?
Did you know that the Iraqi government issued an arrest warrant for Wathiq al-Battat, the head of a new Shi'a Iraqi militia group called the Mukhtar Army?
Did you know that the Russian ship of the line Konstantin was deployed to Denmark during the First Schleswig War of 1848–50 to help preserve Denmark's territorial integrity against Prussia?
Did you know that the entire production team of Andrew Davies' 1995 serial Pride and Prejudice followed him when he began adapting the TV serial Emma for ITV?
Did you know that "Whatever It Takes" was the first song to be written for Leona Lewis' debut studio album, Spirit?
Did you know that Buddy Brown was a member of the College Football All-America Team and won the Jacobs Blocking Trophy as a player for Alabama in 1973?
Did you know that Captain James Carroll brought the first large steamboat to Alaska?
Did you know that Charlie Getzein, known for his "pretzel curve" pitch, won 59 games in 1886 and 1887, including four games in the 1887 World Series?
Did you know that Dalen Hotel in Dalen, Telemark, Norway is among the best preserved wooden hotels from the 19th century?
Did you know that Intef I, Intef II and Intef III were all buried in saff (row) tombs in El-Tarif in Egypt?
Did you know that James M. Geraghty served as Spokane, Washington's City Attorney during the first decade of the 20th century, while his grandson, Jack Geraghty, was Mayor of the city during the last decade?
Did you know that Nicole Scherzinger's song "Boomerang" is about "not letting the haters keep you down"?
Did you know that among the signs that the Isaac Young House in New Castle, New York, was expanded from an older building are the wider clapboards on the rear, and doors and windows that barely fit?
Did you know that art historian Norma Broude suggests that Gustave Caillebotte's Le Pont de l'Europe may depict the artist cruising near the Gare Saint-Lazare?
Did you know that because of the possibility of dead heats, the number of possible outcomes of a horse race is not a factorial, but an ordered Bell number?
Did you know that during the filming of the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "First Flight", the cast and crew were presented with a flag from the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65)?
Did you know that in Ontario, most catastrophic injuries in fishing and canoeing involve drowning and are fatal?
Did you know that the Chatter ring has been played with by Tim Shadbolt, the Mayor of Invercargill?
Did you know that the Star of Caledonia is designed to be lit up by using light emitting diodes?
Did you know that the engine of the Russian ship of the line Retvizan was removed in 1863 even though it was considered the best ship of its type in the Imperial Russian Navy?
Did you know that "La Reyne le veult" was used incorrectly when granting Royal Assent to the Act of Supremacy 1558?
Did you know that Howard Hille Johnson's campaign for a state school for the blind in West Virginia led to the establishment of the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind on March 3, 1870?
Did you know that Kevin Shields was influenced by "a noise generator" while with The Complex?
Did you know that at its peak, Chinese merchant George Kwok Bew's fruit firm handled around six thousand bananas every day?
Did you know that environmentalist critics have argued that Woody Guthrie's song "Pittsburgh Town" (1941), recorded by Pete Seeger, was a commentary on the city's pollution problem at the time?
Did you know that in taking the role of Irish detective Jack Taylor, actor Iain Glen pays homage to Jack Nicholson's character, Jake Gittes from the 1970s film Chinatown?"
Did you know that the Dutch 2013 crime movie De wederopstanding van een klootzak is based on a 2004 graphic novel about Saint Boniface?
Did you know that the Jacksonville neighborhood of Riverside and Avondale is the most architecturally diverse neighborhood in Florida?
Did you know that the indri is one of 13 species of lemur found in Zahamena National Park in Madagascar?
Did you know that the largest single manufactured export from Kenya is canned pineapple, which is due to the presence and operations of Del Monte Kenya?
Did you know that the old Stadtfriedhof in Göttingen (chapel pictured) is the final resting place of no fewer than eight Nobel Prize winners, including Max Born, Otto Hahn and Max Planck?
Did you know that there is long-standing uncertainty about the relationship of Lenzites warnieri to other polypore fungi?
Did you know that two of Lecrae's albums have been called the most important albums in Christian hip hop?
Did you know that Arnold of Nijmegen's stained glass windows in Tournai Cathedral show Queen Fredegund's plot to have her husband's rival assassinated?
Did you know that Filipino fashion and society blogger Ingrid Chua-Go's fascination with writing was sparked by a toy typewriter her mother gave her as a child?
Did you know that Leeds United banned Galatasaray fans from attending the UEFA Cup semi-final at Elland Road because of the 2000 UEFA Cup semi-final violence‎?
Did you know that Sir John Sackville was an uncle of the English queen Anne Boleyn and a great-uncle of Queen Elizabeth I?
Did you know that after Eirik Holmen Johansen was invited for a trial with Manchester City, his brother Tobias was offered a contract with the club?
Did you know that in 2012, a three-day World Congress of Religions conference was organized by the Institute of World Religions to commemorate the 150th birthday of Swami Vivekananda?
Did you know that land from the Fairfield estate in Somerset, England was sold to build a wind farm but is now the site of the proposed Hinkley Point C nuclear power station?
Did you know that marathon runner Yuki Kawauchi shaved his head as an apology to his fans after a poor performance at the Tokyo Marathon meant he missed the London Olympics?
Did you know that the Bloomsburg and Sullivan Railroad was one of five railroads serving Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, near the turn of the 20th century?
Did you know that the British racehorse Simonsig won his début in steeplechase by 49 lengths, then followed that up with a 35-length victory a few days later?
Did you know that the Kejache, a Maya people with a former territory straddling the modern border of Mexico and Guatemala, may have been descended from the inhabitants of the great Maya city of Calakmul?
Did you know that the albums Somewhere There's a Someone, Dean Martin Sings Songs from The Silencers, The Dean Martin Christmas Album, The Dean Martin TV Show and The Hit Sound of Dean Martin were all released by Dean Martin in 1966?
Did you know that Armenian historian and professor Dickran Kouymjian was awarded the St. Mesrob Mashtots Medal from Karekin II, the Catholicos of All Armenians?
Did you know that Fanny Murray, a mistress of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, once reputedly ate a £20 note between two slices of bread?
Did you know that Shu-Park Chan, the founder of International Technological University in Silicon Valley, had earlier tried to start a university in China?
Did you know that William Allen Whitworth was the first mathematician to publish Bertrand's ballot theorem, one of many misnamed mathematical theorems?
Did you know that William Arnott, founder of Arnott's Biscuits Holdings, first took up gold mining for a living but quit when he could not find any gold?
Did you know that although Steve Reich's works have often been referenced by pop and rock musicians, the Radiohead-inspired Radio Rewrite is the first time Reich has returned the compliment?
Did you know that in 1892, Curt Schimmelbusch proposed that medical dressings should be sterilised daily, prior to surgery, and designed an autoclave to implement this?
Did you know that in 1992, Zimbabwe played their first Test cricket match, and were the first team to avoid defeat on their debut since 1877?
Did you know that in Greenland, 1 in every 5 people attempt to commit suicide?
Did you know that in the 1920s, novels with no words were popular in Europe?
Did you know that the Italian battleship Dante Alighieri, named after the medieval Italian poet, was the only battleship ever named for a poet?
Did you know that the National Polytechnical Museum in Sofia holds the only Bulgarian-manufactured Hammond organ?
Did you know that the Termit Massif Reserve (landscape pictured) in Niger covers an area of 100,000 square kilometres (39,000 sq mi) and is the largest single protected area in Africa?
Did you know that 2002, 2006, and 2010 Paralympic skier Jon Santacana won three gold medals at the 2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships?
Did you know that Gocho described his debut single "Dándole" as a combination of mambo and urban music?
Did you know that Lie Kim Hok's Malajoe Batawi was the first grammar of Batavian Malay?
Did you know that Mats Møller Dæhli won Manchester United's "Young Player of the Year" award in 2012?
Did you know that National Football League player Geoff Schwartz didn't start playing football until age 13, because his parents wanted him to study for his Bar Mitzvah?
Did you know that Simeon Magruder Levy was in 1802 the first Jewish graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point?
Did you know that actor Robert O'Reilly based his performances as Gowron in the Star Trek franchise on Edmund from the Shakespeare play King Lear?
Did you know that if unfavorable water conditions cause the coral species Acropora palifera to become dissociated from its algal symbionts, it will undergo bleaching and be prone to disease and death?
Did you know that one of the icons of the Metabolist architectural movement was the Nakagin Capsule Tower?
Did you know that pearl diver Isokichi Komine is regarded as one of Rabaul's oldest pioneers?
Did you know that the Russian submarine AG-22 joined Wrangel's fleet during the Russian Civil War as the Whites evacuated the Crimea in late 1920 and was interned in Bizerte, Tunisia in 1921?
Did you know that the famed Arapian pastourma and soutzouki market in Athens, Greece, operates out of a 15 m2 (160 sq ft) store?
Did you know that the larvae of the Middle-Eastern salamander Arouss Al Ayn are often cannibalistic?
Did you know that the research of Gertrude Van Wagenen and John McLean Morris led to the development of the morning-after pill?
Did you know that 40% of Southern Rhodesian white males fought (example platoon pictured) in the First World War?
Did you know that Chris Remo composed the soundtrack for Thirty Flights of Loving, a video game created to support a crowd funded campaign to revive the Idle Thumbs podcast?
Did you know that Daddy Yankee's album Barrio Fino was the best-selling Latin album of the 2000s decade in the United States?
Did you know that Greek journalist Helen Vlachos was placed under house arrest in October 1967 for calling the Minister of the Interior of the junta, Brigadier Stylianos Pattakos, a clown?
Did you know that James Ferraro originally intended to release his 2011 album Far Side Virtual as a set of ringtones?
Did you know that Megan Schutt was the leading wicket-taker during the 2013 Women's Cricket World Cup?
Did you know that Tung Chung Battery was built to protect its eponymous bay from pirates, but now faces towards Hong Kong International Airport?
Did you know that although scientist Min Chiu Li was fired from the National Cancer Institute, his work there led to the first chemotherapy cure of cancer in adults?
Did you know that five species of threatened sharks, such as the scalloped hammerhead, have come under international protection regarding trading of their fins?
Did you know that fully developed larvae of the starry cup coral may be able to survive in the ocean for around 78 days before settling?
Did you know that in "Pusher Love Girl", Justin Timberlake compares several narcotics, such as heroin, cocaine, plum wine, MDMA and nicotine, to the love of his girl?
Did you know that the Horse Protection Act of 1970 was designed to eliminate soring, but inspectors still find hundreds of violations each year?
Did you know that the Ottoman province of Karli-Eli in western Greece was named after the region's last Christian rulers, Carlo I Tocco or his nephew Carlo II Tocco?
Did you know that while Elizabeth Stafford's family was in exile in Geneva in 1556, the Protestant reformer, John Calvin, stood godfather to her youngest brother, John Stafford?
Did you know that All I Want Is Everything (2013) marked Sagari Venkata's debut as an actress in Indian cinema?
Did you know that Dr. George Goodfellow performed the first laparotomy to remove a bullet, was America's leading authority on treating gunshot wounds, and is regarded as the first civilian trauma surgeon?
Did you know that Ivy Queen's Flashback (2005) "cements her status as the Queen of Reggaetón and Latin hip hop" according to an editor for Newsday?
Did you know that Lawrence Lessig's pathetic dot theory stresses the importance of computer code in regulating our behavior?
Did you know that Marselan, along with Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, is featured in a vineyard project between the Chinese and French governments aimed at generating interest for winemaking in China?
Did you know that Vajara, founded in 1999, is Tibet's oldest and most famous rock and roll band?
Did you know that according to England fans, England beat Germany in "Two World Wars and One World Cup"?
Did you know that businessman and Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient Helmut Eberspächer was fined 140,000 DM for tax evasion?
Did you know that choreographer Pauline Koner was inspired to dance after seeing Anna Pavlova perform The Dying Swan?
Did you know that former Alabama football player Jim Bunch was selected to the 1979 College Football All-America Team and later served as an innkeeper at a bed and breakfast?
Did you know that in 2009, Sergeant Sugath Chandrasiri Bandara fired an RPG-7 at close range against an explosive-laden enemy vehicle, which killed him but saved his unit?
Did you know that multiple Leptocleidus skeletons have been found preserved as gemstone quality opal over the course of the history of plesiosaur research?
Did you know that one reason the medieval English writer Robert of Cricklade's biography of Thomas Becket may have been lost is it was too favourable to the side of King Henry II of England rather than Becket?
Did you know that parasitic flat worms of the genus Paramphistomum, including its type species P. cervi, are responsible for a serious disease called paramphistomiasis in cattle and sheep?
Did you know that philanthropist Dolores Zohrab Liebmann was deeply affected by witnessing the arrest and then murder of her father Krikor Zohrab in the Armenian Genocide?
Did you know that the coon songs of African American vaudevillian Irving Sayles elicited encores in Australia?
Did you know that Erik Johannessen kept a clean sheet for 672 minutes in the 1974 Norwegian First Division?
Did you know that Gold Base in Riverside County, California, is the Church of Scientology's closely guarded international headquarters?
Did you know that Joseph Thomas, the chief surveyor of the Canterbury Association, initially intended to place Christchurch at the head of Lyttelton Harbour?
Did you know that Ruby Hurley opened the NAACP's first permanent office in the Deep South?
Did you know that Shanu Lahiri promoted graffiti art drives to beautify Kolkata?
Did you know that Sir John Scott was the grandfather of Reginald Scott, author of The Discoverie of Witchcraft?
Did you know that a study of lichens was used in the nomination process for the Alice Creek Historic District?
Did you know that the Fatimid Caliphs built mosques in the Fatimid architecture style, such as al-Azhar Mosque, in Mahdia, Al-Mansuriya and Cairo?
Did you know that the bacterium Paenibacillus tylopili is found in the mycorrhizosphere of Tylopilus felleus?
Did you know that American industrialist Bradish Johnson was involved in the "swill milk" scandal, in which organic distillery waste was fed to sick old cows and their milk sold as "farm-fresh"?
Did you know that Anthony Midget was briefly hired to be an assistant coach at Marshall, but was hired at Penn State before ever coaching a game at Marshall?
Did you know that Luigi's Flying Tires, a Disney California Adventure attraction that opened in 2012, is based on Disneyland's Flying Saucers ride of the 1960s?
Did you know that Raees Mohammad scored 110 not out and took four wickets in Quaid-i-Azam Trophy's final in 1954–55?
Did you know that Sierk Coolsma baptised the first Sundanese Christians?
Did you know that Wing Commander Tyron Silvapulle was posthumously awarded the Parama Weera Vibhushanaya, Sri Lanka's highest military award for gallantry, more than 12 years after his nomination?
Did you know that actress Helen George, of the British television series Call the Midwife, was previously a backup singer for Elton John?
Did you know that after having written a poem on the 1625 great plague of London, the poet Abraham Holland died of the plague the following year?
Did you know that if it rains near harvest time some Pomerol wineries, such as Château Pétrus, will use helicopters hovering over the vineyards to dry out the grapes?
Did you know that the Church of Our Lady of the Palm on the Plaza Alta, Algeciras (church and plaza pictured) owes its name to a Spanish victory on Palm Sunday 1344?
Did you know that the South American palm, Bactris campestris, was described independently by four different taxonomists, each of whom place it in a different species?