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Did you know that the events leading to the Winkler County nurse whistleblower case occurred at a 15-bed hospital in Kermit, Texas?
Did you know that there are museums in Kiev on the subjects of the Great Patriotic War, Chernobyl, and aviation?
Did you know that Armenian writer Parsegh Shahbaz, who was murdered during the Armenian Genocide, once said, "How idiotic people are! What is war, what is the state, what is revolution?"
Did you know that Bakin Pertin was the first Lok Sabha member elected from Arunachal East?
Did you know that Bill Bailey's hosting of Comic's Choice was described by The Independent as being the show's "saving grace"?
Did you know that Kevin Briggs has been called the Guardian of the Golden Gate Bridge after talking over 200 people out of jumping into the Golden Gate?
Did you know that Miriam Roth grew up in a Hungarian-speaking town, studied at a German-speaking university, and wrote best-sellers in Hebrew?
Did you know that Robert J. Behnke, a world-renowned wild trout biologist and conservationist, was known as "Dr. Trout"?
Did you know that Sarpa salpa is a hallucinogenic fish that was used as a recreational drug during the Roman Empire?
Did you know that Yankel Talmud, known as "the Beethoven of the Gerrer Rebbes", composed over 1,500 melodies, though he had no musical training and could not even read music?
Did you know that in 1964, art dealer Eric Estorick recovered 1,564 Jewish Torah scrolls which had been confiscated by the Nazi authorities following the genocide of the Czechoslovak Jews?
Did you know that in the 35th year of her career, blues singer Julia Gerity lost much of her performance materials, including gowns and music, in a 1947 fire at Coney Island?
Did you know that sanskritist George V. Bobrinskoy was also tennis champion of the Quadrangle Club at the University of Chicago?
Did you know that singer Elisa Lindström and her dansband Elisa's won the reality show Dansbandskampen in 2010?
Did you know that students from Naledi, Morris Isaacson, and Moletsane High Schools were involved in the 1976 Soweto Uprising when children were shot by South African police?
Did you know that the Abbotsford Heat, the Calgary Flames' minor league hockey team, tied a franchise record with seven consecutive wins in their 2013–14 season?
Did you know that the Indian revolutionary M.N. Roy wrote under a pseudonym for the German newspaper Das Volksrecht?
Did you know that the Melbourne University tram stop, one of the busiest on the Melbourne tram network, is the terminus for seven tram routes?
Did you know that theoretical physicist Michio Kaku was the inaugural guest on the Sirius XM Radio talk show Art Bell's Dark Matter?
Did you know that American professional wrestler Romeo Valentino was the first and only Triple Crown Winner of Maryland Championship Wrestling and the Mid-Eastern Wrestling Federation?
Did you know that Ellen van Dijk fired the starting shot for the 2013 Six Days of Amsterdam, an annual six-day track cycling race?
Did you know that Gerard Fowke spent much of his life studying ancient burial mounds, trying to prove the existence of a civilization that predated what we currently understand to be the Native Americans?
Did you know that Singaporean politician Patrick Tay has been the namesake of a chess competition, given a star, and conferred a fellowship?
Did you know that Swedish singer Regina Lund had a part in Once in a Lifetime, a comedy film about the Eurovision Song Contest?
Did you know that after an atomic element has been isolated, it gets a trivial name?
Did you know that although Lady Gaga tweeted that Adam Lambert was "perfect" to cover her song "Applause" in his Glee debut episode "A Katy or a Gaga" "cause he's glammer", what he sang was "Marry the Night"?
Did you know that many paintings inside the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Dayton, Ohio, were intentionally painted over?
Did you know that the Nelson Monument was the first piece of public sculpture in Liverpool?
Did you know that the Rockford IceHogs ice hockey team allowed 100 shots against themselves in the first two games of their 2013–14 season?
Did you know that the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, is the oldest continuously existing scientific institution in South Africa?
Did you know that the Wabash Railroad's Blue Bird, introduced in 1950, was the first dome passenger train on the Chicago–St. Louis route?
Did you know that you can remotely control animals by inserting wires into their brains?
Did you know that Alma Jodorowsky often performs with Burning Peacocks?
Did you know that Beholder was the first filly to win both the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies and then the Breeders' Cup Distaff?
Did you know that Bernhard Schottländer, the editor of the Schlesische Arbeiter-Zeitung, was killed during the 1920 Kapp Putsch?
Did you know that Elizabeth Timothy was the first female publisher of a newspaper in America?
Did you know that Isra al-Modallal is the first female spokesperson for Hamas?
Did you know that John Hanson Twombly advocated for co-education during his 1870s presidency at the University of Wisconsin?
Did you know that Kami, Perempuan, a 1943 stage play by Armijn Pane, has been read as both promoting and warning against PETA?
Did you know that Welsh psychic Jillian Lane had a client list which included Michael Jackson?
Did you know that World War II aviators used the towers of St. Mary's Catholic Church as a navigational landmark?
Did you know that at the Central Bandstand, Herne Bay, England, designed by H. Kempton Dyson, conductors used to make their entrance from their hotel and cross the road over a red carpet?
Did you know that college dropout and impostor Leander Tomarkin became the personal physician of the King of Italy?
Did you know that in Googled: The End of the World as We Know It, Ken Auletta uses the story The Purloined Letter to describe the attitude of the traditional media executives toward Google?
Did you know that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Strata-Domes were the first dome cars to operate in the Eastern United States?
Did you know that the Pakistan national women's cricket team have won nine Twenty20 International matches against Ireland?
Did you know that the World Trade Center in Portland, Oregon, was evacuated in 2001 due to the September 11 attacks?
Did you know that the invasive destructive trailing ant can chew through rubber and plastic, and has damaged car tires and ignition systems?
Did you know that the only known surviving footage from the 1915 film The Carpet from Bagdad was salvaged from the wreck of the RMS Lusitania?
Did you know that when the Union Pacific Railroad re-launched its streamlined City of Denver passenger train in 1954, it included a pair of Pacific series sleeping cars?
Did you know that Caroline Hobbs won a Special Award at the 2003 Pride of Britain Awards for getting Jade's Crossing, named after her daughter, built?
Did you know that George Bernard Shaw premiered six of his plays at the Festival Theatre, Malvern?
Did you know that Green Bay Packers receiver Jarrett Boykin holds the record for most career receptions for the Virginia Tech Hokies?
Did you know that The Land of Sunshine was the only magazine that Theodore Roosevelt "took time to read" during his Presidency?
Did you know that The Messiah has threatened to "bring down key infrastructure in Singapore"?
Did you know that William Beach Thomas said he was "thoroughly and deeply ashamed" of his writings as a war correspondent during The Somme?
Did you know that according to the book Double Down, Barack Obama's advisers considered replacing Joe Biden with Hillary Clinton as their nominee for Vice President in the 2012 U.S. presidential election?
Did you know that although the BJP is reported to have found Naresh Gaur, its representative in Delhi from Babarpur, a "weaker bet" for the upcoming 2013 elections, it has confirmed his candidacy?
Did you know that the Biosphere Reserves of Poland include the last and largest remaining mixed deciduous primeval forest on the North European Plain?
Did you know that the English mental health anti-stigma campaign, Time to Change, is supported by companies and organisations such as PepsiCo, British Telecom, and the Bank of England?
Did you know that the Henry Clay Frick House on New York City's Fifth Avenue was the model for the Avengers Mansion?
Did you know that the Hus' House, a Hussite Church, became a Czech resistance radio station during the Prague Uprising?
Did you know that the Maurzyce Bridge, built in 1928 near Łowicz in Poland, was the first welded road bridge in the world?
Did you know that the President of India dissolved the PEPSU Legislative Assembly in 1953?
Did you know that the shamrock pea was first described from Nepal but was first collected in Malawi during Dr. Livingstone's Zambezi expedition?
Did you know that Michael Russell, America's third-highest-ranked tennis player, was a valedictorian in high school and had a 3.94 grade point average in college?
Did you know that New Zealand rower Nathan Cohen, Olympic champion and two-time world champion, has an irregular heartbeat?
Did you know that South African rock supergroup BEAST has two bass guitarists?
Did you know that although Jean de Ferrieres inherited immense riches, he died a prisoner in a galley, unable to pay his ransom?
Did you know that an 1866 guidebook called Horatio Nelson Goulty's Norfolk Hotel "more beautiful than any other building in Brighton"?
Did you know that former Atlanta Falcons linebacker Dewey McClain was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives?
Did you know that four years before voters approved the creation of the post of Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey, the state had four acting governors in one week?
Did you know that in the early days of the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge, expenses were partly met by the sale of muskrat pelts?
Did you know that part of The Thirteenth Tale, an adaptation of a novel of the same name by Diane Setterfield, was filmed at Burton Agnes Hall, an Elizabethan manor in East Yorkshire?
Did you know that the University of Wisconsin Experimental College was designed for students who volunteered to live in self-governance, an idea that "seemed almost laughable" at the time?
Did you know that the Young Communist League (Opposition) organized underground resistance activities in Nazi Germany?
Did you know that the first series of On the Buses, a British sitcom written by Chesney and Wolfe, was rejected by the BBC but accepted by London Weekend Television?
Did you know that the opening celebrations for Skagen's port on 19 November 1907 included an impressive gateway of honour by Carl Locher, one of the Skagen Painters?
Did you know that the walls of the Duladeo Temple have a display of carved apsaras (celestial dancers) in erotic postures?
Did you know that Argentine actress Katja Alemann attended the inauguration of the Cemento nightclub costumed as a Valkyrie?
Did you know that Boydston's spleenwort, a hybrid fern, was created in culture in 1954 but not discovered in the wild until 1971?
Did you know that Dennis Lillee was the first to take a five-wicket haul in Cricket World Cups?
Did you know that John Ashley Kilvert survived the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War, but the medals which Queen Victoria presented to him disappeared?
Did you know that Larisa Latynina is the Olympic medal leader in women's gymnastics?
Did you know that Pat Hays decided to run for the United States House of Representatives due to the federal government shutdown of 2013, which he called a "travesty"?
Did you know that Puerto-Rican American songwriter Luis Fonsi won the Lo Nuestro Award for Collaboration of the Year and the Latin Grammy Award for Song of the Year for his song "Aquí Estoy Yo"?
Did you know that Willi Mentz was the "Frankenstein" of Treblinka extermination camp, with the number of Jews he killed single-handedly running into thousands?
Did you know that during the Japanese invasion of Taiwan in 1895, the ironclad Hiei participated in the bombardment of the Chinese coastal forts at Takow (Kaohsiung)?
Did you know that in 2013, The Minories in Colchester held an art exhibition by Blur frontman Damon Albarn's father Keith?
Did you know that many members of the Yaya infantry units of the Ottoman military, were of Christian origin?
Did you know that the 1907 film How Brown Saw the Baseball Game, about a very drunk man watching a baseball game, used trick photography to show players running in reverse?
Did you know that the 1957 Valencia flood caused the deaths of at least 81 people and led to the rerouting of the city's main river, the Turia?
Did you know that the Studio Killers' song "Ode to the Bouncer" follows somebody trying to dance but being prevented from doing so by a bouncer?
Did you know that the cause of the crash of Pan Am Flight 923, the deadliest commercial aviation accident in Alaska at the time, remains unknown?
Did you know that there were 257 entrants in the competition in 1926 to design the Liverpool Cenotaph?
Did you know that Gert Boyle is "one tough mother"?
Did you know that Mia Frye was the choreographer for the dance routine in the music video for the Los del Río hit song "Macarena"?
Did you know that Rutgers University's Queens Campus was built on a hilltop where Alexander Hamilton positioned cannons to cover George Washington's retreat after surrendering New York in 1776?
Did you know that Sierra Leone-born Thomas DeSaille Tucker was the first president of what would become Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University?
Did you know that Spanish marquis and sherry maker Mauricio González-Gordon y Díez risked himself to persuade dictator Franco not to drain the Doñana wetlands?
Did you know that The Catholic University of America beat Ole Miss in the 1936 Orange Bowl?
Did you know that WWE wrestler and actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson guest-starred in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Tsunkatse"?
Did you know that a man was killed in the St Jude storm by flying tiles?
Did you know that after filmmaker Amar Kaleka's father was killed in the 2012 Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting, he decided to become a candidate for the United States Congress in the 2014 elections?
Did you know that in 1961 the Michigan State Highway Department and General Motors proposed using U.S. Highway 27 south of Lansing, Michigan, as the test site for an electronic highway?
Did you know that the League of West German Communists was the first West German left-wing group to dissolve itself and join the Party of Democratic Socialism?
Did you know that the Sports and Olympic Committee of Macau, China, despite applying for membership in the International Olympic Committee, is not yet recognized as Macau's National Olympic Committee?
Did you know that the aggressively invasive Australian tubeworm can be an ecosystem engineer and cause biological fouling?
Did you know that the black pine bark beetle is a pine pest that is attracted to a volatile of turpentine?
Did you know that three-time World Champion Robert Reichel scored the lone shootout goal to eliminate Canada at the 1998 Olympics and help the Czech Republic win its first gold medal in ice hockey?
Did you know that Benjamin Britten composed his Festival Te Deum for the centenary of St Mark's Church, Swindon?
Did you know that Benjamin Britten's Te Deum in C, first performed at St Michael's, Cornhill, was among his earliest published works?
Did you know that Burchard Kranich allegedly cured Queen Elizabeth I of smallpox?
Did you know that Irish botanical artist Lydia Shackleton, who painted over 1500 studies, helpfully taped the pressed flower or leaf to her work for comparison with the painted subject (example pictured)?
Did you know that after 180 people died from drinking moonshine in 2008, the state of Tamil Nadu considered introducing prohibition?
Did you know that after a two-year absence from the sport, Ruth Wanjiru achieved third place in the 2012 Ottawa Marathon?
Did you know that following the 1952 Coorg Legislative Assembly election, the victorious C.M. Poonacha formed a two-member cabinet?
Did you know that librarian Francis R. St. John was awarded the Legion of Merit for reorganizing the Army Medical Library?
Did you know that some 200 pages of research were compiled for the TV series Ambassadors?
Did you know that the 2008 NAPA Auto Parts 200 was the first NASCAR points race run with grooved rain tires?
Did you know that the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League went the longest without a regulation loss of all teams in the league in their 2013–14 season?
Did you know that the Miocene ant Acropyga glaesaria is one of the oldest examples of trophobiosis?
Did you know that the Philippines is contesting the validity of China's nine-dotted line?
Did you know that the recently-announced Lumia 2520 is Nokia's first Windows tablet computer?
Did you know that the television drama series From There to Here begins on the day of the 1996 Manchester bombing?
Did you know that David Dimbleby got his first tattoo aged 75, whilst filming Britain and the Sea?
Did you know that Edward White printed or sold works by Kyd, Greene, Munday, Marlowe and Shakespeare?
Did you know that Hammersmith-born blacksmith Tony Swatton made Wolverine's claws?
Did you know that Ray Hatton, a college professor from Bend, Oregon, was inducted into the USA Track and Field Masters Hall of Fame in 2001?
Did you know that St John's Church, Lytham, has been described as being among the best works of E. H. Shellard?
Did you know that before James Hargest was elected to the New Zealand Parliament, he had been defeated by a father and son in 1925 and 1930, respectively?
Did you know that medieval ruins were found beneath Prague's Palladium shopping mall?
Did you know that no part of the current Wabash County Courthouse remains of its original construction, even though it is technically considered the same building?
Did you know that the Silver City Daily Press newspaper in Silver City, New Mexico, has been owned by the Ely family since 1934?
Did you know that the Vršovice Hus' House in Prague has a tower that is meant to look like a lighthouse?
Did you know that the bark of the South African shrub blue guarri can be used as a purgative?
Did you know that the shape of each of the Basse Yutz Flagons (detail pictured) was produced from a single sheet of copper alloy about 2,400 years ago?
Did you know that video sharing site Veoh filed for bankruptcy after successfully defending itself against a lawsuit from Universal Music Group?
Did you know that Gerry Scott, the production designer for several BBC historical costume dramas, was initially rejected by the BBC "because she was a painter and couldn't draw plans"?
Did you know that I. M. Pei's University Apartments were part of a government-subsidized urban renewal of Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois?
Did you know that Margarita Levieva's character in the 2011 David Wexler dramedy film The Stand Up was praised for having a complexity beyond that of the expected stereotype?
Did you know that NASCAR drivers planned to boycott the 2000 Dura Lube 300, but eventually raced?
Did you know that banjoist Tim Weed "nailed" Larry McNeely's version of Benny Goodman's "Slipped Disc" in 30 minutes when he was in his teens?
Did you know that despite being banned during the colonial period, Mexico maintains a tradition of dance with handcrafted masks (example pictured)?
Did you know that in 1926, the Bolivian government arrested two editors of Bandera Roja, following an article about a massacre of mine workers?
Did you know that in modern beekeeping, bees don't make their own honeycomb, but build it off the wax foundation?
Did you know that the History of Education Society's formation in 1960 brought legitimacy to the academic study of the American history of education?
Did you know that the War Doctor (played by John Hurt, pictured), introduced in "The Night of the Doctor", will be a "dark doctor" who will "bring an ancient battle to its devastating conclusion"?
Did you know that the first branch of the Boulder Public Library was built in 1906 with $15,000 donated by Andrew Carnegie?
Did you know that the illite crystallinity technique measures the formation temperature of metamorphic rocks?
Did you know that the nests of Formica incerta are sometimes raided by the slave-making ant Polyergus lucidus?
Did you know that the upper parts of the Medieval tower of All Saints Church, Odiham, were completely rebuilt in the 17th century?
Did you know that 2012 Paralympic men's 1 km time trial C4–5 gold medalist Alfonso Cabello's mother insisted he learned how to tie his shoelaces using only one hand?
Did you know that Emil Fuchs painted portraits of Queen Victoria and King Edward VII, and his portraits became fashionable among London high society in the early 20th century?
Did you know that Franklin Peale was responsible for introducing the mechanical reproduction of coin dies to the United States?
Did you know that Nina Kirsanova, one of the most important ballet dancers in Serbia, was also a lead principal dancer, choreographer, head of ballet, ballet teacher, nurse, archaeologist and actress?
Did you know that the 1948 film Miraculous Journey, about seven airline passengers stranded in a jungle, was directed by Sam Newfield under a pseudonym?
Did you know that the Brazos River habitat of the Sharpnose Shiner is being changed by inflow from lake reservoirs, including that of the Possum Kingdom?
Did you know that the Etchmiadzin Cathedral is considered the oldest cathedral in the world?
Did you know that the Kolmer Site preserves the remains of a village where the French and Michigamea interacted in modern-day Illinois?
Did you know that the episode "In Concert" of the television show WKRP in Cincinnati is based on The Who concert disaster?
Did you know that the female smooth-fronted caiman often builds her nest against the side of a termite mound?
Did you know that the grandfather of Ali Pasha was a sanjakbey of the Sanjak of Avlona and a member of the Muzaka family?
Did you know that the house of New Zealand women's suffrage campaigner Kate Sheppard was for 37 years the home of Christchurch mayor John Joseph Dougall's family?
Did you know that 1904's The Bold Bank Robbery was the first film to be advertised in Billboard?
Did you know that Emily Willingham, a biologist from Texas, was called "one of the sharpest science writers in the blogosphere" by Steve Silberman?
Did you know that Fort Al Jalali was built in Muscat, Oman by the Portuguese after attacks by Ottoman forces?
Did you know that Gardiki Castle in Corfu is considered one of the most imposing architectural remains in the Ionian Islands?
Did you know that Geronima Pecson was the first woman senator of the Philippines?
Did you know that Home Brew, the eponymous album by the hip hop group, was promoted by a 48-hour-long release party?
Did you know that Ranbir was the first daily newspaper in Jammu and Kashmir?
Did you know that Romney, West Virginia, claims its Confederate Memorial dedicated in 1867 was the first memorial erected in honor of Confederate war dead?
Did you know that Swedish comedian Nour El-Refai will host Melodifestivalen 2014?
Did you know that according to Frank Moraes, Rou Shi was executed by being buried alive?
Did you know that amidst the Syrian civil war, according to United Nations Security Council Resolution 2118, Syria has until mid-2014 to eliminate its chemical weapons?
Did you know that an Anglo-Saxon bowl and a Viking sword have been found in the churchyard of St James, Great Ormside, in Cumbria, England?
Did you know that outside of his parliamentary activities, David Jones was best known as the first chairman of the New Zealand Meat Board?
Did you know that the Chiricahua Mountains contain many hoodoos (example pictured) formed by the weathering of tuff?
Did you know that the Tęcza in Warsaw has been vandalized several times, most commonly due to anti-LGBT sentiments?
Did you know that the long-spined sea urchin reacts to a shadow falling on it by angling its spines towards the possible predator?
Did you know that the original owner of the Albert S. Sholes House worked with Edward Schulmerich, whose house was also listed on the National Register of Historic Places?