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Did you know that Birgit Keil, prima ballerina of the Stuttgart Ballet under John Cranko, inspired international choreographers such as Kenneth MacMillan, John Neumeier and Heinz Spoerli?
Did you know that Chen Yumei retired from acting soon after being crowned the "Movie Queen"?
Did you know that HMS Vindictive served as four different types of ship?
Did you know that Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (1850–1936), painter of the The First Thanksgiving, was a "New Woman" painter and considered "one of America's best artists"?
Did you know that Shirley Chater was a nurse and university president before becoming U.S. Commissioner of Social Security?
Did you know that after the last Paralympics, Oleksandra Kononova became the Ukrainian sports personality of the year?
Did you know that both expressionist dancer Clotilde von Derp and her husband were known for their transvestite costumes?
Did you know that in England, women found guilty of high treason, petty treason and heresy, were burnt at the stake, sometimes alive?
Did you know that just before being murdered, Karekin Khajag wrote in his last letter to his wife, "I have great hope that we will see each other once again"?
Did you know that many prominent people, including Albert Einstein, attended meetings at Berta Fanta's salon?
Did you know that the "Four jewels of Cuban ballet" included Aurora Bosch and Mirta Plá?
Did you know that Alfred Dörffel edited several volumes of the first complete edition of the Works of Johann Sebastian Bach by the Bach Gesellschaft, beginning with cantatas in 1878 and ending in 1898?
Did you know that Cordelia E. Cook, the first woman to receive the Bronze Star Medal, was also awarded the Purple Heart?
Did you know that Eleonora de Cisneros, an American opera singer, promoted the sale of Liberty bonds more than any other person during World War I?
Did you know that J. S. Wood published The Fate of Fenella, a novel by twenty-four writers without any collaboration?
Did you know that Nalini Anantharaman won a Mathematical Physics prize for her work on quantum chaos, Schrödinger equations and quantum unique ergodicity?
Did you know that Romantic period writer Sophie Tieck was overshadowed by her brother?
Did you know that Trish Halpin won Editor of the Year awards three times?
Did you know that a painting by Lucy Madox Brown (pictured as a child) was described by Dante Gabriel Rossetti as a "perfect picture"?
Did you know that at least 128 athletes have participated in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games?
Did you know that in 2001, Ewa Ziarek wrote the book An Ethics of Dissensus?
Did you know that pumps were brought from the Netherlands to help remove flood water during the winter flooding of 2013–14 on the Somerset Levels in South West England?
Did you know that screenwriter Chris Galletta sold his first screenplay before graduating from film school?
Did you know that Maria Komissarova was the first-ever woman to win a World Cup medal for Russia in the ski cross?
Did you know that Northern Irish ex-MP Bernadette Devlin and Peruvian MP Hugo Blanco took part in the 1980 election campaign of the Catalan Unity for Socialism?
Did you know that Tan Tjoei Hock held four roles in the production of the pirate film Singa Laoet?
Did you know that Vancouver mayor Alexander Bethune was a founder and member of the local Asiatic Exclusion League?
Did you know that Vivian Wing-Wah Yam was the youngest member to be elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences?
Did you know that a Chinese set of glazed pottery figures (example pictured) from c. 1000 has been called "one of the most important groups of ceramic sculpture in the world"?
Did you know that during their Welcome to the Universe Tour, Thirty Seconds to Mars developed strategies that minimized fuel consumption of all touring vehicles?
Did you know that geneticist Adam Rutherford, host of the BBC Radio 4 program Inside Science, is the author of a book that can be read from either end?
Did you know that infectious disease specialist Mark Crislip has won three Podcast Awards for his show QuackCast?
Did you know that the Huxley Hoard, discovered near Huxley, Cheshire in 2004 and now on display at the Museum of Liverpool, consists of 21 flattened silver bracelets and one silver ingot?
Did you know that the Invictus Games, named after the poem by William Ernest Henley, are a Paralympic-style multi-sports event for wounded service personnel?
Did you know that the Nokia Lumia 505 was originally a Telcel exclusive device in Mexico before being released in Colombia, Chile, and Peru on Claro Americas?
Did you know that the Queen Elizabeth Way (pictured in 1940) featured the longest stretch of continuously illuminated roadway in the world prior to World War II?
Did you know that the wasp Eumenes fraternus is a skilled potter?
Did you know that Karin Rehnqvist composed Puksånger & lockrop for singers Susanne Rosenberg and Lena Willemark, in which a section of kulning (cattle calling) "represents a rebellion"?
Did you know that Megan Rapinoe is the first soccer player, male or female, to score a rare Goal Olimpico at the Olympic Games?
Did you know that Miguel Delibes was once the director of El Norte de Castilla?
Did you know that P-9 Project was the codename for the Manhattan Project's effort to produce heavy water for nuclear reactors?
Did you know that before it was added to the National Register of Historic Places, Edith Marion Patch's house nearly went up in flames?
Did you know that car-owning Mrs Edward Kennard wrote The Motor Maniac, which was said to be exasperating for readers who did not own an automobile?
Did you know that in addition to inventing and patenting the first ballpoint pen, John J. Loud also held a patent for a firecracker cannon?
Did you know that in reviewing Jane Ridley's biography of "Bertie", A. N. Wilson wrote that "royal biography will never be the same again"?
Did you know that screenwriter Olivia Hetreed gained access to Tracy Chevalier's novel Girl with a Pearl Earring shortly before its publication because they shared the same agent?
Did you know that the 2003 period drama Girl with a Pearl Earring was originally meant to feature Kate Hudson before she was replaced with Scarlett Johansson?
Did you know that the Kettle Creek watershed contains eight percent of the Class A Wild Trout Streams in Pennsylvania?
Did you know that the musical Made in Dagenham is based on the true story of the Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968?
Did you know that Elly Yunara went from film star to housewife after her marriage to Djamaluddin Malik, only to become a producer after his death?
Did you know that Henriette Schønberg Erken's Big Cookbook sold more than 200,000 copies, and her Small Cookbook sold about 100,000 copies?
Did you know that Iron Man 3 grossed over $1 billion?
Did you know that Laura Knight's Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring (detail pictured) was compared to Rosie the Riveter and brought its subject instant fame?
Did you know that Marie Meurdrac's 1656 book on Useful and Easy Chemistry, for the Benefit of Ladies had ten editions in three languages?
Did you know that Millie Knight, the youngest ever British Paralympic athlete, was the flagbearer at the 2014 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony?
Did you know that Rajani Pandit, regarded as Maharashtra's first female private detective, reportedly worked undercover as domestic help for six months while solving a case?
Did you know that Senegalese communist leader Seydou Cissokho died in Moscow while visiting the 1986 congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union?
Did you know that during the 1806 Great Coastal hurricane, an estimated 36 inches (91 cm) of rain fell on Edgartown, Massachusetts?
Did you know that owing to Robbie Robertson, "Take Your Partner by the Hand" is the only song on Turn the Dark Off with coherent vocals?
Did you know that the Una-class submarines were midgets?
Did you know that the wits of the Kit-Kat Club would sup their summer ale at the Upper Flask?
Did you know that Général de Brigade Henri Vanwaetermeulen began his career in the French Army as a private soldier?
Did you know that Kevin Lau was violently assaulted just one week after Hong Kong journalists rallied for press freedom and against his removal as editor of the Ming Pao?
Did you know that Leila Schneps, mathematician, researcher, and author of Math on Trial also writes mathematically-themed murder mysteries under the pen-name Catherine Shaw?
Did you know that Rhodes Scholar candidate Dave Butler played college basketball and was named to the Pacific-12 Conference Hall of Honor?
Did you know that Rome & Jewel is a hip-hop musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet set in Los Angeles?
Did you know that San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim plays bass guitar, and her favorite song is by the Wu-Tang Clan?
Did you know that Swan Lake was shown live in 100 French cinemas, with Steffi Scherzer, a dancer of the Berlin State Opera for 28 years, in the double role of Odette/Odile?
Did you know that Typhoon Andy left nearly a quarter of Taiwan's residents without power?
Did you know that a two-and-a-half-hour film of Anachronox's cut scenes won the 2002 Machinima Film Festival for Best Picture?
Did you know that the Women's Premiership currently comprises Bristol Ladies, Darlington Mowden Park Sharks, Lichfield Ladies, Richmond Women, Saracens Women, Wasps Ladies, Worcester Ladies and Aylesford Bulls Ladies, after having defeated Thurrock T-Birds in a playoff?
Did you know that the mystery of who came up with the idea behind Urania's Mirror (extract pictured) took over a hundred and seventy years to solve?
Did you know that the second fastest Blackwall Frigate that carried wool back from Australia was the Parramatta?
Did you know that the white mushroom Humidicutis mavis has been recorded from New Zealand, Australia and Borneo?
Did you know that when George Bright was acquitted and freed in 1959 after his second trial for the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple bombing, his lawyer was jailed by the judge for contempt of court?
Did you know that when the Kamgar Kisan Paksha was split on the issue of its relationship to the Communist Party of India, its two elected representatives led opposite factions?
Did you know that England's Fred Trueman has the third-highest number of five-wicket hauls against the West Indies?
Did you know that Jarmila Jeřábková's school of dance in Prague taught the theories of Isadora Duncan?
Did you know that Simone Osborne, "one of Canada's most sought-after sopranos", busked on Toronto's streets to afford singing lessons?
Did you know that St. Paul's Episcopal Church was described as Georgian on the outside, but "much more Gothic and much more Victorian" on the inside?
Did you know that Tilkka is a former military hospital in Helsinki that now hosts a nursing home?
Did you know that Tobias Arlt and Tobias Wendl, who won four Olympic golds between them, are nicknamed "The Two Tobis"?
Did you know that U. Penn. denied Ezra Pound's PhD twice: once for wasting time and again 12 years later when he tried to use The Spirit of Romance, a collection of literary criticism, as his dissertation?
Did you know that anthropologist Gerd Koch returned from the Santa Cruz Islands with the last surviving complete Tepukei sailboat?
Did you know that following the passage of the 1815 North Carolina hurricane, a Savannah, Georgia, newspaper editor composed a poem lamenting its impact?
Did you know that more than 90 species of birds breed within the watershed of Briar Creek?
Did you know that the Duchess of Devonshire, who in 1909 founded the Derbyshire branch of the Red Cross, later served as Viceregal consort of Canada from 1916 to 1921?
Did you know that the documentary film Artifact chronicles the $30-million lawsuit filed by record label EMI against American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars?
Did you know that the oak tree under which Goethe allegedly wrote Faust's Walpurgis Night scene stood inside Buchenwald concentration camp and was sketched by French Volontaires de la Liberté member and camp inmate Léon Delarbre?
Did you know that "The Quality of Mercy" speech in which Portia begs Shylock for mercy in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is regarded as an exemplary speech by some and dark humor by others?
Did you know that 2014 Winter Paralympics skier Mick Brennan was placed 10th in the Super G, but withdrew from the downhill race, calling the course "scary"?
Did you know that Antonina Roxa was one of the first Falkland Islanders, a skilled gaucho and midwife who became a landowner in Stanley in the Falkland Islands?
Did you know that Apurba Kishore Bir won the National Film Award for Best Cinematography for his debut film 27 Down that he shot mainly with a hand-held camera?
Did you know that Boston's Museum of Fine Arts sold eight works to fund the purchase of Man at His Bath, reportedly because of donor reluctance to pay for "a painting showing some random guy's naked butt"?
Did you know that Charity Bick was the youngest ever recipient of the George Medal?
Did you know that Mahmona Khan was one of two Norwegian representatives at the first Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship?
Did you know that Marte Wexelsen Goksøyr, who has Down's syndrome, wore a T-shirt saying "Endangered" in the Parliament of Norway to protest against Norwegian mothers being offered early ultrasonography?
Did you know that Ocepeia, a 60-million-year-old afrotherian mammal, is named after a Moroccan mining company?
Did you know that The Drew Carey Show episode "The High Road to China" marked the first time an American sitcom had been filmed in China?
Did you know that The Scotsman called Jocelyn Hay, founder of the Voice of the Listener & Viewer, "possibly the best lobbyist in the whole UK"?
Did you know that four of the midshipmen aboard HMS Good Hope became the first casualties of the Royal Canadian Navy when she sank in the Battle of Coronel?
Did you know that the four member stars of the QZ Carinae star system are (combined) 94 times as massive as our Sun?
Did you know that the musical repertoire of the Macedonian folk instrument Šupelka consists mainly of imitating the sounds of other instruments used in Macedonian traditional music?
Did you know that whenever a cricket ball hit the St Lawrence Lime in first-class matches, it scored four runs?
Did you know that "Drive" by Miley Cyrus was noted by a reviewer for its "wobbling beat"?
Did you know that "Guardian" is the base substrate for polymer banknotes printed by many central banks?
Did you know that Anjuli Shukla was the first woman to be awarded the National Film Award for Best Cinematography?
Did you know that EPA climate policy expert John C. Beale pretended to be a CIA agent for more than ten years?
Did you know that Gloria Mestre was the Prima ballerina assoluta at the San Carlo Opera House in Naples?
Did you know that Kalidas (1931) was the first ever sound film to be made in South India?
Did you know that Ken Block, who founded the Moderate Party of Rhode Island and was its nominee for Governor of Rhode Island in 2010, is running in the 2014 election as a Republican?
Did you know that Lydia Bradey was the first woman to climb to the summit of Mount Everest without using bottled oxygen?
Did you know that Paula Hinton danced in a ballet about a love triangle, based on the real-life triangle involving the same three dancers?
Did you know that Szlama Ber Winer escaped the work commando at Chełmno extermination camp and managed to write a report about his experience soon before death with family in the gas chambers of Bełżec?
Did you know that a chain boat (example pictured) was a European river craft in the late 19th century that used a chain on the riverbed to haul itself and a string of barges?
Did you know that the Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey episode "Standing Up in the Milky Way" was opened with a brief introduction by the President of the United States Barack Obama?
Did you know that the LG G Flex has a special camera mode for taking selfies?
Did you know that the canvas of Skarga's Sermon (detail pictured), a painting by Jan Matejko, covers more than 8 square metres (86 sq ft)?
Did you know that Mia May starred in her husband's silent film in eight episodes The Mistress of the World?
Did you know that Mobhí Clárainech, whose surname means "flat faced" in Irish, was born without eyes or a nose?
Did you know that Olga Smirnova spent just one day in the Bolshoi's corps de ballet before being given solos?
Did you know that Walt Disney died during the production of his last film, The Jungle Book?
Did you know that a 1963 bus crash in California's Salinas Valley, which claimed the lives of 32 Mexican farmworkers, highlighted unsafe conditions and helped to spur the end of a 20-year-old guest worker program?
Did you know that both the all-time youngest and oldest Olympic competitors from El Salvador competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City?
Did you know that during World War II, Colonel Elmer E. Kirkpatrick worked on the Alaska Highway, the Canol project, and the Manhattan Project?
Did you know that in the beat 'em up video game Charlie Murder, players fight ninjas, giant rats, yetis, and sharks with dynamite strapped to their heads?
Did you know that one Bulgarian historian believed that Skanderbeg was a sanjakbey of the Sanjak of Nicopolis?
Did you know that some English-speaking Canadians were "inclined to mutilate" the French versions of the 1935 Series of banknotes of the Canadian dollar (English version pictured)?
Did you know that soprano Lucy Crowe, performing Janáček's Cunning Little Vixen at the Glyndebourne Festival, was described as "a powerhouse of foxy ingenuity"?
Did you know that the Old Lone Star Brewery has been compared to something Ludwig II of Bavaria might have built "if he had been a St. Louis beer brewer"?
Did you know that , in a unanimous decision in 1979, the U.S. Supreme Court held that complaints by a teacher that her principal described as "petty and unreasonable demands" were protected free speech?
Did you know that Dan Burros, head of security for the neo-Nazi National Renaissance Party, committed suicide in 1965 just hours after The New York Times revealed that he was Jewish?
Did you know that Helen M. Roberts mentored Barack Obama, Sr., and helped his family in Kenya with finances while he was a student at the University of Hawaii?
Did you know that Joseph Patrick was the fifth member of his family to be inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame?
Did you know that Nikki Bart and her mother Cheryl were the first mother-daughter team to summit Mount Everest?
Did you know that Parasakthi, directed by Krishnan-Panju, influenced the emergence of the regional party, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, as a political force in Tamil Nadu?
Did you know that Samuel Johnson boasted that he once knocked publisher Thomas Osborne to the ground with a heavy folio?
Did you know that Tatjana Gsovsky, ballet mistress at opera houses in East Berlin, Buenos Aires and West Berlin, first choreographed ballets by Henze and Nono?
Did you know that the Odeon, Kingstanding, has been described as "one of the best surviving examples of Odeon cinemas in Britain"?
Did you know that the Saddle Ridge Hoard of Gold Country in California is believed to be the biggest hoard of gold coins ever unearthed in the United States?
Did you know that the completion of the armoured cruiser HMS Euryalus was severely delayed by multiple accidents including a fire, slipping off her blocks in drydock, and colliding with another vessel?
Did you know that the five chromolithographs in The Flask, Hampstead, a London pub, were produced by the appropriately-named artist Jan van Beers?
Did you know that the international success of Colombian singer songwriter Shakira's English-language debut album Laundry Service led to a critic deeming her the "biggest female crossover artist since Jennifer Lopez"?
Did you know that the song "Run, Nigger, Run", used in the film 12 Years a Slave as a taunt, was originally used to encourage slaves to escape?
Did you know that Air Commodore Chris Luck, the current Commandant of RAF College Cranwell, was the first non-American to attend the USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies?
Did you know that Hugh Wheeler's Big Fish, Little Fish (1961) was one of the first Broadway plays to explore the theme of homosexuality in a sensitive and honest way?
Did you know that Mac Creiche, an early Irish saint, may have originally been a pagan hero?
Did you know that baseball prospect Javier Báez and his brothers got tattoos of the Major League Baseball logo?
Did you know that for Glee's 100th episode, the public voted to select which songs previously featured on the show would be performed in new cover versions?
Did you know that pathologist Frieda Robscheit-Robbins did not share her male research partner's 1934 Nobel Prize, but he shared the prize money with her?
Did you know that the Gotham City seen in Batman: Arkham City was redesigned for Batman: Arkham Knight, to allow space for the Batmobile, drivable for the first time in the Arkham series?
Did you know that the female orchid bee Eulaema meriana visits the male at his lek?
Did you know that the main producer of the Menacer light gun was laughed at when he proposed that Sega support the peripheral past its original release?
Did you know that the multimedia project I, Too, Am Harvard seeks to express the personal experiences of black students at Harvard?
Did you know that 28-time Danish tennis champion and Olympian Einer Ulrich was the grandfather of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich?
Did you know that Australornis is the first early Paleocene bird fossil discovered from New Zealand that is not a penguin?
Did you know that Beryl Platt helped design and test three WWII fighter planes: the Hurricane, the Typhoon, and the Tempest V?
Did you know that Canadian novelist Marsha Canham became inspired to write Through a Dark Mist after experiencing a recurring dream of two men disguised as monks rescuing a damsel in distress?
Did you know that Flotilla's development was influenced by cats and board games?
Did you know that Henry McArdle, who painted Sam Houston at the Battle of San Jacinto (detail pictured), was once a cartographer for Robert E. Lee?
Did you know that Hilda Vaughan's novella A Thing of Nought was such a commercial success that it went out of print within four days of publication?
Did you know that Liu Shiduan used secret kung-fu techniques to make himself invulnerable and was executed for an anti-Christian incident in which he didn't take part?
Did you know that Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto (synagogue pictured), created only 38 days after the invasion of Poland in World War II, was the first Jewish ghetto in occupied Europe?
Did you know that Professor Karimat El-Sayed learnt how to balance her scientific ambitions and her family life from Kathleen Lonsdale?
Did you know that during races, Ryan Reed would monitor his blood sugar levels?
Did you know that in Craigslist v. 3Taps, Craigslist sued PadMapper for screen scraping Craigslist listings?
Did you know that in her quest to find a cure for leprosy, nurse Kate Marsden travelled some 11,000 miles (18,000 km) across Russia?
Did you know that the Ecclesiastical Confiscations of Mendizábal led to the abandonment of the Monastery of San Isidro de Loriana, a Spanish Bien de Interés Cultural?
Did you know that the creator of Flappy Bird received death threats after pulling it?
Did you know that the orangeback squid can fly?
Did you know that Czech poet Antonín Sova gained national fame for answering Theodor Mommsen's letter in verse, calling the German historian a "covetous dotard" and "arrogant spokesman of slavery"?
Did you know that Julie Makani won the Royal Society Pfizer Award for her research into sickle cell disease in Tanzania?
Did you know that Kathryn Hach-Darrow flew her small plane over 7,000 hours, promoting water purification equipment?
Did you know that Margit Oelsner-Baumatz was the first female rabbi ordained in Argentina?
Did you know that Megadeth was temporarily disbanded in 2002 because of frontman Dave Mustaine's arm injury?
Did you know that St. Marks Presbyterian Church in Rogersville, Tennessee, was built in 1912 with separate entrances for men and women?