Did you know? Facts from Wikipedia, 2012

text: Did you know that award-winning film The Dancer , about a traditional dancer , is one of only three Indonesian films addressing the country's anticommunist purges of 1965–66 ?
text: Did you know that the 17th-century Swedish scholars Olaus Verelius and Johannes Schefferus disputed bitterly over the location of the heathen temple at Uppsala ?
text: Did you know that one of Aeroflot's worst accidents occurred in August 1979 ( 1979-08 ) , when two Tupolev Tu-134s collided over Dniprodzerzhynsk in the Ukrainian SSR , claiming 178 lives?
text: Did you know that the Derg military junta supported the formation of the Union of Ethiopian Marxist-Leninist Organizations , but eventually crushed or disbanded its member organizations ( Meison , Seded , Echat , Waz and Malerid )?
text: Did you know that racing legend Bobby Allison 's sons, Davey and Clifford Allison , both died within the span of eleven months in 1992–1993?
text: Did you know that Jean-Paul Sartre did not know that his existentialist play No Exit was adapted to a 1962 film , which featured "surprisingly overt" lesbianism?
text: Did you know that in " Schoolin' Life ", Beyoncé Knowles channels the friskiness of American singer Prince in his prime and employs guttural vocals to address many life lessons to everyone from their 20s to their 50s?
text: Did you know that German writer Ernst Ottwalt , who sought refuge from the Nazis in the Soviet Union but became its victim, was nonetheless quoted by the Soviet prosecutor at the Nuremburg Trials ?
text: Did you know that due to the popularity of the item numbers Munni Badnaam Hui and Sheila Ki Jawani , the actresses Malaika Arora Khan and Katrina Kaif were pitted against each other in what was called the Munni vs Sheila debate?
text: Did you know that Canberra Capitals player Lauren Jansen and coach Carrie Graf both started playing in the WNBL at the age of 15?
text: Did you know that Albanian philosopher and poet Arshi Pipa was imprisoned for ten years because he antagonized the communist regime in Albania with his recitation of a verse by Goethe ?
text: Did you know that the first Derby Stakes to be officially timed took place in 1846, with Pyrrhus The First completing the mile-and-a-half (2.4 km) course in 2:55.0?
text: Did you know that the undefeated 1922 Michigan football team held opponents to 1.8 points per game and shut out Vanderbilt and Ohio State at dedication games for their new stadia?
text: Did you know that the archaeological site of Tel Michal in Israel owes its name to an ancient identification of Apollo with the Semitic god Reshef ?
text: Did you know that the black sea cucumber can split into two by transverse fission ?
text: Did you know that Horst Janssen painted Friedrich von Keller with the orders he had earned during his career, which took him as a German ambassador to Belgrade, Brussels, Buenos Aires and Ankara?
text: Did you know that Lord High Treasurer William le Scrope was beheaded at the Bristol High Cross ?
text: Did you know that Amnesty International recruited writers to lobby at the Edinburgh Festival for the release of the UAE Five , imprisoned in 2011 for insulting political figures of the United Arab Emirates ?
text: Did you know that Rally Finland began as a qualifying event for the Monte Carlo Rally ?
text: Did you know that after the Italian Navy ship Sibilia collided with Kateri i Radës in the Tragedy of Otranto , as many as 83 would-be migrants from Albania died?
text: Did you know that the abolition of serfdom in Poland was spurred by unrest and uprisings such as the Kraków Uprising and the January Uprising ?
text: Did you know that the Materials Adherence Experiment on the Mars Pathfinder examined the effects of Martian dust on solar cells?
text: Did you know that footballer Billy Barnes scored the winning goal in the 1902 FA Cup Final for Sheffield United and played in the first Charity Shield match for QPR in 1908?
text: Did you know that Indonesian author Andrea Hirata 's debut novel sold three times more pirated editions than original ones?
text: Did you know that the Mull Covered Bridge is the last covered bridge still standing in Sandusky County, Ohio ?
text: Did you know that FK Fyllingsdalen originally was named FK Varden by the board, even though a majority of the club members voted for FK Fyllingsdalen ?
text: Did you know that Elysia diomedea is one of three species of sea slug known to exhibit kleptoplasty and thus benefit from photosynthesis ?
text: Did you know that the Michigan Mining School , now Michigan Technological University, held its first classes in the Houghton Fire Hall ?
text: Did you know that carpenter Peter Street secretly arranged to dismantle a theatre in Shoreditch, north London, for material to build the new Globe Theatre in Southwark?
text: Did you know that Johnny Otis ' song " Willie and the Hand Jive ", also covered by Eric Clapton and George Thorogood , has been accused of glorifying masturbation ?
text: Did you know that in his Poetics , Aristotle used Sophocles ' plays Odysseus Wounded and Oedipus the King as examples of one type of effective plot for tragedy ?
text: Did you know that the United Hockey League 's Danbury Trashers disbanded after their owner was arrested for racketeering ?
text: Did you know that a company of French-speaking volunteers briefly served in the Rhodesian Security Forces ?
text: Did you know that the stems in the pseudo- trunk of the extinct fern Tempskya decayed as the plant matured, leaving a layer of adventitious roots behind?
text: Did you know that William Jones bequeathed money to the Company of Haberdashers to found Monmouth School and provide almhouses for people "as blind and lame as it shall seem best to them"?
text: Did you know that over 700,000 bunkers were built in Communist-era Albania , most of which now have little use other than as a place to lose one's virginity?
text: Did you know that the director who discovered Italian film actress Lorella De Luca followed the 14-year-old girl to her home, where he convinced her father that she should pursue an acting career?
text: Did you know that the Brazilian big-eyed bat is one of only two species of bat in the world to chew the seeds of figs ?
text: Did you know that Canberra Capitals player Marianna Tolo dressed as Xena during the team's 2010/2011 Mad Monday celebrations?
text: Did you know that during the Red Terror in Ethiopia , the Provisional Office for Mass Organizational Affairs supervised urban militia squads?
text: Did you know that the fossil bivalve Emiliodonta shared its name with a coccolithophore for about a decade?
text: Did you know that after winning the 1841 Derby Stakes , the Thoroughbred racehorse Coronation kicked and killed a spectator?
text: Did you know that a fossil of Concavodonta described in 1843 has been lost?
text: Did you know that Jeb Burton will share a ride in the 2012 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series with his father Ward ?
text: Did you know that after 11 leaders of the U. S. Communist Party were sentenced to prison in 1949 for their political beliefs, the judge sent all five of their attorneys to jail for contempt of court ?
text: Did you know that despite its common name, California grass is not naturally found in California ?
text: Did you know that Bach based his cantata Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit, BWV 111 , on the 1554 hymn by Albert, Duke of Prussia , who introduced the Reformation into Prussia?
text: Did you know that during the Sino-Xiongnu War , the Han empire attempted alliance with a people whose king's skull the Xiongnu had made into a drinking cup?
text: Did you know that, for her generosity towards her employees and benevolence to local good causes, brewer Elma Yerburgh was dubbed Blackburn 's "lady bountiful"?
text: Did you know that the choir Groningse Bachvereniging sang Bach's Magnificat with Harnoncourts' Concentus Musicus Wien in the orchestra's first appearance in the Netherlands in 1970?
text: Did you know that when Waxy won the 1793 Derby Stakes , more than half of the competing racehorses were his siblings sired by Pot-8-Os ?
text: Did you know that Tampa, Florida , is worried that the poorly paved Bayshore Boulevard will make a bad impression on TV when the Republican Convention is held there in August 2012 ?
text: Did you know that Jan Maroši scored directly from a corner for Sigma Olomouc in a 1992–93 UEFA Cup match against Juventus ?
text: Did you know that Heze Shenhui (670–762 CE) initiated the conflict between those advocating "sudden" over "gradual" enlightenment in Zen Buddhism ?
text: Did you know that the children of Vietnamese prostitutes and American servicemembers from the Vietnam War were often forced into prostitution themselves?
text: Did you know that the 1948 Michigan Wolverines football team won the national championship while holding opponents to 4.8 points per game and extending the team's winning streak to 23 games?
text: Did you know that Russian wildrye is "one of the most versatile forage grasses available for dryland pastures"?
text: Did you know that Porter Edward Sargent 's Handbook of Private Schools was viewed as giving "the most comprehensive critiques of education published anywhere"?
text: Did you know that Rakni's Mound in Ullensaker , Norway, the largest barrow in Scandinavia, contained no body, only cremated skull fragments?
text: Did you know that the pilot episode of The Firm begins with a frenetic chase scene followed by a flashback to six weeks prior?
text: Did you know that Norwegian newspaper editor Christian Friele was an honorary member of the Conservative Press Association , despite not attending any of its meetings?
text: Did you know that prothrombin G20210A carriers who take oral contraceptives are at a 15-fold increased risk of developing blood clots in their veins ( venous thrombosis )?
text: Did you know that Mr. Basketball USA winners have been determined retroactively going back to 1955?
text: Did you know that because he believed the American government had been infiltrated by communists, one young US Marine discharged himself from the officer training program and joined the Rhodesian Security Forces instead?
text: Did you know that Ephraim Blaine helped to supply the Continental Army with food during their winter at Valley Forge and was the great-grandfather of U.S. House Speaker James G. Blaine ?
text: Did you know that when Little Wonder won the 1840 Derby Stakes , his jockey was awarded a gold-tipped riding-whip by Prince Albert ?
text: Did you know that the Xbox Live Arcade game Death By Cube was one of the bloodiest games to appear at the 2009 Tokyo Game Show ?
text: Did you know that in 1138 the Anglo-Norman nobleman Geoffrey Talbot was besieged twice by King Stephen of England but escaped capture each time the castle surrendered?
text: Did you know that the Cape Verdean spiny lobster Palinurus charlestoni is named after a French fishing boat?
text: Did you know that the race horse Phosphorus sprained a leg and was rejected by his jockey shortly before winning the 1837 Derby Stakes , during which he aggravated his injury and did not race again that year?
text: Did you know that the live performance of the song " Keep It Together " was inspired by the 1971 science fiction film, A Clockwork Orange , in its staging?
text: Did you know that Indonesian film director Ifa Isfansyah is expected to marry the daughter of another director , who is a director herself?
text: Did you know that a fire in Christiania in 1858 left about 1,000 people homeless?
text: Did you know that the medieval Anglo-Norman nobleman William de Chesney took the surname of his mother's family, as did his paternal half-brother Simon, even though Simon wasn't related to that family?
text: Did you know that the New York City restaurant Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare , which seats 18 people, received three Michelin stars ?
text: Did you know that Brazilian-born NASCAR drivers Miguel Paludo and Nelson Piquet, Jr. will be driving for the same team in the 2012 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series ?
text: Did you know that several Freemasons are buried on the oldest Jewish cemetery in Montana, Home of Peace in Helena ?
text: Did you know that Josef Jiří Kolár was the first to begin a systematic translation of Shakespeare's plays into Czech ?
text: Did you know that although God Bless members Ahmad Albar and Jockie Soerjoprajogo have had a falling out, their sons play music together?
text: Did you know that on January 10 , 2012, two new Republican members of the New Jersey General Assembly were sworn in, both named Christopher Brown ( Christopher A. Brown and Christopher J. Brown )?
text: Did you know that some oxohalide ions contain a linear M—O—M structure (where M = W , Ru , Os )?
text: Did you know that artisan botanist John Horsefield was born "dead" but went on to champion the "ignorant and degraded" Lancashire textile workers?
text: Did you know that Q.U.B.E. , an indie puzzle video game , was developed by Toxic Games without having a single programmer on its team?
text: Did you know that on the Glee episode " The Spanish Teacher ", Ricky Martin sings " Sexy and I Know It " and Elvis Presley is covered in Spanish?
text: Did you know that screenwriter Seth Lochhead shared the writing credit for the 2011 film Hanna with David Farr although they do not personally know each other?
text: Did you know that the Ingalls 4-S was the only locomotive ever built by Ingalls Shipbuilding ?
text: Did you know that 15 star pearlfish were found living inside a single leopard sea cucumber ?
text: Did you know that the United States manufactured over 2,500,000 M8 barrage rockets during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Stanisław Jaros was executed in 1963 for trying to kill Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and Polish Communist leader Władysław Gomułka ?
text: Did you know that the 259-year-old Blenduk Church is the oldest church in Central Java ?
text: Did you know that Hockey Hall of Famer Mickey MacKay was the highest-scoring player in the history of the Pacific Coast and Western Canada Hockey Leagues?
text: Did you know that authorship of the 16th-century manuscript usually referred to as Cronaca Magno is attributed to Stefano Magno ?
text: Did you know that a tropical storm in 1887 holds a record for the highest number of incidents at sea?
text: Did you know that the Watergate scandal might have been avoided had G. Gordon Liddy followed Operation Sandwedge ?
text: Did you know that Jimmy Van Ostrand recorded both of Canada 's runs batted in during the gold medal baseball game of the 2011 Pan American Games ?
text: Did you know that the fordilloid Camya asy is one of four accepted Cambrian bivalves?
text: Did you know that in his 1734 cantata for no specified occasion of the liturgical year , In allen meinen Taten , BWV 97 , Bach set nine stanzas of Paul Fleming 's hymn in as many movements, using the famous tune in the outer two?
text: Did you know that after co-founding Safe Kids Worldwide , Herta Feely became an award-winning writer?
text: Did you know that the cargo ship MV Spiegelgracht ferries luxury yachts from Europe to the Caribbean and back every year, allowing their owners to cruise in both summer and winter?
text: Did you know that Henry P. H. Bromwell 's magnum opus Restorations of Masonic Geometry and Symbolry "may very well be the most important written document on the subject of Masonry " according to the Grand Master of Colorado in 2010?
text: Did you know that the tiger's tail uses its tentacles to push detritus , sand and gravel into its mouth?
text: Did you know that Hikari and Riho became professional wrestlers in 2006 when they were 11 and 9 years old, respectively?
text: Did you know that the old Lahaina Fort was built to protect the town from riotous sailors?
text: Did you know that although Madonna 's " Masterpiece " won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song , it is ineligible for the Oscar for Best Original Song ?
text: Did you know that the experimental Holland 5 was one of the first two submarines to be accepted into Royal Navy service , but was already considered obsolete?
text: Did you know that the 2005 film Original Child Bomb included footage previously labeled top secret by the US government ?
text: Did you know that an injury to minor league baseball player David Adams prevented the New York Yankees from acquiring major league all-star pitcher Cliff Lee ?
text: Did you know that the log and half-timber construction Kluge House in Helena, Montana , a rare and historic example of Silesian fachwerk , was almost demolished in 1964?
text: Did you know that during World War I, Marthe Cnockaert was recruited as a spy by both Germany and Britain, and she arranged for her German recruiter to be killed?
text: Did you know that Exercise Summer Pulse was a worldwide surge deployment of seven carrier strike groups to test the United States Navy 's new Fleet Response Plan?
text: Did you know that in the 1930s, black students from the segregated Douglass High School in Webster Groves, Missouri , were allowed to visit the local public library only one afternoon per week?
text: Did you know that Raad Shallal al-Ani 's resignation last year as Iraq 's Electricity Minister was said to be because he was the "scapegoat for continued electricity shortages"?
text: Did you know that the bite of the colourful Collett's snake can lead to rhabdomyolysis and kidney failure ?
text: Did you know that Phoenix Sports F.C. is so called as it rose from the ashes of the Blitz ?
text: Did you know that Queen Liliʻuokalani 's song " Aloha ʻOe " was inspired by the tender farewell and fond embrace between Colonel Boyd and one of the young ranch ladies at Maunawili ?
text: Did you know that the Karlino oil eruption put an end to the dreams of Poland becoming a "second Kuwait"?
text: Did you know that the Hallaton Helmet may have been owned by a Briton who fought alongside the Romans during their conquest of Britain in AD 43?
text: Did you know that winning time of 3.04 by Ellington at the 1856 Derby Stakes was the slowest ever recorded, breaking the "record" of 3.02 set in 1852 by Daniel O'Rourke ?
text: Did you know that the Reformation spread to Switzerland following a dispute about sausages ?
text: Did you know that actor Saqib Saleem used to work with his father in their family restaurant, Saleem's, in Delhi , India?
text: Did you know that the series of arson fires that began on December 29, 2011 , was the worst set of arson events in Los Angeles since the 1992 riots ?
text: Did you know that species of the Cambrian bivalve Tuarangia lived near the continents of Baltica and East Gondwana ?
text: Did you know that the Atari 2600 dental hygiene game Tooth Protectors was among the earliest examples of advergaming ?
text: Did you know that 1810 Derby winner Whalebone had a 16-year career as a stud, which ended with a fatal injury sustained while covering a mare ?
text: Did you know that as commander of the destroyer USS Fanning during the action of 17 November 1917 , Lieutenant Arthur S. Carpender engaged the U-boat U-58 , and forced it to surface and surrender?
text: Did you know that a gulag used to mine black oil in The X-Files was inspired by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ?
text: Did you know that at one point in the 1970s, the Ethiopian underground publication Democracia had a larger readership than the official government press?
text: Did you know that the St Austell Clay Pits , in Cornwall , are one of only three locations in the UK where the rare Western Rustwort grows?
text: Did you know that the Society for Development and Change supports eastern Saudi Arabians campaigning to create an elected legislature ?
text: Did you know that after the shipwreck of the Italian SS Sirio , in which more than 100 passengers died, the captain was the first to abandon ship, and died "of a broken heart" within a year?
text: Did you know that National Hero of Indonesia Halim Perdanakusuma flew 44 bombing raids against Nazi Germany ?
text: Did you know that although winter honeysuckle is used as a decorative plant in cultivation, it can become an invasive weed in the wild?
text: Did you know that the National Aboriginal Veterans Monument in Ottawa , Canada , depicts four animal spirit guides surrounding the human figures?
text: Did you know that Australian basketball player Nicole Hunt of the Canberra Capitals is nicknamed 'Flea'?
text: Did you know that the Eighth Army Ranger Company lost 80 percent of its strength and only had 10 men still standing after the Battle of Ch'ongch'on River in the Korean War ?
text: Did you know that as a boy, Charlie Chaplin appeared on stage in Sherlock Holmes ?
text: Did you know that English football team Queen's Park Rangers did not introduce their current blue and white strips until 1926, some 27 seasons after they turned professional?
text: Did you know that explorers in the American West used wood from the bush oceanspray to make nails?
text: Did you know that the Brunei Civil War was triggered by a cockfight ?
text: Did you know that Monmouth had one of the highest proportions of Catholics in Wales 20 years before St Mary's Roman Catholic Church was built in 1793?
text: Did you know that future College Football Hall of Fame inductees Johnny Vaught and Bear Bryant served as assistant coaches for North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Henry Kressel helped develop the first practical laser diodes and solar cells while working for RCA Laboratories ?
text: Did you know that there were no aftershocks recorded after the 6.7 M w 1965 Olympia earthquake ?
text: Did you know that torpedograss has been called "one of the world's worst weeds"?
text: Did you know that Tempair International Airlines never operated flights in its own right, but it flew on many other companies' behalf by leasing its aircraft?
text: Did you know that with a minimum pressure of 900 hPa (26.58 inHg), Cyclone Susan (1997–98) was one of the most intense tropical cyclones to exist in the South Pacific basin ?
text: Did you know that the bark of the stringybark she-oak is shaggy?
text: Did you know that National Heroine of Indonesia Nyai Ahmad Dahlan worked for women's rights and against sun worship ?
text: Did you know that the Buryat people use the alcoholic beverage tarasun in their religious ceremonies?
text: Did you know that Canberra Capitals player Carly Wilson is renowned for wearing pink socks while playing basketball in the WNBL ?
text: Did you know that it is all but impossible to match up species known by leaves with those known by trunks in the prehistoric cycad-like genus Cycadeoidea ?
text: Did you know that fossils of the extinct bivalve family Praenuculidae have been found on every continent except Antarctica?
text: Did you know that Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall swapped Merthen for Tintagel Castle ?
text: Did you know that in local New Guinea folklore, the magic-man sends the Papuan black snake to kill enemies?
text: Did you know that a parishioner at the Methodist Church in Monmouth said she would buy an organ if the minister ever filled the church?
text: Did you know that the Nagle Warren Mansion , listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Cheyenne , hosted two U.S. Presidents ?
text: Did you know that in 1848, Surplice became the first racehorse to win both the Derby and the St. Leger Stakes since 1800?
text: Did you know that Save The Bay helped stop San Bruno Mountain from being destroyed to create landfill along 27 miles (43 km) of San Francisco Bay ?
text: Did you know that a football match was won by scoring an own goal on purpose?
text: Did you know that " Michael ", the Glee tribute episode to Michael Jackson , took more than a month to film and features performances of ten of his songs?
text: Did you know that cattle can experience ergotism if they eat tobosa infected with the fungus ?
text: Did you know that Božena Němcová was the only author who got paid for her contribution to the Czech literary almanac Máj ?
text: Did you know that Canberra Capitals players Alice Coddington and Brigitte Ardossi majored in marketing while attending university in the United States?
text: Did you know that National Hero of Indonesia Teuku Nyak Arif said of the Japanese occupation of Indonesia "we had driven out dogs only to have pigs come"?
text: Did you know that the Walter Merchant House is one of the few townhouses left in Albany, New York , with a rear carriage house ?
text: Did you know that the onyx seal of Jaazaniah dating from the 6th century BCE depicts one of the earliest known images of a fighting rooster ?
text: Did you know that Prisia Nasution , who won a Citra Award for her debut role, has a background in the martial art of pencak silat ?
text: Did you know that the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad was at the heart of a scandal that affected the Republican nomination for President in 1876 ?
text: Did you know that a year after winning the 1816 Derby Stakes , Prince Leopold was castrated for poor behaviour?
text: Did you know that oxide jacking has damaged St Paul's Cathedral and Farnsworth House ?
text: Did you know that Hynds Lodge in Wyoming 's Curt Gowdy State Park , built in 1922 of native rough granite, was donated to the Boy Scouts of America by Harry P. Hynds, who made a fortune in gambling saloons?
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text: Did you know that in a chorale of Bach's cantata Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen, BWV 13 , two recorders and an oboe da caccia play with the alto, whereas the strings play an "optimistic, wordless answer" to its prayer?
text: Did you know that the Hanson brothers pioneered the rear-entry ski boot , but the bankruptcy of their company in the 1980s allowed European companies to take over the market they created?
text: Did you know that production babies , children born to the crew during the making of an animated film, were first listed in the end credits of Toy Story (1995)?
text: Did you know that Stanisław Samostrzelnik , the first Polish Renaissance painter known by name, portrayed Bishop Piotr Tomicki (pictured) ?
text: Did you know that the Chola expedition to North India between 1019 and 1024 was precipitated by a succession dispute in the Eastern Chalukya kingdom ?
text: Did you know that Johan van der Meer conducted the first historically informed performance in the Netherlands of Bach's St Matthew Passion in 1973, with Marius van Altena as the Evangelist and Max van Egmond as the Vox Christi ?
text: Did you know that Salvador Dalí lived at the Royal Suite in Hôtel Meurice in Paris for periods over a duration of 30 years?
text: Did you know that according to the Russian edition of Esquire magazine , Russian physicist and TU Delft professor Yaroslav Blanter deleted thousands of pages from Wikipedia ?
text: Did you know that Corsia is a genus of small plants which lack chlorophyll and parasitize fungi for nutrition?
text: Did you know that several Russian villages were flooded by the reservoir formed for the Uglich Hydroelectric Station ?
text: Did you know that for four consecutive seasons, current Cleveland Cavaliers player Mychel Thompson led the Pepperdine Waves men's basketball team in three-pointers scored?
text: Did you know that the Monmouthshire Show was started after John Rolls and the Duke of Beaufort contributed £30 in 1857 to fund it?
text: Did you know that " Glory " 's debut on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart meant that the first child of Jay-Z and Beyoncé Knowles became the youngest person in the history of Billboard to have a charted song?
text: Did you know that the " children of the water " were considered to be the "flesh of the gods"?
text: Did you know that in 2004, Arfa Karim became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional at the age of nine years?
text: Did you know that the Mirabito Outdoor Classic‎ was the first outdoor game in the 74-year history of the American Hockey League ?
text: Did you know that Jockie Soerjoprajogo has refused to give his blessings to God Bless to play " Kehidupan ", his composition and one of the band's biggest hits?
text: Did you know that in 1974, Ruben Ayala became the first person of Mexican-American descent elected to the California State Senate since 1911?
text: Did you know that a gravestone in St Mary's Priory Church in Monmouth says "Here lies John Renie" in 46,000 different ways?
text: Did you know that although banned in 1943, the Baklahorani carnival, in Istanbul , revived after nearly 70 years?
text: Did you know that one critic thought that The Artist ' s dog actor Uggie outperformed J. Edgar ' s Leonardo DiCaprio ?
text: Did you know that the Once Upon a Time episode " Desperate Souls " features actor Brad Dourif as a "beggar who befriends evil Rumpelstiltskin "?
text: Did you know that Stuart Robinson School was a settlement school in the Kentucky mountains that was operated as a Presbyterian mission from 1913 until the 1950s?
text: Did you know that the Antarctic sea urchin eats microscopic algae and small invertebrates, and feasts on seal faeces when available?
text: Did you know that production of The X-Files episode " Terma " involved an oil plume 300 feet (91 m) high?
text: Did you know that some Renaissance caskets decorated with pastiglia work mixed musk perfume into the material, and were believed to have an aphrodisiac effect?
text: Did you know that in his rookie season , Johnny Gildea led the National Football League in interceptions with 20 while  passing for either two or three touchdowns ?
text: Did you know that the granular poromya is a carnivorous, bivalve mollusc?
text: Did you know that Upper Michigan's Trinity Episcopal Church had to be rescued from floating down a canal ?
text: Did you know that Jambo OpenOffice was the first office suite in Swahili , a language spoken by about a hundred million people?
text: Did you know that in medieval typology , Isaac carrying wood up the mountain for his sacrifice is the most common parallel for Christ carrying the cross ?
text: Did you know that during All-American basketball player Elliott Loughlin ' s U.S. Navy career, he earned two Navy Crosses , two Legions of Merit and one Silver Star ?
text: Did you know that the oldest working theatre in Wales is said to be the Savoy Theatre in Monmouth ?
text: Did you know that the Vicinage Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution may allow for the commission of the " perfect crime " in Yellowstone National Park ?
text: Did you know that Sim Bhullar , a 7-foot-5-inch (2.26 m) Indo-Canadian college basketball player at New Mexico State University , has been said to be "poised to become the world's first prominent men's basketball player of Indian descent"?
text: Did you know that a carved wooden lectern in the 900-year-old St Martin of Tours Church, Detling , has been called "the finest medieval fitting in any parish church in the county"?
text: Did you know that the 1939 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show Best in Show Ferry v. Rauhfelsen of Giralda was the grandfather of the 1952–53 winner Rancho Dobe's Storm ?
text: Did you know that Tommy Tebb scored Nelson 's last goal in the Football League ?
text: Did you know that the giant tube worm is not a worm at all?
text: Did you know that the outdoor parts of indoor-outdoor thermometers are used indoors by building service engineers by swinging them around?
text: Did you know that American football linebacker Jake Ryan is the grandson of American jurist Francis E. Sweeney ?
text: Did you know that maidencane is a keystone species of many wetlands , including the Everglades ?
text: Did you know that Daguangba Dam , the largest dam in Hainan , is also the province's largest hydroelectric power station?
text: Did you know that Mikhail Sokolovsky 's 1779 opera The Miller who was a Wizard, a Cheat and a Matchmaker was for many years mistakenly attributed to Yevstigney Fomin ?
text: Did you know that both Fordilla and Pojetaia , Cambrian members of the extinct bivalve family Fordillidae , are part of the Turkish small shelly fauna ?
text: Did you know that Roy Cooper was the first rodeo cowboy to exceed $2 million in earnings for his career?
text: Did you know that Set in Stone won the 2006 Costa Book Award for Best Children's Book, despite the recommendation that it should not be read by anyone less than 14 years old?
text: Did you know that American football linebacker Desmond Morgan had ten tackles in each of his final two games as a freshman?
text: Did you know that Cuban-American singer Gloria Estefan became the first female performer to debut at number one at the Billboard Latin Songs chart with her song " Hotel Nacional "?
text: Did you know that the light aircraft carrier Shōhō , sunk on 7 May 1942 during the Battle of the Coral Sea , was the first Japanese aircraft carrier to be sunk during World War II ?
text: Did you know that although the American Racing Manual now only covers Thoroughbred horse racing , its earlier precursors also covered harness racing and other sports?
text: Did you know that The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize for History , the Bancroft Prize , and the Lincoln Prize in 2011?
text: Did you know that a female taekwondo fighter , who wore a headscarf under her helmet, won the sole medal for Afghanistan at the 2002 Asian Games after the fall of the Taliban ?
text: Did you know that Saint Benedict wanted his monks to prefer nothing to the love of Christ ?
text: Did you know that the Pointe de la Torche in Brittany has a Mesolithic midden , a Megalithic passage grave , and a World War II German blockhouse ?
text: Did you know that the Well-Manicured Man served as the "voice of reason" amongst The X-Files ' antagonists?
text: Did you know that Bobby Cummings was the first English footballer to score a hat-trick against Rangers in the Scottish League ?
text: Did you know that in 1898, the United States Navy attempted to purchase a battleship from Chile for use against Spain ?
text: Did you know that in Egyptian mythology , the Eye of Ra slaughtered masses of people, got drunk, ran away from her owner , and was brought back by her husband?
text: Did you know that the Research Works Act proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives would ban open access mandates for federally funded research?
text: Did you know that in a successful military ambush , every enemy soldier in the kill zone might be killed in less than one minute?
text: Did you know that "I love you ... and especially you, size nine" was one of the catchphrases of Dandy Dan Daniels , one of the Good Guys ?
text: Did you know that Germanus of Winchester , an 11th-century English abbot , carried the newly discovered relics of a saint from their discovery location to Ramsey Abbey with his own hands?
text: Did you know that the horse fly Scaptia beyonceae was named after singer and actress Beyoncé Knowles because of its striking golden behind?
text: Did you know that Ernie Robinson worked as a coal miner before becoming a professional footballer ?
text: Did you know that the Medieval Chola king Rajendra Chola I sent a naval expedition to South-East Asia in 1025?
text: Did you know that in the chess game Rotlewi versus Rubinstein , Rubinstein sacrificed his queen and rook for two minor pieces but forced checkmate ?
text: Did you know that light artist Yann Kersalé saved boat lifts in Thieu and a submarine base in Saint-Nazaire by illuminating them?
text: Did you know that crazy fish are upside down sleepers ?
text: Did you know that the night after the Lewis and Clark Expedition broke camp at Camp Disappointment was the only time during the entire expedition that they killed any Indians ?
text: Did you know that after the 1860 Derby winner Thormanby died suddenly at age 18, its tail was mounted as a whisk in the hall of racehorse trainer Mathew Dawson 's house?
text: Did you know that NASCAR Nationwide Series driver Joey Gase won two short track racing championships before graduating from high school ?
text: Did you know that a single Antarctic scallop was found to have 10 different species of demosponge living on its shell?
text: Did you know that Rihanna 's " Birthday Cake ", said to resemble a real-life quickie , lasts just 78 seconds?
text: Did you know that in 1903 the first ice hockey league in Europe was formed in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that 155 aftershocks were felt at Campo, California , in the first twelve hours after the 1892 Laguna Salada earthquake ?
text: Did you know that the explorer and big game hunter Thomas Alexander Barns undertook an expedition to the Congo in pursuit of a giant butterfly that he called "the Antizox"?
text: Did you know that former Philadelphia Eagles left tackle Stan Walters started in 122 consecutive games and earned two Pro Bowl selections after being traded to the team in 1975 ?
text: Did you know that controversial New Zealand politician and lawyer Trevor de Cleene kept a pump-action shotgun under his bed for personal protection?
text: Did you know that Stoke Edith House has been cited as a good example of Williamite architecture from the late 17th-century period?
text: Did you know that George Pechiney was the Cleveland Blues' Opening Day starting pitcher for the baseball franchise's first game in the Major Leagues in 1887?
text: Did you know that National Hero of Indonesia Teungku Chik di Tiro led a holy war against the Dutch in 19th-century Aceh?
text: Did you know that Afghanistan returned to the Asian Games after the fall of the Taliban government in the midst of ongoing war ?
text: Did you know that The Fool 's The Fool guitar helped Eric Clapton achieve his signature "woman tone"?
text: Did you know that Captain Walker of HMS Monmouth told his crew to wash "the stain off your characters in the blood of your foes"?
text: Did you know that the United States Supreme Court once said that "there is no constitutional value in false statements of fact "?
text: Did you know that Afif al-Bizri , as chief of staff of the Syrian Army , forced Prime Minister Sabri al-Assali to follow a pro- Nasser policy under threat of arrest?
text: Did you know that stipple engraving was used in the 18th century to make accurately sanguine reproductions of red chalk drawings by artists such as Watteau ?
text: Did you know that the founder of Pinboard operates it by himself, although the website has 25,000 registered users?
text: Did you know that the 6th-century Byzantine official Athanasius was dispatched by Justinian I to Ravenna in 536 and Carthage in 545, and he ended up in prison on both trips?
text: Did you know that over three million Chinese military and civilian personnel served in Korea during the Korean War ?
text: Did you know that the efforts of the 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman Josce de Dinan to defend Ludlow Castle form the background to the medieval work Fouke le Fitz Waryn ?
text: Did you know that Hugh Carless , who accompanied travel writer Eric Newby on an expedition to Northern Afghanistan in 1956, later served as the British ambassador to Venezuela ?
text: Did you know that Prussia refused to meet its obligations from the Polish–Prussian alliance of 1790, and instead of aiding Poland during the Polish–Russian War of 1792 , helped Russia to quell the Kościuszko Uprising the following year?
text: Did you know that the exploits of the Polish partisan People's Army were significantly exaggerated by the propaganda of the People's Republic of Poland ?
text: Did you know that the 165-foot (50 m) smokestack at the Holden Lixiviation Works in Aspen was said to be the tallest in Colorado when it was in use?
text: Did you know that assaulting or obstructing a clergyman in the discharge of his duties is a non-fatal offence against the person in English law ?
text: Did you know that because of competition from Costa Rican television broadcaster Repretel , Teletica Channel 7 was prompted to upgrade its programming and equipment?"
text: Did you know that the Hogbetsotso festival of the Anlos of Ghana commemorates the escape of their ancestors from a tyrant king by walking backwards?
text: Did you know that Japhet Asher wrote and produced the TV film Peace on Borrowed Time for the American Broadcasting Company when he was 21 years old?
text: Did you know that in a chapter of Contemplative Practices in Action , Doug Oman suggests that meditation and other spiritual practices act "synergistically ... like ... complementary food groups "?
text: Did you know that NBA Development League team Iowa Energy broke the league's attendance record in their first ever home game?
text: Did you know that the first television transmission in Croatia was made by Philips engineer Eric Klaas de Vries at the Zagreb Fair on 26 August 1939?
text: Did you know that despite the commercial successes of earlier games in the 7th Guest series, Uncle Henry's Playhouse sold only 176 copies worldwide?
text: Did you know that the Freudenberg Group placed Vileda brand cleaning cloths on the market after noticing that their cleaning ladies were using scraps of their experimental fabrics?
text: Did you know that Chrisye 's album Beautiful Flower featured work by the son of former president Sukarno on every track?
text: Did you know that members of the extinct bivalve family Bakevelliidae have shells made from rectangular calcium prisms and mother of pearl ?
text: Did you know that under the prosperous and benign rule of Husayn Pasha , the city of Gaza was regarded as the capital of Palestine ?
text: Did you know that actors and audience in the Jacobs Well Theatre , a Georgian era playhouse in Bristol , England, could obtain drinks through a hole in the wall to an adjoining ale house?
text: Did you know that Scottish footballer Dan Friel played more than 300 matches for Burnley , many of them as captain ?
text: Did you know that writer Christian Keymann and composer Andreas Hammerschmidt collaborated on a hymn, the base for Bach's cantata Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht, BWV 124 ("I will not let go of my Jesus")?
text: Did you know that in Mexico, tea prepared using tarbush , a shrub native to the Chihuahuan Desert , is consumed to treat indigestion and diarrhea ?
text: Did you know that footballer Adam Cunnington 's strike partnership with Kevin Charley produced more than 50 goals for Barwell in 2009–10 , helping the club win the Midland Football Alliance ?
text: Did you know that " Monday " was ranked among UGO Networks ' 100 Greatest Moments in Time Travel?
text: Did you know that the Tibet Improvement Party founded in 1939 by Pandatsang Rapga opposed the rule of the Dalai Lama government , and was supported by the Kuomintang in China?
text: Did you know that Abdullah Atfeh was the first chief of staff of the Syrian Army following the country's independence?
text: Did you know that one unusual feature of a charter issued around 1141 by Roger de Valognes was that it mentions that Valognes was persuaded to be more generous than he had originally planned?
text: Did you know that in Jon Klassen ' s 2011 children's book I Want My Hat Back a bear eats the rabbit who stole his hat?
text: Did you know that Chicken Hawks , a Pie , and a Pretzel have all played in Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that the Christmas Island Seamount Province , a group of 50 seamounts ( submarine volcanoes ) near Australia, formed during the breakup of Gondwana , up to 136 million years ago?
text: Did you know that Siedlce pogrom in the Congress Poland was organized by the Russian Empire 's secret police , and carried out by the Imperial Russian Army , whose soldiers were later decorated?
text: Did you know that there are eight exceptions to the freedom of speech in the United States?
text: Did you know that the grass Oplismenus can be used as a substitute for lawn ?
text: Did you know that Deep Throat 's daughter is Monk 's wife?
text: Did you know that avant-garde musician Harry Roesli helped over 36,000 street children before his death in 2004?
text: Did you know that Jamestown College , North Dakota 's oldest post-secondary institution , was founded in 1883, six years before North Dakota became a U.S. state ?
text: Did you know that Muhsin al-Barazi , former prime minister of Syria , conducted secret negotiations with Israel and discussed the possibility of a summit between Ben-Gurion and al-Za'im in 1949?
text: Did you know that Brad Sweet will be competing in both NASCAR stock car racing and World of Outlaws sprint car racing in 2012?
text: Did you know that Tamil writer Bama had served as a Roman Catholic nun for seven years?
text: Did you know that the extinct, Triassic , bivalve family Cassianellidae may have evolved from the family Bakevelliidae , which survived longer into the Eocene ?
text: Did you know that former Philadelphia Eagles offensive lineman Wade Key started out as a member of the taxi squad in 1969 and eventually became the Eagles' longest-tenured player in 1979 ?
text: Did you know that one of the sanjakbeys of the Sanjak of Ohrid was Ballaban Badera , famous for his bloody battles against Skanderbeg ?
text: Did you know that Love Song from High School , the third most viewed Indonesian film of 1979, featured a cameo from Chrisye meant to market his upcoming album ?
text: Did you know that with titles such as 1983's Kool-Aid Man , Mattel's M Network was an early developer of " promogames "?
text: Did you know that the cover for Andrew Miller 's 2011 Costa prize winning novel Pure was inspired by Francisco Goya 's etching The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters ?
text: Did you know that the British Houses of Parliament in London, rebuilt after a destructive fire in 1834 , include ventilation systems by Scottish physician David Boswell Reid ?
text: Did you know that Hurricane Celeste in 1972 triggered evacuations due to a threat of nerve gas dispersal?
text: Did you know that Elias Abraham Rosenberg , a peddler from San Francisco , became an adviser to King Kalākaua of Hawaii due to his purported ability to predict the future?
text: Did you know that in " Odorono ", The Who sang about the consequences of body odour ?
text: Did you know that British surgeon Victor Negus carried out pioneering research in comparative anatomy in the 1920s on the structure and evolution of the larynx ?
text: Did you know that among the players in the 2011 Liberty Bowl were the grandson of civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy and the brother of Super Bowl -winning quarterback Aaron Rodgers ?
text: Did you know that the medieval Islamic brickwork technique of banna'i was used to cover whole buildings with names of Allah , Muhammad and Ali ?
text: Did you know that American torch singer Roberta Sherwood became a sudden nationwide success at age 43?
text: Did you know that a key event leading up to the 1984 Tanjung Priok massacre in Jakarta was a Christian entering a mosque without removing his shoes?
text: Did you know that the 2007 Murphy Complex Fire burned 652,016 acres (263,862 ha ) of land and was the largest wildfire in Idaho in 97 years?
text: Did you know that recently appointed Indonesian justice minister Amir Syamsuddin has represented the former head of Golkar and Tempo magazine ?
text: Did you know that the Russian ballistic missile submarine K-84 Ekaterinburg was the first submarine to attempt to launch all her missiles while submerged?
text: Did you know that Michael Plumb was the first (and, to date, only) equestrian inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that Chrisye had second album syndrome on his fifth album ?
text: Did you know that the United States Supreme Court dismissed an important First Amendment case after it was found to be moot ?
text: Did you know that apart from The Cenotaph in Whitehall , London, Edwin Lutyens also designed The Southampton Cenotaph ?
text: Did you know that the Eagles song " Already Gone " appeared on the Hot 100 chart and was included on the compilation albums Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) and The Very Best of Eagles ?
text: Did you know that the belah can be found with bimble box , black gidyea , brigalow , nealie , boonaree and wilga ?
text: Did you know that the American minister George Went Hensley taught that Christians should eschew baseball and embrace venomous snakes?
text: Did you know that two of the 46 United Kingdom-born players to play in the National Hockey League have been inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that during the 1976 Çaldıran-Muradiye earthquake 95% of the traditional houses in Çaldıran were destroyed due to their low resistance to lateral loads, causing most of the casualties?
text: Did you know that the writer of The X-Files episode " Per Manum " has described it as being about "the way you perceive connections between people"?
text: Did you know that Chairil Anwar 's most celebrated poem, " Aku " ("Me"), shows similarities to the philosophies of Ayn Rand and Friedrich Nietzsche ?
text: Did you know that in the chess game Levitsky versus Marshall , legend has it that the winning move drew a shower of gold coins?
text: Did you know that Nelson W. Fisk of Vermont played a key role in connecting Lake Champlain 's Grand Isle to the Vermont mainland?
text: Did you know that the film English Vinglish marks the comeback of actress Sridevi after a 14-year sabbatical?
text: Did you know that Ismail Saleh was the longest serving Minister of Justice of Indonesia ?
text: Did you know that owing to his declining popularity as a priest in Christiania , Niels Wulfsberg decided to make a journalistic career, establishing amongst other newspapers the royal friendly Tiden ?
text: Did you know that the name of the Nuer White Army , a militant group in South Sudan , reportedly originated from the Nuer youths' use of light-colored insect repellents on their skin?
text: Did you know that historians called Harry Toulmin the "frontier Justinian " for his work in codifying the laws of Kentucky , Alabama , and Mississippi Territory ?
text: Did you know that in 1989 BBC broadcaster Barbara Sturgeon was nominated for a Sony Radio Award for a programme which featured live coverage of a human birth?
text: Did you know that on his debut in Test cricket , Sri Lankan bowler Dhammika Prasad took the wicket of his favourite player, Sachin Tendulkar ?
text: Did you know that the Prison Officers Association threatened a job action when it was announced that both Birmingham and Oakwood Prisons were to be contracted to security company G4S ?
text: Did you know that Chaim Walder 's first book for Haredi children became one of Israel's all-time bestsellers ?
text: Did you know that a stable worker was bribed to allow Middleton to drink buckets of water, leaving the racehorse bloated, in a plan by bookmakers to prevent it from winning the 1825 Derby Stakes ?
text: Did you know that Summit Credit Union became the largest credit union in the state of Wisconsin after a 2008 merger?
text: Did you know that the town of Dhanushkodi in Tamil Nadu , India , was submerged during a 1964 cyclone and has not been resettled since?
text: Did you know that Intercession of Christ is the Christian belief in the continued intercession of Christ and his advocacy on behalf of mankind, even after he left the earth?
text: Did you know that until 2007, the New Zealand Poet Laureate was not appointed by the New Zealand government , but by Te Mata Estates, a commercial winery?
text: Did you know that the United States Supreme Court 's decision in Lackawanna County District Attorney v. Coss concerned a prisoner who had been "adjudged a juvenile delinquent on five separate occasions"?
text: Did you know that Archboldomys kalinga , a rodent of the genus Archboldomys , is found throughout the Central Cordillera on the island of Luzon in the Philippines ?
text: Did you know that John Rinehart Blue , owner of a local Ben Franklin five and dime store , was appointed to fill a vacant seat in the West Virginia House of Delegates ?
text: Did you know that one of the largest operations of the Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party became known as the Bloody Wednesday ?
text: Did you know that the 400 people interviewed for an oral history of MTV 's early years could not agree on what was the best video , but they all agreed Billy Squier 's " Rock Me Tonite " was the worst?
text: Did you know that George Harrison 's 1970 song " Beware of Darkness " marked his return to the spiritual concerns of such Beatles ' songs as " Within You Without You "?
text: Did you know that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Cleveland v. United States that video poker licenses are not "property"?
text: Did you know that the celebration of the Dodoleglime festival by the Ve people of Ghana commemorates the escape, through a town wall hole, of their ancestors from a tyrant king in Togo ?
text: Did you know that construction of Roosevelt High School in St. Louis, Missouri , required the removal of a cemetery, yet not all bodies were removed and local children took bones away from the work site?
text: Did you know that the beach pea was used in traditional Hawaiian medicine to treat wounds?
text: Did you know that Aaron Lockett holds two Big 12 Conference football records: single-season punt return average and longest pass reception ?
text: Did you know that Singapore is said to espouse a "green-light" approach towards administrative law – that good government should be sought through the political process – given the government 's focus on efficiency?
text: Did you know that discoveries in Wilson Butte Cave in Idaho, which formed as a lava tube , include both camel bones and the oldest evidence of human presence on the Snake River Plain ?
text: Did you know that Nasida Ria , one of the oldest qasidah modern groups in Indonesia, received an organ from the mayor of Semarang ?
text: Did you know that in the 1889 Scottish Cup Final , conditions were so poor that the players threw snowballs at each other?
text: Did you know that Baseball Hall of Famer Monte Ward was the Opening Day starting pitcher for the Providence Grays in half of their Major League seasons?
text: Did you know that a guest part on The X-Files helped drive Bryan Cranston to his role in Breaking Bad ?
text: Did you know that deputy governor of Banten Rano Karno has played in more than seventy films?
text: Did you know that former Burnley footballer Arthur Bell also worked as an architect and designed a new stand at the club's Turf Moor stadium in 1911?
text: Did you know that although winners of the American version of The Singing Office won $50,000, winners of the Australian version received only a trophy?
text: Did you know that a parking garage in Miami Beach was described as having a "stunning" design and has hosted weddings, wine tastings, and dinner parties?
text: Did you know that Polish writer and educator Konrad Prószyński , author of internationally recognized primers , had to struggle with the censorship in the Russian Empire ?
text: Did you know that Bach ends his chorale cantata for Epiphany Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, BWV 123 , by repeating the final lines of the last stanza softly?
text: Did you know that Bush the Old Fire Dog is memorialized at the Vigilant Firehouse ?
text: Did you know that the Blackfoot have used crushed leaves of the fringed sagebrush to "revive gophers after children clubbed them while playing a game"?
text: Did you know that Ezedin Abdel Aziz Khalil , an alleged al-Qaeda operative based in Iran, is one of three designated terrorists in the Rewards for Justice Program 's $10 million reward bracket?
text: Did you know that Portland Fire Station No. 7 , built in Portland, Oregon in 1927, was the last of many firehouses designed by Lee Gray Holden, who died of a stroke while visiting it?
text: Did you know that El Manik went from being a vagrant to Citra Award -winning actor in six years?
text: Did you know that population of the crofting hamlet Skerray in northern Scotland fell from 500 in 1926 to around 100 by the 1980s?
text: Did you know that the perfume Truth or Dare was inspired by singer Madonna 's memory of her mother's fragrance?
text: Did you know that the 8th-century Sanskrit play Mahaviracharita by Bhavabhuti has two alternative endings?
text: Did you know that " Fotos Y Recuerdos " was positioned at number four on the US Hot Latin Tracks the day Selena was murdered ?
text: Did you know that the Healdsburg Memorial Bridge in Healdsburg, California , was the first steel bridge across the Russian River ?
text: Did you know that singer-cum-writer Dewi Lestari , who draws much of her inspiration from spirituality, has called fundamentalists "crazy"?
text: Did you know that people 's preferred walking speed is correlated with their country 's per capita GDP and purchasing power parity ?
text: Did you know that University of Alabama-Birmingham basketball player Carldell Johnson led all Division I college basketball players in assist–to–turnover ratio as a sophomore?
text: Did you know that Irish journalist and broadcaster Jim Fahy was described by President Michael D. Higgins as having a "seductive charm"?
text: Did you know that Fred Barron played exactly 400 matches in The Football League for Burnley between 1898 and 1911?
text: Did you know that Virginia Trotter , Assistant Secretary of Education from 1974 to 1977, was the first woman to hold the U.S. government's highest education post, although it did not become a cabinet-level position until 1979?
text: Did you know that as a toddler, composer Dian HP refused to eat unless she was sitting next to the family piano?
text: Did you know that a duel between Clay Beauford of the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature and a copper company 's lobbyist was called off due to difficulties in finding French sabres ?
text: Did you know that Bostick's Store in Causeyville Historic District in Lauderdale County, Mississippi , has been in business continuously since it was built in 1895?
text: Did you know that the Estonian Maritime Museum paid 300 tons of scrap iron for the steam-powered icebreaker Suur Tõll ?
text: Did you know that during the Battle of Bull's Ferry in New Jersey in 1780, Continental officer "Light-Horse Harry" Lee was in charge of rounding up British Army cattle?
text: Did you know that when Tony Bennett broke a grand piano before a concert at the Brighton Dome , staff went to the Hounsom Memorial Church in Hangleton and borrowed theirs?
text: Did you know that Christmas was not celebrated in Hawaii until the arrival of Protestant missionaries from New England in 1820?
text: Did you know that one of the early news reports on effects of the 1931 Oaxaca earthquake in Mexico came from Russian film maker Sergei Eisenstein ?
text: Did you know that after tearing an anterior cruciate ligament as a high school senior, Quincy Miller helped the 2011–12 Baylor Bears get off to their best start in school history?
text: Did you know that My Week with Marilyn has earned three Golden Globe Award nominations?
text: Did you know that originally, " Unfaithful " was a dark and moody track, inspired from the works of American rock band Evanescence ?
text: Did you know that Newton's second law is not valid for variable-mass systems , such as rockets ?
text: Did you know that Blair Athol won the 1864 Derby despite getting repeatedly kicked in the genitals by a lad paid by bookmakers to prevent him from competing, and later sired Silvio , who also won the Derby in 1877?
text: Did you know that Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 's proposed Skybus rapid transit system became an issue in the 1969 mayoral campaign?
text: Did you know that the Yellala Falls on the Congo River were reached in 1485 by Portuguese explorers whose engraved stone commemorating their visit was only discovered in 1911?
text: Did you know that architect Andrew Geller designed quirky, eye-grabbing vacation homes on Long Island that he gave nicknames including the Box Kite , Milk Carton and Reclining Picasso?
text: Did you know that the chamber choir Dresdner Kammerchor celebrated its 25th anniversary with Mendelssohn's Paulus in the Kreuzkirche , conducted by founder Hans-Christoph Rademann ?
text: Did you know that the 1764 Russo-Prussian alliance , formed two years after the signatories clashed in the Seven Years' War , allowed them to intervene in internal matters of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ?
text: Did you know that in his book Life of Lincoln , Ward Hill Lamon speculated that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln may have been the illegitimate child of Nancy Lincoln and Kentucky politician Martin D. Hardin ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian businessman and patron of the arts Jørgen von Cappelen Knudtzon met Napoleon and Lord Byron in his trips in Europe?
text: Did you know that one of the two theories about the Christmas gamma ray burst places it just 10,000 light years from Earth, but the other theory indicates a distance of 5.5 billion light years?
text: Did you know that the Frank Gehry -designed New World Center in Miami Beach features live outdoor "wallcasts" of the concerts going on inside?
text: Did you know that the Four Counties Ring is a canal ring linking the English counties of Cheshire , Staffordshire , Shropshire , and the West Midlands ?
text: Did you know that artist and suffragist Adele Goodman Clark and her partner Nora Houston set up their easels on a downtown streetcorner in Richmond, Virginia , and canvassed passers-by about women's suffrage ?
text: Did you know that the Miocene maple Acer latahense is most similar in appearance to the living Honshū maple ?
text: Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was the only U.S. president to have a registered patent to an invention?
text: Did you know that Master L. Cz. 's depiction of Satan in The Temptation of Christ provided an important precedent for Albrecht Dürer 's Knight, Death and the Devil ?
text: Did you know that novelist Matt Bondurant is the grandson of one of the main characters portrayed in his 2008 novel, The Wettest County in the World ?
text: Did you know that Ryota Igarashi used to hold the Nippon Professional Baseball record for the fastest pitch thrown?
text: Did you know that in response to the Norwegian butter crisis , Danish people have donated thousands of packs to butter -starved Norwegians?
text: Did you know that the home of a former enslaved Chinese teenager became a National Registered Historic Place known as Polly Bemis House in Idaho, US?
text: Did you know that the short story " A Stroke of Good Fortune " by Flannery O'Connor features early versions of characters from O'Connor's first novel, Wise Blood ?
text: Did you know that George Harrison wrote the song " Wah-Wah " in response to his frustration with Beatles bandmates John Lennon and Paul McCartney ?
text: Did you know that St Leonard's Church in St Leonards-on-Sea was partly crushed by a collapsing cliff, and later destroyed when a damaged doodlebug crashed outside its doors?
text: Did you know that Bao Guo'an won the 1995 Golden Eagle Award for Best Actor for his role as Cao Cao in the 1994 television series Romance of the Three Kingdoms ?
text: Did you know that in 1920, Irish footballer Jack Doran achieved the rare feat of being the top goalscorer for two English clubs in the same season?
text: Did you know that the sinking of the Japanese ocean liner Terukuni Maru by Nazi mines off the English coast in 1939 may have been Japan's first World War II casualty outside East Asia?
text: Did you know that its 2011 acquisition of Oceanic Bank made Ecobank Nigeria one of the five largest banks in Nigeria?
text: Did you know that Natchez Indians attacked French colonists in Louisiana in 1729, killing over 240 people?
text: Did you know that the North Florida Ospreys men's basketball team made their first ever playoff appearance in the 2011 Atlantic Sun Tournament , in which they advanced to the conference final?
text: Did you know that Brian Eno described Kaddish , an album that reflects on the Holocaust , as "the most frightening record I have ever heard"?
text: Did you know that much of the United States Bill of Rights is devoted to criminal procedure ?
text: Did you know that in 1884, Louisville Colonels Opening Day starting pitcher Guy Hecker went on to win 52 games, the third-highest total in Major League Baseball history?
text: Did you know that the third Sochatchover Rebbe supervised the education of several hundred yeshiva students in the Warsaw Ghetto ?
text: Did you know that the Ypsilanti Heritage Festival includes a spoof of the Woodward Dream Cruise called the "Nightmare Cruise"?
text: Did you know that Viola Thompson , a left-handed pitcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1940s and a consultant for the 1992 film A League of Their Own , turns 90 years old today?
text: Did you know that guerrilla fighter and National Heroine of Indonesia Martha Christina Tiahahu died in Dutch custody two days before her 18th birthday?
text: Did you know that St Mary's Church, Lenham has a wall painting of St Michael weighing souls that is dated to about 1350?
text: Did you know that the United States Supreme Court upheld a requirement that federal judges have to pay taxes for Medicare in United States v. Hatter ?
text: Did you know that Ravinder Singh became a writer after he lost his love in an accident five days before they were to be engaged?
text: Did you know that the 2012 season of the ASEAN Basketball League includes the SSA Saigon Heat , the first international basketball team from Vietnam?
text: Did you know that the bowling alley in the basement of the University Club of Albany is one of the oldest in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that three Davids ( Shearer , Cunliffe and Parker ) contested the 2011 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election ?
text: Did you know that Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson made the video game Minicraft in under 48 hours for the Ludum Dare competition?
text: Did you know that American theologian Edward Fudge is the subject of an upcoming film, Hell and Mr. Fudge ?
text: Did you know that the television series Kokosei Restaurant is based on the true story of the first restaurant in Japan that is run by high school students?
text: Did you know that Easwaran 's Original Goodness describes the Beatitudes as a "discovery about the nature of the human spirit as revolutionary as Einstein 's theories"?
text: Did you know that bibliophile , literary historian and theatre director Jan Lorentowicz , who first published the complete works of Jan Kochanowski , was also an amazing father according to his daughter's memoirs?
text: Did you know that the Bavarian municipality of Hainsfarth once had a population that was almost 40 percent Jewish and still has a Jewish cemetery and synagogue ?
text: Did you know that the successful expeditions of Spanish captain Ruy Diaz Melgarejo in the late sixteenth century led to his being nicknamed the "Invincible Captain"?
text: Did you know that Public Domain Day is celebrated on January 1 in several countries, but not in the United States or Australia, where no currently copyrighted works will enter the public domain until 2019 and 2026 respectively?
text: Did you know that Tom Loftin Johnson won a 1941 prize for his American Pietà , which substitutes an African American mother for the Virgin Mary and the black victim of a lynching for Jesus ?
text: Did you know that Bach's cantata for New Year's Day , Herr Gott, dich loben wir, BWV 16 , opens with Luther 's German Te Deum and contains "an unusual and imaginative combination of aria and chorus"?
text: Did you know that Hendy Woods State Park , an old-growth coast redwood forest in the Anderson Valley of northern California, is scheduled to be closed in 2012 because of state budget cuts?
text: Did you know that two men from Wisbech , constable William Wolsey and painter Robert Pygot, condemned for Christian heresy by the bishop's chancellor John Fuller at Ely , were burnt at the stake on 16 October 1555?
text: Did you know that Rembrandt 's Joseph and Potiphar's Wife is considered "unprecedented in its erotic candor"?
text: Did you know that, in addition to his work on convex sets , mathematician Hans Rådström edited the Swedish translation of Martin Gardner ' s Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions ?
text: Did you know that the Partenair Mystere , a homebuilt aircraft , had an estimated building time of 1000 hours?
text: Did you know that John Crockett , father of American folk hero Davy Crockett , crossed the Appalachian Mountains with the " Overmountain Men " to fight in the American Revolutionary War Battle of Kings Mountain ?
text: Did you know that the awns of porcupine grass drill its seeds into the soil?
text: Did you know that Joey Johnson , who won the landmark United States freedom of speech case on flag burning , was said to show up at protests with a bloody, severed pig's head on a leash?
text: Did you know that because Drew Crawford 's father, Dan , was a referee in the National Basketball Association , Drew was exposed to elite players like LeBron James and Reggie Miller ?
text: Did you know that the blast furnaces at the Hunedoara steel works in Hunedoara , Romania , were shut down 115 years to the day after the first such units were inaugurated there?
text: Did you know that Royal Navy officer Charles Phipps combined a parliamentary career with commanding ships in the American War of Independence ?
text: Did you know that the deadliest accident Aeroflot experienced in the 1980s occurred in July 1985 ( 1985-07 ) , when a Tupolev Tu-154B-2 stalled en route and crashed near Uchkuduk , Uzbek SSR , killing all 200 people aboard?
text: Did you know that New Zealand peace campaigner Owen Wilkes had his mail monitored?
text: Did you know that Rihanna 's Rated R: Remixed received mixed reviews?
text: Did you know that Sanusi Pane has been called the most important Indonesian dramatist prior to the national revolution ?
text: Did you know that surangas are horizontal, tunnel-like structures dug into laterite hill slopes to supply water in the Kasaragod district of Kerala and Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Navy destroyer John Finn (DDG-113) is named in honor of John William Finn , the first Medal of Honor recipient of World War II ?
text: Did you know that during trial proceedings of the Kareeboomvloer massacre , a prison official was requested to explain the meaning of life ?
text: Did you know that after the 1933 Michigan Wolverines football team won the first game in what was to be an undefeated season, Gerald Ford wrote that the University of Michigan had "more drunks than ever"?
text: Did you know that U.S. Air Force weather officer J. Murray Mitchell investigated the Arctic haze and became an eminent climatologist commemorated by the Mitchell Glacier ?
text: Did you know that Itō Chūta was the leading architect of early twentieth-century Imperial Japan ?
text: Did you know that Friendship and Freedom , published in 1924, was the first gay -interest periodical in the United States?
text: Did you know that the Ray Butts EchoSonic gave live slapback to Chet Atkins , Scotty Moore , and Carl Perkins ?
text: Did you know that American baseball players Brett Jackson , Jeff Beliveau , James McCann , Tuffy Gosewisch , Matt Clark , Pete Andrelczyk , Matt Shoemaker , Justin Cassel , Chad Tracy and Andrew Garcia won silver at the 2011 Pan American Games ?
text: Did you know that it is widely suggested that the publication of the novel Oromay , depicting the Eritrean War , led to the disappearance of its author, Baalu Girma?
text: Did you know that the Standard Plaza was the largest office building in Oregon when it opened in 1963?
text: Did you know that Admiral Jonathan Faulknor 's grandfather, father, son, two brothers, nephew and grandson were all naval officers ?
text: Did you know that third-generation stock car driver Ryan Blaney , who will compete in NASCAR for Tommy Baldwin Racing this year, won his first race at age nine?
text: Did you know that Alemu Abebe was sworn in as mayor of Addis Ababa in 1977 after the mayor-elect had been assassinated?
text: Did you know that the Stephen and Harriet Myers House in Albany was considered the best-run Underground Railroad station in New York?
text: Did you know that Australian national team water polo player Sophie Smith is working on a degree in fashion design?
text: Did you know that rather than being most closely related to other West Indian legumes , the Greater Antillean endemic genus Pictetia is closest to species found in Africa and Mesoamerica ?
text: Did you know that the Black Act introduced the death penalty for over 50 criminal offences, including being found in a forest while disguised?
text: Did you know that Rock Sand won the 2,000 Guineas Stakes , the Epsom Derby and the St. Leger Stakes to claim the English Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1903, and later became a stud in Kentucky ?
text: Did you know that Duke's , a Mumbai -based soft-drink brand, was bought by PepsiCo in 1994 and withdrawn from most segments in 2004 before being relaunched in 2011?
text: Did you know that Indonesian actor HIM Damsyik identified with the antagonistic role which brought him to fame?
text: Did you know that broth prepared with the bark of woolly willow is used in Native American medicine to treat sore throats?
text: Did you know that Foucauldian discourse analysis analyzes content by looking at the power relationships within it, and how the power shapes the language used?
text: Did you know that Gangavataran was the first sound film , and the last film, to be directed by Dadasaheb Phalke ?
text: Did you know that following a cold case review , police arrested a suspect for the 1961 murder of Jacqueline Thomas 46 years after the crime was committed?
text: Did you know that in 1943, a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crashed in Astwell , Northamptonshire , near the Silverstone bomber station which was built in the same year?
text: Did you know that in his award-winning string quartet Chinese Whispers , Graham Waterhouse has phrases gradually morph as they pass from player to player, as verbal phrases do in the whispering game ?
text: Did you know that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Washington v. Texas that the right to obtain witnesses in one's favor is critical to the very ability to "present a defense"?
text: Did you know that a steel works and a shipyard form major components in the economy of Galați , Romania ?
text: Did you know that Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes , released in January 2009, was Rihanna 's first remix album?
text: Did you know that the antagonist of the Millennium episode " 522666 " represents "an indictment upon the modern obsession with celebrity"?
text: Did you know that Shia Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr called for Saudi protestors to use "the roar of the word" in response to police bullets?
text: Did you know that hundreds of Polish coal miners spent two weeks underground in the 1981 strike at Piast Coal Mine in Bieruń ?
text: Did you know that in the 1980s, an estimated 50,000 to 150,000 neotropical parrots were illegally imported annually into the United States?
text: Did you know that Old Carthusians F.C. is one of only two football clubs to have won both the FA Cup and FA Amateur Cup ?
text: Did you know that the Union Watersphere in Union, New Jersey , was formerly the tallest sphere-topped water tower in the world?
text: Did you know that in 1914 Prince Obolensky thought his peasants were enthusiastic about a war to defend Belgrade , later learning they had understood him to mean Belgorod , home of the relics of St Ioasaph ?
text: Did you know that Double Fine Productions raised more than $1 million in under 24 hours in a record-breaking, crowd-sourced Kickstarter funding drive for their upcoming adventure game ?
text: Did you know that racehorse Pope came from behind "within a few strides of the winning-post" to win the 1809 Derby Stakes by a neck?
text: Did you know that construction of the Vianden Pumped Storage Plant began after a treaty was signed between Luxembourg and the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate ?
text: Did you know that Iowa golden-saxifrage is sometimes considered to be a variety of Chrysosplenium alternifolium ?
text: Did you know that Brigitte , who plays the French Bulldog Stella on the TV show Modern Family , has been called the most famous dog on television since Frasier ' s Eddie?
text: Did you know that Michael Hart failed to get elected to the New Zealand Parliament , but was chosen as Mayor of Christchurch 13 years later?
text: Did you know that Die Freundin , a German lesbian magazine published from 1924 to 1933, was temporarily shut down by the Weimar government?
text: Did you know that the life of Wenlock Christison , who was condemned to death for being a Quaker while in Massachusetts Bay Colony by Governor John Endicott , was spared by King Charles II ?
text: Did you know that four Connecticut Huskies women's basketball players have been drafted first overall in the WNBA Draft , including Maya Moore in 2011?
text: Did you know that Carl Friedrich Gauss is credited with a proposal to signal aliens by drawing a massive representation of the Pythagorean theorem on the Siberian tundra using pine trees and fields of wheat?
text: Did you know that in 1936, Mahmoud set a course record at Epsom and became the third of four grey racehorses to ever win the Derby Stakes ?
text: Did you know that actor John Abraham 's first production Vicky Donor deals with the concept of sperm donation ?
text: Did you know that in the 1991 PBA First Conference Finals , Ginebra San Miguel became the first team in Philippine Basketball Association history to win a championship series coming from a 1–3 deficit?
text: Did you know that the plot of the adventure game Undercover: Operation Wintersun focuses on a nuclear physicist trying to destroy Nazi German prototype nuclear weapons during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Zennor Head , Cornwall , is named after a woman who was reputedly washed up there after being thrown into the sea in a barrel by her husband?
text: Did you know that in 1937, after German artist Heinz Kiwitz was lauded in the Nazi press, he wrote an open letter to Hitler to renounce the praise?
text: Did you know that the University Times , a newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh , was threatened with closure when it covered a heated dispute among the faculty and administration in 1979?
text: Did you know that a fossil of the Middle Permian therocephalian Blattoidealestes represents the oldest record of multicuspid teeth among theriodonts , the ancestors of mammals?
text: Did you know that Nina Wilcox Putnam wrote the story that was the basis for The Mummy and drafted the first 1040 income tax form ?
text: Did you know that the music video of the title track in AKB48 's single Give Me Five is 34 minutes long?
text: Did you know that there are several ruins of Serbian Orthodox churches in Dvorane ?
text: Did you know that nearly half of all of the championships won by the William & Mary Tribe football team have occurred during current head coach Jimmye Laycock 's tenure?
text: Did you know that one species of the extinct bivalve Similodonta was found 108.90 metres (357.3 ft) down a Welsh borehole?
text: Did you know that Pulitzer -winning photographer Frank Noel survived five days in a lifeboat after his ship was torpedoed, three years in communist prison camps, and the King David Hotel bombing ?
text: Did you know that in the " Pilot " for The Cosby Show Bill Cosby 's character taught his son a lesson using Monopoly money ?
text: Did you know that the Sri Lanka Eye Donation Society has donated over 60,000 corneas for transplantation in 57 countries, including those of the late President of Sri Lanka , J. R. Jayewardene ?
text: Did you know that Paul Kelly 's song " Dumb Things " was used on the soundtrack, for the Yahoo Serious film Young Einstein after Kelly's wife Kaarin Fairfax acted in a scene with Serious' wife Lulu Pinkus ?
text: Did you know that the Federal Web Managers Council is the steering committee for the Web Content Managers Forum, an ad hoc community of more than 2,000 U.S. government web and new media professionals?
text: Did you know that near the hamlet of Barkip in North Ayrshire , the largest anaerobic digestion power plant in Scotland was completed in June 2011 ?
text: Did you know that the New Zealand immigrant Hugh Gourley had jobs as varied as gold digger, livery trader, saddler, coach operator, undertaker and Mayor of Dunedin ?
text: Did you know that the Otis Redding and Carla Thomas album King & Queen was Redding's first duet album, and the last studio album he recorded before his death?
text: Did you know that pitcher Justin Pope broke Roger Clemens ' college baseball record of 35 consecutive scoreless innings?
text: Did you know that the masterpiece painting Battle of Grunwald by Jan Matejko was among the most wanted artifacts that Nazi Germany planned to destroy ?
text: Did you know that British midwife and bestselling author Jennifer Worth criticized Mike Leigh 's 2004 film Vera Drake for depicting an "invariably fatal" method of abortion as quick and painless for women?
text: Did you know that Bonfire helped Anky van Grunsven win three Olympic gold medals ?
text: Did you know that the theft of the Sforza Hours is one of the earliest recorded examples of art theft in the Italian Renaissance ?
text: Did you know that Olympic shooter Arthur Jackson turned down a position as head of promotions at the Winchester Repeating Arms Company so that he could continue competing in shooting tournaments?
text: Did you know that due to licensing issues, the 1985 video game Blade Runner was based on the movie soundtrack by Vangelis rather than on Blade Runner itself?
text: Did you know that Sjumandjaja was the first Indonesian to attend the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography and the first non-Russian to graduate summa cum laude ?
text: Did you know that Jacksonville 's Catholic -affiliated St. Vincent's HealthCare merged with Baptist Health in 1995 to cut costs by $100 million , but the organizations separated in 2000?
text: Did you know that The Doobie Brothers ' single " Minute by Minute " was nominated for a Grammy Award for Song of the Year but lost to the band's prior single, " What a Fool Believes "?
text: Did you know that Negro league baseball stars Satchel Paige , Josh Gibson , and Oscar Charleston each played in Cuba for the Leopardos de Santa Clara ?
text: Did you know that the village of Poljance was mentioned in the Dečani decree, dating to 1330, issued by Serbian King Stephen Uroš III ?
text: Did you know that Hungarian Realist painter Tivadar Zemplényi was awarded a silver medal at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair ?
text: Did you know that in 1812, the British government temporarily made the crime of machine-breaking punishable by death despite Parliament having rejected the same suggestion in 1788?
text: Did you know that the Beirut -based actor and visual artist Rabih Mroué had to premiere a piece in Tokyo because it was banned at home?
text: Did you know that New Jersey Assemblyman Gregory P. McGuckin is the son of the first directly elected mayor of Brick Township, New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now , Maya Angelou 's first book of essays, has been called one of her "wisdom books"?
text: Did you know that French paleontologist Charles Lamberton scathingly rebutted a theory claiming that some extinct, giant lemurs were aquatic and that one of them was an "arboreal-aquatic acrobat"?
text: Did you know that the tragic end of Raj Kapoor 's film Aah (1953) was changed to a happy one after the film's release?
text: Did you know that Indonesian author Kuntowijoyo said he did not follow a blueprint when writing?
text: Did you know that Animal Justice Party , federally registered in May 2011 , is the first Australian political party dedicated to animal rights issues?
text: Did you know that the racehorse Sir Peter Teazle was the first winner of the Derby Stakes to sire another winning colt of the race, siring Sir Harry , Archduke , Ditto and Paris ?
text: Did you know that a Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court was removed from office for not removing a granite monument from the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building in Montgomery, Alabama ?
text: Did you know that small shells of Trigonoconcha are triangular?
text: Did you know that Benito Mussolini admitted that one of the causes of the Italian defeat at the Battle of Himara was the high morale of the Greek troops?
text: Did you know that prosimian primates like lemurs and slow lorises have a "second tongue" called a sublingua , which they use to clean their toothcomb ?
text: Did you know that the Samut Prakan radiation accident resulted from old teletherapy heads left lying around in a car park?
text: Did you know that unlike all modern Thoroughbreds, the 1785 Derby winner Aimwell was not descended in the male line from either the Darley Arabian , the Godolphin Arabian , or the Byerley Turk ?
text: Did you know that findings of Cylindroteuthis and other belemnites in Greenland suggest that an early form of the Gulf Stream existed as early as the Valanginian ( Early Cretaceous )?
text: Did you know that in 1784, the racehorse Serjeant had to run half a mile more than the previous winner, Saltram , in order to win the Derby Stakes ?
text: Did you know that Theological College , a Roman Catholic seminary in Washington, D.C. , educates seminarians from over 30 dioceses around the world?
text: Did you know that according to The New York Times , the "overwhelmingly young" Local Coordination Committees of Syria are starting to "emerge as a pivotal force" in Syria?
text: Did you know that Rhodesian soccer captain Bobby Chalmers , a white man, was assisted in his leadership of the mostly black national team by his proficiency in both Ndebele and Shona ?
text: Did you know that a cluster of streets in Jerusalem's Mekor Baruch neighborhood are named after the Maccabees , heroes of the Hanukkah story?
text: Did you know that attackers broke the legs and hands of journalist Tipu Sultan after he implicated a Bangladeshi MP in an arson attack on a girls' school?
text: Did you know that Edna Clarke Hall 's many drawings and prints based on Wuthering Heights reflected the artist's own periods of emotional crisis?
text: Did you know that the 2012 special election in Zambales' 2nd district was contested by members of three political families in the Philippines ?
text: Did you know that Jordy Mercer and Matt Hague have been baseball teammates in college and the minor leagues since 2008, as both attended Oklahoma State and were drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates ?
text: Did you know that a Skyscraper won the Epsom Derby of 1789?
text: Did you know that Walter D'Arcy Ryan was the first to illuminate the whole of Niagara Falls and also the first to illuminate an entire skyscraper, the Singer Building ?
text: Did you know that although Hasan Dosti initially served as Minister of Justice of the quisling government of Albania during WWII he later joined the resistance movement?
text: Did you know that upon its incorporation of classical studies in 1820, Romney Academy became one of the earliest institutions of higher education in the South Branch Potomac region of present-day West Virginia ?
text: Did you know that a slave found liable for the manifest form of the Roman delict of furtum ("theft") could be thrown from the Tarpeian Rock ?
text: Did you know that the extinct Argentinian bivalve Cuyopsis symmetricus was named for the symmetry of its rectangular shells?
text: Did you know that from 1942 Oliver H. Langeland , and from 1944 to 1945 Lorentz Brinch was in command of D13, a Milorg district with about 7,000 soldiers behind German lines in occupied Norway at the end of World War II?
text: Did you know that Iznik -tiled lunette panels believed to have been removed from Istanbul 's Piyale Pasha Mosque in the 19th century are currently on display in various museums such as the Louvre and the V&A ?
text: Did you know that OK Go band member Damian Kulash was trained in stunt driving for the making of the music video for " Needing/Getting "?
text: Did you know that following the 2011 Libyan civil war , many Tuareg fighters for the defeated government became members of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad , seeking an independent Azawad ?
text: Did you know that Albert Kirchner , who made many pornographic films , was the first filmmaker to direct a film about the life of Christ ?
text: Did you know that Spanish character actor José Manuel Martín starred in one of the earliest Spaghetti Westerns , Savage Guns (1961), and went on to become one of the most prolific villains of the genre?
text: Did you know that the bivalve mollusc Laternula elliptica was collected and first described on an expedition that included HMS Beagle ?
text: Did you know that Pedro Dibut was one of several white Cubans who played baseball in both the Negro leagues and the major leagues before integration ?
text: Did you know that Am Abend , a 1910 German film , was one of the earliest pornographic films ?
text: Did you know that actor Gerald Anthony was called "daytime's answer to Al Pacino " for his portrayal of fictional character Marco Dane on the American soap opera, One Life to Live ?
text: Did you know that with his team HIT Gorica , football manager Edin Osmanović was runner up in the Liga Simobil Vodafone and Slovenian Football Cup and participated in the UEFA Cup ?
text: Did you know that the crinite mariposa lily is found only on serpentine soils of the Klamath Mountains in Douglas County, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that German illustrator Günther Strupp survived Nazi imprisonment and became a contributor to Ulenspiegel , a magazine created by two other survivors?
text: Did you know that the Berkeley Robotics and Human Engineering Laboratory conducts scientific research on design and control of a class of robotic systems worn or operated by humans?
text: Did you know that Raising Hope creator Greg Garcia created a fake Twitter account and pretended to be actor Lucas Neff as a practical joke?
text: Did you know that Douglas W. Owsley of the Smithsonian Institution 's National Museum of Natural History has overseen the forensic examination of over 10,000 human remains from over an 8,000-year time span?
text: Did you know that György Zala 's statue of the Archangel Gabriel won a "Grand Prix" at the Paris Exhibition of 1900 ?
text: Did you know that the Ordovician age bivalve Villicumia has overlapping teeth seen in few other bivalves?
text: Did you know that although the Treaty of Wallingford in 1153 required Roger de Bussy to give up Oxford Castle to King Henry II of England , it is not clear if de Bussy had control of the castle?
text: Did you know that Lawyers for Liberty of Malaysia are trying to save Hamza Kashgari from being executed in Saudi Arabia for three allegedly blasphemous tweets ?
text: Did you know that in the 1930s, James Herman Robinson , who later founded Operation Crossroads Africa , was chased by a lynch mob after encouraging African American churchgoers to vote?
text: Did you know that the 1981 general strike in Bielsko-Biała in Poland forced several officials to lose their jobs?
text: Did you know that members of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors include United Kingdom's most experienced and successful songwriters like Mick Jagger , Paul McCartney and Elton John ?
text: Did you know that the work of the Italian American theater architect Eugene De Rosa includes The Broadway Theatre , built in 1924?
text: Did you know that National Hero of Indonesia Moestopo convinced his soldiers to use manure-covered bamboo spears and eat cats?
text: Did you know that Jack le Goff has been called "one of the greatest coaches in three-day eventing history", as he built a multiple-medal-winning team from previously unknown horses and riders?
text: Did you know that White Heat by Marco Pierre White was described by one critic as "possibly the most influential recipe book of the last 20 years"?
text: Did you know that current Australian Institute of Sport players Tessa Lavey and Olivia Thompson both competed at the 2009 FIBA Under-17 World Championship?
text: Did you know that " Sucker M.C.'s " was the B-side of the first single by Run–D.M.C. ?
text: Did you know that, while running against him for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives , Levi L. Lamborn gave William McKinley a red carnation , which became McKinley's good-luck charm for the rest of his life?
text: Did you know that Fadhila Mubarak was arrested by Bahraini police after approaching a checkpoint with " pro-revolutionary " music playing from her car?
text: Did you know that Russ Oliver , dubbed the "second Red Grange " at age 16, was the fourth University of Michigan athlete to win nine varsity letters in three major sports?
text: Did you know that Ron Gilbert , the creator of the Monkey Island video game series, told Wired that he was an addict of the iPhone and Android video game Game Dev Story ?
text: Did you know that a portion of the song " Make Your Move " by the Christian rock band Third Day was used during the 2010 football game between Alabama and Penn State ?
text: Did you know that New Zealand politician William Thomson was "portly in presence and strong in voice, [and] could both be seen and [be] heard"?
text: Did you know that Caligula , "enflamed with lust", tried to detach wall paintings of Atalanta and Helen of Troy ?
text: Did you know that Turret 18B of Hadrian's Wall may have functioned as a workshop for the repair of shoes?
text: Did you know that Fuahea Semi , a luger who sought to be the first Tongan at the Winter Olympic Games , used the name of a lingerie firm for more than two years?
text: Did you know that the ISNSCE 's Tulip Award in DNA Computing was first given in Leiden , whose botanical garden is known as the birthplace of the tulip culture in the Netherlands?
text: Did you know that Delray Brooks co-founded a professional basketball team?
text: Did you know that the racehorse Noble won the 1786 Derby Stakes despite 30/1 odds against him?
text: Did you know that the title track of Otis Redding 's Pain in My Heart was accused of being a copyright infringement due to similarities with Irma Thomas ' "Ruler of My Heart"?
text: Did you know that the Serbs of Kosovo held a non-binding referendum in which they rejected the Republic of Kosovo 's authority in north Kosovo ?
text: Did you know that juvenile Graeffe's sea cucumbers mimic the bright colouring of the sea slug Phyllidia varicosa , which is toxic ?
text: Did you know that footballer Radim Nečas became the most expensive player in Czechoslovakia when Slavia Prague signed him for 25 million Czechoslovak koruna in 1992?
text: Did you know that the legal case pursued by Adolf Grimme , Greta Kuckhoff and Günther Weisenborn against the Nazi judge who sentenced them dragged on for more than a decade, only to be dropped by the public prosecutor ?
text: Did you know that the writer of the Glee episode " On My Way " wrote " The First Time " first?
text: Did you know that despite entering York City 's team after the start of the 1983–84 season, Alan Pearce played 18 times that season for the side that won the Fourth Division ?
text: Did you know that although the Peshtigo Reef Light incorporates a keeper's dwelling, it has never been permanently manned?
text: Did you know that botanist Reidar Jørgensen was a national champion in middle distance running ?
text: Did you know that Igor Sikorsky told the Wings Club in 1964 that the helicopter would not be replaced by vertical take-off and landing aircraft ?
text: Did you know that the West Cornwall Bryophytes Site of Special Scientific Interest is one of only three sites in the British Isles where the rare liverwort Cephaloziella integerrima can be found?
text: Did you know that the bark of Acacia reficiens is used to curdle milk, and its thorns used to pierce ears in the Kaokoveld region of Namibia ?
text: Did you know that actor and model Jan Uddin , best known for his role in the BBC soap opera EastEnders as Jalil Iqbal , was beaten by his father, who also refused to let him watch television or read books?
text: Did you know that the outdoor spaces of Zeckendorf Towers make up the largest residential green roof in New York ?
text: Did you know that the Robert E. Howard Museum in Cross Plains, Texas , is devoted to the creator of Conan the Barbarian ?
text: Did you know that the 1982 Apple II game Bolo was praised in 2010 for its "surprisingly nice AI enemies"?
text: Did you know that Miikka Kiprusoff became the 27th goaltender in National Hockey League history to win 300 games , reaching the milestone on February 8 , 2012?
text: Did you know that Édouard Joseph Dantan was only 19 when he won a commission for a large religious mural?
text: Did you know that Jon Hunter Spence , author of the 2003 book Becoming Jane Austen , was born in the U.S. state of Georgia but died an Australian citizen?
text: Did you know that Polybius henslowii has more swimming legs than other swimming crabs ?
text: Did you know that the Missouri School for the Blind was the first school in the United States to adopt the Braille system?
text: Did you know that Ohio attorney William A. Lynch once tried a case with a future Supreme Court justice as co-counsel and a future U.S. President as opposing counsel?
text: Did you know that in nine years of circulation, Indonesian literary magazine Poedjangga Baroe had 125 employees or contributors but never more than 150 subscribers?
text: Did you know that the Millennium Park Bus Depot in Delhi overtook the Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv to become the largest bus station in the world?
text: Did you know that English filmmaker Greta Schiller directed the 1976 short film Greta's Girls which is one of the first documentaries that focuses on lesbians ?
text: Did you know that after the Krejci Dump became part of the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area in Ohio, the National Park Service discovered the land qualified for Superfund cleanup?
text: Did you know that in 1896, one newspaper described Charles Dashwood as 'the personification of kindness in his dealing with aborigines'?
text: Did you know that the video game Dustforce won the $100,000 Independent Game Developers prize at the 2010 GDC Online conference ?
text: Did you know that editor Pap Saine was imprisoned for sedition after criticizing the Gambian government response to the murder of his co-editor and childhood friend?
text: Did you know that in 1821, Gustavus became the first of four grey horses to win the Derby Stakes ?
text: Did you know that English photographer Alfred Horsley Hinton , a staunch defender of pictorialism , was once called a "slimy snake" by the American Edward Steichen ?
text: Did you know that the Russian R-29RMU2 Layner submarine-launched ballistic missile is claimed to be the best missile of its type in the world?
text: Did you know that the Aquasar supercomputer architecture uses the heat it generates to warm a university campus?
text: Did you know that Sir Thomas , a racehorse purchased by George, Prince of Wales , became the first horse owned by a member of the British Royal Family to win the Derby Stakes ?
text: Did you know that the chemistry between Slamet Rahardjo and Christine Hakim was chosen as the second best in Indonesian cinema?
text: Did you know that Muddy Waters ' Folk Singer has been described as one of the few "blues albums that qualify as audiophile recordings"?
text: Did you know that journalist Musa Muradov was once trapped in a basement for 14 days by damage from an artillery shell ?
text: Did you know that although Paul Kelly's 1985 first solo single " From St Kilda to Kings Cross " did not chart it was included in "Top 20 Sydney Songs" and "Top 25 Melbourne Songs"?
text: Did you know that the hairy sea cucumber can eject its internal organs to confuse and deter predators ?
text: Did you know that the greatest number of known species of marine fungi are found growing on mangroves including Api Api Putih and Bakau Putih ?
text: Did you know that the developers of Double Fine Happy Action Theater incorporated new game behavior in response to watching children play with their augmented reality game?
text: Did you know that the ballad " Born Again " by the Christian rock band Third Day features vocals from Lacey Mosley of the alternative metal band Flyleaf ?
text: Did you know that St. Vincent's Medical Center Southside , founded as St. Luke's Hospital in 1873, began in a rented, two-room farmhouse in Jacksonville, Florida ?
text: Did you know that the six-rayed star often has to compete with the larger ochre starfish for food?
text: Did you know that Don Barksdale became the first African American basketball player to play in the NBA All-Star Game after he was selected to play in the 1953 game ?
text: Did you know that the first parabolic ski, the Elan SCX , was initially dismissed as a fad but today is considered a major design breakthrough?
text: Did you know that Warren Campbell is one of three Australian rules footballers in South Fremantle 's 1997 Westar Rules Grand Final winning team who had a father or uncle play in South's previous premiership win in the 1980 WAFL Grand Final ?
text: Did you know that Grand-Am regulars John Pew and Oswaldo Negri teamed with NASCAR driver A. J. Allmendinger and IndyCar driver Justin Wilson to win the 2012 24 Hours of Daytona endurance race ?
text: Did you know that the Israeli city of Netanya and Jerusalem’s Straus Street were both named in honor of an owner of Macy's department store?
text: Did you know that rookie cheerleaders from the Jacksonville Roar earn less than $100 for each Jaguars game?
text: Did you know that former American football player Tony Dauksza in 1971 became the first person to traverse the Northwest Passage in anything other than a ship, completing the journey by himself in a canoe?
text: Did you know that the fourth Rebbe of Radomsk , founder of a network of 36 Hasidic yeshivas in pre-war Poland, paid for the education of over 4,000 students out of his own pocket?
text: Did you know that the Marlow, Buckinghamshire gastropub , The Hand and Flowers , owned by chef Tom Kerridge , is the first pub to receive 2 Michelin Stars ?
text: Did you know that the Pallava ruler Narasimhavarman I assumed the title "Vatapi-kondan" or "taker of Vatapi" after his victory in the Battle of Vatapi against the Chalukya king Pulakesin II in 642?
text: Did you know that, starting in 1989, Selena 's brother A.B. Quintanilla III was the main songwriter for her songs ?
text: Did you know that the extinct incense-cedar Calocedrus huashanensis is one of only three conifers found in the Ningming Formation?
text: Did you know that the remains of moats , mottes and a moot are among the 27 scheduled monuments in Maidstone , England?
text: Did you know that Arizona Territorial Governor Joseph Henry Kibbey preferred to be addressed by the title "judge"?
text: Did you know that the White Horse Pagoda, Dunhuang , was built to commemorate "Tianliu", the white horse of the monk Kumārajīva , which carried Buddhist scriptures all the way from Kucha to Dunhuang in China?
text: Did you know that As the World Turns heroine Ellen Lowell was the first major character in any serial to have an illegitimate child?
text: Did you know that Zainal Mustafa , a National Hero of Indonesia , died in 1944, yet his family did not learn of it until 26 years later?
text: Did you know that a childhood desire to know truth led Steve Hagen to Zen Buddhism ?
text: Did you know that when " Who's That Chick? " debuted at number nine on the UK Singles Chart , Rihanna became only the fourth act in UK chart history to have at least three songs in the top ten of the UK Singles Chart?
text: Did you know that Liverpool charity Bradbury Fields runs a club for blind people to ride tandem bicycles ?
text: Did you know that pairs of figures personifying the Church and the Synagogue are found in Christian Medieval art ?
text: Did you know that the name Pachylemur , now used for a type of extinct giant lemur , was first used as group name of primitive primates once considered intermediate between pachyderms and lemurs ?
text: Did you know that Big Nose Kate , who claimed to have witnessed the gunfight at the O.K. Corral , spent her final years at the Arizona Pioneers' Home ?
text: Did you know that despite reaching the 1985 Football League Cup Final , both Norwich and Sunderland were relegated from the First Division at the end of that season ?
text: Did you know that the names of numbers in Georgian are constructed in part using a base-20 system?
text: Did you know that the ESPN Rise boys' high school basketball All-American team was formerly known as the EA Sports All-American team?
text: Did you know that after a close finish at the 1808 Derby Stakes , the owners of the second, third and fourth placed horses all challenged the winner, Pan , to match races ?
text: Did you know that the peachleaf willow was used in traditional Eskimo medicine to treat skin sores and watery eyes?
text: Did you know that English poet and heritage campaigner Sir John Betjeman described the 15th-century Harmondsworth Great Barn as the "Cathedral of Middlesex"?
text: Did you know that A Free Ride is considered to be the earliest surviving American hardcore pornographic film?
text: Did you know that Canterbury Cricket Week is the oldest cricket festival week in England?
text: Did you know that a live concert performance of the Third Day song " Lift Up Your Face " was released along with the rest of the concert to benefit 2011 Joplin Tornado relief for Joplin, Missouri ?
text: Did you know that current Australian Institute of Sport player Sara Blicavs is testing a sport bra for Berlei ?
text: Did you know that Henry Seymour was a secularist and anarchist who introduced the Edison Disc record to England in 1913?
text: Did you know that in the Oval Office , George H. W. Bush used the C&O desk instead of the Resolute desk during his presidential term ?
text: Did you know that hip hop artist Run-D.M.C. performed their first paying gig at the Disco Fever nightclub in the Bronx ?
text: Did you know that the crab Dyspanopeus sayi may have lived in the Venetian Lagoon for 15 years before it was discovered?
text: Did you know that Calais came to be called the "brightest jewel in the English crown" owing to its great importance as the gateway for the tin , lead , cloth and wool trades?
text: Did you know that when judges could not agree the winner of the Best in Show title at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in 1921, a referee gave the prize to the Cocker Spaniel Midkiff Seductive ?
text: Did you know that the German cellist Robert Hausmann was the dedicatee and first performer of both Bruch 's Kol Nidrei and Brahms 's Double Concerto in A minor ?
text: Did you know that the song " Call My Name " by Christian rock band Third Day was covered by country singer Keith Urban ?
text: Did you know that Josh Bell received a US$5 million signing bonus , a record for a player chosen in the second round of the Major League Baseball Draft ?
text: Did you know that one Sam rode another to victory at the 1818 Derby ?
text: Did you know that the flat-headed crocodilian relative Aegisuchus had a circular projection on top of its skull that may have served as an eyespot in mating displays?
text: Did you know that between 1968 and 1971 English non-league football team Sutton Athletic F.C. won three successive promotions whilst also winning three successive league cups ?
text: Did you know that Adelbert Theodor Wangemann recorded the voice of Helmuth von Moltke in 1890, the only known recording of someone born in the 18th century?
text: Did you know that Jonathan Harvey visited Chamonix to sample a thunderclap for use in his opera Wagner Dream ?
text: Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II has owned more than 30 descendants of her first Corgi Susan ?
text: Did you know that in 1968, the German artist Bazon Brock created a sign in the style of a high voltage warning saying "der Tod muß abgeschafft werden ..." ("death must be abolished ...")?
text: Did you know that Sangay , a stratovolcano in Ecuador nicknamed The Frightener in Quechua , has been continuously erupting since 1934?
text: Did you know that after being a major part of Baku in most of the 19th and 20th centuries, the city's Armenian population almost completely disappeared due to a pogrom in 1990 ?
text: Did you know that Cuban journalist Yndamiro Restano Díaz was reportedly released from prison at the request of Danielle Mitterand , the wife of the former President of France ?
text: Did you know that adult Megaphragma mymaripenne wasps are only 200 micrometres long, similar in size to single-celled organisms ?
text: Did you know that the Airedale Terrier Boxwood Barkentine won the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in his very first show as an adult?
text: Did you know that the 1923 Michigan football team 's undefeated season was saved when Edliff Slaughter executed what Fielding Yost called "the greatest play in football I ever saw"?
text: Did you know that the Bach cantata for Sexagesima , Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister, BWV 181 , ends in a chorus of "madrigalian lightness and delicacy perfectly appropriate to the joyous message of the parable "?
text: Did you know that in 1800, Champion became the first racehorse to win both the Derby and the St. Leger Stakes ?
text: Did you know that Samar Badawi and Manal al-Sharif are suing Saudi authorities for rejecting their driving licence applications ?
text: Did you know that the Stone Bridge at Regensburg , probably built in 1135–46, was the city's only bridge across the Danube for about 800 years?
text: Did you know that footballer Andy Flynn played in all of York City 's seven FA Cup games in the 1926–27 season, as the team reached the competition's first round for the first time?
text: Did you know that Blondie , B.C. , and Hägar the Horrible are all zombies ?
text: Did you know that during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 , Indian pilots landed Dakota aircraft at Poonch Airport during the night with the help of oil lamps in the absence of any landing aids?
text: Did you know that the USNS Montford Point , a Mobile Landing Platform , will be a pier at sea for the United States Navy once it enters service in 2015?
text: Did you know that India has 53 urban agglomerations with a population of one million or more as of 2011 against 35 in 2001?
text: Did you know that the only state legislator in Missouri or Illinois to condemn the burning of Francis McIntosh in 1836 was Abraham Lincoln ?
text: Did you know that Phantom , the 1811 winner of the Derby Stakes and the leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland in 1820 and 1824, covered a half-sister to produce Cedric , the winner of the 1824 Derby?
text: Did you know that Japanese skeleton shrimp are invading the coastlines of North America, Europe, and New Zealand?
text: Did you know that the castellan of Sati refused to allow Venetians to capture it after Balša II ceded it to the Venetian Republic in 1395?
text: Did you know that Shiawase no Pan was the tenth highest-grossing film in Japan between 28 and 29 January 2012, despite being released in only 47 cinemas?
text: Did you know that the former Spa Road railway station , opened in 1836, was London 's first railway terminus ?
text: Did you know that according to critic Roger Ebert , Private School reflected a trend of "anti-woman" films?
text: Did you know that Joseph Clarkson Maddison 's designs took both first and second place in a contest to design Christchurch Town Hall?
text: Did you know that Revelation , the tenth studio album by the Christian rock band Third Day , was produced by Howard Benson , a Jew?
text: Did you know that French actress-singer Alice Delysia made her career on the London stage, giving each English line "a sparkle seven times its own"?
text: Did you know that a distilled beverage – Smirnoff vodka – was featured in an American television commercial for the first time in decades in a spot produced by The Glover Park Group ?
text: Did you know that Jon Weber played on four consecutive minor league baseball championship teams?
text: Did you know that the extinct bivalve subfamily Praenuculinae can be told apart from its sister subfamily by looking at teeth?
text: Did you know that American poet Peter Filkins was the first to translate Czech writer H. G. Adler 's novels, described by The New Yorker as "modernist masterpieces", into English?
text: Did you know that the King and Queen pub in Brighton , the Clayton & Black firm's Mock Tudor "pantomime", has hosted Miss Miniskirt competitions and Margaret Thatcher ?
text: Did you know that attendance at meetings of New York's Albany Institute declined in the 1830s because members were bored by papers presented by the group's meteorologist ?
text: Did you know that Russian submarine B-585 Saint Petersburg was launched on the 300th anniversary of the Russian city of Saint Petersburg ?
text: Did you know that Captain America in: The Doom Tube of Dr. Megalomann was the first appearance of Captain America in a video game?
text: Did you know that the clawless lobster Tricarina is known from a single fossil , obtained from an oil well 3,852 m (12,638 ft) below ground in western Iran ?
text: Did you know that Queens Park Rangers came from two goals down at half time in the 1967 Football League Cup Final to eventually win with a goal scored by Mark Lazarus ?
text: Did you know that King Gustav III of Sweden, in an experiment , commuted the death sentences of a pair of twins on the condition that one drank 3 pots of coffee , and the other tea , every day for the rest of their lives?
text: Did you know that Buenos Aires seceded from the Argentine Confederation from 1852 to 1861?
text: Did you know that Downing Hall was once the home of naturalist Thomas Pennant , who described it as being "incapable of being improved into a magnitude exceeding the revenue of the family"?
text: Did you know that Gerardo Concepción won the 2010–11 Cuban National Series Rookie of the Year Award ?
text: Did you know that tartar emetic is used to induce vomiting in birds to determine their diet?
text: Did you know that the medieval royal official Herbert of Winchester is likely the same person as "H.", who tried to assassinate King Henry I of England in 1118 and was blinded and castrated in punishment?
text: Did you know that the racehorse Azor won the 1817 Derby Stakes after being entered in the race only to act as a pacemaker for a more highly regarded stable companion?
text: Did you know that lumber magnate Theodore B. Basselin willed most of his fortune to The Catholic University of America to create a scholarship for young men studying for the Catholic priesthood ?
text: Did you know that North Korea competed in an international sporting event hosted by South Korea for the first time in 2002 ?
text: Did you know that the Malahat , a 246-foot (75 m) sailing ship, delivered more illegal liquor during Prohibition than any other rum-runner ?
text: Did you know that after Lord Grosvenor 's Rhadamanthus and John Bull won the Derby Stakes in 1790 and 1792, only three horses showed up in 1794 to run against and lose to his Daedalus in the smallest field in Derby history?
text: Did you know that neighbors of the Hastings Prototype House in New York compared its Moderne appearance to an appliance?
text: Did you know that Carina Vance Mafla 's campaign to shut down "torture clinics" that try to turn lesbians straight began years before she was appointed Ecuador 's Minister for Public Health?
text: Did you know that Olympic bronze medalist John Russell was a member of the United States' last military delegation to equestrian at the Summer Olympics as well as its first civilian one?
text: Did you know that in a 1998 case the Singapore Court of Appeal held the Internal Security Act contained no precedent facts as Parliament clearly intended that detention decisions were to be made by the Government ?
text: Did you know that the Archives of American Gardens holds images and records of over 6,350 United States gardens, many of which were collected by the Garden Club of America in the 1920s?
text: Did you know that Lydd Town F.C. were promoted after winning their league five times in a row?
text: Did you know that Eugene Eisenmann worked as a lawyer before writing The Species of Middle American Birds for the Linnaean Society of New York ?
text: Did you know that although the title of the postwar satirical journal Ulenspiegel means "owl mirror" in High German , in Low German it means "kiss my behind"?
text: Did you know that the racehorses Assassin , Hannibal , Cardinal Beaufort , Election and Lap-dog won the Derby Stakes in 1782, 1804, 1805, 1807 and 1826 respectively, making the 3rd Earl of Egremont the first-ever owner of five Derby winners?
text: Did you know that five years after winning a Military Cross for "conspicuous gallantry" in the Great War , Roy Royston was playing leading man on stage in Little Nellie Kelly ?
text: Did you know that the eight-century-old Xinye Village is acclaimed as China's largest open-air museum of ancient residences?
text: Did you know that Larry Jeffries was twice named the Southland Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year while playing for the Trinity Tigers ?
text: Did you know that Caesar led the funeral procession of King Edward VII , ahead of nine kings and a number of other heads of state?
text: Did you know that 76-year-old Muslim rocker Laila Sari performs in a headscarf?
text: Did you know that the Darmstadt Windspiel , a German sailplane which set a 1934 world distance record, was silk covered and weighed less than its pilots?
text: Did you know that Rhino made his surprise debut for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling at their 2005 No Surrender pay-per-view event?
text: Did you know that among the displays at the 1914 Jubilee Exhibition in Kristiania were locomotives, a farm, an African village and a ski collection?
text: Did you know that the Adriatic Sea receives one third of freshwater flowing into the Mediterranean ?
text: Did you know that Don Eigler shared the 2010 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience for using a scanning tunneling microscope tip to arrange 35 xenon atoms to spell out the letters " IBM "?
text: Did you know that Russian Presidential press attaché Natalya Timakova , rated the third most powerful woman in Russian politics in 2011, allowed Wikipedia to use materials from the Presidential website Kremlin.ru?
text: Did you know that the prototype of the Kaproni Bulgarski KB-11 Fazan , a Bulgarian Army liaison aircraft of World War II , was nicknamed " Quasimodo "?
text: Did you know that due to a dead heat , the racehorse Cadland had to run twice to win the 1828 Derby Stakes ?
text: Did you know that journalist Freedom Neruda was imprisoned in 1996 for satirizing the Ivorian President and was named one of the "50 World Press Freedom Heroes" in 2000?
text: Did you know that a broken right ankle prevented Earl Belcher from playing in the NBA , and he is now a professional jazz musician?
text: Did you know that the Muscogee people rubbed moistened tramp's trouble on their faces to enhance their youthfulness?
text: Did you know that the Overmyer-Waggoner-Roush Farm near Lindsey included a tree farm at a time when most Ohio farmers saw woodlots as nuisances?
text: Did you know that Shieh Chung-liang was sued for libel after reporting that Taiwan 's Kuomintang political party had offered a donation to Bill Clinton 's re-election campaign ?
text: Did you know that Michael Choice is the first University of Texas at Arlington baseball player to be drafted in the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft ?
text: Did you know that the Umayyad defeat in the " Day of Thirst " led to the almost complete loss of Muslim control over Transoxiana over a period of fifteen years?
text: Did you know that journalist Pavel Sheremet triggered a "public row" between Belarus and Russia by hopping a border fence?
text: Did you know that the Zuihō class aircraft carriers were originally built as submarine tenders which could be converted into light aircraft carriers or fleet oilers ?
text: Did you know that the first uterus transplant in the world with an organ taken from a cadaver was performed by Dr. Ömer Özkan and his team at the Akdeniz University ?
text: Did you know that the New Zealand Anglican clergyman William Orange amassed a library of 15,000 titles during his life?
text: Did you know that in humans, 1-lysolecithin can be hydrolyzed by at least ten different enzymes ?
text: Did you know that Mildred Lewis Rutherford thought that the only problem with slavery was the burden it placed on white slaveholders?
text: Did you know that Ekso Bionics develop intelligent exoskeletons that can be strapped on as wearable robots , and can enhance the strength, mobility, and endurance of soldiers and paraplegics?
text: Did you know that following the death of Samir Ghawshah , Ahmed Majdalani succeeded him as secretary-general of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front ?
text: Did you know that the setting for the children's show The Adventures of Abney & Teal was inspired by Victoria Park, London ?
text: Did you know that the commotion following the racehorse Smolensko 's victory at the 1813 Derby Stakes resulted in an overthrown phaeton and a broken arm amongst the spectators?
text: Did you know that Nazi Germany gave newlyweds interest-free loans that were forgiven if the couple had four children?
text: Did you know that according to legend, Robert Kirk was taken to fairyland for revealing the secrets of the Good People ?
text: Did you know that Tuhama Ma'rouf of the Syrian Communist Labour Party was designated a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International after her arrest in February 2011 ?
text: Did you know that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Balecium still exists although Baleč was destroyed in the 15th century?
text: Did you know that eleven of journalist Ignacio Gómez 's colleagues at El Espectador were murdered in the first fourteen years of his career?
text: Did you know that Sandi Patty has won more GMA Dove Awards for Vocalist of the Year than anyone else?
text: Did you know that the son of Hans Dessauer , a coloured paper manufacturer in Aschaffenburg , left Germany in 1929, changed his name to John H. Dessauer and wrote the book My Years with Xerox , The Billions Nobody Wanted ?
text: Did you know that thiophosphoryl fluoride ignites spontaneously in air, but burns too cold to hurt anyone?
text: Did you know that the largest of the 67 Petit & Fritsen cast bells of the Thomas Rees Memorial Carillon weighs 15,000 pounds (6,800 kg)?
text: Did you know that Robert Runyon photographed significant events of the Mexican Revolution , discovered several new plant species, and was mayor of Brownsville, Texas ?
text: Did you know that by winning the 2011–12 PBA Philippine Cup Finals , the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters became the first team in 27 years to successfully defend an All-Filipino Championship?
text: Did you know that Jineth Bedoya Lima was abducted, tortured, and raped following her reporting on Colombian paramilitary groups ?
text: Did you know that members of the extinct bivalve genus Hemiconcavodonta are unique in the subfamily Concavodontinae in that their teeth point in two directions?
text: Did you know that Christmas Gift Evans House was not a Christmas gift?
text: Did you know that Anders Behring Breivik , the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks , was a member of the anti-Islam group Norwegian Defence League , a sister organization of the English Defence League ?
text: Did you know that Francis Arkwright was a Member of Parliament and Legislative Council in two different countries?
text: Did you know that pediatric neurologist Paul M. Ellwood, Jr. coined the term " health maintenance organization " (HMO) in the American health care system?
text: Did you know that Shackles was the first Indonesian novel to portray a prostitute sympathetically?
text: Did you know that Canadian national Naser al-Raas was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for attending a rally of the 2011 Bahraini uprising ?
text: Did you know that after his victory in 1802, Tyrant was described by a contemporary sports writer as "one of the worst horses that ever won a Derby "?
text: Did you know that Steven Gan took advantage of a loophole in Malaysian Internet law to create the country's first independent news source ?
text: Did you know that despite many critics writing that " Stupid in Love " was about Rihanna and Chris Brown 's altercation on the night of the 51st Grammy Awards , the song was written two days before the event?
text: Did you know that Arodys Vizcaíno ' s fastball has been recorded as fast as 101 miles per hour (163 km/h)?
text: Did you know that the Central Committee of the Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia included only one woman?
text: Did you know that, as a publisher and literary critic, Drago Siliqi increased translation of foreign literature into Albanian and encouraged Ismail Kadare to write his first novel, The General of the Dead Army ?
text: Did you know that after the Thoroughbred racehorse Bloomsbury won the 1839 Derby Stakes , his identity was questioned and bookmakers refused to pay out on "winning" bets?
text: Did you know that the oldest jockey to win the Derby Stakes was John Forth, who rode Frederick to victory in 1829?
text: Did you know that the Helena train wreck of 1989 occurred during a record cold snap that ranked No. 4 on the NOAA's list of Montana's Top Weather/Water/Climate events of the 20th century?
text: Did you know that Al-Ashraf Musa 's defection from the Mongol coalition was critical for the Mamluks ' victory during the Battle of Ain Jalut ?
text: Did you know that Bob Wasserman served as police chief, city councilman, and mayor of the city of Fremont, California ?
text: Did you know that the stems of blaspheme vine are "viciously armed" with prickles ?
text: Did you know that the disused Barnes Cemetery in Barnes , west London , is said to be haunted by a ghostly nun hovering over the grave of the victim of a notorious murder ?
text: Did you know that the Rosemount ski boot , one of the earliest all-plastic designs, was invented by a company better known for aerospace instruments ?
text: Did you know that current Canberra Capitals players Jessica Bibby and Natalie Porter were both 2000 WNBA draft picks?
text: Did you know that the actress Helen Barry , who starred in London and New York, married an ex- Mayor of Monmouth ?
text: Did you know that the fruit of mountain snowberry honeysuckle is eaten by the yellow-billed magpie ?
text: Did you know that Louis de Saint-Just and Maximilien Robespierre dined at the Ledoyen two days before they were executed on 26 July 1794?
text: Did you know that Gabriel Duvall has been called the least significant justice in the history of the Supreme Court of the United States ?
text: Did you know that the extinct horsetail Equisetum thermale grew in Jurassic hot springs?
text: Did you know that International Press Freedom Award laureate María Cristina Caballero began reporting for a Bogotá newspaper at the age of 16?
text: Did you know that Ilaiyaraaja won three Best Music Direction awards during the 1980s at the National Film Awards (India)?
text: Did you know that John Stone missed only three games for York City in the 1973–74 season as the club won promotion to the Second Division for the first time?
text: Did you know that Christopher Werner made a lifelike South Carolina Palmetto tree out of iron, copper, and brass?
text: Did you know that in 1917 Ida Adams recorded for His Master's Voice the song from Houp La! "Oh! How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wacki Woo"?
text: Did you know that Photo Bits , a soft porn magazine published from 1898 to 1914, was the first pin-up magazine in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that 70 metres (230 ft) down Sima de las Cotorras , a giant sinkhole inhabited by thousands of parakeets , there are rock paintings on the sheer cliff wall painted 5–10 thousand years ago?
text: Did you know that one reviewer thought ZX Spectrum computer game Moonlight Madness should have been called Daylight Robbery due to its price?
text: Did you know that the death of singer Melky Goeslaw led to greater interest in male breast cancer in Indonesia?
text: Did you know that Blücher was at Epsom when Blucher won the Derby ?
text: Did you know that the Caribbean seagrass elysia , a sea slug , prefers star grass to other seagrasses ?
text: Did you know that Dwyane Wade has played more minutes, scored more points, made more field goals , made more free throws and recorded more assists than any other player in Miami Heat history ?
text: Did you know that the 1727 Bach cantata for a solo soprano Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Glücke, BWV 84 , one of few works Bach named "Cantata" himself, shows the spirit of the beginning Enlightenment ?
text: Did you know that the Governor is the only state government official in Tennessee who is directly elected by the voters of the entire state?
text: Did you know that Aboubakr Jamaï went on a hunger strike after his newspapers were banned in Morocco ?
text: Did you know that Jeremy Irons guest-starred in The Simpsons episode " Moe Goes from Rags to Riches " as the voice of a bar rag?
text: Did you know that the last Batak priest-king Sisingamangaraja XII was shot and killed by Dutch troops in 1907, ending his thirty-year war against the colonisation of Sumatra ?
text: Did you know that according to one critic, Rihanna appeared to embody the same "spiraling dance-floor siren" persona on " Complicated " as she did on the album's lead single, " Only Girl (In the World) "?
text: Did you know that Mildred Seydell was one of the first female newspaper journalists in the State of Georgia?
text: Did you know that Afghanistan , Burma , India , Pakistan , and Philippines were the first five members of the Asian Games Federation ?
text: Did you know that Hubert Brooks was one of only five RCAF members to receive the Military Cross during World War II and that his citation was the longest?
text: Did you know that the hosts of C-SPAN series American Writers visited a meat processing plant to discuss Upton Sinclair 's The Jungle ?
text: Did you know that each of the three volumes of Taylor Branch 's history of the civil rights movement were given names from aspects of the Book of Exodus ?
text: Did you know that in the 1945 Canadian federal election , Yukon Communist Tom McEwen came within 162 votes of being elected to parliament?
text: Did you know that the Gilbert-Sinton neighborhood grew rapidly along Cincinnati 's first streetcar line?
text: Did you know that after being selected third overall in the 2008 MLB Draft , Eric Hosmer was given a six million dollar signing bonus, the largest in Kansas City Royals history?
text: Did you know that a mildly retarded man gives away his family's fortune in Eudora Welty 's The Ponder Heart ?
text: Did you know that the winner of the 1831 Derby Stakes , Spaniel , was also the smallest horse in the race?
text: Did you know that Wu Ying , named China's sixth richest woman at the age of 25, has been sentenced to death for financial fraud?
text: Did you know that the architecture of Turkey has been influenced by many architects from Germany and Austria invited between 1924 and 1942 to work in Ankara ?
text: Did you know that XTERRA World Champion Lesley Paterson plans to co-produce a remake of the Oscar-winning 1930 film All Quiet on the Western Front ?
text: Did you know that while the fifty-seventh episode of Glee features newly cast actors to introduce Rachel 's two fathers, the actors cast to play them in 2009 were cut from the second episode ?
text: Did you know that in 1992 the leader of the Gambela People's Liberation Movement , Agwa Alemu , was killed by his own troops?
text: Did you know that Mündig never competed on a racecourse prior to winning the 1835 Derby Stakes , and bookmakers were misled to lengthen his odds based on false information fed to them by his trainer ?
text: Did you know that South West Queensland had Australia's first opal discovery, Australia's first natural gas strike and Australia's largest cotton farm?
text: Did you know that the ending to Miami Vice 's " Out Where the Buses Don't Run " "set a new standard for TV direction"?
text: Did you know that one of the essays in William Gibson 's new non-fiction collection Distrust That Particular Flavor caused Wired magazine to be banned in Singapore ?
text: Did you know that Suburgatory star Jane Levy was named on Forbes 2011 list of 30 under 30 who are "reinventing the world"?
text: Did you know that during colonial times, the French used Muang Sing as a weigh station and market for their opium monopoly?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball 's Detroit Wolverines used a Lady as their Opening Day starting pitcher in 1887, the year they won the World Series ?
text: Did you know that in the early phase of the Ethiopian revolution , the underground publication Yäsäffiw hezb dems was widely distributed in spite of military censorship?
text: Did you know that the racehorse Young Eclipse , winner of the second Derby ever held, later sired a second horse named Young Eclipse, who came second in the 1802 Derby?
text: Did you know that Vashon High School in St. Louis, Missouri , has won 14 state basketball championships since 1934?
text: Did you know that cuneiform tablets found at the ancient city-state of Ugarit include several letters of reprimand sent to its king Ibiranu by Hittite overlords?
text: Did you know that comparison of displacement patterns along the Imperial Fault during the 1940 El Centro and 1979 Imperial Valley earthquakes shows that fault slips occurred in at least two discrete "patches"?
text: Did you know that, in the 1840s, the congregation of the First Congregational Church in Guilford, Connecticut , underwent a split due to differing views on the abolition of slavery ?
text: Did you know that Novo Sancti Petri in Chiclana de la Frontera contains a golf course designed by Severiano Ballesteros ?
text: Did you know that Pres Mull was one of the first Distinguished Alumni of Appalachian State University ?
text: Did you know that athletes from 17 of the 21 competing NPCs won at least one medal in the 1964 Summer Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that the Autolib' scheme plans to make 3,000 electric cars available to the Parisian public for rental by late 2012?
text: Did you know that " Missing My Baby " was one of the first songs to be played on radio stations after Selena was murdered ?
text: Did you know that BJ Birdy , the first mascot of the Toronto Blue Jays , also starred in a Toronto Star comic strip created by the mascot's performer?
text: Did you know that mandatory, prohibiting and quashing orders, and the order for review of detention, which are remedies available in Singapore administrative law , derive from ancient British prerogative writs ?
text: Did you know that Central VPA High School in St. Louis, Missouri , is the oldest public high school west of the Mississippi River?
text: Did you know that Australian basketball players Nicole Romeo and Michaela Dalgleish both played basketball at an American university for a single year?
text: Did you know that elimination of the United States Department of Commerce has been proposed by both President Barack Obama and former Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry ?
text: Did you know that Littlehampton Fort was the first in Britain to be built with a Carnot wall ?
text: Did you know that members of the Canadian indie rock band Reverie Sound Revue sent sound files to each other via e-mail in order to record their first studio album ?
text: Did you know that Jacksonville , Florida's most populous city and largest in area , has the only consolidated city-county government in the state?
text: Did you know that the main building of Hamburg 's university of fine arts, Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg , was designed by architect Fritz Schumacher and completed in 1913?
text: Did you know that Australian basketball player Rebecca Haynes played basketball for three different American universities?
text: Did you know that the College of Arms was reincorporated by Queen Mary I on 18 July 1555, although its officers of arms had proclaimed her rival Lady Jane Grey as rightful queen two years earlier?
text: Did you know that effects unit builder Robert Keeley attributes his commercial success to low tolerance ?
text: Did you know that near Tresilian Bay in Wales, there is a cave where couples throw stones to find out how long they should wait before they get married?
text: Did you know that although " A Scandal in Belgravia ", the first episode of the second series of Sherlock , was well-received by reviewers, the BBC got complaints for showing its nude scene too early in the evening?
text: Did you know that current Canberra Capitals players Molly Lewis and Mikaela Dombkins both played for the AIS and Sydney Uni Flames ?
text: Did you know that author Lucy O'Brien was criticized for giving too much emphasis to singer Madonna 's discography in the biography Madonna: Like an Icon ?
text: Did you know that Basil Salvadore D'Souza , Bishop of Mangalore Diocese from 1965 until his death in 1996, was the longest-serving bishop in the diocese's history?
text: Did you know that Ciudad Deportiva Millito Navarro , a multi-sport complex currently being built in Ponce, Puerto Rico , is named after Emilio Navarro , the first Puerto Rican to play in Negro league baseball ?
text: Did you know that the First Congregational Church of Litchfield , now regarded as iconic, was replaced in 1873 after being said to have "not a single line or feature ... suggesting taste or beauty"?
text: Did you know that in 2011 Indonesian businessman Erick Thohir became the first Asian to own an NBA franchise?
text: Did you know that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Seling v. Young that laws authorizing civil commitment of sexual predators are not criminal laws?
text: Did you know that the Ellerslie Eagles , a club in the Auckland Rugby League celebrating its centenary later this year, did not officially become known as the Eagles until 1971?
text: Did you know that it took almost 10 years for the Swedish power metal band Timeless Miracle to release its début album ?
text: Did you know that in Christian doctrine, the Humiliation of Christ was willingly accepted by him?
text: Did you know that after winning the 1819 Derby Stakes , the racehorse Tiresias overcame his jockey's restraints, left the racecourse and galloped into town ?
text: Did you know that in his speech of June 9, 1989 , Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping implicitly compared the Tiananmen Square shootings to the 1970 Kent State shootings ?
text: Did you know that rugby player Frédéric Banquet scored the first ever try in Super League history?
text: Did you know that young fronds of the prickly rasp fern are pink-tinged?
text: Did you know that the Steven Curtis Chapman song " Long Way Home " features the ukelele , an instrument which Chapman said "you can't frown and play"?
text: Did you know that Avram Miletić , who wrote Serbian songs, was a grandfather of Svetozar Miletić , the 19th-century leader of Serbs in Vojvodina ?
text: Did you know that juvenile cushion stars look so different from their seniors that they were thought to belong to a species in a different biological family ?
text: Did you know that there is no official list of the world's most wanted criminal fugitives ?
text: Did you know that Alexander is the first solo album created by Alex Ebert , lead singer of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Ima Robot ?
text: Did you know that the Society of Friends of the Constitution , formed in 1791 to support the Constitution of 3 May , was the first Polish political party ?
text: Did you know that Canberra Capitals player Michelle Cosier took a year off from basketball because she was pregnant?
text: Did you know that in Bach's mature 1735 chorale cantata Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit, BWV 14 , the cantus firmus of Luther 's hymn is played by horn and oboes, while the voices perform a counter-fugue ?
text: Did you know that the Bozeman Carnegie Library was intentionally built across from Bozeman, Montana 's red-light district and opium dens?
text: Did you know that Canberra Capitals player Hannah Bowley also plays Australian rules football ?
text: Did you know that wild black currants are commonly made into jam and jelly ?
text: Did you know that the design of KitchenAid stand mixers has barely changed since the 1930s?
text: Did you know that Lorna Kesterson worked as a newspaper journalist and editor until her election as the first female mayor of Henderson, Nevada ?
text: Did you know that Tumba-Ngiri-Maindombe is the largest Ramsar Convention wetland in the world, over twice the size of Belgium?
text: Did you know that former U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes spoke at the ceremony to lay the cornerstone of the Sandusky County Jail and Sheriff's House in Fremont, Ohio ?
text: Did you know that 8 million visitors to Expo 67 in Montreal saw Probošt's mechanical Christmas crib , a unique Czech nativity scene ?
text: Did you know that Georgios Stavros , who appeared on various Greek banknotes issued before 1932, was the founding governor of the National Bank of Greece ?
text: Did you know that former journalist hostage Terry A. Anderson led a campaign for the release of Turkish editor Ocak Işık Yurtçu ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian songstress Vina Panduwinata outperformed Janet Jackson and David Pomeranz at the 1985 World Popular Song Festival ?
text: Did you know that Saeed Malekpour , an Iranian web designer and Canadian permanent resident , has been sentenced to death by Iran for allegedly designing and moderating pornographic websites ?
text: Did you know that the film 10 Promises to My Dog is based on a novel that was inspired by The Ten Commandments of Dog Ownership ?
text: Did you know that Jubbet ad-Dib was established near Bethlehem by Bedouin from the Bani Harb in 1929?
text: Did you know that despite missing their four best batsmen , the Matabeleland Tuskers cricket team won the final of the 2010–11 Logan Cup ?
text: Did you know that after winning the 2000 Guineas in 1932, the racehorse Orwell started as the 5/4 favourite for the Epsom Derby , but finished ninth and was found to be lame afterwards?
text: Did you know that Janja Kantakouzenos was executed together with his two brothers, four sons, and twelve grandchildren?
text: Did you know that the gender of an East Canary Gecko is determined by the temperature at which the egg is incubated ?
text: Did you know that the Nevada–California–Oregon Railway Station in Lakeview, Oregon , was built in 1912 for $15,000?
text: Did you know that George Bazeley , Mark Paterson , Liam de Young , Tim Deavin and Andrew Charter moved to Perth so they could train with the Australia men's national field hockey team ?
text: Did you know that Leona Lewis released Hurt: The EP as something for her fans to "bridge the gap" while she finishes recording for her third studio album, Glassheart ?
text: Did you know that Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies is the home to the largest optical telescope in Sri Lanka ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian writer Clara Ng was reportedly able to read The Adventures of Tintin by kindergarten?
text: Did you know that the magnitude of the 1762 Arakan earthquake may have been as high as 8.8?
text: Did you know that the music of Bach's cantata Alles, was von Gott geboren, BWV 80a , composed in Weimar for the Lenten Sunday Oculi , is lost, but he later expanded most of the music in BWV 80 ?
text: Did you know that the Abbasid invasion of Asia Minor in 806 was the largest expedition ever launched by the Abbasid Caliphate , and forced Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I to pay a head tax for himself and his son?
text: Did you know that since 1997, while the junior national softball team has won four Junior World Championships in a row, the Australia men's national softball team has only won one World Championship ?
text: Did you know that pioneering ecologist William Gardner Smith only became active in the field after the sudden death of his brother Robert, who had left an unfinished manuscript that William completed?
text: Did you know that Havana on the Hudson takes its name from the influx of Cuban émigrés and exiles to towns on the Hudson River ?
text: Did you know that Borsig Palace , the German Vice-Chancellor 's official residence and offices in Berlin, became the new headquarters of Hitler 's Storm Troopers (SA) after the " Night of the Long Knives " in 1934?
text: Did you know that " The Aleph " in Jorge Luis Borges 's short story is an allusion to Cantor 's cardinality of transfinite sets , demonstrating the influence of mathematics on his writing ?
text: Did you know that Westmead Hawk , winner of the English Greyhound Derby in 2005 and 2006, sired Taylors Sky , the winner in 2011?
text: Did you know that listeners have heard the backward message "You know Satan holds the keys" in Cheap Trick 's 1979 song " Gonna Raise Hell "?
text: Did you know that in vocabulary development from age six to eight, the average child in school is learning six to seven words per day?
text: Did you know that before being forced to resign from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1987 for homosexuality, Joseph Steffan sang the U.S. National Anthem at two Army–Navy games ?
text: Did you know that the shelling of Stepanakert , during the Nagorno-Karabakh War , caused mass casualties and widespread damage?
text: Did you know that Ali al-Sulayhi , originally an Ismaili missionary, brought all of Yemen under the control of his Sulayhid dynasty before capturing Mecca in 1063?
text: Did you know that the 1880 Michigan football team played its only game in a foreign country and at a lacrosse club?
text: Did you know that Lazaret , a northern suburb of Niamey , Niger , contained the largest refugee camp in the Sahel during the extreme drought of 1973–1975?
text: Did you know that the Throne of Maximian has scenes from the Book of Genesis carved into it?
text: Did you know that Bernhard Kummer regarded the conversion of the Germanic peoples as a cultural catastrophe and thus titled his doctoral thesis Midgards Untergang ?
text: Did you know that WWI British flying ace Valentine Collins , who scored his victories from a Bristol F.2b , teamed up with William Bostock , future air vice-marshal of the Royal Australian Air Force ?
text: Did you know that Marion, Utah , used to be called Denmark ?
text: Did you know that the Iberian frog includes beetles , caddisflies and spiders in its diet?
text: Did you know that Wallace Wade led the 1930 Alabama Crimson Tide football team to the national championship after he announced his resignation as head coach prior to the start of the season?
text: Did you know that Fedor Baranov , a founding father of fisheries science , was saved from a Gulag by one of his students?
text: Did you know that Eskimos harvested the leaves of diamondleaf willow in the spring and stored them in seal oil for later eating?
text: Did you know that Indonesian radio personality Sys NS wanted to open a museum to pornography but later destroyed his collection?
text: Did you know that until its conviction for trafficking in wiretapping equipment , the Spy Factory was the largest chain of spy shops in the United States?
text: Did you know that Crissi Cochrane reached No. 5 in the Canada national folk chart for campus/community radio?
text: Did you know that Karnail Singh Stadium has been banned from hosting Ranji Trophy cricket matches for the 2012–13 season after the pitch used in a match in the previous season was found to be in "poor condition"?
text: Did you know that Giorgio Strehler owned both the Piccolo Teatro in Milan and Teatro San Ferdinando in Naples , and that the latter once featured actors such as Enzo Petito ?
text: Did you know that Oka Antara both starved and splurged for his role in The Dancer ?
text: Did you know that Republic Steel executive Charles M. White authorized the spending of almost US$12,000 on tear gas and handguns in 1935, the year workers at one of the company's plants voted to form a union ?
text: Did you know that proximity fuzed anti-aircraft ammunition was used by ships in the European Theatre of World War II for the first time during the amphibious Battle of Gela in July 1943 ?
text: Did you know that Africadoc , an organization for African documentary makers founded in 2002, initially expanded within French-speaking African countries?
text: Did you know that the Days of our Lives character Nancy Wesley was used to promote food franchisor Mrs. Fields ?
text: Did you know that part of the financing for the first published work by Romanian communist activist Mihail Roller reportedly came from Baptists ?
text: Did you know that George Harrison 's 1973 solo song " Living in the Material World " includes all his former Beatles bandmates Paul McCartney , John Lennon and Ringo Starr ?
text: Did you know that in 2012 the World Bank presidential election will include non-American candidates for the first time?
text: Did you know that Australian field hockey player Matthew Gohdes is the cousin of Kookaburras teammate Jamie Dwyer , and rooms with teammate Matthew Swann ?
text: Did you know that a 7th-century grave in Cambridge discovered in 2011 held the remains of an Anglo-Saxon teenage girl who was lying on a bed , with a gold and garnet cross on her breast?
text: Did you know that as early as 1919, women's garden clubs in the United States were campaigning against highway billboards ?
text: Did you know that the Beau Street Hoard , found in Bath , consists of an estimated 30,000 Roman silver coins and is the largest ever found in a former Roman town in Britain ?
text: Did you know that the OsRox Mission secured the Hare–Hawes–Cutting Act , which divided the Philippine Legislature into two opposing camps, the Antis and the Pros?
text: Did you know that the 2011 album Gravity the Seducer by Ladytron has been described as having "a feminine warmth"?
text: Did you know that before modern paleontology came about, fossils of Encrinus went by a number of names in Germany, including "sun wheels", " Saint Boniface 's pennies", and "witches' money"?
text: Did you know that British ecologist Arthur Tansley , founder of the British Ecological Society and the journal New Phytologist , introduced the concept of the ecosystem in 1935?
text: Did you know that Hans Uwe Hielscher played the 1500th weekly organ recital during market time at the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden in a series he initiated some 30 years earlier?
text: Did you know that Rambhadracharya was deposed as an expert witness in the Ram Janmabhoomi Babri Masjid dispute in July 2003 ?
text: Did you know that at the age of 13 years and 268 days, Marjorie Gestring was the youngest competitor to win an Olympic gold medal?
text: Did you know that Pevsner called Arthur Blomfield ' s All Souls Church, Hastings a "serious town church", but claimed "absolutely nothing can be said" about the architect's St Leodegar's Church, Hunston ?
text: Did you know that when Herbert Ernest Hart was appointed Deputy Controller of the Imperial War Graves Commission based in Jerusalem , unrest in the region meant he had to live in Cairo instead?
text: Did you know that in 1864 the world's first salmon cannery was established in North America on a barge in the Sacramento River ?
text: Did you know that eight of Danish Kaneria 's international cricket five-wicket hauls have come in victory for Pakistan , while three have been in defeats?
text: Did you know that the countercultural Club 7 got its name because it should be "more than 6 "?
text: Did you know that the now demolished Ida B. Wells Homes in Chicago were the location of both LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman's Peabody Award -winning radio documentary and Frederick Wiseman ' s Public Housing ?
text: Did you know that after 42 years of being played in Las Vegas, the World Series of Poker has expanded to South Africa ?
text: Did you know that the Cwm in Llanrothal , a college on the Monmouthshire – Herefordshire border, was a "stronghold" of Roman Catholics like Henry Milbourne in the 17th century?
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text: Did you know that United States v. Cotterman showed that property presented for inspection at a United States border can be seized and held for a reasonable time to be sent elsewhere for further examination?
text: Did you know that Henry C. Kellers of the U.S. Navy collected over 10,000 biological specimens from the Philippines for the Smithsonian Institution in 1929?
text: Did you know that Scottish missionary to India Stephen Hislop discovered the fossil reptile Brachyops laticeps ?
text: Did you know that during an 1888 visit to Ann Arbor, Michigan , Theodore Roosevelt quipped that it was "not healthy to get in the way of the U. of M. rugby team "?
text: Did you know that the 2011 film October Baby was based on the experiences of abortion survivor Gianna Jessen ?
text: Did you know that Colonel John Boyd 's Patterns of Conflict , a presentation on military strategy, became so influential that he was summoned by Dick Cheney to help plan for Desert Storm ?
text: Did you know that professional baseball player Scott Beerer briefly retired to become an emergency medical technician ?
text: Did you know that residents and preservationists have fought to save the Julia C. Lathrop Homes from demolition by the Chicago Housing Authority ?
text: Did you know that Ian Molyneux , who was awarded a posthumous George Medal for trying to disarm a murderous sailor on a nuclear submarine, had previously started and run an under-12 rugby league team?
text: Did you know that the miniatures in the Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany show not only over 300 plants in detail, but influence from Leonardo da Vinci ?
text: Did you know that the Casting Crowns ' song " East to West " received 78 adds in its first week, a record at Christian radio?
text: Did you know that in 1997, after winning the 2000 Guineas , the racehorse Entrepreneur started with the shortest odds at the Epsom Derby in fifty years?
text: Did you know that Millennium 's " The Wild and the Innocent " episode has been compared to the works of Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy ?
text: Did you know that Zaskia Adya Mecca found her pregnancy "perfect" for playing the role of Siti Walidah in The Enlightener , despite the fact the character was not pregnant?
text: Did you know that David Edward Cronin used his training at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf to paint Fugitive Slaves in the Dismal Swamp, Virginia based on what he saw as a Union Army officer?
text: Did you know that whilst the Spanish trade union CSUT criticized other unions for links with political parties, it was itself heavily influenced by the Party of Labour of Spain ?
text: Did you know that baseball Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson once said Chris Pittaro had "a chance to be the greatest second baseman who ever lived"?
text: Did you know that Madeline Rogero , the first woman mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee , was once an organizer for César Chávez 's United Farm Workers ?
text: Did you know that the natural approach is a method of language teaching in which teachers are recommended never to force their students to speak?
text: Did you know that co-founder of the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association Mohammed al-Bejadi spent most of 2011 in prison?
text: Did you know that a Superior Court judge in the U.S. state of Georgia was prompted to resign after " Very Tough Love " was aired on the radio show This American Life ?
text: Did you know that the statue Kwakiutl , currently on display in a public park greenhouse in Brampton, Ontario , was originally set to be sited at local municipal offices before his exposed genitals caused controversy?
text: Did you know that a storm in 1968 caused 20 deaths in Scotland, with 9 deaths in Glasgow alone?
text: Did you know that Theodor Rowehl ' s high-altitude flights in a rented plane were Germany's first strategic aerial photoreconnaissance after World War I?
text: Did you know that Les Palabres de Mboloko , despite being made by Europeans, have been called the first truly "African" films, since they incorporate elements of African folklore and music ?
text: Did you know that Des Abbott was the first Australian Aboriginal to represent Australia at the Olympic Games in men's field hockey?
text: Did you know that the occupants of the lifeboats of the RMS Titanic included a musical toy pig, two mysterious "orphans" and a Pekingese dog called Sun Yat Sen?
text: Did you know that Jesse Thomas , founder of creative interactive agency JESS3 , was involved in making a graphic novel about Steve Jobs ' life?
text: Did you know that Tree Hill Nature Center , a natural preserve in Jacksonville, Florida, started an arts program that includes an artist in residence, art workshops, sale of artists' work, and concerts?
text: Did you know that Polish cabaret creator, Piotr Skrzynecki , founder of Piwnica pod Baranami , who became a "legend in his own lifetime", did not care for material wealth and for a time was homeless ?
text: Did you know that murders in Millennium 's " Gehenna " echo ritual sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible 's Gehenna ?
text: Did you know that carcinologist Isabel Pérez Farfante and her family were blacklisted by the Cuban government because her husband refused to travel with Che Guevara ?
text: Did you know that Universal Pictures bought filming rights for the untitled Tom Cruise project from Disney after the latter refused to produce a PG-13 rated film?
text: Did you know that Australian field hockey player Glenn Simpson is also an electrician?
text: Did you know that the Shapoorji Pallonji Group built the Mumbai Central railway station for ₹ 16 million in 1930 and was commended by the then Governor of Bombay for completing the project within 21 months?
text: Did you know that in Maryland, as per the recent case United States v. Graham , the government can order providers to disclose historical cell phone location data without a warrant or probable cause?
text: Did you know that Dražen Bogopenec was one of the most powerful people of Hum ?
text: Did you know that Czech football manager Jozef Weber took part in four national cup finals as a player, but was never on the winning team?
text: Did you know that the wooden screw corvette HMS Druid , launched in 1869, was the last ship to be built at Deptford Dockyard ?
text: Did you know that Australian field hockey player Graeme Begbie is an occupational health and safety officer?
text: Did you know that Idrus wrote what may be the only satire of the Indonesian National Revolution ?
text: Did you know that the cover art of the Gorillaz song " DoYaThing " portrays James Murphy as a baboon and André 3000 as a masked figure?
text: Did you know that the Roman Catholic Church of St. Mary Draperis in Istanbul has been leveled by earthquake, forcibly demolished by the Ottoman Government , and destroyed three times by fire?
text: Did you know that Argentina is in a period of fiscal austerity ?
text: Did you know that American professional wrestler Otto Schwanz is also a high school athletics instructor in Four Oaks, North Carolina ?
text: Did you know that the Iberian rock lizard is often found above the tree line in cold, mountainous areas?
text: Did you know that Robert Antoine Pinchon was referred to by Claude Monet as a "surprising touch in the service of a surprising eye"?
text: Did you know that Sterling Cinema in Mumbai was the first cinema in India to introduce Dolby sound, Xenon projectors , Caramel popcorn , and matinee shows as well as late night shows?
text: Did you know that although the Corsican Brook Salamander is quite common, the Sardinian Brook Salamander is considered to be an endangered species ?
text: Did you know that George William Spencer Lyttelton served as a private secretary to William Ewart Gladstone during three of his terms as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that Chilean jack mackerel are captured by encircling schools with purse seine nets?
text: Did you know that a "town fair" was set up in the middle of a military prison on Melville Island ?
text: Did you know that Sebastian Weigle , named "Conductor of the Year" by Opernwelt three times between 2003 and 2006, performed Wagner's Ring Cycle at the Frankfurt Opera ?
text: Did you know that in 1885, the racehorse Paradox won the 2000 Guineas in May by a head, but lost the Epsom Derby in June, also by a head?
text: Did you know that some of the leaders of pro-Venetian alliance during Skanderbeg 's war against Venice were members of the Humoj family ?
text: Did you know that 2011–12 Ivy League men's basketball season was the first time that four teams ( Harvard , Penn , Princeton and Yale ) played in the postseason?
text: Did you know that in spite of being shot eight times, Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr. ordered his men to tie him to a tree so he could keep fighting, action for which he received the Medal of Honor ?
text: Did you know that the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan , produced by Nahua artists in the 1530s, is one of the earliest maps of what is now Guatemala ?
text: Did you know that the fungi Callistosporium vinosobrunneum , Marasmiellus hapuuarum , Marasmius koae , Mycena marasmielloides , and Pleurocybella ohiae , newly described in 2011, are known only from the wet forests of Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that Australia men's national softball team pitcher Andrew Blackshaw participated in a battle of the sexes game between the Chicago Bandits and Schaumburg Flyers as a ringer for the men's team?
text: Did you know that Seton Medical Center was fined $100,000 when the cap of the breathing tube of an elderly woman was left on, suffocating the patient?
text: Did you know that a campaign by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver resulted in an increase in standards for school children's dinners in the UK?
text: Did you know that Breitenbach , an archaeological site in Germany dated to the early Upper Palaeolithic , was discovered in 1925 by a local school teacher?
text: Did you know that al-Jawali Mosque was built in 1320 to enlarge the prayer space of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron ?
text: Did you know that the racehorse Mystiko , winner of the European Free Handicap , 2000 Guineas and Challenge Stakes in 1991, never won a race outside the Newmarket Racecourse ?
text: Did you know that there are over five hundred state historical markers in the U.S. state of Indiana?
text: Did you know that deputies of the Sejm of the Duchy of Warsaw circumvented the restriction on debating by staying in the chamber after the session officially ended?
text: Did you know that in one of its last acts, the Sejm of the Congress Poland dethroned Tsar Nicholas I of Russia from his position as the King of Poland ?
text: Did you know that Australian bowler Shane Warne claimed that he had "nightmares" at the thought of bowling to Sachin Tendulkar after being dominated by him in the 1998 Coca-Cola Cup ?
text: Did you know that a fire destroyed the house at Hilston Park , Monmouthshire in 1838 and a Palladian mansion was built to replace it?
text: Did you know that Clara Holst was the first woman to study for a doctorate at a Norwegian university?
text: Did you know that Tarsius fuscus was resurrected in 2010 as the scientific name of a primate originally described in 1804?
text: Did you know that although Philip Michael Thomas coined the term " EGOT " ( Emmy , Grammy , Oscar and Tony ), only Edward James Olmos and Jan Hammer would win any of those awards working on Miami Vice ?
text: Did you know that in 1977 AOA , a trade union linked to the Spanish urban guerilla movement FRAP , was founded?
text: Did you know that Hector the Tax Inspector was replaced by Mrs Doyle in the Inland Revenue 's advertising?
text: Did you know that to house his collection of vintage steam locomotives the former CEO of Ohio Central RR built the Age of Steam Roundhouse , the first full-sized, working roundhouse built in the U.S. since 1951?
text: Did you know that a sermon by English clergyman Richard West required a vote in Parliament before it could be printed?
text: Did you know that though Mumbai 's Phoenix Mills has been redeveloped into a shopping mall , its chimney has been retained?
text: Did you know that after the death of François de Pâris in 1727, many people reported miracle cures through convulsions by consuming the earth around his grave?
text: Did you know that Oh Moscow , by English musician Lindsay Cooper , is a song cycle that reflects on the Cold War ?
text: Did you know that NASCAR driver David Mayhew drove for Kevin Harvick Incorporated in two Camping World Truck Series races in 2011 , and finished third in both races?
text: Did you know that the northern kingcroaker is a fish that is unable to croak?
text: Did you know that Keizan , Great Patriarch of Sōtō Zen Buddhism , founded Sōji-ji ?
text: Did you know that Alexandru Al. Ioan , the natural son of Romanian ruler Alexandru Ioan Cuza and the half-brother of Serb king Milan I , was introduced by his own family as a rescued orphan?
text: Did you know that South Korean band F.T. Island 's mini-album Grown-Up debuted at number three on Gaon Chart 's monthly albums chart for January 2012 with one day worth of sales?
text: Did you know that National Masturbation Day , an annual event celebrated in the US in May, was first observed in 1995?
text: Did you know that the Chicago Housing Authority 's renovation of the Dearborn Homes housing project includes adding neo-Georgian quoins and ball-topped gables to the brick high-rises?
text: Did you know that the German teleplay Jeder stirbt für sich allein , about Otto and Elise Hampel , who were executed by the Third Reich, was directed by Falk Harnack , who lost several family members to Nazi executions?
text: Did you know that the 1879 Michigan football team defeated Racine College , 1–0, in the first intercollegiate football game in the school's history?
text: Did you know that dormice benefit from charcoal burning at Croes Robert Wood , near Monmouth ?
text: Did you know that De Typhoon , a Dutch paper founded during World War II by the Dutch resistance , merged in 1992 with a competing local paper that had collaborated with the Germans during the war?
text: Did you know that an actor in the film Somewhere I Have Never Traveled played the roles of two different people, one with long hair and a beard and one with short hair and clean-shaven?
text: Did you know that at least five people died due to torture during the 2011–2012 Bahraini uprising ?
text: Did you know that the German Bundesliga footballer Willi Kraus was sentenced to seven years in prison for bank robbery ?
text: Did you know that People v. Diaz upholds the right of police in California to make warrantless searches of cell phones during a lawful arrest ?
text: Did you know that Glacier Media , which owns the daily newspaper in Victoria, British Columbia , was originally a bottled water company?
text: Did you know that during the 1989 Kosovo miners' strike about 180 miners were hospitalized?
text: Did you know that Greta Garbo threatened to return to Sweden rather than act in Women Love Diamonds ?
text: Did you know that the Pyrenean brook salamander sometimes lives entirely underground in caves?
text: Did you know that Gotthold Schwarz has been associated with the 800-year-old Thomanerchor boys choir in Leipzig as a member, a vocal coach since 1979, a bass soloist and an interim conductor?
text: Did you know that in 2007 it was reported that Scroogle was becoming the preferred search engine of Internet civil libertarians ?
text: Did you know that in 2008, nearly 40,000 acres of the former Irvine Ranch , including Bommer Canyon , were designated as the first California Natural Landmark?
text: Did you know that in 1905, Bolckow Vaughan was easily Great Britain 's largest producer of pig iron ?
text: Did you know that a couplet from Elton John 's song " Elderberry Wine " has been called the worst of lyricist Bernie Taupin 's career?
text: Did you know that an employee who erases the hard drive of an employer-owned computer may be in violation of the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian actress Titi Kamal paid to follow a poor woman around and learn about her lifestyle?
text: Did you know that Thurgood Marshall said of Lloyd L. Gaines "I have never lost the pain of having so many people spend so much time and money on him, just to have him disappear" 73 years ago today?
text: Did you know that the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul , one of the largest covered markets in the world, attracts between 250,000 and 400,000 visitors daily?
text: Did you know that the European leaf-toed gecko can change colour according to the temperature of its surroundings?
text: Did you know that 2011–12 Ivy League teams Harvard and Princeton both defeated 2012 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament Champion Florida State ?
text: Did you know that, according to legend, geologist John Marley discovered the Cleveland Ironstone by tripping on a rabbit hole?
text: Did you know that Anton Bacalbaşa , who wrote the first Romanian introduction to Das Kapital , was elected to the Deputies' Assembly on a Conservative Party ticket?
text: Did you know that the final episode of the television series Kaseifu no Mita was the second-most-watched television program in Japan in 2011?
text: Did you know that in 1786, Prince William Henry , a naval officer and future king, entered Edward Hawker onto his ship's books when Hawker was just four years old?
text: Did you know that the Roper River Scrub-robin being listed as extinct may be "a case of mistaken locality or a hoax"?
text: Did you know that Chrisye was not alone on Sendiri ( Alone )?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian novel Atheist was decried by religious figures, Marxist–Leninists , and anarcho-nihilists ?
text: Did you know that in portraying Marita Covarrubias in The X-Files , actress Laurie Holden spent hours learning fifteen seconds of Russian dialogue?
text: Did you know that the cookbook ''''' discusses the health benefits of cooking with animal fat ?
text: Did you know that a New Hampshire Supreme Court decision allowed an online publisher to protect the identity of an anonymous user, just like print publishers have the right to protect their sources?
text: Did you know that despite its name, there is speculation that Temple VI at the Maya city of Tikal was not a temple?
text: Did you know that, over his long career, African American attorney Conrad Lynn represented civil rights activists, Puerto Rican nationalists , and draft resisters during two U.S. wars?
text: Did you know that an estimated 100 million wildflower and grass seeds were spread at Graham Oaks Nature Park before it opened to the public?
text: Did you know that in 1979 the trade union Sindicato Obrero Canario labelled Spanish rule of the Canary Islands "colonial" in an appeal to the OUA ?
text: Did you know that individual cellular slime mould cells are of two distinct mating types?
text: Did you know that, according to controversial Romanian anthropologist Henric Sanielevici , the Chinese eye fold comes from chewing rice?
text: Did you know that in 1968 the rector of Wrocław University , Alfred Jahn , supported students who were striking against communist censorship and lost his position as a result?
text: Did you know that after winning the 1926 Belmont Stakes , Crusader set a course record at the Dwyer Stakes that year, and later became the first horse to win the Suburban Handicap two years in a row?
text: Did you know that the life cycle of the parasitic marine fluke Homalometron pallidum involves three different hosts , one of which is the mummichog ?
text: Did you know that, in exchange for securing Welsh interests within the See of St David's , Bishop David fitzGerald renounced efforts for its elevation into an archbishopric?
text: Did you know that the 1885 Michigan Wolverines football team played a game on roller skates against the Princess football team?
text: Did you know that Tan Boon Teik was the longest-serving Attorney-General of post-independence Singapore, having held office for just over 25 years?
text: Did you know that Indian soft drink concentrate brand Rasna made an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the "world's biggest glass" in 2009?
text: Did you know that the German architect Anna Heringer has contributed to sustainable architecture building hand-made schools in Bangladesh and Morocco with local craftsmen and materials ?
text: Did you know that the berries of the alpine waxberry are eaten by lizards and ground weta ?
text: Did you know that three skulls were unearthed in a berry patch on Deadman's Island ?
text: Did you know that the GLOBE at Night project recruits citizen scientists to quantify light pollution in their locales?
text: Did you know that the Lhasa Apso Zentarr Elizabeth 's victory at Crufts in 2012 was considered fitting due to the Diamond Jubilee year of Queen Elizabeth II ?
text: Did you know that prior to becoming the Bishop of Southampton , Arthur Lyttelton was the first Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge ?
text: Did you know that International Olympic Committee founder Pierre de Coubertin , under a pseudonym, won a gold medal at the 1912 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Saint Patrick was reputedly a priest at the monastery of St. Illtyd of Llantwit Major when he was abducted by Irish pirates, later becoming the patron saint of Ireland?
text: Did you know that the song " Bad Girl ", originally recorded by Rihanna and Chris Brown , was covered by The Pussycat Dolls ?
text: Did you know that Abbas Kazmi was asked, by a United States diplomat, to construct a brainwashing defense for Ajmal Kasab , the gunman who was tried for the 2008 Mumbai attacks ?
text: Did you know that Jan Gulbrandsen , president of the Norwegian Olympic Committee and managing director of the Norwegian Automobile Federation , won eight national championships in the 400 metres hurdles ?
text: Did you know that Pat Barker 's gritty first novel Union Street inspired the much lighter romantic film drama Stanley & Iris ?
text: Did you know that the right to vote is not expressly stated in Singapore 's Constitution ?
text: Did you know that although the adult southern kingcroaker is found in the Atlantic Ocean , its juveniles are often found in estuaries ?
text: Did you know that an anonymous poster on a Yahoo! message board successfully quashed a subpoena to reveal his identity by claiming a First Amendment right to anonymous speech?
text: Did you know that the deadliest accident Aeroflot experienced in the 1960s occurred in November 1967 ( 1967-11 ) , when an Ilyushin Il-18V crashed upside down shortly after takeoff from Koltsovo Airport , killing all 130 people aboard?
text: Did you know that Ueno Park in Tokyo is home to a fox shrine , a National Museum , and the homeless ?
text: Did you know that despite being in Herefordshire , Wyastone Leys hosted meetings of the Monmouthshire fox hunt ?
text: Did you know that CompuServe Inc. v. Cyber Promotions, Inc. was one of the first cases to apply United States tort law to restrict spamming on computer networks?
text: Did you know that the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa broke away from Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb to further jihad in West Africa ?
text: Did you know that German philosopher Immanuel Kant believed that an action must be performed out of duty to be moral ?
text: Did you know that although ecologist Arthur Tansley devised the ecosystem concept, the term was coined by botanist Arthur Roy Clapham at Tansley's request?
text: Did you know that a government commission has found that Bahrain Public Security Forces involved in Arab spring protests sometimes used force and firearms unnecessarily and in a disproportionate manner?
text: Did you know that in 2009 Addie MS and his Twilite Orchestra were the first Indonesian orchestra to play in the Sydney Opera House ?
text: Did you know that Anonymous hacked into private intelligence company Stratfor 's email system and these emails were leaked by WikiLeaks ?
text: Did you know that after the O&C Lands were revested to the United States government, 18 Oregon counties received federal payments that may have ended in 2012?
text: Did you know that the newly described Galápagos catshark differs from other catsharks by having an asymmetric pattern of spots?
text: Did you know that the Kačák Event caused widespread marine anoxia , forming black shales such as those that generate gas in the Marcellus Shale ?
text: Did you know that a plan to move the Baraga County Courthouse to a former hospital was twice rejected by voters?
text: Did you know that a poll carried out by The Sporting Times ranked Wheel of Fortune and Achievement the fifth and sixth highest-rated fillies or mares amongst all British racehorses of the 19th century?
text: Did you know that Karen Agustiawan was first in Forbes ' list of "Asia's 50 Power Businesswomen"?
text: Did you know that in Obsidian Finance Group, LLC v. Cox , a court in Oregon , United States, held that a blogger was not a member of the media?
text: Did you know that the Schneller Orphanage in Jerusalem , which operated from 1860 to 1940, had its own printing press, bindery, flour mill, bakery, carpentry, pottery factory, and brick and tile plant?
text: Did you know that the recently released album And I Thank You by Ontario -based band The Elwins was named one of the 20 most-anticipated Canadian albums of 2012 by the music magazine Exclaim! ?
text: Did you know that the Antigua and Barbuda national cricket team played at the 1998 Commonwealth Games ?
text: Did you know that at 730 horsepower, the 2012 Ferrari F12berlinetta is the most powerful road-legal Ferrari to date?
text: Did you know that most of the paintings by Adolf Hitler , which he painted in his youth and sold to a glazier 's store during his Vienna years, were bought by Jewish customers?
text: Did you know that Werner Schuster , who in the Bundestag was concerned with health policy, Africa and the fight against AIDS, founded a civic partnership between Idstein in Germany and Moshi in Tanzania?
text: Did you know that on 3 March 1945 the Royal Air Force accidentally bombed a residential neighbourhood in The Hague , Netherlands , killing 511 people?
text: Did you know that Shadeed , an American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse with an Arabic name, set a course record at Ascot when he won the 1985 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes ?
text: Did you know that one can see almost the whole of Metohija ( 1,290 sq mi ) from the heights of Dulje , Kosovo?
text: Did you know that television producer and director Richard Jasek 's father was a concert violinist who was coerced into becoming a spy?
text: Did you know that in 1928 English cricketer Robert Lyttelton claimed that drawn matches , due in part to blocking the wicket with the legs , were the "curse of modern cricket"?
text: Did you know that FM 742 , located in Waco , is currently the shortest road in Texas's Farm/Ranch to Market Road system, at just 0.175 miles (0.282 km)?
text: Did you know that Elton John 's vocal performance on " Teacher I Need You ", a song about a schoolboy's sexual desire for his teacher, was inspired by former teen idol Bobby Vee ?
text: Did you know that the AD 17 Lydia earthquake was described by Pliny the Elder as the "greatest earthquake in human memory"?
text: Did you know that Sophia Taylor fought for women's suffrage in New Zealand but opposed women standing for Parliament ?
text: Did you know that the Anglo-Norman nobleman Walter de Lacy died in 1085 by falling from a scaffold while inspecting the building of Saint Guthlac's Priory ?
text: Did you know that a little girl in Millennium 's " Wide Open " is named for author Patricia Highsmith ?
text: Did you know that Clara Nomee was the first woman to hold the chairmanship of the Crow Nation of Montana?
text: Did you know that Satyam Infoway Ltd. v. Sifynet Solutions Pvt. Ltd. dealt with the confusion of an unwary Internet user of "average intelligence and imperfect recollection"?
text: Did you know that chick lit author Laura Zigman once described herself as a lonely loser?
text: Did you know that Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen , author of The Land and Freshwater Mollusca of India , was an early president of the Malacological Society ?
text: Did you know that while the city of Wilsonville, Oregon , was incorporated in 1969, it did not have a library until 1982?
text: Did you know that English adventurer Sir Francis Verney spent two years in the Sicilian slave galleys before being rescued by an English Jesuit priest?
text: Did you know that Bermuda fish chowder is the national dish of Bermuda ?
text: Did you know that about 40 Jews live in Mauritius as of 2006?
text: Did you know that Kaytek the Wizard , the second of the novels by Polish author and pedagogue Janusz Korczak to be translated into English, has often been compared to Harry Potter ?
text: Did you know that in 2000, the FBI lured a suspect to Seattle, arrested him in a sting operation , and then successfully had him convicted for cyber-crimes committed while he was physically located in Russia?
text: Did you know that microbiologist Charles Thom was awarded the first PhD from the University of Missouri in 1899?
text: Did you know that in 1874 the British corvette HMS Volage transported a party of astronomers to the Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean to observe the transit of Venus ?
text: Did you know that a set of trading cards with themes and people from Operation Desert Storm was criticized for commercializing and trivializing the war?
text: Did you know that the Millennium episode " The Judge " featured a " high camp " villain and an allusion to Moby-Dick ?
text: Did you know that Nathan Outlaw 's self titled restaurant is the only seafood restaurant in the UK to hold any Michelin stars ?
text: Did you know that Herbert von Karajan approved of the vineyard style of the Berliner Philharmonie ?
text: Did you know that the 1955 film Teaserama featured a man in drag as "gender sabotage" against the prevailing sexual norms of the time?
text: Did you know that the 9th-century Lindau Gospels contains two illuminated pages imitating textiles?
text: Did you know that the interactive horror film Take This Lollipop was created to warn about placing too much personal information on the internet ?
text: Did you know that naturalist and ornithologist Gilbert White immortalized the localities of West Worldham and East Worldham and the surrounding region in his The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789)?
text: Did you know that the multi-ethnic Truth and Justice party of Afghanistan supports reconciliation with the Taliban and cooperation with ISAF ?
text: Did you know that the Cybele -class mine destructor vessels were designed to sweep mines by being towed through minefields?
text: Did you know that at the 2005 Total Nonstop Action Wrestling Sacrifice pay-per-view event, Raven used a pizza cutter to slice open Jeff Jarrett 's forehead during the main event?
text: Did you know that American sports-writer Dudley Doust once moved, along with his wife and daughter, to a mud-hut in Mexico to attempt to write a novel?
text: Did you know that Le Pouce is named after its thumb-like peak?
text: Did you know that Historicist sculptor Otto Lessing , who largely shaped the appearance of Imperial Berlin and built the Lessing Monument , also designed his own tomb?
text: Did you know that only the ending scene in the 2011 film Runway Beat is presented in 3D ?
text: Did you know that according to Jess Nevins , the worst science fiction novel of the 19th century is An Entirely New Feature of a Thrilling Novel: Entitled, The Social War of the Year 1900; Or, Conspirators and Lovers. A Lesson for Saints and Sinners ?
text: Did you know that Budai, The Laughing Buddha is often confused with Gautama Buddha ?
text: Did you know that naval officer Samuel Warren served in European waters in the American War of Independence , the West Indies in the French Revolutionary Wars , and the East Indies in the Napoleonic Wars ?
text: Did you know that the tadpoles of the frog Indirana semipalmata are the first ever known to hatch, feed, and metamorphose on tree barks ?
text: Did you know that AYUSH Sevaks are volunteers of AYUSH-ISHA Organic Health Systems , who dispense herbal medicines in Kolli Hills ?
text: Did you know that Roger Peckinpaugh set a World Series record for errors ?
text: Did you know that the barnacle Megabalanus tintinnabulum travelled from the tropics to the Netherlands by ship in 1764 and reached Western Australia in 1949?
text: Did you know that Lords Justices Stephenson and Edmund-Davies freed a man accused of rape as the jury had not been asked to consider whether he "entered as a trespasser"?
text: Did you know that the Millennium episode " Blood Relatives " has been compared to episodes of The X-Files and Cracker ?
text: Did you know that all of Edward William Price 's immediate family died in a shipwreck the year before he became Government Resident of the Northern Territory ?
text: Did you know that Paul McCartney was so impressed by the album Call Me Burroughs he hired the producer, Ian Sommerville, to build him a home studio?
text: Did you know that the deep water sea urchin Aspidodiadema jacobi may brood its eggs among its spines?
text: Did you know that the scout floatplane Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.5 , which had its first flight in November 1918, was the first tractor aircraft designed in Norway?
text: Did you know that Body of Proof episode " Society Hill " marked the first appearance of Megan Hunt 's mother Joan , played by Six Feet Under star Joanna Cassidy ?
text: Did you know that the Bahrain Supreme Defence Council is composed of 14 members, all of whom belong to the ruling Al Khalifa family ?
text: Did you know that quarterback Dan Fouts was embarrassed that he was inducted into the San Diego Chargers Hall of Fame before his former head coach, Don Coryell ?
text: Did you know that Malaysia won all but one gold medal at the badminton events of the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games ?
text: Did you know that Indian rail minister Dinesh Trivedi caused a change in the script of a James Bond action sequence when he insisted that people not be shown travelling on the roofs of trains, which is illegal?
text: Did you know that Francisco Lopes Suasso lent William of Orange two million guilders to finance his invasion of England ?
text: Did you know that students of the American Laboratory Theatre during the 1920s and 1930s included Stella Adler , Lee Strasberg , and Mitt Romney's mother ?
text: Did you know that Park Chung-hee convinced military police who had come to arrest him to join his May 16 coup ?
text: Did you know that the cherry blossom front in Japan is forecast by means of the Arrhenius equation ?
text: Did you know that Nemoe Karma by I Wayan Gobiah was the first Balinese novel?
text: Did you know that former Olympic alpine skier Ian Appleyard was the first of three drivers to win the coveted Coupe d'Or at the Alpine Rally ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White 's concurrence in Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. v. Byrd raised a question the Court had to resolve two years later in Shearson/American Express Inc. v. McMahon ?
text: Did you know that water polo goalkeepers in the 1880s were allowed to stand on the pool deck and leap onto an opponent's head?
text: Did you know that Juan Pedro Laporte was described in an obituary as the father of Guatemalan archaeology?
text: Did you know that after becoming the sixth winner of the English Triple Crown in 1893, the racehorse Isinglass retired in 1895 with a world record for career earnings?
text: Did you know that the album The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads features Redding 's first top-ten single?
text: Did you know that Mary Kessell went to Germany in August 1945 as one of only three female British official war artists commissioned to work abroad?
text: Did you know that Walter Diesendorf was employed to perform abstruse technical calculations which could not be done by an ordinary engineer in Australia or anywhere else?
text: Did you know that Kairuku grebneffi , an extinct species of penguin, was nearly 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) long and weighed 50% more than modern Emperor Penguins ?
text: Did you know that John Blackadder was outlawed and later arrested for unlawful preaching at conventicles , and died in prison?
text: Did you know that Kapil Dev is the only player in the history of Test cricket to have taken more than 400 wickets and scored more than 5,000 runs ?
text: Did you know that a student witness to the Chardon High School shooting said her math teacher had a bulletproof vest in his classroom that he wore during the crisis?
text: Did you know that a review for the 2000 gay pornographic video A Young Man's World said its portrayal of fictional middle-aged men was demeaning to actual middle-aged men?
text: Did you know that, in 1978, Maryon Pittman Allen became the first woman to serve on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee ?
text: Did you know that John C. Osgood strongly opposed labor unions and tried welfare capitalism at his company town of Redstone, Colorado , to discourage his workers from forming unions and striking ?
text: Did you know that in 1873, J. J. Murphy proposed an inertial model of animal navigation in Nature , challenging Darwin 's views?
text: Did you know that Australian Stinger Isobel Bishop is left-handed and has a water polo scholarship from the South Australia Institute of Sport ?
text: Did you know that the mineral georgerobinsonite was first identified in 2009 from samples collected from a mine in Arizona in the 1940s?
text: Did you know that the setting of the Millennium episode " Weeds " "simmers with recrimination and vigilantism"?
text: Did you know that Charles Turner coached the Australian Institute of Sport men's water polo team before becoming the chief executive of the New South Wales Institute of Sport ?
text: Did you know that organic dust toxic syndrome is a flu-like illness caused by inhaling organic dust particles such as grain kernel fragments, bits of insects, bacteria, fungal spores, molds and chemical residues?
text: Did you know that " Don't Let Me Wait Too Long " was ex- Beatle George Harrison 's "single-that-never-was"?
text: Did you know that the racehorse Busted was voted as the British Horse of the Year in 1967, the same year one of his legs was "busted" during training, forcing him into retirement?
text: Did you know that a daughter of the 1796 Epsom Oaks winning filly Parisot was poisoned with arsenic in 1811?
text: Did you know that future National Hockey League player Paul Reinhart 's agent Alan Eagleson threatened to take his junior league to court after a rule change would have forced him onto a different team?
text: Did you know that "the bravest man in Saudi Arabia" was charged in the Specialized Criminal Court that tries suspected al-Qaeda members and human rights activists?
text: Did you know that Thomas Horne was passed over as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania due to his precarious financial situation, but later became President of the Legislative Council ?
text: Did you know that pianist Siegfried Rapp , who lost his right arm during World War II, premiered Sergei Prokofiev 's 4th Piano Concerto (for the left hand) ?
text: Did you know that Bronwen Knox captained the Australian Stingers at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing ?
text: Did you know that the 2007 statue of Amida at Isshin-ji is formed from the remains of 163,254 people?
text: Did you know that the central Mexican town of San Pablito is home to women and children who manufacture paper from tree bark ?
text: Did you know that a new species of seaweed has appeared since the last ice age ?
text: Did you know that a common theme in modern Balinese literature is dealing with tourists?
text: Did you know that civil rights pioneer Nellie Stone Johnson was the first black person to be elected to a citywide office in Minneapolis ?
text: Did you know that malacologist Myra Keen was called the "First Lady of Malacology"?
text: Did you know that the part of Jilly Kitzinger in Torchwood was Lauren Ambrose 's first role in a science-fiction production?
text: Did you know that the Holy Trinity Church was the oldest church in Kamianets-Podilskyi , Ukraine , until it was destroyed by the Soviets in 1935?
text: Did you know that American artist Ellen Gallagher created artworks which included images carved into the surface of thick sheets of paper?
text: Did you know that Clare Smyth was the first British woman to hold three Michelin stars when she became head chef of Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in 2007?
text: Did you know that the first indoor St. Louis Auto Show was held in the Willys-Overland Building in 1917?
text: Did you know that Maria Pinto designed the purple sheath dress Michelle Obama wore to give her husband "the fist bump heard 'round the world"?
text: Did you know that the Antarctic sponge Homaxinella balfourensis prevents ice crystals from forming in its cells by the use of peptides with antifreeze properties?
text: Did you know that the lesbian German writer Christa Reinig stated in a poem, "Sometimes the gay shirt is closer to me than the feminist skirt"?
text: Did you know that in 1973 the first women's Cricket World Cup was held – two years before the first men's tournament ?
text: Did you know that Canadian indie rock band Reverie Sound Revue went on a "blog tour", wherein they released videos of band members playing live online?
text: Did you know that Henry, Prince of Wales ( Henry V ) stationed himself at Burton Court manor while surveying the movements of Owain Glyndŵr ?
text: Did you know that Butler Blue II , the live mascot of Butler University , was granted a special exemption from NCAA rules, allowing him to appear at Butler basketball games during the 2010 and 2011 Final Fours ?
text: Did you know that after winning the 1957 Cotton Fashion Award, designer Anne Fogarty showed off dresses in goldfish colours?
text: Did you know that Harwell, Nottinghamshire , contains the Grade II listed Pear Tree House, which has a portico with two Tuscan columns and an eight-panelled door?
text: Did you know that in Doe v. Shurtleff , a Utah law requiring registered sex offenders to provide to the state all of their internet identifiers was ruled constitutional?
text: Did you know that the British racehorse Tristan travelled to France and won the Grand Prix de Deauville three years in a row?
text: Did you know that the airing of Millennium 's " Kingdom Come " was postponed due to the death of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin , Archbishop of Chicago ?
text: Did you know that the legendary Lost Nigger Gold Mine , first discovered in 1887, was still being searched for in 1930?
text: Did you know that, in the past, every landowner in the parish of St Margaret's Church in West Hoathly , West Sussex , was responsible for maintaining a specific section of the churchyard wall?
text: Did you know that the racehorse Eager was not given his name until the year after he won the 1791 Derby Stakes , whereas the 1797 Derby winner was never officially named?
text: Did you know that Irish novelist George Moore described Ingres ' The Source as an "exquisite dream of innocence"?
text: Did you know that five actresses have won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play more than once, but no actress has won it more than twice?
text: Did you know that the boxer crabs Lybia tessellata and Lybia edmondsoni carry a sea anemone such as Triactis producta in each claw for protection from predators ?
text: Did you know that the St. James' Infant School building in Dudley was built on two completely different sites?
text: Did you know that Vyjayanthimala , who played Chandramukhi in the 1955 film Devdas , declined the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress because she thought that her role was not a supporting one?
text: Did you know that the parents of Australian national team water polo player Victoria Brown believed that she would be an Olympian in an equestrian event?
text: Did you know that to gain permission to demolish the Pevely Dairy Company Plant , Saint Louis University threatened to move its medical school out of St. Louis ?
text: Did you know that Polish mathematician Stefan Banach and poet Zbigniew Herbert survived the Holocaust working as feeders of lice ?
text: Did you know that logical positivist A. J. Ayer believed that religious language was meaningless because it could not be verified empirically?
text: Did you know that the Body of Proof episode " Dead Man Walking " guest starred Christina Hendricks as a potential love interest for her real-life husband 's character?
text: Did you know that the Italian island of Montecristo , although 10.39 km 2 (4.01 sq mi) in area, is almost deserted, having only two stable inhabitants?
text: Did you know that the 19th-century American female seminary movement, which aimed to give women educational opportunities, lent its name to a pair of similarly named institutions in Charleston, South Carolina , and Charlestown, Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know that Malcolm X was nominated for an Academy Award in 1973?
text: Did you know that science fiction author Greg Egan was praised for taking Zendegi "into the street demos and sitting rooms of near-future Tehran "?
text: Did you know that in 1815 Napoleon surrendered to Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland of HMS Bellerophon , the ship that had "dogged his steps for more than twenty years", ending the Napoleonic Wars ?
text: Did you know that Australian Stinger Jane Moran is only the second woman ever to have competed in 200 games in the National Water Polo League ?
text: Did you know that one of Gustav Morelli 's wood engravings was a reproduction of a painting by Árpád Feszty of chieftain Árpád and the arrival of the Magyars ?
text: Did you know that Nudes-A-Poppin' is billed as "The World's Largest Outdoor Nude Beauty Pageant"?
text: Did you know that the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks , brought into force in 2010, was the first global instrument that dealt with migratory sharks?
text: Did you know that Nigerian journalist Nosa Igiebor was held incommunicado for months because his magazine Tell criticised General Sani Abacha ?
text: Did you know that after winning the 1796 Derby Stakes , the Thoroughbred Didelot failed to win again the rest of his racing career, and was subsequently sent to Russia?
text: Did you know that Casa Alvarez , built in 1790, serves as a "last link to the Spanish occupation of the Upper Louisiana territory"?
text: Did you know that in Young v. Facebook, Inc. , Judge Jeremy Fogel found that Facebook was not a physical place for the purpose of the Americans with Disabilities Act , despite its having "posts" and "walls"?
text: Did you know that Millennium 's " Loin Like a Hunting Flame " took its name from a Dylan Thomas poem?
text: Did you know that German film director Falk Harnack , who was related to six people executed by the Nazis, left East Germany after the Communists banned his first film for being "sympathetic to Nazism"?
text: Did you know that after winning Best in Show at the Westminster Dog Show in 2012, the Pekingese Palacegarden Malachy has been compared to a mop, a wookiee , and Snooki from Jersey Shore ?
text: Did you know that Bellville Sassoon was one of Princess Diana 's most prolific early designers?
text: Did you know that a lone miner is said to have extracted two sacks of wolframite each day from the waste tips of the disused Great Wheal Fortune mine in Cornwall?
text: Did you know that Glasser v. United States was the first U.S. Supreme Court case to hold that juries must be drawn from a " cross-section of the community "?
text: Did you know that literary agent Carmen Balcells represents six Nobel Prize winners?
text: Did you know that the Siah Bishe Power Plant is to be both the first pumped-storage power plant and the site of the first concrete-face rock-fill dam in Iran?
text: Did you know that Ventongimps Moor was the first nature reserve to be owned by the Cornwall Wildlife Trust ?
text: Did you know that while one reviewer called the recent Fringe episode " The End of All Things " the best of the season , another remarked that it "failed to make my dinger hum"?
text: Did you know that the loss of a French column at the Battle of El Herri was blamed on the commander's disobedience of orders?
text: Did you know that Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur , who later wrote The Art of Beowulf , was one of a group of University of California professors who at first refused on principle to sign the loyalty oath in 1949?
text: Did you know that missionaries to the colony of New France welcomed the 1663 Charlevoix earthquake as a miracle rather than a disaster?
text: Did you know that the W. B. Thompson Mansion in Yonkers, New York , was used as a location for the films A Beautiful Mind , The Royal Tenenbaums and Mona Lisa Smile ?
text: Did you know that Alicia McCormack , a member of the Australia women's national water polo team , received a bow from Prince William at a Sydney barbecue?
text: Did you know that terror suspect Amine El Khalifi believed he was in touch with an al-Qaeda operative, but was actually communicating with an FBI agent?
text: Did you know that the car of Los Angeles Clippers fan Clipper Darrell features the team's colors on the exterior and interior with the team's logo and autographs on the hood?
text: Did you know that historian Charlotte Zeepvat ' s first book, published in 1998, was about Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany , the haemophiliac youngest son of Queen Victoria ?
text: Did you know that Australian politician John Hart described William Bloomfield Douglas as a "fool" for wanting the job of Government Resident of the Northern Territory ?
text: Did you know that the Chuck Berry House is an unusual inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places , in that it is associated with a living person ?
text: Did you know that dubstep musician James Blake released the three extended plays The Bells Sketch , CMYK , and Klavierwerke in only one year?
text: Did you know that the New Stables , a building complex in central Berlin , Germany, that had housed the Imperial horses and carriages, later housed revolutionaries in the Christmas Crisis of 1918 ?
text: Did you know that Olympic athlete Arthur Keily ran over 130 miles (210 km) a week to train for marathons?
text: Did you know that Italian Renaissance portrait styles reached England through the medium of Brussels tapestry ?
text: Did you know that Jennifer Worth wrote her bestseller Call the Midwife in response to an article in the British Midwifery Journal , criticising the lack of midwives in literature?
text: Did you know that the name Ginkgo dissecta was first coined in 1974 but not formalized until 2002?
text: Did you know that the French military used the " Mikado strategy" during Operation Septentrion in the Uzbin Valley of Afghanistan ?
text: Did you know that the developer of Volunia , a potential competitor to Google , has said it may represent the "search engine of the future"?
text: Did you know that one reviewer found several scenes in Millennium 's " The Well-Worn Lock " to be as horrifying as anything he had seen on television?
text: Did you know that women are encouraged to go topless in public and men are told to cover their chest by wearing bras or bikinis on Go Topless Day , an event to promote the right to go bare-chested for women?
text: Did you know that the 'R' in the World War II British deception unit R Force was meant to make the Germans believe it was a reconnaissance unit?
text: Did you know that Australian national team water polo player Hannah Buckling made the Australian junior team after 20 months of serious training with a new coach?
text: Did you know that through his extensive building works, Sanjar al-Jawli transformed Karak and Gaza into major cities?
text: Did you know that in August 2000, 37 people were banned from attending matches at Arsenal F.C. 's stadium because of their involvement in the Battle of Copenhagen ?
text: Did you know that the first Cray-1 was delivered to the customer without a supercomputer operating system ?
text: Did you know that the work of ornithologist Chandler Robbins helped inspire Rachel Carson to write Silent Spring ?
text: Did you know that " We Belong Together " won the Academy Award for Best Original Song , but was not nominated for Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media ?
text: Did you know that Meyer Kestnbaum led a business with a long record of peaceful labor relations , and after he died the company and its labor union collaborated on a memorial to him?
text: Did you know that Sandra Laing was legally declared "coloured" largely on the basis of a pencil test , despite being born of two "white" parents?
text: Did you know that Millennium 's " Dead Letters " ventures into " Lynchian nightmare territory"?
text: Did you know that Toby Litt 's novel Journey into Space takes place on board a generation ship ?
text: Did you know that Bentworth Hall was built in 1832 to replace the former 14th-century hall, now called Hall Place ?
text: Did you know that John King 's win in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series ' 2012 event at Daytona International Speedway was only the third victory of his racing career?
text: Did you know that Sean Combs ' Revolt , Robert Rodriguez ' El Rey and Magic Johnson 's Aspire are upcoming U.S. ethnic minority-owned television networks that Comcast agreed to promote in order to secure the NBCUniversal acquisition?
text: Did you know that the T37 rocket could be fired by "Cowcatcher", "Woofus", "Whiz Bang" and "Grand Slam"?
text: Did you know that academic publishers often ask authors to sign a copyright transfer agreement before printing their work?
text: Did you know that a document from the 1960s STRAT-X US nuclear deterrent study was composed from a Soviet perspective, disapproving of capitalism and glorifying socialism ?
text: Did you know that the 19th-century Fort Widley was later reused as an emergency civil control centre ?
text: Did you know that the runic insignia of the Schutzstaffel , like the sig -runes worn on SS uniforms, stood for Nazi values but were actually inspired by the neopagan occultism of mystic Guido von List ?
text: Did you know that Australian Stinger Kelsey Wakefield took a year off university in order to try to make the 2012 Summer Olympics in water polo?
text: Did you know that Australian Stingers Ashleigh Southern , Glencora Ralph , Zoe Arancini , Rowena Webster and Nicola Zagame are five of seventeen water polo players trying to make the 2012 Summer Olympics squad?
text: Did you know that Druid's Lodge in the parish of Woodford , Wiltshire was used as a prisoner of war camp during World War II?
text: Did you know that there has been a 33% decrease in cars entering Milan 's city center since the Area C congestion charge was introduced?
text: Did you know that Erkki Kourula was the first Finn to be elected as a judge of the International Criminal Court ?
text: Did you know that the Limestone Corner area of Hadrian's Wall is not made from limestone ?
text: Did you know that Caroline Birley 's lifelong love of geology started with stones she collected as a child on family holidays?
text: Did you know that in 2010, the only known complete manuscript written in the extinct Khitan language was identified in the collection of the Saint Petersburg Institute of Oriental Manuscripts ?
text: Did you know that Rémi Ochlik , who was killed in the February 2012 bombardment of Homs , won the 2012 World Press Photo contest for his photograph of a Libyan rebel fighter?
text: Did you know that Australian Stinger coach Greg McFadden requires members of the national water polo team to eat every thing on their plates?
text: Did you know that Margaret Thatcher joked that her statue in the Houses of Parliament should have been made of iron?
text: Did you know that, until the Los Angeles class , the Sturgeon class was the most-produced class of nuclear-powered warships ?
text: Did you know that only Reginald Owen , Carleton Hobbs , Jeremy Brett , and Patrick Macnee have portrayed both Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson professionally, with Macnee portraying Holmes in The Hound of London ?
text: Did you know that Abidin Bey was the first governor of Egyptian Dongola ?
text: Did you know that the Swedish Asatru Assembly, now the Swedish Forn Sed Assembly , held a blót at Gamla Uppsala to celebrate the Church of Sweden no longer being the state church ?
text: Did you know that, since 2011, cash mobs have supported businesses in more than 32 U.S. states and in Canada ?
text: Did you know that the Thomas Cook European Timetable , in publication since 1873, was called "the most revered and accurate railway reference in existence" by travel guide-book editor Stephen Birnbaum ?
text: Did you know that by acquiring the commercial division of the Norwegian Mapping Agency , the company now called Nordeca became a market leader in leisure maps in Norway?
text: Did you know that Orland Kurtenbach was the Vancouver Canucks ' first captain and first member of their Ring of Honour ?
text: Did you know that a former chapel at Monmouth Cemetery is now used as a genealogy centre?
text: Did you know that patches of broom crowberry in New Jersey began to sprout seedlings again after an F-16 set them on fire?
text: Did you know that Pat Hawkins from Perth , Australia, set a women's world record by cycling 2,489 km (1,547 mi) in seven days in 1940?
text: Did you know that many cabanas at 9 Beaches resort in Bermuda feature Plexiglas floors to allow guests to view the ocean below their hotel room?
text: Did you know that the mint plant largeflower false rosemary has the largest flowers of the genus Conradina ?
text: Did you know that the largest credit union merger in Michigan history took place in 2008, resulting in the creation of Genisys Credit Union ?
text: Did you know that the Philippe Starck -designed A has been described as both "the most extraordinary yacht launched in recent memory" and "one of the ghastliest megayachts ever created"?
text: Did you know that Bay Darnell crashed his race car into Lake Lloyd during an ARCA race at Daytona International Speedway in 1964?
text: Did you know that the Coimbatore bypass included construction of a 32.2 metres (106 ft) toll bridge over the Noyyal River in India ?
text: Did you know that the 126-acre Jacksonville Arboretum & Gardens , which opened November 15 , 2008, contains 13 separate and distinct ecosystems ?
text: Did you know that an entire print run of Svetlana Kalinkina 's newspaper was seized by the Belarusian police ?
text: Did you know that, shortly after being sentenced to death for treason, Ioan C. Filitti became manager of the National Theatre Bucharest ?
text: Did you know that the Anacostia Community Museum was the first federally funded community museum in the United States?
text: Did you know that Looking for Madonna , meant to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS in Papua , used shots of a green bra to symbolise sex?
text: Did you know that the Jarvis launch vehicle was designed to deliver up to six satellites into different orbits on a single flight?
text: Did you know that Czech international footballer Jan Suchopárek dislocated his shoulder while attempting a bicycle kick ?
text: Did you know that the partitioning of the state of Jin , during the reign of Duke Chu , is often considered the start of China's Warring States period ?
text: Did you know that the Flaming Lips plan to include blood samples from their collaborators in the vinyl edition of their album The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends ?
text: Did you know that Shlomo Moussaieff owns rare gemstones worth millions of dollars, including a flawless blue diamond and the world's largest known red diamond ?
text: Did you know that Megitza , the vocalist and bass player, got the highest score at a Polish National IQ contest held in 2004?
text: Did you know that the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup Final player of the match Nicky Shaw only played in the final because a teammate suffered an injury during the warm-up ?
text: Did you know that Seattle's Jack Block Park was built on a Superfund site?
text: Did you know that numismatist and historian Don Taxay walked away from his career to become a Rajneeshee ?
text: Did you know that the Costa Chica of Guerrero is one of two regions in Mexico with a significant Afro-Mexican population?
text: Did you know that the Newspaper Libel and Registration Act 1881 (though partially repealed in 1888 ) still requires dozens of newspapers published in the United Kingdom to be centrally registered?
text: Did you know that, according to a 2008 book, Kareem Abdul Jabbar doesn't want to blow you up ?
text: Did you know that Mississippi Highway 198 is the designation given to former alignments of U.S. Highway 98 in the state?
text: Did you know that Teguh Karya 's film Mother , which won nine Citra Awards , did not turn a profit?
text: Did you know that while FIFA inquired about the creation of a Sudanese women's national football team , the Islamic Fiqh Council in Sudan issued a fatwa forbidding it?
text: Did you know that Barry Klarberg manages celebrities including Charlie Sheen , Justin Timberlake and Anna Kournikova ?
text: Did you know that the midwater squid uses bioluminescence as a camouflage to counter-illuminate its underside to match the sparkling sea surface above?
text: Did you know that Lachie Neale and Alex Forster, who were both selected by Fremantle in the 2011 Australian Football League Draft , both grew up in Kybybolite , a very small town in south-eastern South Australia?
text: Did you know that some men find lower-back tattoos on women erotic, but generally avoid the lower back when choosing tattoos for themselves?
text: Did you know that the mangrove jingle shell has two different colour varieties , but pale specimens normally found on mangrove leaves can darken when moved to the tree 's bark?
text: Did you know that the popularity of Canadian author David Gilmour 's memoir The Film Club helped him become Pelham Edgar Visiting Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Toronto ?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian film Get Married was described as contrasting the rich and poor, with the rich being prone to violence?
text: Did you know that between the start of the competition in 1947 and 1995, the Victorian women's softball team won the Gilleys Shield 22 times?
text: Did you know that the freeway sections of M-5 , a state highway in Michigan , were originally planned as parts of two different Interstate Highways ?
text: Did you know that in the 1714 Bach cantata Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen , BWV 12 , the first choral section was described as a " tombeau ... most impressive and deeply affecting"?
text: Did you know that navigational instrument maker William Spencer signed a contract in which he agreed not to fornicate for seven years?
text: Did you know that pioneer of rescue archeology John Bailey Shelton was awarded the RSPCA 's Queen Victoria Medal for saving his horses during the Coventry Blitz ?
text: Did you know that Philip Humber 's April 21, 2012, perfect game was only the 21st in Major League Baseball history dating back to 1869?
text: Did you know that hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant Sam Wo had the world's rudest waiter and was closed in 2012 for rat feces after 100 years of operating in San Francisco's Chinatown ?
text: Did you know that the Zanzibar women's national football team has few women's teams to play against and has beaten men's teams?
text: Did you know that the Kowmung River in New South Wales gained its name from the local aboriginal word for "sore eyes", possibly trachoma ?
text: Did you know that " These Arms of Mine " was Otis Redding 's first hit single?
text: Did you know that "gay penguins" Roy and Silo raised a chick at New York's Central Park Zoo , which when fully grown, entered into a same-sex relationship of its own?
text: Did you know that Filipino band Up Dharma Down declined to label their album Bipolar with a specific genre?
text: Did you know that the seeds of the breadnut Artocarpus camansi from New Guinea taste like chestnuts, and can be processed to make paste, flour, butter or oil?
text: Did you know that the deepest lake dammed by sand dunes along the coast of the U.S. state of Oregon is Woahink Lake ?
text: Did you know that the website for the viral video Kony 2012 crashed after the video became popular worldwide, but the video went on to have tens of millions of page views on various websites?
text: Did you know that South Australian Samuel Morcom began playing first-class cricket five years before his state's team played its first match?
text: Did you know that the Fleet class USVs are the first unmanned vessels to receive U.S. Navy hull numbers ?
text: Did you know that An Evening in Paris was the first lesbian-themed Indonesian short story collection?
text: Did you know that Harry Trihey set the record for the most goals in a regular season major professional hockey match over a hundred years ago?
text: Did you know that Mutilator was described as an excellent case study in DIY ethics ?
text: Did you know that the British scholar Percy Brown was one of the earliest pioneers who wrote on Indian and Buddhist architecture ?
text: Did you know that over fifty women were assaulted during the Puerto Rican Day Parade attacks ?
text: Did you know that Hall of Fame manager Miller Huggins executed the first delayed steal in recorded baseball history?
text: Did you know that when " Tanzania's most popular film star " died, his mourners included his country's Vice President , First Lady and 20,000 other people?
text: Did you know that in 1204, the wife of Hugh de Neville paid John, King of England 200 chickens for the right to sleep one night with her own husband?
text: Did you know that Wallace Neff ' s Bubble Houses in Litchfield Park, Arizona , were built in a community planned and owned by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company ?
text: Did you know that despite being over 4000 years old, Sperris Quoit near Zennor , Cornwall , was only rediscovered in 1954?
text: Did you know that the 1939 Alabama Crimson Tide football team played against Fordham in the second ever televised college football game ?
text: Did you know that Atiqah Hasiholan considered her role in the Oscar-submitted Jamila and the President a "regular slutty prostitute"?
text: Did you know that inventor John Browning provided the first electric lights in London, for the occasion of the visit of the Shah of Persia to Queen Victoria ?
text: Did you know that NASCAR powerhouse team Richard Childress Racing sold one of its race teams to Virginia car dealer Joe Falk ?
text: Did you know that the golden mussel can make good use of a discarded plastic bottle ?
text: Did you know that the privileges of Polish nobility were unprecedented in Europe, giving the nobles the right to control most legislation, foreign relations, taxation, elect a king and rebel against him ?
text: Did you know that the main leaders of the Khmer–Chinese Friendship Association were purged and executed in 1977?
text: Did you know that the song " Ode to Mel Bay ", popularized by Tommy Emmanuel and Chet Atkins , has lyrics by Shel Silverstein about a missing page 23 in Mel Bay's Deluxe Encyclopedia of Guitar Chords ?
text: Did you know that " A House Divided " was the Dallas television series episode that led to the eight-month Who shot J. R.? hysteria?
text: Did you know that World War I British flying ace Harold Stackard was credited with fifteen aerial victories?
text: Did you know that one man loved the 1943 film Immensee so much that in 1975 he bought the estate where it was filmed?
text: Did you know that " Drunk on Love " contains a sample of The xx ' s song "Intro", with Jamie Smith being credited as co-writer?
text: Did you know that the mangrove tunicate produces an anti-tumour drug, trabectedin , which becomes concentrated in the tiger flatworm when it feeds on the tunicate ?
text: Did you know that Kid Elberfeld discovered future Hall of Famer Travis Jackson when Jackson was 14 years old?
text: Did you know that the music of the film Lakshmi Putrudu was launched by Andhra Pradesh state Information Technology minister Damodar Reddy?
text: Did you know that former Elitserien and National Hockey League player Håkan Loob was one of the first members of the Triple Gold Club , winning the Stanley Cup , World Championship and Olympic gold ?
text: Did you know that the Syrian town of al-Harra was owned by Beirut -based landowner Selim Freige?
text: Did you know that Matt Barnes and Michael Roth were named college baseball First Team NCAA Division I All-Americans in 2011 ?
text: Did you know that the Glass Palace Chronicle in 1829 proclaimed Abhiyaza as the founder of the Burmese monarchy in contradiction to the prevailing pre-Buddhist origin myth ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Route 287 Business passes the Fort Worth Stockyards ?
text: Did you know that Istanbul University Professor Semavi Eyice is regarded as the pioneer of Byzantine studies in Turkey ?
text: Did you know that during the Vietnam War , when Lt. Col. Byron P. Howlett heard that one of the medivac helicopters under his command had crashed, he personally oversaw and piloted the Rescue of Dustoff 65 ?
text: Did you know that " Snail " was the first woman to compete in an international motor race?
text: Did you know that the 1938 Alabama Crimson Tide football team still holds defensive team records for the fewest total, rushing and passing yards in a season?
text: Did you know that three medieval walls dated to 1282 were found in the grounds at Maenan Abbey in 2011, whilst workmen were working on the drainage?
text: Did you know that critics described the 2002 comedy thriller Triggermen as "neither noticeably comic nor remotely thrilling"?
text: Did you know that the bailiff John Knibb also built the turret clock for St John's College, Oxford ?
text: Did you know that U.S. state governors Blagojevich , Blanton , Edwards , Hall , Kerner , Mandel , Moore , Rowland , Ryan , and Siegelman have been convicted of federal public corruption crimes ?
text: Did you know that the number of ways to place n diagonally symmetric rooks on an n × n chessboard in such a way that no two rooks attack each other is a telephone number ?
text: Did you know that although a Spanish treasure convoy was captured at the Action of 26 April 1797 , the cargo had already been smuggled to safety aboard a fishing boat?
text: Did you know that the 1937 Alabama Crimson Tide football team won the SEC championship after Hayward Sanford kicked a fourth quarter, game-winning field goal against Vanderbilt ?
text: Did you know that when Thomas M. Messer retired in 1988, after 27 years as director of the Guggenheim Foundation , he had served longer than any other major museum director in New York City?
text: Did you know that thieves have recently stolen the memorial plaques from the Livesey Hall War Memorial ?
text: Did you know that Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig , Holocaust survivor and one of the Schindlerjuden , appeared in a documentary with the daughter of Amon Goeth , her Nazi tormentor?
text: Did you know that Winston Churchill 's father once owned " Abscess on the Jaw "?
text: Did you know that Robert B. Cohen opened the first Hudson News , the world's largest airport newsstand retailer, in LaGuardia Airport in 1987?
text: Did you know that the Shute Park Aquatic & Recreation Center in Hillsboro, Oregon , was built for $2.5 million but remodeled and expanded at a cost of $9 million ?
text: Did you know that the author of The Undying Flame , who wrote the novel when he was 22, felt it resounded with teenage sentimentality?
text: Did you know that Australia women's national softball coach Kere Johanson won two men's softball world championships as a player with New Zealand's team?
text: Did you know that George Hubert Kemp , a flying ace from World War I , was fatally wounded on his last sortie, having shot down twelve enemy aircraft in the previous three weeks?
text: Did you know that the Seri people believed that the leaves of Standley's cloak fern brought good luck when carried in a bag?
text: Did you know that Jason Krizan set a National Collegiate Athletic Association record for doubles ?
text: Did you know that RNAD Coulport in Argyll , Scotland, is the storage and loading facility for the United Kingdom's stock of Trident nuclear warheads ?
text: Did you know that Duncan Barrett , co-author of The Sugar Girls , once directed Joe Thomas of The Inbetweeners in a show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival?
text: Did you know that according to one reviewer, the reggae drum fill in " Watch n' Learn " originates from Bob Marley 's 1983 single " Buffalo Soldier "?
text: Did you know that San Jose State University and Australia women's national softball team player Michelle Cox played softball in New South Wales for the state under-16 team?
text: Did you know that California governor Henry Gage publicly denied there was a San Francisco plague of 1900–1904 ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Route 6 in Ohio crosses the Black River on the Charles Berry Bridge , the second-largest bascule bridge in the world?
text: Did you know that WWI British flying ace Bruce Digby-Worsley scored the majority of his aerial victories against the Fokker D.VII ?
text: Did you know that " Saturday Night Glee-ver " is Glee 's tribute to the Bee Gees and Saturday Night Fever ?
text: Did you know that Filipino fashion designer and Project Runway Philippines judge Rajo Laurel has held exhibitions in New York City , San Francisco , Shanghai , Sydney , and Bali ?
text: Did you know that Puppigerus , an extinct sea turtle , had a specialized jaw structure which kept it from accidentally inhaling water?
text: Did you know that during World War II , the government occupied Parsi Gymkhana and Islam Gymkhana in Bombay , leading Hindu Gymkhana to offer membership to Muslims and Parsis as an "emergency measure"?
text: Did you know that the Djibouti women's national football team has played in only one FIFA recognised match, a 0–7 loss to Kenya in 2006?
text: Did you know that most of the length of the Seward Highway , which connects Anchorage and Seward, Alaska , is within Chugach National Forest ?
text: Did you know that a Soviet merchant vessel was named after Danish communist leader Knud Jespersen ?
text: Did you know that war memorials in Monmouth include one that commemorates 16 admirals and Britain's victories in the French Revolutionary Wars ?
text: Did you know that the hitchhiking anemone is often attached to shells occupied by the hermit crabs Dardanus venosus and Clibanarius vittatus ?
text: Did you know that two members of the I-Pop group Cherry Belle were reportedly released for being too old?
text: Did you know that Colombia's Parabellum was described as one of the world's first black metal bands?
text: Did you know that Glasgow has the ninth oldest golf club in the world?
text: Did you know that the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin leader Erich Ziegler had been imprisoned during World War II for his role in the Heinz Kapelle resistance group?
text: Did you know that the Indian River Inlet Bridge in Delaware uses a fiber-optic system that monitors the structural integrity of the bridge?
text: Did you know that while the Rwanda women's national football team has not played a FIFA -recognised match, a professional women's league in the country has attracted women from Uganda?
text: Did you know that, in Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc. , the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a car dealer in Puerto Rico to arbitrate its Sherman Act case in Tokyo per a contract under Swiss law?
text: Did you know that the Carrara marble baptismal font of the church of Augustenborg Palace was a gift from Tsar Alexander I of Russia ?
text: Did you know that Salomon Schweigger published the first German language translation of the Qur'an ?
text: Did you know that ice XI , one of the fifteen known phases of ice, may be present on Pluto and Charon ?
text: Did you know that professional softball player Clare Warwick is one of three national team players from Australian Capital Territory vying to represent Australia at the 2012 World Championship ?
text: Did you know that the Baptism of Poland in 966 led to the emergence of Poland as a proper European state, recognized by other European powers?
text: Did you know that the survival of descendants of the Banker horses used by Mounted Boy Scout Troop 290 of Ocracoke, North Carolina , relies upon one testicle?
text: Did you know that after the 1989 Revolution , Romanian communist politician Paul Niculescu-Mizil briefly led the National Salvation Front before being arrested and sent to prison?
text: Did you know that in 2011 Mike Shildt led the Johnson City Cardinals to their first back-to-back Appalachian League championship since 1976?
text: Did you know that three bombs exploded in Jammu 's Maulana Azad Stadium during the Governor General 's 1995 Republic Day Parade speech, killing eight people?
text: Did you know that Pavlo Kurtik had a little of Pavlo-Kurtik ?
text: Did you know that a private company wants to pay for the construction of County Road 595 in Marquette County, Michigan , to connect its nickel mine to its processing mill?
text: Did you know that Chakal was once inspired by the Living Dead ?
text: Did you know that the Pacific leaping blenny is considered a terrestrial fish, due to its ability to survive on land for several hours at a time?
text: Did you know that the Sammarinese Communist Party leader Ermenegildo Gasperoni worked as both a car mechanic and as Minister of Transport at the same time?
text: Did you know that First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton was instrumental in passing the Foster Care Independence Act , which funds independent living skills for youth in foster care ?
text: Did you know that while Mauritius has a senior women's national football team , they have not played in a single FIFA sanctioned game?
text: Did you know that Chinese politicians have engaged in debate over economic development using a metaphor for baking a cake ?
text: Did you know that soon after Jim Umbricht 's death from melanoma in 1964, his brother flew above the Astrodome construction site and scattered his ashes throughout the grounds?
text: Did you know that the Grand Veymont in France is the highest point of the Massif du Vercors and the Vercors Regional Natural Park , with a prominence of 1,165 metres (3,822 ft)?
text: Did you know that in 2007 and 2008, two American satellites were hacked using commands sent via the Svalbard Satellite Station ?
text: Did you know that Alexandre Chemetoff , winner of the Grand Prix de l'urbanisme , created a bamboo garden in Paris' Parc de la Villette ?
text: Did you know that as a result of the North Carolina Sullivan Acts , Asheville is the only city in the state that cannot charge a higher water rate for consumers outside city limits?
text: Did you know that Indonesian actress Sophia Latjuba received no fee for playing in her most recent film?
text: Did you know that Samuel Glazer , the co-developer of Mr. Coffee , gifted so many coffeemakers to Johnny Carson that the television host told him to stop?
text: Did you know that sculptor Vernon March , designer of the National War Memorial in Ottawa , Ontario , was the youngest exhibitor at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts ?
text: Did you know that the 19th-century alkali works of Losh, Wilson and Bell was the first in England to use the Leblanc process to make soda ash?
text: Did you know that Queensland softball player Jocelyn McCallum has played softball in the United States and Italy?
text: Did you know that P&G promoted their self care website BeingGirl by partnering with Sony BMG and Cathy's Book ?
text: Did you know that St George's Church in Eastergate , West Sussex , is reached by walking through a farm whose "magnificent" Elizabethan granary is also used by the church?
text: Did you know that George W. Jenkins , who founded Publix supermarkets in 1930, learned the business at Piggly Wiggly ?
text: Did you know that all four Lyon -class battleships were cancelled on account of World War I ?
text: Did you know that Victorian softball player and Olympic bronze medalist Justine Smethurst picked up an American accent while attending university?
text: Did you know that the Whitefish Bay National Forest Scenic Byway in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan follows the shore of Whitefish Bay and provides access to the Point Iroquois Lighthouse ?
text: Did you know that the region of Central Croatia comprises one third of the territory of Croatia , while generating more than half of the nation's GDP ?
text: Did you know that Mohammad Husni Thamrin argued for the term "Indonesia" to replace "Dutch Indies"?
text: Did you know that seamanite is known from only four locations, with three in Michigan and one in Australia?
text: Did you know that the 1925 Michigan football team allowed only three points all year and featured one of the sport's greatest passing combinations in "The Benny-to-Bennie Show"?
text: Did you know that the 1937 Bloudan Conference was held in Bloudan only after the British rejected the Arab request to host it in Jerusalem?
text: Did you know that occupants of Wenvoe Castle in south Wales have included a member of Cromwell's Upper House and a vice chamberlain to the Prince of Wales (later King George IV )?
text: Did you know that because the four founders of the Norwegian ISP PowerTech Information Systems were still minors, the father of one of them became the company 's first chairman?
text: Did you know that two scenes of the Friends episode " The One Where Rachel Smokes " appear only in the DVD version?
text: Did you know that the novel Student Hidjo describes love as something only those with a Dutch education would attempt to find?
text: Did you know that former National Hockey League player Brad McCrimmon moved to Russia to further his coaching career, but died in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster en route to his first game?
text: Did you know that although Indonesian national hero Usman Janatin was born in Banyumas , Usman Janatin City Park was built in Purbalingga Regency ?
text: Did you know that British writer Owen Hatherley introduces his 2010 book A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain as "an autopsy of the urban renaissance" promoted under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown ?
text: Did you know that sex workers' rights activist Catherine Healy was the second New Zealander after David Lange to be invited at a debate at the University of Oxford ?
text: Did you know that George Haggarty was named Mr. Basketball of Michigan for 1921 and won the U.S. Seniors' Golf Association championship in 1966?
text: Did you know that Princeton is the terminus of the Dinky , the shortest commuter rail line in the United States?
text: Did you know that Grace Towns Hamilton was the first African American woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly ?
text: Did you know that the Hotel Janzen in Marquette, Michigan , has served as a hotel and a shelter for the potentially homeless?
text: Did you know that Czech top flight footballer ‪Pavel Hašek‬ is the son of former national team player and manager Ivan ‪Hašek‬ ?
text: Did you know that a naval battle was fought between British and Dutch frigate squadrons in the North Sea off Eigerøya in August 1795 ?
text: Did you know that until 1951, when the Seward Highway was finished, in order for travelers to drive on the Hope Highway , they had to transport their cars on the Alaska Railroad ?
text: Did you know that after a crash involving plutonium and diamonds , the pilots of Swissair Flight 316 were charged with manslaughter?
text: Did you know that North Carolina policy allows community colleges to admit students who cannot prove legal U.S. residency if they graduated from a U.S. high school?
text: Did you know that apartments in Jerusalem's Shmuel HaNavi neighborhood , near the street of the same name, have triple-thick concrete walls, roofs with gunner positions, and courtyards for mass troop call-ups?
text: Did you know that test pilot Hanna Reitsch described the Raab Doppelraab as "a dream of an aircraft"?
text: Did you know that the idea for the Steven Curtis Chapman song " Miracle of the Moment " came from a song, "Find Me", that Chapman did not release?
text: Did you know that the start of the 2009–10 Logan Cup was delayed because not all the cricket teams involved had finished signing players?
text: Did you know that the flowers of the bumpy satinash often grow on its trunk?
text: Did you know that Angela Byron , an open source software developer , was the first woman to be featured on the cover of Linux Journal ?
text: Did you know that the Temple of the Tooth , a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Sri Lanka that houses the relic of the tooth of the Buddha , was attacked twice, first in 1989 and then in 1998 ?
text: Did you know that West Virginia native Frank Harrigan led Michigan to two Big Ten basketball championships and played for the Cook Painter Boys' 1929 national championship team?
text: Did you know that on the day the factory of Aspioti-ELKA in Corfu obtained permission to move its equipment to Athens , it got bombed?
text: Did you know that the extinct winter-hazel species Corylopsis readae was described from a single Ypresian fossil?
text: Did you know that Westward Ho! premiered in cinemas just two weeks after the start of filming?
text: Did you know that Baderon of Monmouth took Hadnock back from Monmouth Priory and gave three forges in exchange?
text: Did you know that Western Australia softball player Verity Long-Droppert won a bronze medal at the 2007 Junior World Championships and later played professional softball in Italy?
text: Did you know that " Goodbye Mr. Fish " is an episode of The Cosby Show about a family funeral for a goldfish ?
text: Did you know that the logo of the China Disabled Persons' Federation is based on a plum flower?
text: Did you know that Jennifer Lopez 's song " One Love " contains indirect references to her previous high-profile relationships ?
text: Did you know that swarms of Japanese soldier crabs of the species Mictyris guinotae , named after French biologist Danièle Guinot , can be used in place of the billiard balls in billiard-ball computers ?
text: Did you know that an amendment to Slovakia's Citizenship Act , which states that any national who takes another citizenship loses their Slovak citizenship, was enacted in reaction to Hungary's nationality law ?
text: Did you know that Catalan guitarist Pedro Javier González won both the Premio al Toque por Bulerías and Certamen de Guitarra flamenca flamenco competitions in the 1980s?
text: Did you know that former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli was buried in 1881 in the churchyard of St Michael and All Angels Church, Hughenden in Buckinghamshire, England?
text: Did you know that LaVell Blanchard was the fifth person to lead a National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball team in scoring and rebounding four times?
text: Did you know that Léopold Sédar Senghor chaired the 1955 congress of the Youth Council of the French Union in Madagascar ?
text: Did you know that the 1920s film The Virgin with the Hot Pants was the first known pornographic film to use animation ?
text: Did you know that when early versions of iostat monitored multiprocessor computer systems, they could wrongly interpret one processor waiting for I/O to mean that all those in the system were waiting?
text: Did you know that French sporting pioneer Camille du Gast was falsely accused of having posed nude for La Femme au Masque , but did not win the legal action she filed against her accuser?
text: Did you know that the yellowhead wrasse changes both colour and sex during its life?
text: Did you know that the vice-president of the Bahrain Teachers' Association, Jalila al-Salman , was sentenced to three years in prison for her involvement in the 2011–2012 uprising ?
text: Did you know that the 2012 Preston Passion featured thousands of Preston residents and included Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs from Handel's Messiah ?
text: Did you know that a 14th-century ivory casket in Baltimore has a scene of " Gawain on the perilous bed"?
text: Did you know that "color markings", considered rare among fossil crabs, have been found on Avitelmessus ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Dolby 's 1981 single " Europa and the Pirate Twins " features a harmonica solo by XTC 's Andy Partridge ?
text: Did you know that the Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics is Italy's oldest aviation museum, in addition to being the country's first corporate museum?
text: Did you know that in the early 1970s, President Félix Houphouët-Boigny of the Ivory Coast persuaded his protegé, Omar Bongo , to give a Donguila plantation to Bob Denard ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian literary critic Muhammad Balfas ' unfinished manuscript Si Gomar has been described as his most interesting?
text: Did you know that the Krrish series is regarded as the first science fiction / superhero film series of Indian cinema ?
text: Did you know that Anthony Alexander Forrest played two senior games of Australian rules football for the Perth Football Club before dying at age 16 in the Second Boer War ?
text: Did you know that the center of Santa Barbara , California , is built in a homogeneous style because of a 1925 earthquake ?
text: Did you know that two guide dogs , Salty and Roselle , were awarded the Dickin Medal for gallantry after leading their blind owners out of the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks ?
text: Did you know that, as of 2010, 85 percent of the readers of the Indonesian daily Bernas are male?
text: Did you know that Bach created an "operatic scene" in his cantata Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ, BWV 67 , with Jesus serenely repeating "Peace be with you" against the raging of the enemies?
text: Did you know that John Merton Aldrich donated 45,000 flies to the United States National Museum ?
text: Did you know that Humboldt Bay Life-Saving Station has the only marine railways still in an operational Pacific Coast U.S. Coast Guard station?
text: Did you know that five people died at the Shimonoseki Station in Japan when a man drove a car onto the platform in a deliberate attack ?
text: Did you know that Andrew Freedman , owner of the National League 's New York Giants , bought the American League 's Baltimore Orioles from John Mahon to raid Baltimore's best players?
text: Did you know that Alberto Cavalcanti asked David MacDonald to reshoot scenes from the 1940 British propaganda film Men of the Lightship because the performance of the actors was "totally unconvincing"?
text: Did you know that the Sudanese Socialist Republican Party was nicknamed 'Mr. Hawkesworth's Party', in reference to a rumour that a British colonial officer by that name had engineered it?
text: Did you know that Jessica Alba got a temporary tattoo of a bow on her tailbone for her role in A.C.O.D. ?
text: Did you know that the Compulsory Process Clause of the United States Constitution allows defendants to force the attendance of witnesses in their favor?
text: Did you know that despite being handicapped, Bahraini engineer Abduljalil Alsingace was allegedly tortured by being forced to stand on one leg without crutches for prolonged periods?
text: Did you know that during the 1567 Siege of Inabayama Castle , Kinoshita Tōkichirō and a small team climbed a mountain, infiltrated the castle , and opened the gates to let in the army of Oda Nobunaga ?
text: Did you know that Sebald Heyden has been speculated to be the world's first musicologist ?
text: Did you know that Truro Cathedral School existed long before Truro Cathedral ?
text: Did you know that Christopher Szwernicki was titled "Apostle of Siberia" by Pope Leo XIII ?
text: Did you know that John N. Shive not only invented the phototransistor but also the Shive wave machine ?
text: Did you know that the Men's Gymnasium at Indiana University once hosted the school's basketball team and was the first facility in the country to use glass backboards?
text: Did you know that a male and female pair of sand stars , Archaster typicus , engage in pseudocopulation so that when they spawn , some two months later, they will do so simultaneously?
text: Did you know that Job 600 cost over 4 million pounds to build and was completed in 1965 to showcase Ghana and Africa to the world?
text: Did you know that when Petoski won the 1985 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes , his trainer received a personal phone call from the Queen ?
text: Did you know that a dog named Gabi fought a jaguar , preventing the big cat's escape from the Belgrade Zoo onto the streets of Belgrade ?
text: Did you know that Lucile Petry Leone 's successful establishment of the Cadet Nurse Corps in 1943 made it unnecessary to draft US nurses for WWII?
text: Did you know that Thamudarit , who according to legend reigned over the Pagan Kingdom from 107 to 152 CE , was only proclaimed the founder of this kingdom in 1829?
text: Did you know that current Oakland University senior basketball player Reggie Hamilton was the only true freshman to receive the honor of being named to the Summit League All-Newcomer Team?
text: Did you know that State Highway 7 in the US state of Minnesota follows the Minnesota River National Scenic Byway along Lac qui Parle by the state line?
text: Did you know that A. Teeuw , despite resorting to guesswork, still encountered indecipherable data in his successful dissertation on a Kakawin ?
text: Did you know that the black sea rod coral contains large quantities of a lipid, prostaglandin A , which deters predatory fish from feeding on it by making them vomit?
text: Did you know that " Hill Street Station ", the first episode of Hill Street Blues , suffered "confusion and conflict in its marketing" to the point that it was considered a surprise the show survived to be aired?
text: Did you know that minors were barred from digitally purchasing "Drips", a track from South Korean singer Seven 's mini-album Digital Bounce ?
text: Did you know that the Second World War homing pigeon Tyke won a gallantry medal for reporting the location of a downed American bomber?
text: Did you know that despite the expulsion of softball from the Olympic programme , Belinda White wants to represent Australia at the 2020 Games ?
text: Did you know that Maya Angelou uses themes in her autobiographies to connect all six of them organically, beginning in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ?
text: Did you know that in Romania , journalist Constantin Al. Ionescu-Caion became a symbol of yellow journalism ?
text: Did you know that the naval shipworm was responsible for great damage to the Netherlands' sea defences in the 18th century?
text: Did you know that prior to winning 323 games as a college football head coach, Bear Bryant 's first regular season coaching position was on the staff of the 1936 Alabama Crimson Tide football team ?
text: Did you know that Mathew Richmond was the first Chairman of Committees of the New Zealand Legislative Council ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian band Netral released an album with random yet simple lyrics and a "naughty" rock style?
text: Did you know that the Journal of Japanese Studies called a book by William Bodiford "the most important English work on Sōtō Zen to date"?
text: Did you know that China had such appeal during the Ming Dynasty that even a king from Borneo insisted that his tomb be located there?
text: Did you know that German conductor Martin Lutz developed the Schiersteiner Kantorei from a suburban church choir at the Christophoruskirche into one of the largest choirs in Hesse ?
text: Did you know that both the Bromley War Memorial and the Bromley Parish Church Memorial were the work of British sculptor Sydney March ?
text: Did you know that Radič was the second most powerful person in Serbia , after Despot Đurađ ?
text: Did you know that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Taylor v. Illinois that defendants do not have an absolute right to obtain witnesses in their favor ?
text: Did you know that in ancient Mesoamerica , mirrors were fashioned from stone and were regarded as portals to a supernatural realm ?
text: Did you know that while researching his debut novel, The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi , Dutch author Arthur Japin discovered the head of the Ghanaian prince Badu Bonsu II ?
text: Did you know that the memoirs of life in the Lvov Ghetto during the Holocaust written by Maurycy Allerhand were unknown for over 20 years and first published only after the Revolutions of 1989 ?
text: Did you know that the Arcade Fire song " No Cars Go " originally appeared on their self-titled extended play and was reworked for their second album, Neon Bible ?
text: Did you know that the royal catchfly is pollinated by the ruby-throated hummingbird ?
text: Did you know that the female factory workers featured in the book The Sugar Girls would stuff their turbans with underwear to make them look more fashionable?
text: Did you know that although later writers claimed William the Conqueror 's victory in the 1057 Battle of Varaville was a massacre, contemporary writers barely noticed it?
text: Did you know that Walter Rea , the leading scorer for the 1919–20 Michigan Wolverines basketball team, later became the university 's spokesman on "panty raids"?
text: Did you know that the 1934 Alabama Crimson Tide football team won a second consecutive Southeastern Conference championship and claimed a share of the 1934 national championship ?
text: Did you know that the Royal Navy 's Frolic -class gunvessels were used to suppress the slave trade between East Africa and the Persian Gulf in the 1870s and 1880s?
text: Did you know that after escaping Nazi -occupied Europe, the Belzer Rebbe held his first tish in Jerusalem at the Zion Blumenthal Orphanage ?
text: Did you know that Adinegoro 's 1927 novel Young Blood was one of few Indonesian works from the period in which the main characters succeeded at love?
text: Did you know that the propellers of the Short No.1 biplane rotated in the same direction because their designer wished to avoid patent infringement ?
text: Did you know that Rigby & Peller provides undergarments to Queen Elizabeth II ?
text: Did you know that the only Japanese passenger aboard the Titanic survived, but was then shunned as a coward in his home country for not going down with the ship?
text: Did you know that the Long Branch Cubans were the first baseball team composed almost entirely of Cubans to play in the U.S. minor leagues ?
text: Did you know that on January 19, 1977, snow fell in south Florida and the Bahamas , and the Florida citrus industry was "nearly wiped out"?
text: Did you know that the United States Navy used Old Faithful to prepare enemy beaches for amphibious assault ?
text: Did you know that the late Toronto Maple Leafs owner Harold Ballard portrayed a doctor of his hockey team in the 1971 film Face-Off ?
text: Did you know that a police officer in Indonesia was sued for dumping blood to appease the Goddess of the South Sea while investigating the murder of Udin ?
text: Did you know that genetic studies on Serbs show that they are closely related to the neighbouring peoples, regardless of language and religion?
text: Did you know that the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra , founded by Saulius Sondeckis , has been described as among "the three most masterly orchestras of the world"?
text: Did you know that the new Titanic Belfast visitor attraction tells the story of the ill-fated RMS Titanic through interactive videos, audio, replicas and displays?
text: Did you know that " Roc Me Out " was described as a combination of Rihanna 's " Umbrella " and a slowed down version of Pendulum 's " Slam "?
text: Did you know that 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from Lebamba in southwestern Gabon are "massive underground cave networks", known as the Bongolo or Malibé Caves?
text: Did you know that a sample of the First Class experience aboard the RMS Titanic and Olympic can be found at the White Swan Hotel in Alnwick ?
text: Did you know that writers exiled from Indonesia after the 30 September Movement continued to write and publish overseas?
text: Did you know that 100 English foxhounds narrowly avoided being among the animals aboard the RMS Titanic during her disastrous maiden voyage ?
text: Did you know that Abasse Ndione 's first novel, La Vie en spirale , discusses the use and trafficking of "yamba" ( marijuana ) as a social metaphor?
text: Did you know that the extinct species Cornus piggae has fruits smaller than any other species in the dogwood subgenus of Cornus ?
text: Did you know that despite signing it in 1986, President Ronald Reagan objected to parts of the RMS Titanic Maritime Memorial Act ?
text: Did you know that commemorations of the RMS Titanic in popular culture have included songs, poems, plays, musicals, films, books and even black teddy bears?
text: Did you know that in 570 Jassem served as a seat of the Monophysite church during Ghassanid rule in Syria ?
text: Did you know that even though he didn't start pitching until 2007, D. J. Mitchell was the New York Yankees minor league Pitcher of the Year in 2011?
text: Did you know that Walter Lord 's 1955 book A Night to Remember has been described as a "defining moment" in the creation of the myth of the RMS Titanic ?
text: Did you know that John de Rantau co-directed a film that presents a fictionalised version of Barack Obama 's childhood years in Indonesia?
text: Did you know that Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia Men Sam An served as chairwoman of the Kampuchean Federation of Trade Unions ?
text: Did you know that the French research vessel Le Suroît was involved in the search for the wreck of the RMS Titanic but missed it by less than one kilometre?
text: Did you know that Peter Feldmann is the first politician of the Jewish faith to be elected mayor of Frankfurt since World War II ?
text: Did you know that following the 1973 Toulouse congress of PSOE a group of veteran Spanish socialists organized the "Historical" UGT , claiming to represent the original UGT trade union ?
text: Did you know that the first captain of Titanic was Captain Haddock ?
text: Did you know that over 10% of Slovenia 's population participated in each of the volunteer cleanups organized by the Ecologists Without Borders association, the Let's Clean Slovenia in One Day! in 2010 and this year's Let's Clean Slovenia 2012 ?
text: Did you know that the Glover Prize , though limited to depictions of Tasmania , is the richest art award for landscape painting in Australia?
text: Did you know that baseball outfielder Adam Eaton received USD $120,000 meant for the retired pitcher of the same name ?
text: Did you know that the College of Southern Nevada 's baseball team was forced to forfeit 37 games in 2006 when Craig Heyer was ruled ineligible?
text: Did you know that individuals who report high levels of affiliative humor are more likely to initiate friendships?
text: Did you know that India won only 9 medals in the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games , comparing with 76 medals in the previous edition of the Games ?
text: Did you know that Henry MacLauchlan recommended to the British parliament that Ordnance Survey maps should not use contour lines ?
text: Did you know that Bear Bryant played in the game against Tennessee with a broken leg as a member of the 1935 Alabama Crimson Tide football team ?
text: Did you know that Ratna Sarumpaet 's singing of the Indonesian national anthem was called "proof" of a crime?
text: Did you know that the animated short film Sex Life of Robots , showing sexual activity among robots, is described as " art - porn "?
text: Did you know that it is customary for Viktor Tsoi 's fans to leave a broken lighted cigarette in the special ash plate at the Tsoi Wall ?
text: Did you know that between 1800 and 1890, some 25,000 to 50,000 slaves were captured in present-day Tanzania, Mozambique, and Malawi and forced to work on plantations in Somalia ?
text: Did you know that the 1933 Alabama Crimson Tide football team won the first Southeastern Conference football championship ?
text: Did you know that the Latvian mathematician Emanuels Grīnbergs lost his job and his doctoral degree for serving in the German Army during World War II, but then regained both by writing a new thesis?
text: Did you know that when the feathers left in the Round Island Lighthouse keepers' living quarters were identified, the lighthouse cat was banished from that Scillonian island?
text: Did you know that the Maoist Youth Union demanded that a "Youth Charter" be included in the new Spanish constitution?
text: Did you know that Australian national team field hockey player Luke Doerner gave teammate Matthew Swann a yellow headband that Swann wears at every match?
text: Did you know that the video for Radiohead 's " Lotus Flower ", which features Thom Yorke 's "spastic" dancing, was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video ?
text: Did you know that Lady Llangattock , the mother of Charles Rolls , commemorated the centenary of Nelson 's death at the Kymin ?
text: Did you know that a Punu-Lumbo mask from Gabon has been sold at Sotheby's for well over $400,000?
text: Did you know that Indian matchmaker website Shaadi.com created an online game called Angry Brides to raise awareness of dowry deaths in India?
text: Did you know that Texas' Ranch to Market Road 187 appears in the 2011 film Seven Days in Utopia as the road where actor Lucas Black wrecks his car?
text: Did you know that Japanese comedian Neko Hiroshi was nominated by the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia to compete for Cambodia at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the newly elected President of Senegal Macky Sall appointed the technocrat and banker Abdoul Mbaye as prime minister ?
text: Did you know that baseball player Josh Edgin won the Pennsylvania state championship in wrestling , finishing fourth in the national championship?
text: Did you know that Deonar is one of India's oldest and largest waste dumping grounds?
text: Did you know that at its extreme, serfdom in Poland required a peasant to work eight days a week for his feudal lord?
text: Did you know that the remains of the Bogdan Saray in Istanbul lie inside a tire shop?
text: Did you know that the New York Giants and Cincinnati Reds raided Joe McGinnity , Joe Kelley , Cy Seymour , Dan McGann , Jack Cronin , and others from the Baltimore Orioles during the 1902 season ?
text: Did you know that the first modern road connecting the Adriatic and Pannonian basins, spanning the Mountainous Croatia region, was completed in 1732?
text: Did you know that the new Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in Indianapolis, Indiana, houses a pack of the writer's Pall Malls as well as his Purple Heart ?
text: Did you know that Yutyrannus huali is the largest known feathered dinosaur, the holotype measuring 9 metres (30 ft) long?
text: Did you know that Philander and Francis Roots founded Roots Blower Company when one of them blew off his brother's hat?
text: Did you know that TTAADC member Sridam Pal was one of the 13 victims killed in the 1988 Birchandramanu massacre in South Tripura ?
text: Did you know that last name of Peter Spani , one of the founders of the League of Lezhë in 1444, is derived from the Greek word spanos ( Greek : σπανός ) which means beardless?
text: Did you know that the woodland at Dizzard Point in Cornwall , which is part of the Boscastle to Widemouth SSSI , is of international importance for its lichen communities?
text: Did you know that the fathers of Australian national team field hockey players Jonathon Charlesworth and Brent Dancer , both coached the men's national team?
text: Did you know that the MV-1 is the first purpose-built taxicab to be approved for use as a New York City yellow cab since the iconic Checker Marathon ?
text: Did you know that eggs en cocotte are cooked by breaking eggs into ramekins and then baking them in a water bath ?
text: Did you know that the General Prologue of the Wycliffe Bible was not written by John Wycliffe ?
text: Did you know that Hero Cup was the first cricket tournament to be broadcast on satellite television in India in 1993, prior to which state terrestrial broadcaster Doordarshan had a monopoly on cricket broadcasts?
text: Did you know that Queensland softball catcher Kym Tollenaere narrowly missed out on the 2004 Summer Olympics and is trying to represent Australia at the 2012 World Championships ?
text: Did you know that the Gabonese Socialist Union , initially an opposition party founded by formerly exiled student activists, aligned itself with the then incumbent president Omar Bongo ?
text: Did you know that Kyeong Kang was the first South Korean to be selected in the Major League Baseball Draft ?
text: Did you know that a large number of street food vendors in Mumbai trade illegally without mandatory permits from the local municipality by bribing officials?
text: Did you know that Sister Jackie Hudson served six months in prison for painting "Christ lives, Disarm" on the side of a bunker?
text: Did you know that the 1917–18 team was the University of Michigan's first basketball team after an eight-year hiatus and the only winless conference season in the school's history?
text: Did you know that the comb star ( Astropecten polyacanthus ) contains a potent neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin ?
text: Did you know that the Presbyterian Church of Victoria was formed in 1859 as a union of Church of Scotland , Free Presbyterian and United Presbyterian congregations?
text: Did you know that with the Romanian Revolution of 1989 , Alexandru Bârlădeanu went from house arrest to Senate President within a few months?
text: Did you know that Pulitzer Prize -winning photographer William M. Gallagher once commandeered a police helicopter to cover a story?
text: Did you know that former National Hockey League player Joel Otto credited Battle of Alberta rival Mark Messier as being the reason he made the Calgary Flames ?
text: Did you know that the Albanian nobility was absorbed into the Ottoman military class through the implementation of the timar system within not more than two generations?
text: Did you know that upon release of Rihanna 's Talk That Talk , " We All Want Love " was the album's lowest charting song on the UK Singles Chart , at number 188?
text: Did you know that according to some sources, bulb-bearing water-hemlock is one of the most poisonous leafy plants native to North America?
text: Did you know that the racehorses Pennekamp in 1995 and King of Kings in 1998 were both winners of the 2000 Guineas in May, found lame after losing the Epsom Derby in June, and then retired to stud soon after?
text: Did you know that former churches in Chichester , West Sussex , have been converted into a doll museum, a betting shop and a Chinese takeaway, among other things?
text: Did you know that Henry Hallowell Farquhar , the leading scorer on the first Michigan Wolverines basketball team in 1909, became a professor at Harvard Business School?
text: Did you know that The Who 's bassist John Entwistle kept skeletons in the bedroom of his Victorian mansion Quarwood to frighten guests?
text: Did you know that British World War II fighter ace Noel Agazarian was rejected by Trinity College, Oxford , allegedly because its President objected to his ethnicity?
text: Did you know that Polish writer Łukasz Orbitowski was one of the pioneers of setting horror stories in mundane, modern Polish cities?
text: Did you know that the composite hull of the Beacon -class gunvessels was described by Admiral G. A. Ballard as built "along the lines of an extremely elongated packing crate"?
text: Did you know that Manuel Gálvez promoted Juan Manuel de Rosas as an archetype of Argentine values?
text: Did you know that the historiography of Juan Manuel de Rosas influenced much of the whole historiography of Argentina ?
text: Did you know that according to one critic, " Farewell " is a "shameless rewrite" of Adele ' s song " Someone like You "?
text: Did you know that naval architect William K. MacCurdy developed the Hydra-Cushion rail coupling at SRI International , significantly changing freight transportation?
text: Did you know that Audrey Withers , who edited the British Vogue for twenty years, lacked a personal interest in fashion and joined the London Fire Brigade ?
text: Did you know that over 16 million years ago, four species of parrot in the genus Nelepsittacus made their home in subtropical rainforest in what is now Otago , New Zealand?
text: Did you know that Chinese-Indonesian writer Mira Wong may use the pen name Mira W. to cover her ethnicity?
text: Did you know that the steamer R. J. Hackett is recognized as the first Lake freighter ?
text: Did you know that the 1834 Epsom Oaks was won by a filly named Pussy ?
text: Did you know that both the 1997 and 2009 versions of TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time included episodes that were only aired two months prior?
text: Did you know that Kieran Govers , Simon Orchard , Robert Hammond , Nathan Burgers , Matthew Butturini , Kiel Brown , Joel Carroll , Mark Knowles , Fergus Kavanagh , Glenn Turner , Jason Wilson and Russell Ford are in training with the Australian field hockey team for the 2012 Olympics ?
text: Did you know that at the Romanian Communist Party congress of November 1989 , Emil Bobu countered delegates' flagging enthusiasm by shouting slogans and applauding vigorously, even interrupting leader Nicolae Ceauşescu ?
text: Did you know that Paul Chemetov built the French embassy in New Delhi in the 1980s?
text: Did you know that 1907 Michigan football team gave up an average of only one point per game and shut out Vanderbilt in front of the largest crowd to see a football game south of the Mason–Dixon Line ?
text: Did you know that slavery in Poland existed during the Middle Ages , but eventually disappeared with the transformation of slaves into serfs ?
text: Did you know that Kookaburra Commonwealth gold medalist Chris Ciriello lost 18 kilograms (40 lb) because of his busy hockey schedule?
text: Did you know that when Abdul Alkalimat wrote Malcolm X for Beginners , he was sued by the activist's widow?
text: Did you know that the pandemonium in a pandemonium architecture simply represents the cumulative yelling of the "demons" within the system?
text: Did you know that the Bach cantata for Easter Ich lebe, mein Herze, zu deinem Ergötzen, BWV 145 , was expanded after Bach's death by two leading movements, the second one composed by Telemann ?
text: Did you know that in 1955 Marie Aspioti returned her MBE to Queen Elizabeth II in protest against the British policies on Cyprus regarding enosis with Greece?
text: Did you know that infants are so motivated to engage in joint attention that they will turn away from interesting sights to do so?
text: Did you know that prior to taking up athletics , Olympic long-distance runner Väinö Koskela was a member of the winning team at an under-18 cross-country skiing championship?
text: Did you know that Matt Bomer suggested that Glee feature Gotye 's " Somebody That I Used to Know " in an episode, only to be cast a week later to sing it himself in the episode " Big Brother "?
text: Did you know that the first non-white player in the National Basketball Association was an Asian-American who played in 1947 ?
text: Did you know that Cat Creek was the site of the first commercially successful oil field in Montana , producing oil so pure it could be used in Model T cars straight from the ground?
text: Did you know that following the 2011 civil war in Libya , the Muslim Brotherhood founded the Justice and Development Party , which is said to be the country 's most organised political force?
text: Did you know that in the upcoming US Supreme Court case of Fisher v. University of Texas , a white woman argues that the university discriminated against her based on race?
text: Did you know that King Arthur's Cave , near Ganarew , to the northeast of Monmouth , is reputedly the oldest Arthurian site?
text: Did you know that Hall of Fame baseball manager John McGraw signed Billy Gilbert to the Baltimore Orioles in 1902 and the New York Giants in 1903?
text: Did you know that Chelsea Forkin has represented Australia in the World Cup of Baseball and World Cup of Softball ?
text: Did you know that an 80-km-long, 6-m-high mound formed by the 1819 Rann of Kutch earthquake was known as the Dam of God ?
text: Did you know that The Yama Yama Man may be hiding behind a chair, "ready to spring out at you unaware"?
text: Did you know that Martin Segon wrote a short biographical sketch on Skanderbeg at the end of the 15th century?
text: Did you know that the racehorse Americus , despite being called "fat as a showyard bull", still finished fourth in the 1899 Steward's Cup at Goodwood ?
text: Did you know that Admiral John Ferrier had friendships with Lord Exmouth and the Duke of Wellington , and served under Nelson , who called Ferrier "as steady as old Time himself"?
text: Did you know that Indonesian director Wim Umboh , who won nine Citra Awards , began his career in the film industry as a janitor?
text: Did you know that George Grey was the winner in two different electorates in both the 1875–76 and 1879 elections in New Zealand?
text: Did you know that an opole was an early Polish unit of administration that predated the first formal Polish state?
text: Did you know that debuting Major League Baseball pitcher Drew Smyly came within two outs of pitching a no-hitter in a college baseball tournament while a redshirt freshman at the University of Arkansas ?
text: Did you know that the Paleocene Ginkgo cranei is the first fossil Ginkgo to be described from Tertiary "seeds"?
text: Did you know that sixteen of Harbhajan Singh 's international cricket five-wicket hauls have come in victory for India , while five have been in defeats?
text: Did you know that in 1953, Beaconsfield, Tasmania , became the first town in Australia to fluoridate the water supply ?
text: Did you know that John Halsted kissed King George IV 's hand twice, once when George was Prince Regent , and once as a monarch ?
text: Did you know that the oldest volume in the Hereford Cathedral Library is the Hereford Gospels , dated to around the year 780?
text: Did you know that Australian softball player Jade Wall started playing softball when she was nine years old and surfs as a hobby?
text: Did you know that although George Harrison 's 1973 song " Sue Me, Sue You Blues " was inspired by his own legal issues with his fellow ex- Beatles , he let Jesse Ed Davis record it first?
text: Did you know that the 1999 documentary Private Dicks: Men Exposed , in which men were interviewed about their penises, was described by Ken Tucker as "quite literally touching"?
text: Did you know that the development of basketball as "almost a major sport" led the University of Michigan to form its first basketball team in 1909?
text: Did you know that Seaman Frank vowed "Do you think I'm going to let them get away with that? Not pygmalion likely!" after he lost his foot to a German raider?
text: Did you know that John Garrels of the 1906 Michigan football team threw the school's first legal forward pass , won Olympic medals in the hurdles and shot put , and set a world record in the discus throw ?
text: Did you know that the 2002 funeral of John Entwistle , bassist for rock band The Who , was held at St Edward's Church in Stow-on-the-Wold ?
text: Did you know that Danville, Kentucky 's Constitution Square State Historic Site features a replica of the first Presbyterian meetinghouse in the state?
text: Did you know that in the 2011–12 Logan Cup , the Matabeleland Tuskers cricket team became the first to win consecutive titles during the franchise era of the competition ?
text: Did you know that Jamila and the President , submitted to the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film , was initially written after the director received a UNICEF grant?
text: Did you know that celebrity chef and baker Paul Hollywood created what is thought to be the most expensive loaf of bread in Britain?
text: Did you know that Keith Meinhold , who came out publicly in 1992, was allowed to stay in the US Navy after a 1994 court decision as long as he did not say he was gay again?
text: Did you know that the Alfaguara project has photographed and identified over 350 individual blue whales ?
text: Did you know that in 1821–22 Aaron Manby built the world's first seagoing iron-hulled steamship, named after him , and patented the design of its oscillating engine ?
text: Did you know that Estonia's first major industrial strike occurred in 1872 at the Krenholm Manufacturing Company ?
text: Did you know that the father, grandfather, and great-grandfather of NASCAR driver Mikey Kile were all racing drivers as well?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian internet community Fiksimini writes complete works of fiction in under 140 characters?
text: Did you know that Edward Espe Brown , author of The Tassajara Bread Book , was inspired as a child by his aunt 's baking of homemade bread?
text: Did you know that before its restoration the Kasim Ağa Mosque in Istanbul was used as a shanty ?
text: Did you know that in his 1936 German melodrama, Schlußakkord , Douglas Sirk characterised and contrasted a Weimar new woman and a German expatriate mother through their reactions to Beethoven's 9th Symphony ?
text: Did you know that Stacey McManus represents Australia in softball , while her sister Brook plays softball for New Zealand's national team?
text: Did you know that Christian rock band Casting Crowns ' fourth studio album, Until the Whole World Hears , sold 167,000 copies in its first week?
text: Did you know that National Hero of Indonesia Slamet Rijadi took the name Rijadi after there were too many students called Slamet at his school?
text: Did you know that artist Sydney John Bunney created over 500 works depicting the city of Coventry ?
text: Did you know that Kookaburra gold medalist Jamie Dwyer met his girlfriend while playing professional field hockey in the Netherlands?
text: Did you know that " Do Ya Thang " was described as a return to Rihanna 's roots, which were notably present in the songs from her first studio album Music of the Sun ?
text: Did you know that with the help of the IDRF , Narayanan Komerath , a professor of aerospace engineering , launched a fund to aid families of people hurt in the war against terrorism?
text: Did you know that Robert Hiester Montgomery , one of the founders of the world's largest accounting firm, never graduated from high school?
text: Did you know that King Gong and then King Kang ruled the Chu kingdom in the 6th century BC?
text: Did you know that the 1932 Alabama Crimson Tide football team 's contest against Georgia Tech was the first Alabama football game that was broadcast live?
text: Did you know that Milko Bambič had to escape from Trieste to Yugoslavia to avoid arrest after he had published the first Slovene comic strip , a parody on Benito Mussolini ?
text: Did you know that Ghost Story , a 1972–73 television anthology series , was renamed Circle of Fear after 13 episodes?
text: Did you know that Giring Ganesha , the lead singer of Nidji , lost 11 kilograms (24 lb) for his role in The Enlightener ?
text: Did you know that until Judge Sonia Sotomayor ordered the creation of Krimstock hearings , there was often no way for thousands of owners to promptly recover their seized vehicles from the NYPD ?
text: Did you know that the Portage Glacier Highway is made up of a series of eight roads, bridges, and tunnels?
text: Did you know that Romanian politician Oana Niculescu-Mizil once wore a genuine prison uniform to the floor of the Chamber of Deputies as a sign of protest?
text: Did you know that Margaret Wenzell ' s only home run in her professional baseball career was a game-winning inside-the-park home run , hit with her parents in attendance?
text: Did you know that Samuel Barber derived his choral composition Agnus Dei ( Lamb of God ) from his successful Adagio for Strings , showing "the work's sense of spirituality"?
text: Did you know that journalist Ding Yu interviewed 226 death row prisoners for a popular television programme in China's Henan Province ?
text: Did you know that the role of the Rhodesian head of government gradually evolved , between 1890 and 1970, from that of a company -appointed administrator to the prime ministerial office of a republic?
text: Did you know that Nicholas Dukagjini is mentioned in a song about an Albanian Romeo and Juliet written by Girolamo de Rada ?
text: Did you know that in 1956 Cricket Records were promoted simultaneously with all Betsy Wetsy television advertisements?
text: Did you know that Jean Clédat uncovered the monastery of Apa Apollo, founded in the fourth century, whilst excavating at Bawit in the winter of 1903?
text: Did you know that a young spider crab, Libinia ferreirae , often lives inside the bell of the jellyfish Lychnorhiza lucerna ?
text: Did you know that the Rukwa Valley in southwestern Tanzania is sparsely populated because of its difficult environment?
text: Did you know that Nicolae Xenopol , who wrote a satirical novel about a Yankee visiting "disgusting" Romania, was later Romania's first ambassador to Japan?
text: Did you know that the occurrence of the 1906 Valparaíso earthquake thirty minutes after the 1906 Aleutian Islands earthquake was probably just coincidence?
text: Did you know that the Radiohead song " True Love Waits " became a highly requested song at their live shows in the 1990s despite having never been released?
text: Did you know that Roy Marten was one of the highest paid Indonesian actors in the late 1970s?
text: Did you know that softball player Brenda De Blaes represented Australia and Belgium at the Women's World Championship ?
text: Did you know that The Kinks ' song " The Hard Way " was based on a true incident in which Kinks' guitarist Dave Davies was caned and expelled from school?
text: Did you know that Minnie Fisher Cunningham helped convince both Senator Andrieus A. Jones and President Woodrow Wilson to support passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution , giving women suffrage?
text: Did you know that the Swiss-South African Association tried to lobby the Swiss government to recognize the Bantustan state Transkei ?
text: Did you know that April the Fifth , the winning racehorse of the 1932 Epsom Derby , and his breeder, were both born on April the fifth ?
text: Did you know that the Devonian stem tetrapod Tinirau clackae , transitional between fish and land vertebrates, was named after the half-human half-fish character Tinirau in Polynesian legend?
text: Did you know that the protagonist of the game Soft & Cuddly must reassemble his mother's dismembered body?
text: Did you know that World Naked Gardening Day , celebrated in May to promote nude gardening , was first observed in 2005?
text: Did you know that the Communist Party leader Umberto Barulli was appointed head of state in San Marino in 1988?
text: Did you know that the Dynasphere monowheel was criticized for its poor braking and steering capabilities, as well as its gerbiling tendencies?
text: Did you know that Soedjatmoko was expelled from medical school but went on to become rector of the United Nations University ?
text: Did you know that Atretochoana eiselti , the largest tetrapod to lack lungs, was until late 2011 known only from two museum specimens whose origin was unknown?
text: Did you know that when U.S. President Johnson signed Executive Order 11375 in 1967 banning sex bias in federal government hiring, women held just 809 of more than 40,000 federal civil service jobs?
text: Did you know that Henry Knighton was the first historian of Lollardy ?
text: Did you know that " Zou Bisou Bisou " sung by Jessica Paré as Megan Draper on the March 25 season 5 premiere of Mad Men , was a 1960s yé-yé song that can be translated as "Oh! Kiss Kiss"?
text: Did you know that during the Popish Plot , on Sunday 17 November 1678, John Arnold of Monmouthshire captured Father David Lewis at St Michael's Church , Llantarnam , and he was later executed?
text: Did you know that in the spring of 1941 the Swiss Socialist Federation was banned and its four national deputies (including Le Travail editor Léon Nicole and Jacques Dicker ) were expelled from parliament?
text: Did you know that film editing innovations by Lou Lombardo and Sam Peckinpah in 1969 still influence filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino , John Woo , Kathryn Bigelow , and the Wachowskis ?
text: Did you know that Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was the soloist in a recording of Max Reger 's Requiem with the Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg in 1990?
text: Did you know that the ruins of the Maya city of Mixco Viejo in Guatemala received their name because they were believed to be the remains of another city entirely?
text: Did you know that birdwatcher Lieutenant Colonel Jackson Miles Abbott bird ringed 1,400 birds in seven months?
text: Did you know that the Singapore High Court once held that, by refusing berths to a company running gambling cruises, the port authority had not fettered its discretion – a form of illegality in administrative law ?
text: Did you know that Samson Isberg ' s last beheadings were attended by about 5,000 spectators?
text: Did you know that when the Basque trade union movement ELA-STV suffered a split in the 1970s, the dissident ELA-STV (Askatuta) was accused of being bankrolled by Opus Dei ?
text: Did you know that Tristram Coffin led a group of investors who bought Nantucket for thirty pounds and two beaver hats?
text: Did you know that the 1931 Alabama Crimson Tide football team competed in two charity games at the end of the season to raise money for unemployment relief?
text: Did you know that Shuffle Master created the casino game Let It Ride to drive demand for its shuffling machine ?
text: Did you know that a joint musical venture between a Dutch and Indonesian band resulted in Chaos & Warfare ?
text: Did you know that most active filmmakers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , such as Monique Mbeka Phoba , live and work abroad?
text: Did you know that because of his escape from captivity in 1188 through a sewer, the medieval monk and future Abbot of Evesham Roger Norreis was nicknamed "Roger Cloacarius" or "Roger the Drain-Cleaner"?
text: Did you know that the 2005 TNA Super X Cup Tournament was also known as the " Christopher Daniels Invitational"?
text: Did you know that before becoming a celebrity chef , Eric Lanlard served in the French Navy on board the flagship Jeanne d'Arc ?
text: Did you know that with an area of 1,865 square kilometres (720 sq mi), Siling Co in Xainza County is the second largest saltwater lake in the northern Tibetan Plateau ?
text: Did you know that Julia Holter 's debut album Tragedy (2011) was inspired by Euripides ' Ancient Greek play Hippolytus ?
text: Did you know that Bakri Siregar wrote the first history of modern Indonesian literature ?
text: Did you know that a controversy arose over the Tulsi Peeth edition of the Ramcharitmanas , when the author Rambhadracharya was accused of tampering with the epic?
text: Did you know that the longnose spider crab disguises itself by sticking bits of unpalatable seaweed and invertebrates on its shell ?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian landowner Oscar Collett was the single largest benefactor of the old Norwegian Ornithological Society 's academic journal ?
text: Did you know that the racehorse St. Frusquin lost the 1896 Epsom Derby by merely a neck to his brother Persimmon , whose winning time of 2:42.0 set a new Derby record?
text: Did you know that a review of Plastic Flowers , a 1977 Indonesian film directed by a man known for romances, found him unfit to direct but praised a robbery scene?
text: Did you know that Great Tew Circle was a group of intellectual and literary figures who gathered in the 1630s at the manor house of Great Tew , Oxfordshire ?
text: Did you know that when the footballer Svein Fjælberg joined Viking FK from Sola FK in 1979 for a transfer fee of 45,000 Norwegian kroner , he became the then most expensive player at the club?
text: Did you know that during the Abbasid invasion of Asia Minor of 782 CE , Byzantine general Tatzates defected to the Arab side when the Byzantines already had the Abbasids surrounded and asking for negotiations?
text: Did you know that the MSC Fabiola is the largest container ship to dock in North America?
text: Did you know that while Victoire Conroy was among the few companions allowed to associate with the young Queen Victoria , the queen disliked her?
text: Did you know that the racehorse Colombo won £ 17,130 in 1933, a year after he was purchased for only 510 guineas ?
text: Did you know that threats to the Blue Gum Forest in the Blue Mountains included logging, coal mining , a dam and growing walnuts ?
text: Did you know that World War I British flying aces Ralph Curtis and Desmond Uniacke battled Hermann Göring , future head of the Luftwaffe ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian band Efek Rumah Kaca donated the royalties from ringback tone sales for one of the tracks on their self-titled debut album to the family of a human rights activist ?
text: Did you know that Ratirahasya , a medieval Indian sex manual, classifies sexual intercourse into nine different types on the basis of the size of genitals?
text: Did you know that the lower masts of the Briton -class corvettes of the Royal Navy were iron, but the rest of the masts were made of wood?
text: Did you know that despite winning consecutive conference championships, UC Riverside Highlanders football was discontinued following their 1975 season ?
text: Did you know that in 1978 the Maoist Sindicato Unitario won the union election at the conservative newspaper ABC in Madrid?
text: Did you know that The Panther , the favourite for the 1919 Epsom Derby , became agitated before the race and finished unplaced, possibly due to the presence of a mare ridden by a mounted policeman ?
text: Did you know that Dorothy Manley took unpaid leave from her job as a typist to compete in the 1948 Summer Olympics , where she won the silver medal in the women's 100 metres ?
text: Did you know that a University of Washington fake mathematician created as a student prank became the author of several well-received papers in research journals?
text: Did you know that Toronto officials considered replacing their moose with unicorns?
text: Did you know that in 2007, the owners of a hairy Fabulous Willy were criticised for being homosexual?
text: Did you know that Nintendo owns the rights to a pornographic film ?
text: Did you know that Santa Claus was a stud?
text: Did you know that some Chicago sports fans blame their team's recent failings on the absence of Honey Bears ?
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text: Did you know that Mr Grumpy was once bombed by the Americans?
text: Did you know that Frank Lloyd Wright designed a dog house —and even its roof leaks?
text: Did you know that ever since coming between neighbours, Funzie Girt has run almost the length of a Scottish island ?
text: Did you know that an Italian Protestant fathered The Virgin Mary in 1950?
text: Did you know that T. vagina have eyes hidden behind their skin?
text: Did you know that the City of Rio de Janeiro is located in San Francisco Bay ?
text: Did you know that Mr. Santoso was the first female cabinet member in Indonesian history?
text: Did you know that a gang leader was executed by lethal injection for the crimes of assaulting tourists and breaking into their cars to steal food?
text: Did you know that a fish in a fishbowl is in a fish ?
text: Did you know that if you want to talk to the anal it helps to speak their language ?
text: Did you know that the United States once fought 32 tons of shark fins , and the fins won?
text: Did you know that a Baker went into outer space with sea urchin sperm, later receiving a rubber duck and many bananas for her efforts?
text: Did you know that a Roman Catholic priest got five Super Bowl rings with the 49ers ?
text: Did you know that Nuns can fly at high altitudes?
text: Did you know that red hot penises can be pickled, but it is recommended one not eat them?
text: Did you know that people have cut off arms and legs because of Gigli ?
text: Did you know that following the example of Khader Adnan , Hana Shalabi began a hunger strike after her arrest in Israel , on February 16 , 2012?
text: Did you know that the Plan B song " ill Manors " was written in reaction to the 2011 England riots ?
text: Did you know that in 1985 differences of opinion on the tactics of general strikes led to a split in the Galician nationalist trade union movement and the founding of CXTG ?
text: Did you know that The Flying Fleet 's female lead, Anita Page , described co-star Ramón Novarro as "something to dream about"?
text: Did you know that the black gum is threatened by global warming as it is largely restricted to frost hollows?
text: Did you know that historian Max Hastings called Thaddeus Holt's book The Deceivers a "worthy celebration" of British deception during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the size of a spherical bubble in an infinite body of liquid is described by the Rayleigh–Plesset equation ?
text: Did you know that writer Frank Spotnitz has called " Sacrament " his favourite among the episodes he has written for Millennium ?
text: Did you know that during a football match between FK Bodø/Glimt and Tromsø IL in 1995 , Tromsø head coach Harald Aabrekk was brought to the hospital in an ambulance, despite not being injured?
text: Did you know that males with the genetic disorder familial hyperestrogenism may become feminized and often seek to have their enlarged breasts surgically removed ?
text: Did you know that after the Battle of Azaz in 1030, the victorious Arabs needed seventy camels to carry off the imperial tent of the Byzantine emperor Romanos III and its treasures?
text: Did you know that actress Lisa George was told by a singing teacher at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama that she was "too big" to be successful in musical theatre?
text: Did you know that in 1983, in the Russian military town Serpukhov-15 , the system controlling the Soviet Union's Oko satellites received warning of American ICBMs being launched?
text: Did you know that the American film All the Vermeers in New York was created as a tribute to the director 's father?
text: Did you know that the ringback tone for the Indonesian music duo Ratu 's song about friends with benefits was downloaded more than a million times?
text: Did you know that the Annaberg hill (Góra Świętej Anny) in Silesia has a pilgrimage church that remained popular despite Nazi efforts to draw attention away with an open-air theatre and a heroes' mausoleum?
text: Did you know that Duke Zhuang II of Qi ascended the throne with the help of minister Cui Zhu, but was later killed by Cui for having an affair with his wife?
text: Did you know that Australian Opal and Bulleen Boomers forward Elyse Penaluna scored 29 points and made six rebounds in 17 minutes during a basketball game against the Hobart Chargers?
text: Did you know that when Ottoman commander Esad Pasha surrendered after the 1913 Battle of Bizani , Greek Army officer Ioannis Velissariou personally led the Ottoman delegation to Greek headquarters?
text: Did you know that the central premise of Millennium 's " Covenant " may have been based on Albert Fish 's history of self-harm?
text: Did you know that Sarah, Duchess of York , observed a tradition by diving naked into the swimming pool at Hurst Lodge School at midnight on the eve of her last day there?
text: Did you know that German conductor Konrad Junghänel and his vocal ensemble Cantus Cölln won the Gramophone Award for the first complete recording of Monteverdi's collection Selva morale e spirituale ?
text: Did you know that Leo Franklyn spent much of the 1940s as a Dame ?
text: Did you know that William Addams Williams , the MP for Monmouthshire , ensured that newspapers were notified when they incorrectly listed his votes ?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian footballer Steffen Hagen has played every minute of 100 consecutive league-matches for Odd Grenland in Tippeligaen ?
text: Did you know that prepatellar bursitis is also called "coal miner's knee"?
text: Did you know that in 567 BC Duke Ling of Qi annexed the neighbouring state of Lai , more than doubling the size of the state of Qi ?
text: Did you know that Wojciech Smarzowski 's film Róża gained the Polish Film Award in seven categories in 2011?
text: Did you know that at St Athan , a wild fig tree grew out of the cement of the East Orchard chapel walls?
text: Did you know that the use of noise by Ottoman military bands inspired European composers such as Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart?
text: Did you know that Raymond P. Ahlquist 's discovery of adrenergic receptor subtypes was at first largely ignored but eventually led to the development of widely prescribed beta blocker drugs?
text: Did you know that Pragyananda Mahasthavir was the first Theravada Buddhist monk wearing yellow robes to be seen in Kathmandu since the 14th century?
text: Did you know that the pro-gay rap song " BEN (Better Everything Now) " was inspired by the coming out of the artist's gay friend and the It Gets Better campaign?
text: Did you know that Sting supports Bees for Development ?
text: Did you know that National Hero Iswahyudi , dissatisfied with life in Australia, took a rubber boat back to Indonesia?
text: Did you know that Australian Opal Natalie Hurst is only 163 cm (5 ft 4 in) tall and was once suspended from basketball for five weeks for swearing at a referee?
text: Did you know that the 1984 American biopic drama film Pope John Paul II , directed by Herbert Wise , was actor Albert Finney 's American television debut and the first script to ever be rejected by Finney upon a first reading?
text: Did you know that depending on a time and place, the same social movement may be revolutionary or not?
text: Did you know that strand swamps are home to Florida black bears and the endangered Florida panther ?
text: Did you know that after Francys Arsentiev died while climbing Mount Everest , it was nine years before her frozen, preserved body could be moved from beside the main route to the summit?
text: Did you know that Honeypot Wood was used as a bomb dump in World War II ?
text: Did you know that the German National Library of Science and Technology , the world's largest specialty library in its field, has 125 km (78 mi) of shelf space?
text: Did you know that an obituary in The Independent called Lady June "a great British eccentric and cosmic prankster"?
text: Did you know that Christ's College Big School is the oldest educational building in New Zealand in continuous use?
text: Did you know that the first 140 amino acids encoded by the gene TMEM106A are deleted along with BRCA1 during early-onset breast cancer ?
text: Did you know that missing 20th Century Fox executive Gavin Smith set a single-season record of 23.4 points per game playing University of Hawaii basketball that still stands?
text: Did you know that National Hero of Indonesia Pong Tiku used chili pepper extract to blind his Dutch foes?
text: Did you know that due to his role in the national uprising , Bahraini human rights activist Mohammed al-Maskati received a number of death threats?
text: Did you know that according to The New York Times , opera producer Robert Lepage and opera house general manager Peter Gelb "cut heroic figures in an epic adventure" in the 2012 documentary Wagner's Dream ?
text: Did you know that while honored in France , the inventor of the smart card , Roland Moreno , received little public recognition outside of the country?
text: Did you know that Culture Freedom Day , celebrating free culture , has been inspired by the Software Freedom Day ?
text: Did you know that Yan Gomes is the first Brazilian -born player to appear in Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that the first privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War was fought at Turtle Gut Inlet ?
text: Did you know that Tia Norfleet is the first African American woman to receive a NASCAR racing license?
text: Did you know that foreign relations between France and Serbia , established in 1879, were briefly severed after France's participation in the bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999?
text: Did you know that German anarchist Johannes Holzmann edited twenty-five issues of the journal Der Kampf , but eleven of them were banned?
text: Did you know that Millennium 's " Force Majeure " features stock footage from the 1996 Saguenay Flood in Quebec ?
text: Did you know that Yaakov Yosef Herman manufactured and sold kosher wine out of his home throughout the Prohibition era with the approval of a New York City judge?
text: Did you know that a game between Belfast's Big Two once led to a cockerel and a blue pig being released onto a football pitch ?
text: Did you know that the 1982 television film The Scarlet Pimpernel was expanded in length to allow for a subplot detailing the rescue of the Dauphin ?
text: Did you know that Ryan Payton created République to prove that a "real game" can be made for mobile phones?
text: Did you know that the sharp saw-like edges of the native Australian red-fruit saw-sedge can cut the hands of careless handlers?
text: Did you know that Shirley Reilly , winner of the women's wheelchair race at the 2012 Boston Marathon , has Inupiat heritage?
text: Did you know that for Pentecost Monday , Bach added five wind parts to the opening of Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 to form the Sinfonia of Ich liebe den Höchsten von ganzem Gemüte , BWV 174 ?
text: Did you know that Joshi's Museum of Miniature Railway was the first ever Indian museum to have scale models with digital control and simulated movements of trains?
text: Did you know that " Dinosaur ", a song by American singer Kesha , was inspired by an encounter with an old man whom she perceived as "prehistoric" and "like a dinosaur"?
text: Did you know that Ohhh...Alright... , I Can See the Whole Room...and There's Nobody in It! , and Sleeping Girl set records for highest priced Roy Lichtenstein work sales at $42.6, $43.2, and $44.8 million, respectively?
text: Did you know that the young-adult novel Titanic 2020 by Colin Bateman is about an apocalyptic plague that almost destroys mankind, and not about the famous ship itself?
text: Did you know that Eddie Sharp raced hydroplanes before winning the 1999 ARCA Racing Series championship as a crew chief ?
text: Did you know that Herbert Olivecrona brought neurosurgery to Sweden and later became the namesake of the so-called "Nobel Prize of Neurosurgery"?
text: Did you know that high-definition video was used for making Brownies ?
text: Did you know that a physical examination of strongman Gino Martino by Harvard Medical School discovered that his skull was more than 2.3 times thicker than the average human skull?
text: Did you know that Christian rock band MercyMe employed the London Symphony Orchestra to play strings on their album Undone ?
text: Did you know that Little Big Painting and Yellow and Green Brushstrokes , part of Roy Lichtenstein's Brushstrokes series , parody the gestural painting of abstract expressionism ?
text: Did you know that the Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.7 floatplane trainer was intended as an interim solution, yet it served for several years after the introduction of its successor, the M.F.8 ?
text: Did you know that after a police raid , Ali al-Ghanmi , a Bahraini police officer, left his guard post and joined protests because he could no longer support "a killer institution"?
text: Did you know that 90% of Tracy Beaker fans are girls between 8 and 14?
text: Did you know that according to Aristophanes of Byzantium , Euripides ' lost play Antigone differed from Sophocles ' famous play Antigone in three key respects, including that Antigone married Haemon ?
text: Did you know that upon receiving a personal letter from George Washington appointing him a lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army , Virginia militiaman Angus McDonald declined the offer?
text: Did you know that the native Australian longhair plumegrass has become naturalised in Hawaii?
text: Did you know that Millennium 's " Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions " makes reference to Powers , Principalities , Thrones and Dominions ?
text: Did you know that the racehorse Bruni won the 1975 British Classic St. Leger Stakes by ten lengths ?
text: Did you know that a video ad for 2012 Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky featured a donkey pulling a sleigh and called the donkey an allegory for Russia?
text: Did you know that the German National Library of Medicine is the world's largest specialty library in its five subjects?
text: Did you know that a farmer drove his tractor from Crawley to Buckingham Palace to protest the land acquisition policies of Crawley Development Corporation ?
text: Did you know that J. A. Chapman , a 19th-century mayor of Portland, Oregon , died after driving his buggy into a telephone wire?
text: Did you know that the acreage associated with National Register of Historic Places Woodhouse House in Virginia Beach, Virginia , has decreased to less than a fifth of what it was in the 1880s?
text: Did you know that at the height of Romanticism in Scotland , George IV launched an international craze for tartan by wearing a kilt ?
text: Did you know that some tales have legendary robber Si Pitung losing his magical powers after being hit by rotten eggs?
text: Did you know that the collection at the National Museum of African Art is the largest publicly held African art collection in the United States?
text: Did you know that Gerhard C. Kallevig was a pioneer in establishing bus routes in Norway?
text: Did you know that the German drama film Jerichow was nominated for the 2009 German Film Prize in both the Best Feature Film and Best Director categories?
text: Did you know that Netherlands Antilles women's national football team faces development challenges because football is only the sixth most popular sport in the country?
text: Did you know that the Maya International Cooperative Biodiversity Group was designed in 1998 to meet the highest ethical standards in bioprospecting , but was closed down in 2001 due to accusations of biopiracy ?
text: Did you know that in 737, the Umayyad Caliphate and the Turgesh Khaganate fought the Battle of the Baggage ?
text: Did you know that Uthayan is the only newspaper in Jaffna which did not cease publication during the Sri Lankan Civil War , amid numerous attacks and threats?
text: Did you know that Bruno Müller was implicated in Nazi atrocities against Polish academics, Ukrainian Jews, and prisoners in a slave labor camp, but died a free man?
text: Did you know that the a cappella group Straight No Chaser changed its name to Another Round ?
text: Did you know that Mike Daniels , now a rookie for the Green Bay Packers , was first noticed by the American football team when they were scouting other Iowa linemen?
text: Did you know that there are two versions of Roy Lichtenstein 's In the Car , one of which set the record for highest auction price for a Lichtenstein work?
text: Did you know that although the town of Saint Saëns provided 60,000 francs towards the construction of its own railway line , it was only enough to pay for the station?
text: Did you know that a statue of the founder of Manichaeism as the "Buddha of Light" has survived for almost 700 years in China's Cao'an Temple?
text: Did you know that the 12th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry regiment captured 92 Confederate soldiers during the Battle of Gettysburg , including 7 officers?
text: Did you know that nisoxetine , a predecessor of Prozac , was never marketed but is widely used in scientific research?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball 's new collective bargaining agreement addressed the issue that led to Barret Loux being declared a free agent ?
text: Did you know that the mineral gatehouseite has been found in only one mine in South Australia ?
text: Did you know that the pullet carpet shell is cultivated in "parks" on the seabed ?
text: Did you know that the five brothers Prince Wukui , Duke Xiao , Duke Zhao , Duke Yi , and Duke Hui fought one another for the throne of the ancient state of Qi , and all succeeded, often by killing their predecessors?
text: Did you know that continuous flash suppression can suppress an image ten times longer than flash suppression or binocular rivalry ?
text: Did you know that although the market price for Roy Lichtenstein 's works in 1965 was $6,000, a collector paid $30,000 for M-Maybe ?
text: Did you know that the New York Yankees introduced Eduardo Núñez to Derek Jeter , his childhood idol, as Jeter's eventual replacement?
text: Did you know that the manor house of Mapperton was used in the filming of Emma (1996) and The History of Tom Jones (1997)?
text: Did you know that during the hunt for Pretty Boy Floyd , FBI special agent Melvin Purvis used the Travelers Hotel in East Liverpool, Ohio , as his headquarters?
text: Did you know that Blam was one of the works from Roy Lichtenstein 's first solo exhibition that was sold out in advance?
text: Did you know that Tadashi Yamamoto , who promoted private sector relations between Japan and the United States, founded the Japan Center for International Exchange and the Shimoda Conference ?
text: Did you know that Great Eastern Railway engineers discovered chalk while digging the Narborough Railway Line ?
text: Did you know that writer David Wong 's book John Dies at the End was made into a movie starring Paul Giamatti ?
text: Did you know that Albert Brahms kept the first known records of the tide levels on the North Sea coast of Germany?
text: Did you know that " She's a Mess ", a song by English girl group Sugababes from their seventh studio album , had to be renamed because the band felt the lyrics were promoting binge drinking ?
text: Did you know that most Stemmadenia donnell-smithii fruit ripens when insects are scarce, allowing normally insectivorous birds to feed on the fruit opportunistically?
text: Did you know that Expressionist Head is the name of many Roy Lichtenstein works of art , including six identical sculptures and various paintings ?
text: Did you know that the villain in Millennium 's " Paper Dove " was based on real life murderers Edmund Kemper and Jeffrey Dahmer ?
text: Did you know that recent excavation at St James Square revealed the first evidence of Mesolithic human settlement in Monmouth, Wales ?
text: Did you know that in 1926 Jääkarhu became the first Finnish state-owned icebreaker to adopt Finnish as the command language?
text: Did you know that Hanung Bramantyo 's horror film Red Lantern has been described as reminiscent of a history of the Indonesian Communist Party ?
text: Did you know that the United States Senate inquiry into the sinking of the RMS Titanic declared the disaster an " act of God " because nobody could be held liable for it under maritime law?
text: Did you know that Duke Xiang , ruler of the ancient state of Qi , had an incestuous relationship with his sister Wen Jiang and had her husband Duke Huan of Lu murdered?
text: Did you know that the Castillo de San Felipe de Lara , a Spanish colonial fort in Guatemala , was built in the 17th century to defend against frequent English pirate attacks ?
text: Did you know that Rudy Árias was a replacement player during the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike , though he retired as a player in 1979?
text: Did you know that Agus Kuncoro has acted in three films directed by Hanung Bramantyo ?
text: Did you know that the Bangladesh delegation to the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games consisted of eight people, including four competitors?
text: Did you know that Australia women's national basketball team member and two-time WNBL Defensive Player of Year Rachael Flanagan is also a personal trainer?
text: Did you know that cypress domes are the most common swamp habitat in Florida ?
text: Did you know that Albert André 's monograph of his friend Pierre-Auguste Renoir is considered to be "one of the most accurate contemporary accounts of the artist's work"?
text: Did you know that Kirstie Alley made her debut as Rebecca Howe in the Cheers episode " Home Is the Sailor ", replacing Shelley Long 's Diane Chambers ?
text: Did you know that Lawrence Berry Washington , a great-grandnephew of George Washington , participated in the California Gold Rush , Bleeding Kansas conflict, and Mexican–American War ?
text: Did you know that the 1st SAS Brigade , a World War II military unit, never actually existed?
text: Did you know that the film Thor 2 will have a "more Viking-influenced feel" than its 2011 predecessor, Thor ?
text: Did you know that the Liturgy of Saint Cyril is one of the three Anaphoras currently used by Coptic Christianity ?
text: Did you know that in 2011 Jerel Worthy , now a Green Bay Packers rookie, became the first defensive tackle from Michigan State to be named a first-team collegiate football All-American since 1971?
text: Did you know that Hüseyin Özer went from living on the streets of Ankara to owning a British restaurant chain and teaching at Middlesex University ?
text: Did you know that the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum used Grrrrrrrrrrr!! on promotional posters for its 1993 Roy Lichtenstein exhibition?
text: Did you know that despite the flesh of the mushrooms smelling of semen , Inocybe salicis is best identified microscopically?
text: Did you know that in Renaissance Scotland , the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle was rebuilt for the baptism of James VI 's son Henry, to mirror the proportions of the Temple of Solomon ?
text: Did you know that in 2009, the deputy chief of Saudi Arabia's intelligence agency , Faisal bin Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Saud , became the country's Minister of Education?
text: Did you know that England women's cricket captain Charlotte Edwards was the leading run -scorer in three of the first four years of the Super Fours ?
text: Did you know that in his fictional work " Surabaya ", Idrus referred to the Indonesian revolutionaries as "cowboys" and the Allies as "bandits"?
text: Did you know that Roy Lichtenstein 's pop art painting Girl with Ball , which was based on a newspaper ad that was still running more than 20 years later, was first sold to Philip Johnson ?
text: Did you know that on 7 June 1998, the Swiss electorate rejected the Gene Protection Initiative , which would have banned scientific research using genetically modified animals ?
text: Did you know that Napoleon Bonaparte had great interest in geometry , but probably did not discover Napoleon points ?
text: Did you know that dramatist Kevin Laffan could not find a publisher for his first novel, Pendle's Disposal , but had two offers within a week of changing the title to Virgins are in Short Supply ?
text: Did you know that students of the Jack Welch Management Institute participate in video conferences with the founder, whom Fortune magazine named Manager of the Century?
text: Did you know that the large prehistoric amphibian Cyclotosaurus had a skull up to 70 cm (28 in) long?
text: Did you know that Eagle's Store , structurally similar to the Old Faithful Inn , has been operated by the same family since its founding in 1908?
text: Did you know that Nino Fernandez , who had his breakthrough role as a gay character, dated Miss Indonesia 2009 ?
text: Did you know that although the starfish Evasterias troscheli shelters juvenile Alaskan king crabs between its arms, it is fed on by the adult crab?
text: Did you know that Big Painting No. 6 set a record for highest auction price for a painting by a living American artist and Torpedo...Los! set a record for price for a Roy Lichtenstein work?
text: Did you know that a Bruges building dating to 1399 now houses a museum dedicated to fries ?
text: Did you know that due to the isolated locations, keepers at some lighthouses in Alaska were given a year of leave for every four years served?
text: Did you know that various turmoils in the history of the Soviet Union left millions of homeless children roaming the country ?
text: Did you know that a prospective book agent advised British author Lindsey Kelk to use a pseudonym as her real name sounded like "a cat being sick"?
text: Did you know that "21st May", a song recorded by Guillemots , was described by The Times as "gleefully [marrying] a hip-shaking reggae beat to jazz sax"?
text: Did you know that the extrasolar planet KOI-872.02 was discovered in a similar fashion to Neptune ?
text: Did you know that Roy Lichtenstein considered the discordant panels of his diptych painting Whaam! humorous?
text: Did you know that Coronation Street actress Patti Clare was working as an office receptionist before she won the role of Mary Taylor in the soap opera?
text: Did you know that according to a traditional account, the Ndut and Palor people of Senegal split as the result of a disagreement between two brothers?
text: Did you know that the desecrated Church of Christ of the Chalkè in Istanbul housed—at the same time—both wild animals and the painters and miniaturists working at Topkapı Palace ?
text: Did you know that two regions of the brain , Broca's and Wernicke's areas , are responsible for humans' ability to produce and comprehend language ?
text: Did you know that As I Opened Fire was part of the culmination of the dramatic war-comic works of Roy Lichtenstein ?
text: Did you know that the Polish Writers' Union had an annual budget set by the state allowing for food supplements, health clinics, foreign travel, cars, vacations, stipends and cash prizes?
text: Did you know that the idea for the MercyMe song " The Hurt & The Healer " came from the death of lead singer Bart Millard 's firefighter cousin?
text: Did you know that the Maya archaeological site of Tres Islas in Guatemala has an alignment of monuments that imitates an architectural group at Uaxactun that served as an astronomical observatory?
text: Did you know that the Slayer of the elephant , depicted dancing vigorously inside a flayed elephant hide, is popular in Pallava and Chola art?
text: Did you know that Bob Marley & The Wailers ' Catch a Fire is regarded as one of the greatest reggae albums?
text: Did you know that Aaron Ayers , Henry Thomson , and Eden George all unsuccessfully contested the Christchurch South election in the 1887 election and were at some point Mayors of Christchurch ?
text: Did you know that the Relief Association of Southern Sudan was one of the Sudanese partner organizations of Operation Lifeline Sudan ?
text: Did you know that Roy Lichtenstein 's pop art painting Oh, Jeff...I Love You, Too...But... uses the classic romance-comic narrative thread of temporary adversity?
text: Did you know that legally the Trade Unions of socialist Albania had "sweeping powers to regulate hours, wages, working conditions", but were, according to Anton Logoreci, "an appendage of the party"?
text: Did you know that the LVMH Tower in New York has a 30-foot-high glass "Magic Room" at the top made possible by folding the facade in an unusual interpretation of setback requirements?
text: Did you know that the Millennium episode " Broken World " has been compared to Peter Shaffer 's 1973 play Equus ?
text: Did you know that Chrisye initially thought his vocals on the title song for the million-selling album I Love Her were like a monkey's?
text: Did you know that there are only 136 hectares of the endangered Blue Gum High Forest of the Sydney Basin Bioregion left?
text: Did you know that Terry Fulmer was the first nurse to serve as president of the Gerontological Society of America ?
text: Did you know that Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois drew Gothic fantasies but his daughter Espérance painted porcelain?
text: Did you know that José Quintana made his Major League Baseball debut due to a new rule that allows a team to carry 26 players on their 25-man roster ?
text: Did you know that women's kickboxing in New South Wales, Australia , was banned by law in 1986 and only became legal again in 2008?
text: Did you know that co-founder Mike Jetter got the idea for Mindjet 's first product while recovering from an illness in hospital?
text: Did you know that Hetty Sarlene could reportedly sing her namesake 's songs by age three?
text: Did you know that the Croatian Littoral is a Croatian region between the cities of Rijeka and Karlobag , but the term is also applied to the entire Croatian coast on the Adriatic Sea ?
text: Did you know that film director Peter Mettler said his documentary Gambling, Gods and LSD was not scripted, but "was making itself while I acted as a medium"?
text: Did you know that Calvin's Case , an English legal case from 1608, helped establish the principle of birth on American soil as the primary means of acquiring United States citizenship at birth?
text: Did you know that snow buckwheat and parsnipflower buckwheat were used by Native Americans to treat diarrhea?
text: Did you know that director Ifa Isfansyah concluded his debut film Garuda on My Chest belonged to its child actors?
text: Did you know that a year after excavation of Neolithic and Roman artefacts at 33 Whitecross Street , archaeologists discovered evidence of Middle Stone Age human settlement in Monmouth ?
text: Did you know that the 3D music video for " Wide Awake " will be used as a tie-in promotion for the 2012 documentary-concert film, Katy Perry: Part of Me as part of her deal with Pepsi ?
text: Did you know that the Kurdistan Wheatear is sometimes found in North West India?
text: Did you know that the Torchwood episode " Meat " featured an alien which the writer Catherine Tregenna felt to resemble "a giant kebab "?
text: Did you know that Jagannath Prasad Das is the third Oriya writer to receive India's Saraswati Samman literary award?
text: Did you know that students at the Havo voor Muziek en Dans are taught music and dance by teachers from Codarts ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Wilko v. Swan 36 years later in Rodriguez de Quijas v. Shearson/American Express Inc. because changes in arbitration could better protect investors' rights?
text: Did you know that after Naif sent a demo for a chance to join a compilation album, they were given their own album instead?
text: Did you know that ground was broken for the Intelsat headquarters by using a space-based circumnavigating radio signal to trigger the explosive?
text: Did you know that Antiguan and Barbudan participation in the 50-meter freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics marked the fifth time swimmer Kareem Valentine ever swam in a pool?
text: Did you know that the Moucherotte , in France , was the location of the ski-jumping events of the 1968 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that although no Mississippian copper plates have ever been found at Cahokia , it is the only Mississippian culture site where a copper workshop has been located by archaeologists?
text: Did you know that 2004 Olympic silver medal winning Australian Opal Alicia Poto played basketball in Siberia after a contract fell through with a Czech club?
text: Did you know that China Miéville 's metafictional "salvagepunk" novel Railsea is an "affectionate parody" of Moby-Dick ?
text: Did you know that the original transom at Glenview Mansion , in Yonkers, New York , was removed so a stuffed elephant once owned by the Barnum & Bailey circus could be brought in?
text: Did you know that the ark clam Anadara subcrenata was involved in an outbreak of Hepatitis A in China in 1988 which killed nine people?
text: Did you know that Count Vrana refused to surrender during the Siege of Krujë despite a bribe offered to him by Ottoman sultan Murad II ?
text: Did you know the purple pouch fungus is white before its emergence from the ground exposes it to light?
text: Did you know that Erna Lendvai-Dircksen produced heroic photographs of autobahn construction workers under the Nazis on a commission from Fritz Todt ?
text: Did you know that the Army of the Congress Poland was disbanded after the November Uprising , which marked the end of an independent Polish Army for close to a century?
text: Did you know that Sebastian Gregory will play a math genius during his second guest stint in the Australian soap opera Neighbours ?
text: Did you know that umpire Bill Hohn once fist-bumped a player following the conclusion of a game?
text: Did you know that Smithsonian Institution registrar Helena M. Weiss processed over 250,000 letters from the public each year?
text: Did you know that the Masonic Hall in Monmouth , Wales , located on Monk Street , houses the oldest surviving masonic lodge in Monmouthshire ?
text: Did you know that in the 1900s, Sara Agnes Rice Pryor , a "Confederate carpetbagger," published two memoirs of the American Civil War after more than 30 years of living in New York?
text: Did you know that Roy Lichtenstein 's Bedroom at Arles was based on Vincent van Gogh 's Bedroom in Arles ?
text: Did you know that in Bach's cantata Sie werden euch in den Bann tun , BWV 44 , the word "töten" (kill) is "twice emphasized by a sudden, mysterious piano and ... chromatically tinged harmonies "?
text: Did you know that despite being nicknamed the "relay of peace", the 1948 Summer Olympics torch relay involved the torch being carried on three warships?
text: Did you know that the song " Jesus, Friend Of Sinners " by Casting Crowns "admonishes" the Christian church to show compassion?
text: Did you know that new Monmouth Alms Houses are to be provided by the charity established nearly four hundred years ago to build the original dwellings?
text: Did you know that Israel's Chamber of the Holocaust museum includes urns with the ashes of victims from 36 Nazi death camps ?
text: Did you know that New York Times religion editor Rachel Kollock McDowell got locked inside a princess's tomb in pursuit of a news story?
text: Did you know that the discovery of Mesolithic microliths during gas main excavation in 2010 revealed that Monmouth was inhabited during the Middle Stone Age ?
text: Did you know that the ribald Korean dance-drama Hahoe byeolsingut talnori features a lecherous apostate priest and a urinating dancing girl?
text: Did you know that Monmouthpedia has led to Monmouth being described as the "world's first Wikipedia town"?
text: Did you know that Mei Baojiu is the leader of the Mei Lanfang Peking Opera troupe?
text: Did you know that the Church of the Holy Cross at Kilgwrrwg , Monmouthshire , is one of the most remote parish churches in the UK still in regular use?
text: Did you know that United States Fish Commissioner Marshall McDonald devised a number of innovative fish hatching apparatuses including a fish ladder , an "automatic hatching jar" and a " cod box"?
text: Did you know that Roy Lichtenstein 's pop art painting Girl in Mirror is the subject of a 2012 sale without consent and fraud lawsuit ?
text: Did you know that the Christmas-colored Ghost Head Nebula has "eyes" because of new stars ?
text: Did you know that Viktor Chirkov was appointed Commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy by President Dmitry Medvedev on the latter's last day in the Kremlin?
text: Did you know that Bristol was the only one of the ten cities in England and Wales to have mayoral referendums on 3 May 2012 which voted to switch to a directly elected mayor ?
text: Did you know that Lorri Bauman in 1984 became the first women's collegiate basketball player to score 3,000 points and still holds all-time NCAA records for field goals and free throws ?
text: Did you know that the Katskhi pillar is a 40-metre (130 ft) high natural monolith in Georgia , with remnants of early medieval hermitages atop it?
text: Did you know that Richard Armstrong became director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 2008, bringing a curatorial background to the position?
text: Did you know that the prices of goods in the Phrygian city of Aizanoi were controlled by an edict of Roman emperor Diocletian ?
text: Did you know that although an actor, as a filmmaker better known for his fan films about Batman , Aaron Schoenke was described by filmschoolrejects.com as being "in another league altogether"?
text: Did you know that the Qianlong Emperor 's elegant retirement retreat, the Palace of Tranquil Longevity , is currently undergoing an $18 million international restoration project?
text: Did you know that Australia had never lost a game on instances when Brett Lee had claimed five wickets in an innings ?
text: Did you know that the Dutch film The Shadow Walkers is based on stories written by Dylan Thomas and Gianni Celati ?
text: Did you know that the Government Gazette (1802) and Sunday Observer (1834) are the oldest newspapers in Sri Lanka ?
text: Did you know that former Indonesia national football team player Herry Kiswanto only received one yellow card during his 17-year career?
text: Did you know that Sodsai Vanijvadhana performed as "Sondi Sodsai" in the United States because foreigners could not pronounce her last name?
text: Did you know that County Road 510 in Marquette County, Michigan , previously crossed the Dead River on a bridge moved to the site from Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that neither Pat nor Drake Dunsmore , father and son National Football League tight ends , played organized American football before high school ?
text: Did you know that Kusumanegara Heroes' Cemetery in Yogyakarta is the final resting place of five National Heroes of Indonesia ?
text: Did you know that Argentine Manuel Dorrego studied federalism in the United States during his exile in Baltimore ?
text: Did you know that former tennis player Chris Evert is the "godmother" of cruise ship MS Volendam ?
text: Did you know that when basketball player Walter Luckett was a senior in high school, he averaged a triple-double of 39.5 points, 16 rebounds and 13 assists per game?
text: Did you know that Jan Smuts , Prime Minister of South Africa from 1919 to 1924, envisioned a Greater South Africa similar in greatness to Canada and Australia ?
text: Did you know that Juliet May described child actress Lucy Hutchinson as "one of the most remarkable five year olds" she had ever met?
text: Did you know that Luis Miguel 's version of the song " Inolvidable " was included on an album that revived the interest for bolero ?
text: Did you know that Green Bay Packers rookie cornerback Casey Hayward tied the Vanderbilt record for interceptions in a career with 15?
text: Did you know that the Malaysian film Iskandar was described as a "'genre-less' flick"?
text: Did you know that the music of Catalan guitarist Toti Soler has been described as beautifully capturing the "enigmatic mood" of "traumas and passions"?
text: Did you know that Malta's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is housed in the same mansion that Napoleon Bonaparte occupied during his Egyptian Campaign ?
text: Did you know that Gloria Estefan 's guest-starring role as the mother of Santana Lopez in the season finale of Glee was originally planned for an early 2012 episode?
text: Did you know that Pierre and Damien Vachon have been billed as the youngest sons of legendary Canadian professional wrestler Paul "The Butcher" Vachon ?
text: Did you know that when the German TV film Das Millionenspiel aired in 1970, some viewers thought they were watching a real manhunt and called the fictitious telephone number to register to participate?
text: Did you know that according to Cornish legend, the mermaid Saint Senara fell in love with the chorister of the church in Zennor , and that the church is now dedicated to her?
text: Did you know that baseball pitcher Robert Stephenson threw back-to-back no-hitters in his senior season of high school?
text: Did you know that under the criminal statutes in force during US Chief Justice John Marshall 's tenure, slave trading was a misdemeanor but insurance fraud was punishable by death?
text: Did you know that John Bonham copied Charles Connor 's drumming on Little Richard 's 1957 hit " Keep A-Knockin' " for the introduction to Led Zeppelin 's " Rock and Roll "?
text: Did you know that the army of the Duchy of Warsaw was able to field almost 100,000 men, more than the larger Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ever could for its army ?
text: Did you know that the go bus is a system of bus rapid transit in New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that the Mexico City borough of Xochimilco has a child that is over 400 years old ?
text: Did you know that the first known use of the phrase out of left field in its idiomatic sense was by the American music industry ?
text: Did you know that journalist Alice E. Gillington lived with Gypsies but didn't want them to know she was writing about them?
text: Did you know that the Fourth Crusade to the Holy Land was called for by the 1198 papal bull Post Miserabile ?
text: Did you know that Jason Hartmann was the only male non-Kenyan runner to finish in the top six in this year 's Boston Marathon ?
text: Did you know that the Russian Ministry of Defence sued Energia Corp over delays to the EKS early warning satellites ?
text: Did you know that baseball executives thought that Toe Nash was a hoax, similar to Sidd Finch ?
text: Did you know that the First International Silent Games , in 1924, were the first ever international games for athletes with a disability?
text: Did you know that soprano Ursula Schröder-Feinen appeared at the Bayreuth Festival as Senta , Brünnhilde , Ortrud and, with "intensity, ... freshness and spontaneity", as Kundry in Parsifal ?
text: Did you know that Soapy Castles and Tiny Lund were the only drivers ever to win the NASCAR Grand National East Series season championship?
text: Did you know that female director Upi Avianto created Last Wolf , a film about gangsters, drugs, betrayal and revenge?
text: Did you know that the Smithsonian Institution 's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery is ninety-six percent underground?
text: Did you know that the extinct Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of Kenya was the largest true crocodile and may have eaten early human ancestors?
text: Did you know that up to 167 small bivalve molluscs , Entovalva nhatrangensis , have been found living inside the oesophagus of a brown sandfish ?
text: Did you know that 21-year-old Danny Duffy 's abrupt retirement from the Kansas City Royals organization in 2010 reminded many of when Zack Greinke left the baseball club in 2006?
text: Did you know that the critical and commercial flop Ballad of a Man was later called one of the ten best Indonesian films of all time?
text: Did you know that Margaret Powell 's 1968 memoir, Below Stairs , has inspired three television series: Upstairs, Downstairs , Beryl's Lot and Downton Abbey ?
text: Did you know that the 2010 excursion of the Clifton Antiquarian Club to the Gower Peninsula led to the discovery of what may be the oldest rock art in the British Isles ?
text: Did you know that Martha Wise said she poisoned seventeen family members with arsenic , killing three, because she was irresistibly drawn to funerals and there weren't enough in her town?
text: Did you know that Viktor Bondarev was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force by President Dmitry Medvedev on the latter's last day in the Kremlin?
text: Did you know that the 2011 drama film When the Night , written and directed by Cristina Comencini , was based upon her novel by the same name?
text: Did you know that more than 8000 trees were planted in Backmuir Wood to celebrate the 2000 millennium?
text: Did you know that zoologist Charles Manning Child was described by a National Academy of Sciences biographer as "unmarred by personal ambition or striving for fame and position"?
text: Did you know that Adinegoro stopped writing literature after his second novel, Asmara Jaya ?
text: Did you know that at a 1999 Singapore Parliament debate, opposition MP J.B. Jeyaretnam 's motion that the Government should comply fully with the rule of law was amended to commend the Government for doing so?
text: Did you know that Harcourt Morgan , who was later University of Tennessee president and TVA chairman, camped out in pastures and cotton fields to study cattle ticks and boll weevils ?
text: Did you know that in the Bach cantata Bisher habt ihr nichts gebeten in meinem Namen , BWV 87 , the bass as the vox Christi sings the opening and "In der Welt habt ihr Angst" ("In the world you have fear")?
text: Did you know that the 1481 return of Nicholas Dukagjini and Gjon Kastrioti II to Albania, and their subsequent military campaigns, indirectly contributed to the defeat of the Ottoman forces in Otranto ?
text: Did you know that How to Start a Revolution , a 2011 BAFTA award-winning film that profiled the " Machiavelli of Nonviolence ", was described by the New York Times as a "noble documentary"?
text: Did you know that 186 victims of human sacrifice were discovered in the 2,500-year-old tomb of Duke Jing of Qin , an ancestor of the First Emperor of China?
text: Did you know that Dial soap was originally created and marketed by the Armour and Company meat-packing firm?
text: Did you know that Pakistani General Ghulam Jilani Khan founded Chand Bagh School , which was inspired by his own alma mater , the Doon School of India?
text: Did you know that a scene in the television series Fringe received praise for featuring two versions of the same character conversing together?
text: Did you know that Duke Xiang succeeded his father Duke Zhuang as ruler of the ancient state of Qin after his older brother refused to take the throne?
text: Did you know that Calico Joe is a baseball novel by John Grisham about the implications of a nearly fatal beanball ?
text: Did you know that, with a depth of 170 metres (560 ft), Hoverbergsgrottan is the largest rock cave in Scandinavia ?
text: Did you know that 73-year-old Nyi Ageng Serang led her troops in a war against Dutch colonists from a stretcher?
text: Did you know that Eberhard Wolfgang Möller originally intended Adolf Hitler to be revealed as the supreme judge in his Thingspiel , the Frankenburger Würfelspiel ?
text: Did you know that by 1974 at the height of the Mexican barbasco trade , 125,000 mostly indigenous peasants depended on collecting wild yam in the jungle and selling it to the pharmaceutical industry ?
text: Did you know that jazz trio BADBADNOTGOOD had a crowd moshing at a J Dilla tribute show?
text: Did you know that the main tourist attraction in Agkistro , northern Greece , its steam bath complex , dates from the 10th century Byzantine period?
text: Did you know that Darrell Wallace, Jr. was the first African American to win a NASCAR Rookie of the Year award?
text: Did you know that the Millennium episode " Lamentation " features a kidney sent to an investigator's wife, as a reference to Jack the Ripper 's " From Hell " letter?
text: Did you know that like William Bligh of the Bounty , naval officer John Bligh experienced a mutiny during his time in command?
text: Did you know that Steven Curtis Chapman 's song " Yours " was the 45th number-one single of his career?
text: Did you know that in 1457 Pope Callixtus III criticized the bishop of Krujë for the unjustified excommunication of Pal Dukagjini and his subjects?
text: Did you know that the Dutch children's book Frog and the Birdsong by Max Velthuijs is frequently used to teach young children how to cope with death?
text: Did you know that Ørn-Horten avoided relegation from the 2001 Norwegian First Division with a match-winning goal from the goalkeeper five minutes into stoppage time in the decisive match against Vålerenga ?
text: Did you know that National Hero of Indonesia Oerip Soemohardjo attended a girls' school as a child to improve his temperament?
text: Did you know that the plot of the novel Mothers and Other Liars , about a teenage runaway raising a baby found in a trashcan, was inspired by author Amy Bourret 's work in child advocacy?
text: Did you know that a song included on the album El Ejemplo released by Mexican band Los Tigres del Norte in 1995 was nominated for an award in 2011?
text: Did you know that Green Bay Packers rookie linebacker Nick Perry broke the Michigan record for sacks as a senior in high school?
text: Did you know that Helen Keller interceded with the US government on behalf of Japanese anma practitioners?
text: Did you know that performance calligraphy is a modern form of Japanese calligraphy that combines J-pop music and dance with traditional calligraphy?
text: Did you know that Vasile Pogor , a Romanian Buddhist scholar and co-founder of the Conservative Party , appeared to be "missing something upstairs"?
text: Did you know that cognitive psychologist Eldar Shafir has concluded that people who believe they are being rational often are not ?
text: Did you know that Gillian Anderson 's minimal involvement in The X-Files episode " The Gift " allowed her to spend more time with her daughter?
text: Did you know that Jersey will compete in the 2012–13 RFU Championship after three consecutive promotions?
text: Did you know that the Chinese political cartoon Hexie Farm , critical of the government, is written by someone identified only as "Crazy Crab"?
text: Did you know that the Music for Our Mother Ocean ( MOM ) series of benefit albums featured a wide array of popular musicians, including Paul McCartney , Snoop Dogg , the Beach Boys and the Beastie Boys ?
text: Did you know that Leontina Albina Espinoza of Colina, Chile , claimed to have given birth to 58 children and was cited for a time by the Guinness Book of Records as the world's most prolific mother?
text: Did you know that John de Rantau 's 2011 film The Universe Supports details a boy's search for his mother through the Indonesian Physics Olympiad Team?
text: Did you know that Jeffrey Hammonds received the largest signing bonus of the 1992 Major League Baseball Draft ?
text: Did you know that the Compton–Belkovich Thorium Anomaly is a thorium-rich hotspot on the back of the moon?
text: Did you know that Phoebe Buffay 's childbirth scenes in the Friends episode " The One Hundredth " were created using actual childbirth footage, dolls, and real-life triplets coated with grape jelly ?
text: Did you know that the only FIFA recognised matches Anguilla women's national football team have played in were against Antigua and Barbuda , US Virgin Islands , Barbados and Grenada ?
text: Did you know that a Klingon bat'leth was used in two Colorado robberies?
text: Did you know that A. P. Nagarajan , who played the main lead in Naalvar , also provided the script for the film?
text: Did you know that mathematician Ioan Mire Melik was a member of the Romanian literary society Junimea , and recommended it invest in a salt mine to improve its finances?
text: Did you know that a newspaper quipped that the 1911 Michigan football team , featuring "Bottles" and "Bubbles" , could claim the world championship for having players injured?
text: Did you know that in his Requiem , composer Frederick Delius mingled "Hallelujahs" with "Allah II Allah"?
text: Did you know that pitcher B. J. Wallace set an Olympic baseball record with fourteen strikeouts in one game?
text: Did you know that the father of aircraft pioneer William Boeing threatened to block the Duluth Ship Canal by tying a rope across it?
text: Did you know that Jumbo King , a branded fast food chain company marketing Maharashtrian speciality vada pav , was inspired by McDonald's and Burger King ?
text: Did you know that a nine-image series by Nadar may be the first medical photographic documentation of an intersex person?
text: Did you know that in 1965, Barbara Robbins became the first female CIA employee to die in action in the agency's history and the first American woman to die in the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you know that the vulnerable shrub Acacia pubescens , once grown at the Château de Malmaison , is threatened by housing development around Sydney ?
text: Did you know that the Millennium episode " Maranatha " connects the Chernobyl disaster to events in the Book of Revelation ?
text: Did you know that milonguero-style tango is danced with a close embrace ?
text: Did you know that Rambhadracharya believes that Tulsi Peeth stands at the place where Rama gave his sandals to Bharata , as described in the Ramayana ?
text: Did you know that due to the strength of The Dismemberment Plan album The Dismemberment Plan Is Terrified , the band was able to sign with major record label Interscope ?
text: Did you know that Hungarian-born Endre Nemes was a pioneer in Sweden in the use of enamels in public art?
text: Did you know that when John Ollivier contested the Lincoln electorate in New Zealand in an 1889 by-election , he was praised by his opponent for his good-humoured campaign?
text: Did you know that the onion-eye grenadier is often caught unintentionally when the Greenland halibut is being fished?
text: Did you know that the 1941 film Christmas Under Fire features people celebrating Christmas underground?
text: Did you know that the Danish theological movement Tidehverv , represented in parliament from 2001 to 2011, published combined pamphlets by Martin Luther under the title "Against the Turk and the Jew" in 1999?
text: Did you know that the Bozeman National Fish Hatchery was instrumental in rebuilding the endangered population of the greenback cutthroat trout ?
text: Did you know that Highway 95 and Highway 96 were the only King's Highways in Ontario not connected to the rest of the network by a fixed link ?
text: Did you know that Scheduled Castes leader Sukumar Barman served as Tripura state minister for transport and fisheries?
text: Did you know that Horse ebooks is a Twitter spam account best known for the amusing non sequiturs it tweets to evade spam detection?
text: Did you know that in the 2007 children's book Duck, Death and the Tulip by Wolf Erlbruch , a duck and Death discuss the afterlife?
text: Did you know that the roundnose grenadier is projected to be fished to extinction unless actions are taken to conserve it?
text: Did you know that Adéodat Compère-Morel published a socialist encyclopedia and dictionary?
text: Did you know that when filming " Walkabout ", Millennium star Lance Henriksen wanted it to be clear his character was not reckless with medicine?
text: Did you know that two years after winning the 2,000 Guineas Stakes , the British racehorse Gang Forward was sold for 4,000 guineas and became a stud in Australia?
text: Did you know that the Atwood-Blauvelt mansion in Oradell, New Jersey , was built for Kimball Atwood, whose Florida grapefruit plantation was the birthplace of the pink grapefruit?
text: Did you know that the original publication of Eve's Ransom by George Gissing was delayed by Fred Barnard 's drunkenness?
text: Did you know that Tricana poveira are Portuguese girls known for a characteristic style of dressing, based on folk costume, and way of walking?
text: Did you know that Tunisian police officer and whistle-blower Samir Feriani became known as "the first 'Prisoner of Conscience' in post-revolutionary Tunisia"?
text: Did you know that Lindsay Lohan is one of three celebrity judges appearing in the " Nationals " competition episode of Glee ?
text: Did you know that Romanian politician Nicolae Penescu was seriously wounded in two assassination attempts thirty-five years apart, dying as a result of injuries sustained the second time?
text: Did you know that a large aftershock following the 1966 Toro earthquake caused more deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo than the original earthquake?
text: Did you know that at the age of 92, Marius Moutet was the oldest member of the Senate of France and the French Assembly ?
text: Did you know that Chad Mottola was the first University of Central Florida athlete to be selected in the first round of a professional sports draft ?
text: Did you know that the endangered butterfly Karner blue prefers the perennial subshrub Rubus flagellaris as a source of nectar ?
text: Did you know that artist Tina Mion , of Winslow, Arizona , grew up visiting the museums of her birthplace, Washington, D.C. , whose National Portrait Gallery now holds two of her works in its permanent collection?
text: Did you know that the head of King Badu Bonsu II , who was hanged in 1838 during the Dutch–Ahanta War , was rediscovered in the Leiden University Medical Center in 2005?
text: Did you know that the Helmand and Arghandab Valley Authority in Afghanistan was modelled on the Tennessee Valley Authority in the United States?
text: Did you know that singer Hetty Koes Endang and her duet partner were the first Indonesians to win the World Popular Song Festival ?
text: Did you know that Leslie H. Sabo, Jr. is scheduled to posthumously receive the Medal of Honor from President Barack Obama 42 years after he was killed in the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you know that "the mill and trysting thorn" in Robert Burns 's poem "The Soldier's Return" are located in the Scottish hamlet Millmannoch ?
text: Did you know that Suttle Lake , a natural lake on the eastern slope of the Cascade Range of Oregon , has brown trout weighing up to 10 pounds (4.5 kg)?
text: Did you know that Bangkok hosted the 1978 Asian Games after Singapore and Islamabad dropped their plans to host for financial and political reasons, respectively?
text: Did you know that a letter from Charles McEwen Hyde prompted Robert Louis Stevenson to publicly express his belief that Father Damien would one day achieve sainthood?
text: Did you know that the Bergen Greenland Company colonized Greenland thinking it was a peninsula still inhabited by the old Norse settlers ?
text: Did you know that four of the twentieth-century Parkfield earthquakes had similar intensities to the dawn foreshock of the great 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake ?
text: Did you know that while football is the most popular women's sport in Gambia and the U-17 has played in a World Cup qualifier , the Gambia women's national football team has not played a FIFA sanctioned game?
text: Did you know that the Algerian communist leader Larbi Bouhali went into exile after the 1965 coup d'état ?
text: Did you know that the top of Bear Seamount , an underwater volcano, is covered by sediment and boulders that may have fallen from icebergs ?
text: Did you know that Argentine general Lucio Norberto Mansilla died during the 1871 epidemic of yellow fever in Buenos Aires ?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball pitcher Dan Jennings of the Miami Marlins has been mistakenly thought to be the son of team vice president Dan Jennings?
text: Did you know that MP Thomas William Booker , son of the poet Luke Booker , was raised at Melingriffith Tin Plate Works by his uncle, the High Sheriff Richard Blakemore ?
text: Did you know that casino operator Caesars World began as a hot dog stand in Miami Beach ?
text: Did you know that the Central African Republic faced difficulties in playing in the Women's U-19 World Cup semi-final against South Africa because the country initially refused to grant players visas?
text: Did you know that Robert Kirkman 's method for co-writing the Thief of Thieves comic book series was influenced by his work on The Walking Dead TV show?
text: Did you know that voluntary disclosure in accounting benefits investors, companies and the economy, and is carried out extensively by many companies?
text: Did you know that Rufus Youngblood used his body to shield Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson during the assassination of John F. Kennedy ?
text: Did you know that the anti-cancer drug polyestradiol phosphate was discovered accidentally when scientists experimented with a compound found in apple tree leaves?
text: Did you know that the 6th Summit of the Americas was boycotted by Presidents Rafael Correa of Ecuador and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua ?
text: Did you know that Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan erected a Koranic school and an elementary school near the Ese Kapi Mosque in Istanbul?
text: Did you know that the cremated remains of Romanian communist politician Alexandru Drăghici were smuggled into his native country and, refused burial, lay uninterred for a decade?
text: Did you know that the B3306 road in Cornwall passes at least four Bronze Age or Neolithic sites?
text: Did you know that prior to his long coaching career, Hank Crisp was a member of the football , basketball , and baseball teams at Virginia Polytechnic Institute despite not having a right hand?
text: Did you know that iron hydride is one of the few molecules found in the Sun's atmosphere?
text: Did you know that protesters have occupied and started to farm a tract of land owned by the University of California, Berkeley ?
text: Did you know that the founders of Indonesian band Last Child are the last children of their families?
text: Did you know that while filming the episode " Props ", many Glee actors had to swap roles with another actor in the cast?
text: Did you know that the founder of handbag company Radley originally started in the industry by selling bags on a market stall in 1984?
text: Did you know that Ed Samples took up stock car racing because he deemed the sport to be safer than moonshine-running ?
text: Did you know that the Plymouth, Stonehouse and Devonport Tramway was the only one of three independent tramways in Plymouth to be built to the British standard gauge ?
text: Did you know that the group theatre of Kolkata is a theatre tradition that arose contrasting with the commercial theatre in the 1940s?
text: Did you know that the name of the racehorse Ela-Mana-Mou , the beaten favourite for the 200th Epsom Derby , means "Come on, my darling" in Greek?
text: Did you know that Mahdi Abu Deeb was arrested, allegedly tortured, and sentenced to 10 years in prison due to his role in the 2011–2012 Bahraini uprising ?
text: Did you know that Mike Graham , the son of Eddie Graham , opened the Eddie Graham Memorial Battle of the Belts with a tribute to his father and officially introduced the FIP Florida Heritage Championship ?
text: Did you know that for years Smalls Jazz Club did not serve alcohol?
text: Did you know that bowlers have taken thirteen five-wicket hauls in Tests and one five-wicket haul in One Day International cricket matches played at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai ?
text: Did you know that Consul General Eb Gaines organized two Bermuda summits between U.S. President George H. W. Bush and U.K. Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major ?
text: Did you know that " Dance with Somebody ", Glee 's tribute episode to the late Whitney Houston , features an a cappella version of " How Will I Know "?
text: Did you know that the Balaban Aga Mosque in Istanbul, built in the Byzantine era, was demolished in 1930 because it stood in the way of a new road?
text: Did you know that University of Hawaii softball player Kaia Parnaby is trying to make the Australian squad that will play in the 2012 World Championships ?
text: Did you know that Adolf Hitler was so hopelessly in love with Stefanie Isak when he was a teenager that he planned to kill both her and himself in the Danube ?
text: Did you know that the film Shodo Girls is based on the true story of a group of high school girls who organized a performance calligraphy competition to revive their hometown?
text: Did you know that India has the highest frequency of traffic collisions in the world, with frequency of accidents in its capital New Delhi being 40 times more than in London ?
text: Did you know that botanist Allen Lowrie wrote three volumes dedicated to the carnivorous plants of Australia ?
text: Did you know that the main theme of the 1994 Asian Games was to promote peace and harmony among Asian nations, which was emphasized because the venue was the site of the first atomic bomb attack?
text: Did you know that the "most famous signature in rock 'n' roll " – the opening riff to Chuck Berry 's 1958 hit " Johnny B. Goode " – was actually a jazz riff played 12 years earlier by Carl Hogan ?
text: Did you know that the first secular Bulgarian book of the modern era was an 1824 children's encyclopedia?
text: Did you know that Sherina's Adventure featured a young girl going against Sadam, then joining forces with him, in a story inspired by Grease ?
text: Did you know that in 678 BCE Duke Wu started the practice of funeral human sacrifice in Qin , which continued in the ancient Chinese state for nearly three centuries till Duke Xian abolished it in 384 BCE ?
text: Did you know that the Pebble smartwatch failed to interest traditional investment groups, and then became the most successful project in the history of Kickstarter ?
text: Did you know that German general Hermann von Kuhl is one of only five recipients to be distinguished with both the "military class" and "peace class" of the Pour le Mérite ?
text: Did you know that Buenos Aires besieged and captured Montevideo during the Second Banda Oriental campaign ?
text: Did you know that the fictitious P. Orno is named as author of several mathematical papers emanating from Ohio State University ?
text: Did you know that the British Army fielded a battalion of professional footballers in the World War I Battle of the Somme ?
text: Did you know that Chinese academic Wu Mi is an expert in redology , the study of the Chinese classic book Dream of the Red Chamber ?
text: Did you know that despite having few registered women players and their team never playing a FIFA -recognised match, Burundi has an under-20 women's national team?
text: Did you know that Romanian politician George Mârzescu championed a law banning the Communist Party and was targeted for assassination when he paved the way for Jews to gain citizenship?
text: Did you know that " Thank You for the Heartbreak ", a song recorded by English girl group Sugababes for their seventh studio album , was co-written by Ryan Tedder , a member of rock band OneRepublic ?
text: Did you know that in 1934 Hitler fired for unbecoming conduct a German diplomat who was caught on film kissing the episcopal ring of Irish nuncio Paschal Robinson ?
text: Did you know that of the more than 200 songs recorded by Chrisye , four were selected by Rolling Stone Indonesia as among the best Indonesian songs of all time?
text: Did you know that Hawaiian chief Kamanawa gave his daughter Peleuli in marriage to King Kamehameha I to cement their alliance after Kamehameha's victory at the Battle of Mokuʻōhai ?
text: Did you know that Twitter bombs have been used in Internet activism by people as diverse as Barack Obama and members of Anonymous ?
text: Did you know that the giant white clam Calyptogena magnifica and the large mussel Bathymodiolus thermophilus are found at hydrothermal vents more than a mile beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean?
text: Did you know that Paul and Tim Andrews are the first father-and-son crew chief and driver combination in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series since 1987?
text: Did you know that the Glee episode " Prom-asaurus " features a dinosaur -themed senior prom and the song "Dinosaur" by Kesha ?
text: Did you know that Sixto Mercado Tiongco , born in the Philippines on May 7, 1914, grew up to become Governor of China's Fujian Province , Minister of Transport , and head of the Chinese Navy ?
text: Did you know that although the prehistoric shark Nanocetorhinus is named for the resemblance of its teeth to miniature Cetorhinus teeth, there is no evidence the two genera are closely related?
text: Did you know that the Pulitzer Prize jury voted to award Les Payne the prize, but the advisory board overruled the decision without explanation?
text: Did you know that the defendant in an Amsterdam sex crimes case awaiting final judgment has admitted to abuse of 83 young children?
text: Did you know that Isaac Albéniz dedicated his composition Sevilla to Count Guillermo Morphy 's wife when he premiered it in a piano performance in Paris on 24 January 1886?
text: Did you know that Robert Menzies played cricket for New Zealand in 1939?
text: Did you know that the candidates in the 2012 Negros Occidental's 5th district special election are an uncle and nephew?
text: Did you know that the New York apartment of advertising consultant Cindy Gallop was the set for the music video for " Nasty Girl " by The Notorious B.I.G. ?
text: Did you know that the ruins of the Minnesota Point Light mark the zero point of the first survey of the Lake Superior region?
text: Did you know that Polish resistance member Tadeusz Popek was one of only two known prisoners to have escaped from the Nazi torture centre at the Palace Hotel in Zakopane ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian screenwriter Salman Aristo initially wanted to be a musician?
text: Did you know that Boston Red Sox third baseman Will Middlebrooks is engaged to a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader whom he has known since childhood?
text: Did you know that Bach's cantata Es ist euch gut, daß ich hingehe , BWV 108 , for Cantate Sunday , has Gospel text sung by the bass as vox Christi and by the choir in three fugues ?
text: Did you know that Patrick Corbin set a Mobile BayBears franchise record when he pitched 27 1 ⁄ 3 consecutive scoreless innings ?
text: Did you know that, during their fight against the Moldo-Wallachian Cuza regime , Românul editors agitated in international radical circles, assisted the rebellious Polish migrants , and feigned madness?
text: Did you know that 60 mothers have been prosecuted under Alabama 's chemical endangerment law?
text: Did you know that guitarist Ian Antono described Nicky Astria as "the best female pop rock singer Indonesia has ever seen"?
text: Did you know that the first CZW World Junior Heavyweight Champion , The Sensational One, lost the title in the same night he won it?
text: Did you know that the Melvyn Maxwell and Sara Stein Smith House , designed by Frank Lloyd Wright , was built by two Detroit Public Schools teachers who "scrimped and saved" on an income of $280 per month?
text: Did you know that Horst von der Goltz , a German spy against the U.S. in World War I, played himself in the 1918 American anti-German propaganda film The Prussian Cur ?
text: Did you know that Trachysalambria curvirostris , one of the most important species of fished prawns , is abundant around Australia but is considered too small to be commercial there?
text: Did you know that Adonis García was named to the 2012 Caribbean Series All-Tournament Team?
text: Did you know that before the establishment of the Jerusalem Foundation in 1966, there were hardly any parks or playgrounds in Jerusalem ?
text: Did you know that the 2011 All-Africa Games gold medallist Julius Yego learned the javelin throw by watching videos of Jan Zelezny and Andreas Thorkildsen on YouTube ?
text: Did you know that Guy Kabeya Muya , co-director of Entre la coupe et l'élection (2008), received death threats for helping with Thierry Michel 's 2009 Katanga Business ?
text: Did you know that the Barcelona Papyrus is the oldest liturgical manuscript containing a complete anaphora ?
text: Did you know that Don Kindt was drafted 11th overall in the 1947 NFL Draft and signed for a $25,000 bonus, despite having off-season knee surgery?
text: Did you know that in 1931 the publication of the Volga German newspaper Nachrichten was reduced to 18 times per month, due to paper shortages?
text: Did you know that many of the pre-Columbian Etowah plates found at Etowah Indian Mounds in Georgia were thought to have been made at Cahokia in western Illinois ?
text: Did you know that Colonel Victor Jones used dummy tanks during the North African Campaign of World War II to confuse the Germans about the size and location of Allied forces?
text: Did you know that Melville Waddington was the first observer ace in No. 20 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps to score a victory in the Bristol Fighter ?
text: Did you know that the coming out of real-life gay former baseball player Glenn Burke inspired the Cheers episode " The Boys in the Bar "?
text: Did you know that the stepfather of Swiss politician Jakob Lechleiter was a German communist leader who was executed in 1942?
text: Did you know that VimpelCom was the first Russian company to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange ?
text: Did you know that John Stossel 's book No, They Can't focuses on the topic of government intervention ?
text: Did you know that Wingletang Down is the only place in Great Britain and Ireland where you can find Least Adder's Tongue ?
text: Did you know that Tajul Muluk , whose home and boarding school were burnt down by opponents of his preaching Shia Islam , was arrested for blasphemy?
text: Did you know that Johannes Brahms composed two major works about death inspired by the Luther Bible , his Requiem as a young man, and Vier ernste Gesänge , when close to his own death?
text: Did you know that artefacts of the poorly understood Mezcala culture of western Mexico were re-used by the Aztecs ?
text: Did you know that French socialist Jules Nadi founded the Symbolist journal L'Œuvre ?
text: Did you know that in the United States, sex in public bathrooms is more frequent in bars than in restaurants?
text: Did you know that the mossy saxifrage and the rough saxifrage are the only two species in the Trachyphyllum section of the genus Saxifraga to grow in the Alps ?
text: Did you know that geothermal power plants being built at Olkaria in Kenya could generate two gigawatts of electricity?
text: Did you know that Alabama Shakes were the first act to top the Official Record Store Chart , with their album Boys & Girls ?
text: Did you know that Lizzy Lind af Hageby , a Swedish feminist and anti-vivisectionist , broke a record in England in 1913 when she spoke 210,000 words during a libel trial and asked 20,000 questions?
text: Did you know that plates in the pre-Columbian Wulfing style , likely made by the same workshop at Cahokia , have been found as far apart as Oklahoma, Illinois, and Florida?
text: Did you know that Norwegian footballer Thomas Holm was both champion with Molde FK and runner-up with Tromsø IL of Tippeligaen in 2011 ?
text: Did you know that during Liverpool's Sea Odyssey , the city was visited by a 9-metre-tall little girl, her 15-metre uncle, and her dog, Xolo?
text: Did you know that the Biblioteca Palafoxiana in Puebla, Mexico , founded in 1646, was the first public library in colonial Mexico?
text: Did you know that the inventor of the FIFA World Cup , Jules Rimet , won the Croix de Guerre while fighting with the French forces during the First World War ?
text: Did you know that archaeologists have found human remains, Mesolithic and Neolithic flintwork and Neolithic pottery in the caves of Goldsland wood near Wenvoe , Cardiff ?
text: Did you know that a TV crew filmed Prashant Bhushan being beaten up in his chambers in the Supreme Court of India ?
text: Did you know that despite an improved accident record following the collapse of the Soviet Union , Aeroflot 's three deadliest accidents in the 1990s occurred in the post-Soviet era?
text: Did you know that poet and underground leader Augustyn Suski refused to agree to the assassination of a Gestapo informant for lack of material evidence, and died as a result of his denunciation?
text: Did you know that the brothel Bon Ton is described by BBC as "an ideal showcase for New Zealand-style liberalisation "?
text: Did you know that the Western Thousand Buddha Caves are documented in a manuscript from the Library Cave at Mogao ?
text: Did you know that Zambia 's women 's national football teams include a senior women's team , under-20 team , under-17 team , an Olympic qualification team , an under-23 team and Homeless World Cup team ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian actress Ayu Azhari reportedly invested Rp. 10 billion in an unsuccessful bid to become Deputy Regent of Sukabumi ?
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text: Did you know that to film her role on the Glee episode " Choke ", Whoopi Goldberg traveled by bus from New York to Los Angeles?
text: Did you know that a coin-collecting shop has become the largest supplier of gold to the U.S. Treasury ?
text: Did you know that in SEC v. Rajaratnam , the US 2nd Circuit Court held that defendants can be compelled to disclose relevant wiretapped conversations given to them in a separate trial?
text: Did you know that one reviewer called the subway scene of the gay pornographic film Inch by Inch a blend of " realism and 'classical cinema ' "?
text: Did you know that in ancient Rome , a horse was sacrificed to the deity Mars each year on the Ides of October, with ceremonies in various venues involving different parts of the horse 's body?
text: Did you know that the NYPD Blue episode " Hearts and Souls " was the last regular appearance of the character Bobby Simone , a role for which Jimmy Smits won a Golden Globe Award ?
text: Did you know that when he was 18, pianist Percival Mackey toured with a band consisting of a 72-year-old trumpeter and a fiddler who was often drunk?
text: Did you know that the state of Qin , predecessor of China's Qin Dynasty , was founded by Feizi , a horse breeder?
text: Did you know that a member of the Indonesian band Armageddon Holocaust claimed to be Bill Clinton?
text: Did you know that the leadership of Zen Buddhism 's Sōtō School under Koun Ejō led to a schism of the community within only a generation of its founding?
text: Did you know that the proceeds of the 2008 Jeff Peterson Memorial Cup were donated to a two-year-old child diagnosed with a rare form of cancer ?
text: Did you know that in 2010, artist Neltje Doubleday Kings made the largest estate gift ever to the University of Wyoming ?
text: Did you know that the fossil pelican Pelecanus schreiberi from North Carolina was possibly the largest species of pelican ever?
text: Did you know that Blake Beavan , the losing pitcher of Philip Humber 's perfect game , threw a perfect game of his own while in high school ?
text: Did you know that Krasta , the highest town in Albania , was founded in 1970 as a chromium mining town ?
text: Did you know that while serving as mayor of Portland, Oregon , Allen G. Rushlight once climbed inside the city crematory to repair it?
text: Did you know that Da-Don took the office of chief rabbi of Croatia in 1998, more than fifty years since the last office-holder?
text: Did you know that voters in Zurich , Switzerland, approved the creation of " sex boxes "?
text: Did you know that Paul Burnum did not lose a game as head coach of the Tuscaloosa High School football team from 1925 to 1929, and each of his five teams were later recognized as Alabama state champions ?
text: Did you know that the eastern edge of Philipshill Wood is believed to mark the boundary between the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia ?
text: Did you know that former Delhi High Court Chief Justice Rajinder Sachar was taken into custody at the age of eighty-seven for defying a ban on public speaking?
text: Did you know that the Australian native apricot is also known as gumbi gumbi or cumby cumby?
text: Did you know that South African cricketer Ernest Halliwell was the first wicket-keeper to put raw steaks in his gloves to protect his hands?
text: Did you know that Indonesian politician Marzuki Darusman was burned in effigy in Sri Lanka for his investigation into that country's civil war ?
text: Did you know that Holocausto were described as the most controversial Brazilian heavy metal band ever?
text: Did you know that from 1944, subscribers to Asia Raja were charged an extra fee for supporting forced labourers ?
text: Did you know that Czech international footballer Patrik Gedeon went to play club football in Liechtenstein in the middle of his career?
text: Did you know that when Roman consul Lucius Postumius Megellus left office in 290 BCE , he was fined 500,000 asses , at the time the largest fine issued to a Roman citizen ?
text: Did you know that the larval form of the bobtail snipe eel Neocyema erythrosoma was first described more than 60 years before the adult fish was discovered?
text: Did you know that the Broadway–Livingston Avenue Historic District in Albany, New York , does not include the intersection of those two streets?
text: Did you know that historian Yang Kuan believed that the history of China's Xia Dynasty was pure mythology?
text: Did you know that Benji documents the life and 1984 death of Ben Wilson , who was at the time considered the best U.S. high school basketball player?
text: Did you know that Indonesian newscaster Putra Nababan uses four names for different situations?
text: Did you know that each of the Big Five personality traits can be further broken down into six facets ?
text: Did you know that The Poznań was copied by Manchester City football fans after their team played Polish team Lech Poznań ?
text: Did you know that Gouffier of Lastours tried to bring home a lion after the First Crusade ?
text: Did you know that Madonna 's song " Gang Bang " was inspired by the films of director Quentin Tarantino ?
text: Did you know that 126 people complained to Ofcom because Emmerdale character Ivan Jones kissed another male?
text: Did you know that the Togo women's national football team participated in the 2007 Tournoi de Cinq Nations in Ouagadougou but was disqualified after the first match for sending a club team?
text: Did you know that radio newsreader Martin Gunnar Knutsen was the first to present the news of the death of Joseph Stalin to a Norwegian audience?
text: Did you know that Rocher Rond , France, is the highpoint of the Vercors Regional Park , despite not being a part of the Vercors ?
text: Did you know that although the newspaper Bauer und Arbeiter rapidly gained popularity amongst German colonists in Azerbaijan, it was closed down after only a few months of existence?
text: Did you know that the National Stock Car Racing Association and NASCAR would have merged had Bruton Smith not been drafted to serve in the Korean War ?
text: Did you know that the Kelihos botnet was once capable of sending 4 billion spam emails a day?
text: Did you know that James Bond creator Ian Fleming named his villain in The Man with the Golden Gun after the first cousin of WWI flying ace James Scaramanga ?
text: Did you know that 2007 Monte Carlo Rally was based in Valence, Drôme , and it only visited Monte Carlo for the final Special Stage of the event?
text: Did you know that consul general Peter J. K. Petersen headed the organizing committee for a speed skating race at Frognerkilen in 1885?
text: Did you know that the futuristic Fringe episode " Letters of Transit " contained references to The Prisoner and Star Wars ?
text: Did you know that Queen Tin Hinan , the legendary "mother" of the Tuareg people , was excavated in Algeria in 1925 by the adventurer Byron Khun de Prorok ?
text: Did you know that the lifting of Chikaraishi ("strength stones") was an organised sport in early Meiji-era Japan?
text: Did you know that there used to be a metal fish tree in Cowleaze Wood ?
text: Did you know that the rulers of the ancient state of Jin include Duke Jing and Duke Jing , while a third Duke Jing is disputed?
text: Did you know that Yvonne van Mentz scored South Africa 's first century in Women's Test cricket ?
text: Did you know that the 2011 film Asmaa is the first feature-length Egyptian drama film to present AIDS patients sympathetically?
text: Did you know that the Idle Thumbs video game culture podcast organized a game jam based on a parody of Peter Molyneux which produced over 280 games?
text: Did you know that Reckless Roy Hall beat Big Bill France to win the first racing event held at Seminole Speedway ?
text: Did you know that Oakland Medical Center was the first health maintenance organization (HMO) hospital?
text: Did you know that larvae of the Ouachita creekshell attach themselves to fish hosts as part of their life cycle ?
text: Did you know that The Great Enigma by Tomas Tranströmer mainly consists of haiku poems?
text: Did you know that casino operator Full House Resorts has been led by a horse breeder , a rock star , and Lee Iacocca ?
text: Did you know that the actor who played Lord Alex Oakwell on Emmerdale was reportedly "thrilled" to get the part and described the character as "weak-willed, arrogant and motivated by self-preservation"?
text: Did you know that the endangered shrub Hakea dohertyi has a range of only 18 square kilometres within Australia's Kanangra-Boyd National Park ?
text: Did you know that the only team Guinea-Bissau women's national football team has played a FIFA-recognised match against is Guinea ?
text: Did you know that although the Sudanese Anti-Imperialist Front had opposed a union with Egypt, it sent volunteers to help the Egyptian side in the 1956 Suez Crisis ?
text: Did you know that in 1943, White Vision became one of the first pigeons to be awarded the Dickin Medal , considered to be "the animals' Victoria Cross "?
text: Did you know that the English association football league, the Premier League , will give awards to mark the league's 20 seasons anniversary ?
text: Did you know that for the film Monster Mutt , the "mutt" was a larger-than-life animatronic puppet requiring five persons to operate?
text: Did you know that Lake Manassas , a reservoir operated by the City Council of Manassas, Virginia , to provide drinking water to the city, is not located in Manassas?
text: Did you know that Grafton Tyler Brown was the first African American artist to document California and the Pacific Northwest?
text: Did you know that the planned Timna Airport near Eilat , Israel, will be named after Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon , who died in the Columbia disaster , and his son Assaf, who died in a flight training accident?
text: Did you know that Jack Zeller , who was credited with building the Detroit Tigers ' farm system , proposed a draft that would have ended the use of farm systems in baseball ?
text: Did you know that Chrisye was so disgusted with his first major film role that he never made another movie?
text: Did you know that the Gay Women's Alternative in Washington, D.C., began as a home gathering called the Gay Women's Open House at Lilli Vencez's home in 1971?
text: Did you know that baseball pitcher Tyler Thornburg has drawn comparisons to Cy Young Award -winner Tim Lincecum ?
text: Did you know that a "powerful chorus" on a quotation from the Sermon on the Mount forms the core of Bach 's third cantata for Leipzig, Ein ungefärbt Gemüte , BWV 24 ?
text: Did you know that while the Oman women's national football team has yet to play a game, a club from Oman played matches against national teams from Jordan and Syria?
text: Did you know that Atlanta Falcons coach Jerry Glanville described Casey Elliott as "a super, super kid"?
text: Did you know that in 2001, BBC One devoted a themed night of programming to text messaging ?
text: Did you know that Ellen Rosenblum is the first woman ever to serve as Oregon Attorney General ?
text: Did you know that Cale Yarborough won the 1976 Gwyn Staley 400 by beating both Richard Petty and the pace car out of the pits ?
text: Did you know that Joshua Jefferis , the only male Australian artistic gymnast at the London Games , was initially passed over?
text: Did you know that caryopilite was named for the Greek words for walnut and felt ?
text: Did you know that Hal Elliott led the National League in games played by a pitcher in 1930, appearing in 48 games for the last place Philadelphia Phillies ?
text: Did you know that eggs of the greenhouse frog are laid on land and have been found under a flower pot ?
text: Did you know that Holocaust denial and 9/11 conspiracy theories are part of what Damian Thompson describes in Counterknowledge as a "pandemic of credulous thinking"?
text: Did you know that Indonesian songwriter Maia Estianty is descended from the National Hero Tjokroaminoto ?
text: Did you know that the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Georgetown is a former historic industrial building?
text: Did you know that Ross Youngs is the member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame who died at the youngest age?
text: Did you know that the Keśin were long-haired ascetic wanderers with mystical powers described in the Rigveda ?
text: Did you know that Catholic priest Matija Škerbec was once imprisoned in Slovenia for his political activities and later became a central figure in Slovenian emigration to the United States?
text: Did you know that the mountain Piotruś in the Low Beskid range is the site of a pond and stream where Saint John of Dukla is said to have rested?
text: Did you know that extant Burmese chronicles are the most extensive and detailed historical records available in Southeast Asia but many lesser known chronicles remain unstudied ?
text: Did you know that The Twitter Republic is based on Twitter use in the website's fifth-largest market?
text: Did you know that Emily Little and Larrissa Miller are part of the Australian women's gymnastic team that will compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that pilgrims would leap off a cliff named Bhairava Jhamp, near the Chorabari Glacier ?
text: Did you know that While She Sleeps ' upcoming studio album This Is the Six is titled to reflect the band's connection with their fans?
text: Did you know that " I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked " marked Katherine Heigl 's final appearance on Grey's Anatomy ?
text: Did you know that as late as 1945, between 450 and 500 stallions owned by the U.S. Army Remount Service bred with over 11,000 civilian-owned mares , producing 7,293 foals ?
text: Did you know that Chrisye was so disappointed with Pantulan Cita that he took a two-year sabbatical?
text: Did you know that the Brown Thrasher was originally nominated as the state bird of Georgia by schoolchildren in 1928, but wasn't officially adopted until 1970?
text: Did you know that Chris Archer pitched USA Baseball 's International Performance of the Year in 2010?
text: Did you know that the nine-armed sea star can turn its stomach inside out and engulf "mouthfuls" of sediment and detritus ?
text: Did you know that Dangote Cement 's production facility in Obajana, Nigeria , is the largest cement plant in Sub-Saharan Africa ?
text: Did you know that Hayscastle in Pembrokeshire once contained a Norman motte and an RAF Chain Home ?
text: Did you know that theatre director and TV comedy producer Olga Lipińska launched her Cabaret under Soviet-style socialism hoping to make the world a better place?
text: Did you know that the Marinmuseum acquired some of Johan Törnström 's figureheads ?
text: Did you know that Casting Crowns ' 2007 album The Altar and the Door sold 129,000 copies in its first week, the largest opening-week sales for a Christian album with no secular media support?
text: Did you know that pitcher Johnny Gee , sometimes known as the "$75,000 Lemon", was the tallest person ever to play Major League Baseball until Randy Johnson debuted in 1988?
text: Did you know that the Côte d'Ivoire women's national football team is Africa's sixth best women's football team while women's football is the fourth most popular sport in the country?
text: Did you know that the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, D.C. , has served heads of state and royalty?
text: Did you know that piercing points are used by geologists to find out how much a fault has moved?
text: Did you know that the Ombla River near Dubrovnik , Croatia, is claimed to be the shortest river in the world, flowing approximately 30 metres (98 feet) before emptying into the Adriatic Sea ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian weightlifting Olympian Seen Lee won Australia's first women's weightlifting Commonwealth Games medal in 2002 and Australia's first medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games?
text: Did you know that the hypothallus of a slime mold is produced by the plasmodium at the beginning of its fruiting?
text: Did you know that SS-Standartenführer Ernst Damzog personally selected staff for the killing centre in Chełmno (Kulmhof) in Reichsgau Wartheland and supervised its daily operation from 1941?
text: Did you know that Tropical Storm Debby is the earliest fourth named storm in the Atlantic Basin on record?
text: Did you know that Leavine Family Racing is headquartered in Texas but races from a shop in North Carolina ?
text: Did you know that 2012–13 will be York City 's first season back in the Football League since relegation in 2004?
text: Did you know that in November 2008, the German Consulate in Bangalore became the first Consulate in the city to start operations?
text: Did you know that while the practice of burying horses with people was widespread among Indo-Aryan and other peoples, there is only one known example of someone buried with a cow in Europe?
text: Did you know that Izetta Wesley, a female football administrator, believes the government of Liberia is insincere in how they treat the Liberia women's national football team ?
text: Did you know that the venomous box jellyfish ( Chiropsalmus quadrumanus ) once killed a child within forty minutes of his being stung?
text: Did you know that General Manfred von Richthofen , like the air ace who was named after him and was his great-nephew, was awarded the " Blue Max " for his service in World War I ?
text: Did you know that Christian rock band Third Day , inspired by their induction into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame , aimed to show more of their southern roots in their 2010 album Move ?
text: Did you know that the Three Dikgosi Monument is the most visited tourist destination in Gaborone , Botswana?
text: Did you know that geologist Richard Owen died of accidental poisoning after his grocer mistook a bottle of embalming fluid for mineral water?
text: Did you know that an Athenaeum review of his first published novel led George Gissing to describe critics as "unprincipled vagabonds"?
text: Did you know that the Scandinavian fungus Inocybe saliceticola can grow among mosses such as heart-leaved spear moss ?
text: Did you know that the 1169 Sicily earthquake happened on the eve of the feast of St. Agatha and killed many who were gathered in the Catania Cathedral for the feast?
text: Did you know that William Shatner hosted Flick Flack (1974), a documentary television series about the film industry?
text: Did you know that the Japanese release of "Weird Al" Yankovic 's Alapalooza contained a bonus track of the artist singing one of the songs in Japanese?
text: Did you know that six bankers spent more than £ 44,000 on wine at Gordon Ramsay 's restaurant Pétrus , resulting in the chef giving them the food from their meal for free?
text: Did you know that astronauts Elliot See and Charles Bassett died when their plane crashed into the building where their spacecraft was being assembled?
text: Did you know that Zac Efron and Bryan Silas drove the same race car on the same day in July 2011 ?
text: Did you know that although a tsunami warning was issued 14 minutes after the 1983 Sea of Japan earthquake , the first wave had struck the coast two minutes earlier?
text: Did you know that Jessica Fox , daughter of French and Great Britain canoeing Olympians, will make her own Olympic canoeing debut at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that comedian Josh Wolf is currently working on an untitled project for FOX about his experiences as a single father?
text: Did you know that the very rare ghost orchid was once found in Fiddler's Elbow National Nature Reserve , near Monmouth , Wales ?
text: Did you know that on his tenth album, Adentro , Ricardo Arjona included a song about menstruation ?
text: Did you know that Holy Cross Church, Gilling , was at one time referred to as Saint Helena 's after the Roman Empress whom legend says discovered the True Cross ?
text: Did you know that by its third volume , the mythology of The X-Files had become so intriguing that series creator Chris Carter "had to blow it up, because he couldn't deal with it anymore"?
text: Did you know that Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger was recognised as the best coach of the decade despite never winning the IFFHS World's Best Club Coach award?
text: Did you know that twenty-year-old Blake Gaudry started gymnastics when he was ten years old and will represent Australia in the trampoline event at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that in 1971, Governor Tom McCall gave the James G. Blaine Society a boost when he invited tourists to come visit Oregon , but then added "for heaven's sake don't stay"?
text: Did you know that Australian Kookaburra Daniel Hotchkis plays his club hockey for the Canberra Lakers in the Australian Hockey League ?
text: Did you know that a writers' strike in 2008 threatened the international fashion industry by leaving stars with nowhere to wear their red carpet gowns ?
text: Did you know that Erica Kennedy 's first novel, Bling , reached 35th on the New York Times Best Seller list and was optioned for a movie?
text: Did you know that the Stockton Cannery Strike of 1937 , also called the "Spinach Riot", resulted in one death and 50 injuries and held up a $6 million crop?
text: Did you know that Church Clothes by Christian rapper Lecrae was controversial because it was hosted by Don Cannon and criticized church hypocrisy?
text: Did you know that Mark Jankowski , the Calgary Flames ' first round draft pick in 2012 , is the highest-ever draft pick out of a Canadian high school ?
text: Did you know that the open-access journal PeerJ runs in the cloud on EC2 and S3 ?
text: Did you know that Laura Basuki washed her hair with bottled water while shooting East of the Sun ?
text: Did you know that double silver Paralympic wheelchair rugby medalist Nazim Erdem became the first person with a spinal cord injury to paraglide solo?
text: Did you know that Satria Mandala Museum in Jakarta has life-size statues of numerous National Heroes of Indonesia ?
text: Did you know that Spanish author J. J. Benítez has published more than 50 books in his career?
text: Did you know that Height of the Rockies Provincial Park , in British Columbia , Canada, has one of the world's highest concentrations of mountain goats ?
text: Did you know that the anarchist Lunigiana revolt was quashed by the use of summary executions ?
text: Did you know that unlike co-star Holly Quin-Ankrah , who both sang and acted during the 2008 talent show drama Rock Rivals , Sol Heras had his character's singing voice provided by a Swedish session singer ?
text: Did you know that the GDP generated in the city of Zagreb comprises 31.4% of Croatia's GDP , exceeding that of any other county of Croatia ?
text: Did you know that While She Sleeps ' debut mini-album The North Stands for Nothing was given away free with an issue of Metal Hammer magazine?
text: Did you know that Talbiseh , a small Syrian city, has been repeatedly attacked by the Syrian Army throughout the ongoing Syrian uprising for being a major opposition stronghold?
text: Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon -based MathStar , a fabless semiconductor company , raised US$ 137 million, but never made a profit before ceasing to exist?
text: Did you know that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge live in a rented Anglesey farmhouse on the Bodorgan Hall estate?
text: Did you know that Malaysian born Renuga Veeran and South Australian born Leanne Choo will represent Australia in the women's doubles badminton competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the mineral sonolite is named for the mine in Japan where it was discovered?
text: Did you know that in June 2012, Paralympic swimmer Brad Snyder became the world record holder for the 100-meter and 400-meter freestyles among fully blind athletes?
text: Did you know that Nicolaus Ricii de Nucella Campli was a late-medieval papal singer whose only known manuscript was destroyed by fire in 1870?
text: Did you know that Canadian artist Jubal Brown deliberately vomited primary colors on paintings in the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Gallery of Ontario ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian IOC member Gerhard Heiberg recommended Oslo to bid with Hafjell and Kvitfjell as Alpine Skiing venues instead of Norefjell , to reduce their chances to host the 2018 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that after defeating the Vietnamese Hồ dynasty in the Ming–Hồ War , the Chinese Ming empire annexed northern Vietnam as Jiaozhi province?
text: Did you know that upon hearing of Khalid ibn al-Walid 's reputation in battle, the Roman -led Arab Christian garrison of Arak peacefully surrendered their fort to his army ?
text: Did you know that Luciano Ercoli 's 1972 film La morte accarezza a mezzanotte stars the director's wife, Nieves Navarro ?
text: Did you know that the term New Labour was coined by Tony Blair at the October 1994 Labour Party conference , following his election as leader of the Labour Party earlier that year?
text: Did you know that cartoonist Jovan Prokopljević sells chess-themed prints of "gnomish" players at chess tournaments?
text: Did you know that Liuboslav Hutsaliuk was described as one of Ukraine's "first rate artists" living in the States?
text: Did you know that after operating for a single year, the Yokohama Dreamland Monorail spent 35 years awaiting repair or replacement before it was finally demolished?
text: Did you know that the 1969 Italian film Una sull'altra was filmed on location in the United States, including a scene shot in San Quentin State Prison 's gas chamber?
text: Did you know that the Saint Thomas Christian music of India may preserve elements of the earliest Christian music due to the Saint Thomas Christian community's isolation and resistance to outside influence?
text: Did you know that German dressage coach Uwe Schulten-Baumer trained two riders who won a combined total of nine Olympic Gold medals?
text: Did you know that the title of the Colin Bateman novel Cycle of Violence refers to a bicycle that the protagonist must ride whilst reporting on murders and court cases alike?
text: Did you know that over five hundred Ainu hilltop forts, known as chashi , have been identified in Hokkaidō ?
text: Did you know that Bach's chorale cantata Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam , BWV 7 , for St. John's Day , is based on Luther 's hymn about the baptism of Jesus ?
text: Did you know that Naomi Fischer-Rasmussen will be the first woman to represent Australia in boxing when she competes at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Adaptiv can hide a tank from thermal imaging systems, or make it look like a car?
text: Did you know that Kyle Larson won the first stock car race he ever competed in?
text: Did you know that the slime mold Willkommlangea reticulata is the only species of its genus?
text: Did you know that NAAFI Canteen Manager John Leake was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for manning a machine gun onboard HMS Ardent during the Falklands War ?
text: Did you know that Israel plans to build a railway from the Red Sea city of Eilat to its Mediterranean ports that will compete with the Suez Canal ?
text: Did you know that Dr. O'Dowd is listed as one of the British Film Institute 's " 75 Most Wanted " lost films?
text: Did you know that Jennifer Lopez 's song " Good Hit " was momentarily removed from her seventh studio album Love? following its negative response when a snippet leaked online?
text: Did you know that the Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris , now part of BNP Paribas , was founded by a revolutionary government's decree?
text: Did you know that National Hero of Indonesia Nuku Muhammad Amiruddin had a British ship aid him in attacking the Dutch?
text: Did you know that Stooshe were inspired by the musicals Dreamgirls and Hairspray for their video accompanying their single " Black Heart "?
text: Did you know that Glen Waverley badminton player Victoria Na will make her Olympic debut at the 2012 London Games?
text: Did you know that the cider house at Great Manson Farm in Monmouth , Wales , has a rare, stone and wood cider mill?
text: Did you know that the persecution of the Catholic Church in Mexico as depicted in the 2012 film Cristiada has been compared to the Obama administration's birth control mandate ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Ric Converse , a victim of childhood bullying , was inspired by Hulk Hogan at age eight to become a wrestler himself?
text: Did you know that the German Sonne radio navigation system proved so useful to the British during WWII that they provided spare parts to keep them running?
text: Did you know that the death of racer Pete Orr was a driving force for insurance reform in Florida ?
text: Did you know that in the music video for her single " Me Haces Falta " (2007), Jennifer Lopez portrays an undercover FBI agent who surrenders her lover to the police and has regrets afterwards?
text: Did you know that 1972's Sette scialli di seta gialla was one of several "imitative whodunits" released after the success of Dario Argento 's L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo ?
text: Did you know that Book of Spells , an upcoming Wonderbook for PlayStation 3, is a companion to Harry Potter ?
text: Did you know that composer Włodzimierz Korcz received most recognition for the music to a protest song , which was adopted as an informal anthem of the Solidarity trade union in Communist Poland ?
text: Did you know that the 2012 election for mayor of Gaborone , Botswana , was contested when a councillor on the Gaborone City Council cut his ballot in half to vote twice?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball pitcher Bob Glenn later became a pioneer in highway and traffic engineering from the 1920s through the 1950s?
text: Did you know that the Yawata Steel Works were identified as the target for the bomb that fell on Nagasaki ?
text: Did you know that the Brunei women's national football team is forbidden from participating in the Olympic Games by its country's government?
text: Did you know that The Chimneys ' roof framing utilizes techniques common in the construction of ships' hulls at the time it was built in 1771?
text: Did you know that Third Eye Blind's discography includes an album that sold six million copies?
text: Did you know that ARCA driver Darrell Basham 's race shop was demolished by a tornado in March 2012 ?
text: Did you know that Moose McCormick was considered the first great pinch hitter in Major League Baseball history?
text: Did you know that items on display at the Royal New Zealand Navy 's Torpedo Bay Navy Museum include the Māori warrior's skirt which the captain of the battlecruiser HMS New Zealand wore for good luck in battle?
text: Did you know that audience laughter during a scene in the Cheers episode " Coach's Daughter " between Coach and his daughter Lisa was muted out in the final cut?
text: Did you know that composer, music theorist and hymn-writer Cyriakus Schneegass corresponded with Martin Luther and Caspar Creuziger ?
text: Did you know that Third Eye Blind 's song " Blinded " is about a man who spies on his ex-lover in the bathroom?
text: Did you know that the Cornish folk tale of the Mermaid of Zennor was likely to have been inspired by chair carved with a mermaid at St Senara's Church in Zennor ?
text: Did you know that the number of Mandaeans in Iraq has fallen by more than 90% since the 2003 invasion due to religious persecution?
text: Did you know that York City have recorded more league victories against Rochdale than against any other club , having beaten them 43 times from 100 attempts?
text: Did you know that a curator at the National Air and Space Museum , Louis Purnell , flew 88 bomber escort missions during World War II as a Tuskegee Airman , earning the Distinguished Flying Cross ?
text: Did you know that the land around the village of Peperga in the Netherlands was so wet that before 1660 the entire village was moved one kilometer to a drier area?
text: Did you know that Bach's chorale cantata Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein , BWV 2 , based on Luther's hymn , is part of "the largest musical project that the composer ever undertook"?
text: Did you know that Abdulbaset Sieda , the new head of the opposition Syrian National Council, used to be a university professor in Libya?
text: Did you know that despite the Seychelles women's national football team having played only two games up to June 2012 , a national football tournament for women has been around in the country since the late 1990s?
text: Did you know that Crulic: The Path to Beyond , released in 2011, was the first Romanian animated feature film in two decades?
text: Did you know that LinkedIn was hacked on June 7 , 2012, resulting in the release of over 6 million user passwords?
text: Did you know that " Kriss Kross " / " Clarion ", a 2008 single by multinational band Guillemots , featured a live cover of " Black and Gold " by Sam Sparro as its B-side ?
text: Did you know that the "Godfather of BBQ", Johnny Trigg , was the first person to win the Jack Daniels World Championship BBQ Invitational twice?
text: Did you know that Blessed Elizabeth is said to have been the lawful heiress to the Hungarian throne but was harassed and forced to join a convent by her evil stepmother, Queen Agnes ?
text: Did you know that the employment of Ruth Sawtell Wallis during the Depression was "unthinkable" because her husband was also a professor?
text: Did you know that Kabaret TEY was one of the most popular Polish cabarets of the 1970s and 1980s?
text: Did you know that the judges in Salinger v. Random House found that "resembling a lifeless rodent" infringed on the copyrighted expression "like a dead rat"?
text: Did you know that earthenware fragments from Odai Yamamoto I have a calibrated radiocarbon date of as early as 14,500 BC, before the warming at the end of the Pleistocene ?
text: Did you know that the Houston College Classic is seen as the beginning of the college baseball season in Texas ?
text: Did you know that the stable block of Newton Court , in Monmouth , hosts one of only three known breeding sites of the Greater Horseshoe Bat in Wales ?
text: Did you know that even though the Saudi Arabia women's national football team does not exist, women in the country have created, coached and played for their own club team outside the sight of men?
text: Did you know that two ministers in Kenya's government died in a helicopter crash in June 2012 ?
text: Did you know that poet George Ellis accompanied England's Earl of Malmesbury to France in 1796 as a member of the peace negotiations?
text: Did you know that When the Emperor was Divine , a historical fiction novel about Japanese American internment , was described as "a meditation on what it means to be loyal to one's country and to one's self"?
text: Did you know that the Northern Khmer dialect is spoken by descendants of the Khmer Empire native to the Isan region of Thailand?
text: Did you know that at the revived KunstRAI art fair in Amsterdam in May, Bart Jansen created a stir by exhibiting his dead cat, Orville, transformed into a radio-controlled helicopter?
text: Did you know that players will be able to jam electronics , tap cell phones , and manipulate traffic lights in order to track and kill a target in Ubisoft 's upcoming video game, Watch Dogs ?
text: Did you know that 1996 and 2004 Olympian Deonne Bridger is currently ranked as Australia's top female recurve archer?
text: Did you know that Umberto Lenzi 's 1972 film Il coltello di ghiaccio features thematic and directorial elements which one reviewer found similar to the works of Lucio Fulci ?
text: Did you know that Double-banded Sandgrouse chicks are precocial and can fly within a month of hatching?
text: Did you know that boys from a Monmouth , Wales, prep school housed in The Grange won the British under-11 chess championship in 2003?
text: Did you know that Encyclopedia Fuckme and the Case of the Vanishing Entree was praised by the The A.V. Club for its sexual writing?
text: Did you know that Bryan Holaday won the Johnny Bench Award in 2010, given to the top catcher in college baseball ?
text: Did you know that the Black River National Forest Scenic Byway in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan connects to the tallest ski flying hill in the world and one of two National Forest harbors in the United States?
text: Did you know that CEC Bank fell from a 32.9% share of the Romanian banking market in 1990 to 4.03% in 2006?
text: Did you know that Tom Luckey , creator of multi-story climbing structures known as Luckey Climbers, is paralyzed from the neck down ?
text: Did you know that while Réunion women's national football team is not recognised by FIFA , the team has played full internationals against South Africa , Uganda and Zimbabwe ?
text: Did you know that the inventory of Emery Walker 's former home at 7 Hammersmith Terrace includes a lock of William Morris 's hair and Dante Rossetti 's teapot?
text: Did you know that Berchtesgaden National Park in Bavaria , Germany, was designated a Biosphere Reserve in 1990 by UNESCO ?
text: Did you know that Bahraini boy Ali Hassan is one of the youngest detainees since the national uprising began fourteen months ago in February 2011 ?
text: Did you know that the Church of the Good Shepherd in Hadspen, Tasmania , took over ninety years to complete?
text: Did you know that Julie Otsuka has won an Alex Award , a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and an Asian American Literary Award for her works on Japanese Americans ?
text: Did you know that the Estonian Sports Museum has helped organise an exhibition to celebrate Estonia's first Olympics in London ?
text: Did you know that nine-year-old Martha Payne was told by her local council to stop reporting on her school dinners in her blog NeverSeconds after the national media reported on it?
text: Did you know that quantum mechanics can be formulated entirely in phase space if a quantum system is represented by a quasi-probability distribution ?
text: Did you know that Bo Xilai is the pioneer of the Chongqing model ?
text: Did you know that despite FIFA recognition and twice-weekly training sessions, the Madagascar women's national football team has yet to play in a single FIFA-recognised match?
text: Did you know that in 1946, French-Australian botanist Albert de Lestang provided the botany world with some rare seeds they had been looking for since 1852?
text: Did you know that Allan W. Eckert claimed Incident at Hawk's Hill , his Newbery Honor novel about a boy who survives on the Canadian prairie with help from a mother badger , was based on a real event?
text: Did you know that when William Snyder Webb was awarded an honorary doctorate, he had to be captured before the ceremony?
text: Did you know that Roy Lichtenstein 's Mural with Blue Brushstroke incorporates elements of his earlier works as does Artist's Studio—Look Mickey , which includes most of Look Mickey , the artist's first work to use Ben-Day dots and a speech balloon ?
text: Did you know that Australian Opal Belinda Snell first played basketball as an eight-year-old on a mixed gendered team?
text: Did you know that Soviet spy satellite Yantar-2K had two film return capsules which could land on the ground or on water?
text: Did you know that Italian actress Ida Galli has also been billed as Evelyn Stewart and Isli Oberon?
text: Did you know that according to an Alaskan report, a tribe of Eskimo cook the swamp cranberry with fish eggs and blubber ?
text: Did you know that British swimmer Liam Tancock has taken up ballet in order to improve his medal chances at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Lance Norick was the first driver in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series to drive on rain tires in official competition?
text: Did you know that Nové Spojení , a series of railway tunnels and bridges built in Prague , won the transport category of the Czech Construction of the Year award in 2009?
text: Did you know that Australian archer Jesse McDonald has had a goal of making the Summer Olympics since 2003 and was named to the 2012 Australian archery shadow Olympic team?
text: Did you know that Glendower Street Congregational Church stood derelict for forty years before its conversion into the award-winning Glendower House ?
text: Did you know that television producer and director Daniel Sackheim has won one Primetime Emmy Award and been nominated for two more?
text: Did you know that You're Gonna Get Your Fucking Head Kicked In is chanted at opponents of pro wrestler Bryan Danielson ?
text: Did you know that Kristi Harrower has won three Olympic silver medals in basketball and is in the running to earn a fourth medal?
text: Did you know that the stadium at the Maury School in Fredericksburg, Virginia , was home to the annual Fredericksburg Dog Mart, which began in 1698?
text: Did you know that Citra Award -winning actress Laura Basuki has been compared to Japanese AV idol Maria Ozawa ?
text: Did you know that the crash of an Australian National Airways Stinson in 1945 was believed by investigators to be the first in-flight structural failure attributable to metal fatigue ?
text: Did you know that dental similarities in Afrotarsius , an African fossil primate , and Afrasia , a newly described fossil primate from Myanmar , add support to the hypothesis that simians first evolved in Asia?
text: Did you know that professional baseball player Terry Doyle works as a substitute teacher during the offseason?
text: Did you know that the Yemen women's national football team has four training sessions a week?
text: Did you know that although Stracimir was the eldest son of Lord Balša , the youngest, Đurađ , became the major figure of the family ?
text: Did you know that World Suicide Prevention Day (10 September) builds awareness of suicides, including that one third are committed with pesticides like United Nations -banned organophosphates ?
text: Did you know that the mineral bobfergusonite has been found only in Canada and Argentina?
text: Did you know that Negro league baseball player Lemuel Hawkins was shot to death while attempting to hold up a beer truck?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film Anna Karenina will be the third collaboration between director Joe Wright and actress Keira Knightley ?
text: Did you know that Stichting Oud Politieke Delinquenten , a Dutch organization of convicted WW2 collaborators, included 1951 founders NSB "judge" Jan Wolthuis and Waffen-SS volunteer Jan Hartman , and Paul van Tienen who turned it into a political party ?
text: Did you know that the name of the 1983 Bollywood film Log Kya Kahenge ( What Will People Think? ) refers to a social yardstick in India and the expectations surrounding women and marriage?
text: Did you know that Estonian Paralympian Marge Kõrkjas was awarded 100,000 krooni (about 6,400 euros) from the government following the 2004 Summer Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court heard six criminal appeals from convicted Mormon polygamists during the tenure of Chief Justice Morrison Waite (1874–1888)?
text: Did you know that the A968 in Shetland is Britain's northernmost A road ?
text: Did you know that Fritz Blanding retired from baseball due to "excessive weight" and because he could have "a heap more fun" on his farm?
text: Did you know that Australian Opal Abby Bishop has played basketball professionally for the Seattle Storm , Canberra Capitals , Dandenong Rangers and Adelaide Lightning ?
text: Did you know that Walker–Grant School was the first public high school for black students in Fredericksburg, Virginia ?
text: Did you know that Japanese tennis player Ryosuke Nunoi served in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II and committed suicide at the end of the Burma Campaign ?
text: Did you know that the only medical school and law school in South Dakota are at the University of South Dakota ?
text: Did you know that the tower of the Trinity Congregational Church collapsed in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake after the New Zealand Historic Places Trust had declined consent for earthquake strengthening?
text: Did you know that Jennifer Lopez 's song " Until It Beats No More " was used as background music in her commercial for the Fiat 500 ?
text: Did you know that St John's in Monmouth , Wales , has been described as "one of Monmouth's best-kept secrets"?
text: Did you know that although linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf is best known for the " Sapir -Whorf hypothesis", he never stated a hypothesis, writing instead about the " principle of linguistic relativity "?
text: Did you know that the National Gallery in Berlin has now expanded from its original 1876 building into five others, including a Schinkel church and two palace outbuildings in Charlottenburg ?
text: Did you know that Kat Driscoll 's performance at the 2011 World Championships earned Great Britain a trampolining place at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that 57-million-year-old Altiatlasius from Morocco may be the oldest fossil primate yet found, despite a molecular estimate that places the last common ancestor of primates at 90 million years ago?
text: Did you know that in his 2012 book, Scotty Bowers reveals Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars ?
text: Did you know that the Rhodesian Special Air Service was formed during the Malayan Emergency ?
text: Did you know that 2010 Commonwealth Games Australian archery gold medalist Mathew Masonwells likes to listen to Hilltop Hoods between shooting competition rounds?
text: Did you know that on 13 March 2012, BBC News reported that 17 police stations in South East Wales would close to the public, including the Monmouth Police Station ?
text: Did you know that Jennifer Lopez 's song " Goin' In ", featuring Flo Rida , is featured on the soundtrack of the dance film Step Up Revolution ?
text: Did you know that the French ice hockey team, the Dragons de Rouen won both the regular season and Coupe Magnus in the 2011–12 Ligue Magnus season ?
text: Did you know that the Modoc County Historical Museum has objects in its collection that date back 8,000 years?
text: Did you know that the independent comedy drama film The Taiwan Oyster , co-starring British actress Leonora Moore and shot in Taiwan, has been described as a Texas road film ?
text: Did you know that Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott worshipped at St Saviour's Chapel in Lyttelton, New Zealand , before embarking on the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition ?
text: Did you know that British sport shooter Peter Wilson is coached by a member of the Dubai royal family ?
text: Did you know that the 1976 song " Let Poland be Poland " by Jan Pietrzak became one of the anthems of Solidarity ?
text: Did you know that Jennifer Screen 's first international basketball tournament with the Australian Opals was the 2006 World Championships in Brazil, where her team took home a gold medal?
text: Did you know that, having first occurred in 1698, the Fredericksburg Dog Mart is the oldest dog show in the United States?
text: Did you know that General Ulysses S. Grant held an outdoor council of war with his top generals on pews taken from the Massaponax Baptist Church ?
text: Did you know that 2008 silver-medal-winning Australian Opal Suzy Batkovic used to sneak out to concerts with basketball teammate Lauren Jackson while on scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport ?
text: Did you know that although the first two fossils of Indraloris to be found were misidentified as a carnivoran and a loris , it is in fact a member of the extinct adapiform primates?
text: Did you know that Bozh , the first Slavic ruler known in history, was captured and crucified together with his sons and 70 of his nobility by the invading Ostrogoths ?
text: Did you know that The Runaways ' second album Queens of Noise features guitar solos from both lead guitarist Lita Ford and rhythm guitarist Joan Jett ?
text: Did you know that chef Daniel Clifford serves garlic and bay leaf ice cream at his restaurant, Midsummer House ?
text: Did you know that Samestate had two top-20 songs – "Hurricane" and "Shadows" – on the Christian CHR chart?
text: Did you know that Roy Lichtenstein 's Engagement Ring marks his transition from his prior painterly work to his subsequent more polished mechanical-looking work?
text: Did you know that Hindustan Zindabad , a nationalistic slogan, translates to "Long Live India"?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic archery hopeful Ryan Tyack finished first in the all around men's recurve event at the 2012 Australian national championships?
text: Did you know that the East Bay Vivarium is the oldest and largest retail vivarium in the United States?
text: Did you know that the third digit in the banking industry 's " 3-6-3 Rule " refers to bankers being able to "tee off at the golf course by 3 p.m."?
text: Did you know that Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn was a prisoner of war of the Japanese on the Burma Railway before becoming Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire and of Clwyd ?
text: Did you know that among the challenges to developing the Niger women's national football team is shari'a law being used to ban women from the sport in some parts of the country?
text: Did you know that Carl Lachmund , who wrote detailed diaries on his studies with Franz Liszt , conducted a concert at the request of President William McKinley for the survivors of USS Maine ?
text: Did you know that the Jewish Orphanage of Berlin-Pankow was originally intended to be a home for refugee children who escaped pogroms after the assassination of Alexander II of Russia ?
text: Did you know that political boss John H. McCooey opposed the nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt for President of the United States in 1932?
text: Did you know that the script for British athletics film Fast Girls had to be re-written to remove all references to the Olympics?
text: Did you know that the Japanese sea cucumber can aestivate and remain in a dormant state for up to four years?
text: Did you know that Major Rohde Hawkins built the Royal Victoria Patriotic School as an asylum for war-orphaned girls?
text: Did you know that while flying accidents were commonplace at RAAF training establishments during World War II, No. 8 Service Flying Training School ' s first fatality was from drowning?
text: Did you know that Victor Gonzalez, Jr. was the first Puerto Rican driver to compete in a major NASCAR event?
text: Did you know that Punsari , a small village in Gujarat , was awarded with the "Best Panchayat in Gujarat" title?
text: Did you know that chef Myron Mixon is nicknamed the "winningest man in barbecue", having won more than 1,700 trophies?
text: Did you know that Gojko Balšić , one of the founders of the League of Lezhë in 1444, was Skanderbeg 's nephew?
text: Did you know that Ryan Hanigan hit the first Major League Baseball pitch thrown to him for a double ?
text: Did you know that Haxhi Qamili , the main leader of the Peasant Revolt in Albania in 1914, was arrested by Serbian forces, tried in a court presided over by Xhelal Bey Zogu , and sentenced to hanging ?
text: Did you know that Marta met the Sierra Leone women's national football team in 2011 as part of the United Nations Development Programme ?
text: Did you know that the Lufilian Arc supplies 80% of the world's cobalt?
text: Did you know that the family of Miami Zombie victim Ronald Poppo, a graduate of Manhattan 's Stuyvesant High School , believed he had died 30 years ago?
text: Did you know that Giuseppe Lorenzo Gatteri painted the ceiling in the Gravisi-Barbabianca Palace ?
text: Did you know that the first time the Chase Court considered an appeal from a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the circuit courts , Congress withdrew the U.S. Supreme Court 's power to hear those appeals?
text: Did you know that Steve Waugh was the first cricket player to score 150 runs in an innings against all Test-playing nations , a Guinness record ?
text: Did you know that the mineral motukoreaite is named for Motukorea , the island in New Zealand where it was discovered?
text: Did you know that the Druid's Head Inn , an old public house in Monmouth , Wales , now serves as the headquarters of the Monmouth Rugby Football Club ?
text: Did you know that Tim Bainey, Jr. plans to compete in a NASCAR race held on a track he co-owns?
text: Did you know that Duncan Curry , sometimes called the "Father of Baseball", was the president of the first organized baseball team and helped draft the first written rules of the game in 1845?
text: Did you know that Algeripithecus , a 46–50 million year old fossil primate , was once crucial for the African origins of simians (monkeys and apes), but now suggests African origins for lemurs and lorisoids ?
text: Did you know that the Best Male Vocalist at the 2009 Indonesian Music Awards , Afgansyah Reza , never had any vocal training?
text: Did you know that message passing in computer clusters built with commodity servers and switches is used by virtually every internet service?
text: Did you know that Australian aboriginal 2008 silver medal winning Australian Opal Rohanee Cox started playing basketball again after an absence from the sport in order to inspire her daughter?
text: Did you know that The Alley piano bar has walls papered with thousands of business cards, including ones from Jerry Brown and Gregg Allman ?
text: Did you know that Australian 2008 Paralympic swimming bronze medalist Annabelle Williams was a stunt double for Charlize Theron ?
text: Did you know that the PZL SM-4 Łątka never flew, because its engine was not approved for use in flight?
text: Did you know that Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki organized the World Wrestling Peace Festival , an international supercard , as a way to promote world peace ?
text: Did you know that although Duke Huan of Tian Qi murdered Tian Yan to usurp the throne of Qi , the two brothers were buried together in the Two Kings' Cemetery?
text: Did you know that Stanwell Tops had a Black Christmas in 2001?
text: Did you know that While She Sleeps won the Kerrang! award for Best British Newcomer at the 2012 awards ceremony ?
text: Did you know that Egyptian Olympic pentathlete Aya Medany 's father was a member of a panel which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize ?
text: Did you know that water supply for mines in the Galilee Basin was provided as a reason to support the development of the Bradfield Scheme in Queensland , Australia?
text: Did you know that Justin Timberlake 's 2007 single " Summer Love " is about wanting to fall in love with a "lusty seasonal lover"?
text: Did you know that Stephen Pryor won a no-hitter on June 8 , 2012, in his fourth Major League Baseball appearance?
text: Did you know that St Luke's Church in Christchurch , New Zealand, replaced an earlier church that was "ugly and barn-like"?
text: Did you know that Get Married 3 features characters named after Mark Zuckerberg , Oprah Winfrey , and Hanung Bramantyo ?
text: Did you know that according to ASME , Wyman-Gordon 's 50,000-ton press was the largest machine in the world when completed in 1955?
text: Did you know that the Pacific Pinball Museum has 800 pinball machines in storage in a secret location?
text: Did you know that a sherd of medieval pottery was unearthed in 1956 at St James House in Monmouth ?
text: Did you know that fossils of Yelovichnus were initially believed to be the feeding trails of other organisms?
text: Did you know that Charles Dennis Fisher , described as one of the "most prominent members of [the] educational staff" of the University of Oxford , died in the explosion of HMS Invincible at the Battle of Jutland ?
text: Did you know that 2010 Australian Junior National archery champion Alice Ingley has ancestors from the same area of England as the historical Robin Hood ?
text: Did you know that Roy Lichtenstein 's Golf Ball paraphrases Piet Mondrian 's pre- World War I black and white oval paintings such as Composition in Black and White ?
text: Did you know that diners eating at the Table Lumière in the three Michelin star restaurant Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester can select their own tableware ?
text: Did you know that despite finishing second in Tippeligaen with Molde FK in 2002 , football coaches Kalle Björklund and Gunder Bengtsson were fired after six matches in 2003?
text: Did you know that the West German Audio Book Library for the Blind made its first recordings at night, in a room covered with egg cartons ?
text: Did you know that the Sugababes song " Gotta Be You ", according to band member Keisha Buchanan , is the first use of the crunk genre by a British band?
text: Did you know that the use of " bloke ", a slang term for a man , has inspired "First Bloke", a male variant of " First Lady "?
text: Did you know that communist Poland 's ORMO voluntary police reserves specialized in staging and performing criminal acts, unlawful arrests , and street beatings of peaceful protesters?
text: Did you know that 5to Piso was the first album Ricardo Arjona released after moving to Warner Music ?
text: Did you know that the Emirates Cup was cancelled from the 2012–13 Arsenal season due to the 2012 London Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Mani Ratnam 's Nayagan was one of the three Indian films to be included in Time 's "All-Time 100 Movies" in 2005?
text: Did you know that some of the most active parents in the Orthodox Jewish day school founded by Rabbi David Rebibo in Phoenix, Arizona , in 1965 were members of the local Reform temple?
text: Did you know that muttongrass is eaten by sheep?
text: Did you know that Bert Sincock , born in a gold rush boomtown in 1887, was the first British Columbia native to play Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that shoe salesman Hamid Ghassemi-Shall was sentenced to death because of an alleged e-mail?
text: Did you know that an inscription discovered at Milecastle 19 of Hadrian's Wall is one of only 60 known dedications to the mother goddess known in Roman Britain ?
text: Did you know that Albert Einstein once played violin with the Zoellner Quartet , which earlier had played by invitation for Helen Keller ?
text: Did you know that Egyptian writings about the myth of Osiris do not clearly describe Osiris ' death because the Egyptians feared that doing so might negatively affect the world?
text: Did you know that the Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad was split along state lines in 1894?
text: Did you know that Wes Ferrell leads all Major League Baseball pitchers in home runs hit in a season (9), and in a career (37)?
text: Did you know that the name for the new bridge being built alongside the Forth Road Bridge and the Forth Bridge is to be chosen in a public vote in 2013?
text: Did you know that Bach was "fired up as never before" when he began his second cycle of chorale cantatas with O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort , BWV 20 , for the first Sunday after Trinity in 1724?
text: Did you know that Clarence 13X taught that the letters of the word "Allah" stood for "arm, leg, leg, arm, head", indicating the divine status of humans?
text: Did you know that the most viewed Indonesian film of 2011 was based on a story posted in a blog?
text: Did you know that British archer Amy Oliver , who is due to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics , didn't like the sport when she first tried it?
text: Did you know that communist politician Rustam Effendi wrote the first Indonesian stage play?
text: Did you know that the Japanese art film Megane , described as "an ode to the pleasures of unhurried living", was given its name after the director realized most characters wore glasses?
text: Did you know that stock car racer Joey McCarthy started racing at age ten?
text: Did you know that the first three concerts of Beyoncé Knowles 's revue show Revel Presents: Beyoncé Live sold out within one minute?
text: Did you know that Leydig cell hypoplasia is a rare genetic disorder that can cause pseudohermaphroditism or delayed or absent puberty in affected males?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Opal Hanna Zavecz earned a basketball scholarship at the University of Wyoming even though the coach had never seen her play?
text: Did you know that John Hibbard played three years of college baseball for the University of Michigan despite having previously played professional baseball for the Chicago White Stockings ?
text: Did you know that despite São Tomé and Príncipe gaining independence in 1975, the women's national football team did not play their first FIFA recognised match until 2002?
text: Did you know that Mermaid in Miami Beach was Roy Lichtenstein 's first commissioned public art?
text: Did you know that British World Champion Modern Pentathlete Mhairi Spence has an ambition to be the host of BBC One 's quiz show A Question of Sport ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Travel Act prohibits interstate or foreign travel to promote, manage or commit extortion, bribery, prostitution and other crimes?
text: Did you know that the Southern Triangle can't be seen from Europe?
text: Did you know that the first SCCA E Production class racing championship won in a Mazda Miata was won by Terry McCarthy ?
text: Did you know that silicate perovskites may make up to 93% of the lower mantle and that the magnesium form is considered to be Earth's most abundant mineral?
text: Did you know that Randolph Scott , the star of China Sky , referred to the film as "disappointing"?
text: Did you know that Australian 2010 Commonwealth Games team archery gold medalist Taylor Worth is a member of a shadow archery team?
text: Did you know that in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority 's Porter subway station there are gloves attached to the escalator and embedded in the floor ?
text: Did you know that PSIR Rembang players attacked both referees in a match at 2008–09 Liga Indonesia Premier Division ?
text: Did you know that Once , which was directed by John Tiffany and choreographed by Steven Hoggett , has the most nominations at the 66th Tony Awards ?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Potts was the only woman ever legally executed in Nevada ?
text: Did you know that Australian multiple swimming world record holder Benard Kieran took up swimming while serving time aboard a reformatory ship?
text: Did you know that Cheap Trick 's song " Southern Girls " is about girls in southern Canada, but the title was changed because writer Rick Nielsen didn't like the sound of "Southern Canadian Girls"?
text: Did you know that exposed oak beams in the plantation house at Walnut Grove reveal Roman numerals marking where joists are to be attached?
text: Did you know that Florida watermelon farmer Ross Chastain scored a top 10 finish in his very first NASCAR race?
text: Did you know that Abdulwahab Hussain played a leading role and was arrested during Bahraini uprisings of 1994–2001 and 2011–2012 ?
text: Did you know that Mark Rothko 's Orange, Red, Yellow was sold on May 8 , 2012, for $86.9 million , a world record auction price for contemporary art ?
text: Did you know that Lincoln MacMillan played on Michigan football teams that defeated Notre Dame in each of the first five games between the schools?
text: Did you know that the television drama Kazoku no Uta has the lowest viewership ratings of any Fuji Television prime-time drama series ?
text: Did you know that during the War of 1812 , Angus McDonald was commissioned as a captain in the Regular Army following his nomination and appointment by United States President James Madison ?
text: Did you know that Marika Mitsotakis likened the political style of her husband, Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis , to the calming effect of Valium ?
text: Did you know that the Swedish hymn En vänlig grönskas rika dräkt is used both as a summer hymn and for funerals, but is rarely sung in its entirety?
text: Did you know that Anne Henrietta Martin of Nevada was the first woman to run for the United States Senate ?
text: Did you know that No. 7 Service Flying Training School RAAF graduated over 2,000 pilots under the Empire Air Training Scheme between 1941 and 1944?
text: Did you know that Juan Luis Rodríguez-Vigil‎ , President of the Principality of Asturias , resigned in 1993 because of Petromocho ?
text: Did you know that Roy Lichtenstein 's Happy Tears was acquired in 1964 and not resold until 2002, when it established a new record for the auction price of a Lichtenstein work?
text: Did you know that actor Alex Papps was still being recognised as his Home and Away character Frank Morgan twenty years after he originally departed the series?
text: Did you know that mutations in the gene CYP17A1 lead to impaired sex steroid production in patients with the genetic disorder isolated 17,20-lyase deficiency ?
text: Did you know that Bozeman, Montana , is home to two breweries – the Bozeman Brewery Historic District and Spieth and Krug Brewery – now listed in the National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you know that the simulation video games Cafeteria Nipponica , Dungeon Village , Epic Astro Story , Grand Prix Story , and Hot Springs Story were developed by Japanese video game developer Kairosoft ?
text: Did you know that Walt Hazzard had his number retired by UCLA , but he allowed it to be reissued to Kevin Love ?
text: Did you know that in 2011, Namibia ranked fourth worldwide in uranium production , behind Kazakhstan, Canada, and Australia?
text: Did you know that hero of epic poetry Musa Kesedžija had three hearts?
text: Did you know that the Asuka Historical Museum exhibits Asuka-period artefacts from Yamada-dera and the Takamatsuzuka Tomb ?
text: Did you know that Ignacy Krasicki 's Pan Podstoli (1778) was one of the first Polish novels?
text: Did you know that US academic Susan J. Douglas is concerned that depictions of high-powered women in media imply (incorrectly) that feminism has achieved its goals?
text: Did you know that Taddeo d'Este was given a palace and admission to the Great Council of Venice for foiling an attack on Padua ?
text: Did you know that Magellan Development Group opted not to apply for public way permits for Coast at Lakeshore East because of the May 2012 Chicago Summit ?
text: Did you know that First Lady Michelle Obama describes Thomas Jefferson 's attempts to grow four-foot-long cucumbers in her gardening book American Grown ?
text: Did you know that a new election will be held to choose the Nepalese Constituent Assembly to draft a constitution following the previous one's failure ?
text: Did you know that despite not playing football before he was 10 years old, Zymer Bytyqi became the youngest player in Tippeligaen aged 15 years and 261 days?
text: Did you know that the title of the Japanese-language album 20 [Twenty] by South Korean rock band F.T. Island refers to the average age of the band members?
text: Did you know that a character in the British farce Simple Spymen remarks he needs "a thin moustache on the top lip and a pointed beard on the bottom" to pass for a Frenchman?
text: Did you know that Seline Hizli was one of only 34 individuals to be accepted onto the three-year acting course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2007?
text: Did you know that in social network analysis , a Simmelian tie is the basic relationship in a clique ?
text: Did you know that film director and producer Luciano Ercoli is married to actress Nieves Navarro , star of several of his giallo thrillers?
text: Did you know that Plesiopithecus , a fossil primate from the late Eocene in Egypt , closely resembles the aye-aye of Madagascar and raises questions about the evolutionary history of lemurs ?
text: Did you know that the only NASCAR Winston Cup Series race that Dan Pardus competed in was delayed by both fire and rain ?
text: Did you know that Iván Guzmán de Rojas created software that could translate multiple languages simultaneously and served as Vice-President of the National Electoral Court of Bolivia ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian director Teddy Soeriaatmadja decided to go into film after seeing Reservoir Dogs ?
text: Did you know that Hamka was accused of plagiarising his novel Sinking of the van der Wijck , described as his best?
text: Did you know that when the Munich Crisis started, Edward Fennessy and Geoffrey Roberts built the famous RAF Fighter Command plotting room in only 36 hours?
text: Did you know that " 3 Spoons of Suga ", a song by English girl group Sugababes , was included in the soundtrack for the 2007 film St Trinian's ?
text: Did you know that because wood used to build the Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Hawaii's Koke'e State Park had to be floated in salt water, the buildings avoided termite damage?
text: Did you know that Jimmy Makar won 22 NASCAR Winston Cup Series races as crew chief for Rusty Wallace , Dale Jarrett and Bobby Labonte ?
text: Did you know that the church of La Yesa in the Province of Valencia was burned down in 1840 following the Carlist Wars but was subsequently reconstructed?
text: Did you know that U.S. 2012 presidential candidate Bob Ely refers to himself as a "jerk" and lists 24 reasons to not vote for him?
text: Did you know that satirist Abdul Samay Hamed was attacked by a knife-wielding man, but succeeded in disarming his attacker?
text: Did you know that since the Israel national association football team played its first official game in 1934, more than 450 players have represented Israel in international matches ?
text: Did you know that the Spotted Sandgrouse may travel many kilometres from its feeding ground in order to drink?
text: Did you know that bad weather was a constant hindrance to operations at No. 6 Service Flying Training School RAAF in Mallala , South Australia, during World War II ?
text: Did you know that according to critics, the Sugababes ' song " It Ain't Easy " contains compositional elements from " Personal Jesus " by Depeche Mode ?
text: Did you know that Sydney Cumbers was nicknamed " Long John Silver " because he wore an eyepatch to conceal his missing eye that he lost when he was a child?
text: Did you know that Kerry Blue Terrier Torums Scarf Michael was the first dog to win Crufts , Westminster and the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship ?
text: Did you know that Michael Roach , an American professional soccer player, played in college with future teammates Kevin Alston and Alec Purdie ?
text: Did you know that it took Stan and Jan Berenstain two years to revise The Big Honey Hunt , the first Berenstain Bears book, to Dr. Seuss 's satisfaction?
text: Did you know that George Strez Balšić was one of several noblemen who renounced their support of Skanderbeg in 1457, and he sold his fortress to the Ottomans ?
text: Did you know that according to The Fix by Damian Thompson , we can become addicted to sugar in the same way we can become a heroin addict ?
text: Did you know that Fred Bonine set the world's record in the 110-yard dash in 1886, and later saw over a million patients in his medical office?
text: Did you know that BBC broadcaster and producer Ursula Eason pioneered the use of sign language in television programmes for deaf children?
text: Did you know that the killing of four policemen in an ambush in Rentería was the Basque separatist group ETA 's deadliest attack of 1982?
text: Did you know that the Huites Dam provides irrigation for 89,700 hectares (222,000 acres) of land?
text: Did you know that in Posthumous Trilogy , a Mate Matišić drama collection, all three plays end in the suicide of the protagonist?
text: Did you know that Jan Matejko 's painting The Hanging of the Sigismund Bell received a golden medal in the Paris World's Fair of 1878 ?
text: Did you know that Frank Bliss , the first Michigan Wolverine to play Major League Baseball , tucked his trousers into long boots for shin protection as a catcher in the early 1870s?
text: Did you know that the remains of the ancient Roman Empire settlement of Baalbek were almost completely destroyed during the Near East earthquake of 1759 ?
text: Did you know that Polish historian Stefania Wolicka was one of the first women to receive a PhD degree in modern Europe?
text: Did you know that Thomas Hart Benton 's mural Achelous and Hercules , now on display at the Smithsonian , was originally painted for a women's clothing store in Kansas City ?
text: Did you know that local tribes have nicknamed the Malagarasi as "the river of bad spirits"?
text: Did you know that geologist T. Wayland Vaughan had a private audience with Emperor Hirohito and was decorated with the Order of the Rising Sun ?
text: Did you know that the feature film Tortoise in Love was entirely crowd funded from the village of Kingston Bagpuize and Southmoor ?
text: Did you know that biscuit grass can grow in brackish or salt marshes , and survive crude oil pollution?
text: Did you know that critics compared the Sugababes ' 2007 song " Never Gonna Dance Again " to " Careless Whisper " by George Michael ?
text: Did you know that William Wheaton helped draft the first set of baseball rules in 1845?
text: Did you know that Longkou Mining Group, a subsidiary of Shandong Energy , is the only company in China mining coal under the sea?
text: Did you know that the species observed in Lower Hael Wood near Monmouth include ducks , skylarks , sparrowhawks and long-tailed tits ?
text: Did you know that Richard Benjamin Harrison , nicknamed "The Old Man", is co-owner of the Las Vegas pawn shop featured in the reality TV series Pawn Stars ?
text: Did you know that the open-wheel racing career of Emerson Newton-John was put on hold for over a decade by the September 11 attacks ?
text: Did you know that between 1848 and 1981, every director of Liberia 's Ministry of Foreign Affairs had originally resided in Montserrado County ?
text: Did you know that An Ruzi was made ruler of Qi despite being just a little boy, but was killed by his older brother Duke Dao of Qi after less than a year on the throne?
text: Did you know that Oakley , a plantation home in Spotsylvania County, Virginia , was built in 1828 by Samuel Alsop, Jr. as a gift for his daughter?
text: Did you know that Indonesian actress Kinaryosih won four separate awards for her role in Suddenly Dangdut ?
text: Did you know that the design of the Dyott Bomber was modified from an aircraft intended for the exploration of South Africa ?
text: Did you know that Wedlock , a 2009 book by Wendy Moore , details the abusive second marriage of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore , the great-great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II ?
text: Did you know that the career of Canadian professional wrestler Quinson Valentino , one of Ontario 's top heel performers during the 2000s, ended after losing a retirement match in 2008?
text: Did you know that Hamka 's debut novel Under the Protection of Ka'bah promoted orthodox Islam as a path to true development?
text: Did you know that the Illinois Manufacturers' Association has its origins in a group formed to oppose laws against sweatshops ?
text: Did you know that Pakistani cricketers hold the record for the highest number of wins in Twenty20 Internationals ?
text: Did you know that in his tell-all memoir The Bronx Zoo , Sparky Lyle talked about how he enjoyed sitting on birthday cakes naked?
text: Did you know that " No Me Ames ", a duet by American recording artists Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony , is a cover of the Italian hit "Non Amarmi", recorded by Aleandro Baldi and Francesca Alotta?
text: Did you know that, aside from Monnow Bridge Gatehouse, the only standing portion that remains of Monmouth Town Walls and Defences is attached to a pub ?
text: Did you know that many geographic features on Campbell Island, New Zealand , were named for members of the French 1874 Transit of Venus astronomical expedition?
text: Did you know that the most viewed Indonesian film of 1989, Pacar Ketinggalan Kereta , was the last feature film for both director Teguh Karya and star Tuti Indra Malaon ?
text: Did you know that over one thousand shelters were opened to accommodate evacuees from Hurricane Bud ?
text: Did you know that Bronwyn Oliver 's 2005 sculpture Vine is over 16 metres (52 ft) high and was assembled by eight Croatian welders?
text: Did you know that Australian Opal Tess Madgen ' s U-18 South Australia Country team beat Victoria 99–61 in one of the biggest wins ever at the Australian national championships?
text: Did you know that the transit of Venus of 1639 was predicted by self-taught astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks , and the only recorded observations of it were by him and his friend William Crabtree ?
text: Did you know that Rear Admiral Ronald Arthur Hopwood was named poet laureate of the Royal Navy by Time in 1941?
text: Did you know that the German National Library of Economics , with over 4 million items and 46 kilometers of shelf space, is the world's largest economics library?
text: Did you know that special trains were laid on for voters returning to Oxford University for the 1860 election of the Boden Professor of Sanskrit ?
text: Did you know that Rosenborg BK 's young midfielder Ole Kristian Selnæs is a big fan of the Norwegian soap opera Hotel Cæsar ?
text: Did you know that Blur guitarist Graham Coxon recorded 21 tracks for his 10-track album A+E ?
text: Did you know that cutthroat grass is primarily found in only two counties in central Florida?
text: Did you know that the Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.6 floatplane trainer was the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service 's last pusher aircraft ?
text: Did you know that Henk Ten Berge of De Telegraaf described When the Light Comes as "one of the strangest films ever produced by a Dutchman"?
text: Did you know that in 386 BC Duke Tai of Tian Qi was formally recognized as ruler of the state of Qi , ending over six centuries of rule by the House of Jiang?
text: Did you know that the 1907 Sydney bathing costume protests were a response by men wearing women's clothing to proposed regulations on beach dress?
text: Did you know that poet, translator and educator Margaret Diesendorf , born in Vienna and raised in Hungary, was described as "the Conscience of New South Wales "?
text: Did you know that the successful kidney transplantation to a patient from the UAE in Cleveland led to the annual running of the UAE Healthy Kidney 10K in New York?
text: Did you know that the young-adult novel Ice Quake by Colin Bateman involves a missing satellite , a double-size polar bear and a cryoseism ?
text: Did you know that Australia won the 2005 Women's Cricket World Cup Final by 98 runs from India , clinching their fifth World Cup title?
text: Did you know that Brushstrokes was the first component of Roy Lichtenstein 's Brushstrokes series ?
text: Did you know that a German Gigolo has won four gold and two silver medals at the Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that more than 600 sacrificial horses and 30 dogs are estimated to be buried in the 2,500-year-old tomb of Duke Jing of Qi ?
text: Did you know that Richard Petty Motorsports swept the front row in qualifying for the 2012 Coca-Cola 600 ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Dick , Superintendent of Otago Province in New Zealand, "distinguished himself more by an assiduous devotion to duty than by any display of brilliance"?
text: Did you know that poet Iolo Morganwg of Flemingston learned to read by watching his father carve words on tombstones ?
text: Did you know that Italian Bracco Geas basketball player Laura Summerton won two Olympics silver medals, a Commonwealth gold medal and a World Championship gold medal with the Australian Opals ?
text: Did you know that the interactive website Elf Yourself , an annual tradition where viewers can place personal images into downloadable videos of dancing elves , was first developed by Jason Zada ?
text: Did you know that the Oblates of Mary Immaculate founded missionary stations at Aminuis and Epukiro in rural eastern Namibia at the beginning of the 20th century?
text: Did you know that stock car driver Casey Roderick was described as a "legitimate protege of Bill Elliott "?
text: Did you know that the Taney Court held that it had no jurisdiction to review former Congressman Clement Vallandigham 's arrest and trial by military commission by means of habeas corpus ?
text: Did you know that diplomat Karol Boscamp-Lasopolski was executed by an angry mob during the Kościuszko Uprising ?
text: Did you know that Thursday Nights, Channel 5 once almost led to a fight between Chelsea and Manchester City players?
text: Did you know that comedienne Connie Ediss , in a string of popular London musicals from 1896, became known for her " buxom bourgeoise " characters?
text: Did you know that Australian Opal and Logan Thunder center Cayla Francis chose to play basketball over netball because she preferred the contact aspect of basketball?
text: Did you know that the M16 rocket was used in only a single engagement of the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that the hooded oyster is known as Saccostrea cucullata ( Born , 1778)?
text: Did you know that the Oscoda County Courthouse , unlike many of its contemporaries, is a wood frame structure and not built of stone or brick?
text: Did you know that according to Micronesian mythology , trickster god Olifat created much discord among the gods, but gave humanity the secret of fire?
text: Did you know that J. K. Rowling agreed to let North Foreland Lodge girls' school perform Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone , but later withdrew consent as this would have been a world premiere ?
text: Did you know that Robbie Faggart won two races in five days at Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1992?
text: Did you know that the 1715 Bach cantata O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad , BWV 165 , relates to Jesus teaching Nicodemus about "being born of water and of the Spirit"?
text: Did you know that Daresbury in Christchurch , New Zealand, received a supreme award for renovation some weeks after it suffered significant earthquake damage?
text: Did you know that heavy rain on its grass runway at RAAF Station Amberley in 1940 forced No. 3 Service Flying Training School to institute a 13-hour workday and fly at nearby airfields to maintain schedule?
text: Did you know that polio eradication efforts in Pakistan were hampered by a vaccination campaign conducted by the CIA as cover in the search for Osama bin Laden ?
text: Did you know that Get Married 2 was released not long after its director got married?
text: Did you know that Camp Paxson Boy Scout Camp was used as a training camp for conscientious objector smokejumpers during World War II ?
text: Did you know that English historian Alison Weir has produced books about Eleanor of Aquitaine in both fiction and non-fiction?
text: Did you know that Fain Skinner won the 1999 World Karting Association national championship?
text: Did you know that certain birds are assisted by the presence of other members of their species in raising their young, a phenomenon known as the Fraser Darling effect ?
text: Did you know that Lesbian and Gay Youth: Care and Counseling was the first book published on health and mental health care for lesbian and gay youth?
text: Did you know that the 1970 film Le foto proibite di una signora per bene features a bossa nova -influenced score that has been compared to the work of Antônio Carlos Jobim ?
text: Did you know that the village of Guimerà accounts for 24 of the structures on the government of Catalonia 's list of architectural heritage monuments?
text: Did you know that the San Diego Chargers retired the number of Junior Seau posthumously at his memorial?
text: Did you know that at age nine, Robertson Davies was paid for writing an article published in the Renfrew Mercury , his father 's newspaper?
text: Did you know that Roy Lichtenstein 's Roto Broil was sold at Sotheby's for $75,000 in 1976?
text: Did you know that during the Stalinist terror Baron Jerzy Waldorff defamed Catholic priests while serving as an editor of the popular Kraków magazine Przekrój ?
text: Did you know that 1988 St. Leger Stakes winner Minster Son was the first Thoroughbred racehorse to win a British Classic with its breeder riding as the jockey?
text: Did you know that Minori Hayakari , holder of the Japanese record in women's 3000 m steeplechase , has won six consecutive national titles since the event was introduced in 2006?
text: Did you know that 20% of the authors in various academic disciplines report being the target of coercive citation by scientific journal editors?
text: Did you know that Richard Wickes was the first American casualty of the American Revolutionary War in New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that growing on the shell of the Pacific pink scallop helps the sponge Myxilla incrustans avoid being swamped by shifting sediment on the seabed ?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian film Suddenly Dangdut won 12 film awards, despite being filmed in seven days?
text: Did you know that the Monmouth Methodist Church in Monmouth , Wales , was set back behind the houses along St James Street by law?
text: Did you know that Access2Research is petitioning U.S. President Obama to issue an open-access mandate for publicly funded research ?
text: Did you know that in 1896, baritone Anton Sistermans premiered first Gustav Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen in Berlin, then Vier ernste Gesänge by Johannes Brahms in Vienna?
text: Did you know that Jay Jeffrey was the first Division I head coach in Texas State Bobcats baseball history?
text: Did you know that Titanic 2020: Cannibal City is a sequel to the apocalyptical fiction, Titanic 2020 ?
text: Did you know that Andrea Bianchi 's Nude per l'assassino follows "the giallo formula almost to the letter"?
text: Did you know that the Italian Republic of Genoa controlled the Greek island of Rhodes for two years, from 1248 to 1250?
text: Did you know that Johan Sørensen was the first publisher of cheap books for the mass market in Norway?
text: Did you know that cancer cell chromosomes undergo distinctive changes in addition to mutations?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australia women's national basketball team member Kathleen MacLeod played for a year each in Hungary and France?
text: Did you know that George Gissing considered his novella The Paying Guest to be "a frothy trifle"?
text: Did you know that the father–son duo of Marques and Kris Johnson each won a college basketball national championship with the UCLA Bruins after being the top high school player in Los Angeles?
text: Did you know that Glen Morgan and James Wong included several references to their cancelled series Space: Above and Beyond in their script for Millennium 's " The Thin White Line "?
text: Did you know that despite writing many scientific papers at Yale University and having the time limit waived, carcinologist Martin Burkenroad never submitted a dissertation ?
text: Did you know that Blue Scar was the first feature film to be scored by a British woman?
text: Did you know that in Nguyen v. INS , the US Supreme Court upheld a law making it harder for a foreign-born illegitimate child to inherit US citizenship from the father than from the mother?
text: Did you know that Stafanie Taylor , the 2011 ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year , is the only player to have scored half-centuries in three consecutive Twenty20 Internationals ?
text: Did you know that Susan Clark and Diane Keaton received Emmy nominations for playing Amelia Earhart in made-for-TV movies on NBC in 1976 and on TNT in 1994 ?
text: Did you know that Fashion Star season one winner Kara Laricks describes her design aesthetic as "modern-day Annie Hall meets a Japanese street style "?
text: Did you know that Action Saybusch was intended to be the first of several German expulsions of Poles from Silesia to the occupied General Government in World War II?
text: Did you know that renowned German furniture designer Tommi Parzinger spent the last 15 years of his life working on Expressionist paintings?
text: Did you know that Brule Lake in Minnesota is the source of two rivers that enter Lake Superior forty miles apart?
text: Did you know that after a WNBL game in which Kristen Veal scored 16 points, other players shaved Veal's head to support the Leukemia Foundation?
text: Did you know that the deluxe cover to Simian Mobile Disco 's 2012 album, Unpatterns , is back to front and forms a moiré pattern with the CD image?
text: Did you know that Arsenal went 995 minutes without conceding a goal in European football ?
text: Did you know that Lucio Fulci 's 1977 film Sette note in nero has been compared to the later American film Eyes of Laura Mars ?
text: Did you know that although ROCOSes are visible astronomical objects , it is impossible to determine whether or not they belong to our galaxy ?
text: Did you know that Nikolai Ramm Østgaard served as president of the International Ski Federation for 17 years, from 1934 to 1951?
text: Did you know that Reformed theologian G. I. Williamson , in the tradition of Puritan Sabbatarianism , says viewing television , newspapers or magazines is improper for Sunday Sabbath ?
text: Did you know that according to Rap-Up magazine, the double-sided poster included in Rihanna 's 2009 box set 3 CD Collector's Set is worth the price of the album alone?
text: Did you know that Snurge was the first maiden to win the St. Leger Stakes for 77 years and retired as the biggest money winner in European horseracing?
text: Did you know that 12-year-old Tom Schaar is the only person to ever complete a 1080 , described as "the holy grail of all skateboard tricks”?
text: Did you know that the song " Si Piensas, Si Quieres " was the third number-one hit for Roberto Carlos and Rocío Dúrcal in the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart ?
text: Did you know that Limonana , a lemon and mint drink that is widely popular in the Middle East , was invented by an advertising agency?
text: Did you know that Gerard Reve 's The Fourth Man , commissioned by the Dutch foundation Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek for the 1981 Boekenweek , was turned down as too controversial?
text: Did you know that the flowerheads of the fern-leaf spider flower, Grevillea longifolia , look like toothbrushes?
text: Did you know that Power has been described as powerful?
text: Did you know that 57-year-old Australian equestrian dressage competitor Mary Hanna has qualified to compete in her fourth Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Whitley Castle is the only lozenge-shaped Roman fort?
text: Did you know that the precursor of the Dnestr radar , TsSO-P, took part in the Soviet Operation K tests to examine the effects of nuclear explosions on anti-ballistic missile hardware?
text: Did you know that India's 2012 Olympic boxer Devendro Singh gets training support from his sister Sushila, a former national boxing champion?
text: Did you know that The Teng Chun produced 31 films in a little more than a decade before becoming an English teacher?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic track cyclist Josie Tomic is engaged to fellow Olympic cyclist Jack Bobridge ?
text: Did you know that a restaurateur purchased a ghost town so that he could re-name it to Bikinis, Texas ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympian Hayley Chapman is part of her country's first father/daughter pair selected to compete at the same Olympics?
text: Did you know that in 1817 Bernardo O'Higgins established the Legion of Merit of Chile as the senior order of the new Chilean honours system ?
text: Did you know that Kee Klamp structural pipe fittings were devised in 1934 and have been used in kite buggying as well as more traditional guard rail applications?
text: Did you know that 2012 Olympic canoeists Lisa Carrington and Teneale Hatton were the first New Zealanders ever to qualify for an A final at the Sprint World Championships ?
text: Did you know that in 1981, Mirosław Chojecki went on a hunger strike for 33 days?
text: Did you know that of the three hillforts in Cambridge 's Gog Magog Hills , Wandlebury was the most important?
text: Did you know that Polish model Dorota Krzysztofek challenged her 2008 conviction for sunbathing topless and won her case in the appeals court?
text: Did you know that Charles Singleton wrote the lyrics for " Strangers in the Night ", a song Frank Sinatra initially called "a piece of shit"?
text: Did you know that Birmingham's bid for the 1992 Summer Olympics was to have had the venues centered around the National Exhibition Centre ?
text: Did you know that American astronomer Mark R. Showalter has discovered five moons and three planetary rings in our solar system?
text: Did you know that the Palestinian village of Salhab is identified with "Bezeq" in the Book of Samuel where Saul gathered his army to defend Jabesh-Gilead ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Olympic diver Rachel Bugg quit diving in 2008 after an injury and worked on a diploma in beauty therapy?
text: Did you know that the rum ration was abolished because the Royal Navy 's leadership was concerned that it made sailors less capable?
text: Did you know that Johnny Evers alerted an umpire to Merkle's Boner ?
text: Did you know that projects of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities include the Monumenta Germaniae Historica , classical inscriptions ( IG , CIL ), and dictionaries of Ancient Egyptian and German ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Olympic lightweight double sculls rower Bronwen Watson retired from rowing twice?
text: Did you know that the Charolais horse was one of the types used to create the Selle Français , a successful sport horse breed?
text: Did you know that a University of Michigan gymnast dubbed the " Golden Syque " won the first gold medal in international competition for Bangladesh and was chosen to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London?
text: Did you know that although fishing for stocked trout is allowed in Oregon's Antelope Reservoir , eating the catch is not advisable?
text: Did you know that " Survival ", a single by the English rock band Muse , is the official song of the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Norman Sas invented electric football ?
text: Did you know that Latvian-born Sanita Pušpure is the only rower to compete for Ireland at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian politician Paul Steenstrup Koht threatened to withdraw the Skien Labour Party from the central party, should the latter exclude universal suffrage from its party programme?
text: Did you know that a near mid-air collision occurred near Olympic Dam Airport in 2007?
text: Did you know that Turkish swimmer Derya Büyükuncu is participating at the Summer Olympics for the sixth consecutive time?
text: Did you know that the ruined town of Miedzianka in Poland was a site of a secret Soviet uranium mine?
text: Did you know that 2012 Olympic sailor Krystal Weir sailed in the 2008 Summer Olympics because she took the place of another sailor who got injured in a mountain biking accident?
text: Did you know that the insect Jacobiasca formosana helps create the unique flavor of dongfang meiren tea by sucking the juices from the tea plant's stems and leaves?
text: Did you know that Dominique Allen , daughter of Birmingham Bullets "legend" Clive Allen , has been called up to the senior British basketball team for the first time at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that while the Gibraltar Aerobeacon does not strictly meet its criteria for a lighthouse , The Lighthouse Directory indicates that it merits an exception?
text: Did you know that in 1958, while working for a CIA front organization in Taiwan, William Beale flew the aircraft that bombed several Indonesian cities and sank KRI Hang Tuah off the coast of Borneo?
text: Did you know that the Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Poland recovers and restores Jewish synagogues that had been nationalized under totalitarian rule ?
text: Did you know that Lucinda Whitty , Olivia Price and Nina Curtis became a team in 2011 when they heard the Elliott 6m boat would be required for an Olympic sailing event ?
text: Did you know that the student-led Shifang protest successfully derailed construction of a $1.7 billion copper smelting plant in southwest China?
text: Did you know that after Irishman Con O'Kelly won a gold medal for Great Britain at the 1908 Summer Olympics , he was paraded through Hull on the back of a fire engine?
text: Did you know that She Has a Name is a Canadian play about child prostitution in Thailand ?
text: Did you know that after winning the silver medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics , Finn Yrjö Saarela won the gold medal in heavyweight wrestling at the 1912 Games ?
text: Did you know that a fatal shooting on July 22 was the sixth shooting incident in less than a year involving Anaheim, California, police officers ?
text: Did you know that Annie Lush and sisters Kate and Lucy MacGregor , the Elliott 6m crew for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics , are known as the "Match Race Girls"?
text: Did you know that the BBC likened Chasing After Ghosts , the debut album by The Crookes , to Morrissey , The Housemartins and Aztec Camera ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Olympic judo competitor Carli Renzi represented Australia in wrestling at the 2010 Commonwealth Games ?
text: Did you know that science educator Goéry Delacôte became interested in theoretical physics because being moved up two years at school meant he "wasn't mature enough to really appreciate the literature and poetry"?
text: Did you know that the Madrid Codex , one of only three surviving pre-Columbian Maya books , contains almanacs and horoscopes that were used to assist Maya priests in their ceremonies?
text: Did you know that 2012 women's eights Olympic rowers Renee Chatterton , Tess Gerrand , Alexandra Hagan , Sally Kehoe , Elizabeth Patrick , Phoebe Stanley , and Hannah Vermeersch are part of a team nicknamed the " Motley Crew "?
text: Did you know that Ole Hannibal Sommerfelt succeeded his brother Christian Sommerfeldt as County Governor of Christians Amt ?
text: Did you know that the director of Pareh engaged in a car chase with the film's star before casting him?
text: Did you know that Jade Neilsen and Brittany Elmslie were selected for Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics as members of swimming relay teams?
text: Did you know that Sheffield 's Supertram system runs on a route initially selected for the Minitram automated guideway transit system?
text: Did you know that Nicola Wilson and Opposition Buzz were selected for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics after Piggy French was forced to withdraw?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian equestrian eventing competitor Chris Burton moved to England to increase his chances of making the Olympic Games?
text: Did you know that Frank Chee Willeto , a Navajo code talker with the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II , became the Vice President of the Navajo Nation in 1998?
text: Did you know that Beaminster Tunnel , one of the earliest road tunnels built in the United Kingdom, partially collapsed in July 2012, killing two people?
text: Did you know that 1976 Yugoslav Olympic rifle shooter Miro Sipek is the Australian 2012 Summer Paralympic rifle coach and has coached Australian Olympic rifle teams?
text: Did you know that chemicals in Korean Barberry might have antibacterial and antitumor properties?
text: Did you know that John Garcia Thompson and Steve Grotowski are the first male beach volleyball players selected to compete for Great Britain at an Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that the independent bookstore Politics and Prose has had Barack Obama , J. K. Rowling , and Bill Clinton as readers at its author events?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic synchronized diver Anabelle Smith became Sharleen Stratton 's partner following the retirement of Briony Cole ?
text: Did you know that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named " Turn on the News " by Hüsker Dü one of the 500 songs that shaped rock and roll ?
text: Did you know that swimmer Joseph Roebuck missed out on qualification for the 2008 Summer Olympics by a quarter of a second, but is set to compete in three events for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the 2012 SCO summit brought Afghanistan and Turkey into the supranational union as observer and dialogue partner respectively?
text: Did you know that painter Mathias Stoltenberg , who died in poverty in 1871, was rediscovered following the 1914 Jubilee Exhibition in Kristiania?
text: Did you know that Jodie Schulz made her Hockeyroos debut in 2011, captained two games that year and is set to represent Australia in field hockey at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that during World War II , British special forces developed an explosive rat booby trap?
text: Did you know that 2012 Olympic beach volleyball player Becchara Palmer of Australia won 20 of 31 matches going into the Olympics?
text: Did you know that, in the Battle of San Juan Bautista during the French intervention in Mexico , more Imperialist soldiers were wounded by machete cuts than gunshots?
text: Did you know that in 2008 Chloe Magee became the first Irish badminton player to win a match in the history of the Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that if crushed, the fruits of the wild carrot Bill's neoparrya smell like fresh peaches when cured?
text: Did you know that Brittany Broben will be sixteen when she competes for Australia in diving at the 2012 Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that Michelin starred restaurant The Box Tree is part owned by celebrity chef Marco Pierre White ?
text: Did you know that American football placekicker Lou Groza laid down a piece of tape to line up field goals before doing so was outlawed by the Lou Groza Rule in 1950?
text: Did you know that 2012 Olympian Claire Donahue set five school records in swimming during college?
text: Did you know that the Berlin Wall Memorial in Bernauer Straße includes a reconciliation chapel on the site of a church in Ackerstraße that was destroyed because it stood in the border strip?
text: Did you know that Bermuda 's entrants in the 49er sailing event at the 2012 Summer Olympics are a pair of brothers, Jesse and Zander Kirkland ?
text: Did you know that in 1207 the Palestinian village Nisf Jubeil was a possession of the Knights Hospitaller called "Casale Seingebis"?
text: Did you know that Hilde Rössel-Majdan , for decades a contralto with the Vienna State Opera , recorded with Hermann Scherchen music by Bach including his solo cantata Widerstehe doch der Sünde , BWV 54 ?
text: Did you know that Gnathia marleyi was named after Bob Marley ?
text: Did you know that Britain's 2012 Olympics women's beach volleyball team of Zara Dampney and Shauna Mullin formerly had QR codes on the back of their bikini bottoms?
text: Did you know that 2012 Olympic shooter Georgina Geikie is nicknamed "Britain's Lara Croft "?
text: Did you know that the Body of Proof episode " Letting Go " was about the fictional murder of an interracial couple in Fairmount Park , Philadelphia ?
text: Did you know that Olympic road cyclist Shara Gillow of Australia is following in the path of her father, who represented Zimbabwe in cycling at the 1980 Summer Olympics?
text: Did you know that May Justus ' 1963 book New Boy in School , a departure from her usual thematic focus on rural Appalachia , was "probably the first" book on racial desegregation for young readers?
text: Did you know that it was at Tasitolu that East Timor declared its independence in 2002?
text: Did you know that 2012 Olympic weightlifter Yuderqui Contreras became Pan American Champion and a Dominican Army officer in the same year?
text: Did you know that Alaskan Inupiat bush pilot Ellen Paneok said an airstrip had to be cleared of polar bears before her airplane could land?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian table tennis Olympian Vivian Tan quit the sport in 1997, moved from China to Australia in 2003 and took up the sport again in 2007, the year she became an Australian citizen ?
text: Did you know that chemical analysis by Larry Robinson , Florida A&M University 's new interim president, helped determine that U.S. President Zachary Taylor did not die of arsenic poisoning?
text: Did you know that Domaine Ponsot produces the only 1 er Cru Burgundy wine made entirely from the Aligoté grape?
text: Did you know that rower Amy Clay was born and schooled in the United States but is set to compete in the quadruple sculls for Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Abdelaziz Thâalbi was one of the founding members of Destour , a Tunisian nationalist political party?
text: Did you know that 2012 Olympic road cyclist Amanda Spratt spends eight months a year training in Italy?
text: Did you know that Paul Hindemith composed the Overture of 'The Flying Dutchman' as played at sight by a bad spa orchestra at the well at 7 in the morning ?
text: Did you know that the Olympic Stadium in Manchester's bid for the 2000 Summer Olympics was later redesigned and used for the 2002 Commonwealth Games ?
text: Did you know that in its first six weeks of operation, No. 3 Aircraft Depot RAAF assembled 123 P-39 Airacobra fighters and a dozen B-26 Marauder medium bombers?
text: Did you know that John R. Tunis , who has been called the "inventor of the modern sports story", took part in the first trans-Atlantic sportscast and the first broadcast of the Wimbledon Championship to the U.S.?
text: Did you know that as of 2011, Catequilla is said to be "the only important pre-Inca site in Ecuador to have been commercially exploited"?
text: Did you know that American archer Miranda Leek , who is competing in the 2012 Summer Olympics , first learned to shoot at age five?
text: Did you know that Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter while under the influence of LSD ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Indian Olympic archery coach Purnima Mahato was an Indian national champion in archery?
text: Did you know that the French battleship Diderot briefly participated in the occupation of Constantinople after the end of World War I ?
text: Did you know that William & Mary women's soccer, coached by John Daly , is one of two NCAA Division I women's soccer programs that have never had a losing season?
text: Did you know that the Gibraltar Museum houses the remains of a 14th-century Moorish bath house , once the private baths of the Governor of Gibraltar during the Marinid dynasty ?
text: Did you know that in 2008, Edwin Ekiring became the first badminton player to compete for Uganda at the Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Oddjob's hat sold for £62,000?
text: Did you know that Australia's 2012 Summer Olympic archer Elisa Barnard is double majoring in psychology and law ?
text: Did you know that Russian poker players Konstantin Puchkov and Viacheslav Zhukov both won World Series of Poker bracelets in their first World Series of Poker in the money finish?
text: Did you know that Ellen Pompeo was eight and a half months pregnant while filming "Give Peace a Chance" ?
text: Did you know that Malian archaeologist Téréba Togola 's excavation of Djenné-Jeno was documented by National Geographic ?
text: Did you know that the Netherlands Indies Civil Administration operated as a link between the Dutch East Indies Government in exile and the Allied high command in the Southwest Pacific Area ?
text: Did you know that baseball player Rob Ellis took out a newspaper advertisement apologizing to the fans for his performance?
text: Did you know that between 1591 and 1611, Garhwal repelled seven incursions by Kumaon , eventually defeating King Laxmi Chand of Kumaon and taking his capital?
text: Did you know that French pilot Adrienne Bolland was the first woman to fly across the Andes , doing so after only 40 hours of flight experience?
text: Did you know that Christina's rootshank was named by Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries after his wife?
text: Did you know that Tan's Film released three films entitled Njai Dasima in four years?
text: Did you know that the government was unaware that stonemason John Barr had been in the country for only five years when they appointed him to the New Zealand Legislative Council ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Olympian Tia Brooks was diagnosed with degenerative disc disease in 2009 and advised to give up the shot put ?
text: Did you know that capital punishment in Gibraltar was last enforced in 1944 when British hangman Albert Pierrepoint travelled undercover to the territory to hang two young Spanish spies?
text: Did you know that Baseball Hall of Fame executive Ed Barrow discovered Honus Wagner , converted Babe Ruth into an outfielder , and pioneered the first uniform numbers?
text: Did you know that bovine tuberculosis costing £100 million per annum is leading to badger culling in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that in 1799, Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse became the first woman to make a parachute jump?
text: Did you know that so-called bath salts , a class of designer drug that became popular in the last decade, often contain mephedrone , which was first synthesised in the 1920s?
text: Did you know that the German architect Hermann Muthesius noted in 1904 that it was "considered downright inadmissible" for the toilet to be in a British bathroom , rather than a room of its own ?
text: Did you know that the Valour Cross is the highest Danish military decoration and is comparable to the Victoria Cross or the Medal of Honor ?
text: Did you know that John Wilson Crawford , a Brigadier in the Australian Army , was nicknamed "cake eater" because of his strict adherence to formal protocols for official social functions?
text: Did you know that " Diwali ", a 2006 episode of The Office , was credited with helping introduce American audiences to Indian customs ?
text: Did you know that the three original members of the British pop group Sugababes have reformed, and are known as Mutya Keisha Siobhan ?
text: Did you know that the cream nut fruit may trap an inexperienced monkey ?
text: Did you know that critics denounced Indonesian Muslim leader Fakih Usman as the "Dutchman with the black ass"?
text: Did you know that the character Slackbridge from Dickens ' novel Hard Times was based on strike leader Mortimer Grimshaw ?
text: Did you know that the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management co-manages a national park with the Forest Department of Belize ?
text: Did you know that ensemble recherche , an ensemble of nine soloists founded in 1985 and based in Freiburg , has premiered some 500 works of contemporary music ?
text: Did you know that Arsenal 's Highbury Stadium in London was redeveloped into Highbury Square ?
text: Did you know that the Royal Australian Air Force leased McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter aircraft from the United States Air Force between 1970 and 1973?
text: Did you know that Rembrandt was called a "living work of art"?
text: Did you know that Milo Yiannopoulos arranged a moonwalking flash mob at Liverpool Street station as a tribute to Michael Jackson shortly after his death ?
text: Did you know that Ivan Strez Balšić was recognized by the Republic of Venice as Skanderbeg 's successor?
text: Did you know that Albert C. Baker was the only person to serve on both the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court and the Arizona Supreme Court ?
text: Did you know that St Mary's Church, Gosforth , Cumbria , is associated with "a unique Viking-age assemblage" of carved stones?
text: Did you know that if Seattle Sounders FC wins the 2012 U.S. Open Cup final on August 8 , 2012, they will be the first club in the tournament's 99-year history to win four consecutive titles?
text: Did you know that Lengberg Castle has a vault which contained 600-year-old brassieres described as a " 'missing link' in the history of women's underwear"?
text: Did you know that the Tiverton fire of 1731 resulted in an increased incidence of smallpox ?
text: Did you know that the Vegetarian Finch has a disproportionately large gizzard and a long intestine to help it digest the leaves and buds which it regularly eats?
text: Did you know that Slovenian actor Polde Bibič played over 150 theatre and over 30 film roles?
text: Did you know that LaCrosse Footwear was founded in La Crosse, Wisconsin , is based in Portland, Oregon , and is being bought by a Tokyo-based company?
text: Did you know that Andrew Heaney led all college baseball pitchers in strikeouts during the 2012 season ?
text: Did you know that one of the reasons the vocals in " Louie Louie " are so slurred is because singer Jack Ely wore braces ?
text: Did you know that several memorials and monuments of Arlington National Cemetery in the U.S. have been removed or destroyed?
text: Did you know that the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes -winning racehorse Aureole earned £30,092 in 1954, helping its owner, Queen Elizabeth II , become the leading owner in Britain that year?
text: Did you know that Palestinian activist Ali Abu Awwad , who is featured in the award-winning film Encounter Point , espouses Gandhi 's doctrine of nonviolent resistance called satyagraha ?
text: Did you know that US Highway 24 in Michigan follows Telegraph Road, which is named for the mid-19th-century telegraph lines it followed?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian television series Alang-Alang was sponsored in part by Johns Hopkins University ?
text: Did you know that the Andalucian based San Nicasio company caused controversy in the UK due to their £ 4 ( $ 6.24) gourmet potato chips ?
text: Did you know that Ludwig Hoffmann designed the fountain of fairy tales in the Volkspark Friedrichshain which features sculptures of fairy tale characters?
text: Did you know that on January 15 , 1861, Florida militia colonel William Henry Chase demanded the surrender of Fort Pickens at Pensacola, Florida , which he had designed and constructed as a U.S. Army captain?
text: Did you know that the Col de la République featured in both the first and second Tours de France but was the scene of notorious violence in 1904 ?
text: Did you know that Alimuddin was the first batsman to score an international century at National Stadium, Karachi ?
text: Did you know that the Drexel Collection , a collection of over 6,000 volumes of books about music and musical scores owned by The New York Public Library , was donated by Joseph W. Drexel ?
text: Did you know that the InterContinental Hotel 's Shimao Wonderland Intercontinental is being built inside an abandoned, partly water-filled quarry and is mostly underground?
text: Did you know that the aggressive sponge Cliona delitrix grows on massive corals while the encrusting coral, Parazoanthus parasiticus , uses the sponge as a host ?
text: Did you know that while Vladimír Vondráček was a "legendary head physician" at the Psychiatric Clinic in Prague , Antonín Heveroch left it and established a second psychiatric clinic that closed after his death?
text: Did you know that according to lawyer Asma Jahangir, up to seventy-two percent of women in police custody in Pakistan are physically or sexually abused ?
text: Did you know that Frieder Bernius and the Kammerchor Stuttgart performed the first concert of the Rheingau Musik Festival in Eberbach Abbey in 1988, and returned in 2012?
text: Did you know that although the Castillonnais horse breed has its roots in antiquity, it wasn't officially recognized until 1996?
text: Did you know that Henry Piggott's gravestone at St Giles' Church, Horsted Keynes , West Sussex , states that he was born on 30 December 1715 and died on 7 March 1715?
text: Did you know that a Neolithic mass grave discovered in 1996 in the German town of Herxheim contains many human skulls that were split into symmetrical halves, as well as evidence of cannibalism ?
text: Did you know that the Ballarat Miners introduced a women's team to the club in 2000?
text: Did you know that the Spanish secretly supported the Mexican Republicans against the French at the Battle of Barranca Seca ?
text: Did you know that Idaho State Highway 50 provides access to Twin Falls from Interstate 84 over the Snake River ?
text: Did you know that before award-winning author and poet Peter Spiegelman started writing, he spent 20 years on Wall Street and was a vice president of J.P. Morgan ?
text: Did you know that the Cameron Suspension Bridge nearly collapsed under the weight of a herd of sheep ?
text: Did you know that anthropologist Alice G. Dewey was dissertation advisor for Barack Obama 's mother Ann Dunham at the University of Hawaiʻi ?
text: Did you know that Serbia's first known "čelnik", Gradislav Vojšić , served King Milutin in 1284 and King Uroš III in 1327?
text: Did you know that Helen Desha Beamer and Sam Kapu made the first commercial recording of the Hawaiian Wedding Song in 1928?
text: Did you know that Rabbi Alexander Zusia Friedman alerted world Jewry to the start of deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to the death camps in a coded message referring to "Mr. Amos "?
text: Did you know that EthicalWiki advises public relations professionals to engage with Wikipedia's editors in the same way they do with journalists?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic swimmer Esther Overton once broke her arm trying to get into a swimsuit?
text: Did you know that the Vinkovci Treasure , consisting of 48 items of 4th-century Roman silverware found in March 2012 , has been called one of Croatia 's most important archaeological finds?
text: Did you know that on the penultimate lap of the 2007 Detroit Indy Grand Prix , second-placed Buddy Rice ran out of fuel, and was hit by Scott Dixon ?
text: Did you know that when teenage Alberta Schenck took a stand against segregation in Alaska , her actions were a full decade before either Rosa Parks 's stand or the Brown v. Board of Education decision?
text: Did you know that the book that Willie Morris called the "best novel about American politics in our time" was never a commercial success?
text: Did you know that successful 1990s video game Cannon Fodder received a new sequel, Cannon Fodder 3 , from an "unknown" Russian publisher in 2012?
text: Did you know that during the 1860 clashes , a Muslim force from Sheikh Miskin saved the Christian population of Daraa from attack by local Druze ?
text: Did you know that there are Sumatran elephants and Sumatran tigers in Giam Siak Kecil-Bukit Batu , a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserve ?
text: Did you know that the first 2010 number one song on the US Hot Dance Club Songs was Lady Gaga 's " Bad Romance ", a position it held in the last week of 2009, thus spending two consecutive weeks atop the charts?
text: Did you know that the Wisconsin State Journal announced it had hired sports columnist Roundy with a full page of its newspaper?
text: Did you know that Eastern Province Saudi Arabians called for the downfall of the House of Saud during July 2012 protests ?
text: Did you know that in 1965, the American Thoroughbred Roman Brother , a particularly small horse that was nicknamed "Mighty Mite", became the first horse sold at a public auction to be named Horse of the Year ?
text: Did you know that Chinese artist Song Dong responded to the destruction of historic buildings in Beijing by creating an edible city?
text: Did you know that despite sustaining over 100 holes in his aircraft during a dogfight at Makarovo in 1942, Soviet Air Forces pilot Konstantin Krasavin survived and went on to win the title of Hero of the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that Clorindy: The Origin of the Cakewalk , the first Broadway musical with an all-black cast, was written in a single night?
text: Did you know that the constellation of Microscopium can't be seen from locations affected by light pollution ?
text: Did you know that the 1929 film The Secret of Borobudur featured a woman in a bikini-like costume?
text: Did you know that the 10th-century Hamdanid prince Sayf al-Dawla is said to have fought against the Byzantines in over 40 battles?
text: Did you know that the 300-year-old Codex of Santa Catarina Ixtepeji was recently re-discovered and identified in a collection housed at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee ?
text: Did you know that the melody of " Government Hooker ", a song from Lady Gaga 's Born This Way , was originally an unused track created by DJ White Shadow in collaboration with DJ Snake?
text: Did you know that artists have used ballpoint pens to create replicas of Renaissance masterpieces, such as Lennie Mace 's Mona a'la Mace ?
text: Did you know that Oakland Athletics manager Steve Boros was criticized for his pioneering use of an Apple II computer to guide his managerial decisions in 1983?
text: Did you know that the Maouri people resisted an attack by the French Voulet–Chanoine Mission at the Battle of Lougou ?
text: Did you know that Professor Clive Finlayson has theorized that the genetic similarities between Neanderthals and humans are not only due to interbreeding but could also originate from a common African ancestor?
text: Did you know that the Swedes withdrew from the nearly won 1627 Battle of Tczew due to the wound received by their king, Gustav II Adolf ?
text: Did you know that Patty Gasso has led the Oklahoma Sooners softball team to seven appearances in the Women's College World Series, including a national championship in 2000 and a second-place finish in 2012?
text: Did you know that the Onizuka Prop Wash Award is named after Ellison Onizuka , a USAF TPS graduate who died in the Challenger explosion ?
text: Did you know that for lumber production the company Goodwin Heart Pine retrieves submerged logs that were felled as long ago as the 1800s?
text: Did you know that Battle of Martynów of 1624 was one of the largest Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth victories over the Tatar raiders?
text: Did you know that the 1929 film Njai Dasima was reportedly so successful that cinemas could make up several days' losses with a single showing?
text: Did you know that Volcano Live was broadcast from the Kīlauea volcano on Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that several historical items have been found in the basement of Gotham House in Tiverton, Devon , including documents signed by Oliver Cromwell ?
text: Did you know that WikiLeaks ' Syria Files showed relations that Finmeccanica and Brown Lloyd James had with Syrian authorities during the Syrian uprising ?
text: Did you know that while incarcerated at the Grini concentration camp during World War II, Erling Steen served as personnel manager of the camp?
text: Did you know that Begaljica derived its name ("fleeing town") from the constant fleeing and returning of the population amid attacks on the village by the Ottoman army?
text: Did you know that the Ganting Grand Mosque in Padang was used as a place of refuge by Indonesian President Sukarno ?
text: Did you know that the 1988 Winter Olympics saw the first appearance of a Jamaican team at a Winter Olympics, and would go on to inspire the film Cool Runnings ?
text: Did you know that the Body of Proof episode " All in the Family " featured flashbacks to when the title character, Megan Hunt ( Dana Delany ), was younger?
text: Did you know that Millennium 's casting director guest starred in " Beware of the Dog "?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Lindsay Sutton set Queensland intellectual disability records in under-14 shotput, under-16 discus and under-16 javelin?
text: Did you know that The Mojo Men 's 1966 single "She's My Baby" was sampled on Kanye West 's "Hell of a Life", a song from his 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ?
text: Did you know that Nick Saban led the 1990 Toledo Rockets football team to a share of the Mid-American Conference championship in his only season as head coach of the Rockets?
text: Did you know that Confederate General John Bell Hood appointed Colonel Moses Wright Hannon an acting brigadier general after Hannon's men seized more than 1,000 cattle from the Union Army?
text: Did you know that North Korean singer Hyon Song-wol , whose hit songs include "Excellent Horse-Like Lady" and "She is a Discharged Soldier", is said to have been romantically linked with leader Kim Jong-un ?
text: Did you know that Glevering Hall manor once belonged to the prior and convent of Leiston , but was granted by Henry VIII to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk after the Dissolution of the Monasteries ?
text: Did you know that Clytus Gottwald has arranged compositions for an a cappella group of up to 16 voices, re-creating them "in a magical choral world"?
text: Did you know that the documentary Heist traces the origins of the Great Recession to a confidential memo written in 1971 ?
text: Did you know that Hartlepool United 's fourteen successful attempts at re-election to the Football League are a league record?
text: Did you know that the Animal Planet series Call of the Wildman documents the exploits of a Kentucky woodsman who catches and relocates snapping turtles using only his bare hands?
text: Did you know that Nurnaningsih was the first Indonesian actress to appear half nude in a film?
text: Did you know that Bei Bei Shuai , a Chinese immigrant to the U.S., is charged with murder because the child she was pregnant with died as a result of her suicide attempt?
text: Did you know that the music video for Ricardo Arjona 's song " Te Quiero " was filmed at the Vélez Sarsfield Stadium in Buenos Aires , Argentina?
text: Did you know that massive starlet coral forms large mounds whereas lesser starlet coral can form coral pebbles that roll around?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Ochmatów in 1644 was one of the largest victories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth over the Crimean Tatars ?
text: Did you know that Yibin Wuliangye Airport is named after a liquor brand ?
text: Did you know that the New Mexico authorities opposed efforts by Ramón Ortiz y Miera to repatriate Hispanic people to Mexico?
text: Did you know that a starving Arab army was able to continue the Siege of Tyana by defeating a Byzantine relief army and capturing its supplies?
text: Did you know that Love singer Arthur Lee and guitarist Bryan MacLean were involved in a romantic triangle with the woman who inspired the band's song " Stephanie Knows Who "?
text: Did you know that before Herbert Bullmore practised medicine in Sydney, Australia, he was a blue in football and rowing at the University of Edinburgh , and represented Queensland and then Scotland in rugby?
text: Did you know that Lyons Demesne , the estate of the late Ryan Air boss Tony Ryan , has been cited as a "Georgian treasure" and "Ireland's most significant estate"?
text: Did you know that Rudy Kurniawan , the alleged wine counterfeiter , had such an affinity for expensive Burgundy that he was known as "Dr. Conti "?
text: Did you know that the Siege of Gibraltar of 1309 was a battle of the Reconquista which saw a Castilian victory ending almost 600 years of Muslim rule over the city of Gibraltar ?
text: Did you know that Ricardo Arjona's " El Amor " is his first single ever to top the Billboard Tropical Songs chart?
text: Did you know that one of the reasons Russia stopped using the missile defence radar in Sevastopol , Ukraine, was because it was being jammed by fishing boats?
text: Did you know that since the San Marino national football team played its first match in 1990, 97 players have represented San Marino in international matches ?
text: Did you know that Vincent de Roulet , when serving as United States Ambassador to Jamaica , was declared persona non grata by the Prime Minister of Jamaica ?
text: Did you know that the Bosom Friends affair , like the Tinky-Winky controversy , concerned the alleged homosexuality of a children's character?
text: Did you know that children of maternally sensitive mothers scored higher in math and phoneme knowledge than those who had a history of lower maternal sensitivity?
text: Did you know that the James Dalessandro 's 2004 novel 1906 was based upon the 1998 screenplay he wrote about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake for a film by the same name ?
text: Did you know that in the 18th century, the Ottoman garrison at Hisyah served as the dominant military faction in the Homs region?
text: Did you know that pioneering immunologist Bunny Koshland helped develop an oral cholera vaccine before she worked on the Manhattan Project ?
text: Did you know that The Doon School Weekly , established in 1936, is the oldest publication of The Doon School ?
text: Did you know that because there is no water in the Albert Goldfield in New South Wales , miners relied on wind to separate gold from dirt in a "tedious and unhealthy" method called dry blowing?
text: Did you know that the creosote odor of the poisonous mushroom Agaricus hondensis intensifies when it is cooked?
text: Did you know that paranormal claims investigators Bryan & Baxter do not investigate the paranormal, but rather the legitimacy of the paranormal claims made by others?
text: Did you know that Melanie Vallejo admitted in an interview that she had not done much preparation before auditioning for the role of Sophie Wong in the Australian television series Winners & Losers ?
text: Did you know that the land under Metropolitan Park in Jacksonville, Florida , was once an urban landfill?
text: Did you know that English cricketer Nigel Moore was a golf Blue at Cambridge?
text: Did you know that The Zombies ' song " Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914) " is set in World War I , but their record company took it for a metaphor for the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you know that the decision in 1974 to admit women was a key event in the history of Brasenose College, Oxford ?
text: Did you know that Anna Green Winslow wrote a series of letters to her mother that she combined into a diary, which provides a rare window into the life of an affluent teenage girl in colonial Boston?
text: Did you know that in the churchyard of St Mary and St Peter's Church in Wilmington , East Sussex , there is a 1,600-year-old, 23-foot (7 m) wide yew tree ?
text: Did you know that Miguel Ángel Mancera received 63% of votes in the 2012 head of government election of Mexico City , 40% more than the second place?
text: Did you know that the music video for Ricardo Arjona 's song " Fuiste Tú " was filmed at several tropical locations in Guatemala ?
text: Did you know that Castello Barbarossa was named after its destroyer rather than its builder?
text: Did you know that Lorinda de Roulet is the first woman to direct the day-to-day operations of a Major League Baseball franchise?
text: Did you know that the Siljan Ring , a very large impact crater in central Sweden, has been the site for two attempts at commercial exploitation of natural gas and oil based on the theory of abiogenic petroleum ?
text: Did you know that Darin Morgan included a satire of Fox Broadcasting Company 's censorship in " Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me ", after having difficulty with the network over the earlier " War of the Coprophages "?
text: Did you know that the New Zealand Army 's 1st Division was one of three such units formed to defend the country from invasion during World War II ?
text: Did you know that EA Sports Active NFL Training Camp was developed with the help of NFL strength and conditioning coaches?
text: Did you know that Endhita received a best supporting actress nomination for ? ?
text: Did you know that Mina Salman 's harbour , in Bahrain , was initially unsuitable for ocean liners and that these ships had to anchor up to 6 km (3.7 mi) offshore until the construction of a deep-water wharf in 1962?
text: Did you know that in Euripides ' play Oedipus , King Oedipus , who killed his father and married his mother , does not blind himself but is blinded by his father's servant?
text: Did you know that at the time of his death crime boss Giosue Gallucci held US$350,000 in real estate and was considered to be a millionaire?
text: Did you know that the piano duo Anthony & Joseph Paratore played Brahms at the first Rheingau Musik Festival , and entertained children with The Carnival of the Animals at the 25th?
text: Did you know that the production of The Wolverine , the upcoming sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine , was delayed by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami ?
text: Did you know that although Echeveria runyonii has been in cultivation since at least 1922, wild plants were unknown until 1990?
text: Did you know that during the Coloured vote crisis of the 1950s, the Nationalist government of South Africa expanded the Senate in order to pass an act to disenfranchise Coloured voters?
text: Did you know that the piggyback rosegill mushroom grows parasitically on other mushrooms?
text: Did you know that Magic 2013 , the bestselling PlayStation Network video game in June 2012 , was based on a nineteen-year-old card game ?
text: Did you know that Hameen Ali received the Disney Sports Spirit Award , awarded annually to the "most inspirational" college football player who overcomes adversity?
text: Did you know that No Doubt began initial work on their upcoming sixth album Push and Shove in 2006, while lead singer Gwen Stefani was promoting her second solo album The Sweet Escape ?
text: Did you know that the largest silver nugget ever mined had to be broken into three pieces to be removed from Smuggler Mine in Aspen, Colorado ?
text: Did you know that Mexican muralist, sculptor, and engraver Alfredo Zalce is acclaimed as the first modern artist to use coloured cement as his medium ?
text: Did you know that California's Jug Handle State Natural Reserve preserves five marine terraces each exhibiting a different stage of ecological succession at 100,000-year intervals?
text: Did you know that Manchester City 's Omar Elabdellaoui did not want to go on loan to football team Strømsgodset in 2012 because of the artificial turf at Marienlyst Stadion ?
text: Did you know that " Get It Started " marks the third time Pitbull and Shakira have collaborated on a song together?
text: Did you know that Ernst Moritz Hess , a German of Jewish descent , was granted protection from Nazi persecution at the wishes of Adolf Hitler , who had served under his command in World War I ?
text: Did you know that the 1939 film Alang-Alang was inspired by the coming of a circus?
text: Did you know that the 3rd Ranger Infantry Company suffered over 50 percent casualties in its first Korean War engagement?
text: Did you know that Jennifer Lopez 's single " Let's Get Loud ", from her debut album On the 6 , was originally written for Gloria Estefan ?
text: Did you know that the most heavily damaged building in the 1935 Helena earthquake was the Helena High School , which had been completed just two months earlier?
text: Did you know that John Rolls , who married heiress Sarah Coysh at St Mary Magdalen Bermondsey in London , was High Sheriff of Monmouthshire ?
text: Did you know that Upper Wolfsnare , a colonial home built in 1759 in Princess Anne County, Virginia , and home of an American Revolution Patriot and U.S. Constitution state convention delegate, is still lived in?
text: Did you know that when Japanese forces attempted to seize the Holy Rosary Cathedral in 1942, its titular bishop said they would have to take his head first?
text: Did you know that red carpet fashion in 2002 included transparent bodices and phlegm and dung coloured tulle ?
text: Did you know that the 1927 film Eulis Atjih advertised that Indonesians could act as well as Americans and Europeans?
text: Did you know that interments at Giri Tunggal Heroes' Cemetery in Semarang include a Catholic archbishop and a Chinese communist?
text: Did you know that Erik Waaler discovered the rheumatoid factor ?
text: Did you know that Usher 's song " Can't Stop Won't Stop ", from his seventh studio album Looking 4 Myself , contains an interpolation of the bridge to Billy Joel 's 1983 single " Uptown Girl "?
text: Did you know that the 1961 Kentucky Derby winner Carry Back won two races after he had been retired to stud ?
text: Did you know that Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi is the first Deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan ?
text: Did you know that Franco-Bolivian petroleum prospector and poet Adolfo Costa du Rels was the last President of the League of Nations ?
text: Did you know that Michael R. Perry was inspired to write Millennium 's " The Mikado " by the "dark side" of the internet, Jennifer Ringley 's JenniCam website and the Zodiac Killer ?
text: Did you know that Peter the Great set up Russia's first spa in Karelia based on the water-purifying qualities of shungite ?
text: Did you know that from 1946 to 1952 the Sillamäe processing plant in Estonia mined and processed Dictyonema argillite ore, a type of oil shale , to produce uranium oxide ?
text: Did you know that despite the Admiral-Lord Mountevans rules leading to pro-wrestling being relegalized, a bylaw was passed to specifically ban women wrestling in London?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball player Dan Coogan later coached the baseball teams at the University of Pennsylvania , Cornell University , Bowdoin College , and Georgetown University ?
text: Did you know that an unmade episode of The X-Files was later made into the film Final Destination ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic beach volleyball player Louise Bawden also represented Australia in indoor volleyball at the 2000 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Millennium 's " Monster " features the song "Goodbye Charlie" by Bobby Darin , whose music is often used by the episode's writers?
text: Did you know that mass defection of their Mexican auxiliaries led to the defeat of the French Army at the Battle of San Pedro ?
text: Did you know that Waste Not is an exhibit by Chinese artist Song Dong that illustrates modern Chinese history and the story of his late mother's life through 10,000 of her personal possessions?
text: Did you know that in the seventh century, Bishop Costanzo died near Marina Grande and became Capri 's patron saint , and the Chiesa di San Costanzo is named after him?
text: Did you know that Valon and Veton Berisha in 2011 became the first brothers to start a match together for Viking FK in 22 years since Jan and Egil Fjetland started the 1989 Norwegian Football Cup final?
text: Did you know that the Sugababes ' 2004 single " In the Middle " contains a sample of the song "U Know Y" by German DJ Moguai ?
text: Did you know that award-winning Muslim poet Nirwan Dewanto was forced to play a Roman Catholic bishop in Soegija ?
text: Did you know that leucophoenicite is so named for its purple-red color?
text: Did you know that the Cossack Zhmaylo Uprising ended without a decisive battle having been fought?
text: Did you know that "Did you know that Big 5 stopped selling handguns in March 1986?", regarded as the Perry Mason moment of the first Menendez brothers trial, resulted from a tip phoned in by a Court TV viewer?
text: Did you know that Abraham Samad was the youngest ever head of the Corruption Eradication Commission when he was chosen in 2011?
text: Did you know that Gene Sharp 's book on the American Struggle for Independence supports President Adams ' claim that the revolution was "substantially effected before hostilities commenced"?
text: Did you know that in the 2010 season, in addition to playing football for Afturelding , John Andrews also coached the club's women's team, reserve team and feeder club at the same time?
text: Did you know that Love 's 1966 song " She Comes in Colors " has been cited as an influence on both The Rolling Stones ' " She's a Rainbow " and Madonna 's " Beautiful Stranger "?
text: Did you know that pig-ear cups were reported from Iceland in 2007?
text: Did you know that the 1981 Rover chair launched the career of designer Ron Arad ?
text: Did you know that George von Amsberg fought in the 1848 Hungarian revolution and the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that in the 2012 Sevens Grand Prix Series , France eliminated tournament favourite England in quarter-finals?
text: Did you know that Faith No More have recorded songs for the soundtracks to Judgment Night and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey ?
text: Did you know that the Restaurant Quisi of the Grand Hotel Quisisana in Capri has been cited as one of Italy's finest hotel restaurants?
text: Did you know that Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell had been more afraid of meeting John Wheelwright on the football field than of later meeting an army on the battle field?
text: Did you know that composer Robert Russell Bennett's work Symphonic Songs for Band was premiered by the 112-member Kappa Kappa Psi-Tau Beta Sigma National Intercollegiate Band in 1957?
text: Did you know that Werner E. Ablaß played a major role in the closure of the Nationale Volksarmee during the German reunification ?
text: Did you know that the performances in the Body of Proof episode " Talking Heads " of Kathy Searle as the person who dismembered the murder victim and Kelly AuCoin as the murderer were both praised?
text: Did you know that the grounds of St Ceinwen's Church, Cerrigceinwen , Wales, contain a spring once said to be able to "cure many diseases"?
text: Did you know that Angela Santomero created, wrote, and produced two children's TV shows , Super Why! and Blue's Clues ?
text: Did you know that the fruit of the rare subterranean parasitic plant Hydnora triceps smell and taste of coconut?
text: Did you know that international breast cancer survivors' dragon boating had its beginnings when University of British Columbia 's Don McKenzie organized "Abreast in a Boat" as breast cancer survivor therapy?
text: Did you know that Miroslav Tyrš , the founder of Czech national sport movement Sokol , was born into a German family?
text: Did you know that 10 of Florida's 161 state parks are only accessible by boat?
text: Did you know that the Catholic Church issued two notifications regarding the Divine Mercy devotion, the second one reversing the first?
text: Did you know that Hollywood stunt coordinator and second unit director Allan Graf played offensive guard for the undefeated NCAA national champion USC Trojans football team in 1972?
text: Did you know that the Tiverton Museum of Mid Devon Life , one of the largest museums in the West Country , originally occupied two rooms in a former pub?
text: Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon 's minor league baseball stadium is scheduled to be built in less than one year?
text: Did you know that in The Dance Lesson , an 1879 painting by Edgar Degas , an exhausted dancer sits on a double bass ?
text: Did you know that the 1899 play Sangeet Sharada was "a pioneer in social drama in India" and that the 1929 Child Marriage Restraint Act , called the "Sarda Act" for its sponsor, was soon known as the "Sharada Act"?
text: Did you know that former Pepperdine basketball player Levy Middlebrooks was named the West Coast Conference Player of the Year in 1988?
text: Did you know that the string arrangement on Casting Crowns ' song " Joyful, Joyful " was compared to the string arrangement on Coldplay 's song " Viva la Vida ?
text: Did you know that the second season of Millennium has been called "some sort of work of weird genius"?
text: Did you know that the remains of lions , woolly mammoths and woolly rhinoceros have been found in caves in the Upper Wye Gorge ?
text: Did you know that philanthropist John Mackintosh left a will allowing the provision of a public trust for the advancement of education in Gibraltar ?
text: Did you know that the hadran prayer recited after studying a tractate of the Talmud is an expression of love and friendship between the student and the tractate?
text: Did you know that among the all-time head coaches in William & Mary Tribe football 's history, three have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and one other into the Pro Football Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that the drama Zuster Theresia , written by a man known for comedy, featured a nun, attempted suicide, and polygamy?
text: Did you know that Confederate Army Colonel Levin Major Lewis was hit by a spent musket ball that stuck in his forehead at the Battle of Lone Jack in Missouri during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the Salah al-Din Road is the main highway of the Gaza Strip , running the territory's entire length?
text: Did you know that Anders Christian Lunde painted King Frederik VII arriving by boat at the Helligdomsklipperne cliffs of Bornholm in 1851?
text: Did you know that a pretender to the French throne built the De Mores Packing Plant in the Dakota Territory in 1883?
text: Did you know that the stems of Jatropha dioica can be tied into knots?
text: Did you know that Michael Sokolski , inventor of the Scantron multiple-choice optical answer sheet system, used to drive Polish tanks in Italy during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Jellyvision uses writers from Chicago improv troupes to develop new trivia questions weekly for its You Don't Know Jack Facebook game ?
text: Did you know that Elisha Coysh, great-grandfather of Sarah Coysh , was a physician renowned for his care of victims of the Great Plague of London ?
text: Did you know that Gene Sharp 's The Politics of Nonviolent Action claims that Gandhi "made the most significant personal contribution in the history of the nonviolent technique "?
text: Did you know that Bruce Haynam and Bill Mogk were part of the "million dollar infield" on the 1953 Michigan Wolverines baseball team that won the College World Series ?
text: Did you know that 50 new E-class Melbourne trams will be the first trams built in Australia in 12 years, with the last locally built Melbourne tram a B class built in 1994?
text: Did you know that a music video by Chrisye was the first by an Indonesian shown on MTV Southeast Asia ?
text: Did you know that the 2012 IndyCar Detroit Grand Prix was interrupted for two hours because the track broke?
text: Did you know that Angels Camp Museum sits on land located above two veins of the California Mother Lode ?
text: Did you know that the Government of Hong Kong is giving HK$ 6,000 to approximately 6.1 million people through Scheme $6,000 due to record reserves from budget surplus ?
text: Did you know that according to writer Toby Whithouse , the seventh series of Doctor Who will mainly consist of stand-alone episodes, each with a distinct genre?
text: Did you know that Stumholmen island is part of the Naval City of Karlskrona , which has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1998?
text: Did you know that Franciscan monk Pedro de Aguado wrote a history of northern South America in the late sixteenth century, which was not published for over 300 years?
text: Did you know that in 405, during the fall of the Western Roman Empire , manpower was so scarce that Roman soldiers were urged to allow their personal slaves to fight beside them?
text: Did you know that the Millennium episode " The Beginning and the End " features the Talking Heads song " Life During Wartime "?
text: Did you know that the National Film Board of Canada documentary My Ancestors Were Rogues and Murderers defends the controversial Canadian seal hunt ?
text: Did you know that one of the most talked-about red carpet gowns of 2000 was worn by a Spice Girl , its designer , and Matt Stone , as well as by Jennifer Lopez ?
text: Did you know that, despite spending almost their entire lives underground, Cape mole rats nonetheless have activity cycles linked to day and night?
text: Did you know that comedian Hiroiki Ariyoshi went from earning 20 million yen a month to earning virtually nothing, only to then become Japan's top television personality?
text: Did you know that the " Family Bible " was used as toilet paper?
text: Did you know that the original idea for the 1996 science fiction adventure game Drowned God was based on a forged document purported to have been written by 19th-century English poet Richard Henry Horne ?
text: Did you know that Sir Walter Roper Lawrence , an English baronet and author who served in the Indian Civil Service , was the Settlement Commissioner of Kashmir ?
text: Did you know that Bob Cortner was the fiftieth person to die at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway , in its first fifty years of operation?
text: Did you know that Rhadinoceraea micans larvae can completely defoliate waterside irises ?
text: Did you know that Dance Again... the Hits is the first greatest hits album to be released by Jennifer Lopez in her fourteen-year music career?
text: Did you know that the historic Tivoli Building in Cheyenne, Wyoming , has housed a speakeasy , a brothel , an unaccredited university, and the current state governor 's campaign headquarters?
text: Did you know that the spurious text of Matthew 16:2b–3 is not found in the New Testament codices 852 , 994 , 1073 , 1074 , 1080 , 1093 , and 1216 , but it is in codices 873 and 905 , although marked as doubtful?
text: Did you know that plant ecologist Fakhri Bazzaz was ranked as one of the ten "Most Cited Scientists in Environment/Ecology, 1992–2002"?
text: Did you know that missionary William McClure Thomson documented the Galilee earthquake of 1837 in the best-selling The Land and the Book ?
text: Did you know that American Jessie Ackermann is considered a major voice in the Australian women's suffrage movement?
text: Did you know that video game publisher Inscape 's founder Michael Nash chose the company's name "to focus on multimedia's capability to transport us to compelling inner landscapes"?
text: Did you know that three aircraft belonging to Gatari Air Service were seized after its president director was implicated in a fraud case?
text: Did you know that a restaurant sketch by Kabaret Olgi Lipińskiej resulted in an official protest by the Soviet embassy in Warsaw , followed by secret police questioning?
text: Did you know that Jahlil Okafor made all of his field goal attempts in the gold medal game of the 2011 FIBA Americas Under-16 Championship , totalling 18 points?
text: Did you know that the sea anemone Cerianthus lloydii lives in a parchment-like tube?
text: Did you know that Confederate Army Colonel Wilburn Hill King acted as a general officer for more than a year but was never legally promoted?
text: Did you know that one of the archaeological hoards found in the Channel Islands comprised coins minted in Alexandria in Egypt?
text: Did you know that the satinleaf tree is endangered in its native Florida, but an invasive weed in Hawaii?
text: Did you know that Abdurahim Laajab is one of the key players at the Norway national futsal team ?
text: Did you know that reviewers felt that one of the strengths of mobile game Transformers G1: Awakening was that it was not based on the live-action film series ?
text: Did you know that the French battleship Charlemagne twice participated in the occupation of Mytilene , then owned by the Ottoman Empire , first with a French expedition and later in an international squadron ?
text: Did you know that Bambang Widjojanto , once often imprisoned by the government of Indonesia, now works for it?
text: Did you know that the French Embassy in Berlin opened in 2002 has struck many, including the Mayor of Mitte , as resembling a barricade with gun slits?
text: Did you know that many important literary and musical works of the past likely would be deemed to infringe copyright under today's law on paraphrasing of copyrighted material ?
text: Did you know that Farewell, My Queen , a 2012 film adapted from the Chantal Thomas novel, opened the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival ?
text: Did you know that in 2010, the filly Special Duty was awarded the victory in the British Classic 1000 Guineas and in its French equivalent despite being the second horse to cross the finish line in both races?
text: Did you know that on Yes 's 1972–73 tour , Rick Wakeman and Steve Howe played a rendition of " Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport " at an Australian show?
text: Did you know that a huge hoard of Iron Age and Roman coins was found in Jersey in June 2012 after two metal detectorists spent a few hours a year for 30 years searching for a suspected hoard?
text: Did you know that the shape that encloses two given volumes and has the minimum possible surface area is the double bubble commonly formed by soap bubbles ?
text: Did you know that there is debate as to whether Minetta Creek , once the largest river in Manhattan , still exists?
text: Did you know that Argentine nationalism sees José de San Martín , Juan Manuel de Rosas and Juan Perón as a line of historical continuity?
text: Did you know that one of the most popular Polish cabarets, Pod Egidą , performing since 1967, has faced persecution from the communist authorities in the People's Republic of Poland ?
text: Did you know that 2012 College World Series Most Outstanding Player Robert Refsnyder was born in South Korea and adopted by a California couple when he was three months old?
text: Did you know that the print identity of UK music newspaper The Stool Pigeon is modelled on Victorian tabloids ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic canoeist Hannah Davis won a bronze medal in the sport at the 2008 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the starfish Anasterias rupicola feeds on the limpet Nacella macquariensis , sometimes hunting it in groups?
text: Did you know that the death of four students from Southway Comprehensive School during a school trip in 1993 led to the establishment of the Adventure Activities Licensing Authority ?
text: Did you know that the 2010 Grimes album, Geidi Primes , is named after the fictional planet Giedi Prime from Grimes' favourite book, Frank Herbert 's seminal novel Dune ?
text: Did you know that in the 5th-century CE the only indigenous Arab unit of the Byzantine army in Syria was stationed at Furqlus ?
text: Did you know that Room 12 at The Crown in Amersham , England, has a mural dating back to the 16th century?
text: Did you know that one protester was killed after security forces attacked protesters in Bahrain's Day of Rage ?
text: Did you know that Ed Carfrey , who played in Major League Baseball in 1890, was mistakenly omitted from baseball records until 2005?
text: Did you know that al-Rastan , known as "Arethusa" during the Roman period in Syria , served as the first capital of the Emesani dynasty in the mid-first-century BCE?
text: Did you know that in 1885, American neurologist James Leonard Corning became the first to perform neuraxial anesthesia ?
text: Did you know that sources give two different commanders for the Polish forces participating in the Battle of Grudziądz ?
text: Did you know that the Order of the British Empire was awarded posthumously to two brothers following the Edmonton air crash ?
text: Did you know that despite being one of the most common polypores in the eastern United States, the fungus Antrodia serialiformis was not recognized as a distinct species until 2009?
text: Did you know that Cuban-American athlete Manuel Huerta is training for the 2012 Summer Olympics on the side of a live volcano?
text: Did you know that Malayisation has occurred in five Southeast Asian countries?
text: Did you know that baseball pitcher Pete Appleton changed his surname from Jablonowski to embark on a musical career, which he never did?
text: Did you know that Ginge Manor is currently occupied by William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor and his wife Annabel , who is the mother of Samantha Cameron , the wife of Prime Minister David Cameron ?
text: Did you know that there were calls for Alexander Aan to be executed for posting on Facebook ?
text: Did you know that in spite of the official Soviet ideology of gender equality , feminism continues to be a dirty word for women in Russia ?
text: Did you know that for the 1884 hanging of five Bisbee Massacre murderers in Tombstone , Arizona , invitations were sent out by the sheriff, and tickets were sold for grandstand seating?
text: Did you know that the regal sea fan takes part in mass spawning events which may be triggered by the full moon?
text: Did you know that The Mountain Road was the only war movie that Jimmy Stewart ever starred in?
text: Did you know that the title of Canadian artist Cœur de pirate 's 2011 album Blonde is a double entendre which refers to both the singer's blonde hair and the Quebec French slang word for "girlfriend"?
text: Did you know that Japanese anesthesiologist Yoshitaka Fujii published 172 medical research papers that reported falsified data, including 126 papers described as being "totally fabricated"?
text: Did you know that the Maya city of Kinal in northern Guatemala possessed an unusually complex acropolis but is noted for its complete absence of sculpted stelae and altars?
text: Did you know that the biggest aircraft ever to be flown under the Sydney Harbour Bridge was a Lancaster bomber piloted by Flight Lieutenant Peter Isaacson in 1943?
text: Did you know that in Hoffman Estates v. The Flipside , the U.S. Supreme Court considered whether the proximity of High Times , National Lampoon , and Rolling Stone to drug paraphernalia was marketing for illegal use?
text: Did you know that Pink performs "energetic and vengeful as ever" on her new single " Blow Me (One Last Kiss) "?
text: Did you know that during a five-year shutdown, there arose a thriving enterprise selling the buildings of Romania 's Călăraşi steel works for scrap ?
text: Did you know that Peter Finn considered contesting the Wakatipu electorate in the 1879 New Zealand general election , but he let his brother Hugh run instead, who was successful?
text: Did you know that for her memoir Opium Nation , Fariba Nawa placed her life in jeopardy to collect stories from women involved in opium production in Afghanistan ?
text: Did you know that in the alternate history of Richard Schenkman 's 2012 mockbuster film Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies , John Wilkes Booth is a Confederate agent planted within Lincoln 's secret service staff?
text: Did you know that, according to the Cholodny-Went model , the roots of plants grow downward and the shoots grow towards light because of the plant hormone auxin ?
text: Did you know that in 683, the second Umayyad ruler Yazid I died in the Syrian Desert town of Huwwarin , his favorite recreation spot?
text: Did you know that Jennifer Lopez 's first video album Jennifer Lopez: Feelin' So Good provides a documentary -style look at the launch of her music career?
text: Did you know that the research facilities of the University of Freiburg Faculty of Biology date back to a botanical garden founded in 1620 by the Faculty of Medicine?
text: Did you know that the dissolution of the Tibetan Empire following a civil war led to the Era of Fragmentation , a period of political turmoil dominated by warlords and uprisings?
text: Did you know that people can surf in the Kampar River ?
text: Did you know that according to American recording artist Usher , his song " Sins of My Father " is a testament to the type of father he is?
text: Did you know that University of Michigan gymnast Sam Mikulak won the 2011 NCAA all-around championship and will represent the United States at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London?
text: Did you know that Paradox released a combination EP and sampler album entitled Overcome or Burn Forever in Hell/Arachnid Terror Sampler ?
text: Did you know that Justin Wilson dedicated his win at the 2008 Detroit Indy Grand Prix to dying actor Paul Newman ?
text: Did you know that 1931's Si Pitoeng was the first film based on the life of an Indonesian Robin Hood ?
text: Did you know that the bartender and the psychiatrist were good ol' mates in Boston and are still good ol' mates in Seattle ?
text: Did you know that the identification of azibiids , a type of fossil primate including Azibius , as either strepsirrhine or haplorine weighs heavily on the African or Asian origins of primates ?
text: Did you know that Lolab Valley in the Vale of Kashmir is an oval-shaped valley and is formed by the Lahwal River in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir ?
text: Did you know that the masthead of Sporting Life displayed the motto "Devoted To Base Ball, Trap Shooting and General Sports"?
text: Did you know that Ladislav Haškovec coined the term " Akathisia "?
text: Did you know that the Bahrain pearling trail is Bahrain 's second UNESCO World Heritage Site after the Bahrain Fort ?
text: Did you know that, originally discovered in 1873, Tutwiler's spleenwort became one of the world's rarest ferns in 2007?
text: Did you know that three new Wildlife Protection Areas have been established in Japan prior to the 2012 Ramsar wetland conference , which started today?
text: Did you know that at the end of World War I the British Cabinet decided to give Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and India each 100 aircraft as an Imperial Gift ?
text: Did you know that unlike its closest living relatives, lemurs and lorisoids , Djebelemur from Eocene Africa probably lacked a toothcomb ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian singer Pinkan Mambo paid for her brothers' college through her singing?
text: Did you know that on low magnification the strands of Listerella paradoxa look like a string of pearls?
text: Did you know that Geoff Charles 's photos of 20th-century Welsh life were published at 75 dpi to prevent "illegal copying"?
text: Did you know that Louise Cochrane , creator of the 1950s BBC children's TV series Rag, Tag and Bobtail , was an American?
text: Did you know that the slime mould Prototrichia metallica is a "nivicol", meaning that it grows on the snow line at the time of snowmelt?
text: Did you know that former basketball player Bob Harstad is just one of four players in Missouri Valley Conference history to accrue both 2,000+ points and 1,000+ rebounds in his career?
text: Did you know that Emerge , a monthly news magazine with a focus on issues of interest to African Americans , was published from 1989 to 2000?
text: Did you know that computing applications written for 26-bit ARM systems running RISC OS can be run on newer 32-bit architectures by using Aemulor ?
text: Did you know that Yelverton Paperweight Centre , which has over 1000 paperweights, has its origins in the private collection of a Cornish postmaster?
text: Did you know that British cyclist Liam Phillips put his selection in doubt for the 2012 Summer Olympics when he broke his collarbone at the 2012 BMX World Championship?
text: Did you know that the architecture of Scotland in the Middle Ages included houses made of solid clay?
text: Did you know that while attending Eton College , Max Pirkis received his first professional acting role, being cast in the 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ?
text: Did you know that Barbeyella minutissima are found in areas of up to 3,500 metres above sea level?
text: Did you know that when Alfred Baldey was appointed to the New Zealand Legislative Council , people wondered who he was?
text: Did you know that internees at Whitewater went on strike because they thought the guards stole their pyjamas?
text: Did you know that in 1894 Georges Lemaître won the world's first competitive motor race by driving from Paris to Rouen at 19 km/h ( 12 mph )?
text: Did you know that the Hubert H. Humphrey Building , currently the headquarters of the Department of Health and Human Services , was the first U.S. federal building to be named after a living person?
text: Did you know that upon his death in June 2012 , Walter J. Zable had been the world's oldest public company CEO at age 97?
text: Did you know that the constellation of Circinus depicts a pair of drafting compasses ?
text: Did you know that The Iraq War: A Historiography of Wikipedia Changelogs consists of 7000 pages of Wikipedia changelogs?
text: Did you know that Llanddewi Velfrey in Pembrokeshire once contained an Italianate stuccoed mansion, but it was demolished in 1957?
text: Did you know that when Christopher Wren was appointed to rebuild St Paul's Cathedral , London, he was Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford ?
text: Did you know that Aecidium mori causes mulberry rust disease on the mulberry flowering plant, which decreases the quantity of leaves on the trees?
text: Did you know that claims from a tailor, a bootmaker, a farmer, a coach-driver and a colporteur were all embedded in the Convention of London that escalated into the French intervention in Mexico ?
text: Did you know that Bandung Raya football club dissolved in 1997 due to financial trouble, despite reaching the 1996–97 Liga Indonesia Premier Division finals?
text: Did you know that the New Zealand town of Pahiatua was founded by William Wilson McCardle ?
text: Did you know that in 1973 country music singer Willie Nelson formed his own band, Family , after retiring early from a previous recording contract?
text: Did you know that baseball umpire Bull Perrine was attacked on the field twice during minor-league games in April 1905?
text: Did you know that Gene Sharp 's From Dictatorship to Democracy was described by CNN as "incendiary advice" that became a "viral pamphlet" that provided tactical guidance to the Arab Spring ?
text: Did you know that Maison Alcan marked a turning point in the preservation of historic buildings in Montreal's Golden Square Mile ?
text: Did you know that Third Day 's song "Cry Out to Jesus" reached number one on Billboard's Christian chart three distinct times?
text: Did you know that Luis Ghilardi, a former Italian officer of Garibaldi , fought alongside the Mexican Republicans to repulse the French fleet in the Battle of Acapulco ?
text: Did you know that in recognition of Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic , the Texas Senate declared July 4, 1975, " Willie Nelson Day", but he was fined $1,000 for violating the Texas Mass Gatherings Act?
text: Did you know that Operation Josephine B was the SOE 's first success in occupied France and it considerably enhanced the organisation's standing?
text: Did you know that Casting Crowns ' 2005 single " Lifesong " has been musically compared to rock band U2 ?
text: Did you know that athletes who played in Major League Baseball and the National Football League include two Heisman Trophy winners and seven inductees of the Pro Football Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that for the first time 3G services were used in India to announce the election result for the Andhra Pradesh by-elections in 2012?
text: Did you know that Argentine TV journalist Andy Kusnetzoff was considered a possible main actor for the comedy Graduados ?
text: Did you know that Sheffield United refused to present footballer Bob Cain with an 1898 First Division winner's medal after he agreed a transfer to Tottenham Hotspur ?
text: Did you know that three members of Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena assaulted Prashant Bhushan due to his controversial statement on the Kashmir issue ?
text: Did you know that acclaimed violinist Tasmin Little released her 2008 recording The Naked Violin as a free download?
text: Did you know that Trichia decipiens live on deadwood of conifers and leaf trees all year around?
text: Did you know that naval officer James Coutts Crawford served in three sieges in the American War of Independence , once as part of the besieging forces ( Charleston ) and twice as a defender ( Savannah and Gibraltar )?
text: Did you know that nine years after the 1968 Belice earthquake sequence struck western Sicily, 60,000 refugees were still living in temporary accommodation?
text: Did you know that Greg Malcolm of electronic music duo Twine described the pair as "like Voltron "?
text: Did you know that former Meghalaya Chief Minister Flinder Anderson Khonglam was the first independent politician to serve as Chief Minister of any Indian state ?
text: Did you know that the roof of the RAF Bomber Command Memorial in Green Park is made of aluminium from a crashed Handley Page Halifax ?
text: Did you know that Wally Gilbert played baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers , football in the NFL and professional basketball for Buffalo and Denver?
text: Did you know that out of the five designated protected areas in Bahrain , Al Areen Wildlife Park is the only protected area situated on land?
text: Did you know that André Derain painted Mountains at Collioure alongside Henri Matisse at the fishing port of Collioure ?
text: Did you know that Yes cancelled a show on their Fragile Tour after the van carrying their PA system broke down—as did two others sent to replace it?
text: Did you know that C. E. Falk beat NASCAR stars Tony Stewart and Denny Hamlin to win the latter's own charity race?
text: Did you know that Tropaeolum tricolor can survive a drought of 10 months in summer while Tropaeolum polyphyllum can withstand temperatures down to −20 °C (−4 °F)?
text: Did you know that " New Day " by Alicia Keys has been called her most powerful number to date?
text: Did you know that Margarete Mitscherlich and her husband Alexander Mitscherlich co-authored Die Unfähigkeit zu trauern ( The Inability to Mourn ) in 1967, and she alone wrote Die Radikalität des Alters ( The Radicality of Age ) in 2010?
text: Did you know that the Petaluma Historical Library and Museum includes Miwok items?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian rhythmic gymnastics Olympian Janine Murray had difficulties getting to school while growing up in Zimbabwe because of petrol shortages?
text: Did you know that migration of people from Pakistan after the partition of India is one of the causes of urbanisation in India ?
text: Did you know that Georgina Harland suffered a stress fracture to her leg only two weeks before the 2004 Summer Olympics , where she won a bronze medal in modern pentathlon ?
text: Did you know that Corin Tucker , later of Sleater-Kinney , played her first stage performance at the 1991 International Pop Underground Convention ?
text: Did you know that St Michael's Church, Burgh by Sands , in Cumbria is unique in having had two fortified towers?
text: Did you know that Tasma Walton was immediately interested in the part of Claudia Leigh because her occupation as a criminal profiler was not a straightforward police role?
text: Did you know that despite the 1940s exterior of The Dupont Hotel in Washington, D.C. , the hotel has a modern interior after being renovated in 2009?
text: Did you know that the term self-deportation was first popularized as a satirical criticism of California Proposition 187 in 1994?
text: Did you know that in 1868, British racehorse Formosa became the first winner of the English Fillies Triple Crown ?
text: Did you know that Yusmarg in the Kashmir Valley in India is translated as the meadow of Jesus , and is believed to be where Jesus once visited?
text: Did you know that child actress Rachel Covey had a body double during the 2007 film Enchanted so that she did not have to spend as much time on set?
text: Did you know that Lindbladia tubulina is the only species of its genus?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic diver Jaele Patrick only took up the sport at fifteen following a gymnastics injury?
text: Did you know that the Jewish Military Museum was founded partly to counter the idea that British Jews have avoided serving in the armed forces?
text: Did you know that professional baseball player Bud Morse was honored for his heroism in disarming a gunman during a hospital shooting spree?
text: Did you know that Emily Smith is the youngest Hockeyroo representing Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that a number of Ohio Republicans refused to vote for Mark Hanna for senator in 1898, and he was elected by the legislature with only the minimum 73 votes?
text: Did you know that the brown seaweed Stypopodium zonale contains substances that are cytotoxic to certain human carcinoma cells?
text: Did you know that the Crimes Act of 1825 is the most recent general revision of U.S. federal criminal legislation ?
text: Did you know that women in Kenya created the Kenya women's national football team independent of Football Kenya Federation ?
text: Did you know that Carlos Correa is the first Puerto Rican to be selected with the first overall selection of a Major League Baseball Draft ?
text: Did you know that 168 Community Development Districts in Florida created between 2003 and 2008 are presently in default with $5.1 billion in municipal bonds ?
text: Did you know that Sheffield United played their first ever league fixture against Burton Wanderers on 13 September 1890?
text: Did you know that the Main Centre for Missile Attack Warning reports ballistic missile attacks to the General Staff , which could lead the Russian President to use the nuclear briefcase ?
text: Did you know that The Track was dusty?
text: Did you know that patriotic music in Canada dates back over 200 years as a distinct category from British patriotism, preceding the first legal steps to independence by over 50 years?
text: Did you know that Henry Oxley is one of only three people from Prince Edward Island to have played in Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention , The Swerve: How the World Became Modern , George F. Kennan: An American Life and Water by the Spoonful won 2012 Pulitzer Prizes for History , General Non-Fiction , Biography or Autobiography and Drama , respectively?
text: Did you know that Cambodia women's national football team faces several challenges including women's football not being popular in Cambodia and, as of 2006 [update] , no teams for women to play on?
text: Did you know that the Zambia village of Sioma is located on the site of an Iron Age settlement?
text: Did you know that floppy trunk syndrome mainly affects male elephants and is a condition that results in trunk paralysis ?
text: Did you know that Swakopmund tracking station is a ground station of the Chinese manned space programme located in the African country of Namibia ?
text: Did you know that the Jru' language , an indigenous language of Laos , was once written in a secret script ?
text: Did you know that Senegalese fashion designer Adama Ndiaye organized the Dakar Fashion Week exhibition, now in its 10th year?
text: Did you know that along with appearing as a young Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man , child actor Max Charles will be providing the voice of Sherman in Mr. Peabody & Sherman ?
text: Did you know that the Body of Proof episode " Helping Hand " was directed by John Terlesky , best known for directing Ugly Betty which starred Tony Plana , who also appeared in this Body of Proof episode?
text: Did you know that at Euro 2012 , the Pukka Pies England Band was banned from playing at England 's game against France despite having UEFA approval?
text: Did you know that more than one million comments about Feng Jianmei's forced abortion had been registered within four days of family members uploading a picture of her dead child to Sina Weibo ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian field hockey Olympian Jade Close was a ball girl at the 2000 Summer Olympics during the Hockeyroos ' gold medal match?
text: Did you know that tadpoles of the green burrowing frog need to grow rapidly because the temporary pools in which they develop soon dry up?
text: Did you know that Rick Ross was to be featured on Jennifer Lopez 's song " Run the World ", but his rap was removed from the song shortly before its commercial release?
text: Did you know that the sports film The Wind Chaser was compared to a soap commercial?
text: Did you know that it is widely believed in Monmouth , Wales , that the late John "Mad Jack" Roocroft took his chain saw to the Indian Bean Tree in St James Square ?
text: Did you know that Pentwyn Farm Grasslands , near Monmouth , hosts one of the largest populations of the green-winged orchid in Gwent ?
text: Did you know that Cotton Tierney ' s great-great-nephew named a website after him that has received over 4 million page views?
text: Did you know that staff at the Indonesian film archives, Sinematek Indonesia , receive less than US$120 a month?
text: Did you know that Bajan's list lists the kill scores of Polish fighter pilots of World War II ?
text: Did you know that Yes 's 1970–71 tour began with Steve Howe joining the band and ended with Tony Kaye leaving?
text: Did you know that 2012 Summer Olympic cyclist Amy Cure calls Penguin home?
text: Did you know that the quotient filter , a new type of hash table , supports fast lookup, merge, and resize and, unlike the traditional Bloom filter , scales beyond main memory?
text: Did you know that Constance Kgosiemang was the political leader of Tswanaland , a bantustan in South-West Africa ?
text: Did you know that the filly Intrepidity ' s winning time of 2:34.19 at the 1993 Epsom Oaks established a new course record which still stands today?
text: Did you know that a reviewer considered the flaws in Melati van Agam so obvious "even the stupidest villager" could spot them?
text: Did you know that Rachel Henderson , a 2012 Australian Paralympic goalball player , represented South Australia in swimming and athletics but gave up both sports in 2010 to pursue goalball ?
text: Did you know that a study showed that cultivating the Atlantic winged oyster off the coast of Venezuela was not commercially viable?
text: Did you know that Herb Mitchell , a former stockbroker who became an actor , performed in commercials as spokesman for a brokerage firm ?
text: Did you know that Salientia is a stem group of amphibians that includes the frogs and toads and various extinct proto-frogs?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic shooter Luke Cain broke his neck playing Australian rules football ?
text: Did you know that an attempt to sell the aging Stanton Street Synagogue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan to a Jesuit priest led to its resurgence as a Jewish house of worship?
text: Did you know that the mother of Irish horsetrainer Mouse Morris was awarded an MBE for her work as a cryptographer at Bletchley Park during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the child star of Malin Kundang got the part for his knowledge of the source material ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Paralympics table tennis player Rebecca McDonnell was the first Australian woman ever to compete at the table tennis Para World Championships?
text: Did you know that the ancient Arabs saw Phoenix as a boat?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralaympic sailor Jonathan Harris competed in the 1983 and 1985 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race ?
text: Did you know that following 1805's United States v. More , the U.S. Supreme Court did not hear ordinary appeals in federal criminal cases until 1891, or, for some crimes, until 1911?
text: Did you know that Mus`ab ibn `Umair , a sahabi (companion) of Mohammad , was the first ambassador of Islam ?
text: Did you know that in the Glee fourth season premiere, " The New Rachel ", Lea Michele and Dean Geyer sing a duet "running around in New York"?
text: Did you know that Jack Swift , a 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor , was a finalist for the 2011 Victorian Cleo Bachelor of the Year?
text: Did you know that the CS Chamarel , then known as CS Vercors , laid the first Israeli-made submarine communications cable EMOS-1 in 1991?
text: Did you know that Roy Stanbrook , who "ran away to sea as a boy", is now Captain of the Port of Gibraltar ?
text: Did you know that the soundtrack of the Marathi film Kaksparsh (2012) was released after the film's theatrical release on public demand and features songs rendered without any musical accompaniment?
text: Did you know that Ethiopian-Australian Paralympic powerlifter Abebe Fekadu was treated by a local medicine man after being involved in a police car chase as a result of his pro-democracy activities?
text: Did you know that the red supergiant NML Cygni is the largest star currently known , at about 1,650 times the Sun's diameter?
text: Did you know that philosopher George Santayana reportedly called The Sense of Beauty , his book on aesthetics , a "wretched potboiler" that he wrote mainly for tenure ?
text: Did you know that volleyball player Brian Thornton set single-season and career assists records at the University of California, Irvine ?
text: Did you know that the BBC documentary Nature's Microworlds covers the wildlife of microclimates ranging from the Serengeti grasslands in Africa to the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard ?
text: Did you know that despite being nicknamed "Sparrow", British Paralympian Katrina Hart is scared of birds?
text: Did you know that Grade 1b 2012 Australian Paralympic equestrian Hannah Dodd is missing four of her vertebrae?
text: Did you know that the Birch Creek Charcoal Kilns employed 150 people or more, producing fuel for a smelter, but operated for less than three years?
text: Did you know that despite starting as a 50-to-1 longshot, the filly Jet Ski Lady won the 1991 Epsom Oaks by ten lengths , the second widest winning margin in the race's history?
text: Did you know that the Hovey Lake Archaeological District in Indiana's southwestern corner is endangered by flooding, oil derricks, bird hunters, and vandals?
text: Did you know that 2012 Paralympic wheelchair rugby player Andrew Harrison was part of a campaign called "Don't Drink and Dive" which encouraged people to be careful when diving ?
text: Did you know that IBM 's Mira is listed by TOP500 as the third-fastest supercomputer in the world as of June 2012?
text: Did you know that some athletes have been known to break their own toes and electrocute their own testicles to gain a performance boost ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic rower Gavin Bellis was an army sergeant diesel mechanic before being discharged following a diagnosis of spinocerebellar ataxia ?
text: Did you know that Harry Truman was the poorest U.S. President since 1929 ?
text: Did you know that a 2,600-year-old human brain , thought to be one of the oldest ever found, was discovered on the site of the University of York 's new campus?
text: Did you know that volleyball player David McKienzie was a first team All-American twice during his college career?
text: Did you know that among the Mongolian divinities , Qormusata Tngri ranks higher than Sülde Tngri , though the latter is often identified with Gengis Khan ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Paralympic swimmer Ahmed Kelly lived at Baghdad's Mother Teresa Orphanage with his brother until he was seven years old?
text: Did you know that the obscenity trial R v Penguin Books Ltd. has been the subject of poetry and a House of Lords debate?
text: Did you know that Narbona Pass in New Mexico is named after Narbona , a Navajo headman killed in 1849 during peace negotiations with the United States?
text: Did you know that the Azov radar was part of the never-commissioned Soviet S-225 missile defence system?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic goalball coach Georgina Kenaghan is the daughter of the man who brought goalball to Australia and player Nicole Esdaile is married to men's goalball player Michael Sheppard?
text: Did you know that India 's National Metallurgical Laboratory was inaugurated by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1950?
text: Did you know that Edmond Point in Kilkee is named after the Edmond that sank there in 1850 with the loss of 98 lives?
text: Did you know that Hermann Peter's Historicorum Romanorum reliquiae (1870–1914) was the authoritative edition of Roman historical fragments until it was supplanted by Martine Chassignet's L'Annalistique romaine (1996–2004)?
text: Did you know that Shane Williams scored the last of his 60 international rugby union tries on the final play of his last test match ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Paralympic swimmer Mitchell Kilduff mentors other swimmers with autism ?
text: Did you know that ultra-deepwater semi-submersible drilling rig Scarabeo 8 was built in shipyards in three different countries?
text: Did you know that Sally Tanner wrote California's lemon law ?
text: Did you know that in 1922, Franz Kafka's story " Ein Hungerkünstler " first appeared in Die neue Rundschau , a German literary magazine founded in 1890 and still in print?
text: Did you know that Indonesian Paralympic hopeful David Jacobs defeated Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in a table tennis match?
text: Did you know that the song " Need You Now ", performed by Lady Antebellum , ranked as the number-one song on the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart on the Billboard 2010 year-end list?
text: Did you know that Turid Birkeland became Head of Concerts Norway in April 2012, succeeding Åse Kleveland , whom she had also succeeded as Minister of Culture in 1996?
text: Did you know that Edmé-Gilles Guyot was highly influential in the development of phantasmagoria and the cups and balls magic trick?
text: Did you know that after hundreds of legal threats, Lendink was shut down?
text: Did you know that both Michael J. Anderson and Dexter Fletcher were considered for the title role in David Lynch 's unfinished film Ronnie Rocket ?
text: Did you know that in Kulubnarti , a village on an island in the Nile, the domed church contains incised graffito in Greek , Coptic and Old Nubian ?
text: Did you know that Kick-Ass, Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre de Pichilemu 's English debate team, ranked second in a 2011 regional tournament?
text: Did you know that the screening of Fleeting Beauty at the Valladolid International Film Festival helped the producers receive funds from the Film commission, New Zealand for its post-production work?
text: Did you know that Marvel NOW! , an upcoming relaunch of Marvel comic books, will see the return of Jean Grey , whose character died in 2004?
text: Did you know that the Body of Proof episode " Buried Secrets " was directed by director David Platt ?
text: Did you know that the extinct snakefly genera Lebanoraphidia and Iberoraphidia are both named for the regions they were found in?
text: Did you know that when Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery was about to exhibit Bill Henson 's artworks in 2008, police seized over 20, following complaints claiming they were child pornography ?
text: Did you know that the Maldives' human rights issues include flogging , which is carried out behind court buildings?
text: Did you know that the British Paralympic table tennis player Will Bayley took up the sport whilst recovering from cancer?
text: Did you know that the Hollister Carnegie Library has an unusually inhibited form of classicism ?
text: Did you know that an 1853 expedition led by François Xavier Aubry discovered that the Indians of northern Arizona manufactured bullets from gold?
text: Did you know that Annie Wyatt , the driving force behind Australia's National Trust , was also a prison visitor to some of Sydney's most notorious women criminals ?
text: Did you know that Yazawin Thit , the first historical document in Southeast Asia written in consultation with epigraphic evidence , was rejected after being judged too critical of the prior Burmese chronicles ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. state of Maryland labeled Dominican nun Carol Gilbert as a terrorist?
text: Did you know that 1992's Marathi film Ek Hota Vidushak featured P. L. Deshpande 's first new screenplay with dialogue since 1953, after a hiatus of 39 years?
text: Did you know that Alan Knipe went to the NCAA finals as both a player and a coach of the Long Beach State 49ers men's volleyball team?
text: Did you know that the fuzztop mushroom was named for being "cow-colored"?
text: Did you know that in Ticketmaster v. Tickets.com a U.S. federal judge ruled that URLs were not copyrightable because they consisted of "functional and factual elements"?
text: Did you know that more than 7,000 years of artifacts have been found at the Ennis Archaeological Site in Indiana?
text: Did you know that Jock Collier , Tom Mitchell and Viv Busby are the only former York City F.C. players with fewer than 25 appearances to have managed the club?
text: Did you know that Isaac B. Desha was twice convicted of murder and sentenced to hang before being pardoned by his father, Kentucky Governor Joseph Desha ?
text: Did you know that Renoir , a crater on Mercury , is one of two with a volcanic plain inside its central peak ring?
text: Did you know that water polo player John Mann won an NCAA Championship and the Peter J. Cutino Award ?
text: Did you know that the Somali Confederation of Labour was banned following Siad Barre 's coup d'état in 1969?
text: Did you know that USA Network gave out free Häagen-Dazs ice cream in five cities to promote the broadcast of the Suits pilot episode ?
text: Did you know that former soldier Derek Derenalagi was pronounced dead in 2007, but is due to compete in the discus for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that the 1981 Playa Azul earthquake ruptured the central part of the Michoacán seismic gap ?
text: Did you know that both sons of the Byzantine general Nikephoros Phokas the Elder followed him in the post of Domestic of the Schools , in effect commander-in-chief of the Byzantine army ?
text: Did you know that Body of Proof episode and season one finale " Broken Home " was nominated at the 21st Annual Environmental Media Awards?
text: Did you know that Allison Weston was named by Sports Illustrated the best ever female athlete born in Nebraska ?
text: Did you know that Australian artist Sidney Nolan 's 1946 painting Footballer is based on Bill Mohr of the St Kilda Football Club ?
text: Did you know that chef Cyrus Todiwala cooked country captain for Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh as part of the 2012 Diamond Jubilee celebrations ?
text: Did you know that Navab Nassirshalal won a silver medal in weightlifting at the 2012 Summer Olympics despite competing with an aching knee?
text: Did you know that on Good Friday, 6 April 1612, Malkin Tower was alleged to be the location of a witches' coven ?
text: Did you know that Guyanese artist Donald Locke started painting in a class taught by Edward Rupert Burrowes ?
text: Did you know that places of worship in the Kent borough of Tonbridge and Malling include converted barns and badminton halls, tin tabernacles and a former Swedenborgian church?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Todd Hodgetts works with a gymnastics coach to help with his balance and conditioning?
text: Did you know that former Blue's Clues host Steve Burns released the indie rock album Songs for Dustmites with help from The Flaming Lips ?
text: Did you know that the pilot of the MT explosive motorboat was intended to deliberately jump overboard as part of his job?
text: Did you know that a book cover depicting Hugo d'Oignies and Saint Nicholas was presented to Oignies Abbey ?
text: Did you know that 16-year-old Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen won two gold medals and broke two records at the 2012 Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Teofila Ludwika Zasławska and her second husband owned Baranów Sandomierski Castle and three other palaces designed by royal architect Tylman van Gameren ?
text: Did you know that " If We Are the Body ", Christian rock band Casting Crowns ' debut single, utilizes the violin , mandolin , and accordion in its arrangement?
text: Did you know that 84-year-old Menachem Cohen has finished a 30-year quest to correct approximately 1,500 mistakes in the Old Testament ?
text: Did you know that volleyball player Jordan Larson was a two-time AVCA First Team All-American during her college career?
text: Did you know that the pro-Catholic trade union C.A.T.C-A.E.F held the Brazzaville P.O. Box 666 ?
text: Did you know that chief Iipumpu Ya Tshilongo is a National Hero of Namibia partly because of his uncooperative behaviour and his refusal to pay taxes?
text: Did you know that two of the Russian Peresvet -class battleships were salvaged by the Japanese after the end of the Russo-Japanese War and incorporated into the Imperial Japanese Navy ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic swimmer Kara Leo is an ambassador for an organisation that helps children cope with near-drowning experiences?
text: Did you know that the Forum of the Ox in Constantinople got its name from a bronze statue of an Ox head used to kill people through the brazen Bull torture?
text: Did you know that Roekiah and Rd Mochtar were the first celebrity couple in the Dutch East Indies , despite Roekiah being married?
text: Did you know that a spectator who threw a bottle at the men's 100 metres race in the 2012 Olympics was immediately confronted by judo bronze medalist Edith Bosch , who happened to be next to him?
text: Did you know that Henry Dircks created a ghost to prove that others could not?
text: Did you know that Matt Byrne , Terry Bywater , Gaz Choudhry , Peter Finbow , Abdi Jama , Jon Hall , Dan Highcock , Ade Orogbemi , Simon Munn , Jon Pollock , Ian Sagar , and Matt Sealy have been selected to play wheelchair basketball for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that Jeff Lewis' favourite episode of the first season of his Interior Therapy reality TV show was the one where the couple broke up at the end?
text: Did you know that in 1971, bishop Albert Ndongmo was sentenced to death for allegedly plotting with Ernest Ouandié to assassinate President Ahmadou Ahidjo ?
text: Did you know that the 1991 Birmingham Fire season ended with a loss to the Barcelona Dragons in the World League of American Football playoffs to finish their inaugural year?
text: Did you know that dozens of members of the United States Congress have been convicted of public corruption crimes ?
text: Did you know that Buddy Richard en el Astor by Buddy Richard was the first live album ever recorded and released by a Chilean artist?
text: Did you know that the Aghlabid emir Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya reportedly ordered the execution of 300 palace servants after finding a napkin mislaid at dinner?
text: Did you know that spraying the bright yellow mushroom Boletus curtisii with methanol will make the color disappear?
text: Did you know that Michel Roux , who went on to open the first restaurant to win three Michelin stars in Britain, was awarded a medal whilst enlisted in the French forces in Algeria?
text: Did you know that the Argentine investigative journalism TV program Periodismo para todos is censored in several Argentine provinces?
text: Did you know that volleyball player Tamari Miyashiro was twice named the National Defensive Player of the Year while in college?
text: Did you know that in 1971 Mauricio Luvualu, leader of the exiled Angolan trade union UGTA , was handed over to the Portuguese by the government of Congo-Kinshasa ?
text: Did you know that footballers Scott and Martin Sinclair are the first brothers to represent Great Britain at the Olympics and Paralympics in the same year?
text: Did you know that Twin Peaks , a restaurant chain promising "scenic views" of scantily clad waitresses, was sued by Hooters for stealing trade secrets?
text: Did you know that artist and academician Władysław Łuszczkiewicz , who taught and inspired Poland's national painter Jan Matejko , gave private art classes for free to struggling artists?
text: Did you know that Bach composed two cantatas with similar music at the same time: Ihr Tore zu Zion , BWV 193 , to celebrate the new town council on 25 August 1727, and the secular BWV 193a for 3 August that year?
text: Did you know that Matty Blair scored the winning goal for York City in the 2012 Conference National play-off Final , which saw the club return to the Football League after an eight-year absence?
text: Did you know that theatre music can be traced to the very origins of theatre in Ancient Greece ?
text: Did you know that despite his strong interest in education, Matthew Oram was not appointed Minister of Education , but became Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives instead?
text: Did you know that a Cardinal, three Browns, a Dupree, and a King have all played for the Minnesota Timberwolves ?
text: Did you know that during his life, Saint Nicetas the Patrician specialized in "healing men tormented by sexual desires"?
text: Did you know that when Nadia Santini 's restaurant Dal Pescatore was awarded three Michelin stars in 1996, she was the first female chef in Italy so honored?
text: Did you know that the Gibraltar Diamond Jubilee Flotilla was inspired by the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australia Paralympic sailor Matthew Bugg had to deal with his father's boat colliding with his during a race?
text: Did you know that 1928's Lily of Java was the first Chinese -produced film in Indonesia?
text: Did you know that Jeff Civillico simultaneously jogged 26.2 miles (42.2 km) and juggled three balls at the Walt Disney World Marathon to raise $5000 for a special needs non-profit organization?
text: Did you know that the Tsarap River , a tributary of the Zanskar River in Ladakh , is fed by the Lingti, Yunan and Sarchu rivers at Sarchu and by the Kargyag river at Purne?
text: Did you know that the work of Jimmy Robinson was mistaken for that of Led Zeppelin 's Jimmy Page ?
text: Did you know that Teen Wolf actor Colton Haynes will play Leona Lewis ' love interest in the upcoming music video for her new single " Trouble "?
text: Did you know that former Olympic volleyball player Ruth Lawanson has been a coach at five different colleges?
text: Did you know that the British regime converted a fort, constructed by the Dutch in 1602, into Rajahmundry Central Prison in 1864?
text: Did you know that Grade 1B 2012 Australia Paralympic equestrian Joann Formosa competes without the use of stirrups?
text: Did you know that the Civil Guard of the Philippines was a local gendarmerie police force organized under the Spanish colonial government?
text: Did you know that Stanisław Baranowski Spitsbergen Polar Station is named after the Polish glaciologist Stanisław Baranowski who died in a coma following an accident at the Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station ?
text: Did you know that Doctor Quicksilver took a break from his lucrative medical career to sail the seas, capture ships, and raid South America?
text: Did you know that Ottla Kafka , the youngest and dearest sister of Franz Kafka , died in the Holocaust because she divorced her Catholic husband?
text: Did you know that Mike Hoolboom 's Letters from Home was based on a speech by LGBT activist Vito Russo ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic swimmer Taylor Corry made her national team debut at the 2011 Global Games where she earned eight gold medals?
text: Did you know that the deluxe version of Coheed and Cambria 's album, The Afterman: Ascension , will give a song-by-song experience using a hardcover coffee-table book ?
text: Did you know that Finnish priest Kalervo Kurkiala , a chaplain in the Waffen-SS , believed that military service was good for "country boys" and for "numerous bookworms and spoilt sloppy idlers"?
text: Did you know that Sir Richard Hadlee took fourteen of his five-wicket hauls against Australia in Test cricket , and was the first bowler to reach 400 Test wickets ?
text: Did you know that Michel Roux was "over the moon" and "disturbed" in equal measure to hear that his son Alain Roux wanted to become a chef at the age of 14?
text: Did you know that in 1356, the Golden Bull stated that mining rights or Bergregal were held not by the Holy Roman Emperor but by the seven prince-electors as his territorial lords?
text: Did you know that volleyball player Lori Endicott was named the best setter of the 1992 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the worst aviation accident to have occurred on Cuban soil resulted in 171 deaths when the aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff?
text: Did you know that the Belarusian Alexander Barankov was given political asylum in Ecuador in 2010 but risks extradition back to Belarus?
text: Did you know that the Deccan Chargers cricketers , who finished last in the first season of Indian Premier League , became the champions of the second season ?
text: Did you know that in 2007, French chef Anne-Sophie Pic became only the fourth woman to win three Michelin stars ?
text: Did you know that in Gibraltar , a mole 's elbow is a site of control for the harbour?
text: Did you know that Norwegian Olympians Øistein Saksvik , Tor Torgersen and Pål Benum all won national championships in 5,000 and 10,000 metres ?
text: Did you know that the Armenian Heritage Park is a memorial park in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, dedicated to the victims of the Armenian Genocide ?
text: Did you know that volleyball player Janet Cobbs set nine school records at North Dakota State University ?
text: Did you know that the 2007 Spanish Historical Memory Law mandated the removal of the symbols of Francoism from public buildings?
text: Did you know that Job Edward Lousley took over thirty years to write and publish the Flora of the Isles of Scilly ?
text: Did you know that Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories conducted more than one-third of all toxicology testing in the United States before it was discovered to have engaged in extensive scientific misconduct?
text: Did you know that Fifi Young , known for playing mother figures, acted in 86 films in 34 years?
text: Did you know that George Kontos was named Illinois ' high school baseball player of the year in 2003?
text: Did you know that, although street food did not become popular in Thailand until the early 1960s when the urban population began to grow rapidly, by the 1970s it had "displaced home-cooking"?
text: Did you know that Shelton State Community College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama , is named for J. P. Shelton , who lobbied for the building of trade schools in the area?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic goalball player Michelle Rzepecki introduced children with visual impairments in Bolivia to goalball ?
text: Did you know that the land now comprising the Knox Street Historic District in Albany, New York , was originally a nursery for the first successful American strawberry cultivar ?
text: Did you know that the number of murders in Jamaica dropped 20% during Mark Shields ' first year as Deputy Police Commissioner of the Jamaica Constabulary Force ?
text: Did you know that the 2011 Micronesian parliamentary elections were the first to feature female candidates?
text: Did you know that the Roberts House in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania , built in the 1790s, is the last remaining building from Jefferson College ?
text: Did you know that Arab-Israeli Ahmed Dabbah will become Israel's record-breaking 17th non-Jew in the current Knesset (Israeli parliament)?
text: Did you know that " A Million Miles Away ", performed by Rihanna , impacted the Spanish Singles Chart in November 2009 , three and a half years after the initial release of A Girl like Me ?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian film Whips of Fire featuring a strong, independent female character was held up for a year by the censors?
text: Did you know that pioneer dentist Leonie von Meusebach–Zesch held mobile dental clinics for Inuit children and once crawled across thin ice to save her sled dogs from drowning?
text: Did you know that out of the 56 cricketers who have played for Kings XI Punjab , Shaun Marsh has scored the most runs ?
text: Did you know that pioneer American aviator Charles K. Hamilton , the "crazy man of the air", survived over 60 crashes, only to succumb to the effects of tuberculosis ?
text: Did you know that after MGM ' s rights to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 's Night Flight expired in 1942, the film was not shown again until 2011?
text: Did you know that Édgar Morales Pérez , the mayor-elect of Matehuala , San Luis Potosí , was assassinated before taking office?
text: Did you know that the Shah of Iran used public sympathy resulting from a failed assassination attempt to call for a Constituent Assembly in 1949 to increase his royal power?
text: Did you know that the video game Symphony generates Galaga -style gameplay based on the player's choice of music?
text: Did you know that All Saints Church, Hollingbourne , England, contains memorials by John Michael Rysbrack and the Culpeper needlework , a 17th-century embroidered funeral pall ?
text: Did you know that Laborintus II , a collaboration between Mike Patton and Ictus Ensemble , is only the third recording of the titular piece since its composition in 1965?
text: Did you know that in 1578 Reverend Francis Marbury , the father of Anne Hutchinson , was called by the Bishop of London an "ass, an idiot, and a fool", then sent to Marshalsea Prison for two years for his impudence?
text: Did you know that Molde FK did not want to send Martin Høyem on loan to Hønefoss BK , because the two clubs were scheduled to meet in the semi-final of the 2005 Norwegian Football Cup ?
text: Did you know that Freedom House recently downgraded Djibouti's human rights status from "partly free" to "not free"?
text: Did you know that Roman Chatov painted the silk scarf that caused American dancer Isadora Duncan 's accidental death?
text: Did you know that the University of Minnesota Libraries holds the world's largest collection on Sherlock Holmes and his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ?
text: Did you know that Abdulredha Buhmaid died three days after being shot in the head during a peaceful protest in Bahrain ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming Doctor Who episode " The Power of Three " was partially inspired by the story of the MSC Napoli ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic swimmer Katherine Downie takes her yellow duck pillow to competitions for luck?
text: Did you know that Betty Jane Watson created the role of Laurey in the first London production of Oklahoma! ?
text: Did you know that the media and the crowd at the 1996 Irish Champion Hurdle were more enthusiastic about Danoli finishing in third place than Collier Bay winning by a head?
text: Did you know that the Bristol Naturalists' Society of Bristol , England, celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2012?
text: Did you know that for the film Samaantharangal (1998), Balachandra Menon worked on nine aspects of the film-making and also won the National Film Award for Best Actor at the 45th National Film Awards ?
text: Did you know that Operation Head Start , the predecessor to Operation Chrome Dome , was based at Loring Air Force Base ?
text: Did you know that the tunnel beneath Parson's Lodge Battery originally carried a railway built to take stone to improve the Gibraltar Harbour ?
text: Did you know that Russian military stations Krona and Krona-N are named after the crown of a tree ?
text: Did you know that painter Leopold Pilichowski was known for his commitment to social commentary and psychological depictions of Jewish themes in a heavily industrialized environment?
text: Did you know that fossils of the extinct snakefly family Mesoraphidiidae are known mainly from the Northern Hemisphere?
text: Did you know that British hand-cyclist and defending Paralympic champion Rachel Morris may miss the 2012 Games after being hit by a car while training?
text: Did you know that the Boston Caucus , of which American patriot Samuel Adams was a leader, was an early example of the " smoke-filled room " in politics?
text: Did you know that G. Kruger directed the first talkie in what is now Indonesia?
text: Did you know that Bryant and May matches were responsible for a thinning of Bottom Wood during the Second World War?
text: Did you know that Ruth Norman wore brightly colored clothing in an attempt to imitate the attire of extraterrestrials?
text: Did you know that about one-third of Iowa 's population lives along the I-80 corridor?
text: Did you know that in 1634, Boston innkeeper Samuel Cole established the first tavern in the Massachusetts Bay Colony , which was featured in Longfellow 's play John Endicott ?
text: Did you know that the 1994 National Convention of New Sudan outlined a civil political administration for the areas held by SPLA guerrillas?
text: Did you know that although her character had been dead from the beginning of the series, Sheryl Lee was asked to return for " Episode 3 " of Twin Peaks ?
text: Did you know that Elena Arzak was named the best female chef in the world in 2012 by Restaurant magazine?
text: Did you know that philosopher Gottfried Leibniz referred to Gervase of Tilbury 's 1214 encyclopedia Otia Imperialia as a "bagful of foolish old woman's tales"?
text: Did you know that Professor Pepper could make ghosts appear but could not make it rain despite the use of swivel guns, rockets, and a land mine?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Leanne Del Toso played able-bodied basketball prior to being diagnosed with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy ?
text: Did you know that Jeffrey Tambor was nominated for two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor for portraying George Bluth, Sr. on the comedy Arrested Development ?
text: Did you know that in June 2012, the Ocean Village Marina hosted the Gibraltar Diamond Jubilee Flotilla ?
text: Did you know that satellite Kosmos 2481 was launched by a rocket called Rokot ?
text: Did you know that Ratna Asmara was the first female film director in Indonesian history?
text: Did you know that Pemberton Point is home to the first commercial urban wind turbine in North America?
text: Did you know that a design for a courtyard by Philip Tilden was compared to a "Spanish brothel"?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympian Kelly Cartwright climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in 2009?
text: Did you know that Marblehead Harbor , the birthplace of the predecessor of the U.S. Navy , was also the birthplace of Marine Corps Aviation one hundred years ago today?
text: Did you know that Mark Kharitonov was awarded the first Russian Booker Prize in 1992 for his novel Lines of Fate ?
text: Did you know that a television station's sting operation led to the banning of five Indian Premier League cricketers ?
text: Did you know that the German Central Library for the Blind , founded in Leipzig in 1894, is the oldest library of its kind in Germany?
text: Did you know that Hideo Fukuyama was the first Japanese driver to qualify for a NASCAR Winston Cup Series championship race?
text: Did you know that Halcyon , the upcoming album by Ellie Goulding , was recorded in a barn ?
text: Did you know that the Olympic Flame once burned at 2,000 degrees Celsius to ensure that it stayed alight under water ?
text: Did you know that an episode of the 2012 nature documentary series A Year in the Wild featured Britain's largest national park, the Cairngorms ?
text: Did you know that the Spanish expedition to Formosa was a campaign mounted in 1626 by the Spanish based in Manila, Philippines?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair tennis player Ben Weekes has played piano at the Sydney Opera House ?
text: Did you know that American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey wrote her new single " Triumphant (Get 'Em) " while her husband Nick Cannon was in the hospital for kidney failure ?
text: Did you know that, when it opens in 2013, Outlaw Run at the Silver Dollar City amusement park is to be the only wooden roller coaster with inversions ?
text: Did you know that the subantarctic whaling station of Grytviken welcomed the South Georgia Survey by housing expedition members in the local jail?
text: Did you know that 2012 Paralympic swimmer Aaron Rhind trains with Australian Olympic swimming medalist Adam Pine ?
text: Did you know that the manuscript collection known as the Cetinje chronicle begins with text about Skanderbeg ?
text: Did you know that Mariah Carey 's song " Mine Again " was nominated at the 2006 Grammy Award ceremony for Best Traditional R&B Performance ?
text: Did you know that the bones of infants with parastremmatic dwarfism look "flocky" on X-rays ?
text: Did you know that John Harrison Clark , a reputed outlaw from the South African Cape , settled alone in modern-day Zambia in 1887 and in the early 1890s became the local people's chief ?
text: Did you know that Mirgissa was the largest of eleven forts built between the second and third cataracts during the reign of Senusret III ?
text: Did you know that Queensway Quay Marina in Gibraltar features a wharf developed in 1736 to allow "better victualling of men-at-war"?
text: Did you know that water polo player Elsie Windes won two Olympic medals with the United States team?
text: Did you know that " Episode 1 " of Twin Peaks has drawn comparison to the 1990 film The Grifters ?
text: Did you know that François Dominique Séraphin developed and popularised shadow plays in 18th-century France?
text: Did you know that Full Moon was the most successful local film ever released in the Dutch East Indies ?
text: Did you know that several works in the filmography of David Lynch have been collaborations with Mark Frost ?
text: Did you know that Metra Chairman of the Board Larry Huggins once withdrew himself from consideration for his current role because he felt it was a Republican position?
text: Did you know that it is not publicly known where exactly Okno-S is?
text: Did you know that the documentary The Rubber Room claimed that troubled teachers were being held in reassignment centers by the NYC Department of Education ?
text: Did you know that P. C. Sreeram is an alumnus of the Madras Film Institute ?
text: Did you know that 1960s decor employed a "psychedelic intensity" with colors and styles which were influenced by India, Spain, and the Mediterranean?
text: Did you know that most of Margaret Bernadine Hall 's works have disappeared, but her painting Fantine hangs in the Walker Art Gallery , Liverpool ?
text: Did you know that a gutter predated the Cape Cod Canal by almost two hundred years?
text: Did you know that Chinese Olympic gold medalist and flagbearer Xu Lijia nearly died at age 12 and missed the Athens Olympics because of a tumor?
text: Did you know that Danny Gatton 's 1991 album 88 Elmira St. featured a version of " The Simpsons Theme ", with the added sound effect of a fart ?
text: Did you know that the flash fiction short story " El emigrante " by Luis Felipe Lomelí has only four words?
text: Did you know that in 1904, Joseph R. Burton (R-KS) became the first United States Senator to be convicted of a crime ?
text: Did you know that around 20 buildings and more than 40 monuments will be built in Skopje , Macedonia , as part of the Skopje 2014 project?
text: Did you know that United States water polo player Tumua Anae won the NCAA championship in 2010 and Olympic gold in 2012?
text: Did you know that T.B. was a three-wheeled cyclecar manufactured by the aircraft department of Thompson Brothers from 1919 until 1924?
text: Did you know that former Columbus, Georgia mayor B. Ed Johnson helped found the Miss Georgia USA beauty pageant?
text: Did you know that there is a marina in Gibraltar which is between a mole and a runway ?
text: Did you know that Venetian architect Girolamo Sartorio , the brother of composer Antonio Sartorio , designed the first German public opera house, the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg?
text: Did you know that during the American Revolutionary War , HMS Kingfisher served in the Burning of Norfolk and the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet , and was ultimately burnt by her own crew to avoid capture?
text: Did you know that Mutsuko Miki created teacups from the soil of Japan, North Korea, and South Korea to promote "harmonious relations" between the three nations?
text: Did you know that India ranked first in the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games medal table ?
text: Did you know that before 1978, Idaho state senator Reed Budge had not missed a senate sitting in 12 years?
text: Did you know that the mineral rapidcreekite was discovered in Yukon , Canada, in 1983?
text: Did you know that Croatian sports shooter Giovanni Cernogoraz , gold medalist in men's trap at the 2012 Olympics , works full time as a waiter at his father's restaurant in Novigrad ?
text: Did you know that a cognitive vulnerability is an erroneous belief or thought pattern that is believed to predispose a person to psychological problems?
text: Did you know that the statue of George IV which stands in Trafalgar Square was originally meant to be on top of the Marble Arch ?
text: Did you know that the roots of the Bahraini uprising stretch back to the 1920s?
text: Did you know that after screenwriter Sarah Williams approached Ecosse Films about making Becoming Jane , the company hired Kevin Hood to further develop its script?
text: Did you know that British singer-songwriter Pixie Lott co-wrote the song "You Broke My Heart" for Alexandra Burke ' s debut studio album Overcome in 2009?
text: Did you know that the 48th Georgia Infantry Regiment of Confederate Lt. Colonel Reuben Walker Carswell was in a brigade commanded by Carswell's mentor as a lawyer, Brigadier General Ambrose R. Wright ?
text: Did you know that an axe from the collection of the new Märkisches Provinzialmuseum in Berlin was used to execute Max Hödel after his attempt to assassinate the Kaiser ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian director D. Djajakusuma is credited with saving a traditional dance form?
text: Did you know that Liga Geral dos Trabalhadores de Angola , an exiled Angolan trade union linked to FNLA , received funding from the AFL–CIO during the 1960s?
text: Did you know that Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night starred Phil Hartman in one of his final acting roles?
text: Did you know that Garima Chaudhary represented India as the country's sole judoka at the 2012 Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Chilean authorities conducted a "psychological autopsy" to try to explain why an antiquities dealer killed and decapitated two people in the town of Lolol in July?
text: Did you know that collinsite was discovered in British Columbia and named for the director of the Geological Survey of Canada ?
text: Did you know that Amos Chapman has been inducted into the Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame this year for his actions which saw him awarded the Medal of Honor in 1874?
text: Did you know that The Bear Bryant Show regularly preempted live coverage of National Football League games that aired during the same time in Alabama ?
text: Did you know that Albertus Soegijapranata , Indonesia's first Catholic bishop, was born a Muslim?
text: Did you know that Taylor Brook won the Lee Ettelson Composer's Award with a piece for violin accompanied only by a drone that is 14 cents flat of F ♯ ?
text: Did you know that the Portland , a restored 1947 sternwheeler based in Portland, Oregon , was the last steam-powered tugboat built in the United States?
text: Did you know that just before the invasion of Poland , members of the German minority from Deutscher Volksverband were trained in sabotage by the Abwehr agents arriving in Poland from Germany?
text: Did you know that United States water polo players Annika Dries and Melissa Seidemann won the NCAA championship in 2011 and Olympic gold in 2012?
text: Did you know that Canadian entrepreneur Brian Wong became one of the youngest persons ever to receive venture capital funding at the age of 19?
text: Did you know that the Shimōsa Plateau , which occupies most of northern Chiba Prefecture , Japan, is home to Narita International Airport ?
text: Did you know that the 2010 album Mondo Cane by Mike Patton was conceived during the singer's time in Bologna ?
text: Did you know that the National Hero of Indonesia Mas Mansoer declared interest forbidden ?
text: Did you know that " Overpass Light Brigade " is an activist collaborative public art project where "holders of the light" stand over roadways at night with lighted letters to spell out messages?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian athletics Paralympian Katy Parrish trains with Tim Matthews in Melbourne, Victoria ?
text: Did you know that Oevaang Oeray was the first ethnic Dayak governor of West Kalimantan ?
text: Did you know that the racehorse Amiable won two British Classic Races in 1894 despite having severe stringhalt that made her look like she was "walking on hot bricks"?
text: Did you know that the foundation of Napata 's Temple of Amun is attributed to the Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III ?
text: Did you know that a character in Pixar's Ratatouille was based on French chef Hélène Darroze ?
text: Did you know that Impressionist , Vorticist , Pre-Raphaelite , Expressionist , Surrealist and Cubist painters became First and Second World War camoufleurs ?
text: Did you know that Tim Jorgensen set a new Division III college baseball record with 70 career home runs ?
text: Did you know that Gombloh 's song " Kebyar-Kebyar " is the only pop song regularly used in Indonesia's Independence Day ceremonies?
text: Did you know that William Ott opened the southernmost tram system in the world during his Invercargill mayoralty ?
text: Did you know that the stables of Oakfield Manor have been used to house lions?
text: Did you know that Professor Claudia-Maria Buch became a member of the German Council of Economic Experts on March 1 , 2012?
text: Did you know that the Mahkamah Mosque in Gaza was originally built as a madrasa in 1455 until the Ottomans converted it into a courthouse, hence the name mahkamah ?
text: Did you know that volleyball player Courtney Thompson set the NCAA record for career assists per game?
text: Did you know that the Golden Spikes Award is considered the most prestigious award in amateur baseball ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian officer Kristian "Kongo" Løken fought against Germany in both the First and the Second World Wars?
text: Did you know that the first recordings of Gravity began in May 2012 ?
text: Did you know that Javed Miandad is the youngest batsman , and the only teenager, to score a double century in Test cricket ?
text: Did you know that job attitude influences performance, rather than the other way around?
text: Did you know that Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford 's great-grandfather won three Football League First Division titles with Newcastle United ?
text: Did you know that an individual sponge , Neofibularia nolitangere , may have tens of thousands of parasitic worms , Haplosyllis spongicola , living within its tissues?
text: Did you know that Korean-Canadian film director Helen Lee made her debut in her pyjamas?
text: Did you know that after winning her first Olympic medal at her fourth Olympic Games, British judoka Karina Bryant hasn't ruled out competing at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio?
text: Did you know that " The Mermaid " is a sea ballad, not a sea shanty ?
text: Did you know that Jeff Luhnow worked as an engineer , management consultant , and technology entrepreneur before shifting to baseball ?
text: Did you know that the 1940 film Kartinah included product placement for Singer ?
text: Did you know that teenage American "Boy Aviator" Farnum Fish was wounded by enemy ground fire while on a reconnaissance flight for Pancho Villa on May 15, 1915?
text: Did you know that after winning the Siege of Mexico City in 1867, General Diaz personally released Hungarian Major János Csizmadia in return for the same favor during his prison time in Puebla two years before?
text: Did you know that places in the Yadkin-Pee Dee River Basin inspired locations in the 1960s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Indian Olympic high jumper Sahana Kumari qualified for the Games after breaking the eight-year-old national record ?
text: Did you know that according to Erika Ramirez of Billboard magazine, the lyrical message of Usher 's song " Numb " is "Forget your troubles and fist-pump!"?
text: Did you know that volleyball player Destinee Hooker won four NCAA championships in the high jump?
text: Did you know that Drexel 4257 , a manuscript in the New York Public Library , is the largest collection of English song from the first half of the 17th century?
text: Did you know that Hannes Pétursson 's poetry has been translated from Icelandic into 12 languages?
text: Did you know that 51 life-size figures of Indians populate the walk-through re-creation of a 16th-century Native American village in the Mashantucket Pequot Museum ?
text: Did you know that Andjar Asmara taught both D. Djajakusuma and Usmar Ismail the art of film?
text: Did you know that Elizaveta Karamihailova pioneered nuclear research in Bulgaria and made some of the earliest observations of neutron radiation ?
text: Did you know that the female Pavon Emperor looks like a California Sister ?
text: Did you know that Mollie Phillips was the first woman to carry the flag and lead out her national team at an Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that Japanese literary critic Hiroki Azuma considered the robot character Multi from To Heart the "most influential character among the male otaku " after Neon Genesis Evangelion ?
text: Did you know that equestrian Simon Delestre , when asked if he had any hobbies , said there was no time for them?
text: Did you know that Autographa sansoni is a moth that lives in the Pacific Northwest ?
text: Did you know that the 1992 Birmingham Fire season included the first tie game in World League history with their 17–17 draw against the London Monarchs ?
text: Did you know that the history of the Shrine of Our Lady of Europe as an aid to navigation has led to it being referred to as " Gibraltar's first lighthouse "?
text: Did you know that Brett Moffitt was the youngest driver ever to win in NASCAR touring series competition, but held that honor for less than a year?
text: Did you know that College Football Hall of Fame inductee Jim Holder set the NAIA record in 1963 for most yards gained in a season, rushing for 1775 yards in just ten games?
text: Did you know that Virginia militia ( Confederate ) brigadier general Gilbert S. Meem moved to Seattle, Washington , in 1892 and was appointed postmaster by U.S. President Grover Cleveland ?
text: Did you know that lip reading is a multimodal process for humans?
text: Did you know that the Madrid car bombing that killed seven people was the Basque separatist group ETA 's deadliest attack of 1993?
text: Did you know that Una Guðmundsdóttir , who headed one of the first schools for young children in Iceland , became nationally known as a psychic ?
text: Did you know that as of the 2010 season , an Indian Premier League umpire receives ₹ 6 crore (US$710,000) as the salary for serving in one season?
text: Did you know that Belarus sacked two top generals after a Swedish advertising agency illegally flew a plane into Belarus that dropped hundreds of teddy bears carrying pro-democracy messages?
text: Did you know that the ancient snakefly Cantabroraphidia was the first snakefly described from the El Soplao ambers?
text: Did you know that Saeed Anwar scored seven of his One Day International centuries at Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium ?
text: Did you know that Loyn Bridge in Lancashire has been described as being surprisingly impressive for a route that has little significance nowadays?
text: Did you know that Ira B. Thompson was appointed prosecuting attorney of Crenshaw County, Alabama , less than a year after being indicted for his activities within the local Ku Klux Klan organization?
text: Did you know that " Episode 14 " of Twin Peaks features frequent jump cuts between the two actors portraying Laura Palmer 's killer?
text: Did you know that water polo player Maggie Steffens led all scorers in the 2012 Summer Olympics , with 21 goals?
text: Did you know that Zeus was discovered on Mount Olympus ?
text: Did you know that Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul was Redding 's last solo studio album?
text: Did you know that the first Protestant translation of the New Testament into Polish was published by Jan Seklucjan in Königsberg , in the Polish fief Duchy of Prussia , between 1551 and 1553?
text: Did you know that the International Sociological Association was established in 1949 under the auspices of UNESCO ?
text: Did you know that among pilots of his air group, Japanese ace Makoto Ogawa downed the highest number of Boeing B-29 Superfortresses ?
text: Did you know that Alicia Keys ' song " Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready) " ranked as the number one song on Billboard ' s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs 2010 year-end list?
text: Did you know that the mineral messelite was described in 1890, discredited in 1940, reinstated and named neomesselite in 1955, and named messelite once again by 1959?
text: Did you know that until UCLA 's record winning streak ended at 88 games, college basketball player Tommy Curtis had not lost a game since he was 14 years old in high school?
text: Did you know that Krithika was one of the earliest writers in India to have authored a number of children's books in English?
text: Did you know that the Channel 4 popular science series Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe covers topics ranging from string theory to supersymmetry ?
text: Did you know that David J. Lane , the new U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Agencies for Food and Agriculture , was an executive with the ONE Campaign and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ?
text: Did you know that Tomahawk 's eponymous album features "some of the most unusual rhythms to be played by human hands since time began"?
text: Did you know that the Piedmont winemaker Aldo Conterno served with the U.S. Army in the Korean War ?
text: Did you know that the 1995 Gulf of Aqaba earthquake apparently triggered an earthquake swarm 500 kilometers (310 mi) from its epicenter?
text: Did you know that Sedric Webber was named an NCAA Division I men's basketball conference player of the year in two different conferences?
text: Did you know that in 2012 Jenny McCudden became the first female editor in the 176-year history of the newspaper The Sligo Champion ?
text: Did you know that the book The Black Hole War , by theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind , covers the scientific debate between Susskind and Stephen Hawking on the black hole information paradox ?
text: Did you know that, after five seasons playing minor league baseball , in his first season with the Atlanta Braves , pitcher Greg McMichael was runner-up for league Rookie of the Year ?
text: Did you know that the golden zanthid , a colonial coral , often grows on the surface of the green finger sponge ?
text: Did you know that Michael Blakey led research at the African Burial Ground National Monument that revealed how 18th-century New Yorkers exploited and mistreated African slaves?
text: Did you know that the Fourth Fitna pitted two half-brothers, the Abbasid caliphs al-Amin and al-Ma'mun , against each other?
text: Did you know that Teeology.com , an e-commerce co-founded by Jennifer Lopez , uses new technology and social network tools to "disrupt the traditional retail model"?
text: Did you know that Felice Bauer and Franz Kafka first met 100 years ago today in Prague , exchanged hundreds of letters , and were engaged twice?
text: Did you know that BBC One 's Expedition Guyana was renamed Lost Land of the Jaguar to appeal to a wider audience, as a reference to Arthur Conan Doyle 's The Lost World ?
text: Did you know that habana grass is sometimes found as a bird seed contaminant?
text: Did you know that Edward Tyrer , the Commissioner of Police , Hong Kong , was mysteriously approved for early retirement on "health grounds" at the height of the leftist riots in July 1967 ?
text: Did you know that " Episode 6188 " of the Australian soap opera Neighbours was broadcast in real-time and featured the exit of Mark Brennan ?
text: Did you know that The Telegraph described James Cable as "one of the most influential naval strategic thinkers of the last half-century"?
text: Did you know that shooting for Nuclear Strike 's full motion video employed a live tiger and the Batcave ?
text: Did you know that Simon & Garfunkel declined an invitation to perform at Woodstock while they were working on the album Bridge Over Troubled Water ?
text: Did you know that Gregory Merson made the final table of the 2012 World Series of Poker main event even though he is a shorthanded cash game specialist?
text: Did you know that David Bond took eight weeks of unpaid leave from his job in order to become one of three gold medallists for the British team at the 1948 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that 5% of people who sustain a physical trauma have some form of liver injury ?
text: Did you know that, in 1911, the Clifton Antiquarian Club of Bristol , England , paid tribute to the efforts of Alfred Hudd with an inscribed, inlaid grandfather clock?
text: Did you know that both Mekeli Wesley and his brother Tai were NCAA Division I men's basketball conference players of the year during their careers?
text: Did you know that a dog was mummified and received a special burial?
text: Did you know that a patent war fought by Alexander Graham Bell , credited with inventing the telephone, involved 600 lawsuits and lasted 11 years?
text: Did you know that Gelindo Bordin is the only male ever to win both the Boston Marathon and an Olympic gold medal ( Seoul 1988 ) in the marathon ?
text: Did you know that Irving Gottesman is the first psychologist to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society for Psychiatric Genetics ?
text: Did you know that the brown tubular sponge often has a colonial coral living symbiotically on its surface?
text: Did you know that former British Olympic bronze medallist Kate Allenby became a PE teacher after she retired from professional sport?
text: Did you know that the plot of Crisis Four in the Nick Stone Missions book series, written before the September 11 attacks , involved a plan by Osama bin Laden to destroy the White House ?
text: Did you know that the bill covers at the restaurant Zafferano have saffron fibres woven into them?
text: Did you know that Haitian runner Dieudonné LaMothe said he completed the marathon at the 1984 Summer Olympics in fear for his life?
text: Did you know that Nancy Takes Revenge , a 1930 sequel, was released four months after the original film 's conclusion?
text: Did you know that German sculptor Walter Lemcke designed the first Olympic torch for the 1936 Summer Olympics torch relay , which began the tradition of taking the Olympic Flame to the host city?
text: Did you know that the design of Henbury Hall in Cheshire , built in the 1980s, is based on Palladio 's Villa Rotonda ?
text: Did you know that fighter pilot Yoshio Yoshida shot down six confirmed Boeing B-29 Superfortresses over Japan but was awarded the high military honor of Bukosho for an earlier "probable" in Manchuria?
text: Did you know that Jennifer Lopez 's song " Invading My Mind ", from her seventh studio album Love? , was co-produced by Lady Gaga ?
text: Did you know that Englishman John Copley was the oldest person ever to receive an Olympic medal , winning silver at the age of 73?
text: Did you know that Australian Olympic swimmer Garrick Agnew worked his passage from Brisbane to Vancouver in the engine room of a freight ship?
text: Did you know that in 2008, an Australian girls' school defeated an American boys' school for the United States Invitational Young Physicists Tournament championship?
text: Did you know that, as a 16th- and 17th-century ruler of Maguindanao , Kapitan Laut Buisan led raids against Spanish settlements?
text: Did you know that the wrestling match between Alfred Asikainen and Martin Klein at the 1912 Summer Olympics lasted eleven hours and forty minutes?
text: Did you know that Weight & Glory by KB reached no. 7 on iTunes after a campaign by the website Rapzilla to push the album into the Top 10 ?
text: Did you know that the Stoner archaeological site in Illinois is unusual for its lack of evidence of substantial occupation by any people other than the Allison-Lamotte culture ?
text: Did you know that the first Winter Olympic torch relay did not carry the Olympic Flame ?
text: Did you know that Canadian literary critic Ira Nadel considers the legend of the Olympic torch relay a total fabrication?
text: Did you know that the Amaryllis was sunk and used as an artificial reef after being wrecked by Hurricane Betsy in 1965?
text: Did you know that the 1935 film Pareh bankrupted both of its directors, Albert Balink and Mannus Franken ?
text: Did you know that Paul van Ass , the coach of the Dutch men's hockey team at the 2012 Olympics , generated controversy by not selecting " T & T " for the squad?
text: Did you know that Confederate Colonel Robert Johnson Henderson 's division commander persuaded Henderson to sign his parole at the end of the American Civil War as a brigadier general ?
text: Did you know that the parental brain is changed by parental experience, as well as changing hormone levels during pregnancy and postpartum?
text: Did you know that at his fifth Olympics in 2000 , British walker Chris Maddocks started injured and entered the stadium in last place as The Proclaimers ' I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) was played on loudspeakers?
text: Did you know that Ruth Ann Steinhagen regularly set an empty place at the dinner table for baseball player Eddie Waitkus before she shot him, becoming one of the first stalkers and an inspiration for The Natural ?
text: Did you know that the Conroy Virtus , intended to carry the Space Shuttle orbiter , would have used two B-52 bomber fuselages in its construction?
text: Did you know that 1948 Olympics rowing gold medallist Bert Bushnell was involved in the evacuation of Dunkirk during the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that Niki Reiser , composer for such films as Alles auf Zucker! , was awarded the Rheingau Music Prize in 2005 for "suffusing each individual work with its own unique sound"?
text: Did you know that residents of the Iron Age village of Khirbet Zanuta near Hebron achieved a revision of the planned demolition of their dwellings by the Israeli military authorities?
text: Did you know that 2012 Olympian Coolboy Ngamole won the South African Marathon Championships in 2010 and 2012?
text: Did you know that Bank on Dave , an alternative to High Street banks in Burnley , Lancashire , now has a waiting list for would-be customers?
text: Did you know that 2012 Indian Olympic competitor Ram Singh Yadav is the second Indian athlete ever to be qualified for the Olympics marathon?
text: Did you know that Gustave Caillebotte 's 1875 painting Les raboteurs de parquet was rejected by the Salon for its "vulgar subject matter"?
text: Did you know that professional goalkeeper Maladi was instrumental in the development of television in Indonesia ?
text: Did you know that the Australian contribution to UNTAG in Namibia was Australia's first large peacekeeping military operation?
text: Did you know that Olympic shot putter Augie Wolf 's son, A.J., was a junior United States national shot put champion?
text: Did you know that Gopala Chandra Praharaj spent three decades compiling Purnachandra Odia Bhashakosha , a seven-volume lexicon of the Oriya language ?
text: Did you know that the Olympic Flame was transmitted by satellite from Greece to Canada in 1976?
text: Did you know that Samantha Murray will achieve her childhood dream of competing at the Olympics when she participates in the modern pentathlon for Great Britain at the 2012 Games ?
text: Did you know that the General Union of Negro African Workers was one of the main forces behind the 1958 vote for independence in Guinea ?
text: Did you know that race walker Regan Lamble , representing Australia in the 2012 Olympics , commentated a men's race walking event for Eurosport ?
text: Did you know that Jebel Musa in Morocco is possibly the southern Pillar of Hercules , with the Rock of Gibraltar being the northern pillar?
text: Did you know that while huemulite was discovered in 1959, it was not described until 1966?
text: Did you know that 2012 British Olympian Annie Last deferred from studying medicine at university in order to be a professional mountain biker ?
text: Did you know that about 10% of healthy people experience grandiose delusions ?
text: Did you know that damage control surgery is often performed in a heated operating room to combat hypothermia ?
text: Did you know that the Hamdanid Emir of Mosul , Nasir al-Dawla , was deposed by his own sons and his wife and died imprisoned in a fortress?
text: Did you know that 2012 British Olympian racewalker Dominic King has a twin brother named Daniel , who beat him in a race at the 2006 Commonwealth Games ?
text: Did you know that chromium hydride is formed when chromium is electroplated?
text: Did you know that Tim George , who gained only 28 yards in 20 games played in the National Football League as a wide receiver , was elected into two halls of fame?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic race walker Beki Lee lives in Canberra, where she is working on a degree via correspondence?
text: Did you know that Neil Young wrote his classic songs " Cowgirl in the Sand ", " Down by the River " and " Cinnamon Girl " while suffering from the flu with a high fever ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic modern pentathlete Chloe Esposito , ranked eleventh in the world, is the daughter of a 1984 Olympics modern pentathlete?
text: Did you know that archaeological finds revealed that the Palestinian village Talluza was the ancient Samaritan town of Turluzeh, not the biblical-era Tirzah as identified by 19th-century scholars?
text: Did you know that Ready Teddy is the only three-day eventing horse to have won individual gold medals at both the Olympic Games and the World Equestrian Games ?
text: Did you know that the 1988 BBC television film The Woman He Loved , about the abdication of King Edward VIII , was partially shot at Shirenewton Hall ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic marathon runner Jessica Trengove won Sydney's 2011 City2Surf ?
text: Did you know that Austrian historian Dagobert Frey led the Gestapo in a mass looting campaign from the Warsaw and Kraków museums and national art galleries during the Nazi German occupation of Poland ?
text: Did you know that some runners in the 1968 Summer Olympics torch relay were burned by exploding torches?
text: Did you know that Jørgen Juve was captain of the Norwegian football team that won Olympic bronze medals in Berlin in 1936 , after knocking out Germany in the quarter final?
text: Did you know that John Dabiri designed and constructed a wind farm based on the optimal vortex formation of schooling fish ?
text: Did you know that the Ballon d'Alsace was the first official mountain climb in the Tour de France ?
text: Did you know that despite becoming British weightlifting champion shortly before the 2012 Olympics , Halil Zorba wasn't named to the British squad for the Games?
text: Did you know that the producers of Casting Crowns ' eponymous debut album were Mark A. Miller, of country band Sawyer Brown , and contemporary Christian singer Steven Curtis Chapman ?
text: Did you know that, at the 2012 Olympics , Alaaeldin Abouelkassem of Egypt became the first representative of an African nation to win an Olympic fencing medal?
text: Did you know that the Miami Vice episode " No Exit " had its title changed from "Three-Eyed Turtle" when it was discovered the latter was sexual slang?
text: Did you know that sprinter Emily Diamond was selected for Great Britain 's 4 × 400 metres relay squad at the 2012 Olympics despite having run the distance outdoors competitively only six times?
text: Did you know that the Bengali film Mushrooms , shown in the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes , caused controversy in India when its sexually explicit scene was leaked online?
text: Did you know that Rhonda Coullet composed and sang a tribute to her close friend John Belushi after his death, for a Saturday Night Live segment produced by his widow?
text: Did you know that from 1968 to 1971, the role of No. 1 Operational Conversion Unit RAAF was to provide trained aircrew for No. 2 Squadron in Vietnam ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Olympian Kelsey Titmarsh is a member of the first Canadian women's rhythmic gymnastics all-around group to qualify for the Olympics?
text: Did you know that while the mineral magnesiopascoite was discovered in Utah, the two cotype specimens are in a museum in California ?
text: Did you know that Käthe Krauß won bronze in the 100 metres in the 1936 Summer Olympics and was on the German women's sprint relay team that set a world record in the heats, but dropped the baton in the final race?
text: Did you know that Andrea St. Bernard is the first Grenadian taekwondo practitioner to be selected for an Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that Meriwether Lewis discovered the first Lewisia at Lolo Creek, in the mountain range that became known as the Bitterroot Mountains ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic cross country mountain biker Rebecca Henderson is coached by cyclist Dan McConnell, who is also set to represent Australia in mountain biking ?
text: Did you know that Königsberg alderman Hieronymus Roth was imprisoned for life by Great Elector Frederick William because Roth wanted Ducal Prussia to remain a fief of Poland ?
text: Did you know that the Japanese Olympic Committee did not like the suggestion that the 1940 Summer Olympics torch relay could go through China?
text: Did you know that Everett Scott held the Major League Baseball consecutive games played streak before Lou Gehrig ?
text: Did you know that the statue of George V that is now located opposite the House of Lords in London was hidden in a quarry during the Second World War?
text: Did you know that during Clarence Louie ' s tenure as chief, the Osoyoos Indian Band started the first aboriginal-owned winery in North America?
text: Did you know that two decades after a former bank building became the new Astoria City Hall , in Astoria, Oregon , the old city hall became the first home of the Columbia River Maritime Museum ?
text: Did you know that at the 2012 Olympics, Kayla Harrison became the first American to win a gold medal in judo?
text: Did you know that Crime and Dissonance , a compilation of work by Ennio Morricone , presents the composer as "a sonic experimentalist"?
text: Did you know that anthropologist Gene Weltfish lost her Columbia University faculty job and could not find another when U.S. Senators investigated her for alleged un-American activities ?
text: Did you know that 130 bulls were sacrificed in the Sanctuary of the Knife of the Pyramid of Neferefre during a ten-day feast?
text: Did you know that 2012 Olympic synchronized swimmer Samantha Reid is a "Mermaid"?
text: Did you know that Danish wrestler Søren Marinus Jensen won two gold medals at an Olympic Games which is no longer considered to be an Olympic Games?
text: Did you know that naturalist Charles Darwin 's book Geological Observations on South America is based on travels during the second voyage of HMS Beagle ?
text: Did you know that Isaiah Wilkerson holds the NJIT Highlanders men's basketball program records for points and rebounds in their Division I era?
text: Did you know that last year's Richardson fire in Alberta, Canada, was the second largest in the province's recorded history at over 700,000 hectares (1,700,000 acres)?
text: Did you know that 2012 Olympic taekwondo competitor Jade Jones won Great Britain's first ever gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that Madrona Manor , on the United States' National Register of Historic Places , is now a bed and breakfast inn with a Michelin-starred restaurant ?
text: Did you know that Daisuke Sasaki wrestled with and defeated eight other men to become King of Stockholm?
text: Did you know that the first documented specimens of the spring beauty rust were collected by a former mayor of Buffalo, New York ?
text: Did you know that sculptor Chintamoni Kar received civilian awards from India and France and won an Olympic medal for Great Britain?
text: Did you know that Jane Lee is the first woman from Southeast Asia to climb the Seven Summits ?
text: Did you know that a research team from Gibraltar Museum and a dive club shared an award for investigating around a Detached Mole ?
text: Did you know that Zach Vincej won the Brooks Wallace Award , given to the best shortstop in college baseball , in 2012?
text: Did you know that Amaryllis was Gordon Ramsay 's first Scottish restaurant?
text: Did you know that 2012 Olympic javelin thrower Sean Furey spends time bomb-proofing electronics?
text: Did you know that California student Sarah Attar is one of Saudi Arabia's first female athletes at the Olympics, and is due to compete at the 2012 Games in an event she hasn't competed in since high school ?
text: Did you know that the fragments of Beethoven 's music in the soundtrack of Kagel 's film Ludwig van are modified to imitate the way the deaf composer heard his own work?
text: Did you know that Olympic high jumper Tora Harris , who was a four-time United States national champion, studied mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University ?
text: Did you know that High Roller was a roller coaster atop the Stratosphere Las Vegas , the tallest observation tower in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Yi Siling was both the first person to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics and the first person to win a gold medal at the Games?
text: Did you know that the dune brittlestem has a symbiotic relationship with marram grass ?
text: Did you know that Winona Beamer , who was expelled from school for dancing the hula , toured with her cousin Mahi Beamer performing both the hula and the Hawaiian art of storytelling?
text: Did you know that when she played for Great Britain against Australia on 28 July , Rose Anderson became Scotland's first Olympic basketball player?
text: Did you know that the nobleman Mochtar acted in 69 films in his nearly 60-year career?
text: Did you know that prior to the 2012 Summer Olympics American javelin thrower Craig Kinsley had never competed in an international competition?
text: Did you know that construction of the South Mole , a breakwater in the harbour of Gibraltar , was begun by the Spanish in 1620?
text: Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II made the German trumpeter and conductor Ludwig Güttler an officer of the OBE , in recognition of his efforts to reconstruct the Frauenkirche in Dresden ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Olympic BMX rider Caroline Buchanan was one of Australia's best BMX riders in 2008 but could not compete in Beijing because her youth made her ineligible?
text: Did you know that the extinct snakefly Amarantoraphidia ventolina is named for air beings of the Cantabrian mythologies ?
text: Did you know that the 19th-century Albany, New York, neighborhoods of Center Square and Hudson–Park were unnamed until neighborhood associations were formed in the 20th century?
text: Did you know that as a child, 2012 Australian Olympic BMX rider Lauren Reynolds would launch herself off the Bunbury jetty and into the river?
text: Did you know that " Oh Love ", the first single from Green Day 's album, ¡Uno! , is the third-ever song to make its debut at number one on the US Rock Songs chart ?
text: Did you know that when Eddy Rodríguez defected from Cuba , his boat nearly capsized and he had to eat ground coffee beans to survive?
text: Did you know that in 1965, British diplomacy proved helpless to stop Rhodesia 's Lisbon Appointment ?
text: Did you know that before she achieved the fourth longest long jump in the world this year during the U.S. Olympic Trials , Chelsea Hayes was described as "unheralded and unknown"?
text: Did you know that an egg of the extinct elephant bird given to David Attenborough in 1960 inspired the making of his 2011 documentary Attenborough and the Giant Egg ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Olympian Jack Green set new personal bests in both the 400 m and the 400 m hurdles just two weeks before the Games?
text: Did you know that Balthasar Kindermann wrote in 1658 a praise of beer, in 1660 a guidebook for speeches, and in 1664 the hymn on which Bach's chorale cantata BWV 94 is based?
text: Did you know that Brittany Borman improved her personal best javelin throw by nearly 7 feet (more than 2 meters) en route to making the 2012 U.S. Olympic team ?
text: Did you know that Russian space complex Moment analyses spacecraft by examining their radio transmissions ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. third party presidential campaign of former Congressman and current Constitution Party nominee Virgil Goode is polling at nine percent in the swing state of Virginia ?
text: Did you know that Vicky Holland , who competed in triathlon for Great Britain at the 2012 Olympics , only took up the sport in her second year of university?
text: Did you know that the Fantômas album The Director's Cut features a thrash metal cover of Nino Rota 's theme from The Godfather ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler Ellis Coleman is known for the "Flying Squirrel" takedown move in which he jumps over his opponent and grabs him from behind while flying over his back?
text: Did you know that in Liechtenstein , although there are exemptions, religious education is mandatory?
text: Did you know that " Sweet Life ", the third single in Frank Ocean 's debut album Channel Orange , was released a few days after he came out as a bisexual?
text: Did you know that in addition to being a competitive discus thrower, 2012 British Olympian Abdul Buhari works two days a week for investment bank Credit Suisse ?
text: Did you know that Ettore Petrolini is considered one of the most important figures of avanspettacolo , vaudeville , and revue ?
text: Did you know that the Gibraltar North Mole Lighthouse shares its name with the breakwater on which it stands in Gibraltar Harbour?
text: Did you know that Heather Stanning 's gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics was predicted in her school yearbook ?
text: Did you know that Lucy Hall and Stuart Hayes were selected for the Great Britain team at the 2012 Olympics ahead of higher-ranked triathletes because of their ability to act as domestiques ?
text: Did you know that Lonesome Glory , the first American steeplechaser to win more than US$1 million in prize money, was also the first American-trained horse to win a National Hunt race in Britain?
text: Did you know that 2012 Olympic discus thrower Jason Young almost gave up on the sport in 2011?
text: Did you know that Moscow's ZiL lanes are special lanes on main roads that are reserved for the use of top government officials?
text: Did you know that Andrew Still wanted to portray the stabbing of his character Joel Dexter realistically because stabbings had often occurred in Glasgow ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic javelin thrower Kathryn Mitchell threw an Olympic A-qualifying distance in January, but since it was a club event, the throw did not count for Olympic qualification?
text: Did you know that "Miky", a bomb-sniffing police dog that only responds to commands in Hebrew, helped to revitalize the Jewish community in Helena, Montana , that built Temple Emanu-El ?
text: Did you know that the Pakistan Army established the Sabawoon Rehabilitation Center for brainwashed militants after a military operation in Swat ?
text: Did you know that " Pink Turns to Blue " was named one of the 500 best songs since punk rock began?
text: Did you know that Brett Morse , slated to represent Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics , was the first Welshman to win the discus at the UK Championships?
text: Did you know that Gervais Street Bridge was the only bridge across the Congaree River in Columbia, South Carolina , from 1928 until 1953?
text: Did you know that John Adamson produced the first calotype portrait in Scotland and instructed both his younger brother Robert and Thomas Rodger in this photographic process?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic canoeist Alana Nicholls was the 2011 Australian Canoeing Athlete of the Year?
text: Did you know that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nouakchott is located in Mauritania , even though census figures indicate that nearly 100% of the country's citizens are adherents of Islam ?
text: Did you know that artistic gymnast Elizabeth Price , a 2012 Olympics alternate, was not picked for the five-member U.S. team even though she finished fourth at the Olympic Trials?
text: Did you know that Beyoncé and Lady Gaga were the only artists to top the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart four times each during 2009?
text: Did you know that the North Mole Elbow Lighthouse in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar also serves as a control room for the Gibraltar Harbour?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic canoeist Naomi Flood was the 2009 overall winner for the Ironwoman Series ?
text: Did you know that as of August 2, Dan Straily led all American professional baseball pitchers in strikeouts for 2012?
text: Did you know that 136 villages have been completely submerged in the backwaters of the reservoirs constructed as a part of the Upper Krishna Project ?
text: Did you know that the parents of 2012 Olympian Lance Brooks successfully petitioned for him to compete as a one-person track and field team in eighth grade?
text: Did you know that 2012 Olympic synchronized swimmer Tamika Domrow of Australia works as an apprentice kennel technician and her teammate Francesca Owen is a model and photographer?
text: Did you know that the BBC nature documentary series Ocean Giants includes episodes about whale songs and the cognitive abilities of dolphins ?
text: Did you know that American sprinter Marlena Wesh chose to represent Haiti in the 2012 Olympics though she has never been there?
text: Did you know that the Sugababes ' first greatest hits album , Overloaded: The Singles Collection , sold half a million copies in the United Kingdom in less than a year after its release?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic canoeist Jo Brigden-Jones has participated in surf lifesaving competitions?
text: Did you know that Mohammad Hatta was vice president, prime minister, and minister of defence during his first cabinet ?
text: Did you know that Scottish botanist John Fraser was a plant collector for Catherine, Czar of Russia ?
text: Did you know that 2012 British Olympic steeplechaser Eilish McColgan is coached by her mother, Liz , a former world 10,000 metres champion?
text: Did you know that anarchist industrial music group Missing Foundation helped instigate the Tompkins Square Park Riot in August 1988 ?
text: Did you know that Tarren Otte , the oldest member of Australia's 2012 Olympic synchronized swimming contingent, has struggled to stay involved in the sport because of the financial costs of competing?
text: Did you know that a brigadier general commission for Confederate Colonel Francis Marion Walker arrived at his headquarters the day after he was killed at the Battle of Atlanta in the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that in the Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands , naturalist Charles Darwin presents one of the earliest accounts of the process of magmatic differentiation ?
text: Did you know that although Rachel Lovell retired from canoeing prior to Great Britain's trials for its 2008 Olympics team, she immigrated to Australia and became a 2012 Australian Olympic canoeist ?
text: Did you know that Birgitte Grimstad ' s song repertoire has included a medieval ballad , songs by Bach , Grieg and Mortensen 's Til Ungdommen , and an adaptation of an Elvis Presley hit ?
text: Did you know that Australian 2012 Olympic equestrian jumper Julia Hargreaves was born in Hong Kong, grew up in the United States and Australia, and now resides in the Netherlands?
text: Did you know that the Schleswig horse is on the Food and Agriculture Organization 's list of endangered domestic animal breeds, having reached a low of only 5 stallions and 35 mares in 1976?
text: Did you know that Ukrainian-born wrestler Olga Butkevych is to compete for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics , despite only gaining British citizenship in May this year?
text: Did you know that Union Colonel James Cameron , killed at the American Civil War First Battle of Bull Run , was a brother of U.S. Secretary of War Simon Cameron ?
text: Did you know that " Conquistador " was one of the few Procol Harum songs in which the music was written before the lyrics?
text: Did you know that National Hero of Indonesia Adnan Kapau Gani was a film star and smuggler?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic synchronized swimmer Bianca Hammett became interested in the sport after seeing a newspaper advertisement for it?
text: Did you know that trilingual Olia Burtaev and South African-born Jenny-Lyn Anderson were selected to represent Australia in synchronized swimming at the 2012 Olympics ?
text: Did you know that scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology won the 2010 European Inventor Award for their work on the development of liquid wood ?
text: Did you know that Irish Olympian Caitriona Jennings achieved the qualifying standard for the 2012 Summer Olympics in just her second marathon?
text: Did you know that the song " I Protest " by MC Kash became a protest anthem in Jammu and Kashmir during the 2010 unrest ?
text: Did you know that a purported portrait of Anne Hathaway , dated 1708, may be the only surviving depiction of her?
text: Did you know that the first consumer treadmill for home use was developed in the late 1960s by aerospace engineer William Staub ?
text: Did you know that 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medalist Alethea Sedgman was selected over her boyfriend for the 2012 Olympics because national selectors wanted to send a female competitor?
text: Did you know that Scott Brash plans to compete in show jumping at the 2012 Olympics on the back of a horse that cost an estimated two million euros ?
text: Did you know that the Russian battleship Peresvet was scuttled during the Siege of Port Arthur in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, and was salvaged afterward and placed into service by the Japanese?
text: Did you know that in addition to competing as a duet team in synchronized swimming at the 2012 Olympics , Mary Killman and Mariya Koroleva are roommates?
text: Did you know that the ironsands steel production company started in New Zealand by John Chambers eventually failed because a bricklayer was shot?
text: Did you know that two-thirds of the population of the town of Qir in Iran were killed by an earthquake in 1972 ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Antiguan Olympic sprinter Afia Charles is the daughter of Ruperta Charles, who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that chef Skye Gyngell described her Michelin star as a "curse"?
text: Did you know that 2012 British Olympic shooter James Huckle took up the sport after his father bought a rifle to deal with a rat problem?
text: Did you know that Afro-Uruguayan intellectuals founded the Black Native Party in 1936, the third Black political party in Latin America?
text: Did you know that Australian Olympian Melissa Breen ran the 100 metres 27 times in 2012 trying to achieve an Olympic A qualifying time of 11.29 seconds?
text: Did you know that the list of threatened fauna of Michigan includes almost 400 endangered, threatened and special concern species?
text: Did you know that Masaharu Matsushita , president of Panasonic from 1961 to 1977, married the daughter of Panasonic's founder and adopted his family name before joining the company?
text: Did you know that 2012 Olympic equestrian jumper James Paterson-Robinson of Australia was not selected for the 2004 Olympics because his horse was injured?
text: Did you know that despite first opening in 1936, Mirabelle was named London's best new restaurant in 1999?
text: Did you know that to deprive his body of oxygen in the five months before the Olympic trials , Olympic steeplechaser Donald Cabral spent over 10 hours a day in a high-altitude tent he bought on Craigslist ?
text: Did you know that fewer than 1000 mature plants of the endangered rose mallee remain in the wild?
text: Did you know that racewalker Emerson Esnal Hernández , who is set to represent El Salvador at the 2012 Olympic Games , started competing in athletics after accompanying a shy friend to tryouts?
text: Did you know that Stuart R. Schram , biographer of Chairman Mao , started his career as a nuclear physicist working on the Manhattan Project ?
text: Did you know that video game Cannon Fodder , intended as an anti-war satire, drew controversy for juxtaposing violence and humour, as well for iconography resembling the remembrance poppy ?
text: Did you know that Australian Olympian Robyn van Nus took up her sport of shooting to help deal with chronic fatigue syndrome ?
text: Did you know that Morley Street , a two-time American Champion Steeplechase Horse , was named after a street in London?
text: Did you know that track cyclist Philip Hindes was born in Germany and did not take up cycling until 2008, but has been selected to represent Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that seed of the African teak tree is largely dispersed by fruit bats ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Olympian Janet Cherobon-Bawcom started running only as a means to get a college scholarship and says she never "really became interested" in the sport?
text: Did you know that Richard Hart , a Jamaican historian and politician, was expelled from the People's National Party in 1954 for his alleged communist views despite co-founding the party in 1938?
text: Did you know that the Vienna "pocket opera" Wiener Taschenoper took children to John Cage 's A House Full of Music and adults on Stockhausen's Michael's Journey Around the Earth ?
text: Did you know that Roberto Janet , who is representing Cuba at the 2012 Olympics , is a two-time hammer throw champion at both the Ibero-American and the Central American and Caribbean Championships ?
text: Did you know that the Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo , Sa'd al-Dawla , was denied entry to his own capital for much of his early reign?
text: Did you know that 2012 British Olympic heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson missed most of the 2010 season with jumper's knee ?
text: Did you know that Steve Hogan , the Republican mayor of Aurora, Colorado , was the Democratic congressional candidate who ran against Republican and Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert ?
text: Did you know that Kaila McKnight , a 1500 metres runner for Australia at the 2012 Olympics , spent three months competing overseas before the Olympic qualifiers?
text: Did you know that the Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party came to power in the 8th of March Revolution ?
text: Did you know that cricketer Brad Hodge has the highest batting average and the best bowling average among Kochi Tuskers Kerala players ?
text: Did you know that, as a child, 2012 Olympic triple jumper Amanda Smock believed she would one day be an Olympic gymnast like Nadia Comăneci ?
text: Did you know that the studio of Java Pacific Film was located in an old tapioca flour factory?
text: Did you know that the upcoming Wild West-themed Doctor Who episode, " A Town Called Mercy ", was mainly filmed around Almería , Spain, the same location used for many Westerns, including A Fistful of Dollars ?
text: Did you know that American weightlifter Sarah Robles , who has been called "the strongest woman in America", lived on less than USD$ 400 a month while training for the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Rambhadracharya has received awards from several personalities, including A. P. J. Abdul Kalam , Somnath Chatterjee and Indira Gandhi ?
text: Did you know that Australian 1500 metre runner Zoe Buckman is one of ten University of Oregon alumni selected to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that "perhaps one of the most beautiful and enigmatic places to be found in Machu Picchu " is its Intihuatana , a solar clock stone?
text: Did you know that the Golden-crowned Sparrow is an important destroyer of weed seeds on the Pacific coast of North America?
text: Did you know that 2012 Olympic judo competitor Wodjan Shaherkani is required to be accompanied by a male guardian during the Games?
text: Did you know that Esther Armah and her family were placed under house arrest during the 1966 Ghana military coup while her father Kwesi Armah was on a diplomatic mission to Vietnam?
text: Did you know that 2012 Olympian Temi Fagbenle was born in the United States to Nigerian parents but plays basketball internationally for Great Britain ?
text: Did you know that devilled kidneys , a breakfast dish from the 19th century, are now being served as street food ?
text: Did you know that Helene Wildbrunn , a celebrated Wagnerian soprano at the Vienna State Opera and La Scala , began her career in 1907 as a contralto at the Stadttheater Dortmund ?
text: Did you know that 2012 British Olympic shooter Jonathan Hammond is the most successful athlete ever for Scotland at a Commonwealth Games , having won four medals in 2010 ?
text: Did you know that Millennium 's " The Pest House " has been compared to the 1996 film Scream ?
text: Did you know that Connor Jaeger qualified for the 2012 Olympics on what was only his fifth-ever swim of the 1500-meter freestyle in competition?
text: Did you know that the South Mole Lighthouse in the harbour of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar features two galleries?
text: Did you know that the Delaware House of Representatives has a Dennis Williams in the 1st district and a Dennis Williams in the 10th district?
text: Did you know that much of what we know of lost plays on Philoctetes by Aeschylus and Euripedes is based on Dio Chrysostom comparing them to Sophocles ' extant version ?
text: Did you know that Australian Olympic equestrian dressage competitor Lyndal Oatley is the cousin of fellow Olympian Kristy Oatley and wife of Swedish equestrian Patrik Kittel?
text: Did you know that the designer of Cannon Fodder 2 started writing a novella to accompany the game, but the publisher vetoed the project, leaving reviewers baffled by the game's lack of plot?
text: Did you know that although four people testified that he did not murder Thomas Bates , Oswald Grey was the last person hanged at Winson Green Prison ?
text: Did you know that Lauren Boden , a 2012 Olympian , has been mistaken for fellow Australian hurdler Jana Pittman ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Olympics track cyclist Melissa Hoskins took up the sport after participating in a talent identification event?
text: Did you know that the Cretaceous snakefly Necroraphidia arcuata takes its name, in part, from the Latin word for "bent" and the Greek word for "dead"?
text: Did you know that Norwegian footballer Kent Bergersen left the Greek club Panionios G.S.S. because the club didn't pay his salary?
text: Did you know that, after low first-run viewership, the Nielsen ratings of Cheers improved during the summer between the finale of the first season and the second season premiere ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Olympic 800 metre freestyle swimmer Jessica Ashwood started swimming when she was four years old?
text: Did you know that the last song to reach number one on the U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart of 2011 was Wale 's collaboration featuring Miguel , " Lotus Flower Bomb "?
text: Did you know that Kuldeep Joshi is a blind student who continuously played the tabla for twelve hours?
text: Did you know that during World War II , Brazilians fought Germans at Collecchio in Italy?
text: Did you know that Saudi Arabian professor and ACPRA co-founder Mohammad al-Qahtani expects a "snowball" loss of control by the Saudi government ?
text: Did you know that Liz Halliday said that her ambitions were to be the first woman to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans and to make the United States Equestrian Team ?
text: Did you know that a majority of German-Swedish forces in the Battle of Czarne mutinied, capitulated and then joined the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Army ?
text: Did you know that Max Kepler-Rozycki received the largest signing bonus given to a European player by a Major League Baseball team?
text: Did you know that almost a third of the films from the Dutch East Indies date from 1941?
text: Did you know that Genevieve LaCaze made it onto the 2012 Olympic squad only after the Australian Olympic Committee intervened in the Athletics Australia selection process?
text: Did you know that numerous piles of trash were set ablaze when Baltimore's garbage collectors and police officers conducted overlapping strikes in July 1974 ?
text: Did you know that Mulugeta Buli created a private security cabinet for Emperor Haile Selassie ?
text: Did you know that in 1905 Cherry Lass won the 1,000 Guineas Stakes and the Epsom Oaks , but finished third in the St. Leger Stakes and missed the Fillies Triple Crown in British horse-racing?
text: Did you know that CNN International has been accused of suppressing the documentary iRevolution: Online Warriors of the Arab Spring to appease the Bahraini government?
text: Did you know that Gilla Gerzon , the Director of the Haifa USO, had 241 trees planted in Israel in memory of the 241 Americans killed in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing ?
text: Did you know that the ASA ruled that the New Labour, New Danger adverts portrayed Tony Blair as "dishonest and sinister"?
text: Did you know that Purshottam Solanki , the Fisheries Minister of Gujarat , allegedly caused a loss of ₹ 400 crore ( US$ 72.4 million) to the state government when granting contracts for fishing in reservoirs?
text: Did you know that while pancreatic injury is less common than other abdominal injuries , its diagnosis can be very difficult due to the location of the pancreas in the body ?
text: Did you know that during his address to the 12th Arizona Territorial Legislature , Governor Trittle expressed concern about the cowboys in the southwestern parts of the territory?
text: Did you know that tennis player and Australian Open winner Algernon Kingscote was the son of novelist Lucas Cleeve ?
text: Did you know that the propaganda film Berdjoang was the Japanese overlords ' only feature-length film in the Dutch East Indies ?
text: Did you know that Terry Francois was the first African American member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors ?
text: Did you know that during the Philippine–American War , the Capture of Malolos cost only eight American lives?
text: Did you know that Wikimedia UK was initially denied charitable status by the British government on the basis that providing free access to information on its own was not a charitable purpose?
text: Did you know that an asteroid that Swiss physics teacher Michel Ory thought he had discovered in 2008 turned out to be a periodic comet , and the discovery earned him an Edgar Wilson Award ?
text: Did you know that the East German police comedy Hands Up or I'll Shoot , produced in 1965, was banned by censors and only released in 2009?
text: Did you know that Julius Achon was the first Ugandan athlete to win a gold medal at the World Junior Championships?
text: Did you know that the European Commission -funded news portal Presseurop translates and publishes news articles from over two hundred sources into ten European languages?
text: Did you know that one-term state legislator John Gurley Flook wrote the bill in 1868 to establish a land-grant agricultural college, which grew and became today's Oregon State University ?
text: Did you know that according to local Muslim tradition, the prophet Muhammad leaned against a stone in the southern Syrian town of Mahajjah ?
text: Did you know that Mary Buckland , a scientific illustrator , took a year-long geological tour as a honeymoon with her husband William Buckland ?
text: Did you know that Sergei Bondarchuk , the director of the Academy Award -winning Soviet film War and Peace , first offered the role of Pierre Bezukhov to Olympic weightlifter Yury Vlasov ?
text: Did you know that in 1995, the Egyptian left-wing leader Mohamed Refaat El-Saeed was nominated to the Upper House of Parliament by Hosni Mubarak ?
text: Did you know that 35 days after the December 1988 Spitak earthquake , six people were rescued alive from a collapsed building?
text: Did you know that the racemare Busybody improved the race record by three seconds when she won the 1,000 Guineas Stakes in 1884?
text: Did you know that the BBC documentary, The Pharaoh Who Conquered the Sea , explores the legend claiming that the pharaoh Hatshepsut built ships that were capable of sailing to the Land of Punt ?
text: Did you know that Eustachy Trepka , Stanisław Murzynowski , and Hieronim Malecki were early Polish Lutherans who translated the Gospels , works of Martin Luther , and other religious texts while working in Królewiec (Königsberg) in the 16th century?
text: Did you know that the most popular species for Christmas trees in Denmark and most of Europe is the Nordmann fir ?
text: Did you know that according to Buddhist cosmology , in the beginning of the world, Maha Sammata was elected by the people of Jambudvipa , the only habitable continent on earth, to be their first monarch ?
text: Did you know that in the 1950 Australian National Airways Douglas DC-4 crash , an aircraft exploded in a fireball but when rescuers arrived they found one of the passengers walking around the wreckage?
text: Did you know that Nico Ladenis was the first self-taught chef to win three Michelin stars ?
text: Did you know that none of the fillies Moonshell , Shahtoush , Love Divine , Imagine , Eswarah , Light Shift , and Look Here ever won another race after winning the British Classic Race Epsom Oaks ?
text: Did you know that the East Asian banded red snake can harbour tapeworms and eating its raw meat may lead to parasitic infections ?
text: Did you know that a petroleum geologist named William Warren Orcutt began collecting fossils from the La Brea Tar Pits in 1901, bringing the site to the attention of the scientific community?
text: Did you know that Dardanella featured a Chinese man dubbed the " Douglas Fairbanks of Java"?
text: Did you know that the collection of the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas of Madrid has some 40,000 items, from Ming and Qing dynasty porcelains to Granadian silk, Moroccan embroidery, and Turkish inkpots?
text: Did you know that tourism in the Republic of Ireland accounts for around 4% of the Irish GNP ?
text: Did you know that there are approximately thirty shrines and Roman temples on the slopes of Mount Hermon ?
text: Did you know that the migratory Caspian lamprey is more threatened than the freshwater Carpathian brook lamprey ?
text: Did you know that footballer Ergys Kace was born in Albania , but moved to Greece at the age of three?
text: Did you know that the Gibraltar Dam was built on the Santa Ynez River to impound 14,500 acre-feet (17,900 dam 3 ) of water, but about half of the reservoir's capacity has been lost due to siltation ?
text: Did you know that a female literary critic and a Jewish senator were among the noted promoters of Romania 's fascist movements?
text: Did you know that the 360 kilometres (220 mi) North-South Carrier is the largest engineering project ever undertaken in Botswana?
text: Did you know that the Polish-Latin dictionary written by the Polish Arian Jan Mączyński in 1564 included translations of jargon, and was a subject of a satirical poem by Jan Kochanowski ?
text: Did you know that in 2013, the Czech Republic plans to directly elect its president for the first time in its history?
text: Did you know that the inaugural King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in 1951, with the then-largest prize ever in British horse racing, was won by Supreme Court ?
text: Did you know that Ibn Ra'iq ordered the destruction of the Nahrawan Canal to stop a mutinous army from advancing on Baghdad , even though it was the main irrigation network for the fields that fed the city?
text: Did you know that U.S. President Harry Truman won an upset victory in 1948 after trailing in the polls by a significant margin throughout nearly all of 1948?
text: Did you know that although he appeared in eight films with his wife , Kartolo was never cast as her lover?
text: Did you know that while serving as the Akwamu Chief, Agyen Kokobo ruled the state with his mother as the queen mother?
text: Did you know that the 18th-century Burmese chronicle Maha Yazawin of Toungoo Dynasty has formed the basis for all subsequent histories of the country ?
text: Did you know that when Dr. Joseph Brittan caused a scandal in England, he responded by emigrating to Christchurch , New Zealand, following his brother Guise Brittan ?
text: Did you know that " Kill the DJ " by Green Day was released on 14 August 2012, but it was also played at a secret show by the band eight days earlier?
text: Did you know that Magnus Sylling Olsen 's first goal in Tippeligaen was named the best goal of the round?
text: Did you know that the white waratah , mountain and Mueller's geebungs are three members of the protea family found only in Tasmania ?
text: Did you know that in response to " Heil Hitler ", Karl Schneider said he regretfully could not cure Adolf Hitler , as he was an ophthalmologist, not a neurologist?
text: Did you know that officialese can be traced to the exercise of authority going back as far as the oldest human civilizations ?
text: Did you know that Liverpool journalist John A. Willox , the winner of the 1892 Everton by-election , had become a newspaper editor at the age of 21?
text: Did you know that the Point Gammon Light was turned into an observation tower for bird-watching ?
text: Did you know that former Syrian chief-of-staff, Anwar Bannud , was the only Syrian officer to reach a rank of colonel under the French mandate ?
text: Did you know that no other racehorse has started with longer odds and won the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes than Montaval in 1957?
text: Did you know that although John Tarchaneiotes was the nephew of Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos , he became one of the leaders of the Arsenites , who denounced Michael's legitimacy?
text: Did you know that serving shrubs has recently become a trend in bars across the United States, Canada, and London?
text: Did you know that near the former Auschwitz concentration camp , the International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim now fosters dialogue and reconciliation between Germans and Poles, Christians and Jews?
text: Did you know that the entire Arostropsis weevil genus is known from only one specimen, which is 45 million years old?
text: Did you know that Josh Falkingham scored a goal during his first match in the Scottish Football League First Division ?
text: Did you know that according to Hazel Robinson of California Literary Review , the title of Chris Brown 's song " Bassline " is a metaphor for "penis"?
text: Did you know that in Armenia, chess is one of the country's most popular sports?
text: Did you know that in 1955, Vimy became the first foreign horse to win the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes , and captured the largest prize in British horse-racing that year?
text: Did you know that Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels gave a violin to Nejiko Suwa that might have been a stolen Stradivarius ?
text: Did you know that Harry Steinfeldt performed in a minstrel show before becoming a professional baseball player?
text: Did you know that the Tasmanian mushroom Entoloma mathinnae is named after a 19th-century indigenous Australian girl?
text: Did you know that Veer Hamirji - Somnath ni Sakhate is the first ever Gujarati film to be shortlisted for an Oscar nomination ?
text: Did you know that bridges carrying 12 Mile Road and 23 Mile Road both cross the Kalamazoo River in Calhoun County, Michigan , and were added to the National Register of Historic Places the same day?
text: Did you know that Cancrocaeca xenomorpha , the world's most highly cave-adapted crab , lives only in the Maros karst of Sulawesi ?
text: Did you know that the Bristol Pound , launched on September 19, 2012, is the largest alternative currency in the UK to the official pound sterling ?
text: Did you know that every time William F. Fitzgerald was appointed to the bench it was to replace another judge who had died?
text: Did you know that in 1971, Alex Johnson said he would prefer "playing in hell" than remaining with the California Angels ?
text: Did you know that Hyderabad auditorium Ravindra Bharathi was inaugurated by former President of India Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan in 1961?
text: Did you know that Henry Herx , a film critic for Catholics , was upset that Siskel and Ebert walked out on a film, as "his job was to sit there and watch it and give an honest review" no matter how bad?
text: Did you know that the Altes Stadthaus in Bonn was built for French occupation forces after World War I ?
text: Did you know that the official video for One Direction 's " Live While We're Young " was premiered four days early following a leak of it online?
text: Did you know that in the early 1900s the Illecillewaet Glacier in British Columbia, Canada, was described as the "most visited glacier in the Americas"?
text: Did you know that Caine's Arcade , a short documentary on nine-year-old Caine's cardboard arcade, has raised over $200,000 towards his college fund and the creation of a non-profit organization?
text: Did you know that former Syrian prime minister Nasuhi al-Bukhari resigned after only three months in office when talks to ratify the Franco-Syrian Treaty of Independence broke down?
text: Did you know that the Theatre Royal is the oldest surviving theatre building in Manchester ?
text: Did you know that Brooks Kieschnick is the first Major League Baseball player to hit a home run as a pitcher , designated hitter and pinch hitter in the same season?
text: Did you know that the Chashme Shahi , a Mughal garden in Srinagar , was built by Ali Mardan who was a governor of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan ?
text: Did you know that the school of surgery founded by Charles Illingworth , Glasgow's Regius Professor of Surgery from 1939, "came to dominate academic surgery in Britain for a generation or more"?
text: Did you know that the Australian tree Agathis atropurpurea is known as the black kauri or the blue kauri because of the colour of its bark ?
text: Did you know that French tennis player Christian Boussus was part of the victorious French Davis Cup squad who held the title between 1929 and 1932, as " the Fifth Musketeer ", although he never played a match?
text: Did you know that Ray Long was the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine between 1919 and 1931, and left to become a book publisher?
text: Did you know that despite early concerns that the race course would be too long for Black Jester , the colt won the 1914 St. Leger Stakes by five lengths and set a new record time?
text: Did you know that Enamorada de Ti included previously recorded songs by American singer Selena , which were turned into duets with other artists?
text: Did you know that explorer Matthew Brisbane survived three Antarctic shipwrecks but was murdered in the Falkland Islands in 1833?
text: Did you know that fossilized seeds of the extinct tree Eucommia montana are found from British Columbia to Colorado ?
text: Did you know that Muhammad al-Khuli was removed as the Syrian Air Force Intelligence chief by Hafez al-Assad due to international pressure regarding Khuli's alleged involvement in the Hindawi affair ?
text: Did you know that Solomon Islands dance on Tikopia is "almost obsessional behavior"?
text: Did you know that Ernie Padgett turned an unassisted triple play in the second game of his major league career?
text: Did you know that the Church of St Candida and Holy Cross in Whitchurch Canonicorum is the only parish church in England to have a shrine containing the relics of a saint?
text: Did you know that the rough-scaled sea snake is highly venomous and every scale on its body is adorned with a spine?
text: Did you know that when it first appeared in the list of the World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2010, Claude Bosi 's restaurant Hibiscus was one of only three UK-based restaurants in the list?
text: Did you know that Sazhen-S uses lasers to discern the slant ranges of space craft?
text: Did you know that Andreas Boltz is the cathedral music director at the Frankfurt Cathedral Kaiserdom St. Bartholomäus?
text: Did you know that the proverbial phrase " when life gives you lemons, make lemonade " was first coined by Christian anarchist writer Elbert Hubbard in 1915?
text: Did you know that a set of running blades like Oscar Pistorius wears costs $30,000?
text: Did you know that the Hurtigruten steamer Nordnorge was sunk by Royal Navy warships, while employed by the Germans in a false flag operation?
text: Did you know that reproduction in the East African toads Nectophrynoides viviparus and Nectophrynoides laevis involves females giving birth to live young ?
text: Did you know that actress Ashleigh Cummings sat her Year Eleven exams early, so she could take part in the Australian film Tomorrow, When the War Began ?
text: Did you know that the Camberwell Collegiate School in London was designed by the architect of the city's Fishmongers' Hall ?
text: Did you know that civic activist and former toymaker Carl Berner is the oldest living man in New York City ?
text: Did you know that before entering The Clink restaurant, diners must hand over any mobile phones or sharp objects?
text: Did you know that the leaves of the Port Arthur plum smell like stale cabbage when crushed?
text: Did you know that journalist A.A. Hamidhan turned down a chance to be Kalimantan 's first governor?
text: Did you know that outreach services can target diverse populations, from sex workers to Wikipedia editors and readers?
text: Did you know that Loras College , Iowa's oldest post-secondary institution , was founded in 1839, seven years before Iowa became a U.S. state?
text: Did you know that Amanda Carter was the oldest member of the Gliders at the 2012 Summer Paralympics , and the only one who had participated in 1992, 1996 and 2000 Summer Paralympics?
text: Did you know that the Syrian village of Hit contains a 4th-century Byzantine church dedicated to the martyrdom of Saint Sergius ?
text: Did you know that filmmaker and Eagle Scout David Lynch was declared medically unfit for conscription , was arrested for detonating a pipe bomb, and was present at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy ?
text: Did you know that the Shri Laxmi Narayan Mandir is one of the oldest functioning temples in Karachi ?
text: Did you know that Robert Draper 's book Do Not Ask What Good We Do reveals that a meeting of Republicans in 2008 took place to "put the brakes" on Barack Obama 's presidency?
text: Did you know that Chamant 's win over Brown Prince and Silvio in the 2,000 Guineas Stakes in 1877 was misreported as a victory by 2,000 men under "Chamat Croun" and "Prince Silvio" in the ongoing Russo-Turkish War ?
text: Did you know that of the 21 Grade I listed buildings in Coventry , 11 date back to the 14th century?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball shortstop Neal Ball beat his close friend Babe Ruth in a bowling challenge in 1923?
text: Did you know that although the Fischerinsel in central Berlin was levelled in the 1960s to build tower blocks, a replica of the old inn Zum Nußbaum was constructed in the Nikolaiviertel in 1987?
text: Did you know that in his new book Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years , linguist Geoffrey Nunberg traces the origin of the insult " asshole " to the soldiers of World War II ?
text: Did you know that in a lost commentary on the Book of Genesis , Nerses IV the Gracious related the story of how some Armenian monks were allowed to see the Garden of Eden ?
text: Did you know that Autism Cymru worked with the Welsh Government to develop the first national autism online community ?
text: Did you know that Arizona Territorial Delegate Mark Smith was accused of receiving gold from the Wham Paymaster Robbery ?
text: Did you know that the author of Adab al-Tabib , called the "crowning achievement" in early Islamic medical ethics, may actually have been a Christian?
text: Did you know that Hans Thamm , who founded the boys' choir Windsbacher Knabenchor in 1946 and conducted them for 31 years, recorded Bach's cantata Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17 , in 1961?
text: Did you know that Siam's token participation in World War I paved the way for the country's full independence?
text: Did you know that Kelly Heath received his only Major League Baseball at-bat because of a case of hemorrhoids ?
text: Did you know that a Roman inscription at the Syrian town of Darkush on the Orontes River attests to the existence of a shipbuilding industry for river-going boats in the town?
text: Did you know that Kaapa Tjampitjinpa was the first Indigenous Australian artist to win a contemporary art award, and the first to have the export of his paintings refused under cultural heritage laws?
text: Did you know that a year after capturing Ahlat , Arjish and Van in Anatolia , the Ayyubid prince al-Awhad Ayyub faced revolts in each of those cities?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian album AkustiChrisye was inspired in part by Frank Sinatra 's rearrangements of his hits?
text: Did you know that the original Cathedral of Saint Demetrius in Craiova , Romania , formed part of the unwalled city's defenses?
text: Did you know that demand for beer from Pittsburgh 's East End Brewing Company spiked after the Pittsburgh Steelers won Super Bowl XLIII ?
text: Did you know that Shelley Chaplin was an All-American even though she was not American at all?
text: Did you know that al-Shaykh Saad in the Hauran region of Syria was mentioned by several Christian scholars and pilgrims, including Eusebius , Egeria and Jerome , as the town of St. Job ?
text: Did you know that the Thoroughbred Petrarch earned £11,700 in prize money from various races in 1876, the most in British horse-racing that year?
text: Did you know that Roekihati bucked a trend of intellectualising films in the Dutch East Indies ?
text: Did you know that the account of life in the Yertsevo labor camp , described in the book A World Apart by Herling-Grudziński , preceded Solzhenitsyn 's revelations about gulags by a decade?
text: Did you know that Norway international footballer Jarl André Storbæk captained Strømsgodset in his first match for the club?
text: Did you know that in the music video for " Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself) ", American singer Ne-Yo "channels" Michael Jackson in his dance moves?
text: Did you know that Meow , once the world's heaviest cat, gained international attention due to his weight loss plan?
text: Did you know that 15-year-old, 2012 British Paralympic swimmer Josef Craig set world records in both the heats and final of the 400 metre freestyle S7 event to win the gold medal?
text: Did you know that the town and refugee camp of Khan Dannun in Syria was originally a basalt caravanserai built by the Mamluk governor of Damascus in 1376?
text: Did you know that John J. Mullen was elected Mayor of Everett, Massachusetts , while he was suspended from his position on the Board of Aldermen?
text: Did you know that " Accrington Stanley, Who Are They? " was originally scripted to use Tottenham Hotspur instead of Accrington Stanley ?
text: Did you know that Memorial Hall was the first building shared by male and female students at the University of Delaware ?
text: Did you know that even though Panajotis Dimitriadis is a midfielder , his play as a centre back got him on TV2 's list as one of the five best players in the 2012 Norwegian First Division ?
text: Did you know that the majority of Chicago -based Calumet Photographic 's retail stores are in Europe?
text: Did you know that Johann Sebastian Bach composed the cantata Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir , BWV 131 , as a young organist at Mühlhausen 's Divi Blasii church?
text: Did you know that Romeo Acop is the incumbent representative of Antipolo City 's Second Legislative District ?
text: Did you know that the wattle Acacia riceana , native to Tasmania , was named after the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time of its discovery?
text: Did you know that Joe Molloy , a school teacher, and Robert Nederlander , a theatre executive, served as managing partners of the New York Yankees when George Steinbrenner was banned from baseball?
text: Did you know that The Goat Puzzle in the 1996 adventure game Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars is considered by many to be one of the hardest video game puzzles of all time?
text: Did you know that NASCAR driver Jeff Choquette ' s grandfather, Jack Choquette , won the 1954 NASCAR Modified Division championship?
text: Did you know that the daughter of Candice Cohen-Ahnine is a Jewish-Saudi princess whom French President Nicolas Sarkozy attempted to bring to France, but failed?
text: Did you know that although Charles Warren is best known for political leadership in environmental matters, he also crafted legislation that created the first U.S. statewide 9-1-1 emergency telephone service?
text: Did you know that a legend likens some of the earth pyramids near Stob in southwest Bulgaria to petrified wedding guests?
text: Did you know that Enedina Arellano Félix , the leader of the Tijuana Cartel , is the first female Mexican drug lord ?
text: Did you know that the Russian Space Command is responsible for controlling Russia's military satellite constellation ?
text: Did you know that Frederik Magle required the use of the thigh bone from a giraffe as an instrument in his symphonic suite Cantabile ?
text: Did you know that the shortstripe goby and the yellowline goby always live in association with a sponge ?
text: Did you know that Confederate Colonel William Henry Harman was killed at the Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia , the town where he was born?
text: Did you know that Yair Shamir , who has recently entered politics in Israel, served as the director of Israel Aerospace Industries from 2005 to 2011 without pay?
text: Did you know that the vegetarian philanthropist Arnold Hills planned to contest the Walthamstow by-election in 1897 as a temperance candidate?
text: Did you know that Franz Lehrndorfer was the organist of the Munich Frauenkirche cathedral for over three decades?
text: Did you know that the Syrian village of al-Mushannaf has a well-preserved temple, dated to the first century BC, that was dedicated to Zeus and Athena ?
text: Did you know that Harley Peyton , writer of " Episode 6 " of Twin Peaks , found it difficult to write for Kyle MacLachlan 's character Dale Cooper ?
text: Did you know that the Swedish feminist network Bara Bröst won the right for women to bare breasts at swimming pools in Malmö , but the city's ruling did not result in any significant difference?
text: Did you know that it was known as early as the 16th century that water held in a cup made of lignum nephriticum from New Spain would become brightly blue?
text: Did you know that the North-West University Botanical Garden is currently the only botanical garden in the North West Province of South Africa ?
text: Did you know that the Tolowa people of California will refrain from performing the Nee-dash dance for the rest of 2012 so as to honor the late Eunice Bommelyn ?
text: Did you know that Vacha Dam is the tallest dam in Bulgaria ?
text: Did you know that Eduardo Castro Luque , the deputy-elect of Ciudad Obregón , Sonora , Mexico, was assassinated two days before he was to enter office?
text: Did you know that the award-winning, romantic Japanese anime film, Hotarubi no Mori e , has been likened to the works of Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli ?
text: Did you know that the extinct plant species Eucommia jeffersonensis and Eucommia rolandii were both described from fossils in 1997?
text: Did you know that the video game Self-Defense Training Camp was criticized for its emphasis on crotch kicking?
text: Did you know that brothers Caleb and Corban Joseph were both selected in the 2008 Major League Baseball Draft ?
text: Did you know that the Syrian town of Assal al-Ward was long famous for its flower produce which supplied the attar makers of nearby Damascus ?
text: Did you know that Tissa David , the second woman to direct an animated feature film , also animated the Raggedy Ann character for the 1977 film, Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure ?
text: Did you know that the scalybark gives its name to an ecological community found only on 126 hectares (310 acres) of Lord Howe Island ?
text: Did you know that former investment banker Paul Deighton described his appointment as 2012 Olympics chief executive as "the only job I would have considered leaving Goldman Sachs for"?
text: Did you know that winners of William Proxmire 's Golden Fleece Award for wasteful U.S. government spending include the Department of Justice for researching why prisoners want to escape?
text: Did you know that a bank robbery led to a career in bowls for Steve Glasson ?
text: Did you know that the reformer Konrad Hubert assisted Martin Bucer for 18 years at St. Thomas, Strasbourg , making Bucer's ideas and concepts readable?
text: Did you know that the Walthamstow by-election in 1910 was fought partly over the Osborne judgment ?
text: Did you know that 2012 British Paralympic swimmer Susie Rodgers won six medals at her first international meet?
text: Did you know that U.S.-based television production company Zodiac Entertainment intentionally avoided references to American culture in its shows?
text: Did you know that the 'false positives' scandal which broke in Colombia in 2008 involved members of the military murdering civilians and presenting them as guerrillas killed in battle, in order to inflate army body counts?
text: Did you know that Pederson's shrimp , the spotted cleaner shrimp and the anemone mysid are all found living in close association with the ringed anemone ?
text: Did you know that the 2012 political book Britannia Unchained attracted criticism for accusing British employees of being "among the worst idlers in the world"?
text: Did you know that members of the gymnastics Fierce Five won all three medals of the senior all-around at the 2011 City of Jesolo Trophy ?
text: Did you know that Yule marble from Treasure Mountain , Colorado, was used in the building of the Lincoln Memorial ?
text: Did you know that Klaus Martin Ziegler championed new church music as an organist, the founder and conductor of choirs in Kassel and Stuttgart , and as a festival director?
text: Did you know that the village of Janabiyah in Bahrain is home to hundreds of prehistoric burial mounds and that artefacts obtained from excavations show that the Dilmun civilisation of Bahrain engaged in trading with the Indus Valley civilisation ?
text: Did you know that in 1943, Herringbone won the 1,000 Guineas Stakes by a neck and beat the same filly to win the St. Leger Stakes by a head?
text: Did you know that the 1978 film Absolution was not released in the United States until 1988, four years after the death of its star Richard Burton ?
text: Did you know that American murderer Rufe Persful was three times released on parole after shooting fellow inmates who attempted to escape?
text: Did you know that wild monkeys can be seen in Florida along the Silver River ?
text: Did you know that the Kessler's gudgeon and the Danube gudgeon both have barbels by their mouth which help them in their search for food?
text: Did you know that the artwork for Christina Aguilera 's single " Your Body " sees her "bodacious curves on full display"?
text: Did you know that the Tibetan Army was trained and sold supplies by the British government ?
text: Did you know that a replica of the Long Tan Cross is one of only two memorials to foreign military forces permitted in Vietnam ?
text: Did you know that the lekythion , a metric pattern in Greek poetry, was named after a joke involving people losing their little oil flasks ?
text: Did you know that Scope , once the best-selling English magazine in South Africa, was repeatedly banned during the Apartheid era ?
text: Did you know that the Gibraltar War Memorial of 1923 rests on an esplanade and steps built by a Governor of Gibraltar two years previously?
text: Did you know that Jest won the British Classic Epsom Oaks in 1913 in record time?
text: Did you know that the caecilians Chthonerpeton indistinctum and Typhlonectes compressicauda both give birth to live young ?
text: Did you know that the death of hydroplane racer Dean Chenoweth led to enclosed cockpits being adopted for Unlimited class hydroplanes ?
text: Did you know that in 1648 the English Parliament ordered Starborough Castle to be destroyed?
text: Did you know that 2012 U.S. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign spokesman Kevin Madden was listed second of the "50 Most Beautiful" in Washington, D.C. in 2006, according to The Hill newspaper?
text: Did you know that the Mia Mia Bridge across Australia's Campaspe River was built in 1868 with trusses recovered from a sunken ship at the bottom of Hobsons Bay near Melbourne?
text: Did you know that the decision to make Fabiana García Lago 's character in the telenovela Sos mi vida a Paraguayan immigrant came after she tried the Guaraní language accent during the first day of filming?
text: Did you know that the fossilized remains of the knobby brain coral and the symmetrical brain coral have been found in Puerto Rico dating back to the Pleistocene ?
text: Did you know that NASCAR star Kyle Busch praised then 14-year-old John Hunter Nemechek after they raced against each other?
text: Did you know that the Prentice Women's Hospital Building in Chicago , a cloverleaf-shaped building which pioneered computer-aided design techniques, is threatened with demolition?
text: Did you know that the filly Habibti set a track record to win the 1983 Prix de l'Abbaye in France, and was named Horse of the Year in Britain later that year?
text: Did you know that the song " Mayday " by Lecrae has "chaotic" and "funky" production?
text: Did you know that Albert Einstein 's letter to the 1948 World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace was censored to remove his call for a world government ?
text: Did you know that Eye on It by TobyMac beat Slaughterhouse for the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 , and was the first Christian album to hit No. 1 since 1997?
text: Did you know that land mullets can be found in Sea Acres National Park ?
text: Did you know that Gary Pearson scored his first goal for Darlington with a 25 yard free kick against Luton Town in January 2002, although his team went on to lose 3–2?
text: Did you know that the survivors of the bombing of HMS Pandora were onboard HMS Olympus when she was sunk?
text: Did you know that a side effect of the laws passed by the 16th Arizona Territorial Legislature was that fiestas were effectively ended within the territory?
text: Did you know that the Irish-bred British-trained racehorse Chief Singer won the 1984 St. James's Palace Stakes by eight lengths and set a track record at Royal Ascot ?
text: Did you know that 2009's Marathi film Gandha , written and directed by Sachin Kundalkar , blends three different stories with a common factor of the human sense of smell ?
text: Did you know that after New Zealand became the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote in parliamentary elections, suffragist Kate Sheppard enrolled women at Tuam Street Hall ?
text: Did you know that in 1997 Zaire -born baseball player Ntema Ndungidi became the highest ranked Major League Baseball draftee from Quebec?
text: Did you know that the early talkie Karnadi Anemer Bangkong was based on a popular novel but ultimately controversial?
text: Did you know that 15-time Paralympic medallist swimmer Sebastián Rodríguez lost the use of his legs after going on hunger strike during an 84-year prison sentence?
text: Did you know that the red cushion star turns part of its stomach inside out and engulfs sponges , other invertebrates and detritus ?
text: Did you know that an elephant-headed goddess , often referred to as the female Ganesha , exists in the Hindu pantheon ?
text: Did you know that British para-equestrian Deborah Criddle and Figaro IX were the first rider and horse pairing to win three gold medals at consecutive European, World and Paralympic competitions?
text: Did you know that the foul-smelling greenish-brown slime in the lattice of the fungus Colus hirudinosus attracts insects that help disperse its spores?
text: Did you know that gooks protected bal maidens from sunlight, noise and flying debris?
text: Did you know that there are ruins of an ancient Roman temple off of the road between Rashaya and Aaiha ?
text: Did you know that three years after arriving at the Fäviken estate as a sommelier , Magnus Nilsson had become head chef and the restaurant was ranked the 34th best in the world ?
text: Did you know that thousands of foreign-born Lone Soldiers serve alongside locals in the Israel Defense Forces ?
text: Did you know that the Tantric Japanese form of the Hindu Ganesha – "God of Bliss" – depicted as an elephant-headed human couple in a sexual embrace, represents the unity of opposites ?
text: Did you know that poet Ishmael Reed learned to play jazz piano at the Jazzschool beginning when he was 60?
text: Did you know that the Poland–Russia border , now only 232 km (144 mi) long, used to be much longer?
text: Did you know that the Jiwani Coastal Wetland in Pakistan is an important nesting site for the endangered olive ridley and green turtles ?
text: Did you know that fossils of Eucommia constans are the youngest and most southerly examples of Eucommia in North America?
text: Did you know that in July 1992 a plane taking off from Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport crashed and killed 108 people on board?
text: Did you know that " Episode 7 " was the only episode of Twin Peaks directed by its co-creator Mark Frost ?
text: Did you know that Michelin starred chef Sat Bains only chose to study catering because of the number of girls in the course?
text: Did you know that Stewart Iron Works was once the U.S. 's largest supplier of cemetery fences and gates?
text: Did you know that Canadian wheelchair basketball player Patrick Anderson retired in 2008 to become a musician, but returned to win his third Paralympic gold medal at London 2012 ?
text: Did you know that an independent Gibraltar Port Authority was formed three hundred years after Queen Anne granted Free Port status to Gibraltar ?
text: Did you know that Leopold Loeffler , who worked on commissions for the court of Franz Joseph , became the professor at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków on the invitation of national painter Jan Matejko ?
text: Did you know that one television critic was "freaked out" by the lack of swearing in Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Cookery Course ?
text: Did you know that bassoonist and composer Victor Bruns , who played at the Leningrad Opera and with the Staatskapelle Berlin , composed six ballets and four bassoon concertos ?
text: Did you know that the fruits of the Lecythis ampla tree resemble little wooden pots with lids?
text: Did you know that the 821st Main Space Intelligence Centre maintains the Russian catalogue of satellites?
text: Did you know that the Cameron D-96 was the world's first thermal airship , while the D-38 set records for altitude and flight time?
text: Did you know that carbon neutral fuels have been proposed to store wind power , minimizing intermittency problems and enabling its use with conventional vehicles and existing natural gas pipelines ?
text: Did you know that Steve Donoghue won his fourteenth and final British Classic Race at the 1937 Epsom Oaks , riding the filly Exhibitionnist (sic) ?
text: Did you know that 2012 British Paralympian Jonathan Fox won the gold medal in the men's 100 metre backstroke S7 event after setting a new world record in the heats?
text: Did you know that the Tribune covering Hillsboro, Oregon , is Pamplin Media Group 's first new paper in a decade?
text: Did you know that even remembering can cause forgetting ?
text: Did you know that Sultan al-Atrash 's decisive victory near the town of al-Mazraa in 1925, inspired Syrian nationalists in Damascus and the countryside to join the rebellion against the French occupation ?
text: Did you know that the amber pen shell spends its adult life almost completely buried in the seabed in a single location?
text: Did you know that the Avery Road–Galien River Bridge , the Blossomland Bridge , and the now demolished North Watervliet Road–Paw Paw Lake Outlet Bridge are in the same county in Michigan and were added to the NRHP the same day?
text: Did you know that Ragnar Hvidsten was the first Norwegian to play in the FA Amateur Cup ?
text: Did you know that the World War I American War Memorial at Gibraltar also commemorates Operation Torch of World War II ?
text: Did you know that when the filly Tiffin retired from racing in 1929, the press described her as "the fastest horse in the world, irrespective of age or sex"?
text: Did you know that Edwin Swope was the only warden of Alcatraz who did not have an escape attempt during his tenure?
text: Did you know that Romanian Sandu Tudor , once a Futurist poet and libelous journalist, was proposed for canonization?
text: Did you know that a tomahawk may be used to split an angle into three equal parts , despite the impossibility of doing so with compass and straightedge ?
text: Did you know that Dave Frishberg wrote the lyrics to " Van Lingle Mungo " while reading a baseball encyclopedia?
text: Did you know that Lanre Oyebanjo scored York City 's second goal in their 2–0 victory over Newport County in the 2012 FA Trophy Final , hosted at Wembley Stadium ?
text: Did you know that when the Sigma 8-16mm f/4.5-5.6 DC HSM lens was introduced in 2010, it became the widest ultra wide-angle rectilinear zoom camera lens commercially available?
text: Did you know that in 1920, British Commander (and later Admiral of the Fleet) Bruce Fraser was imprisoned in the Black Hole of Baku ?
text: Did you know that after starting his culinary career making bacon sandwiches in a café , Steve Drake went on to win a Michelin star as head chef at two restaurants?
text: Did you know that Alicia Keys ' debut performance of her new single " Girl on Fire " featured a gymnastics display by 2012 Olympics gold medalist Gabby Douglas ?
text: Did you know that the Lal Suhanra National Park is the only biosphere reserve in Pakistan recognized by UNESCO?
text: Did you know that ten female chefs in the United States won a Michelin star in 2012, including Carrie Nahabedian , Missy Robbins , April Bloomfield and Melissa Perello ?
text: Did you know that at 58 feet (18 m), the Buddha Statue in Hyderabad is the world's tallest monolithic statue of Buddha ?
text: Did you know that coordinators of the Square Roots festival in Chicago wanted 80 to 100 percent of their vendors to come from neighborhood businesses?
text: Did you know that Alexandros Kasmeridis saved two penalties in Thrasyvoulos ' penalty shoot-out victory over Levadiakos in the fourth round of the 2011–12 Greek Football Cup ?
text: Did you know that one reviewer thought that the final battleground of video game Mass Effect 2: Arrival broke the laws of physics?
text: Did you know that the split-nose crab was first found at a depth of 500 metres (1,600 ft) in the waters near the Aleutian Islands ?
text: Did you know that after Theo van Gogh 's murder, Ebru Umar took over his regular column in Metro ?
text: Did you know that Kerevat Airfield on Ataliklikun Bay was never fully operational?
text: Did you know that after retiring from baseball , Allie Clark worked for the Iron Workers Local 373 for thirty years and served on the city council of South Amboy, New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that the archaeological mound at Tell Aran in northern Syria is the largest tell in the Aleppo region?
text: Did you know that Margarete Bieber was the second woman to become a university professor in Germany?
text: Did you know that the edible mushroom Agaricus bernardii is often found along roads that have been de-iced with salt?
text: Did you know that Japan's first wooden roller coaster appeared in Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla ?
text: Did you know that a stele of Egyptian king Seti I was found built into the wall of a local house in the village of Tell Shihab in southern Syria?
text: Did you know that, Jesús Blancornelas , a Mexican journalist, risked his life while reporting on the Tijuana Cartel , the drug trade in Mexico, and political corruption?
text: Did you know that despite being the son of a two-time NASCAR champion and brother of a Daytona 500 winner, Randy Baker never finished better than 17th in NASCAR competition?
text: Did you know that Dedeline Mibamba Kimbata , a member of DR Congo's first Paralympic team , competed in a wheelchair donated by Kenyan Paralympian Anne Wafula Strike ?
text: Did you know that excavations at the town of Jayrud in the Qalamoun Mountains of Syria produced microliths , blades, scrapers and other lithic tools dating back to the Natufian culture ?
text: Did you know that it took 120 years before it was discovered that deep-water Stokes waves , named after George Gabriel Stokes , are unstable ?
text: Did you know that chef Martin Hadden left Ockenden Manor shortly after winning a Michelin star ?
text: Did you know that it is theorized that Jews' Gate Cemetery in Gibraltar was founded on Windmill Hill due to the expulsion of Jews mandated under the Treaty of Utrecht ?
text: Did you know that Jordan Winston Early was a licensed exhorter ?
text: Did you know that the German left-liberal daily paper Berliner Börsen-Courier published stock exchange data from 1868, had a sports reporter from 1885 and made playwright Bertolt Brecht known in 1922?
text: Did you know that Charles Hazlewood formed the first British orchestra consisting entirely of performers with a disability ?
text: Did you know that the Phoenician settlement of Tell Sukas in modern Syria was located at the center of the fertile plain of Jableh on a hill with access to two natural harbors?
text: Did you know that sociology in Russia was declared a " bourgeois pseudo-science " and banned from the 1930s to the 1950s?
text: Did you know that Tracey Shelton had to run from the debris cloud after photographing the explosion from a tank shell in Aleppo , Syria, that killed three opposition fighters?
text: Did you know that people are able to implicitly learn underlying sequential structure in a series using sequence learning ?
text: Did you know that the proposed German ancillary copyright would affect sites that used even short snippets of news articles?
text: Did you know that Arabian horse breeder William Robinson Brown founded the Maynesboro Stud 100 years ago?
text: Did you know that Ian McEwan dedicated his latest novel, Sweet Tooth , to his friend, the late Christopher Hitchens ?
text: Did you know that the creator of the video game Happy Wheels used graphic violence to counter the unrealistic consequences in other games?
text: Did you know that U.S. volleyball player Phil Eatherton set three career records at Ball State University and made it to the "Showcase Showdown" on The Price is Right ?
text: Did you know that the extinct earwig Tytthodiplatys is the oldest confirmed member of its family?
text: Did you know that the Meadowbrook State Parkway was dedicated in 1998 in memory of Norman J. Levy , the New York State Senator who sponsored the first U.S. law requiring seat belts while driving?
text: Did you know that the Braldu River is a river in Skardu District of Gilgit–Baltistan , that originates from the Baltoro and Biafo Glaciers ?
text: Did you know that 2012 British Paralympic medallist Stephanie Millward set the British record for the 100 metre backstroke at the age of 15, before she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis ?
text: Did you know that St Matthew's Church in Burnley , Lancashire , England, was rebuilt after it burnt down on Christmas Day in 1927?
text: Did you know that Yusak Pakage was sentenced to ten years in prison after raising a flag ?
text: Did you know that the final Clark's Point Light was specially constructed to resist cannon fire?
text: Did you know that John Van Antwerp MacMurray predicted the American war with Japan in a 1935 memorandum commissioned by the U.S. State Department ?
text: Did you know that the night-light mushroom is one of over 70 species of bioluminescent fungi ?
text: Did you know that most of 2012 Paralympic wheelchair rugby player Cody Meakin 's classmates walked to their year 12 formal , donating saved transportation money for his post-accident rehabilitation?
text: Did you know that the upcoming comedy film, The Hangover Part III , is set in Las Vegas , Los Angeles and Tijuana ?
text: Did you know that Tonga was one of the 45 countries that sent only a single athlete for the 2012 Summer Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that seeds of the extinct tree Eucommia eocenica have been found with latex covered fossils?
text: Did you know that the American colt Black Tarquin won the British Classic St. Leger Stakes in 1948, and was later rated as the best British-trained racehorse of his generation?
text: Did you know that Randy Velarde turned the eleventh unassisted triple play in Major League Baseball history on May 29, 2000?
text: Did you know that Iranian space rocket Kavoshgar-5 will contain a rhesus monkey ?
text: Did you know that in 1985, Random House paid Karleen Koen $350,000 for the rights to Through a Glass Darkly , at the time a record sum for a new novelist?
text: Did you know that Jacques Pic became a chef to win back the Michelin stars that had been lost at his family's restaurant ?
text: Did you know that Tyler Cowen , an economics blogger, argues in the ebook The Great Stagnation that the Internet has not made us richer?
text: Did you know that the Sharif family is a Pakistani political family , largely involved in the country's politics through the Pakistan Muslim League (N) ?
text: Did you know that the The brothers collaborated on Rentjong Atjeh ?
text: Did you know that Diego Ramírez de Arellano set a southern navigation record in 1619 that was unbroken for 150 years?
text: Did you know that the frugal appropriations authorized by the 14th Arizona Territorial Legislature were just one reason the session was nicknamed the "Measly Fourteenth"?
text: Did you know that the cyanobacterium Nostoc commune can withstand desiccation and repeated freezing and thawing ?
text: Did you know that fakanau , considered by Christian missionaries to be evil dancing, eventually disappeared from Tuvalu ?
text: Did you know that George Bray 's association with Burnley F.C. as a player, coach , kit man and supporter spanned seven decades?
text: Did you know that in 1977, the Douglas Stenstrom Bridge in Indian Mound Village, Florida , replaced the Osteen Bridge , a 1920s hand-turned swing bridge that had become an unsafe driving hazard?
text: Did you know that during the bird flu pandemic of 2005 , chef Alexis Gauthier removed bird related products from the menu at his Michelin starred restaurant in London?
text: Did you know that although Czech psychiatrist and neuropathologist Oskar Fischer made significant contributions to the description of Alzheimer's disease , his works largely remained unknown until 2008?
text: Did you know that the Ouachita Dusky Salamander , the Fourche Mountain Salamander , and the Rich Mountain Salamander are all endemic to the Ouachita Mountains in Arkansas and Oklahoma?
text: Did you know that Abraham Avigdorov received the Hero of Israel citation for his actions in the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine ?
text: Did you know that Moubray House , one of the oldest buildings on Edinburgh's Royal Mile , was once the premises of Archibald Constable , the owner of the Encyclopædia Britannica ?
text: Did you know that Mulford Winsor was Arizona Territory 's first Territorial Historian?
text: Did you know that Parasola auricoma mushrooms are short-lived, typically lasting only a few hours?
text: Did you know that NASCAR driver Mike Olsen is known for being sponsored by Little Trees ?
text: Did you know that 2012 British Paralympian Helena Lucas was the only female sailor in the 16-boat fleet for the 2.4 mR event , in which she won her nation's first ever Paralympic sailing gold medal?
text: Did you know that Edmond Panariti , the current minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania , is the first Albanian government minister to visit Australia ?
text: Did you know that DDG Hansa lost all but one of its ships in World War I and all its ships in and after World War II and still became the world's largest heavy lift shipping company?
text: Did you know that George M. Stratton founded Berkeley 's psychology department?
text: Did you know that despite being over 70 years old, the Byzantine general Bessas was entrusted with overall command of the Byzantine forces in the Lazic War ?
text: Did you know that Poczta Królewiecka , published 1718–20 in Królewiec (Königsberg), was the second oldest Polish newspaper?
text: Did you know that Philip Bell was governor of the puritan Providence Island colony , which turned into a haven for pirates?
text: Did you know that the investigation into the murder of Celine Figard saw the UK's first national DNA screening programme in the hunt for a suspect?
text: Did you know that Steven Rodriguez became the first player selected in the 2012 Major League Baseball Draft to reach the major leagues?
text: Did you know that the Madras State awarded 75 acres (30 ha ; 0.117 sq mi ) to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research for the establishment of Central Leather Research Institute ?
text: Did you know that before the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary began operations in 1934 there was a citadel on Alcatraz Island ?
text: Did you know that nearly half the students in the Harvard "Introduction to Congress " course were implicated in a cheating investigation ?
text: Did you know that tenor Martin Petzold , a former member of the boys' choir Thomanerchor and a singer of Bach's Evangelist parts with the group, co-published 800 Years Thomana ?
text: Did you know that two men and a dog died during the 1909 Portola Road Race in Oakland, California ?
text: Did you know that the larvae of the terrestrial Ceylon caecilian have gills and a tail fin and develop in water?
text: Did you know that the village of Najran in Syria was named after the Najran of South Arabia , whose inhabitants, the Balharith , fled to Syria in the 520s?
text: Did you know that the British racehorse Teenoso won the 1983 Derby Stakes with the slowest winning time of this race in the 20th century?
text: Did you know that María Soledad Iparraguirre was only the second woman to serve on the executive of the Basque separatist group ETA and was wanted by Spanish police for participation in at least 14 assassinations?
text: Did you know that Christian Garcia reached Major League Baseball despite enduring three elbow surgeries?
text: Did you know that Ed, Edd n Eddy ' s TV movie series finale, Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show , premiered on November 8, 2009, and achieved high ratings success for Cartoon Network ?
text: Did you know that despite being founded in 1984, the Roux Scholarship contest was only first televised in 2012?
text: Did you know that Ryan Westmoreland , considered one of the best prospects in baseball , has had brain surgery twice to correct a cavernous malformation ?
text: Did you know that the town of Muzayrib in southern Syria served as the first major resting place along the Hajj caravan route from Damascus to Mecca during the Ottoman era ?
text: Did you know that indigenous Australian rapper Briggs toured with Ice Cube , who he described as "my favourite rapper since I was a kid", just a year after releasing his first EP?
text: Did you know that in May 1936, on orders of the Nazis, Expressionist artworks were burnt in the furnace of the Kronprinzenpalais , which housed the modern art division of the Berlin National Gallery ?
text: Did you know that 2012 British Paralympic silver medallist archer Mel Clarke had to remodel her shooting style after Lyme disease caused her to lose her sight in one eye?
text: Did you know that the Dutch television series De Kris Pusaka draws from Indonesian stories about krisses ?
text: Did you know that Colonel Joseph H. Tucker , twice commander of the Camp Douglas (Chicago) prison camp during the American Civil War , was never mustered into the Union Army ?
text: Did you know that Jamal Fyfield assisted Matty Blair 's winning goal for York City in the 2011–12 FA Trophy semi-final second leg against Luton Town with a cross from the left flank?
text: Did you know that in a move to accommodate Muslims, the West African Catholic trade union CATC replaced the word "Christians" in its name with "Believers"?
text: Did you know that Ragnhildur Helgadóttir became the youngest female member of the Icelandic Parliament when she was elected in 1965 at the age of 26?
text: Did you know that the town of Jindires in Syria was the site of a decisive Roman victory against the Parthians in 38 BC?
text: Did you know that in 1979 Irish horse trainer Edward O'Grady became only the fifth individual to train the winner of the Galway Plate and the Galway Hurdle in the same year?
text: Did you know that the Suru River , a tributary of the Indus River , originates from the Panzella glacier and flows entirely in the Kargil district of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir ?
text: Did you know that near-death experience researcher Karlis Osis said his research created a "diminishing fear of death"?
text: Did you know that the Alcatraz water tower was covered in graffiti during the island's occupation by Native Americans ?
text: Did you know that wheelchair tennis player Andrew Lapthorne won the doubles tournament at his very first Grand Slam ?
text: Did you know that chef Alain Ducasse opened his restaurant Le Louis XV following a challenge by the Prince of Monaco ?
text: Did you know that Japanese child actress Miyu Honda is also a figure skater ?
text: Did you know that to date, the 2009 song " The Climb " performed by Miley Cyrus , is her first and only single to peak at number one on the U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary chart?
text: Did you know that 2012 British Paralympic gold medallist Sophie Wells was the first para-equestrian rider to win an international, non-disabled dressage competition?
text: Did you know that an annual bike tour in Memphis , Tennessee, takes place at midnight?
text: Did you know that Jeff Powers and Jesse Smith played on the United States men's national water polo team at the 2004, 2008, and 2012 Olympic games ?
text: Did you know that Chilean Mexican band Los Ángeles Negros adopted that name after a member's mother said she liked it?
text: Did you know that NYPD detective Barney Ruditsky once stopped a robbery with the help of his wife on their wedding anniversary ?
text: Did you know that the filly Saucy Sue won the 1000 Guineas , the Epsom Oaks , and the Coronation Stakes in 1925, helping Lord Astor become Britain's champion owner that season?
text: Did you know that a week before he graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art , Hugo Johnstone-Burt was approached to play Fish Lamb in Cloudstreet ?
text: Did you know that the Royal Naval Hospital Gibraltar was the first military hospital to receive a Baby Friendly Award from UNICEF ?
text: Did you know that in 1955, two years after interviewing American actor Gregory Peck for the newspaper France Soir , French journalist Veronique Passani became Peck's wife?
text: Did you know that at least one species in the earwig family Pygidicranidae is cannibalistic?
text: Did you know that the Abbasid vizier al-Fadl ibn al-Rabi' was the main instigator of the civil war between brothers and rival caliphs al-Ma'mun and al-Amin ?
text: Did you know that scenes in " Episode 5 " of Twin Peaks were filmed in Angeles National Forest ?
text: Did you know that the Old English Lambeth Homilies (c. 1200), written in the Middle English period, share five homilies (and the Poema Morale ) with the Trinity Homilies (c. 1200–25), which likewise preserve Old English forms?
text: Did you know that after failing to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics in triathlon , American Mary Beth Ellis went on to win five Ironman Triathlons , including the 2012 U.S. Championships at Ironman New York?
text: Did you know that the filly Sun Stream narrowly won the 1945 Epsom Oaks by "a small head"?
text: Did you know that in 2010, the restaurant Au Crocodile was sold for over a million euros?
text: Did you know that minuscule 880 , a 15th-century manuscript of the New Testament , was written by George Hermonymus , a teacher of Reuchlin and Budeus ?
text: Did you know that Libby Houston received the 2012 H. H. Bloomer Award from the Linnean Society of London ?
text: Did you know that for the portrayal of Trevor Raznik in the film The Machinist , Christian Bale lost 63 pounds (28.5 kg)?
text: Did you know that during the Liverpool Exchange by-election in 1897 , the Liberal candidate Russell Rea was denounced by a Conservative Party politician as a "white slave" of Irish Nationalists ?
text: Did you know that Spanish governor Diego de Salinas surrendered Gibraltar to English marines under the command of a former Viceroy of Catalonia in 1704?
text: Did you know that the Musidora Stakes , an annual race held at York , was named in honour of the 1000 Guineas and Epsom Oaks -winning filly Musidora ?
text: Did you know that the Alcatraz gun gallery was situated in the recreation yard , mounted on one of the dining hall 's exterior walls?
text: Did you know that recent estimates of the number of political prisoners in Saudi Arabia range from a denial of any political prisoners at all to 30,000?
text: Did you know that water polo player Shea Buckner won NCAA Championships and was named to the All-American first team in both 2008 and 2009?
text: Did you know that species in the fungal genus Endogone are important in the ecology of plant succession in sand dunes?
text: Did you know that it is not compulsory for a place of worship in England and Wales to be officially registered , but doing so makes the premises exempt from Council Tax ?
text: Did you know that Alabama nose tackle Jesse Williams is the first Indigenous Australian to receive a scholarship to play college football in the United States?
text: Did you know that Victoria's Secret Angel model Chanel Iman plays Usher 's love interest in the music video for " Dive "?
text: Did you know that Monsieur d'Amour married four times, once to a 14-year-old girl ?
text: Did you know that John Hilliard ' s Cause of Death (1974) suggested four different interpretations of one photographic negative ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Michael Roeger has played football, basketball, table tennis and cricket?
text: Did you know that the English racehorse Galatea won both legs of the Fillies Triple Crown that were held in 1939?
text: Did you know that rhythmic gymnast Georgina Cassar was the first athlete from Gibraltar to compete at the Olympic Games?
text: Did you know that the Glee episode " Britney 2.0 " features Britney Spears mashed up with Justin Bieber ?
text: Did you know that Rabbi Aryeh Tzvi Frumer , a leading rosh yeshiva in prewar Poland , was forced to work in a Warsaw Ghetto factory making footwear for German soldiers ?
text: Did you know that leading the Our Greatest Team Parade will be two giant lion heads?
text: Did you know that beer distributor Ron Fowler led a group that included golfer Phil Mickelson that was approved by Major League Baseball to purchase the San Diego Padres for $800 million ?
text: Did you know that Varietease , starring Lili St. Cyr and Bettie Page , was Irving Klaw 's first feature length documentary film about 1950s burlesque ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Carlee Beattie was named the most valuable player at the 2000 Netball State Titles?
text: Did you know that after pressure from his mamluks , the Burji sultan Sayf ad-Din Inal supported James II with a naval fleet in his attempt to gain the throne of Cyprus ?
text: Did you know that the cricket team Chennai Super Kings of the Indian Premier League has received the Fly Kingfisher Fair Play Award three times out of five?
text: Did you know that water polo goalkeeper Chay Lapin set the all-time saves record at the University of California, Los Angeles ?
text: Did you know that Mississippi's Spanish Fort is neither Spanish nor a fort?
text: Did you know that Mayer Zald and John D. McCarthy developed the resource mobilization theory, which became one of the major theories on social movements ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair racer Jake Lappin is able to perfom push ups without using his legs?
text: Did you know that upon the release of Mariah Carey 's 12th studio album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel , her song " Betcha Gon' Know (The Prologue) " peaked at number 66 on the U.S. Hot Digital Songs chart?
text: Did you know that Ethel McMillan holds the distinction of being the first woman in New Zealand appointed as a savings bank trustee?
text: Did you know that Kara Mustafa Pasha, the founder of the Ridwan dynasty , was a former gate-slave of Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Simon Patmore has Erb's palsy and works as a technology officer?
text: Did you know that the orange sea lily and the beaded crinoid conceal their bodies in crevices while they extend their arms to filter feed ?
text: Did you know that blind athlete Robert Matthews won eight Paralympic gold medals for middle and long distance running and now competes as a cyclist?
text: Did you know that the 1969 Greensboro uprising started with a student council election?
text: Did you know that the Umayyad military leader Abdallah al-Battal became a popular hero in medieval Arabic and Turkish tradition for his exploits against the Byzantines ?
text: Did you know that a California casino is putting up a million dollars to save the Chukchansi language , which has eight fluent speakers?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Amber Merritt was named the MVP at the 2012 Gliders and Rollers World Challenge?
text: Did you know that in 2008, the only songs to spend two weeks at number one on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Songs chart were Madonna 's " 4 Minutes ", featuring Justin Timberlake , and Donna Summer 's " Stamp Your Feet "?
text: Did you know that Michelin starred chef Lisa Allen has an allergy to shellfish?
text: Did you know that in 1924, Izetta Jewel became the first woman to address a major political party convention to second a U.S. presidential nomination ?
text: Did you know that the tadpoles of the Sri Lanka rock frog and the Kirtisinghe's rock frog are often found on wet rocks near mountain streams?
text: Did you know that 2012 Indian Paralympic powerlifter Farman Basha won an event for non-disabled athletes in 2006, leading to a ban on disabled athletes in Indian Powerlifting Federation events?
text: Did you know that according to T. E. Lawrence , the Syrian town of Tafas was the site of an infamous massacre perpetrated by retreating Ottoman troops during World War I ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic rower Erik Horrie was previously a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team and only took up rowing in 2011?
text: Did you know the spores of the mushroom Boletellus russellii are grooved and furrowed like its stem?
text: Did you know that American artist Jean Wells created a five-foot tall ice cream cone for a San Diego Museum of Art exhibition?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair racer Rosemary Little had to raise AUD$ 8,000 to replace her racing wheelchair following a collision at the 2011 City2Surf ?
text: Did you know that the Ellerbusch Archaeological Site in the U.S. state of Indiana was picked for extensive excavation partly because it was so small?
text: Did you know that Abdullah Al Rabiah , once named the world's 45th most influential Arab by a business magazine, used to work as a surgeon who separated conjoined twins ?
text: Did you know that the Astor Bridge was considered "one of the most hazardous road sections in Florida" in the 1970s?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic long jumper Stephanie Schweitzer works as a personal trainer?
text: Did you know that the filly Lady Carla won the 1996 Epsom Oaks by nine lengths , the fourth-widest margin of victory of this race in the 20th century?
text: Did you know that Indonesian journalist Saeroen operated a chain of hotels named after bats?
text: Did you know that the Corporation of Madras was established in 1688, and is the oldest municipal body in India?
text: Did you know that in the Kinks ' song " Sitting in My Hotel ", singer and songwriter Ray Davies muses about the cost of stardom in terms of loneliness and losing touch with his roots?
text: Did you know that a Philippine Basketball Association team that successfully defends the Philippine Cup for three consecutive times, will permanently keep the Jun Bernardino Trophy ?
text: Did you know that in August 2012, an employee of Gibraltar -based Profield Contractors was arrested on suspicion of being a member of a terrorist cell ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Paralympics competitor Rajinder Singh Rahelu won the first-ever medal for India in powerlifting in 2004?
text: Did you know that the type specimen of Eucalyptus denticulata was only collected in 1989?
text: Did you know that Conflict Kitchen , in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , is a take-out restaurant that only serves food from nations with which the United States is in conflict?
text: Did you know that the Beilin-Abu Mazen agreement was a proposed Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty created by Yossi Beilin and Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) in 1995?
text: Did you know that five-time gold medallist Thomas Oelsner was the first athlete to be sent home from any Winter Paralympic Games when he failed a drugs test in 2002?
text: Did you know that the June 26 , 2012, Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances has been criticized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation ?
text: Did you know that Henry Nock , the maker of the seven-barrelled volley gun used by Patrick Harper in Sharpe episodes, founded a company which became Wilkinson Sword ?
text: Did you know that the Dras River , a tributary of Suru River in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir , originates from the Machoi Glacier ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Damien Bowen has previously competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics and 2010 Commonwealth Games ?
text: Did you know that Bird Island Nature Reserve has no introduced animals?
text: Did you know that the Danube bleak , a migratory fish , has had its traditional routes blocked by the building of dams ?
text: Did you know that Mika Yamamoto , the fifteenth journalist killed in Syria in 2012, was the first Japanese reporter to be killed in the ongoing armed political conflict in Syria ?
text: Did you know that Tim Hunter , director of " Episode 4 " of Twin Peaks , was inspired by Otto Preminger 's use of small sets in 1945's Fallen Angel ?
text: Did you know that John Greenleaf Whittier immortalized the sinking of the Palatine Light ghost ship with a poem written in 1867?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic sailor Stephen Churm competed in his first sailing race in 1963?
text: Did you know that the Church of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel in Brăila , Romania, is the country's only former mosque converted into an Orthodox church?
text: Did you know that the 2011 film Love's Kitchen starring Dougray Scott, Claire Forlani and featuring chef Gordon Ramsay in a cameo role, took £ 121 on its opening weekend?
text: Did you know that British record producer Shahid " Naughty Boy " Khan started his career by winning twice in one year, once for The Prince's Trust and then on Deal or No Deal ?
text: Did you know that Irapé Dam on the Jequitinhonha River is the tallest dam in Brazil?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic 100 metre runner Gabriel Cole became a serious runner after the intervention of his high school French teacher?
text: Did you know that Karen Gillan , who portrays Amy Pond , was so moved by her exit from Doctor Who that she could not read the script without crying?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Matthew Silcocks has Poland's syndrome , a syndrome he had at birth, that caused development problems with his right arm?
text: Did you know that the Black Salamander may defend itself by biting a western garter snake attacking it?
text: Did you know that Ben Burns , a pioneering white editor of black publications, answered if he was "Negro or white" by saying: "Neither, I'm Jewish "?
text: Did you know that Canadian S10 swimmer Summer Mortimer won a medal in each of her individual events at the 2012 Paralympics , breaking two of her own world records?
text: Did you know that a Japanese bank funded a project to improve the quality of Hussain Sagar reservoir in Hyderabad, India ?
text: Did you know that a minimal surface of revolution can be visualized as soap film stretched between two circular wires , and C. W. B. Goldschmidt discovered mathematical solutions describing cases in which the film breaks?
text: Did you know that in her film debut Kris of Mataram , Fifi Young stabs herself with the titular weapon ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Paralympics competitor and Gold Coast Wheelchair Rugby Titans captain Ben Newton was a member of the undefeated 2011 Australia national wheelchair rugby team ?
text: Did you know that of all the county bridges currently in use in Wyoming, EDZ Irigary Bridge has the longest clear span ?
text: Did you know that in 2002, Randy and Teri MacDonald were the first brother-sister combination to compete against each other in NASCAR since Ethel and Tim Flock in 1949?
text: Did you know that U.S. federal tax increases and spending cuts mandated for 2013 have been called a fiscal cliff due to their projected economic effects?
text: Did you know that British swimmer James Crisp has won medals in every different competitive stroke style ?
text: Did you know that domestic violence in Pakistan has been described as "endemic in all social spheres"?
text: Did you know that in United States v. Jackalow (1862), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a jury should decide whether the Long Island Sound was on the "high seas"?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Georgia Beikoff quit cricket and soccer in order to pursue athletics?
text: Did you know that Lucy Spraggan 's song " Last Night " reached number eleven in the UK charts despite being pulled midweek?
text: Did you know that Brad Teague was fastest in third-round qualifying for the 1989 Daytona 500 , but did not compete in the event?
text: Did you know that Lindsey Berg was twice named the USA Volleyball Indoor Female Athlete of the Year?
text: Did you know that the Hanajira tribe inhabited the area between Gaza and Beersheba before being expelled to the Gaza Strip during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War ?
text: Did you know that in 1915, British ship-owner Joseph Hoult offered a reward of £500 each to the next four British merchant ships that sank German U-boats ?
text: Did you know that Georgian daba Manglisi has been a mountain resort area for the people of Tbilisi since the 19th century?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympian Rachael Dodds , who has cerebral palsy , was introduced to athletics by her physiotherapist?
text: Did you know that during the Albanian Revolt of 1432–36 , forces under Gjergj Arianiti defeated 10,000 Ottoman troops under Ali Bey near the valley of Shkumbin?
text: Did you know that Mike Kenny is the most successful British Paralympian , having twice retained his gold medals in three swimming events ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Matthew Cameron has represented his country in athletics and wheelchair basketball?
text: Did you know that pottery from the Duffy Archaeological Site in Illinois is distinctive for its lack of decorative elements?
text: Did you know that in 1332 Taynal , the Mamluk governor of Tripoli , was transferred to Gaza as punishment by the viceroy of Syria , only to be reassigned to Tripoli three years later?
text: Did you know that Blessed Guerric 's relics , located at Igny Abbey in Arcis-le-Ponsart , are still venerated ?
text: Did you know that according to her memoirs, African American preacher Zilphia Elaw gave over a thousand sermons in Victorian Britain ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australia Paralympic equestrian Rob Oakley started riding horses as a way to impress a girl?
text: Did you know that a 19th-century brick synagogue in Radzanów designed with Moorish -style motifs, serves as a public library since there are now no Jews in Radzanów?
text: Did you know that Shane Warne served both as a captain and a coach for Rajasthan Royals , and led his cricket team to win the 2008 Indian Premier League Final ?
text: Did you know that the Marxist ethnographer Sergei Aleksandrovich Tokarev considered that shamans were almost always mentally ill?
text: Did you know that the clouded salamander stayed at home in Oregon while the wandering salamander travelled by bark from California to Vancouver Island ?
text: Did you know that 2012 British Paralympic cyclist Mark Colbourne broke his back in a paragliding accident?
text: Did you know that Mansehra Rock Edicts are fourteen rock edicts of Mauryan emperor Ashoka dating back to the third century BC mentioning aspects of the emperor's dharma law?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic table tennis player Melissa Tapper started her competitive playing career competing against able-bodied athletes even though she has Erb's palsy ?
text: Did you know that the churchyard of All Saints Church, Ulcombe in England contains a yew tree claimed to be more than 2,000 years old?
text: Did you know that 2012 British Paralympic footballer Ibrahima Diallo was diagnosed with cerebral palsy after a physiotherapist saw him running?
text: Did you know that the single known specimen of Houston's Whitebeam grows on a cliff in North Somerset and cannot be accessed without ropes?
text: Did you know that Liz Johnson won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics just eleven days after the death of her mother?
text: Did you know that the tsunami triggered by the 1979 Tumaco earthquake coincided with low tide, greatly reducing the area inundated and the likelihood of a far higher death toll?
text: Did you know that Anuya Bhagvath makes her Bengali cinema debut in Gora , a film based on a novel by Rabindranath Tagore ?
text: Did you know that the Val-Saint-Lambert Abbey is an important example of Cistercian architecture in Belgium?
text: Did you know that Mike Chase hoped to be NASCAR Rookie of the Year in the Winston Cup Series in 1995, but was released from his team after failing to qualify for the year's first race ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympian Erinn Walters weighed 900 grams (2.0 lb) at birth?
text: Did you know that reported human rights issues in Lesotho include food shortages at the central prison?
text: Did you know that the DOX BOX International Documentary Film Festival, founded by Syrian filmmaker Orwa Nyrabia in 2008, quickly grew into the most important documentary film gathering in the Arab world ?
text: Did you know that the Drayton Island Ferry was limited to a capacity of six people after reports were received of its operator carrying 40 passengers on board?
text: Did you know that Sowmya Raoh worked as a voice artist before making her playback singing debut?
text: Did you know that 2012 British Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Terry Bywater made his Paralympic debut in 2000 in Sydney ?
text: Did you know that although collected in 1958, the fungus Engleromyces sinensis was not described as a new species until 52 years later?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympian Jodi Elkington is also a netball umpire?
text: Did you know that film-maker David Lynch acts opposite his real-life partner Isabella Rossellini in Tina Rathborne's semi-autobiographical film Zelly and Me ?
text: Did you know that Sarpsborg 08 rejected Brescia 's attempt to get Magnar Ødegaard on a trial, because it was in the middle of the Norwegian football season?
text: Did you know that the Syrian city of Tell Rifaat dates back to the Iron Age when it was an Aramaean settlement known as " Arpad "?
text: Did you know that South African Paralympic swimmer Achmat Hassiem had his leg severed in an attack by a great white shark ?
text: Did you know that the extinct wasp Deinodryinus areolatus is one of two Deinodryinus species known from Baltic amber ?
text: Did you know that when Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz cried, "even the State Department listened"?
text: Did you know that mathematician Fredrik Lange-Nielsen was elected into several governmental commissions?
text: Did you know that a reviewer called the gay pornographic film Dream Team an allegory of gay liberation ?
text: Did you know that in 1943 HMS Calpe helped sink a U-boat which had sunk two of her sister destroyers that same month?
text: Did you know that British Paralympian Caz Walton won gold medals in athletics, table tennis, and fencing?
text: Did you know that "the one who cried" is often depicted shaking Mount Kailash in Indian art ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair rugby player Josh Hose became a quadriplegic after a car rollover ?
text: Did you know that the mushroom Mycena atkinsoniana will "bleed" yellow-orange juice when injured?
text: Did you know that Indonesian Paralympian Ni Nengah Widiasih beat the ASEAN ParaGames powerlifting record for her weight class by 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) last December?
text: Did you know that Millennium 's " Sense and Antisense " underwent several rewrites to lessen its focus on race relations?
text: Did you know that Chan Yan-tak was the first Chinese chef to win three Michelin stars ?
text: Did you know that it is disputed whether or not the Pemberton-Billing P.B.1 ever flew?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australia Paralympic equestrian Grace Bowman was featured on ABC 's Race to London ?
text: Did you know that DARPA director Arati Prabhakar was the first female director of National Institute of Standards and Technology , and also the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in applied physics from Caltech ?
text: Did you know that the villous deadly carrot is used to stun fish ?
text: Did you know that the music of Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, and Arnold Schoenberg inspired jazz-guitarist Ralph Patt to invent major-thirds tuning ?
text: Did you know that a grey sandstone wall is all that remains of Caludon Castle in Coventry , whose history stretches back to pre- Norman times?
text: Did you know that as a ten-year-old, 2012 Paralympic swimmer Michael Auprince chose to have his leg amputated?
text: Did you know that an alleged Burmese drug lord and nine Thai anti-narcotics soldiers are accused of committing the 2011 Mekong River massacre , the deadliest attack on Chinese nationals abroad in modern times?
text: Did you know that Indonesian Paralympic competitor Setyo Budi Hartanto is the son of fishmongers ?
text: Did you know that infection with the parasitic nematode Rhabdias bufonis can cause host frogs to die?
text: Did you know that after giving up professional football to serve in World War II , Jack Roberts escaped from a POW camp and walked 400 miles to freedom with a broken neck?
text: Did you know that the fungus Pluteus nevadensis was named after the Colima volcano ?
text: Did you know that Brother Esteban de Perea was the reluctant jailer of New Mexico governor Pedro de Peralta , founder of Santa Fe ?
text: Did you know that the extinct wasp Deinodryinus? aptianus has antennae similar to only two other Deinodryinus species?
text: Did you know that Madhu Trehan , an Indian journalist, had to apologise for publishing an article rating Delhi High Court judges?
text: Did you know that Joss Whedon is developing a television series based on the Marvel Cinematic Universe ?
text: Did you know that two-time world champion water skier and 2012 Paralympic athletics competitor Scott Reardon was the first person with a disability to win his state 's water skiing championship?
text: Did you know that the Faizrakhmanist sect, including 27 children, was discovered to be living underground in catacomb -like chambers in Kazan in Tatarstan ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian T46 runner and Paralympic hopeful Martin Losu set two regional records at the 2011 ASEAN ParaGames ?
text: Did you know that the 1895 Quchan earthquake had a lower death toll than the one that struck the town in 1893 , partly because most of the rebuilt houses used a lighter form of construction?
text: Did you know that Bach composed his chorale cantata Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ , BWV 33 , on a hymn by Konrad Hubert with a melody by Paul Hofhaimer , and first performed it on 3 September 1724?
text: Did you know that sediments from the Sendai River in Tottori Prefecture , Japan, created and replenish the Tottori Sand Dunes ?
text: Did you know that Sanjay Hazare is the first international cricket umpire from Vadodara , and second from Gujarat ?
text: Did you know that the future of the tropical tree Milicia regia for timber production is threatened by a gall fly , Phytolyma lata ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic goalballer Jennifer Blow found a rock resembling the lucky egg from Cool Runnings and started a pre-game ritual of quoting the movie while holding the rock?
text: Did you know that in 2011, Channel 4 described Ola Abidogun as a "new GB sprint star"?
text: Did you know that Nicolas de Bruijn was inspired to prove De Bruijn's theorem on packing bricks into boxes by his seven-year-old son's inability to pack some bricks into a box without wasted space?
text: Did you know that Władysław Machejek was a political hack writer during the Stalinist reign of terror in Poland following World War II ?
text: Did you know that Dennis Lillee took seven out of his twenty-three Test five-wicket hauls at the Melbourne Cricket Ground ?
text: Did you know that Eichwald's toad was first described in 2008, having previously been considered to be a subspecies of the Caucasian toad ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic goalball player Tyan Taylor participated in two extreme sports : skydiving and bungee jumping ?
text: Did you know that in the novel Corrupting Dr. Nice by John Kessel , several versions of Jesus Christ are transported to the twenty-first century?
text: Did you know that adaptive rowers Pam Relph , Naomi Riches , James Roe and David Smith , alongside cox Lily van den Broecke , won a gold medal at the 2011 World Rowing Championships and have been selected to represent Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that the 1966 Syrian coup d'état removed the original founders of Ba'athism from power, caused the party to split, and brought neo-Ba'athists to power in Syria?
text: Did you know that basketball player Kobe Bryant went to Germany to receive Orthokine treatments that have not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ?
text: Did you know that in some portrayals of the marriage of the Hindu deities Shiva and Parvati , their yet-unborn sons are depicted?
text: Did you know that in 1960, Martial became the first Irish racehorse to win the British Classic 2,000 Guineas Stakes ?
text: Did you know that 14-year-old 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair racer Rheed McCracken qualified for the Games after only using a wheelchair since late 2009?
text: Did you know that the 2006 Swift raids were the largest workplace immigration action in United States history?
text: Did you know that Harrison Brown led the Manhattan Project team that first successfully isolated gram quantities of plutonium?
text: Did you know that the county of Dorset in England has one of the most studied coastlines in the world ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair tennis player Janel Manns became an incomplete paraplegic at age 32 after a bathroom accident and initially played basketball, not tennis?
text: Did you know that Olive Garden successfully participated in Coca-Cola 's H 2 NO program, which sought to steer customers away from tap water in favor of buying soft drinks and bottled water ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian Paralympic S6 swimmer Agus Ngaimin first competed at the national level when he was twenty?
text: Did you know that in 1937 the Nazis organized the Degenerate Art Exhibition attempting to discredit modern art , which Hitler declared to be degenerate ?
text: Did you know that Dexter Bean ' s BlackJack Racing team, which he drove for in NASCAR 's Sprint Cup Series , was so named because his father formed the team after winning big in Vegas ?
text: Did you know that John P. Bennett , the Arawak priest and linguist, wrote An Arawak-English Dictionary at a time when the Arawak language was thought to be near extinction in Guyana ?
text: Did you know that during the tenure of Jerry Glanville , Portland State set a Football Championship Subdivision record for most points scored in a loss against Weber State in 2007?
text: Did you know that half of Lie Tek Swie 's films were literary adaptations ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Paralympic swimmer Matthew Haanappel is the cousin of Cadel Evans and delayed taking the VCE in order to spend more time training for the Paralympics?
text: Did you know that the Cheboygan Bascule Bridge was the last bascule bridge built in the U.S. state of Michigan before the end of World War II?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic goalball team captain Meica Christensen plays the song " The Final Countdown " before competitions?
text: Did you know that the first of a record-breaking 26 consecutive formation loops performed by British aerobatic team The Blades was executed by a blind pilot?
text: Did you know that blind 2012 Paralympic swimmer Tim Antalfy also surfs , water skis and wakeboards ?
text: Did you know that Dr. James West , the founding medical director of the Betty Ford Center , was an alcoholic when he was a student and later wrote as a newspaper columnist about alcoholism and alcohol abuse ?
text: Did you know that Saqlain Mushtaq took 19 five-wicket hauls during his career in international cricket , and achieved two hat-tricks in One Day International matches, both against Zimbabwe ?
text: Did you know that "culture warrior" Bachtiar Effendi was active in the cinemas of both Indonesia and Italy?
text: Did you know that eating paradise nuts can cause nausea, vomiting and hair loss ?
text: Did you know that American economist and professor Stanley Lebergott argued that consumerism has had a positive impact on the U.S. economy and standard of living?
text: Did you know that blind 2012 Paralympic swimmer Jeremy McClure completed the 2011 Ironman 70.3 Busselton with assistance from sighted guides in running, cycling and swimming?
text: Did you know that Taiwanese comedian Chu Ke-liang went into hiding for ten years to escape gambling debts to underworld figures?
text: Did you know that among the fifty-seven active lighthouses in Maine are the easternmost in the country and the first completed in the United States after its independence from Great Britain ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair tennis player Adam Kellerman was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma when he was thirteen years old?
text: Did you know that Smooth 70s is the UK's only national 1970s radio station, while Absolute Radio 70s claims to be the UK's only station dedicated to the decade?
text: Did you know that despite being nearly deaf, David Smith played volleyball at the 2012 Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Franz Kafka wrote the 109 Zürau Aphorisms at the estate of his sister Ottla and her husband in Zürau where he sought recovery from tuberculosis?
text: Did you know that the coaches of 2012 Paralympic swimmer Richard Eliason advised him to take the bus until the end of the Paralympic Games?
text: Did you know that 2008 South African Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Nick Taylor was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that opponents of the new mosque of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro tried to block its construction by arguing in court that Islam was not a religion?
text: Did you know that when Sten Grytebust was selected for the Norway national under-23 football team, he didn't know that such a team existed?
text: Did you know that the female Black Mountain Salamander broods her eggs?
text: Did you know that 2012 Paralympic wheelchair racer Kristy Pond was named the IPC Athlete of the Month in May 2011?
text: Did you know that Loetoeng Kasaroeng was the first film produced in what is now Indonesia?
text: Did you know that the Fort Gates Ferry has been featured in both a commercial with Paul Newman and in the "world's worst commute"?
text: Did you know that Marjory Stephenson , along with Kathleen Lonsdale , was one of the first two women to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society ?
text: Did you know that women who die in childbirth or pregnancy are believed by some to return as undead vampires and suck blood of their male relatives?
text: Did you know that the crew of the armoured cruiser HMS Shannon attempted to rescue survivors from HMS Natal after Natal ' s magazines exploded on 30 December 1915?
text: Did you know that John Eliot Gardiner performed Bach's cantatas for Reformation Day in the Schloßkirche, Wittenberg , including Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild , BWV 79 ?
text: Did you know that the San Carlos tree frog is an "explosive breeder" and is stimulated to breed by the arrival of heavy rain?
text: Did you know that Tan Tjoei Hock 's 1941 film Tengkorak Hidoep has been credited as the first horror film made in Indonesia?
text: Did you know that Evan Gattis spent four years wandering in Texas , New Mexico , California , Colorado , and Wyoming before becoming a professional baseball player?
text: Did you know that the Fujiwara no Hirotsugu Rebellion created the first vengeful spirit ?
text: Did you know that in Capitol Records, LLC v. ReDigi Inc. , a United States district court is currently deciding whether or not it is legal to buy and sell pre-owned digital music?
text: Did you know that vampire prostitutes are believed to enter a man's house naked in the night and suck his blood through his toes?
text: Did you know that Brihat Jataka is described as India's foremost astrological text?
text: Did you know that the female tree frog Aplastodiscus leucopygius inspects the underground nesting chamber prepared by the male before accepting his advances?
text: Did you know that the father of actress Jane Cameron worked as a set designer on Emmerdale , which Cameron later appeared in as Sophie Wright?
text: Did you know that the shortest fossil termite bug is Termitaradus avitinquilinus ?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig has expressed support for the Doubleday myth , which states that American Civil War officer Abner Doubleday invented baseball ?
text: Did you know that Helen Porter helped to pioneer the use of radioactive tracers in botany?
text: Did you know that the Early Neolithic settlement of Nea Nikomedeia is one of the earliest known sites in Macedonia , dated to 6250–6050 BC ?
text: Did you know that HMS Ambrose was a British cargo liner that was converted into an armed merchant cruiser and then into a submarine depot ship during World War I ?
text: Did you know that the variable bushy feather star is sometimes kept in a reef aquarium but usually dies because of starvation ?
text: Did you know that neuropsychologist Eleanor Maguire was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for demonstrating that London taxi drivers have large hippocampi ?
text: Did you know that Jovita Feitosa of Tauá was not allowed to fight in the Paraguayan War because of her gender?
text: Did you know that the female Mozambique rain frog lays her eggs in an underground chamber and often stays nearby while they develop?
text: Did you know that Enrique Dávila Pacheco was appointed as the Acting Governor of Yucatán by García Sarmiento de Sotomayor in 1644?
text: Did you know that Michael Trevino won two Teen Choice Awards for his role of a vampire-werewolf hybrid in The Vampire Diaries ?
text: Did you know that the Tombs of the Sanhedrin may have contained someone else?
text: Did you know that the German war film U 47 – Kapitänleutnant Prien portrayed the combat career of the U-boat captain Günther Prien , commander of German submarine U-47 ?
text: Did you know that Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon both were given BunaBs ?
text: Did you know that the Royal postmaster Roberto Bandinelli moved to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to escape lawsuits which threatened him with imprisonment in Florence ?
text: Did you know that the Central American frog Duellmanohyla soralia is critically endangered and its population decline is due, at least in part, to the fungal disease chytridiomycosis ?
text: Did you know that Australian field hockey goalkeeper Tristan Clemons is researching nanoparticles that could treat injuries and fight cancer?
text: Did you know that the stars of the binary system EK Trianguli Australis orbit around a common centre of gravity every 1.5 hours?
text: Did you know that in the first half of the 19th century, the Sejm of the Grand Duchy of Posen continued Polish parliamentary traditions in the territories of the Prussian partition ?
text: Did you know that the anemone crab often lives in close association with the sea anemone Lebrunia danae ?
text: Did you know that Younus Khan has scored 20 centuries in Test cricket , which is the fourth-best tally by a Pakistan batsman ?
text: Did you know that Gibraltar Creek is not located in Gibraltar at all, but is a 13.1-kilometre (8.1-mile) long river found in Australia?
text: Did you know that organic chemist Darshan Ranganathan did pioneering work in protein folding ?
text: Did you know that the Denton House in New Hyde Park , New York, was to be demolished for a McDonald's restaurant , before local authorities required the restaurant to restore the mansion?
text: Did you know that wheelchair basketballer and para-alpine skier Shannon Dallas was afflicted with necrotizing fasciitis , a flesh-eating bug, that sidelined him for seven months?
text: Did you know that polar bear researcher Steven Amstrup found that polar ice packs destroyed by climate change could grow back if global temperatures cool?
text: Did you know that Carolina false morels should not be eaten because they may contain a compound that, when digested, breaks down into a rocket fuel propellant ?
text: Did you know that popes awarded blessed swords and hats to defenders of Christendom , including at least 12 emperors , 10 kings of France, 7 kings of Poland, 6 kings of Spain, and the nation of Switzerland?
text: Did you know that the grass genus names Tuctoria and Orcuttia are anagrams ?
text: Did you know that the area around the Spanish beach of Cala Arenas has been inhabited for thousands of years due to its strategic position facing the Strait of Gibraltar ?
text: Did you know that in sound recognition, context effects from other sounds in the environment cause us to change the way we categorize a sound?
text: Did you know that painted and lacquered spider webs are sold as art at Knight's Spider Web Farm in Vermont?
text: Did you know that the Lanczos tensor of general relativity exists only in four dimensions, suggesting our universe of four spacetime dimensions is special ?
text: Did you know that Vladimir Nabokov 's play The Tragedy of Mister Morn , written in 1923–24, was not published during his lifetime?
text: Did you know that in October 2012 a movie channel dedicated to the James Bond film franchise was launched to celebrate its 50th anniversary?
text: Did you know that the fleshy disk coral is small but aggressive and attacks neighbouring corals ?
text: Did you know that after being coined by the British political satire The Thick of It , the word " omnishambles " was used in Parliament by real politicians?
text: Did you know that the work of the American designer, artist and sculptor Ward Bennett was said to have defined an era?
text: Did you know that Leona Lewis and Ryan Tedder decided to write the up-tempo song " Glassheart " as Lewis was experiencing personal issues and thought a ballad would upset her further?
text: Did you know that Tibúrcio Spannocchi proposed to sling a chain across the Strait of Magellan to prevent ships sailing through it?
text: Did you know that rubbish has been illegally dumped on Gibraltar Peak near Canberra ?
text: Did you know that the Atlanta Braves negotiated exclusive rights with Warner Bros. Cartoons to use animated scenes of the Road Runner in honor of Ralph Garr ?
text: Did you know that the term Al Jazeera effect used to describe the revolutionary impact of Al Jazeera network on Arab world media has been generalized more globally to other forms of new media ?
text: Did you know that Mary Pickford was the first woman appointed to a medical professorship at Edinburgh University ?
text: Did you know that the mangrove tree crab prefers animal food but mostly feeds on mangrove leaves?
text: Did you know that Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book (1959) was the first book-length work of original comics in the United States?
text: Did you know that French fishermen threw rocks and nets at British fishing boats during a dispute about scallop fishing with British fishermen in the English Channel?
text: Did you know that suffragist Margaret Cousins went on a hunger strike seeking to be classed as a political prisoner ?
text: Did you know that the third season of Millennium sought to reduce its central conflicts to a struggle between two friends?
text: Did you know that Robert Burnell , founder of St Mary's Church, Acton Burnell , Shropshire , became Lord Chancellor of England, and then Bishop of Bath and Wells ?
text: Did you know that Poland and Spain had no diplomatic relations following the end of World War II , until two years after general Francisco Franco 's death?
text: Did you know that consuming the cinnamon bracket fungus can cause symptoms of neurotoxicity , and violet urine?
text: Did you know that Baynard Rush Hall was the first professor at Indiana University ?
text: Did you know that the austro dripping bonnet probably had a Gondwanan origin?
text: Did you know that Kamala Sohonie received the Rashtrapati Award for her work on supplementing tribal diets with the beverage neera ?
text: Did you know that Indigo Lake in Ohio's Cuyahoga Valley National Park is not a natural lake?
text: Did you know that legislators in Arizona have banned bans on toys accompanying kids' meals ?
text: Did you know that in August 2011 the Australian soap opera Neighbours aired a storyline which highlighted two of the major causes of road fatalities and injuries among young Australian drivers?
text: Did you know that the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings was once burned in effigy?
text: Did you know that Karl Beth is considered one of the founding fathers of the psychology of religion ?
text: Did you know that 1930 Wimbledon Championships mixed doubles runner-up Daniel Prenn was of Jewish origin and thus got expelled from the Germany Davis Cup team and subsequently moved from Nazi Germany to England ?
text: Did you know that the Washington Bee 's masthead slogan was "Sting for Our Enemies – Honey for Our Friends"?
text: Did you know that Manolis Roubakis is one of the few footballers who have played for all three big clubs of Heraklion in Greece: OFI Crete , Ergotelis and Atsalenios ?
text: Did you know that in the early 19th century, if you were out on the streets of Gibraltar after midnight without a permit you risked being sent to the Main Guard ?
text: Did you know that Lady Lindsay of Birker , the first Chinese-born peeress, smuggled supplies and taught English to communist guerrillas fighting the Japanese occupation ?
text: Did you know that the town of al-Dana in northern Syria is identified with "Adennu", the first Aramaean city to be captured by Assyrian emperor Shalmaneser III ?
text: Did you know that coral fungi can be red , yellow , beige , ashen , upright , green-staining , bitter , or blah ?
text: Did you know that as a member of the California Column , Andrew J. Doran was granted a brevet commission due to his experience with the Butterfield route ?
text: Did you know that the Faux Namti Bridge is also called the "Inverted V Bridge" because its supporting trusses form the shape of an upside-down letter V?
text: Did you know that Chief Wilson set the Major League Baseball single-season record for triples in 1912 , a record that still stands?
text: Did you know that streets in Tbilisi and Tirana are named after former US President George W. Bush ?
text: Did you know that black-leg causes white rot ?
text: Did you know that 1928 Wimbledon Championships mixed doubles champion Pat Spence and tennis partner Miss Betty Nuthall formed a real-life couple when they won the 1931 French Championships mixed doubles title?
text: Did you know that, after the female Jog night frog has laid a clutch of eggs , both parents are involved in guarding them?
text: Did you know that Suhaimi Yusof , a Malay stand-up comedian, received the Best Comedy Performance award at the 2011 Asian Television Awards for his efforts in The Noose ?
text: Did you know that the Spanish painter José Cruz Herrera worked in Casablanca for much of his life, where he was a prolific painter of scenes of Moroccan everyday life?
text: Did you know that the made-for-TV film Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal was inspired by the true story of five unruly high-school cheerleaders?
text: Did you know that the Duchess of Westminster was one of only two women to compete in sailing at the 1908 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the bird-voiced treefrog and the pine woods treefrog can be recognised by their distinctive calls ?
text: Did you know that war profiteering by U.S. military contractors in Iraq brought calls for a new form of the investigative Truman Committee which operated in World War II?
text: Did you know that the concert choir Frankfurter Kantorei performed Mozart's Requiem and Mendelssohn's Walpurgisnacht with the Israel Chamber Orchestra in Tel Aviv in a concert for the city's 100th anniversary?
text: Did you know that Keret House is the world's narrowest house?
text: Did you know that the historic La Playa Trail in San Diego is the oldest commercial trail in the western United States?
text: Did you know that every "deep desire" is a prayer, and God "answers every selfless prayer", according to Easwaran in Seeing with the Eyes of Love ?
text: Did you know that HIT Squad, founded by UFC Hall of Fame inductee Matt Hughes in 2007, changed its name to Finney's HIT Squad when it was purchased in 2011?
text: Did you know that Millennium 's second season finale " The Time Is Now " was inspired in part by a cattle disease in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that the spiny flower coral attacks other corals that try to grow too close to it?
text: Did you know that All Saints Church in Lydd is the longest parish church in Kent at 199 feet (61 m)?
text: Did you know that Richard Belzer insisted Law & Order: Special Victims Unit creator Dick Wolf cast Dean Winters as his partner, Brian Cassidy , before he would join the cast?
text: Did you know that the Opa-Locka Thematic Resource Area includes 20 buildings developed by aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss using an "Arabian Nights" theme?
text: Did you know that Neil Young 's new audio format takes its name from the Hawaiian word for righteousness?
text: Did you know that prior to winning a gold medal at the 2008 Olympics , Ukrainian sport shooter Artur Ayvazyan was detained by his nation's customs agency for having an unregistered gun?
text: Did you know that 444 years ago, Poland's Royal Posts were entrusted to an Italian banker, Sebastiano Montelupi ?
text: Did you know that at the 2012 Berlin Biennale , one artist blocked Friedrichstraße with a wall, which was removed early after public protest?
text: Did you know that despite only playing one match for Bayer Leverkusen , the Norwegian footballer Terje Olsen does not regret moving to Germany at the age of 15?
text: Did you know that Swiss composer Hermann Suter 's symphonic oratorio Le Laudi is a setting of St. Francis of Assisi 's Italian Canticle of the Sun for choir, soloists, voci di ragazzi , organ and orchestra?
text: Did you know that John Lennon married Yoko Ono at The Rock Hotel ?
text: Did you know that the desert rain frog leaves distinctive footprints on the dunes and a little pile of sand showing the location of its burrow ?
text: Did you know that the extent of Lie Kim Hok 's poem Sair Tjerita Siti Akbari in the Wong brothers ' film Siti Akbari is uncertain?
text: Did you know that while researching In the Shadow of the Sword , Tom Holland found that the oldest biography of Mohammed was written two hundred years after he had died?
text: Did you know that Termitaradus protera was the first termite bug found in amber?
text: Did you know that the bagel head is a type of extreme body modification?
text: Did you know that the fungus Rhopalomyces elegans can be grown on a medium containing baby beef liver and lamb fat?
text: Did you know that the 82nd Airborne Division participated in two end-of- World War II victory parades , the Berlin Victory Parade of 1945 and the New York City Victory Parade of 1946 ?
text: Did you know that Jørgen Tengesdal played for Viking in the 2001 Norwegian Football Cup Final despite his contract expiring five days before the final?
text: Did you know that Christchurch Steeple was originally part of a 13th-century friary, was mostly destroyed during World War II, and is now a bar and one of 24 Grade II* listed buildings in Coventry ?
text: Did you know that several reviewers criticized the romance between Sam and Diane in the second season of Cheers because it lasted too long and presented a poor relationship role model?
text: Did you know that Adele 's theme for the James Bond film Skyfall went to number one in the UK's iTunes online store less than ten hours after it was released?
text: Did you know that the Church of Julianos in the village of Barad in northern Syria , was one of two three-aisled basilicas in the Dead Cities ?
text: Did you know that the nudibranch Tritonia hamnerorum feeds exclusively on the purple sea fan ?
text: Did you know that in Armenia, wrestling is one of the nation's oldest sports?
text: Did you know that Chao Mae Tuptim in Bangkok is a site crammed full of wooden circumcised penis statues which are said to endow good fortune and fertility on anybody coming into contact with them?
text: Did you know that Ann Bishop , an early female protozoologist , studied treatments for parasitic diseases including amoebic dysentery and malaria ?
text: Did you know that Mother Teresa 's father Nikollë Bojaxhiu was the only Catholic member of the city council of Skopje and his company constructed the city's first theater?
text: Did you know that Namus is the first Armenian feature film?
text: Did you know that the St Albans Hoard , one of the largest hoards of Roman gold coins ever found in Britain, was discovered by a man using his new metal detector for the first time?
text: Did you know that Mohammad Said Hamid Junid wrote a film about a man becoming his father's uncle-in-law?
text: Did you know that Thomas Rowley 's homestead in Christchurch , New Zealand, is used as a school library?
text: Did you know that the venom of the tarantula Psalmopoeus cambridgei contains vanillotoxins ?
text: Did you know that Bach's cantata Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen , BWV 49 , ends with a "religious-erotic" love duet between Jesus (bass) and the Soul (soprano)?
text: Did you know that Mastotermes electromexicus was the first giant northern termite described from the New World ?
text: Did you know that Gordon Ramsay orchestrated the theft of the reservations book from his restaurant Aubergine so that he could blame it on Marco Pierre White ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian footballer Jon Midttun Lie had Tom Nordlie as head coach in three different clubs?
text: Did you know that Mehtab Bagh was the last of eleven Mughal -built gardens along the Yamuna River opposite the Taj Mahal and the Agra Fort ?
text: Did you know that Angelo Masci grouped Illyrian, "Epirote", and Macedonian into one language family, which he considered to be the proto-language of Albanian ?
text: Did you know that to seek self-fulfillment is to seek the good life ?
text: Did you know that the Witchcraft Suppression Act of 1957 makes it illegal to call another person a wizard in South Africa ?
text: Did you know that the recent changes to the copyright law of Panama , introduced as part of the Panama–United States Trade Promotion Agreement , have been criticized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation ?
text: Did you know that the members of acid punk band Bo Ningen are all Japanese, but met in London?
text: Did you know that the eggs of the horned marsupial frog are the largest to be laid by any known amphibian ?
text: Did you know that Meryl Streep made her film début in The Deadliest Season , a 1977 film about sports violence?
text: Did you know that Chinese softshell turtles urinate using their mouths?
text: Did you know that a lecture delivered in Baltimore by philosopher Jacques Derrida popularized French post-structuralism among American academics?
text: Did you know that a Governor of Virginia is buried at St Mary's , Twickenham , encased in lead exactly fitted to the shape of his body?
text: Did you know that although the Ramped Cargo Lighter was used extensively in World War II , afterwards many were surplus to requirements and sunk by their own side?
text: Did you know that the endangered Mazumbai warty frog and the more common Krefft's warty frog are both found in the Usambara Mountains in Tanzania ?
text: Did you know that the BBC documentary programme Dinosaurs, Myths and Monsters speculates that the Cyclopes , the one-eyed giants of Greek mythology , may have been inspired by elephant skulls?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Trafalgar is commemorated today in Gibraltar 's Trafalgar Cemetery , where some of the casualties are buried?
text: Did you know that Robert John Sholl , the only Resident Magistrate in north-west Western Australia between 1865 and 1883, had so much power that he was described as "virtually a Lieutenant Governor "?
text: Did you know that the pharmocological products derived from the Spanish foxglove are up to three times more potent than those obtained from the common foxglove ?
text: Did you know that the Irish horror film Stitches marks the movie debut of English stand-up comedian Ross Noble as a homicidal undead clown?
text: Did you know that the 2013 Manila mayoral election includes police officer Dirty Harry , gang leader Asiong Salonga , a fortune teller, a driver, and an engineer?
text: Did you know that Count Emeryk Hutten-Czapski gathered his historical collections for the National Museum in Kraków mainly through purchasing the entire collections of other noble families?
text: Did you know that the Bab al-Nairab neighborhood in Aleppo , Syria , was originally a 13th-century gate planned by the Ayyubid ruler az-Zahir Ghazi , but built by his successor al-Aziz Muhammad?
text: Did you know that American sociologist Melvin Tumin challenged the Davis–Moore hypothesis and went on to write a widely used text book on social stratification ?
text: Did you know that the Russian monitor Bronenosets was converted into a coal barge in 1903 by the removal of her gun turret , side armor, and the division of her hull into three holds ?
text: Did you know that for the 1975 Bollywood classic film Sholay , M. S. Shinde edited 300,000 feet (91,000 m) of reel down to 18,000 feet (5,500 m)?
text: Did you know that the Khalid ibn al-Walid Mosque in Homs contains the mausoleum of Khalid ibn al-Walid , an ornate dome with interiors which depict over 50 victorious battles that he commanded?
text: Did you know that the squat shrimp is normally found among the tentacles of a sea anemone ?
text: Did you know that within the painter's easel lie a relativistic jet 800,000 light years long and a galaxy cluster with 800 trillion stars?
text: Did you know that the once rare mulch fieldcap mushroom has become more common due to the increasing use of woodchip mulch in ornamental flower beds?
text: Did you know that the Bombay night frog has been found living in a cave piled high with fruit bat droppings ?
text: Did you know that the 1898 torpedo boat Storm was the only Norwegian warship to fire a torpedo at the invading Germans during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign ?
text: Did you know that LW5/7 classified skiers use two skis and no ski poles while competing in skiing disciplines like the downhill and Giant Slalom ?
text: Did you know that Vehbi Dibra was the first chairman of the Albanian senate ?
text: Did you know that in Goya's Portrait of the Duchess of Alba , the duchess is wearing her mourning clothes , as her husband died the year before?
text: Did you know that German historian Hellmut G. Haasis , who won the Schubart Literature Prize for his biography of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer , also performs for school children as "Druiknui, the fairy-tale clown"?
text: Did you know that the graphic novel Building Stories by Chris Ware was published as a box that contained fourteen printed objects, including cloth-bound books, newspapers, broadsheets , and flip books ?
text: Did you know that although José Rivera Indarte wrote the Blood tables against Juan Manuel de Rosas , he had previously been his supporter?
text: Did you know that William W. Cooper , a pioneer of management science , dropped out of high school and worked as a professional boxer before becoming an academic?
text: Did you know that male Suillia flies pick a Hebeloma radicosum mushroom and actively defend their territory while waiting to mate with females?
text: Did you know that Adam White has been picked for the Australia men's national volleyball team 118 times?
text: Did you know that Arbëresh scholar Giuseppe Crispi wrote the first monograph on the Albanian language ?
text: Did you know that on 22 August 1914, a British cavalryman in the Great War fired in anger during combat, the first time that had happened on mainland Europe since the Battle of Waterloo 99 years earlier?
text: Did you know that Chief Justice Edward Kent, Jr. of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court determined relative water rights for roughly 5,000 land owners in the Salt River Valley ?
text: Did you know that the silky rosegill – once wrongly implicated in a case of fatal mushroom poisoning – was called the "ghost mushroom"?
text: Did you know that Jedd Gyorko began his college baseball career with a 21-game hitting streak ?
text: Did you know that, as Arkansas' first lady , Betty Bumpers started a program that took the state from one of the lowest to one of the highest in the U.S. in its rate of childhood immunization ?
text: Did you know that Residenz Ansbach and the churches of St. Gumbertus and St. Johannis are venues for the biennial Bachwoche Ansbach ?
text: Did you know that the Russian corvette Navarin was so badly damaged by a series of storms enroute to the Far East in 1853 that she was deemed too expensive to repair and was sold for scrap ?
text: Did you know that Lord Richard Cavendish 's loan saved the Canterbury Association from financial collapse?
text: Did you know that you need a microscope to reliably distinguish a pine spike from its relatives?
text: Did you know that American aviator Robert William Prescott founded the Flying Tiger Line , the first scheduled cargo airline in the United States ?
text: Did you know that the Atlantic paper mussel has been found growing at densities of over 3000 per square metre (11 sq ft)?
text: Did you know that a ghost ship is engraved on the Capt. John Jeffries Burial Marker ?
text: Did you know that Amby McConnell lined into the first unassisted triple play in Major League Baseball history on July 19, 1909?
text: Did you know that the extinct fly Schwenckfeldina archoica has spines on its genitalia?
text: Did you know that North Front Cemetery in Gibraltar is the burial site of Victoria Cross recipient Thomas Henry Kavanagh ?
text: Did you know that the producer, director, choreographer and writer of the upcoming Broadway musical Kinky Boots have all won Tony Awards , while its lyricist is a Grammy Award winner?
text: Did you know that in the Naroda Patiya massacre , 97 Muslims were killed by a mob of approximately 5000 people?
text: Did you know that Amanda Marshall was nominated in November 2010 to become the United States Attorney for the District of Oregon, but did not take the position until October 2011 ?
text: Did you know that Hyptia deansi is the only fossil ensign wasp described from Mexican amber?
text: Did you know that the beaded sea cucumber moves by means of peristalsis ?
text: Did you know that in 1894, Ottoman agents burnt the house of Babë Dud Karbunara because he taught Albanian ?
text: Did you know that the red heart urchin feeds on the film of algae and bacteria that surrounds grains of sand?
text: Did you know that Sylvia Day's Bared to You was initially self-published, but was picked up by Berkley Books due to the popularity of the similarly themed Fifty Shades of Grey ?
text: Did you know that the yellow tube sponge appears bright greenish yellow in deep water because it emits fluorescent light?
text: Did you know that the lyrical content of " Song 4 Mutya (Out of Control) " was interpreted by the media as an "insult" to Sugababes member Amelle Berrabah ?
text: Did you know that the Hackensack Drawbridge , once part of the "costliest railroad" in the United States, was abandoned after being struck by the collier Jagger Seam ?
text: Did you know that in 2011, The Crown at Whitebrook was one of four restaurants in Wales to hold a Michelin star ?
text: Did you know that the pathogenic fungus Aspergillus sydowii causes aspergillosis in sea fans and may be carried between them by the flamingo tongue snail ?
text: Did you know that Georges Grisez died on stage after playing the opening glissando of Rhapsody in Blue ?
text: Did you know that the inaugural meeting of the North/South Inter-Parliamentary Association , first envisioned in 1998 as part of the Northern Ireland peace process , was held in Dublin on 12 October 2012?
text: Did you know that Dhimitër Mborja donated his mansion in Korçë in order to house the Albanian National Lyceum ?
text: Did you know that " A Change Is Gonna Come " was the first episode of Grey's Anatomy in which Isaiah Washington did not appear?
text: Did you know that Nakayama Tadachika wrote Questions and Answers on Court Matters ?
text: Did you know that Andrew Vázsonyi became past president of The Institute of Management Sciences without ever having been its president?
text: Did you know that chef Philippe Etchebest hosts the French language version of the television show Kitchen Nightmares ?
text: Did you know that Altes Stadthaus in Dortmund was rebuilt in a simplified form, after being damaged in World War II ?
text: Did you know that Millennium 's " A Room With No View " features the Paul Mauriat rendition of " Love Is Blue "?
text: Did you know that Flat Bastion Magazine in Gibraltar , built by the British in the 19th century to store gunpowder , is now used as a geological research facility and exhibition centre?
text: Did you know that liquid nitrogen is added to cocktails to create a smoky, bubbling "cauldron effect"?
text: Did you know that despite being a nine-time Australian WNBL Defensive Player of the Year, Emily McInerny was not selected to play for the national team at three Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that in certain species of bees, ants, and wasps, workers sometimes cannibalize the colony's eggs if they aren't laid by the queen?
text: Did you know that Millennium 's " Anamnesis " features the song " Dancing Barefoot " by Patti Smith ?
text: Did you know that Confederate Major General J.E.B. Stuart 's Chambersburg Raid was his second ride around McClellan ?
text: Did you know that the extinct pseudoscorpion Pseudogarypus synchrotron is named for the synchrotron imaging equipment?
text: Did you know that St. Swithun's Way was opened by Hampshire County Council in 2002 to mark the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II ?
text: Did you know that the Saudi government did not lift their long-standing ban on some of Minister of Labor Ghazi Al Gosaibi 's books until two weeks before his death on 15 August 2010?
text: Did you know that the 2012 National League Wild Card Game was delayed for 19 minutes when fans threw debris on the field?
text: Did you know that the historic Rosia Water Tanks , which provided water for Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson 's fleet in Gibraltar , were demolished in 2006?
text: Did you know that a fish and a bird sued two United States Federal agencies in Rio Grande Silvery Minnow v. Bureau of Reclamation ?
text: Did you know that Katie Hill , Clare Nott and Sarah Stewart are all members of the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team that won the bronze medal at the 2008 Paralympics and the silver medal in 2012 ?
text: Did you know that Shanghai Botanical Garden has a penjing garden that covers 4 hectares (9.9 acres)?
text: Did you know that among the early problems within the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Caransebeş were defections to Greek Catholicism prompted by a simoniac bishop and a priest who disregarded the fast ?
text: Did you know that the Russian ironclad Petropavlovsk was the flagship of the Baltic Fleet during the 1860s and 1870s?
text: Did you know that when Benny Goodman called to commission a clarinet concerto , Malcolm Arnold yelled " Sod off !" and hung up?
text: Did you know that Port Vale goalkeeper Sam Johnson saved three penalties and then scored the winning penalty on his debut in professional football ?
text: Did you know that the Women's Image Network Awards are given annually to honor women in media and promote the creation of positive images of women in film, television, and advertising?
text: Did you know that Rønne Theater in Rønne , Bornholm , is Denmark 's oldest provincial theatre still in active use?
text: Did you know that Victoria Tereshuk was named Ukrainian Sportswoman of the Year after winning the 2011 World Modern Pentathlon Championships ?
text: Did you know that the rediscovery of the long-lost Roman colony of Carteia in Spain led to Sir Isaac Newton's niece finding a husband ?
text: Did you know that Christoffer Hjort , priest of Akershus Castle , was expelled from Denmark–Norway in 1613 for Catholicism ?
text: Did you know that the 6th-millennium BC settlement of Tell Sabi Abyad in northern Syria featured multi-room rectangular buildings with round structures called tholoi that were probably used for storage?
text: Did you know that Millennium 's " 19:19 " has been seen as mixing the themes of its first and second seasons?
text: Did you know that the Golden Door Film Festival Women in Film Award is named for Alice Guy-Blaché , a pioneer in the movie industry?
text: Did you know that George Foster claimed he used a black baseball bat to " integrate the bat rack"?
text: Did you know that Natasha Baker rode her horse Cabral to two gold medals in the 2012 Paralympics even though she has no feeling in her legs?
text: Did you know that the 1996 video game Soviet Strike featured a fictional mission to rescue then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin ?
text: Did you know that the HMS Victory , containing the remains of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson , was towed into Rosia Bay , Gibraltar , after the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar ?
text: Did you know that successive Bishops of Râmnic played an important role in adopting Romanian as the liturgical language of the Romanian Orthodox Church , in place of Greek and Old Church Slavonic ?
text: Did you know that 1932 French Tennis Championships runner-up Giorgio de Stefani was ambidextrous but was banned from using two rackets , one in each hand?
text: Did you know that Saul Steinberg 's famous New Yorker cover, View of the World from 9th Avenue , was named the fourth greatest magazine cover in a 40-year survey?
text: Did you know that the Canon EOS-1D X is a full-frame flagship model for Canon ?
text: Did you know that Broad Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, went from vacant storefronts to a vibrant arts district in less than a decade?
text: Did you know that the humming frog aestivates in an underground burrow during the hottest part of the summer?
text: Did you know that after collaborating with actress Laura Dern on three films, David Lynch and a cow personally lobbied for her to win the Academy Award for Best Actress ?
text: Did you know that Realist painter Carlos de Haes (1829–1898) has been cited as the "first contemporary Spanish artist able to capture something of a particularly Spanish 'essence' in his work"?
text: Did you know that when the population size of the dinoflagellate Alexandrium monilatum increases, it can cause a red tide that kills fish?
text: Did you know that Cordell Schachter oversaw the development of a web-based application that reduces the duration of New York City street construction inspections to one day?
text: Did you know that actors playing Willy Loman in Arthur Miller 's Death of a Salesman on Broadway or in American cinema have earned acclaim such as three Golden Globe Awards and three Tony and Emmy nominations?
text: Did you know that the British garrison of Gibraltar relied on water from the medieval Nun's Well for making their supply of beer?
text: Did you know that Abd al-Karim al-Jundi presided over the state appropriation of Syrian farm land from its traditional owners after becoming the minister of agrarian reform ?
text: Did you know that " Bleeding Love ", a song performed by Leona Lewis , is her first and only song to reach number one on the US Billboard Adult Contemporary chart?
text: Did you know that World War II memoirist Kirsten Brunvoll , who survived Ravensbrück and Auschwitz , saw her husband and oldest son survive Sachsenhausen , while her youngest son was trained as a pilot in Canada?
text: Did you know that university professor Brian Dawson is a successful Australian rules football coach?
text: Did you know that some graves in the Sanhedria Cemetery of Jerusalem are five times closer to residential housing than the law allows?
text: Did you know that Haseo , the protagonist of the .hack//G.U. games, is a reincarnation of Sora from the anime series .hack//Sign ?
text: Did you know that in Shadrake v. Attorney-General , where a British journalist was charged with scandalizing the Singapore courts , the Court of Appeal declined to apply the American " clear and present danger " test?
text: Did you know that Peter Stuart began writing material for his album, Propeller , at a songwriters' workshop held in a French castle by Miles Copeland III ?
text: Did you know that the Communist Party daily Aththa was the only Sinhala-language newspaper to cover the burning of Jaffna library ?
text: Did you know that American football linebacker Carlos Jenkins reportedly survived a motorcycle accident at 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) despite not wearing a helmet ?
text: Did you know that the most significant aspect of moral conversion is the withdrawal from the moral convictions of the past?
text: Did you know that Champion Bridge Co. was charged with criminal antitrust violations in 1906 as part of the Ohio Attorney General's "war on the bridge trust"?
text: Did you know that Friedrich Zehm composed four songs for men's choir that he called Grasshoffiade in honor of Fritz Grasshoff , the author of their lyrics?
text: Did you know that the September 2012 Camp Bastion raid was described as the worst loss of U.S. air-power in a single incident since the Vietnam War?
text: Did you know that after Norwegian footballer Jonatan Tollås posted a nude photo of a teammate on Twitter , he said that his goal was to upload one new photo every day?
text: Did you know that King Edward III of England ordered stars effaced from the coat of arms of Sir Amery of Pavy for trying to sell Calais , a seaport of which he was the governor, to the French?
text: Did you know that a remix version of The Police song " When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around " reached the UK Top 40 two decades after the song's initial release?
text: Did you know that the aquarium plant Anubias gigantea and the closely related species Anubias afzelii only differ by the shape of their leaf-blades?
text: Did you know that only one of the 114 registered museums in Poland is privately owned?
text: Did you know that Gaston Hamelin taught his students not to bite?
text: Did you know that First & Main in Portland, Oregon , was the first new office tower in Portland's downtown in ten years?
text: Did you know that Pre-Tolstojan refers to the oldest period in the history of planet Mercury from its moment of formation?
text: Did you know that Downtown College Prep in San Jose was the first charter school in Santa Clara County, California ?
text: Did you know that the Nikon Coolpix S1000pj is the first compact digital camera of its kind with a built-in projector ?
text: Did you know that evangelist W. E. Biederwolf played football despite objections from his family?
text: Did you know that the works of Joseph C. Wells , a founding member of the American Institute of Architects , include "Old First" in Greenwich Village?
text: Did you know that Jacob the Liar was the first East German film to be entered into the Berlin International Film Festival and the only one to win a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ?
text: Did you know that on September 13, 2012, nearly 200,000 Argentines protested against the policies of the president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner ?
text: Did you know that Leona Lewis recorded an acoustic cover version of the Counting Crows song " Colorblind " for the deluxe edition of her third studio album, Glassheart ?
text: Did you know that snow mold , a type of fungus, can severely damage grass if it snows?
text: Did you know that, during preparations for Operation Barras , soldiers trained on a scale model of the village they were to assault?
text: Did you know that the 2011 Bengali film Abosheshey , about a son exploring his dead mother's life, was shot in Roopa Ganguly 's own house, where she plays the role of the mother?
text: Did you know that the inaugural Eclipse Stakes , at the time the largest prize in British horseracing, was won by the stallion Bendigo in 1886?
text: Did you know that the female Tornier's forest toad is viviparous and has been known to carry 35 young at one time?
text: Did you know that Alan Phillips wasn't allowed to compete in badminton for South Africa in the 1992 Olympics because he was too old at 36, but he played baseball in the 2000 Olympics at 44?
text: Did you know that the Eltanin Impact of a small asteroid in the Pacific Ocean resulted in the highest density of deposited meteoritic material on Earth?
text: Did you know that former Major League Baseball player Mike Capel pitched to a 135.00 earned run average in 1990?
text: Did you know that " Like You'll Never See Me Again ", a song performed by Alicia Keys , ranked as the number one R&B single of 2008 in the United States?
text: Did you know that Lemuel Moss ' s time as president of Indiana University saw the end of its schools of law and medicine?
text: Did you know that Turnbull Thomson Park in Invercargill , New Zealand , was used for growing crops during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Team AND1 's first international loss was against the debuting Puerto Rico Streetballers team after remaining undefeated for six years?
text: Did you know that Venezuela's second satellite, VRSS-1 , was launched at the end of September?
text: Did you know that by the time of his death in 1764 BC, Yarim-Lim I , king of Yamhad (modern-day Aleppo , Syria) was said to be the "mightiest ruler in the Near East outside of Egypt "?
text: Did you know that Orkla Mining Company was the largest mining company in Norway in the interwar period ?
text: Did you know that the shovelnose salamander and the blackbelly salamander both live in the Appalachian Mountains , but the former feeds exclusively in water while the latter mainly forages on land?
text: Did you know that in 1369, Count Eberhard I of Eppstein built a hunting lodge in the Schloßborn area?
text: Did you know that Onufry Zagłoba , a character in Henryk Sienkiewicz ' The Trilogy , has been compared to William Shakespeare 's Falstaff ?
text: Did you know that despite being a centre back , Norwegian footballer Edvard Skagestad has played most of his matches as a striker ?
text: Did you know that the Leiden Glossary , produced c. 800 in St. Gallen , possibly preserves glosses by Aldhelm from Eusebius 's Historia Ecclesiastica ?
text: Did you know that the Duchess of Marlborough kept a revolver in her bedroom in Blenheim Palace to prevent her husband from entering?
text: Did you know that a family in Whitehorse, Canada , was so afraid of animal aggression that the parents went fully armed to walk their children to school?
text: Did you know that the Duchess of Norfolk asked Captain James Cook to name an island after her, but died before he discovered Norfolk Island ?
text: Did you know that future College Football Hall of Fame coaches Earle Bruce and Don James faced off in the 1972 Tangerine Bowl ?
text: Did you know that the constellation of Pyxis represents a ship's compass ?
text: Did you know that Steve Woodmore , the world's current fastest talker, can articulate at 637 words per minute ?
text: Did you know that Carolyn Sampson was the first soprano to record all of Bach's aria BWV 1127 , which had been lost until 2005?
text: Did you know that no Irish-trained racehorse had won the 1,000 Guineas Stakes in more than five decades until Pourparler did so in 1964?
text: Did you know that the newly built Dikgatlhong Dam has far more capacity than the Gaborone Dam , formerly the largest in Botswana?
text: Did you know that the frogs Colostethus palmatus and Colostethus agilis are endemic to Colombia ?
text: Did you know that ten Florida fish cabins and icehouses built by the Punta Gorda Fish Co. have been listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you know that Selena 's " No Quiero Saber " was included in the official Latin album for the 1996 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that soldiers in the mixed-gender Israeli Caracal Battalion successfully thwarted what was described as "a very big terrorist attack" on 21 September 2012?
text: Did you know that the painting Les orangers by Gustave Caillebotte depicts his brother in the same outfit that Gustave was shown wearing in a painting by Renoir ?
text: Did you know that Millennium 's " Owls " was inspired by the earlier episode " The Hand of St. Sebastian "?
text: Did you know that a stained glass window in St Oswald's Church, Ravenstonedale , Cumbria , is to the memory of "the last female martyr burnt at Tyburn for the cause of the Protestant religion" in 1685?
text: Did you know that the black lines formed by Coccomyces dentatus result from antagonistic interactions between individuals of different genotypes ?
text: Did you know that geochemist Terry Plank , awarded a 2012 MacArthur genius grant , grew up in a schist quarry and in third grade was the youngest member of the Delaware Mineralogical Society ?
text: Did you know that the Canon EOS 6D is Canon 's smallest and lightest full-frame DSLR ?
text: Did you know that Paralympic equestrian Jonathan Wentz , who died September 30, posted the best performance of any American equestrian at the 2012 Olympic or Paralympic Games?
text: Did you know that the cookie star feeds on the cloud sponge ?
text: Did you know that in 1886, the filly Miss Jummy won the 1,000 Guineas Stakes by one and a half lengths and then defeated the same horse to win the Epsom Oaks by half a length?
text: Did you know that Channel 4 cancelled a public screening of Islam: The Untold Story because of security concerns?
text: Did you know that Faith Hill 's " American Heart " was the October 1, 2012, USA Today song of the week?
text: Did you know that trade union leader Lech Wałęsa was a target of fake police reports produced by the Communist secret service in the People's Republic of Poland ?
text: Did you know that the thallus of the umbrella alga , which grows up to 7 centimetres (2.8 in) tall, consists of a single large cell ?
text: Did you know that Marco Pierre White became the youngest chef to win two Michelin stars while at Harvey's in Wandsworth, London?
text: Did you know that Shibtu , wife of Zimrilim and queen consort of the ancient city-state of Mari , was described as "the most prominent of the Mari ladies"?
text: Did you know that Anil Kumble took the most economical five-wicket haul of the Indian Premier League in the 2009 season , and won the "Best breakthrough performance" award for it?
text: Did you know that St Columba's Church, Warcop , Cumbria , stands on the site of a former Roman camp, and in the medieval era was owned by Shap Abbey ?
text: Did you know that Alvin Leung serves an edible condom at his Hong Kong-based restaurant, Bo Innovation?
text: Did you know that the works of Henry W. Cleaveland , a founding member of the American Institute of Architects , include the original Palace Hotel, San Francisco ?
text: Did you know that if handled, the flaming gold bolete fungus will stain one's hands yellow?
text: Did you know that while " Let Yourself Go " was released on 5 September 2012, it had been played at Green Day 's secret show on 27 October 2011?
text: Did you know that in the "drinking and hacking" scene in The Social Network , Jesse Eisenberg , as Mark Zuckerberg , can be seen wearing an Ars Nova T-shirt which originally belonged to Eisenberg himself?
text: Did you know that Charles Johnson Pharazyn wore a sign around his neck walking through Wellington , New Zealand, to advertise that he had lost his spectacles?
text: Did you know that the Chicago Teachers Union was formed after unpaid teachers revolted against Chicago banks during the Great Depression?
text: Did you know that the 13th-century Treatise by Walter of Bibbesworth is one of the earliest books explicitly intended for children to hear and read?
text: Did you know that in 1943, the American cargo ocean liner SS Santa Paula was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine in the Arabian Sea?
text: Did you know that Retskrivningsordbogen , with around 64,000 words, contains a detailed guide to Danish orthography ?
text: Did you know that the church preceding the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Kamloops , British Columbia, was destroyed by fire on Ash Wednesday of 1919?
text: Did you know that although Mihal Zallari was an ardent Germanophile , he prevented the execution of the employees of the Albanian state radio service by the German Army , which suspected them of being communists ?
text: Did you know that the extinct termite Zophotermes ashoki is named after a " sage of Indian paleontology"?
text: Did you know that Richard Tylman , Mayor of Faversham during the reign of Elizabeth I of England , was a sole supplier of corn to the London merchants among the local exporters in 1580?
text: Did you know that the Tampa Spartans college football program was disbanded after their 1974 season?
text: Did you know that in his television special " How to Control the Nation ", illusionist Derren Brown attempted to stick viewers to their seats using a subliminal film?
text: Did you know that Columbia University failed to turn a profit on Fathom.com , an early online learning website?
text: Did you know that Khalid Nabi Cemetery in Iran is a notable example of phallic architecture and a major tourist attraction?
text: Did you know that the immunosuppressant and anti-cancer drug rapamycin was discovered in 1975 from a soil sample collected on Easter Island ?
text: Did you know that Tomahawk 's fourth album Oddfellows will be the first to feature new bass player Trevor Dunn ?
text: Did you know that the appressorium —a specialized cell typical of many fungal plant pathogens —can develop enough turgor pressure to puncture Mylar ?
text: Did you know that past human rights issues in Guinea include the black diet , a total lack of food and water which killed prisoners at Camp Boiro ?
text: Did you know that Baseball Hall of Fame manager Connie Mack said that selling Herb Pennock was his greatest mistake?
text: Did you know that the edible African species Amanita zambiana is sometimes called the "Christmas mushroom" because it is most abundant in December and early January?
text: Did you know that racehorses trained by George Dawson earned £77,914 of prize money in 1888, setting a record that stood for 43 years?
text: Did you know that despite such actors as Christopher Plummer and Orson Welles , New York Magazine described Oedipus the King as an "almost comical" film adaption of the dramatic play by Sophocles ?
text: Did you know that in 1963, Paddy Prendergast became the first Irish-based horse trainer to win the British trainers' championship , retaining the title for the succeeding two years?
text: Did you know that Rabbi Akiva Ehrenfeld , founder of Kiryat Mattersdorf , Jerusalem, was the guest of honor at an official reception hosted by the President of Austria in Vienna's Hofburg Palace in 1995?
text: Did you know that the Sacramento Mountain Salamander is preyed on by the western terrestrial garter snake ?
text: Did you know that Martin Dardis linked a Watergate burglar to US President Nixon 's reelection campaign with a check written by fundraiser Kenneth Dahlberg , a pilot Dardis had rescued in the Battle of the Bulge ?
text: Did you know that the extinct termite Prostylotermes is known from a female, male, and two eggs?
text: Did you know that during the Second Red Scare , Senator Joseph McCarthy declared that the United States Department of State had been infiltrated by 57 " card-carrying Communists "?
text: Did you know that Geastrum fimbriatum , Lycoperdon marginatum , P. rubicundus , Scleroderma polyrhizum , S. verrucosum , Clathrus crispus and the wood witch are fungi that have been featured on postage stamps?
text: Did you know that most of the film directors of the Dutch East Indies were ethnic Chinese ?
text: Did you know that the Loring Air Force Base Double Cantilever Hangar was capable of storing five B-36 Peacemaker or six B-52 Stratofortress aircraft?
text: Did you know that one reviewer called " A Single Blade of Grass " "yet another adventure in weird, Native American mysticism from the folks at 1013 Productions "?
text: Did you know that Johnny Cash took most of the lyrics of " Folsom Prison Blues " from Gordon Jenkins ' song " Crescent City Blues "?
text: Did you know that the late Azerbaijani president Heydar Aliyev's cult of personality has become a significant part of Azerbaijani politics and society in recent years?
text: Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II has owned over 30 corgis since she ascended the throne in 1952?
text: Did you know that the Russian ironclad Sevastopol was converted into an ironclad while still under construction in the 1860s?
text: Did you know that the stark color changes undergone by the mushroom Boletus pseudosulphureus led one author to suggest that its "personal grooming skills go to hell in a handbasket"?
text: Did you know that the name of the Syrian town Taftanaz is likely of Hittite origin?
text: Did you know that at the age of 15, Cody Bollinger made his mixed martial arts debut, winning two fights in one night?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian Troll Satellite Station in Antarctica 's Queen Maud Land is one of only two ground stations capable of communicating with all low Earth orbit satellites?
text: Did you know that the SoundHound mobile app can recognise a song even from a badly hummed version?
text: Did you know that part of John London 's punishment for his role in a failed plot against Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer was to ride through several towns seated backwards on a horse and be pilloried ?
text: Did you know that the 1946 Alabama Crimson Tide football team was the first Alabama squad to play in New England and fly to a game for their contest against Boston College ?
text: Did you know that Mostafa Hussein Kamel was appointed as the Egyptian Minister of State for Environmental Affairs after the Al-Nour Party rejected the position as "insulting"?
text: Did you know that the red-cheeked salamander , which is distasteful to predators , is mimicked by the harmless imitator salamander ?
text: Did you know that in 1967, Jack Jarvis became the first horse trainer to be knighted by the Queen ?
text: Did you know that the $10 million Battle of the Dance dinner theater in Anaheim, California , closed after 18 months, partly because the food was so bad?
text: Did you know that Tuber lijiangense , T. microspermum , T. microspiculatum , T. polyspermum , T. sinoalbidum , and T. sinoexcavatum are Chinese truffles that have been described as new species in the past two years?
text: Did you know that Edward Upcott , Acrobatic Gymnastics Men's Pairs world champion in 2010 and Spelbound flyer, has had chronic asthma since infancy, almost dying from his first attack?
text: Did you know that hundreds of thousands of art pieces were looted from Poland during World War II by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that Inoe Perbatasari 's last films all dealt with the Indonesian National Revolution ?
text: Did you know that the orange knobbly star produces dark eggs which drift with the current and orange eggs which sink immediately to the seabed ?
text: Did you know that Australian adventurer Ben Carlin travelled over 80,000 kilometres (50,000 mi) over land and sea in a modified Jeep , becoming the first person to circumnavigate the world in an amphibious vehicle ?
text: Did you know that the Cumberland Dusky Salamander is believed to hybridize with the Ocoee Salamander ?
text: Did you know that although set in Europe, parts of RED 2 , the upcoming sequel to the 2010 film RED , were filmed in Montreal ?
text: Did you know that Roestam Sutan Palindih was a farmer, politician, journalist, film director, and literary documentarian?
text: Did you know that the sponge brittle star is often found living on the surface of the red tree sponge ?
text: Did you know that Constance Stokes got the idea for her painting Girl in Red Tights when she walked in on a model who was getting undressed?
text: Did you know that Death of a Salesman , a 1966 television remake of Arthur Miller 's 1949 play by the same name , won three Primetime Emmy Awards at the 19th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1967?
text: Did you know that the black jumping salamander , the dwarf false brook salamander , the admirable false brook salamander , the Smith's false brook salamander and Thorius pennatulus are all endemic to Mexico, and critically endangered ?
text: Did you know that José Paniagua never returned to Major League Baseball after flipping off an umpire ?
text: Did you know that following the capture of Baldwin I of Edessa in 1104, the inhabitants of al-Fu'ah , Sarmin and Maarrat Misrin in northern Syria revolted against their Crusader rulers?
text: Did you know that Reiner Stach has written two of three volumes of his massive Franz Kafka biographical trilogy?
text: Did you know that the enforcement of a 2009 three strikes policy introduced to the copyright law of South Korea has led to tens of thousands of Koreans being disconnected from the Internet?
text: Did you know that future Hockey Hall of Famer Bill Cook scored the first goal in New York Rangers history in 1926?
text: Did you know that Arthur von Oettingen and his family lost their farm and family home in Kuremaa when Estonia expropriated all land from the Baltic nobility in 1919?
text: Did you know that Michael Le Bourgeois was the first Jerseyman to sign a professional rugby contract with Jersey ?
text: Did you know that the electoral support of the Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin Movement of Botswana increased by more than ten times between 1999 and 2009?
text: Did you know that Clandestine Childhood is Argentina's submission for the 2013 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ?
text: Did you know that the genus Clivia was named after Queen Victoria 's childhood governess, the Duchess of Northumberland , who was the first to cultivate those plants in Great Britain?
text: Did you know that Irish Republican politicians in the 1920s were expected to pay for their own meals in order to prevent political corruption ?
text: Did you know that Eva Naa Merley Lokko was the first female engineer to be employed at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation and is the first Vice Presidential Candidate of the PPP in Ghana ?
text: Did you know that the Christchurch , New Zealand, suburb of Linwood is named after Joseph Brittan 's house ?
text: Did you know that entry into the Druze faith has been prohibited since Al-Muqtana Baha'uddin ended the Divine call in 1043 CE?
text: Did you know that the starfish Leptasterias polaris and Leptasterias tenera both brood their developing eggs ?
text: Did you know that The Backstreet Boys had a song called " Fuck Off "?
text: Did you know that Camelot 's bid to win this year's Triple Crown of English Thoroughbred Racing failed when he was beaten by three-quarters of a length at the St. Leger Stakes by Encke , a 25/1 longshot?
text: Did you know that the sale of William Robinson 's farm to the government paved the way for land reform in New Zealand?
text: Did you know that the Syrian village of Deir al-Bukht ("Monastery of the Bactrian Camel") was so named because the eighth-century Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik kept a bactrian camel at the site?
text: Did you know that Bose Ikard was an inspiration for the character of Josh Deets in Lonesome Dove ?
text: Did you know that because of how the 18th Arizona Territorial Legislature adjourned, they failed to authorize payment of territorial debts for the next two years?
text: Did you know that LdMNPV 's EGT gene is responsible for the infected larvae's 'zombie-like' behavior?
text: Did you know that the linguist Ekkehart Malotki refuted the common myth that the Hopi have no concept of time ?
text: Did you know that the Humble Oil Building was once the largest office building in Houston , and was the first office building in the city with central air conditioning?
text: Did you know that in 1947 Prince Philip held his stag night at The Hinds Head in Bray, Berkshire, which went on to win a Michelin star under chef Heston Blumenthal ?
text: Did you know that it is unclear whether William Augustus Hancock built the first building in Phoenix, Arizona , or only the first building after the town was established?
text: Did you know that the fungus Stereum ostrea gets its common name "False Turkey-tail" due to its great resemblance to the Turkey-tail ( Trametes versicolor )?
text: Did you know that the Market Gate of Miletus was damaged from above and destroyed from below?
text: Did you know that the church choir Chor von St. Bonifatius celebrates 150 years today, singing in Wiesbaden the premiere of a Missa solemnis by Colin Mawby , conducted by Gabriel Dessauer ?
text: Did you know that the successful Byzantine defence in the Siege of Nicaea in 727 encouraged Emperor Leo III the Isaurian to proceed with his policy of iconoclasm ?
text: Did you know that Argentine actress Mirtha Legrand worked in La Dueña after 46 years without acting in television?
text: Did you know that Tennessee Governor William Trousdale fought in three U.S. wars and was nicknamed "War Horse of Sumner County"?
text: Did you know that police fingerprinted over 45,000 men to find the killer of June Anne Devaney , the first time mass fingerprinting had been used to solve a crime?
text: Did you know that ceramic parchment grows on rotting wood?
text: Did you know that human rights lawyer Suliman al-Reshoudi was convicted of possessing literature by social anthropologist Madawi al-Rasheed ?
text: Did you know that Jennifer Lopez 's partnership with American cable television network nuvoTV will see her work on the creative side of the network, as well as managing marketing and program production?
text: Did you know that only eight restaurants in the UK have been awarded three Michelin stars ?
text: Did you know that the musical work The Sinking of the Titanic by Gavin Bryars was originally a sheet of typed instructions?
text: Did you know that social engagement has been positively linked to health and happiness ?
text: Did you know that the truffle -like species C. argyrionus , C. basorapulus , C. caesibulga , C. cinereoroseolus , C. kaputarensis , C. maculobulga , C. nebulobrunneus , and C. sinapivelus , all newly described in 2010, are known only from New South Wales ?
text: Did you know that Paresh Mokashi 's debut film, Harishchandrachi Factory , depicts the making of India's first feature film, Raja Harishchandra (1913), and in 2009 was India's official entry to the Academy Awards ?
text: Did you know that the mineral collection of Lady Clive , a pioneer among female rock collectors, is one of the most important historic mineral collections at the National Museum Wales ?
text: Did you know that prior to the broadcast of Grey's Anatomy 's season nine premiere , ABC asked Patrick Dempsey to remove a spoiler photo from his Twitter ?
text: Did you know that the captain of the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team , Bridie Kean , is nicknamed "bird" because people in the United States could not pronounce her first name correctly?
text: Did you know that although its colonies are commonly known as "sewage fungus ", Sphaerotilus natans is bacterial ?
text: Did you know that Fly , a 2009 play about the Tuskegee Airmen , uses a tap-dancing Griot figure to express emotions through sound and dance for characters who had to control their behavior and hide their emotions?
text: Did you know that Gene Sharp 's book Gandhi as a Political Strategist seeks to rebut what it asserts are six mistaken views about Gandhi that have "masqueraded as 'realistic' assessments"?
text: Did you know that in May 1981 David Blatherwick advised the British Prime Minister on how to respond to criticism following the deaths of hunger strikers in Northern Ireland?
text: Did you know that Njoo Cheong Seng 's first film without his wife was 1941's Djantoeng Hati ?
text: Did you know that a blog was created on tumblr to cover the errors found on the new version of Apple Inc. 's map app ?
text: Did you know that when the newly discovered comet C/2012 S1 reaches its perihelion on 28 November 2013, it may appear brighter than the full moon?
text: Did you know that the Denkoroku by Keizan , the Great Patriarch of Sōtō Zen , is not historical fact?
text: Did you know that though Oliver Bosbyshell claimed to have been the first Union soldier wounded in the American Civil War , his name does not appear on official casualty lists?
text: Did you know that Fred G. Hughes , who served as President of the Council in the 19th Arizona Territorial Legislature , was a gambler and embezzler and was killed by a bolt of lightning ?
text: Did you know that the sand star can move across the seabed at the fast speed of 280 centimetres (9.2 ft) per minute?
text: Did you know that people were hunting bison in the Albuquerque Basin 12,000 years ago?
text: Did you know that Ariffien , who directed two Japanese propaganda films , was initially an Indonesian nationalist ?
text: Did you know that the constellation Telescopium has shrunk since its creation in the 1750s?
text: Did you know that Katy Perry made her maiden performance in India at the 2012 Indian Premier League opening ceremony ?
text: Did you know that the domicile cup fungus degrades wooden historical monuments in Moldavia ?
text: Did you know that the landlady's wig can be confused with the similar red alga Cordylecladia erecta , both of which grow on sand-covered rocks?
text: Did you know that Neill Brown resigned as U.S. Minister to Russia during his first winter in the country, saying the climate was "unfitting for the abodes of Man", but withdrew his resignation in the spring?
text: Did you know that the Zelter-Plakette has been awarded annually by the President of Germany since 1956 to German and foreign choirs which have served cultural life continuously for 100 years or more?
text: Did you know that three-time wheelchair basketball Paralympian Helen Turner has won four European Championship bronze medals?
text: Did you know that Stephen Elop , the CEO of Nokia , was once told that the Wilhelm Carpelan , the small green vessel moored in front of the company's head office in Finland, was a " Motorola spy ship"?
text: Did you know that the Laymoor Quag nature reserve in Gloucestershire, England , is a refuge for the Great Crested Newt ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian football club Kristiansund BK was founded in 2003 by local rivals Clausenengen FK and Kristiansund FK ?
text: Did you know that the Anglo-Saxon Bamburgh Sword is thought to be unique due to the number of strands of iron used to create the blade?
text: Did you know that Boletus abruptibulbus , Leccinum arenicola , and Phylloporus arenicola are the only North American Boletaceae mushrooms that grow in coastal sand dunes ?
text: Did you know that Byzantine aristocrat Manuel Maurozomes became the father-in-law of the Seljuk sultan Kaykhusraw I and helped him regain his throne?
text: Did you know that Bach based his chorale cantata Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost , BWV 114 , on the hymn by Johannes Gigas and first performed it on 1 October 1724, two days after his previous chorale cantata ?
text: Did you know that dark eggplant skins were historically used by aristocratic women in China to make black dye, which they often used to stain their teeth?
text: Did you know that the management regimen for Ridley Bottom nature reserve in Gloucestershire, England , calls for both hay cutting and grazing by sheep?
text: Did you know that six of Fred Young 's films have the word Solo in the title?
text: Did you know that the songs " Si Tú Me Besas " and " Ella Lo Que Quiere Es Salsa " helped Víctor Manuelle become the artist with the most number-one singles on the Billboard Tropical Songs chart?
text: Did you know that the Lepiota mushroom species L. ananya , L. anupama , L. babruka , L. babruzalka , L. harithaka , L. nirupama , L. shveta , and L. zalkavritha all have names derived from Sanskrit ?
text: Did you know that Jeptha Vining Harris , a Mississippi militia general during the American Civil War , was the son of Jeptha Vining Harris , a Georgia militia general during the War of 1812 ?
text: Did you know that Protostephanus was the first extinct wasp genus in the family Stephanidae to be described from a fossil?
text: Did you know that Rihanna described her 2012 single " Diamonds " as "happy and hippy rather than dancey"?
text: Did you know that Norwegian footballer Michael Jamtfall retired at the age of 25?
text: Did you know that when Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov ordered White Coke , President Truman quickly obliged?
text: Did you know that King Koko of Nembe captured a Royal Niger Company trading post and took hostages who were later eaten ?
text: Did you know that the Port Royal, Virginia , Horne's restaurant is the last remaining of the former chain?
text: Did you know that German organist Günther Kaunzinger studied with Maurice Duruflé , taught at the Catholic University of America , and recorded the complete works of Louis Vierne ?
text: Did you know that the shooting down of an F-117 in 1999 during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was the first confirmed downing of a stealth aircraft ?
text: Did you know that at the Royal Academy School , Peter Rouw trained Samuel Joseph , who is known for creating a statue of William Wilberforce ?
text: Did you know that the Sixth Asian Science Camp , hosted by Israel in Jerusalem , is the largest Asian Science Camp event to date?
text: Did you know that the first Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court , Alfred Franklin , withdrew from society and went to live alone in the desert?
text: Did you know that Palestinian rapper Shadia Mansour , the "first lady of Arabic Hip Hop", was born in London to Christian parents?
text: Did you know that Agatha Christie , in her novel Ordeal by Innocence , used the location of Royal Castle Hotel as inspiration for characterizing the Royal George in the novel?
text: Did you know that the Children's Memorial Health Institute was founded as a monument to the heroism and martyrdom of children during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the buffet for Matthijs Langhedul 's organ in Sainte Walburga, Veurne, is one of the oldest in Flanders ?
text: Did you know that in 2008, Heinz Baked Beans became "Heinz Beanz" because the company thought the original name "a bit of a mouthful"?
text: Did you know that inmates at Oregon State Penitentiary , a maximum-security prison, once operated the world's largest flax scutching plant?
text: Did you know that the followers of the rebel al-Harith ibn Surayj tried to persuade their opponents to join them through moral and religious arguments even during battles?
text: Did you know that the scenario writer for 07th Expansion 's visual novel series Rose Guns Days is also one of four character designers for the series?
text: Did you know that the locomotive depot near West Auckland railway station was the only one to be both closed completely and later reopened by the London and North Eastern Railway ?
text: Did you know that 13-time Irish tennis champion and world pro doubles champion George Lyttleton-Rogers was also an amateur boxer and cancelled a sparring bout with Don McCorkindale so as to retain his amateur status?
text: Did you know that the Legislative Sejm of 1919–21 was the first national parliament of Poland since 1793?
text: Did you know that the chalky buttercup and the buttercup lucine resemble each other but can be told apart by their scars ?
text: Did you know that Helen Dyer discovered why chemotherapies with heavy metals are toxic?
text: Did you know that in 1962, television director John Hefin graffitied a rock in support of a local politician?
text: Did you know that William V. B. Van Dyck coached football at Rutgers , worked on a project to light the Strait of Magellan and participated in the first chess game played by "wireless"?
text: Did you know that in his documentary film al-Manam , Syrian filmmaker Mohammad Malas interviews Palestinian refugees in Lebanon about their dreams?
text: Did you know that the first serekh of king Double Falcon was discovered by a peasant planting a palm grove?
text: Did you know that Ohio ' s Old Perry County Courthouse , built in 1829, is the oldest building in the former Northwest Territory continually used as a government building?
text: Did you know that John Emory Powers was the world's first full-time copywriter ?
text: Did you know that Michael Clarke is the only player to score four double centuries during a calendar year, and the third to achieve two double centuries in a series twice?
text: Did you know that the Chonga has become a Miami icon, influencing fashion in South Florida and beyond?
text: Did you know that a generic version of Viagra was launched the same day as the Supreme Court of Canada decided Teva Canada Ltd. v. Pfizer Canada Inc. ?
text: Did you know that Live 's discography includes an album that went eight times platinum in the United States?
text: Did you know that before he was elected to the United States House of Representatives , Andy Barr worked for Mitch McConnell , Jim Talent , and Ernie Fletcher ?
text: Did you know that the unfinished Ocean Tower was the tallest reinforced concrete structure to be imploded ?
text: Did you know that Princess Amelia's Battery , Princess Anne's Battery and Princess Caroline's Battery in Gibraltar were named after Amelia , Anne and Caroline , the daughters of King George II ?
text: Did you know that North Preston's Finest is a gang of pimps based just northeast of Metropolitan Halifax in Nova Scotia , Canada ?
text: Did you know that the Syrian village of al-Ziyarah has been identified as the ancient Aramaean town of "Ziara"?
text: Did you know that the Potomac, Fredericksburg and Piedmont Railroad cost less than US$1 million to build?
text: Did you know that Richard Rennison , the "anvil priest" from Gretna Green , took his 240-pound (110 kg) anvil with him on holiday to London?
text: Did you know that Philadelphia Athletics shortstop Charlie Engle did not get to bat in his 1925 debut against the New York Yankees , his only game in the season?
text: Did you know that role ethics is an ethical theory based on family roles?
text: Did you know that will.i.am and Britney Spears 's 2012 single " Scream & Shout " contains a sample of the opening line of Spears' 2007 single " Gimme More ": "It's Britney, bitch"?
text: Did you know that when she is inaugurated as Secretary of State of Washington in January, Kim Wyman will be the only Republican elected to statewide office on the West Coast of the United States ?
text: Did you know that the Knifefish robot is intended to replace the U.S. Navy 's trained minesweeping dolphins ?
text: Did you know that Leo Righetti cost himself an opportunity to play in Major League Baseball when he launched a chair at a team official?
text: Did you know that Kappa Andromedae b , despite being only 12.8 Jupiter masses and located about 170 light years away, has been directly imaged by astronomers?
text: Did you know that according to Dan Martin for NME , the lyrical content of " Stay ", a song performed by Rihanna , "puts a vulnerable spin" on her relationship with Chris Brown ?
text: Did you know that on Election Day 2012 Christian Mitchell was elected to serve as the youngest member of the Illinois General Assembly ?
text: Did you know that The Making of a Teacher quotes spiritual teacher Eknath Easwaran as saying: "I never knew anyone in India who tried to become a spiritual teacher ... It's not a job you apply for – it finds you"?
text: Did you know that Charles Arundell has been claimed as the author of Leicester's Commonwealth , an anonymous work of propaganda which attacked Queen Elizabeth 's favourite the Earl of Leicester ?
text: Did you know that the Ferlo Desert occupies one-third of Senegal 's total area?
text: Did you know that the video for the Alicia Keys track " Not Even the King " features visual references to the art of Basquiat ?
text: Did you know that Larry Clark ' s 2012 film Marfa Girl was filmed in the same small Texas town as James Dean's last film ?
text: Did you know that tennis champion Rodrigo de Castro Pereira , a scion of the Portuguese royal family , worked as a laborer in a U.S. ironworks?
text: Did you know that Egyptologist Willem Pleyte was the father of Cornelis Pleyte , curator of the Ethnographic Museum Artis ?
text: Did you know that the early 20th-century fashion house Babani imported Japanese undergarments for Western women to wear as fashionable peignoirs ?
text: Did you know that Bab al-Faraj is the only surviving city wall gate in Damascus that was added after the Muslim conquest?
text: Did you know that Indian communist politician Satyanarayan Singh led a campaign of annihilation of class enemies in rural Bihar in the late 1960s?
text: Did you know that reading Spectropia will cause the reader to see spectres floating on the wall?
text: Did you know that the North Atlantic breakup resulted in the separation of Eurasia from North America, forming the North Atlantic Ocean?
text: Did you know that although Colonel Harold Van Heuvelen composed his Symphony No. 1 during World War II, it was only premiered in 2012?
text: Did you know that because of Theophilus Wilson , the laws of cricket changed?
text: Did you know that Pitbull 's song " Don't Stop the Party ", from his seventh studio album Global Warming , was originally entitled "Funky Vodka"?
text: Did you know that one can reportedly see 8 mm (0.31 in) high Roman characters by the light of a 100 cm 2 (16 in 2 ) piece of the bioluminescent tsukiyotake ?
text: Did you know that some Omphalotus mushrooms glow in the dark ?
text: Did you know that Ohio's Meigs County Courthouse has at-grade entrances on all three floors?
text: Did you know that Alicia Keys co-wrote her single " Brand New Me " with Scottish recording artist and writer Emeli Sandé ?
text: Did you know that international emergency medicine is concerned with the development of relevant skills in countries lacking mature emergency medicine services?
text: Did you know that Cal Young , the first head coach of the Oregon Ducks football team, was born in a log cabin?
text: Did you know that the 9.2 inch naval gun at O'Hara's Battery , Gibraltar , was capable of firing shells from Europe to Africa?
text: Did you know that a publicity campaign for The Boogie Man Will Get You had to be abandoned because film critics preferred the antagonists in Disney films?
text: Did you know that W. G. Grace captained Gloucestershire County Cricket Club for 29 years?
text: Did you know that with the appointment of Muhammad ibn Ra'iq in 936, the holder of the office of amir al-umara became the virtual regent of the Abbasid Caliphate ?
text: Did you know that double leg amputee Marty Mayberry worked with a prosthetist to develop new legs that help improve his skiing following the 2006 Winter Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that Damien Thomlinson , an Australian commando who lost both legs in Afghanistan in 2009, is a rally car navigator, swimmer and para-snowboarder?
text: Did you know that although he spent a total of less than six years in the position, Nawaz Sharif served longer as Prime Minister of Pakistan than anyone else?
text: Did you know that Happy Wars is Xbox Live Arcade 's first free-to-play game?
text: Did you know that Bill Ponsford scored a quadruple century in just his third first-class cricket match?
text: Did you know that during the production of Women Are Better Diplomats , the film's director and lead actress married each other?
text: Did you know that staff from Company magazine devised an internship storyline for the soap opera Hollyoaks after watching Esther Bloom discuss fashion on-screen?
text: Did you know that many orange elephant ear sponges are busy on an afternoon in late July shortly before the new moon ?
text: Did you know that netball in Malawi is the most popular women's sport in the country?
text: Did you know that Agustín Alberdi , Jason Archer and Paul Beck , Luis Miguel Leal , Israel Lugo , Jorge "Fish" Rodríguez and Alejandro Santiago Ciena earned the Latin Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video by directing artists such as three-time winners Calle 13 ?
text: Did you know that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez would have voted for U.S. President Barack Obama if he could?
text: Did you know that according to Serbian epic poetry , Djemo the Mountaineer was the brother of Musa the Highwayman ?
text: Did you know that two arias in Bach's "magnificently theatrical and terse" cantata Es reißet euch ein schrecklich Ende , BWV 90 , "paint a dismal picture"?
text: Did you know that the 2012 Guia Race of Macau was the last car race in which Chevrolet participated as a works team in the WTCC ?
text: Did you know that Lt-Col Sir Marshal Clarke lost an arm to a tiger while serving with the Royal Artillery in India?
text: Did you know that Sandy Island , although presented in some maps, does not actually exist?
text: Did you know that Richard Ford 's critically acclaimed novel Canada took him twenty years to write?
text: Did you know that Kodak Fortress was destroyed within weeks of its completion in 1635 during the Cossack Sulima Uprising ?
text: Did you know that American-born 2012–13 Canberra Capitals player Valerie Ogoke played against an Australian basketball team in Australia as a member of the 2005 Loyola Marymount University basketball team?
text: Did you know that Cyclone Yali killed one person in New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Representative-elect Markwayne Mullin took over his father's plumbing business when he was 20 years old?
text: Did you know that upon the death of the Abbasid caliph al-Radi , his chief advisor and general Bajkam looted jewels and slave women from the caliphal palace?
text: Did you know that female specimens of the Hyperolius ocellatus are larger than the males?
text: Did you know that the Delhi Bridge is open to traffic even though it was destroyed by a tornado , whereas the Bell Road Bridge was hit by a drunk driver and is sitting on an overgrown river bank?
text: Did you know that Leonora Bilger was the 1953 recipient of the American Chemical Society's Garvan–Olin Medal ?
text: Did you know that no electricity has been generated by the barge-mounted electric power generating station that was delivered to Ghana in 2002?
text: Did you know that Chapal Bhaduri is, as of today, the last living female impersonator in Bengali folk theatre ?
text: Did you know that Cornwall Terrace was one of the earliest buildings constructed in Regent's Park ?
text: Did you know that Cyril Sewell was the leading run-scorer during a South African cricket tour of England at the age of just 19?
text: Did you know that the Roman Harbaqa Dam in the Syrian Desert was reused by the Umayyads in the eighth century to supply water to the nearby palace of Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi ?
text: Did you know that the timing of mountain building can alter the shape and thickness of alluvial fans ?
text: Did you know that Albert Berg , the first Purdue football coach, was a deaf-mute whose coaching reportedly "consisted of excited sign language and some rather bizarre sounds from his throat"?
text: Did you know that Argentine-Korean actor Chang Kim Sung made a parody of " Gangnam Style " in the TV series Graduados ?
text: Did you know that the charity album God Bless America , released after the September 11 attacks , reached number one on the Billboard album chart as part of a wave of patriotic and inspirational releases?
text: Did you know that excessive nutrients from volcanoes caused the loss of oxygen in the Western Interior Seaway which linked the Caribbean to the Arctic?
text: Did you know that Hollywood make-up artist Perc Westmore developed a prosthetic hand out of latex, which was reportedly adapted for use by the medical industry?
text: Did you know that Glenn Robinson III , the son of 1994 NBA first overall draft pick Glenn Robinson , was born three months premature?
text: Did you know that Patrick Guerrand-Hermès created the Aïn Kassimou in the style of a 19th-century Moroccan house for his passion for the arts and culture of Morocco where he lived for 50 years?
text: Did you know that Moorish Gibraltar was known as the City of Victory and lasted for over 725 years, far longer than Spanish or British Gibraltar ?
text: Did you know that Ida Barney was given the 1953 Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy for measuring the positions of over 150,000 stars?
text: Did you know that half-pipe skiing was added as a new event for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia ?
text: Did you know that the yellow calcareous sponge may be overgrown by other organisms?
text: Did you know that a 1540 bottle of wine from Würzburger Stein may have been the oldest wine ever tasted and that an unopened bottle of the wine still exists?
text: Did you know that the Motswana ANC activist Fish Keitseng helped anti-Apartheid leaders including Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki to move through Bechuanaland ?
text: Did you know that the Tangut translation of the Chinese military text The General's Garden predates the earliest surviving Chinese edition by 200 years?
text: Did you know that Henryk Chmielewski was the first comic book author to be awarded with the Medal for Merit to Culture , Gold Class, the highest Polish order given for artistic deeds?
text: Did you know that the Spencer Township Hall in Cincinnati , Ohio, was originally both a government building and an Odd Fellows hall?
text: Did you know that Ruthenian nobility became increasingly polonized with time?
text: Did you know that the use of nature in Asrul Sani 's 1972 film The Misfit has been compared to works by Japanese directors?
text: Did you know that Adaptive Coloration in Animals was said to be the only zoology book ever to be packed in a soldier's kitbag?
text: Did you know that Bolton Street Memorial Park , Wellington , New Zealand's oldest cemetery, was bisected by a motorway in the 1960s/70s?
text: Did you know that bivalve molluscs and brittle stars are often found in beds of Japanese sea lilies ?
text: Did you know that actress Andrea Pietra suggested the inclusion of Paola Barrientos in the cast of Graduados ?
text: Did you know that Sedgwick House in Cumbria was built for the owner of a gunpowder factory?
text: Did you know that Vito Pascucci became friends with Glenn Miller after repairing a smashed trumpet with only a broomstick?
text: Did you know that two years after Madeleine Taylor 's decision to focus more on basketball than netball , she played in the WNBL on the Australian Institute of Sport team?
text: Did you know that the Canon EOS-1D C has no flash?
text: Did you know that on Wings ' songs " Cook of the House " and " Love in Song ," ex- Beatle Paul McCartney plays the same double bass that Bill Black played on Elvis Presley hits such as " Heartbreak Hotel "?
text: Did you know that Irish algologist Anne Elizabeth Ball has two species of seaweed named for her?
text: Did you know that They Met in Argentina was described in one review as "an American musical at its worst"?
text: Did you know that Carol Lee Flinders , coauthor of the "renowned countercultural cookbook" Laurel's Kitchen , has also written books on spirituality, mysticism, and feminism?
text: Did you know that B4 is a classification for people with visual impairments and is used in sports including sailing, bowls, swimming and cycling?
text: Did you know that one of the largest shoe companies in Germany, Klauser Schuhe , sponsored the painting of the Lego Bridge in the style of Lego bricks ?
text: Did you know that the Carpet Chameleon can change colour according to its need to warm up or its mood?
text: Did you know that as Hungarian tennis champion Jenő Zsigmondy 's health faded he had to give up tennis and subsequently took up golf?
text: Did you know that a landscape architect was a major proponent of the preservation of the area that is now known as the Gibraltar Rock State Natural Area ?
text: Did you know that the board of directors for Hillsboro, Oregon -based Eid Passport has included Thomas H. Collins , Merrill McPeak , and Tom Ridge ?
text: Did you know that with Guatemala's Decree 900 , President Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán ordered the expropriation of uncultivated farmland—including 1,700 acres (690 ha) of his own estate?
text: Did you know that Kulindroplax is the first known mollusk showing an unambiguous combination of exterior shells and a worm-like body?
text: Did you know that professional baseball player Slade Heathcott lived in his truck during his senior year of high school ?
text: Did you know that netball in Wales had a national governing organisation by 1945, and between 1949 and 1976 the national team lost 28 times to England while not winning a single match?
text: Did you know that the Russians are developing an airborne anti-satellite weapon called Sokol Eshelon ?
text: Did you know that the Trioceros laterispinis can only be found in one mountain range in the Eastern Arc Mountains ?
text: Did you know that al-Muwaffaq was the effective ruler of the Abbasid Caliphate for twenty-one years, sidelining his brother, the Caliph al-Mu'tamid ?
text: Did you know that in 1999 the diamond industry in Armenia provided about one third of the country 's exports?
text: Did you know that Alfred Ransom was twice Acting Prime Minister of New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that Hindus fast without food or water on Nirjala Ekadashi in the hot Indian summer to propitiate the god Vishnu ?
text: Did you know that Hawaiian King Kalākaua appointed Samuel Kipi to serve as Royal Governor of the Island of Hawaiʻi in 1874?
text: Did you know that Sjumandjaja 's 1983 film Budak Nafsu ( Slave to Passion ) was called "little more than a sex exploitation vehicle" yet was nominated for a Citra Award for Best Film?
text: Did you know that when Phil Cronan moved to play for St Kilda , a requested Supreme Court injunction to prevent his transfer was rejected by the judge who said that football wasn't sufficiently important?
text: Did you know that Brookesia ambreensis , B. bekolosy , B. bonsi , B. brygooi , B. confidens , B. exarmata , B. griveaudi , B. lambertoni , B. lineata , B. lolontany , B. nasus , B. therezieni , B. thieli and B. valerieae are all species of chameleon endemic to Madagascar ?
text: Did you know that someone named Cam Newton left the NFL in 2007 after just two seasons?
text: Did you know that in 1946, orientalist Mikhail Evgenievich Masson organized the South Turkmenistan Complex Archaeological Expedition ?
text: Did you know that Michael Jackson signed vocal group Men of Vizion to his record label, MJJ Music , in 1993, and released their debut studio album , Personal , three years later?
text: Did you know that Marrakesh was founded because homesick Saharan warriors did not like living in cities?
text: Did you know that Praia da Bordeira, near Carrapateira , Portugal, has been cited as one of the best beaches in the Algarve ?
text: Did you know that 30 Euston Square , London, has been refurbished to be the headquarters of the Royal College of General Practitioners ?
text: Did you know that Russian satellite Luch 5B will relay data from the International Space Station ?
text: Did you know that the 2009 British horror film Salvage was filmed on the set formerly used by the soap opera Brookside ?
text: Did you know that the Hamdanid emir of Mosul , Abu Taghlib , was attacked by the Buyid 'Izz al-Dawla , but later allied himself with him against the latter's cousin 'Adud al-Dawla ?
text: Did you know that former basketball player Brian Ehlers is now a police officer?
text: Did you know that Russian is the most widely spoken foreign language in Armenia ?
text: Did you know that two students from Gibraltar High School 's Future Farmers of America drowned while taking part in an annual camping trip in 1941?
text: Did you know that in College Network, Inc. v. Moore Educational Publishers, Inc. , the purchase of trademarked keywords of competitors to display its own advertisement was not counted as trademark infringement ?
text: Did you know that Maurice Hurley was credited for writing the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Hide and Q " under a pseudonym in protest against Gene Roddenberry 's numerous rewrites?
text: Did you know that an artillery blockhouse was built in 1481 to protect Dartmouth Harbour ?
text: Did you know that Allan Singleton-Wood hosted the first radio performance in Wales of Dusty Springfield 's early band, The Springfields ?
text: Did you know that Tom Hedden 's work is featured in both the NFL and NASCAR halls of fame?
text: Did you know that despite being found over an area of 10,000 square kilometres (3,900 sq mi), Petter's Chameleon is a Vulnerable species ?
text: Did you know that former American Idol contestant Diana DeGarmo co-wrote a song entitled "Good Goodbye", which she performed as her character Angelina Veneziano on The Young and the Restless ?
text: Did you know that Lluís Coll scored one goal and set up another as FC Barcelona won the 1960 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final ?
text: Did you know that the Belalanda Chameleon is one of only five Critically Endangered reptiles?
text: Did you know that Placebo 's discography includes four studio albums that topped the chart in France?
text: Did you know that the Roman Theatre at Palmyra in Syria was left unfinished with only the ima cavea ?
text: Did you know that the second Dushinsky Rebbe had to pay a huge sum of money in order to be buried next to his father , the first Dushinsky Rebbe , in the nearly empty Shaare Zedek Cemetery of Jerusalem?
text: Did you know that in 1903, David Prescott Barrows as general superintendent of education for the Philippine Islands , was instrumental in a total reorganization of the educational system?
text: Did you know that the South Tibetan Detachment inserted the Greater Himalayan Crystalline complex between the Lesser Himalayan Sequence and the Tethyan Himalayan Sequence?
text: Did you know that 3 Doors Down 's discography includes five singles that topped the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart?
text: Did you know that the freshwater snail Filopaludina martensi is a part of the cuisine of Thailand ?
text: Did you know that members of the relief effort Occupy Sandy created a wedding registry that has raised more than $100,000 in supplies for the victims of Hurricane Sandy ?
text: Did you know that the song " Te Regalo Amores " by R.K.M & Ken-Y reached No. 1 on both the Billboard Latin Rhythm Airplay and Latin Tropical Airplay charts?
text: Did you know that Patrick Guerrand-Hermès was president of the Federation of International Polo and was chiefly responsible for organizing the 2004 World Polo Championship ?
text: Did you know that Bach used a trio of oboes for a Totentanz in his chorale cantata Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig , BWV 26 (Ah how fleeting, ah how futile)?
text: Did you know that the Chaim Potok novel The Book of Lights is based on Potok's exposure to non-Jewish religions as a military chaplain in Korea and Japan ?
text: Did you know that the Transantarctic Mountains are one of the longest ranges formed by continental rifting?
text: Did you know that an actor who played a dead body in the Dutch television series Q & Q was later found in the same position after being murdered in his apartment?
text: Did you know that the Museum of Asian Art houses some 20,000 Asian artifacts, making it one of the largest museums of ancient Asian art in the world?
text: Did you know that Henri Akoka escaped a prison camp by jumping onto a moving train with his clarinet under his arm?
text: Did you know that, in May 1965 , Josiah Gondo became Rhodesia 's first black Leader of the Opposition ?
text: Did you know that the Villa dei Misteri project is recreating the wines of Pompeii by replanting vineyards destroyed by the Vesuvius eruption with ancient grape varieties?
text: Did you know that in Microsoft v. AT&T , copying and installing software abroad onto foreign-manufactured computers were not considered as patent infringement under U.S. Patent Law?
text: Did you know that 2016: Obama's America , the fourth-highest-grossing U.S. documentary of the past 30 years, was initially released in only one theater?
text: Did you know that repairs made to the Black Swan dredge in the 1880s included replacing the steel bottom with Jarrah ?
text: Did you know that 311 's discography includes two singles that topped the Alternative Songs chart?
text: Did you know that after 25 years of aging in real time, John Constantine is getting younger ?
text: Did you know that the chimney of Cape Cornwall Mine has a plaque in the shape of a Heinz Baked Beanz label set into its base?
text: Did you know that the Barack Obama re-election campaign compared the film Dishonorable Disclosures to the "Swift Boat" attacks against John Kerry in 2004 ?
text: Did you know that the Xiong'er Volcanic Belt formed part of the earliest known supercontinent Columbia ?
text: Did you know that ITM Power are developing technology to make the Isle of Wight carbon neutral ?
text: Did you know that to watch an early screening of " The Gathering ", attendees of the Star Wars Celebration VI had to bring their kids with them?
text: Did you know that British architect H. T. Cadbury-Brown served with the Royal Artillery in World War II but made it all the way from Normandy to Germany without firing a shot?
text: Did you know that by the 1960s female leaders of women's football in Africa began to emerge?
text: Did you know that Steve Pestka resigned his judgeship to run the real estate business his father developed after surviving the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that pineapple coral growing in the Florida Keys was nearly wiped out by white plague in 1995 and has not fully recovered since?
text: Did you know that Fred Humphreys attempted to photograph every species of Banksia , but died before the resulting book was published?
text: Did you know that the Disposition Matrix creates a blueprint for tracking, capturing, rendering or killing suspected terrorists?
text: Did you know that the design of the Russian first-rate ship of the line Imperator Nikolai I was based on that of the British steam-powered ship of the line HMS Duke of Wellington ?
text: Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines field hockey team 's 2001 NCAA championship was the first national title for any women's sports team at the University of Michigan ?
text: Did you know that the Eurythmics have released eight studio albums between 1981 and 1999 and sold over 75 million records?
text: Did you know that Welsh international footballer David Powell began his career employed as groundsman by Wrexham F.C. ?
text: Did you know that virtually all Italian-speakers in Albania have learnt the language by watching Italian television and not through reading textbooks?
text: Did you know that the Oluf Høst Museum dedicated to the Bornholm painter Oluf Høst , is located in his large house known as Norresân?
text: Did you know that the British racehorse Camarine 's career was compared to that of Eclipse and she also won a trophy made of his tail hairs?
text: Did you know that Russian general Valery Gerasimov was appointed Chief of Defence Staff following the firing of Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov ?
text: Did you know that the release of Still Jennifer Lopez , the second fragrance to be endorsed by Jennifer Lopez , was not anticipated due to the negative publicity generated from her film Gigli ?
text: Did you know that the current EastEnders executive producer Lorraine Newman is the first executive producer to have occupied every editorial role on the show?
text: Did you know that the 16th-century King's Chapel was the first church built in Gibraltar after the city was conquered by Spain?
text: Did you know that Welsh international footballer Joe Davies was suspended by Sheffield United for "lodging in a public house "?
text: Did you know that panyarring is the practice of involuntarily seizing people and selling them into slavery to recoup losses or gain repayment of debts?
text: Did you know that current president of the Institution of Civil Engineers Barry Clarke spent two years working as a volunteer in Montserrat ?
text: Did you know that Boaz Mahune , who graduated from Lahainaluna , wrote the Declaration of Rights of 1839, the preamble to the first constitution of Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that Usmar Ismail made his directorial debut with Tjitra while still part of the Indonesian Army ?
text: Did you know that Boston 's discography includes an album that sold over 17 million copies?
text: Did you know that the Jaffe reaction is still widely employed as the method of choice for creatinine testing, despite not being specific to creatinine?
text: Did you know that Academy Award for Makeup winner Michael Westmore created kits for the CIA to enable agents to change their identities?
text: Did you know that the first Rally car was powered by a Harley-Davidson engine?
text: Did you know that William Calvin Chase took over the Washington Bee in 1882 and turned it into "one of the most influential African American newspapers in the country"?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian-British crew of MTB 345 were tortured and executed as a result of Adolf Hitler 's Commando Order ?
text: Did you know that the collections of amateur natural historian Mary Elizabeth Barber may have influenced Charles Darwin 's deliberations on the role of moths in orchid pollination?
text: Did you know that the concentric circles on the lid of a Zenbook are designed to look like ripples in water?
text: Did you know that according to Serbian legend, Marko Kraljević alone defeated General Vuča and his thousand horsemen?
text: Did you know the sucrose gap , first developed by Robert Stämpfli in 1954, is used to measure the effects of drugs on the activity of nerve and muscle membranes?
text: Did you know that Philip and Son was Dartmouth 's last industrial shipyard ?
text: Did you know that Mehmet Gürs , a Turkish chef of Scandinavian descent, called his Istanbul restaurant Mikla , which is derived from Miklagard , the Viking name of the city in the 10th century?
text: Did you know that British astronomer Isis Pogson was probably named after a river , and an asteroid was probably named after her?
text: Did you know that The Black Crowes ' discography includes six singles that topped the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart?
text: Did you know that the Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony Collections for Kohl's were originally marketed as "the first celebrity couple to simultaneously design collections for one retailer"?
text: Did you know that former Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said that the Non-constituency Member of Parliament scheme should be introduced to show younger voters how destructive an opposition can be?
text: Did you know that Judith Donath has explored the use of artificial emotions in avatars and their potential use in online advertising ?
text: Did you know that the mole crab Emerita rathbunae is a proficient surfer ?
text: Did you know that as requested in his will, the grave of Turkish folk singer Neşet Ertaş was placed at the foot of his father's?
text: Did you know that company rule in Rhodesia was chartered in 1889 by Queen Victoria ?
text: Did you know that Swedish doubles amateur champions Harry Ramberg and Curt Östberg defeated two professional tennis duos in a 1932 match, including the American team of Bill Tilden and Bruce Barnes ?
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text: Did you know that Everclear 's discography includes a song that peaked at number one on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart?
text: Did you know that David Curson was elected to serve in the United States House of Representatives for six weeks?
text: Did you know that in 1924, Estonia's Tallinn Power Plant became the world's first power plant to use oil shale as the primary fuel to generate electricity ?
text: Did you know that Jean-Baptiste Lynch fled to England during the Hundred Days , but returned during the Bourbon Restoration and became a Peer of France ?
text: Did you know that St Giles' Church, Barrow , is one of the earliest surviving churches in Shropshire , and contains the county's only Saxon chancel ?
text: Did you know that the endangered Decary's Leaf Chameleon can be found over an area of 1,300 square kilometres (500 sq mi)?
text: Did you know that the mysterious Glasgow effect refers to the low life expectancy of Glaswegians , which epidemiologists say deprivation alone does not explain?
text: Did you know that Sjumandjaja considered quitting directing after his debut in Lewat Tengah Malam but went on to direct more than a dozen films?
text: Did you know that the extraction of rosewood is the major threat to the Naturelle Leaf Chameleon ?
text: Did you know that congressman-elect Eric Swalwell served on the city council of College Park, Maryland , while a student at the University of Maryland, College Park ?
text: Did you know that " The Role You Were Born to Play " was part of Blake Jenner 's prize for winning The Glee Project ?
text: Did you know that chickens are fed with tiny rocks?
text: Did you know that the release of Ricardo Arjona 's Simplemente Lo Mejor led to speculation that Sony Music and Warner Music were in a fight to win his fanbase and sales?
text: Did you know that the United States Supreme Court case Wilkie v. Robbins involved a land dispute over a dude ranch resort?
text: Did you know that Danielle Harold was the second person to act out a birth in a live episode of a soap opera, in EastEnders ' 4466th episode ?
text: Did you know that turtle grass is a marine flowering plant with seed that is viviparous ?
text: Did you know that Arthur Talmage Abernethy was named as the first North Carolina Poet Laureate in 1948 even though he never published a book of poetry?
text: Did you know that by the end of the Ninth Siege of Gibraltar the defending soldiers had resorted to eating leather from their garments and plants growing on the garrison walls?
text: Did you know that the seventh-century Jain cave-temple , in the abode of great saints , includes images painted in fresco-secco technique?
text: Did you know that Russian is spoken in Israel by about 20% of the total population?
text: Did you know that the original Fremantle Traffic Bridge was built between 1863 and 1867 using convict labour ?
text: Did you know that after Alexander Nadj had played 13 minutes for Lillestrøm SK , the head coach Henning Berg decided to use the youth goalkeeper instead?
text: Did you know that Queen Tehauroa outlawed the sale of land and declared that Protestantism was the only authorized religion in the Polynesian Kingdom of Raiatea ?
text: Did you know that Adam Markovitz of Entertainment Weekly called Maroon 5 's 2012 single " Daylight " "a Coldplay -ish song"?
text: Did you know that Mark Takano is set to be the first non-White openly gay member of the United States House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that the Plated Leaf Chameleon is sometimes kept as a pet ?
text: Did you know that Patrick White 's The Hanging Garden was published posthumously, despite him leaving orders to have it burned?
text: Did you know that in 1917, George Westmore set up the first make-up department for a film studio?
text: Did you know that Akon met, signed and helped launch Lady Gaga 's career after the two co-wrote " Hypnotico ", a song that was later recorded by Jennifer Lopez ?
text: Did you know that footballer Steve Redmond became Manchester City 's youngest ever captain when appointed to the role in 1988?
text: Did you know that before directing the award-winning film Keep the Lights On , Ira Sachs shot and directed The Delta in his hometown ?
text: Did you know that Red Onion State Prison helped to triple the Black population of Wise County, Virginia ?
text: Did you know that Robin Eriksson played football in Allsvenskan after he was warned by doctors that he might not be able to walk again?
text: Did you know that some of the breakdowns in the 2011 Singapore MRT disruptions were the worst in its operator SMRT 's 24-year history?
text: Did you know that geologist Sydney Mary Thompson discovered a glacial erratic that redefined the westernmost extent of the Irish Sea Glacier ?
text: Did you know that Shoaib Akhtar took 16 five-wicket hauls during his career in international cricket ?
text: Did you know that art can make people angry ?
text: Did you know that parts of Russia lie on the same tectonic plate as Japan ?
text: Did you know that the live telethon Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together , broadcast November 2 on NBCUniversal channels, featured performers and speakers who were from areas suffering after the storm?
text: Did you know that 2010 Olympic snowboarder Stephanie Hickey studied theater arts and worked for the Seven Network as a Victorian snow reporter?
text: Did you know that to enhance their performances, a "prescored" soundtrack of violent noises and voices was played during the filming of the 1963 film The Haunting to give the actors something to which to react?
text: Did you know that Bob Montgomery was the last Major League Baseball player to bat without wearing a batting helmet ?
text: Did you know that Loring AFB alert crews would scramble from a mole hole , run to awaiting jets on a christmas tree (both within the alert area ), and perform an elephant walk and a MITO , all within fifteen minutes?
text: Did you know that the Solluba are considered remnants of pre- Semitic peoples that once dominated Arabia ?
text: Did you know that Colonel John Bevan 's contribution to military deception planning during World War II was kept secret until the 1970s?
text: Did you know that architect Robert Venturi 's first major work, Guild House , was commissioned by a Quaker organization to house low-income elderly tenants?
text: Did you know that Peter Stuart , who formed the band Dog's Eye View , toured with Paula Cole by following her tour bus in his rental car ?
text: Did you know that in Bach's chorale cantata Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott , BWV 139 , the part of a second obbligato instrument for a tenor aria is missing?
text: Did you know that Colonel Abd al-Wahab al-Shawaf led a short-lived rebellion from the city of Mosul in a bid to overthrow Iraqi president Abd al-Karim Qasim in 1959?
text: Did you know that in 1997 the Belgian socialist daily Le Peuple , founded in 1885, was acquired by the Rossel media group ?
text: Did you know that the village of Borzęcin was first mentioned in historical documents by the Polish chronicler Jan Długosz in his Liber beneficiorum ?
text: Did you know that write-only memory , devised as an insider joke , does have real uses and may even increase the power of a quantum computer ?
text: Did you know that professional baseball player Josh Sullivan walked on to Auburn University 's college football team, backing up Jason Campbell at quarterback ?
text: Did you know that in the 1980 case Ong Ah Chuan v. Public Prosecutor , the Privy Council held that fundamental liberties in the Singapore Constitution should be given a "generous interpretation"?
text: Did you know that congresswoman-elect Michelle Lujan Grisham served as director of New Mexico 's Agency on Aging under three different governors ?
text: Did you know that Michelle Rzepecki, a member of the 2011–12 Australia women's national goalball team , scored an own goal in the team's final London Paralympics game against Sweden?
text: Did you know that ratings for season one of Star Trek: The Next Generation showed that it was the highest rated syndicated series on television, but a reviewer later said it was "cheesy" and "bad"?
text: Did you know that during the partitions of Poland , on the lands of the Austrian partition , the Polish parliamentary tradition was continued first by the Sejm of the Estates and later, by the Sejm of the Land ?
text: Did you know that Rabbi Herbert Tarr , author of The Conversion of Chaplain Cohen , left the pulpit to write novels because he believed that "religion is basically out of touch with people"?
text: Did you know that the US 31–Pentwater River Bridge could not have been built prior to the 1930s because manufacturing techniques could produce a span no longer than 45 feet (14 m)?
text: Did you know that former South African Ambassador to Israel Fumanekile Gqiba named his daughter "Israela" in honor of her birth-place?
text: Did you know that Obie is a dachshund who weighed as much as 77 pounds (35 kilograms)?
text: Did you know that chef Mikael Jonsson won a Michelin star at the first restaurant he ever worked in, the year after he founded it?
text: Did you know that the superzoom bridge camera Pentax X-5 automates the creation of time-lapse video ?
text: Did you know that after joining Vålerenga from the Norwegian Second Division team Skeid , Dawda Leigh immediately became a regular in Vålerenga's starting line-up in Tippeligaen ?
text: Did you know that phycologist Mary Parke first described the oyster larvae food Isochrysis galbana ?
text: Did you know that openness correlates with liking jazz and that extraversion correlates with liking pop ?
text: Did you know that two Toyota 92C-V s were the only cars in their class (Group C2) to start at the 1992 24 Hours of Le Mans ?
text: Did you know that most Russian-speakers in the United States are Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that Shelli Yoder , a candidate for the United States House of Representatives , was Miss Indiana in 1992?
text: Did you know that the Smithsonian Gardens ' orchid collection contains over 8,000 plants representing 256 genera ?
text: Did you know that one reason to become a vegetarian is that "eating a lamb does not make a man lamb-like in his character any more than eating a missionary converts a savage into a Christian"?
text: Did you know that Occupy Harvard provoked administrators to lock down Harvard Yard for six weeks in 2011?
text: Did you know that Dan Kildee ' s efforts to revitalize Flint, Michigan , by demolishing abandoned buildings are being adopted in other cities, including Detroit , Baltimore , Memphis , Philadelphia , and Pittsburgh ?
text: Did you know that whilst the Yiddish newspaper Di Tsayt was published in Saint Petersburg , its editorial team was based in Vienna ?
text: Did you know that the name of the Tinner's Arms pub in Zennor , Cornwall , is derived from the tinners (tin miners), a historic industry in the region?
text: Did you know that baseball's Salem Senators once tried to use a convicted murderer incarcerated at the Oregon State Penitentiary in a game?
text: Did you know that at over 400 years old, a Žametovka vine growing in Maribor, Slovenia , is believed to be the world's oldest grapevine still producing fruit?
text: Did you know that Izena Island was the birthplace of Shō En (1415–76), the first king of the second Shō Shi Dynasty of the Ryūkyū Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that the 1974 Indonesian film Atheis reused a sequence from the 1925 Russian film Battleship Potemkin ?
text: Did you know that some hamsters hide their young in their cheek pouches to carry them when they fear danger?
text: Did you know that Brann 's goalkeeper Håkon Opdal scored the goal that eliminated Bodø/Glimt from the 2004 Norwegian Football Cup ?
text: Did you know that the Wongs ' Indonesia Malaise , targeted at native Indonesians , was paired with a film meant for Dutchmen?
text: Did you know that Luke Messer served as John McCain 's 2008 presidential campaign co-chair in Indiana ?
text: Did you know that the Roman Theatre at Apamea in Syria is one of the largest surviving theatres of the Roman world ?
text: Did you know that Neil Young 's 2012 autobiography Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream reveals the musician's love for model trains ?
text: Did you know that while rescuers freeing people trapped in grain run the risk of heat illness , the victim may suffer from hypothermia due to moisture in the grain?
text: Did you know that Val Demings became the first female Chief of Police for the Orlando Police Department ?
text: Did you know that the fossil bee Anthophorula persephone is named for a Greek goddess?
text: Did you know that a television pilot of Melissa de la Cruz 's Witches of East End is being made starring Julia Ormond and Jenna Dewan ?
text: Did you know that Kettering Town goalkeeper Scott Endersby is credited with being the youngest footballer to play in the FA Cup proper at the age of 15 in 1977?
text: Did you know that Hertha Ayrton 's 1902 candidature to be the first woman elected Fellow of the Royal Society was turned down on the basis that as a married woman she had no standing in law?
text: Did you know that Erich Barke , professor of microelectronic systems and since 2005 president of the University of Hannover , was elected as president for a second term?
text: Did you know that Steinitz' prawn goby shares a burrow excavated by a shrimp ?
text: Did you know that aquatic botanist Marietta Pallis studied the floating reed systems of the Danube Delta ?
text: Did you know that in 2011, a major fire occurred in the attic of the Haus Cumberland in Charlottenburg , Berlin , causing the left side of the roof to collapse?
text: Did you know that Bai Anqi , a Chinese swimmer, is nicknamed "White Angel"?
text: Did you know that Australian para-alpine skier Mark Soyer twice survived childhood leukemia only to sever his spinal cord while riding his motorbike on his parents' farm at the age of 26?
text: Did you know that although the 1931 adaptation of Kwee Tek Hoay 's Boenga Roos dari Tjikembang kept the Chinese characters, the 1975 one did not?
text: Did you know that software functions that are "locked" and disabled still infringe on patent protection laws ?
text: Did you know that Singaporean sprinter C Kunalan 's feat of 10.38 seconds in the 1968 Summer Olympic Games 100 metres was a national record for 33 years?
text: Did you know that an alcoholic Texas man, who had difficulty ingesting alcohol due to a painful throat ailment, died in 2004 after receiving an alcohol enema of two large bottles of sherry from his wife?
text: Did you know that Cynthia McKinney , John Kerry , and Hillary Clinton tried to release sealed FBI files on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. ?
text: Did you know that Polish minority politician in Czechoslovakia , Augustyn Łukosz , was a deputy in the autonomous Silesian Parliament in Poland before his death at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp ?
text: Did you know that a near-Earth asteroid was discovered on the night of 15 to 16 November 2011 by Morocco's Cadi Ayyad University using a MOSS telescope?
text: Did you know that Russia has the largest number of brown bears, believed to exceed 100,000 , while estimates in the U.S. are around 33,000, Canada 25,000, and Europe (excluding Russia) 14,000?
text: Did you know that Idaho politician Marvin Richardson had his name legally changed to Pro-Life ?
text: Did you know that Ibrahim Hananu , the leader of the 1919 Syrian Revolt, was born in the northern Syrian town of Kafr Takharim ?
text: Did you know that in the 1994 case Chan Hiang Leng Colin v. Public Prosecutor the Singapore High Court held that a ban on Jehovah's Witnesses and their publications did not violate their freedom of religion ?
text: Did you know that the Orthodox metropolitan bishops Gregory and Ambrosios were executed by the Turkish Army in 1922, at the end of the Greco-Turkish War ?
text: Did you know that in the BBC series Masters of Money , Stephanie Flanders speculates as to how John Maynard Keynes , Friedrich Hayek , and Karl Marx would have responded to the current economic crisis ?
text: Did you know that German novelist, playwright and poet Thaddäus Troll also wrote a sex education book in Swabian dialect ?
text: Did you know that the 1847 Shiraz plantings at Turkey Flat in the Barossa Valley are considered to be among the oldest grapevines still in commercial use?
text: Did you know that Warsaw-born Canadian skier Karolina Wisniewska was the first Canadian to win four para-alpine medals at a single Paralympic Games?
text: Did you know that the 11th-century Japanese fictional work Shinsarugakuki provides insights into Chinese trade, comic sketches, lion dances , puppets, rice-planting songs, and solo sumo wrestling ?
text: Did you know that John Wosky designed a number of historic structures at Yosemite National Park , including Crane Flat Fire Lookout and the Generals' Highway Stone Bridges ?
text: Did you know that during the Battle of Santo Tomas on May 4, 1899, Philippine general Antonio Luna was wounded by American fire but was saved by gold coins and Colonel Alejandro Avecilla?
text: Did you know that David Gwilym Morris Roberts helped design Baghdad 's first sewage treatment system?
text: Did you know that the French author of the World War II anti-war slogan Why Die for Danzig? , Marcel Déat , later became a Nazi collaborator ?
text: Did you know that the National Association of Manufacturers distributed its TV show Industry on Parade to local stations, schools, and community groups across America—for free?
text: Did you know that netball in Kenya had a governing body called the Kenya Inter-racial Netball and Rounders Association, which only became the Kenya Netball Association in 1966?
text: Did you know that Libor Michálek is the first Pirate Party candidate to hold office in a national legislature?
text: Did you know that the second-millennium-BC stele of Baal with Thunderbolt shows the king of Ugarit receiving divine protection from the Semitic god of storm Baʿal ?
text: Did you know that the Holmes County Courthouse in Millersburg, Ohio , has an area for horse-and-buggy parking for the county's heavy Amish population?
text: Did you know that during the Great Syrian Revolt of 1925, al-Qurayya served as the chief meeting place for the sheikhs of local rebel clans?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian footballer Stefan Johansen scored a goal from a free kick that was identical to a goal he scored 11 days earlier?
text: Did you know that the William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History exhibits an internally spiked ring meant to slip over a sleeping man's penis shaft , so as to prevent nocturnal emission ?
text: Did you know that the Fuerte de Isla Verde was one of the few Spanish military installations in the Bay of Gibraltar not destroyed by the British in 1810?
text: Did you know that doctors believed New Zealand para-alpine skier Peter Williams would live only a few days and told his mother not to bother to feed him?
text: Did you know that the score Elliot Goldenthal composed for the 2002 film Frida earned him five accolades , including an Academy Award ?
text: Did you know that the winning run for Harvard over Yale in the 1902 baseball series was scored in front of 9,000 fans by William Clarence Matthews , the only African-American player in the game?
text: Did you know that Edmon Marukyan , the only non-partisan member of the Armenian parliament , has a Master of Laws degree from the University of Minnesota Law School ?
text: Did you know that the USS Ling , a World War II submarine, is trapped in silt just upstream of the Court Street Bridge ?
text: Did you know that British mathematician Margaret Meyer was the first woman to be elected to the Royal Astronomical Society ?
text: Did you know that the McDonald's Gospelfest , held annually in Newark, New Jersey , has been described as "the largest collection of gospel talent ever assembled"?
text: Did you know that over fifty organizations helped director Stanley Kubrick to imagine the technologies in 2001: A Space Odyssey ?
text: Did you know that Quadzilla can leap fourteen people in a single bound?
text: Did you know that even after Tunisia was conquered by Arab Muslims in the eighth century, local wine production continued, albeit reduced?
text: Did you know that 2010 Olympic aerialist skier Bree Munro was in the running to go to the 2006 Winter Olympics but Jacqui Cooper was chosen ahead of her on the Australian team?
text: Did you know that Mino Guerrini 's direction of Omicidio per appuntamento has been compared to that of Mario Bava ?
text: Did you know that Austin Friars was the only friary in London to have its own prison, but became the focus of a scandal when an imprisoned friar died there in 1525?
text: Did you know that at Sheikh Badr Cemetery in central Jerusalem , bodies were placed in caskets and left above-ground?
text: Did you know that a participant of The Tuesday Club was fined by Hong Kong and Arsenal for throwing prawn crackers at a taxi?
text: Did you know that in " Ice Cream " by Hyuna , Psy makes a cameo appearance and starts the music video eating ice cream cones?
text: Did you know that David Segal writes a weekly column in The New York Times about customer services woes?
text: Did you know that Tangutology developed as an academic discipline after the Russian explorer Pyotr Kozlov discovered a hoard of Tangut documents at the lost city of Khara-Khoto in 1908?
text: Did you know that one can be sued for encouraging others to cybersquat on a trademarked domain name ?
text: Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon , native Colt Lyerla played running back and linebacker in high school, but now plays at the tight end position for the Oregon Ducks football team?
text: Did you know that Bach created a "musical sleep scene ... that could have graced any opera of the time" in his chorale cantata Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit , BWV 115 ?
text: Did you know that biochemist Rosalind Pitt-Rivers co-discovered the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine in 1952?
text: Did you know that Ottoman sultan Selim I ordered construction of a tower in Ghabaghib , a stop on the hajj route from Damascus?
text: Did you know that although Wellek and Warren 's Theory of Literature was imprinted with three copyright dates, none were the year it was published?
text: Did you know that a fire broke out in Southwold lighthouse just six days after it opened in 1890?
text: Did you know that May Byron wrote a series of biographies of which critics could not decide whether they were first-hand experiences or fiction based on research?
text: Did you know that 1968's La morte ha fatto l'uovo has been compared to the works of Michelangelo Antonioni , David Lynch and Luis Buñuel ?
text: Did you know that 1933 Japanese Wimbledon doubles finalist Jiro Sato couldn't take the pressure put on him by his country and its Tennis Federation, and committed suicide en route to a 1934 Davis Cup match?
text: Did you know that sightings of the Ghost Ship of Northumberland Strait are most common between September and November?
text: Did you know that Hurricane Katrina , Hurricane Isaac , and Hurricane Sandy have all been claimed to be divine retribution by one or more religious leaders?
text: Did you know that the strategic significance of Bassein diminished after the defeat of the Marathas by the British in 1818?
text: Did you know that Cecilia McIntosh has competed in Australian rules football and weightlifting at the national level, and athletics and bobsleigh at the international level?
text: Did you know that Interstate 75 is the only highway on both of Michigan 's Upper and Lower peninsulas?
text: Did you know that Ba Zaw , the Burmese watercolor painter , was afraid of the colors green and violet, but passionate about orange and red?
text: Did you know that Symbolist painter Jacek Malczewski drew his inspiration from exotic and biblical sources, but inadvertently translated them back into Polish folklore in his own art?
text: Did you know that Mitchell Gourley made his Australian national para-alpine team début in 2006 as a fifteen-year-old?
text: Did you know that the Royal Gibraltar Yacht Club was one of the first yacht clubs to be founded outside of Britain ?
text: Did you know that Connie B. Gay is credited with coining the term " country music " which had until then been called " hillbilly music "?
text: Did you know that it was once a common practice to conceal shoes in the structure of a building to ward off evil spirits, or to ensure the fertility of its female occupants?
text: Did you know that the 2004 Women's Manifesto for Ghana demands 50% female control over the Ghanaian legislature by 2012?
text: Did you know that two times British Hard Court tennis champion Kho Sin-Kie raised money for the Malaya Patriotic Fund in WWII ?
text: Did you know that the programme King George and Queen Mary explains that the arranged marriage between George V and Mary of Teck occurred because Prince Albert Victor , Mary's original fiancé , died from influenza ?
text: Did you know that Brookside ' s producer Paul Marquess received letters complaining that Lance Powell , a character featured in the soap opera, was a "betrayal of all gay men"?
text: Did you know that a horse, an execution, alcohol, and lots of dancing are part of a celebration designated as Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Czech Republic ?
text: Did you know that basketball player Paul Miller was not selected in the 2006 NBA Draft even though he had been named Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year earlier that year?
text: Did you know that Ricardo Arjona released a compilation album under the same name as Alejandro Fernández , Rocío Dúrcal and Sin Bandera did?
text: Did you know that Katya Crema was one of two Australian women to compete at the Olympic debut for women's Ski cross ?
text: Did you know that the action in the play James Baldwin: A Soul on Fire takes place immediately before a real meeting between author James Baldwin and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy ?
text: Did you know that artist Fred Andrews made thirty thousand roof tiles for his house himself?
text: Did you know that pharmacologist Edith Bülbring 's work on catecholamines and smooth muscle led to her election as a Fellow of the Royal Society ?
text: Did you know that the detection dog Theo was awarded the Dickin Medal in 2012, described as the animals' Victoria Cross ?
text: Did you know that the extinct Syndesus ambericus is the only stag beetle known from the Caribbean?
text: Did you know that by promoting Bill Geivett , the Colorado Rockies broke with baseball tradition?
text: Did you know that crofelemer , a substance found in dragon's blood , is being studied for the treatment of diarrhoea ?
text: Did you know that Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have co-written the last five James Bond movies as well as the Bond spoof Johnny English ?
text: Did you know that the Andrés Bello Catholic University is the oldest of all private universities in Venezuela ?
text: Did you know that in the 1946 Wimbledon Championships Polish tennis champion Ignacy Tłoczyński was declared stateless by the People's Republic of Poland because of his Allied affiliations in World War II ?
text: Did you know that during Operation Fluid Drive , one family abandoned their Lebanon -evacuation efforts when told their dog would need to stay behind?
text: Did you know that a whole new shipbuilding facility had to be created to build the 90-metre (300 ft) luxury yacht Nero ?
text: Did you know that the millisecond pulsar PSR J1311–3430 has the shortest known orbital period among pulsars in binary systems, but that it may eventually vaporize its companion?
text: Did you know that James Francis Carney was the first Archbishop of Vancouver born in the city ?
text: Did you know that the titan acorn barnacle is extending its range in the eastern United States but suffered a setback in the cold winter of 2009–10?
text: Did you know that an electrical engineer and interim president of Georgia Tech , Henry C. Bourne, Jr. , funded an academic chair in poetry?
text: Did you know that the Hillsboro, Oregon , based Hops minor league baseball team is the first professional sports team to be named after the beer ingredient ?
text: Did you know that Little Birds is loosely based on the life of director and former Friends Stand United founder Elgin James ?
text: Did you know that Yadira Silva , who twice represented Mexico in the Olympic Games , was born in Cuba ?
text: Did you know that Spain attempted to silence Princess Royal's Battery during the 1727 siege by excavating a mine below it, to be loaded with explosives?
text: Did you know that anthropologist Beatrice Blackwood ran Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum from 1938 until 1959?
text: Did you know that the earliest known variant of " The dog ate my homework " as an excuse dates to 1905?
text: Did you know that in 2009, when Fatima-Zahra Mansouri was elected mayor of Marrakech , she became only the second woman in Morocco 's history to be elected mayor of a Moroccan city?
text: Did you know that Yang Kyoungjong was a Korean soldier who was drafted into the Japanese , Soviet and German armies, and captured by US soldiers in Normandy on D-Day ?
text: Did you know that some conflicts may be beneficial?
text: Did you know that Ida Freund was the first female university chemistry lecturer in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that Ezra Pound believed that no man is equipped for modern thinking until he has understood the " Parable of the sunfish "?
text: Did you know that the ban on mailing Lillian Smith 's Strange Fruit within the United States was repealed upon a request from the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt ?
text: Did you know that an 1865 strike in Marquette, Michigan , was broken up by sailors operating an armored train ?
text: Did you know that the body wall of the small spine sea star is composed of a latticework of collagen fibres and calcareous plates that give it both flexibility and rigidity?
text: Did you know that The Bullet Vanishes is the eighth highest grossing Chinese film of 2012 ?
text: Did you know that Beatrice Hicks , the founding president of the Society of Women Engineers , created a device that made the moon landings possible?
text: Did you know that Colonel Roosevelt missed a trip through hell while on a trip to Africa?
text: Did you know that the extinct termite bug Termitaradus dominicanus is divided into fourteen brown lobes?
text: Did you know that the launch of Intelsat 23 was the first of a Proton-M rocket since the failed launch of Ekspress MD2 and Telkom-3 ?
text: Did you know that Yaxha , the third largest Maya ruin in Guatemala , is one of very few Maya cities to have built a twin pyramid complex , an architectural arrangement characteristic of Tikal ?
text: Did you know that even though The ScareHouse 's Creepo the Clown hates early Christmas decorations he wears a Santa hat?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth de Vere, Countess of Oxford , was abducted by the half-brother of her intended bridegroom?
text: Did you know that over 130 works of literature were published in the propaganda newspaper Asia Raja ?
text: Did you know that forest degradation and illegal exports threaten the survival of the Rainforest Chameleon ?
text: Did you know that Hans Østerholt edited the satirical magazine Hvepsen from 1905 to 1925?
text: Did you know that over 10 million people visited the Africa Joint Pavilion during Expo 2010 ?
text: Did you know that the inaugural running of the British Classic 2,000 Guineas Stakes was won by the colt Wizard in 1809?
text: Did you know that cricketer Allan Border holds the record for making the most number of consecutive appearances (153 matches) in Tests ?
text: Did you know that at one time Arizona Territorial Delegate Hiram Sanford Stevens owned a sheep ranch in Colorado and was one of the richest men in Arizona?
text: Did you know that in 1906, ties between England and Spain were sufficiently strong that King Edward VII and King Alfonso XIII became joint patrons of the Royal Calpe Hunt ?
text: Did you know that Charles W. Adams , a Confederate colonel during the American Civil War , was a grandfather of Helen Keller ?
text: Did you know that the French aimed to use the Casablanca Fair of 1915 to open up trade markets in Morocco and to demonstrate their power?
text: Did you know that with their victory over Mississippi State , the 1956 Alabama Crimson Tide football team ended a 17-game losing streak and gave Ears Whitworth his first win as head coach ?
text: Did you know that the shell of the extinct sea urchin Pelanechinus corallina was composed of separate groups of fused plates which resulted in its being flexible?
text: Did you know that Dancing Barry started as a Houston Rockets counterpart to Dancing Harry and later performed with Paula Abdul for the Los Angeles Lakers ?
text: Did you know that Zuber Usman was an early pioneer of Indonesian literary criticism?
text: Did you know that the building of the Bangas Gymnasium in Korcë , Albania , was erected with the support of the Lasso , a local community fund aimed at the promotion of Greek education and culture?
text: Did you know that Australian bass-baritone Horace Stevens was also a dentist, teacher, tennis player, sculler , and World War I Army officer?
text: Did you know that middle to upper Paleolithic sites have been found along the Shetrunji River ?
text: Did you know that French Army officer Henri Simon helped to produce the 1934 film Itto ?
text: Did you know that Jamil Mihhu, contesting the Beirut II constituency in the 1968 election , was the first Kurd to run for office in Lebanon ?
text: Did you know that six conductors took part in the retirement concert for Stephen Gray , including Simon Rattle , whose career Gray promoted?
text: Did you know that tools made from human bones have been found at the Carlston Annis Shell Mound in Kentucky?
text: Did you know that a "magnificent" furniture depository in Hove , England, designed by local architects Clayton & Black , later became an insurance office and—in November 2012 —the Montefiore Hospital ?
text: Did you know that Townsend F. Dodd was the first US pilot to receive the Distinguished Service Medal in World War I ?
text: Did you know that the Maya city of Dzibanche in southeastern Mexico was the early capital of the Kan dynasty, which later ruled from Calakmul ?
text: Did you know that Mike Jolly was the starting weak side cornerback in 35 of 36 games for Michigan teams that played in two Rose Bowls and a Gator Bowl from 1977 to 1979?
text: Did you know that during the early 20th century, Halfaya , in central Syria , was a village where collective farming was practiced by the twelve clans who inhabited it?
text: Did you know that when he was 13, Leonard Wood created a washing machine engine-powered go-kart that reached a top speed of 25 miles per hour (40 km/h)?
text: Did you know that Indonesian batik designer Obin sometimes asks people not to cut up her cloths?
text: Did you know that The 1975 became popular because of Sex ?
text: Did you know that the Japanese goose barnacle broods its eggs in its mantle cavity where they may be eaten by a worm living there?
text: Did you know that the authors of Crisis and Transformation conclude that the erotic novel The Carnal Prayer Mat was not written by 17th-century Chinese scholar Li Yu ?
text: Did you know that the release of Google Maps as an application on iOS caused iOS 6 upgrades to surge 30%?
text: Did you know that the USS Clifton was originally named the SS Dilworth ?
text: Did you know that the song " Otome Sensō " by Momoiro Clover Z can be interpreted as the girl group's declaration of war for the top of the Japanese idol music scene?
text: Did you know that the Defense Officer Personnel Management Act instituted an " up or out " promotion system across the United States Armed Forces ?
text: Did you know that María Isabella Cordero , a former Mexican anchorwoman on Televisa , was killed in Mexico's most violent state in 2010?
text: Did you know that McNeese State defeated Tulsa in the inaugural 1976 Independence Bowl despite the suspension of sixteen McNeese players?
text: Did you know that the BBC comedy-drama Lapland was set in Finland but filmed in Norway, where the cast stayed in army barracks ?
text: Did you know that renowned antebellum potter Christopher Haun was executed for his participation in the East Tennessee bridge-burning conspiracy ?
text: Did you know that the Gibraltar Heritage Trust is a non-profit charity responsible for preserving and promoting Gibraltar 's manmade and natural heritage?
text: Did you know that the trout population in Mann Lake was once threatened by goldfish , prompting the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to intervene?
text: Did you know that Gibraltar 's North Bastion and South Bastion were built by Spain to protect the city against attacks from either direction?
text: Did you know that Dr. Moshe Wallach , founder and director of Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Hospital for 45 years, lived in the hospital and was buried beside it ?
text: Did you know that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg made a cameo appearance in the series finale of Gossip Girl ?
text: Did you know that Amala Shankar , the Indian danseuse , is the wife of Uday Shankar and sister-in-law of Ravi Shankar ?
text: Did you know that the giant slit-pore sea rod can grow to more than a metre (yard) tall?
text: Did you know that Peter Penfold was widely considered a hero in Sierra Leone, despite having been dismissed as British High Commissioner?
text: Did you know that the graphics for the video game Clay Jam were produced in a garage using 44 pounds (20 kg) of clay and 400 toothpicks?
text: Did you know that Edda Goering played in a fifty-metre-long replica of Frederick the Great 's Sanssouci palace, built for her by the Luftwaffe in an orchard at Carinhall ?
text: Did you know that today is the birthday of Dattatreya , the combined form of the Hindu Trinity ?
text: Did you know that Owen Ray Skelton is credited with engineering a rubber engine mount system for cars known as " floating power " to greatly cut down on engine vibration to the chassis?
text: Did you know that A Is for Acid , a biopic of Acid Bath Murderer John Haigh , was filmed in Scarborough because of the town's similarity to parts of 1940s London ?
text: Did you know that at the age of 16, Karl Towns was named to play on the Dominican Republic national basketball team while he was a student at St. Joseph High School in New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that the 1971 Chouf parliamentary by-poll was described at the time as the "most fiery" by-election ever in Lebanon?
text: Did you know that Lupton City in Chattanooga, Tennessee , was created in the 1920s as a planned community for a thread mill and its workers?
text: Did you know that while the roots of the international human rights movement are about a century old, it grew in global significance around the 1970s?
text: Did you know that Norman Claxton won the South Australian National Football League twice, scored 199 not out in first-class cricket , and was inducted into the Baseball Australia Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that Steindamm Church was destroyed during the Siege of Königsberg and rebuilt in 1263?
text: Did you know that Kānekapōlei prevented the kidnapping of her husband King Kalaniʻōpuʻu and their sons by Captain Cook , one of the events that led to Cook's death in Hawaii?
text: Did you know that Mike Shula succeeded Mike Price as the head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team in 2003?
text: Did you know that Natir Puja (1932) is the only film where Rabindranath Tagore was credited as film director?
text: Did you know that John Lennon 's ballad " Out the Blue " expressed his devotion to wife Yoko Ono , even though Lennon and Ono were separated at the time?
text: Did you know that in Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter , the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government was obligated to pay in full any contracts that it had entered into with Indian tribes?
text: Did you know that Bach's cantata for the second day of Christmas , Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes ("For this the Son of God appeared"), BWV 40, is his first Christmas cantata composed for Leipzig?
text: Did you know that Jean Forbes-Robertson , a Shakespearean actress, frequently played Peter Pan ?
text: Did you know that Benin adopted a Presidential Council system with three political rivals serving as president together to prevent civil war following the 1970 elections ?
text: Did you know that jewelled chameleons are threatened by the burning of their grassland habitat ?
text: Did you know that the video game Rotozoa is part of Nintendo 's Art Style series?
text: Did you know that Paul Thurmond , the youngest son of Strom Thurmond , was born when his father was 73 years old?
text: Did you know that a single HVDC converter can convert up to two thousand megawatts of electric power from DC to AC ?
text: Did you know that Catalan flamenco guitarist "Chicuelo" has been the music director of Shōji Kojima 's dance company in Japan since 1992?
text: Did you know that the "get out the vote" system used by Mitt Romney in the 2012 United States presidential election crashed repeatedly on election day, depriving his campaign of last-minute information?
text: Did you know that William I of Germany was crowned King of Prussia in the Schlosskirche within Königsberg Castle ?
text: Did you know that the second single from Leona Lewis ' third studio album Glassheart was originally going to be "Fireflies", but " Lovebird " was released instead?
text: Did you know that the extinct maple Acer ivanofense is known from four Alaskan fossils?
text: Did you know that Erdene Zuu Monastery in Mongolia has a 24-inch penis ?
text: Did you know that junitoite and ruizite were both discovered in Christmas, Arizona ?
text: Did you know that the installation of an artificial Christmas tree in Brussels prompted an online petition against it with 25,000 signatures?
text: Did you know that in Dandy Dick Whittington , Dick is a circus rider who goes to Siam to secure love and fortune?
text: Did you know that the Tamale Teaching Hospital , the third teaching hospital in Ghana , started as the Tamale Regional Hospital in 1974?
text: Did you know that it has been suggested that Father Christmas in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Father Christmas Letters may have been an inspiration for Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings ?
text: Did you know that despite the belief that the Christmas pickle tradition originated in Germany, it is generally unknown there?
text: Did you know that Hans Pfitzner composed Das Christ-Elflein ( The Little Elf of Christ , sometimes given as The Little Christmas Elf ) first as incidental music , then in 1917 as an opera ?
text: Did you know that The Big Bang Theory episode " The Santa Simulation " features a Christmas-themed Dungeons & Dragons game?
text: Did you know that on Christmas Day in 1997, a One Day International between India and Sri Lanka became the first international cricket match to be called off because of a dangerous pitch ?
text: Did you know that director Ken Russell created the Christmas themed A Kitten for Hitler after being challenged by Melvyn Bragg to make a film Russell himself would want to ban?
text: Did you know that in New South Wales, the mountain beech can hybridise with the native holly and the crinkle bush ?
text: Did you know that Cliff Richard's 1990 UK Christmas number one song " Saviour's Day " was succeeded by Iron Maiden's " Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter "?
text: Did you know that Carl Russ started as a walk-on and became the starting wide linebacker for Michigan football teams that had a record of 20–1–1?
text: Did you know that Trinitatis Church was seriously damaged in the Copenhagen Fire of 1728 but was rebuilt in 1731?
text: Did you know that William Hatteclyffe served King Edward IV as physician , King's Secretary , and diplomat ?
text: Did you know that a Viking torc and an 18th century harpsichord are exhibited at Falsters Minder ?
text: Did you know that the rights for Rambo: The Video Game were secured in part because of the scheduled release of the Sylvester Stallone action film The Expendables 2 ?
text: Did you know that the fortune of England's richest commoner, William the Miser , was lost in lawyers' fees in 117 years of litigation over his estate?
text: Did you know that the 1966 film The Sons of Great Bear was East Germany 's first Western , presenting the Oglala Lakota as heroes struggling against the villainous Whites?
text: Did you know that before founding his own production company, Iddo Patt appeared in a remake of the game show Twenty One ?
text: Did you know that, in preparation for British military intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War , two CH-47 Chinooks conducted the longest self-deployment of helicopters in British history?
text: Did you know that South Carolina's U.S. Senate seat for the 2014 special election should be filled by Stephen Colbert , according to a Public Policy poll ?
text: Did you know that Charles Garabed Atamian 's paintings of the beach in Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie consolidated his reputation as an artist?
text: Did you know that the upcoming video game Johann Sebastian Joust has no graphics and does not even use a video screen ?
text: Did you know that Chhota Bheem and the Curse of Damyaan , a 2012 Indian animated film , was a surprise success at the box office?
text: Did you know that with the addition of Bhutan , Grenada , and Andorra in 2012, the Ramsar Convention has 163 contracting countries with 2,065 wetlands of international importance?
text: Did you know that the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta , a cooperative effort involving six Christian denominations , has been described as "one of the more successful ventures in black ecumenism"?
text: Did you know that while travelling in Italy in 1898, American hydraulic engineer Clemens Herschel found an ancient manuscript about the water system of Rome , and translated and published it in English?
text: Did you know that Fred Julian led Michigan in rushing in 1959 and led the New York Jets in interceptions in 1960?
text: Did you know that an employee of the Bank of England 's incinerator plant in Debden helped to steal more than £600,000 over four years by stuffing banknotes into her underwear?
text: Did you know that today is the day when Krishna gave the holy sermon of the Bhagavad Gita to the Pandava prince Arjuna , as described in the Mahabharata ?
text: Did you know that Japanese industrialist Inabata Katsutaro , a member of the House of Peers , put on Japan's first projected film programme?
text: Did you know that when it first opened in 1991, The Peninsula Beverly Hills was the first luxury hotel to open in Beverly Hills for 20 years?
text: Did you know that a 27-year-old law student was the sole challenger against the candidature of Maronite strongman Suleiman Frangieh in the 1968 election in the Zgharta constituency ?
text: Did you know that professional mixed martial arts fighter Abel Trujillo was expected to make his UFC debut at UFC 151 , but it became the first-ever cancelled event in the organization's history?
text: Did you know that by the end of the Third Siege of Gibraltar in 1333, the city 's inhabitants were reduced to eating their shoes because the town's governor had stolen the money meant to pay for food?
text: Did you know that the Iron Confederacy , an alliance of North American Plains Indians , expanded its power base from what is now northern Manitoba in the 1690s to Montana by the 1850s?
text: Did you know that Noori is the first pashmina goat to be cloned by using the process of nuclear transfer ?
text: Did you know that Walt Downing , the seventh All-American center for Michigan , won a Super Bowl with the 1981 San Francisco 49ers ?
text: Did you know that the Leningrad première of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 was broadcast by loudspeakers throughout the city, and to the German forces as psychological warfare?
text: Did you know that Kojo Tovalou Houénou became a prominent critic of French colonialism in Africa after being ejected from a Paris club where he was attacked by Americans who objected to an African being served?
text: Did you know that all Armenian parliamentarians elected from the Beirut I constituency in 1968 ran unopposed ?
text: Did you know that Israel Keyes confessed to murder, rape, arson, and bank robbery in several states before committing suicide in his jail cell in Anchorage, Alaska ?
text: Did you know that in the Hindu epic Ramayana , Maricha assumed the form of a golden deer studded with gems to facilitate the kidnapping of the heroine ?
text: Did you know that Maryland Route 170 was relocated for the construction of Baltimore/Washington International Airport in the late 1940s?
text: Did you know that the creator of the TV series Homeland , Gideon Raff , is the son of a former Accountant General in Israel's Ministry of Finance?
text: Did you know that the 1968 election in the Beirut III constituency saw Sunni former rivals Abdallah al-Yafi and Saeb Salam unite around a joint candidature?
text: Did you know that when Oprah Winfrey saw American model Jasmine Tookes perform on the runway at Lincoln Center , she extolled Tookes' "butter" soft skin and requested that Tookes "rub your face against mine"?
text: Did you know that Bo Schembechler praised Pete Newell for traveling to Iowa with the 1969 Michigan football team rather than to a large antiwar rally "with the damn hippies where he really wanted to be"?
text: Did you know that the Mexican gang Los Ántrax is named after the disease anthrax ?
text: Did you know that the Crusaders under Bohemond I of Antioch exacted a large tribute from the Muslim residents of al-Muslimiyah following their capture of the village in 1103?
text: Did you know that Orson Welles used a pseudo-documentary sequence in his film Citizen Kane ?
text: Did you know that the eldest son of Richard Neville, 2nd Baron Latimer , was married to Catherine Parr before she was King Henry VIII 's Queen?
text: Did you know that the video game Wizorb was originally released for a game console , but the developers recommend using a mouse over a gamepad for the PC version?
text: Did you know that after Nik Stauskas became Big Ten Conference Freshman of the Week, he scored twenty points in back-to-back games to earn the honor again?
text: Did you know that climbing routes on Gibraltar Rock include Crime of Passion, Illusions of Grandeur, and Rooster Carnage?
text: Did you know that Andy McDonald , the newly elected Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough , has already worked with parliamentarians as a special adviser to the Defence Select Committee ?
text: Did you know that defence may not have been the primary function of Cornwall ' s cliff castles ?
text: Did you know that Hermann Hogeback 's entire bomber crew was decorated with the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II , a unique distinction in the Luftwaffe ?
text: Did you know that the year 1930 in tennis saw the record for the most match points saved in a match of the Davis Cup Inter-Zonal Zone final between Giorgio de Stefani and Wilmer Allison ?
text: Did you know that Daggerfall , the second game in Elder Scrolls series of video games , has a game world claimed to be of the size of Great Britain ?
text: Did you know that the sea urchin order Echinothurioida was known only from fossils until deep water exploration discovered living species such as Calveriosoma gracile ?
text: Did you know that Mal Sanders, the winner of the Mike Marino Memorial Shield , had been travelling with Marino when he died on the M20 motorway in 1981?
text: Did you know that a voltage controller is a device which dims street lights, controls the temperature of heating at home, and controls the speed of motors?
text: Did you know that the Glen Davis Shale Oil Works was the last oil-shale operation in Australia until the commencement of the Stuart Oil Shale Project in late 1990s?
text: Did you know that the USCGC Smilax (WLIC-315) , a 100-foot inland construction tender , is the current "Queen of the Fleet" of the United States Coast Guard ?
text: Did you know that the video game Street Fighter X Mega Man was developed by one fan with the support of Capcom ?
text: Did you know that " Normal ", the twentieth episode of American TV series New Girl , inspired a real-life drinking game with rules released by Fox ?
text: Did you know that Charles Darwin called The Naturalist on the River Amazons "the best book of Natural History Travels ever published in England"?
text: Did you know that Ivo Puhonny created the Baden-Baden puppet theater in 1911, and many of his marionettes are preserved in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming video game Demon Gaze is a sequel and will include new half-machine demons ?
text: Did you know that BRISMES awarded Westminster professor Naomi Sakr the Middle Eastern Book Prize for "the best book written on Arab television"?
text: Did you know that the Chouf District had the highest number of voters in the 1968 Lebanese parliamentary election ?
text: Did you know that the star of Pah Wongso Pendekar Boediman , Indonesia's first detective film, was best known as a social worker ?
text: Did you know that the commanding officer of the New Zealand Army 's 4th Division for part of 1942 and 1943 was also the professor of agriculture at Massey University ?
text: Did you know that the Sargassum nudibranch travels the world's oceans on seaweed ?
text: Did you know that Rekha 's portrayal of a classical courtesan in Umrao Jaan fetched her the National Film Award for Best Actress ?
text: Did you know that Lady Carlisle so adamantly opposed alcohol consumption that when her daughter married a brewer, she refused to speak with her for years?
text: Did you know that Michigan quarterback Jim Betts persuaded Bo Schembechler in 1969 to relax his clean-shave policy by claiming that facial hair was part of the African-American players' "heritage"?
text: Did you know that the island city of Nojpetén was the capital of the last surviving Maya kingdom when the Spanish stormed it in 1697?
text: Did you know that Body of Proof episode " Hunting Party " was directed by Paul Holahan and featured Jeri Ryan , both of whom had worked on the legal drama Shark ?
text: Did you know that decorator crabs stick camouflage on their backs using Velcro -like curved hairs?
text: Did you know that Hidden Cave , an archaeological cave site located in the Great Basin near Fallon, Nevada , got its name because its entrance was difficult to find?
text: Did you know that following the death of Pope John Paul II , some 40,000 Catholics gathered in front of the Bishop's Palace in Kraków for a night vigil and prayer?
text: Did you know that Pringle Stokes , captain of HMS Beagle on its first voyage, and Robert FitzRoy , captain on the second voyage , both committed suicide?
text: Did you know that numerous Olympic and World weightlifting champions from Armenia hail from Gyumri , a city with a population of 150,000?
text: Did you know that Kučuk Alija killed Hadži Mustafa Pasha , a vizier of the Belgrade pashalik , at the end of 1801?
text: Did you know that Marty Friedman left Megadeth only to get mixed up with bodacious space pirates ?
text: Did you know that Ohio 's first archaeological investigation was conducted at the Marietta Earthworks ?
text: Did you know that the Off TV Play feature of the new Wii U does not work for all games, and some developers have chosen not to offer it?
text: Did you know that the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources , led by future poet laureate Sam Ragan , was the first cabinet-level department in the United States focused solely on the arts and history?
text: Did you know that the Dawson river blackbutt indicates sodic soil ?
text: Did you know that Bo Schembechler knew his 1969 team was no longer afraid of Ohio State when a fight the day before the game ended with Cecil Pryor yelling, "And we're gonna kick your ass tomorrow, too!"?
text: Did you know that the conquest theory of state formation in anthropology has its roots in work by Ibn Khaldun , who wrote in the 14th century?
text: Did you know that Lieutenant General Thomas G. Miller oversaw the First Army moving its command from Fort Gillem to Rock Island Arsenal in 2011?
text: Did you know that there is an Elfstedentocht display at the Fries Scheepvaart Museum ?
text: Did you know that her experiences with girls on the street led philosopher Bertrand Russell 's "stern and gloomy" Aunt Maude to write Clubs for Working Girls ?
text: Did you know that Showtime was inspired by a nightclub frequented by Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss ?
text: Did you know that Ahmad Tohari 's Kubah ( Cupola ), which follows a man's induction into communism, has been characterized as Islamic preaching ?
text: Did you know that video game studio Crystal Dynamics is the developer of the Legacy of Kain , Gex and Tomb Raider video game series?
text: Did you know that Hayazn burned the Hungarian flag after Ramil Safarov 's release to Azerbaijan?
text: Did you know that Moses Moreno filed a grievance against the San Diego Chargers for releasing him while he was injured?
text: Did you know that the General Post Office in Zagreb has been featured on postage stamps of Croatia and Austria?
text: Did you know that the flowers of the dwarf apple attract a wide variety of beetles ?
text: Did you know that Shania Twain 's Las Vegas residency show, Shania: Still the One , marks her first live performance show since the Up! Tour in 2004?
text: Did you know that Hamka 's novel Tuan Direktur ( Mr Director ) has been read as anti-materialist and anti-superstition?
text: Did you know that Tristan Bancks was selected from a group of 200 actors to play the role of Tug O'Neale in Australian soap opera Home and Away ?
text: Did you know that Greg Morton , college football's defensive player of the year for 1976, collected exotic flora, including a purple passion plant he named Claudine?
text: Did you know that the earliest head coaches of the Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team include John C. B. Pendleton , Henry Van Hoevenberg , Alfred Ellet Hitchner , and Arthur P. Robinson , all four combining for a record of 12–33?
text: Did you know that the 9.2-inch gun at Gibraltar 's Spur Battery was transferred to the Imperial War Museum Duxford in Project Vitello ?
text: Did you know that Marienborg Manor incorporates designs by Vilhelm Walther and Axel Berg ?
text: Did you know that the United States Coast Guard has operated life-saving stations both on shore and in floating installations for over 150 years?
text: Did you know that lumberman Augustus Barrows was elected Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1878, even though his Greenback Party only held 13 seats out of 100, and he was a freshman legislator?
text: Did you know that after twice fleeing civil unrest in Nigeria, Amina Mama moved to South Africa, where she became director of the African Gender Institute and founding editor of its peer-reviewed journal, Feminist Africa ?
text: Did you know that half of the town of Mori , Hokkaido , Japan , was destroyed by fire in 1961?
text: Did you know that Lionel Palairet was chosen as captain of Somerset County Cricket Club in 1907, despite having played only one match in 1906?
text: Did you know that in spite of challenges from the left , all incumbent parliamentarians from Tripoli City were re-elected in 1968 ?
text: Did you know that there are mermen on the pulpit of St James' Church, Cardington , in Shropshire ?
text: Did you know that Bai Yansong , a leading news anchor for China Central Television , established China 's first live news commentary program?
text: Did you know that Goodenia paniculata can grow in acidic soils with pH as low as 2.5 ?
text: Did you know that professional baseball player Derek Dietrich is an accomplished juggler , performing at hospitals and community events?
text: Did you know that the Manila City Council banned films that featured Claire Danes in 1998, and The Da Vinci Code in 2006?
text: Did you know that Guy Murdock , the MVP of football 's Chicago Fire, joined with the Winds after the Fire was extinguished?
text: Did you know that 21 players from the 1976 Michigan football team went on to play in the NFL , and another opted instead to play Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that Maurice Le Glay fought against Mouha ou Hammou Zayani in the Zaian War but later wrote a book praising Zayani ' s leadership skills?
text: Did you know that the Native American grass dance originated in the warrior societies on the Northern Great Plains ?
text: Did you know that leaves of the fossil maple Acer palaeorufinerve resemble the living redvein maple ?
text: Did you know that during World War II , German actress Inge Keller entered a sham marriage to avoid enlistment into the Reich Labour Service ?
text: Did you know that chef Joël Robuchon has twelve "L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon" restaurants around the world, including in London and Hong Kong ?
text: Did you know that Fatima-Zahra Mansouri 's father, who was pasha (deputy governor) of Marrakech for eight years, died the evening Fatima won the mayoral elections?
text: Did you know that indigenous people of Broome used a concoction of the bark of the native orange to treat animal bites and stings?
text: Did you know that San Francisco police supervised the controversial North American premiere of Al-Nakba at the Castro Theater ?
text: Did you know that according to Lucille Ball , God was a New York hairdresser called Kenneth ?
text: Did you know that Stotts Island Nature Reserve is home to the endangered Mitchell's rainforest snail ?
text: Did you know that tight end Doug Marsh was Michigan 's leading receiver in 1979 and later played seven NFL seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals ?
text: Did you know that Sam Pek Eng Tay was The Teng Chun 's first in a series of film adaptations of Chinese myths ?
text: Did you know that Daniel Hough and Edward Galloway were the first two deaths of the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the drupes of boobialla were eaten by the Aborigines ?
text: Did you know that the extinct Oligocene -age vulture Phasmagyps may be the oldest New World vulture from North America?
text: Did you know that although Mykola Leontovych 's secular music was well known in the twentieth century , his Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom was little known because of a ban on sacred music in the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that at the funeral of his uncle, from whom he inherited the earldom, John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford , received an axe brought into the church by a mounted horseman?
text: Did you know that cattle are brought to the uninhabited island of Kalvø for summer grazing in a small barge , three or four at a time?
text: Did you know that Coty Award -winning jewelry designer Clifton Nicholson currently breeds peafowl and pheasants ?
text: Did you know that the 1952 film Anhonee had Nargis enacting a dual role , and also marked the first occasion in Bollywood where an actor was cast in such a role?
text: Did you know that Alastair Cook has scored the highest number of Test centuries for England , and is the youngest batsman to score more than 7,000 runs in Test cricket ?
text: Did you know that the Supreme Court of the United States decision in Zivotofsky v. Clinton concerned the status of Jerusalem in United States foreign policy?
text: Did you know that the Namib sand gecko spends the day underground, emerging at night to feed on small arthropods ?
text: Did you know that the 2007 film Atonement received fourteen nominations from the British Academy Film Awards , the most of any film that year?
text: Did you know that Buffalo River State Park preserves one of the largest and highest-quality prairie remnants in Minnesota ?
text: Did you know that 2012 Pacific-12 Defensive Player of the Year Will Sutton was a high school football teammate of Taylor Martinez and Vontaze Burfict for the undefeated 2008 Centennial High School state champions?
text: Did you know that the presence of prickly-leaved paperbark can indicate saltier areas in wallum heath?
text: Did you know that " Off to the Races " by Lana Del Rey has been lyrically described as "a freak show of inappropriate co-dependency "?
text: Did you know that Obamadon was an extinct lizard that was named after President Barack Obama as a tribute to his "role model of good oral hygiene for the world"?
text: Did you know that Mitchell Olenski coached the Alabama Informals in 1943 and later played for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League ?
text: Did you know that Nakba scholar Rosemarie Esber has been a consultant for the World Bank ?
text: Did you know that the first issue of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic comic book had pre-orders exceeding 100,000 copies, making it one of the most successful comics of 2012?
text: Did you know that baked beans have hairy eyes and iridescent antennae ?
text: Did you know that William Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby de Eresby , was on the commission which condemned to death Archbishop Scrope , the first English prelate to suffer judicial execution?
text: Did you know that the Mahagujarat Movement in 1956, led by Indulal Yagnik , resulted in formation of Gujarat and Maharashtra states on May 1, 1960, by dividing Bombay state ?
text: Did you know that the original title of " Loveeeeeee Song " by Rihanna featuring Future was "Love & Affection"?
text: Did you know that Free Syrian Army general Ahmad al-Fajj prohibited Islamists from serving under his command during the Siege of Base 46 ?
text: Did you know that after 17 years, not even 36 km of the Balangir-Khurda Road project was developed in India?
text: Did you know that the marriage of the Tulsi plant to the god Vishnu inaugurates the Hindu wedding season?
text: Did you know that Carl Breer was one of the core engineering people who formed the present day Chrysler Corporation ?
text: Did you know that the Khmer Rouge destroyed Phnom Penh 's Notre Dame Cathedral by tearing it down stone by stone?
text: Did you know that David Robidoux has composed more than 850 works for NFL Films ?
text: Did you know that on certain beaches of Java , people are warned not to wear green clothes due to the belief that the color may offend the queen of the sea and cause the person to drown?
text: Did you know that Ricardo Arjona 's compilation album , Trópico , includes performances by Elvis Crespo , Marc Anthony and Gilberto Santa Rosa ?
text: Did you know that Robert Falcon Scott was educated at Stubbington House School , "the cradle of the Navy", which closed in 1997?
text: Did you know that Sir Robert Willoughby surrendered the Bastille to the French on 17 April 1436?
text: Did you know that NASA has considered sending Mars rock samples to Earth from its next planned rover mission launching in 2020?
text: Did you know that musicologist Klaus Hofmann reconstructed a trio sonata for violin, viola and basso continuo , and attributed it to both Johann Sebastian Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ?
text: Did you know that in 1786, every church in Denmark donated a rigsdaler for building the Stubbekøbing Church tower?
text: Did you know that part of the reason Arthur Dobbs , colonial governor of North Carolina , ordered the construction of Fort Dobbs in 1755 was to protect 200,000 acres of land he owned?
text: Did you know that the Russian ship of the line Tsesarevich was transferred to the Baltic Fleet before her steam engine was installed because the Black Sea was demilitarized after the end of the Crimean War ?
text: Did you know that producer and screenwriter Jeremy Boreing met future writing partner Joel David Moore by helping move Moore's couch with his pickup truck?
text: Did you know that the Mediterranean crab Brachynotus sexdentatus also lived in Swansea Docks , where the water was warmed by a power station ?
text: Did you know that Esme Tombleson 's career covers reciting Shakespeare , ballet, civil service, farming, membership of the New Zealand Parliament , and MS advocacy?
text: Did you know that the Saint Mary Ranger Station in Glacier National Park was built by its first resident ranger?
text: Did you know that Desmond Dekker 's 1967 single " 007 (Shanty Town) " was the first Jamaican-produced song to reach the UK Top 20 ?
text: Did you know that Dennis Franks , an American football offensive lineman, participated in figure skating to develop his agility and leg strength?
text: Did you know that Happy Days producer Bob Brunner created Fonzie 's nickname and penned Henry Winkler 's character's catchphrase , " Sit on it "?
text: Did you know that several Slovak newspapers founded in the United States in the late 19th century, including Slovák v Amerike and Amerikánsko-Slovenské Noviny , were initially written in Eastern Slovak dialects ?
text: Did you know that Ron Ball defeated former UK government minister James Plaskitt to become the first Police and Crime Commissioner of Warwickshire ?
text: Did you know that Stamp Stampede , an organization devoted to " Getting Money Out of Politics ", was founded by Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen ?
text: Did you know that the inscription on the Statue of Iddi-Ilum of ancient Mari warns: "Whosoever erases this inscription will have his line wiped out by Inanna "?
text: Did you know that like all ekadashis , the god Vishnu is worshipped but in particular his fifth avatar of Vamana is worshipped, on Varuthini Ekadashi ?
text: Did you know that Aikaintaite , the début album by the Finnish ambient , neofolk and metal band Syven , prominently features kanteles ?
text: Did you know that due to the effects of climate change on wine production , the northern boundary of European viticulture is shifting northward?
text: Did you know that English baron Charles August Selby built the manor house of Orupgaard on the Danish island of Falster ?
text: Did you know that the rotifer Adineta ricciae gave up sex about 80 million years ago?
text: Did you know that the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts is the oldest Mechanics' Institute and the oldest continuous lending library in Australia?
text: Did you know that John Roning served as head coach for the college football teams at Gustavus Adolphus , Utah Agricultural and Denver and later as commissioner of the Big Sky Conference ?
text: Did you know that Gambler's Lament , one of the few non–religious poems in the ancient Hindu scripture Rig Veda , testifies to the popularity of gambling among Vedic Aryans ?
text: Did you know that the music video for the song " Menor Que Yo " cost $60,000?
text: Did you know that students of the Leichhardt Campus contend with colonies of wild platypuses and wombats at their rural retreat?
text: Did you know that Antonín Dvořák could not conduct his symphonic poem A Hero's Song in Berlin because of a nervous breakdown ?
text: Did you know that Hugh Waddell helped secure North Carolina 's alliance with the Cherokee as a peace envoy during the French and Indian War , but later fought against the tribe during the Anglo-Cherokee War ?
text: Did you know that Hollyoaks storyline " Enjoy The Ride " killed off four regular characters whose identities were kept a secret from viewers until transmission?
text: Did you know that Jacques Cousteau was general secretary of the Mediterranean Science Commission (CIESM) and Prince Rainier III the president?
text: Did you know that the upcoming TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs event will include a fight for the World Heavyweight Championship ?
text: Did you know that Nykøbing Castle was the traditional residence of Denmark 's queen dowagers ?
text: Did you know that Amanita nivalis is found growing in sub-Arctic and Alpine conditions in Europe , Greenland and the Rocky Mountains ?
text: Did you know that Matthew Arundell bought back Wardour Castle from Lord Pembroke , to whom it had escheated when Arundell's father was attainted ?
text: Did you know that Mohammad Azharuddin is the only cricket player to score centuries in each of his first three Tests ?
text: Did you know that the Forestry Commission reportedly advocated the cutting down of Pencoedtre woods in Barry , Vale of Glamorgan , to make way for housing?
text: Did you know that Rihanna and Eminem sampled Kanye West in " Numb ", a song that evokes taking drugs?
text: Did you know that Steve Court is majority leader in the Arizona House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that both the Canopy Chameleon of Madagascar and the Mayotte Chameleon of the Comoros Islands have been exploited as export commodities?
text: Did you know that the publisher for the Forest Grove, Oregon -based News-Times newspaper thinks the launch of the competing Forest Grove Leader is part of a battle over coverage in nearby Hillsboro ?
text: Did you know that Solomon Asch showed that group pressure can persuade people to endorse obviously incorrect statements?
text: Did you know that the chameleon Furcifer nicosiai has only been found in the Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park ?
text: Did you know that the 20th Arizona Territorial Legislature passed a law requiring children between 8 and 14 years of age attend at least 12 weeks of school each year?
text: Did you know that satellite Eutelsat 70B was launched from a floating platform in the Pacific Ocean?
text: Did you know that Queen Victoria said that Viscountess Amberley "ought to get a good whipping" for speaking publicly in favour of women's suffrage ?
text: Did you know that four presidents visited the Cocolobo Cay Club in Biscayne National Park , U.S.?
text: Did you know that Hindus worship dogs on Bhairava Ashtami ?
text: Did you know that a breaching experiment involves studying other people's reactions to the violation of basic social rules?
text: Did you know that according to Michael Gallucci for PopCrush, the Christina Aguilera song " Blank Page " is a "show-stopper" and a "classic vocal performance"?
text: Did you know that in 1987 South African women tennis players made up about a tenth of the foreign women players in U.S. NCAA Division I university tennis?
text: Did you know that while the German conquest of the Norwegian port of Egersund on 9 April 1940 occurred without resistance, popular panic broke out the next day due to rumours of 600 incoming British bombers?
text: Did you know that tectonic plates in the Earth's crust are not completely rigid but can be deformed by the melting of an ice cap?
text: Did you know that tasting and collecting Burgundy wine , the hobby of violinist David Chan , concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera orchestra , led to a festival that brings together music and wine enthusiasts?
text: Did you know that the music video for Ricardo Arjona 's song " Si Tu No Existieras " is composed of live clips taken from his Metamorfosis World Tour ?
text: Did you know that the Fozzy Group is Ukraine 's largest supermarket company and food retail group?
text: Did you know that, even at 13,427 feet (4,100 m), the Grizzly Peak in Summit County, Colorado , is only the fourth-tallest "Grizzly Peak" in the state?
text: Did you know that players of the video game GetAmped2 can participate in a 64 person battle tournament or design furniture?
text: Did you know that E. A. Dalton , the first paid coach for the Iowa Hawkeyes football team, had a coaching tenure that lasted for ten days in October 1892 ?
text: Did you know that the site chosen for Operation Tracer during World War II was in close proximity to Lord Airey's Battery ?
text: Did you know that, prior to the release of her new album , Rihanna performed " Phresh Out the Runway " at live concerts over a period of seven days in seven cities in seven countries?
text: Did you know that the 2.5 billion year old Grouse Creek block forms part of the basement of North America?
text: Did you know that Munir Malik played 49 first-class matches and took 197 wickets , including 14 five-wicket hauls , at the average of 21.75?
text: Did you know that composer Christoph Nichelmann was the second harpsichordist at the court of King Frederick the Great of Prussia?
text: Did you know that people tend to overestimate their ability to relay emotions over email ?
text: Did you know that Laurence Drummond commanded a troop of Methuen's Horse during the Bechuanaland Expedition of 1884–1885?
text: Did you know that the two Hindu fasting days Putrada Ekadashi and Putrada Ekadashi are both devoted to the goal of acquiring a son?
text: Did you know that 2900 photographs were trimmed in order to create the sequences included in the music video " Me Voy " by Mexican band Jesse & Joy ?
text: Did you know that coal loading in the Tatanagar–Bilaspur section has helped South East Central Railway to be the largest freight handling zonal railway in India ?
text: Did you know that among the 1,018 cases listed on Samuel R. Gross 's National Registry of Exonerations are people who were falsely accused , mistakenly identified , or confessed to crimes they did not commit ?
text: Did you know that current Canberra Capitals player Samantha Norwood was the vice captain of the 2004 and 2005 Western Australia under-18 team?
text: Did you know that there is a laboratory test designed to stress people out?
text: Did you know that Bin Weevils is a video game in which children play as weevils inside of a trashcan?
text: Did you know that Herman Steiner was the head coach at Duke University in football, baseball and track?
text: Did you know that Christina Aguilera restrains her melisma on " Red Hot Kinda Love "?
text: Did you know that much like Anne Frank's diary , the letters of Philip Slier , discovered more than fifty years after his death, reveal the history of Nazi-controlled Netherlands through a personal perspective?
text: Did you know that Old Colfeians were once knocked out of the National Trophy by Camels ?
text: Did you know that Polish Jewish resistance fighter Vladka Meed was a central source of the 2001 television movie Uprising ?
text: Did you know that the United Kingdom began enumerating people by race/ethnicity in 1991, two centuries after the United States?
text: Did you know that Peter Hersleb Classen , statesman and amateur architect , was probably assisted by Andreas Kirkerup in designing the Copenhagen library on Amaliegade?
text: Did you know that the Monkey King Festival in China is a celebration dedicated to the monkey Sun Wukong ?
text: Did you know that Vladimir Landau , the first ever Davis Cup tennis player of Monaco , was actually Russian?
text: Did you know that the Singaporean army comedy Ah Boys to Men is meant to commemorate the 45th anniversary of Singapore's National Service ?
text: Did you know that American missionary Rev. Artemas Bishop blamed the low church attendance in Hilo on the hedonistic behavior of high chief Koahou ?
text: Did you know that Ivy Queen 's song " Quiero Bailar " is regarded as influential on reggaeton 's mainstream exposure in 2004?
text: Did you know that Wikipedia is an example of a produsage community?
text: Did you know that in 1984 the Premier of New South Wales decided to ban a bout between two women kickboxers citing the Theater and Public Halls Act 1908 relating to preservation of good manners and decorum?
text: Did you know that Harald Kihle is particularly known for his motifs from Telemark , including nature, rural life and legends?
text: Did you know that Billy Goodyear , the first football coach at Washington State , became a newspaper publisher, ran for Congress and died weeks after having his leg amputated?
text: Did you know that Major General Johan Frederik Classen , founder of Det Classenske Fideicommis , built a summer house near Corselitze Forest ?
text: Did you know that the Safari Club provided Soviet and American weapons to Somalia during the Ogaden War ?
text: Did you know that Pat Creeden was hitless in the eight at bats of his five-game long major league career in 1931 ?
text: Did you know that Mary Barber discovered that natural selection caused penicillin resistance to increase in Staphylococcus bacteria?
text: Did you know that after the Dissolution of the Monasteries , parts of St Mary the Virgin's Church, Bromfield , Shropshire , were converted into a house?
text: Did you know that the most widely distributed and commonest rotifer is probably Keratella cochlearis ?
text: Did you know that the Algerian -born tapestry patron Marie Cuttoli displayed works at the 1925 International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts ?
text: Did you know that the "wide-eyed" goddess of North India forms a triad with love-eyed and fish-eyed goddesses of the South?
text: Did you know that María Santos Gorrostieta Salazar , a female politician from Mexico , survived three assassination attempts before being killed?
text: Did you know that to keep students enrolled at the Morris Industrial School for Indians , a Native American boarding school , superintendent William H. Johnson prohibited students from taking vacations to go home?
text: Did you know that BBQ Pitmasters judge Tuffy Stone spent four years in the United States Marine Corps ?
text: Did you know that Sydney's Belmore Park is on land that used to be a police barracks, a cemetery , a women's shelter, an asylum and a common?
text: Did you know that Pizza Hut commemorated college basketball player Jack Taylor 's record 138-point game by selling pizzas for $1.38?
text: Did you know that the 17th Arizona Territorial Legislature authorized a US$ 5,000 bounty for the capture of the Apache Kid dead or alive?
text: Did you know that both Denny Chimes and Bryant–Denny Stadium are named in honor of former University of Alabama president George H. Denny ?
text: Did you know that Susan Mayse's creative non-fiction book Ginger: The Life and Death of Albert Goodwin covers the mysterious 1918 killing of a Canadian labour activist in the woods of British Columbia ?
text: Did you know that Maine native Harold Drew coached the Alabama Crimson Tide football team to a 54–28–7 record and appearances in the Sugar , Orange and Cotton Bowls ?
text: Did you know that Candi Milo voiced Dexter in both Dexter's Laboratory: Mandark's Lab? and the original television series?
text: Did you know that the Rhodesian -born pilot Ernest Melville Guest was part of the RAF escort that flew with HMS Hereward taking the Dutch Royal Family to safety in England during World War Two ?
text: Did you know that Blanc ' s Leaf Chameleon is threatened by slash-and-burn ?
text: Did you know that Nils Arntzen Ramm served as aide-de-camp for the Crown Prince of Norway from 1932 to 1940?
text: Did you know that Robert fitz-Fulk, the lord of Zardana in Syria , became a powerful figure in the Principality of Antioch due to the town's strategic importance?
text: Did you know that J. M. M. Erskine was elected to the UK parliament in 1921 as an " Independent Anti-Waste " candidate?
text: Did you know that both heads of Indonesia's first government-owned film production company, Berita Film Indonesia , had worked for the Japanese occupation forces?
text: Did you know that extreme mass ratio inspirals are one of the most promising detectable sources of gravitational waves for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA/eLISA/NGO)?
text: Did you know that in 1966 Arthur T. Mosher identified five components necessary for Getting Agriculture Moving in rural areas of the developing world?
text: Did you know that the namesake for Colorado 's Mount Sniktau was the nom de plume of E. H. N. Patterson, a local journalist who was friends with Edgar Allan Poe ?
text: Did you know that Eric Bickerton guides legally blind downhill skier Jessica Gallagher in competitions, using a headset to communicate with her?
text: Did you know that Gadis Desa was Andjar Asmara 's last film as a director?
text: Did you know that part of High Street in Fremantle , Western Australia, was closed in the 1960s in order to reinstate Kings Square as a town square ?
text: Did you know that the 1943 Michigan Wolverines football team lost its only game to Notre Dame in a game that matched teams ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in the AP Poll ?
text: Did you know that Ridgeview High School in Redmond, Oregon , has classroom space for jewelry making?
text: Did you know that the site for Bangalore fort was said to have been chosen because a hare was seen chasing a hunting dog there?
text: Did you know that the Spanish military stud farm Yeguada Militar , founded in 1847, started the oldest written breed registry for Arabian horses , and is also a genetic reservoir for the Andalusian horse ?
text: Did you know that Aharbal is a hill station in Kulgam district of Kashmir Valley , known for its waterfall?
text: Did you know that Otto Weiß was the first Luftwaffe attack aircraft pilot to receive the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross ?
text: Did you know that Guldborg is located at the narrowest point between the Danish islands of Falster and Lolland ?
text: Did you know that ice dancing coach Betty Callaway , best known for coaching Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean to Olympic gold in 1984, also taught Prince Charles and Princess Anne ?
text: Did you know that Stuart Forbes , the first head coach of the Arizona Wildcats football team, was also the author of Trail Sketches: Word Pictures of the West ?
text: Did you know that Tito El Bambino received an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers award for Latin Song of the Year for " El Amor "?
text: Did you know that the royal Maya name Kan Ek' , first recorded in the ninth century, was given to all of the Itza kings of central Petén ?
text: Did you know that the 2013 World Court of Women Against Poverty in the United States will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
text: Did you know that amorous couples and erotic scenes are depicted on the outer walls of the Vimala Temple ?
text: Did you know that United States Secret Service agent Vincent Mroz shot an attempted presidential assassin in the "biggest gunfight in Secret Service history"?
text: Did you know that pillar coral is susceptible to both bleaching and white plague disease?
text: Did you know that Rihanna filmed the Loud Tour Live at the O2 during the final three sold-out shows of the Loud Tour at London's O2 Arena ?
text: Did you know that Cedar Point ' s Mill Race was only the second log ride in the world?
text: Did you know that John Y. T. Smith 's initials stand for "Yours Truly"?
text: Did you know that the nectar of the hoary banksia turns olive green and then black with age?
text: Did you know that, having played 465 league matches, Jaroslav Šilhavý holds the record for the most appearances in top-flight Czech football ?
text: Did you know that in 2000, the holding company of chef Jean-Christophe Novelli 's restaurant Maison Novelli ran up a debt of £200,000 and went into voluntary liquidation?
text: Did you know that Kommercekollegiet was established in 1704 for the purpose of advising the Danish monarch on matters related to trade and industry?
text: Did you know that William Morris described decorating Sir Lowthian Bell 's mansion as "ministering to the swinish luxury of the rich"?
text: Did you know that Cyclone Osea caused significant damage to parts of French Polynesia ?
text: Did you know the burrowing and feeding of Listriolobus pelodes , a marine spoon worm , helped increase the biodiversity near wastewater outlets off the coast of California?
text: Did you know that Manson family disciple Squeaky Fromme attempted to kill U.S. President Gerald Ford in Sacramento, California , near his suite at the historic Senator Hotel ?
text: Did you know that in 1697 the culmination of the Spanish conquest of Petén resulted in the defeat of the last independent native kingdom in the Americas ?
text: Did you know that Mr. Fingers was not allowed to go to war because he was under five feet tall?
text: Did you know that the crafting of crosses has been designated as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Lithuania ?
text: Did you know that student Marc Salles played midfield with the Spanish field hockey team in the 2012 Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Bach interpolated music from his secular cantata BWV 36c with four stanzas from two Advent hymns in Schwingt freudig euch empor , BWV 36 , for the first Sunday in Advent, 2 December 1731?
text: Did you know that it was said of Richmond, Maine , shipbuilder T. J. Southard that there was scarcely an "institution in town he hasn't a corner in"?
text: Did you know that the golden coral shrimp cleans fish but is rather more shy than the banded cleaner shrimp ?
text: Did you know that the death of Iranian blogger Sattar Beheshti has prompted international outcry and an official investigation, even though his blog had only 30 views during the month before?
text: Did you know that " Just a Fool ", performed by Christina Aguilera and Blake Shelton , is the first country music song by Aguilera?
text: Did you know that the Roman Catholicism of the 2nd Earl of Southampton has been called the key to his unhappy life?
text: Did you know that there is a toy museum in Ejegod Windmill 's old mill house?
text: Did you know that when he was 42, Fred Ridgeway gave up his career in finance to become a professional actor?
text: Did you know that Greensboro, North Carolina , architect Orlo Epps was also a professor of mathematics and physics and a socialist?
text: Did you know that Russian military satellite Meridian 6 is in the highly elliptical Molniya orbit ?
text: Did you know that after Hawaiian governor Kapeau sent tax assessors in 1849 to the Catholic priests of Kailua , and King Kamehameha III refused to dismiss him, French Admiral Tromelin invaded Honolulu ?
text: Did you know that the extinct Cuban condor Gymnogyps varonai may have fed on ground sloths ?
text: Did you know that National Lacrosse Hall of Fame coach Roy Simmons, Jr. once fielded two goaltenders in a game?
text: Did you know that rhinoceroses are nearsighted but have superior senses of hearing and smell?
text: Did you know that the Gibraltar Ranges predate the Great Escarpment ?
text: Did you know that male features of high cheekbones and a strong jaw and chin are a sign of a high level of testosterone , and also an attractive physical trait?
text: Did you know that Beth Rodford has rowed for Britain since 1999, including in two Olympic games?
text: Did you know that a 1961 comics satire involving Archie characters in a hedonistic Roman-style orgy provoked a lawsuit by Archie Comics that resulted in the parody's creators handing over copyright to the work?
text: Did you know that the award-winning film Frank's Cock is split into quadrants to symbolise the "fragmentation of the body" experienced by those with AIDS ?
text: Did you know that botanist and geologist Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly wrote a book on the manufacture of gun flints?
text: Did you know that the Levant Battery on Windmill Hill was named after the Levanter cloud, below which it is situated?
text: Did you know that Cemenco holds a monopoly on cement sales in Liberia ?
text: Did you know that Lars Ingier is credited for having introduced right-hand driving in Norway?
text: Did you know that Hawaiian chiefess Julia Alapai died right before the French invasion of Honolulu by Admiral Tromelin in 1849, prompting her husband Keoni Ana and King Kamehameha III to return to the capital?
text: Did you know that the Yalain have been proposed as one of the three most important Maya polities in the Petén Basin of Guatemala during the Postclassic period (c. 1000–1697)?
text: Did you know that convicted murderer Robert Peernock attempted to hire a fellow prisoner to murder his daughter while the trial was in progress?
text: Did you know that the elephant ear sponge is said to resemble a piece of tanned cow hide ?
text: Did you know that despite having served as a member of the United States Congress , John G. Campbell was unable to prove to a court that he was a United States citizen ?
text: Did you know that the song " Sentimientos " by Ivy Queen combines the Latin styles of reggaeton and bachata ?
text: Did you know that the anti-slavery organization Temedt won the 2012 award from Anti-Slavery International for its work against ongoing slavery in Mali ?
text: Did you know that former Clinton Administration attorney David Marchick was the first in-house lobbyist at The Carlyle Group ?
text: Did you know that the Antimena Chameleon of Madagascar is considered a vulnerable species due to massive forest clearing?
text: Did you know that the day they first met, Calvin Wooster caused his supervising elder to fall to the ground by praying for him?