Did you know? Facts from Wikipedia, 2015

text: Did you know that Deicke and Millbrig bentonite layers in eastern United States were formed by huge volcanic eruptions?
text: Did you know that Thomas Ince: Hollywood's Independent Pioneer , is the first biography of the producer/director known as the "Father of the Western "?
text: Did you know that, during his 1903 campaign for Governor of Kentucky , Morris B. Belknap got to a speaking engagement on time by pumping a handcar ?
text: Did you know that a Parliament Square protest against a ban on depiction of certain sexual practices in streaming videos featured slogans such as "Urine for a shock if you expect us to stop"?
text: Did you know that in 1998 Eleanor Robinson set a world record of 13 days, 1 hour, 54 minutes for a woman to run 1,000 miles (1,600 km)?
text: Did you know that on parallel computers , processors can steal work from each other?
text: Did you know that "Operation Nine Connect" resulted in the July 2006 arrest of some sixty members of the Nine Trey Gangsters ?
text: Did you know that a former MP for Taunton, Edward Wickham , accompanied both the Shah of Persia and the King of Afghanistan on tours?
text: Did you know that Virgin Hotels Chicago ‍—‌the first of Richard Branson 's Virgin Hotels ‍—‌has no check-in desk and relies on a mobile app named Lucy to perform many services?
text: Did you know that the 2014 film The Theory of Everything received ten nominations from the British Academy Film Awards ?
text: Did you know that American chemical weapons researcher and oceanographer Thomas Gordon Thompson sold his stamp collection to pay for his private island ?
text: Did you know that Dollfus' stargazer lures little fishes to their doom?
text: Did you know that the scientist Lisa-Ann Gershwin , who has discovered 200 species of jellyfish , is related to George Gershwin ?
text: Did you know that the Broadway Limited was the only Pennsylvania Railroad train to be completely re-equipped with lightweight sleeping cars before World War II?
text: Did you know that the Kaivalya Upanishad exalts the one who sees without eyes and hears without ears?
text: Did you know that the rhythm parts for Steely Dan 's " Aja " were so long and complex that each player needed three music stands to hold the charts ?
text: Did you know that despite allegations that the vote was corrupt, the 1701 Taunton by-election result stood?
text: Did you know that properties in Jaywick have been on sale for as little as £20,000?
text: Did you know that the colour of the sea snail Simnia spelta varies, but when it grazes on the white gorgonian it mimics the twigs?
text: Did you know that Robert Simpson broke the old high hurdles world record seven times in one year?
text: Did you know that the Main Central Thrust extends 2,200 kilometres (1,400 mi) along the Himalaya mountain belt?
text: Did you know that Gene Roddenberry blamed religious executives of Paramount Studios for its rejection of Star Trek: The God Thing ?
text: Did you know that Emilio Madero saved Pancho Villa from execution?
text: Did you know that Florentijn Hofman created a 30-foot (9 m) tall pink cat in Century Park , Shanghai ?
text: Did you know that a " big boned policy " is used to draft the Japanese budget?
text: Did you know that in describing the Battle of Malvern Hill , Confederate officer D.H. Hill wrote, "It wasn't war; it was murder"?
text: Did you know that ABC 's television film adaptation of Robert J. Serling 's The President's Plane Is Missing was completed in 1971 but postponed until one year after Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China ?
text: Did you know that Preity Zinta essayed the role of a prostitute hired as a surrogate mother in the 2001 film Chori Chori Chupke Chupke ?
text: Did you know that the 1982 Wimpy Operation marked the start of armed resistance against Israeli troops in Beirut ?
text: Did you know that while fullback Nick Bobeck lettered all four years at Central Oklahoma , he didn't carry the ball until his second-to-last game?
text: Did you know that Emeric, King of Hungary persuaded Pope Innocent III to excommunicate the Venetians and the crusaders of the Fourth Crusade after they captured the Dalmatian town of Zadar in 1202?
text: Did you know that the valley of Laurel Run is the only place in the USGS quadrangle of Elk Grove where Wisconsinan Flow- Till occurs?
text: Did you know that Danish retail billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen is the second largest private landowner in Scotland?
text: Did you know that the Chandos Glass Cone was used for pottery and brick manufacture for much longer than it was for glassmaking ?
text: Did you know that although the Greek Orthodox bishop of Korçë , Photios , took initiatives for the promotion of the local education, he was assassinated in 1906 for not supporting Albanian cultural activity?
text: Did you know that the Jiuduansha shoals off Pudong are the spawning ground for hairy crab , a Shanghainese delicacy ?
text: Did you know that the 2013 film Despicable Me 2 was predicted to be the most profitable film in the history of Universal Studios ?
text: Did you know that Saint Mary's Church in Jajce was the place of coronation of the last Bosnian king and later a mosque?
text: Did you know that although slavery in Korea has been abolished for over a century, modern slavery is still a concern?
text: Did you know that one man was the model for three of the figures representing the stages of a Scouting career in Norman Rockwell 's Growth of a Leader , and the man's son was the model for the fourth?
text: Did you know that the composer Aram Khachaturian was "entirely a creation of the Soviet musical and dance establishment"?
text: Did you know that the Museum of Death owns the head of Bluebeard and a Kevorkian suicide machine ?
text: Did you know that Scipio Kennedy was an enslaved African who lived at Culzean Castle in Scotland?
text: Did you know that Saint Joseph Vaz was tied to a yellow cheesewood tree close by the Church of Our Lady of Presentation and beaten as a punishment?
text: Did you know that although it is not a shark, the shortfin devil ray is used in shark fin soup ?
text: Did you know that more than one hundred unidentified bodies , mostly females and children, were found floating in the Ganges in January 2015?
text: Did you know that a special election will be held to fill the term of U.S. Representative Michael Grimm , who resigned after pleading guilty to tax evasion ?
text: Did you know that Big Run drains an area of only half a square mile?
text: Did you know that the Mother series is big in Japan , but not in the West , where it only has a resilient and enduring cult following ?
text: Did you know that in 1961 the Tabernacle Chapel in Cardiff hosted the first-ever programme of the long-running BBC TV series Songs of Praise ?
text: Did you know that the history of the New York Yankees includes 27 World Series championships, 16 more than any other Major League Baseball team?
text: Did you know that one person was injured and six died in a killing spree in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that following Commodore 's demise, the Toronto PET Users Group revived the successful World of Commodore computer expos , which continue to this day?
text: Did you know that people objecting to militarism in " Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus " do not stand to sing it?
text: Did you know that medieval Gislöv Church in Sweden may have been built for an exiled Norwegian bishop?
text: Did you know that Balliet Run is Class A Wild Trout Waters even though a facility has a permit to discharge sewage into it?
text: Did you know that Polish saint Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz ?
text: Did you know that the tunicate Molgula citrina may have travelled to Alaska in a sea chest via the Northwest Passage ?
text: Did you know that Gary Mills became the youngest player to appear in a European Cup final when playing in Nottingham Forest 's 1–0 win over Hamburger SV in the 1980 final ?
text: Did you know that at $1.95 billion, the Waldorf Astoria New York is the most expensive hotel ever sold?
text: Did you know that King Narathihapate of Pagan compared his Chief Minister Yazathingyan , who had just put him on the throne, to unnecessary scaffold before exiling him to Dala ?
text: Did you know that the sword of the god Vishnu symbolizes knowledge?
text: Did you know that the Tuyamuyun Hydro Complex on the Amu Darya River irrigates land in Kazakhstan , Tajikistan and Uzbekistan ?
text: Did you know that almost all of the buildings on Labuan island were destroyed by the bombardment which preceded its invasion by Australian forces during the Battle of North Borneo in June 1945?
text: Did you know that in 1990, Helen Rollason became the first female presenter of the BBC sports programme Grandstand ?
text: Did you know that Culley Run 's official name has been said to be erroneous?
text: Did you know that Arsenal won the 2014 FA Community Shield despite resting their three German internationals who had won the World Cup Final earlier that year?
text: Did you know that the chronicler Roger of Wendover called the 12th-century English nobleman Peter de Maulay one of King John of England 's "evil counsellors"?
text: Did you know that with Pakistani coordination, the Afghan Army launched the Kunar offensive after militants attacked Afghan outposts in 2014?
text: Did you know that the tunicate Polycarpa fibrosa lives buried in sand or gravel with just its siphons protruding?
text: Did you know that during the German bombardment of Scarborough in December 1914, Rev Charles Mackarness continued the Holy Communion service at St Martin's Church , despite the noise and damage to the church?
text: Did you know that the 1914 silent film St. Elmo was financially successful despite a Variety review calling it less valuable than unexposed film?
text: Did you know that the Iranian missile architect Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam was known as the father of Iran's missile program?
text: Did you know that the 1880 Greenback National Convention nominated James B. Weaver for President of the United States and passed a resolution supporting women's suffrage ?
text: Did you know that the moth lacewing genus Principiala is known for three, possibly four, fossils?
text: Did you know that the 14th-century Gongchen Tower in China was destroyed by a fire on 3 January 2015?
text: Did you know that two works by the self-taught 19th-century Ceylonese artist J. L. K. van Dort are housed in the Royal Collection ?
text: Did you know that controversy arose over dissatisfaction with a Korean airline official's nut bag ?
text: Did you know that Helen-Ann Hartley is the first woman ordained in the Church of England to become a bishop ?
text: Did you know that the continental crust below the South China Sea is theorized to have begun splitting apart from the Eurasian Plate around 55 million years ago?
text: Did you know that before airing in the United States, We Bare Bears won the "Young Amsterdam Audience" award after screening in the Netherlands ?
text: Did you know that the North Korean military has a cyberwarfare agency named Bureau 121 ?
text: Did you know that after moving from Canada, Akeel Lynch learned American football and was named New York Gatorade Player of the Year ?
text: Did you know that the flowers of the parasitic plant Balanophora fungosa smell like mice?
text: Did you know that the prominent medieval Armenian monastery of Narekavank was demolished and replaced with a mosque?
text: Did you know that The Undertaker was undefeated at WrestleMania from 1991 to 2013?
text: Did you know that the song "Kanne Kalaimane" from the 1982 Tamil film Moondram Pirai was the last song Kannadasan wrote before his death?
text: Did you know that praise can promote positive behavior in adjacent, non-praised individuals?
text: Did you know that one of John Cunningham 's buildings was featured in the BBC television series Restoration ?
text: Did you know that after The American Review 's owner expressed admiration for Hitler and Mussolini, a former contributor said he wouldn't write for it again "if it were the last publication left in America"?
text: Did you know that Dookudu (2011) was the first Telugu film to be released in 21 North Indian cities?
text: Did you know that L. D. Williams joined Wake Forest 's 1,000-point club in his final college basketball game?
text: Did you know that the book accompanying Computer Engineer Barbie was withdrawn in 2014 after protests that it depicts Barbie as incompetent with computers?
text: Did you know that both of São Tomé and Príncipe 's athletes at the 2012 London Games finished last in their heats?
text: Did you know that Liu Cigui , the acting governor of Hainan in China , worked as a rusticated youth and studied oceanography ?
text: Did you know that the Cronica Walliae helped popularise a legend that the Welsh discovered America in about 1170, a tale used to justify English encroachments on the early colonies of the Spanish Empire ?
text: Did you know that silent film actor Frank Erlanger made—and lost—a fortune as a gold prospector ?
text: Did you know that Manchester United F.C. 's victory in the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final came 40 years after the team's first European Cup title and 50 years after the Munich air disaster ?
text: Did you know that the Beirut II parliamentary constituency has the highest percentage of Armenian voters in Lebanon?
text: Did you know that René Echevarria became a screenwriter after selling an unsolicited script to Star Trek: The Next Generation ?
text: Did you know that Bloody Run is so named due to a legend that a hunter killed seven deer near the stream in one day?
text: Did you know that plastiglomerates are rock formations that contain plastic?
text: Did you know that the Beirut II parliamentary constituency functioned as a "buffer zone" between the Muslim and Christian parts of the city?
text: Did you know that magnesium monohydride is a molecule known only as a gas and is found on the sun and other stars?
text: Did you know that Filipino nanny Xyza Cruz Bacani has been compared to American street photographer Vivian Maier ?
text: Did you know that the Liberal Party chose to contest the 1887 by-election in Taunton , Somerset, in order to generate debate on the devolution of power to Ireland ?
text: Did you know that Maximilian Henry of Bavaria was an Elector in the Holy Roman Empire who restricted the power of the Emperor and ultimately wound up opposing the Emperor in war?
text: Did you know that the Swedish woman Karolina Olsson purportedly stayed in a constant state of sleep for 32 years?
text: Did you know that the Northern Ireland Women's Football Association is the governing body of women's football in Northern Ireland?
text: Did you know that Fullbright shared a house while making the 2013 video game Gone Home , which later won "Best Debut" from the 2014 BAFTA and GDC Awards ?
text: Did you know that former Pittsburgh basketball forward Talib Zanna was fluent in four languages before moving to the United States?
text: Did you know that a 2009 BBC adaptation of Henry James 's 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw set the story in the 1920s rather than the 1840s?
text: Did you know that Anna Honzáková was in 1902 the first Czech woman to earn a doctor's certificate at a Czech university?
text: Did you know that The Bishop's Eye is one of the entrances to Wells St Andrew ?
text: Did you know that the swede midge has invaded North America?
text: Did you know that William Beverley spurred settlement west of the Blue Ridge Mountains by settling his patent of 118,941 acres (481.34 km 2 ) in Virginia with Irish and Scotch-Irish families?
text: Did you know that Alfred Welby lost three elections before being elected as an MP for Taunton in 1895?
text: Did you know that the USS Delaware vs La Croyable resulted in the first capture of a naval vessel by the United States Navy ?
text: Did you know that Wimmenau in France was levelled during the Thirty Years' War , then resettled by Swiss immigrants?
text: Did you know that fighter pilot Theodor Weissenberger was killed in a car racing accident at the Nürburgring ?
text: Did you know that HMS Emerald was separated from Nelson 's squadron in a storm and thus missed the Battle of the Nile ?
text: Did you know that Dr. Mary Cannon 's research group found that more than one-fifth of Irish 11- to 13-year-olds have experienced " auditory hallucinations "?
text: Did you know that the Ives Lake cisco is a freshwater whitefish known to only one lake, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula ?
text: Did you know that Heinrich Gerhard Kuhn was the first physics fellow at Balliol College, Oxford ?
text: Did you know that the filmography of director J. Gordon Edwards includes over twenty appearances of silent film vamp Theda Bara ?
text: Did you know that as much as 80 percent of government spending continued during the 2011 Minnesota state government shutdown ?
text: Did you know that Shingle Mill Run is the only named tributary of West Branch Fishing Creek to enter it from the right ?
text: Did you know that brothers Andy and Fränk Schleck were meant to compete for Luxembourg at the 2012 Summer Olympics , but were unable to after Andy suffered an injury and Fränk failed a drug test?
text: Did you know that Kim Hyung Jun released and promoted the Japanese version of his single " Always Love You " at around the time that both his film and television series were scheduled to premiere?
text: Did you know that the Telescopic Bridge in Bridgwater , which carried trains over the River Parrett , could be retracted to allow ships to pass?
text: Did you know that reproduction in the sea wasp Carybdea marsupialis involves a sexual reproduction phase, budding and fragmentation ?
text: Did you know that the ground floor of the Boljoon Church bell tower was used as a prison cell?
text: Did you know that the 19th-century forger and swindler Monroe Edwards once used forged letters to get money from Lord Spencer , but later repaid the nobleman with funds obtained from a later fraud?
text: Did you know that none of the three major professional sports teams owned by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment have won a championship since 1967 ?
text: Did you know that Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), a Yash Raj Films production, is the longest-running film of Indian cinema?
text: Did you know that Novel Therapeutic Targets for Antiarrhythmic Drugs was described as an "illuminating and far reaching" work on arrhythmia treatment?
text: Did you know that the Western Australian shrub Lechenaultia biloba is renowned for its vivid blue flowers?
text: Did you know that Mohammad Beg , the vizier of the Safavid king of Persia , was an ethnic Armenian who once served as a "military slave"?
text: Did you know that the Ban Naden raid was the only successful rescue of prisoners of war during the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you know that the Adventure Time episode " Furniture & Meat " was referred to as a throwback episode by The A.V. Club for not dealing with the serial elements of surrounding episodes ?
text: Did you know that Wasp Branch is designated as a Coldwater Fishery, Migratory Fishery and Class A Wild Trout Waters?
text: Did you know that The Economist compared Ezra Klein 's aspirations for Vox , his new Vox Media news website, with John Keats 's negative capability ?
text: Did you know that a flash mob by Commodore PET -wielding members of the Toronto PET Users Group is the subject of a 2014 Starbucks documentary?
text: Did you know that Hans Krueger was never tried for the massacre of Lviv professors on the grounds that he already received a life sentence?
text: Did you know that publication of the final edition of the South African Defence Review 2012 was delayed for so long that it was retitled "South African Defence Review 2014"?
text: Did you know that footballer Evan Dimas scored on his debut for Indonesia ?
text: Did you know that Swedish journalist Carolina Neurath ventured into acting when she starred as Princess Arianna Ad'lah in the film Star Wars: Threads of Destiny in 2014?
text: Did you know that after merging with the Theta Xi fraternity at Amherst College , Sigma Delta Rho (ΣΔΡ) moved into its new home, "the Zoo"?
text: Did you know that the Apollo Hotel Amsterdam is situated near the confluence of five canals?
text: Did you know that cars in Grand Theft Auto V 's re-release feature functional speedometers?
text: Did you know that Indian film actor and director Aditya Raj Kapoor owns a construction company that developed amusement parks?
text: Did you know that the Michigan State Spartans field hockey team plays its home games at a venue originally built for the school's track and field team and dedicated in 1937?
text: Did you know that prior to becoming Kraft Foods ' chief executive officer, Tony Vernon worked for Johnson & Johnson for over two decades?
text: Did you know that the population of the Yunnan nuthatch is predicted to decrease by between 43.6% and 47.7% by 2040–2069?
text: Did you know that coins found in the Cuerdale Hoard may indicate that Sichfrith Jarl reigned as King of Jórvík ?
text: Did you know that the Discovery Channel special Eaten Alive did not actually feature anyone being eaten alive?
text: Did you know that George A. Zentmyer , professor emeritus at the University of California, Riverside , has an avocado cultivar named after him?
text: Did you know that female seaweed blennies deposit their eggs in a shared nest where the male fish guards them until they hatch?
text: Did you know that the novels of Lady Mary Hamilton may have influenced the naming of characters in Jane Austen 's books?
text: Did you know that before moving to its new location, Pierre Bottineau Library could only hold 40 people?
text: Did you know that Naomi Grossman shaved her head in preparation for her role in American Horror Story: Asylum ?
text: Did you know that Wiki, the leader of New York rap group Ratking , took his stage name from an online encyclopedia ?
text: Did you know that little is known about The Lady's Realm ' s publishing history because many records were destroyed during the Blitz ?
text: Did you know that football club Dukla Prague achieved their record win, 10–0, under the management of Jiří Lopata ?
text: Did you know that in the 1984 Indian Tamil film Achamillai Achamillai , a dwarf character named "Suthanthiram" (literally, "Freedom") metaphorically depicts that the freedom of the nation is stunted?
text: Did you know that Walter de Clare was the founder of Tintern Abbey , whose ruins inspired Wordsworth 's poem " Tintern Abbey "?
text: Did you know that M.U.L.E. Returns , a licensed remake of the 1983 strategy game M.U.L.E. , was shown at the 2013 World of Commodore in Toronto?
text: Did you know that Fred Phillips created Spock 's ears for Star Trek by baking them?
text: Did you know that Queen Pwa Saw , who wielded considerable political power for at least four decades in 13th-century Burma , was the subject of the novel She Was a Queen by Maurice Collis ?
text: Did you know that the hymn Vatapi Ganapatim – dedicated to the god Ganesha – is sung at the beginning of many Carnatic music concerts?
text: Did you know that Men of the Docks , by George Bellows , was the first major American painting to be acquired by the National Gallery in London?
text: Did you know that the Symphonic Prelude was first performed in 1981 as a work by Gustav Mahler and in 1997 as a work by Anton Bruckner ?
text: Did you know that Lionel Palairet and Herbie Hewett scored 346 runs together while playing for Somerset County Cricket Club in 1892 , setting a record first-wicket partnership in first-class cricket?
text: Did you know that Marsh Run is only 1 mile (1.6 km) long, but flows through two counties?
text: Did you know that Mellcene Thurman Smith was the first woman sworn in as a member of the Missouri General Assembly ?
text: Did you know that in London's Chenies Street is an entrance to a deep-level bomb shelter that was used as a US Army Signal Corps base during D-Day preparations?
text: Did you know that Lou Ferrigno was reminded of his role in The Incredible Hulk when he appeared in the Star Trek Continues episode " Lolani "?
text: Did you know that wings of the extinct moth lacewing Allorapisma are most similar to a Cretaceous genus from Brazil?
text: Did you know that the British Captain William Leslie was buried with military honours after the Battle of Princeton by the American General George Washington ?
text: Did you know that an early nineteenth-century Native American man refused to ascend Spanish Hill because he feared a spirit that "made holes through Indians' bodies"?
text: Did you know that Luther's German Te Deum, " Herr Gott, dich loben wir ", was set by Bach in cantatas for New Year's Day and by Mendelssohn to celebrate the millennium of the German Reich?
text: Did you know that people tend to exhibit a negativity bias , such that negative experiences have a greater impact than positive experiences on psychological states and processes?
text: Did you know that Albert Franklin Banta served as a member of the 12th Arizona Territorial Legislature under an assumed name?
text: Did you know that the diterpene Bipinnatin J can be isolated from the bipinnate sea plume ?
text: Did you know that McCauley Mountain has numerous coal deposits, but all attempts at mining coal on the eastern side of the mountain were disastrous for the corporations that attempted it?
text: Did you know that the Ariel Ace motorcycle has been called an "adult Lego set" for its many factory customization options?
text: Did you know that the English missionary James Sibree helped design and build approximately 50 churches in Madagascar in addition to writing books about the island's flora and fauna?
text: Did you know that AT&T once warned customers that using a privacy device called the Hush-A-Phone could result in termination of their telephone service?
text: Did you know that the mouths of Rough Run and Peterman Run are only 0.06 miles (0.1 km) from each other?
text: Did you know that the Belgrade printing house , established in 1552, was the first in Belgrade ?
text: Did you know that Lou Tepe made the 1955 Pittsburgh Steelers , while future superstar quarterback Johnny Unitas was cut from the team?
text: Did you know that the right eye of the eyed flounder migrates during the development of the fish?
text: Did you know that Ann Hopkins successfully sued her employer, accounting giant Price Waterhouse , in a landmark U.S. sex-discrimination case ?
text: Did you know that Operation Raindance was followed by a Stranglehold?
text: Did you know that William Maurice built a three-story library just for his personal book collection?
text: Did you know that the barnacle Megatrema anglicum lives semi-parasitically on such corals as the Devonshire cup coral ?
text: Did you know that Rahul Sinha is president of the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party , but his brother is a member of the Trinamool Congress party?
text: Did you know that the upcoming video game Adrift is a metaphor for the controversy caused by developer Adam Orth's comments on the Xbox One 's proposed digital rights management strategy?
text: Did you know that singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist Ole Børud was a member of Arnold B. Family, a gospel group that achieved second place in Norway's 1995 finals for the Eurovision Song Contest ?
text: Did you know that university students in particular are at risk for poor sleep hygiene ?
text: Did you know that the invention of Bard the Bowman could have been inspired by Wiglaf from the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf ?
text: Did you know that Camille Saint-Saëns commented after the premiere of the St. Cecilia Mass by Charles Gounod that "at first one was dazzled, then charmed, then conquered"?
text: Did you know that James Colliander , Gigliola Staffilani , and Terence Tao are part of a collaborative group of mathematicians called the I-team?
text: Did you know that the Lord's Slope affects cricketers but not archers?
text: Did you know that in the 1960s, Inuit musician Willie Thrasher formed Inuvik 's first rock 'n' roll band?
text: Did you know that several other nations also expressed their interest in participating in Combined Task Force 150 in some way when a Pakistani admiral took its command ?
text: Did you know that approximately 28,000 topographic names were changed from their native names to new Turkified renditions under various government policies?
text: Did you know that George Billman found that an infusion of omega-3 fatty acids prevented ventricular fibrillation in dogs otherwise susceptible to it?
text: Did you know that the Western Australian shrub Lechenaultia formosa is renowned for its red, orange, or yellow flowers?
text: Did you know that Galadriel Stineman is named after the elven queen in The Lord of the Rings ?
text: Did you know that Wyatt Earp refereed the 1896 Fitzsimmons vs. Sharkey world heavyweight boxing championship match and was rumored to have fixed the result?
text: Did you know that the fossil maple Acer taurocursum is named for its type locality, the "Bull Run flora"?
text: Did you know that after the Mrkšina crkva printing house became defunct in 1566, no other printing house existed in Ottoman Serbia until 1831?
text: Did you know that John Covert Boyd helped found the Kappa Sigma fraternity and incorporate the American Red Cross ?
text: Did you know that after the end of the Second World War, newly demobilised British soldiers in their demob suits felt that they had swapped one uniform for another?
text: Did you know that Chi-Mc is a Korean term for a chicken and beer dinner?
text: Did you know that documentary filmmaker Shen Yongping is one of 44 people the Committee to Protect Journalists says were arrested in China in 2014?
text: Did you know that the cargo ship Cemfjord capsized off the coast of Scotland on 2 or 3 January 2015 with the presumed loss of her entire crew?
text: Did you know that painter Theora Hamblett was one of the first Mississippi folk artists to achieve national prominence?
text: Did you know that the fur colorings of Trowbridge's shrew change from brown to gray during certain times of the year?
text: Did you know that the Lumaha'i Beach , at the mouth of the Lumaha'i River in Hawaii , is remembered as the scenic location for a song sequence in the 1958 film South Pacific ?
text: Did you know that Walter Augustus de Havilland , father of Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine , published a book about the Japanese game of Go ?
text: Did you know that during the Armenian Genocide , Dr. Floyd Smith treated victims suffering bullet wounds, severed hands, and attempted decapitations?
text: Did you know that three classic hip-hop radio stations launched in Atlanta within days of each other, with two launching on the exact same day?
text: Did you know that in 1989, the colonial coral Astroides calycularis expanded its range to the Adriatic Sea after previously being restricted to an area west of Sicily ?
text: Did you know that former Oregon State defensive end Bill Swancutt broke school records in sacks and tackles for loss , and went on to become a financial advisor ?
text: Did you know that experimental work on the production of cylinder glass was carried out at Nailsea Glassworks ?
text: Did you know that mathematician Linda Preiss Rothschild settled for graduate study at MIT after Princeton rejected her for being female?
text: Did you know that Graham Usher , an Anglican bishop , is also interested in ecology ?
text: Did you know that Marvel's A.K.A. Jessica Jones ' s show runner, Melissa Rosenberg , reconfigured the series for Netflix from her original incarnation as an early 2010s ABC series?
text: Did you know that Daniel Ashelman built a cabin on Ashelman Run in the early 1800s and the land was still owned by the Ashelman family in 1982?
text: Did you know that the Lenborough Hoard , found just before Christmas 2014, is believed to be one of the largest hoards of Anglo-Saxon coins ever discovered in Britain?
text: Did you know that the Anand Patwardhan documentary Ram ke Naam was prevented from being screened at the American Museum of Natural History by the Vishva Hindu Parishad ?
text: Did you know that Sarah Collyer was expelled from the England women's cricket team for taking "an unauthorised holiday"?
text: Did you know that around 800 Hindu Dalits of a village converted to Islam over caste discrimination in India in 1981?
text: Did you know that Joseph Haydn's keyboard sonata in C minor has been called his Appassionata ?
text: Did you know that there are specialized mechanisms in the human brain for trust, language, and putting ourselves "in another person's shoes"?
text: Did you know that the Philip L. Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center is named for Philip L. Boyd , the first mayor of Palm Springs, California ?
text: Did you know that continental arc volcanoes have magma formed from a mixture of melted asthenosphere and crustal rocks?
text: Did you know that Queen Myat Hla , given away by King Minkhaung I of Ava to another man just five months into their marriage, returned to Ava as the chief queen 16 years later when the other man became king?
text: Did you know that the rear portion of the San Jose de Ivana Church was closed in 1844 due to a decrease in the town's population?
text: Did you know that Independence Blue Cross CEO Daniel J. Hilferty first realized he "was a pretty good leader" while improving playgrounds with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps ?
text: Did you know that " White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) " by Grandmaster Melle Mel interpolates a song from Liquid Liquid 's EP Optimo ?
text: Did you know that estimates of the prevalence of metabolically healthy obesity have varied from 6 to 75 percent?
text: Did you know that the perpetrator(s) of the Redhead murders have never been identified, nor have most of the victims?
text: Did you know that Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia married the former mistress of two of his cousins?
text: Did you know that Facebook photos of chocolate pudding and a grocery receipt caused a furore in Israel ?
text: Did you know that while officials in the Mexican state Veracruz believe Gregorio Jiménez de la Cruz was murdered over a personal dispute, his fellow reporters suspect it was for his investigative work ?
text: Did you know that Karl Jenkins conducted the premiere of his Te Deum , "a joyous, theatrical piece", in the European Capital of Culture of 2008, Liverpool?
text: Did you know that the flag bearer for The Gambia at the 2008 Summer Olympics was a first-time Olympic athlete?
text: Did you know that during the Spanish conquest of Chiapas , frequent changes in colonial administration left the early conquistadores vulnerable to native rebellion?
text: Did you know that the guitar plant of Tasmania is so named for the shape of its fruit?
text: Did you know that HIV activist Josh Robbins was diagnosed with HIV while participating in the HIV vaccine research study HVTN 505 ?
text: Did you know that Campaign Thoan Thang marked both the first use of tanks and the first wet season offensive in the Laotian Civil War ?
text: Did you know that there are deep-muck soils on Central Mountain ?
text: Did you know that Elaine Surick Oran 's techniques for simulating dynamic fluid flows have been applied to phenomena as varied as the movements of fish and the explosions of supernovae ?
text: Did you know that in 2012, French film composer Alexandre Desplat received three nominations for the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Score ?
text: Did you know that Pearl Lady wasn't identified until 2014?
text: Did you know that the ancient Roman church of San Lorenzo in Piscibus was briefly used as a sculpture studio before being reconsecrated by Pope John Paul II in 1983?
text: Did you know that Charlene Morett has spent thirty-one seasons with the Penn State Nittany Lions field hockey team ?
text: Did you know that in December 1979 the Progressive All-Student Unionist Camp mobilized students to occupy Greek universities?
text: Did you know that Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner wore the black clothes of mourning for more than three years after her husband died?
text: Did you know that when the video game The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls was released in South Korea, it featured a new character exclusive to the region's version?
text: Did you know that to increase student interest at the University of California, Riverside , biology professor Irwin Sherman would dress up in costume and lecture as one of several famous scientists?
text: Did you know that Dave Martinez played for four Major League Baseball teams during the 2000 season , tying a record?
text: Did you know that the Guanacaste Conservation Area , located in Northwest Costa Rica , is a 163,000-hectare (400,000-acre) expanse of protected land and sea?
text: Did you know that Bernard Gavrin was killed in the Battle of Saipan in 1944 but was not buried in Arlington National Cemetery until 70 years later?
text: Did you know that The Transactor was an early computer magazine noted for its coverage of Commodore 8-bit hardware hacking ?
text: Did you know that Sefton Park Cricket Club was founded over 150 years ago?
text: Did you know that Reilly Creek is one of the shortest named streams in the Nescopeck Creek watershed and is considerably shorter than even its own tributary, Mill Creek ?
text: Did you know that four scientists who were part of the British contribution to the Manhattan Project became group leaders at the Los Alamos Laboratory ?
text: Did you know that African bishops were more prominent in the 2014 Synod on the Family than in previous Vatican synods?
text: Did you know that the ending of Keisuke Kinoshita 's film Army was controversial because it depicted a mother's anxiety at her son going off to war?
text: Did you know that the moth lacewing Elektrithone is the first member of its family found in Baltic amber?
text: Did you know that Leslie Harpold was an early influential blogger whose unexpected death raised the issue of digital estate planning for online creators?
text: Did you know that the 1877 Boat Race , in which both teams tied, was later described as "the great gooseberry"?
text: Did you know that Karl Haitana has represented New Zealand in rugby union in three separate age groups?
text: Did you know that School of Rock marks the first time since 1971 that an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical will receive its world premiere on Broadway rather than London's West End ?
text: Did you know that the Egyptian pharaoh Seti II was buried in tomb KV15 in the Valley of the Kings after a later pharaoh took over the tomb where he may originally have been buried?
text: Did you know that the first roads and sawmills in Fairmount Township in Pennsylvania were built along Maple Run ?
text: Did you know that Swedish sports journalist Arne Hegerfors commentated at both the basketball final at the 1972 Olympic Games and the Heysel Stadium disaster for Sveriges Television ?
text: Did you know that flashes of light emitted by the sea snail Hinea brasiliana may act as a "burglar alarm"?
text: Did you know that female Priochilus captivum have been observed nesting in bed covers while they were in use?
text: Did you know that the only naval battle ever fought in Oklahoma was the ambush of the steamboat J. R. Williams on the Arkansas River in 1864?
text: Did you know that Kris Aquino 's first film role in Pido Dida: Sabay Tayo earned her the Box-Office Queen award?
text: Did you know that the Caribbean Legion was a loosely-knit group of political exiles and mercenaries that sought to overthrow dictatorships in Central America ?
text: Did you know that Pakistani cricketer Kiran Baluch 's 242 against the West Indies is the highest individual score in Women's Test cricket ?
text: Did you know that Livermore, California's Carnegie Library started with just 250 books?
text: Did you know that Aaron Burr hid at Maizefield in Red Hook, New York , after killing Alexander Hamilton ?
text: Did you know that fruiting bodies of the mealy tooth fungus sometimes exude blood-red drops of fluid?
text: Did you know that leaders of the Filipino communist youth movement Malayang Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino were offered amnesty under a presidential decree in 1974?
text: Did you know that the 2005 Twenty20 Cup Final was won by Somerset , appearing in their first Twenty20 Cup final?
text: Did you know that David Rioch is credited with playing a "seminal role" in the creation of modern neuroscience ?
text: Did you know that Kieran Hebden composed Rounds almost exclusively from samples ?
text: Did you know that Sylvia Beach gave Tudor Wilkinson a signed first edition of James Joyce 's Ulysses to thank him for getting her out of a Nazi internment camp ?
text: Did you know that the statue of Charles II in Soho Square , London was once the centrepiece of a fountain portraying four great rivers of England?
text: Did you know that in the film Paa ("Father"), actor Abhishek Bachchan portrays a father, while his real-life father, actor Amitabh Bachchan , plays the role of his 13-year-old son?
text: Did you know that although Chinese immigrants in Seattle were initially welcomed to the area, within a few decades they were the target of anti-Chinese riots?
text: Did you know that the Artificial Insemination Center of Quebec produces 800,000 doses of bovine semen annually?
text: Did you know that Nescopeck Mountain is actually a ridge?
text: Did you know that an American court case hinges on whether the Communications Decency Act immunizes web-based service providers against civil claims brought by users for harm caused by other users?
text: Did you know that sea fans such as Leptogorgia sarmentosa and Eunicella singularis are sometimes overgrown by false coral ?
text: Did you know that the creation of the pro-Russian Donbass Association was viewed by many as an act of Russian involvement in Sweden , causing one commentator to proclaim that "the shadow of Moscow reaches Scania "?
text: Did you know that Puthiya Paravai (1964) was the first Tamil film to be produced by Sivaji Films ?
text: Did you know that eight children were killed in a suburban home of Cairns , Australia, in December 2014?
text: Did you know that Thomas Henry Ismay 's wife said that Dawpool had "served its purpose in keeping [her husband] amused for fifteen years"?
text: Did you know that the stop-time musical phrase from Muddy Waters ' 1954 blues standard " Hoochie Coochie Man " was later used in pop songs and film scores?
text: Did you know that the names of Saint Teath and her eponymous town in Cornwall rhyme with death , not teeth ?
text: Did you know that the 2004 romantic comedy Popcorn Khao! Mast Ho Jao was Kabir Sadanand 's directorial debut?
text: Did you know that sisters Jazzy and Ruby King of the pop group Blonde Electra , finalist in The X Factor (UK) 2014 competition, are related to British chancellor George Osborne ?
text: Did you know that the head of Ebbor Gorge contains the rare mineral mendipite ?
text: Did you know that because no candidate won a majority of the vote, the 2014 Vermont gubernatorial election will be decided by the Vermont General Assembly ?
text: Did you know that Ioana Dumitriu began taking graduate mathematics courses as a college freshman, and became the first female Putnam Fellow the following year?
text: Did you know that with a weight of 19 g (0.67 oz) and a length of 140 mm (5.5 in) the creeping vole ( Microtus oregoni ) is the smallest in Oregon ?
text: Did you know that in humans, body temperature is typically highest during the mid- to late afternoon ?
text: Did you know that the Armenian liberal daily Aravot was prevented from being published following the deadly 2008 protests ?
text: Did you know that a bin lorry in Glasgow recently went out of control , killed six pedestrians and injured ten others, and crashed into a hotel in George Square ?
text: Did you know that Indian actor Deepak Tijori started his directorial career with a film based on male strippers ?
text: Did you know that the fourth San Ignacio Church in Intramuros, Manila , was designed by Felix Roxas, Sr., the first recorded Filipino architect ?
text: Did you know that the Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen contains over 250,000 km 3 (60,000 cu mi) of igneous rock, including a multitude of gabbros ?
text: Did you know that the Palestinian Arab village of Hadatha , where late Roman and Byzantine ceramics were found, was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine war ?
text: Did you know that Alvar Aalto presented plans for a theatre in the Aalto Center in 1969, but died before the building was constructed in 1987?
text: Did you know that folk songs give erotic descriptions of the beauty of Banai that maddened her would-be husband Khandoba ?
text: Did you know that the Oceana County Historical & Genealogical Society contains "an organization within an organization"?
text: Did you know that Apollo 14 astronaut Ed Mitchell told a group of congressmen that aliens exist, at an event organised by the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence ?
text: Did you know that the ring-tailed ground squirrel is more dainty and agile than most ground squirrels ?
text: Did you know that Sri Lankan militant leader Uma Maheswaran was involved in the 1988 Maldives coup ?
text: Did you know that the 2014 Quick Lane Bowl was the first college football bowl game appearance by the University of North Carolina in the state of Michigan ?
text: Did you know that Arthur Kober set his 1937 play Having Wonderful Time in a Jewish Catskills resort, but the film adaptation sanitized the ethnic humor?
text: Did you know that in 2012, Mersea Island declared a mock independence from the rest of the United Kingdom for a day?
text: Did you know that failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba caused the cancellation of Operation Millpond in Thailand?
text: Did you know that 20-year-old Cincinnati resident Samuel Furman Hunt lowered the Confederate flag over the Virginia State Capitol after Confederate troops abandoned Richmond ?
text: Did you know that Fermat 's only complete proof shows there is no integer right triangle with square area, pair of integer right triangles sharing two sides, or square gap between three equally spaced squares ?
text: Did you know that one paper mill on Buck Run is said to be at the same location as the first rolling mill in the United States?
text: Did you know that Ímar ua Ímair died in battle against the Picts ?
text: Did you know that the music sequences featured in " Drew Carey's Back-to-School Rock 'n' Roll Comedy Hour " had to be shot without Drew Carey as he fell ill prior to filming?
text: Did you know that Jean-Claude Van Damme is returning in the remake of the original Kickboxer film?
text: Did you know that King Bayinnaung of Burma entered into several marriages of state , and had more than 50 wives and nearly 100 children ?
text: Did you know that Robert Cade led the research team that formulated Gatorade , which has significant medical application in the treatment of dehydration?
text: Did you know that Indian film actor Rajesh Khanna contested the 1996 Gandhinagar parliamentary by-election ?
text: Did you know that Peter Moore announced Grand Theft Auto IV by rolling up his sleeve to reveal a tattoo of the logo?
text: Did you know that the success of the U.S. Auto Defense Choc was based on prepacked equipment ?
text: Did you know that Billboard magazine called Christophe 's 1974 album Les Mots bleus "outstanding"?
text: Did you know that Glendale, California city councilman Zareh Sinanyan supported a memorial to Korean comfort women , citing his own background as the grandson of an Armenian Genocide survivor?
text: Did you know that Narendra Hirwani 's bowling analysis of 16 wickets for 136 runs, against the West Indies, are a record for a debutant in Test cricket ?
text: Did you know that doctors in the Hospital in the Rock had to bury their dead in bomb craters during the Siege of Budapest ?
text: Did you know that it has been estimated that the measure Proposition 47 , enacted this past year in California , will affect about 40,000 annual felony convictions in that state?
text: Did you know that the animated film The Garden of Words by Makoto Shinkai is a love story intended to convey the traditional Japanese meaning of "love" , koi , or "lonely sadness"?
text: Did you know that the actress Marie Litton managed the Court Theatre in London in her 20s?
text: Did you know that Overwatch contains elements from Blizzard 's cancelled MMORPG , Titan , but is otherwise unrelated?
text: Did you know that a 13th-century Armenian monastery dedicated to one of the apostles now lies in ruins?
text: Did you know that in the north of its range, the sea fan anemone lives on the northern sea fan and further south, on the broad sea fan ?
text: Did you know that Confucius ' disciple Qidiao Kai declined to take government office, but started his own school of Confucianism ?
text: Did you know that when Bruckner's Pange lingua was published in Musica sacra , the journal's editor removed "some of the work's more daring harmonies" without the composer's consent?
text: Did you know that Thurstaston Hall in Merseyside has been described as being "of charming appearance, tranquil and mellow"?
text: Did you know that during the Vietnam War , Ronald Markarian flew 116 combat reconnaissance missions and received numerous awards?
text: Did you know that the sea anemone Aiptasia diaphana can produce new individuals when fragments of its base become detached?
text: Did you know that in 878 an army of West Saxons led by Odda, Ealdorman of Devon captured the raven banner of Ubba ?
text: Did you know that Herb Alpert 's Mexican recording experience for the album Fandango led to his forming a Latin branch of A&M Records ?
text: Did you know that one of the children shown in The Graham Children by William Hogarth had died by the time the painting was completed?
text: Did you know that Bangladesh officially rejected Israel's recognition of its sovereignty in 1972?
text: Did you know that Urkhuz ibn Ulugh Tarkhan , the Abbasid governor of Tarsus , was deposed for embezzling the salaries of the garrison of Loulon , leading to its surrender to the Byzantine Empire ?
text: Did you know that production has begun on The Taliban Shuffle , a film based on the memoir by Kim Barker?
text: Did you know that Ted Longshaw founded three governing bodies for radio-controlled car racing?
text: Did you know that 22 million tons of coal have been mined in the vicinity of Black Creek ?
text: Did you know that Jacob Hiatt financed a chair in Judaic studies at the College of the Holy Cross and a chair in Christian studies at Brandeis University ?
text: Did you know that there is a rat tribe living under Beijing ?
text: Did you know that the Taichung BRT was the first articulated bus in Taiwan?
text: Did you know that one reviewer said John de Lancie 's talents were "wasted" in the video game Star Trek: Borg ?
text: Did you know that when the Beirut I electoral district was formed in 2008, it was the first Christian-majority electoral district in the city since 1972?
text: Did you know that Leon Dexter Batchelor was the longest-serving director of the University of California Citrus Experiment Station ?
text: Did you know that the protozoan parasite Apicystis bombi probably arrived in South America with bumblebees ?
text: Did you know that Stripped Classicism is an architectural style used in several countries, including the United States, Nazi Germany, and Stalin's USSR?
text: Did you know that Kido Witbooi , first Kaptein of the ǀKhowesin, suggested the name for the Namibian village of Gibeon ?
text: Did you know that Col. Frederick Henry Rich investigated over 250 railway accidents‍—‌including Staplehurst , in the aftermath of which Charles Dickens tended the injured?
text: Did you know that Charlie Hebdo issue No. 1178 had the highest print run in the history of the French press?
text: Did you know that according to the Adhyatma Upanishad an intelligent person avoiding truth gets into an illusory state, in the same way as a reed pulled out does not remain straight?
text: Did you know that Teddy Schwarzman beat out thirty other film producers to acquire the screenplay for The Imitation Game ?
text: Did you know that twenty runners from a single town will be participating in the 2015 Boston Marathon ?
text: Did you know that French Nazi-collaborator and art dealer Achille Boitel sold Woman with a Carnation by Lucas Cranach the Elder to Hermann Göring ?
text: Did you know that a national cricket fighting tournament is held annually on Chongming Island ?
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text: Did you know that the recently executed billionaire Liu Han once survived an assassination attempt by another billionaire , who was also executed?
text: Did you know that the premiere episode of You're Whole earned nearly one million viewers, despite airing at 4 a.m.?
text: Did you know that professor Noel T. Keen , who won an award named for a fellow plant pathologist , now has an award named for him?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Ban Pa Dong began when Auto Defense Choc graduates from Operation Momentum ambushed Pathet Lao troops?
text: Did you know that during 2005's stressful conditions in the Caribbean Sea, Symbiodinium trenchi may have prevented some corals from bleaching ?
text: Did you know that the five largest kosher certification agencies in the United States certify 80 percent of the kosher food sold in that country?
text: Did you know that after Matt Macey was rejected by Bristol Rovers , he turned down their later contract offer to join Arsenal ?
text: Did you know that a photo of Lutz Bachmann dressed as Adolf Hitler sparked controversy before his resignation as leader of Pegida , an anti-Islam organisation?
text: Did you know that it is thought ClearSign Combustion may have been the first publicly-traded company to take advantage of JOBS Act rules allowing avoidance of Sarbanes–Oxley Act accounting standards?
text: Did you know that Chris Wu lost 8 kilograms (18 lb) in ten days when he was cast in The Third Wish as a skinny farmer with ALS disorder ?
text: Did you know that the 2015 State of the Union Address was the first State of the Union Address in which the President of the United States used the words " gay ", " lesbian ", and " transgender "?
text: Did you know that although Brown Creek is usually dry, it can sometimes experience intense floods?
text: Did you know that in 1902, Admiral Hammerton Killick went down with his ship during a civil war waged in support of Anténor Firmin 's bid to become president of Haiti ?
text: Did you know that Goat Simulator was released on April Fools' Day ?
text: Did you know that in 2002, Indonesian taekwondo practitioner Juana Wangsa Putri won a silver medal at the Asian Championships and a bronze at the Asian Games?
text: Did you know that The Demands of Liberal Education concludes that parental school choice limits capacity for autonomy and, consequently, individual liberty ?
text: Did you know that Guadeloupe -born Élie Bloncourt was permanently blinded in World War I and part of the French resistance movement in World War II ?
text: Did you know that the 2012 western Django Unchained is currently Quentin Tarantino 's highest-grossing film?
text: Did you know that according to the Dečani chronicle , Skanderbeg deserted Ottoman forces in 1444, after being defeated by Serbian Despot Đurađ Branković ?
text: Did you know that while Edward Bishop was chairman , the Christchurch (New Zealand) Town Council nearly went bankrupt?
text: Did you know that Foxboro Park could not fill all of its thoroughbred racing dates due to a lack of horses?
text: Did you know that Hawanatu Bangura , who was a flag bearer at the 2004 Athens Games , is still the youngest-ever member of the Sierra Leone Olympic team ?
text: Did you know that the Eastern Pilbara Craton contains pieces of Earth crust that are 3.6 billion years old?
text: Did you know that " Walking Down Madison " is the first song Johnny Marr wrote after the dissolution of The Smiths ?
text: Did you know that professional cyclist Fredrik Ludvigsson rides in the same team as his older brother Tobias ?
text: Did you know that Ralph Benatzky wrote the libretto and music for Meine Schwester und ich , a "more intellectual, more cabaret-style" operetta which premiered in Berlin in 1930?
text: Did you know that the 1-mile (1.6 km) long Paddy Run has been used as an industrial water supply?
text: Did you know that Bagboy is a "spin-off of a spin-off of a show within a show"?
text: Did you know that Blalock, Oregon , was inundated by rising waters after the John Day Dam was constructed?
text: Did you know that Mano Blanca was an anti-communist death squad set up and run by the Guatemalan military with considerable assistance from the United States?
text: Did you know that four of the twenty publicly-owned streambeds in the Upper Susquehanna–Lackawanna basin are Elk Run and its three named tributaries: Long Run , Hog Run , and Gallows Run ?
text: Did you know that N.E.B. Ezra , an ardent Zionist who established the Shanghai newspaper Israel's Messenger , pleaded for a new Buddha to save the world from tyranny?
text: Did you know that Chennai Express is the third-highest-grossing Bollywood film of all time?
text: Did you know that the Splash Brothers recently became the first teammates since 1975 to start at guard in an NBA All-Star Game ?
text: Did you know that Aaron Turner is into Sumac for the heaviest experience?
text: Did you know that while at Ross Hall , General George Washington ordered a feu de joie ?
text: Did you know that in 2014 Martin Ødegaard became the youngest footballer to play in a UEFA European Championship qualifying match?
text: Did you know that the short story Old Love by Jeffrey Archer is a tale about two undergraduates at Oxford in the 1930s and their bitter rivalry ending up in a tragic love story?
text: Did you know that during the Iran–Iraq War , an Iraqi major told his prisoner Aboutorabi , "if Khomeini is like you, I will follow him"?
text: Did you know that women are currently chiefs of the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer , Medical , Chaplain , Nurse , and Judge Advocate General's Corps ‍—‌a majority of the eight Navy staff corps ?
text: Did you know that a telegram marking a century-old beheading prompted Austrian authorities to charge the leadership of the Arboroasa student society with treason?
text: Did you know that The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky , who had outlined a novel about a writer who dies in a plane crash, died in a plane crash ‬?
text: Did you know that the helium dimer is the largest molecule in the ground state made from two atoms?
text: Did you know the Atmabodha Upanishad explains "state of knowledge of the inner self"?
text: Did you know that film editor Melanie Oliver began her career under the tutelage of director Jane Campion ?
text: Did you know that the Masonic Hall in Taunton was built in the early 19th century as a Catholic chapel?
text: Did you know that Richard the Lionheart deliberately took church property without its permission ?
text: Did you know that John Gilroy has edited films for his father and both of his brothers?
text: Did you know that the Australian cricketer Bill Woodfull was the first to carry the bat twice in Tests ?
text: Did you know that the fungus Hirticlavula elegans is so named (from the Latin for "elegant") because of the beauty of its fruit bodies ?
text: Did you know that French cinematographer Eric Gautier has been nominated for six César Awards over ten years, winning one?
text: Did you know that the 1990 Earth-grazing meteoroid above Czechoslovakia and Poland was observed from two sites, which for the first time enabled geometrical calculations of the orbit of such a body?
text: Did you know that Kim Hyung-jun 's 2012 Japanese release of Escape includes only two Japanese songs out of seven tracks?
text: Did you know that over two hundred Bronze Age objects have been found in Heathery Burn Cave ?
text: Did you know that road cyclist Fernando Gaviria came to global attention after beating Mark Cavendish in two sprints at the 2015 Tour de San Luis ?
text: Did you know that of all manures , chicken manure has the highest nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium content?
text: Did you know that Colonel Franklin Matthias , the Manhattan District area engineer at the Hanford site , personally couriered its first production batch of plutonium ?
text: Did you know that the second Team Sone Pet vanished?
text: Did you know that cinematographer Adam Arkapaw 's work on True Detective included a single-take shot that took months to plan and a day and a half to execute?
text: Did you know that a 1662 brawl between Corsican soldiers and Frenchmen at Rome's Ponte Sisto forced Pope Alexander VII to disband the Corsican Guard ?
text: Did you know that Ladislaus I of Hungary , who was canonized in 1192, admitted in a letter that he could not "promote the cause of earthly dignities without committing grave sins"?
text: Did you know that the fasciated tiger heron is named for the black and buff stripes on its neck and back?
text: Did you know that the director of Five All Night, Live All Night reportedly did not censor the Human Sexual Response song "Butt Fuck" because he was distracted by naked women?
text: Did you know that novelist George R. R. Martin singled out Tyrion Lannister as his favorite character in his A Song of Ice and Fire series?
text: Did you know that the Khalidi family opened Palestine's first public library in a Mamluk -era building in the Old City of Jerusalem ?
text: Did you know that the first scene in Three Weeks With Lady X is an homage to Jane Austen 's Pride and Prejudice ?
text: Did you know that Polish painter Bronisława Janowska rejected a marriage proposal from the man she loved because he was divorced?
text: Did you know that the groundnut rosette virus , which causes serious damage to peanut crops in Africa, is spread by the groundnut aphid ?
text: Did you know that Alfred Hitchcock was an advisor on the official British documentary German Concentration Camps Factual Survey ?
text: Did you know that the Privy Garden of the Palace of Whitehall had a screen installed to ensure that passersby would not see the King of England in his bathtub?
text: Did you know that for the Orphan Black episode " Instinct ", the show's own writing offices were used as a filming location?
text: Did you know that Le Salon de Madame Aron by Édouard Vuillard was stolen from Alfred Lindon by the Nazis in 1940 and not returned to his family until 2006?
text: Did you know that 40% of Gardens Alive 's revenue comes from non-gardening merchandise?
text: Did you know that a surveillance video of Elisa Lam acting strangely in an elevator drew three million views in its first ten days on Youku , though many viewers said it disturbed them?
text: Did you know that the Aruneya Upanishad says that an itinerant monk should practise chastity, nonviolence, truthfulness, and indifference to material possessions?
text: Did you know that Karl Jenkins derived Palladio , a concerto grosso for string orchestra named after Palladio , from his TV commercial for De Beers diamonds ?
text: Did you know that Emin Xhinovci was given the nickname "Hitler" because of his uncanny resemblance to Adolf Hitler ?
text: Did you know that Bruna Papandrea co-founded a film production company with actress Reese Witherspoon ?
text: Did you know that after his assassination, Laurent Kabila lay in state at the People's Palace of the Democratic Republic of Congo , which had been commissioned by the president he overthrew?
text: Did you know that a Corroboree frog described in a monograph by John Alexander Moore was featured on an Australian postage stamp?
text: Did you know that the Italian cruiser Vettor Pisani almost bombarded Prevesa during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–12 until protests by the Austro-Hungarian Empire forced the Italians to cancel the operation?
text: Did you know that Methodist preacher Stephen G. Roszel opposed abolition ?
text: Did you know that Marian Engel's 1976 novel Bear has been called "the most controversial novel ever written in Canada"?
text: Did you know that Dick Whittington gave London a public toilet with 128 seats, known as Whittington's Longhouse ?
text: Did you know that Sri Lankan cricketer Rangana Herath conceded the fewest runs while taking a five-wicket haul in Twenty20 Internationals ?
text: Did you know that according to the Brahma Upanishad , a living being controls all its senses similarly to a spider, which weaves its web with a single thread?
text: Did you know that the dispute over Hamo 's appointment as treasurer of York was resolved when his opponent gave him a church instead?
text: Did you know that Dickie Dick Dickens was voted the most popular radio play ever in Norway?
text: Did you know that George F. Robinson was awarded the 1871 Congressional Gold Medal for saving the life of US Secretary of State William Seward ?
text: Did you know that a church in Leipzig with many names , destroyed in a bombing in 1943, had served two denominations, and was also used for storage, as a prison, and as a hospital?
text: Did you know that the glaucous pimplet can be distinguished from the closely related red speckled anemone by the sediment that sticks to its column?
text: Did you know that Wesley Blake trained in the Funking Conservatory and eventually became its World Champion?
text: Did you know that the manuscript of Harper Lee 's forthcoming novel, Go Set a Watchman ‍—‌written before To Kill a Mockingbird but featuring its key characters‍—‌was lost until rediscovered by her lawyer in 2014?
text: Did you know that Venezuelan singer Aneeka cites as musical influences American singers Mariah Carey , Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin ?
text: Did you know that the Dattatreya Upanishad describes the god Dattatreya variously as a child, a demon, crazy, and an ocean of knowledge?
text: Did you know that the Canadian industrialist Alexander "Boss" Gibson named his company town after his wife and daughter?
text: Did you know that Manot 1 , a skull discovered in the Manot Cave in Israel, provides evidence that modern humans lived side-by-side with Neanderthals ?
text: Did you know that to combat "shuddering fluorescent jelly" on TV, Jonathan Miller launched A Trip to the Moon ?
text: Did you know that Romanian sociologist Traian Brăileanu , known to his students as " Socrates ", was tried for "corrupting the youth"?
text: Did you know that Oak Hill Industrial Academy was a school in Indian Territory for the children of Choctaw freedmen ?
text: Did you know that the Pine Creek watershed contains the only Approved Trout Waters in the Solomon Creek drainage basin?
text: Did you know that Ukraine still relies on Soviet-era laws and standards to designate the status of cities of district significance , as it does not have a current law of its own?
text: Did you know that James P. T. Carter was one of "three brave men" who escorted Andrew Johnson from Greeneville, Tennessee , to Washington, D.C. in June 1861?
text: Did you know that colonies of black stem aphid may be enclosed in earth galleries by ants?
text: Did you know that Georges Méliès 's film The Doctor and the Monkey has been compared to the 1981 video game Donkey Kong ?
text: Did you know that Ladislaus III of Hungary reigned less than a year and died before his sixth birthday?
text: Did you know that " Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud ", written by Paul Gerhardt after the Thirty Years War , was translated as "Go Forth, My Heart, and Seek Delight"?
text: Did you know that Watering Run caused the only recorded flooding due to a major storm in any developed part of Wright Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that Serbian writer Oskar Davičo received the literary NIN Award a record three times?
text: Did you know that Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn argues that at the core of Meiklejohn's efforts is "the paradox of Socratic teaching "?
text: Did you know that auctioneer Theodor Fischer was described as "the focal point in all looted art transactions" in World War Two–era Switzerland?
text: Did you know that the album From the Ages is over an hour long and was recorded in just two days?
text: Did you know that in 2005, Dutch skeptic Rob Nanninga used an Internet spelling error to expose a psychic?
text: Did you know that Clancy's was once an unassuming neighborhood bar?
text: Did you know that Jerry Lester was the host of the first successful network late-night television show, Broadway Open House ?
text: Did you know that The Lying Student was written in 1914, but not published until most of the manuscript was rediscovered in 1981?
text: Did you know that before becoming a film actor, Deepak Tijori worked for a magazine and a hotel?
text: Did you know that Paris Saint-Germain and SC Bastia , the two teams in the 2015 Coupe de la Ligue Final , also played the tournament's first ever final ?
text: Did you know that a novel virus may be implicated in its parasitic wasp host turning the spotted lady beetle into a "zombie bodyguard"?
text: Did you know that Ohio derived its state motto , " With God, all things are possible ", from a passage in the Gospel of Matthew , prompting a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union ?
text: Did you know that the 2015 Scottish League Cup Final will be Celtic 's 30th appearance in the final and Dundee United 's 7th?
text: Did you know that Taiwanese actress Jade Chou was once compared to her character in What Is Love because they were both in their thirties and still single ?
text: Did you know that the domestication of wild barley probably took place in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago?
text: Did you know that Ocle Pychard was held by Roger de Lacy at the time of the Domesday Book ?
text: Did you know that the references to Ganesha in the popular devotional song Sukhakarta Dukhaharta are described as "remarkable", considering he was not the patron god of its poet?
text: Did you know that film producer Anne Rosellini wrote her first screenplay because "I didn't have the money to hire a writer, so I just decided to do it myself"?
text: Did you know that Fabrice Aragno 's cinematography in Jean-Luc Godard 's 3D film Goodbye to Language introduced a new kind of camera shot?
text: Did you know that Martin D. Whitaker was the first director of the Clinton Laboratories (now the Oak Ridge National Laboratory )?
text: Did you know that the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians established its Chern Prize nine years before the International Mathematical Union established its ?
text: Did you know that Jean-Baptiste Pastor , an orphan immigrant in 1880, founded Monaco's "second dynasty"?
text: Did you know that in Poliçan , southern Albania , as well as in the rest of the Pogoni region, polyphonic singing is a local tradition?
text: Did you know that Ross Taylor 's score of 102 not out against Pakistan was the hundredth One Day International century by a New Zealand batsman?
text: Did you know that 64% of Utah is federal land , and Utah wants it ?
text: Did you know that the sea battles of the Echinades and of Amorgos in 322 BC led to the defeat of Athens in the Lamian War , ending Athenian naval power and independence?
text: Did you know that India is one of the most dangerous places in the world to drive ?
text: Did you know that in the 1969 Lusaka Manifesto , black-ruled African states offered dialogue with apartheid South Africa?
text: Did you know that Tripoli Jewish community leader and historian Abraham Khalfon lost two sons in his lifetime – one in a plague and one who was burned at the stake ?
text: Did you know that in 1886 , the United States Naval Academy football team beat close rival Johns Hopkins with a last-second double lateral ?
text: Did you know that Masanobu Takayanagi was inspired to move to the U.S. and become a cinematographer after seeing a book about the subject in a Japanese bookstore?
text: Did you know that Gotlandsdricka is essentially the same everyday brew that the Vikings drank?
text: Did you know that the 2013 documentary The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers is based on the 2010 book The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership ?
text: Did you know that Giuseppina Brambilla , one of five opera-singer sisters, was a prima donna in Barcelona and Odessa?
text: Did you know that as a result of the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show , a dancer known as the "Left Shark" became an internet meme ?
text: Did you know that Columbia University professor Deborah Mowshowitz teaches introductory biology by having students solve famous historical problems?
text: Did you know that production has begun on Creed , a spin-off of Rocky and the seventh film in the Rocky series ?
text: Did you know that Walter Buckley 's venture capital firm Internet Capital Group , once worth over US$50 billion, lost 99% of its value when the dot-com bubble burst in 2001, but continues to operate today?
text: Did you know that the gum produced by the gum karaya is used as a laxative and an aphrodisiac ?
text: Did you know that HBO used some 160 lawyers to vet its film Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief because of the notorious litigiousness of the Church of Scientology ?
text: Did you know that a nineteenth-century author wrote, "there is not a more complete system of fortifications extant, in any part of the world, than the cordon of defensive structures at Malta "?
text: Did you know that New York Yankees ' prospect Ty Hensley was allegedly assaulted by another athlete because Hensley did not want to discuss his $1.2 million signing bonus ?
text: Did you know that God's Choice was the fruit of a late-1970s 18-month ethno­graphic study of a 350-student Christian fundamen­talist Baptist K–12 day school in Illinois?
text: Did you know that John Norton , future United States Army lieutenant general , was college roommates with George Scratchley Brown , future Air Force Chief of Staff ?
text: Did you know that the theme for World Youth Day 1995 , " Tell the World of His Love ", was performed multiple times during the visit of Pope Francis in the Philippines ?
text: Did you know that the renovation of the nuclear weapon arsenal of the United States resulted in the setting of the Doomsday Clock two minutes closer to midnight?
text: Did you know that A-Force , the upcoming ongoing comic book series to be published by Marvel Comics , will feature Marvel's first all-female team of Avengers ?
text: Did you know that Iran's Supreme Leader, Khamenei , is alleged to be the first senior Islamic cleric directly addressing western youth about his religion?
text: Did you know that Peter Landesman made his directorial debut with the 2013 film Parkland , based on a non-fiction book 's excerpt titled "Four Days in November"?
text: Did you know that the 2015 McDonald's All-American Boys Game is the 38th annual McDonald's All-American Game and 5th consecutive at Chicago's United Center ?
text: Did you know that although only two of Zhang Ruoxu 's poems have survived, one of them was called "the poem of all poems" by Wen Yiduo ?
text: Did you know that in Compulsory Miseducation , Paul Goodman proposes that school be made non- compulsory ?
text: Did you know that a bubble caused Sir Abraham Elton, 2nd Baronet to flee England for France?
text: Did you know that swimmer Mary Wayte won the first of four Olympic medals by defeating former world record-holder Sippy Woodhead in the final of the women's 200-meter freestyle at the 1984 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that a method to reduce the temperature recovery time for an oven is to keep a baking stone in it?
text: Did you know that freelance programmer and author Martin Pistorius was believed to be in a persistent vegetative state but was actually suffering from locked-in syndrome ?
text: Did you know that Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner 's government is trying to force the impeachment of the judge investigating her in the Hotesur scandal ?
text: Did you know that John Shannon Munn , one of the few first-class cricketers from Newfoundland , was killed in the wreck of a ship owned by his stepfather 's company?
text: Did you know that Jennifer Rush 's " Higher Ground " was covered by Mario Pelchat and Celine Dion in French as "Plus haut que moi"?
text: Did you know that Henry Ford was a "comparative nonentity" who got various jobs because his wife's uncle was a bishop?
text: Did you know that Tsgabu Grmay was the first Ethiopian to win an international cycling event ?
text: Did you know that ribonuclease V1 , an enzyme used to study the structure of transfer RNA , is found in the venom of the Caspian cobra ?
text: Did you know that Arizona Territorial Chief Justice C. G. W. French reunited with and married "the love of his youth" late in life?
text: Did you know that Grand Theft Auto V caused controversy over a mission that requires players to waterboard and torture a hostage?
text: Did you know that Louis Edmund Blaze was responsible for introducing rugby to schools in Ceylon ?
text: Did you know that Richmond Park in London is three times the size of Central Park in New York?
text: Did you know that screenwriter Lucy Alibar raised money through online crowdfunding so she could afford to attend her film's screening at the Cannes Film Festival ?
text: Did you know that Hoyt Wilhelm was the first relief pitcher elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ?
text: Did you know that the Serb Uprising of 1596–97 came to an end due to lack of foreign support and defeat at the field of Gacko?
text: Did you know that a nun is said to have been miraculously cured at the Franciscan Convent in Taunton in 1809?
text: Did you know that filmgoers incorrectly believed that Blackrock was a factual account of the murder of Leigh Leigh ?
text: Did you know that an April 2013 exhibit in the Interference Archive featured homemade cardboard shields that were confiscated by the New York Police Department as weapons?
text: Did you know that Kapellmeister Mattheus Le Maistre 's request for retirement was denied, yet he was granted a stipend?
text: Did you know that the Bleu Horses near Three Forks, Montana , are 8 feet (2.4 m) tall?
text: Did you know that Beyond: Two Souls , despite being a video game, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival ?
text: Did you know that American swimmer Nicole Haislett is a three-time Olympic gold medalist who learned to swim at the age of 18 months?
text: Did you know that Nissan used a commercial during Super Bowl XLIX to debut their GT-R LM Nismo race car ?
text: Did you know that Columbia mathematics professor Mu-Tao Wang did not consider himself a particularly good student?
text: Did you know that Govind Nihalani 's Hindi film Tamas (1988) was initially aired as a television series?
text: Did you know that the family support group The Mariposa Trust has been partly funded by charity sky dives ?
text: Did you know that the Hoosier cavefish has its anus directly behind its gills?
text: Did you know that Japanese movie producer Nagamasa Kawakita introduced Kurosawa 's Rashomon at the 1951 Venice Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion ?
text: Did you know that the Krishna Upanishad advocates serving God by love and devotion to achieve emancipation?
text: Did you know that Charles Hailey developed the glass slumping technique on which the optics of the NuSTAR telescope are based?
text: Did you know that the Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge was originally built in 1874 on the South Branch Potomac River , but was moved to its current location on the Cacapon River in 1938?
text: Did you know that Paganini published the world's first Arabic-language printed edition of the Quran ?
text: Did you know that the extinct earwig Toxolabis was preserved with two earwig nymphs ?
text: Did you know that Afro-German advocate Ika Hügel-Marshall , the child of a German woman and an African-American soldier, never met another black person until she was 39?
text: Did you know that the future poet Yang Jiong was appointed to the prestigious Hongwen College at the age of nine?
text: Did you know that two men were ambushed while making sugar near the mouth of Hunlock Creek in 1780?
text: Did you know that Turkish journalist Amberin Zaman recognizes the Armenian Genocide and believes that the Turkish government must reconcile its history?
text: Did you know that the children's album Pombo Musical is based on the fables of Colombian poet Rafael Pombo ?
text: Did you know that Arthur Phillips composed a setting of "The Requiem, or, Liberty of an Imprisoned Royalist" by Thomas Pierce ?
text: Did you know that both mountainous star coral and boulder star coral are susceptible to coral diseases and bleaching ?
text: Did you know that Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey win horse races with Kittens ?
text: Did you know that Marija Bursać was the first woman to be proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia ?
text: Did you know that the Sahifah of al-Ridha is a collection of 240 hadiths narrated by Ali ibn Musa al-Ridha , the eighth Shia Imam ?
text: Did you know that a dispute between Nyu Media and PayPal led to a reform of the latter's crowdfunding policies?
text: Did you know that the Indian politician and senior advocate K. T. S. Tulsi represented the victims of the Uphaar Cinema fire in court?
text: Did you know that of the eight tied Twenty20 International cricket matches, three were between New Zealand and the West Indies ?
text: Did you know that General Vang Pao 's dream of enemy troops hidden on the Operation Pigfat landing zone was verified by refugee interrogation?
text: Did you know that Brother Richard Withers , an American hermit in Philadelphia , does not own a television or car but does own a computer?
text: Did you know that Robert Smirke painted a series of seven paintings derived from a monologue in As You Like It ?
text: Did you know that the Sikh politician Darshan Singh Pheruman died after 74 days on hunger strike , demanding inclusion of Chandigarh and other Punjabi-speaking regions into Punjab ?
text: Did you know that two and a half years before the Tonkin Gulf Incident , the Sigma I-62 war game concluded that American intervention in Vietnam would be unsuccessful?
text: Did you know that Massachusetts Secretary of Veterans' Affairs Francisco Urena was the state's Veterans Services Director of the Year in 2008?
text: Did you know that the INTEGER Millennium House incorporates numerous environmental technology features, including a green roof and a geothermal heat pump ?
text: Did you know that folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand describes urban legends as the "kissing cousins of myths, fairy tales and rumors"?
text: Did you know that Muddy Waters ' 1951 blues song, " Long Distance Call ," was inspired by Blind Lemon Jefferson 's 1929 song, "Long Distance Moan"?
text: Did you know that the 2012 London Games was Sierra Leone 's tenth appearance at the Summer Olympics?
text: Did you know that according to the Atharvashikha Upanishad , Om represents the Hindu Trinity, the Vedic scriptures , Vedic poetic meters and holy fires?
text: Did you know that a brief conversation with Lawrence of Arabia prompted R. V. C. Bodley to live with a nomadic tribe in the Sahara desert for seven years?
text: Did you know that the main cast and supporting actors of the film Chotoder Chobi were previously non-actors?
text: Did you know that the future Béla III of Hungary was for a time the chosen successor of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos , who created the title despotes for him?
text: Did you know that four months after Major General Stephen Twitty enacted measures to correct inadequate security at Fort Bliss , the response to the 2015 Fort Bliss shooting was described as "a model of how to respond"?
text: Did you know that the hairstyle, sideburns, life and death of Austrian poacher Pius Walder inspired the Tatort police procedural film Elvis lebt! (Elvis lives!) ?
text: Did you know that Newton Aduaka was the first independent black filmmaker to get a national release in the UK, for Rage in 1999?
text: Did you know that during the Korean War , No. 30 Communications Unit RAAF undertook "Operation Haggis", the delivery of 180 lb (82 kg) of haggis to the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders ?
text: Did you know that R. Fraser Armstrong‎ became superintendent of Kingston General Hospital despite having no medical training?
text: Did you know that when the solitary octocoral Taiaroa tauhou was discovered in 1973, it was at first thought to be a sea anemone ?
text: Did you know that Ian Bell has scored 21 centuries in Test cricket for England ?
text: Did you know that Pikes Creek and Harveys Creek together supply water to more than 60,000 people in 15 communities?
text: Did you know that St. Vincent 's single " Digital Witness " was released on a limited-edition gold die-cut vinyl triangle?
text: Did you know that artefacts from Glastonbury Lake Village are on display at The Tribunal ?
text: Did you know that after announcing his retirement, Australian MP Clive Shields publicly attacked his own constituents, saying he was "fed up with oiling the parish pump"?
text: Did you know that male and female Potomac sculpins prefer to live in different habitat conditions?
text: Did you know that Olympic bronze medalist Richard W. Mayo was a brigadier general in the Korean War ?
text: Did you know that North Nicosia , the capital of Northern Cyprus , has a population of around 61,000 and hosts over 34,000 university students?
text: Did you know that Amlaíb Conung was the first King of Dublin ?
text: Did you know that Operation Off Balance was staged in only three days in hopes of catching the enemy off balance?
text: Did you know that Romanian writer Ion Agârbiceanu was influenced in his work by the four years he spent as a parish priest in the Apuseni Mountains ?
text: Did you know that Lemmings is regarded as one of the most widely ported video games?
text: Did you know that poet Lu Zhaolin drowned himself after suffering from a debilitating disease for years?
text: Did you know that images of Nandanar , Vayilar , Sakkiya , Idangazhi , Anaya , Kalikamba , Kaliya , Satti , Pusalar , Kungiliya Kalaya , Sadaiya , Murthi , Murkha , Nami Nandi Adigal , Somasi Mara , Isaignaniyar , Viralminda , Eyarkon Kalikkama , Pugal Chola , Eripatha , Manakanchara , Kotpuli , Enathinathar , Sirappuli , Seruthunai , Amaraneedi , Nesa , Pugazh Thunai , Kutruva , Kalarsinga , Munaiyaduvar , Ilayankudi Maranar , Meiporul , Iyarpagai , Tiru Nilakanta Yazhpanar , Tirunilakanta , Tiruneelanakka , and Apputhi Adigal are among the 63 Nayanar saints paraded during processions at temple festivals in Tamil Nadu ?
text: Did you know that disappointment led to the creation of Retox ?
text: Did you know that Phisit Intharathat was saved in the only successful rescue of POWs during the Second Indochina War ?
text: Did you know that the Bolokhoveni were forced to supply the Mongol army with crops after the Mongols destroyed Kiev in 1240?
text: Did you know that during a lull in fighting in the Lebanese Civil War , some 100,000 people gathered in Beirut to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide ?
text: Did you know that a Christian education program at the Tarrant County Corrections Center was shut down as unconstitutional?
text: Did you know that in 1693 Julije Balović wrote a multilingual dictionary on five languages, including Albanian ?
text: Did you know that Yuraygir National Park boasts 48 beaches?
text: Did you know that in retaliation for trains' killing of their cattle, farmers would spread lard on the tracks of the Lake Simcoe Junction Railway ?
text: Did you know that the Anglo-Norman baron William Pantulf cleared himself from suspicion of murdering his lord's wife by undergoing a trial by ordeal ?
text: Did you know that with a 20-million-year fossil record, Acer chaneyi has the longest fossil record of the Western North American maples?
text: Did you know that Christian Socialism in Utah prompted a debate on whether "socialism or individualism was taught by the New Testament as a basis for Christian government"?
text: Did you know that Mouna Ragam was the first Mani Ratnam film to use staccato dialogue?
text: Did you know that Graeme Swann 's 18 five-wicket hauls in international cricket ties him with James Anderson for third-highest for England ?
text: Did you know that a fire lookout station has been located on Hager Mountain since 1915?
text: Did you know that over $20,000 was spent trademarking the name Max Heat before the character was renamed Max Payne ?
text: Did you know that the cemetery of Capon Chapel is the burial place of free and enslaved African Americans , Union and Confederate American Civil War veterans, and two state legislators?
text: Did you know that in 2007 Richard Malka successfully defended the editor of Charlie Hebdo against charges of inciting racism?
text: Did you know that Wilhelm von Humboldt created a revolutionary model of higher education at the University of Berlin ?
text: Did you know that Alan Resnick 's house was transformed into the set of the television special he hosts ?
text: Did you know that Pedro Rivera , Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf 's nominee to become education secretary , was honored by the White House as a "champion of change"?
text: Did you know that the kola nut is used in the manufacture of both cola drinks and chocolate that has a high melting point?
text: Did you know that Conxita Julià is best known for a handkerchief she owned?
text: Did you know that Shanghai 's Ohel Rachel Synagogue , described as "second to none in the East", was on the World Monuments Watch 's list of most endangered sites?
text: Did you know that Bhakti Sharma is the first Asian woman and the youngest in the world to set a record in open swimming in Antarctic waters?
text: Did you know that after hackers stole confidential information from Sony Pictures Entertainment , former employees sued the company for failing to protect their data?
text: Did you know that Ralph Benatzky wrote both libretto and music of the musical comedy Bezauberndes Fräulein , inspired by the French farce La petite chocolatière ?
text: Did you know that, until his death, Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman had been working on the case of the AMIA bombing , the 1994 terrorist attack against Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA)?
text: Did you know that the first four specimens of the fossil earwig Zigrasolabis are all preserved in the same piece of amber?
text: Did you know that although not his final release, Padayappa (1999) was the last film that Sivaji Ganesan worked?
text: Did you know that the position of Thomaskantor in Bach 's time has been described as "one of the most respected and influential musical offices of Protestant Germany"?
text: Did you know that Kajol became first woman to win the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role for her performance in Gupt: The Hidden Truth (1997)?
text: Did you know that the 5300-tonne (12 million lb) Brooke Street Pier is Australia 's largest floating building ?
text: Did you know that over 100 people have been killed in terrorist attacks in France since 1961?
text: Did you know that self-taught botanist Wilhelm Nikolaus Suksdorf is the namesake of the type species Suksdorfia violacea ?
text: Did you know that when first proposed in 2013, the Canada Job Grant was described as "economic sabotage" by Quebec's finance minister Nicolas Marceau ?
text: Did you know that because he is 4 ft 4 in (1.32 m) tall, Rico Abreu uses foot blocks to operate his race car's throttle?
text: Did you know that Edmond Debeaumarché (1906–1959) was a French postal worker who was honored with a stamp for his service with the French Resistance ?
text: Did you know that the Caproni Ca.60 Transaereo eight-engine, nine-wing flying boat prototype was intended to become a 100-passenger transatlantic airliner , but crashed on its second flight?
text: Did you know that Maitland Volcano in northern British Columbia is a prehistoric shield volcano of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province ?
text: Did you know that Minnie Evans , chair of the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation , prevented termination of her tribe and won reparations for her people from the Indian Claims Commission ?
text: Did you know that General Francesco Ferruccio compared the ranks of 16th-century Corsican condottiero Pasquino Corso to tabby cats , beautiful but unable to catch mice?
text: Did you know that according to the book Ozu's Anti-Cinema , Japanese film director Yasujirō Ozu "did not trust actors' performances"?
text: Did you know that Musa McKim painted a mural in a U.S. Forest Service building along with her husband, abstract artist Philip Guston ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming Coen brothers film Hail, Caesar! , set in the 1950s Hollywood film industry , was originally planned to have a 1920s setting?
text: Did you know that Canadian children's author Sheree Fitch was the poet laureate of a golf tournament in the Arctic ?
text: Did you know that as rocks are compressed , sinking down into an oceanic trench, they release water that causes volcanoes to form above?
text: Did you know that by the time he turned 27, Trevor Kincaid had discovered more than 240 new insect species?
text: Did you know that several major skating events, including the 2010–11 Speed Skating World Cup , have been held at the ice rink in the small Bavarian town of Inzell ?
text: Did you know that Australia defeated West Indies in the final of the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy by eight wickets , winning the title for the first time?
text: Did you know that during his recent visit to the Philippines , Pope Francis said mass before a record gathering of six million people?
text: Did you know that in 1912 Michael Winter intruded into the White House twice in one day?
text: Did you know that No. 300 Group of the British Royal Air Force was formed in Australia in 1944, and many of the personnel in one of its squadrons were Australian?
text: Did you know that the larvae of the harlequin fly are blood red due to haemoglobin ?
text: Did you know that particle physicist and Columbia professor Michael Tuts is often mistaken for horror author Stephen King ?
text: Did you know that sculptor Jim Dolan portrayed Albert Einstein throwing a Frisbee ?
text: Did you know that two troops of dragoons were sent to Taunton after the result of the 1754 by-election prompted rioting?
text: Did you know that most of Fox Film 's silents were lost in the 1937 Fox vault fire ?
text: Did you know that during the apartheid era, South Africa's National Party won a by-election in Oudtshoorn after waging a " Boerehaat campaign"?
text: Did you know that despite breaking a collarbone after only ten minutes, Lieut. Edmund Creswell played the whole of the first FA Cup Final ?
text: Did you know that the New Synagogue , which once served the Russian Jews in Shanghai , has been demolished?
text: Did you know that video game character Jill Valentine was almost a Jill sandwich?
text: Did you know that the Hôtel d'Alluye hosted Scarface 's brother in 1588?
text: Did you know that Barbadian singer Rihanna accumulated 20 number one songs on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Songs chart in less than eight years?
text: Did you know that Till Nowak ' s German mockumentary short film The Centrifuge Brain Project incorporates computer-generated imagery to create seven realistic fictional amusement park rides ?
text: Did you know that " Won't Get Fooled Again " was the last song Keith Moon ever played live with The Who ?
text: Did you know that schools of Ammodytes americanus bury themselves in sand each night to avoid predators ?
text: Did you know that six different sects share one parliamentary seat in Lebanon?
text: Did you know that Gloucester, Massachusetts , mayor David I. Robinson chose to resign rather than sign a liquor license?
text: Did you know that the Garuda Upanishad , dedicated to the "Lord of birds", includes spells claimed to cure wounds inflicted by poisonous snakes, ghosts, and demons?
text: Did you know that Hurricane Fay caused about 3.8 million USD in damage in 2014?
text: Did you know that a popular form of entertainment at jilt shops was rat-baiting ?
text: Did you know that there is an ongoing proposal within the UK to restrict encryption ?
text: Did you know that as head of the rabbinical court in Tripoli , Libya, Abraham Hayyim Adadi levied a 5 percent tax on local merchants to pay for teachers for poor children?
text: Did you know that the tail of the ornate shrew is bicolored?
text: Did you know that football player Brad Craddock of the Maryland Terrapins was tutored by NFL Pro Bowler Matt Stover ?
text: Did you know that The Legend of Lucky Pie was called the Chinese "knock-off" of Adventure Time ?
text: Did you know that James C. Marshall was the first Chief Engineer of the Manhattan District ?
text: Did you know that in Roger Scruton 's musical vision of the eccentric love-life of Violet Gordon-Woodhouse , a leading lady is sung by a baritone ?
text: Did you know that Alexandra Aitken , daughter of former British politician Jonathan Aitken , converted to Sikhism and changed her name to Uttrang Kaur Khalsa?
text: Did you know that the victors in Operation Diamond Arrow abandoned the battlefield?
text: Did you know that new colonies of the carpet sea squirt can form by "dripping"?
text: Did you know that a 2013 study by American neuroscientist Tor Wager found that it is possible to detect physical pain in humans using an fMRI scan?
text: Did you know that the United States accounts for 37% of all global military spending ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Reardon was for a time Microsoft 's entire Internet Explorer development team?
text: Did you know that in 1629 a Virginia court sentenced Thomasine Hall to wear items of both male and female clothing simultaneously?
text: Did you know that the only source on the life of Gelou , the Vlach ruler of Transylvania , is the chronicle Gesta Hungarorum ?
text: Did you know that the rare clouds that shower in the desert are called " Uttanka's clouds "?
text: Did you know that Tomislav Smoljanović 's "guerrilla science approach" uncovered financial ties between medical researchers and an American pharmaceutical company?
text: Did you know that The Guardian 's iOS game of 2014, Vainglory , was chosen to demonstrate the iPhone 6 's graphics capabilities at the phone's launch event?
text: Did you know that portraying the role of lesbian headmistress Caroline Dawson in Last Tango in Halifax earned actress Sarah Lancashire the most fan mail of her career?
text: Did you know that the migrating island of Hengsha was finally stopped by Shanghai 's " educated youth " and other workers during the 1960s?
text: Did you know that medical missionary Victor Clough Rambo removed nineteen cataracts in one day, using a desk as an operating table?
text: Did you know that SpotHero is a mobile app that allows motorists to reserve parking spaces at a discount?
text: Did you know that Arshad Warsi won the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Comic Role for Lage Raho Munna Bhai ?
text: Did you know that the Lisburn Distillery Predators were the first Northern Irish team to play in the UEFA Women's Cup ?
text: Did you know that the Beda people are the smallest officially recognised tribe in Jammu and Kashmir ?
text: Did you know that the New South Wales Bail Act includes an "unacceptable risk" test?
text: Did you know that in the Church of St John the Divine, Holme Chapel , is a misericord depicting a mermaid with a mirror?
text: Did you know that Ernest Cashel , who once escaped from a moving train by jumping out the bathroom window, was hanged on this day in 1904?
text: Did you know that with two 1,600-gallon (6,056-liter) cisterns and a filtering system, Brock Environmental Center is the first project in the US to receive a commercial permit to use rainwater as drinking water?
text: Did you know that Empire marks the television directorial debut for Academy Award–nominated director Lee Daniels ?
text: Did you know that despite a "perfect" performance in goal, William Merriman was on the losing side in the first FA Cup Final ?
text: Did you know that Web of the Romulans was the first original Star Trek novel to reach the US bestseller lists?
text: Did you know that David Ogilvy 's quotation " The customer is not a moron " has been reused by the BBC and the CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi ?
text: Did you know that the Delta Psi fraternity at the University of Vermont was famous for its 100-keg Oktoberfest parties?
text: Did you know that the 2003 Food City 500 was the 2,000th NASCAR Winston Cup Series race?
text: Did you know that Last Tango in Halifax actor Louis Greatorex almost missed his audition for the series due to a bout of flu?
text: Did you know that in the early 1970s, Bow Creek was nearly devoid of aquatic life, but within five years had substantial fish populations and is now Class A Wild Trout Waters?
text: Did you know that Macedonian journalist Tomislav Kezarovski was sentenced to 4½ years for allegedly revealing the identity of a protected witness?
text: Did you know that John Venn said of James Halman 's time as Master of Caius College that "his brief career in that capacity has left no perceptible impression behind"?
text: Did you know that The sacred duck was seen widely across Germany until the Third Reich silenced it?
text: Did you know that the god Vishnu 's mace represents his wife?
text: Did you know that Grabaciones Accidentales , established in 1981, was one of Spain 's first independent record labels ?
text: Did you know that William Egon of Fürstenberg was a Prince in the Holy Roman Empire, and making 90,000 livres a year as a French agent, when he was arrested for treason?
text: Did you know that a man shot two New York City police officers to death , ostensibly in revenge for the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown , and then committed suicide?
text: Did you know that in Somerset's 1882 cricket match against Lancashire, the stumps had to be moved, because the pitch was "a puddle"?
text: Did you know that the Belleville and North Hastings Railway didn't reach either Belleville or North Hastings ?
text: Did you know that the Pennsylvania Game Commission maintains riprap on Hemlock Run ?
text: Did you know that " Trouble " was the promotional single for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie , and was described by Billboard as being as goofy as the film?
text: Did you know that Seattle Sounders FC 's trip to the 2014 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final was their fifth in six years?
text: Did you know that Gloucester, Massachusetts Mayor John S. Parsons led raids on the city's brothels while the City Marshal was otherwise engaged?
text: Did you know that Mas'ud Hai Rakah traveled to Libya to collect funds for the Jews of Jerusalem, and ended up serving as Chief Rabbi of Tripoli for 20 years?
text: Did you know that Fuck It, We'll Do It Live contains no overdubs and has several wrong notes?
text: Did you know that Louise Lincoln Kerr , a member of the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame , co-founded the National Society of Arts and Letters and Phoenix Symphony ?
text: Did you know that Australia will participate in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest , in honor of the competition's 60th edition?
text: Did you know that Minister-General Ananda Pyissi and his Royal Burmese Army twice failed to stop the first two Mongol invasions of Burma ?
text: Did you know that the cover artwork for Glenn Branca 's 1981 album The Ascension is by painter Robert Longo ?
text: Did you know that Charles Zukowski received the Presidential Young Investigator Award for his work in VLSI circuit simulation?
text: Did you know that in Tangled , the Walt Disney adaptation of the fairy tale " Rapunzel ", the princess is not rescued by a prince, but by a thief ?
text: Did you know that Premier Zhou Enlai called Qin Yi the most beautiful woman in China?
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text: Did you know that a quaranjavirus that can infect humans was discovered in 1953, but it took 60 years to classify it?
text: Did you know that Jack Zink was a mechanical engineer who received 35 patents for combustion equipment inventions, and was noted for his achievements in business, car racing, and philanthropy?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film Love and Friendship is based on Jane Austen 's epistolary novel, Lady Susan ?
text: Did you know that Patrick Fairweather was the first director of the Butrint Foundation , which aims to preserve and conserve Albania's Butrint archaeological site?
text: Did you know that the Kaushitaki Upanishad teaches that knowledge should be one's pursuit, not religious rituals?
text: Did you know that Alice H. Lichtenstein is the lead author of the American Heart Association 's Diet and Lifestyle Recommendations?
text: Did you know that on March 30, 1965, following the March 23 uprising , King Hassan II categorically wished illiteracy upon Moroccan intellectuals?
text: Did you know that "Smoke From Your Cigarette" by Lillian Leach and the Mellows was Lou Reed 's favorite song?
text: Did you know that the Post Instrument directly converted visual measurements of aircraft into map locations?
text: Did you know that in the Sanskrit epic poem Ramayana , Krodhavasa , wife of Kashyapa , was short-tempered, and the children born to her were ferocious animals, birds, and fish, all monsters with sharp teeth?
text: Did you know that Taruk , the present-day Burmese term for the Han Chinese , originally referred to the Turkic troops of the Mongol armies that invaded Burma between 1277 and 1287?
text: Did you know that rapper Rome Fortune 's Beautiful Pimp II EP features his grandfather on the vibraphone ?
text: Did you know that 280 people were injured, 30 cars were set on fire, and 8 bus stops were destroyed during a protest by the Blockupy movement ?
text: Did you know that Richard Wagner considered his future biographer to be "a bit over-excited for the level of his education"?
text: Did you know that Jeannette Corbiere Lavell served as president of the Native Women's Association of Canada ?
text: Did you know that Beyoncé and Jay-Z 's On the Run Tour was promoted by a faux movie trailer featuring eight celebrity cameos ?
text: Did you know that Karnes Hollow is named after a valley whose etymology is unknown?
text: Did you know that communist leader José Manuel Fortuny was a friend and adviser to Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz ?
text: Did you know that Bach used music of thanks from his cantata Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir , BWV 29 , for his final Dona nobis pacem (Grant us peace)?
text: Did you know that until 2008 there was no men's football officially played on Sundays in Northern Ireland ?
text: Did you know that Monique Watteau wrote feminist fantasy novels , raised monkeys, and drew a yeti for Hergé ?
text: Did you know that Farkhunda, an Afghan woman, was killed in Kabul by a mob for an incident of Quran -burning that she may or may not have committed?
text: Did you know that Nanticoke Creek has been erroneously referred to as Lee's Creek, Miller's Creek, Robbins Creek, Bobbs Creek, Rummage Creek, and Warrior Run Creek?
text: Did you know that American physician Cora Smith Eaton was the first woman to summit the East Peak of Mount Olympus , and eventually climbed all six of Washington 's major mountains?
text: Did you know that Snowden , the film about whistleblower Edward Snowden , currently in production, is based on The Snowden Files and Time of the Octopus ?
text: Did you know that naval officer and meteorologist Lawrence Hogben participated in the hunt for the battleship Bismarck , and later helped plan the Normandy landings ?
text: Did you know that the Western Australian pipe lily grows readily in cultivation?
text: Did you know that the 12th-century theologian Clement of Llanthony not only wrote a gospel harmony , but also a long commentary on the harmony?
text: Did you know that Jack Whitehall ran off the set during the filming of " La Couchette ", an episode of anthology series Inside No. 9 , to vomit?
text: Did you know that Cläre Jung has been called "the soul and muse" of a circle of Berlin-based expressionist poets that includes Else Lasker-Schüler ?
text: Did you know that the 2015 commission on police reform in the United States controversially recommended that independent prosecutors investigate when an officer kills a civilian while on duty?
text: Did you know that Brazilian footballer Caio Rangel signed for Italian club Cagliari in 2014?
text: Did you know that a train derailment in March 2015 killed fifty-eight people and injured more than 150 in Uttar Pradesh , India?
text: Did you know that the Mexican revolutionary Julia Nava de Ruisánchez created the country's first training institution for social workers?
text: Did you know that Figaro's divorce will take place in Cardiff more than two centuries after his marriage?
text: Did you know that as a nurse in rural Saskatchewan , Jean Cuthand Goodwill often reached emergency patients via bush plane or dog team ?
text: Did you know that the statue of Robert Peel was the final work by Matthew Noble to be completed?
text: Did you know that ISIL hostage Kayla Mueller once participated in the International Solidarity Movement in defending the homes of Palestinians ?
text: Did you know that Roy English, who lends his vocals to Alesso 's " Cool ", was originally a member of Eye Alaska ?
text: Did you know that a critic said that the heroine of Doris Lessing 's novel The Good Terrorist is neither a good person nor a good revolutionary?
text: Did you know that Stephen D. Dillaye , briefly the presidential nominee of the Union Greenback Labor Party , was once beaten in the head with a cane by a former Congressman?
text: Did you know that the "indescribable damage" caused by 5 inches (13 cm) of rain descending upon Coal Creek in 90 minutes did not qualify for federal aid?
text: Did you know that Jef Van Meirhaeghe was the most combative cyclist in Oman ?
text: Did you know that metabolites isolated from the porous sea rod show cytotoxic activity against human tumour cells?
text: Did you know that the psychologist May Smith spent three years studying the effects of fatigue on herself?
text: Did you know that East Fork Harveys Creek is impaired for an unknown reason?
text: Did you know that when paintings by Stanley Anderson were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, there was a "stampede" to buy them?
text: Did you know that when Battin High School closed in 1977, it was the last all-girls public high school in New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that the now- lost film September Morn concluded with a sailor having "Votes for Women" tattooed on his chest?
text: Did you know that before studying medicine and making significant contributions to modern neuroanatomy , South African neuroscientist W. Maxwell Cowan considered becoming an attorney?
text: Did you know that one of the four photographers filmed in Keepers of the Streak checked himself out of hospital after a heart attack to attend Super Bowl X ?
text: Did you know that Silvia Mistral 's book described how Barcelona appeared to burn at the end of the Spanish Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the High Desert Museum near Bend in central Oregon was founded by Donald M. Kerr ?
text: Did you know that after the National Liberation Council took over Ghana on February 24, 1966, covert operations specialist Robert Komer called their new government "almost pathetically pro-Western"?
text: Did you know that Louisa Parr 's novel Adam and Eve was used as a source of Cornish English in the English Dialect Dictionary ?
text: Did you know that no player has ever taken multiple hat-tricks in international women's cricket ?
text: Did you know that Fritchley Tunnel is believed to be the oldest surviving railway tunnel in the world?
text: Did you know that Elena Torres established the first Montessori school in Mexico?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film Patient Zero was originally known as Patient Z ?
text: Did you know that in Vedic literature , Gargi Vachaknavi is honored as one of the great natural philosophers, renowned expounder of the Vedas , and a person with knowledge of Brahmavidya ?
text: Did you know that in the early 20th century, John McHenry sold honey from the valley of Bee Sellers Hollow to locals?
text: Did you know that the W Ursae Majoris variable star system V1191 Cygni has one of the highest known rates of mass transfer ?
text: Did you know that Seymour Van Gundy was offered an assistantship at the University of Wisconsin to continue studying cucumbers ?
text: Did you know that the premiere of Erik Bergman 's only full-length opera, Det sjungande trädet ( The Singing Tree ), was delayed for over a year because of its complex staging requirements?
text: Did you know that Julieta Montaño , who was arrested during the 1980 Bolivian Coup , later served in the House of Deputies ?
text: Did you know that the 1986 Giro d'Italia was won by Roberto Visentini ?
text: Did you know that ‘Ofa Likiliki , a Tongan attorney and women's rights activist, won a Best Project award for her film Dear Tita from the Pan-Pacific Media Project in 2014?
text: Did you know that the Autonomous Turkish Cypriot Administration set up its own airline within months of its establishment?
text: Did you know that Jimi Hendrix Jnr appears in the music video for Beautiful People 's " If 60's Was 90's ", miming to Jimi Hendrix 's guitar solo?
text: Did you know that feminist writer Anne O'Hagan is thought to have written anonymously about the difficulties of living with an old-fashioned mother?
text: Did you know that missiles from USAF fighter planes started dozens of fires in the Battle of Palmdale ?
text: Did you know that Filipinki was the first Polish all-girl vocal group?
text: Did you know that Cecil and Frank Rhodes learnt how to ride a horse while staying with their aunt at the Manor House in Sleaford ?
text: Did you know that Benjamín "Tuca" Pardo , a character from the Argentine telenovela Graduados , made a cameo on Los vecinos en guerra ?
text: Did you know that the fossil stick insect Eoprephasma was described from two isolated forewings?
text: Did you know that to create Chrissy Skin Rug , artist Chrissy Conant was covered in Vaseline and silicone to make a life-size cast of her body?
text: Did you know that India and Sri Lanka shared the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy after the final was washed out twice?
text: Did you know that the 2015 mockumentary UKIP: The First 100 Days received more complaints to Ofcom than any programme from 2014?
text: Did you know that novelist Margarita Sharapova left Russia because she was told she would suffer for her books?
text: Did you know that Tom Brady is the only starting quarterback for the New England Patriots to lead the team to a Super Bowl victory?
text: Did you know that John Gosse Freeze was on the bar of Columbia County, Pennsylvania, for more than 60 years?
text: Did you know that Ariana Grande described the release of " Put Your Hearts Up " as " the worst moment of my life "?
text: Did you know that Herb Lotman was involved both in the development of the Chicken McNugget and the founding of the Women's PGA golf championship ?
text: Did you know that eastern Australia has a purple flag ?
text: Did you know that Sayaka Osakabe created a women's support network for workplace harassment and named it Matahara , formed from the words mat ernity a nd hara ssment, which has become a Japanese legal term?
text: Did you know that a borehole dug at the mouth of Gravel Run in the late 1800s revealed 38 different strata ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Mint Assistant Director Mary Margaret O'Reilly three times had her mandatory retirement extended by order of Franklin D. Roosevelt , but he refused when he was asked to extend it a fourth time?
text: Did you know that Know Your IX has been termed a "survivor-run, student-driven campaign to end campus sexual violence"?
text: Did you know that Ximena Cuevas is the first Mexican videographic artist whose works were acquired for the permanent collection of New York's MoMA ?
text: Did you know that after the sinking of HMS Bayano in 1915, thousands of Isle of Man residents turned out for the funeral procession even though none of the victims were from the island?
text: Did you know that when Eduardo Rodríguez broke his right arm at the age of seven, he learned how to pitch with his left arm?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Bauer Mock was the first former Taliesin fellow to join the Museum of Modern Art staff?
text: Did you know that Prisoners of the Sun ‍—‌the fourteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin ‍—‌was made into a musical in 2001?
text: Did you know that a 2003 study co-authored by Geoffrey Kabat and co-sponsored by the tobacco industry concluded that its results did not support a causal relation between passive smoking and mortality?
text: Did you know that the sea gooseberry Pleurobrachia pileus has fishing tentacles up to twenty times its body length?
text: Did you know that Concha Michel , whose grandfather was a feudal lord on the coast of Jalisco , Mexico, was a communist and supported women's farming collectives?
text: Did you know that the "whimsical physics toy" Donut County was inspired by locations in Bruce Springsteen songs?
text: Did you know that as a child, Alexander Raikhel wanted to be a scientist so badly that he deliberately failed a vision test so he could wear glasses?
text: Did you know that after being shot during an attempted robbery, Henry C. Gooding lived for over a decade with a bullet lodged near his heart?
text: Did you know that in 1985 the Fijian island of Viti Levu was hit by two tropical cyclones‍—‌ Nigel and Eric ‍—‌within 36 hours?
text: Did you know that Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett 's collaborative jazz album Cheek to Cheek won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album ?
text: Did you know that a massive Panamanian Flag flies above the statue of Amelia Denis de Icaza , who wrote Al Cerro Ancón ?
text: Did you know that in the early 1900s, Barnes Run and Wolffs Run made up 25 percent of the water supply of Hazleton, Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that elected Sloviansk mayor Nelya Shtepa has been jailed since 11 July 2014 for allegedly colluding with pro-Russian separatists ?
text: Did you know that some 18th-century estates employed garden hermits to dwell as living ornaments, sometimes dressed like druids , in purpose-built hermitages and follies ?
text: Did you know that the first clear use of the name " Palestine " was in the 5th century B.C. by Ancient Greek historian Herodotus ?
text: Did you know that Georges de Peyrebrune was "one of the most widely read women in France"?
text: Did you know that the Joint Agency Coordination Centre was established by Australia to coordinate the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 ?
text: Did you know that Angella D. Ferguson discovered that African-American infants learned to sit and stand at a younger age than European-American babies?
text: Did you know that the comb jelly Beroe cucumis feeds on other comb jellies, particularly Bolinopsis infundibulum ?
text: Did you know that on days that the Edah HaChareidis rabbinical court in Jerusalem adjudicated a divorce , its chief rabbi, Yisroel Moshe Dushinsky , would fast?
text: Did you know that Long Run is just half a mile (0.8 km) long?
text: Did you know that Anita Brenner refused to accept the Aztec Eagle , Mexico's highest award for foreigners?
text: Did you know that in the downloadable expansion Crusader Kings II: Sword of Islam , players can send their characters on the Hajj to Mecca ?
text: Did you know that when the French frigate Minerve attempted to ram the HMS Dido at the Action of 24 June 1795 , the British ship became suspended by its rigging from the French ship's bowsprit ?
text: Did you know that Arizona Territorial Justice John H. Campbell married the widow of his law partner and fellow Associate Justice, Frederick S. Nave ?
text: Did you know that the extinct ant Gesomyrmex germanicus was described from only four fossils?
text: Did you know that Kali , a fine art painter, was a veteran of the Polish resistance movement during World War II?
text: Did you know that the anti-vaccine book Melanie's Marvelous Measles has received over 1,000 one-star reviews on Amazon.com ?
text: Did you know that Sarah Marquis walked for three years across Asia and Australia, covering a distance of 20,000 kilometres (12,000 mi)?
text: Did you know that because of a pilgrimage to relics of St. Valentine, the basilica minor St. Valentin in Kiedrich has Gothic-carved pews for the congregation?
text: Did you know that the debut single by pop singer QT was conceived to market an energy drink of the same name?
text: Did you know that besides fish, the vermiculated fishing owl feeds on frogs, crabs, small mammals, and birds?
text: Did you know that Mariah Carey was unable to shoot a music video for " Never Too Far " because she was recovering from a physical and emotional breakdown?
text: Did you know that marine biologist Anne Rudloe of the Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory was also a Zen Buddhist Abbot?
text: Did you know that the Soviet Union's " Eighth Five-Year Plan " was technically its Seventh Five-Year Plan ?
text: Did you know that boxer Taishan Dong is named after a mountain ?
text: Did you know that Beirut V – Minet El Hosn electoral district was a single-member constituency used only in the 1953 Lebanese general election ?
text: Did you know that Deuane Sunnalath was blamed for the fatal incidents that led to a split in the Forces Armées Neutralistes ?
text: Did you know that celebrating his fiftieth birthday, Graham Waterhouse played the cello in his compositions for string quartet , some with a solo instrument?
text: Did you know that unlike most of Arizona's Territorial Secretaries, William Francis Nichols did not wish to become governor but instead declined an offer to be nominated?
text: Did you know that Brian Ellerbe would have been the only Michigan basketball head coach to have led his team to a Big Ten Tournament championship, but the victory was vacated due to a scandal ?
text: Did you know that Icelandic children's author Þórdís Gísladóttir writes about how to find out what goes on behind your neighbours' curtains?
text: Did you know that Peter Aduja was the first-ever Filipino American to hold major elected office in the United States?
text: Did you know that The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison has been lauded for successfully joining high fantasy and steampunk ?
text: Did you know that investigative journalist Arbana Xharra uncovered links to terrorist organizations while investigating religious extremism in Kosovo?
text: Did you know that at WrestleMania XXX , Daniel Bryan claimed the WWE World Heavyweight Championship by winning the first and last match of the pay-per-view ?
text: Did you know that no bids were received for the construction of a bridge over Black Ash Creek in 1900?
text: Did you know that writer Becky Birtha self-identifies as an African-American with Cherokee, Catawba, African, and Irish heritage?
text: Did you know that the comb jelly Beroe ovata can consume four times its body weight in a day?
text: Did you know that although Spring Run is designated as a Coldwater Fishery, it is devoid of trout?
text: Did you know that the Indian town of Arang is home to the 11th-century Jainist Bhand Deval temple where three huge sculptures of nude tirthankaras are deified?
text: Did you know that in 1958 Joseph Chader became the first Armenian government minister in Lebanon?
text: Did you know that the biography of Sessue Hayakawa won Duke University's John Hope Franklin Book Award?
text: Did you know that scholar Barbara Newman suggests that the multiple female figures in medieval Christianity were "distinctive creations of the Christian imagination" that deepened the medieval vision of God?
text: Did you know that the title of Van der Graaf Generator 's H to He, Who Am the Only One refers to the fusion of hydrogen nuclei to form helium ?
text: Did you know that in 2012 Complex ranked Sarah Kerrigan as the most evil woman in gaming?
text: Did you know that although Sugar Notch Run is impaired for its entire length, brook trout inhabit it upstream of the Hanover Area Recreation Fields?
text: Did you know that Kham Ouane Boupha supplied seven paratroopers for spying inside China ?
text: Did you know that the Washington Monument , the world's tallest obelisk , sustained more than 150 cracks from the 2011 Virginia earthquake ?
text: Did you know that the art of Imna Arroyo is based on the theme of "women's energy"?
text: Did you know that 336,000 Tutsi fled Rwanda during the Rwandan Revolution ?
text: Did you know that ornithologist Robert Ridgway consulted with inventor Milton Bradley and Smithsonian head Samuel Pierpont Langley to create a new dictionary of color names for naturalists?
text: Did you know that the directors of Quinceañera shot the film in their neighbors' houses and cast their cleaning lady in a role?
text: Did you know that the upside-down jellyfish has three different methods of obtaining nutrients?
text: Did you know that Austrian poet Doris Mühringer was mentored by Hans Weigel who became an early publisher of her works?
text: Did you know that the Advayataraka Upanishad defines a guru (teacher) as one who disperses darkness?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Army cancelled Project Camelot on the day Congress began investigating it?
text: Did you know that the child saint Sicarius of Brantôme was venerated as one of the infant victims of the Massacre of the Innocents ?
text: Did you know that Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is the second Tim Burton film to be shot in Tampa Bay , the first being Edward Scissorhands in 1989?
text: Did you know that the dance technique of Martha Graham gave at least one man "vagina envy"?
text: Did you know that in 2007, the high priest of Takht Sri Damdama Sahib , Balwant Singh Nandgarh , formed a Sikh group called Ek Noor Khalsa Fauj to stop the religious gathering of Dera Sacha Sauda ?
text: Did you know that a Spiderwoman Theater performance in Italy was cancelled for fear of riots?
text: Did you know that Niloofar Rahmani is Afghanistan's first female fixed-wing Air Force aviator?
text: Did you know that the Philippine documentary To Live for the Masses , on the life of former president Joseph Estrada , was initially given an "XXX" rating by the MTCRB and was banned from public exhibition?
text: Did you know that the May 18th National Cemetery commemorates victims of the Gwangju Uprising in Korea?
text: Did you know that just two of Stella Sierra 's many books are said to have confirmed the poet's "place in Panamanian letters"?
text: Did you know that Roaring Brook flows through Roaring Brook?
text: Did you know that though police investigating the disappearance of Leah Roberts found her wrecked Jeep 15 years ago today, they only looked under the hood in 2006 and saw the starter relay wire had been cut?
text: Did you know that the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge walked 22 miles (35 km) to preach at the Taunton Unitarian Chapel ?
text: Did you know that Tom Love dropped out of college twice before becoming the billionaire owner of Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores ?
text: Did you know that Abrahams Creek was named for a local Mohican chief?
text: Did you know that in the Shree Govindajee Temple in Imphal , Manipur, the plating of the domes is said to be made up of 30 kilograms (66 lb) of gold?
text: Did you know that Maria Elizabetha Jacson was wary of offending her society's conventions by writing about sexual classification?
text: Did you know that an Australian Gippsland waratah is thriving at Wakehurst Place ?
text: Did you know that Mexican singer Luis Miguel won the Lo Nuestro Awards for Pop Male Artist and Pop Album of the Year consecutively in 1994 and 1995 ?
text: Did you know that Frank Love 's father built Purcell 's Love Hotel?
text: Did you know that before becoming a conservation land, Willard's Woods was a 100-acre orchard ?
text: Did you know that the Northern Crown constellation was seen as an eagle's nest or boomerang by Indigenous Australians ?
text: Did you know that Women's Art Resources of Minnesota pairs emerging women artists with professionals in a mentorship program?
text: Did you know that during the Września children strike of 1901–04, ethnic Polish schoolchildren were flogged for protesting against religious instruction in German?
text: Did you know that Arizona Territorial Supreme Court Justice William Wood Porter 's most recognizable feature was his nose?
text: Did you know that the 22nd Arizona Territorial Legislature gave final passage to a women's suffrage bill on St. Patrick's Day 1903?
text: Did you know that unlike living species of the genus, the extinct ant Gesomyrmex pulcher is from Germany rather than Asia?
text: Did you know that scholar and linguist Elise Otté assisted her stepfather in translating the Elder Edda , but found working with him intolerable?
text: Did you know that in a double direct election , individuals are elected as representatives for two tiers of government in one election?
text: Did you know that the production team on the downloadable expansion Crusader Kings II: Sons of Abraham wanted the expulsion of Jews to hurt players in the long run?
text: Did you know that Cyclone Honorinina killed 99 people?
text: Did you know that Eleanor Cripps Kennedy led a clothing club during the grasshopper plagues?
text: Did you know that the lack of minorities and women in Shirley M. Malcom 's college classes later inspired her to manage the National Science Foundation 's Minority Institutions Science Improvement Program?
text: Did you know that " Fantasy " was the first song by a female to debut at number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 ?
text: Did you know that one of the tiaras now owned by Elizabeth II was rescued by Albert Stopford from the Vladimir Palace in Saint Petersburg just before the October Revolution ?
text: Did you know that in The Utopia of Rules , David Graeber argues that the "order and regularity" of bureaucracies are more harmful than valuable?
text: Did you know that Japanese undercover agent Suzuki Keiji posed as a reporter to enter Burma , where he helped found the Burmese Independence Army ?
text: Did you know that six Irish kings died in the Battle of Islandbridge ?
text: Did you know that when film producer William Fox first saw Life's Shop Window he suggested, "Let's burn the damn thing"?
text: Did you know that Naomi Sager helped develop the first computer program to parse English?
text: Did you know that the budget for the development of Red Dead Redemption was estimated at between US$80 million and $100 million?
text: Did you know that the Australian Pacific blue-eye was described from a specimen taken to Vienna?
text: Did you know that when Lieutenant General Hatazō Adachi learned of the Takenaga incident , he shed tears while praying to the emperor?
text: Did you know that contralto Marga Höffgen , known as a Bach singer for Karajan and as Erda in Bayreuth , recorded Max Reger's Requiem compositions ?
text: Did you know that The Village in the Jungle has been described as "the first novel in English literature to be written from the indigenous point of view rather than the coloniser's"?
text: Did you know that years of clashes with the far right cost Romanian Germanist Traian Bratu an earlobe?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Garnett's & Golding's Farm was a part of George B. McClellan 's failed attempt to take the Confederate capital of Richmond ?
text: Did you know that Musola Cathrine Kaseketi is Zambia 's first female professional film director?
text: Did you know that, when described, the brown lacewing species Wesmaelius mathewesi was the most ancient member of its subfamily?
text: Did you know that novel writer Regīna Ezera campaigned for a free Latvia , but suffered financially as a result of the fall of communism?
text: Did you know that Elvis & Nixon , currently in-production, centers on the December 1970 meeting between singer Elvis Presley and President Richard Nixon ?
text: Did you know that Verónica Diorio , a character on the Argentine telenovela Graduados , wore a Union Jack T-shirt on Malvinas Day ?
text: Did you know that the Master Apartments , a residential art deco skyscraper in New York City , takes its name from Master Morya , a non-corporeal spiritual leader?
text: Did you know that the winner of Best In Show at Crufts in 1987, Viscount Grant , was owned by Chris Amoo of the British Band The Real Thing ?
text: Did you know that policemen from the Directorate of National Coordination were co-opted into an airborne army unit?
text: Did you know that the Canadian-born psychiatrist Lydia Giberson was the first woman assistant vice president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company ?
text: Did you know that six years after The Debate Society produced their first show, A Thought About Raya , they produced A Thought About Ryan ?
text: Did you know that although both teams were strong in The Football League between 1976 and 1981, West Bromwich Albion only won once against Aston Villa in that period?
text: Did you know that the local Vlachs persuaded many " Hungarians , Saxons and other Catholics" who had settled in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cumania to join the Orthodox faith?
text: Did you know that one of Louisa Murray 's works was accidentally set on fire by the magazine that was to publish it?
text: Did you know that high school dropout Alex Cable collaborated on work that led to the Nobel Prize in Physics and founded Thorlabs , a company with US$ 200 million of annual sales?
text: Did you know that Julia Quinn won back-to-back RITA Awards for her Regency romances On the Way To the Wedding and The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever ?
text: Did you know that Ajith Kumar starred in Tamil cinema's first prequel ?
text: Did you know that Kanye West sings instead of raps his guest verse on " FourFiveSeconds "?
text: Did you know that after Gabriel Langfeldt diagnosed Knut Hamsun as having "permanently impaired mental capabilities", Hamsun portrayed Langfeldt negatively in his book On Overgrown Paths ?
text: Did you know that the molecular cloud in the Westerhout 40 nebula is shaped like a shepherd's crook and it is forming new stars ?
text: Did you know that Karen Boccalero , founding director of a community arts center, was remembered as a "progressive, chain-smoking, cussing nun"?
text: Did you know that Formula 1 is a motor racing themed board game originally published by Waddingtons in 1962?
text: Did you know that Manuel Erotikos Komnenos 's surname is believed to derive from the village of Komne in Thrace ?
text: Did you know that during World War II, Fritz Homann served as a fishing trawler , weather ship , Vorpostenboot and buoy tender ?
text: Did you know that The Times dubbed John Pickard one of Britain's top doctors?
text: Did you know that the announcement of the upcoming Adventure Time miniseries was called a "stunt"?
text: Did you know that Pippa Cross was inspired to enter the film and television industry after helping organise a BAFTA Awards ceremony?
text: Did you know that Zeblon Gwala, the inventor of the purported HIV/AIDS treatment ubhejane , has said he got the idea for its ingredients in a dream?
text: Did you know that Ilia Koshevoy won the 2013 Gran Premio della Liberazione by just one second?
text: Did you know that the novel The Peppered Moth is a fictional biography of Margaret Drabble 's mother, which Drabble's sister A.S. Byatt did not like?
text: Did you know that cardiologist and Gambian native Hannah Valantine is the Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity at the United States National Institutes of Health ?
text: Did you know that the Off the Air special " Dan Deacon: U.S.A. " features videos from artists worldwide, despite its national focus?
text: Did you know that Dagmar Hülsenberg , with a doctorate in both cost accounting and materials science , was the youngest professor in the German Democratic Republic ?
text: Did you know that Falls Run is one of eleven officially named streams in the watershed of Nescopeck Creek that has not been assessed by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission ?
text: Did you know that the fashion designer Zoran declared a woman's only jewelry should be her children or husband?
text: Did you know that Robert René Meyer-Sée was instrumental in organising the 1912 London exhibition of Futurist painting?
text: Did you know that Hezbollah candidate Hassan Fadlallah was elected from the Bint Jbeil district in 2009 with over 94% of the cast votes?
text: Did you know that the character Victoria Lauría , from the Argentine telenovela Graduados , was originally to have been played by actress Julieta Ortega , but she was later reassigned to another character?
text: Did you know that the Center for Biofilm Engineering at Montana State University tackles biofilm issues including chronic wounds , bioremediation , and microbial corrosion ?
text: Did you know that Geoffrey Talbot held lands around Swanscombe assessed as owing 20 knight's fees , as recorded in the Cartae Baronum ?
text: Did you know that two circumpolar stars known as The Indestructibles marked heaven as a destination for the Ancient Egyptian pharaohs?
text: Did you know that artist Janice Wright-Cheney turned old fur coats into hundreds of rats?
text: Did you know that the Carreidas 160 , the fictional supersonic business jet appearing in The Adventures of Tintin , featured " swing-wing " technology allowing its wings to assume any of three positions?
text: Did you know that Jalila Khamis Koko was awarded a "Heroes for Human Rights Award 2013" by the European Union Delegation to Sudan ?
text: Did you know that the launching of the semmelwrap became a viral success on Swedish social media?
text: Did you know that Jakub Mareczko was the most successful under-23 cyclist in Italy in 2014?
text: Did you know that the 1987 Hugh Masekela song " Bring Him Back Home (Nelson Mandela) " became the unofficial anthem of the anti-apartheid movement ?
text: Did you know that George Weil withdrew the control rod from Chicago Pile-1 nuclear reactor, initiating the first man-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction ?
text: Did you know that " the dress " actually was blue and black?
text: Did you know that Sara Goldrick-Rab 's advocacy of free community colleges in the United States influenced President Obama 's own plan ?
text: Did you know that the Italian cruiser Carlo Alberto was used for radio experiments by Guglielmo Marconi while serving as a royal yacht for King Victor Emmanuel III ?
text: Did you know that each member of The International Swingers band first came to public attention as a member of another band?
text: Did you know that in 1965 it was noted that despite summer droughts in the area, the Scotch Run tributary had never run dry for at least 52 years?
text: Did you know that Arizona Territorial Chief Justice Sumner Howard resigned to ease the appointment of John C. Shields , only to see Shields' nomination rejected by the United States Senate ?
text: Did you know that a browser game for the Christmas special of Uncle Grandpa features the titular character as he dances through children's houses to deliver presents?
text: Did you know that Spanish hurdler Maria José Martínez-Patiño forgot to bring her "certificate of femininity" to a competition and, after a test, was declared a man?
text: Did you know that economist Neil W. Chamberlain made major contributions as an industrial relations scholar, but eventually became disillusioned about his entire profession?
text: Did you know that York Hollow is named after three different people?
text: Did you know that Mrs Nicol played parts such as Mrs Malaprop in Edinburgh , and after she retired in 1834 her daughter performed similar roles there?
text: Did you know that St George's Roman Catholic Church in Taunton was not consecrated until 52 years after it opened?
text: Did you know that Nocomis platyrhynchus are brown on top but white on the bottom?
text: Did you know that Anne Beffort is remembered for her works on Victor Hugo and Alexandre Soumet , as well as for her support of French culture in Luxembourg?
text: Did you know that Swedish company Teenage Engineering has produced accessories for its OP-1 synthesizer that make it compatible with Lego motors?
text: Did you know that model Charlotte McKinney became "insta-famous" by posting pictures to Instagram ?
text: Did you know that in 1915 the US finished a 16-inch artillery piece that weighed 284,000 pounds (129,000 kg) and that could shoot a 2,400-pound (1,100 kg) shell 21 miles (34 km)?
text: Did you know that Reece Grego-Cox scored a goal from a distance of 50 yards for the Queens Park Rangers under-19 team, which the Daily Mirror compared to one by David Beckham ?
text: Did you know that J. R. R. Tolkien was shipped back to the UK on the HMHS Asturias after he got trench fever during the Battle of the Somme ?
text: Did you know that Thomas W. Talley , longtime chair of the chemistry department at Fisk University , also published the first compilation of African-American secular folk songs?
text: Did you know that when two winners were declared for the 1724 Taunton by-election , the High Sheriff of Somerset had to choose which to accept?
text: Did you know that the successful novelist Nell Zink wrote fiction for fifteen years for just one penpal?
text: Did you know that during the 1967 Opium War , both traffickers and their mules were bombed indiscriminately?
text: Did you know that fluorocarbon chemist Henry Aaron Hill was the first African-American president of the American Chemical Society ?
text: Did you know that the " UKIP Calypso " claims that the next British Prime Minister will be Farage ?
text: Did you know that Constance Ellis was the first woman to receive a medical degree from the University of Melbourne ?
text: Did you know that in Money Monster , a disgruntled viewer takes a TV financial adviser (played by George Clooney ) hostage after following a stock tip and losing all his money?
text: Did you know that Choo-tai of Egham , Best Champion at Crufts in 1913, was poisoned and killed later that year, something that was attributed to suffragettes ?
text: Did you know that art thief Vincenzo Pipino would also look for cashmere clothing when he raided a private residence?
text: Did you know that publicity-shy billionaire Ian Livingstone is married to a journalist for the celebrity gossip magazine OK! ?
text: Did you know that the Sri Lankan Constitution of 1972 changed the country's name to Sri Lanka from the old name Ceylon, and proclaimed it as an independent republic?
text: Did you know that mezzo-soprano Marie-Louise Gilles appeared in trousers roles in Wiesbaden and as a valkyrie in Bayreuth ?
text: Did you know that the surficial geology in the vicinity of Pond Creek includes Wisconsinan Till, alluvium , boulder alluvium, alluvial fan , bedrock consisting of sandstone and shale , and wetlands ?
text: Did you know that Rob Hart , NFL Europe 's all-time leading scorer, was a retailer at Virgin Records and a substitute teacher?
text: Did you know that Chain Reaction , an anti-nuclear war sculpture, was anonymously funded by Joan Kroc ?
text: Did you know that Filipino singer Jason Dy was often hired by men to serenade their loved ones?
text: Did you know that Laurel Run used to be "of considerable size and importance", but is now a "trickling flow of water"?
text: Did you know that after the Italian cruiser San Giorgio was scuttled in shallow water in 1941, the British commissioned its wreck as an immobile repair ship ?
text: Did you know that in 2014 the rapper RedCloud broke the Guiness World Record for longest freestyle rap ?
text: Did you know that the film India's Daughter is based on the 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman?
text: Did you know that the works of Georgette Heyer include her first novel The Black Moth (1921), which she based on a story she wrote for her haemophiliac younger brother?
text: Did you know that in 1891 a single specimen of Underworld windowskate was collected from the California coast, even though this fish is otherwise found only in the Atlantic ?
text: Did you know that Romanian literary critic Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică pushed for his country to enter World War I, and found himself deported to Bulgaria once that happened?
text: Did you know that a design by Jody Clark was selected to become the fifth definitive portrait of Elizabeth II on British coins ?
text: Did you know that Rogers Creek is also known as Marsh Creek, despite having a tributary named Marsh Creek?
text: Did you know that Italian soprano Teresina Brambilla was known for performing leading parts in operas by Amilcare Ponchielli , whom she married?
text: Did you know that as of 2002, St. Paul's Cathedral, Abidjan was the second largest cathedral in Africa, built at an estimated cost of US $12 million?
text: Did you know that Helen Papashvily 's story Anything can Happen argues that people should be tolerant of those who are not born in their country?
text: Did you know that the Legal Quays were once the only places in London at which ships were authorised to load and unload cargo?
text: Did you know that clothing manufacturer and self-taught cultural anthropologist Eli Sagan called his inclusion in Nixon's Enemies List his "proudest life moment"?
text: Did you know that Mongol-Manchu-Chinese-Canadian poet Chia-ying Yeh , a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada , was imprisoned with her baby during the White Terror of Taiwan?
text: Did you know that the first baseball World Series trophy, the Dauvray Cup , was funded by stage actress Helen Dauvray ?
text: Did you know that Yoko Hayashi helped investigate the accident at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Stations whilst also trying to eliminate discrimination against women ?
text: Did you know that The Last of Us received the most wins at the 10th British Academy Video Games Awards , collecting five BAFTAs ?
text: Did you know that although he defeated and drove Sayf al-Dawla out of Syria , Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid soon agreed to divide the country with him?
text: Did you know that the Sirima-Shastri Pact paved the way to Sri Lankan citizenship for 300,000 and repatriation to India for 525,000?
text: Did you know that advertising executive Jane Trahey persuaded Lauren Bacall , Marlene Dietrich , and Judy Garland to pose for an ad campaign, giving them each a mink coat as payment?
text: Did you know that Margaret Allen was the first woman to perform a heart transplant ?
text: Did you know that the Methodist church founder John Wesley gave a sermon about the treatment of his sister, the poet Mehetabel , at the hands of their father?
text: Did you know that on 8 March 2011, International Women's Day , Surekha Yadav became Asia's first woman train driver to drive the Deccan Queen from Pune to CST ?
text: Did you know that swimmer Dara Torres is a twelve-time Olympic medalist, has won medals in five different Summer Olympics, and is the oldest swimmer to ever win an Olympic medal?
text: Did you know that Miss Kamala (1936) was the first South Indian film to be directed by a woman?
text: Did you know that Alice Perry was the first woman to graduate as an engineer in Ireland and the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that the Chinese writer Lulu Wang is a best-selling Dutch-language author?
text: Did you know that Princess Sophia Singh campaigned for women's rights outside the palace where her godmother, Queen Victoria , had let her family live?
text: Did you know that if not for her high scores in high school, Xuemei Chen might not have been able to study plant physiology at Peking University ?
text: Did you know that Dope is cinematographer Rachel Morrison ' s seventh film to screen at the Sundance Film Festival in six consecutive years?
text: Did you know that Myra Adele Logan was the first woman to perform open heart surgery?
text: Did you know that teenage poet Marie Heiberg 's first book was Mure-lapse laulud (Songs of a Problem Child)?
text: Did you know that Bangalore Nagarathnamma , concert artist and promoter of the Thyagaraja Aradhana , was the first female artist in Madras to pay income tax?
text: Did you know that Sinah Estelle Kelley helped mass-produce penicillin for the U.S. Department of Agriculture following the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that men don't laugh at Ayelet the Kosher Komic 's jokes?
text: Did you know that 400,000 Argentines attended the 18F demonstration to protest the death of Alberto Nisman , despite torrential rain?
text: Did you know that Shah Rukh Khan has starred in six films produced by Dharma Productions ?
text: Did you know that Cuban poet Magaly Alabau and Ana María Simo founded Medusa's Revenge, New York's first lesbian theater?
text: Did you know that London Buses route 467 is the only London bus route to contain school extensions at both ends after adopting the duties of the Surrey bus route 833?
text: Did you know that Spencer Run used to be a tributary of Fishing Creek , but is now a tributary of West Creek ?
text: Did you know that Viola Hatch , of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes , was a founder of the National Indian Youth Council and an AIM activist?
text: Did you know that Bengal tigers in the Sundarbans East Wildlife Sanctuary have the reputation of being man-eaters ?
text: Did you know that on 11 September 2002 Andrew Dallmeyer premiered a one-man show in which he played Osama bin Laden as a shopping-mall Santa Claus ?
text: Did you know that the ICMEC and NCMEC's Global Missing Children's Network assists investigations across 22 participating countries?
text: Did you know that when Yale professor Kang-i Sun Chang was a young girl, her father was imprisoned in Taiwan and her grandfather committed suicide in China?
text: Did you know that when the Church of All Saints in Chipstable , Somerset, was rebuilt in 1869, it reused stone from the original church as much as possible?
text: Did you know that Kimberly Bryant founded Black Girls Code , an organization that aims to teach one million African-American girls to code by 2040?
text: Did you know that following its capture at the Battle of Mykonos in 1794, the French frigate Sibylle became "one of the finest frigates" of the Royal Navy ?
text: Did you know that Sports Illustrated stated that former Alabama State center Chief Kickingstallionsims had one of the greatest names in sports?
text: Did you know that T. Rex and the Crater of Doom details the development of the hypothesis that dinosaurs were wiped out by an impact event ?
text: Did you know that during the Spanish conquest of the Maya , the Spanish conquistadors preferred the cotton armour of their Maya enemies to their own steel armour?
text: Did you know that Australian physicist Eric Burhop led an international team at Fermilab that detected the Λ + c (charmed lambda baryon )?
text: Did you know that no date has been specified for admitting the public to California's Marsh Creek State Park , although the park was formally named on January 27, 2012?
text: Did you know that during the First World War, the UK Ministry of Labour allowed women to work at the Hughes Bolckow Ship wrecking company provided they didn't have to lift a sledgehammer weighing more than 5 pounds (2.3 kg)?
text: Did you know that Romanian psychologist Florian Ștefănescu-Goangă initially cooperated with the country's communist government, but ended up a political prisoner ?
text: Did you know that the Waldorf–Astoria Hotel 's famed maître d'hôtel , Oscar Tschirky , created the Waldorf salad , eggs Benedict , and Thousand Island dressing ?
text: Did you know that physicist Warren Elliot Henry learned quantum mechanics from Arthur Compton , nuclear theory from Wolfgang Pauli , and molecular spectra from Robert Millikan ‍—‌and played tennis with Enrico Fermi ?
text: Did you know that Guillaume Apollinaire wrote in The Cubist Painters (1913), "A man like Picasso studies an object as a surgeon dissects a cadaver"?
text: Did you know that Elvy Kalep , Estonia's first female aviator, was a friend of Amelia Earhart ?
text: Did you know that all the riders on the Armée de Terre cycling team are enlisted soldiers?
text: Did you know that Verrill's hermit crab sometimes makes use of a tube-like shell fixed to a rock and consequently becomes a filter feeder ?
text: Did you know that Lilian Knowles was Britain's second professor in Economic History and had been one of Girton College 's steamboat ladies ?
text: Did you know that in the 1947 film The Beginning or the End , when Vannevar Bush tells President Franklin Roosevelt that he has a top-secret matter to discuss, Roosevelt's dog Fala leaves the room?
text: Did you know that Lyle Stevik 's true identity has never been discovered?
text: Did you know that although the Battle of Vientiane caused some 600 civilian deaths, the losing military force escaped intact?
text: Did you know that although Alabama Chief Justice and botanist Thomas Minott Peters owned slaves before the Civil War, he later championed equal rights for African Americans and women, and wanted Jefferson Davis hanged?
text: Did you know that Abbey Brewing Company , founded in 2005 in Abiquiu, New Mexico , is the first American monastic brewery founded since before Prohibition ?
text: Did you know that the Hamdanid prince Abu Firas , widely regarded as one of the greatest Arab poets , wrote his most renowned work while a Byzantine prisoner of war ?
text: Did you know that Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 329 are the smallest state game lands in Columbia County?
text: Did you know that the LGBT drama series Cucumber , Banana , and Tofu are all named after the same study of the male erection ?
text: Did you know that Philadelphia Phillies infielder Freddy Galvis participated in the Little World Series and subsequently, at age 16, signed his first contract?
text: Did you know that when 4 inches (10 cm) of rain fell in 45 minutes in the watershed of Coal Creek , causing it to flood severely, Wadham Creek (less than a mile away) did not even overflow its banks?
text: Did you know that Marta Lamas co-founded the first feminist newspaper supplement in Mexico?
text: Did you know that the Skanda Upanishad preaches the unity of Vishnu and Shiva , gods of the rival Hindu sects?
text: Did you know that Plant 1 of Snoqualmie Falls Hydroelectric Plant , completed in 1899, was the first completely underground hydroelectric power plant ?
text: Did you know that the leaf curl plum aphid and the thistle aphid have two hosts , spending part of the year on stone fruits and part on other plants?
text: Did you know that the opera La Loca ( The Madwoman ) was written as a vehicle for Beverly Sills in honor of her 50th birthday?
text: Did you know that the first woman elected to the Geological Society of America, Mary Emilie Holmes , was also one of the cofounders of a historically black college?
text: Did you know that the common water moss provides a protective habitat for fish eggs and aquatic invertebrates?
text: Did you know that film producer Lisa Bruce began working on The Theory of Everything in 2009, but it was only released in 2014?
text: Did you know that the electoral district Beirut I had the largest concentration of Jewish voters in Lebanon?
text: Did you know that Dame Lowell Goddard is believed to be the first person of Māori ancestry to become a High Court judge in New Zealand?
text: Did you know that Grand Canyon freshman Miroslav Jakšić made his first college basketball appearance against No. 1 Kentucky ?
text: Did you know that a founding abbess of the restored convent of Sant'Ambrogio della Massima was convicted of pretending to be a saint?
text: Did you know that Team Roompot only hires Dutch cyclists?
text: Did you know that Salvador Alvarado drove the first feminist Congress in Mexico , which was held in Mérida, Yucatán in 1916?
text: Did you know that Vasudeva Upanishad extols Vaishnava sectarian marks?
text: Did you know that the first gristmill and the first sawmill in Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania were both built on Gardner Creek ?
text: Did you know that fifteen species of dragonfly have been recorded in Rodley Nature Reserve in West Yorkshire ?
text: Did you know that Frances Ames was the first woman to receive a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Cape Town?
text: Did you know that according to some sources, the Serbian despot Đurađ Branković bribed the Ottoman commander Turahan Bey to stand back from the Battle of Kunovica ?
text: Did you know that the northern cup coral often contains symbiotic zooxanthellae in its tissues, whereas the southern cup coral does not?
text: Did you know that the villagers of Hodal in Herjedalen sent Olav Trondsson a 6-pound (2.7 kg) pike as a gift?
text: Did you know that the Royal Navy 's 1793 Raid on Genoa ‍—‌intended to intimidate the city of Genoa into submission‍—‌had the opposite effect?
text: Did you know that Warrick Couch has spent his career researching how galaxies form, evolve with time, and are organised in the universe?
text: Did you know that the Every Kid in a Park initiative will begin in the fall of 2015, just before the U.S. National Park Service 's 100th anniversary in 2016?
text: Did you know that Miss P is the second beagle to win Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show , and her great-uncle was the first?
text: Did you know that S.O.A.P. encouraged their fans to come up with a backronym for their name, though they were unimpressed by the "countless unsavoury submissions"?
text: Did you know that Mila Tupper Maynard is thought to have been the first female minister in Nevada ?
text: Did you know that Edward Burne-Jones took twelve years (1870–82) to complete The Mill ?
text: Did you know that the German fighter pilot Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke was probably shot down by the American fighter pilots Don Gentile and John Trevor Godfrey ?
text: Did you know that the Sequential Circuits Prophet 2000 , manufactured in 1985, was one of the first samplers able to trigger multiple samples at once?
text: Did you know that the engineer Willie Hobbs Moore , credited with expanding Japanese manufacturing practices at Ford Motor Company , was the first African-American woman to receive a PhD in physics?
text: Did you know that a football cup final was moved to Holm Park after one of the teams involved had allegedly received threats?
text: Did you know that the cinematographer John Guleserian was hired to shoot the 2015 sex comedy The Overnight after his wife introduced him to the film's director?
text: Did you know that Atma Upanishad tells about three types of "Self"?
text: Did you know that after members of the Artists Union occupied the New York Federal Art Project offices in 1936, police arrested 219 of them, the largest-ever arrest in the city?
text: Did you know that Anastasia Gosteva 's fantastic tale Большой взрыв и черепахи (2006), translated by Boris Meshcheryakov as Big Bang and Turtles , has been published by UNESCO online?
text: Did you know that approximately $40 million was spent on marketing Game of War: Fire Age ?
text: Did you know that the 2013 Ontario budget repealed a sales tax sunset provision so that the government could collect tax debts?
text: Did you know that model and actress Pia Miller is the first Australian celebrity tourism ambassador for Chile ?
text: Did you know that Harveys Lake , the largest natural lake in Pennsylvania by volume, was discovered by accident?
text: Did you know that the 2015 Football League Cup Final is a repeat of the 2008 Final between Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur ?
text: Did you know that in the 1960s, Kamal Ranadive established India's first tissue culture research laboratory at the Indian Cancer Research Centre in Mumbai ?
text: Did you know that six bridges were built across Toby Creek in 1941 alone, and four were built in 1963?
text: Did you know that a scene from Resident Evil 5 was submitted to the British Board of Film Classification due to a complaint of racism?
text: Did you know that American boxer Cletus Seldin was named after former New York Yankees third baseman Clete Boyer ?
text: Did you know that the dominant species of mangrove in the Sundarbans is being seriously affected by top dying disease ?
text: Did you know that Eleanor Winthrop Young was the first president of the Pinnacle Club , an association for women interested in "the climbing art"?
text: Did you know that Corrado Miraglia , who created the role of Ismaele in Verdi's opera Nabucco , became a soloist at the Milan Cathedral when he retired from the stage?
text: Did you know that the main Michillinda Lodge building in Whitehall, Michigan , was 110 years old when it burned down in 2012?
text: Did you know that immunologist Mary Loveless collected and prepared some 30,000 insects to use for her research into insect venom allergies?
text: Did you know that when the Neutralists chose sides in the Laotian Civil War , the Patriotic Neutralists went to the communists?
text: Did you know that in 2006 Verónica Cruz Sánchez became the first Mexican human rights activist to be awarded the Defender of Human Rights award from HRW ?
text: Did you know that Rihanna 's song " Towards the Sun " was compared to her collaboration with Coldplay , " Princess of China "?
text: Did you know that Brigadier General Alfred Judson Force Moody died of a heart attack shortly after arriving in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you know that the Ku Klux Klan in Canada , established in the 1920s, once included a Conservative Member of Parliament in the House of Commons and had liberal, conservative, and progressive supporters?
text: Did you know that future Syracuse lacrosse coach Roy Simmons Sr. was expelled from the University of Chicago for playing in a high school football game?
text: Did you know that China's Qianlong Emperor called off his annual imperial hunt to receive Lord Macartney ?
text: Did you know that a US$399 limited edition of Borderlands: The Handsome Collection includes a remote-controlled Claptrap ?
text: Did you know that Belgian cinematographer Benoît Debie spent ten years working in television before shooting his first feature film?
text: Did you know that after the Catalan village of Conill was abandoned, one of its buildings was demolished in order to move its olive press to a public park in a nearby town?
text: Did you know that Lady Gaga recorded the song "Till It Happens to You" for the 2015 film The Hunting Ground ?
text: Did you know that the Afrikaans-language author Bartho Smit 's play Putsonderwater could not be performed in his home country of South Africa because of its political message?
text: Did you know that the construction of Palais Lantivy was part of the plan to develop and honour the town where Napoleon Bonaparte was born?
text: Did you know that a dam on White Oak Run was once found to have spillway only capable of handling 110% of the Probable Maximum Flood without overtopping?
text: Did you know that Julianne Moore has won acting awards from the Berlin , Cannes , and Venice film festivals as well as the Best Actress Oscar ?
text: Did you know that the planning process for the new Forge Wood neighbourhood of Crawley took 13 years?
text: Did you know that safety behaviors can promote anxiety and fear in nonthreatening situations?
text: Did you know that Nicole Matthews and Portia Perez make up the tag team The Canadian NINJAs , which is short for National International Nation of Jalapeño Awesomeness?
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text: Did you know that Elda Emma Anderson prepared the first sample of pure uranium-235 at the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory ?
text: Did you know that one of the passengers of the wrecked steamship SS Nile escaped its sinking because he spent too long ashore drinking with a friend?
text: Did you know that the Tamil poet Vairamuthu is the most frequent winner of the Indian National Film Award for Best Lyrics , winning six times?
text: Did you know that A Hill Above the Clouds documents Vesna Krmpotić 's journey to a faith embracing aspects of Ancient Egyptian and Indian philosophies, during her futile efforts to save her son from leukemia ?
text: Did you know that György Kurtág completed Stele as composer-in-residence with the Berlin Philharmonic , dedicating it to the orchestra and conductor Claudio Abbado ?
text: Did you know that in a Girl Scout troop formed at the Clinton Engineer Works , girls were registered just by their first names in order to safeguard their fathers' identities?
text: Did you know that David Earle choreographed a recreation of the Stations of the Cross ?
text: Did you know that Fran Kirby scored nine goals for Reading in her first two 2015 Women's Super League appearances?
text: Did you know that Super Mario Land was the first Super Mario series game made without Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto ?
text: Did you know that Ha Gorge in Crete is about 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) deep and the fissure is said to be one of the largest in the world?
text: Did you know that Frederick Whitworth Aylmer was awarded the royal order of St Ferdinand and of Merit for his part in the Bombardment of Algiers ?
text: Did you know that the airing of Premier Boxing Champions on NBC marked the first time the network broadcast a boxing event in prime time in 30 years?
text: Did you know that a bronze statue of Nelson Mandela is dancing the "Madiba jive" ?
text: Did you know that the 2015 Scottish Cup Final will be the first appearance in the final for Inverness Caledonian Thistle ?
text: Did you know that the anatomy of the nude figures of Conrad Meit draws more from the works of Albrecht Dürer than from classical sculpture?
text: Did you know that Cortina , Italy 's premier ski resort , has over 50 cable cars and lifts in the Boite valley?
text: Did you know that several of Banjo-Tooie 's cut features were made available in its updated version , nine years later?
text: Did you know that a pioneer of women's rowing, Amy Gentry , assisted Barnes Wallis with his experiments to develop a bouncing bomb ?
text: Did you know that according to legend, the twin towers of Färlöv Church in Sweden were built by a knight 's wife to let him know he had twins?
text: Did you know that Zohre Esmaeli fled from Afghanistan to Germany at age thirteen and is now an internationally sought-after model?
text: Did you know that the 2013 IAM Cycling season was the first for the team ?
text: Did you know that Yazd Atash Behram of Iran is one of the nine Atash Behrams , the other eight being in India?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film Captive depicts the true story of Brian Nichols ?
text: Did you know that after ruling less than three months, Queen Berengaria of Castile abdicated in favor of her son?
text: Did you know that a protest movement began after excrement was thrown at a university statue in South Africa?
text: Did you know that Indian actress Parineeti Chopra won the National Film Award – Special Mention for her first lead role in the 2012 romantic drama Ishaqzaade ?
text: Did you know that Andado Station takes its name from the Arrente word for stone tool ?
text: Did you know that the Vana Parva of the Mahabharata states that to destroy the embryo of a woman, Kadru the serpent enters her womb by assuming a very tiny form called Skanda graha ?
text: Did you know that the female swimming marine mollusc Firoloida desmarestia has a string of eggs in various stages of development trailing behind her?
text: Did you know that Barbara Swan illustrated books by two Pulitzer Prize -winning poets?
text: Did you know that Brett Gelman called his special Dinner with Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends a combination of Dinner for Five and The Shining ?
text: Did you know that the 1907 Fiat 130 HP racer had wooden wheels?
text: Did you know that Nobel Prize winner Harry Markowitz , who has been called the father of the modern portfolio theory , wrote that A.D. Roy could equally claim to be the father of the theory?
text: Did you know that an inscription found in the ancient port city of Syedra on the southern coast of Turkey advised residents to resist pirates with "violent battle" and "unbreakable chains?"
text: Did you know that Steeve Briois is the first politician for Front National to receive one of Le Trombinoscope 's yearly prizes for politicians?
text: Did you know that when Thomas Jefferson 's daughter Martha expressed a desire to become a nun, he ended her education at Pentemont Abbey ?
text: Did you know that Acoustic Classics includes a song called "From Galway to Graceland" about an Irish woman who is convinced she is married to Elvis Presley ?
text: Did you know that West Virginia lawyer Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy was appointed by Governor Homer A. Holt to the Charleston Civil Service Board, on which he served as president and spokesperson?
text: Did you know that Kou Kiet was supported by 200 flights per day?
text: Did you know that Maria Quisling was given a lock of hair by her husband Vidkun before his execution in 1945 for collaborating with the Nazis in Norway ?
text: Did you know that the newest MARC Train commuter rail station is not planned to open until 2040?
text: Did you know that German activist Josephine Witt disrupted a European Central Bank press conference and showered ECB president Mario Draghi with confetti?
text: Did you know that the Champion County match is played with a pink cricket ball?
text: Did you know that The Airfield has retractable floodlights because of a nearby working runway?
text: Did you know that the autobiographical novel A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz ends with the suicide of the author's father?
text: Did you know that Zelia N. Breaux owned the only black theater in Oklahoma City and hired many jazz artists, but taught her students Charlie Christian , Jimmy Rushing , and Ralph Ellison classical music theory?
text: Did you know that Fidel Castro preferred to meet foreign diplomats early in the morning, believing they would be tired and easily persuaded during negotiations?
text: Did you know that paintings by the Kiowa artist David E. Williams were chosen by Vincent Price to be sold in the Sears Fine Art collection?
text: Did you know that it is a rite of passage for professional wrestlers to dine at Ribera Steakhouse when in Japan?
text: Did you know that a site along Little Roaring Brook has prehistoric archaeological significance?
text: Did you know that in 1521, the Danish King Christian II had the abbot and five monks of Nydala Abbey drowned even though they had sheltered him for the night?
text: Did you know that the Nobel laureate James Rainwater collapsed after a lecture but a student revived him via CPR ?
text: Did you know that Siegfried Kracauer called the 1920 film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari a premonition of the rise of Adolf Hitler , because it spoke to a subconscious need in German society for a tyrant?
text: Did you know that on his 2015 single, " Mr. Put It Down ", Ricky Martin uses processed vocals and his falsetto to deliver the lyrical content?
text: Did you know that Michigan 's Matt Elliott went on to play four years in the NFL despite being " Mr. Irrelevant " in 1992?
text: Did you know that in 2002, the Theta Land Corporation leased land along Panther Creek to the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission for $1 per year?
text: Did you know that Rik Vercoe gunned down the world record at the 2014 London Marathon for the "fastest runner dressed as a cowboy" but was pipped to the post by the "fastest jockey"?
text: Did you know that the first part of Glee 's two-part series finale, " 2009 ", was initially announced as airing three weeks prior to the finale date?
text: Did you know that the investigative journalist David Marchant was responsible for exposing the Ponzi scheme at First International Bank of Grenada ?
text: Did you know that the Espy Bog is the only site in Columbia County, Pennsylvania where organic soils have been observed?
text: Did you know that Bob Drury earned $20 for his first published news story?
text: Did you know that though many critics saw " The 12 Days of Christine ", an episode of Inside No. 9 , as a representation of a life review , Andrew Billen interpreted it as a story about early-onset Alzheimer's ?
text: Did you know that the holy wells of SS Fagan & Deruvian were credited as curative for " the falling sickness " and paralysis , respectively?
text: Did you know that Rattlesnake Creek is Class A Wild Trout Waters for its last 2.2 miles (3.5 km), despite being closed to the public on that stretch?
text: Did you know that Lazio 's run to the 2015 Coppa Italia Final began with a 7–0 victory over Bassano Virtus ?
text: Did you know that Margo Humphrey based her colorful The Last Bar-B-Que on The Last Supper, creating one of the "iconic images in American visual culture?
text: Did you know that in 1935, Thor Solberg became the first person to fly from the United States to Norway?
text: Did you know that the Aam Aadmi Party won 67 out of 70 seats‍—‌including Nerela , Krishna Nagar , Gokalpur , Sultan Pur Majra , Tri Nagar , Vikaspuri , Matia Mahal , Madipur , Model Town , Shalimar Bagh , Hari Nagar , and Rohtas Nagar ‍—‌in the 2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly election ?
text: Did you know that Green Run is not only Class A, Wild Trout Waters, but it meets the criteria for an Exceptional Value designation?
text: Did you know that the Earl of Ashburnham 's yacht ran guns to Spanish rebels?
text: Did you know that Robert Power has been described as "unbelievably talented" and "one of the most exciting climbing talents ... in Australian cycling for a very, very long time"?
text: Did you know that the English footballer Tim Chow was to be released by Wigan Athletic in 2015, but after a change of manager he was given a new contract?
text: Did you know that newspaper publisher Bob Brown became involved with the mob in order to keep the Valley Times in business?
text: Did you know that certain offences from Singapore 's new anti-harassment law include online acts committed outside of the nation ?
text: Did you know that in reaction to child sexual exploitation cases in Rochdale and in Rotherham , police investigated and prosecuted a similar case in Peterborough ?
text: Did you know that Béla Bartók composed his Rhapsody, Op. 1 , in Lisztian style?
text: Did you know that Jane Spencer, Baroness Churchill , the longest serving member of Queen Victoria 's personal household, predeceased the monarch by one month?
text: Did you know that the Parade All-America Boys Basketball Team is the longest-running selection of high school basketball All-Americans in the United States?
text: Did you know that the early DVD release of The Last Proletarians of Football was shipped with a pennant claiming that Hamburger SV won the 1982 UEFA Cup Final , even though that team lost the final?
text: Did you know that Rowley Richards was a prisoner of war of the Japanese when the transport he was on was sunk by a US submarine?
text: Did you know that Aubrey Dawkins and Muhammad Ali Abdur Rahkman became starters for the 2014–15 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team when Caris LeVert and Derrick Walton had season-ending injuries in January?
text: Did you know that during archaeological excavations in Dah Parvatiya in 1924 a sixth-century antiquity unearthed is in the form of a stone door frame with extensive carvings?
text: Did you know that Rock Band 4 will drop its predecessor 's focus on musical instruction in favor of its core experience?
text: Did you know that the New Zealand actress Zoe Cramond fractured four ribs while competing on Dancing with the Stars ?
text: Did you know that the emerging adult giant waterfall damsel looks like a trembling green leaf, closely resembling the foliage nearby?
text: Did you know that Chicana artist Santa Barraza uses motifs from folk art to express a sense of spirituality in her work?
text: Did you know that Google allows advertisers to use third-party trademarks in their advertising text and also as their advertisement keywords?
text: Did you know that Armenia's diplomatic relations with Croatia are handled through its embassy in Rome ?
text: Did you know that Christopher Hornsrud was the first from the Labour Party to become Prime Minister of Norway , and the longest-living person to ever hold that position?
text: Did you know that Aegirocassis is the earliest example of massive filter-feeder animals discovered?
text: Did you know that George Washington refused to accept a marble bust of himself as a gift, and wouldn't pay $1,500 for it either?
text: Did you know that there is no evidence that an English Flowermaiden was Richard Wagner 's nemesis?
text: Did you know that Luciano Berio's The Modification and Instrumentation of a Famous Hornpipe as a Merry and Altogether Sincere Homage to Uncle Alfred takes only one minute to perform?
text: Did you know that the Muslim communist leader Liu Geping accompanied the Dalai Lama on his tour of China?
text: Did you know that the multicoloured tanager is a species of bird endemic to Colombia, threatened by habitat destruction and fragmentation ?
text: Did you know that singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler is the first Academy Award winner from Uruguay?
text: Did you know that most of " Cold Comfort ", an episode of the British dark comedy Inside No. 9 , is made up of footage from a fixed camera in a call centre booth?
text: Did you know that 10-year-old Uthara Unnikrishnan is the youngest-ever recipient of the Indian National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer ?
text: Did you know that Többens and Schultz , owned and operated by two major war profiteers in the Warsaw Ghetto , supplied the German army with uniforms, socks, and other garments?
text: Did you know that the extinct brown lacewing Cretomerobius is known from both the Cretaceous and Eocene?
text: Did you know that David Pla is believed to be one of the three people who read out ETA 's October 2011 ceasefire declaration?
text: Did you know that the phantom Dragon's Tail peninsula was part of the reason that Christopher Columbus thought he had reached East Asia in 1492?
text: Did you know that triple amputee Bryan Anderson credits his smoking habit with saving his right hand?
text: Did you know that Rosina Heikel was the first woman from the Nordic countries to become a physician?
text: Did you know that people in China and Japan called Europe the Far West ?
text: Did you know that his son's refusal to pay a hut tax led to the siege of Baphuthi chief Morosi on a mountaintop, culminating in his death and decapitation?
text: Did you know that the in-production Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur is the first of a planned six-film series?
text: Did you know that Australian rules footballer Ken Seymour unofficially equalled the Australian record for the 110-yard breaststroke during a trial swim?
text: Did you know that in many Greek restaurants in Greece, it is not considered impolite for guests to enter the kitchen to see what is cooking before ordering?
text: Did you know that in 2007, the tiny hydrozoan jellyfish Muggiaea atlantica killed 100,000 farmed salmon in Norway?
text: Did you know that Vishal Bhardwaj won two National Film Awards for writing and composing the music for the film Haider (2014), which he also directed and co-produced?
text: Did you know that yacht designer Tom Fexas worked on the Ohio -class submarines earlier in his career?
text: Did you know that Kazi Nazrul Islam was arrested by the Bengal Presidency police in 1923 for publishing an anti-British poem in his Dhumketu biweekly ?
text: Did you know that the Vrmac Fortress was the centrepiece of the Austro-Hungarian Empire 's defences around Kotor in Montenegro ?
text: Did you know that in 1950 Ronnie Fraser stood as a candidate for the UK Parliament, even though he was too young to vote in that election?
text: Did you know that Siho Lamphouthacoul loaded his police force on landing craft to take over Vientiane ?
text: Did you know that A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy was the first American prime-time documentary aimed at a female audience?
text: Did you know that 99 high-ranking officials in China have been implicated in an anti-corruption campaign that began in 2013?
text: Did you know that expectations for the basketball player Schea Cotton were "as great as any pre-high school aged player ever, even LeBron James "?
text: Did you know that the 1993 Cambodian general election that took place between 23 and 28 May 1993 was conducted by the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC)?
text: Did you know that money launderer Marc Harris started his accountancy firm with a $5000 advance on his credit card?
text: Did you know that the Amal Women's Training Center and Moroccan Restaurant provides disadvantaged Moroccan women with job training and experience in the culinary arts ?
text: Did you know that Sydney DeYoung purchased the DeYoung Red Diamond , the third-largest red diamond ever found, at a flea market ?
text: Did you know that Captain Isaac Randell and his crew rescued 35 men from the North Atlantic ice where they had spent two nights exposed to freezing rain and blowing snow without shelter or food?
text: Did you know that the Croatian parliamentary election of 1990 was the first free, multiparty election for the nation's parliament since 1913?
text: Did you know that a new documentary recounts how Italian cycling champion Gino Bartali risked his life to rescue hundreds of Jews and partisans during World War II, but never spoke of it until late in life?
text: Did you know that at a dinner, director Fritz Lang bit Florence Marly 's hand?
text: Did you know that British producer Danny L Harle composed chamber music that used video game consoles as instruments?
text: Did you know that Mosquito Creek Lake is the second largest inland lake in Ohio ?
text: Did you know that the title of Caravan 's In the Land of Grey and Pink comes from Richard Sinclair looking at the grey and pink sky during sunset in Kent ?
text: Did you know that before Ma Xingrui was appointed Communist Party secretary of Shenzhen , he was chief commander of China's first lunar exploration mission ?
text: Did you know that tesserae on Venus are areas of high radar reflectivity?
text: Did you know that Pyrrhus of Epirus was killed at Argos after being hit on the head with a tile during Pyrrhus' invasion of the Peloponnese ?
text: Did you know that Sivaji Ganesan won Best Actor for Veerapandiya Kattabomman at the 1960 Afro-Asian Film Festival, becoming the first Indian actor to win in that category in an international film festival?
text: Did you know that Thao Ma 's 1973 Laotian coup bombed?
text: Did you know that the concentration camp survivor Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss wrote many poems about the Holocaust and its victims, which included her husband and son?
text: Did you know that since production ceased at Bass Maltings in Sleaford , the complex has been used for rearing chickens?
text: Did you know that Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign began with a road trip from New York to Iowa in a customized Chevrolet Express van?
text: Did you know that The Last of Us is considered by many critics to be one of the greatest video games of all time ?
text: Did you know that the Carrington House and the Cherry Grove Community House and Theatre‎‎ are two of only five properties listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places for their contributions to LGBT history ?
text: Did you know that the Siege of Sparta failed despite the deployment of 24 war elephants ?
text: Did you know that Nintendo deemed the original Super Mario Bros. 2 too difficult for Americans, who instead received a repurposed version of an unrelated game as their Super Mario Bros. 2 ?
text: Did you know that Annakarin Svedberg wrote a pornographic parody of Little Red Riding Hood ?
text: Did you know that the 2015 Anbar offensive launched by ISIS coincided with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi 's visit to Washington ?
text: Did you know that the hotelier Ruth Guler thought nothing of throwing drunken guests out onto the streets of Klosters ?
text: Did you know that Photos for OS X replaced two programs, iPhoto and Aperture ?
text: Did you know that the book Three Came Home was made into a film featuring Claudette Colbert ?
text: Did you know that Six Springs Creek was once described as "a catch basin for runoffs from a car wash, laundromat and malfunctioning septic tanks", but has since been designated a High-Quality Coldwater Fishery?
text: Did you know that the original Boston Expressionists were known as "the bad boys of Boston"?
text: Did you know that edible seaweed , royal jelly , and stinky tofu are all examples of specialty foods ?
text: Did you know that a Roman Catholic church in Abucay, Bataan , housed one of the earliest printing presses in the Philippines ?
text: Did you know that the surficial geology in the vicinity of Trout Creek includes bedrock, Wisconsinan Till, alluvium, fill, wetlands, and lakes?
text: Did you know that the final six episodes of the first season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. were informed by the events in the film Captain America: The Winter Soldier ?
text: Did you know that Body Glove surf brand founders Bill and Bob Meistrell taught themselves to dive in Missouri ponds using a bicycle pump, a garden hose and a diving helmet cobbled from household supplies?
text: Did you know that the arrow worm Parasagitta setosa eats about 85% of its body weight each day?
text: Did you know that medical professor W. A. Lambeth , dubbed the "father of intercollegiate athletics" at the University of Virginia , wrote a study of Jeffersonian architecture ?
text: Did you know that Dennis Marks survived Life with an Idiot to film The Diary of One Who Disappeared ?
text: Did you know that Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 58 are one of only three tracts of public forest in the watershed of Catawissa Creek ?
text: Did you know that Domoni 's wedding ceremonies include a type of bullfight?
text: Did you know that despite having "little film-industry credibility", Brenda Sexton increased filmmaking-related spending in Illinois by 147 percent in her first year at the Illinois Film Office?
text: Did you know that the Battle for Outpost Vegas and the surrounding outposts during the Korean War is considered the bloodiest fighting up to that time in western Korea?
text: Did you know that outbreaks of the Oriental migratory locust in China have been controlled with a fungal pathogen ?
text: Did you know that anti-abortion rhetoric by the Turkish government prompted abortion tours to Northern Cyprus ?
text: Did you know that poetess Silva Kaputikyan returned the medal awarded her by the Armenian president after a violent crackdown on an opposition demonstration?
text: Did you know that a memorial park stands on the site of the United States Embassy in Nairobi ‍—‌destroyed in a 1998 terrorist attack ?
text: Did you know that the rufescent tiger heron is crepuscular —that is, it hunts primarily at dusk and dawn?
text: Did you know that Martin Petzoldt published an award-winning edition of facsimiles of Bach 's printed works including the Christmas Oratorio ?
text: Did you know that the Zamama volcanic center on Io had an average output power of 139.6 gigawatts between 1996 and 1999?
text: Did you know that Laurel van der Wal ‍—‌rocket scientist, cop, model, showgirl, art teacher, aircraft mechanic, switchman, and casino shill‍—‌was "impatient with people who do not make full use of all their capabilities"?
text: Did you know that " Bad Little Boy " introduces a genderswapped version of Marceline the Vampire Queen voiced by Donald Glover ?
text: Did you know that Georgette Tsinguirides , employed by the Stuttgart Ballet for 70 years, was the first choreologist in Germany and has taught ballets by Cranko and MacMillan to generations of dancers?
text: Did you know that the Palestinian town of Burqin has one of the oldest Byzantine churches in the world?
text: Did you know that Joseph D. Bethune was appointed to the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court after the previous nominee's confirmation sparked a battle within the territory's Democratic party?
text: Did you know that after winning the 1963 and 1964 Gillette Cup Finals , Sussex County Cricket Club did not win the competition again until 1978?
text: Did you know that it is possible to catch and cook a St Paul rock lobster without removing it from the sea?
text: Did you know that the Crimean Khanate was annexed by the Russian Empire on 19 April 1783?
text: Did you know that Edward Sinnott and his crew, known as "The Seven Placentia Giants", carried their boat 145 km (90 mi) overland to compete in and win the Royal St. John's Regatta ?
text: Did you know that stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan will star as a fictionalized version of himself in The Jim Gaffigan Show ?
text: Did you know that the Argeș County Museum in Pitești , Romania, operates a Dacian fort and a medieval citadel ?
text: Did you know that the feminist writings of Carmen de Burgos were censored in Spain until democracy was restored?
text: Did you know that the solar eclipse of 1 May 1185 gave rise to the first known description of flame-like tongues of live embers ?
text: Did you know that when María Teresa Tula escaped torture in El Salvador after helping the "forcibly disappeared", she was accused of being a terrorist?
text: Did you know that the presenters of the new series of Top Gear play football with cars?
text: Did you know that the 2014–15 Harvard Crimson men's basketball team was the third Ivy League team to represent its school in a fourth consecutive NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament ?
text: Did you know that Edward Tompkins endowed the Louis Agassiz Chair of Oriental Languages and Literature at the University of California ?
text: Did you know that Beirut III has the largest number of Sunni Muslim voters of all electoral districts in Lebanon?
text: Did you know that Ari Goldwag , the lead vocalist on five albums and three music videos for the Miami Boys Choir , panicked at his audition and had to be convinced to go on stage by his mother?
text: Did you know that the University of Rwanda was formed in 2013 through the merger of Rwanda's seven public institutions of higher education ?
text: Did you know that Fjällhyddan , today a ruin, was built by Ture Malmgren in Uddevalla , Sweden, with inspiration from the hunting traditions of the medieval nobility?
text: Did you know that Alone in Berlin is based on a best-selling novel about the true story of a German couple who protested against Adolf Hitler and the Nazis ?
text: Did you know that rock fragments present in the stomach of the brown spiny lobster were probably ingested accidentally?
text: Did you know that writer Charlotte Caroline Richardson reconnected with her mother by writing a poem in the magazine The Ladies' Diary ?
text: Did you know that according to The Times , the tactics of Sussex County Cricket Club in the first Gillette Cup Final were "a perversion of positive cricket"?
text: Did you know that it was over 20 years between the first and last time Australian professional wrestler Allan Pinfold was the Australian Light Heavyweight Champion ?
text: Did you know that the music video for Rihanna 's song " American Oxygen " depicts various moments from American history , including the inauguration of Barack Obama ?
text: Did you know that former migrant worker Zhou Qunfei started a touchscreen company and became China's richest woman with a net worth of US$10 billion?
text: Did you know that 14 warbler species were observed in Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 55 in May 1997?
text: Did you know that Deus Ex: Mankind Divided was leaked in advance of its official reveal, an event called "Can't Kill Progress"?
text: Did you know that one of the 1964 Laotian coups was carried out by policemen?
text: Did you know that goalkeeper Mason Springthorpe studied the style of play of Joe Hart , who was also from his hometown of Shrewsbury ?
text: Did you know that the water milfoil species Myriophyllum variifolium provides shelter for fry when planted in an aquarium ?
text: Did you know that Heap's Rice Mill in Liverpool once ground the rice used in Rice Krispies ?
text: Did you know that Ross Gunn was "one of the true fathers of the nuclear submarine program"?
text: Did you know that Vassar College 's Davison House is named for John D. Rockefeller 's mother?
text: Did you know that Brazilian writer Zíbia Gasparetto says her books were the work of someone else?
text: Did you know that when Jill Knight succeeded Edith Pitt , it was the first time in the UK that a female Member of Parliament was succeeded by another?
text: Did you know that Zlatan Ibrahimović scored three goals in a semi-final to help Paris Saint-Germain reach the 2015 Coupe de France Final , starting with a penalty kick which was his 100th goal for the club?
text: Did you know that the Press Association won a court case stating that it was within the public interest to know that five girls who had been given travel bans attended the same school as three who had recently joined ISIL ?
text: Did you know that currently in-production film Joy is about inventor and entrepreneur Joy Mangano ?
text: Did you know that Elvira Dolinar is regarded as the first Slovenian feminist?
text: Did you know that Tygerberg Zoo sought to breed look-alikes to South Africa's Cape lions , extinct since the 1850s, with two cubs from Novosibirsk Zoo in Siberia ?
text: Did you know that Wei Heng , party chief of China's Shanxi province, committed suicide after being imprisoned and tortured by the Red Guards ?
text: Did you know that the concept for the Chicken Salad Chick restaurant chain originated from one of its founders selling her chicken salad door-to-door?
text: Did you know that Jeannette Zarou performed the title role in the stage premiere of Healey Willan 's opera Deirdre ?
text: Did you know that five galaxy clusters within the Corona Borealis Supercluster are in the process of collapsing and merging to form a single massive cluster?
text: Did you know that basketball coach Jason Rabedeaux died the day after winning a game with the Saigon Heat ?
text: Did you know that Tokyo File 212 was Hollywood's first feature film to be shot entirely in Japan?
text: Did you know that the British Christian missionary Harriette Colenso bankrupted herself defending the Zulu king Dinuzulu against charges of treason?
text: Did you know that part of the song " Are You Lonesome Tonight? " evokes William Shakespeare 's monologue " All the world's a stage "?
text: Did you know that Félix Ramos y Duarte , a Cuban exile and teacher, published the first Dictionary of Mexican-Spanish?
text: Did you know that Obchodní centrum Letňany became the biggest shopping centre in the Czech Republic in 2006?
text: Did you know that tight end Paul Seal won the Most Valuable Player award on the 1973 Michigan football team and later had 1,586 receiving yards in the NFL ?
text: Did you know that during the second siege of Taunton , Robert Blake declared that he "had four pairs of boots left and would eat three of them before he yielded"?
text: Did you know that the Kazanjian Red Diamond , the second-largest red diamond ever found, was confiscated by the Nazis in 1944?
text: Did you know that Alma Dolens is thought to have earned her pseudonym, which is Latin for "a heavy heart," from her opinions on war?
text: Did you know that Stuart Staples carved the cover design of The Hungry Saw into his kitchen wall with a screwdriver?
text: Did you know that when the cornerstone of St. Mary's Church in Dedham, Massachusetts was laid, special trains brought in many of the 4,000 attendees?
text: Did you know that Vietnamese journalist Huy Duc was dismissed from his position at a government-run newspaper because of comments he made on his blog?
text: Did you know that Marnie , a Shih Tzu dog, has received over one million Instagram followers from photos taken by her owner?
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text: Did you know that while recovering at the National Naval Medical Center, Lieutenant Jason Redman hung a sign on his door that attracted the attention of President George W. Bush ?
text: Did you know that the common banded mosquito is a vector for Murray Valley encephalitis virus , Ross River virus , and Japanese encephalitis , as well as dog heartworm and the roundworm Wuchereria bancrofti ?
text: Did you know that current Ann Arbor mayor Christopher Taylor has earned four degrees from the University of Michigan ?
text: Did you know that Jiangsu 's pene-enclaves of Haiyong and Qilong on Shanghai's Chongming Island owe their origin to the absorption of their former island, Yonglongsha ?
text: Did you know that some reaches of Red Spring Run have been entirely destroyed either by mining or by post-mining development?
text: Did you know that Danny Grossman 's choreography Endangered Species was set in a post-apocalyptic world where the dancers fought against military oppression?
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text: Did you know that the Solitaires were booked to play at the Paramount with Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper in 1959?
text: Did you know that the offices of the Chief Whip were located at 12 Downing Street for 122 years, until Tony Blair gave them to Alastair Campbell ?
text: Did you know that People v. Marquan M. was the first case in which a US court weighed the constitutionality of criminalizing cyberbullying ?
text: Did you know that Snezhnika , located in the Pirin Mountains in Bulgaria, is the southernmost glacial mass in Europe?
text: Did you know that Finnish writer Solveig von Schoultz published fifteen collections of poetry over more than fifty years?
text: Did you know that some barbecue restaurants in the US are referred to as "shrines" due to their high-quality dishes, developed over many years or even over generations?
text: Did you know that the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb is buried in the Tomb of Aurangzeb at Khuldabad , near Aurangabad in India?
text: Did you know that William W. Havens, Jr. worked on the Manhattan Project and was an American delegate at the Geneva "Atoms for Peace" conferences in 1955 and 1958?
text: Did you know that the Lithuania–Poland border is the only land border that the Baltic States share with a country that is not a member of the Russian-aligned Commonwealth of Independent States ?
text: Did you know that Simon Henig , an academic who studies voting behaviour and election results , has won several elections as a politician?
text: Did you know that the Javanese grasshopper can be a serious pest in oil palm and rubber plantations?
text: Did you know that Pearl Schiff couldn't find an American publisher for her second novel after her first made The New York Times Best Seller list ?
text: Did you know that dogs and deer were buried together with humans by Neolithic peoples, as found in the Burzahom archaeological site ?
text: Did you know that Kouprasith Abhay was involved in coups against the Kingdom of Laos in 1960, 1964, 1965, 1966, and 1973?
text: Did you know that there have been only ten recorded cases of indium lung as of 2010?
text: Did you know that although " We Built This City " is sung in a competition during the Glee episode " We Built This Glee Club ", it is not performed by the group that the show is named for?
text: Did you know that Patrick Bevin , the 2009 New Zealand Junior Road Cyclist of the Year, won his first professional stage in the 2015 Herald Sun Tour ?
text: Did you know that according to local legend, Pancuran Tujuh was discovered by a missionary with a skin condition?
text: Did you know that Sharon Anderson was the first woman to serve as president of the American Society of Nephrology ?
text: Did you know that the board of FC Barcelona requested for the 2015 Copa del Rey Final to be held at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium , home of their rivals Real Madrid ?
text: Did you know that actress Amy Adams has been nominated five times for an Academy Award ?
text: Did you know that Mack Trucks supplied over 32,000 trucks and $3 million in other equipment to the Allies of World War II ?
text: Did you know that Albert Roux was Peter Cazalet 's personal chef for eight years?
text: Did you know that in the Tenth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida 's Teen Court, high school students act as defense attorney, prosecutor, clerk, and bailiff, and the accused is required to admit guilt?
text: Did you know that the Tomb of Nadira Begum was actually built in a water tank?
text: Did you know that locomotives at Reading Central Goods railway station used to tow vessels upstream on the neighbouring River Kennet ?
text: Did you know that William Fithian , an Illinois State Senator and Civil War Provost Marshal , was also the first white child of Cincinnati , Ohio?
text: Did you know that the Grimsby Ice Factory was once the largest ice factory in the world?
text: Did you know that there are around forty thousand unidentified decedents in the United States?
text: Did you know that although it was named for them, there are no sea turtles at Teluk Penyu Beach ?
text: Did you know that in S.A.S. v. France , the European Court of Human Rights ruled that a ban on face covering did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights ?
text: Did you know that Cyclone Mackey was the first man to wrestle in Mexico wearing a mask , starting a tradition in lucha libre that still exists 80 years later?
text: Did you know that Cari Corrigan was one of the first to analyze a new nakhlite from Mars?
text: Did you know that the 2012 political thriller Argo was only the fourth film in Academy Award history to win Best Picture without a nomination for its director?
text: Did you know that Horace Batten captained a rugby team, played professional cricket, and made Darth Vader 's boots?
text: Did you know that when Byzantine general Michael Dokeianos was taken prisoner by the Pechenegs and brought before their leader, he managed to grab a sword and hack off the leader's arm before being killed?
text: Did you know that 265 million people kick a football in association football matches every year?
text: Did you know that the soft coral Clavularia crassa broods its eggs on the outside of the polyps ?
text: Did you know that the suspect in the deadly shootings in Chapel Hill, North Carolina , was the victims' neighbor?
text: Did you know that André van der Merwe performed the world's first successful penis transplant ?
text: Did you know that Westland Aircraft expanded their factory over the West Hendford Cricket Ground in Yeovil during the Second World War?
text: Did you know that Zero Freitas has the largest record collection in the world?
text: Did you know that the England women's national team played its first official association football match in 1972, 100 years after the men's team's first match ?
text: Did you know that Surasa is described as the mother of all serpents?
text: Did you know that Abraham Lincoln defended a slave-owner against a slave family during the Matson Trial ?
text: Did you know that the 1965 Laotian coups were simultaneous and independent of one another?
text: Did you know that Tad Smith , CEO of Sotheby's , is also a professor at New York University 's Stern School of Business ?
text: Did you know that medieval Islamic geography placed the Island of the Jewel in the Sea of Darkness, east of the Dragon's Tail ?
text: Did you know that Mongolian Prime Minister Chimediin Saikhanbileg can bench press 175 kilograms (385 lb)?
text: Did you know that production has finally begun on The BFG , which has been in development since 1991?
text: Did you know that Moisés Sánchez Cerezo was the first journalist killed in Mexico in 2015?
text: Did you know that Ahmadiyya in Indonesia has played an influential role in the religious development of the country, yet in recent decades Ahmadis have faced persecution from religious establishments?
text: Did you know that Centre College alum Robert L. Myers recruited All-American stars such as Bo McMillin and Red Weaver to the small Danville institution which was undefeated in 1919 and upset Harvard in 1921?
text: Did you know that 2014 game Ether One has been praised by The New Yorker for its portrayal of dementia ?
text: Did you know that after scoring a goal, Costa Rican footballer Wendy Acosta points to the sky in remembrance of her deceased father?
text: Did you know that because Renoir disliked cold weather, Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne is one of his few winter landscapes ?
text: Did you know that German-American economist Edith Hirsch met her husband at the childhood home of Albert Einstein's wife ?
text: Did you know that Luxembourg Freeport was opened in 2014 to store art and other valuables "offshore", because the existing facility in Geneva was full?
text: Did you know that Torrent Suckers have nearly triangular lower lip edges?
text: Did you know that former Xavier basketball center Matt Stainbrook drove strangers around as a senior?
text: Did you know that in March 2015, thousands of Tunisians marched in Tunis with the chant, "Tunisia is free! Terrorism out!"?
text: Did you know that Bartholomäus Gesius wrote the melody of the Easter hymn which Bach used to conclude the Easter section of his Orgelbüchlein ?
text: Did you know that the last recorded swarm of the Bombay locust was in 1927?
text: Did you know that the 16th-century srbulje printers Hieromonk Mardarije and Hegumen Mardarije were misidentified in some sources?
text: Did you know that Mohinder Amarnath is the only player to be dismissed for both handling the ball and obstructing the field in One Day International cricket?
text: Did you know that Sired sired Serlo ?
text: Did you know that Pat Connaughton was forthright about his intent to continue playing college basketball despite warnings that it would impact his prospects in baseball ?
text: Did you know that DREAM City will be Gujarat 's third smart city ?
text: Did you know that sixteen popular music artists including Madonna , Kanye West , Beyoncé , and Rihanna co-own the streaming service Tidal , which was recently purchased and relaunched by Jay Z ?
text: Did you know that the first international ballet competition held in Dushanbe was named after Malika Sobirova , and President Gorbachev sent greetings on the occasion?
text: Did you know that Jane Eyre was the first American movie adaptation of the novel ?
text: Did you know that despite being radially symmetric , the brittle star Ophiocoma echinata has a leading arm when moving?
text: Did you know that a bust of Edward Snowden was erected next to a New York City monument to American Revolutionary War prisoners?
text: Did you know that in Epik High 's 2014 song " Born Hater ", Tablo sings about death threats against his family related to his Stanford University degrees?
text: Did you know that the restoration of wetlands in a mitigation bank created in the path of the planned Poinciana Parkway sextupled cost estimates for the highway?
text: Did you know that Geoffrey Spicer-Simson was in charge of HMS Niger when it was sunk by the German submarine U-12 in 1914, and later became famous for his part in the African Battle for Lake Tanganyika ?
text: Did you know that Eugene A. Tucker was the last Arizona Territorial Supreme Court justice to die?
text: Did you know that the Chinese documentary Under the Dome , criticising China's air pollution, was praised by China's environment minister?
text: Did you know that Billy Bremner was inducted into both the English Football Hall of Fame and the Scottish Football Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that the entrance porch of the Shankaragaurishvara Temple in Patan in Jammu and Kashmir , built in the late ninth century, has intricately sculpted carvings that appear freshly chiseled?
text: Did you know that the contralto Maria Radner , who died in the Germanwings plane crash , performed Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder at his villa, Wahnfried?
text: Did you know that when Saint Johns Creek is not dry, its flow mainly consists of raw sewage?
text: Did you know that English broadcaster Jeremy Clarkson is a fan of Genesis ' album Selling England by the Pound and wrote sleeve notes for a box-set reissue?
text: Did you know that the poetess Zhao Luanluan was assumed to be a courtesan because she wrote erotic poems?
text: Did you know that young men jump off a 25-metre (82 ft) waterfall for money at Baturraden ?
text: Did you know that Cyril Stanley Smith 's sister said that "If he didn't go to Oxford or Cambridge, isn't Church of England, and doesn't like sports, you might as well marry an American"?
text: Did you know that Pliny the Elder wrote that the name of Magnes the shepherd gave rise to the Latin root from which later arose magnet , magnetism , and related word forms?
text: Did you know that the Plantagenet Alliance went to court 529 years after Richard III died to complain that their human rights had been violated because they were not consulted on his place of burial?
text: Did you know that Allan Randall Freelon 's painting Barbecue – American Style was a protest against lynching?
text: Did you know that Westholme House , a neo-Gothic mansion in Sleaford , became a library after World War II and is now part of a school?
text: Did you know that Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex was originally intended to be a free-roaming game , a decision which was scrapped after a change of developer?
text: Did you know that the German footballer Jeremy Dudziak is eligible to represent Tunisia, Germany, and Ghana at the senior international level?
text: Did you know that after a Forces Armées Neutralistes officer failed to capture his objective, Kong Le sacked him for embezzlement?
text: Did you know that when Margery Blackie treated Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace , she brought arsenic, death cap mushrooms, and Gila monster venom?
text: Did you know that 650 T48 Gun Motor Carriages were given to the Soviets during World War II?
text: Did you know that The Infiltrator is the true story of DEA agent Robert Mazur, who helped bust Pablo Escobar 's money-laundering organization?
text: Did you know that Della Warrior , the first female chair of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe , developed a permanent campus for the Institute of American Indian Arts ?
text: Did you know that tea production in Bangladesh began in 1840 when the first tea garden in the Indian subcontinent was set up in the port city of Chittagong ?
text: Did you know that in a career spanning six decades, Abu Bakr Muhammad al-Madhara'i served three ruling dynasties of Medieval Egypt ‍—‌the Tulunids , Abbasids , and Ikhshidids ?
text: Did you know that it is impossible to identify some crayfish species, such as Procambarus natchitochae , without looking at the male reproductive organs or knowing the collection location?
text: Did you know that three swimming holes on Big Wapwallopen Creek are the most dangerous ones in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that Rudolf Kučera was joint top scorer of the 1960–61 Czechoslovak First League ?
text: Did you know that Fort Campbell was the last major fortification to be built in Malta ?
text: Did you know that the lyrics of " Soweto Blues ", written by Hugh Masekela and performed by Miriam Makeba , refer to the Soweto uprising of 1976?
text: Did you know that Domenico De Sole , chairman of auction house Sotheby's , was CEO of Gucci for ten years?
text: Did you know that although Phantasmagoria was the best-selling computer game of 1995, some retailers like CompUSA refused to carry it due to its violent content, and it was banned in Australia?
text: Did you know that the Japanese World War II flying ace Kaname Harada has been an anti-war activist since 1991?
text: Did you know that Esther Ballestrino , the former boss of Jorge Mario Bergoglio (later Pope Francis ), was thrown from an aircraft by the Argentine security services?
text: Did you know that Carnufex is an extinct relative of crocodiles that lived 231 million years ago in Carolina?
text: Did you know that Marvel's character Deadpool is getting his own solo film after appearing in X-Men Origins: Wolverine in 2009?
text: Did you know that Great Depression -era economist E. Wight Bakke focused on the social and psychological aspects of unemployment in addition to the economic ones?
text: Did you know that Laurel Run is classified as a Least Disturbed Stream by the Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program ?
text: Did you know that Chinese writer Chen Xuezhao attended the 1942 Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art with Mao Zedong ?
text: Did you know that the star of Bethlehem can be found in Torndirrup National Park ?
text: Did you know that permission was granted to produce Sacred Sperm , despite the premise being prohibited on religious grounds?
text: Did you know that the 24th Arizona Territorial Legislature made it illegal to employ females in saloons and other establishments that served alcohol?
text: Did you know that James Graham wrote the television film Coalition with the aim of getting the audience to empathise with politicians?
text: Did you know that Carl Seffner is best remembered for his statue of J. S. Bach at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig ?
text: Did you know that flock worker's lung is a disease caused by inhaling small particles of nylon?
text: Did you know that Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Odubel Herrera is nicknamed "El Torito", meaning "the little bull"?
text: Did you know that bouncing bomb experiments were conducted at Silvermere ?
text: Did you know that in Wilson v. Territory of Arizona , 7 Arizona 47 (1901), Judge George Russell Davis found that bad spelling in a court finding was insufficient to overturn a conviction?
text: Did you know that the 2015 La Tropicale Amissa Bongo is the highest-ranked cycling race in Africa?
text: Did you know that contralto Jenny Twitchell Kempton sang in the first performance of Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah in Boston?
text: Did you know that the June 1914 attack against the Ottoman Greeks of Phocaea , Turkey, as part of the Ottoman policy of ethnic cleansing , closely resembled similar operations against Armenians?
text: Did you know that automotive design critic Robert Cumberford called the Jaguar XKE "the ultimate automotive expression of phalliform perfection?"
text: Did you know that when the marble plaques on the floor of Büyük Hamam , a Turkish bath in Nicosia , were disassembled, one of them was revealed to be a medieval tombstone?
text: Did you know that having created the Nike-X anti-ballistic missile program, Robert McNamara tried to delay its construction after learning it could leave 60 million Americans dead?
text: Did you know that NHL first-round draft pick Ray Martynuik ended his final full season by stopping the team bus and throwing his gear into Moyie Lake ?
text: Did you know that the Parliament of the United Kingdom is commemorating the 750th anniversary of the first representative parliament in a year-long celebration?
text: Did you know that the cover of the They Might Be Giants album Flood uses a photograph captured by Margaret Bourke-White during the Ohio River flood of 1937 ?
text: Did you know that Jeanne Schmahl helped married French women gain the right to spend what they earn?
text: Did you know that although the novel on which it is based is set in North Dakota, the forthcoming film I Am Not a Serial Killer is being filmed in Minnesota?
text: Did you know that Sitric Cáech was one of four grandsons of Ímar to reign either as King of Dublin or King of Jórvík ?
text: Did you know that Rogue Ales' Beard Beer was reported to be a hoax when it was introduced on April Fools' Day in 2013?
text: Did you know that Australian historian Joan Beaumont won the 2014 Prime Minister's , New South Wales Premier's and Queensland Literary prizes in history for her book Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film The Great Wall is said to be the largest film ever shot entirely in China?
text: Did you know that Chandro Tomar , an octogenarian from Johri , has attained fame as an accomplished shooter with 25 national championships and is believed to be the oldest woman sharpshooter in the world?
text: Did you know that Fort Davis in Cork Harbour was used to house French prisoners of war during the Napoleonic Wars ?
text: Did you know that the first phase of the Taiyuan Metro is projected to cost 31 billion yuan ?
text: Did you know that a portrait of Emma Hart, later Lady Hamilton was donated to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts by Bettina Burr and other members of the Rothschild family ?
text: Did you know that during the Japanese surrender of Hong Kong , one of HMAS Mildura 's duties was overseeing the transfer of the local brewery from Japanese to Allied hands?
text: Did you know that Hortense Allart 's novels were based on her adventures, including Les enchantements de Prudence, Avec George Sand , which enjoyed a succès de scandale ?
text: Did you know that sportswriter Dick Young 's description of Dusty Rhodes ' game-winning " Chinese home run " in the 1954 World Series prompted Chinese Americans to demand the term be retired?
text: Did you know that Karl Wilhelm Fricke has been called the "pope for resistance, opposition and oppression" in the former German Democratic Republic ?
text: Did you know that the dead buried in the Imphal War Cemetery are not just from the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that Peggy Baker was a member of the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company ?
text: Did you know that dyslexia is the most common learning disability, affecting about 3% to 7% of people?
text: Did you know that pitcher Chris Martin rehabilitated the torn labrum in his shoulder by stocking warehouses?
text: Did you know that Yreina Cervantez helped design and paint the longest mural in the world, the Great Wall of Los Angeles ?
text: Did you know that the reel length of Mayabazar was 5,888 metres (19,318 ft)?
text: Did you know that Sebastiano Biancardi, suspected of embezzlement, left his family and became a successful librettist known as Domenico Lalli ?
text: Did you know that XHJMA-TV was the first television station in Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua ?
text: Did you know that Camille Dow Baker , a petroleum executive, received awards for humanitarian efforts?
text: Did you know that the blue-fronted dancer damselfly is not always blue?
text: Did you know that baseball player Bret Barberie missed a game after getting chili pepper juice in his eye?
text: Did you know that Elena Arizmendi Mejia organized the Neutral White Cross when the Red Cross refused to assist the wounded insurgents during the Mexican Revolution ?
text: Did you know that upon its opening, the Washburn branch asked to borrow materials from other Minneapolis libraries to meet the high demand from patrons?
text: Did you know that since Theo Müller inherited Müller in 1971, it has gone from employing just four people to over 20,000?
text: Did you know that Windosill influenced games including Blek , Donut County , and Monument Valley ?
text: Did you know that during the American Civil War Samuel F. Butterworth , manager of the New Almaden mine, prohibited the camp's militia from storing weapons on Quicksilver Mining Company's property?
text: Did you know that the National Nautical School was originally based on HMS Formidable ?
text: Did you know that Zézé was the first-ever Brazilian player in the Bundesliga but left when he was diagnosed with a snow allergy?
text: Did you know that musician and band contractor Harry Yerkes managed ensembles that played an important role in the transition from ragtime to jazz ?
text: Did you know that the ancient church of San Trifone in Posterula was demolished during construction of the Convent of Sant'Agostino ?
text: Did you know that the "Last Rosie the Riveter", Elinor Otto , built airplanes for almost fifty years and retired at the age of 95?
text: Did you know that Filinvest Development Corporation , a Philippine conglomerate with several subsidiaries, began in the 1950s as a used-car financing company?
text: Did you know that Major General Sourith Don Sasorith commanded the Royal Lao Air Force even though he was not a pilot?
text: Did you know that Australian recording artist Sia agreed to release 1000 Forms of Fear on the condition that she was not obligated to do a tour or press appearances?
text: Did you know that " Christ the Lord Is Risen Again! " in English is cut down from the German version because the words didn't fit?
text: Did you know that the altarpiece triptych Sealing the Tomb was William Hogarth 's only commission from the Church of England ?
text: Did you know that Julia Gjika and the award-winning Iliriana Sulkuqi wrote poems in Albanian as members of the group "military poets"?
text: Did you know that DEC 's National Replacement Character Set system built character sets on the fly, thus avoiding the need for different terminals in different countries?
text: Did you know that lead guitarist Ryan Peake funded Nickelback when it first formed?
text: Did you know that Outer Wilds won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize and the Excellence in Design category at the 2015 Independent Games Festival ?
text: Did you know that rival fans of Bristol City and Bristol Rovers walked 100 miles to the 2015 Football League Trophy Final to raise money for a young fan's surgery?
text: Did you know that costume designer Alexandra Byrne , who won an Academy Award for Elizabeth: The Golden Age , said of Thor 's costumes, "it's all about his arms"?
text: Did you know that scriptwriter Sugako Hashida wrote the original script for Oshin , the first asadora to be both produced and written by women in Japan?
text: Did you know that the Quandamooka people have inhabited the area around Moreton Bay for at least 21,000 years?
text: Did you know that the asteroid 3241 Yeshuhua is named after a woman astronomer ?
text: Did you know that one journalist described the 2000 Women's Cricket World Cup Final as "the greatest World Cup final ever"?
text: Did you know that an extract from the pineapple plant significantly reduces the necessity of surgery after deep burn wounds?
text: Did you know that Thomas Bryan Martin served in the House of Burgesses alongside George Washington and managed his uncle Lord Fairfax 's 5,000,000-acre (20,000 km 2 ) Northern Neck Proprietary ?
text: Did you know that Cegléd water jugs have been used both as water containers and musical instruments?
text: Did you know that Karenne Wood of the Monacan tribe is studying the cultural effects of losing a language ?
text: Did you know that in its final episode , after six seasons and over 700 musical performances, the last song sung on the US television series Glee was " I Lived " by OneRepublic ?
text: Did you know that big-game hunter Bali Mauladad won the Shaw & Hunter trophy for leading a client to a tiny Oribi antelope?
text: Did you know that the 1185 East Midlands earthquake is the first earthquake in England for which there are verifiable damage reports?
text: Did you know that " Lift High the Cross " has been viewed as supporting a Johannine description of the Passion of Christ ?
text: Did you know that billionaire London property developer Chris Lazari emigrated from Cyprus at 16 with just £20?
text: Did you know that the speckled sandperch changes its sex and colour markings when about 18 cm (7 in) long?
text: Did you know that before he founded the Valley Times newspaper, Adam Yacenda worked as Richard Nixon 's press secretary?
text: Did you know that the documentary Morrissey: 25 Live commemorates Morrissey 's 25-year solo career, and was filmed at a concert that sold out in 12 seconds?
text: Did you know that Charles Coghlan , the first Premier of Southern Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe), was born in South Africa to an Irishman who served in the British Army?
text: Did you know that Entomophaga grylli causes infected grasshoppers to die at the top of a plant?
text: Did you know that a horse-drawn tram was used to move dynamite to and from the Dry Creek explosives depot ?
text: Did you know that FishCenter Live is a talk show commentating on footage of a fish tank?
text: Did you know that General Phoumi Nosavan began a coup on his 45th birthday, even though he had no troops to command?
text: Did you know that Romanian communist politician Vasile Patilineț went from being a close associate of Nicolae Ceaușescu to plotting a coup against him?
text: Did you know that Detroit -based Avalon International Breads is the largest purchaser of organic bread flour in Michigan ?
text: Did you know that the three-minute opening sequence of the film Thor: The Dark World was completed in 12 weeks by Tim Miller ?
text: Did you know that " Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, der von uns den Gotteszorn wandt ", Luther's hymn for the Eucharist based on a Latin model , includes thoughts from his sermons during Lent of 1524?
text: Did you know that the plant species Aplectrum hyemale , which is rare in Pennsylvania and extremely rare in northern Pennsylvania, is found in Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 226 , in Columbia County ?
text: Did you know that Judith Vaitukaitis developed the chemical technique for the first home pregnancy test after trying to use it to diagnose cancer?
text: Did you know that the British band Kero Kero Bonito found their vocalist through an online bulletin board for Japanese expatriates?
text: Did you know that the British portrait artist Cathleen Mann was also a peeress and film costume designer?
text: Did you know that Neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer encourages Internet trolling by its "Troll Army"?
text: Did you know that President Warren G. Harding appointed Louise DeKoven Bowen to represent the United States at the 1922 Pan-American Conference of Women ?
text: Did you know that Philippe Martinez 's 2014 action film Viktor , starring Gérard Depardieu and Elizabeth Hurley , was filmed entirely in Russia?
text: Did you know that Brazilian footballer Digão signed for Saudi Arabian club Al-Hilal in 2013?
text: Did you know that PizzaRev 's concept involves custom-order pizzas assembled in a cafeteria-style line?
text: Did you know that Peter Beatty claimed that a fortune-teller predicted an Epsom Derby victory for one of his racehorses?
text: Did you know that extraterrestrial spiders have only six legs?
text: Did you know that during the 1960 Laotian coups , the anti-counter-coup to the counter-coup was defeated when the paratroopers' coup cooped up General Southone?
text: Did you know that 220,000 people live in Nada ?
text: Did you know that there is only one major public church in Europe?
text: Did you know that Osama bin Laden was at least 9 feet (2.7 m) tall?
text: Did you know that Little Nescopeck Creek is smaller than Little Nescopeck Creek ?
text: Did you know that the Prince of Wales's bum was exposed to public view in London on his 54th birthday and has been visible ever since?
text: Did you know that the French paid their soldiers in playing cards ?
text: Did you know that some Top Totty was removed from the House of Commons after complaints from a shadow ?
text: Did you know that 71 is 3 miles (4.8 km) long?
text: Did you know that Knightrider premièred in London in 1322?
text: Did you know that James II lay on his back for a year amid grass and weeds after he was overthrown to make way for Edward VII ?
text: Did you know that Nick Clegg is sorry ?
text: Did you know that the existence of a sea monster in Scotland has finally been proven?
text: Did you know that Dr. Young's Ideal Rectal Dilators were forcibly withdrawn after officials clamped down on them?
text: Did you know that in April 2013, a giant alien landed on its head in central London?
text: Did you know that feminist artists invented the WEB in 1971?
text: Did you know that a half-naked fakir has taken up residence near Winston Churchill?
text: Did you know that the sound of a fruit beetle served as "the popular face of Hinduism "?
text: Did you know that even balls of kryptonite are no protection from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission ?
text: Did you know that the BBC is taking liberties with Parliament ?
text: Did you know that the Crown Prince of Thailand once owned Air Chief Marshal Fufu ?
text: Did you know that God is a billionaire property developer?
text: Did you know that the first private railroad car was made for the singer Jenny Lind , the "Swedish Nightingale?"
text: Did you know that the 12th-century abbot Serlo built "one of the most ambitious churches" in post- Conquest England?
text: Did you know that the film The Danish Girl is based on the fiction about the life of first identifiable transgender woman Lili Elbe ?
text: Did you know that Firewatch , a first-person adventure game , was inspired by a single painting by Olly Moss ?
text: Did you know that Anne d'Harnoncourt admired Ellen Powell Tiberino for her "alive and forceful" use of line?
text: Did you know that a recently developed 3D printing technology was inspired by the T-1000 Terminator ?
text: Did you know that Honora Sneyd 's rejection of Thomas Day 's marriage proposal cited the rights of women, including equality in marriage?
text: Did you know that Sonya Rose is an expert in the role of gender identity in British history?
text: Did you know that The Big Short is a drama about a crisis?
text: Did you know that Laura Forster was the first Australian woman doctor to volunteer her services as a medic in Belgium during World War I?
text: Did you know that the 1984 All-Big Ten Conference football team included Heisman Trophy winner Keith Byars and national receiving leader David Williams ?
text: Did you know that Ernst Pepping composed symphonies, a German mass in 1938, a Latin mass in 1948, and Jesus und Nikodemus ?
text: Did you know that Cameron Park in Waco, Texas , will open a new limestone pavilion this summer?
text: Did you know that a set of cards had a police escort?
text: Did you know that Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin was the first female full professor of mathematics in France?
text: Did you know that Sterry Creek is usually "little more than a trickle", but overflows its banks about once every ten years?
text: Did you know that while on tour in Brazil to promote its new album Omen , the band Antestor was attacked by Satanist black metal fans angered by the Christian beliefs of the band members?
text: Did you know that contemporary versions of the Greek bread paximathia can remain edible for up to eight weeks when stored in an airtight container?
text: Did you know that violinist Carolin Widmann played with her brother when he was composer and artist in residence at the Rheingau Musik Festival ?
text: Did you know that the scorpionfly family Eorpidae has a single genus, Eorpa , described in 2013?
text: Did you know that Wickedly Welsh Chocolate held a Willy Wonka -themed "golden ticket" promotion?
text: Did you know that Abel Gonzales invented both Fried Coke and deep-fried butter ?
text: Did you know that in Keqrops , a composition for piano and orchestra by Iannis Xenakis , melodies are played in cluster lines ?
text: Did you know that Lady Katherine Sophia Kane was the first woman to be elected to the Botanical Society of Edinburgh ?
text: Did you know that the performance of The Icelandic New Business Venture Fund was described as "disappointing" even though it managed to fund a major tourist attraction in Iceland?
text: Did you know that the British billionaire Adam Fleming is the nephew of James Bond novelist Ian Fleming ?
text: Did you know that at the 2015 FA Cup Final , a 64-person choir, comprising one fan for each team which reached the third round of competition, sang " Abide with Me " before kick-off?
text: Did you know that Synageva , a company with no marketed products and a net loss of US$60 million in the most recent quarter, recently entered into an agreement to be sold for US$8.4 billion?
text: Did you know that kosha mangsho , a type of mutton curry , is traditionally prepared as part of the celebration of Kali Puja ?
text: Did you know that Andreas Tscherning , author of Deutscher Getichte Frühling (Spring of German Poems), was the first to translate Arabic poetry into German ?
text: Did you know that the 1965 Soviet economic reform counteracted wage reforms which had just been introduced?
text: Did you know that when Henry Bradford Endicott built the Endicott Estate mansion in 1904, his distant cousins in the nearby Fairbanks House did not have indoor plumbing or electricity?
text: Did you know that Korean nationalist Yun Bong-gil used a bomb to assassinate Japanese officials gathered in Shanghai's Hongkou Park ?
text: Did you know that until 1918, Fort Kosmač in Montenegro was the southernmost fortress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ?
text: Did you know that unlike many Orientalist painters, John Frederick Lewis never painted a nude, and used his wife as a model in some harem scenes?
text: Did you know that European cartographers initially considered the Pacific Ocean to be Ptolemy 's Great Gulf ?
text: Did you know that Scottish judge William Honyman, Lord Armadale , was one of the initiators of the Highland Clearances ?
text: Did you know that Limassol District contains one of the Painted Churches in the Troödos Region , a UNESCO World Heritage Site ?
text: Did you know that writs against Peter Wilmshurst , after he published negative findings from clinical trials , were a catalyst for the UK's libel reform of 2013 ?
text: Did you know that terrorists attacked Raghunath Temple in Jammu twice in 2002, causing multiple fatalities?
text: Did you know that University of California political science professor Charles R. Adrian wrote two articles considered seminal works in the study of nonpartisanship ?
text: Did you know that Osorkon IV saved his kingdom with a dozen horses?
text: Did you know that the extinct mantidfly Dicromantispa electromexicana was described from a solitary male insect?
text: Did you know that German poet and pacifist Clementine Krämer attempted to flee Nazi Germany to the U.S., Denmark, China, and Cuba before being sent to the concentration camp where she died?
text: Did you know that one can hear parts of Sonic Youth 's 1987 album Sister in quiet sections of the band's 1994 album Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star , because it was recorded over the same master tapes ?
text: Did you know that Abdoulaye Demba was playing football in England's fifth division for Yeovil Town in October 2002, but in January 2004 was playing at the Africa Cup of Nations ?
text: Did you know that highlights from the history of dromaeosaurid research include a skeleton of Velociraptor preserved in combat with a Protoceratops , the gigantic Utahraptor , and tiny four-winged Microraptor ?
text: Did you know that Lena O. Smith was the first African American woman lawyer in Minnesota and among the first in the United States?
text: Did you know that the Cao'e River is named after a teenage girl who drowned herself about 1,900 years ago?
text: Did you know that María Luisa Elío and Jomí García Ascot visited Gabriel García Márquez every night for 18 months to critique One Hundred Years of Solitude as it developed?
text: Did you know that Block Island Wind Farm is the first offshore wind farm to be built in the United States?
text: Did you know that the appearance of the nudibranch Marionia levis closely resembles the surface of the soft coral Rhytisma fulvum on which it feeds?
text: Did you know that Chants for Socialists is an album by Darren Hayman based on the 19th-century protest poetry of William Morris ?
text: Did you know that the source of Lake Run is in both Henry Lake and Eagle Lake?
text: Did you know that Harvard-educated playwright Hong Shen wrote the first published Chinese film script, but it was never filmed?
text: Did you know that Clarence Darrow claimed judges would say, when passing a death sentence, " May God have mercy upon your soul ", because they felt they didn't have the authority to destroy souls?
text: Did you know that footballer Erik Lima won the best newcomer award at the end of the 2014 Brasileirão season ?
text: Did you know that the 2001 Pan Celtic Festival was cancelled due to the United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak ?
text: Did you know that the webs of buck-spoor spiders can look like hoof prints or four-leaf clovers?
text: Did you know that Alan Clark , CEO of SABMiller , the world's second largest brewer, used to be a clinical psychologist ?
text: Did you know that the Devil's Feather Bed is near Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 115 ?
text: Did you know that out of only 25 episodes of the TV series The Next Step Beyond , 14 were remakes from One Step Beyond ?
text: Did you know that the Alsatian village of Erckartswiller was abandoned from 1649 to 1651?
text: Did you know that some of the most popular nautical fiction works, including those about Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubrey , were based upon the real adventures of the "sea wolf" – Lord Cochrane ?
text: Did you know that New York City's Akeem Dodson was one of only four American-born players in the U.S. national cricket team 's squad for its most recent major tournament ?
text: Did you know that the Paul McCartney and Wings song " Band on the Run " was only released as a single at the insistence of Capitol Records promotion man Al Coury ?
text: Did you know that molybdenum ditelluride has potential for use as an infrared detector ?
text: Did you know that in The Machine Question , David Gunkel argued that the other minds problem implies that a proper understanding of consciousness is impossible?
text: Did you know that John B. Hogenesch is responsible for discovering the only essential circadian clock gene in humans?
text: Did you know that Albert Fish inserted 27 or more needles into his groin ?
text: Did you know that a seventh of the total population of Sarajevo cited the Judaeo-Spanish language as their mother tongue in 1921, with historical links between Bosnia and Spain going back to the 15th century?
text: Did you know that Teddy Osei , who was born in Ghana , played flute, drums, and saxophone for the Afro-pop band Osibisa , which he helped create?
text: Did you know that the extinct mantidfly Feroseta prisca has bristle-covered pterostigma ?
text: Did you know that disguised British East Indiamen intimidated a French frigate squadron into retreating during the Bali Strait Incident of 1797?
text: Did you know that Oscar Holderer , an engineer for Nazi Germany who later worked on the Apollo space program , brought America's first rocket wind tunnel from Germany?
text: Did you know that Wrestle Kingdom 9 featured the return of Jim Ross to commentating on professional wrestling since his departure from WWE?
text: Did you know that the Affair of the Dancing Lamas was covered up for over fifty years?
text: Did you know that the Duchess of Devonshire refused to employ a wet nurse for her eldest child Lady Georgiana Cavendish , an unusual decision for an upperclass woman in that era?
text: Did you know that the 1992 All-Big Ten Conference football team included rushing , receiving , and passing efficiency leaders Tyrone Wheatley , Lee Gissendaner and Elvis Grbac ?
text: Did you know that Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Shalom Cohen has spent 70 years at Jerusalem's Porat Yosef Yeshiva , first as a student, then a teacher, and then rosh yeshiva (dean)?
text: Did you know that some 80,000 Poles have been waiting for over sixty years for compensation for the immovable property lost in lands beyond the Bug River to the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that Hedwig Kettler founded the first girls' gymnasium in Germany?
text: Did you know that the Qila-i-Kuhna Mosque in Purana Qila , Delhi , was originally intended to be built in marble , but as it ran out of supply, red sandstone had to be used?
text: Did you know that Bernarda Gallardo has adopted four dead babies and is in the process of adopting a fifth?
text: Did you know that the first white settlers in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania , settled near Keyser Creek ?
text: Did you know that the eastern backdrop of the Veerabhadra Temple, Lepakshi features a granite boulder with a carving of a coiled multi-hooded serpent providing shade over a linga ?
text: Did you know the a college in Ambato, Ecuador , is named for Augusto Nicolás Martínez ‍—‌an agronomist , geologist, researcher and educator?
text: Did you know that in 1966 two Members of the Singapore Parliament were convicted of sedition for claiming that the People's Action Party government was "plotting to murder" an opposition politician?
text: Did you know that the footballer Raphael Rossi Branco 's favourite player is fellow Brazilian defender David Luiz ?
text: Did you know that Lessing J. Rosenwald instructed his literary agent to spend any amount necessary to prevent Prozess gegen die Juden von Trient from falling into Nazi hands?
text: Did you know that Ashley Everett was asked to dye her hair red by Beyoncé ?
text: Did you know that Andrés L. Mateo 's novel, La balada de Alfonsina Bairán , is set in a brothel during the Rafael Trujillo regime?
text: Did you know that the Niari Valley is a notable agricultural area in the Republic of the Congo ?
text: Did you know that Tommy Hendricks played free safety for the undefeated 1997 Michigan American football team and was the Miami Dolphins ' special teams captain from 2001 to 2003?
text: Did you know that Roaring Brook flows through the Nay Aug Gorge, which is listed on the National Register of Geologic Landmarks?
text: Did you know that bean chips may be prepared from a bean -based dough that is steamed, sliced and then deep-fried?
text: Did you know that a forest glade near Palmiry became " one of the most notorious places of mass executions " in Poland after Nazi war crimes were committed there?
text: Did you know that when a grade-school teacher gave her students a writing assignment, " I Wish My Teacher Knew ______", the answers went viral and sparked a movement?
text: Did you know that I Am Wrath was put on ice for two years and began filming in March 2015 with a new lead actor and new director ?
text: Did you know that William G. Whittaker wrote Gebrauchsmusik ?
text: Did you know that near its source, the gradient of Lindy Creek is about ten times steeper than in its lower reaches?
text: Did you know that one critic felt there was a "perfectly pitched" joke about selfies in " The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge ", an episode of Inside No. 9 about a 17th-century witch trial ?
text: Did you know that for its first 25 years of existence in Michigan , US Highway 33 did not have an independent routing?
text: Did you know that at least 39 different organisms inhabit the lower reproductive tract of women ?
text: Did you know that Arnold Schönberg arranged Bach 's chorale partita  on Luther 's hymn for Pentecost " Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist ", a paraphrase of " Veni Creator Spiritus "?
text: Did you know that Nina Starr Braunwald designed, fabricated and implanted the first successful artificial mitral heart valve replacement in a human?
text: Did you know that while researching his award-winning book on US President George Washington , Logan Beirne found letters written by Washington in his own ancestors' house?
text: Did you know that in mixed martial arts , 12-6 elbows are legal if the fighter is on his back because "the clock doesn't move"?
text: Did you know that a recipe for brewing beer from loaves of multigrain bread mixed with honey dates to approximately 4,000 years ago from ancient Mesopotamia , and is the oldest surviving beer recipe in the world?
text: Did you know that six members of the Polish- Ruthenian noble Szeptycki family were bishops, some Eastern Catholic and one Roman Catholic ?
text: Did you know that crickets and their close relatives have sound receptors on their front legs?
text: Did you know that the house which Balu Mahendra constructed as a set for the film Veedu (1988) is now home to a film school he started in 2007?
text: Did you know that Van Brunt Creek and its tributary Langan Creek are significant sources of flooding in Moscow, despite not being in Russia?
text: Did you know that the Thomas Parr Monument was built as a memorial to the British Resident of Bencoolen , who was decapitated by his subjects?
text: Did you know that Unnaipol Oruvan (1965), Tamil writer Jayakanthan 's directorial debut, was shot in 21 days?
text: Did you know that after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his appeal , Edmund Boyle was convicted of an unrelated murder, adding 20 years to his sentence?
text: Did you know that Assyrian lion weights are one of the most important groups of artefacts featuring the "Aramaic" form of Phoenician script ?
text: Did you know that Hersey and Corey Hawkins combined to score the second most points by a father–son duo in Division I college basketball history, behind only Dell and Stephen Curry ?
text: Did you know that female Cantuaria dendyi trapdoor spiders spend their entire lives in their burrows?
text: Did you know that Eva Von Gencsy created a new style of dance called ballet-jazz?
text: Did you know that deep-fried butter has been described by ABC News as an "artery-clogging snack"?
text: Did you know that at least 15 people were killed and 70 injured during the Lahore church bombings ?
text: Did you know that American football player Mike Teeter won the Dick Katcher Award in 1989 and was named All-World while playing for the Frankfurt Galaxy in 1991?
text: Did you know that the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act requires public and private institutions to eliminate barriers so all residents can "obtain, use and benefit from goods and services"?
text: Did you know that the sand field cricket is unusual in laying two types of egg?
text: Did you know that in his Ascension Oratorio , as in his Christmas Oratorio , Bach used three trumpets and timpani, and ended with a chorale fantasia ?
text: Did you know that some Byzantine steelyards employed bronze empresses ?
text: Did you know that a new family of predatory cockroaches , named Manipulatoridae , has been discovered from amber found in the Hukawng Valley of Myanmar ?
text: Did you know that in his painting Perseus and Andromeda , Lord Frederic Leighton contrasted Andromeda in white to a dark sea monster with an irregular and jagged body?
text: Did you know that " Girls Talk " was unloaded by Elvis Costello "in a moment of drunken bravado"?
text: Did you know that it is not entirely clear why Hammarlöv Church has a round tower?
text: Did you know that Favites pentagona uses its sweeper tentacles armed with stinging cells to prevent other corals from crowding it?
text: Did you know that Cuban writer Lesbia Soravilla incorporates Mariblanca Sabas Alomá into her feminist novel?
text: Did you know that " Johnny's Theme ", beamed to Tonight Show viewers from 1962 to 1992, was a cover song of a cover song of a cover song?
text: Did you know that Taiwanese singer/actor Nylon Chen calls himself "musical zhainan " (musical homeboy) because he mostly spends his time at home writing and composing songs?
text: Did you know that the Shivalik Fossil Park includes vertebrates that resided in the area of the Shivalik Hills about 2.5 million years ago?
text: Did you know that Sir Mark Henig , the first chairman of the English Tourist Board , was one of three Jews who served as Mayor or Lord Mayor of Leicester ?
text: Did you know that a nematode kills the mole crickets it parasitises by infecting them with a specialist bacterium?
text: Did you know that Peder Syv 's publication of proverbs and folk songs helped establish Danish as a literary language?
text: Did you know that one company owned 93% of the upper 11.5 square miles (30 km 2 ) of the Stafford Meadow Brook watershed in the 1940s, and another owned most of the upper 75% of the watershed in the 1990s?
text: Did you know that during the Stalin era, Akmol in Kazakhstan was notorious for its "Labour Camp for Wives of Traitors of the Motherland"?
text: Did you know that Fort Wayne, Indiana , is considered the birthplace of the NBA ?
text: Did you know that the brother of the President of Tunisia was found guilty of laundering drug money in the couscous connection trial?
text: Did you know that the museum at Forte Tre Sassi displays World War I artifacts collected over a period of 45 years, and reportedly has 20,000 visitors annually?
text: Did you know that the first American grand opera was written for soprano Ann Childe Seguin ?
text: Did you know that highlights from the history of tyrannosaur research include the first carnivorous dinosaur known to walk bipedally, the giant Tyrannosaurus rex , and feathered taxa from China like Yutyrannus ?
text: Did you know that a chance encounter with a railway official owning a pet parrot unknown to science led to the discovery of the Naretha bluebonnet ?
text: Did you know that Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga (1784–1792) was recently reunited with his parents?
text: Did you know that Lawrence Livermore canceled its LIFE fusion power plant design work when the National Ignition Facility failed to live up to its name and produce fusion ignition ?
text: Did you know that Maitreyi was highly revered as one of the few women scholars of the Vedic period ( c. 1750 – 500 BCE ) able to discuss the highest spiritual truths of life?
text: Did you know that Turbinaria peltata , Turbinaria reniformis , Turbinaria mesenterina and Turbinaria stellulata are all species of disc coral that the IUCN considers "vulnerable"?
text: Did you know that the d-CON founder Lee Ratner started Florida's first planned community , created a mail-order computer programming class, and was involved in oil exploration?
text: Did you know that EGS-zs8-1 is the oldest and most distant galaxy ever observed?
text: Did you know that Thao Ma 's 1966 Laotian coup bombed?
text: Did you know that Great Leap Brewing , Beijing 's first microbrewery , makes beers with distinctly Chinese flavoring adjuncts such as Sichuan pepper and tiěguānyīn oolong tea?
text: Did you know that Orin W. Angwall an American lake captain, commercial fisherman, and mayor of Marinette, Wisconsin owned the Mindemoya , the last composite constructed vessel sailing the Great Lakes ?
text: Did you know that Ono Ranzan 's school of pharmacognosy had over 1,000 pupils?
text: Did you know that Fort Trašte in Montenegro was built by the Austro-Hungarian Empire to protect its naval base at Kotor from a seaborne invasion?
text: Did you know that Philip of Majorca , a prince and Franciscan friar, strove to protect heretics and Jews from the Inquisition?
text: Did you know that Assassin's Creed Syndicate was called Assassin's Creed Victory prior to its official reveal?
text: Did you know that the copyright to Hillary Rodham Clinton 's 1998 book about a cat and a dog, Dear Socks, Dear Buddy , is held by the National Park Foundation ?
text: Did you know that the sudden emergence of Climax Blues Band 's " Couldn't Get It Right " irritated their producer, because he thought they had spent eight albums withholding a hit from him?
text: Did you know that Mercedes Sandoval de Hempel was nominated in Paraguay for "1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005"?
text: Did you know that Bouvier's red colobus , a species of monkey last seen in the 1970s and thought possibly to be extinct , was rediscovered in the Republic of the Congo in 2015?
text: Did you know that a serious demeanour and disdain for small talk earned the Australian General Sir John Wilton the nickname "Happy Jack"?
text: Did you know that the 1995 All-Big Ten Conference football team included two Heisman Trophy winners, Eddie George of Ohio State and Charles Woodson of Michigan ?
text: Did you know that Fort Gorazda in Montenegro has the last surviving example of a 100-ton Gruson revolving gun turret still in situ ?
text: Did you know that the actor and director Grigoriy Dobrygin , who has been called the "Russian James Franco ", is a classically trained ballet dancer who studied at the Bolshoi Theatre ?
text: Did you know that a herd of Highland cattle is known as a fold ?
text: Did you know that Ian Jacobs developed a test for early-stage ovarian cancer ?
text: Did you know that the Syrian National Coalition announced its relocation to Idlib just two days after the Second Battle of Idlib ?
text: Did you know that both of the named tributaries of Mill Creek ( Collins Creek and Lidy Creek ) lose flow to mine pools?
text: Did you know that Wilhelm Lemke was the 35th Luftwaffe fighter pilot credited with 100 aerial victories?
text: Did you know that secondary crater formation requires a primary crater, sufficient gravity, and enough velocity in the ejected material?
text: Did you know that Meryl Streep has received 19 Academy Award nominations, more than any other actor or actress in history?
text: Did you know that the clock of the Clallam County Courthouse was warehoused at the Seattle docks for 29 years?
text: Did you know that Heinrich Jost , who was trained by typeface designer Paul Renner , later oversaw Renner's work at the Bauer Type Foundry ?
text: Did you know that with its 1819 foundation, the Romney Literary Society became the first organization of its kind in present-day West Virginia , and one of the first in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that Mountain Lake Run flows through a culvert system for a substantial part of its length in its lower reaches?
text: Did you know that the Roanoke darter is of least-concern for the International Union for Conservation of Nature ?
text: Did you know that Céline Renooz argued that John the Baptist was a woman and that humans had evolved from plants ?
text: Did you know that Karang Bolong Beach , on the prison island of Nusa Kambangan , is open to the public?
text: Did you know that the family of North Dakota college student Andrew Sadek believes he was murdered for his work making drug buys for police?
text: Did you know that protesters blockaded construction on the world's largest telescope proposed for Mauna Kea , the most sacred mountain of the Native Hawaiian people ?
text: Did you know that according to Martin v. Hearst Corp. , expungement of your criminal record does not entitle you to make old news disappear?
text: Did you know that recumbent stone circles are thought to have been used by prehistoric people for rituals involving the moon?
text: Did you know that Marie Uchytilová 's Memorial to the Children Victims of the War commemorates the gassing of 82 children from Lidice at Chełmno during World War II?
text: Did you know that Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry first wrote for the series Highway Patrol under the pseudonym "Robert Wesley" as he was still in the LAPD at the time?
text: Did you know that Neal Howard 's debut EP contained mixes by Bad Boy Bill , Derrick May , and Kevin Saunderson ?
text: Did you know that at the inauguration of a Torah scroll , the other Torah scrolls housed in the synagogue or sanctuary are carried outside to "welcome" the new addition?
text: Did you know that the fossil mantidfly Dicromantispa moronei was first described from a single specimen in a private collection?
text: Did you know that Saido Berahino scored his first Premier League goal against Manchester United , the team which he supports?
text: Did you know that the Ekron Royal Dedicatory Inscription was described by its discoverers as an enigma?
text: Did you know that The Simpsons episode " Clown in the Dumps " features an opening sequence by the surrealist animator Don Hertzfeldt ?
text: Did you know that the longlegged spiny lobster does not breed until it is about five years old?
text: Did you know that according to Time magazine, the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets is one of the ten weirdest museums in the world?
text: Did you know that the book title Beyond the Sky and Earth refers to a Bhutanese expression meaning "I am thankful to you beyond the earth and sky"?
text: Did you know that Thomas Olivers was buried in John Wesley 's grave, despite Wesley's erstwhile complaint that Olivers was "murdering" his magazine?
text: Did you know that the producer Norman Dolph re-tuned the Moog modular synthesizer every 15 minutes during the recording of Switched-On Rock ?
text: Did you know that Alex Behring , slated to become chairman of the newly merged Kraft Heinz Company , has a BS degree in electrical engineering?
text: Did you know that Thol Lake , also known as the Thol Bird Sanctuary, is a key habitat for sarus crane , ruff , and flamingo ?
text: Did you know that a Boston Globe reporter described Maia Weinstock 's apartment as having "stacks of heads and hairstyles, torsos and legs and arms, a pint-sized Frankenstein's workshop stored in little plastic bins"?
text: Did you know that during location filming, Ron Howard 's upcoming thriller Inferno was code-named "Headache"?
text: Did you know that contemporary feminist scholars have debated the value of the work of the 19th-century novelist Ellen Pickering ?
text: Did you know that two landslides in April 2015 in Badakhshan Province , Afghanistan, killed 52 people, destroyed homes, and displaced families?
text: Did you know that the physician John Macdonald was the first person to represent Scotland at both cricket and football ?
text: Did you know that the violet darter has recently expanded its range northwards in Europe?
text: Did you know that in the United States, consumers sometimes refer to white bread as sandwich bread ?
text: Did you know that in a May 1942 raid, aircrew of No. 20 Squadron RAAF disrupted the sleep of Japanese soldiers by dropping beer bottles to make a sound "something between a shrill whistle and a scream"?
text: Did you know that Adam WarRock was a lawyer before he became a nerdcore rapper?
text: Did you know that Félix Galipaux ' s antics were captured on paper by Toulouse-Lautrec and on film by Georges Méliès ?
text: Did you know that in May 2015 BBC Four aired "the most boring TV show ever"— an un-narrated, two-hour narrowboat journey on the Kennet and Avon Canal ?
text: Did you know that the first botanical drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration treats genital warts ?
text: Did you know that coins found in 1840 identified the previously unknown Norse kings Cnut and Siefredus ?
text: Did you know that the United States Army fought 46 campaigns during World War II?
text: Did you know that the English Renaissance composer William Mundy was a pioneer of verse anthems with organ accompaniment?
text: Did you know that villains Bebop and Rocksteady will appear in the upcoming film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Half Shell ?
text: Did you know that Mary Tannahill was not only a painter, but also made woodcuts , batik , and embroidery ?
text: Did you know that the Falkland Islands do not have a national fishing license ?
text: Did you know that Kileak: The DNA Imperative was a European and North American launch title for the PlayStation console?
text: Did you know that the jurist and satirist Gottfried Wilhelm Sacer wrote the lyrics of a hymn which Bach used to conclude his Ascension Oratorio ?
text: Did you know that the Argentine telenovela Esperanza mía will have cameos from Valeria Lynch and Jimena Barón ?
text: Did you know that Basarab I of Wallachia was addressed as a "devout Catholic prince" in a papal letter and mentioned as a "perfidious schismatic" in a Hungarian chronicle?
text: Did you know that the Milifandom of fans of the politician Ed Miliband has been compared to the fans of Justin Bieber and One Direction ?
text: Did you know that all three films in the Ip Man series about Yip Man (played by Donnie Yen ) are directed by Wilson Yip ?
text: Did you know that Meadow Brook has been so severely impacted by urban development or historic mining that it no longer resembles a stream and has been described as "essentially non-existent"?
text: Did you know that the Celta de Vigo footballer Santiago Mina is the father of the Celta de Vigo footballer Santiago Mina ?
text: Did you know that Black American Sign Language (BASL) is a dialect of American Sign Language used predominantly by the African American Deaf in the United States?
text: Did you know that the terrorist attack carried out in Mostar in 1997 by al-Qaeda remains the most serious terrorist attack in Bosnia and Herzegovina ?
text: Did you know that the most notable exhibit in the Archaeological Museum of Komotini is the gilded bust of Septimius Severus (193–211 AD)?
text: Did you know that sliding bookcases were used in the United States during Prohibition to hide secret rooms or spaces containing liquor ?
text: Did you know that Hebron Church was founded by German settlers in 1786, making it the first organized Lutheran church west of the Shenandoah Valley ?
text: Did you know that Rosamund Pike won the Empire Award for Best Actress for her role in Gone Girl ?
text: Did you know that Podyjí National Park contains one of the oldest and most renowned vineyard tracks in the Czech Republic?
text: Did you know that a beer, brewed in honour of former Derby County footballer Dave Mackay , is raising funds for radio presenter Colin Bloomfield 's melanoma appeal?
text: Did you know that Leggetts Creek , and a reservoir on it, served as a supplementary drinking water supply for more than 100,000 people in the late 20th century?
text: Did you know that the 2012 Turkish historical drama film Çanakkale 1915 was screen-written by Turgut Özakman and based on his 2008 historical novel Diriliş: Çanakkale 1915 ?
text: Did you know that titles in the dinosaur erotica genre include works such as Taken by the T-Rex , Ravished by Triceratops , and A Billionaire Dinosaur Forced Me Gay ?
text: Did you know that unusual dishes at Moto have included edible menus, "inside out bread", carbonated fruit, and experiments with levitating food?
text: Did you know that the Atari Sierra 16/32-bit personal computer was never built, but its synthesizer chip was later sold as the Atari AMY ?
text: Did you know that Matt Damon was previously set to re-team with Kenneth Lonergan on Manchester-by-the-Sea , but Casey Affleck replaced him to lead the film?
text: Did you know that in the part-settings of hymns in Walter 's Eyn geystlich Gesangk Buchleyn ‍—‌also known as the first Wittenberg hymnal‍—‌the melody is in the tenor?
text: Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines women's lacrosse team splits its home games between Michigan Stadium (capacity 110,000) and Oosterbaan Field House (capacity 1,000)?
text: Did you know that Twinkle Khanna won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut for her performance in Barsaat ?
text: Did you know that the day gecko Cnemaspis adii was first discovered in 2015 at the World Heritage Site of Hampi ?
text: Did you know that the surface features of Venus include volcanoes, impact craters and aeolian landforms?
text: Did you know that the film Arms and the Dudes is the true story of arms dealers David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli ?
text: Did you know that the spire of the Sacred Heart Church in Fiji has a neon light in the form of a cross, which is used by ships for navigation?
text: Did you know that Siri Lindley retired as the number-one female triathlete after winning back-to-back Triathlon World Cup titles?
text: Did you know that the linking of the Perunchani and Chittar Dams could allow another 15,000 acres (6,100 ha) to be served by the Kodiyar Irrigation System?
text: Did you know that the tenor Llewellyn Cadwaladr created the role of Frederic in the first performance of The Pirates of Penzance in 1879?
text: Did you know that the orange sea pen can't write?
text: Did you know that the libertarian micronation Liberland was proclaimed on 13 April 2015 by Czech politician Vít Jedlička on unclaimed land between Croatia and Serbia ?
text: Did you know that Beau Flynn and Marley Shelton met on the set of Bubble Boy in 2000, and were married in 2001?
text: Did you know that Op. 120, No. 1 is an arrangement of a clarinet sonata by Brahms which Luciano Berio arranged as a clarinet concerto for the Los Angeles Philharmonic ?
text: Did you know that the 2014 film Earth to Echo marked the directorial debut of Dave Green ?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Verbič scored for NK Celje in the 2011–12 Slovenian Football Cup final, but missed in the penalty shootout as they lost the match to NK Maribor ?
text: Did you know that half of the Gravity Falls fandom guessed the ending to " Not What He Seems ", according to creator Alex Hirsch ?
text: Did you know that Cheryl's birthday is July 16, although some people think it should be August 17?
text: Did you know that Kavindya Thennakoon , one of the top four scorers in the world on the Cambridge International Examinations , founded a community development project in Sri Lanka ?
text: Did you know that Donkey Kong Country was one of the first games for a home video game console to use pre-rendered 3D graphics?
text: Did you know that Laotian General Sing Rattanasamai was originally a policeman in the Garde Indigene ?
text: Did you know that the fragile shell of the glassy nautilus was once worth more than its weight in gold?
text: Did you know that Time Crash claims to be the first Time Lord rock band in the United States?
text: Did you know that Operation Scarlift carried out 500 stream pollution abatement projects, eliminated 150 areas of mine subsidence, extinguished 75 mine fires, and alleviated air pollution at 30 burning refuse banks?
text: Did you know that " A Limo For A Lame-O ", Al Franken 's Weekend Update attack on Fred Silverman 35 years ago today, set in motion the events that led to Saturday Night Live 's "worst" season?
text: Did you know that Brazilian footballer Wanderley Machado played alongside his brother Waldo for Spanish club Hércules CF ?
text: Did you know that actress Ellen Page accused Naughty Dog of "ripping off [her] likeness" for the design of Ellie in their video game The Last of Us ?
text: Did you know that Marrakesh 's Amanjena was the venue of David Beckham 's 40th birthday celebrations, and a film locale for Sex and the City 2 ?
text: Did you know that Joe Cocozzo played in the 1993 Rose Bowl , the 1993 Senior Bowl , and Super Bowl XXIX ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film The Childhood of a Leader is the feature-directing debut of Brady Corbet ?
text: Did you know that the coral Coelastrea aspera has a "memory" of at least ten years?
text: Did you know that Kenny Booker as a basketball player helped UCLA win its fifth-straight national championship, and as a coach the next year led Verbum Dei to its fourth consecutive title?
text: Did you know that eight months after launch, d-CON was selling US$100,000-worth of rat poison per week, a feat that was called "as brilliant a record for a new product as you're likely to find anywhere, anytime"?
text: Did you know that " The God of Abraham Praise " has been called the Christian "hymn born in a synagogue"?
text: Did you know that the thin birdsnest coral can reproduce by "polyp bail-out"?
text: Did you know that Shigeru Miyamoto gave Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island its signature, hand-drawn art style in defiance of Nintendo 's marketing department?
text: Did you know that Lucky Run lacks any perennial flow because it loses flow to underground mine pools?
text: Did you know that Christian Marclay 's LP Record Without a Cover has no cover?
text: Did you know that in Kinsella v. Krueger , the Supreme Court of the United States freed a woman who had fatally stabbed her husband?
text: Did you know that Airdeconut , first identified in 2011, is the first new Viking king discovered since 1840?
text: Did you know that the film The Free State of Jones is the story of Southern Unionist Newton Knight (played by Matthew McConaughey )?
text: Did you know that a bleached coral that has expelled its zooxanthellae may be recolonised by others of a different species?
text: Did you know that Tucson, Arizona Territory Mayor Charles M. Strauss resigned because the city council overturned his veto?
text: Did you know that Ip Man 3 may be Donnie Yen 's final martial arts film ?
text: Did you know that bibliomaniac ex-monk Don Vincente murdered a bookseller, a priest, a judge, and an alderman to get his hands on some of their books?
text: Did you know that Barack Obama is the first U.S. President since Lyndon B. Johnson who has not given a Landon Lecture ?
text: Did you know that " Ladders " is the first episode of Community to be broadcast on Yahoo! Screen instead of NBC ?
text: Did you know that the endangered honey blue-eye is threatened by urban development and possibly mosquitofish ?
text: Did you know that the 2015 DFB-Pokal Final will be Jürgen Klopp 's final match as manager of Borussia Dortmund ?
text: Did you know that Ernst Pepping 's 1948 Missa Dona nobis pacem ( Grant Us Peace ) for unaccompanied eight-part choir may have been the composer's "personal plea"?
text: Did you know that Robert Desrosiers ' dance Blue Snake included three-dimensional sets, automated mechanical structures, and surrealistic costumes?
text: Did you know that after its deconsecration , Rome's twelfth-century church of the Santi Simone e Giuda was a cinema, then a restaurant, and finally a theater?
text: Did you know that the Malaysian blogger Alvin Tan was put on trial for sedition after posting a photograph of himself eating pork as a Ramadan greeting?
text: Did you know that Kim Il-sung has been credited with resolving the Sinuiju Incident in 1945?
text: Did you know that until it reappeared in 2002, Steve Garvey 's No. 6 was missing for years from the display of numbers retired by the San Diego Padres ?
text: Did you know that the goal of the Yale Labor and Management Center of the 1940s–50s was to study real-world interactions to devise an explanatory theory of behavior in industrial relations ?
text: Did you know that in the Kek Lok Si temple, the pagoda combines a Chinese octagonal base with a middle tier of Thai design, and a Burmese crown reflecting both Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism ?
text: Did you know that Gabriele Zerbi , author of the first guide on geriatrics , was sawn in half?
text: Did you know that a recently discovered frog looks a lot like The Muppets character Kermit the Frog ?
text: Did you know that Mozart composed an obbligato part for the flute of Johann Baptist Wendling in an aria of his Idomeneo sung by Wendling's wife?
text: Did you know that the Meghalaya insurgency is a part of a wider war in Northeast India ?
text: Did you know that archaeologist Harold St George Gray discovered that the 11 m (36 ft) deep ditch surrounding Avebury was dug from solid chalk using red deer antlers as picks?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball veterans sometimes play at the Double-A level while recovering from injuries?
text: Did you know that the Carroll Group , once one of the largest private businesses in Britain, collapsed in the early 1990s amid allegations of fraud?
text: Did you know that in 1961, Democrats outnumbered Republicans in the Oregon State Senate 20 to 10, but majority leader Alfred H. Corbett did not get enough votes to be elected its President?
text: Did you know that in Tajikistan there is a mountain peak named after a university in Estonia ?
text: Did you know that Sophie's choice took an hour less in Washington than in London?
text: Did you know that Quinlan Terry was told to step into John Nash's shoes and "carry on walking" ?
text: Did you know that MediEvil was inspired by works such as Tim Burton 's hit film The Nightmare Before Christmas ?
text: Did you know that Andrew II of Hungary employed Jews and Muslims to administer royal revenues, which brought him into conflict with the Holy See ?
text: Did you know that Zolykha's Secret was the first prominent feature film produced in post- Taliban Afghanistan ?
text: Did you know that Hugo Moutinho became the first Portuguese footballer to score a hat-trick in Romania?
text: Did you know that Mother Brook has been called the "most audacious attempt of robbery ever recorded in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It was the effort made by Dedham ... to actually steal the River Charles "?
text: Did you know that Lizzy Hawker bought her first pair of trail running shoes just 10 days before running the 100-mile Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc for the first time, and winning?
text: Did you know that the Port Jackson glassfish gets its common name from its transparent body?
text: Did you know that Harriet Newell Noyes founded the first school for women in Guangdong Province ?
text: Did you know that Gellner's theory has been called "the best-known modernist explanatory theory of nationalism "?
text: Did you know that Clover Hill Creek has splash pools and rock ledge falls in its upper reaches, but is severely channelized in its lower reaches?
text: Did you know that Qi Jianguo is one of the few serving Chinese generals with actual battle experience?
text: Did you know that Stan Winston 's special effects studio cut its prices in half to meet the budget for the film Tank Girl , as it was desperate to work on the project?
text: Did you know that an interdisciplinary team of scientists is working with NASA to search for life on exoplanets ?
text: Did you know that during the attempted overthrow of the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtadir in 908, Husayn ibn Hamdan killed the vizier , but failed to force the Caliph to surrender, leading to the coup's collapse?
text: Did you know that a minister of Germany's cabinet drives an Audi A8 powered by e-diesel , a fuel created from carbon dioxide and water?
text: Did you know that the United States national baseball team mimicked the Bash Brothers at the 1988 Summer Olympics in South Korea?
text: Did you know that the post-punk band ESG became inactive shortly after the release of its debut album Come Away with ESG ?
text: Did you know that the flathead gudgeon can be distinguished from the dwarf flathead gudgeon by its larger size and gill openings, and stripes on its sides?
text: Did you know that Grete Keilson was in a communist plot with Klaus Fuchs ?
text: Did you know that the Texan businessman George Neel, Jr. published western-themed short stories and a novel featuring a Marine in South Korea?
text: Did you know that a corallite is a cup for a coral ?
text: Did you know that Tsien Tsuen-hsuin , who recently died at age 105, risked his life to ship rare books from China to the United States, out of the reach of the Japanese Army ?
text: Did you know that the architectural design of the Moorish Mosque, Kapurthala is patterned after the Koutoubia Mosque in Marrakesh in Morocco ?
text: Did you know that Ricky Ponting 's 140 not out in the 2003 Cricket World Cup Final is the highest score by a captain in a World Cup final?
text: Did you know that Amos Yee won the Best Actor and Best Short Film awards at the 2011 First Film Fest for a film he made "in his bedroom" at the age of 13?
text: Did you know that The Last of Us: Left Behind featured entire gameplay encounters involving water guns , and a photo booth ?
text: Did you know that Clayton Knight , a World War I aviator and artist, wrote and illustrated children's books with his wife Katherine Sturges Dodge ?
text: Did you know that the Wise Old Man , the Great Mother, the Trickster , and the Shadow live side by side in Carl Jung's collective unconscious ?
text: Did you know that while critics saw high-concept and New Aesthetic qualities in Back to Backspace , Pillywags' Mansion was compared to Pee-wee's Playhouse ?
text: Did you know that a 2002 study confirmed James H. Dieterich 's theory that an earthquake's magnitude and the rate of ensuing aftershocks are in inverse proportion ?
text: Did you know that the MTA Arts & Design -commissioned "Sky Reflector-Net" uses a 53-foot (16 m) skylight and hundreds of aluminium mirrors to bring sunlight into the Fulton Center transit hub ?
text: Did you know that after Hitler assumed power, Vera Lachmann founded a school for Jewish children expelled from German public schools?
text: Did you know that funeral strippers are sometimes hired to remove their clothing during a funeral in an effort to attract more mourners?
text: Did you know that Thorwald Jørgensen enjoys playing Rachmaninoff 's " Vocalise " on the theremin ?
text: Did you know that Every Last Child exposes false propaganda against polio vaccinations , such as the idea it is a plot by Jews and Christians to eliminate Muslims ?
text: Did you know that the folk rock band The Rails is the first band to release an album on Island Records ' Pink Label since the 1970s?
text: Did you know that Monmouth University Library was originally the summer home of Murry and Leonie Guggenheim?
text: Did you know that Stephen Hawking , Elon Musk , and top artificial intelligence experts have penned an open letter urging AI researchers not to create anything that can't be controlled?
text: Did you know that Leach Creek flows through 49 pipes?
text: Did you know that Christoph Martin Wieland 's satire Die Geschichte der Abderiten suggests that small-minded ancient Greek frog-worshippers had much in common with provincial Germans?
text: Did you know that the rapper Lecrae was the first hip hop artist to receive a Grammy Award for Best Gospel Album ?
text: Did you know that Lü Bicheng has been called one of the four women geniuses of the Republic of China ?
text: Did you know that Cyclone Pat in February 2010 caused no fatalities despite damaging or destroying 78% of the homes on Aitutaki in the Cook Islands ?
text: Did you know that Terry Acebo Davis , an artist and full-time nurse, is a lecturer on the Filipino identity?
text: Did you know that Alejandro González Iñárritu was slated to direct Jungle Book: Origins , but left to direct The Revenant instead?
text: Did you know that Tony Parker was the first basketball player in Georgia in nearly two decades to start for four straight state champions?
text: Did you know that there's a Blob in the Pacific Ocean?
text: Did you know that in Great Britain, the term plum cake typically refers to what most Americans think of as a type of fruitcake ?
text: Did you know that the harvesting of Japanese beech trees on the slopes of Mount Izumi Katsuragi is forbidden for religious reasons?
text: Did you know that Kangana Ranaut won both the National Film Award and Filmfare Award for Best Actress for the 2014 comedy-drama film Queen ?
text: Did you know that Wendy Sue Swanson , the Seattle Mama Doc , won the CDC 's first Childhood Immunization Champion Award in 2012?
text: Did you know that Mount Faloria , near Cortina d'Ampezzo , hosted the men's giant slalom event of the 1956 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Wendover Air Force Base has been used as a location for films including Con Air (1995), Mulholland Falls (1996), Independence Day (1996), The Hulk (2003) and The Core (2003)?
text: Did you know that the trapdoor spider genus Eucteniza contains species named after Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa , a Cylon from Battlestar Galactica , and rocker Sammy Hagar's nightclub ?
text: Did you know that Priyanka Chopra won a second consecutive Star Guild Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role , for the 2009 caper-thriller Kaminey ?
text: Did you know that the unusual round tower of the medieval Hammarlunda Church probably served a defensive purpose?
text: Did you know that the engineering professor Morrough Parker O'Brien is considered the founder of modern coastal engineering ?
text: Did you know that the Spillings Hoard in the Gotland Museum is the world's largest Viking silver treasure?
text: Did you know that the CARMADI Foundation , an ecological research organization on Piscadera Bay , is the "largest field station in the Southern Caribbean "?
text: Did you know that cucumber juice is commonly used topically as a skin rejuvenator and to improve skin complexion ?
text: Did you know that The Gift has been made by Joel Edgerton ?
text: Did you know that the very first basketball players in Lithuania were women , but the first official game was played by men ?
text: Did you know that Ziona of Baktawng village, Mizoram , India holds the world record  as head of the "world's largest existing family" with 39 wives, 94 children, and 33 grandchildren, all living?
text: Did you know that the ballet Onegin by John Cranko premiered with Marcia Haydée as Tatiana and Ray Barra as Onegin fifty years ago?
text: Did you know that the Canadian philanthropist Dorothy J. Killam offered $5 million for the Brooklyn Dodgers ?
text: Did you know that Big Inch , a petroleum pipeline, had a companion project named Little Big Inch?
text: Did you know that the 1984 status referendum in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands has been described as the "smallest act of self-determination ever conducted"?
text: Did you know that the scandalous life of Teresia Constantia Phillips was published in eighteen parts?
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text: Did you know that the last two TV series of The Island with Bear Grylls were filmed on the uninhabited Panamanian island of Isla Gibraleón ?
text: Did you know that the poet Agustina Andrade shot herself after learning her husband maintained a parallel family in Patagonia ?
text: Did you know that Taziki's Mediterranean Café does not purvey deep-fried foods?
text: Did you know that Peter Woon supported the introduction of female newsreaders at the BBC , though he was concerned that most "sound as though they came from Cheltenham Ladies' College"?
text: Did you know that parts of Fort Templebreedy were demilitarized and laid out as a pitch and putt course?
text: Did you know that despite losing two limbs in an improvised explosive device attack, former US soldier Noah Galloway is competing in this season's Dancing with the Stars ?
text: Did you know that the Chinese atlas Zhifang Waiji includes maps of the continent Magellanica ?
text: Did you know that the very first basketball players in Lithuania were women , but the first official game was played by men?
text: Did you know that it took Goethe only three days to write the play Der Bürgergeneral , satirising the French Revolution , and it was first performed just six days later?
text: Did you know that the appearance of bright spots in Ganiki Chasma suggests there is active volcanism on Venus ?
text: Did you know that M. Travis Lane was the first winner of the annual Pat Lowther Award for the best book of poetry by a Canadian woman?
text: Did you know that the first phase of the Wenzhou Rail Transit is being built at an estimated cost of 50 billion yuan ?
text: Did you know that the release of the 2002 documentary War and Peace was blocked by the Indian censor board , which demanded 21 cuts?
text: Did you know that George Edgar Slusser was the first curator of the Eaton collection ?
text: Did you know that Cold War Kids named their album Loyalty to Loyalty after a paper of the same name by American philosopher Josiah Royce ?
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text: Did you know that Polygon described Saints Row IV 's dubstep gun as "iconic"?
text: Did you know that the Aroma of Tacoma is a putrid odor associated with Tacoma, Washington ?
text: Did you know that the Hinatuan Enchanted River is a hot spring, a lagoon, and a river all at the same time?
text: Did you know that the recently-designated Pullman National Monument is the first unit of the National Park Service in Chicago ?
text: Did you know that an activist chained herself to the Statue of Paul Kruger to protect the monument after green paint was thrown on it?
text: Did you know that when William Hung learned that Harvard professor Langdon Warner was removing murals from Dunhuang , he made sure that Warner was never left alone at any historic site?
text: Did you know that Lorina Bulwer embroidered long rants that launched an investigation by the BBC ?
text: Did you know that Holland's Magazine was influential in securing the passage of a pure food law in Texas?
text: Did you know that all tickets for Siti Nurhaliza's 2015 unplugged concert sold out three days before the concert date, although the concert had been planned only two weeks earlier?
text: Did you know that Massachusetts was the first state in the United States to legalize same-sex marriage ?
text: Did you know that the Hungarian writer Teréz Karacs turned down the request of Countess Blanka Teleki to start a school, and started her own instead?
text: Did you know that Paul Gerhardt 's hymn " Du meine Seele singe " (You my soul sing), a paraphrase of Psalm 146 , became known for a melody beginning with a rocket motif?
text: Did you know that in the Atharvasiras Upanishsad , the Devas offer prayers to Rudra extolling him as immortal and indestructible?
text: Did you know that the tiny horrid ground-weaver stopped a building development?
text: Did you know that during the 2014 Irish cricket season , the bowler Craig Young became the ninth cricketer to take five wickets on One Day International debut ?
text: Did you know that St John's Church, Silverdale , is notable for the high quality of the stone carvings in its interior?
text: Did you know that for his composition Tre Motetter , Carl Nielsen and his wife selected texts from three psalms, he composed the music reflecting the mood, and later he added the words?
text: Did you know that the Indologist Jouveau Dubreuil found gems and an intaglio of Augustus Caesar at Arikamedu and said that the archaeological site was "a true Roman city"?
text: Did you know that besieged by British troops with his mentor Izz ad-Din al-Qassam , Yusuf Abu Durra managed to escape to become one of the main rebel leaders of the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine ?
text: Did you know that a track from The Ventures album Wild Things! was given its title by one of Mel Taylor 's sons?
text: Did you know that Fredrick Obateru Akinruntan , Africa's second richest king , saw a car for the first time in 1961?
text: Did you know that before pianist Vince Cardell was discovered by Liberace , he drove a truck for a diaper company?
text: Did you know that the lawn game bocce became popular during the English Renaissance ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Eshelman set an NCAA single-season record for fewest walks per nine innings pitched ?
text: Did you know that the lesser valley coral attacks and may kill less aggressive species, such as the larger star coral ?
text: Did you know that at the end of eight years of conflict in the East Indies theatre of the French Revolutionary Wars , Britain was allowed to retain only Ceylon ?
text: Did you know that Thirty Seconds to Mars released the song " Conquistador " before the album's release, as a way of saying thanks to their fans?
text: Did you know that Miss Alabama 2015 Meg McGuffin 's childhood nickname was Egg McMuffin ?
text: Did you know that the 1922 Princeton vs. Chicago football game , won by Princeton's "Team of Destiny", was the first to be nationally broadcast on radio?
text: Did you know that several secularist writers and bloggers have been hacked to death in Bangladesh since 2013 by Islamist extremists?
text: Did you know that Frank Spedding directed the Atomic Energy Commission's Ames Laboratory in Iowa from its founding in 1947 until 1968?
text: Did you know that plantations on the mountains in Alto Paraguay Department close to Asunción proved viable for coffee production in Paraguay ?
text: Did you know that the Game of Thrones episode " Hardhome " is considered by critics as a "ridiculous turnaround" compared to the rape scene in " Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken "?
text: Did you know that when the frigates Forte and HMS Sybille fought the Action of 28 February 1799 , the opposing captains were both killed?
text: Did you know that AJ's Infinite Summer features musical score and voice work by the creator's hometown friends from Fargo, North Dakota ?
text: Did you know that DJ AM died from a drug overdose shortly after filming was completed for the drug intervention reality show Gone Too Far ?
text: Did you know that the Macau Incident of January 1799 was the second failed attempt to destroy the annual British trade convoy from China in three years?
text: Did you know that Leena Gade is the first female race engineer to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans ?
text: Did you know that the state of New York initially refused a gift of 650 acres (260 ha) around Breakneck Brook because it was too rugged to develop as a park?
text: Did you know that vaginal evisceration is a rare complication of surgically removing the uterus entirely through the vaginal canal ?
text: Did you know that Duke Huan of Chen went missing for 16 days before his body was found, and in the chaos his brother murdered the crown prince to usurp the throne?
text: Did you know that before the Archaeological Survey of India acquired the 400-year-old Tombs of Battashewala Complex , the site was leased as a youth camping ground?
text: Did you know that critically acclaimed historical romance author Sherry Thomas was born in China, lives in Texas, and writes about Victorian England ?
text: Did you know that a High Orbit Ion Cannon took out the FBI and the US Department of Justice websites?
text: Did you know that in 2012, John McLaughlin selected Aniello Desiderio to perform at the European premiere of his concerto Thieves and Poets ?
text: Did you know that Seminar Studies in History was one of the first series of academic history books to include documentary sources as standard?
text: Did you know that the 1991 All-Big Ten Conference football team included Heisman Trophy winner Desmond Howard and conference rushing leader Vaughn Dunbar ?
text: Did you know that during the 1990s, the Muslim National Council of Sandžak sought autonomy for the Sandžak region in present-day Serbia and Montenegro , and its unification with the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ?
text: Did you know that Violet Chachki is the winner of season seven of RuPaul's Drag Race ?
text: Did you know that in the 1981 composition Charivari by HK Gruber , based on a Strauss polka in perpetual motion , the mask of Gemütlichkeit "is gradually allowed to slip"?
text: Did you know that the Military Working Dog Teams National Monument at Lackland Air Force Base is dedicated to U.S. war dogs and their handlers?
text: Did you know that David K. Smith , a York University professor of chemistry, has been described as "one of the most visible out gay scientists"?
text: Did you know that in 1819, the Scotsman Gregor MacGregor led a failed attempt to free Panama , two years before the Independence Act ?
text: Did you know that Priyanka Chopra won several Best Actress awards  including the National Film Award and the Filmfare Award for the 2008 drama film Fashion ?
text: Did you know that Team Colorblind thought that their upcoming beat 'em up , Aztez , would empower players because it minimizes direct guidance?
text: Did you know that 12-year-old conservative political activist C.J. Pearson defended former mayor Rudy Giuliani and criticized President Barack Obama in a YouTube video that got nearly two million views?
text: Did you know that Lucien von Römer wrote in 1908 that homosexuality was innate, a view described by others as being "in conflict with morality and offensive to others"?
text: Did you know that Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee resisted a court order to transfer a state prisoner to the U.S. government, because the transfer could have made the prisoner eligible for capital punishment?
text: Did you know that coffee production in Cameroon includes robusta in the coastal areas and arabica in the western highlands ?
text: Did you know that Cardiff Blues vs Leicester Tigers in the 2008–09 Heineken Cup was the first professional rugby union match to feature a penalty shootout ?
text: Did you know that Hodad's Guido Burger was inspired by celebrity chef Guy Fieri , who featured the San Diego burger joint on his show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives ?
text: Did you know that linebacker Sam Sword was the leading tackler on the undefeated 1997 Michigan football team ?
text: Did you know that the open cluster NGC 6067 is 15 to 20 times as rich as the Pleiades ?
text: Did you know that Howard Lee McBain , a Columbia University professor, helped draft electoral laws in Cuba?
text: Did you know that thousands of logs that were the 12th-century wooden fort Bulverket , built in the middle of Sweden's Lake Tingstäde , can still be seen through the ice in winter?
text: Did you know that Sheila Florance broke her knee wielding an antique shotgun while filming Mad Max ?
text: Did you know that the order in which Mass -goers kissed the pax led to disputes and sometimes violence in the Middle Ages?
text: Did you know that Romanian architect Alexandru Săvulescu 's Communal Palace of Buzău was declared an architectural monument?
text: Did you know that Heo Young-saeng 's 2013 album Memories to You was a parting gift for his Japanese fans before his two-year mandatory military service in South Korea ?
text: Did you know that in the future, virtual pharmaceuticals may be tested on virtual patients in in silico clinical trials before the real drugs are tested on real people in real clinical trials?
text: Did you know that P. Krishnamoorthy won the Indian National film award for Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design for the same film on two different occasions?
text: Did you know that according to Enrico Fermi , George B. Pegram was "the man who could carry out magic around the University"?
text: Did you know that coffee was first introduced in the Dominican Republic in 1715 and has been a principal crop of small-scale farmers since then?
text: Did you know that at the age of 10, Sydney Lucas became the youngest individual to win an Obie Award for her portrayal of Small Alison in the musical Fun Home ?
text: Did you know that 4,920 Iron Age pellet moulds were uncovered at Sleaford , one of the largest deposits of its kind in Europe?
text: Did you know that after the death of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in 1707, his fifth son Muhammad Kam Bakhsh ascended the throne of Bijapur ?
text: Did you know that the album Same as You by the British jazz band Polar Bear was mixed in the Mojave Desert ?
text: Did you know that Crown Prince Theingapati and his father King Kyawswa of Pagan were branded traitors and executed in 1299 by the Myinsaing brothers for their submission to the Mongol Empire ?
text: Did you know that mature trees grow directly in the stream channel of White Oak Run ?
text: Did you know that the British barrister Jeremy McMullen represented Dame Shirley Porter and the trade union president Arthur Scargill ?
text: Did you know that the Federal Trade Commission describes the Reynolds cancer charities as "one of the largest charity fraud cases ever", with $187 million allegedly misappropriated?
text: Did you know that the women's record for the Bob Graham Round , one of Britain's toughest fell races , was broken by the 47-year-old Nicky Spinks in 2015?
text: Did you know that Luther 's hymn about baptism, " Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam ", is the basis for Bach's chorale cantata for the feast of John the Baptist ?
text: Did you know that the Froberg mutiny ended after mutineers blew up Fort Ricasoli 's gunpowder magazine ?
text: Did you know that openly gay chemistry professor James Nowick taught a course called "Queer Science, Queer Scientists"?
text: Did you know that The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was banned in the Soviet Union for its alleged "occultism"?
text: Did you know that prior to coaching the German national basketball team , Terry Schofield won three national titles playing for UCLA under John Wooden ?
text: Did you know that Pathala Bhairavi (1951) was the only South Indian film to be screened at the first International Film Festival of India ?
text: Did you know that Lord Pingyuan was celebrated for his role in lifting Qin 's siege of the Zhao capital, thus saving Zhao from annihilation?
text: Did you know that over 600 Etruscan bronze statuettes were found in the Lake of the Idols ?
text: Did you know that David Peterson , Premier of Ontario , Canada, from 1985 to 1990, characterized his 1976 convention address as the "worst speech in modern political history"?
text: Did you know that The New York Times described Vox Media 's Re/code acquisition as an indicator of tumult in the field of online technology journalism ?
text: Did you know that Enrique Porta is the only Granada CF footballer to win the Pichichi Trophy for top scorer in La Liga ?
text: Did you know that the nymphs of giant mayflies feed on detritus in their mud burrows, but the adults do not feed at all?
text: Did you know that Trent Kelly , recently elected to the U.S. House of Representatives , defeated a nine-term incumbent to become a district attorney in northeastern Mississippi in 2011?
text: Did you know that a unit that fought under the command of Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladić later fought as mercenaries in the First Congo War ?
text: Did you know that in Animal Rights Without Liberation , Alasdair Cochrane argues that hunting animals is unacceptable, but controlling their numbers using contraception is permissible?
text: Did you know that Apple Music was " one more thing "?
text: Did you know that Harley A. Wilhelm , a chemistry professor who worked on the Manhattan Project , was one of 80 players selected in 2006 as part of Drake University 's all-decade basketball teams?
text: Did you know that Operation Sahayogi Haat ("helping hands") delivered about 120 short tons (110 t) of emergency disaster supplies for the Nepal 2015 earthquake relief effort?
text: Did you know that Mexican writer Esther Seligson translated the works of Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran and Egyptian Jewish poet Edmond Jabès ?
text: Did you know that Turkic loanwords in the Hungarian language show the prehistoric Hungarians adopted many practices of animal husbandry and agriculture from the Turkic peoples ?
text: Did you know that part- Hawaiian Robert Grimes Davis served as the Peruvian Consul General to the Kingdom of Hawaii , and later as an Associate Justice of the Hawaiian Supreme Court ?
text: Did you knowthat houses of many University of Virginia fraternities were styled after residences of the Old South , including Monticello , Farmington , and Carr's Hill ?
text: Did you know that Graham Chapman was one of the first celebrities to come out of the closet in Britain, and financially supported Gay News ?
text: Did you know that one of the most renowned Polish-Jewish composers of popular music, Jakub Kagan‎ , who formed the Kagan's Jazz Band in interwar Warsaw , was killed during the Holocaust in Poland ?
text: Did you know that the wife of Naman Ramachandran , author of Rajinikanth: The Definitive Biography , said that she had lost him to Rajinikanth while he was researching the book?
text: Did you know that Jon Moscot , having appeared in a film as a pitcher at age 13, pitched in a Major League Baseball game at age 23?
text: Did you know that the lead actress in Kim Hyung-jun 's music video "oH! aH!" from My Girl has been referred to as "Idol Killer" for working with various idol-singers?
text: Did you know that mathematician and LGBT activist Ron Buckmire researches topics such as computational aerodynamics, nonstandard finite difference schemes , and modeling the financial performance of movies?
text: Did you know that highlights from the history of hadrosaur research include the first dinosaur fossils to be mounted in a museum, the colossal Shantungosaurus , and Maiasaura nesting grounds in Montana ?
text: Did you know that Miss Vermont 2015, Alayna Westcom , performs a scientific demonstration with yeast and hydrogen peroxide during beauty pageants?
text: Did you know that the UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage praised the trade unionist Bob Crow in his 2015 autobiography ?
text: Did you know that Heo Young-saeng , who usually sings ballads as a member of South Korean boy band SS501 , chose a dance song for the title track of his solo debut album, Let It Go ?
text: Did you know that the cap of the Australian mushroom Cortinarius australiensis can reach 30 centimetres (12 in) across?
text: Did you know that Carl Nielsen wrote his Flute Concerto for Holger Gilbert-Jespersen , who had played in the première of the composer's Wind Quintet ?
text: Did you know that with Nico Rosberg 's victory at the 2015 Spanish Grand Prix , he became the ninth winner of the race in as many years?
text: Did you know that André Langrand-Dumonceau , a mid-19th-century Belgian financier, was convicted of financial fraud, tried in absentia , and died in exile?
text: Did you know that The Clock strikes Orson Welles at midnight?
text: Did you know that it is believed that all prints of the 1940 Argentine film Canto de amor , starring Nelly Omar , were destroyed?
text: Did you know that Die Freundschaft ( Friendship ), founded in 1919, was the world's first gay publication to be sold openly at newsstands?
text: Did you know that rubber farming is a primary source of income and livelihood for the majority of the residents in Muara Bungo , a city in Jambi province, Sumatra, Indonesia?
text: Did you know that Paddy McGuinness struggled with the two-a-day recording format of Benchmark and found himself phoning Bradley Walsh to ask how it was possible?
text: Did you know that the fossil scorpion fly Holcorpa was described in 1878 but the family Holcorpidae not until 1989?
text: Did you know that fashion illustrator Joe Eula once walked out of an Yves Saint Laurent couture show, shouting that it had been terrible?
text: Did you know that the first 36 holes of the Southend Tournament were played in May but the final 36 holes were played in September?
text: Did you know that endocrinologist Neena Schwartz had a 50-year career in scientific research, but only came out as lesbian after she retired?
text: Did you know that the depopulated Palestinian - Turkmen village of Abu Zurayq near Haifa was named after a local Muslim holy man?
text: Did you know that thousands of police officers from around the United States attended the funeral of Brian Moore, a New York City police officer who was shot in May 2015?
text: Did you know that Shornemead Fort in Kent had to be disarmed only 25 years after it was built because subsidence made it unsafe for the guns to be fired?
text: Did you know that in a rectovestibular fistula , the vulval vestibule of the female genitalia is connected to the rectum ?
text: Did you know that when the Royal Navy Captain Edward Cooke raided Manila in January 1798, he toasted "the downfall of England"?
text: Did you know that Madonna 's fall at the 2015 Brit Awards while performing " Living for Love " resulted in a 95% increase in Twitter activity about the show?
text: Did you know that baseball player Tilly Walker was second in the 1922 American League home run race, but was in the minor leagues by 1924?
text: Did you know that Grand Theft Auto IV caused controversy over a gameplay feature allowing players to drive under the influence of alcohol ?
text: Did you know that Viddsee was founded because Asian short films were being drowned out by other video hosting sites?
text: Did you know that over a west-east distance of 80 kilometres (50 mi) in the Andean Patagonian forest , precipitation can fall from 2,000–200 mm (79–8 in) per year?
text: Did you know that the lead track "1.2.3" of Heo Young-saeng 's album Overjoyed was influenced by the musical style of Avril Lavigne , one of his favorite artists?
text: Did you know that Shetland sheep have 30 different recognised coat patterns?
text: Did you know that after being a pastor for 19 years, Ryan J. Bell tried to live a "year without God"?
text: Did you know that actress Cheryl Yang listened to the song "My Destiny" from My Love from the Star so she could arouse her emotions and cry in a scene in Tie the Knot ?
text: Did you know that the original configuration of the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge in Washington, D.C., used operational water mains as its principal load-bearing arches?
text: Did you know that San Diego physician Fred Baker was a co-founder of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the San Diego Zoo ?
text: Did you know that the Ingress into India Ordinance was issued during World War I to restrict Indian emigrants to Canada from returning to British India , for fear of a nationalist uprising ?
text: Did you know that the waterfall Hällingsåfallet discharges into the longest canyon in Sweden?
text: Did you know that Andy Hill 's bestseller was inspired by his career as a television executive, which drew upon his experience playing basketball for John Wooden ?
text: Did you know that a launching point for "the world's first practical guided missile" was installed at Cliffe Fort in the late 19th century?
text: Did you know that a fraud scandal involving the U.S. lottery game Hot Lotto is linked to an employee of the association that organizes the game ?
text: Did you know that the Bissau Palace Hotel in Jaipur features displays of jewelry, weapons, historical artifacts, and photographs, including that of Lord Mountbatten visiting the royal family of Bissau?
text: Did you know that the Franciscan friar Filip Lastrić wrote the first history and geography of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1765?
text: Did you know that in Philadelphia's municipal election of 1951 , Democrat Joseph S. Clark, Jr. was elected mayor, ending 67 years of Republican rule in the city?
text: Did you know that the last emperor of Ethiopia used to travel to Ambo Senkele, Ethiopia, to drink the mineral water that is bottled under the Ambo Mineral Water brand?
text: Did you know that the Delaware Department of Transportation maintains 89 percent of the roads in Delaware ?
text: Did you know that Bow Wow 's 2003 single " Let's Get Down " was co-written by the then-unknown T.I. ?
text: Did you know that Duke was the first Genesis album to feature a drum machine ?
text: Did you know that coffee production in Puerto Rico peaked during Spanish colonial rule , but was much reduced after the island was annexed by the United States in 1898?
text: Did you know that the feedback of XCOM: Enemy Unknown players was important in the development of XCOM 2 , according to its creative director?
text: Did you know that Everett Peter Greenberg was a co-recipient of the 2015 Shaw Prize for his work in quorum sensing , a mechanism by which bacteria communicate with each other?
text: Did you know that St George's Church near Taunton features Saxon "long and short" stonework?
text: Did you know that Esteban Servellón was the assistant director of the Salvadoran Army Symphony Orchestra, and, after it was renamed the El Salvador Symphony Orchestra , he served as its conductor?
text: Did you know that the creator of fake news blooper videos featuring a vulgar phrase earned $20,000 in a single month from merchandise sales?
text: Did you know that Alia Shawkat and Michael Cera asked not to play roles similar to the ones they played on Arrested Development when they guest-starred on " The Rapes of Graff ", an episode of Veronica Mars ?
text: Did you know that according to the Annals of Ulster , the arrival of reinforcements led by Ragnall ua Ímair turned the tide at the Battle of Mag Femen ?
text: Did you know that an investigation into the case of Juan Rivera uncovered proof of evidence tampering when his shoes, which had the victim's blood on them, also bore DNA from the real killer?
text: Did you know that in 2012, Femi Robinson called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to ban Chinua Achebe 's world-famous novel, Things Fall Apart , in Nigerian schools?
text: Did you know that theatre in Bahrain traditionally consisted of puppet shows and shadow plays ?
text: Did you know that Therezinha Zerbini delivered a letter to US First Lady Rosalynn Carter on behalf of Brazilian women and the amnesty movement, which opened, "We who fight for justice and peace"?
text: Did you know that the L Street Bridge does not carry or cross over L Street?
text: Did you know that Naughty Dog wanted the music of The Last of Us , a survival horror video game, to be emotional instead of scary?
text: Did you know that Jiffy mix products have a considerable market share in the United States, even though their manufacturer spends no money on advertising?
text: Did you know that 13 Hours , a dramatization of the 2012 attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi , is filming in Malta and Morocco ?
text: Did you know that while Vanilla tahitensis is found primarily in French Polynesia's Society Islands , it is not a leading export product of that territory?
text: Did you know that the Cheshire West and Chester Council election was the only one in the 2015 UK local elections in which Labour won control of a Conservative council?
text: Did you know that historical therizinosaur research misinterpreted these unusual bird-like herbivorous dinosaurs as giant turtles, semiaquatic fish-eaters, and tree-climbing insectivores ?
text: Did you know that even after all three involved frigates ran aground during the Action of 30 June 1798 , the battle continued?
text: Did you know that Marharyta Dorozhon set a new Israeli national record in the women's javelin throw in 2015?
text: Did you know that FDNY Racing ' s crew consists of volunteers from the New York City Fire and Police Departments?
text: Did you know that Kumara Kassapa was the Mongol -installed king of Pagan for ten weeks during the second Mongol invasion of Burma in 1301?
text: Did you know that Last Chance Disco by Acoustic Ladyland was named the Jazzwise Album of the Year in 2005?
text: Did you know that Richard Byron took part in one of the first actions of the 1812 Anglo-American War ?
text: Did you know that the M Street Bridge in Washington, D.C. is said to be haunted by a stagecoach driver and horses that were killed when the old bridge collapsed in a storm?
text: Did you know that Val Logsdon Fitch found "the answer to the physicist's 'Why do we exist? ' "?
text: Did you know that years after Israeli Nimrod Mashiah won a Young Artist Award for playing a diver in a commercial, he was ranked number one in men's windsurfing ?
text: Did you know that Patrick Morrisey is the first Republican to serve as Attorney General of West Virginia since 1933?
text: Did you know that Ludwig van Beethoven once directed a four-hour concert that featured the public premières of his Symphony No. 5 , Symphony No. 6 , Piano Concerto No. 4 and Choral Fantasy ?
text: Did you know that in 2013, the Museum of Modern Art in New York exhibited Dwarf Fortress among other games selected to showcase the history of video gaming?
text: Did you know that the public relations man Roland Rudd succeeded in becoming president of the Oxford Union at his third attempt?
text: Did you know that the Church of Scientology has plans to convert Trout Run , a retreat used by Presidents Hoover , Roosevelt , and Eisenhower , into a facility for its Narconon drug rehabilitation program?
text: Did you know that Governor Chen Qiufa , a former Director of the China Atomic Energy Authority , is a Miao ?
text: Did you know that Duke Hu of Chen is considered the founding ancestor of the Chen surname , which is shared by 80 million people worldwide?
text: Did you know that in Arsenal's 2015–16 season , they will compete in the UEFA Champions League for the 18th consecutive year?
text: Did you know that the children's book editor Marni Hodgkin was the daughter of one Nobel Prize winner ( Francis Peyton Rous ) and the wife of another ( Alan Lloyd Hodgkin )?
text: Did you know that the coral Madracis auretenra has been used to study the likely effects of ocean acidification on corals?
text: Did you know that " the Terminator " was recently appointed CEO of Malaysia Airlines ?
text: Did you know that Cove Fort in Cork Harbour, Ireland, has a memorial garden to those who joined the RMS Titanic ' s maiden voyage from that harbour?
text: Did you know that Josh Naylor and Demi Orimoloye were named High School All-Americans , even though they are Canadian?
text: Did you know that the K Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., for decades contained unused ramps intended to connect to the unbuilt Inner Loop Expressway ?
text: Did you know that 16 Vayathinile (1977) was Rajinikanth 's first colour film?
text: Did you know that Martha Harris was the winner of the first-ever PFA Women's Young Player of the Year award?
text: Did you know that in 1648 Sava Stanislavić was appointed as bishop of the Bishopric of Marča , although Zagreb bishop Petar Petretić had proposed another candidate?
text: Did you know that in 1986 The New York Times adopted the use of the honorific " Ms. " to refer to women, regardless of marital status, after Paula Kassell argued for the change at a shareholders' meeting?
text: Did you know that Rihanna half-sings and half-raps " Bitch Better Have My Money "?
text: Did you know that several of the 45 candidates in the 2015 Puerto Princesa mayoral recall election withdrew after being duped into signing up as candidates?
text: Did you know that in Franklin D. Roosevelt 's original plans for the United Nations , the Four Policemen (the US, UK, Soviet Union, and China) were the only nations allowed to possess weapons more powerful than a rifle?
text: Did you know that animals in the Cathedral Range State Park are threatened by introduced predators such as foxes, feral dogs and feral cats?
text: Did you know that U.S. Highway 12 followed the route of the St. Joseph Trail until 1962, and since then it has followed the Sauk Trail, two former Indian trails in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan ?
text: Did you know that Ernie Reyes, Sr. used his own black belt students when choreographing fights for his son, Ernie Reyes, Jr. , on Sidekicks ?
text: Did you know that state senator Edwin Maxwell proposed the 1865 "Maxwell amendment" to the West Virginia Constitution , which would have removed the citizenship rights of former Confederates ?
text: Did you know that the 1,481-acre (599 ha) Conyers Farm was unoccupied for 15 years after the death of founder Edmund C. Converse ?
text: Did you know that the mayfly Dolania americana dies before the sun rises?
text: Did you know that the gift shop of the South Bend Cubs is located inside America's only Ballpark Synagogue ?
text: Did you know that the Family album by Thompson features three generations of the Thompson family, with every instrument played by a family member?
text: Did you know that the Estoire des Engleis , whose title means "History of the English", is the oldest-known history chronicle written in the French language ?
text: Did you know that "Moula Ali dargah" on Moula Ali hill is the only dargah for Hazrat Ali , son-in-law of Muhammad ?
text: Did you know that food manufacturers may process and form baking chocolate into bulk-sized 10-pound (4.5 kg) bars, which are then sold to confectioners and bakers ?
text: Did you know that, with an area of 0.12 square miles (0.31 km 2 ) and a population of nine, Bowden is the smallest and least populous census-designated place in West Virginia ?
text: Did you know that the Amuse Museum in Asakusa , Tokyo, houses more than 30,000 pieces of old clothing, some of which are rags?
text: Did you know that by 1956, the Salon des arts ménagers in Paris was attracting up to 1.4 million visitors a year?
text: Did you know that voice artist Ashly Burch provides the voice for the Mortal Kombat X character Cassie Cage ?
text: Did you know that in 2007, failure of the penstock valve at the Ponmudi Dam killed seven people, destroyed fifteen houses, and damaged 150 acres (61 ha) of crops?
text: Did you know that in J. Slauerhoff 's 1932 novel The forbidden kingdom , the narratives of the 16th-century poet Luís de Camões and a 20th-century Morse radio operator are merged?
text: Did you know that the Governor of Texas will activate the Texas State Guard to monitor Jade Helm 15 , a military exercise being conducted by the U.S. Army Special Operations Command ?
text: Did you know that York City were knocked out of the first round of the FA Cup in their 2014–15 season ?
text: Did you know that actress Ruthie Ann Miles once played Adolfo Pirelli in Sweeney Todd ?
text: Did you know that the immunology professor Mary Collins studies ways to use genetically engineered HIV as a vaccine ?
text: Did you know that over the course of the history of stegosaur research , their iconic back plates have been thought to function as armor plating, to regulate body temperature, or to attract mates?
text: Did you know that George G. Rockwood is generally acknowledged as the first to produce carte de visite photograph cards in the United States?
text: Did you know that a wasp, a fly and a roundworm are being used to control southern , tawny and shortwinged mole crickets in Florida?
text: Did you know that Priyanka Chopra won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress for portraying a femme fatale who murders her seven husbands in 7 Khoon Maaf ?
text: Did you know that even though Hull Creek is impaired by habitat alteration, its habitat assessment score is in the "optimal" range?
text: Did you know that Beat the Brain has been berated for graphics that look like they were "designed on one of Alan Sugar 's old Amstrads "?
text: Did you know that a high-definition remastered version of 2002's Resident Evil became Capcom 's fastest-selling digital game ever, across both North America and Europe?
text: Did you know that Mary Jane Veloso was granted a last-minute stay of execution to provide evidence against her alleged trafficker ?
text: Did you know that in June 1910, the Royal Hotel, Cardiff hosted a fundraising banquet for Captain Robert Falcon Scott two days before his ship departed for Antarctica ?
text: Did you know that an incomplete copy of the 1910 silent film Thelma exists in the Library of Congress archives?
text: Did you know that John Weaver was elected mayor of Philadelphia with the support of the city's political machine , but later sided with reformers against it?
text: Did you know that the 1983 Tamil film Kann Sivanthaal Mann Sivakkum featured a performance by Bharata Natyam dancer V. P. Dhananjayan , depicting the tale of Nandanar , a Nayanar saint?
text: Did you know that Eric Bakie combined his football career with his job as a civil servant, and only saw his teammates once a week?
text: Did you know that West Virginia Attorney General Robert White secured tax revenues from railroad companies and belligerent rights for former Confederate soldiers?
text: Did you know that from June to August 1944, Albert Ouzoulias coordinated the Francs-Tireurs Partisans ' military action in the Paris region?
text: Did you know that the film Dimension 5 featured many cast members who had appeared, or would appear, on Star Trek , including three who appeared on the pilot episode " The Cage "?
text: Did you know that while the GE steam turbine locomotives took almost two years to build, they were only in operation for six months?
text: Did you know that Iglesia de San Felipe contains a statue of Cristo Negro (Black Christ), which was found on the shores of Portobelo harbor, Panama?
text: Did you know that Don Revie changed the playing strip of Leeds United from blue and yellow to all-white, to mimic Real Madrid ?
text: Did you know that the King of Aragon prohibited Franciscan friars from visiting his adolescent cousin James of Majorca at night?
text: Did you know that gold coral has one of the longest lifespans of any organism on Earth?
text: Did you know that evangelist James W. Fifield Jr. founded the Spiritual Mobilization organization in 1935?
text: Did you know that Glow Lake in the Kamlang Wildlife Sanctuary has an elevation of 5,000 feet (1,500 m)?
text: Did you know that the star R Sagittae has 90% of the mass and 10,000 times the luminosity of the Sun ?
text: Did you know that the 1971 play Stallerhof features an old farmer masturbating ?
text: Did you know that Gayby Baby is a documentary film about "gaybies", children raised by gay or lesbian couples?
text: Did you know that in the first of the two Battles of Ramadi in 1917, the temperatures‍—‌as high as 71 °C (160 °F) in the sun‍—‌caused more British casualties than did enemy fire?
text: Did you know that the anatomical term " mesentery " is derived from the Greek mesos , meaning "in the middle", and enteron , "intestine"?
text: Did you know that A. S. Neill thought the founder of the Albany Free School would "be mad to try" a Summerhill School model for working-class children?
text: Did you know that Patrick Doyle received his first Academy Award and BAFTA nominations for composing the musical score to Sense and Sensibility , written by and starring his friend Emma Thompson ?
text: Did you know that Chicken in the Rough , established in 1936, was one of the first restaurant chain franchises in the United States?
text: Did you know that Leó Szilárd teamed up with Albert Einstein to build a refrigerator ?
text: Did you know that paraplegic woman writer Zhang Haidi has been hailed as China's Helen Keller ?
text: Did you know that the American Society for Virology , the first independent scientific society specifically for virologists , was founded only 34 years ago?
text: Did you know that Valdemar Tofte , who studied with Joseph Joachim , instructed hundreds of violinists at the Royal Danish Academy of Music , including Carl Nielsen ?
text: Did you know that the President of India, Giani Zail Singh , attended the centennial celebration of the Knesset Eliyahoo synagogue in Mumbai in 1985, and India Post issued a commemorative stamp?
text: Did you know that Rogen Nature Reserve contains Sweden's entire population of wild muskoxen ?
text: Did you know that Network Rail temporarily banned the West Coast Railway Company from Britain's rails following a SPAD ?
text: Did you know that Arizona Territorial Delegate Ralph H. Cameron held a contract to operate a toll road inside the Grand Canyon ?
text: Did you know that Vilhelm Andersen wrote the libretto for Carl Nielsen 's opera Maskarade based on a comedy by Ludvig Holberg ?
text: Did you know that Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje described the feeling of the television show he voices as "like being high"?
text: Did you know that Russian biker and political activist Alexander Zaldostanov is a former surgeon?
text: Did you know that the musical Groundhog Day reunites the creative team behind Matilda the Musical ?
text: Did you know that Per Askim was part of the Allied Surrender Commission when the German troops in Norway surrendered on 8 May 1945?
text: Did you know that the hypothesis that the pachycephalosaurian dinosaurs used their domed skulls in head-butting competitions was first proposed in a work of science fiction ?
text: Did you know that Eddy Creek has been compared to an "old perforated pipe"?
text: Did you know that Lady Strangford is honoured in Bulgaria for her work following the Batak massacre ?
text: Did you know that the bridge near P Street was built so that motorists would not have to use the P Street Bridge ?
text: Did you know that a 1999 UK case held that a disabled woman told by a health authority she would have a "home for life" in a facility had a substantive legitimate expectation the authority would not shut it down?
text: Did you know that Ahmadiyya in the United States was the most influential Muslim community in African American Islam until the 1950s?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film How to Be Single is based on Liz Tuccillo 's debut novel of the same name?
text: Did you know that the 16th-century Ragusan merchant, Jesuit , and linguist Marin Temperica believed that the purest and most beautiful version of the Serbian language was spoken in Bosnia ?
text: Did you know that Carnival in French Guiana features, among other things, an act of marital cross-dressing and the burning of an effigy of the devil?
text: Did you know that Ximena Bedregal was the editor of La Jornada 's supplement, Triple Jornada ?
text: Did you know that Claudico , an artificial intelligence computer program, won a Texas hold 'em poker championship for computers, but it was defeated by a team of humans?
text: Did you know that the songs in Kim Hyung-jun 's Japanese single " Long Night " were used as Korean soundtracks before and after the single was released?
text: Did you know that art around 1600 AD illustrating the proverb Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus freezes may reflect the patronage of Haarlem 's brewers?
text: Did you know that the Great Britain men's and women's national rugby sevens teams cannot select Northern Irish players for the Olympics due to the Irish Rugby Football Union ?
text: Did you know that the star S Sagittae changes its radius, temperature, luminosity, and colour over an eight-day period?
text: Did you know that art historian and museum curator Pratapaditya Pal owes his career to University of Calcutta not offering anthropology courses in 1957?
text: Did you know that highlights from the history of coelophysoid research include a bone bed preserving thousands of Coelophysis in New Mexico , the large Gojirasaurus , and the Asian coelophysoid Panguraptor ?
text: Did you know that soprano Josepha Duschek , who premiered Ah! perfido , advertised it as "an Italian scena written by Beethoven for Mad. Duschek"?
text: Did you know that South Bay Salt Works is the second longest-running business in San Diego ?
text: Did you know that Audrey Hepburn won the Best Actress Oscar for her first Hollywood role ?
text: Did you know that the river name Ngounié is a French rewording of "Ngugni", which was used by Vili language speakers in the mid-1800s?
text: Did you know that evolutionary biologist Scott Edwards and social psychologist Jennifer Richeson were the only two black scientists elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2015?
text: Did you know that two of the four competing car dealers on Dallas Car Sharks are mother and son?
text: Did you know that German politician Adele Schreiber-Krieger advocated extensively for the rights of mothers and children, but never had children herself?
text: Did you know that the fungus Penicillium psychrosexualis , described as new to science in 2010, was discovered growing in a crate of moldy apples?
text: Did you know that Walter "Tiger" Mayberry , a running back inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great", died in a Japanese POW camp on the island of New Britain , Papua New Guinea?
text: Did you know that Indian Cave Creek flows over a 40-foot (12-meter) waterfall to reach White Oak Run ?
text: Did you know that Ímar founded a dynasty which provided multiple kings of Dublin , Northumbria and the Isles ?
text: Did you know that the Arabic translation of Borunsi sold one million copies in its first year of publication?
text: Did you know that if it were not for the new points system that was adopted, Kent would have won the 1911 County Championship rather than Warwickshire ?
text: Did you know that Ulysses S. Grant III approved the unsightly design of the original Shoreham Hill Bridge in Washington, D.C. because it would encourage the public to demand a more aesthetic and expensive bridge?
text: Did you know that goat meat pepper soup has been described as the most popular of the Nigerian pepper soups ?
text: Did you know that there are about 9.2 million horses in the United States and 4.6 million Americans are involved in the horse business?
text: Did you know that the city of Ramadi in Iraq was founded to encourage nomadic Arab tribes to settle and become easier for the state to control?
text: Did you know that openwork ‍—‌decoration or construction featuring openings or gaps‍—‌may be seen on everything from hand­ker­chiefs to cathedral spires ?
text: Did you know that the propaganda activities of the 16th century papal diplomat Aleksandar Komulović were continued by an even greater supporter of Pan-Slavism , Bartol Kašić ?
text: Did you know that Baron von Münchhausen was furious at the creation of Baron Munchausen ?
text: Did you know that at the Battle of Apamea in 998, a lone Kurdish rider killed the Byzantine commander Damian Dalassenos , throwing Damian's initially victorious army into panic and leading to an important Fatimid victory?
text: Did you know that Interstate 94 in Michigan , completed 1960, was the first toll-free interstate highway completed border to border in a U.S. state?
text: Did you know that the role of Phoebe Nicholson in Home and Away is Isabella Giovinazzo's first acting job?
text: Did you know that at one point, Grassy Island Creek lost all of its base flow to deep mines, except during storm events?
text: Did you know that Miri was the first town in Malaysia that was not a state capital to be granted city status?
text: Did you know that Phineas Waller 's heirs were surprised by how much they received from his estate?
text: Did you know that Christian Marclay 's Graffiti Composition was written by the people of Berlin?
text: Did you know that neither recipient of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize retained his UK parliamentary seat in 2005 ?
text: Did you know that The Last of Us Remastered "looked broken up until a week before shipping"?
text: Did you know that Bach's Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue for keyboard was regarded as "unique" and "second to none" by Bach's first biographer, Johann Nikolaus Forkel ?
text: Did you know that Scott's restaurant in London was the favourite of the James Bond author Ian Fleming ?
text: Did you know that the writing system of the Maya civilization was the most sophisticated in Mesoamerica , and was one of the most outstanding accomplishments of the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas ?
text: Did you know that West Branch Tinklepaugh Creek is really a tributary of Wildcat Creek?
text: Did you know that oviraptorosaurs were thought to be egg-eaters after the discovery of Oviraptor on a nest of presumed Protoceratops eggs , until the nest was recognized as belonging to Oviraptor itself?
text: Did you know that in an 1884 edition of the Railroad Gazette , railroad engineer Horatio Allen reported that he was the operator of the first locomotive run on a railroad in the United States?
text: Did you know that Aladura religious leader Christiana Abiodun claimed that angels had visited her during a trance and taken her to heaven?
text: Did you know that Malta 's new Parliament House was designed by Renzo Piano ?
text: Did you know that Cillian Sheridan , who currently plays for APOEL in Cyprus , started his professional career with Scottish club Celtic ?
text: Did you know that the Louisiana Digital Media Archive is the first media collections collaboration between an American state archive and a public broadcaster ?
text: Did you know that Robert Bruce Napoleon Walker was a significant contributor of African artifacts to British museums, particularly his collection of African shields?
text: Did you know that Bash Tapia Castle was blown up by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in April 2015?
text: Did you know that the island of Niue gets its name from the coconuts that grow there?
text: Did you know that in South Carolina v. North Carolina , the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on issues related to the equitable apportionment of water from the Catawba River ?
text: Did you know that the Philippine Armed Forces called the foiled 2014 Ninoy Aquino International Airport bombing plot "comic relief"?
text: Did you know that the Martin Declaration of 30 October 1918 marked Slovakia's exit from the Kingdom of Hungary and the start of its union with the newly-created Czechoslovakia?
text: Did you know that George Kuchar 's Hold Me While I'm Naked was ranked 52nd in the Village Voice Critics' Poll of the 100 best films of the 20th century?
text: Did you know that Adolphe Demange painted the Duchesse d'Uzès working on a huge sculpture of Joan of Arc ?
text: Did you know that a group of Old Believers live on an island in a bog in Teiči Nature Reserve in Latvia?
text: Did you know that Yao Yuan Hao swam in a lake on a cold day for a scene in Big Red Riding Hood , then ran a half marathon in his birthday week?
text: Did you know that on 16 March 1942 (the day before St Patrick's Day), St Patrick was toasted in the conning tower of U-boat U-753 as they awaited orders from Germany on whether or not to sink the Irish Willow ?
text: Did you know that Zainab Sultan Begum , a wife of Mughal emperor Babur , was also his cousin?
text: Did you know that 245 teams entered the 2009–10 FA Women's Cup , which was eventually won by Everton ?
text: Did you know that both Gracchi brothers were slain after a decree known as senatus consultum ultimum was passed against them?
text: Did you know that the National Transportation Safety Board found that a track gauge 5 ⁄ 16 of an inch ( 7.9 mm) too wide caused a garbage train to derail in the Bronx ?
text: Did you know that Madhuri Dixit holds the record for the most nominations (14) for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress ?
text: Did you know that in 1287 Shin Ditha Pamauk , a Buddhist monk, negotiated with Emperor Kublai Khan for a treaty that ended the Mongol occupation of northern Burma in exchange for annual tribute?
text: Did you know that the viral Early 35 kDa protein may be useful in gene therapy as a universal inhibitor of programmed cell death ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Brigadier General Palmer E. Pierce was the first president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ?
text: Did you know that in 2010, the Maharashtra government blocked Moneycontrol.com and bseindia.com in its headquarters, Mantralaya ?
text: Did you know that comic book artist Brandon Graham wrote " Jermaine ", his first episode for Adventure Time ?
text: Did you know that the Seoul slum of Guryong lies across the street from the luxurious Dogok-dong Ward of Gangnam District ?
text: Did you know that in 1943 several airplanes landed on the highway near C. W. E. Jennings ' store in Valley Falls, Oregon , and taxied up to the store's gas pump to refuel?
text: Did you know that Leonard's Bakery is known for popularizing the malasada , a Portuguese doughnut, into the cuisine of Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that the first newspaper to be printed in Bosnia and Herzegovina , issued by Sopron's Printing House , had "a decidedly Serb orientation", while its owner and editor was an ethnic German?
text: Did you know that Lieutenant General Ragnar Garrett initiated the Australian Army 's short-lived reorganisation into a " pentropic " structure?
text: Did you know that Wildcat Creek was found to have no base flow in November 2000, but is a source of flooding in Archbald and Blakely, Pennsylvania?
text: Did you know that the money raised for Pillars of Eternity through its crowdfunding campaign saved the developer of the game Obsidian Entertainment from closure?
text: Did you know that Statz Friedrich von Fullen bought a manor house in Störmthal and initiated the village's first school in 1691?
text: Did you know that the Sunrise Ruby is the world's most expensive ruby, most expensive coloured gemstone, and most expensive gemstone other than a diamond?
text: Did you know that the Michigan State Spartans , under Big Ten Coach of the Year George Perles , placed seven first-team players on the 1987 All-Big Ten Conference football team ?
text: Did you know that Ture Malmgren created a tomb for himself at the foot of the mountain Fjällsätern , but was buried elsewhere by the local authorities after his death in 1922?
text: Did you know that homework helps patients practice the skills they learn in therapy ?
text: Did you know that in Niuean mythology , Fao is one of the five principal gods ( tupua ) of the island ?
text: Did you know that Mark Wahlberg is playing real-life hero Mike Williams in the upcoming film Deepwater Horizon ?
text: Did you know that in 1690, the Honourable James Campbell abducted and forcibly married a teenage heiress in London?
text: Did you know that Chaetostoma microps , a suckermouth armored catfish species from Ecuador , has been found climbing a cave wall?
text: Did you know that journalist Abby Martin condemned the Russian military intervention in Ukraine on the RT America network?
text: Did you know that according to the embodied bilingual language theory, second language words such as "kick" and "run" stimulate the parts of the motor cortex controlling leg movements?
text: Did you know that the Askam Borehole , which was built by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, discharges thousands of gallons of acid mine drainage into Nanticoke Creek every minute?
text: Did you know that Robert Grant Haliburton was instrumental in discovering the "dwarf races" of northern Africa and the Atlas region?
text: Did you know that the plot of the 2015 Malayalam film Oru Second Class Yathra was found to begin well but end weakly?
text: Did you know that Daniel Brustlein , known as a cover artist for The New Yorker , received critical praise as a "painter's painter"?
text: Did you know that the wreck found off the coast of Isla San Telmo was established by James P. Delgado as one of the first submarines ever built ?
text: Did you know that the Steven Universe – Uncle Grandpa crossover was promoted with the release of a mobile game for the former ?
text: Did you know that Lady Charlotte Finch served as the royal governess to the children of King George III for over 30 years?
text: Did you know that Lalitgiri , a major Buddhist complex in India, forms part of the "Diamond Triangle" with nearby sites Ratnagiri and Udayagiri ?
text: Did you know that North Korean leader Kim Il-sung credited his Chinese teacher Shang Yue with introducing him to Chinese classics and Russian literature ?
text: Did you know that Denzel Washington was the first African American actor to win two competitive Oscars?
text: Did you know that gay and bisexual boys who adopted more feminine gender roles at a younger age are at higher risk for suicide , sexual abuse , and drug abuse than other gay and bisexual youth?
text: Did you know that the 2015 Tour of California was won by three seconds and a bike throw ?
text: Did you know that Alex Sharp is the youngest winner of the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play ?
text: Did you know that the Texas-dwelling tarantula Aphonopelma hollyi was named after rock 'n' roll singer Buddy Holly ?
text: Did you know that Mariam Behruzi was one of four women elected to the first Iranian Parliament ?
text: Did you know that in the 1971 science fiction film The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler , the clones were referred to as soma , which is Greek for body ?
text: Did you know that United News of India is the first and only news agency in the world to supply news in Urdu on the teleprinter?
text: Did you know that the Nature Reserve of Saint Bartholomew , which includes Île Frégate , is battling an invasion of lionfish ?
text: Did you know that Ray Davies was forced to make a round-trip flight from New York to London to rerecord two words in " Lola "?
text: Did you know that the architect of " the last synagogue in Slovakia " later worked on Hitler 's plans for redesigning Berlin ?
text: Did you know that Ali Wallace , Miss Oregon 2015, is the daughter of Tamara Fazzolari , Miss Oregon 1987?
text: Did you know that a urethral diverticulum is a pouch that forms in the urethra from trauma or infection?
text: Did you know that the actress Gerda Müller was Mother Courage in the play by Bertolt Brecht ?
text: Did you know that a reviewer commented that the name of Gangsta. 's fictional location "sounds like some sort of stomach disorder"?
text: Did you know that Bisrakh village in Greater Noida is believed to be the birthplace of the mythological king Ravana of the epic Ramayana , who in later years was the king of Sri Lanka ?
text: Did you know that Lady Gaga was inspired to write " Sexxx Dreams " from her "mucky" fantasies?
text: Did you know that the Wistarburgh Glass Works was America's first successful glass factory?
text: Did you know that Charlotte Manning was the first Mistress of Girton College ?
text: Did you know that over 215,000 Two Together Railcards were sold within a year of the card being launched?
text: Did you know that on a track of the album 1000 Fires , Traci Lords reveals her experience with rape when she was 10 years old?
text: Did you know that some Iranian groups accused the U.S.-led coalition of bombarding a pro-government headquarters during the First Battle of Tikrit ?
text: Did you know that German architect Paul Schneider-Esleben 's design of Cologne Bonn Airport was emulated by numerous other airports around the world?
text: Did you know that the music of Giuseppe Verdi appeared on a dress worn by Katy Perry ?
text: Did you know that Canadian football defensive back John Ojo returned an interception 57 yards (52 m) for a touchdown in the first home game of his rookie season?
text: Did you know that Goon: Last of the Enforcers is the directorial debut by Jay Baruchel ?
text: Did you know that the mirid bug Macrolophus caliginosus is used to control whitefly on greenhouse tomatoes in Europe, while Dicyphus hesperus is used in North America?
text: Did you know that the bid of the Empire of Thessalonica to recover Constantinople and re-establish the Byzantine Empire failed when it was defeated by the Bulgarians at the Battle of Klokotnitsa ?
text: Did you know that anthracite coal was being mined near the mouth of Racket Brook by 1820?
text: Did you know that Carl Thompson , Britain's heaviest man, gained 30 stone (190 kg; 420 lb) over the last three years of his life?
text: Did you know that "you half expect to find the leaders of the Evil Empire ... plotting the demise of Luke Skywalker " in the Rarig Center ?
text: Did you know that although Mathilde Wurm 's death was ruled a suicide, some believed she was killed by the Gestapo ?
text: Did you know that at 10,400 feet (3,200 m), the Staten Island Tunnel would have been the world's longest tunnel, but it was abandoned after only 150 feet (46 m) of it had been built?
text: Did you know that Rodger Dudding got his start as the largest owner of self-storage garages in the United Kingdom by buying ten units from his landlord?
text: Did you know that the fossil crane fly Elephantomyia baltica is known from a single male in amber ?
text: Did you know that Fanling Lodge , the summer residence for the then Governor of Hong Kong , served as a venue for secret discussions between China and the United Kingdom in the years preceding the 1997 handover ?
text: Did you know that the film Miracles from Heaven is based on a memoir by Christy Beam about her sick daughter, who was miraculously cured after surviving a near-death experience ?
text: Did you know that former John Bartram High School basketball player Tyrone Garland scored the third-most points in Philadelphia Public League history, being surpassed only by Maureece Rice and Wilt Chamberlain ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Asen Palaiologos , a Byzantine exile and possible grandson of the governor of Corinth , Matthew Palaiologos Asen , financed the construction of the first Orthodox church in Naples ?
text: Did you know that a third bridge over the Cape Cod Canal has been proposed for decades as part of various road projects?
text: Did you know that Hastie Weir played for a Motherwell team described as "probably the finest pure footballing side that Scotland has ever produced"?
text: Did you know that Vaughn Armstrong 's role as Maxwell Forrest in the Star Trek: Enterprise cast was one of thirteen characters he played in the Star Trek franchise?
text: Did you know that the Igogo festival has been active for over 400 years?
text: Did you know that before starring in Focus , Adrian Martinez felt like he had "been running in a marathon for 20 years"?
text: Did you know that the Navalakaha , a palace in Gondal, India , means "nine lakhs" ( INRs 900,000), which was its cost of building?
text: Did you know that the ghost jellyfish may have a goose barnacle hanging from its bell and little fish swimming among its tentacles ?
text: Did you know that in the Paramahamsa Upanishad , Brahma explains that by discerning the staff of knowledge, one may become a paramahamsa ?
text: Did you know that Danielle Wineman , Miss Montana 2015, is the older sister of Alexis Wineman , Miss Montana 2012?
text: Did you know that Australian power pop group Sunnyboys issued their nation's first cassette single, " Happy Man ", in June 1981?
text: Did you know that the Koma Kulshan Project was built on Mount Baker , a volcano called Koma Kulshan by the Lummi people?
text: Did you know that Hong Kong Free Press was established in response to concerns of declining press freedom ?
text: Did you know that in the early 1970s, a flooded strip pit near Powderly Creek made national news when a UFO supposedly crashed into it?
text: Did you know that physical metallurgist Georgii Kurdyumov was a main organizer of the Russian Institute of Solid State Physics in 1963?
text: Did you know that candyroot tastes like licorice ?
text: Did you know that in 2002, Mark Davis scored his maiden first-class century during a record partnership with Robin Martin-Jenkins ?
text: Did you know that Kim Hyung-jun used his own car in the music video for his single " Better "?
text: Did you know that cannonballs fired during the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 were manufactured at Demirköy Foundry , an archaeological site today?
text: Did you know that Romanian literary critic Barbu Lăzăreanu was cremated in a ceremony capped by the singing of " The Internationale "?
text: Did you know that until recently , ISIS would give you a manicure in New York?
text: Did you know that the aircraft disaster Double Six Crash killed a total of five cabinet ministers in the Malaysian state of Sabah in 1976?
text: Did you know that the music video for " Bitch I'm Madonna " features Beyoncé making a " Vogue " pose and Miley Cyrus giving the finger ?
text: Did you know that the Jabali Upanishad explains the significance of the three sacred streaks of ash drawn across the forehead of a brahamachari or sanyasi ?
text: Did you know that Clark Janell Davis entered the 2015 Miss Kentucky pageant as Miss Horse Capital of the World ?
text: Did you know that Max Winston, who directed a short for Uncle Grandpa , is a drummer for a band that includes other crew members of that show?
text: Did you know that Marcelo Odebrecht is the grandson of the founder of the Latin American conglomerate, Odebrecht ?
text: Did you know that the Charlie Charlie Challenge is a "killer case study in virality"?
text: Did you know that the fungus Neonothopanus gardneri glows more brightly than almost all other bioluminescent fungi?
text: Did you know that AAA When Worlds Collide was the last time Art Barr would wrestle as he died 17 days later?
text: Did you know that highlights from the history of ankylosaur research include one of the first dinosaurs ever discovered and a dinosaur with armored eyelids?
text: Did you know that the Burmese royal title Queen of the Southern Palace , with rare exceptions, was reserved for the chief queen consort only?
text: Did you know that the research interests of American Indologist Philip Lutgendorf include Indian popular cinema and the culture of tea in India ?
text: Did you know that blade fire coral is one of the first coral species to recolonise damaged reefs?
text: Did you know that an English computer was awarded a silver medal by the Vatican?
text: Did you know that the No. 106 Squadron IAF was awarded a total of nine gallantry medals, including a Maha Vir Chakra and four Vir Chakras , during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 ?
text: Did you know that the death of Freddie Gray in police custody sparked the 2015 Baltimore protests ?
text: Did you know that a controversial pool , built at South African president Jacob Zuma's Nkandla compound and deemed as a "fire pool", has faced "public condemnation"?
text: Did you know that Adam's ale is a humorous epithet alluding to the presumption that the biblical first man had only water to drink?
text: Did you know that the lyrics for "Crying", the lead track on Heo Young-saeng 's 2012 EP Solo , were written by Heo himself?
text: Did you know that there was a 19th-century secret society in Minnesota dedicated to eliminating native Americans from the state?
text: Did you know that not all Croats were Croats ?
text: Did you know that Ralph Waldo Emerson commemorated the Emancipation Proclamation by composing " Boston Hymn " and surprising a crowd of 3,000 with its debut reading?
text: Did you know that Coffea arabica accounts for one-fifth of the total production of coffee in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film Gold recounts the true story of Bre-X 's mining scandal?
text: Did you know that in 1874, Konrad Koch and August Hermann organized what is believed to be the first football match in Germany?
text: Did you know that the first sawmill in Ransom Township and the first gristmill in Newton Township were built on Gardner Creek more than 50 years after the area was settled?
text: Did you know that the cricket Anurogryllus muticus makes its burrow close to its preferred food plant ?
text: Did you know that in 1934, participants in a political rally in Kelayres , Pennsylvania, were gunned down as they marched past the house of the local opposition party boss?
text: Did you know that finds of the Neolithic period from the archaeological excavations at Zhejiang and Jiangxi have led to a claim in China that the groundnut is an indigenous crop?
text: Did you know that I Am Jazz , the first reality show about a transgender teen, debuted on TLC at the same time Caitlyn Jenner was receiving the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs ?
text: Did you know that after signing a professional contract with Italian club Palermo , Norwegian footballer Arne Kotte injured his knee five minutes into his first training match, and was out of action for six months?
text: Did you know that during the O.J. Simpson murder trial , judge Lance Ito applied a legal rule that has been described as a "discredited doctrine"?
text: Did you know that Miss Indiana 2015 Morgan Jackson is the daughter of Trina Collins, Miss New Mexico 1984?
text: Did you know that Ray Holley , who installed air conditioners until April 2015, became a starting running back in the Canadian Football League in June?
text: Did you know that Peg Plunkett , brothel keeper, had the leader of the Pinking Dindies gang sent to jail after she lost her baby?
text: Did you know that there are many more male than female little brittle stars , probably because the males fragment more frequently?
text: Did you know that the second season of the television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. introduced the Inhumans race to the Marvel Cinematic Universe ahead of their own film ?
text: Did you know that American swimmer Theresa Andrews gave her first Olympic gold medal to her brother for his courage after he was paralyzed in a car accident?
text: Did you know that Bach's earliest solo church cantata, Widerstehe doch der Sünde , BWV 54 , for an alto voice on a text by Lehms , begins with a dissonance ?
text: Did you know that Clementia Taylor formed Britain's first national anti-slavery society for women because she could not join the existing organisation?
text: Did you know that Austin Nola 's name appears on the front and back of his baseball uniform ?
text: Did you know that Elvis Presley released a concert album that contains no music at all?
text: Did you know that on 5 July 1943, Nazi Germany launched its final major offensive against the Soviet Union in the Battle of Kursk ?
text: Did you know that Jessica Alba spent a year training in martial arts, gymnastics and motorcycle riding for her lead role in the series Dark Angel ?
text: Did you know that the wasp Anoplius viaticus caches a paralysed spider for its offspring to feed on?
text: Did you know that Robert Dirks , a research chemist known for his work in DNA nanotechnology , died in the 2015 Valhalla train crash ?
text: Did you know that the 1968 Michigan Wolverines football team was ranked No. 12 in the final AP Poll in its last season under head coach Bump Elliott ?
text: Did you know that in 2017 the British and Irish Lions will seek their first series win over New Zealand in 46 years?
text: Did you know that the first hymn in the first Shaker hymn book reflects the Shaker belief that God is both male and female?
text: Did you know that on this evening a year ago, the swarm of mayflies near La Crosse, Wisconsin was so vast that it could be detected on weather radar ?
text: Did you know that Russian billionaire German Sterligov sold most of his assets and now lives in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic ?
text: Did you know that the Maltese cross was the inspiration behind the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014 logo?
text: Did you know that Taiwanese actor Yao Yuanhao 's humorous haircut in the TV series Big Red Riding Hood was inspired by that of a character in the Japanese manga Musashi no Ken ?
text: Did you know that Hicks Creek falls 800 feet (240 m) in its upper reaches, but only 12 feet (3.7 m) in its lower?
text: Did you know that the BBC game show Prized Apart involves contestants being flown to Morocco and back every week?
text: Did you know that the capital of Japan was once in Hyōgo ?
text: Did you know that the China Disability Sports Training Centre was the first facility in China entirely devoted to disability sports training, and is the largest of its kind in the world?
text: Did you know that Leonardo DiCaprio has been nominated for five Academy Awards , including three as Best Actor ?
text: Did you know that L. J. Peak set a Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball record for most points in a freshman debut?
text: Did you know that the Bharatiya Janata Party won a majority in the 2014 Indian parliamentary election , the first time any political party had done so since 1984?
text: Did you know that Joseph Kaiha , mayor of the French Polynesian island of Ua Pu , has lobbied for a helicopter to serve the Marquesas Islands for medical emergencies?
text: Did you know that professional wrestling referee Mark Curtis made an unannounced appearance at Curtis Comes Home , his own benefit show?
text: Did you know that the hippie -like hair of Chinese Indonesian publisher Tan Khoen Swie has been described as a form of anti-colonial resistance?
text: Did you know that Keturah , the woman Abraham married after the death of Sarah , has been called "the most ignored significant person" in the Hebrew Bible ?
text: Did you know that Valerie Toranian , the chief editor of Elle in France, has also written a book about the Armenian Genocide ?
text: Did you know that Kashtariti led an unsuccessful campaign against Assyrian king Esarhaddon ?
text: Did you know that despite her pregnancy, actress Smita Patil continued filming for Thikana (1987), but died from childbirth complications before the film's release?
text: Did you know that the electrical principles of an electrostatic machine invented by a Shaker doctor in 1810 for medical treatment were later used by Thomas Edison ?
text: Did you know that part of the channel of Lees Creek passes through coal waste, cinders, and railroad ballast?
text: Did you know that the night scenes in the film Mad Max: Fury Road were filmed during the day ?
text: Did you know that in 1867, a whole wing of the Palazzo Serristori in Rome was destroyed by an attack against the Papal Zouaves ?
text: Did you know that Glenn Close 's daughter Annie Starke is making her acting debut in The Greens Are Gone ?
text: Did you know that Transylvanian journalist Ion Clopoțel , imprisoned for his wartime political writings, was released in time to participate in the assembly that ratified his province's union with Romania ?
text: Did you know that mitotic cell rounding involves an almost 10-fold increase in intracellular pressure?
text: Did you know that in the Surya Upanishad , the sages Atharvangiras extol the virtues of the Sun God Surya ?
text: Did you know that Winfield Creek is the final named tributary to join the West Branch Susquehanna River ?
text: Did you know that Avalanche Studios , the developer of the Just Cause series , almost developed an open world Star Wars game with LucasArts ?
text: Did you know that Experiments and Observations on Electricity is Benjamin Franklin 's only scientific book?
text: Did you know that petroglyphs dated 5,000 years ago show eruption activity from the Porak volcano at the border of Armenia and Azerbaijan ?
text: Did you know that Saladin 's brother Tughtakin ibn Ayyub solidified Ayyubid control over Yemen in the late 12th century?
text: Did you know that the success of Mark Ronson 's " Ooh Wee " prompted him to return to the UK?
text: Did you know that the female burrowing cricket Anurogryllus arboreus lays unfertilised eggs for her offspring to consume?
text: Did you know that zoologist Thomas Harrison Montgomery, Jr. was the first to propose that chromosomes play a dominant role in determining an organism's sex ?
text: Did you know that the BBC is planning to give away a million new Micro Bit devices to encourage British schoolchildren to code?
text: Did you know that in the 1955 election , Philadelphians chose a veteran of World War I for mayor and a veteran of both World Wars for district attorney?
text: Did you know that Nrisimha Tapaniya Upanishad is one of the first sectarian theologies of Hinduism which focuses on Nrisimha's three forms of Om , Atman , and Brahman ?
text: Did you know that mezzo-soprano Ruth Sandhoff performed a soprano part in the Magnificat by Johann Sebastian Bach and an alto part in his son's Magnificat ?
text: Did you know that Neepaulakating Creek , New Jersey , was apparently unnamed until 2004?
text: Did you know that Alex Tillman of the BC Lions returned both an interception and a punt over 90 yards for touchdowns in the same season?
text: Did you know that an upcoming untitled film is the directorial debut by brothers Mark & Robb Cullen ?
text: Did you know that family quarrels led to a riot at Covent Garden in 1802?
text: Did you know that the French submarine Mariotte was nicknamed the "toothbrush" on account of her unusual hull configuration?
text: Did you know that scholars suggest the Supreme Court of the United States is more likely to grant review of a case to resolve a circuit split than for any other reason?
text: Did you know that in 1998, the English cricketer Jason Lewry took a hat-trick with deliveries across two innings?
text: Did you know that Teladoc is considered the first and largest telehealth platform in the United States?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine nobleman Marianos Argyros supported Stephen Lekapenos in the overthrow of his father, Romanos I Lekapenos , and only weeks later supported Constantine VII in sidelining Stephen?
text: Did you know that all Nazi symbols and references were removed for the German release of Wolfenstein: The New Order ?
text: Did you know that the spawning period of the coral Platygyra lamellina is regulated by the phases of the moon?
text: Did you know that the vegetation stored by the tobacco cricket does not ferment, so it is probable that it is cut and allowed to wilt before being carried underground?
text: Did you know that gridiron football player Bryan Burnham suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament to end his college career, and a lacerated spleen to end his first professional season in the Canadian Football League ?
text: Did you know that Alexandre Desplat 's musical score to the 2003 film Girl with a Pearl Earring raised his international profile and led to a career composing major productions like The King's Speech ?
text: Did you know that in 1933, Warner B. Snider was a delegate to Oregon 's convention that voted to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment and end prohibition in the United States?
text: Did you know that according to the Ekakshara Upanishad , all that pertains to Vishnu "shines in lovely fashion like gold in some other sky"?
text: Did you know that Conchita Wurst , who represented Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 , had previously attempted to represent Austria at the 2012 contest ?
text: Did you know that the diminutive pterosaur Arcticodactylus from Greenland had a wingspan of only 24 centimetres (9.4 in)?
text: Did you know that an icon of Saint Nicholas was installed on the new lighthouse at Zourafa , a Natura 2000 -designated Greek rock in the northeastern Aegean Sea ?
text: Did you know that biological anthropologist David Tab Rasmussen enjoyed working in the Neotropics because it allowed him to study both primates and birds , his two favorite subjects?
text: Did you know that after Roberto Orci exited the movie Star Trek Beyond , Edgar Wright was rumoured to direct it, but Justin Lin got the job?
text: Did you know that a year after the successful British invasion of the Cape Colony in 1795, a Dutch reinforcement convoy was forced to surrender at the Capitulation of Saldanha Bay ?
text: Did you know that the flashes of folk humour in I. I. Mironescu 's published stories reflect his reported talent as a raconteur?
text: Did you know that the lyrics of "The Art of Seduction", the lead track on the album Life by Heo Young-saeng , tell a story that is the complete opposite of its music video's plot?
text: Did you know that each of the top five highest-earning American game show contestants of all time have played on Jeopardy! ?
text: Did you know that Wisconsin 's Jug Girard , dubbed "Mr. Versatility", was a quarterback, end, halfback, punter, and kickoff returner in 10 years in the NFL ?
text: Did you know that Simeon I of Bulgaria was crowned the first Tsar in history during the Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 913–927 ?
text: Did you know that Canadian YouTube personality Matthew Santoro makes more money from posting videos than he did as a full-time accountant?
text: Did you know that during the Doolittle Raid , the B-25 piloted by William G. Farrow , named Bat out of Hell , was the last aircraft to depart from the USS Hornet ?
text: Did you know that the racehorse Muhaarar won the Greenham Stakes in a course record time?
text: Did you know that Australian swimmer and Olympic silver medallist Mark Stockwell successfully led Australia's bid for the 2018 Commonwealth Games ?
text: Did you know that cell biologist Zena Werb changed her undergraduate major from geophysics to biochemistry after being told there was no accommodation for women at a field site ?
text: Did you know that the former England international rugby player Frank Tarr was killed on 18 July 1915 by a splinter from a shell after telling his men to keep cover?
text: Did you know that Nabakalebara 2015 is the first 21st-century occurrence of an ancient ritual in which images of the gods Jagannath , Balabhadra , Subhadra and Sudarshan are replaced by new ones at Puri ?
text: Did you know that on 6 May 1527, the Landsknechts of Charles V of Habsburg burst into Rome through the garden of Palazzo Cesi Armellini ?
text: Did you know that lawyer and West Virginia state senator William C. Clayton was an incorporator of two railroad companies and principal of at least three schools, including the Romney Classical Institute ?
text: Did you know that Ali Marpet is the highest-drafted NFL pick in the history of NCAA Division III American football?
text: Did you know that the Kythira Strait is one of the most dangerous navigational hazards in the Mediterranean?
text: Did you know that jellyfish ice cream is "slightly chewy" because it is made from real jellyfish ?
text: Did you know that Gay Life was the United Kingdom ' s first LGBT television series?
text: Did you know that Eugene Vielle is said to have piloted 150 different types of aircraft by the end of his career with the Royal Air Force ?
text: Did you know that indium sulfate does not remain in solution when diluted, but precipitates as a basic salt ?
text: Did you know that Sanatkumara told Gautama that Hamsopanishad is a compendium of mystic knowledge propounded by Parvati ?
text: Did you know that the inner bark of the rare Caribbean lacebark tree has been used for centuries to make clothing, including a dress for Queen Victoria ?
text: Did you know that the US National Map shows Meredith Creek as being only 0.4 miles (0.64 km) long?
text: Did you know that the intruder who shot J. P. Morgan, Jr. and bombed the US Senate in 1915 was identified by "Harvard Cop No. 1" Charles Apted as a deranged, wife-poisoning, ex-Harvard German instructor ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian jazz musician Joey Alexander taught himself to play piano at age six, and released his first album at age eleven?
text: Did you know that various dates have been attributed to the 1630 Crete earthquake , which occurred in the Kythira Strait ?
text: Did you know that billionaire Jim Justice built a US$30 million training facility for the New Orleans Saints in West Virginia ?
text: Did you know that The Urban Lawyer is the largest circulating journal of government law in the world?
text: Did you know that Johann Lukas Legrand , a ribbon maker, was the first president of the Directory of the Helvetic Republic ?
text: Did you know that the parasitoid wasp Gonatopus clavipes lays its eggs inside the bodies of 31 different species of leafhopper ?
text: Did you know that Emily C. Gorman increased enlistment in the American military in the 1960s by allowing female soldiers to live in private, lockable barracks they could personalize and decorate with items from home?
text: Did you know that President Barack Obama awarded Meryl Streep the 2010 National Medal of Arts and in 2014 the Presidential Medal of Freedom ?
text: Did you know that allegations have been made that the 2009 film Avatar plagiarised the 1992 film FernGully: The Last Rainforest ?
text: Did you know that contralto Hildegard Rütgers recorded Bach's Magnificat with Christmas interpolations with Helmuth Rilling ?
text: Did you know that some analysts have suggested that the United States Supreme Court 's decision in Rodriguez v. United States was influenced by ongoing protests in Ferguson, Missouri ?
text: Did you know that the British colonies of Demerara and Essequibo issued banknotes denominated in Joes ?
text: Did you know that cats have lived at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg almost continuously since the 18th century?
text: Did you know that Clayton Vaughn first broke the 10-second barrier for the 100-meter dash on Mother's Day and dedicated his success to his late mother?
text: Did you know that the whereabouts of the last northern bald ibis who knows the birds' migratory route are unknown, and without her, the species may face extinction in the wild in Syria?
text: Did you know that during World War II, Max Nord lived with Simon Carmiggelt and Wim van Norden , and their families, in the same house where they edited the illegal newspaper Het Parool ?
text: Did you know that on the same day George Palmer presented a 49-acre park to the town of Reading , grateful townsfolk gave a bronze statue of the biscuit manufacturer ?
text: Did you know that in spite of his fascist past, Romanian literary historian Petre P. Panaitescu escaped serious punishment by the communist regime ?
text: Did you know that the book Big Little Lies was inspired by a radio interview with a woman whose parents had an abusive relationship?
text: Did you know that Jamie Porter took a wicket with the fifth ball he bowled in first-class cricket ?
text: Did you know that under the Thai / United Nations Crop Replacement and Community Development Project, coffee has been experimented with as a replacement crop for opium ?
text: Did you know that Australia's leading Battle of Britain ace , Pat Hughes , is thought to have died after his Spitfire collided with debris from a German bomber he intercepted?
text: Did you know that the ISIL -owned radio station al-Bayan has been compared to National Public Radio for its production style and quality?
text: Did you know that coach Charles W. Wantland was fired from Central State Teachers College by Governor William H. Murray after supporting Murray's rival?
text: Did you know that the Tamil film Uyarndha Manithan was adapted from the 1966 Bengali film Uttar Purush ?
text: Did you know that Soraya Syed , a British classically-trained Islamic calligrapher , incorporates modern technologies such as holography into her art?
text: Did you know that Lake Jean has been partly drained to repair a dam control tower?
text: Did you know that since 2011, the Royal Derby Hospital has offered nipple tattoos to breast surgery patients?
text: Did you know that a 34-year-old university lecturer in China committed suicide on campus after learning he had lost out to a rival for the position of Communist Youth League leader?
text: Did you know that William-Adolphe Bouguereau 's painting Première rêverie has been considered one of the top exhibits of the New Orleans Museum of Art ?
text: Did you know that 90% of the Arabica coffee produced in Peru is either typica or caturra ?
text: Did you know that Hedy Graf performed soprano parts in premieres of oratorios by Swiss composers?
text: Did you know that Alex Bregman , who was selected with the second pick of the 2015 Major League Baseball Draft , is the grandson of a former general counsel of the Washington Senators ?
text: Did you know that at least eleven tributaries of the Lackawanna River experience total flow loss?
text: Did you know that the Reverend William Troy left Virginia after he found that the local pastor was selling members of his own congregation?
text: Did you know that a newspaper reproduction of a photograph by Clint Grant is believed to be the last thing John F. Kennedy ever signed?
text: Did you know that the original version of the Massey Ferguson 35 released in the UK was known as the "Gold Belly" due to its distinctive colour scheme?
text: Did you know that the larvae of the soft coral Anthelia glauca are brooded in a unique pharyngeal pouch?
text: Did you know that swimmer Marc Hinawi , who won a bronze medal representing Israel at the 2015 European Games , is a Christian Arab?
text: Did you know that a painting of Fiddle Lake Creek is on long-term display at the William J. Nealon Federal Building and United States Courthouse ?
text: Did you know that percussionist Babette Haag and her ensemble played Orff's Carmina Burana with the Bachchor Mainz and Anthony and Joseph Paratore in the 1,000th concert of the Weilburger Schlosskonzerte ?
text: Did you know that a New York City police detective likened the way evidence was developed in the Ramona Moore murder case to the Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window ?
text: Did you know that Constanze Backes performed the leading female part in Joseph Schuster 's rediscovered opera Il Marito Indolente ?
text: Did you know that at one point, more than half of all Mexican radio stations were affiliates of Radio Programas de México ?
text: Did you know that during this past season, Thomas Welsh became the UCLA Bruins ' first 7-foot (2.1 m) basketball player in almost a decade?
text: Did you know that the Mortal Kombat series inspired a character in The Last of Us: American Dreams ?
text: Did you know that the 1970 general elections in Montserrat saw Percival Austin Bramble 's Progressive Democratic Party defeat the ruling Montserrat Labour Party , led by his father William Henry Bramble ?
text: Did you know that Francisca Fernández Hall , the first woman to earn an engineering degree from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala , became Guatemala's chargé d'affaires in Israel?
text: Did you know that Playboy magazine's lavishly designed and illustrated Little Annie Fanny (1962–1988) began as a male character?
text: Did you know that locusts are the swarming phase of certain species of short-horned grasshoppers ?
text: Did you know that the merchant ship Portmar was a victim of both the first Japanese air attack and last Japanese submarine attack in Australian territory?
text: Did you know that the tiki is a common figure in Marquesan wood carving ?
text: Did you know that Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies presents annual screenings of Grateful Dead concerts in theaters across the United States?
text: Did you know that Eliza Meek , the part- Hawaiian daughter of Captain John Meek, was the mistress of the bachelor King Lunalilo ?
text: Did you know that Callender Gap Creek is a coldwater fishery despite being impaired by abandoned mine drainage?
text: Did you know that musician Craig Taborn , winner of a Doris Duke Artist Award worth up to $275,000, does not have, or want, his own website?
text: Did you know that the north celestial pole is located in Ursa Minor ?
text: Did you know that in his tone poem The Oceanides , Finnish composer Jean Sibelius "applied the impressionist method of scoring to the bass instruments, thereby achieving effects of sonority hitherto unknown"?
text: Did you know that U.S. swimmers Mike Heath , David Larson , Jeff Float and Bruce Hayes were dubbed the "Gross Busters" after beating German star Michael Gross and his team in the 4×200 m relay at the 1984 Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Wingen-sur-Moder is home to the only Lalique glass production facility?
text: Did you know that Chien-Shiung Wu conducted the Wu experiment , which contradicted the hypothetical law of conservation of parity ?
text: Did you know that Pennsylvania 's Lake Rose was built by a squatter ?
text: Did you know that Zambian writer Namwali Serpell , winner of the Caine Prize for African fiction in English, said she would share the prize money with the other nominees since "fiction is not a competitive sport"?
text: Did you know that Climate Hawks Vote rated Bernie Sanders as the senator with the highest score for climate leadership in the 113th United States Congress ?
text: Did you know that roving reference engages patrons beyond the traditional library?
text: Did you know that Šime Budinić created a version of Latin script, based on the Cyrillic and Glagolitic scripts, to make Church writings accessible to 16th-century Southern Slavs?
text: Did you know that Mariana Fabbiani and Guido Kaczka , hosts of the 45th Martín Fierro Awards ceremony, received awards of their own during the event?
text: Did you know that Lycodon chrysoprateros , a snake species endemic to the Philippines , is considered critically endangered because its range is only 52 square kilometres (20 sq mi)?
text: Did you know that it is unclear who first used Franz Wilhelm Ferling 's oboe études for the study of the saxophone ?
text: Did you know that the titular character of Simon Vestdijk 's 1934 novel Terug tot Ina Damman , the third in the Anton Wachter cycle , was based on a girl who rejected the writer at age 14?
text: Did you know that Christian Kracht 's novel Imperium was debated in German newspapers in 2012 when it was accused of signaling a " racist worldview"?
text: Did you know that the West Branch Lackawanna River was referred to as Ball Creek on a 1944 USGS map, but locals later denied knowledge of the name?
text: Did you know that although it is generally used as a racist slur, some British Pakistanis are attempting to reclaim the word " Paki "?
text: Did you know that the right foot of the female figure in The Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished "seems actually to glow with the rich juice of life"?
text: Did you know that, after H2O.ai 's open-source machine-learning software H2O was ranked best in its class, Fortune profiled H2O programmer Arno Candel as a Big-Data All-Star?
text: Did you know that Miss Florida 2015, Mary Katherine Fechtel , won her first pageant title, Junior Miss Leesburg 2007, at age 12?
text: Did you know that architectural historians have commented that the battlements of St John the Evangelist's Church, Yealand Conyers , are clumsy and the hood moulds lumpy?
text: Did you know that the soprano Romy Gundermann and her husband received a medal from Aschaffenburg for expanding music awareness and adding to the town's cultural heritage?
text: Did you know that the wasp Sceliphron laetum caches up to nine spiders in a mud cell for consumption by its developing offspring?
text: Did you know that Mary Whitcher wrote the first published Shaker cookbook?
text: Did you know that archaeological excavations at Lake Küçükçekmece near Istanbul , Turkey, revealed the existence of an ancient port city?
text: Did you know that a two-year golden handcuffs contract in 2000 made Sarah Lancashire the highest-paid actress in British television at the time?
text: Did you know that the constellation Norma depicts a set square and/or ruler ?
text: Did you know that the asthmatic prince Sancho of Majorca became king because his older brother wanted to be a monk and his younger brother was at odds with their father ?
text: Did you know that Aaron Novick was one of the inventors of the chemostat ?
text: Did you know that Xylolaemus sakhnovi was the first of its genus described from the fossil record?
text: Did you know that Ubisoft consulted locals during the development of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands , a game set in Bolivia ?
text: Did you know that Jamaica exports more than 80 per cent of its production of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee to Japan ?
text: Did you know that Orlanda Velez Isidro was Madame Mao in a Dutch production of John Adams' Nixon in China ?
text: Did you know that the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad operates a steam locomotive that was once operated by the McCloud Railway ?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Franklin Baker wrote a cantata about a burning ship?
text: Did you know that early in his criminal career, Swedish bank robber Jan-Erik Olsson attempted to break Clark Olofsson out of jail, but failed to do so because of a dynamite malfunction?
text: Did you know that during the 20th century , the first large-scale excavation of dinosaur footprints was undertaken in Texas for an exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History ?
text: Did you know that the unusual name of Byzantine noble child John Doukas Angelos Palaiologos Raoul Laskaris Tornikes Philanthropenos Asen has been described as "less an instrument of identification than a manifesto of social association"?
text: Did you know that Savitri Upanishad , which has 15 verses, begins with an invocation hymn seeking blessings for strong functioning of motory and sensory organs ?
text: Did you know that Israeli judoka Sagi Muki was coached by Olympian Oren Smadja for 19 years before he won the 2015 European Judo Championships ?
text: Did you know that " Terbaik Bagimu ", a single from Siti Nurhaliza 's latest album , was chosen as a theme song for a Malay drama and a telemovie ?
text: Did you know that Miss Louisiana 2015 April Nelson works part-time as a "princess for hire"?
text: Did you know that the coral Solenosmilia variabilis dominates reefs 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) beneath the sea?
text: Did you know that Qasim al-Ahmad , from the fortified village of Beit Wazan , led the 1834 Peasants' Revolt in Palestine against Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt ?
text: Did you know that U.C. Berkeley professor Richard M. Eakin gave lectures dressed as Charles Darwin , Louis Pasteur , and other famous scientists, one of whom he knew personally?
text: Did you know that Romanian Symbolist poet Ștefan Petică went from publishing in socialist newspapers to denouncing socialism?
text: Did you know that Hillary Clinton 's coffee table book , An Invitation to the White House: At Home with History , described the traditional aspects of her time as First Lady of the United States ?
text: Did you know that Jeff Seidel has sent thousands of Jewish college students to families in Jerusalem to eat a Shabbat meal?
text: Did you know that the national park visitor centre of Puerto Baquerizo Moreno in the Galápagos Islands has a unique display of a rebuilt ship's hold filled with upturned giant tortoises?
text: Did you know that Filipino shadow play group El Gamma Penumbra won the first season of Asia's Got Talent in 2015?
text: Did you know that when word got out that the Shell Polar Pioneer and other Arctic drilling vessels were coming to Seattle, hundreds of kayaktivists came out to protest?
text: Did you know that the 1941 Michigan Wolverines football team outscored opponents 147 to 41, losing only to the eventual champions, Minnesota ?
text: Did you know that Fort Binġemma in Malta has been illegally occupied since 2009?
text: Did you know that the soundtrack of 1982 film Ezhavathu Manithan featured songs from a pre-recorded album of L. Vaidyanathan , composed using the lyrics of Subramania Bharati 's poetry?
text: Did you know that the best-quality coffee produced in Panama is grown in Boquete ?
text: Did you know that Tabu has won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress a record four times?
text: Did you know that the director of the Australian-set film The Inbetweeners 2 considered filming it in South Africa in order to save money?
text: Did you know that in 2015, the soft coral Maasella edwardsi was reported in the Aegean Sea for the first time?
text: Did you know that the online platform VyRT was founded by Jared Leto as a live video streaming service ?
text: Did you know that Hilda C. Heine is the first Marshallese woman to earn a doctorate degree?
text: Did you know that while artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada , Reid Anderson also performed as a character dancer ?
text: Did you know that in the early 1900s, Pennsylvania's Price Creek —unlike its tributary Pancoast Creek —was partially filled with culm ?
text: Did you know that Archduke John of Austria met his wife, the future Countess von Meran , while she was posing as a boy?
text: Did you know that herpetologist Joseph Richard Slevin is commemorated in the scientific names of twelve reptiles and a mouse?
text: Did you know that the indie band Allo Darlin' recorded the album We Come from the Same Place in London while their vocalist Elizabeth Morris lived in Florence , Italy?
text: Did you know that the 13th-century pagoda built to house the remains of the Chinese Zen monk Wansong Xingxiu was covered by an outer pagoda in 1753, the original only being rediscovered in 1986?
text: Did you know that Sian Heder had written the screenplay for Tallulah by 2006, but the film only began shooting this June?
text: Did you know that the 2009 All-SEC football team included two Heisman Trophy winners, Tim Tebow of Florida and Mark Ingram, Jr. of Alabama, as well as future convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez ?
text: Did you know that under Dudley Snell , the fifth and last Chairman of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board , the first tram extensions in over two decades opened in Melbourne?
text: Did you know that some scholars fear the United States Supreme Court 's ruling in Schmerber v. California will one day be used to justify the involuntary mind reading of criminal suspects?
text: Did you know that Dixi Crosby was the first surgeon in the United States to be sued for medical malpractice?
text: Did you know that players can ride on dinosaurs in Ark: Survival Evolved ?
text: Did you know that Israeli wrestler Ilana Kratysh won a Grand Prix event despite allegedly being bitten by an Egyptian opponent?
text: Did you know that the music of L.A. Noire consists of original vocal recordings that reflect the "musical identity" of its 1940s setting?
text: Did you know that Gordon Ramsay once called Spanish chef Omar Allibhoy the " Antonio Banderas of cooking"?
text: Did you know that the female sparkling jewelwing damselfly spends about fifteen minutes submerged while laying a batch of eggs?
text: Did you know that Victoria Price , the daughter of horror icon Vincent Price , is not a fan of horror films?
text: Did you know that Dutch World War II resistance member Wim van Norden never made a conscious decision to join the resistance?
text: Did you know that the film Mahler on the Couch deals with a love triangle between Alma Mahler , Walter Gropius , and Gustav Mahler , and Gustav's consultation with Sigmund Freud ?
text: Did you know that Uvais Karnain was the first cricketer to take a five-wicket haul on his One Day International debut ?
text: Did you know that after the attack at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas , the mother of one of the gunmen said her son had been brainwashed and she did not blame the police for killing him during the event?
text: Did you know that the jellyfish Rhopilema esculentum can be eaten raw as a salad and has a crisp texture?
text: Did you know that John S. Middleton sold his family cigar business to Altria for US$2.9 billion?
text: Did you know that For Honor , a hack and slash game, was called "a shooter with swords" by its creative director?
text: Did you know that President Rafael Correa ordered Ecuador's television stations to broadcast 233 cadenas nacionales in 2009?
text: Did you know that the sequel to the Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars video game is simply called Rocket League , an easier to remember title?
text: Did you know that Spencer Wilson played Canadian football for the Calgary Stampeders as a left guard and left tackle before becoming the starting right guard?
text: Did you know that Jules Verne 's play Journey Through the Impossible , featuring Captain Nemo and other heroes from Verne's novels, was presumed lost until 1978?
text: Did you know that Thomas Corbett , a Shaker doctor, developed an electrostatic medical device in 1810 as a "cure" for rheumatism?
text: Did you know that the writer of the Star Trek: Voyager episode " Unity " based the episode on the destruction of the Tower of Babel ?
text: Did you know that Prince Nikolaus Esterházy , who commissioned Beethoven 's Mass in C major for his wife's name day , found it "unbearably ridiculous and detestable"?
text: Did you know that the main purpose of the tribal marks on the face or body of the Yoruba people is for identification of a person's tribe or family?
text: Did you know that Géza II of Hungary was crowned king at the age of eleven?
text: Did you know that the 9-minute pilot for Long Live the Royals won its creator a Primetime Emmy Award and earned the show an order from Cartoon Network ?
text: Did you know that professional Canadian box lacrosse player Curtis Manning is also a physician?
text: Did you know that lettuce coral and thin leaf lettuce coral can both be considered "weed" corals?
text: Did you know that the 2015–16 RFU Championship will be the first time in 13 years that Plymouth Albion is not in English rugby's second tier?
text: Did you know that the 1970s Dutch children's TV show De Stratemakeropzeeshow was criticized for its "Poop and Pee Minuet"?
text: Did you know that Mount Harriet National Park in the Andaman Islands is a butterfly hotspot ?
text: Did you know that an organization to help young African American men avoid gangs and prison was co-founded by law professor Nekima Levy-Pounds ?
text: Did you know that in a 2013 case , the Singapore Court of Appeal held that the Prime Minister was wrong to say he had discretion under the Constitution not to call a by-election to fill a parliamentary vacancy?
text: Did you know that Andrew Brown was strongly critical of the role of Charles Lawrence , acting governor of Nova Scotia , in the Acadian Expulsion ?
text: Did you know that some sketches in the upcoming TV Sucks last for only a few seconds?
text: Did you know that the former site of the Old White Horse Cellar , one of the most famous coaching inns in England during the 18th and 19th centuries, is now the location of The Ritz ?
text: Did you know that the visually impaired Romanian poet Mihai Codreanu walked with a cane that concealed a blade of Toledo steel , which he used to ward off jealous husbands?
text: Did you know that during World War II, James Franck 's gold Nobel Prize medal was dissolved in aqua regia and stored in a bottle on a shelf to prevent it from falling into German hands?
text: Did you know that the snack kue gapit is more popular among tourists than local residents of Cirebon ?
text: Did you know that 18th-century Indian artist Nainsukh is known for his unusually informal paintings of a raja , whose ashes he eventually consigned to the river Ganges ?
text: Did you know that the Alfred Bog is the largest high-quality bog in Southern Ontario , Canada?
text: Did you know that in 1930, Adeline De Walt Reynolds graduated from college at the age of 68 and made her film debut eleven years later?
text: Did you know that kongsi federations such as the Lanfang Republic once controlled a large part of western Borneo ?
text: Did you know that in 1882, midshipman Charles Cabaniss was killed by a bullet that ricocheted twice off the deck and once off a gun on the USS Swatara ?
text: Did you know that after the shooting of Walter Scott —an African-American—in North Charleston, South Carolina , the state government proposed a bill named after him to equip more police officers with body cameras?
text: Did you know that the game engine used for games such as Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto V was first used for a table tennis simulation game ?
text: Did you know that María Eugenia Suárez , who plays a victim of anorexia in the film Abzurdah , lost 6 kg (13 lb) during production?
text: Did you know that A. S. Neill liked the 1972 intellectual biography about himself, Fifty Years of Freedom , but thought it "wasn't critical enough"?
text: Did you know that eating the poisonous mushroom Neoboletus venenatus can result in vomiting so severe that dehydration results?
text: Did you know that Regina Spektor wrote the theme song for Orange Is the New Black after watching post-production edits of the first few episodes?
text: Did you know that Suicide Sarah was Idi Amin 's favourite wife?
text: Did you know that Tom Catena is the only surgeon working in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, covering a population of 750,000?
text: Did you know that Cofix is the first coffee shop chain to be traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange ?
text: Did you know that Miss Iowa 2015 Taylor Wiebers once shaved her head to raise money for pediatric cancer research?
text: Did you know that " Praise to the Living God " can be used in both Jewish and Christian worship as a hymn written for interfaith use?
text: Did you know that Canadian football player Charlie Power played as a linebacker in high school and a slotback in college, but was drafted as a fullback professionally?
text: Did you know that Clarks Creek is one of the few remaining wild trout streams in the Lackawanna Valley ?
text: Did you know that Toussaint Coffee Liqueur is named after the revolutionary fighter Toussaint Louverture ?
text: Did you know that ten Cuman chieftains took their customary oath upon a dog cut into two at the wedding of Stephen V of Hungary and Elizabeth the Cuman ?
text: Did you know that during the 2003 Cricket World Cup , Zimbabwean cricketers Andy Flower and Henry Olonga wore black armbands ?
text: Did you know that Philomena Lynott insisted on washing Brian Robertson 's hair before he performed on TV with Thin Lizzy ?
text: Did you know that sponges , worms , and molluscs bore into the stony skeleton of the intermediate valley coral ?
text: Did you know that Craig Novitsky is the first player in the history of UCLA Bruins football to start every game of a four-year career?
text: Did you know that in 1773, during the voyage of James Cook 's HMS Resolution , crew members referred to the beer on board the ship that was prepared from malt as experimental beer ?
text: Did you know that the owner of the world's largest collection of Nazi memorabilia sleeps in Hitler 's bed, but has "changed the mattress"?
text: Did you know that Chinese film pioneer Hou Yao was murdered by the Japanese during the Sook Ching massacre in Singapore?
text: Did you know that the ancient basalt doors in Khan al-Sabil are the largest of their kind in the Aleppo region of Syria ?
text: Did you know that Arthur S. Brisbane, the then- public editor of The New York Times , said that the 2012 creation of NewsDiffs imposed a "forced transparency" on The Times ?
text: Did you know that in the unsold 1958 TV pilot, Tales of Frankenstein , Don Megowan played the Monster in the style of Boris Karloff ?
text: Did you know that Swedish fruit soup is typically served as a dessert dish?
text: Did you know that Tara Strong described the recasting of her character in the upcoming Powerpuff Girls reboot as "a stab in the heart"?
text: Did you know that the watershed of Meredith Brook contains Lake Erie, which is about 4 feet (1.2 m) deep?
text: Did you know that the Shaker tilting chair lets its occupant lean back without the chair slipping and scraping the floor?
text: Did you know that Sir William Cunningham Dalyell of the Binns, 7th Baronet , took part in covert operations during the Napoleonic Wars ?
text: Did you know that the ETC Bollywood Business Awards are the only awards in India that judge films based on their box-office performance?
text: Did you know that Martha E. Sloan was the first female president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ?
text: Did you know that the fossil moss Rhizomnium dentatum is preserved in the same amber block as two other mosses and part of a centipede?
text: Did you know that the song " Going Back to My Roots " was inspired by a book by Alex Haley ?
text: Did you know that 18-year-old Israeli swimmer Ziv Kalontarov , who won a gold medal at the 2015 European Games , was trained by his parents?
text: Did you know that Boris Volkoff performed and choreographed under his mother's family name?
text: Did you know that The Verge wrote that Google Photos had made obsolete the concept of paying for digital photo storage?
text: Did you know that the wreck of the São José Paquete Africa is the first shipwreck ever discovered of a working slave ship, lost while in transit with its human cargo?
text: Did you know that the British magazine Eastern Eye named Katrina Kaif the "Sexiest Asian Woman" from 2008 to 2010 and again in 2013?
text: Did you know that more than 35,000 local governments in the US are served by 556 regional councils of governments ?
text: Did you know that the fortifications of Portobelo-San Lorenzo , at one time the "most heavily fortified Spanish coastal control point in the Americas ", are a World Heritage in Danger site?
text: Did you know that Manny Pacquiao recorded his own entrance song for his fight against Floyd Mayweather, Jr. ?
text: Did you know that Mhairi Black is the youngest elected British Member of Parliament since at least 1832?
text: Did you know that the first known building designed by Romanian architect Cristofi Cerchez , "Stătescu Villa", in Câmpulung , later became a registered historic monument ?
text: Did you know that many scholars identify the archaeological Yueshi culture‎ with the Eastern Barbarians mentioned in ancient documents, but others disagree?
text: Did you know that the Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray was awarded both India's highest civilian award and France's highest decoration ?
text: Did you know that the larva of Aphidius nigripes , a parasitoid of the potato aphid , can control the behaviour of its host ?
text: Did you know that Kelley Johnson won the Miss Colorado 2015 pageant with a monologue inspired by her experiences as a nurse?
text: Did you know that Conrad Black feared that Tom Bower 's biography Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge was going to be "a heartwarming story of two sleazy, spivvy, contemptible people"?
text: Did you know that Lixia Zhang coined the term " middlebox "?
text: Did you know that Canadian artist Jillian Tamaki , of This One Summer fame, wrote the Adventure Time episodes " Astral Plane " and " The Diary "?
text: Did you know that Bach's cantata Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis , BWV 21 , probably served for both a memorial service and for job applications, and certainly for the Third Sunday after Trinity in 1714 and 1723?
text: Did you know that the golfer Bertie Snowball was a professional in all four Home Nations before being killed in action during World War I, aged just 28?
text: Did you know that most of the flow that Wilson Creek contributes to the Lackawanna River comes from one acid mine drainage discharge?
text: Did you know that the #NiUnaMenos demonstration against femicide in Argentina was attended by nearly 200,000 people?
text: Did you know that in 1681, a white woman married an African slave in colonial Maryland, even though she knew that doing so would condemn her to a life of slavery?
text: Did you know that before he became senior vice president of Disney Television Animation , Eric Coleman helped develop SpongeBob SquarePants ?
text: Did you know that the right to name Congregation Albert , a synagogue in Albuquerque, New Mexico , was auctioned off for $250?
text: Did you know that Carl Nielsen composed At the Bier of a Young Artist for the funeral of the promising painter Oluf Hartmann ?
text: Did you know that the Game of Thrones episode " Mother's Mercy " contains unpublished material from the novel The Winds of Winter ?
text: Did you know that Shelley Cronau , who suffered serious injuries in a fall, joined the Be the Influence advertising campaign to warn others about the dangers of binge drinking ?
text: Did you know that after his favourite concubine gave birth to a son, Duke Xuan of Chen killed the crown prince and made the newborn his heir apparent?
text: Did you know that Fall Brook falls over Fall Brook Falls?
text: Did you know that the small trees and shrubs Myrcianthes coquimbensis , Myrceugenia rufa , Myrceugenia colchaguensis , and Myrceugenia leptospermoides are endemic to the coastal region of Chile and are all endangered ?
text: Did you know that Tyus Battle won a gold medal in the final of the 2014 FIBA Under-17 World Championship ?
text: Did you know that Ivory Coast is one of the largest producers of robusta in the world?
text: Did you know that the Saverne Tunnel beneath Mont Saint-Michel will allow trains on a new high-speed rail line in France to operate at a maximum speed of 350 km/h (220 mph)?
text: Did you know that Kyle Gallner did not know that his character in Veronica Mars , Cassidy "Beaver" Casablancas , would be revealed as a murderer in the second season finale, " Not Pictured ", until a costumer told him?
text: Did you know that at Bobby Chinn 's self-titled restaurant in Hanoi , dishes are influenced by his time in France, including filet mignon in spring rolls ?
text: Did you know that oncologist Alan Coates was once lowered through the ceiling of St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney ?
text: Did you know that the mining industry of Swaziland includes what may be the world's oldest iron mine?
text: Did you know that a reluctant John Wooden was convinced by assistant coach Jerry Norman to use a zone press , which became instrumental in the first two national titles won by the UCLA basketball program?
text: Did you know that the Flatiron Flyer bus rapid transit line is expected to carry 11,000 riders a day and be 10 to 15 minutes faster than the bus it replaces?
text: Did you know that Eritha , one of the most significant priestesses in Mycenaean Pylos in c. 1200 BC, was involved in a dispute over the legal status of her religious holdings?
text: Did you know that only six percent of the watershed of Beaver Run is on forested land?
text: Did you know that Tarik Badwan, the vocalist of LOOM , has been called "the angriest man to stalk a stage in ages"?
text: Did you know that Munk's devil ray sometimes performs vertical leaps, somersaults and other acrobatic manoeuvres?
text: Did you know that the 38-year tenure of Bernard "Berny" Stone as Alderman from the 50th Ward in the Chicago City Council spanned seven Chicago Mayors , including two Mayors Daley?
text: Did you know that the Routhian of analytical mechanics is a hybrid of the Lagrangian and the Hamiltonian ?
text: Did you know that Shehzad Sheikh , son of Javed Sheikh , has played a lead role in the upcoming film Karachi Se Lahore after debuting in Main Hoon Shahid Afridi ?
text: Did you know that airborne silica exposure in Tanzanian mines is more than three hundred times the limit set by NIOSH in the United States?
text: Did you know that the Province of Lodi was first inhabited during the fifth century BCE?
text: Did you know that gridiron football player Derel Walker was the last wide receiver to catch a college pass from Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel ?
text: Did you know that Paul Wild , who spearheaded the Very Fast Train Joint Venture in the 1980s, traced a preliminary route using dinner plates and numerous topographic maps spread out on his living room floor?
text: Did you know that 2015 titleholder Daja Dial is the third African American to be crowned Miss South Carolina ?
text: Did you know that the dwarf sawfish is estimated to live for up to 48 years?
text: Did you know that Julia Lloyd opened the Greet Free Kindergarten in 1904?
text: Did you know that commentators believe a recent United States Supreme Court decision "may well leave the Obama climate agenda in tatters"?
text: Did you know that Jake Olson plays professional Canadian football despite a congenital disorder that caused him to dislocate his left knee once and his right knee twice?
text: Did you know that the organisation and curriculum of the university in the Province of Bologna , founded in 1088, were emulated in other universities across Italy?
text: Did you know that the fictional character Elvira Hancock , played by Michelle Pfeiffer , has been described as an "embittered drug addict with the self-esteem of an empty bullet casing"?
text: Did you know that George William Symes was awarded the Military Cross for single-handedly capturing twenty enemy soldiers?
text: Did you know that the 30th Legislative District of New Jersey shifted to Burlington , Monmouth , and Ocean counties in 1991 because of declining population in Essex County in the previous decade?
text: Did you know that the Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi has been destroyed and rebuilt several times and is one of the 12 Jyotirlingas Shiva temples in India?
text: Did you know that The Exonerated is a play about death row inmates who have been exonerated?
text: Did you know that a fellow Romanian critic challenged Mihail Dragomirescu to a duel over his defense of a controversial Jewish-themed play by Ronetti Roman ?
text: Did you know that DOCK8 deficiency is a rare disease that causes the production of too much immunoglobulin E ?
text: Did you know that the clergyman Arthur Wagner had such a large collection of valuable books and manuscripts that it took three days to sell them after his death?
text: Did you know that when asked, Veronica Mars actor Enrico Colantoni immediately suggested former Just Shoot Me! co-star and friend Laura San Giacomo for the role of his love interest in " Charlie Don't Surf "?
text: Did you know that as well as commanding a view of the countryside, RAAF Eastern Area 's Blue Mountains headquarters incorporated a disused railway tunnel that offered "complete protection from Atom Bomb attack"?
text: Did you know that the 1983 Tamil film Oru Indhiya Kanavu was based on a play by the director Komal Swaminathan himself?
text: Did you know that the original script outline for the romantic comedy The Other Woman (2014) was characterised as The First Wives Club (1996) but with a younger cast?
text: Did you know that the M19 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage turrets were remounted on M41 light tanks to make the M42 Duster ?
text: Did you know that American actress Irene Purcell acted in the play Dancing Partner (1930) and the 1931 film based on it ?
text: Did you know that the Minicoy Island Lighthouse is the only lighthouse in India that has a postage stamp and a first day cover issued in its name?
text: Did you know that artist Enno Hallek and his family fled the Soviet occupation of Estonia to Sweden on his father's fishing trawler ?
text: Did you know that Dahlgren Chapel of the Sacred Heart is now home to a cross believed to have been used in the first Catholic mass said by an Englishman in North America?
text: Did you know that Jotnian sedimentary rocks are the oldest known sediments in the Baltic area that have not been subject to the geological process of metamorphism ?
text: Did you know that Elena Cattaneo "show[ed] the influence that individual scientists can have in fighting anti-science forces"?
text: Did you know that the Hammond Electric Bridge Table was the first bridge table to automatically shuffle and deal cards using electricity?
text: Did you know that Viceroy of Prome Thado Dhamma Yaza III revolted against his father King Nanda of Toungoo Burma during the Siamese siege of Pegu (Bago) in 1595?
text: Did you know that Miss Oregon 2013 Allison Cook wore cow print boots and a dress covered in Tillamook Cheese wrappers at the Miss America 2014 "Show Us Your Shoes" parade?
text: Did you know that James T. Brady defended Lew Baker , who fatally shot "Bill the Butcher" Poole at a Manhattan bar in 1855?
text: Did you know that the cuisine of Jharkhand and Bihari cuisine are often similar, in part because these separate states were at one time the single state of Bihar ?
text: Did you know that Priyanka Chopra attained a muscular physique through three months of extensive training to play the eponymous boxing world champion in the 2014 biopic Mary Kom ?
text: Did you know that Colonel Miller argued that women were "primeval abolitionists" who should be admitted to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in 1840?
text: Did you know that the Alamgir Mosque, Varanasi , built in the 17th century over the ruins of a Hindu temple, has been described as "like a fist thrust in the face of Hinduism "?
text: Did you know that the Home Office whistleblower Steve Moxon was deselected as a UK Independence Party candidate in 2012 local elections because of comments he made about Anders Behring Breivik ?
text: Did you know that " Donut Run ", an episode of Veronica Mars , was the first professional directing job for series creator Rob Thomas , who was even unsure when to call "action" during filming?
text: Did you know that during the American Civil War , Union general Samuel C. Armstrong , a native of Maui , met fellow Hawaiians J. R. Kealoha and Kaiwi, who served in the U.S. colored regiments ?
text: Did you know that a 2006 Singapore case says the test for apparent bias , a type of procedural impropriety , involves asking if a fair-minded person would have a reasonable suspicion that a fair trial is impossible?
text: Did you know that Karachi, You're Killing Me! , a debut novel by Saba Imtiaz , is described as " Bridget Jones's Diary meets The Diary of a Social Butterfly "?
text: Did you know that Danijela Krstić is the first Miss Oregon who was born outside of the United States?
text: Did you know that Gurudongmar Lake , one of the highest in the world, is named after Guru Padmasambhava , founder of Tibetan Buddhism , who visited the lake in the 8th century?
text: Did you know that Operation Shrouded Horizon was an 18-month international law enforcement investigation into an online forum described as "a cyber hornet's nest of criminal hackers"?
text: Did you know that the poet Malcolm Guite , who grew up in Nigeria, Canada, and England, decided he belonged in England partly after discovering real ale – something "they don't have properly in Canada at all"?
text: Did you know that the collared tuco-tuco is rather secretive, emerging only briefly from the entrance to its burrow to forage?
text: Did you know that Calvin McCarty played for Team Canada in the 2001 Big League World Series before playing over eight seasons in the Canadian Football League ?
text: Did you know that the amir al-hajj supervised the funding and supply of the annual Hajj pilgrim caravan to Mecca and Medina , and its protection from Bedouin raiders?
text: Did you know that The Allman Brothers Band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995?
text: Did you know that after the death of Argentine president Raúl Alfonsín , hundreds of people held a candlelight vigil outside of his house?
text: Did you know that the anime adaptation of the Fushigi na Somera-chan manga was originally announced as an April Fools' Day joke?
text: Did you know that Banksy described his Dismaland as a "family theme park unsuitable for children"?
text: Did you know that Miss Virginia 2014 Courtney Garrett won her title by singing " Parla Più Piano ", an Italian-language version of the love theme from The Godfather ?
text: Did you know that the star 51 Eridani hosts a Jupiter -like planet, the smallest extrasolar planet ever directly imaged?
text: Did you know that James J. Stanford found Lima strips "unbelievable"?
text: Did you know that Intenso Project included members from Phats & Small and Double Trouble ?
text: Did you know that the First Biennium roughly encompasses the first two years of the Second Spanish Republic ?
text: Did you know that HMS Perseverance took part in the Battle of Tellicherry , and in doing so, nearly caused a diplomatic incident?
text: Did you know that the Anita Borg Institute gave blind computer scientist Chieko Asakawa their Women of Vision Award ?
text: Did you know that Romania 's Ioan Alexandru Brătescu-Voinești , after largely steering clear of controversy during his career, became a public and vociferous anti-Semite when he was nearly seventy?
text: Did you know that 20 different macroinvertebrate taxa have been observed in Cider Run ?
text: Did you know that British nobleman Lord Charles Beresford proposed marriage to the part- Hawaiian chiefess Nancy Sumner but she refused, likely due to their social and racial differences?
text: Did you know that Chester H. Pond invented the first electrical self-winding clock?
text: Did you know that Louis H. Fead , Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court , was recognized for common sense opinions devoid of erudition?
text: Did you know that the longest recycled plastic bench in Italy is said to be at Increa Park in Brugherio ?
text: Did you know that JoAnn Dean Killingsworth became the first person to play Snow White at Disneyland on July 17, 1955, the theme park's opening day?
text: Did you know that the Arturia MiniBrute synthesizer includes an overdrive effect based on a hacking technique used on the Minimoog ?
text: Did you know that the phrase "Manny being Manny" is named after professional baseball player Manny Ramirez because of his frequent quirky behavior?
text: Did you know that although the Unirea newspaper was published by the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church , its coverage focused on political rather than religious matters?
text: Did you know that when the Berlin college for kindergarten teachers needed holiday cover in 1883, they sent for Caroline Bishop from England?
text: Did you know that although 155,000 carats of diamonds were officially mined in Liberia in 2001, far more were smuggled to neighboring countries illegally?
text: Did you know that Artur Talvik, who was the Estonian Free Party 's prime ministerial candidate in the 2015 elections and received the most votes of all the party's candidates, was not a member of the party himself?
text: Did you know that Argentine doctor María Teresa Ferrari , the first female university professor in Latin America , invented a prize-winning vaginoscope ?
text: Did you know that the population of the small Turkish town of Özdere can reach nearly 100,000 in the summer due to its popularity with tourists ?
text: Did you know that Miss Virginia 2015 Savannah Lane says she is "distantly related" to Elvis Presley ?
text: Did you know that the Trees Party of Taiwan is committed to "defending trees and Mother Earth from human greed and ignorance"?
text: Did you know that Kenneth Tempest took part in the RAF Bomber Command 's last operation of the Second World War and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross not long after?
text: Did you know that one of the stone ships in Gnisvärd is the largest on Gotland ?
text: Did you know that in the first edition of the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law , Michael I. Sovern assured readers the journal would not be "recycled" like another "long-gone New York newspaper"?
text: Did you know that Romanian writer Lucia Mantu kept her real identity a close secret, with even her editor Mihail Sadoveanu only finding out by accident?
text: Did you know that Rapid Run was involved in a "blatant act of 'stream piracy ' " about one million years ago?
text: Did you know that West Indies cricketer Lance Gibbs took a pair of five-wicket hauls on two different occasions at the Old Trafford Cricket Ground ?
text: Did you know that the fossil male Burmacoccus scale insect has a transparent abdomen showing its testes ?
text: Did you know that the British palaeontologist R. J. G. Savage was described by a colleague as "a raffish gentleman explorer"?
text: Did you know that 14th-century Moorish Baths are located in the basement of the Gibraltar Museum ?
text: Did you know that Willy Mitchell bought an electric guitar with money awarded to him after being shot in the head by a police officer?
text: Did you know that Crown Prince Minye Kyawswa defected from his father King Nanda 's moribund Toungoo Empire in 1599, only to be executed by the enemy a few days later?
text: Did you know that Nevio Marasović 's 2010 debut The Show Must Go On is only the third science fiction film in the history of Croatian cinema ?
text: Did you know that Michael Schopper performed as a bass soloist in the first recording of Bach's St Matthew Passion with period instruments conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt ?
text: Did you know that a moratorium on licenses for mining in South Sudan was imposed in 2010?
text: Did you know that Beatrice Edgell was the first British woman to earn a PhD in Psychology and the first woman president of the British Psychological Society ?
text: Did you know that according to historian Chris Coulthard-Clark, North-Western Area was "one of the few areas where the RAAF was free to run its own show" in World War II?
text: Did you know that on hearing of being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics , Eugene Wigner confessed that he had "never expected to get my name in the newspapers without doing something wicked"?
text: Did you know that Bach composed the cantata Geist und Seele wird verwirret , BWV 35 , 15 years after its text by Georg Christian Lehms first appeared in print?
text: Did you know that in 2015, Alissa St Laurent became the first woman to win the Canadian Death Race ?
text: Did you know that at an Air Products factory in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier , a perpetrator beheaded the manager and then crashed the victim's van into gas cylinders , causing an explosion that injured two people?
text: Did you know that Nigerian footballer Uchechi Sunday scored five goals for FC Minsk in her debut at the UEFA Women's Champions League in 2015?
text: Did you know that apart from gold and diamonds, the mining in Mali also includes rock salt, semi-precious stones and phosphates?
text: Did you know that Qing dynasty philosopher Li Guangdi 's machinations resulted in the exile of his friend Chen Minglei?
text: Did you know that American entrepreneur Pamela Meyer has been described by Reader's Digest as "the nation's best known expert on lying"?
text: Did you know that the computer scientist Jean Bacon became the first woman on the faculty of the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in 1985?
text: Did you know that mills on North Branch Buffalo Creek used to produce wool, lumber, cider, and grist?
text: Did you know that Dark Souls III would serve as a turning point for its developer FromSoftware ?
text: Did you know that the mining industry of Madagascar was struggling in 2013 due to "low metals prices and distrustful companies", attributed to a 2009 coup?
text: Did you know that Japanese epidemiologist Takeshi Hirayama has been credited with publishing the first study linking passive smoking to lung cancer in nonsmokers?
text: Did you know that Mariah Carey 's song " Auld Lang Syne (The New Year's Anthem) " is a house music version of the original poem ?
text: Did you know that Ferdinand Budicki , an early automobile pioneer from Zagreb , Croatia , had to teach his driving examiners how to drive?
text: Did you know that a blue plaque dedicated to George Livesey describes him as "one of Southwark's greatest industrialists"?
text: Did you know that the greater guinea pig is semi-aquatic and has webs between its toes?
text: Did you know that Johannes Wiese was the 45th Luftwaffe pilot to claim 100 aerial victories?
text: Did you know that the house of Argentine journalist Jorge Lanata was stoned and apparently shot at after he aired interviews about the 2008 triple crime ?
text: Did you know that after winning three national championships with the UCLA Bruins , John Ecker played basketball overseas and married German Olympic gold medalist Heide Rosendahl ?
text: Did you know that the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia is considered "the most important single source of historical material on the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia "?
text: Did you know that Aage Bohr and Niels Bohr are one of four pairs of fathers and sons who have won the Nobel Prize in Physics ?
text: Did you know that Adelaide Manning helped Florence Nightingale to fund Cornelia Sorabji when she arrived from India in 1889 to obtain a degree?
text: Did you know that a jet from the star V380 Orionis is thought to have blown a hole in the surrounding nebula NGC 1999 ?
text: Did you know that Alexei Vinogradov was executed in front of his command, the Soviet 44th Rifle Division , after it was decimated at the Battle of Raate Road ?
text: Did you know that it has been said that man prefers Noah's wine to Adam's ale ?
text: Did you know that Wilke te Brummelstroete performed the alto parts in Volume I of the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage which received the 2005 Gramophone Award Record of the Year?
text: Did you know that Canadian football player Dexter Janke ran the fastest shuttle time among defensive backs at the national CFL Combine despite having torn his ACL three times?
text: Did you know that there are often an ice cream van and roaming sheep at the summit of the A4061 in South Wales ?
text: Did you know that the queenship of Blanche of Artois seemed perfect until her only son was dropped from the castle walls by his nurse?
text: Did you know that a sea monster figurehead has been recovered from the wreckage of Gribshunden , a 15th-century Danish warship ?
text: Did you know that Palokë Nika , who founded the oldest Albanian football club, KF Vllaznia Shkodër , was the first coach of KF Tirana ?
text: Did you know that the Benjamin Loxley house is noted in history as the place where a Quakeress overheard secret British plans and passed them on to George Washington , saving the Continental Army ?
text: Did you know that the feature film Mama was based on Andrés Muschietti 's "scariest" short film?
text: Did you know that the sacred geography of Varanasi is known as the "microcosm of India"?
text: Did you know that Howard Wiest , who never finished high school or attended law school, became Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court ?
text: Did you know that Greek singer Litsa Diamanti has been described as the "child-wonder of the Sixties decade and the absolute diva of metapolitefsi "?
text: Did you know that a completely automated pancake machine was invented in Portland, Oregon , in 1928?
text: Did you know that the South Slavic Bible Institute was established to print Protestant religious books for all South Slavs ?
text: Did you know that Takeshi Murata 's digitally animated kinetic sculpture Melter 3-D uses the principles of a 3D-zoetrope to create the appearance that its surface is fluid and rippling?
text: Did you know that the type specimen of Albicoccus , a scale insect, is entombed with two types of flies in amber?
text: Did you know that Carl Nielsen's late piano pieces Tre Klaverstykker have been ascribed a "dual sense of childlike innocence and devilish improvisation"?
text: Did you know that former New York Yankees utility infielder Phil Linz says people remember him for the Harmonica Incident that happened 51 years ago today, instead of anything he did on the field?
text: Did you know that the Dutch resistance fighter Hanneke Ippisch brought Jewish children to safety in World War II and later started a bed and breakfast in Montana?
text: Did you know that although the spiny lobster Panulirus penicillatus is heavily exploited for food throughout its range, its total population seems relatively unaffected?
text: Did you know that Heino Falcke proposed that blitzars occur when neutron stars turn into black holes ?
text: Did you know that the helmeted woodpecker has possibly evolved to mimic the co-occurring lineated woodpecker ?
text: Did you know that brothers Amarildo, Augusto, and Pio Matos are teammates on both their club and national basketball teams ?
text: Did you know that Spruce Run is impacted by nutrient pollution and sediment, but is not an impaired waterbody?
text: Did you know that Miss Washington 2013 Reina Almon began competing in pageants because "having a crown looked fun"?
text: Did you know that David Zowie 's " House Every Weekend " was the UK Singles Chart 's first Friday number one?
text: Did you know that six or more keys on a keyring can be distinguished from each other by coloring the keys using only two colors, but rings of three, four, or five keys require more colors?
text: Did you know that gridiron football player Garry Williams has missed playing time due to a torn ACL and MCL , a broken ankle , and injuries to his knee, back, and elbow?
text: Did you know that a stream restoration project on Miller Run "could change the way stream monitoring and restoration is carried out statewide"?
text: Did you know that the youngest volcanic debris avalanche in the Andes is probably that of Tutupaka which occurred about 200 years ago?
text: Did you know that gospel singer Zella Jackson Price had not seen her daughter for almost 50 years until they were reunited in 2015?
text: Did you know that the Iran cat can adhere to rocks in streams?
text: Did you know that soprano Rosa Lamoreaux , who recorded Bach's Mass in B minor with The Bach Choir of Bethlehem and at the Carmel Bach Festival , won the 2009 Wammie as classical vocal soloist?
text: Did you know that the waters of Slide Hollow contain 35 dissolved elements, including uranium?
text: Did you know that the French rugby union player Pierre Guillemin was criticised by the press for his "remarkable brutality"?
text: Did you know that the protagonist of Scalebound has a dragon arm?
text: Did you know that McKensie Garber was crowned Miss Missouri 2015 at a military academy in Mexico ?
text: Did you know that the fossil scale insect Marmyan was described from a male missing its head?
text: Did you know that the Black Keys chose to put a picture of a Plymouth Grand Voyager on the cover of their album El Camino instead of an actual Chevrolet El Camino ?
text: Did you know that five songs sung by Thea Austin charted in the Top 40 of singles charts around the world?
text: Did you know that in 1971, Charles Winick found that American prostitutes earned little more than clerical workers?
text: Did you know that decompression tanks belonging to Ben McDaniel found following his disappearance five years ago today at Florida's Vortex Spring contained only air, not the gas mix used by cave divers ?
text: Did you know that Grain Wing Battery and Dummy Battery were constructed to support Grain Fort in defending the River Medway ?
text: Did you know that at age 16, Ivan Toney became the youngest player to represent Northampton Town Football Club ?
text: Did you know that the Regency romance novel Lord of Scoundrels is a retelling of the fairytale Beauty and the Beast ?
text: Did you know that Emily Kieliszewski won the 2015 Miss Michigan pageant by tap dancing to " U Can't Touch This " by MC Hammer ?
text: Did you know that Hive Minds host Fiona Bruce also fronts the BBC News at Six , BBC News at Ten , Crimewatch , Call My Bluff and Antiques Roadshow ?
text: Did you know that A.C. Leonard ran the fastest 40-yard dash among tight ends at the 2014 NFL scouting combine ?
text: Did you know that locals were unhappy about a new housing estate on Ipswich Road, Colchester being named after the hazelnut ?
text: Did you know that after the murder of Bihar communist legislator Ajit Sarkar in 1998, his widow Madhavi Sarkar was elected for his seat in a by-election ?
text: Did you know that some members of the dinoflagellate family Polykrikaceae prey on other dinoflagellates in algal blooms ?
text: Did you know that after Colin Currie was the soloist in the premiere of James MacMillan 's Percussion Concerto No. 2 , The Guardian wrote that it "confirm[ed] Currie's status as an athlete and a star"?
text: Did you know that Harry Williams was one of the first Anglican priests to come out as gay ?
text: Did you know that the 2009 Spinoza Prize winners, physicist Albert van den Berg , neurologist Michel Ferrari , and mathematical biologist Marten Scheffer , wrote a joint paper on migraine after winning?
text: Did you know that the introduction of the brown quail into New Zealand may have contributed to the extinction of that country's native quail ?
text: Did you know that the Chaturbhuj Temple has a complex multi-storied structural view which is a blend of architectural features of a temple, fort and palace?
text: Did you know that Surf Snowdonia is the world's first commercial artificial surfing lake?
text: Did you know that there is no fencing on Coal Run ?
text: Did you know that " Drag Me Down " marks the first single released by One Direction without Zayn Malik ?
text: Did you know that the Dutch letter is traditionally eaten in the Netherlands on Christmas Eve ?
text: Did you know that every Test match in which a five-wicket haul has been taken at the Riverside Ground has resulted in an England victory?
text: Did you know that Jeanne Lampl-de Groot , a Dutch psychiatrist and protégée of Sigmund Freud , fled the Nazis twice?
text: Did you know that a railroad station named after showman P.T. Barnum is planned to be built in Bridgeport, Connecticut ?
text: Did you know that a 1700s Philadelphia property named Bathsheba's spring and bower was said to be the first spa in the Society Hill area?
text: Did you know that Guo Pei designed the yellow gown Rihanna wore to the 2015 Met Gala ?
text: Did you know that Molly Shoichet is a fellow of all three Canadian National Academies, the only person to hold this distinction?
text: Did you know that volunteers at the Sorby Research Institute were made to wear the dirty underpants of scabies sufferers?
text: Did you know that Dorothy McKibbin was known as the "first lady of Los Alamos"?
text: Did you know that the foundation stone of the Snaresbrook Crown Court building was laid by Albert, Prince Consort ?
text: Did you know that Mariah Carey wrote " One Child " with Broadway composer Marc Shaiman ?
text: Did you know that the producers of the visual novel Snow were influenced by Key ?
text: Did you know that although Cantata misericordium recounts the parable of the good Samaritan , the Red Cross refused to allow it to use the Biblical text?
text: Did you know that Zhu Changfang , Prince of Lu, developed a new type of guqin incorporating Western design elements?
text: Did you know that a restaurant named a cheeseburger after Miss Minnesota 2015 Rachel Latuff and served it with an onion ring topped by "sweet sparkles" as an imitation of her crown?
text: Did you know that Romanian poet Natalia Negru 's first two marriages ended disastrously, but the third, to Ioan Gheorghe Savin , was apparently peaceful?
text: Did you know that Royal Castle was a Miami, Florida-based hamburger restaurant chain known for its miniature hamburgers, which were similar to White Castle hamburgers?
text: Did you know that the author Graham Greene chose Father Bede Jarrett to be his daughter's godfather?
text: Did you know that the Clean Power Plan is aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants in the United States by 32 percent by 2030, relative to 2005 levels?
text: Did you know that the German tenor Markus Brutscher performed the part of Saul in Reinhard Keiser 's oratorio Der siegende David at the Ruhrtriennale 2006?
text: Did you know that the Cross of Sorrow by sculptor Leo Lankinen was the first monument in Russia to thousands of soldiers who perished in the Winter War ?
text: Did you know that Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Adam Morgan uses one pitching technique his manager described as a " Bugs Bunny changeup"?
text: Did you know that Ángela Acuña Braun , first female Costa Rican attorney, served on both the Inter-American Commission of Women and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ?
text: Did you know that Breakthrough Listen is supported by Stephen Hawking and has been described as the most comprehensive search for alien communications to date?
text: Did you know that French priest Chrysostome Liausu remained in Valparaíso while his colleagues François Caret , Honoré Laval and Columba Murphy became the first Catholic missionaries in the Gambier Islands ?
text: Did you know that mother and daughter Susan Sarandon and Eva Amurri are both starring in Mothers and Daughters having previously worked together on 2002's The Banger Sisters ?
text: Did you know that Leptopharsa tacanae was the first lace bug to be described from Mexican amber?
text: Did you know that the Meadows of the Bedni Bugyal in the Chamoli district have camps for pilgrims to visit the Rup Kund lake which is covered with snow for 10 months in a year?
text: Did you know that actress Jenny Skavlan was married in 2014 in a dress she designed and made herself?
text: Did you know that the Sunnyboys ' self-titled 1981 debut album was rated as one of the 100 Best Australian Albums ?
text: Did you know that some of the brightest stars in the sky are Beta Cephei variables ?
text: Did you know that acroporid coral species Acropora abrolhosensis , A. anthocercis , A. awi , A. batunai , A. caroliniana , A. dendrum , A. derawanensis , A. desalwii , A. donei , A. echinata , A. elegans , A. hemprichii , A. hoeksemai , A. horrida , A. indonesia , A. kimbeensis , A. kirstyae , A. kosurini , A. loisetteae , A. lokani , A. microclados , A. multiacuta , A. paniculata , A. papillare , A. pharaonis , A. plumosa , and A. polystoma are all classed as vulnerable ?
text: Did you know that Muddy Run is impacted by sediment, E. coli , nutrient pollution, and thermal radiation?
text: Did you know that the first interracial kiss on television occurred in an episode of Emergency Ward 10 , not Star Trek as popularly claimed?
text: Did you know that Miroslav Klose 's record 71 goals for the Germany national football team included 16 at the FIFA World Cup ?
text: Did you know that the use of umbrellas is forbidden in Iwoye-Ketu ?
text: Did you know that Miss Maine 2015 Kelsey Earley hand-sews superhero capes for patients at a children's hospital?
text: Did you know that a grouping of shots on a target has a mean point of impact?
text: Did you know that Rosalynn Bliss was the first woman ever elected mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan ?
text: Did you know that Challenger Columbia Stadium , currently under construction, is named in honor of the 14 astronauts who lost their lives in the Challenger disaster in 1986 and the Columbia disaster in 2003?
text: Did you know that Chris McKay was sent to Australia by The Lego Movie 's directors as an animation co-director while they were working on 22 Jump Street ?
text: Did you know that within five months of its release, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood had been played 5.7 billion minutes, or over 10,000 years?
text: Did you know that, according to a Rolling Stone writer, in his 2015 single " Trouble " Keith Richards "seems to be channeling his inner Lou Reed "?
text: Did you know that the orange tulip ginger is not a citrus fruit, nor a tulip, nor a spice?
text: Did you know that according to the Garbha Upanishad , the human foetus has knowledge of its past lives?
text: Did you know that after joining Illumination Entertainment in 2010, Kyle Balda has directed two films for the studio, including The Lorax and Minions ?
text: Did you know that after " Underwater Love " by Smoke City became a hit, lead singer Nina Miranda returned to the UK from Brazil to discuss a record deal?
text: Did you know that Henry Dewar joined the expedition to occupy German Samoa the day after playing in Wellington 's Ranfurly Shield defence against Wairarapa ?
text: Did you know that the "C" shaped Bhimtal Lake which is the largest in the Kumaon region was impounded by a masonry dam?
text: Did you know that single-celled organisms called Warnowiaceae have an " eye " so complex it was once assumed to belong to a multicellular organism?
text: Did you know that a 1654 catalog of celestial objects was forgotten until 1985?
text: Did you know that Sir Leonard Redshaw was part of a "Suicide Squad" of scientists and engineers who would be first responders in disasters involving nuclear reactors ?
text: Did you know that Slough Fort in Kent was one of around 70 forts constructed on the English coast in the 1860s in response to fears of a possible French invasion?
text: Did you know that Canadian football player Corbin Sharun caught a 35-yard pass from holder Matt Nichols following a failed field goal snap, earning each player his first career touchdown ?
text: Did you know that until this year, the African golden wolf was classified as the Eurasian golden jackal ?
text: Did you know that the perpetrator of the beheading of Palmira Silva was found not guilty by reason of insanity?
text: Did you know that the side missions featured in Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 are known as "war crimes"?
text: Did you know that in the Akshi Upanishad , the Sun states that Brahmavidya , knowledge of the absolute, is difficult to learn but will result in self-realization once acquired?
text: Did you know that oleogustus is a proposed sixth basic taste , most easily identified in rancid fatty foods?
text: Did you know that in 1914 Aubrey Smith , commanding HMS Drake , moved Russian gold worth £ 8,000,000 from Archangel to Britain?
text: Did you know that the Kırklareli Museum in Turkey exhibits 76 taxidermied species including extinct and endangered species?
text: Did you know that game director Bruce Straley completed work during the development of The Last of Us that one of the developers called "an intern task"?
text: Did you know that Margaret J. Anderson opened The Beverly Hills Hotel with guests and staff lured away from the Hollywood Hotel ?
text: Did you know that Napoleon 's troops smoked hashish in Egypt because alcohol was not available in the country?
text: Did you know that physician Joseph O'Dwyer invented a method for intubation that greatly reduced deaths caused by diphtheria , especially in children?
text: Did you know that according to local legend, there was a tunnel in the lake of the Chhilchhila Wildlife Sanctuary that was used by the Pandavas during the Mahabharata period to escape to Haridwar ?
text: Did you know that the estate of Canadian painter William Blair Bruce became a Swedish nature reserve ?
text: Did you know that solidified flows of sulfur have been found on Lastarria , a volcano in Chile?
text: Did you know that Mary Carpenter founded the National Indian Association to improve the education of girls in India?
text: Did you know that Hocabá , Huhí , Sanahcat , Sotuta , Dzemul , Dzilam González , Mocochá , Muxupip , Sinanché , Dzidzantún , Suma , Telchac Puerto , Temax , and Yaxkukul are municipalities which replaced encomiendas of Yucatán ?
text: Did you know that Heath McNease created two albums, one folk rock and the other hip hop , inspired by the works of C. S. Lewis ?
text: Did you know that The Batten Twins played college football against each other while attending different universities?
text: Did you know that the play Blackrock was developed into a film of the same name , and was inspired by the murder of Leigh Leigh ?
text: Did you know that Yusuf Shihab , emir of Mount Lebanon , bailed himself out of prison by promising Ottoman governor Jezzar Pasha a bribe of 1,000,000 qirsh , which he later failed to deliver?
text: Did you know that the submarine wreck found off the Swedish east coast in July 2015 was most likely the Russian Som that sank in 1916?
text: Did you know that Tuba Azmudeh established the first Iranian school for girls in Iran?
text: Did you know that an armored van was used in an attack on the headquarters of the Dallas Police Department ?
text: Did you know that while her husband told Americans about the Arts and Crafts movement , Anne Cobden-Sanderson told others about why she went to prison?
text: Did you know that Brooklyn -based digital artist Mariam Ghani is also the daughter of the president of Afghanistan ?
text: Did you know that one of the duties of the commander of the RAAF Western Area in October 1952 was coordinating air support for Operation Hurricane , the British atomic test in the Montebello Islands ?
text: Did you know that the chalcid wasp Anaphes nitens is used to control the gum tree snout beetle?
text: Did you know that the Dominican order founded by Marie Poussepin , who died in 1744, was not formally recognised until 1897?
text: Did you know that there are no known portraits of "The Chief Lady" of the Anti-Slavery Campaign ?
text: Did you know that the Manfred Memorial Moon Mission was the first commercial mission to the Moon?
text: Did you know that the Krun region of Pluto is named for Krun , the lord of the underworld in the Mandaean religion of southern Iraq, who takes the form of a giant louse?
text: Did you know that Albert Downing was the first New Zealand international rugby player to be killed in action in World War One , fighting for the British Empire in Gallipoli ?
text: Did you know that for the Qui tollis of his Mass in B minor, Bach reworked music on Jeremiah's lament about the destruction of Jerusalem from his cantata Schauet doch und sehet, ob irgend ein Schmerz sei , BWV 46 ?
text: Did you know that West Virginia Attorney General Thayer Melvin became a lawyer by age 18 and was captured by McNeill's Rangers during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the caves of Meghalaya , among the longest and deepest caves in India, are threatened by limestone mining?
text: Did you know that Alexander Cameron has been described as "the father of the electric tramways in Melbourne"?
text: Did you know that Prodeinotherium is an early genus of proboscidean that had two tusks projecting downwards from its chin?
text: Did you know that Hungarian lord Peter, son of Töre , was impaled for the assassination of Queen Gertrude in 1213?
text: Did you know that Luciano Berio wrote Sequenza VII for a performer with a "virtuosity of the intellect", utilizing a variety of extended techniques ?
text: Did you know that the nymph of the feather-legged assassin bug is able to ambush and kill ants that are larger than itself?
text: Did you know that Edvard Munch 's 1897 painting The Kiss features lovers who are "virtually impossible" to separate?
text: Did you know that John Fitzpatrick became Manchester United 's first ever substitute in The Football League when he came on for Denis Law against Tottenham Hotspur on October 16, 1965?
text: Did you know that Börjeson-Forssman-Lehmann syndrome is an X-linked genetic disease that causes intellectual disability, obesity, and growth problems?
text: Did you know that the medieval Arab philosopher and skeptic al-Ma'arri wrote that religion consisted of ancient fables used to exploit the popular masses?
text: Did you know that the Showcase Mall on the Las Vegas Strip features a giant Coca-Cola bottle and a miniature Grand Canyon ?
text: Did you know that the Rotherwas Room , once used as a private dining parlor for nobles in 17th-century England and for public poetry readings by Robert Frost , is now open to visitors in the Mead Art Museum ?
text: Did you know that Chloë Grace Moretz is playing real-life journalist Susannah Cahalan in the upcoming film Brain on Fire , based on Cahalan's memoir ?
text: Did you know that due to an international embargo , flights to Northern Cyprus must take place through Turkey ?
text: Did you know that the possible etymologies of Chillisquaque Creek include "place of the snowbirds", "frozen duck", or "man made perfect"?
text: Did you know that dramatic soprano Evelyn Herlitzius appeared as Elektra , staged by Patrice Chéreau at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2013, reviewed as "a creature of mesmerising intensity"?
text: Did you know that Iona was the main centre for the Christianisation of Scotland until 806, when 68 monks were killed in a Viking raid?
text: Did you know that The Triumph of Cleopatra depicts Cleopatra 's golden poop?
text: Did you know that soprano Susanne Rydén combined music by various Baroque composers in the musical show Christina's Journey , in which she sang, recited, and danced?
text: Did you know that Michael Rayner worked in his family's motor car business before starring in Gilbert and Sullivan roles with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company ?
text: Did you know that Yarımburgaz Cave in Istanbul has been damaged during its use as a setting for films and TV productions, despite its importance in terms of archaeology and paleontology ?
text: Did you know that Jessica Chastain had guest roles in the television shows ER and Law & Order: Trial by Jury after graduating from Juilliard ?
text: Did you know that Robert Sheckley 's short story " Seventh Victim " may have inspired the live-action game Assassin ?
text: Did you know that Canadian gridiron football player Steven Clarke was a plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit that sought compensation for the alleged improper use of college athletes' images?
text: Did you know that South Korea has introduced Smart Sheriff , the world's first government-mandated parental monitoring app, which has raised concerns over spyware and Internet privacy ?
text: Did you know that supermarket cashiers complained that the CNN Checkout Channel was too distracting?
text: Did you know that the defeat and death of Sheikh Nasif al-Nassar at the hands of Jezzar Pasha marked the end of virtual Shia Muslim autonomy in South Lebanon during the Ottoman era?
text: Did you know that at the age of thirteen, Shmuel Shilo survived three roundups of Jews from the Łuck Ghetto during the Holocaust in occupied Poland , and lived to tell the story?
text: Did you know that the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower was the tallest high-rise building in Brooklyn for 80 years, until The Brooklyner was topped out in 2009?
text: Did you know that Canadian football player Richie Leone broke a BC Lions team record in his rookie season when he kicked a 56-yard field goal?
text: Did you know that the discharge of Muncy Creek at Muncy can be a thousand times higher than the average discharge of the creek at Sonestown ?
text: Did you know that NASCAR driver Ray Black, Jr. became interested in racing professionally after playing racing video games on his PlayStation ?
text: Did you know that analysts predicted the justices' opinions in Kerry v. Din would foreshadow the outcome in Obergefell v. Hodges ?
text: Did you know that the Macro Manuscript contains the earliest complete English morality play ?
text: Did you know that the Leader of Westminster City Council Philippa Roe entered politics shortly after leaving her job with Citigroup and giving birth to twins?
text: Did you know that Technology Education and Literacy in Schools founder Kevin Wang sold his Porsche 911 and considered quitting his job at Microsoft to manage the program full-time?
text: Did you know that a World War II-era seaplane broke apart in a salvage operation during the filming of USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage ?
text: Did you know that Raphael painted the Transfiguration in a room of the Palazzo dei Convertendi in Rome?
text: Did you know that Thomas Florsheim, Sr., left Florsheim Shoes to invest in Weyco Group , the company that salvaged the brand from bankruptcy decades later?
text: Did you know that exactly one year ago, Amy Hughes ran the first of 53 marathons in 53 days?
text: Did you know that some commentators have said Justice Antonin Scalia 's majority opinion in Jesinoski v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. was the "shortest opinion of the year"?
text: Did you know that to star in a film , Brad Pitt had to learn boxing , taekwondo , and grappling ?
text: Did you know that Georges Gillet was the first person to use and teach vibrato on the oboe at the Paris Conservatory ?
text: Did you know that the Ross Island Penal Colony was established by the British Raj in the Andamans to imprison political prisoners of the First War of Independence of India in 1857 ?
text: Did you know that Richard McNemar , the "father of Shaker music", was the most prolific composer of Shaker hymns and anthems?
text: Did you know that too little is known about the Nigerian mole-rat for the IUCN to assess its conservation status?
text: Did you know that " Come and Get It " by John Newman was created with the intent that it be listened to while in the car?
text: Did you know that professional Canadian football player David Beard played four positions in only three years at Bev Facey Community High School ?
text: Did you know that the history of Palazzo Brera includes three suppressions – of the Humiliati by Pius V , of the Jesuits by Clement XIV , and of the convents by Napoleon ?
text: Did you know that Henry Cavill was previously set to portray John Stratton in Stratton: First Into Action but left due to creative differences and was replaced by Dominic Cooper ?
text: Did you know that brook trout are seven times as common in the lower reaches of Scotch Run as in its upper reaches?
text: Did you know that Years & Years released an interactive music video for their song " Shine "?
text: Did you know that the mayfly has come to symbolise the transitiveness and brevity of life?
text: Did you know that electromagnetic articulography tracks movements of the tongue using electromagnetic induction ?
text: Did you know that Halfdan Ragnarsson , "king of the dark heathens ", was killed at the Battle of Strangford Lough ?
text: Did you know that Miss Puerto Rico 2015 Destiny Vélez is a championship bowler who rolled her first perfect 300 game at age 15?
text: Did you know that the Smithsonian Channel documentary Treblinka: Hitler's Killing Machine was inspired by the bathroom tiles made by Opoczno S.A. ?
text: Did you know that the Nokuse Plantation is the largest privately owned nature preserve in the Southeastern United States ?
text: Did you know that the 1275 Treaty of Orléans led to a union of France and Navarre although that was not its original intent?
text: Did you know that Mariah Carey 's song " Meteorite " starts with "an observation by Andy Warhol that everyone will be famous for 15 minutes"?
text: Did you know that the Indian actor Shahid Kapoor turned vegetarian after reading a book on the subject?
text: Did you know that Herbert Read described the work of the Geometry of Fear sculptors at the 1952 Venice Biennale as "scuttling across the floors of silent seas"?
text: Did you know that Oliver Brown , a founding member of the Scottish National Party , once stood for election in Scotland as an Irish Anti-Partitionist ?
text: Did you know that the Portuguese settlement in Chittagong flourished for more than 130 years between the 16th and 17th centuries?
text: Did you know that Arthur Dingle was selected to play rugby for England in 1913, even though Oxford had dropped him?
text: Did you know that Mark Ronson and Jeff Bhaskar dropped in on churches, nightclubs, bars, and community centres in an attempt to find an appropriate vocalist for their song " I Can't Lose "?
text: Did you know that Brad Carter became known as the "guy playing guitar during brain surgery" after he posted a video of his brain operation on YouTube ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film Southside with You focuses on the first date of Barack and Michelle Robinson Obama in 1989?
text: Did you know that Tanaka Yoshio exhibited insects at the Paris Expo ?
text: Did you know that the Tonedale Mills complex in Somerset is notable for having remains of water, steam, and electrical power generation?
text: Did you know that French botanist Ludovic Savatier conducted a systematic study of venereal disease among sailors and prostitutes at the port in Yokosuka ?
text: Did you know that Southern Area and Central Area were the first two area commands formed by the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II?
text: Did you know that 13q deletion syndrome can cause imperforate anus ?
text: Did you know that the protagonist of Tembo the Badass Elephant was regarded by its developer as " Rambo in elephant form"?
text: Did you know that the F-4J(UK) Phantoms used by the Royal Air Force were so different from other British Phantoms, they even required crews to wear American flying helmets ?
text: Did you know that Judge Learned Hand was one of the earliest feeder judges in the United States?
text: Did you know that the bluenose grubfish mainly feeds on crabs, fish, and gastropod molluscs?
text: Did you know that Lake Neepaulin in Wantage Township, New Jersey was named after a combination of the names of the original developer's children?
text: Did you know that Lucie Randoin was made a member of the Legion of Honour in 1958?
text: Did you know that with S/O Satyamurthy , Allu Arjun became the first Telugu actor with two consecutive films earning more than ₹500 million worldwide?
text: Did you know that in his house on Pluto , dead Cthulhu waits dreaming?
text: Did you know that Romanian poet Otilia Cazimir had her pen name chosen by two celebrated mentors, with Mihail Sadoveanu suggesting the "Otilia", while Garabet Ibrăileanu came up with "Cazimir"?
text: Did you know that the edible mushroom Tricholoma columbetta can have pink, violet, or green spots?
text: Did you know that Miss Utah 2015 Krissia Beatty is the fifth person in her family, after her grandmother, mother, and two aunts, to be crowned Miss Washington County?
text: Did you know that the music video for Demi Lovato 's single " Cool for the Summer " is her "most sexually liberated video" and marks "a new chapter of her career"?
text: Did you know that Daniel McBreen won the A-League Golden Boot in the 2012–13 season after scoring 17 goals for the Central Coast Mariners ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film Christ the Lord , based on Anne Rice 's novel Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt , revolves around the fictional life of Jesus at age seven?
text: Did you know that Michael I Komnenos Doukas , ruler of Epirus , fought with the Bulgarians against the Latins , and with the Latins against the Bulgarians?
text: Did you know that the jazz singer-songwriter Gwyneth Herbert co-wrote a musical about the woman who created the London A to Z street atlas ?
text: Did you know that after United States v. Washington , a Congressman said that "the fishing issue was to Washington state what busing was to the East"?
text: Did you know that Shahid Kapoor worked as a background dancer in the films Dil To Pagal Hai and Taal ?
text: Did you know that Jonah Bolden played for the Australia national under-19 basketball team before moving to the United States and joining the UCLA Bruins ?
text: Did you know that the French corvette Alecton attacked a giant squid in 1861, inspiring the fictionalized squid attack in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea ?
text: Did you know that the County Cricket Ground in Hove has hosted football , lawn tennis and rugby ?
text: Did you know that when the casket thought to contain Father Cyprien Liausu , founder of the Rouru Convent, was exhumed, the remains of an old woman were found inside instead?
text: Did you know that Francis Kirby , the fourth chairman of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board , wanted to under-ground some of Melbourne's tram lines ?
text: Did you know that during the Siege of Lyme Regis , women disguised themselves as men to fool the enemy?
text: Did you know that in 1998 Titiek Suharto and her Indonesian siblings were said to have billions of dollars and shares in over 500 companies?
text: Did you know that the Indian Parliament House built in the 20th century in New Delhi is said to be inspired by the circular Chausath Yogini Temple , dated to 1323 AD?
text: Did you know that Canadian football player Adam Konar scored three touchdowns as a running back and caught two interceptions as a linebacker in the 2010 Subway Bowl ?
text: Did you know that in 1967 XEHL-TV mounted the first color transmissions by a regional Mexican television station?
text: Did you know that surface features of Pluto have been informally named for underworld deities from the peoples of southern Iraq , eastern Nigeria , Guatemala , and China , as well as creatures from Western fiction ?
text: Did you know that thousands of people are living in a jungle in Calais , France?
text: Did you know that Miss Idaho 2015, Kalie Wright , is the first Idaho woman to become America's National Sweetheart ?
text: Did you know that in 2010, a song lyric from the album Bookends began appearing spray-painted on vacant buildings and abandoned factories in Saginaw ?
text: Did you know that Uthman Pasha al-Kurji , the Georgian mamluk of As'ad Pasha al-Azm , was appointed governor of Damascus in reward for giving the Ottoman government the location of Azm's hidden wealth?
text: Did you know that Egleston was, until 1987, an elevated rapid transit station on the MBTA 's Orange Line ?
text: Did you know that Neil Druckmann was moved to the creative department of Naughty Dog due to the work that he completed after working hours?
text: Did you know that coffee production in Sri Lanka was devastated by a disease called Emily?
text: Did you know that logger and farmer Bob Tarasuk plays himself in Bob and the Trees ?
text: Did you know that the Arab nobleman Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath led a major rebellion against the Umayyad Caliphate in 700–703?
text: Did you know that at least 12 players from the 1944 Michigan Wolverines football team , 15 from the 1945 team , and 21 from the 1946 team were either drafted to play or actually played professional football in the NFL or AAFC ?
text: Did you know that John Wesley began writing Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament because he was too ill to preach?
text: Did you know that USS New Mexico (BB-40) accidentally rammed and sank the freighter Oregon off the Nantucket Lightship ?
text: Did you know that Canadian football player Ryan King became long snapper for the Edmonton Eskimos after being recommended by the retiring Taylor Inglis ?
text: Did you know that in 2004, two Cooks created A Hill to Die Upon ?
text: Did you know that the fatal Ilorin Sallah stampede occurred at the residence of the incumbent President of the Senate of Nigeria ?
text: Did you know that Billy Geen , who was killed in action on 31 July 1915, played rugby for Wales, Newport and Oxford , and dropped the ball over the try line in three consecutive Varsity Matches ?
text: Did you know that the Declaration of the Four Nations in 1943 established the four-power framework that would influence the international order of the world after World War II ?
text: Did you know that a goal of Occupy the Hood was to encourage more people of color to participate in occupy movement activities?
text: Did you know that in elections in Guyana , the nominee of the party that receives the most votes becomes President , even if the opposition win more seats (as happened in 2011 )?
text: Did you know that the Romney Literary Society gave its Romney Classical Institute to the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind in 1870, after which it served as the schools' administration building?
text: Did you know that the "Rachel", worn by and named after Jennifer Aniston's character on Friends , became one of the most popular hairstyles?
text: Did you know that around divers, hooded cuttlefish are more curious and confident than squid or octopus?
text: Did you know that an estimated 20,000 Muslim pilgrims, including a sister of Sultan Osman III , were killed in a major Bedouin raid against the Hajj caravan in 1757?
text: Did you know that after artist Chen Zhen died without completing La Danse de la fontaine émergente , his widow spent seven years finishing the work?
text: Did you know that players can kill each other in the co-operative multiplayer mode of Overlord: Fellowship of Evil ?
text: Did you know that Patty Hearst guest starred on " Lord of the Pi's ", an episode of Veronica Mars ?
text: Did you know that basketball player Jonas Pierre was the NBL Canada blocks leader in 2013?
text: Did you know that Anne of Cleves House in Ditchling has been occupied by Henry Poole MP , the Duke of Wellington and Jamie Theakston , but never by Anne of Cleves ?
text: Did you know that Uturunku volcano in Bolivia may be turning into a supervolcano ?
text: Did you know that in 2015 the UK Supreme Court was asked to reconsider the law on penalties 101 years after the previous authoritative decision stating the law?
text: Did you know that cinematographer Eric Steelberg has shot five films for director Jason Reitman , including the Oscar-nominated Juno and Up in the Air ?
text: Did you know that New South Wales Marine Corps sergeant William Baker was the inaugural crier for Australia's oldest Supreme Court ?
text: Did you know that Merry Christmas II You became Mariah Carey 's sixteenth Top 10 album on the US Billboard 200 ?
text: Did you know that, to promote release of Dyscourse , developer Owlchemy Labs hid one hundred thumb drives containing the game in a tree on Hawaii 2 ?
text: Did you know that Robert Schumann wrote the Three Romances for Oboe and Piano in the course of three non-consecutive days during a period of mania ?
text: Did you know that Bach based the first movement of his last cantata for the feast of St. Michael and all angels, Man singet mit Freuden vom Sieg , BWV 149 , on the finale of his Hunting Cantata ?
text: Did you know that after being paralyzed five years ago today, Devin Wilson made a full recovery and now plays Canadian football professionally?
text: Did you know that the spearfish remora lives attached to a host fish?
text: Did you know that Baltic German archaeologist Jean Baptiste Holzmayer excavated numerous ancient hill forts on Saaremaa in the second half of 19th century?
text: Did you know that a 24-year-old sloop, HMS Trial , was the Royal Navy 's original choice for Captain Cook’s first voyage around the world?
text: Did you know that a murder in a Danish village of 412 people received international coverage?
text: Did you know that the American poet Michael Derrick Hudson , a white man from Fort Wayne, Indiana , published a poem under the Chinese pseudonym "Yi-Fen Chou", igniting a heated debate in the literary world?
text: Did you know that Thomas Bell accumulated a library of more than 15,000 books?
text: Did you know that at least 23 people died in Köpenick's week of bloodshed ?
text: Did you know that Katie Page , CEO of Harvey Norman and an active supporter of women in sports, announced a $500,000 purse for horses owned or leased by women at the 2013 Magic Millions racing event?
text: Did you know that green oropendolas sometimes follow red-throated caracaras through the rainforest canopy?
text: Did you know that Lourdes Aflague Leon Guerrero , who served as a senator in the Legislature of Guam , is the Chairwoman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of the Bank of Guam?
text: Did you know that the experimental drug vosoritide accelerated growth in a clinical study with children having a form of dwarfism , but did not normalize body proportions?
text: Did you know that the theatrical agent Robin Fox told his new wife "I have no intention of being faithful to you"?
text: Did you know that forward air control operations established by Charles Larimore Jones dropped over two million tons of bombs on the Kingdom of Laos ?
text: Did you know that the comedy The Late Bloomer was inspired by Ken Baker , who went through puberty at the age of 27?
text: Did you know that Canadian tech entrepreneur Suhayya Abu-Hakima , who has founded two startups and holds 30 international patents, received a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012?
text: Did you know that the department of Tarn-et-Garonne was created by Napoleon in 1808?
text: Did you know that Roland Paoletti has been called "the Medici of London Transport" for his work on the Jubilee Line Extension ?
text: Did you know that Taco Bell founder Glen Bell ran taco stands prior to establishing the restaurant chain?
text: Did you know that the Great Lakes merchant Rasmus Rasmussen named his schooner after a postmaster's wife?
text: Did you know that astrobiologist and freediver Nathalie Cabrol selected the landing site for the Mars rover Spirit ?
text: Did you know that Back to Stone , released in 2006 for the Game Boy Advance , was heavily criticized for not featuring savegames , instead relying on an "inexcusably archaic" password system ?
text: Did you know that despite Soviet politician Suren Shadunts being awarded the Order of Lenin , he was purged and executed five years later?
text: Did you know that the Magellanic oystercatcher nests inland and moves to the coast outside the breeding season?
text: Did you know that billionaire hedge fund manager Chase Coleman III is a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant , the last Dutch Governor of New York?
text: Did you know that the iTunes version of Siti Nurhaliza 's live album Unplugged has "bonus to the bonus tracks"?
text: Did you know that when gallery owner Annely Juda moved back to London, she was followed by her nanny who took on paid work to help her?
text: Did you know that the cactus Mammillaria spinosissima (pictured) is endemic to central Mexico and has berries that are club-shaped, smooth, and juicy?
text: Did you know that Stephanie Langhoff , who has produced numerous films made by brothers Jay and Mark Duplass , has been referred to as "the honorary Duplass sister"?
text: Did you know that Oru Nadigai Natakam Parkiral was director A. Bhimsingh 's last film?
text: Did you know that according to legend, Matsumoto Masanobu created the Kashima Shin-ryū style of swordfighting after being visited in a dream by the god Takemikazuchi ?
text: Did you know that BK Chicken Fries were discontinued in 2012, but reintroduced to Burger King's menu in 2014 after a highly successful social media campaign initiated by fans of the product?
text: Did you know that H. P. G. Quack , though a socialist sympathizer, supported the firing of 11% of staff after the 1903 railroad strikes ?
text: Did you know that the Community of Royalist People's Party was a short-lived Cambodian political party that existed between April 2014 and January 2015?
text: Did you know that the Spanish footballer Cristian Bustos has moved to India to play for Mumbai City FC after playing over 270 games for six Spanish clubs?
text: Did you know that the Argentine Austral plan led to a victory of the Radical Civic Union in the 1985 midterm elections ?
text: Did you know that Greek soprano Arda Mandikian was born to parents who survived the Armenian Genocide ?
text: Did you know that in some breeding locations, the endangered Peruvian tern nests by the shore, while in others it uses sandy plains further inland?
text: Did you know that Alan Wiggins set a professional baseball stolen base record in 1980, but his team allowed him to be taken by another club in that year's Rule 5 draft ?
text: Did you know that Alicia Vikander left The Circle for the fifth Bourne film ?
text: Did you know that according to the locals, Bennys Run had always been referred to thus, though referred to as "Buddys Run" on a 1952 United States Geological Survey map?
text: Did you know that players can use zombies as a shield in Umbrella Corps ?
text: Did you know that while both the Blue Mountain and the southern water skink produce live young, the latter can manipulate the sex of its offspring?
text: Did you know that Iranian-born Azita Shariati , an executive with the French catering and support services multinational Sodexo , has been named the most powerful businesswoman in Sweden?
text: Did you know that Cartoon Network asked for Tome of the Unknown , the pilot for the miniseries Over the Garden Wall , to be a feature film, while its director envisioned a three-season order?
text: Did you know that Donald Trump 's grandfather Frederick Trump operated a boomtown hotel during the Klondike Gold Rush ?
text: Did you know that the Xbox One launch game Ryse: Son of Rome was originally a Kinect game for the Xbox 360 ?
text: Did you know that under the direction of Austin Cornelius Dunham the first transmitted three-phase electric current in the United States for a distance of several miles was done by a public utility company ?
text: Did you know that diplomatic relations between Mexico and Singapore were officially established only in 1975 although Singapore took part in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City ?
text: Did you know that at age 70, music conductor Rolf Beck is still active with choral academies he founded, presenting Carmina Burana in Brazil and Bach motets at the Rheingau Musik Festival ?
text: Did you know that Adventures in Stationery was described by one reviewer as "high-class pornography for the stationery enthusiast"?
text: Did you know that the first geothermal energy project in Chile has been planned at the Apacheta-Aguilucho volcanic complex ?
text: Did you know that the ornithologist Joseph Bryan Nelson spent a year living in a tent on the Galápagos Islands , where he was visited by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ?
text: Did you know that the YouTube trailer of Friends with Benefits attracted over a million views in 48 hours, becoming the most viewed video in the film category?
text: Did you know that in the 10th century BC, King Zhao of the Chinese Zhou dynasty drowned during his disastrous campaign against the state of Chu ?
text: Did you know that David Greenglass was part of a spy ring that included his sister and brother-in-law Ethel and Julius Rosenberg , who were later executed for espionage?
text: Did you know that film professor Ray Carney found the first version of Shadows after searching for decades?
text: Did you know that American epidemiologist Abraham Lilienfeld has been called "the father of contemporary chronic disease epidemiology"?
text: Did you know that " Mikraj Cinta ", a single by Siti Nurhaliza from her latest live album , was inspired by the story of the Prophet Muhammad 's journey during the event of Isra and Mi'raj ?
text: Did you know that identifying the female olive , lemon-spectacled and ochre-breasted tanagers is made easier by the fact that they do not share a common range?
text: Did you know that Zhou Enlai plays a brief role in John Hersey 's novel The Call ?
text: Did you know that, after granting Mansur ibn Furaykh authority over Biqa'a , the Ottomans executed him for oppressing the population?
text: Did you know that to play The Thompson Twins Adventure it is recommended that it first be re-recorded from the original flexi disc to an audio cassette intermediate?
text: Did you know that Canadian physician John Stephenson was a co-founder of McGill University Faculty of Medicine ?
text: Did you know that the Attack on Titan: Junior High parody spinoff manga has an anime adaptation in the works?
text: Did you know that Miss Oregon 2009 CC Barber was raised by her grandmother?
text: Did you know that among the founder members of the National Democratic Alliance , only the Shiv Sena had an ideology similar to that of the alliance leader Bharatiya Janata Party ?
text: Did you know that Dennis Coffey 's " Scorpio " has been sampled by numerous hip-hop artists?
text: Did you know that Mary Ann Turcke , the recently-appointed President of Bell Media , Canada, began her career designing and building bridges and highways for the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario ?
text: Did you know that Doorathu Idi Muzhakkam and Nizhalgal were the only Tamil films to be screened at the International Film Festival of India in 1981?
text: Did you know that in the Kaga Rebellion , thousands of peasants overthrew the shugo and established a " province ruled by peasants "?
text: Did you know that before its felling on September 23, 1938, West Virginia 's Mingo Oak was the oldest and largest living white oak in the world?
text: Did you know that Franz Ferdinand 's third studio album Tonight: Franz Ferdinand was partially recorded at the old town hall of Govan , Scotland?
text: Did you know that the second season of Agent Carter will film and be set in Los Angeles, in part because much of the city still looks like it did in the 1940s?
text: Did you know that Bridget van Kralingen , senior vice president of IBM Global Business Services , oversees 100,000 consultants and service providers in 170 countries?
text: Did you know that the red-bellied grackle is sometimes parasitised by the giant cowbird ?
text: Did you know that Pope Theodore II was only pope for twenty days?
text: Did you know that the marine sponge Dysidea arenaria was originally described based on a single specimen collected near Palau ?
text: Did you know that The Go-Betweens had to stick all the labels on their debut single, " Lee Remick ", by hand?
text: Did you know that Ecuador has been training Haitian soldiers to aid in the reestablishment of the Haitian army , which was disbanded in 1995?
text: Did you know that in 1890, "robber baron" Louis F. Menage built what was then the tallest skyscraper in Minneapolis, Minnesota to house his offices?
text: Did you know that Rare Replay is a compilation of 30 games developed over 30 years?
text: Did you know that the northern Spanish town of Comillas became popular with the aristocracy after King Alfonso XII stayed there?
text: Did you know that Kåre Rodahl met his future wife for the first time when he was parachuting, coincidentally landing beside her while she was milking a cow?
text: Did you know that in 2014 the Sunday Independent named Irish venture capitalist Elaine Coughlan one of "The 50 Most Influential and Powerful Women in Business"?
text: Did you know that three new species of beetle were identified from the stomach contents of the Colombian forest mouse ?
text: Did you know that professional lacrosse player Matt Poskay set an American record of 362 goals scored in his high school career that stood for nearly a decade?
text: Did you know that the music video of Iggy Azalea 's song " Bounce ", which was filmed in Mumbai , was accused of cultural appropriation ?
text: Did you know that Philip Baxter was chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Sydney Opera House Trust ?
text: Did you know that Colin Firth is portraying the real-life amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst in an upcoming film ?
text: Did you know that Emmy Award -nominated cinematographer Robert McLachlan turned down a place at the 1976 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that in its desert burrow, the tawny tuco-tuco can stay cool in the heat of the day?
text: Did you know that Sophia Lin was selected by TheWrap in 2012 as one of "10 Producers Who Will Change Hollywood"?
text: Did you know that under the Ottomans, descendants of Muhammad would be tried and sentenced by a naqib al-ashraf instead of in regular court?
text: Did you know that the scar on Nicky Nichols ' chest in Orange Is the New Black is a real scar from Natasha Lyonne 's heart surgery in 2012?
text: Did you know that in 1907, four South African cricketers were praised for the quality of their googlies ?
text: Did you know that Louise O'Sullivan , founder and CEO of Anam Technologies, Dublin , is a vocal advocate for gender parity in the IT industry?
text: Did you know that " You Love Me? " by Melissa Steel features production by Darkchild , whose previous hits were the reason Steel became a singer?
text: Did you know that when the British Honduran Lands Department claimed no lands were available for women, Gwendolyn Lizarraga marched into the swamp and measured lots to create land parcels?
text: Did you know that Micheal Punke is prohibited from promoting his novel The Revenant ahead of its 2015 film adaptation starring Leonardo DiCaprio because he is a US Ambassador to the World Trade Organization ?
text: Did you know that Canadian football player Alex Carroll went on to be named a first-team all-star wide receiver in college after tearing the ACL and both menisci in his knee?
text: Did you know that AllGame recommended Killer Instinct Gold for players who want " Mortal Kombat on speed " with a "hyperactive Barry White " announcer?
text: Did you know that Ann-Marie Campbell , southern division president for The Home Depot with responsibility for 690 stores and 100,000 employees, started with the company as a part-time cashier?
text: Did you know that Maiasmokk is said to be the oldest continuously operating café in Estonia, founded in 1864?
text: Did you know that in 1909 the Philippine Constabulary Band was the lead musical unit in the U.S. presidential inaugural parade, the first time that a band other than the United States Marine Band received that honor?
text: Did you know that Orsonwelles , a genus of Hawaiian spiders named after Orson Welles , exhibits island gigantism ?
text: Did you know that Rauf Mirgadirov , a once "Honored Journalist of Azerbaijan", is now in custody in Azerbaijan ?
text: Did you know that the Demands of the Slovak Nation , issued in 1848, included a call for universal manhood suffrage that was unusually radical for that time and place?
text: Did you know that Miss Oregon 2007 Kari Virding saw her first Miss Oregon pageant when she was just eight years old?
text: Did you know that in 1990, an explosion in the population of the long-tailed pygmy rice rat followed after a mass-flowering of bamboos ?
text: Did you know that Lady Sayer interrupted live firing exercises on an army range in Dartmoor to photograph damage done to ancient monuments?
text: Did you know that Millennium , a spin-off of The X-Files , is an adaptation of Millennium , a spin-off of The X-Files ?
text: Did you know that Brunner's mantis and Scudder's mantis can both be found among little bluestem grass ?
text: Did you know that Ingwær , King of Northumbria , was killed alongside his brothers Eowils and Halfdan at the Battle of Tettenhall in 910?
text: Did you know that the Churn Creek Protected Area in British Columbia has hoodoos and flammulated owls?
text: Did you know that Nina Yang Bongiovi is the production partner of actor Forest Whitaker ?
text: Did you know that the ignimbrites of the Altiplano–Puna volcanic complex have volumes of at least 15,000 cubic kilometres?
text: Did you know that 18 US cities have been designated as " Coast Guard Cities "?
text: Did you know that when investigators searched the homes of Vice Admiral Wang Shouye , they found US $2.5 million in a washing machine and RMB¥ 52 million in refrigerators and microwaves?
text: Did you know that Ottoman governor Hasan Tahsin Uzer once spoke of caravans subject to "attacks and killings"?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Drayton began in 1999 when police discovered passengers on a Greyhound bus were hiding cocaine in their boxer shorts ?
text: Did you know that composer Rolf Schweizer promoted church music's engagement with trends in secular music, especially jazz?
text: Did you know that while the male white-winged shrike-tanager and the male flame-crested tanager are distinctive, the females could be confused?
text: Did you know that footballer James Crumley was one of more than a thousand passengers rescued when the SS California ran aground in 1914?
text: Did you know that the Lomas Rishi Cave , a rock-cut cave, was built as a Buddhist sanctuary during the Ashokan period of the Maurya empire in the 3rd century BC?
text: Did you know that Rena Vlahopoulou , the star of the film The Countess of Corfu , was born in Corfu ?
text: Did you know that Harold A. Fidler was decorated for his World War II service in Berkeley ?
text: Did you know that the wish-fulfilling tree Kalpavriksha is an artistic and literary theme common to the Hindu Bhagavatas , the Jainas and the Buddhists ?
text: Did you know that both species of the ant Pseudectatomma were described in 2012?
text: Did you know that proposals to build a Muslim cemetery in Farmersville, Texas , have been met by death threats against city officials and threats to desecrate the site with pigs' blood?
text: Did you know that shortly after receiving the National Film Award for Best Actress for Pasi (1979), Shobha committed suicide by hanging herself?
text: Did you know that within two years of the hiring of Sandi Peterson as group worldwide chairman of Johnson & Johnson , the company doubled its number of women in executive leadership positions?
text: Did you know that the Constitution of Saint Kitts and Nevis is unique in that it creates a federation not between Saint Kitts and Nevis , but between Nevis and the federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis ?
text: Did you know that the Gol Talab pond is an official heritage site, designated by the city administration of Dhaka ?
text: Did you know that Azerbaijani human rights activist Rasim Aliyev was beaten and later died after criticizing a football player for an improper gesture during a game?
text: Did you know that MC Kinky 's " Get Over It " charted on the UK Singles Chart after being featured on an episode of The Word ?
text: Did you know that six days after the 2013 Tiananmen Square attack , General Peng Yong was removed from the Communist Party governing body in Xinjiang and replaced by Liu Lei ?
text: Did you know that Plum Creek has suffered a degree of impairment due to grazing?
text: Did you know that the male grey pileated finch and red pileated finch both have red crests and black crowns?
text: Did you know that the author Colin Thompson originally intended only to be a book illustrator?
text: Did you know that Demba Diawara persuaded the first group of villages to renounce female genital cutting at Diabougou in Senegal?
text: Did you know that male lovely and blue cotingas are quite different in appearance to the females?
text: Did you know that John Peck stood for election to Nottingham City Council 35 times without success before he finally won a seat?
text: Did you know that " Photograph " was the first properly finished record for Ed Sheeran 's second studio album ?
text: Did you know that Miss Georgia 2014 Maggie Bridges wore 3D printed , laser-cut shoes fashioned after Georgia Tech 's " Ramblin' Wreck " mascot for Miss America's "Show Us Your Shoes" parade?
text: Did you know that exhibits in the Konya Archaeological Museum relate to the Neolithic , Bronze Age , Iron Age , Classical , Hellenistic , Roman and the Byzantine periods?
text: Did you know that Bipasha Basu is the first actress in Bollywood to play conjoined twins ?
text: Did you know that Louis I of Hungary was forced by the Black Death to return to Hungary from the Kingdom of Naples that he had occupied?
text: Did you know that tigress Machali won a "Lifetime Achievement Award" for her contributions to tourism and conservation in India?
text: Did you know that Lieutenant General Gao Jin is president of China's top military research institute ?
text: Did you know that the first Woman's World's Fair was held in Chicago in 1925?
text: Did you know that the River Ebro rises near the town of Reinosa in northern Spain and is impounded just below the town?
text: Did you know that Touran Mirhadi has been called "the godmother of progressive education in Iran"?
text: Did you know that Nagy 's painting Egyptian Revival , which had been displayed in the Paris Salon and honored with a gold medal, is now in the Mohamed Nagy Museum ?
text: Did you know that the rose-collared piha feeds mainly on fruit, plucked while in flight?
text: Did you know that the Orange is the New Black character Tiffany Doggett is based on a real-life prisoner?
text: Did you know that the William Sauntry House and Recreation Hall is a rare example of Moorish Revival architecture in Minnesota ?
text: Did you know that the Province of Fermo was established in 2004, reorganisation of the Marche region having been advocated in 1861?
text: Did you know that in the 1970s, the concentration of dissolved solids in Locust Creek was high enough to cause sanitation problems?
text: Did you know that producer Denise Di Novi 's directorial debut is Unforgettable ?
text: Did you know that actress Lo Kauppi was a singer and guitar player in the feminist punk band Vagina Grande?
text: Did you know that the bentfin devil ray is threatened by overfishing, both as a targeted species but also as bycatch ?
text: Did you know that after the theatrical release of The Interview was cancelled due to Sony Pictures being hacked , it earned over $40 million from an online release?
text: Did you know that Cole Pearn is the first regular Canadian crew chief in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series history?
text: Did you know that Chinese general Li Zuocheng was named a "war hero" during the Sino-Vietnamese War ?
text: Did you know that the Huguenot-Walloon half dollar was controversial for being sponsored by a religious group ?
text: Did you know that when the cargo ship Sinfra was bombed by Allied aircraft in 1943, the German guards machine-gunned the thousands of Italian prisoners on board when they tried to escape the sinking vessel?
text: Did you know that Somalatha Subasinghe was only 24 when she debuted in the role of an old woman in Ediriweera Sarachchandra 's Raththaran ?
text: Did you know that a statue of Amy Winehouse was designed to convey her "attitude and strength, but also give subtle hints of insecurity"?
text: Did you know that Dianna Agron made her first appearance on Veronica Mars in " President Evil "?
text: Did you know that former American Chemical Society president Charles P. Casey studies inorganic catalysts that contain both a protic and a hydridic hydrogen?
text: Did you know that the fossil ant species Casaleia longiventris was described in 1849, but the genus Casaleia was not named until 1990?
text: Did you know that Nichole Mead was named Miss Oregon 2012 after titleholder Rachel Berry could not prove when she moved to Oregon?
text: Did you know that Sakaye Shigekawa estimated that she delivered between 20,000 and 30,000 babies in her career as an obstetrician ?
text: Did you know that Sussex County Cricket Club won the Twenty20 Cup for the first time in 2009 ?
text: Did you know that Ahmad ibn Muhammad Ardabili was the Grand Ayatollah of the Shiites in Najaf after the death of Shahid Thani ?
text: Did you know that opinion turned so sharply against the Sentinel ABM system during the 1968 elections, that incoming President Nixon was forced to cancel the program?
text: Did you know that Martin Allwood translated Gunvor Hofmo 's "Alt jeg bad om, det er også skjedd, / og hjertet—men jeg er bare redd!" as "All I asked for has been granted me—Yet I am scared, although my heart is free."?
text: Did you know that if the United States Congress is late in passing 2016 spending legislation , it will not trigger across-the-board cuts as in 2013 ?
text: Did you know that Abbas Ali Baig was the first Indian cricketer to be kissed on the field?
text: Did you know that Neo Ao Tiew was credited for ruling over and policing a village of 10,000 people with no crime?
text: Did you know that the 1962 Major League Baseball expansion was first announced by the National League in 1960, before the announcement of the American League 's 1961 expansion ?
text: Did you know that the town of Angera in northern Italy was the birthplace of the Spanish historian Peter Martyr d'Anghiera ?
text: Did you know that Imademo was Kim Hyun-joong 's last album release before his mandatory military service in South Korea?
text: Did you know that Lieutenant General Tan Benhong is the commander of the People's Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison ?
text: Did you know that a golf course probably contributes to the impairment of Rolling Green Run ?
text: Did you know that the nomination of Azita Raji , an Iranian American , for the post of Ambassador to Sweden in October 2014, was widely reported in the Indian press because of her Indian-sounding name?
text: Did you know that although Shamokin Creek is a Warmwater Fishery, all of its twelve named tributaries are Coldwater Fisheries?
text: Did you know that occupational hazards can be as diverse as infectious diseases, asbestos , poison ivy , and noise ?
text: Did you know that during World War II , Roman Gross was rescued from the Jewish Tarnopol Ghetto by Józef Regent, whom he in turn had rescued from deportation earlier in the war?
text: Did you know that the Atlantic bamboo rat lives in bamboo thickets and makes loud squeals when alarmed?
text: Did you know that activist Arif Yunus , a supporter of a peaceful resolution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan , is now in jail?
text: Did you know that the sugar plantation in Spreckelsville, Hawaii , US, was once the largest in the world?
text: Did you know that Peter Maloney was one of the first Canadian political figures to come out as gay?
text: Did you know that Ester Claesson is considered Sweden's first female landscape architect?
text: Did you know that musician Joe Hanley made Syntorial because he wanted to make something that would teach the user how to design synthesizer patches by ear?
text: Did you know that Jim Baggott calls multiverse , superstring theory , and supersymmetry "fairy tale physics"?
text: Did you know that the red-banded fruiteater and handsome fruiteater often feed by plucking fruit while hovering?
text: Did you know that American actor and producer Michael Douglas began his film career with an uncredited role in Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)?
text: Did you know that the Belgium national association football team has won more games against its rival France, a former world champion, than it has lost?
text: Did you know that in 1958 Sue Bailey Thurman used a cookbook to publish a "palatable history" of professional black women?
text: Did you know that Susan Bailey , a British specialist in child psychiatry, appeared as an expert witness in the James Bulger murder trial ?
text: Did you know that although Libya may have one of the world's biggest iron ore deposits in the Wadi ash-Shati' , it is not mined because of its remote location?
text: Did you know that Manuel de Irujo advocated an Iberian federation bringing together Spain , Portugal , the Basque Country and Catalonia ?
text: Did you know that Cut Like Wound is Indian novelist Anita Nair 's first work of detective fiction ?
text: Did you know that Miss Massachusetts 2015, Meagan Fuller , earned a Master of Public Health degree from the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine ?
text: Did you know that the small-eared pygmy rice rat is sometimes found on rafts of floating vegetation in the Paraguayan Chaco?
text: Did you know that Korrie Layun Rampan , author of several hundred books, left an election commission to run in the election?
text: Did you know that Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez made statements critical of ISIS before he shot and killed five U.S. military personnel in Chattanooga ?
text: Did you know that star campaigners in the 2008 Simaria Legislative Assembly seat by-election included Yashwant Sinha , Lalu Prasad Yadav and Ajay Maken ?
text: Did you know that Vito Scaletta , the protagonist of Mafia II , will feature as one of the main characters in Mafia III ?
text: Did you know that Canadian football player Josh Aladenoye was released from the practice squad of the BC Lions , only to be re-signed and make his professional debut a week later?
text: Did you know that during the mythological Battle of the Lacus Curtius , Romulus prayed to Jupiter and promised to devote a temple to him if his armies were victorious?
text: Did you know that Raveena Tandon won the National Film Award for Best Actress for the 2001 drama film Daman ?
text: Did you know that sand cockroaches vary in colour according to what food they eat?
text: Did you know that the Hawaiian chief William Keolaloa Sumner was considered a more popular choice for superintendent of the leper colony of Kalaupapa than Father Damien ?
text: Did you know that Bernard Sumner of the English post-punk band New Order described their 1985 song " Love Vigilantes " as "a redneck song"?
text: Did you know that the joey of the allied rock-wallaby leaves the pouch at six to seven months and is fully weaned when nearly a year old?
text: Did you know that at the 2014 Shangri-La Dialogue , Chinese general Wang Guanzhong accused Shinzō Abe and Chuck Hagel of provocation, in response to their criticism of China's actions in the South China Sea ?
text: Did you know that the Comoé National Park Research Station is one of the most modern field stations in Africa?
text: Did you know that Wayne Rooney's goal against Macedonia in September 2003 made him the youngest-ever scorer for England, aged 17 years?
text: Did you know that the purple flesh of the mushroom Cortinarius cyanites turns blood red when cut or bruised?
text: Did you know that John Kevan McDowall , an ex-member of the Unionist Party , was a founding member of the Scottish National Party ?
text: Did you know that Public Health Reports was established in 1878 to meet the requirements of the National Quarantine Act, which required American consulates abroad to report on epidemic diseases?
text: Did you know that in August 2015, David Denson became the first active baseball player affiliated with a Major League Baseball organization to publicly come out as gay ?
text: Did you know that the hoist of the Sainte Marie Coal Mine should have been used only during shaft mining , but was used after this, leading to the entrapment of five miners when it broke?
text: Did you know that the pathogen load of Stony Run is nearly seven quadrillion organisms per month?
text: Did you know that the British pharmacist Stafford Allen assisted Harriet Ann Jacobs as she led efforts to help ex-slaves after the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that a Wolf was placed on the throne of Bosnia in 1366 and remained the official ruler for a year?
text: Did you know that Australia-based Riot City Wrestling ran a Mexican-themed lucha libre event at the 2014 Adelaide Fringe Festival ?
text: Did you know that new names of Soviet origin included "Vilen" for V.I. Lenin , "Oktyabrina" for October Revolution , "Gertruda" for Hero of Labour and even "Barrikad"?
text: Did you know that Vice Admiral Ma Faxiang of the Chinese Navy is believed to have committed suicide after being investigated for corruption?
text: Did you know that in view of drowning incidents and hooliganism problems, security around India's Lower Manair Dam has been intensified?
text: Did you know that the Netherlands was one of the first European countries to establish diplomatic relations with Singapore?
text: Did you know that Upendra Nath Das was just 25 years old when he was elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1977?
text: Did you know that the mountain degu can obtain sufficient moisture from its food to satisfy its water requirements?
text: Did you know that the mining industry of Malawi is projected by its government to double its contribution to the country's GDP to 20 percent by 2023?
text: Did you know that when it debuted in 1970, Allen Jones ' work Hatstand, Table and Chair was met with furore by feminists?
text: Did you know that the olive grass mouse lives in diverse habitats and is preyed on by owls, other birds and foxes?
text: Did you know that Winnie the Pooh: Adventures in the 100 Acre Wood was the first Winnie the Pooh game to be released for a video game console ?
text: Did you know that the 1960 Kerala assembly elections were held as the central government dismissed the communist government even though they had the majority support within the assembly?
text: Did you know that the 12 Yard Productions Guess This House and Hello Campers premiered on the same channel within hours of each other?
text: Did you know that Lieutenant Edwin P. Ramsey led the last US cavalry charge in history and drove off a much larger Japanese infantry force in the Philippines during the early part of World War II ?
text: Did you know that Nabeel Qureshi made his feature film directorial debut with Na Maloom Afraad ?
text: Did you know that the Washington Doctrine of Unstable Alliances was formulated by Thomas Jefferson ?
text: Did you know that Until Dawn , a survival horror video game, has a game mechanic called " butterfly effect "?
text: Did you know that future Member of Parliament Saul Bonnell was working locally as a physician on the day of one of the worst mining disasters in Canadian history?
text: Did you know that AVI Records was the second record label to use expanded grooves, after Motown ?
text: Did you know that York City F.C. and York City Knights RLFC are expected to move into the York Community Stadium in 2017?
text: Did you know that before her death in police custody, activist Sandra Bland posted, "In the news that we've seen as of late, you could stand there, surrender to the cops, and still be killed"?
text: Did you know that in 1921, the Province of Ravenna and the Province of Forlì-Cesena were both involved in the "column of fire" during the rise of Fascism in northern Italy?
text: Did you know that Travis Tope passed on roles in The Gambler and November Criminals to star in the film Men, Women & Children ?
text: Did you know that the last use of capital punishment in Spain provoked international protests against the Spanish government, including the withdrawal of ambassadors and attacks on Spanish embassies?
text: Did you know that Ruđina Balšić surrendered Budva to Venetians in 1419 and fled to Dubrovnik with the town's treasury?
text: Did you know that one of the last smallpox quarantine hospitals in the UK was deliberately destroyed by fire in 1967?
text: Did you know that as of 2011, the mining industry of Morocco was the world's third largest producer of phosphate ?
text: Did you know that Margaret of Bourbon stopped the Knights Templar from buying Champagne land?
text: Did you know that Dabangg is the highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2010 ?
text: Did you know that before his recent death, Kyle Jean-Baptiste was the first African-American actor to portray Jean Valjean in the musical Les Misérables on Broadway?
text: Did you know that the rosy thrush-tanager is shy and difficult to observe, but will respond to hearing a recording of its song played?
text: Did you know that the first UK Album Downloads Chart number one of the 2000s was This New Day by the British band Embrace ?
text: Did you know that the first miner to be injured in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, was working near Coal Run ?
text: Did you know that the Scottish footballer Darren Brownlie was signed to Queen of the South by his former Cowdenbeath teammate James Fowler ?
text: Did you know that methyldiborane , dimethyldiborane , trimethyldiborane and tetramethyldiborane burst into flame on exposure to air?
text: Did you know that Carden Wallace was in the team that discovered mass spawning on the Great Barrier Reef ?
text: Did you know that the United States Central Intelligence Agency deposed the democratically elected government of Guatemala in 1954?
text: Did you know that the story of the People of the Ditch , mentioned in the Quran , occurred in 520 or 523 A.D in the time of Dhu Nuwas , the last Himyarite king?
text: Did you know that more than 70% of all Mexican radio stations operate on the FM band?
text: Did you know that Toni von Langsdorff was inspired to become a physician because of spinal tuberculosis , but was almost foiled by an ophthalmologist ?
text: Did you know that the success of Fascism in the province of Ferrara in 1921 set in motion its transformation into a major political movement?
text: Did you know that in 1849, Captain William H. Warner led a survey party into the upper Pit River area of northeastern California , but was killed in an ambush just south of the Oregon border?
text: Did you know that Sarah Spiegel has received continuous funding for nearly 20 years from the National Institutes of Health to research the S1P molecule , which she discovered?
text: Did you know that a biochronology based on mammal fossils is defined for every continent except Antarctica ?
text: Did you know that Garrison Point Fort in Sheerness , Kent, is a rare example of a two-tiered casemated sea battery of the 1860s?
text: Did you know that the British wheelchair basketball player Leah Evans launched a public appeal to raise funds for a new chair, which costs £3750?
text: Did you know that the text of Bach 's Fürchte dich nicht , BWV 228 , a motet for a double choir composed for a funeral, contains two verses by Isaiah that both begin with "Do not fear"?
text: Did you know that according to Gerda Lerner , Holocaust victim Käthe Leichter "personifies the highest ideals of feminism"?
text: Did you know that one reviewer said that Davis Cup Tennis might be worth buying only "if all available copies of Virtua Tennis and Mario Tennis suddenly vaporized"?
text: Did you know that the unsolved murder of Michael Nigg in Hollywood 20 years ago today may be related to the O. J. Simpson murder case ?
text: Did you know that the game Alphabear uses honey as a currency?
text: Did you know that gridiron football fullback Matthew Rea was selected in the 2015 CFL Draft , despite playing only three games as a backup fullback in college?
text: Did you know that if the water temperature rises too much, juvenile tri-spine horseshoe crabs bury themselves in the seabed and may become dormant?
text: Did you know that Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a fatwa banning acquisition, development, and use of nuclear weapons ?
text: Did you know that the mining industry of Guinea ranks first in the world in bauxite reserves and sixth in the extraction of high-grade bauxite?
text: Did you know that besieged in the city of Stade , the troops of Sir Charles Morgan survived by eating cats and dogs?
text: Did you know that mathematician Ed Posner wrote the University of Chicago 's shortest doctoral thesis, only 26 pages long?
text: Did you know that the Slovak National Council was created to act as the highest representative of the Slovak nation and evolved into the parliament of Slovakia ?
text: Did you know that the Australian rugby union player Jack Verge took six wickets for 20 runs playing cricket against Melbourne University ?
text: Did you know that the Sardinian Province of Medio Campidano contains the World Heritage Site of Su Nuraxi ?
text: Did you know that a calculus textbook by David J. Foulis was used as a prop in The Sure Thing ?
text: Did you know that Obsidian Entertainment almost developed a Snow White prequel and an Aliens role-playing video game ?
text: Did you know that in the order Blattodea , termites can be considered "eusocial, juvenilized cockroaches"?
text: Did you know that Indian cricketer Javagal Srinath was the first to take a five-wicket haul in a One Day International at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium ?
text: Did you know that " The Simpsons Guy ", a 2014 crossover between The Simpsons and Family Guy , was described by one critic as a "blight on humanity itself"?
text: Did you know that the Scottish footballer Omar Kader was signed by Alloa Athletic after playing against them in a play-off game for Forfar ?
text: Did you know that novelist Nuruddin Farah 's sister died in a terrorist attack, similar to how a character dies in his then newly finished novel Hiding in Plain Sight ?
text: Did you know that in the three years since Xi Jinping became China's top leader, lieutenant general Yu Zhongfu has been appointed to three leadership positions in the military?
text: Did you know that cave paintings in Puente Viesgo in northern Spain include a red disc which is believed to be over 40,000 years old?
text: Did you know that Samuel L. M. Barlow I settled a dispute concerning a $1,600,000 contract to send arms to France?
text: Did you know that a biography of the much-travelled Professor Josephine Tilden was titled "Algae of Acrimony"?
text: Did you know that the flail space model models how a passenger will move in a collision with a roadside feature like a guardrail , since crash test dummies are not accurate in such cases?
text: Did you know that Colla mac Báirid , King of Limerick , may have been a son of Bárid mac Ímair , King of Dublin ?
text: Did you know that the Chilean rock rat is found in monkey puzzle and southern beech forests in the high Andes?
text: Did you know that gridiron football player Lemar Durant achieved both the single-game conference record for touchdowns and season conference record for catches in his first year with the Simon Fraser Clan ?
text: Did you know that the gold rush at Diabougou has made it the largest site of informal mining in Senegal ?
text: Did you know that more than 50 years after being designated as one of the most unremunerative railway lines in Great Britain , part of the Waverley Route has been rebuilt as the Borders Railway ?
text: Did you know that Shaquille Murray-Lawrence ran the fastest 40-yard dash in CFL Combine history, but lost the record later that same event?
text: Did you know that the Roman settlement of Castelseprio in the Province of Varese was destroyed by the House of Visconti in the thirteenth century?
text: Did you know that television producer Anita Jacoby arranged the final media interview with fugitive Australian businessman Christopher Skase ?
text: Did you know that Kotaku 's Patrick Klepek was at a loss for words to describe Sonic Dreams Collection ?
text: Did you know that in the United States, the right to privacy is located in the Constitution 's penumbra ?
text: Did you know that Hedley Sparks , a Biblical scholar , was awarded a scholarship to Oxford University after he was the only person to show up to the exam?
text: Did you know that commercial director Gary Shore made his feature film directorial debut with Dracula Untold ?
text: Did you know that hundreds of thousands of artisanal miners are involved in gold mining in Sudan ?
text: Did you know that the consecration of the Bosnian Croat prelate Berislav Grgić as the first non-German leader of the world's northernmost Catholic bishopric took place in a Norwegian Protestant cathedral ?
text: Did you know that Quaker Run was historically "filled with trout", but now lacks fish life of any kind?
text: Did you know that Bill Harvey was one of many British footballers denied unemployment benefit in the 1930s?
text: Did you know that only a single stem of the fossil liverwort Notoscyphus balticus was used to describe the species?
text: Did you know that because many girls at the Beth Rivkah school in Crown Heights, Brooklyn , have the same first name, teachers call on them by their surnames?
text: Did you know that the long-clawed mole mouse leaves its burrow briefly to forage at night?
text: Did you know that when Romanian headmaster Alexandru Lambrior was fired for political reasons, all but two of the teachers at his school resigned in protest within two days?
text: Did you know that only the government of Tunisia is allowed to own the country's mines ?
text: Did you know that Ralph Townsend was described as "the most adamant and extreme of the voices in America defending Japanese policy"?
text: Did you know that students at the University of San Diego created a law journal to encourage scholarship about "the world's transition to a climate-safe economy"?
text: Did you know that plains in the Italian provinces of Pordenone and Udine have water rising through the ground in a zone of springs?
text: Did you know that at different times in its history , West Chester, Pennsylvania, led the U.S. in production of peach trees and penicillin ?
text: Did you know that Kévin Malcuit was named by France Football magazine as the best outfield player in Ligue 2 for the 2014–15 season?
text: Did you know that although the lilac-brown bolete is eaten in the Hengduan Mountains , it has reportedly poisoned people in New England ?
text: Did you know that Doris Cole wrote the first book on female architects from the United States?
text: Did you know that Mary Kom won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment ?
text: Did you know that Turkish politician Mustafa Arif Deymer once said that certain events turned his country into a "gigantic slaughterhouse"?
text: Did you know that harper by Harper's Bazaar is a resurrection of Harper's Bazaar 's Junior Bazaar ?
text: Did you know that some hotels have made a Wi-Fi deauthentication attack on their guests' computers?
text: Did you know that the mining industry of Togo includes the production of over a million tons of clinker annually?
text: Did you know that the Kandariya Mahadeva Temple , meaning "the Great God of the Cave", is the largest and most ornate Hindu temple in the medieval temple group at Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh ?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Keawepoʻoʻole Sumner composed the Hawaiian love song Sanoe with Queen Liliuokalani , about a love affair in the Hawaiian royal court ?
text: Did you know that the Syllabical and Steganographical Table was the first cryptography chart ever made?
text: Did you know that Holly Blanchard won Miss New Hampshire 2015, in part, with a dance and baton twirling routine?
text: Did you know that the Brazilian guinea pig makes stacks of grass stems and has areas that it uses as latrines?
text: Did you know that the footballer Adam Stansfield , who died in 2010, is featured on banknotes local to the English city of Exeter ?
text: Did you know that General Song Puxuan commanded the elite 54th Group Army during the relief efforts of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake ?
text: Did you know that " Tracy's Theme " was written for The Philadelphia Story and released under a fictitious name?
text: Did you know that Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim founded the new capital of Samarra to avoid clashes between his foreign troops and the populace of Baghdad ?
text: Did you know that a species of praying mantis broods its eggs, while another even cares for its young?
text: Did you know that the Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Award is given out every year on India's Independence Day in honour of the 11th President of India?
text: Did you know that during the history of the Province of Savona , the capital city and shipping in the port were destroyed several times by Genoa ?
text: Did you know that Bill Sweek had expected to be kicked off the UCLA basketball team, but Coach John Wooden played him days later when they won their record-setting third straight national championship?
text: Did you know that the crimson fruitcrow is not a crow nor primarily a fruit-eater?
text: Did you know that Mary Isenhour contributed to the campaigns of U.S. Senator Bob Casey, Jr. and Pennsylvania Governors Ed Rendell and Tom Wolf , who all won their elections?
text: Did you know that uses of Trout Run include a hatchery and a water supply for a city and a prison?
text: Did you know that Grace Eldering , along with Pearl Kendrick , developed the first successful pertussis vaccine and large-scale controlled trial for it?
text: Did you know that BBC One 's 5-Star Family Reunion involves teams of four alternating between multiple-choice questions and quick-fire questions for four rounds?
text: Did you know that the first Italian public balloon flight was organized by Count Andreani in Brugherio ?
text: Did you know that a New Jersey Forest Fire Service firewarden can summon any person aged 18 to 50 to assist in putting out wildfires —and it is against the law to refuse?
text: Did you know that Salvatore A. Cotillo was the first Italian-American to serve in both houses of the New York State Legislature and as a Justice of the New York Supreme Court ?
text: Did you know that the Province of Pavia was conquered by the Romans in 220 BCE?
text: Did you know that Franz Ferdinand 's fourth album Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action was recorded in studios in Glasgow, London, and Stockholm?
text: Did you know that Charlotte Hogg is the most senior woman in the Bank of England 's history?
text: Did you know that Adirondack Railway revived passenger train service between Utica and Lake Placid, New York for the 1980 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Derrick Morgan 's " Moon Hop ", later covered by Symarip , was written to commemorate the Apollo Lunar Module ?
text: Did you know that Miss Oregon Stephenie Steers wore a swimsuit and cap made from recycled bicycle tire inner tubes in the 2011 Miss America Parade?
text: Did you know that South Carolina Circuit Court judge J.C. Nicholson is the presiding judge for the trial of Dylann Roof , even though he officially retired in 2009?
text: Did you know that evidence of the first settlement of the Province of Pescara dates to 1500 BCE?
text: Did you know that the Scottish footballer Colin Hamilton joined Heart of Midlothian as a teenager in 2009, alongside his younger brother Jack ?
text: Did you know that Freeze Out and Rebound are both summer replacements for The Chase ?
text: Did you know that in 2000 Ray Marcano became only the second black president of the Society of Professional Journalists in that organization's 91-year history?
text: Did you know that Lowbridge House on the Lowbridge Estate was built in the cottage orné style?
text: Did you know that the first edition of Romanian writer Calistrat Hogaș 's collected works was destroyed because it contained too many typos, while nearly all copies of the second burned in a fire?
text: Did you know that former Saturday Night Live writer Neil Casey has just signed on to play a villainous role in the female-set Ghostbusters ?
text: Did you know that between 1995 and 1997, revenues from the mining industry of Uganda increased by about 48%?
text: Did you know that one of goalkeeper Jimmy Whitehouse 's 59 league appearances for Manchester United F.C. (then Newton Heath) was as an inside left ?
text: Did you know that the partnership between model aircraft company Airtronics and transmitter manufacturer Sanwa helped increase the former's annual profit from less than $1 million in 1983 to $8 million in 1989?
text: Did you know that the black-chinned siskin is native to the southern tip of South America including Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands ?
text: Did you know that Jessica Goodman of Entertainment Weekly deemed " High by the Beach " to be Lana Del Rey 's catchiest single yet?
text: Did you know that Miss Oregon 2014 Rebecca Anderson wore shoes with tiny bicycles atop the laces at the Miss America 2015 "Show Us Your Shoes" parade?
text: Did you know that radio station WBCM-LP is a working exhibit inside The Birthplace of Country Music Museum?
text: Did you know that James Robb and Clifford Lingen each scored a horrendous 9 on the 6th hole in the 1906 Amateur Championship at Royal Liverpool Golf Club ?
text: Did you know that the capital city of the Province of Isernia was destroyed by an earthquake in 874, and its cathedral collapsed in another earthquake in 1805?
text: Did you know that Yasir Jaswal made his feature film directing debut with 2015's Jalaibee ?
text: Did you know that the Elisha Atherton Coray Mill on Sutton Creek is listed on the Historic American Buildings Survey ?
text: Did you know that Sulayman Pasha al-Adil of Acre , who by 1810 was the Ottoman governor of the Sidon and Damascus provinces, presided over the world's last mamluk system?
text: Did you know that Vine Street has seen erotic asphyxiation , libel charges by Oscar Wilde and a square on the British Monopoly board?
text: Did you know that Paul Bujor rose from modest beginnings to become a zoology professor, a published fiction author, a member of the Romanian Academy , and president of his country's Senate ?
text: Did you know that Thomson Plaza is one of the first public buildings in Singapore to be designed with barrier-free features?
text: Did you know that at age 59, Miao Hua is the youngest full general in the Chinese military?
text: Did you know that Ed Sheeran composed " One " on a guitar made of a whiskey barrel?
text: Did you know that the unicoloured , pale-eyed , and chestnut-capped blackbirds are all found in marshy areas of South America?
text: Did you know that Gerard Shelley defended Rasputin in December 1916 when most people were against him?
text: Did you know that in one Lady's Magazine article printed in June 1775, a male doctor writes that women with red hair have "generally become the best breeders of the nation"?
text: Did you know that The Simpsons episode " Treehouse of Horror XXV " features the guest voice of Pixar 's John Ratzenberger as a computer-generated Homer Simpson?
text: Did you know that the early American minister Francis Doughty had a proclivity for witch-hunting ?
text: Did you know that a monster was discovered in 1980 in the Great Sandy National Park in Queensland, Australia?
text: Did you know that Lucio Fulci 's 1979 film Zombi 2 has been released under eleven different titles?
text: Did you know that The Apparition of Mrs. Veal , attributed to Daniel Defoe , has been called the first modern ghost story ?
text: Did you know that the demon core killed Manhattan Project scientists Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin ?
text: Did you know that when Lawrence Joseph Bader returned from the dead, he ruined his wife's wedding plans?
text: Did you know that Yusuf al-'Azma 's death confronting the French Army 's push towards Damascus during the Battle of Maysalun made him a national hero in Syria and the Arab world?
text: Did you know that several varieties of melon soup exist, such as bitter melon soup, cantaloupe soup, and winter melon soup?
text: Did you know that the English association football referee Scott Duncan officiated a League Two play-off match between Fleetwood Town and York City at Highbury Stadium on 16 May 2014?
text: Did you know that the lead designer of XCOM: Enemy Unknown called his game "basically a 20-hour tutorial" for the partial conversion mod Long War ?
text: Did you know that Hebrew University folklore professor Galit Hasan-Rokem claims that Israel street signs exhibit bias against Arabic-speaking residents?
text: Did you know that there is an oath chapel at the Basque town of Abadiño with twelve stone seats arranged in a semicircle?
text: Did you know that according to legend, Nathan Waller once killed a bear with just a pine knot?
text: Did you know that Maikel Kieftenbeld captained FC Groningen to victory in the 2014–15 KNVB Cup Final to win the first major trophy in the club's history?
text: Did you know that the Llanos long-nosed armadillo typically has quadruplets, all developed from a single zygote ?
text: Did you know that the supplication of Abu Hamza al-Thumali was recited by Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin , the fourth Shia Imam, on every night or dawn of Ramadan ?
text: Did you know that Ni no Kuni was conceived as a project for Level-5 's tenth anniversary?
text: Did you know that actress Maria Möller is a classically trained mezzo-soprano and soloist?
text: Did you know that the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award, was instituted in 1954, and the "father of the Indian bomb" was one of its first recipients ?
text: Did you know that during his 2000 campaign for U.S. president , Donald Trump named Oprah Winfrey as his ideal running mate ?
text: Did you know that Ayrton Senna's victory at the 1986 Spanish Grand Prix was one of the closest ever?
text: Did you know that contrary to what its interpretive plaque says, the Fireweed Studio log cabin in Yellowknife was never used as a blacksmith 's shop?
text: Did you know that Montignac is the main centre for visiting Lascaux and other prehistoric sites in the Vézère valley in France?
text: Did you know that Dutch architect Tonny Zwollo was featured in Life magazine for building 35 schools in Oaxaca , Mexico, and convincing the community members to help build them for free?
text: Did you know that the romantic comedy film Obvious Child was praised for its portrayal of abortion?
text: Did you know that Rosamind Julius and her husband were the entrepreneurs behind the world's most commercially successful chair?
text: Did you know that Dana Records switched back from vinyl to shellac for its 78-rpm records because dealers complained their product was too durable?
text: Did you know that wind turbines in Conca de Barberà help power Catalonia ?
text: Did you know that Kate Macintosh designed a social housing complex in London that was described as "one of the most remarkable housing developments in the country"?
text: Did you know that Hettesheimer Run was historically used as an industrial water supply, but is now Class A Wild Trout Waters?
text: Did you know that the cathedral architect Corinne Bennett 's interest in stone came from her father, a geology professor?
text: Did you know that the premiere of Aaron Copland 's Connotations , on September 23, 1962, "sent shock waves through the world of music"?
text: Did you know that although the town clerk, Edward Hart , wrote the Flushing Remonstrance of 1657, no one knows who most inspired its moving appeal for freedom of conscience in colonial New Netherland ?
text: Did you know that the highland tuco-tuco has bright yellowish-orange teeth?
text: Did you know that in 1933, accountant and furniture importer Louis Fles wrote an anti-Nazi radio address that was so strident, it was banned by the Dutch government?
text: Did you know that Ethel Mairet has been called "the mother of English hand-weaving"?
text: Did you know that the Umaid Bhawan Palace was constructed in 1928 to assist famine-stricken farmers by employing 2,000 to 3,000 people as builders?
text: Did you know that 95 years after the first documented use of the name " Boile Run " for a tributary of the Susquehanna River , government officials recommended adopting it?
text: Did you know that Ernst Beyeler , "the greatest art dealer since the war", left a collection worth at least $1.85 billion when he died in 2010?
text: Did you know that in 1867, United States Army scouts fought a battle with a band of Native Americans on the eastern slope of Crane Mountain in south-central Oregon?
text: Did you know that although cats have an unprecedented popularity on the internet , no one is entirely sure why?
text: Did you know that rice is grown in the Province of Cremona in northern Italy?
text: Did you know that the San Joaquin pocket mouse carries seeds back to its burrow in its cheek pouches?
text: Did you know that British/Kenyan architect Dorothy Hughes 's most renowned designs include the Cathedral of the Holy Family and a nightclub in the red-light district of Nairobi?
text: Did you know that the Ukraine–EU Association Agreement will be subjected to a referendum in the Netherlands ?
text: Did you know that Sigala co-wrote " Good Times " by Ella Eyre ?
text: Did you know that My Scientology Movie by Louis Theroux re-enacts scenes of alleged abuse in the Church of Scientology's punishment facility, the Hole ?
text: Did you know that Richard Nixon lived in two houses designed by Eleanore Pettersen ?
text: Did you know that prior to working on Star Trek , Gene Roddenberry was a combat pilot for the US Army Air Force and an LAPD officer?
text: Did you know that Haute-Loire was the birthplace of Claude-Jean Allouez , 17th-century missionary and explorer in North America?
text: Did you know that the music video for Adele 's song " Hello " was the first to be filmed using IMAX cameras?
text: Did you know that Deborah Saunt was cited as one of "London's top architects" in 2012?
text: Did you know that an estimated 67,500 South American tern nests containing 112,500 eggs were found on a single 150-yard (140 m) stretch of beach in Argentina?
text: Did you know that the Huawei Watch is the company's first smartwatch?
text: Did you know that Douglas Lambert scored a record five tries on his international rugby union debut?
text: Did you know that Omar Gonzalez scaled the fence of the White House and was able to intrude into the building , as the doors were unlocked?
text: Did you know that Henri Gaudier-Brzeska created a portrait bust of his friend Horace Brodzky ?
text: Did you know that the typical habitat of the Tumbes sparrow is dry scrub, open dry woodland, and semi-desert?
text: Did you know that Armenian nationalist revolutionary Aram Manukian organized two successful resistances against the Turks in a three-year period?
text: Did you know that an international jazz festival is held annually in the French town of Souillac ?
text: Did you know that monks who wanted to live a life of solitude in the 16th-century "desert" hermitages founded by Thomas á Jesu had to apply and meet strict criteria?
text: Did you know that the counter at the London sushi restaurant The Araki is made from 200-year-old wood donated by musician Ryuichi Sakamoto ?
text: Did you know that the suspect who was subdued by six men during the train attack heading to Paris was shown on television in handcuffs at trial (prior to conviction), which is illegal in France?
text: Did you know that after escaping a massacre, painter Vartan Mahokian continued to paint and earned himself a Legion of Honor ?
text: Did you know that Marathwada did not become part of India until it was liberated on 17 September 1948 , 13 months after Indian independence?
text: Did you know that Evangelienmotetten – Gospel motets – are settings to music of verses from the New Testament ?
text: Did you know that Chilly McIntosh , who was nearly assassinated for agreeing to sell Creek tribal lands, later became a respected and influential figure in the Creek Nation?
text: Did you know that A. R. Rahman worked as a keyboard player under Ilaiyaraaja in Moodu Pani (1980)?
text: Did you know that the " Dragon Lady " complained that American Architects ran a "gentleman's club"?
text: Did you know that Hergé was inspired to develop the plot for The Red Sea Sharks after reading a magazine article detailing the continued existence of the slave trade within the Arab world ?
text: Did you know that Willard Libby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960 for his role in the development of radiocarbon dating ?
text: Did you know that the South American snowy-crowned tern was first described by Audubon from a bird found in New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that Debra Crew surprised business observers when she became president of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company only two months after being named president of PepsiCo North America Nutrition?
text: Did you know that a town councillor in Ermua was kidnapped and murdered by the Basque separatist movement ETA in 1997?
text: Did you know that María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías was the first Latin American woman to graduate with a degree in architecture?
text: Did you know that Marsh Creek is "tiny", but is one of the major tributaries of Bowman Creek ?
text: Did you know that Isabelle Eberhardt 's first story, published in 1895, was about a medical student's physical attraction to a woman's corpse?
text: Did you know that in " Spit & Eggs ", an episode of Veronica Mars , director Rob Thomas used 27 camera angles in a scene that took up to 11 hours to film?
text: Did you know that Tracy Dahl 's voice has been described as "filled with sunshine, rainbows and laser light"?
text: Did you know that Villablino in northern Spain has large reserves of bituminous coal ?
text: Did you know that Georgie Wolton designed the first house in the UK to use CorTen steel as the primary structure?
text: Did you know that the University of Michigan sports anthem, " Let's Go Blue ", "went viral" after the Michigan Marching Band's performance during the national telecast of the 1976 Orange Bowl ?
text: Did you know that according to the occultist Aleister Crowley , Alice Coomaraswamy became pregnant using "sex magic"?
text: Did you know that when Bach composed Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir , BWV 38 , on Luther 's 200-year old hymn based on Psalm 130, he let four trombones, two oboes and strings all play with the voices?
text: Did you know that Jewel Freeman Graham , the second black woman president of the World YWCA , joined the organization as a teenager in the colored division in Springfield, Ohio in 1939?
text: Did you know that the Province of Zamora produces a large proportion of Spain's merino wool?
text: Did you know that Joseph Hobson designed the first underwater railroad tunnel to a foreign country?
text: Did you know that 1334 medals were awarded in the 2015 National Games of India ?
text: Did you know that Gertrude Leverkus was the only woman among 500 men to sit her final exams in architecture at University College London in 1919?
text: Did you know that Woodrow Wilson believed that Beautiful Isle of Somewhere was bad for children?
text: Did you know that the Turkish-Danish women's handballer Sara Keçeci played for Turkey in her homeland Denmark against the Danish women's team at a European championship match in 2015 ?
text: Did you know that a surge of activity in the National Socialist Workers' Party of Norway was used as pressure on Vidkun Quisling to form the Nasjonal Samling party?
text: Did you know that Chilean-born Rocio Romero redesigned the kit home to feature modern, minimalist aesthetics, using natural airflow and lighting?
text: Did you know that the British Major-general Charles George Gordon issued emergency siege money during the Siege of Khartoum in 1884?
text: Did you know that Swedish fashion model Gunilla Persson had a minor role in the soap opera Dallas while living in Dallas?
text: Did you know that the stripe-chested antwren flits about close to the ground foraging for insects and spiders?
text: Did you know that Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun , the second Tulunid ruler, reportedly lay on air-filled cushions floating on a basin filled with quicksilver to be rocked to sleep?
text: Did you know that the Astor markhor , an endangered species of wild goat, is found in the Naltar Wildlife Sanctuary in Pakistan?
text: Did you know that despite having the highest per capita GDP of all African nations, Equatorial Guinea is ranked one of the lowest countries by measure of the quality of life due to corruption ?
text: Did you know that Carole J. Olshavsky was the first woman to be appointed state architect for Ohio ?
text: Did you know that it took Jun Maeda only about a month to write all 13 tracks on his concept album Owari no Hoshi no Love Song ?
text: Did you know that according to members of the United States House of Representatives , the October 2015 election to succeed John Boehner as Speaker of the House has turned the body into a " banana republic "?
text: Did you know that Indian politician Francisco Pacheco dropped out of school when he was in seventh standard, and became a tailor "to support his family"?
text: Did you know that the canons of the old St. Peter's Basilica would meet the Holy Roman Emperor at the church Santa Maria in Turri and greet him "as a brother"?
text: Did you know that David Stearns is the youngest general manager in Major League Baseball at 30 years of age?
text: Did you know that Indre is one of the original 83 departments of France created during the French Revolution in 1790?
text: Did you know that the Welsh have songs about the abilities of the strong woman and harpist Marged ferch Ifan ?
text: Did you know that Sorber Run and Cider Run are the only two Wilderness Trout Streams in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that the Goa Vikas Party , which has two seats in the 40-member legislature of the Indian state of Goa , is a part of the ruling coalition in the state?
text: Did you know that television presenter Suzanne Sjögren was selected as Sweden's sexiest woman by the men's magazine Slitz in 2001?
text: Did you know that the name of crescentina bread is derived in part from the Italian word crescere , which means "to grow?"
text: Did you know that, according to the Financial Times , in 2015 India surpassed China and the U.S. to become top destination for Foreign Direct Investment ?
text: Did you know that between 1942 and 1944, Polish resistance fighter Antoni Koper hid Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto in his apartment?
text: Did you know that the extinct ant Cananeuretus was preserved in amber from Alberta?
text: Did you know that B*Witched reunited in 2012, and in 2014 released Champagne or Guinness , their first EP in over a decade?
text: Did you know that Navroji Mistri 's soft drinks business was so successful that he was able to purchase the entire Caldecott Hill Estate ?
text: Did you know that Ioan Missir , twice mayor of Botoșani , Romania, was born in New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that Swiss biologist Max Birnstiel was one of the first scientists to purify a single gene ?
text: Did you know that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police believe Atsumi Yoshikubo intended to disappear when she was last seen on Yellowknife 's Ingraham Trail a year ago today, but won't be specific about why?
text: Did you know that although players can use created characters in Sword Art Online: Lost Song 's story mode, the story will progress as if protagonist Kirito had been used?
text: Did you know that George E. Morrow , the founder of the Morrow Plots at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign , was also president of Oklahoma State University ?
text: Did you know that the hero of the Old French Aiol and Mirabel marries a Saracen woman?
text: Did you know that Roddy Piper and Keith David , who throw punches at each other in They Live (1988), provided their voices for " The Red Throne " in which their characters engage in a similar fight?
text: Did you know that the common walkingstick hangs about in trees?
text: Did you know that the holder of the Scottish title Baron of Dunure is a Canadian telecoms billionaire from Montreal ?
text: Did you know that a project to provide employment in the Province of Reggio Calabria failed because the price of steel collapsed?
text: Did you know that Lee Ee Hoe was conferred the Order of the Rising Sun for his contributions to tourism between Japan and Malaysia?
text: Did you know that the Brazilian arboreal mouse can be told from the long-tongued arboreal mouse by the absence of spines among its hair?
text: Did you know that the first female architect from the West Indies was the Jamaican Verma Panton ?
text: Did you know that the construction of the Panama Canal and Mount Rushmore used cranes from American Crane Corporation ?
text: Did you know that Swedish television presenter Karin Frick won a scholarship which allowed her to play tennis at a college in Miami ?
text: Did you know that the South Shore Line station Kemil Road was funded with a personal check ?
text: Did you know that architect Sigrid Lorenzen Rupp said she campaigned for women's issues "simply because I did not want there to be any"?
text: Did you know that the artist Theyre Lee-Elliott , who created the Speedbird logo, represented England at table tennis?
text: Did you know that Mohamed Nasheed , the jailed former president of the Maldives , was visited by barrister Amal Clooney at the Maafushi Prison prior to a court hearing on his imprisonment?
text: Did you know that Jules Knight auditioned for the role of Holby City 's Harry Tressler four times before he was cast?
text: Did you know that beneath the 50-metre (160 ft) high trees in the Amazônia National Park , there is an understorey of vines, lichens, mosses, and orchids?
text: Did you know that Berta Bobath and her husband, who jointly won an award for working with people with disabilities, took an overdose together?
text: Did you know that as President and CEO of Wawa Inc. , Chris Gheysens carries business cards that identify him as the company's "Lead Goose"?
text: Did you know that, when described, at least five males of the crane fly Elephantomyia irinae were known from Baltic amber?
text: Did you know that according to the Sita Upanishad , Sita emerged while furrowing, at the edge of the plough ?
text: Did you know that Mariah Carey 's greatest hits album #1 to Infinity features all 18 of her U.S. Hot 100 number-one songs?
text: Did you know that at age 28, Arthur Nock was the youngest full professor at Harvard in half a century?
text: Did you know that the southeastern pocket gopher enjoys sweet potatoes, sugarcane and peanuts?
text: Did you know that Australian actress Georgia Flood was initially told she was too young to play Alice Ross-King in the miniseries ANZAC Girls ?
text: Did you know that the song " Tenerife Sea " was ranked 14th in Spotify 's list of the most-streamed tracks in the "sleep" category?
text: Did you know that Johann Urban and Max Fremery patented "Silkimit", an artificial fiber, in 1897?
text: Did you know that Cassini Grid military maps were made available to the public partly because German bombing of the Ordnance Survey offices delayed the issue of National Grid maps?
text: Did you know that the National Association of Seadogs was the first Nigerian confraternity ?
text: Did you know that the waterfalls on Buttermilk Creek have been called "the most outstanding example of this kind of waterfall system in Pennsylvania"?
text: Did you know that although Adam Dibble played only two Twenty20 cricket matches, one of them was a semi-final?
text: Did you know that the hairy long-nosed armadillo used to be considered a " vulnerable species ", but is now rated as " data deficient " because so little is known about it?
text: Did you know that Orit Adato , the first female commissioner of the Israel Prison Service , allowed Palestinian security prisoners to study for university degrees, as long as they did so in Hebrew ?
text: Did you know that Forte Tenors met in person only two days before their audition for America's Got Talent —their first-ever performance together?
text: Did you know that the diversion of mine seepage away from Furnace Run in the 1950s reduced the stream's ability to carry away waste?
text: Did you know that social activist Natwar Thakkar , who has been working in the Indian state of Nagaland since 1955, is known as "Nagaland's Gandhi"?
text: Did you know that Melipona beecheii bees were considered by the Mayan Indians to be an endowment of their god Ah-Muzen-Cab and were the focus of many Mayan religious ceremonies?
text: Did you know that after mathematician Hinke Osinga studied invariant manifolds in her doctoral dissertation, she made a crochet model of one?
text: Did you know that British Airways Flight 2276 aborted its take-off and evacuated all passengers and crew after a GE90 engine caught fire?
text: Did you know that G. David Thompson had such a large art collection that he was able to sell 88 works by Paul Klee and 70 by Alberto Giacometti in the 1960s?
text: Did you know that Halictus rubicundus is a bee that exhibits both solitary and eusocial behavior depending on its geographic location?
text: Did you know that Leonhardt Schröter lost his job, so he became a librarian ?
text: Did you know that the last known eruption in a volcanic field in the Spanish province of Ciudad Real took place around 3600 BC?
text: Did you know that 59 members of the class the stars fell on became generals, the most of any class in the history of the United States Military Academy?
text: Did you know that Turkey and Syria launched a plan for an " EU of the Middle East " in 2010, less than a year before Turkey reacted to the Syrian uprising with economic sanctions?
text: Did you know that a street in Rome is named after female Italian mathematician Pia Nalli ?
text: Did you know that Derby Racecourse remained closed after the Second World War because the local council feared racing would "bring the wrong sort of people into the town"?
text: Did you know that a previously unknown script found on an altar at the Grakliani Hill archeological site in Georgia is 1000 years older than any other script in the Caucasus ?
text: Did you know that Mayfield Mall , now a Google office building, was the first air-conditioned enclosed mall in Northern California?
text: Did you know that the former Royal Marine Pen Farthing created a charity to reunite servicemen with dogs they met while on duty in Afghanistan ?
text: Did you know that sandstone sculptures of the Pilak site , which represents a heterodox culture of Hinduism and Buddhism from the 8th to 13th centuries, are on display at the Tripura Government Museum ?
text: Did you know that the iPhone 5S was the first iPhone to be available in the color of gold?
text: Did you know that The Brimstone Sluggers is Crazy Town 's first studio album in 13 years?
text: Did you know that Agnes Ellen Harris began "Tomato Clubs" in Florida which later became part of an international youth organization ?
text: Did you know that Berta Bobath and her husband, who jointly won an award for working with people with disabilities, took an overdose together?
text: Did you know that the rodent genus Microryzomys contains two species, Microryzomys minutus and Microryzomys altissimus , both from the mountains of South America?
text: Did you know that the animation style of " Guardians of Sunshine " was called a return to the first depictions of virtual reality in fiction?
text: Did you know that Hazel Findlay has free climbed El Capitán three times on three different routes, including two first female ascents ?
text: Did you know that over the course of centuries, the Province of Mantua was overrun by the Celts , Romans , Visigoths , Vandals , Ostrogoths and Lombards ?
text: Did you know that between 1877 and 1914, the England cricket team scored their lowest ever innings in Test cricket, 45 runs?
text: Did you know that Teddy's Bigger Burgers ' business plan was formulated during casual backyard barbecues?
text: Did you know that queens of the fossil ant Pachycondyla petiolosa are described as being heavy and massive?
text: Did you know that Split , the debut novel by Swati Avasthi , an Indian American writer and teacher, was published in 2010 and received a plethora of awards?
text: Did you know that Ty Isaac 's 515-yard rushing performance was an Illinois High School Association championship game record?
text: Did you know that DEC 's VT1000 X terminals were designed for simplicity after the firm found their expensive workstations were being used mostly as glorified text terminals?
text: Did you know that the Greek Constitution of 1973 is the second in modern Greek history to have resulted from a failed coup by the Hellenic Navy ?
text: Did you know that with its campaign for Shadowrun Returns , Harebrained Schemes became the third video game studio to break $1 million on Kickstarter ?
text: Did you know that Loretta Marron became known as "the Jelly Bean Lady" after using jelly beans to test bogus health products?
text: Did you know that Shia Muslims believe a future ruler of Yemen , named al-Yamani , will appear as one of the signs of the reappearance of Muhammad al-Mahdi ?
text: Did you know that a Roman villa in Villaquilambre municipality had hot baths and mosaic floors?
text: Did you know that Sonam Kapoor is the first Indian actress to star in a film produced by Walt Disney Pictures ?
text: Did you know that between August 27 and September 10, there were at least eleven incidents where vehicles traveling along Interstate 10 and State Route 202 in Phoenix, Arizona were hit by projectiles or bullets?
text: Did you know that Black Swan writer Mark Heyman has written a thriller film about a Facebook relationship?
text: Did you know that the buildings of Schlössle Hotel in Tallinn date from the Middle Ages ?
text: Did you know that Sandman Sims tap danced losing contestants off the Apollo Theater stage from the 1950s to the year 2000?
text: Did you know that the iPhone 6S features technology known as 3D Touch?
text: Did you know that in 1911, journalist Mabel Potter Daggett wrote that practicing yoga leads to "marital infelicity, insanity, and death"?
text: Did you know that Russian-American singer-songwriter Olga Bell's album Krai was sung entirely in Russian?
text: Did you know that in 1904 Hermann Pauly described the Pauly reaction , which detects the presence of two amino acids in proteins?
text: Did you know that Greenhouse Software has provided recruiting software for technology companies such as Airbnb , Snapchat , and Uber ?
text: Did you know that New South Wales Marine sergeant James Scott was commander of the first quarter guard in Australia?
text: Did you know that baby panda Bei Bei was given his name by the first ladies of both China and the United States ?
text: Did you know that the department of Mayenne has extensive mineral resources and produces much cider ?
text: Did you know that sculptor Carolina Benedicks-Bruce was called a Swedish " Mrs. Pankhurst "?
text: Did you know that an unfinished ending was found for Satoshi Kon 's manga series Opus after his death and included in the collected volume?
text: Did you know that 20th-century Indian Islamic scholar Asaf Ali Asghar Fyzee advocated the need to incorporate modern reforms in Islamic law without compromising on the "essential spirit of Islam"?
text: Did you know that the Argentine Naval Prefecture was sued by the families of the victims of a 2004 school shooting ?
text: Did you know that basketball player Will Cummings was named to the First Team All- American Athletic Conference and then signed with the NBA team, Houston Rockets ?
text: Did you know that the bee Lasioglossum zephyrum has been observed forcing open unbloomed flowers of Tennessee yellow-eyed grass to extract the pollen?
text: Did you know that the missionary and doctor Jane Elizabeth Waterston was given the South African name of Noqataka , "the mother of activity"?
text: Did you know that The Star —despite being an asset of community value —was converted into an estate agency in April, leaving St John's Wood with just three pubs but 13 estate agents?
text: Did you know that rapper Pitbull wanted to be like Alejandro Sosa ?
text: Did you know that the Lehigh Valley Railroad historically stocked Mill Run with brook trout?
text: Did you know that the 1963 film Violated Paradise , featuring female pearl divers, was filmed entirely in Japan?
text: Did you know that Max Fremery was one of the founders of the Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken in 1899?
text: Did you know that a coal furnace planned for Canada's Yellowknife Post Office was never built, so the chimney for it was eventually filled in?
text: Did you know that Juan Astigarrabía was made a scapegoat for the fall of the Basque front during the Spanish Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Highgate tube station had platforms built to accommodate nine-car trains on the Northern line that never used them?
text: Did you know that Bowman Creek is one of the few streams in Pennsylvania that supports a wild rainbow trout population?
text: Did you know that Wilhelm Boden was the first Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate ?
text: Did you know that the preparation of applesauce cake dates back to early colonial times in the New England Colonies of the northeastern United States?
text: Did you know that Amman , the capital of Jordan , is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world?
text: Did you know that BattleTech hit its Kickstarter funding goal within an hour?
text: Did you know that Azel Backus was the first president of Hamilton College, New York ?
text: Did you know that Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken became one of the leading European producers of rayon ?
text: Did you know that for conventional computers, Landauer's principle gives a nonzero lower bound on energy per step, but the energy usage of reversible cellular automata can be arbitrarily close to zero?
text: Did you know that the song " Everything " by M2M was aimed at Zac Hanson ?
text: Did you know that Joseph Dart and Robert Dunbar designed and built the first steam-powered grain elevator in the world?
text: Did you know that Jupiter Heliopolitanus 's oracle in Baalbek , Lebanon , answered the emperor Trajan 's question by giving him a broken vine staff ?
text: Did you know that West Virginia 's largest American sycamore , the Webster Sycamore , survived an arson attack and inspired a proposed name for the state's health insurance marketplace ?
text: Did you know that upon her introduction in 1987, Ruth Archer stood out from the other female characters featured in The Archers as she was a farmer and a feminist?
text: Did you know that the production of Chablis wine in the department of Yonne was devastated in the nineteenth century by powdery mildew , Phylloxera and the development of the railways?
text: Did you know that the Lutheran composer Andreas Raselius wrote the first German-language cycle of Gospel motets for use throughout an entire year of church services?
text: Did you know that in Gunfright , the player takes the role of a sheriff in the town of Black Rock and is tasked with eliminating outlaws who are scattered throughout the settlement?
text: Did you know that Roscoe Simmons , the nephew of Booker T. Washington , was the first African-American columnist for the Chicago Tribune ?
text: Did you know that Lasioglossum figueresi is named after Costa Rican patriot, José Figueres Ferrer ?
text: Did you know that liquor is one of the offerings made to the deity at the Kal Bhairav temple in Ujjain , India?
text: Did you know that some mantises mimic flowers convincingly enough to attract insect prey?
text: Did you know that the fifth Bourne film will be set in "a Post- Snowden World"?
text: Did you know that Selena was called the " Queen of Tejano music ", and was described as "the most important and popular Tejano star of all time"?
text: Did you know that a dam at Almendralejo in Spain was the first hydropower dam to contain a water wheel within its actual structure?
text: Did you know that the father of the British strategy consultant and tech entrepreneur Judith Clegg encouraged her to learn computer programming when she was 7 or 8 years old?
text: Did you know that Multix is a personal utility vehicle manufactured by Eicher Motors which can be used as a people carrier , goods carrier and also as a power generator ?
text: Did you know that Japanese doctor Fukushi Masaichi collected the tattooed skins of 2,000 Japanese people after they died?
text: Did you know that the Comoé National Park in West Africa is one of the 15 largest national parks in the world?
text: Did you know that Harriet Moody used salvaged architectural features in her California Storybook Cottages due to war rationing on building goods?
text: Did you know that UCSD biophysicist Rommie Amaro co-mentored a teen who won the 2013 Siemens Competition , the 2013 Google Science Fair , and the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search ?
text: Did you know that, in the view of both Shia and Sunni scholars, the Quran 's Verse of Wilayah ( 5:55 ) was revealed in honour of Ali ?
text: Did you know that the vision of architects Pravina Mehta , Charles Correa , and Shirish Patel for the New Bombay project has been compared to that of a popular Bollywood film?
text: Did you know that Vicious Pink sampled Russian choirs for their single " Cccan't You See " in an effort to defuse tensions over the Cold War ?
text: Did you know that polymath Lina Eckenstein saw a link between the tomb of Pharaoh Seti I and the death of Cock Robin ?
text: Did you know that the scaly-throated , the black-tailed , and the short-billed leaftosser flick aside dead leaves as they forage for small invertebrates?
text: Did you know that Wendy Tan White , the CEO of Moonfruit , laid off her co-founder and future husband to save the company after the dot-com crash ?
text: Did you know that a letter by the Quaker minister Abiah Darby is used to determine the start of the Industrial Revolution ?
text: Did you know that Daniel 4 is the only chapter in the Book of Daniel that is in the form of a letter from King Nebuchadnezzar ?
text: Did you know that chemist and science diplomat Nancy B. Jackson was the first implementer of the U.S. State Department 's Chemical Security Engagement Program?
text: Did you know that the film The Creeping Garden shows slime molds finding their way through a maze in search of food?
text: Did you know that genetics researcher and MIT professor emeritus Mary-Lou Pardue once declined a PhD and convinced her department to give her a master's degree instead?
text: Did you know that Andrew Garfield is playing the real-life character Desmond Doss in the World War II-set film Hacksaw Ridge ?
text: Did you know that sketches by Raphael and his aides were visible for centuries on the walls of an osteria housed inside the Palazzo Rusticucci-Accoramboni in Rome?
text: Did you know that William Francis Channing invented the first citywide electric fire alarm system?
text: Did you know that the velvet-fronted grackle joins other birds in small, noisy flocks and sometimes forages on floating vegetation on lakes?
text: Did you know that in the war against Tiglath-Pileser III in 732 BCE, Samsi was defeated and was said to have fled the battlefield like a "wild she-ass of the desert"?
text: Did you know that Emma Martin formed an organisation with George Holyoake to help defend people charged with blasphemy ?
text: Did you know that Lhasa City contains the city of Lhasa ?
text: Did you know that the Manhattan Project 's calutrons used 14,700 short tons (13,300 t) of silver?
text: Did you know that German SS-Hauptscharführer Gustav Laabs worked as a gas van operator at the Chełmno extermination camp in Wartheland ?
text: Did you know that the protagonist of the 2005 film Anniyan is a grim reaper -style serial killer whose website depicts all the punishments that await sinners in hell?
text: Did you know that the fossil ant Myanmyrma has mandibles almost as long as its head?
text: Did you know that the row hammer effect has been used in some privilege escalation computer security exploits ?
text: Did you know that the regional railway Erfurter Bahn , serving the capital of Thuringia , designed a special train to celebrate Leipzig 's millennium?
text: Did you know that male surf bream become female after the spawning season?
text: Did you know that greening the barren forest of Arabari was brought about by setting up Joint Forest Management committees between local villagers and government?
text: Did you know that Cyclone Rusty caused sustained gales that affected Port Hedland for a record-breaking 39 hours straight?
text: Did you know that Trigona corvina is a highly aggressive species of stingless bee?
text: Did you know that a park was established on the site of Prior Park Landscape Garden in 1100 AD by John of Tours ?
text: Did you know that Sheela was the first recipient of the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress ?
text: Did you know that after fleeing the Mongol conquest of the Qara Khitai , the ruler Kuchlug was captured by hunters in Afghanistan?
text: Did you know that The Morning Telegraph found the story of Checkmate to be foolish and completely improbable on many accounts?
text: Did you know that the Central and South American genus Oligoryzomys includes the straw-colored , yellow , and destructive pygmy rice rats, and the Magellanic pygmy rice rat which is common on Tierra del Fuego ?
text: Did you know that Jeffery Rowthorn was born in the United Kingdom, but was later elected a bishop in the Episcopal Church of the United States ?
text: Did you know that Cerro Chao is the largest known silicic lava flow of the Quaternary ?
text: Did you know that as a detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department , Joe Kenda solved 92 percent of assault cases?
text: Did you know that traditional gunplay and vehicle gameplay featured in the Far Cry series were removed in Far Cry Primal because the latter is set in prehistory ?
text: Did you know that Isaac Dripps invented the railroad locomotive cowcatcher?
text: Did you know that the bomb vessel HMS Endeavour was so inaccurate that the Royal Navy sold it after less than two years of active service?
text: Did you know that Luther Atwood invented "coup oil", the first oil extracted from coal?
text: Did you know that female Exoneura robusta , a species of Australian "reed bee," will often co-found a new colony with other unrelated females?
text: Did you know that Banks expressed displeasure over Neon Jungle ' s decision to cover her then-new song " Waiting Game " for their album Welcome to the Jungle ?
text: Did you know that 30 years after joining the Royal Bank of Canada as a teller, Zabeen Hirji became chief human resources officer with responsibility for nearly 79,000 employees in 50 countries?
text: Did you know that there are 40 local nature reserves in the English county of Somerset ranging from 0.5 hectares (1.2 acres) to 130 hectares (320 acres) in area?
text: Did you know that film producer Elisabeth Holm used to work at Kickstarter , helping other filmmakers to fund their projects?
text: Did you know that the French department of Meuse has several communes that are completely depopulated?
text: Did you know that many Tennessee cave salamanders and Berry Cave salamanders are paedomorphic , remaining permanently in their larval state?
text: Did you know that the Overseas Passenger Terminal , Sydney, is part of the buffer zone of the Sydney Opera House listing for UNESCO World Heritage ?
text: Did you know that New Logie Green is the only stadium outside Glasgow to have hosted a Scottish Cup final ?
text: Did you know that Romanian politician George Panu lost his only chance to enter the cabinet , when Lascăr Catargiu died the same day he was named prime minister ?
text: Did you know that the Sierra de Perijá National Park in Venezuela is home to the Perijá tapaculo , a bird first described in 2015?
text: Did you know that in Cobra Triangle , the player races a cannon-equipped speedboat against other watercraft through 25 stages of gradated difficulty ?
text: Did you know that one of the three first described Brownimecia ant worker specimens was coated in gold?
text: Did you know that Hungary's new Minister of Defence , István Simicskó , was the only MP who voted against the country joining the European Union ?
text: Did you know that two wildfires , the Lava Fire and the Barry Point Fire , burned large areas of Lake County , Oregon during the summer of 2012?
text: Did you know that from 1927 to 1930, writer Håkon Evjenth lived with his wife in a turf hut on the Varanger Peninsula ?
text: Did you know that India's Ladakh Marathon is held at an altitude of 11,500 feet (3,500 m)?
text: Did you know that Richard Roma —"a shark in a sharkskin suit"—has won his portrayers two Tony Awards and an Olivier Award , but missed out at the Oscars ?
text: Did you know that the fossil ant Pachycondyla parvula was described in 2012 and renamed in 2015?
text: Did you know that in her chronicle of daily life Mrs Funnybones , author Twinkle Khanna never mentions her husband Akshay Kumar by name?
text: Did you know that Mary-Ann was the first steam turbine generator operated by a public utility in America to produce electricity?
text: Did you know that Russian-Armenian general Arshak Ter-Gukasov ‎ rescued Russian troops from Ottoman forces in a "really brilliant" operation?
text: Did you know that the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy are a UNESCO World Heritage Site in northern Italy?
text: Did you know that Swedish television presenter Rickard Olsson won an Emmy Kids Award for his work on the children's game show Wild Kids ?
text: Did you know that the 2011 animated film The Tragedy of Man , directed by Marcell Jankovics , was produced over a period of 23 years?
text: Did you know that Slovak sociologist and politician Anton Štefánek campaigned for the unification of the Czechs and Slovaks and promoted the concept of Czechoslovakism ?
text: Did you know that classes at Yellowknife's first school building were once interrupted by two drunk miners who thought it was a bar?
text: Did you know that despite reports to the contrary, Justice James Edelman is not the youngest person to be appointed to the Supreme Court of Western Australia ?
text: Did you know that the word "kissing" was altered in the song " Don't Say You Love Me " as it was considered inappropriate for the Pokémon: The First Movie soundtrack?
text: Did you know that Vavro Šrobár‎ was the only Slovak to sign the Czechoslovak proclamation of independence?
text: Did you know that naturalist Edward Frederick Kelaart observed the heart of Elysia grandifolia beating in its back?
text: Did you know that Egypt ' s Mohamed Nagy was the recipient of the golden prize of the Salon de Paris for his "Egypt Renaissance"?
text: Did you know that Pennsylvania 's North Branch Shamokin Creek is too acidic to support aquatic life?
text: Did you know that all four sons of biologist Angus M. Woodbury earned PhDs in biology, and both of his daughters married biologists?
text: Did you know that Araguaia National Park is located on Bananal Island , which is believed to be the largest inland river island in the world?
text: Did you know that Oscar Schlitter sold his house in Berlin's "Mayfair" to Joseph Goebbels for "a very modest sum"?
text: Did you know that actor Luis Fernandez-Gil plays a professional wrestling promoter in the Lucha Underground television series?
text: Did you know that in Kirby's Block Ball , players control paddles to knock Kirby into destructible bricks?
text: Did you know that on the first day of filming The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist , the set was blessed by a priest?
text: Did you know that Cerro Blanco is the site of the largest known Holocene volcanic eruption in the Central Andes ?
text: Did you know that Haiti's first-ever Olympic medal was won at the 1924 Summer Olympics by a team composed entirely of members of the U.S.-backed collaborationist police ?
text: Did you know that Pantaleon Hebenstreit invented the pantalon , a keyboard instrument ?
text: Did you know that the Famatinian orogeny occurred long before the rise of the Andes in what is now western South America?
text: Did you know that after the death of Margaret Martin in 1938, plainclothes police officers attended her funeral in the hopes of spotting possible suspects?
text: Did you know that the artist Siri Derkert carved words of peace on the walls of a metro station doubling as a nuclear war shelter?
text: Did you know that art stored in Schloss Weesenstein was saved from destruction during the bombing of Dresden in World War II ?
text: Did you know that Arvo Pärt composed De profundis , a setting of Psalm 130 in Latin for men's choir, organ and optional percussion, after he left Estonia for the West?
text: Did you know that a blast ball is a type of hand grenade used by police for riot control?
text: Did you know that juvenile caimans have relatively shorter snouts and larger eyes than adults?
text: Did you know that Jason Forbes was praised for his comic stair-falling in a university production of Michael Frayn 's Noises Off ?
text: Did you know that despite their offense scoring the second-most points in the National Football League , the 2013 Chicago Bears defense allowed the most yards in team history?
text: Did you know that freethinkers answer Christian apologetics with counter-apologetics ?
text: Did you know that the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine was established this year after amendment of a 1917 law that had given the University of Washington "sole authority" to offer medical education in the state?
text: Did you know that the number of people living in a farm in Brugherio was recorded by a saint?
text: Did you know that when the author of Scarface Nation bought Scarface pajamas, they "kind of freaked out" his wife?
text: Did you know that the Yalova Earthquake Monument is situated in a public park established on land reclaimed from the sea by dumped rubble from buildings that collapsed during the 1999 İzmit earthquake ?
text: Did you know that to avoid arrest in Azerbaijan , Emin Huseynov flew out of the country after hiding for almost a year in a Swiss embassy?
text: Did you know that the Baudó oropendola is only known from a few locations and is " endangered " because of degradation of its habitat?
text: Did you know that Austrian orientalist Franz Xaver Oberleitner was a member of the Vienna Boys' Choir ?
text: Did you know that the collection of the Musée d'art moderne in Saint-Étienne is one of the most important of its type in France?
text: Did you know that basketball player Jordan Sibert transferred to Dayton to get more playing time?
text: Did you know that the music video for " Runnin' (Lose It All) " was performed by two freedivers who had to hold their breath for up to six minutes at a time while shooting?
text: Did you know that organised crime is alleged to take place in the Italian provinces of Catanzaro and Crotone ?
text: Did you know that Laura Jordan Bambach has been called a "digital female icon" by The Guardian ?
text: Did you know that Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz features guest vocals from Big Sean , Sarah Barthel from Phantogram , and Ariel Pink ?
text: Did you know that the male orchid bee Euglossa hyacinthina collects fragrances as a method of courtship?
text: Did you know that Ali al-Nimr used a BlackBerry to encourage protests , underwent an unfair trial , and may soon be crucified and beheaded?
text: Did you know that bienmesabe has been described as the most famous dessert in Canarian cuisine ?
text: Did you know that teams and drivers boycotted the 2009 IFMAR 1:10 Electric Off-Road World Championship to such an extent that only three international drivers competed?
text: Did you know that in 2015, the river interlinking project involving inter-basin transfer of surplus water from the Daman Ganga River was approved for implementation?
text: Did you know that Matthias Eduard Schweizer was the inventor of Schweizer's reagent ?
text: Did you know that Oklahoma! , a film starring Rod Steiger , had a crew of 325 people and some 70 trucks?
text: Did you know that the fossil ant Pachycondyla? messeliana was only tentatively placed into the genus Pachycondyla due to the conditions of preservation?
text: Did you know that although he only moved to English football in 2015, Everton 's Leandro Rodríguez scored in a league match against Liverpool three years earlier?
text: Did you know that Ich lasse dich nicht , BWV Anh 159 , a motet for double choir based on a verse from Jacob's Ladder , was attributed to Johann Christoph Bach , but more recently to J. S. Bach ?
text: Did you know that Professor Xiaoxing Xi was arrested on charges of having sent restricted technology to China, but was exonerated when scientists found that the prosecutors had misunderstood the evidence?
text: Did you know that in 1890, Henry Lowenfeld , a Polish immigrant, established the UK's first brewer of non-alcoholic beer, in Fulham , London?
text: Did you know that the artifacts of the Afyonkarahisar Archaeological Museum were stored in the beginning in a madrasa ?
text: Did you know that the National Diversity Council named Shefali Razdan Duggal to the list of the Most Powerful and Influential Women of 2012 in California ?
text: Did you know that Sting made his return to national television after five years by debuting at Total Nonstop Action Wrestling 's Final Resolution pay-per-view event ?
text: Did you know that the one described worker of the fossil ant Pachycondyla lutzi is missing its gaster ?
text: Did you know that the music video of " Work " featured Iggy Azalea engaging in twerking and lap dancing sequences?
text: Did you know that the ousting of Cuban communist party leader Anibal Escalante in 1962 may have been a factor in the Cuban Missile Crisis ?
text: Did you know that William L. Uanna was responsible for security for the 509th Composite Group , which carried out the atomic bombing missions , and for the state visit of Nikita Khrushchev in 1959?
text: Did you know that high diving debuted as a sport at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona?
text: Did you know that Saga Becker in 2015 became the first transsexual actress both to be nominated and win a Guldbaggen Award ?
text: Did you know that a project to convert Palazzo Gualino into high-end apartments was begun in 2012, but was abandoned in 2015?
text: Did you know that oriole blackbirds sometimes tear open ripening maize cobs to feed on the kernels?
text: Did you know that Project: Knoxville is inspired by The Running Man and The Hunger Games ?
text: Did you know that Blackie Gejeian rebuilt a roadster he had crashed and renamed it "Shish Kebob"?
text: Did you know that Catherine T. Hunt , the 2007 president of the American Chemical Society , won the society's first election to use Internet voting?
text: Did you know that the South American spiny mouse and the Ucayali spiny mouse , members of the genus Scolomys , have fur that is a mixture of hair and spines?
text: Did you know that the Argentine film Francis: Pray for me is based on the Pope Francis biography Pope Francis: Life and Revolution written by journalist Elisabetta Piqué ?
text: Did you know that in 2013, Marcus Cooper bought seven houses in central London, to allow the creation of a £200 million "supermansion", selling them and the project to fellow property developer Christian Candy in 2014?
text: Did you know that 39 Connecticut Huskies football players have been selected in the National Football League Draft , including two in the first round?
text: Did you know that the reality entertainment concept Expedition Robinson (also known as Survivor ) was bought by CEO Anna Bråkenhielm and aired on Swedish television in 1997?
text: Did you know that, in describing the Lexington-Concord Sesquicentennial half dollar , Cornelius Vermeule wrote "what the coin exudes in patriotism, it lacks in art"?
text: Did you know that Mariah Carey is said to "channel" Jocelyn Brown in her song " You Don't Know What to Do "?
text: Did you know that the government of Japan is a constitutional monarchy whereby the power of the Emperor is limited and relegated primarily to ceremonial duties?
text: Did you know that the Dutch composer Johann Wanning wrote the first known musical epithalamium —a poem written for a new bride heading to the marital bedchamber for the first time?
text: Did you know that in May 2004, rains falling at rates of up to 4 inches (10 cm) per hour caused flash flooding on Moneypenny Creek ?
text: Did you know that Theodore Roosevelt McElroy holds the record for the highest speed at which anyone has received Morse code ?
text: Did you know that until recently, Bobby Charlton had scored more international goals than any other English footballer?
text: Did you know that the French town of Rochechouart , in the department of Haute-Vienne , is located in a meteorite impact crater?
text: Did you know that science journalist Jon Palfreman was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease while researching his book on the subject?
text: Did you know that a conservation group released a thousand trout into Carbon Run , but they disappeared within 17 months?
text: Did you know that General Jiang Jianzeng 's career was "temporarily frozen" after a military plane crash that killed 40 people?
text: Did you know that the James Beard Public Market will be located near the former site of the Portland Public Market , which was the largest supermarket in the United States when it was built in 1933?
text: Did you know that the Puccio family , who were involved in kidnappings and murders in Argentina in the 1980s, are the subject of the film The Clan and the TV series Historia de un clan ?
text: Did you know that Yogendra Nath Baitha received more votes than any other CSP-JSD candidate in the 1995 Bihar Legislative Assembly election ?
text: Did you know that the lithophytic desert fig has edible figs and can be used as bonsai ?
text: Did you know that the black oropendola and the dusky-green oropendola breed colonially?
text: Did you know that Algerian filmmaker Nadia Labidi is also a politician who served as Minister of Culture from May 2014 to May 2015?
text: Did you know that when Turtle Rock Studios was established, it was housed in a garage?
text: Did you know that Cao Yanhua won her first national table tennis championship after only two months of training under world champion Zhou Lansun , who she said was like a devil?
text: Did you know that chili mac has been described as a comfort food ?
text: Did you know that Ellingen Residence belonged to the Teutonic Order for over 400 years?
text: Did you know that the computer scientist Hilary Kahn advised Ph.D. students as a professor at the University of Manchester but never got a Ph.D. herself?
text: Did you know that Destination Moon was serialised weekly in the newly established Tintin magazine starting from March 1950?
text: Did you know that the Society for Human Rights , America's first LGBT rights organization, was founded in Chicago's Henry Gerber House , now a National Historic Landmark ?
text: Did you know that the lesbian romantic coming-of-age drama, Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013), was the first film for which three artists received the Palme d'Or ?
text: Did you know that Indian cricketer Anil Kumble took five of his thirty-five Test five-wicket hauls at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium ?
text: Did you know that Chinese Admiral Qiu Yanpeng commanded a hospital ship that provided medical care in Cuba, Jamaica, and Costa Rica?
text: Did you know that the Columbia Memorial Space Center is, by Congressional resolution, a living memorial to the crew of STS-107 , who perished in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster ?
text: Did you know that towards the end of her life, biologist Mary Cynthia Dickerson had hallucinations of the Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson ?
text: Did you know that a review of Chieftain's Salute by Graham Waterhouse called the Great Highland Bagpipe the orchestra's "real partner in this virile, rousing piece of music"?
text: Did you know that the Lenape potato was withdrawn because it was toxic, but it is used to breed other varieties for potato chips ?
text: Did you know that Charles Beetham was a four-time United States champion in the 800-meter run , but fell in the final at the 1936 United States Olympic Trials and failed to qualify for the Olympics?
text: Did you know that Hanlin, Burma , was inscribed by the UNESCO List of World Heritage Sites in October 1996 for its archaeological heritage traced to more than 1,000 years between 200 BC and 900 AD?
text: Did you know that the quality of the embroidery of the Albanian xhamadan reflected social status?
text: Did you know that one reviewer liked Shamus: Case II so much that they suggested rushing out and buying it to ensure there would be another sequel?
text: Did you know that Vincent McNamara was on the losing side of the Balmoral Brawl?
text: Did you know that the Ecocapsule is an egg-shaped, highly mobile dwelling designed to produce more electricity than it consumes and harvest more rainwater than its occupants use?
text: Did you know that Soviet physician Vera Lebedeva instituted a successful program to reduce infant mortality in her country?
text: Did you know that Thorn EMI 's video game Submarine Commander was called "the underwater Star Raiders", referring to the Atari 8-bit 's killer app ?
text: Did you know that the Palais des Fêtes in Strasbourg has hosted famous conductors and anonymous anime fans ?
text: Did you know that Enrique Luis Graue Wiechers is the tenth medical doctor to become rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico ?
text: Did you know that the herald of the winter is highly slimy?
text: Did you know that it took 18 years to fully implement a bus tracking system in New York City?
text: Did you know that the Celsiella , a type of glass frog , was named after Josefa Celsa Señaris ?
text: Did you know that the heart of Portland Castle is the keep , comprising a central tower with two wings on either side and a gun battery to the front?
text: Did you know that Kohei Shibata was billed as " Akahoshi Jr. " months before he was drafted by the Hanshin Tigers ?
text: Did you know that Synapse Software 's 1982 video game Slime was reviewed as having sound effects that were the "worst ever heard on any computer game"?
text: Did you know that Samuel J. Briskin founded the independent film company Liberty Pictures with his longtime friend, director Frank Capra ?
text: Did you know that basketball player Stefan Bonneau has been called one of the top players to ever play in the Icelandic Premier League ?
text: Did you know that the Tomb of Sikandar Lodi , built in 1518 CE , is the earliest surviving enclosed garden tomb in India?
text: Did you know that Laverne Cox has been cast as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the upcoming "reimagining" of The Rocky Horror Picture Show ?
text: Did you know that Marie Lebour studied the life cycles of marine animals until she was 88?
text: Did you know that The Industrial Christian Home for Polygamous Wives was briefly the home of the Utah legislature?
text: Did you know that Junri Namigata won her first ITF tennis tournament while still a student at Waseda University ?
text: Did you know that the community reaction to Dead Island 's announcement trailer made the game developer Techland adjust the game's tone?
text: Did you know that the 2007 and 2013 world champion Jared Tebo considered radio-controlled racing to be motocrossing without the hospital visits?
text: Did you know that Guadalupe Marín and Diego Rivera 's daughter Ruth Rivera Marín was the first woman to study architecture at the National Polytechnic Institute ?
text: Did you know that reverse-contrast typefaces reverse the normal structure of the printed letter in order to attract attention?
text: Did you know that after trying to overthrow his father twice in ten years, Bahadur Shah I resorted to being a "grudgingly obedient son"?
text: Did you know that the Goa State Museum has about 8,000 artifacts representing all regions of India, as well as 645 objects borrowed from other institutions?
text: Did you know that Arsenal 's victory in the 2015 FA Community Shield was manager Arsène Wenger 's first win over his opponent José Mourinho in 14 attempts?
text: Did you know that the 15th-century Ardstinchar Castle was quarried in the 1770s to provide stone for construction of a three-arch bridge over the River Stinchar ?
text: Did you know that noted explorer and aviator Charles S. Strong wrote The Hardy Boys book The Hooded Hawk Mystery and the Nancy Drew book The Scarlet Slipper Mystery , and once machine-gunned a shark from an airplane?
text: Did you know that the purple heron often adopts a posture with its neck extending obliquely?
text: Did you know that Eric Church 's album Mr. Misunderstood was released with no prior warning and sent to his fan club members the day before it went on sale?
text: Did you know that in one of the matches that the England cricket team played between 1920 and 1939 , they won by the largest margin of any team in Test cricket?
text: Did you know that seductive details may have a negative effect on learning?
text: Did you know that after advocating for the bill funding construction of the Arizona Territorial Capitol , Prosper P. Parker was Speaker of the House during the first legislative session to meet there?
text: Did you know that Money Pit 's producer described the show as a "legal minefield"?
text: Did you know that the site of Fordham Plaza was rezoned in an effort to make it the "Times Square of the Bronx"?
text: Did you know that Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly opined that A Very Gaga Thanksgiving was "disarmingly direct, sincere, and unpretentious"?
text: Did you know that Relativity Media sold The Space Between Us to another studio to avoid having to file for bankruptcy?
text: Did you know that Mitter Bedi "almost single-handedly built up industrial photography in India"?
text: Did you know that Krispy Kreme has provided free coffee and doughnuts in commemoration of National Coffee Day ?
text: Did you know that brigadier Andrew Massey served in Oman , Dhofar , and Northern Ireland before retiring?
text: Did you know that Barry Cryer gave his name to a rule of Celebrity Fifteen to One after becoming the only contestant to miss both of his first two questions?
text: Did you know that a baby in a bathtub purportedly haunts Jewett House ?
text: Did you know that in porting Heavy Gear II ' s 3D sound implementation to Linux, Loki Software created the OpenAL API?
text: Did you know that the 1993 Tropical Storm Bret was the deadliest natural disaster in Venezuela since the 1967 Caracas earthquake ?
text: Did you know that Zhou Xiaoyan was described by The New York Times as "China's First Lady of Opera"?
text: Did you know that while the film The Girl on the Train is set in New York, the novel is set in London?
text: Did you know that the reapportionment of Electoral College seats resulting from the 2020 United States Census may have a significant impact on the 2024 U.S. presidential election ?
text: Did you knowthat Urmila Eulie Chowdhury was chief architect of the state of Punjab from 1976 to 1981?
text: Did you know that the harvest and Thanksgiving hymn " We Plough the Fields and Scatter " was parodied by John Betjeman as a protest against modern farming methods?
text: Did you know that Mozart , Lortzing and Sibelius all wrote music for lodges ?
text: Did you know that education in the Faroe Islands has been undertaken in both Faroese and Danish since 1938?
text: Did you know that the Malian band Songhoy Blues was formed in exile after jihadists banned music in their home town of Timbuktu ?
text: Did you know that Swale Brook is "small enough to step across", yet "packed with fish diversity"?
text: Did you know that Singaporean women's rights activist Khatijun Nissa Siraj pressed for the creation of a Syariah Court and served as its first caseworker ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Army 's Commander-in-Chief's Guard is equipped with muskets built from a 1722 design?
text: Did you know that biologist Kono Yasui was only allowed to study outside of Japan if she listed "home economics research" alongside "scientific research" on her application and agreed not to marry?
text: Did you know that the blank pad rule prohibits courts from considering evidence that has not been established at trial?
text: Did you know that Vicky Lau was named the best female chef in Asia in 2015?
text: Did you know that the film Sand Castle centers around the real-life experience of its screenwriter Chris Roessner?
text: Did you know that Hideto Asamura tied the record for being the youngest person in Japanese baseball to score 100 RBIs in a season?
text: Did you know that congenital bilateral perisylvian syndrome is a rare neuronal migration disorder that causes too many folds on the brain?
text: Did you know that Ragnhild Sundby 's doctoral thesis concluded that fluctuations of miner moth populations were mainly caused by parasitic wasps?
text: Did you know that a substantially cracked Chinese brush pot was sold for £360,000?
text: Did you know that Arizona Territorial Secretary Hiram M. Van Arman was described as "a man of mediocre ability, a good absorber of whiskey and considered a little 'off' among his acquaintances"?
text: Did you know that parsnips resemble carrots but have a sweeter taste?
text: Did you know that the violinist Ryo Terakado , who was concertmaster of the Tokyo Philharmonic , recorded Bach's Cello Suites on a violoncello da spalla ?
text: Did you know that Art Neville had a big role in defining New Orleans funk ?
text: Did you know that Pope Benedict XVI elevated the parish church of Notre-Dame d'Alençon to the status of a minor basilica because of its connection to Thérèse of Lisieux and her parents ?
text: Did you know that Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand identifies a corporate underpinning influencing public opinion by way of companies that derive profit from the fossil fuel industry?
text: Did you know that to celebrate the opening of the new state highway M-231 , the Michigan Department of Transportation held an "M23.1K Run" with 231 competitors?
text: Did you know that congenital lactic acidosis is a rare disease with no proven treatment?
text: Did you know that one critic compared Millennium 's " Siren " to the film It's a Wonderful Life ?
text: Did you know that the architects Elizabeth and H. T. Cadbury-Brown worked together on designs for the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal College of Art ?
text: Did you know that the valley of North Branch Bowman Creek is one of only two places in the Sweet Valley quadrangle where the surficial geology features boulder colluvium ?
text: Did you know that bilateral trade between India and Laos increased by a factor of 17 from 2008 to 2013?
text: Did you know that WEA Latin had a Mexican radio station play all the songs from Aries by Luis Miguel in response to finding pirate copies of the album being already sold?
text: Did you know that architect Winka Dubbeldam prefers dressing in black, and lives in a house with black walls?
text: Did you know that prior to the 2015–16 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame named 14 players to its preseason watch lists?
text: Did you know that the Maronite muleteer Tanyus Shahin established a "peasants' republic" in Keserwan after ousting that region's nobility ?
text: Did you know that The Bunbury Herald has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program ?
text: Did you know that architect Susan Maxman ' s firm received 65 awards including 14 AIA design awards and 14 awards for their designs' environmental importance?
text: Did you know that one of the founders of CD Projekt once sold cracked copies of video games in a market in Warsaw ?
text: Did you know that Singaporean ballet dancer and choreographer Goh Lay Kuan was branded "The Red Ballerina" after being detained in a mass-arrest of alleged communist-sympathizers?
text: Did you know that the first two films in the Hotel Transylvania franchise have grossed over $762 million with a budget of just $165 million?
text: Did you know that Al-Istibsar is one of the four major works of Shiite Islamic traditions authored by Shaykh Tusi , a Shia scholar?
text: Did you know that the abandoned Newmarket Canal was so short of water that local newspapers joked they could dispense with bridges and just walk across in rubber boots?
text: Did you know that actor Sarah-Jane Redmond auditioned for the film Hellraiser: Hellseeker using bondage artwork by Eric Stanton instead of a head shot ?
text: Did you know that the HTC One A9 is the first non- Nexus device to come pre-installed with Android Marshmallow ?
text: Did you know that Heinrich Schmitt was arrested in 1935, survived ten years in detention, and re-emerged in 1945 as a leading regional politician in occupied Bavaria ?
text: Did you know that according to the Bhikshuka Upanishad , the ascetic lifestyle of four types of monk includes eating eight mouthfuls of food a day?
text: Did you know that Blood Money was inspired by the "cuteness" of Mr. Heli ?
text: Did you know that Kristin Feireiss became a Pritzker Architecture Prize juror in 2015?
text: Did you know that the Surface Book 's casing is constructed from machined magnesium ?
text: Did you know that Naoya Emura is a "kind younger brother"?
text: Did you know that Sovereignty Day in Slovenia is a state holiday but not a work-free day?
text: Did you know that after Ming dynasty army officer Lu Tang helped capture the pirate warlord Wang Zhi , he was demoted for letting some of the other pirates escape?
text: Did you know that Team Mexico's entry into the United States was delayed, causing them to be late to the 2008 TNA World X Cup ?
text: Did you know that one of Helen Maitland Armstrong 's stained glass windows was still intact after flying half a mile in a hurricane?
text: Did you know that Admiral Zhang Dingfa stepped down as Commander of the Chinese Navy because of cancer, and died soon afterwards?
text: Did you know that the church at which a young man was beaten to death was described by its neighbors as a "cult" where people "used to build fires on the roofs, and there was chanting and weird rituals"?
text: Did you know that German biochemist Ulrike Beisiegel is the first woman to serve as president of the University of Göttingen ?
text: Did you know that various incarnations of Doctor Strange , the upcoming 2016 Marvel Studios film, have been in development since 1986?
text: Did you know that the external boundary walls of the fort in the plains are built with "lime-surki sun-baked bricks"?
text: Did you know that when he was 27 years old, R. P. Eddy was allowed to live in the "palatial" official residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations , in lieu of Ambassador Richard Holbrooke ?
text: Did you know that despite being banned by the BBC, the acid house anthem " Everything Starts with an 'E' " reached number 15 on the UK Singles Chart ?
text: Did you know that Michigan quarterback Wilton Speight 's grandfather Bobby Speight had his basketball jersey retired by NC State ?
text: Did you know that prices of spirits in Indonesia were raised by 154.4% from 2009 to 2014?
text: Did you know that potential candidates in the United States presidential election of 2020 include Tom Cotton , Hillary Clinton , and Kanye West ?
text: Did you know that Anupama Kundoo , an Indian architect working at Auroville from 1990, created innovations in her project designs by adopting "sustainable building technologies and infrastructural systems"?
text: Did you know that the Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat ( Styloctenium wallacei ) is named after its discoverer, Alfred Russel Wallace ?
text: Did you know that James de Saumarez had a Japanese temple shipped to Europe and re-erected on his Guernsey estate?
text: Did you know that Hasbro Studios were originally disconcerted with setting Littlest Pet Shop at a pet shop?
text: Did you know that neuroscientist Kay Tye has used light to identify connections in the brain that are linked to anxiety?
text: Did you know that action game Agar.io was used in the June 2015 Turkish election as a medium of political advocacy?
text: Did you know that the general-care NewYork–Presbyterian/Queens hospital in Queens , New York, originally started out as a women's rescue home in Manhattan ?
text: Did you know that when French Empire style became popular in the tropical Dutch Indies , it became known as the Indies Empire style ?
text: Did you know that Iranian poet Fateme Ekhtesari was arrested and found guilty in court of "insulting the sacred" after appearing at the Gothenburg poetry festival?
text: Did you know that the writer Maria Dąbrowska reported to the Polish authorities that Poles in Bosnia and Herzegovina lived better than villagers in Poland?
text: Did you know that German referee Wolf-Dieter Ahlenfelder once called half-time after 32 minutes in a Bundesliga match?
text: Did you know that Daniel Galvin , a British hairdresser whose clients included Margaret Thatcher and Diana, Princess of Wales , was awarded an OBE in 2006?
text: Did you know that TodayTix , a ticket-buying app, launched the first mobile lotteries for theater tickets for both New York's Broadway and London's West End ?
text: Did you know that theoretical physicist Mariangela Lisanti was named on MIT Technology Review 's TR35 list of innovators when she was 18 years old?
text: Did you know that Stone Run was historically stocked with trout, but is now Class A Wild Trout Waters ?
text: Did you know that a retrospective review of Pssst noted that its graphics were a significant improvement over those of previous games for the ZX Spectrum ?
text: Did you know that Michiyo Tsujimura 's discovery of vitamin C in green tea contributed to an increase in tea exports to America?
text: Did you know that the mushroom Hygrophoropsis rufa was reported to smell like a photocopier?
text: Did you know that some commentators credit Leelah Alcorn with inspiring "a flashpoint for transgender progress in 2014"?
text: Did you know that the New Guinea Air Warning Wireless was Australia's most highly decorated signals unit of World War II?
text: Did you know that Grace Medes discovered the human metabolic disorder of tyrosinemia in 1932?
text: Did you know that with a double-hourglass-shaped deck and helical on-ramp, the Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge contains almost no straight lines?
text: Did you know that Albert Stewart , an Irish international rugby player, was recommended for the Victoria Cross during the First World War?
text: Did you know that while addressing the United Nations General Assembly , Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu held up a copy of Palestine , an Iranian compilation of Ayatollah Khamenei 's statements on Palestine?
text: Did you know that the fungus Laetiporus cremeiporus smells like garbage?
text: Did you know that Lansdowne Bridge has the longest span of any extant masonry bridge in Australia?
text: Did you know that Gene Roddenberry received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame after a campaign by Star Trek fan clubs for $1 donations towards its upkeep?
text: Did you know that Singapore is the third-largest foreign investor in Vietnam ?
text: Did you know that journalist Arzu Geybullayeva has received numerous death threats and has been branded a "traitor" because she worked for an Armenian newspaper?
text: Did you know that several cyclists were blown off their bicycles in the 2015 Gent–Wevelgem ?
text: Did you know that Canadian oncologist Kathleen I. Pritchard was one of the most cited researchers in the world in 2014 and 2015?
text: Did you know that the EP That We Can Play by Daniel Lopatin 's Games , a duo with Joel Ford, was praised by critics for their use of 1980s influences?
text: Did you know that the extinct ant Cephalopone is noted for its large, toothed mandibles ?
text: Did you know that astronomer Liu Hong developed a means of predicting lunar motion which was used by the Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of China?
text: Did you know that citrullinemia type I is a rare disease that can cause hyperammonemic coma?
text: Did you know that Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice-elect Kevin Dougherty was the first in his family to attend college, and worked three part-time jobs while attending Temple University ?
text: Did you know that the bacterium Gemmata obscuriglobus has so many unusual features that it has been described as "the platypus of microbiology"?
text: Did you know that the fossil scorpion Tityus apozonalli is named from a Náhuatl word meaning sea foam?
text: Did you know that Bill Ponsford was the first cricketer to score centuries in each of his first two Test matches ?
text: Did you know that Second Thoughts are Best is a 1729 pamphlet about the increase of criminality rate in London, written by Daniel Defoe under the pseudonym of Andrew Moreton?
text: Did you know that the character of Ed Argent in " Show Me the Monkey ", an episode of Veronica Mars , was originally envisioned to be a cameo by Ted Nugent ?
text: Did you know that Barbara Oakley 's book Pathological Altruism explores negative aspects of altruism and empathy?
text: Did you know that Vietnamese people in Poland , significantly composed of illegal immigrants , are one of the largest ethnic group minorities in Poland?
text: Did you know that the Adventure Time episode " Time Sandwich " was inspired by a slowed-down video of Paula Deen making a sandwich?
text: Did you know that WT1190F was a small satellite that impacted the atmosphere near Sri Lanka on November 13, 2015?
text: Did you know that Liverpool 's 2–1 win over Bolton Wanderers in the 1995 Football League Cup Final was their fifth League Cup victory?
text: Did you know that Grace Oladunni Taylor was the first African to win the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science and the second woman inducted into the Nigerian Academy of Science ?
text: Did you know that Baker Run is shorter than its tributary , Windfall Run ?
text: Did you know that Melanie Dawes was the first Permanent Secretary of a British Government ministry to be selected by the Prime Minister ?
text: Did you know that the town of Martel is said to have been founded by Charles Martel , nicknamed "the hammer" after his victory in the Battle of Tours ?
text: Did you know that Venetian ambassador Lorenzo de Monacis defended Hungarian queens Mary and Elizabeth from murder charges by writing a poem?
text: Did you know that Hurricane Dennis in 2005 made landfall as a major hurricane three times?
text: Did you know that the song " Angels Cry " by Mariah Carey became her 28th career entry on the United States' Adult Contemporary chart?
text: Did you know that following the Ayutthayan–Cambodian War in 1594, some 90,000 Cambodians were taken to neighbouring Ayutthaya ?
text: Did you know that Lionel M. Jacobs and his brother operated an arbitrage business that exchanged greenbacks for gold coins?
text: Did you know that the holotype for Habronyx minutus was discovered at a bridge over a river that was later used as a film location for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug ?
text: Did you know that Hajjah Fatimah , one of the inaugural inductees into the Singapore Women's Hall of Fame , provided for the construction of a mosque that now bears her name ?
text: Did you know that Hanford city officials opposed placing California High-Speed Rail 's Kings–Tulare Station inside city limits, and then complained about its remoteness from downtown?
text: Did you know that European high jump champion Anne-Marie Colchen also won a World Championship medal in women's basketball ?
text: Did you know that " SummerThing! " was premiered on the Saturday Night Online radio show?
text: Did you know that the memorial service for Beverly L. Greene , "believed to be the first African American woman licensed as an architect in the United States", took place in a funeral home she had designed?
text: Did you know that ununennium is the element with the lowest atomic number that has not yet been synthesized?
text: Did you know that Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice-elect Christine Donohue is the daughter of a United Mine Worker and a union seamstress?
text: Did you know that glaciers in the Central Karakoram National Park exhibit the "Karakoram anomaly"?
text: Did you know that Abdullah Pasha had his mentor Haim Farhi killed during his first year as Acre 's governor, a position only made possible by Farhi's lobbying efforts?
text: Did you know that Harry Winer and Rob Thomas created one scene from " Of Vice and Men ", an episode of Veronica Mars , because they thought the show was lacking in visual complexity?
text: Did you know that Meithalun is the largest Palestinian village in the Marj Sanur valley?
text: Did you know that Cambodian Princess Soma Norodom , the self-dubbed "Royal Rebel", is known for her exposé newspaper columns about corruption in Cambodia ?
text: Did you know that one of the Somerset cricket team players claimed that they played badly during the 1978 Gillette Cup Final because they were intimidated by the situation?
text: Did you know that Roaring Run is the only wild brook trout and rainbow trout fishery in Pennsylvania?
text: Did you know that Stan and Jan Berenstain had to provide 20,000 sketches of the Bear Family before animators began working on The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree , their first NBC television special?
text: Did you know that before its reconstruction in the late 1990s, Cincinnati 's Fort Washington Way was the most accident-prone mile of urban freeway in Ohio ?
text: Did you know that Soundway Records has released compilation albums and re-issues of African, Caribbean, Latin, and Asian music from the 1950s to 1980s?
text: Did you know that in 1389 Venetian ambassador Pantaleone Barbo fell victim to a robbery while on a diplomatic mission to Hungary?
text: Did you know that Du'a Arafah is a Du'a that was narrated by Husayn ibn Ali , the third Imam of Shia ?
text: Did you know that Taza National Park is a UNESCO -recognized biosphere reserve and includes the largest forest of cork oaks and gall oaks in Algeria?
text: Did you know that the first-ever goal in the Scottish Football League was scored at the original Celtic Park ?
text: Did you know that Eva-Maria Neher , a German scientist in biochemistry and microbiology and founder of Göttingen Xlab, is married to Erwin Neher , a Nobel laureate ?
text: Did you know that Mariah Carey sings about Lego , Harvard University , and Humpty Dumpty in her song " Up Out My Face "?
text: Did you know that Gaggan , an Indian restaurant in Bangkok , Thailand, was named the best restaurant in Asia and tenth worldwide in the 2015 list of The World's 50 Best Restaurants ?
text: Did you know that Israeli Hasidic singer-songwriter Yosef Karduner made Psalm 121 into a hit tune?
text: Did you know that Valls , in the Catalonian district of Alt Camp , is known for its calçots and castells ?
text: Did you know that the whinchat breeds in Europe and western Asia from Ireland and northern Portugal east to the Ob River basin, and from northern Norway south to central Spain, Italy and Greece?
text: Did you know that the Jal Mandir dedicated to Lord Mahavira , the 24th Tirthankara and founder of Jainism , marks the place of his cremation?
text: Did you know that the title of the 17th-century English song " Down Among the Dead Men " is a reference to drunken unconsciousness?
text: Did you know that the American artist Eugenie McEvoy , who created the painting Taxi! Taxi! , was also a vaudeville sharpshooter and a breeder of champion collies ?
text: Did you know that in her 18 years playing the title role on the daily radio soap opera Stella Dallas , Anne Elstner missed only one performance?
text: Did you know that the robust tuco-tuco is threatened by loss of its habitat to agricultural development?
text: Did you know that the Leona Lewis song " I Am " is about her former record label boss Simon Cowell ?
text: Did you know that Mercados Libres Campesinos were farmers' markets in Cuba that operated from 1980 to 1986?
text: Did you know that the former German Reformed Sanctity Church Parsonage is the oldest building in Germantown, New York ?
text: Did you know that Myeong-Hee Yu won a L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science in 1998 for her work on the protein alpha-1 antitrypsin ?
text: Did you know that a Royal Flush elicited a Turkish apology during World War II?
text: Did you know that Marilyn Monroe was featured on the cover and on the centerfold of the first issue of Playboy ?
text: Did you know that even though gambling in Cambodia is illegal for its citizens, gambling addiction is a widespread social issue?
text: Did you know that the seaweed expert Mary Philadelphia Merrifield learnt Swedish so she could correspond with the naturalist Jacob Georg Agardh ?
text: Did you know that Brecon Castle was attacked by the Welsh six times in 58 years?
text: Did you know that despite his service in the Confederate States Army , James Henry Wright was given a military funeral with U.S. Army soldiers marching at the head of the procession?
text: Did you know that Lake Glory has an "inspirational name"?
text: Did you know that after winning the 1979 FA Charity Shield , manager Bob Paisley quipped, "I am just sorry we didn't get two points for it!"?
text: Did you know that Rihanna debuted Anti ' s official artwork and title at a private viewing for fans and press at Los Angeles' MAMA Gallery ?
text: Did you know that chef André Chiang is known for his "Octo-philosophy" of preparing dishes?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 2014 decision that police officers may conduct traffic stops even if they have not personally observed a traffic violation?
text: Did you know that the frigid bumblebee is one of only two species of bumblebee to have natural-borne cues to prevent inbreeding?
text: Did you know that the University of Hong Kong council's decision to reject Johannes Chan 's appointment to pro-vice-chancellor is said to be "very sad news for Hong Kong's autonomy and freedom"?
text: Did you know that Gravity Falls: Legend of the Gnome Gemulets is powered by the UbiArt Framework engine?
text: Did you know that biologist Marvalee Wake , an expert on caecilians , is married to an expert on salamanders ?
text: Did you know that Indian Urdu poet Ale Ahmad Suroor was honoured by Presidents of both India and Pakistan ?
text: Did you know that Sugar Hollow Creek and South Branch Roaring Run are Class A Wild Trout Waters , but are entirely on private land?
text: Did you know that the Apple Pencil features pressure sensitivity and angle detection?
text: Did you know that the lack of activity of the Contadora group led to the creation of the Contadora support group ?
text: Did you know that Larry Kelly founded Shelby Gem Factory , which at one site grows uncut cultured gems, including diamonds , facets them, and mounts them in gold?
text: Did you know that Hygrophorus erubescens is extinct in Britain, not having been seen since 1878?
text: Did you know that salacious sex scenes were filmed for Isabelle Eberhardt , though they did not make the film's final cut?
text: Did you know that MIT microbiologist Boris Magasanik was also an art collector ?
text: Did you know that the 1948 ruling in the Sinn Féin Funds case was that the Sinn Féin party was not legally a continuation of the Sinn Féin party that governed the Irish Republic during the Anglo-Irish War ?
text: Did you know that the glaciologist Moira Dunbar is the only female recipient of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society 's Massey Medal ?
text: Did you know that the Buçaco Forest contains an olive tree to which the future Duke of Wellington tethered his horse?
text: Did you know that Major General Gladeon M. Barnes oversaw the development of the M26 Pershing tank and ENIAC computer?
text: Did you know that the Severn River heath-myrtle is found only along a single ridge?
text: Did you know that the Japanese chemist Chika Kuroda helped to create an antihypertensive drug from an onion skin?
text: Did you know that Järflotta island in Sweden contains both a nature reserve and a 24 cm (9.4 in) calibre gun?
text: Did you know that in the early 1940s, Beatrice Beeby , Joan Wood , and Inge Smithells established the first nursery playcentres, precursor to the present-day Playcentre organisation in New Zealand?
text: Did you know that the Veronica Mars episode " Poughkeepsie, Tramps and Thieves " was scored by Mark Lanegan , with whom series creator Rob Thomas had gone to elementary school?
text: Did you know that medal-winning ice dancer Kakani Katija Young is a bioengineer studying the contribution of sea creatures to tidal movement ?
text: Did you know that Arsenal F.C. broke Nottingham Forest 's record of league matches undefeated during the 2004–05 season ?
text: Did you know that Katherine Cutler Ficken was the first woman to be licensed as an architect in Maryland ?
text: Did you know that the river dolphin is one of the few cetaceans that can turn its head?
text: Did you know that Agathe L. van Beverwijk left her research role at the Amsterdam Cancer Institute because she refused to experiment on animals ?
text: Did you know that the 2015 IFMAR 1:10 Electric Off-Road World Championship became the first tournament in its 30-year history to run on artificial turf ?
text: Did you know that Alejandro González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director nominated for the Academy Award for Best Directing , and the first to win the Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award ?
text: Did you know that Harry Fenn and J. D. Woodward , the artists for Picturesque Palestine , received special permission to sketch within and beneath the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem ?
text: Did you know that the Papakating Creek watershed offers wetland habitats for the endangered bog turtle and rare Fraser's Saint John's wort ?
text: Did you know that a forensic chemist can assist in the identification of unknown materials found at a crime scene?
text: Did you know that baseball player Kenichi Marumo scored a run for the Orix Buffaloes ' first team despite never appearing at the plate?
text: Did you know that the Texas A&M–Commerce Lions women's soccer team has won four Lone Star Conference regular season championships and three conference tournament titles?
text: Did you know that Theodore Roosevelt was quoted in advertising for Bela Lugosi 's first American film, The Silent Command ?
text: Did you know that Admiral Ding Yiping was groomed to be the candidate for commander of the Chinese Navy , but was demoted following a fatal submarine accident ?
text: Did you know that the 26 named tributaries of Bowman Creek include ten streams that are Class A Wild Trout Waters?
text: Did you know that Borja Mayoral was the top scorer at the 2015 UEFA European Under-19 Championship ?
text: Did you know that by 1980, the structure of the Barmouth Viaduct had come under attack from marine woodworm , which threatened its closure?
text: Did you know that camel-hair brushes are made from squirrels?
text: Did you know that Thomas Kirby-Green was one of the first men to escape Stalag Luft III in the "Great Escape" in March 1944?
text: Did you know that the greylag goose was domesticated in Ancient Egypt about 3000 years ago?
text: Did you know that Mariah Carey denounces the existence of poverty and racism in her song " There's Got to Be a Way "?
text: Did you know that places of worship in Waverley, Surrey include a former Strict Baptist chapel founded in a loft by a Jewish convert?
text: Did you know that Gaby Lewis , who made her debut for the Irish women's cricket team at the age of 13, is the first international cricket player to be born in the 21st century?
text: Did you know that Shirazi salad is a traditional salad in Iranian cuisine that originated from Shiraz in Southern Iran?
text: Did you know that Trudeliese Schmidt performed trouser roles at the Salzburg Festival and Mozart's Coronation Mass for a Papal Mass in Rome?
text: Did you know that Andrew III of Hungary left his prison in disguise with two monks' assistance before hastening from Vienna to his coronation in Székesfehérvár in 1290?
text: Did you know that the Kepler space telescope has seen unusual patterns in the light from KIC 8462852 ?
text: Did you know that Japanese animation film company Studio Ghibli produced the animated sequences for the video games Ni no Kuni: Dominion of the Dark Djinn and Wrath of the White Witch ?
text: Did you know that Kathrin Barboza Marquez rediscovered a bat in Bolivia which had been thought to be extinct in the country?
text: Did you know that Bakersfield, California , supported a downtown location for its high-speed rail station in 2003, but opposed it in 2011 due to impacts on its newly revitalized downtown?
text: Did you know that the architect Chitra Vishwanath built her own large mud house in Bengaluru to promote her theme of mud architecture as an environmentally sound proposition?
text: Did you know that Kosherfest , an annual trade fair for the kosher-certified food industry, has been called "a cross between a professional trade show and the buffet line at your cousin's bar mitzva "?
text: Did you know that on 25 February 1990 , Violeta Chamorro of Nicaragua became the first elected woman president in the Americas?
text: Did you know that Battle of Britain , a turn-based strategy video game, contains elements of first-person shooting ?
text: Did you know that over 200 separate lawsuits were filed as part of local authorities swaps litigation after the English courts ruled that swap transactions between banks and local authorities were unlawful?
text: Did you know that Jack jumper ant workers are gamergates ?
text: Did you know that the architect Judith Ledeboer studied at Cambridge but designed buildings for Oxford ?
text: Did you know that the Tofaş Museum of Cars and Anatolian Carriages in Bursa , Turkey, exhibits the replica of a 6th-century B.C. chariot reproduced from artifacts found in a tumulus ?
text: Did you know that the masked perpetrator of the Trollhättan school attack avoided suspicion because it was nearly Halloween ?
text: Did you know that Vernon Jones was the first African American to be elected as CEO of DeKalb County, Georgia , and the youngest person to ever serve in that office?
text: Did you know that players can ride on elephants in Far Cry 4 ?
text: Did you know that Alice Alldredge , an expert on marine snow , has been in the top 0.1% of the Web of Science 's highly cited researchers list since 2003?
text: Did you know that Chuixian San Chi was released in Taiwan to commemorate Ringo Sheena 's first overseas concert?
text: Did you know that Andreas Panayiotou was kicked out of school at the age of 14 for punching his teacher, and became an amateur boxing champion and the UK's largest private landlord?
text: Did you know that in the 1985 John Candy film Volunteers , the Washington State University fight song is used as a battle cry by Thai communist partisans?
text: Did you know that with certain diseases, vaginal discharge can become cheesy , frothy , or fishy ?
text: Did you know that Harveys Lake , the largest natural lake in Pennsylvania by volume, drained into Beaver Run and Bowman Creek in preglacial times, but no longer does so?
text: Did you know that Nelle Morton is thought to have taught the first course on women and religion?
text: Did you know that the video series Every Single Word depicts the lack of people of color in major Hollywood films?
text: Did you know that the old-fashioned doughnut may be deep fried at a lower temperature compared to other styles?
text: Did you know that Bibi Bourelly , who wrote Rihanna 's " Bitch Better Have My Money ", is the daughter of guitarist Jean-Paul Bourelly ?
text: Did you know that the placement of two fossil flies into the species Elephantomyia longirostris has been questioned?
text: Did you know that some French fry vending machines cook frozen fries in hot oil and dispense condiments such as ketchup and mayonnaise?
text: Did you know that Sydney architect Eleanor Cullis-Hill practiced from her home since she felt that women were unwelcome in large architectural offices?
text: Did you know that the French destroyer Jaguar was unique among the Chacal -class destroyers in being fitted to serve as a flagship and she was fitted to accommodate the admiral and his staff?
text: Did you know that the perpetrator of the murder of Richard Everitt was never apprehended, because members of the gang who killed him fled to Bangladesh?
text: Did you know that Netflix paid $60 million to buy distribution rights to the War Machine ?
text: Did you know that starting in 2020, The Ocean Cleanup will endeavour to rid the Great Pacific garbage patch of plastic debris ?
text: Did you know that Daniel Bogado has seen Antonov military aircraft in the Nuba Mountains , and a deaf child in Uganda learning sign language ?
text: Did you know that Yellowknife 's Ragged Ass Road was formerly known as Privy Road because it had many outhouses ?
text: Did you know that the first woman to notoriously wear lipstick in Honduras is said to now be their premier woman poet ?
text: Did you know that corruption in South Sudan is surpassed only by Somalia , North Korea , Sudan , and Afghanistan ?
text: Did you know that Pink Floyd 's Richard Wright was a keen collector of Persian rugs ?
text: Did you know that little egrets have a diet of mainly fish, but they also eat amphibians, small reptiles, mammals and birds, as well as crustaceans, molluscs, insects, spiders and worms?
text: Did you know that Ronald Reagan Cross County Highway in Hamilton County, Ohio , was the first highway to be named after U.S. President Ronald Reagan ?
text: Did you know that the German refugee Mary Saran had a marriage of convenience to help her stay in Britain?
text: Did you know that moviegoers in 1924 saw Justin Victor get away with murder because It Is the Law ?
text: Did you know that following the recent Dadri mob lynching , Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi urged Hindus and Muslims to fight against poverty and not against each other?
text: Did you know that iHeartRadio bet Leona Lewis $5 to sing her name in the style of Jason Derulo at the beginning of her performance of " Thunder " live on air?
text: Did you know that the fuchsia gall mite , a serious pest of Fuchsia , was probably introduced into Europe accidentally by a Fuchsia enthusiast?
text: Did you know that although Monica Pidgeon 's father persuaded her not to study architecture, she went on to edit Architectural Design for almost three decades?
text: Did you know that rapid strep tests may help to limit the use of antibiotics in viral illnesses?
text: Did you know that Cherry Run in Ricketts Glen State Park has been described as "incredibly beautiful" and "phenomenal"?
text: Did you know that in 1971, Kansas Attorney General Vern Miller participated in an undercover drug raid by hiding in a trunk of a car in order to make arrests?
text: Did you know that Salvatore Grimaldi has been described as the "richest immigrant in Sweden"?
text: Did you know that the 2015 FA Women's Cup Final was the first edition to be staged at Wembley Stadium ?
text: Did you know that according to the commander of the Aerospace Force of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution , there are underground missile bases in all the provinces and cities of Iran ready for launch at the Supreme Leader 's order?
text: Did you know that the mold species Dicranophora fulva was not recorded between 1935 and 1994?
text: Did you know that the film Iron Man 2 was dedicated to the memory of DJ AM ?
text: Did you know that billionaire Joseph Grendys has built a business that kills 12 million chickens a week, but lives in the "bungalow where he grew up and drives a beat-up old Cadillac"?
text: Did you know that a Zeppelin helped the Allies during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Roshanara , who was born and trained in India, taught Bette Davis to dance?
text: Did you know that the Program for Action , a transportation proposal in New York City , was drastically truncated in the 1970s due to a lack of funds?
text: Did you know that the one known fossil of the ant species Pachycondyla petrosa might be either a queen or worker?
text: Did you know that the funicular at Valle de Trápaga-Trapagaran provides panoramic views over the Estuary of Bilbao ?
text: Did you know that Harry Anthony replaced John Bieling in the American Quartet ?
text: Did you know that it took only six months to complete the production of Frozen Fever ?
text: Did you know that Ion Buzdugan , poet and deputy of the Romanian nationalist Bessarabian Peasants' Party , was chided for his poor grasp of the Romanian language ?
text: Did you know that Edwin McMillan and Glenn T. Seaborg were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951 for their discovery of the transuranium elements ?
text: Did you know that the Walker Art Gallery changed the name of Giovanni Segantini 's painting The Punishment of Lust to avoid offending the Victorian public ?
text: Did you know that Osaka Tōin High School 's baseball team became national champions in just their fourth year of existence?
text: Did you know that scholars have uncovered the record books of the Tripoli Jewish community and 18th-century manuscripts in the study hall of Hakham Saul Adadi ?
text: Did you know that although Wolf Run is only 0.9 miles (1.4 km) long, it was historically used as a water supply for the Lehigh Valley Railroad ?
text: Did you know that a Ni no Kuni collectible card game was developed for mobile devices?
text: Did you know that the title of Mariah Carey 's song " H.A.T.E.U. " is an acronym for "Having A Typical Emotional Upset"?
text: Did you know that some sushi machines can automatically produce sushi rolls from start to finish?
text: Did you know that Silvana Imam and her girlfriend Beatrice Eli performed together in 2015 under the stage name Vierge Moderne ?
text: Did you know that ATR-16 syndrome causes very similar symptoms to ATR-X syndrome, despite being on different chromosomes ?
text: Did you know that police struggled to investigate double murderer Stephen Farrow , because of his nomadic lifestyle?
text: Did you know that by 1975, the year Marcy Cottrell Houle 's book Wings for My Flight documents, only 324 pairs of peregrine falcons resided in the United States?
text: Did you know that before becoming a provincial governor, Sun Zhigang was the chief of China's Office of Health Care Reform?
text: Did you know that the University of Southern California sports anthem " Tribute to Troy " has been called one of the "top 10 most annoying college football fight songs"?
text: Did you know that Stella Bloch headlined in New York after she returned from learning Javanese dance at the Prince of Solo 's palace?
text: Did you know that Ni no Kuni: Dominion of the Dark Djinn was shipped on a 4-gigabit game card , in order to fit the orchestral music ?
text: Did you know that historian Victor Langlois was tasked with researching the relations between Armenians and the French during the Crusades ?
text: Did you know that the queen Bombus hyperboreus kills the queen of another bumblebee species and takes over its colony ?
text: Did you know that Post Malone coined the song name " White Iverson " after getting braids in his hair, a reference to professional basketball player Allen Iverson ?
text: Did you know that three days before committing a mass shooting and then suicide at Umpqua Community College , Christopher Harper-Mercer reportedly uploaded a documentary on the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting ?
text: Did you know that Teresa Borsuk 's interest in architecture was sparked partly by Lego ?
text: Did you know that jazz violinist Karen Briggs received the moniker "Lady in Red" while featuring as a soloist in Yanni 's Live at the Acropolis tour?
text: Did you know that " Bad Timing ", an Adventure Time episode, is visually framed to have its main action occur in the center, while polygonal creatures comprise the outer margins?
text: Did you know that the mutineers of the Argentine 1987 Carapintada mutiny were named " Carapintadas " ("Painted Faces") for their use of military camouflage ?
text: Did you know that the Bailo of Corfu also administered the affairs of the Venetian dependencies of Butrinto and Lepanto ?
text: Did you know that Lyubow Demeetriyevna Oosava and her fellow students of the Moscow Architectural Institute were required to study architecture and manufacture munitions during World War II?
text: Did you know that L'Isle-Adam is a picturesque town with a beach beside the River Oise in Val-d'Oise ?
text: Did you know that his support of a women's suffrage bill resulted in Gustav A. Hoff being labeled "Petticoat Hoff"?
text: Did you know that the eleventh-century Chinese military compendium Wujing Zongyao contains the earliest known written formulas for gunpowder ?
text: Did you know that the naval historian Peter Padfield was on the maiden voyage of Mayflower II ?
text: Did you know that at the 85th Academy Awards , Silver Linings Playbook became the first film in 31 years to be nominated in all four acting categories ?
text: Did you know that Joshua Wheeler was both the first American service member killed in action by ISIL militants , and the first killed in action in Iraq since 2011?
text: Did you know that San Andrés del Rabanedo is one of the fastest-growing towns in the Spanish Province of León ?
text: Did you know that the BBC was accused of ignoring women architects when Patty Hopkins was removed from a photograph of The Brits Who Built the Modern World ?
text: Did you know that the yellow fly is Florida's most aggressive horse-fly ?
text: Did you know that Tony Award-winning Broadway producer Elizabeth Williams is also an archaeologist and art historian who has taught at Columbia University and UC Berkeley ?
text: Did you know that Golem Arcana is a miniature wargaming game that interfaces with a digital app through the use of a Bluetooth stylus?
text: Did you know that Vida Latham advocated for women in dentistry and medicine throughout her career in both fields?
text: Did you know that the music video for Adam Lambert 's " Another Lonely Night " features a transgender woman as its protagonist?
text: Did you know that Dominik Wörner , winner of the 2002 International Bach Competition , recorded Lieder from Vienna written in the fin de siècle period, including works by Berg , Schönberg , Schreker and Wolf ?
text: Did you know that Villa Geber is best known as being Sweden's second most expensive residential property when it was sold to Salvatore Grimaldi in 2000?
text: Did you know that while Brock Lesnar was stripped of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship by New Japan Pro Wrestling, Inoki Genome Federation continued to recognize him as the IWGP Heavyweight Champion ?
text: Did you know that Centris pallida male bees regularly have internal temperatures only three degrees Celsius (about five degrees Fahrenheit) from being lethal?
text: Did you know that the 2012 drama film Smashed was partly funded by Minnesota Vikings owner Zygi Wilf ?
text: Did you know that Arba'een Pilgrimage , the world's largest annual gathering, is held every year 40 days after Ashura for the commemoration of Husayn ibn Ali 's death?
text: Did you know that Tomoya Kawakita , a Japanese-American convicted of treason against the United States after World War II, was arrested after a former POW recognized him in a Los Angeles department store ?
text: Did you know that pink earth lichen was once thought to be in the same genus as the similar-looking brown beret lichen , until DNA sequencing proved otherwise?
text: Did you know that Israeli police theorize that the NIS 9 million embezzled from the Itri yeshiva in 1999 was meant to pay for the defense of politician Aryeh Deri in his 2000 corruption trial?
text: Did you know that South Branch Bowman Creek is also known as Cherry Run, but only by mistake?
text: Did you know that Mark Slonim , professor of Russian literature at Sarah Lawrence College in the 1950s, was once offered a job by Benito Mussolini ?
text: Did you know that a burial urn on display in Aydın Archaeological Museum depicts destiny's gods Moirai , the god of the underworld Hades , the judges of the underworld, and Hades' three-headed guard dog Cerberus ?
text: Did you know that Constance Leathart , one of the first women to fly over the Alps, flew heavy bombers in the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that Federal Emergency Plan D-Minus was a U.S. government plan for recovery efforts in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear attack?
text: Did you know that, if King Louis I of Hungary is to be trusted, his in-law Maria of Bosnia had children in her fifties and lived to be over 90?
text: Did you know that the actor Ewan McGregor is making his directorial debut with American Pastoral , after the original director left?
text: Did you know that Colonel John Shelton was so unpopular with his men that they gave three cheers upon hearing of his death?
text: Did you know that Michael Francis Egan served as the first Bishop of Philadelphia from 1808 to 1814?
text: Did you know that the anime series Charlotte has been described as defying the " moe anime" stereotype?
text: Did you know that the Commonwealth of Independent States may be an example of the international relations concept of nesting ?
text: Did you know that The Mother is the best-known novel by Maxim Gorky and his only novel on the Russian revolutionary movement?
text: Did you know that the BBC 's pre-match coverage of the 2002 FA Cup Final included a sketch featuring Ricky Gervais ?
text: Did you know that architect Eva Vecsei has designed projects in Hungary, Canada and Pakistan?
text: Did you know that the Sulawesi myna sometimes issues a "meeow"-like sound with its head thrusting forwards and its back feathers fluffed up?
text: Did you know that the London-based architect Rosemary Stjernstedt was the first woman to reach senior grade I status in a British council county division?
text: Did you know that Yellowknifers no longer swim in the city's Frame Lake for fear of leeches in the water?
text: Did you know that the Pakistani politician, ex-colonel, and ex-commander of the 13th Lancers Shuja Khanzada was recently assassinated by suicide bombers ?
text: Did you know that Scaptotrigona postica worker bees can trace the scent markers of workers from other colonies in order to find food sources?
text: Did you know that George Edward Hilt founded the largest farm-store retailer in the United States?
text: Did you know that the municipality of Amorebieta-Etxano was formed in 1951 by the merger of two communities, one of which had nearly 17,000 inhabitants by 2014 while the other had just 221?
text: Did you know that the director of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter says it really will be the final chapter of Resident Evil ?
text: Did you know that Cecile Hoover Edwards , an expert on African-American nutrition, sought to identify low-cost foods with an optimal amino acid composition?
text: Did you know that in the 14th century, the Catalan town of Santa Coloma de Queralt had a large Jewish population?
text: Did you know that Harry Alexander was captain of England for just one match?
text: Did you know that Whiplash won the Grand Jury Prize as well as the Audience Award at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival , where it premiered?
text: Did you know that in 1888, Vasile Morțun became the first socialist elected to the Romanian Assembly of Deputies ?
text: Did you know that the yellow-faced myna may pair for life?
text: Did you know that when George Givot played Mae West 's character's lover in blackface in a 1931 Broadway play, producers had him remove his wig after each performance to show patrons he was white?
text: Did you know that there is a large horseshoe in downtown Zagreb , Croatia?
text: Did you know that Mercedes Gleitze had to attempt to swim the English Channel again to prove she had already done it?
text: Did you know that Ryan Adams 's album 1989 is a cover of a Taylor Swift album of the same name?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler El Hijo de Dos Caras needed an opponent's help to hold a ladder so he could win a ladder match ?
text: Did you know that environmental issues in Tehran include severe air pollution and a high risk of earthquakes?
text: Did you know that Mahmood Yakubu is the first and only Northern Nigerian with a first-class degree in history ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. President's Guest House is larger than the White House ?
text: Did you know that metal corsets probably served a medical purpose rather than being a "cruel, tortuous fashion" enforced by a dominant 16th-century queen ?
text: Did you know that serial killer Lizzie Halliday was the first woman sentenced to die in the electric chair ?
text: Did you know that Modern Vampires of the City was called "a deeply God-haunted work"?
text: Did you know that ghost insects may camouflage themselves as leaves swaying in the breeze?
text: Did you know that a "monster" confessed dramatically, " My heart swims in blood "?
text: Did you know that "even the dead sit for Buehman "?
text: Did you know that vampires were caught on camera in Prague ?
text: Did you know that Frank H. Winter presented the American Astronautical Society 's first Goddard Memorial Lecture and received a medal for it?
text: Did you know that Dreams , an upcoming sandbox video game, has an impressionist art-style?
text: Did you know that the suicide of Chinese silent film actress Ai Xia inspired a film starring Ruan Lingyu , who also committed suicide soon after the film's release?
text: Did you know that the Royalist guerrillas of Operation Honorable Dragon ran from "ghosts"?
text: Did you know that Agnes Okoh , an illiterate Nigerian, founded Christ Holy Church International ?
text: Did you know that the sooty sea hare can swim and is able to emit toxic clouds of ink?
text: Did you know that Keenan Reynolds is the only Navy quarterback to win all four games against Army ?
text: Did you know that Etta Federn received Nazi death threats because of her Walther Rathenau biography?
text: Did you know that when Howard Hughes overstayed his 10-day reservation at Las Vegas' Desert Inn and was asked to leave, he responded by buying the hotel?
text: Did you know that Francis Fowler , architect of London's Metropole Hotel , was found guilty of corruption and was forced to resign from the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1888 after 20 years of service?
text: Did you know that the horned dinosaur Hualianceratops was the size of a spaniel ?
text: Did you know that goalkeeper Sakura Hauge joined the Japan women's national handball team in 2015, after years of trying to get a place on the Norwegian team ?
text: Did you know that nearly one thousand rock carvings from the Bronze Age have been found on the island of Åmøy ?
text: Did you know that after music producer Tom Collins ' receptionist asked him to make a record of her singing, it won BMI 's Song of the Year and she won the Academy of Country Music 's Female Vocalist of the Year?
text: Did you know that Tintin and the Picaros was the only book completed by Hergé in the last 15 years of his life?
text: Did you know that the California/Nevada border passes through both the main dining room and the swimming pool of the Cal Neva Lodge & Casino ?
text: Did you know that 13 years after Lydia Emelie Gruchy graduated her theological studies with honors, she was finally ordained in 1936 as the first female minister of the United Church of Canada ?
text: Did you know that a cyclone caused historic flooding in Yemen in 1996?
text: Did you know that Martin Selig and his family fled the Nazis via Poland, Russia, Korea, and Japan, got off the boat in Seattle "on a whim", and later built the tallest building there ?
text: Did you know that the Hindu text Pranagnihotra Upanishad asserts that all the gods are enclosed in every human body?
text: Did you know that at the age of 10, Zuriel Oduwole became the world's youngest person to appear in Forbes ?
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text: Did you know that Rachel Davis Harris was an influential African American library director in the Jim Crow South?
text: Did you know that at a length of 3 m (10 ft), Phosphorosaurus was small for a mosasaur ?
text: Did you know that Beverly Thomas Galloway was a pioneer in plant pathology and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture ?
text: Did you know that the 6004th Air Intelligence Service Squadron contained commandos, linguists, scholars, saboteurs, and spies, as well as intelligence specialists?
text: Did you know that Temerl Bergson , a wealthy businesswoman and patroness of Hasidic Jews in 19th-century Poland, "distributed money like ashes"?
text: Did you know that Soviet Russia offered to return the Chinese Eastern Railway to the Chinese people as part of the 1919 Karakhan Manifesto ?
text: Did you know that Duncan Robinson 's sixth-grade graduating class had only four students?
text: Did you know that the 22nd Crash Rescue Boat Squadron never lost a boat during its secret Korean War infiltrations into North Korea and China?
text: Did you know that Mrs Beeton became used as a generic name for "an authority on cooking and domestic subjects"?
text: Did you know that the mushroom Boletopsis grisea is threatened by deforestation, air pollution, and the use of fertilizers and lime used to increase timber production?
text: Did you know that Daniel Montgomery Boyd was once described as a "liberal supporter financially of all worthy enterprises"?
text: Did you know that with the recent Korean textbook controversy , South Korea has been perceived as losing its moral high ground in regard to its criticism of the perceived problems with Japanese history textbooks ?
text: Did you know that Grand Vizier Kör Yusuf Ziyaüddin Pasha commanded Ottoman ground forces against the French occupation of Egypt?
text: Did you know that the Karachi Kings is the most expensive franchise team of the Pakistan Super League ?
text: Did you know that, although Elizabeth Gray died, her family's tradition of collecting fossils at Girvan lasted for 86 years?
text: Did you know that the Bonifacio Monument in the Philippines is 45 feet (14 m) in height, with symbolic images and features, and known as the "Cry of Pugadlawin"?
text: Did you know that African American artist James Dupree almost lost his Philadelphia studio under eminent domain ?
text: Did you know that Geitungen Lighthouse had the first diaphone installed in Norway?
text: Did you know that the nun Jeanne des Anges was the main protagonist of the witch trials which led to the death by burning of a French priest?
text: Did you know that the blackstripe livebearer can carry several clutches of young at different stages of development at the same time?
text: Did you know that Monica Gardner 's life was shaped by finding that Bonnie Prince Charlie 's mother was from Poland?
text: Did you know that as Director of the General Political Department of the Fourth Front Army, Zhang Qinqiu held the highest war-time position of a woman in the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ?
text: Did you know that Mozu kofungun was originally a group of more than 100 Japanese kofun burial mounds of which now less than 50% remain of the key-hole, rectangular, round and unknown shapes?
text: Did you know that Spanish footballer Alejandro Zamora 's only La Liga match was also the last match of Héctor Cúper as the Real Betis manager?
text: Did you know that the mihrab in the Kabuli Bagh Mosque has an epigraph which includes the "Throne Verse from the Quran "?
text: Did you know that the marble peak Sinanitsa in Pirin is regarded as one of Bulgaria's most beautiful summits?
text: Did you know that Sarla Bedi established the Hindu reform movement Arya Samaj in Toronto , Canada, and promoted social causes?
text: Did you know that the Left Jab cleared the way for Diamond Arrow ?
text: Did you know that cell biologist Margaret Reed Lewis may have been the first person to successfully grow mammalian tissue in vitro ?
text: Did you know that David Leitch left his partner Chad Stahelski 's John Wick 2 in order to direct The Coldest City ?
text: Did you know that Ladislaus IV of Hungary abducted his sister, Elizabeth , from a monastery to give her in marriage to a Czech lord, Zavis of Falkenstein ?
text: Did you know that Lake Milh in Iraq, a wetland of international importance, is fed by water from Lake Habbaniyah which comes from the Euphrates ?
text: Did you know that Jane Fraser has been promoted to four CEO posts at Citigroup since joining in 2004?
text: Did you know that Rakastava ( The Lover ) was first a song cycle for men's chorus by Jean Sibelius which he transformed to a suite for string orchestra, percussion and triangle?
text: Did you know that it cost the son of Turkey's president $20 million to get Pretty ?
text: Did you know that the world's first Labor Party national government was Australia's Watson Government of 1904?
text: Did you know that the Spanish footballer Francisco Sutil offered to play for a reduced salary at a team nearer to his girlfriend?
text: Did you know that Brazil nut cake is common and popular in the Amazon region of Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru?
text: Did you know that by composing music such as Finlandia , Jean Sibelius boosted Finnish patriotism in the face of Russian oppression ?
text: Did you know that the Neor Lake , a shallow lake located in a hilly area south of the Ardabil Province of Iran, was formed due to two fault zones during the Eocene period?
text: Did you know that writer Brendan McNamara wanted players to connect to the characters of L.A. Noire in a way not previously achieved in video games?
text: Did you know that Chinese politician Huang Jing , the father of a top Communist leader and a top intelligence officer who defected to the United States, was married to Madame Mao ?
text: Did you know that Villanova won the 1985 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game despite taking the fewest shots of any team in a men's Final Four game?
text: Did you know that Cento vergilianus de laudibus Christi , a Latin poem by Faltonia Betitia Proba , takes lines from the works of the Roman poet Virgil and rearranges them to be about Jesus ?
text: Did you know that the origin of clementine cake may be roughly based upon an orange cake developed by the Sephardi Jews ?
text: Did you know that in 1895 Sister Krucifiksa founded a school dedicated to the Sacred Heart , which accepted children regardless of their religious affiliation or ethnic background?
text: Did you know that Pope Pius IX ensured that the American College would get the property of a former convent where he used to serve Mass as a boy?
text: Did you know that Thomas Maddock started the American indoor toilet industry through his invention?
text: Did you know that although not her team's designated sprinter , Giorgia Bronzini won the 2015 Tour of Chongming Island World Cup in a bunch sprint ?
text: Did you know that Mary Frances Clarke helped move the religious order Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary , which she had founded, from Philadelphia to Dubuque, Iowa , with their piano?
text: Did you know that in 1972 Captain Tim Forster became the first victorious racehorse owner and trainer since World War II by winning the Grand National with Well To Do?
text: Did you know that Exercise Vigilant Eagle is a series of military exercises involving Canada, Russia, and the United States?
text: Did you know that as Master of the Sacred Apostolic Palace , Cardinal Raimondo Capizucchi condemned probabilism , but was initially fascinated by quietism ?
text: Did you know that Heðin á Lakjuni scored his 100th goal in the Faroe Islands Premier League in May 2015, while playing for KÍ Klaksvík ?
text: Did you know that the fossil millipede Maatidesmus paachtun is named from the Mayan words for "amber", "back", and "stone"?
text: Did you know that The DeMarco Sisters were featured singers in the 1952 film Skirts Ahoy! with actress Esther Williams ?
text: Did you know that at least nine Christmas operas have been based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol ?
text: Did you know that the Victorian Christmas bush is a member of the mint family ?
text: Did you know that " Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus " is intended to make people remember the Nativity of Jesus ?
text: Did you know that " Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas ", as sung by Frank Sinatra and backed by Gus Levene and his orchestra, was originally recorded for the soundtrack of a 1963 war film ?
text: Did you know that the brown Christmas beetle can eat eucalyptus leaves to the point of defoliating the tree?
text: Did you know that in Wales , there is one Christmas carol that is traditionally sung only by men?
text: Did you know that in 1988, a NASA network was infected with a computer worm which sought to send all users a message from Father Christmas ?
text: Did you know that " Every Day Is a Holiday " is Katy Perry 's first Christmas song ?
text: Did you know that Lady Alice Lucy toured towns giving presents of bread and meat each Christmas?
text: Did you know that the 2004 Frank Sinatra Christmas Collection features three previously unavailable tracks, including Sinatra's last recorded Christmas carol?
text: Did you know that the once-common King Christmas beetle has all but vanished from the Sydney region?
text: Did you know that " Christmas Day in the Workhouse " was a criticism of the harsh conditions in English and Welsh workhouses under the 1834 Poor Law ?
text: Did you know that the English actor Patrick Stewart plays more than 30 characters in his one-man stage performance of A Christmas Carol ?
text: Did you know that in his Christmas cantata Unser Mund sei voll Lachens , BWV 110 , Bach embedded voices in the overture of his fourth orchestral suite and achieved a "marvellous rendition of laughter-in-music"?
text: Did you know that Queen's Christmas Eve 1975 gig at the Hammersmith Odeon was one of the first shows where " Bohemian Rhapsody " was played live?
text: Did you know that Jazzar Pasha successfully resisted Napoleon Bonaparte 's siege of Acre , forcing a French withdrawal from Palestine?
text: Did you know that Rodrigo Duterte 's presidential bid was unexpected because he had failed to submit his candidacy before the deadline?
text: Did you know that the Chinese zokor , a small burrowing rodent, is considered to be an ecosystem engineer ?
text: Did you know that physiotherapist Avrilia Papayannis lived as a hermit in the Himalayas before becoming a Greek Orthodox nun later known as Mother Gavrielia?
text: Did you know that a photo mailed to the Sodder family of Fayetteville, West Virginia , in 1968 is believed by them to be of one of their five children unaccounted for after a fire destroyed their home 70 years ago today?
text: Did you know that the lobby of the $1 million St. Nicholas Hotel in New York City featured a painting of Sinterklaas placing presents into Christmas stockings ?
text: Did you know that new Iowa State Cyclones head coach Matt Campbell was hired on his 36th birthday?
text: Did you know that the Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran comprises three Armenian monasteries established between the 7th and 14th centuries C.E.?
text: Did you know that despite his role in saving its property from seizure by the Kingdom of Italy , Augustine Schulte was denied rectorship of the American College in Rome ?
text: Did you know that Macroelongatoolithus is a kind of giant fossil egg that can be over 60 centimetres (24 in) long, and probably was laid by a gigantic oviraptorid ?
text: Did you know that puppeteer Bernard H. Paul performed the first children's television program?
text: Did you know that the cross-shaped fortress church of Capul was built in a similar style to Intramuros in Manila ?
text: Did you know that Australian priest Elizabeth Alfred led Holy Communion on her 100th birthday?
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text: Did you know that the British orthopaedic surgeon Samantha Tross made long jumps during her education?
text: Did you know that the song "Vrehei Fotia Sti Strata Mou" ("It's Raining Fire In My Way"), heard in the 1970 film Visibility Zero , launched the career of Greek laïko singer Stratos Dionysiou ?
text: Did you know that Steven J. Lopes has been named the first bishop of any of the Catholic Church 's three Anglican Use ordinariates ?
text: Did you know that the extinct bee Euglossopteryx has a pollen basket made of long setae ?
text: Did you know that the lord of Palmyra , Muhanna ibn Isa , twice defected to the Ilkhanate , but was forgiven by Sultan al-Nasir and returned to Mamluk authority?
text: Did you know that Chris Christie credits his wife, Mary Pat Christie , and her financial success on Wall Street as the reason he could give up his law career and run for political office?
text: Did you know that the Royal Regalia Building Museum exhibits include the golden hand and forearm that the Sultan of Brunei used to prop up his chin during his coronation?
text: Did you know that between 2009 and 2014, the number of Indonesia's air passengers increased more than threefold, to over 94 million?
text: Did you know that basketball player Malcolm Grant tied the Miami Hurricanes single-game record for three-pointers in 2011?
text: Did you knowthat James Battersby of Battersby Hats believed that Adolf Hitler was Christ returned despite his father being on the RMS Lusitania when it was torpedoed by a German U-boat ?
text: Did you know that the first gristmill in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania , was constructed on Hop Bottom Creek ?
text: Did you know that Kini Kapahu was recognized as Hawaii 's "Honorary First Lady"?
text: Did you know that Carl Llewellyn has won the Whitbread / Bet365 Gold Cup both as a jockey and as a trainer?
text: Did you know that when a male clearfin livebearer mates with a female headwater livebearer , the offspring are all female?
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text: Did you know that General Jacob L. Devers was the second-most senior American officer in Europe during World War II?
text: Did you know that between 2,000 and 30,000 people were killed in the communal riots in Bihar in 1946 ?
text: Did you know that interior designer Lena Larsson became known as a pioneer for the unconventional, family-friendly environments she created?
text: Did you know that the Texas State Federation of Labor affiliated with the American Federation of Labor in 1903 only to avoid conflict with the railroad brotherhoods ?
text: Did you know that there were three Cumbrian Armitt sisters in the 19th century who all became writers— Sophia , Mary Louisa , and the novelist Annie ?
text: Did you know that the De Rohan Arch and the Hompesch Gate in Malta were built to commemorate Żebbuġ and Żabbar 's elevation to city status?
text: Did you know that a white, straight, female character in Master of None was rewritten as a black lesbian after Lena Waithe read for the role?
text: Did you know that the 1964 Atlantic hurricane season featured the highest number of hurricanes to landfall in the United States since the 1933 season ?
text: Did you know that a cascade development on the Hrazdan River is the largest hydro-power scheme in Armenia?
text: Did you know that opera singer Camellia Johnson performed at Donald Trump 's wedding ceremonies to Marla Maples and Melania Knauss ?
text: Did you know that Wu Chengzhen was the first woman to be ordained as a Taoist fangzhang ?
text: Did you know that the most dominant fish species of the Lighthouse Reef in Belize are the creole wrasse and blue chromis ?
text: Did you know that actor Alex Saxon was told that his character in Finding Carter was to be killed off, but a month later found out that plans had changed?
text: Did you know that when a new digital system of payment was put in place to prevent the skimming of salaries for Afghan police, the policemen thought they had been given a raise?
text: Did you know that former National Football League head coach Jerry Glanville was among the drivers in the inaugural NASCAR Truck Series race ?
text: Did you know that physiotherapist Janet Carr specialised in rehabilitation after stroke ?
text: Did you know that the Democratic -controlled 25th Arizona Territorial Legislature overrode vetoes to bills creating a literacy test for voters and authorizing segregation of "African" students?
text: Did you know that the Colombian footballer Stiven Mendoza signed in 2013 for América de Cali , the team which he supports?
text: Did you know that Native Americans occupied sites throughout the East Lake Abert Archeological District for approximately 11,000 years?
text: Did you know that Mark Hovell , a historian of Chartism , died during the First World War when he fell down a mine shaft?
text: Did you know that " Busy Earnin' " details the circumstances of spending too much time making money?
text: Did you know that Wimmera ryegrass is grown as a forage crop in Australia, despite sometimes being toxic to livestock?
text: Did you know that Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice-elect David Wecht was one of three victors in the "most expensive judicial election in U.S. history"?
text: Did you know that the Eckwersheim derailment in November 2015 is the only fatal accident of the TGV since it entered commercial service in 1981?
text: Did you know that of the more than 3,000 midwives working in the state of Florida in the early 1920s, Victoria Joyce Ely was the only one who was trained and licensed?
text: Did you know that Kennedy Creek is only about 5 miles (8 km) long, but is popular for canoeing?
text: Did you know that gastroenterologist Sara Murray Jordan co-wrote a cookbook titled Good Food for Bad Stomachs ?
text: Did you know that pianist Ken Noda composed his first opera at the age of ten?
text: Did you know that among the wildlife found in Oman are the Arabian wildcat , the Dhofar toad , and the Oman garra , a freshwater fish with a blind, cave-dwelling form?
text: Did you know that the scientist Harold Horton Sheldon wrote as early as 1929 about the serious possibility of man visiting other planets one day with the aid of rockets?
text: Did you know that 35 years ago today, NBC broadcast an entire NFL game without any announcers ?
text: Did you know that although only 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long, Oxbow Inlet 's silica, iron, magnesium, calcium, and sulfate concentrations were measured in 1966?
text: Did you know that fifth-century poet Bao Zhao was executed following the failed rebellion of a child prince?
text: Did you know that in 1964, a Swedish princess married an English businessman in Gärdslösa Church ?
text: Did you know that Bambi delivered over 35,000 babies?
text: Did you know that Vice Premier Chen Muhua , one of China's top women politicians, was forced to give away her daughter and did not reunite with her until three decades later?
text: Did you know that India is celebrating 26 November as Constitution Day as part of the 125th birth anniversary celebrations for Dr. B. R. Ambedkar ?
text: Did you know that Jan McFarlane , the Archdeacon of Norwich , worked with deaf children before being ordained?
text: Did you know that one of the Brunei Museum exhibits consists of replicas of the suits of armour and weapons used in Japan from the 8th to 14th centuries?
text: Did you know that Priscilla Chan and her husband Mark Zuckerberg pledged to donate 99 percent of their Facebook shares, valued at $45 billion, to their charitable foundation?
text: Did you know that Srimanthudu became the second-biggest Telugu film opener of the year, with a first-day global gross of ₹ 310 million?
text: Did you know that while working on her graduate degree in chemistry, Emīlija Gudriniece won the Latvian Women's Motorcycle Championship in 1949, and then won it again in 1953?
text: Did you know that the only building still extant that is definitely attributed to Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni Mangone is Palazzo Massimo di Pirro in Rome?
text: Did you know that Jarvis Cocker personally contacted Tony Christie asking him to appear on the All Seeing I 's " Walk like a Panther "?
text: Did you know that molecular cell biologist Mónica Bettencourt-Dias also studied scientific communication, the way scientists communicate with the public?
text: Did you know that the east–west incense route , which operated from 300 BC to 200 AD in the northern Negev , brought economic progress to the Nabataeans ?
text: Did you know that Sydney Beck was invited by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy to organize and conduct the musical entertainment for a state dinner at the White House ?
text: Did you know that the watershed of Ackerly Creek is the most developed part of the Tunkhannock Creek watershed?
text: Did you know that the noble Roman Capizucchi family declined financially because of the passion of some of its members for gambling ?
text: Did you know that Hayden Epstein set a record for the longest field goal by a Michigan Wolverines football player after setting a record for the longest field goal by a Michigan State Spartans opponent?
text: Did you know that cotton, which is called mian or mumian in Chinese , was first produced in China from an area now known as Yunnan , some time around 200 BC?
text: Did you know that Argentine author Patricia Ratto 's novel Trasfondo depicts life on a submarine during the Falklands/Malvinas War ?
text: Did you know that the Dahla Dam in Kandahar Province is the second-largest dam in Afghanistan?
text: Did you know that a poem composed by Ananda Thuriya of Pagan minutes before his execution is considered the first known poem in Burmese ?
text: Did you know that 6,000 slices of strawberry cake were served at the Strawberry Festival at La Trinidad, Benguet , Philippines, in March 2015?
text: Did you know that Ruth Schmidt , an employee of the United States Geological Survey , was questioned in two McCarthyist hearings because of her association with a bookstore?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film Birth of the Dragon is about Bruce Lee as a young martial artist and his famous fight with Shaolin Master Wong Jack Man in 1965?
text: Did you know that at the age of 18, Mario Trafeli became the youngest winner of the North American Outdoor Speedskating Championship with a win in the final 5-mile (8.0 km) race?
text: Did you know that Max Reger composed "in new simplicity" Unser lieben Frauen Traum , a motet suitable for Advent , about a dream of Mary of a tree growing in her?
text: Did you know that the War of the Maidens involved neither war nor maidens, only men dressed up as women?
text: Did you know that conservationist Rose Gaffney , known as "The Belle of Bodega Bay," helped halt the construction of a nuclear power plant in Bodega Bay, California ?
text: Did you know that although the fossil egg genus Protoceratopsidovum means " Protoceratops egg", it does not represent the eggs of a protoceratopsid , but rather the eggs of maniraptoran theropods ?
text: Did you know that Doris Calloway studied farts, space food, and broccoli?
text: Did you know that cardiologist Walter S. Graf was a pioneer in establishing the modern system of paramedic emergency care?
text: Did you know that in 2015, for the first time, a women's cycling race took place just prior to the final stage of the Vuelta a España ?
text: Did you know that Christopher Duggan , a British historian of Italy, once had his home raided by the Italian antiterrorism unit ?
text: Did you know that the major export markets for Afghan almonds are India and Pakistan, with the former preferred because of better profitability?
text: Did you know that Elisa Oricchio identified that the ephrin receptor EphA7 plays a role in tumor development of follicular lymphoma ?
text: Did you know that the dwarf shrub Zygophyllum qatarense has adaptations to help it survive the harsh environment of the wildlife of Bahrain ?
text: Did you know that in 1917, future folk musician and Carnegie Institute of Technology professor emeritus Robert Schmertz was arrested while dressed in "a girl's middy blouse and a small white hat"?
text: Did you know that as of 2015, India's second highest civilian award has been conferred upon 18 non-citizen recipients including Edmund Hillary , one of the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest ?
text: Did you know that Iris perrieri was named after Baron Eugène Pierre Perrier de la Bâthie, who ran a speciality plant nursery in Albertville?
text: Did you know that Vincenzo Bellini 's Oboe Concerto , written while he was a student, was possibly influenced by the wordless songs of his teacher Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli ?
text: Did you know that when former rugby league player Casey Conway came out , he expressed disappointment that Anthony Mundine had claimed homosexuality was not an acceptable part of Aboriginal culture?
text: Did you know that some of the fruits used to produce Paper Boat –brand beverages are sourced in the wild ?
text: Did you know that Thawun Gyi was the founder of the Principality of Toungoo of Myanmar ?
text: Did you knowthat Wilson's Allen , a Tennessee Walking Horse stallion , was buried three different times?
text: Did you know that in the 1970s, the Sheraton Skyline Hotel at London Heathrow had a Wild West -themed cabaret show?
text: Did you know that Hurricane Dennis in 2005 killed 56 people and wrought US$50 million in damage throughout Haiti ?
text: Did you know that the latest promotion in York City's recent history came in 2012, when they beat Luton Town at Wembley Stadium in the Conference Premier play-off final ?
text: Did you know that collaboration between botanists Elinor Francis Vallentin and A.D. Cotton resulted in the first comprehensive study of cryptogams from the Falkland Islands ?
text: Did you know that the Gndevank , a well-preserved church dedicated to St. Stephen , is built in the form of a cross-dome of four apses, with a circular tambour over a cupola ?
text: Did you know that the New York City neighborhood of Spring Creek was once known as the place where "the city came to an end"?
text: Did you know that at 101 years old, Esther Somerfeld-Ziskind was still attending patients at Los Angeles Children's Hospital?
text: Did you know that searchers believed Michael Williams ' body had been eaten by alligators in Lake Seminole after he disappeared 15 years ago today—until they learned alligators don't feed in winter?
text: Did you know that the foreign direct investment in the mining industry of Laos has made significant contributions to the economic condition of Laos since 2003–04?
text: Did you know that Ida Dixon , designer of the 18-hole golf course at the Springhaven Club, was the first female golf course architect in the United States?
text: Did you know that the 113 East Roosevelt development will host the tallest building in the South Side of Chicago ?
text: Did you know that Graham Waterhouse , who played the solo part in his Cello Concerto in Mexico in 1995, performed it at his university in Cambridge?
text: Did you know that the address of the official residence of the Philippine ambassador to Japan can be translated literally as "a hill from which one can get a good perspective of Mt. Fuji"?
text: Did you know that one of Frank Sinatra 's most widely known public insults was leveled against The Washington Post columnist Maxine Cheshire ?
text: Did you know that Claudette Sorel discovered and premiered two previously unknown Rachmaninoff nocturnes?
text: Did you know that Lilo Milchsack was one of "the architects of post-war Europe"?
text: Did you know that people from 19 countries can visit Kazakhstan without a visa?
text: Did you know that Bank Tabungan Negara , established in 1897, was frozen during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia and then nationalized by the Indonesian government after the war?
text: Did you know that the Gateway Center shopping mall in Brooklyn , New York, is built on a former landfill ?
text: Did you know that Anne Beloff-Chain founded the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Buckingham ?
text: Did you know that the American ballad " Cold Rain and Snow " was performed by the Grateful Dead throughout their career?
text: Did you know that Thomas Gould busked at Westminster Underground Station in an attempt to recreate the Washington Post' s Joshua Bell experiment ?
text: Did you know that each of the six laps of the 2015 Philadelphia Cycling Classic ended with a climb up the 800-metre-long (2,600 ft) Manayunk Wall ?
text: Did you know that Folake Solanke is the first female Senior Advocate of Nigeria ?
text: Did you know that at a 1966 concert , Frank Sinatra joked about the evenings he and others spent carousing at Dean Martin 's Bel Air mansion ?
text: Did you know that French biochemist André Voisin is considered one of the founding thinkers of the permaculture movement?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Fukuda Bay in 1565 was the first recorded naval battle between Europeans and the Japanese?
text: Did you know that Blake Lively will be surviving shark attacks in The Shallows ?
text: Did you know that Project NOAH Executive Director Mahar Lagmay of the Philippines won the Plinius Medal awarded by the European Geosciences Union in 2015?
text: Did you know that Queen Elizabeth , Prince Charles and Prince William have all stayed at the Explorer Hotel when visiting Yellowknife ?
text: Did you know that Jessica Garretson Finch was a suffragette who founded Finch College and advocated for careers for women?
text: Did you know that 200 acts performed at the final Camden Crawl music festival in 2014?
text: Did you know that Chinese Vice Premier Fang Yi lost his mother 26 days after he was born, and his father at the age of eight?
text: Did you know that the wildlife of Saudi Arabia includes species endemic to the region such as the Arabian woodpecker ?
text: Did you know that Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier was called the "Virgin of Italy" by his troops?
text: Did you know that astrophysicist Naomi McClure-Griffiths discovered a new spiral arm in the Milky Way ?
text: Did you know that butter for consumer use is graded "AA", "A", or "B" in the United States, but in Canada is graded "Canada 1", "Canada 2", or "Canada 3"?
text: Did you know that Jack Entratter 's "Copa Girls" wore US$12,000 worth of costumes for opening night in the Sands Hotel and Casino 's Copa Room ?
text: Did you know that the Tusheti National Park , called one of the "12 best places you’ve never heard of" by BudgetTravel, has rich biodiversity with aesthetic terrain, hamlets, old defense towers, and folk culture?
text: Did you know that Squadron Leader Daniel Everett was decorated three times for gallantry before being killed in action?
text: Did you know that garage rock was the first form of music to be called "punk rock"?
text: Did you know that Johann Ludwig Hasslocher's French teachers in Manhattan couldn't pronounce his name, so they changed it to " Louis Hostlot "?
text: Did you know that the HTC Desire 200 , a low-end smartphone released in 2013, came with HTC 's "highest quality in-ear headset"?
text: Did you know that May Owen discovered that the talcum powder used on surgical gloves caused infection and peritoneal scarring?
text: Did you know that the use of dairy salt that is impure can have adverse effects upon butter , spoiling its flavor, grain and preservation?
text: Did you know that art dealer Konrad Bernheimer was born in Venezuela after his grandfather made a deal with Hermann Göring to allow the family to flee Germany?
text: Did you know that the Seven Coloured Earths in Chamarel are the result of the cooling of molten rock from 3.5 to 7 million years ago?
text: Did you know that in the 2014 edition of Indonesia's Jakarta Marathon , a limited number of African athletes were invited because of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Africa?
text: Did you know that Christopher John O'Neill , now a Broadway actor, was discovered by a casting director for The Book of Mormon while performing comedy at Edinburgh Festival Fringe ?
text: Did you know that the chief of Cambodia's National Police Force, Neth Savoeun , is a member of the ruling party's Central Committee and married to the Prime Minister 's niece?
text: Did you know that Minnesotan actor Odin Biron moved to Moscow speaking almost no Russian but went on to become a popular character on the top-rated Russian sitcom Interns ?
text: Did you know that since 1858, all new streets containing terraced houses in the United Kingdom have been at least 36 feet (11 m) wide?
text: Did you know that in 2000 Midori Suzuki was a soprano in Sigiswald Kuijken's recording of Bach's Mass in B minor which uses one voice per part?
text: Did you know that Wat Intharawihan was originally called Wat Rai Phrik, meaning "vegetable" in the Thai language , because its location was within a vegetable garden?
text: Did you know that Lidija Liepiņa worked with a team of other scientists in a mobile laboratory in a train boxcar, testing filters to create Russia's first functional gas mask ?
text: Did you know that the yachtsman Keith White set out on 25 October 2015 to make a literally single-handed solo global circumnavigation?
text: Did you know that Catherine Feuillet led a team to successfully map the largest wheat chromosome, 3B?
text: Did you know that the zinc-iron statues of Court Square Fountain in Montgomery, Alabama (1885) were replaced by aluminum statues in 1984, but these became corroded within twenty years?
text: Did you know that Mahbub Alam was arrested just after filing his nomination paper for the 2014 Indian general election ?
text: Did you know that during the early years of 20th century, the silk of Ordubad received 13 gold medals in international exhibitions and fairs?
text: Did you know that the sealing ship Norsel was nicknamed "the Polar Bus" due to her many voyages to the Antarctic and Arctic?
text: Did you know that, while working as a spy for MI9 at Colditz , Julius Green wrote coded messages to a fictional lover?
text: Did you know that Frank Sinatra had a number 1 hit with " Oh! What it Seemed to Be " in 1946, and then recorded it again for 1963's Sinatra's Sinatra ?
text: Did you know that Las Vegas casino manager Carl Cohen became a local folk hero after he knocked the caps off Frank Sinatra's front teeth?
text: Did you know that Frank Sinatra Enterprises was founded in 2007 to manage the singer's recordings at Reprise Records ?
text: Did you know that Frank Sinatra was held at gunpoint at Caesars Palace in 1970?
text: Did you know that Frank Sinatra, Jr. was first offered the part which was later developed into the Rat Pack -style character Vic Fontaine in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ?
text: Did you know that after Frank Sinatra was happy with his recording of the song " That's Life ", producer Jimmy Bowen annoyed him by asking him to do it again?
text: Did you know that Frank Sinatra was a secret courier for the Haganah ?
text: Did you know that at his solo nightclub debut at the Riobamba , Frank Sinatra sang two songs "with trembling lips" and brought the house down?
text: Did you know that Hank Sanicola , a boxer turned music manager, was Frank Sinatra's "song plugger"?
text: Did you know that Frank Sinatra often visited the barber shop in the basement of the Hollywood Plaza Hotel to play gin rummy with the barber?
text: Did you know that at age 16, singer Julie Budd was the youngest-ever opening act for Frank Sinatra?
text: Did you know that Frank Sinatra's 1966 cover of " Summer Wind " was the final top 40 hit for lyricist Johnny Mercer ?
text: Did you know that Frank Sinatra and the 3 Flashes , newly renamed the Hoboken Four, performed in blackface in a short film aired at Radio City Music Hall ?
text: Did you know that publicist Jim Byron once got into a fist fight with Frank Sinatra on the Sunset Strip ?
text: Did you know that a sulfur mine at 5,950 metres (19,520 ft) altitude on the stratovolcano Aucanquilcha is notable for being the highest mine in the world?
text: Did you know that Herbert Grove Dorsey invented the first practical fathometer for ships?
text: Did you know that the distinctive roof shape of a Minangkabau rangkiang (rice granary) symbolizes the horn of a buffalo?
text: Did you know that the Anatolian diagonal is a significant feature in the distribution of the flora of Turkey ?
text: Did you know that Chinese opera singer Ao Li has won both the Operalia, The World Opera Competition and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions ?
text: Did you know that Chicago 's 1000 South Michigan is a supertall skyscraper planned to rise to over 1,000 feet (300 m), even though it is in a historic district zoned for buildings up to 425 feet (130 m)?
text: Did you know that John Martin , the first Chief Justice of the Cherokee Supreme Court, had no formal legal training?
text: Did you know that Japanese physicist Toshiko Yuasa studied in Paris under Frédéric Joliot-Curie and developed her own beta-ray spectrometer in Berlin?
text: Did you know that although Format:B have had their own vanity label for the past six years, their most recent single was released on Ministry of Sound ?
text: Did you know that the Lukut Fort and Museum has a display of the traditional culture of the community, and the customs and practice of adat perpatih (rules of life) typical of the state?
text: Did you know that General Zhang Tingfa commanded the Chinese Air Force during the Sino-Vietnamese War ?
text: Did you know that while the Huawei Honor 4X was in the same price range as the second generation Moto G and the Sony Xperia M2 , the Honor 4X is a phablet ?
text: Did you know that the Magellan Shrine memorial tower was erected in 1866 in honor of the explorer Ferdinand Magellan , who was killed in the Battle of Mactan in 1521?
text: Did you know that Catherine A. Lozupone created the UniFrac algorithm, which has allowed researchers to plot the relationships between microbial communities in the human gut ?
text: Did you know that Diana Marcela Bolaños Rodriguez studies marine flatworms to learn about their regenerative abilities?
text: Did you know that American mechanical engineer Alice Agogino won the NSF's Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985?
text: Did you know that Andrea Ablasser discovered a molecule that warns nearby cells when it encounters a pathogen?
text: Did you know that biochemist Kathryn Ferguson Fink developed radiolabeling techniques that were used to study the success of chemotherapy ?
text: Did you know that Katherine Belov discovered that the contagious cancer decimating the Tasmanian devil spreads due to lack of genetic diversity?
text: Did you know that Una Ryan and Una Ryan both emigrated from their countries, studied infectious disease, and were honored with the Order of the British Empire and Prime Minister's Prizes for Science , respectively?
text: Did you know that Marguerite Lehr conducted a televised lecture course on mathematics in the 1950s?
text: Did you know that ASI Corp., a wholesale distributor of computer components founded by Christine Liang , is one of the largest women-owned businesses in the United States?
text: Did you know that Singaporean fungi expert Gloria Lim once assisted her country's Ministry of Defence when its storage bunkers developed mold ?
text: Did you know that Vera Faddeeva 's 1950 book Computational methods of linear algebra was one of the first publications in that field of mathematics ?
text: Did you know that after Cecilia Bouzat was given a L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science she was received by the President of Argentina?
text: Did you know that Louise Hay was the only woman to direct a math department at a major research university in her era?
text: Did you know that Charlotte Sahl-Madsen introduced multiple intelligences into the Universe ?
text: Did you know that more than 1.5 million beer bottles have been used in the construction of the Buddhist temple site at Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew in Thailand?
text: Did you know that Greek screenwriter and director Nikos Foskolos has been called the "Goldfinger of commercial shows"?
text: Did you know that the Burkhan Khaldun mountain or its locality is believed to be the birthplace of Genghis Khan , as well as the location of his tomb ?
text: Did you know that on 2 April 1662, the Old Fortress of Livorno was the location of an experiment designed to test Galileo 's principle of the independence of motions?
text: Did you know that Maaibre Sheshi is the best attested ruler of the Second Intermediate Period of Egypt in terms of the number of artefacts attributed to him?
text: Did you know that Paul Weller 's first solo UK top ten hit, " The Changingman ", sampled Electric Light Orchestra 's " 10538 Overture ", which in turn sampled The Beatles ' " Dear Prudence "?
text: Did you know that the British Committee of the Indian National Congress was formed in 1889 because the Government of India was constitutionally responsible to the British electorate?
text: Did you know that the critically endangered Arabian leopard is among the wildlife found in Yemen ?
text: Did you know that America's Got Talent 2014 quarterfinalist One Voice Children's Choir had a waiting list of 250 children wanting to join as of January 2015?
text: Did you know that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that "my India resides in people like Imran Khan "?
text: Did you know that the Khongoryn Els in the Mongolian desert is popularly known as the "Singing Sands"?
text: Did you know that following his death, Norwegian footballer Bjørn Borgen was described by former team-mate Per Kristoffersen as the greatest right winger the country had ever produced?
text: Did you know that the Cereal Research Centre in Winnipeg produced over two hundred varieties of crop and ornamental plants resistant to pests and blights?
text: Did you know that the ancient fortifications of Xi'an were used as air raid shelters in World War II ?
text: Did you know that Vera Fedorovna Gaze , who discovered around 150 emission nebulae , had a minor planet and a crater on Venus named for her?
text: Did you know that SC Union 06 Berlin was formed in 1950 when players of the East Berlin club SG Oberschöneweide moved to the western half of the city?
text: Did you know that the victory of Sultan al-Atrash over French forces in the Battle of al-Kafr commenced the Great Syrian Revolt ?
text: Did you know that J. S. Guleria and his son Randeep Guleria are both doctors at All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi and were both awarded the Padma Shri ?
text: Did you know that the Floriana Lines are considered to be among the most complicated and elaborate of the Hospitaller fortifications of Malta ?
text: Did you know that the 1996 Andhra Pradesh cyclone resulted in more than 1,000 fatalities, and damaged more than 600,000 houses?
text: Did you know that the ant species Myrmecia inquilina does not have a worker caste, and is parasitic on M. nigriceps and M. vindex colonies?
text: Did you know that baritone Liao Changyong won first prize in three different international singing competitions in 1996 and 1997?
text: Did you know that only the first three volumes of the manga series Princess Lucia have been licensed in English?
text: Did you know that WSTRN bandmember Akelle Charles is the brother of Angel ?
text: Did you know that American artist Lily Furedi had an ekphrastic poem called "Eyes Alive" written about her often-reproduced painting The Subway ?
text: Did you know that the earliest known historical find of cotton in Pakistan is from artifacts in a Neolithic -era burial site in Mehrgarh ?
text: Did you know that Stephanie Burns , an organosilicon chemist, served as President and CEO of Dow Corning ?
text: Did you know that the King's Foundery for casting cannon became a Methodist chapel after a steam explosion?
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text: Did you know that the Okawachi Power Station is one of the largest pumped-storage hydroelectric power plants in Japan?
text: Did you know that actress Charlize Theron made her debut in an uncredited role in the 1995 horror film Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest ?
text: Did you know that the collaborative browser game Broken Picture Telephone was defunct for three years before its 2013 relaunch?
text: Did you know that Belgian painter Theodoor Verstraete was lauded as the "poet of rural life" due to his empathy with country folk?
text: Did you know that Sarah Kalley and her husband started the first Protestant church in Brazil?
text: Did you know that gastroenterologist S. K. Sama , known for his pioneering research on non-cirrhotic portal fibrosis and hepatitis B , received the Padma Shri award in 2004?
text: Did you know that the beginning of Cassazione , composed by Jean Sibelius (pictured) in 1904, is similar to the 1962 James Bond Theme ?
text: Did you know that the Cathedral Basilica of the Holy Family replaced a church that was the first stone building in Nairobi ?
text: Did you know that during the Hananu Revolt against French rule in Syria , the first rebel band organized by Ibrahim Hananu consisted of seven men from his hometown ?
text: Did you know that Jaccoud arthropathy is associated with systemic lupus erythematosus ?
text: Did you know that the video game Life Is Strange was originally going to be called What If but was retitled due to the film of the same name ?
text: Did you know that Zahir al-Umar was the autonomous Arab ruler of northern Palestine in the mid-18th century?
text: Did you know that during the Valletta Summit on Migration , President of the European Council Donald Tusk called the European migrant crisis a "race against time" to save the Schengen Agreement ?
text: Did you know that writer Thomas B. Marquis once drove into the back of another car while conversing with Thomas H. Leforge in Plains Indian Sign Language ?
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text: Did you know that the Bogd Khan Uul Biosphere Reserve in Mongolia has been a protected area for more than two centuries?
text: Did you know that Jordan Payton recently set the UCLA Bruins football record for career receptions one week after tying the school's single-game record?
text: Did you know that when specimens of Platygyra contorta coral were studied in 1977, they were identified as examples of P. rustica ?
text: Did you know that Renard battled against the HMS Swallow ?
text: Did you know that Canada's first-ever match between André the Giant and Hulk Hogan took place in Lutte Internationale , preceding their more famous showdown at WrestleMania III by seven years?
text: Did you know that cortiços , large houses divided into very small rooms for rent, originated in São Paulo , Brazil, and were developed by Italian immigrants?
text: Did you know that Ming dynasty official Zhao Wenhua is reviled as a "treacherous minister" in the History of Ming despite having been rewarded for his role against the Jiajing wokou raids ?
text: Did you know that Portuguese tennis coach Frederico Marques was recently reported to be the youngest coach with a player in the ATP top 100?
text: Did you know that a Cambodian tour bus company takes "hospital tourists" 160 kilometres (100 mi) from Siem Reap to the border crossing at O Smach to see doctors in Thailand?
text: Did you know that Yueh-Lin Loo invented nanotransfer printing , a technique that allows electrical circuits to be printed onto plastic surfaces?
text: Did you know that in a recent United States Supreme Court decision , one Justice suggested the Court may soon become "a veritable Supreme Board of Sign Review"?
text: Did you know that the extinct millipede Parastemmiulus was the first definite genus in the family Stemmiulidae described from a fossil?
text: Did you know that Operation Eikonal delivered data about European defense projects to the National Security Agency ?
text: Did you know that tenor Robert White swallowed a bug while singing the best high note of his career?
text: Did you know that James L. Buie invented transistor-to-transistor logic circuitry (TTL), which led to the development of the integrated circuit industry?
text: Did you know that the compound butter Beurre Maître d'Hôtel is named according to how it was commonly prepared by a restaurant's maître d'hôtel at diners' tables?
text: Did you know that the long-tailed dwarf hamster is present in the Ikh Nartiin Chuluu Nature Reserve in Mongolia?
text: Did you know that Dorothea Leighton is one of the founders of the field of medical anthropology ?
text: Did you know that even after defeating the Mughals at the Battle of Lahore , Ahmed Shah Abdali retained the Mughal governor Mir Mannu ?
text: Did you know that German astrophysicist Hanna von Hoerner designed the cosmic dust analyser onboard Rosetta ?
text: Did you know that olive baboons tend to mate promiscuously?
text: Did you know that Piotr Domaradzki was active in the Polish Solidarity movement before being granted political asylum in the United States?
text: Did you know that Henning Mankell preferred the African storytelling style used in his novel Chronicler of the Winds to European storytelling because of its ability to "jump between realities"?
text: Did you know that Jackie Gleason called his orchestra leader Ray Bloch "the flower of the music world"?
text: Did you know that the Eurasian bittern may visit reedbeds, rice fields, watercress beds, fish farms, gravel pits, sewage works, ditches, flooded areas and marshes?
text: Did you know that Mexican singer-songwriter Natalia Lafourcade won three Latin Grammy Awards for her song " Hasta la Raíz "?
text: Did you know that former Khmer Rouge official Sar Kheng is currently Minister of the Interior, Deputy Prime Minister, and a Member of the Cambodian Parliament ?
text: Did you know that the tower of Föra Church contains what may be one of Sweden's oldest toilets?
text: Did you know that the shooting of Native American woodcarver John T. Williams by a police officer was found to be unjustified?
text: Did you know that in the mystery manga series Zodiac P.I. , teenage detective Lili Hoshizawa uses astrology to solve cases?
text: Did you know that Patricia Numann founded the Association of Women Surgeons , chaired the American Board of Surgery , and was president of the American College of Surgeons ?
text: Did you know that the Narayana Upanishad states that one who worships with the mantra "Om Namo Narayanaya" goes to Vishnu 's heaven, and becomes free from birth and saṃsāra ?
text: Did you know that the site upon which Saint Stephen's Church, Negombo , was built in 1876 is located near the former Dutch Fort ?
text: Did you know that South Branch Tunkhannock Creek in Pennsylvania passes through a 100-foot (30 m) deep gorge?
text: Did you know that the Northern Thai chronicle Cāmadevivaṃsa recounts the founding of Lamphun as the capital of the ancient Hariphunchai Kingdom by a Mon princess?
text: Did you know that the Himalayan field rat is closely related to the brown rat ?
text: Did you know that tourism in Iraq is in danger because of the ongoing war against ISIS ?
text: Did you know that Chinese soprano Guanqun Yu won the Belvedere International Singing Competition and placed 2nd in Operalia, The World Opera Competition ?
text: Did you know that in the armies of Mycenaean Greece , chariots were initially used as fighting vehicles, but by the 13th century BC their role was probably limited to battlefield transport?
text: Did you know that the Palestinian village of al-Judeida was a Crusader estate called "Gidideh"?
text: Did you know that Archibald Main , who was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1939, was Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Glasgow?
text: Did you know that the Yokohama B-Corsairs won the bj league in just their second year of existence?
text: Did you know that body-camera footage led to the arrest of two police officers in the shooting of six-year-old Jeremy Mardis ?
text: Did you know that Cambodia's Angkor Wat International Half Marathon was introduced in 1996 by the Japanese Olympian Yuko Arimori ?
text: Did you know that the gills of mushrooms of the genus Hygrophoropsis are forked?
text: Did you know that the Armitt Library is named for the polyglot Mary Louisa Armitt ?
text: Did you know that fractures of the hyoid bone are often caused by strangulation ?
text: Did you know that soprano Ying Fang has won the Golden Bell Award, the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, and the Lincoln Center Segal Award ?
text: Did you know that Henderson's bookshop was used to shelter fugitive activists for women's suffrage ?
text: Did you know that Idelisa Bonnelly pushed for the first humpback whale sanctuary to be established and was inducted into the Global 500 Roll of Honour of UNEP for her defense of the environment?
text: Did you know that UNESCO recently declared an emergency action plan to protect cultural sites in Yemen from destruction?
text: Did you know that Bean Boots are still manufactured in Maine and are stitched by hand?
text: Did you know that Shakib Al Hasan has the most five-wicket hauls for Bangladesh in international cricket?
text: Did you know that the Circuit des Champs de Bataille , a stage race held across devastated northern France, Belgium and Luxembourg in spring 1919, has been described as the toughest cycle race in history?
text: Did you know that a post in the Arizona Territory was not the first or even second choice of future Arizona Territorial Supreme Court justice Owen Thomas Rouse ?
text: Did you know that Frances Gertrude McGill , a Canadian forensic pathologist , was referred to as the "Sherlock Holmes of Saskatchewan"?
text: Did you know that the Texas Tommy is a common hot dog dish at diners and greasy spoons in Philadelphia, eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey?
text: Did you know that the powership MV KPS Ayşegül Sultan went to Ghana and the MV KPS Zeynep Sultan to Indonesia the same day, following a farewell ceremony at the Sedef Shipyard in Tuzla, Istanbul ?
text: Did you know that Omowunmi Sadik has developed highly sensitive microelectrode biosensors that can detect explosives ?
text: Did you know that the Coexist symbol used on bumper stickers started life as a 3 m × 5 m (9.8 ft × 16.4 ft) outdoor poster in a juried art exhibition in Jerusalem ?
text: Did you know that a " creepy puzzle " mailed to a Swedish tech blogger was found to contain coded messages implying a threat against the President of the United States ?
text: Did you know that voice teacher Beverley Peck Johnson told actor Kevin Kline that he had to choose between her and cigarettes if he wanted to be her pupil?
text: Did you know that Fallout Shelter became the most popular free iOS application in the US and UK within a day of its release?
text: Did you know that Padma Shri recipient Sharad Moreshwar Hardikar organized medical camps to provide free orthopedic surgery to over 1,500 children?
text: Did you know that the main proponent of the Hamilton Canal , Gavin Hamilton, was found to have embezzled £19,675 from the Colonial Government, following his death in 1803?
text: Did you know that in the past three years, Odyssey Opera has performed the Boston premieres of Korngold 's Die tote Stadt and Massenet 's Le Cid ?
text: Did you know that Tebello Nyokong is helping to pioneer a safer method of cancer detection and therapy that does not have the harmful side effects of chemotherapy ?
text: Did you know that police searches during Operation Puttur yielded two bombs and a pistol used by the suspects?
text: Did you know that Hodgson's giant flying squirrel can glide for 100 m (300 ft) from the tree canopy to the bushes below?
text: Did you know that Scare PewDiePie is a series on the upcoming YouTube Red service?
text: Did you know that after Olga Fedchenko 's husband died on Mont Blanc in 1873, she was asked to continue their work by Moscow's Society of Natural Scientists ?
text: Did you know that Rajah Charles Brooke ordered the firing of cannons to remind the Chinese labourers at Kuching Chinatown to take a bath?
text: Did you know that New Jersey silverpoint artist Leo Dee was known for the "staggering technical perfection" of his work?
text: Did you know that the Flemish-Spanish painter John Baptist Medina came to Scotland in 1693 and became the leading Scottish portrait painter of his generation?
text: Did you know that Ranjit Roy Chaudhury was the first Indian doctor to receive a Rhodes Scholarship ?
text: Did you know that the Russia–Syria–Iran–Iraq coalition may have been devised during a visit by Qasem Soleimani , the commander of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution 's elite Quds Force , to Moscow in July 2015?
text: Did you know that Ida Shepard Oldroyd curated the world's second largest collection of mollusk shells ?
text: Did you know that bat flips are popular in Asian and Latin American baseball leagues?
text: Did you know that Spanish footballer Jorge Alonso studied civil engineering ?
text: Did you know that a remix of " We Used to Be Friends " by The Dandy Warhols was used for the third season premiere of Veronica Mars , " Welcome Wagon "?
text: Did you know that bacteriologist Maria von Linden received a patent for her discovery that copper salts could be used as a disinfectant?
text: Did you know that the bark of the laurel geebung was used by aborigines to toughen fishing lines?
text: Did you know that despite being ranked 158th out of 164 in his West Point class , A. Arnim White still managed to reach the rank of major general ?
text: Did you know that new Le Moyne College basketball head coach Patrick Beilein says he was born the day before his father, John Beilein , became the Le Moyne basketball head coach?
text: Did you know that the Mittagong- and Bargo geebungs can be found on road verges ?
text: Did you know that the Colombo Marathon is Sri Lanka's oldest marathon?
text: Did you know that Tsuruko Haraguchi , the first Japanese woman to receive a PhD, helped establish an experimental psychology laboratory at Japan Women's University ?
text: Did you know that Millennium 's " Collateral Damage " featured Coast to Coast AM host Art Bell playing himself?
text: Did you know that Napoleon Bonaparte conducted a business lunch at the Hotel Les Trois Rois in 1798?