Did you know? Facts from Wikipedia, 2016

text: Did you know that Zesh Rehman is the first Pakistani international footballer to play in the AFC Cup ?
text: Did you know that probes into corruption in Uzbekistan led to the arrest of top executives of the nation's Coca-Cola bottling plant?
text: Did you know that Playboy threatened to sue Betty Brosmer after she declined to pose nude at a photo shoot?
text: Did you know that Christ's Hospital, the forerunner of today's Stormont–Vail HealthCare complex in Kansas , was deeded to the city of Topeka for one dollar?
text: Did you know that Dreaming of You , the fifth and final studio album by American singer Selena , became the best-selling Latin album of all-time in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that a 1909 report deemed that the discharge of sewage into Zerbe Run did not pose a threat to public health?
text: Did you know that F.C. United of Manchester 's Broadhurst Park stadium includes a recycled stand previously used at another football ground ?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian film actress Titien Sumarni was married to her uncle?
text: Did you know that a westerly wind burst can spur the formation of twin tropical cyclones across the equatorial Pacific?
text: Did you know that Cecil Thomas won the competition to design the first coinage for Queen Elizabeth II , but his design was used on only two British coins?
text: Did you know that during the photo shoot for the cover of Take Back , Kumi Koda did not even know what that shoot was for?
text: Did you know that orbs are found at Cerro Panizos in Bolivia?
text: Did you know that an online petition calling for the removal of Survival Island 3 from Google Play and the App Store had received more than 60,000 signatures as of January 16, 2016?
text: Did you know that one of the first women to work in radio astronomy , Elizabeth Alexander , actually preferred geology ?
text: Did you know that the extinct mining bee Andrena antoinei has coloration of black, brown, and yellow?
text: Did you know that schoolboy Pranav Dhanawade broke a 116-year-old cricket world record by scoring 1,009 runs not out ?
text: Did you know that Tapastic was created as a " YouTube for comics"?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian composer Koesbini changed the final lines of his song "Bagimu Negeri" at the request of Sukarno ?
text: Did you know that pre-orders of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus exceeded four million within its first 24 hours of availability?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Fran in 1976 produced a then record 1,140 mm (44.8 in) of rain in 24 hours, in Hiso , Japan?
text: Did you know that before becoming a successful pulp magazine illustrator, Modest Stein was an aspiring assassin until he dumped his dynamite in a Pittsburgh outhouse ?
text: Did you know that Gertrude Pitzinger , who toured Europe and the United States singing Lieder , recorded the alto part of Mozart's Requiem , conducted by Ferenc Fricsay ?
text: Did you know that the archaeological finds reported from Chirand are from the Neolithic , Chalcolithic , and Iron Age periods, including a cache of 88 Kushan period coins?
text: Did you know that prior to opening Trylon Microcinema , Take-Up Productions' first film screening was projected against a white brick wall behind a coffee shop?
text: Did you know that Jedi Training: Trials of the Temple features Darth Maul and lets children duel Darth Vader or the Seventh Sister ?
text: Did you know that in June 1992, the Quebec Nordiques agreed to two different trades involving Eric Lindros within 80 minutes?
text: Did you know that despite being announced in 2011, the Tupac Shakur biopic All Eyez on Me only began filming in December 2015?
text: Did you know that after Bethany Decker disappeared , five years ago today, someone continued to send messages to her friends via her Facebook account?
text: Did you know that Johan Ludvig Holstein was one of the co-founders of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters ?
text: Did you know that Conor McGregor became the cover athlete of EA Sports UFC 2 by defeating José Aldo at UFC 194 ?
text: Did you know that a verse from the Hindu text Maha Upanishad which regards the entire world as a family is engraved in the hall of the Parliament of India ?
text: Did you know that bass-baritone Louis D'Angelo sang in the world premieres of seven operas at the Metropolitan Opera , including Puccini's Gianni Schicchi ?
text: Did you know that during the Napoleonic occupation of the Principality of Erfurt , the French introduced street lighting and a tax on foreign horses to pay for maintaining the road surface?
text: Did you know that in 1929 John Watson became Solicitor General for Scotland in the UK's second Labour government , despite not being a member of the party ?
text: Did you know that the only description of the mystery rites of the goddess Isis comes from a Roman novel about a man who is transformed into a donkey ?
text: Did you know that nuclear chemist and Haitinger Prize winner Elizabeth Rona worked at the Bornö Marine Research Station for twelve summers analyzing sea sediments for their radium content?
text: Did you know that in Christine de Pizan 's dream allegory Le livre du chemin de long estude (1402–03), she takes the place of Dante and replaces Virgil with his own Sibyl ?
text: Did you know that Turkish-German women's footballer Filiz Koç acted as a model , performed in a TV-series episode and worked as a sideline reporter ?
text: Did you know that the claimant in the English court case of Woodroffe-Hedley v Cuthbertson was a six-year-old child whose father had died in a mountaineering accident in France?
text: Did you know that Alfonsina Orsini , though not elected, directed the decisions of the government of the Republic of Florence from 1515?
text: Did you know that Operaphone Records did not release recordings of operas ?
text: Did you know that American artist Katherine Schmidt made paintings with a realism that one critic called "mysterious" and another "magical"?
text: Did you know that the silver mylossoma , an Amazon basin fish, feeds on fruit and seeds?
text: Did you know after the death of Bajirao I , his first wife, Kashibai made arrangements to train his son from another marriage in weaponry?
text: Did you know that armed groups have occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge since January 2, 2016?
text: Did you know that the Dahomeyan post and telegraph workers leader Paul Kpoffon went on to become a government minister and ambassador?
text: Did you know that in the 1819 Rann of Kutch earthquake , the Shiva Temple, Kera , was substantially damaged, leaving only the main spire and inner sanctum in a good condition?
text: Did you know that Cicely Blair discovered that people with albinism cannot get blackheads ?
text: Did you know that an unusual number of recipients of the Victoria Cross , Britain's highest military honour for gallantry, are buried in Richmond Cemetery ?
text: Did you know that while interviewing for the post of dean of women at Bates College , Judith Magyar Isaacson was asked if she had ever resided in a dormitory and she replied, "Yes, at Auschwitz "?
text: Did you know that the marbled swamp eel can live out of water for at least six months?
text: Did you know that brothers Abe Moffat and Alex Moffat were trade unionists and communist activists who became successive presidents of the National Union of Scottish Mineworkers ?
text: Did you know that to promote athletics in India, only Indian nationals are eligible for the prize money in the Kolkata Marathon ?
text: Did you know that pianist Mina Miller founded Music of Remembrance to perform music by and about victims of the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that Mile Run is almost two miles (3.2 km) long?
text: Did you know that Bianca de' Medici played an organ concert for a current pope and a future pope in 1460?
text: Did you know that Star Wars: The Force Awakens character Captain Phasma 's creation was inspired by a rejected costume design for Kylo Ren ?
text: Did you know that Paul I. Richards published one of the earliest theoretical models of traffic waves ?
text: Did you know that the Sydney Jewish Museum records the contribution that Holocaust survivors made to Australia, which has more survivors per capita than any country except Israel?
text: Did you know that 23 years ago, the game Electro Man came with a cassette tape containing the soundtrack?
text: Did you know that Swedish politician Julia Kronlid has worked as a volunteer at a hospital clinic in Papua New Guinea?
text: Did you know that clam juice and aspirin were served at the Everleigh Club brothel as a starter for breakfast, which began at 2:00 in the afternoon?
text: Did you know that after winning the 1977 Indian general election from the Kutch constituency , Anant Dave rose to the status of "giant killer"?
text: Did you know that various onion cakes are consumed in China, Germany, Korea, Switzerland, Wales, and other countries?
text: Did you know that journalist Ametist Azordegan is a member of the Grammis award jury and the Swedish Music Hall of Fame?
text: Did you know that Pioneer Place commissioned the Soaring Stones sculpture as a gift to city residents to replace a fountain that was removed during construction of the mall?
text: Did you know that although all copies of William Ketel 's work on the miracles of John of Beverley are lost, a previous transcription of the work forms the basis for the edition printed in Acta Sanctorum ?
text: Did you know that The Glory Brigade is the only film in which Lee Marvin wears glasses in all his scenes?
text: Did you know that City Oval , Pietermaritzburg and St Lawrence Ground , Canterbury , are the only two first-class cricket grounds with a tree inside the boundary ?
text: Did you know that until 1989 a wide downtown Yangon street was named after Htaw Lay , a 19th-century defector to the British and principal restorer of the Shwedagon Pagoda ?
text: Did you know that Freefall 3050 A.D. was one of only eight video games released for the Nuon platform?
text: Did you know that Edmund Wainwright was considered to be amongst those who resurrected South Australian cricket ?
text: Did you know that many Iranian women chose not to leave their houses, and a few even committed suicide, to avoid removing their hijabs due to Reza Shah 's Kashf-e hijab decree?
text: Did you know that Bridget Tan , who founded the Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics to provide services to abused migrant workers, was honored for her work by Hillary Clinton ?
text: Did you know that Project Copper began and ended military cooperation between the Khmer Republic and the Kingdom of Laos ?
text: Did you know that contemporaries of the American artist Adelaide Lawson saw her as a lovably gypsy-like young woman who "had never been taught to wash her ears and neck"?
text: Did you know that five protesters were shot during demonstrations against the shooting of Jamar Clark ?
text: Did you know that in the Maitreya Upanishad , Sakayanya expounds the nature of human life, stating that "Artha is Anartha", or "objects of senses are in truth worthless"?
text: Did you know that to get her first job in television, Melissa Bachman worked for free, drove 150 miles (240 km) * daily, and supported herself as a waitress?
text: Did you know that the red-tailed goby lays its eggs in fresh water but the larvae will die if they are not washed downstream to the sea?
text: Did you know that the Ghana Code Club is an after-school program in Ghana that teaches children computer programming skills?
text: Did you know that Čakr-paša was killed by his comrade while shaving?
text: Did you know that botanist Pieter Baas was convinced that Queen Beatrix helped in the formation of the National Herbarium of the Netherlands , which the responsible minister denied?
text: Did you know that Methane Pioneer was the world's first oceangoing LNG tanker ?
text: Did you know that former Rajya Sabha member Lakhiram Agrawal was detained under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act in 1975 during The Emergency ?
text: Did you know that smokebushes get their name from the resemblance of their flowers to smoke arising from the plant?
text: Did you know that Fanny Knight excavated a Roman villa, repaired a castle, wrote a book, and was an accomplished botanist and artist?
text: Did you know that the Museum of Goa in India does not host a permanent collection, instead operating as a gallery temporarily exhibiting works from around the world?
text: Did you know that the Bulgarian idiom "Ideal Petrov", denoting something of excellent quality, derives from the name of an actor ?
text: Did you know that the Theatre Royal in Bath has been described by the Theatres Trust as "one of the most important surviving examples of Georgian theatre architecture"?
text: Did you know that American sociologist Salvatore Babones specializes in topics related to the world system and China?
text: Did you know that the Yoga Yajnavalkya is one of the texts on asanas and meditation that dominated the Indian yoga scene before the 12th century?
text: Did you know that a 2001 survey found that only one of the officially named tributaries of Mahanoy Creek had fish, but that tributary had 20 fish species?
text: Did you know that the roof plates of traditional Acehnese houses are lashed to the beams using ropes, so that the roof can be quickly detached in case of fire?
text: Did you know that Patricia M. Collins and Donald Collins were the first married couple to each serve as mayor of Caribou, Maine ?
text: Did you know that Sankofa is the fossilized remains of eggs that were probably laid by a transitional species from dinosaurs to birds ?
text: Did you know that when General Vang Pao begged senior generals for reinforcements to stave off defeat in Campaign 139 , they were busy with parade practice?
text: Did you know that " Zueignung " (Dedication), the first published song by Richard Strauss , was dedicated to Heinrich Vogl , the principal tenor of the Munich Court Opera?
text: Did you know that fig cake and similar cakes have traditionally been served in the Appalachian Mountains as a part of Old Christmas celebrations?
text: Did you know that the mining industry of Cyprus is synonymous with copper extraction which began around 4,000 BC?
text: Did you know that Praška filmska škola is a term applied to the works of several Yugoslav film directors who graduated from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU)?
text: Did you know that in the viral ad video Heimkommen , a German grandfather fakes his own death to reunite his family?
text: Did you know that The Pink Assassin was a flamboyant masked villain from Fire Island , New York ?
text: Did you know that the Mamluk sultan an-Nasir Ahmad ruled from the desert fortress of al-Karak instead of the Mamluk capital in Cairo ?
text: Did you know that the Holly Steam Combination Company was the first commercially successful steam heating company for district heating from a central distribution station?
text: Did you know that comedian Rachel Mohlin made her acting debut in the soap opera Vänner och fiender , appearing in 695 episodes?
text: Did you know that the Forty Hadith authored by Ayatollah Khomeini is a collection of personal interpretations of 40 traditions attributed to the prophet Muhammad and The Twelve Imams ?
text: Did you know that in April 2015, Ollie Robinson became the first Sussex cricketer in 95 years to score a century on a County Championship debut?
text: Did you know that in Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid , BWV 3 , a chorale cantata based on Moller's hymn in 18 stanzas , the first cantus firmus is sung by the bass supported by a trombone?
text: Did you know that Gene Roddenberry pushed for Star Trek to be filmed in color so that the green skin of the Orion slave girl could be seen?
text: Did you know that Swedish journalist Per Sinding-Larsen has interviewed musicians such as Bruce Springsteen , David Bowie , and Madonna during his years at ZTV ?
text: Did you know that reconnaissance aircraft were flown into tropical cyclones in the Australian region only during the 1978–79 season ?
text: Did you know that King Henry II of England supposedly said of Alan de Neville , his chief forester, that an abbey could have his body, the king would have his money, and "the demons of hell his soul"?
text: Did you know that the debut single " Talk Talk " by The Music Machine has been attributed to influencing The Doors and Iron Butterfly , as well as future punk bands?
text: Did you know that Abbo Nassour became the speaker of the Chadian parliament in 1969, after having been sentenced to death a few years earlier?
text: Did you know that the steeple of the Readington Reformed Church was blown over by a cyclone on January 3, 1913 , and restored one hundred years later?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Sean Royal was once managed by a robot?
text: Did you know that bebop jazz pianist Richie Powell was fond of inserting musical quotes, including from nursery rhymes and opera?
text: Did you know that brain surgery can be done while the patient is awake ?
text: Did you know that between 1995 and 2003, table tennis player Jing Junhong won medals at five consecutive Southeast Asian Games ?
text: Did you know that the marlin sucker often clings onto its host fish in pairs, with a male under one gill cover and a female under the other?
text: Did you know that physicist Ronald Mickens was a member of the founding council of the Edward Bouchet Abdus Salam Institute , which supports collaboration among African and American physicists?
text: Did you know that the world's largest star sapphire , The Star of Adam , is valued at $100 million?
text: Did you know that Mary Amdur gassed her own guinea pigs to prove that breathing sulphuric acid was dangerous?
text: Did you know that Newry City Ladies F.C. were the first team for 14 years to win the Women's Premier League outside of Belfast?
text: Did you know that a small fish, the California grunion ,  buries its eggs in sand high on a beach?
text: Did you know that one historian described the family relationships of Alan de Neville ( floruit 1168) as "a veritable labyrinth into which many a genealogical enquiry has vanished without trace"?
text: Did you know that South Hams District Council in Devon offers seagull -proof refuse sacks to reduce waste and injuries caused by the birds?
text: Did you know that the soul sampling in Porter Robinson 's hip-hop- and disco-influenced track " Flicker " was inspired by Daft Punk 's second album Discovery ?
text: Did you know that the National Education Association started a teacher legal defense fund with monies left over from collections for Kate Frank 's case to be rehired by Muskogee schools?
text: Did you know that some trainee pilots of Project Waterpump had to sit on cushions to fly?
text: Did you know that the video for the rap number " An Open Letter to Honey Singh ", which was written in one hour, received around a million hits in five days?
text: Did you know that the 2014–15 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team coach John Beilein was voted 2014 Coach of the Year by Big Ten media?
text: Did you know that Crab Run is listed as being impaired by abandoned mine drainage , even though no mining has been done in its watershed?
text: Did you know that, according to a Reuters analyst, Hyundai launched Genesis Motors to target "fat profit margins from high-end motorists to help it reverse out of a protracted earnings slide"?
text: Did you know that the Alliance of Palestinian Forces , formed in 1993 by Hamas and nine other groups who rejected the Oslo Accords , was marginalized by the time of the Second Intifada in 2000?
text: Did you know that French economist Laurence Tubiana , appointed Special Ambassador to the COP21 climate change meeting in Paris, managed the negotiations that led to a new agreement signed by 195 countries?
text: Did you know that during his arrest, the suspect of the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting said in an interview, "No more baby parts"?
text: Did you know that one failed candidate for Toulouse 's Capitoulate tearfully complained in court that his 4000- livre bribe had bought him nothing?
text: Did you know that screenwriter Kelly Fremon is making her directing debut with the upcoming film Besties ?
text: Did you know that the 2013–14 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team were the 2013–14 Big Ten Conference champions?
text: Did you know that Jessica Plummer started her singing and acting careers in 2013?
text: Did you know that during feeding, the cichlid fish Retroculus lapidifer dives into the sediment with its mouth open and then expels sand through its gill chambers?
text: Did you know that Lionel Royce , who fled Europe due to the Nazi persecution of Jews, became well known in American films for playing a Nazi?
text: Did you know that Sudanese citizens report that the police are the most corrupt institution in Sudan ?
text: Did you know that while Ben Musa served as an Oregon state senator, his wife was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives , representing approximately half of his senate district?
text: Did you know that the McEwen Bridge has not been subjected to major rehabilitation or repair since opening in 1923?
text: Did you know that some fans had a racist reaction to the character of Finn in Star Wars: The Force Awakens ?
text: Did you know that the trematode Metorchis conjunctus can cause disease in fish-eating mammals including humans?
text: Did you know that Sergio Casas was elected Governor of La Rioja Province , Argentina after serving as vice-governor?
text: Did you know that Donald L. Bryant Jr. did not "SELL THE HOUSE SELL THE CAR SELL THE KIDS", but sold the painting in 2001?
text: Did you know that the wildlife of Russia includes about four million reindeer in the tundra region which can endure temperatures down to about −50 °C (−58 °F)?
text: Did you know that the image of Marianna Dolińska 's dead children has been falsely used to represent victims of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army ?
text: Did you know that Poe Dameron , portrayed by Oscar Isaac , was initially scripted to be killed off in Star Wars: The Force Awakens ?
text: Did you know that the symmetrical appearance of Kankainen Manor is a result of renovations made between 1762 and 1763, when the windows were realigned and a false second entrance was added?
text: Did you know that the 1896 US presidential campaign of William McKinley laid the groundwork for modern campaigns?
text: Did you know that Marathi-film director Raja Thakur holds the record of winning the Maharashtra State Film Awards three times from 1970 to 1972 in the Best Film category?
text: Did you know that flooding has been known to occur on Dry Run ?
text: Did you know that the footballer Rafa Jordà scored six goals in the 2007–08 season , which saw his side being promoted to La Liga ?
text: Did you know that the Racking Horse Breeders' Association of America was formed partially to give amateur horsemen a venue to train and show their own horses?
text: Did you know that high school best friends Zofia Glazer and Cypora Zonszajn saved Rachel while separated by circumstances beyond their control during the Holocaust in occupied Poland ?
text: Did you know that peak oil is the point in time when the maximum rate of extraction of petroleum is reached, after which it is expected to decline?
text: Did you know that Richard Honeywood established best practices for video game localization at Square after going through "pure hell" while translating Xenogears ?
text: Did you know that Gaylord Wilshire 's electric belt used a weak magnetic current to purportedly cure most diseases and improve health?
text: Did you know that President Obama shared a Death by Chocolate cake with the crew of Air Force One ?
text: Did you know that the Ornithological Dictionary; or Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds is George Montagu 's best-known work, and the one that established his reputation as a pioneer of British ornithology?
text: Did you know that Rattling Run is a Coldwater Fishery, but had no fish as of 2001?
text: Did you know that literary scholar Hana Wirth-Nesher grew up with her father reading to her in Yiddish , her mother and grandmother speaking to her in German , and her friends conversing with her in English ?
text: Did you know that the Lindbergh Beacon atop Los Angeles City Hall was deactivated after the attack on Pearl Harbor and not fully restored and reactivated until 2001?
text: Did you know that Rakel Wärmländer 's real-life friend, actress Josephine Bornebusch , played her friend in the film Love and Lemons ?
text: Did you know that in the early 1940s, the New York Yankees used the Salamanca Erie Railroad station as a rest stop because of a delayed game with the Cleveland Indians ?
text: Did you know that dak bungalows are "about as handsome as a stack of hay "?
text: Did you know that during his 50-year acting career, John Marriott originated the role of Joe Mott in Eugene O'Neill 's The Iceman Cometh , and played the asthmatic security guard in the film Dog Day Afternoon ?
text: Did you know that Braemar Hill Mansions in Hong Kong is composed of 15 tower blocks of 25 floors each, for a total of 925 apartments?
text: Did you know that during the governorship of Ridwan Pasha , founder of the Ridwan dynasty , Ottoman authority in Yemen largely collapsed?
text: Did you know that while Julien Baker was writing the songs on Sprained Ankle , she didn't intend to release them as an album?
text: Did you know that ground staff from No. 1 Initial Flying Training School RAAF won the Hewitt Trophy for small arms proficiency in 1953?
text: Did you know that former Bengal cricketer Prakash Poddar is regarded as the man who "discovered" Indian cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni in 2003?
text: Did you know that in 1965 a USGS employee found everyone he met in and around Freeburg, Pennsylvania , knew a nearby stream as " Susquehecka Creek ", but only two knew how to spell the name?
text: Did you know that Wided Bouchamaoui , the leader of UTICA , was one of those accepting the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet ?
text: Did you know that in 1573, Emperor Akbar had set up his military base camp near Gopi Talav during the siege of Surat ?
text: Did you know that residents in the English village of Clovelly operated their own rescue services from 1988 to 1998, because Clovelly Lifeboat Station was closed by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution ?
text: Did you know that in Christ, the Messenger , Swami Vivekananda attempted to analyze the life and messages of Jesus through Vedanta ?
text: Did you know that as many as 3.3 million newborns die each year, of which 23.4% succumb to neonatal infection ?
text: Did you know that many guerrilla leaders in the Guatemalan Civil War had been members of the Patriotic Labour Youth during high school?
text: Did you know that a museum collection of Irish film costumes compiled by Eimer Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh included a set of underwear worn by Daniel Day-Lewis in In the Name of the Father ?
text: Did you know that the first university course in American Literature was taught at Princeton University in 1872?
text: Did you know that Sarah Hay has been nominated for a Golden Globe , a Satellite Award , and a Critics' Choice Television Award for what she considers to be her first acting role?
text: Did you know that Turkish football referee Yeliz Topaloğlu is the first FIFA-listed female beach soccer official ?
text: Did you know that the Palestinian Liberation Front left the PLO in protest against the 1993 Oslo Accords ?
text: Did you know that the pianist Staffan Scheja had a well-publicized feud with comedian Jonas Gardell when he tried to teach Gardell how to play the violin in the series Stjärnorna på slottet ?
text: Did you know that the eponymous story in the manga Trash Market is based on the author's experience working at a blood bank ?
text: Did you know that Norman C. Pickering , co-founder of the Audio Engineering Society , was caught off guard by the introduction of the LP record ?
text: Did you know that a father and son received the death penalty for the Woodburn bank bombing , which accidentally killed two policemen?
text: Did you know that at least seven denominations trace their history to a Pentecostal church founded by Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate , the first American woman to serve as bishop in a nationally-recognized denomination?
text: Did you know that the fossil bee Protohabropoda has a dense coating of hairs preserved on its body in places?
text: Did you know that Alfred Charles Garratt was the first full-time medical doctor in electrotherapy in the United States, and wrote the first book on the subject?
text: Did you know that the Yoga-kundalini Upanishad is one of the most important texts on Kundalini yoga ?
text: Did you know that historian and priest Zenovie Pâclișanu was imprisoned by both Austria-Hungary and Communist Romania, the latter incarceration proving fatal?
text: Did you know that Philippine presidential candidate Roy Señeres hopes he will not be declared a " nuisance candidate " by the Comelec during the upcoming election ?
text: Did you know that the Mediterranean saltwort , a climax plant on the Syrian steppe , is part of the varied wildlife of Syria ?
text: Did you know that American wrestler Dr. Heresy has a real-life career in the mental health industry?
text: Did you know that a lotus medallion and a 9-foot (2.7 m)-long pillar depicting the Buddha as fire were stolen from the Chandavaram Buddhist site ?
text: Did you know that seven songs used in telenovelas reached number one on the Billboard Mexican Espanol Airplay chart in 2014?
text: Did you know that the British child rapist William Goad fled to Thailand, only to get caught using his credit card upon return and be sentenced to life imprisonment?
text: Did you know that the first reported Shinto wedding ceremony was in the 1880s?
text: Did you know that Kathy Bardswick got her first job at The Co-operators Group when her mother applied for her and pretended she was Kathy when the company called back?
text: Did you know that of the ten songs written by Brad Neely for China, IL 's " Magical Pet ", three are performed by Cat Power ?
text: Did you know that after she treated injured students in the 1981 protests in Kosovo , Sehadete Mekuli was denied a full professorship at the University of Pristina and forced into early retirement?
text: Did you know that Rapid Vienna won the 1941 German football championship on the same day that Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that the Texas A&M–Commerce Lions women's volleyball team plays its home games at the University Field House , which George Dahl designed to resemble an airplane hangar?
text: Did you know that artist Naziha Mestaoui 's One Heart, One Tree installation at COP21 will support the planting of 52,677 trees?
text: Did you know that the hydrology of the Daecheong Dam , on the Geum River in South Korea, is influenced by seasonal monsoons ?
text: Did you know that Governor Thilawa of Yamethin is said to have smiled only three times in his life?
text: Did you know that Stanisław Lem 's character pilot Pirx defeats a perfect robot thanks to human imperfection?
text: Did you know that the Soviet icebreaker Moskva once helped to free a herd of beluga whales trapped by pack ice?
text: Did you know that Surinam-born Dutch author Astrid Roemer is the first Caribbean writer selected to receive the highest Dutch literary prize, the P. C. Hooft Award ?
text: Did you know that Dragon Age: Origins has 68,260 lines of dialogue, and its quality assurance testers enabled a cheat to automatically skip dialogues during test runs?
text: Did you know that the musicologist David Fallows discovered that the biography of composer Johannes Ciconia was actually of Ciconia's father?
text: Did you know that the fireworm Odontosyllis phosphorea lives unobtrusively on the seabed but rises to the surface and produces a sparkling display when it breeds?
text: Did you know that at General Aung San 's request, Myint Swe used to play the violin while Khin Kyi sang the hits of the day?
text: Did you know that a reviewer of a solo exhibition by Lena Gurr said that the American artist "painted with the gusto of a Goya "?
text: Did you know that in 2015, the Indian whiskey Officer's Choice became the world's highest-selling spirit brand?
text: Did you know that director Frank Stähle revived the choir and orchestra of Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium and conducted them in Mozart's Requiem for the centenary of the Lutherkirche ?
text: Did you know that physical paintings of Pepe the frog have been put up for sale on eBay ?
text: Did you know that Max Deutsch intentionally destroyed his compositions so that his only surviving legacy would be his students?
text: Did you know that King Abdullah II donated two helicopters to Jordan 's newly established Air Ambulance Center ?
text: Did you know that David Dewhurst 's campaign for Lieutenant Governor of Texas released disco-themed " Lt. Gov. You've Gotta Love " and " Frozen ", a parody of " Let It Go ", as political advertisements?
text: Did you know that the Andes have risen significantly in the last 30 million years?
text: Did you know that Belgian cartoonist Hergé died before completing Tintin and Alph-Art , the final volume in the The Adventures of Tintin , leaving the character's fate unexplained?
text: Did you know that U.S. Highway 102 was the first U.S. Highway in Michigan to be decommissioned, just two years after designation?
text: Did you know that Larycia Hawkins , American professor at Wheaton College , was suspended after she wore a hijab and made comments regarding Christianity and Islam in December 2015?
text: Did you know that American Samoan association football team Utulei Youth had a perfect season in 2014, winning every game in the Senior League and taking home the President's Cup ?
text: Did you know that haematologist Lucy Meredith Bryce was the director of the first blood transfusion service in Australia?
text: Did you know that shortly after the full moon and precisely 55 minutes after sunset, the female Bermuda fireworm rises to the sea surface and produces a bioluminescent display?
text: Did you know that Ida Silverman logged over 600,000 air miles traveling the world, speaking and fund-raising for the creation of a Jewish state ?
text: Did you know that Ian McDonald 's 2015 science fiction novel Luna: New Moon has been called " Game of Thrones in space"?
text: Did you know that Emma Dench , a British classicist and the McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University , appeared in a film alongside her aunt Judi Dench in 1968?
text: Did you know that the type fossil of the damselfly Electropodagrion consists only of a thorax , leg, and wing portions?
text: Did you know that Lord Minginish is the first Gaelic -speaking Chairman of the Scottish Land Court ?
text: Did you know that the Sacred Heart Church in Exeter , England is the earliest surviving architectural work of Leonard Stokes ?
text: Did you know that Donald Trump 's spokesperson Katrina Pierson appeared on CNN with a necklace made of bullets?
text: Did you know that a legal challenge by Zunera Ishaq resulted in allowing the niqāb to be worn while taking the Canadian Oath of Citizenship ?
text: Did you know that Liza Levy , a board member and past president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, originally joined the group as a way to make friends and retain her Jewish identity ?
text: Did you know that Cyclone Ilona produced record rainfall over Pilbara , Western Australia , in December 1988?
text: Did you know that the scene in Neighbours Episode 7202 where Terese Willis pushed Lauren Turner into the pool could only be shot once?
text: Did you know that Ruth B 's debut single started off as a Vine video?
text: Did you know that Mycomorphoolithus is a kind of fossil egg distinguished by its mushroom-shaped eggshell units?
text: Did you know that some fans consider Rey from Star Wars: The Force Awakens to be a " Mary Sue "?
text: Did you know that Carrie Mac , a Canadian author specializing in Young Adult fiction, is a winner of the CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize, the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize , and the Arthur Ellis Award ?
text: Did you know that Nellie Campobello 's Cartucho is the only canonical literary representation of the Mexican Revolution written by a woman?
text: Did you know that Justin Bieber asked his Twitter followers to get charity record " A Bridge over You " to the UK Singles Chart Christmas number one ahead of his own song ?
text: Did you know that during the start up of Chicago Pile-1 , Norman Hilberry stood ready with an ax to cut the scram line?
text: Did you know that when the Texas A&M–Commerce Lions softball team was established in 2015, it made A&M–Commerce the last school in the Lone Star Conference to sponsor the sport?
text: Did you know that when Otto Hackbarth nearly defeated eventual winner Jim Barnes in the second round of the 1919 PGA Championship , The New York Times described the match as "the proverbial close shave"?
text: Did you know that places of worship in Woking borough include Britain's first mosque, a Buddhist temple in a former asylum and an Eastern Orthodox church in a cemetery?
text: Did you know that Edith Mansford Fitzgerald invented the Fitzgerald Key , which at one time was used by 75% of the US schools teaching the hearing impaired ?
text: Did you know that the Revolutionary Communist Party of Argentina won key leadership posts in the Córdoba auto workers union election of 1972?
text: Did you know that percussionist Annette A. Aguilar was sent to South Africa by the U.S. State Department as a Latin Jazz Ambassador?
text: Did you know that Andrew Tremlett had his appointment as Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons blocked because he was "another white middle aged man"?
text: Did you know that during the Naqib al-Ashraf Revolt , the rebels and inhabitants of Jerusalem engaged in virtual self-rule in the city for over two years?
text: Did you know that the British physician Albertine Winner helped establish the first modern hospice at St Christopher's Hospice in Sydenham, London?
text: Did you know that during Operation Junction City Jr. , members of Bataillon Commando 203 fled from a crowd of refugees they mistook for enemy troops?
text: Did you know that a young Cincinnati artist, Joseph Mason , painted uncredited plant-life backgrounds for more than 50 of John James Audubon 's bird studies?
text: Did you know that the Hindu text Mantrika Upanishad is one of the earliest Yoga Upanishads composed in the 1st millennium BCE?
text: Did you know that Theodore Komnenos Doukas founded the short-lived Empire of Thessalonica and came close to restoring the Byzantine Empire before his defeat and capture by the Bulgarians ?
text: Did you know that professional golfer Eddie Loos accidentally hit Walter Hagen 's ball in the 1931 Los Angeles Open , earning a two-stroke penalty and a loss to Ed Dudley ?
text: Did you know that the Muslims of Granada revolted against their Catholic rulers seven years after the conquest of Granada , triggered by forced conversions imposed by Cardinal Cisneros ?
text: Did you know that Steven Anzovin published the first serious study on computer pollution and how it affects the world's environment?
text: Did you know that medical self-experimenter Nicholas Senn had nearly six litres of hydrogen pumped into his anus ?
text: Did you know that the Supreme Court of the United States recently held that plaintiffs cannot sue foreign sovereigns for injuries that are based upon conduct that occurs solely in a foreign country?
text: Did you know that in Dick Hogan 's last film role, in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Rope , his character is murdered at the start and concealed in a chest at a dinner party?
text: Did you know that it is claimed that 36 M3 Gun Motor Carriages destroyed 30 German tanks, including 2 Tiger tanks, at the Battle of El Guettar in March 1943?
text: Did you know that, while studying interfacial phenomena, Heather C. Allen discovered that halides such as bromide are located close to the surface of water?
text: Did you know that the ant tribe Prionomyrmecini has two members, the genus Prionomyrmex , which is extinct, and Nothomyrmecia , which is critically endangered ?
text: Did you know that Miriam Goldberg succeeded her husband as publisher of the Intermountain Jewish News , which he had bought for one dollar?
text: Did you know that the frog galvanoscope was tens of thousands times more sensitive to electric current than galvanometers available in the early nineteenth century?
text: Did you know that Bach composed the cantata for the Sunday after Epiphany , Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen , BWV 32 , as a dialogue of the Soul and Jesus, using elements of contemporary opera?
text: Did you know that Afghanistan's vineyards cover an area larger than do Austria's despite alcohol being officially forbidden ?
text: Did you know that Porcupine was the first Native American to derail a train during the Indian Wars ?
text: Did you know that distinguishing science from non-science is an unsolved problem in the philosophy of science , so an " I know it when I see it " standard is sometimes used to recognize pseudoscience ?
text: Did you know that Colonel Frank M. Hume formed his own army, which would later be designated Company L of Maine's National Guard?
text: Did you know that mazamorra is an historical corn stew of the indigenous peoples in South America ?
text: Did you know that November 14, 1976 was proclaimed by Governor Boren as Opaline Wadkins Day to honor the first African American to earn a master's degree in nursing education from the University of Oklahoma ?
text: Did you know that Indian otorhinolaryngologist Mohan Kameswaran performed the first auditory brainstem implant surgery in South Asia, and later became the first in Asia to perform the procedure on a child?
text: Did you know that Priscilla Laws conceived AtariLab after seeing a computer chart temperatures in real time and realizing it would make lab work easier?
text: Did you know that Sir George Kenning called his Derby car showroom Morris House and it was opened by Sir William Morris ?
text: Did you know that in 1920, a deadly arson attack occurred at the offices of the Federación Obrera de Magallanes trade union in Punta Arenas , Chile ?
text: Did you know that five-time Pro Bowl linebacker John Offerdahl founded a chain of bagel restaurants, helped rescue an elderly couple from drowning, and may have foiled a murder attempt?
text: Did you know that The Talk of the Town was the first Tennessee Walking Horse to win three World Grand Championships, and one of only two horses ever to do so?
text: Did you know that the second time that Christina Carpenter was placed in a cell, it had no door?
text: Did you know that Jeanette Rubio was a Miami Dolphins Cheerleader before she married Senator Marco Rubio ?
text: Did you know that in Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs , Lisa Randall offers a credible but "far from compelling" hypothesis for why dinosaurs became extinct?
text: Did you know that Ode de Pougy , abbess of Notre Dame aux Nonnains and niece of Manassès II de Pougy , was excommunicated after throwing the Archbishop of Tyre out of the Church of St Urbain ?
text: Did you know that despite its name meaning "quick, active, swift" in Old English , the River Tale is noted as being "sluggish"?
text: Did you know that after being jailed for 10 years and then deported to Jordan, Palestinian communist leader Arabi Awwad was elected to the Palestinian National Council in 1974?
text: Did you know that the Milam Building was both the tallest brick and reinforced concrete structure and first office building with built in air conditioning in the United States when it opened in 1928?
text: Did you know that in December 2015, Trent Zimmerman became the first openly gay man to be elected to the Australian House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that Ananda Thuriya , a chief minister, general, and son-in-law of King Sithu II of Pagan , began his career in the royal security detail?
text: Did you know that basketball player Kobe Bryant was the first guard to play 20 seasons in the NBA ?
text: Did you know that Turkish-German women's footballer Melike Pekel was top scorer of the German Regionalliga Süd in the 2013–14 season, and became a member of the Turkey women's national team in 2015?
text: Did you know that the fossil bumblebee Bombus cerdanyensis has notable darkening and texturing of the wing apex?
text: Did you know that a Palestinian, Muhammad Najati Sidqi , wrote a book in 1940 arguing that Nazism was incompatible with Islam ?
text: Did you know that although designed as an input for gaming controllers like joysticks , the Atari joystick port was also used as a serial port for devices like modems ?
text: Did you know that Indian cricketer M. P. Pandove scored his maiden first-class century at age 16, while his son Dhruv Pandove scored his at age 14?
text: Did you know that sociologist C. K. Yang argued that religion was an important "diffuse" force in Chinese society even though it was not institutionalized in churches?
text: Did you know that the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource originally included over 50 stations deemed significant for their architectural and cultural merit?
text: Did you know that 100 years ago, Robert Burgess was killed after being knocked off his bike by a shell ?
text: Did you know that the pharmaceutical drug patiromer lowers potassium levels in the blood but is not absorbed from the gut ?
text: Did you know that the Austrian physician Gisela Januszewska , famed for her work among Bosnian Muslim women and highly decorated for her World War I service, died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that the biologist Honor Fell directed the Strangeways Research Laboratory for 41 years, then returned to continue her research until shortly before her death in 1986?
text: Did you know that in David v. Poe , the Senate Electoral Tribunal of the Philippines declared that Grace Poe , formerly a foundling, is a "natural-born Filipino", allowing her to remain in the Philippine Senate ?
text: Did you know that on 29 August 1942, Gordon Gollob became the first fighter pilot to claim 150 aerial victories in World War II?
text: Did you know that flooding in October 2008 in Central America was considered the worst natural disaster since Hurricane Mitch 10 years prior?
text: Did you know that Indian composer and singer Shankar Mahadevan made his acting debut in the 2015 Marathi film Katyar Kaljat Ghusali ?
text: Did you know that despite using forward air control operations during the Korean War , the U.S. military could not agree on a common doctrine between 1946 and 1966?
text: Did you know that Hu Di , a top Communist Chinese secret agent, was executed by the Communist commander Zhang Guotao ?
text: Did you know that the title of Monica Byrne 's drama What Every Girl Should Know is drawn from a sex education column in the New York Call by Margaret Sanger ?
text: Did you know that Bionade-Biedermeier might be replaced by rhubarb spritzer-Rokoko?
text: Did you know that the HTC One (E8) has been described as an HTC One (M8) with a plastic shell?
text: Did you know that Ju Zheng was persuaded to oppose Chiang Kai-shek 's candidacy for president of China in 1948 and received 10 percent of the vote in the National Assembly, with Chiang elected overwhelmingly?
text: Did you know that the music of Red Dead Redemption was inspired by Ennio Morricone 's work on the Dollars Trilogy ?
text: Did you know that after leading a nationwide strike during his presidency of the National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria, Isaac Folorunso Adewole was declared a wanted man and had to go into exile?
text: Did you know that the two-story station building at Readville was destroyed in a suspicious fire in 1983?
text: Did you know that on 24 October 1941, Günther Lützow became the second fighter pilot to claim 100 aerial victories in World War II?
text: Did you know that stale beer tends to smell like cat urine and then cardboard?
text: Did you know that William Walker was the last underarm bowler to have played for Tasmania ?
text: Did you know that the wildlife of Jordan includes a critically endangered fish found at a single oasis with a shrinking water supply?
text: Did you know that while Caroline Stephen 's book was considered a " Quaker classic" even 100 years after publication, her brother had dismissed it as "another little work of hers"?
text: Did you know that an altarpiece by Bror Hjorth was the only item saved from a 1993 fire in Salabacke Church in Uppsala ?
text: Did you know that Mary Docherty , a Scottish communist , was treated for tuberculosis while visiting the Soviet Union?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film The Bleeder is about Chuck Wepner (portrayed by Liev Schreiber ), who challenged Muhammad Ali for the world's Heavyweight title in 1975?
text: Did you know that David van Rooyen was the South African Minister of Finance for four days?
text: Did you know that Victoria Bricker has studied the languages, astronomy, and ethnobotany of the Maya ?
text: Did you know that Julian Lage 's album World's Fair was inspired by Andrés Segovia ?
text: Did you know that four years after Han Qing set the Asian Games record in the 200 metres sprint , she tested positive for using dihydrotestosterone and was given a ban that effectively ended her career?
text: Did you know that an entire chapter was censored from the hentai manga Coffin of Cerebrum due to "the shota aspect and the violence towards children"?
text: Did you know that Sergeant Donald Nichols correctly forecast that the Korean War would start within a certain three-day period?
text: Did you know that Saimaluu Tash , a petroglyphs site, has black-and-white rock paintings which are a globally important collection of rock art ?
text: Did you know that players can fire teddy bears strapped to sticks of dynamite in Sunset Overdrive ?
text: Did you know that binary logarithms can be used to determine the number of octaves between two musical tones ?
text: Did you know that violinist Mia Matsumiya spent ten years cataloging online harassment that she received, and has created a popular Instagram account featuring those messages?
text: Did you know that the leaves of the scallop hakea cup the stem and the axillary flowers?
text: Did you know that Major Arthur V. Peterson traveled to Europe before D-Day to warn General Eisenhower about the dangers of the Germans using radioactive weapons?
text: Did you know that the Khpal Kor Foundation , which operates an orphanage in Pakistan's Swat District , established a Child Assembly that Malala Yousafzai once chaired?
text: Did you know that Commonwealth Games multiple medal-winning gymnast Nathan Gafuik was diagnosed with Addison's disease at the age of 15?
text: Did you know that the " Mauthausen Trilogy ", composed by Mikis Theodorakis , has been described as the "most beautiful musical work ever written about the Holocaust "?
text: Did you know that the second column of the Tchepone Operation was Orange, Red, and Black?
text: Did you know that the guitar/drum duo Two Gallants are named after a short story by James Joyce ?
text: Did you know that Israeli filmmaker Yael Reuveny says she only really got to know her mother by interviewing her for Farewell Herr Schwarz , her documentary about her family's history?
text: Did you know that Edith Irby made national news when she was accepted in 1948 as the first African American medical student in the Southern United States ?
text: Did you know that the ice-breaking in the title Islossningen i Uleå älv , a 1889 composition for narrator, men's chorus, and orchestra by Jean Sibelius , was a political statement?
text: Did you know that by 2013, the revenue of the Syrian tourist industry had decreased by 94 percent since the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011?
text: Did you know that the Anita Krajnc case could result in her spending ten years in prison for giving water to thirsty pigs on their way to slaughter?
text: Did you know that the Turkish slave-soldier Ahmad ibn Tulun established the first local dynasty to rule Egypt since the Pharaohs?
text: Did you know that fossil eggs classified as Elongatoolithidae have been found with preserved embryos inside?
text: Did you know that Marianne Katoppo , who wrote the book Compassionate and Free. An Asian Woman's Theology , found the term feminist theology "too loaded"?
text: Did you know that the virtually abandoned Rukai slate village of Kucapungane is an "endangered site" according to the World Monuments Fund ?
text: Did you know that the Manav Vikas Mission of the Government of Maharashtra provides free bus service for village girls from their native village to their schools?
text: Did you know that Appian Way Productions has produced The Aviator (2004) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), both of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture ?
text: Did you know that a recitative in Bach 's cantata for the Sunday after New Year's Day, Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid , BWV 58 , retells the prescribed gospel about the Flight into Egypt ?
text: Did you know that six different species of gibbon are among the animals found in Laos ?
text: Did you know that Aviel Barclay , the first woman to be traditionally trained and certified as a Jewish scribe , completed her first Torah scroll in 2010?
text: Did you know that the funeral march In Memoriam by Jean Sibelius was conceived in memory of Eugen Schauman , who shot a Governor-General in 1904?
text: Did you know that Mãe Menininha do Gantois was instrumental in gaining legal recognition of Candomblé and its rituals?
text: Did you know that the lemon-shaped container for Jif lemon juice was one of the first blow moulded polythene containers used for food applications?
text: Did you know that Ernie Blake helped interrogate Nazis Hermann Göring and Albert Speer , and adopted his code name as his real name, before founding Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico ?
text: Did you know that the 2015 Bangkok Half Marathon was called the "world's longest half marathon"?
text: Did you know that the 1981 election of Kathryn J. Whitmire as mayor heralded a major change in the city politics of Houston, Texas ?
text: Did you know that the house of the Chief or King of the community, at the southwestern end of Bawomataluo village , is said to be the "oldest and largest on Nias "?
text: Did you know that devout Muslim Mohamed Hadid , a lifelong teetotaler , owns a 5,000-bottle wine cellar and a Beverly Hills winery?
text: Did you know that Judd Nelson , who played Joe Hunt in the 1987 TV movie Billionaire Boys Club , is playing the character's father in the upcoming film of the same name ?
text: Did you know that Polish football player Łukasz Cieślewicz was named player of the year in the Faroe Islands in 2011 and 2015 ?
text: Did you know that We, too, have a Job to Do was painted by Norman Rockwell to encourage Boy Scouts to participate in the war effort during World War II?
text: Did you know that Izzy Slapawitz was responsible for several fan riots in the Southern United States between 1978 and 1982?
text: Did you know that the plot for the 200th episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit was partly inspired by the strip search phone call scam ?
text: Did you know that the Welsh rugby league prop Morgan Evans made his national debut in a charity match against Keighley Cougars in honour of the rugby league footballer Danny Jones ?
text: Did you know that the Social Interaction Anxiety Scale is used in clinical settings to measure distress?
text: Did you know that in February 1850, Sisters of Charity Hospital in Buffalo was the subject of a public letter-writing feud?
text: Did you know that Harald Sigtryggsson was installed as King of Limerick by his cousin Olaf Guthfrithson , King of Dublin ?
text: Did you know that the first popular bootleg rock album was Bob Dylan 's Great White Wonder ?
text: Did you know that after Rachel Henderlite 's 1965 ordination as a minister, a retired pastor sent her a postcard every year quoting the biblical injunction, "Let the women keep silent in the churches"?
text: Did you know that Maria Corsini , Italian writer and Roman Catholic lay person, was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 31 October 2001 along with her husband, Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi ?
text: Did you know that the Huawei Ascend P7 smartphone has been noted for its high-resolution front camera and slow processor?
text: Did you know that Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller , a senior faculty member at Neve Yerushalayim College for Women, has thousands of students around the globe?
text: Did you know that Edvard Munch 's painting Love and Pain sold for more than US$38 million in 2008?
text: Did you know that Ismail Pasha al-Azm laid the foundations for the Azm family 's political dominance in Damascus during Ottoman rule?
text: Did you know that a ban on women Shinto priests ended after World War II?
text: Did you know that during the American Revolution , Loyalist spy Joseph Bettys failed in his mission to capture General Philip Schuyler because Bettys left his unit and went off to visit his girlfriend?
text: Did you know that The X Factor winner Louisa Johnson initially applied for Britain's Got Talent ?
text: Did you know that Level Mountain is the most voluminous and most persistent volcano in the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province of North America?
text: Did you know that Vernon Arnold Haugland was the first civilian to receive the Silver Star medal , normally awarded only to members of the United States Armed Forces?
text: Did you know that the 2015 Hurricane Blanca was the earliest recorded tropical cyclone to make landfall on the Baja California Peninsula in any given year?
text: Did you know that the legend of Lopamudra in Mahabharata is said to be "the glorification of domestic life and family and demonstrates the incompleteness of a life based solely on asceticism"?
text: Did you know that British media have compared the Scottish footballer Ryan Gauld to Lionel Messi ?
text: Did you know that Operation Maeng Da translates as "Operation Pimp "?
text: Did you know that Elisabeth Abegg , a teacher who provided shelter to Jews during the Holocaust , also tutored Jewish children at her home?
text: Did you know that music from Bach 's cantata for New Year's Day, [[[Gott, wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm, BWV 171| Gott, wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm , BWV 171]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup ( help ) , appears in his Mass in B minor ?
text: Did you know that polymer chemist Swaminathan Sivaram holds the record for the most United States patents by an Indian national working in India?
text: Did you know that in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Baekje Historic Areas , about 4,600 antiquities were discovered in good condition in the Royal Tomb of King Muryeong ?
text: Did you know that Pu Shunqing is considered the first female screenwriter in China?
text: Did you know that the Argentine stem weevil is not considered economically important in its native South America, but is a serious agricultural pest in New Zealand?
text: Did you know that an opposing basketball coach praised UCLA Bruins freshman Aaron Holiday 's defense by comparing him to a Tasmanian devil ?
text: Did you know that after almost drowning during his foray into water polo , Ka'imi Fairbairn returned to American football and was named the top college kicker in the nation?
text: Did you know that perennial ryegrass staggers is a disease of livestock caused by an endophytic fungus sometimes present in perennial ryegrass ?
text: Did you know that 138 years after establishment of the Anglican Diocese of Nassau , Angela Palacious became its first woman deacon in 1999?
text: Did you know that by 1566, Fukuda was home to more than 1,000 Catholic Kirishitans ?
text: Did you know that Ardina Moore , a fluent speaker of Quapaw , created her own workbook, tapes, and classes to help preserve and teach the language to younger members of her tribe?
text: Did you know that Jean Sibelius conducted his Andante Festivo in a live broadcast on New Year's Day 1939, the only sound document of his interpretation of his works?
text: Did you know that the abolitionist Eliza Ann Gardner made her living as a dressmaker ?
text: Did you know that Pitbull began producing a New Year's Eve special for Fox in 2014?
text: Did you know that in 1941, Scottish soldier Peter Cochrane single-handedly destroyed two Italian machine gun posts with grenades?
text: Did you know that real ear measurement used by audiologists involves insertion of a probe to within 6 mm of the eardrum ?
text: Did you know that Elvis Presley 's hairstylist Larry Geller was also his spiritual advisor?
text: Did you know that in 2013, there were 819 active mines in Yemen producing stone, gypsum, refined petroleum products, and salt?
text: Did you know that at the pulpit of the synod of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands , Arenda Haasnoot said, "This is my calling. Here I am in my place"?
text: Did you know that in the 1907 Tour de France , some participants treated the race as a pleasure ride, stopping for lunch when they chose and spending the night in the best hotels they could find?
text: Did you know that 210 journalists and intellectuals called for Governor Li Hongzhong to step down after he grabbed the recorder from a reporter who sought to interview him?
text: Did you know that Natalia Lafourcade sought inspiration for her album Hasta la Raíz in Agustín Lara 's repertoire and her native country, Mexico?
text: Did you know that the Venezuelan footballer Edder Farías scored against Honduras in February 2015, his country's first victory since September 2013?
text: Did you know that in the Sharabha Upanishad , Shiva , incarnating as Sharabha in a fierce anthropomorphic form of an eagle, lion, and man, slays Narasimha , an incarnation of Vishnu ?
text: Did you know that serial killer Hilda Nilsson committed suicide by hanging the same day the courts commuted her death sentence to life imprisonment?
text: Did you know that The New York Times called the 2013 film Stray Dogs a "glum, humorless exercise in Asian miserablism"?
text: Did you know that drummer, singer, and songwriter Emily Estefan was born in 1994 after her mother, Gloria Estefan , had been told she would never give birth following a 1990 tour-bus crash?
text: Did you know that W. Lair Thompson , the President of the Oregon Senate , lost his re-election bid in 1916 by one vote?
text: Did you know that the freshwater snails Sinotaia aeruginosa and Cipangopaludina cathayensis are used in Chinese cuisine?
text: Did you know that Ana Irma Rivera Lassén , who would later become president of the Bar Association of Puerto Rico , sued a judge in the 1980s so she could appear in court dressed in pants ?
text: Did you know that Makrana marble was used in the construction of the Taj Mahal and the Victoria Memorial ?
text: Did you know that Black Metropolis , a foundational American sociology text by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton, Jr. , resulted from the work of as many as 200 researchers, typists, and copyists?
text: Did you know that chestnut cake may be prepared using flour from ground chestnuts?
text: Did you know that when Liverpool played in the Football League Cup Final today, they did so for a record 12th time?
text: Did you know that Soup the Chemist has been called the "Godfather of Christian hip hop "?
text: Did you know that the plot for the Veronica Mars episode " Postgame Mortem " was based around a scene in an elevator, and the crew "wrote backwards" from that scene?
text: Did you know that Queen Elizabeth cake is named after Elizabeth II and is a popular cake in Canada?
text: Did you know that Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto composed the original soundtrack for the 2015 film The Revenant during his recovery from throat cancer ?
text: Did you know that Lebanese IT expert and U.S. permanent resident Nizar Zakka , detained in Iran since September 18, 2015, has been accused of being an American spy?
text: Did you know that anti-fascists , Islamists , and neo-Nazis rioted against a tennis match ?
text: Did you know that Iarla Ó Lionáird sang "Casadh an tSúgáin" in Brooklyn ?
text: Did you know that the Of–Bayburt road in northeastern Turkey is considered one of the most dangerous routes, with over 20 steep hairpin turns ?
text: Did you know that the Pac-12 Conference award for men's basketball coach of the year was renamed in honor of John Wooden ?
text: Did you know that the Navalgund Durries are a type of Indian rug with geometric patterns and designs of birds and animals?
text: Did you know that Governor Ye Liansong said he never thought of becoming a politician until he was told of his appointment as vice-mayor?
text: Did you know that Puri hosts the famed Rath Yatra , attended by at least a million people every year?
text: Did you know that James Maxie Ponder , St. Petersburg, Florida 's first African-American physician, began a medical practice out of his home and accepted payment in poultry, vegetables, and ham?
text: Did you know that Zeng Junchen , one of 20th-century China's most successful drug lords , started out selling salt ?
text: Did you know that the Olly Murs song " Please Don't Let Me Go " is based on one of his real-life experiences of a failed relationship ?
text: Did you know that when a reporter told horse breeder Betty Sain that there were no coyotes in Tennessee , she presented him with a dead one?
text: Did you know that a boring mill at the mouth of White Deer Creek in 1776 made gun barrels for the Continental Army ?
text: Did you know that Margaret Benyon has been called "the mother of British holography "?
text: Did you know that after the release of Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut , the original film was described as being the first " flop " to be given a director's cut?
text: Did you know that earlier this month, the town of Wangaratta was overrun by hairy panic ?
text: Did you know that the composer Sterndale Bennett introduced cricket to Germany?
text: Did you know that Jacksonville attorney Bill Birchfield referred to himself as the "Duke of Mayo "?
text: Did you know that after seeing a trailer for Oprah Winfrey 's Belief series, Tim McGraw got Winfrey to provide footage for his " Humble and Kind " music video?
text: Did you know that professional surfer Kala Alexander is vice president of an organization that gives children with cystic fibrosis surfing lessons?
text: Did you know that the first waves of the landing at Lae were carried in four destroyer transports ?
text: Did you know that Gujarati theatre actor Markand Bhatt received a Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2008?
text: Did you know that Ezubao attracted 50 billion yuan ($7.6 billion) from 900,000 Chinese investors before it was closed down as a Ponzi scheme ?
text: Did you know that a forensic facial reconstruction of two-year-old Bella Bond triggered approximately 56 million Internet views?
text: Did you know that the Whakamana Cannabis Museum , New Zealand's first museum dedicated to cannabis culture , opened in Caversham , Dunedin , in 2013?
text: Did you know that Gloria Wekker has been called "Holland's Angela Davis " for igniting debate on cultural racism ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming Dead & Company 2016 Summer Tour will be the first shows played at Fenway Park by members of the Grateful Dead ?
text: Did you know that the shell of the fossil egg Dictyoolithus is made up of five superimposed layers of eggshell units?
text: Did you know that some scholars speculate that the "plague of emerods " described in 1 Samuel of the King James Bible was actually an outbreak of bubonic plague ?
text: Did you know that in her colorful memoir When Denver and I Were Young , Edwina Hume Fallis warned against trying on another child's hat, because "you might bring home something you didn't like"?
text: Did you know that during the Siege of Syracuse by the Aghlabids in 877–878, the Byzantine navy failed to aid the city on time, as it was employed in the construction of the Nea Ekklesia church?
text: Did you know that the parents of the first white child born in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania , settled on Glade Run ?
text: Did you know that a mysterious World War II airbase of the former Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service located at Nishiki, Kumamoto , is currently being surveyed with a view to eventually opening it up to tourists?
text: Did you know that the Welsh architect Thomas Thomas made sure he preached one of the very first sermons in every chapel he built?
text: Did you know that Southern Beekeeper's Nature Reserve had no official name when it was gazetted in 1979, but had been used for beekeeping for generations?
text: Did you know that Rahul Thakkar , an Indian-American software developer, jointly won the 2016 Academy Award for scientific and technical achievement ?
text: Did you know that in the music video for the title track from Wow to the Deadness , the members of Steve Taylor & The Danielson Foil throw water balloons at each other?
text: Did you know that Carrie A. Tuggle established the Tuggle Institute, in Birmingham, Alabama , a boarding school to give free education for black children who were destitute orphans or juvenile defendants?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Atomic Star became the only rookie to compete in three El Protector tournaments when he won the 2016 El Protector ?
text: Did you know that Nic Case became the first driver to top 200 miles per hour (320 km/h) with a radio-controlled car in 2014?
text: Did you know that in the Battle of the Straits in 965, the Fatimids employed divers to tie ropes to the Byzantine ships, along which incendiary devices were then hurled against them?
text: Did you know that Triprismatoolithus is a kind of fossil egg that was probably laid by an unknown species of alvarezsaurian dinosaur?
text: Did you know that Zaila McCalla , first female Chief Justice of Jamaica , is also the Chancellor of the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands ?
text: Did you know that some reaches of Turkey Run and Oak Run were described as "moderately depressed" in the 1970s?
text: Did you know that " America can't do a damn thing against us " was a slogan used by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini , the former Supreme Leader of Iran , during the hostage crisis ?
text: Did you know that African-American Daniel Robert Alexander was described as a favorite of Ethiopian emperor Menelik II and blacksmith to Haile Selassie ?
text: Did you know that the salt-tolerant plants Zygophyllum album , Nitraria retusa , and Tamarix nilotica dominate different vegetation zones at the Moghra Oasis in Egypt?
text: Did you know that Zvezdelina Stankova brought ideas from her Bulgarian mathematical education to California by founding the Berkeley Math Circle ?
text: Did you know that the Indian state of Kerala celebrates over 10,000 festivals annually?
text: Did you know that entrepreneur Ren Jianxin , founder of the world's 265th largest company, began with a loan of CN¥ 10,000?
text: Did you know that in the Battle of Dumpu , Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Honner , although covered in blood and black ants, refused to be carried from the field for fear it might endanger the stretcher bearers?
text: Did you know that at 81, horse trainer Bud Dunn became the oldest rider ever to win the Tennessee Walking Horse World Grand Championship ?
text: Did you know that the wildlife of Egypt no longer includes the elephants, rhinoceroses and gerenuk depicted in rock art at the village of Silwa Bahari ?
text: Did you know that Marianne Means was the first woman reporter to be assigned full-time coverage of the White House ?
text: Did you know that Ferdinand 's threat to Genoa during World War II allowed a Dragoon to achieve tactical surprise?
text: Did you know that Norma Cox Astwood , a clinical psychologist , became Vice President of the Senate of Bermuda ?
text: Did you know that Mariah Carey recorded a cover version of the Brenda K. Starr song " I Still Believe " as a thank you for helping her get into the music industry?
text: Did you know that Tibs the Great vanquished all his foes during his 14-year reign?
text: Did you know that the American policy analyst Gareth Porter , argues in his Manufactured Crisis that allegations of Iran's attempts to build nuclear weapons have been fabricated by Israel and the United States?
text: Did you know that Banner Lane was the site of one of the largest Second World War British shadow factories with over one million square feet of floorspace?
text: Did you know that Detty Kurnia is an Indonesian vocalist who sang Dari Sunda which was among the five best albums listed by Q Magazine ?
text: Did you know that the Green-legged Partridge of Poland is actually a chicken?
text: Did you know that the Norfolk headless body may have been a "duchess"?
text: Did you know that the losses sustained by the crew of patrol boat Phaethon , during the battle of Tillyria in 1964, were the first battle casualties of the Hellenic Navy after World War II?
text: Did you know that the 2015 Singapore Grand Prix was won by Sebastian Vettel even though he lost his bottle?
text: Did you know that Michael Muhney did not know about his character's death on Veronica Mars until receiving the script for his final episode, " Mars, Bars "?
text: Did you know that Paulette Poujol-Oriol 's literary works focus principally on the social and economic problems of Haiti, evoking moral options and suggesting solutions?
text: Did you know that to hike round the Mont Blanc massif in the Alps is a 170-kilometre (110 mi) trip, usually taking 11 days, but top athletes run round the Tour du Mont Blanc circuit in just 21 hours?
text: Did you know that director Naji Abu Nowar produced Theeb , Jordan 's first film ever to be nominated for an Academy Award?
text: Did you know that Undulatoolithus , a kind of fossil egg from China, probably received intensive parental care?
text: Did you know that the Bestiaire by Philip de Thaun is one of two medieval English sources for the story behind the phrase " crocodile tears "?
text: Did you know that a distinctive diamond helped secure a bodyless murder conviction in the case of Robert Wykel , last seen 20 years ago today?
text: Did you know that Crucian Ruby M. Rouss served in the Women's Army Corps before becoming the "first black woman to head a Legislature in the United States"?
text: Did you know that Rare celebrated its 30th anniversary by releasing Rare Replay , a title compiling 30 video games which it created?
text: Did you know that Ruhollah Khomeini , in his letter to Gorbachev , invited him to monotheism and Islam and also predicted the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc ?
text: Did you know that during filming of the Vietnam War documentary Introduction to the Enemy , a landmine killed a man near Jane Fonda , whose reaction to the death was kept in the film?
text: Did you know that Ravindra Jadeja is the only batsman to score three triple centuries in the Ranji Trophy ?
text: Did you know that Sivion 's stage name is a misspelling of his old one, "Vision"?
text: Did you know that Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen committed suicide in 1945 after suffering most of her life from ill health?
text: Did you know that two Silver Buckle companies attacked 50,000 enemy troops?
text: Did you know that Beatrice Helen Worsley wrote the first program for the Manchester Mark 1 , received the first PhD in computer science , and holds the record among WRENs for the longest time at sea?
text: Did you know that 42 Lomasney Way in Boston 's West End has been called "The Last Tenement", and has survived two fires, decay, and urban renewal?
text: Did you know that Boyd Overhulse was unanimously elected President of the Oregon Senate just 11 days after taking his senate seat in 1957, the first Democrat to hold that position in 79 years?
text: Did you know that Nate Parker produced a teaser in order to seek financing for Eden ?
text: Did you know that Rose Piper 's 1946 painting Back Water was inspired by Bessie Smith 's "Backwater Blues"?
text: Did you know that Wang Baosen , vice mayor of Beijing , committed suicide while under investigation for corruption?
text: Did you know that the Wadamisaki Battery was the first national historic site registered in Hyōgo Prefecture ?
text: Did you know that Astrid Schirmer appeared in roles by Richard Wagner, both Venus and Elisabeth in his Tannhäuser , and in the Bayreuth Jahrhundertring as both Ortlinde and Sieglinde?
text: Did you know that the Bangalore Blue variety of grape has been grown for the past 150 years exclusively in the districts of Bangalore Urban , Chikkaballapura and Kolar ?
text: Did you know that the association footballer Dick Pudan was banned from the sport in 1907 after he walked out on his club, which had refused to let him play professional cricket too?
text: Did you know that in Abandon the Old in Tokyo , Yoshihiro Tatsumi wanted to depict postwar Japan, where he felt that the focus on economic growth was given precedence over the lifestyles of its people?
text: Did you know that the 1628 Robletti edition of Il Primo Libro delle Canzoni by Girolamo Frescobaldi was dedicated to Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany , who engaged him as a court musician?
text: Did you know that after graduating from high school, Korbin Forrister chose full-time stock car racing over baseball ?
text: Did you know that unlike the Marvel Comics adaptation of Planet of the Apes , IDW Publishing 's Star Trek/Planet of the Apes: The Primate Directive could use the likeness of Charlton Heston ?
text: Did you know that Maria Carbone appeared in 1931 as Desdemona in a complete recording of Verdi's Otello , one of her only two recordings?
text: Did you know that An East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara (1762) by British Army officer Thomas Davies was the first eyewitness painting of Niagara Falls ?
text: Did you know that Anthony Hill was naked, unarmed and suffering from mental illness when he was shot by police in the U.S. state of Georgia ?
text: Did you know that Tubercuoolithus is one of the fossil eggs from Sevenmile Hill, the oldest fossil egg site in the Two Medicine Formation ?
text: Did you know that when Maria Benedita Bormann was called a female Émile Zola , it was not meant as a compliment?
text: Did you know that Anna Korondi appeared at the Bavarian State Opera as Zdenka in Arabella by Richard Strauss and in a leading role in the premiere of Aribert Reimann 's Bernarda Albas Haus ?
text: Did you know that the pre-1st century text Mahanarayana Upanishad , literally "Great Vishnu Upanishad", glorifies not only Vishnu but also Shiva ?
text: Did you know that Colby Carthel is the son of fellow American football head coach Don Carthel ?
text: Did you know that Gujarat 's Sankheda furniture is named after the Sankheda village, where it is made with teak wood and lacquer and painted in traditional bright shades of maroon and gold?
text: Did you know that the black Liberian scholar and educator, Princess Fatima Massaquoi , wrote of her challenging experiences in Nazi Germany and the U.S. South in a recently rediscovered autobiography ?
text: Did you know that CR-39 , used in the manufacture of plastic eyeglass lenses, was one of 200 polymers invented by Columbia-Southern Chemical Corporation during World War II?
text: Did you know that the mechanical engineer Lionel Bussey had 600 pairs of women's shoes?
text: Did you know that the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the only all-black, all-female battalion to serve overseas during World War II?
text: Did you know that the 1753 opera Ciro in Armenia was created by Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini , one of the earliest female Italian opera composers?
text: Did you know that Vernon Johnson won back-to-back Lone Star Conference wide receiver of the year honors?
text: Did you know that nearly $26 million of funds for a $42.5 million Haitian education program went missing after being raised partly from taxes on international phone calls?
text: Did you know that Lesley Lewis was one of four founding students of the Courtauld Institute of Art ?
text: Did you know that Operation Bedrock was a successful rice denial mission?
text: Did you know that Randy W. Berry , who grew up on a cattle ranch in Colorado , is the first-ever Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons in the US Department of State ?
text: Did you know that when Ilse Hollweg recorded the part of Blonde in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail with Sir Thomas Beecham , she was one of two soloists who also spoke the dialogue?
text: Did you know that Barbara McLaren conceived the Spalding War Memorial after her husband was killed in the First World War, but insisted he receive no special commemoration on it?
text: Did you know that at the cineplex where Ten Years debuted, it outperformed Star Wars: The Force Awakens ?
text: Did you know that the then Iranian prime minister, Mir-Hossein Mousavi , defined the Bridgeton incident as "an irreparable blow on America's political and military prestige"?
text: Did you know that Makoto Hirayama was elected to Japan's House of Councillors despite getting less than 0.02% of the vote?
text: Did you know that sandalwood oil is so important to the economy of Mysore , India, that it has been registered and trademarked?
text: Did you know that shortly after becoming the first woman and first African American television news anchor in Colorado , Reynelda Muse began wearing an Afro on the air to assert her identity?
text: Did you know that Florida Ruffin Ridley co-founded the Society for the Collection of Negro Folklore?
text: Did you know that the Racking Horse World Celebration has been held annually in Priceville, Alabama , for over 40 years?
text: Did you know that at the end of the reconquista , Islamic jurist Ahmad al-Wansharisi argued that it was compulsory for Spanish Muslims under Christian rule to emigrate to Muslim lands?
text: Did you know that when the White House postponed Operation Snake Eyes again, Captain Sirisouk quit the Laotian Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Angela Hartley Brodie ' s award-winning research led to the development of steroidal aromatase inhibitors as new treatments for breast cancer ?
text: Did you know that the Staten Island boat graveyard contains so many abandoned boats and ships that it has been called an "accidental marine museum"?
text: Did you know that Annelie Nordström resigned as general secretary after Swedish Municipal Workers' Union funds paid for a strip show by Puma Swede ?
text: Did you know that research into the psychology of eating meat suggests a correlation between meat-eating and support for hierarchy and inequality ?
text: Did you know that in a broadcast episode of Hollyoaks , Harry Thompson , portrayed by actor Parry Glasspool , was erroneously called "Parry" by another character?
text: Did you know that Air France Flight 152 , en route from Rome to Beirut, ended up in the Mediterranean Sea after one of the engines broke away in flight?
text: Did you know that Ricky Collins temporarily walked away from American football to care for his ill father?
text: Did you know that the Hindu text Paingala Upanishad compares the body to a horse-drawn car in a series of metaphors?
text: Did you know that the "Mother of the Probation" system, Sybil Joyce Hylton , is a National Hero of the Cayman Islands ?
text: Did you know that a fan-made video called " Shrek is love, Shrek is life " and its duplications garnered more than three million views by May 2014?
text: Did you know that in 1898 Sir Joseph Terry died of heart failure due to over-exertion while attempting to win a by-election in York ?
text: Did you know that the Negro Labor Committee was formed in 1935 so that African Americans could be allowed to join labor unions?
text: Did you know that for over 40 years, the one constant at the Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers has been Sharon H. Abrams ?
text: Did you know that Simone Ballard performed the title role in the premiere of Arthur Honegger's Antigone at La Monnaie ?
text: Did you know that the thyroid ima artery can be found in only three to ten percent of the population and varies in origin, size, blood supply, and termination?
text: Did you know that Swedish television presenter Jovan Radomir wrote the English translation of the Marija Šerifović song " Molitva ", which went on to win the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 ?
text: Did you know that at the 1905 International Tourist Trophy motor race, cars were towed to the start line by horses to save fuel?
text: Did you know that shortly after the forced conversions of Muslims in Castile , a fatwa was issued which allowed outward practice of Christianity while secretly keeping the Islamic faith?
text: Did you know that while everyone else thought the field horsetail growing on nursery land in Palmerston North was ornamental, Dame Ella Orr Campbell correctly identified it as an invasive species?
text: Did you know that the Sarvasara Upanishad text is one of two dedicated glossaries embedded in the collection of ancient and medieval Upanishads of Hinduism?
text: Did you know that Thomas Gilovich tested his hypothesis of the spotlight effect by using Barry Manilow T-shirts?
text: Did you know that despite being described by its leader as "liberal", the Social Encounter Party supported a constitutional amendment in Baja California to ban same-sex marriage?
text: Did you know that Sarah Tenant-Flowers has worked as an administrator for the Choir of the Year and as General Manager of " The Sixteen "?
text: Did you know that the Soviet RPG-1 anti-tank rocket was intended to combine the best features of the US's bazooka with those of the German Panzerfaust ?
text: Did you know that John Kent was the first black police officer in Britain?
text: Did you know that two earthquakes , both exceeding 7.0 on the moment magnitude scale , hit Fethiye , Turkey, within seven hours in 1957?
text: Did you know that the soprano Friederike Sailer appeared in the premiere of Werner Egk 's Der Revisor at the Schwetzingen Festival , conducted by the composer?
text: Did you know that fossil eggs assigned to Dictyoolithidae may have been laid by megalosauroid dinosaurs?
text: Did you know that Stanley Booth-Clibborn , a former Bishop of Manchester , was shot during a robbery in Uganda?
text: Did you know that Cowbell Hollow 's drainage basin is only 0.26 square miles (0.67 km 2 )?
text: Did you know that Lisa Aschan was filmed in the audience at the 2016 Guldbaggen Awards , giving the finger and saying "Fuck You" to the winner in the Best Cinematography category?
text: Did you know that just before Operation Xieng Dong , the People's Army of Vietnam captured the King's farm?
text: Did you know that according to Lynne Kelly ' s theory, Stonehenge was used as a centre for recording and accessing knowledge?
text: Did you know that the ancient Sanskrit text Nadabindu Upanishad rhetorically compares soul to a bird?
text: Did you know that Mustafizur Rahman is the only cricketer to receive Man of the Match awards on both Test and One Day International cricket debuts?
text: Did you know that during the 1934 Muroto typhoon , a then-world record low land-based pressure of 911.9 hPa (26.93 inHg ) was observed in Muroto, Japan ?
text: Did you know that Zhou Youde became a local deity after helping to end the Great Evacuation ?
text: Did you know that the Amani Nature Reserve in Tanzania is home to the elusive long-billed forest warbler and the unwanted umbrella tree ?
text: Did you know that Vice Premier Kang Shi'en , China's "energy czar", received an unprecedented demerit of the first grade after an oil rig accident that killed 72 people?
text: Did you know that Pura Vida Bracelets , which now sells over 125,000 bracelets a month, started when two friends brought 400 bracelets back from a vacation in Costa Rica?
text: Did you know that W. G. Grace , Jack Hobbs , Denis Compton and Don Bradman all scored first-class centuries at the Central Recreation Ground, Hastings ?
text: Did you know that the ancient text Nirvana Upanishad is written in Sutra -style and states that a solitary place is a monastery of bliss for a Hindu monk?
text: Did you know that the proposed sculpture Rebirth , projected as a deer with a human child's face, was meant to represent "the interaction between the nearby riparian forest and the people living in Oak Grove "?
text: Did you know that the French General André Sordet ' s cavalry corps covered close to 1,500 km (930 miles) in the first month of World War I?
text: Did you know that Donald Lavoie , a hit man for Montreal's Dubois Gang , escaped his intended execution at their hands by sliding down a laundry chute?
text: Did you know that after becoming a local hit in Texas, Gene Thomas ' " Sometime " was reissued on the United Artists label and entered the national top 100?
text: Did you know that Carmen Souza sings Cape Verdean and jazz fusion compositions in Creole for its adaptability, and also mimics the sounds of musical instruments?
text: Did you know that Madonna 's musical endeavors include reciting and recording poems?
text: Did you know that during the 1920 debut of his furniture music at the Galerie Barbazanges in Paris, composer Erik Satie begged the audience not to listen to the music?
text: Did you know that Eleanor Sophia Smith was one of the founders of Chicago 's Hull House Music School ?
text: Did you know that Gregg Allman 's album Laid Back was titled as an inside reference to a studio term that Allman coined for when a song needed to be more relaxed?
text: Did you know that jazz pianist and composer Dodo Marmarosa once got mad at his old piano and chopped it up with an ax?
text: Did you know that Tina Allen ' s sculpture of Frederick Douglass is featured in the movie Akeelah and the Bee ?
text: Did you know that the auxiliary nurse midwife is a village-level female health worker in India who acts as the first contact person between the community and the health services?
text: Did you know that Meridian School alumnus Masa Fukuda , the founder of One Voice Children's Choir , writes and arranges music from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. in his basement studio, sleeping only three or four hours a day?
text: Did you know that BMW engineer Paul Rosche continued to design Formula One engines for them after the company withdrew from the tournament?
text: Did you know that during the period of state control known as State Shinto , Japan lost 80,000 Shinto shrines?
text: Did you know that Swedish politician Emil Källström came in sixth in Land magazine's annual list of "Hottest hillbillies"?
text: Did you know that the white-bellied cinclodes may soon "pipe" no more?
text: Did you know that For John is a tribute album to a disc jockey from Buffalo, New York , recorded by indie pop band Library Voices from Regina, Saskatchewan ?
text: Did you know that the pre-3rd century CE Shandilya Upanishad text describes eight postures of Yoga to cleanse the body and two types of meditation?
text: Did you know that for the production of Avengers: Infinity War , the films will be the first to be shot entirely using IMAX cameras and its exclusive aspect ratio ?
text: Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II 's glovemaker, Cornelia James , was accepted by the art college that rejected Adolf Hitler?
text: Did you know that Alexander Rossi became the first American to drive at a Formula One race at the Circuit of the Americas when he entered the 2015 United States Grand Prix ?
text: Did you know that Romona Robinson won a television news anchor job in Cleveland , Ohio, with a demo tape that showed her remaining poised and self-confident while "being wiped out by a hurricane-whipped wave"?
text: Did you know that in 1955, two girls fainted at an election rally in Glasgow for Unionist candidate William Grant ?
text: Did you know that Sports Phone received 50 million calls in 1981?
text: Did you know that the husband-and-wife piano duo of Bartlett and Robertson were said to play like "four hands at a double keyboard controlled by a single mind"?
text: Did you know that during Operation Phoutah , Groupement Mobile 33 carried their gut-shot colonel and 50 other wounded for 13 hours?
text: Did you know that Rosita Baltazar , co-founder of the Belize National Dance Company, taught language and dance on St. Vincent in a Garifuna cultural reclamation project?
text: Did you know that software product company DDC-I started three decades ago in Denmark with a focus on the Ada programming language and now focuses on real-time operating systems in the United States?
text: Did you know that the Hindu text Kathashruti Upanishad , composed before the 3rd-century CE, states a sannyasi should neither rejoice when someone praises him, nor curse when someone abuses him?
text: Did you know that Evelyn Boscawen, 6th Viscount Falmouth , was also known as Mr Valentine?
text: Did you know that Ruth Guimarães , the first Afro-Brazilian author to gain a nationwide audience, translated classic literature but also wrote original works about fables , legends, and everyday life?
text: Did you know that Chris Sailer is the only player in UCLA football history to have been named first-team All-American at two positions in the same season?
text: Did you know that the ancient Sanskrit text Dhyanabindu Upanishad states there is a soul in every living being just as there is fragrance in flowers and butter in milk?
text: Did you know that Baldwin , the 11th-century abbot of Bury St Edmunds Abbey in England, was royal doctor to three kings?
text: Did you know that many of the songs from Conrad Keely 's debut solo album Original Machines were written while traveling around Cambodia ?
text: Did you know that Silvina Fabars , who won the National Dance Prize of Cuba in 2014, was once a rebel fighter under Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution ?
text: Did you know that no more than twelve people at a time can ascertain what is found and lost at a London hotel?
text: Did you know that although he was born in the Ivory Coast, Mahama Cho has represented both Great Britain and France at taekwondo competitions?
text: Did you know that the ancient Indian text Tejobindu Upanishad describes a 15-limbed yoga system, including exercises, meditation and Samadhi ?
text: Did you know that Swedish singer Towe Jaarnek is the sister of fellow singer Carina Jaarnek ?
text: Did you know that a 1995 storm caused 63 deaths in Nepal, 33 of them related to avalanches?
text: Did you know that math professor Henry Adams Thompson ran for office several times, including for Vice President of the United States in 1880 , but never won?
text: Did you know that although it is possible that the Adriatic sturgeon is extinct in the wild, a large specimen was caught in the River Po in 2015?
text: Did you know that the composer and improviser Sylvia Hallett bows both the violin and a spinning bicycle wheel?
text: Did you know that Mami Kawada ' s music career began after she was discovered by her music teacher?
text: Did you know that the cosmology in the ancient Hindu text Avyakta Upanishad proposes that there was nothing, until light appeared consisting of knowledge and bliss, followed by the universe?
text: Did you know that actor Johannes Bah Kuhnke is married to the Swedish Minister of Culture, Alice Bah Kuhnke ?
text: Did you know that Little Pine is a vegan restaurant founded by American singer–songwriter Moby that donates all of its profits to animal welfare organizations?
text: Did you know that Jeffrey Swanson led a 2015 study that found that 8.9% of American adults reported both angry behavior and easy access to guns?
text: Did you know that Subhra Guha , a vocal musician in the Indian Hindustani classical tradition, trained in Agra gharana , and has a singing repertoire in khayals , thumri and dadra ?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Brunanburh , fought in 937, has been described as "the greatest single battle in Anglo-Saxon history before Hastings "?
text: Did you know that the Hindu text Amritabindu Upanishad , composed before 300 CE, condemns "bookish learning" and emphasizes the practice of a six-limbed Yoga ?
text: Did you know that Richard Nixon and T. S. Eliot are both descended from Isaac Stearns ?
text: Did you know that authorities in 17th-century Amsterdam ordered the confiscation and burning of Adriaan Koerbagh 's Een Bloemhof because of its heretical opinions?
text: Did you know that when No. 4 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF opened in 1940, facilities were so limited that cadets had to pay for their own accommodation at a nearby hotel?
text: Did you know that George Alexander Gibson was a physician, medical author, and amateur geologist after whom the Gibson Murmur was named?
text: Did you know that in Glik v. Cunniffe , the First Circuit noted that "we have previously recognized that the videotaping of public officials is an exercise of First Amendment liberties"?
text: Did you know that Polish athlete Ewa Gryziecka ' s world record in women's javelin throw lasted for 35 minutes?
text: Did you know that the Brazilian guitarfish may soon become extinct because of overfishing, while across the Atlantic, the common guitarfish and the blackchin guitarfish are also endangered?
text: Did you know that Lu Jiaxi , president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences , was a student of the American Nobel laureate Linus Pauling ?
text: Did you know that Port Phillip played Van Diemen's Land in the first first-class cricket match in Australia, on 11 and 12 February 1851?
text: Did you know that the 1986 video game Theatre Europe required the player to call a dedicated telephone number to request a nuclear strike?
text: Did you know that Peter Molydeux , a Twitter account which parodies the audacious language of Peter Molyneux 's video game ideas, inspired Molyneux to leave Microsoft and return to his indie game development roots?
text: Did you know that Ralph Waldo Swetman confronted falling enrollment at Oswego State Teachers College by luring an Air Corps unit to the school?
text: Did you know that one of the songs recorded by Little Mix , "A.D.I.D.A.S.", is an acronym for "All Day I Dream About Sex"?
text: Did you know that Velma Scantlebury , the first African American woman transplant surgeon in the United States, estimates she has completed over 2,000 organ transplants ?
text: Did you know that Mortonhall Crematorium which opened in 1967 is a prominent example of Expressionist architecture in Edinburgh , designed by a team led by Sir Basil Spence ?
text: Did you know that Casey Mears ' victory in the 2007 Coca-Cola 600 is his first and only win in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series ?
text: Did you know that the public apology of 16-year-old K-pop star Chou Tzu-yu for waving a Taiwanese flag is believed to have helped Tsai Ing-wen win the Taiwanese presidential election ?
text: Did you know that after the departure of the previously attached distributor , the upcoming film Bad Moms ' U.S. rights are now being handled by STX Entertainment ?
text: Did you know that 6 Ballygunge Place , a restaurant chain in Kolkata , has a haath-pakha (hand fans) decor that conveys the elegance of a decorated Durga Puja hall or a setting for a period film ?
text: Did you know that an alternative name of Spring Run is "The Gut"?
text: Did you know that rebel leader Spiro Crne was forced to leave Serbia after Ottoman diplomatic intervention?
text: Did you know that the ancient Nyāya Sūtras text of Hindu philosophy is a discourse on knowledge and logic which was studied by scholars of Buddhism in the 2nd century CE?
text: Did you know that The New York Times described the book Psychic Blues as "a compelling look at the disputed territory where entertainment meets religion"?
text: Did you know that the Stone Hall in Nashville was once a private house of the Cantrell family but is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you know that the decline of Angkor marked the beginning of the Middle Khmer period, during which the language's number of vowels was doubled in a few centuries?
text: Did you know that opera singer Virgilio Lazzari was a leading bass with the Chicago Civic Opera from 1918–32 and the Metropolitan Opera from 1933–50?
text: Did you know that the black hamlet is an egg trader?
text: Did you know that a financial analyst considered Evolve , released one year ago today, to be "too niche to reach a wide audience"?
text: Did you know that Swedish actress Bahar Pars was born in Shiraz , Iran, and came to Sweden in 1989 after her family fled the war with Iraq?
text: Did you know that the first post-Reformation Catholic Church in Aberdeen , St Peter's Church , closed in 1860 when the cathedral was built, but was re-opened 20 years later?
text: Did you know that Murray's abyssal anglerfish was dredged from the deep in the Challenger expedition of 1872 to 1876?
text: Did you know that former University of Maine at Farmington president Theodora J. Kalikow won a bronze medal in triathlon in the Senior Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Songs by George Harrison contained three songs previously rejected by Warner Bros. Records ?
text: Did you know that after he tackled the assassin of William McKinley , former slave James Benjamin Parker said, " Father Abe freed me, and now I saved his successor from death, provided that bullet ... don't kill him"?
text: Did you know that a Chinese aid project in Laos was defended by 400 anti-aircraft guns and 25,000 troops?
text: Did you know that software startup company Tartan Laboratories was considered an example of Pittsburgh 's attempt in the 1980s to shift from an industrial-based economy to high technology?
text: Did you know that in December 1869 an employee of the Alert committed suicide by jumping overboard into the Willamette River after being released from an insane asylum ?
text: Did you know that Olive Hoskins was the first woman promoted to warrant officer in the United States Army?
text: Did you know that the male Krabi mouth-brooding betta incubates the fertilized eggs in his mouth until they hatch?
text: Did you know that China's Dalian Jinzhouwan International Airport , currently being built on 21 square kilometres (8.1 sq mi) of reclaimed land, is set to become the world's largest offshore airport?
text: Did you know that the 12th-century nobleman Hugh of Chalcombe faced arrest for failing to answer a charge of wrongful possession of cattle ?
text: Did you know that between 1489 and 1491, the doctor and astronomer Johannes Engel worked as a proofreader for the printer Erhard Ratdolt of Augsburg ?
text: Did you know that the number of disabled Iranian war veterans related to Iraqi chemical weapons is rising, and estimated to rival that of all the gas casualties in World War I ?
text: Did you know that Thomas J. Latham , a Memphis judge and businessman after the American Civil War , was a millionaire?
text: Did you know that one scene in the Veronica Mars episode " Papa's Cabin " contains a blue screen that was used as a tarpaulin due to budgetary concerns?
text: Did you know that Ford Fry has been described as one of the most prolific chefs and restaurateurs in the United States?
text: Did you know that the coral Polycyathus muellerae is part of an assemblage of organisms that grow in caves?
text: Did you know that Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid , a 10th-century Shia jurist and theologian, was said to be so persuasive in debate that he could convince his opponents "that a wooden column was actually gold"?
text: Did you know that Ilse Gramatzki appeared as a Rhinemaiden in the Jahrhundertring at the Bayreuth Festival , and in Zimmermann's Die Soldaten in Frankfurt and Brussels ?
text: Did you know that mobile game Strikefleet Omega is a hybrid of the tower defense and real-time strategy genres?
text: Did you know that Chinese economist Ji Chaoding , while in the United States in 1926, secretly joined the Communist Party of China ?
text: Did you know that the Yogashikha Upanishad states there is no one greater in the universe than one's guru ?
text: Did you know that Matt Hobden scored 65 not out in a Sussex County Cricket Club record tenth-wicket partnership of 164 with Ollie Robinson ?
text: Did you know that a new Marvel Comics character, with the power to predict future events, will be introduced in Civil War II , the sequel to Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Kandia Crazy Horse taught the course " Roll Over Beethoven : Black Rock and Cultural Revolt" at Princeton University ?
text: Did you know that Dirk Martens published the first edition of Thomas More 's Utopia in 1516?
text: Did you know that Emily Ratajkowski plays a "nice Jewish girl" looking for action in Cruise ?
text: Did you know that five missing people linked to a Hong Kong bookshop are suspected of having been abducted by mainland China's Public Security Bureau ?
text: Did you know that the floor tiles of the Kerr Cultural Center were made with a now-rare mix of cement and white marble dust?
text: Did you know that physician Jan Theobald Held published a set of folk songs under the pseudonym Jan Orebský?
text: Did you know that fossils of the headlight angler and the netdevil were found during construction of a subway station in Los Angeles ?
text: Did you know that the Texas band the Foxymorons began life as a lie?
text: Did you know that nurse and midwife Rosita Beatrice Missick-Butterfield was the first woman Speaker of the Legislative Council of the Turks and Caicos Islands ?
text: Did you know that in a recent opinion , United States Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy questioned the propriety of solitary confinement ?
text: Did you know that Arthur John Matthews , president of the Tempe Normal School , wrote the education section of the Constitution of Arizona ?
text: Did you know that Meissen porcelain developed three osier patterns of relief decoration for plates in the 18th century?
text: Did you know that Billie Maxwell was the first woman recorded in country music , and the first recorded musician from Arizona ?
text: Did you know that the overwater bungalows at Hotel Bora Bora were the first on that island , and set a precedent for future developers?
text: Did you know that American football player Thomas Duarte was one of the rare high-profile college recruits to be of Asian descent?
text: Did you know that the 140–160 mm (5.5–6.3 in) long wings of Makarkinia are the longest of any lacewing ?
text: Did you know that Mary Ingraham was the first woman to receive the United States Medal for Merit award?
text: Did you know that BMW G310R , the first-ever sub-500cc bike by BMW Motorrad , is the first of the company's bikes to be developed outside of Europe?
text: Did you know that Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin credited chaplain Kevin Jordan with establishing unity on their Super Bowl -winning team of 2009?
text: Did you know that the keeper of the Kızılada Lighthouse rushed by boat to help the survivors of an Air France airliner that made an emergency water landing off the coast of Fethiye , Turkey in 1953?
text: Did you know that the Irish doctor James Murray , who discovered what would become milk of magnesia , is an ancestor of the actor Michael Hordern ?
text: Did you know that the USA House was a US government program designed to help alleviate the homeless problem in the UK ?
text: Did you know that the arrest of Basanti Devi during the non-cooperation movement in 1921 proved to be a major impetus for widespread agitation?
text: Did you know that the kaep is a traditional type of proa sailboat native to Palau that can be sailed forward or backward?
text: Did you know that the 12th-century canon and prior Robert of Bridlington was buried in the cloister of Bridlington Priory ?
text: Did you know that Mid-Ulster Ladies F.C. were founded by a future NIWFA chairwoman to stop local football players leaving Cookstown ?
text: Did you know that Kenyan zoologist David Wasawo was the first East African to be awarded a degree in science?
text: Did you know that Lecrae released the mixtape Church Clothes 3 without any prior announcement?
text: Did you know that Operation Phiboonpol caused vultures to become an aviation hazard ?
text: Did you know that Martin Luther King, Jr. was originally scheduled to speak at Williston High School on the day that he was assassinated?
text: Did you know that the 1970s dancer/choreographer Penney de Jager was knighted for promoting dance among the elderly?
text: Did you know that oxen of the Terreña breed of cattle from the Basque Country in northern Spain were used in the traditional Basque rural sport of idi probak , or stone-pulling?
text: Did you know that the early 20th-century Scottish judge Lord Cullen disliked public speaking?
text: Did you know that the crater lake of Aguas Calientes has been researched as a possible terrestrial analogue to Mars ?
text: Did you know that at the age of fifteen, Todd Gilliland became the youngest winner in ARCA Racing Series history when he won in his series debut?
text: Did you know that the men believed to be the first and last Commonwealth soldiers killed in action during the First World War are buried in St Symphorien Military Cemetery ?
text: Did you know that the modern format for the Katcheri , conceived by Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar in the 1930s, incorporated traditional Carnatic music rendered by the Trinity of Carnatic music ?
text: Did you know that Lauw Giok Lan was both a money collector and dramatist, but neither was his main occupation?
text: Did you know that Desert Rat followed Silver Buckle ?
text: Did you know that Yvonne Ciannella , who performed the title roles of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Puccini's Suor Angelica , recorded Telemann's cantata Ino with "dramatic colouring"?
text: Did you know that three new species of frog, Callulina shengena , C. stanleyi and C. laphami , first described from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania in 2010, are all " critically endangered "?
text: Did you know that at Total Nonstop Action Wrestling 's Bound for Glory IV pay-per-view event, the wrestler Abyss was forced through a flaming table?
text: Did you know that Islamic law scholar Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah likely did not issue the commonly named Oran fatwa in the city of Oran , but rather in Fez ?
text: Did you know that in 1994 Gloria Tanner became the first African-American woman state senator in Colorado history?
text: Did you know that the Ada language compiler that Dansk Datamatik Center developed in the early 1980s has been termed an underappreciated success story in the use of formal methods ?
text: Did you know that the 17th-century English pirate Henry Every is thought to be a descendant of the Every family ?
text: Did you know that the MUSE School in Calabasas , California, has been described as the first vegan K-12 school in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that actor Anton Lundqvist played the part of "Oscar" opposite his real-life mother, Maria Lundqvist in the film En underbar jävla jul ?
text: Did you know that the first Cafe Barbera coffeehouse was established in 1870 in Southern Italy?
text: Did you know that Martha Graham 's solo dance Salem Shore depicts a sea-wife "mad with grief"?
text: Did you know that Lesotho is a monarchy in Africa presently ruled by King Letsie III ?
text: Did you know that in 1994 the Scottish retired judge Lord Brand became an appeals court judge in Botswana?
text: Did you know that web-based jewelry retailer Bravelets donates ten dollars of each purchase to the charity of the customer's choice?
text: Did you know that Tyler Austin overcame a testicular cancer diagnosis at age 17 to become a professional baseball player?
text: Did you know that Riot Games banned G2A from sponsoring teams during the 2015 League of Legends World Championship ?
text: Did you know that when the oil tanker MV Imperial Transport broke in half after being torpedoed in 1940, a new front section was built and mated to the surviving stern ?
text: Did you know that St. Paul's Church, Rusthall , has been viewed as a symbol of the wealth of Tunbridge Wells due to the churchyard being "chockablock with expensive tombstones and memorials"?
text: Did you know that Brenda Andrews co-led a team of scientists to create the first fully detailed cell protein map?
text: Did you know that the ancient Sanskrit text Kundika Upanishad states a man should visit sacred places in his retirement, and take his wife with him?
text: Did you know that Yolanda Marculescu , prima donna of the Romanian National Opera of Bucharest , defected to the U.S. in 1968 and founded the International Festival of the Art Song in Milwaukee, Wisconsin?
text: Did you know that South Sudan has the world's second largest animal migration, but there are no tourists to see it?
text: Did you know that the eleventh-century Norman noblewoman Rohese Giffard is listed as a landowner in her own right in the Domesday Book ?
text: Did you know that the Great Comet of 1819 was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry , by François Arago ?
text: Did you know that Lauren Oliver 's debut novel Before I Fall is being adapted into a feature film ?
text: Did you know that " God Is Working His Purpose Out " was written as a tribute to the Archbishop of Canterbury ?
text: Did you know that Rempo Urip played football for a theatre company ?
text: Did you know that although For What It's Worth was originally meant to have a different expert each week, the episodes were broadcast such that there was a different expert allocated to each weekday?
text: Did you know that Girolamo Benivieni twice sought the help of Pope Leo X to return the body of Dante Alighieri to Florence ?
text: Did you know that in 1930 the National Wrestling Association required professional wrestlers to post a $ 5,000 bond to compete for the World Heavyweight Championship ?
text: Did you know that DNA walkers have been used as nanorobots to pick up and drop off molecular cargo?
text: Did you know that in 2001, Cliff Lett broke the official land speed record for radio-controlled cars , exceeding 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) for the first time?
text: Did you know that about half of the Grade I listed war memorials in England were designed by the same architect?
text: Did you know that Sandy Cornish , a former slave who had purchased his freedom, deliberately maimed himself when threatened with a return to slavery?
text: Did you know that two life-size stucco jaguars were excavated at the pre-Columbian Maya city of Chutixtiox in Guatemala?
text: Did you know that Ted Stanley donated over $825 million to support work and research at the Broad Institute ?
text: Did you know that Prince William and Catherine Middleton lived in Strathtyrum for two years?
text: Did you know that at the 1978 Davis Cup Final , John McEnroe asked an umpire to tell tennis commentator Gerald Williams to "keep his voice down"?
text: Did you know that Sonia Humphrey took the ABC to the Anti-Discrimination Board in 1984, after the broadcaster removed her from an on-air role, citing her pregnancy as a "visual overload" to viewers?
text: Did you know that Charles V. Shank co-invented the distributed feedback laser ?
text: Did you know that the Devon County War Memorial is hewn from a single block of granite quarried on Dartmoor , the largest that its architect Edwin Lutyens was able to acquire?
text: Did you know that Guinness World Records named Saugat Bista, the seven-year-old director of Love You Baba , the "youngest director of a professionally made feature length film"?
text: Did you know that the shrub Persoonia laxa was found in Sydney but is now presumed extinct?
text: Did you know that Dave Howie played rugby seven times for Scotland , but his father refused to watch him play?
text: Did you know that the ill health and unstable personality of Princess Charlotte of Prussia are attributable to the genetic disease porphyria ?
text: Did you know that the Indian whisky Royal Stag is Pernod Ricard 's biggest-selling brand?
text: Did you know that Romanian soprano and music educator Georgeta Stoleriu established a scholarship to recognize outstanding students from the National University of Music Bucharest , but never her own students?
text: Did you know that Gulf Hamstery established the commercial Syrian hamster industry in the United States?
text: Did you know that the poet Sarah Howe won the 2015 T. S. Eliot Prize for Loop of Jade , the first time a debut collection has won the award?
text: Did you know that after a lengthy development process, Bad Santa 2 is finally filming in Montreal ?
text: Did you know that the hero of the 14th-century Old French poem Baudouin de Sebourc has 31 children who help him fight for the King of Jerusalem?
text: Did you know that Cyclone Peter is the wettest tropical cyclone on record in Australia?
text: Did you know that jazz pianist Hasaan Ibn Ali remained an obscure figure until his only released recording, The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan , after which he again returned to obscurity?
text: Did you know that people in 34 countries embroidered the 305 panels that form the 164 metre (538 ft)-long Scottish Diaspora Tapestry ?
text: Did you know that Josh Gottheimer became a speechwriter for U.S. President Bill Clinton at the age of 23?
text: Did you know that the creeping geebung of southwestern Tasmania generally grows to around a metre across but only 4-5 cm high?
text: Did you know that Ralph fitzStephen , an 12th-century English nobleman, was responsible for the maintenance of Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine while she was imprisoned by her husband King Henry II of England ?
text: Did you know that the White House Big Dig is a White House construction project that has been described as mysterious as the disappearance of the dinosaurs ?
text: Did you know that Minuetta Kessler , a classical composer and concert pianist who wrote and performed her first piece at age five, created a game to teach musical composition to young children?
text: Did you know that the Mongalla gazelle has continued its extensive migration in South Sudan despite three decades of civil war?
text: Did you know that the CGI character Maz Kanata from Star Wars: The Force Awakens was inspired by writer/director J. J. Abrams ' late high school English teacher?
text: Did you know that Marie Kraja and Lola Gjoka performed more than 300 songs together that recorded Albanian culture?
text: Did you know that the Hindu text Yogatattva Upanishad states in yoga , that of the ten restraints, moderate food is most important, and of the ten observances, non-violence is most important?
text: Did you know that the Bromhead Memorial commemorates 307 ex-servicemen who died at the Royal Star and Garter Home in Richmond, London ?
text: Did you know that Polyclonoolithus is one of the only dinosaur eggs known from the Hekou Group in Gansu ?
text: Did you know that Claire Giannini Hoffman was the first woman to serve on the boards of Bank of America and Sears, Roebuck & Company ?
text: Did you know that Theeb is Jordan's first nomination ever to the Academy Awards ?
text: Did you know that women's rights activist Shirin Fozdar was instrumental in the establishment of Singapore's Syariah Court and in the passage of the Women's Charter ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Government spent $8.9 million preparing for the possible presidential transition of Mitt Romney in 2012?
text: Did you know that the 12th century English nobleman Philip of Oldcoates was called one of King John of England 's "evil counsellors" by the chronicler Roger of Wendover ?
text: Did you know that Hancock Bridge in Mumbai, built in 1879 and rebuilt in 1923, was demolished in 2016 to be rebuilt again?
text: Did you know that Plato was once thought to have plagiarized a book by Timaeus of Locri ?
text: Did you know that Velveeta Shells & Cheese has been advertised as "liquid gold"?
text: Did you know that chemist Lyndon Emsley led the team that installed the world's most powerful currently operating NMR spectrometer , which breaks the billion-hertz barrier?
text: Did you know that Guegoolithus is a fossil egg from Spain that was probably laid by an ornithopod dinosaur?
text: Did you know that excessive drilling of artesian wells in the valley near İnsuyu Cave caused the lakes inside to nearly go dry?
text: Did you know that Rob Thomas had envisioned the main plot for " There's Got to Be a Morning After Pill ", an episode of Veronica Mars , since before the beginning of the third season?
text: Did you know that a January 1913 Atlantic coast storm set the lowest confirmed barometric pressure reading for a non-tropical system in the continental United States ?
text: Did you know that Jochen Rindt is the only driver to win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship posthumously?
text: Did you know that Umaswati , a 1st-millennium Indian scholar, wrote the earliest extant text in Sanskrit that completely summarizes Jainist philosophy?
text: Did you know that Raziel was billed as a rookie for the 2012 Gran Alternativa tournament despite having wrestled for 16 years prior to the tournament?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film Hidden Figures reveals the three African-American female mathematicians who helped NASA win the Space Race ?
text: Did you know that Karel Dufek , Czechoslovak ambassador to Turkey and Brazil, served in the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the United States ' official journal , The Federal Register , may be suspended and replaced with the Emergency Federal Register in the event of an attack against the country?
text: Did you know that the 2016 edition of Milan–San Remo needed to take a 9 km (5.6 mi) detour due to a landslide blocking the original route?
text: Did you know that PlatinumGames and Activision held an "official leak" to announce Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan ?
text: Did you know that after Janet Stumbo defeated Sara W. Combs for her seat on the Kentucky Supreme Court , Combs was appointed to Stumbo's vacated seat on the Kentucky Court of Appeals ?
text: Did you know that the red-rust bryozoan 's tolerance of copper may enable other fouling organisms to grow on the hulls of ships?
text: Did you know that University of Iowa basketball player Peter Jok received offers from colleges while in eighth grade?
text: Did you know that Kieran Hebden released Morning/Evening on the summer solstice because he thought it was "a lovely day"?
text: Did you know that underground courier Frumka Płotnicka , who delivered weapons and instructions for making Molotov cocktails and hand grenades to Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland , died in the Będzin Ghetto uprising?
text: Did you know that stand-up comic Jeff Ross helped write the lines for Robert De Niro playing a stand-up comic ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Ray Candy once used the name "Super Mario Man", despite being a large African American and not a short Italian plumber ?
text: Did you know that Yue Qi was a winner of the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology as a graduate student, and then went on to do research for General Motors ?
text: Did you know that the Jokhang temple, at the center of an ancient network of Buddhist temples in Lhasa , is considered the "spiritual heart of the city" and the most sacred in Tibet?
text: Did you know that Cecil Brown , a politician and president of Hawaii's largest National Bank , occasionally served as an acting Justice on the Supreme Court of Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that Adventures of Mana is a remake of the 1991 Game Boy game Final Fantasy Adventure , which was the first entry in the Mana series ?
text: Did you know that the DU spectrophotometer was used for secret World War II research on the development of penicillin ?
text: Did you know that Daisy Rossi gave up her painting career after her studio was destroyed by fire?
text: Did you know that Flim Flam was originally supposed to be a breeding stallion , but was gelded so he could excel in Olympic dressage ?
text: Did you know that " Long Way to Go " received criticism for its sample of " I Have a Dream "?
text: Did you know that Keenu Gill became vice-captain of the Hong Kong women's national cricket team at the age of 17?
text: Did you know that the obsolete constellation Telescopium Herschelii commemorated Herschel's discovery of Uranus ?
text: Did you know that Speak Life is considered the debut album of Sev Statik , even though he had previously released another studio album ?
text: Did you know that during construction, the hull of HMCS Integrity was filled with water to see if any leaked through the sides?
text: Did you know that LaVerne Krause , who started the printmaking program at the University of Oregon , had previously exhibited her paintings for sale in a beauty parlor and a tavern?
text: Did you know that Network SouthEast ' s rolling stock included Bubble Cars, Dusty Bins, Thumpers, and Tadpoles, all with a toothpaste colour scheme?
text: Did you know that the largest single collection of one woman's clothes owned by a UK museum came from Emily Tinne ?
text: Did you know that Michael Finnissy has reimagined parts of every opera of Giuseppe Verdi ?
text: Did you know that Canadian civil servant Wilfrid Eggleston rejected Prime Minister Mackenzie King 's request to censor the Conscription Crisis of 1944 ?
text: Did you know that Garth Davis ' directorial debut, Lion , recounts the true story of a lost Indian boy who found his birth parents using Google Earth ?
text: Did you know that Lady Gaga's performance at the 87th Academy Awards triggered 214,000 interactions per minute on Facebook?
text: Did you know that some recipients of the Padma Vibhushan , India's second highest civilian award, have refused or even returned their medals?
text: Did you know that a fellow LPGA Tour golfer said Alice Bauer 's back swing "made John Daly 's look short"?
text: Did you know that " I Know What You'll Do Next Summer ", an episode of Veronica Mars , includes a public service announcement for Invisible Children, Inc. after the installment's conclusion?
text: Did you know that in 1945 Philip Jaffe was charged with espionage and fined US$2,500?
text: Did you know that Luis Alvarez initially called the APQ-7 radar the "EHIB", short for "Every House in Berlin", referring to its planned mission?
text: Did you know that Black Allan 's running walk made him unfit for harness racing , yet he became the foundation sire of the Tennessee Walking Horse ?
text: Did you know that the luminous barred spiral galaxy NGC 1614 is undergoing a minor merger event which has triggered a starburst region around the galactic core?
text: Did you know that Cicely Corbett Fisher co-founded a society for women's suffrage when she was fifteen years old?
text: Did you know that Lady Gaga 's " Teeth " has been described as a "perverse march" and a "gospel ode" to sadomasochism ?
text: Did you know that Lois Galgay Reckitt , a Maine human rights activist who has advocated against domestic violence and for LGBT rights , is listed in Feminists Who Changed America ?
text: Did you know that the print run of Aria was increased 1000% after it began serializing the Attack on Titan spinoff No Regrets ?
text: Did you know that the soprano Rotraud Hansmann performed six parts in three Monteverdi operas conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt , including Euridice in L'Orfeo ?
text: Did you know that Lady Gaga 's " Til It Happens to You ", which highlights sexual assault , was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media and Academy Award for Best Original Song ?
text: Did you know that Brazilian footballer Éder Monteiro Fernandes , who plays for the Indian club Salgaocar , has played alongside World Cup winner Romário at Vasco da Gama ?
text: Did you know that despite having gills, spike caps are classified with the boletes ?
text: Did you know that Carrie Johnson represented the United States at three consecutive Olympics after being diagnosed with Crohn's disease in 2003?
text: Did you know that tithing in the early history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints could be done using property, labor, produce, livestock, or cash?
text: Did you know that, when bad weather caused more than half of them to desert, the remaining off-and-on mutineers of Operation Strength II were disarmed and flown to a training base at Seno?
text: Did you know that Christianity played a role in the founding of several British football clubs, including Celtic , Manchester City , and Everton ?
text: Did you know that the ancient Trishikhibrahmana Upanishad text asserts the theory that living beings originate by four means, through an egg, through seeds, through a womb, or through sweat?
text: Did you know that the composer Gustav Gunsenheimer was the church musician at St. Lukas in Schweinfurt from 1969 to 2015?
text: Did you know that after removal of the introduced European rabbits , populations of the greater burnet failed to recover in the Kerguelen Islands ?
text: Did you know that costume designer Sarah Nash Gates once taught at Clown College?
text: Did you know that during Operation Maharat II , a sonic boom scared the Pathet Lao into retreat?
text: Did you know that Morisco crypto-Muslim author Young Man of Arévalo adapted passages from The Imitation of Christ in his Islamic devotional works?
text: Did you know that the tuck rule prevents National Hockey League players from tucking in their jerseys during games, although it took almost fifty years to enforce it?
text: Did you know that the Easter hymn " Good Christians All, Rejoice and Sing " was renamed to avoid confusion with the Christmas carol " Good Christians All, Rejoice "?
text: Did you know that Josiah Ransome-Kuti was the first Nigerian to release a record album?
text: Did you know that Mad Max: Fury Road won awards for its editing, costume design, and production design at the Academy Awards , and BAFTAs ?
text: Did you know that Fear No Poverty , the "father of crosstalk ", performed alongside a man who could make music with his nose?
text: Did you know that Metropolitan Opera tenor Andrea Velis starred in the United States premieres of four different operas by Benjamin Britten ?
text: Did you know that the Heilongjiang hand cannon is the oldest surviving firearm in the world?
text: Did you know that the British trade union organiser Jeannie Mole , an early follower of dress reform , liked to wear an outfit reminiscent of Greek robes ?
text: Did you know that the fungus Cryptostroma corticale can kill trees and cause disease in humans?
text: Did you know that the original tracklist of Meghan Trainor 's album Thank You was revamped after the creation of its lead single " No "?
text: Did you know that the Liverpool Women's Suffrage Society encouraged membership by holding meetings at cafes with poetry, singing, and dance performances?
text: Did you know that the rapper Sintax the Terrific is also a practicing licensed federal attorney ?
text: Did you know that José Antonio Gallardo was a posthumous winner of the Ricardo Zamora Trophy for best goalkeeper in Spain's Segunda División ?
text: Did you know that the album Back to Dust was selected as one of the Rawkus Records ' "Rawkus 50" campaign?
text: Did you know that despite the immensity of the Syrian refugee crisis , the Azraq refugee camp in Jordan that is meant to house them has remained well below capacity since its opening in 2014?
text: Did you know that Ann Bowling studied hereditary diseases in animals that were genetically linked to their coat color?
text: Did you know that in 1942, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ordered that part of the Abergele Golf Club be ploughed as part of the Dig for Victory campaign?
text: Did you know that Turkish sportswoman Yasemin Adar was a shot putter before she became her country's first European champion in women's wrestling ?
text: Did you know that Japan's surrender in 1945 led to a surge of black-market yatai (food carts)?
text: Did you know that Meira Paibi ("Women Torchbearers") is a women's social movement in Manipur known as the "guardians of civil society"?
text: Did you know that the Dutch village of Zoeterwoude-Dorp was built in the 13th century around a church dedicated to the English missionary Saint Lebuinus ?
text: Did you know that Czech footballer Alois Grussmann played more than 300 times in the top football leagues of his country?
text: Did you know that Recorded In Hollywood was an extension of John Dolphin 's South Central Los Angeles record store?
text: Did you know that African pine-feeding grasshoppers have defoliated plantation pines in East Africa?
text: Did you know that Marta Vergara believed that the family, rather than the individual, was the fundamental unit of political identity ?
text: Did you know that " All for Jesus, All for Jesus " was the closing hymn of The Crucifixion and set aside for congregational singing?
text: Did you know that spoken word artist Yolanda Wisher , whose writing focuses on the urban African-American experience, became the third poet laureate of Philadelphia in 2016?
text: Did you know that the church of Santa Lucia in Septisolio derived its name from a nearby ancient Roman ruin ?
text: Did you know that Dewey L. Fleming was one of nine newspaper reporters who were secretly invited to cover the first Quebec Conference between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill ?
text: Did you know that according to analysts, a recent United States Supreme Court decision could "greatly affect the funding of welfare benefits plans"?
text: Did you know that the soprano Emily Van Evera appeared with the Taverner Consort at The Proms in Bach's St Matthew Passion ?
text: Did you know that the fossil egg Hemifaveoloolithus has a shell made up of four to five superimposed layers of eggshell units?
text: Did you know that Maud Carpenter scolded Anthony Hopkins when he turned up at the Liverpool Playhouse wearing jeans and an open-neck shirt, instead of a sports jacket and tie?
text: Did you know that in Reformed theology , the sacrament of the Lord's Supper is believed to strengthen Christians' union with Christ by the spiritual eating of his true body and blood?
text: Did you know that while still in school, Chinese social and Christian activist Deng Yuzhi decided to be an independent woman, remain unmarried, and live the life of a "new woman"?
text: Did you know that the shell of Trigonoolithus , a type of dinosaur egg , is covered with triangular nodes?
text: Did you know that Louisa Melvin Delos Mars was one of the first black women to achieve recognition as a composer?
text: Did you know that the first migrant worker football club in Germany, ISC Lupo , was formed in 1962 by Italians?
text: Did you know that Jay H. Upton , a private in the 2nd Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Spanish–American War , later became President of the Oregon State Senate ?
text: Did you know that Richardson's snaggletooth , a deep sea fish, is black with luminous spots ?
text: Did you know that the viola da gamba player Philippe Pierlot co-founded the Ricercar Consort , which plays little-known 17th-century music?
text: Did you know that Swift Bus Rapid Transit began operations in 2009 as the first bus rapid transit system in the U.S. state of Washington ?
text: Did you know that Ethel Wilson Gammon , founder and executive director of the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center , also enjoyed role-playing historical characters for her visitors?
text: Did you know that " Kau Ilhamku ", a promotional song that is only available for streaming on Yonder Music , saw the collaboration of Malaysian and Indonesian artists?
text: Did you know that the crew of Veronica Mars had wanted Paul Rudd to guest star on the show for several years before his eventual appearance in the episode " Debasement Tapes "?
text: Did you know that Dona Nelson , known for her two-sided paintings, was called "one of the best artists working today" by New York Times art critic Roberta Smith ?
text: Did you know that Operation Fa Ngum ended on the verge of mutiny ?
text: Did you know that students at the Royal College of Surgeons protested at being asked questions on midwifery by a woman – even though Emily Winifred Dickson was a Fellow of the College?
text: Did you know that baleen whales , although carnivorous, have gut flora similar to that of herbivores?
text: Did you know that U.S. President Harry S. Truman referred to Pulitzer Prize winner Louis Stark as the "dean of all reporters on the labor scene"?
text: Did you know that Ping Pong was the first film to be shot in London's Chinatown ?
text: Did you know that Gregory the Great wrote that Theodore the Sacristan was bedridden for days after experiencing a vision of Saint Peter ?
text: Did you know that The New Day , launched on 29 February, was the first new national British newspaper to appear since the i in 2010?
text: Did you know that a video of police officer Bobby White playing basketball with a group of boys received over 17 million views on Facebook?
text: Did you know that after the ancient Chinese state of Zhoulai was conquered in 529 BC, its territory was ruled by three different states in the ensuing decades?
text: Did you know that when Elida Campodónico attempted to get an identity card to vote, she was told, "In Panama there are no women citizens, only male citizens"?
text: Did you know that antlions , which are found over most of the European continent, are extremely rare in Great Britain and only known to breed in two areas across East Anglia ?
text: Did you know that Bai Jinian was China's first provincial party chief elected by secret ballot, but was forced out of office three years later?
text: Did you know that while Benjamin Disraeli wrote of Charles Auchester that "No greater book will ever be written on music", the critic Henry Chorley thought it "half-crazy"?
text: Did you know that despite admitting to necrophilia , Karen Greenlee only spent 11 days in jail for theft of a hearse and interfering with a funeral?
text: Did you know that Willie Ogg patented the forerunner to the modern cavity back iron ?
text: Did you know that agliata sauce originated from the times of Ancient Rome , at which time it was a peasant food that was also used by the upper classes?
text: Did you know that the philosopher Tatjana Višak argues that utilitarians should oppose the killing of animals in agriculture, even if they have lived happy lives?
text: Did you know that Air India entered the Guinness Book of World Records for carrying out the largest evacuation by a civil airliner, during the Gulf War ?
text: Did you know that Olga Rapay-Markish is known for designing and decorating building interiors and façades in Kiev with massive ceramic works?
text: Did you know that with an estimated weight of only 100 grams (3.5 oz), Nipponoolithus is among the smallest fossil dinosaur eggs ever discovered?
text: Did you know that former Portsmouth, New Hampshire , mayor Eileen Foley cut the ribbon to open both the original Memorial Bridge in 1923 and its replacement in 2013?
text: Did you know that in May 2005, Rapzilla called Slow Burn one of the best albums so far that year?
text: Did you know that Eleni Glouftsis is the first female field umpire to be appointed to an Australian Football League sanctioned match?
text: Did you know that the Northumbrian styca was first minted in the 790s, replacing the silver sceat ?
text: Did you know that Simon of Athens is the earliest ancient Greek writer known to have written on horses and horsemanship ?
text: Did you know that Parasite Rex discusses the various parasites that use humans as their host, such as the tsetse fly 's trypanosomes and filarial worms ?
text: Did you know that in the 1920s, Karl Čermak , deputy from the Česká Lípa 5th electoral district , was the sole member of the German Social Democracy in Czechoslovakia leadership who hailed from a major city?
text: Did you know that in London's Africa Centre , Desmond Tutu and Thabo Mbeki used to meet at the bar?
text: Did you know that Cordón del Azufre is part of one of the largest deforming volcanic systems on Earth, comparable with Yellowstone ?
text: Did you know that after killing Sultan an-Nasir Hasan in 1361, Yalbugha al-Umari and the senior Mamluk emirs had al-Mansur Muhammad installed as the Mamluk sultan ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Santosky v. Kramer (1982) that before terminating parental rights, the state must prove child abuse or neglect by clear and convincing evidence ?
text: Did you know that the mezzo-soprano Pamela Dellal , who recorded music by Hildegard von Bingen and Fanny Mendelssohn , translated all texted works by Bach ?
text: Did you know that Montanoolithus , a type of fossil egg from Montana , were laid in a ring atop a mound-shaped nest?
text: Did you know that when Changsha was invaded in 1930, Maud Russell refused to leave the city and, after mistakenly being thought to have perished, a memorial service was held for her?
text: Did you know that Johannes Hevelius declared that one needed the eyes of a lynx to see Lynx ?
text: Did you know that the STELLA programming language has been used to model Prince Hamlet 's thirst for revenge in Shakespeare's Hamlet ?
text: Did you know that Phebe Hemphill 's sculptures, including the one of Gettysburg , appear on several United States Mint state quarters ?
text: Did you know that the blue duiker marks its territory by the secretions of glands near its eyes?
text: Did you know that Františka Plamínková 's activism started when she spoke out about an Austro-Hungarian law that forbade female teachers from marrying and required them to be celibate?
text: Did you know that the Annapurna Upanishad states a Yogi with self-knowledge beholds all living beings as his own self, fears no one, and treats people's possessions as meaningless?
text: Did you know that in addition to collecting and curating thousands of volumes for the Maine Women Writers Collection, Dorothy M. Healy raised thousands of turkeys on her farm?
text: Did you know that the best-selling flavor of Japanese Kit Kats in 2010 was soy sauce ?
text: Did you know that after Natasha Wightman shaved her head for V for Vendetta , her neighbour assumed a man was trying to break into Wightman's home and called the police?
text: Did you know that the horse chestnut scale insect is primarily a pest of urban trees?
text: Did you know that French suffrage activist Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger proposed that women's issues become part of the treaty process at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 ?
text: Did you know that Tempe Streetcar will link areas of downtown Tempe, Arizona , including Arizona State University 's main campus , and will provide connections to Valley Metro Rail 's light rail line?
text: Did you know that a man could not be found guilty of raping his wife in English law until the judgment of R v R ?
text: Did you know that Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern , BWV 1 , Bach's chorale cantata for the feast of the Annunciation , was first performed on Palm Sunday ?
text: Did you know that SPARK, a group co-founded by Lyn Mikel Brown , started a 2012 petition against Lego Friends for introducing a line of skinny, buxom female characters?
text: Did you know that the Reich Harvest Thanksgiving Festival was attended by more people than any other Nazi ceremony, including the Nazi party rally at Nuremberg ?
text: Did you know that Tessa Hadley 's second novel has been described as "mysteriously, bewitchingly compelling" despite being a "virtually plotless portrait ... of breathtakingly ordinary mortals"?
text: Did you know that the format of the Mindanao leg of PiliPinas Debates 2016 was modeled after the Republican presidential debates in the United States ?
text: Did you know that a 94-million-year-old fossil egg from Zhejiang Province, eastern China, was named Paraelongatoolithus by paleontologists in 2010 ?
text: Did you know that " This Transformation " decries the societal discrimination against beggars?
text: Did you know that in a 1994–97 study, 769 species of plant were identified in the Hatila Valley National Park in northeastern Turkey?
text: Did you know that Theodosia Bartow Prevost used her home as George Washington 's headquarters during the American Revolutionary War , despite being married to a British Army officer?
text: Did you know that believers of Rulaizong use the phrase "Thanking Master, Praising Master" to praise the founder of the religion?
text: Did you know that during the Nazi era, World War I flying ace Edmund Nathanael was deleted from the list of Hohenzollern honorees?
text: Did you know that the church of San Sebastiano de Via Papae was reputed to mark the site where Saint Sebastian 's body was pulled out of a sewer?
text: Did you know that Filipina feminist Concepción Felix founded A Drop of Milk to train maternity nurses and provide sterile milk to malnourished infants?
text: Did you know that the South African national anthem was played before their first rugby test match since being banned for apartheid, despite an agreement with Nelson Mandela's ANC that it would not be?
text: Did you know that Erica Deichmann created over 5,000 glazes for Deichmann pottery ?
text: Did you know that during rehearsals of the 1982 album Forever Now , producer Todd Rundgren tried to energise The Psychedelic Furs with exploding firecrackers?
text: Did you know that the light, crisp, smoky, and highly carbonated Grodziskie beer was once nicknamed "Polish Champagne"?
text: Did you know that the soprano Greta De Reyghere recorded Bach's motets , Mozart's vespers , and music by the Belgian composers Joseph Ryelandt and Joseph-Hector Fiocco ?
text: Did you know that Aquaveo software was used to simulate a terrorist attack on the Jordanelle Reservoir during the 2002 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Leroy Brown was repeatedly struck by a bottle during a match in Japan, much to the amusement of other wrestlers on the tour?
text: Did you know that the whitefin sharksucker often attaches itself to a large fish or turtle?
text: Did you know that at the age of 18, Sheldon Creed became the youngest driver to compete in the Dakar Rally ?
text: Did you know that Liaozhai author Pu Songling was critical of people who worshipped mythical characters like the Monkey King ?
text: Did you know that when Japanese law changed and barred women from political assembly , Shimizu Shikin quit public speaking and became one of the country's first professional women journalists?
text: Did you know that Josh Homme credited his work with Iggy Pop on Post Pop Depression with helping him through the aftermath of the November 2015 Paris attacks ?
text: Did you know that the Danish painter and ceramicist Suzette Holten was part of the avant-garde Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler movement?
text: Did you know that in the FBI–Apple encryption dispute , a federal judge in Brooklyn has ruled that the 1789 All Writs Act cannot be used to compel Apple to unlock a drug dealer’s iPhone ?
text: Did you know that in 1940, professional wrestler Murciélago Velázquez was the first Mexican to lose his mask in a match, creating the Luchas de Apuestas concept that headlines shows all over Mexico to this day?
text: Did you know that the young of Nomorhamphus ebrardtii develop in the mother fish's oviduct, feeding on unfertilised eggs and their smaller siblings?
text: Did you know that " doomsday trucks " may hit the road following a catastrophic nuclear attack against the United States?
text: Did you know that Robert Shope , described as a "walking encyclopaedia" of arboviruses , discovered more novel viruses than anyone previously?
text: Did you know that the hip-hop group Ill Harmonics was formed after the founders met at their local church choirs?
text: Did you know that the collapse of the Tête Rousse Glacier in the Alps killed over 200 people in 1892, and thousands still live under its threat?
text: Did you know that South African suffragist Julia Solly was the sister of British suffragist Nessie Stewart-Brown ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming Pokémon games Sun and Moon will feature connectivity with the Virtual Console versions of Red , Green , Blue and Yellow through Pokémon Bank ?
text: Did you know that Maud McLure Kelly , the first woman to practice law in Alabama , was also the first Southern woman admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court?
text: Did you know that unlike other members of its genus , including the giant " corpse flower ", the newly discovered Rafflesia consueloae smells like young coconut meat ?
text: Did you know that Finis Alonzo Crutchfield, Jr. is credited with bringing the televangelist Oral Roberts into the United Methodist Church in 1968?
text: Did you know that Operation Phalat was a preventative strike into Laos by Thai forces in 1971 to contain communist influence in the region?
text: Did you know that for his ordination, Georg Weissel wrote the text of the hymn " Such, wer da will, ein ander Ziel " to his friend's melody for a wedding song?
text: Did you know that Moisés Félix Dagdug Lützow , owner of a radio station , served as the Secretary of the Radio, Television and Film Committee of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies ?
text: Did you know that the Kankakee mallow is known from a single 700 m (0.4 mi) long island in the state of Illinois ?
text: Did you know that Frank Sprogell said being a golf pro is not really a job?
text: Did you know that Strugnell's Haiku outline cherry blossoms , hair loss , and pub opening times?
text: Did you know that Charles Wollaston was the first person to win five FA Cup winners medals?
text: Did you know that in 2013 and 2014, the Mexican RTC issued 50 times as many religious broadcasting permits as it did in 2000 and 2001?
text: Did you know that Eugenia de Reuss Ianculescu included men on the board of the Romanian women's suffrage association that she founded because she believed their skills would help the cause?
text: Did you know that in Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes , Maria Konnikova combines Holmes's habits of mind with modern-day research to help people learn to be more rational thinkers?
text: Did you know that Swedish doctor Clara Emilia Smitt ran the sanatorium in Saltsjöbaden between 1896 and 1902?
text: Did you know that the red beard sponge may have travelled to the west coast of North America on the hull of a ship?
text: Did you know that the premiere of Arthur Honegger's first opera, Antigone , was staged in sets by Picasso and costumes by Coco Chanel ?
text: Did you know that " Alexander Hamilton ", " Satisfied ", " Wait for It ", " The Room Where It Happens ", and " It's Quiet Uptown " are songs from the Grammy-winning 2015 Broadway musical Hamilton ?
text: Did you know that in 1997 the Linguistic Society of America passed a resolution supporting the Oakland Unified School District board's decision to teach some students using African American Vernacular English ?
text: Did you know that a plaque on the Nene Viaduct , built in 1850, claims that it is the last surviving cast-iron structure on a main-line railway in Britain?
text: Did you know that The Signpost publishes stories related to the Wikipedia community , the Wikimedia Foundation , and other Wikipedia-related projects ?
text: Did you know that baseball's Frank "The Trader" Lane said that trading away Bill Virdon was the "worst trade [he] ever made"?
text: Did you know that as the colonial bryozoan Cryptosula pallasiana travels to new places, it takes its sea slugs with it?
text: Did you know that free love activist Helga Goetze advertised her cause with the slogan "Fucking is peace"?
text: Did you know that because Bank of America customers who invest less than $250,000 usually do not receive counsel from Merrill Edge employees, the discount brokerage service plans to offer customers robo-advisors ?
text: Did you know that the 1912 testimony of 14-year-old child laborer Carmela Teoli spurred labor reforms in Massachusetts , helped settle a strike, and raised wages for working men and women?
text: Did you know that living in rural rather than urban areas is a fertility factor , associated with an increased number of children?
text: Did you know that for TNGHT , his collaboration with Hudson Mohawke , Lunice wanted to start producing much simpler music instead of weird tracks that were "all over the place" ?
text: Did you know that China's Labour Minister Ma Wenrui was imprisoned for five years as a result of an interview with a book author?
text: Did you know that FC Barcelona and Sevilla FC , who will contest this year's Copa del Rey Final , also played in the 2015 UEFA Super Cup ?
text: Did you know that during Operation Maharat , neutralists besieged neutralists ?
text: Did you know that the BBC re-launched its former television channel BBC Three as an Internet television service ?
text: Did you know that the Sanskrit text Manasollasa is a 12th-century encyclopedia covering topics such as garden design, cuisine recipes, veterinary medicine, jewelry, painting, music, and dance?
text: Did you know that the species name for Burmaleon magnificus was coined for the quality of preservation in the fossils?
text: Did you know that the documentary film No Land's Song spotlights women's protests against an Iranian ban on public female solo singing before male audiences?
text: Did you know that uninjured reporters commandeered a medical evacuation helicopter during Campaign Z ?
text: Did you know that of an estimated 100,000 German Jews who served in the German Army in World War I , 12,000 were killed in action?
text: Did you know that the 18th-century organist Richard Langdon held the positions of master of the choristers and organist at Exeter Cathedral , positions that had not been combined for more than 100 years?
text: Did you know that during Campaign 74B in the Laotian Civil War , smog from swidden farming clogged the air?
text: Did you know that the WCW Light Heavyweight Championship was "ignored" by promoter Bill Watts after it was vacated in 1992, before being replaced by the WCW Cruiserweight Championship in 1996?
text: Did you know that as boys, David Zwingerman and Horst Löwenstein rescued 12 Torah scrolls from a Berlin synagogue after it was burned by the Nazis?
text: Did you know that during protests in February 2016 against the construction of a mine in the forested hill of Cerattepe in Turkey, entry to and exit from the town of Artvin was banned?
text: Did you know that Wan Shaofen , China's first female provincial party chief , did not complete her term because of the downfall of Hu Yaobang ?
text: Did you know that the Acid Bath Murderer met his first victim in The Goat ?
text: Did you know that after the lynchings of eleven Italians 125 years ago today in New Orleans , Italy recalled its ambassador to the U.S. in protest?
text: Did you know that Yung Gud , producer of rapper Yung Lean 's Sad Boys group, first produced psychedelic trance music as a child, before he got into hip hop ?
text: Did you know that the medieval era text Niralamba Upanishad states that happiness is realizing one's innate bliss, experiencing satcitananda ?
text: Did you know that the fictional Shakespearean actor-manager Chuffer Dandridge , a regular on Wake Up to Wogan , was the creation of two civil servants ?
text: Did you know that the Pampas , one of the main climatic regions of Argentina , witness some of the most intense thunderstorms in the world?
text: Did you know that 100 years ago, the Welsh rugby player Lou Phillips was shot in the chest while out on a wiring party ?
text: Did you know that a SpaceX prize moves Hyperloop from hype to prototypes?
text: Did you know that in " The Bookworm ", a Chinese scholar fathers a child with a character in his books?
text: Did you know that the mother of women's advocate Gilda E. Nardone was a displaced homemaker?
text: Did you know that seeds of the grass Aeluropus lagopoides can germinate at concentrations of salt roughly equivalent to that of seawater ?
text: Did you know that Mabel Sine Wadsworth sent teams of outreach workers door to door in rural Maine in the 1950s and 1960s to teach women about birth control ?
text: Did you know that Jake Doran is the youngest player to have signed for a Big Bash League team?
text: Did you know that the British plant pathologist Mary Glynne climbed Mount Fuji when she was 68?
text: Did you know that penile injuries can be caused by dogs, metal rings, zippers, and more?
text: Did you know that the second movement of Louis Moreau Gottschalk 's first Symphony is probably the first orchestral setting of a samba ?
text: Did you know that Thelma C. Swain endowed a scholarship at each of the seven colleges of the Maine Community College System ?
text: Did you know that the village of Petite Savanne , Dominica , was destroyed by Tropical Storm Erika in August 2015, forcing the permanent relocation of all its residents?
text: Did you know that Suzanne Duigan was a botanist who specialised in palynology , particularly the study of fossil pollen ?
text: Did you know that the luggage and money of Romanian Latinist N. I. Herescu burned at Stuttgart Airport while he was emigrating in 1944?
text: Did you know that the Laotian military's Operation Thao La failed to find the crucial NVA transshipment point Binh Tram 37 ?
text: Did you know that the wrestlers Yohei Komatsu and Sho Tanaka work in Mexico using the ring names Fūjin and Raijin , the Japanese gods of wind and thunder?
text: Did you know that Cottalango Leon , an Indian-American computer graphics technician, jointly won the Academy Award in 2016 for scientific and technical achievement ?
text: Did you know that although Masterpiece makes contestants pick items worth £10,000 or more, the prize money offered is just £1,000?
text: Did you know that the lower portion of the LG G5 serves as a tray that can be detached to replace the battery?
text: Did you know that The Red and the Green is the only historical novel by Iris Murdoch ?
text: Did you know that Ibn Muljam assassinated the fourth caliph Ali at the request of his lover whose father and brother were killed by Ali's forces at the Battle of Nahrawan ?
text: Did you know that possible color patterning is preserved on the wings of the extinct neuropteran Rafaelnymphes ?
text: Did you know that a fan-animated video for the Mystery Skulls song " Ghost " received more than two million views on YouTube in under a month?
text: Did you know that Sladen's hatchetfish makes daily vertical migrations in the ocean?
text: Did you know that the China Artists Association organizes China's biggest art exhibition once every five years?
text: Did you know that Stranger Things by Yuck was recorded in lead singer Max Bloom's parents' house?
text: Did you know that the hip hop album Nephilim: Act of God 1 is titled after the Nephilim mentioned in the Bible ?
text: Did you know that Colonel Ann Hawkes Hay , born in Jamaica, lost his Haverstraw, New York house to British raiders?
text: Did you know that the Jaramillo Petrified Forest National Park contains trees that were buried in volcanic ash in the Cretaceous period and turned to stone?
text: Did you know that Lucinda Lee Dalton , an early Mormon feminist, argued that polygamy allowed many women to marry the few good men?
text: Did you know that the 1915 British Cabinet memorandum The Future of Palestine was possibly the first time that enlisting the wartime support of Jews was proposed in an official record?
text: Did you know that S. M. Holden , the only candidate ever to stand for the National Prohibition Party in England, had previously campaigned for a minimum wage and old age pensions ?
text: Did you know that the Texas and Pacific 's Silver Slipper two-car train had rubber-tired wheels and was prone to derailing ?
text: Did you know that Phaceloolithus is a type of fossil egg known to be from the Cretaceous period because of the kinds of shrimp found at the same site?
text: Did you know that the engineer behind the Spit Bank Lighthouse was blind, and yet personally directed its construction?
text: Did you know that Nashik is known as the "Wine Capital of India" due to the Nashik valley wine ?
text: Did you know that Ren Zhiqiang , a property tycoon and outspoken critic of the government, has been called "China's Donald Trump "?
text: Did you know that Al-Hoda , established by Naoum Mokarzel in 1898, was the longest-running Arabic newspaper in the United States?
text: Did you know that some specimens of Microolithus , a type of Paleogene bird egg , preserve embryonic bones?
text: Did you know that Caroline D. Gentile , named "most athletic" in her high school yearbook, taught health, physical education, and recreation at the University of Maine at Presque Isle for nearly 60 years?
text: Did you know that the Sanskrit text Tarasara Upanishad states that the Om mantra is about Ātman (soul), and meditating on Om helps one cross from the mundane into the spiritual world?
text: Did you know that Annot and her husband were ordered by the Nazis to close their art school after refusing to dismiss Jewish pupils?
text: Did you know that Cerro Overo in the Cordón de Puntas Negras volcanic chain is an actively deforming volcano?
text: Did you know that in " A Sequel to the Yellow Millet Dream ", a Chinese scholar becomes prime minister, then a woman, before waking up with a monk on his bed?
text: Did you know that Olga Tufnell assisted in unearthing the biblical city of Lachish ?
text: Did you know that Enzo Ferrari ordered the removal of prancing horse badges from Ferraris modified by Koenig Specials ?
text: Did you know that the tubular eyes of the deepsea hatchetfish have lenses containing yellow pigment?
text: Did you know that when Sarah Platt-Decker died, she was described as "Colorado's foremost woman citizen"?
text: Did you know that Sir Edwin Lutyens designed four memorials in the same Surrey churchyard, including the Busbridge War Memorial ?
text: Did you know that Red Reese , long-time coach and athletic director at Eastern Washington University , coached the Second Air Force American football team to a victory in the 1943 Sun Bowl ?
text: Did you know that the Warwickslade Cutting Railway was assembled from prefabricated rail sections with pin to tube joints, like those of a toy railway?
text: Did you know that during the mid-1850s Harriet Windsor-Clive, 13th Baroness Windsor , paid for the construction of the same church twice?
text: Did you know that the medieval era Varaha Upanishad describes moksha as the state when a man does not shrink from fear of the world, nor the world shrink from fear of the man?
text: Did you know that Bruce Woolley 's version of " Video Killed the Radio Star " recorded for English Garden was considered by many writers to be much better than the Buggles ' rendition?
text: Did you know that the Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea found that crimes against humanity are being committed in North Korea?
text: Did you know that agencies of the U.S. Federal government are investigating a possible link between artificial turf and cancer?
text: Did you know that the composer of Die Versuchung Jesu , a Gospel motet on the temptation of Christ , has the devil speak, not sing, at times in canon ?
text: Did you know that Dapeng , a second-millennium BC Chinese state, probably practised human sacrifice ?
text: Did you know that Ayers Rock were the first Mushroom Records artists to sign with an international label, enabling their tour of US stadiums and recording an album in Los Angeles?
text: Did you know that Janet McNeill , a prolific Irish writer of adult and children's fiction, peopled her adult novels with "menopausal, middle-aged, middle-class Protestants"?
text: Did you know that the Canadian Commander-in-Chief Unit Commendation has been awarded to seven military units, including one in the U.S. Army ?
text: Did you know that World War II Stuka pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel helped protect the identity of former SS-doctor Josef Mengele ?
text: Did you know that Delores Ziegler , who teaches voice at the University of Maryland , appeared as Dorabella in Mozart's Così fan tutte for her debut at La Scala , and in the film by Ponnelle and Harnoncourt ?
text: Did you know that the Panama lightfish and the slender lightfish make large vertical migrations each day?
text: Did you know that the Landing at Scarlet Beach on 22 September 1943 was the first time Australian forces had made an opposed amphibious landing since the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915?
text: Did you know that Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia , a collaborative cantata by Mozart and Salieri , was lost but found in a music museum in Prague in 2015?
text: Did you know that Huang An 's 1993 album, New Dream of Butterfly Lovers , sold one million copies in Taiwan and six million worldwide, making it one of the country's best-selling albums?
text: Did you know that the tower attached to All Saints Church in Huntsham , Devon dates to the 14th century, but the rest of the church was completely rebuilt by Benjamin Ferrey in 1854–56?
text: Did you know that Shahid Afridi 's 45-ball century at the Green Park Stadium in 2005 is the fastest by a batsman in One Day Internationals in India?
text: Did you know that Ghazir was the headquarters of the Assaf dynasty , which at its peak administered the region between Beirut and Homs on behalf of the Ottoman authorities?
text: Did you know that many fonts named Garamond , such as that included with Microsoft Office , are actually based on work by Jean Jannon more than 50 years after Claude Garamond 's death?
text: Did you know that women's rights advocate Patricia E. Ryan thought she would head the Maine Human Rights Commission for five years, but ended up serving for over three decades?
text: Did you know that Parsonsia straminea was initially named to honour mathematician and botanist Israel Lyons ?
text: Did you knowthat Fox is presenting a U.S. adaptation of the Dutch television special The Passion in New Orleans ?
text: Did you know that the medieval era text Subala Upanishad influenced the development of the qualified monism school of Hindu philosophy called Vishishtadvaita ?
text: Did you know that the Mamluk emir Qawsun had Sultan al-Mansur Abu Bakr deposed, executed and replaced by the latter's five-year-old half-brother al-Ashraf Kujuk ?
text: Did you know that Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment was founded by Billy Graham 's grandson to help evangelical groups prevent and deal with sexual abuse in their midst?
text: Did you know that in September 2003, the Zoological Society of London released crickets of the endangered species Gryllus campestris into the wild at the Arundel Castle Cricket Ground ?
text: Did you know that a Bogotan Civil Order of Merit María Currea de Aya is given annually on International Women's Day in honor of the first female president of the Bogotá City Council ?
text: Did you know that Doris Sands Johnson , who wrote a how-to book for voting, lost her initial attempt to run for office but later became the premier woman President of the Bahamian Senate ?
text: Did you know that Woman, Demon, Human , directed by Huang Shuqin , is considered to be China's first feminist film?
text: Did you know that Hana Blažíková is a soprano with the Bach Collegium Japan , conducted by Masaaki Suzuki , for the project to record the complete Bach cantatas ?
text: Did you know that Deolinda Rodríguez de Almeida became known as Angola 's "Mother of the Revolution"?
text: Did you know that Edith Houghton Hooker claimed that women's suffrage would improve water quality and reduce disease?
text: Did you know that Sonia M. Johnny , the first woman ambassador to the United States from Saint Lucia , has also represented CARICOM nations' interests in a trade dispute over bananas ?
text: Did you know that the Babe Didrikson Zaharias Museum features Zaharias 's three 1932 Summer Olympics medals and a set of her golf clubs ?
text: Did you know that women's rights activist Meaza Ashenafi noted that Amharic proverbs that place women only in domestic roles are to blame for the degrading of women in Ethiopia ?
text: Did you know that Christiane Floyd was the first female professor of computer science in Germany?
text: Did you know that Afro-Dominican lesbian feminist scholar Ochy Curiel was a featured musician at the 2004 Teddy Awards in Berlin?
text: Did you know that Edith Ellen Greenwood was the first woman and first nurse to receive the Soldier's Medal after she rescued 15 patients from a burning hospital ward?
text: Did you know that Afro-Curaçaoan writer and educator Joceline Clemencia advocated for Papiamento to become an official language of Curaçao ?
text: Did you know that President Eisenhower praised Mary F. Hoyt , the first woman appointed to the US federal civil service in 1883, as a leader for the hundreds of thousands of women who followed her?
text: Did you know that the Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes by Grace Williams was the first work by a Welsh female composer to be recorded?
text: Did you know that the Verkeerder Kill in Shawangunk, New York is locally known as Kaidy Kill?
text: Did you know that during World War II, Office of Strategic Services agent I. S. Dorfman maintained liaisons with exiled socialist leaders of the Stockholm-based "Little Internationale" such as Willy Brandt , Bruno Kreisky , and Ernst Paul ?
text: Did you know that the Daily Mail described The Getaway Car as "the worst TV spin-off since Joey Tribbiani got his own series "?
text: Did you know that the text Pancabrahma Upanishad , composed before 7th-century CE, discusses the symbolism behind the many faces of the Hindu god Shiva ?
text: Did you know that Lt. Col. Udney Hay , although highly recommended by Gen. George Washington , was not appointed Quartermaster General by the Congress ?
text: Did you know that species of the extinct insect family Kalligrammatidae have sometimes been called "butterflies of the Jurassic"?
text: Did you know that Cibolo Creek Ranch , where Antonin Scalia died, was a shooting location for the films The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada , There Will Be Blood , and No Country for Old Men ?
text: Did you know that the Tripura Upanishad is a Hindu text notable as a complete introduction to the Shakta Tantra tradition?
text: Did you know that the Rochdale Cenotaph was one of the most ambitious of Sir Edwin Lutyens ' war memorials to come to fruition?
text: Did you know that Howard Shane and his team developed the Visual Immersion System to assist people with autism in their efforts to communicate?
text: Did you know that the Rama tapaniya Upanishad states that the Hindu god Rama is the same as the Atman (soul) and Brahman (ultimate reality)?
text: Did you know that Kris Leonard, vocalist of the band Viola Beach , commented that the lyrical content of their songs was inspired by their "very grey and industrial" hometown of Warrington , Cheshire ?
text: Did you know that Thomas White taxied his aircraft some 24 kilometres (15 mi) past enemy encampments in Mesopotamia during World War I, in what was later described as a " Keystone Cops adventure"?
text: Did you know that four men involved in the 1877 Louisville Grays scandal were banned from professional baseball for life?
text: Did you know that Jewish lecturer Joseph Yasser was interested in Chinese organs?
text: Did you know that the Southend-on-Sea War Memorial was originally designed as a cenotaph but was changed to an obelisk ?
text: Did you know that the first Hispanic woman principal in the Denver Public Schools system was also the first Latina to have a Denver public school named in her honor?
text: Did you know that Hyrtl's catfish has been found in waters as warm as 38 °C (100 °F)?
text: Did you know that as a child, transplant physician Fritz Bach escaped Nazi Germany in the Kindertransport ?
text: Did you know that after the highwayman Jerry Abershawe was hanged, his body was gibbeted outside The Green Man in London?
text: Did you know that Royal Lao Government casualties outnumbered the People's Army of Vietnam defenders in Operation Sayasila ?
text: Did you know that Ali Brownlee covered over 1,000 Middlesbrough Football Club matches for BBC Tees and Century FM ?
text: Did you know that Toda Embroidery , made exclusively by women of the Toda pastoral community in the Nilgiri mountains , appears like a woven cloth?
text: Did you know that Rachel Browne established Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers , Canada's longest-running modern dance company?
text: Did you know that Northampton War Memorial was designed in 1920 but was not installed until six years later?
text: Did you know that Min Huifen , called the "Queen of Erhu ", performed in support of the student protesters of Tiananmen Square ?
text: Did you know that the Hindu text Vajrasuchi Upanishad questions social classes , and asserts that any human being can achieve the highest spiritual state of existence?
text: Did you know that Adam Frazier has set baseball records for the Mississippi State Bulldogs ?
text: Did you know that " Un-American Graffiti " is the first episode of Veronica Mars not to feature a mystery that takes place over several episodes?
text: Did you know that the slender knotweed is eaten by people in Africa in times of famine?
text: Did you know that Canada's status as a bilingual country inspired Janet Werker to study language acquisition ?
text: Did you know that, as well as shooting at Pinewood Studios and on Skellig Michael , additional filming for Star Wars: Episode VIII will take place in Mexico?
text: Did you know that the contralto Elisabeth Schärtel , known for performing many Wagner parts at the Bayreuth Festival , sang Verdi's Meg Page alongside Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Falstaff?
text: Did you know that when Naborr , an Arabian stallion , was imported to America via ship in 1963, the ship ran low on hay and the horse lost 50 pounds (23 kg)?
text: Did you know that Debopriya and Suchismita Chatterjee , the " flute sisters", are Indian instrumentalists trained by Hariprasad Chaurasia ?
text: Did you know that the yellow-eyed pigeon is rated as a vulnerable species because it is hunted in both its breeding and overwintering range?
text: Did you know that Laurie G. Lachance is the first alumna to serve as president of Thomas College of Waterville, Maine , in the school's 118-year history?
text: Did you know that the medieval era Hindu text Bahvricha Upanishad states that the material cause of the universe is a Goddess?
text: Did you know that Texas A&M University–Commerce organized a special commencement ceremony for Charles Tuaau when his Kansas City Chiefs minicamp obligations conflicted with his graduation?
text: Did you know that the inauguration of Argentine president Mauricio Macri was completed by the acting president Federico Pinedo , and not by outgoing president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner ?
text: Did you know that the 17th-century Chinese poet and government official Song Wan was so scared of rebels that he died of fright?
text: Did you know that Bach applied for the Thomaskantor post with Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn , BWV 23 , ending in an elaborate setting of the German Agnus Dei from a lost Passion ?
text: Did you know that Sir Clifford Boulton , the 44th Clerk of the House of Commons , was a fan of the soap opera Coronation Street ?
text: Did you know that in 2003 the women's football club Ballymena United Allstars were forced to play on a "disgraceful and embarrassing" park pitch during council renovations at their new ground?
text: Did you know that General Liu Zhenwu , the first commander of the People's Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison , outranked his British predecessors?
text: Did you know that the Rurouni Kenshin manga character Kamiya Kaoru was originally meant to die, but the author decided to make her survive to give young readers a happy ending?
text: Did you know that Mark Sanders scored only one first-class century in his cricket career?
text: Did you know that while Bulgaria 's most famous long-distance trail, Kom–Emine , typically takes 20 to 25 days to complete, the record stands at under 5 days?
text: Did you know that Bas van Bavel has linked Dutch cleanliness to the production of cheese?
text: Did you know that the family-run New Cheshire Salt Works was said to have had a "magnificent" Art Deco vacuum evaporator, decorated with stripes of different-coloured woods?
text: Did you know that Laxman Gole , a contemporary Indian Gandhian described as a real-life Munnabhai , won the Zindagi Live National Award given by IBN-7 ?
text: Did you know that the video game Her Story features entirely live-action footage?
text: Did you know that though Thailand was not at war with Communist China , it still fought Operation Sourisak Montry VIII in 1972?
text: Did you know that when Jessie Jack Hooper ran for the United States Senate in 1922 against Robert M. La Follette Sr. , her husband was one of only two men who donated to her campaign?
text: Did you know that a catchphrase for Mr. T Cereal was "I pity the fool who don't eat my cereal"?
text: Did you know that the first female chief servant in the history of the White House , Elizabeth Jaffray , was hired in 1909?
text: Did you know that the web series Go Princess Go has been cut by about a third by Chinese censors concerned about its themes of sex and time travel ?
text: Did you know that the gospel music duo Mary Mary 's two sister songstresses' Erica Campbell and Tina Campbell have released solo albums that have charted on The Billboard 200 ?
text: Did you know that The Children's Village was the first residential treatment center in the United States to have an on-site psychiatric clinic and a social work training school?
text: Did you know that Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , the last monarch of the Pahlavi dynasty , left Iran for exile nine days after it was suggested at the Guadeloupe Conference ?
text: Did you know that 96% of Dodge Cove residents surveyed opposed construction of a proposed liquefied natural gas facility there?
text: Did you know that the stretchiness and melting characteristics of pizza cheese can be improved using a blend of vetch milk and cow's milk in its preparation?
text: Did you know that Jennifer Childs-Roshak is the first person with a medical degree to become the chief executive of a Planned Parenthood affiliate?
text: Did you know that the extinct lacewing Araripenymphes shows sexual dimorphism in the two described fossils?
text: Did you know that Ragnall ua Ímair established himself as king of Northumbria following the indecisive Battle of Corbridge in 918?
text: Did you know that within a month of the release of Rise of Mana , the game had over one million registered players?
text: Did you know that Rashan Gary , the first player to be unanimously rated as the top American football prospect, committed in February 2016 to play for the Michigan Wolverines ?
text: Did you know that in India, plum cake is served around the time of the Christmas holiday season , and may have additional ingredients such as rum or brandy?
text: Did you know that Benoit & Sergio describe their sound as "an alloy of copper and silk"?
text: Did you know that the 1917 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado American football team outscored opponents 491 to 17, and was for many years considered the greatest the South ever produced?
text: Did you know that the Great Famine of Mount Lebanon led to the highest death toll by population of the First World War?
text: Did you know that Zorns Lemma by Hollis Frampton was the first experimental feature film screened at the New York Film Festival ?
text: Did you know that Wellesley College president Ellen Fitz Pendleton supported academic freedom for pacifists during World War I and later opposed the 1935 loyalty oath required of teachers in Massachusetts?
text: Did you know that commensurate line theory is able to convert series connections into parallel connections without changing the circuit response as would normally be expected for such a change?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Rebecca Ward was known as "The Poet Laureate of the Home"?
text: Did you know that the band OK Go filmed their music video for " Upside Down & Inside Out " in zero gravity using a reduced gravity aircraft ?
text: Did you know that Antonia Fahberg , a lyric soprano of the Bavarian State Opera for 25 years, recorded Bach with Karl Richter , including an aria described as "a beguiling and beautifully restrained performance"?
text: Did you know that The Times ' suggestion that Insert Name Here made Sue Perkins the first woman to host a UK mainstream comedy TV panel show was refuted by Weaver's Week ?
text: Did you know that Chinese medical pioneer Zhang Xichun was "very good" at curing vomiting?
text: Did you know that composer and critic Florent Schmitt criticized the Sextet of Francis Poulenc after its premiere for being vulgar?
text: Did you know that several journalists regarded the low-budget ACE (1985) as one of the best flight simulators of the time?
text: Did you know that French-Moroccan photographer Leila Alaoui used to set up a portable studio in a public place, such as a market square, and invite interested passers-by to be photographed?
text: Did you know that the pinkmottle woodwax can grow in fairy rings ?
text: Did you know that people in Syria are using small, portable radio transmitters to create Syrnet , a network of pirate radio broadcasts committed to oppose the Assad regime?
text: Did you know that Maine food educator and columnist Mildred Schrumpf claimed that the brownie was invented in Bangor ?
text: Did you know that the 1835 opera La casa disabitata , composed by Princess Amalie of Saxony , received its first modern performance in 2012 after its previously lost score was discovered in a library in Moscow?
text: Did you know that Dorothy Galton , a beekeeper , was suspected by MI5 of being a Russian spy?
text: Did you know that for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 , use of the alien race Sneepers was initially rejected by Marvel 's legal department because it sounded too similar to snípur , the Icelandic word for clitoris ?
text: Did you know that the Little Mix song " Love Me like You " garnered comparisons to The Ronettes and The Supremes for its retro doo-wop style?
text: Did you know that German footballer Antoine Raab was imprisoned for refusing to give the Nazi salute at a football game?
text: Did you know that Juma Namangani fought in Afghanistan for the Soviet Army in the late 1980s and alongside the Taliban in the early 2000s?
text: Did you know that Khmer , the language of Cambodia and the Khmer Empire , has a 1400-year written history?
text: Did you know that Hao Jianxiu , an illiterate teenage textile worker, became a model worker and a high-ranking politician after inventing a work method named after her?
text: Did you know that cobblers known as Mochis were trained in the art form of Kutch Embroidery by the Muslim Sufi saints of Sindh ?
text: Did you know that Ficus neriifolia is an important food item of the black crested gibbon and eastern hoolock gibbon , and is used in bonsai ?
text: Did you know that Xu You foiled Li Congshan's attempt to seize the crown from his older brother by informing on him to the crown prince himself?
text: Did you know that Hello From the Magic Tavern – hosted by a wizard and shapeshifting badger – was named one of iTunes ' best podcasts of 2015?
text: Did you know that Hetty Reckless was born in 1776, escaped from Salem , and boasted of seeing George Washington ?
text: Did you know that the Peterhouse partbooks and Forrest-Heyther partbooks both contain music by the English composer Robert Fayrfax ?
text: Did you know that mods are credited as one of the main reasons behind Minecraft's success?
text: Did you know that in 2013, Forbes listed Vera Songwe as one of the "20 Young Power Women in Africa"?
text: Did you know that Roman Kukleta was top scorer of the 1990–91 Czechoslovak First League ?
text: Did you know that Macklemore 's controversial critiques of Iggy Azalea in White Privilege II are actually criticisms of his own white privilege ?
text: Did you know that the current Bank of England £50 note is the first Bank of England banknote to feature two people on the reverse?
text: Did you know that in 2014, the U.S. Army 's 1st Cavalry Division Horse Cavalry Detachment was assigned its first female commander?
text: Did you know that a Hollyoaks insider believes that Joanne Cardsley has "become one of the most talked-about bunny boilers in soaps"?
text: Did you know that forensic chemist Mary Louisa Willard was referred to as "Lady Sherlock" for assisting law enforcement officials?
text: Did you know that "If I wanted you to understand it, I'd explain it better" is a favorite expression in Cruijffiaans , the idiolect of Dutch soccer coach Johan Cruyff ?
text: Did you know that the 2013 Chevrolet Silverado 250 was the first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race held on a road course since 2000 and the first Truck road course race in Canada?
text: Did you know that according to George Smathers , Harry Truman told him, "I want you to beat that son-of-a-bitch Claude Pepper ." prior to the 1950 United States Senate election in Florida ?
text: Did you know that the Swiss embassy gave Nellie Gubler an award for her research on Swiss immigrants in Utah?
text: Did you know that the minimum mass of an exoplanet can be calculated with the binary mass function using the velocity of its host star?
text: Did you know that Michael Fassbender 's film roles include a Spartan soldier, Irish republican Bobby Sands , a slave owner, and a sex addict?
text: Did you know that the name of the Chinese postman problem honors Chinese mathematician Meigu Guan , who first formulated it?
text: Did you know that the Conductor's Building was proposed to be turned into "the longest bar in America"?
text: Did you know that Chuck Mosley worked with a range of musicians on Will Rap Over Hard Rock for Food , including Roddy Bottum , Jonathon Davis and "a guy named Eric"?
text: Did you know that the Mexico City wrestling commission banned Espectro I from using a casket as part of his entrance ritual?
text: Did you know that Ho Sin Hang conceived the idea of creating the Hang Seng Index as the " Dow Jones Industrial Average of Hong Kong"?
text: Did you know that Bach's early cantata Der Herr denket an uns , BWV 196 , was possibly composed for the wedding of the minister who performed Bach's first wedding in Dornheim ?
text: Did you know that The Lab , a virtual reality game by Valve , is set in the Portal universe and features pocket universes ?
text: Did you know that on this day in 1993, former Italian Communist Party politician Augusto Barbera served for several hours as a Minister in the Ciampi Cabinet ?
text: Did you know that in Reformed theology, baptism is believed to be a replacement for circumcision as a rite signifying forgiveness of sin ?
text: Did you know that the Museum of Socialist Art was established in Sofia in 2011 amidst a controversy over its name, which was initially proposed as "Museum of Totalitarian Art"?
text: Did you know that Sairat , which is set to be released today, is the first Indian film to include a symphonic score recorded in Hollywood ?
text: Did you know that Kashf al-Asrar ( The Unveiling of Secrets ) was written by Ruhollah Khomeini to answer the criticisms of Shia Islam published in a pamphlet titled The Thousand-Year Secrets ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian terrorist Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow took part in killing 63 people at a shopping mall in Kenya ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film Allied , scripted by Steven Knight , is based on a true story personally told to Knight at the age of 21?
text: Did you know that Jessie Rose started her career playing a variety of soprano roles, but later became the principal mezzo-soprano of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company ?
text: Did you know that the 12th-century baptismal font of St Mary's Church, Llanfair-yn-Neubwll , was moved away for safekeeping when the church was closed?
text: Did you know that Tom Bass was born a slave but trained horses for Theodore Roosevelt , Will Rogers , and Buffalo Bill Cody ?
text: Did you know that despite mentioning her in five of his speeches, Demosthenes never spoke his mother's name ?
text: Did you know that Bogna Burska 's initial painting compositions were narratives of congealed blood forms made with red paints applied by fingers on walls, canvas, and glass?
text: Did you know that an inscription in Harran dated from 568 CE is among the earliest known appearances of Arabic in Syria ?
text: Did you know that soprano Tamara Wilson won the Richard Tucker Award , "one of the most prestigious prizes in opera"?
text: Did you know that the Hotel Amalo suicide car bombing was perpetrated by a 60-year-old Norwegian Labour Party supporter and Al-Shabaab member?
text: Did you know that Bonnie Sveen played two different characters in the Australian soap opera Home and Away ?
text: Did you know that the United States Coast Guard tartan is patterned in a ten-thread count to represent the first ten ships of the Revenue-Marine ?
text: Did you know that Jamie Ramsay claimed he ate iguana on his 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) run from Vancouver to Buenos Aires ?
text: Did you know that the Brazilian football defender Marquinhos was surprised by how many goals he scored after joining Paris Saint-Germain ?
text: Did you know that the first shots of the Great Syrian Revolt occurred at the village of Urman ?
text: Did you know that Marion Boulton Stroud created The Fabric Workshop as a place for artists "to explore, to take liberties, to be a studio and laboratory of new design"?
text: Did you know that the Welsh Church (Temporalities) Act 1919 led to a Welsh bishop expressing his desire that the Church of England never be disestablished?
text: Did you know that decades before Han Xu became China's ambassador to the United States, he was a guerrilla fighter who helped rescue American pilots shot down by the Japanese?
text: Did you know that one of the claims of North Korean propaganda is that there is no taxation in North Korea ?
text: Did you know that the contralto Caroline Trevor , who has been a member of The Tallis Scholars for over three decades, broke a tradition of nine centuries when she became a singer at St Paul's Cathedral ?
text: Did you know that both the highest and lowest temperatures in South America were recorded in Argentina ?
text: Did you know that the Cheltenham Gold Cup -winning racehorse Gay Donald enjoyed liquorice allsorts and sardine sandwiches?
text: Did you know that the 1930 song It Happened in Monterey fell out of popularity until it was revived by Frank Sinatra in 1956?
text: Did you know that some instant puddings are vegan ?
text: Did you know that the Rudra Mahalaya Temple is an ancient ruined temple complex built to lavish proportions during the 12th century by the Jayasimha Siddharaja of the Solanki dynasty ?
text: Did you know that Charlotte Kerwood was 15 when she won her first Commonwealth Games gold medal?
text: Did you know that if you are wrongly convicted in the United States and you do not petition for review of your case, you may not be able to challenge your conviction in the future?
text: Did you know that at the start of his career, Fulke Johnson Houghton was the youngest licensed racehorse trainer in Britain?
text: Did you know that meanness is a personal quality whose classical form, discussed by many from Aristotle to Thomas Aquinas , characterizes it as a vice of "lowness", but whose modern form deals more with cruelty?
text: Did you know that the 13th-century Welsh nobleman Tudur Hen was the direct ancestor of the House of Tudor , and introduced the name to the line?
text: Did you know that development of the Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital in Vaughan, Canada, was delayed four years because of a land use dispute?
text: Did you know that Herbert L. Packer proposed two models for the U.S. criminal justice system, crime control and due process , which became influential in criminal policy debates?
text: Did you know that five schoolchildren and their leader's assistant died in a blizzard in the 1971 Cairngorm Plateau Disaster when they failed to reach the Curran shelter in the Scottish Highlands ?
text: Did you know that Zohreh Tabatabai coordinated with more than 100 heads of state to plan the United Nations ' Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration?
text: Did you know that Tokyo-born archeologist Carl Whiting Bishop served in U.S. naval intelligence during World War I?
text: Did you know that the 2008 AMP Energy 500 saw a record-breaking 28 race drivers leading at least one lap in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series ?
text: Did you know that Gu Xiulian was China's first female provincial governor?
text: Did you know that The Simpsons episode " The Burns Cage " takes its name from The Birdcage , a film starring Simpsons voice actor Hank Azaria ?
text: Did you know that American painter Edith Emerson was the curator and director of the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia for over 30 years?
text: Did you know that the Hindu text Natya Shastra is an ancient encyclopedic treatise on the performing arts ?
text: Did you know that the British poet Anne Penny was criticised for having poor grammar?
text: Did you know that one doughnut shop chain uses an estimated one billion disposable cups per year, enough to circle the Earth twice?
text: Did you know that wide receiver T. J. Acree was a walk-on in college but went on to play in the Canadian Football League ?
text: Did you know that " The Royal Welch Fusiliers " is the only march written by John Philip Sousa for a British Army regiment?
text: Did you know that the couple Janie and Victor Tsao started Linksys in their garage, and sold it for half a billion dollars?
text: Did you know that the Woodstock Observer was the second attempt to establish a newspaper in Woodstock, Vermont ?
text: Did you know that on his One Voice album, Aled Jones performed duets with himself?
text: Did you know that Ottoman politician Mehmet Celal Bey is known as the Turkish Oscar Schindler for having saved many lives during the Armenian Genocide ?
text: Did you know that In for a Penny, In for a Pound is regarded as just the third album by a jazz composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music ?
text: Did you know that David A. Shirley was the first chemist to become the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ?
text: Did you know that the Primrose International Viola Archive at Brigham Young University is said to be haunted?
text: Did you know that the Darkhuang gong's cultural usage in Mizoram is as a dowry gift demanded by the bride's parents?
text: Did you know that the Lafayette Welcoming Parade of 1824 has been described as "New York's first all-out welcoming parade"?
text: Did you know that Elspeth Beard was the first English woman to ride a motorcycle around the world?
text: Did you know that Meghan Trainor considered " Dear Future Husband " to be one of the strongest tracks on Title ?
text: Did you know that steamed banana cake is found in Chinese cuisine , Indonesian cuisine and Vietnamese cuisine ?
text: Did you know that Denis Smith suffered so many broken bones, he was named in the Guinness Book of Records as the most injured man in association football?
text: Did you know that despite winning the 2008 UAW-Dodge 400 , Carl Edwards was penalized 100 drivers' points for a loose lid on his car's oil reservoir encasement?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Tulgas is also called "The Battle of Armistice Day "?
text: Did you know that on 14 April 2016, 15-year-old Jenna Jones and 16-year-old Emily Beecroft were named as members of the 2016 Australian Paralympic Team ?
text: Did you know that Conair Aviation Flight 448 , a flight meant to fight wildfires, inadvertently started one?
text: Did you know that the footballer Ray Jones , who died at 18, was described as Queens Park Rangers ' own Wayne Rooney ?
text: Did you know that The Electro-Magnetic and Mechanics Intelligencer was the first newspaper printed on a press run by electricity?
text: Did you know that Humira Saqib started educating the women of Afghanistan through her magazine Negah-e-Zan on their rights and to "tell women that we have great ideas, and the ability to make those ideas a reality"?
text: Did you know that Boudewijn Zenden scored a penalty kick for Middlesbrough in the 2004 Football League Cup Final , despite slipping over in the process?
text: Did you know that The Indigo Book is a public domain version of the Bluebook ?
text: Did you know that Sahwat al-Khudr is named after an ancient Byzantine church in the village dedicated to Saint George , who is known to Muslims as "al-Khudr"?
text: Did you know that Emily Temple-Wood says she will create a Wikipedia article about a woman scientist for every harassing email she receives?
text: Did you know that the Beeching cuts resulted in the closure of Groeslon railway station in Wales, despite the expansion of the station 17 years earlier?
text: Did you know that in order to move to Los Angeles to be an actress, Emma Stone prepared a PowerPoint presentation to convince her parents?
text: Did you know that Starbreeze Studios was once working on a video game set within the Bourne universe?
text: Did you know that NSA cryptanalyst Dorothy Blum was using the Fortran programming language three years before its public release in 1957?
text: Did you know that in The Boy Next Door the main character receives a first-edition printed copy of Homer 's Iliad ?
text: Did you know that despite being removed from the 1992 Honduras Olympic team and Olympic Village , Polin Belisle still competed in the Olympic marathon ?
text: Did you know that paleontologists cannot determine whether Dispersituberoolithus , a type of fossil egg , was laid by a bird or a non-avian dinosaur ?
text: Did you know that with over 50 million copies in print, the Maxwell House Haggadah is the best known and most popular Passover Haggadah among American Jews?
text: Did you know that Gérard Lhéritier 's career took off when he discovered balloon mail ?
text: Did you know that during Passover , some people use matzah as a substitute for traditional pizza crusts?
text: Did you know that in times past, the head of the household would go out to the street to say Ha Lachma Anya , thus inviting poor people to join him at the Passover Seder ?
text: Did you know that L'Shana Haba'ah is sung at the end of the Passover Seder ?
text: Did you know that common hogweed was originally the main ingredient of borscht ?
text: Did you know that the ruler of the Banu Kanz , a mixed Arab - Beja tribe, regulated the Fatimid Caliphate 's diplomatic and commercial relations with Nubia ?
text: Did you know that Swedish writer Eva Alexanderson translated works by Umberto Eco , Simone de Beauvoir , Albert Camus , Jean-Jacques Rousseau , and Fyodor Dostoyevsky ?
text: Did you know that the Harmony Gold Mine Cricket Club A Ground holds the record for some of the lowest scores by the Free State cricket team ?
text: Did you know that the tomb of Henry VIII 's ancestor at St Gredifael's Church was vandalised by pilgrims who thought it had healing powers?
text: Did you know that Svetoslav Roerich , one of the recipients of the Padma Bhushan award in the 1960s , is the only artist whose three portraits are displayed at the Central Hall of Indian Parliament ?
text: Did you know that the library at Queen Mary University of London was named after an expert in Welsh history, Caroline Skeel ?
text: Did you know that a collection of light bulbs was bought by General Electric in 1912 for $10,000 and by 1931 was valued at over a million dollars?
text: Did you know that blueberry sauce can be used to prepare blueberry Martinis ?
text: Did you know that, with 6000 members, Central Jamaat-e Ahl-e Sunnat is Norway 's largest mosque ?
text: Did you know that Iris timofejewii is a rare and endangered iris threatened by overgrazing?
text: Did you know that Derick Adamson won the 1984 and 1985 Philadelphia Marathons ?
text: Did you know that Shuangyu , an international entrepôt used by Portuguese, Japanese, and Chinese traders and smugglers, was destroyed by the Ming dynasty in 1548?
text: Did you know that Gerri Major was the first African American woman to announce programs on commercial radio?
text: Did you know that the 14th-century tower of St Mary's Church, Caldicot , was not completed until the 16th century?
text: Did you know that after death of Muhammad al-Mahdi 's father, al-Mahdi appointed Uthman ibn Sa'id al-Asadi as his representative, making al-Asadi the main link between al-Mahdi and the Shia community?
text: Did you know that Marshal Lin Biao attempted to flee China from Qinhuangdao Shanhaiguan Airport , but was killed when his plane crashed in Mongolia?
text: Did you know that Interstate 97 is the shortest 2-digit mainline Interstate Highway and only intracounty 2-digit Interstate in the contiguous United States ?
text: Did you know that the art historian Graham Reynolds wrote the catalogue raisonné of the works of John Constable ?
text: Did you know that Gobioolithus is a type of fossil bird egg that often contains embryos with well-developed wings?
text: Did you know that Peregrin Saxon was the first Bishop of Bosnia to reside in Bosnia since Ponsa was driven out by heretics a century earlier?
text: Did you know that Joe's Steaks + Soda Shop in Philadelphia changed its business name in 2013 because the name it had used for 64 years was controversial?
text: Did you know that in the United States, Grand Theft Auto III was the best-selling game of 2001, and the second best-selling game of 2002, behind only its sequel ?
text: Did you know that the name of Maenan Hall , a Grade I listed building near Llanddoged , Wales, means "place of the big stone" in Welsh ?
text: Did you know that biologist Katherine Sanford was the first person to successfully clone a mammal cell in vitro ?
text: Did you know that the Hindu mythical beast Supratika – Bhagadatta 's elephant – nearly killed Bhima during the Kurukshetra War ?
text: Did you know that in a 2014 Sussex Cricket League Premier Division match against Horsham , Philip Salt scored 200 not out from just 129 balls ?
text: Did you know that city officials in Plymouth, Minnesota , opposed the idea of a 240,000-square-foot (22,000 m 2 ) Walmart Supercenter replacing the Four Seasons Mall ?
text: Did you know that South Korean politician Choo Mi-ae has been compared to Joan of Arc ?
text: Did you know that the detective fiction writer Soeman Hs is considered a pioneer of the Indonesian short story for his collection Kawan Bergeloet ?
text: Did you know that Orange Is the New Black is the first series to receive Emmy Award nominations in both the comedy and drama categories?
text: Did you know that environmental and children's rights activist Rosemary Edna Sinclair was named Miss Australia 1960?
text: Did you know that after the Sudeten German Party was banned, its followers in areas that remained in Czechoslovakia regrouped as the German People's Group ?
text: Did you know that rags-to-riches colonial Virginia slave owner Samuel Gist owned as many as 1000 slaves, most of whom were freed after his death?
text: Did you know that St Tewdric 's axed or speared skull is purportedly buried under the altar of St Tewdric's Church ?
text: Did you know that the pilot of Carson Air Flight 66 flew his plane while intoxicated?
text: Did you know that Ursula K. Le Guin 's Hugo and Nebula award-winning 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness is set on a fictional planet whose people are neither male nor female for most of their sexual cycle?
text: Did you know that Seán Kinsella is regarded as Ireland's first celebrity chef ?
text: Did you know that Strauss composed the cantata Taillefer , based on a romantic medieval tale and set for three soloists, an eight-part choir, and a large orchestra, for the centenary of the Heidelberg University ?
text: Did you know that during the attempted theft of George Washington's head , the body of Bushrod Washington was accidentally decapitated?
text: Did you know that in 1970, Prince Charles became the first heir to the British throne to complete a university degree ?
text: Did you know that cell biologist Ruth Lehmann studied maternal effect genes in fruit flies ?
text: Did you know that many people believe there is no such thing as Welsh food ?
text: Did you know that FEMA 's " Other than a Plan D Situation " file includes draft legislation to waive penalties for the late-filing of income tax by persons residing in cities destroyed by nuclear attack?
text: Did you know that the student body at Kennebec Valley Community College grew from 100 to 3,300 during Barbara W. Woodlee 's nearly three decades as president?
text: Did you know that Campaign 972 attacked Paksong 15 minutes after a ceasefire ended the Laotian Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Minna Salami , a woman journalist of Nigeria, is actively participating on African women's issues through her award-winning blog called MsAfropolitan ?
text: Did you know that Carew Tidal Mill is the only restored tide mill in Wales?
text: Did you know that All Saints' Church , which was attended by Jane Austen when she lived in Southampton , was destroyed in the Second World War?
text: Did you know that the WWE Women's Championship was created because female wrestlers felt that the former Divas Championship diminished them to "eye candy"?
text: Did you know that John Logie Baird 's Telechrome was the first single-tube color television display, and could also display stereoscopic (3D) images?
text: Did you know that historian Howard Henry Peckham discovered that American Revolutionary War deaths were much higher than previously assumed, totaling about 25,000?
text: Did you know that during the Industrial Revolution , the Welsh coal industry was at the forefront of the development of new mining technologies ?
text: Did you know that Yi Qiu was the first recorded weiqi player?
text: Did you know that more than 10 wrestlers have worn the Espanto mask, including Espanto I , Espanto II , Espanto III , Espanto IV and V , Los Hijos del Espanto , Espanto Jr. , his son Espanto Jr. , and Mini-Estrella Espantito ?
text: Did you know that the Malator is known locally as the " Teletubby house"?
text: Did you know that the Atari 2600 game Adventure contained the first well-known instance of a video game Easter egg ?
text: Did you know that despite indicating willingness to renew his contract with a Portuguese club, Portuguese footballer Rúben Fernandes signed with a newly promoted Belgian one instead?
text: Did you know that Octaware Technologies is India's first company claiming Sharia compliance that has been approved for listing on the Bombay Stock Exchange ?
text: Did you know that early in her career, Emma Stone won the Young Hollywood Award for Exciting New Face?
text: Did you know that the New York City Subway is the largest rapid transit system in the world by number of stations, with 469 stations in operation?
text: Did you know that Li Ye , a Taoist nun and courtesan renowned for her beauty and talent in poetry, was executed for treason?
text: Did you know that St Mary's Church forms part of the name of Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch ?
text: Did you know that conservation biologist Leela Hazzah began a program teaching Maasai hunters to protect lions instead of hunt them?
text: Did you know that Jerusalem's first printing press was established in the Armenian Quarter ?
text: Did you know that Indian nationalist Santi Ghose assassinated a British magistrate when she was 15 years old?
text: Did you know that the large pre-Columbian Maya city of Cihuatán , in central El Salvador , was destroyed by a massive fire within 150 years of being founded?
text: Did you know that in 1953, Philipp Meyer became the first former Nazi Kreisleiter elected to the West German Bundestag ?
text: Did you know that an 18th-century recipe for the vegetarian Glamorgan sausage references the use of pork as an ingredient?
text: Did you know that Chen Run'er was recently appointed Governor of China's Henan Province, despite the prediction of his downfall by a Radio Free Asia columnist?
text: Did you know that Ralph Milne worked as a casual labourer in the same season that he played for Dundee United in the semi-final of the European Cup?
text: Did you know that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk worked in the Neo-Baroque Sarmadzhiev House in Sofia , Bulgaria and his office has been preserved as a small museum?
text: Did you know that Bu Xiaolin , her father Buhe , and her grandfather Ulanhu have all served as Chairman of Inner Mongolia ?
text: Did you know that the Flag of the Church in Wales was adopted following the split of the Church in Wales from the Church of England?
text: Did you know that Phillip Adams , an Australian farmer, co-holds the record for the most medals won at the Commonwealth Games ?
text: Did you know that according to chef Fergus Henderson , drinking a Black Velvet at Sweetings "puts you in the mood for romance"?
text: Did you know that Dr. George Fell , a pioneer of life-saving mechanical respiration techniques in the 1880s, also had a role in designing the first electric chair used for an execution?
text: Did you know that Bertha Badt-Strauss was one of the first women in Prussia to receive a doctoral degree?
text: Did you know that in order to film a scene for the " Give It All " music video , the film crew was forced to sneak into a local zoo?
text: Did you know that a Newfoundland dog serves as both a mascot and a rehabilitation animal for Australian military personnel detained at the Defence Force Correctional Establishment ?
text: Did you know that Vasile Moga was the first Romanian Orthodox bishop of Transylvania in over a century?
text: Did you know that the species name of the ant Dolichoderus pinguis is taken from the Latin word meaning "fat"?
text: Did you know that the first test match of rugby union 's professional era was played during the 1995 Wales rugby union tour of South Africa ?
text: Did you know that conceptual artist Maria Anwander French-kissed a wall at MoMA without authorization?
text: Did you know that the former motte-and-bailey Barland Castle is thought to have originally been called "Bernoldune", the name changing gradually over the following centuries?
text: Did you know that Drishyam became the second film to show for 100 days in the UAE , after Titanic (1997)?
text: Did you know that Jennifer Lopez described the concept behind her song " Ain't Your Mama " as "very empowering"?
text: Did you know that the second Horn Island Light was destroyed in the 1906 Mississippi hurricane , killing the keeper and his family?
text: Did you know that Nisha Ayub has said she could be stripped naked and killed, but her transgender identity could not be taken from her?
text: Did you know that Donald Knuth 's analysis of the linear probing strategy for resolving collisions in hash tables has been called "a landmark in the analysis of algorithms"?
text: Did you know that Welshmen are sometimes called sheep shaggers ?
text: Did you know that the Arena México 60th Anniversary Show celebrates the completion of Arena México in 1956, the largest venue ever built specifically for professional wrestling ?
text: Did you know that Matthew N. Levy has been referred to as "the father of neurocardiology "?
text: Did you know that the Brooke Bond Taj Mahal Tea House is Hindustan Unilever 's first tea restaurant business?
text: Did you know that a line in the single " Game On " by the Welsh band Catatonia appeared in one of the tracks on their original demos ?
text: Did you know that the extinct ant genus Paraneuretus is known from amber and compression fossils?
text: Did you know that according to a former editor of The Observer , Nora Beloff "had one of the most distinguished careers any woman has had in British journalism"?
text: Did you know that an Earnest performance necessitates the rhythmic smashing of forty dinner plates?
text: Did you know that The Sound of a Flower is based on the life of Jin Chae-seon, who became Joseon 's first female pansori singer in 1867, when women were forbidden to perform on stage?
text: Did you know that the Gerard Behar Center , today a major arts centre in Jerusalem , was the site of the 1961 trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann ?
text: Did you know that the shell of Incognitoolithus , the largest known North American fossil bird egg from the Eocene , bears possible peck-marks from a predatory bird?
text: Did you know that the medical geneticist Meena Upadhyaya has developed tests to diagnose more than 20 genetic diseases?
text: Did you know that the Thoroughbred Spark was a gift to Samuel Ogle from Lord Baltimore regifted from the Prince of Wales ?
text: Did you know that Turkish journalist and playwright Nezihe Araz was fired from her newspaper job because a photo attached to her report showed an Arab man urinating, which angered the King of Iraq ?
text: Did you know that Aardvarks struck the communists during Operation Phou Phiang III ?
text: Did you know that Rhian Edwards ' debut book of poetry was named the Wales Book of the Year ?
text: Did you know that the female southern masked chafer beetle attracts a mate by emitting a volatile chemical ?
text: Did you know that when her uncles sought to take her land and send her to a nunnery, Hawys Gadarn took an audience with Edward II and returned with English troops to take back her castle?
text: Did you know that the 2016 documentary film The Smart Studios Story was crowdfunded at under $125,000?
text: Did you know that Subhashni Raj of Fiji participated in the protests at the 2009 United Nations Climate Talks in Copenhagen?
text: Did you know that Pu Songling wrote of a man and his hibernating dragon ?
text: Did you know that Park Hall is in England but is considered by UEFA to be Welsh?
text: Did you know that Major General Carlos Brewer asked to be demoted to colonel so he could command combat troops during World War II, because he was too old to command a division as a general?
text: Did you know that the previews of Spec Ops: The Line , a game that depicts Dubai in a state of destruction, were banned in the United Arab Emirates ?
text: Did you know that Lin Duo , the new governor of China's landlocked Gansu Province, was a navy submariner ?
text: Did you know that " Road Rage " by the Welsh band Catatonia was nominated for best song at the Q Awards , the Brit Awards , and the Ivor Novello Awards ?
text: Did you know that Dame Lesley Fallowfield was the UK's first professor of psycho-oncology ?
text: Did you know that in promos for the series finale of Veronica Mars , The CW billed it as a season finale , even though the series had already been cancelled?
text: Did you know that Japanese Emperor Hirohito had a Liverpudlian cousin named Paddy Murphy ?
text: Did you know that chestnut pie dates back to the 15th century in Italy, having been documented in an early cookbook written by Bartolomeo Platina ?
text: Did you know that Argentine president Raúl Alfonsín sponsored the Trial of the Juntas against the leaders of the National Reorganization Process military dictatorship?
text: Did you know that the Brighton Herald , latterly based at 2–3 Pavilion Buildings in Brighton, was the first newspaper in England to report Napoleon's escape from Elba?
text: Did you know that Ace Air Flight 51 crashed in the same area as a 2010 plane carrying nine people including U.S. Senator Ted Stevens and former NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe ?
text: Did you know that the commoner-born Theingaba successfully established himself as the first king of Toungoo during the last years of the Pinya Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that apart from matte- chamfered edges and an inset stainless steel rear Apple logo, the exterior design of the iPhone SE is nearly identical to that of the iPhone 5S ?
text: Did you know that Judge Guido Calabresi believes close cases lead to slippery slopes ?
text: Did you know that the regimental band of the U.S. Army 's 369th Regiment (the "Harlem Hellfighters Band") is credited with introducing jazz to Europe during World War I?
text: Did you know that Dara Nusserwanji Khurody established the Aarey Milk Colony and introduced affordable toned milk in Mumbai?
text: Did you know that over a dozen pre-teen soldiers served supply and communications duty during Operation Phou Phiang II ?
text: Did you know that in 1932 Margareta Suber wrote Sweden's first lesbian novel?
text: Did you know that Basang , a former slave, was the only woman leader in the Tibet Autonomous Region for more than two decades?
text: Did you know that Saputangan , a film that follows a man who restores his beloved's eyesight, was banned in Singapore ?
text: Did you know that rather than accept an appointment as bishop, Father Louis de Barth told Archbishop Leonard Neale that he would burn the papal bull nominating him and flee to the wilderness?
text: Did you know that Vanderbilt athlete Oliver "Doc" Kuhn helped start the athletics program at the University of Tampa and led the effort to plant podocarpus trees in downtown Tampa ?
text: Did you know that the Welsh goat's cheese Pantysgawn was created after a farmer was sent to market to buy a cow?
text: Did you know that John Sigismund Zápolya , the only Unitarian monarch in history, was the first Prince of Transylvania ?
text: Did you know that domestication of the Syrian hamster began in the 1930s?
text: Did you know that in 1975 Najma Sadeque and seven others perturbed by human rights violations in Pakistan established a NGO called Shirkat Gah ?
text: Did you know that Graham Charlesworth has played first-class cricket in England and South Africa?
text: Did you know that bodybuilding in China was once banned?
text: Did you know that Charles A. Cogswell was the first attorney to practice law in Lakeview , Oregon ?
text: Did you know that Dyserth Castle was the last of the British fortified defence castles on the Clwydian hills in the Middle Ages?
text: Did you know that Chen Peiqiu is the best-selling Chinese woman painter?
text: Did you know that according to the Official Charts Company, Lady Gaga 's song " Applause " sold over 10,000 copies within a few hours in the UK?
text: Did you know that the sailor and navigator Michael Richey was awarded the inaugural John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for literature in 1942?
text: Did you know that the champion Saddlebred horse Imperator 's tail was 14 feet (4.3 m) long?
text: Did you know that Hungarian politician Béla Grünwald telegraphed the news of his death to his party leader before committing suicide in Paris?
text: Did you know that the text for Bach 's early cantata Actus tragicus , using Bible verses and three hymns, is similar to the sermon held at the funeral of a former mayor of Mühlhausen ?
text: Did you know that Marti Stevens used improvisational theatre to teach high school students about substance abuse, sexual abuse, and domestic violence?
text: Did you know that Juhi Chaturvedi won two National Film Awards for writing the screenplay and dialogues of Piku ?
text: Did you know that the Igwisi Hills may be the youngest kimberlite volcanoes on Earth?
text: Did you know that Meghan Trainor 's " Watch Me Do " references a number of rap songs?
text: Did you know that the long-lost names of 86 Jews killed for the Jewish skeleton collection planned by Nazi anatomist August Hirt over 70 years ago were published by Hans-Joachim Lang ?
text: Did you know that singer Marina and the Diamonds took up smoking in an unsuccessful attempt to get the voice of Brody Dalle from The Distillers ?
text: Did you know that the fossil ant genus Gerontoformica is known from thirteen species?
text: Did you know that Gov. Saw Yan Naung of Prome helped to tame Pinya 's former southern vassals for his brother, King Swasawke of Ava ?
text: Did you know that Pakistani policeman Mumtaz Qadri was executed for killing the former Governor of Punjab Salman Taseer , who spoke against the blasphemy law and in favor of Asia Bibi ?
text: Did you know that after synthwave producer Com Truise made his third extended play Wave 1 , he said he had not realized it was really a reflection of the previous few months of his life?
text: Did you know that International Bus Roadeo competitors must stop their buses within six inches of a traffic cone?
text: Did you know that jianbing is one of the most popular street breakfasts in China?
text: Did you know that professional American football player Nikita Whitlock was named when his father pointed at a random name in a phone book?
text: Did you know that bioanalytical chemist Cynthia Larive uses NMR and mass spectroscopy to authenticate the contents of pomegranate juice ?
text: Did you know that the pastrami on rye sandwich has come to be a symbol of the classic New York Jewish deli ?
text: Did you know that in his book Mysterious New Mexico , Ben Radford describes the use of scientific techniques to investigate thirteen cases of purported paranormal phenomena?
text: Did you know that according to one theory, Bintulu got its name from the gathering of severed heads from the headhunting activities in Sarawak , Borneo ?
text: Did you know that Catharine van Tussenbroek settled the question of the existence of ovarian pregnancy clinically and histologically in 1899?
text: Did you know that in the Battle of Salamis in 306 BC, during the wars between Alexander the Great 's generals, Demetrius Poliorcetes defeated the fleet of Ptolemy I and conquered Cyprus ?
text: Did you know that both animals and plants self-advertise ?
text: Did you know that Easter Hero 's second-place finish in the 1929 Grand National has been described as the greatest performance in the history of the race?
text: Did you know that Lin Zongsu 's article reporting her discussion of women's suffrage with Sun Yat-sen brought the right to vote into the public arena in China?
text: Did you know that Jyotisha was an ancient Vedic study of time keeping and astronomy, that later adopted astrology ideas and the zodiac from the Greeks ?
text: Did you know that installation of the Middleton Beach shark barrier in Albany, Western Australia was delayed when sharks attacked pygmy whales just a few meters from the beach?
text: Did you know that novelist Louie Myfanwy Thomas had to re-write one of her manuscripts after it was thrown into a fire?
text: Did you know that in 1839, the landlord of The Angel Hotel, Abergavenny was found guilty of failing to provide sufficient hay to horses of the 12th Royal Lancers ?
text: Did you know that Eddy Merckx gave the bike he used to win the men's road race at the 1974 UCI Road World Championships to Pope Paul VI ?
text: Did you know that Mārtiņš Nukša , an architect and a diplomat, was sentenced to death and killed during the Soviet occupation of Latvia ?
text: Did you know that the fossil ant Camelomecia has distinct cup-shaped mandibles?
text: Did you know that Richard Strauss composed Die Tageszeiten , setting poems about four times of the day, for the men's chorus that serenaded him for his 60th birthday?
text: Did you know that the success of Elizabeth Aston 's first published novel, Mr. Darcy's Daughters , encouraged the publisher to release more stories adapted from the works of Jane Austen ?
text: Did you know that when it was built in 1846, Llandinam Bridge became the first cast-iron bridge in the historic Welsh county of Montgomeryshire ?
text: Did you know that Ieremia Cecan , a regional leader of the Romanian Nazi Party , campaigned for the unification of the Orthodox and Catholic churches?
text: Did you know that in " Twenty Years a Dream ", Pu Songling refers to a woman's breasts as "lotus kernels"?
text: Did you know that the Cork Public Museum building was used to host visiting royalty in the 1900s, and as an air-raid protection office in the 1930s?
text: Did you know that Beth Shapiro 's book How to Clone a Mammoth discusses the science involved in resurrection biology and how one would resurrect a mammoth ?
text: Did you know that when Newburgh city manager Joseph Mitchell summoned all the city's welfare recipients to City Hall to investigate their legitimacy, no cases of fraud were uncovered?
text: Did you know that for his 1973 film version of A Doll's House , director Joseph Losey expanded Henrik Ibsen 's original script with new scenes?
text: Did you know that the beetle Cyclocephala castanea has a mutually beneficial relationship with a water lily?
text: Did you know that Kayin Ba , the 14th-century governor who transformed Toungoo into a powerful vassal state of Pinya , began his career as the chief of prisons?
text: Did you know that within a day of the release of the Microsoft chatterbot Tay on Twitter , it was taken offline because it started making inflammatory tweets?
text: Did you know that Lenny Schultz kept his day job as a high school gym teacher while gaining popularity on late-night talk shows and in comedy clubs?
text: Did you know that Operation Black Lion III was a land grab before the Secret War ended?
text: Did you know that the Spanish footballer Airam López once scored three penalty kicks in the same game?
text: Did you know that the Lamar County Historical Museum in Paris, Texas , is home to the Biard Cabin, built in 1846 and now relocated inside the museum structure?
text: Did you know that by winning the 2016 Rebelión de los Juniors tournament, professional wrestler Danny Casas earned a match for the IWRG Junior de Juniors Championship ?
text: Did you know that Azealia Banks originally devised Slay-Z as a tribute to American rapper Jay-Z ?
text: Did you know that the crab Lauridromia dehaani prefers to wear sponge ?
text: Did you know that in 1958 Anil de Silva planned an all-woman expedition to China to study the cave paintings in Dunhuang and Maijishan in the Gansu province?
text: Did you know that Something Beautiful by Jordan Smith had the highest Billboard debut and best sales week of any album by a contestant on The Voice ?
text: Did you know that baseball pitcher Tim Melville underwent surgery to correct his pectus excavatum when he was 11 years old?
text: Did you know that the snaggletooth avoids the sea surface when the latter is illuminated?
text: Did you know that the journalist Kamadjaja raised funds for the Indonesian National Revolution by smuggling opium ?
text: Did you know that several riders were forced to withdraw from the 2016 Dwars door Vlaanderen cycling race due to travel restrictions imposed after the Brussels bombings the previous day?
text: Did you know that Joan Bates was a queen before she was a princess?
text: Did you know that singer Madonna dressed up as a clown for her one-off acoustic show in Australia ?
text: Did you know that Shamsi Hekmat was a founder of the Jewish Ladies' Organization of Iran and the Iranian Jewish Women's Organization of Southern California?
text: Did you know that King Sisavang Vatthana wanted Black Lion to attack Paksong ?
text: Did you know that in August 2015, the term " social justice warrior " was one of several new words and phrases added to Oxford Dictionaries?
text: Did you know that Stephen Jurika was one of 18 crewmen of the USS Franklin (CV-13) awarded the Navy Cross for their actions on 19 March 1945?
text: Did you know that in 1921 more than 95% of the Czechoslovak citizens of Polish ethnicity lived in the Těšín electoral district ?
text: Did you know that after he won the 2011 Gran Alternativa with Último Guerrero , wrestler Escorpión anointed himself King?
text: Did you know that the Scottish international rugby player Andrew Ross joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force at the start of World War One?
text: Did you know that contestants on 1000 Song Challenge race to the microphone in order to get a chance to sing karaoke ?
text: Did you know that Cumans , Bulgarians , and Vlachs supported Duke Glad in the late 9th century, according to the Gesta Hungarorum ?
text: Did you know that the first video game based on Star Trek was Phaser Strike , released for the Microvision handheld console in 1979?
text: Did you know that educator, author, and speaker Esther E. Wood became known as the "town historian" of Blue Hill, Maine , though she disliked the moniker?
text: Did you know that the flagship of the Fujian Fleet , the Chinese corvette Yangwu , was destroyed 27 seconds into the opening engagement of the Sino-French War ?
text: Did you know that the fossil egg Ageroolithus may have been laid by a theropod dinosaur?
text: Did you know that the Irish rugby player and physician Major Robertson Smyth was killed by the effects of gas exposure in World War I?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the government can withhold Social Security payments to collect on student loans that have been delinquent for over 10 years?
text: Did you know that Yun Bulong , Chairman of Inner Mongolia , was killed when a train hit his car at a railway crossing?
text: Did you know that the proportion of ground beef that contained pink slime , in the United States, declined from 70% in March 2012 to around 5% in March 2013, in part due to media coverage about it?
text: Did you know that Hollyoaks character Diego Salvador Martinez Hernandez De La Cruz caused controversy with viewers because a Confederate flag decorated his van?
text: Did you know that the battalions imported from Military Region 3 during Operation Sinsay held their objective for three days before being returned?
text: Did you know that Doris Mackinnon had a reputation for never repeating a lecture in 30 years?
text: Did you know that the political scientist Siobhan O'Sullivan argues that animal activists should focus on the inconsistent treatment of animals relative to other animals, not relative to humans?
text: Did you know that the 12-gun brig HMS Constant captured at least seven French and Dutch vessels while at sea between 1806 and 1813?
text: Did you know that the first original novel in the Gujarati language , Karan Ghelo , was published in 1866 by Nandshankar Mehta ?
text: Did you know that Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl played their first performance together since the death of Kurt Cobain at 1994's Yoyo A Go Go punk rock festival?
text: Did you know that Wu Qing won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service in 2001, the first Chinese woman to receive the honour?
text: Did you know that upon its 1641 premiere in Venice, the opera La finta pazza was performed twelve times in seventeen days?
text: Did you know that the ancient Maya lightning god Yopaat was said to have helped with the rebirth of the maize god by breaking the shell of a turtle with his thunderbolt ?
text: Did you know that the Turiyatitavadhuta Upanishad of Hinduism states the liberated person lives by the divine secret and ancient value that "there is no one different from me"?
text: Did you know that physicist Kurt Gottfried worked on behalf of Russian dissident Yuri Orlov to obtain his release from Siberia and employment at Cornell University ?
text: Did you know that an explosion in March 2016 at Güvenpark in Ankara , Turkey, caused the death of more than 30 people and injured about 100?
text: Did you know that Tracey Ross based her soap opera performance as Eve Russell on Eve White from the film The Three Faces of Eve and Catherine Halsey from Ayn Rand 's novel The Fountainhead ?
text: Did you know that the Transportation Security Administration 's program SPOT was developed by psychologist Paul Ekman ?
text: Did you know that Milos Raonic is the first tennis player born in the 1990s to win an ATP title, be ranked in the top 10, and qualify for the ATP Finals ?
text: Did you know that the lanternfishes Notoscopelus bolini‎ , N. caudispinosus , N. elongatus , N. kroyeri and N. resplendens make daily vertical migrations between the deep ocean and surface waters?
text: Did you know that after Gene Roddenberry left the production of Star Trek in 1968, he attempted to turn Isaac Asimov 's I, Robot into a film?
text: Did you know that Engy Ghozlan is known as the "voice and face" of efforts to eradicate sexual harassment of women in Egypt ?
text: Did you know that hula hoops and Tide detergent boxes were two consumer products that used the fluorescent pigments invented by the Day-Glo Color Corp. ?
text: Did you know that Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor 's nemesis system was inspired by sports games ?
text: Did you know that The True Cost links fast fashion to consumerism , globalization , capitalism , structural poverty, and oppression?
text: Did you know that Annie Furuhjelm of Finland was the first elected woman legislator to speak before the British Parliament ?
text: Did you know that the tube worm Salmacina dysteri grows on harbour installations, on the hulls of ships and at depths of 600 m (2,000 ft)?
text: Did you know that the ideas in the pre-4th-century Indian text Mahavakya Upanishad are similar to Neoplatonic Greek philosophy presented by Proclus in the 5th century?
text: Did you know that after the release of Counter-Strike: Falklands , two of the developer's websites were targeted by a distributed denial-of-service attack ?
text: Did you know that Ida Sedgwick Proper was a founding member of the feminist group Heterodoxy ?
text: Did you know that by 2014, Effortless Mastery had sold over 90,000 copies?
text: Did you know that the initiation ceremonies for Japan's blind necromancers, known as itako , involve "sleeplessness, semi-starvation and intense cold"?
text: Did you know that Kansas v. Carr included the final majority opinion written by Justice Antonin Scalia before his death in February 2016?
text: Did you know that the bass-baritone Jacques Villisech recorded Bach cantatas , including the Actus tragicus , the Hunting Cantata , and the secular solo cantata Amore traditore ?
text: Did you know that Barcelona's Les Tres Torres district is named after three large houses built there between 1901 and 1903?
text: Did you know that Professor Mary Ryan earned her BA from the Royal University of Ireland , though rules forbade her attending University classes?
text: Did you know that although Konsert Satu Suara, Vol. 2 served as a contingency plan for Siti Nurhaliza , it was later recognized as the highest-grossing, locally produced concert at Istana Budaya for 2015?
text: Did you know that Japanese eelgrass is believed to have travelled to North America in the company of oysters ?
text: Did you know that Gehan Mendis was part of the Lancashire cricket team that won the 1990 Benson & Hedges Cup and Natwest Trophy ?
text: Did you know that screenwriter Jason Hall is making his directorial debut with Thank You for Your Service ?
text: Did you know that Ibn al-Sal'us , an Arab merchant from Nablus and vizier of Sultan al-Ashraf Khalil , participated in the Mamluks ' siege of Acre in 1291?
text: Did you know that Bad Milk , developed by two brothers in their apartments in Queens , New York, won the grand prize at the 2002 Independent Games Festival ?
text: Did you know that the gold thrymsa was superseded by the silver sceat after about 675?
text: Did you know that the conservatoire piano instructor and playwright Avra Theodoropoulou co-founded a Greek suffrage organization and then served as its president for decades?
text: Did you know that the Spanish aizoon uses jet propulsion to disperse its seeds?
text: Did you know that John Edgcumbe , a collateral descendant of Joshua Reynolds and co-editor of The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds , was Devon 's first consultant haematologist ?
text: Did you know that Gregory the Great preached at San Menna ?
text: Did you know that SS officer Herbert Mehlhorn was involved in the camouflage of the mass graves of the Jewish victims at the Chełmno extermination camp ?
text: Did you know that a 1960 telecast of Night of the Auk was the first time William Shatner played a spacecraft crew member on television?
text: Did you know that Benjamin D. Wood produced the first multiple choice test?
text: Did you know that the parliament of the Republic of Carpatho-Ukraine met only once for a single day?
text: Did you know that as a child, British chef Margot Henderson would cook garden snails with breadcrumbs for her parents' dinner parties?
text: Did you know that Taco Cabana paid $22 million for two pesos?
text: Did you know that the Hidden Report was published?
text: Did you know that a bird grew nearly 4% a year for forty years?
text: Did you know that Althea McNish is not American, but she is descended from a Merikin ?
text: Did you know that hurling poo-poo at your opponent is frowned upon?
text: Did you know that The Frog God comes in front of you?
text: Did you know that Pu Songling says: Lie down with dogs , wind up in pieces?
text: Did you know that motorists may use warp drive in Dulles, Virginia ?
text: Did you know that a British giant swallowed a little red virgin ?
text: Did you know that everybody's eating makeup ?
text: Did you know that Northern Ireland recently outlawed the practice of sitting in two places at the same time?
text: Did you know that computer says no ?
text: Did you know that He was gay ?
text: Did you know that President Obama lost his cannonball, cowpuncher, and corkscrew, but retains his crown and palace ?
text: Did you know that one method of defying gravity is to fall for your own prank ?
text: Did you know that space travel cost only US$50–75 in 1969?
text: Did you know that Parvoblongoolithus appears to be a fossilized dwarf?
text: Did you know that black ghosts were once sold in China ?
text: Did you know that hu created utopia ?
text: Did you know that Melitta Marxer and Sleeping Beauty won women the right to vote in Liechtenstein ?
text: Did you know that a dispute over hacking led to the split between rugby and association football?
text: Did you know that you can look through a window made of shrubby seablight , then wash your hands with it before eating it?
text: Did you know that freestyle swimmer Yusra Mardini pushed a boat in the Aegean Sea for over three hours while fleeing Syria?
text: Did you know that Inca archaeological sites have been found on the Aracar volcano, which may have erupted in March 1993?
text: Did you know that ten years ago today, Brian Shaffer walked into a bar in Columbus, Ohio , and hasn't been seen since?
text: Did you know that Mandala-brahmana Upanishad , a Yoga text of Hinduism , suggests that the spiritually-liberated person's conduct is like a child?
text: Did you know that the colonial hydroid Pennaria disticha has two types of tentacles?
text: Did you know that artist and textbook author Elina González Acha de Correa Morales was the driving force for creating the Geographical Society of Argentina?
text: Did you know that Pyongyang Maternity Hospital is equipped with video call booths for visiting family members?
text: Did you know that the sugarcane shoot borer , the Gurdaspur borer and the gold-fringed rice stemborer are all parasitised by the fly Sturmiopsis inferens ?
text: Did you know that Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner was a plural wife to both Joseph Smith and Brigham Young ?
text: Did you know that the 1940 crash of a New York Central luxury train, the Lakeshore Limited , killed 31, including the engineer who was one month from retirement?
text: Did you know that linebacker Tuineau Alipate is the nephew of Halaevalu Mataʻaho ʻAhomeʻe , former queen consort of Tonga ?
text: Did you know that writing the screenplay for the Kingsman: The Golden Circle was the "hardest thing" Matthew Vaughn has ever done?
text: Did you know that for her work presenting Lincoln cars in live commercials on The Ed Sullivan Show , Julia Meade was described as "part auto dealer, part chic sexpot"?
text: Did you know that one commentator suggested that a recent United States Supreme Court decision may "raise more questions than answers"?
text: Did you know that the music video for Girls' Generation 's " Paparazzi " begins with the members "whimsically prancing" to Gene Kelly 's " Singin' in the Rain "?
text: Did you know that racing driver Diane Teel was the first woman to win a NASCAR-sanctioned race at Langley Speedway in 1978?
text: Did you know that the late 15th-century Evliya Kasim Pasha Mosque in Edirne , Turkey, has not been used since 1950 due to its separation from the city by a levee of the Tunca River ?
text: Did you know that Else Seifert worked as an onboard photographer for Hamburg Süd on its shipping routes around Europe, Africa, and the Middle East in the 1930s?
text: Did you know that when the Archie vs. Predator comic was first announced, many media outlets noted in their headline that the news was not a joke?
text: Did you know that Peking opera star Li Yuru 's family was so poor that she was sent to learn her trade in part because the school would provide her meals?
text: Did you know that Gökgöl Cave , a show cave in Zonguldak , Turkey, was flooded in 2014 and remained closed until May 2016?
text: Did you know that real estate developer and Philadelphia City Councilman Allan Domb is known as the "Philly Condo King"?
text: Did you know that Supreme Sultan was immortalized with a bronze statue at Kentucky Horse Park ?
text: Did you know that perfumer Jacques Cavallier used a synthetic molecule to impart a sea-breeze scent to his most successful perfumes, including Giorgio Armani Acqua di Gio and Issey Miyake L'Eau d'Issey ?
text: Did you know that Silver Creek was referred to by two different names on the same USGS map—and the locals had never heard of either name?
text: Did you know that LDS missionary Mary Ellen Edmunds writes inspiring and humorous books on living a happier life, such as Thoughts for a Bad Hair Day ?
text: Did you know that Girls' Generation 's music video for " I Got a Boy " won Video of the Year at the 2013 YouTube Music Awards , beating more well-known nominees such as Psy , Justin Bieber , and Lady Gaga ?
text: Did you know that after T. J. Leaf was cut from the U.S. national under-19 basketball team , he represented Israel at the FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship and was named the tournament MVP ?
text: Did you know that in the stealth video game Sneaky Sneaky the player controls a hooded thief, Sneaky, whose task is to retrieve rubies that were stolen from him?
text: Did you know that Camilla Palmer QC founded the Women's Equality Network ?
text: Did you know that Voltaire described his history The Age of Louis XIV ( Le Siècle de Louis XIV ) as less of a history and more like a painting?
text: Did you know that Lili Almog exhibited a photographic series titled "Perfect Intimacy" in 2006, specifically made by her in three Carmel monasteries in Haifa , Bethlehem , and Port Tobacco ?
text: Did you know that the Moirang Phee of Manipur has a specific design called the "MoirangPheejin" which is woven with cotton or silk threads sequentially on both longitudinal edges of the fabric?
text: Did you know that in a recent United States Supreme Court decision , Justice Sonia Sotomayor declined to remove the "doctrinal wall between corporate and unincorporated entities"?
text: Did you know that actress Kim Sae-ron ' s first adult role is in the Korean drama Mirror of the Witch , where she plays a cursed princess in love with Heo Jun ?
text: Did you know that the Kimberley archerfish has a range that extends 300 kilometres (190 mi) upstream in the Fitzroy River system and has been observed as far inland as Geikie Gorge National Park ?
text: Did you know that Canadian football wide receiver Ted Alford earned a place on the BC Lions by practicing with the team for free after being cut in the preseason?
text: Did you know that the 58th Ariel Awards will be held at the National Auditorium instead of the Palacio de Bellas Artes to increase the number of guests?
text: Did you know that Wingfield W. Watson , an Irish immigrant to the United States, became a religious leader of the Strangites and wrote several publications in support of their beliefs?
text: Did you know that musicians 5ive , Alesha Dixon , DJ Luck and MC Neat , East 17 , Electric Swing Circus , Sigma , and Sister Sledge all pulled out of the pro- Brexit concert Bpoplive after learning it was political?
text: Did you know that in Mexico, crema is sold directly to consumers by ranches that produce it?
text: Did you know that Canadian football player Troy Alexander was selected in a bonus round of the 1995 CFL Draft as the fourth overall pick?
text: Did you know that the New Zealand mushroom Cortinarius cucumeris smells strongly of cucumber ?
text: Did you know that Sally Brampton was The Sunday Times ' s agony aunt ?
text: Did you know that the website Football Leaks reveals transfer fee, wage and contract information about famous footballers ?
text: Did you know that John Ernuszt , who was born into a Jewish family in Vienna , was buried in a chapel dedicated to the Holy Virgin in Buda ?
text: Did you know that postdoctoral researcher unions have successfully negotiated for a minimum salary, paid maternity leave, and just cause protections for discipline or dismissal?
text: Did you know that after Mourad Laachraoui won a gold medal at the 2016 European Taekwondo Championships , the Flemish taekwondo federation dubbed him "Europe's king of the lightweights"?
text: Did you know that Holy Ghost! 's extended play Crime Cutz was influenced by Russian disco records that member Alex Frankel found on eBay ?
text: Did you know that Mary Field Garner was the last living acquaintance of Joseph Smith and the oldest Utah resident when she died at age 107?
text: Did you know that the Montreal Laboratory was initially located in a house where bathrooms were used for offices, with papers and books stacked in the bathtubs?
text: Did you know that Isa ibn Muhanna , the commander of the Bedouin of Syria, was praised for securing the Mamluk victory over the Mongols at the Second Battle of Homs in 1281?
text: Did you know that Peter Martyr Vermigli's best known work , the Loci Communes , is a compilation of excerpts from his biblical commentaries published after his death?
text: Did you know that Wangkhei Phee , a fabric woven by women of Manipur , is made of fine white cotton yarn with a closely-woven texture and is "fully transparent"?
text: Did you know that businessman Xia Jiantong went to university at the age of 14?
text: Did you know that Geraldine Roman is the first openly transgender woman elected to the Congress of the Philippines ?
text: Did you know that Pachycorioolithus is a kind of fossil egg native to China that is notable for having a three-layered eggshell with an unusually thick external layer?
text: Did you know that according to one commentator, a recent United States Supreme Court ruling will "cast a shadow over equitable tolling cases for years to come"?
text: Did you know that in 1971, "Anthrope Agapa" (Humankind Love Each Other), an album by Greek pop group Poll , sold 200,000 copies, a record unsurpassed by any Greek band since then?
text: Did you know that in Seeds of Change: Five Plants That Transformed Mankind , Henry Hobhouse "altered the way we understand modern history"?
text: Did you know that 1–13 Arundel Terrace in Brighton consists entirely of Grade I listed buildings ?
text: Did you know that current Liga de Fútbol Profesional president Javier Tebas is a Real Madrid supporter?
text: Did you know that members of the Welsh churches Holy Trinity Church, Sarn , St Nicholas' Church, Church Stoke , and St Andrew's Church, Presteigne all voted against joining the Church in Wales in order to stay with the Church of England ?
text: Did you know that in May 1926 investigator Rose Mackenberg testified before Congress about fraudulent mediums with her mentor, Harry Houdini ?
text: Did you know that δ 34 S values in certain Archean pyrites suggest that sulfate-reducing organisms were present 3,470 million years ago ?
text: Did you know that Peter Martyr Vermigli was allegedly challenged to a duel with a double-edged axe by Theodore Bibliander over the doctrine of double predestination ?
text: Did you know that NASCAR drivers Joey Logano , Ryan Blaney , and Brad Keselowski were hired to assist in developing the video game NASCAR Heat Evolution ?
text: Did you know that the song " Ständchen " (Serenade), by Richard Strauss, begins with an appeal to creep out quietly and ends with a climax of expecting a rose to glow from the rapture of the night?
text: Did you know that Sigismund Ernuszt , Bishop of Pécs , was accused of embezzlement in 1496, and murdered for his wealth in 1505?
text: Did you know that Seema Malaka , a 19th-century Buddhist temple in Colombo constructed on platforms in a lake, slowly sank into the water but was reconstructed in 1979?
text: Did you know that Ben Affleck won the Golden Globe and BAFTA for Best Director for Argo , but did not receive an Academy Award nomination , though the film won the Oscar for Best Picture ?
text: Did you know that widgiemoolthalite , which is composed in part of nickel , was first described by a man named Nickel ?
text: Did you know that Ryan Patterson is the first male South African gymnast to qualify for the Summer Olympic Games in over 50 years?
text: Did you know that the original Dhar iron pillar must have been almost twice as high and at least 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lb) heavier than the iron pillar of Delhi ?
text: Did you know that Steve Alexandre taught French at Laval Liberty High School after retiring from the Canadian Football League ?
text: Did you know that in the stealth video game Space Marshals , players can unlock gear and weapons such as shotguns, crossbows and axes, based on their performance in each level?
text: Did you know that Vassar College 's Ely Hall once housed the largest collegiate swimming pool in the United States?
text: Did you know that after the announcement of 1979 Revolution: Black Friday , a conservative Iranian newspaper accused game director Navid Khonsari of espionage, and members of his development team took on aliases?
text: Did you know that Amanda Barnes Smith allegedly healed her son's shattered hip by divine inspiration after the Haun's Mill massacre ?
text: Did you know that the Haskell Manufacturing Company produced the material for the first airplane made with moldable plywood ?
text: Did you know that Barbara Tsakirgis worked at archaeological excavation sites in Sicily for her doctoral thesis on the subject of Hellenistic houses at Morgantina ?
text: Did you know that Chicago Justice 's backdoor pilot from Chicago P.D. was based on a true story?
text: Did you know that horse trainer Casey Wright got a World Grand Championship for his birthday?
text: Did you know that the bell in the tower of St. Joseph's Catholic Church is the only item saved after the first church building burned down in 1902?
text: Did you know that Chet Trail is the only person to be on a World Series roster despite never playing in a Major League Baseball game?
text: Did you know that Facebook released a Tor hidden service at facebookcorewwwi.onion ?
text: Did you know that Mike Agostini was the first track and field athlete from Trinidad and Tobago to win a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games ?
text: Did you know that the first women's shelters in the United States were established by grassroots volunteers in the 1970s?
text: Did you know that in the rhythm video game Give It Up! the player must complete levels by jumping over obstacles to the beat of a song?
text: Did you know that Claudius Hieronymianus built a temple to the god Serapis at Eboracum (present-day York ) in the early 3rd century AD?
text: Did you know that women from Saint Kitts and Nevis seeking abortions often travel to other Caribbean countries to remain anonymous?
text: Did you know that Stade Arsène Wenger used to be a potato field?
text: Did you know that in the Moving Pictures webcomic, World War II is used solely as a backdrop to tell a "fucked up love story"?
text: Did you know that the Old Ship Hotel is the oldest hotel in Brighton ?
text: Did you know that Alita: Battle Angel has been repeatedly delayed by James Cameron 's work on Avatar and its sequels?
text: Did you know that Canadian football player Dave Albright made no tackles as a rookie before setting the league record for most tackles the following season?
text: Did you know that Whadjuk Noongar woman Corina Abraham claims the construction of Roe 8 in Perth, Western Australia , will impinge on an area closely associated with Noongar dreamtime ?
text: Did you know that the Full Impact Pro World Heavyweight Championship changed hands during their tour of China?
text: Did you know that the United States Supreme Court 's recent ruling in Sturgeon v. Frost began as a dispute about a hovercraft , but "the stakes in this case are potentially huge"?
text: Did you know that The Torist , a dark web site, is a literary review that can only be reached through Tor ?
text: Did you know that Canadian football linebacker Jesse Alexander was nominated for the Presidents' Trophy as the nation's best defensive player, but played only two games of professional football?
text: Did you know that the romantic comedy film 5 to 7 , about a young man who falls in love with a married woman, was inspired by a couple who had a "terribly civilized" open marriage ?
text: Did you know that Ethel V. Ashton 's 1941 post office mural at Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania was featured in a 2009 documentary?
text: Did you know that when the binary search algorithm was assigned in a course for professional programmers, 90 percent of the programmers failed to provide a correct solution?
text: Did you know that the star-shaped Manjarabad fort , built in 1792 by Tippu Sultan , was patterned on the military forts developed by the French architect Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban ?
text: Did you know that Robert Todd Carroll started his skeptic's journey as a seven-year-old doubting Santa Claus ?
text: Did you know that only South Africans are allowed to be issued Springbok colours ?
text: Did you know that the Welsh footballer Trevor Ford once stepped in as a replacement fielder for Glamorgan County Cricket Club during a match?
text: Did you know that the Pigot Diamond was the largest diamond in England at the turn of the 19th century but its location today is unknown, although a popular legend says it was crushed to powder?
text: Did you know that Justin Timberlake 's " Can't Stop the Feeling! " became the 26th song to debut at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 ?
text: Did you know that during World War II, approximately 500 Jews were transported from the Winschoten railway station via the Westerbork transit camp to Nazi concentration camps , where most of them were killed?
text: Did you know that Mattie Edwards Hewitt was described as "one of the best known and most lyrical garden photographers of her day"?
text: Did you know that the 2016 Uttarakhand forest fires affected about 3,500 hectares (8,600 acres) in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand , claiming seven fatalities?
text: Did you know that rather than accept his appointment as a bishop in Cyprus , the Christian saint Demetrian is said to have fled his home and hidden in a cave?
text: Did you know that many villages were named after a profession in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary , indicating that the villagers were required to render a specific service to their lords?
text: Did you know that on volunteering for service in the First World War , England rugby captain Ronnie Poulton declared that he "would be a skunk to hold back"?
text: Did you know that " On, Brave Old Army Team " was named one of the "top 25 college fight songs " by William Studwell ?
text: Did you know that in his proposal for Commentaires sur Corneille , Voltaire described the dramatist Pierre Corneille as the Homer of the French language?
text: Did you know that while performing on tour in Europe during World War II, Janie Thompson sang with Tony Bennett ?
text: Did you know that the 1972 film Chi l'ha vista morire? featured George Lazenby in a performance complimented by critics?
text: Did you know that when a train carrying newspapers derailed in the Little Falls Gulf Curve crash of 1903 , two people believed their lives were saved because they were cushioned by bundles of newspapers?
text: Did you know that the Central Acropolis of the ancient Maya city of Tikal , built during the Late Preclassic period , served as a residence for Tikal's royal families?
text: Did you know that the principal character Tux Dog in The Problem Solverz was developed while its creator Ben Jones was in grade school?
text: Did you know that in 1930, at Effendi's request, Euphemia Eleanor Baker toured incognito, mostly dressed in a black chador , to photograph locations associated with the origins of the Babí and Bahá'í Faith ?
text: Did you know that the Asian rice gall midge causes a disease known as silver shoot or onion shoot in rice?
text: Did you know that South Korean singer Yohan Hwang won the first season of I Love OPM in 2016?
text: Did you know that S/2015 (136472) 1 is the only known moon of the dwarf planet Makemake ?
text: Did you know that RAAF Northern Command was going to be an area, then became a command, then became an area, and then became nothing at all?
text: Did you know that David Cohen , deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency , received a recommendation from Alan Dershowitz for his first job out of law school?
text: Did you know that today's Scottish Cup Final between Rangers and Hibernian is the first contested by two teams not in the top division ?
text: Did you know that Yezi auditioned at LOEN Entertainment after the agency noticed her singing and dancing videos, which were the most popular videos on Cyworld ?
text: Did you know that the Farmers Cricket Club Ground in Saint Martin, Jersey , is scheduled to host five matches in the 2016 ICC World Cricket League Division Five between 21 and 28 May?
text: Did you know that the Empathy Quotient can be used to screen for autism spectrum disorder ?
text: Did you know that in 1951, birch dieback disease was estimated to have killed two thirds of the birch trees in Maine ?
text: Did you know that jockey Corey Lanerie said he knows the Churchill Downs racetrack "better than anybody"?
text: Did you know that despite the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi's neutrality during the American Civil War , many Hawaiians enlisted in the military regiments of other states?
text: Did you know that for campaigning against indefinite psychiatric imprisonment for opponents of the regime, Vladimir Bukovsky was confined for years in Soviet psychiatric prison-hospitals , labor camps, and prisons?
text: Did you know that Arsenal goalkeeper Dan Lewis blamed a greasy shirt for letting in the only goal of the 1927 FA Cup Final , gifting victory to Cardiff City ?
text: Did you know that South Korean girl group Twice portray characters from famous films in their music video for " Cheer Up ", including Roman Holiday , Chungking Express , and Scream ?
text: Did you know that Virginia Cutler completed her master's degree despite being widowed, raising two small children alone, and breaking her back?
text: Did you know that Trefelin BGC 's women's football team broke away from the club after two years in the Welsh women's top division ?
text: Did you know that the announcement trailer for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare received over two million dislikes and is the second most disliked video on YouTube ?
text: Did you know that Sword Art Online character Sinon 's glasses were created as the authors felt there were not enough characters in the series with glasses?
text: Did you know that Jieyang Prison in Guangdong was the first prison in China to implement a video conferencing system for inmates and their family members?
text: Did you know that baseball player Ryan Boldt , who is naturally left-handed, taught himself to throw with his right arm after having surgery on his left arm at age 10?
text: Did you know that Mamluk Sultan Baibars built two bridges near the towns of Jindas and Yibna in the outskirts of Ramla , which have survived more than seven centuries?
text: Did you know that at the age of 18, Robin McCall became the youngest woman to qualify for a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race?
text: Did you know that while adult red pumpkin beetles consume the leaves and flowers of the plant, their larvae eat the roots, stems and parts of the fruit in contact with the soil?
text: Did you know that Yang Hongying , whose books have sold more than 50 million copies, is known as "China's J. K. Rowling "?
text: Did you know that Hisashi Eguchi abandoned the serialization of his manga Stop!! Hibari-kun! after fleeing to a hotel room?
text: Did you know that Sitric II may have co-ruled Viking Northumbria with Olaf Cuaran ?
text: Did you know that all eleven tracks from Busker Busker 1st Album charted on the Korea K-Pop Hot 100 and Gaon Digital Chart , including six in the top ten?
text: Did you know that the Anatolian crested newt is a cryptic species , only shown to be distinct by genetic analysis ?
text: Did you know that during the Welsh Premier Women's Football League 2015–16 season, Llandudno Ladies were one of only two North Wales teams in the league?
text: Did you know that Dina Kawar , a Jordanian Christian , was the first Arab woman to preside over the United Nations Security Council ?
text: Did you know that the song "Cupid", from Oh My Girl 's self-titled debut album , features drumline percussion and " bubblegum cheerleader chants"?
text: Did you know that Nikolaus Hillebrand , who as a boy was a member of the Regensburger Domspatzen , recorded with them as a soloist on Bach's St John Passion in 1979 and Dittersdorf 's Requiem in 2009?
text: Did you know that a goal of the National Strategic Computing Initiative is to combine big data methods with supercomputing technology usually used for physical simulations ?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian actor Darussalam was a nurse by training?
text: Did you know that the Psychopathic Personality Inventory examines eight personality traits commonly found in psychopaths ?
text: Did you know that Marianne Appel , a WPA post office muralist, was later a Muppet designer for The Jim Henson Company ?
text: Did you know that the 1899 Sewanee Tigers won five road games in six days, all by shutout over Southern college football powers?
text: Did you know that a prostrate cultivar of the swamp she-oak was named for its resemblance to Cousin Itt ?
text: Did you know that curve-shortening causes every smooth simple closed curve to become convex and then near-circular before it shrinks to a point ?
text: Did you know that a skeleton found at Auldhame in 2005 may belong to Olaf Guthfrithson , king of Dublin and Northumbria ?
text: Did you know that the Bank of California Building in downtown Portland, Oregon , has been described as being in the style of an Italian Renaissance palazzo ?
text: Did you know that Laura Wolvaardt made her Women's One Day International cricket debut for South Africa at the age of 16?
text: Did you know that the tunicate Phallusia mammillata accumulates vanadium in its blood cells?
text: Did you know that Sedap Malam was the first Indonesian film directed by a woman?
text: Did you know that in 1931, John Polando and Russell Boardman set a flying distance record of 5,011.8 miles (8,065.7 km)?
text: Did you know that the next main entry in the Battlefield series after Battlefield 4 is Battlefield 1 ?
text: Did you know that graffiti by artist Heba Amin which appeared in an episode of the television series Homeland included phrases in Arabic such as " Homeland is racist"?
text: Did you know that the Amara War Cemetery in Iraq contains the graves of three Victoria Cross recipients from the First World War?
text: Did you know that Canadian football player Tony Akins returned two punts exactly 65 yards for touchdowns in 2000?
text: Did you know that the Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio short story " The Painted Skin " has been praised for its "powerful theme and the sheer gruesomeness of its detail"?
text: Did you know that Netty Herawaty began acting at age 13 and was married within a year?
text: Did you know that Josephine Nesbit , an American army nurse and second-in-command of the Angels of Bataan , was credited with their survival through internment at Santo Tomas ?
text: Did you know that human activity has helped the gray encrusting sponge to disperse across the Pacific?
text: Did you know that S.S. Held 's 1931 novel The Death of Metal was an inspiration for works by Ross Lockridge and perhaps David H. Keller ?
text: Did you know that the crash of Sonicblue Airways Flight 604 bankrupted Sonicblue Airways ?
text: Did you know that Paralympic snowboarder Carl Murphy competes using a specially designed carbon fibre prosthetic leg ?
text: Did you know that when viewed from above, the choreography of Oh My Girl 's " Closer " forms the shapes of the astrological signs in order to highlight the song's cosmic imagery?
text: Did you know that when the office of Poet Laureate of Washington was established in 2007, it was proposed to pay the incumbent with a firkin of beer?
text: Did you know that Victoria Hamilton has appeared in three Jane Austen adaptations, most recently as Maria Bertram ?
text: Did you know that the Cavell Nurses' Trust began with funds gathered through an appeal during the First World War and became the UK's "largest benevolent fund for nurses"?
text: Did you know that racing driver Jeff Burton broke a 175-race winless streak by winning the 2006 Dover 400 ?
text: Did you know that the GSI Mariner , a Canadian research / survey ship , was built in Edmonton and trucked to the Hay River in sections to be reassembled for launch on Great Slave Lake ?
text: Did you know that former Kentucky Senator Walter Arnold Baker once advised the parliaments of Tomsk and Nizhny Novgorod on writing constitutions?
text: Did you know that in The Play of Wit and Science , Wit wins Science's heart by slaying the monster Tediousness?
text: Did you know that Sian Williams became the first professional player in the Wales women's national rugby union team , after the Royal Air Force granted her elite athlete status in 2016?
text: Did you know that Garo Paylan was one of the first ethnic Armenians to serve as a member of the Turkish parliament in decades?
text: Did you know that the Grade I listed building 56 Artillery Lane in London is now used as a free art exhibition space?
text: Did you know that in 2016, Ross Greer became the youngest ever Member of the Scottish Parliament , elected at the age of 21?
text: Did you know that Shaphee Lanphee , a traditional fabric of Manipur protected under the GI registration , was in the past used by the King to honour soldiers for their bravery?
text: Did you know that physician and diplomat Edward Stevens may have been Alexander Hamilton 's half-brother?
text: Did you know that the silk dudou was the early-modern Chinese equivalent of the corset , used to flatten women's breasts?
text: Did you know that Canadian football player Marcus Adams left the Rough Riders to join the Roughriders ?
text: Did you know that Syrian dissident and human rights activist Nizar Nayyouf won the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize while in Mezzeh prison ?
text: Did you know that the River Trave was declared Germany's 2016/17 "Riverscape of the Year" by the Friends of Nature ?
text: Did you know that Mexican director David Pablos earned his academic degree from film school with a short film that won an Ariel Award ?
text: Did you know that chahan , a Japanese fried rice dish, may have originated from Chinese immigrants who arrived at the port of Kobe in the 1860s?
text: Did you know that Max Reger 's Nachtlied ( Night Song ) appears on the recording The Best of the King's Singers ?
text: Did you know that the Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles were occupied at various periods and a small hoard of Roman coins was found in one?
text: Did you know that Muhammad Ali has qualified to box for Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that South Korean girl group Oh My Girl was denied entry to the United States when they flew to Los Angeles for Pink Ocean ' s album cover photoshoot?
text: Did you know that sociologist William Chambliss concluded that conflict between social classes is the fundamental force in capitalist societies?
text: Did you know that in 2015, the Oregon Department of State Lands closed Crump Lake to the public because drought had reduced the lake’s water level exposing the lakebed to looting by cultural artifact hunters?
text: Did you know that Indian gender equality activist Trupti Desai has successfully campaigned for women to be allowed entry to various religious places?
text: Did you know that films featuring Matt Damon have collectively earned over $2.9 billion in North America?
text: Did you know that South African rower Sandra Khumalo competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics just two years after taking up the sport?
text: Did you know that when threatened, the megascolecid worm Octochaetus multiporus squirts a luminescent fluid from its mouth?
text: Did you know that Jacky Morkel scored four tries in five test matches on the Springboks tour of 1912–13 ?
text: Did you know that the Welsh Church (Burial Grounds) Act 1945‎ restored the legal right for the Church in Wales to look after burial grounds after they had been doing so unofficially?
text: Did you know that Druze chieftain Ismail al-Atrash established his own sheikhdom out of territory he captured from the Hamdan clan ?
text: Did you know that even though Lower Merion Library System accounts for only 7% of the county's population, it accounts for over 20% of its circulation?
text: Did you know that Andrew-John Smith , director of music at London's St Peter's at Eaton Square, recorded the complete organ works by Camille Saint-Saëns in three volumes?
text: Did you know that the 2015 American film Digging for Fire was filmed from a two-and-a-half–page outline rather than a traditional screenplay?
text: Did you know that despite its name, the jungle cat eschews rainforests and woodlands, and prefers swamps ?
text: Did you know that Welsh television producer Lowri Williams changed her surname to the Welsh form, Gwilym ?
text: Did you know that the Bani al-Atrash were the most prominent Druze clan in the social hierarchy of Jabal Hauran , controlling 16 towns and villages?
text: Did you know that during her Dato' Siti Nurhaliza & Friends Concert , Siti Nurhaliza was supported by eight guest Malaysian and Indonesian artists?
text: Did you know that Magdalena Fularczyk was part of the first female Polish team to win a World Championship gold in an Olympic boat class?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court recently decided that a law that applied only to one case, identified by docket number , and that abrogated all of a party's defenses, did not violate the U.S. Constitution ?
text: Did you know that in 2012 the Trinidadian Céline Gittens became the first black ballerina to dance the twin rôles of Odette and Odile in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that Richmond F.C. returned to the professional 2016–17 RFU Championship after climbing eight tiers following administration , but chose to remain semi-professional?
text: Did you know that Syrian hamsters are used in research to model various human medical conditions?
text: Did you know that the 16th-century K'iche' language document Título C'oyoi contains an account of the death of the K'iche Maya hero Tecun Uman during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala ?
text: Did you know that actress Han Hyo-joo accepted a lead role in Love, Lies because it is female-dominated, unlike most recent successful Korean films ?
text: Did you know that a cyclist was caught mechanical doping after an electric motor was found in her bike, 6 years after the first allegations emerged?
text: Did you know that a Natural Ice Cream store appeared in the Limca Book of Records for the largest ice cream slab, which weighed 3,000 kilograms?
text: Did you know that Yoko Kawahara was the voice of the forest bird in the Jahrhundertring , and was the first to perform the soprano solo in Reger's fragment of the Dies irae ?
text: Did you know that for the show horse Dark Spirit's Rebel , 13 was a lucky number?
text: Did you know that Eritrean-born Tsegai Tewelde , who sought political asylum in the United Kingdom, has been selected to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics for Team GB ?
text: Did you know that according to Mexican singer-songwriter Alejandra Guzmán , A + No Poder is a "more intelligent, mature and planned album" than her previous ones?
text: Did you know that George S. Ballif was chairman of the World Peace Through Law Committee with the Utah State Bar Association ?
text: Did you know that the temple at Malinithan was built with granite stones under Aryan influence, unlike other Northeast India temples built with bricks?
text: Did you know that Chloe Pirrie was named one of BAFTA 's "Breakthrough Brits" in 2013?
text: Did you know that David S. Gallant was fired after the game he developed, I Get This Call Every Day , was featured on the front page of the Toronto Star ?
text: Did you know that Palestinian poet Rashid Hussein used Jewish gallows humor in poems he wrote about Arab conditions in Israel ?
text: Did you know that Spain's first International Cross Country Championships gold medallist Francisco Aritmendi later sold his medal?
text: Did you know that solid nitrogen is an important component of the surfaces of Triton , a moon of Neptune , and of the dwarf planet Pluto ?
text: Did you know that Michelle Williams is a Best Actress nominee at the upcoming 2016 Tony Awards ?
text: Did you know that in the science fiction video game Mayday! Deep Space , the player uses voice commands to instruct the only survivor on a ship full of dead crew members?
text: Did you know that The Josh Carrick Foundation , which funds research into testicular cancer , has raised over £300,000 since 2012?
text: Did you know that prior to playing for the Wales women's national rugby union team , Bethan Dainton was awarded the Operational Service Medal for Afghanistan ?
text: Did you know that the stage backdrop for Leona Lewis ' I Am Tour was described by one critic as resembling "five strips of giant toilet paper"?
text: Did you know that LCD Soundsystem is releasing a new studio album in 2016, even though they had disbanded five years prior following a big farewell show?
text: Did you know that the idols of English goalkeeper Callum Burton include his German counterparts Manuel Neuer and Marc-André ter Stegen ?
text: Did you know that actor Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. was one of the founding members of the American Society of the Order of St John ?
text: Did you know that after serving as a temporary secretary to George Bernard Shaw , Mabel McConnell Fitzgerald tried to convert him to Irish separatism ?
text: Did you know that in his Essai sur les mœurs et l'esprit des nations ("Essay on the Customs and Spirit of Nations"), Voltaire attacked prejudices against the Muslim world ?
text: Did you know that Richard Rushall 's election to mayor of Rangoon was described by The Straits Times as having given "universal satisfaction"?
text: Did you know that the first train station in Pittsfield, Massachusetts , a predecessor of the Scelsi ITC , "was never so much admired as during the last half-hour of its existence"?
text: Did you know that Max Reger regarded his composition Der Einsiedler , a setting of a poem by Eichendorff for baritone, choir and orchestra, as "among the most beautiful things I've ever written"?
text: Did you know that the 13 member countries of OPEC account for 40 percent of worldwide oil production and 73 percent of proven oil reserves ?
text: Did you know that Cerys Hale was selected for the Wales women's national rugby union team squad for the 2014 World Cup , while still at university?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film Rebel in the Rye is based on a non-fiction book about the life of author J. D. Salinger during World War II?
text: Did you know that Aled Roberts was disqualified from the Welsh Assembly because of incorrect guidance given in a Welsh-language document?
text: Did you know that the new Evergreen Point Floating Bridge is the fourth floating bridge to connect Seattle with its Eastside suburbs , and the world's longest?
text: Did you know that the Cheltenham Town footballer Daniel Wright gave his son the number 9 as a middle name?
text: Did you know that less than two months after Rush kicked Marco Corleone out of Los Ingobernables , the two wrestlers were teamed up for the 2016 Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increíbles ?
text: Did you know that Gott ist mein König , BWV 71 , is the only surviving church cantata by Bach to have been printed during his lifetime?
text: Did you know that Delila Richards Abbott worked for a top secret government committee which advocated for policy changes for U.S. servicewomen in the 1960s?
text: Did you know that the most streamed song of all time also reached number-one on the Mexico Airplay chart?
text: Did you know that, speaking at the 2014 Conference on the Culture of Peace, Vijaya Melnick said that violence against women "continues to be our greatest shame and tragedy"?
text: Did you know that the Puerto-Rican singer Ricky Martin won two Lo Nuestro Awards for an album that won a Grammy and a song nominated for two Latin Grammys ?
text: Did you know that the Recreation Ground in Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain formerly had to be cleared of cow dung before each football match?
text: Did you know that according to Shia tradition, Narjis converted to Islam on the request of Mary , the mother of Jesus, and Fatimah , the daughter of Muhammad , whom she saw in her dreams?
text: Did you know that Antonia and William Kennedy Dickson 's History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope, and Kinetophonograph is considered the first book on the history of film?
text: Did you know that Iranian para-archer Zahra Nemati has qualified for both the 2016 Summer Paralympics and the 2016 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the Swedish immigrants who built Larson's Hunters Resort on the western border of Minnesota initially lived in a dugout ?
text: Did you know that the Bosnian prince Vladislav was passed over in succession for unknown reasons, but nevertheless ruled with his wife Jelena in the name of their minor son Tvrtko ?
text: Did you know that the British Institute in Amman was founded by the archaeologist Crystal Bennett in 1975 to provide a base for British archaeological expeditions to Jordan?
text: Did you know that Busker Busker 's " Cherry Blossom Ending " re-enters the South Korean music charts every spring and is nicknamed "Cherry Blossom Zombie"?
text: Did you know that Max Reger had the proofs of his eight-part motet Der Mensch lebt und bestehet open next to his bed when he was found dead on 11 May 1916?
text: Did you know that a Honey and Bee Museum has been established at Ooty to promote beekeeping in India ?
text: Did you know that Ffion Bowen took up rugby union due to the closure of her local netball club, and 18 months later was called up to the Wales women's national team ?
text: Did you know that while serving in the United States Army Medical Department on Guadalcanal , D. Elden Beck collected over 16,000 insect specimens and sent them back to Brigham Young University ?
text: Did you know that in an upcoming film , Kevin James plays a writer who is mistaken for a real assassin when his fictional novel is published as non-fiction?
text: Did you know that Canadian football return specialist Harry Abofs accidentally gave away the Toronto Argonauts ' final possession of the 59th Grey Cup by kicking the ball out of bounds?
text: Did you know that Bob Beckman claimed that his Old English Sheepdog , William, was a successful stock picker?
text: Did you know that Maryland was forced to issue refunds, potentially up to $200 million, after part of the state's personal income tax scheme was found unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court ?
text: Did you know that long jumper Irene Martínez was Cuba's first Pan American Games champion in a jumping event?
text: Did you know that two deputies of the German Party were elected in the 1938 Slovak parliamentary election , former Carpathian German Party chief and member of the Czechoslovak parliament from the 10th district Franz Karmasin , and the priest Josef Steinhübl ?
text: Did you know that the Bank of England 10s note was replaced by the fifty pence coin during decimalisation ?
text: Did you know that Attila Losonczy 's lab uses calcium and two-photon imaging to observe the activity of hundreds of neurons in the hippocampus of active mice?
text: Did you know that Jacqui Kapinowski competed in wheelchair curling at the 2010 Winter Paralympics and has qualified to compete in rowing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that the fish Opisthoproctus soleatus has tubular eyes which point upwards?
text: Did you know that after retiring from the Kentucky Supreme Court , Dan Jack Combs was twice arrested on marijuana -related charges and became an advocate for the drug's legalization in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Coimbatore is known as " Manchester of South India " due to its cotton production and textile industries?
text: Did you know that the 2016 Gran Alternativa wrestling tournament marked the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre debut of Golden Magic ?
text: Did you know that Russian-Jewish linguist Elye Falkovitsh saved the lives of 88 wounded people during a single battle in World War II ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film Patriots Day is based on the 2013 terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon on Patriots' Day ?
text: Did you know that "Atatürk's Pine Tree" is a place in the Soğuksu National Park with historic value, where Mustafa Kemal Atatürk once took a rest?
text: Did you know that the Welsh women's rugby union international Elen Evans rode a lifeboat across the Menai Strait as part of the 2012 Summer Olympics torch relay ?
text: Did you know that Chan Yuen-ting was the first female manager to lead a men's association football team to a league championship in a nation's top league?
text: Did you know that gypsy sauce may have originated from à la zingara ?
text: Did you know that the Welsh professor Karen Holford entered the first rounds of the 2004 Formula Woman Championship behind the wheel of a Caterham 7 ?
text: Did you know that Der 100. Psalm , an extended setting of Psalm 100 for choir, orchestra, and organ by Max Reger , was premièred simultaneously in Chemnitz and Breslau ?
text: Did you know that the depiction of guerrillas in Selamat Berdjuang, Masku! may have led to a decline in films based on the Indonesian National Revolution ?
text: Did you know that Hygrophorus pudorinus mushrooms can taste of turpentine ?
text: Did you know that the suffragette Elsie Howey once had nearly all of her teeth broken during force-feeding after undertaking a hunger strike in prison?
text: Did you know that Emilia Baeyertz preached to crowds on Christianity but her son, Charles Nalder Baeyertz , was concerned about the moral dangers of "a prevalence of bad English"?
text: Did you know that after losing a steel cage match in the main event of the 2016 Guerra de Golfo , professional wrestler Astro was forced to take off his mask ?
text: Did you know that L. Douglas Smoot made contributions both locally and nationally with his chemical engineering work in combustion research?
text: Did you know that in the Microsoft Windows and Wii video game Snail Mail , players navigate the various levels by controlling the main character, a snail named Turbo with a jetpack?
text: Did you know that the Belgian folklorist Emiel van Heurck never graduated, but wrote books on religious popular culture and translated Multatuli into French?
text: Did you know that American slaveholders altered " O'er the Gloomy Hills of Darkness " because they felt they could not sing a hymn that endorsed educating "the Negro"?
text: Did you know that the footballer Emily Allen once scored 15 goals in one match?
text: Did you know that during World War II, the six-member Steinlauf family from the Nowy Sącz Ghetto were rescued by the nine-member Król family, who were risking the death penalty?
text: Did you know that snowfall in Buenos Aires is rare, being observed only three times since the start of meteorological observations in 1906?
text: Did you know that Max Reger dedicated Der Einsiedler to conductor Philipp Wolfrum and his choir, but they performed the premiere only after the composer's death, together with his Requiem ?
text: Did you know that the Tennessee Walking Horse RPM was sold as a four-year-old for US$1.25 million?
text: Did you know that the music video for " Girls / Girls / Boys " was inspired by D'Angelo 's video for " Untitled (How Does It Feel) "?
text: Did you know that following safety-related rule changes to limit throwing distances, the U.S. women's high school record for the javelin throw set by Barbara Friedrich in 1967 may never be broken?
text: Did you know that in the upcoming open world science fiction game Rokh , players must survive on Mars ?
text: Did you know that while the national motto " Isang Bansa, Isang Diwa " was supposed to build a unified Filipino national identity, it was later denounced as being "the slogan of a fascist regime"?
text: Did you know that the music video for Justice 's song " Stress ", ranked by Complex magazine as the second-best music video of the 2000s, was banned from French television?
text: Did you know that Wajida Tabassum 's story Hand Me Downs , published in 1994, was made into a movie under the title Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love ?
text: Did you know that the Veronica Mars episode " My Big Fat Greek Rush Week " features guest appearances from Dan Castellaneta , Rider Strong , and Samm Levine ?
text: Did you know that Ina Plug 's research work on fossils from a site of an Early Iron Age settlement in the farm "Diamant" near Ellisr in South Africa was of domestic dogs dated to 570 AD?
text: Did you know that prior to fronting Think Tank , Bill Turnbull had wanted to host a quiz show for some time?
text: Did you know that Romanian footballer Ioan Hora spent "two beautiful years" at Gloria Bistrița ?
text: Did you know that Iran has accused Israel of being behind the assassination of several Iranian nuclear scientists ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming BBC TV series Redwater is the first major network drama to derive from the soap opera EastEnders ?
text: Did you know that Nat Caldwell and Gene Graham exposed the "sweetheart deal" that kept miners from being treated for black lung disease ?
text: Did you know that IRNSS-1G , successfully launched by ISRO in April, was the seventh and last satellite of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System ?
text: Did you know that when three American basketball players left the Oita Ehime HeatDevils after the March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake , their coach was fired for failing to stop them?
text: Did you know that the fossil ant Liometopum incognitum was described from a single partial queen?
text: Did you know that in keeping with the The Fast and the Furious franchise's penchant for filming in "exotic" locations, such as Dubai and Rio de Janeiro , Fast 8 is filming in Cuba ?
text: Did you know that the British Relief Association was the largest provider of private relief during the Great Irish Famine ?
text: Did you know that during an 8-week period in World War II, Major General Douglass T. Greene was consecutively commander of the 16th Armored Division and the 12th Armored Division and then Deputy Commander of the Second United States Army ?
text: Did you know that Rhyl & Prestatyn Ladies F.C. picked up a number of Wrexham players following the latter club's dissolution?
text: Did you know that Michael Laucke 's snooker winnings allowed him to finance 110 trips from Montreal to New York City to study the classical guitar with Franco-Spaniard Rolando Valdès–Blain?
text: Did you know that $100–$120 billion worth of Iranian assets are frozen around the world and the nuclear agreement will lead to the release of only about $30 billion of it?
text: Did you know that officers of the United States have been delegated part of the " sovereign power " of the United States ?
text: Did you know that Chip Fairway left the sporting world at age 31 so that he could spend more time with his family?
text: Did you know that dessert sauce can be prepared as a hard sauce using alcoholic beverages?
text: Did you know that twelve fossil ant species are placed in the morphogenus Emplastus ?
text: Did you know that Sarah Charles Lewis played Winnie Foster in the musical Tuck Everlasting ' s 2015 world premiere and is reprising the role on Broadway in 2016?
text: Did you know that Argentina , Thailand and Great Britain were the first three nations to qualify for the Team BC1–2 event in boccia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that Frankie Ruiz , popularly known as the "Father of Salsa ", never took singing classes?
text: Did you know that of all the wrestlers in the video game WWE Road to WrestleMania X8 , only Kevin Nash did not actually compete at WrestleMania X8 ?
text: Did you know that the controversial Torre de Manila , a residential condominium under construction in the Philippines, has been nicknamed by its critics as the "national photobomber"?
text: Did you know that David Hall bought Benjamin Franklin out of his printing business?
text: Did you know that the Canadian classical scholar Elizabeth Caskey supervised and summarised annual archaeological trench excavations in Greece?
text: Did you know that the literary historian Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga , once a member of the Romanian Communist Party 's central committee, became a nun late in life?
text: Did you know that the extinct lacewing Prosisyrina is described from fossils found in Cretaceous amber?
text: Did you know that American football player Devin Fuller toured as a youngster with singer Luther Vandross ?
text: Did you know that the British modern pentathlete Joe Choong is studying for a degree in maths at the University of Bath ?
text: Did you know that the Seri Rambai cannon in Penang, Malaysia, is considered a fertility symbol?
text: Did you know that organized horse fighting has been a traditional Miao Chinese New Year observance for 500 years?
text: Did you know that the orientation of new Etruscan temples may have been decided by augurs observing the flight of birds?
text: Did you know that U.S. Army Lieutenant Ethel Weed was a pivotal figure in establishing women's rights in postwar Japan ?
text: Did you know that Graham Waterhouse began his String Sextet , Op . 1, in 1979, and completed it 34 years later?
text: Did you know that the Electro-Dynamic Light Company , organized by Albon Man and others, was formed three months before the Edison Electric-Light Company?
text: Did you know that medu vada was popularized outside of South India by Udupi restaurateurs of Mumbai ?
text: Did you know that Girls' Generation is the first girl group to have three music videos, including " The Boys ", with more than 100 million views on YouTube ?
text: Did you know that the customary salutation used in letters from one president to another is "My Great and Good Friend"?
text: Did you know that Susan Rice was the first woman to head a British clearing bank ?
text: Did you know that with his victory in the 2006 Bank of America 500 , Kasey Kahne became the eighth driver to win both annual Sprint Cup Series points races at Lowe's Motor Speedway ?
text: Did you know that Klaus Uwe Ludwig played the complete organ works by Bach and Reger at the Lutherkirche in Wiesbaden ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court recently held in Heffernan v. City of Paterson that a public employer violates the First Amendment even when it mistakenly disciplines an employee for political activity?
text: Did you know that Gilbert Whitley thought Toxotes lorentzi was more primitive than other archerfish because it lacks the distinctive side markings characteristic of its genus?
text: Did you know that Guinness World Records recognizes Justin Bieber 's " Baby " as the most disliked YouTube video ?
text: Did you know that when she was 11, Emily Hollinshead challenged an FA ban on girls and boys playing football together?
text: Did you know that Lemonade was accompanied by the release of a 60-minute short film of the same name, which premiered on HBO ?
text: Did you know that Fritz Stein found in an archive orchestral parts of the Jena Symphony , which he published as possibly an early work by Beethoven ?
text: Did you know that the ANZAC Peace Park in Albany , Western Australia was built to honor soldiers who served in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during WWI ?
text: Did you know that Helen Matusevich Oujesky pursued environmental research on pollution of soil and water, particularly of toxic wastes ?
text: Did you know that the roof trusses from Philadelphia's 1755 Great Meeting House (demolished 1812) have been recycled twice?
text: Did you know that a dozen temporary triumphal arches were constructed in Philadelphia for the entrance of the Marquis de Lafayette into the city in 1824?
text: Did you know that in No. 2 of three chorale fantasias, Op. 52 , Max Reger has the chorale tune enter like "the voice of an angel", according to the organist Karl Straube ?
text: Did you know that the vicar of St Trygarn's Church did not live in the parish in the mid-19th century?
text: Did you know that Dwight L. Bush, Sr. was a banker , a bundler , and a businessman before serving as an ambassador ?
text: Did you know that players take control of animals to solve puzzles and defeat enemies in Space Station Silicon Valley ?
text: Did you know that Pathers use "vandal sand" to make moulds for Nachiarkoil lamps ?
text: Did you know that despite preparing for a variety of situations, many U.S. government leaders remain vulnerable to BOOBs ?
text: Did you know that Zahida Khatun Sherwani wrote poetry in Urdu under the pseudonyms "Zay Khay Sheen" and "Nuzhat", as the then-Muslim society did not permit women to write poetry or further women's causes?
text: Did you know that in 1936, Southeast Asia's oldest warp ikat was found among skeletal remains in caves in Banton, Romblon , Philippines?
text: Did you know that U.S. Senator Henry B. Payne actually had no middle name, but added the initial to give his name "a more pleasing effect"?
text: Did you know that Meghan Trainor 's " Lips Are Movin " music video received over 2.5 million YouTube views in less than two days?
text: Did you know that Neisha Pratt captained the Hong Kong women's national cricket team in their first official match in 2006?
text: Did you know that from 2020, the Bank of England £20 note will feature J. M. W. Turner and his painting The Fighting Temeraire ?
text: Did you know that, "blown away" by William Primrose 's viola playing, David Dalton decided to become a violist?
text: Did you know that construction in Euonymeia uncovered one of the largest known Bronze Age industrial complexes of the Mycenaean civilization ?
text: Did you know that Hans-Dieter Bader performed the title role of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's opera Sly , recorded live at the Staatsoper Hannover , "as written", while Plácido Domingo had to cut and change the part?
text: Did you know that the Welsh Church (Amendment) Act 1938 was passed to give Swansea University the same rights to the Church in Wales' endowments as the University of Wales ?
text: Did you know that Sir Frederick Ballantyne , a cardiologist and the Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines , was the first in his family to attend high school?
text: Did you know that a memorial was not erected for the 674 bodies at the Hurricane of 1928 African American Mass Burial Site until the 75th anniversary of the hurricane ?
text: Did you know that the poets Sajida and Zahida Zaidi , professors at the Aligarh Muslim University , were known as the "Zaidi Sisters" in the literary community?
text: Did you know that the Ram Rath Yatra was a political-religious march led by BJP leader L. K. Advani in an air-conditioned Toyota designed to resemble a chariot?
text: Did you know that George P. Hammond discovered new details about the desertion of Oñate 's colony in New Mexico ?
text: Did you know that daily fantasy sports have faced legal scrutiny in the United States over whether they are a game of chance ?
text: Did you know that in 1892, Venance Payot , a former mayor of Chamonix , France , argued against the building of the Montenvers Railway on the grounds it would take business away from mule drivers and porters?
text: Did you know that American singer-songwriter Romeo Santos broke the record for the most nominations in a single ceremony at the 2015 Latin Billboard Music Awards ?
text: Did you know that Elisabeth von Heyking 's debut novel sold out within three weeks of its release?
text: Did you know that the memorandum of understanding between Argentina and Iran for a joint investigation of the AMIA bombing never came into force?
text: Did you know that Grace Banker and her team of telephone operators reported for work wearing helmets and gas masks?
text: Did you know that Marten Gasparini ' s US $1.3 million signing bonus is a Major League Baseball record for players from Europe?
text: Did you know that you are more likely to die on or near your birthday than at other times?
text: Did you know that, in 1989, Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Robert F. Stephens issued an opinion that the state's entire public school system was unconstitutional?
text: Did you know that an album recorded at Guitar Center was named after a line from the film Wayne's World ?
text: Did you know that for the 1954 film Beneath the 12-Mile Reef , seven-time Academy Award nominee Edward Cronjager became the first cinematographer to use CinemaScope underwater?
text: Did you know that Catatonia had intended to include an anti- Warner Bros. Records song on their triple-platinum selling album International Velvet ?
text: Did you know that Liverpool F.C. striker Paul Walsh received months of treatment from a broken ultrasound machine?
text: Did you know that intricate artworks on an Australian prison cell wall that were discovered by accident almost a century later are thought to be the handiwork of convict James Walsh ?
text: Did you know that the Udokan Plateau experienced volcanic activity from the Miocene until about 2200 years ago?
text: Did you know that Jozef Raskin , a Belgian Scheutist missionary who was guillotined for spying in World War II, has a statue erected in his honor in the city of Aarschot ?
text: Did you know that the United States' 191st Army Band has the special unit designation "Band of the Wild West"?
text: Did you know that the Social Democrats were the only party to win more than 16% of the vote in any national parliamentary election in the First Czechoslovak Republic ?
text: Did you know that the lead actress of the Mexican film Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas created her character based on her father's death?
text: Did you know that a team of refugees is expected to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that rabbi Carole B. Balin rediscovered the existence of 67 Jewish women writers from the late 19th- and early 20th-century Russian Empire ?
text: Did you know that the rock formation containing Paradictyoolithus , a type of dinosaur egg , was determined to be 91 to 94 million years old using uranium-lead dating ?
text: Did you know that Swedish diplomat Cossva Anckarsvärd , a witness to the Armenian Genocide , called it an attempt to "exterminate the Armenian nation"?
text: Did you know that the current Bank of England £10 note features a portrait of Charles Darwin and an illustration of HMS Beagle on the reverse?
text: Did you know that Paul Browne , a British former European champion Paralympic archer , was born with arthrogryposis ?
text: Did you know that " We Don't Have To Dance " by Andy Black was written with Fall Out Boy singer Patrick Stump ?
text: Did you know that 76 people complained when the EastEnders characters Paul Coker and Ben Mitchell were seen topless together in a funeral parlour with a corpse in the room?
text: Did you know that Vice Admiral Robert Walls was among the last intake of 13 year old cadet midshipmen to be accepted by the Royal Australian Naval College ?
text: Did you know that after the 1972 hijacking of Pan Am Flight 841 , the pilot received honors at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport as well as death threats and vandalism at his home?
text: Did you know that American cross-country skiing coach Jon Kreamelmeyer was inducted into the Paralympic Hall of Fame in 2014?
text: Did you know that the next version of the Bank of England £5 note will feature a portrait of Winston Churchill ?
text: Did you know that Tony Stewart won the 2006 Banquet 400 despite running out of fuel?
text: Did you know that in Munin , a puzzle-platformer video game, the goal is to retrieve the main character's wings, stolen by the Norse god Loki ?
text: Did you know that in one study, a newt was able to regenerate the lens of its eye eighteen times?
text: Did you know that Lucía Meza Guzmán has represented Cuautla twice in the state congress of Morelos and once at the Chamber of Deputies ?
text: Did you know that Mamamoo 's Melting was described as "heralding the Korean quartet's rise to the top ranks of the girl group hunger games"?
text: Did you know that Howard Rusk Long interviewed Chiang Kai-shek while teaching at the National Chengchi University in Taipei ?
text: Did you know that the İskender Pasha Mosque in Fatih, Istanbul , became the center of an Islamic religious order to which several prominent Turkish politicians belonged?
text: Did you know that Sharon Barker , director of the Women's Resource Center at the University of Maine , brings 500 middle school girls to campus each year to explore careers in the STEM fields?
text: Did you know that Usmar Ismail was ashamed of Tiga Dara , his company's greatest commercial success?
text: Did you know that Kenneth Rayment , the co-pilot during the Munich air disaster , was a decorated World War II flying ace ?
text: Did you know that Icebar Orlando is claimed to be the world's largest permanent ice bar ?
text: Did you know that Political Animals and Animal Politics was the first edited collection focused on the political turn in animal ethics ?
text: Did you know that the narrowtail catshark is thought to be a pedomorphic dwarf ?
text: Did you know that Mexican federal deputy Fidel Kuri Grajales threatened to move the Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz if the Institutional Revolutionary Party lost the gubernatorial elections?
text: Did you know that the July 7 opening date for the Ark Encounter theme park was chosen to correspond with Genesis 7:7?
text: Did you know that the K-25 gaseous diffusion plant was once the largest building under one roof in the world?
text: Did you know that Wesley P. Lloyd served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under B. H. Roberts in 1929?
text: Did you know that hard soda is a fast-emerging segment in the craft beer industry that realized over one percent of overall beer category sales in the U.S. in May 2016?
text: Did you know that Felicity Okpete Ovai was the first female commissioner of the Rivers State Ministry of Works ?
text: Did you know that Ace of Aces was one of Accolade 's best-selling Commodore 64 video games in 1987?
text: Did you know that a year after McGruff the Crime Dog asked people to lock their doors, dog ownership in the United States had increased but there was no increase in people locking their doors, possibly due to a plateau effect ?
text: Did you know that upon his election as Mayor of Southwark in 1983, Sam King was the only black mayor in London?
text: Did you know that fossilized fungi were found on an Arriagadoolithus shell, the egg of the dinosaur Bonapartenykus ?
text: Did you know that the 2015 Polish horror film The Lure is a reimagining of The Little Mermaid ?
text: Did you know that pannenkoek2012 has offered $1,000 to anyone who can replicate a particular warp glitch in Super Mario 64 ?
text: Did you know that Romania's main exports are related to motor vehicle production ?
text: Did you know that before he founded Black Angus Steakhouse , Stuart Anderson opened a Seattle restaurant whose clientele was mostly "hookers, seamen, hustlers and wrestlers"?
text: Did you know that a 1980s slide show of Asian lesbians in history and literature created by June Chan and Katherine Hall has been called "grassroots scholarship"?
text: Did you know that the Royal Pier , Southampton , used to have a station at the end of it?
text: Did you know that Merry Walker is the only female Tennessee Walking Horse to produce two World Grand Champions ?
text: Did you know that the weight of a clump of mushrooms of the tropical genus Macrocybe can exceed 30 kg (66 lb)?
text: Did you know that Steve Hamilton was a cast member of Wheel of Fortune throughout its 13-year run?
text: Did you know that upon its February 2016 launch, the Frinkiac website contained almost three million screenshots of The Simpsons ?
text: Did you know that while Inger Hanmann created enamels for the Copenhagen Airport , her daughter Charlotte made processed photographs of the urban environment?
text: Did you know that George Harrison played on Harry Nilsson 's infamously profanity-laden song " You're Breakin' My Heart "?
text: Did you know that Jesús Zambrano Grijalva , a three-time federal deputy and former president of the PRD in Mexico, was jailed for his activities in the Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre ?
text: Did you know that diabetic children were sent to visit Loon , a drill at the San Diego Zoo , to help them overcome their aversion to needle injections?
text: Did you know that Juan Pablo Montoya 's victory in the 2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350 made him the first foreign-born driver to win a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race since 1974?
text: Did you know that as part of her magic act in Benidorm , Sticky Vicky pulled ping-pong balls, eggs, handkerchiefs, sausages, and razor blades out of her vagina ?
text: Did you know that motsoalle is the term for socially acceptable, long-term relationships between Basotho women in Lesotho ?
text: Did you know that Alexander Duckham , founder of Alexander Duckham & Co, was a friend of cross-channel aviator Louis Blériot , and paid for the memorial marking where Blériot landed in 1909?
text: Did you know that the actress Chitra Dewi has been described as the ideal Indonesian woman?
text: Did you know that the Archencyrtus type species is named for Russian paleoentomologist Alexandr Rasnitsyn ?
text: Did you know that Andrea Jenkins plans to collect up to 400 hours of transgender oral history ?
text: Did you know that the Sydney suburb of Daceyville was named after John Dacey , who in the early 1900s envisioned Australia's first public housing estate?
text: Did you know that The Bangles ' studio album, Sweetheart of the Sun , was released 30 years after the band's formation?
text: Did you know that after joining the club in 1947, Tommy Best became the first black player to represent Chester City in the Football League in a match against Oldham Athletic ?
text: Did you know that the isolated Kimsachata volcano is the northernmost active volcano in Peru, its Oroscocha dome having erupted around 4450 BCE ?
text: Did you know that architect Howard Backen worked on projects with Sundance Institute , Skywalker Ranch , and the Disney Burbank Sound Studios ?
text: Did you know that a cubicle room at the Sunshine Hotel cost $10 a night in 1998, measured 4 by 6 by 7 feet (1.2 m × 1.8 m × 2.1 m), and featured a bed, locker, light bulb, and chicken-wire ceiling?
text: Did you know that Bernard Shapero has been called "London's most successful rare-book dealer and arguably the top dealer in the world today"?
text: Did you know that the Jarrahids , the ruling family of the Tayy tribe, virtually controlled Palestine in the late 10th century?
text: Did you know that when he takes office in September, José Rosas Aispuro will be the first governor of Durango to come from a party other than the Institutional Revolutionary Party ?
text: Did you know that the sixteenth-century Doria Atlas was saved from fire in 2004 by villagers forming a human chain?
text: Did you know that people in the Cazumbá-Iracema Extractive Reserve want mobile phones, although there is no phone service?
text: Did you know that the South American rodent genus Necromys includes the hairy-tailed , the Paraguayan , the dark , the spotted , the rufous-bellied , and the pleasant bolo mouse , as well as the northern grass mouse ?
text: Did you know that when Javare Gowda was reappointed vice chancellor of Mysore University , the governor requested "please try to remember that when you criticize the government, do so mildly"?
text: Did you know that Ubisoft Annecy consulted professional skiers and extreme sports experts when creating Steep ?
text: Did you know that during the 1936–39 Palestine revolt , British forces punished men from the rebel village of al-Birwa by making them sit on cactus plants?
text: Did you know that Getz/Gilberto by Stan Getz and João Gilberto won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1965 and was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001?
text: Did you know that William Morales ' attorneys claimed the police confiscated his fingers as evidence?
text: Did you know that one eruption in the Jom-Bolok volcanic field created a 70 kilometre- (43 mile-) long lava flow?
text: Did you know that although Alejandro Murat Hinojosa was born in the State of Mexico , he was allowed to run for governor of Oaxaca by the SCJN because his parents were natives of that state?
text: Did you know that the music video for Mamamoo 's " Mr. Ambiguous " includes a hidden camera prank?
text: Did you know that Daniel Nivel , victim of an assault by German football hooligans in 1998, was the guest of honour at a 2006 match also marred by hooliganism?
text: Did you know that the secret Korean Patriotic Organization aimed for Korean independence through assassinations of prominent Japanese figures?
text: Did you know that the Bolivian city of Potosí is located close to, or even inside, the Miocene Kari-Kari caldera ?
text: Did you know that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 's stay at Atatürk Museum Mansion in Ankara between 1921 and 1932 was his longest at any place in his life?
text: Did you know that S.C. Braga 's record in European football includes 6–0 losses to Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur ?
text: Did you know that the largest female black-sided hawkfish in a harem changes sex if the male dies?
text: Did you know that some homes in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Zikhron Tuvya sport blue-painted doors, windows, and gates, as well as horseshoes and hamsas , to guard against the evil eye ?
text: Did you know that some Bach scholars believe that Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich , BWV 150 , is his earliest extant church cantata?
text: Did you know that Floyd Carothers turned a plow horse into a national champion?
text: Did you know that two Polish nuns harbouring Jewish fugitives who escaped from the Słonim Ghetto were beatified by Pope John Paul II , along with 108 Martyrs of World War II ?
text: Did you know that Tommy Lawton held the record as the youngest player to score on his England debut for 78 years?
text: Did you know that the star S Doradus was calculated to have ranged between 100 and 380 times the radius of the Sun?
text: Did you know that economist and cabinet minister Gheorghe Leon died in a Communist Romanian prison while his government colleagues, surgeon Victor Gomoiu , Iron Guard activists Radu Budișteanu and Vasile Noveanu , and Generals Gheorghe Mihail and Constantin Nicolescu , survived detention?
text: Did you know that " Ríe y Llora " was the final song recorded by Celia Cruz before her death?
text: Did you know that stump blossoms can cause butt rot ?
text: Did you know that Hawaiian King Kamehameha III fell into a state of depression and drunkenness, and attempted to commit suicide, after the death of his fiancée Kamānele ?
text: Did you know that Promo Azteca introduced American-style pro wrestling to Mexican audiences?
text: Did you know that Doris Yankelewitz Berger was the first Jewish First Lady of Costa Rica ?
text: Did you know that to develop the 1990 video game Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons , John Carmack and John Romero took their work computers from Softdisk home with them on weekends?
text: Did you know that the California smoothtongue has a black pigment in its stomach lining that may conceal the presence of bioluminescent prey the fish has swallowed?
text: Did you know that Philip Egner began composing " On, Brave Old Army Team ", the fight song of the United States Military Academy at West Point , by scribbling notes on his shirt?
text: Did you know that after retiring as dean of the College of Home Economics at the University of Rhode Island , Elizabeth W. Crandall became an environmental and women's rights activist in Maine ?
text: Did you know that the red alga Galdieria sulphuraria grows well at pH between 0–4 and temperatures up to 56°C—among the most extreme environments known for a eukaryote ?
text: Did you know that Governor-elect of Hidalgo Omar Fayad appointed his wife, actress Victoria Ruffo , local director of the DIF in Pachuca ?
text: Did you know that due to the points system being used, England won the 2013–14 Women's Ashes despite winning fewer matches than Australia ?
text: Did you know that Burger King withdrew an advert featuring Mary J. Blige singing about a crispy chicken wrap due to the racial stereotype associated with fried chicken ?
text: Did you know that Liverpool F.C. manager Bill Shankly resigned on the same day he spent a club record £200,000 to sign Ray Kennedy ?
text: Did you know that there is a shrine on Jotabeche , a volcano last active about five million years ago?
text: Did you know that when the Memel Convention came into force in 1925, the local branch of the Social Democratic Party of Germany became a separate party ?
text: Did you know that the footballer Gary Bennett was one of the first players to become involved with the Show Racism the Red Card campaign?
text: Did you know that the DNA of Sartidia perrieri ' s only known herbarium specimen was successfully sequenced 100 years after its collection?
text: Did you know that the Windows Push Notification Service allows developers to send push data to Windows desktop and mobile applications?
text: Did you know that Mr. Darcy's Daughters , Elizabeth Aston 's debut novel, has been classified as fan fiction by several commentators?
text: Did you know that Maison Bertaux in Soho is London's oldest pâtisserie shop?
text: Did you know that Boyers Run starts in Pennsylvania and ends up near Liverpool?
text: Did you know that the 2016–17 rugby season of London 1 South will feature a national RFU cup champion ?
text: Did you know that Fantasia described her song " No Time for It " as a combination of her childhood singing in church and desire to "tap into that whole rock world"?
text: Did you know that Moses Toata won the Solomon Islands S-League in his first season as a manager?
text: Did you know that the rugby player Tommy Thompson played "like one possessed" in South Africa's 38–0 defeat of Ireland in 1912?
text: Did you know that the 1905 Shoubak Revolt was sparked after Ottoman forces started to put the town's women into forced labor?
text: Did you know that the 2016 International Gran Prix wrestling tournament will be the first Gran Prix held by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre since the 2008 International Gran Prix ?
text: Did you know that Theodore Wassmer supported his family of ten on a $55 monthly income during the Great Depression ?
text: Did you know that the current Clydesdale Bank £5 note is the first British banknote to be entirely made from polymer ?
text: Did you know that the filming of What Maisie Knew was complicated by its six-year-old star's early bedtime?
text: Did you know that William Vitarelli led community and educational projects in Micronesia after winning a U.S. Supreme Court case about his alleged associations with the Communist Party USA ?
text: Did you know that " Catch Me If You Can " was the first release by Girls' Generation since member Jessica was dismissed from the group?
text: Did you know that Rita Harradence and her husband synthesised penicillamine ?
text: Did you know that the first ever FA Women's Premier League Plate was won by Preston North End in 2015?
text: Did you know that Bamidele Ali became a specialist in 3D printing after his career in the Canadian Football League ?
text: Did you know that on Super Tuesday , Google Searches for " Donald Drumpf " surpassed those for Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio ?
text: Did you know a new category in the alcoholic beverage industry , referred to as " hard soda " or "flavored beer", was created due to the prosperity of Small Town Brewery's Not Your Father's Root Beer brand?
text: Did you know that after South Korean girl group GFriend debuted with Season of Glass , a Billboard columnist said they were "leading a new wave of female acts with a classic innocent look"?
text: Did you know that WAFL Hall of Fame member and East Fremantle Football Club life member Merv Cowan did not want to play for the team when he returned from the war ?
text: Did you know that the dark purple Cortinarius kioloensis mushroom turns red when potassium hydroxide is applied to it?
text: Did you know that Ukrainian-American endocrinologist Ricka Sapiro Finkler began using the name Rita after Saint Vincent's Hospital offered her a job which they later retracted when they discovered she was a woman?
text: Did you know that Special Requirements led to Unity ?
text: Did you know that while living in England, American artist Robert Hess learned to paint in the style of John Constable and was influenced by the sculptures of Henry Moore ?
text: Did you know that Acidilobus saccharovorans was the first thermophilic , acidophilic , and obligately anaerobic archaeon to have its genome sequenced?
text: Did you know that the D.Gray-man character Yu Kanda was taken from an unpublished manga written by the same author?
text: Did you know that the Guinness World Records lists the Aqaba Church in Jordan as "oldest known purpose-built Christian church in the world"?
text: Did you know that David Tod Roy , the son of Presbyterian missionaries to China, produced the first unexpurgated English translation of the Ming dynasty erotic novel Jin Ping Mei ?
text: Did you know that Ubisoft Montreal intended to take risks when creating Watch Dogs 2 ?
text: Did you know that the concept of lost sales used by the content industry assumes that if pirated products were not available, people would buy them at market rate ?
text: Did you know that when growing up in Ireland, Terry Conroy was sentenced to probation for playing football in the street?
text: Did you know that Yugo Nakamura avoided elements of modern web design to keep the appearance of FFFFOUND! simple?
text: Did you know that in the music video for Mamamoo 's " Um Oh Ah Yeh ", three members dress as men and wear wigs, beards, and prosthetic makeup ?
text: Did you know that in preparation for the 2018 Commonwealth Games , three stations will be added to the initial sixteen stations in the G:link , a light rail system serving the Gold Coast in Queensland , Australia?
text: Did you know that Akashi District existed for another 30 years after the city of Akashi left?
text: Did you know that the Sekrenyi festival , known locally as Phousnyi , is held by the Angami Nagas as a purification festival ?
text: Did you know that David A. Cooper diagnosed the first case of HIV in Australia?
text: Did you know that the video game A Bird Story was released as a link between the award-winning To the Moon and its sequel?
text: Did you know that Margarete Zuelzer , only the 37th woman to earn a doctorate at the University of Heidelberg , had to get special permission from her professors to attend their classes?
text: Did you know that the grey-crowned flatbill and orange-eyed flatbill often build their bag-shaped nests near wasp nests?
text: Did you know that both John Quincy and Andrew Johnson currently serve on the Minneapolis City Council ?
text: Did you know that the government of Karnataka claims to have eliminated the ancient practice of dedicating girls to the Yellamma Temple ?
text: Did you know that Mary Hale Woolsey wrote the lyrics to "When It's Springtime in the Rockies", which was used in the 1937 film Springtime in the Rockies starring Gene Autry ?
text: Did you know that Poland is creating a 35,000-strong military force designed to counter hybrid warfare ?
text: Did you know that Phillipsburg Union Station was served by the DL&W and CNJ where their lines merged before crossing the Delaware River ?
text: Did you know that R. P. Sethu Pillai was the first recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil ?
text: Did you know that the El Laco volcano in Chile has erupted enigmatic iron-rich lava flows ?
text: Did you know that Hannah Chaplin , the mother of the silent screen star Charlie Chaplin , was a British music hall performer who used the stage name Lily Harley?
text: Did you know that the 1990 edition of the Tour de Trump , an American cycling race, visited Baltimore after its sponsor Donald Trump agreed to moor the Trump Princess in Baltimore Harbor during the race?
text: Did you know that Girls' Generation 's Japanese single " Galaxy Supernova " was used in advertisements for Samantha Thavasa jeans?
text: Did you know that the new Royal Bank of Scotland £5 note will feature a portrait of the author Nan Shepherd ?
text: Did you know that the Grade I listed Trinity Green Almshouses were built to house "28 decay'd Masters & Commanders of Ships or ye Widows of such"?
text: Did you know that Colin Raston can unboil an egg?
text: Did you know that French photographer, journalist, and author Gaëlle Ghesquière achieved fame photographing pop-rock artists on stage, such as Madonna and Mick Jagger ?
text: Did you know that the fifth season of Samurai Jack will continue from the last episode aired in 2004?
text: Did you know that Frederick Konig commissioned Edwin Lutyens to add a bathing pavilion and temple of music to Tyringham Hall ?
text: Did you know that Cortinarius sublargus mushrooms appear in burnt areas after bushfire?
text: Did you know that Mason Cox practiced with the Cowgirls , was a walk-on player for the Cowboys , and is now a professional Australian rules footballer for the Magpies ?
text: Did you know that banana ketchup is a fruit ketchup that is very common in the Philippines?
text: Did you know that the making of Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie was kept secret, resulting in a surprise release?
text: Did you know that Utako Okamoto , discoverer of tranexamic acid , worked with her infant daughter on her back in the laboratory, as she could not find child care?
text: Did you know that the Muur van Mussert , an overgrown brick wall, is all that remains of the Nazi-inspired rally grounds planned by the Dutch National Socialist Movement ?
text: Did you know that Indian scientist Pushpa Mittra Bhargava , one of the recipients of the Padma Bhushan award in the 1980s , returned it in 2015?
text: Did you know that Jacky Lafon accidentally received a serious electric shock from a defibrillator while filming the Belgian soap opera Familie ?
text: Did you know that Bishop's Castle Town F.C. was banned by the Football Association of Wales from playing in affiliated leagues because they were not Welsh?
text: Did you know that during World War II, the Ames Project produced over 1,000 short tons (910 t) of uranium metal for the Manhattan Project ?
text: Did you know that Jung Mina 's song "Jumeokbab" is about her selling rice balls near Gwanghwamun Station ?
text: Did you know that Afghan governments since the 1880s have encouraged, and sometimes forced, Pashtuns to settle in northern Afghanistan ?
text: Did you know that Sawyer's , known for making the View-Master , was at one time the second-largest U.S. manufacturer of slide projectors ?
text: Did you know that the spaghetti sandwich has been described as a "Tokyo novelty" and "handy commuter snack"?
text: Did you know that Hookers for Hillary is a group of Nevada-based sex workers who support Hillary Clinton in the 2016 United States presidential election ?
text: Did you know that Operation Leader was the only offensive operation undertaken by the United States Navy in Northern European waters during World War II?
text: Did you know that the first season of the Netflix television series Marvel's Jessica Jones was awarded a Peabody Award in the category of " Entertainment and Children's programs "?
text: Did you know that Louisiana Hot Sauce was the first sauce brand marketed using the state of Louisiana's name?
text: Did you know that from October 2016, the Bank of Scotland £5 note will be issued in polymer , not paper?
text: Did you know that under US tax law, an association of churches can have churches of different denominations and still be tax-exempt?
text: Did you know that VA-11 HALL-A is a bartender simulation video game with visual novel , cyberpunk , and anime influences?
text: Did you know that two days after resigning from the PRI , Carlos Joaquín González became the gubernatorial candidate of a PAN - PRD alliance?
text: Did you know that a statue near the Senator George Mitchell Peace Bridge commemorates the Northern Ireland peace process , with the inscription "Peace For All"?
text: Did you know that the 2015 historical novel The Nightingale borrows from the experiences of Belgian World War II resistance fighter Andrée de Jongh ?
text: Did you know that boy band member Gongchan plays the pianist in the music video for Mamamoo 's " Piano Man "?
text: Did you know that during his 23-year career on the Kentucky Court of Appeals and the Kentucky Supreme Court , John S. Palmore wrote more than 800 judicial opinions ?
text: Did you know that Olivia 's debut single " Bizounce " was described as giving a "steely boot to a crap lover" in the style of TLC , Kelis , and Eve ?
text: Did you know that Ora Mendelsohn Rosen and her colleagues achieved a scientific breakthrough by cloning the human insulin receptor gene?
text: Did you know that triple parentheses have been used on Twitter to signify targets for antisemitic harassment ?
text: Did you know that in 1761, the crew of the 26-gun frigate HMS Aquilon rowed for 26 hours straight to escape an enemy ship of the line ?
text: Did you know that George Waschkies , a German member of the Lithuanian parliament , had 14 children?
text: Did you know that the soundtrack of the 1971 film Ekeino to kalokairi featured the song "San Me Koitas", which has been described as "one of the most beautiful erotic songs of all time"?
text: Did you know that after Mike Ditka , head coach of the New Orleans Saints , traded for running back Ricky Williams , the two posed together as bride and groom?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Alkin —a publisher, nurse and spy for the Parliamentarian forces during the English Civil War —was nicknamed Parliament Joan?
text: Did you know that the title for the Resident Alien comic book came from a conversation Peter Hogan had more than 20 years prior to publishing it?
text: Did you know that the fossil lacewing Paradoxosisyra was placed into a separate subfamily based on its mouth?
text: Did you know that Formula One driver Michael Schumacher was on the podium in every race of the 2002 season, including eleven race victories , breaking the record for most in a season?
text: Did you know that since 1976, Mexican filmmaker Felipe Cazals has been nominated for the Ariel Award for Best Director at least once every decade?
text: Did you know that according to the Long Life of Saint Gerard , the tongue of Ajtony was cut out after his death?
text: Did you know that Hillary Clinton 's estate Whitehaven has been described as her "fortress of solitude"?
text: Did you know that town councillors and city police in Boston, Lincolnshire , commemorated its alcohol-free zone legislation by pouring cans of beer down a city street drain?
text: Did you know that Louise Stevens Bryant , a secretary for the Girl Scouts , also worked with the English sexologist Havelock Ellis ?
text: Did you know that the pygmy three-toed sloth features first in Chris Packham 's list of the top ten discoveries in the 2000s?
text: Did you know that the title of the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Tin Man " was a reference to L. Frank Baum 's Tin Woodman ?
text: Did you know that James Bond has died?
text: Did you know that the 2016–17 Football League Cup will be the first since The Football League was renamed the English Football League?
text: Did you know that in 1988 Ruth Lockhart oversaw campus AIDS education programs like "Love Carefully Day", when flowers, candies, and condoms were distributed to students to give to "that special someone"?
text: Did you know that the worker ant Formica biamoensis is difficult to compare to other species because latter species fossils are based upon amber specimens?
text: Did you know that Michael O. Tunnell unsuccessfully submitted his first children's book over 30 times, but is now the author of many published books including Wishing Moon ?
text: Did you know that a chloridometer is used to determine the concentration of chloride in biological fluids, including blood serum, cerebrospinal fluid, sweat, and urine?
text: Did you know that Fact magazine headlined in June 2016 that "We’ve discovered Simpsonwave and now we don’t need any more new genres"?
text: Did you know that Tube Alloys was the code name of the clandestine British nuclear weapons project during World War II?
text: Did you know that a Torah scroll commissioned by the Women's Torah Project was written by female scribes and clothed in a mantle stitched with items of clothing donated by women?
text: Did you know that Sniper Elite 4 was designed to be a "sniper paradise"?
text: Did you know that Danish swimmer Pernille Blume was part of a team that set a new world record in the 4 × 50 metre medley relay at the 2014 World Short Course Championships ?
text: Did you know that the longnose eagle ray , which is caught unintentionally during fishing activities, is listed as being a " near-threatened species "?
text: Did you know that Laurie Wolf has written children's books and a crowdfunded book of recipes for cooking with marijuana ?
text: Did you know that Secretariat won the 1973 Kentucky Derby with a time of 1 minute 59.4 seconds and ran the last quarter mile in 23 seconds, both Derby records?
text: Did you know that the pharmaceutical drug migalastat fights Fabry disease by correcting the way a mutated enzyme is folded?
text: Did you know that Yiddish poet Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim began writing poetry to cheer up fellow inmates at the Kaiserwald concentration camp during World War II?
text: Did you know that J. Keith Desormeaux decided to become a horse trainer instead of a veterinarian ?
text: Did you know that Mel Eslyn began working on film sets when she was 14 years old?
text: Did you know that the activity of the bare-tailed woolly opossum is influenced by moonlight?
text: Did you know that the 1903 Jamaica hurricane destroyed five villages in Martinique established after the eruption of Mount Pelée in 1902?
text: Did you know that the Electrophone relayed theatre shows, opera performances, and church services over telephone lines?
text: Did you know that Augustinian nun Jacomijne Costers survived the plague in 1489 and wrote Visioen en exempel , recounting her vision of being led through hell and purgatory?
text: Did you know that the common eagle ray feeds on shellfish which it crushes with flattened hexagonal teeth arranged in a mosaic fashion on its jaws?
text: Did you know that the anti-forensic software USBKill was created to prevent data from being seized from logged-in computers, as happened in Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht 's arrest?
text: Did you know that when the Hydraulic Press Channel , a YouTube channel, broadcast the folding of a piece of paper seven times using a hydraulic press , the paper exploded?
text: Did you know that storing fossils of Dlusskyidris in castor oil changed the amber's refractive index?
text: Did you know that James E. Talmage had been one of May Booth Talmage 's teachers when she attended Brigham Young Academy before the couple got married?
text: Did you know that for the web series Play It Again, Dick , the role of Duncan Kane was given to Ryan Devlin , despite the fact that the role was originated by Teddy Dunn ?
text: Did you know that Saul Levin is the first openly gay CEO of the American Psychiatric Association ?
text: Did you know that the release of Girls' Generation 's " Mr.Mr. " was delayed because scenes from the music video were accidentally deleted?
text: Did you know that the complete five-song set of the Bangles ' debut EP remained out of print for over 30 years?
text: Did you know that Michael Andretti 's win in the 2001 Molson Indy Toronto surpassed the record for most victories in a single Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) event?
text: Did you know that Dorothy Weir Young was the daughter of impressionist painter J. Alden Weir , and wrote a biography of him that was published posthumously in 1960?
text: Did you know that the Stecknitz Canal was the first European summit-level canal and one of the earliest artificial waterways in Europe?
text: Did you know that construction of California High-Speed Rail 's San Joaquin River Viaduct involves eliminating the last at-grade rail crossing in the city of Fresno ?
text: Did you know that Martha Sonntag Bradley-Evans received criticism for her active voice in Mormon feminism while she was a professor of history at Brigham Young University ?
text: Did you know that Bakeys , an Indian manufacturer of edible utensils , hopes to reduce plastic utensil waste in India, which numbers around 120 billion discarded pieces annually?
text: Did you know that Canadian football center Marv Allemang was moved to the Ottawa Rough Riders in a secret equalization draft designed to improve poorly-performing teams?
text: Did you know that two of the key elements of political globalization are the decreasing role of the nation-state and the rise of global civil society ?
text: Did you know that 16th-century Greek noble Manthos Papagiannis repeatedly solicited support from western European leaders for a planned uprising against the Ottoman Empire ?
text: Did you know that Ursula K. Le Guin 's 1972 short story Vaster than Empires and More Slow features a consciousness that reaches over all the vegetation on the fictional planet World 4470?
text: Did you know that the grassland sparrow is a "secretive" bird?
text: Did you know that Jon Gries of Lost fame will portray Dream Corp, LLC ' s principal character, while John Krasinski of The Office is an executive producer?
text: Did you know that cricketer and Australian rules footballer George Coulthard was attacked by a shark near Shark Island ?
text: Did you know that the champion stallion Midnight Sun was ridden by children?
text: Did you know that U.S. Navy SEAL Faauuga Muagututia was a member of American Samoa's first Winter Olympic team ?
text: Did you know that then- Mayor of London Boris Johnson and Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn campaigned to save Gaby's Deli ?
text: Did you know that the sport shooter Elena Allen was born in Russia, but has competed separately for England and Wales at the Commonwealth Games , and Great Britain at the Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that because of pedigree collapse , some family trees are better modeled mathematically as directed acyclic graphs than as trees ?
text: Did you know that " UpTown Funk! ", the number-one song of 2015 in the United States according to Billboard , also reached the top of the Mexico Ingles Airplay chart?
text: Did you know that Amy Bess Miller helped found a museum while presiding over a library ?
text: Did you know that a brawl caused the Halifax Rainmen to forfeit the National Basketball League of Canada Finals ?
text: Did you know that while watching her first operation, Mary Alice Powell Lindsay passed out three times, but she later became a registered nurse in Utah and was assistant superintendent of nurses at the LDS Hospital ?
text: Did you know that Scott Dixon became the winner of the 2010 Honda Indy Edmonton after Hélio Castroneves was judged to have blocked his teammate?
text: Did you know that the fossil ant genus Baikuris is known from adult males only?
text: Did you know that when RAAF Transport Flight (Japan) ' s last C-47 departed Iwakuni in 1956, it left ground staff and Flight Lieutenant Raleigh, a small dog who liked flying and had been at the base since 1945?
text: Did you know that the kabbalistic hymn " Bar Yochai " is "heard around the clock" at the massive celebrations in Meron, Israel , on Lag BaOmer ?
text: Did you know that Canadian football fullback Guillaume Allard-Caméus is a two-time Vanier Cup champion?
text: Did you know that the female figures in the Vishvanatha Temple in Madhya Pradesh , India, have been described as the "most striking carvings of females in Khajuraho "?
text: Did you know that " International Lover " was the song for which Prince received his first Grammy Award nomination?
text: Did you know that head film critic for Variety and The Hollywood Reporter Todd McCarthy also won an Emmy Award for his documentary Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer ?
text: Did you know that the Autonomy Cube is an art project by Trevor Paglen and Jacob Appelbaum which places Tor-relays in art-museums?
text: Did you know that Egyptologist Roger Khawam learned to fly and originally wanted to be an aerobatic pilot ?
text: Did you know that there are "moderately aromatic" arsoles ?
text: Did you know that the philosopher John Hadley argues that the territory of wild animals should be considered their property ?
text: Did you know that the carrozza is a street food and popular dish in Campania , Italy, where it is prepared using buffalo mozzarella ?
text: Did you know that Pat, a character from the Inside No. 9 episode " Nana's Party ", was variously described by critics as an "irritating tit", an "insufferable booby", and a "desperately sad and dignified man"?
text: Did you know that Serbs taken as prisoners of war during the Siege of Belgrade in 1521 were settled at a present-day location inside Istanbul's Falih Rıfkı Atay Nature Park ?
text: Did you know that in February 1981, " Duncan ", a song about drinking beer, was the number-one single in Australia?
text: Did you know that the larvae of the rove beetle Lomechusa pubicollis are cared for by ants?
text: Did you know that Captain Robert Orme fought alongside George Washington at the Battle of the Monongahela ?
text: Did you know that by the 13th century, the Tayy were the dominant Arab tribe in the Syrian steppe , Upper Mesopotamia and north-central Arabia ?
text: Did you know that a song from GFriend 's EP Flower Bud was broadcast via loudspeaker across the Korean Demilitarized Zone as part of South Korea's response to a North Korean nuclear test ?
text: Did you know that Pleas Jones was the first justice to retire from the Kentucky Supreme Court after its creation in 1976?
text: Did you know that the small Maya archaeological site of K'atepan in Guatemala is said to have been the home of the Tojolabal Maya , a group now found in neighbouring Mexico?
text: Did you know that game developers changed the victory pose for the Overwatch character Tracer , after a fan noted that her original pose was over sexualized?
text: Did you know that Alexander Prokhorenko , a Russian special forces intelligence officer, called in an airstrike on himself when he was ambushed by ISIS during the battle to liberate Palmyra ?
text: Did you know that in the late 1960s, a civil engineer found himself unable to uncover any written information on the spelling of Fidlers Run ?
text: Did you know that Canadian football fullback Kojo Aidoo appeared in two direct-to-TV movies?
text: Did you know that the musical style of GFriend 's Snowflake is similar to K-pop from the late 1990s and 2000s?
text: Did you know that Stanko Bilinski 's 1960 rediscovery of the Bilinski dodecahedron corrected a 75-year-old omission from the list of convex polyhedra with congruent rhombic faces?
text: Did you know that the Australian mushroom Cortinarius erythraeus is covered in slime?
text: Did you know that Irish producer Iglooghost said he did not understand the comparison to the works of PC Music in reviews for his EP Chinese Nü Yr ?
text: Did you know that the first film produced by Gabriel Ripstein was directed by his father and written by his mother ?
text: Did you know that fried cheese was a popular dish in Cairo , Egypt during the Middle Ages , and remained a part of the cuisine throughout the Ottoman occupation ?
text: Did you know that Birgit Jürgenssen , an Austrian photographer, painter, graphic artist, curator and teacher, was acclaimed as one of the "outstanding international representatives of the feminist avant-garde"?
text: Did you know that the story line of the 2015 Thai teen flick May Who? was inspired by director Chayanop Boonprakob's own teenage years?
text: Did you know that a recent Major League Soccer match between two teams in New York City was nicknamed the Hudson River Massacre ?
text: Did you know that the Mennonite radio program The Calvary Hour had no official standing?
text: Did you know that the Prussian scheme was a reported attempt to establish a monarchy in the United States under Prince Henry of Prussia ?
text: Did you know that Plagioolithus is thought to be the oldest known fragment of bird egg ?
text: Did you know that Bernice Weldon Sargent ' s work was used by Enrico Fermi in developing his theory of beta decay ?
text: Did you know that some meteorites contain an unusual isotope of neon due to it being trapped in buckyballs in an endohedral neon compound ?
text: Did you know that Gussie Nell Davis created Greenville High School 's all-girl team, the Flaming Flashes, the first dance-drill squad to perform in the United States?
text: Did you know that the United States was accused by President Maduro of provoking a covert coup against his government in Venezuela's state of emergency ?
text: Did you know that The Jordan Museum is the largest museum in Jordan, and hosts the country's most important archaeological finds?
text: Did you know that white jute and Jew's mallow are used both for the production of fibre and for food?
text: Did you know that Mexican actor Sebastián Aguirre won an Ariel Award for the role of a child sexually abused by a priest?
text: Did you know that the 2001 Marlboro 500 saw a record-breaking 73 lead changes in a Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) race?
text: Did you know that patent barley flour is used as an ingredient in infant foods ?
text: Did you know that former university president Nancy H. Hensel has skied the Tasman Glacier and climbed Mount Whitney , Mount Kilimanjaro , and Mount Aconcagua ?
text: Did you know that Switzerland's Poya Bridge was constructed together with an adjacent tunnel containing an underground roundabout ?
text: Did you know that a linebacker was the leading scorer on the 1971 Michigan Wolverines football team ?
text: Did you know that despite the U.S. Supreme Court holding in Foster v. Chatman that prosecutors purposefully discriminated against black jurors in his trial, Timothy Foster's death sentence might not be overturned?
text: Did you know that, according to a 2005 survey, 1 out of 5 women in China had suffered from domestic violence within the previous year?
text: Did you know that the driver of a speeding coach that crashed in Joigny , France, killing 11, was finally tried 13 years after the incident?
text: Did you know that the South Jamaica Houses in South Jamaica , New York City , was the first housing development built by the New York City Housing Authority intended to be racially integrated ?
text: Did you know that because she was arrested for indecent behavior , Rosette Wolczak died in Auschwitz aged 15?
text: Did you know that recent United States Supreme Court decisions may have created " drug-dog and drunk-driving exceptions to the totality-of-the-circumstances approach"?
text: Did you know that Danell Lynn rode 48,600 miles (78,214 km) to become the first solo woman to set a world record for longest motorcycle journey in a single country?
text: Did you know that Alexander Ewing's tune for " Jerusalem the Golden " was "the earliest written, the best known, and with children the most popular"?
text: Did you know that according to scientists, cow tipping would require between 4 and 14 coordinated people, unlike the depiction of the urban legend in film and television?
text: Did you know that Ronald Reagan called Ralph Harris "a veritable institution among the Fourth Estate in Washington"?
text: Did you know that Husayn ibn Ruh , the third deputy of Muhammad al-Mahdi , was from the Nawbakhti family who had high position in the Abbasid court ?
text: Did you know that klipspringers form pair bonds that may last for life?
text: Did you know that Mary Mostert was a Democrat , but switched parties after working on President Lyndon Johnson 's War on Poverty programs, and ran as a Republican for the New York State Senate in 1972?
text: Did you know that Liam Neeson is portraying a key person of the Watergate scandal , Mark Felt , in an eponymous upcoming film ?
text: Did you know that a roadeo is a rodeo , but for motor vehicles?
text: Did you know that the proposed Potala Tower in Seattle was named after the Potala Palace in Tibet by its developer, a former Tibetan Buddhist monk?
text: Did you know that Steve McGarrett was played by Jack Lord and then, 30 years later, by Alex O'Loughlin ?
text: Did you know that hydrothermal vents provide a deep-sea habitat for crustaceans and other animals?
text: Did you know that Debra Marquart left Napoleon, North Dakota , to tour with rock bands and returned to teach writers' workshops in Bakken oil field communities most affected by hydraulic fracking ?
text: Did you know that Juan Pablo Montoya 's victory in the 2001 Italian Grand Prix made him the first Colombian to win a Formula One motor race?
text: Did you know that central to Philippe Musard 's 1832 concerts was a "lascivious spectacle"?
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text: Did you know that Moustafa Ali played rugby union after retiring from the Canadian Football League ?
text: Did you know that ice caps can contain nitrogen clathrate formed by compressing air on ice?
text: Did you know that Christopher Báthory , Voivode of Transylvania , was buried almost two years after his death?
text: Did you know that construction of the new Calgary Central Library required the encapsulation of an active CTrain light rail line over a year-long period?
text: Did you know that ballet photographer Nina Alovert 's subjects have included Mikhail Baryshnikov , Vladimir Malakhov , and Yulia Makhalina ?
text: Did you know that the first alcohol-free bar in New Zealand went out of business five weeks after opening due to a lack of consumer interest?
text: Did you know that the Ping Opera star Bai Yushuang collapsed during a performance of Understanding after Death and subsequently died?
text: Did you know that on "Traveling Salesman Day" at the 1915 Texas State Fair , the Dallas Equal Suffrage Association convinced visiting salesmen to wear badges proclaiming "Votes for Women"?
text: Did you know that Israel Beltrán Montes was elected twice to the Chamber of Deputies and twice as municipal president of Ciudad Cuauhtémoc ?
text: Did you know that Televisa Radio attempted to merge with two of its principal competitors in 2000, only to have both deals fall through?
text: Did you know that Cy Sneed 's father took a demotion to move from Nevada to Idaho so his sons could play for a better high school baseball team?
text: Did you know that two Catholic saints, Ansbert of Rouen and Angadrisma , were engaged to be married?
text: Did you know that two Scotland international rugby union players, Cecil Abercrombie and John Skinner Wilson , died in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916?
text: Did you know that one critic saw " Séance Time ", an episode of Inside No. 9 , as a critique of reality television 's callousness from the perspective of television plays ?
text: Did you know that Barbara Minishi 's photo series was featured in the book 9 Photographers from Kenya , published in association with the National Museums of Kenya ?
text: Did you know that the pepito is one of the most popular street foods in Venezuela?
text: Did you know that the midge Forcipomyia squamipennis is an important pollinator of the cacao tree in Ghana?
text: Did you know that Ruth Taubert Seeger represented the United States in the 1957 Deaflympics and was still competing successfully in the 2002 Senior Games of San Antonio?
text: Did you know that Esthela Ponce Beltrán was the first PRI municipal president of La Paz, Baja California Sur , elected in 12 years?
text: Did you know that the Arauco Basin is an uplifted part of the continental shelf of Chile?
text: Did you know that Rajendra Singh is the first Indian Coast Guard officer to be appointed Director General of the Indian Coast Guard ?
text: Did you know that at IWRG Junior de Juniors , ten second-generation professional wrestlers competed for the newly-created eponymous championship ?
text: Did you know that groups of silvery-throated jay roost communally at night, settling down with much chatter?
text: Did you know that Love, Inc. was originally designed as a star vehicle for Shannen Doherty , before she was removed from the series at the request of United Paramount Network ?
text: Did you know that Emory Alvord is credited with revolutionising African agriculture?
text: Did you know that the long-billed crow , found only in the Maluku Islands , is dwindling in numbers and is considered to be a " near-threatened species "?
text: Did you know that after Seleucid king Antiochus XII was slain by the Nabataeans during the Battle of Cana , his demoralized army fled and died from starvation in the desert?
text: Did you know that Klein's line , the first tool to diagnose slipping of the ball-joint-like end of the femur in adolescents early to prevent destruction of the hip joint, is still used today?
text: Did you know that Adolfo Mota Hernández said a statue of Vicente Fox in Boca del Río would " fall just like Saddam Hussein "?
text: Did you know that in 2013, a Russian man who had edited his credit card agreement with Tinkoff Bank attempted to sue the bank for 24 million rubles?
text: Did you know that Billie Ert and Antonio Molina , a drag queen and former football star, respectively, in 1972 became the first same-sex couple to be married in Texas?
text: Did you know that Mac n' Cheetos is a Burger King product that is a combination of macaroni and cheese and the Frito-Lay snack Cheetos ?
text: Did you know that the Mexican blind brotula , the blind swamp eel , and the juil ciego , all cave-dwelling fish in Mexico, are threatened by water pollution?
text: Did you know that a 1923 book by Progressive Era activist Kate Claghorn has been called "the one significant contemporary study of the immigrant and the American legal system"?
text: Did you know that African CITES delegates sang the former Zimbabwe national anthem " Ishe Komborera Africa " after winning a vote to export African elephant ivory, while conservationists cried?
text: Did you know that race car driver J. R. Heffner is his sponsor's vice president of operations?
text: Did you know that federal deputy Adriana Terrazas Porras served as coordinator of Enrique Serrano Escobar 's campaign for Governor of Chihuahua ?
text: Did you know that the novel Sweetbitter has been called a "love letter" to Union Square Cafe ?
text: Did you know that Nigerian singer Humblesmith started as an actor?
text: Did you know that HMS Doterel created a diversion while a fireship attack was carried out during the Battle of the Basque Roads ?
text: Did you know that Margaret Jarman Hagood , a sociologist who wrote a book on Mothers of the South , became a mother herself before completing her bachelor's degree?
text: Did you know that while the Fresno kangaroo rat is considered vulnerable , the San Quintin kangaroo rat may already be extinct?
text: Did you know that Leonid Solodkov was the last recipient of the title Hero of the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that the value of gambling using virtual cosmetic weapon skins for the video game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was estimated at $2.3 billion in 2015?
text: Did you know that María Isabel Maya Pineda won two elections in under 120 days, and three over a three-year period?
text: Did you know that the cinema organ in Kino Babylon is the only one in Germany played at its original location?
text: Did you know that Green Bay Packers rookie offensive lineman Kyle Murphy wore two jerseys in the same game in college?
text: Did you know that Samiun dan Dasima (1971), which featured explicit sexuality, garnered an award for best child actor?
text: Did you know that the long-haired grass mouse is an important reservoir species for the Andes virus ?
text: Did you know that Robert Hoagland left both pairs of the loafers he always wore in his Newtown, Connecticut , house when he disappeared three years ago today?
text: Did you know that the winner of the La Gran Cruzada professional wrestling tournament became the number-one contender for the IWRG Rey del Ring Championship or the IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship ?
text: Did you know that cheese soup , referred to as Kassuppe , is a specialty dish in Central Switzerland ?
text: Did you know that while prospecting for minerals in the Belgian Congo , Sydney Hobart Ball 's party came under attack and the resulting clash, which claimed 130 lives, became known as "The Battle of Ball's Run"?
text: Did you know that Tapestry Folkdance Center 's permanent home was discovered on a bike ride?
text: Did you know that the remix record for Disclosure 's second extended play The Face features a re-cut from Hot Chip 's Joe Goddard?
text: Did you know that Marco Mena was the first Mexican to pursue a master's degree in public policy from the University of Chicago ?
text: Did you know that the Tokushima-Kōchi at-large district elected its first representative to the House of Councillors this month?
text: Did you know that the priest Nicolae Cristea was a newspaper editor for eighteen years, until his bishop fired him for writing an article sharply critical of Hungarian Prime Minister Kálmán Tisza ?
text: Did you know that tonnes of Nabataean spices and silver were looted by the Greeks during one of the Antigonid–Nabataean confrontations ?
text: Did you know that the National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling contributed to closing slot machines in South Carolina ?
text: Did you know that in 1596, half of the revenues from the Palestinian town of Qabatiya went to the Tarabay Bey of Lajjun ?
text: Did you know that Raúl Domínguez Rex maintained an unusually low profile as president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party in the State of Mexico ?
text: Did you know that the Goodwillie–Allen House , an American Craftsman -style bungalow, is the oldest building in Bend , Oregon ?
text: Did you know that Adam Foulds ' novel The Quickening Maze , about poets Clare and Tennyson , was nominated for the Man Booker and Walter Scott prizes but lost both to Hilary Mantel 's Wolf Hall ?
text: Did you know that Remi Sonaiya was Nigeria's first female presidential candidate?
text: Did you know that the konye , a critically endangered fish, is threatened by "burps"?
text: Did you know that in October 2015, Arturo Santana Alfaro and other PRD deputies proposed raising Mexico's daily minimum wage from 70 pesos to 95?
text: Did you know that an indiscriminate massacre by the Ottoman Empire ended the 1910 Karak Revolt ?
text: Did you know that James Nguyen directed Birdemic: Shock and Terror , considered one of the worst films of all time , and financed its $10,000 budget with his own money?
text: Did you know that despite Lords of Ireland being ineligible for election, the Earl of Cork was elected to the British House of Lords?
text: Did you know that Lothar Zenetti 's poem " Segne dieses Kind " became a song of blessing for a child, often sung at baptism ?
text: Did you know that Brad Kern created the character Billie Jenkins to "lighten the load, screen-time wise" for Charmed 's three principal actors?
text: Did you know that after being portrayed by four different wrestlers since 1999, the masked Multifacético character was finally unmasked at the 2011 El Gran Desafío professional wrestling show?
text: Did you know that Max Reger's Eine romantische Suite for orchestra, inspired by three poems by Joseph von Eichendorff , was arranged for chamber ensemble by Arnold Schönberg?
text: Did you know that Indiana University professor Edward Buehrig served as secretary-general of the Italo-Yugoslav Boundary Commission?
text: Did you know that the first transcontinental night airmail service was established at Hadley Field ?
text: Did you know that Francisco Saracho Navarro proposed the creation of a special commission on the Mexican wine industry in the Chamber of Deputies ?
text: Did you know that an officer appointed by North-Eastern Area Command to investigate Vultee Vengeance aircraft accidents at No. 75 Wing RAAF , crash-landed in a Vengeance on his return?
text: Did you know that as acting commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics , Aryness Joy Wickens was the highest-paid woman in the U.S. civil service in 1954?
text: Did you know that BJP MP Hukum Singh claimed that Kairana had become a "new Kashmir" ?
text: Did you know that Celestia Taylor sang at as many as four funerals a day during the 1918 flu pandemic ?
text: Did you know that the annual Festival de las Máscaras , which includes events in 2008 , 2009 , 2010 , and 2013 , is the one night each year that wrestlers are allowed to compete wearing a mask they had previously lost, though this year's loser was shaved bald ?
text: Did you know that Jericó Abramo Masso headed a special commission in the Chamber of Deputies to investigate the Pasta de Conchos mine disaster ?
text: Did you know that Guangzhou 's Hoi Tong Monastery once housed sacred pigs so fat they could barely walk?
text: Did you know that the footballer Frédéric Gounongbe originally regarded tennis as his preferred sport?
text: Did you know that Tower Branch runs near a tract of land home to nine Species of Special Concern in Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that Jorge Triana Tena oversaw a program that built "beacons of learning" in Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City ?
text: Did you know that the reproductive rate of Tome's spiny rat seems to depend on the local abundance of fruit?
text: Did you know that a proposed sixth borough in New York City has been referred to as "LoLo" and "Frankenborough"?
text: Did you know that the Black Series by Argentinian art collective Mondongo used cookies and crackers to recreate pornographic images from the internet?
text: Did you know that soybeans helped Argentine president Eduardo Duhalde resolve an economic crisis ?
text: Did you know that in part of their range, male Leptodactylus podicipinus frogs have been observed to make foam nests in water-filled depressions they may have dug beside ponds?
text: Did you know that Harold D. Richardson is still recognized as the tenth president of Arizona State University , though he served in an acting capacity?
text: Did you know that the Roma fairy tale " The Creation of the Violin " features a fairy queen who uses the power of music to make people happy or sad?
text: Did you know that Manuel Clouthier Carrillo was the only deputy elected as an independent to the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress ?
text: Did you know that Smart Connect Interchange is the largest cloverleaf interchange in the Philippines?
text: Did you know that the Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine differs from Rothschild's porcupine in concealing its spines with long black hair?
text: Did you know that between 2005 and 2014 the Qhubeka Foundation provided more than 45,000 bicycles in South Africa?
text: Did you know that Jorge Ramos Hernández became Municipal President of Tijuana in 2007, three years after losing the election to Jorge Hank Rhon ?
text: Did you know that GFriend 's album LOL has more diversity of genre compared to their past releases, in order to appeal to a wider audience?
text: Did you know that Barak Mizrachi represented Australia at the Maccabiah Games four times before being selected for the 2016 Summer Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that multiple screenings of Jack Smith 's film Flaming Creatures were raided by police?
text: Did you know that the childless Queen Liliʻuokalani adopted Lydia Kaʻonohiponiponiokalani Aholo , Joseph Kaiponohea ʻAeʻa , and John ʻAimoku Dominis in the Hawaiian tradition of hānai ?
text: Did you know that the Australian College of Educators ' Buntine Oration has been given by a governor-general , a prime minister , and a Nobel laureate ?
text: Did you know that at the IWRG 20th Anniversary Show , Danny Casas defeated Toscano to force him to be shaved bald, but the results were reversed at the Festival de las Máscaras and Casas was left bald?
text: Did you know that Irene Barnes Taeuber 's scholarly work is credited with helping to establish the science of demography ?
text: Did you know that the deepwater boa and dwarf catsharks are seldom caught by trawlers in the Caribbean Sea and the western Atlantic?
text: Did you know that Josi S. Kilpack wrote a 12-book culinary mystery series, in which the title of each book is a kind of dessert?
text: Did you know that in his 2012 Senate campaign, Alejandro Tello Cristerna received the most votes ever of any statewide candidate in Zacatecas ?
text: Did you know that " Why So Lonely " is the first Wonder Girls single written by the members of the band?
text: Did you know that American sculptor Dennis Byng worked in plexiglas and lucite ?
text: Did you know that at the Arena Naucalpan 22nd Anniversary Show , El Hijo del Santo defeated Scorpio Jr. in the main event, and three years later at the 25th Anniversary Show , he did it again?
text: Did you know that the British Prime Minister Theresa May was introduced to her future husband Philip by Benazir Bhutto ?
text: Did you know that the shoots and leaves of sea sandwort are rich in Vitamins A and C, and can be fermented to prepare a sauerkraut -like preserve?
text: Did you know that Priscilla Nzimiro was the first woman from Igboland , Nigeria, to qualify as a medical doctor?
text: Did you know that anautogenous insects must eat blood in order to lay eggs?
text: Did you know that Governor-elect of Sinaloa Quirino Ordaz Coppel , owner of two hotels in Mazatlán , sat on the Tourism Commission in the Chamber of Deputies ?
text: Did you know that the video for Katy Perry 's song " Rise " features clips of athletes from various Olympic Games?
text: Did you know that mathematician Sergei Nikolaevich Chernikov already had the first of his five department chairs before defending his DSc in 1940?
text: Did you know that Stassybot's 2016 video game Fragments of Him was compared to That Dragon, Cancer due to the "emotional" settings and "gloomy visual tones"?
text: Did you know that Sir Alan Collins was the director-general of the British Trade and Cultural Office in Taipei from 1995 to 1998?
text: Did you know that although Montesquieu had only intended to write a few pages about the decline of the Roman Empire , he eventually produced 277 pages in 23 chapters?
text: Did you know that Jane Hamilton Hall oversaw the construction of the Clementine , the world's first fast reactor , the first to be fueled by plutonium and the first to use a liquid metal coolant?
text: Did you know that at the Arena Naucalpan 36th Anniversary Show , Oficial 911 was unmasked while X-Fly was shaved bald, leading to 911 taking revenge on X-Fly a year later at the 37th Anniversary Show , when X-Fly lost his hair again?
text: Did you know that species of the fossil ant Bradoponera are suggested to have nested around epiphytes ?
text: Did you know that Tiffany Trump has been called part of the "Snap Pack" for her voluminous postings to Instagram ?
text: Did you know that Max Reger 's three sacred motets for up to eight voices, Geistliche Gesänge , Op. 110 , were composed in different years at different places for different choirs?
text: Did you know that all the current chiefs of staff ( COAS , CNS , CAS ) of the Indian Armed Forces are National Defence Academy alumni ?
text: Did you know that Adele C. Howells commissioned Arnold Friberg to paint scenes from the Book of Mormon for The Children's Friend magazine?
text: Did you know that Wolkentanz , a leading Hanoverian stallion at the Celle State Stud , sired 21 licensed stallions?
text: Did you know that Antonio Gali 's candidacy for Governor of Puebla was supported by the PAN , PT , PANAL , and two state parties?
text: Did you know that 16-year-old hurdler Sydney McLaughlin is the youngest athlete to qualify for the United States Olympic track and field team since 1980?
text: Did you know that Indian filmmaker Mohan Krishna Indraganti dedicated the second half of his Telugu-language film Gentleman to Alfred Hitchcock as a tribute?
text: Did you know that narrowmouthed catsharks are unusual in displaying heterodont dentition , with males and females having differently shaped mouths and teeth?
text: Did you know that the video game Spider-Man Unlimited was frequently updated to synchronize with events in the broader Marvel Universe ?
text: Did you know that Arena Naucalpan , currently the home of the International Wrestling Revolution Group , started out as a roller rink in the 1950s?
text: Did you know that the 34th Street – Hudson Yards station is New York City's first new subway station in a quarter-century?
text: Did you know that the first Sirloin Stockade restaurant featured a giant 1,800-pound (820 kg) plastic ornamental cow?
text: Did you know that Sankō Shrine may not be the location of the 17th-century Sanada Maru ?
text: Did you know that Elsa Reger , who had first rejected Max Reger 's courting, titled her autobiography Mein Leben mit und für Max Reger (My life with and for Max Reger)?
text: Did you know that fashion designer Perry Ellis served in the U.S. Coast Guard Ceremonial Honor Guard ?
text: Did you know that Jeanne Burbank designed batteries for the first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571) ?
text: Did you know that Marli van Breda survived being struck in the head by an axe , but has no memory of the event?
text: Did you know that Francisco Javier Sánchez Campuzano got into the broadcasting business by buying a daytimer AM station in Coahuila ?
text: Did you know that the botanist Ethel Thomas designed the University of London 's botany garden in Regent's Park ?
text: Did you know that Operation Quartz was a plan by the Rhodesian military to kill Robert Mugabe , should he lose the 1980 Southern Rhodesian general election ?
text: Did you know that in an IWRG Ruleta de la Muerte tournament the losers advance, not the winners, and the ultimate loser is shaved bald – which happened to Chico Che in 2009 , Bugambilia in 2013 , and X-Fly in November 2015 ?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian film actor Farouk Afero shaved his head in protest at how cinemas treated domestic productions?
text: Did you know that most of the fenugreek produced in India is grown in Rajasthan ?
text: Did you know that Helen Copenhaver Hanes helped raise over $850,000 to guarantee the University of North Carolina School of the Arts would be based in Winston-Salem ?
text: Did you know that S. N. Haleʻole wrote The Hawaiian Romance of Laieikawai , the first book-length work of fiction by a Native Hawaiian ?
text: Did you know that the Children's Museum, Siri Fort , has a sandstone sculpture of a woman in the buff ?
text: Did you know that Newell Weight received over 500 applicants to the Brigham Young University a cappella choir, which he founded?
text: Did you know that Abdullah Yusuf Azzam , the co-founder of Al-Qaeda , came from the Palestinian village of Silat al-Harithiya ?
text: Did you know that Miku Sawai transferred to a high school in Tokyo due to her work as a singer?
text: Did you know that due to the French football bribery scandal , no team is classed as winning the 1992–93 French Division 1 title?
text: Did you know that Mohapatra Nilamani Sahoo won a 1984 Sahitya Akademi Award for his Odia language short-story collection Abhisapta Gandharba ?
text: Did you know that nests of the marbled wood quail and the spot-winged wood quail have roofs made of dead leaves?
text: Did you know that Romesh Chandra , former leader of the Communist Party of India , was the president of the World Peace Council ?
text: Did you know that Biketown , the new bicycle-sharing system for Portland, Oregon , was named by its corporate sponsor, Nike, Inc. ?
text: Did you know that on his first visit to his native Transylvania a quarter-century after fleeing to escape imprisonment, Septimiu Albini caught pneumonia and died?
text: Did you know that Kew Gardens made Queens grow?
text: Did you know that ships were moored between two jetties of the Holy Island Waggonway for unloading coal and loading lime?
text: Did you knowthat the IWRG Guerra de Empresas professional wrestling tournament pitted representatives from various Mexican professional wrestling promotions against each other?
text: Did you know that Pop Momand's comic strip Keeping Up with the Joneses popularized the common English catchphrase " keeping up with the Joneses "?
text: Did you know that the Korea Music Copyright Association 's deal with JASRAC was called a "milestone in Japan-Korean musical relations" because Japanese music had been previously banned in South Korea ?
text: Did you know that Henry Ford 's personal secretary, Ernest G. Liebold , was investigated by the United States Department of War as a suspected German spy during World War I?
text: Did you know that High Street is actually 70 feet (21 m) below ground?
text: Did you know that in 2016, Edition Güntersberg published twelve Fantasias for solo viola da gamba by Telemann that had been lost?
text: Did you know that after Eric Milroy died in the Battle of the Somme , his mother kept a light on at night to help him find his way home?
text: Did you know that the Tibetan eared pheasant may be declining in number because there are insufficient places for it to roost?
text: Did you know that Thomas Dubay , a Catholic priest and prolific spiritual writer, read the monthly National Geographic from cover to cover?
text: Did you know that the George Washington Air Junction was designed to be the world's largest airport, larger than the New York, London, Berlin, Paris, Chicago, and Philadelphia airports combined?
text: Did you know that Falstaff provoked in Ferruccio Busoni a "revolution of spirit"?
text: Did you know that Kyle Holbrook has painted more than two hundred public murals in the City of Pittsburgh ?
text: Did you know that Antonio Cesti's opera La Dori premiered at Archduke Ferdinand 's court in Innsbruck and was later performed in Florence for the wedding of Cosimo III de' Medici ?
text: Did you know that Georg Bätzing is the appointed bishop of the Diocese of Limburg ?
text: Did you know that following the release of Pokémon Go , Nintendo 's share price rose by 50%?
text: Did you know that as executive director of the Maine Women's Lobby from 1993 to 2003, Laura Fortman successfully lobbied for laws benefiting reproductive rights , victims' rights , and equal pay for equal work ?
text: Did you know that in the main event of the 2008 Guerra del Golfo professional wrestling show, Oficial Fierro unmasked a Ninja Turtle?
text: Did you know that the Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion was Finland's worst industrial disaster?
text: Did you know that Roxana Cannon Arsht was the first woman appointed judge in Delaware ?
text: Did you know that Interpol member Paul Banks and Wu-Tang Clan member RZA are releasing an album together under the name Banks & Steelz ?
text: Did you know that Mormon author Gale Sears has been the recipient of several Whitney Awards and nominations?
text: Did you know that in 1915, the HMS Revenge , the ninth ship of the Royal Navy with that name, became the first ship to be fitted operationally with anti-torpedo bulges ?
text: Did you know that Baby Huwae went from model and actress to fortune teller?
text: Did you know that Jean Maxwell-Scott was the last direct descendant of the novelist Sir Walter Scott ?
text: Did you know that the documentary film Highway of Tears was created to draw attention to Canada's unsolved Highway of Tears murders , and won an award at the Malibu Film Festival ?
text: Did you know that John Clement Fitzpatrick died before some of the 39 volumes of his The Writings of George Washington were published?
text: Did you know that John Rutter 's choral composition A Gaelic Blessing associates "deep peace" with elements of nature?
text: Did you know that Frederick William Kahapula Beckley served as Governor of Kauaʻi from 1880 to 1881?
text: Did you know that at the 2012 Guerra de Familias , Silver King Jr. was not actually the son of Silver King , despite the family theme being the focal point of the show?
text: Did you know that the Antidotarium Nicolai has been called "the bible of medieval practical pharmacy"?
text: Did you know that Frederick William Kahapula Beckley was the last official interpreter of the Hawaii Supreme Court during the Kingdom of Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that according to Michael Bay , Transformers: The Last Knight will be his last Transformers film?
text: Did you know that Annie Rowan Forney Daugette , the designer of the Seal of Alabama , was described as the " Betsy Ross of Alabama"?
text: Did you know that International Wrestling Revolution Group 's 2000 El Castillo del Terror show became an annual event when IWRG held another one in 2002 ?
text: Did you know that on his 100th birthday, Ontario MPP Thomas Patrick Murray received a personalized card from Wayne Gretzky ?
text: Did you know that Paul Kanoa , Governor of Kauaʻi from 1847 to 1877, died after falling from the second-story room of his Honolulu residence?
text: Did you know that the Divisional Cavalry Regiment was New Zealand's first armored unit?
text: Did you know that Karen Heck , a women's rights activist and former mayor of Waterville, Maine , co-owns a winery that is the sole distiller of absinthe in New England?
text: Did you knowthat the El Gran Desafío Femenil – Sin Empate, Sin Indulto professional wrestling show was the first IWRG show to feature a women's wrestling match as the main event?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian actor A. Hamid Arief often took roles playing Europeans?
text: Did you know that "pregnant" ballot boxes prompted the PRI to challenge an election in which its candidate, Maurilio Ochoa , lost?
text: Did you know that Heather Blitz has owned and trained her Grand Prix dressage horse, Paragon, all his life?
text: Did you know that PSLV-C34 , India's expendable launch system , deployed 20 satellites in Low Earth orbit in a single mission on 22 June 2016?
text: Did you know that songs by Lothar Zenetti appear in current Protestant and Catholic hymnals, and are performed by singer-songwriters such as Konstantin Wecker ?
text: Did you know that reproductive adult eastern pondhawks have a lifespan of about ten days but are to be seen most of the summer in Florida?
text: Did you know that Billie Nipper 's art was owned by Ronald Reagan , Shania Twain , and Zsa Zsa Gabor ?
text: Did you know that the song " Black Strap Molasses " – sung by Groucho Marx , Jimmy Durante , Jane Wyman , and Danny Kaye – was banned by CBS Radio on the grounds that it contained medical advice?
text: Did you know that Toby Moll met an old friend from Cape Town in the French village of Bazentin le Petit just after his regiment captured it from the Germans?
text: Did you know that in iOS and Android platformer Platform Panic , many of the available skins are references to characters from retro games, such as Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog ?
text: Did you know that in marking the centenary of the Horea, Cloșca and Crișan revolt , Transylvanian lawyer Rubin Patiția clashed with both the Hungarian authorities and his own Romanian Orthodox Church ?
text: Did you know that for the 49th Anniversary of Lucha Libre in Estadio de Mexico show, the IWRG had a main event where the two teams represented their former wrestling promotions ?
text: Did you know that the Scottish composer Martyn Bennett , who was influential in the evolution of modern Celtic fusion , was sometimes called the "techno piper"?
text: Did you know that historian Romila Thapar refused to accept the Padma Bhushan , India's third-highest civilian award, but was still listed among the recipients of the 2000s ?
text: Did you know that the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Nagpur , will start functioning in a temporary campus at Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited 's Regional Telecom Training Centre?
text: Did you know that on September 2, 2008, Somali pirates seized the yacht Carré d'As IV , prompting a French commando operation?
text: Did you know that the Hybla Valley Airport was the first licensed airport in Virginia ?
text: Did you know that Ai Aoki was a singer-songwriter and kindergarten teacher before becoming a politician in Japan's national Diet ?
text: Did you know that the Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations was responsible for the bombing of Cubana Flight 455 , the worst incident of aviation terrorism in the western hemisphere before 9/11 ?
text: Did you know that Makila James wrote, "Africa is no easy place to love or know. But if you love her, you will come to know her"?
text: Did you know that Cynthia Cooke nursed Far East prisoners of war before becoming head of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service ?
text: Did you know that the 1982 Dutch film Het Beest , featuring Willem Ruis in his first and last cinema role, was a "legendary flop"?
text: Did you know that in 1984 Maine lawyer Linda Smith Dyer rebutted opponents' claims that passage of the Equal Rights Amendment would legalize same-sex marriage in the state?
text: Did you know that the perpetrators of a major burglary were caught after discussing it in a Pentonville Road pub?
text: Did you know that G. T. Bynum , the mayor-elect of Tulsa, Oklahoma , is related to three former Tulsa mayors?
text: Did you know that the War of the Antiochene Succession "came to a rather unspectacular end" in 1219?
text: Did you know that the British art dealer Sir Jack Baer saved £150 million of art for the nation?
text: Did you know that Prince Romerson , a Hawaiian who fought in the American Civil War , served in the Union Navy and Army and later became a Buffalo Soldier ?
text: Did you know that Landon Donovan scored 57 goals in 157 appearances for the United States men's national soccer team from 2000 to 2014, becoming the team's all-time top goalscorer?
text: Did you know that in 1937 Ingrid Christensen became the first woman to indisputably set foot on mainland Antarctica ?
text: Did you know that the members of alt-country supergroup case/lang/veirs have collectively made more than 30 studio albums?
text: Did you know that in December 2015, Trinidadian commentator Fazeer Mohammed was banned from speaking to players in the West Indies cricket team before the Boxing Day Test match?
text: Did you know that Hawaiian writer Kepelino was charged with treason after a failed attempt to overthrow King Kalākaua in favor of his opponent, Queen Emma , in 1874?
text: Did you know that according to the State of Origin viral video, Queensland's everywhere ?
text: Did you know that the Hollyoaks actor James Sutton has described James Nightingale as a strong and powerful character?
text: Did you know that six years after the siege and looting of their city by Ibrahim Pasha , the people of Al-Karak exacted revenge on his forces while they were withdrawing from Syria?
text: Did you know that at the Arena Naucalpan 29th Anniversary Show , a clown beat a doctor?
text: Did you know that Dyke Action Machine! created public art that used commercial photography styling to present lesbian images that resisted sexism and consumerism ?
text: Did you know that Governor-elect of Tamaulipas, Mexico , Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca was born in McAllen, Texas , and played soccer at Houston Baptist University ?
text: Did you know that Mark Rylance 's portrayal of KGB spy Rudolf Abel in Bridge of Spies (2015) won him the Best Supporting Actor award at the Oscars and the BAFTAs ?
text: Did you know that South Korean animator Mari Kim produced the music video for 2NE1 's " Hate You ", which depicts the group as "eyedoll" action heroines?
text: Did you know that Patrick Vieira won the 2005 FA Cup Final for Arsenal with his last kick in his final appearance?
text: Did you know that right-wing writer and activist Elizabeth Dilling claimed that Einstein was a Communist and Hitler was a Jew?
text: Did you know that Johnny Williams scored two tries in Cardiff 's 24–8 rout of Australia in 1908?
text: Did you know that the speckled mourner can be confused with the rufous piha ?
text: Did you know that North Korean poet Cho Ki-chon offered some of the earliest contributions to the North Korean cult of personality ?
text: Did you know that a total of 11 different professional wrestling championships have been defended at the recurring Caravana de Campeones , spread out between shows in 2008 , 2009 , 2011 , May and August 2012 , August and November 2013 , 2014 , and 2015 ?
text: Did you know that Green Flake was one of the first African-Americans to enter the Salt Lake Valley ?
text: Did you know that Lionel Rose silenced the crowd at an event honouring Queen Elizabeth II by yelling "shut up"?
text: Did you know that in 1897, Northern Territory nurse Hannah Wood was trapped when her house collapsed during a tropical cyclone ?
text: Did you know that S-type stars have bands of zirconium monoxide in their spectrum?
text: Did you know that Wikipedian of the Year Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight has cited cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead as an influence on her writing?
text: Did you know that the EP Mr.Mr. by Girls' Generation was described as "expand[ing] their musical reach" and "experimenting into new sonic territory"?
text: Did you know that "Nixon's Rabbi", Baruch Korff , was part of an unbroken line of rabbis going back 73 generations?
text: Did you know that BARF does not coordinate ?
text: Did you know that Kari Lövaas appeared in the premiere of Orff's De temporum fine comoedia at the Salzburg Festival ?
text: Did you know that in May 1762, the crew of HMS Active earned more than 33 years of wages from the capture of a single Spanish vessel?
text: Did you know that the grey possumwood can be a desirable garden plant on account of its flowers?
text: Did you know that film producer and director Henry S. Kesler was the grandson of LDS prophet Joseph F. Smith ?
text: Did you know that gender inequality in South Korea is illustrated by a Global Gender Gap Report indicator which shows that South Korean women earn on average about 55% of what men earn ?
text: Did you know that Teresa Feoderovna Ries ' first exhibition at the Vienna Künstlerhaus included a sculpture of a nude witch snipping her toenails, making Ries an overnight sensation?
text: Did you know that Thomas Draper , who introduced the legislation to allow women to stand for parliament in Western Australia , became the first Australian parliamentarian to lose his seat to a woman?
text: Did you know that Roya Sadat and her sister Alka Sadat , directors of feature films and documentaries in the post Taliban regime in Afghanistan , established the Roya Film House?
text: Did you know that Chi Cygni is a variable star that is over 10,000 times brighter at its maximum than at its minimum?
text: Did you know that James Laurie proposed an elevated railroad over Broadway in 1853, fifteen years before New York City's first such line was built?
text: Did you know that the film Neerja is about Neerja Bhanot , who gave her life to help save 359 of the 379 passengers and crew on board Pan Am Flight 73 on 5 September 1986?
text: Did you know that the footballer Mark Bonner was forced to retire after suffering a broken arm during a league match against Port Vale in September 2005?
text: Did you know that Tingey House is the official residence of the Chief of Naval Operations of the United States Navy ?
text: Did you know that Esna was one of the songwriters of " Some ", which topped the Billboard Korea K-Pop Hot 100 for six weeks?
text: Did you know that the 1909 Varsity Match came to be known as Poulton's Match after Ronnie Poulton scored a record five tries ?
text: Did you know that Argentine president Fernando de la Rúa served for just two years, half of his term of office ?
text: Did you know that there is a Celebration for the Tennessee Walking Horse every year?
text: Did you know that in 1866 the eccentric legislator George Belly ʻŪkēkē suggested dog's and pig's teeth be reintroduced as currency in the Kingdom of Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that Indriati Iskak went from film star to psychologist to marketer?
text: Did you know that both the Royal Australian Air Force and the Australian Army have operated Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopters ?
text: Did you know that after leading Komeito to a large defeat in 2009, including losing his own seat, Akihiro Ota returned to the National Diet in 2012 and became a cabinet minister for the first time?
text: Did you know that one sportswriter called the 1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team "the first great Southern team"?
text: Did you know that Gerd Neggo trained with Rudolf von Laban in Hamburg , Germany, established her dance studio at Tallinn , Estonia, and promoted modern dance and mime based on classical ballet ?
text: Did you know that the serval has the longest legs of any cat relative to its body size?
text: Did you know that Margaret Gowing became the University of Oxford 's first professor of the history of science, despite not having a degree in history or science?
text: Did you know that though once thought to be sterile, the uterine microbiome contains at least 14 commensal microorganisms in healthy women?
text: Did you know that Tandra Paparayudu , who had rushed to the demolished Bobbili Fort to help his sister's family, killed the Raja of Vizianagaram and then committed suicide along with his accomplices?
text: Did you know that 4 Walls was the first release by girl group f(x) since member Sulli left the group?
text: Did you know that Jane Little was short in stature, played a large instrument , and was longest in tenure, setting a Guinness World Record at the Atlanta Symphony ?
text: Did you know that Brock Lesnar was used as a model for the appearance of the Armored Titan in Attack on Titan ?
text: Did you know that the tawny-breasted myiobius , the whiskered myiobius , and the black-tailed myiobius are all found in South American rainforests but tend to occupy different habitats?
text: Did you know that the second season of Daredevil was referred to internally as " Daredevil vs. the Punisher "?
text: Did you know that My Chemical Romance drummer Bob Bryar suffered third-degree burns on his arms and legs during the filming of the music video for " Famous Last Words "?
text: Did you know that Moog for Love was the first record by Disclosure not to feature writing contributions from Jimmy Napes ?
text: Did you know that cricket journalist Tony Munro was born with dwarfism ?
text: Did you know that a man received a warranty guaranteeing him Beauty on Little Mahantango Creek in 1793?
text: Did you know that the professional golfer Walter Toogood died in a lunatic asylum ?
text: Did you know that the wildlife of South Korea includes wild boar which come into cities to look for food, and can potentially kill people?
text: Did you know that in January 2016, Armando Cabada resigned as news director of XHIJ-TDT in order to run for municipal president of Ciudad Juárez ?
text: Did you know that the SS Jacona was the world's first seagoing electric generator powership ?
text: Did you know that Farida Arriany won a Best Leading Actress at the 1960 Indonesian Film Week ?
text: Did you know that Julian Lage , a jazz guitarist, recorded his album ARCLIGHT on a Fender Telecaster ?
text: Did you know that the poet and playwright Ferdinand Dugué saw the tradition of French theatre endangered by "pornography, music hall and cinema"?
text: Did you know that a one megaton nuclear weapon can create a radar -opaque nuclear blackout disk hundreds of kilometers across?
text: Did you know that singer-songwriter Whang Bo-ryung ' s third album was written in a calming acoustic style as a response to chaotic world events such as the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster ?
text: Did you know that the fossil ant Ceratomyrmex has modified jaws, possibly for catching large prey?
text: Did you know that Yukiko Sakamoto was the first woman vice-governor of Shizuoka Prefecture ?
text: Did you know that Tiny Town was the first complete modern city built in miniature?
text: Did you know that the Stonewall National Monument in New York City is the first U.S. National Monument dedicated to LGBT history ?
text: Did you know that the odour of urine after eating asparagus , which was described by Arbuthnot as "foetid" and by Benjamin Franklin as "disagreeable", was compared to "a flask of perfume" by Marcel Proust ?
text: Did you know that E. Keith Eddington was commissioned to design the current hymn book for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ?
text: Did you know that although the IUCN at one time considered Macleay's dorcopsis to be a vulnerable species , it is now rated as " least concern "?
text: Did you know that the Medical Women's Federation was formed in the UK in 1917 and has acted to address workplace and educational grievances of female doctors ?
text: Did you know that Qriously was voted "worst name in ad-tech" in an Ad Age poll, beating Vungle, Nanigans, AdsWizz, and Burt?
text: Did you know that the 12th-century prince Fadl ibn Rabi'ah was the ancestor of the Al Fadl dynasty , which dominated the Bedouin tribes of the Syrian Desert ?
text: Did you know that Felix Mendelssohn encouraged The Destruction of Jerusalem in Leipzig in 1840?
text: Did you know that Thomas J. Yates was the first released-time seminary teacher for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ?
text: Did you know that Brexit: The Movie , a documentary film advocating that the United Kingdom withdraw from the European Union, was crowdfunded by 1,800 contributors?
text: Did you know that Jennifer d'Abo was once described as a "serial female entrepreneur"?
text: Did you know that an actress and crew traveled 27,977 miles in 13 days to film the music video for Death Cab for Cutie 's " I Will Possess Your Heart "?
text: Did you know that Baba Sidhaye is regarded as the "first deaf and mute cricketer to have taken the field"?
text: Did you know that London's Pall Mall owes its name to a 17th-century ball game similar to croquet ?
text: Did you know that being a thrifty man, bibliographer Ioan Bianu raised cows on Romanian Academy grounds in downtown Bucharest ?
text: Did you know that Lois Jones led the first all-woman science team to Antarctica in 1969?
text: Did you know that when Glasgow Records could not find a suitable singer to perform their dance tunes, they decided instead to create one ?
text: Did you know that Agustín Basave Benítez was a federal deputy for just 69 days prior to becoming president of the Mexican Party of the Democratic Revolution ?
text: Did you know that Ein as-Sahla was established as a daughter village of Barta'a in the 19th century?
text: Did you know that according to her daughter Ali Wentworth , Muffie Cabot , a former social secretary to First Lady Nancy Reagan , "will choose a bath over a shower, a play over a movie, and the ocean over a pool"?
text: Did you know that in 1300, the Bulgarian Patriarch Joachim III was charged with treason and executed by the newly crowned Emperor Theodore Svetoslav ?
text: Did you know that Senator Chris Murphy launched a filibuster in the United States Senate promising to hold the floor "for as long as I can", or until Congress acted on gun control legislation ?
text: Did you know that an early predecessor of the pop out cake was a pie from which a dwarf emerged for Charles I of England in 1626?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Truswell used ancient pollen to show that plants existed in Antarctica before the ice cap formed?
text: Did you know that it took Setting Sun three attempts to win a World Grand Championship ?
text: Did you know that Henry King , the bandleader of the Burns and Allen radio program, received special dispensation for his marriage?
text: Did you know that the escape of 29 political prisoners in Segovia in 1976 was Spain's largest prison break since its civil war ?
text: Did you know that in 2004 Ellen F. Golden queried U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry on the subject of women in business during a national conference call heard by 2,000 female entrepreneurs?
text: Did you know that the musical style of South Korean band Smacksoft was described as "a fantastic, densely-layered hybrid sound of post-punk , rock and electronica "?
text: Did you know that James "Bungy" Watson's nickname was the word used at The King's School, Canterbury , for a rubber ?
text: Did you know that the lyrics of Girls' Generation 's song " Party " mention drinking lemon soju , mojito and tequila ?
text: Did you know that The Imitation Game producer Nora Grossman persuaded Andrew Hodges to let her turn his book into a film even though she had no producing experience?
text: Did you know that 2016 has seen widespread rioting and unrest across Sweden ?
text: Did you know that Tropical Storm Colin was the earliest third tropical storm ever recorded in an Atlantic hurricane season ?
text: Did you know that starting in 1991, Neil Armstrong hosted an aviation television series, First Flights with Neil Armstrong ?
text: Did you know that most red algae store energy from the sun as Floridean starch ?
text: Did you know that John of Brienne , who lost the Kingdom of Jerusalem to his son-in-law in 1225, won the Latin Empire of Constantinople as his other son-in-law's co-ruler in 1229?
text: Did you know that the food fight scene from Cheers ' Thanksgiving episode was shot twice, resulting in a strong odor around the set?
text: Did you know that Javier Corral , the Governor-elect of Chihuahua , is named for the singer Javier Solís , who died several months before his birth?
text: Did you know that radio station WRGG-LP uses the same format and broadcast tower as the now-defunct WKSL , which was created by the father of one of WRGG's co-founders?
text: Did you know that production designer Hannah Beachler based some outdoor scenes in the Miles Davis biopic Miles Ahead on old silent footage somebody had posted on YouTube ?
text: Did you know that Japan's National Basketball League and bj league have merged to create the B.League ?
text: Did you know that Mitt Romney's March 3 speech represented an unprecedented attack by a major U.S. party's most recent presidential nominee against the party's current front-runner for the nomination?
text: Did you know that Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips turned down offers for the film rights to their comic The Fade Out because they were afraid accepting them would affect the way the book was written?
text: Did you know that Jack Polito , brother of actor Jon Polito , was inspired to become an animator after seeing the 1933 film King Kong ?
text: Did you know that three Iranian diplomats and a journalist were kidnapped in Lebanon by Phalange forces almost 34 years ago, and their fate remains unknown?
text: Did you know that in February 2016, fake documents were sent to Companies House claiming that Katrien Meire had resigned as chief executive of Charlton Athletic F.C. ?
text: Did you know that between 1889 and 1917, the campus of East Texas Normal College burned on three separate occasions?
text: Did you know that changes to T'Pol 's costume in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " The Xindi " were made to appeal to the 18–49 male demographic?
text: Did you know that Constance of Antioch was kidnapped to be married at the age of nine?
text: Did you know that Brad Kern cited the nature versus nurture debate as one of the issues related to Christy Jenkins ?
text: Did you know that the Ferrari 330 TRI/LM , the last front engined racecar to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans , was driven regularly in New York City after the end of its racing career?
text: Did you know that in 1880, the sixteen-year-old composer Richard Strauss wrote his First Symphony in just three months, whilst still at school?
text: Did you know that Porth Wen Brickworks on the north coast of Anglesey made fire bricks from locally quarried quartzite ?
text: Did you know that actors Peter Mullan and Jack Lowden , who portray pioneering golfing legends Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris in the 2016 film Tommy's Honour , had no prior experience with golf?
text: Did you know that the Padma Bhushan , along with other Indian civilian awards , was briefly suspended in the 1990s ?
text: Did you know that Hamza Ali died at age 20, having already played first-class cricket for Hampshire County Cricket Club and List A cricket for Rawalpindi Rams ?
text: Did you know that pit vipers eat Amazonian hocicudos ?
text: Did you know that Dutch Nazi, actor, and theater critic Adriaan van Hees became depressed when he discovered he was part Jewish, but still volunteered for the SS —and was denied?
text: Did you know that Helen Fricker was a member of the first group to drill into an Antarctic subglacial lake ?
text: Did you know that on Christian rock band MercyMe 's 2009 album 10 , they re-recorded their song " I Can Only Imagine " at Abbey Road Studios with the London Session Orchestra?
text: Did you know that a fort was built at al-Ukhaydir in reaction to the poisoning of its well by the Bedouin ?
text: Did you know that the Scotland rugby international Rowland Fraser was killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme , 10 days after getting married?
text: Did you know that Coralloidoolithus , a type of dinosaur egg from Asia, was originally thought to be a type of Paraspheroolithus ?
text: Did you know that Bernie Sanders' Dank Meme Stash , a Facebook group with over 400,000 members, inspired the creation of Bernie Singles , a dating website for supporters of US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders ?
text: Did you know that Omar Mateen , who in June 2016 committed the deadliest mass shooting in the United States by a single gunman, previously appeared in the documentary film The Big Fix ?
text: Did you know that Portadown F.C. will start the 2016–17 NIFL Premiership on −12 points for paying an amateur player?
text: Did you know that Ruthie Tompson was offered a job by Walt Disney while working at the riding club where he played polo ?
text: Did you know that Bikini Kill recorded three different versions of their song " Rebel Girl "?
text: Did you know that Dwight D. Eisenhower requested Dean Fausett 's Derby View painting hang in his office in the White House during his administration?
text: Did you know that fans of Overwatch have turned one of its characters, D.Va , into an internet meme, often featuring her eating Doritos and drinking Mountain Dew?
text: Did you know that the 2016 OFC Nations Cup Final was the first such final to be decided on penalties?
text: Did you know that the South Korean student movement of the 1980s played a key role in the democratization of their country ?
text: Did you know that Mary Farrar , a victims' advocate for over 20 years, had an older brother who was shot and killed during a robbery at their family's scrap metal business?
text: Did you know that the Laguna Amarga caldera in Argentina is associated with an ignimbrite of 630 cubic kilometres (150 cu mi)?
text: Did you know that Lewis Robertson offered to give up the captaincy of the Army rugby team because he felt he was out of form?
text: Did you know that Fallout 4: Far Harbor had to be re-released in order to fix performance issues with the PlayStation 4 version?
text: Did you know that Bishop Pavao Dragičević may have selected Elijah as patron saint of Bosnia and Herzegovina due to his veneration by the country's Muslims , Catholics , and Orthodox Christians ?
text: Did you know that Mark Barrott originally planned his second studio album Sketches from an Island 2 to be an extended play ?
text: Did you know that W. Wallace Kellett made the first autogyro used by the United States Post Office Department for carrying mail?
text: Did you know that the character of Dr. Jim Craig on One Life to Live was played by actor Nat Polen from 1969 until Polen's death in 1981?
text: Did you know that Heber Robert McBride was an immigrant to the U.S. who traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with the Martin Handcart Company ?
text: Did you know that the 1912 Futurist painting Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash was inspired by Giacomo Balla 's fascination with chronophotography ?
text: Did you know that the footballer Derek Dougan handed in a transfer request the day before he played in the 1960 FA Cup Final ?
text: Did you know that the clothing historian Janet Arnold was still working on clothes for the Mermaid Theatre just two days before her death from lymphoma ?
text: Did you know that the Soviet 17th Mechanized Corps lost all of its armored vehicles in the Battle of Białystok–Minsk ?
text: Did you know that Mexican parliamentarian Hortensia Aragón Castillo 's alternate deputy is her sister?
text: Did you know that East Texas State Teachers College president James G. Gee declared Sam Rayburn , the congressman and college alumnus, "my personal enemy", during a faculty meeting?
text: Did you know that Roy Thomas Severn established the biggest centre for the study of earthquake engineering in the UK?
text: Did you know that after taking up arms against Hungary during the failed 1848 revolution , Ioan Pușcariu , an ethnic Romanian , returned to work in Hungarian government service for decades?
text: Did you know that exhibits in the Sudha Cars Museum have found their way onto Ripley's Believe It or Not! ?
text: Did you know that Yuuki Tanaka led Waseda University women's tennis team to their fifth consecutive All-Japan championship in 2010?
text: Did you know that all four of the American Party of South Carolina 's candidates in the state's 2014 elections lost?
text: Did you know that Melchisedec Ștefănescu was the only Romanian bishop to support the secularization of monastic estates ?
text: Did you know that a judge shot a doctor at Exeter Racecourse during the last duel in Devon?
text: Did you know that rookie Green Bay Packers offensive lineman Jason Spriggs was named a first team All-American in his senior year of college?
text: Did you know that the Mexico City wrestling commission did not allow promoter Joaquín Roldán to be at the ringside for Triplemanía XVI as he was not a licensed active competitor?
text: Did you know that in his will, Humphrey Stafford left his household servants £1 each, his grooms 6s.8d each, his pages 3s.4d each, and £8 for masses for his soul?
text: Did you know that the Sugababes ' fragrances Tempt, Tease and Touch were among The Perfume Shop 's first releases after opening in-store outlets in Superdrug stores?
text: Did you know that Hero of the Soviet Union Andrey Shebalkov was deprived of his title on charges of sending anti-Soviet letters?
text: Did you know that the recreation of Botticelli's The Birth of Venus by the Indian realist painter Gopal Swami Khetanchi showed a pearl-clad Rajasthani woman coming out of a lotus?
text: Did you know that Carl Sagan lived in an Egyptian Revival tomb built on a cliff halfway down a gorge ?
text: Did you know that in 1949, the Bristol Rovers footballer Vic Lambden married one of his team's fans?
text: Did you know that " Elector Under Will of Oliver Smith " is the title of an elected official in some towns in Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know that philosopher Tamara Horowitz stopped looking in mirrors for two years in her twenties?
text: Did you know that Petra Lang , who performed the parts of Brangäne and Ortrud at the Bayreuth Festival as a mezzo-soprano, was the Isolde of 2016?
text: Did you know that fearsome Hindu and Buddhist deities are depicted wearing a garland of severed human heads ?
text: Did you know that future New Jersey Assemblyman Arthur Barclay won the state Tournament of Champions as basketball team captain, alongside future NBA player Dajuan Wagner ?
text: Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II was presented with a crate of ale when she visited the Bridge Inn, Topsham ?
text: Did you know that author Annette Lyon loves chocolate so much that she helped out with the Utah Chocolate Show, and wrote her own chocolate cookbook?
text: Did you know that the outer bark of the downy birch can be stripped off without killing the tree, to make canoes, drinking vessels and roof tiles?
text: Did you know that the director David Pountney was once part of a mercantile silence, but now is part of the noise?
text: Did you know that according to legend, Mekhala and Kanakhala decapitated themselves and danced headless to please their guru?
text: Did you know that CANDLE syndrome was categorized in 2010, with symptoms including skin lesions, organ inflammation, and recurrent fever?
text: Did you know that the philosopher Lisa Bortolotti argues that the irrationality of delusions does not stop them from being beliefs ?
text: Did you know that the case of the 1996 killing of Sharon Lopatka was reportedly the first time a police department arrested a murder suspect with evidence gathered primarily from email messages?
text: Did you know that federal deputy Delia Guerrero Coronado previously was the head of nursing at the general hospital of Ciudad Valles , San Luis Potosí ?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Casson set up an early occupational therapy school with funds borrowed from her brother Lewis ?
text: Did you know that in Hindu mythology , the demon Kalanemi who was killed by Vishnu , was reborn as Kamsa to be eventually killed by Vishnu's reincarnation Krishna ?
text: Did you know that Mexican politician Joaquín Díaz Mena managed a Cancún hotel, taught Telesecundaria classes, and was involved in ranching?
text: Did you know that Mabel Mudge became the longest-serving landlady in the UK in 1995, having run the Drewe Arms, Drewsteignton , for 75 years?
text: Did you know that the song " War Paint " performed by American singer Fletcher was the most shared song on Spotify in the United States for the week commencing June 29, 2015?
text: Did you know that the association footballer Willie Carlin accepted a transfer to Derby County after his wife declared that she wanted to move away from Sheffield ?
text: Did you know that according to Atsushi Inaba , the development of Bayonetta almost "broke" PlatinumGames ?
text: Did you know that Anne-Marie shared a stage with Jessie J as a kid?
text: Did you know that the Soviet 20th Mechanized Corps was almost entirely destroyed during the Battle of Białystok–Minsk and the Battle of Smolensk ?
text: Did you know that Claudia Corichi García 's arrival in the Citizens' Movement party prompted its director in the state of Zacatecas to resign?
text: Did you know that before Charles Douglas Carpendale was hired to become John Reith 's second-in-command to lead the BBC, he was a Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy ?
text: Did you know that ballet dancer Herman Cornejo is "not a fairy-tale prince", but "a believable, 21st-century hero"?
text: Did you know that in 2010 Joanne M. Maguire became the first woman to receive the International von Kármán Wings Award?
text: Did you know that Miami Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton has hit the hardest batted ball , recorded at 123.9 miles per hour (199.4 km/h) by Major League Baseball 's Statcast ?
text: Did you know that Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo was jailed after protesting fraud in the 1993 election for municipal president of Tepic , Nayarit , which he lost?
text: Did you know the Watersnoodmuseum (Flood Museum) in Ouwerkerk is housed in Phoenix caissons that were originally built for the Normandy landings in World War II?
text: Did you know that in 2015 Stéphane Sparagna captained the France national under-20 football team to their first Toulon Tournament title in seven years?
text: Did you know that since the Beatles ' audio engineer Geoff Emerick used to smoke Everest cigarettes , Abbey Road was originally planned to be titled Mount Everest , Everest or Ever Rest ?
text: Did you know that the historic district of Pingjiang Road in Suzhou was featured in the Southern Song Dynasty map Pingjiang Tu , produced in the year 1229?
text: Did you know that Jorge Estefan Chidiac has served on the Finances and Public Credit Commission in each of his three terms in the Chamber of Deputies ?
text: Did you knowthat awards for The Danish Girl included the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Alicia Vikander 's portrayal of Danish painter Gerda Wegener ?
text: Did you know that Red Army Major General Pyotr Georgyevich Novikov died in the Flossenbürg concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that Qal'eh Hasan Ali , originally considered a group of impact craters , is instead a group of maars that may have formed within the last 50,000 years?
text: Did you know that, after visiting fascist Italy , Herbert Schneider wrote to John Dewey that "a whole new world of the imagination has been created"?
text: Did you know that the footballer Jordan Green worked as a supermarket shelf-stacker before earning his first professional contract?
text: Did you know that The Andy Griffith Show was ranked number 1 by Nielsen during its final season?
text: Did you know that on August 20, 1998, President Bill Clinton ordered cruise missile strikes on Osama bin Laden 's Afghan training camps and a Sudanese pharmaceutical plant ?
text: Did you know that Ross Adams worked as a script editor on the soap opera Emmerdale before he was cast as Scott Drinkwell in Hollyoaks ?
text: Did you know that Tomás Ruiz González was the first president of the Mexican Tax Administration Service?
text: Did you know that Greater Port Harcourt encompasses eight local government areas of Rivers State , Nigeria?
text: Did you know that the fungal pathogen Cristulariella depraedans affects sycamore and maple trees and sometimes has epidemic years?
text: Did you know that composer Harcourt Whyte suffered from leprosy ?
text: Did you know that the Sir Ralph Abercromby public house in Manchester, UK, is the only remaining building in St Peter's Field from the time of the Peterloo Massacre in 1819?
text: Did you know that in between her two terms in the Chamber of Deputies , Sandra Méndez Hernández spent two years as municipal president of Tultitlán , State of Mexico ?
text: Did you know that Peter Paige originally auditioned for the role of Ted Schmidt in the American version of Queer as Folk ?
text: Did you know that Nine Partners Creek has a tributary named Leslie Creek , is also known as "Leslie Creek", and has been called a tributary of Leslie Creek?
text: Did you know that the eastern spiny mouse can shed its tail in order to escape from a predator?
text: Did you know that brothers Derek and Callum Hawkins have been selected to represent Great Britain in the marathon at the 2016 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that before recording the Evita soundtrack , Madonna trained with vocal coach Joan Lader to increase her confidence?
text: Did you know that cyclist Callum Skinner was the inaugural winner of a trophy named after Chris Hoy , the man who inspired him to take up the sport?
text: Did you know that one reviewer argued that the 2014 book Highland Park and River Oaks laid too much emphasis on Spanish architecture ?
text: Did you know that Edwin Stevens , reporting from his missionary position in Qing-era China , felt that recent erections indicated apprehension, and penetration was difficult?
text: Did you know that Javier Guerrero García is considered a potential contender for the Institutional Revolutionary Party nomination for Governor of Coahuila in 2017?
text: Did you know that the Guinness World Records listed Madonna under the category of Most Costume Changes in a Film , for wearing 85 dresses in Evita ?
text: Did you know that "MARB" at Brigham Young University is named after agronomist Thomas L. Martin ?
text: Did you know that The Verge identified " Don't talk to me or my son ever again " as the "meme of the summer" of 2016?
text: Did you know that Dan Bibby scored the golden point for Great Britain in their recent Olympic rugby sevens quarter-final?
text: Did you know that in order to secure the crown for her sons, the Dioclean queen Jaquinta of Bari had a brother-in-law beheaded, another blinded and castrated, a nephew poisoned and another beheaded?
text: Did you know that a bill presented by Federico Döring in the Mexican Senate was compared to the Stop Online Piracy Act in the United States?
text: Did you know that The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at Disney California Adventure will be re-themed as Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: Breakout! in 2017?
text: Did you know that musician and model Katelynne Cox also worked as a congressional aide ?
text: Did you know that Va tacito e nascosto uses the sound of the horn to symbolize the dramatic theme of the hunt ?
text: Did you know that Nepalese taekwondo practitioner Nisha Rawal received one of four Tripartite Commission wildcards to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Gulabrai Ramchand was one of the first cricketers to have endorsed commercial brands?
text: Did you know that when the Verrückt opened in July 2014, it surpassed the Kilimanjaro at Aldeia das Águas Park Resort to become the world's tallest water slide ?
text: Did you know that the Australian Greco-Roman wrestler Vinod Kumar Dahiya was once pushed from a moving train by the father of one of his rivals?
text: Did you know that Baltazar Martínez Montemayor , a former town councilor in Cerralvo, Nuevo León , is the father of the current mayor, the youngest in the state?
text: Did you know that the association footballer Fred Keenor captained the only non-English team to win the FA Cup Final ?
text: Did you know that the Holby City production team built a new set featuring real pharmaceutical equipment for the introduction of the character Amy Teo ?
text: Did you know that the American engineer John J. Coit , who built and operated miniature railways, died when his locomotive ran into a cow?
text: Did you know that actress Shriya Pilgaonkar trained to become a professional swimmer as a child, and won several medals at school?
text: Did you know that Fort Michni, one of two recognised towns of Doaba Daudzai Tehsil , had a population of 205 males and 3 females in 1881?
text: Did you know that Indian Air Marshal Jasbir Walia served as a qualified flying instructor, a pilot attack instructor, and a fighter combat leader?
text: Did you know that police tipped off the owner of Babette's Supper Club before they raided its illegal backroom casino, and gamblers escaped through a trap door?
text: Did you know that Kate French qualified for the modern pentathlon at the 2016 Summer Olympics after missing just one target in the final event of the 2015 European Championships ?
text: Did you know that 55 years after her death, Catherine Hilda Duleep Singh was found to have secreted away jewels and had a Swiss bank account,  with a combined total of over 137,000 francs ?
text: Did you know that Bryony Page is Great Britain's first-ever Olympic medallist in trampolining ?
text: Did you know that " Stay with Me till Dawn " was Judie Tzuke 's only UK top 40 single?
text: Did you know that Nicole Moerig has competed in road races such as the Amgen Tour of California , Silver City's Tour of the Gila , the Tour de Bretagne Féminin , and the 2016 Women's Tour de Yorkshire ?
text: Did you know that the gothic arches of the Grade I listed Avon Bridge cannot be seen due to a later girder bridge widening it?
text: Did you know that Asnage Castelly first had to create the Haitian Wrestling Federation before being allowed to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics as his nation's first Olympic wrestler?
text: Did you know that around the turn of the 20th century, New Jersey amber was burned for heat in the winter?
text: Did you know that the Heron Road Workers Memorial Bridge in Ottawa was renamed in 2016 to commemorate the victims of the deadliest construction accident in Ontario ' s history?
text: Did you know that London County Council Chief Whip Freda Corbet was known within her party as the 'tiny tyrant'?
text: Did you know that Kelly's of Cornwall produced the first advertisement shown on national British television to feature the Cornish language ?
text: Did you know that taekwondo practitioner Raheleh Asemani was born in Iran and qualified for the 2016 Olympics as a refugee athlete, but competes at the Games as part of the Belgian team ?
text: Did you know that dead moll's fingers are generally more slender than dead man's fingers ?
text: Did you know that Emily Clarissa Blackman became an assistant teacher at age 15, published a book of Susquehanna County history in 1873, and could allegedly read the Bible in ten languages?
text: Did you know that in 1974 the anthropologist Reina Torres de Araúz was the first woman distinguished as a full member of the Panamanian Academy of History?
text: Did you know that Jonathan Brownlee collapsed almost immediately after crossing the finish line at the men's triathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that in 1555 Gabriel Pleydell was found guilty of ring-leading a plot to exile Mary I of England ?
text: Did you know that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology biochemist Jack Buchanan published his work on purine biosynthesis in a series of more than 20 papers in the Journal of Biological Chemistry ?
text: Did you know that Austin 's historic federal courthouse may become a homeless shelter ?
text: Did you know that Margaret Ursula Jones directed work at Mucking , the largest archaeological excavation ever undertaken in Britain, for thirteen years, while living on site year round in a small caravan?
text: Did you know that to promote Mad Max , Warner Bros invited artists to create artwork on their vehicles with dust, and partnered with Uber for a free ride special offer?
text: Did you know that Aslaug Haviland was known as "Utah's Helen Keller "?
text: Did you know that American software firm Cylance Inc. uncovered Operation Cleaver , a planned Iranian cyberwarfare operation targeting critical infrastructure organizations globally?
text: Did you know that Norwich City F.C. joint majority shareholder Michael Wynn-Jones attended his first Norwich match in 1953?
text: Did you know that the Python Package Index is also known as the Cheese Shop, a reference to the Monty Python sketch?
text: Did you know that while in the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District , Vidal Llerenas Morales presented initiatives supporting the legalization of marijuana ?
text: Did you know that KGB mole Aldrich Ames enabled the Soviet Union and Russia to funnel disinformation to the CIA for eight years?
text: Did you know that Jim Morrison recorded some vocals for the Doors' L.A. Woman in a bathroom doorway?
text: Did you know that the desert dormouse hibernates for nearly half the year?
text: Did you know that Charles Soule , creator of the comic book series Star Wars: Poe Dameron , writes English dialogue for the droid BB-8 which is later translated into "bleeps and bloops" for the comic?
text: Did you know that two hands can sound like three ?
text: Did you know that in February 2016, Olympic sprinter Alex Hartmann ran the fastest 200 metres by an Australian since 2006?
text: Did you know that Pope Francis ' apostolic constitution Vultum Dei quaerere amended Catholic canon law pertaining to women's contemplative life ?
text: Did you know that " The Dowry of the Angyar " was the first story set in the fictional Hainish Universe ?
text: Did you know that in 2000, Susan Hanson became the first female geographer to be elected to both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ?
text: Did you know that serial rapists are more likely to be strangers to their victims than single-victim rapists?
text: Did you know that Alice Franklin toured Canada to encourage the locals to accept immigrant women who couldn't find husbands in Britain following World War I ?
text: Did you know that along with her classmates at the Chiefs' Children's School , Mary Polly Paʻaʻāina was chosen by King Kamehameha III to be eligible for the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that Max Reger was inspired by his teacher's chorale fantasia to compose Zwei Choralphantasien , Op. 40 ?
text: Did you know that José Alfredo Torres Huitrón is the son of a former mayor of Ecatepec de Morelos , the city he represents in the Chamber of Deputies ?
text: Did you know that the brown-headed crow is presumed to have an unknown habitat requirement that prevents it from having a continuous range in Indonesia ?
text: Did you know that Romanian poet Petre Stoica , assigned to study German by a dean meeting a quota, later became an accomplished translator of German-language authors?
text: Did you know that Protestant missionary Robert Morrison complained that the first Protestant convert in mainland China was "not so docile as I could wish?"
text: Did you know that the song " Up in the Air " by Thirty Seconds to Mars premiered from the International Space Station in March 2013?
text: Did you know that while he was mayor of Portland , Neal Dow ordered state militia troops to fire upon people protesting his Prohibition law?
text: Did you know that NASA helped in the development of The Martian ?
text: Did you know that after he was arrested and charged with murdering his wife who disappeared 20 years ago today, Perry March tried to have his in-laws killed?
text: Did you know that Yona Knight-Wisdom is the first male Jamaican diver to compete at the Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that some long-tailed spiny rats do not have tails at all?
text: Did you know that when artist Annie Poon was a child, her mother gave her a nickel for each artist she could identify?
text: Did you know that Inca figurines have been found on the Acamarachi volcano?
text: Did you know that George Blowers presented his household pets to the US National Zoo whilst governor of the Central Bank of Liberia ?
text: Did you know that in 1797, a wealthy Irish heiress was abducted to Vernon Mount and subjected to a forced marriage ceremony?
text: Did you know that the footballer Joe Cassidy lost 22 lb (10 kg) during the 1924–25 season, due to a severe case of influenza ?
text: Did you know that the release of the 2016 video game This Is the Police was delayed due to a publisher error?
text: Did you know that baseball player Bake McBride missed most of the 1982 season due to an eye infection related to his contact lenses?
text: Did you know that in 2011, a field of red poppies, cornflowers, and marigolds was planted alongside the M32 motorway in Bristol to improve the view?
text: Did you know that Edgardo Melhem Salinas received the second-most votes out of all Mexican federal deputies in the 2015 elections ?
text: Did you know that the 1986 sex comedy The Decline of the American Empire was the first Canadian film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ?
text: Did you know that Elwin Cockett was chaplain to West Ham United F.C. for 20 years?
text: Did you know that in a 1931 Prohibition-era raid on the Clicquot Club of Atlantic City, New Jersey , Federal agents "poured several thousand dollars worth of alleged whiskies and champagnes down a drain"?
text: Did you know that siblings Miguel Ángel and Alma Lilia Luna Munguía were slated to compete against each other for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies until the former was murdered in his campaign office?
text: Did you know that the 1992 essay collection Black Dixie has been called "an excellent example of African-American history, of urban history, and of collaborative effort"?
text: Did you know that Green Bay Packers rookie linebacker Kyler Fackrell took a year off after high school and painted houses for a living instead of playing college football?
text: Did you know that the New York City Subway stations of Flushing–Main Street and Norwood–205th Street both have provisions for unbuilt subway extensions?
text: Did you know that Alice of Champagne claimed the Kingdom of Jerusalem , because its infant king, Conrad , had failed to take possession of it within a year and a day after the death of his mother?
text: Did you know that Bill Palatucci , the planned presidential transition head for Donald Trump , does not like to be hugged?
text: Did you know that Ben St Lawrence qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics on the first day of the qualification window?
text: Did you know that 36 years after taking his first job in the city government, Pablo Bedolla López was elected municipal president of Ecatepec de Morelos , State of Mexico ?
text: Did you know that local aboriginal folklore claims they helped shape the current course of the Murray River after its route was modified by the uplift of the Cadell Fault ?
text: Did you know that in 2015 Swedish Olympic pole vaulter Melker Svärd Jacobsson suffered an injury that doctors could not diagnose for eight months?
text: Did you know that Peter Skewes is the nominee of the American Party of South Carolina in the 2016 United States presidential election ?
text: Did you know that at the 2012 Summer Olympics , Bhutan was one of two nations to have only female competitors?
text: Did you know that Harry Diddlebock was a sportswriter for 17 years before becoming manager of baseball's St. Louis Browns ?
text: Did you know that " Hari Kemenangan " is Siti Nurhaliza 's first Eid al-Fitr single in more than 10 years?
text: Did you know that John L. Harmer was appointed by Ronald Reagan to serve as Lieutenant Governor of California for three months, after the resignation of Edwin Reinecke ?
text: Did you know that the gray tree rat is nocturnal and feeds mainly on fruit?
text: Did you know that in June 2016, Indian long jumper Ankit Sharma broke the national record twice in one day and qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Noemí Guzmán Lagunes earned her undergraduate degree two years after she was elected municipal president of Teocelo ?
text: Did you know that the British Olympic swimmer Stephen Milne studied in Perth, Scotland , and trained in Perth, Australia ?
text: Did you know that Heckell's thread-finned acara is a South American freshwater fish that has turned up in Singapore?
text: Did you know that for nearly 25 years, Liborio Vidal Aguilar has donated his salary earned as a public official in Yucatán to charitable causes?
text: Did you know that fan video blogs created by Kaitlyn Vincie on NASCAR racing attracted enough success that they were shown on stock car racing website SceneDaily?
text: Did you know that San Blas jays and purplish-backed jays both form social groups which cooperate in the raising of young?
text: Did you know that 2016 Olympian Rhydian Cowley was inspired when a rival athlete received an Olympic gold medal four years after competing?
text: Did you know that fur and bone fragments from what is thought to be a Maule tuco-tuco have been found in 5,000-year-old owl pellets ?
text: Did you know that the sailor Charlotte Dobson , who was first selected for the Scottish national team at the age of 14, is competing at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 49erFX event alongside Sophie Ainsworth ?
text: Did you know that just over four months after Pagano made his in-ring debut for AAA , he will work the main event of Triplemanía XXIV , the company's biggest show of the year?
text: Did you know that María del Carmen Pinete Vargas was the first woman to head the Veracruz state organization of Movimiento Territorial, a branch of the PRI ?
text: Did you know that the British long-distance runner Jess Andrews qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics after beating her personal best in the 10,000 metres by 83 seconds?
text: Did you know that Green Bay Packers rookie linebacker Blake Martinez was described as a "business-minded machine" at stopping running backs ?
text: Did you know that grapefruit juice may amplify the antihypertensive effect of lercanidipine ?
text: Did you know that in 2014, Danish Olympic rower Jacob Barsøe was part of a crew that won gold medals at both the European and World championships and was nominated for the World Rowing Crew of the Year award?
text: Did you know that Prisma uses a neural network and artificial intelligence to edit pictures?
text: Did you know that Julián Nazar Morales has served on ranching commissions in each of his four terms in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies ?
text: Did you know that South African swimmer Douglas Erasmus met the qualification standard for the 50 metre freestyle at the 2016 Summer Olympics by 1/100th of a second?
text: Did you know that elegant quails make "chip-chip" calls to keep in touch as they forage on the ground?
text: Did you know that Brazilian Olympic badminton player Lohaynny Vicente won a silver medal in the doubles at the 2015 Pan American Games playing alongside her sister Luana ?
text: Did you know that environmental activists might be opposed to economic globalization , but advocate environmental globalization ?
text: Did you know that at the La Isla wrestling show, the International Wrestling Revolution Group supposedly hung a bag with 50,000 Mexican pesos ($3815) over the ring for eight wrestlers to compete for?
text: Did you know that American Olympic badminton player Iris Wang won a silver medal in the doubles at the 2011 Pan American Games playing alongside her sister Rena ?
text: Did you know that Bennett's chinchilla rat often shares a burrow with a degu , Chilean rock rat or long-tailed chinchilla ?
text: Did you know that in 2004, Alfredo Bejos Nicolás closed his dental practice in order to replace Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies ?
text: Did you know that İrem Karamete , daughter of an Olympian fencer mother, qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics as the first fencer from Turkey since 1984?
text: Did you know that Jeffrey Grey was the first non-American to become the president of the Society for Military History ?
text: Did you know that the parents of Indian judoka Avtar Singh reportedly gave him their life savings to travel to a 2016 tournament?
text: Did you know that a reviewer from The New York Times called the film Mr. Rice's Secret "bland and ordinary", apart from a scene where children unearth their neighbour ' s coffin?
text: Did you know that 17-year-old Georgia Coates is the youngest swimmer in Great Britain's team for the 2016 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the Paradise Club of Atlantic City, New Jersey had to reinforce its wooden stage floor with metal sheeting after novelty act Peg Leg Bates got stuck in it during his "Jet Plane" finale?
text: Did you know that Bailey's pocket mouse is the only rodent in the Sonoran Desert to eat jojoba nuts, because they are toxic to most other mammals?
text: Did you know that the educationist Elizabeth Lachlan was purportedly asked to be Queen Victoria 's governess?
text: Did you know that In a Chinese Temple Garden , an Oriental Phantasy for orchestra, was conducted by the composer Albert Ketèlbey in a historic recording?
text: Did you know that Ana María Boone Godoy , a member of the Radio and Television Commission of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies , is part-owner of a radio station in Monclova, Coahuila ?
text: Did you know that the 2015 drama Room won several awards including the Academy Award , BAFTA , and Golden Globe awards for Best Actress for Brie Larson , who played an abducted mother held captive for seven years?
text: Did you know that a player challenging the New York Yankees appearance policy by citing Jesus having long hair was told to walk on water if he wanted to be exempt from it?
text: Did you know that David McKeon and Emma McKeon are the first brother and sister selected to swim for Australia at the same Olympic Games since 1960?
text: Did you know that Bob Weir's inspiration for his upcoming solo album, Blue Mountain , was the time he worked as a 15-year-old ranch hand in Wyoming ?
text: Did you know that Josiah Holbrook organized the first industrial school in the United States?
text: Did you know that Luton Town Football Club won their first major trophy in 1988 ?
text: Did you know that Guy Pearce recommended Damien Richardson for a role in The Hard Word after acting alongside him in a play two years earlier?
text: Did you know that Green Bay Packers rookie defensive lineman Dean Lowry set a single-game school record with six tackles for loss in a game?
text: Did you know that Óscar García Barrón founded a union of cattle ranchers in Durango that had more than 22,000 members?
text: Did you know that the golden Oldfield mouse makes little paths among the mosses and liverworts growing along horizontal tree branches?
text: Did you know that film director Hur Jin-ho decided to make The Last Princess because he could not forget a scene from a documentary about Princess Deokhye ?
text: Did you know that Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Gene Brown taught the same biochemistry course for 50 years?
text: Did you know that Louis Victor Plessier is sometimes considered the first French general to be killed during World War I , though four other generals predeceased him?
text: Did you know that as a student, Einojuhani Rautavaara composed A Requiem in Our Time , a work for brass band and percussion?
text: Did you know that Edwin Ferdon was one of four archaeologists who traveled to Easter Island on an expedition with Thor Heyerdahl ?
text: Did you know that the terms of the 1796 Armistice of Bologna included payment in cash, goods, and works of art from the Papal States to France?
text: Did you know that the Domodedovo International Airport bombing in 2011 has been linked to the video game level No Russian ?
text: Did you know that Donald Trump never drank Trump Vodka ?
text: Did you know that in 2015, the National Confederation of Popular Organizations moved to a new headquarters described as the "most sinister building" in Mexico?
text: Did you know that when Yosef Rivlin said he would build a Jewish neighborhood outside the walls of Jerusalem and be the first to live there, his family thought he was possessed by a dybbuk ?
text: Did you know that the Twin Towers were viewed as an iconic symbol of Wembley Stadium?
text: Did you know that botanist Dame Margaret Blackwood studied pine trees and maize, and had a species of fungus named after her?
text: Did you know that on Easter morning 1972, Black Mafia members gunned down a rival operative at Atlantic City's Club Harlem in full view of a show audience of some 600 people?
text: Did you know that Irish Olympic boxer Steven Donnelly quit the sport for two years after being sent home from the 2010 Commonwealth Games ?
text: Did you know that Nigerian Olympic boxer Efe Ajagba won medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and the 2015 African Games ?
text: Did you know that during the Battle of Gadara , the victorious Nabataean force used a large number of camels in the form of a bulldozer to push the opposing Hasmoneans into a deep valley?
text: Did you know that by custom, the President of Lebanon must be a Maronite Christian ?
text: Did you know that soap opera writer Agnes Nixon cast actress Doris Belack to play Anna Wolek on the first episode of One Life to Live in 1968 , a character she played until 1977?
text: Did you know that a recent event sponsored by the Charles Koch Institute was described as more like "a left-wing anti-war rally than a gathering hosted by a longtime right-wing institution"?
text: Did you know that Bradlee Ashby , Helena Gasson , Matthew Hutchins , Corey Main , and Emma Robinson are the five Olympic debutants in a squad of eight swimmers selected to represent New Zealand at the 2016 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that federal deputy José Ignacio Pichardo Lechuga is the son of a former Governor of the State of Mexico ?
text: Did you know that the Olympic boxer Joseph Cordina won a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and was the only British gold medallist at the 2015 European Championships ?
text: Did you know that Manuel Espino was expelled from the National Action Party , even though he had previously served as its president?
text: Did you know that the Guerra de Campeones professional wrestling show saw championships from four different promotions being defended?
text: Did you know that Carmen Salinas , a Mexican actress who has appeared in over 110 movies, now serves as a federal deputy with the PRI ?
text: Did you know that Manika Batra started playing table tennis at the age of four, and turned down modelling offers as a teenager?
text: Did you know that Carlos Balderas , who is due to box for the United States at the Rio Olympics , is the first member of his family to be born in that country?
text: Did you know that Leonard Haigh 's mechanical knowledge kept him from the front line in the First World War , but he died from pneumonia instead?
text: Did you know that Emily Morley is the first Bahamian rower to qualify for the Olympic Games?
text: Did you know that the 2005 Guerra del Golfo , the first IWRG professional wrestling show of that name, would later become an annual event ?
text: Did you know that sports shooter Lenchu Kunzang was approached by the Bhutan Olympic Committee after topping her rifle shooting class during police training?
text: Did you know that the Beach Boys ' " Good Vibrations " was the most expensive single ever produced in its time, requiring over 90 hours of recorded tape?
text: Did you know that Alejandra Barrales , the new president of the Party of the Democratic Revolution , twice led Aeroméxico flight attendants out on strike?
text: Did you know that in The Aachen Memorandum , William Mountbatten-Windsor (son of Charles III ) is king of New Zealand, and Michael Gove and Iain Duncan Smith are arrested as members of the Anti-Federalist Movement?
text: Did you know that while top-name talent like Frank Sinatra , Sammy Davis Jr. , and Martin and Lewis performed at Atlantic City's 500 Club , an illegal casino operated behind the scenes?
text: Did you knowthat initially no prize was offered for winning the IWRG Guerra Revolucionaria , so the winners in 2009 and 2010 did not win anything, but in 2013 the winner got a match for the IWRG Rey del Ring Championship ?
text: Did you know that after Adriana Araújo won a medal at the 2012 Olympics , she said she would not compete at the 2016 Games , but was ultimately given one of the automatic qualification spots?
text: Did you know that María Ávila Serna 's first two spouses were assassinated?
text: Did you know that judoka Popole Misenga sought political asylum in Brazil following the 2013 World Championships , and will compete for the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2016 Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Amanda Inez Knight Allen and her mission companion were the first single woman LDS missionaries?
text: Did you know that over 50 wrestlers have lost their mask or had their hair shaved off at a major International Wrestling Revolution Group show ?
text: Did you know that the football manager Isaac McDowell led Linfield to seven trophies in the 1961–62 season?
text: Did you know that mountain biker Daniela Campuzano has been selected to carry the Mexican flag in the Parade of Nations during the 2016 Summer Olympics opening ceremony ?
text: Did you know that the head of Bohemond II of Antioch was embalmed and sent to Al-Mustarshid , the Abbasid caliph?
text: Did you know that a team called Europa has represented Gibraltar in the UEFA Europa League ?
text: Did you know that Višeslav was the first Serbian ruler known by name?
text: Did you know that the packaging of the Alcatel Idol 4 S smartphone is also a virtual reality headset?
text: Did you know that Alberto Youssef has been called a "principal player" in the Petrobras scandal wherein Brazil's state oil firm accepted bribes in return for overpaying construction contracts?
text: Did you know that 41 U.S. states follow the single-subject rule for legislation, and a proposed constitutional amendment would extend it to the federal government as well?
text: Did you know that NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon is a global business advisor for his longtime sponsor Axalta Coating Systems ?
text: Did you know that the Monterrey Spanish mackerel is no longer found off the coast of California?
text: Did you know that the band The Quiet Jungle began as a house act before achieving commercial success with a novelty song composed for Toronto Maple Leafs player Eddie Shack ?
text: Did you know in NHL 17 , players can become the general manager of an NHL team and potentially relocate them to another city?
text: Did you know that Josef Rheinberger composed the six-voice motet Abendlied (Evening song) at age 15?
text: Did you know that The Question Jury is produced by Monkey?
text: Did you know that Michael McNabb's " Dreamsong " was labeled by the British composer Adrian Moore as a pioneering work of electroacoustic music ?
text: Did you know that the male Madagascan buttonquail is largely responsible for incubating the eggs and caring for the young?
text: Did you know that Lewis Hamilton won the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix , which was overshadowed by a major accident involving Jules Bianchi ?
text: Did you know that the depopulated Palestinian village of Abu Shusha in Haifa has been suggested as the location of the Roman town of Gaba Hippeon , founded in 61 BCE?
text: Did you know that while working as the commercial manager at Chesterfield , the footballer Jim Brown collected financial records that were eventually used to prosecute club chairman Darren Brown for fraud?
text: Did you know that the iconic 180-year-old tree from The Shawshank Redemption fell in July 2016?
text: Did you know that the 2009 resignations of Yulma Rocha Aguilar and seven other female deputies earned them the nickname "juanitas"?
text: Did you know that before the reversal of Times Film Corporation v. City of Chicago in 1965, U.S. states and municipalities could legally censor films?
text: Did you know that Scorpio Jr. , winner of the 2008 Rey del Ring , and Ricky Cruzz, winner of the 2009 Rey del Ring , teamed up to win the IWRG Intercontinental Tag Team Championship ?
text: Did you know that the Mobi bicycle-sharing system in Vancouver placed stations at least 50 metres (160 ft) away from existing bike shops?
text: Did you know that in 2011, Argentinian lawyer Elsa Kelly was appointed the first woman judge on the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ?
text: Did you know that Jerome Babe invented the "Yankee Baby"?
text: Did you know that the 1956 Tamil film Mathar Kula Manickam was based on Rabindranath Tagore 's novel The Wreck ?
text: Did you know that Hawaiian chiefess Miriam Auhea Kekāuluohi Crowningburg was buried near the Lunalilo Mausoleum , the final resting place of her cousin King Lunalilo ?
text: Did you know that Neelabh Ashk translated Arundhati Roy , Salman Rushdie , William Shakespeare , Bertolt Brecht , and Mikhail Lermontov into Hindi?
text: Did you know that Ursula K. Le Guin 's short story " Coming of Age in Karhide " depicts socially acceptable sexual promiscuity ?
text: Did you know that the self-titled extended play of indie pop group Weaves combines elements of high-quality recording common in pop music with lo-fi noise music styles to create a "disgusting" yet "catchy" feel?
text: Did you know that Henri Negresco founded the Hotel Negresco , which was used to aid victims of the 2016 Nice attack ?
text: Did you know that Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Band's 1943 number one single " In the Blue of Evening ", was later re-recorded as a tribute to Dorsey by Sinatra?
text: Did you know that physicists Justin Khoury and Amanda Weltman proposed an explanation for the existence of dark energy when the latter was 24 years old?
text: Did you know that the Irish horse McKinlaigh won an Olympic silver medal while competing for the United States?
text: Did you know that career military leader Kamal Jit Singh has commanded both an armoured brigade of T-90s in India and a United Nations peacekeeping team in Angola ?
text: Did you know that Audition has been described as an influence on "torture porn"?
text: Did you know that for his light music In the Mystic Land of Egypt , Albert Ketèlbey used a recurring chromatic scale that was called "attractive ... though hardly Egyptian"?
text: Did you know that Shannen Doherty watched Keeping Up with the Kardashians while preparing for her reality television series Shannen Says ?
text: Did you know that Martin Bickham was trained as a merchant by Stephen Girard after his older sister became Girard's mistress?
text: Did you know that the Yesharah Society was organized in 1928 as a society for female Latter-day Saint missionaries?
text: Did you know that Dog Star Adventure was the first text adventure game to be published in source code form?
text: Did you know that the International Wrestling Revolution Group celebrated the 52nd Anniversary of Lucha Libre in Estado de México by having Veneno shaved bald at the end of the show?
text: Did you know that the Football (Disorder) Act 2000 was pushed through Parliament in the United Kingdom in a month following hooliganism during Euro 2000 ?
text: Did you know that Sechs Lieder , Op. 35 , are six songs by Max Reger on love poems by five authors which inspired "some of Reger's most magical sonorities"?
text: Did you know that initiation fees at Trump National Golf Club Westchester have dropped $150,000 since 2001?
text: Did you know that the El Gran Desafío show was supposed to help launch Gran Prix Championship Wrestling, but GPCW ended up holding only one show afterwards?
text: Did you know that the male Brazilian Leptodactylus pustulatus frog makes 26 calls per minute?
text: Did you know that Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital has been called the " Mayo Clinic for horses"?
text: Did you know that in October 2013, The Wheel of Liverpool was struck by lightning but sustained no damage?
text: Did you know that Hayao Miyazaki 's film Howl's Moving Castle contains anti-war imagery, influenced by the director's distaste for the Iraq War ?
text: Did you know that at the 2000 Prisión Fatal professional wrestling show, tag team partners Rody and Burley were forced to wrestle each other, with Rody losing both the match and his wrestling mask ?
text: Did you know that in Laetatus sum for choir and organ, Jules Van Nuffel set a Psalm of Ascent that expresses prayer for the peace of Jerusalem?
text: Did you know that the Dulzura kangaroo rat often blocks up the entrances to its burrow by day?
text: Did you know that even though they are siblings and deputies , Hernán Orantes López and María Elena Orantes López do not represent the same political party?
text: Did you know that Swedish Paralympic athlete Helene Ripa underwent an above-the-knee amputation at the age of 14 to treat cancer in her right leg?
text: Did you know that the aster leafhopper transmits the plant disease aster yellows ?
text: Did you know that in addition to becoming the first female full professor at Northwestern University , botanist Margery C. Carlson had a nature preserve named after her?
text: Did you know that reviewers have commented on the similarities between the 1968 novel A Wizard of Earthsea and the Harry Potter series?
text: Did you know that Anders Planman was one of the first people to make systematic astronomical observations in Finland?
text: Did you know that in Texas, the hot link sausage is usually prepared using beef, while in Chicago, pork is typically used?
text: Did you know that the spotted pardalote has been called the headache bird on account of its repetitive call?
text: Did you know that the extinct sawfly Cuspilongus has a down curved ovipositor almost as long as its forewing ?
text: Did you know that Irish suffragette Cissie Cahalan argued against gender-segregated trade unions?
text: Did you know that during World Championship Wrestling 's Battlebowl show, Rip Rogers won the match for his tag team without performing a single move?
text: Did you know that in 1976, the Admiral Von Tromp fishing trawler was shipwrecked at Saltwick Bay ?
text: Did you know that the Paralympic rower Laurence Whiteley searched for over two years for a partner with whom to compete before teaming with Lauren Rowles ?
text: Did you know that the 1928 Florida Gators football team scored 336 points led by its "Phantom Four" backfield , which included Clyde Crabtree who could pass and kick with either hand or foot?
text: Did you know that despite being born without a functional right hand, Anna Grimaldi represented her high school in netball and basketball?
text: Did you know that the fictional dragon language featured in Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward was originally developed for a previous version of the game five years earlier?
text: Did you know that virologist Stephen Straus , first head of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine , said he did not use alternative medicine ?
text: Did you know that the Mexican National Welterweight Championship , one of the Mexican National Championships , is the oldest still-promoted professional wrestling championship?
text: Did you know that an administrative error by New Zealand Football prevented Alex Jones from completing his loan move to Wellington Phoenix ?
text: Did you know that the mercy plea of the couple sentenced to death in the Poonia murder case was rejected by Indian President Pranab Mukherjee ?
text: Did you know that Anthony M. Villane cosponsored a bill to use a blimp to provide surveillance of waste dumping along the Jersey Shore , despite his concerns that it would elicit a "giggle factor"?
text: Did you know that the iPhone 7 was criticized for not featuring a headphone jack ?
text: Did you know that a few months after having her right leg amputated, Judith Hamer trekked across the Andes for a reality television show?
text: Did you know that peppersoup is considered a delicacy in Western Africa, where some believe it has medicinal qualities?
text: Did you know that Lies Noor originally intended her film career to launch a career in social work?
text: Did you know that Snowbound was the first American horse to win individual gold in the Olympics?
text: Did you know that at an average speed of 4 mph (6.4 km/h), the M23 bus won the "Pokey Award" twice for being New York City's slowest bus route?
text: Did you know that Robyn Love played in her first wheelchair basketball game in 2014, her first international in 2015, and took part in the Paralympics in 2016?
text: Did you know that Mike Ross disassembled two attack aircraft for his sculpture Jet Kiss , which hangs above Capitol Hill station in Seattle ?
text: Did you know that in 1976, Martin A. Herman proposed a bill to allow New Jersey pharmacists to substitute generic drugs for their brand-name equivalents, despite claims that drug companies would leave the state?
text: Did you know that the Women's Antifascist Front of Croatia mobilized women into resistance against fascist occupiers, tasking them with ammunition transport, sabotage and diversion, and economic sustainment?
text: Did you know that Sharad Kumar won gold in the high jump at the 2014 Asian Para Games , breaking a 12-year Asian Games record?
text: Did you know that East Orange High School closed its swimming pool in 1933 rather than end a policy allowing black students to swim only on Friday afternoons, after which the pool would be drained and refilled?
text: Did you know that two beer barrels ended Claude Blair 's active military service?
text: Did you know that Mathilda Twomey is the first female judge in Seychelles ?
text: Did you know that domestic activities such as washing clothes can threaten the survival of the endangered Mexican water mouse ?
text: Did you know that Chen Mingxia served three Chinese dynasties in less than two years, and was executed by the third one for questioning the dress code?
text: Did you know that the Church of England granted women the right to vote in the Church of England border polls 1915–1916 before they were allowed to vote in parliamentary elections?
text: Did you know that Dick Cresswell , the first commander of an RAAF jet squadron in combat, was court-martialled for firing a shot at the feet of another officer who had apparently been annoying him?
text: Did you know that the Smith Canal was created to carry food to the Stockton State Hospital , California's first psychiatric hospital ?
text: Did you know that newly elected Hong Kong legislator Lau Siu-lai was arrested for hawking squid ?
text: Did you know that Tokyo Excellence were National Basketball Development League champions in all three years of the league's existence?
text: Did you know that Tamil film director M. Manikandan started as a wedding photographer?
text: Did you know that William Beck , who played Dylan Keogh in Casualty , was told by the producers that Dylan should not smile?
text: Did you know that 254 species of fish and 154 species of coral have been recorded in South Penghu Marine National Park ?
text: Did you know that Frances Sweeney conceived the idea for the Boston Herald Rumor Clinic during World War II?
text: Did you know that PC Gamer negatively compared video game parody Star Warped to the Star Wars Holiday Special ?
text: Did you know that according to James Oberg , most UFO sightings can be explained by super-high plumes, twilight shadowing or "space dandruff"?
text: Did you know that the Grid Compass was allegedly designed to match the dimensions of the company founder John Ellenby 's briefcase?
text: Did you know that in 1920, Irvin S. Cobb , a writer for The Saturday Evening Post , organized a hunting trip to Oregon looking for a lava bear specimen?
text: Did you know that Pearl McIver was the first person employed by the United States Public Health Service as a consultant on nursing administration?
text: Did you know that the Regent Street Cinema , which in 1896 screened the first moving footage in the United Kingdom, was also the first UK cinema to show an X-rated film?
text: Did you know that after sponsoring a bill requiring Atlantic City casinos to have table games with a $2 minimum bet, Dennis L. Riley was kicked out of two that claimed he was card counting in blackjack ?
text: Did you know that the Madeline educational video game series was created to reach young girls who are "often ignored by multimedia developers"?
text: Did you know that the Anglican priest Roly Bain used to enter church on a unicycle, open the service with the invocation "Let us play!", and preach while balancing on a slackrope ?
text: Did you know that in 1919, Rose Finkelstein Norwood helped lead 8,000 switchboard operators in a six-day strike that paralyzed telephone service throughout New England?
text: Did you know that it is not known who sculpted the lion statues in front of the Mahane Yehuda Police Station in Jerusalem?
text: Did you know that at the age of 57, Jude Flannery became the oldest woman ever to be named Master Female Triathlete of the Year?
text: Did you know that opposition to what was called the " one-man one-vote " system used in elections in Jordan led to it being replaced for the 2016 general election ?
text: Did you know that Slovenian gymnast Edvard Antosiewicz represented Yugoslavia at the 1928 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in team competition?
text: Did you know that California High-Speed Rail 's Kings River Viaduct is planned to be over 2 miles (3.2 km) long due to the effects of floods in 1861 and 1867?
text: Did you know that Joy Ufema 's fellow nurses felt she had been given too much autonomy when she started granting last wishes to dying patients?
text: Did you know that Vladimir Saprykin was made a Hero of the Soviet Union after he was mistakenly reported killed?
text: Did you know that philosopher Jessica Pierce argues that some animals may have a sense of morality ?
text: Did you know that British armed forces officers would place their swords on the table at court-martial as a symbol of putting their rank and reputation on hold?
text: Did you know that Kyler Murray was the first player to compete in both the Under Armour All-America Baseball Game and Under Armour All-America Football Game ?
text: Did you know that the grey-headed imperial pigeon , the Sulawesi thrush , and the great shortwing are found only on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi , while the Sula megapode is restricted to nearby Banggai and Sula Islands ?
text: Did you know that in 1747, the Custom House in Poole was raided by 30 smugglers, led by members of the Hawkhurst Gang ?
text: Did you know that Red Army Major General Fyodor Korol had been an officer in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I?
text: Did you know that the 2016 hurricane Hermine was the first to make landfall in Florida since Hurricane Wilma in 2005?
text: Did you know that Eastern Region, Nigeria , spent up to one-third of the government budget on education in the 1950s and 1960s?
text: Did you know that alt-right media hub The Right Stuff has a core principle of ethnic nationalism ?
text: Did you know that Virginia E. Haines was appointed to the Ocean County, New Jersey , board of chosen freeholders in January 2016, only the second woman to serve since the governing body was formed in 1850?
text: Did you know that the margin of victory in the women's triathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics was approximately 15 centimetres (6 in)?
text: Did you know that Romanian literary scholar Bonifaciu Florescu had the reputation of an unrepentant bohemian and allegedly slept on a pile of hay?
text: Did you know that the Wonder Gardens jazz and R&B nightclub in Atlantic City, New Jersey provided early exposure for Dan Fogel , Harvey Mason , George Benson , and the Commodores ?
text: Did you know that the Devonshire White Paper of 1923 affirmed that African interests were paramount over those of settlers in British Kenya ?
text: Did you know that despite losing Best Motion Picture at Canada's national film awards in 1992, Léolo was named one of the Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time by critics in 2015?
text: Did you know that China is the world's largest textile exporter with an export value in 2013 nearly seven times greater than the next largest exporting country?
text: Did you know that Jane Elizabeth Manning James was one of the first recorded African-American women to travel to Utah as a Mormon pioneer ?
text: Did you know that in their second year of providing a free mobile laundry service for the homeless, the co-founders of Orange Sky Laundry were jointly awarded Young Australian of the Year ?
text: Did you know that Cleveland Browns rookie safety Derrick Kindred played his entire senior year of college football with a broken collarbone ?
text: Did you know that Rollers selected to compete in Rio include Joshua Allison , Adam Deans , Matthew McShane , Tom O'Neill-Thorne , and Shawn Russell , who will be playing in their first Paralympics?
text: Did you know that a committee of eight Portland, Oregon , residents purchased the Madison Street Bridge in 1891 for $145,000?
text: Did you know that Hazel P. Heath paid children to pick wild berries for her jam and jelly business?
text: Did you know that the philosopher Clare Palmer argues that humans are usually permitted to aid wild animals in need, and are sometimes required to?
text: Did you know that the 1993 book Scarlet Memorial: Tales of Cannibalism in Modern China alleges that victors in a factional battle ate the flesh of losers in Guangxi during China's Cultural Revolution?
text: Did you know that the entomologist Alice Gray became known as the "Bug Lady" for her work with the public at the American Museum of Natural History ?
text: Did you know that pioneer doctor Priddy Meeks once told sick patients by messenger to "jump all over the city creek, crawl back into your tent and cover up warm"?
text: Did you know that Satoshi Mitazono , newly-elected Governor of Kagoshima Prefecture , wants operations at the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant to be suspended?
text: Did you know that the 2002 Sure For Men Rockingham 500 was the only race of the 2002 CART season to be held in Europe?
text: Did you know that the Israeli software company NSO Group has been identified as the possible developer of the iOS spyware Pegasus ?
text: Did you know that Swedish television presenter Lasse Bengtsson conducted the first televised interview with Mattias Flink in March 2009, some fifteen years after Flink committed mass murder?
text: Did you know that the sawfly genus Ulteramus was not placed into any Pamphiliidae subfamily?
text: Did you know that the illustrations in medical missionary Benjamin Hobson ’s influential Treatise on Physiology were derived from William Cheselden 's century-old work?
text: Did you know that the Women's Antifascist Front of Bosnia and Herzegovina 's 1947 campaign against the face veil was supported by the Grand Mufti Ibrahim Fejić , who called it an obstacle to gender equality?
text: Did you know that when accepted by the National Trust in 1982, the Kingston Lacy estate was the largest bequest they had ever received?
text: Did you know that T. J. Friedl 's signing bonus from the Cincinnati Reds is the largest ever for a player not taken in the MLB draft ?
text: Did you know that the music video for DJ Shadow 's " Nobody Speak ", featuring Run the Jewels , has been described as "brutal" and "politically charged"?
text: Did you know that while the Turkish female wheelchair shooters Ayşegül Pehlivanlar and Çağla Baş compete for the first time at the Paralympics , Aysel Özgan takes part for the third time?
text: Did you know that Seagate Technology faced a class action over the failure rates of its ST3000DM001 3TB hard disk drives ?
text: Did you know that a local newspaper criticized the PRI 's nomination of Marco Antonio García Ayala to represent Baja California , saying he "doesn't even belong to this state"?
text: Did you know that this month, a researcher from WWT Slimbridge plans to become a "human swan"?
text: Did you know that Rosalie Lalonde is the youngest player on the Canadian women's Paralympic wheelchair basketball team?
text: Did you know that about 100 people were arrested in several European countries in connection with a terror plot against the 1998 FIFA World Cup ?
text: Did you know that Heroes of Remix is the first variety show in China to feature electronic dance music (EDM)?
text: Did you know that Elaine D. Harmon 's mother thought Women Airforce Service Pilots "were all just awful, just probably loose women"?
text: Did you know that dishes at the two Michelin star Lettonie included scrambled duck egg flambéed with vodka and served with Sevruga caviar?
text: Did you know that in 1967, at the age of 16 years and 102 days, Stanley Bish became the youngest player ever to represent PSV Eindhoven in the Eredivisie ?
text: Did you know that contrary to popular belief, the EU did not attempt to ban prawn cocktail crisps ?
text: Did you know that in 2012, Opera Lafayette staged Le Roi et le Fermier at the Royal Opera of Versailles using rediscovered sets from a 1780 production?
text: Did you know that Susan Stover has received multiple awards for her research into the causes and prevention of performance-related injuries in racehorses ?
text: Did you know that the melody for the hymn " Herzlich tut mich verlangen " was taken from a love song and became the tune of " O Sacred Head, Now Wounded "?
text: Did you know that fictional character Daniel Wolek on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live was recast with several actors, prompting a producer to call it "the role from hell?"
text: Did you know that before he became Chief Justice of Manitoba , Richard J. Scott served as the trial judge in R v Lavallee , a case which granted legal recognition to battered woman syndrome as a defence ?
text: Did you know that some employees of Tajikistan's government were required to buy shares in the Rogun Dam project in order to keep their jobs?
text: Did you know that though Romanian courtier Ioan Kalinderu lacked any interest in riding, he rode a horse every day after reading that this was the fashion among lords in London?
text: Did you know that Turkish Paralympian Handan Biroğlu earned a spot in archery at the 2016 Rio Paralympics despite only taking up the sport in 2013?
text: Did you know that actor Kit Harington publicly apologized for "lying to everyone" about the onscreen fate of his Game of Thrones character Jon Snow ?
text: Did you know that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opened its first foreign-speaking mission in French Polynesia ?
text: Did you know that after sacking his deputy as Governor of Barbados , Lord Willoughby wrote "My late Deputy Coll: Codrington hath harrassed them to death wth heedless improssitions"?
text: Did you know that after Razer announced a partnership with Riot Games , a League of Legends style Razer Naga Hex was released?
text: Did you know that Sarajevo-born musician Tomo Miličević emigrated to the United States and played in a number of local bands, including Morphic , before joining Thirty Seconds to Mars ?
text: Did you know that Changes , a 1987 advert for the Volkswagen Golf , is said to have "spawned a new era in car advertising"?
text: Did you know that the unsolved shooting death of Henryk Siwiak 15 years ago today is officially the only homicide that occurred in New York City on 9/11 ?
text: Did you know that Swedish astronomer Anders Spole , by the order of King Karl XI , travelled to Torneå and Kengis with Johannes Bilberg to study the midnight sun ?
text: Did you know that the 18th-century Burmese court treatise Mani Yadanabon has been described as "a repository of historical examples illustrating pragmatic political principles worthy of Machiavelli "?
text: Did you know that Spencer Jones played the 16th-century actor William Kempe in the sitcom Upstart Crow as a parody of Ricky Gervais ?
text: Did you know that a survey in Bolivia reported that one in three respondents had paid bribes to customs officials the previous year?
text: Did you know that Eleonore Büning wrote in the FAZ that Patrice Chéreau 's staging of the Jahrhundertring revolutionised the understanding of Wagner in Germany?
text: Did you know that in 2006, a King created a world record when riding the Severn bore ?
text: Did you know that the Bristol and Bath Science Park includes an open area where children come to skateboard ?
text: Did you know that Kansas City Chiefs rookie linebacker Dadi Nicolas played his senior year of college with a broken hand?
text: Did you know that the Jurassic La Negra Formation in northern Chile contains products of submarine volcanism ?
text: Did you know that Rangers F.C. did not knowingly sign any Catholic players between the 1920s and 1980s?
text: Did you know that Tony Sainsbury is the chef de mission of the Independent Paralympic Athletes Team at the 2016 Summer Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that Hollyoaks producer Bryan Kirkwood believed he had let Tamara Wall down with the initial characterisation of her character Grace Black ?
text: Did you know that whilst loading tanks at night on the Gilling and Pickering Line during World War II, soldiers would stand on either side of the wagons smoking cigarettes to guide the tank drivers?
text: Did you know that Turkish female goalball player Sevda Altınoluk was named top scorer at several international competitions?
text: Did you know that for his 1929 first recording of By the Blue Hawaiian Waters , composer Albert Ketèlbey used a saxophone for a Hawaiian "love-call"?
text: Did you know that Kunwar Singh Negi , winner of both the Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan , has transcribed 300 books in various Indian languages into Braille?
text: Did you know that the annual Kentucky Avenue Renaissance Festival commemorates the R&B and jazz nightspots that once lined this street in Atlantic City, New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that Jesús Sesma Suárez has represented San Luis Potosí and Jalisco in the federal Chamber of Deputies , and was a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District ?
text: Did you know that Kickstarter was not available in mainland Europe in 2012, so Digitalmindsoft crowdfunded video game Call to Arms through their website?
text: Did you know that the A7FL American football league does not use helmets ?
text: Did you know that Victor Lundin , who portrayed the first Klingon seen in Star Trek , had auditioned for the role of Spock ?
text: Did you know that Scott Bakula was the only actor considered to play Jonathan Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise ?
text: Did you know that " World Enough and Time ", an episode of the fan production Star Trek: New Voyages , was nominated for both a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award , competing against professionally made episodes?
text: Did you know that Ro Laren was intended to be a main character in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , but actress Michelle Forbes rejected the role?
text: Did you know that with the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode " The Infinite Vulcan ", Walter Koenig became the first Star Trek actor to write for the franchise?
text: Did you know that set designer Linda DeScenna was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction on five occasions, for Star Trek: The Motion Picture , Blade Runner , The Color Purple , Rain Man , and Toys ?
text: Did you know that the set used to shoot the Star Trek: Voyager subplot Janeway Lambda one was nicknamed "the Jane Eyre set" by the filming crew?
text: Did you know that Ronald B. Moore won five Emmy Awards for his work on the Star Trek franchise?
text: Did you know that the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Family " was the first episode of the franchise not to have any scene set on the bridge ?
text: Did you know that Michael Piller felt that the mention of Spock in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Sarek " opened the doors to further references to The Original Series ?
text: Did you know that Star Trek: Starship Creator allowed players to import photographs of themselves into the game?
text: Did you know that after Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett transported some old Star Trek footage from a film vault, it was sold as film clips by Lincoln Enterprises ?
text: Did you know that prior to casting Andrea Martin as the female Ferengi Ishka on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , David Livingston suggested Wallace Shawn in drag?
text: Did you know that Gene Roddenberry pranked Steven W. Carabatsos on his first day on Star Trek by inflating a weather balloon in his office?
text: Did you know that Don Ingalls first met Gene Roddenberry when they worked at the Los Angeles Police Department , and went on to be credited with writing two episodes of Star Trek ?
text: Did you know that in 1977, it was announced that Star Trek would return to television with the series Phase II ?
text: Did you know that after Bruce Mars ' s acting career, which included three appearances on Star Trek , he became a monk in the Self-Realization Fellowship ?
text: Did you know that the novel miniseries Star Trek: The Lost Era was intended to fill in a 70-year gap between the death of Captain Kirk and the start of Star Trek: The Next Generation ?
text: Did you know that Gary Hutzel was nominated for more than 20 Emmy Awards , winning two for Battlestar Galactica and one each for Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ?
text: Did you know that Star Trek ' s Commander Riker used MainView to advertise its use for other enterprises?
text: Did you know that the phrase "It's life, Jim, but not as we know it" did not originate in Star Trek , but instead in the parody song " Star Trekkin' " ?
text: Did you know that an advance video release from The Black Parade/Living With Ghosts sparked rumors of a possible reunion tour of the American rock band My Chemical Romance ?
text: Did you know that serving as a juvenile court judge motivated William Gant to create the Daviess County Children's Center to provide housing for children in his hometown of Owensboro, Kentucky ?
text: Did you know that following the arrest of Rolf Harris , no one knows the location of his painting, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II – An 80th Birthday Portrait ?
text: Did you know that new Cornell basketball head coach Brian Earl 's Ivy League career games started and three-point field goals records were broken by Cornell's Ryan Wittman ?
text: Did you know that Anatoliy Golitsyn sparked off the Martel affair when he revealed that the French intelligence agencies and armed forces had been deeply penetrated by the KGB?
text: Did you know that Madison Janssen , a national and world champion as a junior BMX rider, set a world record and won a world championship on a tandem bicycle with skier and athlete Jessica Gallagher ?
text: Did you know that headlines on Reductress have included "We're Piercing My Baby's Tongue" and "How To Friendzone Ethan While He's Still Inside You"?
text: Did you know that the philosopher Rachel Cooper has written book-length analyses of both the fourth and fifth editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ?
text: Did you know that a reference to "DLCNukaWorld.esm" in the source code of Fallout 4 led to rumors of Fallout 4: Nuka-World months before its announcement?
text: Did you know that Enrique Jackson was designated to represent the Chamber of Deputies in the Constitutional Assembly of Mexico City after the original selection was controversial?
text: Did you know that the Star Wars expanded universe villain Grand Admiral Thrawn will be reintroduced into the franchise's official canon in an upcoming episode of the animated series Star Wars Rebels ?
text: Did you know that Max Reger 's Zwölf Stücke , Op. 80 , for organ contains nine pieces composed in 1904 and three from 1902?
text: Did you know that the K2 tax scheme was called "morally wrong" by British Prime Minister David Cameron ?
text: Did you know that the main event of Vilenica International Literary Festival takes place inside a cave ?
text: Did you know that Iranian filmmaker Morteza Avini , who was killed by a landmine in 1993, was named "the master of martyred literati" by the Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei ?
text: Did you know that through its Forum Arts Program, East Texas State College students had the opportunity to see Lyndon B. Johnson , Alex Haley , the Ballet Folklórico de México , and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band ?
text: Did you know that Ángel García Yáñez is the first deputy candidate from Mexico's New Alliance Party to win his district?
text: Did you know that selected "imaginators"—characters created through the video game Skylanders: Imaginators —will be printed by 3D printers and turned into real-life toys?
text: Did you know that as governor of Ōita Prefecture , Morihiko Hiramatsu initiated the One Village One Product movement ?
text: Did you know that when " Straf mich nicht in deinem Zorn ", a hymn by Johann Georg Albinus paraphrasing Psalm 6 , was first printed, it appeared with a dance tune?
text: Did you know that the Shit Museum is billed as the world's first museum dedicated to that subject?
text: Did you know that Kalikho Pul , former Chief Minister of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh , once earned a living selling paans , making bamboo fences and thatched houses , and working as a watchman ?
text: Did you know that after Billy Bremner and Kevin Keegan were sent off for fighting in the 1974 FA Charity Shield , an attempt was made to charge them with breach of the peace ?
text: Did you know that after 12,000 Wahhabis from the first Saudi State sacked Karbala and killed at least 2,000 people, they left the city with 4,000 camels carrying their plunder?
text: Did you know that the fictional character Aunt Agatha in the Jeeves novels by British author P. G. Wodehouse was based on Wodehouse's own aunt, Mary Bathurst Deane ?
text: Did you know that during the main event of the Sin Escape Con Correas professional wrestling show, some wrestlers were given leather straps to use them on anyone who left the ring?
text: Did you know that Albert Sherman Christensen was the co-founder of the first American Inn of Court in 1980?
text: Did you know that the costumes in the film Maheshinte Prathikaaram were secondhand , bartered from local residents in exchange for new clothes?
text: Did you know that golfer Thomas Detry broke the Challenge Tour record for largest winning margin with his 12-shot win at the 2016 Bridgestone Challenge ?
text: Did you know that an agreed peace between organised crime groups is known as Pax Mafiosa ?
text: Did you know that all the other doctors at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children resigned in protest after the appointment of Eliza Walker Dunbar ?
text: Did you know that after a mixed critical response to their previous album, Megadeth 's 2016 Dystopia was well-received by most critics and charted at number 3 on the Billboard 200?
text: Did you know that Rhode Island ' s William C. O'Neill Bike Path follows a route first proposed for use as a school children ' s rail line?
text: Did you know that in 2010 and 2016, Rafael Yerena Zambrano was reelected unopposed as the secretary general of the Federation of Workers of Jalisco ?
text: Did you know that an MP crawled to save The Glad ?
text: Did you know that in 2016, Andrew Butchart broke the Scottish 5000 metres record, despite running the last lap of the race with only one shoe?
text: Did you know that Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chicken Rice and Noodle and Hill Street Tai Hwa Pork Noodle are the first street food stalls in the world to receive Michelin stars ?
text: Did you know that Ante Pavelić ordered eight days of mourning for members of his Bodyguard Battalion when Mijo Babić was killed during the June 1941 uprising in eastern Herzegovina ?
text: Did you know that Asha Kreimer disappeared on her way to the restroom of the Rollerville Cafe in Flumeville ?
text: Did you know that award-winning Broadway shows Hamilton , Bright Star , and The Humans were workshopped at the Powerhouse Theater ?
text: Did you know that despite being labeled as "long-winded and pretentious", the legal autobiography My Life in Court spent 72 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list?
text: Did you know that Charles Townsend Ludington , his brother and two other executives formed Ludington Airline , the first every-hour-on-the-hour air service?
text: Did you know that the 2015–16 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team represented the University of Michigan in their 100th season?
text: Did you know that William Matthews was the seventh president of Georgetown College and the first person born in British America to be ordained a Catholic priest ?
text: Did you know that ponies used for pony rides need to be quiet, well-trained, and desensitized to children, noise, and crowds?
text: Did you know that under the leadership of Martha Hilda González Calderón , the city of Toluca received an award for leading Mexico in budget transparency?
text: Did you know that the Luppitt Inn is a public house in the front room of a farm house ?
text: Did you know that Cloud Man told missionary Samuel Pond that he and his entire hunting party had survived being buried in snowdrifts for almost three days?
text: Did you know that the King William Ale House in Bristol was built in the 17th century as a women's refuge ?
text: Did you know that Peter Cunningham's earliest professional assignment was to shoot Bruce Springsteen 's first publicity photos for Columbia Records ?
text: Did you know that Millwall's only campaign in European football was marred by hooliganism?
text: Did you know that Richard Feynman ' s work The Feynman Lectures on Physics was co-authored by Matthew Sands and Robert B. Leighton?
text: Did you know that Sandra Blow ' s only large-scale glass artwork, Flight Structure , is installed in Heathrow Airport ' s Compass Centre ?
text: Did you know that " Outdoor Miner " by the English rock band Wire was covered 19 times on a 2004 tribute album?
text: Did you know that Mary Isabella Hales Horne was the mother of 15 children, including three sets of twins?
text: Did you know that the fossil ant Gesomyrmex incertus was described from a single queen's head?
text: Did you know that U.S. senators Joseph S. Clark Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy toured the Mississippi Delta in 1967 and made hunger a public issue in the United States as a result?
text: Did you know that no men competed for Chad at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Mary Kitson Clark 's 1935 book A Gazetteer of Roman Remains in East Yorkshire is still a basic guide to the study of the Roman presence in northern England?
text: Did you know that the New York City Board of Transportation built a new headquarters that it used for only two years?
text: Did you know that the wonut is a combination of a waffle and doughnut that went viral in April 2014 following media exposure?
text: Did you know that Revival stars a character that writer Tim Seeley had spent nearly 20 years developing?
text: Did you know that basketball player Anthony Stover sacrificed a higher salary in hopes of winning an NBL Canada championship?
text: Did you know that 2-satisfiability can be used to schedule round-robin tournaments so that teams alternate between home and away games as much or as little as possible?
text: Did you know that Shriya Saran played the female lead in the 2007 film Sivaji , India's most expensive film to that point?
text: Did you know that parts of the Altiplano may have been covered by the lake Ouki in the past?
text: Did you know that former German ambassador to China Erwin Wickert was an alumnus of Dickinson College of Carlisle, Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that the tail of Laticauda colubrina resembles and moves like its head in order to deter predators?
text: Did you know that Swedish actor Liam Norberg became a devout Christian while serving time in prison for a bank robbery?
text: Did you know that argonium , an ion composed of an argon atom and a proton, was the first noble gas molecular ion to be found in interstellar space?
text: Did you know that during World Championship Wrestling's Capital Combat show, RoboCop saved Sting from the Four Horsemen ?
text: Did you know that a report around 2013 on American used goods outlets put Goodwill first with a 21% market share, Winmark second with nearly 6%, and The Salvation Army third with nearly 4%?
text: Did you know that in 1985, Rosa Namises lost her job in a Namibian hospital after she was seen holding hands in public with a white doctor?
text: Did you know that Daniel Catán 's opera Il Postino is set in Italy but sung in Spanish?
text: Did you know that 18th-century chemist Claudine Picardet translated scientific articles from Swedish, English, German, and Italian into French?
text: Did you know that while visiting segregated South Africa in 1947, George VI noticed the national motto Ex Unitate Vires on a tablecloth and said, "Not much bloody Unitate about this place!"?
text: Did you know that in 2012, a small Ru ware bowl from the Song dynasty was sold for HK$ 207.86 million (US$26.7 million)?
text: Did you know that the newspaper publisher Sir Hildebrand Harmsworth gave money to a charity fund after his chauffeur killed a boy while driving Harmsworth's car?
text: Did you know that Arizona's Queen Creek Tunnel is the first in the state to be equipped with LED lighting?
text: Did you know that after declaring independence from the Ava Kingdom , Thinkhaya III of Toungoo built his own palace, but left out the royal white umbrella ?
text: Did you know that in a Polish study, the silver stretch spider ate an average of 3.7 mosquitoes per day in early June?
text: Did you know that basketball player Billy White started in the most games in San Diego State history?
text: Did you know that Cortana correctly predicted the winners of the first 14 matches of the 2014 FIFA World Cup knockout stage ?
text: Did you know that in 1992, civilian employees of Consairway were granted veteran status by the Veterans Benefits Administration for their World War II service transporting munitions and military personnel?
text: Did you know that in April 1945, the artist Eric Taylor was among the first British troops to enter the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp when it was liberated?
text: Did you know that 71% of permanently protected land in the Guapi-Guapiaçú Environmental Protection Area in Brazil has no natural vegetation?
text: Did you know that in Hale v. Henkel , the United States Supreme Court ruled that the self-incrimination clause of the Fifth Amendment did not apply to corporations?
text: Did you know that a Duke of Burgundy has been spotted on Bratton Downs ?
text: Did you know that Quantum Break was described as a "transmedia action - shooter video game and television hybrid"?
text: Did you know that the Irish footballer Jeff Chandler was "never the same player" after suffering a knee injury in Bolton Wanderers ' fourth game of their 1987–88 season ?
text: Did you know that the Divisional Railway Hospital in Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli , India, is the oldest in its zone ?
text: Did you know that Edward A. Geary was unanimously elected Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives by his Republican and Democrat peers?
text: Did you know that the 1949 film Passport to Pimlico is dedicated to the memory of Second World War British food and clothing ration coupons ?
text: Did you know that Otto Bock technicians at the 2016 Paralympic Games carried out 3,361 repairs for 1,162 athletes, including 2,745 repairs to wheelchairs?
text: Did you know that groups including the Beach Boys and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young playing at the Big Sur Folk Festival were never paid more than US$50 per performer?
text: Did you know that after Joan Risch 's apparent abduction from her home 55 years ago today, it was discovered she had borrowed books on missing-person cases from the local library?
text: Did you know that the Nursing Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh was the first such department in a British university?
text: Did you know that the 1955 Tamil language film Doctor Savithri is a contemporary adaptation of the story of Savitri and Satyavan ?
text: Did you know that the parish of St Silin's contains a part of England under the jurisdiction of the Church in Wales?
text: Did you know that scholar Frederick Sherwood Dunn led a move that was described by a university president as "Yale fumbled and Princeton recovered the ball"?
text: Did you know that argon oxide, an argon compound , interferes with the detection of iron-56 in inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry ?
text: Did you know that James M. Turner was removed from the New Jersey Senate after being convicted of trying to frame his political rival Kenneth A. Gewertz by having 6,500 amphetamine -like tablets planted in his home?
text: Did you know that Johanna Umurungi was the only female Rwandan swimmer at the 2016 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Max Reger composed the chorale fantasia Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott , Op. 27 , for Karl Straube , who premiered it before it was published?
text: Did you know that after being ousted from his emirate in Aleppo , Mansur ibn Lu'lu' commanded a Byzantine army unit ?
text: Did you know that Antonio Giovinazzi achieved his first GP2 series pole position at the 2016 Baku round and went on to win both the weekend's races?
text: Did you know that Lisbeth Hockey was the first nurse to be awarded an honorary fellowship by the Royal College of General Practitioners ?
text: Did you know that in the video game Bound , the protagonist moves mainly by dancing?
text: Did you know that the New York City neighborhood of Brownsville has the highest concentration of public housing in the United States?
text: Did you know that John Travolta will play New York mob boss John Gotti in an upcoming film ?
text: Did you know that medieval works praising cities often follow rules laid down in Ancient Greece ?
text: Did you know that the French Association for Scientific Information criticised Paris Descartes University 's decision to award Élizabeth Teissier a doctorate for a sociology thesis of " pro-astrological advocacy"?
text: Did you know that the extension to Poole Methodist Church was nominated for the 2016 Carbuncle Cup ?
text: Did you know that Martine van Hamel won a gold medal at the 1966 Varna International Ballet Competition , one of the most prestigious dance competitions in the world?
text: Did you know that GamesRadar ranked Worms Armageddon number 13 in their list of the top 50 PlayStation games of all time?
text: Did you know that after he died, daredevil Larry Donovan 's mother said, "I told him that jumping off bridges was a poor way of earning a living"?
text: Did you know that the archaeologist Lily Chitty was a Land Girl during the First World War?
text: Did you know that the reclining Buddha at the Dafo Temple, Zhangye , is 35 metres (115 ft) long?
text: Did you know that Aldana Sandoval helped plot the 1944 Guatemalan coup , but did not actually participate in it?
text: Did you know that the music competition Pringles Unsung was described as being "liable to kill the most credible career"?
text: Did you know that Swedish theologian Johannes Bilberg published a work on the midnight sun ?
text: Did you know that the main event of last month's Máscara vs. Máscara professional wrestling show has been called IWRG 's biggest Lucha de Apuestas ("bet match") in years?
text: Did you know that at an 1892 rally attended by anti-lynching activist Ferdinand Lee Barnett , participants refused to sing " My Country, 'Tis of Thee " until the United States was more truly a "sweet land of liberty"?
text: Did you know that 88 morphospecies of orchid have been identified in the Cutervo National Park in Peru?
text: Did you know that Anna L. Peterson argues that the usual separation of animal and environmental ethics is based on mistaken conceptions of nature, humans, animals, and the relationships among them?
text: Did you know that prior to Matt Monro 's " My Kind of Girl ", it had been three years since a British artist had cracked the US Top 20?
text: Did you know that in 2015, nineteen-year-old Charles Fernandez became the youngest modern pentathlon champion in Pan American Games history?
text: Did you know that the 1976 novel The Word for World Is Forest shares narrative themes with the 2009 film Avatar ?
text: Did you know that Ernest F. Schuck ran for re-election in 1977 on a platform supporting New Jersey 's new state income tax, as many residents of his district would see a net gain from the plan?
text: Did you know that Akigin Stadium sits next to a field of dreams?
text: Did you know that as a United States Attorney, David Kustoff prosecuted John Ford following his arrest in Operation Tennessee Waltz ?
text: Did you know that recorded sightings of the Malayan whistling thrush in the Cameron Highlands after the 1960s may have actually been a subspecies of the blue whistling thrush ?
text: Did you know that the developers of the video game Osiris: New Dawn wanted players to have to " Matt Damon yourself out" of situations?
text: Did you know that as William Mostyn-Owen 's three older brothers all died in the Second World War, he inherited Aberuchill Castle , where he and his wife lived in a wing of "23 rooms or so"?
text: Did you know that East Texas State University was, in part, saved from closure in 1986 by 450 supporters making a bus trip to the Texas State Capitol in Austin?
text: Did you know that Ralph Jean-Louis managed the Seychelles national football team to a gold medal at the 2011 Indian Ocean Island Games ?
text: Did you know that during the Blitz , staff of the Foyles Building stacked copies of Hitler's Mein Kampf on the roof in lieu of sandbags?
text: Did you know that Imagen Televisión , which launches today, is the first new commercial television network in Mexico since 1993?
text: Did you know that Finlay Wild has won the Ben Nevis Race seven times in a row?
text: Did you know that the Ağın Bridge reestablished a direct road connection between Ağın and Elazığ 40 years after the creation of the Keban reservoir ?
text: Did you know that Gesomyrmex macrops was named in reference to the ant species' large eyes?
text: Did you know that although Fehmi Agani worked for reconciliation between Serbs and Albanians, his murder during the Kosovo War has been attributed to Serbian security forces?
text: Did you know that soccer video game Breakaway has encouraged children in the West Bank not to discriminate by gender, thereby challenging social norms ?
text: Did you know that Richard D. Trentlage was known for his wiener jingle?
text: Did you know that Helen Richardson-Walsh and her wife Kate were both members of the team that won Great Britain's first Olympic gold in women's hockey?
text: Did you know that the Grand Theatre was reportedly the first in Australia to be lit entirely by neon lights ?
text: Did you know that in a case in which an ex-husband wanted to keep seven frozen embryos created while he was married, Judge Lee B. Laskin decided in favor of the ex-wife and ordered them destroyed?
text: Did you know that plans are underway to convert the Akıncı Air Base , bombed during the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt , into a "democracy park"?
text: Did you know that the contralto Dorothy Gill was so popular during the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company 's visit to New York in 1934 that American fans petitioned for her return?
text: Did you know that a 2014 attack on the radio station Calentana Mexiquense resulted in the death of the owner's 12-year-old son?
text: Did you know that politician Sara Skyttedal participated in Miss Sweden in 2006?
text: Did you know that after winning a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympics , Sara Ahmed became the first Egyptian woman to stand on an Olympic podium?
text: Did you know that the Seattle Times Building was called a "death trap"?
text: Did you know that the 12th-century manuscript De laude Cestrie is one of the earliest prose works about an English town?
text: Did you know that in 1777, after George Washington 's war council recommended that John Hazelwood lead the American fleet up the Delaware River to safety, he did so without the British firing a single shot?
text: Did you know that the blue alfalfa aphid , native to Asia, had reached California by 1974 and Maryland by 1992?
text: Did you know that the archaeologist Don Brothwell served two months in prison as a conscientious objector ?
text: Did you know that Newell Boathouse stands on land for which Harvard pays $1 per year under a lease running one thousand years‍—‌after which the university can renew for another thousand years?
text: Did you know that the Yale Institute of International Studies was a bastion of international relations realism ?
text: Did you know that golfers share the 18-hole Cape Wickham Links on King Island with short-tailed shearwaters ?
text: Did you know that James Kaliokalani and his brother, the future King Kalākaua , reportedly witnessed the execution of their grandfather Kamanawa II when they were children?
text: Did you know that decoration of Jizhou ware included using leaves that were burnt away, leaving their shapes in the glaze?
text: Did you know that American football coach Pop Warner 's only experience with the game in his youth was using an inflated cow's bladder ?
text: Did you know that the first appearance of superhero Captain Atom was in an Australian comic?
text: Did you know that David Carritt discovered a Fragonard misattributed at auction, a van der Weyden in a cottage, a Tiepolo on an Egyptian embassy ceiling, and five Guardis rolled up in a Dublin shed?
text: Did you know that in 1974, Barbara Thoman Curtis led the establishment of the American Nurses Association 's first political action committee?
text: Did you know that most Numayrid princes, apprehensive of urban life, ruled their cities from their Bedouin camps in the pastures?
text: Did you know that the extinct sawfly Ypresiosirex orthosemos was named for the unique corrugation of its wings?
text: Did you know that missionary Thorarinn Thorason's wife threatened to drown herself due to his missionary efforts in Iceland , but instead he drowned later that year?
text: Did you know that Space Battle Lunchtime is a comic about food preparation, a subject largely ignored in American comics?
text: Did you know that Henri Laborit recognized the psychiatric uses of chlorpromazine , which helped reduce asylum populations and "change the face of serious mental illness"?
text: Did you know that since 1912, Spanish association football club Athletic Bilbao only fields players with ancestry from the Basque Country ?
text: Did you know that the philosophy journal Between the Species took its name from a fictional periodical mentioned in a George Abbe novel?
text: Did you know that the science fiction video game Tharsis , inspired by the sinking of the whaling ship Essex , allows the crew of the player's spacecraft to use cannibalism to survive?
text: Did you know that both the 5-8 Club and Matt's Bar , two Minneapolis eateries on the same street , claim to have invented the Juicy Lucy cheeseburger?
text: Did you know that the band The Mutants developed from the idea of an album set out to retrace the roots of punk , new wave , and ska , featuring an all-star cast of punk musicians?
text: Did you know that Anne Ramberg was awarded the H. M. The King's Medal of 12th size to wear on a blue ribbon for her work in the Swedish justice system?
text: Did you know that Tony Award -winning Broadway actress and singer Lillian Hayman played Sadie Gray on the American soap opera One Life to Live for 17 years?
text: Did you know that if you bend indium it might cry ?
text: Did you know that artist Michael Lark spends ten or more hours a day working on the comic Lazarus ?
text: Did you know that SMS Erzherzog Albrecht was one of the first two iron-hulled ships built for the Austro-Hungarian navy?
text: Did you know that the soprano Katharine Fuge took part in John Eliot Gardiner 's Bach Cantata Pilgrimage , both as a member of the Monteverdi Choir and as a soloist?
text: Did you know that the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Library at Brigham Young University houses Max Steiner 's scores for King Kong and Gone with the Wind ?
text: Did you know that Queen Salote College was named after the Tongan Queen Sālote Lupepauʻu , who was named after the British Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ?
text: Did you know that the rice root aphid can complete its whole life cycle on plum trees?
text: Did you know that Robert Rutman invented the steel cello, a giant sheet metal instrument?
text: Did you know that professional Street Fighter player Daigo Umehara lost an exhibition match of Street Fighter V to rapper Lupe Fiasco ?
text: Did you know that Swedish photographer Gösta Peterson met his wife at a cocktail party, where he was watering the flowers?
text: Did you know that the number of traffic collisions at the TEDES -monitored intersections and fast lanes in Gaziantep , Turkey, declined by about 40% within two months of its installation?
text: Did you know that a 15th-century English gentleman was called "Humphrey Stafford with the Silver Hand" because of a prosthesis he wore, perhaps having lost his limb in a "bellicose engagement"?
text: Did you know that Kirkus Reviews wrote that the plot and tone of the 1998 young adult novel Love Among the Walnuts were akin to those of a Preston Sturges or Frank Capra film?
text: Did you know that retired Canadian meteorologist Peter Coade was certified by The Guinness Book of World Records as having had the longest career of any weather forecaster?
text: Did you know that in 1595, the Chantry House in Bunbury , Cheshire , was leased for 2,000 years for the rent of a red rose?
text: Did you know that George Strait recorded several songs written by Clay Blaker ?
text: Did you know that in the 2015 Jhabua-Ratlam Lok Sabha constituency by-election , Janata Dal (United) 's candidate was supported by five other parties?
text: Did you know that horse trainer Jeff Givens was killed when his horse trailer overturned?
text: Did you know that the States of Jersey were obliged to ask permission from Queen Elizabeth II in order to adopt the Jersey Red Ensign , because it contained the Jersey Arms with the Plantagenet crown?
text: Did you know that Russia's Aluchin volcano is thought to have formed around 1000 CE?
text: Did you know that the Hiroshima Lightning was the only active team refused entry into Japanese basketball's B.League ?
text: Did you know that after the 6-foot-9-inch (206 cm), 300-pound (140 kg) former Harlem Globetrotter Rico Harris disappeared two years ago today, searchers wondered why they could find no trace of such a large man?
text: Did you know that Gadis Arivia established Indonesia’s first journal of feminist theory?
text: Did you know that of the 482 coins found in the Viking Age Sundveda Hoard outside Stockholm , only one came from Western Europe?
text: Did you know that in 1985, China–Hong Kong football rivalry resulted in China's first recorded case of football hooliganism ?
text: Did you know that the Cuban national Order of Playa Girón , named after the location of the Bay of Pigs Invasion , was first presented to the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin ?
text: Did you know that on one occasion, protesters used a foghorn to discourage Mormons in Ireland from meeting?
text: Did you know that Charles Brantley was the first person in the Tennessee Walking Horse industry to be inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that Alyssa Milano released four studio albums in Japan after appearing in ads there for pasta and chocolate milk?
text: Did you know that after admitting he took $10,000 to help a fictitious Arab sheikh , Joseph A. Maressa argued that "it would be patriotic to take some of this OPEC oil money and get it back to the United States"?
text: Did you know that the opening episode of Cash Trapped contained a continuity error which revealed the outcome at the start of the game show?
text: Did you know that Guiseley A.F.C. were accused of "disgraceful unsporting behaviour" when a player broke an unwritten fair-play convention to score past goalkeeper Tom King ?
text: Did you know that in 1960, two barges collided with the 4,162-foot (1,270 m) Severn Railway Bridge , causing two bridge spans to fall into the river?
text: Did you know that a reviewer of Zwölf Stücke , Op. 65 , twelve organ pieces by Max Reger , wrote that the composer was "still in his storm and stress period"?
text: Did you know that research by Columbia Law School professor Jeffrey Fagan into stop-and-frisk in New York City was a major factor in Judge Shira Scheindlin 's decision to rule the practice unconstitutional in 2013?
text: Did you know that swarms of dykes have intruded into Uruguay?
text: Did you know that the BBC 's Daud Junbish is one of the few journalists in the world to have met former Taliban chief Mullah Omar ?
text: Did you know that members of a press gang from HMS Aigle stood trial for murder when four people were killed during a raid on the Isle of Portland in 1803?
text: Did you know that Finnish architect Gustaf Nyström has been described as a "legendary teacher of architecture"?
text: Did you know that the University of Dundee School of Medicine has one of the biggest research complexes in the UK?
text: Did you know that in 2013 the mayor of Yokneam Illit called for the rural village of Yokneam Moshava to be annexed to his city because it was blocking the city's ability to expand?
text: Did you know that in the second year after its launch, biological preprints hosted on bioRxiv repository were tweeted about on over 20,000 occasions?
text: Did you know that actress Georgina Bouzova feared that people would spit at her because of the behaviour of her character Ellen Zitek ?
text: Did you know that cheese slaw is sometimes used as a topping for hot dogs?
text: Did you know that different measurements of the size of the hydrogen atom nucleus when a muon replaces an electron is an unsolved problem in physics known as the proton radius puzzle ?
text: Did you know that Carnethy 5 , an annual hill race held in the Pentland Hills , commemorates the Battle of Roslin ?
text: Did you know that the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane caused at least 2,500 deaths in Florida, making it the second deadliest tropical cyclone in the US, behind the 1900 Galveston hurricane ?
text: Did you know that the fossil ant Gesomyrmex magnus is notably larger than any other living or extinct Gesomyrmex species?
text: Did you know that Max Esposito and his sister Chloe were the first Australian athletes to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that although the Beatles had a more successful version, the first recording of " Twist and Shout " was by The Top Notes , and was produced by Phil Spector —who later went on to produce the Beatles?
text: Did you know that Ravana had promised Kalanemi half his kingdom if he killed Hanuman ?
text: Did you know that New York City's Citywide Ferry Service is expected to carry 4.6 million passengers each year, roughly as many as the New York City Subway carries each weekday?
text: Did you know that Duayne Boachie was nominated for a "Best Newcomer" award at the 2016 British Soap Awards for his portrayal of Zack Loveday ?
text: Did you know that in 1998, The Boston Globe said the girls' video game market was "exploding" with titles such as The American Girls Premiere ?
text: Did you know that Moise Poida , the Vanuatuan national football team manager, has played against World Cup winner Zinedine Zidane ?
text: Did you know that eruptions of Anyuyskiy Volcano in Siberia may have inspired legends of places where hunting is banned and smoke and fire rise from the ground?
text: Did you know that John Harvard may have been inspired by Clio ?
text: Did you know that Edward Iacobucci has followed in his father Frank Iacobucci 's footsteps as dean of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law ?
text: Did you know that Chinese Ding ware of the 11th century has been described both as porcelain and as stoneware ?
text: Did you know that Ingmar Bergman based his script for the Palme d'Or -winning film The Best Intentions on the life of his father Erik Bergman , salvaged from scattered notes, stories, and conversations?
text: Did you know that the Wrecking Crew supplied the instrumental tracks on dozens of hits recorded in Los Angeles during the 1960s, including " California Dreamin' " , " Mr. Tambourine Man ", " He's a Rebel ", and " Good Vibrations "?
text: Did you know that Laurence Fishburne played Josh Hall , a member of "daytime television's first African American family," on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live ?
text: Did you know that when Talbieh Refugee Camp first opened, most of its inhabitants were displaced persons , as opposed to refugees ?
text: Did you know that syndicated cartoonist Mark Tatulli received a note from a former teacher saying "I can't believe you're still doing the same crap you were doing in junior high, and now getting paid for it"?
text: Did you know that in the 1970 Florida gubernatorial election , Claude Kirk called Reubin Askew a "momma’s boy who wouldn't have the courage to stand up under the fire of the legislators"?
text: Did you know that to reduce injuries, professional tennis tournaments are no longer played on carpet courts ?
text: Did you know that the Bayit Lepletot orphanage in Jerusalem houses and educates girls from as young as three years of age until they are ready to marry and start homes of their own?
text: Did you know that Michigan Wolverines shooting guard Charles Matthews preferred the trombone and skateboard to basketball in his youth?
text: Did you know that the fossil ant species Formica paleosibirica has been described from only three partial males and two lone wings?
text: Did you know that at age 78, Bhalchandra Dattatray Mondhe was awarded the Padma Shri for his lifetime work in photography?
text: Did you know that the Get Out and Push Railroad required passengers to help its trains over the steeper sections of the route?
text: Did you know that Akiyama Tokuzō , once referred to as the "Japanese Escoffier ", became Master Chef of the Imperial Court of Japan at only 25 years of age?
text: Did you know that in the 1990s Disney created animated storybook video games for The Lion King , Pocahontas , Toy Story , The Hunchback of Notre Dame , 101 Dalmatians , Hercules , The Little Mermaid , and Mulan , as well as 1966 and 1974 shorts based on Winnie the Pooh ?
text: Did you know that Emma Wiggs , a gold medallist in paracanoe at the 2016 Paralympics, competed at the 2012 Paralympics as a sitting volleyball player?
text: Did you know that planners of the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mahane Yehuda offered free land to the first 50 families, but there were no takers?
text: Did you know that the statistician Kai-Tai Fang 's dissertation was written in two weeks but not published for 19 years because of the Cultural Revolution ?
text: Did you know that in honor of Georgia Tech 's 1929 Rose Bowl victory, running back Stumpy Thomason was given a bear cub by a local businessman, which he drove around Atlanta and fed Coca-Cola?
text: Did you know that the stories of Italian author and Holocaust survivor Rubino Romeo Salmonì were an inspiration for Roberto Benigni 's 1997 film Life Is Beautiful ?
text: Did you know that Restaurant Andrew Fairlie is known for a signature dish of lobster cold smoked over whisky casks?
text: Did you know that Zufar al-Kilabi was given a high position in the Umayyad court and army in return for abandoning his support for the rebellion of Ibn al-Zubayr ?
text: Did you know that Channel 4 's 2016 Paralympics trailer " We're the Superhumans " featured a big band comprised of musicians with disabilities?
text: Did you know that Moldavian pediatrician Anastasie Fătu proposed a ban on open-casket church funerals?
text: Did you know that Jordan has remained one of the safest countries in the Middle East , despite regional turmoil?
text: Did you know that RKO Pictures fired director Howard Hawks after Bringing Up Baby flopped, but the 1938 screwball comedy is now regarded as one of Hawks' masterpieces?
text: Did you know that Timber Sycamore is a covert CIA program that arms and trains rebels in the Syrian civil war ?
text: Did you know that the Paralympic canoeing champion Anne Dickins had to overcome seasickness when she took up the sport?
text: Did you know that the turnip aphid is highly prolific, with as many as 35 generations a year being recorded in Texas?
text: Did you know that Daniel Dalton has a graduate degree in public administration , but called his work in a U.S. congressman's office "the greatest education I've ever had"?
text: Did you know that the CMLL 68th Anniversary Show was the first time that a steel cage match was held at a CMLL anniversary show ?
text: Did you know that when King George Tupou II of Tonga married Lavinia Veiongo instead of ʻOfakivavaʻu, there were riots in the streets of Nukuʻalofa ?
text: Did you know that the Sunday Mirror recommended that players stumped by video game Myst should get Pyst ?
text: Did you know that it is not known whether the Marquis Léonce de Tarragon named the rosy-throated longclaw ( Macronyx ameliae ) for his wife or his mother?
text: Did you know that horse trainer Wink Groover and his Tennessee Walking Horse Ace's Sensation won a World Grand Championship at their third attempt?
text: Did you know that Sairecabur has the world's highest submillimetre telescope and is adjacent to a peak that may have been one of the world's highest volcanoes at about 7,000 metres (23,000 ft)?
text: Did you know that Auschwitz survivor Bat-Sheva Dagan writes Holocaust stories for children that have happy endings "in order not to rob them of their faith in mankind"?
text: Did you know that video game MeiQ: Labyrinth of Death features characters paired with robotic Guardians?
text: Did you know that the chamber orchestra Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen , founded in 1958, is the only orchestra to regularly perform at the historic Villa Hügel ?
text: Did you know that Section 127 of the Australian Constitution mandated that the Aboriginal peoples not be counted in "reckoning the numbers of the people of the Commonwealth"?
text: Did you know that Suzuka Mambo was a Japanese racehorse sired by the American 1989 Kentucky Derby winner Sunday Silence ?
text: Did you know that 4A Games hoped that Metro: Last Light would "rekindle memories of Half-Life 2 "?
text: Did you know that the South Sudan National Cup has been won more times by Al-Malakia FC than by any other team?
text: Did you know that since the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej , ultra-royalists in Thailand have criticized and harassed those who did not wear mourning black?
text: Did you know that during the 1895 counter-revolution , Joseph Heleluhe , private secretary to Hawaii's deposed queen Liliuokalani , was "stripped of all clothing and placed in a dark cell without light, food or water"?
text: Did you know that the United States' team at the 2016 Kabaddi World Cup consisted entirely of athletes with experience in other sports, but none in kabaddi ?
text: Did you know that Cybele Records has published award-winning audiobooks, "portraits" of living composers, and in 2016 the complete organ works of Max Reger ?
text: Did you know that 2016 Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Callahan once ran for the Oregon House of Representatives under the Green Party label in order to siphon votes from the Democratic candidate?
text: Did you know that the Palace of Cerro Castillo is the summer residence of the President of Chile ?
text: Did you know that Slovenian gymnast and Olympic medallist Boris Gregorka later coached the double gold Olympic medallist Miroslav Cerar ?
text: Did you know that around 1100, Yaozhou ware was accepted by the Chinese Imperial court, but several decades later it was described by a poet as "extremely coarse and used only by restaurants"?
text: Did you know that Montreal architect Maxwell M. Kalman designed more than 1,100 buildings, including Canada's first shopping centre ?
text: Did you know that The Passion of Christ was moved from one church to another, which saved it from being destroyed by fire in 1904?
text: Did you know that the Communist Party of Pakistan was founded on the sidelines of the 1948 Second Party Congress of the Communist Party of India in Calcutta ?
text: Did you know that boxer Issake Dabore was the first athlete from Niger to win an Olympic medal?
text: Did you know that the Sentry anti-ballistic missile was packed into a container that looked like an MX missile ?
text: Did you know that with A Wrinkle in Time , Ava DuVernay is the first woman of color to direct a live-action film with a budget over $100 million?
text: Did you know that Martin Gotthard Schneider wrote the lyrics and music for the hymn Danke , which made it to the German charts in 1963?
text: Did you know that per-capita consumption of primary energy in the Faroe Islands is about 60% higher than that in continental Denmark ?
text: Did you know that in the run-up to the 1953 Philadelphia municipal election , a Democratic nominee died and the office he was running for was abolished?
text: Did you know that W.Z. Ahmed 's film Roohi was the first to be banned in Pakistan?
text: Did you know that "gold thread and iron wire" Ge ware has two sets of cracks in the glaze , accentuated by staining in different colours?
text: Did you know that in her Gloria , Hyo-Won Woo combines elements from Korean music and Western contemporary composition techniques?
text: Did you know that the Swaziland national cricket team was disqualified from the 2016 ICC Africa Twenty20 Division Two after they fielded ineligible players in 2014?
text: Did you know that when Barbara Berman and Mary Keating Croce took office in 1978, they became the first pair of women to represent a single legislative district in the New Jersey General Assembly ?
text: Did you know that quarrying at West End in Penistone Hill Country Park once involved using a bar to make the cliff face collapse whilst the workers ran away?
text: Did you know that everyone eligible to receive the Commemorative Medal for Participants of the Barricades of 1991 from Latvia has already received one?
text: Did you know that Soledad Alatorre , known for her labor activism and advocacy of civil rights , previously worked as a model for bathing suits ?
text: Did you know that after a Duke of Holstein-Gottorp became a Russian emperor , his wife and son traded away his ancestral lands in the Treaty of Tsarskoye Selo ?
text: Did you know that Maurice Gaffney was the oldest practising barrister in Ireland when he died aged 100?
text: Did you know that the daily newspaper Aachener Zeitung began as the first free newspaper published by Germans after World War II?
text: Did you know that the USS Helianthus , built as a private motorboat, went on to serve as a patrol boat for the U.S. Navy, and then for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey ?
text: Did you know that Conservative Member of Parliament Sarah Wollaston switched from supporting to repudiating the pro-Brexit Vote Leave group, calling its repetition of debunked claims " post-truth politics "?
text: Did you know that while writing Here I Am , Jonathan Safran Foer would move between rooms of his house whenever he experienced a "Jonathan block"?
text: Did you know that " Danke ", one of Germany's best-known sacred songs, was considered a sin against music and religion when first released?
text: Did you know that Monique Luiz , star of the famous 1964 political advertisement Daisy , did not see it for herself until 2000?
text: Did you know that the 308th Infantry Regiment was the first United States National Army regiment in the First World War to be presented with its regimental colors?
text: Did you know that with a modest force of Bedouin horsemen, Shibl al-Dawla Nasr defeated a much larger Byzantine army led by Emperor Romanos III ?
text: Did you know that events at Los Angeles ' Fiesta Park included a reception for President William McKinley , the Los Angeles Auto Show , and USC Trojans football games?
text: Did you know that the Liberian Welington Zaza is the African junior record holder in the men's 110 metres hurdles ?
text: Did you know that the Eider Canal was first proposed as part of Ducal Holstein , built under Danish rule, conquered by Prussia , and decommissioned under the German Empire ?
text: Did you know that Dr. J. Butz , founded in 1924, has published sacred music by English composers such as Colin Mawby , Christopher Tambling , and Robert W. Jones in Germany?
text: Did you know that in 2016, Rachel Freier became the first Hasidic Jewish woman to be elected as a civil court judge in the state of New York ?
text: Did you know that Mauritian boxer Kennedy St-Pierre has won two gold medals at the African Games , one in the middleweight division and one in the heavyweight division?
text: Did you know that The Vine in Vancouver, Washington, will be the first bus rapid transit system in the Portland metropolitan area ?
text: Did you know that Proceratium petrosum is one of two ant species in the genus Proceratium described from fossil males?
text: Did you know that Eugen Eckert , who wrote the lyrics of more than a thousand songs in the Neues Geistliches Lied genre, is the minister for a sports stadium in Frankfurt ?
text: Did you know that daisy bushes can be downy , viscid , twiggy , or clammy ?
text: Did you know that when it was released in 2012, Cybergeddon was the most expensive web series ever made?
text: Did you know that Jin Chae-seon was the first female master of pansori , a male-dominated Korean folk opera genre?
text: Did you know that Streitraum , a regular series of panel discussions with Carolin Emcke , has been called "an intelligent and aggressive public lecture series"?
text: Did you know that Gilberto Gil said his Grammy Award for Quanta Live was particularly meaningful because the album is a summary of his three decades in music?
text: Did you know that resists can be used in dyeing textiles , pottery, painting, metalwork, and semiconductor fabrication ?
text: Did you know that Marc Bassingthwaighte is a two-time medalist at the Namibian National Road Race Championships ?
text: Did you know that the black-and-white 1923 Western Wild Bill Hickok starring William Hart was the first film to depict Wyatt Earp ?
text: Did you know that the curve of the roof of Oriam , Scotland's new national sports training centre, was inspired by Roberto Carlos 's goal that "defied physics"?
text: Did you know that tap dancer Ayodele Casel developed her style under the influence of salsa music ?
text: Did you know that Burning Rangers was among the last five Sega Saturn games released in America?
text: Did you know that Alfred Clark pioneered continuity, plot, and special effects in The Execution of Mary Stuart ?
text: Did you know that " Inspirasi " was written by Faizal Tahir as a tribute to Siti Nurhaliza and her achievements in the Malaysian music scene for the past 20 years?
text: Did you know that Taiwan's Danhai Light Rail Transit cars will have batteries so that the overhead power cable does not need to be continuous through intersections?
text: Did you know that photographer Sally Bush bought a 1909 Baker electric car and drove it just once, through the front window of a local pharmacy?
text: Did you know that University of Sydney students might have failed if they had not started studying by the time the jacaranda tree bloomed?
text: Did you know that fencer Salah Dessouki also served as the Governor of Cairo ?
text: Did you know that after the mutineer sailors involved in the Revolt of the Lash were granted amnesty, many were discharged from the Brazilian Navy, put in prison, or sent to work on rubber plantations?
text: Did you know that women first joined Chile's La Moneda Palace Guard in 2001?
text: Did you know that the Golden Ball pub in Bishophill is owned by a local community cooperative?
text: Did you know that St John Harmsworth designed the iconic Perrier bottle, based on Indian exercise clubs he used after being paralysed from the waist down in a 1906 car crash?
text: Did you know that cerium saved the writer Primo Levi 's life in Auschwitz ?
text: Did you know that at the age of 23, Roman Tmetuchl was placed in the 11th grade at George Washington High School ?
text: Did you know that in the geography of Somerset , rough ground where lead was once mined is called "gruffy"?
text: Did you know that the New Jersey black bear Pedals walked on his hind legs due to injuries to his front paws?
text: Did you know that the Warner Estate provided social housing in East London for over 110 years?
text: Did you know that Odile Ahouanwanou broke the Beninese record for the 100 metres hurdles at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that in breeding pairs of the orange ground thrush , the female consistently weighs more than the male?
text: Did you know that Christoph Bartneck wrote a nonsense submission for a predatory conference using iOS 's autocomplete function and it was accepted within three hours?
text: Did you know that during the West African Ebola virus epidemic as many as 15 different vaccines were in development?
text: Did you know that the 7th Marquess of Bristol once reportedly opened a fridge door by blasting it with a shotgun?
text: Did you know that each larva of the lesser clover leaf weevil damages three or four clover inflorescences ?
text: Did you know that Jessica Alba reprised her role as Max Guevara in the video game Dark Angel by voicing the character?
text: Did you know that when the Latvian town of Talsi became part of the Russian Empire , sixty percent of its population was Baltic German ?
text: Did you know that 13-year-old Togolese swimmer Adzo Kpossi was the youngest athlete at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Warratyi , the oldest known site of human habitation in inland Australia , was discovered by a man looking for somewhere to go to the toilet?
text: Did you know that Taslima Akhter 's photograph " Final Embrace " became an iconic image of the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse ?
text: Did you know that " Dirgahayu ", by Malaysian artists Faizal Tahir and Siti Nurhaliza , serves as a theme song for a 100-episode television series?
text: Did you know that at the suggestion of a group of fourth-graders, Thomas J. Shusted and John A. Rocco introduced legislation that made Hadrosaurus foulkii New Jersey's official state dinosaur ?
text: Did you know that a new organ with 3,370 pipes was built in the Gothic church Liebfrauen in Frankfurt am Main in 2008?
text: Did you know that Moses Bensinger helped organize the American Bowling Congress , which standardized the rules of modern ten-pin bowling ?
text: Did you know that the Katihar Medical College campus includes a 590-bed general hospital and a branch of the State Bank of India ?
text: Did you know that the white-backed night heron is hunted for traditional medicine in Nigeria?
text: Did you know that the hosts of the podcast Chapo Trap House popularized the "Baseball Crank" Twitter meme to mock anti-Donald Trump conservatives ?
text: Did you know that descendants of the first settlers of the tiny rural hamlet of Kingston, Mississippi , include actors William Holden and Patrick Swayze ?
text: Did you know that women conductors lead only 4.1% of "big budget" American symphony orchestras ?
text: Did you know that Jackie Stedall won the 2013 Neumann Prize for the best English-language book on the history of mathematics ?
text: Did you know that the short story " Black Destroyer " was the basis for A. E. van Vogt 's lawsuit against 20th Century Fox , as the plot of the movie Alien matched it so closely?
text: Did you know that Gisèle Rabesahala was the first woman to lead a political party and become a government minister in Madagascar ?
text: Did you know that the cocoon of a tiny wasp that parasitises the alfalfa weevil can "jump"?
text: Did you know that Hugues Fabrice Zango was Burkina Faso's only medalist at the 2015 Summer Universiade ?
text: Did you know that the One Piece Treasure Cruise mobile game has been one of the highest grossing titles in Japan and the US?
text: Did you know that the Franciscan Helmut Schlegel wrote the lyrics of an oratorio Laudato si ' , including writings by Francis of Assisi and Pope Francis , and the Magnificat ?
text: Did you know that the eighth-century Umayyad Painting of the Six Kings is badly damaged, partly as a result of Alois Musil 's attempts to remove it from its site in Quseir Amra , Jordan?
text: Did you know that the fairy gerygone nests near wasp nests, possibly to keep itself safe from predators?
text: Did you know that the English footballer Roy Jennings scored 60 goals during his career, 51 of which were penalties ?
text: Did you know that the Tumbuka people 's Vimbuza tradition uses dance, music, and singing to heal illness?
text: Did you know that seeking to challenge both Fatah and Hamas , five left-wing factions united to jointly contest the 2016 Palestinian local elections , which have since been postponed?
text: Did you know that the auction in 1973 of 50 pop art works from the collection of Robert Scull was viewed by the art establishment as the " nouveaux riches cashing in"?
text: Did you know that the Güney Waterfall , a natural monument , was reestablished 50 m (160 ft) to one side after a landslide swept away its original location?
text: Did you know that the setting of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is heavily based on the city of Miami ?
text: Did you know that Harry Norwitch served five terms on Philadelphia's City Council but quit his race for re-election in 1967, calling the Democratic party machine "self-serving"?
text: Did you know that the closest relative of the Caribbean sea slug Pleurobranchus areolatus is Pleurobranchus varians from the central Pacific?
text: Did you know that "eloquent" Holbrook , "popular" Humble , ex-Congregationalist Miller , and Pilling who feared "plottings", were all vicars of St Mark's , Huddersfield, England?
text: Did you know that the first paper mill in Scotland was located in Dalry, Edinburgh ?
text: Did you know that Alastair Storey ended celebrity chef Jamie Oliver 's two-year reign as "most influential" in the British hospitality industry?
text: Did you know that Salar de Coipasa , Salar de Uyuni and Lake Poopó were formerly part of the larger Lake Minchin ?
text: Did you know that Comoran Olympian Maoulida Darouèche has competed in both the 400 metres hurdles and the javelin throw ?
text: Did you know that the Tolpuddle Martyrs were tried in the Shire Hall at Dorchester ?
text: Did you know that Rafael María de Aguilar y Ponce de León was the longest serving Governor-General of the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period ?
text: Did you know that before she became a famous aviator, Amelia Earhart was a social worker at Denison House in Boston ?
text: Did you know that the 1994 bomb explosion in the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad left at least 25 dead and 70 to 300 injured?
text: Did you know that Burundian Abraham Niyonkuru finished fourth in the 10,000 metres at the 2005 Jeux de la Francophonie despite being only 0.03 seconds behind the silver medallist?
text: Did you know that the modern Palestinian village of Beit Qad is associated with the biblical locality of Beth Ekad, mentioned in the Book of Kings as the site of a massacre?
text: Did you know that the French Consul to Hawaii Marie Gabriel Georges Bosseront d'Anglade accompanied Queen Liliuokalani on her visit to the leper settlement of Kalaupapa in 1891?
text: Did you know that flowerpots for the Ming emperors were made in official Jun ware ?
text: Did you know that a 1994 John F. Gaffney proposal would have allowed Donald Trump to own four Atlantic City casino licenses, even though all three of his casino properties there had recent bankruptcy filings?
text: Did you know that ancient Indian texts include as many as 64 different lipi ?
text: Did you know that Ralph Nader was nominated by the Ecology Party of Florida as a presidential candidate in 2008?
text: Did you know that SMS Custoza was the first Austro-Hungarian major warship to have an iron hull?
text: Did you know that the British long-distance runner Andy Vernon won silver and bronze at the 2014 European Athletics Championships , losing out to Mo Farah both times?
text: Did you know that tunnel nests of the rosy bee-eater become submerged in the rainy season?
text: Did you know that Kentucky family court judge Timothy N. Philpot says he does not "mention Jesus inside the courthouse very much, even when I know he is absolutely the only answer to the problem in front of me"?
text: Did you know that the award-winning Bulgarian film Glory was inspired by a newspaper clipping about a railway worker who discovered a huge pile of banknotes on the tracks?
text: Did you know that athletes from more than 50 countries who had a prior doping offence were allowed to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that John J. Horn supported New Jersey 's proposed Illegal Alien Employment Prohibition Act, stating "illegal aliens holding jobs represent more than half of our total unemployed"?
text: Did you know that no official conservation measures are in place to protect the critically endangered Iris cedreti , endemic to Lebanon ?
text: Did you know that in the Battle of Kharistan in 737, the Umayyads caught the Turgesh khagan off guard with only a fraction of his army, and secured a victory that saved Arab rule in Central Asia?
text: Did you know that the Zimbabwean prophetess Mai Chaza , who called herself a messenger from God, was regarded by her followers as an African reappearance of Christ?
text: Did you know that the Peak Farmland theory predicts that global acreage of farmland will decrease, even as the world population grows?
text: Did you know that Katsura Hoshino says she comes up with most of the ideas for the manga series D.Gray-man after falling asleep in her bath?
text: Did you know that the author of Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future argues we are living in a golden age ?
text: Did you know that Gertrude Foster Brown encouraged New York women to exercise their new right to vote in her 1918 book Your Vote and How to Use It ?
text: Did you know that although the black grasswren was discovered in 1901, its nesting habits remained unknown for nearly one hundred years?
text: Did you know that Christiana Willes is sometimes incorrectly attributed as the founder of roundarm bowling ?
text: Did you know that in 1972, Idi Amin expelled Hindus and other Asians from Uganda after he said God told him to do so in a dream?
text: Did you know that Māori tribal leader and baptized Mormon Mere Mete Whaanga and her sister-in-law made quite a spectacle on the streets of Salt Lake City sporting traditional facial tattoos ?
text: Did you know that Rhodesian athletes were permitted to attend their events at the 1972 Summer Olympics , but not participate in them?
text: Did you know that during the Second World War, Kenneth Le Couteur worked at Bletchley Park on Tunny ?
text: Did you know that the Suffolk University Political Research Center included mobile phones in its polls for the first time in 2012?
text: Did you know that when queen consort ʻAnaseini Takipō and King George Tupou II did not have a son, his daughter from his first marriage, Sālote Tupou III , ascended to the throne of Tonga upon his death?
text: Did you know that Luscombe Castle in Devon has an American Garden developed between 1812 and 1814?
text: Did you know that Adrian Moss was named Indiana Mini Mr. Basketball when at high school?
text: Did you know that Robert Forward invoked van Vogt's short story " Far Centaurus " when discussing the problem of interstellar travel ?
text: Did you know that Mary Chubb was an "accidental archaeologist" who only took a job with the Egypt Exploration Society so she could pay for art school?
text: Did you know that Peter Reulein composed the oratorio Laudato si‘ for five soloists, choirs, organ and orchestra to be premiered in Limburg Cathedral ?
text: Did you know that Archive of Our Own hosts over two million stories and artworks by fans of media franchises ?
text: Did you know that Ernest Titterton performed the countdown for the American Operation Crossroads nuclear tests, and witnessed British nuclear tests at Maralinga in Australia?
text: Did you know that the Japanese steamship Nunobiki Maru undertook an ill-fated delivery of military supplies from Nagasaki to the Philippines in 1899?
text: Did you know that hurdler Ned Justeen Azemia was the youngest member of the Seychelles team at the 2016 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the Russian gay propaganda law has been blamed for an alleged increase in homophobic attacks ?
text: Did you know that police noted that the disappearance of Sky Metalwala five years ago today was "strikingly similar" to an episode of Law & Order: SVU broadcast the night before?
text: Did you know that peace activist Margaret Thorp was punched, scratched, and kicked by women at a pro- conscription rally?
text: Did you know that in the 1966 Championship Game , Texas Western became the first team to field an all-African-American starting lineup in an NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament final?
text: Did you know that Charles Husband was the engineer behind what was, on completion, the world's largest fully-steerable radio telescope ?
text: Did you know that two arches of a Roman bridge were found in the basement of the Mausoleum of Danyal during renovations?
text: Did you know that the journalist and author Carolin Emcke was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2016?
text: Did you know that Horsey Island in Essex was the basis for Swallow Island in Arthur Ransome 's Secret Water ?
text: Did you know that French physician Victor Despeignes thought that cancer was a parasite which could be killed with radiation ?
text: Did you know that Nike Wagner removed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony from the program of the festival Beethovenfest ?
text: Did you know that while working for the American Fur Company , trapper Warren Angus Ferris was one of the first people to map and describe Yellowstone ?
text: Did you know that the white-eared night heron had been recorded from only about 20 localities by 2001, but was discovered in over 30 localities between 2001 and 2011?
text: Did you know that in order to increase his name recognition, Lawton Chiles walked 1,003 miles (1,614 km) across Florida for his United States Senate campaign in 1970 ?
text: Did you know that Australian W-League association footballer Gabe Marzano was appointed to the Professional Footballers Australia executive committee in May 2016?
text: Did you know that scholars in the field of Mongolian studies are often referred to as Mongolists ?
text: Did you know that Jason Graae had to use his ad libbing skills when a fake moustache "started to take on a life of its own" on the opening night of Little Me ?
text: Did you know that tsunamis build up their height according to Green's law , as they travel from the ocean towards the coast?
text: Did you know that harpsichordist Jean Rondeau has been called a classical music " sex symbol "?
text: Did you know that despite having been formed in 1932, the Lesotho Football Association did not gain FIFA membership until 1964?
text: Did you know that Stanley Silverstein won an American Shoe Designer Award in 1963 for a ballerina flat he created using "leftover scraps of leather"?
text: Did you know that the greenbug is the vector of several plant viruses?
text: Did you know that journalist Stephen Kurkjian claims murdered Boston mobster Robert Donati masterminded the world's largest art theft to get his boss out of jail?
text: Did you know that Captain America: Civil War was originally going to feature the Madbomb storyline from the comics, where Captain America would fight other heroes who had been zombified ?
text: Did you know that the Mapenduma hostage crisis lasted for more than four months?
text: Did you know that the 1987 Czechoslovak film Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker is based on a fairy tale by Communist writer Jan Drda ?
text: Did you know that the head of hajduk commander Bajo Pivljanin was sent to the Ottoman sultan as a war trophy?
text: Did you know that in 2013, the production of Oxford Blue cheese created around 50,000 litres (13,000 US gal.) of waste whey per month, which was processed using an anaerobic digester ?
text: Did you know that the bioarchaeologist Charlotte Roberts once worked as a nurse on a burns unit?
text: Did you know that Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon of Jerusalem was the fourth yeshiva established on three continents by Rabbi Simcha Wasserman?
text: Did you know that Juanita's Galley was noted for a "fabulous" breakfast, the proprietor's "unpredictable disposition", and a 40-person brawl featuring car jacks, pipes, steel bars, a fishbowl, and an axe?
text: Did you know that the 1973 Indian film Kaadu , which won the National Award for Second Best Feature Film , was based on the novel of the same name by Srikrishna Alanahalli ?
text: Did you know that John F. Good 's role in the Abscam sting operation was portrayed in the 2013 film American Hustle , though he felt if it was more like real life "it would be a very boring movie"?
text: Did you know that FUNCINPEC started as a Cambodian resistance movement and later became a political party?
text: Did you know that the Burmese court treatise Zabu Kun-Cha is believed to have been written by Chief Minister Min Yaza of Ava ?
text: Did you know that the ant Pachycondyla oligocenica is one of three Pachycondyla species with described fossil males?
text: Did you know that Lidiane Lopes holds the Cape Verdean record in the women's 100-metre sprint?
text: Did you know that the artwork of the West African Senufo people inspired Pablo Picasso ?
text: Did you know that Vlad Dracula forced Dan III of Wallachia to dig his own grave?
text: Did you know that the ant Pachycondyla aberrans was described from a headless adult of unknown sex?
text: Did you know that the ghost of Henry Trigg is said to roam his house searching for his remains, which were stolen from his coffin?
text: Did you know that the French punished a queen by sending her to Hellville ?
text: Did you know that before he became mayor of Charleston, West Virginia , Danny Jones worked as a gravedigger?
text: Did you know that the racket-tailed roller makes a racket as it rockets?
text: Did you know that the " Gates of Hell " could be found in Washington, D.C. ?
text: Did you know that Operation PBFORTUNE , organized by the CIA to topple Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz , was terminated when the coup attempt became too widely known?
text: Did you know that the number of ways to fold a strip of stamps is always divisible by the number of stamps in the strip?
text: Did you know that A.M.O. Ghani 's popularity as a politician was credited to his provision of medical care to the poor?
text: Did you know that the president of Denny-Renton Clay and Coal Company was the first boy born to the settlers of Seattle ?
text: Did you know that in 1982, Semra Ertan set herself on fire in a Hamburg marketplace to protest about xenophobia in Germany?
text: Did you know that both towns connected by the 1931 opening of the Perley Bridge declared a half-day holiday to start at noon?
text: Did you know that Puaaiki , a blind preacher from Maui, was a former hula dancer for King Kamehameha II ?
text: Did you know that on 29 November 2016, Ben Woodburn became Liverpool's youngest ever goalscorer when he scored against Leeds United in the EFL Cup ?
text: Did you know that Iris Murdoch 's first book, Sartre: Romantic Rationalist , was the first book about Jean-Paul Sartre 's work to be published in English?
text: Did you know that the bearded scrub robin disappeared from the Hluhluwe–Umfolozi Game Reserve after tsetse deterrent was sprayed there in the 1940s, but had recolonised the area by 1975?
text: Did you know that Mirjam Wiesemann made award-winning audiobooks for Cybele Records , introducing in music and conversation the composers Hartmann , Apostel , Henze , Boulez , Jacqueline Fontyn and Juan Allende-Blin ?
text: Did you know that the now non-existent Lake Tauca formerly covered large parts of the Altiplano of South America ?
text: Did you know that the Nuclear Reactor Building on the University of Washington campus in Seattle was designed with large glass windows to "proudly showcase" the reactor?
text: Did you know that an 1899 publication recommended that use of an impure aluminium sulfacetate preparation as a mordant "should be abandoned", as it is an "empyreumatic liquid"?
text: Did you know that 11-year-old Sarai Gonzalez plays a "nerdy" tween with a "sassy" and "confident" attitude in Bomba Estéreo 's " Soy Yo " ("That's Me") music video?
text: Did you know that Chris Crawford considers The Global Dilemma: Guns or Butter to be among the worst video games he created?
text: Did you know that Colin de Grandhomme 's performance of six wickets for 41 runs is the best by any New Zealander on Test debut ?
text: Did you know that the refrain of " Heaven " by Inna is written in a language invented by the singer and her label?
text: Did you know that when Sisir Roy died in 1960, his sister Sudha Roy took over his post as general secretary of the United Trade Union Congress?
text: Did you know that Time magazine said The J's with Jamie "have probably been heard by more people more times than any other group in the history of sound. Yet next to nobody knows who they are"?
text: Did you know that perfumes made from the pungent Warionia saharae desert plant are reputed to employ its "supernatural powers" to make women more seductive?
text: Did you know that Natalie Sims co-wrote the Iggy Azalea song " Work ", which sold over one million copies in the US?
text: Did you know that the Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds, Washington , is located inside a former Safeway grocery store?
text: Did you know that despite being a prolific artist of 19th-century London, Robert Blemmell Schnebbelie died of starvation in Camden Town ?
text: Did you know that when a Beecroft's flying squirrel brings food to its offspring, its cheeks expand to the size of a tangerine ?
text: Did you know that Kalanimoku caused the death of his wife Likelike and their son Lanihau with cannon fire outside their house?
text: Did you know that publicists promoted the 1999 edition of FHM 's 100 Sexiest Women by projecting a 60-foot (18 m) naked image of the TV presenter Gail Porter onto the Palace of Westminster ?
text: Did you know that Gaye LeBaron wrote more than 8,000 columns for The Press Democrat of Santa Rosa, California, and hers were considered "the most popular feature in the paper"?
text: Did you know that cyclist Eugenio Colombani also represented Egypt at the 1906 Intercalated Games in Greco-Roman wrestling ?
text: Did you know that the Aravalli Mountains contain intensely deformed rocks?
text: Did you know that Indian Trotskyist state legislator Kanai Pal was jailed soon after being elected in 1962?
text: Did you know that the greater long-nosed armadillo is sometimes preyed on by bush dogs which enter its burrow and drag it out?
text: Did you know that Hawaii's first Protestant minister James Kekela saved an American sailor from cannibals and was presented with a gold watch from President Abraham Lincoln ?
text: Did you know that The Foo Show is an interactive virtual-reality talk show?
text: Did you know that the mantou kiln , used for pottery in north China for some 2,000 years, is named after a type of steamed bread bun ?
text: Did you know that " The Babe in Bethlem's Manger " is thought to be a traditional Kentish folk carol but its tune is described as being "very much of the 18th century"?
text: Did you know that Reverend Richard Aslatt Pearce was the first deaf person to be ordained as an Anglican clergyman?
text: Did you know that in the carol " Vom Himmel hoch, o Engel, kommt ", printed in 1622, the angels are requested to come from Heaven with musical instruments, to sing of Jesus and Mary, and for peace?
text: Did you know that the "very remarkable" monumental brass of John Rudying in St Andrew's church in Biggleswade was rediscovered when the floor was lifted?
text: Did you know that the Taschenphilharmonie , called the world's smallest orchestra, earned prizes for classical music embedded in narration for young children?
text: Did you know that Jackie Evancho 's 2016 album Someday at Christmas peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Classical Albums chart?
text: Did you know that Helmut Kahlhöfer conducted his choir Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke in recordings of Reger's Geistliche Gesänge , Op. 110 , and Bach's Mass in B minor for the tricentenary of the composer's birth?
text: Did you know that, unusually for a constellation, the five brightest stars of Apus are red-tinged?
text: Did you know that the Tongan Soakimi Gatafahefa , the first Polynesian to be ordained as a Catholic priest, studied in Rome and met Pope Pius IX ?
text: Did you know that the Christian song " Give Thanks With a Grateful Heart " was credited as unknown authorship when first released in 1986, despite being written by Henry Smith in 1978?
text: Did you know that Ami Radunskaya , a mathematician who heads the Association for Women in Mathematics , spent ten years as a cellist and music composer between high school and college?
text: Did you know that the Fashion History Museum in Cambridge, Ontario houses what may be the oldest existing European shoe worn in North America?
text: Did you know that in 1858 Santa Claus made his first Hawaiian appearance at Washington Place, the home of Mary Dominis ?
text: Did you know that the Advent hymn " O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf " was written against a backdrop of the Thirty Years' War , the plague , and witch trials ?
text: Did you know that Sadhan Gupta , elected from Calcutta South East in a 1953 by-poll , was the first blind parliamentarian in independent India?
text: Did you know that Glass Buttes is a mountain group in central Oregon named for the large deposits of obsidian found on their slopes?
text: Did you know that civil engineer Ernest William Moir invented the first medical airlock ?
text: Did you know that young Sloggett's vlei rats have several adaptations that help them cope with severe cold in winter?
text: Did you know that in 2010, the association footballer Neil Alexander came on as a substitute for Queen of the South in a friendly against his own team, Rangers ?
text: Did you know that HMS Tartar ' s Prize had oversized cannons, a leaky hull, and a smoky galley , and sank in the Mediterranean when her timbers gave way?
text: Did you know that Michigan linebacker Mike McCray was named Big Ten Conference Defensive Player of the Week for his first career start?
text: Did you know that in 1967, President Hastings Banda established the Order of the Lion , Malawi 's second-highest honor?
text: Did you know that the Iazyges were a tribe of Sarmatians that migrated from Central Asia to the Pannonian Basin ?
text: Did you know that in 2005, Howard Dean was elected as Chair of the Democratic National Committee , despite both Democratic Congressional leaders endorsing Tim Roemer instead?
text: Did you know that after High Priest Matua of Mangareva converted to Christianity in 1835, his long hair, sacred in the old pagan religion , was cut short?
text: Did you know that the third movement of the chorale motet Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme contains a quotation from a Bach cantata which composer J. C. F. Bach included as a tribute to his father ?
text: Did you know that Bertha Bracey was a Hero of the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that courtship in the silvery mole-rat includes locking incisors or gently nibbling the mate?
text: Did you know that the ruling Dutch East India Company drove the Islamization of the eastern salient of Java in the 18th century?
text: Did you know that Clementia Killewald , abbess of Eibingen Abbey , spoke about its founder Hildegard of Bingen at the ceremony when she was proclaimed a saint and Doctor of the Church by the pope?
text: Did you know that before qualifying for Secret Service Counter-Assault Teams , agents of the United States Secret Service are required to do pull-ups while wearing a 45-pound (20 kg) weighted vest?
text: Did you know that in 2015, Tony Ahn hiked the 63-mile (101 km) Bataan Death March route, consuming only a cup of rice and a liter of water per day to raise awareness that Filipinos were also forced to march?
text: Did you know that Marylebone Lane is a "rustic diagonal" in an area laid out on a grid plan ?
text: Did you know that Sir Joseph Rotblat , a Polish physicist who helped design atomic bombs for the Manhattan Project during World War II, won the Nobel Prize for Peace ?
text: Did you know that seeds of the fossil fruit Suciacarpa have fossil fungi inside them?
text: Did you know that lawyer and activist Shehla Zia was once arrested for protesting a law which reduced the weight given to evidence provided by female witnesses in a trial?
text: Did you know that you can fly model airplanes or ride model trains behind a flood control dam in Phoenix, Arizona's Deer Valley urban village?
text: Did you know that the €11 million reported to have been spent by AS Monaco FC in 2012 to sign Lucas Ocampos , was the most ever for a Ligue 2 player?
text: Did you know that according to a hadith by the Islamic prophet Muhammad , sadaqa removes seventy gates of evil?
text: Did you know that independent candidate Anadi Das defeated the incumbent assembly speaker in the 1962 West Bengal election ?
text: Did you know that White House sentries were abolished by Gerald Ford but reinstated by Ronald Reagan ?
text: Did you know that after part of the dome of the New Jersey State House was painted blue, George H. Barbour introduced legislation to ensure it would be restored to its traditional gold and white?
text: Did you know that one member of South Sudan's delegation to the 2016 Summer Olympics was informed by email eight days prior to the Games that he would not be competing?
text: Did you know that in the 1980s, the West Bengal Fisheries Minister Bhakti Bhushan Mandal declared himself to be an intermediary between the Government of India and exiled Naga leader Phizo ?
text: Did you know that in South Africa, fewer than 40% of African cuckoo eggs are successfully hatched and the chicks raised by their foster parents?
text: Did you know that New England expatriate Thomas Wright Everett became the last Royal Governor of Maui ?
text: Did you know that one critic described the novel Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks as starting a trend in the 1990s of British literature rethinking the legacy of the World Wars ?
text: Did you know that Alice Brock owned the restaurant that inspired both the song and the film named "Alice's Restaurant"?
text: Did you know that Hawaiian legislator Luther Aholo was compared to the Athenian statesman Solon ?
text: Did you know that the Revolutionary Communist Party of India general secretary Sudhindranath Kumar served two terms as Food Minister of West Bengal ?
text: Did you know that artwork at Othello station in Seattle, Washington, includes African dancers, an Asian-American " totem pole ", and stormwater channels?
text: Did you know that Alice Bota , who writes for Die Zeit and studied in Germany and Poland, won an award for young journalists ?
text: Did you know that after the Mataram conquest of the Duchy of Surabaya , the son of its last duke married the sister of the conqueror, Sultan Agung ?
text: Did you know that in 1980, newspaper editor Willis Tucker was elected the first county executive of Snohomish County, Washington ?
text: Did you know that Cheshire Cheese may be found in Essex ?
text: Did you know that the British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason signed his first record deal on a bus named in his honour?
text: Did you know that the Swarmjet system was a proposed short-range anti-ballistic missile that fired thousands of unguided rockets like a shotgun against incoming nuclear warheads ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Representative-elect Ted Budd won his first election with 20% of the vote in a 17-candidate field?
text: Did you know that the idea for Through the Wilderness , a Madonna tribute album , came in a dream to Paul Beahan ?
text: Did you know that a plot led by Joseph Harmatz to poison 12,000 SS officers, held as POWs after World War II , was part of a revenge effort "to kill six million Germans, one for every Jew slaughtered by the Germans"?
text: Did you know that the 1937 Tamil-language film Bhaktha Sri Thyagaraja is based on the life of the Carnatic musician Tyagaraja ?
text: Did you know that Becca Pizzi completed seven marathons on seven continents in seven days , and accepted a marriage proposal on the mound before throwing out the first pitch at Fenway Park?
text: Did you know that Kurile Lake is the site of the largest volcanic eruption of Holocene Kamchatka and one of the largest in the Holocene, spreading ash to a distance of 1,700 kilometres (1,100 mi)?
text: Did you know that pastry chef Carine Goren was the most googled person in Israel in 2015?
text: Did you know that aluminium triacetate is used to treat aphthous ulcers and otitis , to relieve the itch from poison ivy , and as an astringent with Mortellaro disease in hoofed animals?
text: Did you know that during her 1895 trial, Queen Liliuokalani was defended by her former attorney general and tried by a military tribunal led by another former attorney general ?
text: Did you know that the main hall of Shuri Castle was reused as the haiden of Okinawa Shrine before its destruction in the Battle of Okinawa ?
text: Did you know that Mary Barkas was the first female house physician at the Bethlem Royal Hospital in London?
text: Did you know that the Westboro Baptist Church called Houston's Montrose Center "an oozing, purulent sore of sodomite contagion?"
text: Did you know that Josh White is a NASCAR driver and a member of the United States Marine Corps Reserve ?
text: Did you know that Rudraveena (1988) was the second Telugu-language film to win the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration ?
text: Did you know that Rhode Island ratified the United States constitution only after being threatened with a trade embargo by the rest of the United States?
text: Did you know that Jan Rippe became well known to the Swedish public in his role as Roger in the television comedy series Macken ?
text: Did you know that I Am Seven was released by Eleven9 Entertainment, a new agency in which South Korean singer Seven had invested six billion won (US$5.24 million)?
text: Did you know that Debatable panellists have included a former MP and a rapper?
text: Did you know that when introducing actress Sharon Stone , Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Monroe Karmin attributed her "wellness, fitness, and positive attitude" to her choice of undergarments?
text: Did you know that the labour studies scholar Kendra Coulter calls for interspecies solidarity between human and animal workers?
text: Did you know that Christina Aguilera self-produced a 96-second music video for " Telepathy " as a gift to her fans as the song rose to number-one on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart?
text: Did you know that the Cretaceous snail Condonella was described in 1927, but not placed into a snail family until 2000?
text: Did you know that at age 22, Judith Hemmendinger helped rehabilitate nearly 100 child survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp , among them Elie Wiesel ?
text: Did you know that the pre-Islamic Arab chieftain Zuhayr ibn Janab destroyed a sanctuary that rivalled the Kaaba of Mecca?
text: Did you know that at Bexley Hospital , the patients looked after the farm animals, maintained the grounds, and did the cleaning?
text: Did you know that the princess Joan of Navarre had to renounce her inheritance and become a nun because her fiancé wanted to marry her younger sister Maria instead?
text: Did you know that El Progreso Department in Guatemala was dissolved 12 years after its creation, only to be recreated 14 years later?
text: Did you know that Hawaiian Colonel John Dominis Holt served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention with a prince ?
text: Did you know that under certain conditions, the woodland dormouse can enter a state of torpor ?
text: Did you know that the focus of Harvard Environmental Law Review was changed because the original format was "too ambitious"?
text: Did you know that art dealer and gallerist Robert Mnuchin , and his sons Steven and Alan, all worked for Goldman Sachs ?
text: Did you know that the World Health Organization says that a focus on reproductive health alone prevents progress in ensuring quality women's healthcare ?
text: Did you know that since it honors a notionally illegal cult , suburban Shanghai's Tianfei Palace is officially classified as a museum?
text: Did you know that Kingdom of Hawaii Attorney General Antone Rosa and Interior Minister John F. Colburn were detained for driving a carriage into a fish market?
text: Did you know that Solange Knowles performed a live cover of Nivea 's song " Laundromat " in an actual laundromat?
text: Did you know that Michael Lane , who served as Chief Engineer of the Great Western Railway , started out as a bricklayer but became one of Isambard Kingdom Brunel 's most trusted assistants?
text: Did you know that when its cheek pouches are full, the lesser spot-nosed monkey 's throat resembles a snowball?
text: Did you know that Dave Somers , the current executive of Snohomish County, Washington , was educated as a fisheries biologist ?
text: Did you know that there was no marker for the grave of theologian Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen at Elm Ridge Cemetery for more than a century after his burial?
text: Did you know that Steve Cooke and Beth Webster are the newest Eggheads ?
text: Did you know that Brigham Young University has a digitized collection of Mormon missionary diaries that includes the work of 115 diarists and 376 written volumes?
text: Did you know that Gonzalo Castellot Madrazo was the first announcer to appear on Mexican television ?
text: Did you know that low-level Schedule C political appointees in the United States sometimes attempt to "burrow in" by transferring to permanent merit-based positions ?
text: Did you know that Baxter Langley , who stood for the UK Parliament alongside William Gladstone , was later sentenced to hard labour ?
text: Did you know that despite charting at only 96, " To Build a Home " by The Cinematic Orchestra has been streamed more than 60 million times and featured in several TV shows?
text: Did you know that expulsion from the Senate did not prevent Gaius Antonius Hybrida from attaining the highest elected office in the Roman Republic?
text: Did you know that the Pu Songling short story " Stealing Peaches " describes the Indian rope trick ?
text: Did you know that Brett Smitheram won the 2016 World Scrabble Championship ?
text: Did you know that the 72nd , 86th , and 96th Street stations along the Second Avenue Subway are part of the New York City Subway 's first major expansion in over half a century?
text: Did you know that when he was growing up, U.S. Representative-elect Raja Krishnamoorthi lived in public housing and received food stamps ?
text: Did you know that destruction of ancient Assyrian sculpture by ISIL is reported to have increased in late 2016 with the Mosul offensive ?
text: Did you know that after becoming the first African-American to captain an athletic team at Notre Dame , Aubrey Lewis joined the first class to include blacks at the FBI Academy ?
text: Did you know that the mixed choir Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke , founded 70 years ago for sacred music , was a partner of the WDR from 1957, and performed in Israel and with Ian Anderson ?
text: Did you know that West Bengal Jails Minister Jiban Ratan Dhar had been jailed three times himself?
text: Did you know that the British-Hawaiian politician Ferdinand William Hutchison was influential in the development of the leper colony of Kalaupapa , to which his son Ambrose K. Hutchison was exiled in 1879?
text: Did you know that in the stratified social system of the African Zarma people , the lowest stratum inherited slavery ?
text: Did you know that Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath explores "shocking stories of abuse, heartbreak and harassment" of former members of the Church of Scientology ?
text: Did you know that Sam Manekshaw was the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal ?
text: Did you know that Neues Geistliches Lied , a genre of contemporary songs for use at church, was performed by around 1,895 choirs and bands in German dioceses according to a 2001 report?
text: Did you know that the third wife of Bohemond III of Antioch was described as a witch by William of Tyre , and as a whore by Michael the Syrian ?
text: Did you know that after decades of prohibition, hemp in Kentucky is a legal crop?
text: Did you know that Merian C. Cooper , director of King Kong , destroyed nearly all 5,000 copies of his autobiography Things Men Die For ?
text: Did you know that the components of the TV Corvi system orbit each other every 90 minutes?
text: Did you know that Wilhelm von Debschitz founded an art school in Munich which provided a model for the Bauhaus ?
text: Did you know that Pharrell Williams wrote the song " Sexify " based on headlines from the women's fashion magazine Cosmopolitan ?
text: Did you know that journalist Shafiqa Habibi was one of only three women candidates in the 2004 Afghan presidential election ?
text: Did you know that the reliquary of the 11th-century Buddhist monk Miaoyuan was rediscovered in the 1970s during repairs to Songjiang 's Square Pagoda ?
text: Did you know that Raphael Demos taught Martin Luther King Jr. the philosophy of Plato and gave him an A for his work?
text: Did you know that XGRS was a Nazi -operated radio station in Shanghai during World War II ?
text: Did you know that despite his subjects' reluctance to accept him as king, Philip III of Navarre proved to be an effective and successful ruler?
text: Did you know that the European Commission ruled the Republic of Ireland's tax benefits to Apple were an illegal form of state aid , and the company would have to pay €13 billion in back tax as a result?
text: Did you know that Helen Boyle was the first female president of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association ?
text: Did you know that the multiplayer fan project developed for Just Cause 2 was recognized by Avalanche Studios as the game's official downloadable content ?
text: Did you know that an ace member of the Eagle Squadrons , Richard L. Alexander , was one of the first pilots of the P-47 Thunderbolt ?
text: Did you know that the male tantalus monkey has a bright blue scrotum surrounded by orange hairs?
text: Did you know that Thomas of Tolentino was martyred for insulting Muhammad during a medieval domestic violence case in India?
text: Did you know that the criollista novel Carazamba may be seen as an allegory of the incorporation of the remote Petén Department into the Guatemalan nation?
text: Did you know that U.S. Representative-elect Stephanie Murphy and her family left Vietnam when she was six months old, and were rescued by the U.S. Navy ?
text: Did you know that Guinea-Bissau's participation at the 2012 Summer Paralympics was the country's first at a Paralympic Games ?
text: Did you know that the philosopher Gary Varner has argued that all beings, including plants, have morally considerable interests?
text: Did you know that the future Roosevelt station in Seattle plans to incorporate a preserved Streamline Moderne facade from a music shop that was demolished for its construction?
text: Did you know that the hairy-breasted barbet has been observed to remove wings and legs from insects by bashing them on branches?
text: Did you know that Harvard philosopher Ralph Monroe Eaton wrote an unpublished memoir of his experiences during the First World War?
text: Did you know that " Zhang Hongjian ", a short story by Chinese writer Pu Songling, was adapted into two plays?
text: Did you know that the fossil ant genus Agastomyrma was described from a single queen?
text: Did you know that Hannah Dadds was the first female train driver on the London Underground ?
text: Did you know that during their conquest of Surabaya , Mataram forces dammed the Brantas River to limit water supply to the city of Surabaya ?
text: Did you know that Malian taekwondo practitioner Ismaël Coulibaly won a gold medal at the 2015 African Games ?
text: Did you know that George Washington's campaign distributed 160 US gallons (610 L) of alcoholic drink to voters on polling day at the 1758 Virginia House of Burgesses election?
text: Did you know that Michael Stevens , creator and host of Vsauce , uploaded his first YouTube videos under the username "pooplicker888"?
text: Did you know that Sound Transit 3 will nearly double the amount of light rail in the Seattle region to 112 miles (180 km) of track?
text: Did you know that males of the fossil ant Proceratium eocenicum have a hair fringe?
text: Did you know that the 1970 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games , held in Edinburgh , lacked day-to-day television coverage by British broadcasters?
text: Did you know that Tamar Halperin recorded music by Erik Satie , playing piano, harpsichord , Hammond organ , and Wurlitzer piano ?
text: Did you know that Asian Paints Ltd 's former mascot Gattu, a mischievous boy with a paint bucket, was created by Indian cartoonist R. K. Laxman ?
text: Did you know that fictional journalist Carl Diggler correctly predicted the results of more 2016 presidential primaries than Nate Silver 's statistics blog FiveThirtyEight ?
text: Did you know that 45-pound (20 kg) weight plates have been known to weigh as little as 38 pounds (17 kg) or as much as 59 pounds (27 kg)?
text: Did you know that President Lyndon B. Johnson credited Agnes E. Meyer with having the most influence over his education policy?
text: Did you know that in 2003, PSLV-C5 deployed the IRS-P6 satellite, then the heaviest and most sophisticated remote sensing satellite built by the Indian Space Research Organisation ?
text: Did you know that Beatriz de la Cueva , the first female colonial governor in the New World, died in a September 11 disaster two days after taking office?
text: Did you know that the New York State Insurance Fund once mistakenly categorized puppet making under rubber manufacturing instead of theatrical production?
text: Did you know that King Henry IV 's invasion of Scotland in 1400 has been described as "utterly futile"?
text: Did you know that the 1000-year-old Bishop Petros with Saint Peter the Apostle ended up in Poland after being saved from a watery grave?
text: Did you know that the Washington state 1960 gubernatorial election was the first in state history to include televised debates ?
text: Did you know that Wes McCauley has refereed the Stanley Cup Finals for the last four years?
text: Did you know that 10 of the military officers involved in the 1989 Panamanian coup d'état attempt were executed in what became known as the Albrook massacre?
text: Did you know that the positions of nonzero digits in two reciprocal irrational numbers , 1/3.30033000000000033... = 0.30300000303..., are given by the Moser–de Bruijn sequence and its double?
text: Did you know that Clarence Ditlow was recommended for a consumer advocacy job because he was a wrestler?
text: Did you know that Operation Game Warden sought to interdict Viet Cong use of the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War and in so doing, patrolled over 3,800 miles (6,100 km) of natural and man-made waterways?
text: Did you know that to the speakers of the Ngan’gityemerri language , the flowering of the red-flowering kurrajong marks the time that freshwater crocodiles are laying eggs?
text: Did you know that in 1981 Bobbi Campbell became the first person to publicly identify as a person living with HIV/AIDS ?
text: Did you know that the joystick shipped with the Atari 2600 was described as "the pinnacle of home entertainment controllers in its day"?
text: Did you know that eleven publishers vied for the rights to Jessie Burton 's debut novel The Miniaturist ?
text: Did you know that Don Martina , former Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles, successfully campaigned for a slave leader to become a national hero?
text: Did you know that the eggs of Oberländer's ground thrush have yet to be described?
text: Did you know that the elected council of the Free City of Danzig Government in Exile was supposedly recognised in secret as the legal successor to the Danzig Senate by Danzig expatriates in 1951 and 1961?
text: Did you know that the first known specimen of the dinosaur Tongtianlong limosus , which may have died trapped in mud, was nearly blown up by Chinese workmen?
text: Did you know that the Sindh Mohajir Punjabi Pathan Muttahida Mahaz was the first Pakistani party to use the term " Muhajir " in a political context?
text: Did you know that according to popular legend, Edward William Purvis gave his nickname, meaning "jumping flea", to the ukulele ?
text: Did you know that less than 50 years after being discovered, Heterelmis stephani is now presumed extinct?
text: Did you know that Muzoon Almellehan has been called the " Malala of Syria" for her work to keep girls in school?
text: Did you know that the funeral of the author Lewis Carroll was held at St Mary's Church in Guildford ?
text: Did you know that in 1880, Stephen P. Moss and Charles A. Cogswell founded the Lake County Examiner to advocate their Democratic political views in southern Oregon ?
text: Did you know that although Egypt boycotted the 1956 Summer Olympics , it still sent three athletes to the Games ?