Did you know? Facts from Wikipedia, 2014

text: Did you know that educator Carleton Washburne led a study that identified 6.5 years as the optimal mental age for children to begin to learn to read?
text: Did you know that American folk rock singer-songwriter Jonatha Brooke co-wrote " Choose Your Battles ", a song by recording artist Katy Perry ?
text: Did you know that Riojasuchus was an ornithosuchid that is known from four skeletons and lived about 217 to 215 million years ago?
text: Did you know that at Total Nonstop Action Wrestling 's Unbreakable pay-per-view event , the main event received a rare 5 star match rating by wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer ?
text: Did you know that the Catholic bishop of Shanghai, Thaddeus Ma Daqin , has been held under house arrest by the Chinese Government since 2012?
text: Did you know that, according to the American Pie Council , 20% of Americans have eaten an entire pie ?
text: Did you know that Sussie Eriksson shows along with Siw Malmkvist and Lasse Berghagen in the group Creme Fraiche?
text: Did you know that the Boer War Memorial in Winsford , Cheshire , records the names of those who served in the conflict and survived as well as those who were lost?
text: Did you know that following a corruption scandal in Turkey , PM Erdoğan reshuffled his cabinet appointing ten ministers, among them nine new – Ala , Çavuşoğlu , Elvan , Güllüce , Işık , İslam , İşler , Kılıç and Zeybekci ?
text: Did you know that the Italian symphonic power metal band Holy Knights released its début and sophomore albums, A Gate Through the Past and Between Daylight and Pain , more than ten years apart?
text: Did you know that a Ghanaian, John Antwi , is the current top scorer in the Egyptian Premier League ?
text: Did you know that the Nirbheek is marketed as India's first gun for women?
text: Did you know that Charles Henry Bond , co-founder of cigar manufacturer Waitt & Bond , was also an arts patron who sponsored Geraldine Farrar ?
text: Did you know that Argentine vice president Amado Boudou lives in the luxury apartment complex Madero Center ?
text: Did you know that the extended version of Lecrae 's single " Round of Applause ", from Church Clothes 2 , was featured by Pepsi as one of "three songs you need to hear right now"?
text: Did you know that the Treaty of Bytom and Będzin ended the fourteen-month long imprisonment of Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria , in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ?
text: Did you know that Burt K. Snyder was a five-term state representative from Lake County , Oregon , who also served for many years as a trustee for the Bernard Daly Educational Fund ?
text: Did you know that the Monument to the Mersey Tunnel in Birkenhead was originally both a monument and a source of lighting, but now "merely serves as a memorial"?
text: Did you know that the Boeing RC-1 , designed to haul ore and oil out of the Arctic , would have been twice the size and weight of the largest aircraft ever built ?
text: Did you know that rape during the Rwandan Genocide led to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda defining rape as an act of genocide?
text: Did you know that Ethel Sands was "one of the leading artist hostesses of her time"?
text: Did you know that the city of Uppsala in Sweden helped renovate the Uppsala House in Estonia?
text: Did you know that William Paynel supported Matilda 's claim to the English throne, despite her husband Geoffrey of Anjou having previously attacked William's castle?
text: Did you know that at the end of The Beatles' rooftop concert , John Lennon jokingly said, "I hope we've passed the audition"?
text: Did you know that Asia Bibi is the first woman in Pakistan to be sentenced to death on charges of blasphemy?
text: Did you know that the United States Post Office Department established a post office at Valley, West Virginia , in 1928, and shuttered it only nine years later?
text: Did you know that the first courses at No. 3 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF in World War II were run not by the air force but by civil organisations under government contract?
text: Did you know that the tugboat Trabajador helped rescue fifty-two people from the British freighter Silver Hazel that was wrecked in San Bernardino Strait ?
text: Did you know that the Delaware Breakwater Range Rear Light was dismantled in 1919 and re-erected in Florida eight years later?
text: Did you know that the Ussurian pear is the hardiest of all pears?
text: Did you know that elements in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " Kir'Shara " have been compared to the Nag Hammadi library and Dan Brown 's The Da Vinci Code ?
text: Did you know that after Belgian-American photographer Aimé Dupont ' s death, his wife continued the business and was so successful that many of the subjects thought she was Aimé?
text: Did you know that the night anemone is adept at camouflage and mimicry ?.
text: Did you know that the annual Gary Con gaming convention in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin originated as a get-together for friends and family after the March 2008 funeral for Dungeons & Dragons creator Gary Gygax ?
text: Did you know that Ri Ul-sol is seen as an ultraconservative within North Korean politics ?
text: Did you know that in 1951 the director of the Uruguayan communist daily Verdad was demoted by the party leadership?
text: Did you know that Captain Jermyn Symonds , who became a Member of Parliament from Auckland , originally moved to New Zealand in 1841 to join his brother , who drowned that year?
text: Did you know that imperialism also happens within academia ?
text: Did you know that although Illinois was legally a free state , the Illinois Constitution of 1818 allowed the use of slave labor at the Illinois Salines ?
text: Did you know that Wilbur Jackson competed as the first African American under scholarship for the Alabama football team as a member of the 1970 Crimson Tide squad ?
text: Did you know that Varadaraja Perumal , the first Chief Minister of North Eastern Province, Sri Lanka , declared independence for Eelam before his self-exile?
text: Did you know that the creator of the MovieCode blog was inspired by Neill Blomkamp's 2013 film Elysium , which uses an extract from an Intel manual?
text: Did you know that Hermann Kahan was found alive in a pile of corpses in Ebensee concentration camp by American forces who liberated the camp?
text: Did you know that the plot to The Drew Carey Show episode " The Dog and Pony Show " was inspired by the British comedy film The Full Monty ?
text: Did you know that women's football forward Seyhan Gündüz was capped 32 times internationally, scoring 12 goals, a rate of 0.375 a match?
text: Did you know that a sideboard or side deck is used in some collectible card games to modify playing decks?
text: Did you know that Carl Falck wrote an article titled "Some thoughts from Norway's oldest man" in 2013?
text: Did you know that publishing in leading accounting journals affects many aspects of an accounting researcher 's career, including reputation, salary, and promotion?
text: Did you know that female Stefania evansi frogs can carry up to 30 eggs or froglets on their back?
text: Did you know that before World War II , the heart of Manila was at Plaza Lacson ?
text: Did you know that the Canterbury Mounted Rifles Regiment suffered 127 men killed during 7 months at Gallipoli , and then exactly the same number in 2 years fighting in Sinai and Palestine ?
text: Did you know that, according to Meat Atlas , the world's biggest meat company, JBS , can accommodate a daily slaughter of 12 million birds, 85,000 head of cattle and 70,000 pigs?
text: Did you know that Daniel Dougherty gave the nominating speech for Winfield Scott Hancock at the 1880 Democratic National Convention , and did the same for Grover Cleveland at the 1888 DNC ?
text: Did you know that a dark store is never visited by its customers?
text: Did you know that Havaner lebn was the first lasting commercial Jewish newspaper in Cuba?
text: Did you know that Kang Chang-hee is the first Speaker of the National Assembly of South Korea from the Chungcheong provinces?
text: Did you know that while political analyst Aníbal Delgado Fiallos had been a staunch critic of Honduran president Manuel Zelaya 's constitutional reform, he took part in the protests against Zelaya's ouster?
text: Did you know that ‪Gare de Dijon-Porte-Neuve‬ , currently Dijon 's secondary train station, is being prepared to become the city's newest TGV station?
text: Did you know that 1941's Tjioeng Wanara was the first "colossal" film production in Indonesia?
text: Did you know that Swedish soprano Erika Sunnegårdh , who has sung at the Metropolitan Opera , said that her voice was "like a wild horse"?
text: Did you know that the New Brunswick Theological Seminary , the oldest Protestant seminary in the United States, started in the New York City home of the Rev. John Henry Livingston in 1784?
text: Did you know that the first four-part vocal work printed in the Americas was " Hanacpachap cussicuinin ", published by Juan Pérez Bocanegra in the Quechua language ?
text: Did you know that Huna Totem Corporation is an Alaskan village corporation that has helped develop facilities for tourism in southeastern Alaska ?
text: Did you know that the Jammu–Sialkot railway line was permanently closed after the Partition of India ?
text: Did you know that Rufus P. Turner , who created some of the first transistor radios , became an English professor at age 52?
text: Did you know that the star BX Circini is thought to have formed from the merger of two white dwarfs ?
text: Did you know that the Prié blanc wine grape is produced in some of the highest-elevation vineyards in continental Europe?
text: Did you know that after the Battles of Lexington and Concord , Parson Joseph Roby took to the pulpit with a musket under one arm and his sermon under the other?
text: Did you know that Europe's first collector's museum is on Teerhof where all the buildings were virtually destroyed in World War II?
text: Did you know that the Mokelumne Aqueduct , originally built in 1929, is the sole water supply system for over one million people in the San Francisco Bay Area ?
text: Did you know that soon after his attempt to buy The New York Times failed, Chen Guangbiao said he wanted to buy The Wall Street Journal ?
text: Did you know that the 1945 film Club Havana was shot in four days and did not use a script?
text: Did you know that Larisa Savitskaya, the sole survivor of the Aeroflot Flight 811 accident, was warned by the KGB not to reveal the accident to the public?
text: Did you know that Erik de Mauny , the BBC's first Moscow correspondent, confirmed the presence there of Kim Philby ?
text: Did you know that when the Manor Church Centre in Egremont was completed, it was the largest Presbyterian church in England?
text: Did you know that Allan Levene is running for the United States House of Representatives in the 2014 elections in four districts, in four different states , simultaneously?
text: Did you know that retired American football player Mitch Marrow owns a dog daycare business?
text: Did you know that Georges Méliès 's 1903 film The Oracle of Delphi was accidentally filmed in 3D ?
text: Did you know that Phillip Swagel and Neel Kashkari wrote the plan that became the basis for the Troubled Asset Relief Program ?
text: Did you know that King Tvrtko II of Bosnia assured the pope that he was a good Catholic, but at the same time had the head of the heretical Bosnian Church as adviser?
text: Did you know that Bethany College , founded in 1840, is the oldest surviving post-secondary institution in West Virginia ?
text: Did you know that Henry Jamyn Brooks painted 300 portraits, in one picture?
text: Did you know that Samanar Hills , a protected monument in Tamil Nadu , has been damaged by illegal quarrying ?
text: Did you know that Olympic athlete Andy Holden once ran 100 miles and drank 100 pints of beer in a single week?
text: Did you know that segregation in Mississippi was challenged in 1959 when police prevented Dr. Gilbert Mason from swimming in the ocean, precipitating the Biloxi Wade-Ins and subsequent race riots?
text: Did you know that the stapes , named for its resemblance to a stirrup , is the smallest bone in the human body, measuring 3 mm × 2.5 mm (0.118 in × 0.098 in)?
text: Did you know that Loree Rodkin designed the jewelry worn by Michelle Obama to the 2009 inaugural balls ?
text: Did you know that the memoir Wave is based on the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami ?
text: Did you know that the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade suffered 42 dead in the Battle for No.3 Post , but had to abandon it as untenable less than two days after capturing it?
text: Did you know that Michael Jackson once led the National Football League (NFL) in receiving touchdowns ?
text: Did you know that Hussein Samatar was the first Somali American elected to public office in Minnesota?
text: Did you know that the mural on the Von Bock House in Tartu in Estonia shows a building that is just down the street?
text: Did you know that the prickly brown ray was accidentally discovered by an expedition to study shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico ?
text: Did you know that Linda Nolan was labelled "Naughty Nolan" due to her posing in risqué publicity photos?
text: Did you know that although Piotr Skarga 's Sejm Sermons political treatise was ignored during his lifetime, he was labeled a "patriotic seer" centuries after his death?
text: Did you know that because the Spitzen Gebel was used by Bremen piano movers, drinkers can get a "swig from the lamp"?
text: Did you know that Charlie Robertson pitched a perfect game in his fourth Major League Baseball start?
text: Did you know that evidence of mill-building at The Riddy dates back to Norman times ?
text: Did you know that the spectrum of the red star Pi 1 Gruis shows the presence of such elements as technetium , zirconium , lanthanum , cerium and yttrium ?
text: Did you know that one of Archbishop Thomas Becket 's complaints about Ranulf de Broc was that the royal official had seized a cargo of wine belonging to the archbishop?
text: Did you know that the ant Aphaenogaster cockerelli sometimes plugs the entrance of a red harvester ant nest with small pebbles?
text: Did you know that " Treat 'Em Right " is frequently used to close compilation albums?
text: Did you know that King Stephen Thomas was forced to become the first ruler of Bosnia to engage in religious persecution ?
text: Did you know that Minnesota 's nickname, the " Land of 10,000 Lakes ", derives from an early desire to attract more settlers by advertising its large number of lakes?
text: Did you know that Thomas Ashburnham, 6th Earl of Ashburnham , married a telephone operator in Fredericton, New Brunswick ?
text: Did you know that people are fighting around Al-Mastumah in Syria as they were over 2,800 years ago?
text: Did you know that St. Michael's , the oldest continuously operating Catholic church in Tennessee , was built in 1842 as a log meetinghouse ?
text: Did you know that as well as patenting the use of manganese oxide in the making of Sheffield steel, Josiah Marshall Heath had a bat named after him?
text: Did you know that Marie Jansen reportedly earned a half a million dollars in musical theatre, but after declaring bankruptcy was unable to pay her weekly seven dollar lodging bill while working as a seamstress?
text: Did you know that Charles Augustus Magnussen, villain in the Sherlock episode " His Last Vow ", was described as "the one man [Sherlock] truly hates"?
text: Did you know that Juliana R. Force brought about the first public showing of American folk art in the United States?
text: Did you know that Cincinnati's Fenwick Club was established as a Catholic alternative to the YMCA?
text: Did you know that Tiwi islander Matthias Ulungura was the first Australian to take a Japanese prisoner-of-war on Australian soil during World War II?
text: Did you know that in the comedy film Frank , Michael Fassbender 's character wears a large papier-mâché head throughout the film?
text: Did you know that Anglican priests established St Mary's Mission Station in Odibo , northern Namibia , in 1924?
text: Did you know that in the plays of Kenneth Horne , virgins "offer themselves up, with some degree of apprehension, for ravishment"?
text: Did you know that the Lyman-alpha blob 1 is a blob of gas 300,000 light-years across located some 11.5 billion light-years from Earth?
text: Did you know that NHS Blood and Transplant stated several people had asked to be removed from the UK organ donor register as a result of a storyline involving Holby City character Mo Effanga ?
text: Did you know that in the starlet sea anemone , genes involved in the formation of the column base are identical to those responsible for the development of the head in vertebrates ?
text: Did you know that the three men jailed for plotting to blow up a statue of Lenin in Ukraine were caught after the statue had already been removed?
text: Did you know that over 2,200 acres (8.9 km 2 ) of protected lands bound the Great Salt Lake Legacy Parkway Scenic Byway ?
text: Did you know that in August 1924 Adolf Dobrovolný presented commentary of the first broadcast sports event in Europe on Czech Radio – a heavyweight boxing match?
text: Did you know that a former Elks lodge in Montrose, Colorado , has since housed a college, a social services agency, and city offices?
text: Did you know that a Scotland national football team manager was first appointed in 1954, before which the team was chosen by a Scottish Football Association selection committee?
text: Did you know that three of Lieutenant General Michael Ferriter 's four children are also serving military officers?
text: Did you know that the stinking dapperling mushroom is possibly poisonous?
text: Did you know that 2014 Olympic speed skater Anna Ringsred used to be afraid of racing, calling competition "scary and nerve-racking"?
text: Did you know that the term physical organic chemistry was coined by Louis Hammett in 1940 when he used the phrase as a title for his textbook?
text: Did you know that Ernst Roth , general manager of Boosey & Hawkes , published four late songs by Richard Strauss in 1950 after the composer's death, naming them Four Last Songs ?
text: Did you know that 95 churches in the USA and one in Haiti are both Primitive and Progressive ?
text: Did you know that the Queen Victoria Monument in Birkenhead is in the form of an Eleanor cross ?
text: Did you know that a famous line by Li E reads "rain/wash/autumn/lush/people/pale"?
text: Did you know that articles in The Accounting Review , a top accounting journal , have become increasingly mathematically rigorous over the past decades?
text: Did you know that when the .cz domain reached a million websites in 2012, the Czech Republic became the 12th EU member state to have reached this figure?
text: Did you know that the keeper of the Christiana Light was 105 when he died in 1862, the oldest known lighthouse keeper in United States history?
text: Did you know that although Robert fitzRoger owed his offices to the Chancellor William Longchamp , unlike most of Longchamp's appointees, fitzRoger retained those offices after Longchamp's fall from power?
text: Did you know that The New York Times estimated that 8,000 infants died in one year from consuming swill milk that was sold as fresh milk?
text: Did you know that Cobra Station gets its unusual name from the snake-like shape of the property?
text: Did you know that the Henry Powell House was renovated to change its architectural style from Greek Revival to Second Empire ?
text: Did you know that psychedelic rock concert poster artist Gary Grimshaw was sentenced to 15 days in jail and a $150 fine for flying a 15 cent kite with a dirty word written on it?
text: Did you know that the RAF 's pip-squeak system kept track of their fighters during the Battle of Britain using their voice radio sets?
text: Did you know that Cusi Cram based one of her plays on a controversy involving two lesbian mothers and the U.S. Secretary of Education that began with an episode of PBS 's Postcards from Buster ?
text: Did you know that the Monument to Captain John Francis Egerton commemorates a soldier who was killed in the First Anglo-Sikh War ?
text: Did you know that Abraham Lincoln once defended Illinois State Senator Asahel Gridley in a slander trial?
text: Did you know that George Packer 's book The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America won the 2013 National Book Award for Nonfiction ?
text: Did you know that after briefly serving as President, Tomás Villalba helped create Uruguay's first banking regulations?
text: Did you know that the theft of a single axe from Odell Great Wood led to three months hard labour for one woodsman?
text: Did you know that County Yard is the site of a planned "train haven"?
text: Did you know that the authors of the Buildings of England series say that the Grand Entrance to Birkenhead Park is "grand indeed"?
text: Did you know that alleged drug trafficker Serafín Zambada Ortiz was arrested by US federal agents when he went out to do some Christmas shopping?
text: Did you know that the Aurora Film Corporation , founded in 1906, produced India's first newsreel and first children's film?
text: Did you know that Bill Hooper scored Darlington 's first Football League goal, which was "in all probability" the first goal scored in the Third Division North ?
text: Did you know that the navigator was the sole survivor of Tajikistan Airlines Flight 3183 which crashed near Sharjah , killing 85 people?
text: Did you know that during World War II, Otto Busse provided the partisans of Białystok with weapons, clothing and medicines at his own expense?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian wayang theatre developed from the Ravana Chhaya puppet theatre of Odisha , India?
text: Did you know that the Yamaha NS-10 sounded so bright that Bob Clearmountain had to hang tissue paper over the tweeter ?
text: Did you know that Sandra Kurtzig was the first woman to take a Silicon Valley technology company public?
text: Did you know that Lepidotus was a genus of prehistoric fish that existed from the Late Triassic ( Rhaetic ) to the middle Cretaceous ( Cenomanian )?
text: Did you know that Dread Pirate Roberts is the founder of the "Amazon.com of illegal drugs" ?
text: Did you know that Who's Bigger: Where Historical Figures Really Rank by Steven Skiena and Charles Ward uses metadata from the English Wikipedia to rank all persons in order of significance?
text: Did you know that Ming China 's armies deployed their cannons to defeat the Oyirad Mongol hordes at the Kerulen and Tula rivers in 1414?
text: Did you know that Djoewariah began her career as a victim of human trafficking and closed it as a queen?
text: Did you know that at completion, the 80-meter-high Aciliu Viaduct will be the highest in Romania ?
text: Did you know that Olga Tañón , now the most awarded performer at the Lo Nuestro Awards , did not win when she was nominated for the Award for Tropical New Artist back in 1993?
text: Did you know that Tunisia's new interim prime minister, Mehdi Jomaa , is trained as an engineer?
text: Did you know that earnings management involves the alteration of financial reports to mislead stakeholders , and may be difficult for individual investors to detect?
text: Did you know that Polish writer Irena Jurgielewiczowa was also an underground teacher and a resistance fighter in WWII ?
text: Did you know that Anthony Seldon wants Embassy Court in Brighton to be demolished and "parties [held] to celebrate"?
text: Did you know that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was the first game developed by Bethesda Game Studios to not include a character class system?
text: Did you know that the Asian clam is causing trouble in San Francisco Bay ?
text: Did you know that the architecture of the German Courthouse in Bremen was inspired by the French Château de Blois ?
text: Did you know that Warren Bardsley was the first cricketer to score centuries in each innings of a Test match ?
text: Did you know that prior to commanding a Confederate company , Isaac Parsons served as a Virginia House Delegate and was involved in a dispute with U.S. Congressman Charles J. Faulkner over legal fees?
text: Did you know that the owners of The Showgrounds refused to allow Warrenpoint Town F.C. to play there because of a projected rise in insurance costs?
text: Did you know that one of the Hillsboro Fire Department 's earliest pieces of equipment was previously used in Sacramento, California , Portland, Oregon , and Albany, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that the Lavaggi LS1 was the first Le Mans Prototype race car to be designed and built in Monte Carlo ?
text: Did you know that " Rakkamma Kaiya Thattu ", composed by Ilaiyaraaja , was named the fourth most popular song of all time in a 2002 online poll conducted by ‏ BBC World Service ?
text: Did you know that the crimes of Linda Taylor became the basis for Ronald Reagan 's mythical " welfare queen " during his 1976 presidential campaign ?
text: Did you know that Denny Crum retired at the end of the 2000–01 season with the Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team with 675 wins, the most of any head coach for Louisville?
text: Did you know that White Bull is South Sudan's first beer brand?
text: Did you know that Robert V. Short , a tailor by training, was a member of the Oregon Constitutional Convention ?
text: Did you know that Arsenal exited the FA Cup and Football League Cup , and lost the UEFA Cup Final , on penalties in the 1999–2000 season ?
text: Did you know that Bonnie McKee has co-written eight number one singles , five of which were sung by Katy Perry ?
text: Did you know that Poland is considered a founding member of the United Nations despite not having attended the first meeting?
text: Did you know that former Chilean Environment Minister Adriana Hoffmann identified 106 new species of cacti?
text: Did you know that Bascom Lamar Lunsford sold " Good Old Mountain Dew " to Scotty Wiseman for US$25 so he could buy a train ticket home?
text: Did you know that John Mohardt played baseball for the Detroit Tigers with Ty Cobb and football for the Chicago Bears with Red Grange ?
text: Did you know that a Light Elf can carry 1,250 kilograms (2,800 lb)?
text: Did you know that St John's Church, Egremont , has the largest unsupported ceiling in Merseyside ?
text: Did you know that the Minar-i Pakistan was designed by Russian-born Pakistani architect Nasreddin Murat-Khan ?
text: Did you know that in Arthur Conan Doyle 's Sherlock Holmes series, Dr. Watson was first told about Holmes in the Criterion Bar ?
text: Did you know that the four lions surrounding the Obelisk Commemorating Roger Barnston have been described as either mourning or snoozing?
text: Did you know that Sardi was Indonesia's first professional music supervisor ?
text: Did you know that the corvette Kulish is named after the weapon of the Indian mythological god Indra ?
text: Did you know that film producer Bernard Glasser , whose debut was a Three Stooges film, had previously worked as a teacher?
text: Did you know that after almost 75 years, the Dowding system remains the canonical example of force multiplication , having achieved 100% effectiveness on several occasions?
text: Did you know that Butterly House in Toodyay, Western Australia , is at town lot 1?
text: Did you know that Ronald Reagan designated a week in June to be National Dairy Goat Awareness Week ?
text: Did you know that a penalty scored by Patrik Berger in the final of Euro 96 gave the Czech Republic a 1–0 lead over Germany, but the Czechs lost to a golden goal in extra time?
text: Did you know that Danilo Kiš 's 1965 novel Garden, Ashes mixes fact and fiction, with both the narrator and the author having lost their fathers in the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that Janice Eberly was the first female National President of Future Farmers of America and then Chief Economist for the U.S. Treasury Department ?
text: Did you know that " Por Amarte Así " won an ASCAP Latin award in categories Pop/Ballad, Salsa and Duranguense for Alejandro Montalbán and Eduardo Reyes?
text: Did you know that Hermann Müller was mayor of Idstein for 24 years and won the Hessentag festival for the German town in 2002?
text: Did you know that Don Hutson led the National Football League in receiving yards for four consecutive years from 1941 to 1944, the longest such streak in NFL history?
text: Did you know that as a young girl, Margaret George became interested in Cleopatra because they both had dark hair, and later wrote a best-selling novel about her ?
text: Did you know that the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay was the inspiration for the British sitcom Fawlty Towers ?
text: Did you know that violence against doctors in China has been described as a "crisis", with more than 17,000 incidents reported in 2010?
text: Did you know that Sana Mir has captained the Pakistan women's cricket team in 33 Twenty20 Internationals , and is the team's leading wicket-taker?
text: Did you know that the Memorial to John Whitaker stands in the forecourt of the Sunday School that he established in 1814?
text: Did you know that Sounds of HIV sets the genome of the HIV/AIDS virus to music?
text: Did you know that the 1883 season was the first time a football team representing the United States Naval Academy lost a game?
text: Did you know that Siti Nurhaliza was anxious when performing with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra for her 2013 concert , despite having worked with London Symphony Orchestra ?
text: Did you know that the Wyoming Division Canal contributed to the Wyoming Valley becoming the largest producer of anthracite in the world?
text: Did you know that footballer Mohamad Mochtar began a 42-year career in acting after being discovered in a barbershop?
text: Did you know that Kerala Soil Museum in India, which opened on January 1, has been described as the world's largest soil museum?
text: Did you know that journalist Judith Newman wrote a New York Times article asking Wikipedians to help craft an entry about her?
text: Did you know that David Jewett Waller was one of the most well-known people in northeast Pennsylvania at the time of his death?
text: Did you know that The Silence of the Lambs is the only post- studio era film that went into wide release during the winter dump months to win the Academy Award for Best Picture ?
text: Did you know that physicist Ted Paige , a Fellow of the Royal Society , started researching haemochromatosis when he found out he was suffering from the disease?
text: Did you know that West Indian Twenty20 cricketer Deandra Dottin was the first woman to score a century in a women's Twenty20 International ?
text: Did you know that a lawsuit by Dorothy Proctor led to the revelation that hundreds of Canadian prisoners had been subjects of scientific experiments?
text: Did you know that Essighaus was the building in Bremen where Sigmund Freud had a fainting spell?
text: Did you know that friends of Dan Tan , the Singaporean accused of fixing soccer matches on four continents, say he rarely watches the game?
text: Did you know that the Pass Christian Light was deactivated in part because neighboring property owners refused to trim their trees?
text: Did you know that to prepare for his role in 1926's Subway Sadie , Jack Mulhall rode a subway for "practically an entire day"?
text: Did you know that the 1942 Belize hurricane was the only known hurricane to strike Belize in the month of November?
text: Did you know that East Wind Over Weehawken sold for a record price?
text: Did you know that at one point, there was more automotive production in Massachusetts than in Detroit, Michigan ?
text: Did you know that Western Australian architect Michael Cavanagh was responsible for redesigning St Mary's Cathedral , where he was married 27 years earlier?
text: Did you know that of the nearly 500 players to wear New York Islanders jerseys, only 14 have served as team captain and Ed Westfall was the first?
text: Did you know that Marie Collings , a wealthy pirate 's daughter, purchased an island and became its hereditary ruler but never visited it?
text: Did you know that the building of St Robert's Church, Pannal , North Yorkshire , was begun by brothers of the Trinitarian Order in the 14th century?
text: Did you know that during World War II, Commander Sherman E. Burroughs, Jr. , was in charge of a Naval base in the Mojave Desert ?
text: Did you know that the stars of Si Gomar portrayed each other's parent, child, and lover?
text: Did you know that Tom Crutchfield was instrumental in producing the first captive-bred albino Burmese pythons ?
text: Did you know that due to the damaging effects of Cyclone Gretelle in 1997, the government of Madagascar held a televised fundraiser to raise money for storm victims?
text: Did you know that Roger Ebert said the animated documentary film Ryan "is hard to describe, impossible to forget"?
text: Did you know that Norwegian footballer Jon Inge Høiland scored the decisive goal when Malmö FF secured the 2004 Allsvenskan title?
text: Did you know that the Old College Hill Post Office in Cincinnati , Ohio , was converted into a house after closing in 1892?
text: Did you know that the American Horror Story: Coven episode " The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks " was inspired by rumors about Stevie Nicks and witchcraft ?
text: Did you know that 2013 YP 139 is the first discovered asteroid from the NEOWISE program, and is considered potentially dangerous?
text: Did you know that 62 Spanish ISAF peacekeepers were killed when their Yakovlev Yak-42 crashed on the flight from Afghanistan?
text: Did you know that Frank Scheibeck played professional baseball in Detroit in three different decades and three different leagues between 1888 and 1906?
text: Did you know that, unusually, Macclesfield War Memorial contains a sculpture of a soldier killed by gassing?
text: Did you know that Wolfgang Rösch , who studied mechanical engineering and theology, administers the Diocese of Limburg during the absence of the bishop?
text: Did you know that Elsa the Snow Queen , a protagonist in Walt Disney's Frozen , was originally written as a villain?
text: Did you know that Dean Semler was the first recipient of the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Dances with Wolves ?
text: Did you know that Bethesda Presbyterian Church in Russellville, Tennessee , closed after its congregants' sympathies split between the opposing sides of the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that at least three members of the orchestra Lief Java also acted in films?
text: Did you know that the mite Archegozetes longisetosus can pull 1180 times its own weight?
text: Did you know that John Rutter composed " The Lord bless you and keep you " for the memorial service of his former music teacher at Highgate School ?
text: Did you know that completion of 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 mi (7.2 km) of Interstate 80 in Utah marked the last portion of Interstate 80 to be completed?
text: Did you know that Gus Hetling was awarded an automobile in 1912 as the most valuable player in the Pacific Coast League ?
text: Did you know that unlike other cemeteries in Turkey that accommodate one religion only, Mersin Interfaith Cemetery includes graves of Muslims , Christians and Jews ?
text: Did you know that the Bay Area Museum in Texas occupies a former church building and continues to host weddings in the old sanctuary?
text: Did you know that Kylie Elizabeth Watson received the Military Cross after saving an Afghan soldier despite his comrades not wanting a woman to help?
text: Did you know that the 1958 Asian Games torch was carried in relay from the US administered Okinawa Island to Kyushu ?
text: Did you know that speed skater Patrick Meek qualified for the 2014 Winter Olympics despite not being able to "really see anything"?
text: Did you know that one reviewer said Christina Aguilera 's song " Save Me from Myself " "cracks open the super diva to reveal something like a real person inside"?
text: Did you know that multi-award winning solar astronomer John Wainwright Evans chose the name for the town of Sunspot, New Mexico ?
text: Did you know that female infanticide in India has a history spanning centuries?
text: Did you know that 18 different official currencies are currently in use in the countries of North America ?
text: Did you know that George Burditt was a writer on many episodes of the sitcom Three's Company and later became the show's executive producer?
text: Did you know that Game Informer wrote that Max: The Curse of Brotherhood 's central conceit was a "gimmick that simply doesn't work all that well"?
text: Did you know that Orangina 's bottle, shaped like an orange, with a glass texture designed to mimic the fruit, was introduced by Jean-Claude Beton in 1951?
text: Did you know that a New York Times reviewer wrote that Xiu Xiu 's 2013 Nina Simone tribute album Nina accentuated Simone's "spooky, unsettling side"?
text: Did you know that ruins found underneath a Cairo market in 2006 could belong to the largest sun temple built by Ramesses II ?
text: Did you know that Ameer Abdullah decided to return for his senior year at Nebraska because "life is bigger than football"?
text: Did you know that the hymn Soldiers of Christ, Arise is known as "The Christian's bugle blast" due to the military-based call to arms in its lyrics?
text: Did you know that Hal Peck reached Major League Baseball even after shooting off two of his toes?
text: Did you know that after Argentine heavy metal guitarist Osvaldo Civile 's death by suicide, newspapers printed photos of him playing truco with the Grim Reaper ?
text: Did you know that the first session of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas occurred over three years after it was established?
text: Did you know that the megafauna on the seabed of the Porcupine Abyssal Plain is dominated by sea cucumbers such as Oneirophanta mutabilis , Psychropotes longicauda , and Amperima rosea ?
text: Did you know that Aaron McDuffie Moore was the first black physician in Durham, North Carolina, and founded a hospital for African Americans there in 1901?
text: Did you know that the 1932 jazz standard " Moten Swing " was an important development in the move towards a freer form of orchestral jazz and the development of swing music ?
text: Did you know that Sir Richard Paget encouraged his daughter to fall from the open platform of a London bus , to demonstrate his theory that a person could do so safely due to air currents?
text: Did you know that the Swedish bishop Åke Bonnier is a billionaire in Swedish kronor ?
text: Did you know that Batei Saidoff , a Jerusalem courtyard neighborhood built in 1911 with two water cisterns and an outdoor bathroom tower, was considered luxurious for its time?
text: Did you know that Brian Davies founded the International Fund for Animal Welfare in 1969 and Network for Animals in 2010?
text: Did you know that as of December 2012, 40.9% of Filipinos in Belgium were considered "irregular", living there without legal residency status ?
text: Did you know that, according to co-writer Nelly , " 4x4 ", from Miley Cyrus 's album Bangerz , was "about having fun"?
text: Did you know that during his 1755 birthday party attended by five hundred people, John Spencer secretly married Georgiana Poyntz in an upstairs bedroom?
text: Did you know that the existence of Stateroom was revealed by Edward Snowden during the 2013 Global surveillance disclosure ?
text: Did you know that Icy Strait Point , the only privately owned cruise destination in Alaska, has won awards for its preservation and economic reinvigoration of local culture?
text: Did you know that denial of the Cambodian genocide was made illegal in Cambodia in 2013?
text: Did you know that in Lady of Sherwood , Jennifer Roberson chose to write about the demise of Richard I because the "death of a popular monarch always provide fodder for novelists"?
text: Did you know that Chanel CEO Maureen Chiquet has been called a Francophile ?
text: Did you know that the daily load of manganese in Tangascootack Creek is 101 times higher than the maximum load allowable by the Environmental Protection Agency ?
text: Did you know that the Hanlon Expressway is named after Felix Hanlon, who helped cut the first tree to inaugurate Guelph , Ontario ?
text: Did you know that the Trinity Chapel in Salisbury Cathedral contains a 13th-century consecration cross painted on the wall?
text: Did you know that Timothy Massad is President Barack Obama 's nominee for chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ?
text: Did you know that the French Riviera Marathon has the second highest number of participants of all marathons in France?
text: Did you know that the Asus Transformer Book Duet uses both Microsoft Windows and Android as operating systems ?
text: Did you know that Stonewall Jackson once woke his men by singing " Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken " out of tune?
text: Did you know that, with its total installed capacity of 95 MW, the Kızıldere Geothermal Power Plant is the biggest of its kind in Turkey ?
text: Did you know that Robert Loftus Owen Versfeld used imported kikuyu grass to create the first grass rugby pitch in the Transvaal ?
text: Did you know that despite having public support and some land purchased, the Highclere, Kingsclere and Basingstoke Light Railway was never built?
text: Did you know that the clown Petruk from Javanese puppetry is most easily recognised by his long nose?
text: Did you know that according to charters issued by the Nemanjić rulers of Serbia , the fortified Ratac Abbey had a hospital for poor people?
text: Did you know that even Nazi occupiers bowed to Dame Sibyl Hathaway , the feudal ruler of the island of Sark , who was later described as a " benevolent dictator " and a "lady of unusual personality"?
text: Did you know that, since 1998, Alaska has been the only state in the United States without a law school ?
text: Did you know that the 53-year span between Hockey Hall of Famer Marcel Pronovost 's first Stanley Cup championship, as a player in 1950, and eighth, as a scout in 2003, is a record?
text: Did you know that in 2011, a report of the Karnataka Lokayukta exposed the biggest mining scam in India ?
text: Did you know that St. Henry's Catholic Church is the only stone building in its rural locality ?
text: Did you know that the final episode of the fourth season of Star Trek: Enterprise ended eighteen years of Star Trek on television?
text: Did you know that because of the Texas Vampires , permission is needed to study blood from Newfoundlanders ?
text: Did you know that the racehorse One in a Million was rated at 116p?
text: Did you know that parts of The Drew Carey Show episode " Drew Cam " were broadcast simultaneously on the television and the Internet, a first for a primetime show?
text: Did you know that French priest François Ponchaud was one of the first people to publicise the genocide in Cambodia ?
text: Did you know that the extinct ant Afropone was first described from fossils in kimberlite ?
text: Did you know that Gavin Patterson , the new CEO of BT , is known for his open shirt collar?
text: Did you know that after the 1936 crash-landing of his Fahlin SF-2 Plymocoupe , nicknamed Sea-Aska , Russel Owen telegraphed his sponsors: "Sea-Aska on her asska in Alaska"?
text: Did you know that Francis Bacon 's 1949 painting Head VI was his first of almost 50 works based on Diego Velázquez 's c. 1650 Portrait of Pope Innocent X ?
text: Did you know that a Masonic Temple is located one block away from Jerusalem's downtown district, in the historic Ezrat Yisrael neighborhood?
text: Did you know that the 1954 BOAC Constellation crash remains Singapore's deadliest aviation accident?
text: Did you know that Hong Kong's Stone Nullah Lane was named after the street's former water channel where laundry was washed?
text: Did you know that the Fermanagh Mallards were thrown out of the Women's Premier League after failing to travel to Belfast for an association football match?
text: Did you know that Queen Saw Omma , when told she was to be killed lest she pass to another man, replied to her would-be killer " Nga Nu , aren't you a man?"
text: Did you know that Peter Riegel devised a simple formula for predicting race times?
text: Did you know that the Swanson Coupe Model W-15 has been described as "beautiful"?
text: Did you know that the sign language interpreter for the state memorial service of Nelson Mandela made meaningless hand gestures that did not reflect established signs?
text: Did you know that Ching Lau Lauro played at The Theatre, Leeds , England, in 1834?
text: Did you know that in 1927 the Ben Gold -led Fur Workers Industrial Union was founded by New York locals expelled from the AFL -affiliated union?
text: Did you know that Julián Ladera was born in a ghost village ?
text: Did you know that award-winning crossword constructor Bernice Gordon , who turns 100 this month, is the oldest living contributor to The New York Times crossword puzzle and still creates new puzzles every day?
text: Did you know that Abhilash Tomy , the first Indian to complete a solo, non-stop circumnavigation under sail , used the INSV Mhadei for his voyage?
text: Did you know that Hadidjah was not partnered with her husband as a supercouple , but rather a footballer?
text: Did you know that MTV initially refused to broadcast the music video for The Pursuit of Happiness ' song " I'm an Adult Now " because of its references to drugs, alcohol, and sex?
text: Did you know that American football player Jim Collier scored the New York Giants ' only touchdown in the 1962 NFL Championship Game by recovering a blocked punt in the end zone ?
text: Did you know that Gandhi was "the best policeman the Britisher had in India", according to Subhas Chandra Bose in The Indian Struggle ?
text: Did you know that No. 482 Squadron RAAF 's main hangar , upgraded in preparation for the entry into service of the F-111C swing-wing bomber, was nicknamed the " Taj Mahal "?
text: Did you know that Indian sprinter Milkha Singh set an Asian Games record in the 400 metres when he won gold in the 1958 Games in Tokyo?
text: Did you know that London's oldest operational fire station, with an extension designed in the 1890s by Robert Pearsall , closed on 9 January 2014?
text: Did you know that Whisper has been called "the anti- Facebook "?
text: Did you know that Veganz , Europe's first vegan supermarket chain, opened in Berlin in 2011 and plans to open in London in 2014?
text: Did you know that Onfim , a 13th-century boy from Novgorod , did his homework on pieces of birch bark , writing psalms and drawing images of himself, animals, and his teacher?
text: Did you know that Edgar Lee Masters wrote a poem dedicated to Chicago Symphony Orchestra benefactor Bryan Lathrop ?
text: Did you know that Indian sprinter Milkha Singh set an Asian Games record in the 400 metres when he won gold in the 1958 Games in Tokyo?
text: Did you know that Koeda Sembrani was the last romance which partnered Roekiah and Djoemala ?
text: Did you know that Washington State lost fumbles twice in the last three minutes, allowing Colorado State to come back from a 15-point deficit to win the 2013 New Mexico Bowl 48–45?
text: Did you know that Sinaloa Cartel drug lord El Chino Ántrax raffled cars and other gifts to his followers on social media ?
text: Did you know that the western three-toed skink is sometimes persecuted because it is mistakenly thought to be venomous ?
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text: Did you know that Hallelujah! The Welcome Table (2004) is author and poet Maya Angelou 's first cookbook ?
text: Did you know that the bulk of the founders of the Socialist Party of Honduras had been members of the Christian Democratic Party ?
text: Did you know that Rabbi Ezra Schochet , dean of Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad , Los Angeles, is also the yeshiva's CEO, curriculum supervisor, and senior professor of Talmud ?
text: Did you know that in 1942 McKissack & McKissack received $5.7 million to design and build an airfield for the Tuskegee Airmen – the largest contract that the U.S. government had ever awarded to a Black company?
text: Did you know that the news site Caucasian Knot does not have any editorial offices due to security concerns?
text: Did you know that Swedish aircraft designer Swen Swanson designed his first home-built airplane when he was 17 years old?
text: Did you know that the winner of two-player dueling indie game Nidhogg is eaten by the mythological Norse serpent Níðhöggr ?
text: Did you know that Stephen Rubin turned the Liverpool Shoe Company into Pentland Group , the UK's largest sports apparel company and owner of Berghaus , Mitre , Speedo and several other brands?
text: Did you know that the African Children's Choir appears on Steven Curtis Chapman 's 2012 Christmas album Joy ?
text: Did you know that after his defeat by the Scots in 1384, Ralph de Greystoke was taken to Dunbar Castle and ransomed for 3,000 marks?
text: Did you know that the Elias Kumler House was restored after being condemned as a structural hazard?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Clementine was discovered by a record company agent while busking on the Paris Métro ?
text: Did you know that radicals can be stabilized by the captodative effect ?
text: Did you know that in the early 16th century Andrea Cambini wrote a notable history of the Ottoman Empire , although he had never left Italy?
text: Did you know that Batool Fatima has played 76 One Day International cricket matches , the most by a Pakistani woman player ?
text: Did you know that Hezekiah Balch helped found Tusculum College , one of the first American colleges west of the Appalachian Mountains?
text: Did you know that there are two war memorials in Crewe , one with a statue of a soldier, and the other with a statue of Britannia ?
text: Did you know that June Newton chose the pseudonym "Alice Springs" for her photography work by blindly stabbing a pin into a map of Australia and landing on the town of the same name ?
text: Did you know that blind poet María Josefa Mujía was Bolivia's first woman writer after its independence?
text: Did you know that Kotschy's gecko climbs well despite not having adhesive pads on its toes?
text: Did you know that Gary Loveman was a Harvard professor before his present occupation as CEO of Caesars Entertainment , and his career became a business case study at Stanford ?
text: Did you know that video game Dropsy began as an illustrated story for which the plot was guided by commentators on a Something Awful forum post?
text: Did you know that before his rugby career, Luke Baldwin competed in track and field in secondary school?
text: Did you know that instead of repairing their damaged ships at the Venetian arsenal in Corfu , many captains chose to sink them?
text: Did you know that illustrator, hill farmer, and painter Reg Gammon was honoured by a retrospective at the RWA for his 100th birthday?
text: Did you know that the first Test of India's 2013–14 series against South Africa saw wicket-keepers from both teams bowling in the same match for the first time ever in Test cricket ?
text: Did you know that Stein Reinertsen is the first bishop of Church of Norway since Reformation who was not appointed by the Norwegian government ?
text: Did you know that Aeroflot Flight 3519 crashed in 1984, killing 110 people?
text: Did you know that Addison Cresswell , agent to Jonathan Ross and Michael McIntyre , founded a company with Paul Merton and Julian Clary ?
text: Did you know that the music video for Tupac Shakur 's song " Temptations " does not feature Shakur because he was incarcerated at the time?
text: Did you know that at 1,025 route kilometers, Tiruchirappalli forms the second largest division of India's Southern Railway zone ?
text: Did you know that the current Japanese record for women's high jump was set by Miki Imai in 2001?
text: Did you know that the asteroid 2014 AA entered Earth's atmosphere on the early morning of January 2, 2014, less than a day after it was discovered?
text: Did you know that the principal of the Communist Party of Burma Medical School, Yebaw Tun Maung , was killed in an army attack in 1968?
text: Did you know that one reviewer found Poesaka Terpendam to be the first film in which Djoemala seemed out of place?
text: Did you know that Adrian Piper , a black, female conceptual artist , has said that she was kicked out of the art world for her race and gender?
text: Did you know that during the Second World War, the Luftwaffe landed planes on a frozen lake at Trondheim Airport, Jonsvatnet , where the ice was 1 metre (3 ft) thick?
text: Did you know that Stewart Mell scored Scarborough 's first goal in the Football League ?
text: Did you know that the Gratiot County Courthouse , a Classical Revival structure, was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1957 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976?
text: Did you know that David Bosco served as deputy director of a joint United Nations – NATO project on refugee repatriation in Sarajevo ?
text: Did you know that V603 Aquilae was the brightest nova recorded, outshone by only Sirius and Canopus ?
text: Did you know that after being won by Colombians in its first four years, the Bogotá Women's Race has been won by Africans ever since?
text: Did you know that Iosif Vulcan changed the name of a young literary debutant to Mihai Eminescu , later Romania 's national poet?
text: Did you know that the grass Vetiveria nigritana is grown in farms in Nigeria to control soil erosion , provide pest control , and improve the yield of crops such as maize?
text: Did you know that in the 1972 New Year Honours , Patrick Kay was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath ?
text: Did you know that West House, Chelsea , was the London home of Withnail's flamboyantly gay Uncle Monty in the 1987 cult film Withnail and I ?
text: Did you know that in 882, Ishaq ibn Kundaj arrested the Abbasid Caliph al-Mu'tamid when the latter tried to flee into Tulunid territory?
text: Did you know that all of the illustrations in upcoming indie puzzle video game Gorogoa are hand drawn by the developer?
text: Did you know that Chinese athlete Wu Shujiao set an East Asian Games record in 100 metres hurdles when she won gold in the 2013 Games in Tianjin ?
text: Did you know that the social network Stage 32 is named after the old RKO Soundstage 17 where Orson Welles ' Citizen Kane was filmed; now known as Paramount 's Stage 32?
text: Did you know that Sinaloa Cartel drug lord Gonzalo Inzunza Inzunza was recently killed in a gunfight, but his body was not recovered by Mexican authorities?
text: Did you know that the decision of China and the Holy See to establish diplomatic ties in 1918 did not succeed due to France 's objection?
text: Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon , politician Katie Eyre Brewer was honored for helping to save a heart attack victim's life by performing CPR ?
text: Did you know that the song " Lungi Dance " is actually a tribute to Rajinikanth , a leading South-Indian actor?
text: Did you know that Lucy Deane Streatfeild in 1898 was one of the first to raise concerns about the health risks arising from exposure to asbestos ?
text: Did you know that the 1979 British Classic St. Leger Stakes was won by a 20/1 long-shot, the French Thoroughbred Son of Love ?
text: Did you know that the "bad-guy cue" used in hundreds of features and cartoons comes from the 1914 photoplay tune Mysterioso Pizzicato ?
text: Did you know that an agent liked the sound of Onzy Matthews 's band and music but expressed concern after seeing the band was racially mixed?
text: Did you know that Spanish rugby union international Matt Cook is the second Jerseyman to play international rugby union?
text: Did you know that The Dalles Mint in Oregon helped stop a fire?
text: Did you know that Lilford's wall lizard acts as pollinator for some plants endemic to the Balearic Islands ?
text: Did you know that Begum Akhtar Riazuddin , the first woman to write modern Urdu travelogues , was one of the 1000 PeaceWomen nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005?
text: Did you know that the Spanish Federation of Sports for the Blind hosted the first IBSA World Championships and Games in 1998 in Madrid?
text: Did you know that Nigerian feminist writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is sampled on Beyoncé Knowles ' new album Beyoncé ?
text: Did you know that the Cordemais Power Station is the largest thermal power station in France?
text: Did you know that Arzu Karabulut currently plays for both German and Turkish football teams?
text: Did you know that Frank Macey scored two of the Amateurs' six goals against the Professionals in both the 1925 and 1926 FA Charity Shield s?
text: Did you know that Severe Tropical Cyclone Hina , which formed in March 1997, was the worst tropical cyclone to affect Tonga since Cyclone Isaac in 1982?
text: Did you know that Edward Kirk Warren , who invented featherbone as an alternative to whalebone in corsetry , is the namesake of two state parks in Michigan ?
text: Did you know that the United Kingdom government's Open Government Licence is compatible with the CC-by licence ?
text: Did you know that American jockey Steve Cauthen rode Tap On Wood in the 2,000 Guineas Stakes in 1979 to win the first of ten British Classic victories in his career?
text: Did you know that before Tsar Nicholas II of Russia gave his wife a piano, he had Earnest Lipgart paint 100 figures on it?
text: Did you know that Herbert Thomas Johnson 's grave is near that of William H. Gilmore , one of Johnson's predecessors as adjutant general of the Vermont National Guard ?
text: Did you know that following the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand , there was an anti-Serb pogrom in Sarajevo ?
text: Did you know that Raadi Manor land was used by the Estonian National Museum and a secret Soviet airfield?
text: Did you know that whilst the exact etymology is uncertain, the colour yellow and the Italian mountainous plateau La Sila have been offered as possible etymologies for Silaum , a genus of flowering plants ?
text: Did you know that Jane Aitken was the first woman to print an English-language Bible in the United States?
text: Did you know that Jürgen Klinsmann disliked the parody song " Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Jurgen Klinsmann? " because he felt it compared him to Hitler?
text: Did you know that the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 allows extra U.S. federal government spending in 2014 and 2015, but limits it in 2022 and 2023?
text: Did you know that Skederid Church was built by the father of Saint Bridget of Sweden , who also had some of her first religious visions there?
text: Did you know that historian John Vincent called the New Social Alliance a "poor man's Young England "?
text: Did you know that Rachmat Kartolo , son of actors Roekiah and Kartolo , initially did not want to enter the film industry but ultimately completed more than 40 movies?
text: Did you know that the number 1 sex advertising site in Hong Kong was shut down by police in December 2013?
text: Did you know that a 240-million-year-old animal latrine was dubbed "the oldest communal toilet"?
text: Did you know that Mexican feather work was prized by both Aztec and European rulers?
text: Did you know that James P. Hagerstrom is one of seven pilots to be a flying ace in two wars— World War II and the Korean War ?
text: Did you know that the religious festival "Fiesta del milagro" in the Argentine province of Salta started because of the 1692 Salta earthquake ?
text: Did you know that schools in New York and Florida have banned Rainbow Loom rubber-band bracelets, claiming they distract students in the classroom and breed animosity in the play yard?
text: Did you know that at the 2005 Bound for Glory pay-per-view event , Kevin Nash had to be removed from his NWA World Heavyweight Championship match and replaced with Rhino due to a medical emergency?
text: Did you know that the film Once Upon ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara! had its name changed three times owing to its producer's belief in numerology ?
text: Did you know that Track 61 , which previously carried freight to the South Boston Army Base and South Boston Naval Annex , is the proposed location of a new passenger train service?
text: Did you know that of the 29 listed buildings in Crewe , only one dates from before the arrival of the railway in 1837?
text: Did you know that American singer-songwriter Katy Perry 's " Legendary Lovers " is a worldbeat song that discusses Eastern philosophy ?
text: Did you know that William de Greystoke was given permission to crenellate "his dwelling place" in October 1353, which would later become known as Greystoke Castle ?
text: Did you know that the Tumin is an alternative currency used in the municipality of Espinal, Veracruz , Mexico?
text: Did you know that Estelle Ramey 's name was formalized so that she could go to school?
text: Did you know that a collection of diaries by sailors and soldiers has been listed on the UNESCO-associated Australian Memory of the World Register ?
text: Did you know that it took roughly 32,000 sandbags to repair a single flood defense breach caused by Typhoon Vera ?
text: Did you know that Arne Pedersen , the most successful player in Fredrikstad FK history, won six league titles and three cups with the club?
text: Did you know that 2014 puzzle game Monument Valley 's visual style took inspiration from M. C. Escher , Japanese prints , minimalist sculpture , Fez , and Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP ?
text: Did you know that the Tamil Communist Party leader V. Ponnambalam later regretted having contested the 1975 Kankesanthurai by-election ?
text: Did you know that in the inaugural Sydney Marathon , the women's winner had never run a marathon before?
text: Did you know that Gorky González Quiñones won the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes for his efforts to revive Mexican maiolica pottery?
text: Did you know that East Preston tram depot opened at the same time that trams returned to Bourke Street where Melbourne's previous cable tram service closed in 1940?
text: Did you know that Da Chu , a dynasty formed during the Jin–Song wars , was barely a month old when the Song Dynasty abolished it?
text: Did you know that surgeons at the St. Joseph Medical Center in Houston were credited with developing early silicone gel implants for breast augmentation ?
text: Did you know that the Amitabh Bachchan Award for Youth Icon of the Year was instituted in his honour at the recently concluded 11th Chennai International Film Festival ?
text: Did you know that Christopher Helt represented retired Army colonel Richard J. Thomas in a 1997 lawsuit against his wife, claiming that her smoking was a violation of the Clean Air Act ?
text: Did you know that the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) professional wrestling promotion held a memorial tournament to honor a wrestler who had died as a result of an injury sustained at one of their events?
text: Did you know that during his 64-year career, animator Bob Givens created the first official design for Bugs Bunny ?
text: Did you know that Peter the Great had outlawed stone buildings in Tartu before the Great Fire of 1775 ?
text: Did you know that in 1417, heiress Elizabeth Beauchamp, Countess of Warwick , refused to accept her family's entail to her cousin James Berkeley , starting a lawsuit which lasted until 1609?
text: Did you know that Studio Killers member Chubby Cherry wrote a song based on her crush with a person named "Jenny" ?
text: Did you know that after SS Umona was torpedoed and sank off the coast of Sierra Leone in 1941, survivors used the reflective surface of a tobacco tin to attract the attention of potential rescuers?
text: Did you know that the UK series The Taste marks Nigella Lawson 's return to Channel 4 after 10 years?
text: Did you know that the creation of the Warsaw Gay Movement was a counter-reaction of Polish gays against Operation Hyacinth ?
text: Did you know that Lancelot de Carle , an eyewitness to the trial and execution of Anne Boleyn , wrote a poem detailing her life and the circumstances surrounding her death?
text: Did you know that an article in Reader's Digest about the health effects of tobacco led to an advertisement disputing the science?
text: Did you know that a speech delivered by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was sampled and used by American singer Beyoncé Knowles in a song called " Flawless "?
text: Did you know that footballer Ian Bennyworth paid his own transfer fee to move from Nuneaton Borough to Scarborough ?
text: Did you know that Hockey Hall of Famer Bun Cook won 636 games and seven Calder Cups as a coach, both American Hockey League records?
text: Did you know that the contribution of academic accounting research to the accounting profession includes the assessment and development of accounting practices, and the development of university curricula?
text: Did you know that Joe D'Cruz won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Korkai , which is based on history and the lives of Parathavars ?
text: Did you know that video game Cart Life , winner of three Independent Games Festival awards including the grand prize in 2013, is the first game that Richard Hofmeier developed?
text: Did you know that Kim Chol-man pioneered North Korea 's munitions industry, the country's economic base?
text: Did you know that the IKEA soft toy Lufsig sold out in Hong Kong within hours partially due to a Cantonese pun?
text: Did you know that goalkeeper Dean Lyness , an unused substitute for his first three league clubs as a teenager, finally made his Football League debut with his fourth?
text: Did you know that a costume created for Hilary Swank in the 2003 film The Core later appeared in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " Anomaly "?
text: Did you know that D.C. Booth Historic National Fish Hatchery is one of the oldest fish hatcheries in the United States?
text: Did you know that the extinct ant Afromyrma petrosa was found over a diamond mine?
text: Did you know that the Downton Abbey law allows for equal succession of female heirs to hereditary titles and peerages?
text: Did you know that sakte-tv (English: slow-TV ) was named word of the year in Norway in 2013?
text: Did you know that Infante Francisco de Paula of Spain was found playing sexual games with two women while blindfolded?
text: Did you know that crossover experiments are used to study the mechanisms of chemical reactions ?
text: Did you know that Anthony Carleton 's son-in-law Hercules Underhill confirmed the sale of New Place to Shakespeare ?
text: Did you know that after Illinois Secretary of State Paul Powell had died in 1970, $750,000 in cash was found stashed in shoeboxes and various containers in his room at Springfield 's St. Nicholas Hotel ?
text: Did you know that Kathy Kinney was originally intended to be a one-off guest star in the pilot episode of The Drew Carey Show , but was later promoted to series regular?
text: Did you know that John Everard was imprisoned in the Tower of London and expelled from the King's Inns as a result of his conduct?
text: Did you know that China , with over 34,687 species of animals and vascular plants, is the third-most biodiverse country in the world?
text: Did you know that J. H. Hobbs, Brockunier and Company developed an improved formula for lime glass that enabled American manufacturers to produce high-quality glass at a lower cost?
text: Did you know that the Philippines grabbed their sixteenth gold medal in men's basketball at the Southeast Asian Games as they went undefeated in the 2013 tournament ?
text: Did you know that in 1931 at Kimberley Downs , 80 cattle were found to have pleuropneumonia in one muster ?
text: Did you know that the Wright Opera House Block , a three-story Italianate commercial building constructed of cream-colored brick, was built for $20,000?
text: Did you know that Luftwaffe aircraft bombed SS Abukir for an hour and a half but failed to hit her?
text: Did you know that Aquilo caught fire and sank in 1966, and all aboard were rescued by the intervention of USCGC Point Ledge ?
text: Did you know that Albert Clapp received part of the £132 that Somerset paid to its professional cricketers in 1890?
text: Did you know that early work on Bell's theorem appeared in an "underground" physics newsletter, Epistemological Letters (1973–1984), because mainstream journals were reluctant to publish it?
text: Did you know that Charles Wilkins Short owned one of the most valuable private herbariums in the world?
text: Did you know that one of the international reactions to the Euromaidan was the formation of a human chain on the Polish-Ukrainian border crossing in Medyka as a sign of support for pro-EU protesters in Ukraine?
text: Did you know that Bruton Dovecote has over 200 pigeon holes?
text: Did you know that Stefan Vladislav of Serbia founded the Mileševa monastery ?
text: Did you know that Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux orchestrated her husband's release from a concentration camp after he was captured by the Gestapo ?
text: Did you know that the Argentine telenovela Mis amigos de siempre features actors Osvaldo Laport and Soledad Silveyra as a couple, as in the older telenovela Campeones de la vida ?
text: Did you know that octogenarian poet Joyce La Mers donated $500,000 to Light Quarterly , the US's only literary magazine devoted to light verse ?
text: Did you know that Cossinia trifoliata trees endemic to New Caledonia have become vulnerable to extinction, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature 's 1998 assessment?
text: Did you know that in 1935, Ole Fahlin produced the Fahlin SF-2 Plymocoupe which was classified as a "flying automobile"?
text: Did you know that racing driver Jack Brabham and actor Bud Tingwell served with No. 5 Operational Training Unit RAAF as an engine mechanic and a flying instructor, respectively?
text: Did you know that Stanley Hudson Dodwell was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire in June 1947 for his public services in Hong Kong?
text: Did you know that the ancient Assyrian Balawat Gates were discovered by the first Assyrian archaeologist, Hormuzd Rassam ?
text: Did you know that Michael Fenton was one of the "Patriotic Six" who resigned their seats in the Tasmanian Legislative Council to frustrate the financial policy of Governor John Eardley-Wilmot ?
text: Did you know that the two stars of TU Muscae are so close they are in contact with each other?
text: Did you know that Bridget Holmes emptied the chamber pots of four kings of England?
text: Did you know that the BBC First World War centenary season will include 130 newly commissioned programmes to mark the centenary of the First World War ?
text: Did you know that Doug Manchester , owner and publisher of U-T San Diego , built several of the tallest buildings in San Diego ?
text: Did you know that Rocky the Musical was written in English and later translated into German for its world premiere?
text: Did you know that in 2013, mayor of Chépica Rebeca Cofré was named one of the 100 Leading Women of Chile by El Mercurio newspaper?
text: Did you know that the Equestrian Statue of Viscount Combermere was the first major piece of open-air public sculpture to be erected in Cheshire?
text: Did you know that publication of The Diary of Malcolm X is being held up by a legal dispute between the publisher and some of Malcolm X's daughters?
text: Did you know that while pitcher Noodles Hahn was still playing baseball, he received a job offer to become the Dallas city veterinarian?
text: Did you know that in 1958, No. 486 Squadron became responsible for maintaining the Lockheed C-130 Hercules , the first turboprop aircraft operated by the RAAF ?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Hussey allowed the first of the tracts by the anonymous satirist Martin Marprelate to be printed on a secret press at her home at East Molesey in October 1588?
text: Did you know that the Lydia Pinkham House , on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places since 2012, is being reviewed for selection as a National Historic Landmark for its association with the Pinkhams ?
text: Did you know that Randall Carver portrayed taxi driver John Burns in the television series Taxi for only the first season (1978–79)?
text: Did you know that Stoke sub Hamdon Priory is not, and never has been, a priory ?
text: Did you know that tilted block faulting can cause ductile lower crust of the Earth to ascend, creating domal mountain ranges?
text: Did you know that the Pakistan Army Chief Raheel Sharif is the brother of Major Shabbir Sharif who died in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and received the Nishan-e-Haider ?
text: Did you know that Judith Pipher has been referred to as the "mother of infrared astronomy ?"
text: Did you know that students need to enter a lottery to attend Beaverton Health & Science School , a public school that was rated as below average by the state of Oregon ?
text: Did you know that William Wilkinson and Lincoln City teammates Arthur Hulme and William Ross were three of numerous new signings for Gravesend United in the 1898–99 Southern Football League season?
text: Did you know that Bach set Johann Gramann 's hymn " Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren " in a cantata reflecting the end of the year with praise?
text: Did you know that Henry William McKenney and Alex Taylor made the first long distance telephone call from Edmonton to St. Albert in 1885?
text: Did you know that the acidity load in Whiskey Run, a tributary of Drury Run , would need to be reduced by 99.5% to meet requirements set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ?
text: Did you know that Samuel Appleton 's defense of Hatfield, Massachusetts , was a turning point for the colonists during King Philip's War ?
text: Did you know that the Bath Assembly Rooms featured in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion and Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers ?
text: Did you know that upon his appointment as Poet Laureate of New Jersey in 2002, provocative African-American poet Amiri Baraka told Governor Jim McGreevey , "You're gonna catch hell for this"?
text: Did you know that the asteroid 2011 XC2 missed the Earth by less than 1 lunar distance on 3 December 2011?
text: Did you know that Konstanze Vernon , prima ballerina in Munich remembered as Giselle , created and directed an academy in memory of her ballet partner Heinz Bosl ?
text: Did you know that HMS Crescent was present at Saldanha Bay in 1796 when the Dutch surrendered without a fight?
text: Did you know that in 1909, hemoglobin crystals from over 100 species were used to relate biological taxonomy to molecular properties?
text: Did you know that William Templeton died just days after his defeat for re-election as Mayor of Vancouver ?
text: Did you know that ten people died when Cyclone Alan struck French Polynesia in 1998, mostly as a result of landslides?
text: Did you know that Lloyd Cook was named to the Pacific Coast Hockey Association first all-star team three times?
text: Did you know that the fresh water from Waterfall Bay is said to have given Hong Kong its name?
text: Did you know that an Ace Spectrum release was among the first 12-inch singles to be issued?
text: Did you know that Australian inventor Myra Juliet Farrell dreamed of solutions to practical problems and wrote them in mirror writing on the wall while sleepwalking ?
text: Did you know that following the lifeboats disaster in 1886, memorials were erected in Southport Cemetery , in Southport Promenade , in St Annes Promenade , and in a Lytham churchyard ?
text: Did you know that Malcolm Orme Little retired three times?
text: Did you know that a villanelle is used to "deal with one or another degree of obsession"?
text: Did you know that Virat Kohli is the fastest player to score 19 One Day International centuries , doing so in 124 innings ?
text: Did you know that Millennium 's " ...Thirteen Years Later " featured the members of Kiss in dual roles?
text: Did you know that parliamentarian Axel Jansson was removed from the Swedish Communist Party executive at the 1967 party congress?
text: Did you know that Conner Mertens was the first active college football player to publicly come out about his sexuality?
text: Did you know that the grey triggerfish has developed a feeding strategy for dealing with sand dollars ?
text: Did you know that Ezra Pound considered dumping his first poetry collection, A Lume Spento , into a Venetian canal?
text: Did you know that Bhagat Singh wrote Why I am an Atheist as a reply to a religious man who thought Singh had become an atheist because of his vanity?
text: Did you know that Rock Lawn , home of Hamilton Fish II and later of Patty Hearst , is Richard Upjohn 's only Italian villa -style house in the Hudson Highlands ?
text: Did you know that Mattias Moström is the foreign player with the most matches for the Norwegian football club Molde FK ?
text: Did you know that Omicron 1 Canis Majoris is a star 65,000 times as bright as our Sun, and has 530 times its diameter?
text: Did you know that in the 2004 Subway 400 , Joe Ruttman ran only one lap before being ordered to park his car by NASCAR ?
text: Did you know that the English Jesuit theologian Charles Davis caused a firestorm of controversy when he left the priesthood in 1966?
text: Did you know that in 1887 William Eakin 's residence served as a classroom for the community of Crescent Lake before a school was built the following year?
text: Did you know that according to tradition the Church of the Holy Archangels, Rogoz was built from two huge elm trees?
text: Did you know that in 2011, Johann Lamont became the first person to be elected as overall leader of the Scottish Labour Party ?
text: Did you know that Ethiopian Airlines Flight 702 was hijacked by the co-pilot?
text: Did you know that the 1955 Indonesian comedy Tamu Agung is a critique of the corruption under Sukarno 's government?
text: Did you know that the Montana Race to the Sky is a long distance sled dog race known as "the Iditarod of the Lower 48"?
text: Did you know that the 2011-opened Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Literature Museum Library in Istanbul is housed in a building, which once served for Ottoman sultans to accept salutes during a military parade?
text: Did you know that Kieran Evans won a BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer ?
text: Did you know that former Minister of Industries Keshab Prasad Badal was a leader of the Proletarian Revolutionary Organisation, Nepal in the 1970s?
text: Did you know that the Nokia Lumia Icon was the first Nokia Lumia released not using its model number as part of its branding and release name?
text: Did you know that " Tom & Gerri ", the third episode of Inside No. 9 , was based on a play Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith had written years earlier?
text: Did you know that the Surdulica massacre took the lives of 2,000–3,000 people?
text: Did you know that the cancellation of a Star Trek: Voyager tie-in video game led to the foundation of BioShock developer Irrational Games ?
text: Did you know that no one knows where the water in Stratton Moat comes from?
text: Did you know that Firefly fans were developing their own video game based on the franchise before an official game, Firefly Online , was announced?
text: Did you know that Frederick G. Coan was told about 2,000 people who had dug their own graves?
text: Did you know that musician Rick Recht was inspired to create Jewish Rock Radio after seeing how Christian rock radio stations operated?
text: Did you know that Zimbabwe's gold-winning women's field hockey team from the 1980 Olympics were promised an ox each by the Prime Minister's wife , but got packages of meat instead?
text: Did you know that Ezra Pound published a translation of Chinese poetry despite not understanding the language?
text: Did you know that Marcellus Neal was the first African-American graduate of Indiana University ?
text: Did you know that San Francisco artists and craftspeople fought the police and city hall for years to bring about a Street Artists Program that lets them legally sell their work on the city's sidewalks?
text: Did you know that the music video for Kylie Minogue 's 2010 single " All the Lovers " was intended as homage to the singer's gay audience?
text: Did you know that a Mediterranean tropical cyclone in 1969 resulted in hundreds of deaths in Tunisia and Algeria ?
text: Did you know that although Monsanto 's Charles A. Thomas promised to return the Runnymede Playhouse intact, it became so contaminated with radioactivity from the Manhattan Project it was demolished and buried?
text: Did you know that former UCLA Bruins basketball player Joshua Smith became a fan of the university after his eighth-grade report on Bruins coach John Wooden ?
text: Did you know that the B. B. Moeur Activity Building is the largest WPA -built adobe structure in Arizona?
text: Did you know that both the Akoya pearl oyster and the penguin's wing oyster are used in the production of cultured pearls ?
text: Did you know that " Flatline ", a song by Mutya Keisha Siobhan , was co-written by British artist Dev Hynes ?
text: Did you know that the Missouri Department of Corrections believed that Cornealious Michael Anderson was in prison for 13 years, when he was actually living a normal life and raising a family?
text: Did you know that when four-year-old Philip I of Castile inherited Flanders , its cities staged a revolt to get rid of his guardian Maximilian I ?
text: Did you know that PopMatters compared Justin Timberlake 's " Not a Bad Thing " to 'N Sync 's 1999 " (God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time on You ", for sharing the same "emotional earnestness" and "heart-melter" characteristics?
text: Did you know that Lynne Owens is the first woman to become Chief Constable of Surrey Police ?
text: Did you know that the book The Emperor's New Drugs suggests that antidepressants may be nothing but a very powerful placebo ?
text: Did you know that the "ghost" of William Brooke Smith haunted the poet Ezra Pound in several of his works?
text: Did you know that a Kitkehahki Pawnee village in Nebraska is the site where Zebulon Pike convinced the Kitkehahki to remove a Spanish flag and display an American flag?
text: Did you know that Jordan Adams was the first freshman in UCLA Bruins men's basketball history to score 20 or more points in his first four games?
text: Did you know that the channeled basket snail can use its muscular foot to catapult itself through the air?
text: Did you know that former Turkish Minister of Customs and Monopolies, Tuncay Mataracı , was sentenced in 1982 to a 36-year term of imprisonment for bribery and abuse of power?
text: Did you know that a US congressman thought the ad campaign Stronger than the Storm "smelled"?
text: Did you know that Louis Braille 's reading system for the blind was inspired by methods developed by both Valentin Haüy and Charles Barbier ?
text: Did you know that Sophie Turner Laing , a managing director of BSkyB , originally trained as a secretary?
text: Did you know that Thomas Gold Appleton had a tablet placed at Appleton's Pulpit , where one of his ancestors was said to have made a speech denouncing the tyranny of Sir Edmund Andros ?
text: Did you know that in the 1929 split in the Swedish Communist Party, the brothers Oscar and Gunnar Öhman found themselves on opposite sides?
text: Did you know that Charles M. O'Brien once spoke before the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for five hours and 50 minutes, setting a record?
text: Did you know that E.W. Hornung based his characters A.J. Raffles and Bunny Manders on the partnerships of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson , and of Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas ?
text: Did you know that the 1984 general election in Gibraltar came to be known as the "dockyard election"?
text: Did you know that Ben Simons said that competing at the 2014 Winter Olympics "means the world to me"?
text: Did you know that Frederic Brewster Loomis uncovered vertebrate fossils that were still exhibited at Amherst College 's Beneski Museum of Natural History almost a century later?
text: Did you know that The Gentlewoman campaigned against " tight-lacing "?
text: Did you know that Vivienne Cassie Cooper is New Zealand 's "leading expert" on the microscopic algae diatom ?
text: Did you know that over 6.5 million users have watched, and sometimes partaken in, " playing " Pokémon Red on Twitch ?
text: Did you know that Honolulu City Councilmember Joey Manahan is the grandnephew of Manuel Manahan , a Filipino Senator ?
text: Did you know that the Banded Whiteface enters a state of torpor on winter nights?
text: Did you know that when Australian sprinter Arthur Postle lost the 1907 semi-final sprint at Kalgoorlie to J. Condon, he carried on running, hopping a fence, to a bookmaker to bet on Condon winning the final?
text: Did you know that Bruce Tasker , who is competing at the 2014 Winter Olympics , originally competed in the 400m?
text: Did you know that scrap metal dealers who took apart the remains of the Călan steel works sorted and sold the metal on the works' grounds?
text: Did you know that players on the 2000 Florida Marlins liked Rusty Kuntz ?
text: Did you know that although unsuccessful, the 1915 Chilembwe uprising changed the nature of British rule in Nyasaland ?
text: Did you know that when the leukemia researcher John M. Goldman was arrested by Iranian authorities, he drugged his guards with barbiturates in order to escape?
text: Did you know that Orlando Quevedo is the first cardinal from Mindanao , Philippines ?
text: Did you know that the first known person surnamed Lü was the first ruler of Qi who lived more than 3,000 years ago?
text: Did you know that Czech Olympic snowboarder Ester Ledecká is the granddaughter of two-time Olympic medallist Jan Klapáč ?
text: Did you know that Magnolia x thompsoniana (1808) was the first hybrid magnolia ?
text: Did you know that bobsledder Stuart Benson , who competes for Team GB today, is a Royal Air Force corporal?
text: Did you know that the male sheepshead minnow becomes much more colorful in the breeding season?
text: Did you know the 1982 North Yemen earthquake was the first shock in the region that resulted in fatalities since 1941?
text: Did you know that although Marquee Moon sold fewer than 80,000 copies in the US, Spin and NME ranked it among the ten greatest albums of all time?
text: Did you know that Titanoceratops was known from an almost complete skeleton that was assigned to Pentaceratops , and that the two were only distantly related?
text: Did you know that Paolo Isnardi was forbidden from performing his own compositions at his place of employment ?
text: Did you know that even though " Dibby Dibby Sound " chronologically follows " Earthquake ", DJ Fresh considers it the follow-up to " Gold Dust " due to it featuring Ms. Dynamite ?
text: Did you know that Robert Brode led the group that developed the fuses used in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ?
text: Did you know that Wyvern shipwrecked during the 2013 Tall Ships' Races ?
text: Did you know that baritone Franz Grundheber performed the title role in Alban Berg's Wozzeck in Paris and Berlin, staged by Patrice Chéreau and filmed in 1994?
text: Did you know that Lu , Lu , and Lu are different Chinese surnames ?
text: Did you know that Sverre Valen conducted his last concert in 2013, aged 88?
text: Did you know that one reviewer of Experimenting with Babies compared infant intellect to a "sentient grapefruit" on which parents can feed?
text: Did you know that the leaders of the new Ugandan opposition political party Freedom and Unity Front include David Sejusa , a former Ugandan general and parliament member who left the country in 2013?
text: Did you know that one of the accused assassins of Turkish former government minister Gün Sazak later hijacked an airplane to Bulgaria with accomplices?
text: Did you know that Musca is the only official constellation that depicts an insect?
text: Did you know that short track speed skater Kyle Carr plans to retire after the Olympics, saying, "I'd love to speedskate forever, but it doesn't pay the bills"?
text: Did you know that the star system RR Caeli consists of a red dwarf and white dwarf , with a planet orbiting around both of them?
text: Did you know that singer Kanako Momota performs a "shrimp jump" during live shows?
text: Did you know that Norwegian footballer Håkon Lorentzen is the youngest-ever goalscorer in Tippeligaen ?
text: Did you know that "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment" from the Ramones 's Leave Home album was described as a "sing-along mental-illness ode"?
text: Did you know that termite-inspired robots may someday build a base for humans on Mars ?
text: Did you know that Armamalai Cave has cave paintings which are similar in technique to those of Sittanavasal ?
text: Did you know that the massive video game battle Bloodbath of B-R5RB from Eve Online involved over 7,500 players, making it potentially the largest player versus player battle ever?
text: Did you know that the fossil ant Aphaenogaster praerelicta is entombed in amber with three flies, two springtails, and a wasp?
text: Did you know that a 1991 Singapore court case quashed an order requiring a woman to rename her business for being too similar to J. C. Penney as the authorities had taken into account irrelevant considerations ?
text: Did you know that physicist Robert R. Wilson provided the Fermilab with a small herd of American Bison to roam its restored prairie?
text: Did you know that Lund's Tower is one of two Yorkshire follies collectively known as "The Salt and Pepper Pots"?
text: Did you know that Emma Lonsdale is a "fridge kid"?
text: Did you know that following a high-profile " clone war" over a copy of their Ridiculous Fishing game, Vlambeer 's Luftrausers was beaten to market by a clone of its own?
text: Did you know that injured Bald Eagles at a bird sanctuary in northwestern New Mexico are ensured a view of a mesa from their cages?
text: Did you know that Henri Wald lost his job as a university professor because his government disliked his views?
text: Did you know that Simmons Bedding Company has dropped bowling balls on its mattresses in order to promote them?
text: Did you know that Wade Walton , the "blues barber" of Clarksdale, Mississippi , and early bandmate of Ike Turner , played a razor strop by striking it on beat with a razor?
text: Did you know that the author of Farmageddon travelled the world to investigate what happens when 300,000 laying hens are held or 10,000 cows are being milked on a single farm?
text: Did you know that Pensford Viaduct was offered for sale for £ 1, but no one bought it?
text: Did you know that the primary star of the binary system Theta Tucanae has absorbed much of the mass of its once-larger companion?
text: Did you know that the climax of the opera L'ultimo giorno di Pompei by Giovanni Pacini is the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 ?
text: Did you know that the Leverett Glacier in Antarctica , Leverett Glacier in Greenland , Lake Leverett in Washington, and plant species Sigillaria leveretti were all named after American geologist Frank Leverett ?
text: Did you know that Jan Matuszyński , who earned medical degrees in Tübingen and Paris, died of tuberculosis in the arms of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand ?
text: Did you know that choreographer Michael Kidd initially rejected working on his most famous movie, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), saying "We'd be laughed out of the house"?
text: Did you know that alpine skier David Chodounsky was the only player to make the U.S. Ski Team after earning his college degree?
text: Did you know that Tamarack Swamp is home to the only species of deciduous conifer in Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that Eduard Scotland and Alfred Runge designed luxury ocean liner cabins before they created St Petrus House ?
text: Did you know that when Javier Silva Ruete was appointed Minister of Agriculture in the First Presidency of Fernando Belaúnde , he was the youngest person having occupied that post?
text: Did you know that Barra Castle was the seat of Kings?
text: Did you know that in November 1985, a cold front and the remnants of Atlantic Hurricane Juan contributed to the costliest flooding on record in Virginia and West Virginia , causing about $1.4 billion in damage?
text: Did you know that Dylan Kwasniewski is the first driver to win both the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East and K&N Pro Series West championships?
text: Did you know that twenty years after the Armenian Genocide , William Saroyan challenged the world to destroy the Armenian people?
text: Did you know that the Iranian government executed teacher and poet Hashem Shabani for waging war on God , among other charges?
text: Did you know that earlier this month, members of the Anti-Vivisection Coalition gathered outside Senate House , Cambridge, to protest against primate testing at Cambridge University ?
text: Did you know that romance and thriller writer James Patterson was the top earning novelist of 2010, making $70 million?
text: Did you know that James Machon , competing at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Team GB , has been skiing since he was six?
text: Did you know that Millennium 's Brittany Tiplady credited the episode " The Fourth Horseman " with helping her to develop as an actress?
text: Did you know that college football All-American Michael Sam could become the first active National Football League player to have publicly come out as gay?
text: Did you know that after the Great Exhibition of 1851, Dorset buttons were no longer handmade?
text: Did you know that Olympic bobsledder Rebekah Wilson took odd jobs to pay for her training?
text: Did you know that four shots were fired at the house of Norwegian crime journalist Nina Johnsrud in 2006?
text: Did you know that the Leader of Alderney has historically been a hereditary Governor , a Judge and a non-politically elected President ?
text: Did you know that former college basketball player Fred Slaughter was called "the dean of black sports attorneys" by The New York Times ?
text: Did you know that RZ Gruis is a cataclysmic variable star , a type which the American Association of Variable Star Observers recommends be watched in case it becomes a nova ?
text: Did you know that the Arizona Fourth Amendment Protection Act would withdraw state support for collection of metadata and would ban the use of warrantless data in courts?
text: Did you know that Binnya Dala , the most trusted adviser and general of King Bayinnaung of Burma , translated Razadarit Ayedawbon , the earliest extant chronicle of the Mon people ?
text: Did you know that the film rights to the biography Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story were announced a week after the book was released?
text: Did you know that Roger McMurrin helped Ukrainian atheists to become Christians through their performance of Christian music in his orchestra?
text: Did you know that Richard Ambler discovered that horizontal gene transfer is central to the evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria ?
text: Did you know that " Hey Love " by Danish duo Quadron was the only song out of their album Avalanche to have been made with an outside producer?
text: Did you know that in 1862, along with Bill Cust, Canadian gold prospector, fur trader, and merchant Edward Carey discovered the first gold in Peace River ?
text: Did you know that the name of the anarchist newspaper Burevestnik , published in Paris in 1906, was inspired by Maxim Gorky 's poem Song of the Stormy Petrel ?
text: Did you know that Peruvian politician Jorge Torres Vallejo was awarded the San Martín Order by the government of Argentina?
text: Did you know that AG Pegasi has been described as the slowest nova ever recorded?
text: Did you know that John Baines of Team GB , originally set to compete in the four-man bobsleigh at the 2014 Winter Olympics , ended up doing the two-man bobsleigh as well?
text: Did you know that The FP is a film based around a Dance Dance Revolution style video game in which people die of a " 187 " after losing a dance-off?
text: Did you know that the anarchist newspaper Burevestnik , published in Petrograd in 1917–18, encouraged the homeless and poor to appropriate homes for themselves?
text: Did you know that E. Gordon Gee says Mt. Healthy City Sch. Dist. Bd. of Ed. v. Doyle is the first time the U.S. Supreme Court allowed an action to continue despite finding the First Amendment was violated?
text: Did you know that Russ Pitts, an editor at Polygon , described The Castle Doctrine as the most disturbing video game he'd ever played?
text: Did you know that the coat of arms of Groningen was formally adopted by Queen Wilhelmina in 1947, more than 350 years after it was designed?
text: Did you know that Pål Refsdal converted to Islam while he was held hostage by Taliban ?
text: Did you know that communist legislator Khan Shakir Ali Khan warned of the risks of the Union Carbide plant, years before the 1984 Bhopal disaster ?
text: Did you know that " A Quiet Night In ", the second episode of British dark comedy anthology series Inside No. 9 , was almost entirely free of dialogue?
text: Did you know that advertising for the film Air Mata Mengalir di Tjitarum emphasised a person who did not star in it?
text: Did you know that college basketball coach Jack Hirsch 's family business entered the pornography industry, which he called "infinitely cleaner" than college recruiting ?
text: Did you know that as of January 2014, Desfado by fado singer Ana Moura had not dropped from the Portuguese Albums Chart top 20 since its release in November 2012?
text: Did you know that after serving six terms in the Oregon House of Representatives and running for governor in 1978, Roger E. Martin became a lobbyist at the Oregon State Capitol ?
text: Did you know that the Conchos trout of the Mexican native trout found in the Rio Conchos in the Sierra Madre Occidental is the only rainbow trout subspecies native to an Atlantic Ocean drainage?
text: Did you know that Cristian Raducanu , a rugby union player who represented Romania until age 22, was described by Bill McLaren as a "world-class lineout exponent"?
text: Did you know that the word " agnosticism " was coined by biologist Thomas Henry Huxley ?
text: Did you know that after being destroyed by air strikes in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 , Bhuj Airport was rebuilt by a group of 300 women in 72 hours?
text: Did you know that a narrow valley extending across the southern tip of Vancouver Island and past Victoria marks the Leech River Fault , a major geotectonic boundary where the Siletzia terrane dives under Vancouver Island?
text: Did you know that in five years First Capital Plus has moved from a micro finance company to the headline sponsor of the Ghana Premier League ?
text: Did you know that the right to gather Pacific wing-oysters in the Gulf of California was once a prerogative of the Spanish crown ?
text: Did you know that John Cameron travelled to Edmonton from Winnipeg via ox cart carrying 96,000 pounds (44,000 kg) of merchandise for his store?
text: Did you know that Gadis jang Terdjoeal was The Teng Chun 's first film to take into account the interests of native Indonesians ?
text: Did you know that Luisa Zissman named one of her businesses, Dixie's Cupcakery, after her daughter?
text: Did you know that South Korea's proposed highest-denomination 100,000- won banknote was cancelled in 2008, since the 19th-century map Daedongyeojido depicted on the note did not portray the Liancourt Rocks ?
text: Did you know that neurosurgeon Jean Talairach created a coordinate system for the brain to help standardize stereotaxy procedures?
text: Did you know that the first phase of SkyCycle , a proposed network of elevated cycle paths in London, is expected to cost £220 million?
text: Did you know that Polish historian Stanisław Salmonowicz , once repressed by the Polish communist authorities, has published over 1,000 works?
text: Did you know that Jamaica's Merlene Ottey is the only sprinter to have won more than two medals in the 100 metres at the Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the core concept behind Horrible Histories is "history with the nasty bits left in"?
text: Did you know that short track speed skater Jessica Smith qualified for the 2014 Olympics despite not training with the national team?
text: Did you know that the 1999 video game Pro Pinball: Fantastic Journey featured virtual steam powered machinery as part of the game?
text: Did you know that Thomas Pilcher , who commanded a British division on the first day of the Somme , was sacked ten days later after it had taken 4,771 casualties?
text: Did you know that the San Esteban carried cockroaches across the Atlantic in the 1550s?
text: Did you know that Yoko Kondo was the Japan women's ice hockey team 's oldest player in the 2014 Winter Olympics , and the only one with prior Olympic experience?
text: Did you know that when describing the new octopus genus Histoctopus , scientists named a species "after the senior author's wonderful wife, Karen Zipkas"?
text: Did you know that Day-Elder both propelled and pushed their trucks with worm drive ?
text: Did you know that "Weird Al" Yankovic offered to guest star in an episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic after a co-executive producer found him showcasing fan works with his music on Twitter ?
text: Did you know that Arthur Francis Buddington went to Brown , then Princeton , then Brown, then Princeton, then Brown, then Princeton?
text: Did you know that Anecdotes de Suède , a polemic against the Swedish regime of the 1680s, appeared in French, German, and English before finally being published in Swedish in 1822?
text: Did you know that the futuristic imagery in The Juan MacLean 's album The Future Will Come was inspired by science fiction and dystopian works?
text: Did you know that Hakan Kıran , Turkish architect of the Golden Horn Metro Bridge , chose his profession because he was impressed by the concept of the town constructed by the French, in which he grew up?
text: Did you know that Tio Tek Djien was so taken with the star of a play he watched that he ran away from home and married her?
text: Did you know that composer James Horner intended his musical score for the drama film A Beautiful Mind to resemble the effect generated by a kaleidoscope ?
text: Did you know that in 1935 the segregated Richmond Academy of Arts produced a one-man show of carvings by African-American sculptor Leslie Garland Bolling ?
text: Did you know that a cash prize Ryan Larkin won at the Melbourne International Film Festival for the animated film Street Musique was used to support young artists in Montreal?
text: Did you know that Woodrow Wilson convinced Charles Henry Smyth, Jr. , to leave Hamilton College for Princeton University ?
text: Did you know that Rembangan is best known for its view, but is also famous for its dragonfruit ?
text: Did you know that more than 200 seaweed species and 150 bird species have been observed on and around the small island of Lihou in the English Channel?
text: Did you know that UCLA Bruins basketball coach John Wooden described Larry Hollyfield as "probably the greatest physical talent on the team" during their 1971–72 championship season ?
text: Did you know that Octavian Smigelschi 's depiction of the Three Magi in the Romanian Orthodox cathedral in Sibiu may have been inspired by portraits of actual princes who ruled in the three Romanian provinces?
text: Did you know that " Tipitina " is a New Orleans music standard that has been added to the National Recording Registry ?
text: Did you know that George Armstrong scored the last goal in the Original Six era of the National Hockey League , as the Toronto Maple Leafs won the 1967 Stanley Cup Finals ?
text: Did you know that the Great American Lesbian Art Show was the first time that lesbians of color participated in a major exhibition of lesbian art?
text: Did you know that in 2001 " A Puro Dolor " by Puerto Rican band Son by Four won Lo Nuestro Awards for both Pop Song of the Year and Tropical Song of the Year ?
text: Did you know that collections left by naturalists Frederick Lukis and his daughter Louisa , wife of Sark 's feudal ruler William Thomas Collings , are the most significant natural history collections displayed by the museums of Guernsey ?
text: Did you know that molecular phylogenetics led to six genera of Brassicaceae resolving into the southern Africa genus Heliophila ?
text: Did you know that the Vatican was asked to step in to prevent the Daughters of the Cross from selling off St. Anthony's Hospital ?
text: Did you know that "Long" Jones , so nicknamed for his great height, was elected to the legislature in two states, was a U.S. Marshal , and owned a mineral water plant?
text: Did you know that six ground crew of No. 11 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF were court-martialled for mutiny in October 1941?
text: Did you know that Peruvian leftist parliamentarian Eriberto Arroyo Mío was assassinated whilst driving his son to school?
text: Did you know that the first recorded use of the platoon system in baseball dates back to 1887?
text: Did you know that speed skater Kelly Gunther overcame an accident that nearly severed her foot to make the 2014 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the collected works of the first arranger for the U.S. Army Chorus , Joseph Willcox Jenkins , are housed with those of Joe "Handyman" Negri ?
text: Did you know that the Broadway play Bronx Bombers stars married couple Peter Scolari and Tracy Shayne as Yogi Berra and his wife, Carmen?
text: Did you know that 2014 Olympic medallist Ståle Sandbech was, in 2010, the youngest Norwegian at the Olympics in 82 years?
text: Did you know that Johann Erich Thunmann was the first scholar who presented the Illyrian theory of the origin of Albanians ?
text: Did you know that the Vestingmuseum Oudeschans is a local museum with archaeological findings from the fortified village of Oudeschans in the Netherlands?
text: Did you know that the 2014 Canadian federal budget redefines the term beer ?
text: Did you know that the USAF 's 1946 Project Thumper and Project Wizard were the first detailed studies of an anti-ballistic missile system, intended to attack a V-2 -like missile?
text: Did you know that the first arrest for courtsiding was at the 2014 Australian Open ?
text: Did you know that The Dream of Jacob , a composition by Krzysztof Penderecki based on the biblical account of Jacob's Ladder , was featured in the American horror movie The Shining ?
text: Did you know that Broadway actress Joan McCracken was one of the models for Truman Capote 's fictional Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's ?
text: Did you know that at the 30th Paris Motor show in 1936, the Salmson S4-DA was exhibited without any body?
text: Did you know that Arianna Huffington said she thought journalist Georgina Henry was a "kindred spirit"?
text: Did you know that Yugoslavian tennis players György Dungyersky‎ , Ivan Balás , Aleksandar Popović ‎‎ , Franjo Šefer , Krešimir Friedrich , Ivan Radović , Franjo Kukuljević , Franjo Punčec‎ , Josip Palada , and Dragutin Mitić were all members of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia Davis Cup team ?
text: Did you know that the only two passenger trains that regularly go through Cleveland Lakefront Station depart/arrive between 1:00 am and 6:00 am?
text: Did you know that Spanish singer Álex Ubago sang the opening theme of the Argentine telenovela Somos familia , and toured in Argentina during the premiere?
text: Did you know that Jose Salvador Alvarenga , an El Salvadorian fisherman, claimed in February 2014 to have survived 13 months at sea?
text: Did you know that " Somewhere Down the Crazy River " is, according to its producer, "kind of like a guy with a deep voice telling you about steaming nights in Arkansas "?
text: Did you know that for 24 hours, for every download of the song " Invisible " by U2 , Bank of America was giving $1 to the organisation (RED) , raising $3,138,470 to fight HIV-AIDS?
text: Did you know that John Mitchell became the first African American to play for the Alabama football team as a member of the 1971 Crimson Tide squad ?
text: Did you know that Robert H. Liebeck designed the airfoil used in NASCAR 's 2007–2012 Car of Tomorrow ?
text: Did you know that YinzCam , a Pittsburgh-based company providing official mobile apps for more than 30 professional sports franchises, was created by Carnegie Mellon University Professor Priya Narasimhan ?
text: Did you know that Esteban Mestivier was appointed interim Argentine military and civil commander of the Falkland Islands but was murdered in a mutiny less than a month after his arrival?
text: Did you know that much of the filming for " Sardines ", the first episode of Inside No. 9 , took place in a wardrobe?
text: Did you know that Norwegian cross-country skier Finn Hågen Krogh was promised a spot in the individual sprint in the 2014 Winter Olympics but was controversially dropped 8 days later?
text: Did you know that Rita Lenihan wrote the Latin motto for the WAVES and would later become their Director?
text: Did you know that in the years since the Greenback Depot closed in 1954, it has been used for fertilizer storage, an antique shop, and a boat manufacturer's offices?
text: Did you know that Jamie McDonald ran 5,000 miles across Canada dressed as comic book hero The Flash ?
text: Did you know that when astronomer Lacaille originally charted the constellation Caelum , it was recognized as an "engraver's chisel"?
text: Did you know that after Harry C. Foster 's expulsion in 1916, no one was expelled from the Massachusetts House of Representatives until 2014?
text: Did you know that ballet dancer Sally Gilmour was "acclaimed in the 1940s as second only to Margot Fonteyn among British ballerinas"?
text: Did you know that the War Revenue Act of 1898 , introduced in the U.S. to raise funds for American military actions against Spain , established a one-cent-per-call tax on telephone use?
text: Did you know that Reginald Mount and partner designed a renowned anti-venereal disease campaign in 1943–44?
text: Did you know that the 13th-century Floriańska Street in Kraków is one of the most prestigious streets in Poland?
text: Did you know that Illinois Secretary of State Ozias M. Hatch once accompanied Abraham Lincoln for an inspection of the Army of the Potomac ?
text: Did you know that tiger penis soup can command US$300 a bowl, and its key ingredient has been counterfeited?
text: Did you know that four days after its opening, a train using the Newcastle-Bolgart Railway caused a bushfire?
text: Did you know that during his childhood, Josh Hutcherson once dyed the tips of his hair to match one of Justin Timberlake 's looks?
text: Did you know that the position of the Crucifix on the Cross of Mathilde from the Essen Cathedral Treasury has been described as clumsy and awkward?
text: Did you know that 2014 Olympian Chris Creveling is a former World Champion inline skater ?
text: Did you know that NASA engineers chose " Send Me On My Way " as "wake-up" music for the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity , for Sol 21?
text: Did you know that U.S. President Bill Clinton participated in a jam session at Reduta Jazz Club during a 1994 visit to the Czech Republic ?
text: Did you know that Armen Dzhigarkhanyan has appeared in more films than any other Russian actor?
text: Did you know that while pictures of Christopher Columbus , Count Zeppelin and Charles Lindbergh appear on the Glockenspiel House , a carillon plays?
text: Did you know that Peter Brunt , who would become Camden Professor of Ancient History at Oxford University , was rejected for military service during World War II because he had flat feet ?
text: Did you know that India's Yanaimalai (Elephant Hill) got its name because it looks like an elephant sitting down?
text: Did you know that New Malden High Street contains many Korean shops, reflecting the large population of South Koreans in the London suburb ?
text: Did you know that 2014 Olympian Emily Scott was preparing to apply for food stamps when a USA Today article about her brought in over $48,000 in donations, allowing her to continue training?
text: Did you know that upon William S. Edmiston 's retirement as Mayor of Edmonton , he feted the occasion by taking his council and press out for an oyster dinner?
text: Did you know that Katy Perry 's song " Double Rainbow " shares its title with a 2010 viral video ?
text: Did you know that 2014 Olympic speed skater Eddy Alvarez underwent knee surgery in 2012 that left him too weak to navigate stairs?
text: Did you know that Sphero was initially prototyped with electronics taken from a smartphone ?
text: Did you know that Eduardo Arnold wrote an unpublished book about the early life of Argentine president Néstor Kirchner ?
text: Did you know that Dude Perfect 's basketball trick shots relied more on American football skills?
text: Did you know that delay of the planned restoration of the ruined Katowice historic train station , which attained monument status in 1975, has led to public protests?
text: Did you know that Georgetown University is the oldest post-secondary institution in Washington, D.C. ?
text: Did you know that mass surveillance in East Germany was so extensive that there was one informer per every 6.5 citizens?
text: Did you know that the 2001–02 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team won their first game in the National Invitation Tournament after a bank shot by Reece Gaines with 5.3 seconds left in the game?
text: Did you know that in Patrick Süskind 's play Der Kontrabaß , the double bass in the title role is a "constant handicap" to its player, "humanly, socially, sexually, musically"?
text: Did you know that the roof of the House of the Seven Lazy Brothers shows how hard-working the brothers had really been?
text: Did you know that the JBL Paragon , the world's first domestic stereo loudspeaker system, was 106 inches (270 cm) wide and resembled a sideboard?
text: Did you know that chief of counterintelligence for Russia's FSB , Oleg Syromolotov , is head of security for the 2014 Winter Olympics?
text: Did you know that the Öküz Mehmed Pasha Caravanserai in Kuşadası , Turkey was built in 1618 in the form of a small citadel with a battlement and merlons on its top?
text: Did you know that Pseudarmadillo tuberculatus was one of two Pseudarmadillo species described in 1984 from fossils in Dominican amber ?
text: Did you know that Jim Gregory learned of his firing as general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs when he was offered the position of director of the NHL Central Scouting Bureau?
text: Did you know that when they were exhibited in 1978, the sculptures of a Hatstand , Table , and Chair by British pop artist Allen Jones were attacked with stink bombs?
text: Did you know that many of the historic buildings in Langenstraße in Bremen were seriously damaged during World War II but have been carefully reconstructed since?
text: Did you know that Miguel Enríquez went from being a shoemaker to being one of the most wealthy and influential figures in the New World?
text: Did you know that the British seaplane tender Engadine carried a pigeon loft that housed carrier pigeons to be used by her aircraft if their wireless was broken?
text: Did you know that anthropologist Nina Jablonski was inspired to study science by a National Geographic program on palaeontologist Louis Leakey ?
text: Did you know that The Elstree Project is an ongoing oral history of the studios of Elstree and Borehamwood , with interviewees including Brian Blessed , Steven Spielberg and Roger Moore ?
text: Did you know that Titanic survivor Dickinson Bishop was rumored to have gained access to a lifeboat by dressing in women's clothing?
text: Did you know that Emery Lehman shaved seven seconds off his personal best to qualify for the 10,000-meter speed skating race at the 2014 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the Sukorambi Botanical Garden is home to 300 species of herbs, 200 of flowers, and 500 books?
text: Did you know that the Golden Horn Metro Bridge in Istanbul is a cable-stayed bridge , which has a swing bridge on one side and features a metro station in the middle?
text: Did you know that Great Central Railway locomotive no. 506, now preserved and restored for display at the Barrow Hill Engine Shed , was named after Eric Butler-Henderson when it entered service in 1919?
text: Did you know that devotional articles have been produced and sold as far back as the times of ancient Egypt and ancient Mesopotamia ?
text: Did you know that Fourmile Creek is actually eight miles long?
text: Did you know that Senator J. L. Carpenter 's wife gave birth to Frankenstein?
text: Did you know that Turner 's painting The Fountain of Indolence is probably also The Fountain of Fallacy ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming video game Sonic Boom is designed specifically for Western audiences as part of a new, Westernized Sonic franchise?
text: Did you know that the Bluecap Memorial in Cheshire commemorates a foxhound and is a listed building ?
text: Did you know that the Back to the Future musical is scheduled to première in the West End in 2015—the same year that Marty McFly and Doc Brown travelled to in Back to the Future Part II ?
text: Did you know that residents of Motspur Park feel that the London Buses route K5 should be more frequent?
text: Did you know that the nudibranch Okenia zoobotryon may contain the same anti-predator chemicals as its prey, the bryozoan Zoobotryon verticillatum ?
text: Did you know that the Michelides Tobacco Factory became an ice cream factory after the decline of the Western Australian tobacco industry?
text: Did you know that the Singapore Government takes the view that separation of powers is less important than choosing leaders that can be trusted and do not need to be fettered?
text: Did you know that Lyman Hakes Howe was the first person to give full-length phonograph concerts?
text: Did you know that the 1996–97 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season was the longest on record, with both unusually early and late activity?
text: Did you know that Robert Farrar 's Donut , about a couple who eat a donut during sex, stars a straight couple in the film version but a gay couple on the stage?
text: Did you know that large negative earnings surprises may have legal and reputational costs to managers?
text: Did you know that century-old buildings in the historic courtyard neighborhoods of Ohel Shlomo and Sha'arei Yerushalayim were razed to make way for the Jerusalem Light Rail ?
text: Did you know that 46 Italian paratroopers died in the 1971 RAF Hercules crash ?
text: Did you know that Robinson Crusoe House in Bremen , Germany, was built by a coffee merchant who admired the fictional Robinson Crusoe for his Hanseatic spirit?
text: Did you know that during the term of Kwesi Nyantakyi , Ghana has qualified for three successive FIFA World Cups ?
text: Did you know that Queen is one of five soundtracks simultaneously composed by Amit Trivedi during five months in 2013?
text: Did you know that the Grand Mosque of Constanța was the first structure in Romania to be constructed with reinforced concrete ?
text: Did you know that Eva Rydberg has performed at the Paris Olympia ?
text: Did you know that Oregon Public Broadcasting praised The Oregon Desert for blending scholarly natural science writing with cowboy humor?
text: Did you know that following the assassination of Diyarbakır police chief Gaffar Okkan in 2001, more than a hundred babies were named after him?
text: Did you know that the horror movie The Exorcist features Henze 's Fantasia for Strings during its closing credits ?
text: Did you know that the magnetic termite builds its wedge-shaped mound with its axis in a north-south direction?
text: Did you know that The Crescent in Birmingham stood unfinished for over 150 years before it was demolished?
text: Did you know that Mike O'Connor worked for the Committee to Protect Journalists in one of the most dangerous countries for journalists ?
text: Did you know that mobile payment startup Clinkle raised US$25 million in Silicon Valley 's largest round of seed funding ?
text: Did you know that Peter Austin built some 140 breweries in 17 countries?
text: Did you know that the 1981 Iraqi embassy bombing in Beirut is considered by some to be the first modern suicide bombing ?
text: Did you know that Lorde says her song " Ribs " was inspired by "this big party I had when my parents went away"?
text: Did you know that ostrich farming in the Philippines was promoted by the Philippines Department of Agriculture during the food crisis of 2008?
text: Did you know that Polish Jesuit Piotr Skarga 's Lives of the Saints (1579) contained graphic and detailed description of tortures and suffering?
text: Did you know that the Black Sea jellyfish has become established in the estuaries of the Petaluma and Napa Rivers flowing into San Francisco Bay ?
text: Did you know that the third-person action-adventure video game Freedom: First Resistance was based on Anne McCaffrey 's novel trilogy Catteni Series ?
text: Did you know that Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne Standing in a Street in Soho is one of the few paintings in which Francis Bacon showed his subject in an outdoor setting?
text: Did you know that in a by-election in Britain in 1908 , before women were given the vote, a Mrs Lois Dawson was allowed to vote because her name appeared on the electoral register by accident?
text: Did you know that George Frampton used the same model for casting the Statue of Queen Victoria in St Helens , Merseyside, as he used for statues in Leeds and Winnipeg ?
text: Did you know that Nic Fiddian-Green replaced Horse at Water with Still Water ?
text: Did you know that design features in Sabine Hill in Elizabethton, Tennessee , suggest influences from  buildings in Williamsburg, Virginia ?
text: Did you know that Rudolf Alfred Höger painted on the Eastern Front in World War I?
text: Did you know that Chris Taylor was named the Tidewater region's baseball player of the year in his senior year of high school?
text: Did you know that before the renowned Armenian illustrator Krikor Torosyan could publish his caricatures, he was killed during the Armenian Genocide ?
text: Did you know that outside the Deutsche Bank building in Bremen there is a model of people on a planet?
text: Did you know that Hilary Wayment took a sabbatical to study the 16th-century stained glass windows in King's College Chapel, Cambridge ?
text: Did you know that St. Charles Medical Center – Madras , the only hospital in Jefferson County, Oregon , is licensed for 36 beds but uses only 25 of them?
text: Did you know that Catalan refugees in Cuba founded the publication Per Catalunya! in 1942?
text: Did you know that although Crown Duel 's fictional setting of Sartorias-deles is most like New Zealand , its customs and fashions were inspired by the court of Louis XIV ?
text: Did you know that the doctors who discovered the Roseto effect —that reducing stress reduces heart disease — did so over a beer?
text: Did you know that Hasculf de Tany , castellan of the Tower of London , was once involved in a lawsuit that ended with the other side being fined a warhorse?
text: Did you know  that Thabit marks the top of Orion 's right boot?
text: Did you know that Joseph C. Smith 's orchestra was the first to record a Cole Porter song?
text: Did you know that Minderoo Station once held an estimated 50,000 sheep, cattle, and horses?
text: Did you know that during World War I , magazine editor Octavian Codru Tăslăuanu first served in the Austro-Hungarian Army , but later deserted to join the Romanian Army after that country entered the war?
text: Did you know that in July 2012 news media reported that the online encyclopedia Wikipedia had been appointing new administrators much more slowly in recent years?
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text: Did you know that the Full Throttle Saloon in Sturgis, South Dakota , claims to be the world's largest biker bar ?
text: Did you know that, by spring 1944, French Resistance leader Émile Coulaudon had assembled 10,000 volunteers in Auvergne ?
text: Did you know that the Solomon Creek boreholes are the second-largest sources of iron discharge in the Coal Region , contributing 9% of the iron load in the region?
text: Did you know that the church of the 13th century St Catherine's Monastery, Bremen , Germany, was once used as the city's arsenal?
text: Did you know that Pedro Cordero Martín , the athlete representative on the Catalan Sports Federation of Cerebral Palsy, competed at the 2004 , 2008 and 2012 Paralympics in boccia ?
text: Did you know that Arnold Wolf was a drama teacher and an industrial designer before he came to head loudspeaker manufacturer JBL ?
text: Did you know that Emma Knyckare was locked inside a glasshouse in Gothenburg in 2013 to host the aid show Musikhjälpen , along with Sarah Dawn Finer and Kodjo Akolor ?
text: Did you know that the statistical jackknife technique was so named because it is useful in a variety of situations much like a jackknife ?
text: Did you know that prior to World War I the Victoria Hotel (Toodyay) was the meeting point of the volunteer Light Horse Regiment ?
text: Did you know that Soviet artist Boris Gusman , who commissioned Prokofiev 's Cantata , died in the Great Purge before he could hear it performed?
text: Did you know that The Day We Fight Back , a movement opposing NSA mass surveillance , is supported by organizations such as Reddit and Mozilla ?
text: Did you know that Arizonasaurus had a large sail along its back made of the spines on its vertebrae?
text: Did you know that Iranian writer Ahmad Kamyabi Mask was named Chevalier of the Order of Academic Palms for his contribution to French literature?
text: Did you know that Philadelphia Phillies player César Hernández was signed to a contract at the age of 16?
text: Did you know that the Staffordshire County League (South) was originally formed as the Walsall & District Junior League after a meeting of football club representatives at the People's Coffee House in Walsall ?
text: Did you know that the 17-point April 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament championship game first half performance by Spike Albrecht was featured in The New York Times 2013 Year in review?
text: Did you know that the Island of Lake Billy Chinook contains one of the United States' last remaining undisturbed communities of two native vegetation types?
text: Did you know that 22 people were killed in 1972 when a Canadair Sabre crashed into an ice cream parlour in Sacramento?
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text: Did you know that Robert Wolfall , the vicar of the Church of St Mary, West Harptree in England, was the first Anglican to celebrate Holy Communion in North America?
text: Did you know that a two-story railroad worker's home was built for only $800 in 1888?
text: Did you know that among the thousands dead in the Third attack on Anzac Cove was Australian folklore hero " the Man with the Donkey "?
text: Did you know that at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival , director Louis C.K. personally handed out tickets to distributors to see his new film Tomorrow Night ?
text: Did you know that the Laurel Run mine fire has been burning since 1915 and may burn for another century?
text: Did you know that Saritha , who plays the female lead in Maro Charitra , was the 162nd girl to be auditioned for the part?
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text: Did you know that when HMS Reunion was wrecked in the Thames Estuary , not a single life was lost?
text: Did you know that Antemas challenged the Communist Party of Indonesia by helping to establish a film importers' association?
text: Did you know that the Chicago Cardinals–Toronto Argonauts exhibition game of August 1959 inaugurated Exhibition Stadium and was the first to feature an NFL team in Toronto ?
text: Did you know that some critics thought that the figures on the Port Sunlight War Memorial were too realistic?
text: Did you know that former French football international Jean-Pierre Adams has been in a deep coma since 1982?
text: Did you know that Bernard Waldman flew on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima to photograph the event with a high-speed camera, but took no footage because he forgot to open the camera shutter?
text: Did you know that the 1993 Klamath Falls earthquake was the strongest to hit Oregon in recorded history?
text: Did you know that the professional footballer Helge Haugen was a medallist in orienteering during his youth?
text: Did you know that the abuses suffered by Ben Affleck and Shia LaBeouf in the webcomic Theater Hopper stemmed from the artist's dislike of the actors?
text: Did you know that Accounting, Organizations and Society is a top academic accounting journal that focuses on the relationship between accounting and both human behaviour and organisations?
text: Did you know that Swedish actor Allan Svensson played Gustav Svensson in the hit comedy series Svensson, Svensson ?
text: Did you know that Mary Babnik Brown was the first woman to have her hair used as crosshairs in military aircraft bombsights ?
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text: Did you know that Sasheer Zamata is the first female black Saturday Night Live cast member hired since the addition of Maya Rudolph ?
text: Did you know that at an early stage in her singing career Celia Cruz was part of the orchestra of the communist Radio Mil Diez ?
text: Did you know that in John Rutter's Latin Magnificat of 1990, the text of the second movement is a poem to Mary, "Of a Rose, a lovely Rose"?
text: Did you know that the proceeds of the 1913 FA Charity Shield football match were donated to the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster Fund?
text: Did you know that the fruit of the Japanese Alpine Cherry can be used to make green dye?
text: Did you know that British architect Richard Feilden was killed by a falling tree whilst creating a woodland memorial for his recently deceased father?
text: Did you know that the Church of St Philip and St James in Norton St Philip was visited by Samuel Pepys ?
text: Did you know that Peruvian politician Jorge del Prado was awarded orders and medals of Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia , East Germany and the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that a sea anemone was discovered mysteriously burrowed into the Ross Ice Shelf in 2010?
text: Did you know that the historic Suding & Soeken building is still home to the paint company that moved there in 1901?
text: Did you know that American astronomer Pamela L. Gay has directed citizen science projects enabling people to help map the surface of the Moon through an online mapping interface?
text: Did you know that a British loudspeaker was called "FRED"?
text: Did you know that traditional shweshwe fabric made in South Africa was previously imported from Europe and popularised by 19th century German settlers and a Sotho king ?
text: Did you know that in addition to owning what would become Breakheart Reservation , Benjamin Newhall Johnson also served as President-General of the Sons of the American Revolution ?
text: Did you know that a directional crisis delayed completion of a Schubert symphony for 191 years?
text: Did you know that after the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim executed his family, al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Maghribi fled to Palestine , where he provoked an uprising of the Bedouin under Muffarij ibn Daghfal ?
text: Did you know that in St Hildeburgh's Church, Hoylake , is a stained glass window depicting a Boy Scout being embraced by an angel?
text: Did you know that Super Bowl XLVIII has been dubbed the Mass Transit Super Bowl ?
text: Did you know that Sainte-Enimie was named after a Merovingian princess after she was cured of leprosy three times in a nearby river?
text: Did you know that China's Premier Li Keqiang and Vice President Li Yuanchao both studied under Li Yining , who is known as "Mr. Stock Market"?
text: Did you know that at the 2005 Genesis pay-per-view event, Christian Cage made his Total Nonstop Action Wrestling debut?
text: Did you know that the song " Horn OK Please " marks the first collaboration between Gulzar and Honey Singh ?
text: Did you know that Peruvian teachers' union leader and former Member of Parliament Óscar Felipe Ventura is a noted saxophone player?
text: Did you know that the Siberian apricot has been studied as a source of biodiesel ?
text: Did you know that The Monitors was the first film production of Chicago's Second City comedy troupe?
text: Did you know that botanist David Moore advised the British Ministry of Defence in their plan to regain the Falkland Islands ?
text: Did you know that the Honduran Patriotic Front , an alliance formed ahead of the 1980s elections, called for an electoral boycott in protest against perceived fraud?
text: Did you know that Lemmons became the "most brilliantly creative household in Britain" in the spring of 1972, when it was home to the families of Kingsley Amis , Elizabeth Jane Howard and Cecil Day-Lewis ?
text: Did you know that the father and mother of Mark Sokolich , mayor of Fort Lee, New Jersey , died when he was 12 and 13 years old, respectively?
text: Did you know that the skink Brachymeles bonitae has tiny legs and a variable number of toes ?
text: Did you know that Bremen's Post Office included paintings of nymphs and a banqueting hall?
text: Did you know that Isaac Collins published the first American family Bible?
text: Did you know that the statues of Ludwig Mond and John Brunner stand next to each other in the grounds of the factory they founded?
text: Did you know that the orchid Dipodium variegatum forms symbiotic relationships with fungi of the genus Russula ?
text: Did you know that exhibits in the Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center include a moonshine still donated by the moonshiner's son?
text: Did you know that the initial design of the Enterprise as seen in Star Trek: Enterprise was inspired by the 2002 Ford Thunderbird ?
text: Did you know that the documentary Craigslist Joe , about a man living off the kindness of strangers, was inspired in 2008 by the Great Recession ?
text: Did you know that residents of Batei Munkacs , a small Hasidic neighborhood in west Jerusalem , were not allowed to shave their beards or sidelocks?
text: Did you know that Gamlingay Cinques Common is a remnant of a much larger heathland which was once visited by Charles Darwin ?
text: Did you know that Total Nonstop Action Wrestling held a match at their Turning Point event that claimed to use barbed wire instead of ring ropes?
text: Did you know that before it was converted to a sewer , locals complained that Philadelphia 's Dock Creek was "offensive and injurious to the Health of the Inhabitants"?
text: Did you know that the Upper Silesian Railway was part of the first rail network connecting Berlin , Vienna , Kraków and Warsaw by the late 1840s?
text: Did you know that The Castle , headquarters of internet company Rackspace , was formerly an enclosed shopping mall that also hosted churches, a nightclub, and hurricane survivors?
text: Did you know that Max Hermann Maxy 's experience in World War I significantly influenced his paintings ?
text: Did you know that two lasting legacies of Boeing 's GAPA missile project were the CIM-10 Bomarc and the BEAC computer?
text: Did you know that on the Gaskell Memorial Tower in Knutsford , Cheshire , are two different depictions of Mrs Gaskell ?
text: Did you know that in 1987 the Peruvian senator Enrique Bernales Ballesteros was appointed as the first United Nations special rapporteur on mercenaries?
text: Did you know that Valley National Bank of Arizona employed a full-time curator to manage the art displayed at all of its 200 branches?
text: Did you know that in 1839, a Chinese official flushed more than 1,000 tons of smuggled opium into the sea , causing the British to declare war ?
text: Did you know that soprano Hannelore Bode appeared in the Bayreuth centenary Jahrhundertring as both Sieglinde and Gutrune?
text: Did you know that with its " New New York " episode, the focus of Glee shifts to New York City for the remainder of the show's fifth season?
text: Did you know that Gerd Larsen made her final appearance with London's Royal Ballet on her 75th birthday, after a career there of over half a century?
text: Did you know that the decree enforcing the 1954 transfer of Crimea from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR was only one paragraph long?
text: Did you know that June Lascelles was an Australian microbiologist who taught and researched into bacteria at Oxford and UCLA ?
text: Did you know that the Coca-Cola 500 was the final NASCAR Winston Cup Series race in Japan?
text: Did you know that Flor de María Rodríguez and her husband revived over 20 Uruguayan folk dances from the colonial period, most of which had been completely forgotten?
text: Did you know that the scheduled release of the Peanuts movie in 2015 would "commemorate the 65th anniversary of the comic strip and the 50th anniversary of the TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas "?
text: Did you know that Margaret Jackson was the first woman to be published in the Alpine Journal under her own name?
text: Did you know that Mr. Hooper was one of the first four human characters to appear on Sesame Street ?
text: Did you know that Paralympian silver medallist Mellissa Dunn now leads her own firm of lawyers?
text: Did you know that the Church of St Nicholas and the Blessed Virgin Mary, Stowey , includes a wall painting of the Last Judgment by Henry Strachey ?
text: Did you know that Kitty Calhoun was the first woman to climb Makalu , the fifth-highest mountain in the world?
text: Did you know that cricketer and Australian rules football pioneer Tom Wills stabbed himself to death with a pair of scissors ?
text: Did you know that a drifter asking, "There's the makers, the takers, and the fakers. Which will you be?" triggered George Herms to pursue life as an artist?
text: Did you know that serial killer Dennis Nilsen attempted to murder a student he met at The Salisbury , London, and went on to murder another 14 young men?
text: Did you know that soprano Norma Sharp performed Mozart's Countess at her debut at La Scala and the voice of the forest bird in Bayreuth ?
text: Did you know that the bootleg recording The Troggs Tapes revitalised The Troggs ' career, and influenced This Is Spinal Tap ?
text: Did you know that Johnny Broderick , a New York City detective for 24 years, inspired the Broadway expression "to broderick", meaning "to knock out with one blow"?
text: Did you know that the MBM scandal led to the creation of the Massachusetts Senate 's Ethics Committee?
text: Did you know that Catherine Clarke Fenselau was the first trained mass spectrometrist on the faculty of an American medical school?
text: Did you know that FS Canis Majoris is a star surrounded by a compact shell of dust ?
text: Did you know that Bajo Stanišić , one of the commanders of the communist-led uprising in Montenegro , switched sides in 1942 to join the Chetniks ?
text: Did you know that the spiritual " Roll, Jordan, Roll " has been cited as the basis of blues ?
text: Did you know that artist Sam Peffer painted covers for the James Bond paperback book series, as well as posters for the films Prisoner of the Cannibal God , and Hussy starring Helen Mirren ?
text: Did you know that Hard Drive Productions, Inc. v. Does 1–1,495 was a case in which BitTorrent users could not legally retain their anonymity after charges of copyright infringement were brought against them?
text: Did you know that members of the Ladies' Alpine Club toasted the Alpine Club at their annual dinner, despite not being permitted to join it?
text: Did you know that late in life, Professor Nils Kock , developer of the Kock pouch , collaborated with Egyptian Professor Mohamed Ghoneim to further develop his techniques in Third World nations?
text: Did you know that Rachel Mahon played the music of Star Wars in "five-inch stiletto heels and blue sequined spandex"?
text: Did you know that the coat of arms of Senegal was designed by a Parisian heraldist in 1965?
text: Did you know that geologist Adolph Knopf frequently collaborated with his wife Eleanora Knopf , but when he worked at Yale University she had to work out of his office because Yale would not hire women?
text: Did you know that Sue Nott was the first American woman to climb the Eiger 's north face in winter?
text: Did you know that the proposed USA Freedom Act , which would undo certain mass surveillance provisions of the Patriot Act , was introduced by Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner , author of the Patriot Act?
text: Did you know that the Spanish hamlet of A Barca is being given away for free?
text: Did you know that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 allows federal courts to order certain state and local governments to have changes to their election laws preapproved by the United States federal government ?
text: Did you know that Swedish fashion model Filippa Lagerbäck has hosted the Italian version of Candid Camera on RAI ?
text: Did you know that the newspaper editor James C. Brown stated that the Mountain Grove Campground was "one of the most delightful resorts in Pennsylvania"?
text: Did you know that Australia's first Playboy centerfold , Karen Pini , also hosted the weekly lotto draw for twelve years?
text: Did you know that Criss Angel has been on primetime television more than any other magician , including his weekly series Criss Angel Mindfreak ?
text: Did you know that the European fan worm has invaded Australia?
text: Did you know that before she died of cancer, art curator Karin Higa was writing her doctoral dissertation entitled Little Tokyo, Los Angeles: Japanese American Art and Visual Culture, 1919–1941 ?
text: Did you know that the upper Oak Creek descent ruts of the Woodbury cutoff are remnants of the Ox Bow Trail of the California Road and were created in 1847–1860?
text: Did you know that opera singer Paul Hansen was also a copper-engraver and silent film star?
text: Did you know that Herman Melville's Captain Ahab was the model for J. M. Barrie 's Captain Hook ?
text: Did you know that the Canada–South Korea Free Trade Agreement will eliminate 98% of all import tariffs between the two countries?
text: Did you know that Ross McEwan , CEO of RBS Group , once the world's largest bank, twice failed an accountancy exam?
text: Did you know that Turkish women's national ice hockey player Gizem Öztaşdelen is a member of her father's club Milenyum Paten SK ?
text: Did you know that Verizon v. FCC (2014) was reported to be the death of network neutrality , having vacated two of the FCC Open Internet Order 2010 's three regulations?
text: Did you know that scientists reported that the moss species Chorisodontium aciphyllum can survive for more than 1,500 years frozen?
text: Did you know that William Henry Collins was simultaneously Director of the Geological Survey of Canada and President of the Geological Society of America ?
text: Did you know that in 2011, Australia's National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research was re-named as the Kirby Institute in honour of former Justice of the High Court Michael Kirby ?
text: Did you know that Hamburg Ballet 's principal Hélène Bouchet wore a gypsy dress when she danced in Mougins , with her sister on violin ?
text: Did you know that Govaert Flinck 's painting A Young Archer was for many years thought to have been painted by Rembrandt ?
text: Did you know that Kirsty Martin was the first Australian to win the Prix Benois de la Danse ?
text: Did you know that the Foldscope , a microscope made out of cardstock that costs under US$1, was designed to help detect 12 disease-causing organisms?
text: Did you know that Asare Akuffo is the lead advocate of all Ghanaian businesses because of the Private Enterprise Foundation ?
text: Did you know that after the U.S. Supreme Court declared school segregation unlawful , a segregated school in Tennessee received new kitchen equipment for use in classes that trained black girls to work as servants?
text: Did you know that Dominique Khalfouni , once a star ( étoile ) of the Paris Opera Ballet , regretted her decision to leave the company she still loves deeply?
text: Did you know that Israeli-American artist Dorit Cypis moved to Minneapolis because she "wasn't interested in and [was] disoriented" by the consumerism she experienced in Los Angeles ?
text: Did you know that Ricky Martin 's 1999 eponymous studio album sold over 22 million copies worldwide?
text: Did you know that German POWs , held in Camp Aliceville during World War II , could take courses taught by University of Alabama faculty and receive credit recognized by the Nazi Reich Ministry of Education ?
text: Did you know that American Paralympian Stephanie Jallen hops?
text: Did you know that soprano Nadine Secunde was praised for "formidable acting skills" in the title role of Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk ?
text: Did you know that mountaineers Anna and Ellen Pigeon made their most famous traverse in the Swiss Alps by mistake?
text: Did you know that Kiesza gave away 4,500 CDs to Canadian troops serving in Afghanistan?
text: Did you know that when invited to lunch at the Bank of England , the economist Adam Ridley arrived by motorcycle?
text: Did you know that the starfish Trophodiscus almus is unusual in brooding its young on its upper surface?
text: Did you know that Spanish ballet dancer Lucia Lacarra stated, "I love to do bad stuff! I don't want to get typecast in goody roles"?
text: Did you know that the group Pareiasauromorpha includes parareptiles that lived from 271 to 252 million years ago?
text: Did you know that DJ Cassidy 's forthcoming album aims to "bring back the greatest and most universal dance music of all time"?
text: Did you know that reported cases of rape in Belgium increased by 20% in just two years, from 2009 to 2011?
text: Did you know that Ben Sneesby survived childhood cancer and went on to compete at the Paralympics for Great Britain?
text: Did you know that when tulips reached Antwerp in 1562, they were mistaken for vegetables?
text: Did you know that John "Tacks" Neuer is the only person to pitch a shutout in both his Major League Baseball debut and his final game?
text: Did you know that Otaniemi Chapel was destroyed by arson in 1976 but rebuilt to its original form two years later?
text: Did you know that aged 15 and never having seen a live opera, Alessandra Marianelli placed second in the Cascinalirica singing competition and made her professional opera debut the following year?
text: Did you know that RPCS3 is a video game console emulator that can allow certain PlayStation 3 games to be played on a computer?
text: Did you know that the stubby squid uses a jet of water and its arms to bury itself?
text: Did you know that the Neon Jungle song " Trouble " has been described as the "in-your-face feistiness of the Spice Girls with the turbo-charged EDM pop of Icona Pop "?
text: Did you know that Adeyinka Gladys Falusi of Nigeria is a L'Oréal-UNESCO laureate for her molecular genetics research into hereditary blood disorders such as sickle-cell disease and alpha-thalassemia ?
text: Did you know that the Church of St Peter and St Paul in Wincanton includes a memorial to Nathaniel Ireson which he sculpted himself?
text: Did you know that Mary Birdsall bought the newspaper that popularized bloomers ?
text: Did you know that a jet from one of the component stars of Z Canis Majoris is over 11 light-years long?
text: Did you know that development of The Oval was objected to because of fears that The Oval Gasholders might explode?
text: Did you know that Kenneth Fleenor , who spent over five years as a POW after his F-4 was shot down over North Vietnam , had helped the U. S. Air Force integrate the F-4 into its inventory?
text: Did you know that in an editorial in Kudi Arasu , Periyar criticised Mahatma Gandhi for Bhagat Singh 's death?
text: Did you know that the reverse jewel squid has bright eyes and an indigestible beak ?
text: Did you know that there are four blue stragglers in Caroline's Cluster ?
text: Did you know that Hilda Rix Nicholas painted Desolation when her husband was shot dead 38 days after they were married?
text: Did you know that for his work on The Drew Carey Show episode " Drew's in a Coma ", editor John Fuller earned a Creative Arts Emmy Award nomination?
text: Did you know that Joo-won Kim and Ji-Young Kim , once rival ballerinas from the Korean National Ballet , are collaborating on a piece which incorporates tango , flamenco , ballet and contemporary dance ?
text: Did you know that an amorous male box jellyfish Copula sivickisi courts his selected mate and passes her a bundle of sperm ?
text: Did you know that Oregon governor Ted Kulongoski demanded that George H. Taylor , head of the Oregon Climate Service, stop representing himself as the "Oregon State Climatologist"?
text: Did you know that in her seventies, María Nieves was dancing the tango in the West End in 2010?
text: Did you know that if you killed your parents in ancient Rome , you might be sewn into a leather sack with a monkey, a rooster, a dog and a snake?
text: Did you know that on March 5, the Israeli Navy boarded the Klos C cargo ship and found a hidden stash of weapons, which the Israelis accused Iran of shipping to militants in the Gaza Strip ?
text: Did you know that Mary Lura Sherrill is one of three women from the same research group who have independently won the Garvan Medal for women in chemistry?
text: Did you know that the premise of The Bells of Saint John was "to get kids frightened of Wi-Fi"?
text: Did you know that Galak-Z: The Dimensional 's art style draws from anime influences, including Ichiro Itano 's signature Macross series "Itano Circus" missile fusillade?
text: Did you know that Irénée Berge composed the opera Corsica and silent film music?
text: Did you know that Yavuz Yapıcıoğlu , nicknamed the "Screwdriver Killer", is the serial killer with the highest known victim count in Turkey ?
text: Did you know that the musical From Here to Eternity is based on the uncensored version of James Jones 's 1951 novel ?
text: Did you know that Hemant Mehta , the "Friendly Atheist" who sold his soul on eBay , raised money to clean up a vandalized church?
text: Did you know that Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue in the Portland metropolitan area is the second largest fire department in Oregon ?
text: Did you know that Adena Springs , a race horse breeding operation owned by Frank Stronach , won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Breeder seven times?
text: Did you know that Cason Crane was the first openly gay man to climb the Seven Summits ?
text: Did you know that Sony and Panasonic 's new optical disc format, Archival Disc , is planned to eventually be able to store one terabyte of data?
text: Did you know that chemist Pauline Gracia Beery Mack was the first woman to win the Silver Snoopy award ?
text: Did you know that the only United Nations cemetery in the world is in Busan, South Korea ?
text: Did you know that gastroenterologist Clare O'Leary , the first Irish woman to climb Mount Everest , had to cancel her first attempt due to a case of gastroenteritis ?
text: Did you know that Scott Wagner won a special election to the Pennsylvania State Senate as a write-in candidate ?
text: Did you know that Wolf Point South Tower is a 950-foot (289.6 m) mixed use building under construction on historic property next to the Chicago River that is owned by the Kennedy family ?
text: Did you know that the Milwaukee Brewers rescued a stray dog in Phoenix, Arizona , and named him Hank , after Hank Aaron ?
text: Did you know that the 2008 TNA World X Cup Tournament concluded at TNA 's Victory Road pay-per-view event?
text: Did you know that Julie Makani won the Royal Society Pfizer Award for her research into sickle cell disease in Tanzania ?
text: Did you know that according to a U.S. Federal court opinion , Kodak Imaging Network was not liable for copyright infringement , as it relied on an automated photofinishing process?
text: Did you know that the founding conference of the All People's Party in Assam unanimously elected the Muslim League leader Muhammed Saadulah as the chairman of their party?
text: Did you know that Akhmad Bassah was best known by his adopted daughter's name?
text: Did you know that Czech poet Antonín Sova gained national fame for answering Theodor Mommsen 's letter in verse , calling the German historian a "covetous dotard" and "arrogant spokesman of slavery"?
text: Did you know that Megadeth was temporarily disbanded in 2002 because of frontman Dave Mustaine 's arm injury?
text: Did you know that Margit Oelsner-Baumatz was the first female rabbi ordained in Argentina ?
text: Did you know that the Szombierki Heat Power Station is considered to be one of the "Seven Architectural Wonders of the Silesian Voivodeship "?
text: Did you know that St. Marks Presbyterian Church in Rogersville, Tennessee , was built in 1912 with separate entrances for men and women?
text: Did you know that the furry sea cucumber can speed along at nearly two metres a minute (6 ft/min)?
text: Did you know that Beryl Platt helped design and test three WWII fighter planes: the Hurricane , the Typhoon , and the Tempest V ?
text: Did you know that 29 inmates escaped from Metris Prison in Istanbul through a self-built tunnel while the prison was still under military administration?
text: Did you know that during races, Ryan Reed would monitor his blood sugar levels?
text: Did you know that Flotilla 's development was influenced by cats and board games ?
text: Did you know that the creator of Flappy Bird received death threats after pulling it?
text: Did you know that Canadian novelist Marsha Canham became inspired to write Through a Dark Mist after experiencing a recurring dream of two men disguised as monks rescuing a damsel in distress ?
text: Did you know that in Craigslist v. 3Taps , Craigslist sued PadMapper for screen scraping Craigslist listings?
text: Did you know that Liu Shiduan used secret kung-fu techniques to make himself invulnerable and was executed for an anti- Christian incident in which he didn't take part?
text: Did you know that the orangeback squid can fly?
text: Did you know that Australornis is the first early Paleocene bird fossil discovered from New Zealand that is not a penguin ?
text: Did you know that Hilda Vaughan 's novella A Thing of Nought was such a commercial success that it went out of print within four days of publication?
text: Did you know that Professor Karimat El-Sayed learnt how to balance her scientific ambitions and her family life from Kathleen Lonsdale ?
text: Did you know that the Ecclesiastical Confiscations of Mendizábal led to the abandonment of the Monastery of San Isidro de Loriana , a Spanish Bien de Interés Cultural ?
text: Did you know that 28-time Danish tennis champion and Olympian Einer Ulrich was the grandfather of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich ?
text: Did you know that in 1848 Gustav, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg responded to a petition put forth by his people and emancipated Homberg's Jewish population?
text: Did you know that Hugh Wheeler 's Big Fish, Little Fish (1961) was one of the first Broadway plays to explore the theme of homosexuality in a sensitive and honest way?
text: Did you know that Madame Tussauds displayed models of the four people accused of the murder of Harriet Staunton in 1877?
text: Did you know that the Gotham City seen in Batman: Arkham City was redesigned for Batman: Arkham Knight , to allow space for the Batmobile , drivable for the first time in the Arkham series ?
text: Did you know that Mac Creiche , an early Irish saint, may have originally been a pagan hero?
text: Did you know that pathologist Frieda Robscheit-Robbins did not share her male research partner 's 1934 Nobel Prize , but he shared the prize money with her?
text: Did you know that welding by James Shaw's company in Whitemore, Tasmania used to disrupt local radio reception?
text: Did you know that for Glee 's 100th episode , the public voted to select which songs previously featured on the show would be performed in new cover versions?
text: Did you know that when Danielle Fisher finished climbing the Seven Summits at the age of 20 years, she became the youngest American to do so at the time?
text: Did you know that twenty colonies of West Indian drywood termite were found living in a single door?
text: Did you know that the Macedonian folk instrument kemane is usually used to accompany traditional epic poetry and rarely used as a solo instrument?
text: Did you know that Air Commodore Chris Luck , the current Commandant of RAF College Cranwell , was the first non-American to attend the USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies ?
text: Did you know that the multimedia project I, Too, Am Harvard seeks to express the personal experiences of black students at Harvard ?
text: Did you know that Mary Wigman said that Dore Hoyer was "Europe's last great modern dancer"?
text: Did you know that al-Malayin was the first Egyptian communist newspaper that dedicated space for sports and culture?
text: Did you know that the Odeon, Kingstanding , has been described as "one of the best surviving examples of Odeon cinemas in Britain"?
text: Did you know that the international success of Colombian singer songwriter Shakira 's English-language debut album Laundry Service led to a critic deeming her the "biggest female crossover artist since Jennifer Lopez "?
text: Did you know that political editor Marie Simonsen has voiced concern that many women may avoid public debate because they are more likely to experience grave cyberbullying than men are?
text: Did you know that, in a unanimous decision in 1979 , the U.S. Supreme Court held that complaints by a teacher that her principal described as "petty and unreasonable demands" were protected free speech ?
text: Did you know that Dan Burros , head of security for the neo-Nazi National Renaissance Party , committed suicide in 1965 just hours after The New York Times revealed that he was Jewish?
text: Did you know that Nikki Bart and her mother Cheryl were the first mother-daughter team to summit Mount Everest ?
text: Did you know that the song " Run, Nigger, Run ", used in the film 12 Years a Slave as a taunt, was originally used to encourage slaves to escape?
text: Did you know that Parasakthi , directed by Krishnan-Panju , influenced the emergence of the regional party, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam , as a political force in Tamil Nadu ?
text: Did you know that Mayor of Calgary Silas Alexander Ramsay was a member of the Calgary Rifle Club?
text: Did you know that the Wan King Path was listed as one of the 100 rudest place names in the world?
text: Did you know that Helen M. Roberts mentored Barack Obama, Sr. , and helped his family in Kenya with finances while he was a student at the University of Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that the completion of the armoured cruiser HMS Euryalus was severely delayed by multiple accidents including a fire, slipping off her blocks in drydock , and colliding with another vessel?
text: Did you know that Joseph Patrick was the fifth member of his family to be inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that a study by two UCLA sociologists found that the 1990 film Come See the Paradise was the most blatant Oscar bait released since 1985?
text: Did you know that Samuel Johnson boasted that he once knocked publisher Thomas Osborne to the ground with a heavy folio ?
text: Did you know that in the beat 'em up video game Charlie Murder , players fight ninjas, giant rats, yetis, and sharks with dynamite strapped to their heads?
text: Did you know that soprano Lucy Crowe , performing Janáček's Cunning Little Vixen at the Glyndebourne Festival , was described as "a powerhouse of foxy ingenuity"?
text: Did you know that when the poodle Afterglow Maverick Sabre won Crufts in 2014, he was competing against an American Cocker Spaniel from the same kennel?
text: Did you know that The Lily newspaper was "published by a committee of ladies" in 1849?
text: Did you know that Mobhí Clárainech , whose surname means "flat faced" in Irish , was born without eyes or a nose?
text: Did you know that during World War II , Colonel Elmer E. Kirkpatrick worked on the Alaska Highway , the Canol project, and the Manhattan Project ?
text: Did you know that the Australian jumper ant Myrmecia nigrocincta is an accomplished jumper with leaps ranging from 3 to 4 inches (76 to 102 mm)?
text: Did you know that Walt Disney died during the production of his last film, The Jungle Book ?
text: Did you know that Akiko Kobayashi got the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science for creating a material that is both organic and metallic?
text: Did you know that both the all-time youngest and oldest Olympic competitors from El Salvador competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City ?
text: Did you know that when Jess Roskelley reached the summit of Mount Everest at the age of 20, he became the youngest American to do so?
text: Did you know that one Bulgarian historian believed that Skanderbeg was a sanjakbey of the Sanjak of Nicopolis ?
text: Did you know that Olga Smirnova spent just one day in the Bolshoi 's corps de ballet before being given solos?
text: Did you know that a 1963 bus crash in California's Salinas Valley , which claimed the lives of 32 Mexican farmworkers, highlighted unsafe conditions and helped to spur the end of a 20-year-old guest worker program ?
text: Did you know that a fellow academic described the historian Richard Cobb as "a Parisian street urchin"?
text: Did you know that Anjuli Shukla was the first woman to be awarded the National Film Award for Best Cinematography ?
text: Did you know that " Guardian " is the base substrate for polymer banknotes printed by many central banks ?
text: Did you know that Szlama Ber Winer escaped the work commando at Chełmno extermination camp and managed to write a report about his experience soon before death with family in the gas chambers of Bełżec ?
text: Did you know that " Drive " by Miley Cyrus was noted by a reviewer for its "wobbling beat"?
text: Did you know that Paula Hinton danced in a ballet about a love triangle , based on the real-life triangle involving the same three dancers?
text: Did you know that Kalidas (1931) was the first ever sound film to be made in South India ?
text: Did you know that the Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey episode " Standing Up in the Milky Way " was opened with a brief introduction by the President of the United States Barack Obama ?
text: Did you know that the LG G Flex has a special camera mode for taking selfies ?
text: Did you know that Lydia Bradey was the first woman to climb to the summit of Mount Everest without using bottled oxygen ?
text: Did you know that Dysoxylum parasiticum was named in the mistaken belief that it was parasitic?
text: Did you know that Ken Block , who founded the Moderate Party of Rhode Island and was its nominee for Governor of Rhode Island in 2010 , is running in the 2014 election as a Republican ?
text: Did you know that literature theoretician Paulina Lebl-Albala was co-founder and president of the Yugoslav Association of University-Educated Women?
text: Did you know that the book Tell The Wolves I'm Home follows the life of a girl whose uncle died of AIDS in the 1980s?
text: Did you know that Gloria Mestre was the Prima ballerina assoluta at the San Carlo Opera House in Naples ?
text: Did you know that Jerusalem's Zion Square has been described as "always crowded, always crazy"?
text: Did you know that Marte Wexelsen Goksøyr , who has Down's syndrome , wore a T-shirt saying "Endangered" in the Parliament of Norway to protest against Norwegian mothers being offered early ultrasonography ?
text: Did you know that four of the midshipmen aboard HMS Good Hope became the first casualties of the Royal Canadian Navy when she sank in the Battle of Coronel ?
text: Did you know that The Scotsman called Jocelyn Hay , founder of the Voice of the Listener & Viewer , "possibly the best lobbyist in the whole UK"?
text: Did you know that " The Quality of Mercy " speech in which Portia begs Shylock for mercy in William Shakespeare 's The Merchant of Venice is regarded as an exemplary speech by some and dark humor by others?
text: Did you know that 2014 Winter Paralympics skier Mick Brennan was placed 10th in the Super G , but withdrew from the downhill race, calling the course "scary"?
text: Did you know that Antonina Roxa was one of the first Falkland Islanders , a skilled gaucho and midwife who became a landowner in Stanley in the Falkland Islands ?
text: Did you know that Penelope Spencer created dances and choruses for the Glastonbury Festival in 1921?
text: Did you know that The Drew Carey Show episode " The High Road to China " marked the first time an American sitcom had been filmed in China?
text: Did you know that Apurba Kishore Bir won the National Film Award for Best Cinematography for his debut film 27 Down that he shot mainly with a hand-held camera ?
text: Did you know that the four member stars of the QZ Carinae star system are (combined) 94 times as massive as our Sun ?
text: Did you know that Charity Bick was the youngest ever recipient of the George Medal?
text: Did you know that the musical repertoire of the Macedonian folk instrument Šupelka consists mainly of imitating the sounds of other instruments used in Macedonian traditional music ?
text: Did you know that Mahmona Khan was one of two Norwegian representatives at the first Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship ?
text: Did you know that Armenian-American professor Levon Marashlian once stated that "those who today deny the Armenian Genocide are resorting to academically unsound revisionism"?
text: Did you know that there are different designs of snow shovels for shovelling and pushing different types of snow?
text: Did you know that U. Penn. denied Ezra Pound 's PhD twice: once for wasting time and again 12 years later when he tried to use The Spirit of Romance , a collection of literary criticism, as his dissertation?
text: Did you know that more than 90 species of birds breed within the watershed of Briar Creek ?
text: Did you know that in 1942, S.K. Limaye was expelled from the Communist Party of India for having refused to support the British war effort?
text: Did you know that the oak tree under which Goethe allegedly wrote Faust ' s Walpurgis Night scene stood inside Buchenwald concentration camp and was sketched by French Volontaires de la Liberté member and camp inmate Léon Delarbre ?
text: Did you know that Tobias Arlt and Tobias Wendl , who won four Olympic golds between them, are nicknamed "The Two Tobis"?
text: Did you know that Dick Magruder was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives at the age of 23 and came within one vote of being elected speaker before he was killed in a farm accident at the age of 31?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Thad was the worst storm to strike Japan in two years?
text: Did you know that Fred VanVleet was the only basketball player in the national class of 2012 Rivals.com top 150 to attend a Missouri Valley Conference school?
text: Did you know that the documentary film Artifact chronicles the $30-million lawsuit filed by record label EMI against American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars ?
text: Did you know that Simone Osborne , "one of Canada's most sought-after sopranos", busked on Toronto's streets to afford singing lessons?
text: Did you know that Jarmila Jeřábková 's school of dance in Prague taught the theories of Isadora Duncan ?
text: Did you know that England's Fred Trueman has the third-highest number of five-wicket hauls against the West Indies ?
text: Did you know that the Duchess of Devonshire , who in 1909 founded the Derbyshire branch of the Red Cross , later served as Viceregal consort of Canada from 1916 to 1921?
text: Did you know that following the passage of the 1815 North Carolina hurricane , a Savannah, Georgia , newspaper editor composed a poem lamenting its impact?
text: Did you know that actor S Waldy ran away from home to join the theatre even though his parents were actors?
text: Did you know that the time of Swedish rule in Estonia is sometimes referred to as the "good old Swedish times" in Estonia?
text: Did you know that the Women's Premiership currently comprises Bristol Ladies , Darlington Mowden Park Sharks , Lichfield Ladies , Richmond Women , Saracens Women , Wasps Ladies , Worcester Ladies and Aylesford Bulls Ladies , after having defeated Thurrock T-Birds in a playoff?
text: Did you know that Général de Brigade Henri Vanwaetermeulen began his career in the French Army as a private soldier ?
text: Did you know that a two-and-a-half-hour film of Anachronox ' s cut scenes won the 2002 Machinima Film Festival for Best Picture ?
text: Did you know that, after losing a child, journalist and author Mrs. C. S. Peel abandoned writing to sell hats, but started up again after ill health forced her to close her shop?
text: Did you know that San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim plays bass guitar, and her favorite song is by the Wu-Tang Clan ?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Andy left nearly a quarter of Taiwan 's residents without power?
text: Did you know that Kevin Lau was violently assaulted just one week after Hong Kong journalists rallied for press freedom and against his removal as editor of the Ming Pao ?
text: Did you know that when the Kamgar Kisan Paksha was split on the issue of its relationship to the Communist Party of India , its two elected representatives led opposite factions?
text: Did you know that the second fastest Blackwall Frigate that carried wool back from Australia was the Parramatta ?
text: Did you know that Swan Lake was shown live in 100 French cinemas, with Steffi Scherzer , a dancer of the Berlin State Opera for 28 years, in the double role of Odette/Odile?
text: Did you know that Rome & Jewel is a hip-hop musical adaptation of William Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet set in Los Angeles?
text: Did you know that when George Bright was acquitted and freed in 1959 after his second trial for the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple bombing , his lawyer was jailed by the judge for contempt of court ?
text: Did you know that Rhodes Scholar candidate Dave Butler played college basketball and was named to the Pacific-12 Conference Hall of Honor ?
text: Did you know that the fossil ant Aphaenogaster donisthorpei was once part of the Samuel Hubbard Scudder insect collection?
text: Did you know that during the 1806 Great Coastal hurricane , an estimated 36 inches (91 cm) of rain fell on Edgartown, Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know that Rajani Pandit , regarded as Maharashtra's first female private detective , reportedly worked undercover as domestic help for six months while solving a case?
text: Did you know that British broadcasters prevented television listings website TVGuide.co.uk from deep linking to their video content?
text: Did you know that Marie Meurdrac 's 1656 book on Useful and Easy Chemistry, for the Benefit of Ladies had ten editions in three languages?
text: Did you know that the Una -class submarines were midgets?
text: Did you know that Millie Knight , the youngest ever British Paralympic athlete, was the flagbearer at the 2014 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony?
text: Did you know that the government of China has installed over 20 million surveillance cameras across the nation?
text: Did you know that Senegalese communist leader Seydou Cissokho died in Moscow while visiting the 1986 congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that a space-grade version of the NEC V70 microprocessor was in the main computer module of the Japanese H-IIA launch vehicles?
text: Did you know that Prince of Wales F.C. was one of the first civilian football clubs in Gibraltar?
text: Did you know that the Deery Inn avoided destruction in the American Civil War because its proprietor used bribery to secure its protection?
text: Did you know that owing to Robbie Robertson , " Take Your Partner by the Hand " is the only song on Turn the Dark Off with coherent vocals?
text: Did you know that Edith Humphrey is thought to be the first British woman to obtain a doctorate in chemistry, in 1901?
text: Did you know that Iron Man 3 grossed over $1 billion?
text: Did you know that Henriette Schønberg Erken 's Big Cookbook sold more than 200,000 copies, and her Small Cookbook sold about 100,000 copies?
text: Did you know that the riches from the capture of the Madre de Deus at the Battle of Flores were nearly half the wealth of England's treasury?
text: Did you know that screenwriter Olivia Hetreed gained access to Tracy Chevalier 's novel Girl with a Pearl Earring shortly before its publication because they shared the same agent?
text: Did you know that visitors can walk through Trentham Monkey Forest in Staffordshire without any barriers between them and the 140 Barbary macaques that live there?
text: Did you know that the 2003 period drama Girl with a Pearl Earring was originally meant to feature Kate Hudson before she was replaced with Scarlett Johansson ?
text: Did you know that in reviewing Jane Ridley 's biography of " Bertie ", A. N. Wilson wrote that "royal biography will never be the same again"?
text: Did you know that before it was added to the National Register of Historic Places , Edith Marion Patch 's house nearly went up in flames?
text: Did you know that the black hole inside RX J1131 was the first black hole to have its spin directly measured?
text: Did you know that the musical Made in Dagenham is based on the true story of the Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968 ?
text: Did you know that P-9 Project was the codename for the Manhattan Project 's effort to produce heavy water for nuclear reactors?
text: Did you know that car-owning Mrs Edward Kennard wrote The Motor Maniac , which was said to be exasperating for readers who did not own an automobile?
text: Did you know that Karin Rehnqvist composed Puksånger & lockrop for singers Susanne Rosenberg and Lena Willemark , in which a section of kulning (cattle calling) "represents a rebellion"?
text: Did you know that Miguel Delibes was once the director of El Norte de Castilla ?
text: Did you know that Paralympian James Whitley has been skiing since he was four years old?
text: Did you know that Barack Obama addressed the German public, seeking to mend relations described as "worse than ... the low-point in 2003 during the Iraq War" due to mass surveillance charges?
text: Did you know that Bexhill Museum refused to accept a portrait of its principal founder after she died?
text: Did you know that Northern Irish ex-MP Bernadette Devlin and Peruvian MP Hugo Blanco took part in the 1980 election campaign of the Catalan Unity for Socialism ?
text: Did you know that Maria Komissarova was the first-ever woman to win a World Cup medal for Russia in the ski cross ?
text: Did you know that the Huxley Hoard , discovered near Huxley, Cheshire in 2004 and now on display at the Museum of Liverpool , consists of 21 flattened silver bracelets and one silver ingot?
text: Did you know that Angela Stent is on the advisory committee of Women in International Security, an organization dedicated to promoting women's careers in the field of national security?
text: Did you know that the golf course in Gura, Eritrea allowed players to lift their golf balls from bomb craters and trenches without penalty?
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text: Did you know that Vancouver mayor Alexander Bethune was a founder and member of the local Asiatic Exclusion League ?
text: Did you know that Tan Tjoei Hock held four roles in the production of the pirate film Singa Laoet ?
text: Did you know that María Ruanova was the first Argentine international ballet dancer who learnt to dance in Argentina?
text: Did you know that Vivian Wing-Wah Yam was the youngest member to be elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences ?
text: Did you know that the wasp Eumenes fraternus is a skilled potter?
text: Did you know that during their Welcome to the Universe Tour , Thirty Seconds to Mars developed strategies that minimized fuel consumption of all touring vehicles?
text: Did you know that infectious disease specialist Mark Crislip has won three Podcast Awards for his show QuackCast ?
text: Did you know that the Nokia Lumia 505 was originally a Telcel exclusive device in Mexico before being released in Colombia , Chile , and Peru on Claro Americas ?
text: Did you know that Mendel Peterson was known as the father of underwater archeology and has an island in the Antarctic named after him?
text: Did you know that the Invictus Games , named after the poem by William Ernest Henley , are a Paralympic -style multi-sports event for wounded service personnel?
text: Did you know that J. S. Wood published The Fate of Fenella , a novel by twenty-four writers without any collaboration?
text: Did you know that Alfred Dörffel edited several volumes of the first complete edition of the Works of Johann Sebastian Bach by the Bach Gesellschaft , beginning with cantatas in 1878 and ending in 1898?
text: Did you know that at least 128 athletes have participated in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games ?
text: Did you know that gold medal-winning sit-skier Marit Ruth has devised a Segway-based vehicle that can be used by people without legs?
text: Did you know that screenwriter Chris Galletta sold his first screenplay before graduating from film school?
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text: Did you know that Agnes Abuom is the first woman and the first African to be moderator of the World Council of Churches Central Committee?
text: Did you know that Trish Halpin won Editor of the Year awards three times?
text: Did you know that long after suffering serial forced displacement as a child in Johannesburg, Emma Mashinini became a Commissioner for Restitution of Land Rights?
text: Did you know that Nalini Anantharaman won a Mathematical Physics prize for her work on quantum chaos , Schrödinger equations and quantum unique ergodicity ?
text: Did you know that Romantic period writer Sophie Tieck was overshadowed by her brother ?
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text: Did you know that Cordelia E. Cook , the first woman to receive the Bronze Star Medal , was also awarded the Purple Heart ?
text: Did you know that before entering into films, Sharada Ramanathan was working as a cultural activist?
text: Did you know that in 2001, Ewa Ziarek wrote the book An Ethics of Dissensus ?
text: Did you know that runner Marie Dollinger represented Germany in three Olympic Games, broke Olympic records and set a world record, but never won an Olympic medal?
text: Did you know that Australian artist Dorrit Black was influenced by the Modernist and Cubist art movements because of her studies in London and Paris?
text: Did you know that Soerip went from "Miss" to "Grandmother" in between films?
text: Did you know that Helen Fraser was the first woman to be adopted as an official party candidate for parliament from Scotland?
text: Did you know that many prominent people, including Albert Einstein , attended meetings at Berta Fanta 's salon ?
text: Did you know that Shirley Chater was a nurse and university president before becoming U.S. Commissioner of Social Security ?
text: Did you know that screenwriter Mary Agnes Donoghue was fired from the 1988 film Beaches by the director Garry Marshall and rehired after less than a month?
text: Did you know that in England, women found guilty of high treason , petty treason and heresy , were burnt at the stake , sometimes alive?
text: Did you know that cell biologist Rachael Dunlop and her colleagues discovered how an amino acid produced by blue-green algae might trigger the onset of ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease)?
text: Did you know that Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (1850–1936), painter of the The First Thanksgiving , was a " New Woman " painter and considered "one of America's best artists"?
text: Did you know that after the last Paralympics , Oleksandra Kononova became the Ukrainian sports personality of the year?
text: Did you know that Birgit Keil , prima ballerina of the Stuttgart Ballet under John Cranko , inspired international choreographers such as Kenneth MacMillan , John Neumeier and Heinz Spoerli ?
text: Did you know that Spanish artist Glòria Muñoz uses the chapel of an abandoned convent as her studio?
text: Did you know that Aaron Burr was caught in the 1804 Antigua–Charleston hurricane while hiding from federal officials?
text: Did you know that the "Four jewels of Cuban ballet" included Aurora Bosch and Mirta Plá ?
text: Did you know that HMS Vindictive served as four different types of ship?
text: Did you know that Alfreda Markowska , a Polska Roma , was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta for saving Jewish and Roma children from death in the Holocaust and the Porajmos during World War II?
text: Did you know that student tradition at Rutgers University says that a bronze statue of William the Silent will whistle if a virgin happens to pass by?
text: Did you know that on Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf , Berlin celebrities are buried in forest landscape, including chancellor Willy Brandt and ballet dancer Tatjana Gsovsky ?
text: Did you know that the National Commission for Civic Education , in collaboration with the GILLBT , has translated the Constitution of Ghana into 30 Ghanaian languages?
text: Did you know that the episode " Fly Away " from the television series The Following received the series' lowest ratings ever?
text: Did you know that the Garrick Theatre fire killed eight young girls in 1916?
text: Did you know that former Macedonian ambassador Ljubica Acevska 's male aide was so often assumed to be the ambassador, she said, "I should wear a sash like Miss America saying, 'I'm the Ambassador ' "?
text: Did you know that Emery Emery contributed to The Atheist's Guide to Christmas and edited the documentary The Aristocrats ?
text: Did you know that proneural genes are partially responsible for differentiation of ectodermal cells into neural or epidermal cells during embryonic development?
text: Did you know that John Medley , the first Bishop of Fredericton , was the first Tractarian bishop in the Church of England ?
text: Did you know that after the February 2014 suicide bombing of a tourist bus in Taba , Ansar Bait al-Maqdis threatened to attack tourists who did not leave Egypt within four days?
text: Did you know that Arnau Cadell , sculptor of the Monastery of Sant Cugat , was the first Catalan artist to be known by both first and last name?
text: Did you know that Admiral Yuriy Ilyin served as the Ukrainian Chief of the General Staff for only ten days before being dismissed by interim President Alexander Turchynov ?
text: Did you know that in 2012, the Netherlands became the first European country to implement a net neutrality law ?
text: Did you know that Loipa Araújo , the "Cuban muse of Marseille ", was a ballerina ?
text: Did you know that Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos went missing months apart after being arrested by the same police officer but never made it to jail?
text: Did you know that the 1878 FA Cup Final did have a Bastard in the black?
text: Did you know that Lou is the 229th most common surname in China, while Lou is the 269th?
text: Did you know that in the video game Blood Knights , players can transfer blood between the two playable characters, healing one at the expense of the other?
text: Did you know that Pseudophilautus hypomelas , a small shrub frog not seen for more than 130 years and believed to be extinct , was rediscovered in the Peak Wilderness of Sri Lanka ?
text: Did you know that Lyon Opera Ballet ballerina Susana Agüero returned to Buenos Aires when she had eyesight problems?
text: Did you know that the story of " Last Gasp ", the fourth episode of British dark comedy series Inside No. 9 , was inspired by a collection of apparently empty jars?
text: Did you know that the opossum shrimp Neomysis integer inhabits both low salinity estuaries and high salinity pools on the foreshore?
text: Did you know that Hanpu , who came from the Korean peninsula , married a Jurchen woman, and that their descendants, the emperors of the Jin dynasty , conquered all of north China in the 1120s?
text: Did you know that Muneer Awad successfully sued the state of Oklahoma to prevent it from forbidding state judges to decide cases using Islamic law ?
text: Did you know that the first football match in the Philippines was held in 1907?
text: Did you know that during the American Civil War , Henry du Pont had future U.S. Senator Thomas F. Bayard placed under arrest on suspicion of pro- Confederate activities?
text: Did you know that Debbi reached the top of the Czech charts with her debut album?
text: Did you know that former Florida Speaker of the House H. Lee Moffitt helped found a comprehensive cancer treatment center in Florida, named in his honor?
text: Did you know that when HMS Cressy was sunk, 560 men were killed?
text: Did you know that Argentine tango dancer Carmencita Calderón performed the milonga at her 100th birthday celebration?
text: Did you know that by 2004, counterfeit $20 banknotes of the Birds of Canada series represented nearly 65% of all counterfeit currency in Canada?
text: Did you know that support for the free association movement in Puerto Rico expanded by a hundredfold in 14 years?
text: Did you know that Beatrix Miller , the editor of British Vogue from 1964 to 1985, had previously worked for MI6 ?
text: Did you know that only one pilot from the Czechoslovak Air Force has ever shot down an enemy plane?
text: Did you know that the inclusion of Basil D'Oliveira in the England cricket team caused the cancellation of its 1968–69 tour of South Africa?
text: Did you know that the Church of the Madonna dell'Archetto may be the smallest church in Rome ?
text: Did you know that ballerina Josefina Méndez made her debut performance with the Cuban National Ballet in 1955 in Swan Lake in the role of a man?
text: Did you know that a white oak tree with a trunk circumference of over 26 feet (7.9 m) grew near Wolf Run until it was cut down in 1852?
text: Did you know that Jennie Patrick , a woman who was told she did not belong at Berkeley in the 1970s, received the Outstanding Women in Science and Engineering Award in 1980?
text: Did you know that Gibraltar is not allowed to play Spain at the UEFA Euro 2016 qualifiers due to political reasons?
text: Did you know that there were actually 40 variants of the " One Ring " designed by Jens Hoyer Hansen for use in shooting The Lord of the Rings films?
text: Did you know that Canadian mining companies sued author Alain Deneault over his book about Canadian mining activities in Africa?
text: Did you know that The Saguache Crescent might be the last newspaper in the world to use linotype ?
text: Did you know that two-time Olympic gold medalist Carli Lloyd is the only player to score the game-winning goal in two consecutive Olympic gold medal soccer matches?
text: Did you know that the first live episode of the American sitcom The Drew Carey Show was performed three times, once for each of three different time zones?
text: Did you know that in reply to The Woman Who Did , a novel about a New Woman , Mrs. Lovett Cameron wrote The Man Who Didn't ?
text: Did you know that the 9/11 Living Memorial Plaza is the only monument outside of the United States which lists the names of the nearly 3,000 victims of the September 11 attacks ?
text: Did you know that London Irish Wild Geese were founded after London Irish left The Avenue to move to Reading?
text: Did you know that journalist Sarkis Minassian was arrested, imprisoned, and eventually murdered during the Armenian Genocide ?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian minesweeper HNoMS Thorodd was best known for her mascot, a St. Bernard called Bamse ?
text: Did you know that James Cahill believed that a famous painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was fake, but the museum insists it is authentic?
text: Did you know that artist Edith R. Wyle , grandmother of actor Noah Wyle , founded the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles?
text: Did you know that Njoo Cheong Seng 's Pantjawarna has been called the first musical in Indonesia?
text: Did you know that Chinese journalist Yang Gang committed suicide after being forced to persecute her colleagues, but the details are disputed?
text: Did you know that " We Dem Boyz " by American rapper Wiz Khalifa was the first song to be premiered by the music identifying app Shazam ?
text: Did you know that college baseball player Ben Wetzler was suspended by the National Collegiate Athletic Association for "something that reportedly happens all the time"?
text: Did you know that fragments of veil patches of the mushroom Amanita ananiceps can litter the ground around it?
text: Did you know that German professor Erich Maschke led the committee that investigated the killing of German prisoners-of-war in World War II?
text: Did you know that Princeton University 's Center of International Studies was formed in 1951 when six scholars came from Yale University all at once?
text: Did you know that Barbara Brandon-Croft was the first African-American female cartoonist to get a national syndication , for Where I'm Coming From ?
text: Did you know that although Atopodentatus had a fearsome set of teeth, it was a filter feeder and not a predator ?
text: Did you know that one reason South African judge Dunstan Mlambo permitted live broadcasting of the Oscar Pistorius murder trial was to educate the public about criminal proceedings?
text: Did you know that Ultra Rare Trax was the first significant bootleg set of The Beatles to appear on compact disc ?
text: Did you know that Prospect Group's purchase of Illinois Central Railroad in 1989 was part of a plan devised by Edward L. Moyers to return the railroad to profitability?
text: Did you know that the Armatix iP1 pistol cannot be accessed or function without the iW1 Active RFID wrist watch?
text: Did you know that in 2008, the Romanian ballet mistress Mijaela Tesleoanu was one of only two non-Cubans on the payroll of the Cuban National Ballet ?
text: Did you know that, in the cases of Klayman v. Obama and ACLU v. Clapper , US district courts issued conflicting rulings on the constitutionality of bulk data collection by the US government?
text: Did you know that R.S. Owens & Company produces the trophies for the Academy Awards , a job which C.W. Shumway & Sons did from 1928 to 1982?
text: Did you know that the ant Aphaenogaster avita was described from a fossil found in 1969?
text: Did you know that Lonnie Warwick worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad in Arizona prior to signing a free agent contract with the Minnesota Vikings ?
text: Did you know that the owner of the newspaper De Indische Courant escaped a stranglehold from a scourge by buying a radio?
text: Did you know that the deep sea worm Osedax japonicus relies on the skeleton of a dead whale for sustenance?
text: Did you know that although physicist Ernest Wollan pioneered neutron diffraction , he did not share in the Nobel Prize that was awarded for the technology?
text: Did you know that the musical The Last Ship was partially inspired by musician Sting 's childhood experiences?
text: Did you know that the 1985 BBC Micro video game Castle Quest used a smooth hardware side-scrolling technique termed "Scrollerama"?
text: Did you know that LeRoy Prinz , who staged dances in dozens of Hollywood movies in the 1930s and 1940s, was more an "idea man" than a choreographer, using simple steps and dance routines?
text: Did you know that the union of the Italian Sacarello and Bignone families in Gibraltar became known as the " Marriage of Two Mountains "?
text: Did you know that Sunderland's semi-final penalty shootout win against Manchester United in order to reach the 2014 Football League Cup Final had no English players scoring any of the penalties?
text: Did you know that Enid Blyton 's books were banned by the BBC for being "second-rate" and without merit?
text: Did you know that the music video for Bed Peace by American singer Jhené Aiko pays homage to John Lennon and Yoko Ono 's Bed-In for Peace protest?
text: Did you know that Aasa Helgesen was elected the first female mayor in Norway after an election where she didn't know she was on the ballot?
text: Did you know that the inscriptions discovered in Mangulam are the earliest Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions?
text: Did you know that the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board report on mass surveillance recommended against a proposal to mandate data retention by U.S. phone companies?
text: Did you know that in her song " Glory and Gore ", Lorde compares celebrity culture to gladiatorial combat?
text: Did you know that the founder of Pensole Footwear Design Academy worked for Nike , but has offered classes in partnership with Adidas ?
text: Did you know that the Dutch East India Company attempted to eliminate the njai by importing orphaned girls from the Netherlands?
text: Did you know that Liberia 's first agricultural and vocational school is named after American educator Booker T. Washington ?
text: Did you know that Thokozile Masipa , the presiding judge assigned to the Oscar Pistorius murder trial , worked as a crime reporter for The Sowetan newspaper before her law career?
text: Did you know that Toy Story 3 was listed in Time 's 25 All-Time Best Animated Films?
text: Did you know that Edwin St Hill was called the " Maurice Tate of the West Indies"?
text: Did you know that Marta Dusseldorp visited the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery to prepare for her role as Senior Crown Prosecutor Janet King ?
text: Did you know that the Hare and Billet pub was mistakenly accused in the House of Commons of serving a " blatant copy " of Lea & Perrins Worcester sauce ?
text: Did you know that a major character in " Who Ya Gonna Call? ", an episode of the comedy-drama TV series Psych , is a man who is unknowingly also a woman and a violent murderer?
text: Did you know that the Hertha Feist dance school was moved by the Nazis to smaller premises?
text: Did you know that Kendallina , a genus of trilobite , lived in North America during the Upper Cambrian ?
text: Did you know that Sutton High Street is the site of the pub where the Rolling Stones were spotted by a music promoter in 1963?
text: Did you know that the forest shrew can be used as a monitor of environmental contamination ?
text: Did you know that in 1899, Frederick Buscombe commissioned the Buscombe Building in Gastown , Vancouver?
text: Did you know that Kansas House Bill 2453 would allow service providers in Kansas to refuse service to same-sex couples under the purview of religious liberty?
text: Did you know that during the 2011–12 OHL season , Mike Halmo received a 10-game suspension for a hit on Nail Yakupov ?
text: Did you know that an experimental musical instrument based on Savart's wheel is said to make "the most obtrusive, obnoxious and irritating sound ever known"?
text: Did you know that Abbi Jacobson plays a fictionalized version of herself on the Comedy Central series Broad City ?
text: Did you know that despite influencing several Beatles ' songs, Arthur Alexander 's 1962 song " Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms) " was nearly forgotten until a Beatles' bootleg recording surfaced more than a decade later?
text: Did you know that Madman's Drum was a novel in woodcuts?
text: Did you know that Kelly Tanner and Chris Raudman were among the championship winners during 1996 in NASCAR ?
text: Did you know that Yang Bojun , who was taught to read Confucian classics by his grandfather, became an author of several influential commentaries on them?
text: Did you know that " La Popola " was banned in the Dominican Republic because of its sexual lyrics?
text: Did you know that former IAS cadre Pancham Lal is one of the candidates of the All India Forward Bloc in the 2014 election ?
text: Did you know that Meldon Viaduct , on Dartmoor in Devon, is one of only two surviving lattice truss railway bridges in Britain?
text: Did you know that the box jellyfish Tripedalia cystophora feeds on the copepod Dioithona oculata which swarms in sunlit patches of water among mangrove roots?
text: Did you know that a symposium on Genghis Khan led to the removal of Daramyn Tömör-Ochir from the Mongolian Politburo for being a "nationalist"?
text: Did you know that during the 20-event 2014 IPC Powerlifting World Championships , 15 world records were equalled or surpassed?
text: Did you know that the Bluefin-21 is an underwater drone that is being used in search operations for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 ?
text: Did you know that Maryland Delegate Torrey C. Brown , a physician, once assisted in saving the life of a fellow legislator who suffered a heart attack during a debate?
text: Did you know that the Revolutionary Socialist Party (Bolshevik) leader A.V. Thamarakshan is supported by the BJP in this year's parliamentary poll ?
text: Did you know that Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 's title track was once described as a "revolutionary moment in the creative life" of the Beatles ?
text: Did you know that medieval historian Seta Dadoyan was awarded the David Anhaght medal for her contributions to Armenian philosophical studies?
text: Did you know that one of Nader Kadhim 's main motivations to write Saving Hope was to defend the hope "revived" by the Arab Spring ?
text: Did you know that Swedish soprano Malin Byström sang the title role in Thaïs at Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in 2012?
text: Did you know that in 1970 the State of Connecticut acquired 198 acres (108 ha) of Haley Farm from A. C. White for a total of $300,000 and declared it a state park ?
text: Did you know that Bert "Yank" Levy , who taught the British Home Guard and coauthored one of the first books on guerrilla warfare, said a cheese cutter could be used as a weapon?
text: Did you know that Australian actress Yael Stone 's Boston accent on Orange Is the New Black has been called "the most amazing accent on television"?
text: Did you know that cellarettes were designed with 3-D optical illusion art to conceal their illegal alcoholic beverages during prohibition in the United States ?
text: Did you know that the late 16th-century yadu poems by Queen Hsinbyushin Medaw are among the earliest Burmese language records of Lan Na ?
text: Did you know that mountaineer Joe Puryear made the first ascents of six peaks in the Himalayas ?
text: Did you know that parts of Cantiones sacrae , 40 choral pieces composed by Heinrich Schütz during the Thirty Years' War , have been described as intensely expressive, others as happy?
text: Did you know that American snowboarders Taylor Gold and his sister Arielle both went to Sochi to compete in the 2014 Winter Olympics, but both saw their efforts derailed by falls?
text: Did you know that the Australian Renewable Energy Agency is helping fund construction of the southern hemisphere's largest solar power station ?﻿
text: Did you know that Cassey Ho discovered an image of a model with a photoshopped thigh gap on Target 's website?
text: Did you know that when Nimdoma Sherpa summited Mount Everest at the age of 16, she became the youngest woman to do so at the time?
text: Did you know that Jack Charlton was the first foreigner to manage the Republic of Ireland national football team ?
text: Did you know that actress Danielle Brooks has been cast as the first black woman on the HBO series Girls ?
text: Did you know that Twomile Run has the highest potential fish biodiversity of any stream in the Kettle Creek watershed?
text: Did you know that the plaque on the memorial of Czech poet Viktor Dyk shows only his name?
text: Did you know that it was wrongly said that Frank Crocker killed himself after building the pub now called Crocker's Folly in the wrong place?
text: Did you know that Bulgarian footballer Mihail Lozanov , nicknamed The Tank, captained FC Bayern Munich in the 1930s and reportedly shattered the crossbar with a powerful shot?
text: Did you know that The Music of Grand Theft Auto V features an original score composed by a team of producers for the video game Grand Theft Auto V ?
text: Did you know that Ty Glaser shadowed a surgical team at Whipps Cross University Hospital to help her prepare for her role as Gemma Wilde on Holby City ?
text: Did you know that the Easter hymn " Gelobt sei Gott im höchsten Thron " was written in 1531, but is known with the 1609 dancing tune by Melchior Vulpius ?
text: Did you know that in 1944, gun-wielding models launched fashion designer Robert Piguet 's debut fragrance Bandit ?
text: Did you know that People's Park in Ürümqi was once the site of a Dragon King Temple?
text: Did you know that The Last Arrow was praised for its "inventive re-imagining" of the Robin Hood legend, although one reviewer felt that its "sadistic sexual torture may offend some"?
text: Did you know that after Rembrandt toothpaste discontinued its canker sore toothpaste, the 3 oz (85 g) tube that had formerly sold for $6.99 instead sold for approximately $50, on eBay?
text: Did you know that screenwriter Geoff LaTulippe was offered a directing job by the president of Paramount Film Group after the latter saw one of LaTulippe's short films?
text: Did you know that as of 2009, the Indian submarine Sindhukirti had spent 10 out of her 30 years of service in refits ?
text: Did you know that the title character in William Shakespeare 's Titus Andronicus may have been inspired by Emperor Andronicus Comnenus , who also shot arrows with messages attached?
text: Did you know that Kiesza had a broken rib while filming her music video " Hideaway "?
text: Did you know that E. Gail de Planque was the first woman and first health physicist to become a Commissioner at the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission ?
text: Did you know that abnormal P50 suppression is an endophenotype for schizophrenia ?
text: Did you know that in 1919 Hans Jürgen von der Wense composed a piece for piano , clarinet , and suspended metal colander ?
text: Did you know that Ernest Psichari , grandson of liberal philosopher Ernest Renan , became an idol of right-wing French nationalism?
text: Did you know that according to a national report, the conviction rate of rape in Germany has declined, from 20% in the 1980s to 13% by 2000?
text: Did you know that Malcolm took the throne from Macbeth after the latter killed Malcolm's father, King Duncan , in William Shakespeare 's Macbeth ?
text: Did you know that the Praja Socialist Party , the Ambedkarite Harijan Mandal and the Akali Dal formed an alliance ahead of the 1962 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election?
text: Did you know that the "world's luckiest man" survived seven brushes with death, then won the lottery?
text: Did you know that the Joffrey Ballet is debuting a new choreography to Prokofiev 's score of William Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet in the United States, 30 years after it debuted Cranko's adaptation ?
text: Did you know that Gabor Racz fled Budapest in 1956 after the Hungarian revolution and went on to hold a million-dollar endowed chair in anesthesiology at Texas Tech ?
text: Did you know that Dakshin Gangotri , India's first research station in the Antarctic, was an unmanned base built in 8 weeks by an 81-member team?
text: Did you know that Trent Reznor recorded The Downward Spiral at 10050 Cielo Drive , the house where Sharon Tate was murdered?
text: Did you know that mental health advocate Eleanor Owen is known in the Washington State Legislature as "The Barracuda"?
text: Did you know that Morris H. Whitehouse designed several Oregon buildings which made it to the National Register of Historic Places list, including the Conro Fiero House -turned-restaurant?
text: Did you know that Allan du Toit was 15 years old when he wrote his first published book?
text: Did you know that The Widow's Son pub is named for the legend of a widow who every Good Friday baked a hot cross bun for her only son, in the hope that he was not lost at sea and would one day return home?
text: Did you know that St Mary's Church, Preston , is now a conservation centre?
text: Did you know that after Emerson Etheridge returned to the U.S. Congress even though his state had seceded , he was made Clerk of the House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that in the 2003–04 season , Arsenal won the Premier League at White Hart Lane , home of their rivals Tottenham Hotspur ?
text: Did you know that Rezan Zuğurlu , who spent eight months in the infamous Diyarbakır Prison , became Turkey 's youngest mayor when she was elected by Lice at the age of 25?
text: Did you know that the Early Nationalists were the beginning of the organised national movement in India?
text: Did you know that a judge has ordered that information be removed from the Greek Wikipedia biography of politician Theodore Katsanevas ?
text: Did you know that the Australian plant Banksia coccinea is grown commercially in South Africa, North America, New Zealand, and Israel as a cut flower crop?
text: Did you know that Nat Sanders won the inaugural Independent Spirit Award for Best Editing in 2014?
text: Did you know that Union Films attempted to draw educated audiences by hiring a doctor to star in their film ?
text: Did you know that Lyndsie Holland played the Gilbert and Sullivan contralto roles with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company ?
text: Did you know that Eckhart Hall at the University of Chicago is named for miller and state senator Bernard A. Eckhart ?
text: Did you know that Corporal Edgar Worrall, who claims to have fired the last shot at Lone Pine , was one of over 1,100 Australians to keep a diary during World War I ?
text: Did you know that wing-assisted incline running (WAIR) is a hypothesis about the origin of avian flight derived from observing modern partridges?
text: Did you know that British composer Thomas Adès thought he was having a heart attack when composing Asyla , a contemporary classical composition with techno music characteristics?
text: Did you know that the Iraqi Railway Workers Union was banned in the midst of a 1945 strike?
text: Did you know that in 1957, painter Mary Potter swapped houses on the east coast of England with composer Benjamin Britten ?
text: Did you know that the easiest difficulty level in the video game Alien Rage is "challenging", and the second easiest is "hard"?
text: Did you know that differences on the issue of Muslim personal law led to a split between the All India Muslim League and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) ?
text: Did you know that skier Cameron Rahles-Rahbula carried the Australian flag at the Opening Ceremony of the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi , but was unable to compete in any of his events?
text: Did you know that La India 's recordings of "Ese Hombre" and "Dicen Que Soy", on her album Dicen Que Soy , have been described as "anthems for female salsa lovers"?
text: Did you know that whilst the Communist Party of the Soviet Union opposed the setting up of an independent Jewish party organization, an autonomous Jewish Communist Party was founded in Bielorussia?
text: Did you know that opium poppies are grown in Hagley, Tasmania ?
text: Did you know that wild populations of the black rock scorpion are depleted due to collecting by the pet trade?
text: Did you know that Dr. Edith Claypole died of typhoid while working on immunizations for WWI troops, even though she had been immunized herself?
text: Did you know that GenePeeks ' Matchright software simulates reproduction to determine the likelihood of a child receiving a genetic disorder ?
text: Did you know that New Orleans blues / soul musician Rockie Charles was described as "The President of Soul"?
text: Did you know that the community of Fruitvale, Tennessee , developed around a railroad switch ?
text: Did you know that the success of Larry Wagner 's composition Whistler's Mother-in-Law led to a permanent rift between Paul Whiteman and himself?
text: Did you know that the Masikryong Ski Resort in North Korea took only ten months to construct?
text: Did you know that Louise Delamere decided to make her Holby City character Colette Sheward childless after reading a national statistic?
text: Did you know that the Compromise of Nobles was drafted in the Sablon in Brussels , which would later be the site of the execution of 18 of its signatories?
text: Did you know that baseball pitcher Seth Blair had a tumor in the joint of his middle finger on his throwing hand?
text: Did you know that Irene Greif is a founder of computer-supported cooperative work ?
text: Did you know that the bro in " don't tase me, bro " is not the person being called a bro?
text: Did you know that Derrick Gordon is the first NCAA Division I college basketball player to come out as gay?
text: Did you know that Qiu Xigui 's book Chinese Writing is "universally acclaimed to be the definitive overview" of Chinese palaeography ?
text: Did you know that both the picarel and the blotched picarel start life as females but later change sex?
text: Did you know that Jamaican American jazz pianist and composer Wynton Kelly toured the Caribbean with an R&B band at age 15?
text: Did you know that TerraCycle collects waste materials such as empty juice pouches which are then recycled or upcycled into new products?
text: Did you know that writer/director Hal Hartley raised $395,292 to produce his upcoming film Ned Rifle by launching a Kickstarter campaign?
text: Did you know that the Republic of Texas presented a formal proposal for annexation by the United States to President Martin Van Buren , who rejected it?
text: Did you know that the tissues of the hidden anemone contain symbiotic single-celled algae ?
text: Did you know that both the chairman and the senior vice chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Awami League were killed in 2003?
text: Did you know that actor Michael Thomson toured a hospital to help him prepare for his role as Jonny Maconie in Holby City ?
text: Did you know that Susan Stryker 's book Transgender History discusses the Compton's Cafeteria riot and other transgender protests of the 1960s?
text: Did you know that minigenes have been used to study isolated growth hormone deficiency ?
text: Did you know that Daisy Voog was the first woman to reach the summit of the Eiger via the mountain's north face?
text: Did you know that geological activity on Venus is concentrated along its rift zones?
text: Did you know that Makah chairman Edward Eugene Claplanhoo established the Makah Museum to house artifacts uncovered at the Ozette Indian Village Archeological Site ?
text: Did you know that The Psycho Ex-Wife , an anonymous blog , was shut down by a U.S. family court judge?
text: Did you know that " Love Money Party " by Miley Cyrus was distinguished by a music journalist for highlighting her "more philosophical side"?
text: Did you know that Marty Schmidt named his son Denali after the Alaskan mountain that he climbed 27 times?
text: Did you know that the first libraries on U.S. military bases were run by volunteers?
text: Did you know that the Welsh climber Emmeline Lewis Lloyd , who made the first climb of Aiguille du Moine, retired in 1873?
text: Did you know that cancer cells can die from paraptosis after treatment with certain anti-cancer substances?
text: Did you know that Marty Haggard , a son of Merle Haggard , survived being shot by a hitchhiker while driving to a filming location for a TV movie?
text: Did you know that Cambridge won the 2004 University Boat Race by six lengths after Oxford 's bowman was unseated following a clash of blades?
text: Did you know that during the long nineteenth century, Belgium was ruled by Austria , rebels , France , and the Netherlands before gaining independence and itself ruling the Congo ?
text: Did you know that New Zealand actress Morgana O'Reilly had her husband film her first audition for a role on Neighbours in their garden?
text: Did you know that the production of season 3 of House of Cards is being delayed and may be moved due to legislative decisions involving tax incentives ?
text: Did you know that in De kellner en de levenden (1949), Dutch author Simon Vestdijk presents a Last Judgment in the basement of a movie theater, with Satan sitting in judgment and a waiter as a Christ figure?
text: Did you know that actor Keith Stanfield worked in a marijuana factory before appearing in his first feature film ?
text: Did you know that the 2008 surreal film Your Name Here , based on the life of author Philip K. Dick , was the feature film directorial debut of Matthew Wilder ?
text: Did you know that Holcim is one of the two largest cement manufacturers in the world?
text: Did you know that the player-characters of Grand Theft Auto Online are designed by a genetics-related process?
text: Did you know that chloride-bearing deposits on Mars appear as irregularly shaped fractures on the surface?
text: Did you know that the hymn " Thine Be the Glory " is based on the resurrection of Jesus ?
text: Did you know that whilst the Khedut Sangh was the second-largest political force in the 1951 elections in Saurashtra State , it lacked prominent leaders?
text: Did you know that the Santa Cruz – Chembur Link Road was called an "engineering marvel" by the National Geographic Society and the "world's most delayed road project" by the World Bank ?
text: Did you know that following the death of Rani Chandra in a plane crash, unfinished portions involving her in the 1976 Tamil film Bhadrakali were shot with a look-alike?
text: Did you know that Franklin Pierce Adams did not think his 1910 poem , " Baseball's Sad Lexicon ", was "much good"?
text: Did you know that the Karlovy Vary Region is responsible for more than half of the Czech Republic 's spa industry?
text: Did you know that Adolphus Jones has represented Saint Kitts and Nevis internationally in soccer , high jump , track running , and decathlon ?
text: Did you know that Marsha Canham was inspired to write In the Shadow of Midnight after discovering the story of the " lost princess of Brittany "?
text: Did you know that Meghraj Tawar has contested every Lok Sabha election for the past three decades?
text: Did you know that " Jesus Christ is Risen Today "?
text: Did you know that the Morris J. Berman oil spill was the first to take place in U.S. waters after the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 was passed?
text: Did you know that after working on the Manhattan Project , Myrtle Bachelder went on to develop methods for the purification of the rare elements tellurium and indium ?
text: Did you know that Mr. Bean once sang " All Creatures of Our God and King "?
text: Did you know that industrialist Robertson Stewart was the first to manufacture plastic in New Zealand?
text: Did you know that a ladies' rest room is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you know that Claude Weston was effectively the first president of the New Zealand National Party ?
text: Did you know that the 1954 Series of Canadian banknotes were known as the "Devil's Head" series?
text: Did you know that in 1849, Juraj Šporer published his tragedy on Skanderbeg and depicted him as the Slav who united all South Slavs from Istria to Krujë ?
text: Did you know that crew member Sarah Elizabeth Jones, who was killed on the set of Midnight Rider , received acknowledgement at the Oscars' ceremony?
text: Did you know that Steelhouse Lane police station used to have its own bar?
text: Did you know that soprano Kristīne Opolais made two Met Opera debuts, as Puccini's Cio-Cio-San and Mimi , within a day?
text: Did you know that Maunsel House has been the family seat of the Slade baronets since 1772?
text: Did you know that the episode " The 37's " was the first time in a Star Trek series that a Federation starship had landed on a planet's surface?
text: Did you know that three men were convicted for using child soldiers in Sierra Leone during the civil war?
text: Did you know that pointy ears are a common characteristic of numerous races in the fantasy genre?
text: Did you know that Stop Watching Us , a protest against mass surveillance, was supported by an EFF video featuring director Oliver Stone and actor John Cusack ?
text: Did you know that in 2011 there were 19,945 non-Status Indians living in Alberta ?
text: Did you know that Lyndon Johnson 's biographer Robert Caro refused to meet Bryan Cranston , who plays Johnson in a new Broadway show , saying it might blur his image of the former president?
text: Did you know that Dr. Agnes Bluhm wrote that the "female psyche" is predisposed towards working for " racial hygiene "?
text: Did you know that the bikini bridge hoax was dubbed the new thigh gap ?
text: Did you know that Charlotte Montagu Douglas Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch served as Mistress of the Robes to Queen Victoria from 1841 to 1846 after being selected for the post by Robert Peel ?
text: Did you know that according to the Vulgate translation of the New Testament , Pontius Pilate said " Quod scripsi, scripsi " to Jewish priests who objected to his description of Jesus as King of the Jews ?
text: Did you know that a European patent can only be granted jointly in respect of Switzerland and Liechtenstein , not for only one of these two countries?
text: Did you know that the construction of the Deliktaş Tunnel , Turkey's longest railway tunnel , lasted almost four decades?
text: Did you know that until the results from the Magellan mission , the impact crater Cleopatra Patera on Venus was believed to be a volcano?
text: Did you know that the 2007 University Boat Race featured the most non-British rowers in the race's history?
text: Did you know that the third verse of Martin Schalling's death song " Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr " concludes Bach's St John Passion in its first and fourth version, ending with "praise you for ever"?
text: Did you know that the partly submerged Mersey flat , Daresbury , is a scheduled monument ?
text: Did you know that Southport War Memorial consists of an obelisk , two colonnades , and gardens?
text: Did you know that the digital board game Armello was pitched as " Game of Thrones meets Kung Fu Panda "?
text: Did you know that members of The Australian and New Zealand Association of Bellringers perform full circle ringing in more than 60 bell towers ?
text: Did you know that relief worker Nellie Miller-Mann wrote in her diary about the plight of the many orphans she cared for?
text: Did you know that according to the 2013 ruling of the court case In re Application of the United States for Historical Cell Site Data , the government can access cell site records without a warrant?
text: Did you know that the 63rd Cavalry of the Indian Army was given the epithet of "Ghost" during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 ?
text: Did you know that Barney Berlinger won the United States decathlon championship in 1933 despite jogging through the final event, 1500 meters , so slowly he scored no points?
text: Did you know that although Karl Ove Knausgård 's family threatened legal action over his autobiographical novel series My Struggle , he published it anyway and sold half a million copies?
text: Did you know that the 2005 University Boat Race featured eight Olympic rowers?
text: Did you know that Heike Friedrich played over 200 games of basketball with the national team before switching to wheelchair basketball ?
text: Did you know that all three major video game console manufacturers refuse to publish games that have been given the Adults Only rating by the Entertainment Software Rating Board ?
text: Did you know that Percy Wyndham was denounced as a fraud by Percy Wyndham ?
text: Did you know that Li Xueqin , considered in China to be "the most important historian working today", never finished college?
text: Did you know that the Assembly of Delvino ratified the Protocol of Corfu in 1914, which gave Northern Epirus autonomy inside Albania ?
text: Did you know that Victorian polymath Gordon Smith was a rower, mathematician, barrister , major and freemason who formed the finest collection of mint stamps of South Australia of his day?
text: Did you know that Argentine actor Alfredo Alcón read Richard III by William Shakespeare at the age of 11?
text: Did you know that ghost craters on Mercury contain both graben and wrinkle ridges ?
text: Did you know that violinst Ignaz Schuppanzigh founded the Schuppanzigh Quartet , which played the premieres of several string quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven?
text: Did you know that rape during the Armenian Genocide was described as being part of a plan for "the virtually complete extermination of the Armenians"?
text: Did you know that the Japanese ironclad Fusō sank after colliding with two ships during a storm when her anchor chain broke on 29 October 1897?
text: Did you know that German coach Holger Glinicki celebrated his team's win at the 2012 Paralympics by plunging off Canary Wharf into London's River Thames ?
text: Did you know that Tall Jawa is now known as "The Rock"?
text: Did you know that the meteorite EETA 79001 , recovered from the Elephant Moraine , was found to have come from Mars?
text: Did you know that Redcliffe N. Salaman was the first person to identify genetic resistance to late blight in wild potatoes ?
text: Did you know that Czech Radio broke a national record for the longest uninterrupted radio broadcast when it celebrated its 90th anniversary in 2013?
text: Did you know that the Sterbelied " Valet will ich dir geben " is described in a subtitle as a song of consolation, in which a pious heart bids farewell to this world?
text: Did you know that Silver the Hedgehog , a character in the Sonic the Hedgehog video games, was originally intended to be orange?
text: Did you know that Filip Fabricius was given an epithet of Hohenfall (literally "of high fall") after he had survived the Second Defenestration of Prague in 1618?
text: Did you know that during the Tucker County Seat War in 1893, over 200 armed men seized Tucker County, West Virginia 's court records and courthouse bell from St. George and transferred the county seat to Parsons ?
text: Did you know that Pierre Pascau cited a dispute with a coworker over her smoking as the reason for leaving his top-rated radio show?
text: Did you know that wheelchair basketballer Marina Mohnen edged out Olympic gold medallists Britta Heidemann , Marion Rodewald and Oksana Chusovitina to become Cologne's Sportswoman of the Year?
text: Did you know that in 1953, Port Vale had a Steele Curtain?
text: Did you know that the "Sol" in Sol Republic is an acronym for "soundtrack of life"?
text: Did you know that Bob Mariano , CEO of Roundy's , was denied from five medical schools and thirteen pharmaceutical companies before starting work?
text: Did you know that the team developing Civilization: Beyond Earth , a spiritual successor to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri , visited the latter's Wikipedia article for inspiration?
text: Did you know that the soldiers who die by sword neither bravely nor cowardly are described as going to the abode of " the hidden ones " in Hinduism?
text: Did you know that when he was 12, NASCAR Legends racer Gray Gaulding was sponsored by a gun-selling website ?
text: Did you know that salmon canning magnate Frank M. Warren , the only first-class passenger from Oregon to perish in the sinking of the Titanic , played for one of the first baseball teams in Portland ?
text: Did you know that Morton B. Panish and a colleague at Bell Labs developed a laser that led to fiber optics, laser printers, barcode readers, and optical disc drives?
text: Did you know that Sigma called their label "Life Recordings" on the grounds that the music industry made them make the record label their life?
text: Did you know that the first Cassette Store Day was observed on 7 September 2013 to celebrate the Compact Cassette music format?
text: Did you know that Anthony Minoprio provided a new master plan for Crawley New Town after the previous planner suddenly resigned in "an extraordinary decision [... which was] never completely explained"?
text: Did you know that as of 2013, Iran is one of only four countries known to carry out public executions ?
text: Did you know that in 1853, Elizabeth Campbell, Duchess of Argyll helped draft a letter addressing women in the United States which called for the abolition of slavery?
text: Did you know that the first Seumas McNally Grand Prize award winner, 1999 indie game Fire and Darkness , was never finished?
text: Did you know that Anna Murià was a founding member of the Union Group of Catalan Writers?
text: Did you know that two days after last year's Boston Marathon bombings , U.S. authorities received two applications to register the term " Boston Strong " as a trademark ?
text: Did you know that the proposed UEFA Nations League will largely replace friendly matches for UEFA member nations?
text: Did you know that former Hillsboro, Oregon mayor Miller M. Duris had six daughters whose first names all started with the letter " C "?
text: Did you know that Bach used a stanza from " Vater unser im Himmelreich ", Luther's versification of the Lord's Prayer , as a chorale in his St John Passion ?
text: Did you know that Ana María Martínez Sagi , a Spanish national champion in javelin , was a journalist for the Durruti Column ?
text: Did you know that, according to the Blood Moon Prophecy , tonight's eclipse could be a sign that the end time is near?
text: Did you know that Sophie Ellis-Bextor 's 2001 cover of " Take Me Home " by Cher received criticism from the latter for having "overtly sexual" new lyrics?
text: Did you know that Ivan Milutinović was one of the major exponents of the Leftist errors policy in Montenegro ?
text: Did you know that three of 16 stanzas of Paul Gerhardt 's hymn " O Welt, sieh hier dein Leben " appear in Bach's Passions, two in St John and two in St Matthew ?
text: Did you know that the first assembly election in Kerala led to the formation of the first democratically-elected communist government in India?
text: Did you know that due to the alleged Operation Trojan Horse , Birmingham City Council has put a temporary freeze on appointing new school governors?
text: Did you know that in China , the production, management and sales of all edible salt is regulated by a state-owned monopoly enterprise ?
text: Did you know that the Church of St Cuthbert by the Forest in Mouldsworth , Cheshire , has a detached campanile ?
text: Did you know that the death of Polish Army chaplain Ignacy Skorupka at the battle of Warsaw became a political tool for opponents of military commander Józef Piłsudski ?
text: Did you know that Star Film was unable to complete its sixth film due to the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies ?
text: Did you know that a version of the astro pop cocktail is layered with red, white, and blue colors, and served in a shot glass ?
text: Did you know that Pike's Lane was the venue of the first-ever goal scored in league football ?
text: Did you know that despite its single release being cancelled, " Blow " by Beyoncé debuted on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs at number 48?
text: Did you know that the Toluid Civil War , fought between Kublai Khan and his brother Ariq Böke for the title of Great Khan , permanently divided the Mongol Empire into separate autonomous khanates ?
text: Did you know that the Knights Hospitaller owned a number of colonies in the Caribbean in the mid-17th century?
text: Did you know that King Solomon was abandoned by his mother and wife, abdicated, and was arrested, before possibly becoming a saint?
text: Did you know that a January 1947 contest, on radio station WINC in Winchester, Virginia , was responsible for shorting out the telephone system for the entire city?
text: Did you know that Annegret Brießmann was ranked in the top ten in the world in her class in the shot put and discus , and won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in wheelchair basketball ?
text: Did you know that the French documentary Sous le Manteau was shot by prisoners of war and shows preparations for an escape attempt?
text: Did you know that the Toronto Argonauts are the oldest existing professional sports team in North America that still utilizes its original name?
text: Did you know that " Ride On, Ride On in Majesty! " was once called one of the most popular Palm Sunday hymns?
text: Did you know that after their defeat in the Battle of Pljevlja during the Uprising in Montenegro , many Partisans deserted to the Chetniks ?
text: Did you know that in Rajiv Malhotra 's book Indra's Net: Defending Hinduism's Philosophical Unity (2014), Hindu gurus are compared to systems integrators , and Hinduism to an open architecture ?
text: Did you know that Chad Kellogg was the first known person to ascend and descend Mount McKinley in under 24 hours?
text: Did you know that legend holds that Holy Roman Emperor Louis the Pious , on hearing Theodulf of Orléans sing " All Glory, Laud and Honour ", released Theodulf from exile and ordered the hymn sung every Palm Sunday ?
text: Did you know that Invader 's cousin is Mr. Brainwash ?
text: Did you know that friends of classical music critic Harris Goldsmith claimed that he remembered every note of music he had ever heard?
text: Did you know that Centennial Broadcasting owner Allen B. Shaw began his radio career at the age of 15?
text: Did you know that in the same year Bill Clinton was elected, Harold Bloom wrote in The American Religion that he feared there would never be another Democrat US President in his lifetime?
text: Did you know that whilst the 1951 founding conference of the Uttar Pradesh Praja Party targeted getting 2.5 million members, it won just two seats in that year's Legislative Assembly election?
text: Did you know that the eastern section of Nerang–Broadbeach Road on Australia's Gold Coast is also known as Hooker Boulevard?
text: Did you know that the Seumas McNally Grand Prize awards US$ 30,000 to indie game developers ?
text: Did you know that texts by the lawyer and successful opera librettist Christian Heinrich Postel are part of Bach's St John Passion ?
text: Did you know that Iranian student activist Maryam Shafipour spent seven months in pre-trial detention, including more than two months in solitary confinement , before being sentenced to seven years in prison?
text: Did you know that Oswald Harding , Jamaica's longest serving senator, is the only person to have served two non-contiguous terms as President of the Senate of Jamaica ?
text: Did you know that Oxford won the 4.2 mile 2003 University Boat Race by one foot, the narrowest victory in the history of the race?
text: Did you know that Hideki Shirakawa , Alan Heeger , and Alan MacDiarmid received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of polyacetylene , an electronically conductive polymer ?
text: Did you know that Mick Parker climbed five 8,000 metre mountains without the assistance of Sherpa guides or bottled oxygen ?
text: Did you know that the stained glass windows of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Fawsley , incorporate George Washington's family coat of arms?
text: Did you know that when Michael Weiße published 157 songs in German for the Bohemian Brethren , it was the most extensive hymnal of his time, and the first organized by topic?
text: Did you know that according to legend, William II de Soules 's tenants expressed their opinion of his management by boiling him alive at the stone circle of Ninestane Rig ?
text: Did you know that Indian-born Israeli Sarah Avraham converted to Judaism and moved to Israel after the 2008 Mumbai attacks , and became a Kickboxing World Champion?
text: Did you know that the idea of the struggle for existence was influential in Darwin's Theory of Evolution, but he got the idea from a famous economist?
text: Did you know that all five compositions for harpsichord by Iannis Xenakis , among them Komboï , were dedicated to harpsichordist Elisabeth Chojnacka ?
text: Did you know that Angie Epifano gained widespread media attention and millions of page views after she wrote an essay on her personal experience of sexual assault ?
text: Did you know that the largest lake trout in Maine was caught on Beech Hill Pond in 1958?
text: Did you know that former Judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore Andrew Ang worked as a corporate and tax lawyer for 30 years before being elevated to the Bench?
text: Did you know that 300,000 people live within a 10-minute drive of the Ramot Mall , the second-largest shopping center in Jerusalem?
text: Did you know that Oxford won the 2002 University Boat Race by three-quarters of a length?
text: Did you know that K. Rudzki i S-ka , an engineering firm from Poland, built roughly 20 percent of all rail bridges in Imperial Russia , including the Khabarovsk Bridge and Maurzyce Bridge ?
text: Did you know that Belgian politician Isabelle Blume was awarded the International Stalin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples in 1953?
text: Did you know that soprano Carmen Reppel performed several parts in the Jahrhundertring , Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle staged by Chéreau , and sang in Siegfried Wagner 's Schwarzschwanenreich ?
text: Did you know that Guinevere Planitia , a lowland plain on Venus, has three main volcanoes: Atanua, Tuli, and Var Mons?
text: Did you know that Jennie Brand-Miller coined the term Australian paradox to describe what she claims is a decrease in sugar consumption in Australia while obesity rates have increased?
text: Did you know that Denis Legersky was allowed to play for the Turkish national ice hockey team in a friendly match in 2014, even though he is a Slovak citizen ?
text: Did you know that although Old Pine Church in Purgitsville, West Virginia , was built in 1838, the earliest burial sites in its cemetery date from as early as 1759?
text: Did you know that Deadwood Draw was a staging area for freight wagons carrying supplies to the Black Hills during the gold rush ?
text: Did you know that Dutch Jesuit priest Frans van der Lugt , who had lived in Syria since 1966 and ministered to Christians and Muslims alike, was shot dead in April 2014 in Homs ?
text: Did you know that Kelly Field is where Charles Lindbergh earned his wings?
text: Did you know that Yuhui Choe replaced the injured Natalia Osipova at short notice in the lead role in Sleeping Beauty for The Royal Ballet and "appeared radiantly unfazed by the challenge"?
text: Did you know that the upcoming video game Dragon Fin Soup will have randomly generated weather and earthquakes?
text: Did you know that at the 1984 Summer Olympics , 15-year-old swimmer Sarah Hardcastle became the youngest ever British female to win an Olympic medal?
text: Did you know that Lifeless Planet is an upcoming adventure game inspired by Cold War sci-fi B movies ?
text: Did you know that although only 9 miles (14 km) long, the Mann's Creek Railroad serviced 193 beehive coke ovens ?
text: Did you know that Kerry Teague once quit his ride in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series , saying he didn't have enough experience to compete?
text: Did you know that because of opposition by the Polish communist government , the Warsaw Uprising Monument was constructed over 40 years after the event it commemorates?
text: Did you know that HMS Algerine was sunk 20 months to the day after she was laid down ?
text: Did you know that abolitionist Thaddeus Hyatt was jailed by the United States Senate after he refused to comply with a Congressional subpoena ?
text: Did you know that upcoming tactical role-playing game Prodigy met its US$100,000 Kickstarter funding goal in less than three days?
text: Did you know that Benjamín Galván Gómez , the former mayor of Nuevo Laredo , Mexico, was recently kidnapped and killed?
text: Did you know that after a bout with a toothache , Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote "Address to the Toothache"?
text: Did you know that Eurogamer called the monochrome art style in the video game Betrayer "undeniably striking"?
text: Did you know that James Hooper made the first journey from the North to the South Magnetic Pole using only human and natural power?
text: Did you know that communist leader Nurul Huda entered the parliament of India following a 1974 by-election?
text: Did you know that Manchester United–Arsenal brawl in 1990 is the only instance in English league football history in which a team has been docked points due to player misconduct?
text: Did you know that in the 1960s, Robert Heinecken inserted pornographic images into mainstream magazines such as Time and Vogue and then returned the altered magazines to the newsstands?
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text: Did you know that Nákladové nádraží Žižkov became a national cultural monument of the Czech Republic , a decade after closing?
text: Did you know that American artist Adelia Armstrong Lutz most liked to paint flowers, especially hollyhocks ?
text: Did you know that Prussian Fort Srebrna Góra in Poland is a rare example of a surviving 18th-century European mountain stronghold?
text: Did you know that Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner , sponsor of the rival USA Freedom Act , said the FISA Improvements Act would "allow unrestrained spying on the American people"?
text: Did you know that Battle of the Sittang Bend was the last significant land battle of the Western allied powers in the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that mountaineer Loulou Boulaz was given honorary membership in the Swiss Alpine Club before the club allowed women to become members?
text: Did you know that when Dickson Chumba and Tirfi Tsegaye won the 2014 Tokyo Marathon , they each set a new course record for the men's and women's competitions, respectively?
text: Did you know that Kangana Ranaut was awarded the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for portraying a substance-abusing supermodel in Fashion ?
text: Did you know that the unaired pilot for 17th Precinct was briefly leaked online in December 2011?
text: Did you know that Xenia is a software project that aims to emulate Xbox 360 games on a computer?
text: Did you know that in 1924, 35 million tons of coal were mined in the 14-square-mile (36 km 2 ) watershed of Newport Creek ?
text: Did you know that Project Alberta was the section of the Manhattan Project which participated in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ?
text: Did you know that Argentine actresses Mercedes Morán and Mercedes Scápola , who are mother and daughter, play as mother and daughter in the telenovela Guapas ?
text: Did you know that in 2006, the Flying Lions Aerobatic Team waterskied across the Klipdrift Dam in Johannesburg flying North American Harvard aircraft?
text: Did you know that Hissa Hilal , the first woman to reach the final of reality TV poetry contest Million's Poet , won one round with a poem criticizing fatwas ?
text: Did you know that the musical team for Psych has received more awards than any of the show's actors?
text: Did you know that Leonard Wyburd was the first head of Liberty 's Furnishing and Decoration Studio in the West End of London , aged only 18?
text: Did you know that males of the millipede genus Siphoniulus were unknown until 2003?
text: Did you know that St Catherine's Hill in Dorset was the site of a Cold War nuclear bunker?
text: Did you know that control of the Papuan plantation termite has been attempted by the use of explosives ?
text: Did you know that the Generali Building , a downtown Jerusalem landmark, was designed by the chief architect of the Italian Fascist regime ?
text: Did you know that Ronald MacKenzie co-sponsored legislation that would have killed the Green Monster ?
text: Did you know that the documentary When Björk Met Attenborough features the two celebrities discussing music and technology?
text: Did you know that Ancient Trader was developed using an old military map of Slovakia ?
text: Did you know that Bernie Hayden made two trips by boat every day to light and extinguish the Essex Reef Light ?
text: Did you know that Isabella Charlet-Straton climbed Mont Blanc four times, including the first winter ascent in 1876?
text: Did you know that the Chester Rock Light was struck and carried away by a barge being towed by Sachem , a tugboat, on May 10, 1912?
text: Did you know that when Philadelphia Phillies player Darin Ruf was in the minor leagues, his team sold shirts that said "Babe Ruf"?
text: Did you know that the earliest surviving European drawing of an emu comes from the journal of a surgeon ?
text: Did you know that Lego Ninjago: Nindroids is the second video game to be based on the Lego Ninjago line of play sets?
text: Did you know that the President of the Senate of Jamaica , Floyd Morris , became the legislative body's first blind member in 1998?
text: Did you know that the chameleon goby has been known to nest in crevices, mollusc shells , or even discarded bottles and cans?
text: Did you know that Leoš Mareš was listed as one of the 50 most influential people in Czech media?
text: Did you know that American football linebacker Mike Junkin 's style of play was compared to "a mad dog in a meat market?"
text: Did you know that Hurricane Juan caused $1 billion of damage in one American state?
text: Did you know that John Perring became Lord Mayor of London when Britain was "threatened by an implacable and unprincipled enemy"?
text: Did you know that a 13th-century painting associated with the Knights Templar , which is in the Church of St Mary, Abbas and Templecombe , was cleaned with Vim ?
text: Did you know that bibliographer Henry Scholberg chose to participate in the Minnesota Starvation Experiment rather than continue working in a mental hospital?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Nelson was the worst tropical cyclone to affect China in 16 years?
text: Did you know that Stanley Redwood resigned from the position of President of the Senate of Jamaica in order to emigrate to Canada?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Lee was the second storm to strike the Philippines in December 1981?
text: Did you know that Michael Luciano edited twenty of the films directed by Robert Aldrich between 1954 and 1977, including Kiss Me Deadly and The Dirty Dozen ?
text: Did you know that American singer Lady Gaga is performing the final seven concerts at the historic Roseland Ballroom in New York City ?
text: Did you know that hip hop choreographer Sonia Destri Lie recruited dancers from Brazil's favelas , without regard to their social backgrounds?
text: Did you know that B. R. Ambedkar led the Mahad Satyagraha to assert the rights of Dalits to use a public water tank in Mahad ?
text: Did you know that Lamprechtsofen was the deepest known cave on Earth for less than three years?
text: Did you know that American Arielle Gold was the second-youngest snowboarder to win a world championship?
text: Did you know that the set of Three Bagatelles by György Ligeti consists of only one note?
text: Did you know that the 1967 general election marked the introduction of ministerial rule in the British Virgin Islands ?
text: Did you know that NASA 's "Mr. Fix It", Jack Kinzler , used fishing rods to save Skylab ?
text: Did you know that Lily Bristow made the second-ever ascent of Grépon , and did so without a guide?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Mamie was the worst storm to affect China in 26 years?
text: Did you know that baritone Eike Wilm Schulte , who performed more than 100 roles since 1966, stepped in at the Bayreuth Festival as Gunther in Götterdämmerung ?
text: Did you know that Caris LeVert was the one-on-one partner of 2013 national player of the year Trey Burke and the training partner of 2014 Big Ten Player of the Year Nik Stauskas ?
text: Did you know that the Lewis and Clark Exposition dollar is the only US coin with two "heads" sides?
text: Did you know that Charles LoPresti , trainer of two-time American Horse of the Year Wise Dan , enjoys team roping in his spare time?
text: Did you know that Härkeberga Church contains medieval frescos that have never been covered or painted over?
text: Did you know that the Bank of Canada described the use of $2 banknotes of the 1937 Series as appearing "like migratory birds and disappearing like the lemmings"?
text: Did you know that Ralf Dujmovits is the first German to have climbed all 14 of the world's 8,000 metre mountains ?
text: Did you know that following the death of Major League Baseball pitcher Steve Bechler , the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the use of ephedra ?
text: Did you know that the design of Stadio della Roma , the newly proposed stadium for Italian Serie A team A.S. Roma , was inspired by the Roman Colosseum ?
text: Did you know that billionaire William "Tex" Moncrief was inspired to become a wildcatter after witnessing the opening of his father's oil well ?
text: Did you know that LIAT Flight 319 crashed into the sea and disappeared after two failed attempts to land at the Arnos Vale Airport ?
text: Did you know that Katharine Richardson and Mary Paillon were the first women to summit the Méridionale d'Arves ?
text: Did you know that upon the announcement of the West End closure of The Full Monty , its writer Simon Beaufoy signed the petition against the closure?
text: Did you know that the journal American Diplomacy is published online, free for anyone to read?
text: Did you know that Henry Walter Barnett and Marius Sestier 's film of the 1896 Melbourne Cup has been cited as Australia's first film production?
text: Did you know that Bernice Coppieters of the Ballets de Monte Carlo is Jean-Christophe Maillot 's muse ?
text: Did you know that the crossroads town Creagerstown burned down in 1914 and never recovered?
text: Did you know that Keith Brown , who broke the pole vault world record in 1935, later served as the Republican Party 's state chairman in Arizona ?
text: Did you know that Matthew Grocoff lives in America's oldest net zero energy home?
text: Did you know that the puzzle game Pokémon Battle Trozei 's rock-paper-scissors combat system has players battling 718 different Pokémon ?
text: Did you know that Mary Grannan did not receive any royalties for her first three books because she was a CBC Radio employee?
text: Did you know that in Connection Distributing Co. v. Holder , the Sixth Circuit held that record-keeping requirements of the Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act were not unconstitutional?
text: Did you know that Australian tour promoter Michael Chugg was served divorce papers on the same day he was awarded "Father of the Year"?
text: Did you know that biochemist Sofia Simmonds , despite her scientific accomplishments, was not promoted to full professor at Yale until nearly 30 years after she started there?
text: Did you know that the Argentine telenovela Sres. Papis will include scenes shot at the 2014 FIFA World Cup ?
text: Did you know that Skrillex collaborator Sirah 's debut release was produced by DJ Hoppa ?
text: Did you know that Ben Maidment 's failure to serve a rugby union league ban resulted in Jersey R.F.C. losing two RFU Championship points?
text: Did you know that when there is cold weather in Louisiana , alligators burrow in holes?
text: Did you know that, during the 1929–30 English football season, at a point when only one other Watford F.C. player had scored more than one goal, Frank McPherson had already scored 22 of Watford's 29 total goals?
text: Did you know that La Storta has a chapel , a piazza , and an annual feast day dedicated to the vision that Saint Ignatius is said to have experienced there in 1537?
text: Did you know that Romanian linguist Sextil Pușcariu spent three years in Berlin during World War II , leading a propaganda effort against Hungary 's hold on Northern Transylvania ?
text: Did you know that the plot of Inside No. 9 episode " The Understudy " both revolved around and was based upon Shakespeare 's Macbeth ?
text: Did you know that it was Monique Loudières 's doctor who recommended she should take up ballet, given her rather fragile constitution?
text: Did you know that Philadelphia Phillies pitcher David Buchanan has drawn comparisons to teammate Kyle Kendrick because both have been overlooked during their development?
text: Did you know that the five-year development of Grand Theft Auto V was conducted by a team of over 1,000 people?
text: Did you know that although Lafran Pane is considered the founder of the Muslim Students' Association , members sometimes did not recognize him or considered him a government spy?
text: Did you know that the Madras High Court banned quarrying activities on or near a hill in Keelavalavu because it contains a monument of archaeological importance?
text: Did you know that when Bill Sefton raised the pole vault world record to 4.54 m (14 ft 11 in), he could not try to improve it further as the uprights did not go any higher?
text: Did you know that Philip Lindsley declined the presidencies of Princeton , Transylvania University , Ohio University , and Dickinson College , but accepted the job at the University of Nashville ?
text: Did you know that Kalman Taigman did not go back to the Treblinka camp for over 60 years, unable to speak a word of Polish due to trauma caused by the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that Innes' star is a red dwarf star with a super-Earth in orbit?
text: Did you know that baseball player Zelous Wheeler has two uncles who played in the National Football League ?
text: Did you know that James Bond once had to be rescued by the Eastbourne Lifeboat ?
text: Did you know that visitors at The Flask, Highgate , were once asked to swear to drink only strong beer, and not to kiss the maid if they could kiss the mistress, unless they preferred the maid or could kiss both?
text: Did you know that the Australian subterranean termites Coptotermes acinaciformis and Coptotermes frenchi can both cause substantial damage to timbers in buildings?
text: Did you know that after taking an early interest in gymnastics in Algiers , Myriam Ould-Braham turned to dance, finding it was more fun to move about with music?
text: Did you know that Hoolock gibbons , the sole ape species in India, are translocated to the Mehao Wildlife Sanctuary from fragmented habitats?
text: Did you know that Italy's Andrea Doria -class battleships were attacked by Swordfish during the Battle of Taranto ?
text: Did you know that Elliott Corbett Memorial State Recreation Site is a 63-acre (25 ha) wilderness park located along the southern caldera rim of Blue Lake Crater in the Cascade Mountains of Central Oregon ?
text: Did you know that Tyler Ulis is one of four 2014 McDonald's All-Americans who have committed to play basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats ?
text: Did you know that developers of the upcoming survival horror video game The Forest were partly inspired by Disney ?
text: Did you know that Isabelle Ciaravola received a 30-minute standing ovation after her final performance with the Paris Opera Ballet ?
text: Did you know that bites from the lone star tick can make you allergic to mammalian meat products ?
text: Did you know that Cold War -era spy Hüseyin Yıldırım , sentenced to life without parole in the United States, was later pardoned and secretly extradited to Turkey, where he stayed only one day in prison?
text: Did you know that baseball player Mario Hollands is seeking a second bachelor's degree in merchandise marketing ?
text: Did you know that Washington County Fire District 2 in Oregon began as the Hillsboro Rural Fire Protection District and is now headed by the Hillsboro Fire Department's chief?
text: Did you know that Yulia Makhalina and Ulyana Lopatkina are part of "the basketball team", a group of tall and slender Kirov/Mariinsky ballerinas?
text: Did you know that Wisps , creatures in the Sonic the Hedgehog video games, were added to Sonic Colors as power-ups so that the player would not have to switch characters to experience varied gameplay?
text: Did you know that Annette Winkler , CEO of Smart , once headed a commercial truck dealership and became licensed to drive heavy trucks in nine days, to better understand her customers?
text: Did you know that in 1901 Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts built their own Palace in Kraków Old Town using public donations?
text: Did you know that Art Nouveau painter Maximilian Liebenwein lived in a tower of the medieval Burghausen Castle and painted a frieze on three of its walls?
text: Did you know that the body of a murdered child was found in Wheal Eliza Mine ?
text: Did you know that Alice Renavand , a star ( étoile ) at the Paris Opera Ballet , has been described as "having the beauty of the devil"?
text: Did you know that Ludmila Pagliero is the first South American to receive the title of étoile at the Paris Opera Ballet ?
text: Did you know that the titular character of Evan S. Connell 's Mrs. Bridge (1959) experiences "inarticulate rage" when her son uses one of the guest towels?
text: Did you know that James A. Kelly, Jr. sought to have his prison sentence delayed until after he had earned his master's degree ?
text: Did you know that Insite , North America's first legal supervised injection site for drug users, was opened by the Portland Hotel Society in Vancouver , Canada, in 2003?
text: Did you know that when California Interscholastic Federation ruled Kameron Chatman ineligible for varsity basketball competition, he played junior varsity ?
text: Did you know that Biden is believed to be an eccentric frozen pink dwarf?
text: Did you know that Fucking was renamed Fugging for an unknown reason?
text: Did you know that the United States once sued 50,000 cardboard boxes and clacker balls ?
text: Did you know that Jackson County, Florida elected a Wankard to represent it?
text: Did you know that the Chicago Cubs claim that one of their representatives is descended from a live bear?
text: Did you know that small white breasts smell like aniseed ?
text: Did you know that Canada's new money has been criticized for featuring too much nudity and not enough women?
text: Did you know THAT FEMINIST HULK SMASH GENDER BINARY AND ONLY MAKE CAPITALIZATION EXCEPTION FOR bell hooks ?
text: Did you know that Emily Lakdawalla of The Planetary Society has identified places where Martian drones can land on Earth?
text: Did you know that I believe I'll dust my broom ?
text: Did you know that Batman once sued the Commissioner ?
text: Did you know that the Queen of Hell was Jamaican?
text: Did you know that Microsoft made a man dress up in drag and dance in front of women to promote The Idolmaster 2 ?
text: Did you know that Amy Garnett is English rugby's most-capped female hooker ?
text: Did you know that Utopia existed?
text: Did you know that a Little Cockup is smaller than a Great Cockup?
text: Did you know that scientists observed an echo that lasted 65 years?
text: Did you know that Caucasians are brown?
text: Did you know that the idea of Santa Claus being shot can be "hilarious"?
text: Did you know that it is illegal to wear armour in the British Parliament ?
text: Did you know that the novel Southern Cross does not contain any words?
text: Did you know that William Wallace died inside the Rock of Gibraltar after falling off his bicycle?
text: Did you know that Operation In Our Sites is an effort by the U.S. government to detect intellectual property violations, and that agencies can arrest suspects connected with targeted websites and seize their assets?
text: Did you know that Isabelle Guérin and Laurent Hilaire have been described by John Rockwell as "two of the Paris Opera Ballet 's greatest stars"?
text: Did you know that an instrument used to measure magnetic anomalies was originally developed to detect submarines during World War II ?
text: Did you know that soon after starting her career at the Met , Gwendolyn Killebrew appeared as a valkyrie in Wagner's Die Walküre in a live broadcast alongside Birgit Nilsson in the title role?
text: Did you know that the Moravian Church Mission Ships were a series of twelve ships that made an annual voyage from London to the church's mission stations in Labrador every summer between 1770 and 1926?
text: Did you know that Randi Altschul 's disposable cellphone was named "product of the year" in 2002?
text: Did you know that the roots of the cycad Macrozamia spiralis contain cyanobacteria , which assist their host by fixing nitrogen ?
text: Did you know that the fan-made Sonic the Hedgehog game Sonic: After the Sequel includes power-ups from the Kirby series?
text: Did you know that Hungarian fencer Imre Gedővári won 10 national titles and 3 Olympic medals?
text: Did you know that in 2003 Mourneview Park was removed as a potential Irish Cup semi-final ground because of fans rioting?
text: Did you know that Meridian Dan has been a boxer, a waiter, a plasterer, an electrician, a steel erector, and a coded welder?
text: Did you know that the selection shadow concept states that the effects of aging are the result of old age being non-adaptive ?
text: Did you know that the last murdered Jews of the Mińsk Mazowiecki Ghetto came from the iron foundry of K. Rudzki i S-ka ?
text: Did you know that Tsering Samphel , a Congress Party candidate in the 2014 Indian general election , is a past president of the Ladakh Buddhist Association?
text: Did you know that British twopence coins minted in 1797 were known as "cartwheels" due to their unusually large size and thick rim?
text: Did you know that comedian Red Skelton earned more from painting than from his television and radio career?
text: Did you know that the release of 1.5 million balloons in Balloonfest '86 snarled Cleveland airport and highway traffic, spooked horses, and interfered with US Coast Guard search and rescue efforts?
text: Did you know that, while a member of Belfast City Council , Lindsay Mason patrolled the city with a bow and arrow?
text: Did you know that in a famous story in the Zhuangzi , Zhuangzi woke up from a dream wondering whether he was Zhuangzi dreaming of being a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming of being him?
text: Did you know that after Spanish academic and politician Manuel Broseta was assassinated by ETA in 1992, a foundation named after him has handed out a Coexistence Prize every year?
text: Did you know that the farm of Økern is mentioned in documents dating from the 13th century?
text: Did you know that Lilian Helen Alexander was one of the first five women to study medicine at the University of Melbourne and the first female student admitted to an Australian residential college ?
text: Did you know that Fay Crocker is the oldest golfer to win a major championship on the LPGA Tour ?
text: Did you know that female Neotrogla have penis-like genitalia which are used to penetrate males during mating sessions lasting up to 70 hours?
text: Did you know that the diet of the sooty gull includes turtle hatchlings and the eggs and chicks of other sea birds?
text: Did you know that NXT Arrival was the first live professional wrestling event streamed online via the WWE Network ?
text: Did you know that Sergei Grigoriyevich Stroganov founded the first private academy of art in Russia using his own money?
text: Did you know that the Cape mountain toad is believed to be the only South African amphibian to lack a voice?
text: Did you know that in the 1980s, the rate of population growth in Juniata County was more than 50 times higher than the rate of population growth in Pennsylvania?
text: Did you know that the prince James of Aragon refused to have sex with his wife , renounced the crown, and became a monk?
text: Did you know that Liebe Sokol Diamond , who was born without several fingers, became an orthopedic surgeon specializing in children's hand deformities?
text: Did you know that Tintin in Tibet is the only Tintin story without an antagonist?
text: Did you know that the large claws of the mantis shrimp Squilla empusa are unfolded rapidly to spear, slash, and immobilise its prey ?
text: Did you know that it was estimated that a band had accumulated at least $ 20,000 in royalty payments from an album of silence on Spotify ?
text: Did you know that after the birth control pill was subsidized in the U.S. for poor Americans, black militants claimed that this was a form of black genocide ?
text: Did you know that Jane Pauley , Margaret Mead , and Gloria Steinem were Supersisters ?
text: Did you know that in 1917, Czechoslovak Legionnaires on a Russian ship buried a Romanian socialist off the coast of Shetland ?
text: Did you know that Titanfall won a record-breaking six E3 Critics Awards at the 2013 Electronic Entertainment Expo ?
text: Did you know that Bosnian nobleman Vukosav Nikolić died during the Bosnian-Ragusan War ?
text: Did you know that Prime Prep Academy , which was co-founded by professional football player Deion Sanders , later fired him as the school's head coach?
text: Did you know that as a teenager, Courtney Love performed at Mary's Club in Portland , Oregon?
text: Did you know that dancing frogs , found in the Western Ghats in India, wave their hindlegs while calling to attract mates?
text: Did you know that the 2001 Pepsi 400 , the first race at Daytona International Speedway after Dale Earnhardt 's death , was won by his son ?
text: Did you know that outsider art dealer Monika Kinley started her career in the art world by selling postcards at the Tate Gallery ?
text: Did you know that the chain moray sometimes forages in tide pools and can survive for up to half an hour out of water?
text: Did you know that Medal of Honor recipient Victor Vifquain attempted to kidnap Confederate President Jefferson Davis ?
text: Did you know that Romance by Luis Miguel was credited by music critics for reviving the bolero genre?
text: Did you know that business author Liane Davey uses the label " bobblehead " for a team that underperforms due to excess conformity?
text: Did you know that in September 1864, a thousand soldiers of the United States Army searched the valley of West Branch Fishing Creek for an alleged fortress manned by 500 armed deserters and draft evaders ?
text: Did you know that Tan Boen Soan worked on the railway before becoming a film producer, novelist, and journalist?
text: Did you know that merchant David Olyphant of Olyphant & Co. was responsible for the dispatch of the first American Protestant missionary to China?
text: Did you know that the 1983 Automonopoli was a computer version of Monopoly marketed as the first to have an artificial intelligence strong enough to compete against human players?
text: Did you know that Pavle Đurišić emerged as one of the main commanders of the Uprising in Montenegro ?
text: Did you know that it took seven statisticians 57 minutes to finalize the box score after the highest scoring men's basketball game in NCAA history had ended?
text: Did you know that the September 1948 Florida hurricane was considered the worst tropical cyclone in Key West since 1919 ?
text: Did you know that Margaret Sanger called Greenwich Village activist Henrietta Rodman a "Feminist of Feminists"?
text: Did you know that Josephine Gomon was recruited to work for the Ford Motor Company during World War II by Henry Ford himself?
text: Did you know that King Star King was released online as part of Adult Swim 's pilot development contest, partnered with KFC ?
text: Did you know that Czech footballer Roman Týce captained his country in the 2000 Summer Olympics football tournament ?
text: Did you know that the British fourpence was known as a "joey" after MP Joseph Hume , who spoke in favour of its introduction?
text: Did you know that the annual "Fatties versus Skinnies" soccer match in San Pedro de Santa Bárbara , Costa Rica, was started so people could identify each team's players, since they had no uniforms?
text: Did you know that Arthur Edmund Grimshaw , the organist at Leeds Cathedral for 30 years, was replaced by an 11-year-old boy?
text: Did you know that the first commercial stereoscopic video game was released in 1982?
text: Did you know that the Commonwealth War Graves Commission commemorates 1.7 million deceased Commonwealth military service members in 153 countries?
text: Did you know that Julia Archibald Holmes , a suffragist and friend of Susan B. Anthony , was also the first woman to climb Pikes Peak ?
text: Did you know that Aghoris sit on a corpse and meditate and finally decapitate the corpse to gain control over the soul of the deceased?
text: Did you know that jockey Tom Goodisson won the Epsom Derby in 1813 on the black colt Smolensko , one of only two black horses to ever win the Derby?
text: Did you know that Dragoljub Jeličić , who fought against the invading Austro-Hungarian Army at the age of 12, was mentioned in the WWI memoirs of criminology pioneer Archibald Reiss ?
text: Did you know that the star T Ursae Minoris is thought to have undergone a helium flash , seen from Earth in 1979?
text: Did you know that invitations to the NBA Draft Combine are based on a vote of National Basketball Association teams?
text: Did you know that " The Little Things Give You Away " berates George W. Bush 's response to Hurricane Katrina ?
text: Did you know that Indian reverend P. B. M. Basaiawmoit‎ led campaigns against uranium mining in Meghalaya ?
text: Did you know that the titular "dewdrop" in the Indonesian war film Embun is love?
text: Did you know that Dragoljub Jeličić , who fought against the invading Austro-Hungarian Army at the age of 12, was mentioned in the WWI memoirs of criminology pioneer Archibald Reiss ?
text: Did you know that half of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission -approved trout waters in Union County are in the watershed of Buffalo Creek ?
text: Did you know that St. Mark's Bookshop is the oldest independent book store in Manhattan still owned by the original owners?
text: Did you know that footballer René Bolf won the Gambrinus Liga with Sparta in his first season with the club, but returned to his former club, Ostrava , during the following season?
text: Did you know that the 1901 Louisiana hurricane was the first hurricane to strike the state in the month of August or earlier since 1888 ?
text: Did you know that drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán reportedly escaped from prison in a laundry cart?
text: Did you know that as a result of the royal baccarat scandal , Edward, Prince of Wales , became the first heir to the English throne to appear involuntarily in court for 480 years?
text: Did you know that the video game Escape from Woomera , which was built to criticize the treatment of asylum seekers in Australia , was funded by the Australian government's art funding body, the Australia Council ?
text: Did you know that Setangan Berloemoer Darah was the second novel to be adapted to Indonesian film ?
text: Did you know that the Poland–Ukraine border , the most often crossed eastern border of the European Union , is also a major smuggling route?
text: Did you know that Hanzelka and Zikmund traveled to 83 countries before being blacklisted by the Czechoslovakian government?
text: Did you know that the 20-cent U.S. Parcel Post stamp of 1912 had the distinction of being the first stamp in history to depict an airplane, six years before the U.S. Post Office issued an airmail stamp ?
text: Did you know that the National Football League 's New York Giants traded two first-round NFL draft picks to the Minnesota Vikings for Fran Tarkenton in 1967, only to trade him back to the Vikings in 1972?
text: Did you know that the May 2014 bombing of the Carlton Citadel Hotel in Aleppo , Syria, was nearly identical to an attack on the same building three months earlier?
text: Did you know that Mahantango Creek is only 2 miles (3.2 km) long, but drains an area of 86 square miles (220 km 2 )?
text: Did you know that the German feminist newspaper Courage was named after the main character of Mother Courage and Her Children ?
text: Did you know that footage from 12 oz. Mouse makes a cameo appearance in Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters ?
text: Did you know that Joany Badenhorst , the first female snowboarder to represent Australia at the Winter Paralympics , was forced to withdraw after injuring herself in training on the morning of her event?
text: Did you know that the leaves of two species of the fossil plant genus Banksieaeformis resemble those of the living Banksia serrata ?
text: Did you know that John Calvin Ferguson , a Canadian-born American, had a road named after him in the French concession of Shanghai, China?
text: Did you know that Stop the Music , the debut album by brother-sister hip hop duo New Breed , features a Latin influence that highlights the duo's Puerto Rican heritage?
text: Did you know that D. F. Landale became the first post-World War II Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in 1946?
text: Did you know that the Dutch-language Soerabaijasch Handelsblad used both Gregorian and Japanese dates in its almost 80 years of publication?
text: Did you know that in 1881, nine years after Lord Edward Thynne ran off with Marquess Townshend 's wife, the Marquess attacked him with a horse whip ?
text: Did you know that the 1855 death of law enforcement officer Andrew Bolon contributed to the outbreak of the Yakima War ?
text: Did you know that in the 2014 ship collision off Po Toi , Zhong Xing 2 , the ship that sank, was a third of the length of the other ship in the collision?
text: Did you know that because of the Heartbleed bug, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft joined the Core Infrastructure Initiative to help fund software projects like OpenSSL ?
text: Did you know that the hymn " Jesu, meine Freude " (Jesus, my joy) by Johann Franck and Johann Crüger mentions singing in defiance of the "old dragon", death, and fear?
text: Did you know that Union Films ' action film Harta Berdarah was released during Eid ?
text: Did you know that Star Trek: The Next Generation 's Commander Riker once advertised products for Boole & Babbage ?
text: Did you know that after Tamil regions of Travancore merged with Tamil Nadu , the leaders of Travancore Tamil Nadu Congress joined with Congress ?
text: Did you know that during the 2013–14 Ivy League men's basketball season five of the eight teams earned postseason invitations?
text: Did you know that the Hammersley Fork watershed was heavily logged in the early 1900s, but has been home to almost no industrial activity since?
text: Did you know that 14-year-old Australian snowboarder Ben Tudhope was the youngest competitor at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi ?
text: Did you know that most non- Peronist political parties in Argentina have united in the political coalition Broad Front UNEN ?
text: Did you know that not only does Paratarsotomus macropalpis run at a speed equivalent to a human running at 1,300 mph (2,100 km/h), it also does so at temperatures lethal to most animals?
text: Did you know that Edmund Abel , who designed and patented the Mr. Coffee automatic drip coffeemaker , did not drink coffee ?
text: Did you know that the Indian town of Mannargudi developed around the Rajagopalaswamy temple ?
text: Did you know that Oprah donated her Black Angel Collection to the Angel Museum ?
text: Did you know that the Sun Bowl Committee's decision to exclude David Showell from playing in the 1949 Sun Bowl based on his race led to demonstrations at Lafayette College against segregation?
text: Did you know that the inland robust scorpion can remove 200–400 times its own weight in sand when building its burrow?
text: Did you know that the penalty circle on a field hockey pitch isn't really a circle?
text: Did you know that Glarentza was the most important town and main port of the Principality of Achaea in Frankish Greece ?
text: Did you know that twelve pairs of cranial nerves control facial expression , and transmit facial sensation and the special senses of taste, hearing, balance, vision, and smell?
text: Did you know that José Mário Vaz , the newly elected President of Guinea-Bissau , is popularly nicknamed "Jomav"?
text: Did you know that approximately one in 80,000 females is born without a cervix ?
text: Did you know that fashion professor Louise Wilson 's students included Christopher Kane , Jonathan Saunders , and Alexander McQueen ?
text: Did you know that Union Films ' 1941 film Soeara Berbisa was advertised as "civilised" enough for European audiences?
text: Did you know that when recording The Allman Brothers Band , Duane Allman 's slide guitar solo on "Dreams" reduced the rest of the band to tears?
text: Did you know that The Winston Blue is the largest flawless vivid blue diamond in the world?
text: Did you know that the Lexington Historical Museum is housed within an 1846 Presbyterian church?
text: Did you know that pianist Brad Mehldau compared the difficulty of composing music to a game of chess?
text: Did you know that the 2014–15 FA Cup will be the first time that artificial pitches are allowed in all rounds of the competition, after they were banned in 1995?
text: Did you know that the tower of Emmanuel Church, Preston , has gargoyles in the form of winged beasts?
text: Did you know that Alice Davis Menken 's experience working with her synagogue sisterhood's settlement house led to her lifelong interest in assisting female Jewish immigrant juvenile delinquents ?
text: Did you know that first impressions can be influenced by how many people you are with?
text: Did you know that Kim Booth , leader of the Tasmanian Greens , ran a sawmill in Meander, Tasmania ?
text: Did you know that rapper Da' T.R.U.T.H. was able to experiment with diverse musical styles on Heartbeat because he released it through his own, newly established label?
text: Did you know that Machiavelli expert Lawrence Burd owned 8000 Penny Blacks ?
text: Did you know that four women who received lab-grown vagina transplants recently reported normal function during sexual intercourse ?
text: Did you know that Marvin Gabrion was sentenced to death in Michigan despite the state's ban on capital punishment ?
text: Did you know that the oldest Hasidic yeshiva in Israel is located in Shikun Chabad , Jerusalem?
text: Did you know that the Archbishop of Arezzo, Gentile de' Becchi , was employed as a tutor to a boy who became a cardinal at 13 and pope at 38?
text: Did you know that Umeå , a 2014 European Capital of Culture , is near an arboretum that specializes in growing plants for use at northern latitudes?
text: Did you know that communist parliamentarian Bhan Singh Bhaura survived the crash of Indian Airlines Flight 440 ?
text: Did you know that Nas ' " I Gave You Power " is written from the perspective of a gun ?
text: Did you know that inter-crater plains form the oldest surface on Mercury?
text: Did you know that in 1927, while he was President of the Oregon State Senate , Henry L. Corbett served as acting Governor of Oregon twice?
text: Did you know that the DeCSS haiku was written in part to demonstrate the notion of computer code being considered as free speech ?
text: Did you know that John R. Huizenga discovered the elements einsteinium and fermium in debris from a nuclear test of a fusion device, but considered cold fusion "the scientific fiasco of the century"?
text: Did you know that A. R. Rahman , who won India's National Film Award for Best Music Direction for Roja , was initially tied with Ilaiyaraaja before the jury's chairman cast the deciding vote?
text: Did you know that the Mexican kingsnake is sometimes killed because it is misidentified as a venomous coral snake ?
text: Did you know that anyone convicted of insulting " Namibia, Land of the Brave " can be imprisoned for five years?
text: Did you know that Dieter Bortfeldt , an expert in detecting forged stamps , won 15 gold medals for his displays of the philately of Colombia ?
text: Did you know that " Cirrus " by Bonobo was featured in a mobile phone advert?
text: Did you know that chemist Madeleine M. Joullié developed indanediones , used by the U.S. Secret Service to detect fingerprints ?
text: Did you know that, according to Japanese tradition, the Son of Heaven rules as a divine descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu ?
text: Did you know that during the panchayat elections of July 2013, Anubrata Mandal publicly encouraged Trinamool Congress supporters to hurl bombs at the police?
text: Did you know that the Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award was introduced in 1991 to boost quality of service and consumer satisfaction in India?
text: Did you know that Glee 's fifth season finale completed shooting 11 days before it was broadcast?
text: Did you know that Anne Nicol Gaylor started a medical fund that has raised money to help pay for nearly 19,000 abortions ?
text: Did you know that St Joseph's Church, Preston , was built in a district of the town containing cotton mills, and was dedicated to Saint Joseph , the patron saint of workers?
text: Did you know that having defended a heavy water factory in the 1940 Norwegian Campaign , Captain Rolf Hauge led No. 5 Norwegian Troop of the No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando in the 1944 assault landings at Walcheren ?
text: Did you know that the northern birch mouse is a skilful climber?
text: Did you know that rapper Rich Homie Quan is featured on Mariah Carey 's song " Thirsty " ?
text: Did you know that Theodora Cowan is regarded as the first Australian-born woman sculptor?
text: Did you know that 65% of male and female prisoners in New South Wales were sexually abused as children ?
text: Did you know that despite being a Nevada resident at the time, Octavius D. Gass served as President of the Council ( upper house ) during the 4th Arizona Territorial Legislature ?
text: Did you know that Relicanthus daphneae , originally thought to be one of the sea anemones , is so distinct from them that it belongs in a new order of its own?
text: Did you know that Ann Hunt and Elizabeth Hamel hold the Guinness World Record as the longest separated twins to be reunited?
text: Did you know that, with his first entrant, California Chrome , 77-year-old Art Sherman became the oldest horse trainer to ever win the Kentucky Derby ?
text: Did you know that Arsenal reached the 2014 FA Cup Final today without leaving London?
text: Did you know that the rebuilt Black Rock Harbor Light was predicted to withstand the "storm of the ages"?
text: Did you know that Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta is one Cuba's most famous social reformers ?
text: Did you know that Akrotiri and Dhekelia is one of the only two British Overseas Territory without its own unique flag ?
text: Did you know that the home of David Hudson , founder of Hudson, Ohio , also served as the town's first post office, tavern, and court room?
text: Did you know that during World War I, Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland , converted her London house into a hospital?
text: Did you know that " Good Old Arsenal " was the first FA Cup Final record released?
text: Did you know that there is a 19th-century German cannon in People's Park , Nanning , China?
text: Did you know that Emanuel Snowman was famous for dealing in Easter eggs , one of which sold for a world record $9.6 million in 2002?
text: Did you know that Chase Williamson graduated from USC weeks before being cast in John Dies at the End ?
text: Did you know that musicians often mimic barnyard animal sounds with voices and instruments in the American blues song " Little Red Rooster "?
text: Did you know that after originating the role of Lady Sangazure in The Sorcerer , Mrs Howard Paul walked out of the cast of H.M.S. Pinafore when her part was reduced?
text: Did you know that the Hindu Temple of Dayton in Ohio was consecrated in 1985 and underwent two years of renovations starting in 2011?
text: Did you know that Turkish-Romani musician Selim Sesler was called "the Coltrane of the clarinet "?
text: Did you know that Grevillea laurifolia was so named for the resemblance of its leaves to those of laurel?
text: Did you know that although Emil Tamsen fought for the British in the First Boer War , he became a friend of the Boer leader Paul Kruger ?
text: Did you know that when two members of alternative rock band Too Much Joy posted 13 songs online under the name Wonderlick , they made $12,000 from online donations alone?
text: Did you know that Euthymius I became Patriarch of Constantinople because his predecessor, Nicholas Mystikos , refused to sanction Emperor Leo VI 's un- canonical fourth marriage?
text: Did you know that ecological-evolutionary theory posits that level of technology is the key factor in whether societies flourish or perish?
text: Did you know that Idhuvum Kadandhu Pogum is India's first studio-backed short film made exclusively for the Internet?
text: Did you know that footballer František Rajtoral was one of two players sent off in the inaugural Czech Supercup ?
text: Did you know that PETA's browser games regularly satirize popular franchises like Mario and Pokémon ?
text: Did you know that aspiring politician Will Straw is the candidate for a constituency next to his father 's?
text: Did you know that, as a member of the Tennessee legislature after the Civil War , Charles Inman supported measures to deny voting rights to former Confederates ?
text: Did you know that at full capacity the Cruachan Power Station drains 200 cubic metres (260 cu yd) of water per second from Cruachan Reservoir ?
text: Did you know that boxing champion Bubi Scholz won his first fight as a professional boxer without previously competing as an amateur?
text: Did you know that the bell from Oregon City College was given to what is now Linfield College after the former was dissolved?
text: Did you know that J. J. Abrams cast the unknown Daisy Ridley over Academy Award -winner Lupita Nyong'o in Star Wars Episode VII ?
text: Did you know that the Piemontese wine grape Baratuciat may be named after cats' testicles?
text: Did you know that the Valls Cabinet is the first French cabinet with a foreign-born prime minister?
text: Did you know that the " Billy Boys " was ruled as a tolerated historic song by UEFA despite it being banned in Scottish football grounds due to sectarianism ?
text: Did you know that at one time Nortel 's Carling Campus in Ottawa , Canada , represented the city's aspirations of becoming a technology hotbed?
text: Did you know that American journalist and author William Honan helped solve a 1945 heist in Quedlinburg , Germany, in which over US$200 million worth of items were stolen?
text: Did you know that a GamesRadar writer simply stated "Total bitch" about Amy Rose in an article with several sentences about each of the other Sonic the Hedgehog characters?
text: Did you know that in the first episode he wrote for Glee , starring actor Chris Colfer cast himself as Peter Pan ?
text: Did you know that female gregarious slender salamanders often lay their eggs in communal nests?
text: Did you know that since 1995, the National Weather Service office in Miami, Florida , has been co-located with the National Hurricane Center on the campus of Florida International University ?
text: Did you know that for Glee 's " Back-up Plan ", Shirley MacLaine sang a Janis Joplin song for the first time?
text: Did you know that Peder Kolstad 's cabinet supported a private Norwegian occupation of Eastern Greenland ?
text: Did you know that in field hockey , the penalty shoot-out format no longer involves penalty strokes ?
text: Did you know that the songs " Wop " (2011) and " Don't Drop That Thun Thun " (2012) were both popularized in 2013 by viral videos involving twerking ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee reported a resolution to the full Senate in preparation for the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide ?
text: Did you know that the Lilpop, Rau i Loewenstein factory was the largest manufacturing company in Poland before being destroyed by the Germans during World War II?
text: Did you know that the United States Agency for International Development covertly developed ZunZuneo , the "Cuban Twitter ", allegedly as a means of fomenting dissent similar to that of the Arab Spring ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming television series, Agent Carter , was inspired by a short film, also titled Agent Carter ?
text: Did you know that Serbian Orthodox monk Jovan Maleševac collaborated in 1561 with the Protestant reformer Primož Trubar to print religious books in Cyrillic ?
text: Did you know that most cases of fusion of the labia minora do not require treatment since they resolve naturally?
text: Did you know that actress Camilla Arfwedson attended three auditions to secure the role of Holby City character Zosia March ?
text: Did you know that in 1869 St Thomas' Church, Preston , contained a curtained pew that was occupied by the local Member of Parliament ?
text: Did you know that David Leyonhjelm , who will sit in the Australian Senate from July, has been described as a " libertarian purist", and compared to Ron Paul ?
text: Did you know that the French heavy-lift ship SS Kanguroo had to have her bow dismantled to load the submarines that she was designed to transport?
text: Did you know that artist Chizuko Judy Sugita de Queiroz was chosen as Nisei Week Queen in 1953?
text: Did you know that the Pony Express Bible was given only with a signed frontier pledge of loyalty, honesty, and sobriety?
text: Did you know that despite winning the Baja 1000 four times (twice overall) in off-road competition , Mark Stahl never finished better than 16th in NASCAR Winston Cup Series stock cars ?
text: Did you know that the natural monument Vápenice in the Czech Republic is a former limestone quarry?
text: Did you know that Doris Huestis Speirs , after whom an annual prize bestowed by the Society of Canadian Ornithologists is named, exhibited her paintings with the Group of Seven and the Canadian Group of Painters ?
text: Did you know that Xining 's People's Park was designed by a recent college graduate?
text: Did you know that the syndicalist Léa Roback opened the first Marxist book store in Montreal ?
text: Did you know that Umeå Energi set up lamps in bus shelters to avoid people getting SAD ?
text: Did you know that SpaceX is working on bringing orbital rockets back to the launchpad and landing them on landing legs?
text: Did you know that Antonín Kinský was part of the Czech Republic squad at UEFA Euro 2004 and the 2006 FIFA World Cup , although he played at neither tournament?
text: Did you know that the 2014 adaptation of Rosemary's Baby starring Zoe Saldana is set in Paris rather than New York City like the original novel ?
text: Did you know that two Boeing 747s landed on a 50-foot (15 m) wide runway when they were delivered to the South African Airways Museum Society ?
text: Did you know that People's Park, Chengdu , has a monument commemorating those who died protecting railways ?
text: Did you know that Wilfred T. Webb delivered Arizona's official 1912 electoral vote certificate a day late because he stopped en route to Washington D.C. to court his future wife?
text: Did you know that to avenge the execution of her son, Mother Lü beheaded her son's killer, sacrificed his head on her son's tomb, and became the first female rebel leader in Chinese history?
text: Did you know that an imperforate hymen is the most common congenital cause of vaginal obstruction ?
text: Did you know that Mahatma Gandhi founded the Harijan Sevak Sangh to remove untouchability from Indian society?
text: Did you know that U.S. Marshal William K. Meade organized the liberation of Arizona Territorial Governor C. Meyer Zulick from imprisonment in Mexico?
text: Did you know that part of The Black Eyed Peas ' song " Boom Boom Pow " was inspired by Bizarre Inc 's " I'm Gonna Get You "?
text: Did you know that Benedict Cumberbatch has been called the "Thinking Woman's Crumpet"?
text: Did you know that DNA base flipping is used in DNA replication , DNA methylation and RNA transcription ?
text: Did you know that Turkish painter İbrahim Balaban 's talent was discovered in prison by fellow inmate and famous Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet Ran , who called him "my peasant painter"?
text: Did you know that B. R. Ambedkar published Annihilation of Caste , his speech intended for an anti-caste conference, after his invitation to present it was withdrawn?
text: Did you know that Nicholas Snowman is the third generation chairman of the jewellers Wartski , who made the ring for the 2011 Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton ?
text: Did you know that the new bark of Eucalyptus alba is pink?
text: Did you know that Teri Gender Bender has incorporated raw meat into her performances and has been compared to both Björk and Siouxsie Sioux ?
text: Did you know that Exeter Chiefs hosted the New Zealand national rugby union team 's first game in the Northern Hemisphere, where they became known as the All Blacks?
text: Did you know that a painting by Mallica "Kapo" Reynolds was selected by the Jamaican government as a gift for the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana ?
text: Did you know that the first legally recognized strike in Costa Rica was organized by Italian immigrants building railroads?
text: Did you know that early members of the Ladies' Scottish Climbing Club would often take off their long skirts to climb in knickerbockers ?
text: Did you know that according to tradition, American spy Anna Strong signalled members of the Culper Ring during the American Revolutionary War with her petticoat?
text: Did you know that Chicagoland was produced to help CNN be less dependent upon the 24-hour news cycle ?
text: Did you know that Betty Bone Schiess is one of the Philadelphia Eleven , leaders in the movement to allow the ordination of women in the Episcopal Church ?
text: Did you know that Maia Makhateli felt it was hard to be paired with her brother David Makhateli while dancing the ballet Romeo and Juliet ?
text: Did you know that the recreations stated by University of Nottingham Professor Jeremy Lawrance in Who's Who include "searching for stone circles" and "evading capture by elephants"?
text: Did you know that the Lesbian Tide has been called the United States' first national lesbian newspaper?
text: Did you know that Purvis Short is the Golden State Warriors ' seventh all-time leading scorer?
text: Did you know that an investment fund named in honor of Charles R. Blyth was established at Stanford University to allow finance students to make decisions with real money?
text: Did you know that organist Karl Ludwig Gerok , who studied and taught at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart , composed chorale preludes on " Aus tiefer Not " and " Gelobt sei Gott "?
text: Did you know that in its earlier years, the soft drink Bludwine was marketed as having health benefits, such as aiding in digestion, and some physicians in Georgia prescribed it to their patients?
text: Did you know that French printer Denis Janot (fl. 1529–1544) came from families of printers on both sides and married into another family of printers, and after his death his wife married another printer?
text: Did you know that there are nearly 900 macroinvertebrates per square meter in the lower reaches of West Creek ?
text: Did you know that Kalman Mann , a seventh-generation Jerusalemite, passed the entrance exam at the London School of Economics though he could barely speak English?
text: Did you know that Daniel Suárez won the first three races he competed in in 2014, across two different racing series?
text: Did you know that " Onward, Christian Pilgrims " has replaced " Onward, Christian Soldiers " in some British hymnals ?
text: Did you know that Nick Principe became a stunt performer so he could portray monsters in films?
text: Did you know that Yalçın Granit became the first Turkish basketballer to play in a European team when he went to France for his doctoral studies?
text: Did you know that Thief: Deadly Shadows contains a level designed to be the scariest in any video game?
text: Did you know that Kenneth Snowman was one of the few people to appear as himself in a James Bond story?
text: Did you know that the Berkshire No. 7 , Elmer S. Dailey , and Priscilla Dailey , which sank together in 1974, are the only National Register of Historic Places -listed shipwrecks in Connecticut?
text: Did you know that the life story of actress and television presenter Štěpánka Haničincová was the subject of a 2003 documentary?
text: Did you know that actress Samira Wiley works on Orange Is the New Black alongside a writer and another cast member with whom she became friends while attending the Juilliard School ?
text: Did you know that the newest Interstate Highway designation in Michigan is Interstate 73 , but it has never been built?
text: Did you know that Assam state communist leader Drupad Borgohain was born on the anniversary of the October Revolution ?
text: Did you know that at age 23, poet Armen Dorian was arrested in the middle of the night and ultimately murdered during the Armenian Genocide ?
text: Did you know that in the 1972 by-election to the Gird seat in the Madhya Pradesh assembly , Vijaya Raje Scindia 's candidate was defeated by the communist Balkrishna Sharma ?
text: Did you know that Portuguese Captain André Furtado killed Puvirasa Pandaram , king of the Jaffna Kingdom , in 1591?
text: Did you know that the first act of the 1893 play Anatol earned playwright Arthur Schnitzler the title of "psychological depth researcher" from Sigmund Freud ?
text: Did you know that in 2012–13, the Himadri Station , India's first research base in the Arctic, was manned for 185 days, with 25 scientists visiting it to carry out studies?
text: Did you know that Grammy Award -winning anthropologist Luis Kemnitzer posed naked for a calendar when he was in his mid-seventies?
text: Did you know that Belgian tennis champion Philippe Washer lent his Ferrari 250 Europa GT Pinin Farina Coupé to his cousin, driver Olivier Gendebien , who then finished third at the 1955 Liège-Rome-Liège rally?
text: Did you know that Igone de Jongh , principal dancer with the Dutch National Ballet , is featured in Anouk 's music video Birds , the official Netherlands entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 ?
text: Did you know that readers of Focus: A Journal for Lesbians could pay extra to buy the magazine in a brown wrapper?
text: Did you know that Tom Hulatt finished third when the barrier of running a mile in under four minutes was broken 60 years ago today?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance commissioned a survey which found that 72% of consumers said they knew little or nothing about farming or ranching ?
text: Did you know that wrestlers Cody Rhodes and Goldust are sons of WWE Hall of Famer "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes ?
text: Did you know that the Shriners Hospital for Children in Portland, Oregon underwent a $70 million expansion that reduced the number of beds at the hospital?
text: Did you know that in 1975, the former general secretary of the Israeli Communist Party , Shmuel Mikunis , joined the dissident Israeli Communist Opposition ?
text: Did you know that Rocket Fizz , a candy company and franchise chain, produces and markets a ranch dressing -flavored soft drink ?
text: Did you know that Josephine Brown and Susan Paul were the first African American women biographers?
text: Did you know that four-eyed harvestmen known as Tetrophthalmi once roamed the Earth?
text: Did you know that Alma Wagen was the first female guide employed by Mount Rainier National Park ?
text: Did you know that Howard T. Fisher designed the House at 130 Mohegan Avenue ?
text: Did you know that Canadian lawyer David Scearce wrote the screenplay for A Single Man in his spare time?
text: Did you know that Tharanga Goonetilleke is the first Sri Lankan woman to attend the Juilliard School , one of the world's leading music schools?
text: Did you know that Genetics and the Origin of Species by Theodosius Dobzhansky united genetics with Darwin 's theory of evolution?
text: Did you know that in 1965 Yvette Vaucher became the first woman to climb the Matterhorn 's north face?
text: Did you know that the spiralling whitefly , a major agricultural pest, has spread rapidly in tropical and subtropical regions since the mid-20th century?
text: Did you know that German art photographer Michael Wesely recorded the reconstruction of Berlin's Potsdamer Platz and New York's MoMA using exposures of up to three years?
text: Did you know that Five Days at Memorial is a non-fiction book by Sheri Fink based on her Pulitzer Prize -winning article about the euthanasia of patients at Memorial Medical Center during Hurricane Katrina ?
text: Did you know that two Harley-Davidson dealers from New Zealand started the Nairn Transport Company , which ran Buicks and Cadillacs across the desert from Beirut to Baghdad?
text: Did you know that Johannesburg has two Chinatowns , the first one on Commissioner Street ?
text: Did you know that the Durtnell family firm , which originally built Poundsbridge Manor in 1593, also repaired the house after it was bombed in World War II?
text: Did you know that several U.S. companies produce bacon soda , a bacon-flavored soft drink ?
text: Did you know that after the British National Board for Prices and Incomes was closed, member Hugh Clegg wrote a book entitled How to Run an Incomes Policy , and Why We Made Such a Mess of the Last One ?
text: Did you know that Pete Hampton is believed to be the first African American to make a harmonica recording?
text: Did you know that electronic musician Peaches is featured on the remix of Natalia Kills ' song " Trouble "?
text: Did you know that Qingdao Airlines , a Chinese air carrier that launched operations in April 2014, aims to become a "boutique airline"?
text: Did you know that football coach Choo Seng Quee was a British agent during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the music video for " Vida " by Ricky Martin was filmed in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil?
text: Did you know that former President of the Senate of Jamaica Syringa Marshall-Burnett applied to train as a nurse at age 14?
text: Did you know that there were only 61 known plants of the endangered shrub Banksia montana in the wild in 2004?
text: Did you know that although it was banned at the time, the communist newspaper al-Qaidah was probably one of the most read publications in Iraq in 1947?
text: Did you know that former Massachusetts House Ethics Committee Chairman Stephen W. Doran has been compared to Breaking Bad 's Walter White ?
text: Did you know that Joseph D. Bryant secretly operated on President Grover Cleveland to remove a cancerous growth from the roof of his mouth?
text: Did you know that both teams in the 2014 Coppa Italia Final lost the first leg of their semi-finals?
text: Did you know that Preston Central Methodist Church was one of the first public buildings in England to be lit by gas?
text: Did you know that G. Nagesh was one of the youngest candidates to be elected to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 1994?
text: Did you know that A Railway Collision , one of the first British films to use scale models, was thought to be so realistic that audiences were convinced that it showed a genuine rail disaster?
text: Did you know that the February 4, 2014, debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham on the viability of Young Earth creationism was watched by about 3 million people live on the Internet, according to one estimate?
text: Did you know that though Przevalski's Nuthatch has been treated as conspecific with the White-breasted Nuthatch , a 2014 phylogenetic study found them to be only distantly related within their genus?
text: Did you know that Vika Lusibaea , only the second woman ever to sit in the National Parliament of Solomon Islands , was elected to replace her husband Jimmy "Rasta" , a former warlord convicted of assault?
text: Did you know that the music video for the song " Adore You " appears to simulate a sex tape?
text: Did you know that Major Digby Tatham-Warter disabled a Nazi armoured car with an umbrella while wearing a bowler hat?
text: Did you know that American pioneers following the Oregon and California trails passed over O'Fallons Bluff on their way west during the 19th century?
text: Did you know that Léon Amédée François Raffenel and Charles Rondony , who were killed in action on 22 August 1914, were the first French generals to die in World War One ?
text: Did you know that the 2014 Newark mayoral election will be the first since the resignation of Cory Booker ?
text: Did you know that one reviewer said that the 1991 gay pornographic film Jumper was "modeled somewhat" on the 1978 film Heaven Can Wait ?
text: Did you know that Home Run Baker only hit 96 home runs , and never more than 12 in a baseball season?
text: Did you know that the 2012 Summer Paralympics was the largest Paralympics ever?
text: Did you know that Ko Ko Gyi , a Burmese democracy activist who spent over 17 years in prison on multiple occasions between 1989 and 2012, may run for parliament in the next Burmese election ?
text: Did you know that the mayor of the municipal government of King, Ontario in Canada also automatically becomes a member of York Regional Council as a result of a "double direct" election?
text: Did you know that Samuel Bowen introduced the soybean to North America?
text: Did you know that 21 Squadron SAAF has an aircraft called "Fish eagle"?
text: Did you know that rugby union player George Aitken captained New Zealand against South Africa before later playing for Scotland in their first ever Five Nations Grand Slam ?
text: Did you know that actor Rob Mayes once wanted to be a U.S. Navy SEAL ?
text: Did you know that the bomb detection dog Sasha is to be posthumously awarded the Dickin Medal , known as the animals' Victoria Cross ?
text: Did you know that the performance of " Stand and Sing of Zambia, Proud and Free " can be changed and restricted by the President ?
text: Did you know that Pappa Umanath was not allowed by prison authorities to attend her mother's funeral because she refused to quit the Communist Party of India ?
text: Did you know that World War II resistance fighter Jerzy Zakulski , who rescued a Jewish mother and child from the Kraków Ghetto , was executed by Poland after the war?
text: Did you know that United States president Abraham Lincoln learned his ABCs when he attended a blab school which he walked to in his youth?
text: Did you know that Michael Kessler and Til Schweiger started their film acting career with Manta, Manta ?
text: Did you know that William T. Carneal was killed on Saipan on July 7, 1944, but his remains were not found until March 2013?
text: Did you know that Passionate Journey contains only pictures, and was named as Thomas Mann's favourite film—but is a novel?
text: Did you know that a deceptive 1883 land deal between Josef Frederiks II and Adolf Lüderitz established the colony of German South-West Africa ?
text: Did you know that upon his being hired by the police, Commander X was hailed in the press as a "mystery supremo", yet journalists have claimed to know his identity?
text: Did you know that American singer Jenni Rivera earned five posthumous awards in the 2013 Lo Nuestro Awards ?
text: Did you know that writer-director Sophie Barthes made the film Cold Souls after having a dream about Woody Allen 's soul?
text: Did you know that Ljiljana Raičević established the first shelter in Montenegro for victims of domestic violence ?
text: Did you know that seafarers have used the tower of Sweden's Rone Church as a navigational aid since the Middle Ages ?
text: Did you know that Jim Bartels resigned as curator of Honolulu's ʻIolani Palace after criticizing Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa for sitting on one of the palace thrones?
text: Did you know that the horned god Naigamesha was worshipped as the patron of childbirth?
text: Did you know that Juozas Gabrys worked to liberate Lithuania, but became "virtually an unperson " in that country?
text: Did you know that Carrie Underwood 's 2012 single " Two Black Cadillacs " was certified Platinum by the RIAA , signifying US sales of at least 1 million units?
text: Did you know that Sir Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake , twelve-time mayor of Maidstone , England, kept lions, tigers and elephants on his estate?
text: Did you know that Millennium 's composer Mark Snow praised the use of operatic music in the episode " Roosters "?
text: Did you know that Colombian-American Orange Is the New Black actress Diane Guerrero 's parents and older brother were deported to Colombia when she was 14 years old?
text: Did you know that composer Heinrich Schütz published Psalmen Davids , including polychoral settings for many of the included psalms, on his wedding day?
text: Did you know that Louis John Gill was the original architect of the San Diego Zoo ?
text: Did you know that Herbert Sears ' father ran a fish and chip shop in Saskatoon and Herbert himself worked at a bakery before becoming the city's mayor?
text: Did you know that Roma Abbey on Gotland has been the site of a medieval abbey, a crown estate manor, and a military base?
text: Did you know that American Canadian scientist Jack Souther contributed significantly to the early understanding of Quaternary volcanism in Canada?
text: Did you know that when the British Slavery Abolition Act 1833 compensated slave-owners, the largest single payment went to Tory Member of Parliament James Blair for his 1,598 slaves in British Guiana ?
text: Did you know that the action video game The Legend of Korra is intended to be visually indistinguishable from the animated TV series on which it is based ?
text: Did you know that more than thirty bird species inhabit the vicinity of Pennsylvania's Little Shickshinny Creek , including ten kinds of warbler ?
text: Did you know that VetUK , which has annual revenues of more than £10 million as of 2010, initially operated out of the living room of co-founder Iain Booth?
text: Did you know that Brazilian striptease artist Luz del Fuego performed with live snakes?
text: Did you know that a crossroad near Gujarat University , where Gujarati author Bholabhai Patel taught, is named after him?
text: Did you know that the antebellum bestseller Cotton Plantation Record and Account Book taught plantation owners how to use modern cost accounting principles to measure the productivity of their slaves ?
text: Did you know that Keith Martin developed a technique for printing eye cells?
text: Did you know that Gryta Church preserves paintings attributed to a student of Albertus Pictor ?
text: Did you know that Dr. Naim Dangoor lost everything when he left Ba'athist Iraq , then built another fortune in the UK, helped endow 4,000 student bursaries and donated over £1 million to Cancer Research UK ?
text: Did you know that the Chinese surnames Ji , Ji , and Ji are pronounced differently in Cantonese ?
text: Did you know that in 1966, parliamentarian Rungsung Suisa proposed confederation as a solution to the Indo– Naga conflict?
text: Did you know that the yellow-green gas fluorine azide freezes to a highly explosive solid?
text: Did you know that businessman turned political candidate Will Brooke described the Affordable Care Act as a "planned economy disaster"?
text: Did you know that the disintegration of the Royal Yugoslav 4th Army during the Invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941 was caused largely by fifth column activity?
text: Did you know that although deaconess Margaret Rodgers could not be ordained as a priest because of her gender, she was cited as "one of the most powerful people in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney "?
text: Did you know that the name of the Debian operating system is a combination of the first names of its creator Ian Murdock and his then-girlfriend Debra?
text: Did you know that Richard Strauss reportedly composed " Traum durch die Dämmerung " ("Dream in the Twilight"), from a love poem by Otto Julius Bierbaum , in 20 minutes?
text: Did you know that Ivy Parker was the first woman to receive a PhD in chemistry from the University of Texas ?
text: Did you know that a special Detroit commuter train transported the CBS production crew from the Renaissance Center to Super Bowl XVI at the Pontiac Silverdome ?
text: Did you know that one of Hrithik Roshan ' s first acting roles was as the adopted son of Rajinikanth 's character in the 1986 film Bhagwaan Dada ?
text: Did you know that The Saturday Evening Post claimed that efforts to extinguish the Carbondale mine fire would move more earth than the construction of the Panama Canal ?
text: Did you know that American band Paramore 's " Ain't It Fun " became their first song to reach the top 10 of the US Billboard Hot 100 ?
text: Did you know that San Diego 's civic celebration Fiesta del Pacifico featured a theatrical production billed as "the biggest non-movie spectacle ever produced anywhere"?
text: Did you know that the fungus toxin aspergillomarasmine A is capable of inhibiting an antibiotic-resistance enzyme produced by superbugs ?
text: Did you know that the Left and Secular Alliance and BJP opposed each other in the 2014 Indian general election , but later sent a joint delegation to lodge a complaint with the Election Commission?
text: Did you know that the star BH Crucis has become redder and (on average) brighter since it was discovered in 1969?
text: Did you know that the Hindu elephant-headed god Ganesha may be depicted as a crawling infant eating sweets ?
text: Did you know that art dealer Grace Nicholson designed the building that now houses the USC Pacific Asia Museum ?
text: Did you know that thirteen different political parties are represented in the 5th Democratic Parliament of South Africa ?
text: Did you know that Florence Stoney was the UK's first female radiologist and one of the first women doctors hired by the War Office in World War I?
text: Did you know that in 2013 Malek Fahd Islamic School was the largest Islamic school in Australia ?
text: Did you know that the Indian communist politician L.B.G. Rao led guerrilla squads during the Telangana armed struggle ?
text: Did you know that wheelchair athlete Elaine Allard scaled Kala Patthar in the Himalayas?
text: Did you know that British airman Tom Rees was killed in the first official victory credited to German flying ace the Red Baron ?
text: Did you know that Charles Dickens ' son was sent to Momba Station in Australia before his 16th birthday?
text: Did you know that Buck's Fizz was invented at Buck's Club in London's Clifford Street ?
text: Did you know that Canadian politician Percy Klaehn was the high school coach of Ethel Catherwood , who won a gold medal in high jump at the 1928 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the plot of the 1901 film Kansas Saloon Smashers was based on an editorial cartoon ?
text: Did you know that the wife of former Saskatoon mayor Frederick Harrison shot him in the chest twice just to scare him?
text: Did you know that Rita Cléos was the first actress filmed in a bathing scene on Brazilian TV?
text: Did you know that Boniface of Verona , once a poor knight who sold his own castle to equip himself, became one of the richest lords of Frankish Greece ?
text: Did you know that the jaw of Exoglossum laurae is partially exposed because it is missing much of its lower lip?
text: Did you know that Mekayla Diehl forgave the attacker who molested her as a child, and was the first woman of Native American descent to win Miss Indiana USA ?
text: Did you know that the lead character of the film Hemlock Hoax, the Detective had been a minor character in a rejected story?
text: Did you know that super-yacht builder Jonathan Quinn Barnett also made model Klingon ships for Star Trek IV and renovated the Rubicon Estate Winery mansion for Francis Ford Coppola ?
text: Did you know that the Huysman Gallery of Los Angeles closed after less than a year due to a controversial poster for its War Babies exhibition?
text: Did you know that the French missionary and explorer Prosper Philippe Augouard was dubbed "Cannibal Bishop"?
text: Did you know that the Soviet Armenian newspaper Kommunist became the opposition newspaper Golos Armenii in the 1990s?
text: Did you know that Thakur Ganpat Singh was re-elected to the Ajmer Legislative Assembly with an increased margin, after his election had been declared void in 1953?
text: Did you know that the 1967 song " Days of Pearly Spencer " features a "strange 'phoned-in' chorus"?
text: Did you know that at the time, King William IV 's public mourning of his son-in-law, the husband of his illegitimate daughter Lady Augusta FitzClarence , was considered scandalous?
text: Did you know that Frozen is currently the highest-grossing animated film of all time , and the fifth highest-grossing film ?
text: Did you know that worshippers of Haridra Ganapati used to brand the image of the god on their palms?
text: Did you know that Intermediate School 318 's chess team was the first from a middle school to win the US high school championship, despite 87% of its members coming from families below the poverty line?
text: Did you know that Lady Harriet Cavendish 's marriage to Granville Leveson-Gower was arranged by her aunt , who had been his lover for seventeen years?
text: Did you know that the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party has favoured the creation of a Purvanchal state?
text: Did you know that Swedish engineer Rudolf Fredrik Berg 's brother was King Oscar II 's medical doctor and had to attend at the king's deathbed, preventing him from visiting Rudolf who died on the same day?
text: Did you know that World War II French General Leclerc adopted his nom de guerre to avoid risk to his family in the event his missions appeared in the papers?
text: Did you know that in 2004, Typhoon Nanmadol became the first December tropical cyclone to strike the island of Taiwan in 108 years of record-keeping?
text: Did you know that the 19th-century Klabböle hydroelectric power plant in northern Sweden produced electricity until 1958, and is now a museum?
text: Did you know that the South African concert pianist Adolph Hallis made the first complete recording of Debussy 's Préludes , and wrote film scores for Alfred Hitchcock ?
text: Did you know that the courthouse on the public square in Shelbyville, Tennessee , is the successor to earlier courthouses that were destroyed by tornado , wartime misadventure, and a lynch mob ?
text: Did you know that 19th-century baseball player Count Campau could reportedly run the bases in 14 seconds, and once converted an infield popup into a home run ?
text: Did you know that Lehmann's poison frog is not toxic in captivity because its poison derives from food it eats only in the wild?
text: Did you know that according to hip-hop artist Hopsin , his album Knock Madness was inspired by dissatisfaction with life and a need to "find" himself?
text: Did you know that in 1991 the lone Communist Party of India (Marxist) member in the Orissa Legislative Assembly , Radhakanta Sethy , left the party?
text: Did you know that rookie baseball player Martin Powell finished second to Cap Anson for the 1881 batting title, but retired three years later and died of consumption at age 31?
text: Did you know that the Manche Ch'ol , a Maya people encountered by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés in 1525, were nearly extinct by 1770?
text: Did you know that Lew Bloom claimed to be the first stage tramp in show business, and later hoaxed descendants of Abraham Lincoln ?
text: Did you know that Robert Galbreath, Jr. , was called the "Oil King of the Southwest" after discovering and drilling the first productive wells in the Glenn Pool oil field, the largest in Oklahoma?
text: Did you know that though many specimens of Saurolophus angustirostris have been found, it was not clearly differentiated as a separate species from Saurolophus osborni until 2011?
text: Did you know that Chester Nez was the last of the original Navajo code talkers who served in World War II?
text: Did you know that a river in Honduras swelled 15 meters (50 feet) above its normal level during torrential rains from a hurricane in 1935 ?
text: Did you know that Dusari Goshta , a biopic on ex- Home Affairs minister Sushilkumar Shinde , was screened at the residence of the President of India ?
text: Did you know that developmental psychobiologist Jay S. Rosenblatt was described as the "father of mothering"?
text: Did you know that although the New York Giants signed Walt Nielsen in 1939, he spent that season with the minor-league Jersey City Giants , reportedly because of his hay fever ?
text: Did you know that Lili Bosse , the mayor of Beverly Hills, California , was sworn in by actor Sidney Poitier ?
text: Did you know that in 1936, residents of what is now San Juan de Santa Bárbara used sugarcane profits to buy their land from an Englishman?
text: Did you know that Kiki Byrne designed the golden bikini worn by Margaret Nolan in the title sequence of the James Bond film Goldfinger ?
text: Did you know that the white-throated robin-chat is sometimes parasitised by the red-chested cuckoo ?
text: Did you know that Li Shaohong , a Chinese woman film director, joined the army at the age of 14?
text: Did you know that Romanian anatomist Grigore T. Popa 's peasant parents sold their land to help finance his education?
text: Did you know that Paul W. Tibbets IV is one of the few pilots qualified to fly the B-1 , B-2 and the B-52 ?
text: Did you know that Richard Burn , editor of the 1909 Imperial Gazetteer of India , wrote that it took years to decide on that work's form because the British Government in India worked so slowly?
text: Did you know that, in Ontario, landowners who voluntarily protect an Area of Natural and Scientific Interest on their land can receive a property tax reduction?
text: Did you know that in its recent ruling in R v Incedal and Rarmoul-Bouhadjar the Court of Appeal of England and Wales held it "difficult to conceive of a situation" justifying holding a criminal trial in full secrecy?
text: Did you know that just after Frederick Federici sang the final note as Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust , descending through a trap door to hell, he died?
text: Did you know that more than 120 Jehovah's Witnesses objected to singing " God bless Africa " because they believed it suggests obeisance to the flag of Tanzania over God?
text: Did you know that footballer Pavel Mareš played for the Czech Republic at UEFA Euro 2004 ?
text: Did you know that Mellor's Gardens at Hough Hole House in Cheshire are themed on Bunyan 's The Pilgrim's Progress ?
text: Did you know that at the time of her death, Satyavati Devi was India's oldest freedom fighter?
text: Did you know that the Colt First Model Ring Lever rifle , produced in 1837 and 1838, was Samuel Colt 's first manufactured firearm?
text: Did you know that Ralph Siewert was the first seven-footer to play professional basketball ?
text: Did you know that Georgette Heyer intended her novel My Lord John to be the first in a trilogy featuring the House of Lancaster ?
text: Did you know that Sweden's richest man, Henry Dunker , willed his entire fortune to a foundation which subsequently funded many improvements to the city of Helsingborg ?
text: Did you know that the founder of All Saints Church, Scholar Green , Cheshire , died during its construction, and the church was completed and paid for by his son?
text: Did you know that Susan Anderson was one of the first women to practice medicine in Colorado ?
text: Did you know that CCM Magazine called the debut album by Christian pop singer V. Rose an "upbeat pop production set to spiritually-grounded lyrics"?
text: Did you know that in late Joseon society , commoner Korean women who had fulfilled their Confucian duty to produce a son bared their breasts in public as a sign of pride?
text: Did you know that Australian actor Taylor Glockner was cast as Boges in the television miniseries Conspiracy 365 just two weeks after graduating from drama school?
text: Did you know that the Philadelphia 76ers plan to move their headquarters and practice facilities to the Camden Waterfront ?
text: Did you know that 19th-century American businessman Albert Heard was once the Russian consul general in Shanghai ?
text: Did you know that the cervix , which in adult women is much smaller than the rest of the uterus , is twice as large during childhood as the body of the uterus?
text: Did you know that in 1938 the San Diego County Administration Center was dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt before a crowd estimated as 25,000 people?
text: Did you know that a soccer kick can cause serious injury?
text: Did you know that Bob Leadley managed Major League Baseball teams in Detroit and Cleveland , and later lived in Mexico City as a fugitive from embezzlement charges?
text: Did you know that as of April 2014, the rose rosette virus had killed at least two-thirds of the roses in the Tulsa Rose Garden ?
text: Did you know that Miss USA 2014 Nia Sanchez is a fourth degree black belt in taekwondo , and once worked at Hong Kong Disneyland ?
text: Did you know that the 12th-century baptismal font in Barlingbo Church carries runic inscriptions ?
text: Did you know that Nancy M. Hill , one of the first women physicians in the United States, founded a society to provide shelter and support for unwed mothers and their babies in Dubuque, Iowa ?
text: Did you know that the SAS is based in Australia?
text: Did you know that 44 Dalits were burned to death in a hut in Kizhavenmani village of Tamil Nadu in 1968?
text: Did you know that according to Thai history , Crown Prince Mingyi Swa of Burma is said to have been killed in single combat by King Naresuan of Siam ?
text: Did you know that the setting for Anne Rice 's novel The Wolves of Midwinter is based on the Madewood Plantation House , where she once attended a Christmas dinner?
text: Did you know that the isopod Anilocra pomacentri lives as an external parasite of the yellowback puller ?
text: Did you know that Revolutionary Socialist Party leader V. P. Ramakrishna Pillai served as Minister of Labour in Kerala between 1998 and 2001?
text: Did you know that 55 Hudson Yards is set to be built on land previously intended for a cancelled 1,011-foot-tall (308 m) "World Product Center"?
text: Did you know that Chief Zimmer set multiple catching records, was the first president of the Players' Protective Association , and invented a popular mechanical baseball game?
text: Did you know that 3500 Jews from the Pińsk Ghetto and nearby Kobryn were murdered at Bronna Góra in June 1942?
text: Did you know that the small Costa Rican town of Jesús de Santa Bárbara had separate schools for boys and girls as early as 1885?
text: Did you know that there are nine species of fern in Stony Brook valley?
text: Did you know that Sweden's medieval Läby Church was abandoned in 1890 but reopened in 1928?
text: Did you know that the Cambridge boat sank during the 1978 University Boat Race ?
text: Did you know that Watford Gap services were a popular meeting place for rock bands such as the Beatles , The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd ?
text: Did you know that Lapland school founder Maria Magdalena Mathsdotter turned to Erik Viktor Almquist to improve the rights of the Sami people ?
text: Did you know that the 1956 Hindi film Ek Hi Raasta was Dadasaheb Phalke Award winner B. R. Chopra 's first film as producer under his banner B. R. Films?
text: Did you know that Carlos Manuel Hoo Ramírez was arrested along with Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán , once considered Mexico's most-wanted drug lord ?
text: Did you know that Uganda won the inaugural edition of the CECAFA Cup ?
text: Did you know that the Folketing used a cartoon featuring group sex to try to convince people to vote in the 2014 European Parliament election ?
text: Did you know that fashion designer Thea Porter 's customers included Elizabeth Taylor , Princess Margaret , Mick and Bianca Jagger , and Lauren Bacall ?
text: Did you know that over ninety percent of the historic town of Manisa was burned down between 5 September and 8 September 1922?
text: Did you know that in 1931, African-American obstetrician Ionia Rollin Whipper opened Washington, D.C.'s first home for unwed mothers that was not racially segregated?
text: Did you know that during ancient China 's Tang dynasty , Gong Shi allowed imperial eunuchs to purchase goods by force at very low prices?
text: Did you know that K. Prasad Babu posthumously became the first police officer from the state of Andhra Pradesh to receive the Ashok Chakra Award , India's highest for peacetime gallantry?
text: Did you know that Richard Nixon sent Home some dirt?
text: Did you know that book embeddings of graphs have been used to model fault-tolerant computer systems , the phases of traffic lights , and pseudoknots in RNA molecules?
text: Did you know that Sami singer Jon Henrik Fjällgren won Talang Sverige 2014 with his interpretations of traditional Sami songs?
text: Did you know that the Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills, California was established for Persian Jews in 1980 by the son of former Chief Rabbi of Iran Yedidia Shofet ?
text: Did you know that in June 2013, 930 cases filed by Madhavpura Mercantile Cooperative Bank were pending in Indian courts?
text: Did you know that warden's wife Kate Soffel , who fled with condemned brothers Jack and Ed Biddle after supplying guns and saws for their 1902 escape from the Allegheny County Jail , later took up dressmaking?
text: Did you know that belief in the existence of water bulls persisted in Scotland until at least the last quarter of the 19th century?
text: Did you know that the Swan & Edgar was claimed to be the smallest pub in London?
text: Did you know that baseball pitcher Bun Troy , who won a doubleheader while pitching all nine innings of both games, was killed in action during World War I?
text: Did you know that the William Brydone Jack Observatory in Fredericton , New Brunswick , was the first astronomical observatory in British North America (modern Canada)?
text: Did you know that out of consideration for his well-known family, Norwegian revue writer and entertainer Vidar Wexelsen adopted the pen and stage name Per Kvist ?
text: Did you know that the New Jersey -based garage rock band The Friggs ' song "Shake" featured in the 2007 comedy film Superbad ?
text: Did you know that Ishita Malaviya is India's first professional female surfer ?
text: Did you know that golfer Lucy Li set records as the youngest U.S. Women's Amateur Championship qualifier at age 10 in 2013 and the youngest U.S. Women's Open Championship qualifier at age 11 in 2014?
text: Did you know that Anjali Joseph 's debut novel, Saraswati Park , won both the Betty Trask Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize ?
text: Did you know that the list of English Heritage properties in Somerset comprises 12 sites, dating from the Neolithic to the 18th century?
text: Did you know that the Deputy Speaker of the Kerala Legislative Assembly , R. S. Unni , held positions in over 20 trade unions?
text: Did you know that the choice of name for the British warship HMS Zubian , a combination of the warships HMS Zulu and HMS Nubian , caused confusion among the German Imperial Admiralty Staff ?
text: Did you know that Dutch impresario Ben Essing got The Beatles to play their only concerts in the Netherlands in an auction hall in the small village of Blokker ?
text: Did you know that after the Russian monitor Rusalka sank, all that was found in the immediate aftermath were a few lifebuoys, and a sailor's corpse in a dinghy?
text: Did you know that Kong Yingda , one of the most influential Confucian scholars, was said to be a 32nd-generation descendant of Confucius ?
text: Did you know that the white-headed stilt sometimes feigns a leg injury to draw intruders away from its chicks?
text: Did you know that Bollywood director Rahul Rawail paid tribute to his father H. S. Rawail 's film Sunghursh (1968) by titling one of his films as Jeevan Ek Sanghursh (1990)?
text: Did you know that in 1975, more than half the population of Buka Island were members of the Hahalis Welfare Society ?
text: Did you know that in the 1930s the Nazi German-American Bund had its headquarters at 178 East 85th Street in Manhattan , and paraded in the neighborhood wearing Nazi uniforms?
text: Did you know that " Turn Up the Radio " is Madonna 's 43rd number-one single on the US Billboard Dance Club Songs chart, the most for any artist?
text: Did you know that T. J. Chandrachoodan is the third Keralite to head the Revolutionary Socialist Party ?
text: Did you know that the leader of the Trade Union of Andorra has likened the labour rights situation in the country to that of a dictatorship?
text: Did you know that one chimpanzee group killed off all the adult males in another chimpanzee group during the Gombe Chimpanzee War ?
text: Did you know that Cambridge threatened to boycott the 1983 University Boat Race after Boris Rankov was included in the Oxford crew for the sixth time?
text: Did you know that mustang wine has been made in Texas from wild mustang grapes since the Antebellum Era ?
text: Did you know that when Virginia Grayson won $20,000 in the Dobell Prize for drawing, she said she would use the money to get her " ute fixed "?
text: Did you know that the Javan ferret-badger visits picnic sites to scavenge for food, and has been hand-fed biscuits?
text: Did you know that King Rögnvaldr Óláfsson was assassinated by a knight named Ívarr and his accomplices?
text: Did you know that the Swiss magazine Der Kreis was the only gay magazine available in Europe during World War II and the Nazi regime ?
text: Did you know that Cambridge had a female cox for the first time in its history in the 1985 University Boat Race ?
text: Did you know that Tony Henry once accidentally sang "my penis is a mountain" in Croatian ?
text: Did you know that former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton 's memoir Hard Choices is so titled because that is how she frames the foreign policy situations encountered during her tenure?
text: Did you know that Departures was the first Japanese submission to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ?
text: Did you know that two Philadelphia Phillies pitchers phoned Jonathan Pettibone to try to convince him to sign with the team?
text: Did you know that Melchior Hoffmann probably composed Schlage doch, gewünschte Stunde ( BWV 53), not Bach ?
text: Did you know that Bissau-Guinean Zinha Vaz was arrested and detained after an argument with President Kumba Ialá , who offered her the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs months later?
text: Did you know that in 1872 the newly-elected English Conservative Party Member of Parliament Edward Wells denounced the Ballot Act as "positively un-English"?
text: Did you know that Alfred V. Verville designed the Verville-Sperry R-3 Racer , which set a world speed record in 1923 and was called one of the "Twelve Most Significant Aircraft of all Time" by Popular Mechanics magazine?
text: Did you know that although J. R. R. Tolkien translated the Old English poem Beowulf in the 1920s, he did not like the result so it was published only posthumously in 2014 as Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary ?
text: Did you know that the World Bank 's first loan to China's power sector was for the Lubuge Dam ?
text: Did you know that Halo: The Master Chief Collection includes a remastered version of Halo 2 to coincide with its tenth anniversary?
text: Did you know that women's fashion boutique Giorgio Beverly Hills had a reading room, bar, and pool table to help men "pass the time"?
text: Did you know that Ofcom received 260 complaints about Lady Gaga 's live performance of " Do What U Want " on the United Kingdom's The X Factor ?
text: Did you know that newly-elected Romanian MEP Mircea Diaconu has appeared in over 60 films, managed a theater, published a novel, and taken part in a revolution ?
text: Did you know that Little David 's first record, The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress , was named for a line spoken by Flip Wilson 's character Geraldine ?
text: Did you know that Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation candidate Amar Nath Yadav mustered a quarter million votes in the Siwan seat in the 1999 election?
text: Did you know that Lieutenant Colonel Terry Lakin invited his own court-martial to attempt to force Barack Obama to release the original version of his birth certificate ?
text: Did you know that Singapore used to have a frozen pork hotline ?
text: Did you know that Janet Greig and her sister Jane , both doctors, were founding members of Melbourne's Queen Victoria Hospital and inductees of the Victorian Honour Roll of Women ?
text: Did you know that the American Civil Liberties Union condemned government use of the Draganflyer X6 ?
text: Did you know that Rudolf Henke was elected to the Bundestag in 2009 after receiving more votes than incumbent federal health minister Ulla Schmidt ?
text: Did you know that the video game Freedom Planet has not yet been released and is not part of an existing franchise, but has already been promoted on T-shirts?
text: Did you know that the customers of Michael Rainey 's boutique Hung On You included The Rolling Stones , The Beatles , and The Kinks ?
text: Did you know that the 1984 University Boat Race was postponed by a day after Cambridge hit a barge and sank during the warm-up?
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text: Did you know that the offices of the Antigua and Barbuda newspaper Outlet were torched in 1998, following the publication of an article on a secret arms deal?
text: Did you know that the Canadian Labour Congress president Dennis McDermott was the founding chairman of the Commonwealth Trade Union Council ?
text: Did you know that due to enemy action in World War I, one set of expensive epigraphic illustration plates for The Indian Antiquary had to be sent from London to Bombay three times?
text: Did you know that the present town of Ashford in Kent , England, originates from an original settlement established in 893 AD by inhabitants escaping a Danish Viking raid?
text: Did you know that in his boutique Blades , Rupert Lycett Green 's customers included Mick Jagger , the Marquess of Hartington and the Earl of St Germans ?
text: Did you know that the 1982 Atari 2600 game Lost Luggage features terrorist suitcases?
text: Did you know that the release of the Moto E caused the website of online retailer Flipkart to crash?
text: Did you know that Neon Steeple is the first solo release by Crowder , which he recorded after the break-up of David Crowder Band ?
text: Did you know that Belgian anti-Zionist politician Laurent Louis was censured for antisemitism and Holocaust denial after making the quenelle gesture in parliament ?
text: Did you know that the Oregonian Building , completed in 1892 in Portland , Oregon, was the first steel-framed skyscraper west of Chicago?
text: Did you know that Reverend George Lloyd , archaeologist and Anglican curate , was so outspoken that he received an assassination threat?
text: Did you know that Dupee Shaw 's delivery may have been the first pitching wind-up , created "a genuine sensation" and led baseball writers of his day to call him "a monkey, a mountebank and other harsh names"?
text: Did you know that a footbridge proposed to link Grand Central Plaza with Sha Tin railway station was embroiled in controversy for allegedly bad feng shui ?
text: Did you know that Lala Achint Ram was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India , which drafted India's constitution?
text: Did you know that the song " A+E " was written whilst waiting for someone to come out of the A&E ?
text: Did you know that the newspaper Labour Spokesman shares its building with the Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party and the Trades and Labour Union ?
text: Did you know that according to the Susquehanna River Basin Commission , the watershed of North Branch Mahantango Creek is one of the highest-quality watersheds in the lower Susquehanna River watershed?
text: Did you know that a critic of Dishaster said that the game was "as bad as its unfunny title implies"?
text: Did you know that bacteriologist Sara Branham Matthews was considered to be one of the "grand ladies of microbiology"?
text: Did you know that Ken Baumann 's book on the SNES video game EarthBound was the first title published by Boss Fight Books ?
text: Did you know that Los Zetas crime syndicate founder Galindo Mellado Cruz was recently killed in a gunfight in Mexico?
text: Did you know that Below Paradise by Tedashii explores his efforts to come to grips with the death of his young son?
text: Did you know that Seattle Mariners CEO Howard Lincoln posed for the Norman Rockwell painting The Scoutmaster ?
text: Did you know that David Tennant founded London's Gargoyle Club , with lavish interiors by Henri Matisse , and whose regular patrons included Fred Astaire , Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud ?
text: Did you know that Jackie Tavener is one of only four players in Major League Baseball history to steal second, third and home in the same inning on more than one occasion?
text: Did you know that the album Tunnel Rats by the hip-hop collective of the same name featured a more mainstream and diverse production style than previous albums?
text: Did you know that William Stadiem 's book on Frank Sinatra was based on thousands of pages of notes taken about Sinatra's everyday life by his valet George Jacobs ?
text: Did you know that state-dependent memory suggests that if you forget what you did when blind drunk , you could get drunk again and remember it?
text: Did you know that Nawrahta Minsaw , the first Burmese ruler of Lan Na , was also an accomplished poet in the yadu style?
text: Did you know that the Japan release of Saints Row: The Third had the veins removed from its Penetrator weapon—a three-foot long phallus bat—due to regulatory restrictions on depictions of genitalia ?
text: Did you know that "Baggböleri", the Swedish derogatory term for deforestation, is named after Baggböle on the Ume River ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming video game Halo 5: Guardians features a new game engine for the series ?
text: Did you know that Milan Puskar Health Right , a system of free clinics in West Virginia that handles nearly 4,000 patients a year, originally operated out of a Baptist church?
text: Did you know that the film Death in the West contains what is believed to be the first recorded admission from a tobacco company representative that smoking causes health problems?
text: Did you know that London's Burlington Gardens is the site of the first Abercrombie & Fitch store in Europe?
text: Did you know that Robbie Williams was inspired to write Rudebox 's hidden track, "Dickhead", after playing The Mitchell Brothers ' " Routine Check " to death?
text: Did you know that in 1988 Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Abdul Ghafar Lakanwal defected to the United States?
text: Did you know that at various times the ground sloth , Billy the Kid , Geronimo , and astronauts could be found in what is now the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument ?
text: Did you know that Bartholomäus Sastrow 's autobiography does not give the birth dates of his children?
text: Did you know that the Fountain of Ahmed III in Üsküdar , Istanbul , features a inscription by Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III , copied from his own calligraphy?
text: Did you know that Zhang Shichuan made China's first feature film, first martial arts film , and first sound film ?
text: Did you know that Fawlty Towers character Basil Fawlty sang " Don't Mention the World Cup " to dissuade fans of England's 2006 FIFA World Cup team from mentioning the Second World War while in Germany?
text: Did you know that some England players allegedly sang " Aye Aye Ippy The Germans Bombed Our Chippy ", despite the FA not wanting to support any anti-German songs?
text: Did you know that Sir Wolseley Haig fought dacoits in Burma before becoming a Scottish herald ?
text: Did you know that the events of Bloody Sunday are being recreated at the Edmund Pettus Bridge for the upcoming film Selma ?
text: Did you know that Kashmiri politician and poet Abdul Sattar Ranjoor‎ was assassinated by militants when he was 73?
text: Did you know that Thomas Elfe , a contemporary of Thomas Chippendale , was the most successful furniture craftsman in Charleston in the eighteenth century?
text: Did you know that at approximately 568 feet (173 m), the proposed Skyscraper is expected to be the tallest roller coaster in the world when it opens in 2016?
text: Did you know that " Yasss Bish " is a bounce and drill song with a trap beat?
text: Did you know that Milan Miskovsky and James Donovan convinced Cuba to release over 1,000 insurgents captured during the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion ?
text: Did you know that 16 biblical scenes are cast in bronze on the Romanesque Bernward Doors , including Cain's murder of Abel ?
text: Did you know that Borka Pavićević is a Montenegrin dramaturge who founded the Centre for Cultural Decontamination ?
text: Did you know that Moonbird eats horseshoe crabs' eggs, and has flown further than the distance to the Moon?
text: Did you know that professional baseball player "Prince" Oana was falsely advertised by his promoters as a full-blooded Hawaiian royal?
text: Did you know that as the new US Representative to the UN Human Rights Council , Keith M. Harper is the first Native American to achieve the rank of US Ambassador?
text: Did you know that 65 percent of Camden Fort Meagher is underground?
text: Did you know that Ohio State retired Les Horvath 's jersey number 22 in 2001, six years after his death?
text: Did you know that the Dutch women's magazine Beatrijs for Catholic readers made its photos and patterns more modest by adding collars to low necklines and lengthening skirts?
text: Did you know that Georges Méliès filmed a "pre-reenactment" of Edward VII's coronation more than a month before the actual event took place?
text: Did you know that Gustav Rosén sent apples from northern Sweden to newspaper editors in the south to show that grass was not the only thing that grew "up there"?
text: Did you know that when twin fetuses lock together during childbirth, the first twin is sometimes decapitated to save the second?
text: Did you know that Michael Schofield started playing American football because his younger brother did?
text: Did you know that Mozart Distillerie claims to use "soundmilling" – playing the music of Mozart 380 times into their chocolate liqueurs?
text: Did you know that in the early 1980s, a team of surveyors discovered the World War II-era Avro Anson Memorial near Clackline, Western Australia , which had been overgrown by shrubs and trees?
text: Did you know that celebrities desired to appear on The Adventures of Ellery Queen although their solutions to the mystery were usually incorrect?
text: Did you know that publicity about its outing club led to one university receiving 300% more applications for admission?
text: Did you know that Robert M. Bond , a lieutenant general in the USAF and decorated American veteran of the Vietnam War , was killed in a 1984 crash in Nevada while flying a Soviet-built MiG-23 ?
text: Did you know that Doncaster Knights ' promotion to the 2014–15 RFU Championship was the first time a rugby team returned to the RFU Championship after being relegated for just one season?
text: Did you know that a Rolling Stone readers' poll ranked Made in Japan the sixth best live album of all time?
text: Did you know that Schloss Warthausen has been the home of famous historical personages like authors Christoph Martin Wieland and Sophie von La Roche , and painter Johann Heinrich Tischbein ?
text: Did you know that the 1946 drama film Her Sister's Secret was briefly banned in Ireland?
text: Did you know that Nicolae Minovici performed twelve hanging experiments on himself?
text: Did you know that Polish-American philosopher and sociologist Florian Znaniecki coined the terms culturalism and humanistic coefficient ?
text: Did you know that film director Wilfrid North was blinded in 1913 by a cannon explosion on a movie set?
text: Did you know that " The Summons " includes 13 questions asked in the voice of Jesus?
text: Did you know that the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters had not lost a game in the 2014 PBA Commissioner's Cup , but were defeated in three games by the San Mig Super Coffee Mixers in the finals series ?
text: Did you know that a T-shirt with Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and Volkswagen logos on it was created in homage to Meridian Dan 's German Whip ?
text: Did you know that in 1966, Men in Vogue included a photoshoot by Michael Cooper entitled "Girls dress men to suit themselves" with Brian Jones dressed by Anita Pallenberg ?
text: Did you know that Jitan Ram Manjhi was asked to resign the day after he was sworn in as Bihar's cabinet minister in 2005?
text: Did you know that to make his single " Good Kisser " "less X-rated", Usher changed the lyrics to remove the sexual innuendo?
text: Did you know that Marten Woudstra was one of four men who formed the committee that eventually produced the New International Version of the Bible?
text: Did you know that allegations that lepers , Jews and Muslims were conspiring against the Christians of Europe sparked international hysteria in June 1321 ?
text: Did you know that Dutch zoologist C. A. W. Jeekel is credited with launching the "modern era" of millipede taxonomy ?
text: Did you know that the video game The Idolmaster One For All sold out in Akihabara the day after its release?
text: Did you know that Korengal examines the military life and experiences of the same men who were in Restrepo ?
text: Did you know that the compilation album Underground Rise, Vol. 1 features about thirty-five rappers, and was recorded almost entirely over a single weekend?
text: Did you know that the Thomas Elfe House is the oldest house in Charleston that is open to the public?
text: Did you know that an annual carnival at Verrès Castle celebrates the time the lord and lady came down to town to dance with the local youth?
text: Did you know that Kinross Gold built the Dvoinoye Gold Mine at a cost of US$360 million?
text: Did you know that the camera of the LG G3 smartphone has an autofocus system that uses technology originally intended for robotic vacuum cleaners ?
text: Did you know that punter Pat O'Donnell recorded more bench press repetitions at the NFL Scouting Combine than first-overall draft pick Jadeveon Clowney ?
text: Did you know that the Germany–Poland border after WWII mostly follows the Oder–Neisse line , dividing several towns?
text: Did you know that the University of Mississippi Field Station originally had 220 experimental ponds and was once a fish farm ?
text: Did you know that around 100 years ago, the steaming process in Lancashire cotton mills made workers fear for their health?
text: Did you know that before Oscar Dystel made Bantam Books America's largest publisher of paperbacks, he worked on psychological warfare in World War II?
text: Did you know that despite being The Rolling Stones ' business adviser and financial manager for nearly 40 years, Prince Rupert Loewenstein preferred the music of The Beatles ?
text: Did you know that before they moved to their current home of Odsal Stadium , Bradford Northern spent 26 years based at Birch Lane ?
text: Did you know that Indian freedom fighter and politician N. M. R. Subbaraman was known as "Madurai Gandhi"?
text: Did you know that Ontario Highway 23 was extended from Highway 8 to Highway 7 as part of a Depression -era relief program?
text: Did you know that the Nazi Sonderdienst formations included men who did not know German and required translation by their native commanders?
text: Did you know that on the album Tunnel Vision , Tunnel Rats leader Dax Reynosa responded to claims that his group was too aggressive with the line "I pull a pistol out my pocket and I cock it"?
text: Did you know that Eric A. Walker continued as a professor at Cambridge University and published more books after being lobotomised ?
text: Did you know that Cassandra Pickett Durham was the first woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S. state of Georgia ?
text: Did you know that the ideological concept of a primary stage of socialism explains the use of capitalist methods in the Chinese economy by the Communist Party of China ?
text: Did you know that the father of Iran's nuclear program , Akbar Etemad , had said that neither Israel or the US are in a position to attack Iran?
text: Did you know that Cuenta Conmigo by Jerry Rivera won the Lo Nuestro Award for Tropical Album of the Year and outsold the highest selling salsa album at the time?
text: Did you know that American writer and actor Henry Howard Paul became famous in Great Britain after appearing on stage with his wife ?
text: Did you know that the magazine Man About Town , in advertising itself, declared "that a fool and his money are soon parted"?
text: Did you know that Fred Stanfield was dealt in "the most one-sided trade in NHL history"?
text: Did you know that the U.S. House Select Committee on Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi is the fifth House committee to investigate this matter?
text: Did you know that chief justice Thomas Balmer was once the managing partner of American law firm Ater Wynne ?
text: Did you know that the live extended play MTV Unplugged by Thirty Seconds to Mars features musicians from the Vitamin String Quartet , a gospel choir and the contribution of the band's fans?
text: Did you know that in 1966 Indonesian ambassador Djawoto was granted political asylum in China, following the mass killings of 1965–66 ?
text: Did you know that the mobile tie-in game Saints Row 2 has a carjacking minigame where the player earns more money for driving at high speeds to scare their captive passenger?
text: Did you know that Sri Lankan Tamils commemorate 18 May, the day when the civil war ended, as Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day ?
text: Did you know that Templeton Thompson combines her interests in horses and country music in songs such as "When I Get This Pony Rode"?
text: Did you know that China's Qing dynasty (1644–1912) bestowed the title Marquis of Extended Grace on a member of the former Ming imperial clan who presided at ceremonies at the Ming tombs ?
text: Did you know that The Sun Also Rises is the first version of Hemingway 's novel en pointe ; The Sun Also Rises increases the story's death count; and The Sun Also Rises is known for its award-winning sound design?
text: Did you know that Sadie Houck was blacklisted by the National League for being "addicted to drink" despite being acknowledged as "one of the best short stops in the country and a thorough ball player"?
text: Did you know that the Neighbours plane crash was nominated for Best Storyline at the 2006 Inside Soap Awards ?
text: Did you know that in the last ten years, Lisa Kewley has won a Hubble postdoctoral fellowship, the Annie J. Cannon Award , the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize , and been elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science ?
text: Did you know that the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " Our Man Bashir " was based in part on James Bond films , something Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was not happy about?
text: Did you know that while Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 was poorly received critically in comparison to Close Range: Wyoming Stories , one of the short stories in the collection won the 2004 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction ?
text: Did you know that a Dachau concentration camp survivor recognized Major General William P. Levine nearly 40 years later because Levine had carried him in his arms?
text: Did you know that the national quality award phenomenon grew out of the Total Quality Management movement of the 1980s?
text: Did you know that the four miles of stacks aisles in Harvard 's 3.5-million-volume Widener Library are so labyrinthine that one student felt she ought to carry "a compass, a sandwich, and a whistle" when entering?
text: Did you know that Crown Princess Yaza Datu Kalaya is the subject of some of the "most beautiful poems in Burmese literature" by her nephew and husband Natshinnaung ?
text: Did you know that Martin Luther created the Pentecost hymn " Komm, Heiliger Geist, Herre Gott " by adding two stanzas to an earlier German version of " Veni Sancte Spiritus ", keeping its melody?
text: Did you know that Gopal Kalan Tandel defeated Narayan Fugro in the first Lok Sabha election for the Daman and Diu seat ?
text: Did you know that Tropical Storm Zelda destroyed 95% of Marshall Islands ' crops?
text: Did you know that German silent film actress Hedda Vernon was 28 years old when she played the role of a 15-year-old girl in a film?
text: Did you know that the northwest tower of St James' Church, Handsworth , used to be its western tower?
text: Did you know that the rusty silky oak had different everyday and taboo names in the local Dyirbal language ?
text: Did you know that Alajuela Province , Costa Rica, is home to gothic, neo-classical, art deco, and neo-colonial churches, including a church constructed with sheet metal ?
text: Did you know that David Ames auditioned for another Holby City character prior to winning the role of Dominic Copeland ?
text: Did you know that " I will sing with the spirit " was composed by John Rutter for the Royal School of Church Music?
text: Did you know that Rudolf Nadolny , a German diplomat, replied that the conversation had just begun after Adolf Hitler declared it had finished?
text: Did you know that fires in Sundsvall and Lilla Edet , Sweden, broke out on the same day as the Great Fire of Umeå ?
text: Did you know that Romeo and Juliet (2013) was the first Broadway theatre adaptation of William Shakespeare's play since 1977?
text: Did you know that Jean Bellette is the only woman to have won the Sulman Prize more than once?
text: Did you know that in the Caribbean, a small octopus mimics the bursts of swimming activity of the plate fish ?
text: Did you know that France and Estonia were the first countries to contribute troops for the EU peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic ?
text: Did you know that the seemingly unremarkable Catt family – father Ronald "Scott" Catt and his children, Hayden and Abigail – pulled off several bank robberies in Oregon and Texas ?
text: Did you know that astronomer Adelaide Ames joined the Harvard College Observatory as a research assistant because she could not find any jobs in journalism?
text: Did you know that the novel Mira, Mirror is written from the viewpoint of a mirror?
text: Did you know that Harvard Business School professor Charles M. Williams survived the sinking of the USS Lexington by swinging from a line onto the deck of a rescuing destroyer ?
text: Did you know that The Polish Peasant in Europe and America has been called a "neglected classic" of American empirical sociology?
text: Did you know that House From Hell was a 1998 precursor to Big Brother Australia ?
text: Did you know that T. K. Bellis , the "Turtle King", imported live turtles from Jamaica to London so that the Lord Mayor of London would not have to eat mock turtle soup ?
text: Did you know that as of June 5, 2014, at least 35 U.S. veterans are known to have died while waiting for Veterans Health Administration care in the Phoenix VHA system ?
text: Did you know that the film Merdeka 17805 , about the fight for Indonesian independence, was described as a "two-fisted, hinomaru -waving, blood-and-guts ode to the soldiers who died for the glory of the emperor and for Dai Nippon"?
text: Did you know that biology teacher Blanche Evans Dean wrote several books about Alabama's natural history after becoming frustrated with the lack of books on the subject?
text: Did you know that despite having supporting air groups Yokosuka D4Y dive bombers and Aichi E16A reconnaissance aircraft , neither of the Ise -class battleships used them in combat?
text: Did you know that the site of the Cheddar Palace is within the grounds of The Kings of Wessex Academy ?
text: Did you know that long hair on men was once banned in Singapore?
text: Did you know that the Prosecutor General of Crimea, Natalia Poklonskaya , is barred from entering European Union countries?
text: Did you know that Iggy Azalea 's " Black Widow ", co-written by Katy Perry , was originally intended to be a duet with both singers?
text: Did you know that Olympian Murray Buchan originally wanted to work in mountain rescues?
text: Did you know that " El Gran Carlemany ", the national anthem of Andorra , proclaims the microstate as the "only remaining daughter of the Carolingian empire "?
text: Did you know that the 1999 film Isusumbong Kita Sa Tatay Ko was the first Philippine-produced film to exceed 100 million pesos in box office gross?
text: Did you know that after it was banned, members of the Iraqi Anti-Zionist League were arrested and charged with the crime of Zionism?
text: Did you know that Armenian activist Harutiun Djangulian launched the 1890 Kum Kapu demonstration by interrupting a mass and reading a declaration from the altar?
text: Did you know that Granny , also known as J2, is the oldest known orca at an estimated 103 years old?
text: Did you know that Christopher Senyonjo , a retired bishop of the Church of Uganda who opposed "draconian" anti-gay legislation , was honored by former US president Bill Clinton ?
text: Did you know that private estate houses in Scotland originate from extensive building and rebuilding of royal palaces, probably starting under James III ?
text: Did you know that British numismatist E. J. Rapson was reckoned to have an uncanny ability to identify ancient coins merely by feel?
text: Did you know that negotiations to place a LORAN radio navigation site in Nova Scotia were going poorly until the US Navy men refused proffered cigarettes?
text: Did you know that the 1928 Hindi novel Nirmala uses fiction to promote social reform of the dowry system in India ?
text: Did you know that despite being born to a Shia family and influenced in childhood by the Islamic revival , Bahraini cultural critic Nader Kadhim refused to be classified as an Islamist or a Shia intellectual?
text: Did you know that the 39th annual GMMSF Box-Office Entertainment Awards ceremony was referred to as the 40th due to superstition?
text: Did you know that all countries in South America use their own currency , except Ecuador?
text: Did you know that Savo Zlatić took up chess composition while imprisoned, using chess pieces made of bread?
text: Did you know that Propaganda followed up his Excellent album with his fourth solo release, Crimson Cord ?
text: Did you know that Jean D'Costa 's novels for children have narrative in Standard English and dialogue in Jamaican Creole ?
text: Did you know that Oxford's victory in The 2000 Boat Race was a "shock triumph"?
text: Did you know that Jesuit priest Carlos G. Vallés was awarded Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak , the highest literary award in the Gujarati language , in 1978?
text: Did you know that in the British game show Ejector Seat , contestants who give wrong answers find their chairs moving backwards?
text: Did you know that Jason Healey predicted that the National Security Agency would be "shredded by the computer security community" for its failure to expose the Heartbleed security bug?
text: Did you know that Purnendu Dastidar was elected to the East Pakistan Legislative Assembly in 1954 while in jail?
text: Did you know that one of the benefits of community-based program design is a learning experience between a consumer and a social services provider?
text: Did you know that Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland , went from being congratulated by the King to being attainted and his son taken to the Tower of London?
text: Did you know that The Cambridge History of India would have had six volumes, but Volume II was abandoned?
text: Did you know that the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama -winning play, The Flick , is about three movie theater ushers ?
text: Did you know that Duke Dumont 's " I Got U " contains "all the summertime essentials: steel drums, Balearic synths and a myriad of earworm hooks"?
text: Did you know that despite Frederick Law Olmsted 's wishes, Francis Allen had Vassar College 's Lathrop House built directly north of Strong House ?
text: Did you know that Sessue Hayakawa , who played the role of Tsuru Aoki 's father in the film The Wrath of the Gods , married her the same year the film was released?
text: Did you know that Fishergate Baptist Church in Preston , Lancashire , contains four wheel windows ?
text: Did you know that T. Veerabhadram was the Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate with the most votes outside Kerala and West Bengal in the 1998 Indian general election ?
text: Did you know that while Mexican drug lord Inés Coronel Barreras was officially listed as a cattle rancher in Durango , the neighbors claimed he was growing marijuana and opium poppies ?
text: Did you know that the Kota Kinabalu City Mosque is home to a fish farm ?
text: Did you know that the grey gull nests inland in a desert some 35 to 100 km (22 to 62 miles) from the sea?
text: Did you know that if United States Army Ranger Alejandro Villanueva does not make an NFL roster, he plans to return to Afghanistan for a fourth tour of duty?
text: Did you know that a cobbler taught the first lessons at Santa Bárbara de Heredia 's public school when it opened in 1860?
text: Did you know that Lowangcha Wanglat , BJP candidate in the 2014 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election , is from the Namsang-Borduria royal family?
text: Did you know that, when it occurred, the mass shooting in the Pińsk Ghetto was the second largest anti-Jewish operation in a single settlement?
text: Did you know that Christopher Gibbs and Robert Fraser are credited with inventing " Swinging London "?
text: Did you know that the Kizlar Agha , the chief eunuch of the Ottoman Sultans ' harem , ranked third in the state hierarchy after the Grand Vizier and the Shaykh al-Islām ?
text: Did you know that cricketing lawyer Arthur Coleridge , great-nephew of the poet , organised the first full performance of Bach 's Mass in B minor in England?
text: Did you know that Rahul Shewale recently won the Mumbai seat in the Parliament of India by a margin of 138,000 votes?
text: Did you know that twelve years after its release, GamesRadar called the 1997 Mischief Makers "possibly the most underrated and widely ignored game on the N64 "?
text: Did you know that Matthaios Kofidis , former member of the Ottoman parliament , was among the Greek notables hanged in Amasya by the Turkish National Movement ?
text: Did you know that many Alaska legislators wear kuspuks to work on Fridays?
text: Did you know that The Allman Brothers Band recorded their first live album, At Fillmore East , over three successive nights in March 1971?
text: Did you know that the lucky iron fish is a fish-shaped ingot used to provide dietary iron to rural Cambodians who cannot afford iron-rich foods?
text: Did you know that Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited produces currencies and coins for India?
text: Did you know that in 1931, Lick Run was said to be "one of the best streams in this section of Clearfield County ", but was found to be entirely devoid of fish 52 years later?
text: Did you know that in James Wilson 's first senior football match for Manchester United, he scored two goals that won the game?
text: Did you know that tall, blonde photographer Henk Jonker disguised himself as a female nurse during World War II while working for the Dutch resistance ?
text: Did you know that the accumulation of blood in the uterus can occur as a complication of surgery or the result of congenital abnormalities ?
text: Did you know that Ford Island was used by ancient Hawaiians for a ceremony to swap sex partners, was bought by the US Army in 1917, and was the center of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941?
text: Did you know that footballer Vratislav Lokvenc won five league titles in six seasons with Sparta Prague ?
text: Did you know that there are six floors in the staircase model of terrorism ?
text: Did you know that 16-year-old Bobby Byrne replaced Tommy Dorsey upon The Dorsey Brothers ' split?
text: Did you know that James Earl Jones and Carrie Fisher appeared in The Big Bang Theory episode " The Convention Conundrum "?
text: Did you know that despite Georges Clemenceau 's claim that the Saar contained 150,000 Frenchmen , just 2,124 of the territory's voters supported a French annexation of the Saar in a 1935 referendum ?
text: Did you know that Paul Palaiologos Tagaris was an Orthodox monk and impostor, who at one point claimed to be the Patriarch of Jerusalem , and even managed to be named Latin Patriarch of Constantinople by the Pope?
text: Did you know that Albania became one of the main hubs for exiled Indonesian communists following the mass killings of 1965–66 ?
text: Did you know that Medal of Honor recipient Luther Kaltenbach was granted a pension of twenty-four dollars a month by an Act of Congress ?
text: Did you know that Drexel 4175 , a music manuscript commonplace book belonging to the New York Public Library , is an important source for seventeenth-century English song?
text: Did you know that a 36-year-old yeshiva student in Kiryat Shomrei Emunim , Jerusalem, discovered a bomb planted in a garbage can and dismantled it himself before calling police?
text: Did you know that Skeet Shoot was a "shoddily programmed, graphically primitive game", but sold well?
text: Did you know that in 1922 Ingibjörg H. Bjarnason became the first woman elected to the Icelandic parliament ?
text: Did you know that Naval Auxiliary Air Facility Nantucket was designed to provide emergency support for one-half of a carrier air group ?
text: Did you know that Raouf Bundhun , a former vice president of Mauritius , received the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman award in 2006?
text: Did you know that Anna Kournikova 's half-brother Allan was featured in The Short Game , a documentary film about the 2012 U.S. Kids Golf World Champion­ships, which he won?
text: Did you know that two horse racing newcomers calling themselves "Dumb Ass Partners" won the 2014 Kentucky Derby with California Chrome ?
text: Did you know that the puzzle game Blek was inspired by Golan Levin , the Bauhaus , and Japanese calligraphy , and reached the top of the App Store charts with over a million copies sold?
text: Did you know that surveyor Horatio Chriesman helped choose the seat of government for the Republic of Texas ?
text: Did you know that if somebody wants to employ a gender-neutral pronoun in Swedish, he/she can use hen ?
text: Did you know that Amanda Yan , who won a gold medal at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Champion­ship , was also a national shot put champion?
text: Did you know that although Clearbury Ring , a hillfort near Salisbury in southern England, dates to the Iron Age , a paleolithic hand axe was found there?
text: Did you know that record producer John McClure kept his Grammy Awards in a box in his barn?
text: Did you know that in 2013–14, Norwich City were relegated from the Premier League , yet earned more in broadcast payments than Manchester United earned in winning the previous season's League title ?
text: Did you know that Boing Boing described the endless runner Canabalt by Adam Saltsman as a "one-button action-opus"?
text: Did you know that Nederluleå Church is the largest medieval church in the Swedish land of Norrland ?
text: Did you know that Maitland Armstrong showed U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant around the 1878 Paris Exposition Universelle and was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his work there?
text: Did you know that there is only one Information Technology Park in Nepal ?
text: Did you know that Robert Curl , who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of buckmin­ster­ful­lerene , ruined his mother's stove with nitric acid from his first chemistry set?
text: Did you know that artillery expert Edward Porter Alexander ascended in an observation balloon during an American Civil War battle?
text: Did you know that the Rheingauer Kantorei performed Mendels­sohn's oratorio Elias in the Geisen­heimer Dom and in the Marktkirche Wiesbaden ?
text: Did you know that Adam Peaty beat the Olympic champion and world record holder to win the 100 metre breast­stroke at the 2014 Common­wealth Games ?
text: Did you know that predatory fish sometimes associate with the grass octopus , snapping up organisms that it flushes from among the branches of corals ?
text: Did you know that Birger Fredrik Motzfeldt headed the Royal Norwegian Air Force from 1955 to 1960?
text: Did you know that there are 78 disturbances on Kase Run ?
text: Did you know that no other known hurricane has struck North Carolina as early in the calendar year as did Hurricane Arthur ?
text: Did you know that George A. Dickel , who gave his name to a brand of Tennessee whiskey , immigrated to the United States from Germany?
text: Did you know that the labor force at the Saugus Iron Works included indentured servants ?
text: Did you know that on Hope in Front of Me , former American Idol contestant Danny Gokey moved from his previous country music sound toward a more blue-eyed soul style?
text: Did you know that Natalie Nakase was the first female head coach in Japan's top professional men's basketball league?
text: Did you know that Lady Jane led to Sweet Fanny Adams and Pussy Galore?
text: Did you know that a Bronze Age sword and a Roman tile were found at Caesar's Camp , a large multivallate Iron Age hillfort on the Surrey – Hampshire border?
text: Did you know that in 1860 the Compagnie Impériale des Voitures in Paris operated 3830 fiacres , owned 8000 horses, and carried over 10 million passengers?
text: Did you know that Mexican television station XHTM-TV has five relay transmitters in five states?
text: Did you know that Paco Campos scored 127 goals in La Liga – the most by any player from the Canary Islands ?
text: Did you know that Tujamo and Plastik Funk 's song " Dr. Who! " charted higher than Mankind 's cover of the Doctor Who theme music despite having no relation to Doctor Who ?
text: Did you know that even though CheapyD runs Cheap Ass Gamer , he paid for his likeness to be included in Saints Row: The Third as downloadable content ?
text: Did you know that 19th-century French geometer Olry Terquem , writing as " Tsarphati ", was an outspoken advocate of the Reform movement in Judaism ?
text: Did you know that the star RY Sagittarii is periodically dimmed by clouds of carbon dust most likely ejected by the star itself?
text: Did you know that Willem Witteveen , who was killed on 17 July 2014 as a passenger of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 , was a legal scholar, senator and non-fiction writer from the Netherlands?
text: Did you know that with an area of 59 acres (24 hectares), the Jakey Hollow Natural Area is one of the smallest natural areas in Pennsylvania?
text: Did you know that local concert promoters sometimes temporarily forbid music acts from performing in nearby cities to protect ticket sales?
text: Did you know that volcanologist Barry Voight , a former professor at Pennsylvania State University , is the brother of Academy Award -winning actor Jon Voight and songwriter Chip Taylor ?
text: Did you know that the wings of the extinct ant Aphaenogaster longaeva had "excessively delicate" hairs?
text: Did you know that Meyne Wyatt is the first indigenous actor to join the main cast of the Australian soap opera Neighbours ?
text: Did you know that Kesher Israel Congregation had to relocate its synagogue to make way for expansion of the Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex – twice in thirty years?
text: Did you know that Hilda Käkikoski was one of the first women elected to the Finnish parliament ?
text: Did you know that the 1989 Boat Race was the first time in the event's history that both coxes were women?
text: Did you know that The Beatles logged 99 takes of " Not Guilty " but then left it off the White Album ?
text: Did you know that Kevin Cron set Arizona high school baseball records for home runs ?
text: Did you know that first-time novelist Edan Lepucki spent three days signing copies of California after the " Colbert Bump " sent sales soaring?
text: Did you know that Kundō Koyama 's first screenplay for a feature film won 98 awards?
text: Did you know that according to James Wedge , the famous white frock worn by Mick Jagger at 1969's Stones in the Park free concert came from Wedge's Countdown boutique?
text: Did you know that artist Larime Taylor draws the comic book series A Voice in the Dark using only his mouth, a brush, and a Wacom Cintiq tablet?
text: Did you know that ". :(" is a song from Forever After ?
text: Did you know that Art Whitney helped the New York Giants win the 1888 and 1889 World Series ?
text: Did you know that on the album The Night We Called It a Day , vocalist Listener reads a verse complete with its punctuation?
text: Did you know that Felisa Vanoff was the first female choreographer for the Hasty Pudding Theatricals , and became a lead dancer for the New York City Opera ?
text: Did you know that the seeds of the Korean melon have been investigated for use in controlling diabetes ?
text: Did you know that pianist Anna Kravtchenko , trained in Ukraine and Italy by the same teacher, won the Busoni competition at the age of 16?
text: Did you know that Ganga Bruta was " Humberto Mauro 's best film", but was also called "the worst film of all time"?
text: Did you know that 19th-century painter Évariste Vital Luminais was sometimes called "the painter of the Gauls"?
text: Did you know that Teresa Magbanua was the only woman to command combat troops in the Visayan region during the Philippine Revolution ?
text: Did you know that Tranquility Bass ' s debut album Let the Freak Flag Fly was recorded on Lopez Island in Washington over a period of more than two years?
text: Did you know that Muriel Pemberton "invented art-school training in fashion in Britain"?
text: Did you know that the Meadowlark was the last Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad passenger train to serve Southern Illinois ?
text: Did you know that the 2000 CECAFA Cup final was between Uganda and Uganda?
text: Did you know that journalist and physician Yasser Salihee sometimes used his patients in Baghdad as sources for his articles?
text: Did you know that the main star of FF Aquilae is a pulsating supergiant 39 times the diameter of the Sun ?
text: Did you know that the 1997 Boat Race included the first Italian to compete in the event?
text: Did you know that Alice Teodorescu "has made herself known as a provoca­tive and fearless liberal debater"?
text: Did you know that many kindergartens in Poland were named after the children's television series Jacek i Agatka ?
text: Did you know that the fashion designer Sally Tuffin created clothes on James Wedge 's billiard table?
text: Did you know that the play Golgota Picnic has been the target of protests by conservative Christian groups in France and Poland?
text: Did you know that National Rifle Association leader Harlon Carter's conviction for murder as a teenager was overturned on appeal?
text: Did you know that typographers at the Fann Street Foundry created the first lower-case sans serif typeface , and the first patented one?
text: Did you know that Janey Ironside was a "style icon" who taught fashion to Antony Price , Ossie Clark and Zandra Rhodes ?
text: Did you know that the wealthy couple who built the Episcopal church in Cumberland Furnace, Tennessee , had shocked Nashville society with their 1864 marriage?
text: Did you know that Robban Andersson ate thirteen sausages in two minutes for Talang 2010 ?
text: Did you know that the Brazilian singer Lourdinha Bittencourt , a member of the Trio de Ouro , had been a foundling ?
text: Did you know that the massacre in Józefów was committed by the men of Reserve Police Battalion 101 , who were too old for the regular army?
text: Did you know that over 500 comets , asteroids , and novae have been discovered by three members of the Astronom­i­cal Society of New South Wales ?
text: Did you know that the music video for Siti Nurhaliza 's song " Lebih Indah " also serves as a commercial for her SimplySiti range of products?
text: Did you know that Denmark's Kvinden & Samfundet (Woman & Society) , published since 1885, claims to be the world's oldest women's magazine?
text: Did you know that Arthur Harper was "the first man who ever came to the Yukon country seeking gold" ?
text: Did you know that Emil Gross set a Major League Baseball record by appearing in 87 games as catcher?
text: Did you know that Woodspring Priory was an Augustinian community for over 300 years and can now be rented as holiday accommodation from the Landmark Trust ?
text: Did you know that Sailor Moon Crystal celebrates the 20th anniversary of the shōjo manga series Sailor Moon ?
text: Did you know that Lindon Meikle signed for Eastwood Town following a trial , after his father suggested he join his brother Deon at the club?
text: Did you know that Fanny Lú 's album Lágrimas Cálidas mixes pop music with Caribbean rhythms?
text: Did you know that Arinn Young was the youngest player on the Canadian team that won the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship ?
text: Did you know that a rough cut of " Deep Breath ", the first episode of the eighth series of Doctor Who , was leaked online six weeks before the episode was due to air?
text: Did you know that Elmo Hope survived being shot by New York police to become an influential jazz pianist ?
text: Did you know that Englesea Brook Chapel and Museum contains the first organ to be used in a Primitive Methodist chapel?
text: Did you know that Freddie Hornik co-founded Dandie Fashions and helped turn Granny Takes a Trip into an interna­tional fashion brand?
text: Did you know that Kenyan Simon Maina , the 1998 Commonwealth Games champion over 10,000 metres , was deported from Japan after being injured in 2007 and dropped from the Toyota team?
text: Did you know that male pichis have a penis that is 60% of their body length, even though the females have no vagina ?
text: Did you know that the Habsburgs ' frequent practice of royal intermarriage led to severe inbreeding ?
text: Did you know that in 1896 The Sporting Life wrote of Baltimore Orioles third baseman Jim Donnelly that a "prettier or headier fielder ... would be difficult to find"?
text: Did you know that the Toungoo Dynasty 's decisive victory over Ava and its allies in the Toungoo–Ava War (1538–45) cemented the upstart kingdom's emergence as the largest polity in Burma since 1287?
text: Did you know that only five times in Philippine Basketball Association history has a team won the Grand Slam ?
text: Did you know that reviewers found the BBC One film Common "unrelentingly depressing" and "profoundly engaging"?
text: Did you know that New Zealand television news anchor Angela D'Audney caused a national furore in 1982 by appearing topless in the TV comedy play The Venus Touch ?
text: Did you know that Michael Botticelli is the first director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy to state that he is in recovery for a substance abuse problem?
text: Did you know that " Jaga Dia Untukku ", a song by Siti Nurhaliza , was inspired by feelings about her husband's motorcycle accident?
text: Did you know that Émilie Tremblay grew radishes and lettuces on the sod roof of her cabin in the Yukon ?
text: Did you know that the short-lived MGM-Pathé Communications was formed in 1990 when Giancarlo Parretti purchased MGM/UA Communications Inc. and merged it with his Pathé Communications Group ?
text: Did you know that after Arsenal 's defeat in the 2005 FA Community Shield , manager Arsène Wenger stated, "no-one regards it as a trophy so I do not mind anymore"?
text: Did you know that on Kuntry Livin' , recording artist Big Smo blends country music and hip hop in a style known as hick hop ?
text: Did you know that newly signed Alex Rae was made captain of Jersey RFC ?
text: Did you know that the Sydney green wattle can grow to 8 metres (26 ft) tall in five years?
text: Did you know that the 2008 Boat Race featured the oldest ever competitor, a 36-year-old?
text: Did you know that Ilie Moscovici was detained for instigating the Romanian strike of 1920 , though he "did not wish for a revolution", and for his party 's Comintern affiliation, though he had opposed it?
text: Did you know that Beryl Randle broke two world records, nearly 40 years apart?
text: Did you know that you can buy a monkey's fist at Arthur Beale ?
text: Did you know that the University of Michigan Men's Glee Club is the school's oldest student organization?
text: Did you know that Bangladeshi nationalism was popularized by President Ziaur Rahman as a substitute for Bengali nationalism ?
text: Did you know that William H. Herriman donated artworks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum , and his sister founded the world's first skyscraper hospital ?
text: Did you know that Lucas Bros. Moving Co. is based on its creators' experiences as cable television installers?
text: Did you know that Dhaka Racing is the first 3D video game developed in Bangladesh ?
text: Did you know that Willie Nelson sold " Family Bible " to a guitar instructor for US$50 and the cost of his dinner?
text: Did you know that The Mighty Kacy was the first woman to reach the finals of American Ninja Warrior ?
text: Did you know that the documentary film We Were So Beloved asks, in the aftermath of the Holocaust , whether survival is an end in itself?
text: Did you know that self-taught cartographer Aaron Carapella makes maps of the locations and names of Pre-Columbian indigenous tribes of North America circa 1490?
text: Did you know that Vantablack , a material made from carbon nanotubes , is the blackest substance known?
text: Did you know that the Muslim League politician J. M. Imam was awarded the title Mushir ul-Mulk ("Advisor of the Kingdom") by the Maharaja of Mysore in 1945?
text: Did you know that Halichoeres maculipinna can change its sex, and engages in lek mating ?
text: Did you know that Alonzo Davis and his brother were inspired to found the Brockman Gallery while driving back to Los Angeles following the Meredith March ?
text: Did you know that Operation Goodwood was the last in a series of "intensely disap­point­ing" attempts to sink the German battleship Tirpitz ?
text: Did you know that after Marcel Perez started as a clown, he directed and played the character Robinet in 150 silent films?
text: Did you know that at the 2013 Boat Race , for the second consecutive year Cambridge had only one British rower in its crew?
text: Did you know that American military history expert John C. McManus is the author of Grunts ?
text: Did you know that the European Court of Justice was asked the meaning of parody by the Court of Appeal of Brussels ?
text: Did you know that the Dota 2 esports tournament The International 2014 has a prize pool of more than US$10 million— ​larger than that of the 2014 Masters Tournament ?
text: Did you know that in 1952, British MP Eric Bullus proposed the reintroduction of flogging as a criminal punishment?
text: Did you know that Tansen , directed by Jayant Desai and based on the life of musician Tansen , was the second-highest grossing Indian film of 1943?
text: Did you know that in 1765, Scottish nabob John Johnstone , aged 31, returned from India with a fortune equivalent to £25 million in 2014?
text: Did you know that there are 122 erosion sites on East Branch Chillisquaque Creek ?
text: Did you know that Elvis impersonator James Brown is best known for songs that Elvis never recorded, sung in the style of Elvis?
text: Did you know that Marvel Studios considered making stand-alone short films‍—‌known as Marvel One-Shots ‍—‌for Loki , Black Panther , and Damage Control ?
text: Did you know that the human immunodeficiency virus reappeared in the Mississippi baby after she was thought to be cured?
text: Did you know that the revival of the Sakata Minato-za , the oldest cinema in Sakata, Yamagata , Japan, has been called "like something out of a movie"?
text: Did you know that Mary Francis Hill Coley , an African-American lay midwife in Georgia , was featured in a 1952 instructional film used in training midwives around the world?
text: Did you know that although possibly illiterate, Dinah Nuthead was one of the first licensed women printers in the Thirteen Colonies ?
text: Did you know that Beatles , birds and crickets contributed to " You Never Give Me Your Money "?
text: Did you know that DashCon offered attendees an "extra hour" in a ball pit to compensate them for a cancelled celebrity panel?
text: Did you know that Adrian P. Thomas 's videotaped confession regarding the death of his four-month-old son is the center of a documentary film on coerced confessions, Scenes of a Crime ?
text: Did you know that at the time of its discovery, S Antliae had the shortest period of any known variable star ?
text: Did you know that performance artist Milo Moiré claims her naked works are inspired by the script theory of cognitive psychology ?
text: Did you know that when the mayor of Saskatoon , John Hair , said in 1930 that unemployment in his city was "under control", he was "terribly wrong"?
text: Did you know that Torberry Hill in West Sussex is the site of an Iron Age hill fort and supports a mound known as the Fairy Bed, where fairies are said to dance every Midsummer Eve ?
text: Did you know that journalists compared the Costa Rican video game Fenix Rage to a cross between Super Meat Boy and Flappy Bird ?
text: Did you know that Flass , an English country house in Cumbria , was built by opium traders in the nineteenth century and used for cannabis cultivation in the twenty-first?
text: Did you know that Philippe Capdenat ' s 2001 opera Une Carmen re-imagined Bizet's Carmen in Morocco?
text: Did you know that the runaway binary star system BL Telescopii is 11,000 light-years off the galactic plane ?
text: Did you know that Paul G. Risser served as president of Miami University and Oregon State University as well as chancellor of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education ?
text: Did you know that Khar Bii , a reality television show consisting of a search for Senegal 's most beautiful ram , was the country's most popular television show in 2012?
text: Did you know that the 1944 One Million Plan was the first time Jewish immigration from Arab and Muslim countries became official policy of the Zionist leadership ?
text: Did you know that as a boy, golf course designer Archie Simpson was the favourite caddy of Sir Alexander Grant , Principal of the University of Edinburgh ?
text: Did you know that the Anna Crusis Women's Choir is the oldest feminist choir in the United States?
text: Did you know that Su Rong is the highest-ranking Chinese official to come under investigation for corruption during the presidency of Xi Jinping ?
text: Did you know that flooding in New Market , caused by a tropical depression over Jamaica in 1979, had not fully subsided after six months?
text: Did you know that Olivia Pope was spoofed by Jennifer Hudson when the Obama administration needed a spokesman for its Affordable Care Act ?
text: Did you know that the AI Mk. IV , the first air-to-air radar, was developed under conditions that "would have caused a riot in a prison farm"?
text: Did you know that skeptic Joe Nickell was an advisor on the 2007 horror film The Reaping , in which actress Hilary Swank plays an investigator of the paranormal?
text: Did you know that much of the history of the Principality of Nitra remains uncertain?
text: Did you know that Frank Cunningham headed an inquiry into the 1935 "On-to-Ottawa" march, was a war-crimes judge in Singapore , and became speaker of the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly ?
text: Did you know that the bus services in Surat are operated by private partners for the Surat Municipal Corporation under a public–private partnership ?
text: Did you know that with the prosthetic arm he had fitted after an electrical accident, "bionic chef" Eduardo Garcia has "superpowers"?
text: Did you know that in discussing his film Departures , director Yōjirō Takita drew parallels between cellists and morticians?
text: Did you know that James Baldwin , Langston Hughes , and Ralph Ellison have depicted the Harlem Riot of 1943 in their writings?
text: Did you know that the video game Thralled was made to focus on "love and caring" and to humanize the tens of millions in modern slavery ?
text: Did you know that the Spanish believed that the fierce Chinamita Maya were cannibals ?
text: Did you know that Josef Masopust was awarded the Ballon d'Or after helping the Czechoslo­vakian national football team reach the 1962 FIFA World Cup Final ?
text: Did you know that John Crittle 's mother mistook Jimi Hendrix for Jesus ?
text: Did you know that XELD-TV was the first Mexican television station to affiliate with an American network?
text: Did you know that Frances McConnell-Mills ' father, a doctor, refused to pay for her medical school tuition because he thought medicine was "too hard a life for a woman"?
text: Did you know that when Etheostoma variatum are seen, rivers are probably clean?
text: Did you know that the University of Chicago exercised its option to buy Harper Court for $98 million in November 2013 and listed it for sale in March 2014?
text: Did you know that Michel Disdier is the first French driver to race in NASCAR since the 1960s?
text: Did you know that several Muppets were taken captive after the set of Iftah Ya Simsim was stormed?
text: Did you know that the Dartford Crossing is the busiest estuarial crossing in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that Paul Revere both engraved and printed Colonial banknotes (1775–79) for the Provinces of New Hampshire and Massachusetts Bay?
text: Did you know that the Counter-Reformation in Poland concluded successfully with the Repnin Sejm of 1768, which abolished legal discrimination against religious dissidents?
text: Did you know that the Tantric deity Uchchhishta Ganapati is often depicted with a naked goddess, each touching the other's genitals?
text: Did you know that The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour , a tour by Beyoncé , was so called after her husband, Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter ?
text: Did you know that in the 1993 Boat Race , Cambridge used cleavers ?
text: Did you know that Tim Rogers , originator of New Games Journalism and co-founder of Action Button Entertainment , applied his thoughts on Super Mario Bros. 3 's "sticky friction" to his game design for Ziggurat and Videoball ?
text: Did you knowthat Peter Sellers , billed as "Britain's answer to Gene Krupa " at the Aldershot Hippodrome in 1948, complained later that the band was four bars behind because they were eating sandwiches?
text: Did you know that two incommunicado game show contestants can use the 100 prisoners problem to maximize the odds of sticking Monty Hall with the goat ?
text: Did you know that in 1995, a businessman scaled Quezon City 's Welcome Rotonda and staged a hunger strike to urge disquali­fi­ca­tion of Chinese Filipino candidates from running in that year's election ?
text: Did you know that art dealer C. T. Loo fell in love with a French milliner , but married her 15-year-old daughter instead?
text: Did you know that legend has it that a Teutonic Knight built the Leaning Tower of Toruń as punishment for falling in love with a woman, the tower's tilt signifying his deviant conduct?
text: Did you know that in the 1990 Back Bay rail accident , Amtrak 's Night Owl jumped the track and hit an MBTA commuter train , causing both to jackknife through the tunnel roof to the street above?
text: Did you know that actress Sarah-Jane Potts filmed her own audition for the role of Eddi McKee in Holby City , after she was approached by the show's casting director?
text: Did you know that the call of the Malagasy coucal resembles the sound of water being poured from a bottle?
text: Did you know that after an indictment against him was quashed , John N. Cole received three cheers from the Massachu­setts House of Represen­ta­tives ?
text: Did you know that in 1944 the Barsala tourist lodge in Azad Kashmir hosted the future founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah ?
text: Did you know that Tom Cushing 's 1926 play The Devil in the Cheese features a Greek bandit posing as a priest, an Egyptian god, adventures in the South Seas, and a bit of mummified cheese?
text: Did you know that the 1991 Argentine quota law , which sets minimum quotas of female candidacies to legislatures , was emulated by eleven other Latin American countries?
text: Did you know that Weib, was weinest du , the "Easter dialogue" composed by Heinrich Schütz , was performed at the first Schütz festival in Dresden?
text: Did you know that the Sun-like star HD 41248 may have two super-Earths in a 5:7 orbital resonance ?
text: Did you know that 19th century baseball player Mike McGeary was suspected of game-fixing and using a yellow umbrella to communicate with gamblers in the stands?
text: Did you know that the song " Asia Minor " was banned by the BBC because it parodied classical music ?
text: Did you know that the offices of the Danish magazine Vennen were raided by police in the so-called "Great Porno Affair"?
text: Did you know that critics called Kylie Minogue 's 2004 single " Red Blooded Woman " similar to the works of American music artists Justin Timberlake and Timbaland ?
text: Did you know that catcher Sy Sutcliffe , who reportedly "threw like a catapult", died of Bright's disease four months after his final major league game?
text: Did you know that Pornhub told its users to stop uploading videos of Brazil's loss to Germany at the 2014 FIFA World Cup under sexually suggestive titles?
text: Did you know that in 1809 the Irish politician Walter Jones resigned his seat in Parliament to make way for his uncle's illegitimate son?
text: Did you know that Jayanti is said to have asked the god Shukra to create a haze to shield their lovemaking from the world for ten years?
text: Did you know that no one knows who created " The Lord in Heaven "?
text: Did you know that Hawaiian legislator Joshua Kekaulahao served as a member of the Board of Land Commissioners, in charge of addressing land claims of the Great Māhele , from 1850 to 1855?
text: Did you know that Turkey's first ever bird ringing station was established at Lake Kuyucuk , which is an internationally-designated Ramsar site and an European Destinations of Excellence (EDEN)?
text: Did you know that professional baseball player "Mikado Milt" Scott gained his nickname amid a "Mikado" craze that invaded the sport in 1886?
text: Did you know that the Acala Maya were hunted by the Spanish after they killed two Dominican friars in 1559, and within 165 years they had disappeared completely?
text: Did you know that sediment on the East Tasman Plateau records the formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current ?
text: Did you know that the Oxford crew in the 2010 Boat Race included the Winklevoss twins , who had competed at the previous Olympics?
text: Did you know that LIFE magazine called Veloz and Yolanda "the greatest dance couple in America"?
text: Did you know that Victoria became the first Australian state to adopt a floral emblem when it adopted the pink heath, a form of Epacris impressa ?
text: Did you know that Johnny Leach won three World Table Tennis Championships and was described as one of "the sport's most influential ambassadors and promoters"?
text: Did you know that the white-tufted grebe breeds in freshwater locations but outside the breeding season may be found on the sea?
text: Did you know that T. Rantula was considered one of the largest professional wrestlers on the independent circuit during the 1990s?
text: Did you know that the Arsenal–Stoke City rivalry started in earnest as a result of a tackle which broke an Arsenal player's leg?
text: Did you know that in 1888 baseball player Dasher Troy hit a game-winning home run after his manager fulfilled his request for a beer from the bar beneath the field's grandstand?
text: Did you know that the viewing area in the Garbage Museum , an operating recycling facility in Stratford, Connecticut , allowed visitors to watch the processing of recyclables?
text: Did you know that Scatter the Gold was "a big handsome colt with his mother's peel-me-a-grape attitude"?
text: Did you know that OK Go used around 60 takes to make sure all the optical illusions were filmed correctly during a continuous shot for the video to their song " The Writing's on the Wall "?
text: Did you know that after the 2006 Boat Race , the Cambridge coach complained that his team had to "row with a boat full of water"?
text: Did you know that one reviewer dubbed Adult Swim in a Box "the anti-box-set"?
text: Did you know that The Cockroaches were the precursor of The Wiggles ?
text: Did you know that the bells of Roma Church , Sweden, originally came from a Swedish-speaking village in Ukraine ?
text: Did you know that Tory Member of Parliament Admiral Theobald Jones (1790– 1868) laid the foundation of Irish lichenology ?
text: Did you know that W Serpentis is a binary star system in which one star is transferring large amounts of material to the other?
text: Did you know that German wheelchair basketball player Laura Fürst helped win the national collegiate championship for the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Warhawks, and also made the Dean's List ?
text: Did you know that one reviewer wrote that checking in for a meal at London's Chiltern Firehouse restaurant "feels a bit like arriving at a Scientology meeting"?
text: Did you know that pitcher Ed Beatin , who had "the most astonishing slow ball that was ever offered up to a batter", was twice a 20-game winner?
text: Did you know that the popular children's book The Discovery of America (1781) portrayed Christopher Columbus as a hero , and Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro as antiheroes ?
text: Did you know that the c. 8th-century medical text Al-Risalah al-Dhahabiah , attributed to Ali al-Ridha , is also known as the "Golden Treatise"?
text: Did you know that Ethan Allen and Philip Skene planned to create a new British colony in the region around Lake Champlain , with Skene as its governor?
text: Did you know that some employees of Moon Studios, developers of Ori and the Blind Forest , had never met face to face until the game was unveiled at the 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo ?
text: Did you know that financier James Goldsmith said he hoped that investigative journalist Barbara Conway would "choke on her own vomit"?
text: Did you know that Winfield, Kansas , was named in honor of Winfield Scott in return for his promise to build the town a church?
text: Did you know that a limited edition of the Aquos Phone SH-06D is based on the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion ?
text: Did you know that Royal Navy officer Theophilus Jones was captain of HMS Defiance in 1798 when eleven of his crew were hanged for planning a mutiny?
text: Did you know that the historic U.S. Custom House in San Ysidro, San Diego , lies 50 feet (15 m) north of one of the busiest land border crossings in the world?
text: Did you know that professional baseball player Jerry Dorgan suffered from an "unconquerable appetite for liquor" and died after being discovered inebriated in a barn with an empty liquor bottle by his side?
text: Did you know that to support his claim that Java Man was the " missing link ", discoverer Eugène Dubois argued that it looked like a "giant gibbon "?
text: Did you know that to retrieve a music demo for " Galau ", a representative of Universal Music Group (Malaysia) had to travel more than 2500 kilometres (1600 mi) to East Java ?
text: Did you know that actress Pom Klementieff trained three hours per day, for two months, to fight Josh Brolin ?
text: Did you know that a piece of carpet installed at 400 SW Sixth Avenue in Portland, Oregon , in 1959 was said at that time to be the largest ever laid in the Pacific Northwest ?
text: Did you know that after he and his family escaped Nazi Germany , Manfred Kirchheimer made a documentary film about graffiti on New York subway trains?
text: Did you know that the Philadelphia Phillies gave Anthony Hewitt a US$1,380,000 signing bonus and money to attend college, where he hoped to study business or economics to learn how to manage his wealth?
text: Did you know that baseball player Frank Ringo , who was "inordinately fond" of whiskey, married in January 1889 and killed himself in April of that same year?
text: Did you know that the parathyroids were first discovered in the Indian rhinoceros in 1852 but not identified in humans until 1880?
text: Did you know that Swedish sport journalist Johanna Frändén had the special task of following Zlatan Ibrahimović 's career for SVT ?
text: Did you know that eggshell membrane is extracted from many of the two billion dozen eggshells produced annually at US egg-breaking facilities?
text: Did you know that Bud Osborn , a poet from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside , advocated for supervised injection sites ?
text: Did you know that quirky dogs and plural wugs helped Jean Berko Gleason show that young children extract linguistic rules from what they hear, rather than just memorizing words?
text: Did you know that Never Alone is a video game designed to share Alaskan indigenous folklore and revitalize interest in it?
text: Did you know that Cyclone Bobby broke numerous February rainfall records in parts of Western Australia 's Goldfields-Esperance region?
text: Did you know that the Center of Alcohol Studies was the first institute dedicated to alcohol research to emerge in the US following its repeal of Prohibition ?
text: Did you know that Amy Allison ' s debut album The Maudlin Years was included on Elvis Costello 's list of "500 Essential Albums" in Vanity Fair ?
text: Did you know that the 2014 Korea Queer Culture Festival was disrupted by anti-LGBT, conservative Christian demonstrators?
text: Did you know that mathematician and author C. Stanley Ogilvy was an avid sailor who frequently competed in the Star World Championships ?
text: Did you know that Panamanian rapper Flex 's " Te Quiero " won the Latin Grammy and the Lo Nuestro for Urban Song of the Year ?
text: Did you know that critics questioned Kevin Warwick 's claim that Eugene Goostman was the first chatbot to pass a Turing test ?
text: Did you know that Fred Hayman was a trainee dentist, a chef, and manager of the Beverly Hilton before becoming "Mr. Beverly Hills"?
text: Did you know that the 1960 Typhoon Ophelia had devastating impacts on the small atoll of Ulithi in the Caroline Islands ?
text: Did you know that the Centre Party , active in New South Wales during the 1930s, evolved from what has been called Australia's first fascist movement?
text: Did you know that Yale neurologist and skeptic Steven Novella has authored Dungeons & Dragons expansions?
text: Did you know that "No Kohl without Bohl" was used to describe the close working relationship between Friedrich Bohl , former head of the German Chancellery , and Chancellor Helmut Kohl ?
text: Did you know that officially reported unemployment in Poland rose from near zero in 1989 to over 13% in 2012?
text: Did you know that Jaratkaru insisted on marrying a virgin with his own name?
text: Did you know that American circus pioneer Hachaliah Bailey likened the 22-by- 32 foot (7-by-10 m) West Somers Methodist Episcopal Church in Somers, New York , to a tiger's cage?
text: Did you know that among sugar candies , translucent, rock-hard boiled sweets such as lollipops are not considered crystalline candies?
text: Did you know that in 1912 Henry Wilson-Fox , manager of the British South Africa Company , suggested that submarines could avoid collisions by imitating whales?
text: Did you know that Irish-born Michael Phelan has been described as America's first billiards star?
text: Did you know that Jan O. Jansson has the nickname "Nude-Janne" because he walked around nude in most episodes of the two seasons he participated in The Farm ?
text: Did you know that, as a senator , Vice President Joe Biden occasionally overslept on Amtrak 's Night Owl and woke up in Philadelphia instead of Wilmington, Delaware ?
text: Did you know that Tomáš Rosický won his first trophy in English football in 2014, eight years after joining Arsenal ?
text: Did you know that at 116 years of age, Gertrude Weaver is the oldest verified living American?
text: Did you know that a bridge between India and Sri Lanka is said to have been built by a monkey ?
text: Did you know that Stations of the Elevated is about the graffiti movement in New York City?
text: Did you know that Charles Gauthier 's statue of Sergent Blandan in Nancy contains Blandan 's ashes in its base?
text: Did you know that the music video for Enrique Iglesias ' " Héroe " earned a Lo Nuestro Award for Video of the Year and was nominated for four MTV Video Music Awards in 2002 ?
text: Did you know that as a swimmer, Darda Sales won gold at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney and silver at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, then joined Canada's national wheelchair basketball team in 2014?
text: Did you know that the Skogssame people had intricate ceremonies related to bears ?
text: Did you know that in over two decades as Tristan da Cunha 's only police officer, Conrad Glass has never had to put anyone in a holding cell?
text: Did you know that the music video for Kylie Minogue 's 2004 single " Chocolate " features a 40-second ballet routine which took the singer four days to rehearse?
text: Did you know that Frederic Bonney took photographs of the Paarkantji people , whom he respected for their loyalty and integrity?
text: Did you know that Simone Kues was a member of the team that won the silver medal at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto ?
text: Did you know that Australian actress Zoe Tuckwell-Smith made her major television acting debut playing Bec Gilbert in Winners & Losers ?
text: Did you know that the MMPL Kanpur was a rare example of an aircraft designed and built by a national air force for its own use?
text: Did you know that the Texas pocket gopher examines its own fecal pellets, selecting some to consume and rejecting the rest?
text: Did you know that the economy of Revò is highly dependent on the Golden Delicious ?
text: Did you know that Governor Mataio Kekūanāoʻa appointed two Lahainaluna Seminary graduates, including John Kalili , as circuit judges of Oʻahu in 1848?
text: Did you know that the heavy cruiser Dorsetshire took part in the Bismarck 's last battle in May 1941?
text: Did you know that people have been bathing in the waters of Umbul Temple since at least the ninth century?
text: Did you know that Enzo Amore and Colin Cassady are "the realest guys in the room"?
text: Did you know that there is an annual jogging event in Stockholm in which participants run in black suits, imitating bodyguards from the Swedish Security Service ?
text: Did you know that slowly pulsating B stars change in shape, not volume, as they pulsate?
text: Did you know that Commander Alex Stuart-Menteth read his own obituary in the newspaper?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine emperor Manuel I deliberately provoked the German contingent of the Second Crusade into fighting a battle just to make them leave?
text: Did you know that Scottish architect Eustace Balfour (1854–1911) was the brother of one British Prime Minister and nephew of another?
text: Did you know that the Benelux Court of Justice can ask the European Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling when preparing one of its own?
text: Did you know that John Passmore bequeathed 270 paintings to a woman he met in an art gallery, and had his ashes interred in her garden?
text: Did you know that the Corfu Channel Case resulted in an £843,947 International Court of Justice award to the United Kingdom in 1949, which was settled in 1996 along with an Albanian claim to 2339 kg (5156 lb) of Nazi gold ?
text: Did you know that the documentary film Art Is... The Permanent Revolution features four artists creating politically-inspired art?
text: Did you know that in 2009, the Mariachi Divas de Cindy Shea became the first all-female mariachi band to be nominated for a Grammy Award and the first to win one?
text: Did you know that the Arrow Catcher claims to live on a diet of just meat and potatoes?
text: Did you know that a crown was added to the flag of Liechtenstein after it was discovered at the 1936 Summer Olympics that its prior flag was identical to the flag of Haiti ?
text: Did you know that the Mojokerto child was so unexpectedly old that it was discussed in a Time Magazine cover story?
text: Did you know that the Angevins are considered by many historians to be the distinct Royal House that provided the English monarchs Henry II , Richard I and King John ?
text: Did you know that in 1889 Cleveland Spiders baseball player Larry Twitchell hit for the cycle , hitting a single, a double, three triples, and a home run in six at bats ?
text: Did you know that on the music chart week ending November 30, 2013, Wrapped in Red was the only non- Universal Music Group release to chart inside the Billboard 200 's top ten?
text: Did you know that at its height, Mexican state broadcaster Imevisión controlled two national television networks?
text: Did you know that Ontario politician Harinder Malhi is the daughter of Canadian politician Gurbax Singh Malhi ?
text: Did you know that the Glore Psychiatric Museum displays examples of antique devices once used in the treatment of mental illness, such as the Tranquilizer Chair?
text: Did you know that Family Affairs actress Rebecca Blake disposed of some of her character 's outfits because she thought they made her look dowdy?
text: Did you know that would-be assassin Bogdan Žerajić was mentioned in a song written by Gavrilo Princip ?
text: Did you know that in producing the Tintin comic King Ottokar's Sceptre , Hergé was influenced by the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938?
text: Did you know that when he came aboard in 1936, Dick Joy , aged 21, was the youngest staff announcer in CBS Radio history?
text: Did you know that the Moreau painting Oedipus and the Sphinx dramatizes the moment Oedipus must correctly answer this riddle or die: "What walks on four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon and three at night"?
text: Did you know that at her house in London's New Burlington Street , Mary Boyle , Countess of Cork, held "pink" parties and "blue" parties?
text: Did you know that Romanian linguist Alexandru Philippide championed science and disdained literature, especially poetry, yet his son became a poet?
text: Did you know that " Chicken Fat ", an exercise song used in an Apple Inc. commercial for its new iOS 8 , was originally composed for John F. Kennedy 's President's Council on Physical Fitness campaign?
text: Did you know that SITI: An Iconic Exhibition of Dato' Siti Nurhaliza was the first exhibition in Malaysia to focus on a pop star?
text: Did you know that the problem of frequent subtree mining is applicable to both RNA structure analysis and web history mining?
text: Did you know that Kirya Ne'emana was one of six Jewish neighborhoods built outside the Walls of Jerusalem in the 1870s?
text: Did you know that Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play retells an episode of The Simpsons that parodies a movie which is a remake of another movie which is based on a book ?
text: Did you know that in the Sita Puranamu , Sarama is admonished as the woman who turned her husband Vibhishana against his brother Ravana ?
text: Did you know that the Hawaiian chief Kamanawa poisoned his wife Kamokuiki and was convicted and executed under the criminal laws of Hawaii's first constitution ?
text: Did you know that Tony Hawk's Underground was the inaugural recipient of the MTV Video Music Award for Best Video Game Soundtrack in 2004?
text: Did you know that Australian javelin thrower Hamish Peacock has competed at the Youth, Junior and Senior World Championships?
text: Did you know that the Beverly Hills 9/11 Memorial Garden is centered around a 30-foot bent steel beam from the wreckage of the World Trade Center ?
text: Did you know that during the Yugoslav Wars , Dutch journalist Robert Dulmers walked around Osijek in a tuxedo and slept among the pickles in the basement of a clergy house?
text: Did you know that the video for Lady Gaga 's " G.U.Y. " was shot at Hearst Castle ?
text: Did you know that the silvery grebe visits saline lakes in Patagonia where it is often found in the company of flamingoes ?
text: Did you know that The Pistol: The Birth of a Legend shows how Press Maravich inspired his son Pete Maravich to achieve his dream of making a basketball varsity team as an 8th grader?
text: Did you know that the 58-year-old Berlin club Knaack , named after a German communist, was gentrified out of its formerly punk / bohemian neighborhood?
text: Did you know that Canada's Janet McLachlan led all wheelchair basketball players in scores and rebounds at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London?
text: Did you know that a Pro Wrestling Illustrated writer called "Beef Stew" his "least favorite nickname" in professional wrestling ?
text: Did you know that Canadian actor Ari Millen won a role in the second season of Orphan Black after two unsuccessful auditions during the show's first season?
text: Did you know that the young star PZ Telescopii has a debris disk and a companion that is either a brown dwarf or a giant planet?
text: Did you know that Bright Blue Bird, In A Grey Red Sky , composed by Mansoor Hosseini for violin and orchestra based on a Persian legend , premiered at the Allerheiligen-Hofkirche ?
text: Did you know that Atkinsons of London first achieved success with a pomade of bear's grease that was claimed to facilitate hair regrowth for bald men?
text: Did you know that Arthur Tuck singlehandedly won the Oregon high school track and field team championship for Redmond High School by winning seven individual events and placing second in another?
text: Did you know that a signature expression of The Mel Blanc Show was "ugga-ugga-boo, ugga-boo-boo-ugga," the password for Blanc's (the character's) lodge?
text: Did you know that in the 1964 Tamil film Bommai , a doll played the central character?
text: Did you know that in recognition of his service to Belgian relief during the First World War , the former mayor of Victoria, British Columbia , John L. Beckwith , was decorated by the Belgian king?
text: Did you know that drive-through banking stands operated in the 1960s outside Ympyrätalo in Helsinki , Finland ?
text: Did you know that Taylor Dugas set new Alabama Crimson Tide baseball career records for hits , singles , doubles , and triples ?
text: Did you know that a 1951 cyclone made landfall in Hawaii three times?
text: Did you know that Charles Gauthier 's sculpture of the suicide of Cleopatra was thought to be by Albert Darcq until it was cleaned?
text: Did you know that the Polish resistance stole over a million US dollars in młynarki , a currency named after Polish economist Feliks Młynarski ?
text: Did you know that Emil Signes is credited with facilitating the inclusion of rugby sevens in the Olympics?
text: Did you know that Jayanta is said to have pecked the goddess Sita 's breast as a crow?
text: Did you know that the 2013 album Paramore topped the charts in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States?
text: Did you know that Cristiano Ronaldo won the Premier League Player of the Season award as well as the European Golden Shoe and FIFA World Player of the Year in 2008?
text: Did you know that Armand Point 's poster for the fifth Salon de la Rose + Croix featured Perseus holding the severed head of Emile Zola ?
text: Did you know that a reviewer wrote that tenor Georg Poplutz ' s performance of Schubert's Winterreise created a "cosmos of emotions"?
text: Did you know that at the end of World War II, the Soviet Union forced Finland to return 55,000 Finnic evacuees from Ingria , only to deport them to interior areas of central Russia?
text: Did you know that Yank Robinson , who set a major league record for single-season walks , died of tuberculosis at 34?
text: Did you know that 1978 was the last Atlantic hurricane season to use an all-female naming list?
text: Did you know that Tim Frick coached the Canadian women's wheelchair basketball team to three consecutive Paralympic gold medals and four consecutive World Wheelchair Basketball Championships?
text: Did you know that the final radio version of The Saint ran for sixteen months despite a Billboard review of the first episode that called star Vincent Price "frightfully dull"?
text: Did you know that the ten existing Philippine Basketball Association teams can "protect" twelve players in their roster in the upcoming 2014 PBA Expansion Draft ?
text: Did you know that, to help his wife Brandi grow her children's clothing company, Lolly Wolly Doodle , Will Temple learned how to monogram dresses and sew buttonholes ?
text: Did you know that Colonel Alexander Mackay was appointed commander of British forces in Boston , Massachusetts, in summer 1768, but did not arrive until April 1769 and stayed for just five months?
text: Did you know that the 2013 Stadium Super Trucks season ' s race at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was on the first asphalt track laid at the stadium?
text: Did you know that Lee Harvey Oswald , the sniper who assassinated John F. Kennedy , proposed to Ella German while living in the Soviet Union?
text: Did you know that A New View by philomath Edward Hatton is a guide to the streets, churches, and life of London after the Great Fire of 1666 , even detailing the lawyers' robes and workhouse rations of the time?
text: Did you know that former college basketball player Anthony Watson set the San Diego State single-game scoring record in 1986 and was named the Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year later that year?
text: Did you know that in the trials following the rapes during the Sierra Leone Civil War , forced marriage was found to be a crime against humanity ?
text: Did you know that in 1903, Charles Whitman Cross and three other geologists created a method of analyzing rocks known as the CIPW norm , elements of which are still in use today?
text: Did you know that Raspberry Island on the Mississippi River is the last true island in Saint Paul, Minnesota ?
text: Did you know that a transgender human clone is introduced as a new character in the Orphan Black episode " Variable and Full of Perturbation "?
text: Did you know that in 1826 the Scottish nabob and Tory politician James Balfour was elected to Parliament with a total of three votes?
text: Did you know that The Lost Boys invented a finisher that had one man " hoisting their victim onto his shoulders" and the other "executing a moonsault that sends the opponent crashing to the mat"?
text: Did you know that the 2013 short film Right There is a homage to comedies of the silent film-era ?
text: Did you know that the El-Buss Palestinian refugee camp was originally set up for Armenian refugees arriving in Lebanon?
text: Did you know that artist Zarh Pritchard wore a diving suit to paint underwater scenes while underwater?
text: Did you know that the women's suffrage journal Jus Suffragii drew criticism during World War I for launching "an active pacifist campaign"?
text: Did you know that the Scottish brewery Brewmeister put a warning label on its Snake Venom beer, advising consumers to drink only one bottle per sitting?
text: Did you know that Éric Dewailly conducted research into the breast milk of Inuit women?
text: Did you know that the fire bell for Forest Grove Fire and Rescue , Oregon , used to be kept at the Old College Hall on the campus of the local college?
text: Did you know that communist leader U. Ramam tried to regain the Narsapuram constituency five times, after having won it in 1957?
text: Did you know that although Oley Creek is considered to be an infertile stream, it is designated as a Class A Wild Brook Trout fishery for part of its length?
text: Did you know that Pat McDonagh designed costumes for The Beatles , leather catsuits for Diana Rigg as Emma Peel in The Avengers , and the "Mrs Obama coat"?
text: Did you know that the narrator of the 1958 horror film The Screaming Skull promises free burial to any audience member who dies of fright?
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text: Did you know that in his first season playing Major League Baseball , Detroit Wolverines pitcher George Derby pitched 55 complete games , won 29 games, and led the National League in strikeouts ?
text: Did you know that in 1921, Maulana Hasrat Mohani and Swami Kumaranand tabled the first motion to call for full Independence in the All India Congress Committee ?
text: Did you know that North Fork Tangascootack Creek in Clinton County, Pennsylvania , has a thriving trout population and macroinvertebrate system?
text: Did you know that Andrew Hay was killed defending the Church of St Etienne during the final engagement of the Peninsular War ?
text: Did you know that according to one reviewer, the productions of the Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company "can match a West End show"?
text: Did you know that American artist Ed McGowin changed his name and identity twelve times over an eighteen-month period?
text: Did you know that English biochemist Ida Maclean was the first woman on staff at the Manchester University chemistry department, and the first to be admitted to the London Chemical Society ?
text: Did you know that the Sargent Bridge is one of the few early 20th-century steel truss bridges remaining in central Nebraska ?
text: Did you know that a 1921 paper by Étienne Biéler and James Chadwick was praised as "marking the birth of the strong interactions "?
text: Did you know that during the third kingdom of Ebla , Hadad and Ishtar became the city's most important deities?
text: Did you know that Lydia Yu-Jose , who was conferred the Order of the Rising Sun for her contributions to Japanese studies in the Philippines, began her studies out of boredom with her political science classes?
text: Did you know that a new species of the extinct ant Archimyrmex was described in 2012?
text: Did you know that the Oba River is named for the goddess Ọba , one of the wives of Shango , the Yoruba God of Thunder?
text: Did you know that Émilien of Nantes was decapitated by the Saracens ?
text: Did you know that Merriam's pocket mouse feeds mainly on seeds and does not need to drink?
text: Did you know that Great Britain is one of the first three nations to qualify athletes for the 2016 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the eponymous character of A Kitty Bobo Show was based on one of the co-creators' experience as a Korean adoptee ?
text: Did you know that the Australian hit song " Polyester Girl " is about a man "pledging fidelity to a sex doll "?
text: Did you know that Hansjürgen Reinicke was chief of staff to Vice Admiral Otto Ciliax during the Channel Dash ?
text: Did you know that the Indianapolis Traction Terminal was reputedly the largest interurban terminal ever built?
text: Did you know that missing woman Holly Bobo is the cousin of country singer Whitney Duncan ?
text: Did you know that the Global Citizenship Education approach has been supported by organizations such as UNESCO and Oxfam ?
text: Did you know that the gray-collared chipmunk supplements its fruit and seed-based diet with fungi, greenery and insects?
text: Did you know that Charlie Guy , who served in the Ambulance Corps during World War I, sent Cleveland 's star halfback to the hospital with a broken shoulder and ribs in the first game of the 1920 NFL season ?
text: Did you know that the world's best para-equestrian rider, Lauren Barwick , appeared on the Canadian television series Heartland ?
text: Did you know that both of the lead actors in the 2013 film Short Term 12 were cast through Skype ?
text: Did you know that Robert Louis Stevenson believed that politics is a profession for which no preparation is necessary?
text: Did you know that the aviator John Robinson was initially a janitor at the first aviation school he attended?
text: Did you know that Pakistan has been trying to put up a fence on its border with Afghanistan since 2005?
text: Did you know that Fabien Cousteau commissioned a "Trojan shark" submarine to film a documentary on great white sharks , and recently spent 31 days living underwater ?
text: Did you know that, reaching a height of 325 feet (99 m), Fury 325 will become the world's tallest non-launched roller coaster when it opens in 2015 at the Carowinds amusement park ?
text: Did you know that " The Blonde Bear " supervised the ransacking of black households in the 1946 Columbia Race Riot ?
text: Did you know that Wei Yilin , a surgeon during the Mongol Yuan dynasty , created a suspension method for reducing dislocated joints ?
text: Did you know that local tradition holds that the Ponte Conde de Linhares was built by Jesuits in a single night by the light of a single lamp?
text: Did you know that the journal Genes, Brain and Behavior is trying to raise standards for mouse mutant studies and reduce the unnecessary use of animals in flawed studies?
text: Did you know that the Rolingas are an Argentine urban tribe composed of fans of The Rolling Stones ?
text: Did you know that Australian swimmer Mack Horton won five gold medals at the 2013 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships ?
text: Did you know that the popular Thai teen drama Hormones: The Series courted controversy for scenes featuring students attempting to have sex in a classroom?
text: Did you know that Seth Green , a farmer's son and pioneer pisciculturist from Carthage, New York, was called the "Father of Fish Culture in North America"?
text: Did you know that the Illinois Central Railroad 's Seminole Limited was the first passenger train to provide year-round service between Chicago, Illinois and Jacksonville, Florida ?
text: Did you know that Mouvements d'Harmonie for wind nonet was composed by Graham Waterhouse for the 60th birthday of his father, the bassoonist William Waterhouse ?
text: Did you know that in 1909 the owner of the Wolverine claimed the Coquille intentionally rammed his boat, but the Steamboat Inspection Service subsequently suspended the captains of both vessels?
text: Did you know that the Kweilin was the first civilian airliner to be attacked by hostile aircraft?
text: Did you know that Olympic footballer Kristian Krefting served as a liaison officer with British forces fighting in the 1940 Norwegian Campaign ?
text: Did you know that over 200 fossils of Aphaenogaster mayri were known when the species was described in 1930?
text: Did you know that Ernst Deutsch won the Volpi Cup for best actor at the 1948 Venice Film Festival for his role in The Trial ?
text: Did you know that Fore Street was the first place in the City of London to be hit by a German bomb in World War II?
text: Did you know that the flesh and fins of the spotless smooth-hound are much esteemed?
text: Did you know that Native American football player Peter Hauser has been credited with throwing the first spiral pass?
text: Did you know that the 1920 German film The Women House of Brescia was rejected by the British Board of Film Classification and banned in Germany?
text: Did you know that 28-year-old Ferhat Akbaş was appointed head coach of the Turkey women's national volleyball team and won the 2014 Women's European Volleyball League ?
text: Did you know that the yellow-nosed cotton rat often shares the burrow of the southern pocket gopher ?
text: Did you know that Bernard Perlin created some of the best-known World War II propaganda produced by America's Office of War Information ?
text: Did you know that a magic trick called the blow book was used in the 16th century to refute the existence of witchcraft?
text: Did you know that Mo'ne Davis is the first girl to pitch a shutout in Little League World Series history?
text: Did you know that the sternwheeler Telegraph twice collided with the rival Charm in 1915?
text: Did you know that a migration to Russia in 1752 led by Jovan Šević was described in a novel by Miloš Crnjanski ?
text: Did you know that Marshall Field and Levi Leiter , co-founders of Marshall Field & Co. , were both once partners with John V. Farwell at John V. Farwell & Co. ?
text: Did you know that the U. S. Navy 's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery is the last of the original Navy bureaus still in existence?
text: Did you know that Chicken Licken , the "largest non-American-owned fried chicken franchise in the world", uses a secret recipe bought in Texas for $1,000?
text: Did you know that Achille Pierre Deffontaines , who died on 26 August 1914, was the youngest general in France when promoted in 1913?
text: Did you know that Hkonmaing I , the saopha of Onbaung–Hsipaw , was the only steadfast ally of King Narapati II of Ava for over twenty years in Ava's wars against its former vassal states?
text: Did you know that stage coaches on the Drain-Coos Bay stage line in Southern Oregon traveled on the beach?
text: Did you know that Michigan State halfback Neno DaPrato was called "the greatest scoring machine of the year" after scoring 130 points, in just six games, during the 1915 season?
text: Did you know that conductor Michael Zearott participated on a 1980s musical tour organized by Francis Ford Coppola ?
text: Did you know that the sternwheeler Eva illegally hauled dynamite through Southern Oregon , in boxes labeled as containing bacon ?
text: Did you know that General San Martín's Monument was inaugurated on the 50th anniversary of Neuquén, Argentina ?
text: Did you know that Anna Rüling , "the first lesbian activist " and one of the first women to publicly declare her homosexuality , believed that lesbians were more suited to careers than straight women?
text: Did you know that in pursuit of his foreign policy objectives , Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an official visit to Nepal and was the first foreign leader to address that country's parliament ?
text: Did you know that baseball's Jim Manning was one of the organizers of both the Western League and its successor the American League ?
text: Did you know that the radical PUNGA party was the sole force in Gabon that called for a "No" vote in the 1958 French constitutional referendum ?
text: Did you know that Tony Kaye appeared on the cover of The Yes Album with his foot in plaster, having broken it in a car accident?
text: Did you know that according to the Nihon Shoki , the claimant to the throne in the Prince Hoshikawa Rebellion was burned in the treasury?
text: Did you know that after the ship Favorite was sunk at its moorings in Oregon , it was refloated within days?
text: Did you know that the Argentine telenovela Viudas e hijos del Rock and Roll is Paola Barrientos 's first television appearance in a lead role?
text: Did you know that leaders of the pro- Mali Federation Mauritanian National Union were released from jail once the Federation fell apart?
text: Did you know that Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center in Gresham, Oregon , did not get a permanent MRI machine until 2001?
text: Did you know that the film Michael , now in production, is about former gay activist Michael Glatze (played by James Franco ), who denounced homosexuality following a health scare and became a Christian pastor?
text: Did you know that while Chinese parents have begun putting their toddlers in diapers instead of open-crotch pants , Western advocates of elimina­tion communica­tion have been moving toward using them?
text: Did you know that Northwest Coast artist Jim Hart is a hereditary chief of the Haida Nation ?
text: Did you know that Barbara Rosenblat decided that her Orange Is the New Black character Miss Rosa has a Hispanic accent?
text: Did you know that Fritz Delius played Louis XIV of France in the 1920 German film Am Liebeshof des Sonnen­königs ?
text: Did you know that the Nigerien Action Bloc won the mayoral post of Zinder in 1956?
text: Did you know that Hundeprutterutchebane , Denmark's "Dog Fart Roller­coaster", takes riders past a statue of a defecat­ing dog and "gives new meaning to the phrase 'the wind in my face ' "?
text: Did you know that Russian para-alpine skier Alexey Bugaev broke his arm at the 2013 IPC World Championships but went on to win two silver medals with his arm in plaster?
text: Did you know that the British television series Inside No. 9 won the Sketch and Comedy prize at the 35th annual Banff World Media Festival Rockie Awards ?
text: Did you know that Charles W. Crawford was in charge of wireless telegraphy in Somaliland during actions against the " Mad Mullah "?
text: Did you know that the tower of the Falkner Island Light originally had a spiral wooden staircase leading outside to the lantern room?
text: Did you know that filmmaker Michelle Parkerson has been called "a visionary risk-taker"?
text: Did you know that stories involving Joe Quest are among the many theories about the origin of the term "Charley horse"?
text: Did you know that the mix of modern elements and traditional gothic norms in " The Harrowing ", episode six of Inside No. 9 , was used for both comedy and horror?
text: Did you know that Bill Watkins led Detroit to the 1887 World Series and by 1894 had won more pennants than any other manager?
text: Did you know that Andrew Carnegie objected to his grant money being used for amenities such as a dome, public meeting room, and fireplaces in the Guthrie, Oklahoma Carnegie Library ?
text: Did you know that sociologist Mihai Ralea was sent to the West by Communist Romania with documents exposing the fascist past of Romanian exiles, only to find himself subject to similar accusations?
text: Did you know that the distribution of Beck's tree frog is limited to altitudes of over 3,000 metres (9,800 ft) in Papua New Guinea?
text: Did you know that Taylor Swift 's single " Shake It Off " is dedicated to her haters?
text: Did you know that author George R. R. Martin killed off protagonist Eddard Stark in his 1996 novel A Game of Thrones because he knew readers would not expect it?
text: Did you know that Sir Mark Palmer , a godson of Queen Elizabeth II , started an early male modelling agency before leading a band of New Age travellers ?
text: Did you know that the silky pocket mouse sometimes shares a burrow with the banner-tailed kangaroo rat or the Phillips' kangaroo rat ?
text: Did you know that Steamer Horning was an All-American football player for Colgate and a two-time All-NFL player for Toledo ?
text: Did you know that Norman Morrice was the artistic director of Ballet Rambert and The Royal Ballet , the UK's two major ballet companies?
text: Did you know that during the First World War former postmen serving with the Post Office Rifles delivered German mail using carrots?
text: Did you know that Cicero 's lost Consolatio (45 BC) is widely accepted as the distinct work that transmitted the earlier consolatio literary tradition to the Romans of the late Republic ?
text: Did you know that when the recording sessions of Stratum by Drottnar began, guitarist Bengt Olsson left the band, only to rejoin it a few months later?
text: Did you know that Josefina de la Torre , closely associated with the Generation of '27 , was a columnist for the film magazine Primer Plano ?
text: Did you know that Charles de Visscher , a Belgian judge of the International Court of Justice , was orphaned at age twelve?
text: Did you know that Chris Paul won gold medals with the US basketball team at both the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics?
text: Did you know that intimacy between a retired Empress and a monk was one of the causes of the Fujiwara no Nakamaro Rebellion ?
text: Did you know that 100 years ago today the French 3rd Colonial Division was virtually destroyed at the Battle of Rossignol ?
text: Did you know that the Hindu deity Heramba , protector of the weak, is associated with rites for inflicting harm on one's enemies?
text: Did you know that Valentin Wolfenstein owned the first successful photography studio in Los Angeles?
text: Did you know that the noble Roman Altieri family , which ascended the papal throne in 1670 with Clement X , pretended to be descended from an unknown ancient Roman citizen named Lucius Alterius?
text: Did you know that approximately 200 bird species have been observed on or near Lake Chillisquaque in Montour County, Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that three protesters were killed near a Cape Town school by armed police hidden in a "Trojan Horse"?
text: Did you know that Marina Frolova-Walker has delivered lectures on music at venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to factories in Kazakhstan ?
text: Did you know that Anabel was the first Brazilian animation series on Nickelodeon Brazil ?
text: Did you know that although abortion is generally illegal in Sint Maarten , it is legal and accessible "just a walk away across the border" in Saint Martin ?
text: Did you know that because future cancer surgeon Sir Stanford Cade spoke no English on being evacuated to England in the First World War, he wrote his first medical examination in French?
text: Did you know that German actress Olga Limburg starred alongside Heinz Rühmann and appeared in 49 films?
text: Did you know that in the Kibi Clan Rebellion , Japan lost its hold on the Korean peninsula because of a beautiful woman?
text: Did you know that Jimmy the raven could open envelopes and ride a motorcycle, appeared in some 1000 films (including It's a Wonderful Life ), and earned a Red Cross gold medal?
text: Did you know that the murder of 14-year-old schoolgirl Leigh Leigh inspired a theatrical play that was later adapted into a feature film ?
text: Did you know that despite nationwide speculation, John Hay never acknowledged his authorship of The Bread-Winners , published anonymously in 1883?
text: Did you know that Romanian opera singer and film actress Maria Forescu died in the Buchenwald concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that the oldest memorial in All Saints' Church, Runcorn , Cheshire , is dedicated to two women, "both good wives"?
text: Did you know that the last Norse–Gaelic King of Dublin, Ascall mac Ragnaill , was captured and executed in 1171 after failing to reclaim his kingdom from the English?
text: Did you know that in later life, baseball player Dan Casey claimed he was " Casey at the Bat "?
text: Did you know that Hugh Lowery taught formation flying in World War I and later played in the National Football League 's first season?
text: Did you know that on its 1856 opening, the Illinois Central Railroad 's Great Central Station was the largest building in Chicago ?
text: Did you know that despite receiving the most votes in the 1959 elections , the Dahomeyan Democratic Union emerged as the smallest of the three parties in the Territorial Assembly?
text: Did you know that the memorial to members of the United Kingdom's Houses of Parliament killed in the First World War was damaged by bombing in the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that the residence and place of death of Muhammad Iqbal was converted into a museum by the Pakistani government in 1984?
text: Did you know that Jack Kilmer first acted at age 18, when he starred in Palo Alto with his father Val Kilmer ?
text: Did you know that Alice Pollock founded the boutique Quorum and the male modelling agency English Boy, both in London?
text: Did you know that Steve Ormerod chairs Europe's largest wildlife conservation charity?
text: Did you know that the Itcha Range in British Columbia is an inactive shield volcano formed between 3.8 and 0.8 million years ago?
text: Did you know that L.A. Mix scored five more hits after being diagnosed by Stock Aitken Waterman as being "unlikely to have another hit"?
text: Did you know that according to local tradition, the shrine of Muawiya in the town of Basma is named after a soldier in Saladin 's army who was slain near the town?
text: Did you know that the stoor worm , a sea monster of Orcadian mythology, could destroy humans with its putrid breath?
text: Did you know that Race is the first feature film about Jesse Owens , who won a record-breaking four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that the Selle Français is a French sport horse , recognized internationally as a top breed for show jumping and three-day eventing ?
text: Did you know that the assassination of Augusto Unceta Barrenechea was the Basque separatist group ETA 's deadliest attack of 1977, and marked the beginning of a more violent phase in the group's operations?
text: Did you know that Trafalgar High School , established for non-whites in Cape Town , defiantly refused to move after its part of the city was declared "whites only"?
text: Did you know that Howard Gobioff was one of the architects of the Google File System , which allowed for computation speeds never before possible?
text: Did you know that Gordon Ramsay 's Bread Street Kitchen cost £3 million to build?
text: Did you know that Joe Fitzgerald was the first player in NFL history to return an interception for a touchdown ?
text: Did you know that the BBC Singers and Endymion performed Steve Reich's The Desert Music at the 2014 Proms ?
text: Did you know that Gerald "Charley" Westbury was one of the first cancer surgeons to develop procedures that would preserve function as well as give good survival rates?
text: Did you know that the 10th Battalion was the first South Australian infantry unit to leave Australia during World War I, heading for the Middle East in October 1914?
text: Did you know that Harrington-Birchett House was a federally protected bird sanctuary from 1940 to 1970?
text: Did you know that the excavations for fossils of Pleistocene fauna in Natural Trap Cave , Wyoming , in 2014 included an experiment in taphonomy ?
text: Did you know that British archer Sharon Vennard competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics despite being in constant pain due to osteoarthritis in her spine?
text: Did you know that in a 1966 interview John Lennon remarked that the Beatles were " more popular than Jesus "?
text: Did you know that the Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation in Cary, North Carolina , has been preserving the ancient Chữ Nôm script of Vietnam since 1999?
text: Did you know that pianist Werner Genuit played the complete works for piano by Richard Wagner for the national congress of the Wagner Society ?
text: Did you know that Ludian was a courier station on the Ancient tea route ?
text: Did you know that the inner part of Stanford University 's Main Quad is surrounded by twelve buildings, numbered 1 through 110?
text: Did you know that the extinct ant Aphaenogaster sommerfeldti was first described in 1868?
text: Did you know that Mac Marcoux won gold in the Men's Giant Slalom by over two seconds at the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games ?
text: Did you know that although the 12th-century Skara Missal has been referred to as "Sweden's oldest book", its origins remain unclear?
text: Did you know that in 1929, Solomon and Hattie Chandler donated land to the state of Oregon for a park, now called Chandler State Wayside ?
text: Did you know that more than eighty species of woodland herbs are found near Spruce Run , including fifteen fern species and twelve sedge species?
text: Did you know that cyclist Floortje Mackaij began her career as a speed skater ?
text: Did you know that the massive blue giant star 68 Cygni is surrounded by a ring-shaped nebula ?
text: Did you know that Mr. & Mrs. Waite Phillips lived in the penthouse of the Philcade Building after donating their mansion to the city of Tulsa to become the Philbrook Art Museum ?
text: Did you know that fossils of 23 mammal species including mammoth , dire wolf , ground sloth , pre-historic bison , camel , and horse have been found at Fossil Lake in south central Oregon ?
text: Did you know that American actress and theater director Jessie Bonstelle gave her first public performance at two years old?
text: Did you know that Oriental Film hired Njoo Cheong Seng and Fifi Young for their name recognition and only produced one further film after the couple left?
text: Did you know that mathematician Elling Holst is particularly remembered for his picture books for children?
text: Did you know that English sport shooter Mick Gault jointly holds the record for most medals at the Commonwealth Games , but has never been selected for the Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that the video game Device 6 uses mainly text for its gameplay?
text: Did you know that Liebmann Hersch 's article "International Migration of the Jews", first published in 1931, became a classic work on the topic?
text: Did you know that as of January 1940, No. 2 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF lacked hot water, a kitchen, and a telephone system?
text: Did you know that Michael H. Weber and his writing partner have written four films together despite living on opposite sides of the United States?
text: Did you know that Remedios Circle , now considered the center of Manila 's nightlife, was originally a cemetery?
text: Did you know that swimmer June Krauser set 154 American records and 73 world records?
text: Did you know that Virgil 's Fourth Eclogue was believed by some early Christians to have predicted the birth of Jesus of Nazareth ?
text: Did you know that Cahuenga Boulevard in Los Angeles appeared in several Buster Keaton films, such as The Goat (1921) and Three Ages (1923)?
text: Did you know that the 2014 Orkney earthquake was the biggest earthquake in South Africa since 1969?
text: Did you know that halfback Eddie Moegle scored the first touchdown for Detroit in the first season of the NFL ?
text: Did you know that cross-country skier Chris Klebl represented the United States at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Paralympics before winning a gold medal for Canada at the 2014 Games ?
text: Did you know that concussions are the fifth-most common type injury in American football , possibly affecting over 100,000 players each year?
text: Did you know that P. T. Daly , secretary of the Dublin Council of Trade Unions , was imprisoned during the Dublin Lock-out and interned during the Easter Rising ?
text: Did you know that a torture scene in the Orphan Black episode " Things Which Have Never Yet Been Done " was improvised and shot with a handheld camera due to time constraints during filming?
text: Did you know that mother of four Heather Turland won the marathon at the 1998 Commonwealth Games at age 38, despite having first run the distance only two years earlier?
text: Did you know that the television debate between Alistair Darling and Alex Salmond attracted 36% of viewers in Scotland?
text: Did you know that psychologist Frank Farley once studied men who visit massage parlors?
text: Did you know that David Friesenhausen , an astronomer and rabbi, was one of the first Jews to support the Copernican heliocentrism ?
text: Did you know that chili sauce is sometimes used in the preparation of sushi ?
text: Did you know that a possibly distinct form of the Egyptian white water-lily exists far away from its Nile Delta habitat in a small Romanian nature reserve ?
text: Did you know that at age 10, Darren Espanto was the youngest contestant in the history of The Next Star to be included in the Top 6?
text: Did you know that rodents are characterized by their continuously-growing, razor-sharp incisors ?
text: Did you know that baseball catcher Cal Broughton later became a police chief who captured a gang of train robbers after a gun fight in Wisconsin?
text: Did you know that 5,000 Redmi smartphones sold out in eight minutes in a March 2014 online sales offering?
text: Did you know that countertenor David Erler was one of five singers invited by amarcord for the performance of Monteverdi's Vespers as the annual Marienvesper of the Rheingau Musik Festival in Eberbach Abbey ?
text: Did you know that the Parksley Spuds were a professional baseball team based in a town with a population of about 600 people?
text: Did you know that the Kinne Cemetery , established around 1713 in Griswold , Connecticut, shows the evolution of funerary art over the course of the centuries?
text: Did you know that Hans Aasnæs was the 1947 individual World Champion in the 100 metre running deer double shot?
text: Did you know that the corpse of Indian spiritual leader Ashutosh has been kept in a freezer by his followers since his clinical death on 29 January 2014?
text: Did you know that Morihei Ueshiba founded the Japanese martial art of aikido ?
text: Did you know that the 1940 contest between The Catholic University of America and the Arizona State Teachers College at Tempe ended in the only scoreless tie in Sun Bowl history?
text: Did you know that Gerd Nienstedt performed 14 different roles, including the dragon in Siegfried , during 15 consecutive summers at the Bayreuth Festival ?
text: Did you know that after the Ottoman conquest of Epirus , some members of the Zenevisi family converted to Islam and held high positions within the Ottoman military and feudal hierarchy?
text: Did you know that Lionel Fraser worked in naval intelligence, and was the father of Groovy Bob ?
text: Did you know that more than 300 complaints were received about British slopestyle snowboarder Aimee Fuller 's commentary on her own event at the 2014 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the unveiling of Android 4.0 was postponed in remem­brance of Steve Jobs ?
text: Did you know that Caxiuanã National Forest is the oldest national forest in the Amazon Region of Brazil?
text: Did you know that Erich Wenk sang a "rage aria" in Bach's dramma per musica Preise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen ?
text: Did you know that the music video for " Make U Bounce " features a woman with massive hands causing carnage out of revenge?
text: Did you know that the call of the male river frog can be described as a "deep, low-pitched, rolling snore"?
text: Did you know that when food is scarce, the agile wallaby will feed on seeds it finds in bird droppings?
text: Did you know that the Končar -class missile boat has two chaff launchers?
text: Did you know that before Lyca Gairanod won The Voice Kids , she helped her mother find recyclable materials to sell to support their family?
text: Did you know that the Congo Crisis began shortly after the end of colonial rule of Belgian Congo in 1960?
text: Did you know that Catholic University's Bill Adamaitis was hailed as the "hero of the Orange Bowl" after both catching and throwing touchdown passes in the 1936 game ?
text: Did you know that Lis Rhodes 's 1975 work Light Music was called "an iconic work of expanded cinema" by the Tate Modern ?
text: Did you know that shares of GameStop fell over five percent after the announcement of EA Access ?
text: Did you know that in 1944 a precision bombing raid on the Gestapo 's Aarhus headquarters destroyed all its files?
text: Did you know that Morocco recently suspended judicial cooperation with France over torture claims against Morocco's intelligence service, the DGST ?
text: Did you know that the cargo liner Dominion Monarch carried all her passengers in first-class accommodation?
text: Did you know that an 18th-century German–Serbian dictionary uses a dialect of the Vojvodina Serbs ?
text: Did you know that the 1969 album Yellow Submarine was one of the few Beatles releases that did not top the charts in the United Kingdom or the United States, peaking at No. 3 and No. 2 respectively?
text: Did you know that dogs speak with the player and plead to adventure with them in PlayStation Vita Pets ?
text: Did you know that BL Boötis (or BL Boo) in Boötes is not a binary but a BL Boötis variable?
text: Did you know that British MP Terry Patchett , suffering from cancer, voted on the Scott Report after journeying 400 miles by ambulance to Parliament?
text: Did you know that the papal decretal Libellus responsionum (601 AD) dealt with questions such as marriage between relatives and whether priests might celebrate mass after having sexual dreams?
text: Did you know that composer and entertainer Gitz Rice , serving with the Canadian Armed Forces on the World War I front lines, rescued a piano from shellfire?
text: Did you know that Walt Disney Animation Studios has released 53 animated features to date, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to Frozen (2013)?
text: Did you know that Bevan Sharpless ' observations of the orbital decay of Phobos led to speculation it was a hollow sphere created by Martians?
text: Did you know that during the Spanish–American War , the Bridgeport Harbor Lighthouse was equipped with a battery of ten-inch guns, making it one of the few armed lighthouses in American history?
text: Did you know that Australian farmer Archie Barwick wrote some 400,000 words about his World War I service?
text: Did you know that John Lee Hooker 's " Boogie Chillen' ‍ " became the first "down-home" electric blues song to reach number one in the R&B records chart?
text: Did you know that walking football has become a fashionable form of exercise for over-50s with mobility difficulties?
text: Did you know that in 1951 the Symphony Six – six Canadian musicians including Dirk Keetbaas , William Kuinka , and Ruth Budd – were denied access to the United States under suspicion of leftist activities?
text: Did you know that the book The Girl With All The Gifts deals with a dystopian future in which most of humanity is wiped out by a fungal infection?
text: Did you know that the first personality test , the Woodworth Personal Data Sheet , was developed with the intention of screening World War I recruits for shell-shock risk?
text: Did you know that Montowampate was attacked by Tarrantines while visiting Masconomet ?
text: Did you know that the first FA Charity Shield match , held in 1908, saw Manchester United draw 1–1 with Queens Park Rangers ?
text: Did you know that John Gregorson Campbell was at the same time a church minister and a folklorist?
text: Did you know that the one tropical cyclone to make landfall during the 1930 Atlantic hurricane season killed between 2000 and 8000 people?
text: Did you know that in 1907, the moose Älgen Stolta defeated horses in a harness race ?
text: Did you know that the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer was the first instrument to detect polarization anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background ?
text: Did you know that Klesie Kelly , soprano and academic voice teacher in Cologne, recorded love songs for voices and instrumen­tal soloists with tenor Ian Partridge ?
text: Did you know that Giacomo Orefice 's 1901 opera Chopin , based very loosely on Chopin 's life, has been called "a kitsch contribution to the last vestiges of late 19th-century romanti­cized bohemianism "?
text: Did you know that the reign of Ha' K'in Xook , who ruled the Maya city of Piedras Negras from 767–780 AD, seems to have been relatively free from war?
text: Did you know that former Cardiff MP Ian Grist 's signature, I Grist , signifies "Jesus Christ" in Welsh ?
text: Did you know that a critic thought that a "pack of satanic Marmadukes" would be scarier than the film Hellhounds ?
text: Did you know that Megan Fletcher won the 70 kg women's judo at the 2014 Common­wealth Games despite needing to have her face taped up during the semifinal?
text: Did you know that blueside shiners and longear sunfish work together to defend their nests from predators?
text: Did you know that a loose coalition of German nationalist and liberal parties defeated the dominant Christian Social Party in the 1911 election in Cisleithania ?
text: Did you know that in the midst of the 1929 financial crisis , the Socialist Workers Party of Romania argued that the time was ripe for revolution?
text: Did you know that Novo Brdo , an important medieval fortified town of Serbian Despotate , was besieged and captured in 1441 by the Ottoman forces commanded by Hadım Şehabeddin , the beylerbey of Rumelia Eyalet ?
text: Did you know that occupants of the Navy Annex finally left after the food service was stopped and the ATM removed?
text: Did you know that Dominic Monaghan was covered in honey to attract male drones for the production of the Lost episode " House of the Rising Sun "?
text: Did you know that Frank Brill was a pitcher in Major League Baseball and later won the United States' first national bowling championship?
text: Did you know that Texas All-Star Wrestling , the oldest independent promotion in Texas , was honored at the 2013 Texas Wrestling Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that Caroline Charles designed clothes for Mick Jagger and Ringo Starr , as well as the outfit worn by Emma Thompson when she accepted the Oscar for Howards End ?
text: Did you know that the proportion of rowers at the 2011 Boat Race who were British was the highest for a decade?
text: Did you know that according to the Lesbian Film Guide , She Must Be Seeing Things was a "deeply controver­sial film ... dismissed outright by some as pornography"?
text: Did you know that Changyuraptor , the largest four-winged dinosaur discovered to date, also had the longest feathers ever recorded in any non-avian dinosaur?
text: Did you know that Brean Down has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest due to both its geology and its range of plants?
text: Did you know that the music video accompanying " Ugly Heart " was seen by 2.5 million viewers in less than a week?
text: Did you know that the Family Building Society , opened in July 2014, is the UK's first new building society since 1981?
text: Did you know that Big Brother: Power Trip contestant Pauline Bennett has been featured on four UK top 75 hits?
text: Did you know that " Word Crimes ", "Weird Al" Yankovic 's grammar-based song parody of Robin Thicke 's " Blurred Lines ", has been likened to a modern-day Schoolhouse Rock! ?
text: Did you know that only three possible fossils of the extinct ant Aphaenogaster oligocenica have been reported?
text: Did you know that the Cenotaph war memorial in Cape Town has been relocated twice since it was first erected in 1924?
text: Did you know that the Mama Lucy Gang was named after the owner of a restaurant?
text: Did you know that, after plans to make a film with Dardanella fell through, Ali Joego established his own theatre company?
text: Did you know that the success of Mikengreg 's Solipskier gave them the means to experiment when making Gasketball ?
text: Did you know that I-Kiribati boxer Taoriba Biniati had never fought against a woman or in a ring before taking part at the 2014 Common­wealth Games ?
text: Did you know that Tip O'Neill won the triple crown and set at least eight Major League Baseball batting records?
text: Did you know that the 2014 film Chef has been called both Jon Favreau 's best and worst film by critics?
text: Did you know that Akira Sasō 's manga Kodomo no Kodomo focuses on an eleven-year-old girl who becomes pregnant?
text: Did you know that in 2001 the French Institute of Health and Medical Research awarded its "Grand Prix" for medical research to neurologist Yves Agid ?
text: Did you know that the documentary film Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan begins with a horse standing alone in an empty Chicago street?
text: Did you know that Enter the Dominatrix was first announced as Saints Row: The Third download­able content as an April Fool's joke, but was later incorpo­rated into the sequel and its own download­able content?
text: Did you know that Mexican mixed martial artist Juan "Fénix" Puig practiced kundalini yoga as a boy before taking up mixed martial arts?
text: Did you know that Autumn Sandeen was the first US service member to publicly have her gender identifi­ca­tion changed on all her military records?
text: Did you know that in 1861, Britain agreed to protect Bahrain as long as its ruler did not in engage in the "prosecution of war, piracy and slavery at sea"?
text: Did you know that Indian industrialist Shrenik Kasturbhai Lalbhai headed Anandji Kalyanji Trust , which manages 1200 Jain temples?
text: Did you know that the film Sea of Trees , now in production, is about the Japanese " Suicide Forest "?
text: Did you know that Mya choked up during a demo for president Bill Clinton ?
text: Did you know that neptunium is found in at least three allotropes ‍—‌one orthorhombic , one tetragonal , and one body-centered cubic ?
text: Did you know that in celebration of the tercentenary of the birth of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , tenor Markus Schäfer performed in his oratorio Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu at the Rheingau Musik Festival ?
text: Did you know that Xenia Field helped to establish the first bail hostel in Britain?
text: Did you know that the Orcadian Sea Mither confines the nuckelavee ?
text: Did you know that one reviewer dubbed Loved "great high-brow lunchtime gaming"?
text: Did you know that the walls of St Peter's Church, Parr , in Merseyside , England, contain industrial waste ?
text: Did you know that one reviewer wrote that the box art for Space Cavern was better than the actual game?
text: Did you know that though he had served as a Conservative MP for 23 years, Cyril Townsend defected to the Liberal Democrats in 2006?
text: Did you know that male Sinaloan mastiff bats possess scent glands on the throat?
text: Did you know that Merrill G. Burlingame , a former professor of history at Montana State University , was known as "Mr. Montana History"?
text: Did you know that the 1990 Boat Race had the heaviest oarsman in the event's history?
text: Did you know that the Vicar of Brighton got shot in the twitten ?
text: Did you know that a 1997 book listed Frozen Run as one of the most interesting stream names in Pennsylvania?
text: Did you know that the soprano Ada Cherry Kearton was married to the wildlife photographer Cherry Kearton and recounted their travels in her autobiography On Safari ?
text: Did you know that Arnait Video Productions , the Inuit women's filmmaking collective, received nine Genie Awards nominations for their first feature, Before Tomorrow ?
text: Did you know that Australian player Albert Trott took eight wickets for 43 runs on his debut , the best bowling analysis by any bowler on Test debut ?
text: Did you know that when the Weimar -era German magazine Frauenliebe was relaunched as Garçonne , the French title was thought to be "more modish"?
text: Did you know that a producer of Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! described the " Scooby Gang "'s clothing as "what a hipster dresses like in their world"?
text: Did you know that Odense was the birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen ?
text: Did you know that when the town of Lakeview, Oregon , was destroyed by fire in 1900, staff of the Lake County Examiner saved enough equipment and material to publish a special edition the next day?
text: Did you know that Irish politician Edward Joshua Cooper ' s private observatory in County Sligo made the first discovery from Ireland of an asteroid?
text: Did you know that 50% of the seats in the 2014 Tripura local body elections were reserved for women?
text: Did you know that Sophie Taylor broke her own record to win gold in the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2014 Commonwealth Games ?
text: Did you know that there ain't no more?
text: Did you know that Mohammed Dajani Daoudi led the first group of students from Palestine to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland?
text: Did you know that the designer of the company town of Bemis, Tennessee tried to make the community look like it had grown over time?
text: Did you know that Michael Roll completed his college basketball career with the UCLA Bruins holding the school's record for most career games played?
text: Did you know that the Barton Road Swing Bridge opens up to 14 times a day to let traffic through the Manchester Ship Canal ?
text: Did you know that one can eat all the hot dogs, nachos, popcorn, peanuts, and soft drinks one wants in the "all-you-can-eat" sections found at many Major League Baseball parks?
text: Did you know that the male polkadot poison frog guards the eggs laid by the female and carries the newly hatched tadpoles to water?
text: Did you know that the theme song " Paano Ang Puso Ko? " in the 1997 film of the same title was adapted from Chuck Willis ' "What Am I Living For"?
text: Did you know that Indian poet Chandrakant Topiwala translated Rilke 's Duino Elegies into Gujarati ?
text: Did you know that the 2001 CECAFA Cup included a football game with the biggest margin of victory in the competition's history?
text: Did you know that Christine Jones helped London police officers to recognise mental health crises as medical emergencies?
text: Did you know that one writer observed references to Final Fantasy , Gitaroo Man and Sonic the Hedgehog in the Steven Universe episode " Steven the Sword Fighter "?
text: Did you know that bear's grease was once thought to be an effective treatment for hair loss ?
text: Did you know that in the Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory , an acid donates a proton while a base accepts one?
text: Did you know that Emmanuel Ifeajuna became the first black African to win at a major international sports competition when he won the high jump at the 1954 British Empire and Common­wealth Games ?
text: Did you know that in 1773 newly appointed Governor of the Cape Colony Pieter van Reede van Oudtshoorn died at sea during the voyage to take up his post?
text: Did you know that by the age of 10, child actor Rohan Chand had co-starred with Adam Sandler , Mark Wahlberg , Jason Bateman and Damian Lewis ?
text: Did you know that the Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard received the Army-Navy "E" Award for building ninety destroyer escorts in 1943 when the United States Navy had only asked for sixty?
text: Did you know that in The Merchant of Venice , Shakespeare may have committed "a grammatical error of unsurpass­able grossness" ?
text: Did you know that the Park an der Ilm , landscaped partly by Goethe , contains a monument to Shakespeare by Lessing ?
text: Did you know that in 2010, Lazeric Jones became just the third junior college transfer in 30 years to play college basketball for the UCLA Bruins ?
text: Did you know that Sebastián Estevanez and Carina Zampini , the lead actors of the Argentine telenovela Camino al Amor , costarred in the 2012 telenovela Dulce amor ?
text: Did you know that John von Neumann 's theorem that every closed real matrix group is a Lie group inspired Élie Cartan to prove a generali­za­tion, the closed subgroup theorem ?
text: Did you know that Melanie Hawtin was Canadian national champion in wheelchair racing , but made the national team in wheelchair basketball in 2014?
text: Did you know that Queen Victoria was abandoned at a children's reformatory , called "the auld bitch" by James Joyce , and now lives in Sydney ?
text: Did you know that in her international debut season, visually impaired cyclist Sophie Thornhill won two gold medals with one guide and another two with a different guide?
text: Did you know that the highest part of Purabá de Santa Bárbara is in the foothills of Barva Volcano ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Naval Medical Research Center operates a clinical laboratory for diagnosing uncommon diseases in active duty military and their families ?
text: Did you know that video game director and scenario writer Taro Yoko uses a writing method he calls "backwards scriptwriting", by which he builds the narrative starting with the ending?
text: Did you know that the Nossa Senhora da Graça fought for four days against samurai before being scuttled by its own captain?
text: Did you know that after the 1986 Boat Race , the Cambridge stroke said he was "just stirring the tea while the others did the work"?
text: Did you know that posters for a presentation by Secular Pro-Life at the University of Georgia were repeatedly torn down in protest?
text: Did you know that in 1943, Wilhelm Münter Rolfsen led Milorg 's refugee escort network in Norway?
text: Did you know that Cheshire 's Norcliffe Chapel was founded by a Unitarian , but was a Baptist chapel for its first ten years?
text: Did you know that Bong Revilla 's speech Salamat, Kaibigan was met with "amusement, anger and disbelief" among netizens?
text: Did you know that Fittja gård became a popular overnight inn and station for exchange of horses for Swedish kings?
text: Did you know that Infamous Second Son players can either climb high-rise buildings or dash up them using neon superpowers ?
text: Did you know that Paige was scared of professional wrestling as a child, but went on to win the WWE Divas Champion­ship at age 21?
text: Did you know that the largest lake in Montour County, Pennsylvania is on Middle Branch Chillisquaque Creek ?
text: Did you know that according to Georgian annals, Pharnavaz I was the founder of the Kingdom of Iberia ?
text: Did you know that as a technical adviser on the 1970 film Performance , David Litvinoff introduced the cast and crew to London's underworld?
text: Did you know that " No Mediocre " was intended as "something to uplift women"?
text: Did you know that Derek Bourgeois , since 2009 Britain's most prolific composer of symphonies, said they came "tumbling out"?
text: Did you know that the 1943 Saint-Donat RCAF Liberator III crash was the worst accident in Canadian military aviation history?
text: Did you know that the Dodoma Region in Tanzania is roughly the same size as Switzerland ?
text: Did you know that Chinese Vice Premier Gu Mu was a key figure in the creation of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone?
text: Did you know that about three quarters of the Sicilian land devoted to growing Fiano grapes is in the Province of Agrigento ?
text: Did you know that both Miguel Laurencena and his son, Eduardo , served as governor of Uruguay's Entre Ríos Province ?
text: Did you know that Istanbul's Byzantine Cistern of the Hebdomon has been used, at times, as an elephant stable, a vegetable garden, and a concert arena?
text: Did you know that while language extinction has occurred many times throughout history, it has acceler­ated in the 20th and 21st centuries?
text: Did you know that female European cave salamanders do not normally eat while they guard their eggs for six months or more?
text: Did you know that Victoria Cleland is the first woman to be Chief Cashier of the Bank of England ?
text: Did you know that the little Sumba hawk-owl was identified as new to science by its voice?
text: Did you know that Ichharam Desai compiled the Brihat Kavyadohan , an eight-volume anthology of the medieval Gujarati poets and poetry ?
text: Did you know that the entomologist -to-be Alfred M. Boyce was arrested by Italian authorities after the SS Philadelphia mutiny ?
text: Did you know that the reliable ARQ-M communications protocol on shortwave radio allowed Telex messages to be sent internationally?
text: Did you know that scheduled monuments in the ceremonial county of Somerset range in age from neolithic to World War II ?
text: Did you know that when his company went public in 1965, John Michael Ingram had 17 stores and was a flag-bearer for Swinging London , exporting worldwide?
text: Did you know that on July 28, 1903, U.S. Civil Governor William H. Taft declared the land surrounding the lighthouse in Poro Point a protected reservation?
text: Did you know that the main predator of the little desert pocket mouse is the barn owl ?
text: Did you know that John W. Olmsted earned his blues playing lawn tennis in 1927?
text: Did you know that Bertha Lamme Feicht was both the first woman to ever receive a degree in engineering from Ohio State University and to be employed by Westinghouse Electric as an engineer?
text: Did you know that the Malagonlong Bridge is the longest bridge made during the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines ?
text: Did you know that U.S. television broadcasters have used local marketing agreements to work around government policies regulating local media consolidation ?
text: Did you know that in 1969 Terry Miller submitted a proposal to the British Railways Board for what became the InterCity 125 ?
text: Did you know that the Charlotte Medal , said to be the first work of Australian colonial art, was created in 1788 by a British convict to commemorate the First Fleet 's voyage to Botany Bay ?
text: Did you know that Professor of Ancient History John Crook tried to get his colleagues to sing " Waltzing Matilda " in Latin, with the chorus for swag of "ambiclitella! ambiclitella!"?
text: Did you know that the chef Delia Smith was criticised after the publication of How to Cheat at Cooking for the use of canned mince and frozen mashed potato ?
text: Did you know that the size of its automotive industry makes Poland the second largest producer of light vehicles in Central and Eastern Europe ?
text: Did you know that Madonna's 2004 concert tour was chronicled in a documentary film ?
text: Did you know that the Balkan whip snake hibernates in winter, with several snakes sometimes sharing a single site?
text: Did you know that in addition to appearing in TV shows such as Star Trek: The Next Generation and Space: Above and Beyond , Lanei Chapman was a kindergarten teacher?
text: Did you know that strolghino salami is made from leftover cuts of culatello salami?
text: Did you know that Lomatia fraseri can have leaves of markedly different shapes on the same plant?
text: Did you know that Yuta Watanabe is only the third Japanese basketball player to sign with a NCAA Division I team?
text: Did you know that the Fort ship Fort Stikine was destroyed in a 1944 explosion at Bombay which killed over 700 people and injured some 3000?
text: Did you know that the original image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the Philippines' Pagsanjan Church was a gift from Mexico, and was installed at the main altar in 1688?
text: Did you know that the use of thick pieces of asparagus can enhance the flavor of cream of asparagus soup ?
text: Did you know that a porn parody of the " Soup Nazi " episode of Seinfeld starred James Deen as "Gerry" Seinfeld ?
text: Did you know that after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill , all new oil tankers built for use between U.S. ports were required to have full double hulls ?
text: Did you know that the Italian Province of Palermo has been ruled by the Romans, Byzantines, Normans and the Arabs?
text: Did you know that the Canadian actress Charlotte Le Bon worked as a model for almost a decade in New York, Tokyo and Paris, but "really hated it"?
text: Did you know that the Lumban Church was built in Lumban, Laguna , in 1586 and finished in 1600 under San Pedro Bautista ?
text: Did you know that in Sicily , maccu may be prepared on Saint Joseph's Day to clear out the pantry and make room for new spring vegetables?
text: Did you know that one can see all of the London Borough of Sutton 's European twin towns without needing a passport?
text: Did you know that the parasitic ant species Mycocepurus castrator evolved from its host while sharing the same nest ?
text: Did you know that seven-term U.S. Congressional commissioner Larry Wortzel is considered one of the top American experts on China's military strategy?
text: Did you know that William George Hoskins ' The Making of the English Landscape (1955) is widely used as a text in local and environmental history courses?
text: Did you know that Eric Lawson was the first directly elected MP in the Solomon Islands ?
text: Did you know that " Angola Avante ", the national anthem of Angola, is used as a nickname for an inter-community football competition held in Portugal?
text: Did you know that in 2013 Wikimedia Ukraine contributed to the preservation of kobzar music , an effort begun in 1901 in Kharkiv ?
text: Did you know that Martin Manulis was the producer of Playhouse 90 , voted the greatest television series of all time in a 1970 poll of television editors?
text: Did you know that the National IQ Test assessed whether people who support Aussie rules are more intelligent than those who follow rugby league ?
text: Did you know that the French Minister of Economy Emmanuel Macron was an assistant to philosopher Paul Ricœur ?
text: Did you know that the cover of the 1890s feminist periodical Shafts depicted a woman shooting an arrow labelled "Wisdom", "Justice", and "Truth"?
text: Did you know that the genus Equus became extinct in the Americas about 12,000 years ago and remained that way until the Conquistadors reintroduced it?
text: Did you know that the popular science writers Elizabeth and Mary Kirby crowdsourced their first joint book in 1848?
text: Did you know that the lined pocket mouse differs from Nelson's pocket mouse in having no stiff spines on its rump?
text: Did you know that the Angolan Cuanza Sul Province has a high density of landmines left over from the country's civil war ?
text: Did you know that Jean-François Autié was one of three brothers who worked as Marie Antoinette's hairdresser Monsieur Léonard , and he fled Paris to escape the guillotine?
text: Did you know that 33 species of fish have been identified in Towanda Creek ?
text: Did you know that Lü Zushan succeeded Xi Jinping , now President of China, as Governor of Zhejiang province?
text: Did you know that the video for " Louder " features Neon Jungle singing in a giant metallic dome?
text: Did you know that the most stable known isotope of ununpentium , 289 Uup , has a half-life of only 220 milliseconds?
text: Did you know that Hovdala Castle in Sweden belonged to the same family from 1651 to 1944?
text: Did you know that the Memel communist labour leader Hermann Suhrau later became a Nazi Party member?
text: Did you know that according to a tradition a passage under Constantinople linked the Byzantine Cistern of Aspar with the Hagia Sophia ?
text: Did you know that the fossil ant genus Archiponera is known from a single pair of fossils described in 1930?
text: Did you know that the Swiss politician Josi Meier once declared, "Women belong in the house ... in the House of Representatives!"?
text: Did you know that in the comic Nowhere Men , "Science is the new Rock-N-Roll"?
text: Did you know that Walter Wu , a blind Canadian swimmer and three-time gold medalist at the Paralympics, was a torchbearer for the 2010 Winter Paralympics after his retirement in 2004?
text: Did you know that the Barry Waterfront redevelopment scheme is one of the largest to be undertaken in the UK?
text: Did you know that Freddie Sessler was "almost a father" to Keith Richards ?
text: Did you know that the 2014 Beijing ePrix was won by Lucas di Grassi after a final-turn collision between Nick Heidfeld and Nicolas Prost ?
text: Did you know that the Punta Cruz Watchtower is the only perfect isosceles triangle tower-fort structure in the Philippines?
text: Did you know that the state of Washington's supreme court meets in the Temple of Justice ?
text: Did you know that Robert Lewin worked with Gene Roddenberry both on Star Trek: The Next Generation and on Mission: Impossible ?
text: Did you know that in ant colonial society, gamergate females occupy an intermediate caste between queens and workers ?
text: Did you know that despite having only two players in a three-on-three basketball game, the 2011 USA Women's U18 3x3 Team took a game to overtime, almost winning a medal?
text: Did you know that National Scientist Edgardo Gomez pioneered giant clam breeding for coastal communities in the Philippines?
text: Did you know that Pile chose her stage name after the pile that is on towels ?
text: Did you know that although the New Zealand activist Frances Ann Stewart considered herself a "pioneer" for women, she believed that not all women should receive the right to vote?
text: Did you know that the German Shepherd Lucky was posthumously awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery for tracking communist forces during the Malayan Emergency ?
text: Did you know that the former American Idol finalist Matthew Rogers once hosted a cooking game show entitled Beat the Chefs ?
text: Did you know that Frankenstein, MD is PBS Digital Studios ' first scripted show?
text: Did you know that Fisher Run is considered to be impaired by acid mine drainage and metals, but is a High-Quality Coldwater Fishery and Class A Wild Trout Waters?
text: Did you know that the call of the Sonoran green toad is said to resemble "the buzzer on an electric alarm clock"?
text: Did you know that Patagosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from Patagonia that is known from an almost complete skeleton and partial skull?
text: Did you know that Darol Froman was the scientific director of the Operation Sandstone nuclear tests at Enewetak Atoll in 1948?
text: Did you know that little is known of the breeding habits of the fiery-shouldered parakeet ?
text: Did you know that the Australian plant Lomatia arborescens has large serrated leaves when it grows in a sheltered spot and small entire-margined leaves in an exposed location?
text: Did you know that Robert Pitcairn was only fifteen when he discovered the island which is now named after him?
text: Did you know that, after playing a detective , the social worker LV Wijnhamer became a suspect ?
text: Did you know that in 1958 the US Air Force was sued for $54,000 by the family of victims injured by the accidental release of a nuclear bomb over Mars Bluff, South Carolina ?
text: Did you know that in French cuisine , lettuce soup is usually served poured atop thin slices of lightly toasted French bread?
text: Did you know that after he released his 2014 Japanese single " Hot Sun ", the Korean singer Kim Hyun-joong was the first foreign male artist to reach number one twice on the Oricon Singles Weekly Chart ?
text: Did you know that in 2014 Mukund Varadarajan was posthumously awarded Ashok Chakra , India's highest peacetime gallantry award, for killing three Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists?
text: Did you know that at 500 feet (150 m), the interactive screen of Wonder Mountain's Guardian , at the Canada's Wonderland amusement park, is the longest in the world?
text: Did you know that Sandra Bullock is the first person to win both a Razzie and an Oscar on the same weekend?
text: Did you know that Beyoncé 's perfume Rise was inspired by a Maya Angelou poem?
text: Did you know that Randi Blehr co-founded and chaired the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights , and was married to a Norwegian Prime Minister?
text: Did you know that The Owl Drug Company sponsored a minor-league baseball team and ran a beauty contest in which winners received a Hollywood screen test?
text: Did you know that two days into her career, the fashion model Jill Kennington was chosen for a major UK tour by Norman Hartnell , who declared, "Darling, you are going to be my mascot"?
text: Did you know that several wind and rain machines were used to create the storm effects for the Neighbours tornado storyline ?
text: Did you know that the artist Kate Downie recently interviewed the Forth Road Bridge ?
text: Did you know that Walt Disney 's first interest in animatronics came after he happened upon a toy animatronic bird by chance while on vacation? ( TAFI )
text: Did you know that at the outbreak of World War II, British fashion designer Elspeth Champcommunal and her partner Jane Heap fled from Germany to London via Switzerland?
text: Did you know that the mountaineer Jean-Antoine Carrel missed being the first to ascend the Matterhorn by only three days?
text: Did you know that in 2012 there were 83.3 million dogs in the United States , with about 47% of American households owning one?
text: Did you know that a critic from The Atlantic wrote that " Jealous " was one of the most notable songs in Beyoncé 's music catalog?
text: Did you know that Sheila was the first non-military dog to be awarded the Dickin Medal , considered the animals' Victoria Cross ?
text: Did you know that Ashley Tisdale became the first female artist to have two songs debut at the same time on the US Billboard Hot 100 , with " What I've Been Looking For " and "Bop to the Top"?
text: Did you know that ajaw Itzam K'an Ahk II 's reign of Piedras Negras , from 729 to 757 AD, was one marked by hegemony over neighboring kingdoms?
text: Did you know that the jawbone of Armenian activist Khetcho was shattered by a bullet during a battle?
text: Did you know that illegal forms of gambling in Manila included jueteng , masiao, and "last two"?
text: Did you know that despite being injured by a land mine some 3 feet (1 m) away, war dog Ricky continued to clear the mines from the surrounding area?
text: Did you know that the Washington State Treasurer must post a $500,000 surety bond before taking office?
text: Did you know that the German archaeologist Michael Meinecke excavated the ruins of the eighth-century palace complex of Harun al-Rashid at Ar-Raqqah in Syria?
text: Did you know that many of the women interviewed for Aspergirls were diagnosed with Asperger syndrome only after their children had received that diagnosis?
text: Did you know that Geoffrey Bles bought his employee's publishing firm and thus acquired the rights to the Narnia series by C. S. Lewis ?
text: Did you know that Philip Rosenthal was inspired to write " Italy ", the two-part season five premiere of Everybody Loves Raymond , based on a conversation with Ray Romano about their plans for the summer?
text: Did you know that the baseball player Dick Burns 's "up-shoot" was called "a beauty"?
text: Did you know that Mine Gap Run is designated as a coldwater fishery even though no fish have been observed in it?
text: Did you know that Harry Scott Smith coined the term " biological control " in 1919?
text: Did you know that during World War II , white Southern Rhodesian troops operating behind German lines communicated by radio in an African language ?
text: Did you know that Van Gogh visited the Musée Réattu upon his arrival in Arles in 1888, describing it as "dreadful and a joke" in a letter to his brother Theo ?
text: Did you know that the first law prohibiting racial discrimination in Washington state theaters and restaurants was introduced in 1890 by William Owen Bush ?
text: Did you know that the extinct ant Attopsis was fossilized in what may have been a lagoon?
text: Did you know that in the year before he became Fort William mayor, Robert Pow was a member of the winning curling team at the 1932 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the headwaters of Mehoopany Creek are home to three plant species that are rare or endangered in Pennsylvania?
text: Did you know that Ghory and Dixit were called the Indian Laurel and Hardy ?
text: Did you know that the Himalayan pika inhabits rocky places, screes, walls and cliffs at altitudes of up to 4,200 metres (13,800 ft)?
text: Did you know that the French engineer Joseph Farcot 's design for two coupled horizontal steam engines won the grand prize at the 1867 Universal Exhibition in Paris?
text: Did you know that the Italian cargo liner SS Bosnia pulled off the French armored cruiser Amiral Charner on 3 March 1915 after the warship had run aground under enemy fire off Dedeagatch , Bulgaria?
text: Did you know that thousands of St. Louis, Missouri , residents rioted after a bullfight was canceled by governor Alexander Monroe Dockery ?
text: Did you know that the Barry Docks were once the largest coal port in the world?
text: Did you know that Mosaic by Jeri Taylor is one of two novels to have been considered canon in the Star Trek universe?
text: Did you know that Yuxian was called the "Butcher of Shanxi", and blamed for ordering the Taiyuan Massacre – execution of Western missionaries in 1900 – but he probably only witnessed it and did not order it?
text: Did you know that Kelaart's toad is considered endangered because its range totals less than 500 square kilometres (190 sq mi)?
text: Did you know that Victor Hartman was awarded the Litteris et Artibus medal in 1882?
text: Did you know that The Raid: Redemption 's "Mad Dog", Yayan Ruhian , is scheduled to act in a Yakuza–vampire film ?
text: Did you know that the German fighter pilot Joachim Müncheberg shot down the Hurricane of British flying ace James MacLachlan ?
text: Did you know that the first Belgian postage stamp series depicted Leopold I wearing military uniform, with highly visible epaulettes?
text: Did you know that Kim Hyun-joong 's fourth EP Timing reflects his past, present, and future endeavors?
text: Did you know that the choreographer Liam Scarlett is The Royal Ballet 's first Artist in Residence, a post created especially for him?
text: Did you know that the fulvous harvest mouse may be able to reduce its body temperature while sleeping in winter, possibly doing so on a daily basis?
text: Did you know that the development of the game Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake was boosted by a Kickstarter campaign?
text: Did you know that in 1547 Mrauk-U defenses stopped an invasion by the Taungoo Dynasty of Burma by opening the sluices of the Mrauk-U city 's reservoirs, and flooding out the invaders?
text: Did you know that American singer ILoveMakonnen was named after the royal family of Ethiopia, but is in fact of African, Indian, Irish, Belgian, German and Chinese descent?
text: Did you know that the narrow-skulled pocket mouse can be distinguished from Goldman's pocket mouse partly by the dimensions of its skull?
text: Did you know that the social democratic newspaper Volkswacht was placed under preventive censorship during World War I ?
text: Did you know that the extinct ant species Apterostigma electropilosum was described from a solitary fossil in amber ?
text: Did you know that the costume historian Anne Hollander claimed that clothes reveal more than they conceal?
text: Did you know that Fu Shanxiang is known as the first female Zhuangyuan because she took first place in the 1853 imperial civil service exams for women given by the rebel Taiping Heavenly Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that the distinct fauna of the Kirtlandian includes the dinosaur Pentaceratops sternbergii ?
text: Did you know that Otto Stadie , a nurse who served at Adolf Hitler 's headquarters with the Nazi euthanasia program , kept the register of stolen gold and diamonds at Treblinka ?
text: Did you know that the Guthrie Historic District was created to preserve architecturally significant structures built when Guthrie was the capital of Oklahoma Territory and the first capital of the state of Oklahoma ?
text: Did you know that Glen Rounds , a prolific author and illustrator of children's books, spent a summer touring the Western United States with fellow art student Jackson Pollock ?
text: Did you know that the founder of Little Athletics once turned away three young boys from an athletics meet, citing their youth as the reason?
text: Did you know that the discoverers of mendelevium had to seek the permission of the United States government to propose it be named after Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev , father of the periodic table ?
text: Did you know that a female Afghan pika may have 30 or more offspring in a year?
text: Did you know that Ron Capps served in five war zones in ten years before founding the Veterans Writing Project?
text: Did you know that the title of Kim Kyu-jong 's 2012 EP Meet Me Again refers to his promise to meet with his fans again after his two-year mandatory military service in South Korea?
text: Did you know that Tony Gwynn bypassed the usual two-year wait for the San Diego Padres Hall of Fame in becoming its first unanimous selection?
text: Did you know that Ecce sacerdos magnus by Anton Bruckner is a sacred work "of almost barbaric intensity"?
text: Did you know that Sally Hemings was an enslaved woman of mixed race owned by President Thomas Jefferson , and had a long-term relationship and six children with him?
text: Did you know that Jacobus Anthonie Meessen spent six years photographing the Dutch East Indies in the 1860s, then gave an album of the best images to his king ?
text: Did you know that the Michoacan pocket gopher may live almost entirely underground?
text: Did you know that although Deng Liqun was instrumental in ousting Zhao Ziyang following the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 , he was one of the few Chinese leaders to lay a wreath at Zhao's funeral in 2005?
text: Did you know that the first automobile factory in the United States built with reinforced concrete beams and encasements was constructed by Julius Kahn 's Trussed Concrete Steel Company and its Truscon Laboratories , with Albert Kahn Associates as the architects?
text: Did you know that the fern genus Gaga is named for Lady Gaga ?
text: Did you know that in 1966, Beijing Daily , the official newspaper of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, was forced to cease publication after it refused to publish a paper by one of the Gang of Four ?
text: Did you know that Aerolot , the predecessor of Poland's flag carrier LOT Polish Airlines , has common roots with Lufthansa , the flag carrier of Germany?
text: Did you know that the film Dallas Buyers Club is about Ron Woodroof (played by Matthew McConaughey ), a real-life AIDS patient who smuggled unapproved pharmaceutical drugs into Texas?
text: Did you know that the yellow-cheeked chipmunk is secretive in its habits and is more likely to be heard than seen?
text: Did you know that Andrew Velazquez set a Minor League Baseball record by reaching base safely in 74 consecutive games played ?
text: Did you know that the German non-profit organisation GWUP annually tests persons claiming paranormal skills (and seeking a €10,000 reward), but nobody has ever passed the test?
text: Did you know that the red-tailed chipmunk feeds mainly on seeds and berries but has been caught in traps baited with meat?
text: Did you know that civil engineer Mike Cottell was an early contributor to computer-aided design , and software he developed in 1970 was still in use thirty years later?
text: Did you know that mushroom ketchup dates back to the 18th century in the United Kingdom and United States?
text: Did you know that Craig Borten first sold a script for Dallas Buyers Club in 1996, but the film was not released until 2013?
text: Did you know that Jaggermeryx naida was named in honor of Mick Jagger due to its large, sensitive lips?
text: Did you know that In the Room , currently in-production and directed by Eric Khoo , is the first ever Singaporean erotic film ?
text: Did you know that the Central Intelligence Agency characterized their operative William Young as American on the outside, Lahu on the inside?
text: Did you know that Malcolm's Ethiopian toad has what is believed to be a unique breeding strategy with many females laying their eggs at a single site on land?
text: Did you know that the wetlands on Beaver Run are the largest and most biologically diverse wetlands in Columbia County, Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that Brandon Poulson signed a professional baseball contract out of art school after he was recorded throwing 100 miles per hour (160 km/h)?
text: Did you know that the owner of the restaurant Las Vacas Gordas in Florida claimed Gordon Ramsay 's The Fat Cow in California was using his trademark?
text: Did you know that the Eijkman Institute was named in honor of Christiaan Eijkman , who discovered that beriberi is not caused by germs, but by a lack of Vitamin B1 ?
text: Did you know that the excavated cemetery at the Atlantic Trading Estate proved to be a rare find for the Late Roman period in South East Wales ?
text: Did you know that the newspaper Der Funke published an appeal signed by Albert Einstein , calling for unity against Adolf Hitler in the July 1932 elections in Germany ?
text: Did you know that the last remaining pair of twin covered bridges in Pennsylvania crossed Huntington Creek until one was destroyed by a flood in 2006?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine Cistern of Mocius , once the largest open air cistern in Constantinople , has been turned into the educational park of the Fatih district in Istanbul ?
text: Did you know that Prof and Rahzwell performed a regular "drunk show" in which they would only begin rapping once Rahzwell threw up?
text: Did you know that Charles Romeyn , an All-American fullback for the Army football team, was sent to Montana in 1902 with the charge of "quieting" the Cheyenne Indians ?
text: Did you know that the Irish billionaire property developer Sean Mulryan grew up in rural poverty?
text: Did you know that the olive-backed pocket mouse keeps its cheek pouches clean by rubbing them in the sand?
text: Did you know that William Byam 's World War I research into trench fever appeared in Lice and their Menace to Man ?
text: Did you know that St Helen's Church , in St Helens, Merseyside , has been described as "the focal point of the town"?
text: Did you know that the demoness Trijata is described as the ideal of a true friend by Indologist Camille Bulcke ?
text: Did you know that 1904 All-American football player Arthur Tipton prompted a rule change when he kicked a loose ball down the field and fell on it for a touchdown after it crossed the goal line?
text: Did you know that Starr Long , executive producer of the video game Shroud of the Avatar , was also the original director of the pioneering game Ultima Online ?
text: Did you know that the role of the two Admiral Spiridov -class monitors in Russian war plans during the 1890s was to defend the Gulf of Riga against an anticipated German amphibious landing ?
text: Did you know that Chicago High School , the first secondary school in Chicago, survived the Great Chicago Fire ?
text: Did you know that Alton Lemon was surprised to have a leading piece of First Amendment jurisprudence , the " Lemon Test ", bear his name?
text: Did you know that Shep the Dog was considered to have given a superior performance to that of his child co-star in A Dog's Love ?
text: Did you know that Sandy Proctor sculpted The Guardians , depicting two War in Afghanistan SEALs who inspired the film Lone Survivor ?
text: Did you know that the Argentine actor Mike Amigorena refused the role of Andrés Goddzer in the telenovela Graduados ?
text: Did you know that types of habitats in the watershed of Fallow Hollow include a deciduous seepy forest, a shrub swamp, a forested ravine, a graminoid/forb opening, and a pond?
text: Did you know that the Association of British Secretaries in America was created in the 1960s to assist a wave of such women coming to the United States to work and live?
text: Did you know that one song by Die Rhöner Säuwäntzt went viral among anti–wind power activists in Germany?
text: Did you know that James Randi used his 1980 book Flim-Flam! to launch an annual award for "the psychic who fools the greatest number of people with the least effort"?
text: Did you know that the daily load of aluminum in Black Creek below the Gowen Discharge is 12 times the load above it?
text: Did you know that Peter Russell was a horse rancher in Saskatchewan, Canada, a rubber planter in Malaya and a farmer in Norfolk, England, before becoming a fashion designer?
text: Did you know that every woman who undergoes an abortion in Iceland is required to receive counselling and education about contraception?
text: Did you know that Margaret Fritsch was the first woman to be licensed as an architect in Oregon?
text: Did you know that the Kawayan Torogan is the only remaining habitable torogan in the Philippines?
text: Did you know that the 2001 documentary Mind Meld features Star Trek ' s William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy discussing the effects the show had on their lives?
text: Did you know that Advanced Computer Techniques , a software company begun in the 1960s, featured language compilers from its developers and showmanship from its founder and leader?
text: Did you know that the chicks of Cabot's tragopan can fly within a few days of being hatched?
text: Did you know that Hungarian Archbishop József Grősz was imprisoned in 1951, despite committing the Church to supporting the country's Communist government ?
text: Did you know that while Fredrik Vogt served as director general of Norway's Water Resources and Energy Agency , that country's total annual hydroelectric production capacity increased from about 2 to nearly 8 TWh ?
text: Did you know that in the 1872 U.S. presidential election , Arkansas' electoral votes were rejected by a joint session of Congress because the physical document reporting the votes carried the wrong state coat of arms ?
text: Did you know that Blackberry Run has "very poor" water quality, but is designated as a high-quality coldwater fishery?
text: Did you know that Basuki Resobowo was a painter and an actor who portrayed a painter?
text: Did you know that Indang Church in Cavite has eight patrons – St. Gregory the Great and the Seven Archangels ?
text: Did you know that although Christian Madsen is the son of actor Michael Madsen , it was his grandmother who encouraged him to pursue a career in acting?
text: Did you know that the Georgian nave of St Peter's Church, Formby , Merseyside , and its Gothic Revival chancel have been described as creating a "jarring contrast"?
text: Did you know that after being purged , Romanian communist Mișu Dulgheru went from being a leading figure in the Securitate secret police to heading up Bucharest 's waste collectors ?
text: Did you know that Mexico City's new airport was designed by Sir Norman Foster ?
text: Did you know that the 1884-built hunting mansion of the Ottoman Crown Prince Yusuf Izzettin Efendi in Zincirlikuyu , Istanbul , was converted later to a vocational high school?
text: Did you know that Winners & Losers creator Bevan Lee asked actress Virginia Gay not to pursue her career in the US in order to play Frances James ?
text: Did you know that Bart Bok and his wife Priscilla , who were both astronomers, worked together so closely that it was "difficult and pointless to separate his achievements from hers"?
text: Did you know that Pope John XXII 's decretal Spondent Pariter banned alchemy , but not chemistry (which John himself had studied)?
text: Did you know that the Romanian exile Ștefan Baciu lost his executive job at the Congress for Cultural Freedom because the CIA determined he was too anti-communistic?
text: Did you know that 18 family members were kidnapped by the Gulf Cartel in Matamoros , Mexico in 2011?
text: Did you know that the Baptist minister James McLemore , founder of the Antioch Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama , owned the wife and child of black preacher Caesar Blackwell , who had been bought for US$ 625 by the Alabama Baptist Association in 1828 to preach to mixed audiences?
text: Did you know that the Agricultural University of Berlin was founded in 1881, but closed in 1934 and was incorporated as a faculty into the Humboldt University of Berlin ?
text: Did you know that Rajpal Yadav 's directorial debut Ata Pata Laapata was the last film of the veteran actors Dara Singh and Satyadev Dubey ?
text: Did you know that the radioactive decay of thorium produces a significant amount of the Earth's internal heat ?
text: Did you know that in ancient Egypt, dwarfs were assisted by guenons and worked as royal zookeepers and jewellers?
text: Did you know that Emilie Gourd is credited as one of the most prominent Swiss feminists of the 20th century?
text: Did you know that Octavio Rojas Hernández was the fifth journalist killed in Mexico in 2014?
text: Did you know that long before portraying Louise Brown in the 1990 movie Ghost , Gail Boggs portrayed Silvia in a 1971 performance of The Two Gentlemen of Verona ?
text: Did you know that Pocahontas School , a Tennessee public school for white children, did not have indoor plumbing until 1957?
text: Did you know that Vladimir Gaćinović , whose campaign for tyrannicide indirectly sparked World War I , was himself assassinated in neutral Switzerland?
text: Did you know that according to Jesus Freak Hideout , the band Islander , on their album Violence & Destruction , "put together a really solid collection of songs" of nu and rap metal thirteen years after the death of the genre?
text: Did you know that after seeking funding through Kickstarter , the Star Trek fan film Prelude to Axanar received US$ 101,000 – more than ten times the amount of financing originally sought?
text: Did you know that world number one golfer Rory McIlroy has chosen to represent Ireland at the 2016 Summer Olympics and not Great Britain ?
text: Did you know that the spotted houndshark , the speckled smooth-hound and the humpback smooth-hound are known as "tollo" and used for human consumption?
text: Did you know that ten rappers from Houston make cameo appearances in the music video for Beyoncé 's " No Angel "?
text: Did you know that the Māori rugby union player Joe Warbrick was killed by an eruption of the Waimangu Geyser ?
text: Did you know that the 2007 film Adrift in Manhattan was to be initially named 1 / 9 , after the subway lines, but was changed when the Sundance Film Festival demanded a more mainstream title?
text: Did you know that infection in childcare is a risk when groups of children meet for school or daycare, but hygiene reduces its prevalence?
text: Did you know that the Indian author Krishnalal Shridharani 's book War Without Violence was studied by Martin Luther King, Jr. during the Montgomery Bus Boycott ?
text: Did you know that José Carlos Cocarelli studied the piano in New York on a scholarship from the Brazilian government and won important competitions?
text: Did you know that Riddles of the Sphinx has been called "one of the most important avant-garde films to have emerged from Britain during the 1970s"?
text: Did you know that Colonel Elliott Fitch Shepard was president of the New York State Bar Association , and a Union recruiter, wealthy landowner, church founder, and newspaper owner?
text: Did you know that Dylan Penn —daughter of Sean Penn and Robin Wright —declined a US$150,000 offer to pose for a Playboy cover, but later appeared nude behind a $6000 Fendi bag on a treats! cover?
text: Did you know that in 1932 two German aviators were lost for 39 days in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia before being rescued?
text: Did you know that the group that recorded the Band of Gypsys album with Jimi Hendrix had already broken up by the time of the album's release?
text: Did you know that in 1858 Robert Jefferson Bingham created the first photographic catalogue raisonné , showing the works of painter Paul Delaroche ?
text: Did you know that the 2nd Dragoon Regiment is the only military unit ever to receive France's Escapees' Medal , because nearly all of its members escaped from the German occupation of southern France in 1942?
text: Did you know that the experimental filmmaker Tessa Hughes-Freeland 's films include Baby Doll , Dirty and Nymphomania ?
text: Did you know that Deep Creek is shallow?
text: Did you know that Germany used the Half Moon Camp to recruit fighters for a jihad against England and France?
text: Did you know that Maureen Baker created 250 outfits for Princess Anne , including her 1973 wedding dress?
text: Did you know that The Revenant , scheduled for a 2015 release, has been in development since 2001?
text: Did you know that Sir Alex Ferguson in 1992 called the Premier League 's decision to move its live games on satellite television as "the most ludicrous and backward decision football has taken"?
text: Did you know that Stony Brook is well-known among locals for its native trout?
text: Did you know that The Kennel Club have attributed an increased interest in English Cocker Spaniels to Lupo , owned by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge ?
text: Did you know that although the video game Sleeping Dogs sold 1.5 million copies within a year of its release, its publisher Square Enix considered it a commercial failure?
text: Did you know that the Union Pacific Railroad 's Overland Flyer , which debuted in 1887, was one of the first named passenger trains in the United States?
text: Did you know that the eponymous character of Mr. Pickles , a Border Collie , is based on one of the creators' Australian Cattle Dogs ?
text: Did you know that the United States Lighthouse Society is headquartered at a lighthouse?
text: Did you know that the 2,100-year-old mausoleum of the King of Jiangdu contained a kitchen with food, 100,000 coins, and the only undamaged jade coffin in China?
text: Did you know that the artist Bryan Nash Gill , who was known for his sculptures and cross-sections of trees, had a son named Forest?
text: Did you know that the American jihadists Troy Kastigar (died in Somalia, 2009) and Douglas McCain (died in Syria, 2014) both hailed from the Twin Cities area in Minnesota and attended the same high school?
text: Did you know that Ghassan Alian is the first non-Jewish commander of the Israel Defense Forces ' Golani Brigade ?
text: Did you know that the 1911 book Political Parties , which introduced the iron law of oligarchy , remains a classic of the social sciences ?
text: Did you know that The Beatles sold for over £19,000?
text: Did you know that the Gulf Coast kangaroo rat has two distinct color forms, ashy grey or reddish/yellowish-buff?
text: Did you know that accommodation at No. 5 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF was, according to the unit history, "bleak and depressing", and deficiencies in equipment "too numerous for itemising"?
text: Did you know that Horace Ezra Bixby , who taught Mark Twain to pilot a Mississippi steamboat, piloted the Union flagship at the Battle of Memphis ?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine harbour of Kontoskalion on the Marmara coast of Constantinople could host up to 300 galleys ?
text: Did you know that the composition " Abraham Lincoln, what would you do? " was intended to build support for U.S. involvement in World War I?
text: Did you know that an untitled Working Title Films film was entitled We Are Your Friends ?
text: Did you know that Great Northern Highway is the longest highway in Australia?
text: Did you know that Phil Martin was accused of "typographic incest" for redesigning the font Helvetica with swashes ?
text: Did you know that Nelson's kangaroo rat lives in a complex burrow which sometimes includes tunnels dug through the subsurface rock?
text: Did you know that the minimum pH of Big Run is less than 3?
text: Did you know that the Slavonic Corps took part in the Syrian civil war ?
text: Did you know that General Pierre Thouvenot was responsible for one of the last actions of the Peninsular War ?
text: Did you know that Bill Nye reacted excitedly when Chief of Naval Research Nevin Carr offered him an Office of Naval Research pocket protector ?
text: Did you know that Robert Ryan Cory 's final entry to an anti-smoking campaign in middle school was banned for being vulgar?
text: Did you know that a critic cited the roguelike , bullet hell , brawler Crawl as an example of the indie resurgence of couch co-op ?
text: Did you know that the song " I'm Not Your Hero " by Tegan and Sara is based on Sara's life as a teenager unable to identify with the lives of pop-culture figures, as well as her political views and sexuality?
text: Did you know that the German actor Eduard von Winterstein was born in Vienna and took acting lessons from his mother, who was of Hungarian origin?
text: Did you know that female Kaie rock frogs can feed their tadpoles with trophic eggs ?
text: Did you know that in 1893 Johannes Østrup rode on horseback for 60 days from Istanbul to Copenhagen?
text: Did you know that the American actor Jon Cryer described the 2014 film Hit by Lightning as "sort of a mixture of Body Heat meets The 40-Year-Old Virgin "?
text: Did you know that the Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation council elections were the first in India to allow non-resident Indians to vote online?
text: Did you know that Emma Irene Åström , the first woman to graduate from a Finnish university, once said, "There is no point in calling me a pioneer, because I have never consciously been one"?
text: Did you know that a planned parapet was never added to the tower of St Nicholas' Church, Whiston , in Merseyside because of the danger of subsidence ?
text: Did you know that after being displaced from Ford Field by the Quick Lane Bowl , Little Caesars Pizza Bowl organizers considered moving the game to Comerica Park ?
text: Did you know that Hörningsholm Castle , Sweden has been pillaged by Danish and burnt by Russian troops?
text: Did you know that French onion dip is sometimes referred to as "California dip", and has been described as "an American classic"?
text: Did you know that some stadiums in the United States offer foods prepared with crab dip as part of their concessions?
text: Did you know that the spot-tail shark can produce as many as eight pups after a gestation period of ten months?
text: Did you know that hunter Steve Hindi stopped hunting and founded the animal rights group Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) after witnessing a pigeon shoot in Pennsylvania in 1989?
text: Did you know that EarthBound 's "religiously dedicated" fan base translated its sequel when Nintendo would not, and brought the game's localizer into the media limelight?
text: Did you know that Walter W. Law went from being a carpet salesman to shipping 8,000 roses daily, earning up to US$100,000 annually?
text: Did you know that Kingstonian F.C. have had six different names?
text: Did you know that the Governor of Western Australia sent the lyrics of William Strahan 's The Bugle Call to George V ?
text: Did you know that the United States Mint sold the 32 Old Slip site in Manhattan for US$27 million, making it the most valuable US Government property sold at public auction?
text: Did you know that the 1959 Typhoon Billie was the first typhoon officially monitored by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center ?
text: Did you know that the former oil industry executive Mark Carne is now chief executive of Network Rail ?
text: Did you know that the land for St Luke's Church, Formby , was donated by a doctor, and the church is dedicated to the patron saint of doctors?
text: Did you know that the 1340 Great Fire of Spondon may have started at the site now occupied by the Malt Shovel pub?
text: Did you know that Kitty Chiller is the first woman named an Australian Chef de Mission , and in that capacity will represent that nation at the 2016 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that visitors are advised to walk Lugard Road to enjoy its "spectacular views" of Victoria Harbour ?
text: Did you know that in 1966 Antonio Iranzo won the Silver Frames Award for Best Actor of Spanish cinema for the film Burnt Skin ?
text: Did you know that by winning the 2000 UEFA Cup Final , Galatasaray became Turkey's first football team to win a European competition?
text: Did you know that indie video game Cuphead was inspired by the 1930s cartoons of Fleischer Studios and is drawn in their subversive and surrealist style?
text: Did you know that in 2006 it was found that a bank account belonging jointly to former Saskatoon mayor Russell Wilson and a priest had lain unclaimed since 1929?
text: Did you know that members of the fossil insect family Armaniidae have been described as "ant-like wasps"?
text: Did you know that The Nautical Magazine cited John McFarlane Gray as making "the first example of direct calculation of gyroscopic effect as an engineering quality"?
text: Did you know that Ohio State Route 212 has followed the same route since 1939?
text: Did you know that the Warrington architect William Owen designed the first 28 houses in the model village of Port Sunlight ?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine Cistern of Aetius in Constantinople , once containing 250–300 million liters of water, is now a football stadium in Istanbul ?
text: Did you know that because the children's writer Lucy Lyttelton Cameron was so delicate, she did not have to wear a backboard as a child like her sister did?
text: Did you know that the fossil ant Apterostigma eowilsoni had good stereoscopic vision but poor side vision?
text: Did you know that Jacques Guay made a cameo portrait of Louis XV of France in sardonyx ?
text: Did you know that the Indian cricket team have scored the most centuries in the ICC Champions Trophy with eight?
text: Did you know that while working as a French teacher, the future Romanian art critic George Oprescu denounced the German occupation , prompting his arrest and deportation to an internment camp in Bulgaria?
text: Did you know that the black jackrabbit is only known from the island of Espiritu Santo in Mexico?
text: Did you know that the video game co-developer Kenny Lee tried to keep Don't Shit Your Pants "as clean as possible"?
text: Did you know that Wilhelm Filderman helped prevent the deportation of many Jews from Romania to Nazi death camps ?
text: Did you know that the developer Zoe Quinn considered delaying the Steam release of Depression Quest following the death of Robin Williams ?
text: Did you know that the Lundy cabbage flea beetle is found only on the small British island of Lundy , where it feeds on the endemic Lundy cabbage ?
text: Did you know that the physician Conrad Will is the namesake of Will County, Illinois ?
text: Did you know that Sullivan Branch has been described as "the prettiest stream in Pennsylvania"?
text: Did you know that Ambrose explained in a neoplatonic sermon how death is a good thing ?
text: Did you know that a 1959 hazing death from choking on a quarter-pound piece of raw liver was the inspiration for the 1977 film Fraternity Row ?
text: Did you know that Aleksander Lesser was one of the first artists to paint scenes from modern Polish Jewish history ?
text: Did you know that the Paete Church was established as an independent parish in 1580 by Franciscan priest Juan Plasencia?
text: Did you know that Justin Holland was an American classical guitarist, music pedagogue , community leader, and equal-rights activist for African-Americans?
text: Did you know that on a sunny day, one can tell the time on Sutton High Street in London despite not having a watch?
text: Did you know that the recycling of nutrients in the ocean due to whale poop is referred to as the "whale pump"?
text: Did you know that Will White , the first Major League Baseball player to wear glasses, holds the records of 75 complete games and 680 innings pitched in one season?
text: Did you know that the Lake Murray Meteorite , discovered in 1933, is the largest Class IIAB octahedrite found in Oklahoma and the fifth largest found in the world?
text: Did you know that when the telecommunications entrepreneur Robert A. Brooks had his corporate headquarters built in St. Louis , the arrangement of windows spelled out "Brooks Fiber Properties" in Morse code ?
text: Did you know that Abyss Odyssey took inspiration from both the Art Nouveau movement and games like the Super Smash Bros. series?
text: Did you know that Susan Leeman was the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences in physiology and pharmacology?
text: Did you know that " If It Wasn't True " from countertenor Shamir 's 2014 Northtown EP was called "Your Favorite Breakup Song" by Vogue and "semidissonant pulses tickled by antsy snares and hi-hats" by Dazed ?
text: Did you know that the one-armed American football player Eugene Neeley was selected as a member of the 1917 College Football All-America Team ?
text: Did you know that in 1921, Harriet Dunlop Prenter became one of the first women to run as a candidate in a Canadian federal election?
text: Did you know that the Coptos Decrees are the primary source for the significant powers bestowed upon the vizier Shemay , reflecting the decline of the Old Kingdom of Egypt ?
text: Did you know that the Russian monitor Lava served as a barracks ship and a mine-storage hulk before she was converted into a hospital ship after being struck from the Navy List in 1900?
text: Did you know that the political cartoonist Paul Conrad was awarded the Pulitzer Prize three times, in 1964, 1971 and 1984?
text: Did you know that in The Almost Nearly Perfect People , Michael Booth details the popular belief among Icelanders in the possible existence of Huldufólk (elves)?
text: Did you know that Romeyn Beck Hough 's American Woods is a set of over 1,000 paper-thin wood slices collected from 354 different tree species?
text: Did you know that the capital of Madagascar , Antananarivo , was founded in 1625 by King Andrianjaka on the site of a village occupied by Vazimba , the island's earliest inhabitants?
text: Did you know that visitors to the Florentine villa of Theodosia Trollope found the atmosphere less intense than that at the nearby home of Elizabeth Barrett Browning ?
text: Did you know that no part of Stranger Hollow is within 500 metres (1,600 ft) of a road?
text: Did you know that according to one review of The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin , Shostakovich would be "horrified" by the film's "mickey-mousings" of his music?
text: Did you know that a revealing red frock by Australian designer Ruth Tarvydas had more coverage than Jennifer Hawkins when she won Miss Universe 2004 ?
text: Did you know that Minnesota's Circus Juventas is the largest youth circus school in North America?
text: Did you know that " Beck's Bolero " begins with a reworking of Ravel 's two-chord progression, transposed to the key of A?
text: Did you know that according to Nomina im Indogermanischen Lexikon , the Lithuanian word for "pelvis" is derived from a Proto-Indo-European word stem meaning "deep"?
text: Did you know that Australia 's defeat of New Zealand in cricket's 2009 ICC Champions Trophy Final was their fifth consecutive win after becoming finalists in multi-team tournaments since 1999?
text: Did you know that the Arafura large-footed bat scoops up fish and insects from the surface of water with its feet?
text: Did you know that sources relate that while her pagan husband was away, Bilihildis sailed to Mainz and started an abbey?
text: Did you know that English model Jean Shrimpton caused a global sensation by wearing a daring white minidress to Derby Day in Melbourne , Australia, on 30 October 1965?
text: Did you know that the horror manga series Uzumaki was adapted into a live-action film and two video games in 2000?
text: Did you know that Warren Delabere Barnes , a member of the Malayan Civil Service who conducted an expedition in Pahang in 1900, had a plant in the Loranthaceae family named after him?
text: Did you know that the first president of Poland , Gabriel Narutowicz , was assassinated five days after taking office, amidst a right-wing propaganda campaign accusing him of being "an atheist, a Freemason, and a Jew"?
text: Did you know that efforts are underway to help Mahikeng Airport , a former air force base in South Africa, regain its status as an international airport?
text: Did you know that places of worship in the borough of Guildford include a former telephone exchange, two 19th-century barns and the "Bingo Chapel"?
text: Did you know that the wasp Agelaia multipicta removes ants from its nest with blasts of wing buzzing?
text: Did you know that Sir Hugh Beadle , Rhodesia 's Chief Justice, recognised Ian Smith 's post- UDI government as legal in 1968?
text: Did you know that the long-tailed marmot spends seven or eight months of each year in hibernation ?
text: Did you know that Hong Kong's Fan Lau Fort was captured by the very pirates it was built to repel?
text: Did you know that in the motet Locus iste , composed for the dedication of the votive chapel of Linz Cathedral , Anton Bruckner requests a pause "by carefully measuring out five beats"?
text: Did you know that Robotomy is the shortest-running show on Cartoon Network ?
text: Did you know that Singaporean swimmer Amanda Lim won the women's 50-metre freestyle event in the 2009 , 2011 , and 2013 Southeast Asian Games ?
text: Did you know that according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation , Facebook's real-name policy "disproportionately affect[s] the LGBT Q community"?
text: Did you know that six systems commands not only design, construct, and maintain the U. S. Navy's military hardware, but also include the chiefs of two of the Navy's eight staff corps ?
text: Did you know that the tallest known tree is more than 115 metres (377 ft) tall?
text: Did you know that Makode Linde made and decorated a cake in the shape of a black Venus of Willendorf for his art piece Painful Cake ?
text: Did you know that Luxembourg's role at the United Nations began when it was the smallest founding member state in 1945?
text: Did you know that Stephen Simpson , writing under the pseudonym Brutus , in 1810 criticized the First Bank of the United States as primarily serving foreign interests?
text: Did you know that Kawasaki made a "supercharged" Ninja bike with wings called the Ninja H2 ?
text: Did you know that The Utility of Force , by General Sir Rupert Smith , has been described as an update of Clausewitz's On War for our times?
text: Did you know that bass Michael Pospíšil and his ensemble Ritornello recorded music from the hymnal Capella Regia Musicalis , "one of the jewels of Czech musical history"?
text: Did you know that the southern grasshopper mouse preys on the Arizona bark scorpion even when stung repeatedly in the face?
text: Did you know that the Southeast Asian social wasp Parischnogaster jacobsoni has a gland that creates an ant repellent?
text: Did you know that Bob Litherland was the first British MP sponsored by the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades trade union?
text: Did you know that with a discharge of over 6,000 gallons per minute, the Quakake Tunnel is the largest abandoned mine discharge in the Lehigh River watershed?
text: Did you know that the film The Fault in Our Stars is based on John Green 's novel of the same name , inspired by the late Esther Earl 's life?
text: Did you know that the Puzzle Lovers Club served as a testbed for hundreds of direct marketing techniques?
text: Did you know that the Wandervogel , the Hitler Youth , the Swing Kids , the bright young things , the flappers , and the Boy Scouts are all featured in the 2013 film Teenage ?
text: Did you know that security considerations forbade the judge performing Priscilla Duffield 's marriage from knowing the surnames of the bride and groom?
text: Did you know that if built as planned, the Old Chicago Main Post Office Twin Towers will be the tallest building in North America?
text: Did you know that the hat designer Otto Lucas died when the plane he was on crashed , killing all 63 people onboard?
text: Did you know that following a fire in 1972, three new vestries in Modernist style were added to the apse of the chancel of St Luke's Church, Great Crosby ?
text: Did you know that Auguste van Biene composed incidental music for the play The Broken Melody and performed the leading role of a cellist?
text: Did you know that where their ranges overlap, the Italian cave salamander sometimes hybridises with Ambrosi's cave salamander ?
text: Did you know that the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series have seen multiple actors, such as Clark Gregg and Hayley Atwell , reprise their roles from the MCU films ?
text: Did you know that in his album Sinema , rapper Swoope asks listeners to examine themselves to discover their selfish desires?
text: Did you know that psychologist Jonas Wood explores the psychological effects of various spaces through art?
text: Did you know that toads found in Egypt around 1909 and identified as Degen's toad are now considered a separate species, the Nile Delta toad ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film The Stanford Prison Experiment is about a psychological experiment involving prisoners and prison guards, conducted by Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University in 1971?
text: Did you know that one of Lilian Shelley 's jobs at The Cave of the Golden Calf was to feed Madame Strindberg 's monkey each evening at the Savoy Hotel ?
text: Did you know that the podcast Serial was number one on the iTunes Store even before it debuted?
text: Did you know that The Drew Carey Show episode " In Ramada Da Vida " featured guest appearances by Lisa Loeb , Slash , Joey Ramone , and other musicians?
text: Did you know that the ceiling of St Mary's Church, Little Crosby is painted with the Litany of Our Lady ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film Ricki and the Flash will be the second in which Meryl Streep and her daughter Mamie Gummer appear together, the first being 1986's Heartburn ?
text: Did you know that after Ji Dengkui helped Hua Guofeng purge the " Gang of Four ", he himself was ousted as a member of the "Little Gang of Four"?
text: Did you know that the queen wasp Belonogaster petiolata inspects her nest to ensure the eggs are hers, and eats any that aren't?
text: Did you know that despite Anthony William Hall 's claim to the English throne in the 1930s, King George V didn't want him to be imprisoned?
text: Did you know that Thornton's Corners GO Station will be built along a rail extension connecting the Canadian National Railway line to the Canadian Pacific Railway line?
text: Did you know that Kira Kazantsev is the third consecutive Miss New York to win Miss America ?
text: Did you know that the first church of Bay was constructed from cane and nipa by the Augustinians?
text: Did you know that the pH of Lake Choctaw increased from 4.5–5.0 to 6.5–7.0 within two months of the installation of a treatment system at the Oneida Number One Tunnel in 2000?
text: Did you know that Lloyd M. Smith created the world's first glow-in-the-dark DNA sequencer ?
text: Did you know that after pioneering free jazz in the Netherlands during the 1960s, Cornelis Hazevoet gave up music to study zoology in 1980?
text: Did you know that Townsend's vole creates runways among vegetation, with large latrines often forming near junctions?
text: Did you know that Alvin C. Graves was badly injured in the 1946 laboratory criticality accident at Los Alamos that killed Louis Slotin ?
text: Did you know that the book The Road from Home is the true story of a girl whose father, mother, brothers, and sisters all died during the Armenian Genocide ?
text: Did you know that Swedish bus maker Scania has delivered its first ethanol -powered bus made in India to Nagpur Mahanagar Parivahan Limited for trial runs?
text: Did you know that the model Dolores was a "happy prisoner" of the sculptor Jacob Epstein ?
text: Did you know that although Don Bitterlich scored the first points in Seattle Seahawks history, he was released after three games?
text: Did you know that a beaver attack killed a fisherman in Belarus?
text: Did you know that Nicolae Colan was the only Romanian Orthodox bishop who remained in Northern Transylvania after the region was ceded to Hungary in 1940?
text: Did you know that the fossil ant Azteca eumeces is one of two Azteca species found in Dominican amber?
text: Did you know that Emily Sartain was the first woman in Europe and the United States to practice the art of mezzotint engraving?
text: Did you know that The Caravan Club in London claimed to be "the most unconventional spot in town" with "All night gaiety" and "Dancing to Charlie"?
text: Did you know that young Iberian wall lizards sometimes have blue tails?
text: Did you know that Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model Emily Ratajkowski is featured in the music video for " Blurred Lines ", which was the number one song of 2013 in several countries?
text: Did you know that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was elected to represent Vadodara , Gujarat , in the parliament by a victory margin of 570,128 votes in 2014, the second highest ever?
text: Did you know that under Orfeo Vecchi , the Santa Maria alla Scala Cathedral returned to a place of musical prominence in Milan ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film Our Brand Is Crisis , based on the documentary of the same name , is about Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada 's 2002 Bolivian presidential election campaign managed by James Carville ?
text: Did you know that the National Football Museum described Paul Gascoigne as "the most naturally gifted English midfielder of his generation"?
text: Did you know that in World War II, Zenon B. Lukosius and his crew mates captured the U-505 submarine , which had an important German code book on board?
text: Did you know that Asolo in the Province of Treviso is called "the city of a hundred landscapes"?
text: Did you know that the Dutch right-wing military veterans organization Oud-Strijders Legioen was compared to a "Boy Scout organization for the elderly"?
text: Did you know that Ralph Landau , a chemical engineer and economist , formulated the concept of technology as capital?
text: Did you know that The Punisher can be distinguished from other beat 'em up games by its frequent use of firearms?
text: Did you know that Frank Facer 's recruiting was seen as a key factor in the success of the St. George Dragons , including eleven straight titles between 1956 and 1966?
text: Did you know that Iron Foot Jack , "a more agreeable kind of Alistair Crowley in a poorer way of business", was an inspiration for a young Ian Dury ?
text: Did you know that the experimental Ebola drug candidate ZMapp is manufactured in the tobacco plant Nicotiana benthamiana in a bioproduction process known as " pharming "?
text: Did you know that John Messinger , the first Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives , helped to set the state line between Illinois and Wisconsin ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film Freeheld is based on the true story of a police officer's battle to transfer her pension to her domestic partner?
text: Did you know that the death of a Dutch fascist in Amsterdam in February 1941 was an excuse for the German authorities to start raids in the Jewish Quarter and install a Judenrat ?
text: Did you know that a second wind makes sleep-deprived persons feel less sleepy on the fifth sleepless day than they did on the fourth?
text: Did you know that The GNOME Project 's Free and Open Source Software Outreach Program for Women started because no women were among the 181 applicants to a student mentorship program in 2006?
text: Did you know that populations of the Chinese goral are declining, probably due to over-hunting?
text: Did you know that in putting together episodes of Off the Air , series creator Dave Hughes seeks clips "with some kind of truth or integrity to them"?
text: Did you know that the Polish inventor and bridge designer Marian Lutosławski was killed in a mass execution by the Bolsheviks several days before his trial was supposed to take place?
text: Did you know that in order to write the novel Strike Zone , author Peter David spoke with actress Marina Sirtis to gain insight into her character in Star Trek: The Next Generation ?
text: Did you know that Theora mesopotamica was once given the name Abra cadabra , because a scientist believed it "had been dead for a long time, and could be described as a cadaver"?
text: Did you know that The Verge predicts Apple Pay will do to the mobile payments market what the iPhone did to the smartphone market?
text: Did you know that Gertrude Melville was nicknamed the "grand old lady of the Labor Party " despite serving only one term in parliament?
text: Did you know that the Ocala Star-Banner considered John Ritter 's comedy style in the 1983 film Sunset Limousine to be the "magic ingredient" for the film's success?
text: Did you know that Flemish separatists took the German occupation of Belgium during World War I as an opportunity to declare independence in 1918?
text: Did you know that Lindita Arapi 's first book of poetry, Am Meer, nachts ("By the sea, at night") was the first such work written by an Albanian poetess in German?
text: Did you know that the Venus of Savignano was found by a farmer who gave it to a sculptor in exchange for 200 kg (440 lb) of grapes?
text: Did you know that the Romanian communist Constantin Doncea made a well-publicized break from prison, finding his way to Moscow and then to the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Narendra Modi got the idea for the Bharatiya Janata Party slogan for the 2014 Indian general election , Achhe din aane waale hain ("Good days are coming"), from his opposition leader, Manmohan Singh ?
text: Did you know that in his later career, Clifford Hall painted women covered almost head to toe and with their faces usually hidden?
text: Did you know that film titles like India Speaks , Africa Speaks! , and Mussolini Speaks gave Duke Ellington the idea to call his song "Harlem Speaks"?
text: Did you know that Stephen Phillips originally auditioned to play the Winners & Losers character Doug Graham , but was cast as Zach Armstrong instead?
text: Did you know that the penis in male canids contains a structure at the base which helps to create a copulatory tie during mating, locking the animals together for up to an hour?
text: Did you know that Corn Run was likely named for bushels of corn washed into it during a flood?
text: Did you know that Clarence N. Hickman , a developer of the bazooka , was also the "Father of Scientific Archery", and is an AMICA Hall-of-Famer for his improvements to player pianos ?
text: Did you know that burglars attacking a Barretville, Tennessee , bank vault with blowtorches in 1930 failed to steal any money, but burned down the adjacent general store?
text: Did you know that the French singer Christophe got the inspiration for the title of his 1965 hit song " Aline " during a visit to the dentist?
text: Did you know that Hugh Bolton Jones exhibited at New York's National Academy of Design for sixty years?
text: Did you know that part of Ashutosh Gowariker 's Everest has been filmed at over 17,000 feet (5,200 m) above sea level?
text: Did you know that the Swedish stand-up comedian Robin Paulsson became known for his imitations of footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović ?
text: Did you know that less than four months after Guatemala declared independence from the Spanish Empire , it was annexed by a different empire ?
text: Did you know that the social worker Pah Wongso turned an extortion charge into a 25-cent fine and a school for impoverished youth?
text: Did you know that the first Canadian Platinum Maple Leaf coin was struck by a Japanese ?
text: Did you know that German TV broadcaster ZDF used Dominik Kuhn 's (Dodokay's) fandub of a Romney-Obama debate to start reporting on the outcome of the 2012 U.S. presidential election ?
text: Did you know that the snail species Aegista diversifamilia was named in recognition of the same-sex marriage movement in Taiwan?
text: Did you know that in 1920 Louise Pearce tested a cure for the fatal epidemic of African sleeping sickness in the Belgian Congo ?
text: Did you know that the Nobel Banquet is held each 10 December, after the Nobel Prize ceremony?
text: Did you know that the composer Joseph Maria Wolfram became mayor of Teplice ?
text: Did you know that after his speech in the trial of Thomas Paine , a crowd unhitched Thomas Erskine 's horses and pulled his carriage home?
text: Did you know that certain crabs injected with calitoxin , found in the nematocysts of the sea anemone Calliactis parasitica , are paralysed within one minute?
text: Did you know that Cindy Smart knows five languages and basic mathematics, but is "a little creepy"?
text: Did you know that MacArthur Fellow Tami Bond , known for her study of black carbon , became interested in engineering after her car broke down?
text: Did you know that bowfins can survive up to five days' exposure to air because they can breathe both air and water?
text: Did you know that the logo of No-Li Brewhouse depicts the Skyride over Spokane Falls ?
text: Did you know that the Hasidic singer Yehuda Green , who performs in the style of Shlomo Carlebach , has been called "more Carlebach than Carlebach"?
text: Did you know that of the 26 named tributaries of Catawissa Creek, 11 are considered by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission to be Class A Wild Trout Waters?
text: Did you know that Arthur Drewry chose the England football team that lost 1–0 to the United States in a shock defeat?
text: Did you know that the first Wikipedia Monument in the world will be unveiled in Słubice , Poland, in late October 2014?
text: Did you know that when the gynecologist Thomas Ashby died in 1916, he was the only University of Maryland faculty member to have served in the Maryland State Legislature ?
text: Did you know that the parasitoid wasp Kollasmosoma sentum can deposit its egg within the abdomen of an ant in as little as 0.052 seconds?
text: Did you know that Florian Znaniecki was the founder of sociology in Poland ?
text: Did you know that The Fine Young Capitalists produced a series of videos about the achievements of female game developers at the request of 4chan members?
text: Did you know that even as Brian Kim was speaking on CNBC as a guest expert on the legality of dark pools , he was running an illegal Ponzi scheme ?
text: Did you know that at 1034 letters, Howard Bergerson 's poem "Edna Waterfall" was once recognized as the world's longest English palindrome ?
text: Did you know that Andrew Garfield has been described by the media as an LL Bean Boyfriend ?
text: Did you know that Paul Emile Diou , described as a "shy and timid" subaltern , fell while leading his troops as a brigade commander in the First World War?
text: Did you know that Illinois State Senator Lorenzo D. Whiting was the father of journalist Lilian Whiting ?
text: Did you know that the Japanese people who conserve Article 9 were among the favourites to win the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize , but lost to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ?
text: Did you know that the tiered belltower of Tumauini Church resembles a wedding cake ?
text: Did you know that Bruce Mozert took underwater photographs in Silver Springs, Florida , as early as the 1940s?
text: Did you know that the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program has flown 96 student experiments into low Earth orbit since 2010?
text: Did you know that Harutyun Shahrikyan was tortured and killed during the Armenian Genocide ?
text: Did you know that the original Five Mile Point Lighthouse (1805) was a 30-foot (9 m) octagonal wooden tower, its fixed white light supplied by eight oil lamps with 13-inch (330 mm) parabolic reflectors ?
text: Did you know that the British fashion photographer John Cowan was known for his "high-octane image-making"?
text: Did you know that the record label PC Music has never produced a physical release?
text: Did you know that Du Xinwu 's opium habit led his teacher to dangle him by the hair from a bridge?
text: Did you know that poor education and an immature pension system are contributing to high levels of poverty in Cyprus ?
text: Did you know that after the construction business of 12-year-old Bill Walker 's family was ruined in the 1964 Alaska earthquake , he worked as a janitor?
text: Did you know that the Cemetery for North Korean and Chinese Soldiers in Paju , South Korea, contains the graves of North Korean agents killed on espionage missions in the South?
text: Did you know that the Armenian academic Levon Harutyunyan has authored over 400 research papers and some 400 essays?
text: Did you know that Hunkydory Creek has the lowest gradient of any tributary of Catawissa Creek, 5.2 meters per kilometer?
text: Did you know that the majority of the Mikea people live in and around the spiny Mikea Forest on the southwestern coast of Madagascar, between Morombe and Toliara ?
text: Did you know that the landscape painter Willis E. Davis was informed over the phone of his daughter's elopement?
text: Did you know that the closure-threatened Secombe Theatre was converted from a Christian Science church in 1984?
text: Did you know that in 1996 Jamie Nabozny sued school officials for failing to protect him from years of homophobic bullying ?
text: Did you know that Scottish religion in the seventeenth century included intense conflicts between Presbyterian Covenanters and government forces?
text: Did you know that Shloime Gertner has been called "the Hasidic Robbie Williams "?
text: Did you know that the Republic of Cuba 's silver certificates were designed and produced by the US Treasury 's Bureau of Engraving and Printing ?
text: Did you know that the 1967 sex-education film Helga – Vom Werden des menschlichen Lebens contained West Germany's first publicly shown scenes of childbirth?
text: Did you know that Chinese politician Zhang Xi was posthumously denounced as a traitor and his ashes were discarded?
text: Did you know that Mother 3 was in development for over a decade and then translated from Japanese into English by its fans ?
text: Did you know that a supercargo on an East Indiaman could take a sloop from Whampoa anchorage to Jack-ass Point at the Thirteen Factories ?
text: Did you know that Kiswe Mobile 's app for the WNBA 's Washington Mystics was the first where a U.S. professional sports team streamed live games to its local viewing area via a mobile application?
text: Did you know that there are two colour forms of the sharp-snouted rock lizard and both provide camouflage on the limestone cliffs on which they live?
text: Did you know that Uzo Aduba won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress as Orange Is the New Black 's " Crazy Eyes ", while Taylor Schilling was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress as Piper Chapman ?
text: Did you know that University of Santo Tomas Baybayin Documents are part of the biggest collection of extant baybayin scripts?
text: Did you know that although he was the leading Democratic candidate for most of the 1885 U.S. Senate election in Illinois , William Ralls Morrison only received one vote on the legislature's final ballot?
text: Did you know that the fairy lorikeet forages high in the forest canopy and is assumed to feed on pollen and nectar?
text: Did you know that a pharmacist, a newspaper publisher, an alcoholism counsellor, and the state Transportation Secretary were among those indicted in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority kickback scandal ?
text: Did you know that although Cross Run is only 1.1 miles (1.8 km) long, it contains two reservoirs?
text: Did you know that despite a legislator's warning to refrain from mixing art with politics, Hong Kong 's upcoming M+ museum of visual culture has acquired 26 works by artist-activist Ai Weiwei ?
text: Did you know that anonymous music producer Sophie chose his name because he thought "it tastes good and it's like moisturizer"?
text: Did you know that Twitterature has been called a literary genre, but is more accurately an adaptation of various genres to social media ?
text: Did you know that the 1982 dungeon crawler Telengard began as a hobbyist game for the PDP-10 mainframe computer and later joined what Gamasutra called "The Silver Age" of computer role-playing games ?
text: Did you know that Todd Lake in the Deschutes National Forest of Oregon is well known for its summer wildflowers display?
text: Did you know that the 1989 film Masque of the Red Death , produced by Roger Corman , is a remake of the 1964 picture of the same name which was directed by him?
text: Did you know that Francis Henry Medcalf was Mayor of Toronto for five years – spread over a twelve-year period?
text: Did you know that umpires in German hobby horse polo force punitive sherries on non-galloping players?
text: Did you know that GamersGate was the result of Paradox Interactive 's decision to allow an Argentine fan to download a game?
text: Did you know that Lady Meng Jiang is one of the Four Great Folktales of China?
text: Did you know that the reed vole stores grain and pieces of grass in its burrow for winter use?
text: Did you know that public service trade union General Secretary Barry Reamsbottom refused to stand down after the election of his successor Mark Serwotka , until a high court judge forced him out?
text: Did you know that the Hofileña Ancestral House was the first ancestral house in Silay City to open its doors to the public?
text: Did you know that prior to becoming the film commissioner of Belize , Nigel Miguel spent seven years as the body double for Michael Jordan ?
text: Did you know that Hoylande Young was the first woman division head at the Argonne National Laboratory ?
text: Did you know that the speed of the red whip snake enables it to feed largely on lizards?
text: Did you know that Reginald's Tower in Ireland has served as a fortified tower, a mint , a prison, a military storehouse, an air raid shelter, and a museum?
text: Did you know that at the request of an encomendero to the rector of the Society of Jesus in Manila , the Jesuits were assigned to Silang Church in 1599?
text: Did you know that London's Endell Street was the site of a World War I military hospital staffed entirely by women?
text: Did you know that Anastasios Tsonis 's research has concluded that, as a result of natural processes, the Earth might have entered a new "climate state" in 2001 or 2002?
text: Did you know that Wan Laisheng 's teachings on martial arts pre-dated Bruce Lee 's by about 50 years?
text: Did you know that the first stone church of Cavinti in the Philippines, built in 1621, was severely damaged in a Chinese uprising?
text: Did you know that Winton Square in Stoke-on-Trent has been described as the best example of neo-Jacobean architecture in Staffordshire?
text: Did you know that the discovery of the fossil of Shenshou , a squirrel-like early mammal from the Tiaojishan Formation , pushed the origin of mammals back to the Late Triassic , 220 million to 200 million years ago?
text: Did you know that the Egyptian folklorist and writer Ahmed Taymour was educated by his feminist sister?
text: Did you know that in 1855 three passengers, believing they had arrived at their destination, fell to their deaths when they stepped from a train that had halted on Dinting Viaduct ?
text: Did you know that the Karnataka politician and former minister B.T. Lalitha Naik wrote dialogue for, and acted in, the Banjara film Zadero Pankheru ?
text: Did you know that the 966-foot (294 m) Callicoon Bridge connecting New York and Pennsylvania is the longest on the Upper Delaware River ?
text: Did you know that the Jungdeutsche Partei members of the German minority living in prewar Poland sent the call to the world: "We want to be Germans, and nothing but Germans"?
text: Did you know that 1 is a documentary film about Formula One 's progress from multiple fatalities per season in its early years to the 1994 death of Ayrton Senna , its most recent?
text: Did you know that Jovan Albanez was the first commander of the Serbian Hussar Regiment of the Imperial Russian Army ?
text: Did you know that in the 1990s, Little Crooked Run was considered to be Class A Wild Trout Waters, despite being infertile and acidic?
text: Did you know that Sidney L. Jones held the same senior position in the U.S. Department of the Treasury under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush ?
text: Did you know that refunds for the two-day charity event PLDT HOME: The Last Home Stand were offered after the scheduled exhibition game between NBA players and Gilas Pilipinas was cancelled?
text: Did you know that the Prosphorion Harbour in Constantinople could have derived its name from the goddess Hecate ?
text: Did you know that Nelson Mandela chaired peace talks between Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko and rebel leader Laurent Kabila on board the SAS Outeniqua in May 1997?
text: Did you know that the BBC Young Musician of the Year was the inspiration for the inaugural Eurovision Young Musicians contest in 1982?
text: Did you know that Eloy Mestrelle , the man who introduced machine-struck coinage to England, was executed for coin counterfeiting?
text: Did you know that Franz Wolf was sentenced in the Sobibór trial to eight years in prison for taking part in the murder of "at least 39,000 Jews", an arbitrary number?
text: Did you know that the 1971 Salem, Illinois derailment was Amtrak 's first fatal accident?
text: Did you know that Electric Light Orchestra , Nina Simone , James Brown and John Barry all influenced Labrinth 's " Let It Be "?
text: Did you know that the Canadian para-athlete Robbi Weldon competed in both the Summer and Winter Paralympics?
text: Did you know that three of the eleven five-wicket hauls in the Asia Cup tournament were taken by Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga , the most by any player?
text: Did you know that Miss Corner 's Historical Library raised many questions?
text: Did you know that 94% of the members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences are male?
text: Did you know that Brian Brushwood walked away from his job designing computer systems to perform magic full-time?
text: Did you know that the Pyrenean frog breeds in mountain streams after the snow has melted?
text: Did you know that William W. Naismith founded the Scottish Mountaineering Club and invented a rule for estimating how long it will take to walk a given route?
text: Did you know that Gustav Mahler said that the Vertegrand – the same type of piano as used by The Beatles on " Lady Madonna " – could "satisfy a musician's requirements in every respect"?
text: Did you know that after College Football Hall of Fame inductee Buck Flowers returned two punts for touchdowns , a writer suggested that the opposition Auburn Tigers made a dying request: "Please omit Flowers"?
text: Did you know that the National Council of Women of Australia made Margaret Windeyer an honorary life president in 1918, though she had never been a member of the council's executive board?
text: Did you know that Sanath Jayasuriya 's six centuries at the Asia Cup are the most by any player in the tournament's history?
text: Did you know that Lia Olguța Vasilescu is the first female mayor of a county capital in Romanian history?
text: Did you know that the Zaisan mole vole uses its incisors and upward movements of its head to burrow through the soil?
text: Did you know that the Chinese immunologist Shu Hongbing went to school barefoot because he could not afford shoes?
text: Did you know that in the 2014 National League Wild Card Game , Brandon Crawford hit the first Major League Baseball postseason grand slam by a shortstop ?
text: Did you know that The Who 's album Tommy has sold in the order of 20 million copies since its release in 1969?
text: Did you know that Father Mapple in Herman Melville 's Moby-Dick preaches from a pulpit in the form of a ship's prow?
text: Did you know that for the first two decades of Knesset elections, Israeli Arabs were represented mainly by Arab satellite lists and communist parties?
text: Did you know that the American racehorse Bayern was named after soccer team Bayern Munich , and nicknamed "Little Dude" after fellow racehorse Game On Dude ?
text: Did you know that the results of a Royal Commission into the Torbanlea Colliery Disaster were shelved until a similar accident in which 75 workers were killed two decades later?
text: Did you know that the bio-hacker Heather Dewey-Hagborg collects discarded hair, gum, and cigarette butts, sequences the DNA, and turns it into a 3-D sculpture?
text: Did you know that the Pacific International was Amtrak 's first international passenger train ?
text: Did you know that the blind Canadian swimmer Brian Hill prepared for the 2008 Paralympics by swimming 120 km (75 mi) in two weeks?
text: Did you know that the slender head of the narrow-headed vole may have evolved to allow it to move more easily through crevices in frozen ground?
text: Did you know that the historian Jalmari Jaakkola , who was criticized for overtly nationalist assertions and extensive speculation, chose the words "The seer of early Finnish history" for his memorial medal?
text: Did you know that the South African cricketer Jacques Kallis was the first player to take a five-wicket haul in the ICC Champions Trophy ?
text: Did you know that at least six people turned down the job of Director of Research at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory before Alvin M. Weinberg accepted it in March 1948?
text: Did you know that the fatal crash of Aero Flight 217 occurred in poor visibility at Mariehamn Airport , Finland, where local land disputes had prevented the installation of an instrument landing system ?
text: Did you know that Amethi in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has been represented in the parliament by four members of the Nehru–Gandhi family since 1980?
text: Did you know that M. Stanley Livingston and Hans Bethe were the first to demonstrate that the neutron has a magnetic moment ?
text: Did you know that Chest Creek is the first major canoeable tributary of the West Branch Susquehanna River ?
text: Did you know that the second album of the Argentine band Kamikaze had low sales because of the 1989 Argentine hyperinflation ?
text: Did you know that Marcus Morris , the founder of the Eagle comic, was vicar of St James' Church, Birkdale in the 1940s?
text: Did you know that Nadav Ben Yehuda , an Israeli mountain climber, abandoned his attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest to rescue a fellow climber?
text: Did you know that one of the founders of Lemurs' Park near Antananarivo is the grandson of Pierre Boiteau , the Founding Director of the Tsimbazaza Zoo ?
text: Did you know that Johann Konrad Kern was a major author of Switzerland's first federal constitution in 1848?
text: Did you know that Mthatha Airport was turned into a military zone and no-fly zone to accommodate the body of Nelson Mandela and heads of state attending his funeral in the nearby village of Qunu ?
text: Did you know that the pro-Beijing Alliance for Peace and Democracy was established to counter the Occupy Central with Love and Peace movement?
text: Did you know that the commemorative stela of Nahr el-Kalb include inscriptions dedicated to Ramesses II in hieroglyphics , Esarhaddon in cuneiform , Caracalla in Latin, Barquq in Arabic and Napoleon III in French?
text: Did you know that due to local sensitivities, the North Stafford Hotel was the location for the inaugural meeting of the County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent council?
text: Did you know that wood from common alders is valued in turnery and carving, in making furniture, window frames, clogs, toys, blocks, pencils and bowls?
text: Did you know that the Mason County Sculpture Trail is a garden of public art with exhibition pieces located only outdoors?
text: Did you know that Enrique Zileri was praised by Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa as an "indefatigable defender of freedom and democracy" who could not be bribed or intimidated?
text: Did you know that the antagonists of the indie horror video game Five Nights at Freddy's drew comparisons to Chuck E. Cheese's and Weeping Angels ?
text: Did you know that the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad 's Merchants Limited was the last all- parlor car passenger train in the United States?
text: Did you know that David A. Randall obtained the typescripts of Ian Fleming 's James Bond novels for the Lilly Library ?
text: Did you know that during dry weather, the Texas toad remains dormant?
text: Did you know that when the Transcendentalist poet and banker Samuel Gray Ward became a merchant rather than a painter, it deeply disappointed his friends Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson ?
text: Did you know that despite the upper reaches of the Crooked Run being acidic due to acid rain , the creek is still considered Class A Wild Trout Waters?
text: Did you know that the Kray twins allegedly extorted Esmeralda's Barn from Peter Rachman ?
text: Did you know that the founder and executive director of KMG Ethiopia is credited with almost single-handedly eradicating the practice of female genital mutilation in Ethiopia?
text: Did you know that thirteen years after directing the first episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , Jean de Segonzac returned to direct the 300th ?
text: Did you know that the Redmond–Bend Juniper State Scenic Corridor serves as a buffer of natural high desert habitat along U.S. Route 97 between the cities of Bend and Redmond in central Oregon ?
text: Did you know that J. Carson Mark wrote a paper dispelling the myth that reactor-grade plutonium could not be used for nuclear weapons?
text: Did you know that India and Sri Lanka were declared the joint winners of 2002 ICC Champions Trophy after the final was washed out twice?
text: Did you know that Philip Somerville designed hats for Queen Elizabeth , Diana, Princess of Wales , and two James Bond villainesses?
text: Did you know that the original type specimens of the Electrostephanus fossils may have been burned up during World War II?
text: Did you know that the entire length of Sugarloaf Creek is within 300 metres (980 ft) of a road?
text: Did you know that the diarist Teresa Wilms Montt attempted suicide before escaping from a convent ?
text: Did you know that the architects Maxwell and Tuke designed Blackpool Tower and the even taller (since demolished) New Brighton Tower ?
text: Did you know that the first African American elected to the Washington State Legislature from King County was Charles Stokes ?
text: Did you know that patags once used in combat are especially valued?
text: Did you know that in the Battle of Halmyros , the Catalan Company annihilated much of the nobility of Frankish Greece and conquered the Duchy of Athens ?
text: Did you know that the Detroit Red Wings ' new arena will anchor a $ 650 million redevelopment project in Downtown Detroit ?
text: Did you know that the Maribojoc Church , with one of the remaining fourteen Spanish-era pipe organs in the Philippines, was destroyed in the 2013 Bohol earthquake ?
text: Did you know that there are at least 35 sources of acid mine drainage in the Mahanoy Creek watershed?
text: Did you know that a consultative referendum on whether Ukraine should federalise was held in the Donbass region during the 1994 parliamentary election , twenty years prior to the disputed 2014 status referendums in the same region?
text: Did you know that after Athena Farrokhzad hosted a show on Sveriges Radio , the Moderate Party 's Gunnar Axén claimed to have thrown out his TV so he could stop paying the license fee (which also supports radio)?
text: Did you know that The Fifteen Whispered Prayers by Imam Zayn al-Abidin contains different prayers to be recited in accordance with one's present mood?
text: Did you know that the first European tofu factory was opened outside Paris in 1908 by the Chinese anarchist Li Shizeng ?
text: Did you know that St George's Church, Southport , has a tall broach spire with two tiers of lucarnes ?
text: Did you know that the galls of the golden wattle bud-galling wasp can be so heavy that branches break under their weight?
text: Did you know that Djibouti's flag bearer at the 2008 Summer Olympics was not a competitor?
text: Did you know that after Gabriel Wells bought a book whose 1,050-jewel binding had required two years to complete, he decided to send it to the U.S. via a passenger on the RMS Titanic ?
text: Did you know that some users of popular Web sites such as Facebook are being tricked into attacking their own Web browser ?
text: Did you know that the Swedish film director Anna Odell staged a suicide attempt and psychosis for her film Okänd, kvinna 2009–349701 ?
text: Did you know that the Indian state of Nagaland 's first member of parliament, S. C. Jamir was elected unopposed?
text: Did you know that the fashion designer Michael Sherard was employing 40 assistants at the time of the Queen's coronation ?
text: Did you know that the 18th century merchant Jean Abraham Grill was Sweden's first major drug runner ?
text: Did you know that communists once had considerable influence in the DMV ?
text: Did you know that the lizard catshark is considered a " vulnerable species " because trawling is damaging the patches of coral in which it breeds?
text: Did you know that Wang Ruofei was killed in a plane crash along with three other Chinese Communist Party leaders?
text: Did you know that Jella Haase won the Bavarian Film Award for Best young actress in 2012 for her roles in Lollipop Monster and Kriegerin ?
text: Did you know that members of the Demoulas family include a race car driver, a college hockey player, a bar owner, and an Archon Depoutatos ?
text: Did you know that in his essay The Analytical Language of John Wilkins , Jorge Luis Borges speculated that, "it is not impossible to think of a language where the name of each thing says all the details of its destiny, past and future"?
text: Did you know that the remains of greater long-tailed shrew tenrecs have been found in a cavern alongside bones of the extinct elephant bird ?
text: Did you know that in the Bellevue War , Iowa Territory politician Thomas Cox led a posse that killed one of his political rivals?
text: Did you know that Max Harzof once owned the book that reputedly inspired Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick ?
text: Did you know that the choir of Holy Trinity Church, Southport , apart from the two cathedrals, is the only choir in the Diocese of Liverpool to regularly sing a full midweek choral evensong ?
text: Did you know that the development of Mother 3 took place over a decade and spanned four consoles?
text: Did you know that a scene in the film Azúcar Amarga showing people deliberately infecting themselves with HIV to protest against the Cuban government is based on actual events?
text: Did you know that " Life Is a Minestrone " was originally released as the lead single from The Original Soundtrack due to 10cc 's reluctance to release " I'm Not in Love "?
text: Did you know that Martin Scorsese 's first British film, Tomorrow , marks the directorial debut of his long-time script supervisor, Martha Pinson?
text: Did you know that the Nagcarlan Church was first built from light materials in 1583 under the chaplaincy of Franciscan missionary Tomas de Miranda, who also pioneered the cultivation of wheat in the country?
text: Did you know that John Calhoun , publisher of the first newspaper in Chicago , was originally apprenticed to be a carpenter in Watertown, New York ?
text: Did you know that Adolf Ulric Grill of the Swedish Grill family once traded a mounted moose for 60 rare birds?
text: Did you know that the Carpathian newt sometimes hybridises with the smooth newt ?
text: Did you know that the tomb of Zu Dashou , a Ming dynasty Chinese general, is in Toronto , Canada?
text: Did you know that the New England tree frog and the Davies' tree frog are threatened by the introduction of exotic fish, such as trout, into the streams in which they breed?
text: Did you know that Jean Gordon , the first woman elected to the Yukon Territorial Council , said she decided to run because "I couldn't keep my mouth shut"?
text: Did you know that parts of Château de Kerjean , damaged during the French Revolution , were dismantled for sale as building material?
text: Did you know that the Nuwara Eliya Racecourse is the only remaining horse racing track in Sri Lanka ?
text: Did you know that Vekuii Rukoro "had to fight back tears" when accepting his election as Paramount Chief of the OvaHerero people ?
text: Did you know that one enters the wine cellar of 5 North St , a Michelin star restaurant, through a trapdoor in the women's bathroom?
text: Did you know that a pub may have existed at the site of the East India Arms since 1645?
text: Did you know that some populations of Carbonell's wall lizard inhabit oak woodland, and others sand dunes?
text: Did you know that Susann Müller was top scorer at the 2013 World Women's Handball Championship , and further elected to the All-Star team of the tournament?
text: Did you know that the rivalry between Alexander Leith Hay and the Gordon family extended to the British Army , with Leith Hay's 109th Regiment of Foot competing for recruits with the Gordon Highlanders ?
text: Did you know that Tumalo State Park in central Oregon was created in 1954 to preserve a portion of the Deschutes River where scenic basalt cliffs flank the river?
text: Did you know that in the 1956 Hindi film Raj Hath (Royal stubbornness) , the prominent actress Madhubala dressed up as a man?
text: Did you know that Dattatraya Parchure , also called the "second Savarkar ", was initially convicted but later acquitted in the assassination case of Mahatma Gandhi ?
text: Did you know that the curve-billed thrasher will resort to feeding older fledglings and letting the younger ones starve if food sources are scarce?
text: Did you know that Rona Fairhead is the preferred candidate for the Chair of the BBC Trust , and if confirmed, would be the first woman to hold that post?
text: Did you know that an abnormal basal metabolic rate can be caused by both hot and cold environments, or even a fever ?
text: Did you know that wine sauce may be prepared using a fish velouté base, which is a base for several other sauces as well?
text: Did you know that the demonic poison frog is critically endangered because its total range is less than 10 square kilometres (4 sq mi) and its habitat is threatened by gold mining?
text: Did you know that Viktor Pietschmann 's photographs of deportees during the Armenian Genocide of 1915 were unearthed in 2007?
text: Did you know that the current director of the University of Oklahoma 's Carl Albert Center is also the Mayor of Norman ?
text: Did you know that September Morn survived the October Revolution , caused widespread controversy in the United States, and was featured on bottle openers, calendars, and candy boxes, but is now in a warehouse?
text: Did you know that the luxury steam yacht Rover was bought unseen by American business tycoon Howard Hughes in 1933?
text: Did you know that the 19th-century feminist Henrietta Müller persuaded employers to hire women by "cannily pointing out that this would save money since women were paid less than men"?
text: Did you know that some retailers did not believe banknotes in the Scenes of Canada series were real money when the series was first circulated?
text: Did you know that Lieutenant Jenny Lewis, killed in a helicopter crash in 2002 , was believed to be the first female Royal Navy pilot or observer to die on duty?
text: Did you know that Project Guardian was launched after a survey showed that 90% of incidents of sexual harassment on London's public transport went unreported?
text: Did you know that in 1899 the eccentric journalist and politician Ture Malmgren started building Tureborg Castle , a faux-medieval castle in Uddevalla , Sweden, inspired by his journeys in the Rhine Valley ?
text: Did you know that the Spanish town of Almazán was where the lexicographer María Moliner grew up?
text: Did you know that Tang Yijie , who died in September 2014, spearheaded a project to compile all the known classics about Confucianism ?
text: Did you know that the small dorcopsis is sometimes preyed on by New Guinea singing dogs ?
text: Did you know that the Burmese hare is found in traditional rice fields but not in heavily-irrigated intensive rice crops?
text: Did you know that the Indian filmmaker Balu Mahendra saw the shooting of David Lean 's The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) on a school trip?
text: Did you know that P. M. Sayeed represented Lakshadweep in the Indian parliament for ten consecutive terms from 1967 to 2004?
text: Did you know that the Campbell Soup Company devised its cream of broccoli soup to be used both as a soup and as an ingredient in other dishes?
text: Did you know that Iranian authorities have not disclosed the whereabouts, welfare, or reason for the detention of Washington Post Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his wife?
text: Did you know that Raven Creek may have once been known as Raving Creek?
text: Did you know that The Finest Hours , currently in production, is a film based on the US Coast Guard 's 1952 rescue of the crews of two oil tankers which had broken apart during a storm?
text: Did you know that the violinist Mela Tenenbaum recorded in the US works that Dmitri Klebanov had composed for her in Ukraine , including Japanese Silhouettes for soprano, viola d'amore and ensemble?
text: Did you know that Whychus Creek , a perennial stream that flows through Sisters State Park , has its headwaters in the Three Sisters Wilderness area of Oregon ?
text: Did you know that the Filipino journalist Betty Go-Belmonte co-founded the newspapers Philippine Daily Inquirer , The Philippine Star , and Pilipino Star Ngayon ?
text: Did you know that the southern spotted skunk feeds on insects, small mammals and birds, eggs, grain and fruit?
text: Did you know that the captured British spies Captain Stewart and Captain Trench were pardoned and released by the German Kaiser as a present to the Duke of Brunswick when the duke married the Kaiser's daughter, Victoria Louise ?
text: Did you know that during rainfall, the desert lizard Phrynocephalus versicolor adopts a bottom-up, head-down stance in order to trickle water towards its mouth?
text: Did you know that Vincent Hanna, the lead character in both L.A. Takedown and its 1995 remake Heat , was inspired by real-life police officer Chuck Adamson ?
text: Did you know that Royal Lao Army troops fled 150 km (93 mi) after their defeat at the Battle of Luang Namtha ?
text: Did you know that baseball player Jacob Hannemann is a cousin of Mufi Hannemann , the former Mayor of Honolulu ?
text: Did you know that in the book Do You Believe in Magic? The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine , pediatrician Paul Offit criticizes the use of vitamin C to treat the common cold ?
text: Did you know that Charles D'Almaine was the first person to make a record using the Stroh violin ?
text: Did you know that although Dutch Jewish siblings Eva and Abraham Beem tried to hide from the Nazis in the home of a Christian family, Abraham's circumcision gave them away?
text: Did you know that The National is the first daily newspaper in Scotland to support independence for that country?
text: Did you know that Romanian Orthodox bishop Nicolae Bălan went from being an Iron Guard supporter to working with his country's new Communist regime in suppressing the Greek-Catholic Church ?
text: Did you know that the wasp Polistes erythrocephalus acts as a natural pesticide in tobacco plantations in South America?
text: Did you know that TV Guide referred to Ezri Dax on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as "Ally McTrill", a reference to the television series Ally McBeal ?
text: Did you know that Phoumi Nosavan launched the Battle of Lak Sao against United States advice?
text: Did you know that the ouster of Arthur Demoulas by Arthur Demoulas led to protests by employees and customers of Market Basket ?
text: Did you know that the only named tributary of Messers Run is called Negro Hollow ?
text: Did you know that Dareka no Manazashi , the 6-minute 40-second Japanese anime film directed by Makoto Shinkai , was screened alongside his other film, The Garden of Words ?
text: Did you know that when the Manleluag Spring Protected Landscape was established in 1934, its boundaries were referenced to an alibanbang tree that was 35 cm (14 in) in diameter at the time?
text: Did you know that Richie Farmer holds records for most points scored in the KHSAA championship game (51), and most ethics violations by a Kentucky executive branch officeholder (42)?
text: Did you know that the Israel National Council for the Child says that slapping children is neither ethical nor educational, and can be destructive?
text: Did you know that Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach conducted his Magnificat decades after he composed it, juxtaposed in the concert to his father's Credo ?
text: Did you know that K'inich Yo'nal Ahk I , ajaw of Piedras Negras , erected many stelae that became prototypes for monuments raised by his successors?
text: Did you know that the protagonist of Hatred is a mass-killing villain who begins a "genocide crusade" in his hatred of humanity?
text: Did you know that the Clinton administration abandoned plans to nominate Alicia Munnell to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors following protest by ten Republican Senators ?
text: Did you know that on the Church of St Teresa of Avila, Birkdale , there is a flèche over the crossing , and a bellcote on the gable of the north transept ?
text: Did you know that a massive "welcoming ceremony" with fireworks and lion dancers greeted county leader Li Lianyu upon his return from a Communist Party National Congress?
text: Did you know that after being scorched by wildfires, the blackened branches of the mountain maytenus readily sprout?
text: Did you know that the Diaspora Yeshiva Band infused rock and bluegrass with Jewish lyrics, creating a music style it called "Hasidic rock" or "Country and Eastern"?
text: Did you know that Fred Wesley Wentworth designed many of the buildings constructed after the devastating 1902 fire in Downtown Paterson, New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that a dyestuff extracted from the endangered Armenian cochineal was historically used to dye rugs and paint manuscripts and frescoes?
text: Did you know that Morden station is at one end of a 27.8-kilometre (17.3 mi) long tunnel, the longest on the London Underground ?
text: Did you know that Confucius said, "I used to judge a person by his appearance and erred in Ziyu "?
text: Did you know that the English harvest hymn " Come, Ye Thankful People, Come " is also a popular Thanksgiving song in the United States?
text: Did you know that Gladys Kathleen Parkin obtained a first-class commercial radio operator's license at the age of fifteen?
text: Did you know that the common click beetle is an agricultural pest and its larvae, known as wireworms, cause damage to crops?
text: Did you know that Bayume Mohamed Husen served in the German army but died at Sachsenhausen concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that the John F. Adams House has been described as the "finest late Italianate dwelling still standing in Pawtucket "?
text: Did you know that Halfdan Ragnarsson was one of the leaders of the Great Heathen Army ?
text: Did you know that the London Philharmonic Orchestra recorded all of the 205 national anthems used at the medal ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Ming military leader Kong Youde defected to the Manchus , but committed suicide after being outflanked by the Ming army?
text: Did you know that Camera Obscura 's album Let's Get Out of This Country was recorded in two weeks?
text: Did you know that the historic Elk Lake Guard Station in Oregon's Deschutes National Forest was converted into a Forest Service information center in 2001?
text: Did you know that during the beginning of the Italian occupation of Albania , Fashizmi was the sole daily newspaper published in the country?
text: Did you know that studio potter Carol McNicoll designed costumes for Brian Eno of Roxy Music ?
text: Did you know that Carl A. Wiley , inventor of synthetic aperture radar , published his concept of solar sails in a pulp mag under a pen name ?
text: Did you know that endoparasites occupying up to 80% of the abdomen of the social wasp Ropalidia romandi may actually increase their host's life span?
text: Did you know that Dead Rising: Watchtower , currently in production, is the first digital film to be produced by Legendary Pictures ?
text: Did you know that Bambolinetta was probably the only duck species to propel itself underwater with its wings, like a penguin ?
text: Did you know that Christina Stead challenged Finola Moorhead to write a book with no male characters?
text: Did you know that the plight of the Richmond Sixteen came to the attention of Prime Minister Asquith via a letter thrown out a train window?
text: Did you know that Keshavlal Dhruv compiled fifteenth century Gujarati poems and published them in 1927?
text: Did you know that Chinese astronomer Qu Qinyue was sent to work at a coal mine during the Cultural Revolution ?
text: Did you know that the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 won the International TV Award at the Ondas Awards , in Barcelona?
text: Did you know that Benguela Province witnessed an influx of many IDPs during the Angolan Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the Audenried Tunnel , the Catawissa Tunnel , the Green Mountain Tunnel , the Oneida Number One Tunnel , and the Oneida Number Three Tunnel were all built in the Catawissa Creek watershed in the early 1930s?
text: Did you know that higher-speed rail is actually a lower train speed category than high-speed rail ?
text: Did you know that Johnny Burnett once had nine hits in a Major League Baseball game ?
text: Did you know that Francis Arthur Freeth developed ways of purifying TNT during World War I, and came out of retirement to do secret research for British special forces in World War II?
text: Did you know that Saumarez Homestead contains a thirty-room Edwardian mansion, and has hosted fashion shows and a film festival?
text: Did you know that in the wasp Metapolybia cingulata , queens and workers look alike and can only be distinguished by dissection?
text: Did you know that the Castilian raid of Salé resulted in the capture of 3,000 citizens of Salé who were taken as slaves for Seville ?
text: Did you know that food critic Phyllis Richman was once called "the most feared woman in Washington"?
text: Did you know that Eystein Olafsson , King of Dublin , was "deceitfully" killed by Halfdan Ragnarsson , King of Jórvík ?
text: Did you know that the main star of the Theta Coronae Borealis system spins at 393 kilometres (244 mi) per second at its equator?
text: Did you know that the concrete Robespierre Monument collapsed four days after its erection in Moscow in 1918?
text: Did you know that Confucius thought so highly of his disciple Nangong Kuo that he gave the student his niece in marriage?
text: Did you know that reggaeton duo Wisin & Yandel won the Grammy , Latin Grammy , and Lo Nuestro Award for Urban Album of the Year for their album Los Extraterrestres ?
text: Did you know that the vicinity of Devil Hole Run has been described as "Hell-like" and "sinister"?
text: Did you know that the American football players inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as "Gator Greats" include "All-American Waterboy" Tootie Perry , attorney Goldy Goldstein , and halfbacks Red Bethea and Larry Dupree ?
text: Did you know that acute flaccid myelitis is suspected to be caused by enterovirus 68 , a relative of the polio virus ?
text: Did you know that the 1861 University Boat Race featured the first non-British competitor in the history of the event?
text: Did you know that Lem , Poland's first scientific artificial satellite, sees blue stars while Heweliusz , its second, sees red stars ?
text: Did you know that K'inich Yat Ahk II , the last ruler of Piedras Negras , defeated the rival state of Pomona before his capture by K'inich Tatbu Skull IV of Yaxchilan ?
text: Did you know that during swarming, Parachartergus fraternus wasps spray venom to mark the new nest site?
text: Did you know that Connie Dion was the winning goalie during the most lopsided shutout in NHL history?
text: Did you know that the reverse of the 50,000 Colombian peso note features an image of writer Jorge Isaacs ' house "El Paraiso"?
text: Did you know that among Confucius ' disciples, Yan Yan was considered the most distinguished in the study of the classics ?
text: Did you know that Vespula austriaca is an obligate parasite wasp with a large stinger and very curved sting shafts?
text: Did you know that "the child welfare system failed Phoenix Sinclair "?
text: Did you know that while a hypothetical coup in South Vietnam was being played in the Sigma II-64 war game , a real coup was staged against General Nguyễn Khánh ?
text: Did you know that Singaporean swimmer Samantha Yeo was twelve years old when she competed at the 2009 Southeast Asian Games ?
text: Did you know that after 1832, John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company dominated the fur trade in Montana on the upper Missouri River by using the paddle steamer to transport goods?
text: Did you know that Candidula spadae , a snail native to Central Italy , is at risk in part because of tourist activities ?
text: Did you know that every member of the Cambridge crew that won the March 1849 University Boat Race came from Trinity College ?
text: Did you know that the Sutton Heritage Mosaic , one of the largest examples of wall art in Britain, consists of over 100,000 pieces?
text: Did you know that asking prices for the poorly received video game Cubic Ninja jumped to as much as $ 500 after it was used for the first Nintendo 3DS homebrew exploit?
text: Did you know that, when complete, the PandaX dark matter detection experiment will be one hundred times as sensitive as the current most-sensitive detector?
text: Did you know that the niece of Pat Chan , Singapore's "Golden Girl", is also an international competitive swimmer ?
text: Did you know that Davis Run is one of two streams in the watershed of Catawissa Creek that has a substantial population of brown trout ?
text: Did you know that the nests of the South American wasp Protopolybia chartergoides have transparent envelopes?
text: Did you know that the 1842 University Boat Race was Oxford 's first victory on "London water"?
text: Did you know that Sakakibara Kenkichi and Yamaoka Tesshū once engaged in a forty-minute sword duel without either striking a single blow?
text: Did you know that the N1 is Nokia 's first new product since the sale of its mobile phone business to Microsoft ?
text: Did you know that Mike Conte of the heavy metal band Early Man put "lots of riffage " into the score of Secret Mountain Fort Awesome ?
text: Did you know that the Maryland Terrapins field hockey team has won a record 56 games in the NCAA tournament ?
text: Did you know that the extinct ants Azteca alpha carried larvae of the nematode Formicodiplogaster myrmenema ?
text: Did you know that during the corruption probe into Gu Junshan , investigators located a gold model boat, a gold Mao statue, and crates of luxury liquor in his family compound?
text: Did you know that although the Seeley G. Mudd Chemistry Building is Vassar College 's youngest completed academic building, it is slated for demolition in 2016?
text: Did you know that Jack Lumber was the first game published by Sega 's third-party publisher Sega Alliance?
text: Did you know that following the 2014–15 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season , CBS will broadcast the Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament for the 18th consecutive year?
text: Did you know that William E. Bradley, Jr. resigned less than a year after becoming the first President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ?
text: Did you know that the Central Mental Hospital in Ireland , completed in 1850, was the first secure hospital in Europe ?
text: Did you know that the 1856 University Boat Race was umpired by a former Cambridge University Boat Club president who had rowed in both the March and December races of 1849?
text: Did you know that the largest leishu encyclopedia ever printed contained 852,408 pages?
text: Did you know that Sir Robert Risson is credited as "the man who saved Melbourne's trams "?
text: Did you know that the 1845 University Boat Race was the first time the event was contested along The Championship Course ?
text: Did you know that the completed English localization of 1989 video game Mother was abandoned only to be rediscovered and later uploaded to the Internet?
text: Did you know that the literary motif of " forced seduction " was called a male rape fantasy, an attempt by the hero to get to know the heroine, a useful lesson for women to not dress sexy, and an enjoyable fantasy?
text: Did you know that Shirley Clarke called Goodbye in the Mirror the first "real woman's film"?
text: Did you know that drinking from the Hoofprint of Einion 's Horse, a petrosomatoglyph in Wales , was thought to cure what ailed you?
text: Did you know that an eroge called Paizuri Cheerleader VS Sakunyuu Ouendan! allegedly ripped off one of the computer graphics samples from Kanojo x Kanojo x Kanojo ?
text: Did you know that Marko Happich once narrowly lost a downhill race to Stephan Eberharter , the former in a sidecarcross and the latter on skis?
text: Did you know that the Somali tectonic plate is breaking into tectonic micro-plates, like the newly-formed Lwandle Plate ?
text: Did you know that Ohad 's 2009 hit " Bo'i Kala ", set to the words of the traditional song accompanying a Jewish bride to the chuppah , is a remake of Leonard Cohen 's " Hallelujah "?
text: Did you know that the color of Lime Green Icicle Tower , a 42-foot (13 m) glass sculpture at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts , has been described as Kermit the Frog ?
text: Did you know that the 2012 satirical comedy drama OMG – Oh My God! was the first film produced by Grazing Goat Pictures Pvt. Ltd ?
text: Did you know that U.S. President Lyndon Johnson approved Operation Triangle the month before the Tonkin Gulf Incident began the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you know that Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey was published just before the 100th anniversary of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 on which it was based?
text: Did you know that the 1914 Battle of Kolubara ended with a decisive Serbian victory after a month of bloodshed?
text: Did you know that Oxford won the 1976 University Boat Race with the then-fastest winning time of 16 minutes and 58 seconds?
text: Did you know that although Guatemala is the world's largest producer of cardamom , local use is negligible?
text: Did you know that chemistry professor W. Conway Pierce brought a shotgun to class after a colleague interrupted his lecture with a flock of birds?
text: Did you know that Zhuansun Shi , a disciple of Confucius , started his own sect of Confucianism ?
text: Did you know that the Muzaffar Ali -directed drama Aagaman (1982) marked the film debut of Anupam Kher ?
text: Did you know that Peter Blondeau pioneered the technique of inscribing lettering onto the edge of coins?
text: Did you know that the 1852 University Boat Race saw the Oxford crew coached by former Cambridge cox Thomas Selby Egan ?
text: Did you know that the 2014 drought in southern Brazil is believed to be due to failure of the flying rivers ?
text: Did you know that the annual Nobel Banquet is held in the Stockholm Stadshuset's red Blue Hall ?
text: Did you know that the music video for the song " A Criminal Mind " by Gowan won the 1985 Juno Award for Video of the Year ?
text: Did you know that Swedish scientist Anders Bárány is the grandson of Nobel laureate Róbert Bárány ?
text: Did you know that Washington, D.C. held its first Attorney General election this year?
text: Did you know that although one of the tributaries of Little Catawissa Creek ( Stony Run ) is unable to support fish life, the other tributary ( Trexler Run ) is Class A Wild Trout Waters?
text: Did you know that the first Test match between Sri Lanka and India was in the 1982–83 cricket season ?
text: Did you know that Thérèse de Dillmont 's Encyclopedia of Needlework included product placement for Jean Dollfus 's company in Mulhouse ?
text: Did you know that the only female swimmer for Benin at the 2008 Summer Olympics finished 87th out of 90?
text: Did you know that a theoretical problem in the mobility analogy led to the inerter being proposed as a new theoretical element of mechanical networks and later fabricated as a real component in Formula One ?
text: Did you know that the title track from the Dave Brubeck Quartet 's Bossa Nova U.S.A. was the last in the album to be recorded?
text: Did you know that in 2014, Newsweek ranked Briarcliff High School 17th-best in the United States?
text: Did you know that Terry Myerson compared the technological differences between Windows 10 and 7 to the differences between a Tesla and a first-generation Prius ?
text: Did you know that in a 2013 music video, Hasidic Jewish singing star Benny Friedman jumped into a swimming pool fully clothed, joining a three-piece band playing underwater?
text: Did you know that Etal Castle , located near the Anglo-Scottish border , lost its military value after the Union of the Crowns in 1603?
text: Did you know that stele 14, erected by Yo'nal Ahk III , is considered one of the finest examples of niche stelae?
text: Did you know that during the Korean War , No. 391 Squadron RAAF ran a "Transit Hotel" that accommodated business people and entertainers, as well as military personnel?
text: Did you know that Secretary of State-elect of Rhode Island Nellie Gorbea is the first Hispanic to win statewide office in New England ?
text: Did you know that Arvo Pärt began his choral composition Da pacem Domine (Give peace, Lord) two days after the 2004 Madrid train bombings ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Air Force tanker pilots were struck dumb when they radioed in to speak with a United Arab Emirates mission during air refueling and heard a female voice answer?
text: Did you know that Thirty Seconds to Mars retreated to the isolation of rural Wyoming to record their self-titled debut album ?
text: Did you know that Brilliant Chang sold cocaine, heroin, and opium to young women in London, fueling a "white slavery" stereotype?
text: Did you know that Magic Cap 's Telescript programming language included the ability to send bits of its programs to other computers to run remotely in the cloud ?
text: Did you know that Indian actor Akshay Kumar , who began learning martial arts at age nine, hosted a 2004 television mini-series demonstrating seven martial arts styles?
text: Did you know that the Rutgers Scarlet Knights field hockey program has played in four different conferences since 1988?
text: Did you know that parent management training is one of the most effective ways to reduce child behavior problems?
text: Did you know that the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy was West Indies ' first major tournament win since the 1979 Cricket World Cup , defeating England in the final by two wickets ?
text: Did you know that the band Lutefisk was formed to cure the "premature midlife artistic crisis" of its frontman?
text: Did you know that female Parascaris equorum roundworms, an intestinal parasite of horses, can grow to be as long as 15 inches (38 cm)?
text: Did you know that Turkey 's new presidential palace , Ak Saray , contains an office with no electrical outlets to prevent bugging ?
text: Did you know that actress Bianca Kronlöf was a travelling reporter for the Sveriges Radio and TV charity show Musikhjälpen in 2013?
text: Did you know that the tritone heard at the beginning of Jimi Hendrix 's song " Purple Haze " was historically called "Devil in music" and to play it was considered comparable to ringing Satan's doorbell?
text: Did you know that B. R. Vijayalakshmi is Asia's first woman cinematographer?
text: Did you know that Sant Nirankaris were expelled from the Sikh community after the 1978 Sikh-Nirankari clashes , in which 13 Sikhs and 3 Sant Nirankaris were killed?
text: Did you know that Bruckner dedicated Os justi , his motet for eight voices in strict Lydian mode , to the choir master of St. Florian abbey ?
text: Did you know that Wolfhouse Run is named for the lair of a human Wolf?
text: Did you know that the 1857 University Boat Race featured the first keel-less carvel-built boat in the history of the race?
text: Did you know that Gelae baen , Gelae balae , Gelae donut , Gelae fish , and Gelae rol are beetles of the genus Gelae ?
text: Did you know that the 45,000-year-old remains of Ust'-Ishim man are the oldest modern human genome to be fully sequenced to date?
text: Did you know that Bruckner scored his second setting of Christus factus est for eight vocal parts, trombones, and strings, but added, " Besser ohne Violinen " (Better without violins)?
text: Did you know that Peak Walk in the Swiss Alps is the first suspension bridge to connect two mountain peaks?
text: Did you know that the office of University of Missouri Chancellor John W. Schwada was stormed by student protesters in May 1970?
text: Did you know that a coffee extract used in Starbucks ' discontinued Mazagran beverage was later used in the formulation of the company's line of bottled frappuccino beverages?
text: Did you know that in his legal defence of Saddam Hussein , Hussein Mjalli argued that "Iraq, Iraqi people, Iraqi law, and the Iraqi president were hijacked"?
text: Did you know that after R. H. Naylor was credited with predicting the R101 airship crash , he became Britain's first regular astrology columnist?
text: Did you know that the forces of Minye Thihathu II of Toungoo and his ally Raza II of Arakan ended the Toungoo Empire by capturing Pegu (Bago) in 1599?
text: Did you know that Creasy Creek is the only headwater tributary of Nescopeck Creek to have alkaline waters?
text: Did you know that Lou Reed directed a short film ?
text: Did you know that the tail of Maximowicz's vole can be either dark brown or bicoloured?
text: Did you know that Eddie Golden , a third-generation professional wrestler , has teamed with his real-life uncle Jimmy Golden on the independent circuit ?
text: Did you know that Cambridge won the 1839 University Boat Race by 35 lengths, the largest winning margin in the history of the race?
text: Did you know that Maude Delap was the first person to breed jellyfish in captivity?
text: Did you know that Gilindire Cave in southern Turkey is called Aynalıgöl (Mirror Lake) in common parlance, in reference to the lake inside it?
text: Did you know that Selena was inducted into the Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame three months after her death ?
text: Did you know that newly moulted eastern swamp crayfishes move into deeper water, presumably to avoid being cannibalized?
text: Did you know that the title of Annie 's The A&R EP refers to her and producer Richard X ?
text: Did you know that the "War Edition" of the sheet music for " My Belgian Rose " was physically smaller in order to conserve paper for World War I?
text: Did you know that Gertrude Guillaume-Schack founded the German Cultural Association in 1880 to fight state-regulated prostitution?
text: Did you know that a 2003 study reported that 87% of reservoirs supplying water to residential buildings in Kolkata , India, were contaminated ?
text: Did you know that Tim Frazier suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon during his college basketball career, as had his older sister seven years earlier?
text: Did you know that the red-naped snake is a small, venomous snake and is listed as threatened in Victoria?
text: Did you know that one of the arrangements on Glenn Branca 's Lesson No. 1 includes a sledgehammer?
text: Did you know that Jeff Banister overcame bone cancer in high school and paralysis in college to play in Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that Nik Wallenda 's walk across Chicago was telecast with a 10-second delay in case something went wrong?
text: Did you know that the volatile anhydrous compounds titanium nitrate and vanadyl nitrate can add nitro groups to organic compounds?
text: Did you know that Amy Robertson is the only head coach in the 15-year history of the Indiana Hoosiers field hockey program ?
text: Did you know that in the Ganga puja festival, the Tripuri people of India build a temporary bamboo temple in a river stream and pray to be saved from epidemic diseases?
text: Did you know that the 1967 horror film The Blood Demon was advertised in Rhode Island newspapers as Crimson Demon to remove the word "blood" from the title?
text: Did you know that " Cowpuncher's Cantata " was the only record by a British male artist to appear in the first UK Singles Chart ?
text: Did you know that Protonectarina sylveirae can increase the yield of coffee crops?
text: Did you know that three different bridges were built across Logan Run in 1934 and 1935?
text: Did you know that while on the faculty of Arizona State University , Harry K. Newburn served as the acting president of Cleveland State University ?
text: Did you know that following criticism, the UK suicide prevention charity Samaritans discontinued their Twitter -based Samaritans Radar service nine days after launch?
text: Did you know that under Hector Bell , the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board displeased the religious community by introducing Sunday-morning tram services?
text: Did you know that CIA case officer James William Lair recruited Vang Pao , and they founded a covert 30,000-man guerrilla army?
text: Did you know that the wasp Blastophaga psenes has a symbiotic relationship with figs?
text: Did you know that John Lewger , Maryland's first practicing attorney and its first Attorney General , is considered the father of the Maryland Bar?
text: Did you know that although Ran Qiu was severely criticized by Confucius , he is still considered one of the Master's top ten disciples?
text: Did you know that several reviewers consider Master of Puppets the best heavy metal album of all time?
text: Did you know that engineer Benjamin Bevan had a heart attack while watching an eclipse ?
text: Did you know that the $10 banknote of the Canadian Journey Series includes an excerpt from the iconic Remembrance Day war poem " In Flanders Fields "?
text: Did you know that Neil Douglas Findlay was the first British general to be killed during the First World War ?
text: Did you know that George Bacon fought as a Green Beret during the Vietnam War , a CIA paramilitary in the Laotian Civil War , and a mercenary in Angola , all by age 30?
text: Did you know that No. 91 (Composite) Wing was responsible for administering all Royal Australian Air Force units deployed in the Korean War ?
text: Did you know that Major Arthur Moon enlisted four prisoners of war who were artists to create a unique record of camp conditions during construction of the Thailand-Burma Railway , then buried those works?
text: Did you know that in his 1989 book Homecoming , Bob Greene reprinted scores of letters from Vietnam veterans who claimed they were spat upon when they returned from the war zone?
text: Did you know that hundreds of Colorado high school students protested a proposed curriculum change?
text: Did you know that drummer Shannon Leto co-founded Thirty Seconds to Mars in 1998 with his younger brother Jared Leto ?
text: Did you know that no athlete for Cape Verde at the 2008 Summer Olympics progressed beyond the first round, replicating the country's performance at every other Olympic Games?
text: Did you know that Florence Nagle and Norah Wilmot were among the first women licensed as racehorse trainers in Britain, after Nagle won a Court of Appeal ruling in 1966?
text: Did you know that the white-rumped falcon has been known to nest in woodpecker holes?
text: Did you know that former speaker of the House of Representatives of Liberia William Spencer Anderson was originally a barber from Delaware?
text: Did you know that Eddie Einhorn organized the International Wrestling Association in 1975 with the goal of building the first nationwide business promoting wrestling ?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Baguio involved the U.S. 33rd and 37th Infantry Divisions , and the guerrilla organization USAFIP–NL ?
text: Did you know that Dirk Mudge was minister before and after Namibian independence, following the 1978 elections , in the Transitional Government of National Unity , and in Namibia's first National Assembly ?
text: Did you know that although Klingermans Run and the nearby Cranberry Run have similar geology, the former is Class A Wild Trout Waters and the latter is incapable of supporting fish life?
text: Did you know that general Cristóbal de Mondragón was over eighty when he commanded the Spanish troops in the Battle of the Lippe in 1595?
text: Did you know that in Menace from the Moon , a lunar colony‍—‌founded in 1654 by a Dutchman, an Englishman, an Italian, and "their women"‍—‌promises Earth heat-ray doom unless it helps them escape their dying world?
text: Did you know that Titanica was the second feature-length IMAX film released, and included footage of the wreck of the RMS Titanic taken using two Mir submersibles?
text: Did you know that Confucius compared his disciple Zai Yu to rotten wood because he slept during the day?
text: Did you know that large holes on the side of a Cumbrian mountain show where 18th-century mine workings in Greenside Mine have collapsed?
text: Did you know that Matilda Cullen Knowles is considered the founder of modern studies of Irish lichens ?
text: Did you know that with a width of 4.6 feet (1.4 m), Little Tomhicken Creek is the narrowest named stream in the Catawissa Creek watershed?
text: Did you know that physicists Wallace Leland and Harold Agnew put a shark in the bed of Marshall Holloway , director of the Ivy Mike thermonuclear test?
text: Did you know that the development team for Cities: Skylines , which has been called more ambitious than SimCity , consists of only nine people?
text: Did you know that twenty-five years ago tonight, Stasi officer Harald Jäger gave the order to open the gate at his border crossing on the Berlin Wall ?
text: Did you know that Bruckner 's third setting of the gradual Christus factus est , composed 40 years after the first, reaches a dramatic climax and ends pianissimo ?
text: Did you know that Barney Burman , Joel Harlow and Mindy Hall won an Academy Award for makeup in 2009 for Star Trek , the first Oscar in the history of the franchise?
text: Did you know that of the provinces (now abolished) of Madagascar , Fianarantsoa had the highest fertility rate?
text: Did you know that Kim Kyu-jong was disappointed that he didn't look like a woman on the cover of his EP Turn Me On ?
text: Did you know that to further his career, New Zealand architect Reginald Uren worked his passage to England as a greaser on a steamer?
text: Did you know that Welcome to the Jungle contains a cover of a Banks song not officially sanctioned by her?
text: Did you know that "The Flame", the first published short story by Bertie Louis Coombes , concerned a miner in imminent danger of being blown up?
text: Did you know that although the ranges of the Mexican spiny pocket mouse and the painted spiny pocket mouse overlap, the latter tends to be found in moister, lower habitats?
text: Did you know that model and former wife of Yannick Noah Heather Stewart-Whyte appeared on back-to-back September Vogue Paris covers?
text: Did you know that Basement Jaxx feature a twerking robot in their " Never Say Never " music video?
text: Did you know that the discoveries of nobelium and lawrencium were disputed between Soviet and American scientists for decades?
text: Did you know that dragons , octopuses , diver flippers and flowers have been washing up on the beaches of Cornwall after they fell off the Tokio Express in 1997?
text: Did you know that Elsie Dalyell was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire after travelling across Europe with the Royal Army Medical Corps to provide aid during World War I?
text: Did you know that part of Little Pine Creek was designated a public highway in 1837?
text: Did you know that the libretto Adriano in Siria by Metastasio was the basis for more than 60 operas?
text: Did you know that Aaron Guzikowski 's first film, Prisoners , was released almost six years after he completed the script?
text: Did you know that South Africa has a hotline to report illegal parking in bays designated for disabled drivers ?
text: Did you know that Mumba Cave contains a large assemblage of archaeological evidence for the transition between the Middle Stone Age and Late Stone Age in East Africa ?
text: Did you know that Orange Is the New Black character Lorna Morello has been said to have "the most amazing accent on television"?
text: Did you know that Italian artist Trento Longaretti was named after his dead sibling?
text: Did you know that Big Girls Don't Cry is a nonfiction book that argues that "the women's liberation movement found thrilling new life" as a result of the 2008 U.S. presidential election ?
text: Did you know that there are rubber rooms below the launch pads at Kennedy Space Center ?
text: Did you know that Swami Bodhamayananda , director of the Vivekananda Institute of Human Excellence , teaches a "philosophy of strength and fearlessness"?
text: Did you know that Deborah Luster produced more than 25,000 images, many of them using tintype , focusing on crime?
text: Did you know that victory celebrations for the 2004 Subway 500 were canceled due to the Hendrick Motorsports aircraft crash ?
text: Did you know that Winners & Losers producer Maryanne Carroll helped actor Damien Bodie secure the role of Jonathan Kurtiss ?
text: Did you know that it is not known why river chubs have disappeared from Little Catawissa Creek ?
text: Did you know that the Dispatch sternwheeler carried as many as 400 passengers over two hours downriver from Coquille to Bandon, Oregon , to attend baseball games there?
text: Did you know that twin settlements of Mikuszowice and Komorowice were divided by a state border for hundreds of years, but are now unified in one country, separated only by a river ?
text: Did you know that William Gill charted the first entrance to the port of Liverpool that could be navigated in all tides?
text: Did you know that the film St. James Place depicts James B. Donovan 's negotiations for release of American Francis Gary Powers , shot down over the Soviet Union in the 1960 U-2 spyplane incident ?
text: Did you know that Betty May testified under oath that her husband ritually sacrificed a cat and drank its blood?
text: Did you know that Green Bay Packers offensive lineman David Bakhtiari was the first rookie in Packers history to start every game at left tackle in a season since the start of the 16-game season?
text: Did you know that rhapsodomancy was so vague, Virgil wrote against it in The Aeneid ?
text: Did you know that in the Byzantine Empire , the office of orphanotrophos , head of the imperial orphanage, ranked among the higher offices of state?
text: Did you know that Australian physician Claudia Burton Bradley was one of the first diabetics to be treated with insulin ?
text: Did you know that the stream Shingle Run is actually named after sawmills?
text: Did you know that while testifying in a 2004 lawsuit involving the meaning of the word steakburger , a corporate CEO was grilled on the witness stand?
text: Did you know that in 1914, a disgruntled worker killed seven people at Taliesin , Frank Lloyd Wright 's home and studio, and set it on fire?
text: Did you know that Roger Wilbraham probably admired the Venus de' Medici statue in the 1770s?
text: Did you know that the identity of Vernon County Jane Doe has remained a mystery since 1984?
text: Did you know that the 1974 general election was the last to be held in Sikkim as an independent country before its merger with India in 1975?
text: Did you know that London's Henrietta Street once had five pubs , but by 1970 had none?
text: Did you know that Lord Zoltan was one of the first American pro wrestlers to start wearing facepaint ?
text: Did you know that white supremacist Earnest Sevier Cox referred to his long friendship with black separatist Marcus Garvey as "a spiritual understanding"?
text: Did you know that news of the gutting of Albion Mills in 1791 was warmly received by some London rivals?
text: Did you know that The Voice Kids contestant Juan Karlos Labajo was described by his coach as "the funniest kid I have ever met"?
text: Did you know that the Princeton Lectures in Analysis are based on Elias M. Stein 's Princeton lectures in analysis?
text: Did you know that before he was Illinois Secretary of State , George H. Harlow was personal secretary to Governor Richard J. Oglesby ?
text: Did you know that the Crab Tree Club fined anyone who arrived in evening dress one shilling?
text: Did you know that the Sardinian long-eared bat is the only remaining mammal endemic to Sardinia after others, such as Hensel's field mouse , became extinct after the arrival of humans on the island?
text: Did you know that Phuti Mahanyele was chosen as Forbes Woman Africa Business Woman of the Year in 2014?
text: Did you know that Argentine thrash metal band Hermética was part of the 1994 edition of the Monsters of Rock festival in Argentina, alongside Black Sabbath , Slayer , and Kiss ?
text: Did you know that a factory established by Ole Gabriel Kverneland in 1879 became the largest manufacturer of ploughs in Norway in the 1920s?
text: Did you know that the Tijuana Cross-border Terminal will let passengers check in while in the U.S., walk across a bridge over the border , and catch a flight at Tijuana Airport in Mexico?
text: Did you know that Grace Boelke , a physician, was employed by the lingerie manufacturer Berlei to ensure their garments were anatomically correct?
text: Did you know that in the game Saints Row: Gat out of Hell , players progress by increasing Satan's wrath?
text: Did you know that members of the House of Borgia call Pedro de Atarés their ancestor, even though he had no children?
text: Did you know that Anatolian rock lizards on the island of Icaria have bolder, higher-contrast markings than those from elsewhere in its range?
text: Did you know that the Charles Cryer Theatre , opened by Prince Edward in 1991 in Carshalton , was given the name of a man who campaigned for creation of the local Secombe Theatre ?
text: Did you know that Tafelberg School for children with special learning needs is one of over 250 schools in the United Kingdom and South Africa linked for mutual benefit via Afri Twin ?
text: Did you know that "Father of Logology " Dmitri Borgmann earned $10,000 for coining the name Exxon , making him (at $2000 per letter) the world's highest-paid writer?
text: Did you know that two redheaded sisters are behind the How to be a Redhead website and the "Rock it Like a Redhead" beauty and fashion event?
text: Did you know that physician Newton Adams was known as "the teacher with three coats" by the Zulu ?
text: Did you know that firearms laws in the Czech Republic allow people to carry concealed firearms for self defense?
text: Did you know that Cengiz Aktar was part of a campaign calling for an apology from the Turks to Armenians for the Armenian Genocide ?
text: Did you know that the male alligator pipefish keeps developing eggs in a brood pouch on his abdomen?
text: Did you know that Packers Run flows near Devils Feather Bed?
text: Did you know that the Los Angeles Angels , a 1961 Major League Baseball expansion team, played their first season at Wrigley Field ?
text: Did you know that Henry Blundell built two substantial buildings to house his art collection on the grounds of Ince Blundell Hall ?
text: Did you know that although a battle near Mérida in 1546 established Spanish control in the north of the Yucatán Peninsula during the Spanish conquest , the last Maya kingdom in the south did not fall until 1697?
text: Did you know that Murata Jukō created the Japanese tea ceremony ?
text: Did you know that India is raising the Sikkim Scouts to defend its 222 km (138 mi) border with China in Sikkim ?
text: Did you know that frontier west physician William Goforth had quite winning manners and excavated megafauna at Big Bone Lick in Kentucky?
text: Did you know that BlackBerry CEO John Chen joked about the iPhone 6 " bendgate " incident while introducing the Passport ?
text: Did you know that the Rechthuis in the Dutch village of Bellingwolde was used as a courthouse from 1643 to 1811?
text: Did you know that the 2014 romantic comedy film Anjada Gandu represents actor Sathish Neenasam 's first commercial film role as a solo hero?
text: Did you know that Antananarivo Province was excluded from the republic proposed by the other five of Madagascar 's provinces in 2002?
text: Did you know that Barton Currie edited the Country Gentleman and the Ladies' Home Journal , and hired Zane Grey to write for both?
text: Did you know that some kinds of supernova may create zombies in space ?
text: Did you know that the Iowa Hawkeyes field hockey team was the first from a Midwestern university to win the NCAA Championship ?
text: Did you know that Momoko Kuroda is known for her " haiku pilgrimages", some of which spanned decades?
text: Did you know that the Holmes family of the early Colorado HOP Ranch befriended Southern Ute Native Americans, fed them biscuits and lent them field glasses and rifles for hunting expeditions?
text: Did you know that in 1806 Franciscan friar Paškal Jukić was an editor of Il Regio Dalmata – Kraglski Dalmatin , the first Croatian-language newspaper?
text: Did you know that composer Dennis McCarthy called the soundtrack album for Enterprise "the hardest recording session of my entire career" because of the September 11 attacks ?
text: Did you know that when Walter Zinn attempted to demonstrate the safety of the boiling water reactor in the BORAX Experiments , things did not go according to plan?
text: Did you know that in a reign of ten years, Stephen III of Hungary had his throne usurped twice and fought a series of wars with the Byzantine Empire , before dying at the age of 25?
text: Did you know that Fort Nikolaevskaia was the first European settlement on the Alaskan mainland?
text: Did you know that the Arabian partridge sometimes hybridises with Philby's partridge or the rock partridge ?
text: Did you know that Robert "Throb" Young met Primal Scream vocalist Bobby Gillespie at school, and was the band's guitarist for two decades?
text: Did you know that according to the impedance analogy , a spring is analogous to an electrical capacitor ?
text: Did you know that Green Bay Packers rookie defensive lineman Khyri Thornton was so big that he had to cut a slit in his shirt to get it over his head?
text: Did you know that at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Chad had only two athletes competing, both finishing seventh in their heat?
text: Did you know that Bhumibol Adulyadej , the King of Thailand , once stood on his head for Sir Martin Gilliat ?
text: Did you know that the Province of Perugia once supplied almost half of the butcher's meat consumed in the city of Rome?
text: Did you know that Capital Beltway was one of two park and ride stations built specifically for the high-speed Metroliner passenger train?
text: Did you know that in 1130 during the Jin-Song Wars , Wanyan Wuzhu 's troops were trapped at Huangtiandang for 48 days?
text: Did you know that while serving as chair of the US Atomic Energy Commission , Dixy Lee Ray was chauffeured to and from her office along with her Scottish deerhound and miniature poodle ?
text: Did you know that Swiss feminist Meta von Salis was horrified when someone suggested she marry her friend Friedrich Nietzsche ?
text: Did you know that Operation All Clear was the first operation conducted by the Royal Bhutan Army ?
text: Did you know that a law professor and a journalist are among those arrested in the 2014 Malaysian sedition dragnet ?
text: Did you know that baseball player Tony Boeckel was overcome by heat during his Major League debut, and struck in the head with a ball two days later?
text: Did you know that tiella refers to several dishes in Italian cuisine , including one prepared with potato, rice, onion, and mussels?
text: Did you know that Japanese politician Sahashi Shigeru is the hero of three contemporary novels?
text: Did you know that during the Cultural Revolution , the Red Guards reputedly moved out of Chaonei No. 81 , "Beijing's most celebrated haunted house", because they were scared?
text: Did you know that Belinda Nash researched the history of the Witch of Pungo for decades?
text: Did you know that Bacarra Church is known for its "beheaded" belfry?
text: Did you know that the extinct witch-hazel Langeria is named for American philosopher Susanne Langer ?
text: Did you know that Starfucker 's third studio album, Reptilians (2011), includes snippets in which British-American philosopher Alan Watts discusses his beliefs about death?
text: Did you know that Idstein Castle has a witches' tower?
text: Did you know that Operation Momentum 's three-day training program raised a secret guerrilla army of 9,000 in just over six months?
text: Did you know that Iota Sigma Pi 's National Honorary Member award has gone to chemists Marie Curie , Gerty Cori , and Dorothy Hodgkin ?
text: Did you know that Server Sundaram (1964) was the first Tamil film to depict the behind-the-scenes processes involved in film-making?
text: Did you know that extensive remains of the 14th-century Storeton Hall in Merseyside have been incorporated into farm buildings?
text: Did you know that the government-run Milli Bus service in Afghanistan received close to 1,000 buses as foreign aid after many were destroyed during war?
text: Did you know that Jesse K. Dubois complained that Abraham Lincoln "has for 30 years past just used me as a plaything to accomplish his own ends"?
text: Did you know that a tributary of Coles Creek is named after something that resembles a chimneystack ?
text: Did you know that Charles DeWitt Watts , the first African American board-certified surgeon in North Carolina, worked a paper route to help pay for his college education?
text: Did you know that the marsh shrew can run along the surface of the water for up to five seconds?
text: Did you know that Huntington Creek has six direct tributaries that are Class A Wild Trout Waters: Mitchler Run , Shingle Run , Arnold Creek , Lick Branch , Phillips Creek , and part of Kitchen Creek ?
text: Did you know that three artists covered " We'll Never Have to Say Goodbye Again " within two years of its original release?
text: Did you know that MEP Jan Huitema campaigned with a 1954 Fordson Dexta tractor, arguing for "farmers' wisdom"?
text: Did you know that Garratt Road Bridge is the longest extant timber bridge in Western Australia?
text: Did you know that during the Indian National Congress campaign for Indian general election, 2014 , Priyanka Gandhi called Manmohan Singh the "Super PM"?
text: Did you know that World War II veteran Lowell Steward was a childhood friend of Jackie Robinson ?
text: Did you know that because of antisemitism , the Lorelei Fountain , honoring German poet Heinrich Heine , was placed in New York City instead of in Heine's hometown of Düsseldorf ?
text: Did you know that a South Korean organisation named Fighters for a Free North Korea has sent out gas balloons containing materials such as transistor radios, DVDs, and brochures to North Koreans?
text: Did you know that problems with a brutalist gray elephant were "like a five-car accident at an intersection. You just can't tell what caused it"?
text: Did you know that the extinct lacewing Ainigmapsychops takes part of its name from the Greek word for riddle?
text: Did you know that Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly spent over 20,000 hours sitting on flagpoles in the 1920s and 1930s, including hundreds of hours in the rain and subfreezing weather?
text: Did you know that at the Swatantra 2014 conference it was said that over ₹ 8,000 crore (US$950 million) could be saved if free software was used in 320,000 schools across India ?
text: Did you know that the 1978 Tamil film Aval Appadithan included scenes that were shot using live-recording?
text: Did you know that Ukraine 's President Petro Poroshenko and his son Oleksiy were elected to represent the No.12 constituency in the past two elections?
text: Did you know that Brian Vickers won the 2006 UAW-Ford 500 stock car race by inadvertently wrecking his teammate?
text: Did you know that the Sigma I-64 war game held in April 1964 predicted that the U.S. could put 500,000 troops into Vietnam and still lose?
text: Did you know that the Welsh author Arthur Machen used Saint Ilar —whose towns have been renamed and churches conflated with a Frenchman —as an example of the lost traditions of the Celtic Church ?
text: Did you know that the beat for Neon Jungle 's " Braveheart " was found after the group "raided" their producer's laptop?
text: Did you know that Sitriuc mac Ímair was the third son of Ímar to reign as King of Dublin ?
text: Did you know that after the 1983 Popayán earthquake resulted in the deaths of nearly 300 people, the Colombian government passed new legislation relating to construction materials?
text: Did you know that even though it shares the same highway number, Osan-Hwaseong Expressway does not directly connect to its other part ?
text: Did you know that Giles Guthrie , who became chairman and chief executive of the British airline BOAC in 1964, subsequently captained the airline's new Vickers VC10 jet airliner to North America?
text: Did you know that director Corey Allen said that the episode " Captive Pursuit " showed that Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was less "squeaky clean" than Star Trek: The Next Generation ?
text: Did you know that two healthcare centres are named after Yung Fung-shee because she left her estate to the Hong Kong Government ?
text: Did you know that 21st-century economic migration of Poles is comparable in size to the century-old migration of Poles to the United States ?
text: Did you know that the Marriage Charter of Empress Theophanu gave the Byzantine princess Theophanu joint imperial authority with Holy Roman Emperor Otto II ?
text: Did you know that the "delivery station" that would eventually become the Webber Park Library was in a drug store ?
text: Did you know that New York City plans to use its payphone network to provide free WiFi coverage over five boroughs ?
text: Did you know that the fossil maple species Acer kenaicum was suggested to be an ancestor of silver maples?
text: Did you know that the 1979 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game had the highest Nielsen ratings of any U.S. basketball game?
text: Did you know that Little Black Creek is not a perennial stream , but contributes 11.43 cubic feet of water per second to the Jeddo Tunnel ?
text: Did you know that the saint Narahari Sonar calls God his customer?
text: Did you know that Harry S. Dent, Sr. and J. Fred Buzhardt , two of Strom Thurmond 's closest advisors, tried to talk him out of his marriage to former beauty queen Nancy Moore?
text: Did you know that Kylie Minogue was initially contracted to play Charlene Robinson in Neighbours for one week?
text: Did you know that in 2014, the series Zaguri Imperia was the most searched string by Israelis on Google ?
text: Did you know that Shikha Pandey is the first cricketer to have played both state level cricket for Goa and international level cricket for India ?
text: Did you know that the world-renowned Scottish fly tyer Megan Boyd , known for her exquisite and effective salmon flies, was not an angler ?
text: Did you know that although the shooting of the film based on "the worst industrial disaster" was completed in 2009, it was not released until 2014?
text: Did you know that Bruckner's military march may not have been performed by the band for which it was composed, but a march he did not write was performed for his centenary?
text: Did you know that CNN Philippines is set to launch in time for Pope Francis 's visit to the Philippines?
text: Did you know that José Villegas Cordero suffered from depression after his brother fell off a boat and drowned?
text: Did you know that the Ohio State Buckeyes field hockey team has won three Big Ten Conference championships and one conference tournament title?
text: Did you know that with her song " Royals ", Lorde became the youngest artist to chart at No. 1 on the Billboard charts in 26 years?
text: Did you know that Bruckner's elegy Vor Arneths Grab was performed at graveside by men's voices and trombones for the funeral of Michael Arneth, prior of St. Florian Abbey ?
text: Did you know that early in World War II, Winston Churchill took refuge in the Barn ?
text: Did you know that it took the Secret Service four days to realize that bullets had struck the White House on 11 November 2011 ?
text: Did you know that the mites that infect livestock have no eyes?
text: Did you know that the Bloody Sunday massacre of Jews took place two months before the Stanisławów Ghetto was formally set up in December 1941?
text: Did you know that Azhiyatha Kolangal , Balu Mahendra 's directorial debut in Tamil cinema , was partly autobiographical?
text: Did you know that the North Shore Towers , a gated residential community in New York, generates its own electricity?
text: Did you know that fans were invited to take part in the video for Neon Jungle 's new single, " Can't Stop the Love "?
text: Did you know that New York Giants safety Nat Berhe is the first player of Eritrean descent to be drafted into the NFL?
text: Did you know that the Derbendcis Ottoman constabulary units were so poorly motivated that the Ottomans had to hire mercenaries to ensure their loyalty?
text: Did you know that it was theorized that Ukrainian-American rapper Your Old Droog was actually Nas secretly recording under an alias?
text: Did you know that a group of Swedish businessmen spent more than $2.5 million to renovate the Lady Hutton ?
text: Did you know that after its closure, Dr. Holbrook's Military School served as headquarters of a New York Guard regiment protecting the Croton Aqueduct during World War I ?
text: Did you know that the wife of sculptor Jacob Epstein hoped that he would have an affair with his Kashmiri model Sunita Devi or her sister?
text: Did you know that the flag of Christmas Island only became official nearly 16 years after its creation?
text: Did you know that Georges Méliès plays seven different roles in his film Joan of Arc ?
text: Did you know that Jay DeMarcus of Rascal Flats produced the album Christmas with Nashville after making a guest appearance on the Nashville television series the previous season?
text: Did you know that the colorful Pahiyas Festival , held every May 15 in Lucban, Quezon , Philippines, begins with mass and a procession with images of saints taken from the San Luis Obispo de Tolosa Parish Church ?
text: Did you know that Bach's Magnificat in E-flat major, BWV 243a , was performed for his first Christmas as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, but its initial performance may have been earlier in 1723 at a Marian feast there?
text: Did you know that Christmas spiders are so named because they are found during summer ?
text: Did you know that Aubrey Plaza rewrote the majority of her lines when voicing Grumpy Cat in Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever ?
text: Did you know that Tom Odell covered the last song recorded by The Beatles for the John Lewis Christmas advert in 2014?
text: Did you know that Lapis Lacedaemonius , a volcanic rock known today only from a single source, has been used as decoration in places as far apart as London , Venice , and Palermo ?
text: Did you know that " See, Amid the Winter's Snow " calls for the listener to "Sing through all Jerusalem, Christ is born in Bethlehem"?
text: Did you know that Libby Lane is the first woman to be appointed a bishop by the Church of England ?
text: Did you know that the Gloria by Karl Jenkins was premiered in 2010 by The Really Big Chorus ?
text: Did you know that Mischocyttarus mexicanus female wasps may be brood parasites , cannibalizing eggs of a foreign nest and placing an egg of their own in an empty cell?
text: Did you know that Confucius ' disciple Bu Shang played a significant role in the transmission of the I Ching ?
text: Did you know that lens.com lost its trademark for the word LENS in 2012 because the courts decided that a retail website did not meet the definition of "computer software"?
text: Did you know that in 1970 NAACP chairman Stephen Gill Spottswood publicly termed the Nixon administration's social policies "anti-Negro"?
text: Did you know that strain partitioning results in rocks being deformed in different ways when exposed to stress?
text: Did you know that Josef Knubel first climbed the Matterhorn as a fifteen-year-old?
text: Did you know that Jack Hadjinian , the first Armenian American mayor of Montebello, California , is the grandson of an Armenian Genocide survivor?
text: Did you know that the Verlorenvlei redfin , having lost one of its two habitats, now faces threats from agriculture and invasive species?
text: Did you know that the famine of 1460 is known as " Damaji Pant 's famine" in the Deccan region in honour of the saint's generosity in the famine?
text: Did you know that basketball player Bryce Alford joined his father at UCLA after breaking a 50-year-old New Mexico high school single-season scoring record?
text: Did you know that the Fence Cutting Wars caused more than 20 million dollars of damage in Texas by 1883?
text: Did you know that Paradise is due to be demolished?
text: Did you know that OK Go 's one shot video for " I Won't Let You Down " involves the use of the band members and dancers using personal mobility devices to create choreographed routines inspired by Busby Berkeley ?
text: Did you know that the 1996 train collision in Silver Spring, Maryland , led to the creation of the first comprehensive federal rules for passenger car design in the United States?
text: Did you know that St David's Hospital in Carmarthen , Wales, features a 500-seat multicoloured chapel that was entirely funded and built by the patients?
text: Did you know that William W. Cargill founded Cargill , the largest privately-held company in terms of revenue in the US?
text: Did you know that Aquilops ("eagle face") is the most ancient definite neoceratopsian discovered in North America?
text: Did you know that the British botanist Dorothea Pertz also trained as a masseuse?
text: Did you know that Sunil Kumar Verma was co-inventor of Universal primer technology, which allows identification of any unknown biological sample and its assignment to a known species source?
text: Did you know that HMS Alceste was wrecked, then later burned, by Malayan pirates?
text: Did you know that Maryat Lee 's company Eco Theater developed plays from oral histories, using unpaid actors in productions often followed by discussions?
text: Did you know that in the grounds of Poulton Hall , Merseyside , is a former brewhouse with a turret containing a 32-bell carillon ?
text: Did you know that Steely Dan 's " FM " has four key changes in its first eight lines?
text: Did you know that male bryozoans Electra pilosa liberate sperm into the sea and females may actively collect this?
text: Did you know that the British horror novelist Simon Clark wrote a sequel to John Wyndham 's The Day of the Triffids ?
text: Did you know that the Dahlander pole changing motor is a Swedish invention for achieving two speeds in an electric motor?
text: Did you know that the first mention of the name Sarajevo was in a 1507 letter written by Feriz Beg ?
text: Did you know that during the restoration of Cranberry Creek , nearly 7,000 feet (2,100 m) of it was relocated?
text: Did you know that when it opened in 2011, London Fields Brewery was the first commercial brewery to be opened in Hackney since the 19th century?
text: Did you know that Joseph Gillespie jumped out of a window with Abraham Lincoln ?
text: Did you know that Kolejka , a popular Polish educational board game about shortages in the communist shortage economy , has itself been in short supply?
text: Did you know that a New York Times Magazine writer described Ellen Page 's performance in the 2005 film Hard Candy as her artistic breakthrough performance that "almost no one noticed"?
text: Did you know that William of Orange stayed in Gayton Hall, Wirral , in 1690 on his way to Ireland?
text: Did you know that the 2014 Swedish Cabinet crisis led to the planning of the first extra election in Sweden since 1958?
text: Did you know that Richard Dawson was inspired to write The Glass Trunk after performing a database search in Tyne and Wear archives for "death"?
text: Did you know that the owners of the Cereal Killer Cafe came up with the idea for the business after being hung over ?
text: Did you know that Honduran journalist Herlyn Espinal had aspirations of running for mayor of his hometown of Santa Rita, Yoro , before his murder?
text: Did you know that Michael Haydn composed a mass suitable for Lent and Advent, the Missa Tempore Quadragesimae , in D minor for just choir and organ?
text: Did you know that the Bradley–Terry model can be used to predict which team will win a match, which wine is best, or which documents a search engine should display first?
text: Did you know that American rock bands Linkin Park and Thirty Seconds to Mars co-headlined the Carnivores Tour ?
text: Did you know that Brendon McCullum is the only cricketer to score two Twenty20 International centuries ?
text: Did you know that according to legend, Shang Qu predicted the exact time of Confucius ' death?
text: Did you know that the distress calls of long-tailed vole neonates are in the ultrasonic range?
text: Did you know that the Inglehart–Welzel cultural map of the world groups countries into nine cultural clusters?
text: Did you know that Ellie Greenwood beat the record for the 100-mile Western States Endurance Run by 50 minutes?
text: Did you know that thousands of volunteers have corrected millions of lines of digitised Australian newspapers on Trove ?
text: Did you know that the Suquamish Museum houses a 300-year-old canoe that was used by Suquamish tribesmen as recently as 1989?
text: Did you know that there were "countless" debates over the authenticity of Trent from Punchy ?
text: Did you know that Dieterich Buxtehude combined as funeral music for his father the earlier Mit Fried und Freud , composed for Menno Hanneken, and a new lament Klag-Lied ?
text: Did you know that salt surface structures include the extrusive advance structure where salt flows under gravitational pressure?
text: Did you know that Cape Verde's Olympic team at the 2012 London Games included Lidiane Lopes , the nation's youngest-ever competitor at age 17?
text: Did you know that the Benedicite window in Liverpool Cathedral , designed by Carl Edwards , has an area of 1,600 square feet (150 m 2 )?
text: Did you know that the modern city of Tulsa, Oklahoma , was founded in 1836, when the Lochapoka Creeks created the town of talasi at the Creek Council Oak Tree in Indian Territory?
text: Did you know that the popular podcast Judge John Hodgman started as a segment on Jordan, Jesse, Go! ?
text: Did you know that after the 2004 Bass Pro Shops MBNA 500 , the Hendrick Motorsports team wore their caps backwards in victory lane to honor the late Ricky Hendrick ?
text: Did you know that Ros Pesman was the first female Challis Professor of History at the University of Sydney ?
text: Did you know that lilies grow two to three miles below the surface of the North Atlantic?
text: Did you know that the murder of Atcel Olmedo remains unsolved because the suspects have never been located?
text: Did you know that The Honest Company , which was co-founded by Jessica Alba in 2011, is valued at approximately US$1 billion?
text: Did you know that after the death of Benito Mussolini , his body was stolen and was missing for four months?
text: Did you know that, in 2013, Alexander Blackman became the first British serviceman to be convicted of a battlefield murder while serving abroad since the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that Anton Bruckner composed the Mayer Cantata , his first extended composition for large wind ensemble and choir, for the name day of Friedrich Mayer, prior of the St. Florian Abbey ?
text: Did you know that the Indian union territory of Puducherry elected a member of a Puducherry regional party as their representative in parliament for the first time in 2014?
text: Did you know that Božidarka Frajt won the Golden Arena for Best Actress for playing herself in The Living Truth ?
text: Did you know that the Klondike Mountain Formation has fossil hot springs and contains a lagerstätte ?
text: Did you know that the Wapi Project was a victim of its own success?
text: Did you know that Abraham Lincoln encouraged physician Robert Boal to run as Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that the ovi poems sung by women are protest songs that narrate their complaints about hard work, unhappy marriages, and despotic husbands?
text: Did you know that the Sigma II-65 war game was held although four prior Sigma games foresaw that escalating the Vietnam War would lead to more U.S. casualties?
text: Did you know that Martin Luther's hymn " Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin ", a reflection of the canticle of Simeon , is the base of funeral music by Schütz, Buxtehude and Bach?
text: Did you know that in 1887 Peter Daniel Anthonisz became the inaugural president of the Ceylon branch of the British Medical Association ?
text: Did you know that after an expansion of the Glenwood Generating Station was rejected, the Oyster Bay Town Supervisor said the action was justified because consumers were wearing sweaters in their homes?
text: Did you know that the only female MP of the Finnish far-right Patriotic People's Movement , Hilja Riipinen , was also a women's rights and temperance advocate?
text: Did you know that although the Hendrick Martin House , in Red Hook, New York , was built according to German building traditions , it shows later Dutch and English influence?
text: Did you know that Michelle Garvey 's body was identified after an amateur sleuth submitted a suggestion to police thirty-one years after her death?
text: Did you know that the big-headed fly Metanephrocerus belgardeae expanded the known range for the genus to North America?
text: Did you know that Hermann Graf was the first fighter pilot to claim 200 aerial victories?
text: Did you know that future Amtrak President Joseph H. Boardman , while Commissioner of the New York State Department of Transportation , accused the railroad of stealing his Turboliners ?
text: Did you know that for 116 of the 260 lorry models produced by Vanajan Autotehdas , only one or two units were ever produced?
text: Did you know that since the execution of Andries Jan Pieters and a German soldier for war crimes on 21 March 1952, no further executions have taken place in the Netherlands ?
text: Did you know that as early as 1962 the Sigma war games predicted that American intervention in the Vietnam War would be unsuccessful?
text: Did you know that Ashok Kumar was the cinematographer of India's first 3D film , My Dear Kuttichathan ?
text: Did you know that the temporary removal of The Partisans , a Boston sculpture depicting Polish cursed soldiers , triggered protests by the Polish-American community?
text: Did you know that Charles Buckles Falls ' signature – an f within a black, square box – became so well recognized that he was eventually able to drop the f entirely?
text: Did you know that the founder of Forbes called Charles F. Seabrook the " Henry Ford of agriculture"?
text: Did you know that the book The 4 Percent Universe discusses how visible matter makes up only four percent of the matter in the universe ?
text: Did you know that Salvatore Stabile wrote, directed, and produced his first feature film when just 19?
text: Did you know that the book Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America contains a chapter entitled "I've Got Way Bigger Problems Than a Spinach Salad Can Solve"?
text: Did you know that "Mia", a song by Belgian musician Luc De Vos which was voted "best song ever" three years in a row on Studio Brussel , gave its name to the MIAs , the Belgian Music Industry Awards?
text: Did you know that Briarcliff Manor was settled 200 years before it was founded?
text: Did you know that the publisher claimed that demand for Zoe Sugg 's debut novel Girl Online was so high that every bookshop started selling it before its official release date?
text: Did you know that Hans Wallat conducted Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen ninety times?
text: Did you know that the voice actors in Chaar Sahibzaade , the first Punjabi 3D animation film, were kept anonymous?
text: Did you know that the Arthur R. Hoard House‎‎ in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin , was home to state assemblyman Horace B. Willard and two mayors?
text: Did you know that the bee Megachile rubi cuts portions of leaf to shape and size to line each cell it builds?
text: Did you know that Buck Mountain is most likely named after Albert Ansbach?
text: Did you know that Kosuke Kato was the third person to pitch a perfect game in Japanese baseball's Eastern League ?
text: Did you know that Colonia Dignidad tells the story of a German woman's attempts to rescue her husband, who had been kidnapped by General Augusto Pinochet 's DINA ?
text: Did you know that Johan Hjalmar Théel discovered the sea cucumber Elpidia glacialis while on an expedition searching for the Northeast Passage ?
text: Did you know that Project Hotfoot was disguised as a working party of the U.S. National Geodetic Survey ?
text: Did you know that the feast day celebration in honor of Saint Isidore the Laborer involves water buffalo kneeling in front of a church in Pulilan, Bulacan ?
text: Did you know that director Luc Besson 's debut feature film Le Dernier Combat contained only two words of dialogue?
text: Did you know that Jyoti Amge , the world's smallest living woman, made her American TV debut in the American Horror Story : Freak Show episode " Monsters Among Us "?
text: Did you know that in 2000, the Osteopathic Oath was used by every osteopathic medical school in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that after the 1966 Tashkent earthquake destroyed most of the city, Tashkent was rebuilt in a more Soviet style?
text: Did you know that male brown soft scale insects are rarely found?
text: Did you know that Operation Booster Shot parachuted shoes into trackless muddy wilderness?
text: Did you know that 7-foot-6-inch (229 cm) Mamadou N'Diaye is the tallest college basketball player in Division I ?
text: Did you know that the 1995 documentary Father, Son, and Holy War was screened by Doordarshan only after an eleven-year court battle ended with a 2006 order by the Supreme Court of India to screen it?
text: Did you know that in the aftermath of the Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 894–896 the Magyars were forced to migrate westwards in the Pannonian Basin where they established the powerful Kingdom of Hungary ?
text: Did you know that the albums Satellite Kite and Instruments of Mercy earned Beautiful Eulogy a status as one of the most innovative hip-hop acts in Portland, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that Animal Land won Best Children's Manga at the 37th Kodansha Manga Awards ?
text: Did you know that spots on the male warty glowspot cockroach do not glow?
text: Did you know that the stained glass in Liverpool Cathedral includes depictions of Grace Darling , J. S. Bach , and Christopher Columbus ?
text: Did you know that the 1899 work Momijigari was the first film to be designated an Important Cultural Property of Japan?
text: Did you know that Gravel Run was on the border of Catawissa Township for only three years?
text: Did you know that in its six years of existence during and after World War II, Toronto-based Research Enterprises Limited produced C$ 220 million worth of radar systems and optics?
text: Did you know that Israel College of the Bible offers both international and Hebrew Bachelor of Theology degrees?
text: Did you know that Confucius considered Gao Chai unintelligent because he was very short and ugly?
text: Did you know that Mexico never paid China the $ 3 million indemnity it agreed to after the deaths of 300 Chinese immigrants in the 1911 Torreón massacre ?
text: Did you know that the Bhushi Dam was built to supply water to steam engines of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway ?
text: Did you know that Bucko by Erika Moen and Jeff Parker was published as a webcomic before being published as a physical graphic novel ?
text: Did you know that between 1875 and 1899, the architecture firm Habershon and Fawckner designed and laid out Cardiff 's working class suburb of Splott , creating more than 1,700 houses?
text: Did you know that most of the Stony Creek watershed is forested, but nearly a third is barren land?
text: Did you know that in 1809 the French frigate Junon was captured by the British, then recaptured by the French and set on fire?
text: Did you know that the radial velocity of the star Epsilon Coronae Borealis had been observed for seven years before the discovery of its planet was announced?
text: Did you know that the acquisition of Netsmart Technologies resulted in a legal decision that became influential in delineating what management must do when agreeing to a private equity buyout?
text: Did you know that the 2011 film Like Crazy was filmed without a conventional screenplay, with almost all of the dialogue improvised by the actors?
text: Did you know that when Charlie Clausen joined Home and Away as Zac MacGuire , he had to give up recording his podcast TOFOP , as Seven Network deemed it a conflict of interest?
text: Did you know that Greg Chiat founded luxury brand The Elder Statesman after receiving a cashmere blanket as a gift?
text: Did you know that equipment for a 100-man Auto Defense Choc company could be parachuted on 11 pallets ?
text: Did you know that Candidula arganica , a snail found in the north of the Iberian Peninsula , lives primarily in meadows?
text: Did you know that anti-Greek riots occurred in Australia , Canada , and the United States during the early 20th century?
text: Did you know that "Weird Al" Yankovic 's 2014 album Mandatory Fun is his first Billboard 200 number-one hit in his over-thirty-year career?
text: Did you know that riots in response to El drama del 15 de octubre led the Di Domenico brothers to cut the most controversial elements of the film?
text: Did you know that the Church of the Holy Family, Ince Blundell , contains an altarpiece and grisaille paintings by Gebhard Flatz ?
text: Did you know that in 2014, Islamists clashed with security forces in the historic center of Tripoli ?
text: Did you know that discus throw world record breaker Bob Fitch created his own throwing technique and wrote a university thesis on the subject?
text: Did you know that in the event of a severe flood, the gray-tailed vole will abandon its complex network of tunnels and head for high ground?
text: Did you know that Kate Chopin chose to publish " A Pair of Silk Stockings " in Vogue because of its "fearless and truthful" depiction of women and their lives?
text: Did you know that Los Angeles's Bimini Baths were named after the island of Bimini ?
text: Did you know that when Confucius asked his disciples to express their ambitions, Zeng Dian said he only wanted to bathe in the river, relax in the breezes, and sing?
text: Did you know that zoologist E. Newton Harvey had a firefly, a bioluminescent bacterium, and a centipede named after him?
text: Did you know that over half a million glass photographic plates of the night sky are being scanned by the Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard project?
text: Did you know that unlike his father, Ragnall mac Somairle of the twelfth-century Kingdom of the Isles endorsed new religious reforms?
text: Did you know that one scholar suggests Louisa May Alcott wrote the sensationalist novella Behind a Mask to subvert the fantasy of the perfect " little woman "?
text: Did you know that to celebrate the Catholic victory at the Battle of Besançon in 1575, masses were held at St. Stephen's Cathedral and St. Jean's Cathedral ?
text: Did you know that the 200-million-year-old Tachiraptor is a new type of dinosaur discovered in Venezuela?
text: Did you know that the 2013 film Gravity won seven Oscars, more than any other film at the 86th Academy Awards ceremony?
text: Did you know that Nazi-era art dealer Walter Hofer was the main buyer for Hermann Göring 's art collection?
text: Did you know that the online marketplace Silk Road 3.0 appeared only hours after Silk Road 2.0 had been shut down as part of Operation Onymous ?
text: Did you know that the Rupert Covered Bridge No. 56 , built in 1847, is the oldest remaining covered bridge in Columbia County, Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that the British artist Frank Roper built a foundry on the ground floor of his house to create his metal sculptures?
text: Did you know that the bluestripe pygmygoby was named after a ship ?
text: Did you know that the Ohel Moshe Synagogue is now a museum commemorating the Jewish refugees who lived in Shanghai during World War II?
text: Did you know that the husband of Lady Anna Mackenzie ran the castle where she was later imprisoned when her second husband invaded Scotland?
text: Did you know that a titanium in zircon geothermometer estimates the temperature at which zircon crystals have been formed?
text: Did you know that King Nyaungyan of the Toungoo Dynasty , who started the reunification of Burma after the collapse of the Toungoo Empire , is also referred to as the founder of the Restored Toungoo Dynasty ?
text: Did you know that " The Manchester Rambler " was written by folk singer Ewan MacColl after he took part in the mass trespass of Kinder Scout in 1932?
text: Did you know that a rocket may soon attempt to land on an autonomous spaceport drone ship ?
text: Did you know that ornithologist and professor of wildlife management A. William Schorger presented Lawrence College with the skin of the only cougar ever preserved in Wisconsin ?
text: Did you know that libraries in Brighton and Hove include a former pub , a former vicarage , and part of a lido ?
text: Did you know that in Welsh legend, Saint Aelhaiarn was raised from the dead with his eyebrow replaced by an iron pike spike ?
text: Did you know that the pond at Westmoreland Park in Portland, Oregon , was planned to be used as an ice rink during winter?
text: Did you know that James Wood Bush was one of more than 100 Native Hawaiians who fought in the American Civil War while Hawaii was still an independent kingdom ?
text: Did you know that the National Shrine of Saint Jude Thaddeus , patron saint of hopeless cases, has many devotees among students and those reviewing for board examinations in the Philippines?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon II: The Green Legend will be the first feature film to premiere simultaneously in IMAX theaters and on Netflix ?
text: Did you know that a local politician proposed removing a sculpture in Stockholm called After the Bath because one of the people it depicts is Mao Zedong ?
text: Did you know that Cambridge won the 1860 University Boat Race with a time of 26 minutes 5 seconds, the slowest winning time in the history of the race?
text: Did you know that the 30-member Oregon Mandolin Orchestra is modeled on the traditional mandolin orchestras that were popular in the United States during the 19th century ?
text: Did you know that a likelife image embedded in an aquamarine gemstone pendant by artisan jeweller Wallace Chan was inspired by the Horae ?
text: Did you know that venom is thought to have had a single origin in the evolutionary history of snakes?
text: Did you know that Emma Sulkowicz has protested against Columbia University 's handling of her sexual assault case by carrying her mattress around campus?
text: Did you know that Polistes chinensis cannibalize their larvae in prey- and honey-limited conditions?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film Concussion is based on the article "Game Brain" by Jeanne Marie Laskas , a true story about chronic traumatic encephalopathy in NFL players?
text: Did you know that the world's most northerly agriculture is practiced in Svalbard , only 800 miles (1,100 km) from the North Pole ?
text: Did you know that Operation Pincushion training continued despite desertion of half its second class?
text: Did you know that B V Keskar , India's longest-serving Minister for Information and Broadcasting , banned the harmonium , Hindi film music, and cricket commentaries on All India Radio ?
text: Did you know that poet Jackie Hill-Perry has started branching out into hip hop music , releasing her debut album in November 2014?
text: Did you know that on Okinawa, the wasp Polistes japonicus found a new place to overwinter after the arrival on the island of a new banana plantation pest?
text: Did you know that Audrey White was refused a job at the BBC in case her looks "alarmed timid men from Wigan and country districts"?
text: Did you know that the popularity of the 1965 Scandinavian erotic film I, a Woman inspired Andy Warhol to make his experimental film I, a Man ?
text: Did you know that the Requirements Office military supply effort was disguised by the United States Agency for International Development 's refugee relief program?
text: Did you know that Swedish blogger Daniel Paris took the last name Paris as a tribute to the American socialite Paris Hilton ?
text: Did you know that General Dietrich Peltz suggested the idea of " aerial ramming " to halt Allied bombing of Germany ?
text: Did you know that in 2013, the Bharat Ratna – India's highest civilian award – was conferred on Sachin Tendulkar , the youngest recipient and first sportsperson to receive the honour?
text: Did you know that prior to becoming the chief architect of Lyon, Abraham Hirsch designed the Grande synagogue de Lyon ?
text: Did you know that in the 61-year history of Burger King , the company has changed ownership five times and had more than twenty CEOs?
text: Did you know that the National Shrine of Saint Michael and the Archangels is the only church in the Philippines that holds the sacrament of confirmation twice a week?
text: Did you know that the dominant queen in a nest of the wasp Polistes apachus will eat eggs laid by other females?
text: Did you know that when strongly stimulated, the earthworm Diplocardia longa is visible as a dark silhouette against the luminous slime it exudes?
text: Did you know that John A. Kennicott, the founder of Kennicott Grove in Glenview, Illinois , gave free scions of his plants to interested nurserymen?
text: Did you know that a 900-horsepower engine was built in tribute to Randy Dorton ?
text: Did you know that Sister Asuncion Ventura used her inheritance to establish the Asilo de San Vicente de Paul orphanage in Manila ?
text: Did you know that Navalram Pandya penned Bhatnu Bhopalu , the Gujarati play based on Henry Fielding 's The Mock Doctor ?
text: Did you know that the Royal Australian Air Force 's No. 491 Squadron was never based in Australia?
text: Did you know that fashion designer Alain Manoukian sent four airplane loads of relief supplies to earthquake victims in Armenia in 1988?
text: Did you know that an SS Republic passenger described the ship as a "floating palace"?
text: Did you know that while Jesse More Greenman was curator at the Missouri Botanical Garden he increased its plant collection from 600,000 to about 1,500,000 specimens?
text: Did you know that the Anand Patwardhan documentary Jai Bhim Comrade , released in 2011, took 14 years to produce?
text: Did you know that the Fine Arts Center at Arizona State University , designed by Antoine Predock , is named for its fourteenth president, J. Russell Nelson ?
text: Did you know that Hibutsu ("hidden buddhas") are found only in Japan?
text: Did you know that Nikki Lane was inspired to write country music after she broke up with a country musician?
text: Did you know that the National Association of Black and White Men Together is an organization for LGBT people in the U.S. who are interested in multiracial relationships?
text: Did you know that Bagrat II Bagratuni , prince of princes of Arab-ruled Armenia , led a revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate from 849 until his treacherous capture and transfer to Samarra in 851?
text: Did you know that the boobrie in Scottish folklore is said to prey on animals being transported on ships, preferably calves, but will also eat lambs and sheep?
text: Did you know that Lionel Hamilton 's 1951 production of The Romantic Young Lady at the Kettering Savoy starred Peter Bell and Ronald Radd ?
text: Did you know that in the cuisine of Corsica , chestnut is so important that it was an ingredient in 22 courses of a typical 19th-century wedding lunch?
text: Did you know that the Lyceum and Lawn Tennis Club established Cuba's first free public library?
text: Did you know that Last.fm users selected a single from Lucky Soul 's debut album The Great Unwanted for a "Christmas Chart Attack"?
text: Did you know that in 1942, a drunken pilot crashed his plane at Herdla Airport in occupied Norway , burning down the operations center?
text: Did you know that a female Neotropical wasp Parachartergus colobopterus can only become a queen if the workers don't suppress her?
text: Did you know that the Chicago Fire of 1874 led to the reorganizing of the city's fire department along military lines?
text: Did you know that test screening participants for the film The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc asked, "Why does she have to die at the end?"
text: Did you know that Charlotte Brontë 's nom de plume for Jane Eyre uses the name of the " head of all female book collectors in Europe "?
text: Did you know that plaquettes differ from medals in being decorated only on one face?
text: Did you know that the current Indonesian cabinet is the first to include a female foreign minister?
text: Did you know that Cadwallon ap Gruffydd , son of the king of Gwynedd , was willing to murder three of his mother 's brothers to gain power, but was himself later killed by another brother of hers?
text: Did you know that South Africa won the nine-nation ICC KnockOut Trophy in 1998, defeating West Indies by four wickets in the final ?
text: Did you know that the Sigma Coronae Borealis star system is composed of three sun-like stars and two red dwarfs ?
text: Did you know that the opening track from Le Tigre 's debut album Le Tigre modifies the titular question from " Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp) "?
text: Did you know that the Fort of Justices was built as a reaction to a possible German invasion, resulting in the simplicity of the buildings?
text: Did you know that in his autobiography With the Century , North Korean dictator Kim Il-sung stated that his motto is "The people are my God"?
text: Did you know that Christine's margareta rat was named after a member of the expedition that discovered it in 2011?
text: Did you know that television critic Marvin Kitman co-authored a book with George Washington ?
text: Did you know that racing driver Anthony Kumpen , winner of the 2014 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series season , works for a bicycle maker ?
text: Did you know that the Barrington Civic Center Historic District includes Barrington Town Hall, which incorporates a stone said to be hewn from Plymouth Rock ?
text: Did you know that Herbartianism was greatly influential in the development of the science of education in the 19th century?
text: Did you know that a male Mischocyttarus flavitarsis marks its mating perch by secreting a substance from a gland in its abdomen?
text: Did you know that the atmospheric lighting and sets used in BBC's 1979 ghost story Schalcken the Painter were based on paintings by Vermeer ?
text: Did you know that the London Evening Standard asked whether Richard Banks , the Chief Executive of the UK's "bad bank", was "Britain's best banker"?
text: Did you know that La tragedia del silencio was the first Colombian silent film to have a score ?
text: Did you know that according to one source, John Komnenos was offered the crown of the Byzantine Empire after the abdication of his brother, Isaac I Komnenos , but refused?
text: Did you know that the plots for the upcoming adventure series Pig Goat Banana Cricket are interwoven?
text: Did you know that a cafe in Manor Park, Sutton , is London's first energy-efficient building to use straw-bale construction ?
text: Did you know that The Rapture 's dance-punk song " House of Jealous Lovers " was an influence on Justin Timberlake 's " SexyBack "?
text: Did you know that Mill Creek is named after a mill?
text: Did you know that none of the artist Kate Lechmere 's paintings have survived?
text: Did you know that during the recording sessions of From Elvis in Memphis , producer Chips Moman refreshed Elvis Presley 's sound by incorporating Memphis soul ?
text: Did you know that the sting of Synoeca surinama wasps is used in defense and contains the neurotransmitter serotonin to induce vasoconstriction and pain?
text: Did you know that Núria Albó , author and mayor of La Garriga , is a Creu de Sant Jordi laureate?
text: Did you know that Ben Jones called Stone Quackers a "more pure, raw, uncut expression of the same artistic impulse" that manifested the character of Alfe in his other series, The Problem Solverz ?
text: Did you know that the Hindu saint Sena Nhavi says that barbers show the "mirror of discrimination" and cut the "hair of egotism" and the "nails of passion"?
text: Did you know that two future Admirals of the Royal Navy began their careers aboard HMS Aldborough , a sixth-rate coastal survey vessel?
text: Did you know that the Communist Party of China calculated that 1.6 billion big-character posters were made to denounce Pan Fusheng and his "anti-party clique"?
text: Did you know that the area most affected by the 1872 North Cascades earthquake was largely unpopulated, resulting in limited damage?
text: Did you know that James B. Weaver ran for President of the United States as a Greenbacker in 1880 and as a Populist in 1892 ?
text: Did you know that The Verge wrote that Google Inbox "feels a lot like the future of email "?
text: Did you know that in the Balinese dance kebyar duduk , androgynously made-up men spin in circles while seated or half-seated?
text: Did you know that the Czech language contains a sound, ř (example: "řeka" (river) ⓘ ), that does not occur in any other known language?
text: Did you know that Smithsonian anthropologist Bruce D. Smith started his study of the origin of agriculture in Eastern North America with a cigar box full of seeds?
text: Did you know that the song " Do or Die " by American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars features the contribution of the band's fans?
text: Did you know that the Baiounitai were one of the Slavic tribes that established a military alliance led by Chatzon and besieged the Byzantine city of Thessaloniki in the mid-610s?
text: Did you know that Liostenogaster vechti wasps defend their nests from large ants by grasping the ants and then dropping from the edge of the nest to remove them?
text: Did you know that the comedian anchor of the Emmy-nominated Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola is considered "the reluctant voice of a cynical generation"?
text: Did you know that although it outnumbered its attackers at the Battle of Nam Bac , the Royal Lao Army was routed by the People's Army of Vietnam ?
text: Did you know that Cologne -born character actor Erwin Hiller, portraying the Frenchman Marcel Hillaire , toured U.S. college campuses with a one-man stage show celebrating French literature ?
text: Did you know that the Northern Ice Field on Mount Kilimanjaro is the largest glacial remnant on the mountain with an area of 0.95 km 2 (0.4 sq mi)?
text: Did you know that the Pettakere cave in Indonesia has hand print paintings estimated to be between 35,000 and 40,000 years old?
text: Did you know that Fu Buqi was one of only two disciples that Confucius praised as a junzi in the Analects ?
text: Did you know that nasal dwarfgobies live for only three months?
text: Did you know that illiterate Operation Hardnose spies used modified survival radios to count and report traffic on the Ho Chi Minh Trail ?
text: Did you know that 16th-century Spanish friar Domingo de Vico was sacrificed after scolding an Acala Ch'ol ruler over how many wives he had?
text: Did you know that the Varagavank monastery was the site of Armenian resistance to Turkish government forces during the Armenian Genocide ?
text: Did you know that the fossil big-headed fly Priabona is named for the age of the rocks in which it was found?
text: Did you know that the Loon Church , built between 1855 and 1864, was reduced to rubble when a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Bohol in 2013 ?
text: Did you know that the Chinese land slug Rathouisia leonina is carnivorous?
text: Did you know that Diego Costa scored a record seven goals in his first four Premier League matches?
text: Did you know that when Polybia sericea catches an insect, it drags its prey onto a twig or piece of grass to prevent it from being stolen by ants?
text: Did you know that Bárid , King of Dublin , was made lame in 877 during a battle at Strangford Lough ?
text: Did you know that among fossils found at Koonwarra, Victoria are those of horseshoe crabs , ginkgo and gnetophytes ?
text: Did you know that Duanmu Ci was said to have ridden a quadriga to visit Yuan Xian 's tiny hut?
text: Did you know that Namacpacan Church is built with buttresses and thick walls in order to withstand earthquakes?