Did you know? Facts from Wikipedia, 2017

text: Did you know that Jean Davies , then a junior officer in the Women's Royal Naval Service , attended Winston Churchill's 69th birthday party along with President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet Marshal Josef Stalin?
text: Did you know that Max Reger composed his first cello sonata as a student and had it published in London?
text: Did you know that during the 1873 mutiny of the Royal Guards of Hawaii , the Hungarian drillmaster Captain Joseph Jajczay and the adjutant general Charles Hastings Judd were attacked?
text: Did you know that both Madame de Pompadour and Coco Chanel loved Coromandel lacquer ?
text: Did you know that Al-Jahith's Treasury , an Amman bookstore chain, may have been named for theologian al-Jahiz , who was supposedly crushed by a stack of books?
text: Did you know that Maryland state legislator William Daniel was a Whig , a Know Nothing , and a Republican before finally joining the Prohibition Party in 1884?
text: Did you know that Francis Poulenc placed an ode to liberty at the end of his Figure humaine , a cantata for a twelve-part choir, composed in occupied France and premiered by the BBC ?
text: Did you know that Dwain Worrell's debut screenplay The Wall is also Amazon Studios' first original spec script ?
text: Did you know that after the Bugis prince Arung Palakka supported the Dutch East India Company in the Makassar War , he became the most powerful man in South Sulawesi ?
text: Did you know that in 2015, the Irish Guards GAA became the first British Army Gaelic games club to join the Gaelic Athletic Association?
text: Did you know that the Contingency Fund for Foreign Intercourse , a U.S. government program established in 1790 to finance foreign covert operations, had by 1793 grown to consume 12 percent of the government's budget?
text: Did you know that in 2015, Alison Hughes was part of the first all-female officiating team in a Fed Cup final?
text: Did you know that Emany Mata Likambe , Zaire's former ambassador to Poland, was discovered homeless and living on the streets of Warsaw in 1994 after his government had failed to pay him for over two years?
text: Did you know that as CEO of Intel Israel, Maxine Fassberg encouraged women, Arabs, Druze , and Haredi Jews to enter the high-tech sector?
text: Did you know that the Nanjing Metro system in Nanjing, China, has a total of 139 stations , with transfer stations counted once for every line they serve?
text: Did you know that during the 1952 steel strike , Clarence B. Randall criticized President Harry S. Truman for what he considered "shocking distortions of fact"?
text: Did you know that Chloë Sevigny portrays the accused ax-murderer Lizzie Borden in the upcoming film Lizzie ?
text: Did you know that Mount Berlin , a volcano in Antarctica, has had large Plinian eruptions in the past and is still fumarolically active through towers of ice?
text: Did you know that King Razadarit 's decision to keep the one-time flower seller Piya Yaza Dewi as his chief queen consort led to the suicide of his first wife, Queen Talamidaw ?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Plankinton , known as the "municipal patroness" for her philanthropy, gifted a 9-foot (2.7 m) high bronze George Washington sculpture to the citizens of Milwaukee?
text: Did you know that in November 2016 Peter Reulein conducted the premiere of his oratorio Laudato si' , described as a Franciscan Magnificat , with more than 250 performers at the Limburg Cathedral ?
text: Did you know that the Hongwu Emperor copied the text of Zhen Dexiu 's work The Expanded Meaning of the Great Learning onto the walls of his palace?
text: Did you know that the Clemson Tigers defeated the Alabama Crimson Tide in the 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship on a game-winning touchdown with one second left?
text: Did you know that the Indian Government Mint in Hyderabad was established in 1803 by the Nizam of Hyderabad , Asaf Jah III , and was taken over by the Government of India in 1950?
text: Did you know that Sheikh Morteza Ansari 's Makasib , authored more than 150 years ago, is still taught in Shia seminaries?
text: Did you know that according to family tradition, George Charles Beckley designed the Flag of Hawaii , which was passed down as an heirloom in the form of a child's frock?
text: Did you know that before starting her pioneering genetic studies of complex human diseases such as atherosclerosis , Nobuyo Maeda researched sea snake venoms ?
text: Did you know that Fei Xiaotong 's book From the Soil was banned in China for being "rightist", and in Taiwan for the author's perceived support for Communism?
text: Did you know that pacer Always B Miki set a world record of 1 minute 46 seconds, the fastest mile in Standardbred history?
text: Did you know that an environmental assessment for the future Grimsby train station included review of an 1876 historical atlas of Ontario, Canada, to find features of historic value?
text: Did you know that when Sarah Bavly arrived in Jerusalem to open a nutrition department in a new health center, she was forced to hide in the building for a week due to the outbreak of the 1929 Palestine riots ?
text: Did you know that a politician implicated in Italy's largest corruption scandal was permitted to claim his time in the parliament constituted his community service?
text: Did you know that Pulitzer Prize -winning sportswriter Arthur Daley wrote more than 10,000 columns for The New York Times ?
text: Did you know that a tick finds a potential host by detecting its breath and body odors, or by sensing its vibrations or changes in temperature?
text: Did you know that Heinrich Parler and his son Peter Parler were among the most influential Gothic architects of the Middle Ages?
text: Did you know that LifeRing Secular Recovery provides support and assistance to people trying to beat alcohol and drug addiction without religion?
text: Did you know that on May 24, 1985, over 100 villagers in Oliveto Citra claimed to have seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary ?
text: Did you know that to prepare for his role as surgeon Raf di Lucca in Holby City , actor Joe McFadden watched open-heart surgery?
text: Did you know that German architect August Soller died during construction of his greatest work , and was buried there before it was finished?
text: Did you know that Catananche lutea produces five types of seed that correspond to a range of different survival and dispersal strategies?
text: Did you know that William Hoapili Kaʻauwai traveled to Europe with Queen Emma , but made an unauthorized side trip to New Zealand to recruit Māori immigrants for the Kingdom of Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that Bach composed five organ settings of the hymn " Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend ", which was translated by Catherine Winkworth for communion as "Lord Jesus Christ, be present now!"?
text: Did you know that Carolyn B. Shelton became the first female governor in the United States when she spent a weekend as acting governor of Oregon in 1909?
text: Did you know that the Elsevier publication Explore: The Journal of Science & Healing has been described as a "sham masquerading as a real scientific journal" that publishes "truly ridiculous studies"?
text: Did you know that the part- Hawaiian Carlos A. Long was unanimously elected captain of the 1899 Georgetown Hoyas football team at Georgetown University ?
text: Did you know that Gufran-Ullah Beig is the first Indian scientist to receive the Norbert Gerbier-Mumm International Award of the World Meteorological Organization ?
text: Did you know that Francis Poulenc composed the four motets Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence at different times, three of them on responsories for the Holy Week ?
text: Did you know that when the theologian Patrick Dehm was suspended by the Bishop of Limburg , he founded an ecumenical association to continue the work for contemporary church music?
text: Did you know that there are eight churches on Antarctica ?
text: Did you know that Lvinaya Past was the site of the largest Holocene volcanic eruption in the Southern Kurils ?
text: Did you know that Sheikh Morteza Ansari 's Makasib , authored more than 150 years ago, is still taught in Shia seminaries?
text: Did you know that the first adult female Pterinoxylus spinulosus was described in 1957, some fifty years after the first male?
text: Did you know that zoological gardens were added to Sudhir Chandra Das 's ministerial portfolio in 1971?
text: Did you know that the Mexican Southern Railroad was originally run by executives from the United States, including former President Ulysses S. Grant ?
text: Did you know that Turkish novelist and journalist Suat Derviş was the granddaughter of a slave?
text: Did you know that George W. Macfarlane and Robert Hoapili Baker accompanied Hawaiian King Kalākaua on his final trip to California where the king died in 1891?
text: Did you know that during the bombing of Nagaoka in World War II, 80% of the urban area of the city burned down?
text: Did you know that the 501(h) election allows many U.S. non-profit organizations to engage in unlimited lobbying as long as they do it cheaply?
text: Did you know that Bill Roe made the highest score in cricket at the time when he scored 415 runs during an inter-college match at Cambridge University ?
text: Did you know that the fossil leaves of the maple species Acer whitebirdense had earlier been misattributed to the genera Viburnum , Platanus , and Rubus ?
text: Did you know that Giovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca wrote the libretto for Solimano , first set by Hasse and produced in Dresden with live elephants and camels?
text: Did you know that Herschel K. Mitchell , Roger J. Williams , and Esmond E. Snell isolated folic acid from four tons of processed spinach?
text: Did you know that the science fiction novella Paradises Lost was adapted as an opera?
text: Did you know that a Chinese acting troupe was flogged for slander in the 13th century after they portrayed the scholar Wei Liaoweng as a drunkard?
text: Did you know that writer Ed Brubaker created the murdering vigilante in his comic book Kill or Be Killed because recent news events made him feel there was no justice?
text: Did you know that the historian who researched early Canadian baseball figure William Shuttleworth believed that "at first people thought I made him up"?
text: Did you know that the Mazu Temple in Lugang , Taiwan, includes wood carvings of the "Four Best Things in Life": stretching, ear-cleaning, nose-picking, and scratching?
text: Did you know that in Mongolia, the Tolai hare is hunted for use in traditional medicine?
text: Did you know that EJay Day , the first finalist ever eliminated from American Idol , also placed in the top 20 on Popstars: USA ?
text: Did you know that large concave cavetto mouldings feature strongly as cornices in Ancient Egyptian architecture?
text: Did you know that the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission selected Listening for Coyote by William L. Sullivan as one of the 100 most significant books in Oregon history?
text: Did you know that for security purposes, Gaelic games club PSNI GAA players do not have their names published?
text: Did you know that although the medieval Lord High Treasurer John Crakehall was a clergyman sworn to celibacy, he had a daughter to whom he left part of his estate?
text: Did you know that Alice Brown , a professor of politics who advised the new Scottish Parliament on governance, went on to become the first Scottish Public Services Ombudsman ?
text: Did you know that the montane wood mouse is widespread and common in tropical Central Africa, but the closely related Mount Oku hylomyscus is found on a single mountainside and is critically endangered?
text: Did you know that the painter Caspar Isenmann left a detailed contract signed on 21 June 1462?
text: Did you know that India's Sangeet Natak Akademi fellowship for the performing arts is usually not conferred on anyone under the age of 50?
text: Did you know that Tukwila International Boulevard station near Seattle's international airport features an angular roof shaped like the wings of an airplane?
text: Did you know that Randy Edsall , UConn football 's all-time leader in games coached and wins as a head coach , was re-hired for 2017 after an absence of six seasons?
text: Did you know that scholars have been puzzled by a motif in Chinese Swatow ware , where a pagoda is split "almost like a volcanic eruption"?
text: Did you know that Lady Canning , India's first vicereine , has been described as one of the country's most memorable women botanical illustrators?
text: Did you know that during 1968 revisions to the United States Army Field Manuals , there was an attempt to eliminate the use of bayonets for crowd control ?
text: Did you know that Spanish association footballer Xiker joined Athletic Bilbao 's academy when he was just ten years old?
text: Did you know that in 1968, Indian philosopher and statesman Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was the first recipient of the Sahitya Akademi fellowship ?
text: Did you know that the walls of the Woodhaven Boulevard subway station in New York City still prominently display the name of a plaza that was demolished in the 1950s?
text: Did you know that Franklin Seaver Pratt was removed from his post as diplomatic agent for defending the claim of his royal wife Elizabeth Kekaʻaniau Laʻanui to the Crown Lands of Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that in 1603, more than 1,000 rōnins rebelled at Rokugō in a "final suicidal gesture" for their former lord, Onodera Yoshimichi ?
text: Did you know that the British neuroscientist John Hughes shared the 1978 Lasker Award for co-discovering opioid peptides in the brain?
text: Did you know that in The Field of Fight , new US National Security Advisor Michael T. Flynn argues that Bolivia, China, Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela are allied with Al-Qaeda and ISIS ?
text: Did you know that in 1088 the Anglo-Norman nobleman Robert Pantulf was accused of stealing 6 pounds (2.7 kg) of silver from the nuns of Holy Trinity Abbey, Caen ?
text: Did you know that the Swedish release of M2M 's debut album Shades of Purple was delayed by a legal dispute with another band named M2M?
text: Did you know that the Church of England Marriage Measure 2008 gave couples the legal right to get married in any parish where their parents or grandparents were married, but not in any cathedral ?
text: Did you know that the Philadelphia Phillies had four players record a batting average over .400 during the 1894 season?
text: Did you know that at the end of the Trunajaya rebellion , King Amangkurat II stabbed the defeated rebel leader Trunajaya to death?
text: Did you know that Edward C. Macfarlane worked for The Wasp and later married its owner's sister?
text: Did you know that sea slug Chelidonura fulvipunctata is likely an anti-Lessepsian migrant ?
text: Did you know that " When This Cruel War Is Over " was one of the most popular sentimental ballads of the American Civil War , sung by both Union and Confederate troops?
text: Did you know that monasteries and public buildings are illuminated during the Galdan Namchot festival marking the beginning of new year celebrations in Ladakh , India?
text: Did you know that for Givat Brenner 's 25th anniversary, kibbutz theatre director Shulamit Bat-Dori staged an open-air play with a cast and crew of 1,000, before an audience of 10,000?
text: Did you know that business historian Robert Sobel has described the New York Gold Exchange as "the most informal and certainly the wildest market in American history"?
text: Did you know that a study by child psychiatrist Stella Chess and her husband, Alexander Thomas, found that children could be divided into three different categories: "easy", "difficult", and "slow to warm up"?
text: Did you know that Girls' Generation was among the five South Korean acts that best represent K-pop during the past two decades, according to a 2015 poll by Korea Creative Content Agency?
text: Did you know that the lemon-bellied flyrobin occasionally catches and eats insects that are one-sixth of its length?
text: Did you know that Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong divulged the Communist party's previously unknown history to American journalist Helen Foster Snow in 1937 for widespread publication?
text: Did you know that Sir William Napier wrote part of his History of the Peninsular War sitting at a stone table in the grounds of Freshford Manor ?
text: Did you know that Caspar Ziegler , who wrote a hymn on which Bach based a Christmas cantata , was professor of law and Rektor of the University of Wittenberg ?
text: Did you know that " Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) " helped popularize Indian instrumentation in rock music?
text: Did you know that Clarence W. Macfarlane initiated the Transpacific Yacht Race in 1906, sailing from Honolulu to the California coast around the time of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake ?
text: Did you know that Derry City Ladies F.C. play football in the Northern Irish leagues while their men's team play in the Republic of Ireland's?
text: Did you know that in 2015, Alison Hughes was part of the first ever all-female officiating team in a Fed Cup final?
text: Did you know that the South Korea Improper Solicitation and Graft Act counts private teachers and journalists among the ranks of public officials?
text: Did you know that Chinese-Hawaiian lawyer and politician Joseph Apukai Akina became the first Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Territory of Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that the buffy pipit is often confused with the plain-backed pipit because both birds have plain upperparts?
text: Did you know that the 14th-century Moroccan scholar Ibn Marzuq wrote a hagiography of the Marinid sultan Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman ?
text: Did you know that David distributed raisin cake ?
text: Did you know that the British scientist John Challens received the American Medal of Freedom for his work on the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket ?
text: Did you know that "Im April" from Max Reger 's Sechs Lieder , Op. 4 , has been called "one of Reger's sunniest songs"?
text: Did you know that George Panila Kamauoha served in the legislatures of three Hawaiian regimes?
text: Did you know that Pinchinthorpe railway station closed 13 years before the rest of the Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway fell victim to the Beeching Axe ?
text: Did you know that acorns of the fossil oak Quercus hiholensis have possible insect damage preserved in them?
text: Did you know that after Agnes Fay Morgan conducted a nutritional study with foxes, she presented her data wearing a stole made from the fur of her subjects?
text: Did you know that up to 50% of a U.S. Federal Protective Forces detachment could be killed while defending a U.S. Department of Energy facility?
text: Did you know that the British member of parliament Jacob Rees-Mogg lives at Gournay Court where his great aunt had been a nurse during World War I?
text: Did you know that Workers Party of India leader Jyotibhushan Bhattacharya was jailed during the Sino-Indian War of 1962?
text: Did you know that as its natural habitat is converted to cropland, Goldman's pocket mouse is threatened by the increased use of rodenticides ?
text: Did you know that the 100th Brigade of the United Kingdom attacked High Wood during the Battle of the Somme ?
text: Did you know that the New Zealand eagle ray can detect prey completely submerged in sand and create a jet of water to expose it?
text: Did you know that quarterback Sam Darnold 's high school footage submitted to college football coaches consisted of his basketball highlights?
text: Did you know that Radio Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero has broadcast since 1982 but has never been recognized at the federal level?
text: Did you know that Kamran Aziz is the first Turkish Cypriot female composer, as well as one of the first Turkish Cypriot female pharmacists?
text: Did you know that a recent United States Supreme Court case began when insurance adjusters claimed they were instructed to falsely categorize damages after Hurricane Katrina ?
text: Did you know that in 1999, Rajeev Nayyar set the record for the longest first-class cricket innings, batting for almost 17 hours?
text: Did you know that Giant Days was published by BOOM! Box after writer John Allison saved a BOOM! editor from falling?
text: Did you know that David William Pua submitted petitions from the people of the Kingdom of Hawaii asking for the abrogation of the Bayonet Constitution , which had allowed him to be elected to the House of Nobles?
text: Did you know that the broad-tailed paradise whydah parasitises the orange-winged pytilia and mimics its call?
text: Did you know that John Dwyer chaired a government "Quackwatch Committee" whose objective was to tighten controls on wonder drugs and miracle cures?
text: Did you know that a large lake once occupied the Central Valley of California ?
text: Did you know that the OVC project supports the education of disadvantaged young people in Adigrat , Ethiopia?
text: Did you know that an Argentine politician was detained while allegedly trying to hide currency worth around US$7 million inside a convent?
text: Did you know that Augustus Constantine Sinclair conceived the idea for the Jamaica International Exhibition of 1891 but died on the day it opened?
text: Did you know that the classical pianist Yara Bernette was praised for her interpretation of Variations on a Theme from the Northeast of Brazil by the composer, Camargo Guarnieri ?
text: Did you know that detrital zircon geochronology uses zirconium silicate to determine the age of sedimentary rock?
text: Did you know that Akakio Tematereikura succeeded as regent of Mangareva after Queen Dowager Maria Eutokia Toaputeitou retired to the Rouru Convent on Mount Duff?
text: Did you know that Mercedes-Benz intends to release ten models in the EQ family of battery electric vehicles by 2025?
text: Did you know that Kjell Eriksson stated he was terrified to answer his telephone for fear that singer Carola would yell at him after an incident at Melodifestivalen 2008 ?
text: Did you know that Kim Seong-il believed the Japanese invasions of Korea would not take place?
text: Did you know that America's 60 Families was said to be comparable to Karl Marx 's Capital ?
text: Did you know that the Salīhids , an Arab Christian tribe, preceded the Ghassanids as the main Arab federates of the Byzantine Empire?
text: Did you know that test pilot Major General Clarence A. Shoop was court-martialed as a cadet?
text: Did you know that " The Student ", one of Anton Chekhov 's shortest stories, was also his favorite?
text: Did you know that Samuel K. Pua , assistant editor of an anti-annexationist Hawaiian newspaper, was severely injured when a goat attacked him at Waikiki ?
text: Did you know that Gwen Stefani 's unreleased song " Start a War " was compared to Sia Furler 's solo work?
text: Did you know that there were two special elections for Manila's first district seat to the Philippine Assembly in 1908?
text: Did you know that Germany's Klein Heidelberg used Great Britain's own Chain Home radar transmitters as the source for their passive radar?
text: Did you know that Australian cricketer Ian Moran took unpaid leave from his teaching job to play in the 2012 Champions League Twenty20 ?
text: Did you know that the name of the musical unit Myth & Roid comes from words representing the past and the future?
text: Did you know that on January 13, 1893, Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii appointed four new cabinet ministers – Samuel Parker , William Cornwell , John Colburn , and Arthur Peterson – whose opposition to a new constitution led to her overthrow on January 17?
text: Did you know that in a 1955 protest, nearly 1000 protesters from the Lok Sewak Sangh marched more than 300 mi (480 km) over 16 days to demand the incorporation of Bengali-speaking areas of Bihar into West Bengal ?
text: Did you know that Jesé won the Golden Boot Award at the 2012 UEFA European Under-19 Championship ?
text: Did you know that the Crocker Fan in Borneo has the largest volume of any Paleogene deep marine sediment in a single basin in southeast Asia?
text: Did you know that after Karl G. Maeser tutored Brigham Young 's 56 children, he went on to help found Brigham Young University?
text: Did you know that The Red Shoes dance in part to the strains of Citizen Kane ?
text: Did you know that Guendolen Plestcheeff was known as " Seattle 's Grand, Grand Lady" and "the most elegant woman in Seattle"?
text: Did you know that Alibabavum 40 Thirudargalum (1956) was the first full-length colour film in Tamil cinema ?
text: Did you know that M2M appeared on an episode of Dawson's Creek to promote their album The Big Room ?
text: Did you know that Ernest Ambler , a British-born, Oxford-educated physicist, became the director of the National Bureau of Standards in the United States?
text: Did you know that the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the 2016 Al-Karak attack against the "apostate Jordanian security forces"?
text: Did you know that J. J. Abrams consulted Pablo Hidalgo up to three times a day while filming Star Wars: The Force Awakens ?
text: Did you know that during World War I, HMS Negro sank after two depth charges from HMS Hoste tore open its hull?
text: Did you know that Mildred Albert , nicknamed the "Mighty Atom", produced thousands of fashion shows during her career?
text: Did you know that the Rifa-e-Aam Club in Lucknow was open to everybody at a time when British clubs excluded Indians?
text: Did you know that David Kahalekula Kaʻauwai , his father and brother served in the Kingdom of Hawaii legislature , while his niece became a princess?
text: Did you know that following the success of the album Barney Bentall and the Legendary Hearts , the eponymous Canadian band received the 1989 Juno Award for Most Promising Group of the Year?
text: Did you know that BuzzFeed described Pat Loika as "the closest thing comics has to an Oprah "?
text: Did you know that Nkosi's Haven is a South African care centre created to address HIV-related discrimination, including the separation of infected mothers from their children?
text: Did you know that creator Terry Moore told writer Joe Hill on Twitter that Rachel Rising might be cancelled if sales continued to fall, prompting a fan campaign to save the comic?
text: Did you know that a Roman hoard of 11,000 silver pieces was found in the village of Oakhanger in Hampshire ?
text: Did you know that India's first fully indigenous anti-airfield weapon was tested in 2016?
text: Did you know that Kim Chŏn-il raised a civilian militia to fight the Japanese invasion during the Imjin War ?
text: Did you know that the opening number for the 2016 musical film La La Land was shot in a six-minute single take on a 130-foot (40 m)-high freeway ramp in South Los Angeles ?
text: Did you know that when first established, the architectural firm Liebenberg and Kaplan was met with antisemitism in the Minneapolis business community?
text: Did you know that, in 1993, one of the first rave parties in Croatia was held in a pedestrian tunnel underneath the historic core of Zagreb ?
text: Did you know that Faith Spotted Eagle became the first Native American to receive a presidential electoral vote after Robert Satiacum Jr. cast a faithless vote for her during the 2016 United States election ?
text: Did you know that Kaohsiung's Chi Jin Mazu Temple was first opened in 1673, when Taiwan was still ruled by Ming loyalists at war with mainland China?
text: Did you know that Ululani Lewai Baker and Lanihau were the last female governors of the Kingdom of Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that Salinee Tavaranan and her Border Green Energy Team installed solar panels and micro-hydro turbines at the Mae La refugee camp ?
text: Did you know that Ibrahim ibn al-Ashtar killed Umayyad commander Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad at the Battle of Khazir ?
text: Did you know that after the Bolshevik Party of India leader Barada Mukutmoni was named Tourism Minister in the Second United Front Cabinet of West Bengal, there was a split in his party?
text: Did you know that drag queen Violet Chachki 's EP Gagged was inspired by her time working as an assistant to a dominatrix ?
text: Did you know that Gui Minhai , whose four bookseller colleagues also disappeared in mysterious circumstances , reappeared three months later on Chinese television confessing to killing a girl in a 2003 DUI accident?
text: Did you know that the titular character from Bug! was one of three candidates to be the mascot for the Sega Saturn console, due to the lack of a Sonic the Hedgehog video game?
text: Did you know that epidemiologist Yasmin Altwaijri encourages other Saudi Arabian women to become scientists, arguing that this need not "cross the boundaries of our societal norms and customs"?
text: Did you know that a cave in the Cliff Cave County Park has been used as a tavern and a wine cellar ?
text: Did you know that the opium merchant Ezekiel Saleh Manasseh , who died in Changi Prison during the Japanese occupation of Singapore, built Eden Hall and co-owned the Goodwood Park Hotel with his brothers?
text: Did you know that subduction polarity reversal on either side of Taiwan causes differences in topography?
text: Did you know that in 1988, judge Gary Little committed suicide in the King County Courthouse some 40 years after his father had killed himself in the same building?
text: Did you know that an extract of Alchemilla diademata , a plant endemic to Lebanon , shows antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus ?
text: Did you know that it was not illegal to possess or use cannabis in Poland until 1997?
text: Did you know that while competing for Tanzania at the 2016 Summer Olympics , swimmer Hilal Hemed Hilal set a national record winning his 50 m freestyle heat , but did not advance?
text: Did you know that in June 1940 the SS Broompark brought French scientists, heavy water , and diamonds to Britain?
text: Did you know that Jose Esteves , the Filipino American mayor of Milpitas, California , was succeeded by the city's first Vietnamese American mayor, Richard Tran?
text: Did you know that the white-plumed honeyeater has become more common in urban Sydney and Newcastle?
text: Did you know that Czech actress Simona Stašová was named Best Actress at the 2015 Seoul International Drama Awards ?
text: Did you know that the Alliance Building Society 's sports club was established in 1935 with "a second-hand table tennis table and dartboard" in the basement of Princes House in Brighton ?
text: Did you know that US President-elect Donald Trump referred to the Ralph Deleon case in a speech about immigration?
text: Did you know that Lasith Malinga is the only bowler to take a six-wicket haul in the Big Bash League ?
text: Did you know that Nils Mönkemeyer was the first to record a viola concerto by Antonio Rosetti , and played Schubert songs and Bach arias on the viola?
text: Did you know that the Okavango Dyke Swarm formed 180 million years ago during the opening of the Indian Ocean?
text: Did you know that writer John Dominis Holt inspired the Hawaiian Renaissance cultural revival with his essay "On Being Hawaiian"?
text: Did you know that Bloomberg Businessweek asked, "Is Wikipedia woke ?"
text: Did you know that Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin 's rulings on labor law and labor relations were said to have furthered the rights of workers more than those of any other Israeli judge?
text: Did you know that under the terms of a 1931 bequest to the University of Washington , if the university president does not live at Hill-Crest , the property must be sold?
text: Did you know that Swedish radio presenter Roger Nordin revealed during a live broadcast in 2005 that he was gay?
text: Did you know that the idea for Disney's MagicBands came from a magnetic therapy bracelet found in SkyMall ?
text: Did you know that the constellation Corvus was depicted as a raven as early as 1100 BCE in Babylonia?
text: Did you know that Fred Pfeffer , Tom Burns , and Ned Williamson each had three hits in the same inning of an 1883 major-league baseball game, and no other player had a three-hit inning until 1953?
text: Did you know that the semi-aquatic grasshopper Cornops aquaticum is being trialled in South Africa as a biological control agent for the invasive water hyacinth ?
text: Did you know that Indian peasant movement leader M.A. Rasul was sent to East Pakistan to build the Communist Party there?
text: Did you know that in the Eutaw riot in Alabama, several black citizens were killed by the Ku Klux Klan during a campaign of terror that led to the election of Democratic governor Robert B. Lindsay ?
text: Did you know that naval officer and MP Olav Bergersen wrote several books on the 18th-century vice admiral Tordenskiold ?
text: Did you know that the video game ReCore can be played on both Microsoft Windows and Xbox One , regardless of which platform it was initially purchased for?
text: Did you know that during her 2016 concert , Siti Nurhaliza performed " Memories ", a tribute duet with vocals by Whitney Houston which had been recorded when she was 19?
text: Did you know that William V. Thompson preferred the title "Dean of Bowling" over "Father of Bowling" in recognition of his work promoting and standardizing ten-pin bowling ?
text: Did you know that the Cold War-era American Committee for East-West Accord was reestablished in 2015?
text: Did you know that Polish Jewish writer Rokhl Auerbakh worked overtly as the director of a soup kitchen and covertly as a member of a secret group that chronicled daily life in the Warsaw Ghetto ?
text: Did you know that mesoporous silica nanoparticles are prepared by the Stöber process and are used in preparing biosensors and delivering medications to within cellular structures?
text: Did you know that Mildred Barker was awarded the National Heritage Fellowship in 1983 for her work in preserving Shaker music ?
text: Did you know that rapper YG claimed his recent song " FDT " prompted calls from the Secret Service ?
text: Did you know that Australian World War II fighter ace Alan Rawlinson had "Sweet FA" in the Middle East before he got "up you" in the South West Pacific ?
text: Did you know that the Furstenberg–Sárközy theorem shows that the first player in the game of subtract a square can win from most positions?
text: Did you know that the casket of volunteer American Civil War nurse Mary Lucy Dosh was escorted by both Union and Confederate troops?
text: Did you know that Pel's flying squirrel drives off potential predators by hissing and gnashing its teeth?
text: Did you know that the Left Front governed the Indian state of West Bengal for 34 years, winning the elections of 1977 , 1982 , 1987 , 1991 , 1996 , 2001 , and 2006 ?
text: Did you know that in 1429, John Beaumont, 1st Viscount Beaumont , was knighted by a seven-year-old king ?
text: Did you know that the footballer Billy James was forced to retire after playing just six league games due to the physical effects of his time in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp ?
text: Did you know that the Old Depot Museum has an immersive audio exhibit about the Pottawatomie massacre ?
text: Did you know that cancer biologist Lubna Tahtamouni earned her PhD abroad and encouraged students from underprivileged regions of her native Jordan to do the same?
text: Did you know that on two occasions, aircraft carrying explosives from the Salt Wells Pilot Plant were struck by lightning?
text: Did you know that Piru Singh threw a grenade at the enemy even after he was shot in the head, and was awarded the Param Vir Chakra , India's highest military decoration?
text: Did you know that Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Leah Remini was noted by The Huffington Post as the first book by a celebrity to cover their perspective of Scientology as a former member?
text: Did you know that U.S. Representative Clay Higgins has been dubbed the "Cajun John Wayne "?
text: Did you know that mathematician Moon Duchin was inspired to break gender barriers in mathematics by a book on baseball player Jackie Robinson 's struggles against racism?
text: Did you know that 71 years after the Lyngiades massacre in Greece, President Joachim Gauck was Germany's first official representative to visit the site and express his apologies for the Wehrmacht 's atrocities?
text: Did you know that Seattle will begin issuing " democracy vouchers " in 2017?
text: Did you know that Mexican performers Marco Pérez , Sofía Espinosa , Noé Hernández , and Adriana Paz received the Ariel Award for Best Actor , Best Actress , Best Supporting Actor , and Best Supporting Actress , respectively, at the 2016 ceremony ?
text: Did you know that Bronx High School of Science graduate Naomi Amir is credited as "the founder of modern child neurology in Israel"?
text: Did you know that Admiral Elmo Zumwalt 's 1976 book On Watch: A Memoir was called a "terrifying tale" of the Nixon administration ?
text: Did you know that the 1967 book Filipson by Frida Alexandr is the only first-hand description of life in that early 20th-century Brazilian Jewish farming colony written by a woman who lived there?
text: Did you know that with more than 14,000 airings over 60 years, Minuto de Dios is the longest-running program on Colombian television?
text: Did you know that the estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop , which includes 9,557 acres (3,868 ha) inherited from her aunt ʻAkahi , funds the Kamehameha Schools ?
text: Did you know that the video game Idol Death Game TV is about Japanese starlets who battle to the death?
text: Did you know that a crude oil tanker was named after Rama Raghoba Rane , a Param Vir Chakra recipient?
text: Did you know that Madonna secured the lead in Evita after writing a four-page letter to director Alan Parker stating that she would be fully committed to the role?
text: Did you know that the Ethiopian music group Fendika was started by a formerly homeless refugee ?
text: Did you know that Lucy Finch founded the only remaining hospice in Malawi , a country where about a million people are living with HIV/AIDS?
text: Did you know that the mayor of Nice implored cooks to "never, never, I beg you, include boiled potato or any other boiled vegetable in your salade niçoise "?
text: Did you know that Tiripone Mama Taira Putairi was the first indigenous Catholic priest ordained in Eastern Polynesia?
text: Did you know that Paul von Groth edited Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie for 44 years and used it to catalog the properties of more than 9,000 crystalline substances?
text: Did you know that Solicitor General Warren Allmand introduced legislation that abolished the use of capital punishment in Canada ?
text: Did you know that the Manhattan Project 's liquid thermal diffusion plant was the only production-scale plant of its kind ever built?
text: Did you know that the artist and author Marion Coutts created a dogmatic Cult of cats?
text: Did you know that British and Chinese officials in Beijing cooperated in trying to solve the murder of Pamela Werner , which happened 80 years ago today?
text: Did you know that the directors for The Chemical Brothers ' music video " The Boxer " disliked the track itself?
text: Did you know that Henry Ford considered Ralph Waldo Trine an old friend and had several conversations with him concerning success in life?
text: Did you know that dikes in the Huangling Complex show that Australia was adjacent to the South China Craton prior to 825 million years ago?
text: Did you know that the National Composite Adversary Force conducts "simulated but realistic attacks" on U.S. nuclear power plants ?
text: Did you know that in July 2016, Michel Vlap became the first-ever fourth substitute in a UEFA match?
text: Did you know that Star Wars: Jedi Arena is the first Star Wars video game to feature lightsaber combat?
text: Did you know that the art historian Rosemary Barrow specialised in the work of the once-neglected Victorian painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema ?
text: Did you know that Francis Poulenc 's L'Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant for narrator and piano was inspired by children requesting him to play from the book Histoire de Babar ?
text: Did you know that Jennifer Lawrence was reported to be the highest-paid actress in the world in 2015 and 2016?
text: Did you know that the suspect in the shooting of Detective Benjamin Marconi got married the following morning and was arrested later that day?
text: Did you know that Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy can be used to find how much water and carbon dioxide are in melt inclusions in mineral grains?
text: Did you know that Caleb Orozco , who successfully challenged the Belize Criminal Code for violations to his privacy and freedom of expression, won the 2016 David Kato Vision and Voice award?
text: Did you know that William Lister was listed as competing in water polo at the 1900 Summer Olympics , despite having died before the Games began?
text: Did you know that "mend it, don't end it" was advice given by the president of the Nehemiah Corporation of America to the U.S. Congress at a hearing on down payment assistance?
text: Did you know that George S. Zimbel 's white dress shoot of Marilyn Monroe remained unpublished for 20 years after he took the photos?
text: Did you know that rocks from the Lesser Himalayan Strata show that the northern part of the Indian plate submerged in the late Cretaceous period?
text: Did you know that Raón Street in Manila was named after former Governor-General José Antonio Raón y Gutiérrez ?
text: Did you know that the $2.3 billion Spring District in Bellevue, Washington , is the second largest construction project in the Puget Sound region ?
text: Did you know that Betty Campbell was the first black head teacher in Wales?
text: Did you know that the stage of the Tianhou Palace in Ningbo was positioned for the gods to watch Chinese opera?
text: Did you know that in the United States, nuclear weapons are moved by trucks called Safeguards Transporters which were designed by the Sandia National Laboratories ?
text: Did you know that C. Washington Eves was the honorary commissioner for Jamaica at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886?
text: Did you know that when the condensate of boron monofluoride monoxide is reheated, it forms a glassy, popcorn-like froth?
text: Did you know that on her appointment in February 2016, 22-year-old Shamma Al Mazrui became the youngest government minister in the world?
text: Did you know that the Pakistan Communist Party ceased to exist just three weeks after it had been founded?
text: Did you know that Irish immigrant, anarchist, strike organiser, and New York surgeon Gertrude Kelly is commemorated by a children's park in Chelsea, Manhattan ?
text: Did you know that the Cafe Royal Cocktail Book contains one of the first recorded recipes for the 20th Century ?
text: Did you know that Zorobabela Kaʻauwai accompanied his patron Hoapili into battle in the suppression of Humehume 's rebellion?
text: Did you know that although only a single example of the Eriksen M/25 machine gun was built, it saw service in the 1940 Norwegian Campaign ?
text: Did you know that the United States Senate rejected Caleb Cushing's nomination to be Secretary of the Treasury three times in one day?
text: Did you know that the 1936 Korean novel Sangnoksu has been made into two films?
text: Did you know that the 10-gun sloop-of-war HMS Stork was originally designed to resemble King George II's yacht Royal Caroline ?
text: Did you know that rapper Liv released the song " Sorry Mrs. Carter " as an "open letter" to Beyoncé ?
text: Did you know that almost nothing is quite certain about the "multifaceted" and "very productive" Master of the Drapery Studies ?
text: Did you know that when Seymour Cray designed the Cray-3 supercomputer , he insisted that the processor fit into a 1-cubic-foot (0.028 m 3 ) block?
text: Did you know that in 1969, the West Bengal Sports Minister Ram Chatterjee invaded the exclusive Calcutta Swimming Club along with a group of Santhal tribals?
text: Did you know that 14 Muslim female athletes won medals at the 2016 Olympic Games?
text: Did you know that the philosopher Michael Fox became highly critical of animal testing following the publication of his The Case for Animal Experimentation , later writing a book in support of vegetarianism ?
text: Did you know that the Y Sap mine was an explosive planted under German trenches before the Battle of the Somme in World War I?
text: Did you know that the first full-circle Arctic panorama created in the United States since the 19th century appeared at the Velaslavasay Panorama in Los Angeles in 2007?
text: Did you know that J. W. Lonoaea died because he voted for a king instead of a queen ?
text: Did you know that governor Saw Shwe Khet of Prome sent a white elephant to King Thihathu of Ava but was still demoted by the new king?
text: Did you know that HBO 's new daily news series Vice News Tonight was intended by Vice News to have "no ads, no anchors and no censors?"
text: Did you know that although Susan Reeve Lyon could not own property while a married woman, she was able to run her own apothecary shop as a widow?
text: Did you know that the self-critical H. Balfour Gardiner may have destroyed his symphonies, but preserved his compline anthem Te lucis ante terminum for choir and organ?
text: Did you know that Jessamyn Rodriguez founded a social enterprise teaching bread-making and job skills to low-income minority women and immigrants?
text: Did you know that in order to disguise the V-2 missile launch site in Blizna , the Nazis created an artificial village with plywood cottages and barns, and plaster people and animals?
text: Did you know that the Welsh singer-songwriter Charlotte Church criticised director Diane Martel 's music video for the song " Lolita ", calling it "an objectionable little number"?
text: Did you know that Alphonse Areola saved two penalties during a penalty shoot-out in the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup final, to help France win their first title in the competition?
text: Did you know that Jollees was the UK's largest cabaret venue in the 1970s and hosted the World Professional Darts Championship ?
text: Did you know that Nancy Sottos helped create the first polymeric self-healing material , announced in Nature in 2001?
text: Did you know that when it leased the planes of a failed Venezuelan airline, a Bolivian company retained the name LaMia to avoid the cost of repainting the aircraft?
text: Did you know that Protiva Mukherjee was the only female minister in the 1969 United Front government of West Bengal ?
text: Did you know that The Shaker Quarterly , which began publication in 1961, helped revive interest in the Shakers ?
text: Did you know that John Green Hoapili stated to the Legislature of the Kingdom of Hawaii that he would "rather have corruption and scandal than annexation"?
text: Did you know that Darwin introduced the theory of evolution by natural selection , but was not the first to use the term "survival of the fittest"?
text: Did you know that at the age of 16 years and 308 days, Idris Kanu became the youngest ever player for Aldershot Town F.C. in a league match?
text: Did you know that Joan Acker and Miriam Johnson of the Center for the Study of Women in Society found that "Do you shave your legs?" was the question most strongly correlated to identifying with feminism?
text: Did you know that facing an arrest warrant in India and pressure from within his party, Indian communist politician Z.A. Ahmed sought refuge in Pakistan?
text: Did you know that the diet of the dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel includes bark and fruit, including the fleshy fruits of the umbrella tree ?
text: Did you know that Queen Emma of Hawaii and her lady-in-waiting Kiliwehi were received by Queen Victoria and spent a night at Windsor Castle ?
text: Did you know that Momoiro Clover Z did not know they were making their music video for " The Golden History " until filming started?
text: Did you know that John Michael Bednarek was commander of the First United States Army , prior to becoming the top US military officer in Iraq?
text: Did you know that to promote her song " Chained to the Rhythm ", Katy Perry left disco balls playing the track in various cities?
text: Did you know that a television crew captured the beating of a handcuffed protester by police during the 2014 Hong Kong protests ?
text: Did you know that the White House Family Theater was built out of a former cloakroom in 1942?
text: Did you know that Avicenna made an argument to prove the existence of God which became known as the " Proof of the Truthful "?
text: Did you know that Maria Luise Thurmair published the "love talks" she exchanged with her husband when he was a soldier in World War II, and wrote the lyrics for many hymns in the Gotteslob ?
text: Did you know that during the Knowles Riot of 1747, Bostonians put the sheriff's deputy in the stocks ?
text: Did you know that the architecturally outstanding Kensington Railway Station , now a National Historic Site of Canada , is referred to as a "boulder station" because of its fieldstone walls?
text: Did you know that the plot of Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine revolves around Dr. Robotnik turning bean-like creatures into robots with his "Mean Bean-Steaming Machine"?
text: Did you know that Kodandera M. Cariappa is one of only two Indian Army officers to hold the five-star rank of field marshal ?
text: Did you know that a group of 1,000 U.S. diplomats signed a dissent cable protesting Donald Trump 's Executive Order 13769 ?
text: Did you know that " Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn " is the only hymn by Paul Gerhardt which Bach set to music as a chorale cantata ?
text: Did you know that Maria Eugenia Bozzoli was one of the founders of anthropology in Costa Rica?
text: Did you know that the cleaner shrimp Lysmata grabhami waves its white antennae to attract clients?
text: Did you know that the anthropologist Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann , who made field trips to villages in Slavonia , Transylvania , and Turkey, met Jews after they were liberated from Theresienstadt ?
text: Did you know that the potentially explosive trifluoroperacetic acid is not commercially available, yet can be quickly prepared in three different ways using hydrogen peroxide ?
text: Did you know that the Blue Castle Project is a proposed nuclear power plant that will increase Utah's electrical generation capacity by 50 percent?
text: Did you know that the Ciomadul volcano in Romania last erupted less than 50,000 years ago and is still potentially active?
text: Did you know that Kathleen N. Straus served three consecutive eight-year terms on the Michigan State Board of Education , ending when she was age 93?
text: Did you know that in Osmanoğlu and Kocabaş v. Switzerland , the court ruled that compulsory mixed-gender swimming lessons in public school do not violate the freedom of religion of Muslim families?
text: Did you know that the Point Abino Light Tower on Lake Erie derives its name from a Jesuit missionary who lived on the point in a log cabin atop a dune?
text: Did you know that the sea snake barnacle is short-lived because it does not usually survive when its host sheds its skin?
text: Did you know that Southampton reached the 2017 EFL Cup Final against Manchester United today without conceding a goal?
text: Did you know that William Walsh was Bishop of Mauritius in 1892 when the country suffered one of its worst cyclones ?
text: Did you know that the Art Deco Théâtre de la Michodière in Paris has presented mostly boulevard plays ?
text: Did you know that a version of the Freeform television series Cloak & Dagger had been in development since 2011, when the network was still known as ABC Family ?
text: Did you know that the ZTE Orbit was the first Windows Phone to include near field communication ?
text: Did you know that former professional wrestling world champion Bruno Sammartino once wrestled an orangutan ?
text: Did you know that a sports stadium in Shahjahanpur and a crude oil tanker were named after Jadunath Singh , a Param Vir Chakra recipient?
text: Did you know that Winslade 's chapel was sold for £35?
text: Did you know that Theodore Sizer was named Yale University 's first Pursuivant of Arms in 1963?
text: Did you know that Dhanush played a character with bipolar disorder in 3 , a 2012 Tamil film?
text: Did you know that Michael Praetorius published Missodia Sionia , a collection of 104 pieces of sacred music in Latin, including 14 settings of Amen and a mass for eight voices?
text: Did you know that a congressman suggested Franklin D. Roosevelt use the U.S. Treasury Building as a bunker during World War II because "there's nothing in the treasury vaults except IOU 's anyway"?
text: Did you know that in Shinto , rice gruel divination is used for predicting the harvest?
text: Did you know that George A. Mitchell has been called the father of Cadillac ?
text: Did you know that regional regulations passed by Indonesian regencies and cities occupy the lowest position in the country's hierarchy of laws?
text: Did you know that " Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort " by Luther was titled "A hymn for the children to sing against the two arch-enemies of Christ, and His Holy Church, the Pope and the Turks"?
text: Did you know that maize , cacao , and achiote were historically the main crops produced in El Progreso , Guatemala?
text: Did you know that India's lifetime achievement sporting honour is named after field hockey player Dhyan Chand , who scored more than 1000 goals during his career?
text: Did you know that because he was unfamiliar with the cello, Francis Poulenc received help from the cellist Pierre Fournier when composing his Cello Sonata ?
text: Did you know that the authors of Prophets of Deceit warned that a time might come when Americans become susceptible to psychological manipulation by a political agitator?
text: Did you know that Vince Allen was twice signed to Canadian Football League teams due to injuries to other players?
text: Did you know that when completed, the proposed Damen station will be the third new Chicago "L" station of Rahm Emanuel 's tenure as Mayor of Chicago ?
text: Did you know that two electors who put forward candidates at the April 1865 Bruce by-election in New Zealand were nearly candidates themselves?
text: Did you know that the architect for 2&U , an upcoming office building in Seattle, was selected in a hackathon ?
text: Did you know that Damnoen Saduak Floating Market was a location in the 2008 film Bangkok Dangerous starring Nicolas Cage ?
text: Did you know that Bob Kramer has been described as "the greatest American knifesmith working today"?
text: Did you know that Ed Sheeran's 2010 EP Loose Change entered the Australian charts six and a half years after its original UK-only release?
text: Did you know that the 1859 construction of Hamilton Waterworks , now a National Historic Site of Canada , was prompted by a cholera epidemic that killed 552 people?
text: Did you know that Cecil E. Harris , the U.S. Navy's second most successful World War II flying ace , was a school teacher from landlocked South Dakota?
text: Did you know that the call of Lagden's bushshrike has been likened to hoop hoop or toot toot ?
text: Did you know that the majority of people seeking refugee status in Poland are citizens of the former Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that the families of Tongan Princess Fusipala set up a rival court against her half-sister Queen Sālote Tupou III ?
text: Did you know that one commentator predicted that a 2002 United States Supreme Court ruling would lead to a "dim future" for state prisoners?
text: Did you know that Jamiroquai 's 2017 song " Automaton " drew comparisons to the work of Daft Punk ?
text: Did you know that the diet of the sea anemone Urticinopsis antarctica includes sea urchins, starfish, sea cucumbers, brittle stars, crinoids, gastropods, bivalve molluscs, and small fish?
text: Did you know that Emma Kaili Metcalf Beckley Nakuina is often considered Hawaii's first female judge?
text: Did you know that 20 members of the Wehrmacht received Iron Crosses for their involvement in the Kraljevo massacre ?
text: Did you know that although mathematician Vojtěch Jarník is known to computer scientists for his minimum spanning tree algorithm , his main work was in number theory ?
text: Did you know that the forest giant squirrel can crack open nuts with particularly tough shells such as the African walnut ?
text: Did you know that the production team kept the ending of Blood-C a secret from the main cast, allowing them to record only three episodes at a time?
text: Did you know that when a full-page photograph of a naked Vivien Neves in The Times caused a sensation in 1971, it was being used to advertise a pharmaceutical company?
text: Did you know that author Bano Qudsia has been conferred with the Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) and the Hilal-i-Imtiaz (Crescent of Excellence) by the Government of Pakistan?
text: Did you know that the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in Salford is the oldest purpose-built Greek Orthodox church in England?
text: Did you know that the 1892 Legislative Session of the Kingdom of Hawaii , which lasted 171 days, was the longest in the history of the monarchy?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film Horse Soldiers is Nicolai Fuglsig 's feature film directorial debut?
text: Did you know that for foiling his king's plan to assassinate King Minkhaung I of Ava , Lagun Ein of Pegu was forced to make two attempts on Minkhaung's life?
text: Did you know that the New York City Police Department's Strategic Response Group was formed in 2015 to respond to high-profile events and incidents?
text: Did you know that the association footballer Albert Barnett was one of five brothers who played for Altrincham F.C. ?
text: Did you know that Zoologia physica , a scientific handbook about animals by Johann Sperling from the University of Wittenberg , was published in 1661 after his death?
text: Did you know that Leslie Thrasher , the creator of the fictional character Lil, was a realist ?
text: Did you know that after producing the album They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons , Rich Costey went on to record another whose title was 90 words long ?
text: Did you know that Zoologia physica , a scientific handbook about animals by Johann Sperling from the University of Wittenberg , was published in 1661 after his death?
text: Did you know that according to Haddad-Adel in The Culture of Nakedness and the Nakedness of Culture , differences between Western clothes and those of Easterners reflect "divergent notions of humankind"?
text: Did you know that former Major League Baseball player Mike Hollimon became an executive for a player representation agency?
text: Did you know that artists are not charged to produce work at the Off-Off-Broadway theater The Tank ?
text: Did you know that Llanrumney Hall has been a stately home , a remand centre , and a pub ?
text: Did you know that canal engineer John Hore was described as setting a new standard for inland waterways with the Kennet navigation , which was characterised as an important forerunner of the canals of the Industrial Revolution ?
text: Did you know that only two men who participated in the Whiskey Rebellion were convicted of treason, but they were later pardoned by President George Washington?
text: Did you know that Canadian football defensive back Taurean Allen was considered one of the top prospects in the 2010 CFL Draft but played only six games professionally?
text: Did you know that Suksdorf's monkeyflower of the genus Erythranthe was named after the mostly self-taught immigrant botanist Wilhelm Nikolaus Suksdorf ?
text: Did you know that Ahmad Hashim Abd al-Isawi earned the nickname the "Butcher of Fallujah" after allegedly masterminding the 2004 ambush in which four private contractors were killed, mutilated, and their bodies displayed?
text: Did you know that George Washington Pilipō , a leading Hawaiian politician of the 19th century, was known as "The Lion of North Kona"?
text: Did you know that children playing instruments made from scrap have recorded with Basement Jaxx and performed with Megadeth ?
text: Did you know that the grey jay builds its nests in late winter, while the forest is still deep in snow?
text: Did you know that last year, the Indonesian province of Aceh processed 324 court cases and carried out at least 100 caning sentences under its Islamic criminal code ?
text: Did you know that in 1951, Constance Dallas became the first woman elected to Philadelphia City Council ?
text: Did you know that Designed by Apple in California was dedicated to Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs ?
text: Did you know that before the end of 1940, the Dutch Committee for Jewish Refugees had facilitated the emigration from Europe of about 22,000 Jews, who thus escaped the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that the Huntly rail bridge bombing was called an "infamous act of terrorism" by New Zealand Prime Minister Sidney Holland ?
text: Did you know that comic creator Gerry Alanguilan spent more than a year researching chickens before he began working on Elmer ?
text: Did you know that Last Mountain Lake Bird Sanctuary in Saskatchewan, established in 1887, was the first bird sanctuary in North America?
text: Did you know that George Francis Hardy was an actuary, Egyptologist, and amateur astronomer whose scientific methods and calculations contributed to all three fields?
text: Did you know that David Bowie wrote the lyrics to his 1987 song " Time Will Crawl " after hearing of the Chernobyl disaster , and later chose the song as one of his favorites from his entire career?
text: Did you know that WCHV , the oldest radio station in Charlottesville, Virginia , was founded more than 200 miles (320 km) away on the campus of Emory and Henry College ?
text: Did you know that layers of ash considered to be from the Dacht-i-Navar Group volcanic complex in Afghanistan have been found 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) away in India?
text: Did you know that more than 300 young stars in RCW 36 have been detected by the Chandra X-ray Observatory ?
text: Did you know that U.S. presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway 's mention of a nonexistent massacre in Bowling Green, Kentucky , went viral?
text: Did you know that fire has been burning continuously since 1971 in an urn at the Indian memorial Amar Jawan Jyoti ?
text: Did you know that in a managed alcohol program , chronic alcoholics are treated with alcohol?
text: Did you know that despite originally contesting the 1859 Town of Dunedin by-election , William John Dyer did not participate in the poll called afterwards?
text: Did you know that during Operation Python , oil reserves, ammunition warehouses and workshops worth $3 billion were destroyed by the Indian Navy ?
text: Did you know that Dieter Oesterlen designed the large concert hall of the Funkhaus Hannover ?
text: Did you know that over 1,000 people complained when the Daily Mail called three High Court judges " enemies of the people "?
text: Did you know that to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Canada in 2017, access to national parks , historic sites and marine conservation areas is free?
text: Did you know that Pilgrim , the premiere title of video game developer Arxel Tribe , was based on a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho , who also wrote the game's screenplay?
text: Did you know that Canadian football linebacker Zock Allen was named after the sound a cartoon character makes when hitting something?
text: Did you know that the documentary Hell's Angel claims that Mother Teresa was a demagogue and an obscurantist?
text: Did you know that the Super V-2 was a French project to develop the V-2 rocket into a long-range missile, one version of which was capable of striking targets as far away as Russia?
text: Did you know that billionaire Leslie Koo 's NT$ 400 million bribe resulted in an 11-year jail sentence for former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian ?
text: Did you know that " Never Learn Not to Love " is a reworked version of Charles Manson 's song "Cease to Exist"?
text: Did you know that a Nuphar carlquistii waterlily rhizome fossil was once identified as a banana ?
text: Did you know that English association footballer Yasin Ben El-Mhanni made his name as a YouTube sensation?
text: Did you know that the Samsung Omnia M was announced for the European market prior to being rolled out in Brazil and China ?
text: Did you know that the rival ports of Seattle and Tacoma merged to form the Northwest Seaport Alliance in 2014 because of increased competition from ports in British Columbia?
text: Did you know that the extinct crape myrtle relative Shirleya was first described from fossils out of a "Hi hole"?
text: Did you know that Dirk Kaftan conducted Schönberg's Gurre-Lieder , recorded Jenůfa with the Graz Opera , and led Bruckner's Fourth Symphony in seven concerts of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie ?
text: Did you know that from 1909 to 1945, some students were transported to and from Jeffers High School via a special train on the Copper Range Railroad ?
text: Did you know that Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells is a term given to people, traditionally ascribed as being from Royal Tunbridge Wells , who write letters of incensed conservative moral outrage?
text: Did you know that when the Ubina Hoard was looted on the day after excavations had started, members of the Estonian Defence League were dispatched to guard it?
text: Did you know that Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells is a term given to people, traditionally ascribed as being from Royal Tunbridge Wells , who write letters of incensed conservative moral outrage?
text: Did you know that the January 1868 death of a Romanian nationalist monk just days after he had been elected deputy sparked an antisemitic riot?
text: Did you know that Ocosta Elementary School in Westport, Washington , has the first public tsunami refuge built in the United States?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian kingdoms of Gowa and Talloq imported ceramics on a scale that, according to archaeologists Bulbeck and Caldwell, "beggars imagination"?
text: Did you know that Paul Éluard 's poem " Liberté ", an ode to liberty written in occupied France , was distributed by parachute from British aircraft?
text: Did you know that a pair of stripe-breasted woodpeckers were once observed sitting on the eggs simultaneously?
text: Did you know that the upcoming television series Runaways was first developed in 2008 as a feature film by Marvel Studios but was shelved due to the success of The Avengers ?
text: Did you know that the state funeral of John F. Kennedy was the only one for a United States president in which foreign military forces participated ?
text: Did you know that Swedish rock band Mecki Mark Men played with both Jimi Hendrix and the Royal Swedish Opera ?
text: Did you know that the fossil maple Acer eonegundo was described from a single partial leaf?
text: Did you know that Amy Burvall , co-creator of the historyteachers videos, originally wanted to be a spy?
text: Did you know that out of thirteen elections held in the Gundlupet Vidhan Sabha constituency , in the south-Indian state of Karnataka , seven have been won by K. S. Nagarathanamma and five by H. S. Mahadeva Prasad ?
text: Did you know that SeaTac/Airport station in Seattle was opened in time for the 2010 Winter Olympics , held in Vancouver , Canada?
text: Did you know that Bill Clinton starred with Kevin Spacey in the 2000 short film The Final Days ?
text: Did you know that the rufous-fronted parakeet is endemic to Colombia where it occurs on two volcanic massifs in the Andes?
text: Did you know that from 1973 until 2012, Myra Nimmo held the Scottish women's national long jump record?
text: Did you know that the pubic hair of a Milford Lane woman is the scene of a battle in the bawdy 1716 poem, The Duel of the Crabs ?
text: Did you know that Manohar Lal Munjal was the first Indian to receive the Distinguished International membership of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering?
text: Did you know that all four singles from Alejandro Fernández 's album Me Estoy Enamorando reached number one on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart in the United States?
text: Did you know that Joseph L. Kun served for 30 years on the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas , but was defeated when he ran for another term in the 1957 elections at the age of 75?
text: Did you know that in January 2017, anarchist squatters occupied one of the four London houses of the Russian billionaire Andrey Goncharenko , and used it as a homeless shelter?
text: Did you know that Jean Anouilh 's play Léocadia , one of his Pièces roses , was staged on Broadway as Time Remembered ?
text: Did you know that in 2013, two hundred teachers occupied a toll booth on Mexican Federal Highway 180D and allowed cars to pass for free?
text: Did you know that the billionaire Philip Day grew up on a council estate , and now owns a country estate ?
text: Did you know that Tamedia , the publishing company of the German language women's magazine Annabelle , banned it from reporting critical political news in 2013?
text: Did you know that the Working–Hotelling procedure , first formulated in 1929, was one of the earliest methods of simultaneous inference ?
text: Did you know that T. H. White wrote Mistress Masham's Repose for Amaryllis Garnett ?
text: Did you know that some fighters of the Guardians of the Dawn describe themselves as "mujahideen of the cross"?
text: Did you know that Fantasia 's song " I Made It " was described as sounding like a finale for the musical The Color Purple ?
text: Did you know that scientists have proposed four models to describe the arrangement of the layers of rock before the collision of India with Asia that formed the Himalayas ?
text: Did you know that scientists have proposed four models to describe the arrangement of the layers of rock before the collision of India with Asia that formed the Himalayas ?
text: Did you know that Henry L. Reaves was an open range cattle rancher on land near what is now Disney World before serving in the Georgia House of Representatives for 38 years?
text: Did you know that in an air stripline , air is used as an electrical insulator to reduce transmission losses ?
text: Did you know that the Professor Aristóteles Orsini Planetarium in São Paulo , opened in 1957, was the first planetarium in Brazil?
text: Did you know that " Get Enough " had a commercial release limited to 2,000 7" vinyl singles?
text: Did you know that German rapper Schwesta Ewa often sings about her former life as a prostitute?
text: Did you know that Jean Tatlock had a romantic relationship with Robert Oppenheimer , introducing him to poetry and politics?
text: Did you know that only two chiefs of the Indian Army have ever been promoted to field marshal ?
text: Did you know that the desert hare can produce up to 30 offspring in a year?
text: Did you know that according to a commentator, fiddle player Joe Thompson "was the inspiration for a national revival of stringband music "?
text: Did you know that whilst carrying out High Explosive Research , British scientists developed atomic weapons?
text: Did you know that the Very Large Array observed nearly one million radio sources during the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters survey?
text: Did you know that over a 22-year period, Colorado cattle ranch owner Sue Anschutz-Rodgers increased her stock from 33 cows and a single bull to 1,700 head of cattle?
text: Did you know that over a 22-year period, Colorado cattle ranch owner Sue Anschutz-Rodgers increased her stock from 33 cows and a single bull to 1,700 head of cattle?
text: Did you know that at a cost of £2.5 million (US$3.2 million), the opening scene for " The Holy Trinity ", the first episode of The Grand Tour , was the most expensive scene in television history?
text: Did you know that Dutch television maker and author Teun van de Keuken started Tony's Chocolonely , which sells what is called "slave-free chocolate"?
text: Did you know that the Indian Government Mint in Noida is one of the four mints in the country and the only one established since independence in 1947 ?
text: Did you know that the British anthropologist Karin Barber started her academic career at the University of Ife , where she was required to teach in Yoruba?
text: Did you know that the Miami Dolphins have not won a playoff game since the 2000 season ?
text: Did you know that the Grammy-winning opera tenor Aaron Sheehan did not begin singing until his final year of high school?
text: Did you know that Hanzo and his brother Genji from Overwatch were originally a single character that was split during development?
text: Did you know that the particle physicist Jeff Forshaw works with data from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and appeared on television to explain the Higgs boson to children under 12?
text: Did you know that after gaining a partial victory over the Jaffna kingdom in 1560 , the Portuguese successfully defeated their enemy in the invasion of 1591 and installed their own king?
text: Did you know that Paul Dibb formulated an eponymous report of Australia’s defence capabilities ?
text: Did you know that We're Going on a Bear Hunt was the text used to break the Guinness World Record for the "Largest Reading Lesson"?
text: Did you know that Yazh Nool , an important research work on the ancient Tamil musical instrument known as yazh , describes six types of forgotten instruments ?
text: Did you know that the Kaʻahumanu Society , originally founded in 1864 by Hawaiian royalty Victoria Kamāmalu , Bernice Pauahi Bishop , and Liliuokalani , was rechartered by a lady-in-waiting in 1905?
text: Did you know that Famatinanthus decussatus is a rare shrub from Argentina threatened by mining, off-road vehicles, and livestock?
text: Did you know that defensive back Michael Allen set a Canadian Football League record by returning five blocked punts for touchdowns?
text: Did you know that the elegant rice rat sometimes carries a hantavirus that can cause a fatal disease in humans?
text: Did you know that gospel street singer Flora Molton performed in downtown Washington, D.C. , into her eighties?
text: Did you know that August Buchner , a professor of poetry and rhetoric at the University of Wittenberg , wrote the libretto for a lost ballet-opera by Heinrich Schütz ?
text: Did you know that the 1994 New Jersey Rockin' Rollers , led by Manon Rhéaume , defeated Erin Whitten and the Pittsburgh Phantoms , in the first professional roller hockey game with two women as goaltenders?
text: Did you know that the Palestine Exploration Fund 's Survey of Western Palestine suggested that the depopulated Palestinian village of Dayr Muhaysin was a Crusader village, held as a fief of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ?
text: Did you know that the Gobi big brown bat is thought to include butterflies in its diet?
text: Did you know that the British art historian Humphrey Brooke grew more than 500 varieties of rose?
text: Did you know that Saturday Night! – The Album was described as "artless" in The Washington Post ?
text: Did you know that the former Palestinian villages of Ni'ilya and al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya appeared in the Ottoman census of 1596?
text: Did you know that at age 21, Jewell Jones became the youngest state representative in Michigan history ?
text: Did you know that Param Vir Chakra , India's highest military decoration, has been awarded 21 times, of which 14 were made posthumously?
text: Did you know that the first use of a transfer function matrix in control systems was on development of gas turbine engines for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ?
text: Did you know that the desert bighorn sheep , cougar , and threatened Mojave Desert tortoise are among the animals whose habitat is protected in the Gold Butte National Monument in southeastern Nevada ?
text: Did you know that the British anthropologist Wendy James started her academic career at the University of Khartoum in Sudan?
text: Did you know that the flea was illustrated by Robert Hooke in 1665 in his pioneering book Micrographia ?
text: Did you know that Qard al-Hasan is considered a "beautiful loan" in Islam, because the borrower is Allah and not the person who receives the loan?
text: Did you know that John Clive Ward has been called "the father of the British H-bomb "?
text: Did you know that spoon-leaved ragwort is sometimes eaten by sheep despite being toxic to many grazing mammals?
text: Did you know that Magong 's Mazu Temple claims to be the oldest temple in Taiwan?
text: Did you know that India annually celebrates Navy Day on 4 December to mark the victory of Operation Trident ?
text: Did you know that playwright and journalist Refik Erduran 's fourth marriage, to his third wife's daughter from an earlier marriage, was annulled after six years by court decision for being immoral?
text: Did you know that Presidential M&M's are given as gifts to guests of the President of the United States?
text: Did you know that Ian McTaggart-Cowan was considered "the father of Canadian ecology "?
text: Did you know that according to the 1997 book Policy Design for Democracy , "degenerative policy making" is a major feature of the United States political system?
text: Did you know that a chapel in the village of Medstead was mentioned in the Domesday Book ?
text: Did you know that Phillip Henry Bridenbaugh 's 265–65–25 record was believed to be the best in the history of Pennsylvania high school football ?
text: Did you know that the adult male Masoala fork-marked lemur has a cutaneous gland on the throat which is rubbed against the female during social grooming ?
text: Did you know that Van Cortlandt Park contains both the Bronx 's oldest building and the United States' oldest public golf course?
text: Did you know that during Krishnapada Ghosh 's term as Labour Minister in the second United Front government of West Bengal, police were instructed not to intervene against striking workers?
text: Did you know that when the USS Albany disappeared off the coast of Venezuela in 1853, its crew included the offspring of several prominent politicians?
text: Did you know that the extinct sweetgum Liquidambar changii was described from the "Hi hole" location in Central Washington State ?
text: Did you know that United States Navy officer Jesse Iwuji played college football for the Naval Academy and currently races in NASCAR ?
text: Did you know that the lyrics of Tove Lo 's song " Not on Drugs " compared falling in love to being under the influence of drugs?
text: Did you know that after the ballet dancer Franziska Romana Koch sang in the opera Alceste which was composed for her, its librettist celebrated her performance in a poem?
text: Did you know that as a result of the Suhl card reader case , an amateur psychic spent years in prison?
text: Did you know that Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre was President of Guatemala for ten days?
text: Did you know that Acer ferrignoi was named for James Ferrigno, who supplied access to Smithsonian fossils to scientists describing the extinct maple ?
text: Did you know that following the tradition of Urdu poets, Bollywood lyricist Naqsh Lyallpuri took his surname from his birthplace , and his family also adopted it?
text: Did you know that performances at the Minnesota Fringe Festival have taken place in a loading dock, a bedroom, a bathroom, and a moving car?
text: Did you know that the Amur hedgehog makes pig-like grunts as it searches for food?
text: Did you know that 17th-century Polish poet Anna Stanisławska wrote about her life and three marriages as a series of 77 laments ?
text: Did you know that defensive back Jeff Allen was traded twice during his career, but played for neither of the teams that traded for him?
text: Did you know that Sir John Rogerson's Quay , a private development in 18th-century Dublin, became home to a 19th-century diving bell used to further develop Dublin's quays ?
text: Did you know that the constellation Frederici Honores was established to honour Frederick the Great ?
text: Did you know that the six-year reign of the caliph al-Muktafi saw the Abbasid Caliphate recover the territories of Egypt and Syria , marking the last revival in its fortunes before its collapse?
text: Did you know that Mexican actor and professional wrestler Tonina Jackson was so popular that a soft drink was named after him?
text: Did you know that the U.S. government temporary funding bill passed in December also contained provisions to expedite the approval process for James Mattis as Secretary of Defense ?
text: Did you know that Antonio Fantuzzi 's "mildly licentious" etching of Mars and Venus Bathing (c. 1543) probably copies a painting in the six-room bath suite of the Palace of Fontainebleau ?
text: Did you know that the fossil maple Acer lincolnense has leaves divided into three leaflets?
text: Did you know that while he was trained in classical French cuisine at Le Cordon Bleu , Israeli chef Erez Komarovsky prefers to cook with "couscous, olive oil, and goat cheese"?
text: Did you know that Sept répons des ténèbres , sacred music by Francis Poulenc , was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and premiered after the composer's death?
text: Did you know that since its 2007 debut in the United States, the Rumbler siren has been adopted by emergency services in Australia and Singapore?
text: Did you know that one edition of Lenni Brenner's book Zionism in the Age of the Dictators has on its cover a medal commemorating a visit to Palestine by Nazi SS Officer Leopold von Mildenstein ?
text: Did you know that John I Doukas , ruler of Thessaly , sneaked out of his fortress during a siege, disguised as a groom seeking a stray horse?
text: Did you know that the Neurological Society of India was founded in 1951 by Jacob Chandy , Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi , S. T. Narasimhan , and Baldev Singh , pioneers of epilepsy surgery in India?
text: Did you know that the Aztec thrush , a vagrant to the United States, was first recorded there more than 100 years after it was described in Mexico?
text: Did you know that the British botanist Professor William Stearn never attended university nor earned a degree, because his family was too poor?
text: Did you know that the Swiss government made detailed plans to acquire and test nuclear weapons during the Cold War ?
text: Did you know that offensive lineman Ian Allen retired from professional football to pursue a music career?
text: Did you know that drawing the graphic novel diary Dendō helped Brittany Long Olsen cope with "raw and emotional" moments on her LDS mission in Japan?
text: Did you know that " Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit ", a hymn by the Protestant reformer Martin Luther based on Psalm 124 , appears in the current Protestant hymnal only partly, within stanzas from a colleague's hymn ?
text: Did you know that an interactive exhibit about the life and work of David Hawkins was called "Cultivate the Scientist in Every Child"?
text: Did you know that at the establishment of Bahía Portete National Natural Park , Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos said, "Biodiversity is to Colombia what oil is for the Arabs"?
text: Did you know that Sophie Molineux won the inaugural Betty Wilson Young Cricketer of the Year Award at the 2017 Allan Border Medal Ceremony ?
text: Did you know that historical comet observations in China as far back as 12 BC have been used to study changes in the brightness of Halley's Comet ?
text: Did you know that poems by Martin Greif inspired music by Max Reger , Alban Berg , Anton Webern , and possibly Gustav Mahler ?
text: Did you know that by royal edict, only members of certain families could be masters in the guild for makers of Limoges enamel ?
text: Did you know that at 14 years of age, Minami Itahashi was the youngest person to win a springboard diving event at the Japanese national championships?
text: Did you know that New York's Constitution Marsh , an Important Bird Area , is adjacent to what was once "the most cadmium polluted site in the world"?
text: Did you know that King Razadarit once sent Queen Thuddhamaya in a golden litter to one of his top commanders, despite her objections?
text: Did you know that Laguna del Maule is a volcanic field in Chile that has been inflating at a rapid pace during the last decade?
text: Did you know that the Ethiopian Debo Band was founded by amateur klezmer musicians?
text: Did you know that the Superfest International Disability Film Festival is the longest-running disability film festival in the world?
text: Did you know that the Sulaymi commander Abu'l-A'war led the Arabs to a major naval victory over the Byzantines in the Battle of the Masts ?
text: Did you know that freedom of the press in South Korea has declined since 2010?
text: Did you know that Carlos Fernández Gondín fought against Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista and the United States in the Bay of Pigs Invasion , and afterwards helped found the Communist Party of Cuba ?
text: Did you know that the drawing of Lucifer from the Divine Comedy illustrated by Botticelli depicts the whole story of canto XXXIV, and shows Lucifer's geographical location in Hell?
text: Did you know that the English peace campaigner Betty Tebbs was arrested at the age of 89 for participating in anti- Trident protests?
text: Did you know that high school teacher Gertrude Hull tutored Douglas MacArthur in preparation for passing his entrance examination to West Point ?
text: Did you know that the variegated oil beetle was used as a treatment for rabies in the 19th century?
text: Did you know that the victims of the Kragujevac massacre in Serbia included 144 high school students?
text: Did you know that the Canadian government invests millions of dollars in First Nations communities to close the digital divide in Canada ?
text: Did you know that Charoen Krung Road was built because foreign consuls complained of not having a road for their carriages in Bangkok ?
text: Did you know that Robert Boyd missed out on the scoop of a lifetime but won a Pulitzer Prize in the process?
text: Did you know that the Neurological Society of India was founded in 1951 by Jacob Chandy , Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi , S. T. Narasimhan , and Baldev Singh , pioneers of epilepsy surgery in India?
text: Did you know that the character Komui Lee in the manga series D.Gray-man is based on the author 's boss?
text: Did you know that emotional lability can be seen in conditions such as personality disorder , bipolar disorder , ADHD , and alcohol intoxication, or after a stroke ?
text: Did you know that despite being shot in the back and witnessing atrocities as a child soldier in South Sudan, Deng Adut is now a defence lawyer in Australia?
text: Did you know that Laguna del Maule is a volcanic field in Chile that has been inflating at a rapid pace during the last decade?
text: Did you know that George Drumm wrote " Hail, America " while riding the New York City Subway ?
text: Did you know that Carlos Enrique Díaz de León , president of Guatemala for two days, once refused a bribe of US$200,000?
text: Did you know that a 2011 takeover of the Universidad Autónoma Intercultural de Sinaloa in Mexico by protesting students lasted for two months?
text: Did you know that the composer Peter Janssens subtitled his Menschensohn ( Son of man ) a " Sacro-Pop-Musical "?
text: Did you know that you can go directly from Aqueduct Racetrack to Manhattan , but not directly back?
text: Did you know that Elijah, archbishop of Nisibis , befriended the Abbasid vizier and recorded their conversations in his Book of Sessions ?
text: Did you know that some specimens of the fossil egg Macroolithus have been found with embryos of oviraptorid dinosaurs inside?
text: Did you know that under the 1850–1903 Oudh Bequest , six million rupees were transferred from the Indian kingdom of Oudh to the Shia holy cities of Najaf and Karbala ?
text: Did you know that Tilo Medek set Lenin's Decree on Peace for speaking voice and four percussionists, and wrote an opera based on a Böll novel ?
text: Did you know that the Precordillera Platform in Argentina may have originally broken off from rocks that are now in the southeastern United States?
text: Did you know that in the late 1970s Beryl Rawson used computers to analyse the family life of Roman slaves?
text: Did you know that the Big Sur Land Trust pioneered the "conservation buyer" method of preserving land, saving thousands of acres in Big Sur from possible development?
text: Did you know that scholars have debated whether the mysterious Third Murderer in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth was Macbeth himself?
text: Did you know that visitors to the collection at The House of Houdini can gain admittance only by decoding a secret message on their admission ticket?
text: Did you know that Christopher R. W. Nevinson was described by Charles Lewis Hind as "among the most discussed, most successful, most promising, most admired and most hated British artists"?
text: Did you know that the Chinese variety store Miniso was co-founded by a Japanese designer and a Chinese entrepreneur?
text: Did you know that Jain figure Bahubali is said to have meditated motionless in a standing posture for a year, during which time climbing plants grew around his legs?
text: Did you know that stockpiles of United States Marine Corps weapons and equipment are stored in caves in Norway as part of a Marine Corps Prepositioning Program ?
text: Did you know that Pasang Lhamu Sherpa , one of the first Nepali women to climb K2 , was named after the first Nepali woman to climb Everest ?
text: Did you know that during the Wilcox rebellion of 1889 , Robert Napuʻuako Boyd was shot and wounded in the head, but survived to testify against his fellow conspirators?
text: Did you know that Scott McCloud 's webcomic The Right Number requires readers to zoom in on each panel to view the next one?
text: Did you know that Patrick Eagar took photographs at 325 Test matches , including 98 Ashes matches ?
text: Did you know that TLC member Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes threatened to wear black tape over her mouth on the music video for " Creep " because she opposed the song's lyrical content?
text: Did you know that democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz was toppled by a CIA-sponsored coup in 1954 ?
text: Did you know that the 1953 Chinese painting The Founding Ceremony of the Nation was modified and even repainted, as some of those depicted were purged from government and later rehabilitated?
text: Did you know that William T. Greenough is called a "towering figure in neuroscience" for showing that the structure of the brain changes throughout one's entire life, and not just in infancy?
text: Did you know that a documentary on Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen 's troubled 1972 concert tour was completed in 1974 but released theatrically in 2017?
text: Did you know that Koh-i-Sultan volcano in Pakistan last erupted approximately 90,000 years ago and still displays fumarolic activity?
text: Did you know that educational video game Opening Night allowed young players to direct their own plays?
text: Did you know that St. Peter's Church, Colombo , was previously used as a banquet hall by the Dutch?
text: Did you know that Amy Richlin teaches ancient sex?
text: Did you know that the six-year reign of the caliph al-Muktafi saw the Abbasid Caliphate recover the territories of Egypt and Syria , marking the last revival in its fortunes before its collapse?
text: Did you know that a megaflood from ancient Lake Atna 17,000 years ago may have contributed to the devastation caused by the 1964 Alaska earthquake ?
text: Did you know that Sandra Tayler wrote Hold on to Your Horses to help her daughter "visualize and control her impulsive ideas"?
text: Did you know that the Ras Al-Khair Power and Desalination Plant in Saudi Arabia is the world's largest hybrid desalination plant?
text: Did you know that Compendium ferculorum by Stanisław Czerniecki is the first cookbook written originally in Polish?
text: Did you know that Saint Anne's Guest Home is reputed to be haunted by a nun?
text: Did you know that the anti-cancer drug ixazomib can be metabolized by at least eight different enzymes ?
text: Did you know that Red Army commander August Kork served as an Imperial Russian Army staff officer in World War I?
text: Did you know that Estocolmo is the first Argentine television series to be premiered by Netflix ?
text: Did you know that injury denied Lorne Crerar a full international cap as a player, but 20 years later he took part in two Rugby World Cup Finals as a judicial officer?
text: Did you know that from the 9th to the late 11th centuries, the droungarios of the Imperial Fleet headed the main fleet of the Byzantine navy , stationed at Constantinople ?
text: Did you know that siderography , a process to produce counterfeit-resistant banknotes, was submitted for an 1817 Bank of England contest in an era when English banknotes were known as "filthy rags"?
text: Did you know that Cho Hŏn , a Joseon dynasty official and righteous army leader, died in the Imjin War ?
text: Did you know that the catalogue of compositions by Francis Poulenc , published in 1995 by Carl B. Schmidt, contains Concert champêtre , FP 49 , inspired by the harpsichordist Wanda Landowska ?
text: Did you know that Yamuna Eri , a Sri Lankan monument in Jaffna , is so named for the sacred waters added to it from India's Yamuna River in the thirteenth century AD?
text: Did you know that Giovanni Antonio da Brescia probably made the first print of Laocoön and His Sons , the famous statue excavated in Rome in 1506?
text: Did you know that Goethe was present at the French victory in the Battle of Valmy and judged it to be the beginning of "a new epoch in the history of the world"?
text: Did you know that the 1960 crime film Private Property was "condemned" by the National Legion of Decency ?
text: Did you know that Jaffna kingdom lost sovereignty over Mannar Island after the first invasion by the Portuguese in 1560 ?
text: Did you know that Czech-Israeli food technology researcher Zdenka Samish said that every fruit and vegetable can be made into jam?
text: Did you know that Thompson Snell & Passmore holds the world record for being the oldest continually operating law firm still in existence?
text: Did you know that the white-headed robin-chat is the only African robin with an entirely white head?
text: Did you know that the bisexual journalist Edith Shackleton Heald was W. B. Yeats ' mistress, and lived with the openly lesbian artist Gluck for 32 years?
text: Did you know that the Oriental Desert Express is equipped with shovels to help clear sand off the railroad tracks?
text: Did you know that while English composers often combine "Mag and Nunc", Arvo Pärt set his Magnificat for Berlin and his Nunc dimittis later for the Edinburgh Episcopal Cathedral ?
text: Did you know that the Revolutionary Communist Party of India (Tagore) fell out of favour due to its isolation from other left-wing groups?
text: Did you know that according to historian Stefan Winter , al-Makzun al-Sinjari is "perhaps the most prominent individual in Alawite history"?
text: Did you know that Wesley Snipes had been interested in portraying the Black Panther in film for more than 20 years, before Marvel Studios officially announced Black Panther in 2014 with Chadwick Boseman in the role?
text: Did you know that the East German actress Sonja Kehler , who was known for singing Brecht , taught acting in Denmark?
text: Did you know that China's Five Water Gods may have originated from a misunderstood surname?
text: Did you know that approximately 80% of residents of Lusaka , Zambia , live in kombonis ?
text: Did you know that crab apples were regarded as talismans against Wen Shen , the Chinese god of pestilence?
text: Did you know that the ancient Clattern Bridge was a medieval football goal and scolds were ducked there too?
text: Did you know that the bass Thomas Thomaschke appeared as Wagner's Hunding at La Scala , as Mozart's Sarastro in Glyndebourne , and recorded Bach's Mit Fried und Freud with Harnoncourt ?
text: Did you know that " to rob Peter to pay Paul " means to eliminate one debt by incurring another?
text: Did you know that Major General James N. Post III flew over 4,000 hours in the F-16 Falcon ?
text: Did you know that female dusky bushbabies carry their infants in their mouths and sometimes "park" them on branches near their nest holes?
text: Did you know that the oldest bar in Arizona, The Palace Restaurant and Saloon in Prescott, played host to Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday in the late 1870s before they moved on to Tombstone?
text: Did you know that a monument on Chenail Island honours the families that lived there before much of the island was submerged?
text: Did you know that Vanda Hybnerová was named Best Actress in a Play at the 2004 Thalia Awards for her performance in Proof ?
text: Did you know that a critic of the didactic comic strip Goofus and Gallant observed that the "obnoxious" Goofus may appeal to children more than the "do-gooder" Gallant?
text: Did you know that after being granted a wildcard entry, Australian high diver Rhiannan Iffland went on to win the 2016 Cliff Diving World Series championship in her rookie year?
text: Did you know that the extinct maple Acer taggarti was first described from 13 fossils, 6 of which were fruits?
text: Did you know that All India Gorkha League leader Deo Prakash Rai was denounced as a communist agent and deported from Malaya in 1950?
text: Did you know that Gwen Stefani and Justin Timberlake 's song " What U Workin' With? " was first revealed through a surprise post on Timberlake's Instagram account?
text: Did you know that Hugh de Beauchamp is considered to be the first feudal baron of Bedford?
text: Did you know that Ted Meines assumed the identity of a deceased minister to avoid arrest in the Netherlands during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Woody Harrelson 's Lost in London became the first film broadcast into theaters live?
text: Did you know that Alex Vincent 's role in Cult of Chucky (2017) is his first principal role in the franchise since Child's Play 2 (1990)?
text: Did you know that economics professor Carolyn Shaw Bell established a model that sent a disproportionate number of students at Wellesley College into careers in economics and business?
text: Did you know that Llullaillaco is a historically active volcano and the highest archaeological site in the world?
text: Did you know that the 1859 by-election in Dunedin , New Zealand, was won by James Macandrew , who had precipitated it with his resignation from office?
text: Did you know that in 1999 Lucy Dudko hijacked a helicopter to break out her lover from Silverwater Correctional Complex in Sydney ?
text: Did you know that myriad recipes for corn chowder began circulating in U.S. cookbooks after a recipe for the dish was published in the Boston Cook Book in 1884?
text: Did you know that Lucius Caesennius Sospes probably received the cognomen Sospes ("safe and sound") from an event in his childhood?
text: Did you know that adult pumpkin beetles feed on the foliage of cucurbits , sometimes cutting and removing circular discs?
text: Did you know that Egyptologist Caroline Ransom Williams supervised the reception and installation of the Tomb of Perneb at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ?
text: Did you know that Richard B. Wright was nominated for the Governor General's Awards and the Scotiabank Giller Prize for The Age of Longing (1995), but eventually won both for Clara Callan (2001)?
text: Did you know that Jackie Evancho is set to become the youngest performer ever at Café Carlyle when she performs songs from her new album Two Hearts in April?
text: Did you know that Ron Hackenberger is selling his collection of 700 vehicles, including over 250 Studebakers ?
text: Did you know that the Sierra de las Quijadas National Park contains a Lagerstätte -type fossil site, particularly famous for its pterosaurs ?
text: Did you know that the publication of Earl Mazo 's series of exposés on election fraud in the 1960 United States Presidential Election was stopped following the intervention of Richard Nixon ?
text: Did you know that the soprano Leonore Kirschstein appeared as Alice Ford, with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Falstaff ?
text: Did you know that President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent a congratulatory telegram upon the opening of the Bonfils Memorial Theatre in Denver ?
text: Did you know that Joaquín Vargas Gómez opened a restaurant in a retired North Star DC-4 parked near the Mexico City International Airport ?
text: Did you know that use of the code phrase " London Bridge is down " will signal the death of Queen Elizabeth II ?
text: Did you know that Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton used liquid methane experimentally to power a bus?
text: Did you know that the Revolutionary Communist Party of India attacked the Dum Dum Airfield in 1949?
text: Did you know that in Mozart's early Piano Concerto in B-flat major , two oboes play in the outer movements, and two flutes instead in the Andante?
text: Did you know that warning signs and rotating shift work are forms of administrative hazard controls ?
text: Did you know that Spencer Weisz was the Most Valuable Player of the 18-under basketball competition of the 2013 Maccabiah Games ?
text: Did you know that the yellow mangrove is very similar to the Indian mangrove , but the two can be distinguished when in fruit?
text: Did you know that Ken Vining was acquired by the Chicago White Sox as part of the White Flag Trade ?
text: Did you know that the ancient Romans used to bathe a sacred stone in the waters of the Almone on March 27?
text: Did you know that Rosel H. Hyde was the first chairman of the Federal Communications Commission to be reappointed, and the first chairman to be appointed by a president of a different political party?
text: Did you know that the DVD release of Final Destination 3 has a feature called "Choose Their Fate" that acts as an interactive movie , allowing viewers to alter the course of the film's story and the fate of the characters?
text: Did you know that, in 1525, Charles V ordered the conversion of his Muslim subjects in the lands of Aragon , despite having sworn an oath not to do so?
text: Did you know that sociologist James D. Wright co-authored a 1983 study which showed that approximately 1% of privately-owned guns in the United States were used in crime?
text: Did you know that the historic characters in Françoise de Rimini , the last opera by Ambroise Thomas , include not only Francesca da Rimini , but also Dante and Virgil ?
text: Did you know that the English inventor Paul Rapsey Hodge built the first steam fire engine in the United States?
text: Did you know that Captain James Cook thought the now-extinct Tahitian Dog of the Society Islands tasted like English lamb?
text: Did you know that the population of Marysville, Washington , grew five-fold from 1980 to 2000?
text: Did you know that Mel Olson commissioned music from John Rutter for his choirs in Omaha, Nebraska , and traveled to England to discuss his specific wishes with the composer?
text: Did you know that the mythological events of the kuni-yuzuri may be rooted in real historic events?
text: Did you know that despite being severely wounded in the American Civil War in 1864, Armistead Burwell became licensed to practice law five years later?
text: Did you know that King John's Hill , near Alton, Hampshire , is topped by an unusually small Iron Age hillfort , and is thought to have been the site of a hunting lodge of King John ?
text: Did you know that Mr. Trash Wheel removed 19 tons of garbage from Baltimore's Inner Harbor in one day?
text: Did you know that an autonomous underwater vehicle deployed by the MV Havila Harmony during the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 discovered a shipwreck?
text: Did you know that American diplomat Herbert Reiner Jr. played a key role in capturing Mahatma Gandhi 's assassin Nathuram Godse in 1948?
text: Did you know that when the Beethoven Orchester Bonn was founded as a professional orchestra in Beethoven 's hometown in 1907, Richard Strauss conducted his own works?
text: Did you know that the Detroit version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship was one of at least 22 NWA World Tag Team Championships that existed between 1949 and 1991?
text: Did you know that pastor brothers John Blair and Samuel Blair both received their theological education at the Log College ?
text: Did you know that during the Trunajaya rebellion , rebels overran Mataram 's royal court at Plered and took at least 300,000 reals from the treasury?
text: Did you know that Chris Bertish is the first person to complete a stand-up paddle board crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, a 7,400 km (4,600 mi), 93-day journey that put him into The Guiness Book of World Records ?
text: Did you know that Zeynab Begum was one of the most influential princesses of Iran's Safavid dynasty ?
text: Did you know that Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery is buried in the graveyard of the Church of the Holy Cross in Binsted ?
text: Did you know that the American contralto Margarethe Bence appeared as Marcellina at the Salzburg Festival , as Erda in Bayreuth , and in a premiere at the Schwetzingen Festival ?
text: Did you know that the extinct Polynesian Dog never became feral because of the scarcity of food in the forests of Polynesia?
text: Did you know that Robert Lyster Thornton returned to Berkeley in 1942 to assist with the development of the calutron ?
text: Did you know that the spotted imperial pigeon 's specific name carola is derived from the name of a daughter of the ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte ?
text: Did you know that Edward Hutchinson Synge described a theory for a near-field scanning optical microscope in a letter to Albert Einstein fifty years before various corporations sought patents on the technology?
text: Did you know that K. B. Sainis is the Indian representative to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation ?
text: Did you know that male black twig borers normally mate with their sisters?
text: Did you know that Izydor Borowski was born in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth but later rose to the rank of general in Qajar Iran ?
text: Did you know that Arthur Mailey 's best Test bowling figures of 9 wickets for 121 runs has been the Australian cricket record for 96 years ?
text: Did you know that the opera Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen ( Murderer, Hope of Women ) was based on a play by an expressionist artist and was performed with stage set and choreography by a Bauhaus artist ?
text: Did you know that John Blair , who served four times as acting governor of the Colony of Virginia , resigned his life appointment in 1770 so he would not be acting governor a fifth time?
text: Did you know that banana pasta is lower in calories and fat, higher in protein, and less expensive to produce than whole wheat pasta?
text: Did you know that mezzo-soprano Tanja Ariane Baumgartner has portrayed such characters as Schoeck's Penthesilea , and Cassandre in Les Troyens ?
text: Did you know that American folklorist J. Mason Brewer broke the color barrier at the Driskill Hotel when he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters ?
text: Did you know that the blob sculpin is the first egg-laying, deep sea fish known to provide parental care?
text: Did you know that field goals in rugby union , which were worth the same number of points as tries , were abolished in 1905?
text: Did you know that Indonesian Muslim cleric Hasyim Muzadi said that the September 11 attacks were a "tragedy of humanity" and must not be turned into a religious conflict?
text: Did you know that Abraham Lincoln's "immense" hearse was escorted by 160,000 people as it was drawn through New York City?
text: Did you know that classical scholar Miriam T. Griffin believes that the Roman emperor Nero was hounded by fear, panic, and persecutory delusions at the end of his reign?
text: Did you know that convicted murderer David Martin Long was on life support two days before he was executed?
text: Did you know that Sébastien Bourdais won the 2017 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg after starting in last place?
text: Did you know that Y. D. Sharma established a genomic library of Plasmodium vivax , a protozoan parasite, at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi?
text: Did you know that the title of Edna O'Brien 's book, The Little Red Chairs , refers to performance art commemorating the 11,541 victims of Radovan Karadžić ?
text: Did you know that Canadian football player Dave Amer played as a quarterback, running back, slotback, and tight end at various points in his career?
text: Did you know that Guillotière Cemetery in Lyon , France, was mistakenly bombed by the American military during the Second World War?
text: Did you know that the Sacramento Valley Development Association built a life-sized bear out of prunes for the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair ?
text: Did you know that Narinder Kumar Mehra identified that a subtype of the serotype HLA-DR2 made humans susceptible to diseases such as leprosy and tuberculosis ?
text: Did you know that the 17th-century German hymn " Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan " has been described as "one of the most exquisite strains of pious resignation ever written"?
text: Did you know that Canadian Football League player Randy Ambrosie helped oversee the league's expansion into the United States ?
text: Did you know that despite the loss of Trunajaya 's rebel court at the Battle of Surabaya , his forces captured and sacked the Mataram royal court one month later?
text: Did you know that Chris Cate is the first Asian American to serve as a San Diego City Council member in decades?
text: Did you know that a protostar in the Sh2-297 nebula is driving an outflow of gas more massive than the Sun?
text: Did you know that suffragist Jane Maria Strachey was born on a ship off the Cape of Good Hope in 1840?
text: Did you know that the first female British professor of Greek, Dorothy Tarrant , analysed Plato 's style to conclude that he did not write the Socratic dialogue on beauty ?
text: Did you know that the release of Wipeout HD was delayed for a few months because it had failed epilepsy tests ?
text: Did you know that Yu Zigao 's expedition against the Dutch on Penghu Island was responsible for their colonization of Taiwan ?
text: Did you know that the 2015 film Ringan , set against the backdrop of farmers' suicides in India , won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Marathi ?
text: Did you know that Christian ethicist Henlee Hulix Barnette was investigated by the FBI after meeting Nikita Khrushchev and marching with Martin Luther King ?
text: Did you know that the Romans built a temple possibly dedicated to a boar cult within the prehistoric Chanctonbury Ring hillfort ?
text: Did you know that in 2016, footballer Dries Mertens became the first player to score seven goals in two matches in Serie A since Antonio Valentín Angelillo (1958)?
text: Did you know that Blewburton Hill in Oxfordshire features unusual lynchets of unknown age and function?
text: Did you know that civil rights activist Theodora Lacey helped lead the campaign which, in 1964, resulted in Teaneck, New Jersey , becoming the first town in the United States to vote for school integration ?
text: Did you know that the Peñol de Cerquín , a Lenca fortress in southern Honduras, successfully resisted the Spanish conquistadores for months?
text: Did you know that Peter Van Hoesen , an American Civil War deserter, was paid $300 to enlist by a drafted man, and performed a Medal of Honor -worthy deed at Fort Fisher in 1864 for which he got no credit?
text: Did you know that when Siegfried Wagner wrote the libretto for his opera An allem ist Hütchen schuld! , he used themes from many fairy tales?
text: Did you know that Annora Brown was commissioned to paint 200 Albertan wildflowers, some of which are now extinct?
text: Did you know that the 2014 annexation of Crimea by " little green men " was typical of a long history of Russian military deception dating back to the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380?
text: Did you know that the planned Toluca–Mexico City commuter rail suffered four construction accidents in a three-month period in 2016?
text: Did you know that Liza Ferschtman used seven different violins for her "tour de force" performance of the Rosary Sonatas ?
text: Did you know that Roz Chast 's graphic memoir Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? , about her parents in their final years, was No. 1 New York Times Bestseller in 2014?
text: Did you know that Mike Watt chose the Italian band name Il Sogno del Marinaio in honor of his mother's Italian heritage and father's maritime service?
text: Did you know that Susanna Elm ' s book Virgins of God draws on little-known sources such as the Letter to the Virgins Who Went to Jerusalem ?
text: Did you know that proper use of engineering controls should prevent contaminants from being excessively deposited on sticky mats at a laboratory's exits?
text: Did you know that George W. Hooker captured a Confederate troop detachment, consisting of 116 men and their colonel, all by himself?
text: Did you know that Canadian football player Richard Alston both gained and lost a starting role with the Edmonton Eskimos due to dropped passes?
text: Did you know that the most effective way to control a hazard is to eliminate it ?
text: Did you know that Sidney Howe Short produced the first electric motor without gears that operated a streetcar directly from its built-in armature?
text: Did you know that Karl Kessler 's 1874 description of the Balkhash perch as a new species was based on specimens collected on Alexander von Schrenk 's expedition to Turkestan in 1842?
text: Did you know that though the onion thrips is tiny, it is the most serious insect pest attacking onion crops in the tropics?
text: Did you know that Susannah Fox , the U.S. government's former chief health technology executive , cited the maker movement as a promising source of future healthcare innovation?
text: Did you know that Free Radio presenter Andy Goulding thought that " Scared of the Dark " by Steps should have been the United Kingdom's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 ?
text: Did you know that although Thomas Hjalmar Westgård was born and raised in Norway, he competes internationally in cross-country skiing for Ireland?
text: Did you know that Fulham Refuge was the "most distinctively feminine of the early convict prisons"?
text: Did you know that the 1991 mayoral election in West Palm Beach was the city's first direct election for mayor since 1919?
text: Did you know that in 1994, the fantasy novel The Kingdom of Kevin Malone by Suzy McKee Charnas won the Mythopoeic Society Award in the Children's Literature category?
text: Did you know that Robert Lockhart Hobson compiled catalogues of the British Museum 's English pottery and porcelain?
text: Did you know that the Mayiladuthurai–Coimbatore Jan Shatabdi Express is the first train in South India to use solar-powered coaches?
text: Did you know that basketball player LaMelo Ball once scored 92 points in a single game, prompting Charles Barkley to criticize the way he did it?
text: Did you know that Hans Larwin painted Soldat und Tod in 1917 when he was the official war painter for the Austria-Hungary dual monarchy ?
text: Did you know that fossils from the Paleocene period have been found near Saunders Creek, Alberta , including an upper molar from a possible pantodont ?
text: Did you know that the voice of Hawaiian soprano Nani Alapai was compared to the music of the singing snails ?
text: Did you know that a Taiwanese religious movement teaching feng shui and I Ching since 1984 now has around 300,000 members?
text: Did you know that the American Leonie Turpeau, the Nicaraguan Maymie de Mena , and the Jamaican Madame Aiken were the same person?
text: Did you know that in the upcoming film LAbyrinth , Johnny Depp portrays a detective investigating the murders of Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. ?
text: Did you know that Denver , Colorado, philanthropist Helen Bonfils inherited US$14 million from her father and US$10 million from her mother?
text: Did you know that Lutheran children's educator Magdalena Heymair was the first woman to have her works listed as heretical in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ?
text: Did you know that the United States gave nuclear weapons to Britain as part of Project E ?
text: Did you know that Undurti Narasimha Das provided evidence that gamma-linolenic acid inhibited the progress of human gliomas ?
text: Did you know that gridiron football player Ronnie Amadi played alongside his brother, Donnie Amadi, in high school and college?
text: Did you know that Max Reger recorded some of his 52 Chorale Preludes, Op. 67 , on the Welte Philharmonic organ ?
text: Did you know that Mary Ivy Burks has been called the "mother of Alabama wilderness"?
text: Did you know that an AT&T Corporation Project Office in North Carolina was built with rubber plumbing?
text: Did you know that Albert Horne conducted Gershwin's Porgy and Bess for the Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden , with the chorus of the Cape Town Opera and the Wiesbaden orchestra ?
text: Did you know that Nancy Run in Northampton County, Pennsylvania , is named after an old fortune teller?
text: Did you know that Japanese voice actress Miyu Tomita was a member of her school's manga research club?
text: Did you know that the Angolan African dormouse usually dwells in trees, but has been found in the roof of a hut and in an old beehive?
text: Did you know that in the mid-1800s, French scientist Félix Archimède Pouchet believed air itself was able to generate life?
text: Did you know that Bob Dylan 's " Nothing Was Delivered " has inspired interpretations ranging from a failed drug deal to Judas Iscariot 's betrayal of Jesus ?
text: Did you know that Shyam Swarup Agarwal studied the genetic effects of the Bhopal gas tragedy ?
text: Did you know that a mountain fortress called Orange One was built for use by the President of the United States in emergency situations?
text: Did you know that the mezzo-soprano Iris Vermillion , who became known for Mozart roles with Harnoncourt in 1988, received a prize for her portrayal of Schoeck's Penthesilea at the Semperoper 20 years later?
text: Did you know that Mendip Hospital in Somerset was built in 1848 for 350 patients, but became crowded within a few years of opening?
text: Did you know that the Day of Potsdam was used by the Nazis to symbolize continuity with German history?
text: Did you know that the Sack of Shamakhi was used as the casus belli by the Russian Empire in order to launch the Russo-Persian War of 1722–1723 ?
text: Did you know that 50 years after a mural by Fay E. Davis depicting Native Americans in battle was installed in the post office in Oglesby, Illinois , a janitor claimed it was pornographic?
text: Did you know that the unroofing of hundreds of homes by Cyclone Althea in December 1971 prompted Queensland to overhaul its state-wide building codes?
text: Did you know that the porch of Clapton Court in Somerset is two centuries older than the rest of the house?
text: Did you know that in 1938, Georg Thurmair co-published the hymnal Kirchenlied , which had an ecumenical approach and became the germ cell for a common German Catholic hymnal?
text: Did you know that the Micronesian imperial pigeon barks, moans, and coos?
text: Did you know that Bonnie Burnard 's 1999 debut novel, A Good House , won the Scotiabank Giller Prize ?
text: Did you know that the phonograph and gramophone company Edison Bell was required to use Edison 's name?
text: Did you know that Abraham Lincoln probably named his horse Old Bob to differentiate it from his son, " Young Bob "?
text: Did you know that in Operation Hurricane , an atomic bomb was exploded in the hull of HMS Plym ?
text: Did you know that although Parmenian is considered by some historians to be the most important Donatist writer of his day, none of his works survive?
text: Did you know that Petra Hřebíčková was named Best Actress in a Play at the 2008 Thalia Awards ?
text: Did you know that the original Nakatsu Castle was destroyed in a fire in 1877, and the current structure was built in 1964?
text: Did you know that Canadian football player Jeff Almon was drafted by the Calgary Stampeders after leaving a favourable impression on coach Mike Benevides , whom he happened to be seated near on a flight?
text: Did you know that TLC rapper Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes wrote two verses for the song " Kick Your Game ", recapping a dialogue between herself and someone who was trying to flirt but did not "pass the cleverness test"?
text: Did you know that after the disappearance of Dora Bloch , Britain cut all diplomatic ties with Uganda?
text: Did you know that in 17th-century French medicine , hospitals were not staffed by doctors, but mostly by sisters from the Daughters of Charity ?
text: Did you know that in 1945, Lieutenant James B. Thayer and his platoon liberated the Gunskirchen Lager concentration camp , saving thousands of Jewish and political prisoners from starvation?
text: Did you know that the Somerset building Wraxall Court was a house for hundreds of years before becoming a convalescent home, then student residences and then a private house again?
text: Did you know that Canadian football player Jim Ambrose collapsed during a game and later died due to inflammation of the brain ?
text: Did you know that the unroofing of hundreds of homes by Cyclone Althea in December 1971 prompted Queensland to overhaul its state-wide building codes?
text: Did you know that while exploring whether a person's name affects the job they choose , Don Celender wrote to a dentist named Toothman and a rectal surgeon named Butts?
text: Did you know that the family of Yue Yi-chin , a Chinese flying ace of the Second Sino-Japanese War , claim to be descended from the Song dynasty general and folk hero Yue Fei ?
text: Did you know that the top-three finishers in the 2010 Pepsi Max 400 all drove Chevrolets ?
text: Did you know that Therese Benedek submitted to a five-month training analysis under an associate of Freud before embarking on her own career in psychoanalysis ?
text: Did you know that the Church of Scientology used espionage, front groups, private detectives, and over 2,500 lawsuits to gain tax exemption in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Euclidean space can be completely filled without overlaps by copies of any plesiohedron , a type of convex shape whose known examples have up to 38 sides?
text: Did you know that Richard Nixon and his longtime valet, Manuel "Manolo" Sanchez , sometimes communicated using "words that only the two of them understood"?
text: Did you know that according to local lore, Texarkana 's Ace of Clubs House was built with US$10,000 won in a game of poker with an ace of clubs ?
text: Did you know that Charmian Gooch 's investigation into the Cambodian timber trade deprived Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge regime of US$90 million a year?
text: Did you know that a new electrical substation in Seattle will feature a dog park, a theater, a walking path, and public art?
text: Did you know that Théophile Schuler illustrated Verne , Hugo , and an alphabet for children?
text: Did you know that Beacon Hill , on the South Downs in West Sussex , supports the remains of a Bronze Age hillfort, an Anglo-Saxon burial mound, and a late 18th-century telegraph station?
text: Did you know that a hat-trick was taken during Phillip Gillespie 's first-class debut as a cricket umpire?
text: Did you know that despite the Reich Ministry of Transport running trains to extermination camps during the Holocaust , the US later ruled some of their personnel only had "lukewarm" connections to the Nazi Party?
text: Did you know that crossword compiler William Lutwiniak was promoted to sergeant the same day he joined the army?
text: Did you know that Birdy , the first feature film partially shot with the Skycam camera system, was described by a reviewer as "a heavy adult drama about best friends and the after-effects of war"?
text: Did you know that gunmen of Mexican drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes shot down a Mexican Army helicopter using a rocket-propelled grenade ?
text: Did you know that the 2017 Manchester Gorton by-election was called after the death of the Father of the House ?
text: Did you know that the Adiyogi Shiva statue is the world's tallest bust of the Hindu god Shiva ?
text: Did you know that fans of the composer and conductor Robert Farnon attended tapings of the television series Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town to hear his instrumentals?
text: Did you know that gas chromatography–mass spectrometry equipment, first developed by Robert E. Finnigan , was fundamental to the EPA 's ability to carry out environmental testing in the 1970s?
text: Did you know that video game character Chris Redfield was suspected of abusing steroids ?
text: Did you know that Joe Biden went door-to-door with Stephanie Hansen to help her win a recent special election to the Delaware Senate ?
text: Did you know that the Rhodesian folk song " The U.D.I. Song " was written by a Northern Rhodesian and first performed by a South African?
text: Did you know that Rafael Brache was declared a traitor to the Dominican Republic for denouncing the " parsley massacre "?
text: Did you know that the founders of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund are husband and wife?
text: Did you know that Villa-Lobos State Park in São Paulo , named after composer Heitor Villa-Lobos , was created on the site of a landfill in 1989 and now has around 37,000 trees?
text: Did you know that Archibald Spencer introduced Benjamin Franklin to the study of electricity, and was his mentor?
text: Did you know that Lincoln City's win over Burnley meant that they became the first non-league football club to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals in 103 years?
text: Did you know that Luther Bradley was considered the most prominent political cartoonist opposing America's involvement in World War I?
text: Did you know that it is unknown if the Dehn invariant of a flexible polyhedron stays invariant as it flexes?
text: Did you know that John Rutter set Psalm 23 in The Lord is my Shepherd for choir and organ, and later included it in his Requiem ?
text: Did you know that the salumeria originated in Italy and dates to the Middle Ages ?
text: Did you know that pharyngeal aspiration is a widely used method for studying the respiratory toxicity of carbon nanotubes ?
text: Did you know that Edward C. Cardon was given command of the Second United States Army upon its reactivation in 2014 because he was already commander of the United States Army Cyber Command ?
text: Did you know that a Tofu Curtain divides two neighborhoods in Melbourne and two counties in Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know that although he left school at the age of 14, Paul D'Ortona later served for two decades on the Philadelphia City Council ?
text: Did you know that the Xbox Game Pass has been described as "Netflix for video games"?
text: Did you know that Subramanian Kalyanaraman was the first Indian to receive a PhD in neurosurgery?
text: Did you know that the hymn " Herr Jesu Christ, wahr Mensch und Gott " ("Lord Jesus Christ, true man and God") by the Lutheran Paul Eber appeared in Catholic hymnals from 1567?
text: Did you know that a whole cabbage plant can be devoured by the cabbage cluster caterpillars that hatch from a single egg cluster?
text: Did you know that in 2016, the Parliament of Canada passed a motion condemning Islamophobia in the country ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Sam Adonis has been described as the "most hated man" in Mexico for his pro- Donald Trump character?
text: Did you know that Nuggehalli Raghuveer Moudgal established a Primate Research Laboratory at the Indian Institute of Science in 1965, the then largest primate house in India?
text: Did you know that " Better Place " was inspired by the engagement of Rachel Platten 's sister?
text: Did you know that in the Sasak language , the verb "to eat" differs depending on the social status of the speaker and the addressee?
text: Did you know that gridiron football player Charles Alston was the first college athlete to play in NCAA football and basketball games on the same day?
text: Did you know that the original 1620 "L" shape of Urchinwood Manor was made into a "U" by a mid-17th century extension?
text: Did you know that the fossil elm Ulmus okanaganensis had been tentatively identified as two other plants before it was formally described in 2005?
text: Did you know that the Seattle City Council approved a street vacation for an Amazon.com office building in 2016, provided that a public " free speech zone " be designated at the site?
text: Did you know that Fitzsimons station in Aurora, Colorado , was moved away from the Anschutz Medical Campus after concerns that vibrations and electromagnetic interference from trains would affect research equipment?
text: Did you know that Russian-Jewish banker Avraam Zak received an offer to become deputy finance minister of Russia on condition that he convert to Christianity?
text: Did you know that planar transmission lines were developed for the US military, but can be found today in household mass-produced items such as mobile phones and satellite television receivers?
text: Did you know that the leaf beetle Zygogramma suturalis was introduced into Russia in 1978 in an attempt to control the invasive plant common ragweed ?
text: Did you know that there are approaching one hundred self-portraits by Rembrandt in paintings, etchings, and drawings?
text: Did you know that men and women from the Sidama people sing radically different songs about Queen Furra ?
text: Did you know that 2017 is the 100th anniversary of the composition of " Hail, America " by the German-born George Drumm ?
text: Did you know that the Montreal Alouettes won the 37th Grey Cup in 1949 but did not make the playoffs the following season ?
text: Did you know that the Renault Trezor features a single-piece canopy roof that opens by hinging forward?
text: Did you know that Mary Boggs and her first husband won the competition to create the United States post office mural in Newton, Mississippi ?
text: Did you know that tree debris from Cyclone Tessi in Townsville, Queensland , was processed into 25,000 m 3 (880,000 cu ft) of mulch and used in local botanical gardens?
text: Did you know that the first recorded owner of Greifenstein Castle joined a crusade as penance for assassinating a bishop?
text: Did you know that in 1837, nativist rioters in Boston attacked the Montgomery Guards , an Irish-American militia company?
text: Did you know that Kokichi Sugihara 's illusions make marbles appear to roll uphill and circular pipes look rectangular?
text: Did you know that Alice Bowman , Mission Operations Manager of the New Horizons Pluto exploration mission, is also a bassist and clarinetist ?
text: Did you know that Arachne used a crossword puzzle to protest police corruption in the investigation of the murder of Daniel Morgan ?
text: Did you know that the starfish Diplasterias brucei broods its young until they have developed into juveniles?
text: Did you know that LDS Relief Society president Belle S. Spafford directed the Singing Mothers at the 1964 World's Fair ?
text: Did you know that Viaduto do Chá , São Paulo 's first viaduct, was originally constructed from German iron before being replaced by a concrete span?
text: Did you know that composer Jessica Curry has won a BAFTA award for her video game scores , and has also worked with a Poet Laureate ?
text: Did you know that Rheidol , a former locomotive on the Vale of Rheidol Railway in Wales, was originally called Treze de Maio , after the date that slavery was abolished in Brazil ?
text: Did you know that India's third highest civilian award was bestowed upon Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand in 2017 ?
text: Did you know that Marjorie G. Horning demonstrated that drugs and their metabolites can be transferred from a pregnant woman to her developing child?
text: Did you know that Barbara B. Smith created the Monument to Women Memorial Garden to defend traditional women's values from the perceived threat of the Equal Rights Amendment ?
text: Did you know that the soprano Erna Ellmenreich appeared in the premieres of Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss and of Hindemith's Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen , the latter causing a scandal?
text: Did you know that Rosemary Vrablic has been called " Trump 's personal banker"?
text: Did you know that besides reporting on Aimee Semple McPherson 's visit to Denver in 1921, Helen Marie Black arranged publicity stunts to show off the evangelist's preaching and faith healing skills?
text: Did you know that M2M were going to call themselves M&M until they realised the name was already being used by a type of candy ?
text: Did you know that Perdur Radhakantha Adiga identified N-oxalyldiaminopropionic acid in grass pea as the cause of neurolathyrism ?
text: Did you know that Super flumina Babylonis is the first of Jules Van Nuffel 's psalm settings for choir and organ written for Mechelen Cathedral ?
text: Did you know that Donald L. Cunningham , an original Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court , once lost everything in a fire except for a single office chair?
text: Did you know that the Cão de Gado Transmontano is a giant livestock guardian dog that is used to defend flocks of sheep from the Iberian wolf ?
text: Did you know that the Detachment Hotel nuclear bunker on Peanut Island , Florida, was constructed in less than two weeks?
text: Did you know that a senior British general described Winston Churchill 's proposal to invade Arctic Norway, Operation Jupiter , as "not merely dangerous but useless"?
text: Did you know that the racing game Wipeout Fusion contains 45 race tracks and 32 ship models?
text: Did you know that Rudyard Kipling 's first novel, The Light That Failed , was published in at least four different versions over a two-year period?
text: Did you know that while jailed on charges of violating the Sedition Act , Matthew Lyon was re-elected to Congress ?
text: Did you know that in his cantata Sécheresses , French composer Francis Poulenc set four poems by the English surrealist Edward James ?
text: Did you know that Masashi Kishimoto has a five-step process for drawing the characters for the manga Naruto ?
text: Did you know that the United and Cecil Club , a British dining club, was the single largest donor to Conservative Party candidates in marginal seats in the run-up to the last general election ?
text: Did you know that when completed in June 2017, Küçük Çamlıca TV Radio Tower will replace most of the steel communications masts in the area, which cause visual pollution ?
text: Did you know that J. W. E. Maikai succeeded a Major Funk as Adjutant General to the Forces?
text: Did you know that seen from Bolívar Square , Bogotá , the Sun on the solstices rises directly over Monserrate and Guadalupe , the two best known Eastern Hills ?
text: Did you know that three Bangla Congress ministers, Charu Mihir Sarkar , Bhabatosh Soren , and S.K. Dhara , resigned on the same day in 1970 from the West Bengal government ?
text: Did you know that the Ashkelon dog cemetery , which contains possibly thousands of dog burials, may have been created by an ancient cult that treated dogs as healers?
text: Did you know that according to research by Roger P. Minert , local church records in the United States are more likely than naturalization records to have information about the birthplaces of German immigrants?
text: Did you know that last month, four members of the U.S. House of Representatives formed the Congressional Cannabis Caucus ?
text: Did you know that when the Islamic State captured Qandala in 2016, the group hoisted its flag on the building in which Somali folk hero Ali Fahiye Gedi had been imprisoned for burning the Italian flag in 1914?
text: Did you know that Chinese legend holds that Han Zhuo tried to feed the archer Houyi 's body to his sons and killed them when they refused to eat it?
text: Did you know that investigative journalist Andrew Schneider 's work earned back-to-back Pulitzer Prizes in 1986 and 1987?
text: Did you know that Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball was developed in just 61 days?
text: Did you know that bus rapid transit was chosen for Seattle's RapidRide G Line , because Madison Street was considered too steep for streetcar service?
text: Did you know that Abu Omar al-Turkistani , an al-Qaeda militant from China who fought in the Battle of Tora Bora in Afghanistan, eventually died during the Syrian Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the Packhorse Inn , a Somerset pub, has been designated as an asset of community value ?
text: Did you know that Bobby Egan , the owner of a New Jersey roadside barbecue restaurant, has been criticized for participating in diplomatic negotiations between North Korea and the United States?
text: Did you know that a tiny embryonic skeleton found inside the fossil dinosaur egg Continuoolithus died approximately 8 to 10 days into development, making it the youngest fossil vertebrate ever discovered?
text: Did you know that Alice Hirson played Eileen Riley Siegel , an Irish Catholic married to a Jew, on the soap opera One Life to Live ?
text: Did you know that the early Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone by Francis Poulenc was described as offering a "variety of tone colors, striking rhythms, delicious dissonances, and elegant wit"?
text: Did you know that Bill Gulley , who for years was responsible for the nuclear football , was officially on the U.S. Post Office payroll, to make the president's staff look smaller than it was?
text: Did you know that Loch Ewe Distillery in Drumchork was allowed to open in 2006 with stills over 90% smaller than the legal minimum, due to a loophole in the 1786 Wash Act?
text: Did you know that construction on the 179th Street terminal station on the New York City Subway's Queens Boulevard Line was delayed for almost 20 years?
text: Did you know that every single ballot cast for the Canadian Football League all-star team in 1989 included a vote for Gerald Alphin , but he did not make the squad?
text: Did you know that the first three video game titles in the popular edutainment franchise Carmen Sandiego saw players chase Carmen and her henchmen across the world (1985), the United States (1986), and Europe (1988)?
text: Did you know that the aged, hernia-afflicted Alecu Filipescu-Vulpea reportedly ran in the Wallachian princely election only to hamper other candidates?
text: Did you know that AllMusic thought Phil Collins ' " Two Worlds ", featured in Disney's 1999 animated movie Tarzan , "eerily echo[ed]" the worldbeats of former Genesis bandmate Peter Gabriel ?
text: Did you know that the only player strike in Japanese professional baseball history occurred during the 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball realignment and lasted for two days?
text: Did you know that Julian Radcliffe is the founder of the world's largest private database of lost and stolen art ?
text: Did you know that the 1887 book Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising presents 177 biographies of African American men, many of whom were born as slaves?
text: Did you know that judge William Henry Daniels committed suicide in 1897, three years after being dismissed for not taking an oath of allegiance to the Provisional Government of Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that Paludititan is a Romanian island dwarf ?
text: Did you know that Tony Collins became the first black manager in the English Football League when he was appointed by Rochdale in 1960?
text: Did you know that the rock dormouse sometimes lives in association with rock hyraxes ?
text: Did you know that The Globe and Mail called Canadian football player Waymon Alridge "the newest Rider star" after he caught passes for 75 and 90 yards in a single game?
text: Did you know that Count Basie 's " Jumpin' at the Woodside " is about a Harlem hotel where African American jazz musicians and baseball players stayed during racial segregation ?
text: Did you know that Canadian-American student Shmuel Schecter finished his four-year high school requirements in three years so that he could go to Poland to study at the Mir Yeshiva at the age of seventeen?
text: Did you know that The Trumpeteers ' cover of " Milky White Way " reached number eight on the Billboard "Race Records" chart ?
text: Did you know that if the sun anemone shrimp is separated from its host for more than 24 hours, it loses its immunity to the sea anemone's stinging cells?
text: Did you know that grey-hooded parakeets make twittering and warbling sounds similar to those made by barn swallows ?
text: Did you know that a painting of Hilo Bay by Joseph Nāwahī , the first Native Hawaiian to paint in the Western style, was featured on the Antiques Roadshow ?
text: Did you know that Buddy Alliston won the 1958 Shrimp Bowl with the Eglin Air Force Base football team after pausing his professional career to join the military?
text: Did you know that in seven last pieces for organ, Sieben Stücke , Op. 145 , Max Reger quotes Lutheran chorales and a patriotic anthem?
text: Did you know that the Can You Hear Me? telephone scam reported by CBS News was subsequently classified as "unproven" by Snopes ?
text: Did you know that the Romanian Senate election of 1868 , which consolidated the "reddish" liberal legislature, was held in July, when many conservative voters had left on vacation?
text: Did you know that Ramen Street is located in a basement?
text: Did you know that Joey Fischer was murdered after he refused to take US$500 to date his ex-girlfriend?
text: Did you know that the Church of the Ascension, Lower Broughton , was built in 1869 and was recently restored, only for its roof and interior to be destroyed by fire in February 2017?
text: Did you know that most members of the woodpecker family have four toes on each foot, but the rufous piculet and the white-browed piculet have just three?
text: Did you know that TROPEX 2017 witnessed the participation of forty-five major surface ships , five submarines, and fifty aircraft from the Indian Navy 's Western and Eastern Naval Command ?
text: Did you know that " Es woll uns Gott genädig sein ", a paraphrase by Martin Luther of Psalm 67 in German, appeared in the Erfurt Enchiridion in 1524?
text: Did you know that during the American Civil War , William V. Rinehart served as an officer in both the 1st Oregon Volunteer Cavalry Regiment and 1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment ?
text: Did you know that software company Lucas Learning did not know whether to market Star Wars: Droid Works on retailers' "game" or "education" shelves?
text: Did you know that Yale University architecture professor Louis Kahn said he would have given a failing grade to Uris Buildings Corporation 's Three Penn Center?
text: Did you know that the use of puns by Peter Adamson in his History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps series, has been both praised and criticized?
text: Did you know that HMS Pearl escorted troops to Kip's Bay during the American Revolutionary War in September 1776?
text: Did you know that actor Ryan Phillippe played Billy Douglas in his first professional acting role on the American soap opera One Life to Live , one of the first gay teenage characters in television?
text: Did you know that Alexander the Great , King of Macedon , besieged the Illyrians at Pelion (in modern Albania ) in 335 BC, a year before waging war against the Achaemenid Empire ?
text: Did you know that Printer's Devilry crossword puzzles were among Ximenes ' most popular, even though they break Ximenes' rules of cryptic crossword setting?
text: Did you know that economist Susan Dynarski , who advocates for simplifying the US Federal Student Aid application process, was the first member of her family to attend college?
text: Did you know that M. J. Thirumalachar named two genera of fungi he discovered, Narasimhania and Narasimhella , after his father, M. J. Narasimhan?
text: Did you know that readers requested that Glenn McCoy be terminated from the Belleville News-Democrat after the newspaper published his editorial cartoon, Trying to trash Betsy DeVos ?
text: Did you know that the Northern Ireland Assembly will lose 18 MLAs because of the Assembly Members (Reduction of Numbers) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 , effective at the snap election today?
text: Did you know that professional American football player Butch Allison was the brother of another professional athlete?
text: Did you know that Akatombo , or "Red Dragonfly", written by poet Rofū Miki and composed by Kosaku Yamada , is one of the most-loved Japanese songs according to a 1989 survey?
text: Did you know that during the last decade, Lance Ryan appeared as Siegfried at three Bayreuth Festivals ?
text: Did you know that when Clam Lake Canal freezes over early in the Michigan winter, the lakes on each side remain unfrozen, but when the lakes later freeze over, the canal thaws and flows once more?
text: Did you know that King Kalākaua electioneered during the 1886 Hawaiian elections by visiting the districts of politicians J. W. Kalua , G. W. Pilipō and J. Nāwahī , and campaigning against them?
text: Did you know that, no matter how n non-overlapping pennies are arranged on a table, there is a subset containing at least 0.258 n of them that will not touch other pennies in the subset ?
text: Did you know that in 1891, a fire at the State Normal School at Cheney destroyed the school's only building?
text: Did you know that intratracheal instillation , the introduction of a substance directly into the trachea , is a widely used alternative to inhalation for respiratory toxicity testing?
text: Did you know that through his political associations, Jesse Root Grant secured an appointment for enrollment at West Point for his son, Ulysses S. Grant ?
text: Did you know that two former Princes of Wallachia ran for deputy seats in 1857 , both of them losing at Buzău and recovering to win at Dolj ?
text: Did you know that The Learning Company 's educational video game franchise Reader Rabbit sold over 25 million copies between 1984 and 2002?
text: Did you know that the Bronx neighborhood of Kingsbridge was built on what was once an island in Tibbetts Brook ?
text: Did you know that Wipeout Pulse was developed around the feedback received about its predecessor, Wipeout Pure ?
text: Did you know that Stratford City Hall , a National Historic Site of Canada , was built on a triangular square?
text: Did you know that the fossil tupelo Nyssa spatulata was described from seeds found in Oregon?
text: Did you know that the etchings of Léon Davent include Michelangelo at the Age of Twenty-Three made some forty years after Michelangelo was that age?
text: Did you know that some Democrats in the New York State Senate formed the Independent Democratic Conference to caucus with Republicans ?
text: Did you know that the Professional Rapid Online Chess League (PRO Chess League) is a worldwide online rapid chess league with 48 teams, whose members include more than 100 grandmasters ?
text: Did you know that Donald Trump and Merv Griffin fought for control of casino operator Resorts International in 1988?
text: Did you know that the Dronacharya Award is an Indian sports coaching honour, named after Drona , the royal preceptor from the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata ?
text: Did you know that while studying art in Paris, impoverished Canadian painter Henri Beau copied eleven paintings hanging in the Louvre and sold them to support himself?
text: Did you know that concerns over whether video game Call of Cthulhu had been cancelled proved unfounded, when it was revived by a different developer more than two years after its original announcement?
text: Did you know that the Wayzata Bay Center shopping mall was built over wetlands ?
text: Did you know that Antonín Cyril Stojan , who led a life of heroic virtue , was given the title of Venerable by Pope Francis ?
text: Did you know that the jazz piece " Mannenberg ", considered a notable example of music in the movement against apartheid , has no words?
text: Did you know that New Zealand actor George Mason secured his first acting role in 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous when he was thirteen years old?
text: Did you know that because of a water-soluble pigment, Erythranthe cuprea has copper-colored flowers instead of the more common red and yellow flowers found in its genus?
text: Did you know that Canadian football player Wayne Allison was known as a dual-threat quarterback in college but was converted to play as a defensive back professionally?
text: Did you know that the Landscape with the Flight into Egypt by Pieter Bruegel I includes two tiny salamanders , symbols of evil?
text: Did you know that Hiram Kahanawai left his position as steward to Queen Emma to become commander of the Household Troops for her political rival King Kalākaua ?
text: Did you know that the new Propsteikirche , the third church St. Trinitatis in Leipzig , is the largest church built in East Germany since unification ?
text: Did you know that during the Emergency Alert System misactivation of 2005 , everyone in Connecticut was ordered to flee the state, but the most common reaction was to change the channel?
text: Did you know that Britain's first motorway, the Preston By-pass , had to close within weeks of opening due to frost damage?
text: Did you know that Lewis Ludington founded the city of Columbus, Wisconsin , but never resided in the state?
text: Did you know that Puzzled was one of twenty games that came with the 2012 Neo Geo X console?
text: Did you know that after the Duluth lynchings , the African-American suffragist Nellie Griswold Francis initiated, drafted, and lobbied for a state anti-lynching bill that was signed into law in 1921?
text: Did you know that the trap-jaw ant Odontomachus assiniensis stings larger prey but kills smaller prey with a snap of its jaws?
text: Did you know that Loma Linda Foods and Worthington Foods were the largest manufacturers of soy -based foods in the U.S. in the 1960s?
text: Did you know that the artist Myles Murphy was seriously injured while painting himself in a wedding dress?
text: Did you know that the engine frames of the Mississippi River and Bonne Terre Railway "had to be extra heavy ... to withstand rough usage"?
text: Did you know that El Temblor in Guatemala is the site of a ruined ancient Maya city that has not yet been excavated by archaeologists, but has been badly damaged by looters?
text: Did you know that the linguistic research of Elena Georgieva showed that Bulgarian word order may change based on the emphasis a speaker wants to convey?
text: Did you know that all four Andretti Autosport entries at the 2017 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach retired from the race due to mechanical or electrical issues?
text: Did you know that the Bollywood writer Mukhram Sharma won the inaugural Filmfare Award for Best Story in 1955 for Aulad (1954)?
text: Did you know that the NDR Chor performed in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony for the opening of the Elbphilharmonie ?
text: Did you know that Min Bala staged a coup against King Hkun Law of Martaban , only to give up the throne at his wife's insistence?
text: Did you know that anthropologist Verrier Elwin 's autobiography The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin was published posthumously and won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1965?
text: Did you know that John Henderson is the oldest living former Texas Longhorns football player?
text: Did you know that Ed Krupp has been director of Griffith Observatory for more than half of its existence?
text: Did you know that " The Devil of Christmas ", a 2016 episode of Inside No. 9 , was filmed using authentic 1970s cameras?
text: Did you know that during the Trunajaya rebellion , Pangeran Adipati Anom expected a fake engagement at the Battle of Gegodog , but instead his army suffered a decisive defeat?
text: Did you know that the newly-opened Karşıyaka Tram will be free of charge for its first 50 days?
text: Did you know that star wars took place in Mexico 1,500 years ago?
text: Did you know that soldiers lined up on the sinking British troopship SS Tyndareus began to sing " It's a Long Way to Tipperary " while waiting for orders?
text: Did you know that many reviewers compared the superhero comic Ultra to the television series Sex and the City ?
text: Did you know that the recently named fossil egg Suchoolithus dates to the Late Jurassic , making it tied for the oldest-known crocodylomorph egg?
text: Did you know that the film The Brainwashing of My Dad received funding from Kickstarter ?
text: Did you know that the term elastance , the inverse of capacitance , was coined by Oliver Heaviside to promote an analogy of a capacitor as a spring rather than a container of charge ?
text: Did you know that " Christ ist erstanden ", an old German hymn mentioned as early as the 12th century, was set for choir in the 21st century?
text: Did you know that despite topping his class at Sandhurst , John Gellibrand found the prospects for promotion in the British Army so bleak that he resigned his commission and moved to Tasmania to grow apples?
text: Did you know that Namibia is considering abolishing winter time ?
text: Did you know that the Australian cricketer Veronica Pyke was the second highest wicket-taker in the inaugural Women's Big Bash League season in 2015–16 ?
text: Did you know that the Palau ground dove prefers limestone islands to volcanic islands?
text: Did you know that when Marshall L. Shepard said the opening prayer at the 1936 Democratic National Convention , segregationist Senator Ellison D. Smith left in protest?
text: Did you know that a campaign mailer for Los Angeles' Measure S designed to look like an eviction notice drew the ire of the sheriff's department after many recipients thought it was real?
text: Did you know that professional figure skaters Stéphane Lambiel and Nobunari Oda had cameos in the anime series Yuri on Ice ?
text: Did you know that the US military refers to Death Valley 's Rainbow Canyon as Star Wars Canyon ?
text: Did you know that during the Holocaust in Italy , doctors at Fatebenefratelli Hospital protected Jews from the Nazis by diagnosing them with a fictitious disease called "Syndrome K"?
text: Did you know that Louise Nixon Sutton was the first African-American woman to be awarded a PhD in mathematics by New York University in 1962?
text: Did you know that Muhammad 's first wife Khadija and uncle Abu Talib died in the same year, traditionally known as the Year of Sorrow ?
text: Did you know that the predatory mite Neoseiulus cucumeris can survive and breed while feeding solely on pollen?
text: Did you know that Filipino director Jerrold Tarog has planned a film adaptation of the graphic novel The Mythology Class by Arnold Arre ?
text: Did you know that two students at Traian National College in Turnu Severin , Romania, were executed in 1949 for being part of the anti-communist resistance movement ?
text: Did you know that Caleb Swanigan went from being a 360-pound (160 kg) eighth grader to an NCAA basketball consensus first-team All-American ?
text: Did you know that on his 48th birthday, artillery officer Bjarne Keyser Barth was tasked by his commander with surrendering a fortress to invading German troops?
text: Did you know that the plant species Antirrhinum filipes has been discovered on slopes in the Grand Canyon , within the Mojave Desert , and within the Sonoran Desert ?
text: Did you know that Javed Agrewala and his team developed a vaccination program against Mycobacterium tuberculosis for which he holds a United States patent?
text: Did you know that Kenny and the Kasuals ' "Journey to Tyme" is considered one of the earliest songs to incorporate elements of psychedelic music ?
text: Did you know that Brigadier General Salvador Estrella earned the moniker red blooded for his courage in battle?
text: Did you know that Dunes Forest Village was an exclusive "island" retreat, surrounded by sand rather than water, and owned by a newspaper publisher?
text: Did you know that the Sceriman family , a wealthy Safavid merchant family of Armenian ethnicity, gained Roman citizenship in 1696?
text: Did you know that General Marcial Samaniego , Paraguayan defense minister under Alfredo Stroessner , had a fascination with the religions of indigenous peoples in Paraguay ?
text: Did you know that Public Service Broadcasting 's new album depicts the history of the mining industry in Wales ?
text: Did you know that in 1724, Pope Benedict XIII had to be convinced to accept his election to the papacy by the head of the Dominican Order?
text: Did you know that Alan Abel served as a percussionist for the Philadelphia Orchestra for 38 years?
text: Did you know that source code laundering occurs when code released under one licence is redistributed by another party under a different licence?
text: Did you know that the January 2017 reinstatement of the Holman Rule allows members of the United States House of Representatives to amend routine spending bills to mandate the firing of individual Federal employees?
text: Did you know that weekends in ancient Rome came only every eight days?
text: Did you know that Steps ' fifth studio album, Tears on the Dancefloor , is their first album in 17 years to consist mostly of original material?
text: Did you know that Virendra Singh delivered the inaugural Homi Bhabha exchange lecture of the Institute of Physics and Indian Physics Association in 2000?
text: Did you know that grey-and-buff woodpeckers roost communally in shallow holes?
text: Did you know that Anthony Harkness is considered the founder of the Cincinnati locomotive industry?
text: Did you know that during the 1954 Paraguayan coup d'etat , President Federico Chávez tried to seek refuge in Paraguay's Military College, but was arrested by its director?
text: Did you know that the MT GDF Suez Neptune , a floating production storage and offloading vessel, serves as Turkey's first floating liquified natural gas storage facility ?
text: Did you know that Comedy Central advertised The President Show by faking a Russian hack?
text: Did you know that the Hopkins County Museum and Heritage Park includes the Atkins House, the oldest brick building in Hopkins County, Texas ?
text: Did you know that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered was the first Call of Duty game to have accurate bullet casings ejected from every gun?
text: Did you know that microbiologist Jane Gibson established through her 1954 discovery that selenium , a trace element , is essential for coliform bacterial growth?
text: Did you know that Abu Omar returned home after the Battle of Aleppo to find that only 13 of his 30 vintage cars remained?
text: Did you know that Ilse Hess , who was one of the first women to study at the University of Munich , remained a committed Nazi after World War II?
text: Did you know that " When in Rome, do as the Romans do " means that it is advisable to follow the conventions of the area in which you are residing or visiting?
text: Did you know that Elder Charles D. Beck 's boogie-woogie -based piano playing on "Memphis Flu" anticipated the style of rock and roll pianists?
text: Did you know that federal funding for the project to electrify Bay Area commuter railroad Caltrain was pulled days before construction was scheduled to begin?
text: Did you know that Angata , a Christian Rapa Nui prophetess, led a 1914 rebellion on Easter Island , claiming God wanted her people to kill and eat the island's livestock?
text: Did you know that Donald Trump says he hopes to achieve a foreign policy whereby "old enemies become friends"?
text: Did you know that Sigismund Báthory , Prince of Transylvania , promised to restore the freedom of the Székely commoners if they joined his campaign against the Ottomans ?
text: Did you know that Max Reger conducted the premiere of " An die Hoffnung " (To Hope), a setting of Hölderlin 's poem and his only orchestral song , with contralto Anna Erler-Schnaudt?
text: Did you know that Ravinder Goswami carried out the first studies on vitamin D deficiency in India?
text: Did you know that the naked broomrape is a parasite of other plants?
text: Did you know that in 1957 no fewer than 13 variations of the NWA World Tag Team Championship were in use across the U.S.: in Los Angeles , San Francisco , Kansas/Missouri , Chicago , Ohio/New York , Georgia , Iowa/Nebraska , Indianapolis , Idaho/Utah , West Texas , East Texas , Minneapolis , and Alabama/Tennessee ?
text: Did you know that voice actress and singer Machico made a cameo as herself in the anime television series Seiyu's Life! ?
text: Did you know that in 1894, a flash flood trapped seven cave explorers in the Lurgrotte karst cave of Austria for ten days?
text: Did you know that for failing to collect their quotas of Congo rubber , many people lost their hands?
text: Did you know that Michael I of Wallachia was still the co-ruler with his father Mircea I when in 1417 he refused to send the tribute that Mircea had promised to pay to the Ottoman Empire ?
text: Did you know that the feathers of birds are considered the most complex integumentary structures found in vertebrates , and a premier example of a complex evolutionary novelty?
text: Did you know that Pendleton Dudley refused to talk about the work he did to launch Woodrow Wilson 's political career?
text: Did you know that Bach's cantata for Easter Monday , Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden , BWV 6 , is based on the Road to Emmaus narration ?
text: Did you know that Brigadier General Guy Fort is the only American-born general officer to be executed by enemy forces?
text: Did you know that records of the Wetar ground dove in West Timor are from just three localities?
text: Did you know that Constance Davey established the first "opportunity classes" for children with special educational needs in South Australia?
text: Did you know that at the 2017 Rey de Reyes , professional wrestler Johnny Mundo became a triple champion, holding the AAA Mega , Cruiserweight , and Latin American Championships ?
text: Did you know that the cheese producer Wyke Farms still uses an 1861 recipe?
text: Did you know that the 20th-century Easter hymn " Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones " takes its melody from " Lasst uns erfreuen " (Let us rejoice), a tune published in 1623 by a German activist against witch-hunts ?
text: Did you know that a career-threatening knee injury to Tasmanian Roar cricketer Erin Burns was successfully treated with stem cell injections by the Sydney Swans ' club doctor, Nathan Gibbs ?
text: Did you know that the tongue of the golden-belted bumble bee is about two-thirds as long as its body?
text: Did you know that passenger service on the Staten Island Railway 's North Shore Branch was discontinued 16 years after it was rebuilt?
text: Did you know that Ursula Zollenkopf , a contralto of the NWDR Chor , performed solo and choral parts in a posthumous Schoenberg opera premiere and in an Easter cantata by Bach ?
text: Did you know that Chocorua Island Chapel at Squam Lake , New Hampshire, part of the first summer youth camp in America, was built by the camp's boys with an erratic boulder, trees, and beach sand?
text: Did you know that Juan Tepano was proclaimed "king" of Easter Island by officers of the Chilean Navy , but no one – including Tepano – took the ceremony seriously?
text: Did you know that at the end of the Second World War, more than 23,000 repatriated British prisoners of war volunteered to attend Civil Resettlement Units to help them readjust to being home?
text: Did you know that Tommy Blake was the first musician to record at RCA Studio B ?
text: Did you know that the dignitaries at the opening of the Barbados Railway wondered why the railway ended so abruptly among barren sand hills?
text: Did you know that Simeon Riro Kāinga , the last king of Easter Island , was suspected of having been poisoned when he died during a diplomatic trip to Chile?
text: Did you know that the catfish Trachelyopterus insignis has several local names, being referred to as both a "maiden" and a "goat"?
text: Did you know that Helen King will be the first police officer to head an Oxbridge college?
text: Did you know that Paul Hindemith said of the third dance of his opera Das Nusch-Nuschi : "It is essential that this piece be danced (or rather wobbled to) by two eunuchs with incredibly fat and naked bellies"?
text: Did you know that Charles A. Cheever constructed the first telephone line in New York City and was its owner?
text: Did you know that the Good Friday hymn " Take Up Thy Cross, The Saviour Said " was one of two American works included in the Church of England's Hymns Ancient and Modern ?
text: Did you know that Major Somnath Sharma , a Param Vir Chakra recipient, and General Vishwa Nath Sharma , former chief of the Indian Army, were brothers?
text: Did you know that the world's first coal-fired power station was at Holborn Viaduct , London?
text: Did you know that tenor Max Ciolek performed the Evangelist in Bach's Passions , and the Mass in B minor with La Petite Bande in Australia?
text: Did you know that the government of ancient Macedonia was a monarchy, yet the Macedonian commonwealth contained some local democracies with popular assemblies and annual elections?
text: Did you know that Lillie Mae Bradford was arrested for refusing to leave the whites-only section of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama , four years before Rosa Parks' 1955 prosecution for the same "crime"?
text: Did you know that the Danish illustrator Lilian Brøgger has illustrated over a hundred books in a variety of unconventional styles?
text: Did you know that Bach set a stanza from the evening hymn " Werde munter, mein Gemüte " (Become cheerful, my mind), which Johann Rist and Johann Schop created in collaboration, in his St Matthew Passion ?
text: Did you know that 25 years ago today, anti-nuclear activist Richard Springer was arrested by the U.S. Secret Service after he approached Ronald Reagan and smashed a crystal statue?
text: Did you know that the Andean flicker is unusual among woodpeckers in foraging on the ground and in often nesting colonially ?
text: Did you know that Birendra Nath Mallick and his team demonstrated that increased production of noradrenaline triggered REM sleep -loss, resulting in brain excitability?
text: Did you know that Hank Azaria won a lawsuit for the rights to the title character of Brockmire ?
text: Did you know that during the Bonville–Courtenay feud , the Earl of Devon's men stole all Nicholas Radford 's horses and the sheets off his invalid wife's bed?
text: Did you know that Chris Marron jointly holds the record for the most goals scored in an FA Cup match, having scored 10 in one game?
text: Did you know that as the German army invaded France in 1940, radio station Paris-Mondial began broadcasting "recordings of military marches and panicked appeals for guns, tanks, and planes"?
text: Did you know that award-winning graphic novelist Miriam Katin only started creating comics at the age of 63?
text: Did you know that J. Lamar Worzel was a recipient of the Navy Meritorious Public Service Award for his part in helping discover the first nuclear submarine lost at sea?
text: Did you know that the " I believe that we will win! " chant, used as a rallying cry by United States fans during the 2014 FIFA World Cup , was first used for the college football Army–Navy Game ?
text: Did you know that Anil Kumar Mandal developed an alternative surgical protocol for treating pediatric glaucoma ?
text: Did you know that Pu Songling based his pigeon collector character on a real-life stone fanatic?
text: Did you know that during the Second World War, the Norwegian naval officer Niels Larsen Bruun sank a German supply ship before he was certain which country was invading Norway?
text: Did you know that the fire-bellied woodpecker can drum at the rate of 14 to 38 taps per second?
text: Did you know that Brown v. Maryland was the first decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to construe the Import-Export Clause of the Constitution?
text: Did you know that the title for Elizabeth Nunez 's novel Anna In-Between (2009) was inspired by M. G. Vassanji 's novel The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (2003)?
text: Did you know that George Wilson, Jr. was a starting quarterback for the Miami Dolphins while his father, George Wilson, Sr. , was the head coach?
text: Did you know that Neptune Theatre in Seattle had weekly showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show from 1977 to 1993, and reopened with the same film after renovation in 2011?
text: Did you know that President Donald Trump criticized Snoop Dogg 's remix music video of " Lavender " for having a scene in which Snoop fires a flag gun at a clown parody version of Trump?
text: Did you know that Caius Largennius is considered the first Lucchese in the world?
text: Did you know that the play Sweat by Lynn Nottage has been described as "the first theatrical landmark of the Trump era"?
text: Did you know that when he ceded Easter Island to Chile, King Atamu Tekena gave up a handful of grass and retained a handful of dirt?
text: Did you know that Mexican Federal Highway 15D includes two of the country's five most expensive toll roads?
text: Did you know that prior to her major debut, singer Maon Kurosaki posed as a gravure model for the cover of a novel?
text: Did you know that the seeds of the white batflower may be distributed by small mammals that feed on the fleshy fruits?
text: Did you know that in March 1998, the Ontario Court of Justice ruled that being topless while one engages in a commercial purpose such as prostitution is illegal ?
text: Did you know that the Catholic hymnal Kirchenlied , first published in 1938, was not immediately banned by the Nazis because it also contained Protestant songs?
text: Did you know that Australian actress Anna Bamford made her Broadway debut in Andrew Upton 's production of The Present ?
text: Did you know that the Northern Marmara and Değirmenköy (Silivri) Depleted Gas Reservoir is currently the only operational underground natural gas storage facility in Turkey?
text: Did you know that Vijay Kumar , along with Debi Prasad Sarkar , demonstrated for the first time that HBx protein stimulated mitogen-activated signaling cascades in living animals?
text: Did you know that 43 million unique viewers watched SK Telecom T1 defeat Samsung Galaxy in the finals of the 2016 League of Legends World Championship ?
text: Did you know that some factions of the Hanthawaddy court undermined the authority of Princess Regent Maha Dewi by publicizing her alleged affair with her much younger nephew-in-law?
text: Did you know that in Canada, ten dollars will get you an EMD F40PH diesel locomotive?
text: Did you know that LaVar Ball claimed that he would have beaten Michael Jordan in one-on-one basketball?
text: Did you know that the Australian television film Home and Away: An Eye for an Eye broke all first-day streaming records on Presto ?
text: Did you know that George Escol Sellers was the basis for the fictional character Colonel Eschol Sellers in Mark Twain 's novel The Gilded Age ?
text: Did you know that the Czech fossil ant Odontomachus paleomyagra has mandibles notably similar to those of a related South African species?
text: Did you know that Satish K. Gupta explored the possibilities of using zona pellucida proteins for the development of immunocontraceptive protocols?
text: Did you know that the Rock Island Arsenal Museum is the second oldest museum of the United States Army ?
text: Did you know that Rose Cannabich was "a very beautiful and well-behaved girl", according to her piano teacher Mozart , who composed a piano sonata for her?
text: Did you know that Barbara Bradby was the first woman to ride a bicycle at Oxford University , where her academic prowess inspired a limerick?
text: Did you know that one could enhance their learning while their mind wanders by using dishabituation technique?
text: Did you know that Paul Bashutsky took part in the suppression of the Decembrist revolt in 1825, and was promoted to General of the Infantry three years later?
text: Did you know that Rhizophora racemosa is normally the first mangrove to colonise newly exposed mudflats in West Africa?
text: Did you know that by winning the 2016–17 PBA Philippine Cup Finals , the San Miguel Beermen became the second team in Philippine Basketball Association history to keep permanent possession of the Jun Bernardino Trophy ?
text: Did you know that María Parrado won the first season of The Voice Kids Spain ?
text: Did you know that Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue is the New York City Subway's first solar-powered subway station?
text: Did you know that Ipswich Town goalkeeper Paul Cooper saved eight out of the ten penalties he faced during the 1979–80 season?
text: Did you know that the nine-year-old McGuire Apartments building in Seattle was demolished due to the discovery of major corrosion issues?
text: Did you know that Shahid Jameel and his group were the first to identify subtype C strain as the most common HIV-1 infection among Indians?
text: Did you know that the CIA's black helicopter from Area 51 was used to eavesdrop on Paris Peace Talks discussions during the Vietnam War?
text: Did you know that German rapper Jaye Muller started the weekly newsletter Germany Alert in 1991 to document neo-Nazi activity?
text: Did you know that the Black River is a "miserable ditch"?
text: Did you know that the Sahitya Akademi , India's National Academy of Letters, conferred its fellowship on Kanhu Charan Mohanty (1994) and Arjan Hasid (2013), and elected Ronald E. Asher (2007) as an honorary fellow?
text: Did you know that the 16,030 acres (6,490 ha) of Federal land in New Mexico 's Sabinoso Wilderness are inaccessible without trespassing, because they are entirely enclosed in privately-owned property?
text: Did you know that Francis Poulenc composed his Violin Sonata at the insistence of violinist Ginette Neveu , and played the piano part when she premiered it?
text: Did you know that two women captured in Boston under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 were rescued during the Abolition Riot of 1836 ?
text: Did you know that Antoine-Jean Gros 's painting Napoléon on the Battlefield of Eylau influenced the works of Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix ?
text: Did you know that a lake larger than Lake Erie existed in the eastern Sahara less than 12,000 years ago?
text: Did you know that suspected Mexican drug lord Rubén Oseguera González was released from prison three times in less than a year?
text: Did you know that the severed head of Andrew Báthory, Prince of Transylvania , was sewn back on?
text: Did you know that Cascade Valley Hospital was the last independent hospital in Snohomish County, Washington , until it was acquired in 2016?
text: Did you know that cricketer Georgia Redmayne 's 87-year-old grandfather vaulted the boundary fence and embraced her after she had become the first player to hit a WNCL century for Tasmanian Roar ?
text: Did you know that the theme song for the television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is actually called " Yo Home to Bel-Air "?
text: Did you know that New York Mets fans once booed the Home Run Apple for over two minutes because it was not raised for a Mets home run ?
text: Did you know that mezzo-soprano Claudia Mahnke appeared as Dido in Les Troyens by Berlioz, and according to a reviewer, in the final 25 minutes convincingly ranged from hurt vulnerability to furious despair?
text: Did you know that termites developed agriculture some 31 million years ago?
text: Did you know that in one of Ron Richards ' plans for the defection of spy Vladimir Petrov to Australia, Petrov was going to buy a chicken farm outside Sydney?
text: Did you know that New Palace Yard , where part of the March 2017 terror attack in Westminster took place, was formerly used for tournaments, pilloryings , and executions?
text: Did you know that Gottfried von Hagenau , a physician and poet, introduced the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in Strasbourg in 1307?
text: Did you know that Stierling's woodpecker is threatened by habitat loss, especially in areas where tobacco is cultivated and dried over open fires?
text: Did you know that Schuyler Skaats Wheeler invented the first electric fan?
text: Did you know that a+ will provide local television programming mixed with national content to 21 Mexican cities by the end of June 2017?
text: Did you know that in 1861, brothel proprietor Ann Manley rescued part of the 6th Massachusetts Regiment after it was attacked by a mob in Baltimore?
text: Did you know that Barry Bonds used a maple baseball bat manufactured by Sam Bat to set an MLB single-season home run record in 2001?
text: Did you know that Louis-René Villermé is considered a founder of social epidemiology for his work proving the association between poverty and mortality in early industrial France?
text: Did you know that Warren Newton Dusenberry acted as principal of Brigham Young Academy for only a few months before resigning to go to law school?
text: Did you know that 19 people, including Brigadier General Robert F. Travis , were killed when a Boeing B-29 crashed with a Mark 4 nuclear bomb on board?
text: Did you know that Stanley Elkin won the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction for his novels George Mills (1982) and Mrs. Ted Bliss (1995)?
text: Did you know that Moses Fleetwood Walker was the first openly black athlete to play in Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos took a siesta in the master bedroom of the Mercado Mansion during a campaign sortie in the 1960s?
text: Did you know that the Roly Poly Goalie ate all the pies?
text: Did you know that a song about masturbation was written by Ivor Biggun and recommended by Johnny Rotten ?
text: Did you know that Poke Valley Run was reputedly named for its shite pokes?
text: Did you know that a woman can open a bottle ?
text: Did you know that Robin Hood sued the United States ?
text: Did you know that baseball players fall down on the Grassy Knoll ?
text: Did you know that erection engineer Mark Barr had a business making rubbers, said bicycles stimulated ball development, and was elected to the screw committee?
text: Did you know that caterpillar inflation is a gut-wrenching process?
text: Did you know that in Portland, Oregon , an outhouse, or john , played a seminal role in public education?
text: Did you know that Soekarno demanded much of Soekarno , but Soekarno did not listen?
text: Did you know that Judge Rinder is not a judge?
text: Did you know that in 1926 a Mennonite tower was built in the German capital of Canada?
text: Did you know that " sorcery for your vagina " can result in second-degree burns?
text: Did you know that the Trans-Universal Zombie Church of the Blissful Ringing is the fifth largest religious community in Slovenia?
text: Did you know that thrust into a difficult situation, horney dicks failed to satisfy?
text: Did you know that Belgian mezzo-soprano Jeanne Deroubaix was a soloist in the premiere of Stravinsky 's Threni , and performed with Boulez in his Le marteau sans maître at The Proms ?
text: Did you know that the name of the Wipeout series of video games was inspired by the instrumental song "Wipe Out" by The Surfaris ?
text: Did you know that Thomas North Whitehead suggested that the United Kingdom give America one of the four surviving copies of the Magna Carta to win support for Lend-Lease ?
text: Did you know that two major landmarks of Gwanghwamun Plaza in central Seoul are the statues of King Sejong and of Admiral Yi Sun-sin ?
text: Did you know that Associated Press war correspondent George E. Bria , known for his brevity as an editor, insisted that "the D-Day landings could be reported in 400 words"?
text: Did you know that the 40 rays on the flag of Kyrgyzstan represent the number of tribes united by national folk hero Manas to fight against the Mongols ?
text: Did you know that The New Republic suspected the 1958 attack on Richard Nixon's motorcade was a hoax set up to help his chances in the 1960 United States presidential election ?
text: Did you know that in his Requiem für einen jungen Dichter , composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann combines the Latin Requiem with literary, philosophical, religious and political texts that shaped his lifetime?
text: Did you know that according to Ralph Wolfe Cowan who painted him as The Visionary , Donald Trump's hands are "perfectly proportioned"?
text: Did you know that infighting among the conquistadors hindered the Spanish conquest of Honduras ?
text: Did you know that the Pediatric Symptom Checklist identifies children with problems in psychosocial functioning by measuring inner distress and mood, behavior, and attention?
text: Did you know that the association footballer Harry Beadles was awarded the Serbian gold medal for bravery during World War I?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Gerald was the one of three typhoons spawned by the monsoon trough in early September 1987?
text: Did you know that thousands of escaped slaves created a free colony on Edisto Island, South Carolina, during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the tenth chapter of the Quran is named after Jonah , even though only 1 of its 109 verses mentions him?
text: Did you know that Mary M. Crawford became Brooklyn 's first female ambulance surgeon after the hospital forgot to exclude women from applying?
text: Did you know that Reverend Arthur Broome was one of the founders of the RSPCA and, as guarantor for the society's debts, went to debtors' prison when it declared bankruptcy?
text: Did you know that the borders negotiated after the Song-Lý War largely remain as the current boundaries between China and Vietnam?
text: Did you know that Probir Roy proposed a solution for the U (n)-symmetric Thirring model ?
text: Did you know that on the links at the Trump National Golf Club in Virginia, a monument commemorates a Civil War battle that never happened?
text: Did you know that the Native Hawaiian suffragist Wilhelmina Widemann Dowsett organized the first women's suffrage club in the Territory of Hawaii and believed women were superior to men?
text: Did you know that Siti Nurhaliza won her 13th Best Vocal Performance (Female) in a Song award from Anugerah Industri Muzik with " Menatap dalam Mimpi "?
text: Did you know that the National Wrestling Association 's World Light Heavyweight Championship was originally created by the National Boxing Association ?
text: Did you know that Eli Parsons Royce founded the city of Escanaba, Michigan , while Nelson Ludington named it?
text: Did you know that " Mer Hayrenik ", the national anthem of the First Republic of Armenia , became a protest song when it was banned during the Soviet era ?
text: Did you know that Isadora Duncan danced at The Wabe in London's Hampstead to raise money for the cause of women's suffrage ?
text: Did you know that during his youth, Argentine president Néstor Kirchner was present at the Ezeiza massacre and the expulsion of Montoneros from Plaza de Mayo ?
text: Did you know that the Japanese visual novel Harmonia was first released in English to see how the game would be received worldwide before its release in Japan?
text: Did you know that Manning M. Kimmel was one of four West Point graduates to fight on both sides of the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the Miami Dolphins ' first-ever regular season game began with running back Joe Auer returning the opening kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown?
text: Did you know that Arsenal are looking to win a record 13th FA Cup at the FA Cup Final against Chelsea today?
text: Did you know that Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz was a daredevil horseman whose feats included riding between the sails of a windmill in full swing?
text: Did you know that parts of southern New Mexico and Chihuahua were covered by the former Lake Palomas , the remnants of which existed as recently as 500 years ago?
text: Did you know that the soprano Margot Guilleaume recorded the part of Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio in a complete live recording without dialogue in 1948?
text: Did you know that Sallekhana is a religious practice of voluntarily fasting to death?
text: Did you know that the emotional journey of the protagonist in the 2004 Ursula K. Le Guin novel Gifts has been compared to that of Max in the 1963 children's picture book Where the Wild Things Are ?
text: Did you know that Albertine Lapensée , described as Canada's first female ice hockey "superstar", was dogged by accusations of being a man?
text: Did you know that James Scott Howard , the postmaster of Toronto , infuriated his superiors by refusing to open mail of suspected rebels before the 1837 uprising ?
text: Did you know that during the 1678 Kediri campaign , the VOC – Mataram army purposely split itself and took a longer route to Kediri, in order to impress more people?
text: Did you know that the prosecution of Theoris of Lemnos is the most detailed account of a witch trial to survive from Classical Greece?
text: Did you know that the diet of the white woodpecker includes wasps and bees, their larvae and honey?
text: Did you know that former Snohomish County Executive Bob Drewel had surgery to treat prostate cancer only days after being re-elected to a third term?
text: Did you know that during the March 1605 papal conclave , a fight broke out that was so noisy that people outside opened the doors early because they thought a new pope had been elected?
text: Did you know that Mary Ann Harris Gay 's memoir Life in Dixie During the War directly inspired several of the scenes in the novel Gone with the Wind ?
text: Did you know that the Custer Wolf , a North American gray wolf referred to as the "master criminal of the animal world", killed livestock worth almost $300,000 in today's money?
text: Did you know that Margot Shiner , who fled Nazi Germany as a teenager, was instrumental in establishing the medical subspecialty of paediatric gastroenterology ?
text: Did you know that the glass-floor observation deck of Ulubey Canyon Nature Park is 131 m (430 ft) above the canyon floor?
text: Did you know that Albert Pierce Taylor , author of Under Hawaiian Skies , attempted to join the Cuban War of Independence but was deported by the Spanish?
text: Did you know that The Duals ' "Stick Shift" was the first hot rod song to chart nationally in the United States?
text: Did you know that Narendra Kumar is the co-developer of the Dorokhov-Mello-Pereyra-Kumar equation , a theory on multi-channel conductivity using the principle of maximum entropy ?
text: Did you know that in 1979, Somerset deliberately lost a cricket match in 18 minutes?
text: Did you know that the epicenter of the 2009 Bhutan earthquake was 10 miles (16 km) away from Trashigang Dzong , and caused wide cracks to appear in the 350-year-old structure?
text: Did you know that the 2017 French presidential election was not fought between left and right , but between open and closed ?
text: Did you know that Rosalie Keliʻinoi , the first female legislator in the Territory of Hawaii , passed a bill which gave married women the right to sell their property without their husbands' permission?
text: Did you know that the Grand Canyon's Thunder River is the steepest in the United States?
text: Did you know that Argentine chef Federico Tobares disappeared while driving in Jalisco , Mexico?
text: Did you know that thousands of escaped slaves created a free colony on Edisto Island, South Carolina, during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Clotilde Bressler-Gianoli played the titular character in Carmen in 1907 with "the allurement of sheer wickedness", and was accidentally stabbed on stage?
text: Did you know that Quintus Publilius Philo , Rome's first proconsul , was described as a "popular dictator"?
text: Did you know that the tenth chapter of the Quran is named after Jonah , even though only 1 of its 109 verses mentions him?
text: Did you know that Emma Ahuena Taylor , a supporter of women's suffrage, organized knitting units on behalf of Native Hawaiian soldiers fighting in World War I?
text: Did you know that six government reviews have recommended Australia adopt "fair use" into its copyright law?
text: Did you know that Jeanette Antolin won three NCAA titles with the UCLA Bruins women's gymnastics team?
text: Did you know that the manga My Brother's Husband by Gengoroh Tagame tackles issues of homophobia in Japanese society?
text: Did you know that the May 1605 papal conclave was the only known papal election to result in broken bones?
text: Did you know that Vidhu Vincent is the first woman to win the Kerala State Film Award for Best Director ?
text: Did you know that Tapeats Creek in the Grand Canyon National Park is named after the Southern Paiute Indian who claimed ownership of it?
text: Did you know that Zahava Burack survived the Holocaust by hiding in a crawlspace beneath the home of a sympathetic Polish family for two and a half years?
text: Did you know that " The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show " was based on old minstrel and medicine shows , but was interpreted as an allegory on the dangers of success in the music business?
text: Did you know that the UK Local Government (Religious etc. Observances) Act 2015 was created to affirm the right to hold council prayers after the High Court had ruled them unlawful?
text: Did you know that Hans Peter Blochwitz , who appeared as Mozart's Don Ottavio at the Metropolitan Opera, premiered Hans Zender 's Schubert's "Winterreise" with the Ensemble Modern in 1993?
text: Did you know that the Twin Bing has been described as "two brown lumps, about the size of golf balls, roughly textured, and stuck to one another like Siamese twins"?
text: Did you know that Sudhanshu Shekhar Jha was guided in his doctoral studies by Felix Bloch , 1952 Nobel laureate , and in his post-doctoral work by Nicolaas Bloembergen , 1981 Nobel laureate?
text: Did you know that Jimmy Wales wants WikiTRIBUNE to counter fake news ?
text: Did you know that the 13th-century English royal justice Elias Beckingham was described as being one of only two honest judges in the kingdom?
text: Did you know that EuropaChorAkademie , a choir formed by students from two universities, participated in an award-winning recording of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Requiem für einen jungen Dichter ?
text: Did you know that Mariano Gagnon was a Franciscan friar who organized airlifts to help refugees escape the Shining Path ?
text: Did you know that Simon Pagenaud 's victory at the 2017 Desert Diamond West Valley Phoenix Grand Prix was his first-ever IndyCar Series win on an oval track?
text: Did you know that the Stumptown scud , a crustacean endemic to the Portland metropolitan area , looks like a "cross between a prawn and a potato bug "?
text: Did you know that Christoph Siebert conducted the Collegium Vocale Gent singing music by Schubert and Annelies Van Parys in a theatrical performance at international festivals?
text: Did you know that in 2007, some UEFA members voted against allowing Gibraltar membership because Victoria Stadium was built on disputed land?
text: Did you know that Linda Laubenstein was one of the first physicians in the United States to recognize the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s?
text: Did you know that during the Humboldt Park riot 40 years ago, the Chicago police department battled Puerto Rican protesters and rioters?
text: Did you know that Jepara was the only town on the north coast of Mataram not to be taken by Trunajaya's North Coast offensive , after a successful joint defense by Mataram and the Dutch East India Company ?
text: Did you know that the Reconstruction Era National Monument includes the place where, on New Year's Day 1863, Union Army General Rufus Saxton publicly read the Emancipation Proclamation to 3,000 slaves?
text: Did you know that the owner of World Champion bucking bull Bones exercised him in a mechanized circular walker in a deep sand pit?
text: Did you know that Robert Grace was the first manufacturer of the Pennsylvania fireplace , designed by Benjamin Franklin , which heated rooms more efficiently than an open fireplace?
text: Did you know that Katy Perry first teased the release of her song " Bon Appétit " with a cherry pie recipe?
text: Did you know that in 1970, Austrian Post issued a commemorative postage stamp honoring the composer and bass singer Thomas Koschat ?
text: Did you know that in 1959, an Alabama state senator said a children's book about two fuzzy rabbits, The Rabbits' Wedding , was "propaganda for integration and intermarriage" and tried to get the book banned?
text: Did you know that Shyam Sunder Kapoor contributed to the establishment of a pelletron accelerator facility at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research ?
text: Did you know that Electrada Corporation , a 1960s-era conglomerate, ran into difficulties after its management reportedly spent more time on acquisitions and financial markets than on actually running the business?
text: Did you know that Kong Tai Heong , the first Chinese woman to practice medicine in Hawaii, was credited by Ripley's Believe It or Not! as having delivered over 6,000 babies?
text: Did you know that Gordian Fulde , the director of one of the busiest emergency departments in Australia, was named Senior Australian of the Year in 2016?
text: Did you know that when passenger service was resumed on Sweden's Lysekil Line after 33 years, the train driver had to switch on the line's power himself?
text: Did you know that Günter Jena , for decades a church music director in Hamburg , conducted the NDR Chor in a recording of the complete a cappella works by Johannes Brahms ?
text: Did you know that fragments of ancient Maya books have been recovered from the ruins of Guaytán in Guatemala?
text: Did you know that James Dale Ritchie was not suspected to be the Anchorage Serial Killer until after he had been shot dead while attacking a police officer?
text: Did you know that the newly established Women's Super Rugby league will include Gloucester-Hartpury Women , Harlequins Ladies , Loughborough Students (Lightning) , and Waterloo Ladies , but will exclude a team that has been in the top flight for 15 years?
text: Did you know that although the lyrics of the Chick Corea song " 500 Miles High " express romantic love, it became a hippie drug anthem?
text: Did you know that Max Thurn , who founded the NDR Chor in 1946, conducted a series of Bach cantatas and prepared the choir for a live recording of Isang Yun 's Om mani padme hum in 1964?
text: Did you know that Five Nights at Freddy's appeared in the Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition , breaking the record for the most sequels released in a year?
text: Did you know that astronomer Sidney C. Wolff was the first woman to direct a major observatory in the United States?
text: Did you know that a cryptic crossword central to " The Riddle of the Sphinx ", an episode of Inside No. 9 , was published in The Guardian the same day the episode aired?
text: Did you know that when the Red Rock Bridge was no longer needed for trains, it was converted to carry the auto traffic of U.S. Route 66 over the Colorado River ?
text: Did you know that although socialism is one of its four fundamental principles , the Constitution of Bangladesh also allows cooperative and private ownership alongside state ownership?
text: Did you know that Leon Day pitched a no-hitter on Opening Day after a nearly three-year absence from the Negro leagues ?
text: Did you know that Max Thurn , who founded the NDR Chor in 1946, conducted a series of Bach cantatas and prepared the choir for a live recording of Isang Yun 's Om mani padme hum in 1964?
text: Did you know that Five Nights at Freddy's appeared in the Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition , breaking the record for the most sequels released in a year?
text: Did you know that astronomer Sidney C. Wolff was the first woman to direct a major observatory in the United States?
text: Did you know that a cryptic crossword central to " The Riddle of the Sphinx ", an episode of Inside No. 9 , was published in The Guardian the same day the episode aired?
text: Did you know that when the Red Rock Bridge was no longer needed for trains, it was converted to carry the auto traffic of U.S. Route 66 over the Colorado River ?
text: Did you know that although socialism is one of its four fundamental principles , the Constitution of Bangladesh also allows cooperative and private ownership alongside state ownership?
text: Did you know that Leon Day pitched a no-hitter on Opening Day after a nearly three-year absence from the Negro leagues ?
text: Did you know that Democrats Thomas P. McHenry and Maurice S. Osser served together as Philadelphia City Commissioners for 20 years, until McHenry died and Osser went to jail?
text: Did you know that finds made at the Pocklington Iron Age burial ground include a rare chariot burial complete with horses?
text: Did you know that Japanese singer-songwriter Anly began playing songs by ear on her guitar when she was in third grade ?
text: Did you know that hundreds of tourists became stranded when Cyclone Ada ravaged Whitsunday Island resorts in January 1970?
text: Did you know that Chanchal Kumar Majumdar developed the Kohn-Majumdar theorem with his mentor, Walter Kohn , and the Majumdar–Ghosh model with his student, Dipan Ghosh ?
text: Did you know that Arlington, Texas , was the largest city in the United States without public transportation until it launched the Metro Arlington Xpress in 2013?
text: Did you know that classically trained pianist Jon Schmidt augments his live performances by playing the piano with his toes and performing while upside-down?
text: Did you know that the Rugrats episode " Mother's Day " addressed the absence of Chuckie Finster 's mother by revealing that she had died of a terminal illness?
text: Did you know that in his 2014 exhibition Using Beauty as a Remedy for Life , Pakistani artist Mahmood Hayat questioned whether objective standards of beauty exist ?
text: Did you know that during the Balfour Mission 100 years ago, Arthur Balfour became the first Englishman to address both houses of the U.S. Congress ?
text: Did you know that several buildings by Ellamae Ellis League are listed in the National Register of Historic Places , including the home she built for herself?
text: Did you know that the Japan Medical Association deployed 6,054 medical and support personnel during the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami ?
text: Did you know that "' Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr " is one of the oldest hymns of the Reformation ?
text: Did you know that the big blue octopus often forms a midden outside its den?
text: Did you know that in his song cycles , Graham Waterhouse has used a cello, a string quartet, or a Pierrot ensemble to complement the singer?
text: Did you know that the Train Track Park , containing 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) of walking and biking trails, was built over the century-old route of the Jaffa–Jerusalem railway ?
text: Did you know that Krityunjai Prasad Sinha secured a second doctorate from the University of Bristol based on his post-doctoral work at Maurice Pryce 's laboratory?
text: Did you know that occupational exposure banding can quickly and accurately assign chemicals into specific hazard categories when quantitative exposure limits are not available?
text: Did you know that the name of Japanese electronic rock band The Sixth Lie is a reference to a quotation from Claude Debussy ?
text: Did you know that the pendulum car was an experimental forerunner of the tilting train , but was not widely adopted on American railroads?
text: Did you know that Lukas Lundin had a US$100 million eco-friendly super-yacht built in 2015?
text: Did you know that proteins from a bacterium toxic to pests have been incorporated into crop plants for biological pest control ?
text: Did you know that in 2000, Lloyds Bank RFC 's ground was sold by Lloyds TSB, which meant the club had to groundshare with a rival bank?
text: Did you know that V. S. Sangwan developed a treatment protocol for corneal injuries using cultured limbal stem cells ?
text: Did you know that Turkish journalist Erol Önderoğlu , a campaigner for freedom of the press , was arrested for spreading "terrorism propaganda" in favor of the Kurdistan Workers' Party ?
text: Did you know that the German cities of Duisburg , Essen , and Kiel all had their populations increase five-fold or more between 1875 and 1910?
text: Did you know that conquistador Pedro de Portocarrero founded the first Spanish colonial town within the territory of the modern Mexican state of Chiapas ?
text: Did you know that Arlington, Washington , was locally known as the " Shingle Capital of the World"?
text: Did you know that a number of insect species were named in honour of Dutch entomologist Jacobus van der Vecht ?
text: Did you know that some critics noted that Demi Lovato 's song " Fix a Heart " has references in its lyrics to the singer's past issues with self-harm ?
text: Did you know that the proposed Mega Manila Subway would be the first subway system in the Philippines?
text: Did you know that sociologist, feminist, and campaigner for lesbian and gay rights Mary Susan McIntosh was deported from the U.S. in 1960 for speaking out against the House Un-American Activities Committee ?
text: Did you know that the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens was selected for the United States' National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you know that Chinmoy Sankar Dey developed an insulin-resistant in-vitro skeletal muscle model for screening anti-diabetic medication , for which he holds a U.S. patent?
text: Did you know that the Dark Hedges tree tunnel, a popular tourist destination since it was used as the King's Road in Game of Thrones , might not last twenty years?
text: Did you know that the lascivious lyrics of The Band 's " Jemima Surrender " inspired Naomi Weisstein to form the Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band ?
text: Did you know that Anne Penfold Street , one of Australia's leading mathematicians, earned bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry before switching to mathematics?
text: Did you know that the Guatemalan labor organization Committee for Peasant Unity once led a strike that forced a minimum wage increase of nearly 200%?
text: Did you know that French singer-songwriter Indila , who has described herself as a "child of the world", is of Algerian, Cambodian, Egyptian, and Indian descent?
text: Did you know that the Kurşunlu Mosque and Complex hosts a museum that exhibits handmade meerschaum pipes ?
text: Did you know that E. S. Raja Gopal held the position of a CSIR emeritus scientist at both the National Physical Laboratory of India and the Indian Institute of Science ?
text: Did you know that in 2007, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that a sperm donor was not obligated to pay child support ?
text: Did you know that Yves Bélanger had been working as a cinematographer for more than twenty years when he made his breakthrough with Dallas Buyers Club ?
text: Did you know that coon hunting dogs can bark as many as 150 times per minute?
text: Did you know that S. C. Jain , together with Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan , developed a method for the measurement of thermal conductivity at high temperatures in solids?
text: Did you know that the predatory mite Typhlodromips swirskii is able to control melon thrips on cucumber leaves, but fails to control common blossom thrips on the flowers?
text: Did you know that mathematician Donald G. Saari advocates deciding elections by the Borda count instead of plurality voting, because it leads less often to paradoxical outcomes?
text: Did you know that the Whitehorse Trail uses a railroad that was abandoned after major floods in 1990?
text: Did you know that due to the English North-South divide , Craig, a character in " The Bill ", is unfamiliar with diddlums , piss-mints , and bluecocks ?
text: Did you know that U.S. citizens are prohibited from engaging in business transactions with Antonio Oseguera Cervantes ?
text: Did you know that in 1759, when she was ten years old, Fenix carried the new king, Carlos III , from Naples to Barcelona?
text: Did you know that Gail G. Shapiro was the first democratically elected president of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology ?
text: Did you know that Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy by Jaggi Vasudev has been described as recasting Patanjali 's Yoga Sutra in layman's terms?
text: Did you know that Peter Par Jiek , who had fought alongside Riek Machar for over ten years during the Second Sudanese Civil War , was later killed by rebels loyal to Machar?
text: Did you know that the speckle-chested piculet is endangered by the ongoing destruction of its forest habitat?
text: Did you know that The Great Friendship had distinctly unfriendly consequences?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Garza Jr. showed his face for the first time on a television dating show?
text: Did you know that "crawler" cycad scale insects are sometimes carried away by the wind, landing on nearby plants and infesting them?
text: Did you know that the contralto Anna Erler-Schnaudt performed in the premiere of Mahler's Eighth Symphony in 1910?
text: Did you know that foreigners who openly call for a boycott of Israel may be banned from entering the country ?
text: Did you know that Alexander Bonner Latta made the first steam fire engine to be used regularly by a city fire department in the United States?
text: Did you know that William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse , the first airman to receive the Victoria Cross , is buried at Parnham House ?
text: Did you know that the main characters of Zombie Killers: Elephant's Graveyard fight zombies with paintballs ?
text: Did you know that in 1950, Hans Grischkat compiled and conducted a concert Vom Reiche Gottes from single Bach cantata movements to celebrate the bicentenary of the composer's death?
text: Did you know that Frederick Wiseman intended his 1969 documentary Law and Order as "a chance to do in the pigs", but as he made the film he came to understand the "fear that cops live with"?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler King Kaluha was the hand-picked opponent for Dr. Death 's comeback match after battling throat cancer?
text: Did you know that over 60,000 pieces of stained glass were used to create the Roots of Knowledge installation at Utah Valley University ?
text: Did you know that the population of the endangered sea snake Aipysurus fuscus is thought to have declined by at least 70% between 1998 and 2013?
text: Did you know that African-American mathematics professor Thyrsa Frazier Svager and her physics professor husband Aleksandar Svager lived on one salary to build a scholarship fund?
text: Did you know that Morrison-Knudsen built four Popsicles for the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1978?
text: Did you know that the Dutch admiral Cornelis Speelman called the Javanese Muslim nobleman Raden Kajoran a "prophet of the devil"?
text: Did you know that The Formation World Tour by Beyoncé featured a 60-foot (18 m) tall rotating LED cube as the stage's focal point, nicknamed the "Monolith" by designers?
text: Did you know that gay Jewish poet Jacob Hiegentlich committed suicide days after the Nazis invaded the Netherlands ?
text: Did you know that the Indian reservation for the Cowlitz Tribe of Washington state was established for the construction of a casino ?
text: Did you know that the original draft for the light novel series Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World was over 1,000 pages and had to be significantly cut?
text: Did you know that the military historian Clifford Kinvig , whose surname is an anagram of Viking , came from a Manx family?
text: Did you know that The Big Treehouse covers 5,000 square feet (460 m 2 ) and has 12 levels that reach five and a half stories tall?
text: Did you know that The Soft Parade is the first Doors album not to credit the members of the band collectively on songs?
text: Did you know that in late 14th-century England, John of Gaunt built up a massive affinity of supporters which his son Henry later used as an army to depose King Richard II ?
text: Did you know that James Niehues , who paints ski resort trail maps, has been called "the Michelangelo of snow" and "Monet of the mountain"?
text: Did you know that part of the Kansas highway K-99 honors the war dead of Frankfort , which lost more men per capita in World War II than any other community in the United States?
text: Did you know that Annelies Van Parys has composed music for Muziektheater Transparant , including her first opera, Private Views , which premiered in 2015?
text: Did you know that despite its title, Boogeyman 2 does not actually feature the mythical creature as the main antagonist?
text: Did you know that Brigadier General Pompey Elliott convinced his men that his horse could spot men who were unshaven or incorrectly dressed?
text: Did you know that the shooter's sandwich became a minor internet meme after an article in The Guardian declared it to be the best sandwich in the world?
text: Did you know that Indonesian Constitutional Court Justice Saldi Isra twice failed university entrance exams, but later went on to be awarded summa cum laude ?
text: Did you know that in order to put the silver Kalākaua coinage into circulation, Claus Spreckels formed the Spreckels & Company Bank in Hawaii?
text: Did you know that arriving penniless in Oregon in 1903, Harley J. Overturf financed his education at the University of Oregon by filing a timber claim and selling the property for a profit?
text: Did you know that at a show during the 2nd Global Indian Film Awards , around ₹ 2.2 million (US$26,000) was raised by auctioning off costumes of Bollywood actors?
text: Did you know that the bismuth phosphate process was used by the Manhattan Project to extract plutonium for use in atomic bombs?
text: Did you know that after Christian Hamburger oversaw her sex reassignment, Christine Jorgensen chose her new name in his honor?
text: Did you know that the Javanese prince Pangeran Pekik was killed by order of his son-in-law, Amangkurat I ?
text: Did you know that a rented flat in Grosvenor Gardens House may have been the birthplace of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother ?
text: Did you know that substitution of a hazardous chemical can backfire if it turns out to be a "regrettable substitution" that unwittingly introduces a new hazard?
text: Did you know that Mia Borders has an arm tattoo of a saying which means "Better to die standing than to live on your knees"?
text: Did you know that the volcanic area of Kula Geopark was mentioned by the Ancient Greek geographer Strabo in the encyclopedia Geographica as Katakekaumene , literally "Burnt Land"?
text: Did you know that when the Vikings occupied Seville in 844 , they tried unsuccessfully to burn the city's great mosque?
text: Did you know that Sigurd Slembe is a trilogy of plays by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson about a worthless bastard who tries to seize the throne of Norway?
text: Did you know that Barry Ramachandra Rao and his team designed the first multi-frequency HF phase path radar based on a spaced-receiver configuration?
text: Did you know that Falcon Nest is the tallest single-family home in North America?
text: Did you know that de Balzac considered the examining magistrate to be more powerful than the king?
text: Did you knowthat the privately held Dunn Gardens in Seattle were designed by the Olmsted Brothers , who also designed the city's park system?
text: Did you know that the Silk Board junction witnesses the slowest-moving traffic in Bangalore and is one of the two most polluted places in the city?
text: Did you know that the communion hymn " Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele ", with lyrics by Johann Franck and a melody by Johann Crüger , was translated to "Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness"?
text: Did you know that Indonesian political prisoner Pramoedya Ananta Toer researched his historical novel Footsteps from memory and composed it through oral narration to his fellow inmates?
text: Did you know that Myrtle Florence Broome and the Canadian epigrapher Amice Calverley traveled together throughout Egypt taking trains and often driving across the desert in a Jowett car they named Joey?
text: Did you know that the Swedish film The King of Ping Pong won the Grand Jury Prize for world cinema at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival ?
text: Did you know that Air India saw its bookings to America double after the US banned electronic equipment larger than a mobile phone from the passenger cabin for flights departing certain Middle Eastern airports?
text: Did you know that Santosh G. Honavar treated more than 2,000 children affected with retinoblastoma , with a reported success rate of over 85 percent?
text: Did you know that the Fort Custer Maze featured a new design each week?
text: Did you know that Makassarese warrior Karaeng Galesong helped Trunajaya conquer Surabaya and Gresik as a condition for marrying his niece?
text: Did you know that Loser.com used to redirect at different times to Kanye West 's and Donald Trump 's Wikipedia entries?
text: Did you know that American trade unionist George Baldanzi worked out of Greensboro, North Carolina , as part of Operation Dixie because it was close to many textile plants?
text: Did you know that sopa de fideo , a soup in Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisine, may have originated in Spain?
text: Did you know that Us Conductors , the debut novel by Sean Michaels depicting a fictionalized account of the relationship between Léon Theremin and Clara Rockmore , won the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize ?
text: Did you know that Desideria Quintanar de Yáñez was reportedly inspired by a dream to join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1880 in Mexico?
text: Did you know that under Operation Temperer , thousands of British Army troops can be deployed to support police in guarding key sites in the UK against terrorist threats?
text: Did you know that Al Densmore was 24 years old when he took his seat in the Oregon House of Representatives , and just four years later his House peers elected him speaker pro tempore ?
text: Did you know that ArsenalFanTV was designed to give football supporters a chance to have their opinions heard?
text: Did you know that John Hyrum Koyle built the Dream Mine after the Angel Moroni reportedly showed him a Nephite mine in Salem, Utah, which would help fund the gathering of Israel ?
text: Did you know that in 1984, Typhoon June killed 121 people in the Philippines?
text: Did you know that French footballer Alban Lafont is the youngest goalkeeper ever to play in Ligue 1 , having made his debut at the age of 16 years and 310 days?
text: Did you know that the Baroque pipe organ of the Church of Reinhardtsgrimma was built by Gottfried Silbermann ?
text: Did you know that the Ore Dock Brewing Company 's flagship beer is named for the recycled material used in constructing the brewery?
text: Did you know that ticket purchases for Witness: The Tour will include copies of Katy Perry 's album Witness ?
text: Did you know that RCA 's only astronaut, civilian Bob Cenker , narrowly avoided catastrophe during his mission on Space Shuttle Columbia , which experienced several launch-pad aborts and almost exploded?
text: Did you know that the toxin found in the skin of the hooded pitohui , a bird from New Guinea, is the same as that found in poison arrow frogs ?
text: Did you know that American pediatrician L. Emmett Holt Jr. received the Czechoslovak Order of the White Lion , the Finnish Mannerheim Cross , and the Order of the Star of Jordan ?
text: Did you know that " Dies sind die heilgen Zehn Gebot " is a hymnal version of the Ten Commandments by Martin Luther?
text: Did you know that German footballer Lewis Holtby was eligible to represent England through his paternal lineage?
text: Did you know that the South Korean government tried to metricate the country unsuccessfully four times before finally criminalizing traditional Korean units in 2007?
text: Did you know that Alfred Starbird directed the Operation Dominic nuclear tests which "significantly enhanced the security of the nation and the free world"?
text: Did you know that the Thunderbolt was damaged by lightning and then destroyed by a hurricane?
text: Did you know that in Batman and Harley Quinn , Kevin Conroy reprises his role as Batman?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Abby originated from the Western Pacific monsoon trough ?
text: Did you know that Mormon missionaries were temporarily banned from New Zealand , supposedly for trying to convince Maoris to move to America?
text: Did you know that Margit Neubauer appeared as Sesto in Handel's Giulio Cesare , conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt , at the start of her 39-year career at the Frankfurt Opera ?
text: Did you know that the Gudjonsson suggestibility scale has been used in court cases to determine how suggestible a person will be during interrogation?
text: Did you know that Indian legislator Ahmed bin Abdullah Balala urged the government to relax the helmet rules for motorcyclists due to the high temperatures of the summer months?
text: Did you know that Warkworth's Chronicle , covering the years 1461 to 1474, reports on the double bleeding of Henry VI and a headless man who cries, "Bowes, bowes, bowes"?
text: Did you know that the Javanese philologist Poerbatjaraka obtained a doctorate cum laude at Leiden University , even though previously he had only attended primary school?
text: Did you know that Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker , a summer festival of chamber music founded in 1946, was directed by violinists such as Carolin Widmann ?
text: Did you know that Liu Qingyun has been described as "the most prolific woman playwright of the nineteenth century"?
text: Did you know that Rustin McIntosh received the Croix de guerre for his service in World War I, and the John Howland Award for his contributions to pediatrics?
text: Did you know that according to Abu Hurairah , the Islamic prophet Muhammad often recited the Quranic chapter Al-Insan on Friday during the early morning prayer ?
text: Did you know that the new West London Air Terminal building was opened by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in 1963?
text: Did you know that former Houston Astros pitcher Mike Grzanich bought his own uniform in an internet sale?
text: Did you know that the ground-dwelling redthroat bird can imitate the sound of a crested pigeon in flight?
text: Did you know that since being introduced in the mid-1990s, the red turpentine beetle has destroyed six million trees in China?
text: Did you know that the mandatory eight count was introduced to boxing in 1953 by the New York State Athletic Commission in order to protect fighters from unnecessary damage?
text: Did you know that one question about Hughes Dynamics , an early 1960s subsidiary of Hughes Tool Company , is whether Howard Hughes ever approved its creation?
text: Did you know that the photographer Fred Gildersleeve captured depictions of a lynching in progress ?
text: Did you know that the 2017–18 RFU Championship will feature a college team that climbed from the bottom tier of English rugby to the second tier within 13 years of its formation?
text: Did you know that during the 1691 papal conclave , cardinals burned down their sleeping quarters in the Vatican while playing cards?
text: Did you know that D. J. Wilson entered the 2017 NBA draft rather than staying in college and playing for the 2017–18 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team ?
text: Did you know that the first soundtrack album from How I Met Your Mother , titled How I Met Your Music , was originally released only through iTunes because the creators considered CDs to be "too 1992"?
text: Did you know that Sir Henry Wade saved the leg of Norman Dott , who then became a surgeon too?
text: Did you know that Barbadian-Canadian author Austin Clarke listened to Miles Davis while writing his Scotiabank Giller Prize -winning novel The Polished Hoe ?
text: Did you know that Giovanni Gribodo , an architect in the Italian Art Nouveau Liberty Style, also published 42 scientific papers describing 377 new taxa of Hymenoptera ?
text: Did you know that stew peas with rice was declared to be "the best dish made in Jamaica" by The Gleaner in 1992?
text: Did you know that Helen Sandoz sometimes wrote editorials for the lesbian magazine The Ladder from the perspective of her cat?
text: Did you know that Washington State Route 522 has been named as one of the most dangerous highways in the United States?
text: Did you know that a famous painting by Liu Guandao portrays Kublai Khan as an "aging and obese man"?
text: Did you know that Casualty producers worked with the Association of Air Ambulances for over half a year on the special episode " Too Old for This Shift "?
text: Did you know that Öget Öktem Tanör , Turkey's first neuropsychologist, was charged with "terrorism propaganda" in 2017 for signing a petition?
text: Did you know that only male Chloropicus xantholophus have golden crowns?
text: Did you know that a recording of Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle with Cornelia Kallisch as Judith was nominated for a Grammy Award?
text: Did you know that Soviet economist Dimitri Navachine , assassinated in Paris in 1937, may have been killed for possessing documents showing that certain Soviet political prisoners were innocent?
text: Did you know that in the Southern Hemisphere, all willow sawflies are female, while in the Northern Hemisphere both males and females occur?
text: Did you know that in 1980, the American Meat Institute tried to ban turkey ham products from being labeled as such?
text: Did you know that the Supreme Court of Canada held that it was unreasonable for there to be a 44-month delay between the filing of charges and the trial?
text: Did you know that in 2003, Susan Baker became the first woman to hold a King Carl XVI Gustaf Professorship in Environmental Science ?
text: Did you know that some of the text on the back of the Fighters Uncaged box resulted in a lawsuit from Zuffa ?
text: Did you know that Peter Bonsall-Boone and his partner personally appealed to the Australian prime minister to legalise same-sex marriage?
text: Did you know that the Brut Chronicle was one of the most-copied chronicles in medieval England?
text: Did you know that the TEN Oil Field in Ghana was not so named because of the number of oil wells?
text: Did you know that Roy Wiggins claimed to have ruined 80 million records ?
text: Did you know that Soviet economist Dimitri Navachine , assassinated in Paris in 1937, may have been killed for possessing documents showing that certain Soviet political prisoners were innocent?
text: Did you know that in his Viola Sonata entitled Sonata ebraica ("Hebrew Sonata"), Graham Waterhouse quotes the Yiddish song " Oyfn Pripetshik "?
text: Did you know that Frieda Fraser and Edith Williams corresponded for 24 years before they were able to acquire a home to live together in 1941?
text: Did you know that the National Film Awards in various categories have been presented to the films Doghi ( Other Social Issues ), Vastupurush ( Best Feature Film in Marathi ), Devrai ( Environment Conservation/Preservation ), Samhita ( Best Music Direction ), Astu ( Best Dialogue ) and Kaasav ( Best Feature Film ), all by filmmaker duo Sumitra Bhave–Sunil Sukthankar ?
text: Did you know that the first tests of the British hydrogen bomb programme were hailed as a triumph but in fact were failures?
text: Did you know that Oscar Lerman produced The Stud , The Bitch , and two children with Jackie Collins ?
text: Did you know that Flood of Fire , the final volume of the Ibis trilogy by Amitav Ghosh , won the Crossword Book Jury Award in Fiction in 2015?
text: Did you know that Sir Barry Shaw was the first Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland?
text: Did you know that the pelage of Ruschi's rat is a mixture of ordinary hairs and flattened, black-tipped spines?
text: Did you know that William Lloyd Webber's Missa Princeps Pacis was performed at St Martin-in-the-Fields to celebrate his centenary?
text: Did you know that a cable car flywheel found during construction of Pioneer Square station in Seattle now sits on display at the station's mezzanine?
text: Did you know that Xavier Bettel became the first European Union leader to marry someone of the same sex when he married Gauthier Destenay in 2015?
text: Did you know that " Empty Orchestra ", an episode of Inside No. 9 , features a karaoke version of Yazoo 's " Only You " sung by Janet, who is played by the Deaf actor Emily Howlett?
text: Did you know that Canadian author David Bergen won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award for A Year of Lesser (1996), The Time in Between (2005), and The Retreat (2009)?
text: Did you know that Andre Anderson was the first New Mexico State Aggies player to be selected for the East–West Shrine Game ?
text: Did you know that Die Weihe der Nacht , composed by Max Reger for a female soloist, men's choir, and orchestra and set to a poem by Friedrich Hebbel , evokes daybreak?
text: Did you know that Cephalotes caribicus worker ants had semitransparent expansions on their bodies, possibly for protection?
text: Did you know that Jennie Anderson Froiseth , an anti- polygamy crusader during the 1800s, published a book about the experiences of women in polygamous marriages?
text: Did you know that one of the reasons for the partitioning of Poland was the thousands of Russian peasants escaping from serfdom to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth?
text: Did you know that Sarah Lancashire was nominated for four British Academy Television Awards between 2013 and 2017, and won two of them ?
text: Did you know that to portray events of The Blair Witch Project as real, its actors were listed on the IMDb website as "missing, presumed dead"?
text: Did you know that pathologist Walter Lazarus-Barlow pricked his thumb during a postmortem examination and lost an arm as a result?
text: Did you know that Violet Lake , a high-elevation lake on the slope of the West Maui Mountains , was believed to be the home of the Hawaiian lizard goddess Kihawahine?
text: Did you know that the Estadio Tecnológico de Oaxaca was designed to mimic the ball court at Monte Albán ?
text: Did you know that the blackchin shiner was thought to have vanished from Ohio before 1940, until it was rediscovered there in the 1980s?
text: Did you know that Mozart composed his motet Ave verum corpus for the church choir of St. Stephan in Baden on 17 June 1791?
text: Did you know that Roy Ananny was a Canadian football player, a fireman, a police officer, a curling player, and a realtor?
text: Did you know that arson in royal dockyards‎ was one of the last four crimes in the United Kingdom to carry the death penalty?
text: Did you know that in 2016 Pascal Rophé conducted works by Henri Dutilleux to celebrate the composer's centenary, including Tout un monde lointain... and Le temps l'horloge ?
text: Did you know that in the Southern Hemisphere, all willow sawflies are female, while in the Northern Hemisphere both males and females occur?
text: Did you know that Deepak Kumar was one of the first Indian condensed matter physicists to predict the experimental consequences of spin clusters near the percolation threshold ?
text: Did you know that the Beach Boys ' experimental album Smiley Smile (1967) was used by some rehab centers to help ease patients off drugs?
text: Did you know that walnut soup is a part of the cuisines of China, Italy, and Mexico?
text: Did you know that Jimmy Florian won the Ford Motor Company's first NASCAR Grand National Series race while driving a car that was formerly owned by the Detroit chief of police ?
text: Did you know that William R. Rowley was one of nine American Civil War generals who came from Galena, Illinois ?
text: Did you know that in 1621, it was suggested that the election of future popes should take place in the presence of the previous pope's corpse?
text: Did you know that Kingsley, Iowa , was once named Quorn after the Quorn Hunt in England?
text: Did you know that Wolf W. Zuelzer , who demonstrated that children could be cured of leukemia , died from the disease in old age?
text: Did you know that the video game Resident Evil 7: Biohazard resolved to focus on survival horror as opposed to its predecessors' action-oriented gameplay?
text: Did you know that Seattle 's University Street station was designed in a " high-tech " style to match nearby high-rise office buildings?
text: Did you know that rugby union player Fionn McLoughlin represented both Ireland and Wales in youth internationals?
text: Did you know that Newcastle Interchange railway station was completely redesigned in response to criticism of the original proposal?
text: Did you know that a Munchausen by proxy expert says the murder of Dee Dee Blancharde , discovered two years ago today, is the first instance he knows of where the abused child killed the abusive parent?
text: Did you know that during the Spanish conquest of El Salvador , the Spanish town of San Salvador was destroyed by natives within a year of being founded by Gonzalo de Alvarado ?
text: Did you know that Andreas Schager was called a "sensation" when he first performed Wagner's Tristan in Minden , and went on to Siegfried at the Staatsoper Berlin , La Scala , and The Proms ?
text: Did you know that tonkotsu ramen is renowned for the significant time it can take to prepare a proper version of the dish?
text: Did you know that Joseph and Emma Nāwahī co-founded the Hawaiian-language newspaper Ke Aloha Aina to oppose the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States?
text: Did you know that contrary to the urban myth, dialing 999 does not charge mobile phone batteries ?
text: Did you know that the apple sawfly is invasive in North America, and a parasitic wasp has been introduced in an attempt to control it?
text: Did you know that a good word from his son-in-law's employer gained Edward L. Hedden the position of Collector of the Port of New York ?
text: Did you know that the leader of the Chechen -led Jihadist group Ajnad al-Kavkaz believes there will eventually be a world war against Russia?
text: Did you know that U.S. citizens are prohibited from conducting business transactions with Elvis González Valencia ?
text: Did you know that the final mission from the 54th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron was flown into Typhoon Cary ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Jerry London worked in the main event of both the first and second EMLL 33rd anniversary show , three weeks apart?
text: Did you know that shags may be spotted in New Zealand?
text: Did you know that Indian quantum physicist Shasanka Mohan Roy developed an exact integral equation , now known as "Roy's equations"?
text: Did you know that the Jefferson Elementary School District started with a one-room building constructed in 1856?
text: Did you know that Shinnyo was the first fully ordained bhikkhuni for several hundred years?
text: Did you know that 154 flights of stairs in New York City will cost $150 million to $200 million?
text: Did you know that in 1907, George H. Brimhall permitted Brigham Young University students to paint the letters "B", "Y", and "U" on the mountain nearest to campus, but the work was only partially completed and it became Y Mountain ?
text: Did you know that the video game Nights: Journey of Dreams inspired an unofficial two-CD tribute album?
text: Did you know that when the Vikings occupied Seville in 844 , they tried unsuccessfully to burn the city's great mosque?
text: Did you know that the red-billed quelea is the most numerous undomesticated bird species on earth, with an estimated population peaking at 1.5 billion?
text: Did you know that bae is a term of endearment popular on social media and in contemporary song lyrics?
text: Did you know that Jon Anabo was half of the "best 1-2 quarterback punch on the West Coast"?
text: Did you know that the death toll in a 2016 mass methanol poisoning in Irkutsk , Russia, led the Associated Press to call it "unprecedented in its scale"?
text: Did you know that Helmut Franz conducted the NDR Chor in Ligeti's Lux aeterna , which was later used as music for 2001: A Space Odyssey ?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Kelly caused 452 landslides in Japan?
text: Did you know that a play by Babette Hughes was performed in 1938 by six blind actresses?
text: Did you know that the journalist behind the Narada sting operation was inspired by Israeli Mossad officer Mike Harari ?
text: Did you know that real-life advertising " Mad Man " "Smokey" Salmon fired the Ford Motor Company?
text: Did you know that Marguerite Alibert killed her husband after watching The Merry Widow with him?
text: Did you know that after releasing DanTDM: Trayaurus and the Enchanted Crystal , author Dan Middleton was the first writer in 2016 to sell out tickets to his event at the Cheltenham Literature Festival ?
text: Did you know that white nationalist Mike Enoch helped Richard Spencer successfully sue Auburn University after it attempted to cancel their speaking engagement?
text: Did you know that the Sea Bright-Monmouth Beach Seawall runs along a stretch of Atlantic Coast that is one of the most heavily engineered sections of ocean shorefront in the world?
text: Did you know that DJ Minami Momochi wears an anime character face mask while performing?
text: Did you know that the Estadio Gaspar Mass is named for one of the pioneers of American football in the Mexican state of Nuevo León ?
text: Did you know that White was the first black school principal of Philadelphia?
text: Did you know that there is indirect, but unconfirmed, evidence of certain diseases being spread by toilet plume ?
text: Did you know that professional baseball player Devin Smeltzer was diagnosed with cancer when he was nine years old?
text: Did you know that the title track of Barbra Streisand 's Lazy Afternoon was suggested to her over dinner by Francis Ford Coppola ?
text: Did you know that during the Martial Law , Imelda Marcos prevented local screenings of the film Insiang as it did not depict a "beautiful view" of the Philippines?
text: Did you know that the Carmen Sandiego edutainment franchise, which began with video games World (1985) and U.S.A. (1986), will see its fourth television series air on Netflix in 2019?
text: Did you know that Biswa Ranjan Nag has contributed to the development of a Monte Carlo method for the computation of the coefficient of velocity?
text: Did you know that the pilots for Apollo Gauntlet and Hot Streets were released online by Adult Swim , who gave viewers the opportunity to rate each using five buttons marked with reactions?
text: Did you know that the Lynnwood Convention Center was rejected by voters on three occasions in the 1980s and 1990s, before it was finally built in 2005?
text: Did you know that Claude Henderson was the first cricketer to sign a Kolpak contract ?
text: Did you know that George Morison Robertson , a Scottish expatriate in Hawaii, married a shipwrecked Englishwoman from Australia?
text: Did you know that Robert E. Sherwood 's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1938 play Abe Lincoln in Illinois was written as a riposte to isolationists in the United States?
text: Did you know that all 300 special edition copies of SimetriSiti , an album by Malaysian singer Siti Nurhaliza , sold out in 20 minutes?
text: Did you know that Alaska P. Davidson was the first female FBI special agent ?
text: Did you know that the Minar in the centre of the Sassanid circular city of Gōr may have been an observation tower, a water tower, part of a temple, a symbol of the new government, or a combination of these?
text: Did you know that Edward Dalton created New York City's first ambulance service?
text: Did you know that the short satirical opera Das geheime Königreich ( The Secret Kingdom ) by Ernst Krenek premiered in Wiesbaden in May 1928 ?
text: Did you know that Venezuelan footballer Sergio Córdova scored on his professional debut for Caracas FC ?
text: Did you know that unmated female Diprion similis produce only male offspring while mated females produce young of both sexes?
text: Did you know that Albert P. Halfhill is considered the father of the tuna packing industry and was the first to use the slogan "chicken of the sea" as a sales gimmick?
text: Did you know that in 1984, Tropical Storm Warren destroyed 740 homes across the Philippines?
text: Did you know that activist Ed Forchion tried to legally change his name to NJWeedman.com, but was denied by courts in New Jersey and California?
text: Did you know that comments made by National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) president Dennis Coralluzzo led to Extreme Championship Wrestling breaking away from the NWA?
text: Did you know that Erwünschtes Freudenlicht , BWV 184 , Bach's cantata for the third day of Pentecost , contains dances, because it is based on a secular model?
text: Did you know that the first civil Commissioner of Weihaiwei oversaw the transformation of the territory from a planned British naval base to a holiday resort?
text: Did you know that a campaign to conserve the Narmada River centering around a 2,930-kilometre (1,820 mi) yatra has reached more than 30 million people?
text: Did you know that the billed personality of EastEnders character Babe Smith was swapped with that of Stan Carter ?
text: Did you know that Andrew Jackson 's objection to a renewed embargo between the United States and West Indies in the wake of the 1827 North Carolina hurricane helped him win the presidency a year later?
text: Did you know that Lady Hambro was nicknamed "the bulldozer" when she worked at Queen magazine in 1960s Swinging London ?
text: Did you know that Henry Ludington helped General George Washington create a spy ring to gather information on British troops during the American Revolutionary War?
text: Did you know that The Old Axolotl , an experimental electronic novel by Jacek Dukaj presenting a post-apocalyptic , cyberpunk vision of Earth, incorporates hypertext and 3D-printable models of its characters?
text: Did you know that Phil Lyne entered more than 100 rodeos in 1971 and 1972, winning the All-Around Cowboy championship in both years?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Dinah was considered the worst tropical cyclone to affect Okinawa in 20 years?
text: Did you know that Pirgel is the highest mud volcano in Iran?
text: Did you know that when the Vikings occupied Seville in 844 , they tried unsuccessfully to burn the city's great mosque?
text: Did you know that the Bone Bill aimed to increase the number of cadavers available for dissection ?
text: Did you know that " Der Geist des Herrn erfüllt das All ", a hymn for Pentecost , was written by Maria Luise Thurmair in 1941, the year of her marriage to the hymn writer Georg Thurmair ?
text: Did you know that in the rubber tree genus Hevea , H. benthamiana , H. microphylla , and H. brasiliensis are deciduous, while H. guianensis , H. nitida , H. rigidifolia , and H. spruceana are evergreen?
text: Did you know that Paul M. Nakasone commanded the Second United States Army until it was inactivated for the fourth time in its history in 2017?
text: Did you know that Green Day 's 2016 song " Bang Bang " was inspired by the events of mass shootings in the United States and is written from the viewpoint of a mass shooter?
text: Did you know that H. J. de Graaf was called the "father of the study of Javanese history" by historian M. C. Ricklefs ?
text: Did you know that Russia has denied claims that it has attacked hospitals in Syria ?
text: Did you know that Taufa Vakatale was the first indigenous Fijian woman to serve as a secondary school principal, to be elected as a cabinet minister, and to be president of her political party ?
text: Did you know that fans of the Atlanta Braves were asked to stop doing the tomahawk chop with foam tomahawks, as it was viewed as a mockery of Native Americans?
text: Did you know that Taufa Vakatale was the first indigenous Fijian woman to serve as a secondary school principal, to be elected as a cabinet minister, and to be president of her political party ?
text: Did you know that the Hochschule für Musik Mainz collaborated with the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden to stage a production of Scarlatti's La Giuditta earlier this year?
text: Did you know that when President George H. W. Bush violated his " Read my lips: no new taxes " pledge, opposition by House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich led to the U.S. federal government shutdown of 1990 ?
text: Did you know that tabletop game Beasts of Balance won the Technology Award at the 2015 Indiecade festival?
text: Did you know that the Marriage (Wales) Act 2010 was passed by Parliament to bring the marriage law of the disestablished Church in Wales into line with the established Church of England?
text: Did you know that Vijay Kumar Kapahi elucidated the relativistic beaming in nuclear jets of quasars ?
text: Did you know that for decades, Long Island commuters knocked knees on the Long Island Rail Road 's PRR MP70 cars?
text: Did you know that Ranganathan Shashidhar developed a family of 256- greyscale electroclinic liquid crystals with a response time of less than 100 microseconds?
text: Did you know that The Dethe of the Kynge of Scotis is the only 15th-century chronicle that says that James I of Scotland was killed in the privy ?
text: Did you know that drag boat racing driver Tyler Speer 's boat uses parts from his ARCA Racing Series stock car?
text: Did you know that the Joint Typhoon Warning Center accurately predicted that Typhoon Vera would strike Okinawa 66 hours in advance?
text: Did you know that the early Buddhist wall paintings at the Tiantishan Caves were detached due to construction of a reservoir?
text: Did you know that Junius Kaʻae was implicated in an opium bribery scandal involving the Hawaiian king Kalākaua and a Chinese rice planter ?
text: Did you know that LSD and psychotherapy were used to treat alcoholics during the Spring Grove Experiment ?
text: Did you know that Missa aulica is a Missa brevis in C with trumpets and violins by František Xaver Brixi , who was director of the choir at St. Vitus Cathedral from age 27?
text: Did you know that the role of Lofty Chiltern in Casualty was specifically written for actor Lee Mead?
text: Did you know that according to the 2009 book Pinoy Capital , a significant number of Filipino Americans in Daly City, California, preferred to be identified as Filipinos ?
text: Did you know that Ivy Josiah led opposition to domestic violence against women and children in Malaysia?
text: Did you know that America's current laws on cadaver acquisitions followed 19th-century riots over medical grave-robbing ?
text: Did you know that it was initially claimed by newspapers that "King Kong" Kirk died after being splashed by Big Daddy Shirley Crabtree in a wrestling match?
text: Did you know that after a long official debate, Puddletown stopped being Piddletown?
text: Did you know that actress Charlotte Salt likened her Casualty character Sam Nicholls to Lara Croft ?
text: Did you know that freight derailments occurred at both of Wachusett 's predecessor stations?
text: Did you know that mezzo-soprano Eva Randová was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for her performance as the Kostelnička Buryjovka in Janáček's Jenůfa at the Royal Opera House?
text: Did you know that the cyberpunk science-fiction genre was named after the 1983 short story " Cyberpunk " by Bruce Bethke ?
text: Did you know that anchovy paste has been used for centuries to provide flavor for foods and as a source of nutrition?
text: Did you know that Mary Florence Potts patented various styles of cold-handle clothes irons that were the most popular irons ever used?
text: Did you know that in the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets , the actor Alec Guinness plays nine members of the same family?
text: Did you know that Gertrude Förstel was Sophie when Der Rosenkavalier was first performed in Vienna, and sang in the premieres of Tiefland and Mahler's Eighth Symphony ?
text: Did you know that a randomised decision rule satisfying the Bayes criterion always has a non-random alternative?
text: Did you know that the Achaemenid palace at Susa served as a model for Persepolis ?
text: Did you know that for the filming of Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? on Manhattan's Upper West Side , the filmmakers relied on regular pedestrian traffic to background the scenes rather than hiring extras ?
text: Did you know that the 58th chapter of the Quran explains how Muhammad's original position on the legal status of divorced women was overruled?
text: Did you know that in the late 1980s, the now defunct airline Nigeria Airways took delivery of the last DC-10 ever built?
text: Did you know that 22 years after he walked-on at Ole Miss , Matt Luke became its head football coach?
text: Did you know that Robert Lee Burns , a reformed convict from Oregon , was the subject of an interstate extradition battle between Oregon and California?
text: Did you know that some inhabitants of the Colca Canyon believe their ancestors came from the Hualca Hualca volcano?
text: Did you know that Swedish singer Wille Crafoord launched the Hovturnén, an annual concert tour in Skåne , in which singers and performers travel by horseback between gigs?
text: Did you know that at 27 weeks, the longest running number-one song on the US Billboard Dance/Electronic Songs chart is " Closer " by The Chainsmokers , featuring Halsey ?
text: Did you know that the tubeworm Eunice norvegica often grows in association with a deep water coral?
text: Did you know that the increased prominence of pizza in China had the secondary effect of introducing Chinese consumers to cheese as a culinary ingredient?
text: Did you know that in 1975, eight men stole $30 million from the Providence Mafia and associates in the Bonded Vault heist ?
text: Did you know that early coffee vending machines used instant coffee powder mixed with hot water, while some modern machines fresh-grind the coffee and dispense various espresso drinks?
text: Did you know that Mithuben Petit , a woman freedom fighter during the British Raj , played a major part in the Salt March with Mahatma Gandhi ?
text: Did you know that the 32nd chapter of the Quran is known by the name "The Prostration", and alternatively, "The Beds"?
text: Did you know that Richard Saltonstall Rogers , a political enemy of Nathaniel Hawthorne , has been suggested as the inspiration for a character in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter ?
text: Did you know that when the Theater Münster opened in 1956, it was regarded as the first new theatre in Germany after World War II?
text: Did you know that huli-huli chicken is turned on a spit , and named from the Hawaiian word huli , meaning "turn"?
text: Did you know that Donald Trump urged his Twitter followers not to buy the biography Trump Revealed by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher ?
text: Did you know that Stanley Blankson made the smooth flow of human and vehicular traffic his major aim during his term as mayor of Accra ?
text: Did you know that Jordan holds an annual celebration on 1 March for the 1956 Arabization of the Jordanian Army command ?
text: Did you know that Carmen Cincotti ate nearly 1,000 hot dogs in two months while training for the 2017 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest , where he ate 62 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes to finish in second place?
text: Did you know that when dislodged from its burrow, the onion anemone may get rolled around by the sea before finding a suitable place to dig?
text: Did you know that in 1944, Northern Ireland politician William Lyle denounced as "obnoxious" the views of minister Harry Midgley , whom Lyle hoped would become "more mature"?
text: Did you know that the Hainan partridge occurs in forests that have recovered from logging?
text: Did you know that the 1928 one-act play The Queen's Messenger was the first television drama?
text: Did you know that William L. Mercereau , Superintendent of Steamships for the Pere Marquette Railway , was responsible for building up what was at the time the world's largest carferry fleet?
text: Did you know that the black coral barnacle sometimes grows on Plumapathes pennacea ?
text: Did you know that contralto Ruth Siewert appeared as Erda not only in Bayreuth , but also at La Scala , La Fenice , and La Monnaie ?
text: Did you know that the film Poetry in Motion was described in a review as "orgasmic" for students of contemporary poetry?
text: Did you know that after working for the International Coffee Organization in London and as a consultant for the World Bank, Owusu Afriyie Akoto became Ghana's Minister of Food and Agriculture ?
text: Did you know that the 2013 book Disinformation was included in the CIA 's "Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf"?
text: Did you know that Grace Hutchins promoted a radical Christian pacifist movement in the United States?
text: Did you know that the first county courthouse for Lake County , Oregon , was built on 20 acres (8.1 ha) donated by Mark W. Bullard in 1876?
text: Did you know that in animal studies of the health and safety hazards of nanomaterials , carbon nanotubes had similar inhalation exposure effects to asbestos ?
text: Did you know that John Ward Westcott developed a marine mail system that eventually became the only floating ZIP Code in the United States?
text: Did you know that in the mid-1980s, some HIV patients pinned their hopes for survival on an experimental drug called HPA-23 ?
text: Did you know that at over 10 km (6 mi), Pınargözü Cave is the longest cave in Turkey and has not yet been fully surveyed?
text: Did you know that the upcoming movie Stronger is based on a memoir by Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman ?
text: Did you know that the release of Los Gatos ' debut single " La balsa " on July 3, 1967, is widely considered to be the origin of Argentine rock ?
text: Did you know that according to Snopes , the belief that the soul weighs 21 grams should not be given any credence?
text: Did you knowthat within a Monte Viso Tunnel is the most ancient tunnel of Italy throught the mountain?
text: Did you know that Alfred Ezra learnt how to keep hummingbirds in captivity using baby food ?
text: Did you know that the Flag of Washington must show George Washington 's profile facing the same direction on both sides, making it one of the most expensive U.S. state flags to produce?
text: Did you know that Oxford Bibliographies Online has been called "an anti- Google "?
text: Did you know that the white-necklaced partridge 's forehead is white in one subspecies and chestnut in the other?
text: Did you know that Richard Scott was a doctor who in 1963 became the world's first professor in general practice ?
text: Did you know that the short film Le Building was created as an opener for the Annecy International Animated Film Festival as the thesis project of five students of Gobelins ?
text: Did you know that Martin F. Scanlon was one of the Early Birds of Aviation ?
text: Did you know that the Iranian Prime Minister's office bombing in 1981 led to the death of the prime minister, Mohammad Javad Bahonar , and President Mohammad Ali Rajai ?
text: Did you know that Charles Moses escaped from Singapore with Major General Gordon Bennett , led a cavalry regiment at the Battle of Buna-Gona, and crossed the Rhine with the British commandos?
text: Did you know that The Big Bend , which would be the world's longest building if built, was designed to circumvent zoning regulations?
text: Did you know that the Indian legislator Siddiqullah Chowdhury is critical of the Sheikh Hasina -led government of Bangladesh?
text: Did you know that Donald Trump blamed his ghostwriter for inaccuracies in Trump 101 , saying in a deposition that he had read it "very quickly" before publication?
text: Did you know that the Incident at Clovelly Cottage (1895) was the "first successful motion picture film made in Britain"?
text: Did you know that the operator of Casino Pier returned from lunch to find his new roller coaster was being built in a different location than he had intended?
text: Did you know that Yvonne Busch left home at age eleven, on her own initiative, to pursue music?
text: Did you know that the Brookville Liberty Modern Streetcar has a hybrid design that allows it to run on either battery power or via pantograph and overhead line ?
text: Did you know that the Guangming Daily was one of only three national newspapers published in China during the Cultural Revolution ?
text: Did you know that Hendrika B. Cantwell , one of the first physicians in the US to work for a child protection agency, came in contact with an estimated 30,000 cases of suspected child abuse and neglect?
text: Did you know that the legality of a 2016 plan to tax the Yale University endowment was questioned, in part due to a 1745 act of the Colony of Connecticut which granted the school tax-exempt status?
text: Did you know that GhanaSat-1 , the first Ghanaian satellite in space, is used to monitor the country's coastline as well as broadcast Ghanaian songs ?
text: Did you know that international cricketer Carlisle Best would "aggravate bowlers" by commentating on himself while batting ?
text: Did you know that Alice Tangerini is the only botanical illustrator ever hired by the Smithsonian Institution ?
text: Did you know that the National Socialist Party 's victory in the 1956 general election formed the only elected government in Jordan 's history?
text: Did you know that Samsun Golf Course is thought to be the first course in the world to be built on ground recovered from the sea?
text: Did you know that when disturbed, the rufous-throated partridge flies to branches as thrushes do, and at night, roosts huddled in trees like babblers ?
text: Did you know that developer Parroty Interactive 's 1997 parody video game The X-Fools was released in anticipation of the fifth season of the paranormal TV series The X-Files ?
text: Did you know that Robin Fontes is the highest-ranking female military officer to serve in Afghanistan since the American invasion of that country in 2001?
text: Did you know that The Graybar Hotel was written by a convicted murderer serving a life sentence without parole?
text: Did you know that Margaret Amoakohene , currently a member of Ghana's Council of State , is the country's former High Commissioner to Canada?
text: Did you know that radio station KRGE in Weslaco, Texas , once shared time with another station that later moved 350 miles (560 km) from Brownsville to Port Arthur ?
text: Did you know that Mirwaiz Yusuf Shah of Kashmir was one of the founders of All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference ?
text: Did you know that the vegetable leaf miner became a serious problem in tomato crops in Florida after insecticides had killed the wasps that had previously kept it under control?
text: Did you know that tea garden worker Karimul Haque has been awarded India's fourth highest civilian award?
text: Did you know that the YPG was denounced after the Battle of al-Yaarubiyah for fighting the Free Syrian Army , which was not even present during the battle?
text: Did you know that Rick Langford pitched 22 consecutive complete baseball games in 1980?
text: Did you know that the Tjele helmet fragment is part of one of only five known Viking Age helmets?
text: Did you know that Shanno Devi was the first woman speaker of a State Assembly in India?
text: Did you know that U.S. admiral Mark Bristol unsuccessfully protested against the deportations of Samsun Greeks to the Turkish authorities of Mustafa Kemal ?
text: Did you know that Norah C. James ' first book Sleeveless Errand was ruled obscene and ordered by the Bow Street Police Court to be destroyed?
text: Did you know that The Gamblers ' "Moon Dawg!" single is considered by some to be the first surf rock record?
text: Did you know that Charles Corydon Hall is considered the father of the rock wool insulation industry in America?
text: Did you know that the Shinano River is the longest river, and has the third largest drainage basin , in Japan?
text: Did you know that ProRodeo Hall of Fame barrel racer Charmayne James still managed to win the round when her horse Scamper 's bridle fell off?
text: Did you know that renewed volcanic activity at Antofagasta de la Sierra could cause ash to rain down over hundreds of square kilometres of adjacent land?
text: Did you know that Paula Murrihy , who appeared in operatic title roles such as Dido , Carmen , Hänsel and the Rosenkavalier , sang Lieder with viola and piano for the Hessischer Rundfunk ?
text: Did you know that Microshaft Winblows 98 served as parody video game developer Parroty Interactive 's take on Microsoft , Windows , and Bill Gates ?
text: Did you know that there was a campaign to deny Catherine Afeku 's appointment as Ghana's Minister of Tourism because she had not done her national service ?
text: Did you know that in the UK, the endangered Tansy beetle can only be found on the banks of the River Ouse , near York ?
text: Did you know that Shekhar Naik is the first blind cricketer to be awarded the Padma Shri ?
text: Did you know that Trump Tower was marketed as the " debut novel " of Donald Trump ?
text: Did you know that Indian Jat legislator Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary assisted chief minister Mayawati in pacifying agitations in Jat-dominated areas?
text: Did you know that during the Rhode Island banking crisis of the early 1990s, hundreds of thousands of people lost access to their money?
text: Did you know that within 100 years of the Spanish conquest of Nicaragua , the native population had been all but eliminated by a combination of newly-introduced disease, the slave trade, warfare, and mistreatment?
text: Did you know that Nicole Chevalier was awarded Der Faust for her performance of the four female characters in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffman at the Komische Oper Berlin ?
text: Did you know that Dishonored 2 , a steampunk video game, had its anti-piracy software hacked by a group called SteamPunks?
text: Did you know that Tropical Depression Eight in 1981 dropped up to 21 inches (530 mm) of rainfall in Texas , much of which fell in only six hours?
text: Did you know that Robert Symonds , expert in old English furniture , claimed that his girlfriend thrust a pair of curling tongs in his ear?
text: Did you know that after the 1194 Battle of Fréteval , Richard I captured the French King's government archive which travelled with him, who as a result founded the French National Archives in Paris?
text: Did you know that A Voz do Brasil is the longest-running radio program in the Southern Hemisphere?
text: Did you know that Greek shipping tycoon Basil Goulandris and his wife Elisa died childless and left an art collection worth an estimated $3 billion that has been the subject of a family feud ever since?
text: Did you know that the critically endangered shrub orange dryandra is known from an area of less than 4.5 square kilometres (1.7 sq mi) in Western Australia?
text: Did you know that investment banker Peter W. Smith contacted Russian hackers in an unsuccessful attempt to locate missing emails from Hillary Clinton 's computer system?
text: Did you know that the Twelve Fantasias for Viola da Gamba solo , published by the composer Georg Philipp Telemann in 1735, were believed lost but published again in 2016?
text: Did you know that Drop the Dip , the first roller coaster to use a lap bar , was inspired by a toy in a dentist's office waiting room?
text: Did you know that in the John Gay version of Achilles , the hero is introduced as a cross-dresser ?
text: Did you know that Sue Alexander tapped into her grief over her younger brother's death to write a children's book about a Bedouin girl dealing with the same issue?
text: Did you know that the Indian Ocean coral Acropora rudis is " endangered " by habitat destruction and its susceptibility to coral bleaching, disease and ocean acidification?
text: Did you know that Marc Soustrot conducted a staging of both Debussy's cantata La Damoiselle élue and Honegger's oratorio Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher at the Frankfurt Opera in 2017?
text: Did you know that First Minister's Questions in the Scottish Parliament was moved to an earlier time to allow more school children to see the session?
text: Did you know that governor Min Linka of Pegu was executed after his failed rebellion against his brother King Binnya U of Martaban ?
text: Did you know that smut has been reported on Scouten Brook ?
text: Did you know that New York City's Citi Bike is the largest bicycle-sharing system in the United States?
text: Did you know that the music video for Oh Land 's " Cherry on Top " is intended to serve as the first of three short films directed by Duncan Winecoff?
text: Did you know that as a teenager, association footballer Frank Dudley gave up on turning professional due to his height—and then experienced a 6-inch (15 cm) growth spurt?
text: Did you know that Roebuck was the flagship of Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot at the Siege of Charleston in 1780?
text: Did you know that singer-songwriter Jo Carol Pierce attended high school with artists Joe Ely and Butch Hancock in Lubbock, Texas ?
text: Did you know that the flowers of Banksia alliacea smell of onions?
text: Did you know that when Donald Trump accused Hillary Clinton of playing the woman card , she did and it garnered $2.4 million for her campaign?
text: Did you know that Sebastiano DiGaetano , an early mafia boss of the Bonanno crime family , disappeared after stepping down in 1912?
text: Did you know that due to violent disruptions by Hebrew-only proponents , Yiddish films screened in Mandatory Palestine had to be dubbed?
text: Did you know that The New York Times said the podcast Crimetown "advances the [true crime] genre" and called it one of the "best new podcasts of 2016"?
text: Did you know that Wilhelm Ehmann , founder and director of a school of church music, toured internationally conducting his choir Westfälische Kantorei?
text: Did you know that in 1990, Typhoon Zola flooded 420 houses in Japan?
text: Did you know that personal dust monitors required for coal miners by the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration are based on the tapered element oscillating microbalance ?
text: Did you know that Indian politician Idris Ali has compared party chief Mamata Banerjee to Mother Teresa , Mahatma Gandhi , and the goddess Saraswati ?
text: Did you know that Frank J. Canova has been described as the inventor of the smartphone ?
text: Did you know that Mayda Insula on Titan is the first named island beyond the Earth?
text: Did you know that among the Tuareg people , men traditionally wear a veil called a litham or tagulmust , while women go unveiled?
text: Did you know that the 2016 "slashomedy" Pi Day Die Day stars Friday the 13th actor Ari Lehman ?
text: Did you know that Jammu and Kashmir education minister Naeem Akhtar installed a helpline to his personal office to hear complaints?
text: Did you know that the New York City Subway G train is the only non- shuttle service that does not run through Manhattan ?
text: Did you know that at a 1999 performance of Savuka 's anti-apartheid song " Asimbonanga ", former South African President Nelson Mandela danced on stage?
text: Did you know that Paul Abels , the first openly gay minister to serve in a major Christian denomination in the United States, was nearly removed from his pastorate after he came out in the 1970s?
text: Did you know that the Thai heist thriller film Bad Genius is centred on what its director calls "the most boring activity on earth"—taking exams?
text: Did you know that when Ulysses S. Grant was nominated for president in 1868, he received all 650 votes from delegates, with no other candidate being nominated?
text: Did you know that " Someday " became Mariah Carey 's third consecutive number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 ?
text: Did you know that if elected to government, Independence from Europe would build a large condominium in London to house British Members of Parliament?
text: Did you know that Martin Janus wrote the original lyrics of "Jesu, meiner Seelen Wonne", which Bach used in a cantata in a setting known as " Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring "?
text: Did you know that the second reused orbital rocket in history, Falcon 9 booster B1029 , was "extra toasty" upon coming back from the edge of space on June 23, 2017, to land on a drone ship ?
text: Did you know that Indian Member of Parliament Mohammad Asrarul Haque polled the highest number of votes in his state of Bihar in the 2014 general election ?
text: Did you know that Mazaalai , the first Mongolian satellite in space, is named after the endangered Gobi bear ?
text: Did you know that Uwe Eric Laufenberg , General Manager of the Staatstheater Wiesbaden , presented his staging of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Internationale Maifestspiele in 2017?
text: Did you know that the book Midas Touch , co-authored by Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki , praises the economic benefits of immigration to the United States?
text: Did you know that in Norwegian fjords , the sea anemone Actinostola callosa feeds heavily on the helmet jellyfish ?
text: Did you know that while a member of the Philadelphia City Council , Thomas McIntosh challenged the school district to ensure that school conditions were equal in both black and white neighborhoods?
text: Did you know that since first being built in 1888, Main Building at St. Edward's University has been burned down, torn open by a tornado , and used as a military academy ?
text: Did you know that the SS Pere Marquette was the first steel train ferry built in the world?
text: Did you know that when Elissa P. Benedek was named president of the American Psychiatric Association in 1990, she was only the second woman to fill that post since the group's founding in 1844?
text: Did you know that the real-life subject of the film The Broken Cord , diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndrome , was struck by a car and died before the film's release?
text: Did you know that Byattaba , the rebel ruler of Martaban , was paid in gold by King Binnya U so that he would acknowledge the King as his overlord?
text: Did you know that Tropical Storm Winona , which struck Japan in August 1990, originated from a northerly displaced monsoon trough ?
text: Did you know that Women Wage Peace held a 50-day hunger strike outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's formal residence in 2015?
text: Did you know that 35 years ago today, Tucson, Arizona , radio station KIKX shut down after losing its FCC license over a 1974 kidnapping hoax involving one of the station's DJs?
text: Did you know that disclosure of White House visitor logs has been the subject of several lawsuits brought by government transparency activists?
text: Did you know that Ursula K. Le Guin 's 1971 novel The Tombs of Atuan tells the coming-of-age story of a female character, a choice unusual to fantasy of the time?
text: Did you know that St. Cajetan Church , part of the World Heritage Site Churches and convents of Goa , is modeled on St. Peter's Basilica ?
text: Did you know that Dutch-Jewish lawyer Abel Herzberg and his wife were moved by train from Bergen-Belsen in April 1945, liberated by the Soviets in May, survived typhoid, and arrived back in Amsterdam in June?
text: Did you know that Coney Island's Cannon Coaster was designed to shoot its riders out of a giant cannon over a gap in the tracks?
text: Did you know that Doris Frankel won an Emmy for her work on All My Children ?
text: Did you know that a rhyming passage from Mihai Eminescu 's novel Poor Dionis proposes "that this world is merely dreamland and a cat's fantastic vision"?
text: Did you know that Melanie Lewy had to sell some of her clothes to pay for her husband's funeral?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Betty killed 101 people in the Philippines?
text: Did you know that the book Time to Get Tough by Donald Trump was written with the assistance of editors from Breitbart News ?
text: Did you know that the British Government is selling off its embassy in Bangkok in what will be Thailand's priciest real estate deal ever?
text: Did you know that the development team of Uncharted: The Lost Legacy purchased a lock picking set during development?
text: Did you know that Marjan Šarec started his career as a comedian, but was later elected Mayor of Kamnik and recently announced his candidacy for President of Slovenia ?
text: Did you know that during the 1623 papal conclave , the election of Pope Urban VIII was supposedly foretold by a swarm of bees?
text: Did you know that after Catholic bishop Gaston Marie Jacquier was assassinated in Algiers , Archbishop Duval ordered priests not to wear clerical clothing or display the cross in public?
text: Did you know that the book Dezinformatsia by Richard H. Shultz and Roy Godson explains Communist propaganda used by the Soviet Union?
text: Did you know that Pia Miller was drawn to the role of Kat Chapman in Home and Away when she realised the character was not sexualised ?
text: Did you know that the album Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall features a concert that celebrated Clint Eastwood 's contributions to jazz?
text: Did you know that the Kent RFU created the second-ever county cup competition for rugby union in Southern England?
text: Did you know that heavy infestations of white pine sawfly can defoliate a tree or even kill it?
text: Did you know that Ray Hill has married 12 prisoners' loved ones for them by proxy on his radio show?
text: Did you know that Dorothy Hazard , a preacher's wife, led a group of women in the defence of Bristol during the English Civil War ?
text: Did you know that organic farmer Uroš Macerl won the Goldman Environmental Prize for leading a legal challenge against a cement company?
text: Did you know that Jackie Chan DC Racing , owned by David Cheng , is the first team based in mainland China to race in the FIA World Endurance Championship ?
text: Did you know that Stephen III of Moldavia stated in 1502 that he had fought 36 battles and only lost two of them?
text: Did you know that the Eitel Building was nominated for historic landmark status by nearby condominium owners to prevent the construction of a 22-story tower?
text: Did you know that the upcoming video game The Artful Escape is described as " David Bowie traveling off from London on an interstellar trip to create Ziggy Stardust"?
text: Did you know that Constance Wood was the first to install a cyclotron in a hospital, but was teased by one of her patients with a rat?
text: Did you know that Publishers Weekly called Why We Want You to Be Rich authors Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki "a strangely winning combination"?
text: Did you know that Canadian theoretical physicist Helen Freedhoff was doctoral advisor to Schrödinger 's grandson?
text: Did you know that Tallinn Central Library lends Estonian-language e-books to people in any part of the world?
text: Did you know that Sam Panopoulos "invented" the Hawaiian pizza ?
text: Did you know that the city hall of Bellevue, Washington , was previously a Qwest telecommunications office?
text: Did you know that the BBC medical drama series Casualty received criticism for a series 29 episode which featured a crash that viewers believed resembled the 2014 Glasgow bin lorry crash ?
text: Did you know that mail artist Pauline Smith created the Adolf Hitler Fan Club?
text: Did you know that the population of oak pinhole borer beetles in Britain greatly increased after the Great Storm of 1987 brought down large numbers of trees?
text: Did you know that Science Express , a scientific exhibition for children mounted on a train, is included in the Limca Book of Records for being the largest, the longest running and the most visited mobile exhibition?
text: Did you know that the book Think Big and Kick Ass , by Donald Trump and Bill Zanker , was the highest selling personal finance work on Amazon.com in 2015?
text: Did you know that " Wonderous Stories " by the progressive rock band Yes remains their highest charting UK single with a peak at number 7 in 1977?
text: Did you know that katemeshi was a common peasant food in Japan during the Meiji and Taishō periods?
text: Did you know that the slave-owner and MP William James received £4,713, equivalent to about £6 million today, as compensation following the British Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 ?
text: Did you know that during the final hours of operation for the Douglas County Library System , supporters held a wake ?
text: Did you know that during the reign of Muhammad II , Granada survived simultaneous attacks by Castile and the Marinids , its two larger neighbors?
text: Did you know that the Rolling Stones' concert in Havana was the first foreign rock concert to take place in Cuba and was attended by an estimated 500,000 people?
text: Did you know that economist Peter Schmidt 's 1977 work on stochastic frontier models is considered one of the most influential Journal of Econometrics papers of all time?
text: Did you know that a traditional town fair in Zagreb , Croatia, has its roots in a Mongol invasion ?
text: Did you know that the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel is the only tunnel with stations shared between trains and buses in the United States?
text: Did you know that Bencie Woll was the first person to hold a professorship in sign language in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that the sea anemone Gonactinia prolifera can both walk and swim?
text: Did you know that after lobbying to regulate the licensing of nurses in Colorado , Louie Croft Boyd applied for and became the first licensed nurse in the state?
text: Did you know that living glass anemones can be dissected in the laboratory and then put back in an aquarium, where they will heal ?
text: Did you know that the Islamic prophet Muhammad was reported to have said that whoever recited the Quranic chapter Al-Waqi'a every night would "never be afflicted by need"?
text: Did you know that the book Insane Clown President by Matt Taibbi debuted on bestseller lists for both The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times ?
text: Did you know that Lioba Braun , who became known appearing as Brangäne in Bayreuth in 1994, was the first soloist to record Reger's Die Weihe der Nacht ?
text: Did you know that the Superliner was the last rail passenger car manufactured by Pullman-Standard ?
text: Did you know that Eddie Baxter was a Continental organist?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Joe and Typhoon Kim struck the Philippines within a week of each other in July 1980?
text: Did you know that the first United States vessel to enter the Black Sea was owned by Ezra Weston II , a Massachusetts shipbuilder known as "King Caesar"?
text: Did you know that MINURCA was established by the UN Security Council to replace another peacekeeping force called MISAB?
text: Did you know that Kate Devlin is a computer scientist working in the field of sex robots and human-computer interaction?
text: Did you know that Robert Heinlein 's 1959 novel Starship Troopers is a critique of US society of the 1950s, and advocates for corporal and capital punishment ?
text: Did you know that award-winning film director Nujoom Al-Ghanem is also a poet?
text: Did you know that the Irish Fright caused thousands of English people to arm themselves against non-existent Irish marauders believed to be burning and massacring English towns?
text: Did you know that the Karimata Strait , today in Indonesia, was used by the British fleet in the 1811 invasion of Java ?
text: Did you know that Matthias von Stegmann made German voice-overs for The Simpsons , staged Wagner's Ring Cycle for children, and directed the first production of Wagner's Rienzi at the Bayreuth Festival ?
text: Did you know that the documentary Trump: The Kremlin Candidate? presented by John Sweeney was featured at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia , Italy ?
text: Did you know that Pietro Campori was promoted as a candidate for pope in both 1621 and 1623?
text: Did you know that the first ice rink in South Africa was created for the 1936 Empire Exhibition ?
text: Did you know that after surviving a shooting incident, Boakye Agyarko immigrated to the US as a political refugee and rose to become a vice president of the Bank of New York ?
text: Did you know that colonies of the black coral Leiopathes glaberrima can live for over four thousand years?
text: Did you know that Indian politician Akhtarul Iman withdrew his candidacy for the 2014 Indian general election ten days before the poll, stating that he did not want to split the Muslim vote?
text: Did you know that Martin Luther wrote the song of praise " Die beste Zeit im Jahr ist mein " ("The best time of the year is mine") as part of a poem, not as a hymn ?
text: Did you know that Chris Young was deposed in 1924 by the Governor of American Samoa after he took the Samoan royal title Tui Manu'a , because the idea was incompatible with the US Constitution?
text: Did you know that Tropical Depression Six of the 1975 Atlantic hurricane season caused the Florida Panhandle to have its rainiest July since 1923?
text: Did you know that the 34th chapter of the Quran was named after Sheba , but does not talk about the Queen of Sheba ?
text: Did you know that Dutch politician Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello was the first person to introduce protection of lesbian rights and anti-discrimination measures at an official UN conference ?
text: Did you know that the first-round draw for the English 2017–18 EFL Cup was held in Thailand?
text: Did you know that actress Siobhan Finneran said she wanted her Downton Abbey character "flung off the roof of the Abbey"?
text: Did you know that red-headed pine sawfly larvae drag pine needles into the silken tubes in which they live?
text: Did you know that theoretical physicist Deepak Dhar and Ramakrishna Ramaswamy solved the Abelian sandpile model of self-organized criticality with their "Dhar-Ramaswamy model"?
text: Did you know that Seattle 's passenger-only ferries , blamed for beach erosion, were forced to slow down because of a class-action lawsuit?
text: Did you know that Juana Bordas says her parents were uncomfortable with the idea of her leaving home to go to college due to the "crab syndrome"?
text: Did you know that the Soviet Army's 7th Guards Tank Division was part of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany for 43 years during the Cold War?
text: Did you know that the call letters of radio stations KFAS and KFAS-FM were adopted to honor minority owner Francis Albert Sinatra ?
text: Did you know that Oklahoma state legislator Emily Virgin tried to derail a religious freedom bill by proposing that businesses must publicly post a notice declaring whom they would refuse services to?
text: Did you know that a classically conditioned stimulus can affect operant behavior and motivation through Pavlovian-instrumental transfer ?
text: Did you know that a plume of gas rises from fumaroles on Putana volcano?
text: Did you know that Terrorist Recognition Handbook by Malcolm Nance discusses signs of terrorist planning?
text: Did you know that Hayao Miyazaki aspired to become a manga artist but found he could not draw people, instead drawing primarily planes, tanks, and battleships for several years?
text: Did you know that the release of Los Gatos ' debut single " La balsa " on July 3, 1967, is widely considered to be the origin of Argentine rock ?
text: Did you know that Neal McDonough 's appearance in the Marvel One-Shot short Agent Carter was supposed to be filmed in a pool, but could not because of the muscle suit he wore to portray Dum Dum Dugan ?
text: Did you know that during the Siege of Thessalonica in 1422–1430, the city changed hands from the Byzantine Empire to the Republic of Venice , and finally was captured by the Ottoman Empire ?
text: Did you know that Scissor Sisters and MNDR conceived the song " Swerlk " to commemorate the anniversary of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting ?
text: Did you know that Yuan dynasty plum-blossom painter Wang Mian lived in a house surrounded by a thousand plum trees?
text: Did you know that the decline of book review sections in newspapers was the impetus for the founding of the New York Journal of Books ?
text: Did you know that Joan Birkland won both the Colorado state tennis and golf championships in the same summer ... twice?
text: Did you know that the Government of Bihar started a bidding process to get an industry partner for the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bhagalpur , but no bidder emerged?
text: Did you know that the 59th Ariel Awards will be held despite a 77% cut to the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences ' budget?
text: Did you know that Frank Beermann conducted the first recording of Bruno Maderna 's Requiem, and the German premiere of Péter Eötvös 's opera Love and Other Demons at the Chemnitz Opera ?
text: Did you know that Christopher Hitchens called the book The Terrorists of Iraq by Malcolm Nance "a highly potent analysis" of jihadism ?
text: Did you know that Richard H. Carmichael was shot down on 20 August 1944 while leading the 462d Bombardment Group in the bombing of Yawata , the first daylight air raid on Japan since the Tokyo Raid in 1942?
text: Did you know that the Penstemon digitalis cultivar "Husker Red" was named after the Nebraska Cornhuskers ?
text: Did you know that the 49th chapter of the Quran compares backbiting , a sin in Islam, to "eating the flesh of one's brother"?
text: Did you know that Dominic Nitiwul has been involved in the fight against galamseyers ?
text: Did you know that the Chinese have been playing their version of Monopoly and Snakes and Ladders since the ninth century?
text: Did you know that Scottish engineer Adam Clark spent ten years of his life building the Chain Bridge in Budapest, and has appeared on Hungarian currency?
text: Did you know that Donald Trump said he read the book Defeating ISIS by Malcolm Nance while a candidate for U.S. president?
text: Did you know that Rhacotis , the Egyptian predecessor of Alexandria , may have been a thriving city centuries before the birth of Alexander ?
text: Did you know that due to several accidents, only six cars finished on the lead lap at the 2017 Rainguard Water Sealers 600 ?
text: Did you know that Dara Hobbs appeared as Wagner's Isolde at many venues, including Theater Bonn , Stadttheater Minden , and Schloss Neuschwanstein ?
text: Did you know that Yoshiki , star of rockumentary We Are X , must wear a neck brace while drumming and keeps oxygen tanks backstage due to asthma?
text: Did you know that there was an amphibious invasion of Long Island in 1943?
text: Did you know that Marc Kasowitz has represented Donald Trump in bankruptcies, sexual misconduct allegations , and the Russian election interference investigation?
text: Did you know that when his candidacy was vetoed in the 1669–70 papal conclave , Scipione Pannocchieschi d’Elci became so embarrassed that it was said to be the cause of his death shortly thereafter?
text: Did you know that Banksia hookeriana plants are larger when they grow on road verges ?
text: Did you know that Virginia Apuzzo was a nun until shortly after the Stonewall riots , when she left her convent and became a gay rights and AIDS activist?
text: Did you know that The Beast is the first book written by CPJ International Press Freedom Award -winning journalist Óscar Martínez?
text: Did you know that Maria Friesenhausen sang soprano solo with the NDR Chor in the 1950s and trained students of the University of Dortmund for an opera performance in 2001?
text: Did you know that there are many more female than male great spruce bark beetles , and incestuous matings are normal?
text: Did you know that despite his role as a medic to the Decepticons, the character of Knock Out in Transformers: Prime was created as a foil to Bumblebee ?
text: Did you know that Fest- und Gedenksprüche are three motets composed by Johannes Brahms for the ceremony in which he was named an honorary citizen of Hamburg ?
text: Did you know that Luang Pu Sodh Candasaro ordained the British monk who set up the first Theravada monastic community in Britain?
text: Did you know that young mullets swim through lava tubes into Halulu Lake in the Hawaiian Islands, but have to be brought to Halalii Lake in barrels?
text: Did you know that Edward H. Phelps was wounded at the Battle of Missionary Ridge , and while still leading his men forward was shot a second time and killed?
text: Did you know that after its dissolution in 1973, some members of the Labour Party of Scotland left to work for a pirate radio station ?
text: Did you know that stockbroker Tony Rudd was recruited by the future British Home Secretary to be an extra in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral ?
text: Did you know that Ernest Addison , the fifteenth Governor of the Bank of Ghana , is a Mfantsipim alumnus?
text: Did you know that the Taylor Force Act , proposed by US Senator Lindsey Graham, would prevent the Palestinian National Authority from using American economic aid to pay terrorists?
text: Did you know that the naval architect Robert Logan designed the first steel train ferry ?
text: Did you know that the season three premiere of Rick and Morty was first aired unannounced as a part of Adult Swim 's annual April Fools' joke?
text: Did you know that Spanish footballer Nahikari García signed for Real Sociedad when she was 16 years old?
text: Did you know that white-footed ants protect red scale insects , a major pest of citrus in South Africa?
text: Did you know that Soviet Air Forces fighter pilot and commander Pyotr Pumpur began his military career as a chauffeur?
text: Did you know that the Kölner Rundfunkchor , the radio choir of the WDR in Cologne, premiered Karlheinz Stockhausen's Momente in 1962?
text: Did you know that Janina Goss has been described as the "power behind the throne" in modern Polish politics?
text: Did you know that the Arkansas Air & Military Museum displays Walmart founder Sam Walton 's first aircraft, an Ercoupe 415C ?
text: Did you know that Ajige beheaded Shen Shikui for his refusal to surrender Ka Island ?
text: Did you know that Truth Serum , Tove Lo 's debut EP, is a concept record that describes her most intense love affair, from the happy beginning to trying to move on after the breakup?
text: Did you know that William A. Dwyer Jr. and Joseph T. Murphy were opponents in a 1960 Philadelphia City Council election but were later colleagues on the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas ?
text: Did you know that the Palestinian Authority Martyr's Fund pays monthly stipends to the families of suicide bombers?
text: Did you know that Puchuldiza in Chile was the site of the first electricity generated from geothermal energy in South America?
text: Did you know that Governor-elect of the State of Mexico Alfredo del Mazo Maza 's father , grandfather , and cousin all held the office before him?
text: Did you know that the Vintage Grill & Car Museum in Weatherford, Texas , features President Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 Lincoln Continental and a 1975 Trabant ?
text: Did you know that during the civil war of the Ottoman Interregnum , at one time or another Junayd Bey , ruler of the Beylik of Aydın , supported four different Ottoman princes vying for the throne?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film Velipadinte Pusthakam will be the first collaboration between director Lal Jose and actor Mohanlal ?
text: Did you know that Claudia Barainsky performed operatic title roles including Daphne , Lulu , Medea , and Melusine ?
text: Did you know that Full Fact fact-checked the Brexit referendum ?
text: Did you know that Qing dynasty poet Lin Yining was part of the "Banana Garden Five"?
text: Did you know that Brideside was launched in Chicago because it was perceived to be the largest bridal market in the United States?
text: Did you know that at the beginning of his reign, Muhammad III of Granada allied his kingdom with Castile and Aragon against the Marinids , while at the end those three powers were allied against him?
text: Did you know that the Porco caldera in Bolivia, a major source of silver for the Inca , is now Bolivia's largest zinc mine?
text: Did you know that chaudfroid sauce can be prepared using a reduction of boiled meat carcasses and other ingredients?
text: Did you know that Sunil Babu Pant was the first openly gay federal-level legislator in Asia?
text: Did you know that the Hotel Manger once used a steam locomotive to heat the building?
text: Did you know that Kolkata mayor Sovan Chatterjee is the first mayor of any city of India to get Z-plus security cover ?
text: Did you know that elevated parks are becoming more common, inspired by the success of New York's High Line ?
text: Did you know that while Maximilian II replaced Alard du Gaucquier as Kapellmeister, he thought highly enough of him to grant a patent of nobility ?
text: Did you know that the Nugent–RajanBabu reagent can be used to prepare a key intermediate in the synthesis of vinorelbine , a treatment for non-small-cell lung cancer ?
text: Did you know that former Attorney General Ayikoi Otoo is now Ghana's High Commissioner to Canada?
text: Did you know that the predatory beetle Rhizophagus grandis was imported to the United States from Belgium in an attempt to control the black turpentine beetle ?
text: Did you know that in 1972, Colorado engineering technician Janet Bonnema legally challenged the superstition that a woman who went underground into a tunnel or mine brought bad luck?
text: Did you know that Moufdi Zakaria reportedly wrote the lyrics to the national anthem of Algeria with his own blood on the walls of his jail cell?
text: Did you know that construction of the Macrolibramiento Palmillas-Apaseo el Grande highway was delayed by difficulties acquiring rights of way, rising material costs, and intermittent funding from the Mexican government?
text: Did you know that after the death of pediatric neurologist Bronson Crothers , Harvard Medical School established a professorship in his name?
text: Did you know that the video game Horizon Zero Dawn was considered the most risky out of 40 concepts pitched for development?
text: Did you know that sailors under Magellan may have guessed that Samborombón Bay was the birthplace of the phantom island of Saint Brendan ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film The Darkest Minds is the live-action directorial debut of animation director Jennifer Yuh Nelson ?
text: Did you know that physician Bodog F. Beck kept a beehive outside his office in New York for his "bee venom therapy"?
text: Did you know that David Hermann staged a Mozart opera at the Salzburg Festival at age 29, and combined three Krenek operas in Frankfurt ?
text: Did you know that one of the final Quranic chapters revealed in Mecca , called " The Sundering ", talks about the Day of Judgment ?
text: Did you know that NASCAR Hall of Famer Bud Moore was a machine gunner who participated in the Normandy landings ?
text: Did you know that a " food innovation district " and farmers' market are proposed for the immediate vicinity of Rainier Beach station ?
text: Did you know that the New Zealand cricketer Richard Hadlee was twice the man of the series in the Trans-Tasman Trophy ?
text: Did you know that Irish director Neasa Hardiman won both an IFTA and a BAFTA award for her work on Happy Valley ?
text: Did you know that despite years of investigation and a manhunt, the 1939 City of San Francisco derailment remains unsolved?
text: Did you know that in 1678, Anthonio Hurdt led the forces of the Dutch East India Company for the Kediri campaign in Java, despite his lack of experience in Java or in military command?
text: Did you know that ecotourism resort Hotelito Desconocido was reportedly a money laundering front for a Mexican drug cartel ?
text: Did you know that Spanish footballer Álvaro Domínguez was forced to retire at the age of 27 due to persistent back injuries?
text: Did you know that Gottfried von Einem's opera Der Prozeß , based on the novel by Franz Kafka , was premiered at the Salzburg Festival ?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Agnes was the last one to affect the Philippines during the 1984 Pacific typhoon season ?
text: Did you know that Henry W. Sawyer argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark Establishment Clause cases of Abington School District v. Schempp and Lemon v. Kurtzman ?
text: Did you know that the " Prayer of Saint Francis " is a 20th-century peace prayer mistakenly attributed to the 13th-century saint ?
text: Did you know that Gonçalo Teixeira Corrêa crossed China in the 1620s to train the Ming army in modern artillery, but lost his life to a mutineer's arrow?
text: Did you know that the hymn " Breathe on Me, Breath of God " was described as being so simple it belied the education and knowledge of its author, Professor Edwin Hatch?
text: Did you know that Richard Painter , chief ethics lawyer to President George W. Bush , is suing President Trump for his alleged violation of the US Constitution?
text: Did you know that the video game Remember Me was appraised by its developer as the digital view of human identity compared to its analog counterpart, Life Is Strange ?
text: Did you know that the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz celebrated 125 years of music education by moving to a new building?
text: Did you know that Alabama was one of six U.S. states to not have a human trafficking law before state legislator Merika Coleman successfully cosponsored a bill criminalizing it?
text: Did you know that basketball player Alex Owumi was trapped in a Benghazi apartment for weeks during the Libyan Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Tui Manu'a Matelita , the Samoan queen of Manu'a , was described by Robert Louis Stevenson as "a little slip" of a girl, "who sits all day in a pink gown, in a little white European house"?
text: Did you know that Australia have held the Frank Worrell Trophy since 1995 ?
text: Did you know that Horace Hodes discovered the main function of vitamin D in his first year of medical school?
text: Did you know that rioters burned the first permanent provincial seat of Canada ?
text: Did you know that the fossil ant Cephalotes dieteri has a smaller head than its sister species?
text: Did you know that Jordyn Huitema scored her first goal for the Canadian women's national soccer team in an exhibition game against Costa Rica , and scored her second goal less than a minute later?
text: Did you know that " Fatshe leno la rona ", the national anthem of Botswana , was reportedly not the government's preferred choice because it was composed by the co-founder and leader of an opposition party ?
text: Did you know that Pu Songling wrote " Tian Qilang " with a Chinese killer in mind?
text: Did you know that Douglas Putnam served in the Battle of Shiloh during the American Civil War , and later published an eyewitness account of the battle?
text: Did you know that the total known population of the critically endangered shrub Persoonia pauciflora is within 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) of the type specimen ?
text: Did you know that N. V. Madhusudana demonstrated the electromechanical coupling effects of cholesteric liquid crystals for the first time?
text: Did you know that human sacrifices were performed on Pichu Pichu , an extinct volcano near Arequipa ?
text: Did you know that a Lebanese postage stamp featuring Anissa Rawda Najjar was issued in 2014, soon after her 100th birthday ?
text: Did you know that arson in royal dockyards‎ was one of the last four crimes in the United Kingdom to carry the death penalty?
text: Did you know that Informatics General developed and marketed the first software product to have cumulative sales of $1 million, $10 million, and $100 million?
text: Did you know that the mobile library Street Books uses library cards but does not set or enforce due dates?
text: Did you know that producer Mara Brock Akil was hesitant to cast Tia Mowry as Melanie Barnett due to the actress's wholesome image from Sister, Sister ?
text: Did you know that the former Imperial Square of Strasbourg is decorated with ginkgos that were presented by Emperor Meiji of Japan to the German Emperor ?
text: Did you know that in 1975, Barbara May Cameron , a member of the Hunkpapa Lakota , co-founded the first gay Indian organization in San Francisco?
text: Did you know that populations of the little green woodpecker in Africa are increasing due to logging and clearing of the forests?
text: Did you know that in the 1920s, Dolly Rudeman was one of the most prolific designers of movie posters and programs for the Dutch cinema, and the only woman working in the field at the time?
text: Did you know that early occupational epidemiology studies established health risk factors for gold and silver miners, chimney sweeps , and workers using asbestos ?
text: Did you know that the rosy razor clam tries to evade capture by rapidly burrowing deeper into the sediment?
text: Did you know that in 1978, airline captain Gordon Vette rescued a Cessna pilot who was lost over the Pacific Ocean and running out of fuel ?
text: Did you know that supporter liaison officers are claimed to be a major factor in the 20 percent reduction of crowd disorder in Swedish football ?
text: Did you know that Amabel Anderson Arnold , a St. Louis lawyer and law professor, received degrees from both Benton College of Law and City College of Law and Finance within a five-day period?
text: Did you know that the Catholic University of Madagascar awarded the country's first theology degree in 1961?
text: Did you know that Christian William Miller , inventor of a water desalination device promoted by Franklin D. Roosevelt , was considered one of the most beautiful men in the 1940s New York gay society ?
text: Did you know that the Jugendkulturhaus Dynamo , a youth center in Zürich , was built from an old brewery after youth riots in the city were sparked by a grant of 61,000,000 Swiss francs to the Zürich Opera?
text: Did you know that Cecilia Dapaah , Ghana's minister for aviation, has vowed to start a new national carrier and make the country the aviation hub of West Africa ?
text: Did you know that the first Croatian fictional film , Brcko in Zagreb , is now considered lost ?
text: Did you know that Maria Riccarda Wesseling appeared as Gluck's Orfeo in Paris and at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus , and as Henze's Phaedra in Berlin?
text: Did you know that Anne Curtis plans to perform her own stunts in the upcoming Philippine action film Buy Bust ?
text: Did you know that C. Louise Boehringer , the first female Superintendent of Schools in Yuma County , has often been called "the mother of the Arizona educational system"?
text: Did you know that video game walkthroughs are typically designed to assist other players in accomplishing certain feats within video games?
text: Did you know that pirate John Bear married "a strumpet ... daughter of a rum-punch-woman" and tried to convince people she was a runaway noblewoman?
text: Did you know that suspected anarchist Lazarus Averbuch was shot and killed in the home of Chicago's Chief of Police?
text: Did you know that the History of Medicine Society , founded by Sir William Osler in 1912, is one of the oldest in the world?
text: Did you know that juvenile angular brittle stars can re-enter a plankton phase, allowing them to relocate to a more suitable location?
text: Did you know that Mervyn Brogan was the first Australian Chief of the General Staff to have a university degree?
text: Did you know that the Stadttheater Minden , a municipal theatre without an ensemble, received international attention for its Wagner opera project?
text: Did you know that Howard B. Meek was the founder and dean of the first college to train professional hotel managers?
text: Did you know that the prize in a tournament of Urban Jungle , a driving game developed and set in Croatia , was free real-world driving lessons?
text: Did you know that Marcus Bosch conducted a performance of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde at the Staatstheater Nürnberg that was shown live in 50 cinemas in Germany and Austria?
text: Did you know that following a failed attempt earlier in the year, the Illinois General Assembly passed a bill establishing Barack Obama Day on May 19, 2017?
text: Did you know that Traci Hunter Abramson used her experience as a swim coach and a CIA employee to write Undercurrents , a novel about an Olympic-hopeful swimmer in witness protection ?
text: Did you know that of the 64 first-round draft picks made by the New England Patriots , 20 have been selected to play in the Pro Bowl ?
text: Did you know that Ghanaian Member of Parliament Kwesi Ankama died on an official government delegation to the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that the green worm Eulalia viridis does not breed until it is at least two years old?
text: Did you know that Thomas Lyle Williams had the idea to create the first mascara, Maybelline , after seeing his sister Mabel use a mix of petroleum jelly and burnt cork to darken her eyelashes?
text: Did you know that some scenes in Home and Away: Revenge were filmed by the actors using GoPro cameras and mobile phones?
text: Did you know that art curator Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi described sound artist Emeka Ogboh 's work ⓘ as capturing "the maddening hyper-visuality of Lagos "?
text: Did you know that the Japanese embassy in Seoul has seen decades of protests, from weekly demonstrations to the throwing of Molotov cocktails, truck-ramming, self-immolation, and outright ransacking?
text: Did you know that at the time of her death at age 105, Emma Clara Schweer was believed to be the oldest elected official in the United States?
text: Did you know that 500 copies of Vietnamese singer Son Tung M-TP 's compilation album M-tp M-TP sold out in 30 minutes?
text: Did you know that in 1844, Latter Day Saints founder Joseph Smith became the first Mormon to run for President of the United States and the first American presidential candidate to be assassinated?
text: Did you know that the shooter game Privates was created to raise awareness about sexually transmitted infections ?
text: Did you know that John O'Brien presided over the military court that tried and acquitted Japanese Admiral Soemu Toyoda ?
text: Did you know that in 1999 three perfectly-preserved child mummies were found on the summit of Llullaillaco , a 6,700 m (22,000 ft) volcano, where they had been sacrificed under the Inca Empire 500 years earlier?
text: Did you know that Akhamaman , the self-proclaimed king of Pegu , began his career as a rower on the royal yacht of King Narathihapate of Pagan ?
text: Did you know that a marine organism described in 1971 as a new species of gastrotrich was later identified as the larva of a bristleworm, probably Polydora ciliata ?
text: Did you know that the introduction of Ticketer ticket machines on Reading Transport buses meant that 11,000 pre-paid cards had to be reissued?
text: Did you know that U.S. citizens are prohibited from engaging in business transactions with the owners of the Mexican newspaper Unomásuno ?
text: Did you know that when signing to MCA Records , Gregg Alexander allegedly received a $600,000 advance for the New Radicals' Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too ?
text: Did you know that Vera Nemirova staged Lulu at the Salzburg Festival and The Ring for the Frankfurt Opera ?
text: Did you know that pharmacists sometimes "QuEST" during over-the-counter counseling ?
text: Did you know that Tvrtko I , the first King of Bosnia , maintained cordial relations with all three churches in his realm— Bosnian , Catholic , and Orthodox ?
text: Did you know that Priya Jhingan is the first woman to join the Indian Army as an officer?
text: Did you know that the action RPG Moon Hunters changes depending on the players' choices in what the developer has described as a " personality test "?
text: Did you know that Juliet Starrett , a world whitewater rafting champion , and her husband Kelly Starrett , a national whitewater champion, co-founded one of the world's first CrossFit gyms?
text: Did you know that Perseus and Andromeda by Titian "hung unglazed over a bath in Sir Richard Wallace's dressing room" for over 20 years?
text: Did you know that the sponge-dwelling branched worm Syllis ramosa has a single mouth and many anuses ?
text: Did you know that Alma Lutz was the biographer of women's rights activists including Susan B. Anthony , Elizabeth Cady Stanton , and Emma Willard ?
text: Did you know that Star Sports ' Mauka Mauka advertising campaign for the 2015 Cricket World Cup match between India and Pakistan was a huge hit in India, but ignited significant opposition in Pakistan?
text: Did you know that Martin County, Florida , was named after Governor John W. Martin while he was in office?
text: Did you know that 21 local councils and 68 women had already won seats by acclamation before the Jordanian local elections took place on 15 August?
text: Did you know that German poet Betty Paoli was a companion to Princess Maria Anna Schwarzenberg ?
text: Did you know that Romans like to drink out of large noses ?
text: Did you know that chef María Marte has a tattoo of her first original dish, a caramelized hibiscus flower?
text: Did you know that " Neon Blue " is about coming out ?
text: Did you know that Kwesi Amoako Atta , Ghana's Minister for Roads and Highways, announced that 50 percent of toll booth collectors will be people with disabilities?
text: Did you know that the town of East Redmond, Washington , was found by the Washington Supreme Court to have been "illegally incorporated "?
text: Did you know that the composer Giselher Klebe wrote the libretto for his opera Die tödlichen Wünsche based on Balzac's La Peau de chagrin ?
text: Did you know that James A. Wetmore 's name is inscribed on more federal buildings than any other U.S. citizen?
text: Did you know that the extended play To the Edge of the Earth by Thirty Seconds to Mars was conceived to raise public awareness of global warming and green politics ?
text: Did you know that award-winning soprano Christiane Karg appeared as Sophie at the Frankfurt Opera , the Semperoper and La Scala , and in Mahler's Second Symphony at the Rheingau Musik Festival ?
text: Did you know that the Clinton Liberal Institute existed in upstate New York from 1831 until it burned down in 1900?
text: Did you know that Frederick the Great felt sure he had lost the Third Silesian War after his defeat at the Battle of Kunersdorf in 1759, until a " miracle " restored his hopes?
text: Did you know that Supreme Court of India judge Deepak Gupta once heard and disposed of 33 cases in a single day?
text: Did you know that the iBuyPower and NetcodeGuides match fixing scandal is considered the first large scandal of its type to hit the competitive Counter-Strike: Global Offensive scene?
text: Did you know that Gao Minglu , founder of the Chinese avant-garde movement, was a herdsman in Outer Mongolia during the Cultural Revolution ?
text: Did you know that Titian 's Flaying of Marsyas (1570s) shows a satyr being skinned alive by Apollo , and was once the prize in a lottery?
text: Did you know that when the Minneapolis School Board decided to include North Germanic languages in the curriculum, Maren Michelet became the first teacher of Norwegian in a public high school in the US?
text: Did you know that in his memoir Interventions: A Life in War and Peace , Kofi Annan asserts that internal African politics and leadership are largely responsible for Africa's problems?
text: Did you know that Brian Bellhouse invented a needle-free and pain-free injection system which was eventually sold for £542 million?
text: Did you know that four members of the Hawkins family died violent deaths after winning their lawsuit against Shaw, Mississippi ?
text: Did you know that Marvel Comics briefly operated an imprint dedicated to comics about musicians?
text: Did you know that current places of worship on the Isle of Wight include two of England's oldest Catholic churches and several Anglican churches by Thomas Hellyer , an architect described by Pevsner as "very individualistic"?
text: Did you know that Omar Narváez hit his first Major League home run on his father's birthday?
text: Did you know that Presidents Warren G. Harding and Franklin D. Roosevelt each created a Federal Real Estate Board ?
text: Did you know that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wood has called Heather Booth "one of the nation's most influential organizers for progressive causes"?
text: Did you know that the woodpecker has special adaptations to avoid damaging its brain while pecking and drumming?
text: Did you know that L. Fidelia Woolley Gillette was one of the first women to be ordained as a Universalist minister in the United States, and the first woman ordained of any denomination in Canada?
text: Did you know that KFKU , the AM radio station of the University of Kansas , ceased operations because its time-share partner went silent due to financial difficulties?
text: Did you know that French composer Pascal Dusapin wrote the English libretto for his opera Faustus, the Last Night , which premiered in Germany in 2006?
text: Did you know that the codename assigned to U.S. Senate president pro tempore James Eastland by the Central Locator System was "FOURFINGER"?
text: Did you know that surgeon Pankaj Chandak and his colleagues are believed to be the first surgical team to act in a television drama, namely The Crown ?
text: Did you know that during the early winter, the amphipod Paramoera walkeri nearly cover the underside of Antarctic ice sheets ?
text: Did you know that " Gotta Get a Grip " is one of two new singles by Mick Jagger , his first solo material since the album Goddess in the Doorway was released in 2001?
text: Did you know that Ayn Rand found the title for her novel The Fountainhead , her first major success, in a thesaurus ?
text: Did you know that Seyyed Abdollah Behbahani , a Shia theologian and leader of the constitutional movement , was assassinated in Iran and buried in Iraq?
text: Did you know that video game Godville is a zero-player game , requiring no player interaction with the main character?
text: Did you know that the band Liimanarina take their name from a Finnish word for "glue" and the creaking sound a door makes when it is opened?
text: Did you know that the 2017–18 London & South East Premier season will be the first under that name, as the Rugby Football Union felt the previous "National League 3" name was misleading?
text: Did you know that Henry Semon lost his seat in the Oregon legislature when he accepted a position on the state's agriculture board, but was reappointed to the legislature after resigning from the board?
text: Did you know that the opera Alceste , composed by Anton Schweitzer with a libretto by Wieland , is regarded as a milestone of German opera?
text: Did you know that the site of Kayak Point County Park was originally proposed as an oil refinery ?
text: Did you know that the Japanese pygmy woodpecker becomes smaller and darker from the north of its range to the south?
text: Did you know that Bill McCann was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for "courage and fine leadership" during the capture of Crépey Wood?
text: Did you know that a story about the state of American football in the year 17776 has been compared to the work of Don DeLillo , Italo Calvino , Thomas Pynchon , and robot trolls on Reddit ?
text: Did you know that a swamp in the watershed of Red Brook is home to part of the largest population of yellow-bellied flycatchers in Pennsylvania?
text: Did you know that in 1977, symphony conductor Helen Quach was one of two women who led major orchestras anywhere in the world?
text: Did you know that the "Whacky Tobaccy" music video from the Toby Keith album The Bus Songs contains a cameo appearance by Willie Nelson ?
text: Did you know that the single species of the ant Aneuretellus is named from the Latin for "deformed"?
text: Did you know that Handel composed the Foundling Hospital Anthem in 1749 for a benefit concert for abandoned children in London?
text: Did you know that William A. Starrett , builder of the Empire State Building , sent his steel construction technology to Japan to help design buildings to resist earthquakes ?
text: Did you know that an argument over a horse led to a law banning all black settlers from Oregon in 1844?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Mounsey became the organist of St Peter upon Cornhill when she was 14 years old?
text: Did you know that cheese and crackers has been described as one of the first fast foods in the United States?
text: Did you know that Isaac Asiamah , Ghana's new Minister for Youth and Sports , was at one time the country's youngest legislator?
text: Did you know that the Mexican Seismic Alert System provided Mexico City 80 seconds of advance notice prior to the 2012 Oaxaca earthquake ?
text: Did you know that Rano M. Shaiza helped further the Naga peace accord by brokering a meeting between her uncle , the founder of the Naga separatist movement, and the Prime Minister of India ?
text: Did you know that the star S Coronae Borealis has been estimated as having around 1.34 times the Sun's mass but 308 times its radius?
text: Did you know that Toronto Blue Jays baseball player Riley Adams has a black belt in karate?
text: Did you know that the banded woodpecker has adapted well to living in man-made surroundings and is of low concern to conservationists?
text: Did you know that the Theater Bonn opened a new opera house in 1965?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court recently decided that "lines, chevrons, and colorful shapes" on cheerleading uniforms could be eligible for copyright protection ?
text: Did you know that London Fog 1966 features the earliest known live recordings by the Doors ?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Page was the record-setting sixth tropical cyclone to hit Japan in 1990?
text: Did you know that Katharine Peabody Loring taught history with Alice James at the first correspondence school in the United States?
text: Did you know that Knuckles' Chaotix was not developed by Sonic Team , but rather a separate, internal development team at Sega ?
text: Did you know that the scorpion Cheloctonus jonesii has been reported killing the red-billed quelea ?
text: Did you know that four years ago today, Tiffany Daniels left her job at Pensacola State College early after telling her supervisor she would not be back for a few days, and has not been seen since?
text: Did you know that the CAMS 54 long-range flying boat attempted an east-west transatlantic crossing, but was returned to France by ship from the Azores ?
text: Did you know that actress Lucinda Dryzek secured the role of Jasmine Burrows in Holby City while she was training as a hairdresser?
text: Did you know that additional fire sprinklers were installed in Seattle's Westlake station to accommodate parties and receptions on the station's mezzanine?
text: Did you know that " 5,6,7,8 " is the third-highest selling and most streamed song of Steps ' career, despite being one of their lowest charting?
text: Did you know that Kojo Armah once chaired a parliamentary committee to investigate the substitution of cocaine with corn dough in the Police Narcotics Exhibit Room of the Ghana Police Service ?
text: Did you know that former Sha Na Na member Jon "Bowzer" Bauman was the co-author of Truth in Music Advertising legislation in most of the United States?
text: Did you know that Baa Baa Land , an eight-hour slow cinema film containing nothing but long shots of grazing sheep , is described by its producers as "the dullest movie ever made"?
text: Did you know that Tarabya , the self-proclaimed king of Pegu , was executed on the order of King Wareru of Martaban , who was his father-in-law and son-in-law?
text: Did you know that San Francisco's Julius' Castle on Telegraph Hill was once painted pink?
text: Did you know that Laurie Davidson was inspired for his role as William Shakespeare in Will by Straight Outta Compton and 8 Mile , but not by modern depictions of Shakespeare such as Shakespeare in Love ?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Gene resulted in the cancellation of the final round of the 1990 Top Cup Tokai Classic ?
text: Did you know that the obituary of Dewey Readmore Books , a library cat , appeared in more than 270 national and international newspapers?
text: Did you know that Sonam Kapoor won the National Film Award and the Filmfare Award for the 2016 biographical thriller Neerja ?
text: Did you know that Renga is a video game designed for movie theaters in which up to one hundred players use laser pointers to control and defend a space ship?
text: Did you know that Devil's Bargain describes how Steve Bannon used his experience at Breitbart News to gather white men to support Donald Trump?
text: Did you know that Phillip Davey was awarded the Victoria Cross for killing an eight-man machine gun crew, which "saved his platoon from annihilation"?
text: Did you know that a hotel shaped like a starship , based on the Star Wars franchise, is planned for Walt Disney World ?
text: Did you know that Ghanaian -born Major Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah is the first black equerry to a British monarch?
text: Did you know that in the 1970s Amtrak had two new locomotives, the GE E60 and the EMD SDP40F , which had trouble staying on the tracks ?
text: Did you know that in 2017 Dan Botwe , a former political exile, became a cabinet member and minister in Ghana's newly created Ministry of Regional Reorganization and Development ?
text: Did you know that the Chinese Expeditionary Force in the Burma Campaign was commanded by an American general ?
text: Did you know that following the death of Nicole van den Hurk , her stepbrother falsely confessed to killing her to get her body exhumed for DNA testing ?
text: Did you know that in 1963, over 200,000 students of the Chicago Public Schools boycotted class to protest segregation and poor conditions?
text: Did you know that Mahant Chandnath , a Member of the Indian Parliament , is also the head of the Nath sect of Hinduism?
text: Did you know that the decorator worm lives in a tube adorned with shell fragments and tiny pebbles?
text: Did you know that Foreign Minister Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen promised that Romania would only "take a few badly aimed potshots" at Soviet planes entering its airspace during the Munich Crisis ?
text: Did you know that Céleste Mogador may have been the inspiration for the title character in Georges Bizet's opera Carmen ?
text: Did you know that Darren Sammy took seven wickets for 66 runs in his debut Test for the West Indies in 2007?
text: Did you know that the extinct ant species Cephalotes hispaniolicus was first described from a single Miocene fossil found in amber on Hispaniola ?
text: Did you know that beer ice cream has been served at the Great American Beer Festival ?
text: Did you know that the Guilden Morden boar may have adorned a helmet like those worn by the poetical warrior Beowulf ?
text: Did you know that René Morax founded the Thêatre du Jorat, where his play Le Roi David premiered with dramatic music by Arthur Honegger ?
text: Did you know that the extinct Nicarao people of pre-Columbian Nicaragua shared many cultural traits with the Aztecs of Mexico , including their calendar, screenfold books, and human sacrifice?
text: Did you know that a clinical pharmaceutical scientist is both a practicing pharmacist and a scientist ?
text: Did you know that the specimen from which the blind snake Typhlops meszoelyi was described had a diameter of 3 millimeters (0.12 in)?
text: Did you know that the 2017 comics series X-Men Gold and X-Men Blue take their titles from a storyline from the early 1990s?
text: Did you know that Bart Sawyer 's pro wrestling gimmick was inspired by Bart Simpson ?
text: Did you know that Melusine , the second opera by Aribert Reimann , premiered at the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen in 1971 and was revived in 2016 by students in Berlin for the composer's 80th birthday?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Caitlin provided drought relief to Okinawa , where reservoir levels rose from 35% to over 80% capacity?
text: Did you know that the family of Pulitzer Prize -winning journalist Alex Tizon kept a slave for 56 years ?
text: Did you know that Matthew Pottinger , a member of the U.S. National Security Council , was a journalist in China for seven years before becoming a U.S. Marine ?
text: Did you know that both the adult and fledgling of the moustached hawk-cuckoo have a moustache?
text: Did you know that pianist Abdullah Ibrahim recorded the Cape jazz instrumental " Mannenberg " in response to the forced relocation of Coloured families by the South African government during apartheid ?
text: Did you know that CUBRIC at Cardiff University can create a map of someone's brain ?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Hattie was the fifth of a record six tropical cyclones to hit Japan in 1990 ?
text: Did you know that the East Asian holiday White Day served as the basis for the horror game White Day: A Labyrinth Named School ?
text: Did you know that Clementina Anstruther-Thomson and Vernon Lee openly lived together as a lesbian couple during the Victorian era ?
text: Did you know that consistent misrepresentation of a frequently-cited 1980 letter to the editor in The New England Journal of Medicine has been blamed for contributing to the U.S. opioid epidemic ?
text: Did you know that Sekondi MP Andrew Mercer helped repay the debt owed to the Ghana Football Association by Sekondi Eleven Wise , a Division 1 league club in his constituency?
text: Did you know that cargo had to be loaded and unloaded by hand onto the SS John Sherman , the first freight ship used on Lake Michigan ?
text: Did you know that Ariana Grande said she wanted her " Baby I " music video to emulate the "breeziness" of early 1990s music videos by TLC and Will Smith ?
text: Did you know that Poland's National Council of the Judiciary has been criticized for including only 6 women among its 25 members?
text: Did you know that the Life sculpture was designed by Joseph Drapell shortly after landing in Halifax, Nova Scotia , as a refugee?
text: Did you know that around the shores of Long Island , the ghost anemone can cause "clam diggers' itch", while the lined anemone is responsible for "seabather's eruption"?
text: Did you know that freedom fighter K. E. Mammen was expelled from Madras Christian College for participating in the Quit India Movement ?
text: Did you know that male serpentine leafminers sometimes feed at leaf wounds made by females, as they are unable to puncture the leaves themselves?
text: Did you know that Michael Boder conducted new operas, including Penderecki's Ubu Rex for the Munich Opera Festival , Henze's Phaedra in Berlin, and Reimann's Medea in Vienna?
text: Did you know that the Rabbitkettle Hot Springs in the Northwest Territories are both the largest tufa mounds in Canada and the only known tufa mounds on permafrost ?
text: Did you know that as you progress through your 90-minute sleep cycle , your brainwaves change and your body secretes different hormones ?
text: Did you know that the 1963 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game was the first NCAA title game to feature a majority of black starters?
text: Did you know that the call of the dusky long-tailed cuckoo is faster in Lower Guinea than it is in Upper Guinea ?
text: Did you know that Prince Știrbei , the Romanian arts patron, buried sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux in Courbevoie , then fought over the remains with Carpeaux's widow?
text: Did you know that " Denes nad Makedonija " was chosen to be the national anthem of the Republic of Macedonia , even though it finished runner-up in a contest held soon after independence in 1991?
text: Did you know that in a pioneering study, American pedagogue Florence E. Bamberger quantified the effects of book design on stimulating a child's interest in reading?
text: Did you know that the United States Marine Corps tiara was designed by the New York fashion house Mainbocher ?
text: Did you know that those implicated in the 1957 alleged coup attempt against King Hussein of Jordan were later pardoned and given senior posts in the government?
text: Did you know that at age 18, Daniel Schiebeler wrote the libretto for an opera by Telemann based on an episode from Cervantes' Don Quixote , which he could read in Spanish?
text: Did you know that people may be fined US$250,000 for importing monkey meat into the United States ?
text: Did you know that Daniel Tilton , one of the first three judges of the Mississippi Territory , lacked any legal experience prior to his appointment?
text: Did you know that the stag beetle Geodorcus servandus is unable to fly, and is known to occur only on a single mountaintop in New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that Seattle 's International District/Chinatown station is located under a large concrete lid that supports several office towers and a public plaza?
text: Did you know that Angelo De Donatis is the first non- cardinal to be appointed Vicar General of Rome since the sixteenth century?
text: Did you know that the 2008 film Dostana inspired several fashion trends in India, with Priyanka Chopra 's silver sari , worn in the song "Desi Girl", becoming very popular?
text: Did you know that the various versions of Titian 's Venus and Musician include organists, lute -players, Cupids , and dogs, but always a nude Venus ?
text: Did you know that Mitali Madhumita is the first female officer in the Indian Army to receive a gallantry award?
text: Did you know that despite living in complete darkness at bathyal depths , the sea anemone Allantactis parasitica synchronises its breeding activity with the phases of the moon?
text: Did you know that George Huebner is known as the "father of the automotive gas turbine engine"?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Phyllis and Typhoon Rita were responsible for the majority of Japan tropical cyclone casualties in the 1975 Pacific typhoon season ?
text: Did you know that an ultra-Orthodox mother of eleven runs the office of the President of Israel ?
text: Did you know that in 2017, the Brooklyn Street Circuit hosted the New York City ePrix , the city's first automobile race since 1896?
text: Did you know that Ghanaian highlife musician Paapa Yankson was first signed to a band while performing at his mother's funeral?
text: Did you know that Christoph Bock , the 2017 Overton Prize recipient, is a leading scientist in the International Human Epigenome Consortium ?
text: Did you know that " Kum-A-Kye " was the regimental march of the British South Africa Police in Rhodesia ?
text: Did you know that the relationship of manga character Boruto Uzumaki with his father Naruto was based on the artist Masashi Kishimoto 's own relationship with his children?
text: Did you know that the white anemone has been found growing in grooves in the shell of a loggerhead sea turtle ?
text: Did you know that David Asante-Apeatu , acting Inspector General of Police of Ghana, once oversaw a police operation that led to the seizure of 588 kg (1,296 lb) of cocaine worth US$38 million?
text: Did you know that episode 5276 of the BBC soap opera EastEnders features a transgender character being rejected by his mother?
text: Did you know that during the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany , Arpad Weixlgärtner refused to hand over the keys to the Imperial Treasury to the SS ?
text: Did you know that William Tassie thought parents would send their children to private schools if other schools did not provide the opportunity to learn Latin at an early age?
text: Did you know that the proposed Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act has been criticized for weakening Section 230 safe harbors?
text: Did you know that the future of clinafloxacin as a new drug is less bright due to its risk of drug-induced light sensitivity ?
text: Did you know that 15 policemen were killed in a 2015 ambush in Jalisco , Mexico?
text: Did you know that after baritone Johannes Martin Kränzle recovered from MDS , he made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival in 2017 as Beckmesser , staged by the festival's first Jewish director ?
text: Did you know that although the Smith's red rock hare is a nocturnal species, it occasionally comes out during early mornings or late afternoons in places where it is not hunted?
text: Did you know that the Yarkand hare is hunted as game and, between 1958 and 1981, about 10,000 furs annually were produced from the species?
text: Did you know that American soprano Pamela Coburn appeared as Mozart's Countess in Vienna and New York, and as Ellen, the friend of Peter Grimes , in Munich and at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino ?
text: Did you know that Farrakhan v Home Secretary was the first court case to successfully overturn a client's ban on entry to the United Kingdom —only to be overturned itself on appeal?
text: Did you know that illustrator Ida Waugh met her life partner Amy Ella Blanchard when the latter was hired as a tutor for her younger brother, future painter Frederick Judd Waugh ?
text: Did you know that in 1989, the Institute of Party History of the Communist Party of Estonia denounced the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact ?
text: Did you know that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has been accused of plagiarizing his PhD thesis ?
text: Did you know that the Delaware Railroad was sued in 1863 because it did not have enough freight cars to transport a bumper crop of peaches?
text: Did you know that Ada Bell Maescher produced Night Life in Hollywood as a propaganda film to depict Hollywood as a model city populated by home-loving people?
text: Did you know that Titian intended his painting of the Pietà to hang over his grave, but it never did?
text: Did you know that before working with Bob Crewe and Dusty Springfield , folk singer Norma Tanega performed at summer camps and a mental hospital?
text: Did you know that Saunders' embiids live in silken tubes and camouflage their eggs, perhaps to prevent cannibalism?
text: Did you know that Ursula K. Le Guin 's 2006 novel Voices has been compared to Ray Bradbury 's Fahrenheit 451 , which also prominently features the destruction of books?
text: Did you know that during the Rhine Campaign of 1796 , the French troops were hampered by having to steal their supplies, which turned the local populations against them?
text: Did you know that the 1992 New Delhi by-election included the candidacies of two Bollywood stars and a " Bandit Queen "?
text: Did you know that Sergeant Ömer Halisdemir was killed on the spot after he shot dead a general who had tried to take over the Special Forces Command HQ during the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt ?
text: Did you know that the comic book Ultimate End was made by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley , who had created the Ultimate Marvel imprint 15 years before?
text: Did you know that Tre Canti di Leopardi , three orchestral songs by Wilhelm Killmayer , are based on poems from Canti , addressing the infinite, the self, and the moon?
text: Did you know that the anti-illegal immigration bill Georgia House Bill 87 , which was signed into law in 2011, was partly based on Arizona 's SB 1070 immigration bill?
text: Did you know that the Martian dunes of Ogygis Undae consist of two different sand types, and look similar to the dunes in Grand Falls, Arizona ?
text: Did you know that Shirley Pitts was trained by the Forty Elephants and became the "queen of shoplifters"?
text: Did you know that Alex Virot is the only journalist to have died whilst covering the Tour de France ?
text: Did you know that the dark, organic setting of the graphic adventure video game Oxenfree was designed to contrast with its bright, geometric, supernatural elements?
text: Did you know that two years after Henry Ferrers, 4th Baron Ferrers of Groby , fought alongside King Richard II in the 1385 invasion of Scotland, the king and queen stayed the night in Ferrers' castle?
text: Did you know that Xafecopy Trojan attacked at least 4,800 Android users in just a month?
text: Did you know that in 1948, Oreste Pucciani , champion of the " direct method " of language teaching, banned English from his classroom at UCLA ?
text: Did you know that British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan described the 1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement as the "great prize"?
text: Did you know that astronomer Alan Duffy is constructing a dark matter detector 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) underground in a gold mine?
text: Did you know that the Glover's pika was at different times treated as a subspecies of the Turkestan red pika and the Chinese red pika , but is now accepted as an independent species?
text: Did you know that carbon-carrying minerals are known as organic minerals , except for some that were considered inorganic before 1828?
text: Did you know that Dua Lipa said that her song " New Rules " talks about setting rules to keep "your distance from someone who's bad for you"?
text: Did you know that while working on the representations of the Lorentz group , an encounter with Dirac convinced Harish-Chandra that he did not have "the mysterious sixth sense which one needs in order to succeed in physics"?
text: Did you know that residents of Uttan aided Gilbert Mendonca 's candidacy in the 2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election by refusing to allow other candidates to campaign in their town?
text: Did you know that in Women's One Day International cricket , India has the fourth highest number of victories?
text: Did you know that the 1896 novel The Courage of Her Convictions by Caroline Augusta Huling is the story of a woman who is artificially inseminated ?
text: Did you know that the St. Collins Lane luxury shopping centre replaced a building considered one of Melbourne 's worst?
text: Did you know that the bluffs near where Hiram Scott died in 1828 bear his name?
text: Did you know that a canoeist bore the São Tomé and Príncipe flag at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics, but at the closing ceremony it was carried by an unnamed volunteer?
text: Did you know that Maryam Mirzakhani won the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize for women in mathematics a year before she won the Fields Medal for the same work?
text: Did you know that the acorn worm Saccoglossus bromophenolosus is named after a chemical found in its tissues?
text: Did you know that as part of her journalism degree, sportscaster Kelly Crull worked at KOMU-TV ?
text: Did you know that while many people think " Trapped " is a Bruce Springsteen song from the 1980s, it was written and recorded by Jimmy Cliff in 1972?
text: Did you know that Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik used concrete sewer pipes for construction of the Church of St. Michael ?
text: Did you know that, in 1895, Orelia Key Bell dedicated a collection of poems to her "Heavenly Muse" Ida Jane Ash, next to whom she is now buried in Atlanta ?
text: Did you know that after the Stadt Zürich collided with another ship in Lindau Harbour, a Bavarian correspondent sarcastically commented that it had sunk more German ships than the entire Royal Danish Navy ?
text: Did you know that Hippopotamus is Sparks ' first UK top-ten album in over 40 years?
text: Did you know that architect Mikhail Eisenstein and his film-director son Sergei fought on opposite sides of the Russian Civil War?
text: Did you know that the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor raised money for New York's Neponsit Beach Hospital by distributing pictures of "Smiling Joe", a boy with spinal tuberculosis ?
text: Did you know that Tubulanus superbus and Tubulanus annulatus are both known as "football jersey worms"?
text: Did you know that Nannie C. Dunsmoor , a Los Angeles pioneer woman physician practicing into her 80s, was the oldest United States active member of the Soroptimist Club ?
text: Did you know that the call of the slaty-backed forktail can easily be mistaken for that of the Blyth's kingfisher ?
text: Did you know that the Massachusetts Convention of Towns in 1768 created a war scare, causing prices to drop on the London Stock Exchange ?
text: Did you know that in order to accurately portray her character Kirsty Clements ' domestic violence storyline, actress Lucy Gaskell spoke to women affected by domestic abuse?
text: Did you know that when the Pass A L'Outre Light began to sink into the ground, its floor was raised and a new door cut in its side to compensate?
text: Did you know that Frederick Brundrett , the UK's Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence , was one of Britain's oldest first-class field hockey players?
text: Did you know that the Cup of Solid Gold , China's first national anthem , was never performed publicly?
text: Did you know that cowboy Little Joe Monahan ' s gender became a national news story in 1904?
text: Did you know that the Hashemite dynasty, Jordan 's royal family, claims custodianship over Jerusalem's holy sites ?
text: Did you know that one year ago today Chapel Hill, North Carolina , police released an image of a suspect in the Faith Hedgepeth homicide based purely on DNA left at the crime scene?
text: Did you know that South African footballer Lorenzo Gordinho joined the Kaizer Chiefs academy at the age of 15?
text: Did you know that the Yunnan hare was formerly considered a subspecies of the woolly hare but is now treated as a separate species?
text: Did you know that when the jazz pianist Michael Wollny was artist in residence of the Rheingau Musik Festival , he played a concert with Andreas Schaerer , Émile Parisien and Vincent Peirani ?
text: Did you know that during the tug of war at the 1900 Olympics , a journalist was drafted into the gold medal winning team?
text: Did you know that Two Songs to be sung of a summer night on the water by Frederick Delius are wordless songs for an a cappella choir, described as being amongst the composer's "most transcendently ecstatic moments"?
text: Did you know that when Kyrgyz politician Bakyt Torobayev stood as candidate for speaker of the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan in 2016 along with Kanat Isayev, the result was a tie?
text: Did you know that the snake sea cucumber will break itself into bits to escape from a predator?
text: Did you know that software pirates created an unofficial port of Sega 's 1991 video game Sonic the Hedgehog for the Nintendo Entertainment System that features Mario instead of Sonic ?
text: Did you know that Lebanese singer Layal Abboud worked as a police officer before becoming a pop star?
text: Did you know that Younis Khan holds the records for most runs and centuries for Pakistan in Test cricket ?
text: Did you know that scholar Rupert Bruce-Mitford funded his education by burning a book?
text: Did you know that schoolmaster Elijah Corlet helped Cotton Mather correct his stammer?
text: Did you know that the season two premiere of the Canadian television series 19-2 featured an uninterrupted, 13-minute single-camera sequence of a school shooting, based on the 2006 Dawson College shooting in Montreal?
text: Did you know that last month, Kirti Kumari , a sitting member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly , died of an H1N1 infection?
text: Did you know that some of the mounds of the Martian formation of Abalos Colles are similar to volcanoes in Iceland ?
text: Did you know that in Telemaco , one of Alessandro Scarlatti 's last operas, Minerva enters in a chariot which holds a string orchestra with trumpets?
text: Did you know that German Jewish architect Ludwig Levy designed many synagogues across Germany in the late 19th century?
text: Did you know that USS Omaha (CL-4) was the last United States Navy ship to be awarded prize money?
text: Did you know that 14-year-old Lai Ning died fighting a forest fire in China in 1988 and was subsequently declared a revolutionary martyr?
text: Did you know that Vince Lombardi began his football coaching career at New Jersey 's St. Cecilia High School , where he taught algebra, chemistry, physics and Latin, in addition to his coaching duties?
text: Did you know that the Martian wedge-shaped mound Abalos Mensa has been described as "an enigmatic wedge of material"?
text: Did you know that Anette Hosoi designed a robot snail that moved by rippling over artificial snail slime ?
text: Did you know that the 2017 Washington wildfires caused ash to fall "like snow" on Seattle?
text: Did you know that Ōrora Satoshi is the heaviest ever wrestler in professional sumo ?
text: Did you know that television showings and online streaming of the documentary Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence were stopped after a blogger discredited its key photograph?
text: Did you know that Nancy Coonsman sculpted Victory , the war memorial erected in Cheppy , France, to honor the men from Missouri in the 35th Infantry Division killed during World War I?
text: Did you know that the creator of the popular YouTube channel Ali-A has been called a "YouTube megastar" by the BBC ?
text: Did you know that Jiva Pandu Gavit is the only Communist Party of India member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly ?
text: Did you know that during his presidency, Ronald Reagan appeared on the covers of records by the Ramones , Fela Kuti , Bootsy Collins , and The Clash ?
text: Did you know that heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Lidia left a sinkhole engulfing a street in central Mexico City ?
text: Did you know that King Hussein responded to the 1989 Jordanian protests by lifting martial law and reintroducing parliamentary elections ?
text: Did you know that Irene Clennell was deported from the UK, despite having a British husband, because she had spent too long abroad?
text: Did you know that Raymond Leane was described as the "foremost fighting leader" in the Australian Imperial Force during World War I?
text: Did you know that in the American West from the 1860s to the 1880s, nearly 25% of cowboys were black ?
text: Did you know that Paolo and Francesca , the second work "for Reader with Piano accompaniment" by pianist and composer Berenice Wyer , was performed in New York and Chicago?
text: Did you know that the Martian dunes of Aspledon Undae may have formed due to erosion of part of the Planum Boreum ?
text: Did you know that the house of Judith Ellen Foster , the "Iowa lawyer" of the temperance movement , was burnt down, presumably by her opponents?
text: Did you know that Steps achieved thirteen consecutive top-five singles in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that the absurdist Twitter writer known as dril continues to insist that he is not owned , even as he slowly shrinks and transforms into a corncob ?
text: Did you know that the Swiss mezzo-soprano Elisabeth Glauser performed in the Jahrhundertring in Bayreuth, and created the role of Babette in Henze's The English Cat ?
text: Did you know that the Cook Islands flashlightfish produces light with the help of bioluminescent bacteria?
text: Did you know that the French Football Federation issued a reversal of a league win after Amiens SC disputed Olympique Noisy-le-Sec player Frédéric Boniface 's eligibility to play in the match?
text: Did you know that the common loon used to be known as call-up-a-storm in New England , because its noisy cries supposedly foretold stormy weather?
text: Did you know that at age 16 years 204 days, Sneha Deepthi became the youngest cricketer ever to represent the India women's Twenty20 International team ?
text: Did you know that the producers of the horror podcast Tanis have never confirmed whether the show is fictitious?
text: Did you know that although Tammy Kingery left her keys inside her South Carolina house when she disappeared from it three years ago today, the door was found locked from the outside?
text: Did you know that Ivy Wedgwood 's retirement after 21 years in the Australian Senate was reported with the headline "Ivy is a housewife again"?
text: Did you know that Henry Purcell 's eight-voice anthem Hear my prayer, O Lord features "pungent" harmonies in a long, "inexorable" build-up to a "towering dissonant tone cluster" right before it ends?
text: Did you know that during the American Civil War, Ephraim C. Dawes almost lost his lower jaw to a bullet wound, but went on to become a noted public speaker?
text: Did you know that the extinct ant genus Electromyrmex includes an undescribed species from Bitterfeld amber ?
text: Did you know that as a high school student, Evin Demirhan supported her family of 13 by wrestling, and later became a bronze medalist in the 2017 World Wrestling Championships ?
text: Did you know that although the British commander was accused of incompetence following the Battle of the Basque Roads , he was controversially acquitted at his court-martial ?
text: Did you know that Alan Akaka led a campaign to deny the ukulele a place as the official state instrument of Hawaii?
text: Did you know that in 1964, Bob Dylan recorded songs for Quest in Toronto that CBS had rejected for broadcast in the US?
text: Did you know that state senator Jane Kitchel and her sister chair both of the Vermont Legislature 's appropriations committees?
text: Did you know that the song cycles by Wilhelm Killmayer , written across five decades, set poems by authors from Sappho to Peter Härtling , with a focus on the late poems by Hölderlin ?
text: Did you know that Norman Mailer wrote " The Man Who Studied Yoga " in 1952 in order to free himself from the past success of his first novel?
text: Did you know that Theresa Meikle became the presiding judge of San Francisco County Superior Court in 1955, the first woman elected to such a position in any major American city?
text: Did you know that the two distinct forms of the Martian dunes of Hyperboreae Undae apparently cannot coexist?
text: Did you know that the British climber and YouTuber Ally Law was globally banned from all sites owned by Merlin Entertainments after trespassing in Thorpe Park and climbing the Stealth roller coaster?
text: Did you know that before becoming a state representative and state senator, George Merryman served as a ship's doctor on a commercial steamship traveling between Portland, Oregon and the Far East ?
text: Did you know that N. K. Jemisin 's The Stone Sky has been favorably compared to works by famed science fiction authors Ursula K. Le Guin and William Gibson ?
text: Did you know that five churches have stood at the top of Shandon Street since 1624?
text: Did you know that as a member of the communist student movement, Bihar legislator Umadhar Singh was jailed for eight years with his legs in chains?
text: Did you know that the clarinetist Jörg Widmann composed Babylon , an opera in seven scenes, on a commission from the Bavarian State Opera to a libretto by Peter Sloterdijk ?
text: Did you know that Una R. Winter reported in 1935 that there was very little interest in women's suffrage in Mexico ?
text: Did you know that after a deal with Shark Tank member Mark Cuban fell through, meal kit delivery service Plated earned a deal with another shark?
text: Did you know that " The Madness of King Scar " was recorded and storyboarded for The Lion King , but Disney removed it, probably due to its explicit content?
text: Did you know that Hanno Müller-Brachmann appeared as Papageno in Claudio Abbado 's award-winning recording of Die Zauberflöte , and recorded Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn with Michael Gielen ?
text: Did you know that the Fort Bragg Game was the first regular-season professional sporting event held at an active military base?
text: Did you know that the coral Pavona maldivensis can emit a bright orange fluorescence ?
text: Did you know that Sheryl Lee was originally given the role of Mary Alice Young on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives , but the producers decided to replace her with Brenda Strong ?
text: Did you know that the Kangri Garpo mountain range contains the lowest-altitude glacier in Tibet ?
text: Did you know that Enver Baig accused the Pakistan national cricket team 's players of being involved in match fixing ?
text: Did you know that the amphipod Luckia striki was named after the location of its discovery, the Lucky Strike hydrothermal vent?
text: Did you know that Ghanaian legislator Samuel Atta Akyea suggested that the fight against galamseyers required military support?
text: Did you know that Krake ZK 14 was a floating poet's workshop?
text: Did you know that the video game developer Dontnod Entertainment found success in narrative-driven games after their debut action game had poor sales?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Wade White was accepted into the B.Litt. program at Oxford , despite not having an undergraduate degree?
text: Did you know that the opera Das Schloß by Aribert Reimann , on his own libretto after Kafka's novel , premiered in 1992 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin ?
text: Did you know that Two Ton Baker played piano in place of Duke Ellington ?
text: Did you know that by portraying Alex Parrish in Quantico , Priyanka Chopra became the first South Asian to headline an American network drama series?
text: Did you know that although the 8.0M w 1679 Sanhe-Pinggu earthquake devastated towns near Beijing , China, during the Qing dynasty , another large earthquake along this fault is not expected for 6,500 years?
text: Did you know that 19th-century concert singer Sarah Mundell Crane was the mother of silent movie actor Harry Ogden Crane ?
text: Did you know that Kalasipalyam in central Bangalore , India, known for its traffic congestion and unhygienic conditions, is also a transportation hub for 800,000 bus passengers a day?
text: Did you know that Don Checco , composed by Nicola De Giosa , was one of the greatest successes in the history of Neapolitan opera buffa and a favourite of King Ferdinand II ?
text: Did you know that an 1847 shipment of Massachusetts foreign aid to Ireland was called repayment for an Irish donation to Massachusetts in 1676 ?
text: Did you know that Eleonore von Grothaus , a writer and poet, raised thirteen children, including seven from her husband's first marriage, and educated a future queen ?
text: Did you know that Edith Kawelohea McKinzie was named a Living Treasure of Hawai'i after indexing early 19th-century Hawaiian-language newspapers and documenting the genealogy of the chiefs of Kahoolawe ?
text: Did you know that the name of Tekken character Lars Alexandersson was proposed to the development staff by an unknown woman from the Swedish embassy in Japan?
text: Did you know that Kim Cobb used coral to profile El Niño over seven thousand years?
text: Did you know that the First Toungoo Empire adopted the Wareru Dhammathat , the customary law code of the defeated Hanthawaddy Kingdom , as its basic law?
text: Did you know that Grant Liddle discovered Liddle's syndrome , a genetic cause of high blood pressure?
text: Did you know that each sign of the zodiac can be further subdivided into twelve parts ?
text: Did you know that librarian Jacqueline Noel gave Almond Roca candy its name?
text: Did you know that Roland Poska 's painting From Blue to Blue , which appears in Milwaukee 's Henry S. Reuss Federal Plaza Building, is 270 feet (82 m) long?
text: Did you know that the branching worm living inside a sponge is unlikely to be able to sustain itself solely through what it eats?
text: Did you know that Reah Whitehead , the first female justice of the peace in Washington state, started her legal career as a stenographer ?
text: Did you know that cultural governance could refer to anything from cultural policy regarding concerts to broad governance of language and meaning ?
text: Did you know that from 1981, Swiss set designer Marco Arturo Marelli also directed operas, and in 2010 staged the premiere of Reimann's Medea at the Vienna State Opera?
text: Did you know that the Labor Congress of Liberia was closely tied to the Liberian government and membership fees were paid directly to the governing True Whig Party ?
text: Did you know that Cara Mund is the first contestant from North Dakota to win the Miss America pageant?
text: Did you know that Jane Austen 's novel Mansfield Park was based on her brother 's residence Godmersham Park , Kent , which she frequently visited?
text: Did you know that Caroline Stein appeared as Mozart's Queen of the Night at the Berlin State Opera , and sang his Mass in C minor and Alban Berg's Altenberg Lieder at The Proms ?
text: Did you know that Ginza Six , a new shopping complex in Tokyo, contains artwork by Yayoi Kusama ?
text: Did you know that starting at age nine, Carlos Cuevas acted for six years in the Catalan television series Ventdelplà ?
text: Did you know that a lyric video for the song " Walk on Water " by Thirty Seconds to Mars features user-submitted footage depicting Independence Day in the United States?
text: Did you know that Ida Hall Roby was the first woman to graduate from the Illinois College of Pharmacy at Northwestern University ?
text: Did you know that at Modena Park 2017 , rock singer Vasco Rossi broke the world record for the largest ticketed concert?
text: Did you know that in Buddhism, the doing of good deeds, known as merit-making , is seen as a form of saving for the future?
text: Did you know that Egyptian tomb S9 suffered deliberate, extensive, and state-sanctioned stone- and grave-robbing?
text: Did you know that Ida Hinman , author of a popular Washington, D.C. guidebook, died in poverty and her body was identified through a membership pin of the Daughters of the American Revolution ?
text: Did you know that the red colour of the ribbon worm Tubulanus polymorphus may warn predators that it is toxic or unpalatable?
text: Did you know that baritone Georg Nigl , who names as his favourite roles Monteverdi's Orfeo , Mozart's Papageno , and Alban Berg's Wozzeck , created the title role of Dusapin's Faustus, the Last Night ?
text: Did you know that residents of three adjacent counties in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado have the longest life expectancy in the U.S. ?
text: Did you know that someone told Kate Brew Vaughn that her eggless, sugarless, and butterless World War I Victory Cake was "joyless", but then ate three pieces?
text: Did you know that Harold Joe Waldrum took thousands of Polaroid photos of the adobe churches and Penitente moradas of Northern New Mexico ?
text: Did you know that Europol was able to identify a hotel used in child porn using Twitter and a crowdsourced website ?
text: Did you know that Daniel H. Coakley was impeached after he secured a pardon for mobster Raymond L. S. Patriarca ?
text: Did you know that a single armed squad of the Central Organising Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) carried out nearly 30 robberies in 1974?
text: Did you know that in 2014, Iva Honyestewa created the pootsaya , a combination of coil and sifter basket, "a rare innovation in Hopi basketry "?
text: Did you know that the UK organization Serious Hazards of Transfusion discourages hospitals from using some blood products donated by women?
text: Did you know that Katsura Hoshino acceded to her editor's demand to draw her D.Gray-man manga character Lenalee Lee with long hair, but then had her lose part of her hair in a fight?
text: Did you know that Danish-born Jørgen Jensen was awarded the Victoria Cross for an action during which he pulled the pin from a hand grenade with his teeth?
text: Did you know that Fran Dunphy has more wins than any other Penn Quakers basketball coach with 310 overall including 191 conference wins?
text: Did you know that Una B. Herrick was called a "trailblazer" as she "made a place for women" at Montana State College ?
text: Did you know that Phyllodoce mucosa can form "roads" as they crawl across the beach towards carcasses?
text: Did you know that Reinhard Peters conducted several new operas and Wilhelm Killmayer 's Tre Canti di Leopardi , and a number of his recordings were chosen for the CD compilation Musik in Deutschland 1950–2000 ?
text: Did you know that during the 2010 Winter Olympics , the United States Postal Service deployed a Mobile Mail-Screening Station to Vancouver , Canada, to detect mail-borne nuclear threats?
text: Did you know that Reid Moore, Jr. ran for a Florida House of Representatives seat in 1976 with the campaign slogan "We need More in Tallahassee "?
text: Did you know that Eugenia Tucker Fitzgerald helped found the first secret society in a women's college?
text: Did you know that larvae of the coral Flabellum curvatum are expelled from its mouth at an advanced stage of development, and settle nearby?
text: Did you know that biostatistician Rafael Irizarry is a founder of Bioconductor , an open-source software project for the analysis of genomic data?
text: Did you know that Kunphela , a favorite personal attendant of the 13th Dalai Lama , was a co-founder of a political party that aimed to restructure Tibetan society through revolution?
text: Did you know that an 1844 Oregon law required all slaves to be freed—and all freed slaves to leave Oregon?
text: Did you know that in 1831 Thomas Abernethy was in James Clark Ross 's party—the first to reach the North Magnetic Pole ?
text: Did you know that the only independent radio station in Eritrea is not in Eritrea ?
text: Did you know that sculptor Thea Tewi , known for her work in stone, was also one of the United States' top lingerie designers?
text: Did you know that Players Weekend was the first time the New York Yankees had a name on their uniforms ?
text: Did you know that Ghanaian highlife musician C. K. Mann added western instruments to Osode , a traditional form of fishermen's music?
text: Did you know that the two forms of the red seaweed Bonnemaisonia hamifera are so unlike each other that they were at first thought to be different species?
text: Did you know that the murder of Vicente Bermúdez Zacarías , a federal judge, was a rare incident in the ongoing Mexican Drug War ?
text: Did you know that American novelist Cynthia Propper Seton , who wrote about affluent, middle-aged wives and mothers dissatisfied with their lives, was often compared to Jane Austen ?
text: Did you know that the Martian dunes of Siton Undae are mostly composed of volcanic glass ?
text: Did you know that single cell epigenomics includes ways to map the three-dimensional conformation of chromosomes in individual cells?
text: Did you know that Gerhild Romberger , an award-winning contralto and professor of voice, was a soloist in Mahler's Second Symphony at the Rheingau Musik Festival ?
text: Did you know that the 3.5 miles (5.6 km) separating the New York City Subway's JFK Airport and Broad Channel stations is the longest distance between two consecutive stations in the system?
text: Did you know that Chris Rowley is the first West Point graduate to pitch in Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that Navayana is a modern Buddhist movement that abandons precepts such as meditation and enlightenment ?
text: Did you know that Michael Bolton and Diane Warren felt Barbra Streisand would be the perfect artist to sing " We're Not Makin' Love Anymore "?
text: Did you know that 300,000 people watch every time Christian Guzman trains?
text: Did you know that the Kingdom of Bosnia allowed the Ottoman Turks to penetrate deep into their territory before inflicting a heavy defeat on them at the 1388 Battle of Bileća ?
text: Did you know that the mirror suggested by Elsie de Wolfe and added by James Amster to make his Amster Yard look bigger is still in place today?
text: Did you know that Fantasia 's single " Sleeping with the One I Love " was described as "five minutes of slow-burning flame"?
text: Did you know that Adele Schulenburg Gleeson , an American sculptor active in Missouri and Connecticut , studied sculpture under George Julian Zolnay and Charles Grafly ?
text: Did you know that Wolfgang Fortner composed the chamber opera In seinem Garten liebt Don Perlimplin Belisa after Lorca for the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen , where it opened the Festival in 1962?
text: Did you know that Wilfrid Oulton was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for sinking three U-boats in one month?
text: Did you know that Helaine Olen and Harold Pollack wrote a book based on an index card ?
text: Did you know that former Howard University professor George Gyan-Baffour opposed Ghana 's decision to seek a bailout from the International Monetary Fund ?
text: Did you know that Cardiff City F.C. is the only non-English team to have won the FA Cup ?
text: Did you know that a Buncombe County, North Carolina , deputy sheriff interrupted his convalescence from back surgery to investigate a body discovered 20 years ago today and crushed his sciatic nerve as a result?
text: Did you know that after ABC passed on the television pilot Marvel's Most Wanted in May 2015, it was reworked, only to be passed on again the following May?
text: Did you know that the premiere of the opera Wintermärchen by Philippe Boesmans , based on Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale , featured jazz-rock music by the Belgian group Aka Moon ?
text: Did you know that when her husband was shot by police during a Quit India protest march, Tara Rani Srivastava bandaged his wounds with her sari and continued leading the march?
text: Did you know that an animal called the " Seaweed of Death from Hana " has caused poisonings of aquarium hobbyists ?
text: Did you know that Bipin Ganatra , an electrician by trade, has voluntarily helped Kolkata firefighters battle more than 100 fires over the past 40 years?
text: Did you know that with Classics in 2014, the musical duo She & Him charted their fourth consecutive number-one album on the Billboard charts for Folk Albums ?
text: Did you know that Oshkosh Alpha ' s ShieldAll armor incorporates research conducted for NASCAR after the death of Dale Earnhardt ?
text: Did you know that the Indian film editor Beena Paul made her feature film debut with Amma Ariyan (1986)?
text: Did you know that one reviewer thought that voice samples from Lindsay Lohan would have "pepp[ed] things up" for the video game Herbie: Fully Loaded ?
text: Did you know that according to reviewers, soprano Simone Schneider of the Staatsoper Stuttgart "expresses Alcestis ' agitation, nobility and joy with a moving simplicity" and "was a headstrong, vibrant Empress "?
text: Did you know that the Bartley-Fox Law mandated a one-year prison sentence for anyone convicted of illegally carrying a firearm in Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know that the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki co-wrote the German libretto of Ubu Rex , his only opera buffa , based on the French play Ubu Roi ?
text: Did you know that though Mohsin Raza was made the Minority Affairs Minister of an Indian state, he was a member of neither the state legislative assembly nor the legislative council ?
text: Did you know that evidence of beavers in Opossum Brook was first detected in 1929, by a man on his way to Hell's Kitchen?
text: Did you know that Danish historian Elisabeth Munksgaard was given a "fine finale" to her career with a costumed eleventh-century king ?
text: Did you know that a marine species of dinoflagellate was implicated when 200 Italian beachgoers became ill in 2005?
text: Did you know that Adeline Palmier Wagoner wrote Madame Beaulieu: A Colonial Dame , a biography of her ancestor, a social leader in Cahokia ?
text: Did you know that the online game slither.io was the most Googled game in the United States in 2016?
text: Did you know that Alexander S. Wolcott and John Johnson opened the first commercial photography portrait studio in the world?
text: Did you know that after appearing in more than 50 films, Priyanka Chopra 's first-ever audition was for the American television series Quantico ?
text: Did you know that thousands of Jews fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War?
text: Did you know that Liberian labor leader Amos Gray became involved in labor activism while being a part-time port worker during his college years?
text: Did you know that the social thriller film genre has been popularized in the United States by Get Out director Jordan Peele and in India by Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan ?
text: Did you know that Geneve L. A. Shaffer , known as the "Skyscraper Girl", was the United States' first woman glider pilot?
text: Did you know that Pachycondyla succinea queens were first described in 1868, but males were not described until 2009?
text: Did you know that scrap metal from demolition work during construction of the Capitol Hill station was sold to fund meals for the homeless?
text: Did you know that Kofi Dzamesi , the Minister for Chieftancy and Religious Affairs in Ghana, survived an assassination attempt in 2008?
text: Did you know that Brahms composed the first of Two Songs for Voice, Viola and Piano more than 20 years after the second?
text: Did you know that the ciliate Zoothamnium niveum is so densely covered by symbiotic microbes that it appears white to the naked eye?
text: Did you know that Michael M. York and Jeffrey A. Marx received death threats for their 1986 Pulitzer Prize -winning series exposing improper cash payoffs to Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball players?
text: Did you know that the Casualty episode " Exile " was filmed entirely in Bucharest ?
text: Did you know that an Edmonton man who unknowingly bought a $1.2 million artwork stolen six years ago today , kept it in his bedroom next to Star Wars figures and stuffed animals?
text: Did you know that tango music composer Cátulo Castillo was once featherweight champion of Argentina, and went to the 1924 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Transformers character Bumblebee will feature in his own film , which is currently in production in California?
text: Did you know that Carol Smith appeared as Verdi's Eboli , Amneris and Azucena at the Opernhaus Zürich , and recorded his Mrs. Quickly in German?
text: Did you know that prior to the season, the 2016–17 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team lost two players to graduation, three others who transferred, and two assistant coaches who took head coaching jobs?
text: Did you know that the navigator and cartographer Matthew Flinders is thought to be buried under Platform 15 at Euston railway station ?
text: Did you know that American socialite Isabel Pell joined the Maquis and rescued a contingent of American soldiers in France during World War II?
text: Did you know that Bohemia Interactive bought a T-72 tank, stating: "A massive tanks goes out to everyone who has supported the studio and its games throughout the past 16 years"?
text: Did you know that the Daniel Webster Debate Society of Phillips Exeter Academy , founded in 1818, is the oldest secondary school literary society in the United States?
text: Did you know that Elisabeth Kulman , Gora in the premiere of Reimann's Medea at the Vienna State Opera , changed from soprano to mezzo, and from opera singer to concert singer?
text: Did you know that Steve Smith has scored seven of his twenty Test centuries against India ?
text: Did you know that Lillie Rose Ernst , the first woman assistant superintendent of instruction in the St. Louis public school system, was the mentor of The Potters ?
text: Did you know that forest rings had gone unnoticed by geologists until aerial photography became a common surveying tool in the 1950s?
text: Did you know that Ghanaian entrepreneur and journalist Ibrahim Mohammed Awal , who heads the newly created Ministry of Business Development , has pledged to triple the country's GDP ?
text: Did you know that American Jewish cuisine has been influenced by a geographical gefilte fish line?
text: Did you know that E. Joy Johnson wrote The Foreman of the J.A.6. based on her experience owning a ranch in frontierland Wyoming ?
text: Did you know that the Thirteenth Doctor , to be portrayed by Jodie Whittaker , will be the first female incarnation of the Doctor in the continuity of Doctor Who ?
text: Did you know that the 2007–08 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team did not lose a single game in the month of February?
text: Did you know that surgeon Sir Terence English , who performed the first successful heart transplant in the UK in August 1979, had an earlier career in mining engineering ?
text: Did you know that the wildlife of Turkmenistan includes 82 species of reptile but only 5 of amphibian?
text: Did you know that three hospitals and two other medical facilities were combined to form the Queens Hospital Center in New York City?
text: Did you know that as CEO of Nestlé Mexico, Eugenio Minvielle Lagos pushed for the " pull strategy "?
text: Did you know that the Ethiopian hare is endemic to Africa, and is found in the Afromontane Biozone of Ethiopia and the borders of the Sudanian Savanna Biozone ?
text: Did you know that during the Dubin Inquiry , lead counsel Robert P. Armstrong questioned Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson about his anabolic steroid use?
text: Did you know that officers from the Albuquerque Police Department lied to the Albuquerque Journal when providing details regarding the death of Victoria Martens ?
text: Did you know that a GRIM test on a sample of published psychology articles revealed that over half contained at least one mathematically impossible result?
text: Did you know that Catie Munnings , winner of the 2016 FIA European Rally Championship Ladies' Trophy , was the first British driver to win a European rally title in 49 years?
text: Did you know that the bazaar fly is a vector for trachoma , the leading global cause of preventable blindness ?
text: Did you know that instead of giving the keys to the city to visiting dignitaries, the mayor of Calgary " white hats " them?
text: Did you know that Francis Poulenc composed the motets for male voices Quatre petites prières de saint François d'Assise on the request of a relative who was a Franciscan friar ?
text: Did you know that the film NUDE is about a talent search that was inspired by the Pirelli Calendars of the 1970s?
text: Did you know that Jean Ginsburg established one of the first clinics in Britain for menopausal women?
text: Did you know that Brigham Young Unversity's International Harp Archive has more than 11,000 scores and sound recordings that feature the harp?
text: Did you know that Cuban parliamentarian Teté Puebla is the first female general in the nation's history?
text: Did you know that when breeding, the polychaete worm Syllis prolifera produces a detachable " stolon " which joins other stolons to swarm in the water column ?
text: Did you know that Usain Bolt and Roger Federer have each won the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year a record four times since its inception in 2000?
text: Did you know that computer science lecturer Cynthia B. Lee promoted the use of gender-neutral language across her department at Stanford University ?
text: Did you know that Topolnița Cave is home to the largest colony of greater horseshoe bats in Europe?
text: Did you know that the brief biographies of Italian artists by the Anonimo Gaddiano were written before Vasari's Lives of 1550, but not published until 1892?
text: Did you know that Cranston Public Library delivered 4,657 items to homebound residents of Cranston, Rhode Island , in 2016 alone?
text: Did you know that Czech linguist Miroslav Komárek spent his entire six-decade academic career at Palacký University in Olomouc ?
text: Did you know that in 2013, the Irish Famine Memorial was described as "the most mocked and reviled public sculpture in Boston "?
text: Did you know that Floor 's use of the "bomb string" on their album Oblation was described as "a guitar string tuned so low it flaps like a pensioner's bingo wing "?
text: Did you know that Eleri Rees became a judge without ever practising as a barrister?
text: Did you know that a Vector General 3D terminal was used to create the 3D animation near the end of the original Star Wars ?
text: Did you know that Karam Singh was the first living recipient of the Param Vir Chakra , India's highest military decoration?
text: Did you know that Drake 's song " KMT " sampled the theme "His World" from the 2006 video game Sonic the Hedgehog ?
text: Did you know that the 1982 Bristow Helicopters Bell 212 crash was one of three fatal helicopter accidents Bristow Helicopters suffered in little more than a year in the North Sea ?
text: Did you know that the musicologist Beatrix Borchard researched female musicians such as Clara Schumann , Amalie Joachim , and Pauline Viardot , and worked for the Goethe-Institut in Portugal, Romania, and China?
text: Did you know that a global search yielded two mating partners for Jeremy , a rare left-coiled snail , but they began to mate with each other instead?
text: Did you know that Robert Traill was featured in an episode of Victoria , written by his great-great-great-granddaughter Daisy Goodwin ?
text: Did you know that the Arago hotspot may have been creating volcanoes, islands, atolls , and seamounts such as Îles Maria , Tuvalu , and the Marshall Islands for the past 120 million years?
text: Did you know that John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk 's preparations for the 1415 Agincourt campaign cost him £2,000 and included a seat for his own toilet?
text: Did you know that during the summer of 2017, the Milli Fire burned over 24,000 acres (97 km 2 ) of forest land in Oregon, much of it in the Three Sisters Wilderness area?
text: Did you know that Altan Xire , the main township of a rural county in Inner Mongolia, has an extensive urban skyline?
text: Did you know that the first opera by Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini premiered at the Theater Erfurt , the second at the Theater Basel , and the third at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2017?
text: Did you know that The Black Swan at Oldstead is rated the best restaurant in the world by TripAdvisor ?
text: Did you know that the hymn " Den Herren will ich loben ", which Maria Luise Thurmair based on the Magnificat to a popular 1613 melody , was arranged with trumpets and timpani for a papal visit in Munich's Frauenkirche?
text: Did you know that Ashley Hatch was named 2017 NWSL Rookie of the Year and helped the North Carolina Courage win the 2017 NWSL Shield , scoring seven goals in 24 games?
text: Did you know that the Mackinlay's cuckoo-dove can be distinguished from the bar-tailed cuckoo-dove by the dark spotting on the breast of the former caused by bifurcating feathers?
text: Did you know that Latvian-born Lazar Bach became chair of the Communist Party of South Africa, but died in a Gulag ?
text: Did you know that the new tour by "Weird Al" Yankovic focuses on Yankovic's original songs, as opposed to his staple parody songs ?
text: Did you know that researchers found that sending birthday cards to 21-year-olds did not help reduce harmful birthday drinking ?
text: Did you know that Abbie Hutty hopes there really is life on Mars ?
text: Did you know that in a sample of medical reviews , useless treatments were just as likely to be recommended for further research as were useful treatments?
text: Did you know that Theresa Goell spent much of her life working on excavations at Nemrud Dagh in Turkey, but never discovered the tomb of Antiochus I of Commagene that she hoped to find there?
text: Did you know that the coral Pocillopora elegans is considered " vulnerable " after being severely depleted in the eastern Pacific during the 1982–1983 El Niño event ?
text: Did you know that Rebecca Thomas wrote and directed Electrick Children , a film with a budget of US$1 million, while she was still a university student?
text: Did you know that Everything Everything 's third album, Get to Heaven , was at one point bookmakers' favourite for the 2015 Mercury Prize , but was ultimately not even nominated?
text: Did you know that Niaz A. Naik played a pivotal role in back-channel talks during the Kargil War between India and Pakistan?
text: Did you know that " Old Love / New Love " was written by Twin Shadow for a fictional radio station ?
text: Did you know that the forged Morey letter may have helped 1880 U.S. Presidential candidate Winfield S. Hancock win California and Nevada ?
text: Did you know that Leo Nocentelli was one of the primary songwriters of the New Orleans funk band The Meters ?
text: Did you know that the 2017 Vegas eRace carried a total prize fund of $1 million, the largest in eSports racing history?
text: Did you know that Karim Morani teamed up with Shah Rukh Khan in 2013 to co-produce the commercially successful film Chennai Express ?
text: Did you know that the forged Morey letter may have helped 1880 U.S. Presidential candidate Winfield S. Hancock win California and Nevada ?
text: Did you know that the Chinese government sponsors a gangsta rap group called CD Rev ?
text: Did you know that although Arthur Schopenhauer had not invited her and initially refused to cooperate, Elisabet Ney nevertheless sculpted his portrait bust ?
text: Did you know that Sam Bosworth is the first male coxswain to win an international elite rowing event with a female crew?
text: Did you know that in the 1951–52 Indian general election , the 27-year old Sunkam Achalu was elected by the largest margin?
text: Did you know that Governor David B. Hill prevented New York from carrying out a state census in 1885 ?
text: Did you know that looming war between the Dacian king Burebista and Julius Caesar was preempted by the assassination of both leaders?
text: Did you know that Icelandic chess grandmaster Margeir Pétursson founded the country's only commercial bank that did not crash during the financial crisis of 2007–08 ?
text: Did you know that the Canales investigation heard 80 witnesses describing murders, kidnappings, and other crimes committed by the Texas Rangers in the early 20th century?
text: Did you know that John Potter 's story of his role as a secret agent in occupied France was exposed as false only after his death?
text: Did you know that people have suffered an Antabuse -type reaction from eating the club foot mushroom and drinking alcohol?
text: Did you know that the family of Tejano lawmaker José Tomás Canales feared he would be assassinated during his 1919 investigation into the Texas Rangers ?
text: Did you know that Baahubali 2: The Conclusion is the highest grossing film in India , with a domestic collection of over ₹ 12.53 billion?
text: Did you know that Melahat Okuyan , a Turkish female microbiologist and AIDS activist, once proposed the establishment of male brothels for homosexuals and cross-dressers in order to improve public health?
text: Did you know that the midden inkcap can be used as ink?
text: Did you know that Krishna is the Hindu god of compassion, tenderness, and love?
text: Did you know that a host venue for the 2019 Rugby World Cup will be built in Kamaishi , which suffered major damage during the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami ?
text: Did you know that Agnes Robertson served in the Australian Senate until she was 79, and switched political parties at the age of 73?
text: Did you know that reinforcement is one of the few cases in which natural selection can directly influence the origin of new species ?
text: Did you know that Matt Page humorously edited historical images to include Axl Rose eating snacks?
text: Did you know that the Dominican amber ant Odontomachus spinifer was named for its very large spine?
text: Did you know that Averil Mansfield , a former president of the British Medical Association , was Britain's first female professor of surgery?
text: Did you know that Guizhou Plateau forests are prone to drought stress despite high rainfall in the region?
text: Did you know that N. Somana is one of only two Kodagu district politicians to be elected to the Lok Sabha ?
text: Did you know that Duke Huan of Qi 's corpse was left to rot in his bedchamber while his sons fought for the throne of Qi ?
text: Did you know that Australian surgeon Helen Sexton came out of retirement to open a field hospital in France during World War I?
text: Did you know that the United States Coast Guard and China Coast Guard regularly deploy officers aboard each other's vessels as a part of United States–China security cooperation ?
text: Did you know that out of the thirteen Nippon Professional Baseball seasons that have included interleague play , the Pacific League has beaten the Central League in all but one?
text: Did you know that Sheila Callender helped to establish the medical discipline of haematology ?
text: Did you know that blister coral was not recognised as a new species until 1971?
text: Did you know that after Nagapattinam Member of Parliament S.G. Murugaiyan was killed in broad daylight, his party retained the seat in the subsequent 1979 by-election ?
text: Did you know that the discovery of a fossilized frog in the Caves of Kesh in 1901 disproved a common belief that the species was only introduced into Ireland in 1699?
text: Did you know that mezzo-soprano Patricia Johnson appeared as Eboli at the Deutsche Oper Berlin , and created the roles of a Nabokov Princess and a Henze Baroness ?
text: Did you know that the sea gastropod Coriocella nigra has an internal shell and four or five bosses on its body?
text: Did you know that the workshop of August Volz supplied decorations for the Latvian National Opera , Latvian National Theatre , Latvian National Museum of Art , and Art Academy of Latvia ?
text: Did you know that California High-Speed Rail 's proposed Pacheco Pass Tunnel is expected to become the longest rail tunnel in North America?
text: Did you know that Heinrich Schütz published his Symphoniae sacrae I , a collection of 20 "eloquent, sensitive, and often sensuous" settings of biblical texts, in 1629 in Venice, where he studied with Monteverdi ?
text: Did you know that Selna Kaplan led the first clinical trials of artificial growth hormone in the United States?
text: Did you know that the banded nemertean ribbon worm readily breaks into pieces, each of which can regenerate into a new individual within four weeks?
text: Did you know that following her diagnosis of terminal lung cancer, the British Vogue health editor Deborah Hutton campaigned to raise awareness of the dangers of smoking for teenage girls?
text: Did you know that chalice coral and porous lettuce coral can be confused underwater?
text: Did you know that upon his retirement in January 1979, A. M. Aikin Jr. was the longest-tenured legislator in the history of Texas ?
text: Did you know that the Ex is a target practice mannequin that spouts blood when shot?
text: Did you know that the name of the desert area Xiangshawan (literally, "resonant sand gorge") in Inner Mongolia derives from the loud boom and whistling sound created when sliding down its sand dune?
text: Did you know that in the Credo section of his Missa Ave Marie , composer Ludwig Daser clearly stated his Protestant beliefs to the Catholic court of Albert V, Duke of Bavaria ?
text: Did you know that Chains of Love was described as "televised prostitution"?
text: Did you know that besides feeding on carpets, the larvae of the common carpet beetle can destroy dried insects in collections?
text: Did you know that Fawad Khan appeared in Eastern Eye 's listing of the "50 Sexiest Asian Men" in 2014, 2015, and 2016?
text: Did you know that Grangemoor Park in Cardiff , Wales, was created on top of a former landfill site of household and commercial rubbish?
text: Did you know that captured women and girls were sold for 10 to 20 Mexican dollars during the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong ?
text: Did you know that although Pausanias described Spintharus of Corinth as the architect of the Temple at Delphi , subsequent historians have disagreed as to which temple he built?
text: Did you know that the barred cuckoo-dove is similar to the little cuckoo-dove , but is larger and darker, and is black-barred at the mantle, breast, covert, and tail?
text: Did you know that one critic described the plot of Nude for Satan as "the Devil is bored and wants to have an orgy. Oh, and Calderoni gets molested by a giant spider"?
text: Did you know that after nearly six decades of collecting Inuit sculptures and other art, Jacqui Shumiatcher gifted 1,310 pieces valued at CAD$3 million to the University of Regina?
text: Did you know that the earliest record of the Toronto cocktail is from 1922, when the city of Toronto was under prohibition ?
text: Did you know that Andy Boarman ran a popular music store and instrument workshop out of his Hedgesville barber shop?
text: Did you know that pesticides may have detrimental effects on beneficial insects such as bees?
text: Did you know that John D. Hoffman was the only member of the Manhattan District to be awarded the Soldier's Medal , the United States Army's highest award for heroism in a non-combat situation?
text: Did you know that based on genetic data, the western oriole and the green-headed oriole are sister species?
text: Did you know that after viewing footage from his 1970 film Serene Velocity , director Ernie Gehr felt nauseated?
text: Did you know that student activists joined forces with the military to overthrow the Cuban government during the 1933 Sergeants' Revolt ?
text: Did you know that in 1471, John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk , considered himself unable to attend parliament in London with a sufficiently large retinue for a duke, and so refused to do so?
text: Did you know that the restoration of the Niagara Apothecary has been described as "the most authentic restoration of its kind in Canada and perhaps in North America"?
text: Did you know that H. Rex Lee was the last non-elected Governor of American Samoa ?
text: Did you know that the black-necked grebe is flightless for two months of the year?
text: Did you know that Myron Prinzmetal gave his name to Prinzmetal's angina , a type of chest pain that occurs at rest?
text: Did you know that Qit'at Jaradah , an island in the Persian Gulf , rises only 0.4 metres (1 ft 4 in) above water at high tide?
text: Did you know that Prince of Wallachia Radu Paisie was deposed by his Ottoman overlords in 1545, with measures taken to prevent his "abscond[ing] with the treasury"?
text: Did you know that both sides in the Battle of Emmendingen lost their commanding general, one to a musket ball, the other to a cannonball?
text: Did you know that filmmaker Nicholas McCarthy and humorist John Hodgman co-edited a controversial high school magazine?
text: Did you know that the milky ribbon worm feeds on soft-shell clams , inserting its proboscis through the siphon and devouring the soft tissues?
text: Did you know that until 1968, some 5,000 people on the "Indian List", so-called due to the automatic inclusion of indigenous people , were prohibited from buying liquor from BC Liquor Stores ?
text: Did you know that the butterfly Calycopis pisis has a junior synonym named after American cartoonist Gary Larson ?
text: Did you know that Erich Mühe , the first surgeon to remove a gallbladder by laparoscopy , was initially mocked by his colleagues for performing "Mickey Mouse surgery"?
text: Did you know that the Roman consul , urban prefect , and jurisconsult Plotius Pegasus was named by his father, a naval commander, after a ship he commanded?
text: Did you know that the New Britain bronzewing is rated as a " vulnerable species " because the population is in decline and there are fewer than 5,000 birds in total?
text: Did you know that Christof Loy received the Der Faust award for staging Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Frankfurt Opera?
text: Did you know that Michele Strazzabosco played in a preseason game with the Buffalo Sabres prior to the 2006–07 NHL season , becoming the first Italian-trained player to do so in National Hockey League history?
text: Did you know that the so-called "Tibesti Soda Lake" at the bottom of the Trou au Natron volcanic caldera is actually a mineral crust composed of sodium carbonate ?
text: Did you know that Fannie Eleanor Williams created blood storage techniques used in the first Australian blood bank?
text: Did you know that German People's Radio pretended to broadcast from within Germany, but was actually located in Moscow ?
text: Did you know that in his 1960 Quatre Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens , Maurice Duruflé "shows his particular genius for invoking the spiritual element of plainsong in a polyphonic context"?
text: Did you know that the western bronze-naped pigeon is found in many countries across Africa?
text: Did you know that former Dutch Chess Champion Jorden van Foreest is the great-great grandson of Arnold van Foreest , a three-time Dutch Chess Champion?
text: Did you know that in 1745, King Frederick II of Prussia came to be known as " Frederick the Great " after defeating Austria and Saxony in the Second Silesian War ?
text: Did you know that M.L. Tahaliyani sentenced Ajmal Kasab to death for his role in the 2008 Mumbai attacks ?
text: Did you know that the song "Why Didn't Rosemary?" from the 1969 album Deep Purple was inspired by the film Rosemary's Baby ?
text: Did you know that in 2014, Sarah Barrow won the first individual European gold medal for a female British diver in 87 years?
text: Did you know that Charles Macdonald called for the creation of a single university for Nova Scotia in his inaugural address at Dalhousie College ?
text: Did you know that the scarlet-breasted fruit dove is normally a quiet bird, but sometimes emits deep, soft, oohoo calls?
text: Did you know that Sharad Panday was a pioneer of bloodless open heart surgery in India?
text: Did you know that the planthopper Alicodoxa is one of a number of insects found in both Rovno amber and Baltic amber ?
text: Did you know that in 1995, American filmmaker Mark Romanek directed two of the most expensive music videos ever made?
text: Did you know that " Von guten Mächten ", a poem written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer in prison in 1944 where he faced execution, became a hymn with several melodies?
text: Did you know that the footballer George Poland was rejected by Cardiff City F.C. as an outfield player before making his debut two years later as a goalkeeper ?
text: Did you know that Leaena Tambyah founded Singapore's first school for children with multiple disabilities in 1979?
text: Did you know that titanium dioxide nanoparticles prevent cancer when used in sunscreens , but may cause it if inhaled by production workers?
text: Did you know that during his Presidential campaign , Alton B. Parker refused to criticize the lynchings and denial of Black suffrage in the Southern United States ?
text: Did you know that the Birka female Viking warrior has been described as a shield-maiden similar to Brienne of Tarth from Game of Thrones ?
text: Did you know that the Comoros blue pigeon has a habit of perching in full sun and raising one wing to expose it to the sun?
text: Did you know that " Mehmetçik ", the common name for Ottoman and Turkish soldiers, is thought to commemorate Bigalı Mehmet Çavuş , who fought during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915?
text: Did you know that The Rolling Stones are a British rock band? Okay, you probably did...
text: Did you know that in 2005 Atanasio Monserrate and two other ministers resigned from the Manohar Parrikar -led government, leaving it in a minority and thus prematurely bringing down the Government of Goa ?
text: Did you know that the Border Police of Georgia have continued to help enforce Georgian sovereignty over Abkhazia and South Ossetia since the end of the Russo-Georgian War ?
text: Did you know that larvae of the orange-tipped sea squirt are brooded, and settle on the seabed close to the parent within minutes of being released?
text: Did you know that S. Sashikanth was an award-winning architect before launching his own film production company, Y NOT Studios ?
text: Did you know that even though he won the popular vote by a 51–48% margin , Samuel J. Tilden failed to win the U.S. presidency in 1876?
text: Did you know that Eugene Reimer , who played wheelchair basketball with Terry Fox and Rick Hansen , was the first disabled athlete to receive the Order of Canada ?
text: Did you know that hall of fame horse Eternal Sun 's owner purchased him with an IOU written on a corner torn from the page of the seller's catalog?
text: Did you know that Alison Van Eenennaam is working on a collaborative research project focused on the production of hornless dairy cattle through gene editing ?
text: Did you know that when Pál Turán was forced to work in a brick factory during World War II, the bumpy crossings of the cart tracks inspired him to ask how to draw graphs with few crossings ?
text: Did you know that Fragmentarium digital research laboratory hopes to reunite lost fragments of medieval manuscripts ?
text: Did you know that despite being urged to do so, William Jennings Bryan refused to drop his free silver plank when he ran for U.S. President in 1900 ?
text: Did you know that a 13-city tour for Just the Beginning , a November 2017 album release by 13-year-old America's Got Talent winner Grace VanderWaal , sold out in September?
text: Did you knowthat the Forrest's pika has at different times been treated as a subspecies of the Moupin pika , the Royle's pika , and the steppe pika ?
text: Did you know that Jason Chee won a gold medal in table tennis despite losing both his legs, his left arm, one right finger, and his right eye?
text: Did you know that Horace Greeley died shortly after he lost the U.S. Presidency to Ulysses S. Grant ?
text: Did you know that the Thomas's pika is sympatric with the Gansu pika ?
text: Did you know that Annie Nicolette Zadoks Josephus Jitta 's unusual name inspired a book?
text: Did you know that 18 cities in the Soviet Union had a population of at least one million in 1979?
text: Did you know that in the American scholar Scott Rozelle 's 30-year career as a development economist, he has been mostly concerned with children's health conditions in rural China?
text: Did you know that the Philippine cuckoo-dove was formerly listed as a subspecies of the ruddy cuckoo-dove and the brown cuckoo-dove ?
text: Did you know that a 1912 party hosted by Vine Colby made the news for its originality?
text: Did you know that the Olympia, Washington war memorial Winged Victory features a Red Cross nurse?
text: Did you know that Lancastrian lord John Clifford was killed, possibly by an arrow in the throat, while the main Lancastrian army was only a few miles away?
text: Did you know that in 1974, Mattoon, Illinois 's Cross County Mall became the first shopping center in the US to have J. C. Penney , Sears , and Kmart , then the nation's three largest retailers?
text: Did you know that as UK secretary in the Economic Directorate of the Allied Control Council in post-war Berlin, Lorna Arnold slept with a revolver under her pillow?
text: Did you know that songs and books for children often depict happy farm animals in attractive countryside, glossing over the realities of impersonal, mechanized activities involved in modern intensive farming?
text: Did you know that twin sisters Bertha and Bernice C. Downing became owners and publishers of the Santa Clara Journal when they were 17 years old?
text: Did you know that the black-backed forktail has a call reminiscent of a squeaky hinge?
text: Did you know that after William Lunn 's wedding, people destroyed the door of a police watch house in Montreal ?
text: Did you know that Nicholas Nabokov composed an opera Love's Labour's Lost , setting the same play by Shakespeare as the fictional hero of Mann's Doctor Faustus , "in a spirit of the most artificial mockery"?
text: Did you know that Christine Murrell was the first woman elected to the British General Medical Council , but died before she could take her seat?
text: Did you know that the California Central Valley city of Porterville purchased an abandoned rail right-of-way to preserve it for the proposed Cross Valley Corridor passenger rail service?
text: Did you know that Judge Orfa Jean Shontz created an all-female juvenile court with a homelike setting?
text: Did you know that the Ethiopian highland hare was originally described as a subspecies of the Cape hare , but it was later raised to full species status?
text: Did you know that when operatic soprano Cynthia Clarey 's voice lowered with age, she took up cabaret singing instead?
text: Did you know that Linguamyrmex vladi is named for Vlad the Impaler , who was the inspiration for Count Dracula ?
text: Did you know that accordionist Vincent Peirani and pianist Michael Wollny , both multiple ECHO Jazz winners, recorded the "symbiotic" album Tandem ?
text: Did you know that during the Sprague Fire in Glacier National Park , the interior of the historic Sperry Chalet completely burned, leaving only the exterior stone walls standing?
text: Did you know that The Inquiry , a study group established by US President Woodrow Wilson to make recommendations for the 1919 Paris Peace Conference , suggested that Crimea should be given to Ukraine?
text: Did you know that Tajama Abraham survived Hurricane Hugo by hiding in a commercial refrigerator with her family?
text: Did you know that the plain-breasted piculet is usually inconspicuous but may be detected by the pecking sounds it makes while foraging?
text: Did you know that the lack of breakfast pushed Mab Copland Lineman to fight against a labor union ?
text: Did you know that Jane Frances Winn was one of the first female journalists to cover women's golf events?
text: Did you know that the producers of " Drew Live II " kept many elements of the episode a secret from the cast?
text: Did you know that Yttralox , a transparent ceramic , was accidentally discovered in the course of fuel cell research in the mid-1960s?
text: Did you know that the limpet Iothia emarginuloides is commonly found on the red alga Phyllophora antarctica growing under the Antarctic sea ice ?
text: Did you know that Wolfgang Rihm's opera Dionysos , with a libretto by Rihm using only words by Nietzsche , was first performed at the Salzburg Festival and called premiere of the year ?
text: Did you know that a middle-class terrorist organization known as el ABC successfully lobbied for two cabinet positions in the 1933 provisional government of Cuba ?
text: Did you know that before his death at the Battle of Barnet in 1471, John Neville was reported to be in the thick of the fighting and "cutting off arms and heads like a hero of romance"?
text: Did you know that the alpine pika can produce three different vocalizations: a long call during the mating season, a short call, and an alarm call when threatened?
text: Did you know that the phrase "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion" helped Grover Cleveland win the 1884 U.S. Presidential election ?
text: Did you know that Prussia entered a secret armistice with Austria in October 1741, but Frederick the Great pretended to continue fighting the First Silesian War for another two months?
text: Did you know that Caroline B. Winslow opened the Homeopathic Free Dispensary, the first facility in Washington, D.C. where women doctors could practice side-by-side with their male colleagues?
text: Did you know that Johannes Brahms used the same melody for a song of his Fünf Lieder , Op. 105 , as for the theme of the slow movement of his second piano concerto ?
text: Did you know that a hydroelectric diversion project and a dark matter research lab have been developed deep under the Jinping Mountains in Sichuan, China?
text: Did you know that Don Amador is portrayed in the film Milk by his friend Cleve Jones , while Jones is portrayed by Emile Hirsch ?
text: Did you know that by winning the 2013 Monaco GP2 Series sprint race , Stefano Coletti became the first Monegasque racing driver to win a motor race in Monaco since Louis Chiron in 1931 ?
text: Did you know that Sayaka Harada decided to become a voice actress in anime despite not having watched many Japanese cartoons?
text: Did you know that Californians have a right to access medical aid in dying under the California End of Life Option Act ?
text: Did you know that coloratura soprano Joan Carroll appeared as Alban Berg's Lulu more than 100 times, including the U.S. premiere at the Santa Fe Opera ?
text: Did you know that Tibet's Moupin pika is a burrowing mammal that makes haypiles to store food?
text: Did you know that Gene Rambo won the International Rodeo Association all-around championship four times?
text: Did you know that 21 of the 26 Michelin 3-star restaurants in Paris serve Kaluga Queen caviar ?
text: Did you know that Mishkat al-Mumin 's advocacy for women's rights angered jihadist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ?
text: Did you know that Guangfu was home to the founders of two of the largest schools of tai chi in the world?
text: Did you know that Virginia Lieutenant Governor-elect Justin Fairfax once worked for Tipper Gore ?
text: Did you know that an administrative error when appointing W. G. Grace as referee for a Gloucestershire Cup tie during the Eastville Rovers' 1888–89 season voided the result and forced a rematch?
text: Did you know that website designer Akaliza Keza Gara had to borrow a laptop from her client for her first commission?
text: Did you know that the Turkestan red pika was at one time trapped for its fur?
text: Did you know that Gillian Hanson was a world expert on treating the condition that ultimately killed her?
text: Did you know that the fossil bumble bee Bombus trophonius was named after the Greek hero Trophonius ?
text: Did you know that Hawaiian Independence Day , on November 28, commemorates the Anglo-Franco Proclamation recognizing the independence of the Kingdom of Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that Mustafa Tuna , the mayor of Ankara from November 2017 to April 2019, was previously an academic in environmental technology ?
text: Did you know that Myanmar produces some of the world's finest rubies ?
text: Did you know that there were rumors that the comic book Cataclysm: The Ultimates' Last Stand would end the Ultimate Marvel imprint?
text: Did you know that artefacts discovered at the Donaldson archaeological site in Ontario include a child's necklace made with bear teeth?
text: Did you know that "Hawaii's Songbird" Lena Machado had a "ha'i" in her voice?
text: Did you know that Irene Ovonji-Odida advocated for the East African Community to broaden its scope beyond that of a trade bloc?
text: Did you know that PS Duchess of Fife received a battle honour for saving 1,633 Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk ?
text: Did you know that Frank P. Gates designed 18 buildings on the campus of the University of Mississippi ?
text: Did you know that the Pragmatic Sanction of 1712 , allowing a Habsburg princess to become Queen of Croatia , is evoked in the Constitution of Croatia as a demonstration of Croatian millennial statehood?
text: Did you know that mezzo-soprano Mechthild Georg , a voice teacher at the Musikhochschule Köln , performed music by C. P. E. Bach at the first Rheingau Musik Festival ?
text: Did you know that on one day of his 1908 U.S. presidential campaign , William Jennings Bryan gave 30 speeches?
text: Did you know that Reginald Appleby founded the law firm Appleby which has been at the centre of the recent Paradise Papers leak?
text: Did you know that American Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps won the Laureus World Sports Award for Comeback of the Year after retiring twice?
text: Did you know that Ourida Chouaki co-ordinated the 20 ans, barakat! ("20 years is enough!") campaign to reform the Algerian Family Code ?
text: Did you know that Northfield Allotments are claimed to be the oldest in London?
text: Did you know that Archibald Wager served as the Clerk of Court for three colonial Virginia counties?
text: Did you know that the reticulated knifefish is sensitive to electric charges and uses this ability to locate objects in the vicinity?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth M. Bryan 's wedding was attended by 25 sets of twins?
text: Did you know that Jeanne LaDuke worked alongside Natalie Wood as a child actor before becoming a professional mathematician?
text: Did you know that the gavaksha motif, common in Hindu temples , originated in replications of timber and thatch roofs?
text: Did you know that Sheetal Pandey won her first election at the age of 63?
text: Did you know that the diets of different species of bat include frogs, fish, other bats, nectar, and blood?
text: Did you know that Estelle Cascarino represented France at the under-19 and under-20 levels in international tournaments in the same year?
text: Did you know that the Wall of Grief is Russia's first monument ordered by presidential decree for victims killed during the political persecutions of Joseph Stalin ?
text: Did you know that Bongo Joe Coleman was distinguished by a drum set fabricated from 55-gallon oil drums ?
text: Did you know that in 1975, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn visited the Paris office of the YMCA Press and presented an inscribed book thanking the publisher for all his work for Russian culture with them?
text: Did you know that Japanese artist and poet Chō Kōran became a specialist in ink paintings in the " Four Gentlemen " genre?
text: Did you know that St. Leonhard in Frankfurt was remodeled from a Romanesque basilica to a late Gothic hall church ?
text: Did you know that in 1946, Flemming Helweg-Larsen became the first person executed by Denmark in more than 50 years?
text: Did you know that Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne is one of six Irish stepdance competitions claiming the title of World Championships?
text: Did you know that Jane Wynne taught her fellow paediatricians to identify signs of child abuse?
text: Did you know that the Mekong giant earthworm can grow to a length of 2.9 metres (10 feet)?
text: Did you know that the simple hymn " Nun laßt uns Gott dem Herren ", used at the end of a meal, became a model for other songs of thanks?
text: Did you know that communist politician Homi F. Daji called the 1984 Bhopal gas leak "a callous man-made tragedy of unparalleled dimensions"?
text: Did you know that the gall wasp Bassettia pallida induces oak trees to form galls , but has its own behavior altered by a chalcid wasp ?
text: Did you know that Ireland national rugby hooker Cliodhna Moloney is also a banker?
text: Did you know that Helicopter 66 , which recovered astronauts from five different Apollo missions , has been called "one of the most famous, or at least most iconic, helicopters in history"?
text: Did you know that Colombian performer J Balvin won Artist of the Year for the second year in a row at the Premio Lo Nuestro 2017 ?
text: Did you know that Lillian Bilocca threatened to picket British Prime Minister Harold Wilson 's house if he did not impose stronger safety regulations on the fishing industry?
text: Did you know that Olive Scott was Britain's first dedicated paediatric cardiologist ?
text: Did you know that for 70 years, Jerusalem customers have done their banking in an eclectic mansion on Jaffa Road ?
text: Did you know that Alton C. Parker was the first black police detective in Canada?
text: Did you know that the coral Acropora aculeus is particularly susceptible to coral bleaching and coral diseases and is listed as a vulnerable species ?
text: Did you know that Tyler Toland became the Republic of Ireland's youngest women's senior international footballer in September 2017?
text: Did you know that the 2016 article " United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps " was the first article by a sitting U.S. president to be published in an academic journal ?
text: Did you know that Japanese singer Asuka Ōkura made her music debut as her record label contract was about to expire?
text: Did you know that trains on the 42nd Street Shuttle , the shortest route in the New York City Subway system, run a distance of 2,700 feet (820 m) in 90 seconds?
text: Did you know that Rama Pilot and Vijaya Kumari Ganti , both became members of the 13th Lok Sabha after winning by-elections prompted by the death of their respective husbands?
text: Did you know that as well as feeding on insects, the greater flowerpiercer probes and pecks flowers to obtain nectar?
text: Did you know that Belhaven University is named after the mansion of Confederate veteran Jones S. Hamilton ?
text: Did you know that kiwi birds are parasitized by lice in the genus Apterygon and in the subgenus Rallicola ( Aptericola )?
text: Did you know that Ethiopian women's rights activist Nahu Senay Girma 's given name means "something good is happening now" and is traditionally a masculine name?
text: Did you know that racing driver Sam Bird beat Felipe Nasr by eight-hundredths of a second to win the 2013 Bahrain GP2 Series round sprint race, the closest margin of victory in GP2 Series history?
text: Did you know that Games and Culture criticised Sheva Alomar for being the video game equivalent of Pocahontas ?
text: Did you know that on his first commission from the US, John Rutter composed Gloria as a concert piece for choir, brass, percussion, and organ?
text: Did you know that Philip Caves ' influence on attitudes at Glasgow 's Children's Hospital in the 1970s was described as "whirlwind" as he operated on newborns previously considered unfit for surgery?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian mountaineer Arne Næss Jr. died in a climbing accident four months before he could accept his Laureus Lifetime Achievement Award ?
text: Did you know that biologist Inez Whipple Wilder made contributions to the study of fingerprints and salamanders?
text: Did you know that the Marshall Islands Nuclear Claims Tribunal ran out of funds in 2009?
text: Did you know that Amy H. Herring led a study whose data showed some American women were reportedly virgins at the birth of their first child?
text: Did you know that the Shoeburyness Boom is the only known Cold War anti-submarine boom?
text: Did you know that during her compulsory military service , Aya Koren played in an Israeli Air Force band with Yehuda Levi , her future co-star in Yossi & Jagger (2002)?
text: Did you know that the Transylvanian peasant revolt of 1437 broke out after the local bishop , having suspended the collection of the tithe for years, demanded the arrears in a single payment?
text: Did you know that Irish rugby referee Joy Neville was the first woman to be an assistant referee in a men's European Challenge Cup match?
text: Did you know that the Naval Careers Service is the smallest of the four components of Her Majesty's Naval Service ?
text: Did you know that the hospital in Southern Rhodesia where Theresa Robinson Buck worked was renamed in her honour after her death?
text: Did you know that bird lice in the genus Colpocephalum are "rapid", allowing them to outrun the preening of their host?
text: Did you know that the 2009 Sky Blue FC team that won the Women's Professional Soccer title employed three different head coaches during the season?
text: Did you know that the English neurologist Honor Smith was sent to Morocco by the WHO to investigate an outbreak of paralysis caused by contaminated cooking oil?
text: Did you know that a Hiroshima peace bell was donated to the Aegidienkirche , the ruin of a Gothic church that was left as a war memorial?
text: Did you know that Canadian abstract impressionist K.M. Graham began painting at the age of 50?
text: Did you know that the video game Sonic Colors was designed to appeal to a wide demographic, specifically children and fans of the Super Mario series?
text: Did you know that Miroslava Breach , a Mexican investigative journalist known for exposing human rights violations and political corruption , was murdered in March 2017?
text: Did you know that the California condor louse became extinct when all remaining California condors were deloused in a captive breeding program?
text: Did you know that serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells confessed to the Dardeen family homicides that took place in Ina, Illinois , 30 years ago today, but he was never charged?
text: Did you know that Sushila Rani Patel taught actress Madhubala to speak, read, and write English?
text: Did you know that the Mulungushi Rock of Authority , known as "the birthplace of Zambian independence", is located in the Central Province of Zambia ?
text: Did you know that Staley T. McBrayer is sometimes referred to as the "Orville Wright" or "Wilbur Wright" of offset newspaper publishing?
text: Did you know that the tidepool sculpin can leave the rock pool in which it lives, and breathe air?
text: Did you know that after being injured, Annabelle Lindsay relinquished a scholarship to play college basketball in the United States but has since been awarded another to play wheelchair basketball ?
text: Did you know that Microsoft helped fund a new overpass on Washington State Route 520 near its corporate headquarters in Redmond ?
text: Did you know that Judith Kingston pioneered the use of chemotherapy to treat retinoblastoma , an eye cancer found in children?
text: Did you know that at a time when masonry bridges were widely being replaced by metal truss bridges , the limestone West Sixth Street Bridge in Austin, Texas , replaced an older iron footbridge ?
text: Did you know that Rudolf Geigy established health institutes on two continents and started a foundation that awards scholars who combine field and laboratory work in novel ways?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Army bombarded the village of Wrangell, Alaska , in 1869 to force the handover of the first man to be given the death penalty under U.S. rule?
text: Did you know that Ahlem Belhadj led a march of thousands of women against President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali during the 2011 Tunisian Revolution ?
text: Did you know that Kaburakia excelsa , from the west coast of North America, is one of the largest flatworms in the world?
text: Did you know that Helene Bechstein helped to teach Hitler table manners?
text: Did you know that the Los Angeles Times–Washington Post News Service , in existence from 1962 to 2009, had some 650 clients?
text: Did you know that Turkish socialist politician Fatma Hikmet İşmen used her first senate speech to accuse the Directorate of Religious Affairs of fueling discrimination against Alawites by Sunni Muslims ?
text: Did you know that the county courthouses in New Jersey serve 21 counties in 15 vicinages ?
text: Did you know that the Avenue Range Station massacre involved the shooting murders of nine Aboriginal Australians , including children and a baby, by white settlers?
text: Did you know that Michèle Dix , managing director of the proposed £27 billion Crossrail 2 project, said she would like to run a tea room when she retires?
text: Did you know that the species name of the ringed brown snake means "well-behaved" and has been linked to its reluctance to bite people?
text: Did you know that Barbara A. Bailar resigned from the United States Census Bureau in 1988 to protest a decision not to adjust the 1990 results for systematic undercounting of minorities?
text: Did you know that before the Han–Liu War , many soldiers bought coffins as they were prepared to fight to the death?
text: Did you know that Auguste Le Guennant , the director of the Gregorian Institute of Paris , had Duruflé 's Quatre Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens dedicated to him?
text: Did you know that Rodinná pouta , the first original series broadcast by the Czech Prima televize , attracted over one million viewers per episode?
text: Did you know that when Whitefoord Russell Cole threatened striking workers with dismissal and pension loss in 1921, his house was "bombarded with bottles until its concrete porch was littered with glass"?
text: Did you know that, in 1944, eleven battalions of the Government Army of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia were sent to northern Italy to support German military operations?
text: Did you know that Jamaican sprinter Dominique Blake was accidentally awarded a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's 4 × 400 m relay?
text: Did you know that Super Mario World was designed to make the most out of the then-new Super Nintendo Entertainment System 's features?
text: Did you know that Seattle mayoral candidate Cary Moon qualified for the general election by a margin of 1,170 votes?
text: Did you know that in the pastoral poem " Ich will dich lieben, meine Stärke ", by Angelus Silesius , the Soul promises to love Jesus until her death?
text: Did you know that Raju Patel teamed up with Walt Disney Studios to produce Rudyard Kipling 's The Jungle Book ?
text: Did you know that the slipper sea cucumber is avoided by most predatory fish, crabs, and gastropod molluscs, but is preyed on by starfish, especially the leather star ?
text: Did you know that Queen May Hnin Theindya of Pegu tried to save her husband Tarabya's life by tying her tresses with his?
text: Did you know that urban planner Robert Moses was said to have laughed at protesters he encountered while surveying routes for the Clearview Expressway in New York City in the 1950s?
text: Did you know that it took authorities at Kansas City International Airport eight months to find Randy Potter 's body in his parked truck, despite recording all license plate numbers nightly?
text: Did you know that Luca Guadagnino , who directed the romantic drama film Call Me by Your Name , was first hired as a location consultant for the film?
text: Did you know that the minister, writer, and publisher Christian Gottlob Barth is remembered on 12 November in the Lutheran calendar of saints ?
text: Did you know that the orange-backed troupial often takes over the nest of a yellow-rumped cacique ?
text: Did you know that the British physician Stephanie Amiel has specialised in type I diabetes since her time at Yale University in the 1980s?
text: Did you know that in its history, the Palau del Parlament de Catalunya has been an arsenal, a barracks, a royal palace, an art museum, and the seat of the Parliament of Catalonia ?
text: Did you know that NASA engineer John Hirasaki says he read The Andromeda Strain prior to being quarantined with the returning Apollo 11 astronauts?
text: Did you know that the sexagesimal approximation to the square root of 2 used by Babylonian tablet YBC 7289 appeared again much later in Ptolemy 's Almagest ?
text: Did you know that following Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day celebrations in Quebec City in 1996, riots in Place D'Youville caused around CAD $1 million in damages to shops and to the National Assembly of Quebec ?
text: Did you know that " The Chosen Wan " is the first Singaporean to hold a world title in professional boxing?
text: Did you know that white plague , a disease affecting corals, may be two or more diseases with similar symptoms?
text: Did you know that though Robert "Big Mojo" Elem was a fixture on the Chicago blues scene for over forty years, he recorded only one album?
text: Did you know that Southwestern University 's Administration Building is noted for its architecture, even though it was designed by a physicist and not a professional architect?
text: Did you know that the Rollers won the 2017 Asia-Oceania Wheelchair Basketball Championships , while the Gliders came in second?
text: Did you know that Waylon Jennings ' 1970s song " Bob Wills Is Still the King " may have been less a tribute to Bob Wills than a friendly jibe at Willie Nelson ?
text: Did you know that the extinct ant Odontomachus pseudobauri was bought from an amber dealer in Basel , Switzerland?
text: Did you know that after murdering his mistress and her daughter in Ughill Hall , Sheffield , Ian Wood absconded to France and threatened to jump off Amiens Cathedral ?
text: Did you know that St. Stefanus, Ghent , was the venue of a concert dedicated to the Martin Luther Year, featuring Max Reger's setting of Psalm 100 ?
text: Did you know that James Fugaté was honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy after it was revealed that he wrote Quatrefoil: A Modern Novel under the pen name James Barr?
text: Did you know that Chris Ashton celebrated scoring the 2010 IRPA Try of the Year with an "Ash-Splash"?
text: Did you know that animal behavior scientist Chris Sherwin wrote that insects can experience "negative mental states"?
text: Did you know that folklorist William A. Wilson wrote that stories from Mormon folklore are "psychologically true" even if they never actually happened?
text: Did you know that " Crazy Sally ", an 18th-century bonesetter , successfully treated dislocated shoulders and knees in a London coffee house despite having no medical training?
text: Did you know that Anna Marguerite McCann , the first female American underwater archaeologist , published the earliest research on deep-sea shipwrecks?
text: Did you know that " Jerusalem, du hochgebaute Stadt ", a song of New Jerusalem , was written by Johann Matthäus Meyfart , rector of the Casimirianum , for an academic sermon?
text: Did you know that Minori Suzuki beat 8,000 others who auditioned for the role of Freyja Wion in the anime series Macross Delta ?
text: Did you know that the Chicago Cubs were awarded the Laureus World Sports Award for Team of the Year after ending their 108-year World Series drought in 2016?
text: Did you know that the J. K. Rowling's Wizarding World franchise was the "most-snubbed franchise" of all time at the Academy Awards , with 12 nominations and zero wins until its 2017 success ?
text: Did you know that the book Bananas, Beaches and Bases argues that banana sales have a "gendered history"?
text: Did you know that Lindsay Peat has represented Ireland internationally at association football, basketball, and rugby union?
text: Did you know that Frederica Wilson suggested that President Donald Trump's response to the deaths of four American soldiers in the Tongo Tongo ambush in Niger might become his Benghazi incident ?
text: Did you know that Manami Numakura cites becoming a fan of the Gundam franchise as a reason behind her becoming a voice actress?
text: Did you know that power stations in Megawatt Valley were once responsible for up to a quarter of all electricity generated in England and Wales?
text: Did you know that facing the rise of Nazi ideology, Otto Riethmüller compiled the song " Sonne der Gerechtigkeit " for young people from hymns by three authors of two earlier centuries?
text: Did you know that Eel City is a popular residence for cutthroat eels ?
text: Did you know that Monterey Bay Aquarium was the first public aquarium to exhibit a living kelp forest , which is nearly three stories high?
text: Did you know that only 20.5 percent of registered Slovenians turned out to vote in a 2017 railway referendum ?
text: Did you know that Homer Franklin Bassett , a librarian in Waterbury, Connecticut , described 125 new species of gall wasp ?
text: Did you know that only 20.5 percent of registered Slovenians turned out to vote in a 2017 railway referendum ?
text: Did you know that Shadia Bseiso from Jordan is the first female Arab wrestler to sign with WWE ?
text: Did you know that the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools worked to end school segregation in Little Rock, Arkansas ?
text: Did you know that the UK Holocaust Memorial , to be built in London's Victoria Tower Gardens , will stand alongside other memorials that raise awareness of injustice?
text: Did you know that Anthony Franchini , who served in the U.S. Army for both World Wars prior to obtaining U.S. citizenship, recorded more than 3,500 phonograph record sides with Frank Ferera in the 1920s?
text: Did you know that people have been poisoned after mistaking the deadly dapperling for the grey knight ?
text: Did you know that governor Aleimma of Martaban was assassinated after he was lured to Donwun by a proposed marriage to Hnin U Yaing ?
text: Did you know that the Pemberton Memorial Operating Room , built in 1896, featured the first post-operative recovery rooms in Canada?
text: Did you know that the Malaysian High Court sentenced 22-year-old Frenchwoman Béatrice Saubin to death by hanging for smuggling 534 grams (1.177 lb) of pure grade heroin ?
text: Did you know the Keystone State Wrestling Alliance is the only professional wrestling promotion based in Pittsburgh ?
text: Did you know that two-thirds of the priests in the Diocese of Ruteng signed a 2015 letter of "no confidence" in Bishop Hubertus Leteng , and this year, 69 priests resigned in protest?
text: Did you know that some carnivorous fungi catch and consume soil nematodes ?
text: Did you know that Albert Sidney Johnston lies in repose atop his grave?
text: Did you know that Konomi Suzuki was inspired by the character Sheryl Nome from Macross Frontier to become a singer for anime ?
text: Did you know that if the San Francisco Bay Area were a country, it would be ranked sixteenth in the world in terms of GDP ?
text: Did you know that footballer Laura O'Sullivan made her international debut for Wales as a goalkeeper less than 18 months after converting to the position?
text: Did you know that Countess Ämilie Juliane von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt wrote 587 songs and hymns, including " Wer weiß, wie nahe mir mein Ende ", used in her regular meditations towards a good death?
text: Did you know that Karl Hoblitzelle was the first movie theater owner in the United States to install air conditioning ?
text: Did you know that the ribbon worm Cerebratulus marginatus can swim well by undulating its body?
text: Did you know that Patricia Moberly was once arrested for attacking Prime Minister Ted Heath 's car with a placard?
text: Did you know that the actress Claire Goose began research for her character Tina Seabrook ' s rape storyline, before the writers scripted it?
text: Did you know that the 1973 Belmont Stakes was won by Secretariat , whose 31-length lead was the largest margin of victory in the history of the race?
text: Did you know that Kimmie Taylor of the Kurdish YPJ is the first British woman to travel to Syria to fight ISIS ?
text: Did you know that the memorial to the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots is at the exact location where they died?
text: Did you know that the adult Madagascan sandgrouse may soak its breast feathers in water to carry moisture to its young?
text: Did you know that Otto Riethmüller was director of the Confessing Church 's youth organisations and created their logo, the Cross on the Globe, in 1935?
text: Did you know that Grupo Garza Ponce , now one of the largest construction firms in Mexico, had to change its business model every month during the 1982 debt crisis ?
text: Did you know that Barbara Everitt Bryant was the first woman to direct the United States Census Bureau ?
text: Did you know that the crevice brittle star is sometimes involved in mass spawning events?
text: Did you know that Achilleas Kallakis has been called "Britain's most successful serial confidence trickster"?
text: Did you know that the Carillon and Grenville Railway was the last broad-gauge railway to operate in Canada?
text: Did you know that the Northwest Hills neighborhood of Austin, Texas , includes a 40-acre complex founded by the chief executive officer of Dell , housing Jewish community centers, synagogues, and schools?
text: Did you know that Grape-kun , a Humboldt penguin , "fell in love" with a cutout of an anime character?
text: Did you know that Cambridge University's new North West Cambridge Development has a school building shaped like a Polo mint ?
text: Did you know that Ines Rau is the first transgender woman to be a Playboy Playmate ?
text: Did you know that the lyrics of " Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht " ("I do not let go of my Jesus") are based on memorial sermons for Elector Johann Georg of Saxony, who reflected the ideas on his deathbed?
text: Did you know that Rudyerd Boulton and his wife, Laura , made the first-ever recordings of the calls of African tropical birds?
text: Did you know that the Immigration Museum of the State of São Paulo is located in the Immigrant Inn , which received more than 2.5 million immigrants to Brazil between 1887 and 1978?
text: Did you know that Eleanor Nathan was a member of the London County Council representing two different parties and two different districts for a total of 16 years?
text: Did you know that a political scandal erupted in 2014 after operatives of the Liberian National Security Agency illegally seized US$247,500 from a group of South Korean businessmen in a hotel room in Monrovia ?
text: Did you know that Nico Rosberg was presented with the Laureus World Sports Award for Breakthrough of the Year two months after he retired from Formula One ?
text: Did you know that Kia Steave-Dickerson , the design artist for four films by M. Night Shyamalan , originally considered a career in dry cleaning ?
text: Did you know that Baloke , a small village in Punjab , is the birthplace of Satnam Singh Bhamara , the first Indian to be drafted into the National Basketball Association ?
text: Did you know that the fungus Arthrobotrys dactyloides can trap a nematode with a ring of hypha before feeding on it?
text: Did you know that rally driver Louise Cook sold her trophies on eBay to help her continue competing in the 2012 World Rally Championship after her funding dried up?
text: Did you know that the Rush song " Freewill " was the last studio recording to use the "shrieking high range" of Geddy Lee's vocals?
text: Did you know that American paleontologist Walter W. Granger used the Fayoum Light Railway for transporting the fossils he had found in Egypt?
text: Did you know that it is better for one's self-concept to be a big fish in a little pond than a small fish in a big pond?
text: Did you know that Dr. William Carpentier , the flight surgeon for Apollo 11 and Apollo 13 , was registered on the Air Force One manifest as WFP – "World Famous Physician"?
text: Did you know that when the citizens of Hanover accepted the Reformation in 1533, the 200-year-old Kreuzkirche became Lutheran ?
text: Did you know that the whaleback SS Clifton disappeared for over 90 years?
text: Did you know that " Es spricht der Unweisen Mund wohl " ("The mouth of fools doth God confess") by Martin Luther was one of eight hymns in the first Lutheran hymnal ?
text: Did you know that in 2011, Myktybek Abdyldayev was part of a group of Kyrgyzstan deputies who sacrificed rams in front of government headquarters?
text: Did you know that three stanzas of the penitential hymn " Ach lieben Christen seid getrost " ("Ah dear Christians, be comforted") by Johannes Gigas were retained unchanged for Bach's chorale cantata ?
text: Did you know that the United States experienced a Halloween "postcard craze" in the early 1900s?
text: Did you know that Chiyuki Urano , a soloist and choir member of the Bach Collegium Japan , recorded songs by Russian amateur composers including Diaghilev with pianist Lera Auerbach ?
text: Did you know that relative to its length, one species of mite is the fastest animal on Earth?
text: Did you know that Antoinette Montaigne left her position as city councillor in France to become a minister in the government of the Central African Republic ?
text: Did you know that Aric Almirola received credit for winning the 2007 AT&T 250 despite not finishing the race?
text: Did you know that Xiong Huizhen , who spent 22 years completing his teacher 's unfinished work, was admired by historian Gu Jiegang for his devotion?
text: Did you know that the Soviet Air Defense Forces' 177th Fighter Aviation Regiment operated Lend-Lease Supermarine Spitfires as air defense for Moscow between 1944 and 1948?
text: Did you know that Darnell Hunt , Dean of Social Sciences at UCLA , believes Hollywood should use the Rooney Rule to increase the share of African-American writers?
text: Did you know that scientific research demonstrates that perspective-taking may lead to reduced stereotyping?
text: Did you know that Hans Otto Jung was a jazz musician during World War II, ran a winery from the Boosenburg , and was co-founder of the Rheingau Musik Festival ?
text: Did you know that Australia has the earliest mineral grains of Earth's history in the form of Hadean zircons ?
text: Did you know that Perry Askam was the only professional singer in the Hollywood musical Sweet Kitty Bellairs ?
text: Did you know that FVB Mice are used for genetic research because they produce large litters and their eggs have enlarged nuclei ?
text: Did you know that British logistics in the Falklands War depended on ships that were STUFT ?
text: Did you know that Chief Suah Koko fought several battles against the Liberian government before granting them her land?
text: Did you know that the underground journey of a metamorphic rock can be shown with a pressure-temperature-time path ?
text: Did you know that South Korean singer Kang In-soo was accepted as a dance major in Sejong University despite not having learned how to dance?
text: Did you know that My Journey into the Heart of Terror was authored by Jürgen Todenhöfer , the first western journalist to be invited to travel to the self-proclaimed caliphate of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ?
text: Did you know that Rudolf Peierls was awarded the Medal of Freedom , but was later refused entry to the United States because he was suspected of being a spy?
text: Did you know that 22 August 1914, the date of the Battle of the Frontiers , was the deadliest single day on the Western Front in World War I ?
text: Did you know that Ana Lucía Armijos , president of the Ecuadorian Monetary Board, went into hiding for a year after the Supreme Court of Ecuador called for her arrest in the case of a $200 million bank bailout?
text: Did you know that Ivo van Hove wrote and directed the 2014 play The Fountainhead , turning Ayn Rand 's 1943 epic novel into a four-hour-plus production?
text: Did you know that Mollie McGeown set up the first dialysis unit in Northern Ireland?
text: Did you know that the whole range of the Mindanao mountain rat is within a single protected area?
text: Did you know that Mozambican politician Ivone Soares escaped death in September 2016 when her would-be assassin's weapon jammed?
text: Did you know that it took a posthumously-sent letter from Terry Pratchett to convince Neil Gaiman to create a Good Omens TV series without him?
text: Did you know that Johannes Kalitzke adapted an Edgar Allan Poe novel into an opera whose score "could be a musical representation of the world of Hieronymus Bosch "?
text: Did you know that an entomologist cried " Aha !" when he discovered a new genus of Australian wasp, and that became its name?
text: Did you know that former international Ruth O'Reilly wrote an article criticising the IRFU for a lack of support for women's rugby during the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup held in Ireland?
text: Did you know that the largest animal migration by biomass is the daily movement upwards from their refuge in the deep sea undertaken by vast numbers of organisms?
text: Did you know that Zambian writer Samba Yonga chose a career in journalism after she won a short story prize as a child?
text: Did you know that under terms of the Quebec Agreement , the United States had to seek British agreement to use nuclear weapons against Japan?
text: Did you know that Canadian-trained criminologist Ken Attafuah spent part of his secondary school education sleeping in an old and leaky cocoa shed that had been converted into a dormitory?
text: Did you know that the Estadio Universitario Alberto "Chivo" Córdoba incorporates a mural by Leopoldo Flores in the stands on the west side of the stadium?
text: Did you know that two of Smash Mouth 's U.S. top-ten hits are associated with a big green ogre ?
text: Did you know that a traditional Christmas carol has the chorus " We will rock you "?
text: Did you know that one-quarter of respondents to a 2016 survey of Europeans said they had re-gifted their Christmas presents to someone else?
text: Did you know that the musicologist Willi Gundlach , who founded the chamber choir of Dortmund University , trained volunteers to sing a Bach cantata in one day, including Part I of Bach's Christmas Oratorio ?
text: Did you know that Rosemary Biggs and her colleagues discovered the Christmas factor?
text: Did you know that the children's book Wombat Divine was written in response to the publisher's request for "a typically Australian Christmas story"?
text: Did you know that " Long Ago, Prophets Knew, Christ would come born a Jew " was one of about 50 hymns written after 1950 that were included in The New English Hymnal ?
text: Did you know that you won't find any Ba humbugi on Christmas Island ?
text: Did you know that Nicki McNelly , who spent most of her working life as an army wife, later became provost of an Episcopal cathedral?
text: Did you know that Calabria was once attached to Sardinia before it migrated to Sicily ?
text: Did you know that Hollywood studio head Frank Price 's decision to film Ghostbusters (1983) was initially considered a "terrible mistake" by industry insiders?
text: Did you know that the Advent hymn " Wie soll ich dich empfangen " with lyrics by Paul Gerhardt had a melody by Johann Crüger when he published it in 1653, but Bach used a different melody in his Christmas Oratorio ?
text: Did you know that the final episode of the six-part BBC Television adaptation of John Masefield 's The Box of Delights was broadcast on Christmas Eve 1984?
text: Did you know that women's rights campaigner Mozn Hassan is subject to a travel ban and has had her assets frozen by the Egyptian government?
text: Did you know that the gold Christmas beetle is prized by collectors?
text: Did you know that NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Chad Finchum began racing go-karts at age 7 and logged more than 200 wins by age 13?
text: Did you know that in 2015, the Indian army motorcycle acrobatic team performed for the Chinese army at Daulat Beg Oldi , one of five Border Personnel Meeting points ?
text: Did you know that the asteroid 11441 Anadiego was named after Ana Teresa Diego , an Argentine student activist who was forcibly disappeared ?
text: Did you know that Poydras Street hosts many of New Orleans ' tallest and historic buildings, including 930 Poydras , the first residential high-rise constructed in the city after Hurricane Katrina ?
text: Did you know that Daniel Rump closely modeled the beginning of his Advent song " Der Morgenstern ist aufgedrungen " after a Tagelied , a wake-up call for lovers?
text: Did you know that E. Ann Hoefly was responsible for 180 United States Air Force medical facilities?
text: Did you know that temples on Mount Mian in Shanxi, China, observe an annual Cold Food Festival ?
text: Did you know that Danish actor Caspar Phillipson has played President John F. Kennedy in the film Jackie (2016), the short film The Speech JFK Never Gave (2017), and live performances of Kennedy's speeches?
text: Did you know that fungi can become resistant to benzimidazole fungicides in two to four seasons?
text: Did you know that Victoria Yar Arol was one of 20–30 children of a Dinka tribal chief?
text: Did you know that the first test flight of the TD2N Gorgon target drone ended in a crash due to a failure of the aircraft's radio control ?
text: Did you know that J. P. Crawford was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies major league baseball team with the expectation of eventually superseding Jimmy Rollins ?
text: Did you know that the Macdonald hotspot may have formed numerous volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean as well as the Macdonald seamount , which may become an island in the future?
text: Did you know that a silverback gorilla sat on Hilary Swarts ' head?
text: Did you know that Dandara Touré served only 34 days in the Council of Ministers of Mali due to the 2012 coup ?
text: Did you know that Mars' gravity is affected by many negative free air gravity anomalies on its surface?
text: Did you know that as an outsider, Governor Hou Zongbin was targeted by rumours that blamed him for a riot in which hundreds of people burned buildings and cars?
text: Did you know that the orange-necked partridge , native to southern Vietnam and eastern Cambodia, was discovered in 1927 but was "lost" until its rediscovery in 1991?
text: Did you know that one train rear-ended another at Singapore's Joo Koon station last month because its new signalling system determined the first train to be half its actual length?
text: Did you know that Wolfram Röhrig , who was responsible for "entertaining music" including jazz for the broadcaster Süddeutscher Rundfunk , recorded Max Reger's Der 100. Psalm ?
text: Did you know that Russian painter Karl Bryullov inserted himself into his picture of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in The Last Day of Pompeii ?
text: Did you know that Andrew David Urshan , an ethnic Assyrian from Persia , conducted Pentecostal revivals in the Midwestern United States?
text: Did you know that the milky white mushroom is being grown commercially in its native India?
text: Did you know that Gambian politician Sirra Wally Ndow-Njie met with North Korean president of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong-nam in 2010?
text: Did you know that Comhdháil na Múinteoirí le Rincí Gaelacha broke away from the Irish Dancing Commission in 1969 after disputes about dance teachers' representation?
text: Did you know that after the Embargo Act of 1807 had throttled foreign imports, the state of New York passed a law to expedite the incorporation of new domestic manufacturers ?
text: Did you know that Ellie Miles captained Tunbridge Wells RFC 's under-18 girls team after her father had captained and coached the men's team?
text: Did you know that you can count lines in dinosaur teeth to determine their age?
text: Did you know that Ge Jianxiong , who did not go to college, and Zhou Zhenhe , a mining engineer, were awarded China's first two doctoral degrees in humanities?
text: Did you know that Steven Soderbergh 's Mosaic is both a mobile app and a television miniseries?
text: Did you know that in the 1960s, child psychiatrist Mildred Creak proposed that autism was caused by genetics rather than poor parenting?
text: Did you know that Saudi Arabia 's government has been accused of detaining Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri , following his abrupt resignation while in Saudi Arabia?
text: Did you know that Rachel Skinner "fell into engineering completely by chance" before being named as one of the Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering ?
text: Did you know that the wildlife of Malawi includes so many species of cichlid that Lake Malawi National Park has been inscribed as a World Heritage Site ?
text: Did you know that Harry Bush obsessed that if anyone found out he was a gay erotic artist he would lose his American military pension?
text: Did you know that Prince Harry assisted with relocating 500 elephants to the Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve in Malawi?
text: Did you know that General Li Shangfu spent 31 years at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center , where he supervised the launch of the Chang'e 2 lunar probe?
text: Did you know that the yellow boring sponge inhabits the shells of living scallops and oysters?
text: Did you know that North Korean footballer Sung Hyang-sim was the top scorer at the 2017 AFC U-19 Women's Championship and named Most Valuable Player?
text: Did you know that Spanish singer-songwriter Antonio Carmona invited Juanes and Alejandro Sanz and several other performers he admired to record Obras Son Amores since he wanted to "create true reciprocal acts of love"?
text: Did you know that Eunice Silva organised a nationwide vote to determine the seven wonders of Cape Verde ?
text: Did you know that Ernest Bevin told the Gen 75 Committee that Britain should acquire atomic bombs "whatever it costs... We've got to have the bloody Union Jack flying on top of it"?
text: Did you know that Clotilde Niragira is secretary-general of the truth and reconciliation commission investigating the Burundian genocides ?
text: Did you know that the first proposed site for a ferry wharf at Rhodes in Sydney , Australia, was scrapped after objections from the community, lobbyists, and the ferry operator?
text: Did you know that Max Schmalzl was called "the Bavarian Fra Angelico "?
text: Did you know that the female Asian emerald cuckoo lays her eggs in the nests of birds such as the crimson sunbird and the little spiderhunter ?
text: Did you know that the Northern Ireland women's national football team captain Marissa Callaghan went to university in the United States on a football scholarship ?
text: Did you know that the carving of 130,000 characters of Buddhist scriptures into the mountains around Hebei's Nüwa Palace began under the Northern Qi dynasty?
text: Did you know that Marjorie Hahn , a retired mathematics professor and international senior-level tennis player, approaches tennis games with the same plan that she uses for mathematical proofs?
text: Did you know that Zhang Shengmin led a thousand troops to participate in the reconstruction work after the 2010 Yushu earthquake ?
text: Did you know that the Texas Capitol View Corridors protect views of the state capitol from a cemetery, an air traffic control tower, an interstate highway, and a University of Texas practice field?
text: Did you know that Chanju Samantha Mwale was the first female lawyer to join the Malawian Defence Force ?
text: Did you know that Hainan Island is dominated by rocks that crystallized from melts?
text: Did you know that Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart was the only serving Welsh member of parliament killed during the First World War?
text: Did you know that functional accounts of emotion suggest that the function of anger is to correct injustice?
text: Did you know that Chinese classical musician Lui Tsun-Yuen adapted the English ballad " Greensleeves " for the pipa ?
text: Did you know that the goal of the Science Moms documentary is to challenge the anti- GMO , anti-vaccination, pro-alternative medicine culture affecting parents?
text: Did you know that former NASA engineer Joseph Anokye was deported from Kenya because some people feared he could manipulate election results?
text: Did you know that UNESCO has added East Rennell to its List of World Heritage in Danger ?
text: Did you know that before becoming director of the United States Census Bureau , Martha Farnsworth Riche earned a doctorate in French literature ?
text: Did you know that " The Luck of the Irish " received an Apple Records catalogue number despite never being released as a single?
text: Did you know that Marijke Nel represented South Africa in rugby union and Canada in tennis?
text: Did you know that the edible mushroom Termitomyces eurhizus grows out of termite mounds?
text: Did you know that 'Neile Alina 'Mantoa Fanana was the first female ombudsman of Lesotho ?
text: Did you know that Methylophaga muralis , a species of bacteria, was first discovered on marble in the Moscow Kremlin ?
text: Did you know that Manfred Jung is remembered as Siegfried in Bayreuth's Jahrhundertring , but also sang all other tenor roles in The Ring ?
text: Did you know that Xenophon 's Polity of the Lacedaemonians is the only surviving constitution of ancient Sparta ?
text: Did you know that Arlinda Locklear was the first Native American woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court ?
text: Did you know that the sixbar wrasse can use a rock as an anvil to break up its food?
text: Did you know that Magdalena Wolińska-Riedi was married by Pope Benedict XVI when he was a cardinal and had her childen baptized by him when he became Pope?
text: Did you know that the exotic metal lutetium -176 decays to the heavy metal hafnium , so it can be used to date ancient rocks ?
text: Did you know that on the day Horace P. Belknap was interred in 1936, National Guard inductions were suspended in Central Oregon because all the local medical examiners were attending his funeral?
text: Did you know that little yellow ant colonies raise the larvae of agricultural pests, including aphids , in their own nest?
text: Did you know that Indian independence activist Duvvuri Subbamma was married at the age of ten?
text: Did you know that Colombian footballer Luis Muriel became Sevilla 's most expensive-ever signing when he joined the club for a reported fee of €20 million?
text: Did you know that the exotic metal lutetium -176 decays to the heavy metal hafnium , so it can be used to date ancient rocks ?
text: Did you know that the owners of Code Blue , the Professional Bull Riders' 2009 World Champion bucking bull , fed him waffles?
text: Did you know that the German Army used pickelhaube helmets made of boiled leather until halfway through World War I?
text: Did you know that if the San Francisco Bay Area were a country, it would be ranked sixteenth in the world in terms of GDP ?
text: Did you know that a highrise building replacing part of The Seattle Times ' headquarters will have historic headlines etched into its facade?
text: Did you know that Abadi Bano Begum , a prominent voice in the Indian independence movement , pawned her personal jewelry to educate her sons?
text: Did you know that feather stars such as Florometra serratissima use their arms to catch food and also to swim?
text: Did you know that Célia Posser issued the first private radio broadcast licenses in São Tomé and Príncipe ?
text: Did you know that the North China Craton was partially destroyed by thinning?
text: Did you know that the Nitze criteria for a successful ballistic missile defense gained "the status of holy writ" within the Reagan administration ?
text: Did you know that This is found in southern Australia, is attracted to decomposing seaweed, and has an unusual mating position?
text: Did you know that Australian prime minister Harold Holt 's death by drowning has been commemorated by a warship , a naval installation , and multiple swimming pools?
text: Did you know that Nicole Grobert , professor of nanomaterials at the University of Oxford , was awarded a Royal Society Industry Fellowship in 2016, her third fellowship from the Royal Society?
text: Did you know that Robert Swinhoe initially thought that the "ugly raw-looking red patch on the throat" of the Taiwan partridge was an injury?
text: Did you know that it took Salma Ismail , the first Malaysian Malay woman to qualify as a doctor, 11 years to complete her medical studies?
text: Did you know that in divergent double subduction , an ocean shrinks and sinks?
text: Did you know that Femi Claudius Cole offers free health checks as she campaigns to become President of Sierra Leone ?
text: Did you know that according to legend, a spectral knight on a white horse is sometimes seen riding toward Weichenwang to visit his lover?
text: Did you know that Sir John Minsterworth , who joined the French army during the Hundred Years' War , was later returned to England and hanged, drawn and quartered in 1377 for "wilful support" of the enemy?
text: Did you know that Johann Balthasar König , the church musician of the Katharinenkirche and director of music in Frankfurt , published a hymnal with 1,913 melodies?
text: Did you know that Bill Gates plans to build a " smart city " near Phoenix, Arizona ?
text: Did you know that Ireland national rugby union team player Dr. Claire McLaughlin gained the nickname "McSwaplin" owing to her swapping medical shifts in order to play rugby?
text: Did you know that the mushrooms of Austroboletus olivaceoglutinosus have a fruity smell?
text: Did you know that Sir John Minsterworth , who joined the French army during the Hundred Years' War , was later returned to England and hanged, drawn and quartered in 1377 for "wilful support" of the enemy?
text: Did you know that one of the greatest mountain ranges in China is made up of multiple individual tectonic blocks , dividing north and south China?
text: Did you know that Ghanaian academic Kwesi Yankah wrote the title song for the Free SHS policy?
text: Did you know that A. J. Foyt praised Arlene Hiss for "what a fine job [she'd] done" after racing against her?
text: Did you know that algorithmic bias can sometimes lead computers to produce homophobic, racist, and sexist results?
text: Did you know that Dusty Allen hit a home run in his final Major League Baseball at-bat?
text: Did you know that Bangkok's city gates were enchanted in order to ward off evil spirits?
text: Did you know that South African lawyer Sibongile Ndashe was arrested in Tanzania for advocating against an anti-gay law that limited treatment for HIV/AIDS ?
text: Did you know that today's MLS Cup 2017 soccer final between Toronto FC and Seattle Sounders FC is a rematch of the 2016 Cup , and will be played at the same venue?
text: Did you know that Sheila Hibben supplied author Rex Stout with menus for his fictional character Nero Wolfe ?
text: Did you know that Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in New York City hosted two world's fairs ?
text: Did you know that Irish hockey umpire Carol Metchette was forced to retire from umpiring for being too old, despite having the highest fitness test results of any international umpire?
text: Did you know that the rhinoceros beetle genus Cyclocephala already had over 200 species when C. nodanotherwon ("not another one") was described in 1992?
text: Did you know that Regina Mañe Ela was the only female member of Severo Moto Nsá 's Equatorial Guinean government-in-exile?
text: Did you know that the Fengtian clique 's Zhili Army included, besides professional soldiers, surrendered enemies, provincial militiamen, bandits, and martial artists?
text: Did you know that Manka Dhingra ' s election to the Washington State Senate gave Democrats complete control of the state's government?
text: Did you know that the Temagami Iron Range takes jasper in iron past snakes and turtles ?
text: Did you know that the Jalisco New Generation Cartel shot down a helicopter, hijacked 39 vehicles, and burned multiple banks, gas stations, and businesses in a single day ?
text: Did you know that Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah writes a blog on African women's sexuality entitled Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women ?
text: Did you know that the parasitic wasp Comperiella bifasciata is used to help control red scale and yellow scale on citrus?
text: Did you know that Gideon Brooke 's grave was unmarked for 136 years?
text: Did you know that the first World Day of the Poor , observed on 19 November 2017, was established by Pope Francis in his Apostolic Letter celebrating the end of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy ?
text: Did you know that Mitzi Johanknecht , the new sheriff of King County, Washington , was the first female deputy to lead the county's SWAT team?
text: Did you know that the High Capacity Metro Trains on order for the Melbourne rail network will have the ability to automatically estimate their passenger load?
text: Did you know that Alice Ouédraogo runs the International Labour Organization 's HIV/AIDS programme?
text: Did you know that the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad built the Bergen Tunnels due to congestion in the competing Erie Railroad 's tunnels?
text: Did you know that early Canadian broadcaster Claire Wallace was known for her reporting stunts, including climbing a Mexican volcano and joining a deep-sea diving expedition?
text: Did you know that two similarly named Burmese chronicles, Mon Yazawin and Mon Yazawin by Shwe Naw , are about the Mon -speaking kingdom of Hanthawaddy ?
text: Did you know that Vi Lyles is the first African-American woman to be Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina ?
text: Did you know that Universal Paperclips is an incremental game where the goal is to convert the entire universe into paperclips ?
text: Did you know that Harold Strachan has painted pictures, written books, made bombs, served two prison sentences, and completed an ultramarathon ?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Marshall was one of the first women to become a pharmacist in the United States?
text: Did you know that more than two-thirds of children with egg allergy will outgrow it by the time they are 16 years old?
text: Did you know that Robert Sickinger , the father of Chicago 's "off-Loop" theater scene, ended up running a telemarketing company?
text: Did you know that, despite being affected by poverty, language barriers, and prejudice, first-generation immigrants have better health outcomes than subsequent generations by way of the immigrant paradox ?
text: Did you know that remote sensing helps geologists study otherwise inaccessible areas such as Antarctic ice shelves?
text: Did you know that Japanese voice actress Ai Kayano worked in the beauty industry to pay for her voice acting school tuition?
text: Did you know that the lethal mushroom Amanita subpallidorosea was discovered when two people died in 2014 after eating it in China?
text: Did you know that Diana Beck performed brain surgery on Winnie-the-Pooh author A. A. Milne ?
text: Did you know that in the annual Balotsav of India, children compete in many categories including elocution ?
text: Did you know that Mary Munson Runge was the first female and first African-American president of the American Pharmacists Association ?
text: Did you know that Parks Canada blocked the entrance of the Bois Blanc Island Lighthouse with rubble masonry after vandals destroyed the restored door?
text: Did you know that Nelly Mbangu co-founded an organisation for survivors of sexual and domestic violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ?
text: Did you know that Up from the Cradle of Jazz chronicles the evolution of rhythm and blues in New Orleans ?
text: Did you know that marine biologist Marie Darby , the first New Zealand woman to visit the Antarctic mainland, sailed to the Ross Sea on a tourist boat that ran aground on its first trip?
text: Did you know that approximately one-third of the adult Jewish population of Winnipeg , Canada, attended the funeral of Chief Rabbi Israel Isaac Kahanovitch in 1945?
text: Did you know that show creator Tony Jordan wanted HolbyBlue to emulate the American police dramas Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue ?
text: Did you know that Suzanne Jambo helped draft the Constitution of South Sudan ?
text: Did you know that during the annual TV-aksjonen ("TV campaign"), more than 100,000 volunteers go door-to-door to all 1.8 million Norwegian households to collect donations for a charity?
text: Did you know that before becoming a deputy for the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan , Almasbek Akmatov obtained three different degrees from three different universities?
text: Did you know that the Advent song " Macht hoch die Tür " is number 1 in the German Protestant hymnal ?
text: Did you know that Jenny Morton discovered that sheep can recognise human faces?
text: Did you know that in 2017, a team of refugees won the Sporting Inspiration Award at the Laureus World Sports Awards ?
text: Did you know that from 1888 to 1895, Elizabeth Chambers Morgan was the leading woman in the Chicago labor movement?
text: Did you know that contemporary circus troupe Cirque de la Symphonie deliberately maintains a minimalist aesthetic to give equal prominence to the symphony orchestras that accompany their performances?
text: Did you know that Tarak Sinha coached 12 cricketers who went on to play at international level?
text: Did you know that three of the most lethal battles involving the United States military saw more than 20,000 soldiers killed?
text: Did you know that Kenyan activist Josephine Kulea is said to have saved more than 1,000 girls from abuse and forced marriage?
text: Did you know that it appears that larvae of Osedax frankpressi that settle on a whale carcase develop into female worms, while those that settle on the female worms become males?
text: Did you know that Harimia Ahmed was the first female lawyer in the Comoros ?
text: Did you know that Lake Cahuilla , with a maximum surface area of 5,700 square kilometres (2,200 sq mi), covered parts of Southern California less than 500 years ago?
text: Did you know that Hari Kondabolu 's documentary The Problem with Apu started as a one-minute comedy segment?
text: Did you know that Colorado businesswoman and philanthropist Merle Chambers is one of the top ten political contributors in her state?
text: Did you know that parts of the Colombian mushroom Boletus pyrrhosceles turn blue when damaged?
text: Did you know that in 1995, Nigerian activist Sokari Ekine set up the Black Sisters Network electronic mailing list ?
text: Did you know that A. R. "Babe" Schwartz fought to have the Westgate Tower condemned in the Texas Legislature , only to move into the building himself fifteen years later?
text: Did you know that South African-born Irish international rugby player Ilse van Staden is a butcher?
text: Did you know that although New York City's Spring Creek Park was mostly built on a landfill, part of the park is located in a U.S. national protected area ?
text: Did you know that Georg Dohrn conducted at the Konzerthaus Breslau the premiere of Reger's Der 100. Psalm , Mahler's Eighth Symphony , and Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto with Vladimir Horowitz ?
text: Did you know that Camden County, Georgia was considered as a launch site by NASA in the early 1960s, but Spaceport Camden did not see its first launch until 2017?
text: Did you know that the British paediatrician Tina Cooper assisted the Sierra Leone government in establishing a national immunisation programme?
text: Did you know that the purple scallop sponge has a mutualistic relationship with the mollusc on which it lives?
text: Did you know that General Robert B. Abrams took "less than a second" to choose Laura J. Richardson as his deputy at United States Army Forces Command , despite never having worked with her?