Did you know? Facts from Wikipedia, 2018

text: Did you know that New York City's Broadway Junction station sees 100,000 daily riders, the vast majority using it to make transfers?
text: Did you know that Ilona Durigo , one of the leading concert contraltos of her time, performed in the first recording of Bach's St Matthew Passion , conducted by Willem Mengelberg ?
text: Did you know that Oneco referred to the gift of a ceremonial sword from Charles II of England as proof of the legal equality of the Mohegan sachemate with the English monarchy ?
text: Did you know that the company developing the SSM-A-23 Dart anti-tank missile changed ownership twice while the project was underway?
text: Did you know that Mildred Dilling 's first fee for a harp performance was a dozen carnations and a jar of pickles?
text: Did you know that a newly appointed count of the Székelys was entitled to a horse from each of the Székely seats ?
text: Did you know that of the six known Anglo-Saxon helmets , the Shorwell helmet was originally mistaken for a pot, the Pioneer helmet for a bucket, and the Coppergate helmet for a rock?
text: Did you know that American scholar Paul Y. Hammond sought to develop a more discerning understanding of how organizational behavior and domestic political considerations affected American foreign policy?
text: Did you know that among the accolades received by I, Tonya are five British Academy Film Award nominations?
text: Did you know that the comic " Shoot ", originally scheduled for publication in a 1999 issue of Hellblazer , was not published until 2010?
text: Did you know that Canadian physician Fraser Rose was partly named after the doctor who walked through a snowstorm in Nova Scotia to deliver him?
text: Did you know that the first shipment of books for the Washington Territorial Library traveled around Cape Horn from New York City ?
text: Did you know that the Edict of Milan , an agreement between Constantine and Licinius to treat the Christian Church peacefully, was issued during the pontificate of Pope Miltiades ?
text: Did you know that the Alabama Crimson Tide overcame a 13–0 deficit at halftime to win the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship in overtime?
text: Did you know that while chief justice of the Colony of Cape Breton , Richard Gibbons founded a group that was later banned as being a possible "Seed of Rebellion"?
text: Did you know that Cider with Rosie could not be filmed in Slad , where the story takes place, as the village had changed too much?
text: Did you know that Sciota Brook is only 2 miles (3.2 km) long but flows through three counties in Pennsylvania?
text: Did you know that the elm seed bug produces an unpleasant smell reminiscent of bitter almonds ?
text: Did you know that during the height of the Cold War , an American visiting Russia received a seven-year sentence for spying?
text: Did you know that Chen Junsheng 's investigative report resulted in his superior losing his job and getting "promoted"?
text: Did you know that horse carcasses, and trash from three of New York City's boroughs, were once processed at Barren Island, Brooklyn ?
text: Did you know that Galco's Soda Pop Stop in Los Angeles carries more than 700 different soft drinks ?
text: Did you know that Mesembrinella caenozoica is the first unambiguous fossil described in the fly superfamily Oestroidea ?
text: Did you know that the physician George Abercrombie once won a game of chess against world champion José Raúl Capablanca ?
text: Did you know that the Coatzacoalcos Underwater Tunnel , which took 13 years to complete, has been described as a "monument to corruption"?
text: Did you know that the Houdini Museum of New York houses the world's second largest collection of "Houdiniana"?
text: Did you know that Shmuel Abba Twersky 's immigration to Canada from Ukraine – to serve as Makarover Rebbe of Winnipeg in the 1920s – was held up by two years of bureaucratic red tape ?
text: Did you know that in his review, IGN 's Craig Harris called Elite Forces: Unit 77 the "perfect storm of gaming mediocrity"?
text: Did you know that after contracting diphtheria , John Hunt believed he was one of the last cases in England to have his tonsils painted with cocaine and then removed by guillotine?
text: Did you know that the Jaguar multi-stage sounding rocket was designed to be launched using a toss bombing maneuver from a B-57 bomber ?
text: Did you know that a Let's Save Togo protest rally in August 2012 called for a week-long sex strike by women to encourage men to oppose Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé ?
text: Did you know that prior to serving as executive fashion director for Cosmopolitan and Seventeen , and as a judge for Project Runway: Junior , Aya Kanai considered careers in puppetry and fine art?
text: Did you know that 50 million trees could be planted to form the Northern Forest in England?
text: Did you know that Major General Miles Graham was Monty 's logistics supremo in both North Africa and North-West Europe during the Second World War?
text: Did you know that passengers traveling to the 1939 New York World's Fair via the World's Fair subway line paid the standard five-cent fare to board, but had to pay the fare again on arrival?
text: Did you know that Doug McMurdy was the inaugural winner of the Red Tilson Trophy , given to the most outstanding player in the Ontario Hockey League each season?
text: Did you know that " What a Beautiful Name " represents the first Grammy nomination for Hillsong Worship ?
text: Did you know that SCA1 was the first genetic defect found to cause ataxia ?
text: Did you know that activist Mandisa Thomas was recognized in the bill officially proclaiming October 15, 2017, as the 16th annual celebration of California Freethought Day ?
text: Did you know that the Aequare was a remotely piloted vehicle intended to be used by F-4 Phantom II fighter-bombers to find and designate targets?
text: Did you know that in the 1937 program The Three Garridebs , Louis Hector became the first actor to portray Sherlock Holmes on television?
text: Did you know that a website run by Digiday generates random absurd Twitter bios followed by profanity-laced commentary?
text: Did you know that Wang Zhongyu was one of China ' s most powerful figures in the 1990s, with authority over reforming state-owned enterprises?
text: Did you know that over seven hours of rain delays resulted in the 1998 NAPA 500 becoming the first night race held at Atlanta Motor Speedway ?
text: Did you know that Rome's first emperor, Augustus , adopted his grandsons Lucius and Gaius ?
text: Did you know that Bill Dubuque 's scripts for The Judge and The Accountant were both featured on the Black List of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood?
text: Did you know that larvae of the firefly Luciola substriata swim upside down?
text: Did you know that the Prospect House at Blue Mountain Lake in New York was the first hotel anywhere to be equipped with electric lighting in all the guest rooms?
text: Did you know that the Welsh footballer Syd Thomas impressed Fulham so much in a trial match that he was offered a contract at half-time?
text: Did you know that Peter Frank Stott investigated the use of open level crossings on the British Rail network following the Lockington rail crash in which nine people died?
text: Did you know that Barnes Brook lacked any habitats for fish in 2001, but is now being considered for addition to the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission 's list of wild trout streams?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Army's Plato and FABMDS programs for anti-ballistic missiles evolved into the well-known Patriot missile ?
text: Did you know that Odontadenia macrantha flowers year-round in its natural habitat?
text: Did you know that certain copies of the Christmas compilation album MTV: TRL Christmas contained tickets for a free trip to be a part of the Total Request Live studio audience in New York City?
text: Did you know that James Robson has been to six Rugby World Cups with the Scotland team and on six British and Irish Lions tours?
text: Did you know that the RAF pushed to introduce IFF Mark III after a Short Stirling was shot down by a Bristol Beaufighter , which was in turn shot down by another Beaufighter?
text: Did you know that Colette Lorand made her debut as Gounod's Marguerite in 1945, created Reimann's Regan in 1978, and retired as Janáček's Emilia Marty in 1983?
text: Did you know that Ninian Park , the home stadium of Cardiff City F.C. for 99 years, was built on the site of a former rubbish tip?
text: Did you know that the 2017 film Dunkirk was conceived in the mid-1990s when writer and director Christopher Nolan sailed with Emma Thomas across the English Channel , as did many small boats during the Dunkirk evacuation ?
text: Did you know that Nana Otuo Siriboe II , a Ghanaian electrical engineer and paramount chief , is the chairman of the advisory council to the President of Ghana?
text: Did you know that the authors of the 1940 Frisch–Peierls memorandum were assigned to research nuclear weapons because, as enemy aliens , they could not work on secret military projects?
text: Did you know that the Canadian bluegrass band The Dead South often refer to themselves as " Mumford and Sons ' Evil Twins"?
text: Did you know that the taboo-breaking debut novel Season of Crimson Blossoms ended up winning Africa's biggest literary award instead of attracting the severe backlash author Abubakar Adam Ibrahim expected?
text: Did you know that the English footballer Danny Lloyd sold bins for a waste management company before turning professional in 2017?
text: Did you know that " Erde, singe " ("Earth, sing") was a carol in ten stanzas derived in the 19th century from a pastoral lullaby , but appears in the current hymnal in four stanzas, alluding to Christmas only once?
text: Did you know that before becoming a New York Supreme Court justice, Irwin Untermyer successfully argued to preserve the New York City Subway 's five-cent fare in a U.S. Supreme Court case?
text: Did you know that the gastropod mollusc Thyca crystallina is in the early evolutionary stages of becoming parasitic on a starfish?
text: Did you know that the United States Navy tested a Flyrt for distracting radar-guided missiles from its ships?
text: Did you know that during World War II, Colonel George F. Good Jr. successfully defended Funafuti from ten Japanese attacks with a mixed unit that was "poorly armed" and "stuck out like a sore thumb"?
text: Did you know that the secular Bach cantata Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten , BWV 202 , scored for a soprano soloist, oboe, strings and continuo, pictures the transition from winter to spring?
text: Did you know that the La Loche Formation can include clasts of Precambrian gneiss ?
text: Did you know that the English footballer Tammy Abraham was the first player to win Bristol City 's Player of the Year, Young Player of the Year, and Top Goalscorer awards in the same season?
text: Did you know that low-turbulence enclosures developed for the pharmaceutical industry are also suitable as engineering controls for nanomaterials ?
text: Did you know that Gudy Gaskill , the driving force behind the creation of the 567-mile (912 km) Colorado Trail , was honored by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush for her volunteerism?
text: Did you know that in 2009 the British construction industry was urged to Never Waste a Good Crisis ?
text: Did you know that missile scientist Song Jian was the architect of China's one-child policy ?
text: Did you know that Richard Strauss ' s art song " Freundliche Vision " describes a waking dream?
text: Did you know that American construction company RMK-BRJ trained 200,000 Vietnamese workers in construction and administrative trades during the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you know that despite London Welsh being liquidated, their amateur team London Welsh Amateur continued as they held separate independent membership of the Rugby Football Union?
text: Did you know that the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board oversees a park system that has been called the best-designed, best-financed, and best-maintained in America?
text: Did you know that because of the 2016–17 video game voice actor strike , voice actress Ashly Burch could not reprise her role in the Life Is Strange prequel, Before the Storm ?
text: Did you know that Jim Benedict was knocked out during his first professional batting practice ?
text: Did you know that public art at University of Washington station includes a mural inspired by symbols on geologic maps ?
text: Did you know that footballer John Robson was forced to retire after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at the age of 28?
text: Did you know that the first discovery of copper in the state of Victoria , Australia, was made at Coopers Creek in the 1860s?
text: Did you know that the high Byzantine title of sebastokrator was invented for Isaac Komnenos , who was described by his niece as an "emperor without the purple "?
text: Did you know that Joint Task Force Empire Shield consists of soldiers and sailors of the New York National Guard and New York Naval Militia , tasked with the defense of New York City?
text: Did you know that the actress Martina Mayne published an English translation of the work of the German poet Paula Ludwig ?
text: Did you know that the engines of Jagdgeschwader II could not tolerate artificial castor oil ?
text: Did you know that although the song that Eri Sasaki submitted for use in the anime series Plastic Memories was not chosen, she later passed an audition to sing the series' opening theme?
text: Did you know that after the unsuccessful Mudéjar revolt of 1264–66 , Castile expelled the surviving Muslims?
text: Did you know that Marie Grice Young , piano instructor for Theodore Roosevelt 's children, is speculated to have been one of the LGBT passengers on the RMS Titanic ?
text: Did you know that the main building of the Music House Museum is a remodelled 1909 dairy barn?
text: Did you know that Vice-Admiral Herbert King-Hall called the example of the tugboat HMS Blackcock during the sinking of the Imperial cruiser Königsberg "most praiseworthy"?
text: Did you know that Canadian football player Archie Amerson was described as both halves of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats ' "one-two punch"?
text: Did you know that Andy's Diner was partly constructed from a railcar that once carried Franklin D. Roosevelt ?
text: Did you know that gold was discovered on Cline Buttes in central Oregon in 1904, but proved uneconomic to mine?
text: Did you know that Pecorino di Carmasciano cheese is produced only in a small cluster of towns in the Apennine Mountains of Italy?
text: Did you know that the Lokrume helmet fragment was the first piece of a Viking helmet to be identified?
text: Did you know that Merkel Landis , while a treasurer at a bank in Pennsylvania, originated the first Christmas Savings Club ?
text: Did you know that HMS Roebuck rescued HMS Rippon after the latter grounded during an attack on Basse-Terre in 1759?
text: Did you know that in an attempt to catch Celia Cooney , the New York City Police Department launched what was at the time the largest manhunt in the city's history?
text: Did you know that Isopogon mnoraifolius was named for the resemblance of its foliage to a menorah ?
text: Did you know that Phillipe Cunningham is one of the first openly transgender people of color to be elected to public office in the United States?
text: Did you know that although the 1928–1929 Red Spears' uprising in Shandong broke out in protest against high taxes, banditry, and government brutality, the rebels themselves came to raise taxes, loot, rape, rob and kidnap for ransom?
text: Did you know that the 2015 Indian epic historical romance film Bajirao Mastani spent eleven years in development hell before being revived in 2014?
text: Did you know that the Eero Saarinen -designed TWA Flight Center airport terminal was designated a landmark and is being redeveloped into the TWA Hotel at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City?
text: Did you know that Margaret O'Flynn and her husband John Foley were the first wife-and-husband fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists ?
text: Did you know that during World War II , the United States Navy 's Glomb project evaluated the use of gliders as flying bombs?
text: Did you know that Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls was Kickstarter's "fastest funded publishing project" ever?
text: Did you know that the Revolution on Granite was the first major political protest held in Kiev's Independence Square , and its methods were copied in the Orange Revolution and the Euromaidan ?
text: Did you know that before becoming chair of the Millennium Development Authority , Yaa Ntiamoah Badu worked at the University of Ghana as a zoologist?
text: Did you know that the motet In Exile for double choir by Herbert Sumsion was premiered at Gloucester Cathedral ?
text: Did you know that White House correspondent Naomi Nover once assaulted Bernie Boston while Mother Teresa and Ronald Reagan "looked on in total amazement"?
text: Did you know that American pianist Joe Sample died from mesothelioma prior to completing his parts for the collaborative album Christmas With Friends with India Arie ?
text: Did you know that the Australian plants Persoonia adenantha and P. chamaepeuce were described by a Czech and Polish botanist, respectively?
text: Did you know that Israeli scholar Yehuda Liebes claims that the central prayer of the Jewish liturgy includes an allusion to Jesus ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Johnston made the first historical print engraved in America?
text: Did you know that in healthy adults, HMB has been shown to increase exercise-induced gains in muscle size , muscle strength, and lean body mass , reduce muscle damage, and speed recovery from exercise?
text: Did you know that before Margaret L. Curry introduced vocational training and education for women prisoners in Colorado , their only activity was washing and ironing the clothes of the male prisoners?
text: Did you know that adult pale crackers feed on rotting fruit, carrion, and mud?
text: Did you know that Dellatorre , who currently plays for Cypriot club APOEL FC , was the top scorer of the 2011 São Paulo Junior Football Cup ?
text: Did you know that the Rockefeller Center mural Man at the Crossroads was destroyed after the artist surreptitiously added a portrait of Lenin?
text: Did you know that Jay Fai had never heard of Michelin stars when her restaurant was awarded one?
text: Did you know that Marjorie Husted , as the radio voice of homemaking authority Betty Crocker , interviewed Joan Crawford in her home?
text: Did you know that research for the book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House reportedly included more than 200 interviews with Donald Trump and his closest associates conducted over 18 months?
text: Did you know that after the 1962 Sino-Indian War , the Chinese returned Param Vir Chakra recipient Joginder Singh 's ashes to his battalion with full military honours?
text: Did you know that Black Buttes ' amphitheater is partially occupied by Deming Glacier ?
text: Did you know that François Noël 's translations of classic Chinese texts were banned in the Papal States and Germany but praised by historian Jean-Baptiste Du Halde ?
text: Did you know that " Private View ", an episode of Inside No. 9 , was a homage to Theatre of Blood satirising the world of contemporary art ?
text: Did you know that the Zombie Hut was a fictitious tiki bar in the 1945 Abbott and Costello film Zombies on Broadway , as well as a real tiki bar that opened in Sacramento, California , that same year?
text: Did you know that Yang Yuanyuan won a Lifetime Achievement Award because China's aviation accident rate plummeted under his leadership?
text: Did you know that a former chapel built in 1888 was one of eleven studios involved in the recording of Adele 's bestselling album 21 ?
text: Did you know that Barnet Nover 's 1939 Washington Post article "British Surrender – a Munich for the Holy Land" was inserted into the Congressional Record by then US Senator Harry Truman ?
text: Did you know that the Hong Kong Regiment was paid more than other British Indian Army regiments and was known as "The Swagger Regiment"?
text: Did you know that Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission biologists tried to visit Coffee Brook in 2001, but were unable to reach it?
text: Did you know that the Javan frogmouth may be more common than generally thought?
text: Did you know that in the 1929 NFL season , players on the Orange Tornadoes , including Heinie Benkert , wore letters on their uniforms instead of numbers?
text: Did you know that the purple scale predator is native to Australia but was first described from a Californian specimen?
text: Did you know that Mhaimbhat is considered the first known prose writer in the Marathi language ?
text: Did you know that Metropolis Software's Tajemnica Statuetki ( The Mystery of the Statuette ) was the first Polish adventure game ?
text: Did you know that when cardiac surgeon Horace Smithy had a patient die on the operating table, he may have lost the chance to undergo heart surgery himself?
text: Did you know that Friedrich Spee wrote the lyrics of the Christmas carol " Zu Bethlehem geboren " to a popular French tune with a frivolous text?
text: Did you know that the Georgian goddess Dali appeared as both a nude golden-haired woman with glowing skin, and as a white ibex with golden horns?
text: Did you know that in an attack on Cologne on 28 May 1944, German gunners thought that crashing GB-1 glide bombs were aircraft they were shooting down?
text: Did you know that Ilya Espino de Marotta , lead engineer for the Panama Canal expansion project , wears a pink hard hat on site to make a statement that women can do the job?
text: Did you know that the newly named dinosaur Sibirotitan is only the second sauropod species named from the country of Russia , and one of the oldest titanosauriform sauropod species known from all of Asia?
text: Did you know that Sonali Guha , a four-term member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly , captured the seat of a five-term member of the assembly in her first election?
text: Did you know that Amazon is building a $1.5 billion facility at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport to serve as a principal hub for Amazon Air ?
text: Did you know that the Morgan Morgan Monument memorializes one of the earliest European pioneers to settle permanently in present-day West Virginia ?
text: Did you know that wars, battles, assassinations, and natural disasters can all cause national trauma ?
text: Did you know that Hazel Carter was reported to have received the United States' first military funeral for a woman?
text: Did you know that peanut farmer Harris DeVane won the first race held on Atlanta Motor Speedway 's present configuration by 0.023 seconds, leading only the last 100 yards (91 m) of the event?
text: Did you know that the nest of the large frogmouth consists of a circular cushion of down on which a single egg is balanced?
text: Did you know that Herman Vandenburg Ames was one of Ezra Pound 's professors at the University of Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that some 500,000 photographs and drawings are included in the collections of the Historical Model Railway Society ?
text: Did you know that Caroline Lenferna de Laresle travelled from Mauritius to Rome to claim the pontifical right for her order of nuns and died there shortly afterwards?
text: Did you know that the Rick and Morty episode " Pickle Rick " was largely inspired by the Breaking Bad episode " 4 Days Out "?
text: Did you know that Hu Yan won praise as a loyal and capable advisor in part by getting his prince drunk and kidnapping him?
text: Did you know that Chen Guangyi was appointed to the top post of his home province of Fujian reportedly after provincial cadres opposed another candidate from North China?
text: Did you know that five siblings and an in-law made up the Bartell Group , which owned radio stations around the United States during the 1940s–1960s and was a pioneer in the Top 40 format?
text: Did you know that fans noticed Doctor Who references in a promotional trailer for Paul McGann 's first episode in Holby City as John Gaskell ?
text: Did you know that inflatable balloon sticks for cheering at baseball games were first used in South Korea?
text: Did you know that Marvin Pipkin invented the first electric light bulb frosted on the inside with sufficient strength for ordinary handling that could be sold to the public?
text: Did you know that Wayne Jacks and Ben Hess were among the 86 drivers who attempted to qualify for the inaugural Brickyard 400 ?
text: Did you know that mutant squirrels and "cat-faced" trees can be found in Ochlockonee River State Park ?
text: Did you know that The Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan won a Stonewall Book Award for its portrayal of the genderfluid character Alex Fierro ?
text: Did you know that Major General Sir Randle Feilden has a horse race named in his memory?
text: Did you know that India, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, and the Philippines made their debut in under-20 international ice hockey at the 2018 IIHF U20 Challenge Cup of Asia ?
text: Did you know that Lorenzo Viotti conducted Massenet's Werther in three productions in opera houses of three countries in 2017, silently singing with the soloists?
text: Did you know that in order to attract skilled civil servants, the Hong Kong government offered a free sea cruise back to the UK on retirement to British civil servants who joined up?
text: Did you know that Effie Owuor was Kenya's first female state counsel, magistrate, High Court judge, and Court of Appeal judge?
text: Did you know that Amtrak ran " toasters " on the Northeast Corridor for over thirty years?
text: Did you know that Georges Dargaud produced the first Asterix film, Asterix the Gaul , in 1967?
text: Did you know that the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor is a national archaeological park of China , while the tomb of St. Francis Xavier is a candidate for the designation?
text: Did you know that in 1858, the obstetrician Gustavus Murray claimed to be able to identify the parts of a fetus , including each vertebra, through an abdominal examination of a pregnant woman?
text: Did you know that azeloprazole was designed with pharmacogenomics in mind?
text: Did you know that former Oregon state legislator Hazen A. Brattain died a month after completing a seven-month world tour?
text: Did you know that John Rutter wrote the lyrics for his choral composition Christmas Lullaby , with each verse including the refrain " Ave Maria "?
text: Did you know that the California green shrimp uses a raft to get around?
text: Did you know that the English tenor Mark Milhofer appeared as Mozart's Ferrando in Beijing and Moscow, and as Poppea 's nurse in Berlin, dressed as a parody of Riff Raff ?
text: Did you know that the fireflies Aquatica ficta and Aquatica hydrophila both have aquatic larvae that are unable to swim?
text: Did you know that in 1919, Romanian playwright and journalist A. de Herz was court-martialled for alleged collaboration with the Central Powers ?
text: Did you know that prior to creating Booker T. Washington State Park , West Virginia's Conservation Commission justified its segregation policy by explaining that "our Negro citizens would feel ill at ease" using parks alongside whites?
text: Did you know that the footballer Stanley Kane gave up playing in order to join the Liverpool City Police ?
text: Did you know that after sighting an improvised distress signal made from a lady's shawl, the French frigate Cléopâtre rescued 34 people stranded at sea?
text: Did you know that during the 1655 papal conclave , the younger cardinals played pranks on the older cardinals for fun?
text: Did you know that Xu Shijie came out of retirement to serve as the first party chief of the new province of Hainan , but was dismissed in the aftermath of the Tiananmen protests ?
text: Did you know that along with Mount Defiance and Mount Bailey , Diamond Peak is one of the few andesitic shield volcanos in the Cascade Range ?
text: Did you know that the high-waisted fashions of the early 1800s likely helped the Countess of Bessborough hide her figure from her husband while pregnant with her illegitimate daughter, Harriet Osborne ?
text: Did you know that targets for the ASM-N-6 Omar missile were put in a spotlight?
text: Did you know that Patrick Zhuwao was expelled from Zimbabwe 's ruling ZANU–PF party during the 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état ?
text: Did you know that until the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 , the Norwood Tower held the only public restroom open to African Americans in downtown Austin, Texas ?
text: Did you know that in 2017, Canadian pitcher Claire Eccles became the first woman to play baseball in the collegiate West Coast League ?
text: Did you know that British logistics in the Normandy Campaign depended on a Mulberry harbour ?
text: Did you know that Tennessee state representative Charles P. Fahey sponsored bills prohibiting the non-medical sale of cocaine and requiring the racial segregation of Nashville streetcars?
text: Did you know that producers of the 2012 Austrian short film Homophobia raised US$ 10,100 in 69 days through crowdfunding on Indiegogo ?
text: Did you know that Otto Franke , the pre-eminent German sinologist of his time, died "practically from hunger and exhaustion" before he could complete his history of China?
text: Did you know that the Italian town of Guardia Lombardi was settled by the Lombards in the sixth century as a defensive outpost ?
text: Did you know that, under the leadership of Mary Puckey , Sydney's Rachel Forster Hospital expanded from 12 to 120 beds?
text: Did you know that Ping-Pong was believed to be "the free world's only round-trip ballistic missile"?
text: Did you know that Lt. Gen. D. R. Soni , chief of the Southern Command of the Indian Army , was a military observer in Iraq and Kuwait after the Gulf War ?
text: Did you know that as part of today's Temperance and Good Citizenship Day observances in the state of Washington , schools are expected to hold voter registration drives for eligible students?
text: Did you know that footballer Callum Hendry gave up playing for a year before turning professional?
text: Did you know that the Grizzly Flats Railroad , owned by Disney animator Ward Kimball , was the first full-size backyard railroad in the United States?
text: Did you know that Diego Fasolis conducted L'incoronazione di Poppea at the reopened Staatsoper Unter den Linden , adding music by other composers of Monteverdi 's time?
text: Did you know that blue cracker and ringless blue cracker males create a cracking sound with their abdomen when pursuing a female?
text: Did you know that the "Fat Albert" sounding rocket had its name changed to Aries because the Naval Research Laboratory considered it "more dignified"?
text: Did you know that the first successful drone developed in the Netherlands was the Aviolanda AT-21 ?
text: Did you know that the Heisman Trophy , awarded annually to the best college football player, is named for John Heisman , who was instrumental in legalizing the forward pass ?
text: Did you know that the late- Gothic church St. Moritz in Halle (Saale) became Catholic again in 1970?
text: Did you know that Li Huang co-founded the Chinese Youth Party , which was modelled after the Young Turks ?
text: Did you know that the red-breasted partridge is found only on Borneo ?
text: Did you know that the Goldberg–Coxeter construction can be used to study fullerene molecules, nanoparticles , and basket weaving ?
text: Did you know that professional diver Albert Powsey was known for diving off Southport Pier with a bicycle?
text: Did you know that, in 1989, East Holmes Academy offered to forfeit a football game because the opposing team had a black player?
text: Did you know that Paa Kofi Ansong , a member of the advisory team to the President of Ghana, once worked as a quality control officer at Boots Pharmacy in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that, although Joseph Jongen conducted the first performance of Mass, Op. 130 at Liège Cathedral in 1946, it was not published until 1990?
text: Did you know that the Canadian Underground Research Laboratory was built to test the concept of storing nuclear waste in rock that was billions of years old?
text: Did you know that Angeline Murimirwa received money for her secondary education from Camfed , and is now its regional executive director for Southern & Eastern Africa?
text: Did you know that confirmation of the controversial claim that the Ram Khamhaeng Inscription was fake would have forced Thai history to be rewritten?
text: Did you know that John Samuel Phene ' s five-storey house was called the "Gingerbread Castle" because of its numerous devices and fixtures?
text: Did you know that Didier Drogba scored twice for the Ivory Coast in a match which was abandoned after fans rioted, throwing food and drinks onto the pitch?
text: Did you know that the Orchard Pond Parkway is Florida 's first privately-built toll road?
text: Did you know that the Han scholar Gao You —responsible for the present editions of the Huainanzi —had to quit school owing to the Yellow Turban Rebellion ?
text: Did you know that the British government's Construction 2025 industrial strategy sought to reduce whole-life greenhouse gas emissions from the built environment to half of 2013 levels by 2025?
text: Did you know that the Japanese singer Asaka spent part of her childhood in Michigan ?
text: Did you know that approximately 160,000 birds across twenty-two different species nest and breed on the Pearl and Hermes Atoll of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands ?
text: Did you know that a 1942 letter addressed to " the blonde Wren from Argentina on the platform at Bletchley station " led to marriage in 1945?
text: Did you know that Wolfgang Helbich recorded apocryphal works by Bach with the Alsfelder Vokalensemble, and conducted an award-winning recording of Ein deutsches Requiem with the Bremer Domchor ?
text: Did you know that Den of Geek likened watching gameshow whodunnit Armchair Detectives to playing a hidden objects video game?
text: Did you know that 2017 Michigan Wolverine teammates and All-Big Ten Conference honorees Chase Winovich and Khaleke Hudson went to high school in Pennsylvania, while All-Big Ten teammate Lavert Hill once committed to Penn State ?
text: Did you know that the RAF 's IFF Mark II was the first operational identification friend or foe system?
text: Did you know that statesman Costea Bucioc , who reputedly survived a poisoning attempt at the Moldavian court, was later impaled by the Ottoman army?
text: Did you know that the outsourcing industry in China is rapidly growing on the back of " cloud computing , big data , Internet of things and mobile Internet "?
text: Did you know that Gwen Fleming , the first female major in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps , was called "sir" by her colleagues during the Second World War?
text: Did you know that Ramize Erer said that when she published a cartoon of a masturbating girl, "all hell broke loose"?
text: Did you know that the use of asset management plan periods in the water industry of England and Wales has been criticised for creating a boom and bust cycle of investment?
text: Did you know that golfer Sally Sessions tied for second place in the 1947 U.S. Women's Open as an amateur?
text: Did you know that groups of common whirligig beetles often spin round rapidly on the water surface?
text: Did you know that Ghanaian accountant and paramount chief Ogyeahohoo Yaw Gyebi II is also the president of all chiefs in the Western Region of Ghana?
text: Did you know that the Ottawa Art Gallery acquired the Firestone Collection of over 1,600 pieces of Canadian art , including landscapes by the Group of Seven , in 1992?
text: Did you know that the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program was initiated by United States Senator Harry Reid in 2007 to secretly study the topic of UFOs ?
text: Did you know that Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie rejected the chance to be the head of Ghana's ports and harbours because of his fear of the sea ?
text: Did you know that a wasp and a fly were used to combat a moth invader ?
text: Did you know that as president of Fisk University , James Raymond Lawson saw the donor base dwindle due to the students' involvement with the Black Power movement ?
text: Did you know that numerical modeling can reveal the flow of the solid mantle beneath Earth's crust?
text: Did you know that the 14th-century Hanthawaddy Minister-General Byat Za 's doctrine of limited warfare has been compared to that popularized by Clausewitz ?
text: Did you know that in 1900, a steamboat owned by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was stolen by two tugboats during the night from the Erie Basin Marina ?
text: Did you know that in 1951, thoracic surgeon Clement Price Thomas removed part of King George VI 's lung in Buckingham Palace ?
text: Did you know that the footballer Howard Spencer was the first Aston Villa player to captain England ?
text: Did you know that the lyrics to " The Kentucky Volunteer ", the first song copyrighted under the United States Constitution , were written by "a Lady of Philadelphia"?
text: Did you know that Jennie Carignan helped reintroduce ballroom dancing to the Royal Military College Saint-Jean , having taken classes with her future husband when she was a cadet?
text: Did you know that the ancient Maya ruins of San Clemente, El Petén , in Guatemala include a two-storey palace structure and two Mesoamerican ballcourts ?
text: Did you know that Amtrak service at Tacoma Dome Station was halted on its inaugural day due to a train derailment ?
text: Did you know that German microbiologist Paul Lindner named the yeast species he discovered Schizosaccharomyces pombe after the Swahili word for beer?
text: Did you know that soprano Cristina Pasaroiu played Manon in boots, even in bed with her lover?
text: Did you know that members of the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf used the Inabanga River , the largest waterway in Bohol , Philippines, for a planned incursion into the province in 2017?
text: Did you know that Kenyan Brigadier Fatumah Ahmed joined the armed forces "by accident" when she saw a recruitment campaign whilst applying for an identity card?
text: Did you know that Project Flying Cloud was expected to affect an area "comparable in size to that affected by a low-yield nuclear weapon"?
text: Did you know that the Angel of the Winds Casino was designed as a temporary building with modular elements so it could be sold in pieces?
text: Did you know that Wolfgang Stockmeier made around 150 recordings of organ music, taught at three music academies, and composed an opera on a libretto by Gabriele Wohmann ?
text: Did you know that the succulent Euphorbia arbuscula of Socotra is used to feed goats?
text: Did you know that after the American Civil War, "Fighting Parson" Fountain E. Pitts helped grow poppies to make opium in Nashville, Tennessee?
text: Did you know that Genius Grant winner Regina Barzilay helped decipher the ancient language Ugaritic ?
text: Did you know that steam-distilled garlic oil has around 900 times the strength of fresh garlic ?
text: Did you know that Hatto Ständer , who played the organ in church services at age nine, was professor of organ playing, choral conducting, Gregorian chant and composition at the Technical University of Dortmund for more than three decades?
text: Did you know that during the 1981 Milwaukee Police Strike , Mayor Henry Maier requested that taverns and bars voluntarily close early?
text: Did you know that governor Liu Jianfeng and party secretary Deng Hongxun of Hainan clashed fiercely and tried to drive each other out of the province?
text: Did you know that Desmarestia tropica , or tropical acidweed, is possibly extinct because of the 1982–83 El Niño event ?
text: Did you know that footballer Gordon Coleman scored the winning goal in a match against Blackpool in 1982 while sitting on the ground?
text: Did you know that Arsenal Ladies player Clare Wheatley took over as the club's development officer and general manager from Vic Akers , who once told her, "Arsenal Ladies is not a social club"?
text: Did you know that inside the Cabaret du Ciel (Cabaret of Heaven), beer was served, and the entertainment included depictions of angels playing music and Saint Peter sprinkling holy water from the heavens?
text: Did you know that Tyrannomyrmex alii was named for India's "Ant Man"?
text: Did you know that Jie Zhitui , who loyally followed Prince Chong'er in exile for almost 20 years, was supposedly burned alive because he did not want to ask for any reward once his lord was restored to power?
text: Did you know that the Lilac Fire in Southern California grew from a small brush fire to 4,100 acres (17 km 2 ) in one day?
text: Did you know that the organ virtuoso and teacher Heinz Wunderlich held a Hamburg post that Bach had once wanted?
text: Did you know that fugitive dust escapes?
text: Did you know that the mushrooms of the Asian fungus Macrocybe crassa can weigh up to 1.25 kilograms (3 lb)?
text: Did you know that Ramona Go was the first female military pilot, line officer , battalion commander, adjutant general , and regular service general in the Philippine Armed Forces?
text: Did you know that " Diddle Diddle Dumpling ", an episode of Inside No. 9 , was inspired by a chance encounter with a single shoe?
text: Did you know that Ghanaian keyboardist Alfred P. Addaquay composed and performed his first oratorio when he was 20 years old?
text: Did you know that all five of the surviving members of the original cast of the Power Rangers series attended the film adaptation 's Los Angeles premiere in March 2017?
text: Did you know that Janai Haupapa joined the Canadian national rugby league team while still playing for a rugby union club?
text: Did you know that a "Japanese cruiser" was built in Southern California in 1943?
text: Did you know that in 1927, barnstormer Doug Davis let 12-year-old Paul Tibbets drop Baby Ruth candy bars attached to parachutes from his biplane over Hialeah, Florida , kindling the boy's love of flying?
text: Did you know that T-tubules allow heart muscle cells to contract more forcefully by synchronising calcium release?
text: Did you know that Kate Fotso , the richest woman in Cameroon, is known as the "iron lady of the cocoa industry"?
text: Did you know that in 1934 vitamin C was the first synthetic vitamin to be trademarked (as Redoxon ) and marketed?
text: Did you know that the Santa Ana Heritage Zone encompasses a declared Heritage House and a local church that contains two National Cultural Treasures?
text: Did you know that when He Luli was 14, an assassin's bombs killed her younger sister?
text: Did you know that Google Earth was originally developed for use by various agencies of the United States government, including the CIA ?
text: Did you know that Canadian Lieutenant-General Chris Whitecross has fostered 33 children?
text: Did you know that California and the entire eastern United States are under a quarantine restriction by the U.S. state of Washington designed to protect it from apple maggot infestation?
text: Did you know that Slovenian actor Jernej Šugman starred in Shakespeare's Hamlet twice, first in the titular role and the second time as King Claudius ?
text: Did you know that the "Memorial for the War to Resist America and Aid Korea" is no longer one of the national first-grade museums of China ?
text: Did you know that 16th-century kabbalist Shimon Lavi displayed knowledge of alchemy in his commentary on the Zohar ?
text: Did you know that the parasitic wasp Ichneumon eumerus has a complex life cycle involving ants and a rare blue butterfly ?
text: Did you know that the video game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was marketed as " Skyrim in a Game of Thrones sauce"?
text: Did you know that the Roman Emesa helmet appears to be modeled after its wearer's face?
text: Did you know that in 1939, Peter Du Cane was awarded the Segrave Medal for his part in the design of the world water speed record-breaking boat Blue Bird K4 ?
text: Did you know that the Heman Marion Sweatt Travis County Courthouse was named in honor of an early trial in the African-American civil rights movement that was heard there in 1946?
text: Did you know that as paramount chief of the Wulungu traditional area, Ghanaian geographer and academic John S. Nabila is known by the title Wulugu Naba?
text: Did you know that a parasitic barnacle effectively castrates its hosts, the flattened and the knot-fingered mud crabs ?
text: Did you know that Margaret W. Burcham was the first female brigadier general in the United States Army Corps of Engineers ?
text: Did you know that the first Columbus Crew soccer match attended by future owner Anthony Precourt was delayed after the stadium's scoreboard caught fire?
text: Did you know that the Abatan River estuary in Bohol has one of the Philippines' most diverse mangrove forests?
text: Did you know that modelling agent Cherry Marshall discovered Ruth Ellis , the last woman to be hanged in Britain?
text: Did you know that the Record of the Year and Seasons of Jingchu shows how religious, calendrical, culinary, and entertainment changes led to a new canon of major Chinese holidays between the Han and Tang dynasties?
text: Did you know that Mahani Teave is considered Easter Island 's only classical musician?
text: Did you know that local residents followed the cries of trapped passengers to find the crash site of West Wind Aviation Flight 280 and aid in rescue efforts?
text: Did you know that Marcu Cercel , who ruled over Moldavia in 1600, was probably born to a Turkish Muslim apostate ?
text: Did you know that Facebook's Aquila solar-powered drone is intended to provide internet access to remote regions of Earth using no more electricity than three blow dryers ?
text: Did you know that Wolfgang Kläsener conducted his Kettwiger Bach-Ensemble in a memorial concert, combining the last work by Thomas Beimel with one Mass by Bach and one by Bruckner ?
text: Did you know that houseflies have been used in germ warfare to distribute cholera ?
text: Did you know that at Harvard University, Walter J. Leonard designed "one of the country's earliest and most effective affirmative-action programs, which became a model for other universities around the country"?
text: Did you know that the initial plan for the renovation of the Metropolitan Theatre in Winnipeg was for a rock and roll museum?
text: Did you know that in 1992, Camille Robinson-Regis became the youngest senator to be appointed to the cabinet of Trinidad and Tobago ?
text: Did you know that Yiqu was conquered by Qin after its king was killed either by his mistress Queen Dowager Xuan , or by her son the king of Qin?
text: Did you know that North-West Mounted Police Corporal William Dempster found the Lost Patrol ?
text: Did you know that Congolese artist Rhode Makoumbou sculpts figures up to 3 metres (10 ft) tall out of sawdust and woodglue?
text: Did you know that genetic differences may affect the efficacy of the anti-asthmatic drug zafirlukast ?
text: Did you know that Japanese singer Yunchi covered the song "Catch You Catch Me" from Cardcaptor Sakura for one of her albums?
text: Did you know that the Panoz Avezzano , unveiled at the 2016 Petit Le Mans , is named after a town in Italy that was destroyed by an earthquake ?
text: Did you know that the Exeter Hip , designed by Robin Ling and Clive Lee , improved the lives of millions of people?
text: Did you know that when the wasp Idiogramma elbakyanae was named in honor of Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan , she took this as an insult?
text: Did you know that Silvia Correale , the first female Postulator in the Vatican, focuses on guiding potential Argentine saints through the beatification process?
text: Did you know that Vice Admiral Mary M. Jackson was promoted directly from one-star to three-star rank ?
text: Did you know that while the Three Kings bring gold, incense and myrrh to the manger, the singer of " Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier " offers spirit and mind, heart, soul and courage as gifts?
text: Did you know that Luke Harper and Erick Rowan call themselves The Bludgeon Brothers?
text: Did you know that despite being flightless, wood crickets appeared in 2001 at a site in southern England at which they had previously not been present?
text: Did you know that as a teenager, Vietnamese singer Tóc Tiên exaggerated her age twice at singing competitions , one time winning the grand prize?
text: Did you know that the common Epiphany hymn " As with Gladness Men of Old " does not describe the Biblical Magi as "magi" or "kings", or even state their number?
text: Did you know that Carys Bannister drove rally cars and exhibited corgis when not performing brain surgery?
text: Did you know that after dismissing the basic concept as "outlandish", Edward Teller later supported Brilliant Pebbles as a way to shoot down Soviet ICBMs ?
text: Did you know that at age 16, Remy Siemsen was the top goalscorer for Sydney FC in the 2016–17 W-League season ?
text: Did you know that arachnologists think juvenile Chanbria camel spiders locate their prey through a combination of smelling and feeling for them?
text: Did you know that German sinologist Wolfgang Franke was so at home in Beijing that he felt he had lived there in a previous life?
text: Did you know that at its completion, Riverton Lock was the highest lift lock in the world with a lift of 26 feet (7.9 m)?
text: Did you know that Azazet Habtezghi Kidane interviewed more than 1,500 African refugees to document torture in the Sinai Peninsula ?
text: Did you know that Jolly Roger Records had its bootlegs of RCA Records recordings manufactured at RCA's own vinyl record pressing plant?
text: Did you know that Rear Admiral Cindy Jaynes was persuaded to join the United States Navy by a high school friend, having originally considered careers as an actuary or a veterinarian ?
text: Did you know that the art of Uruk includes the 5,000-year-old Mask of Warka , probably one of the earliest known near life-size sculptures?
text: Did you know that Harold Basil Christian , a self-taught horticulturalist in southern Africa, became a world expert on African aloe species after planting one in his yard to block the view of a large, unsightly rock?
text: Did you know that Electric Wizard described their album Wizard Bloody Wizard as "43 brain-damaging minutes, six savage hymns to death, drugs, sex and violence, music dragged (and drugged) back from the grave"?
text: Did you know that the Italian mezzo-soprano Armanda Degli Abbati appeared as Ortrud in Rome and as Amneris in Rio de Janeiro, had an affair with a Russian revolutionary, and trained Estonian singers?
text: Did you know that a pub on the Acle Straight is now a Hindu temple ?
text: Did you know that in 1985 Gay Kindersley naively introduced himself and Graham Lord to the Australian cricket team with, "Hallo folks, I'm Gay and this is my friend Graham"?
text: Did you know that the Radioplane OQ-17 target drone was claimed to be able to match the maneuverability of any fighter aircraft of the mid-1940s?
text: Did you know that Eugénie Henderson taught Far Eastern languages to the British Armed Forces during World War II?
text: Did you know that a collaborative practice agreement , which allows a pharmacist to prescribe medications, order drug therapy -related laboratory tests, and design therapy plans, can improve people's health?
text: Did you know that the dramatic soprano Catherine Foster , a former midwife, appeared as Brünnhilde at the Bayreuth Festival celebrating Wagner's bicentenary?
text: Did you know that in a legacy game , players may be instructed to destroy physical components?
text: Did you know that Jordan Murphy was the first basketball player to earn Big Ten Conference Player of the Week three weeks in a row since Evan Turner did so eight seasons earlier?
text: Did you know that underwater thumps and moans in a West African swamp may indicate the presence of certain air-breathing fish ?
text: Did you know that the ants Poneropsis affinis , Ponera affinis , and Formica schmidtii are all the single fossil species Liometopum imhoffii ?
text: Did you know that after serving as Ghana's ambassador to Iran, Cuba, and Denmark, Hassan Ahmed is now director of protocol for the President of Ghana ?
text: Did you know that while the medieval bergfried of the Boosenburg in Rüdesheim still stands, the castle's moat was made into a wine cellar and other buildings were replaced by a Gothic Revival villa?
text: Did you know that women's sexual preferences and attractiveness may shift across their ovulatory cycles?
text: Did you know that in 1860, Edric Norfolk Vaux Morisset became the first Inspector General of Police in Queensland ?
text: Did you know that so many people wanted a Line the Label jacket that the company's server crashed?
text: Did you know that to ensure the loyalty of Queen Fatuma , a client ruler of Zanzibar, Omani forces kept a cannon trained on her palace?
text: Did you know that Doo Aphane successfully challenged a law that prevented married women from owning property in their own names in Swaziland ?
text: Did you know that Gunday (2014) became one of the lowest-rated films on IMDb following a vote brigading social-media campaign by Bangladeshis ?
text: Did you know that Indian sprinter Amiya Kumar Mallick trained under Usain Bolt 's coach Glen Mills in 2014 and broke the 100 metres national record in 2016?
text: Did you know that Joseph Stalin asked Franklin D. Roosevelt for aluminium , implying enough of it would bring him victory in World War II ?
text: Did you know that the wounds of leprosy sufferer Josephine Cafrine were said to have miraculously healed after her death?
text: Did you know that Herbert Howells composed the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis for Gloucester Cathedral after having organ lessons there with Herbert Brewer as a boy?
text: Did you know that "feminists must have been horrified to discover" what Sylvie Vartan 's song " Comme un garçon " was about?
text: Did you know that Salsa Big Band by Panamanian artists Rubén Blades and Roberto Delgado & Orquesta won the 2017 Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year ?
text: Did you know that Itunu Hotonu , the first female admiral in Africa, joined the Nigerian Navy only because she was rejected by the army?
text: Did you know that Lisbeth's brooding anemone and Fernald's brooding anemone both care for their young, but they use different strategies?
text: Did you know that between 1993 and 2008, Kyrgyz politician Azamat Arapbayev was either the chairman, director or deputy director of seven different companies?
text: Did you know that Human Nature is Brought Forth by Decree , an ancient Chinese philosophical text, was rediscovered about 2,300 years after it was buried?
text: Did you know that despite winning his country's Professional Championship by ten strokes that year, golfer Paddy Mahon was excluded from the 1937 Ryder Cup for being Irish?
text: Did you know that the dual systems model seeks to explain why young people do stupid things?
text: Did you know that the French Constitutional Council triggered a by-election in a constituency where the winning candidate avoided a second round by 16 votes?
text: Did you know that harpsichordist Pieter-Jan Belder recorded the complete Fitzwilliam Virginal Book , and Telemann 's complete Tafelmusik with his ensemble Musica Amphion?
text: Did you know that the anime series C was inspired by the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers ?
text: Did you know that Henry V. Plummer was a chaplain with the US Army Buffalo Soldiers , while his son H. Vinton Plummer was a leader in Marcus Garvey 's secret service and militia?
text: Did you know that Warming's lantern fish spends the day at depths and ascends at night to feed on mats of diatoms near the sea surface?
text: Did you know that Kenneth Cairns won four gold medals and one silver in his first Paralympic Games ?
text: Did you know that the jazz club Bop City was the site of the only meeting between Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker ?
text: Did you know that findings at Laili Cave show that Timor was colonised at least 44,600 years ago, making it the oldest known habitation of modern humans in Wallacea ?
text: Did you know that after J. Charles Jones led an anti-segregation sit-in with hundreds of activists at a Woolworth counter in Charlotte, North Carolina , the store closed its counter to prevent further integration ?
text: Did you know that Bach's motet Komm, Jesu, komm , BWV 229 (Come, Jesus, come) sets lyrics by Paul Thymich , scored for a double choir?
text: Did you know that abolitionist Richard Foster was an officer of the 1st Missouri Regiment of Colored Infantry in the civil war and, with his regiment, established the Lincoln Institute as a school for African Americans?
text: Did you know that the youngest bell of St. Lubentius, Dietkirchen , a Romanesque church on a rock, was consecrated by Pope John Paul II ?
text: Did you know that 16-year-old Hailie Deegan is the only female driver in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West ?
text: Did you know that nominations for the UK Picture Editors' Guild awards have included photographs of battlefield conflict, German figure skaters, and Theresa May laughing?
text: Did you know that Arsenal reached today's 2018 EFL Cup Final against Manchester City without playing a game outside London?
text: Did you know that 40 years ago, Gary Mathias disappeared after leaving a working automobile to walk into California's Plumas National Forest without winter clothing or food, along with four men later found dead?
text: Did you know that Sudden Rush was the first group to record nā mele paleoleo (Hawaiian hip hop )?
text: Did you know that in 1955, a white supremacist organization claimed the racial integration of schools in the United States was a plot devised in Moscow to "mongrelize" White Americans ?
text: Did you know that pianist Christopher White arranged four movements of Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony for his instrument and made a recording at Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel , Hampstead?
text: Did you know that Wat Phra Dhammakaya contains a large monument with a million Buddha statues?
text: Did you know that in 1977, hostages on board a hijacked airliner escaped when their captors fell asleep?
text: Did you know that the organizers of FESTIMA , a festival in Burkina Faso celebrating traditional African masks , estimate that 100,000 people attended in 2016?
text: Did you know that after the shooting of Trayvon Martin , Seattle author Ijeoma Oluo started writing about her social concerns on a blog that she had previously devoted to food?
text: Did you know that what at first sight appears to be a single Oedera capensis flowerhead, is in fact typically a group of nine densely cropped heads?
text: Did you know that because she felt she lacked acting experience, Japanese voice actress Tomori Kusunoki initially auditioned as a singer?
text: Did you know that the killings at the Alem Bekagn prison were visible from the windows of the Organisation of African Unity headquarters, but were never mentioned by the OAU?
text: Did you know that the Yellow River put an end to Wanting in 1168?
text: Did you know that the deep water squat lobster Eumunida picta is often associated with the coldwater coral Lophelia pertusa ?
text: Did you know that Satan frequently appeared as a comic relief figure in late medieval mystery plays , in which he "frolicked, fell, and farted in the background"?
text: Did you know that during the first U.S. government shutdown in 1980 , the Carter administration dispatched U.S. Marshals to Federal Trade Commission facilities to enforce the shutdown?
text: Did you know that Evelyn Terhune , a member of the U.S. fencing team at the 1960 Summer Olympics , took up the sport on a dare?
text: Did you know that HMG Heat and Waterproof Adhesive was used to adhere the 100–200 fragments of the Pioneer helmet ?
text: Did you know that Jaroslav Eminger , an officer in the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during World War II , was acquitted of charges of collaboration and declared a "loyal Bohemian and a brave man"?
text: Did you know that the Macon Whoopees were named after Doris Day 's rendition of the song " Makin' Whoopee "?
text: Did you know that in Sumerian mythology , a group of gods known as the Anunnaki put the goddess Inanna on trial for her attempt to conquer the Underworld ?
text: Did you know that Jean-Jack Queyranne proposed that the regional council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes , like the European Parliament, hold alternating sessions in two cities?
text: Did you know that in 1910, Monroe Morton constructed the Morton Theatre in the "Hot Corner", a center of African American business and culture in Athens, Georgia ?
text: Did you know that the proposed Major Road Network designation would comprise just 4 percent of England's road length but carry 43 percent of its traffic?
text: Did you know that Indianapolis Colts defensive back D. J. White forced at least one fumble in each of his four years at Georgia Tech ?
text: Did you know that the Taiwan bush warbler was described in 1917, but was not named as a distinct species until 2000?
text: Did you know that the marine paradox worm may resemble the common ancestor of humans and mollusks?
text: Did you know that Susanna Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe , was one of Queen Victoria 's longest serving ladies-in-waiting?
text: Did you know that at the 2018 Winter Olympics , Dom Parsons won the first medal for a British male in skeleton in 70 years?
text: Did you know that a light rail line in Seattle will become the first to use a floating bridge ?
text: Did you know that Armando Ríos Piter declined his own party's nomination for Governor of Guerrero because it wanted him to sign a pact with the former governor ?
text: Did you know that Quinta Market in Manila is believed to be the birthplace of the Filipino dessert halo-halo ?
text: Did you know that in South Dakota v. Wayfair , the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to "kill Quill "?
text: Did you know that bobsleigh duo Mica McNeill and Mica Moore crowdfunded £30,000 to compete at 2017–18 Bobsleigh World Cup events?
text: Did you know that the island of Ruffle Bar was isolated from the rest of New York City for three months each year due to the surrounding bay being frozen over?
text: Did you know that Huang Zongying and her husband Zhao Dan were both named among the best 100 actors in the history of Chinese cinema?
text: Did you know that the shrub Banksia blechnifolia got its name because its leaves resembled those of ferns?
text: Did you know that superintendent Marcus Ames resigned in protest after plans were announced to introduce workhouses to the Lancaster Industrial School for Girls in Massachusetts?
text: Did you know that the People's Liberation Army captured Nanjing , the capital of the Republic of China , three days after launching the Yangtze River Crossing Campaign ?
text: Did you know that Melecstrate, Melchstrate, Melkestrate, Melcstrate, Melkstrete, Milkstrate, Milcstrate, Milkestretende, and Milkstrete are all the same place?
text: Did you know that British Army researchers developed SLC radar in their spare time after they grew tired of watching how "searchlight beams swung wildly about the sky but rarely found and held a target"?
text: Did you know that Africa's large population of youths and children makes it the youngest continent, with 60% of residents younger than twenty-five?
text: Did you know that Joseph Stamler allowed a lawsuit opposing mandatory school sex education to proceed, stating that the U.S. Constitution protects "the one person who is sincere in a conscientious religious conviction"?
text: Did you know that in 1976, an air traffic controller error caused two aircraft to collide over Anapa in the Soviet Union, killing all 70 people on board both planes?
text: Did you know that Amazon 's spherical employee lounge in Seattle was opened with an Alexa voice command?
text: Did you know that the Atlantic batfish uses its pectoral and pelvic fins to "walk" over the seabed?
text: Did you know that war correspondent Philip Jacobson placed bets on horse races while reporting from the battlefield?
text: Did you know that Asa Miller , one of only two athletes competing for the Philippines at the 2018 Winter Olympics , was born and raised in Portland, Oregon , and still lives there?
text: Did you know that the greater thornbird builds a cone-shaped nest, usually over water, while the freckle-breasted thornbird makes a gourd-shaped nest with a long entrance tunnel?
text: Did you know that 109 years ago today, William Howard Taft was made a Mason at sight ?
text: Did you know that the French Constitutional Council triggered a by-election in a constituency representing French nationals in Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and Monaco?
text: Did you know that Australian mathematician Katherine Heinrich was the first female president of the Canadian Mathematical Society ?
text: Did you know that in July 1918, Jagdgeschwader III faced the problem of self-igniting ammunition?
text: Did you know that the setting of the film Interstellar was inspired by the Dust Bowl that occurred in 1930s America during the Great Depression ?
text: Did you know that before a distraught Marilyn Bergeron disappeared ten years ago today , a friend says she told him what was bothering her was worse than witnessing a murder or being raped, but would not say what?
text: Did you know that long face syndrome may be associated with sleep apnea ?
text: Did you know that siblings Thomas , Glen , and Eve Muirhead are all competing in curling for Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that during the Vietnam War , Pacific Architects and Engineers provided cover for the CIA 's Phoenix Program ?
text: Did you know that the announcement of the reopening of the Embassy of Poland in Manila coincided with Poland's decision to expand its economic involvement in Asia?
text: Did you know that Mu-ming Poo led a team of scientists that created the world's first primate clones with the same technique used to create Dolly the sheep ?
text: Did you know that the 2017 Finnish film The Unknown Soldier set the Guinness World Record for most high explosives detonated in a single film take?
text: Did you know that Green Bay Packers cornerback Kevin King played most of his first season with an injury to his shoulder which dislocated several times and left him unable to lift his arm over his head?
text: Did you know that Aplerbeck , now part of Dortmund , is associated with two legendary martyrs and a regional psychiatric clinic founded in 1890?
text: Did you know that the Japanese names of the fireflies Luciola cruciata and Aquatica lateralis may derive from two early Japanese novels or the two clans that fought the Genpei War ?
text: Did you know that a housewife, Bhogeswari Phukanani , played a part in the Quit India Movement and lost her life in doing so?
text: Did you know that the Typhon surface-to-air missile was developed as part of a system to replace the United States Navy 's "3T"s?
text: Did you know that many modern Bible scholars consider the story of the prophet Jonah a work of satire ?
text: Did you know that in 1912, Granville Pearl Aikman , a judge of the 13th District Court of Kansas, appointed the first female bailiff in US history?
text: Did you know that the critically endangered Tuncurry midge orchid is threatened by rabbits and urban developments?
text: Did you know that French politician Ian Boucard was the announcer at ASM Belfort home matches?
text: Did you know that the Los Frailes ignimbrite plateau has a volume of about 2,000 cubic kilometres (480 cu mi), and volcanism may have continued into the Holocene ?
text: Did you know that claims have been made that the headquarters of the African Union , donated by the Chinese government, was bugged by the Chinese?
text: Did you know that the longest-serving woman in the House of Commons of Northern Ireland was also the grandmother of two prime ministers?
text: Did you know that there is a conspiracy theory about the presence of an abandoned subway station in New York City east of Euclid Avenue ?
text: Did you know that a Women's Night is still celebrated by a group of indigenous people in Taiwan as a legacy of their centuries-long matrilineal practice?
text: Did you know that Holy Trinity, Cork , is the only church dedicated to Father Mathew ?
text: Did you know that the General Alliance against Racism and for Respect for French and Christian Identity sued Le Figaro for defamation against Catholics?
text: Did you know that Captain G. S. Salaria is the only United Nations peacekeeper to have been awarded the Param Vir Chakra , India's highest wartime military decoration?
text: Did you know that the effects of Hurricane Irma in Florida resulted in at least $50 billion in damage, far surpassing Hurricane Andrew as the state's costliest tropical cyclone?
text: Did you know that there was a 58-year gap between the terms of office of the first and second women cabinet ministers of the Republic of Ireland ?
text: Did you know that the original lyrics of Maurice Chevalier 's song " Valentine " were changed so as not to shock the American public?
text: Did you know that one of the stained glass windows in the Duluth Public Library was exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition ?
text: Did you know that Bambang Soesatyo lost four elections before being elected to the People's Representative Council of Indonesia on his fifth attempt?
text: Did you know that prototypes of the JB-3 Tiamat air-to-air missile were the first missiles to be launched at the Wallops Flight Facility by the Langley Research Center ?
text: Did you know that Saw Ganesan founded the Kamban Kazhagam to promote the epic poem Kamba Ramayanam , written by the medieval Tamil poet Kambar ?
text: Did you know that while five of the states of the US observe a variation of Disability History Month in October, it is unofficially observed in the United Kingdom from November to December?
text: Did you know that Pandri is the first decentralized solar-powered village in India ?
text: Did you know that American historian William Chaney would pretend to shiver and look the other way whenever he walked by a statue of General Sherman ?
text: Did you know that the Zulu festival Umkhosi Wokweshwama was a partial inspiration for the African-American holiday of Kwanzaa ?
text: Did you know that American psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee briefed 12 members of the U.S. Congress on the mental health of President Donald Trump , although she had never met him?
text: Did you know that despite being considered obsolete, the yacht Voortrekker placed second in the 1982/83 BOC Challenge , beaten only by a yacht purpose-built for the race?
text: Did you know that Viking expert David M. Wilson became just the 17th Director of the British Museum in its 224 years?
text: Did you know that the history of speciation largely began with Charles Darwin 's publication of On the Origin of Species ?
text: Did you know that Siegfried Lorenz , the first lyrical baritone of the Berlin State Opera , recorded 151 songs by Schubert and sang "with an enviable control of line and dynamics", according to Alan Blyth ?
text: Did you know that the director of the Noyes Museum of Art said it "was in a beautiful location but it was in the middle of nowhere"?
text: Did you know that John Clemm built the first church organ in America?
text: Did you know that Sufjan Stevens wrote both " Mystery of Love " and "Visions of Gideon" for the 2017 film Call Me by Your Name , even though he was only asked to write one song?
text: Did you know that the small town of Mintaro, South Australia , produces world-class slate from what is believed to be the oldest continuing operating quarry in Australia?
text: Did you know that Illinois -born basketball player Erin Lawless played for Slovakia , despite not being able to speak the language ?
text: Did you know that hardware-based encryption is probably in your computer?
text: Did you know that the third opera by Alessandro Solbiati , Il suono giallo , is based on Wassily Kandinsky 's experimental play The Yellow Sound and premiered in Bologna in 2015?
text: Did you know that a tripwire can be used to deter salami attacks ?
text: Did you know that Jérémie Azou was unbeaten in men's lightweight double sculls races from 2015 to October 2017?
text: Did you know that "Irish villagers" and "girls in clinging lace costumes" could once be seen along the boardwalk of Bergen Beach , a residential neighborhood in New York City ?
text: Did you know that Elad Chakrina initially won Mayotte's 1st constituency by 12 votes, lost by 54 votes after a counting error was corrected, then forced a by-election after an appeal?
text: Did you know that Robin Lee Wilson project-managed the installation of an Archimedes' screw water turbine at the 18th-century Coultershaw Wharf and Beam Pump to supply electricity to the National Grid ?
text: Did you know that the crab hacker barnacle is a parasite of crabs and manipulates its host into caring for its eggs?
text: Did you know that the song "Gallan Goodiyaan" from the 2015 Indian comedy-drama Dil Dhadakne Do was apparently filmed in a single five-minute take?
text: Did you know that the Australian yachtsman Vinny Lauwers circumnavigated the globe solo with his "mistress"?
text: Did you know that at age 12, Edin Šehić became the youngest footballer to sign a scholarship contract with NK Zagreb ?
text: Did you know that the Evangelical Heritage Version of the Bible was translated by a group of Lutheran volunteers?
text: Did you know that in 1953, the council architect 's department of the London County Council employed more than 1,500 people?
text: Did you know that the North American fungus Boletus aurantiosplendens has been found in only seven distinct locations?
text: Did you know that Aileen Hernandez was once told that she would have to hire a "black" taxi if she was going to travel to the traditionally African-American Howard University ?
text: Did you know that the Mediterranean Sea may have been filled by a giant flood with a discharge rate about 1,000 times larger than that of the Amazon River ?
text: Did you know that in Nazi Germany , Karl Maria Zwißler conducted major works by composer Igor Stravinsky regarded as degenerate music , including the ballet The Firebird and the German premiere of Dumbarton Oaks ?
text: Did you know that Russian serial killer Mikhail Popkov has confessed to murdering more people than either Andrei Chikatilo or Alexander Pichushkin ?
text: Did you know that the seeds of the Bredasdorp sceptre are carried underground by ants?
text: Did you know that, from 1966 to 1991, the Yearbook on International Communist Affairs was the most comprehensive annual survey of Communist activities worldwide?
text: Did you know that Blanche Georgiana Vulliamy was fond of portraying bats , goblins , and other reclusive and grotesque creatures?
text: Did you know that in a recent court case , the Minnesota Supreme Court resolved a dispute between the state's legislative and executive branches for the first time in its history?
text: Did you know that the Church of St. Lambertus in Immerath, Germany, withstood artillery fire in World War II, but not the expansion of a lignite mine in 2018?
text: Did you know that People described a carry-on manufactured by Away as "the little black dress of luggage"?
text: Did you know that a "near-riot" broke out after Cory Booker cast the deciding vote to seat Shanique Speight as a member of the Newark, New Jersey city council?
text: Did you know that HPgV-2 is the second human pegivirus ever discovered?
text: Did you know that the Easton Area Public Library holds what is believed to be the original Flag of Easton that was flown in the town during the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence ?
text: Did you know that fourteen players have scored an international hat-trick for the Wales national football team ?
text: Did you know that King Abdullah II of Jordan, who claims to be a 41st-generation direct descendant of Muhammad , funded the restoration of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in 2017?
text: Did you know that Stuart Mustow recommended that Birmingham City Council lose responsibility for maintaining the city's Inner Ring Road due to construction defects?
text: Did you know that despite director John Frankenheimer 's preference for the first ending he had shot for Ronin , the test audience "hated it"?
text: Did you know that German author Natalie Grams set out to write a scientific defense of homeopathy , but instead discontinued her homeopathic practice and wrote a book called Homeopathy Reconsidered ?
text: Did you know that four years ago today, 2,000 passengers stranded in China's Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport during a snowstorm rioted over delayed flights , destroying check-in desks and assaulting staff?
text: Did you know that the M60 and Q70 bus routes in New York City were upgraded because LaGuardia Airport had no other rapid transit options?
text: Did you know that the Republic SD-4 and Fairchild SD-5 reconnaissance drones were designed to provide targeting data for tactical ballistic missiles ?
text: Did you know that General Sir Brian Robertson said: "General Montgomery does not cheat – whether that is due to his innate honesty or the fact that I watch him like a cat does not matter"?
text: Did you know that though the Saleh Kamboh Mosque of Lahore was built during Mughal emperor Aurangzeb 's reign, it has architectural features of the Shah Jahani era?
text: Did you know that the New Zealand Māori folk song " Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi " was hijacked by British and Irish Lions rugby fans?
text: Did you know that prickly felicia belongs to the daisy family and is found on sand dunes in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa?
text: Did you know that Celia M. Burleigh became the first woman pastor ordained into the Unitarian ministry ?
text: Did you know that an archaeological find identified as a 10th-century Viking helmet has been alleged to actually be a World War II Luftwaffe helmet ?
text: Did you know that all of the proposals to honor Michael Jackson at New York City's Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets subway station have been declined?
text: Did you know that Chinese naval commander Zhang Wendan exchanged information on pirate activity with the Japanese, in a rare occasion of military cooperation between the two countries?
text: Did you know that the Rahway River Parkway , designed by Olmsted Brothers in the 1920s, was a project of the newly-formed Union County parks commission?
text: Did you know that, according to Lord Mountbatten , Queen Elizabeth II planned to hit Idi Amin with the Pearl Sword if he came to her Silver Jubilee ?
text: Did you know that Donna Kennedy became the world's most-capped women's rugby player in 2004, and by 2007 was also the most-capped player in Scotland, retiring in 2010 with 115 caps ?
text: Did you know that before one pharaoh could construct his own monument, the Pyramid of Nyuserre , he had to complete the three monuments to his mother, father, and elder brother?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film Paul, Apostle of Christ features Jim Caviezel 's first appearance in a biblical film since he portrayed Jesus in The Passion of the Christ ?
text: Did you know that the African weaver ant has been used to control the coconut bug ?
text: Did you know that in one 1858 baseball game, Frank Pidgeon threw more than 400 pitches?
text: Did you know that a BBC executive boasts that actors of the Corporation ' s Radio Drama Company can be "mice, ants, naiads or dryads , men morphing into hares , maggots in a fisherman's sack, or even a tray of fancy cakes"?
text: Did you know that the first time Ethel Page met her husband – a future Australian prime minister – he accidentally set her on fire?
text: Did you know that filming of the two-episode event " Gorilla City " on the third season of the 2014 television series The Flash was moved south of the original filming location, due to prolonged snowfall in Vancouver ?
text: Did you know that Savannah Jordan was the first soccer player in the history of the Southeastern Conference to be named SEC Offensive Player of the Year as a freshman?
text: Did you know that Cortinarius metallicus got its name from its bluish metallic sheen?
text: Did you know that during the Siege of Katsurayama , the castle garrison poured rice from their walls to fool the besiegers into thinking they had ample water?
text: Did you know that at 0.7 miles (1.1 km) long, Interstate 878 is the shortest interstate highway in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that when soprano Lucy Crowe became ill, her replacement Sabina Puértolas had only three hours to rehearse before performing at the Royal Opera House in London?
text: Did you know that Palazzo Corpi , the longtime United States consulate in Istanbul , was acquired by the American government in a poker game?
text: Did you know that the night before the 2003 Football League Second Division play-off Final , the Queens Park Rangers ' team hotel was targeted by a malicious false fire alarm?
text: Did you know that the first Edison incandescent lamp-illuminated home was James Hood Wright 's residence in New York City in 1881?
text: Did you know that the Swan with Two Necks was one of the principal departure points for coach travel to the north of England from London?
text: Did you know that Janet Napolitano , a former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security , sued her own agency ?
text: Did you know that the horseshoe shrimp Hutchinsoniella macracantha is the first example of a new class of crustaceans that was given the name Cephalocarida ?
text: Did you know that Montana lieutenant governor Archibald E. Spriggs participated in a secret scheme to allow William A. Clark to retain his Senate seat?
text: Did you know that after making a portrait bust of Giuseppe Garibaldi , sculptor Elisabet Ney is thought to have provided him with military intelligence during the Third Italian War of Independence ?
text: Did you know that the Twinnies would play accordion and sing while rollerblading ?
text: Did you know that the Seattle Sounders FC were second-to-last when they hired coach Brian Schmetzer , but finished the season by winning the MLS Cup ?
text: Did you know that after a bitter dispute over its curriculum in 1890, the High School of Montreal was destroyed by fire?
text: Did you know that Nikolaus Herman based the melody of his Christmas carol " Lobt Gott, ihr Christen alle gleich " on the Gregorian hymn " Puer natus est nobis "?
text: Did you know that Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong met for the last time during the Chongqing Negotiations ?
text: Did you know that Isaiah Livers won the closest Mr. Basketball of Michigan vote in history?
text: Did you know that while pushing for the repeal of New Jersey 's obscenity laws, Assemblyman Walter Kern argued that "adults should be able to purchase whatever their perverted hearts desire"?
text: Did you know that the footballer Robin Turner scored twice on his home debut for Swansea City , equalling the number of league goals he scored for former club Ipswich Town in nine seasons?
text: Did you know that when Cristo Rey OKC high school opens in fall 2018, students will be able to work for Boeing , Love's Travel Stops , and more than 30 other employers as part of work-study ?
text: Did you know that French politician Véronique Hammerer , a member of La République En Marche! , said it was "terrible" that her husband could not buy a Porsche Cayenne for fear of public criticism?
text: Did you know that Thyonicola dogieli , a parasite of sea cucumbers, is the longest gastropod in the world?
text: Did you know that Yves Volel was Anderson Cooper 's math teacher at the Dalton School in Manhattan before returning to Haiti to run for president, where he was assassinated?
text: Did you know that The Colossus of Rhodes , a painting by Salvador Dalí , is heavily influenced by an article by the sculptor Herbert Maryon ?
text: Did you know that at two million words, Men of Good Will by Jules Romains is one of the longest novels ever written ?
text: Did you know that ProRodeo Hall of Fame steer roper Guy Allen 's record streak of 11 consecutive world titles was ended by Buster Record?
text: Did you know that despite its "tasty flesh" and abundance, the southern cuttlefish Sepia australis is currently of little interest to fisheries?
text: Did you know that the English radiographer Ethel Armstrong has worked for the National Health Service since the day it was founded in 1948?
text: Did you know that several composers of the 18th century used Paul Gerhardt 's hymn " Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld " to begin their Passion music ?
text: Did you know that Susan O'Malley was the first female president of an NBA franchise?
text: Did you know that deliberately stopping a phone call before it is answered can be a form of communication in its own right?
text: Did you know that Willem Ravelli was the voice of Christ in Bach's St Matthew Passion more than 400 times, including the first complete recording of the work conducted by Mengelberg ?
text: Did you know that the baritone Johannes Hill was the voice of Jesus and Pilate in Bach's Passions , and of Pope Francis in the premiere of Laudato si' ?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball has authenticated a smashed telephone and some dirt?
text: Did you know that Mexican-American Holocaust survivor Anthony Acevedo mixed snow and urine with the ink of his pen to ensure he could maintain his concentration-camp diary?
text: Did you know that the spymaster and cricketer J. C. Masterman trained at the Royal Naval College, Osborne ?
text: Did you know that Sharon Calahan is the first member of the American Society of Cinematographers whose feature film background is entirely in computer animation ?
text: Did you know that " Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut " (Lord Jesus Christ, you highest good) is the beginning of two Lutheran hymns , one for penitence , the other for communion ?
text: Did you know that Opening Day for the Seattle Mariners in 1982 was delayed when a player hid the keys to the bullpen car ?
text: Did you know that the American-made schooner Meteor III was the largest yacht in the world when built for German Emperor Wilhelm II ?
text: Did you know that Gujarati poet Panna Naik was inspired to write by Anne Sexton 's Love Poetry ?
text: Did you know that the two-millennia-old Nijmegen Helmet was found in a river bank?
text: Did you know that during the First World War the British Army recruited Maltese waiters to serve its Salonika Army ?
text: Did you know that Emily Riehl , former bassist for the band Unstraight, wrote about "unstraightening" in her research as a professional mathematician?
text: Did you know that the extinct ant Usomyrma was thought to be ancestral to spider ants when first described?
text: Did you know that the new World Trade Center was once projected for completion in 36 years, longer than the original complex had existed?
text: Did you know that when the English surgeon Frances Ivens joined the military hospital at Royaumont in France during the First World War, she had no experience in treating men?
text: Did you know that a sculpture of the god Neptune on one of the parapets of the University of Washington 's Gerberding Hall represents the academic disciplines of oceanography and fisheries science ?
text: Did you know that Lady Camilla Bloch has spoken out against those who call her father a murderer?
text: Did you know that dimension stone from the Sulphur Mountain Formation has been used extensively in buildings around Banff, Alberta ?
text: Did you know that Danielle Herrington , cover model for the 2018 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue , booked her first swimsuit shoot four months after moving to New York City to pursue modelling?
text: Did you know that in the aftermath of the Gajda Affair , the government of Czechoslovakia moved to disenfranchise the army's officer corps?
text: Did you know that during the American Civil War , Barney Prine made money by running races against fellow soldiers in the 1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment ?
text: Did you know that James W. Downing , a survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor , compiled lists of his shipmates' names and addresses to inform their families back home?
text: Did you know that strandflats are the most studied coastal landform in Norway?
text: Did you know that Ralph Abernathy was harshly criticized by other African-American civil rights activists for alleging in his autobiography that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. committed adultery the night before he was assassinated?
text: Did you know that Alliance Defending Freedom's first landmark case was the 1995 US Supreme Court lawsuit Rosenberger v. University of Virginia ?
text: Did you know that Mary Nomura , a singer who was sent to the Manzanar concentration camp as an orphaned teenager, became known as the "songbird of Manzanar"?
text: Did you know that the terms of the Treaty of Livadia between Qing China and the Russian Empire were so unfavorable to China that the negotiator Chonghou was sentenced to death?
text: Did you know that sisters Carmen and Ramona Brussig were born within 15 minutes of each other and won Paralympic gold medals within 15 minutes of each other?
text: Did you know that people supposedly kept picking up a vanishing hitchhiker outside the Lower Bell pub in Kent ?
text: Did you know that Goldman Sachs bankers Richard and Robert Menschel are related to E. W. Priestap , assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division ?
text: Did you know that the 1,000-year-old Buttington Oak , said to have been planted to commemorate the 893 Battle of Buttington , fell last month?
text: Did you know that Elsa Cavelti , who appeared in dramatic roles at the Opernhaus Zürich and taught voice at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt , was Wagner's Brangäne at La Scala ?
text: Did you know that the comic book Damnation is about Doctor Strange fighting the demon Mephisto for the souls of Las Vegas citizens?
text: Did you know that at the 2018 Winter Olympics, New Jersey -born Anthony Watson became the first slider to represent Jamaica in skeleton at the Olympic level ?
text: Did you know that while most Indonesians do not speak Arabic, they learn to read the Quran using a textbook called Iqro ?
text: Did you know that the mutualistic aphid Paracletus cimiciformis sometimes develops into a form that feeds on the young of the ants that care for it?
text: Did you know that an arrow killed Hugh of Fauquembergues , Prince of Galilee , in a skirmish when he was returning from a plundering raid?
text: Did you know that in 2017 Georgetown University named a building after Isaac Hawkins because his name appeared first on the list of enslaved people sold by them in 1838 ?
text: Did you know that Swedish songwriter Kenneth Gärdestad wrote the lyrics for the Melodifestivalen 1979 winning song " Satellit " performed by his brother Ted Gärdestad ?
text: Did you know that several astronomical observatories are constructed on the Purico volcanic complex ?
text: Did you know that Clarence G. Child , a scholar of medieval literature at the University of Pennsylvania , was also a hobbyist mathematician?
text: Did you know that the Domestic Partnerships Act 2018 made Bermuda the first national territory in the world to re-prohibit new same-sex marriages?
text: Did you know that Archibald Cary Smith designed the first American iron yacht?
text: Did you know that the land snail genus Vatusila was named after a Fijian tribe known for killing and eating the missionary Thomas Baker in 1867?
text: Did you know that philologist Caroline Brady wrote about the words used for weapons and warriors in the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf ?
text: Did you know that Kennington tube station , opened in 1890, is a listed building and the only one from the world's first underground electric railway to retain its original appearance?
text: Did you know that Victorian physician and discoverer of arsenic in beer , Ernest Reynolds , did not believe in over-reliance on medical technology?
text: Did you know that the Thai Buddhist temple Wat Paknam Bhasicharoen organizes blood donations every three months?
text: Did you know that Henry Liebman hates "Henry Liebman's Noodle Soup"?
text: Did you know that a 4 cm (1.6 in) long fragment of an Anglo-Saxon helmet was bought for £15,000?
text: Did you know that traffic on the London, Huron and Bruce Railway was so dominated by farm produce that it was nicknamed the "Butter and Egg Special"?
text: Did you know that among Stanley Gelbier 's writings on pediatric dentistry is a 1962 study of tooth erosion in a boy who drank copious amounts of cola and soft drinks?
text: Did you know that in its earliest years, New York City's Rainbow Room restaurant was frequented by the social elite and European royalty?
text: Did you know that The Mount Carmel College of Nursing is still located on the campus of Mount Carmel West hospital?
text: Did you know that Fragments of Horror was Junji Ito 's first return to the horror genre after eight years of writing "manga about cats or about society"?
text: Did you know that Doreen Simmons was awarded Japan's Order of the Rising Sun for her sumo television commentaries?
text: Did you know that a large lake formerly covered California's Death Valley , and occasionally reappears?
text: Did you know that Allanah Harper was responsible for introducing W. H. Auden , T. S. Eliot , and Virginia Woolf to the French people?
text: Did you know that the founders of Smashburger sampled 300 kinds of beef before settling on Angus for their restaurant's burgers?
text: Did you know that during the Second World War, General Ronald Forbes Adam instituted aptitude tests for new recruits to the British Army?
text: Did you know that to compose the entire score for the video game Heavy Rain , Normand Corbeil was given two months, producing nearly 300 cues ?
text: Did you know that the 1900 English beer poisoning , in which more than 6,000 drinkers were poisoned by arsenic , was misdiagnosed for months as alcoholic neuritis ?
text: Did you know that Citicorp chose to build a tower near the Court Square–23rd Street station in Queens because it was one subway stop away from the company's headquarters in Manhattan, across the East River?
text: Did you know that the performances of Maaya Sakamoto and Sanae Kobayashi inspired Saori Ōnishi to pursue a voice acting career?
text: Did you know that the Orange College of Breda was founded by Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange ?
text: Did you know that the inland free-tailed bat can survive the most extreme range of body temperatures of any mammal known?
text: Did you know that upon her completion in 1885, the French cruiser Milan was considered the fastest warship afloat?
text: Did you know that in 2016, annual global internet traffic reached 1.2 zettabytes , leading some to label the current period the Zettabyte Era ?
text: Did you know that Charles Phillips , who excavated the Sutton Hoo ship-burial, was tasked as a schoolboy with digging latrines near Stonehenge ?
text: Did you know that in 1998, Dottie Lamm , former First Lady of Colorado , ran for a US Senate seat against the same man who had defeated her husband in the Democratic primary for the same seat six years earlier?
text: Did you know that the Flying Dutchman -related poems in J. Slauerhoff 's 1928 collection Eldorado are more likely inspired by a French romantic spirit than a German Romantic or Dutch Calvinist one?
text: Did you know that Crimean Tom , a tabby cat, helped save British and French soldiers from starvation after the Siege of Sevastopol by locating hidden food supplies?
text: Did you know that the groundbreaking for the New York Coliseum was delayed for ten years, and the demolition took another fourteen?
text: Did you know that footballer Chris Stringer made his professional debut as a substitute after the starting goalkeeper received the fastest red card in English Football League history?
text: Did you know that the shortbeard codling crushes the molluscs on which it feeds with its beak-like jaws?
text: Did you know that despite odds estimated at 17 trillion to one, Evelyn Adams won two multi-million-dollar lottery jackpots in the span of four months?
text: Did you know that Colophina clematis was the first species of aphid to be identified as having a "soldier" caste?
text: Did you know that oceanographer and former Florida State University dean Nancy Marcus was also a magician and ventriloquist ?
text: Did you know that Pinewood Hospital was located in a pine wood in Pinewood , as pine trees were thought to be beneficial for tuberculosis patients?
text: Did you know that Japanese voice actress Lynn was born to a Japanese-American father and a Japanese-Brazilian mother?
text: Did you know that one of the largest volcanic eruptions on Earth, at La Pacana in Chile, erupted 2,451–3,500 cubic kilometres of rock?
text: Did you know that Captain Marvel is expected to be Marvel Studios ' first female-led film?
text: Did you know that the Sutton Hoo helmet weighs 2.5 kg (5.5 lb), but the Sutton Hoo Helmet weighs 900 kg (2,000 lb)?
text: Did you know that footballer Paul Giles suffered an injury during a match in March 1982 after being fouled by his brother?
text: Did you know that the Brown County Courthouse in South Dakota is built of Berea sandstone from Ohio?
text: Did you know that Ali Soozandeh was inspired to film Tehran Taboo , which explores sexual double standards in Iran, by a conversation he overheard on a train?
text: Did you know that during their winter meetings, members of medical history society the Osler Club drink a punch made of tangerine oranges, Tarragona wine , rum, brandy whisky or gin, water, spices and cream?
text: Did you know that Arthur and Morley Cowles Ballantine , co-publishers of The Durango Herald , sometimes wrote opposing editorials, as when he endorsed Nixon and she Humphrey for president in 1968?
text: Did you know that integral bridges do not have movement joints ?
text: Did you know that among those rescued by the British Army during the attack on the United States embassy in Addis Ababa was a reporter's pet cheetah ?
text: Did you know that the spider genus Seycellesa and the nematode genus Traklosia were both originally named Robertia , but had to be renamed?
text: Did you know that architect William Strudwick Arrasmith designed more than 60 Greyhound bus stations?
text: Did you know that the Australian Air Corps has been described as "Australia's first independent air force, albeit an interim one"?
text: Did you know that Luo Haocai , who was jailed by the British and deported from Singapore, became Vice President of China's Supreme People's Court ?
text: Did you know that Tillie Walden 's graphic novel Spinning , a memoir of her adolescent career as a competitive figure skater , was originally her thesis for the Center for Cartoon Studies ?
text: Did you know that US Court of Appeals Judge Amy Coney Barrett taught constitutional law at Blackstone Legal Fellowship ?
text: Did you know that the solar eclipse of May 20, 2012 , began on a Monday and ended on the previous Sunday?
text: Did you know that after arriving penniless in Liverpool in 1920, Indian physician Harbans Lall Gulati walked to London to obtain work?
text: Did you know that the waterfalls on Catlin Brook are the "holy grail" of Pennsylvania waterfalls?
text: Did you know that Benty Grange is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest , but not because of the boar-crested helmet discovered there?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Kane wrote a book sympathetic to Mormon polygamists while simultaneously objecting to how polygamy subjugated women?
text: Did you know that The Daily Telegraph said The Hatton Garden Job "begins to feel like a bizarre, Brechtian joke at the audience's expense"?
text: Did you know that due to its proximity to a charter school , alcoholic beverages cannot be served at Zions Bank Stadium ?
text: Did you know that Akane Fujita decided to become a voice actress partly because she "wanted to do something that was fun"?
text: Did you know that in the United States, children ages 2–17 with milk allergy are shorter on average than their non-allergic peers?
text: Did you know that Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart led a failed twelve-year effort to build nuclear reactors in Cuba?
text: Did you know that Lion Forge Comics was founded to provide ethnically diverse creators an outlet to create ethnically diverse characters?
text: Did you know that the Magill Youth Training Centre was described by a Youth Representative to the United Nations as being "the worst of its kind"?
text: Did you know that Alaskans in coastal areas evacuated to higher ground where they waited to see if the 2018 Gulf of Alaska earthquake had caused a tsunami ?
text: Did you know that the 5th Marquess of Donegall married at the age of 80, gained a son and heir nine months later, and died within a year leaving an estate valued at £27?
text: Did you know that during the American Revolutionary War , George Washington participated in "a pretty little frisk" at the Van Veghten House ?
text: Did you know that the Pugwashite , Patricia Lindop , worked with Nobel Prize winner Joseph Rotblat on the effects of radiation on living organisms?
text: Did you know that the historic Church of Santa Maria Primerana in Tuscany was built atop the stylobate of an ancient Roman temple ?
text: Did you know that blind swimmer John Morgan won 13 gold medals across two Paralympic Games and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro ?
text: Did you know that Igor Stravinsky ' s Scherzo for piano was composed in 1902 but not published until 1970?
text: Did you know that Virginia Woolf was conceived despite her mother Julia Stephen and father doing "what they could to prevent me", since "contraception was a very imperfect art" in the 19th century?
text: Did you know that according to writer Charlie Brooker , the Black Mirror episode " San Junipero " was set in California as a "fuck you" to people complaining that the show would become Americanised?
text: Did you know that Charles Reynolds , who successfully persuaded the Pope to excommunicate Henry VIII of England , was posthumously attainted for treason?
text: Did you know that Minol Araki , whose art drew on both Eastern and Western traditions, made a series of five paintings over 70 feet (21 m) long that were partly inspired by his mentor Zhang Daqian 's work?
text: Did you know that the Stephen Court fire , which killed 43 people, was caused by a short-circuit?
text: Did you know that the English surgeon Marriott Fawckner Nicholls served in the British Army in both World Wars before ending his career as professor of surgery at the University of Khartoum in Sudan?
text: Did you know that the Episcopal Seminary of Fiesole , formed after the Council of Trent , was unusually influenced by the Society of Jesus ?
text: Did you know that American congers cross the Gulf Stream twice during their lives?
text: Did you know that in 2006, footballer Steve Flack scored the fastest hat-trick in Exeter City 's history?
text: Did you know that the offices of the Portuguese Embassy in Bangkok are located in an old warehouse?
text: Did you know that the appearance of Ash Lynx, the main character in the manga Banana Fish , is based on tennis player Stefan Edberg and actor River Phoenix ?
text: Did you know that laughter, a signal of amusement , helps us cope with stress?
text: Did you know that the Diet of Transylvania elected Sigismund Rákóczi prince in 1607, although he had proposed his former son-in-law to the delegates?
text: Did you know that the landmarked 19th-century Robert and Anne Dickey House , which formerly housed the French consulate in New York City , is being incorporated into a new school building?
text: Did you know that the Dhammakaya Movement teaches that Nirvana exists as a literal reality within each individual?
text: Did you know that Rie Takahashi decided to pursue a voice acting career after noticing that many male characters were voiced by females?
text: Did you know that the American Bank Note Company Printing Plant included an office for a counterfeiter?
text: Did you know that the Yalu River Broken Bridge , which connected China and North Korea, was built by Japan and destroyed by the United States?
text: Did you know that Jackie Wallace told the coach of the Los Angeles Rams to "kiss my ass" for failing to field him in Super Bowl XIV , his final NFL game?
text: Did you know that the deepsea starfish Novodinia antillensis has large eyespots on the tips of its arms, but these may be non-functional?
text: Did you know that pianist Katharina Sellheim and two other women played piano trios by Beethoven , Waterhouse , and Mendelssohn at the Beethovenfest ?
text: Did you know that two months after the Candia massacre , the last Ottoman soldiers left Crete , ending 253 years of Ottoman rule?
text: Did you know that the Church Father Origen drew heavily on the teachings of Plato and tried to harmonize Greek philosophy with Christian teachings?
text: Did you know that there is an eight-sided barn on Missouri Route 48 ?
text: Did you know that the founder of Banks Beer , Peter D'Aguiar , was also a prominent Guyanese politician?
text: Did you know that Chi Pu 's song " Từ hôm nay (Feel Like Ooh) " received an overwhelmingly negative reception, with some reviewers calling it "disastrous"?
text: Did you know that the Museum of Geometric and MADI Art in Dallas is the only museum in North America dedicated to the Madí art movement?
text: Did you know that Jai Tirath Dahiya won his seat in the 2014 Haryana Legislative Assembly election by a margin of three votes?
text: Did you know that between 1992 and 2016, Scottish football club Aberdeen did not win a single match at Ibrox Stadium , home of their rivals Rangers F.C. , in 41 attempts?
text: Did you know that Hanging Sword Alley was also known as "Blood Bowl Alley" after its infamous night life?
text: Did you know that David Meade 's prediction of a hidden planet named Nibiru hitting Earth on September 23, 2017, was based on what he says are coded messages hidden in the Giza Pyramids in Egypt?
text: Did you know that Krishna Kohli is the first Hindu Dalit woman to be elected to the Senate of Pakistan?
text: Did you know that Heroin(e) , an Academy Award-nominated short film, follows three women fighting the opioid epidemic in Huntington, West Virginia , where the overdose rate is ten times the US average?
text: Did you know that Catherine Rückwardt , who was Generalmusikdirektorin at the Staatstheater Mainz for a decade and one of only four women in such a position in Germany, conducted a recording of the First Symphony by Hans Rott ?
text: Did you know that Emma Jane Gay , known for her photographs of the Nez Perce people in the late 19th century, is identified as the first American lesbian photographer?
text: Did you know that an illiterate Thai nun became a highly revered spiritual leader in her community, and more than 250,000 people attended her funeral?
text: Did you know that Annalisa Crannell brings chopsticks to art galleries as a tool for finding vanishing points ?
text: Did you know that Mary Ann Kerwin , co-founder of La Leche League , said that when breastfeeding in the US in the 1950s, "we would practically smother our babies with blankets to avoid showing any breast"?
text: Did you know that cell isolation techniques can be used to help study individual living cells from tissue normally discarded during open heart surgery ?
text: Did you know that the British government's Transforming Infrastructure Performance report aims to save the construction industry £15 billion per year?
text: Did you know that Green Bay Packers running back Devante Mays played for two different community colleges before transferring to Utah State?
text: Did you know that when the stiff-footed sea cucumber eviscerates , it gets rid of the parasitic sea snail which lives attached to its gut?
text: Did you know that while his parents wanted him to serve in the church, Albert Methfessel pursued his interest in music, becoming a key figure in German folk and male voice singing in the 19th century?
text: Did you know that nearly US$700 million was allocated to the process of downgrading Interstate 895 in New York City from a freeway to a boulevard?
text: Did you know that Prince Edmund Batthyany-Strattmann was a wet bob at Eton ?
text: Did you know that WestJet Encore , a Canadian airline which began flights in 2013, deactivates water lines in the lavatory sinks to prevent freezing on cold nights?
text: Did you know that Camilla Gray 's attempts to stage an exhibition of Russian art in Britain were hindered by Soviet antipathy to abstract art ?
text: Did you know that the 2014 Carlton Complex Fire was the largest wildfire in Washington state history up to that time?
text: Did you know that when the Boy Scouts of America tried changing their name in 1977 to Scouting/USA , they were accused of chauvinism for not considering the effects on the Girl Scouts?
text: Did you know that EastEnders filmed three mini episodes in Paris to coincide with the 1998 FIFA World Cup ?
text: Did you know that Enlil , the chief god of the Sumerian pantheon, was regarded as so glorious that not even the other deities could look upon him?
text: Did you know that Manhattan vegetarian restaurant Dirt Candy is "waging war on the 'eat your vegetables' mind-set"?
text: Did you know that Alysia Rissling was the pilot for the first ever all-woman team in an official four-man bobsleigh race after the event became gender neutral ?
text: Did you know that the Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum was founded in 1979 by Max Pommer and members of the Gewandhausorchester after Bach 's model?
text: Did you know that the British dentist Neil Swallow often made night calls to make feeding plates for babies born with cleft palates ?
text: Did you know that until it closed in 2009, J.E. Rhoads & Sons was the longest continually-operating company in the United States, having been in business for more than three centuries?
text: Did you know that after failing to get playing time at ABC Futebol Clube , footballer Rodriguinho Marinho considered becoming a futsal player?
text: Did you know that the 2010 Infrastructure Cost Review led to annual savings of £3 billion in British government expenditure on infrastructure by 2014?
text: Did you know that the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria's name comes from a sign that one of the founders discovered at a liquor shop?
text: Did you know that Susan Goldberg was the first woman editor-in-chief of National Geographic magazine?
text: Did you know that the Gilwell Oak was named the United Kingdom's "Tree of the Year" for 2017?
text: Did you know that a modern bus station was built to resemble the former Brockton train station , designed by Bradford Gilbert ?
text: Did you know that a Columbine cup was a masterpiece resembling the shape of a cluster of doves?
text: Did you know that four-time Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association World Champion Bull Rider J.W. Harris suffered five concussions in 2008?
text: Did you know that Der Gemischte Chor Zürich sang the premiere of Nänie in 1881, conducted by its composer Johannes Brahms , and the premiere of a commission by Edward Rushton in 2013 for the choir's 150th anniversary?
text: Did you know that a last-second, game-winning touchdown by the Minnesota Vikings was dubbed the Minneapolis Miracle ?
text: Did you know that the disappearance of Suzanne Lyall from the SUNY Albany campus 20 years ago led to changes in federal and state laws on how campus police departments handle major investigations?
text: Did you know that in the mid-3rd century BC, the governor of Zhao's Yanmen Commandery lured 100,000 nomad horsemen over the Great Wall before defeating them?
text: Did you know that vocalist Juliana Walanika 's updated versions of old meles and chants set the style for the Hawaiian music of her day?
text: Did you know that in the 1960s, sugarcane cultivars developed in Tiruvadi Sambasiva Venkataraman 's laboratory sustained the sugar industries of 22 countries?
text: Did you know that Kiyono Yasuno furthered her interest in voice acting at a young age by watching videos of dubs being recorded?
text: Did you know that in Blueford v. Arkansas , the US Supreme Court allowed a man to be retried on murder charges after a jury unanimously voted to acquit him of those same charges?
text: Did you know that Paralympian Tommy Taylor won 16 medals across five sports, including 10 gold medals?
text: Did you know that on Pulpit Freedom Sunday , conservative pastors give "blatantly political" sermons in defiance of the Johnson Amendment ?
text: Did you know that Huang Xuhua , the "father of China's nuclear submarines", spent two years raising pigs?
text: Did you know that the Aubervilliers Congress of the French Socialist Party will take place near the Front Populaire Paris Métro station, a symbolic reference to the left-wing Popular Front coalition of 1936?
text: Did you know that a prow house is named after a ship's prow ?
text: Did you know that last year, there was a simulated nuclear weapons attack against the New York metropolitan area ?
text: Did you know that Sankaralinganar died after fasting for 76 days while demanding that the name of Madras State be changed to Tamil Nadu ?
text: Did you know that Command and Destroy 's password save system was kept when it was ported from the Game Boy Advance to the Nintendo DS , to the annoyance of critics at its 2008 release?
text: Did you know that the lyric soprano Anny Felbermayer , who performed 54 roles at the Vienna State Opera , created the role of Xanthe in Die Liebe der Danae by Richard Strauss at the 1952 Salzburg Festival ?
text: Did you know that hundreds of Jewish communities used to celebrate more than one Purim a year ?
text: Did you know that the 2011 Löfstedt Report proposed to exempt many British self-employed people from health and safety regulations?
text: Did you know that Polish mountain climber Tomasz Mackiewicz went missing on January 27 during his seventh attempt to reach the summit of the 8,126-metre (26,660 ft) high Nanga Parbat in Pakistan?
text: Did you know that people have underestimated the role of faith in Buddhism , according to translator and monastic Bhikkhu Bodhi ?
text: Did you know that the Oriental Basin pocket gopher was designated a species in 1895, demoted to a subspecies of Merriam's pocket gopher in 1968, then restored to species status in 2005?
text: Did you know that Michael F. Adubato tried to block a bill giving Newark, New Jersey , $18 million in added tax revenue, to protest salary increases for Newark's city council totalling $150,000?
text: Did you know that the bass Dmitry Belosselskiy appeared internationally in title roles, as Boris Godunov , Macbeth , Simon Boccanegra , and Ivan Susanin ?
text: Did you know that Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter received one of the largest-ever advances from Knopf to secure the rights to publish his debut novel The Emperor of Ocean Park ?
text: Did you know that the Clementi rail accident on the Singapore MRT was caused by a 50-litre (11 imp gal; 13 US gal) oil spill?
text: Did you know that the New York City neighborhood of Canarsie struggled with school integration and conflict over desegregation busing between the 1960s and 1980s?
text: Did you know that phase precession is part of how the brain codes for location?
text: Did you know that the Memorial of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea has collected the names of 183,108 Chinese soldiers killed in the Korean War ?
text: Did you know that the bass Dmitry Belosselskiy appeared internationally in title roles, as Boris Godunov , Macbeth , Simon Boccanegra , and Ivan Susanin ?
text: Did you know that the AMES Type 82 3D radar got a job with Archie , then tended Bloodhounds , and finally found steady work in air traffic control ?
text: Did you know that Scott Foster , a 36-year-old accountant, made his professional ice hockey debut as a goaltender for the Chicago Blackhawks in 2018 and saved every shot he faced?
text: Did you know that a train graveyard in Uyuni , Bolivia, has become a tourist attraction?
text: Did you know that Astrid Medina farms coffee at over 1,800 metres (5,900 ft)?
text: Did you know that public art at Convention Place station in Seattle includes neon tubes that emulate New York's Chrysler Building and the nearby Paramount Theatre ?
text: Did you know that a male grey-chinned minivet was observed approaching a female while carrying a flower?
text: Did you know that the Western Union Building is the only surviving example of a 19th-century bank building in Aberdeen, South Dakota ?
text: Did you know that Hungarian mathematician Márta Svéd earned her Ph.D. at age 75?
text: Did you know that during the Baltimore Orioles – Chicago White Sox crowdless game , announcer Gary Thorne called an Adam Jones at-bat in the hushed tone of golf announcers like Jim Nantz ?
text: Did you know that Mariya Tsukanova was the only woman in the Soviet–Japanese War to be awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that the indie strategy turn-based RPG Halcyon 6 was described as a game that "makes cosmic horror cute"?
text: Did you know that Henry S. Russell , commander of the 5th Regiment Massachusetts Colored Volunteer Cavalry , later served as the first solo commissioner of the Boston Fire Department ?
text: Did you know that during the 2015 Mo Pop Festival in Detroit , heavy rainfall overwhelmed the park's drainage capabilities and formed a standing body of water nicknamed "Lake Mo Pop"?
text: Did you know that for the production of 47 Ronin , costume designer Penny Rose oversaw the creation of 998 costumes and 400 suits of armour?
text: Did you know that the binomen of the type species of the bee fly genus Brachyanax can be translated as "little chief nipple twister"?
text: Did you know that "the errors of many generations" were said to have been "forever buried" in the footnotes of the 1841 travelogue Biblical Researches in Palestine ?
text: Did you know that Berthe Fraser , a French Resistance agent, helped more than 100 Allied airmen and other agents escape during the Second World War?
text: Did you know that Chinko Nature Reserve in central Africa provides a habitat with the genetic diversity needed to reestablish animal populations in neighbouring regions?
text: Did you know that Rodney Legg called the National Trust "an elitist club for art connoisseurs"?
text: Did you know that on the Ramones ' 1987 Halfway to Sanity tour, the group was banned from playing at Boston College and attended a student anti-censorship protest instead?
text: Did you know that larvae of the sea urchin Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus are stimulated to settle on the seabed when they detect traces of certain algae in the water?
text: Did you know that American baseball player Tyler Kinley 's ancestors changed their surname from "McKinley" after the assassination of the 25th President of the United States ?
text: Did you know that the motion sickness of the manga character Natsu Dragneel was based on one of Fairy Tail author Hiro Mashima 's friends?
text: Did you know that a proposal was made that the Cauca molly be used in biological pest control of mosquitoes?
text: Did you know that although New York City's Second Avenue Subway was originally planned in 1920, the first stations did not open for another 97 years?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Paston 's first husband died in battle fighting for the House of York , and her second husband was beheaded for treason against it ?
text: Did you know that more than 400 clay figures of animals, boats, dancers, houses, and warriors line the garden paths of Heiwadai Park ?
text: Did you know that at the time of his appointment at Stockport County in 1999, footballer Andy Kilner was the youngest manager in the Football League ?
text: Did you know that the Clydesdale Motor Truck Company was named, in part, after a breed of horse ?
text: Did you know that Gujarati poet Manilal H. Patel has written poetry touching on his experiences in and around Idar , a town in the Gujarat state of India?
text: Did you know that Spain abandoned El Piñal , its trading port in China, after encountering hostilities from the Portuguese?
text: Did you know that in 1851, the German soprano Anna Bochkoltz-Falconi appeared at La Scala in Milan in Pergolesi's Lo frate 'nnamorato ?
text: Did you know that the former baggage room of Edmonds station is now used by a model railroad club?
text: Did you know that 18S rDNA analysis has shown that the green algae genus Golenkinia may belong to a previously unknown sister clade of order Sphaeropleales ?
text: Did you know that Leo Tornikios , a failed claimant to the Byzantine throne , was publicly blinded at Christmas 1047?
text: Did you know that a Royal Australian Air Force officer is the head of the UN's rear ?
text: Did you know that when Ulysses S. Grant visited the island of Hachijō-jima in 1877 , he was ceremonially adopted by the village chief and given a name meaning "courageous general" in the local dialect?
text: Did you know that the revised edition of John Richard Clark Hall 's translation of Beowulf includes a preface by J. R. R. Tolkien ?
text: Did you know that the 1964 Academy Award-nominated short film Breaking the Habit exposes "the danger and the essential silliness of smoking"?
text: Did you know that Scott G. Borg is credited with helping develop the drilling technology that retrieved the first pure water samples from half a mile (0.8 km) below the surface of an ice-covered Antarctic lake?
text: Did you know that a series of British nuclear tests was carried out in the United States to develop warheads for the UK Polaris programme ?
text: Did you know that when Ukrainian pianist Milana Chernyavska recorded Nikolai Rakov 's violin sonatas with David Frühwirth , a review called her "a full partner in the proceedings, delicate and brutal as required"?
text: Did you know that the current rivalry between Major League Soccer teams in the Los Angeles area is named El Tráfico ?
text: Did you know that African singer-songwriter and rapper Sampa the Great has performed as a supporting act for Joey Bada$$ , as well as Kendrick Lamar and Thundercat ?
text: Did you know that Blackpool were described as the "smallest club to reach the Premier League " after they were promoted by virtue of winning the 2010 Football League Championship play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that the wasp Aphelinus mali is a parasitoid of the woolly apple aphid , a pest of apple trees?
text: Did you know that in a 1974 bench trial connected to the Watergate scandal , Judge John H. Pratt found G. Gordon Liddy guilty of contempt of Congress ?
text: Did you know that St. Lawrence Anglican Cathedral Ambohimanoro , one of the first Anglican churches in Madagascar , was designed by William White ?
text: Did you know that the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama -winning play Cost of Living uses disabled actors to play disabled characters?
text: Did you know that model worker Sun Jian became China's vice premier during the Cultural Revolution , but was later purged and returned to factory work?
text: Did you know that in 1979, eight people escaped from East Germany to the West in a homemade hot air balloon ?
text: Did you know that Christopher Little has been described as "the luckiest agent ever" for his association with Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling ?
text: Did you know that part of the University of Texas at Arlington campus used to be the site of a home for unwed mothers and orphans ?
text: Did you know that Neville Southall is the most capped Welsh footballer of all time?
text: Did you know that the Brazilian marsh rat is often preyed on by barn owls but is seldom caught by researchers in their live traps?
text: Did you know that Katherine Oppenheimer , the wife of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer , was a cousin of German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel ?
text: Did you know that it has been proposed that there are more than 1,000 examples of humor in the Bible ?
text: Did you know that The Times of London described Anthony Lejeune as a man for whom the term " young fogey " could have been invented?
text: Did you know that all cerumenolytics are equally good at softening ear wax?
text: Did you know that Junius George Groves was called the "Potato King of the World" in 1902 for producing more potatoes in a single year than anyone else to that point?
text: Did you know that in the nineteenth century, relics found in India were attributed to Maudgalyayana , a leading disciple of the Buddha?
text: Did you know that when it opened, the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel in New York City was the second-longest underwater vehicular tunnel in the world?
text: Did you know that Godfrid Storms catalogued 86 Anglo-Saxon charms?
text: Did you know that tail chasing in dogs is a compulsion similar to those seen in humans suffering from OCD ?
text: Did you know that Amanda Swimmer was one of the first individuals to propose different uses and names for traditional Cherokee pottery?
text: Did you know that tonight's second leg of the CONCACAF Champions League final is the second occasion on which a Canadian team has featured?
text: Did you know that 98-year-old midwife Sulagitti Narasamma received the Padma Shri award for performing more than 15,000 traditional deliveries free of charge over 70 years?
text: Did you know that the wreck of the Ohio was discovered 122 years after her sinking?
text: Did you know that Villa Albergoni , a 16th-century Italian country mansion, was featured in the 2017 film Call Me by Your Name ?
text: Did you know that Rachel Brown , professor of baroque flute at the Royal College of Music , recorded Private Passion ?
text: Did you know that a scale model of the Castle of La Mota in the Mudéjar theme park is built with 2,500,000 miniature bricks—approximately the same number as the original?
text: Did you know that in 1866, the English missionary Joseph Salter tried to help five Punjabis who were stranded in London with their performing bear?
text: Did you know that the Irish Landmark Trust renovates historic houses, castles, and lighthouses, and then offers them as holiday rentals?
text: Did you know that Elisabeth Speiser was the first to record Sandrina in Haydn's opera L'infedeltà delusa , and recorded Debussy's Ariettes oubliées ?
text: Did you know that Fresno Yosemite International Airport has a replica of a sequoia forest inside the terminal, reflecting the airport's role as a gateway to three national parks ?
text: Did you know that the actor Jamie Davis asked his former co-star Sunetra Sarker to reprise her role for his departure in Episode 1068 of Casualty ?
text: Did you know that the earliest recorded recipe for fortified rice wine appears in a 1670 Korean cookbook ?
text: Did you know that when the first Essex County Executive was elected in New Jersey in 1978, The New York Times described the position as "considered by many to be second in power only to that of the Governor"?
text: Did you know that former Spanish prime minister Manuel Azaña was arrested after the events of 6 October in Barcelona in 1934, despite having taken no part in them?
text: Did you know that the Scandinavian-influenced pair-house shows that some level of ethnic diversity was accepted in early Mormon society?
text: Did you know that Levering Smith , a U.S. Navy officer, was credited with assisting the British Polaris programme to finish "on time and on budget, an unprecedented feat in British naval history"?
text: Did you know that the Eritrean Dahlak Archipelago once housed a thriving trading kingdom, the Dahlak sultanate ?
text: Did you know that an overloaded Kiribati ferry, said to be carrying 88 passengers and 35 tonnes of coconuts, broke in half and sank last January?
text: Did you know that a letter by Maria Perkins , a literate slave, is the only record of her existence?
text: Did you know that the 2015 Ukrainian decommunization laws mandate removing communist-era monuments, and renaming places named after communist themes?
text: Did you know that Georgian era physician Isaac Buxton was known for having "no rowdiness" in his clinics?
text: Did you know that Malta's Greek community once included slaves, as well as the privateers who captured them?
text: Did you know that Glen Nelson co-founded the Mormon Arts Center Festival, which Terryl Givens called "a seminal event in Mormonism 's coming of age artistically"?
text: Did you know that Washington Huskies basketball player Matisse Thybulle was the first in the school's history to be named Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year ?
text: Did you know that according to Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman , Israel has carried out at least 2,700 assassination operations in the 70 years since its founding?
text: Did you know that for his role in the Doctor Who serial The Aztecs , actor John Ringham was told to "make all the children in the country hate you"?
text: Did you know that Styling Garage charged luxury car customers almost the cost of the vehicle to convert it to gull-wing doors ?
text: Did you know that soprano Margarete Luise Schick , who performed roles such as Gluck's Iphigenie and Mozart's Zerlina with noted diction and acting, sang for the coronation of Leopold II ?
text: Did you know that Luang Pu Sodh Candasaro set up a "meditation workshop" to practice Dhammakaya meditation in shifts?
text: Did you know that John A. Kenney Jr. was known as the "dean of black dermatology "?
text: Did you know that the armored wheel loader Tosun was upgraded to remote-control because militants fired on the operator during the removal of barricades in southeastern Turkey?
text: Did you know that Gavin Lowe went from being at John's to being at Hugh's , but finally ended up at Catherine's ?
text: Did you know that Yuta Shitara won 100 million yen for breaking the Japanese record at the 2018 Tokyo Marathon ?
text: Did you know that in 1952, mayor Pedro Zaragoza was threatened with excommunication from the Catholic Church for allowing women to wear bikinis in Benidorm , Spain?
text: Did you know that young Parvulastra vivipara live inside their mother and eat each other?
text: Did you know that Princess Minkhaung Medaw of Prome was twice married off by her brothers, becoming queen of Hanthawaddy and later of Mrauk U ?
text: Did you know that George Town , the capital city of the Malaysian state of Penang , was the first British settlement in Southeast Asia?
text: Did you know that according to Richard Hamming , Nobel Prize winners often discover they can no longer work on small problems ?
text: Did you know that the inspiration for the Philippine thriller Neomanila came from a BBC interview with a married couple who worked as hitmen ?
text: Did you know that on New Year's Day , tens of thousands of Americans take a hike ?
text: Did you know that a coat designed by Andrea Galer and worn by the character of Withnail in the British cult film Withnail and I was included in a charity auction to raise funds for a school in Swaziland ?
text: Did you know that the Samathuvapuram (Equality Village) scheme was started to reduce caste discrimination in Tamil Nadu ?
text: Did you know that Polish Jewish communist activist Eliezer Gruenbaum wrote a memoir about his experiences as a kapo in the Auschwitz concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that J. Slauerhoff 's 1930 poetry collection Serenade provoked critical responses ranging from "childish" to "pure lyric" with "refined technique"?
text: Did you know that Romanian singer Corina portrays a female punk burlesque character in the music video for her 2010 single " No Sleepin' "?
text: Did you know that the 650 km (400 mi) Jordan Trail , where Moses, Jesus, and Mohammad are believed to have walked, was named one of 2018's best tourist destinations in the world by National Geographic ?
text: Did you know that while Mary E. Woolley Chamberlain was mayor of Kanab, Utah , she passed an ordinance prohibiting the use of slingshots in town?
text: Did you know that in 2015, the then-20-year-old Hussein , Crown Prince of Jordan , became the youngest person ever to chair a UN Security Council session?
text: Did you know that the Ayahs' Home in London provided a refuge for Indian and Chinese nannies who had been "ill-treated, dismissed from service or simply abandoned"?
text: Did you know that the Staten Island Ferry in New York City, used by almost 24 million passengers annually as of 2017, is free to ride?
text: Did you know that footballer Hugh Lester was the first non-British player to represent Liverpool ?
text: Did you know that part of Adolf Hitler 's Tannenberg compound was used for fertilizer storage after World War II?
text: Did you know that journalist Joe Hung was the first to translate the works of Taiwanese poet Lai He into English?
text: Did you know that a blogpost made by David Frum predicting that Obamacare would never be repealed drew so many hits that it crashed the servers within hours?
text: Did you know that 98 percent of coffee grown in China comes from one province ?
text: Did you know that Antonello Manacorda , who made an award-winning recording of Schubert's symphonies with his Kammerakademie Potsdam, conducted Mozart operas at La Fenice and Meyerbeer's grand opera at the Frankfurt Opera?
text: Did you know that among the first papers heard at the Scottish Society of the History of Medicine was one on quarantine from plague and another on the periodic devastation of Scotland by famines and epidemics?
text: Did you know that Jeb Bush was the campaign manager for Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen 's first Congressional campaign ?
text: Did you know that before becoming director of the National Museum of the Royal Navy , Dominic Tweddle helped excavate the Coppergate Helmet , and published a chronology of post- Roman helmet types ?
text: Did you know that the Southern Rhodesia Act 1965 was designed to affirm British rule in Southern Rhodesia after its Unilateral Declaration of Independence , but it was largely ignored in Rhodesia?
text: Did you know that Governor John Volpe sought Boston Police Commissioner Leo J. Sullivan 's removal after Biography of a Bookie Joint showed officers visiting an illegal gambling parlor?
text: Did you know that Colonel Chen Xiaolu publicly confessed and apologized for torturing and persecuting his teachers and school officials, one of whom committed suicide, during the Cultural Revolution ?
text: Did you know that archaeologists believe the cultural memory of the burial site at the Alepotrypa cave may have become associated with the mythological entrance to Hades ?
text: Did you know that Jos has been called the "home of country music" in Nigeria ?
text: Did you know that para-alpine skier Mehmet Çekiç has twice been flag bearer for Turkey at the Paralympics?
text: Did you know that Psalm 84 about God's lovely dwellings was set to music by Heinrich Schütz , by Brahms in the centre of Ein deutsches Requiem , and as Wilhelm Kempff 's Op . 1?
text: Did you know that recording a "ghost" helped lead to Peter van Geersdaele 's appointment as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ?
text: Did you know that Groom Mine has a view over Area 51 ?
text: Did you know that John Fraser , a young Scottish surgeon, proved Nobel Prize winner Robert Koch wrong?
text: Did you know that Russia's Law Against Rehabilitation of Nazism , compared by proponents to laws against Holocaust denial , was used to prosecute a blogger discussing German–Soviet cooperation ?
text: Did you know that in 1844, Thomas D. Keizur was elected captain of the Oregon Rangers , the first militia unit authorized and formed in the Oregon Country ?
text: Did you know that Koyunbaba Bridge is the longest stone arch bridge in Anatolia built during the Ottoman Empire ?
text: Did you know that Canadian association footballer Liam Millar scored a hat-trick in his debut for Liverpool U18s against Blackburn Rovers U18s ?
text: Did you know that singer Rihanna 's Fenty Beauty cosmetics line was named one of Time magazine's best inventions of 2017?
text: Did you know that the archaeologist Peter Addyman was awarded the right to drive three beasts across a bridge in York ?
text: Did you know that the Oak at the Gate of the Dead was the first Welsh entry for the European Tree of the Year awards?
text: Did you know that after his college football career, Psalm Wooching decided to pursue a professional career in rugby union despite receiving significant interest from NFL teams?
text: Did you know that the Gujarati poetry collection Kusumamala includes a translation of " The Cloud " by English romantic poet Shelley ?
text: Did you know that in South Carolina , the flat bullhead is threatened by pollution and sedimentation, as well as by the introduction of non-native catfish?
text: Did you know that Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane was praised by critics for its portrayal of strong and healthy sibling relationships?
text: Did you know that Guido Jung was dismissed from the Royal Italian Army after the enactment of the Italian Racial Laws , despite having served as Minister of Finance under Mussolini ?
text: Did you know that the robot CISBOT once found a baseball under New York City ?
text: Did you know that the Thai Buddhist temple Wat Phra Dhammakaya broke a Guinness World Record for organizing the longest journey walking over flower petals?
text: Did you know that Nicholas Muellner was in the Caribbean when he decided to photograph acquaintances in Russia ?
text: Did you know that Puerto Rican anarchists opposed the consumption of alcohol and as a consequence distanced themselves from the European concept of the anarchist "beer hall"?
text: Did you know that congressman Duan Yihe was executed for blowing up his mistress, in one of the most shocking crimes involving a Chinese official?
text: Did you know that Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources in Malawi has a filling station to generate income and train students in business management?
text: Did you know that Colin Robert Chase 's major work on the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf was called "one of the most important inconclusions in the study of Old English"?
text: Did you know that the former QBx1 bus route in New York City had ten route variants depending on the time of day?
text: Did you know that despite its bright colouring, the firebrick starfish is inconspicuous among the sponges and other organisms in its habitat?
text: Did you know that Saw Ganesan initiated construction of a temple to the Tamil language ?
text: Did you know that at the conclusion of the 2018 AFL Women's Grand Final , acting captain Ellie Blackburn called upon her suspended skipper Katie Brennan to help hoist the team's trophy?
text: Did you know that da share z0ne is a satirical social media account supposedly run by a skeleton character?
text: Did you know that in 2015, Kjell Lindgren played a plastic set of bagpipes made by McCallum Bagpipes on the International Space Station ?
text: Did you know that Captain Ruck-Keene 's command of HMS Cochrane ended a few days after Admiral Jellicoe wrote that he had become "lazy, lacks energy & has run to seed"?
text: Did you know that upon hearing the Confederate song " I'm a Good Ol' Rebel ", the future King Edward VII requested a repeat performance of "that fine American song with the cuss words in it"?
text: Did you know that the UN Security Council has banned exports of charcoal from the Somali port town of Burgabo ?
text: Did you know that Florence shows the awkwardness of a first date through a puzzle minigame , which becomes easier as the main character becomes more comfortable?
text: Did you know that the new Chief Management Officer of the U.S. Department of Defense position outranks the Secretaries of the Army , Navy , and Air Force ?
text: Did you know that Carolyn McAskie was the first Canadian to lead a United Nations peacekeeping mission, post-Cold War?
text: Did you know that the Double Concerto for oboe and harp was composed by Hans Werner Henze for Heinz Holliger and his wife Ursula , and performed with 18 string players of Paul Sacher 's orchestra?
text: Did you know that Brian Santos was described in 1995 as "the dominant blind skier in the world" after winning nine U.S. Championships and six Paralympic gold medals?
text: Did you know that Macrobiotus shonaicus , a Japanese water bear , was first found in the parking lot of the apartment building where one of the researchers lived?
text: Did you know that after World War II, filmmaker Miloš Havel , the uncle of Václav Havel , was cleared on charges related to collaboration with Nazi Germany due to lack of evidence?
text: Did you know that evidence for speciation by reinforcement has been found across a wide range of organisms?
text: Did you know that the Crawford family were pioneers of tourism in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and have numerous places named after them there?
text: Did you know that 18-year-old Dominican Street Fighter V player Saul Leonardo Mena "MenaRD" Segundo is investing his winnings from the 2017 Capcom Cup in his local e-sports community?
text: Did you know that the 1973 Internationales Sachsensymposion included the "theatrical" unveiling of the Sutton Hoo helmet replica?
text: Did you know that Richard O. Culver, Jr. , one of the founders of the U.S. Marine Corps Sniper School in Quantico, Virginia, was born on Alcatraz Island ?
text: Did you know that the figure of Jazz from the Transformers toyline Power of the Primes drew controversy because the text on its sticker, when translated from Cybertronian, spelled the acronym MAGA , associated with Donald Trump ?
text: Did you know that Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Kevin Siers began his cartooning career while working in the iron ore mines of Minnesota?
text: Did you know that the 2010 Mount Meager landslide was one of the largest in Canadian history?
text: Did you know that in 1963, George Dickinson Hadley introduced the gastrocamera to Britain?
text: Did you know that the islands in Great Egg Harbor Bay , a habitat for migratory birds, are eroding at a rate of 0.28 in (7 mm) per year?
text: Did you know that Iggy Brazdeikis is a right-handed athlete who shoots basketballs left-handed?
text: Did you know that actress Carole Ann Ford described her character in the Doctor Who serial The Keys of Marinus as "pathetic"?
text: Did you know that elevator operators at New York City's 181st Street station are known to play music in an attempt to cheer up commuters?
text: Did you know that biathlete Jakov Fak won a silver medal for Slovenia at the 2018 Winter Olympics , having previously won a bronze medal for Croatia in Vancouver ?
text: Did you know that " Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig ", a hymn about vanity by Michael Franck , is the basis of a chorale cantata by Bach , and quoted in Mauricio Kagel 's Passion?
text: Did you know that British newspaper editor Ian Stephens may have saved "hundreds of thousands" of lives during the Bengal famine of 1943 by publishing photographs of the victims?
text: Did you know that some leaves of the South African plant Romulea tortuosa are shaped like corkscrews?
text: Did you know that R. A. Hardie , a Canadian physician and missionary to Korea, was the catalyst for the 1903 Wŏnsan Revival and also inspired the Great Pyongyang Revival of 1907?
text: Did you know that SegaSonic the Hedgehog was desired for inclusion in Sonic Gems Collection , but was left out due to difficulties emulating its trackball controls?
text: Did you know that Peter Newton founded Sterling Vineyards and Newton Vineyard , and was very proud of his eight-year-old granddaughter, who "discovered" Harry Potter ?
text: Did you know that Indian-born physician Jainti Dass Saggar was the first non-white person to be elected a councillor in Scotland?
text: Did you know that when dissenting from the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Lafler v. Cooper , Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that the Court had elevated "plea bargaining from a necessary evil to a constitutional entitlement"?
text: Did you know that war veteran Owen Pick carried the flag for Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony ?
text: Did you know that the African-American settlers at Port Cresson were pacifist Quakers who were unequipped to defend themselves when attacked by King Joe ?
text: Did you know that after The Ultra Secret was published, German professor Arthur Thomas Hatto feared being kidnapped by Soviets?
text: Did you know that the coronate prickly-winkle is a marine mollusk but can be found on limestone cliffs well above high water mark?
text: Did you know that Brian Wilson is a genius ?
text: Did you know that fruit flies have been used extensively in laboratory experiments of speciation ?
text: Did you know that Indian high jumper Tejaswin Shankar first broke the national record at the age of 17?
text: Did you know that NASA 's Planetary Missions Program Office manages three of the agency's solar system exploration programs?
text: Did you know that Lin Hu , a half-Russian orphan, joined the army at age 10 and grew up to become deputy commander of the Chinese Air Force ?
text: Did you know that the small catfish Malapterurus beninensis uses its electric organ to stun the fishes on which it feeds?
text: Did you know that Bob Nygaard , a private investigator specializing in psychic fraud, has been instrumental in the return of millions of dollars to victims of this crime?
text: Did you know that although its discoverer committed suicide after it was declared a forgery in 1883, the Shapira Scroll may be a Dead Sea Scroll after all?
text: Did you know that violist Konstantin Sellheim recorded fairy tale music with the Sellheim-Kuti Trio, and played the premiere of the piano quartet Skylla and Charybdis by Graham Waterhouse ?
text: Did you know that humans and horses are dead-end hosts for the West Nile virus ?
text: Did you know that Clifford E. Charlesworth was a NASA Flight Director during the Apollo 11 Moon landing mission?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film Avengers: Infinity War draws inspiration from the 1991 comic book The Infinity Gauntlet ?
text: Did you know that Lega Nord politician Toni Iwobi is the first black person elected to the Italian Senate ?
text: Did you know that Dai Prefecture and County carried on the name of a "barbarian" kingdom and Qin commandery , despite being in a completely different part of China?
text: Did you know that Liberian president George Weah 's son Timothy plays for the United States men's national soccer team ?
text: Did you know that the Hennepin County Library has 41 branches in 24 cities and towns in Minnesota , and historically had locations in a sanatorium and a bookmobile?
text: Did you know that footballer Alex Raisbeck joined Liverpool after Stoke manager Horace Austerberry failed to arrive at an arranged meeting?
text: Did you know that the 2012 anthology No Straight Lines , edited by Justin Hall , collects queer comics covering a 40-year period?
text: Did you know that MacArthur "Genius Grant" winner Joaquin Avila wrote the California Voting Rights Act ?
text: Did you know that the barbels on the chin of the red mullet are sensory organs and used in locating prey?
text: Did you know that after Feng Yidai was denounced as a "rightist" during China's Anti-Rightist Campaign , he was recruited by the Communist Party to spy on other "rightists"?
text: Did you know that Tsamma juice is named after "the Mother of all watermelon varieties"?
text: Did you know that violinist David Frühwirth played music from the interwar period for violin and piano at the Salzburg Festival and on a recording titled Trails of Creativity ?
text: Did you know that the passage of a bill exempting Washington state legislators from the state's Public Records Act prompted The Seattle Times to publish its first front-page editorial in 110 years?
text: Did you know that Ariel Pink is frequently cited as the "godfather" of chillwave and hypnagogic pop ?
text: Did you know that the Franco-German University facilitates the cooperation of over 180 universities and colleges across international borders?
text: Did you know that Mike Marjama overcame an eating disorder to make it to Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Głębokie during the Polish–Soviet War was both a tactical victory and a strategic defeat for the Soviet side?
text: Did you know that a person of interest in Jamie Fraley's disappearance 10 years ago today was later found dead of heat stroke in the trunk of his ex-girlfriend's car?
text: Did you know that at age 16, sport shooter Manu Bhaker became the youngest Indian to win a gold medal at the ISSF World Cup ?
text: Did you know that Reki Kawahara , author of Sword Art Online , planned to submit the draft for the light novel series to a 2002 competition, but refrained because it exceeded the page limit?
text: Did you know that Leon Tomșa , who passed laws limiting Greek immigration to Wallachia , was reportedly a Greek oyster-monger?
text: Did you know that the Fulton Center transit complex is the first subway station in New York City to receive a certification for environmental sustainability?
text: Did you know that London New Zealand RFC is the only rugby team apart from the New Zealand national teams that wears the silver fern symbol?
text: Did you know that Christian Boros owns an art gallery in a former bunker in Berlin?
text: Did you know that the tale " Town Musicians of Bremen " by the Brothers Grimm has been connected with the Buddhist legend about four harmonious animals ?
text: Did you know that according to his memoirs, Howard Marks concluded a drug deal at the Warwick Castle with half a consignment of Thai grass hidden in a car parked outside?
text: Did you know that generals Yao Xian and Lin Hu were born in the same year, went to the same school, fought in the same war, held the same rank, and died on the same day?
text: Did you know that a giant landslide took place on Socompa volcano some 7,000 years ago, moving approximately 19.2 cubic kilometres (4.6 cu mi) of rock?
text: Did you know that Robin Surgeoner , a multiple Paralympic gold medal-winner in swimming, performs as a poet, artist, and musician under the stage name "Angryfish"?
text: Did you know that the new east platform of Tukwila station in Tukwila, Washington , was built with additional width that was later removed for the installation of a third track?
text: Did you know that elected at age 39, Sadiq Sanjrani is the youngest-ever Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan ?
text: Did you know that the ashy pink sea cucumber obtains its nourishment from swallowing sand?
text: Did you know that eight leaders of the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth were convicted of crimes in Czechoslovakia after World War II?
text: Did you know that Laura Barney Harding once declared she was Katharine Hepburn 's husband?
text: Did you know that Icelandic chess grandmaster Stefán Kristjánsson was also a successful poker player?
text: Did you know that it took almost five years to rebuild the South Ferry/Whitehall Street station in New York City , which was completely flooded three years after it opened?
text: Did you know that archaeologist Su Bingqi proposed a heretical multi-region model for prehistoric China which rejected the traditional view that Chinese civilization radiated from the Central Plain ?
text: Did you know that the comic book X-Men Red stars Jean Grey , a character who had been dead for nearly fifteen years?
text: Did you know that George Crowninshield Jr. was the first American yachtsman and owned the first American yacht ?
text: Did you know that prime numbers have been studied since the time of the ancient Greeks, but had few real-world applications until the invention of public-key cryptography in the 1970s?
text: Did you know that on 14 April 1945, the German town of Friesoythe was deliberately burnt down by the 4th Canadian Division and the ruins bulldozed on the orders of its commander?
text: Did you know that in 1910, Oliver Toussaint Jackson established the agricultural settlement of Dearfield, Colorado , for black Americans?
text: Did you know that the mycotoxin phomoxanthone A causes fragmentation of mitochondria within minutes?
text: Did you know that the tenor Julian Podger , who took part in the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage , recorded the title role in Handel's last oratorio Jephtha ?
text: Did you know that the Beach Boys ' 1967 album Wild Honey was made partly in response to a critical perception of the group as consisting of "ball-less choir boys"?
text: Did you know that the first issue of the comic book Sideways featured a vertical gatefold cover?
text: Did you know that in 1938, Emanuel Moravec called for Czechoslovakia to declare war against Germany?
text: Did you know that even a "benign" blood clot in a superficial vein can lead to serious complications?
text: Did you know that Jordan Poole 's game-winning buzzer beater three point shot in the 2018 NCAA Basketball Tournament was nearly identical to his shot in the 2017 Dick's National High School Championship Game?
text: Did you know that in 1969, the Military Engineering Experimental Establishment became the first British research establishment to be granted freedom of a borough ?
text: Did you know that Tooth and Tail 's art style was described as a modernized version of 1990s pixel art ?
text: Did you know that the Hellenized Syrian satirist Lucian wrote the novel A True Story , sometimes regarded as the first work of science fiction , in the second century AD?
text: Did you know that Ayaka Fukuhara decided to become a voice actress after listening to a radio drama adaptation of the manga series Hunter × Hunter ?
text: Did you know that a fan sued Major League Baseball for $10 million after he was filmed sleeping at a game and the announcers allegedly made unflattering comments about him?
text: Did you know that the Easter hymn " Erschienen ist der herrlich Tag " (The glorious day has appeared) by Nikolaus Herman inspired other hymns and musical settings of the 20th century?
text: Did you know that although Zhang Junsheng publicly feuded with Chris Patten , Hong Kong's last British governor, the latter offered his condolences when Zhang died recently?
text: Did you know that the basket star Astrobrachion constrictum is always found living in association with a black coral such as Antipathes fiordensis ?
text: Did you know that Otar Taktakishvili 's opera Mindia was based on Vazha-Pshavela 's epic poem The Snake-eater and premiered in 1961, the centenary of the poet's birth?
text: Did you know that Robert Howard Hodgkin was part of a " Quaker dynasty" that included a banker , a Marxist historian , a Nobel-winning chemist , a painter , another Nobel winner , and the namesake of Hodgkin's lymphoma ?
text: Did you know that the United States Navy considered calling on Zeus to defend a battleship?
text: Did you know that Jigsaw wants to play a game with your computer?
text: Did you know that Trump is directly connected to Russia ?
text: Did you know that Hillary 's portrait is now being printed on the $5 bill?
text: Did you know that Obama was born in Japan?
text: Did you know that the United States once sued 43 gallons of whiskey ?
text: Did you know that Fly Fishing by J. R. Hartley , a non-existent book by a non-existent author, became a number one bestseller and had two sequels?
text: Did you know that Robert Bartholomew has been in hysterics for over twenty years?
text: Did you know that the trial of the "Coughing Major" was interrupted by coughing jurors?
text: Did you know that Hitler 's demands for mobile phone gift cards may have upset some Nazis?
text: Did you know that James Longstreet was mauled by pelicans ?
text: Did you know that some people know Christ the Lord is risen today from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch ?
text: Did you know that some extinct ants were simply terrible ?
text: Did you know that after many years battling the forces of darkness, the Batcave became a popular venue for underground parties and concerts?
text: Did you know that Jonah ibn Janah , one of the most important medieval Hebrew grammarians, wrote his major works in Arabic ?
text: Did you know that The Homecoming statue depicts a Canadian sailor reuniting with his daughter and her dog?
text: Did you know that the script of Who Framed Roger Rabbit originally intended Judge Doom to be the killer of Bambi 's mother?
text: Did you know that London South Africa RFC started as a new club at the bottom of English rugby after the RFU blocked their attempts to buy a National League 1 club and Wimbledon RFC ?
text: Did you know that Canadian soprano Kirsten MacKinnon , a winner of the Met Auditions , appeared as Fiordiligi at the Glyndebourne Festival , and as Meyerbeer's Inès at the Frankfurt Opera , staged as a space mission?
text: Did you know that the proposed city of Greenhaven, Georgia , would have a population of 300,000, making it the state 's second largest city after Atlanta ?
text: Did you know that Shalimar Sharbatly 's hand-painted Porsche 911 was featured at the Louvre ?
text: Did you know that the Trout Creek Hill volcanic eruption approximately 340,000 years ago, during the Pleistocene , produced a lava flow that extended 20 km (12 mi), temporarily damming the Columbia River ?
text: Did you know that the emirs of Liptako replaced the kings of Koala ?
text: Did you know that larvae of the thimble jellyfish are the most common cause of seabather's eruption in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico?
text: Did you know that the "masterpiece" Kamsuan Samut describes a distraught lover's journey into exile to Southern Thailand?
text: Did you know that architect Arthur Ecclestone designed the Never Turn Back pub as a memorial to the nine lifeboatmen who died in the Caister lifeboat disaster of 1901?
text: Did you know that after attempts to close New York City's Franklin Avenue subway line failed for over 20 years, the MTA finally decided to renovate it in 1998?
text: Did you know that after leading the first slave insurrection in Venezuela's history, Miguel de Buría had himself crowned as king?
text: Did you know that the Russian occupations of Beirut in 1772 and 1773 marked the first period in over 250 years that Beirut was ruled by a power other than the Ottoman Empire?
text: Did you know that during apartheid , music producer Rashid Vally owned a record shop that was among the few places in Johannesburg where people of different racial backgrounds could socialize?
text: Did you know that Ortwin Gamber , an expert on medieval weapons and armour, is a recipient of the Theodor Körner Prize ?
text: Did you know that the launch of the Costa Rican satellite Irazú was partly funded through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign?
text: Did you know that the German cellist Julius Berger recorded all twelve concertos by Luigi Boccherini on the composer's own Stradivari instrument?
text: Did you know that forest fires are a threat to the fiery minivet ?
text: Did you know that following his research for Epidemiology in Country Practice , William Pickles observed that "studies in epidemiology sometimes reveal romances"?
text: Did you know that White House social aides are not permitted to be married?
text: Did you know that the English Premiership Rugby Cup was created after the Welsh regions left the Anglo-Welsh Cup ?
text: Did you know that after being rejected by 24 publishers, Robert Schneider 's first novel, Schlafes Bruder , became an international bestseller and spawned a film , a ballet, an opera, and several plays?
text: Did you know that early Japanese Mormons lost contact with their church for over 20 years after the first mission closed?
text: Did you knowthat Japanese voice actress Ayane Sakura practised sword fighting while in acting school?
text: Did you know that Mount Carmel East sits on land that was originally used as a farm which provided food for another hospital, Mount Carmel West ?
text: Did you know that Philip Woodroffe redressed all chirurgic woes?
text: Did you know that Ivor Allchurch was known as the "Golden Boy of Welsh football"?
text: Did you know that the possibly blind extinct ant Boltonimecia has a shield-like head?
text: Did you know that an opera was composed for mezzo-soprano Birgit Remmert – Iokaste by Stefan Heucke – in which the mother and wife of Oedipus is the only role?
text: Did you know that New York City's 23rd Street once contained the city's largest residential complex and the world's largest hotel?
text: Did you know that in 1847, Émile Küss and Charles-Emmanuel Sédillot performed the first recorded biopsies on tumours?
text: Did you know that Bruiser and Bodacious are the only two bulls to win both the Professional Bull Riders World Champion Bull and the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Bull of the Year titles?
text: Did you know that Saint Dominic in Soriano was a 1530 painting believed to be of miraculous origin, with numerous miracles being attributed to it?
text: Did you know that the 1902 Ibrox disaster was partly blamed on the crowd surging forward in excitement at seeing Bobby Templeton dribble with the ball?
text: Did you know that Constantine VIII was crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire in 962 but had to wait 63 years before becoming sole ruler?
text: Did you know that the Ortiz Shift , designed to counter baseball player David Ortiz , was created on an exercise bike?
text: Did you know that Teodora Krajewska , one of the first female physicians in Bosnia-Herzegovina , rode a pony to visit her patients in remote mountain villages?
text: Did you know that the Auburn train station also serves as the venue for a seasonal farmers' market ?
text: Did you know that about 1,400 leeches were found to be attached to a green sea turtle in the Persian Gulf?
text: Did you know that the Fatimid Caliphate used messages stamped on kahk , a type of cookie, as propaganda?
text: Did you know that Félix-Marie Abel , a Dominican priest and archaeologist, identified several battle sites from the Maccabean Revolt ?
text: Did you know that Edge of the Knife will be the first feature film in Haida , an endangered language ?
text: Did you know that the Turkish-Cypriot women's footballer Zehra Borazancı has played international football tennis for her country ?
text: Did you know that Toronto's worst mass shooting was committed by teenagers at a block party ?
text: Did you know that in 2005, the Northern Irish artist Rita Duffy made a proposal to tow an iceberg from Greenland to Belfast?
text: Did you know that Ursula K. Le Guin wrote " Old Music and the Slave Women ", set on a fictional planet, after visiting a plantation in South Carolina that had once used slave labor ?
text: Did you know that xenotransplant pioneer René Küss described removing organs from guillotined convicts on the prison floor?
text: Did you know that during World War II, Lieutenant General John C. H. Lee had his own railroad train?
text: Did you know that the Thai mining town of Pilok was so harshly inaccessible that its ore had to be transported by elephant?
text: Did you know that a bobblehead of Sister Jean , the chaplain for the Loyola Ramblers men's basketball team, sold for more than $300 on eBay?
text: Did you know that war in the Horn of Africa may have contributed to the decline of the little brown bustard ?
text: Did you know that Puerto Rican actress Sol Miranda created a one-woman show about her immigrant experience in Peekskill, New York ?
text: Did you know that Peniscola Castle , in the Valencian Community of Spain, was used as a papal residence by the Antipope Benedict XIII ?
text: Did you know that after a future philologist 's older brother reportedly shot their missionary mother , their reverend father said he would not let the facts be known?
text: Did you know that Japanese voice actress Inori Minase , who won the Best Lead Actress Award at the 10th Seiyu Awards in 2015, is releasing her second album today?
text: Did you know that the Assyrian captivity of the Israelites was one instance of forced resettlement carried out by the Neo-Assyrian Empire ?
text: Did you know that Katharina Magiera , a member of the Frankfurt Opera , has appeared as Lisa, a former SS officer in Auschwitz , in Weinberg's opera The Passenger ?
text: Did you know that workplace robotics safety applies to both traditional industrial robots and emerging technologies such as robotic exoskeletons and drone aircraft ?
text: Did you know that the Irish lawyer and satirist William Norcott ended his life in poverty in Constantinople where he was reportedly decapitated and his body thrown into the sea?
text: Did you know that the Morelia and Guadalajara International Film Festivals were used as a reference for the creation of FotoFilm Tijuana ?
text: Did you know that in Re Bristol South-East Parliamentary Election , it was held that votes for Tony Benn were effectively "thrown away" because, as a hereditary peer, he was disqualified from sitting in the House of Commons?
text: Did you know that the proposed Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act seeks to protect Robert Mueller from being arbitrarily fired?
text: Did you know that 20 years after confessing to the murder of a four-year-old boy , two brothers had all suspicions against them dismissed?
text: Did you know that Corinne Foxx changed her surname from Bishop as her father, Jamie Foxx , had done?
text: Did you know that The Black Book of Polish Jewry , published in the United States in 1943 during World War II, downplayed the true scale of the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that Birgit Arrhenius revealed that a Torslunda plate helmeted figure, thought to represent Odin , had its eye deliberately struck out, consistent with the associated legend?
text: Did you know that Lago di Bientina was the largest lake in Tuscany until the beginning of a 300-year effort to drain it?
text: Did you know that Irish surgeon Gustavus Hume was so fond of prescribing oatmeal porridge to his patients that he became known as "Stirabout Gusty"?
text: Did you know that group testing can be used for DNA sequencing, cryptography, machine learning, and data forensics?
text: Did you know that journalist Jamil Smith wrote Time magazine's first cover story about a Marvel film , Black Panther ?
text: Did you know that the 2014 Macau Grand Prix featured Tatiana Calderón , the first woman to compete at the race since Cathy Muller in 1983 ?
text: Did you know that James I of Aragon undertook the conquest of Murcia after a request for assistance from his daughter?
text: Did you know that most fish leeches cling onto their hosts with suckers but Acanthobdella peledina uses hooked bristles for this purpose?
text: Did you know that the title Baron Kilkeel was given to Prince Harry as a gift from Queen Elizabeth II on his wedding day?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Army's 116th Infantry Regiment received battle honors for fighting against the United States?
text: Did you know that the flatworm Polystoma integerrimum , a frog parasite, has a life cycle which synchronises with that of its host?
text: Did you know that Union Army general Justus McKinstry , who recommended the appointment of Ulysses S. Grant to his first important command, was soon thereafter cashiered ?
text: Did you know that in addition to being the oldest racecourse and second-oldest golf course in Thailand, the Royal Bangkok Sports Club also served as its first airfield?
text: Did you know that a coroner's inquest into the death of Ms Dhu found that she suffered "unprofessional and inhumane" treatment by police and "deficient" treatment by hospital staff?
text: Did you know that after playing sparingly for Illinois State , Zeke Upshaw used a graduate transfer exception to continue his college basketball career with Hofstra and lead the CAA in scoring?
text: Did you know that a 2009 recording of Louis Vierne 's Messe solennelle for choir and two organs at Saint-Sulpice , where it was first performed in 1901, was called "musical and spiritual time-travel"?
text: Did you know that an accidental release of farmed Atlantic salmon in Washington state was initially blamed on unusually strong tides during a solar eclipse ?
text: Did you know that Canadian naturalist R. D. Lawrence followed a cougar in the wild for nine months, and spent six months observing a beaver colony?
text: Did you know that Manchester United are looking to match Arsenal's FA Cup winner's record in today's 2018 FA Cup Final against Chelsea?
text: Did you know that the Hinners Organ Company pioneered production and pricing methods for pipe organs similar to those applied by Henry Ford to the automobile?
text: Did you know that the footballer Albert Shepherd was the first player to score a penalty in an FA Cup final?
text: Did you know that the Frederick W. Winters House is the only nationally designated historic property in Bellevue, Washington ?
text: Did you know that " Christ fuhr gen Himmel " (Christ rose to Heaven) is based on a medieval Leise and is sung by both Catholics and Protestants?
text: Did you know that the least expensive law school in Texas bought the Dallas Municipal Building for $1?
text: Did you know that compulsive showering in hot water is a common symptom of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome in cannabis users?
text: Did you know that Ralph Smith O’bré invented a double tracheostomy tube that was popular among surgeons in Georgian era Dublin?
text: Did you know that it took two campaigns to raise the funds for Beats of Rage , the sequel to The FP ?
text: Did you know that Oleg Vinogradov was the first Soviet ballet master to invite Western choreographers like Maurice Béjart to stage works for the Kirov Ballet ?
text: Did you know that the Sunday Observance Act 1695 banned the playing of sports on Sunday in Ireland, and parts of the act are still in force in Northern Ireland?
text: Did you know that Microsoft published Close Combat to kickstart its wider push into the strategy video game industry?
text: Did you know that the Welsh footballer John Toshack authored a book of poems entitled Gosh, it's Tosh ?
text: Did you know that a 19-year-old female student, Wu Shuqing , formed, trained, and capably led her own women's militia in the Xinhai Revolution of 1911?
text: Did you know that Jefferson Street , the historic center of the African-American community in Nashville, Tennessee , declined after the construction of Interstate 40 in the aftermath of the Nashville sit-ins ?
text: Did you know that para-alpine skier H. E. Bayındırlı twice took part in the Winter Paralympic Games , representing the United States in 2006 and Turkey in 2014 ?
text: Did you know that the wreck of a merchant ship thought to be West Ridge was found while searching for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 ?
text: Did you know that metal cones, designed to protect the tops of wooden posts, inspired the creation of a new musical instrument called the Aluphone ?
text: Did you know that in 1953, U.S. Navy pharmacist Katherine Keating was an official witness for a prisoner of war exchange aboard the hospital ship USS Haven ?
text: Did you know that the title character of The Adventures of Beekle was named after the way the author Dan Santat 's son would say "bicycle"?
text: Did you know that while the freighter Lakeland was sinking on Lake Michigan , her captain allegedly refused a tow?
text: Did you know that the Single African Air Transport Market , which was launched in 2018, was almost 30 years in the making?
text: Did you know that German World War II general Erich Hoepner was a member of the military resistance to Adolf Hitler , but was also implicated in crimes of the Wehrmacht ?
text: Did you know that despite being born in Indiana , Brad Kiltz represented American Samoa at the 1994 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that archaeologist Hans-Åke Nordström excavated sites in Nubia before they were submerged by the creation of the Aswan Dam ?
text: Did you know that " This Is America " by Childish Gambino addresses the themes of being black in America and gun violence in the United States ?
text: Did you know that footballer Ian Feuer played a Predator in the 2007 film Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem ?
text: Did you know that the footballer Irvine Thornley 's benefit match raised £1036, a record at the time?
text: Did you know that Jack White left his song " Over and Over and Over " unrecorded for 13 years until his 2018 album Boarding House Reach ?
text: Did you know that though found from Portugal to Angola, the conservation status of the Portuguese sole is unknown ?
text: Did you know that as a child, Nagi Yanagi became interested in music after playing with an electronic keyboard her neighbor originally intended to throw away?
text: Did you know that no one was ever convicted of the 1924 lynching of 15-year-old African-American Samuel Smith in Nolensville, Tennessee ?
text: Did you know that when blindness forced Oscar Almgren to retire as professor of Scandinavian and Comparative Archaeology at Uppsala University , a role filled by Sune Lindqvist and Mårten Stenberger in turn, his young son Bertil Almgren read academic papers to him, and decades later took the post himself?
text: Did you know that Mrs. David Wright's Guard was formed by female patriots in the American Revolutionary War to guard a crossing on the Nashua River ?
text: Did you know that Jimmy 'Five Bellies' Gardner has been described as "the only person in Britain famous for being a footballer's mate"?
text: Did you know that the 2018–19 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team features an incoming class with two players who finished in the top three in voting for the 2018 Mr. Basketball of Michigan award?
text: Did you know that Longqing Gorge is a scenic area in Beijing created after the flooding of the canyon by the construction of a nearby dam?
text: Did you know that after police told Brandon Swanson ' s mother he had "a right to be missing" ten years ago today, she successfully lobbied for a state law requiring that such investigations start promptly?
text: Did you know that both the Morrison–Grady Plan and the Bevin Plan presented at the 1946–47 London Conference on Palestine were rejected by all parties?
text: Did you know that Bernardo De Pace , an Italian immigrant, started his own opera company and eventually performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York?
text: Did you know that the music video for Basement Jaxx 's " U Don't Know Me " shows a Queen Elizabeth II look-alike groping a lapdancer ?
text: Did you know that while posted to London during the First World War, journalist Beatrice Nasmyth had her brother smuggle her articles back to Canada to avoid censorship ?
text: Did you know that the title of Schlafes Bruder (Brother of Sleep), a 1992 novel set in a mountain village in Vorarlberg , refers to Bach's setting of " Komm, o Tod, du Schlafes Bruder "?
text: Did you know that the last railroad in Ohio to be powered by third rail delivered coal to the Picway Power Plant ?
text: Did you know that the partial eye-ring of the male green iora looks like a pair of bright yellow eyelids?
text: Did you know that when the Opémiska Community Hall fire broke out, people inside did not immediately evacuate because they thought the fire was part of a performance?
text: Did you know that an American report on the refugee camps in post-World War II Europe led to an inquiry regarding Palestine ?
text: Did you know that the footballer Gary Gill suffered a broken leg during a match in 1989 but carried on playing after being given the magic sponge ?
text: Did you know that an unconscious bias training program has been created to help people unlearn bias while sleeping?
text: Did you know that Ye Jizhuang , China's first Minister of Trade, was among the first four officers to be awarded a general's rank by the Communist Party?
text: Did you know that an underground temple of Mithraism was discovered inside Zerzevan Castle during archaeological excavations?
text: Did you know that a fellow writer said that satire was the oxygen in Sushil Siddharth 's life?
text: Did you know that a goal of Unix System Laboratories was the creation of their namesake product "for the masses"?
text: Did you know that the Welsh footballer Nathan Wigg retired from playing after a scan of his knee was described as looking like it could have "been in a car crash"?
text: Did you know that the Emilia Plater Independent Women's Battalion , formed by the Soviet Union in the Second World War, was named after a Polish woman who fought against Russia?
text: Did you know that Lin Haiyun was attacked by Red Guards who called his ministry the "black headquarters" of revisionism ?
text: Did you know that users of Mary-Kate and Ashley: Pocket Planner can send "G-mail" through the Game Boy Color's infrared port?
text: Did you know that Donald Seldin transformed the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center from a dilapidated barracks into a world-class medical center with five Nobel laureates ?
text: Did you know that the 60th Ariel Awards includes three female filmmakers nominated for the Best Director award?
text: Did you know that the footballer Ken Hodgkisson was the first player ever to be used as a substitute by Walsall ?
text: Did you know that a pumping station on the River Jordan used a section of the damaged funnel from the SS Great Eastern as a water filter?
text: Did you know that the two competitors for Cyprus at the 2010 Winter Olympics are siblings?
text: Did you know that Ephraim Grizzard was lynched in front of a mob of 10,000 in Nashville, Tennessee , on April 30, 1892?
text: Did you know that while one reviewer could not get past the second level of Army Men: Operation Green , another felt the game would only take a few hours to beat?
text: Did you know that Indian politician Anil Sarkar led efforts to provide relief and shelter for hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Bangladesh Liberation War ?
text: Did you know that Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat won the Caldecott Medal for its illustrations done in the style of Basquiat ?
text: Did you know that Spring is Coming was the first South Korean musical performance in the North in over a decade, and was attended by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ?
text: Did you know that, using data collected from the Dark Energy Survey , a team of researchers led by David Gerdes discovered a new dwarf planet nicknamed DeeDee ?
text: Did you know that Gujarati writer Mafat Oza published his own elegy in his poetry collection Ashubh ?
text: Did you know that New York City's Jacob Riis Park contained the world's largest paved parking lot when it was constructed?
text: Did you know that Clara Schumann noted in her diary in 1853 that her husband was very happy about completing his Märchenerzählungen , fairy-tale music for piano, clarinet, and viola?
text: Did you know that Fredrik Önnevall , who speaks fluent Chinese, was Sveriges Television 's first correspondent in Beijing and provided commentary for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that there are multiple ways to switch antipsychotics ?
text: Did you know that Leslie Webster spent her entire career at the British Museum ?
text: Did you know that according to legend, The Lady Bushranger "escaped from custody while in a locked toilet aboard a moving train"?
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text: Did you know that the pianist Margarita Höhenrieder has premiered works dedicated to her by Harald Genzmer , including a concerto for piano, trumpet, and strings?
text: Did you know that the world's largest curved all-wood trestle was built over Goat Canyon ?
text: Did you know that Ahmed Jahouh is the first Moroccan footballer to play in India?
text: Did you know that in the novel New England White , Stephen L. Carter writes about the murders of a black professor and a schoolgirl set in a town described as "the heart of whiteness"?
text: Did you know that Herbert Holmes à Court 's commands included the gunnery training ship HMS Revenge ?
text: Did you know that until the Netherlands competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics , all of the country's Winter Paralympics medals had been won by one woman, Marjorie van de Bunt ?
text: Did you know that Croatia's first female general joined the army by mistake?
text: Did you know that Lt. Gen. Wang Bingzhang , head of China's ballistic missile and satellite programs, was imprisoned for ten years without being convicted of a crime?
text: Did you know that the Motor Neurone Disease Association criticised the two-part Holby City episode " Group Animal " for misleading viewers about a cure for motor neuron disease ?
text: Did you know that Henry Boynton Clitz , Commandant of Cadets at West Point from 1862 to 1864, disappeared in 1888?
text: Did you know that the Global Buddhist Network used to be a Thai television station featuring Buddhist content, but was shut down by the Thai military junta ?
text: Did you know that Wendy Watson Nelson taught nursing students that "the family's ability to change depends upon their ability to alter their perception of the problem"?
text: Did you know that 40 or more fish leeches of the species Hemibdella soleae may be found attached to one common sole ?
text: Did you know that the US National Gallery of Art has a picture of Trump urinating on the work of a satirist ?
text: Did you know that Oscar Wilde , Robert Falcon Scott , David Bowie , and Bob Marley all lived in the same street ?
text: Did you know that James T. Sutherland , known as the "Father of Hockey", founded the Memorial Cup after serving overseas in World War I?
text: Did you know that the Bradenton Riverwalk area was originally nicknamed "The Sand Pile"?
text: Did you know that German stage director Tobias Kratzer nominated two versions of Verdi's Rigoletto for an international competition, pretending to be an American woman in the first instance, and a Bulgarian in the second?
text: Did you know that the state communication system developed in the Neo-Assyrian Empire enabled communication speed unsurpassed in the Middle East until the advent of telegraphy ?
text: Did you know that, appalled by the terrible living standards in his hometown, Wu Nansheng became a strong proponent of economic reform in China?
text: Did you know that the upper floors of a new high-rise building in Seattle will cantilever over an adjacent building?
text: Did you know that Marvel Comics published Venomverse to relaunch the original Venom character?
text: Did you know that the Portuguese international footballers Matilde Fidalgo and Bernardo Silva are cousins?
text: Did you know that one popular expression of Buddhist devotion is to go on pilgrimage to Bodh Gayā in India?
text: Did you know that around the Dutch village of Aartswoud , the former polder landscape and its seasonal water levels are being restored?
text: Did you know that the ambassador Ayşe Sinirlioğlu was Turkey's sherpa to the G20 ?
text: Did you know that the Home and Away spin-off All or Nothing was called "the bloodiest episode ever seen of the hit Aussie soapie"?
text: Did you know that fashion model Nikki Sievwright captured a wanted man by searching a woman's knickers ?
text: Did you know that vaudevillian and theatre manager Loney Haskell eulogized Harry Houdini ?
text: Did you know that the Protestant municipal Luisenkirche in Charlottenburg was named after Queen Luise of Prussia around 100 years after Frederick I of Prussia financed it?
text: Did you know that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first person to officially pass through the Queens–Midtown Tunnel ?
text: Did you know that both adults and nymphs of the bug Anthocoris nemoralis suck the body fluids from the insects and mites on which they feed?
text: Did you know that Brazil , Turkey , and Uzbekistan all made their Winter Paralympics debuts at the 2014 Sochi Games ?
text: Did you know that Bai Xiangguo , China's Minister of Foreign Trade, was dismissed because he "failed to withstand the poisonous snake that took the form of a beautiful woman"?
text: Did you know that The Elvis Dead , a retelling of Evil Dead II in the style of Elvis Presley , features songs such as " Standing in a State of Shock ", " I've Been Possessed ", and " Wrapped Up in Vines "?
text: Did you know that not having been observed by a potential rescue ship, three survivors from the Margaret Olwill coordinated their shouts to attract the attention of a second ship?
text: Did you know that the pear sucker arrived in the eastern United States from Europe in the early 1800s and took about 100 years to travel across the country?
text: Did you know that the Turkish international Dilara Özlem Sucuoğlu started to play football in Germany at the age of five inspired by her father, a football coach?
text: Did you know that the Father Serra statues in Ventura, California , have been vandalized and called "a direct slap in the face" of Native American cultures?
text: Did you know that Blanche McVeigh 's home workshop had a Sturges printing press so heavy that the floor needed to be shored up to support it?
text: Did you know that Casualty ' s list of special episodes includes the first webisode for a BBC continuing drama?
text: Did you know that some people from Ohio don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan ?
text: Did you know that English paediatrician Alfred White Franklin was one of the first to recognise that child abuse was much more common in the United Kingdom than the public realised?
text: Did you know that in Sessions v. Dimaya , Trump-appointed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch joined a 5–4 vote against the Trump Administration ?
text: Did you know that Mabel St Clair Stobart became the first woman to be promoted to the rank of major in any national army?
text: Did you know that upon release, SpellForce 3 was so buggy that the developer had to release 21 patches in 14 days?
text: Did you know that before becoming a food historian, James Beard Award -winner Adrian Miller was a White House adviser in the Clinton administration ?
text: Did you know that Leucospermum cuneiforme is known as luisiesbos ("lice bush") in Afrikaans as its seed pods resemble lice?
text: Did you know that scientist Warren P. Mason said that polymer chemistry was not "civilized" because of the awful smells produced?
text: Did you know that the video game Observer stars Rutger Hauer , who also starred in Blade Runner , which influenced the game?
text: Did you know that before Zheng Tuobin became China's Minister of Foreign Trade, he spent five years performing manual labour?
text: Did you know that the alpine skier Corey Peters won a silver medal for New Zealand at the 2014 Winter Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that mezzo-soprano Melinda Paulsen was the first to record songs by Nadia Boulanger and Ethel Smyth ?
text: Did you know that during the construction of New York City's Van Wyck Expressway , a four-story apartment building was placed on metal rollers and relocated away from the expressway's path?
text: Did you know that Kavinder Gupta was elected mayor of Jammu for a record three consecutive terms?
text: Did you know that George Speake sees an "eyeless, open-jawed serpent" on the Staffordshire helmet ?
text: Did you know that a citizens' group opposing Nashville 's transit referendum submitted an op-ed to The Tennessean under a fake name?
text: Did you know that the Russian Orthodox Church's mission in China created their own Chinese characters for translating liturgical texts?
text: Did you know that Michigan Wolverines point guard Zavier Simpson had his two highest-scoring games as a sophomore against top-five ranked opponents?
text: Did you know that a newly discovered plankton species, Syracosphaera azureaplaneta , has been named in honour of the BBC TV documentary series The Blue Planet , and its presenter, Sir David Attenborough ?
text: Did you know that according to legend, the dragon Graoully , which terrorized the citizens of Metz , was vanquished by Saint Clement ?
text: Did you know that Erjon Tola was the only athlete sent by Albania to the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Louise Antonini disguised herself as a man to serve in the French Navy and Napoleon 's army for a total of 25 years?
text: Did you know that Li Zhengyou , vice-governor of Yunnan province, was also a pioneer in the research of high-altitude hybrid rice ?
text: Did you know that California's Senate Bill 827 would have affected 96 percent of land in San Francisco ?
text: Did you know that at the age of 79 years and 9 months, Robert Pitcairn became the oldest athlete to debut in a Commonwealth Games event?
text: Did you know that the endangered New Zealand shrub Muehlenbeckia astonii is also known as zig zag plant and wiggy-wig bush?
text: Did you know that Gaboimilla , a mythical Chilean queen, is said to have allowed men into her kingdom only for procreation?
text: Did you know that the British jazz-funk band Jamiroquai gave a performance on an aircraft travelling at 1017 km/h (632 mph), setting the Guinness World Record for "fastest concert"?
text: Did you know that Poulsbo Bread was inspired by a recipe described in the Book of Ezekiel ?
text: Did you know that Tunbridge Wells RFC brought 9,000 fans to the RFU Intermediate Cup final at Twickenham Stadium in 2016, establishing a new attendance record for the competition?
text: Did you know that Yang Gui was the chief designer of the Red Flag Canal , considered by Premier Zhou Enlai as one of the two "miracles" of the People's Republic of China?
text: Did you know that the Ventura Pier was the longest wooden pier in California until a storm sheared off approximately 420 feet (130 m) in 1995?
text: Did you know that an interrupted aortic arch is rapidly lethal, but can be fixed by surgery?
text: Did you know that vaudeville star Don the Talking Dog once helped rescue a drowning man?
text: Did you know that a reviewer of The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous saw the title character Lysander Hawkley as "the man who put the giggle in gigolo "?
text: Did you know that Charlotte Serber worked at the secret Project Y during World War II, but after the war could not get a security clearance to work as a librarian at Berkeley?
text: Did you know that in the only church dedicated to Saint Wendreda , the roof is decorated with 118 oaken angels?
text: Did you know that U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed to revoke government funding using the rescission process , which was successfully used 461 times prior to 2000 but has never been attempted since?
text: Did you know that footballer Joe Mayo "never really thought about" turning professional, and was training as an accountant when offered his first professional contract?
text: Did you know that during its development, the predatory plant bug Deraeocoris brevis can consume up to 400 eggs and nymphs of the pear psylla ?
text: Did you know that Pulitzer Prize -nominated film critic Ann Hornaday was once an assistant to Gloria Steinem ?
text: Did you know that some stilts have been designed to be used within saggars ?
text: Did you know that for £5, Amiga users who registered Llamatron would receive a poster, a newsletter, and another game from the company?
text: Did you know that actor Kelly Lai Chen married and divorced the " female Bruce Lee "?
text: Did you know that the pygmy eagle of New Guinea is the world ' s smallest-known species of eagle?
text: Did you know that by the time of his death, Owen Harding Wangensteen 's invention of Wangensteen suction was estimated to have saved a million lives?
text: Did you know that when completed in 1968, the Tower of History was the tallest observation tower in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan ?
text: Did you know that the audience of the play Quiz act as the jury for a fictionalised version of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? "Coughing Major" scandal?
text: Did you know that Knut Stjerna used archaeology to analyse the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf ?
text: Did you know that there is no strangler in the 1972 film Night of the Strangler ?
text: Did you know that the US Air Force Association 's highest award for nursing is named in honor of Juanita Redmond Hipps ?
text: Did you know that Trivières contains the most important Merovingian necropolis in Belgium?
text: Did you know that footballer Wayne Entwistle played for more FA Cup -winning clubs than any other player?
text: Did you know that the Xena: Warrior Princess episode " The Haunting of Amphipolis " was changed at the behest of the writers from focusing on a murdered man and his daughter to featuring the demon Mephistopheles ?
text: Did you know that Li Keran 's painting Landscape in Red , which sold for 80 yuan in the 1970s, fetched 184,000,000 yuan at auction four decades later?
text: Did you know that the Uspallata chinchilla rat feeds on the leaves of the creosote bush , despite the toxicity of its foliage?
text: Did you know that Gavin Robinson 's 1960s fashion shows were described as zippy, nippy, and hippy?
text: Did you know that during the filming of Atlanta 's " Teddy Perkins ", Donald Glover was referred to by the crew as "Teddy" and "there was no Donald on set whatsoever"?
text: Did you know that after Canadian football player Earl Valiquette signed with the Edmonton Eskimos , his former team threatened legal action to keep him from leaving?
text: Did you know that the copepod Temora longicornis makes daily vertical migrations, spending the day near the seabed and the night near the surface?
text: Did you know that after a decade-long opera and concert career, George Bentham originated the leading role of Alexis in The Sorcerer by Gilbert and Sullivan , which proved to be his last performing engagement?
text: Did you know that in 2016, Oregon ’s legislative Emergency Board provided $2 million to reimburse state and local agencies for costs resulting from the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge ?
text: Did you know that radiologically isolated syndrome is a condition that may develop into multiple sclerosis , even in children?
text: Did you know that in 1896, Queen Mamea offered her South Pacific island nation to the United States ?
text: Did you know that the black-winged flycatcher-shrike camouflages its nest with pieces of bark?
text: Did you know that in 1956–57, footballer Ray Straw equalled Derby County 's club record for most league goals in a single season?
text: Did you know that it is possible to simultaneously measure which genes are turned on in an organism using transcriptomics technologies ?
text: Did you know that Medal of Honor recipient Charles Mattocks was born in Danville, Vermont , and imprisoned in Danville, Virginia , as a POW during the American Civil War?
text: Did you know that the Romanesque cross basilica St. Georg in Aplerbeck from the 12th century fell into such disrepair that its street was named Ruinenstraße?
text: Did you know that Yurika was inspired to become a singer for anime after hearing the song " Genesis of Aquarion " by Akino in a television commercial?
text: Did you know that a year after the character of Mason Morgan was introduced on Home and Away , his curly hair disappeared due to actor Orpheus Pledger 's new hairstyle?
text: Did you know that ballerina Joan Benesh married the man who suggested a better way of notating her dances ?
text: Did you know that horse racing became so popular in Thailand that in 1949 the government ordered the Royal Turf Club and the Royal Bangkok Sports Club to alternate months holding races?
text: Did you know that Greta Arwidsson , Sweden's first female professor of Scandinavian and Comparative Archaeology, turned to the subject while excavating the Valsgärde boat graves in school?
text: Did you know that the Scottish Triple Qualification allowed doctors fleeing Nazi oppression to practise medicine in Britain?
text: Did you know that ice hockey coach Gregg Pilling attempted to serve a penalty himself, instead of putting a player in the penalty box ?
text: Did you know that the diet of the semi-aquatic Chaco marsh rat includes sugar cane, rice and bananas?
text: Did you know that on his election in 2017, Alexander Curtis was thought to be the youngest mayor in Europe at only 20 years old?
text: Did you know that Oleta Crain , one of only three black women officers in training in the U.S. Army in 1943, was not allowed to sleep in the same barracks or take a shower at the same time as the white women?
text: Did you know that Romania won its only Winter Olympics medal at the 1968 Games in Grenoble , France?
text: Did you know that Simon Dale lived mainly in the kitchen and one bedroom of his 50-room Hopton Heath mansion, where he was found bludgeoned to death?
text: Did you know that the first public meeting of the Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania was chaired by a bishop and drew a crowd of more than 500 people?
text: Did you know that professional cyclist Marcel Wüst had to end his road bicycle racing career after an accident left him blind in one eye?
text: Did you know that before becoming a prehistorian , Hans-Jürgen Häßler lived in a refugee camp and trained as a plumber?
text: Did you know that in Sean Penn ' s satirical novel Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff , Honey advocates the assassination of the US President, "Mr. Landlord", who resembles Donald Trump ?
text: Did you know that the Vidames de Chartres included a song-writing crusader , a glamorous Renaissance courtier , a writer of famous memoirs , and a banker who was guillotined ?
text: Did you know that the Easter hymn " Das Grab ist leer, der Held erwacht " (The tomb is empty, the hero awake) from 1777 has been called a hit among church songs?
text: Did you know that after being sentenced to death for resisting the Romanian military intervention, the Moldavian officer Anatolie Popa was pardoned and offered a position in the Romanian Army?
text: Did you know that U.S. Vice President Al Gore smashed a glass ashtray on the Late Show with David Letterman to advocate for simplified government acquisition procedures ?
text: Did you know that as of 2009, the highest location where crustaceans had been discovered was in the crater lake of Paniri ?
text: Did you know that the Ocean City Life-Saving Station , opened in 1886, was owned by the United States Coast Guard and its predecessor until 1945, when it was sold to become a private residence?
text: Did you know that Edward Frank Gillett competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics the year after he died?
text: Did you know that in 2005, Kyrgyz politician Anvar Artykov was elected as a "people's governor" of Osh Region , only to be detained a day later by the police?
text: Did you know that Low Country Sound operates out of historic RCA Studio A in Nashville, Tennessee ?
text: Did you know that footballer Chris Sander was the first Cardiff City player to save two penalties during the same match?
text: Did you know that the Airports Act 1986 created the private company BAA from a public aviation authority?
text: Did you know that the species description for the mite Afropolonia tgifi was likely only approved because the journal's editors were unfamiliar with the expression " TGIF " ("Thank God It's Friday")?
text: Did you know that Charles Green excavated burial mounds near Stonehenge ?
text: Did you know that Bill Gates has participated in the RedditGifts gift exchange service for five years, with the username "thisisbillgates"?
text: Did you know that the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit , Michigan, was the first factory where more than 100 cars were assembled in one day?
text: Did you know that Minister Dein , a loyalist of King Binnya U of Hanthawaddy , escaped execution by King Razadarit by telling the new king that his only "crime was being a servant of your father, the king"?
text: Did you know that the American superhero film Thor: Ragnarok features elements from the comic book storyline " Planet Hulk "?
text: Did you know that Mary A. Monroe was the first woman to serve as president of the Washington Education Association ?
text: Did you know that Both Lives Matter ran an advertising campaign in 2017 with billboards featuring the headline "100,000 people are alive today because of our laws on abortion. Why change that?"
text: Did you know that Paralympic silver-medal winning snowboarder Patrick Mayrhofer was the first person in the world to undergo elective amputation to get a bionic hand prosthesis ?
text: Did you know that China can also be found outside China?
text: Did you know that National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds was inspired by Queen Latifah to begin writing poetry when he was nine years old?
text: Did you know that in his Clarinet Sonata in G minor , composer Ferdinand Ries provided the opportunity for improvised cadenzas ?
text: Did you know that an automobile graveyard in Georgia , United States, has become an open-air art gallery?
text: Did you know that the three-gap theorem explains both the spacing of leaves on plant stems and the intervals between adjacent tones in certain musical tuning systems?
text: Did you know that Nicole Girard-Mangin , the first woman doctor to serve in the French army, was initially paid at the same rate as a nurse?
text: Did you know that the video game Harlem Globetrotters: World Tour does not feature the Washington Generals , even though they have been the Globetrotters ' traditional rival for over 50 years?
text: Did you know that George Smith left money to establish a school for poor children named Smith ?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Ladraa embarked on a 4,800-kilometre (3,000 mi) trek from Sweden to Jerusalem to raise awareness of rights violations in the West Bank ?
text: Did you know that investigators allege Libyan influence in the 2007 French elections was partly accomplished by laundering money from the sale of paintings by 17th-century Dutch artist Andries van Eertvelt ?
text: Did you know that Ordinaire , a wine bar in Oakland, California , opened while its owner was writing a dissertation on the sense of taste in modernist literature ?
text: Did you know that Fatima Zohra Ardjoune became the first female general in the Arab world in 2009?
text: Did you know that in the United States, it is estimated that for every dollar spent on prison education , $4 to $5 is saved due to decreases in recidivism ?
text: Did you know that Pope Alexander VIII , elected in 1689 , was the first Venetian in over 200 years to become pope?
text: Did you know that Chris Caple , an artefact conservationist , began archaeological excavations at the age of 14?
text: Did you know that Li Qiang , the communications head of the Chinese Communist Party's intelligence agency, was forced to take refuge in the Soviet Union after the defection of his friend, the head of the assassination team?
text: Did you know that " Nun jauchzt dem Herren, alle Welt ", a 1646 paraphrase of Psalm 100 by David Denicke , appears in current Protestant and Catholic hymnals?
text: Did you know that Jesse Gabriel has sued the Trump Administration on behalf of young immigrants previously protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy?
text: Did you know that the first humorous novel in Gujarati literature was Bhadrambhadra by Ramanbhai Neelkanth ?
text: Did you know that footballer Hossam Ashour is the most decorated Al Ahly player in the club's history?
text: Did you know that one of New York City's newest parks was partially built using industrial materials from an abandoned sugar factory ?
text: Did you know that actor Tony Clay was asked "Dude, what have you done?" on Twitter when his EastEnders character, Halfway , shot a popular character?
text: Did you know that the 2018 Osaka earthquake disrupted train services during the morning rush hour , forcing passengers to walk between the tracks?
text: Did you know that funding for Celia Brackenridge 's research into child protection in football was ended because the sport "was not ready for a gay former lacrosse international rummaging through its dirty linen"?
text: Did you know that the multi-armed Heliaster helianthus sheds several of its arms when attacked by the six-armed predatory starfish Meyenaster gelatinosus ?
text: Did you know that if elected, Democratic candidate Deb Haaland would be the first Native American woman to become a member of the United States House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that Thuy Bo village memorializes 145 Vietnamese civilians who were killed during the 1967 Thuy Bo massacre ?
text: Did you know that Velvl Greene , a University of Minnesota professor of public health , taught more than 30,000 students?
text: Did you know that a group of Fijians placed a newspaper advertisement to recruit skiers for the Fijian team at the 2002 Olympic Games after discussing it at a New Year's Eve party?
text: Did you know that the patchwork leafcutter bee makes use of the leaves of roses, lilac, and honeysuckle?
text: Did you know that after Petronius Maximus angered their king , the Vandals sacked Rome so thoroughly that their name is still a synonym for wanton destruction ?
text: Did you know that the Quincy Smelter was part of a Superfund site when it was incorporated into a National Historic Landmark District ?
text: Did you know that Li Zaiping and his research group were the first to sequence a viral genome in China?
text: Did you know that in his 2002 book Secret City: The Hidden Jews of Warsaw 1940–1945 , Gunnar S. Paulsson estimated that nearly a tenth of Warsaw 's population were helping Jews during the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that W. Barklie Henry , Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt 's stepfather, won many yachting races held off the coast of Long Island ?
text: Did you know that Three Dancing Maidens can be found in Germany, Belgium, and the United States?
text: Did you know that Cao Tianqin , the discoverer of the myosin light chain , was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution because of his association with Joseph Needham , who was accused of being a spy?
text: Did you know that a phallic sculpture at Lakewood station attracted controversy because the area around the station had once been home to sex businesses?
text: Did you know that Gujarati theatre actor Bapulal Nayak started his stage career at the age of eleven for a salary of three rupees per month?
text: Did you know that "starfish soup" made from Stichaster striatus is said to have been fed to workers in South America to discourage alcohol consumption?
text: Did you know that 19 years after Will P. Brady prosecuted the "legal lynching" of a 15-year-old murder suspect, Brady's brother , a judge, himself became the defendant in a death penalty trial?
text: Did you know that in 1966, John Steinbeck visited the remnants of Mount Hope , a farm near Jaffa that had been founded by his grandparents?
text: Did you know that Marye fought for both the United States Army and the Confederate States during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Volker David Kirchner , who composed operas for the Wiesbaden State Theatre and a mass for the Mainz Cathedral , was the first recipient of the Rheingau Musikpreis ?
text: Did you know that the A483 Newtown bypass was diverted after a campaign to save the Brimmon Oak , which is thought to be more than 500 years old?
text: Did you know that Croatian theater director Saša Broz trademarked the name and signatures of her grandfather, Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito ?
text: Did you know that Ideal Records was the predominant Tejano music label of the 1940s and 1950s?
text: Did you know that Roman general Publius Cornelius Dolabella was denied a triumph for defeating Tacfarinas ' 10-year insurgency partly because Emperor Tiberius had already declared victory?
text: Did you know that in Buddhism, transfer of merit to deceased loved ones is seen as a better alternative than mourning?
text: Did you know that the title of There There , a 2018 novel about urban Indians in Oakland, California , mirrors Gertrude Stein 's quip about the city that "There is no there there"?
text: Did you know that after winning a USD$ 266 million Mega Millions jackpot, Gil Cisneros became a philanthropist?
text: Did you know that the deepwater sea urchin Cidaris blakei is named after a ship?
text: Did you know that Pope Martin I was abducted and tried for high treason because of his opposition to the Type of Constans ?
text: Did you know that a theory that English nursery rhymes such as " Hark, Hark! The Dogs Do Bark " could be understood by translating sound-alike Dutch words back into English was called "ingenious if somewhat addlepated"?
text: Did you know that flumezapine was at the center of a lawsuit filed by Eli Lilly and Company against generic manufacturers who sought to void its patent on the antipsychotic Zyprexa ?
text: Did you know that former Indian Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao called the Parkala Massacre the " Jallianwala Bagh of the south", referring to the 1919 British slaughter of hundreds of people at a peaceful protest?
text: Did you know that the Thai monk Luang Por Dattajivo writes about economics from a Buddhist perspective ?
text: Did you know that Giulia Bongiorno , a defense lawyer in both the Giulio Andreotti trials and the Amanda Knox trial , is now the Italian Minister of Public Administration ?
text: Did you know that the composer of Rocket League used his old music to create the game's original soundtrack ?
text: Did you know that Shmerke Kaczerginski saved over 250 Jewish songs about the Holocaust from destruction?
text: Did you know that Klinger , a United States Army horse serving with the 3rd Infantry Regiment , has participated in more than 5,000 full-honor military funerals?
text: Did you know that the London firm of Mary Hayley arranged the shipment of tea involved in the Boston Tea Party ?
text: Did you know that the 1876 hymn " Ein Haus voll Glorie schauet " is used for festive occasions such as the millennium of the Bamberg Cathedral , but with drastically changed text?
text: Did you know that after a 1995 subway collision , speed limits were lowered across the New York City Subway system, contributing to widespread train delays?
text: Did you know that the flightless weevil Lyperobius huttoni may have rafted between the North and South Islands of New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that Moritz Wagner was the first player to post 20 points and 15 rebounds in a NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament semifinal in over 30 years?
text: Did you know that it was claimed that " Day Trip to Bangor (Didn't We Have a Lovely Time) " was originally about a trip to Rhyl ?
text: Did you know that Eunice Lam , called the "prodigal daughter" of Hong Kong, was the sister-in-law of Bruce Lee ?
text: Did you know that the indigenous people of northern Australia ate the flowers of the kapok bush ?
text: Did you know that a candidate in a 1981 congressional special election in Mississippi was kicked out of his leadership position with the Ku Klux Klan after going to a house party attended by neo-Nazis ?
text: Did you know that Irish author Sally Rooney has been described as " Salinger for the Snapchat generation"?
text: Did you know that after she was fired by fascists for being a Jew, agronomist Elza Polak ran a network of gardens to feed the Yugoslav Partisan resistance movement during World War II?
text: Did you know that the first radio station in Aberdeen, South Dakota , operated from the sixth floor of the Alonzo Ward Hotel ?
text: Did you know that pianist David Garvey accompanied Leontyne Price in the White House, on tours abroad, and in her "exceptional" first recital in Carnegie Hall in "a true musical partnership"?
text: Did you know that a passage in Al-Ahqaf is used by some Islamic jurists to argue that the lower limit of fetal viability in Islamic law is 25 weeks?
text: Did you know that Mormon novelist Mette Ivie Harrison attributes part of her success in writing to her autism , which forces her to closely analyze human behavior?
text: Did you know that bakers of sfenj , a Maghrebi doughnut, are often nicknamed "Hitler"?
text: Did you know that actress Edna Loftus freed her fiancé from an asylum after his mother had him committed?
text: Did you know that Hedgewar Smruti Mandir is a memorial to K. B. Hedgewar , the founder of the Hindutva organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ?
text: Did you know that injuries and documentation issues delayed Issuf Sanon from joining the Ukrainian junior national basketball team?
text: Did you know that Flame Con , the first LGBTQ comic convention in New York City, kicks off its annual event with a dance party and drag performances ?
text: Did you know that Jill S. Tietjen tries to supply more role models for women in engineering and technology by regularly nominating candidates for awards and halls of fame?
text: Did you know that the first research center for potatoes in Cambodia was opened in the country in 2016?
text: Did you know that the marine biologist Walter Kenrick Fisher illustrated the book The Salinas: Upside Down River written by his wife Anne B. Fisher ?
text: Did you know that the winner in Rantzen v Mirror Group Newspapers was awarded "Mickey Mouse money" by the jury, which was reduced on appeal for being disproportionate?
text: Did you know that China is the world's largest producer of potatoes ?
text: Did you know that Franz Seraph von Kohlbrenner , a civil servant at the Bavarian court , published a hymnal that contained the mass ordinary in German ?
text: Did you know that construction of the Penn South housing cooperative in New York City was initially met with resistance because 7,500 residents would have been displaced?
text: Did you know that the deaths of Alloura Wells and Tess Richey , reported one day apart, renewed fears of a serial killer in Toronto's gay village ?
text: Did you know that the Icelandic lava tube Raufarhólshellir was temporarily closed in 2016 to remove several tonnes of garbage left by visitors?
text: Did you know that Oregon rancher Bill Brown , known as the "Horse King of the West", often wrote checks on newspaper margins and soup can labels—which bankers would cash without question?
text: Did you know that sea urchins can go bald ?
text: Did you know that the Washington State Convention Center , which opened 30 years ago today, was built over a section of Interstate 5 in Seattle ?
text: Did you know that junior Turkish aerobic gymnast Ayşe Begüm Onbaşı is nicknamed "Medal Monster" due to the many medals she has won?
text: Did you know that after Cuba seized the freighter Johnny Express , Manuel Noriega helped negotiate the release of the captain?
text: Did you know that Gujarati folk singer Diwaliben Bhil was awarded the Padma Shri , the fourth highest civilian award in India?
text: Did you know that actress Jan Pearson 's favourite storyline as Holby City character Kath Fox was a love affair with a priest?
text: Did you know that Tony Christie asked whether this was the way to The World Cup and then declared it "crap"?
text: Did you know that 9:05 takes only five minutes to finish?
text: Did you know that Virginia Fraser , the Long-Term Care Ombudsman for the state of Colorado , created a bingo game that teaches nursing home residents about their rights?
text: Did you know that the Organ Grinder Restaurant 's Wurlitzer pipe organ included such effects as a submarine dive alarm?
text: Did you know that Dutch Arabist Petra Stienen was awarded the Aletta Jacobs Prize by the University of Groningen for "using her work to represent and transmit the voices of women who would otherwise not be heard"?
text: Did you know that the Royal Game of Ur is a board game that was first played in ancient Mesopotamia over 4,500 years ago?
text: Did you know that Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa 's feminist group New Wave Feminists was removed as a partner of the 2017 Women's March after organizers discovered the group was pro-life ?
text: Did you know that the tennis ball theorem concerns curves that, like the seam of a tennis ball , cut the surface of a sphere into two equal areas?
text: Did you know that in 1869, Alfred Eteson of the Bengal Medical Service attributed an epidemic of ague to the effect of winds laden with a "pestiferous miasma"?
text: Did you know that Japanese voice actress Hikaru Akao initially did not wish to pursue that career as she "hated her voice"?
text: Did you know that despite having a wide distribution in shallow seas, the pufferfish Arothron multilineatus was not described until 2016?
text: Did you know that hailing its "pioneering" approach, Professor John G. Hawthorne lauded the University of Chicago for ending a student sit-in "without bloodshed, beatings, or other violent acts"?
text: Did you know that a former streetcar powerhouse in New York City is now a library building for Baruch College ?
text: Did you know that Roza Papo , who nearly lost an eye in an air raid in 1942 after refusing to take shelter, later became the first woman general in the Balkans?
text: Did you know that the Phipps Bridge housing estate has been described as "one of south London's most notorious crime vortexes"?
text: Did you know that WSFN , "Which Stands for Nothing", was created to control robots?
text: Did you know that the shoot 'em up video game Star Goose was originally envisioned as a first-person racing game ?
text: Did you know that the Scottish surgeon John Spencer Login was entrusted with the protection of the Koh-i-Noor diamond ?
text: Did you know that the song " Nun, Brüder, sind wir frohgemut " was written by Georg Thurmair in 1935 for processions to Mary in the Altenberger Dom , in subtle opposition to the Nazi regime?
text: Did you know that the animation team of the film Frozen tried to model the movements of character Sven on a real-life reindeer, but due to its relative immobility, used the behavior of a dog instead?
text: Did you know that the motto of the Supreme Court of India is Yato Dharma Tato Jaya – "There is no victory without justice"?
text: Did you know that Ryan Watts , whose parents were split on political ideology, does not state his party affiliation in a campaign video for the US House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that the leech Erpobdella punctata sometimes hitches a ride on a salamander ?
text: Did you know that the design of Cincinnati 's new soccer stadium features homages to Allianz Arena in Munich ?
text: Did you know that Arthur Menachem Hantke sought support from Austria-Hungary during the First World War for the Zionist cause?
text: Did you know that two weeks before its release, retailers had already reportedly bought more than half a million copies of Action Comics #1000 ?
text: Did you know that mezzo-soprano Hedwig Fassbender , who also appeared in soprano roles such as Wagner's Isolde , has been an influential voice teacher in Frankfurt ?
text: Did you know that Gilmore, the flying lion , was named after the Gilmore Oil Company ?
text: Did you know that Elias Polk , one of U.S. President James K. Polk 's slaves, became a conservative political activist after the Civil War?
text: Did you know that the 2018–19 EFL Cup will not feature ABBA and will have no extra time to ensure the winner takes it all?
text: Did you know that US President Jimmy Carter spent the majority of his childhood on a farm in Archery, Georgia ?
text: Did you know that Robert Mugabe said that hunger in Zimbabwe might occur because Zimbabweans are " not potato eaters "?
text: Did you know that the adult tapeworm Australamphilina elongata is found in freshwater turtles, but how its eggs emerge from the host's body cavity is unknown?
text: Did you know that soprano Christina Gerstberger recorded the role of Lisida in E. T. A. Hoffmann 's Liebe und Eifersucht in a performance at the Ludwigsburg Festival ?
text: Did you know that the Rood Building is the only remaining High Victorian Gothic commercial building in Grand Rapids, Michigan ?
text: Did you know that the little-known 1758 Methodist hymn " Sun of Unclouded Righteousness " asks God to send the doctrine of the "Unitarian fiend ... back to hell", referring to both Islam and Unitarianism ?
text: Did you know that Deborah Bial uses Lego to test whether students are ready for college?
text: Did you know that 10th-century monk Adso of Montier-en-Der wrote a biography of the Antichrist ?
text: Did you know that the 1565 motet " If Ye Love Me " by Thomas Tallis was performed at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ?
text: Did you know that the French political party Nous Citoyens seeks to present an "alternative offer" to the National Front by creating a program through "participatory democracy"?
text: Did you know that the first ever Indonesian Olympic team included a high jump athlete who later became a lieutenant colonel?
text: Did you know that on retiring to England in 1845, surgeon Henry Goodeve brought four Brahmins with him to complete their medical training?
text: Did you know that the platform shelters at the modern Puyallup train station were built to resemble the city's former train depot?
text: Did you know that Iva Despić-Simonović , court sculptor to King Alexander and Queen Maria of Yugoslavia , had to buy a cow to support her family during the Second World War and hid it in her atelier ?
text: Did you know that Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko and the Security Service of Ukraine faked Babchenko's murder in order to arrest assassins who were actually planning to kill him?
text: Did you know that Bulgosuchus gargantua , a giant early temnospondyl from the Triassic , is known only from Long Reef , New South Wales ?
text: Did you know that Captain Hume was present at the Battle of Alma, the Battle of Inkerman, and the Siege of Sebastopol during the Crimean War , before serving during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 ?
text: Did you know that P. K. Sen led the first human heart transplant in India?
text: Did you know that despite being a Serb, Tatjana Ljujić-Mijatović stayed in Serb-besieged Sarajevo and became the only woman member of the wartime Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina ?
text: Did you know that over a million cockroaches escaped when an unregulated cockroach farm building was bulldozed while the owner was out to lunch?
text: Did you know that Hanns-Martin Schneidt became head of an academy of church music in 1955 at age 25, of the Münchener Bach-Chor in 1984, and of a symphony orchestra in Japan in 2007?
text: Did you know that at oral argument in NIFLA v. Becerra , U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan questioned whether a California law was "gerrymandered" in order to discriminate against crisis pregnancy centers ?
text: Did you know that contemporary artist Vladimir Kokolia has his own wiki , called Kokopedia?
text: Did you know that Sabhyata Dwar , an arch monument, bears inscriptions of Megasthenes , Ashoka , Buddha , and Mahavira ?
text: Did you know that eccentric dancer Betty Knox , of Wilson, Keppel and Betty , later became a war correspondent and reported on the Nuremberg trials ?
text: Did you know that the French Socialist Party unsuccessfully called on its own candidate to step down in order to stop the National Front from winning the regional council of Grand Est ?
text: Did you know that at the age of 52, Englishman Wilfred Rhodes is the oldest cricketer ever to play in a Test match ?
text: Did you know that Japanese voice actress Haruka Tomatsu appeared as herself in the television series Koe Girl! ?
text: Did you know that the term sharia is mentioned only once in the Quran , in a verse in its 45th chapter ?
text: Did you know that in less than eight months, Changpeng Zhao grew Binance into the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by traded volume?
text: Did you know that the UBAKUSAT satellite was built by Turkish students and will orbit the earth for six to twelve months?
text: Did you know that Dirom Grey Crawford 's roll of the Indian Medical Service includes the biographies of 6,156 officers?
text: Did you know that the upcoming Gorillaz album The Now Now was produced quickly so the band would have new material to play at upcoming festivals?
text: Did you know that professional baseball player Ronny Rodríguez is also a rapper ?
text: Did you know that during Bob Nicholson 's tenure as president of Hockey Canada , national teams won 44 gold medals in international ice hockey competition?
text: Did you know that Ojos Locos has waitresses called "chicas" and has been described as a "Mexican Hooters "?
text: Did you know that African-American civil rights activist Pauline Short Robinson broke the color barrier at the Denver Public Library ?
text: Did you know that Novell BrainShare moved from the University of Utah to the Salt Palace ?
text: Did you know that despite writing extensively about women's rights and being the first Croatian author to feature a feminist character, Jagoda Truhelka remains best known for her children's literature ?
text: Did you know that the fat sea biscuit covers its test during the day with pieces of plant and fragments of shell, holding them in place with its tube feet?
text: Did you know that Alfred Zech received the Iron Cross when he was 12 years old?
text: Did you know that members of the Yellow Sand Society believed that "magic and incantations" would make them immune to bullets?
text: Did you know that Indian actor Ranbir Kapoor played a character based on Arjuna and Michael Corleone in the 2010 political thriller Raajneeti ?
text: Did you know that despite gathering an emperor, six kings, and numerous princes at the Conference of Dresden , Napoleon was largely preoccupied with planning his invasion of Russia ?
text: Did you know that Juliet Appiah is the first Ghanaian police officer  to be awarded a FIFA refereeing badge?
text: Did you know that according to the book Passing on the Right , conservative professors in the U.S. often have to employ "coping strategies that gays and lesbians have used in the military and other inhospitable work environments"?
text: Did you know that Tom Hom was the first non-Caucasian elected to the San Diego City Council ?
text: Did you know that in Philippine mythology , anito spirits can harm human beings by "greeting" them?
text: Did you know that Microsoft 's Brad Smith has filed multiple data privacy lawsuits against the Federal government of the United States?
text: Did you know that body horror , originally a subgenre of horror films and literature, now appears in video games, comics, anime , and manga ?
text: Did you know that sewage from Canon de los Laureles flows into the United States?
text: Did you know that Güzide Alçu and her two teammates were referred to the disciplinary board for displaying V signs that were interpreted by the Turkish Football Federation as insulting?
text: Did you know that Fleurs de Marécage by the Dutch poet J. Slauerhoff , containing French poems and a translation of a poem by the Irish poet W. B. Yeats , was published in Belgium?
text: Did you know that Wolfgang Straßmann hid in the bed of a servant girl in Meno Burg 's house in Berlin while his comrades were executed by Prussian troops?
text: Did you know that the Northwest Cannabis Solutions Satsop facility is operated by the largest grower of legal cannabis in the U.S. state of Washington at the site of a canceled nuclear power plant ?
text: Did you know that Charlie Lee created Litecoin in his spare time while working at Google ?
text: Did you know that Aldus Manutius commissioned typefaces resembling the handwriting of famous humanists of his day, one of which became the first known model of italic type?
text: Did you know that though in a romantic relationship since the 1990s, the titular characters of the 2018 X-Men miniseries Rogue & Gambit had never previously headlined a comic book together?
text: Did you know that Titus Awotwi Pratt , Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church Ghana , was commissioned as a minister by his father , who at that time headed the church in Ghana?
text: Did you know that some parts of the New York City Subway's signaling system have not been replaced in 80 years, causing over 11,000 train delays in the span of two months?
text: Did you know that Sơn Tùng M-TP 's misspelling of the word "tattoo" inspired a hit song?
text: Did you know that Kynance Mews has been the home to anonymous crooks , scandalous characters , a hostage taking , and Julie Andrews ?
text: Did you know that at the Reading Railroad Massacre in July 1877, rioters burnt two cabooses , seven freight cars , a watch house, and a bridge?
text: Did you know that having won a world title in 2016 at the age of 68, professional barrel racer Mary Burger became the oldest rodeo world champion?
text: Did you know that Paul Gerhardt 's song of thanks and praise " Nun danket all und bringet Ehr " was first published along with 17 of his other hymns in 1647, during the Thirty Years' War ?
text: Did you know that Ryan Bollinger played professionally in Germany and Australia before his first promotion to Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that after being excluded from the National Front by his daughter Marine Le Pen in 2015, Jean-Marie Le Pen created the Comités Jeanne , named after Joan of Arc ?
text: Did you know that Tetragonoporus calyptocephalus , a tapeworm that parasitizes whales, can grow to almost 40 m (130 ft) in length and produce billions of eggs during its lifetime?
text: Did you know that the first name of Lucy Heartfilia , the Fairy Tail manga and anime series' main female protagonist, was inspired by the Beatles ' song " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds "?
text: Did you know that U.S. Justice Department attorney Thomas Puccio was the inspiration for characters in the films Prince of the City and American Hustle ?
text: Did you know that Lee Felsenstein originally developed the VDM-1 graphics card as a low-cost video terminal for the Community Memory bulletin board system ?
text: Did you know that at the time of his death, John Onesimus Foster was believed to be the oldest active professor in the United States?
text: Did you know that the Hawaiian cleaner wrasse could be eaten by its clients, but is not?
text: Did you know that actor Art Malik wanted viewers of Holby City to perceive his character Zubin Khan as an "educated Muslim man"?
text: Did you know that Maribel Parra de Mestre is the first female vice admiral of Venezuela?
text: Did you know that the early 20th-century American rodeo event of mounted potato racing could become violent, with biting being almost the only tactic that was prohibited?
text: Did you know that in 1957, violinist Wanda Wiłkomirska and pianist Jadwiga Szamotulska recorded classical music for children, including concertos by Viotti and Accolay ?
text: Did you know that 1KUNS-PF , the first Kenyan-built satellite, is to be used to monitor the country's coastline, and to help combat illegal logging?
text: Did you know that Stanley Woodward was the first known writer to use the phrase "ivy" in relation to future Ivy League universities?
text: Did you know that the House of Bishops , the House of Clergy , and the House of Laity each hold veto power over proposed Measures of the General Synod of the Church of England ?
text: Did you know that Croatian oceanographer Mira Zore-Armanda had difficulty gaining passage on research vessels because she was a woman?
text: Did you know that monuments and memorials to the fallen in the Mexican–American War include a US national cemetery in Mexico City ?
text: Did you know that the bastard sole is a worm-eating bottom dweller?
text: Did you know that 23-year-old Japanese voice actress and singer Yurika Endō is retiring for health reasons after her solo concert today?
text: Did you know that the United States Semiquincentennial will be celebrated in 2026 ?
text: Did you know that Ian Meadows discovered both the Anglo-Saxon Pioneer helmet and the first conclusive evidence for viticulture in Roman Britain?
text: Did you know that Saudi women are organising an anti male-guardianship campaign ?
text: Did you know that according to legend, the governor who ordered the execution of 17th-century Thai poet Si Prat was later executed with the same sword, fulfilling the poet ' s curse?
text: Did you know that within a year of its inception, members of Operation Vanguard arrested more than 1,000 illegal miners ?
text: Did you know that after winning the lottery, Jay Sommers used the money to fund a career in NASCAR ?
text: Did you know that a Deutsches Hochamt (German High Mass) by Michael Haydn has been described as "musically the epitome of south-German/Austrian Catholicism"?
text: Did you know that before becoming a successful writer, James Francis Dwyer was sentenced to seven years in prison for forgery and uttering ?
text: Did you know that Félicette , France's first cat to successfully travel into space, was launched from the Centre interarmées d'essais d'engins spéciaux ?
text: Did you know that Maurine Whipple 's Mormon epic The Giant Joshua was the most-borrowed book in the Salt Lake City Public Library in 1989?
text: Did you know that in May 1917, German general Liman von Sanders organized the expulsion of the Greek population of Ayvalık , Turkey, to inner Anatolia ?
text: Did you know that Madeleine Moreau is the only French athlete to win an Olympic medal in diving ?
text: Did you know that Duck Donuts was named after Duck ?
text: Did you know that since Brett Cantor 's fatal stab wounds 25 years ago today were similar to those of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman , O. J. Simpson's defense team was allowed to review the police case file?
text: Did you know that Gevninge , a Danish village dating to the Viking Age or earlier, may have been the port for the seat of the Scylding kings?
text: Did you know that Kateryna Kasper appeared at the Los Angeles Opera as Belinda in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas , staged by Barrie Kosky , and in Frankfurt as Antonida in Glinka's Iwan Sussanin , staged by Harry Kupfer ?
text: Did you know that Sigmund Freud regularly played the popular Austrian tarot card game , Königrufen ?
text: Did you know that William Chong Wong , the son of Chinese immigrant parents, twice served as Minister of Finance in Honduras ?
text: Did you know that Dafydd Gibbon is particularly concerned with endangered languages and has received awards from the Ivory Coast, Nigeria, and Poland?
text: Did you know that the peanut worm Nephasoma minutum has been referred to as a "taxonomic wastebasket"?
text: Did you know that Marvel Comics published a solo comic book about the teenager Jean Grey from the time-displaced X-Men ?
text: Did you know that Jean-François Bony designed fabrics for the rulers of France before, during, and after the French Revolution ?
text: Did you know that Stanwood station was once served by the " Dinky ", claimed by local residents to be the world's shortest steam railway?
text: Did you know that after Shane Filan 's demo for " Beautiful in White " was leaked in 2010, it became a popular wedding song in Asia?
text: Did you know that the fatal shooting of her son inspired Lucy McBath to advocate for gun control and ultimately run for the United States Congress ?
text: Did you know that the copepod Metridia longa cannibalizes up to 85% of its eggs?
text: Did you know that footballer Eddie Jenkins turned down a move to Tottenham Hotspur because he thought that "there were better prospects in the milk business"?
text: Did you know that nearly every person in Val Gagné, Ontario , died in the 1916 Matheson Fire , and the settlement was renamed to honour the heroic efforts of the parish priest?
text: Did you know that spiders in the genus Plato have cubical egg sacs ?
text: Did you know that the oratorio Sankt-Bach-Passion by Mauricio Kagel , which premiered in 1985 for the tricentenary of Bach's birth, "changed the game by making Bach himself the suffering protagonist"?
text: Did you know that Vince Lombardi 's Packers sweep has been called one of the most famous American football plays in history?
text: Did you know that Cuitláhuac García Jiménez lost the 2016 Veracruz gubernatorial election to Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares , but defeated Linares ' son in 2018?
text: Did you know that the song " Saving Light " was released as part of "Make Trance #1 Again", an initiative that encouraged fans to purchase the song on Beatport to support an anti-bullying charity ?
text: Did you know that Stuart W. Jamieson pioneered pulmonary thromboendarterectomy ?
text: Did you know that Antonio Banderas , who voices the character Puss in Boots in the Shrek films, stated that Puss is his alter ego?
text: Did you know that Grand Canyon explorer Jack Sumner intentionally castrated himself?
text: Did you know that Australian rules football player Ben Cousins co-produced a documentary film depicting his struggle with drug addiction?
text: Did you know that Liu Boli was tasked with cleaning up China's nuclear waste?
text: Did you know that Interstate 86 follows a section of the historic Oregon Trail ?
text: Did you know that according to Peter Wilmot-Sitwell , young well-connected stockbrokers in his firm were known as "orchids" because they were "beautiful but utterly useless"?
text: Did you know that Liebe und Eifersucht ( Love and Jealousy ), an 1807 opera with libretto and music by E. T. A. Hoffmann , premiered in 2008?
text: Did you know that by 1969, president Felton Grandison Clark had expanded Southern University into America's largest historically black university by enrollment?
text: Did you know that despite being unaffected by rabies or pseudorabies , the sea urchin Tripneustes depressus contains antivirals to these diseases?
text: Did you know that Gujarati theatre actor Pransukh Nayak was entered in the 1989 Guinness Book of Records with 22,455 performances in his career?
text: Did you know that the siting of a trolley station in front of the new courthouse in San Diego , California, was opposed by court officials and the county sheriff?
text: Did you know that an army commander in the Banat Republic of 1918 claimed it could raise 40,000 troops against the French Danube Army , but in reality it had less than 4,000?
text: Did you know that Alaska's Captain Cook State Recreation Area was a traditional salmon fishing spot for the Dena'ina people, before being used for commercial fishing ?
text: Did you know that when Byzantine emperor Anastasius I died, he left a treasury with over 23 million gold solidi , equivalent to 420 long tons of gold?
text: Did you know that Biggs jasper is one of the most sought-after extremely siliceous gemstones?
text: Did you know that when Minna Lammert , Lilli Lehmann and her sister Marie rehearsed as the Rhinemaidens for the first performance of Das Rheingold in Bayreuth , Wagner thanked them "with tears of joy"?
text: Did you know that the reticulated pufferfish can produce and build up toxins in its skin, gonads, and liver, including tetrodotoxin and saxitoxin ?
text: Did you know that Wang Jian co-founded Hainan Airlines and transformed it into the world's 170th largest company with US$53 billion in revenue?
text: Did you know that Technological University Dublin , or TU Dublin, is the first university of its type in Ireland ?
text: Did you know that footballer Colin Hudson scored in a 6–1 victory for Cardiff City on the same day he was married?
text: Did you know that the witch of Agnesi comes from a circle and kisses it ?
text: Did you know that the sand burrowing brittlestar is often found in association with the sea potato ?
text: Did you know that Petra Schmidt has performed operatic title roles such as Dvořák's Rusalka and Ponchielli's La Gioconda at the Musiktheater im Revier ?
text: Did you know that New York City's Gowanus Canal is so heavily polluted that Enterococcus , which is found in human fecal matter, has been detected at more than 100 times above safe levels?
text: Did you know that according to a 17th-century missionary in Safavid Georgia , the literate Georgians in the province preferred to read Georgian versions of Persian works rather than religious texts ?
text: Did you know that despite earning the second-highest score in the 2018 U.S. Championships at junior level, Alysa Liu was too young to compete at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships ?
text: Did you know that a unique geological formation, including dacitic magma at approximately 1050°C (1920°F), was encountered at Puna Geothermal Venture in 2005 when drilling a new geothermal energy well?
text: Did you know that biochemist Chen-Lu Tsou was praised for criticizing his boss?
text: Did you know that one side of Euston Square may have "tried to bury the murderous memories attached thereto" by changing its name to Endsleigh Gardens ?
text: Did you know that Hilmar Hoffmann , who wanted "culture for all", initiated a 15-museum complex in Frankfurt, including the first independent Jewish museum in postwar Germany ?
text: Did you know that in May 2018, the 8,000th animal was photographed for The Photo Ark project, which aims to document all 12,000 species living in zoos and wildlife sanctuaries worldwide?
text: Did you know that Socialist Marie-Guite Dufay was not elected president of the regional council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in the first round of voting, although the left held an absolute majority of seats?
text: Did you know that in 1917, a soldier of Troop B, Washington Cavalry wrote home that France was a "strange but wonderful land"?
text: Did you know that coached by Harendra Singh , India's field hockey teams won gold at the 2016 Men's Junior World Cup , gold at the 2017 Women's Asia Cup , and silver at the 2018 Men's Champions Trophy ?
text: Did you know that the Shadwell forgeries , crude 19th-century fake medieval artefacts, are now sought-after collectibles in their own right?
text: Did you know that in ancient Indian stories, a person "can bend the cosmic forces to his will" through an " act of truth "?
text: Did you know that Leonard Guthrie thought that Napoleon Bonaparte 's genital atrophy, sexual alopecia, and feminine appearance indicated hypopituitarism ?
text: Did you know that " We Say Mabuhay " is performed following the inauguration of a president of the Philippines ?
text: Did you know that Loren Klein is the third player to win World Series of Poker bracelets in three consecutive years since the poker boom began?
text: Did you know that there are accounts of a macuahuitl , a Mesoamerican weapon made from wood and stone, decapitating a horse?
text: Did you know that Kartik Aaryan made his acting debut in the 2011 film Pyaar Ka Punchnama after answering a casting call on Facebook?
text: Did you know that a Thameslink passenger likened the seats on the Class 700 trains to ironing boards ?
text: Did you know that player choices from The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit will have consequences in the upcoming video game Life Is Strange 2 ?
text: Did you know that the Egyptian footballer Trézéguet was given his nickname due to his resemblance to former footballer David Trezeguet ?
text: Did you know that the adult tuatara tick Amblyomma sphenodonti can survive for over one year without feeding on tuatara blood?
text: Did you know that before the cremation of former business executive Sun Fuling , Chinese President Xi Jinping paid his final respects at the cemetery?
text: Did you know that in his book Fault Lines , Raghuram Rajan considered income inequality in the US to have been one of the underlying causes of the 2008 financial crisis ?
text: Did you know that mezzo-soprano Patricia Payne made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Ponchielli's La Gioconda , and took part in the first performance of Britten's Peter Grimes in New Zealand?
text: Did you know that in the kelp forests off the coast of Chile, sea urchins graze on the kelp , and starfish prey on the sea urchins?
text: Did you know that the majority of Bloody Henry starfish are host to a parasitic copepod ?
text: Did you know that the conductor Michael Hofstetter has performed and recorded rarely played operas at the Ludwigsburg Festival , including Salieri 's Les Danaïdes ?
text: Did you know that more than 500 people were arrested at the Women Disobey protest in Washington, D.C. in June, including U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal and actress Susan Sarandon ?
text: Did you know that Tuluhan Tekelioğlu made a documentary film on organ transplantation while her father was undergoing and recovering from bypass surgery in a hospital in Antalya ?
text: Did you know that 2018 Queen's Plate winner Wonder Gadot was named for Wonder Woman actress Gal Gadot ?
text: Did you know that the 63rd Street Line , a three-station subway line in New York City , was initially described as a "tunnel to nowhere" because it had no connections to other subway lines in the borough of Queens ?
text: Did you know that the United States Army's Six-String Soldiers once opened for Creedence Clearwater Revival 's John Fogerty ?
text: Did you know that Soviet Jeltoqsan protester Qairat Rysqulbekov died in mysterious circumstances in his prison cell less than a year after his death sentence was revoked?
text: Did you know that the CEO of Advanced Cell Therapeutics is on the Food and Drug Administration 's Most Wanted List after selling stem-cell therapy to people fraudulently?
text: Did you know that Sarah Louvion , playing principal flute with the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester , recorded 20th-century French music with solo flute by André Jolivet , Jacques Ibert , and others?
text: Did you know that Cline Falls and Cline Buttes in Central Oregon are named after pioneer dentist Cass A. Cline ?
text: Did you know that DNS Certification Authority Authorization was developed after a series of incorrectly issued digital certificates damaged public trust in issuing authorities?
text: Did you know that Feras Antoon described one of his companies as "masters of the big-tit-MILF niche"?
text: Did you know that Croatian concentration camp commander Vjekoslav Luburić 's wife divorced him in 1957 after she was sent an anonymous letter detailing his crimes?
text: Did you know that in its early years, the Indian National Theatre troupe travelled in two lorries and used them as a stage?
text: Did you know that Chief was the United States Army 's last cavalry horse ?
text: Did you know that in Der goldene Drache , the ninth opera by Péter Eötvös , five singers perform 18 characters, switching age and gender?
text: Did you know that when she successfully auditioned for the EastEnders role of Louise Mitchell , actress Tilly Keeper thought she was auditioning for another character?
text: Did you know that Hu Wei became a division commander at the age of only 29, but soon suffered a setback at the Battle of Dengbu Island ?
text: Did you know that during the Petticoat Revolution , Laura Starcher became mayor of Umatilla, Oregon , while keeping her candidacy a secret from her husband—the current mayor—until the afternoon of election day?
text: Did you know that the drinking game Hi, Bob may have been the first to use prompts from a television show to initiate player action?
text: Did you know that the Irish surgeon Solomon Richards achieved fame by performing a tracheotomy in public?
text: Did you know that James Willing raided British forts, plantations, and other properties belonging to loyalists during the American Revolutionary War ?
text: Did you know that euthymia , a state of internal calm and contentment, is a goal of psychiatric intervention?
text: Did you know that the 2016 song "Yōkoso Japari Park e", written by Masayoshi Ōishi , topped Amazon Japan 's soundtrack ranking and placed third on the country's iTunes song chart?
text: Did you know that the 1944 Report on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews accused U.S. State Department officials of willfully obstructing attempts to rescue Holocaust refugees?
text: Did you know that before becoming Emperor of Byzantium, the young Michael IV was the previous emperor 's body servant and his wife 's lover?
text: Did you know that Bruce Conner found the soundtrack for A Movie while listening to the radio?
text: Did you know that mezzo-soprano Sara Sheffield is the first female feature vocalist in the history of the "the President's Own" United States Marine Band ?
text: Did you know that during the 6th-century Gothic War , Rome was besieged three times and sacked twice by the Goths ?
text: Did you know that the Yiddish song " Papirosn ", written after World War I, was later amended to mirror the tribulations of the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that Poralia rufescens , a deepwater discomedusan jellyfish , is so fragile that most specimens brought to the surface are damaged?
text: Did you know that Martha Erika Alonso stopped using her husband 's last name in public during her campaign for Governor of Puebla ?
text: Did you know that the Saturn Cafe serves classic American diner food without the meat and grease?
text: Did you know that footballer Mohamed El-Shenawy declined his man of the match award after Egypt's opening match of the 2018 FIFA World Cup ?
text: Did you know that a new soccer team in Albuquerque, New Mexico , will schedule its home games around the Albuquerque Isotopes baseball team, with whom it will share a stadium?
text: Did you know that footballer Adrian Alston performed the Cruyff Turn at the 1974 FIFA World Cup, before Johan Cruyff made the move famous?
text: Did you know that Rashad Sadygov is the most capped Azerbaijani international footballer of all time?
text: Did you know that in 2018 Trent Alexander-Arnold became only the fourth teenager to start a match for England at the FIFA World Cup?
text: Did you know that the footballer Kahraba ("Electricity") was given his nickname due to his pace and energy?
text: Did you know that the jerseys of American soccer team Las Vegas Lights FC feature a smiley face on the underside for use in goal celebrations ?
text: Did you know that " Go England " was written as an adaptation of The Jam 's " Going Underground " to support England at the 2002 FIFA World Cup?
text: Did you know that the leech Theromyzon tessulatum is a parasite of waterfowl, invading their mouths, noses, and respiratory passages?
text: Did you know that Yan Jizhou 's 1957 film Early Morning Chill was repeatedly criticized in China for portraying traitors to the Communist revolution in a sympathetic light?
text: Did you know that public art at South Tacoma station includes a granite railroad spike and a pair of 18-foot (5.5 m) arches shaped like train wheels ?
text: Did you know that the title of " Da der Herr Christ zu Tische saß ", a long Passion hymn by Nikolaus Herman published in 1560, alludes to the Last Supper ?
text: Did you know that under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Ardeshir Tarapore , the Poona Horse regiment, 17th Battalion, destroyed sixty Pakistani tanks during the Battle of Chawinda ?
text: Did you know that John Gorrie has no memory of directing the third episode of the Doctor Who serial The Reign of Terror , despite official documentation stating he did?
text: Did you know that Welsh international footballer Darcy Blake left the professional game at the age of 25 and later played amateur rugby?
text: Did you know that John Philip Sousa composed the dirge performed at his own funeral?
text: Did you know that Egyptian-American physician Adel Mahmoud oversaw the development of the Gardasil HPV vaccine ?
text: Did you know that the gut of Piscicola geometra harbours symbiotic bacteria which help the leech to digest fish blood?
text: Did you know that Joseph Samuel Clark turned down Herbert Hoover 's offer to serve as the United States Ambassador to Liberia in 1931 to remain the president of Southern University ?
text: Did you know that the Lonsdale Belt is the oldest championship belt in British boxing ?
text: Did you know that Theodora was dragged from a monastery and forced to become Empress of the Byzantine Empire against her will?
text: Did you know that in the book The Lucifer Effect , author Philip Zimbardo examines parallels between his 1971 Stanford prison experiment and the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse case in 2003?
text: Did you know that the centenary of the Protestant Church Wilnsdorf in 2013 was celebrated by the same hymn, and a sermon from the same biblical text, employed at its consecration?
text: Did you know that the Holby City production team worked with Parkinson's UK to create a Parkinson's disease storyline for the character Alex Adams ?
text: Did you know that days after the Kent train station opened, a robbery was foiled there by the station agent armed with an iron poker?
text: Did you know that Chinese scientist Liu Xinyuan is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ?
text: Did you know that a NIS 20,000 offer by Burger Ranch to distribute the Israeli video game series Piposh was turned down by the developers because they were vegetarians?
text: Did you know that the University of Texas at Austin 's Little Campus was previously used as an asylum for the blind, a residence for General Custer , and a hospital for the senile?
text: Did you know that Wang Yinglai , considered a potential candidate for a Nobel Prize after he successfully synthesized insulin , became a virtual prisoner during the Cultural Revolution ?
text: Did you know that an allied force of Republican soldiers and Parthians swiftly overran much of the eastern Roman lands that were under Mark Antony in 40 BC?
text: Did you know that footballer Ali Ghazal was the first Egyptian player to be appointed permanent captain of a top-division European club ?
text: Did you know that between 1957 and 1972, the market price of oil was less than the posted price of oil ?
text: Did you know that Andreas Großmann commissioned the oratorio Laudato si' for the 50th anniversary of the Catholic Diocese of Limburg 's church music department, which he heads?
text: Did you know that the city of Lynnwood , Washington, was named after the wife of a local realtor?
text: Did you know that since their founding in 1919, the Green Bay Packers have retired the uniform numbers of only six players ?
text: Did you know that Innocenzo Leonelli gave his wealth to the poor and renounced his name to become a hermit ?
text: Did you know that French mezzo-soprano Isabelle Druet is a fan of reggae ?
text: Did you know that Lion's Choice , based in St. Louis , was founded by a chemical engineer?
text: Did you know that Constantine Dalassenos twice came close to marrying Zoë Porphyrogenita and becoming emperor of Byzantium – and twice failed?
text: Did you know that Magnolia Way , officially designated as Mississippi Highway 780, is unsigned at both ends?
text: Did you know that the Vilama caldera volcano on the border between Bolivia and Argentina produced over 1,200 cubic kilometres (290 cu mi) of rock in a single eruption?
text: Did you know that the head of Constantine III was presented to his co-emperor Honorius on the end of a pole?
text: Did you know that comic book writer Cullen Bunn included "touchstones" like Star Trek and Firefly in his pitch for Asgardians of the Galaxy ?
text: Did you know that Mexican-American human rights activist Alicia Cuarón became a Franciscan nun in her fifties?
text: Did you know that the 1980 Finniston Report found that only 56% of British people considered engineering a good career for a woman?
text: Did you know that Keith M. Davidson , the former attorney of Stormy Daniels , slept in a closet during his years at Boston College ?
text: Did you know that a German plan for the invasion of the United Kingdom became part of the plot for a best-selling novel ?
text: Did you know that Tony Ridley was described as "a very brainy backroom boy" with "no management experience whatever" when appointed director-general of the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive ?
text: Did you know that the 2017–18 Thai temple fraud investigations , which led to the imprisonment of high-ranking Buddhist monks, were seen by critics as being politically motivated?
text: Did you know that Cornelia Wulkopf made her operatic debut in the centenary production of Wagner's Ring Cycle at the Bayreuth Festival and recorded the alto part in Bach's Mass in B minor with Sergiu Celibidache ?
text: Did you know that Hocking Lake was renamed Lake Logan after Chief Logan of the Mingo Native American tribe?
text: Did you know that Chinese general Zhao Nanqi , who fought alongside the son of Mao Zedong in the Korean War , was born in what is now South Korea?
text: Did you know that a secret compartment of Queen Elizabeth I 's Chequers Ring contains miniature portraits of the Queen and an unknown woman?
text: Did you know that basketball player Charles Bassey was discovered at the age of 12 selling fried chicken by a coach in Nigeria?
text: Did you know that footballer Youssef "Obama" Ibrahim was given his nickname due to his likeness to Barack Obama ?
text: Did you know that Tuzex shopping vouchers were used as unofficial parallel currency in communist Czechoslovakia ?
text: Did you know that Claire Ptak baked the lemon and elderflower wedding cake for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ?
text: Did you know that creating human hair wreaths is a part of Mormon folklore , and a wreath containing hair from prominent church leaders was on display in the Salt Lake Temple until 1967?
text: Did you know that Erik Adolf von Willebrand originally used the term "hereditary pseudohemophilia" to describe what came to be known as von Willebrand disease ?
text: Did you know that Interstate 84 is the longest freeway in Oregon and the only one to traverse the state from west to east?
text: Did you know that the British physician Raymond Crawfurd described the custom of touching to cure the King's evil ?
text: Did you know that the decision by the Official Charts Company to include streaming in the UK Singles Chart in 2014 led to fewer chart toppers ?
text: Did you know that Britta Stallmeister , the Forest Bird in Bayreuth in 2001, appeared as Germa in a new chamber opera at the Schlachthof Wiesbaden in 2018?
text: Did you know that the Indian Peace Commission , established by the United States Congress in 1867 to negotiate with and "civilize" Native American tribes, ultimately ushered in a decade of war?
text: Did you know that Liu Yichang , considered the founder of Hong Kong's modern literature, wrote novels that inspired two award-winning films by Wong Kar-wai ?
text: Did you know that characterization of nanoparticles ' size, shape, and agglomeration state is necessary to understand their health and safety hazards ?
text: Did you know that hip hop / metal recording artist Scarlxrd was once a "smiley" YouTube personality?
text: Did you know that Ninjala is an upcoming video game centered on bubblegum -blowing ninjas ?
text: Did you know that at the Battle of Negapatam , when most of the fleet turned away from the action, HMS Sultan was one of four British ships that turned into it?
text: Did you know that 98 years ago, biologist Edith Roberts founded the first ecological laboratory in the U.S., inspiring landscape architect Elsa Rehmann to use native plant communities in garden design ?
text: Did you know that the discography of pianist Daniil Trifonov includes one Grammy Award -winning album and two others that were nominated?
text: Did you know that during the Boxer Rebellion , Xu Yingkui collaborated with other high-ranking Chinese officials to defy the declaration of war made by the Qing imperial court on Western countries?
text: Did you know that the ant species Zatania electra is named for the amber in which it was found entombed?
text: Did you know that Gethsemane Lutheran Church in Austin, Texas , was built of bricks salvaged from the recently burned Texas State Capitol ?
text: Did you know that Carmen y Laura , sisters who formed a duo for mostly Tejano music , learned to harmonize by singing together while doing chores in separate rooms?
text: Did you know that Alan Menken collaborated on one of his first musicals, Dear Worthy Editor , with his mother?
text: Did you know that the ninth-century astronomer Al-Mahani claimed his estimates of the start times of three consecutive lunar eclipses were accurate to within half an hour?
text: Did you know that although he fought a war in Ningxia against the Chinese government and was defeated, Sun Dianying was appointed to a high-ranking military position just a month later?
text: Did you know that New Jersey musician 070 Shake was featured in a Vogue essay on rising queer stars in rap music?
text: Did you know that a 2003 English court case ruled that someone who lies about having sharp items in their pocket while being searched can be charged with assault if the searcher is injured as a result?
text: Did you know that Mary Walker overcame a tragedy and a serious injury to win the 2012 World Barrel Racing Championship?
text: Did you know that a British ornithologist named Winchell's kingfisher , found in the Philippines, after an American geologist ?
text: Did you know that international windsurfing champion Lena Erdil is the daughter of a Turkish father and a German mother, who met each other while windsurfing?
text: Did you know that the hymn tune of the 16th-century " An Wasserflüssen Babylon " (" By the rivers of Babylon ") was largely popularized with the text of a 17th-century Passion hymn ?
text: Did you know that Andrea L. Thompson served in the United States Army for 28 years before becoming National Security Advisor to the Vice President ?
text: Did you know that supplements and "symposia" published by academic journals may be paid publications , neither independently peer-reviewed nor edited by journal staff?
text: Did you know that the Chicago Express Loop is a proposed underground high-speed rail rapid transit system that will connect Chicago's Loop with O'Hare International Airport ?
text: Did you know that Zhang Xiaoqian , one of China's top doctors, was spared from persecution during the Anti-Rightist Campaign by Mao Zedong , who called him a "simpleminded person"?
text: Did you know that a veteran tree near Brig o' Turk in the Trossachs has "eaten" a bicycle?
text: Did you know that Danish dermatologist Carl Rasch coined the term " polymorphic light eruption "?
text: Did you know that Amazon responded to the proposed Seattle head tax by threatening to halt development of a downtown office tower?
text: Did you know that Carmen Casco de Lara Castro , founder of one of the first human rights organizations in Latin America, was arrested, denied a passport, and monitored by the Stroessner regime?
text: Did you know that in 2013 Iceland had the highest number of writers , books published, and books read per capita?
text: Did you know that Ofir Ben Shitrit was suspended from her religious girls' high school after singing on The Voice Israel ?
text: Did you know that with an area of 2,772 acres (1,122 ha), Pelham Bay Park is the largest public park in New York City ?
text: Did you know that Q wrote "Wikipedia"?
text: Did you know that during the 2017–18 season, Moroccan-born footballer Walid Azaro broke the Egyptian Premier League record for the most goals scored by a foreign player?
text: Did you know that Alaska's Stormy Lake had to be poisoned to remove invasive species not once but twice?
text: Did you know that Joachim von Sandrart praised the Flemish painter Joannes de Cordua 's vanitas still lifes?
text: Did you know that the 1962 mainframe game Marienbad , based on the logic puzzle Nim , is often considered the first Polish video game?
text: Did you know that more than 400 female Red Guards were shot after being captured during the 1918 Finnish Civil War , with some being raped before execution?
text: Did you know that the archives of the British civil nuclear industry are housed alongside historical documents dating to the 16th century?
text: Did you know that the Arctic Monkeys song " Four Out of Five " jokes about critics who rarely give perfect scores in their reviews?
text: Did you know that Number 12 , an investigative documentary by award-winning journalist Anas Anas , shed light on football corruption in Ghana ?
text: Did you know that Claus Wisser founded the services company Wisag, and co-founded the Rheingau Musik Festival which staged a concert of Orff's Carmina Burana for his 60th birthday?
text: Did you know that locomotives completed a circuit on the Boston and Albany Railroad 's Highland Branch ?
text: Did you know that Zhang Youshang was the only student from mainland China at the University of Cambridge in the mid-1960s?
text: Did you know that chemicals found in members of the St. John's wort family can cause photosensitivity in grazing animals?
text: Did you know that Gordon Juckes received the Order of the British Empire prior to being inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that the H. J. Heinz Company complex includes buildings named Meat, Bean, and Cereal?
text: Did you know that Doug Gurr , head of Amazon UK , has said that a no-deal Brexit could lead to civil unrest "within two weeks"?
text: Did you know that the Beach Boys ' Transcendental Meditation-inspired Friends (1968) was their last album of the 1960s to involve former bandleader Brian Wilson ?
text: Did you know that referee Bob Nadin said he was referred to as the "pope of the rules", and received the Pierre de Coubertin medal for ice hockey at the Olympic Games?
text: Did you know that the Gut Holzhausen estate is a biodynamic farm and the venue for a festival called Voices?
text: Did you know that Gaqo Çako was the lead tenor for more than three decades at the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Albania ?
text: Did you know that the entire editorial board of the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health resigned in protest in November 2017 over disputes involving the new editor-in-chief?
text: Did you know that LeBron James Jr. received offers to play basketball at Duke and Kentucky by the age of eleven?
text: Did you know that the secretary blenny is a slender ambush predator with large eyes?
text: Did you know that William Preucil has served as concertmaster for four American orchestras—the Atlanta Symphony , Utah Symphony , Nashville Symphony , and Cleveland Orchestra ?
text: Did you know that the British Army's Peninsular War battalions of detachments were commended for their gallantry on the battlefield but criticised for their conduct in camp?
text: Did you know that Dutch dermatologist Rudi Cormane pioneered research on immunofluorescence of the skin?
text: Did you know that the video game Dungeons 3 was described as the closest its developer came to creating a successor to the popular Dungeon Keeper series ?
text: Did you know that Japanese singer Reona was a cosplayer before starting her music career?
text: Did you know that the US Drug Enforcement Administration is looking for a man known as The Claw ?
text: Did you know that as a high school basketball player, Lometa Odom set the Texas single-game scoring record of 78 points in 1951?
text: Did you know that Takuyo-Daisan was once an island in the South Pacific but is now a seamount off Japan?
text: Did you know that the Thai Buddhist monk Luang Por Dhammajayo launched an anti-smoking and drinking campaign that won an award from the World Health Organization ?
text: Did you know that after his death, politician, jurist, and general Lucius Torquatus was portrayed by Roman writer Cicero as an advocate for Epicurean ethics?
text: Did you know that Migrant Architects of the NHS recounts how doctors from the Indian subcontinent immigrated to Britain and became general practitioners ?
text: Did you know that maritime fur trader Thomas Humphrey Metcalfe and most of his crew were killed by Native Hawaiians in revenge for the flogging of a chief by Metcalfe's father days before?
text: Did you know that on its tenth anniversary, the webcomic " Loss " was replaced by an edited version titled "Found"?
text: Did you know that during Governor Bill Clinton 's 1992 presidential campaign , political aide Carol Rasco took over Arkansas's "daily business"?
text: Did you know that the British TV series Aap Kaa Hak answered health, social and legal questions in Hindi and Urdu?
text: Did you know that the 1810 Catholic hymnal by Christoph Bernhard Verspoell , with his melodies and organ settings, contains a song included in the Catholic hymnal Gotteslob in 2013?
text: Did you know that during World War II, future Oregon state senator Gordon W. McKay participated in the Battle of Tarawa as a Seabee ?
text: Did you know that the diet of the skeleton shrimp Caprella equilibra consists mainly of detritus , but it also feeds on the hydroids to which it clings?
text: Did you know that the Carpenters received hate mail because they combined a soft ballad with a loud electric guitar ?
text: Did you know that Mormon studies scholars have the sense that they are being watched, following previous excommunications of Mormon historians in the field?
text: Did you know that Robert Einstein, a cousin of Nobel Prize Laureate Albert Einstein , committed suicide less than a year after his family was murdered by German soldiers in World War II?
text: Did you know that Ina Hartwig , formerly on the editorial staff of Frankfurter Rundschau , published a biography of Ingeborg Bachmann in 2017?
text: Did you know that Ralph Vaughan Williams set Psalm 47 in English, O clap your hands , as a motet for choir and orchestra in 1920?
text: Did you know that after FIBA rules changes limited the availability of NBA players, the U.S. men's basketball team decided to assemble rosters of primarily G Leaguers for the 2019 World Cup qualifiers?
text: Did you know that a story by Argentine mathematician Magdalena Mouján about a Basque family that travels back in time to their homeland was blocked by the Franco regime ?
text: Did you know that after being rebuilt in May 2018, the open-air Summer Theatre of Tirana held a show in which 400 artists participated?
text: Did you know that the second test in the Operation Mosaic series under the command of Hugh Martell was the largest detonation of a nuclear device ever to take place in Australia?
text: Did you know that Altars of the World was the final recipient of the Golden Globe Award for Best Documentary Film before the award was retired?
text: Did you know that one of the financers of the Spire , a residential building in Seattle , joined the project as a result of a state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping ?
text: Did you know that Ülo Nugis was the first Estonian politician to publicly call for Estonia to join NATO , even while Soviet troops were still present in the Baltic nation?
text: Did you know that the ancestors of the grey cuckooshrike most likely spread to Africa from the Australo-Papuan region ?
text: Did you know that Serge Blanc was the first to record Leonard Bernstein 's Serenade after Plato's "Symposium" in France?
text: Did you know that the single road bridge to Great Island in Cork Harbour is more than 200 years old?
text: Did you know that in 1964, a school teacher survived for nine months after surgeon Keith Reemtsma transplanted chimpanzee kidneys into her?
text: Did you know that Hope not Hate released commemorative mugs and teatowels to mark the retirement of Brian Parker , the British National Party 's last district councillor?
text: Did you know that Seattle 's Denny Way was originally named "Depot Street" in hopes of luring a major train station?
text: Did you know that Magema Magwaza Fuze was the first native speaker to publish a book in the Zulu language ?
text: Did you know that the preferred food of the copepod Pseudocalanus newmani includes diatoms of the genus Thalassiosira , which can be toxic to its young?
text: Did you know that basketball player Norvel Pelle holds citizenship in three countries— Antigua and Barbuda , Lebanon , and the United States?
text: Did you know that at the end of the unsuccessful Siege of Almería , some of the defeated Aragonese attackers were left under the protection of the Muslim defenders while awaiting their evacuation?
text: Did you know that the dermatologist Peter Copeman was known as "Dr Spot"?
text: Did you know that Lydia May Ames , one of Cleveland 's earliest women artists, is sometimes considered its first impressionist painter?
text: Did you know that the seeds of the Nardouw fountain pincushion are carried underground by ants?
text: Did you know that the writer İsmet Kür ' s father and sister were writers, and her daughter is also a writer?
text: Did you know that the Austro-Italian ironclad arms race led to the Battle of Lissa , the first naval engagement between multiple armored warships?
text: Did you know that in the midst of being chased by Aṅgulimāla , a brigand and serial killer, the Buddha stated: "I am standing still, you are not standing still"?
text: Did you know that Red W Interactiva , a talk radio network in Mexico, operated for only 102 days?
text: Did you know that a solar-powered device for extracting water from the air, co-designed by Evelyn Wang , has been compared to the moisture vaporators in Star Wars ?
text: Did you know that Abu al-Juyush Nasr became the Sultan of Granada in 1309 following the ousting of his brother , only to be ousted in a civil war five years later?
text: Did you know that the goose barnacle Conchoderma virgatum rarely attaches directly to a fish, but four were once found attached to a single spine of a porcupinefish ?
text: Did you know that US President Donald Trump 's nomination of meteorologist Kelvin Droegemeier to direct the Office of Science and Technology Policy has been received positively by scientists?
text: Did you know that Claude Debussy composed The Little Nigar , a cakewalk , for a piano method ?
text: Did you know that voice actress Rie Murakawa 's accolades include the Best Funny Radio and Best Comfort Radio awards in 2016?
text: Did you know that Westbourne Terrace was one of 19 different "Westbourne" streets that appeared in the London Postal Guide in the nineteenth century?
text: Did you know that Gavin Buckley , the mayor of Annapolis, Maryland , thinks of himself as Australian?
text: Did you know that hairs shed by caterpillars of the brown-tail moth can be wind-borne and cause a rash in humans similar to poison ivy ?
text: Did you know that Mimi Mondal is the first writer from India to be nominated for a Hugo Award ?
text: Did you know that after the original 1932 release of the film Scarface , it was removed from circulation and remained officially unavailable for nearly 50 years?
text: Did you know that Jack Kirby created many famous comic book characters including Captain America , but his conception of Spider-Man was rejected for being too heroic?
text: Did you know that Alexa Bank is probably a drowned atoll ?
text: Did you know that New Zealand -born Vance Drummond won the South Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry as a Royal Australian Air Force pilot serving with the United States Air Force ?
text: Did you know that Neal McCoy wanted his anti-protest song " Take a Knee, My Ass (I Won't Take a Knee) " to "bring people together"?
text: Did you know that Sir Cusack Patrick Roney was knighted for his role as secretary to the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1853 ?
text: Did you know that penis worms very similar to Priapulus caudatus created trace fossils in the early Cambrian period ?
text: Did you know that minutes after a world record was set for Super Mario World , SethBling completed a faster run, validating a technique used previously only on an emulator?
text: Did you know that Narmakosh , compiled by Narmad , is the first monolingual dictionary of the Gujarati language?
text: Did you know that video artist Joan Braderman superimposed herself onto scenes from the television series Dynasty to critique the characters, plots, and themes?
text: Did you know that if the Green Bay Packers football team, with an estimated value of $2.55 billion, was ever sold, all the profits would go to its charitable foundation rather than its shareholders?
text: Did you know that opera singer Catherine-Nicole Lemaure was imprisoned overnight for refusing to perform?
text: Did you know that the first screening of Venom and Eternity ended early following director Isidore Isou 's attempt after the first scenes to play only its soundtrack to a darkened theatre?
text: Did you know that Ensign Robert Duncan was the first person to shoot down a Mitsubishi A6M Zero with a Grumman F6F Hellcat ?
text: Did you know that the Redneck Fishing Tournament has seen thousands of Asian carp caught by its participants without the use of fishing poles?
text: Did you know that Telfair Hodgson was the original financial backer and first managing editor of The Sewanee Review , the oldest continuously published literary quarterly in the United States?
text: Did you know that a pair of yellow "dolphin-like creatures" from a 7th-century hanging bowl finds its closest parallel in manuscript art ?
text: Did you know that Eric Rose performed the first successful paediatric heart transplant ?
text: Did you know that flying fox teeth are used as currency on Makira ?
text: Did you know that Vicars Bell was the "village chronicler" of Little Gaddesden ?
text: Did you know that Stanwood, Washington , was formed by the consolidation of two rival towns in order to fund a modern sewage treatment system?
text: Did you know that Mindy Alper , the visual artist featured in Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 , helped Mary Stuart Masterson prepare for her role as a mentally ill woman in the 1993 film Benny & Joon ?
text: Did you know that the flowers of the common sunshine conebush are pollinated by beetles?
text: Did you know that Jenny Sabin ' s installation Lumen is knitted from solar active yarns that absorb light energy during the day and release it at night?
text: Did you know that the 2018 roguelike video game Wizard of Legend received nearly 50 percent more than its funding goal in its Kickstarter campaign?
text: Did you know that U.S. Army Hurricane Aircat airboats could ram and sink Viet Cong boats?
text: Did you know that Leonard Owen oversaw the building of Calder Hall , the world's first nuclear power station to produce electricity on a commercial scale?
text: Did you know that John F. Kennedy suggested the State of Washington replace its unofficial motto " Alki " with "For You and Me, a Destiny", a lyric from " Washington, My Home ", the state song?
text: Did you know that while working for the predecessor of NASA, Chinese physicist Wu Zhonghua pioneered the three-dimensional flow theory, which has been used to design many aircraft engines?
text: Did you know that Brugada syndrome is known in the Philippines as Bangungut , or "a scream followed by sudden death during sleep"?
text: Did you know that American rapper Gizzle worked as a ghostwriter for other hip hop artists before releasing her debut mixtape in 2017?
text: Did you know that the killer whale Tahlequah carried her dead calf for over two weeks in an apparent showing of grief?
text: Did you know that publisher Tu Books was created via a Kickstarter campaign, then purchased by Lee & Low Books three months later?
text: Did you know that adult tapeworms parasitise the intestines of vertebrates but do not have guts of their own?
text: Did you know that air conditioning refrigerant HFO-1234yf , developed by a team led by Barbara Haviland Minor , is believed to be used in 50% of new vehicles produced in 2018, to help counter global warming ?
text: Did you know that although New York City's Bushwick Inlet Park was proposed in 2005, the land for the park was not fully purchased until 2016?
text: Did you know that periodontist John Zamet was awarded a PhD after his death for his research on German and Austrian refugee dentists?
text: Did you know that the publisher of Life with My Sister Madonna , a tell-all book by the singer 's younger brother, sold it to retailers without revealing the title or the subject matter in order to create a media stir?
text: Did you know that in 1394, John "Eleanor" Rykener was apprehended for committing a "detestable unmentionable and ignominious vice" in Cheapside and later confessed to having had sex with both friars and nuns ?
text: Did you know that Chopin 's Piano Sonata No. 2 contains as its third movement a Marche funèbre , which was composed earlier than the other music?
text: Did you know that ethnic Croat journalist Štefica Galić has been called the " Schindler of Ljubuški " for helping save an estimated two-thirds of the town's Bosniaks during the Croat–Bosniak War ?
text: Did you know that Indian Railways runs loss-making trains on the Patna–Digha Ghat line to prevent encroachment ?
text: Did you know that South Dakota architect Harold Spitznagel designed the original Mount Rushmore visitor center with Cecil Doty as part of Mission 66 , providing a setting for Alfred Hitchcock 's 1959 film North by Northwest ?
text: Did you know that Charles Darwin made descriptive notes on the Brazilian sandperch after a specimen was caught with hook and line off the coast of Patagonia during the voyage of Beagle ?
text: Did you know that as CEO of Denver Health, Dr. Patricia A. Gabow streamlined operations, improved patient care, and cut excessive spending using a system based on the Toyota Production System ?
text: Did you know that members of the Djajadiningrat family fought on both sides of the Indonesian Revolution ?
text: Did you know that Mary Fenton , the first Anglo-Indian actress of the Parsi , Gujarati , and Urdu theatre, was introduced to acting by her husband, Kavasji Palanji Khatau ?
text: Did you know that Helleria brevicornis is the only terrestrial woodlouse that has retained the ancestral aquatic isopod behaviour of mate guarding?
text: Did you know that American video game producer Ben Judd is fluent in the Japanese Kansai dialect ?
text: Did you know that Loggerheads Country Park has a corn mill with a restored water wheel ?
text: Did you know that the South African composer Stefans Grové wrote a setting of Psalm 138 for choir, children's choir, African drums, marimba , and string orchestra?
text: Did you know that the deposed Byzantine emperor Maurice was forced to watch his six sons executed before he was beheaded himself?
text: Did you know that Atlantis moved from Ireland to Colombia ?
text: Did you know that Robert Lebel was inducted in the inaugural class of three ice hockey halls of fame?
text: Did you know that the Wirral Model Engineering Society operates a raised railway track for fine scale models of full-size steam locomotives at Royden Park ?
text: Did you know that when King Kamehameha III died in 1854, the throne of Hawaii passed to his nephew Kamehameha IV instead of his son Albert Kūnuiākea ?
text: Did you know that Gheorghe A. Lăzăreanu-Lăzurică , a self-proclaimed " Voivode of the Gypsies ", supported Romania's far-right groups, beginning with the National Agrarian Party ?
text: Did you know that Old North , built between 1794 and 1797, is the oldest standing academic building on Georgetown University 's campus?
text: Did you know that Badr Shirvani , a Persian poet from Shirvan in the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan, received patronage from numerous rulers at the same time?
text: Did you know that the plot of the 1994 comic book Archie Meets the Punisher was modeled after the 1948 film Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein ?
text: Did you know that Wood-Tikchik State Park , the largest state park in the United States, is sometimes staffed by a single ranger?
text: Did you know that Grace Macurdy shaped the field of classics by pulling together both material and textual evidence as sources in her studies of individual women?
text: Did you know that the flowers of the Redelinghuys pincushion are pollinated by rodents?
text: Did you know that Chip Rives was one of the eight people named Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year in 1987?
text: Did you know that the Church of Saint Jacob in Nisibis in southeastern Turkey was originally the baptistery of a Syriac Orthodox cathedral which no longer exists?
text: Did you know that Michael Martin , project director of the recently completed £1.4 billion Queensferry Crossing , was inspired to study engineering through reading back issues of New Civil Engineer ?
text: Did you know that according to some accounts, the legendary Georgian hunting dog Q'ursha had eagle's wings, a thunderous bark and a gigantic leap?
text: Did you know that George Whitney Calhoun and Curly Lambeau founded the Green Bay Packers 99 years ago today?
text: Did you know that in July 2018, U2 topped the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart for the first time in seventeen years with " Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way "?
text: Did you know that Colombian Supreme Court judge Augusto Ibáñez Guzmán claimed that in 2008, a dozen armed men stormed his house to steal his personal computer?
text: Did you know that the flatworm Procerodes littoralis is tolerant of wide fluctuations in salinity, being able to survive both in freshwater and in seawater?
text: Did you know that plastic surgeon Patrick Clarkson had the idea for the Hand Club to help injured airmen, and established the Children's Burns Unit at Guy's Hospital ?
text: Did you know that the Fisher Ridge Cave System is the fifth-longest cave in the United States and one of the longest in the world?
text: Did you know that the Belgium international player Leander Dendoncker is one of three footballer brothers from a pig-farming family?
text: Did you know that the Russian Liberation Army defected for the second time when it turned against Nazi Germany in the Prague uprising on 6 May 1945?
text: Did you know that the blazar TXS 0506+056 is the first identified source of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos ?
text: Did you know that in 1965, Benjamin Steinberg , a violinist in the NBC Symphony Orchestra with Arturo Toscanini , started the first racially integrated symphony orchestra in America, the Symphony of the New World ?
text: Did you know that Mexican federal deputy Carlos Hermosillo Arteaga and his wife were found to own six properties worth a total of 14 million pesos in the state of Chihuahua ?
text: Did you know that the University Hospital in Pleven was the first hospital in Bulgaria to perform robot-assisted surgery ?
text: Did you know that the research of 2017 Spinoza Prize winner Eveline Crone has led the Netherlands to extend its juvenile detention age limit from 18 to 23?
text: Did you know that despite being a crustacean, a parasitic copepod found on a flying fish was described as a "gill-worm" by Hans Severin Holten , the Danish naturalist who discovered it?
text: Did you know that Mexico was represented by a single athlete at the 2014 Winter Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that the Argentinian mezzo-soprano Alicia Nafé appeared in her signature role as Bizet's Carmen alongside Plácido Domingo in San Francisco , and at the Metropolitan Opera with Domingo as conductor?
text: Did you know that the antependium of Lyngsjö Church has been said to be "better suited for the high altar of a cathedral than a countryside church"?
text: Did you know that the Samec'niero , written by Iase Tushi , contains one of the earliest examples of a Georgian – Persian dictionary, and is the earliest Georgian manuscript so far discovered in Iran ?
text: Did you know that brass bands have been a feature of Vale Park since its opening in 1899, when one played the crowd in through the gates?
text: Did you know that Neocalanus plumchrus is able to uptake dissolved glucose directly from seawater despite its exoskeleton ?
text: Did you know that the footballer Mark Aizlewood once celebrated scoring a goal by flicking the V at fans of his own team?
text: Did you know that Erinea Garcia Gallegos , one of the first college-educated Hispanic women in Colorado, was appointed postmistress of the city of San Luis by President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
text: Did you know that Deutsche Reiterliche Vereinigung , the governing body for the majority of equestrian sports in Germany, promotes the status of the horse as a cultural asset?
text: Did you know that Farouk Topan described the English language as "the elephant in the room" in relation to the use of Kiswahili in East Africa?
text: Did you know that when the besieged town of Berwick-upon-Tweed refused to surrender, the governor's son was hanged outside the town gates?
text: Did you know that the history of the Jews in Atlanta dates to 1845, the same year the city changed its name from Marthasville ?
text: Did you know that the sea chubs Graus nigra and Medialuna ancietae , the Chilean sandperch , and the Galápagos sheephead wrasse all live in the forest?
text: Did you know that John Joseph Merlin crashed into a mirror at Carlisle House while playing the violin on the roller skates that he had invented?
text: Did you know that Clifford Braimah , head of the Ghana Water Company , is a supporter of Operation Vanguard and its mission to end illegal mining ?
text: Did you know that the rising prosperity of the Wang family of Lingshi County during the Qing dynasty financed the multi-generation construction of a grand residential complex of hundreds of courtyards with over 2,000 rooms?
text: Did you know that Governor-elect of Jalisco , Enrique Alfaro Ramírez , was the first winning gubernatorial candidate to come from the Movimiento Ciudadano party?
text: Did you know that the YouTube channel ContraPoints releases humorous, left-leaning educational videos responding to the arguments of the growing community of right-wing YouTubers?
text: Did you know that the mezzo-soprano Carla Henius performed in the premiere of Luigi Nono's Intolleranza 1960 at La Fenice , and had a composition by Dieter Schnebel written for her voice?
text: Did you know that Neocalanus cristatus nauplii feed off their yolks during the 40 days it may take them to ascend to the surface of the sea?
text: Did you know that chemical engineer Robert Edgeworth-Johnstone invented a flute made from the aluminium brass tubing used in oil refineries?
text: Did you know that Malala Yousafzai 's 2013 autobiography I Am Malala was banned in 152,000 private schools in Pakistan?
text: Did you know that followers of the second-century Carpocratian Christian leader Marcellina venerated Greek philosophers alongside Jesus?
text: Did you know that in 1918, Richard Strauss composed Sechs Lieder , Op. 68 , based on poems by Clemens Brentano , with the voice of Elisabeth Schumann in mind?
text: Did you know that Carrie Goldberg , who is representing two women accusing Harvey Weinstein of sexual abuse, once served as a case manager for Holocaust victims?
text: Did you know that US Senate page boys were required to wear knickers when the film Adventure in Washington ‎ was made in 1941?
text: Did you know that British surgeon Jim Dempster published more than 100 scientific articles on kidney transplantation in dogs?
text: Did you know that jewel anemones split apart but stay together?
text: Did you know that when Gaius Hospes wore his award for valour at public gatherings, it was expected that he be applauded by every person present?
text: Did you know that verses 2 to 6 of Psalm 97 in Czech were set to music by Antonín Dvořák in his Biblical Songs ?
text: Did you know that despite being portrayed favorably in a Soviet propaganda film , Konstantin Petrovich Nechaev was later accused by Leon Trotsky of supporting Chinese monarchism?
text: Did you know that the pharmacist-to-pharmacy technician ratio has generally increased as pharmacy technicians have become less like retail clerks and taken on more responsibilities?
text: Did you know that Scott Smith 's management and marketing of international events was cited by the Stanford Graduate School of Business as a reason for the growth of Hockey Canada ?
text: Did you know that the announcement of Steel Division 2 came after half the team at Eugen Systems , the video game's developers, went on strike?
text: Did you know that after Isaac Stevens , the governor of Washington Territory , was found guilty of contempt over his conduct during martial law in Pierce County , he pardoned himself?
text: Did you know that butyrolactol A , a polyketide derived from Streptomyces rochei , demonstrates broad antimicrobial activity against fungi, including Candida albicans ?
text: Did you know that John Davy Rolleston highlighted the seriousness of otitis media as a complication of scarlet fever ?
text: Did you know that the video game Detroit: Become Human has three playable characters, each with their own composer and style of cinematography?
text: Did you know that the mangrove kingfisher , found in Africa, migrates away from mangroves to breed?
text: Did you know that Kelly M. Quintanilla , the first person in her family to attend a university, became the first female president of Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi ?
text: Did you know that the World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee created the Solid Project to reclaim the Web from corporations and return control of data to users?
text: Did you know that Maria and Bogdan Kalinowski were recognized as the most avid filmgoers in Poland , having seen more than 13,000 movies together?
text: Did you know that the 27-year-old Uzbekistani pianist Behzod Abduraimov has already performed at the BBC Proms twice?
text: Did you know that an illegal Jewish organization in an Axis puppet state proposed an ambitious scheme to bribe Heinrich Himmler into halting the systematic extermination of European Jews ?
text: Did you know that despite never completing his university studies, R. H. Wilenski was appointed a special lecturer in the history of art at the University of Manchester?
text: Did you know that specimens of the fish Palatogobius grandoculus were collected as early as 1976 but not identified as a new species until 2002?
text: Did you know that Gerd Hatje went from being a typesetter to founding the internationally renowned publishing house which still bears his name?
text: Did you know that some railway surgeons opposed the introduction of first aid kits on trains, maintaining that only doctors should carry out this work?
text: Did you know that the developers of Vampyr chose to include only one save slot , so that the player's actions would have "real, meaningful impact"?
text: Did you know that Chinese-Indonesian businessman Sutanto Djuhar was the last surviving member of the "Gang of Four" of the Suharto era?
text: Did you know that the trunk of the King Oak is more than 8 metres (26 ft) in girth?
text: Did you know that Sara Hershkowitz , who usually appears on the opera stage as the Queen of the Night and Zerbinetta , parodied Donald Trump in Ligeti's Mysteries of the Macabre at the Lowlands Festival ?
text: Did you know that prior to the first town council elections in Loxahatchee Groves, Florida , a political forum for the candidates was hosted at a nudist resort ?
text: Did you know that Michael Peter Kaye was the first director of what became the largest registry of heart and lung transplantation data in the world?
text: Did you know that the purple eagle ray ( Myliobatis hamlyni ) was named after Ronald Hamlyn-Harris , director of the Queensland Museum?
text: Did you know that the sport of duck netting may be unique to the Imperial House of Japan ?
text: Did you know that incendiary balloons —made from condoms or party balloons—and incendiary kites have been launched from the Gaza Strip and started hundreds of fires in Israel in 2018?
text: Did you know that Catherine Gayer , who was a coloratura soprano for four decades at the Deutsche Oper Berlin , premiered Nono's Intolleranza 1960 in Venice, and Reimann's Melusine at the Schwetzingen Festival ?
text: Did you know that the time limit in the puzzle game Cloud Kingdoms is calculated in 99 intervals called "manukas"?
text: Did you know that when biochemist Li Lin was a Ph.D. student, he often went to slaughterhouses and wet markets to buy chicken and pig livers for his experiments?
text: Did you know that the $4 billion World Trade Center Transportation Hub , built after the September 11 attacks, has been described as the world's most expensive train station?
text: Did you know that Averroes wrote on subjects as diverse as philosophy , Islamic jurisprudence , medicine , and astronomy ?
text: Did you know that the first episode of the first Doctor Who series had to be rerecorded because the TARDIS doors would not close?
text: Did you know that the Flint Public Library created the Julia A. Moore Poetry Contest to celebrate bad poetry ?
text: Did you know that when Marcus Bibulus opposed a law proposed by Julius Caesar , he was publicly soaked with excrement?
text: Did you know that Ninurta , the Mesopotamian god of hunting, is believed by many scholars to be the source of the biblical figure Nimrod ?
text: Did you know that at the time of its release in 2002, economic simulations like Sea Trader: Rise of Taipan were uncommon on handheld systems like the Game Boy Advance ?
text: Did you know that Joseph Mohr left Germany when Jesuit institutions were dissolved, and wrote his popular hymn abroad?
text: Did you know that some leeches feed only twice a year?
text: Did you know that before she became a star in Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling , Dee Booher 's first professional match was against a 700-pound (320 kg) bear?
text: Did you know that during the attack on Pearl Harbor , USS Trever left her captain behind when she put to sea?
text: Did you know that the Queen and Prince Charles each travelled on London Underground trains from Green Park tube station when they carried out the official openings of the Victoria and Jubilee lines?
text: Did you know that during his long acting career, Walter Renneisen has presented Patrick Süskind's Der Kontrabaß ( The Double Bass ) in his own touring production?
text: Did you know that Adivasi -organized protests in Plachimada, India , succeeded in removing a Coca-Cola factory that was polluting the groundwater?
text: Did you know that while mayor of Torreón , Mexico, Miguel Riquelme Solís led the construction of a cable car to the Cristo de las Noas statue which he dedicated as governor of Coahuila ?
text: Did you know that the venom of the speckled brown snake is 1.6 times more toxic than that of the Indian cobra ?
text: Did you know that Horatio Seymour did not want to be the 1868 U.S. Democratic presidential nominee, but was given the nomination anyway ?
text: Did you know that the Rose Street Club in 19th-century Soho has been described as bridging the political gap between an earlier generation of chartists and a newer trend towards anarchism and socialism ?
text: Did you know that Manuel Añorve Baños was appointed by his cousin , the interim Governor of Guerrero , Mexico, to serve as the interim mayor of Acapulco ?
text: Did you know that English rock band XTC hired a 40-piece orchestra for their 1999 album Apple Venus Volume 1 , to get a sound akin to " Vaughan Williams with a hard-on"?
text: Did you know that the potato stalk borer used to be considered a serious pest of potatoes but modern management practices, such as the burning or removal of crop residues, have reduced its impact?
text: Did you know that the longest-lived member of the British royal family is Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester , who died aged 102 years and 309 days?
text: Did you know that Kevin Rashid Johnson was charged with inciting a riot for organizing a prison strike that may or may not have happened?
text: Did you know that Oakland mayoral candidate Cat Brooks performs in a one-woman show inspired by the death of Natasha McKenna in police custody?
text: Did you know that Rudolf Sellner engaged Richard Wagner's grandson to stage a Verdi opera as part of the opening of the Deutsche Oper Berlin ?
text: Did you know that about 11,000 eggs of the Florida blenny were once found in an old can?
text: Did you know that David Green campaigned for new design standards following the collapse of a ferry walkway that killed six people?
text: Did you know that Creedence Clearwater Revival 's 1969 song " It Came Out of the Sky " was one of the first to criticize Ronald Reagan ?
text: Did you know that Derek Holmes said the purpose of Hockey Canada was to beat the Russians ?
text: Did you know that Campanino apples are used to make a sweet-and-hot condiment, mostarda di Mantova , that has been eaten since the Middle Ages ?
text: Did you know that basketball player Zach Hankins helped Ferris State win its first Division II title in 2018, being named the tournament's most valuable player?
text: Did you know that a loop from the anthem O clap your hands , a setting of verses from Psalm 47 by Ralph Vaughan Williams for choir, brass, organ and percussion, was used by the Beatles for " Revolution 9 "?
text: Did you know that Manshuk Mametova was the first Kazakh woman to become a Hero of the Soviet Union , after she refused to follow the rest of her unit in retreating from battle in Nevel ?
text: Did you know that Grappenhall Heys Walled Garden has ponds which were originally marl pits?
text: Did you know that Vijay Shastri has written more than 200 short stories in Gujarati ?
text: Did you know that the Sega Technical Institute released four Sonic the Hedgehog games in three years?
text: Did you know that Honoka Inoue and her mother Kikuko provided the voices of a daughter and mother in the original net animation Pokémon Generations ?
text: Did you know that the Trump presidential campaign filed for arbitration against the publication of Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House by Omarosa Manigault Newman ?
text: Did you know that in 1904, Dawson Williams , editor of the British Medical Journal , commissioned research from Edward Harrison that exposed numerous medications as "valueless"?
text: Did you know that the reluctance of Slavic speakers in Ottoman Macedonia to support national causes triggered a wave of terrorist violence from nationalist bands?
text: Did you know that Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos sold one million copies within a month of release in July 2002, making it the fastest-selling PC video game in history at that time?
text: Did you know that Moses Brown is the top-ranked player in a UCLA Bruins incoming class that also includes the son of a Basketball Hall of Famer ?
text: Did you know that the tiny nematodes Panagrolaimus detritophagus and Plectus parvus were revived after more than 30,000 years frozen in permafrost ?
text: Did you know that Arthur Rook and Ian Whimster wrote important articles on keratoacanthoma and blistering skin diseases?
text: Did you know that during the Quasi-War , the Inspector General of the United States Army , Alexander Hamilton , acted as the de facto head of the United States Army?
text: Did you know that sociologist Ashley Mears conducted an ethnography of the fashion industry while working as a model in New York and London?
text: Did you know that the name of Melimoyu , a volcano in Chile, means "four breasts"?
text: Did you know that Manuel Torres was the first foreign diplomat to die in the United States?
text: Did you know that the Stratford Dialectical and Radical Club , formed in 1880, was one of the first openly socialist societies in London?
text: Did you know that the Israeli actor Topol , who won a Golden Globe for his performance as Tevye in the 1971 film Fiddler on the Roof , played the role in shows and revivals about 3,500 times?
text: Did you know that The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle , a 1991 Newbery Honor book, was written in the style of a 19th-century travelogue?
text: Did you know that Walter Freudenthal distinguished between the skin conditions keratoma senile and verruca senilis , before leaving Nazi-occupied Europe?
text: Did you know that deserters from the South Sudanese army embarked on a long march north , across the border into Sudan , to escape their former comrades?
text: Did you know that singer Elise Barensfeld is a possible dedicatee of Ludwig van Beethoven's Für Elise ?
text: Did you know that the cover of Houses of the Holy was designed by Hipgnosis and based on photographs taken at the Giant's Causeway ?
text: Did you know that in 1901, Herbert R. Spencer described how to turn a baby should it be in the breech position before birth?
text: Did you know that National Hot Rod Association Altereds were notorious for running sideways?
text: Did you know that Israa al-Ghomgham could become the first Saudi woman to be beheaded as punishment for defending human rights ?
text: Did you know that under low relative humidity conditions, protonymph pyroglyphid mites may die, or they may enter a state of diapause until conditions improve?
text: Did you know that Austrian fencer Ernst Königsgarten once performed in front of King Edward VII ?
text: Did you know that the expedition to Valdivia seized and then abandoned the last Dutch possession on the Pacific coast of the Americas?
text: Did you know that after Australian rules footballer Nathan Murphy was drafted by Collingwood , cricketer Shane Warne rang club president Eddie McGuire to commend the selection?
text: Did you know that a verse from Psalm 36 is seen as endorsing animal welfare and animal rights ?
text: Did you know that the suspected Mexican drug lord José González Valencia possessed an official passport that had all the security features needed for international travel, issued under a false name ?
text: Did you know that Kalākaua restored the hula , which had previously been banned from being publicly performed, and sponsored other Native Hawaiian traditions in the first Hawaiian Renaissance ?
text: Did you know that brownies , helpful household spirits from British folklore, are said to leave a house forever if offered a gift of clothing?
text: Did you know that Brian Kershisnik 's experiences of the births of his children inspired his painting Nativity ?
text: Did you know that Leonard Bernstein composed Opening Prayer on a commission from Carnegie Hall for its reopening in 1986?
text: Did you know that during the Wars of the Roses , the son of William Bonville was killed at the Battle of Wakefield in 1460, and Bonville himself was executed a few months later after the Second Battle of St Albans ?
text: Did you know that FRoSTA , the largest frozen food company in Germany, suffered huge losses when it adopted sustainable sourcing and eliminated food additives from its products?
text: Did you know that the TARDIS 's Fast Return Switch featured in the Doctor Who serial The Edge of Destruction appeared to have a label written in felt-tip pen?
text: Did you know that despite the Democratic Republic of the Congo 's $24 trillion in mineral reserves, more than 80% of its residents live in extreme poverty ?
text: Did you know that Mark Aubry is a lecturer on concussion awareness, a team physician for the Ottawa Senators , and the chief medical officer of Hockey Canada and the International Ice Hockey Federation ?
text: Did you know that science fiction writer Harlan Ellison 's earliest known published work was a fan letter to the comic book Real Fact Comics ?
text: Did you know that Dorothy Papadakos , the first female organist at New York's Cathedral of Saint John the Divine , wrote a musical portraying Roman life in ancient Pompeii when it was destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius ?
text: Did you know that the bluegrass billbug feeds on maize and other grain crops as well as on Kentucky bluegrass ?
text: Did you know that The New York Times published the anonymous essay " I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration " despite its history of publishing few such works ?
text: Did you know that during Operation Mosaic , Group Captain Stewart Menaul flew a Canberra bomber through a nuclear fallout cloud?
text: Did you know that as a child in Pontianak , Indonesia, Sutarmidji used to hawk newspapers close to the mayor's office that he would later occupy?
text: Did you know that Big Tips Texas features scantily-clad waitresses from Redneck Heaven , a breastaurant whose body-paint events led to nudity law changes in at least three Texas municipalities?
text: Did you know that Tonatiuh Bravo Padilla stepped down as rector of the University of Guadalajara to seek a return to elected office as a Mexican federal deputy ?
text: Did you know that a former island is named after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ?
text: Did you know that soldiers from the Axis powers of Germany and Italy committed more than 5,000 war crimes in Italy during World War II ?
text: Did you know that a pyemotid mite , commonly known as the straw itch mite , has been investigated for use in biological pest control ?
text: Did you know that after being rejected by European and Chinese teams, DeMario Mayfield began his professional basketball career in an Iraqi league ?
text: Did you know that the murder of Deborah Linsley on a train in 1988 hastened the speed with which British Rail abolished the use of the type of compartment coach in which she died?
text: Did you know that from 1660 to 1700, the majority of Japanese porcelain was made to be exported ?
text: Did you know that attorney Kristin Cooper , the current First Lady of North Carolina , has performed in several plays with her daughters?
text: Did you know that Arrowe Country Park sits on land purchased in 1800 by the Mayor of Liverpool with money earned from the slave trade ?
text: Did you know that the German composer Karl Ludwig Drobisch and his brother calculated planetary movements?
text: Did you know that Sabrina , a critique of the modern " fake news " era, is the first graphic novel to be longlisted for the Booker Prize ?
text: Did you know that Alexander Polycleitos Cawadias denied there was such a thing as a true hermaphrodite ?
text: Did you know that basketball player Trey Kell signed with the Bosnian team Igokea over nine other European offers?
text: Did you know that " Wenn ich, o Schöpfer, deine Macht ", part of German Protestant and Catholic hymnals , began as a poem by Christian Fürchtegott Gellert from the Age of Enlightenment ?
text: Did you know that Kaʻiminaʻauao , a younger sibling of Hawaii's Queen Liliʻuokalani , died in an epidemic that killed more than 10,000 people, mostly Native Hawaiians ?
text: Did you know that Niel Gow , a Scottish fiddler , is said to have composed many of his best-known tunes under a tree on the banks of the River Tay ?
text: Did you know that in 1381, during the Peasants' Revolt , John Fresshe —later to be Lord Mayor of London —was widely suspected of encouraging the mob to burn down the Marshalsea Prison ?
text: Did you know that the United States government purchased John Lennon 's boyhood stamp album for the National Philatelic Collection ?
text: Did you know that Bob Wood , co-creator of the comic Crime Does Not Pay , served three years in prison for manslaughter, and was murdered a year after his release?
text: Did you know that a record reward was raised by the local Crime Stoppers in the month-long search for missing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts , who was found dead in a cornfield?
text: Did you know that around one million pilgrims visit the Sanctuary of San Gerardo Maiella in Materdomini , Italy, each year?
text: Did you know that in 2018, Diede de Groot became the first woman in wheelchair tennis to win both the women's singles and doubles events at Wimbledon ?
text: Did you know that the Apple Capital Recreation Loop Trail in Wenatchee, Washington , was funded by a local utility company as part of environmental mitigation for hydroelectric dams ?
text: Did you know that juvenile ladder hornsnails tend to live underwater while the adults mostly live above the high water mark?
text: Did you know that with the USC Trojans , beach volleyball player Sara Hughes won 103 consecutive matches and 2 NCAA Championships ?
text: Did you know that during the Battle of Neville's Cross , King David II of Scotland was shot twice in the face by arrows and taken prisoner after knocking out the teeth of his captor?
text: Did you know that "Love Men Holic" by Shiena Nishizawa is a love song that uses ramen -related puns in its lyrics?
text: Did you know that the Überwasserkirche , a Gothic hall church in Münster , was the location of the second of three sermons held in 1941 by Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen in defiance of the Nazi regime?
text: Did you know that common names for Eucalyptus exserta include Queensland peppermint, bendo, and messmate?
text: Did you know that the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India has sometimes been more influential than senior government ministers ?
text: Did you know that United States Route 66 , decommissioned in 1985, was recently designated as a bicycle route ?
text: Did you know that in 1855, Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty became the first Indian to pass the Indian Medical Service examination?
text: Did you know that perfumer Alberto Morillas has created nearly 7,000 fragrances?
text: Did you know that in 1985, Shiv Pande arranged for a joint India-Pakistan cricket team to play "the rest of the world" in aid of Mother Teresa 's charity and the orphans of the Bhopal gas disaster ?
text: Did you know that the comic book The Accelerators was originally conceived as a screenplay ?
text: Did you know that James T. Mullen was the first Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus ?
text: Did you know that a reconstruction of a Roman bath house at the Hull and East Riding Museum includes an original mosaic and a life-sized bather?
text: Did you know that Mexican senator Delfina Gómez Álvarez entered politics at the urging of a former mayor who later ran for the Senate alongside her?
text: Did you know that the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship took place at the Edel-optics.de Arena in Hamburg ?
text: Did you know that Radio Times critic Alison Graham called the character Jacob Masters "a cocky narcissist" following his debut in Casualty ?
text: Did you know that five years ago today, Tiffany Whitton left her handbag and flip-flops behind when she ran out of a Walmart at 2 a.m., and has not been seen since?
text: Did you know that the Hanbo scandal , one of South Korea's largest corruption cases, involved presidential aides, a former minister, and top banking executives?
text: Did you know that Magne Dæhli was part of the gold-winning team in the men's relay of the World Orienteering Championships for three consecutive years from 2016 to 2018?
text: Did you know that a Jewish prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp escaped disguised as an SS guard along with an SS-Rottenführer ?
text: Did you know that in 2017, Lorena Cuéllar Cisneros joined eight other Mexican senators in switching parties after a dispute over commission seats, more than doubling the Labor Party 's ranks?
text: Did you know that a line of T-shirts produced by Massive Goods featuring art by Gengoroh Tagame became popular in the LGBTQ hip-hop scene ?
text: Did you know that American pediatrician Frank Spooner Churchill believed that breast milk could be spoiled if the mother was anxious?
text: Did you know that Reginald St John Battersby joined the British Army aged 14, was commissioned at 15, and lost a leg at 17?
text: Did you know that Vanessa Delgado 's 112-day term in the California State Senate will be the shortest tenure since 1903?
text: Did you know that pieces of Hirado ware decorated with seven boys chasing butterflies were once made only for the shōgun and emperors of Japan ?
text: Did you know that in 2001, HIV/AIDS campaigner Minoo Mohraz defied a media ban by using the word " condom " on Iranian national television ?
text: Did you know that season 9 is the longest-running of SpongeBob SquarePants seasons, airing for four and a half years?
text: Did you know that in 1948, Ralph Ellison , Richard Wright , and Fredric Wertham helped establish the Lafargue Clinic in New York City, one of the first to provide low-cost psychiatric services to black patients?
text: Did you know that the bioluminescent scales of the worm Lepidonotus squamatus adhere to any predator that feeds on it, making the attacker more visible to its own predators?
text: Did you know that the Royal Air Force 's " Winkle " system tracked aircraft by listening for their radar jammers ?
text: Did you know that editorial cartoonist Etta Hulme began her artistic career at Walt Disney animation studio under Ward Kimball ?
text: Did you know that the breakout single " broken " by lovelytheband was inspired by its vocalist after he split up with his previous band, Oh Honey ?
text: Did you know that Fredy Hirsch saved the lives of children at Auschwitz by impressing SS guards , even though he was Jewish and openly gay?
text: Did you know that the oceanic two-wing flyingfish exhibits countershading ?
text: Did you know that Roberto Benedicto was so close to his fraternity brother, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos , that he had full access to the presidential quarters in Malacañang Palace ?
text: Did you know that sections of Washington State Route 821 are shut down for annual cattle drives , a marathon, and a heritage tractor run?
text: Did you know that the surgeon Graham Stack advocated naming the fingers of the hand, rather than numbering them, in order to avoid surgical errors?
text: Did you know that the United States Lifesaving Association calculated that a person has a 1 in 18 million chance of drowning at a beach patrolled by lifeguards affiliated with the association?
text: Did you know that mezzo-soprano Sybille Specht appeared as La Belle in a chamber opera by Philip Glass at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz ?
text: Did you know that Godfrey's Cordial , a popular infant sedative in Victorian Britain, led to numerous fatalities?
text: Did you know that American missionary Mary Sophia Hyde Rice taught Sanford B. Dole , who later became Hawaii 's only president?
text: Did you know that though caterpillars feed on the leaves of Hypericum punctatum , the foliage is toxic to mammals?
text: Did you know that Max Steiner was often criticized for his excessive use of " Mickey Mousing " in his film scores?
text: Did you know that Milton Griepp was receiving unemployment benefits when he co-founded Capital City Distribution , which became the largest comic book distributor in the United States?
text: Did you know that the skeleton shrimp Caprella penantis may take on some of the coloration of whatever it is feeding on?
text: Did you know that in 2016, Jaime Bonilla Valdez invited current Mexican president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador to his suite at Petco Park to watch the Major League Baseball All-Star Game ?
text: Did you know that Australian artist John Peter Russell painted a portrait of Vincent van Gogh and gave it to him as a mark of their friendship?
text: Did you know that police investigating the 1988 murder of 8-year-old April Tinsley believed that the murderer also left threatening notes with used condoms on girls' bicycles in 2004?
text: Did you know that if completed, the proposed 1,422-foot (433 m) Tribune East Tower would be the second tallest building in Chicago , behind the Willis Tower ?
text: Did you know that in 1985, Victor Almaraz made a charro outfit which consisted mainly of pull tabs from 2,500 aluminum cans ?
text: Did you know that despite winning Roush Fenway Racing 's 100th NASCAR Cup Series race in the 2007 Dodge Dealers 400 , driver Carl Edwards was penalized for his car being too low at the right-rear?
text: Did you know that when Castile invited Navarre to join an alliance against Muhammad VII of Granada , Charles III of Navarre informed Muhammad VII of this scheme, called him "my brother" and sent him military aid?
text: Did you know that the first NCAA Basketball Championship Game was attended by James Naismith , the inventor of basketball?
text: Did you know that Japanese voice actress Azumi Waki initially wished to pursue a career as a flight attendant, but gave up because she felt that her English language skills were inadequate?
text: Did you know that in most of the killings of the Bangladesh Drug War the victims were shot at night, and weapons and drugs were found near the bodies?
text: Did you know that before becoming a college professor, Alan L. Gropman flew more than 670 combat missions during two tours of Vietnam ?
text: Did you know that every Australian has the right to a free portrait of the Queen ?
text: Did you know that Canadian basketball player Grandy Glaze made his professional debut in the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional , which he led in rebounding ?
text: Did you know that the surrender of the Polish garrison at the Battle of Westerplatte on 7 September 1939 ended what has been described as the opening battle of World War II?
text: Did you know that Margaret Storkan made seven trips to the developing world on the hospital ship SS Hope where she was the only dermatologist?
text: Did you know that in 2016, fifty years after the Batman villain Poison Ivy was introduced, she starred in her own comic book miniseries ?
text: Did you know that the first victim of the Turkish serial killer Hamdi Kayapınar was his sibling?
text: Did you know that sand from Sandy Hook , New Jersey, and New York City's Rockaway Peninsula was brought by barge to Orchard Beach ?
text: Did you know that the social and political theorist Dinesh Wadiwel argues that humans are waging a war on animals?
text: Did you know that the 19th-century writer Athalia Schwartz addressed the conditions and lives of prostitutes in England, the Netherlands, and Belgium?
text: Did you know that the proposed Ybor Stadium would be the smallest in Major League Baseball by seating capacity?
text: Did you know that as a volunteer infantryman in the American Civil War, Felix Agnus saved the life of Captain Judson Kilpatrick ?
text: Did you know that MIS416 , a drug derived from bacteria that cause acne , was used to treat multiple sclerosis in New Zealand under a compassionate use law before clinical trials were unable to prove its efficacy?
text: Did you know that Mulshankar Mulani introduced tragedy to Gujarati theatre ?
text: Did you know that The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland was the first official document to inform the Western Allies about the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that by the end of the 2017–18 season, IFK Kristianstad had won 66 consecutive home matches against domestic opposition?
text: Did you know that Slovene-American Katka Zupančič wrote children's poetry about the austerity of immigrant life?
text: Did you know that there are no rules against reverse rotational lifts, in which the woman lifts the man, as competition elements in ice dance ?
text: Did you know that the B&B Carousell , built over 100 years ago, is the last operating carousel in Coney Island ?
text: Did you know that Tosia Altman 's blonde hair and fluency in Polish enabled her to pass as a gentile and travel between Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland to organize armed resistance to the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that the Jordan Misja Artistic Lyceum in Tirana counts among its alumni most Albanian professional artists, as well as the current Prime Minister of Albania ?
text: Did you know that Mary Blair Moody became the first woman to earn an MD from Buffalo Medical College ?
text: Did you know that one of the scientific names in use for the Kimberley death adder was given in honour of actor Burt Lancaster ?
text: Did you know that 15 future professors of medicine in Japan worked in Ken Hashimoto 's American laboratory?
text: Did you know that the sea anemone Diadumene cincta reproduces by basal laceration , with pieces of tissue becoming detached from the base and developing into new individuals?
text: Did you know that in 1608, Greek spy Petros Lantzas devised a plan to assassinate the Ottoman Sultan by placing a present containing explosives in front of him?
text: Did you know that Arthur Machen 's novella The Great God Pan has influenced such writers as H. P. Lovecraft , Peter Straub , and Stephen King ?
text: Did you know that Ramiz Kovaçi , a baritone at the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Albania , was also a jury member for a light music festival?
text: Did you know that in 1959, the US Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional for a prosecutor to knowingly use false testimony, even if the testimony does not directly relate to the defendant's guilt?
text: Did you know that Manchester City player Claudio Gomes won a trophy at Wembley Stadium one second into his professional debut?
text: Did you know that Ronald Smelser 's 2008 book The Myth of the Eastern Front focuses on the myth of the clean Wehrmacht ?
text: Did you know that for his song of praise " Lobet den Herren alle, die ihn ehren ", Paul Gerhardt used the Sapphic stanza ?
text: Did you know that Hawaiian diplomat John Mākini Kapena was sent to Japan in 1882 to discuss Japanese immigration to Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that prior to heading Ghana's petroleum authority , lawyer Hassan Tampuli secured the release of a journalist who had been detained for writing about the country's president ?
text: Did you know that the Palembang Light Rail Transit , which opened last month, is the first operational light rail system in Indonesia?
text: Did you know that clothes created by Matilda Etches in the 1940s were the first modern fashion items to be honoured as key acquisitions by London's Victoria and Albert Museum ?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball umpires have visited 131 hospitals since 2006, giving seriously ill children more than 12,500 stuffed toys, through their‎ UMPS CARE charity?‎
text: Did you know that a lost film by Andy Warhol shows the production of Jack Smith 's Normal Love ?
text: Did you know that minoritized languages are languages targeted for extermination, even when spoken by a majority of the population?
text: Did you know that Japanese erotic film star Mitsu Dan writes fiction for literary magazines?
text: Did you know that HMS Romulus used false colours to capture a Spanish corvette without a shot being fired?
text: Did you know that former CIA agent Luis Posada Carriles twice escaped from prison in Venezuela, where he faced trial for the bombing of Cubana Flight 455 ?
text: Did you know that Leasowe Lighthouse had the only known female lighthouse keeper when it ceased operating in 1908?
text: Did you know that Munafri Arifuddin ran unopposed for mayor of Makassar , Indonesia, won more than 250,000 votes, and lost ?
text: Did you knowthat Keanolani was the illegitimate daughter of King Kamehameha V , who died in 1872 without naming an heir to the throne?
text: Did you know that biblical criticism was dominated by white male Protestant Christians until the late twentieth century?
text: Did you know that SpaceX 's Rocket Development and Test Facility is on the site of Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant , a former World War II bomb-making facility?
text: Did you know that Texas-born Mario Alberto Peña became a suspected regional leader of the Gulf Cartel and a gangster folk hero on both sides of the Mexico–United States border ?
text: Did you know that Charles Wood's Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in D has been regarded as an "epitome of Church of England worship"?
text: Did you know that Ian Aird performed chest surgery on a wounded German officer after the British surgeon had been captured by a German Panzer column during the North African Campaign ?
text: Did you know that Wikipedia has a rule allowing its editors to " ignore all rules "?
text: Did you know that voice actress Aya Hirano played the lead role in the multi-award-winning anime series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya ?
text: Did you know that a 156-foot (48 m) tunnel for the Lower Manhattan Expressway was built in New York City in the 1960s, but was never used?
text: Did you know that Bulgaria's first cosmonaut , Georgi Ivanov , safely returned to Earth despite a failing main engine and a damaged backup engine on his Soyuz 33 spacecraft?
text: Did you know that Anastasia Soare is the "Eyebrow Queen"?
text: Did you know that the creators of the video game franchise God of War named their main character Kratos without knowing that an actual god by that name appears in the Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound ?
text: Did you know that despite having Stage IV lung cancer, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho continues to act as spokesman for the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management ?
text: Did you know that where the United States has FAANG , China has BAT?
text: Did you know that an island in New York City used to be a summer campsite, with up to half a million visitors by 1917?
text: Did you know that at the age of 23, Adam Holland became the youngest person to run 100 marathons?
text: Did you know that the French town of Bergerac was captured after a portcullis jammed on a wounded horse?
text: Did you know that Victoria Lederberg was a SimCity mayor of Providence, Rhode Island , before becoming a state supreme court justice?
text: Did you know that Heinrich Himmler may have given permission for the Red Cross to visit the family camp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau , just a few hundred meters from the gas chambers?
text: Did you know that in 2018, storyboard artist Domee Shi became the first woman to direct a Pixar short film?
text: Did you know that Charles XI of Sweden tried mounting his cavalry on moose ?
text: Did you know that Anne Patzwald works as an occupational therapist at a clinic that employs three other current or former members of the German women's wheelchair basketball national team?
text: Did you know that the Austro-Hungarian cruiser Kaiser Franz Joseph I sank during a gale in October 1919?
text: Did you know that military officer Francisco Javier Arana , who briefly ruled Guatemala as part of a three-person junta , was subsequently killed in a shootout after threatening a coup?
text: Did you know that Max Reger composed 20 Responsories in English for use in the American Lutheran church, although he did not speak English?
text: Did you know that when suspected Mexican drug lord Raúl Meza Ontiveros was arrested, police found he was storing 348 kilograms (767 lb) of cocaine ?
text: Did you know that the Oregon Military Museum has more than 14,000 artifacts in its collection, including 50 vehicles, 750 weapons, and 5 military aircraft?
text: Did you know that Renee Powell was the first female golfer to compete in a British men's tournament?
text: Did you know that Green Bay Packers defensive tackle Dave Roller , who weighed 270 pounds (120 kg) at the time, was carried off Lambeau Field by fans after a victory against the Detroit Lions ?
text: Did you know that the 2013 Perkins Review found that only 24% of British parents considered engineering a suitable career for their daughters?
text: Did you know that the Georgian hearth goddess Lamaria was venerated exclusively by women, either in private rituals within the home or in private shrines outside the boundaries of villages?
text: Did you know that Saturday Zoo host Jonathan Ross was described as "humour-resistant Teflon "?
text: Did you know that Robert of Nantes was "an old and venerable man aged eighty years" when he was imprisoned along with Louis IX of France during the Seventh Crusade ?
text: Did you know that in his opera Tri sestry ( Three Sisters ), composer Péter Eötvös wants the three sisters from Chekhov's play to be sung by countertenors ?
text: Did you know that basketball player Donte Ingram owns at least 50 pairs of sneakers ?
text: Did you know that SS-Untersturmführer Karl Friedrich Titho was dubbed the "Executioner of Fossoli" by the Italian media for his role in the execution of 67 prisoners at Fossoli di Carpi ?
text: Did you know that " The Witch's Promise " is the only Jethro Tull single to feature a Mellotron ?
text: Did you know that Jos Canale won the CHL Coach of the Year Award and led Team Canada to a gold medal at the World Juniors ?
text: Did you know that a section of U.S. Route 97 Alternate in central Washington state was rebuilt on higher ground in the 1950s to prevent inundation from a new hydroelectric dam ?
text: Did you know that the Soviet-German Syphilis Expedition of 1928 sought to explain the endemic syphilis among the "primitive" Buryat people?
text: Did you know that Israeli songwriter Rachel Shapira 's first hit song was set to music without her knowledge?
text: Did you know that Neatsville, Kentucky , has been relocated twice?
text: Did you know that Benedicite , composed by Andrew Carter for choir, children's choir, and orchestra, was inspired by restored ceiling bosses in York Minster ?
text: Did you know that several Major League Baseball teams adopted the " opener " strategy during the 2018 season ?
text: Did you know that in 2017, Willem de Kooning 's Woman-Ochre was found for sale in a New Mexico antique store, 32 years after it was stolen from the University of Arizona Museum of Art ?
text: Did you know that despite being the son of a professional basketball player, Luka Šamanić did not begin playing the game until the age of 11?
text: Did you know that the flatworm Microplana terrestris can use a trail of mucus as a "suspension bridge" to pass from one leaf to another?
text: Did you know that John "Jabo" Starks was one of the originators of funk drumming?
text: Did you know that Doom was Dutch?
text: Did you know that Michael Frenzel , the former CEO of European tourism group TUI , escaped from East Germany with his father when he was nine years old?
text: Did you know that Masters of the Sun Vol. 1 is the first album by the Black Eyed Peas in eight years?
text: Did you know that the English amateur footballer Reg Anderson was killed during World War II when his aircraft was shot down?
text: Did you know that hurricane responders face hazards from floodwater such as chemical and biological contaminants, and electrocution?
text: Did you know that Jean Yancey was known in Denver as "the mother of all businesswomen", having helped more than 1,000 women launch their own startups ?
text: Did you know that the Padule di Fucecchio massacre , in which at least 174 Italian civilians were murdered, has been described as "one of the worst Nazi atrocities in Italy"?
text: Did you know that Canadian national basketball player Élodie Tessier is 3 feet 11 inches (1.19 m) tall?
text: Did you know that photographs of the Valle de Guadalupe and Bahía de los Ángeles by Julio Rodríguez appeared in National Geographic magazine?
text: Did you know that more than 20 million people watched Chronicle during its three-day live coverage of the raising of the Mary Rose in 1982?
text: Did you know that Denise Mueller-Korenek is the only woman to hold the world record for paced bicycle land speed since its establishment in 1899?
text: Did you know that despite being structurally weakened, it may be beneficial to the porous star coral when the bivalve Lithophaga simplex bores into it?
text: Did you know that the procession after the 1920 funeral of William G. Blakely reportedly included the longest line of automobiles ever seen at a funeral in Kingman, Arizona ?
text: Did you know that as the Salton Sea dries up, the gryphons are multiplying ?
text: Did you know that in 2004, the Israel Antitrust Authority declared that a copyright collective for authors and musicians was essentially a monopoly ?
text: Did you know that OSS agent Roderick Stephen Hall was betrayed and captured during a one-man mission in northern Italy in January 1945, and murdered by the SS ?
text: Did you know that most red porgies change sex from female to male at some point during their lives?
text: Did you know that top NBA draft prospect Sekou Doumbouya signed his first professional basketball contract at age 15?
text: Did you know that Julia Yates, head of the New Zealand fashion label Trilby Yates , was once spat at in the street for wearing trousers?
text: Did you know that in 2018, police raided the house of former Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner , and confiscated a letter written by the 19th-century national hero José de San Martín ?
text: Did you know that Reverend James Abercrombie once admonished President George Washington during his sermon for not setting an example in church by receiving communion ?
text: Did you know that pictures of suspected 18-year-old assassin Raúl Meza Torres inspired other teenagers in Mexico to join organized crime?
text: Did you know that aggregations of painted urchin have been recorded with a density of 80 individuals per square metre?
text: Did you know that college basketball player Johnny Dee played through a knee injury for most of a season while leading the NCAA Division I in free throw shooting percentage?
text: Did you know that Orlande de Lassus set Psalm 134 , one of the Songs of Ascents , in Latin for seven voices a cappella , using a wide range from low bass to very high soprano?
text: Did you know that during World War II , Huang Qingyun published the only Chinese children's magazine in Hong Kong and China, and corresponded with her readers to help them cope with life in wartime?
text: Did you know that at over fourteen hours in duration, La Flor is the longest film in Argentine cinema ?
text: Did you know that in 2017, Sofía Gómez broke the CMAS Constant Weight Bi-Fins freediving world record, and then broke her own record two days later?
text: Did you know that an underwater mountain between Greenland and Norway has been compared to a coral reef ?
text: Did you know that German wheelchair basketball player Barbara Gross plays for the University of Alabama team, which includes two other Germans?
text: Did you know that when Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean pitched DC Comics on reintroducing Black Orchid in 1988, editor Karen Berger had never heard of the main character ?
text: Did you know that the company set up by horticulturist Theodosia Burr Shepherd is considered the foundation of the California seed industry?
text: Did you know that Theater Bremen , the state theatre in Bremen for operas, plays, dance, and student programs, was selected as opera house of the year by Opernwelt in 2007?
text: Did you know that Adam Marshall was the first Catholic chaplain in the United States Navy , albeit unofficially?
text: Did you know that the entire fourth serial of Doctor Who is missing after being erased by the BBC in 1967?
text: Did you know that in 1906, Russian-Jewish immigrant Abe Spring first proposed Alaska as a refuge for Jews , but the suggestion was rejected by the US Congress?
text: Did you know that Karolin Margret Natasa is the first Dayak woman to serve as a regional head in Indonesia?
text: Did you know that on May 14, 1980, Salvadoran forces massacred more than 300 civilians while Honduran soldiers prevented them from escaping across the border?
text: Did you know that E. C. Stoner was one of the first black American comic book artists?
text: Did you know that the palebelly searsid undertakes daily vertical migrations in the deep sea?
text: Did you know that British pathologist Ian Whimster was part of the medical team that entered the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after the Germans had left?
text: Did you know that the name of the undersea volcano Ita Mai Tai (No Damn Good) was given by a scientist presumably upset by unsuccessful attempts to drill into it?
text: Did you know that the Israeli team at the 1972 Summer Olympics attended the German production of Fiddler on the Roof as guests of its star, Israeli actor Shmuel Rodensky , the night before the Munich massacre ?
text: Did you know that Nanchang Xiangtang Airport served 102 passengers in its first full year of operation, and more than 800,000 four decades later?
text: Did you know that sugar refiner William Camden was also a partner in a business shipping slaves to the Caribbean?
text: Did you know that the 2011 horror webtoon " Bongcheon-Dong Ghost " was released with a warning for "pregnant women, the elderly, and those suffering from serious medical conditions"?
text: Did you know that Abhilasha Kumari , the first female Chief Justice of the Manipur High Court in India, served for only 13 days?
text: Did you know that the shooting of Oscar Grant motivated Angie Thomas to write a short story that became the basis for her debut novel, The Hate U Give ?
text: Did you know that Canadian wheelchair basketball player Sandrine Bérubé is a brown belt in karate?
text: Did you know that during a 15-year period researching George Washington 's correspondence, William Wright Abbot read or edited more than 135,000 documents?
text: Did you know that Filipinos became the first Asians to have a documented presence in the Americas when they landed in what is now California on 18 October 1587 ?
text: Did you know that basketball player Bol Bol received his first NCAA Division I offer at the age of 15?
text: Did you know that the slots in the test of the six-holed keyhole urchin may help prevent it from being washed away by the current?
text: Did you know that in 2017, Renee Rabinowitz successfully sued El Al after the airline forced her to move at the request of a Haredi Jewish man who refused to sit beside her?
text: Did you know that there is in excess of 150 million tons of phosphorite ore on Ioah Guyot , a seamount in the Pacific Ocean?
text: Did you know that professional League of Legends player Imaqtpie was married in a T-shirt and shorts?
text: Did you know that Floyd Bennett Field , New York City's first municipal airport, was not commercially successful due to its remoteness from Manhattan ?
text: Did you know that John Lennon was inspired to write the song " Sunday Bloody Sunday " by his anger over the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre ?
text: Did you know that in 1981, Elnora M. Gilfoyle became the first occupational therapist to receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree?
text: Did you know that the full implementation of the Calais Conference proposals was thwarted by the threatened resignations of Field Marshal Douglas Haig and General Sir William Robertson ?
text: Did you know that the regent of Karawang , Indonesia, claims to have been named after a car ?
text: Did you know that during the American Revolution, the British stronghold of Fort Granby in the South Carolina colony was attacked with a Quaker gun ?
text: Did you know that while in prison, Richard W. Meade wrote a political pamphlet about rotten cheese?
text: Did you know that Reggie Upshaw was considered one of Tennessee 's best high school athletes in American football, basketball, and the high jump?
text: Did you know that Pope Pius XII did not condemn the roundup and deportation of more than a thousand Jews " under his very windows " 75 years ago today?
text: Did you know that former ballerina Miranda Esmonde-White claims that people can practice "aging backwards" through eccentric exercise ?
text: Did you know that the German-language weekly Der Nordstern ( The North Star ) was founded in 1874 to serve the Minnesota area's large German immigrant community?
text: Did you know that Tan Tjoen Tiat , the second Majoor der Chinezen of Batavia , advised the colonial government in 1870 that women should not act as guardians for minors?
text: Did you know that the adventure video game Unavowed uses pixel art because the development studio lacked the resources to create a 3D video game?
text: Did you know that Mary Jane Reoch rode 12 miles (19 km) to the hospital on her racing bike to give birth to her daughter?
text: Did you know that Venezuelan political activist Rafaela Requesens was a flamenco dancer for fifteen years from the age of six?
text: Did you know that the Harvard Graduate Students Union , a labor union representing 5,000 student workers at Harvard University , is affiliated with the United Automobile Workers ?
text: Did you know that the fee in excess of £2,000 paid by Blackburn Rovers in 1921 for the footballer Fergie Aitken was the record that Bury had received for a player?
text: Did you know that Wandersong was one of the first GameMaker Studio titles to be released on the Nintendo Switch , along with Hyper Light Drifter and Undertale ?
text: Did you know that basketball player Trey Lewis transferred to Louisville with hopes of reaching the NCAA Tournament , but the team declared itself ineligible for the tournament after he joined?
text: Did you know that Don Raimondo Viale was honoured as Righteous Among the Nations for assisting Jews who had escaped from the Borgo San Dalmazzo concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that Henry G. Hanks left Cleveland to join the California Gold Rush , only to end up selling paint and studying mineralogy ?
text: Did you know that Matt Mobley set an Atlantic 10 basketball tournament record with nine 3-pointers in a victory over Richmond ?
text: Did you know that the contents of the Biblioteca della Comunità Israelitica in Rome, with volumes dating back to the 16th century, were looted by Nazi Germany 75 years ago today, and never recovered?
text: Did you know that Max Jessner travelled to Buriat-Mongolia as part of the Soviet-German Syphilis Expedition ?
text: Did you know that Bontecou Lake , near Millbrook, New York , is divided between two drainage basins , making it a bifurcation lake ?
text: Did you know that in 1903, the 25-year-old daughter of an illiterate Irish immigrant became the first woman to stand for the Australian House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that the hymn " Mein ganzes Herz erhebet dich ", a paraphrase of Psalm 138 based on the Protestant Genevan Psalter , is also sung by German-speaking Catholics?
text: Did you know that businessman Jose Yao Campos admitted in 1986 to having organized 40 different shell companies through which Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos could hide his wealth?
text: Did you know that today is No Bra Day , on which women are encouraged to go braless to promote breast cancer awareness and gender equality ?
text: Did you know that footballer Sandy Allan was the first player to score a headed hat-trick in a European club competition ?
text: Did you know that in his Berceuse , Chopin created a lullaby for piano in 16 continuous variations on an ostinato ground bass?
text: Did you know that Giovanni Fornasini , an Italian priest murdered by the Nazis in 1944, was posthumously awarded Italy's Gold Medal of Military Valour and is a candidate for sainthood?
text: Did you know that the spot-winged glider is a migratory dragonfly?
text: Did you know that after his ban on playing League of Legends was lifted, Loltyler1 's return set a new record for viewership on Twitch.tv ?
text: Did you know that the leader of the Caiazzo massacre on 13 October 1943 eluded arrest for nearly 50 years because authorities were searching for him under the wrong name?
text: Did you know that Galán , one of the largest exposed calderas in the world, contains the Laguna Diamante lake, where life has to tolerate extreme environmental conditions?
text: Did you know that Emil Mattiesen , a composer of lieder , chamber and organ music, also wrote books on parapsychology ?
text: Did you know that Miami University 's Herron Gymnasium , listed on the National Register of Historic Places , was demolished and replaced with a parking lot?
text: Did you know that American missionary Clarissa Chapman Armstrong led Bible study meetings for Queen Kalama in Hawaii while her husband served as Minister of Public Instruction under King Kamehameha III ?
text: Did you know that Großtarock , a card game played with a 78-card Tarot pack that originated in Germany and spread to the Netherlands and Scandinavia, has survived only in the Danish variant known as Tarok ?
text: Did you know that Henry Weston Farnsworth served in the French Foreign Legion and was one of the first American soldiers killed in World War I?
text: Did you know that East Sutherland Gaelic has just one remaining native speaker?
text: Did you know that Beerbohm , a cat owned by the Gielgud Theatre , became famous for entering actors' dressing rooms, attacking props, and wandering across the stage during performances?
text: Did you know that photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva won the trust of a Siberian mammoth-tusk hunter by stitching up his injured hand?
text: Did you know that Sam Hornish Jr. of Panther Racing won the 2002 Delphi Indy 300 by 0.0024 seconds, the closest margin of victory in Indy Racing League history?
text: Did you know that Türkan Rado was the first female professor of law in Turkey?
text: Did you know that despite John Fogerty 's agreement with hippie generation political concerns, his lyrics for Creedence Clearwater Revival 's " Don't Look Now (It Ain't You or Me) " were critical of hippie attitudes?
text: Did you know that footballer Willie Anderson agreed to join the Portland Timbers despite not knowing where the team was based?
text: Did you know that according to family lore, George FitzGeorge Hamilton , a godson of George V , was killed in a World War I bombing raid while retrieving his leave pass?
text: Did you know that pieces of the original New York Penn Station have been found at a recycling center in the Bronx , underneath the New Jersey Meadowlands , and in other U.S. states?
text: Did you know that Baby Rani Maurya , who in August 2018 was sworn in as the seventh governor of Uttarakhand , India, is the second woman to hold that post?
text: Did you know that the flooding of a tunnel on the Singapore MRT , causing more than S$ 2 million in damages, was blamed on falsified maintenance records?
text: Did you know that Pietro Bandini , a Catholic priest, established Tontitown, Arkansas , as a colony of Italian immigrants in 1898?
text: Did you know that the wasp Nealiolus curculionis is a parasitoid of the sunflower stem weevil ?
text: Did you know that at age 14, Luc Van Slooten was the youngest player at the 2016 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship ?
text: Did you know that to receive a work permit to play in Luxembourg , Bosnian footballer Sanel Ibrahimović had to pretend to be a specialist in his country's cuisine ?
text: Did you know that in his 1994 opera La Belle et la Bête , Philip Glass wrote dialogue and music for soloists and ensemble to match the 1946 film by Jean Cocteau ?
text: Did you know that architect Rose Connor found in 1958 that only one percent of registered architects in the U.S. were female, and seven states had no female architects at all?
text: Did you know that the mitochondrial DNA molecules of Medusozoa are linear rather than circular as in almost all other animals?
text: Did you know that in 2015, Maya Krishna Rao became the first artist to return the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award ?
text: Did you know that Soulard Farmers Market is reputed to be the oldest public market in the US west of the Mississippi River ?
text: Did you know that "Beatles-ologist" Kolya Vasin proposed a 210-foot (64 m) tall "temple" be constructed in Saint Petersburg in honour of John Lennon ?
text: Did you know that the unsolved killing of a Chinese immigrant family in Guilderland, New York , four years ago today was the first quadruple homicide in the state's Capital District ?
text: Did you know that Eleonore Trefftz was the second woman to become a scientific member of the Max Planck Society ?
text: Did you know that in " Mein Gott, wie schön ist deine Welt ", a 1936 hymn by Georg Thurmair , every stanza declares three times, "How beautiful is Your world"?
text: Did you know that Zena Edosomwan was the first top-100 high school basketball recruit to commit to Harvard ?
text: Did you know that Project Harvest Moon intended to commercialize space by selling moon rocks to pay for further lunar experiments?
text: Did you know that ships of Thomas King 's firm Camden, Calvert and King carried more than 20,000 slaves from West Africa to the Caribbean?
text: Did you know that Working with Lemons participated in an event in Provo, Utah , that broke the world record for most people participating in a live nativity scene re-enactment?
text: Did you know that most of footballer Laurence Abrams 's transfer fee for his move from Hearts was never paid, after Chelsea claimed it would force them to fold?
text: Did you know that a section of Washington State Route 24 through Hanford was closed to traffic during World War II , and never reopened?
text: Did you know that in 1833, Ursula Newell Emerson drew some of the earliest surviving manuscript maps of Hawaii for instructional use?
text: Did you know that Cristin Milioti describes her character Nanette Cole from the Black Mirror episode " USS Callister " as "a woman in charge [fighting] against a small-minded, misogynist bully"?
text: Did you know that Emilio Álvarez Icaza will enter the Mexican Senate as an independent, refusing to affiliate with any of the three parties that supported his candidacy?
text: Did you know that Willem Adriaan van der Stel introduced the ivy-leaved pelargonium to the Netherlands from South Africa in 1700?
text: Did you know that the Hindu goddess Matangi is worshipped with the taboo offering of leftovers ?
text: Did you know that Velters Cornewall Berkeley infuriated some of his fellow British officers by failing to engage the 130-gun Santisima Trinidad ?
text: Did you know that the release of Led Zeppelin III was held up for two months because of its volvelle -based sleeve design?
text: Did you know that a Chinese Indonesian billionaire became the oldest medal winner for that country at the 2018 Asian Games ?
text: Did you know that Cruz Pérez Cuéllar ran for Governor of Chihuahua , Mexico, in 2016 on a platform that called for voters to decide if the governor should be removed midway through his term?
text: Did you know that the sandalled anemone reproduces by longitudinal fission ?
text: Did you know that two years after winning the throne of the Byzantine Empire in battle, Isaac I voluntarily abdicated and retired to a monastery?
text: Did you know that the No. 19 pastrami on rye at Langer's Deli (pictured) in Los Angeles has been called "the Marilyn Monroe of pastrami sandwiches"?
text: Did you know that tenor Daniel Behle had a single day to learn rarely performed romantic duets when he stepped in at short notice for a 2018 Rheingau Musik Festival concert with Annette Dasch ?
text: Did you know that Our Lady of Pompeii in New York City was founded in 1892 as a church for Italian immigrants ?
text: Did you know that during his time in Slovakia to play professional basketball, J. R. Cadot was assaulted and followed to the hospital by a racist mob?
text: Did you know that the 1980s-themed cover for Muse's album Simulation Theory was made by Stranger Things artist Kyle Lambert ?
text: Did you know that Lucius Neratius Marcellus was involved in the establishment of the defensive line that later became Hadrian's Wall ?
text: Did you know that during World War II, the United States Lake Survey published 370 tons of maps including 8,109 different charts and maps, distributing over 9 million items to the armed forces?
text: Did you know that Sam Frost received death threats after her Home and Away character Jasmine Delaney 's first scenes were aired?
text: Did you know that Bob Lowes is a two-time winner of the Coach of the Year Award in the Canadian Hockey League ?
text: Did you know that the Furgate scandal in the late 1990s, described as one of the largest in South Korea, involved influence peddling through the giving of luxury items?
text: Did you know that upon its completion in 2016 at SeaWorld Orlando, Mako became the tallest, longest, and fastest roller coaster in the Orlando area of Florida ?
text: Did you know that French poet René Ghil worked towards developing an ideal poetic language that would "subsume and supersede all the other arts" by establishing his own system of verbal instrumentation?
text: Did you know that to create the fireball effect in episode 1094 of Casualty , the show's production team packed ten different explosions into one blast?
text: Did you know that Almeda Eliza Hitchcock became the first female lawyer in the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1888?
text: Did you know that one of the dogs belonging to Imran Khan , the Pakistani prime minister, accompanies him on his daily helicopter ride to the office and in official meetings at his home?
text: Did you know that Wally Schirra , one of the original seven astronauts in NASA's first manned spaceflight program , was Walter Cronkite 's co-anchor during the seven Moon landing missions?
text: Did you know that in 1889, the Edinburgh College of Medicine for Women was established in direct competition with Sophia Jex-Blake 's School of Medicine for Women ?
text: Did you know that Harry Kupfer , the stage director at the Komische Oper Berlin for decades, presented Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer at the 1978 Bayreuth Festival as a psychological drama?
text: Did you know that when the Colonial Plaza shopping center opened in 1956 in Orlando, Florida , its sidewalks were tinted green to reduce glare?
text: Did you know that Wilma Mankiller faced sexism during her campaign for Deputy Chief of the Cherokee Nation , despite Cherokee society being traditionally matrilineal ?
text: Did you know that Quodlibet is a card game played by student fraternities with William Tell cards , where the dealer is known as the "beer king"?
text: Did you know that despite Alexis Sánchez's seven goals in qualification , Chile failed to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup ?
text: Did you know that one of the two temples visited most often by the Buddha was built by Visakha , a wealthy aristocratic woman who was considered his chief female lay disciple?
text: Did you know that the Scottish Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean asked Douglas Young to destroy some of the poems in Dàin do Eimhir , now regarded as MacLean's masterpiece?
text: Did you know that professional basketball player Daniel Dixon enrolled in military school after drawing interest from only one college during high school?
text: Did you know that a scandal at the administrative post of Lioma led to a landmark decision that provided better legal protection for all students in Mozambique?
text: Did you know that Jake was one of two Overwatch League players invited to a summit between the International Olympic Committee and the eSports community?
text: Did you know that the designs for the 170-gun HMS Duke of Kent may have been fabricated in an attempt to claim credit for several ship-building innovations?
text: Did you know that Justin I arrived at Constantinople as an illiterate teenage peasant and died as Emperor of Byzantium ?
text: Did you know that upon their return to the Philippines after attending college in the United States, pensionados were referred to as "American boys" and faced discrimination?
text: Did you know that heavy metal vocalist Jill Janus performed at the World Trade Center the night before the September 11 attacks ?
text: Did you know that when the designer Mariano Fortuny established his studio in the Palazzo Pesaro Orfei in Venice, he was one of about 350 people using the building?
text: Did you know that Neeru Chadha is the first Indian woman to be elected as a judge to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ?
text: Did you know that the boys choir Wiesbadener Knabenchor has performed as an "ambassador" of Wiesbaden , Germany, including in Bulgaria and Australia?
text: Did you know that in 1887, eleven Lepidodendron stump fossils were discovered in the Fossil Grove in Glasgow , Scotland, during excavation work?
text: Did you know that after the arrest of suspected drug lord El 85 , shootouts, burning vehicles, and roadblocks were staged in Guadalajara , Mexico, possibly to allow his allies to escape undetected?
text: Did you know that Home and Away actress Sarah Roberts met with gambling addicts as research for Willow Harris 's storylines?
text: Did you know that a volcanic field in Death Valley formed only about 2,100 years ago?
text: Did you know that Orthodox Jewish sports agent Marc Kligman organizes Hanukkah candle-lighting for Jewish attendees at the baseball Winter Meetings ?
text: Did you know that the Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada was created as a result of a commission calling for "culturally appropriate curricula" for Aboriginal Canadian students?
text: Did you know that Afro-Cuban poetry reciter Eusebia Cosme performed only in Spanish, but packed American venues such as Carnegie Hall ?
text: Did you know that the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship saw the best-ever performance by Team Great Britain, which won the men's competition and was runner-up in the women's?
text: Did you know that Adrienne Maree Brown writes for Bitch ?
text: Did you know that the string-of-sausage lichen is very sensitive to air pollution and has become locally extinct over much of its former range?
text: Did you know that bryologist Margaret Sibella Brown was awarded an honorary master of arts degree from Acadia University at the age of 84?
text: Did you know that Robin Sparkles 's " Let's Go to the Mall " was inspired by Alanis Morissette 's material from her pre- Jagged Little Pill years?
text: Did you know that neuroscientist Yang Dan and her team discovered that mice either enter a dream state or eat more in response to activation of certain brain neurons?
text: Did you know that a small group of besieged Nizari Ismailis in the fortress of Shahdiz refused an offer of a safe withdrawal and fought against the Seljuk army from tower to tower in a last stand?
text: Did you know that the Cubbington Pear Tree , voted England's Tree of the Year for 2015, is at risk of being felled during construction of High Speed 2 ?
text: Did you know that the Ming dynasty awarded the pirate Wang Zhi 100 shoulder-loads of rice, which he dumped into the sea?
text: Did you know that a unit of disabled and aged veterans garrisoned key parts of Great Britain in the 18th century?
text: Did you know that in 1923, Andrew B. Turnbull helped convert the Green Bay Packers into a publicly-held, non-profit corporation , and then was elected as that corporation's first president?
text: Did you know that Nanchang Laoyingfang Airport , once an airbase used to attack Chinese communist rebels, is now the site of the communist provincial government?
text: Did you know that Mary Ellen Cuper was the first postmistress at New Norcia ?
text: Did you know that the United States was ordered by the World Court to lift some sanctions against Iran over humanitarian concerns?
text: Did you know that Burhan Uray worked as a logger and rubber tapper before becoming "the timber king" of Indonesia?
text: Did you know that after being damaged twice by Allied ships, escorting a blockade runner, and hitting two mines, the German torpedo boat T24 was sunk by air-launched rockets?
text: Did you know that footballer Neil Matthews was the first Rochdale player to win an international cap at any level?
text: Did you know that Solo 66 is a German trick-taking card game for five players in which a soloist always plays against the other four?
text: Did you know that following his failed rebellion in 1926, governor Xia Chao was executed and his severed head was displayed on a spike?
text: Did you know that sites in Florida Bay with an abundance of loggerhead sponges experience few blooms of cyanobacteria ?
text: Did you know that in 1991, the founder of Ecclesia Athletic Association and seven other members were indicted for what a federal prosecutor termed "the largest child slavery ring in the history of the United States"?
text: Did you know that jellyfish can disable power stations?
text: Did you know that Mexican suspected hitman René Velázquez Valenzuela shaved his head and grew his beard as a sign of loyalty to his boss ?
text: Did you know that the concept of an ethnographic group is more commonly found in Soviet and post-Soviet, rather than Western, scholarly works?
text: Did you know that when William C. F. Robinson was sworn in as governor of South Australia , the band played a song that he had composed himself?
text: Did you know that for his role in the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann was described as a desk murderer by Hannah Arendt ?
text: Did you know that the herring-bone hydroid has two types of feeding polyp which differ in their behaviour?
text: Did you know that Close But No Cigar , the debut album of the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio , reached number one on the U.S. Contemporary Jazz Albums chart?
text: Did you know that the Colonial replaced a train that often could not fill a single passenger car?
text: Did you know that trail runner Aurélia Truel gave up on playing handball because she was too short?
text: Did you know that the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS were thought to have committed war crimes against Italians during World War II in retaliation for Italy's surrender?
text: Did you know that Yang Dan was awarded the TWAS Prize for synthesizing bioactive natural compounds?
text: Did you know that during the University of London's General Examination for Women of 1869, a matron was in attendance in case the candidates became over-excited?
text: Did you know that historical novelist Elizabeth Byrd was the editor of a salacious confession magazine in the 1950s?
text: Did you know that the 2004 Taylor oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico leaks 300 to 700 barrels of oil per day and could continue for the next 100 years if not contained?
text: Did you know that Ratna Ani Lestari and her husband , the regent of Jembrana , were the first married couple to lead two adjacent Indonesian regencies?
text: Did you know that the French submarine Amazone was named after a mythological tribe of women warriors ?
text: Did you know that Ryan Kocer won the Best Male Athlete with a Disability ESPY Award in 2008 after losing his left leg the year before?
text: Did you know that the shear vane was developed for testing soils, but has also been used on snow to determine the risk of an avalanche forming?
text: Did you know that political scientist Hu Fo counted among his students the former president , vice president , and premier of Taiwan?
text: Did you know that Gorgonorhynchus repens has an unusual sticky, branched proboscis with which it snares its prey?
text: Did you know that in 1953, Francis D. Pastorius and Edward E. Holloway were elected to local offices that the Philadelphia city government had abolished a month earlier?
text: Did you know that the many lakes in the Nancy Lake State Recreation Area were created during the retreat of glaciers 9,000 years ago?
text: Did you know that Gilles Courteau made the switch from French to English as the official language used for coaching in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League ?
text: Did you know that the Australian Federal Court of Bankruptcy lost its jurisdiction in 1977 but was not formally abolished until 1995?
text: Did you know that the gray grass mouse inhabits forests of Podocarpus parlatorei and Alnus acuminata on steep hillsides on the eastern flanks of the Andes?
text: Did you know that Günther Morbach appeared in more than 180 operatic bass roles, including Mozart's Sarastro in the new Opernhaus Dortmund and in a Harald Weiss world premiere at the Staatstheater Braunschweig ?
text: Did you know that until being murdered in May 2018, Mexican journalist and radio station founder Juan Carlos Huerta anchored the newscast on the television station XHTVL-TDT ?
text: Did you know that Bill "Maverick" Golden drove the Little Red Wagon , drag racing 's first wheelstander ?
text: Did you know that the Hyperion proto-supercluster was discovered using astroinformatics ?
text: Did you know that Arvo Pärt composed Cecilia, vergine romana on an Italian text about Saint Cecilia for choir and orchestra, on a commission for the Great Jubilee in Rome?
text: Did you know that children have mistaken the poisonous fruits of Adenia hondala for those of the passion flower ?
text: Did you know that Iris Kadrić played international football for Sweden under-17s , before switching to play for Bosnia and Herzegovina ?
text: Did you know that dozens of Nazi concentration camps were staffed by guards from the Luftwaffe ?
text: Did you know that Haifan Lin 's discovery of piRNAs was named by Science as one of the top breakthroughs of 2006?
text: Did you know that a Trump resort is directly linked to Moscow ?
text: Did you know that the Deccan Chargers , winners of the 2009 Indian Premier League , finished last in the league stage in the previous season with just two wins in fourteen matches?
text: Did you know that before becoming a Yad Vashem historian, Shmuel Krakowski worked for Polish communist intelligence and security organizations?
text: Did you know that viewers have watched 1.5 billion minutes of BuzzFeed 's Worth It in 2018 alone?
text: Did you know that a letter authored by Ali , the first Shia Imam, to Malik al-Ashtar , governor of Egypt, includes a model for governing based on justice for every place and every time?
text: Did you know that Peter Bielik was nominated for director of the National Memory Institute , despite having blamed Jewish Holocaust survivors for the 1945 Topoľčany pogrom ?
text: Did you know that the sea hedgehog hydroid is predated by the nudibranch Zelentia pustulata , which feeds on it and winds egg coils around its branches?
text: Did you know that Lukas Radovich believed his audition for the Home and Away character Ryder Jackson went so badly that he booked a flight to Perth , but was then offered the role?
text: Did you know that Sir James Hamilton was largely responsible for the design of Concorde's distinctive wings ?
text: Did you know that Slovak fascists and anti-fascists joined forces to intimidate returning Holocaust survivors, culminating in the Topoľčany pogrom ?
text: Did you know that when footballer Wyn Griffiths suffered an injury during a 1945 friendly match for Arsenal , he was replaced by a player from another club who had attended the game as a spectator?
text: Did you know that Antonio Vivaldi composed three settings of Dixit Dominus , each an extended setting of the vespers psalm for five soloists, choir, and orchestra, and one even for double choir?
text: Did you know that St. Peter's Pro-Cathedral became the first Catholic pro-cathedral in the United States in 1789?
text: Did you know that the tombstone of Vietnamese anti-colonialist Phạm Thận Duật was buried face-down for nearly a century to conceal it from the French authorities?
text: Did you know that former professional Overwatch player Brandon "Seagull" Larned was recruited to NRG Esports by Shaquille O'Neal ?
text: Did you know that Udo Zimmermann composed two operas about the resistance group White Rose , one while he was a student?
text: Did you know that in 1345, the Earl of Derby attacked and defeated an army of 7,000 Frenchmen with a force of 1,200 Anglo- Gascons ?
text: Did you know that in 1975, Margaret Guilfoyle became the first woman in the history of the Australian parliament to hold a cabinet-level ministerial portfolio?
text: Did you know that Derrick Barnes based the main character of Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut on his own son?
text: Did you know that 65 percent of internees at the Topaz War Relocation Center were American citizens of Japanese descent ?
text: Did you know that during its time 200 million years ago, Ledumahadi 's estimated weight of 12 tonnes (26,000 lb) made it the largest animal to have lived on Earth?
text: Did you know that the Nazi doctor Friedrich Entress organised and administered phenol injections directly into the hearts of Auschwitz prisoners?
text: Did you know that the calls of the black-collared starling include a kraak kraak sounding like a jay and a whistling prrü like a bee-eater ?
text: Did you know that the Twitter user dril published the Dril Official "Mr. Ten Years" Anniversary Collection to preserve his best tweets in case of a future societal collapse ?
text: Did you know that Leo Holzer led a resistance group inside the Theresienstadt concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that oppositionist delegates to the Philippine Constitutional Convention of 1971 were among the first to be arrested when Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in the Philippines?
text: Did you know that an obscenity conviction for screening Kenneth Anger 's Fireworks was reversed by the Supreme Court of California ?
text: Did you know that Camille Saint-Saëns composed the Messe de Requiem , in memory of his patron, in just eight days, and conducted the first performance in 1878 at Saint-Sulpice in Paris?
text: Did you know that Hesham Ashmawy was one of Egypt's most-wanted militants prior to his arrest in Libya last month?
text: Did you know that the United Kingdom conducted 24 nuclear weapons tests in the United States between 1962 and 1991, and has conducted subcritical tests not involving explosions since then?
text: Did you know that Tommy Lockhart booked a roller-skating grizzly bear to perform as the on-ice intermission entertainment at a Hershey Bears game?
text: Did you know that historian Felix Römer found that 116 of 137 German World War II combat divisions he researched implemented the Commissar Order , contrary to postwar denials ?
text: Did you know that  after Schafkopf and Watten , Wallachen is probably the most widely-played card game in Old Bavaria and an indispensable part of Bavarian pub culture?
text: Did you know that the back cover of Luis Miguel 's  album México en la Piel was changed in 2005 because the original had altered the colors of the Mexican flag , which is illegal in Mexico?
text: Did you know that Chang Chun-Yen , a pioneer of Taiwan's hi-tech industry, was forbidden from going abroad to study because of his father's involvement in the February 28 incident ?
text: Did you know that neuroendocrinologist Catherine Woolley found evidence of brain plasticity using a technique described in 1873?
text: Did you know that an enclave of Edmonds, Washington , was formed after several failed attempts at annexing the community of Esperance ?
text: Did you know that Brennan's Criterion Bar in Bundoran , Ireland, had no television, discouraged live music, and banned swearing?
text: Did you know that " Love Interruption " was the first song American musician Jack White released after the breakup of rock duo The White Stripes ?
text: Did you know that according to Lea Hernandez , editor of webcomic subscription service Girlamatic , she originally wanted to call the website "ModernGirls" but the name was already taken by a porn site ?
text: Did you know that 17-year-old Dutch chess grandmaster Lucas van Foreest has a brother , great-great grandfather , and great-great granduncle who have all been Dutch Chess Champions ?
text: Did you know that the East Side Access railroad expansion in New York City has been estimated to cost about $3.5 billion per mile of new tunnel, seven times more than similar projects in other countries?
text: Did you know that Herman Pines , who could not attend university in Poland because of Jewish quotas , worked on developing aviation fuels that helped the Royal Air Force win the Battle of Britain ?
text: Did you know that the first woman voted in as head of state says she would not have got her job if women in Iceland had not walked away from theirs?
text: Did you know that Joan L. Mitchell co-invented JPEG ?
text: Did you know that the foliage of the cauliflower hakea is so prickly that gloves are recommended when collecting seed?
text: Did you know that racist graffiti on mathematician Chawne Kimber 's college campus, along with George Carlin 's seven dirty words , inspired her to politicize her quilting ?
text: Did you know that the Georgetown Car Barn , opened in 1897, operated as a terminal for cable cars for less than a year?
text: Did you know that Marcel Comeau was a minor league Most Valuable Player , and a junior league Coach of the Year , but never played or coached in the National Hockey League ?
text: Did you know that 694 Italians have been recognised as Righteous Among the Nations for risking their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust in Italy ?
text: Did you know that following his retirement from playing, footballer Andy Kerr became a financial advisor in the Far East?
text: Did you know that Peter Kubelka 's experimental film Schwechater was originally commissioned as a beer commercial?
text: Did you know that the stretch limousine involved in the recent crash near Schoharie, New York , killing 20, appeared at two vehicle inspections earlier this year with different license plates ?
text: Did you know that in 1800, a reviewer of Francis Hews 's writings was unsure whether he should be sent to " Bridewell for correction, or to Bedlam for a cure"?
text: Did you know that Cliona orientalis is a bioeroding sponge that tunnels into such corals as Goniopora tenuidens , Dipsastraea pallida , and Astreopora listeri ?
text: Did you know that Liamani Segura , who sang the US national anthem before 1,300 high school basketball fans at age six, taught herself by watching music videos on YouTube ?
text: Did you know that Tania Tetlow is the first female president of Loyola University New Orleans ?
text: Did you know that Greenwich pensioners played one-armed versus one-legged cricket ?
text: Did you know that the Dutch playwright Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken wrote very popular classicist tragedies, and sent an ode in French to George Washington , for which he thanked her?
text: Did you know that under the Byzantine Empire, the Arab Christian tribe of Bahra' were tasked with guarding the Syrian holy city of Rusafa ?
text: Did you know that Puisand Lai represented the Canada women's national wheelchair basketball team in 2018, and was also rated the world's seventh overall in girls' wheelchair tennis in 2017?
text: Did you know that David Benedictus dedicated his 1963 satirical novel You're a Big Boy Now to "the only girl I've ever loved—wherever they may be"?
text: Did you know that the northern striped dogwinkle lays around 550 eggs in a capsule, most of which are eaten by the 10 to 20 juveniles that eventually hatch?
text: Did you know that former First Lady of Slovenia Barbara Miklič Türk met her husband and former Slovenian president Danilo Türk while working as a librarian at the United Nations ?
text: Did you know that the first official baseball game in Germany took place under the Nazi regime at the 1936 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the novella Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts was translated as Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing several times, the first in 1866 by Charles Godfrey Leland ?
text: Did you know that footballer Bob Jones was signed by Everton as a goalkeeper, despite originally playing as a left half , after the original goalkeeper failed to arrive at a trial?
text: Did you know that the attacks on civilian villages by Soviet partisans in Finland were a forbidden topic in Finland until the 1990s?
text: Did you know that Welsh footballer Stan Griffiths was given a medical discharge during World War II due to injuries suffered during his playing career?
text: Did you know that PSYCHLOPS has been adapted for children?
text: Did you know that Barbara P. McCarthy disagreed with philologist Rudolf Helm about whether or not Lucian originated a particular form of satiric dialog?
text: Did you know that the seed pods of Acacia ramulosa resemble horse tails?
text: Did you know that Edward John Granet proposed a successful World War I air raid on a German hydrogen factory and Zeppelin depot using planes shipped in crates from England to Southern France?
text: Did you know that the First World War memorial at Woodvale Park in Belfast is cut to resemble a stone from Giant's Causeway ?
text: Did you know that after first-class cricketer Noel Phillips rejoined his regiment during the First World War, he received the Military Cross for gallantry on the battlefield?
text: Did you know that the BBC first televised the National Service of Remembrance from The Cenotaph in 1937?
text: Did you know that when the O'Byrne -class submarines were seized by France before their sale to Romania, the Romanian Navy had to wait 15 more years to get its first submarine?
text: Did you know that Leslie Joy Whitehead , a Canadian woman, enlisted in the Serbian Army as a man so that she might get closer to the front lines in World War I ?
text: Did you know that during the First World War, the British Ministry of Munitions proposed trading rubber for German binoculars ?
text: Did you know that the lake at the bottom of Kauhakō Crater has a greater depth-to-surface-area ratio than any other lake in the world?
text: Did you know that the Mexican Army leaked a picture of Misael Torres Urrea that ended up popularizing several drug ballads ?
text: Did you know that despite the coral Stylophora pistillata being a common species with a wide distribution, and Stylophora madagascarensis being common around the coast of Madagascar, the IUCN has assessed one as " near threatened " and the other as " endangered "?
text: Did you know that Anne Ratna Mustika , her husband , and her uncle all served as regents of Purwakarta, Indonesia ?
text: Did you know that despite clear orders to fire only if fired upon, the German torpedo boat Albatros crippled the Norwegian ship Pol III after being rammed, thus firing the first shot of the Norwegian Campaign ?
text: Did you know that Gary Wiren is estimated to have taught golf to more than a quarter of a million people in 32 countries?
text: Did you know that in 1976, the Gilling sword was found in a river by a nine-year old boy, and was subsequently awarded its own Blue Peter badge ?
text: Did you know that Ann Thomas Callahan was one of the first indigenous graduates of the Winnipeg General Hospital 's nursing school?
text: Did you know that in the fairy-tale opera Der Schuhu und die fliegende Prinzessin by Udo Zimmermann , two orchestras play on stage, representing two empires in conflict?
text: Did you know that Brigadier Leonard Cuthbert Lucas was decorated for his part in the construction of facilities for the British Operation Totem nuclear tests at Emu Field, South Australia ?
text: Did you know that despite opposition from within his resistance group , Andrej Steiner orchestrated the arrest of Jewish collaborator Karol Hochberg ?
text: Did you know that Changchun Dafangshen Airport was controlled by four different armed forces between August 1945 and May 1946?
text: Did you know that as an adult, Marcy Tigner sold more than two million albums featuring her natural child-like voice?
text: Did you know that during storms on 1–2 July 1968 , hailstones the size of tennis balls fell in Cardiff and blood-red rain covered Southern England?
text: Did you know that Donald Trump "accidentally" contributed to a children's book ?
text: Did you know that Frisian poet Cynthia Lenige died in 1780 at age 24, her work being published two years after her death?
text: Did you know that Seattle's replica of the Statue of Liberty stands at around five percent of the original's height?
text: Did you know that in the UEFA matches played by Athletic Bilbao in European football , the club used only one player who was a full international for a country other than Spain ?
text: Did you know that activist Andy Stapp joined the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War to build an anti-war movement within the military?
text: Did you know that one of the earliest accounts of the use of cocaine for spinal anaesthesia was given by William Keiller , anatomy professor at Galveston, Texas?
text: Did you know that the Lonely Tree was named Welsh Tree of the Year in 2014 despite having been blown over during a storm?
text: Did you know that drag racer Roberta Leighton was the first woman licensed by the National Hot Rod Association to race in a Gas class?
text: Did you know that the Sanskrit grammarian Pāṇini provided a phonetic theory of voicing around 350 BCE?
text: Did you know that Wen Fong co-founded the first Ph.D. program in Chinese art and archaeology in the United States, at Princeton University ?
text: Did you know that the crab Zebrida adamsii lives among the spines of a sea urchin ?
text: Did you know that Roman Twardy conducted the Wiesbadener Knabenchor in the first recording of a rediscovered Passion oratorio by Johann Mattheson ?
text: Did you know that 65 percent of internees at the Topaz War Relocation Center were American-born citizens of Japanese descent ?
text: Did you know that Indian Medical Service officer Arthur Francis Hamilton was affectionately nicknamed "Alu", the Hindi word for potato?
text: Did you know that the French video game developer Quantic Dream would consider moving to Canada if its tax breaks were taken away?
text: Did you know that in 1997, the annual Children's Book Award for children's fiction was renamed in honor of Josette Frank ?
text: Did you know that the assassination of John F. Kennedy overshadowed the launch of the first season of Doctor Who ?
text: Did you know that Maurice Rossel 's report on Theresienstadt concentration camp has been described as emblematic of the failure of the Red Cross during the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that subscription-based airline Wheels Up provides a "Same Day Game Day" airline service to college football games?
text: Did you know that the 1227 Gothic church of the Cistercian Marienstatt Abbey escaped demolition because it became a parish church in 1831?
text: Did you know that the custom cars built by Dick Megugorac were described as having "bomb-proof reliability" and "could be driven anywhere, anytime"?
text: Did you know that despite being only 8 miles (13 km) long, Washington State Route 546 is considered a major freight highway due to its connections to Interstate 5 and the Canadian border ?
text: Did you know that the name of the theropod dinosaur Cristatusaurus means "crested reptile", in reference to a thin sagittal crest located on top of its snout?
text: Did you know that Greg Fitzgerald , the CEO of Bovis Homes , started his career in construction as a tea boy?
text: Did you know that a ruling by the European Court of Justice allowing employers to ban staff from wearing the hijab has been described as a normalization of hijabophobia ?
text: Did you know that despite playing as a defender , Ildefons Lima is the leading goalscorer in the history of the Andorra national football team ?
text: Did you know that the complete Psalm 131 and the first verse of Psalm 133 in Hebrew comprise the text of the last movement of Chichester Psalms by Leonard Bernstein ?
text: Did you know that Chicago alderman Dorsey Crowe survived falling 800 feet (240 m) from a plane and being thrown through the roof of a car?
text: Did you know that Jobst Oetzmann directed the film The Loneliness of the Crocodiles , presented at international film festivals, and the award-winning 484th episode of the police crime drama Tatort ?
text: Did you know that Nanchang Qingyunpu Airport , once China's largest airport, was destroyed during the Second Sino-Japanese War ?
text: Did you know that in 1931, William Robins carried a colour of Barrell's Regiment in a ceremony to unite it with that of Clan Stewart of Appin , their adversaries at the 1746 Battle of Culloden ?
text: Did you know that Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Lou Reed considered the guitar-playing on Neil Young 's " Danger Bird " to be the best he had ever heard?
text: Did you know that because the court described him as a "simpleton", Stefan Baretzki 's admission that he knew the Holocaust was a crime was used to convict other defendants at the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials ?
text: Did you know that during its time 200 million years ago, Ledumahadi 's estimated weight of 12 tonnes (26,000 lb) made it the largest animal to have lived on Earth?
text: Did you know that Mexican drug lord Martín Arzola Ortega complained about the increase in price of potato chips in prison?
text: Did you know that in 1958, Preben von Magnus was the first to describe monkeypox in monkeys?
text: Did you know that the Wisconsin School is a school of thought that uses economic interpretations to explain much of American diplomatic history ?
text: Did you know that footballer Óscar Sonejee scored the goal that won the Andorra national football team their first-ever point in an international fixture?
text: Did you know that most Germans who committed war crimes in Italy during World War II never faced justice ?
text: Did you know that on her hundredth birthday, British soprano Carrie Tubb was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Music ?
text: Did you know that the Brooklyn Naval Hospital treated almost a quarter of Union casualties during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that women brewsters were the primary producers of beer before commercialization of the industry?
text: Did you know that after the withdrawal of German forces, left-wing partisans defeated and summarily executed some 400 to 2,500 Nazi collaborators in Meligalas , Greece?
text: Did you know that Oded Muhammad Danial , as the deputy mayor of Bandung , Indonesia, established a program for dakwah in city buses?
text: Did you know that small female Patagonian octopuses often choose an empty mollusc shell to lay their eggs in?
text: Did you know that Akshay Nanavati is a US Marine Corps veteran who overcame drug abuse and alcoholism to publish a book endorsed by the Dalai Lama ?
text: Did you know that the inter-governmental Working Definition of Antisemitism has generated controversy over its inclusion of examples of criticism of Israel ?
text: Did you know that John Lennon and Yoko Ono were heckled for not riding in a hot air balloon ?
text: Did you know that Praeludium , a 1992 composition by Graham Waterhouse , has been described as a "dramatic concert piece"?
text: Did you know that Mary Paton Ramsay argued for the influence of medieval mysticism on the poetry of John Donne ?
text: Did you know that decorative patterns using isosceles triangles date back to the Early Neolithic ?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian actor Adipati Dolken adopted his stage name from the owner of the villa where he stayed on vacation in Puncak ?
text: Did you know that a reviewer came to like John Rutter 's anthem O clap your hands better, many years after he first found the jollity of its beginning "a bit relentless"?
text: Did you know that Carl J. Seiberlich was the first naval aviator qualified to land airships, airplanes, and helicopters on an aircraft carrier?
text: Did you know that a sociophonetic study found that young boys lower the pitch of their voice even before puberty to seem more masculine?
text: Did you know that by pushing a glass tube into his ear, pioneering biotremologist Frej Ossiannilsson discovered that the leafhopper inside the tube produced faint vibrations ?
text: Did you know that the citizens of Târgoviște , Romania, put a jinx on boyar Emanoil Băleanu , which was seen as being fulfilled when his wife died in childbirth?
text: Did you know that The Hexer , the first attempt to portray The Witcher universe in film, was "crushed by the reviewers and laughed out by fans", and has since been described as "the film we all want to forget"?
text: Did you know that the sponge Oscarella lobularis can multiply by forming drips and bubbles?
text: Did you know that between 1933 and 1936, Max Troll betrayed hundreds of fellow communists to the Bavarian Political Police , a forerunner of the Gestapo ?
text: Did you know that the rock band XTC were a key influence on Britpop and later power pop acts?
text: Did you know that following the July Revolution in France, Heinrich Heine wrote a history of emancipation in Germany , beginning with Luther's Reformation ?
text: Did you know that Donald Liebenberg experienced 74 minutes of totality aboard a Concorde during the solar eclipse of June 30, 1973 ?
text: Did you know that the mantis shrimp Acanthosquilla derijardi has a junior synonym named after Princess Sirindhorn of Thailand in reference to a childen's book she wrote?
text: Did you know that elderly members of Knesseth Israel Congregation of Birmingham, Alabama , were featured in the 1990 music video for " Minyan Man "?
text: Did you know that pharmacologist Li Lianda won a national science award for his research on the traditional Chinese medical concept of blood stasis ?
text: Did you know that in 2010, the US Supreme Court heard an original jurisdiction case in which four states sued North Carolina for refusing to return the money they had invested in a failed waste facility?
text: Did you know that actress Yume Miyamoto voiced Lilo in the Japanese dub of Lilo & Stitch: The Series ?
text: Did you know that the epitaph Known unto God , which appears on more than 212,000 Commonwealth war graves , was selected by the poet Rudyard Kipling , whose own son was killed during the First World War ?
text: Did you know that when golfer Annie Park won her first career LPGA Tour tournament in 2018, she was ranked 236th in the world?
text: Did you know that Windmill Hill Cavern , which provided the first scientifically accepted proof that humans and now-extinct animal species coexisted in Britain, was found accidentally while searching for a lost pickaxe?
text: Did you know that despite being persecuted as a convert to Judaism in Nazi Germany, Ernst von Manstein was given a full military funeral with uniformed SS pallbearers?
text: Did you know that after its defeat in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 , Pakistan formulated a military doctrine designed to " Bleed India with a Thousand Cuts "?
text: Did you know that before Zhang Ting became a government minister, he was disabled by injuries suffered during a weapons test?
text: Did you know that the Amazon basin ranges of the bristly mice Neacomys minutus and Neacomys spinosus overlap?
text: Did you know that deposits of rock salt are mechanically weak, and may flow under stress ?
text: Did you know that hall of fame barrel racer Wanda Harper Bush rode her horse 3 miles (4.8 km) to catch the bus for school?
text: Did you know that Sakura-Variationen , a trio for saxophone, piano, and percussion by Helmut Lachenmann , was composed for a children's concert?
text: Did you know that the followers of Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi , the founder of the Qarmatian state in Bahrayn , believed that he would return after his death, and kept a saddled horse at the entrance of his tomb?
text: Did you know that the Poplar Hill mansion on Long Island was reportedly used to spy on the neighboring Killenworth mansion, which housed the Soviet delegation to the United Nations ?
text: Did you know that Pat Marsh was described as "the first lady of British ice hockey "?
text: Did you know that the Slovak Jewish Center , set up by the Nazis, was taken over by a resistance group ?
text: Did you know that in 1909 Mamie Garvin Fields became one of the first African-American public school teachers in Charleston County, South Carolina ?
text: Did you know that the ending of Avengers: Infinity War inspired the largest user ban in Reddit 's history?
text: Did you know that Dorothée Munyaneza , who moved to London as a girl because of the Rwandan genocide , has choreographed two works about her experiences?
text: Did you know that the worms Dipolydora commensalis and Neanthes fucata have a commensal relationship with their hermit crab hosts and are not attacked by them?
text: Did you know that Mary Jane Odell was inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame in 1979, the year before her appointment as Secretary of State of Iowa ?
text: Did you know that prior to a Red Cross inspection of Theresienstadt ghetto , a "beautification" program there included the transfer of 7,500 prisoners to Auschwitz ?
text: Did you know that after initially committing to Stanford , David Long agreed to play for Michigan Wolverines football after Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh climbed a tree on a recruiting visit?
text: Did you know that the cantata Kündlich groß ist das gottselige Geheimnis was written by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel for the Third Day of Christmas at the court of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen ?
text: Did you know that a woman once threw a dead cat at James Comyn while he was cross-examining her in court?
text: Did you know that the saliva of the common clubhook squid contains a toxin which helps subdue its prey?
text: Did you know that baseball player Kyle Regnault signed with the New York Mets after meeting one of their coaches on a golf course?
text: Did you know that an angry artist walked into the SoHo Weekly News offices and chopped off two of his fingers as a "protest"?
text: Did you know that Z was ordered as France's first diesel-powered submarine, but lost this distinction because Aigrette was launched before her?
text: Did you know that " Sozusagen grundlos vergnügt " ("Call it causelessly merry") was one of about 40 poems by Mascha Kaléko set to music on a 2011 album?
text: Did you know that Clare Faulds , the first woman admitted to the Manx bar , later served as the Vicar General of Sodor and Man ?
text: Did you know that Lord Byron was called a "melancholy rat" for writing the Hebrew Melodies ?
text: Did you know that the John Steele House has an unusual floor plan, but does not show it?
text: Did you know that Lisa Buckwitz and Mariama Jamanka , who were nicknamed the "Berlin Bob", won the two-woman bobsleigh event at the 2018 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that " Cozy Little Christmas " is Katy Perry 's second Christmas song after " Every Day Is a Holiday "?
text: Did you know that Hanifan Yudani Kusumah 's hug of Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto during the 2018 Asian Games was seen as a gesture of national unity?
text: Did you know that the Penney-Missouri Awards for women's page journalism were described as the " Pulitzer Prize of feature writing"?
text: Did you know that the ground plum was used as medicine for horses by the Lakota people ?
text: Did you know that the " Shepherd's Pipe Carol " was reportedly sung by choirs in the Baltic states as a sign of resistance to Soviet control?
text: Did you know that historian and educator Tomas Fonacier had the longest public service record in the Philippines , spanning more than six decades?
text: Did you know that the choir sings Jauchzet, frohlocket! (Shout for joy, exult!), the beginning of Part I of Bach's Christmas Oratorio , first imitating kettledrums due to its secular model ?
text: Did you know that the footballer Owen McNally scored eight goals in a single match, which remains a joint record for the Scottish Football League ?
text: Did you know that the submarine HMS P48 is thought to have been sunk by an Italian torpedo boat on Christmas Day 1942?
text: Did you know that the cucumber orchid and straggly pencil orchid can hybridize when they grow together?
text: Did you know that a bracelet lost by Josephine Heffernan during the First World War was found in 2002, and returned to her family in 2017?
text: Did you know that the Christmas carol " Green Groweth the Holly " was composed and written by King Henry VIII ?
text: Did you know that while serving in the British Army in 19th-century Afghanistan, Milo Talbot carried out a survey of the Buddhas of Bamiyan ?
text: Did you know that the German Christmas hymn " Fröhlich soll mein Herze springen " (Merrily my heart shall leap) by Paul Gerhardt was published by Johann Crüger , who also wrote the melody?
text: Did you know that baseball pitcher Henry Mathewson and his brothers, among them Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson , were said to have been taught to throw by their mother?
text: Did you know that the larva of Mantispa styriaca spins a cocoon inside a spider's egg sac ?
text: Did you know that Rosalie Housman composed Pieces of Jade for violin, viola, flute, gong, harp, and soprano?
text: Did you know that the study of intergroup relations has led to the development of psychological interventions to reduce group conflict and prejudice ?
text: Did you know that Venezuelan director Román Chalbaud became interested in camera angles after playing an angel in a Nativity play and seeing the stage and the audience from on high?
text: Did you know that Ant-Man and the Wasp was the first Marvel Cinematic Universe film to feature a female character in its title?
text: Did you know that in the 1860s, Charles Hunter added a needle to the design of the syringe and coined the name " hypodermic "?
text: Did you know that with more than 120 kilometres (75 mi) of passages, Bullita Cave is one of the longest known caves in Australia?
text: Did you know that Stephen L. Dubuisson served in the French Army before becoming the President of Georgetown College in 1825?
text: Did you know that the editors of the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos found that the Nazis and their allies had imprisoned and murdered people at 42,500 locations, far more than previously thought?
text: Did you know that Clémentine Touré coached the Ivory Coast women's national football team in their first matches outside Africa at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup ?
text: Did you know that the leopard eel is neither a leopard nor an eel ?
text: Did you know that the St. Bonifatius church in Kassel , completed in 1957 on a design by Josef Bieling , has been regarded as one of the city's most striking buildings from the postwar period ?
text: Did you know that Russian scientist Natan Yavlinsky was credited as the inventor and developer of the world's first working tokamak ?
text: Did you know that "Lift up your heads, O ye gates" from David 's Psalm 24 has been paraphrased in Advent songs such as " Macht hoch die Tür ", and was set in Handel's Messiah to represent the Ascension ?
text: Did you know that Broadway producer Jerry Frankel sometimes named racehorses after his shows, their songs and actors?
text: Did you know that the male spotted predatory katydid uses acoustic mimicry to attract male cicadas on which to feed?
text: Did you know that Heather Spears practiced drawing premature and critically-ill infants at night in a neonatal intensive care unit ?
text: Did you know that around 1920, a Yorkshire miner grafted three beech trees together to form a letter "N" to impress his girlfriend Nellie?
text: Did you know that Ottoman parliament member Shukri al-Asali galvanized Syrian-Arab opposition to the empire’s Turkish-centric policies and was in 1916 executed by the government?
text: Did you know that one-game playoffs for the National League West and National League Central in 2018 marked the first time that Major League Baseball had two tie-breaker games in the same season?
text: Did you know that computational biologist Bette Korber describes her development of a mosaic antigen vaccine against HIV as creating "little Frankenstein proteins"?
text: Did you know that the films Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America , Spectres of the Spectrum , and Mock Up on Mu were created using found footage from the collection of Craig Baldwin ?
text: Did you know that Joe Nguyen and My-Linh Thai were the first two Vietnamese American legislators to be elected to the Washington State Legislature ?
text: Did you know that German police have been investigating reports of their country's soldiers plotting the assassination of several left-leaning politicians?
text: Did you know that astronaut Buzz Aldrin created a rap single with Snoop Dogg to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing ?
text: Did you know that stromatolites , which constitute the main evidence of life from 3.5 to 1.5 billion years ago, still grow in Laguna Socompa ?
text: Did you know that Herbert Vivian , a leader of the Neo-Jacobite Revival and later a fascist , was the first journalist to interview Winston Churchill ?
text: Did you know that The Baker Street Journal has been called "the leading publication" in the study of Sherlock Holmes?
text: Did you know that Binokel , from which the American card game of Pinochle was developed in the 19th century, is still popular in its native Württemberg ?
text: Did you know that Rolling Stone called Meghan Trainor 2014's "Most Unlikely Pop Star"?
text: Did you know that the French submarine Laplace , built during World War I , was named after astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace ?
text: Did you know that Joseph Jagger broke the bank at Monte Carlo ?
text: Did you know that the lyrics of the 2018 Basshunter song " Masterpiece " quote lines from the 2009 video game League of Legends ?
text: Did you know that two portraits of 17th-century midwife Jacquemijntje Garniers by her son, the Dutch painter Gabriël Metsu , sold in London and Paris more than 200 years later?
text: Did you know that the victim of the first house fire in America for which an account was published can be found at the Point of Graves in Portsmouth, New Hampshire ?
text: Did you know that former footballer Charlie McGeever is principal of a Gaelcholáiste ?
text: Did you know that the 1959 West German film Roses for the Prosecutor was one of the rare post-war German films that openly discussed the Nazi justice system ?
text: Did you know that the MLS Cup 2009 was the first major sports championship won by a team from Utah in nearly 40 years?
text: Did you know that while regent of Kebumen , Indonesia, Rustriningsih would answer phone calls from her constituents during a TV programme?
text: Did you know that Eliza Hamilton Dunlop was the first Australian poet to try to transliterate Aboriginal songs?
text: Did you know that New York City's Edgemere Landfill was declared a Superfund environmental cleanup site after nearly 3,000 toxic waste drums were discovered during a routine excavation?
text: Did you know that in 1983, Bruno Reichart performed Germany's first combined heart–lung transplant ?
text: Did you know that literary critic Ron Charles said that the "beauty of Daniel Mason 's new novel, The Winter Soldier , persists even through scenes of unspeakable agony"?
text: Did you know that the music of Japanese dōjin artist Akari Nanawo has been viewed more than 9 million times on the video sharing site Niconico ?
text: Did you know that the springtail Allacma fusca can tolerate a 10% level of carbon dioxide for a few hours while Folsomia candida , which lives deeper in the soil, can survive under the same conditions more than six weeks?
text: Did you know that William Montgomerie wished that the men who destroyed the Singapore Stone had been more superstitious?
text: Did you know that Jean-Claude Zehnder , for decades the head of the department for organ at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis , has edited organ works by Bach for a recent new edition?
text: Did you know that Sitaris muralis , a species of blister beetle , is a kleptoparasite of digger bees?
text: Did you know that Basil Cardew , whose father was killed in a road accident, became one of the pre-eminent motoring journalists in Britain?
text: Did you know that a documentary which follows Geert Wilders 's campaign for Prime Minister of the Netherlands in 2017 compares him to Donald Trump ?
text: Did you know that in 1959, Lois Graham became the first woman in the United States to earn a PhD in mechanical engineering ?
text: Did you know that along with murdering or deporting thousands of Jews and Romani people, Einsatzgruppe H targeted German soldiers suspected of defeatism or homosexuality?
text: Did you know that when the Pokémon Meltan was first revealed in Pokémon Go , many players thought it was a placeholder revealed by a glitch?
text: Did you know that Poèmes pour Mi is a song cycle by Olivier Messiaen , who set his own poems for a grand soprano dramatique and orchestra, and dedicated it to his wife ?
text: Did you know that Daniel Goldhagen threatened to sue Ruth Bettina Birn for libel for her critique of his work Hitler's Willing Executioners ?
text: Did you know that the white-crested turaco has a wider range than Bannerman's turaco , perhaps because it was able to adapt to new habitats when climate change reduced forest cover?
text: Did you know that viceroy-general Sam Lek of Hanthawaddy retook Donwun with just 300 troops by employing the same ruse used by rebel forces to seize the town a year earlier?
text: Did you know that in the early history of the Earth's crust , the dichotomy between oceanic crust and elevated continental crust may have been caused by a massive meteorite bombardment ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Representative -Elect Joe Cunningham is an Eagle Scout ?
text: Did you know that after the French-built Japanese submarine No. 14 was requisitioned by France and commissioned into its navy as Armide , the Japanese built their own No. 14 to the same design?
text: Did you know that the Pasadena orogeny was responsible for uplifting many mountain ranges in Southern California and might be still underway?
text: Did you know that Rabbi Michael Robinson and 15 other Reform rabbis were arrested and jailed after answering Martin Luther King's call to stand with him for civil rights in St. Augustine, Florida ?
text: Did you know that the specific name of Hydrolagus homonycteris refers to a professor at Illinois Wesleyan University known as "bat man" by his students?
text: Did you know that at age 62, Alice Harrell Strickland was elected the first woman mayor in the U.S. state of Georgia on a platform to rid her town of "demon rum"?
text: Did you know that as an ally of the Mamluk Sultanate , the Kingdom of al-Abwab provided an Assassin to watch over the Mamluk puppet king in Dongola ?
text: Did you know that Karabo Mathang-Tshabuse is South Africa's first female FIFA -accredited soccer agent ?
text: Did you know that in 2015, the Edinburgh City Council sold Bridgend Farmhouse and its land for £1 despite receiving another offer of £215,000?
text: Did you know that habitat loss, a low reproductive rate, and a very small range make Rhacodactylus trachycephalus one of the rarest gecko species in the world?
text: Did you know that Yohana Yembise is the first female minister in the Government of Indonesia to come from Papua ?
text: Did you know that billionaire businessman Mark Cuban funded the operations of the investigative reporting site Sharesleuth by short-selling the companies the site reported on?
text: Did you know that the first of a planned three-volume series by A. Wilson Greene on the Siege of Petersburg was recently published?
text: Did you know that the Soviet Union seized the Romanian destroyer Regina Maria and commissioned it into their navy despite Romania having switched sides to join the Allies?
text: Did you know that artist Go Mishima selected his pen name as a tribute to his friend, the writer Yukio Mishima ?
text: Did you know that data from Media Bias/Fact Check was used to train an artificial intelligence machine learning algorithm to identify fake news ?
text: Did you know that in 1901, Charlotte Reeve Conover led the Young Women's League in taking over publication for a day of the Dayton Daily News ?
text: Did you know that optically stimulated luminescence thermochronometry determines when rocks cooled, by measuring light released from energy stored in minerals?
text: Did you know that anime musician Yuiko Ōhara was selected as a brand ambassador of Japan's Baseball Challenge League ?
text: Did you know that the United States Army's new "Army greens" uniform was influenced by the "pinks and greens" uniform of the 1920s?
text: Did you know that Adruti Laxmibai introduced free education for girls in the Indian state of Odisha ?
text: Did you know that sales of the video game Night Trap were initially boosted following the 1993 US congressional hearings on video game content ratings because it was one of the games under discussion?
text: Did you know that supporters of armed group leader Din Minimi portrayed him as an Acehnese Robin Hood?
text: Did you know that in the five years since the disappearance of Heather Elvis , there have been several trials related to the case but her whereabouts are still unknown?
text: Did you know that AJ Gil , who placed eighth on season 1 of American Idol , sang the national anthem at the first concert ever held at Seattle's Seahawks Stadium ?
text: Did you know that a star system located around 8,000 light years from Earth may produce a gamma-ray burst ?
text: Did you know that in 1985, Jack G. Copeland successfully implanted the Jarvik 7 artificial heart as a bridge to transplantation?
text: Did you know that in German war crimes trials after World War II , Befehlsnotstand , the necessity to obey orders, was successfully used as a defence, but was rarely justified?
text: Did you know that the frigate HMS Latona rescued the ship-of-the-line HMS Bellerophon on the Glorious First of June ?
text: Did you know that the entirety of the film LOL was improvised?
text: Did you know that the first own goal and penalty kick in MLS Cup history were caused by the same player at MLS Cup 2003 ?
text: Did you know that Wang Guangying , the brother-in-law of Chinese President Liu Shaoqi , was likely the first person to be publicly referred to as a "red capitalist"?
text: Did you know that in 2011, the serra antwren was found 200 km (124 mi) further north than its previously known range, when it responded to recordings of its song?
text: Did you know that singer-songwriter Sharon Dyall translated the song lyrics from the Disney film Frozen into Swedish?
text: Did you know that the far-right newspaper National Zeitung received funding from the West German government?
text: Did you know that the gay manga artist Jiraiya has been called "kind of a Tom of Finland for the Asian market"?
text: Did you know that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos aims to land rockets on a moving ship ?
text: Did you know that Canadian radio and sports personality Jack Devine ended his broadcasts on CJBQ by saying: "To play a sport, you must be one"?
text: Did you know that an airplane carrying an emergency shipment of blood plasma for victims of the Lackawanna Limited wreck landed on a runway illuminated by automobile headlights?
text: Did you know that Brazilian musicologist Helza Cameu was the first to write about many types of indigenous instruments in Portuguese?
text: Did you know that Slovak paramilitary groups that collaborated with Nazi Germany participated in the two largest massacres in Slovakia during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Aurelia Henry Reinhardt was the longest serving president in the history of Mills College ?
text: Did you know that a 2017 ruling of the Supreme Court of India about the governance of Delhi stated: "There is no room for absolutism and there is no room for anarchism also"?
text: Did you know that in 1961, the surgeon Charles Rob successfully used his shirt to repair an aortic aneurysm ?
text: Did you know that Max Rose , the U.S. Representative-elect for Staten Island and south Brooklyn , is the recipient of a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart ?
text: Did you know that Lorik Cana is the most capped Albanian footballer of all time?
text: Did you know that in 1887, Temulji Bhicaji Nariman co-founded one of the first maternity hospitals in Bombay ?
text: Did you know that at the Battle of Damme , a smaller English fleet captured 300 French ships and burned another 100?
text: Did you know that in the late 19th century, Australian author Louis Becke 's infant daughter went on a trip to Tamakautoga without him?
text: Did you know that Tom Adeyemi turned down a place at Cambridge University in order to become a professional footballer ?
text: Did you know that Escher sentences such as "More people have been to Russia than I have" may initially be perceived as meaningful despite being ungrammatical nonsense?
text: Did you know that gymnast Pierre Payssé , who won two gold medals at the 1906 Intercalated Games , later helped organise women's football matches?
text: Did you know that the Kenya Coast Guard Service commissioned its first vessel last month?
text: Did you know that Roz Young 's column appeared opposite the editorial page in the Dayton Daily News at a time when most women writers were relegated to the women's pages ?
text: Did you know that the existence of the Industrial Relations Court of Australia was so brief that Chief Justice Robert French characterized it as "[t]he tide went in, the tide went out"?
text: Did you know that with an average age of 14.4 years, Sexy Zone became the youngest music act to top the weekly Oricon Singles Chart with its eponymously named debut single ?
text: Did you know that the eleven-armed starfish Coscinasterias muricata can reproduce by binary fission , splitting apart to make two new individuals?
text: Did you know that Eratosthenes , the head librarian of the Library of Alexandria , calculated the circumference of the earth with remarkable accuracy in the third century BC?
text: Did you know that when the student Li Xifan published articles criticizing the scholar Yu Pingbo , Mao Zedong praised the "nobody" Li and launched an attack on the "bigwig" Yu?
text: Did you know that " House of the King " by Focus has been a theme tune on British television twice?
text: Did you know that chef Moshe Basson forages for wild plants and herbs in the Jerusalem hills to use in his traditional regional cuisine at The Eucalyptus restaurant?
text: Did you know that Ameenpur Lake is both the first water body and the first urban environment in India to be declared a Biodiversity Heritage Site?
text: Did you know that Latvian artist Rūdolfs Pērle was sent to the Caucasus front in World War I as an expert on observation balloons ?
text: Did you know that an Armenian church in Istanbul was demolished in 1958 and rebuilt years later half as wide, to make room for the street?
text: Did you know that Journal Herald columnist Marj Heyduck was photographed in a different hat for each of her daily columns, totaling more than 2,500 different hats?
text: Did you know that a record-breaking solar storm of August 1972 is thought to have caused the spontaneous detonation of numerous U.S. Navy sea mines in North Vietnam?
text: Did you know that Brenda Jones is serving in the Detroit City Council and US House of Representatives concurrently?
text: Did you know that King's Cross St Pancras is the busiest station on the London Underground ?
text: Did you know that journalist Russ Conway became a hero to retired National Hockey League players for investigating pension fraud?
text: Did you know that the police force of a town in Jalisco , Mexico, was disarmed in 2015 after their own officers ambushed the national police ?
text: Did you know that having fought in three wars and numerous battles, Yao Baoqian said the most tragic experience of his life was the Great Tangshan earthquake ?
text: Did you know that in the film Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha , 75-year-old Melvin Van Peebles plays himself, while his mother is 40 years younger than him, and his lover is young enough to be his granddaughter?
text: Did you know that President Donald Trump 's comment that "it's a very scary time for young men in America" inspired a viral protest song ?
text: Did you know that in 2019, the Super League XXIV will be adopting the golden point rule during the regular season?
text: Did you know that " Dr. Birdbath ", a voice actor known for mimicking the sounds of birds and other animals, was the voice of Cheetah in the Tarzan movies?
text: Did you know that in 2018, the pay television service on channel 51 of MVS TV in Mexico City had only three subscribers?
text: Did you know that the death of Venezuelan politician Fernando Albán Salazar led to protests in Caracas , and calls for investigations by the European Union and the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner ?
text: Did you know that since the Konin Lakes became hotter, non-native species which have become established there include one species of flatworm , three of bryozoa , three of crustacean , seven of mollusca , and at least six species of fish?
text: Did you know that Paul Tuttle is known for designing the "Z" chair, also known as the "Rocket Launcher"?
text: Did you know that Tadashi Suzuki , librettist for the opera Vision of Lear , also served as stage director and costume and lighting designer for its premiere at the 1998 Munich Biennale ?
text: Did you know that Qerim Sadiku , an Albanian Catholic blessed , said "Long live Christ our King. Long live Albania!" just before his execution?
text: Did you know that the Estadio Jesús Martínez "Palillo" in Mexico City has housed Olympic field hockey , professional American football , and Central American migrants ?
text: Did you know that before becoming a writer for Saturday Night Live , actress Alison Gates said "my dream job would be writing instead of performing"?
text: Did you know that the underwater Ujlān volcanic complex in the Marshall Islands is a potential site for cobalt mining?
text: Did you know that Erin Zwiener ran for the Texas House of Representatives after her incumbent representative blocked her on Facebook?
text: Did you know that a member of a Waffen -SS lobby group contributed to Germany's official history of World War II ?
text: Did you know that Wolfgang Rennert conducted the world premieres of Louise Talma 's Die Alkestiade at the Frankfurt Opera and Rainer Kunad 's Sabellicus at the Staatsoper Berlin ?
text: Did you know that in 2016, a researcher used the Statcheck software package to scan more than 50,000 peer-reviewed psychology articles for statistical errors, and then posted the results on PubPeer ?
text: Did you know that Cardiff City lost £200 from a deal signed with Joe Hillier 's transfer to Middlesbrough in 1930 after the club's manager wrote down the wrong sum?
text: Did you know that after the 1980 coup d'état that overthrew and killed Liberian President William Tolbert , the People's Redemption Council took power pending a rewrite of the country's constitution?
text: Did you know that Kate McComb did not decide to become a professional stage actress until she was 52 years old?
text: Did you know that the former Shanghai Jewish Hospital is now a hospital for eye, ear, nose, and throat?
text: Did you know that the Royal Air Force thought that Green Garlic was very good indeed?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian video game Rage in Peace was loosely inspired by the works of Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho ?
text: Did you know that as a child, Japanese voice actress Nichika Ōmori wanted to become a magical girl after gaining an interest in the anime series Sailor Moon ?
text: Did you know that a research group led by Amnon Marinov claimed in 2008 that the hypothetical element unbibium could be found occurring naturally in thorium deposits?
text: Did you know that Susanna Dinnage is expected to become the first female chief executive of the English Premier League early next year?
text: Did you know that Meghan Trainor 's 2019 album Treat Myself has been characterized as "filled with self-love anthems"?
text: Did you know that the world's oldest known printed texts are 8th-century Buddhist charms called dharani preserved in Korean and Japanese temples?
text: Did you know that David Hughson perambulated around London in the early 1800s?
text: Did you know that Native American poet Jennifer Foerster co-directs a program fostering arts education for women and girls of the Muscogee Nation ?
text: Did you know that the French submarine Regnault , built to fight in the First World War, was named after a 19th-century chemist ?
text: Did you know that Derrick Barnes , author of the award-winning children's book Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut , began his career as the first black male copywriter for Hallmark ?
text: Did you know that thousands of bats are protected by monks at the Bat Pagoda in Sóc Trăng City , Vietnam?
text: Did you know that the footballer Wayne Matthews started his own manufacturing business by embroidering sportswear in his bedroom?
text: Did you know that a geologic fault was discovered in the Yakima, Washington , area during construction of Interstate 82 ?
text: Did you know that after a force of Anglo-Gascon cavalry defeated a French force, they had to walk home because the surviving French had captured their horses?
text: Did you know that U.S. Representative-elect Dan Crenshaw lost an eye to an improvised explosive device while serving with SEAL Team Three in Afghanistan?
text: Did you know that visual novel localization company Sol Press was formed because the founder was unhappy with the slow translation processes of other publishers?
text: Did you know that until at least 2009, Chen Chuangtian 's laboratory was the only one in the world that could make the nonlinear optical crystal KBBF?
text: Did you know that lymphocytic esophagitis is a rare and poorly understood medical condition that can lead to food getting stuck in the esophagus ?
text: Did you know that in the only season W. Webber Kelly served as president of the Green Bay Packers , the team went undefeated and won their first NFL Championship ?
text: Did you know that structures which helped create oxygen in the atmosphere today persist in a group of salty turquoise lakes ?
text: Did you know that Marion Leane Smith is the only Aboriginal Australian woman known to have served in the First World War?
text: Did you know that the perpetrators of the 2016 Maryland shooting spree and the 2002 D.C. sniper attacks ate at the same Boston Market restaurant?
text: Did you know that footballer Sammy Ameobi scored the fastest goal by a substitute in Premier League history?
text: Did you know that although the lyrics of Bob Seger 's song " Her Strut " were criticized for being misogynistic, they were inspired by Seger's admiration for Jane Fonda ?
text: Did you know that before Melvin Cohn became a co-founder of the Salk Institute , he studied the after-effects of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima ?
text: Did you know that MLS Cup 2002 was the first of five MLS Cups lost by the New England Revolution and the first of five won by the LA Galaxy ?
text: Did you know that Debbie Mucarsel-Powell is set to become the first Ecuadorian -born member of the United States Congress ?
text: Did you know that Prunus kansuensis , the Gansu peach, has pits that are not pitted?
text: Did you know that after he was diagnosed with a heart condition, rodeo cowboy Louis Brooks agreed to retire if he won a second All-Around Cowboy title?
text: Did you know that the construction of the Ceintures de Lyon was motivated by fear of an Austrian invasion?
text: Did you know that in 2018, Sara Cox became the first woman to referee a Premiership Rugby match?
text: Did you know that Young Voters for the President helped Richard Nixon capture 52 percent of the "under 30" vote during the 1972 United States presidential election ?
text: Did you know that Karel Sperber escaped to England after the German invasion of Czechoslovakia , but was sent to Auschwitz after the ship on which he served as a doctor was sunk by the Germans?
text: Did you know that the British construction industry was told to modernise or die by a 2016 government report?
text: Did you know that Cecil Cowles made her debut as a pianist when she was eight years old?
text: Did you know that Panzer Aces , a book series about World War II widely read in the US, was described as portraying "an almost heroic version of the German soldier, guiltless of any war crimes"?
text: Did you know that the live concerts of the rock band Sumika feature performances by non-musicians such as painters, sculptors, architects, potters, and poets?
text: Did you know that Ahmadou Ahidjo was the first president of Cameroon following its independence?
text: Did you know that Edgecliff , an Illinois estate completed in 1930, had the highest residential property tax in Cook County in 2014 and 2015?
text: Did you know that Yang Kuo-shu , who earned the first PhD in psychology in Taiwan, founded indigenous Chinese psychology and studied such phenomena as yuanfen , guanxi , and face ?
text: Did you know that Adrien Agreste 's superhero identity, Cat Noir, is a tribute to the comic book character Catwoman ?
text: Did you know that in 1794, a silver statue of the Virgin Mary from the chapel at Notre-Dame de la Garde was melted down at the mint of Marseille located on Rue du Tapis-Vert ?
text: Did you know that though Landsat 4 suffered a second failure in 1993 that stopped it from transmitting most scientific data, it continued broadcasting telemetry, tracking, and command data until 2001?
text: Did you know that the footballer Ted Gorin scored Scunthorpe United 's first goal in the Football League ?
text: Did you know that the worm Polydora glycymerica bores into the shell of bivalve molluscs, mainly Glycymeris yessoensis , and lives inside it?
text: Did you know that Angela Brower performed her signature role as Octavian at the Colombian premiere of Richard Strauss 's Der Rosenkavalier ?
text: Did you know that the French submarine X was the first to use twin shafts ?
text: Did you know that Chinese film director Lü Ban was banned from film-making for life for his satirical comedies, the last of which , also banned, discussed the topic of film censorship ?
text: Did you know that the Provisional Army of the United States had only seven officers?
text: Did you know that Chinese violinist Sheng Zhongguo was named by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as one of the world's greatest artists?
text: Did you know that Tell al-Hara is the highest point in Syria's southern Daraa Governorate ?
text: Did you know that the 17th-century traveller Peter Mundy described Mirza Zulqarnain as the "chiefest" Christian of the Mughal Empire ?
text: Did you know that two Nazi propaganda films were made in Theresienstadt concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that Gern Nagler and Billy Howton successfully used a draft antitrust lawsuit to convince NFL Commissioner Bert Bell to create the league's player pension?
text: Did you know that Aigrette , the first diesel-engine submarine to be launched, had a hydrogen leak and explosion in its battery?
text: Did you know that US Representative-elect Sharice Davids is a former mixed martial arts fighter?
text: Did you know that larvae of the beetle Meloe franciscanus trick male bees into landing near them by mimicking the pheromones released by a female bee?
text: Did you know that Indonesian transport minister Budi Karya Sumadi plays the acoustic guitar and sings in a band with other government ministers?
text: Did you know that the removal of an antisemitic and antiziganistic statement delayed the release of a Slovak documentary about a post-Holocaust pogrom ?
text: Did you know that Ray Evrard , a three-term district attorney of Brown County, Wisconsin , served as the second president of the Green Bay Packers during the 1928 NFL season ?
text: Did you know that the oboe quartet Phantasy , composed by Benjamin Britten as a student, was the work that won him international recognition?
text: Did you know that Lee Brian Schrager , known for his work with the South Beach Wine and Food Festival, opened a gay bar called Torpedo in 1987?
text: Did you know that India's Train 18 was designed in 18 months and was completed in 2018?
text: Did you know that U.S. Representative-elect Antonio Delgado once released a rap album?
text: Did you know that the sea anemone Mesacmaea mitchellii uses the base of its column to burrow into the sediment?
text: Did you know that 16-year-old artistic gymnast Ana Padurariu won silver on beam at her first senior world championships , becoming the second-ever Canadian world medalist on the apparatus?
text: Did you know that the perpetrator of the 2018 Tallahassee shooting identified with the involuntary celibate community and denounced interracial dating ?
text: Did you know that Prince Nyi Kan-Kaung helped his half-brother Binnya Nwe seize the throne of Hanthawaddy Pegu , only to be executed by him four years later?
text: Did you know that "temporary" bridges have provided a road crossing of the River Trent at Walton-on-Trent , England, for more than 70 years?
text: Did you know that Buzz Aldrin 's father, Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr. , married Marion G. Moon?
text: Did you know that Andy Levin will succeed his father in the U.S. House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that in only its second season, Atlanta United FC has reached the MLS Cup , which will be played tonight?
text: Did you know that Zhang Yonglian , who spent 20 years doing classified research for the Chinese government, founded a laboratory to study sperm ?
text: Did you know that the First World War Clairmarais aerodrome in France was utilised by the Luftwaffe from 1940 but proved to be unusable in wet weather?
text: Did you know that Jack Brooksbank , husband of Princess Eugenie of York , was not given a peerage following his marriage, as there is no general precedent in Britain for a commoner to be given one on marrying a princess?
text: Did you know that Comic Arts Brooklyn was inaugurated in 2013, following the cancellation of the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival?
text: Did you know that Angus Barbieri fasted for more than a year, losing 276 pounds (125 kg) and setting a world record?
text: Did you know that the wildlife of Iceland includes around 550 species of lichen but no reptiles or amphibians?
text: Did you know that in 1342, John FitzWalter accused men from Colchester of invading and damaging his park at Lexden , and soon after besieged Colchester for more than two months?
text: Did you know that Fatih , originally named Deepsea Metro II , is Turkey's first drillship ?
text: Did you know that palaeontologist Varavudh Suteethorn has helped name and describe more than 25 fossil species from Thailand, including dinosaurs, fish, mammals, turtles, and crocodylomorphs ?
text: Did you know that the 2018 Zürich ePrix was the first circuit car race held in Switzerland since the 1954 Swiss Grand Prix at Bremgarten ?
text: Did you know that Wallachian statesman Stroe Leurdeanu was sentenced to live as a monk for conspiring against a rival family ?
text: Did you know that the genome of the flatworm Otomesostoma auditivum is nearly six times larger than the human genome ?
text: Did you know that Russian anti-syphilis campaigner Volf Bronner was arrested during Stalin's Great Purge and later executed?
text: Did you know that Chevy Commons in Flint, Michigan , is a former Chevrolet factory being redeveloped into a park with restored grasslands, wetlands, and woodlands?
text: Did you know that in 1919, missionary Henry Harness Fout reported his conclusion that a third of the Armenian population of Turkey had been exterminated in the Armenian Genocide ?
text: Did you know that Lord Keith followed orders not to approve the Convention of El Arish , which would have ended the French campaign in Egypt and Syria , despite personally agreeing with it?
text: Did you know that Vorombe titan , an extinct elephant bird from Madagascar, shared its habitat with dwarf hippos , giant lemurs , and giant tortoises ?
text: Did you know that Oswald Boelcke has been described as the father of air combat tactics, the organization of squadrons, and the German Air Force?
text: Did you know that Hillary Clinton is not with I'm with Her ?
text: Did you know that Toshio Hosokawa composed several operas based on Japanese Noh theatre, including Vision of Lear after Shakespeare?
text: Did you know that mathematicians disagree about whether a proof in Georg Cantor 's first set theory article actually shows how to construct a transcendental number , or merely proves that such numbers exist?
text: Did you know that Karel František Koch was blamed by some Jews for the death of the chief rabbi of Slovakia , despite his having rescued Jews during the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that seven of eight major bridges on Washington State Route 504 were destroyed by a lahar during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens ?
text: Did you know that Wang Enduo survived breast cancer to become an academician of both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and The World Academy of Sciences ?
text: Did you know that 79 years after Herbert Maryon and Joseph Alderson discovered one of Britain's earliest known metal objects in the Kirkhaugh cairns , a group including Alderson's great-grandsons discovered another?
text: Did you know that Tracy LaQuey Parker received more than 5,000 emails over two days in 1997 because of spoofing ?
text: Did you know that Dorothy Vredenburgh Bush was the first woman to call roll for the Democratic National Convention , doing so for 12 straight conventions?
text: Did you know that 75 years ago today, the first Holocaust train from Milan left Platform 21 of the Milano Centrale railway station for Auschwitz carrying 169 Jews, of whom only 5 survived the Holocaust?
text: Did you know that a book chapter by Clara Lanza about the women clerks of New York was published as a souvenir of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair ?
text: Did you know that most Buddhist discourses start with the words Thus have I heard , which are traditionally attributed to the attendant of the Buddha ?
text: Did you know that Bryn Davies was one of the first footballers to enlist during World War II ?
text: Did you know that one of the producers of the television series Disappearing World acknowledged that the episodes "more often reflect a changing world than a disappearing one"?
text: Did you know that Siti Qomariyah was Amat Antono 's deputy, successor, and predecessor as regent of Pekalongan , Indonesia?
text: Did you know that the Gascon campaign of 1345 was the first successful land campaign of the Hundred Years' War , eight years after it started?
text: Did you know that Filipino footballer Neil Etheridge is the first Southeast Asian to play in the Premier League ?
text: Did you know that during the karuka harvest, entire households move upland and start speaking a pandanus language ?
text: Did you know that the mezzo-soprano Sophie Koch became known internationally when she appeared as Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden?
text: Did you know that the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, merged with another congregation that was renting space in its synagogue building?
text: Did you know that Lady Juliana was the physician in charge of King Akbar 's royal harem?
text: Did you know that the French submarine Perle was sunk by Allied aircraft after being mistaken for a Nazi U-boat ?
text: Did you know that ALQST is a Saudi Arabian human rights organisation created by a former Royal Saudi Air Force officer?
text: Did you know that John Hanger , the governor of the Bank of England, was a character in W. Harrison Ainsworth 's novel about the South Sea Bubble ?
text: Did you know that the interactive game Your Call Football allows participants to call plays in real time for live exhibition American football games, featuring some former NFL and CFL players?
text: Did you know that based on her discoveries, Chen Saijuan developed treatment for acute promyelocytic leukemia , turning it into a highly curable disease?
text: Did you know that the publisher of the first picture book with lesbian characters wanted to change the names of Megan and Shannon, lest readers believe that "only women with Irish heritage were lesbians"?
text: Did you know that Benal Nevzat İstar Arıman was elected in 1935 into the Grand National Assembly of Turkey as one of its first women members?
text: Did you know that the hollow Pwllpriddog Oak is said to have been used as the hiding place of a king, a meeting spot for lovers, a pig sty, a duck roost, and a music venue?
text: Did you know that this month, the armour and explosives researcher Penelope Endersby became the first female chief executive of the Met Office ?
text: Did you know that South Africa is considering restricting expression when it is directed in a hateful way?
text: Did you know that Les Joslin wrote a book detailing the history and architecture of 75 United States Forest Service ranger stations in 12 western states?
text: Did you know that the LeCompte maneuver helps surgeons switch a baby's aorta and pulmonary artery ?
text: Did you know that Armin Frieder , the leading Neolog rabbi in Slovakia, was arrested for his participation in an illegal smuggling ring ?
text: Did you know that the brownfish is harvested commercially over most of its range despite being described by the IUCN as a vulnerable species ?
text: Did you know that Hal Trumble was both an Olympic ice hockey referee and an international baseball umpire ?
text: Did you know that Anton Schmid was one of only three German soldiers executed for rescuing Jews during the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that Carly Rae Jepsen teased " Party for One " by posting a picture of herself?
text: Did you know that the English poet Robyn Bolam published her first poem at the age of 15 in an anthology titled Next Wave Poets 1 ?
text: Did you know that members of the Brisingidae family hold up their arms while members of Freyellidae do not?
text: Did you know that in 2008, a team led by French astrophysicist Anne-Marie Lagrange directly imaged Beta Pictoris b , an exoplanet , confirming predictions of a massive planet existing around the star Beta Pictoris ?
text: Did you know that blankets are used to teach the history of indigenous peoples in Canada ?
text: Did you know that Alice and Alastair MacLennan , both experts in reproductive health, were caught by surprise and had to deliver their own baby at home?
text: Did you know that French explorer Théodore Monod discovered more than 2,000 brass ingots from the 11th or 12th centuries at the Ma'adin Ijafen archaeological site in Mauritania ?
text: Did you know that American businesswoman and suffragist Anna Shelton was driven to eschew traditional women's roles because of a bigamy scandal involving her sister's husband, a Fort Worth mayor?
text: Did you know that instead of meeting the blockade runner MV Alsterufer at a fixed rendezvous point in the Atlantic Ocean, the German torpedo boat T23 encountered two British cruisers ?
text: Did you know that palaeontologist Lü Junchang identified the pterosaur genus Darwinopterus , and "Mrs. T", a pregnant female discovered with her egg?
text: Did you know that in 1346, a French army more than 15,000 strong besieged Aiguillon for five months, but failed to cut its supply lines?
text: Did you know that Andreas Bauer has appeared in bass roles such as Mozart's Sarastro , Verdi's Philip II of Spain , and Wagner's Marke , but also as Bluebeard and Ibn-Hakia ?
text: Did you know that Cameron's Seafood Market ships thousands of dollars of crab meat each month to former National Basketball Association star Gilbert Arenas ?
text: Did you know that Ismail Amat was one of the highest-ranking Uyghur politicians in the history of the People's Republic of China?
text: Did you know that Patti Smith 's title for her second memoir, M Train , refers to a "mind train", the train of thought that "goes to any station it wants"?
text: Did you know that Antonio Falzon is the earliest known Maltese architect, but is often erroneously described as being Italian?
text: Did you know that India's National Police Memorial has a "Wall of Valour" bearing the names of 34,844 police personnel who died in the line of duty since the country's independence in 1947?
text: Did you know that David Bennett was hired as general director of the San Diego Opera after his predecessor tried unsuccessfully to shut the opera company down?
text: Did you know that the gut-like sea cucumber moves by peristalsis because it has no tube feet ?
text: Did you know that the British surgeon J. I. P. James parachuted into German-occupied Yugoslavia to provide medical support to the partisan resistance , and operated in sheds and caves by candlelight?
text: Did you know that Singer Presents...Elvis attracted 42 percent of the American television audience when it aired 50 years ago today?
text: Did you know that Molly Morgan became the mistress of a ship captain so that she could escape from the colony where she lived?
text: Did you know that Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS veterans formed a 40,000-strong secret army in West Germany in 1949?
text: Did you know that Hans-Joachim Schulze introduced 226 Bach cantatas in weekly broadcasts on Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk over a five-year period?
text: Did you know that Mattawa residents opposed to a roundabout on Washington State Route 243 later apologized to the state government for their stance on the project?
text: Did you know that Mufti Nemat , the commander of a branch of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant , surrendered to the Afghan government after a Taliban offensive against his group in 2018?
text: Did you know that a colony of the arboreal ant Cephalotes atratus used their heads to repel a column of army ants ?
text: Did you know that Jack Vainisi scouted and recommended drafting or acquiring eight future Pro Football Hall of Famers during his ten-year career with the Green Bay Packers ?
text: Did you know that Mistigri is a German card game named after the French word for pussycat, a nickname given to its highest trump , the Jack of Clubs ?
text: Did you know that songwriter Paul Gilley gave a neighbor the lyrics to the 1950 Hank Williams song " They'll Never Take Her Love from Me " before it was heard on the radio, as proof that he had written it?
text: Did you know that Mexico was represented by a single athlete at the 1994 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that in 1910, Indian obstetrician and gynaecologist Dossibai Patell became the first female member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England ?
text: Did you know that after Soviet air attacks damaged the fuel system of the Romanian destroyer Regele Ferdinand in May 1944, an unsuccessful attempt was made to refuel the ship using a bucket brigade ?
text: Did you know that George Fleming made topsoil for the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival out of dredgings from the River Clyde ?
text: Did you know that the German torpedo boat T22 , along with two other torpedo boats, was blown up by naval mines while laying a minefield?
text: Did you know that Pachara Chirathivat was actually suffocating during a strangling scene in the 2012 film Countdown , but the film crew thought he was just acting?
text: Did you know that more than 1.6 million Britons held a Construction Skills Certification Scheme card in December 2017?
text: Did you know that Gilles Bouchard was the first person in the history of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League to be named coach of the year and general manager of the year in the same season?
text: Did you know that the bathypelagic starfish Freyella elegans is probably not a suspension feeder ?
text: Did you know that Juma Butabika was appointed to high-ranking military positions in the government of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin despite being considered psychopathic , even by his colleagues?
text: Did you know that Mark Judge wrote a book about how dancing helped him stop drinking ?
text: Did you know that Japanese singer Eir Aoi initially did not show her mouth in physical release images as she wanted to have a "mysterious aura" and emphasize her "powerful" eyes?
text: Did you know that chiropractor Tim Robards appeared in the first season of Australia's version of The Bachelor ?
text: Did you know that volunteer firemen from the fire station in Schäflohe claim to be the only people in the German district of Upper Palatinate to play the traditional Bavarian card game of Lampeln ?
text: Did you know that Ankita Bhakat 's archery team, who entered the 2017 World Archery Youth Championships seeded ninth, won India's fourth overall world youth championships title?
text: Did you know that The Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican are an English parody band whose "mission is to keep their spiritual father Val Doonican 's legacy alive"?
text: Did you know that whistles were attached to pigeons to deter birds of prey?