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Did you know that the Mangrove restaurant in Notting Hill , London , attracted a clientele that included Christine Keeler , Mandy Rice-Davies , Jimi Hendrix , Nina Simone , and Bob Marley ?
Did you know that a cell bank stores cell lines in a mixture of liquid nitrogen that freezes them to a temperature lower than −70° Celsius ?
Did you know that RHI Entertainment 's miniseries based on Moby-Dick is the first to air on the U.S. pay-television network Encore ?
Did you know that Hall of Fame sportswriter Frank Graham , once described as "psychopathically polite," loved the "shadowy figures and rogues that dwelt on the fringes of his favorite sports"?
Did you know that jingū-ji , Buddhist temples with a shrine dedicated to the worship of a local Shinto kami , were common in Japan until they were outlawed in 1868?
Did you know that although English actor Andrew Gower won the Spotlight Prize in 2010, his new Being Human character is accustomed to the dark ?
Did you know that Jeanne L. Noble published the first studies about African-American women in college?
Did you know that the Kneeland Prairie penny-cress is a mustard flower with spoon-shaped petals and spatula-shaped leaves?
Did you know that Robin Dunne was nominated for a Constellation Award for his portrayal of Will Zimmerman in the television series Sanctuary , but narrowly lost to Doctor Who actor David Tennant ?
Did you know that Arthur Matsu was the first Asian American student at The College of William & Mary , the first Asian American quarterback in the NFL and the first Japanese coach in American football?
Did you know that a "terrible Mouse " weighing 500 kg (1,100 lb) has killed three people in Spain in the last five years?
Did you know that actress Amanda Tapping accepted the part of Helen Magnus , the protagonist of Sanctuary , after she was encouraged to move on from her eleven-year role as Samantha Carter in Stargate ?
Did you know that the British-supported Greek-Yugoslav confederation was signed during World War II , but never came to pass?
Did you know that Pulitzer winner William A. Caldwell wrote approximately 12,000 editorial columns, each exactly 85 lines long, six per week for 41 years?
Did you know that after the fall of Suharto , the circulation of his party's newspaper, Suara Karya , dropped by a factor of a hundred?
Did you know that sales of Montana artist Monte Dolack 's poster, "Restoring the Wolf to Yellowstone," were banned in Yellowstone and Glacier national parks by the U.S. National Park Service in 1990?
Did you know that, even though it mainly included Romanian peasants, the breakaway Inochentist church worshiped Russian Tsar Michael and the Romanovs ?
Did you know that in 1912 Ivan Ivanić became the first governor of Durrës County in the Kingdom of Serbia ?
Did you know that on two separate occasions in 2010, five One Piece releases simultaneously debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list for manga ?
Did you know that Bhutan House , an estate owned by the Dorji family in West Bengal, India, was once the conduit for communication between the government of Bhutan and the rest of the world?
Did you know that Riek Machar , first Vice-President of South Sudan in the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) government, once fought against them, with government support?
Did you know that Sister Carmela Marie Cristiano was the first Catholic nun to run for political office in New Jersey ?
Did you know that one of the churches in the English district of Rother is a former Lifesaving Rocket Apparatus Station?
Did you know that Madam Auring shot to fame when she correctly predicted that Amparo Muñoz would win the 1974 Miss Universe title?
Did you know that in 2004 there were two terrorist attacks in Sulawesi , one on a bus and one in a cafe ?
Did you know that the variable saw sedge is food for caterpillars of the moth genus Elachista ?
Did you know that Happy Salma , wife of a prince, agreed to play a prostitute in 7 Hearts 7 Loves 7 Women , but only if no men could touch her on set?
Did you know that over 650,000 people visited the Alexander McQueen exhibition Savage Beauty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art , and some queued for more than four hours?
Did you know that footballer Hasan Ahmet Sari left Istanbul with his family after living through the 1999 İzmit earthquake ?
Did you know that the low numbers of injuries in carnivorous dinosaurs indicate they may have been less aggressive with individuals of their own species than modern crocodilians ?
Did you know that Reg , Doug and Max Bentley made history on January 1 , 1943, when they became the National Hockey League 's first all-brother forward line?
Did you know that Caxton Hall in Westminster, London, was the venue for the marriages of two Beatles , a future Prime Minister , and several movie stars?
Did you know that after Baseball Hall of Fame sportswriter Earl Lawson had altercations with both Johnny Temple and Vada Pinson , he joked that Pinson was a harder puncher?
Did you know that the perpetrators of a terrorist attack in Aceh on New Year's Eve 2003 are still unknown?
Did you know that after Luke Evans played for the Australian Schoolboys rugby union team, he joined the Welsh under-20 team?
Did you know that Muslim Mosque, Inc. , which was founded by Malcolm X , was awarded 35 scholarships to send students to Al-Azhar University and the Islamic University of Madinah ?
Did you know that ballet teacher Anneliese von Oettingen was featured in Sports Illustrated for training professional football players at her ballet school?
Did you know that future US Marine Lieutenant General Edward A. Craig was arrested by Marines at age 10 for photographing the Washington Navy Yard ?
Did you know that the author of Sitti Nurbaya never returned to his hometown after publishing it?
Did you know that the Union of Concerned Scientists created a Hybrid Scorecard to compare hybrid electric vehicles available in the U.S.?
Did you know that in Liverpool Bay , the white furrow shell , the transparent razor shell and the trumpet worm live side by side beneath the sand?
Did you know that Henry Lamar , who coached all four Kennedy brothers , originally intended to help coach at Harvard University for a few weeks but remained there for four decades?
Did you know that Ismail Marzuki wrote his 1945 song " Gugur Bunga di Taman Bakti " to honor the Indonesian casualties of the Indonesian National Revolution ?
Did you know that in the center of Bach 's cantata Es ist dir gesagt, Mensch, was gut ist, BWV 45 , the voice of Christ appears in a "highly virtuosic aria, half Vivaldian concerto, half operatic scena"?
Did you know that Pulitzer Prize -winner Thomas F. Darcy drew a political cartoon featuring an L-shaped coffin and the caption "Good news, we've turned the corner in Vietnam!"?
Did you know that in St Botolph's Church, Botolphs , a series of arches on the wall indicate a long-demolished aisle?
Did you know that Indonesian band Kekal has remained active and continues to release newly recorded material even though there are no longer any official members?
Did you know that Iván Erőd composed a sinfonietta called Minnesota Sinfonietta , an opera titled Silk Worms , and a song cycle for soprano and chamber orchestra, named Baby Tooth Songs ?
Did you know that although she was unsuccessful as a cross-Channel ferry, Castalia served for twenty years as a hospital ship?
Did you know that the Western cicada killer wasp paralyzes cicadas for its offspring to eat after hatching?
Did you know that the music video of the song " Express Yourself " had a budget of $5 million, making it the most expensive music video at the time of its release?
Did you know that baseball humorist Charles Dryden dubbed the 1906 White Sox the "Hitless Wonders" and said of the 1909 Senators : "Washington – first in war, first in peace and last in the American League"?
Did you know that the oldest known member of the mayfly family Neoephemeridae is the Eocene species Neoephemera antiqua ?
Did you know that according to music critic Greil Marcus , the track " Every Picture Tells a Story " represents Rod Stewart 's greatest performance?
Did you know that John Marburger , President George W. Bush 's science advisor , publicly stated his belief that intelligent design is not a scientific theory?
Did you know that in 1920 Balai Pustaka brought Pain and Suffering to Indonesia?
Did you know that when he was 20, shipping executive Lewis A. Lapham played a foursome with golf champions Bobby Jones and Francis Ouimet ?
Did you know that two cousins, both called Benjamin Handley , were in a boat that capsized crossing the Tagus river during the Peninsular War —and one drowned while the other survived?
Did you know that because he has brittle bone disease , motivational speaker Sean Stephenson is just three feet ( 91 cm ) tall?
Did you know that the World War II idea of a Polish-Czechoslovakian confederation was eventually discarded by the Czechs, whose leader favoured a prospective alliance with the Soviet Union?
Did you know that David Holston scored over 2,000 points during his high school basketball career, yet was not offered a single college scholarship?
Did you know that the tallest rock-fill dam in Japan can be found at the Shin-Takasegawa Pumped Storage Station in Nagano Prefecture ?
Did you know that Marcus Aurelius wanted to create a new Roman province called Marcomannia in what is now Slovakia ?
Did you know that Hockey Hall of Fame defenceman "Black Jack" Stewart quipped that his stick was not for scoring, but for "breaking arms"?
Did you know that the Indian port of Khejuri was destroyed by a devastating cyclone in 1864?
Did you know that the fungus Bloxam's entoloma was named after an English clergyman?
Did you know that coining new words such as "picture place" (for "art gallery") is a communication strategy used by people learning to speak a foreign tongue ?
Did you know that Seacology has preserved 957,852 acres (3,876 km 2 ; 1,497 sq mi) of marine habitat and 852,651 acres (3,451 km 2 ; 1,332 sq mi) of terrestrial habitat since it was founded in 1991?
Did you know that after largemouth bass were illegally placed into Davis Lake , it gained a reputation as one of the best bass lakes in Oregon ?
Did you know that drainage pits under London Underground tracks help reduce the number of suicides ?
Did you know that Hanna Zemer , who became the first female editor-in-chief of a major Israeli newspaper, had survived imprisonment in two Nazi concentration camps ?
Did you know that the William Armson -designed Guthrey Centre fell victim to the Christchurch earthquake , but his Excelsior Hotel will be rebuilt?
Did you know that the song " If I Had a Heart " by Fever Ray was featured in the Breaking Bad episode " Open House " because it matched the "full, heavy darkness" of its scene?
Did you know that the lord of the Sanjak of Dukagjin was hanged by the sultan's order in 1536?
Did you know that the Dickin Medal winner Peter was given a kiss on the nose by the future Queen Elizabeth II in 1946?
Did you know that during the Singaporean parliamentary general election of 2011 the opposition Workers' Party won a Group Representation Constituency for the first time?
Did you know that David Dunwoodie had two separate runs with the Ice Dogs ?
Did you know that the divergence in the Sino-Tibetan language family between the Sinitic languages in China and other Sino-Tibetan languages likely occurred during Neolithic migrations into the Tibetan plateau from the Neolithic cultures of the Yellow River ?
Did you know that photographer Chris Schlechten was briefly expelled from Montana State College for helping create a spoof annual which portrayed the basketball team as a row of Butterfinger candy bars?
Did you know that Jana Sterbak created a dress made of meat 23 years before Lady Gaga wore one ?
Did you know that Scottish naturalist Ramsay Heatley Traquair received the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1907 for his work on fossil fish ?
Did you know that the 2005 science fiction and horror film spoof The Naked Monster took 21 years to make and was Kenneth Tobey 's final film?
Did you know that the fungus Cortinarius badiolaevis has only been recorded in Spain and Sweden?
Did you know that Tischendorf 's Editio Octava Critica Maior and Westcott and Hort's text were sufficient to make the Textus Receptus obsolete for the scholarly world?
Did you know that the eyelids of some Elliot's short-tailed shrews are permanently closed?
Did you know that in the Holmes' no Mokushiroku story arc of the Case Closed series, the character Minerva Glass was based on professional tennis player Steffi Graf ?
Did you know that Roscoe C. Wilson was the United States Army Air Forces liaison to the Manhattan Project ?
Did you know that although the slender devil's twine looks and behaves like dodder , it is a laurel ?
Did you know that Wacław Gluth-Nowowiejski 's World War II memoir The Commonwealth of Ruins , about his experience of hiding in a destroyed city as a Robinson Crusoe of Warsaw , was adapted into a short comic?
Did you know that computer input methods are blamed for individuals forgetting how to write Chinese characters ?
Did you know that the 644-kilometre (400 mi) European route E59 links three European capitals – Prague , Vienna and Zagreb ?
Did you know that the Ridgeway Site is the type site for the Glacial Kame Culture ?
Did you know that the extinct moth Epiborkhausenites is noted for having very similar color patterning to the living species Tubuliferola josephinae and Hofmannophila pseudospretella ?
Did you know that in translating the Republic of Plato , Desmond Lee preferred "magnificent myth" to what he considered the conventional mistranslation " noble lie "?
Did you know that the online game EteRNA , funded by the National Science Foundation , allows players to design RNA molecules that may be synthesized in a Stanford biochemistry lab?
Did you know that Kingdom Tower is to be raised by bin Ladin's family's business and is expected to be the world's tallest building?
Did you know that sarcoids are non-fatal tumors but are a common reason for euthanasia in horses?
Did you know that phantasmagoria showman Paul Philidor convinced Marie Tussaud to exhibit her waxworks in England?
Did you know that the Hartington City Hall and Auditorium was built to a Prairie School design when that style was in decline and "stands as a progressive building in an otherwise conservative community"?
Did you know that S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson , played by Clark Gregg in the Marvel Cinematic Universe , will appear as Peter Parker 's school principal in the upcoming cartoon series Ultimate Spider-Man ?
Did you know that Flustra foliacea looks like a seaweed but is actually a colony of animals ?
Did you know that Comala, Colima , Mexico , may be the setting for Juan Rulfo 's Pedro Páramo ?
Did you know that Fantasy Studios was built on profits from hit songs by Creedence Clearwater Revival ?
Did you know that actor Ron Taylor performed the American national anthem " The Star-Spangled Banner " at several sporting fixtures after playing a similar role in an episode of L.A. Law ?
Did you know that in May 1933, the Nazis stormed the General German Trade Union Federation and all its member unions, seizing their assets and putting their leaders in " protective custody "?
Did you know that undefeated Boyd Melson donates all the money he earns in boxing matches to stem cell research ?
Did you know that following opposition calls for a boycott , voter turnout in the 1983 general elections in Jamaica was just 2.7%?
Did you know that Herb Kawainui Kane died on the 36th anniversary of the launch of the Hōkūle‘a , a voyaging canoe he designed?
Did you know that Murtaja , launched in 1889, was Finland's first state-owned icebreaker ?
Did you know that Richard Chavez designed the black eagle logo of the United Farm Workers while his brother, César Chávez , chose the red and black coloring?
Did you know that after Kenneth R. Shadrick became the first U.S. foot soldier reported killed in the Korean War , his father traced the tragedy back to a stolen football uniform?
Did you know that when the Mayor of Liverpool turned on the Steble Fountain in 1879, its effect was said to have been "dismal"?
Did you know that The X-Files episode " Shapes " reunited Twin Peaks cast members David Duchovny and Michael Horse ?
Did you know that Nickolaus Hirschl , in addition to winning two Olympic medals in wrestling, won Austrian national championships in shotput , discus , and pentathlon ?
Did you know that a flattop crab , when trying to escape from a predator, can cast off limbs as a diversion, with the claws of a cast limb still gripping vigorously after separation?
Did you know that The Throne ' s hip-hop single " Otis " was remixed as an alleged diss track by Game ?
Did you know that after the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority ordered the demolition of Wharetiki House , its powers were for the first time tested in the High Court ?
Did you know that Ethical Oil , a book that argues in favour of the exploitation of the Athabasca oil sands , won the National Business Book Award in 2011?
Did you know that the schooner Shearwater was hit by falling debris from the World Trade Center on September 11 , 2001?
Did you know that Lord Irvine dismissed a record of fifteen magistrates of England and Wales in a single year in 1999?
Did you know that " Miracle Man " was the first episode of The X-Files written by Howard Gordon without his long-term collaborator Alex Gansa ?
Did you know that Thelma Pressman opened the first microwave cooking school in the United States?
Did you know that Indonesian peacekeeping forces have served in Egypt, Israel, Bosnia, Somalia, and the Philippines?
Did you know that The Knack ' s second comeback attempt, the 1998 album Zoom , was described as their best since their debut album Get The Knack ?
Did you know that the direction and photography in the Breaking Bad episode " Thirty-Eight Snub " was compared to the work of filmmakers Sergio Leone and Quentin Tarantino ?
Did you know that the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project attracts thousands of volunteers to build homes for low-income families around the world?
Did you know that the Permian amphibian Trimerorhachis either brooded young in its mouth or ate them ?
Did you know that Wat Tyler Cluverius, Jr. , who died in 1952, was the last surviving officer of the sinking of the USS Maine ?
Did you know that although Christchurch was an Anglican settlement, the first three mayors ( Wilson , Anderson and Duncan ) were all Presbyterian ?
Did you know that at the beginning of 16th century the Sanjak of Elbasan had the highest population density of all Ottoman Balkan sanjaks ?
Did you know that Crothers Memorial Hall, one of two Stanford University dormitories funded by gifts from Judge George E. Crothers , was named in memory of the judge's mother?
Did you know that Flat Horse dance is said to represent male virility or female irrationality?
Did you know that the Indianapolis Museum of Art ' s outdoor sculpture The Three Graces is based on a c. 1797 painting by noted Italian artist Antonio Canova , but its sculptor is unknown?
Did you know that the 1 May 1951 U.S. Navy raid on the Hwacheon Dam during the Korean War was the last use of aerial torpedoes against a surface target?
Did you know that during production tapis is warped and couched ?
Did you know that the Jug Tavern , possibly the oldest building in Ossining, New York , may not have been a tavern at all, or if it was did not serve liquor legally ?
Did you know that Mike Cahill , director and screenwriter of Another Earth (2011), was National Geographic's youngest field producer, editor and cinematographer?
Did you know that after its colonel was cashiered for drunkenness, the 68th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was commanded by a German prince ?
Did you know that the Great Terrestrial Globe in the lobby of New York's Daily News Building was made by American muralist and painter D. Putnam Brinley ?
Did you know that poet and minister Johann Heermann wrote the hymn Was willst du dich betrüben (Why do you want to distress yourself) during the Thirty Years' War ?
Did you know that although shattered by his imprisonment at Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps , in 1952 Czech writer Norbert Frýd fearlessly protested a friend's arrest in Communist Czechoslovakia?
Did you know that the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds was deliberately built to be wider than the British Museum Reading Room , on which it was modelled?
Did you know that Jerry Green was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005 and is one of four sports writers to cover each of the first 45 Super Bowls ?
Did you know that Slalom was the first video game developed by UK-based video game company Rare ?
Did you know that British Library, Add. 17212 is a rare example of a double palimpsest with three successive writings?
Did you know that Ute lady's tresses are threatened by saltcedar and peppergrass ?
Did you know that US Army Master Sergeant Ernest R. Kouma was awarded the Medal of Honor (pictured) in the Korean War for singlehandedly killing approximately 250 North Korean troops?
Did you know that, to comply with obscenity laws , the first two editions of Eric Partridge 's A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English contained slang with asterisks in place of vowels in vulgar words?
Did you know that Mozart built the final scene of his opera The Magic Flute "upon a solemn fugato around the chorale Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein " by Martin Luther ?
Did you know that Jason Richardson is the only track and field athlete to have won both the 110 metres hurdles and 400 metres hurdles at a world youth championships?
Did you know that the pulpit in Christ Church, Barnton , Cheshire has been described as " Puginesquely elaborate"?
Did you know that the arrest of Brownie Mary led to one of the first clinical trials studying the effects of cannabinoids in HIV-infected adults?
Did you know that Parvathi is said to have worshipped Shiva while in the form of a peahen at the Mayuranathaswami Temple in Mayiladuthurai ?
Did you know that the National Benevolent Fund for the Aged held tea party fund-raisers?
Did you know that Paul Speratus was in prison, sentenced to death by fire, when he wrote the hymn Es ist das Heil uns kommen her (Salvation now has come for all)?
Did you know that the Eastern Cape dwarf cycad was one of the first three Cape cycads to be declared endangered by the Cape provincial nature conservation authorities?
Did you know that William Randolph Hearst dispatched a " damn fool " to deliver a gold and diamond encrusted sword to Cuban independence leader Máximo Gómez ?
Did you know that the North Bank Depot Buildings in Portland, Oregon , were built in 1908 as terminals for the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway ?
Did you know that Arthur Barnett founded a department store that was to become the most successful in the Otago Region ?
Did you know that, according to some legends, Batara Kala was conceived when a fish swallowed Shiva 's sperm?
Did you know that there is to be a US version of Jeremy Kyle 's successful British talk series?
Did you know that the 1605 Keichō Nankaidō earthquake has been identified as a tsunami earthquake , because the recorded tsunami was much larger than would be expected from the estimated earthquake magnitude?
Did you know that US Air Force Major General Nels Running , a recipient of seven Distinguished Flying Crosses , had never boarded an airplane until he left his home town to attend the Air Force Academy ?
Did you know that the Chinese philosophy of Agriculturalism advocated that leaders not be paid by the government, instead earning their wages from working in the fields with peasants?
Did you know that former Audio Adrenaline front-man Mark Stuart talked more than he sang on the self-titled debut album of his new project, the Know Hope Collective ?
Did you know that the first Lutheran hymnal contained only eight hymns on five melodies by three poets, Martin Luther , Paul Speratus and probably Justus Jonas ?
Did you know that the actions of Arthur Seymour contributed to the capital of the Marlborough Province , New Zealand, shifting from Blenheim to Picton and back to Blenheim five years later?