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Did you know that voice actress and singer Machico made a cameo as herself in the anime television series Seiyu's Life! ?
Did you know that in 1894, a flash flood trapped seven cave explorers in the Lurgrotte karst cave of Austria for ten days?
Did you know that for failing to collect their quotas of Congo rubber , many people lost their hands?
Did you know that Michael I of Wallachia was still the co-ruler with his father Mircea I when in 1417 he refused to send the tribute that Mircea had promised to pay to the Ottoman Empire ?
Did you know that the feathers of birds are considered the most complex integumentary structures found in vertebrates , and a premier example of a complex evolutionary novelty?
Did you know that Pendleton Dudley refused to talk about the work he did to launch Woodrow Wilson 's political career?
Did you know that Bach's cantata for Easter Monday , Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden , BWV 6 , is based on the Road to Emmaus narration ?
Did you know that Brigadier General Guy Fort is the only American-born general officer to be executed by enemy forces?
Did you know that records of the Wetar ground dove in West Timor are from just three localities?
Did you know that Constance Davey established the first "opportunity classes" for children with special educational needs in South Australia?
Did you know that at the 2017 Rey de Reyes , professional wrestler Johnny Mundo became a triple champion, holding the AAA Mega , Cruiserweight , and Latin American Championships ?
Did you know that the cheese producer Wyke Farms still uses an 1861 recipe?
Did you know that the 20th-century Easter hymn " Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones " takes its melody from " Lasst uns erfreuen " (Let us rejoice), a tune published in 1623 by a German activist against witch-hunts ?
Did you know that a career-threatening knee injury to Tasmanian Roar cricketer Erin Burns was successfully treated with stem cell injections by the Sydney Swans ' club doctor, Nathan Gibbs ?
Did you know that the tongue of the golden-belted bumble bee is about two-thirds as long as its body?
Did you know that passenger service on the Staten Island Railway 's North Shore Branch was discontinued 16 years after it was rebuilt?
Did you know that Ursula Zollenkopf , a contralto of the NWDR Chor , performed solo and choral parts in a posthumous Schoenberg opera premiere and in an Easter cantata by Bach ?
Did you know that Chocorua Island Chapel at Squam Lake , New Hampshire, part of the first summer youth camp in America, was built by the camp's boys with an erratic boulder, trees, and beach sand?
Did you know that Juan Tepano was proclaimed "king" of Easter Island by officers of the Chilean Navy , but no one – including Tepano – took the ceremony seriously?
Did you know that at the end of the Second World War, more than 23,000 repatriated British prisoners of war volunteered to attend Civil Resettlement Units to help them readjust to being home?
Did you know that Tommy Blake was the first musician to record at RCA Studio B ?
Did you know that the dignitaries at the opening of the Barbados Railway wondered why the railway ended so abruptly among barren sand hills?
Did you know that Simeon Riro Kāinga , the last king of Easter Island , was suspected of having been poisoned when he died during a diplomatic trip to Chile?
Did you know that the catfish Trachelyopterus insignis has several local names, being referred to as both a "maiden" and a "goat"?
Did you know that Paul Hindemith said of the third dance of his opera Das Nusch-Nuschi : "It is essential that this piece be danced (or rather wobbled to) by two eunuchs with incredibly fat and naked bellies"?
Did you know that Charles A. Cheever constructed the first telephone line in New York City and was its owner?
Did you know that the Good Friday hymn " Take Up Thy Cross, The Saviour Said " was one of two American works included in the Church of England's Hymns Ancient and Modern ?
Did you know that Major Somnath Sharma , a Param Vir Chakra recipient, and General Vishwa Nath Sharma , former chief of the Indian Army, were brothers?
Did you know that the world's first coal-fired power station was at Holborn Viaduct , London?
Did you know that tenor Max Ciolek performed the Evangelist in Bach's Passions , and the Mass in B minor with La Petite Bande in Australia?
Did you know that the government of ancient Macedonia was a monarchy, yet the Macedonian commonwealth contained some local democracies with popular assemblies and annual elections?
Did you know that Lillie Mae Bradford was arrested for refusing to leave the whites-only section of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama , four years before Rosa Parks' 1955 prosecution for the same "crime"?
Did you know that the Danish illustrator Lilian Brøgger has illustrated over a hundred books in a variety of unconventional styles?
Did you know that Bach set a stanza from the evening hymn " Werde munter, mein Gemüte " (Become cheerful, my mind), which Johann Rist and Johann Schop created in collaboration, in his St Matthew Passion ?
Did you know that 25 years ago today, anti-nuclear activist Richard Springer was arrested by the U.S. Secret Service after he approached Ronald Reagan and smashed a crystal statue?
Did you know that the Andean flicker is unusual among woodpeckers in foraging on the ground and in often nesting colonially ?
Did you know that Birendra Nath Mallick and his team demonstrated that increased production of noradrenaline triggered REM sleep -loss, resulting in brain excitability?
Did you know that Hank Azaria won a lawsuit for the rights to the title character of Brockmire ?
Did you know that during the Bonville–Courtenay feud , the Earl of Devon's men stole all Nicholas Radford 's horses and the sheets off his invalid wife's bed?
Did you know that Chris Marron jointly holds the record for the most goals scored in an FA Cup match, having scored 10 in one game?
Did you know that as the German army invaded France in 1940, radio station Paris-Mondial began broadcasting "recordings of military marches and panicked appeals for guns, tanks, and planes"?
Did you know that award-winning graphic novelist Miriam Katin only started creating comics at the age of 63?
Did you know that J. Lamar Worzel was a recipient of the Navy Meritorious Public Service Award for his part in helping discover the first nuclear submarine lost at sea?
Did you know that the " I believe that we will win! " chant, used as a rallying cry by United States fans during the 2014 FIFA World Cup , was first used for the college football Army–Navy Game ?
Did you know that Anil Kumar Mandal developed an alternative surgical protocol for treating pediatric glaucoma ?
Did you know that Pu Songling based his pigeon collector character on a real-life stone fanatic?
Did you know that during the Second World War, the Norwegian naval officer Niels Larsen Bruun sank a German supply ship before he was certain which country was invading Norway?
Did you know that the fire-bellied woodpecker can drum at the rate of 14 to 38 taps per second?
Did you know that Brown v. Maryland was the first decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to construe the Import-Export Clause of the Constitution?
Did you know that the title for Elizabeth Nunez 's novel Anna In-Between (2009) was inspired by M. G. Vassanji 's novel The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (2003)?
Did you know that George Wilson, Jr. was a starting quarterback for the Miami Dolphins while his father, George Wilson, Sr. , was the head coach?
Did you know that Neptune Theatre in Seattle had weekly showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show from 1977 to 1993, and reopened with the same film after renovation in 2011?
Did you know that President Donald Trump criticized Snoop Dogg 's remix music video of " Lavender " for having a scene in which Snoop fires a flag gun at a clown parody version of Trump?
Did you know that Caius Largennius is considered the first Lucchese in the world?
Did you know that the play Sweat by Lynn Nottage has been described as "the first theatrical landmark of the Trump era"?
Did you know that when he ceded Easter Island to Chile, King Atamu Tekena gave up a handful of grass and retained a handful of dirt?
Did you know that Mexican Federal Highway 15D includes two of the country's five most expensive toll roads?
Did you know that prior to her major debut, singer Maon Kurosaki posed as a gravure model for the cover of a novel?
Did you know that the seeds of the white batflower may be distributed by small mammals that feed on the fleshy fruits?
Did you know that in March 1998, the Ontario Court of Justice ruled that being topless while one engages in a commercial purpose such as prostitution is illegal ?
Did you know that the Catholic hymnal Kirchenlied , first published in 1938, was not immediately banned by the Nazis because it also contained Protestant songs?
Did you know that Australian actress Anna Bamford made her Broadway debut in Andrew Upton 's production of The Present ?
Did you know that the Northern Marmara and Değirmenköy (Silivri) Depleted Gas Reservoir is currently the only operational underground natural gas storage facility in Turkey?
Did you know that Vijay Kumar , along with Debi Prasad Sarkar , demonstrated for the first time that HBx protein stimulated mitogen-activated signaling cascades in living animals?
Did you know that 43 million unique viewers watched SK Telecom T1 defeat Samsung Galaxy in the finals of the 2016 League of Legends World Championship ?
Did you know that some factions of the Hanthawaddy court undermined the authority of Princess Regent Maha Dewi by publicizing her alleged affair with her much younger nephew-in-law?
Did you know that in Canada, ten dollars will get you an EMD F40PH diesel locomotive?
Did you know that LaVar Ball claimed that he would have beaten Michael Jordan in one-on-one basketball?
Did you know that the Australian television film Home and Away: An Eye for an Eye broke all first-day streaming records on Presto ?
Did you know that George Escol Sellers was the basis for the fictional character Colonel Eschol Sellers in Mark Twain 's novel The Gilded Age ?
Did you know that the Czech fossil ant Odontomachus paleomyagra has mandibles notably similar to those of a related South African species?
Did you know that Satish K. Gupta explored the possibilities of using zona pellucida proteins for the development of immunocontraceptive protocols?
Did you know that the Rock Island Arsenal Museum is the second oldest museum of the United States Army ?
Did you know that Rose Cannabich was "a very beautiful and well-behaved girl", according to her piano teacher Mozart , who composed a piano sonata for her?
Did you know that Barbara Bradby was the first woman to ride a bicycle at Oxford University , where her academic prowess inspired a limerick?
Did you know that one could enhance their learning while their mind wanders by using dishabituation technique?
Did you know that Paul Bashutsky took part in the suppression of the Decembrist revolt in 1825, and was promoted to General of the Infantry three years later?
Did you know that Rhizophora racemosa is normally the first mangrove to colonise newly exposed mudflats in West Africa?
Did you know that by winning the 2016–17 PBA Philippine Cup Finals , the San Miguel Beermen became the second team in Philippine Basketball Association history to keep permanent possession of the Jun Bernardino Trophy ?
Did you know that María Parrado won the first season of The Voice Kids Spain ?
Did you know that Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue is the New York City Subway's first solar-powered subway station?
Did you know that Ipswich Town goalkeeper Paul Cooper saved eight out of the ten penalties he faced during the 1979–80 season?
Did you know that the nine-year-old McGuire Apartments building in Seattle was demolished due to the discovery of major corrosion issues?
Did you know that Shahid Jameel and his group were the first to identify subtype C strain as the most common HIV-1 infection among Indians?
Did you know that the CIA's black helicopter from Area 51 was used to eavesdrop on Paris Peace Talks discussions during the Vietnam War?
Did you know that German rapper Jaye Muller started the weekly newsletter Germany Alert in 1991 to document neo-Nazi activity?
Did you know that the Sahitya Akademi , India's National Academy of Letters, conferred its fellowship on Kanhu Charan Mohanty (1994) and Arjan Hasid (2013), and elected Ronald E. Asher (2007) as an honorary fellow?
Did you know that the 16,030 acres (6,490 ha) of Federal land in New Mexico 's Sabinoso Wilderness are inaccessible without trespassing, because they are entirely enclosed in privately-owned property?
Did you know that Francis Poulenc composed his Violin Sonata at the insistence of violinist Ginette Neveu , and played the piano part when she premiered it?
Did you know that two women captured in Boston under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 were rescued during the Abolition Riot of 1836 ?
Did you know that Antoine-Jean Gros 's painting Napoléon on the Battlefield of Eylau influenced the works of Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix ?
Did you know that a lake larger than Lake Erie existed in the eastern Sahara less than 12,000 years ago?
Did you know that suspected Mexican drug lord Rubén Oseguera González was released from prison three times in less than a year?
Did you know that the severed head of Andrew Báthory, Prince of Transylvania , was sewn back on?
Did you know that Cascade Valley Hospital was the last independent hospital in Snohomish County, Washington , until it was acquired in 2016?
Did you know that cricketer Georgia Redmayne 's 87-year-old grandfather vaulted the boundary fence and embraced her after she had become the first player to hit a WNCL century for Tasmanian Roar ?
Did you know that the theme song for the television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is actually called " Yo Home to Bel-Air "?
Did you know that New York Mets fans once booed the Home Run Apple for over two minutes because it was not raised for a Mets home run ?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano Claudia Mahnke appeared as Dido in Les Troyens by Berlioz, and according to a reviewer, in the final 25 minutes convincingly ranged from hurt vulnerability to furious despair?
Did you know that in one of Ron Richards ' plans for the defection of spy Vladimir Petrov to Australia, Petrov was going to buy a chicken farm outside Sydney?
Did you know that New Palace Yard , where part of the March 2017 terror attack in Westminster took place, was formerly used for tournaments, pilloryings , and executions?
Did you know that Gottfried von Hagenau , a physician and poet, introduced the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in Strasbourg in 1307?
Did you know that Stierling's woodpecker is threatened by habitat loss, especially in areas where tobacco is cultivated and dried over open fires?
Did you know that a+ will provide local television programming mixed with national content to 21 Mexican cities by the end of June 2017?
Did you know that in 1861, brothel proprietor Ann Manley rescued part of the 6th Massachusetts Regiment after it was attacked by a mob in Baltimore?
Did you know that Barry Bonds used a maple baseball bat manufactured by Sam Bat to set an MLB single-season home run record in 2001?
Did you know that Louis-René Villermé is considered a founder of social epidemiology for his work proving the association between poverty and mortality in early industrial France?
Did you know that Warren Newton Dusenberry acted as principal of Brigham Young Academy for only a few months before resigning to go to law school?
Did you know that 19 people, including Brigadier General Robert F. Travis , were killed when a Boeing B-29 crashed with a Mark 4 nuclear bomb on board?
Did you know that Stanley Elkin won the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction for his novels George Mills (1982) and Mrs. Ted Bliss (1995)?
Did you know that Moses Fleetwood Walker was the first openly black athlete to play in Major League Baseball ?
Did you know that President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos took a siesta in the master bedroom of the Mercado Mansion during a campaign sortie in the 1960s?
Did you know that a song about masturbation was written by Ivor Biggun and recommended by Johnny Rotten ?
Did you know that Poke Valley Run was reputedly named for its shite pokes?
Did you know that a woman can open a bottle ?
Did you know that Robin Hood sued the United States ?
Did you know that baseball players fall down on the Grassy Knoll ?
Did you know that erection engineer Mark Barr had a business making rubbers, said bicycles stimulated ball development, and was elected to the screw committee?
Did you know that in Portland, Oregon , an outhouse, or john , played a seminal role in public education?
Did you know that Soekarno demanded much of Soekarno , but Soekarno did not listen?
Did you know that in 1926 a Mennonite tower was built in the German capital of Canada?
Did you know that " sorcery for your vagina " can result in second-degree burns?
Did you know that the Trans-Universal Zombie Church of the Blissful Ringing is the fifth largest religious community in Slovenia?
Did you know that Belgian mezzo-soprano Jeanne Deroubaix was a soloist in the premiere of Stravinsky 's Threni , and performed with Boulez in his Le marteau sans maître at The Proms ?
Did you know that the name of the Wipeout series of video games was inspired by the instrumental song "Wipe Out" by The Surfaris ?
Did you know that Thomas North Whitehead suggested that the United Kingdom give America one of the four surviving copies of the Magna Carta to win support for Lend-Lease ?
Did you know that two major landmarks of Gwanghwamun Plaza in central Seoul are the statues of King Sejong and of Admiral Yi Sun-sin ?
Did you know that Associated Press war correspondent George E. Bria , known for his brevity as an editor, insisted that "the D-Day landings could be reported in 400 words"?
Did you know that the 40 rays on the flag of Kyrgyzstan represent the number of tribes united by national folk hero Manas to fight against the Mongols ?
Did you know that The New Republic suspected the 1958 attack on Richard Nixon's motorcade was a hoax set up to help his chances in the 1960 United States presidential election ?
Did you know that in his Requiem für einen jungen Dichter , composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann combines the Latin Requiem with literary, philosophical, religious and political texts that shaped his lifetime?
Did you know that according to Ralph Wolfe Cowan who painted him as The Visionary , Donald Trump's hands are "perfectly proportioned"?
Did you know that infighting among the conquistadors hindered the Spanish conquest of Honduras ?
Did you know that the Pediatric Symptom Checklist identifies children with problems in psychosocial functioning by measuring inner distress and mood, behavior, and attention?
Did you know that the association footballer Harry Beadles was awarded the Serbian gold medal for bravery during World War I?
Did you know that Typhoon Gerald was the one of three typhoons spawned by the monsoon trough in early September 1987?
Did you know that thousands of escaped slaves created a free colony on Edisto Island, South Carolina, during the American Civil War ?
Did you know that the tenth chapter of the Quran is named after Jonah , even though only 1 of its 109 verses mentions him?
Did you know that Mary M. Crawford became Brooklyn 's first female ambulance surgeon after the hospital forgot to exclude women from applying?
Did you know that Reverend Arthur Broome was one of the founders of the RSPCA and, as guarantor for the society's debts, went to debtors' prison when it declared bankruptcy?
Did you know that the borders negotiated after the Song-Lý War largely remain as the current boundaries between China and Vietnam?
Did you know that Probir Roy proposed a solution for the U (n)-symmetric Thirring model ?
Did you know that on the links at the Trump National Golf Club in Virginia, a monument commemorates a Civil War battle that never happened?
Did you know that the Native Hawaiian suffragist Wilhelmina Widemann Dowsett organized the first women's suffrage club in the Territory of Hawaii and believed women were superior to men?
Did you know that Siti Nurhaliza won her 13th Best Vocal Performance (Female) in a Song award from Anugerah Industri Muzik with " Menatap dalam Mimpi "?
Did you know that the National Wrestling Association 's World Light Heavyweight Championship was originally created by the National Boxing Association ?
Did you know that Eli Parsons Royce founded the city of Escanaba, Michigan , while Nelson Ludington named it?
Did you know that " Mer Hayrenik ", the national anthem of the First Republic of Armenia , became a protest song when it was banned during the Soviet era ?
Did you know that Isadora Duncan danced at The Wabe in London's Hampstead to raise money for the cause of women's suffrage ?
Did you know that during his youth, Argentine president Néstor Kirchner was present at the Ezeiza massacre and the expulsion of Montoneros from Plaza de Mayo ?
Did you know that the Japanese visual novel Harmonia was first released in English to see how the game would be received worldwide before its release in Japan?
Did you know that Manning M. Kimmel was one of four West Point graduates to fight on both sides of the American Civil War ?
Did you know that the Miami Dolphins ' first-ever regular season game began with running back Joe Auer returning the opening kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown?
Did you know that Arsenal are looking to win a record 13th FA Cup at the FA Cup Final against Chelsea today?
Did you know that Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz was a daredevil horseman whose feats included riding between the sails of a windmill in full swing?
Did you know that parts of southern New Mexico and Chihuahua were covered by the former Lake Palomas , the remnants of which existed as recently as 500 years ago?
Did you know that the soprano Margot Guilleaume recorded the part of Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio in a complete live recording without dialogue in 1948?
Did you know that Sallekhana is a religious practice of voluntarily fasting to death?
Did you know that the emotional journey of the protagonist in the 2004 Ursula K. Le Guin novel Gifts has been compared to that of Max in the 1963 children's picture book Where the Wild Things Are ?
Did you know that Albertine Lapensée , described as Canada's first female ice hockey "superstar", was dogged by accusations of being a man?
Did you know that James Scott Howard , the postmaster of Toronto , infuriated his superiors by refusing to open mail of suspected rebels before the 1837 uprising ?
Did you know that during the 1678 Kediri campaign , the VOC – Mataram army purposely split itself and took a longer route to Kediri, in order to impress more people?
Did you know that the prosecution of Theoris of Lemnos is the most detailed account of a witch trial to survive from Classical Greece?
Did you know that the diet of the white woodpecker includes wasps and bees, their larvae and honey?
Did you know that former Snohomish County Executive Bob Drewel had surgery to treat prostate cancer only days after being re-elected to a third term?
Did you know that during the March 1605 papal conclave , a fight broke out that was so noisy that people outside opened the doors early because they thought a new pope had been elected?
Did you know that Mary Ann Harris Gay 's memoir Life in Dixie During the War directly inspired several of the scenes in the novel Gone with the Wind ?
Did you know that the Custer Wolf , a North American gray wolf referred to as the "master criminal of the animal world", killed livestock worth almost $300,000 in today's money?
Did you know that Margot Shiner , who fled Nazi Germany as a teenager, was instrumental in establishing the medical subspecialty of paediatric gastroenterology ?
Did you know that the glass-floor observation deck of Ulubey Canyon Nature Park is 131 m (430 ft) above the canyon floor?
Did you know that Albert Pierce Taylor , author of Under Hawaiian Skies , attempted to join the Cuban War of Independence but was deported by the Spanish?
Did you know that The Duals ' "Stick Shift" was the first hot rod song to chart nationally in the United States?