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Did you know that Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi , India , built on the site of the original Kashi Vishwanath Temple , still shows evidence of the temple in its foundation, columns, and rear?
Did you know that when Antoinette Sterling sang the English folk song " Three Fishers " in the late 1800s, she made the first verse "quite bright" so as not to give away the unhappy ending?
Did you know that the Beaux Arts exterior of the 1907 Surrogate's Courthouse in New York features no fewer than 54 sculptures of historical and allegorical figures?
Did you know that Namibian Hans Daniel Namuhuja was the first author to publish poetry in Oshindonga , a dialect of Oshiwambo ?
Did you know that soon after he was ordained , John Wesley preached in St Mary's Church in Fleet Marston , Buckinghamshire ?
Did you know that as an unelected Congressional delegate from Jefferson Territory , George M. Willing claimed to have created the word " Idaho " as a name for Colorado ?
Did you know that while building a wagon road along Union Creek , Francis M. Smith and John M. Corbell rediscovered Crater Lake , the deepest lake in the United States and one of the clearest in the world?
Did you know that the extinct parasitic wasp genus Aspidopleura is known from only two fossils found in Baltic amber ?
Did you know that Ditsworthy Warren House , built on Dartmoor for the keeper of a rabbit warren , was used as a filming location for Steven Spielberg 's forthcoming movie War Horse ?
Did you know that the German destroyer Bruno Heinemann was forced to transfer fuel oil to the destroyer Friedrich Eckoldt during the Norwegian Campaign to allow the latter to return to Germany ?
Did you know that the Mariana Islands period of prehistoric stone megaliths, such as those found at House of Taga on Tinian , may have originated with the Rota Latte Stone Quarry ?
Did you know that Hospital Borda 's Radio La Colifata is the world 's first radio station broadcast from inside a psychiatric hospital ?
Did you know that riparian forests contain some ⅓ of the estimated 3000 flora species in Benin ?
Did you know that the first Allied soldier killed during the Normandy landings was part of Operation Deadstick ?
Did you know that the Chapman Swifts , a flock of Vaux's Swift , inspired a Portland , Oregon , community to raise over US$ 60,000 for a new school heating system so the birds could have the old chimney to roost?
Did you know that because it was too dark inside the Church of St Peter ad Vincula in Colemore , Hampshire , the parishioners petitioned the bishop in 1669 to have the south transept removed?
Did you know that Decuriasuchus may be the first known archosaur to exhibit group behavior ?
Did you know that the Pistol River received its name after James Mace lost his pistol in it in 1853?
Did you know that Robert Phelps is a "grandfather" of modern variational principles , according to Ivar Ekeland ?
Did you know that Llanwenarth House was a recipient of The Good Hotel Guide César Award for Best Welsh Country House of the Year 2002?
Did you know that Hurricane Hiki was the wettest tropical cyclone on record in the United States ?
Did you know that Reform Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch , who led the struggle against Israel 's Orthodox establishment to recognize the Reform movement, co-authored a book with an Orthodox rabbi ?
Did you know that someone was once stabbed at the Sunset Esplanade in Hillsboro, Oregon , for complimenting an Oakland Raiders hat?
Did you know that in the early 19th century , the word gullible wasn't in the dictionary ?
Did you know that pirate leader Emilio Changco operated out of Manila Bay till his arrest in the 1990s?
Did you know that above the arcade in the chancel screen of St Mary's Church, Capel-le-Ferne in Kent is a large round-headed opening that is unique in England?
Did you know that composer Jan Müller-Wieland called his first stage work, premiered at the Munich Biennale in 1992, a " Cabaret Farce for singers, pianists and percussionists "?
Did you know that there is pressure to close the Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant , the oldest in France , because of concerns over the risk of earthquakes ?
Did you know that the commander of the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen , Captain Helmuth Brinkmann , was a classmate of the battleship Bismarck 's commander Ernst Lindemann ?
Did you know that in Oregon's 1990 U.S. Senate election , incumbent Mark Hatfield 's opponent in the Republican primary was best known for having spent 40 days tree sitting to protest old-growth logging?
Did you know that Rudolf Fränkel 's Lichtburg cinema in Berlin , with its rooftop searchlights, probably influenced Cecil Clavering 's Odeon cinema in Kingstanding ?
Did you know that Tal Brody was drafted 12th in the National Basketball Association draft, but chose instead to play basketball for Israel ?
Did you know that a stained glass window in St. Paul's Church, King Cross , Halifax built in 1911, is dedicated in memory of Edward Wainhouse, whose daughter married the first vicar of the prior church built in 1846?
Did you know that leading Ulster Defence Association member Stephen "Top Gun" McKeag sang " Follow the Yellow Brick Road " after committing a sectarian killing?
Did you know that the extinct Miocene redwood , Sequoiadendron chaneyi , is the probable ancestor to the giant sequoias in California ?
Did you know that Quezon Representative Lorenzo Tañada III 's first girlfriend was former Akbayan Representative Risa Hontiveros while they were studying at the Ateneo de Manila University ?
Did you know that No. 1 Basic Flying Training School was formed in 1951 in response to the RAAF 's increased demand for aircrew during the Korean War and Malayan Emergency ?
Did you know that the story of Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan , the topic of Sandeep Bhagwati 's opera for the 1998 Munich Biennale , was considered fit for a film?
Did you know that the two branches of New Zealand's Ashburton River flow in parallel less than 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) apart for 20 kilometres (12 mi) before they join?
Did you know that the adjective " Polish-Lithuanian " refers to pre- nationalistic , multicultural inhabitants of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , unlike the modern understanding of the two nationalities ?
Did you know that R. E. Grant Govan , founder of Indian National Airways Ltd , also co-founded the Board of Control for Cricket in India and Cricket Club of India ?
Did you know that, according to legend, on the advice of Xenoclea , Hercules agreed to become a slave of the Queen of Lydia ?
Did you know that the Knoxville Riot of 1919 , one of the events of that year's Red Summer , began when a lynch mob stormed the jail in pursuit of a man believed to have been the mayor's illegitimate son?
Did you know that the Ottoman torpedo boat Sultanhisar attacked and seriously damaged the Australian submarine HMAS AE2 in 1915 but rescued all the crew before the submarine went down in the Sea of Marmara ?
Did you know that 1986 Nobel Prize winner John Polanyi spent three years in Canada as a child to avoid German bombings during World War II ?
Did you know that Abu Ali Iyad was one of the last remaining Fatah commanders fighting the Jordanian Army until he was killed near Ajloun during a major offensive by the latter?
Did you know that the French ship of the line Censeur was captured during the Battle of Genoa in 1795 after coming to the assistance of a damaged ship ?
Did you know that Mammotrectus super Bibliam , a guide book to understanding the Bible , was popular in the 15th century, but was criticized in the 16th century?
Did you know that Urbanus , the Grammy -nominated album by Stefon Harris , was recorded in the days leading up to Barack Obama's inauguration ?
Did you know that the Sierra Gorda region in central Mexico has more butterfly species than the United States and Canada combined?
Did you know that Detlev Glanert 's opera Caligula , after the play by Albert Camus on the cruel Roman emperor , was first staged at the Oper Frankfurt in 2006?
Did you know that Rhodactis howesii , a sea anemone -like corallimorph , is eaten by the Samoans but can prove fatal if consumed raw?
Did you know that the homemade Israeli mortar memorialized in Jerusalem 's Davidka Square was totally inaccurate, but it made such a huge noise that it sent the enemy fleeing in panic?
Did you know that the 15th-century Treatise of Love is based on the 13th-century monastic manual Ancrene Wisse , but shows considerably less interest in carnal love ?
Did you know that during a career lasting almost fifty years at TV station WJXT in Jacksonville, Florida , George Winterling helped develop television weather forecasting ?
Did you know that traditionally, each season of cross country running in Italy concludes in March with Trofeo Alasport on the island of Sardinia ?
Did you know that goaltender Ben Scrivens signed with the NHL 's Toronto Maple Leafs organization mainly for the opportunity to work with goalie coach François Allaire ?
Did you know that Perry Como 's musical arranger, Nick Perito , also helped Bob Hope 's wife, Dolores , revive her singing career after 60 years?
Did you know that in Jalpan de Serra in Querétaro , Mexico , there is an annual festival to celebrate "countrymen" visiting from the United States?
Did you know that the North American Star League , a professional e-sports league for players of the video game StarCraft II , will award US$ 100,000 to the winner of its inaugural season?
Did you know that Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson wrote a personal letter to Lieutenant Charles Inglis congratulating him for his part in the action of 31 March 1800 ?
Did you know that on July 28, 2006, Daytona Cubs baseball player Ryan Harvey set a Florida State League record by hitting four home runs in a game against the Clearwater Threshers ?
Did you know that Frank Searle designed the X-type and B-type bus , and was the Managing Director of Daimler Airway and Imperial Airways ?
Did you know that the Großgaststätte Ahornblatt , a concrete building in the shape of a maple leaf in former East Berlin , was built in 1973 and demolished in 2000?
Did you know that Pele 's hair, and Pele's tears are well preserved at Devastation Trail after the 1959 eruption of Kīlauea Iki crater?
Did you know that 19th-century English artist John Carter learned to draw, paint and write with his mouth, after a fall from a tree left him paralysed below the neck ?
Did you know that Jerry Harper was the first Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball player to lead his team in scoring all four years?
Did you know that Salvador Dalí insisted that his painting Galatea of the Spheres be displayed on an easel previously owned by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier in the Dalí Theatre and Museum in Figueres ?
Did you know that an annual award is given in honor of the Georgia old-time craftsman and blacksmith Alex W. Bealer , author of The Art of Blacksmithing ?
Did you know that Keipert syndrome affects the nose and big toes ?
Did you know that acquisitions whilst Christopher Wright was Head of Manuscripts at the British Library included the archives of Punch magazine and that of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ?
Did you know that Tommy Lyttle , the leader of the Ulster Defence Association 's West Belfast Brigade, liked to read James Bond novels?
Did you know that the German town of Bingen am Rhein has used Klopp Castle for city administration since 1897?
Did you know that Amy Krouse Rosenthal is the only author to have three children's books on Pennsylvania State University 's baker's dozen list of the "very best picture books published in 2009"?
Did you know that the crew of the Santorini tried and failed to smuggle weapons, hidden inside barrels, into the Gaza Strip three times, before being caught on their fourth attempt?
Did you know that the Jersey J-Cup , patterned after the Super J Cup Japanese wrestling tournament , is the second-oldest independent wrestling tournament in the United States?
Did you know that the Museo Soumaya , a private museum in Mexico City based on one couple's art collection, has the largest collection of Auguste Rodin sculpture outside of France ?
Did you know that the old television game show Place the Face asked contestants to recognize glimpses of nearly forgotten persons from their past?
Did you know that the proposed construction of the Halabiye Dam on the Euphrates in Syria threatens the Roman – Byzantine sites of Halabiye and Zalabiye ?
Did you know that the land at West Weber, Utah , was reported in 1903 to have a reputation as one of the poorest soils between the Great Salt Lake and Ogden ?
Did you know that Alexander Gradsky is believed to be the first Russian artist to have performed rock and roll music in a concert, when he was 13 years old?
Did you know that the Blockade of Wonsan in the Korean War was the longest naval blockade in modern history, lasting 861 days?
Did you know that automotive journalist David E. Davis wore a full beard after a racing accident severely disfigured his face – and the ambulance attendant threw away pieces of his nasal cartilage ?
Did you know that as a teenager, Justine Thornton , the fiancée of British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband , appeared in the controversial television comedy Hardwicke House ?
Did you know that the debut album by American singer-songwriter Lotti Golden was listed by New York Times music critic Nat Hentoff as one of the most influential albums of the late 1960s?
Did you know that the city of Ajdabiya , newly recaptured by Libyan rebels, was founded as a staging post on the crossroads of two key trading routes?
Did you know that the Franciscan Church in Zamość was among the largest churches in 17th-century Poland?
Did you know that as a senior, basketball player Pete Padgett received the Doc Martie Award, given annually to the University of Nevada's top male athlete?
Did you know that the neo-realist film A Berlin Romance is a strong critique of the obsession with consumer goods and the Americanization of mid-1950s Berlin ?
Did you know that Isaac Perrins , an 18th-century bareknuckle prizefighter , was described as "the knock-kneed hammerman from Soho"?
Did you know that just one day after arrest, Lithuanian partisan commander Adolfas Ramanauskas was transferred to a hospital in a critical condition with a punctured eye and missing testicles?
Did you know that the decorative, "humpbacked" Chamberlain Bridge in Barbados , named after British Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain , replaced an older bridge destroyed by the Great Hurricane of 1898?
Did you know that George Johnstone was a Royal Navy officer, an MP , a director of the East India Company , a member of the Carlisle Peace Commission and the first Governor of West Florida ?
Did you know that Marino Murillo , the former Minister of Economy and Planning of Cuba , believes the Cuban economic system is too paternalistic and supports the creation of a small-scale private market?
Did you know that the unauthorized use of data from the National Register of Electors , the permanent database of eligible Canadian voters, can carry a penalty of a year in prison?
Did you know that Acid-Fest , a professional wrestling memorial show for Trent Acid , featured one of the largest battle royals ever held?
Did you know that cadet Francis A. Dales began Operation Pedestal on an American merchant ship, continued on a British destroyer, and ended it on an American tanker requisitioned and manned by a British crew?
Did you know that by winning the 1979 Gillette Cup Final , Somerset County Cricket Club won their first trophy since forming 104 years earlier?
Did you know that the documentary film Berlin im Aufbau has historical significance in that it documents the first phase of the rebuilding of the destroyed city of Berlin after World War II ?
Did you know that Penally Abbey in Pembrokeshire is believed to have been founded by Saint Teilo in the 6th century ?
Did you know that although the despot of Valona John Komnenos Asen plundered a Venetian ship in 1350, he became a Venetian citizen three years later?
Did you know that in the Fringe episode " The Ghost Network ", the writers wanted guest actor Zak Orth to shave his head in preparation for a scene, but he successfully "begged" them not to?
Did you know that Gent Strazimiri , who began his career as an anti-communist activist , is now a member of the Albanian parliament for the Democratic Party of Albania ?
Did you know that the influential 2000 oncology paper " The Hallmarks of Cancer " identified six features that all cancers have in common?
Did you know that Reverend Heinrich Schmelen , a German missionary in South-West Africa , married an indigenous Nama woman in 1814, an action encouraged by the missionary societies of that time?
Did you know that the 1965 Pacific hurricane season had 10 named storms, with one storm becoming a hurricane?
Did you know that Jayden Pitt , the lightest player on the Fremantle Football Club playing list at only 70 kg (150 lb), was a surprise selection when he made his début in the opening round of the 2011 AFL season ?
Did you know that John T. Cunningham , who has chronicled much of New Jersey 's past, once said, "My goals did not include either the writing of books or becoming a historian"?
Did you know that the convoy , a group of merchantmen or troopships travelling together with a naval escort, was revived during World War I ?
Did you know that Danny Goodwin , the Chicago White Sox first-round draft pick and first overall pick in 1971, decided not to sign with the team?
Did you know that St Mary's Church , in Sandwich , Kent , was damaged by the French in 1217 and again in 1457, and by an earthquake in 1578?
Did you know that H. S. Lloyd is the most successful dog breeder in Crufts history, winning Best in Show on six occasions?
Did you know that Albert Bandura 's 1986 book Social Foundations of Thought and Action was said to contain "outlines of the grand theory" of human behaviour psychologists were seeking for over a century?
Did you know that Dead Women Crossing in Oklahoma is reputedly haunted by a schoolteacher who disappeared the day after she filed for divorce in 1905, and was found murdered two months later?
Did you know that former Kennel Club Chairman Leonard Pagliero flew supplies to the Norwegian resistance movement during World War II ?
Did you know that the Task Force on Childhood Obesity , established by the Obama Administration in 2010, seeks to eliminate childhood obesity in the United States within a generation ?
Did you know that The inSpiral Lounge is a vegetarian restaurant, organic bar and live music venue in Camden Lock , London that hosts performances of acoustic and electronic music ?
Did you know that Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin , by Timothy D. Snyder , discusses the estimated 14 million deaths that occurred in Eastern Europe between 1933 and 1945?
Did you know that The Washington Post named Libyan female lawyer Iman al-Obeidi , who accused Muammar Gaddafi 's troops of politically motivated rape, a "symbol of defiance against Gaddafi"?
Did you know that the Major League Baseball career of Larry McLean ended at the Buckingham Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri , during a drunken encounter with his manager, John McGraw ?
Did you know that Anesrif is managing the construction of the High Plateau line , a railway across Algeria ?
Did you know that Tim Tebow , Maya Moore and Matt Bonner were two-time team members of the Year in American football , women's basketball , and men's basketball , respectively?
Did you know that Mehadia , Romania , is located on the site of the ancient Roman colony Ad Mediam, noted for its Hercules baths?
Did you know that before the Hershey–Chase experiment confirmed the role of DNA , scientists believed that genes were carried by proteins ?
Did you know that French marshal Victor-Perrin , on his way to command the Siege of Kolberg (1807) , was captured by a Prussian freikorps ?
Did you know that Trey Songz ' 2011 single " Love Faces " is a mid-tempo piano -based ballad that discusses facial expressions that people make when having sexual intercourse ?
Did you know that the yacht Amazon 's former owners include Arthur Lowe of the British sitcom Dad's Army ?
Did you know that John R. Isbell was the primary contributor to the mathematical theory of uniform spaces ?
Did you know that the 2011 murder of Sian O'Callaghan in Swindon , England , has been linked to the 1996 unsolved murder of Melanie Hall ?
Did you know that John Adams ' " Christian Zeal and Activity " from American Standard is an arrangement of " Onward, Christian Soldiers ", a popular hymn tune by Arthur Sullivan ?
Did you know that in 2003 the German author Dieter Schenk became an honorary citizen of Gdańsk after his work led a German court to overturn a World War II ruling on the defenders of the Polish Post Office in Danzig ?
Did you know that 37 photographs , 12 home movies , a bunch of books and a search warrant have had their day in the U.S. Supreme Court ?
Did you know that Paul Signac praised Charles Angrand 's drawings as "masterpieces", calling them "poems of light"?
Did you know that in the churchyard of All Saints Church , in Little Somborne , Hampshire , is the grave of Thomas Sopwith , the pioneer aviator ?
Did you know that Hans Stadlmair , conductor of the Münchener Kammerorchester for almost four decades, in 1971 premiered Wilhelm Killmayer 's Fin al punto , of which the composer said, "The calm already contains the catastrophe"?
Did you know that despite being set up similarly, government-sponsored fixed markets never replaced " tianguis " or open air markets in Mexico ?
Did you know that in 1918 Morris S. Halliday , a New York State Senator for the forty-first Senate District, resigned his seat to enter the United States Army Air Service ?
Did you know that a parrot was branded sectarian after being heard whistling " Follow Follow "?
Did you know that George , a Jack Russell Terrier , died from injuries sustained while protecting several children from an attack by two Pit Bulls ?
Did you know that Austrian American biochemist Oskar Baudisch , whose study of trace elements in aqueous solutions led to his discovery of the Baudisch reaction , died by drowning?
Did you know that the mass of the extrasolar planet Kepler-11g could not be determined because its orbit is too far from those of its sister planets?
Did you know that former Washington Times editor James R. Whelan claims he was dismissed from the paper after control of it was "seized" by leaders of the Unification Church ?
Did you know that Kenny Meadows has been described as one of the best illustrators to work for Punch in the magazine's early years?
Did you know that Grant Hill 's response to Jalen Rose 's comments in The Fab Five —the highest-rated ESPN documentary—was shared by nearly 100,000 people on Facebook in the next few days?
Did you know that the M-64 highway designation in Michigan was moved twice in two years by exchanging the number with different roads?
Did you know that the first manual on a double-entry bookkeeping system was written by Benedikt Kotruljević in 1458, more than 36 years earlier than previously thought?
Did you know that in the 1970s, Shreveport historian Walter M. Lowrey headed a project on Louisiana Methodism , which included a study of circuit riders ?
Did you know that two of the venues used for the Four Hills Tournament have also been used for Olympic ski jumping competitions?
Did you know that saxophonist King Curtis was stabbed to death a week after releasing his album Live at Fillmore West ?
Did you know that Miss San Antonio 2010 Domonique Ramirez temporarily lost her title after pageant officials complained that she had gained weight and allegedly told her to "get off the tacos"?
Did you know that Czech actor Martin Miller portrayed Kublai Khan in Doctor Who ?
Did you know that near the end of its lengthy run, the television series This Is Show Business introduced the future novelist Jacqueline Susann as a panelist ?
Did you know that Norwegian behavioral neuroscientist Terje Sagvolden showed that the spontaneously hypertensive rat strain is a valid animal model for the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ?
Did you know that a tavern in Baltimore , the Henry Fite House , served as the United States capitol for two months?