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Did you know that Thado Dhamma Yaza II , Viceroy of Prome in the 1500s, fought in nearly every military campaign of his brother King Bayinnaung , and helped to expand and defend the Toungoo Empire ?
Did you know that the red nose-like structure of the cherrynose cicada contains muscles that help it suck xylem out of trees?
Did you know that Alec Lazenby has been the Vice-Chancellor of both the University of New England and the University of Tasmania ?
Did you know that Nicholas More was the first judge in colonial America to be impeached ?
Did you know that during the 2013 UFL Cup , Loyola Meralco Sparks outscored Blue Guards in an association football match by a margin of 33 goals?
Did you know that Steve Lazarides was the agent for graffiti artist Banksy and is credited with creating the popularity of urban art in the 2000s?
Did you know that the Hong Kong Security Bureau established the Outbound Travel Alert System in 2009, after a large number of Hong Kong residents were stranded during the Thai political crisis ?
Did you know that recently deceased residents of Huaquechula , Puebla , Mexico are honored with multi-level white altars for Day of the Dead ?
Did you know that sex scenes in the controversial 1967 film I Am Curious (Yellow) were shot inside the Rumskulla oak , an oak tree that is more than 1,000 years old?
Did you know that former National Football League player Walt Singer hit the pivotal home run in the North African World Series ?
Did you know that the plinth of the Rega Planar 3 record player is made by a Scottish kitchen cabinet maker?
Did you know that 4 Cheyne Walk , Chelsea , London has been lived in by the novelist George Eliot , artists William Dyce and Daniel Maclise , the composer Sir John Goss and the antiquary William Vaux ?
Did you know that Alexander Purdie 's Virginia Gazette was the first American newspaper to publish the complete full text of the United States Declaration of Independence ?
Did you know that Trolle-Ljungby Castle is allegedly cursed by trolls ?
Did you know that George H. Otten completed the landscaping plan for the Oregon State Capitol mall and was responsible for the placement of Timberline Lodge ?
Did you know that the 1964 Pondicherry legislative assembly election marked the end of the hegemony of Edouard Goubert in the political life of the Union Territory?
Did you know that Mount Hill and Hill River in South Australia were both named after John Hill ?
Did you know that the Audenried Tunnel contributes up to 80% of Catawissa Creek 's acidity?
Did you know that a previous work by Aiden Dillard , the director of Meat Weed Madness , was the only film ever booed by everyone at the screening at the TromaDance festival?
Did you know that Grange Court , built as a market hall in 1633 and decorated with carved mermaids, angels and grotesque people, was dismantled and stored in the 1850s?
Did you know that the La Follette family opposed Glenn Frank 's nomination for the University of Wisconsin presidency, appointed the Regents that removed him, and held the Senate seat he later sought?
Did you know that Kosovo Myth pictures Serbia as Antemurale Christianitatis , similarly to constructions of the other nations in the Balkans ?
Did you know that 2012 Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Alejandro Zarzuela Beltran has a twin brother who plays in the same sport and a father who represented Spain at the 2008 Paralympics in archery?
Did you know that when attacked by a sea anemone , a nudibranch Nembrotha lineolata oozed a lot of mucus and escaped with difficulty?
Did you know that award-winning film The Dancer , about a traditional dancer , is one of only three Indonesian films addressing the country's anticommunist purges of 1965–66 ?
Did you know that the 17th-century Swedish scholars Olaus Verelius and Johannes Schefferus disputed bitterly over the location of the heathen temple at Uppsala ?
Did you know that one of Aeroflot's worst accidents occurred in August 1979 ( 1979-08 ) , when two Tupolev Tu-134s collided over Dniprodzerzhynsk in the Ukrainian SSR , claiming 178 lives?
Did you know that the Derg military junta supported the formation of the Union of Ethiopian Marxist-Leninist Organizations , but eventually crushed or disbanded its member organizations ( Meison , Seded , Echat , Waz and Malerid )?
Did you know that racing legend Bobby Allison 's sons, Davey and Clifford Allison , both died within the span of eleven months in 1992–1993?
Did you know that Jean-Paul Sartre did not know that his existentialist play No Exit was adapted to a 1962 film , which featured "surprisingly overt" lesbianism?
Did you know that in " Schoolin' Life ", Beyoncé Knowles channels the friskiness of American singer Prince in his prime and employs guttural vocals to address many life lessons to everyone from their 20s to their 50s?
Did you know that German writer Ernst Ottwalt , who sought refuge from the Nazis in the Soviet Union but became its victim, was nonetheless quoted by the Soviet prosecutor at the Nuremburg Trials ?
Did you know that due to the popularity of the item numbers Munni Badnaam Hui and Sheila Ki Jawani , the actresses Malaika Arora Khan and Katrina Kaif were pitted against each other in what was called the Munni vs Sheila debate?
Did you know that Canberra Capitals player Lauren Jansen and coach Carrie Graf both started playing in the WNBL at the age of 15?
Did you know that Albanian philosopher and poet Arshi Pipa was imprisoned for ten years because he antagonized the communist regime in Albania with his recitation of a verse by Goethe ?
Did you know that the first Derby Stakes to be officially timed took place in 1846, with Pyrrhus The First completing the mile-and-a-half (2.4 km) course in 2:55.0?
Did you know that the undefeated 1922 Michigan football team held opponents to 1.8 points per game and shut out Vanderbilt and Ohio State at dedication games for their new stadia?
Did you know that the archaeological site of Tel Michal in Israel owes its name to an ancient identification of Apollo with the Semitic god Reshef ?
Did you know that the black sea cucumber can split into two by transverse fission ?
Did you know that Horst Janssen painted Friedrich von Keller with the orders he had earned during his career, which took him as a German ambassador to Belgrade, Brussels, Buenos Aires and Ankara?
Did you know that Lord High Treasurer William le Scrope was beheaded at the Bristol High Cross ?
Did you know that Amnesty International recruited writers to lobby at the Edinburgh Festival for the release of the UAE Five , imprisoned in 2011 for insulting political figures of the United Arab Emirates ?
Did you know that Rally Finland began as a qualifying event for the Monte Carlo Rally ?
Did you know that after the Italian Navy ship Sibilia collided with Kateri i Radës in the Tragedy of Otranto , as many as 83 would-be migrants from Albania died?
Did you know that the abolition of serfdom in Poland was spurred by unrest and uprisings such as the Kraków Uprising and the January Uprising ?
Did you know that the Materials Adherence Experiment on the Mars Pathfinder examined the effects of Martian dust on solar cells?
Did you know that footballer Billy Barnes scored the winning goal in the 1902 FA Cup Final for Sheffield United and played in the first Charity Shield match for QPR in 1908?
Did you know that Indonesian author Andrea Hirata 's debut novel sold three times more pirated editions than original ones?
Did you know that the Mull Covered Bridge is the last covered bridge still standing in Sandusky County, Ohio ?
Did you know that FK Fyllingsdalen originally was named FK Varden by the board, even though a majority of the club members voted for FK Fyllingsdalen ?
Did you know that Elysia diomedea is one of three species of sea slug known to exhibit kleptoplasty and thus benefit from photosynthesis ?
Did you know that the Michigan Mining School , now Michigan Technological University, held its first classes in the Houghton Fire Hall ?
Did you know that carpenter Peter Street secretly arranged to dismantle a theatre in Shoreditch, north London, for material to build the new Globe Theatre in Southwark?
Did you know that Johnny Otis ' song " Willie and the Hand Jive ", also covered by Eric Clapton and George Thorogood , has been accused of glorifying masturbation ?
Did you know that in his Poetics , Aristotle used Sophocles ' plays Odysseus Wounded and Oedipus the King as examples of one type of effective plot for tragedy ?
Did you know that the United Hockey League 's Danbury Trashers disbanded after their owner was arrested for racketeering ?
Did you know that a company of French-speaking volunteers briefly served in the Rhodesian Security Forces ?
Did you know that the stems in the pseudo- trunk of the extinct fern Tempskya decayed as the plant matured, leaving a layer of adventitious roots behind?
Did you know that William Jones bequeathed money to the Company of Haberdashers to found Monmouth School and provide almhouses for people "as blind and lame as it shall seem best to them"?
Did you know that over 700,000 bunkers were built in Communist-era Albania , most of which now have little use other than as a place to lose one's virginity?
Did you know that the director who discovered Italian film actress Lorella De Luca followed the 14-year-old girl to her home, where he convinced her father that she should pursue an acting career?
Did you know that the Brazilian big-eyed bat is one of only two species of bat in the world to chew the seeds of figs ?
Did you know that Canberra Capitals player Marianna Tolo dressed as Xena during the team's 2010/2011 Mad Monday celebrations?
Did you know that during the Red Terror in Ethiopia , the Provisional Office for Mass Organizational Affairs supervised urban militia squads?
Did you know that the fossil bivalve Emiliodonta shared its name with a coccolithophore for about a decade?
Did you know that after winning the 1841 Derby Stakes , the Thoroughbred racehorse Coronation kicked and killed a spectator?
Did you know that a fossil of Concavodonta described in 1843 has been lost?
Did you know that Jeb Burton will share a ride in the 2012 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series with his father Ward ?
Did you know that after 11 leaders of the U. S. Communist Party were sentenced to prison in 1949 for their political beliefs, the judge sent all five of their attorneys to jail for contempt of court ?
Did you know that despite its common name, California grass is not naturally found in California ?
Did you know that Bach based his cantata Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit, BWV 111 , on the 1554 hymn by Albert, Duke of Prussia , who introduced the Reformation into Prussia?
Did you know that during the Sino-Xiongnu War , the Han empire attempted alliance with a people whose king's skull the Xiongnu had made into a drinking cup?
Did you know that, for her generosity towards her employees and benevolence to local good causes, brewer Elma Yerburgh was dubbed Blackburn 's "lady bountiful"?
Did you know that the choir Groningse Bachvereniging sang Bach's Magnificat with Harnoncourts' Concentus Musicus Wien in the orchestra's first appearance in the Netherlands in 1970?
Did you know that when Waxy won the 1793 Derby Stakes , more than half of the competing racehorses were his siblings sired by Pot-8-Os ?
Did you know that Tampa, Florida , is worried that the poorly paved Bayshore Boulevard will make a bad impression on TV when the Republican Convention is held there in August 2012 ?
Did you know that Jan Maroši scored directly from a corner for Sigma Olomouc in a 1992–93 UEFA Cup match against Juventus ?
Did you know that Heze Shenhui (670–762 CE) initiated the conflict between those advocating "sudden" over "gradual" enlightenment in Zen Buddhism ?
Did you know that the children of Vietnamese prostitutes and American servicemembers from the Vietnam War were often forced into prostitution themselves?
Did you know that the 1948 Michigan Wolverines football team won the national championship while holding opponents to 4.8 points per game and extending the team's winning streak to 23 games?
Did you know that Russian wildrye is "one of the most versatile forage grasses available for dryland pastures"?
Did you know that Porter Edward Sargent 's Handbook of Private Schools was viewed as giving "the most comprehensive critiques of education published anywhere"?
Did you know that Rakni's Mound in Ullensaker , Norway, the largest barrow in Scandinavia, contained no body, only cremated skull fragments?
Did you know that the pilot episode of The Firm begins with a frenetic chase scene followed by a flashback to six weeks prior?
Did you know that Norwegian newspaper editor Christian Friele was an honorary member of the Conservative Press Association , despite not attending any of its meetings?
Did you know that prothrombin G20210A carriers who take oral contraceptives are at a 15-fold increased risk of developing blood clots in their veins ( venous thrombosis )?
Did you know that Mr. Basketball USA winners have been determined retroactively going back to 1955?
Did you know that because he believed the American government had been infiltrated by communists, one young US Marine discharged himself from the officer training program and joined the Rhodesian Security Forces instead?
Did you know that Ephraim Blaine helped to supply the Continental Army with food during their winter at Valley Forge and was the great-grandfather of U.S. House Speaker James G. Blaine ?
Did you know that when Little Wonder won the 1840 Derby Stakes , his jockey was awarded a gold-tipped riding-whip by Prince Albert ?
Did you know that the Xbox Live Arcade game Death By Cube was one of the bloodiest games to appear at the 2009 Tokyo Game Show ?
Did you know that in 1138 the Anglo-Norman nobleman Geoffrey Talbot was besieged twice by King Stephen of England but escaped capture each time the castle surrendered?
Did you know that the Cape Verdean spiny lobster Palinurus charlestoni is named after a French fishing boat?
Did you know that the race horse Phosphorus sprained a leg and was rejected by his jockey shortly before winning the 1837 Derby Stakes , during which he aggravated his injury and did not race again that year?
Did you know that the live performance of the song " Keep It Together " was inspired by the 1971 science fiction film, A Clockwork Orange , in its staging?
Did you know that Indonesian film director Ifa Isfansyah is expected to marry the daughter of another director , who is a director herself?
Did you know that a fire in Christiania in 1858 left about 1,000 people homeless?
Did you know that the medieval Anglo-Norman nobleman William de Chesney took the surname of his mother's family, as did his paternal half-brother Simon, even though Simon wasn't related to that family?
Did you know that the New York City restaurant Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare , which seats 18 people, received three Michelin stars ?
Did you know that Brazilian-born NASCAR drivers Miguel Paludo and Nelson Piquet, Jr. will be driving for the same team in the 2012 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series ?
Did you know that several Freemasons are buried on the oldest Jewish cemetery in Montana, Home of Peace in Helena ?
Did you know that Josef Jiří Kolár was the first to begin a systematic translation of Shakespeare's plays into Czech ?
Did you know that although God Bless members Ahmad Albar and Jockie Soerjoprajogo have had a falling out, their sons play music together?
Did you know that on January 10 , 2012, two new Republican members of the New Jersey General Assembly were sworn in, both named Christopher Brown ( Christopher A. Brown and Christopher J. Brown )?
Did you know that some oxohalide ions contain a linear M—O—M structure (where M = W , Ru , Os )?
Did you know that artisan botanist John Horsefield was born "dead" but went on to champion the "ignorant and degraded" Lancashire textile workers?
Did you know that Q.U.B.E. , an indie puzzle video game , was developed by Toxic Games without having a single programmer on its team?
Did you know that on the Glee episode " The Spanish Teacher ", Ricky Martin sings " Sexy and I Know It " and Elvis Presley is covered in Spanish?
Did you know that screenwriter Seth Lochhead shared the writing credit for the 2011 film Hanna with David Farr although they do not personally know each other?
Did you know that the Ingalls 4-S was the only locomotive ever built by Ingalls Shipbuilding ?
Did you know that 15 star pearlfish were found living inside a single leopard sea cucumber ?
Did you know that the United States manufactured over 2,500,000 M8 barrage rockets during World War II ?
Did you know that Stanisław Jaros was executed in 1963 for trying to kill Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and Polish Communist leader Władysław Gomułka ?
Did you know that the 259-year-old Blenduk Church is the oldest church in Central Java ?
Did you know that Hockey Hall of Famer Mickey MacKay was the highest-scoring player in the history of the Pacific Coast and Western Canada Hockey Leagues?
Did you know that authorship of the 16th-century manuscript usually referred to as Cronaca Magno is attributed to Stefano Magno ?
Did you know that a tropical storm in 1887 holds a record for the highest number of incidents at sea?
Did you know that the Watergate scandal might have been avoided had G. Gordon Liddy followed Operation Sandwedge ?
Did you know that Jimmy Van Ostrand recorded both of Canada 's runs batted in during the gold medal baseball game of the 2011 Pan American Games ?
Did you know that the fordilloid Camya asy is one of four accepted Cambrian bivalves?
Did you know that in his 1734 cantata for no specified occasion of the liturgical year , In allen meinen Taten , BWV 97 , Bach set nine stanzas of Paul Fleming 's hymn in as many movements, using the famous tune in the outer two?
Did you know that after co-founding Safe Kids Worldwide , Herta Feely became an award-winning writer?
Did you know that the cargo ship MV Spiegelgracht ferries luxury yachts from Europe to the Caribbean and back every year, allowing their owners to cruise in both summer and winter?
Did you know that Henry P. H. Bromwell 's magnum opus Restorations of Masonic Geometry and Symbolry "may very well be the most important written document on the subject of Masonry " according to the Grand Master of Colorado in 2010?
Did you know that the tiger's tail uses its tentacles to push detritus , sand and gravel into its mouth?
Did you know that Hikari and Riho became professional wrestlers in 2006 when they were 11 and 9 years old, respectively?
Did you know that the old Lahaina Fort was built to protect the town from riotous sailors?
Did you know that although Madonna 's " Masterpiece " won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song , it is ineligible for the Oscar for Best Original Song ?
Did you know that the experimental Holland 5 was one of the first two submarines to be accepted into Royal Navy service , but was already considered obsolete?
Did you know that the 2005 film Original Child Bomb included footage previously labeled top secret by the US government ?
Did you know that an injury to minor league baseball player David Adams prevented the New York Yankees from acquiring major league all-star pitcher Cliff Lee ?
Did you know that the log and half-timber construction Kluge House in Helena, Montana , a rare and historic example of Silesian fachwerk , was almost demolished in 1964?
Did you know that during World War I, Marthe Cnockaert was recruited as a spy by both Germany and Britain, and she arranged for her German recruiter to be killed?
Did you know that Exercise Summer Pulse was a worldwide surge deployment of seven carrier strike groups to test the United States Navy 's new Fleet Response Plan?
Did you know that in the 1930s, black students from the segregated Douglass High School in Webster Groves, Missouri , were allowed to visit the local public library only one afternoon per week?
Did you know that Raad Shallal al-Ani 's resignation last year as Iraq 's Electricity Minister was said to be because he was the "scapegoat for continued electricity shortages"?
Did you know that the bite of the colourful Collett's snake can lead to rhabdomyolysis and kidney failure ?
Did you know that Phoenix Sports F.C. is so called as it rose from the ashes of the Blitz ?
Did you know that Queen Liliʻuokalani 's song " Aloha ʻOe " was inspired by the tender farewell and fond embrace between Colonel Boyd and one of the young ranch ladies at Maunawili ?
Did you know that the Karlino oil eruption put an end to the dreams of Poland becoming a "second Kuwait"?
Did you know that the Hallaton Helmet may have been owned by a Briton who fought alongside the Romans during their conquest of Britain in AD 43?
Did you know that winning time of 3.04 by Ellington at the 1856 Derby Stakes was the slowest ever recorded, breaking the "record" of 3.02 set in 1852 by Daniel O'Rourke ?
Did you know that the Reformation spread to Switzerland following a dispute about sausages ?
Did you know that actor Saqib Saleem used to work with his father in their family restaurant, Saleem's, in Delhi , India?
Did you know that the series of arson fires that began on December 29, 2011 , was the worst set of arson events in Los Angeles since the 1992 riots ?
Did you know that species of the Cambrian bivalve Tuarangia lived near the continents of Baltica and East Gondwana ?
Did you know that the Atari 2600 dental hygiene game Tooth Protectors was among the earliest examples of advergaming ?
Did you know that 1810 Derby winner Whalebone had a 16-year career as a stud, which ended with a fatal injury sustained while covering a mare ?
Did you know that as commander of the destroyer USS Fanning during the action of 17 November 1917 , Lieutenant Arthur S. Carpender engaged the U-boat U-58 , and forced it to surface and surrender?
Did you know that a gulag used to mine black oil in The X-Files was inspired by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ?
Did you know that at one point in the 1970s, the Ethiopian underground publication Democracia had a larger readership than the official government press?
Did you know that the St Austell Clay Pits , in Cornwall , are one of only three locations in the UK where the rare Western Rustwort grows?
Did you know that the Society for Development and Change supports eastern Saudi Arabians campaigning to create an elected legislature ?
Did you know that after the shipwreck of the Italian SS Sirio , in which more than 100 passengers died, the captain was the first to abandon ship, and died "of a broken heart" within a year?
Did you know that National Hero of Indonesia Halim Perdanakusuma flew 44 bombing raids against Nazi Germany ?
Did you know that although winter honeysuckle is used as a decorative plant in cultivation, it can become an invasive weed in the wild?
Did you know that the National Aboriginal Veterans Monument in Ottawa , Canada , depicts four animal spirit guides surrounding the human figures?
Did you know that Australian basketball player Nicole Hunt of the Canberra Capitals is nicknamed 'Flea'?
Did you know that the Eighth Army Ranger Company lost 80 percent of its strength and only had 10 men still standing after the Battle of Ch'ongch'on River in the Korean War ?
Did you know that as a boy, Charlie Chaplin appeared on stage in Sherlock Holmes ?
Did you know that English football team Queen's Park Rangers did not introduce their current blue and white strips until 1926, some 27 seasons after they turned professional?
Did you know that explorers in the American West used wood from the bush oceanspray to make nails?
Did you know that the Brunei Civil War was triggered by a cockfight ?
Did you know that Monmouth had one of the highest proportions of Catholics in Wales 20 years before St Mary's Roman Catholic Church was built in 1793?
Did you know that future College Football Hall of Fame inductees Johnny Vaught and Bear Bryant served as assistant coaches for North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football during World War II ?
Did you know that Henry Kressel helped develop the first practical laser diodes and solar cells while working for RCA Laboratories ?
Did you know that there were no aftershocks recorded after the 6.7 M w 1965 Olympia earthquake ?