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Did you know that during the Popish Plot , John Plessington was seized at Puddington Old Hall in Cheshire , England, and hanged at Chester Castle in 1679?
Did you know that there is a storytelling scene in the novel Ang mga Anak Dalita where the Philippines is compared to a pearl, Spain to a fish , and the United States to a leech ?
Did you know that the Gorno-Altai Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic lasted for only nine months as an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic before the dissolution of the Soviet Union , which turned it into the Altai Republic ?
Did you know that the Norwegian brewery owners Ellef and Amund Ringnes have had two islands in Canada named after them?
Did you know that the Passemant astronomical clock , designed to work until the year 9999, was the first clock used to set the official time in France?
Did you know that military investigative reporter Carl Prine was accused by the Railroad Development Corporation 's owner, Henry Posner, of "profiting from the promotion of hysteria"?
Did you know that an episode of Living TV 's Most Haunted claimed that there have been over 3000 reported experiences of ghosts at the Schooner Hotel since 1998?
Did you know that Elizabeth Gatford, who endowed a charity that distributed bread to the poor at Horsham General Baptist Chapel , was buried in four coffins?
Did you know that one of Jupiter 's moons, Io, is an X-ray source ?
Did you know that not only will Jennifer Westfeldt make her directorial debut with Friends with Kids , but also write, produce and act in it?
Did you know that the endangered Hawaii bog orchid is the rarest orchid species native to Hawaii ?
Did you know that Japanese international footballer Aya Sameshima worked at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants prior to the disaster there?
Did you know that Pepsi allowed Madonna to retain her $5 million fee, despite cancelling their sponsorship deal following the controversy over the music video for " Like a Prayer "?
Did you know that Orangutans may provide their nest with pillows, blankets, bunk-beds and roofs?
Did you know that, in 1913, American aviator Albert Jewell disappeared off Long Island , New York, on his way to an air race?
Did you know that The Warring States is a 2011 film based on the rivalry between two ancient military tacticians, Sun Bin and Pang Juan ?
Did you know that more than one million copies of Loaded Questions have been sold, though the creator originally had to borrow about $18,000 from his parents and sell the game out of his car's trunk?
Did you know that, in 1874, Kansas State University 's Department of Industrial Journalism began offering the first American program of study in printing ?
Did you know that the Battle of Leitzersdorf cost the Holy Roman Empire the Archduchy of Austria ?
Did you know that swimming instructor Robert Emmet Odlum died from the first jump off the Brooklyn Bridge ?
Did you know that Makhdoom Mohiuddin , the president of the All Hyderabad Trade Union Congress , was arrested at the founding meeting of the organization in 1946?
Did you know that Georgia O'Keeffe 's first skull painting which is held by the Arizona State University Art Museum references the memento mori concept?
Did you know that the Ruskin Dam has been a filming location for the TV series The X-Files , MacGyver , Smallville , Dark Angel and the movie The Invisible ?
Did you know that Martin Camaj 's novel Rrathë is considered to be the first psychological novel in Albanian ?
Did you know that the Museum of Broken Relationships received the 2011 Kenneth Hudson Award for the most innovative museum in Europe?
Did you know that Suleiman the Magnificent supposedly gave İncili Çavuş a pearl to wear to distinguish him from other sergeants?
Did you know that Christine Jorgensen Reveals is a docudrama about the first celebrity transsexual , who was called the world's most famous woman at the time?
Did you know that though generally uncommon, tornadoes in New England have nevertheless included two of the ten most damaging such storms in U.S. history?
Did you know that Elizabeth Maitland was a member of the secret organisation the Sealed Knot and that she was accused of witchcraft due to her political influence?
Did you know that during the First World War, the sail-steamer SS Lanthorn was attacked by a German U-boat , and although her crew was rescued, she sank while under tow?
Did you know that the world's fastest supercomputer, in Japan, costs $10 million a year to operate?
Did you know that in Azerbaijan , the Heydar Aliyev Foundation builds more schools than the Ministry of Education?
Did you know that in the 2011 NBA Draft , reigning NBA champion Dallas Mavericks selected Qatari basketball player Tanguy Ngombo , even though his age and eligibility were disputed?
Did you know that the Theil–Sen estimator can accurately fit a line to a set of sample points even when up to 29% of the points have been arbitrarily corrupted ?
Did you know that the National Archaeology Museum of Bolivia has been described as Bolivia's most prominent museum?
Did you know that Duchy of Opole and Racibórz , one of many Duchies of Silesia , was created in the 13th century, split by the end of it, and recreated in the 16th by the last Piast ?
Did you know that students at the Stella Maris Polytechnic university in Monrovia , Liberia , pay only US$5 tuition per credit?
Did you know that Juan Gualberto Gómez was the most conspicuous Afro-Cuban leader during the Cuban War of Independence ?
Did you know that the main house at Dicksonia Plantation in Alabama was destroyed by fire twice during the 20th century?
Did you know that Tamil writer A. K. Chettiar published his first magazine at the age of 20?
Did you know that in the 1948 municipal polls in Pondicherry , largely assumed to have been rigged, the French India Socialist Party won all 102 seats?
Did you know that, in 1927, Jessie Miller became the first woman to complete an England-to-Australia flight?
Did you know that the music video for " Pon de Floor ", a dancehall and funk carioca song by Major Lazer , contains scenes of people dry humping and incorporates daggering choreography?
Did you know that in 1954 The New York Times warned that the Communist Party of French India was likely to seize power in the colony?
Did you know that the CFTR inhibitory factor can induce cystic fibrosis (CF) -like conditions in the lungs of a non-CF patient?
Did you know that following a landmark decision of the United Kingdom's Supreme Court , the same judge passed sentence on each of the six politicians in separate trials charged in relation to the 2009 Parliamentary expenses scandal ?
Did you know that American journalist Charles Franklin Hildebrand earned the Purple Heart and Silver Star for his World War I service in the battles of the Marne River and Argonne Forest ?
Did you know that the anarchist Revolutionary Avengers group from 1910 to 1914 has been described as the most radical terrorist organization in the history of Poland ?
Did you know that witnesses have reported ghostly lights and phantom fires emanating from the Dr. John R. Drish House in Tuscaloosa , Alabama?
Did you know that Demi Lovato and Miley Cyrus partnered with The Jed Foundation to help teenagers cope with personal struggles?
Did you know that Marimba Ani first introduced the term Maafa to describe the African holocaust ?
Did you know that Mikhail Lakhitov started competing in international poker competitions in 2010 and by June 2011 was one of the top 20 poker players in the world?
Did you know that the critically acclaimed 2010 novel And the Land Lay Still by James Robertson won the prestigious Scottish Book of the Year Award ?
Did you know that Germany, prohibited by the Treaty of Versailles from having an air force, operated the secret fighter-pilot school Lipetsk in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1933?
Did you know that the Nigerian NAPEP poverty reduction program has been a recent target for hacktivists ?
Did you know that Norwegian journalist Bjørn Bjørnsen started his journalistic career when 15 years old?
Did you know that the Kentucky physician and Yale alumnus Forest Shely was for 56 years a trustee of the Baptist institution Campbellsville University ?
Did you know that by making her debut in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup at the age of 16, Cecilia Santiago became the youngest-ever goalkeeper to appear in a World Cup?
Did you know that Keechaka Vadham was the first silent film made in South India ?
Did you know that Mitch Schock , who earned his first World Series of Poker bracelet at the 2011 World Series of Poker has finished in the money at least five times in each of the last three World Series of Poker?
Did you know that American perennial candidate Jack Fellure , whose platform is based on the Authorized 1611 King James Bible , received the 2012 presidential nomination of the Prohibition Party ?
Did you know that the movies Green Street Hooligans and Cass are based on West Ham United F.C. supporters ?
Did you know that The Captive King is a lost painting by Joseph Wright of Derby that showed Guy de Lusignan taken prisoner, after the relics of the true cross were said to be lost?
Did you know that the McArthur Mining Company was Michigan's first coal mine?
Did you know that 17-year-old Uruguayan footballer Juan Cruz Mascia has been hailed as the heir to 2010 FIFA World Cup star Diego Forlán in the English and South American media?
Did you know that on 12 June 1944, during the Battle of Breville , friendly fire killed the commander of the attacking force and wounded two British brigadiers?
Did you know that the Big Moose from Antigonish was the "King of the Klondike?"
Did you know that Herlinatiens ' first novel about lesbian relationships is considered the "coming out" for Indonesian writings about gays and lesbians?
Did you know that Mietek Pemper , who was forced to work as Amon Göth 's secretary, compiled and typed Oskar Schindler 's famous list, which saved 1,200 Jewish prisoners from the Holocaust ?
Did you know that the 225th (Parachute) Field Ambulance a British airborne forces unit, became responsible for the medical welfare of German U-boat crews?
Did you know that Benjamin Wistar Morris, III designed the first skyscraper in Portland, Oregon ?
Did you know that the British steamship Nancy Moller was intercepted in 1951 by HMS Cossack whilst carrying a cargo of rubber to China in contravention of a United Nations embargo imposed due to the Korean War ?
Did you know that when yeshiva students learn with their chavrusas , they may wave their hands and shout at each other?
Did you know that the Cherry Hill Farmhouse in Falls Church, Virginia , appears in the works of American poet James Whitcomb Riley ?
Did you know that despite starting in the 1959 VFL Grand Final , Australian footballer Graham Leydin only started two games in the 1961 season?
Did you know that Denmark–Eritrea relations are conducted via their embassies in Kenya and Sweden after Denmark closed their embassy in Eritrea less than five years after it opened?
Did you know that the African Methodist Episcopal University is the second largest university in Liberia ?
Did you know that shortly before Doris Lessing 's Alfred and Emily was published, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist announced it was her final book?
Did you know that despite failing eyesight, Fred Townsend played for the 1887 Michigan football team and later became chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party ?
Did you know that The Herald said the character Manda from Alan Warner 's 2010 novel The Stars in the Bright Sky was "the most vivid, aggravating lynchpin in recent Scottish fiction"?
Did you know that when the SS Ava was wrecked off the coast of Ceylon in February 1858, her passengers included Lady Julia Inglis and her sons, John and Alfred , who were evacuees from the Siege of Lucknow , and the ship's doctor, James Little , who was later to become Honorary Physician to King George V ?
Did you know that Temple III at the Maya city of Tikal in Guatemala was the last pyramid ever built there?
Did you know that Green Seamount , an underwater volcano , could have taken up to 260,000 years to reach its present height?
Did you know that, in 1933, when attempts were made to restore the monarchy in Bavaria to stall the Nazis ' rise to power, Adolf Hitler warned the Bavarian government that this would lead to a "terrible catastrophe"?
Did you know that although Jeremy Howard-Williams was a fighter pilot , he wrote the "classic account of the sail-maker's art"?
Did you know that Vinita Gupta is credited as being the first woman of Indian origin to take her company public in the United States?
Did you know that the freighter Noemijulia was bombed twice during the Spanish Civil War but went on to survive World War II?
Did you know that the fan campaign to release specific Wii video games by the game developer Nintendo received an official response from the company?
Did you know that the rose garden at Lymm Hall in Cheshire , England, was Edward Kemp 's first recorded commission?
Did you know that unlike the 1990 film version starring Johnny Depp , the 2005 theatrical adaptation of Edward Scissorhands was set in the 1950s and performed to musical accompaniment?
Did you know that U.S. Army pilot Mayhew Foster in 1945 transported Luftwaffe chief Hermann Göring from Austria to Germany, where Göring stood trial for war crimes at Nuremberg ?
Did you know that the 1995 novel Angel Angel is being adapted into the film Long Time Gone starring Meg Ryan ?
Did you know that John Philip Sousa considered David Wallis Reeves "The Father of Band Music in America"?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Debra developed from a cold low and a tropical wave ?
Did you know that Slobodan Branković ran in the men's 400 metres (1,300 feet) race in the 1992 Barcelona Games as an Independent Olympic Participant ?
Did you know that University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp at age 17 won a regional contest for the fastest time solving a Rubik's Cube puzzle?
Did you know that the Shankar Mahadevan Academy is an online music academy founded by award-winning composer and singer Shankar Mahadevan ?
Did you know that despite winning seven national championships from 1899 to 1912, the Yale football team had 14 head coaches in those 14 years, including a lingerie manufacturer , "the phantom line cleaver" , a manufacturer of machine guns , a victim of typhoid fever , a Harvard law student , the senior partner of Smith Barney & Co. , the grandfather of a noted documentary filmmaker , the nephew of the U.S. Secretary of State , and the president of a historically black university ?
Did you know that O moj Shqypni has been described as one of the most influential and most important poems written in Albanian ?
Did you know that the benefactor of Soldiers Chapel , near Big Sky Resort , wrote that hillbilly Bible thumpers, conscientious objectors, and those refusing to salute the US flag should be excluded from the chapel?
Did you know that journalist Nils Vogt was the first chairman of the Norwegian Press Association ?
Did you know that the memoir I Married Wyatt Earp , supposedly by Wyatt Earp 's wife Josephine , was regarded as factual and cited by scholars, but was discovered to be a "fraud" and a "hoax" after 23 years?
Did you know that the Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , first formed in 1920, has since been renamed three times, most recently as the Udmurt Republic in 1991?
Did you know that Odessa, Texas oil industialist and banker Bill Noël also raised pecans for commercial food production on a ranch in Sutton County ?
Did you know that the Philippine play Walang Sugat ("Not Wounded") was a statement against imperialism by its author , the father of the Tagalog zarzuela ?
Did you know that Ang Singsing ng Dalagang Marmol (c. 1905) is one of the Philippines' first historical novels written in the twentieth century?
Did you know that Louisiana Tech University English professor Robert C. Snyder worked on the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee , during World War II?
Did you know that Tonogayato Garden in Kokubunji, Tokyo is built on the terraced cliffs of Musashino , with a lawn on the hilltop overlooking a bamboo forest and pond at the bottom?
Did you know that in the 2002 Jammu & Kashmir Assembly election, communist candidate Mohammad Khalil Naik won the Wachi seat by only 80 votes?
Did you know that " Déjame Entrar " by Colombian singer-songwriter Carlos Vives was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Tropical Song ?
Did you know that despite Spider-Man 2 being the most critically praised entry in the franchise , it is also the lowest grossing in the trilogy?
Did you know that Owen Crowe has made four World Series of Poker final tables in the past four years and two top-100 main event finishes in the last three years?
Did you know that the Aguamilpa and Zimapán Dams in Mexico are over 185 m (607 ft) high and were funded in part by the same World Bank loan?
Did you know that retired hockey goaltender Rick St. Croix and his sons Chris and Michael were all drafted in the 4th round of the NHL Entry Draft , albeit in different years?
Did you know that in 1943, Horsa gliders were towed 3,200 miles (5,100 km) from England to Tunisia during Operation Turkey Buzzard without knowing whether this would be possible?
Did you know that Theodore W. Brevard , a military officer who served with the Confederate States Army , was captured by General George Custer 's cavalry?
Did you know that in 1981 an Israeli 69 Squadron F-4 Phantom II numbered 222 collided in mid-air with an F-16 Fighting Falcon bearing the exact same number?
Did you know that Little Marton Mill was built in England in 1838 and restored in 1937 to become a memorial?
Did you know that the United States mediated the 1962 New York Agreement as part of a plan "to prevent Indonesia from falling under communist control and to win it over to the west"?
Did you know that during World War II, the Germans built a bomb- and gas-proof bunker on Jerbourg Point , the southeastern point of Guernsey in the English Channel?
Did you know that Shigeo Satomura pioneered non-invasive monitoring of blood flow in the human body using ultrasonic Doppler techniques in the 1950s?
Did you know that the Philippine play Paglipas ng Dilim ("After the Darkness") tackles the conflicts of mixing cultures from the Philippines, Spain, and the United States?
Did you know that although Norma Lyon studied animal science at Iowa State University, she ended up sculpting butter at state fairs?
Did you know that the Ritz-Carlton in Atlantic City was home to Nucky Johnson , the political boss portrayed in the American television series Boardwalk Empire ?
Did you know that USMC Lieutenant General Henry Louis Larsen was Governor of American Samoa and Governor of Guam after his father-in-law and brother-in-law were each Governor of Colorado?
Did you know that the Grade II* listed Lower Huxley Hall in the English town of Huxley , Cheshire , is approached by a Grade II* listed bridge and archway, and stands on a moated site that is a scheduled monument ?
Did you know that in 2011 Jonathan Audy-Marchessault became the first player to lead the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League in playoff scoring despite not playing in the final playoff round?
Did you know that the Nehru Setu , built in 1900, was the longest railway bridge in India until a longer one was opened in February 2011?
Did you know that after the Ottoman general Turahanoğlu Ömer Bey wiped out one of Dracula 's armies in 1462, he deposited 2,000 severed heads at the feet of Sultan Mehmed II ?
Did you know that The Last Ringbearer , an English translation of a Russian alternative retelling of Lord of the Rings , has been published as a non-commercial ebook after a 10-year delay due to fears of litigation?
Did you know that the Robert Hull Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont includes a complete set of the Description de l'Égypte , a book series based on the French campaign in Egypt under Napoleon?
Did you know that the Cape dune mole rat can excavate up to 500 kg (1,100 lb) of soil in a month?
Did you know that Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words is a theatrical work that involved readings of celebrity memoirs by performers including a few Saturday Night Live cast members?
Did you know that the 2002 Costa Rican presidential election was the first in the country's history to go to a second round?
Did you know that during World War II, an officer from a British airborne forces unit recommended a German NCO for the Iron Cross ?
Did you know that basaloid squamous cell lung carcinoma was first described in 1992 and declared a lung cancer variant by the World Health Organization in 1999?
Did you know that Russian forces killed Abdulla Kurd , al-Qaeda 's top operative in Chechnya, one day after U.S. forces killed al-Qaeda head Osama bin Laden ?
Did you know that initial student admission in 2010 for the Dominica State College planned for 900 applicants, was less than 400, and resulted in an extension of enrollment and waiver of the admission fee?
Did you know that the Austin Powers films won 20 awards , including one for Beautiful Stranger sung by Madonna ?
Did you know that the 87th season of the Philippines' NCAA kicks off today at the Araneta Coliseum ?
Did you know that other than the Second World War, there has never been a declaration of war by Canada ?
Did you know that the Duke of Cambridge's Personal Canadian Flag was first used during the 2011 Royal tour of Canada?
Did you know that Mount Ida Plantation in Talladega County, Alabama , burned to the ground after being struck by lightning?
Did you know that Riella is the only liverwort to grow as a submerged aquatic ?
Did you know that Doris Lessing 's book The Sweetest Dream was originally intended to be volume three of her autobiography, but she made it a novel to avoid offending people?
Did you know that although the first six of Ben Lamb 's World Series of Poker in the money finishes were in Texas hold 'em , all three of his final tables have been in pot limit Omaha hold 'em ?
Did you know that during World War II, Wyoming State Senator Robert H. Johnson flew bombing missions in support of the French Resistance against the Nazis?
Did you know that although wine production is important to the economy of Tequisquiapan in Mexico, the locals do not generally consume it?
Did you know that journalist Sony Esteus had his arm broken by the Port-au-Prince police while covering a story?
Did you know that Hockey: Canada's Royal Winter Game , published in 1899, was the first book on ice hockey , and only four copies are now known to exist?
Did you know that Frederick Settle Barff invented a device, similar to a catalytic converter , to remove SO 2 and CO 2 from the exhaust fumes of locomotives in the 1860s?
Did you know that reportedly haunted locations in Scotland include a tenement where bubonic plague victims were quarantined and starved to death by local councilmen?
Did you know that as part of the DC Universe reboot, Justice League Dark has been launched featuring some of DC Comics ' more bizarre and supernatural characters?
Did you know that The Dominica Museum in Roseau contains an example of the pwi pwi , a miniature raft native to Dominica ?
Did you know that Union , a German-Hungarian trade union council, had substantial following amongst agricultural labourers in southwestern Slovakia after the First World War?
Did you know that 94 pieces of Spanish colonial silver and 22 New Mexican santos are part of the University of New Mexico Art Museum 's collection?
Did you know that during the Second World War, 10 countries formed Convoy HX 300 , which consisted of 166 ships covering an area 9 miles (14 km) wide and 4 miles (6.4 km) long?
Did you know that musician David Rothenberg appears in a YouTube video playing jazz with cassini periodical cicadas , insects noted for their synchronized rhythm?
Did you know that the Slovak Social Democrats founded their own party in 1905, but merged back into the Hungarian Social Democratic Party after a few months due to economic problems?
Did you know that several fires and the construction of the Croton Aqueduct shaped the Downtown Ossining Historic District of New York?