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Did you know that former Rajya Sabha member Lakhiram Agrawal was detained under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act in 1975 during The Emergency ?
Did you know that smokebushes get their name from the resemblance of their flowers to smoke arising from the plant?
Did you know that Fanny Knight excavated a Roman villa, repaired a castle, wrote a book, and was an accomplished botanist and artist?
Did you know that the Museum of Goa in India does not host a permanent collection, instead operating as a gallery temporarily exhibiting works from around the world?
Did you know that the Bulgarian idiom "Ideal Petrov", denoting something of excellent quality, derives from the name of an actor ?
Did you know that the Theatre Royal in Bath has been described by the Theatres Trust as "one of the most important surviving examples of Georgian theatre architecture"?
Did you know that American sociologist Salvatore Babones specializes in topics related to the world system and China?
Did you know that the Yoga Yajnavalkya is one of the texts on asanas and meditation that dominated the Indian yoga scene before the 12th century?
Did you know that a 2001 survey found that only one of the officially named tributaries of Mahanoy Creek had fish, but that tributary had 20 fish species?
Did you know that the roof plates of traditional Acehnese houses are lashed to the beams using ropes, so that the roof can be quickly detached in case of fire?
Did you know that Patricia M. Collins and Donald Collins were the first married couple to each serve as mayor of Caribou, Maine ?
Did you know that Sankofa is the fossilized remains of eggs that were probably laid by a transitional species from dinosaurs to birds ?
Did you know that when General Vang Pao begged senior generals for reinforcements to stave off defeat in Campaign 139 , they were busy with parade practice?
Did you know that " Zueignung " (Dedication), the first published song by Richard Strauss , was dedicated to Heinrich Vogl , the principal tenor of the Munich Court Opera?
Did you know that fig cake and similar cakes have traditionally been served in the Appalachian Mountains as a part of Old Christmas celebrations?
Did you know that the mining industry of Cyprus is synonymous with copper extraction which began around 4,000 BC?
Did you know that Praška filmska škola is a term applied to the works of several Yugoslav film directors who graduated from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU)?
Did you know that in the viral ad video Heimkommen , a German grandfather fakes his own death to reunite his family?
Did you know that The Pink Assassin was a flamboyant masked villain from Fire Island , New York ?
Did you know that the Mamluk sultan an-Nasir Ahmad ruled from the desert fortress of al-Karak instead of the Mamluk capital in Cairo ?
Did you know that the Holly Steam Combination Company was the first commercially successful steam heating company for district heating from a central distribution station?
Did you know that comedian Rachel Mohlin made her acting debut in the soap opera Vänner och fiender , appearing in 695 episodes?
Did you know that the Forty Hadith authored by Ayatollah Khomeini is a collection of personal interpretations of 40 traditions attributed to the prophet Muhammad and The Twelve Imams ?
Did you know that in April 2015, Ollie Robinson became the first Sussex cricketer in 95 years to score a century on a County Championship debut?
Did you know that in Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid , BWV 3 , a chorale cantata based on Moller's hymn in 18 stanzas , the first cantus firmus is sung by the bass supported by a trombone?
Did you know that Gene Roddenberry pushed for Star Trek to be filmed in color so that the green skin of the Orion slave girl could be seen?
Did you know that Swedish journalist Per Sinding-Larsen has interviewed musicians such as Bruce Springsteen , David Bowie , and Madonna during his years at ZTV ?
Did you know that reconnaissance aircraft were flown into tropical cyclones in the Australian region only during the 1978–79 season ?
Did you know that King Henry II of England supposedly said of Alan de Neville , his chief forester, that an abbey could have his body, the king would have his money, and "the demons of hell his soul"?
Did you know that the debut single " Talk Talk " by The Music Machine has been attributed to influencing The Doors and Iron Butterfly , as well as future punk bands?
Did you know that Abbo Nassour became the speaker of the Chadian parliament in 1969, after having been sentenced to death a few years earlier?
Did you know that the steeple of the Readington Reformed Church was blown over by a cyclone on January 3, 1913 , and restored one hundred years later?
Did you know that bebop jazz pianist Richie Powell was fond of inserting musical quotes, including from nursery rhymes and opera?
Did you know that brain surgery can be done while the patient is awake ?
Did you know that between 1995 and 2003, table tennis player Jing Junhong won medals at five consecutive Southeast Asian Games ?
Did you know that the marlin sucker often clings onto its host fish in pairs, with a male under one gill cover and a female under the other?
Did you know that physicist Ronald Mickens was a member of the founding council of the Edward Bouchet Abdus Salam Institute , which supports collaboration among African and American physicists?
Did you know that the world's largest star sapphire , The Star of Adam , is valued at $100 million?
Did you know that Mary Amdur gassed her own guinea pigs to prove that breathing sulphuric acid was dangerous?
Did you know that Newry City Ladies F.C. were the first team for 14 years to win the Women's Premier League outside of Belfast?
Did you know that a small fish, the California grunion ,  buries its eggs in sand high on a beach?
Did you know that one historian described the family relationships of Alan de Neville ( floruit 1168) as "a veritable labyrinth into which many a genealogical enquiry has vanished without trace"?
Did you know that South Hams District Council in Devon offers seagull -proof refuse sacks to reduce waste and injuries caused by the birds?
Did you know that the soul sampling in Porter Robinson 's hip-hop- and disco-influenced track " Flicker " was inspired by Daft Punk 's second album Discovery ?
Did you know that the National Education Association started a teacher legal defense fund with monies left over from collections for Kate Frank 's case to be rehired by Muskogee schools?
Did you know that some trainee pilots of Project Waterpump had to sit on cushions to fly?
Did you know that the video for the rap number " An Open Letter to Honey Singh ", which was written in one hour, received around a million hits in five days?
Did you know that the 2014–15 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team coach John Beilein was voted 2014 Coach of the Year by Big Ten media?
Did you know that Crab Run is listed as being impaired by abandoned mine drainage , even though no mining has been done in its watershed?
Did you know that, according to a Reuters analyst, Hyundai launched Genesis Motors to target "fat profit margins from high-end motorists to help it reverse out of a protracted earnings slide"?
Did you know that the Alliance of Palestinian Forces , formed in 1993 by Hamas and nine other groups who rejected the Oslo Accords , was marginalized by the time of the Second Intifada in 2000?
Did you know that French economist Laurence Tubiana , appointed Special Ambassador to the COP21 climate change meeting in Paris, managed the negotiations that led to a new agreement signed by 195 countries?
Did you know that during his arrest, the suspect of the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting said in an interview, "No more baby parts"?
Did you know that one failed candidate for Toulouse 's Capitoulate tearfully complained in court that his 4000- livre bribe had bought him nothing?
Did you know that screenwriter Kelly Fremon is making her directing debut with the upcoming film Besties ?
Did you know that the 2013–14 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team were the 2013–14 Big Ten Conference champions?
Did you know that during feeding, the cichlid fish Retroculus lapidifer dives into the sediment with its mouth open and then expels sand through its gill chambers?
Did you know that Lionel Royce , who fled Europe due to the Nazi persecution of Jews, became well known in American films for playing a Nazi?
Did you know that Sudanese citizens report that the police are the most corrupt institution in Sudan ?
Did you know that while Ben Musa served as an Oregon state senator, his wife was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives , representing approximately half of his senate district?
Did you know that the McEwen Bridge has not been subjected to major rehabilitation or repair since opening in 1923?
Did you know that some fans had a racist reaction to the character of Finn in Star Wars: The Force Awakens ?
Did you know that the trematode Metorchis conjunctus can cause disease in fish-eating mammals including humans?
Did you know that Sergio Casas was elected Governor of La Rioja Province , Argentina after serving as vice-governor?
Did you know that Donald L. Bryant Jr. did not "SELL THE HOUSE SELL THE CAR SELL THE KIDS", but sold the painting in 2001?
Did you know that the wildlife of Russia includes about four million reindeer in the tundra region which can endure temperatures down to about −50 °C (−58 °F)?
Did you know that the image of Marianna Dolińska 's dead children has been falsely used to represent victims of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army ?
Did you know that Poe Dameron , portrayed by Oscar Isaac , was initially scripted to be killed off in Star Wars: The Force Awakens ?
Did you know that the symmetrical appearance of Kankainen Manor is a result of renovations made between 1762 and 1763, when the windows were realigned and a false second entrance was added?
Did you know that the 1896 US presidential campaign of William McKinley laid the groundwork for modern campaigns?
Did you know that Marathi-film director Raja Thakur holds the record of winning the Maharashtra State Film Awards three times from 1970 to 1972 in the Best Film category?
Did you know that flooding has been known to occur on Dry Run ?
Did you know that the footballer Rafa Jordà scored six goals in the 2007–08 season , which saw his side being promoted to La Liga ?
Did you know that the Racking Horse Breeders' Association of America was formed partially to give amateur horsemen a venue to train and show their own horses?
Did you know that high school best friends Zofia Glazer and Cypora Zonszajn saved Rachel while separated by circumstances beyond their control during the Holocaust in occupied Poland ?
Did you know that peak oil is the point in time when the maximum rate of extraction of petroleum is reached, after which it is expected to decline?
Did you know that Richard Honeywood established best practices for video game localization at Square after going through "pure hell" while translating Xenogears ?
Did you know that Gaylord Wilshire 's electric belt used a weak magnetic current to purportedly cure most diseases and improve health?
Did you know that President Obama shared a Death by Chocolate cake with the crew of Air Force One ?
Did you know that the Ornithological Dictionary; or Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds is George Montagu 's best-known work, and the one that established his reputation as a pioneer of British ornithology?
Did you know that Rattling Run is a Coldwater Fishery, but had no fish as of 2001?
Did you know that literary scholar Hana Wirth-Nesher grew up with her father reading to her in Yiddish , her mother and grandmother speaking to her in German , and her friends conversing with her in English ?
Did you know that the Lindbergh Beacon atop Los Angeles City Hall was deactivated after the attack on Pearl Harbor and not fully restored and reactivated until 2001?
Did you know that Rakel Wärmländer 's real-life friend, actress Josephine Bornebusch , played her friend in the film Love and Lemons ?
Did you know that in the early 1940s, the New York Yankees used the Salamanca Erie Railroad station as a rest stop because of a delayed game with the Cleveland Indians ?
Did you know that dak bungalows are "about as handsome as a stack of hay "?
Did you know that during his 50-year acting career, John Marriott originated the role of Joe Mott in Eugene O'Neill 's The Iceman Cometh , and played the asthmatic security guard in the film Dog Day Afternoon ?
Did you know that Braemar Hill Mansions in Hong Kong is composed of 15 tower blocks of 25 floors each, for a total of 925 apartments?
Did you know that during the governorship of Ridwan Pasha , founder of the Ridwan dynasty , Ottoman authority in Yemen largely collapsed?
Did you know that while Julien Baker was writing the songs on Sprained Ankle , she didn't intend to release them as an album?
Did you know that ground staff from No. 1 Initial Flying Training School RAAF won the Hewitt Trophy for small arms proficiency in 1953?
Did you know that former Bengal cricketer Prakash Poddar is regarded as the man who "discovered" Indian cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni in 2003?
Did you know that in 1965 a USGS employee found everyone he met in and around Freeburg, Pennsylvania , knew a nearby stream as " Susquehecka Creek ", but only two knew how to spell the name?
Did you know that Wided Bouchamaoui , the leader of UTICA , was one of those accepting the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet ?
Did you know that in 1573, Emperor Akbar had set up his military base camp near Gopi Talav during the siege of Surat ?
Did you know that residents in the English village of Clovelly operated their own rescue services from 1988 to 1998, because Clovelly Lifeboat Station was closed by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution ?
Did you know that in Christ, the Messenger , Swami Vivekananda attempted to analyze the life and messages of Jesus through Vedanta ?
Did you know that as many as 3.3 million newborns die each year, of which 23.4% succumb to neonatal infection ?
Did you know that many guerrilla leaders in the Guatemalan Civil War had been members of the Patriotic Labour Youth during high school?
Did you know that a museum collection of Irish film costumes compiled by Eimer Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh included a set of underwear worn by Daniel Day-Lewis in In the Name of the Father ?
Did you know that the first university course in American Literature was taught at Princeton University in 1872?
Did you know that Sarah Hay has been nominated for a Golden Globe , a Satellite Award , and a Critics' Choice Television Award for what she considers to be her first acting role?
Did you know that Turkish football referee Yeliz Topaloğlu is the first FIFA-listed female beach soccer official ?
Did you know that the Palestinian Liberation Front left the PLO in protest against the 1993 Oslo Accords ?
Did you know that the pianist Staffan Scheja had a well-publicized feud with comedian Jonas Gardell when he tried to teach Gardell how to play the violin in the series Stjärnorna på slottet ?
Did you know that the eponymous story in the manga Trash Market is based on the author's experience working at a blood bank ?
Did you know that Norman C. Pickering , co-founder of the Audio Engineering Society , was caught off guard by the introduction of the LP record ?
Did you know that a father and son received the death penalty for the Woodburn bank bombing , which accidentally killed two policemen?
Did you know that at least seven denominations trace their history to a Pentecostal church founded by Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate , the first American woman to serve as bishop in a nationally-recognized denomination?
Did you know that the fossil bee Protohabropoda has a dense coating of hairs preserved on its body in places?
Did you know that Alfred Charles Garratt was the first full-time medical doctor in electrotherapy in the United States, and wrote the first book on the subject?
Did you know that the Yoga-kundalini Upanishad is one of the most important texts on Kundalini yoga ?
Did you know that historian and priest Zenovie Pâclișanu was imprisoned by both Austria-Hungary and Communist Romania, the latter incarceration proving fatal?
Did you know that Philippine presidential candidate Roy Señeres hopes he will not be declared a " nuisance candidate " by the Comelec during the upcoming election ?
Did you know that the Mediterranean saltwort , a climax plant on the Syrian steppe , is part of the varied wildlife of Syria ?
Did you know that American wrestler Dr. Heresy has a real-life career in the mental health industry?
Did you know that a lotus medallion and a 9-foot (2.7 m)-long pillar depicting the Buddha as fire were stolen from the Chandavaram Buddhist site ?
Did you know that seven songs used in telenovelas reached number one on the Billboard Mexican Espanol Airplay chart in 2014?
Did you know that the British child rapist William Goad fled to Thailand, only to get caught using his credit card upon return and be sentenced to life imprisonment?
Did you know that Kathy Bardswick got her first job at The Co-operators Group when her mother applied for her and pretended she was Kathy when the company called back?
Did you know that of the ten songs written by Brad Neely for China, IL 's " Magical Pet ", three are performed by Cat Power ?
Did you know that after she treated injured students in the 1981 protests in Kosovo , Sehadete Mekuli was denied a full professorship at the University of Pristina and forced into early retirement?
Did you know that Rapid Vienna won the 1941 German football championship on the same day that Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that the Texas A&M–Commerce Lions women's volleyball team plays its home games at the University Field House , which George Dahl designed to resemble an airplane hangar?
Did you know that artist Naziha Mestaoui 's One Heart, One Tree installation at COP21 will support the planting of 52,677 trees?
Did you know that the hydrology of the Daecheong Dam , on the Geum River in South Korea, is influenced by seasonal monsoons ?
Did you know that Governor Thilawa of Yamethin is said to have smiled only three times in his life?
Did you know that Stanisław Lem 's character pilot Pirx defeats a perfect robot thanks to human imperfection?
Did you know that the Soviet icebreaker Moskva once helped to free a herd of beluga whales trapped by pack ice?
Did you know that Surinam-born Dutch author Astrid Roemer is the first Caribbean writer selected to receive the highest Dutch literary prize, the P. C. Hooft Award ?
Did you know that Dragon Age: Origins has 68,260 lines of dialogue, and its quality assurance testers enabled a cheat to automatically skip dialogues during test runs?
Did you know that the musicologist David Fallows discovered that the biography of composer Johannes Ciconia was actually of Ciconia's father?
Did you know that the fireworm Odontosyllis phosphorea lives unobtrusively on the seabed but rises to the surface and produces a sparkling display when it breeds?
Did you know that at General Aung San 's request, Myint Swe used to play the violin while Khin Kyi sang the hits of the day?
Did you know that a reviewer of a solo exhibition by Lena Gurr said that the American artist "painted with the gusto of a Goya "?
Did you know that in 2015, the Indian whiskey Officer's Choice became the world's highest-selling spirit brand?
Did you know that director Frank Stähle revived the choir and orchestra of Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium and conducted them in Mozart's Requiem for the centenary of the Lutherkirche ?
Did you know that physical paintings of Pepe the frog have been put up for sale on eBay ?
Did you know that Max Deutsch intentionally destroyed his compositions so that his only surviving legacy would be his students?
Did you know that King Abdullah II donated two helicopters to Jordan 's newly established Air Ambulance Center ?
Did you know that David Dewhurst 's campaign for Lieutenant Governor of Texas released disco-themed " Lt. Gov. You've Gotta Love " and " Frozen ", a parody of " Let It Go ", as political advertisements?
Did you know that Belgian cartoonist Hergé died before completing Tintin and Alph-Art , the final volume in the The Adventures of Tintin , leaving the character's fate unexplained?
Did you know that U.S. Highway 102 was the first U.S. Highway in Michigan to be decommissioned, just two years after designation?
Did you know that Larycia Hawkins , American professor at Wheaton College , was suspended after she wore a hijab and made comments regarding Christianity and Islam in December 2015?
Did you know that American Samoan association football team Utulei Youth had a perfect season in 2014, winning every game in the Senior League and taking home the President's Cup ?
Did you know that haematologist Lucy Meredith Bryce was the director of the first blood transfusion service in Australia?
Did you know that shortly after the full moon and precisely 55 minutes after sunset, the female Bermuda fireworm rises to the sea surface and produces a bioluminescent display?
Did you know that Ida Silverman logged over 600,000 air miles traveling the world, speaking and fund-raising for the creation of a Jewish state ?
Did you know that Ian McDonald 's 2015 science fiction novel Luna: New Moon has been called " Game of Thrones in space"?
Did you know that Emma Dench , a British classicist and the McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University , appeared in a film alongside her aunt Judi Dench in 1968?
Did you know that the type fossil of the damselfly Electropodagrion consists only of a thorax , leg, and wing portions?
Did you know that Lord Minginish is the first Gaelic -speaking Chairman of the Scottish Land Court ?
Did you know that the Sacred Heart Church in Exeter , England is the earliest surviving architectural work of Leonard Stokes ?
Did you know that Donald Trump 's spokesperson Katrina Pierson appeared on CNN with a necklace made of bullets?
Did you know that a legal challenge by Zunera Ishaq resulted in allowing the niqāb to be worn while taking the Canadian Oath of Citizenship ?
Did you know that Liza Levy , a board member and past president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, originally joined the group as a way to make friends and retain her Jewish identity ?
Did you know that Cyclone Ilona produced record rainfall over Pilbara , Western Australia , in December 1988?
Did you know that the scene in Neighbours Episode 7202 where Terese Willis pushed Lauren Turner into the pool could only be shot once?
Did you know that Ruth B 's debut single started off as a Vine video?
Did you know that Mycomorphoolithus is a kind of fossil egg distinguished by its mushroom-shaped eggshell units?
Did you know that some fans consider Rey from Star Wars: The Force Awakens to be a " Mary Sue "?
Did you know that Carrie Mac , a Canadian author specializing in Young Adult fiction, is a winner of the CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize, the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize , and the Arthur Ellis Award ?
Did you know that Nellie Campobello 's Cartucho is the only canonical literary representation of the Mexican Revolution written by a woman?
Did you know that Justin Bieber asked his Twitter followers to get charity record " A Bridge over You " to the UK Singles Chart Christmas number one ahead of his own song ?
Did you know that during the start up of Chicago Pile-1 , Norman Hilberry stood ready with an ax to cut the scram line?
Did you know that when the Texas A&M–Commerce Lions softball team was established in 2015, it made A&M–Commerce the last school in the Lone Star Conference to sponsor the sport?
Did you know that when Otto Hackbarth nearly defeated eventual winner Jim Barnes in the second round of the 1919 PGA Championship , The New York Times described the match as "the proverbial close shave"?
Did you know that places of worship in Woking borough include Britain's first mosque, a Buddhist temple in a former asylum and an Eastern Orthodox church in a cemetery?
Did you know that Edith Mansford Fitzgerald invented the Fitzgerald Key , which at one time was used by 75% of the US schools teaching the hearing impaired ?