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Did you know that in 1906, ties between England and Spain were sufficiently strong that King Edward VII and King Alfonso XIII became joint patrons of the Royal Calpe Hunt ?
Did you know that Charles W. Adams , a Confederate colonel during the American Civil War , was a grandfather of Helen Keller ?
Did you know that the French aimed to use the Casablanca Fair of 1915 to open up trade markets in Morocco and to demonstrate their power?
Did you know that with their victory over Mississippi State , the 1956 Alabama Crimson Tide football team ended a 17-game losing streak and gave Ears Whitworth his first win as head coach ?
Did you know that the shell of the extinct sea urchin Pelanechinus corallina was composed of separate groups of fused plates which resulted in its being flexible?
Did you know that Dancing Barry started as a Houston Rockets counterpart to Dancing Harry and later performed with Paula Abdul for the Los Angeles Lakers ?
Did you know that the building of the Bangas Gymnasium in Korcë , Albania , was erected with the support of the Lasso , a local community fund aimed at the promotion of Greek education and culture?
Did you know that Australian bass-baritone Horace Stevens was also a dentist, teacher, tennis player, sculler , and World War I Army officer?
Did you know that middle to upper Paleolithic sites have been found along the Shetrunji River ?
Did you know that French Army officer Henri Simon helped to produce the 1934 film Itto ?
Did you know that Jamil Mihhu, contesting the Beirut II constituency in the 1968 election , was the first Kurd to run for office in Lebanon ?
Did you know that six conductors took part in the retirement concert for Stephen Gray , including Simon Rattle , whose career Gray promoted?
Did you know that tools made from human bones have been found at the Carlston Annis Shell Mound in Kentucky?
Did you know that a "magnificent" furniture depository in Hove , England, designed by local architects Clayton & Black , later became an insurance office and—in November 2012 —the Montefiore Hospital ?
Did you know that Townsend F. Dodd was the first US pilot to receive the Distinguished Service Medal in World War I ?
Did you know that the Maya city of Dzibanche in southeastern Mexico was the early capital of the Kan dynasty, which later ruled from Calakmul ?
Did you know that Mike Jolly was the starting weak side cornerback in 35 of 36 games for Michigan teams that played in two Rose Bowls and a Gator Bowl from 1977 to 1979?
Did you know that during the early 20th century, Halfaya , in central Syria , was a village where collective farming was practiced by the twelve clans who inhabited it?
Did you know that when he was 13, Leonard Wood created a washing machine engine-powered go-kart that reached a top speed of 25 miles per hour (40 km/h)?
Did you know that Indonesian batik designer Obin sometimes asks people not to cut up her cloths?
Did you know that The 1975 became popular because of Sex ?
Did you know that the Japanese goose barnacle broods its eggs in its mantle cavity where they may be eaten by a worm living there?
Did you know that the authors of Crisis and Transformation conclude that the erotic novel The Carnal Prayer Mat was not written by 17th-century Chinese scholar Li Yu ?
Did you know that the release of Google Maps as an application on iOS caused iOS 6 upgrades to surge 30%?
Did you know that the USS Clifton was originally named the SS Dilworth ?
Did you know that the song " Otome Sensō " by Momoiro Clover Z can be interpreted as the girl group's declaration of war for the top of the Japanese idol music scene?
Did you know that the Defense Officer Personnel Management Act instituted an " up or out " promotion system across the United States Armed Forces ?
Did you know that María Isabella Cordero , a former Mexican anchorwoman on Televisa , was killed in Mexico's most violent state in 2010?
Did you know that McNeese State defeated Tulsa in the inaugural 1976 Independence Bowl despite the suspension of sixteen McNeese players?
Did you know that the BBC comedy-drama Lapland was set in Finland but filmed in Norway, where the cast stayed in army barracks ?
Did you know that renowned antebellum potter Christopher Haun was executed for his participation in the East Tennessee bridge-burning conspiracy ?
Did you know that the Gibraltar Heritage Trust is a non-profit charity responsible for preserving and promoting Gibraltar 's manmade and natural heritage?
Did you know that the trout population in Mann Lake was once threatened by goldfish , prompting the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to intervene?
Did you know that Gibraltar 's North Bastion and South Bastion were built by Spain to protect the city against attacks from either direction?
Did you know that Dr. Moshe Wallach , founder and director of Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Hospital for 45 years, lived in the hospital and was buried beside it ?
Did you know that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg made a cameo appearance in the series finale of Gossip Girl ?
Did you know that Amala Shankar , the Indian danseuse , is the wife of Uday Shankar and sister-in-law of Ravi Shankar ?
Did you know that the giant slit-pore sea rod can grow to more than a metre (yard) tall?
Did you know that Peter Penfold was widely considered a hero in Sierra Leone, despite having been dismissed as British High Commissioner?
Did you know that the graphics for the video game Clay Jam were produced in a garage using 44 pounds (20 kg) of clay and 400 toothpicks?
Did you know that Edda Goering played in a fifty-metre-long replica of Frederick the Great 's Sanssouci palace, built for her by the Luftwaffe in an orchard at Carinhall ?
Did you know that today is the birthday of Dattatreya , the combined form of the Hindu Trinity ?
Did you know that Owen Ray Skelton is credited with engineering a rubber engine mount system for cars known as " floating power " to greatly cut down on engine vibration to the chassis?
Did you know that A Is for Acid , a biopic of Acid Bath Murderer John Haigh , was filmed in Scarborough because of the town's similarity to parts of 1940s London ?
Did you know that at the age of 16, Karl Towns was named to play on the Dominican Republic national basketball team while he was a student at St. Joseph High School in New Jersey ?
Did you know that the 1971 Chouf parliamentary by-poll was described at the time as the "most fiery" by-election ever in Lebanon?
Did you know that Lupton City in Chattanooga, Tennessee , was created in the 1920s as a planned community for a thread mill and its workers?
Did you know that while the roots of the international human rights movement are about a century old, it grew in global significance around the 1970s?
Did you know that Norman Claxton won the South Australian National Football League twice, scored 199 not out in first-class cricket , and was inducted into the Baseball Australia Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that Steindamm Church was destroyed during the Siege of Königsberg and rebuilt in 1263?
Did you know that Kānekapōlei prevented the kidnapping of her husband King Kalaniʻōpuʻu and their sons by Captain Cook , one of the events that led to Cook's death in Hawaii?
Did you know that Mike Shula succeeded Mike Price as the head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team in 2003?
Did you know that Natir Puja (1932) is the only film where Rabindranath Tagore was credited as film director?
Did you know that John Lennon 's ballad " Out the Blue " expressed his devotion to wife Yoko Ono , even though Lennon and Ono were separated at the time?
Did you know that in Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter , the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government was obligated to pay in full any contracts that it had entered into with Indian tribes?
Did you know that Bach's cantata for the second day of Christmas , Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes ("For this the Son of God appeared"), BWV 40, is his first Christmas cantata composed for Leipzig?
Did you know that Jean Forbes-Robertson , a Shakespearean actress, frequently played Peter Pan ?
Did you know that Benin adopted a Presidential Council system with three political rivals serving as president together to prevent civil war following the 1970 elections ?
Did you know that jewelled chameleons are threatened by the burning of their grassland habitat ?
Did you know that the video game Rotozoa is part of Nintendo 's Art Style series?
Did you know that Paul Thurmond , the youngest son of Strom Thurmond , was born when his father was 73 years old?
Did you know that a single HVDC converter can convert up to two thousand megawatts of electric power from DC to AC ?
Did you know that Catalan flamenco guitarist "Chicuelo" has been the music director of Shōji Kojima 's dance company in Japan since 1992?
Did you know that the "get out the vote" system used by Mitt Romney in the 2012 United States presidential election crashed repeatedly on election day, depriving his campaign of last-minute information?
Did you know that William I of Germany was crowned King of Prussia in the Schlosskirche within Königsberg Castle ?
Did you know that the second single from Leona Lewis ' third studio album Glassheart was originally going to be "Fireflies", but " Lovebird " was released instead?
Did you know that the extinct maple Acer ivanofense is known from four Alaskan fossils?
Did you know that Erdene Zuu Monastery in Mongolia has a 24-inch penis ?
Did you know that junitoite and ruizite were both discovered in Christmas, Arizona ?
Did you know that the installation of an artificial Christmas tree in Brussels prompted an online petition against it with 25,000 signatures?
Did you know that in Dandy Dick Whittington , Dick is a circus rider who goes to Siam to secure love and fortune?
Did you know that the Tamale Teaching Hospital , the third teaching hospital in Ghana , started as the Tamale Regional Hospital in 1974?
Did you know that it has been suggested that Father Christmas in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Father Christmas Letters may have been an inspiration for Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings ?
Did you know that despite the belief that the Christmas pickle tradition originated in Germany, it is generally unknown there?
Did you know that Hans Pfitzner composed Das Christ-Elflein ( The Little Elf of Christ , sometimes given as The Little Christmas Elf ) first as incidental music , then in 1917 as an opera ?
Did you know that The Big Bang Theory episode " The Santa Simulation " features a Christmas-themed Dungeons & Dragons game?
Did you know that on Christmas Day in 1997, a One Day International between India and Sri Lanka became the first international cricket match to be called off because of a dangerous pitch ?
Did you know that director Ken Russell created the Christmas themed A Kitten for Hitler after being challenged by Melvyn Bragg to make a film Russell himself would want to ban?
Did you know that in New South Wales, the mountain beech can hybridise with the native holly and the crinkle bush ?
Did you know that Cliff Richard's 1990 UK Christmas number one song " Saviour's Day " was succeeded by Iron Maiden's " Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter "?
Did you know that Carl Russ started as a walk-on and became the starting wide linebacker for Michigan football teams that had a record of 20–1–1?
Did you know that Trinitatis Church was seriously damaged in the Copenhagen Fire of 1728 but was rebuilt in 1731?
Did you know that William Hatteclyffe served King Edward IV as physician , King's Secretary , and diplomat ?
Did you know that a Viking torc and an 18th century harpsichord are exhibited at Falsters Minder ?
Did you know that the rights for Rambo: The Video Game were secured in part because of the scheduled release of the Sylvester Stallone action film The Expendables 2 ?
Did you know that the fortune of England's richest commoner, William the Miser , was lost in lawyers' fees in 117 years of litigation over his estate?
Did you know that the 1966 film The Sons of Great Bear was East Germany 's first Western , presenting the Oglala Lakota as heroes struggling against the villainous Whites?
Did you know that before founding his own production company, Iddo Patt appeared in a remake of the game show Twenty One ?
Did you know that, in preparation for British military intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War , two CH-47 Chinooks conducted the longest self-deployment of helicopters in British history?
Did you know that South Carolina's U.S. Senate seat for the 2014 special election should be filled by Stephen Colbert , according to a Public Policy poll ?
Did you know that Charles Garabed Atamian 's paintings of the beach in Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie consolidated his reputation as an artist?
Did you know that the upcoming video game Johann Sebastian Joust has no graphics and does not even use a video screen ?
Did you know that Chhota Bheem and the Curse of Damyaan , a 2012 Indian animated film , was a surprise success at the box office?
Did you know that with the addition of Bhutan , Grenada , and Andorra in 2012, the Ramsar Convention has 163 contracting countries with 2,065 wetlands of international importance?
Did you know that the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta , a cooperative effort involving six Christian denominations , has been described as "one of the more successful ventures in black ecumenism"?
Did you know that while travelling in Italy in 1898, American hydraulic engineer Clemens Herschel found an ancient manuscript about the water system of Rome , and translated and published it in English?
Did you know that Fred Julian led Michigan in rushing in 1959 and led the New York Jets in interceptions in 1960?
Did you know that an employee of the Bank of England 's incinerator plant in Debden helped to steal more than £600,000 over four years by stuffing banknotes into her underwear?
Did you know that today is the day when Krishna gave the holy sermon of the Bhagavad Gita to the Pandava prince Arjuna , as described in the Mahabharata ?
Did you know that Japanese industrialist Inabata Katsutaro , a member of the House of Peers , put on Japan's first projected film programme?
Did you know that when it first opened in 1991, The Peninsula Beverly Hills was the first luxury hotel to open in Beverly Hills for 20 years?
Did you know that a 27-year-old law student was the sole challenger against the candidature of Maronite strongman Suleiman Frangieh in the 1968 election in the Zgharta constituency ?
Did you know that professional mixed martial arts fighter Abel Trujillo was expected to make his UFC debut at UFC 151 , but it became the first-ever cancelled event in the organization's history?
Did you know that by the end of the Third Siege of Gibraltar in 1333, the city 's inhabitants were reduced to eating their shoes because the town's governor had stolen the money meant to pay for food?
Did you know that the Iron Confederacy , an alliance of North American Plains Indians , expanded its power base from what is now northern Manitoba in the 1690s to Montana by the 1850s?
Did you know that Noori is the first pashmina goat to be cloned by using the process of nuclear transfer ?
Did you know that Walt Downing , the seventh All-American center for Michigan , won a Super Bowl with the 1981 San Francisco 49ers ?
Did you know that the Leningrad première of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 was broadcast by loudspeakers throughout the city, and to the German forces as psychological warfare?
Did you know that Kojo Tovalou Houénou became a prominent critic of French colonialism in Africa after being ejected from a Paris club where he was attacked by Americans who objected to an African being served?
Did you know that all Armenian parliamentarians elected from the Beirut I constituency in 1968 ran unopposed ?
Did you know that Israel Keyes confessed to murder, rape, arson, and bank robbery in several states before committing suicide in his jail cell in Anchorage, Alaska ?
Did you know that in the Hindu epic Ramayana , Maricha assumed the form of a golden deer studded with gems to facilitate the kidnapping of the heroine ?
Did you know that Maryland Route 170 was relocated for the construction of Baltimore/Washington International Airport in the late 1940s?
Did you know that the creator of the TV series Homeland , Gideon Raff , is the son of a former Accountant General in Israel's Ministry of Finance?
Did you know that the 1968 election in the Beirut III constituency saw Sunni former rivals Abdallah al-Yafi and Saeb Salam unite around a joint candidature?
Did you know that when Oprah Winfrey saw American model Jasmine Tookes perform on the runway at Lincoln Center , she extolled Tookes' "butter" soft skin and requested that Tookes "rub your face against mine"?
Did you know that Bo Schembechler praised Pete Newell for traveling to Iowa with the 1969 Michigan football team rather than to a large antiwar rally "with the damn hippies where he really wanted to be"?
Did you know that the Mexican gang Los Ántrax is named after the disease anthrax ?
Did you know that the Crusaders under Bohemond I of Antioch exacted a large tribute from the Muslim residents of al-Muslimiyah following their capture of the village in 1103?
Did you know that Orson Welles used a pseudo-documentary sequence in his film Citizen Kane ?
Did you know that the eldest son of Richard Neville, 2nd Baron Latimer , was married to Catherine Parr before she was King Henry VIII 's Queen?
Did you know that the video game Wizorb was originally released for a game console , but the developers recommend using a mouse over a gamepad for the PC version?
Did you know that after Nik Stauskas became Big Ten Conference Freshman of the Week, he scored twenty points in back-to-back games to earn the honor again?
Did you know that climbing routes on Gibraltar Rock include Crime of Passion, Illusions of Grandeur, and Rooster Carnage?
Did you know that Andy McDonald , the newly elected Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough , has already worked with parliamentarians as a special adviser to the Defence Select Committee ?
Did you know that defence may not have been the primary function of Cornwall ' s cliff castles ?
Did you know that Hermann Hogeback 's entire bomber crew was decorated with the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II , a unique distinction in the Luftwaffe ?
Did you know that the year 1930 in tennis saw the record for the most match points saved in a match of the Davis Cup Inter-Zonal Zone final between Giorgio de Stefani and Wilmer Allison ?
Did you know that Daggerfall , the second game in Elder Scrolls series of video games , has a game world claimed to be of the size of Great Britain ?
Did you know that the sea urchin order Echinothurioida was known only from fossils until deep water exploration discovered living species such as Calveriosoma gracile ?
Did you know that Mal Sanders, the winner of the Mike Marino Memorial Shield , had been travelling with Marino when he died on the M20 motorway in 1981?
Did you know that a voltage controller is a device which dims street lights, controls the temperature of heating at home, and controls the speed of motors?
Did you know that the Glen Davis Shale Oil Works was the last oil-shale operation in Australia until the commencement of the Stuart Oil Shale Project in late 1990s?
Did you know that the USCGC Smilax (WLIC-315) , a 100-foot inland construction tender , is the current "Queen of the Fleet" of the United States Coast Guard ?
Did you know that the video game Street Fighter X Mega Man was developed by one fan with the support of Capcom ?
Did you know that " Normal ", the twentieth episode of American TV series New Girl , inspired a real-life drinking game with rules released by Fox ?
Did you know that Charles Darwin called The Naturalist on the River Amazons "the best book of Natural History Travels ever published in England"?
Did you know that Ivo Puhonny created the Baden-Baden puppet theater in 1911, and many of his marionettes are preserved in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden ?
Did you know that the upcoming video game Demon Gaze is a sequel and will include new half-machine demons ?
Did you know that BRISMES awarded Westminster professor Naomi Sakr the Middle Eastern Book Prize for "the best book written on Arab television"?
Did you know that the Chouf District had the highest number of voters in the 1968 Lebanese parliamentary election ?
Did you know that the star of Pah Wongso Pendekar Boediman , Indonesia's first detective film, was best known as a social worker ?
Did you know that the commanding officer of the New Zealand Army 's 4th Division for part of 1942 and 1943 was also the professor of agriculture at Massey University ?
Did you know that the Sargassum nudibranch travels the world's oceans on seaweed ?
Did you know that Rekha 's portrayal of a classical courtesan in Umrao Jaan fetched her the National Film Award for Best Actress ?
Did you know that Lady Carlisle so adamantly opposed alcohol consumption that when her daughter married a brewer, she refused to speak with her for years?
Did you know that Michigan quarterback Jim Betts persuaded Bo Schembechler in 1969 to relax his clean-shave policy by claiming that facial hair was part of the African-American players' "heritage"?
Did you know that the island city of Nojpetén was the capital of the last surviving Maya kingdom when the Spanish stormed it in 1697?
Did you know that Body of Proof episode " Hunting Party " was directed by Paul Holahan and featured Jeri Ryan , both of whom had worked on the legal drama Shark ?
Did you know that decorator crabs stick camouflage on their backs using Velcro -like curved hairs?
Did you know that Hidden Cave , an archaeological cave site located in the Great Basin near Fallon, Nevada , got its name because its entrance was difficult to find?
Did you know that following the death of Pope John Paul II , some 40,000 Catholics gathered in front of the Bishop's Palace in Kraków for a night vigil and prayer?
Did you know that Pringle Stokes , captain of HMS Beagle on its first voyage, and Robert FitzRoy , captain on the second voyage , both committed suicide?
Did you know that numerous Olympic and World weightlifting champions from Armenia hail from Gyumri , a city with a population of 150,000?
Did you know that Kučuk Alija killed Hadži Mustafa Pasha , a vizier of the Belgrade pashalik , at the end of 1801?
Did you know that Marty Friedman left Megadeth only to get mixed up with bodacious space pirates ?
Did you know that Ohio 's first archaeological investigation was conducted at the Marietta Earthworks ?
Did you know that the Off TV Play feature of the new Wii U does not work for all games, and some developers have chosen not to offer it?
Did you know that the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources , led by future poet laureate Sam Ragan , was the first cabinet-level department in the United States focused solely on the arts and history?
Did you know that the Dawson river blackbutt indicates sodic soil ?
Did you know that Bo Schembechler knew his 1969 team was no longer afraid of Ohio State when a fight the day before the game ended with Cecil Pryor yelling, "And we're gonna kick your ass tomorrow, too!"?
Did you know that the conquest theory of state formation in anthropology has its roots in work by Ibn Khaldun , who wrote in the 14th century?
Did you know that Lieutenant General Thomas G. Miller oversaw the First Army moving its command from Fort Gillem to Rock Island Arsenal in 2011?
Did you know that there is an Elfstedentocht display at the Fries Scheepvaart Museum ?
Did you know that her experiences with girls on the street led philosopher Bertrand Russell 's "stern and gloomy" Aunt Maude to write Clubs for Working Girls ?
Did you know that Showtime was inspired by a nightclub frequented by Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss ?
Did you know that Ahmad Tohari 's Kubah ( Cupola ), which follows a man's induction into communism, has been characterized as Islamic preaching ?
Did you know that video game studio Crystal Dynamics is the developer of the Legacy of Kain , Gex and Tomb Raider video game series?
Did you know that Hayazn burned the Hungarian flag after Ramil Safarov 's release to Azerbaijan?
Did you know that Moses Moreno filed a grievance against the San Diego Chargers for releasing him while he was injured?