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Did you know that the 2017 Finnish film The Unknown Soldier set the Guinness World Record for most high explosives detonated in a single film take?
Did you know that Green Bay Packers cornerback Kevin King played most of his first season with an injury to his shoulder which dislocated several times and left him unable to lift his arm over his head?
Did you know that Aplerbeck , now part of Dortmund , is associated with two legendary martyrs and a regional psychiatric clinic founded in 1890?
Did you know that the Japanese names of the fireflies Luciola cruciata and Aquatica lateralis may derive from two early Japanese novels or the two clans that fought the Genpei War ?
Did you know that a housewife, Bhogeswari Phukanani , played a part in the Quit India Movement and lost her life in doing so?
Did you know that the Typhon surface-to-air missile was developed as part of a system to replace the United States Navy 's "3T"s?
Did you know that many modern Bible scholars consider the story of the prophet Jonah a work of satire ?
Did you know that in 1912, Granville Pearl Aikman , a judge of the 13th District Court of Kansas, appointed the first female bailiff in US history?
Did you know that the critically endangered Tuncurry midge orchid is threatened by rabbits and urban developments?
Did you know that French politician Ian Boucard was the announcer at ASM Belfort home matches?
Did you know that the Los Frailes ignimbrite plateau has a volume of about 2,000 cubic kilometres (480 cu mi), and volcanism may have continued into the Holocene ?
Did you know that claims have been made that the headquarters of the African Union , donated by the Chinese government, was bugged by the Chinese?
Did you know that the longest-serving woman in the House of Commons of Northern Ireland was also the grandmother of two prime ministers?
Did you know that there is a conspiracy theory about the presence of an abandoned subway station in New York City east of Euclid Avenue ?
Did you know that a Women's Night is still celebrated by a group of indigenous people in Taiwan as a legacy of their centuries-long matrilineal practice?
Did you know that Holy Trinity, Cork , is the only church dedicated to Father Mathew ?
Did you know that the General Alliance against Racism and for Respect for French and Christian Identity sued Le Figaro for defamation against Catholics?
Did you know that Captain G. S. Salaria is the only United Nations peacekeeper to have been awarded the Param Vir Chakra , India's highest wartime military decoration?
Did you know that the effects of Hurricane Irma in Florida resulted in at least $50 billion in damage, far surpassing Hurricane Andrew as the state's costliest tropical cyclone?
Did you know that there was a 58-year gap between the terms of office of the first and second women cabinet ministers of the Republic of Ireland ?
Did you know that the original lyrics of Maurice Chevalier 's song " Valentine " were changed so as not to shock the American public?
Did you know that one of the stained glass windows in the Duluth Public Library was exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition ?
Did you know that Bambang Soesatyo lost four elections before being elected to the People's Representative Council of Indonesia on his fifth attempt?
Did you know that prototypes of the JB-3 Tiamat air-to-air missile were the first missiles to be launched at the Wallops Flight Facility by the Langley Research Center ?
Did you know that Saw Ganesan founded the Kamban Kazhagam to promote the epic poem Kamba Ramayanam , written by the medieval Tamil poet Kambar ?
Did you know that while five of the states of the US observe a variation of Disability History Month in October, it is unofficially observed in the United Kingdom from November to December?
Did you know that Pandri is the first decentralized solar-powered village in India ?
Did you know that American historian William Chaney would pretend to shiver and look the other way whenever he walked by a statue of General Sherman ?
Did you know that the Zulu festival Umkhosi Wokweshwama was a partial inspiration for the African-American holiday of Kwanzaa ?
Did you know that American psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee briefed 12 members of the U.S. Congress on the mental health of President Donald Trump , although she had never met him?
Did you know that despite being considered obsolete, the yacht Voortrekker placed second in the 1982/83 BOC Challenge , beaten only by a yacht purpose-built for the race?
Did you know that Viking expert David M. Wilson became just the 17th Director of the British Museum in its 224 years?
Did you know that the history of speciation largely began with Charles Darwin 's publication of On the Origin of Species ?
Did you know that Siegfried Lorenz , the first lyrical baritone of the Berlin State Opera , recorded 151 songs by Schubert and sang "with an enviable control of line and dynamics", according to Alan Blyth ?
Did you know that the director of the Noyes Museum of Art said it "was in a beautiful location but it was in the middle of nowhere"?
Did you know that Sufjan Stevens wrote both " Mystery of Love " and "Visions of Gideon" for the 2017 film Call Me by Your Name , even though he was only asked to write one song?
Did you know that the small town of Mintaro, South Australia , produces world-class slate from what is believed to be the oldest continuing operating quarry in Australia?
Did you know that Illinois -born basketball player Erin Lawless played for Slovakia , despite not being able to speak the language ?
Did you know that the third opera by Alessandro Solbiati , Il suono giallo , is based on Wassily Kandinsky 's experimental play The Yellow Sound and premiered in Bologna in 2015?
Did you know that a tripwire can be used to deter salami attacks ?
Did you know that Jérémie Azou was unbeaten in men's lightweight double sculls races from 2015 to October 2017?
Did you know that "Irish villagers" and "girls in clinging lace costumes" could once be seen along the boardwalk of Bergen Beach , a residential neighborhood in New York City ?
Did you know that Elad Chakrina initially won Mayotte's 1st constituency by 12 votes, lost by 54 votes after a counting error was corrected, then forced a by-election after an appeal?
Did you know that Robin Lee Wilson project-managed the installation of an Archimedes' screw water turbine at the 18th-century Coultershaw Wharf and Beam Pump to supply electricity to the National Grid ?
Did you know that the crab hacker barnacle is a parasite of crabs and manipulates its host into caring for its eggs?
Did you know that the song "Gallan Goodiyaan" from the 2015 Indian comedy-drama Dil Dhadakne Do was apparently filmed in a single five-minute take?
Did you know that the Australian yachtsman Vinny Lauwers circumnavigated the globe solo with his "mistress"?
Did you know that at age 12, Edin Šehić became the youngest footballer to sign a scholarship contract with NK Zagreb ?
Did you know that the Evangelical Heritage Version of the Bible was translated by a group of Lutheran volunteers?
Did you know that in 1953, the council architect 's department of the London County Council employed more than 1,500 people?
Did you know that the North American fungus Boletus aurantiosplendens has been found in only seven distinct locations?
Did you know that Aileen Hernandez was once told that she would have to hire a "black" taxi if she was going to travel to the traditionally African-American Howard University ?
Did you know that the Mediterranean Sea may have been filled by a giant flood with a discharge rate about 1,000 times larger than that of the Amazon River ?
Did you know that in Nazi Germany , Karl Maria Zwißler conducted major works by composer Igor Stravinsky regarded as degenerate music , including the ballet The Firebird and the German premiere of Dumbarton Oaks ?
Did you know that Russian serial killer Mikhail Popkov has confessed to murdering more people than either Andrei Chikatilo or Alexander Pichushkin ?
Did you know that the seeds of the Bredasdorp sceptre are carried underground by ants?
Did you know that, from 1966 to 1991, the Yearbook on International Communist Affairs was the most comprehensive annual survey of Communist activities worldwide?
Did you know that Blanche Georgiana Vulliamy was fond of portraying bats , goblins , and other reclusive and grotesque creatures?
Did you know that in a recent court case , the Minnesota Supreme Court resolved a dispute between the state's legislative and executive branches for the first time in its history?
Did you know that the Church of St. Lambertus in Immerath, Germany, withstood artillery fire in World War II, but not the expansion of a lignite mine in 2018?
Did you know that People described a carry-on manufactured by Away as "the little black dress of luggage"?
Did you know that a "near-riot" broke out after Cory Booker cast the deciding vote to seat Shanique Speight as a member of the Newark, New Jersey city council?
Did you know that the Easton Area Public Library holds what is believed to be the original Flag of Easton that was flown in the town during the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence ?
Did you know that fourteen players have scored an international hat-trick for the Wales national football team ?
Did you know that King Abdullah II of Jordan, who claims to be a 41st-generation direct descendant of Muhammad , funded the restoration of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in 2017?
Did you know that Stuart Mustow recommended that Birmingham City Council lose responsibility for maintaining the city's Inner Ring Road due to construction defects?
Did you know that despite director John Frankenheimer 's preference for the first ending he had shot for Ronin , the test audience "hated it"?
Did you know that German author Natalie Grams set out to write a scientific defense of homeopathy , but instead discontinued her homeopathic practice and wrote a book called Homeopathy Reconsidered ?
Did you know that four years ago today, 2,000 passengers stranded in China's Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport during a snowstorm rioted over delayed flights , destroying check-in desks and assaulting staff?
Did you know that the M60 and Q70 bus routes in New York City were upgraded because LaGuardia Airport had no other rapid transit options?
Did you know that the Republic SD-4 and Fairchild SD-5 reconnaissance drones were designed to provide targeting data for tactical ballistic missiles ?
Did you know that General Sir Brian Robertson said: "General Montgomery does not cheat – whether that is due to his innate honesty or the fact that I watch him like a cat does not matter"?
Did you know that though the Saleh Kamboh Mosque of Lahore was built during Mughal emperor Aurangzeb 's reign, it has architectural features of the Shah Jahani era?
Did you know that the New Zealand Māori folk song " Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi " was hijacked by British and Irish Lions rugby fans?
Did you know that prickly felicia belongs to the daisy family and is found on sand dunes in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa?
Did you know that Celia M. Burleigh became the first woman pastor ordained into the Unitarian ministry ?
Did you know that an archaeological find identified as a 10th-century Viking helmet has been alleged to actually be a World War II Luftwaffe helmet ?
Did you know that all of the proposals to honor Michael Jackson at New York City's Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets subway station have been declined?
Did you know that Chinese naval commander Zhang Wendan exchanged information on pirate activity with the Japanese, in a rare occasion of military cooperation between the two countries?
Did you know that the Rahway River Parkway , designed by Olmsted Brothers in the 1920s, was a project of the newly-formed Union County parks commission?
Did you know that, according to Lord Mountbatten , Queen Elizabeth II planned to hit Idi Amin with the Pearl Sword if he came to her Silver Jubilee ?
Did you know that Donna Kennedy became the world's most-capped women's rugby player in 2004, and by 2007 was also the most-capped player in Scotland, retiring in 2010 with 115 caps ?
Did you know that before one pharaoh could construct his own monument, the Pyramid of Nyuserre , he had to complete the three monuments to his mother, father, and elder brother?
Did you know that the upcoming film Paul, Apostle of Christ features Jim Caviezel 's first appearance in a biblical film since he portrayed Jesus in The Passion of the Christ ?
Did you know that the African weaver ant has been used to control the coconut bug ?
Did you know that in one 1858 baseball game, Frank Pidgeon threw more than 400 pitches?
Did you know that a BBC executive boasts that actors of the Corporation ' s Radio Drama Company can be "mice, ants, naiads or dryads , men morphing into hares , maggots in a fisherman's sack, or even a tray of fancy cakes"?
Did you know that the first time Ethel Page met her husband – a future Australian prime minister – he accidentally set her on fire?
Did you know that filming of the two-episode event " Gorilla City " on the third season of the 2014 television series The Flash was moved south of the original filming location, due to prolonged snowfall in Vancouver ?
Did you know that Savannah Jordan was the first soccer player in the history of the Southeastern Conference to be named SEC Offensive Player of the Year as a freshman?
Did you know that Cortinarius metallicus got its name from its bluish metallic sheen?
Did you know that during the Siege of Katsurayama , the castle garrison poured rice from their walls to fool the besiegers into thinking they had ample water?
Did you know that at 0.7 miles (1.1 km) long, Interstate 878 is the shortest interstate highway in the U.S.?
Did you know that when soprano Lucy Crowe became ill, her replacement Sabina Puértolas had only three hours to rehearse before performing at the Royal Opera House in London?
Did you know that Palazzo Corpi , the longtime United States consulate in Istanbul , was acquired by the American government in a poker game?
Did you know that the night before the 2003 Football League Second Division play-off Final , the Queens Park Rangers ' team hotel was targeted by a malicious false fire alarm?
Did you know that the first Edison incandescent lamp-illuminated home was James Hood Wright 's residence in New York City in 1881?
Did you know that the Swan with Two Necks was one of the principal departure points for coach travel to the north of England from London?
Did you know that Janet Napolitano , a former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security , sued her own agency ?
Did you know that the horseshoe shrimp Hutchinsoniella macracantha is the first example of a new class of crustaceans that was given the name Cephalocarida ?
Did you know that Montana lieutenant governor Archibald E. Spriggs participated in a secret scheme to allow William A. Clark to retain his Senate seat?
Did you know that after making a portrait bust of Giuseppe Garibaldi , sculptor Elisabet Ney is thought to have provided him with military intelligence during the Third Italian War of Independence ?
Did you know that the Twinnies would play accordion and sing while rollerblading ?
Did you know that the Seattle Sounders FC were second-to-last when they hired coach Brian Schmetzer , but finished the season by winning the MLS Cup ?
Did you know that after a bitter dispute over its curriculum in 1890, the High School of Montreal was destroyed by fire?
Did you know that Nikolaus Herman based the melody of his Christmas carol " Lobt Gott, ihr Christen alle gleich " on the Gregorian hymn " Puer natus est nobis "?
Did you know that Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong met for the last time during the Chongqing Negotiations ?
Did you know that while pushing for the repeal of New Jersey 's obscenity laws, Assemblyman Walter Kern argued that "adults should be able to purchase whatever their perverted hearts desire"?
Did you know that the footballer Robin Turner scored twice on his home debut for Swansea City , equalling the number of league goals he scored for former club Ipswich Town in nine seasons?
Did you know that when Cristo Rey OKC high school opens in fall 2018, students will be able to work for Boeing , Love's Travel Stops , and more than 30 other employers as part of work-study ?
Did you know that French politician Véronique Hammerer , a member of La République En Marche! , said it was "terrible" that her husband could not buy a Porsche Cayenne for fear of public criticism?
Did you know that Thyonicola dogieli , a parasite of sea cucumbers, is the longest gastropod in the world?
Did you know that Yves Volel was Anderson Cooper 's math teacher at the Dalton School in Manhattan before returning to Haiti to run for president, where he was assassinated?
Did you know that The Colossus of Rhodes , a painting by Salvador Dalí , is heavily influenced by an article by the sculptor Herbert Maryon ?
Did you know that at two million words, Men of Good Will by Jules Romains is one of the longest novels ever written ?
Did you know that ProRodeo Hall of Fame steer roper Guy Allen 's record streak of 11 consecutive world titles was ended by Buster Record?
Did you know that despite its "tasty flesh" and abundance, the southern cuttlefish Sepia australis is currently of little interest to fisheries?
Did you know that the English radiographer Ethel Armstrong has worked for the National Health Service since the day it was founded in 1948?
Did you know that several composers of the 18th century used Paul Gerhardt 's hymn " Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld " to begin their Passion music ?
Did you know that deliberately stopping a phone call before it is answered can be a form of communication in its own right?
Did you know that Willem Ravelli was the voice of Christ in Bach's St Matthew Passion more than 400 times, including the first complete recording of the work conducted by Mengelberg ?
Did you know that the baritone Johannes Hill was the voice of Jesus and Pilate in Bach's Passions , and of Pope Francis in the premiere of Laudato si' ?
Did you know that Mexican-American Holocaust survivor Anthony Acevedo mixed snow and urine with the ink of his pen to ensure he could maintain his concentration-camp diary?
Did you know that the spymaster and cricketer J. C. Masterman trained at the Royal Naval College, Osborne ?
Did you know that Sharon Calahan is the first member of the American Society of Cinematographers whose feature film background is entirely in computer animation ?
Did you know that " Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut " (Lord Jesus Christ, you highest good) is the beginning of two Lutheran hymns , one for penitence , the other for communion ?
Did you know that Opening Day for the Seattle Mariners in 1982 was delayed when a player hid the keys to the bullpen car ?
Did you know that the American-made schooner Meteor III was the largest yacht in the world when built for German Emperor Wilhelm II ?
Did you know that Gujarati poet Panna Naik was inspired to write by Anne Sexton 's Love Poetry ?
Did you know that the two-millennia-old Nijmegen Helmet was found in a river bank?
Did you know that during the First World War the British Army recruited Maltese waiters to serve its Salonika Army ?
Did you know that Emily Riehl , former bassist for the band Unstraight, wrote about "unstraightening" in her research as a professional mathematician?
Did you know that the extinct ant Usomyrma was thought to be ancestral to spider ants when first described?
Did you know that the new World Trade Center was once projected for completion in 36 years, longer than the original complex had existed?
Did you know that when the English surgeon Frances Ivens joined the military hospital at Royaumont in France during the First World War, she had no experience in treating men?
Did you know that a sculpture of the god Neptune on one of the parapets of the University of Washington 's Gerberding Hall represents the academic disciplines of oceanography and fisheries science ?
Did you know that Lady Camilla Bloch has spoken out against those who call her father a murderer?
Did you know that dimension stone from the Sulphur Mountain Formation has been used extensively in buildings around Banff, Alberta ?
Did you know that Danielle Herrington , cover model for the 2018 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue , booked her first swimsuit shoot four months after moving to New York City to pursue modelling?
Did you know that in the aftermath of the Gajda Affair , the government of Czechoslovakia moved to disenfranchise the army's officer corps?
Did you know that during the American Civil War , Barney Prine made money by running races against fellow soldiers in the 1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment ?
Did you know that James W. Downing , a survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor , compiled lists of his shipmates' names and addresses to inform their families back home?
Did you know that Ralph Abernathy was harshly criticized by other African-American civil rights activists for alleging in his autobiography that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. committed adultery the night before he was assassinated?
Did you know that Alliance Defending Freedom's first landmark case was the 1995 US Supreme Court lawsuit Rosenberger v. University of Virginia ?
Did you know that Mary Nomura , a singer who was sent to the Manzanar concentration camp as an orphaned teenager, became known as the "songbird of Manzanar"?
Did you know that the terms of the Treaty of Livadia between Qing China and the Russian Empire were so unfavorable to China that the negotiator Chonghou was sentenced to death?
Did you know that sisters Carmen and Ramona Brussig were born within 15 minutes of each other and won Paralympic gold medals within 15 minutes of each other?
Did you know that people supposedly kept picking up a vanishing hitchhiker outside the Lower Bell pub in Kent ?
Did you know that Goldman Sachs bankers Richard and Robert Menschel are related to E. W. Priestap , assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division ?
Did you know that the 1,000-year-old Buttington Oak , said to have been planted to commemorate the 893 Battle of Buttington , fell last month?
Did you know that Elsa Cavelti , who appeared in dramatic roles at the Opernhaus Zürich and taught voice at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt , was Wagner's Brangäne at La Scala ?
Did you know that the comic book Damnation is about Doctor Strange fighting the demon Mephisto for the souls of Las Vegas citizens?
Did you know that at the 2018 Winter Olympics, New Jersey -born Anthony Watson became the first slider to represent Jamaica in skeleton at the Olympic level ?
Did you know that while most Indonesians do not speak Arabic, they learn to read the Quran using a textbook called Iqro ?
Did you know that the mutualistic aphid Paracletus cimiciformis sometimes develops into a form that feeds on the young of the ants that care for it?
Did you know that an arrow killed Hugh of Fauquembergues , Prince of Galilee , in a skirmish when he was returning from a plundering raid?
Did you know that in 2017 Georgetown University named a building after Isaac Hawkins because his name appeared first on the list of enslaved people sold by them in 1838 ?
Did you know that Swedish songwriter Kenneth Gärdestad wrote the lyrics for the Melodifestivalen 1979 winning song " Satellit " performed by his brother Ted Gärdestad ?
Did you know that several astronomical observatories are constructed on the Purico volcanic complex ?
Did you know that Clarence G. Child , a scholar of medieval literature at the University of Pennsylvania , was also a hobbyist mathematician?
Did you know that the Domestic Partnerships Act 2018 made Bermuda the first national territory in the world to re-prohibit new same-sex marriages?
Did you know that the land snail genus Vatusila was named after a Fijian tribe known for killing and eating the missionary Thomas Baker in 1867?
Did you know that philologist Caroline Brady wrote about the words used for weapons and warriors in the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf ?
Did you know that Kennington tube station , opened in 1890, is a listed building and the only one from the world's first underground electric railway to retain its original appearance?