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Did you know that the short story " Black Destroyer " was the basis for A. E. van Vogt 's lawsuit against 20th Century Fox , as the plot of the movie Alien matched it so closely?
Did you know that Gisèle Rabesahala was the first woman to lead a political party and become a government minister in Madagascar ?
Did you know that the cocoon of a tiny wasp that parasitises the alfalfa weevil can "jump"?
Did you know that Hugues Fabrice Zango was Burkina Faso's only medalist at the 2015 Summer Universiade ?
Did you know that the One Piece Treasure Cruise mobile game has been one of the highest grossing titles in Japan and the US?
Did you know that the Franciscan Helmut Schlegel wrote the lyrics of an oratorio Laudato si ' , including writings by Francis of Assisi and Pope Francis , and the Magnificat ?
Did you know that the eighth-century Umayyad Painting of the Six Kings is badly damaged, partly as a result of Alois Musil 's attempts to remove it from its site in Quseir Amra , Jordan?
Did you know that the fairy gerygone nests near wasp nests, possibly to keep itself safe from predators?
Did you know that the English footballer Roy Jennings scored 60 goals during his career, 51 of which were penalties ?
Did you know that the Tumbuka people 's Vimbuza tradition uses dance, music, and singing to heal illness?
Did you know that seeking to challenge both Fatah and Hamas , five left-wing factions united to jointly contest the 2016 Palestinian local elections , which have since been postponed?
Did you know that the auction in 1973 of 50 pop art works from the collection of Robert Scull was viewed by the art establishment as the " nouveaux riches cashing in"?
Did you know that the Güney Waterfall , a natural monument , was reestablished 50 m (160 ft) to one side after a landslide swept away its original location?
Did you know that the setting of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is heavily based on the city of Miami ?
Did you know that Harry Norwitch served five terms on Philadelphia's City Council but quit his race for re-election in 1967, calling the Democratic party machine "self-serving"?
Did you know that the closest relative of the Caribbean sea slug Pleurobranchus areolatus is Pleurobranchus varians from the central Pacific?
Did you know that "eloquent" Holbrook , "popular" Humble , ex-Congregationalist Miller , and Pilling who feared "plottings", were all vicars of St Mark's , Huddersfield, England?
Did you know that the first paper mill in Scotland was located in Dalry, Edinburgh ?
Did you know that Alastair Storey ended celebrity chef Jamie Oliver 's two-year reign as "most influential" in the British hospitality industry?
Did you know that Salar de Coipasa , Salar de Uyuni and Lake Poopó were formerly part of the larger Lake Minchin ?
Did you know that Comoran Olympian Maoulida Darouèche has competed in both the 400 metres hurdles and the javelin throw ?
Did you know that the Tolpuddle Martyrs were tried in the Shire Hall at Dorchester ?
Did you know that Rafael María de Aguilar y Ponce de León was the longest serving Governor-General of the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period ?
Did you know that before she became a famous aviator, Amelia Earhart was a social worker at Denison House in Boston ?
Did you know that the 1994 bomb explosion in the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad left at least 25 dead and 70 to 300 injured?
Did you know that Burundian Abraham Niyonkuru finished fourth in the 10,000 metres at the 2005 Jeux de la Francophonie despite being only 0.03 seconds behind the silver medallist?
Did you know that the modern Palestinian village of Beit Qad is associated with the biblical locality of Beth Ekad, mentioned in the Book of Kings as the site of a massacre?
Did you know that the French Consul to Hawaii Marie Gabriel Georges Bosseront d'Anglade accompanied Queen Liliuokalani on her visit to the leper settlement of Kalaupapa in 1891?
Did you know that flowerpots for the Ming emperors were made in official Jun ware ?
Did you know that a 1994 John F. Gaffney proposal would have allowed Donald Trump to own four Atlantic City casino licenses, even though all three of his casino properties there had recent bankruptcy filings?
Did you know that ancient Indian texts include as many as 64 different lipi ?
Did you know that Ralph Nader was nominated by the Ecology Party of Florida as a presidential candidate in 2008?
Did you know that SMS Custoza was the first Austro-Hungarian major warship to have an iron hull?
Did you know that the British long-distance runner Andy Vernon won silver and bronze at the 2014 European Athletics Championships , losing out to Mo Farah both times?
Did you know that tunnel nests of the rosy bee-eater become submerged in the rainy season?
Did you know that Kentucky family court judge Timothy N. Philpot says he does not "mention Jesus inside the courthouse very much, even when I know he is absolutely the only answer to the problem in front of me"?
Did you know that the award-winning Bulgarian film Glory was inspired by a newspaper clipping about a railway worker who discovered a huge pile of banknotes on the tracks?
Did you know that athletes from more than 50 countries who had a prior doping offence were allowed to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that John J. Horn supported New Jersey 's proposed Illegal Alien Employment Prohibition Act, stating "illegal aliens holding jobs represent more than half of our total unemployed"?
Did you know that no official conservation measures are in place to protect the critically endangered Iris cedreti , endemic to Lebanon ?
Did you know that in the Battle of Kharistan in 737, the Umayyads caught the Turgesh khagan off guard with only a fraction of his army, and secured a victory that saved Arab rule in Central Asia?
Did you know that the Zimbabwean prophetess Mai Chaza , who called herself a messenger from God, was regarded by her followers as an African reappearance of Christ?
Did you know that the Peak Farmland theory predicts that global acreage of farmland will decrease, even as the world population grows?
Did you know that Katsura Hoshino says she comes up with most of the ideas for the manga series D.Gray-man after falling asleep in her bath?
Did you know that the author of Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future argues we are living in a golden age ?
Did you know that Gertrude Foster Brown encouraged New York women to exercise their new right to vote in her 1918 book Your Vote and How to Use It ?
Did you know that although the black grasswren was discovered in 1901, its nesting habits remained unknown for nearly one hundred years?
Did you know that Christiana Willes is sometimes incorrectly attributed as the founder of roundarm bowling ?
Did you know that in 1972, Idi Amin expelled Hindus and other Asians from Uganda after he said God told him to do so in a dream?
Did you know that Māori tribal leader and baptized Mormon Mere Mete Whaanga and her sister-in-law made quite a spectacle on the streets of Salt Lake City sporting traditional facial tattoos ?
Did you know that Rhodesian athletes were permitted to attend their events at the 1972 Summer Olympics , but not participate in them?
Did you know that during the Second World War, Kenneth Le Couteur worked at Bletchley Park on Tunny ?
Did you know that the Suffolk University Political Research Center included mobile phones in its polls for the first time in 2012?
Did you know that when queen consort ʻAnaseini Takipō and King George Tupou II did not have a son, his daughter from his first marriage, Sālote Tupou III , ascended to the throne of Tonga upon his death?
Did you know that Luscombe Castle in Devon has an American Garden developed between 1812 and 1814?
Did you know that Robert Forward invoked van Vogt's short story " Far Centaurus " when discussing the problem of interstellar travel ?
Did you know that Mary Chubb was an "accidental archaeologist" who only took a job with the Egypt Exploration Society so she could pay for art school?
Did you know that Peter Reulein composed the oratorio Laudato si‘ for five soloists, choirs, organ and orchestra to be premiered in Limburg Cathedral ?
Did you know that Archive of Our Own hosts over two million stories and artworks by fans of media franchises ?
Did you know that Ernest Titterton performed the countdown for the American Operation Crossroads nuclear tests, and witnessed British nuclear tests at Maralinga in Australia?
Did you know that the Japanese steamship Nunobiki Maru undertook an ill-fated delivery of military supplies from Nagasaki to the Philippines in 1899?
Did you know that hurdler Ned Justeen Azemia was the youngest member of the Seychelles team at the 2016 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that the Russian gay propaganda law has been blamed for an alleged increase in homophobic attacks ?
Did you know that police noted that the disappearance of Sky Metalwala five years ago today was "strikingly similar" to an episode of Law & Order: SVU broadcast the night before?
Did you know that peace activist Margaret Thorp was punched, scratched, and kicked by women at a pro- conscription rally?
Did you know that in the 1966 Championship Game , Texas Western became the first team to field an all-African-American starting lineup in an NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament final?
Did you know that Charles Husband was the engineer behind what was, on completion, the world's largest fully-steerable radio telescope ?
Did you know that two arches of a Roman bridge were found in the basement of the Mausoleum of Danyal during renovations?
Did you know that the journalist and author Carolin Emcke was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2016?
Did you know that Horsey Island in Essex was the basis for Swallow Island in Arthur Ransome 's Secret Water ?
Did you know that French physician Victor Despeignes thought that cancer was a parasite which could be killed with radiation ?
Did you know that Nike Wagner removed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony from the program of the festival Beethovenfest ?
Did you know that while working for the American Fur Company , trapper Warren Angus Ferris was one of the first people to map and describe Yellowstone ?
Did you know that the white-eared night heron had been recorded from only about 20 localities by 2001, but was discovered in over 30 localities between 2001 and 2011?
Did you know that in order to increase his name recognition, Lawton Chiles walked 1,003 miles (1,614 km) across Florida for his United States Senate campaign in 1970 ?
Did you know that Australian W-League association footballer Gabe Marzano was appointed to the Professional Footballers Australia executive committee in May 2016?
Did you know that scholars in the field of Mongolian studies are often referred to as Mongolists ?
Did you know that Jason Graae had to use his ad libbing skills when a fake moustache "started to take on a life of its own" on the opening night of Little Me ?
Did you know that tsunamis build up their height according to Green's law , as they travel from the ocean towards the coast?
Did you know that harpsichordist Jean Rondeau has been called a classical music " sex symbol "?
Did you know that despite having been formed in 1932, the Lesotho Football Association did not gain FIFA membership until 1964?
Did you know that Stanley Silverstein won an American Shoe Designer Award in 1963 for a ballerina flat he created using "leftover scraps of leather"?
Did you know that journalist Stephen Kurkjian claims murdered Boston mobster Robert Donati masterminded the world's largest art theft to get his boss out of jail?
Did you know that Captain America: Civil War was originally going to feature the Madbomb storyline from the comics, where Captain America would fight other heroes who had been zombified ?
Did you know that the 1987 Czechoslovak film Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker is based on a fairy tale by Communist writer Jan Drda ?
Did you know that the head of hajduk commander Bajo Pivljanin was sent to the Ottoman sultan as a war trophy?
Did you know that in 2013, the production of Oxford Blue cheese created around 50,000 litres (13,000 US gal.) of waste whey per month, which was processed using an anaerobic digester ?
Did you know that the bioarchaeologist Charlotte Roberts once worked as a nurse on a burns unit?
Did you know that Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon of Jerusalem was the fourth yeshiva established on three continents by Rabbi Simcha Wasserman?
Did you know that Juanita's Galley was noted for a "fabulous" breakfast, the proprietor's "unpredictable disposition", and a 40-person brawl featuring car jacks, pipes, steel bars, a fishbowl, and an axe?
Did you know that the 1973 Indian film Kaadu , which won the National Award for Second Best Feature Film , was based on the novel of the same name by Srikrishna Alanahalli ?
Did you know that John F. Good 's role in the Abscam sting operation was portrayed in the 2013 film American Hustle , though he felt if it was more like real life "it would be a very boring movie"?
Did you know that FUNCINPEC started as a Cambodian resistance movement and later became a political party?
Did you know that the Burmese court treatise Zabu Kun-Cha is believed to have been written by Chief Minister Min Yaza of Ava ?
Did you know that the ant Pachycondyla oligocenica is one of three Pachycondyla species with described fossil males?
Did you know that Lidiane Lopes holds the Cape Verdean record in the women's 100-metre sprint?
Did you know that the artwork of the West African Senufo people inspired Pablo Picasso ?
Did you know that Vlad Dracula forced Dan III of Wallachia to dig his own grave?
Did you know that the ant Pachycondyla aberrans was described from a headless adult of unknown sex?
Did you know that the ghost of Henry Trigg is said to roam his house searching for his remains, which were stolen from his coffin?
Did you know that the French punished a queen by sending her to Hellville ?
Did you know that before he became mayor of Charleston, West Virginia , Danny Jones worked as a gravedigger?
Did you know that the " Gates of Hell " could be found in Washington, D.C. ?
Did you know that Operation PBFORTUNE , organized by the CIA to topple Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz , was terminated when the coup attempt became too widely known?
Did you know that the number of ways to fold a strip of stamps is always divisible by the number of stamps in the strip?
Did you know that A.M.O. Ghani 's popularity as a politician was credited to his provision of medical care to the poor?
Did you know that the president of Denny-Renton Clay and Coal Company was the first boy born to the settlers of Seattle ?
Did you know that in 1982, Semra Ertan set herself on fire in a Hamburg marketplace to protest about xenophobia in Germany?
Did you know that both towns connected by the 1931 opening of the Perley Bridge declared a half-day holiday to start at noon?
Did you know that Puaaiki , a blind preacher from Maui, was a former hula dancer for King Kamehameha II ?
Did you know that on 29 November 2016, Ben Woodburn became Liverpool's youngest ever goalscorer when he scored against Leeds United in the EFL Cup ?
Did you know that Iris Murdoch 's first book, Sartre: Romantic Rationalist , was the first book about Jean-Paul Sartre 's work to be published in English?
Did you know that the bearded scrub robin disappeared from the Hluhluwe–Umfolozi Game Reserve after tsetse deterrent was sprayed there in the 1940s, but had recolonised the area by 1975?
Did you know that Mirjam Wiesemann made award-winning audiobooks for Cybele Records , introducing in music and conversation the composers Hartmann , Apostel , Henze , Boulez , Jacqueline Fontyn and Juan Allende-Blin ?
Did you know that the now non-existent Lake Tauca formerly covered large parts of the Altiplano of South America ?
Did you know that the Nuclear Reactor Building on the University of Washington campus in Seattle was designed with large glass windows to "proudly showcase" the reactor?
Did you know that an 1899 publication recommended that use of an impure aluminium sulfacetate preparation as a mordant "should be abandoned", as it is an "empyreumatic liquid"?
Did you know that 11-year-old Sarai Gonzalez plays a "nerdy" tween with a "sassy" and "confident" attitude in Bomba Estéreo 's " Soy Yo " ("That's Me") music video?
Did you know that Chris Crawford considers The Global Dilemma: Guns or Butter to be among the worst video games he created?
Did you know that Colin de Grandhomme 's performance of six wickets for 41 runs is the best by any New Zealander on Test debut ?
Did you know that the refrain of " Heaven " by Inna is written in a language invented by the singer and her label?
Did you know that when Sisir Roy died in 1960, his sister Sudha Roy took over his post as general secretary of the United Trade Union Congress?
Did you know that Time magazine said The J's with Jamie "have probably been heard by more people more times than any other group in the history of sound. Yet next to nobody knows who they are"?
Did you know that perfumes made from the pungent Warionia saharae desert plant are reputed to employ its "supernatural powers" to make women more seductive?
Did you know that Natalie Sims co-wrote the Iggy Azalea song " Work ", which sold over one million copies in the US?
Did you know that the Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds, Washington , is located inside a former Safeway grocery store?
Did you know that despite being a prolific artist of 19th-century London, Robert Blemmell Schnebbelie died of starvation in Camden Town ?
Did you know that when a Beecroft's flying squirrel brings food to its offspring, its cheeks expand to the size of a tangerine ?
Did you know that Kalanimoku caused the death of his wife Likelike and their son Lanihau with cannon fire outside their house?
Did you know that publicists promoted the 1999 edition of FHM 's 100 Sexiest Women by projecting a 60-foot (18 m) naked image of the TV presenter Gail Porter onto the Palace of Westminster ?
Did you know that Gaye LeBaron wrote more than 8,000 columns for The Press Democrat of Santa Rosa, California, and hers were considered "the most popular feature in the paper"?
Did you know that cyclist Eugenio Colombani also represented Egypt at the 1906 Intercalated Games in Greco-Roman wrestling ?
Did you know that Indian Trotskyist state legislator Kanai Pal was jailed soon after being elected in 1962?
Did you know that the greater long-nosed armadillo is sometimes preyed on by bush dogs which enter its burrow and drag it out?
Did you know that Hawaii's first Protestant minister James Kekela saved an American sailor from cannibals and was presented with a gold watch from President Abraham Lincoln ?
Did you know that the mantou kiln , used for pottery in north China for some 2,000 years, is named after a type of steamed bread bun ?
Did you know that " The Babe in Bethlem's Manger " is thought to be a traditional Kentish folk carol but its tune is described as being "very much of the 18th century"?
Did you know that Reverend Richard Aslatt Pearce was the first deaf person to be ordained as an Anglican clergyman?
Did you know that in the carol " Vom Himmel hoch, o Engel, kommt ", printed in 1622, the angels are requested to come from Heaven with musical instruments, to sing of Jesus and Mary, and for peace?
Did you know that the "very remarkable" monumental brass of John Rudying in St Andrew's church in Biggleswade was rediscovered when the floor was lifted?
Did you know that the Taschenphilharmonie , called the world's smallest orchestra, earned prizes for classical music embedded in narration for young children?
Did you know that Jackie Evancho 's 2016 album Someday at Christmas peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Classical Albums chart?
Did you know that Helmut Kahlhöfer conducted his choir Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke in recordings of Reger's Geistliche Gesänge , Op. 110 , and Bach's Mass in B minor for the tricentenary of the composer's birth?
Did you know that, unusually for a constellation, the five brightest stars of Apus are red-tinged?
Did you know that the Tongan Soakimi Gatafahefa , the first Polynesian to be ordained as a Catholic priest, studied in Rome and met Pope Pius IX ?
Did you know that the Christian song " Give Thanks With a Grateful Heart " was credited as unknown authorship when first released in 1986, despite being written by Henry Smith in 1978?
Did you know that Ami Radunskaya , a mathematician who heads the Association for Women in Mathematics , spent ten years as a cellist and music composer between high school and college?
Did you know that the Fashion History Museum in Cambridge, Ontario houses what may be the oldest existing European shoe worn in North America?
Did you know that in 1858 Santa Claus made his first Hawaiian appearance at Washington Place, the home of Mary Dominis ?
Did you know that the Advent hymn " O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf " was written against a backdrop of the Thirty Years' War , the plague , and witch trials ?
Did you know that Sadhan Gupta , elected from Calcutta South East in a 1953 by-poll , was the first blind parliamentarian in independent India?
Did you know that Glass Buttes is a mountain group in central Oregon named for the large deposits of obsidian found on their slopes?
Did you know that civil engineer Ernest William Moir invented the first medical airlock ?
Did you know that young Sloggett's vlei rats have several adaptations that help them cope with severe cold in winter?
Did you know that in 2010, the association footballer Neil Alexander came on as a substitute for Queen of the South in a friendly against his own team, Rangers ?
Did you know that HMS Tartar ' s Prize had oversized cannons, a leaky hull, and a smoky galley , and sank in the Mediterranean when her timbers gave way?
Did you know that Michigan linebacker Mike McCray was named Big Ten Conference Defensive Player of the Week for his first career start?
Did you know that in 1967, President Hastings Banda established the Order of the Lion , Malawi 's second-highest honor?
Did you know that the Iazyges were a tribe of Sarmatians that migrated from Central Asia to the Pannonian Basin ?
Did you know that in 2005, Howard Dean was elected as Chair of the Democratic National Committee , despite both Democratic Congressional leaders endorsing Tim Roemer instead?
Did you know that after High Priest Matua of Mangareva converted to Christianity in 1835, his long hair, sacred in the old pagan religion , was cut short?
Did you know that the third movement of the chorale motet Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme contains a quotation from a Bach cantata which composer J. C. F. Bach included as a tribute to his father ?
Did you know that Bertha Bracey was a Hero of the Holocaust ?
Did you know that courtship in the silvery mole-rat includes locking incisors or gently nibbling the mate?
Did you know that the ruling Dutch East India Company drove the Islamization of the eastern salient of Java in the 18th century?
Did you know that Clementia Killewald , abbess of Eibingen Abbey , spoke about its founder Hildegard of Bingen at the ceremony when she was proclaimed a saint and Doctor of the Church by the pope?
Did you know that before qualifying for Secret Service Counter-Assault Teams , agents of the United States Secret Service are required to do pull-ups while wearing a 45-pound (20 kg) weighted vest?
Did you know that in 2015, Tony Ahn hiked the 63-mile (101 km) Bataan Death March route, consuming only a cup of rice and a liter of water per day to raise awareness that Filipinos were also forced to march?
Did you know that Marylebone Lane is a "rustic diagonal" in an area laid out on a grid plan ?
Did you know that Sir Joseph Rotblat , a Polish physicist who helped design atomic bombs for the Manhattan Project during World War II, won the Nobel Prize for Peace ?
Did you know that lawyer and activist Shehla Zia was once arrested for protesting a law which reduced the weight given to evidence provided by female witnesses in a trial?
Did you know that you can fly model airplanes or ride model trains behind a flood control dam in Phoenix, Arizona's Deer Valley urban village?
Did you know that the €11 million reported to have been spent by AS Monaco FC in 2012 to sign Lucas Ocampos , was the most ever for a Ligue 2 player?