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Did you know that sports journalist Dick Beddoes ate one of his columns with borscht when he wrongly predicted that Canada's hockey team would sweep the Summit Series ?
Did you know that the first Indonesian novel by a woman, Kalau Tak Untung , deals with an "inexorable fate" which all humans must face?
Did you know that Nathan Hannay was appointed as captain of Jersey Rugby Football Club after rejecting advances from Exeter Chiefs ?
Did you know that Cuban singer-songwriter Jon Secada earned the Grammy Award and received the highest number of nominations at the Lo Nuestro Awards in 1993?
Did you know that 60% of Filipinos in Kuwait are employed as domestic workers ?
Did you know that Admiral John M. Richardson received the James Bond Stockdale Leadership Award ?
Did you know that Lepiota castaneidisca mushrooms smell like cod-liver oil ?
Did you know that because of the 1963 coup d'état the government of Togo was not invited to the conference which created the Organisation of African Unity ?
Did you know that soprano Rachel Nicholls , a performer of Wagner 's Brünnhilde , sang in Bach's dialogue cantata Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen (Dearest Jesus, my desire) "a clear Lutheran analogy to a love duet"?
Did you know that The Sesame Street Dictionary contains around 1,300 illustrations of Muppets ?
Did you know that English cricketer Graham Gooch is the only centurion in Test cricket history to have been dismissed by handling the ball ?
Did you know that the 2012 film Django Unchained received eight award nominations from the St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association , the most of any film?
Did you know that in Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit the prince of Hell is a rubber duck -loving rabbit ?
Did you know that Secretary Dorjjavin Luvsansharav of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party presided over the arrest and execution of over 25,000 "enemies of the revolution" between 1937 and 1939?
Did you know that the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 , which addressed the U.S. fiscal cliff , was passed by the houses of the U.S. Congress near the beginning and near the end of New Year's Day 2013?
Did you know that Vishvaksena is described as the commander-in-chief of the army of the god Vishnu and the gate-keeper and "chamberlain" of Vishnu's abode Vaikuntha ?
Did you know that Body of Proof episode " Missing " featured Slaine as the episode's murderer, a role which was his first venture into network television?
Did you know that Talite Vaioleti was an LDS missionary in Australia before becoming a rugby union international for Tonga ?
Did you know that the rovers of the planned Phobos Surveyor are known as "hedgehogs"?
Did you know that George Williamson Crawford , a New Haven city official, activist, and freemason, was the second black graduate of Yale Law School ?
Did you know that the interactive fiction Source engine modification The Stanley Parable was designed to "mess with the player's head in every way possible"?
Did you know that 19th-century British missionary Samuel Lyde sparked months of anti-Christian rioting in Palestine after killing a beggar?
Did you know that the type specimen of Scolosaurus seriously injured its discoverer, who was excavating it when it fell on him?
Did you know that a fictional alien race in Star Trek called Bolians were named after television director Cliff Bole , who directed 42 episodes of the franchise?
Did you know that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle compared the suffragette arson attack on the Nevill Ground to "blowing up a blind man and his dog"?
Did you know that the strategic fortress of Baarin in central Syria was captured by Imad ad-Din Zengi from the Crusaders in the Battle of Ba'rin in 1137?
Did you know that on 18 July 1967, the Fourth Legislative Assembly of Madras state unanimously adopted a resolution to change the name of the state to Tamil Nadu ?
Did you know that in the Southern Hemisphere , the coral Acropora secale normally spawns in November, six days after the full moon ?
Did you know that in the Chicken Kiev speech , then- US President George Bush encouraged Ukraine to remain within the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that Welsh actress Tara Bethan was babysat by Giant Haystacks ?
Did you know that scientist Stuart Firestein uses an analogy of finding a black cat in a dark room to describe the scientific method ?
Did you know that the war film Janur Kuning ( Yellow Coconut Leaves ) has been read as portraying General Sudirman with mystic powers?
Did you know that Lamington National Park was established due to Romeo Lahey 's tireless campaigning and petitioning?
Did you know that Phnom Santuk hill is the most sacred mountain of the Kampong Thom in Cambodia with several reclining Buddhas ?
Did you know that Abdul Qadir took eight of his Test five-wicket hauls against England and his best bowling figures in an innings were 9 wickets for 56 runs against them?
Did you know that the unusual name Quinyambie is the Aboriginal word for excreta ?
Did you know that African-American civil rights leader Xernona Clayton convinced a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan to denounce the Klan?
Did you know that a modified version of a chemical naturally occurring in the mushroom Strobilurus tenacellus is the world's biggest-selling fungicide ?
Did you know that the attack against Mehmed Ali Pasha was the first military operation of the League of Prizren ?
Did you know that short animation film Tadeo Jones contains elements from Raiders of the Lost Ark ?
Did you know that the Greenwood Tunnel in Virginia was completed without accident, even though engineer Claudius Crozet described the work as "excessively dangerous"?
Did you know that the orchid bee Euglossa bazinga was named after the catchphrase of Sheldon Cooper from the television show The Big Bang Theory , despite the character's allergy to bees?
Did you know that the eastern Syrian town of al-Asharah on the Euphrates River is the site of the Bronze Age city of Terqa ?
Did you know that the Saxxy Awards is a competition for films that are created using the video game Team Fortress 2 ?
Did you know that Nicholas de Sigillo , Archdeacon of Huntingdon from around 1164 to after 1187, may be the same person as the donor of a Great Bible to Lincoln Cathedral ?
Did you know that in the Phnom Sampeau hills, during the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge , many victims were bludgeoned and tossed into holes that served as skylights to the caves?
Did you know that the picture in the Labour Isn't Working poster was used by both the UK Conservatives and the US Republicans in their respective 1979 and 2012 election campaigns?
Did you know that George Nicol pitched a seven-inning no-hitter in his major league debut that was later erased from the record books in 1991?
Did you know that SWAPO 's partisan radio station Voice of Namibia employed a number of staff that today are high–ranking Namibian government officials, including Minister of Labour and Social Welfare Doreen Sioka ?
Did you know that after surviving an assassination attempt, Mexican journalist Pablo Pineda Gaucín made funeral arrangements?
Did you know that Canadian band Arcade Fire are the only act to have topped HMV's Poll of Polls more than once?
Did you know that during the Battle of Żownin , Cossack forces constructed a bridge under the cover of darkness to relocate their camp?
Did you know that a large mosaic covers the entire floor of the Byzantine -era Church of the Holy Martyrs, built in 442 CE, in the Syrian town of Taybat al-Imam ?
Did you know that during the First World War former archaeologist Colonel Gaston Cros said that "instead of artefacts ... I find German shells, it is not without excitement"?
Did you know that the video game Party Place is Zynga 's first 3D mobile game ?
Did you know that Tulsa football running back Trey Watts ' father, J.C. Watts , is a former United States congressman and quarterback of the Oklahoma Sooners ?
Did you know that during the Siege of Zbarazh the Polish-Lithuanian army withstood the assaults of the Cossack and Tatar army, about twenty times its own size?
Did you know that journalist Enrique Perea Quintanilla was tortured and killed, allegedly for his coverage on political corruption and drug trafficking in Mexico?
Did you know that resuscitative thoracotomy revives only 10% of people with blunt trauma who receive it?
Did you know that the British Army requisitioned the Manor House in Chew Magna during World War II until they discovered it had no electricity, running water or modern sanitation?
Did you know that Italian Antonio Lago bought the Paris factory of Automobiles Talbot and founded the French Talbot-Lago marque?
Did you know that Naoki Yoshida chose to completely remake the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Final Fantasy XIV as Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn in order to regain the trust of its players?
Did you know that " The Lass of Richmond Hill ", said to be one of George III 's favourite songs, was written by an Irish republican revolutionary leader who became a British government double agent?
Did you know that fashion magazine Marie Claire 's co-founder Marcelle Auclair also wrote biographies of socialist Jean Jaures and Catholic Saints Teresa of Avila and Bernadette of Lourdes ?
Did you know that the National Intercollegiate Band , established in 1947 by Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma , is the oldest intercollegiate band in the United States?
Did you know that the upcoming video game War for the Overworld has players digging and building dungeons ?
Did you know that poet Henry Constable was imprisoned in both the Tower and the Fleet ?
Did you know that the four Kalamazoo -class monitors , begun during the American Civil War , were eventually scrapped because the unseasoned wood of their hulls rotted while they were still on the building stocks ?
Did you know that Albert G. Mumma was part of a 75-man force from the Alsos Mission and 30 Assault Unit that captured the 150,000-man garrison of Kiel during World War II?
Did you know that for Homme , David Beckham wanted to create a modern, masculine fragrance that reflects his own personal style?
Did you know that Pritilata Waddedar led an attack on the Pahartali European Club, which displayed a sign saying "Dogs and Indians not allowed"?
Did you know that a program developed by Allan Ronald has been "pivotal" in understanding and preventing transmission of AIDS in Africa?
Did you know that Dave Brubeck 's wife Iola wrote the lyrics to " In Your Own Sweet Way "?
Did you know that Jarman Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia is the site of the first European settlement in the mountain area near Albemarle County ?
Did you know that the Kpove War or Dung Pot War got its name when Ndawa had a large hole dug and filled with dung , threatening to throw any of his troops into the hole if they left battle?
Did you know that the Distinguished Service to Music Medal , presented by Kappa Kappa Psi for "exceptional service to American bands and band music", has been awarded 137 times since 1964?
Did you know that Axel Törneman 's friends were able to locate him by following the sketches he left in Paris cafés?
Did you know that bonuses promised to girls for Sumangali work in Tamil Nadu are deducted from their stipends and held until they complete three years of work, a form of debt bondage illegal in India since 1976?
Did you know that General Noël Garnier-Duplessis ' commands during the First World War included troops from France, Russia and the US?
Did you know that the chief of the Tehran bureau of the Iranian Cyber Police was dismissed in December 2012 after Iranian blogger Sattar Beheshti died in their custody?
Did you know that English cricketer Carol Valentine was a part of the first ever Women's Test match that was played between England and Australia ?
Did you know that the inhabitants of the Syrian village of Kafr Zita claim descent from the Mawali tribes who dominated the northern Syrian Desert until the 18th century?
Did you know that inside All Saints Church, Claverley , Shropshire , is a carving of two dragons nibbling a human head?
Did you know that Richard von Hegener was a primary organizer of the Nazi Action T4 adult and child euthanasia program, whose method of gassing victims was a forerunner to the gas chambers of the Holocaust ?
Did you know that author Terry McMillan based a character in her book How Stella Got Her Groove Back on author Doris Jean Austin , her best friend?
Did you know that the Itqiy meteorite fell near a hamlet in Western Sahara after which it is named?
Did you know that Christina Aguilera describes " Army of Me " as an "updated version" of her 2002 song " Fighter "?
Did you know that the survival horror video game Miasmata was developed over four years by two brothers, and they created their own game engine for it?
Did you know that the McDonald Farm near Xenia supplied Ohio's portion of the Washington Monument ?
Did you know that the 1943 death of the Polish government in exile leader, general Władysław Sikorski , led to a number of conspiracy theories ?
Did you know that the Pambamarca Fortress Complex is a large installation of many Inca Pucarás ?
Did you know that Donnie Andrews was the main inspiration for the character of Omar Little on The Wire ?
Did you know that the author of Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada worked 15 years as a wildland firefighter on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon?
Did you know that in " My Mummy's Dead ", John Lennon used the tune of the nursery rhyme " Three Blind Mice " and achieved a chilling effect?
Did you know that Norwegian footballer Kurt Heggestad stepped down from professional football to become a goat farmer?
Did you know that after Akari Hayami left Momoiro Clover , the girl group changed its name to Momoiro Clover Z?
Did you know that popular YouTube videos show 5-foot-11-inch (1.80 m) Phil Pressey dunking over people much taller than him?
Did you know that an Armenian Genocide Memorial was bombed in a Paris suburb in 1984?
Did you know that the television -based video game Family Guy Online will be shut down in January 2013?
Did you know that Sonrise Church in Hillsboro, Oregon , is housed in a former Toshiba Ceramics America facility?
Did you know that chef Heston Blumenthal sought to super-size food in his Channel 4 series Heston's Fantastical Food , including making a pub out of pies?
Did you know that Easwaran 's Conquest of Mind gives advice on how to become a skilled juggler in controlling one's mental "likes and dislikes"?
Did you know that Kulap are small funerary sculptures from New Ireland associated with death rituals ?
Did you know that actress Leonor Varela , who played Marta Del Sol in Dallas , watched YouTube videos to research her character's bipolar disorder ?
Did you know that Iggy's has been named the best restaurant in Asia by both the Miele Guide and The World's 50 Best Restaurants ?
Did you know that the upcoming video game Super Robot Wars UX will feature robots from 16 different media franchise titles?
Did you know that the giant barnacle is used in Chilean cuisine ?
Did you know that it is not known who built the Peruvian site of Cerro Sechin ?
Did you know that O'Hara's Tower was built in the mistaken belief that it would enable the garrison at Gibraltar to spy on ships massing at Cadiz ?
Did you know that nonmagmatic is a term used in meteoritics to describe iron meteorites that were originally thought to have formed by non- igneous processes?
Did you know that Buffy Sainte-Marie 's song " Now That the Buffalo's Gone " originally mentioned that the Kinzua Dam broke the Treaty of Canandaigua ?
Did you know that a fume event occurs when cabin air in a pressurized aircraft is contaminated with potentially hazardous chemicals?
Did you know that photographer Howell Conant considered Grace Kelly 's jaw her only flaw, and hid it with a dog or baby?
Did you know that Nyarroh , a female chief of the Barri region of Sierra Leone , hosted multiple negotiations between the British and Mende tribes in the 1880s and 1890s?
Did you know that about half of the blood donations in Bangladesh are one-time donations for specific patients?
Did you know that Henry Clay and Daniel Webster addressed crowds from the Orators Mound in Ohio?
Did you know that Sali Aga was nicknamed Rudnik Bull because of the mass orgies that he organized for himself and his men?
Did you know that the upcoming video game Godus is the spiritual successor to Peter Molyneux 's Populous ?
Did you know that the relative distance of Maskanah , a town in northern Syria , to the Euphrates has varied over the years due to changes in the river's bed?
Did you know that in Even the Stars Look Lonesome , author Maya Angelou defends her controversial support of Clarence Thomas ?
Did you know that Samuel C. Hughes was one of the first people to move to Arizona for health reasons?
Did you know that a bronze head once owned by the Roman emperor Augustus was stolen from the Australian National University Classics Museum in 2004?
Did you know that Marquis Flowers was named the defensive MVP of college football 's 2012 New Mexico Bowl ?
Did you know that the durian -scented food flavouring 1,1-ethanedithiol smells so bad that it is sold as a 1% solution?
Did you know that the songs Jenni Rivera chose to cover on her album Joyas Prestadas were songs she listened to while working as a cashier?
Did you know that during the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944 , James D. Ramage led dive bombers from the USS Enterprise in an attack on a Japanese aircraft carrier?
Did you know that Sir Gary Sobers 's 365 not out is the highest maiden century by a batsman in Test cricket ?
Did you know that Adelina Domingues was the world's oldest person between May 2002 and August 2002 ?
Did you know that 7,000 fans attended MineCon 2012, a convention celebrating the video game Minecraft ?
Did you know that the massive Chinchaga fire of 1950 in northern Canada produced a smoke cloud that was blamed on supernatural forces, aliens, and nuclear Armageddon?
Did you know that Nikola Stoyanov , the financier who led negotiations on Bulgaria's foreign debt during the interwar period, also authored the first Bulgarian astronomical study printed abroad?
Did you know that young cusk-eels hide between the spines of the sea urchin species Phormosoma placenta to find protection from predators?
Did you know that Colonel Noel Wild , head of Ops (B) , was one of the architects of Operation Fortitude , the deception plan to cover the 1944 Normandy landings ?
Did you know that the free-to-play video game Gravity Bone uses id Software 's Quake 2 engine and incorporates music by Asian filmmaker Wong Kar-wai ?
Did you know that French theatre actress and singer Suzanne Lagier made her début at age thirteen at the Théâtre des Variétés in 1846?
Did you know that the listed buildings in Lymm , Cheshire , include three aqueducts , a cross , a water tower , a well , an icehouse , a pigeon house , a mounting block , a milepost and the stocks ?
Did you know that No. 78 Squadron RAAF took part in the last major air battle between the Royal Australian Air Force and Japanese air units during World War II ?
Did you know that "supremely talented" Christophe Coin was conductor and cellist in recording Bach's ten cantatas with violoncello piccolo , including the chorale cantata Jesu, nun sei gepreiset , BWV 41 , for New Year's Day ?
Did you know that fossils of the bryozoan Cauloramphus disjunctus dating back a million years have been found with their spines intact?
Did you know that Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan was not released in Canada until August 2011 , six months behind schedule and from a different publisher, yet it won that year's Scotiabank Giller Prize ?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court decided in Dorsey v. United States that a new law on crack cocaine offenses applied retroactively?
Did you know that Hema Malini was initially promoted as the "Dream Girl of Bollywood" , and even acted in a film of the same name in 1977?
Did you know that Extra Virginity , a 2011 book about olive oil , was criticized by The New York Times as "an unintentional master class in how to say waxy and embalming things about fresh food"?
Did you know that 2012 College Football All-American Venric Mark holds the Northwestern records for both single-game kickoff and single-game punt return yards ?
Did you know that the top secret , World War II dual observation post of Operation Tracer was constructed in the tunnel system of Lord Airey's Shelter ?
Did you know that Robert J. Parks and Jack N. James of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory received the 1967 Stuart Ballantine Medal for their work on Mariner 4 , the first spacecraft to return pictures from Mars?
Did you know that the Zaklodzie meteorite was found near a village of the same name in Lublin Voivodeship , Poland ?
Did you know that the video game Danganronpa is to have an anime television series based on it?
Did you know that in Marxism , withering away of the state is the process which should lead to a stateless communist utopia ?
Did you know that a line from John Lennon 's " Well Well Well " has been interpreted as both a reference to cannibalism and a sexual metaphor ?
Did you know that five auspicious events in the life of each Jain Tirthankara are known as Kalyanaka ?
Did you know that Green Bay Packers tackle Buford "Baby" Ray was named to the NFL 's All-Decade Team for the 1940s?
Did you know that Hero Academy was published in China in a bid to bring more western mobile games to the country?
Did you know that Whitelaw Reid ' s home still stands near the village of Cedarville, Ohio ?
Did you know that skateboarder David González was named Thrasher magazine's 2012 "Skater of the Year"?
Did you know that the hydrozoan Obelia longissima sometimes disperses by rafting ?
Did you know that in the 12th century, the Syrian village of Sirmaniyah was a Crusader fief?
Did you know that Fritz Seyferth joined the University of Michigan football team as a walk-on and became the third-leading scorer in the Big Ten Conference in 1970?
Did you know that IVB meteorites as a group have the most extreme chemical composition of all iron meteorites ?
Did you know that Sir William Francis has held the positions of vice-chairman and chief operating officer of Tarmac Plc ?
Did you know that Arab soap operas are a type of serialized fiction on television in the Arab world that are similar in style to Latin American telenovelas ?
Did you know that the Illinois Central railroad station in Bloomington, Indiana , has two rooflines?
Did you know that the single release of John Lennon 's " Meat City " has a backwards message to "check the album", on which the song has a vulgar backwards message instead?
Did you know that William Green , who served as chief engineer throughout the Great Siege of Gibraltar , was later depicted in two paintings of the siege by John Singleton Copley and George Carter ?
Did you know that Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI ( Treachery of G30S/PKI ) may have become the most-viewed Indonesian film of all time because of its use for pro- Suharto propaganda?
Did you know that Jonathan Petropoulos has stated that Kajetan Mühlmann is "arguably the single most prodigious art plunderer in the history of human civilization"?
Did you know that Vaikuntha Chaturmurti , a four-headed aspect of the Hindu god Vishnu , is mostly found in Kashmir ?
Did you know that the Rebellion Beer Company , a microbrewery in Marlow Bottom , South East England , uses the chalky water of the local Chiltern Hills , which has high levels of minerals and salts ?
Did you know that Lee-Sak "PartinG" Won took first place at the 2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series held in Shanghai ?
Did you know that there are quite a few smews ?
Did you know that John Cunningham of Drumquhassle escaped one charge of treason , only to be hanged for another?
Did you know that Florbetapir is an FDA -approved diagnostic tool for detecting Alzheimer's disease ?
Did you know that wine from Verduzzo , the grape behind the modern Italian wine Ramandolo , was first recorded being served at a 1409 banquet honoring Pope Gregory XII ?
Did you know that Joseph Dérigoin and his men stormed a fortification using a ladder during the French occupation of Madagascar and subsequently took 3,000 prisoners?