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Did you know that Cole Porter 's nickname for his romantic partner Nelson Barclift was "cute little nose"?
Did you know that Cape Fugui , the northernmost point on Taiwan, includes a beach with ventifacts ?
Did you know that both Tom Ballard and his mother Alison Hargreaves died climbing in the Himalayas , more than 23 years apart?
Did you know that Hubbard's angel insects groom themselves and each other, perhaps in order to avoid the fungal diseases that kill many zorapterans ?
Did you know that Dai Fudong designed Mao Zedong 's villa and asked Ronald Reagan to have his father 's Legion of Merit medal reissued?
Did you know that Marjorie Paxson was twice demoted and replaced by a male editor when two different newspapers replaced their women’s sections with features sections?
Did you know that zinc oxide nanoparticles , thought to be one of the most-produced nanomaterials , are commonly used in sunscreens?
Did you know that Dutch pool player Alex Lely won the 1999 World Pool Masters Tournament and collected autographs from his opponents?
Did you know that the means of raising the late 18th-century British Provisional Cavalry was likened to the medieval-era feudal system ?
Did you know that, at age 60, Carrie Langston Hughes made her Broadway debut as Sister Susie May Hunt in Hall Johnson 's Run Little Chillun ?
Did you know that Coccothrinax jimenezii , a palm tree native to the island of Hispaniola , was listed as a critically endangered species within two years of its formal description ?
Did you know that Horst Laubenthal appeared in Mozart operas at the Glyndebourne Festival as Belmonte , in Paris as Tamino , and in Turin as Ottavio ?
Did you know that Moston Brook was one of the most polluted waterways in Greater Manchester but, following improvements, it is now a recreational resource for local residents?
Did you know that Tang Aoqing is known as the "Father of Quantum Chemistry " in China?
Did you know that telegraphy in the United Kingdom included a system that strung wires from rooftop to rooftop of domestic premises?
Did you know that conservationist Tom Cade was so successful in his efforts to save the peregrine falcon that it was removed from the US Endangered Species List in 1999?
Did you know that Maurice Ravel wrote texts and music for Trois Chansons , his only composition for choir a cappella , in response to the outbreak of World War I ?
Did you know that Eleanor Barrow Chase was instrumental in getting Eastern Washington University admitted to the Big Sky Conference in 1987?
Did you know that the Moscow State Jewish Theatre 's internationally acclaimed production of King Lear in 1935 contained veiled critiques of Stalin 's regime?
Did you know that Austrian ice hockey administrator Hans Dobida was inducted into the German and Slovenian hockey halls of fame?
Did you know that the album Liaisons features works by dozens of composers "re-imagining" Stephen Sondheim 's music?
Did you know that John W. Beschter , a Luxembourgish Jesuit who ministered throughout rural Pennsylvania , became the President of Georgetown University in 1829?
Did you know that the wildlife of Spain includes 8000–9000 species of vascular plants , more than any other country in Europe?
Did you know that Sabine Hyland discovered that the Incas may have written phonetic information in knotted cords called khipus ?
Did you know that the interior of the church Mariä Heimsuchung , a tall concrete landmark of Wiesbaden , features two large, abstract triptychs ?
Did you know that Tore Johannessen was the youngest person to become president of any Norwegian sports association?
Did you know that in local folklore, the ancestor of the kings of Banggai hatched from a serpent egg?
Did you know that 1,900 people in Seattle rode the city's slut on a daily basis?
Did you know that Patsy , the recently deceased Irish king , personally welcomed visitors who landed in his realm?
Did you know that a mud pie is not meant to be eaten and may contain pebbles as an ingredient?
Did you know that Bill Gates' converted dustbin lorry helped old people get around Worthing ?
Did you know that people sometimes send lewd objects to IBM ?
Did you know that Jesse James eliminated Warren G. Harding ?
Did you know that mobile mechanics were needed for the stationery service ?
Did you know that you are onto a winner if you can catch four sows with the Jaggl, Zanggl and Buggl ?
Did you know that a Genie and three Beavers recognized Young People Fucking ?
Did you know that the United States once sued 422 casks of wine , and the wine won?
Did you know that in 1905, three days of violence in Warsaw were possibly sparked by a Bund activist trying to save his sister from sexual slavery ?
Did you know that a 2016 song by Taiiku Okazaki went viral in Japan as it parodied commonly used tropes in Japanese music videos ?
Did you know that the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act ensures retroactive pay for US federal employees affected by government shutdowns ?
Did you know that the Indian Member of Parliament Anju Bala believes that violence against cows can be curbed by declaring it the national animal of India?
Did you know that Negatiw was named the "Champion Stallion" at the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition in Moscow in 1954?
Did you know that due to sponsorship issues, NASCAR team Melling Racing hired Jeff Davis to run a race for the team using his own car?
Did you know that the murder of Santos Rodriguez galvanized the Mexican-American community in Dallas ?
Did you know that the soprano Elżbieta Szmytka recorded Chopin's Polish songs and performed in Górecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs , celebrating a century of Polish independence?
Did you know that Michigan state highway M-343 between Kalamazoo and Richland was part of the M-43 highway for a century until Kalamazoo wanted to assert control over several streets in the city's downtown?
Did you know that although Zhou Tongqing led the development of China's first X-ray tube , he was denounced as a "bourgeois intellectual" and persecuted during the Anti-Rightist Campaign and the Cultural Revolution ?
Did you know that Len Lye 's abstract animation A Colour Box was protested by Nazis in 1936?
Did you know that Mahendra Nath Pandey , who was imprisoned during the Emergency , went on to become an Indian government minister?
Did you know that Buddhists consider the precept against killing any living being the most important of the five basic ethical precepts ?
Did you know that Huang Yihe created the CCTV New Year's Gala , which has become the most-watched television show in the world, with one billion viewers in 2018?
Did you know that the scaled piculet is a fairly common bird, but may be undercounted because of its unobtrusive behaviour?
Did you know that when she took office, Kate Gallego was the youngest and the only woman mayor of any of the ten largest cities in the United States?
Did you know that a virtual K-pop group composed of video game characters topped Billboard 's World Digital Song Sales chart in November 2018?
Did you know that D. Geraint James was known as the "King of Sarcoid "?
Did you know that despite previously being at war with the Kingdom of the Aurès , the Byzantine Empire supported them during the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb ?
Did you know that when directing Der Ring in Minden , Wagner's Ring Cycle at a municipal theatre , Gerd Heinz focused on the psychology in the interactions of the characters?
Did you know that Washington State Route 99 passes under downtown Seattle in a tunnel that was excavated by the world's largest tunnel boring machine ?
Did you know that many of the photographs taken by Maharaja Ram Singh II of Jaipur State depict the lives of women behind purdah in his harem?
Did you know that the internal organs of Elizabeth de Burgh , wife of Robert the Bruce , were buried at Cullen Old Church ?
Did you know that the English Premiership Rugby Cup was created after the Welsh regions left the Anglo-Welsh Cup ?
Did you know that at the premiere of The End , audience members shouted at the film and threw their chairs?
Did you know that while chief engineer of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi , Ramesh Sumant Mehta implemented what was at the time the largest municipal drainage system in India?
Did you know that during construction of the tower for Oklahoma City 's KLPR-TV station, a worker was trapped 200 feet (60 m) in the air for more than an hour?
Did you know that before she became an expert on wild animals, Hope Ryden was an international flight attendant and used her long layovers to observe wildlife in Africa and Asia?
Did you know that New York City's 23rd Street once contained the city's largest residential complex and the world's largest hotel?
Did you know that James Wilson Robertson resigned as the first principal of Macdonald College after his spending was restricted to 100 Canadian dollars?
Did you know that during the Soviet period the Feodorovskaya Church was a factory dormitory, the Gate Church was museum office space, and the Dukhovskaya Church became a boiler room?
Did you know that Kaylee Davidson-Olley survived an infant heart transplant to win gold in a 4 × 100 metres relay ?
Did you know that after Chinese General Dai Anlan died in the Burma Campaign , the United States awarded him the Legion of Merit , which was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution and reissued by President Reagan ?
Did you know that in 2008, Geraldine Heaney , Angela James , and Cammi Granato became the first three women ice hockey players inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that to be one of those buried in the Lazarevskoe Cemetery originally required permission from Peter the Great ?
Did you know that hundreds of houses for artisans, built by George Worrall Counsel in the Gloucester suburb of Clapham in the 1820s, were demolished a century later during slum clearance ?
Did you know that brown trout in the vicinity of Cline Falls can reach 20 in (51 cm) in length and weigh as much as 8 lb (3.6 kg)?
Did you know that Troy is the first Turkish opera composed by a foreigner, the Romanian conductor Bujor Hoinic ?
Did you know that a pink Molly Goddard dress worn in the Killing Eve episode " I'll Deal with Him Later " inspired a trend of pink dresses worn to the 91st Academy Awards ?
Did you know that Greek pop band Nostradamos won the best new composer and performer prize at the 1972 Thessaloniki Song Festival with their song "Dos Mou to Heri Sou" ('Give Me Your Hand')?
Did you know that hints of female discrimination in biblical times were discovered in an ancient Persian cemetery excavated from Tel Qiri in northern Israel?
Did you know that Hannelore Elsner , who first appeared in film in 1959, received international attention for her role in No Place to Go at the Cannes Festival in 2000?
Did you know that " Afrikaners Landgenote ", an Afrikaans translation of " Deutschland, Deutschland über alles ", was proposed as the co-national anthem for South Africa alongside " God Save the King "?
Did you know that Soedarpo Sastrosatomo joined the Socialist Party of Indonesia , but later founded a business conglomerate?
Did you know that a classic example of moral progress is the abolition of slavery ?
Did you know that the tiddlywinks rivalry of Larry Kahn and Dave Lockwood is so intense, it has been compared to that of Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazer ?
Did you know that the whiteknee hermit crab is benefitted by the presence of the hedgehog hydroid but harmed by the barnacle Clistosaccus ?
Did you know that Marie C. Brehm scolded an audience for spreading disease by waving handkerchiefs at a temperance meeting?
Did you know that the 1938 book Composite Nationalism and Islam by Hussain Ahmed Madani argued that different religions do not constitute different nationalities?
Did you know that Ruhut Sitompul landed a role in a telenovela because he was the production studio's legal adviser?
Did you know that Peniscola Castle , in the Valencian Community , Spain, was used as a papal residence by the Antipope Benedict XIII ?
Did you know that the New York City Board of Aldermen was at different times in its history an upper house and a lower house ?
Did you know that Celestina Casapietra , an Italian soprano at the Berlin State Opera , and the conductor Herbert Kegel were regarded as the glamour couple of the GDR in the 1960s?
Did you know that the First Landing Party of the Founders of Newark went missing for more than a decade?
Did you know that when Derrick Morris received a new heart in 1980 his chances of survival were slim, but he lived another 25 years?
Did you know that newly elected Israeli Knesset member Omer Yankelevich was named for the Jewish holiday of Lag BaOmer , her birthday?
Did you know that ProRodeo Hall of Fame bucking horse War Paint was insured for $10,000 with Lloyd's of London ?
Did you know that field hockey and lacrosse head instructor Fay Biles became the most successful coach in Kent State University history?
Did you know that the 1854–55 Royal Commission on the Inns of Court recommended that the inns combine into a single university of law ?
Did you know that during World War II, Wang Daheng quit his doctoral studies to help develop optical glass in the UK, and later became the "father of optical engineering " in China?
Did you know that while a red Irish lord can change color, it is not a yellow Irish lord ?
Did you know that Alfred Kirchner directed the world premiere of Martin Walser 's play Ein Kinderspiel in 1971, and the U.S. premiere of Henze's We Come to the River at the Santa Fe Opera in 1984?
Did you know that the small crustacean Pseudamphithoides incurvaria builds itself a home out of forded sea tumbleweed , a brown seaweed that is distasteful to fish?
Did you know that film pioneers Alice Guy-Blaché , Georges Méliès , and Charlie Chaplin all made films about women's suffrage ?
Did you know that the German architect Konrad Püschel was conscripted into the Wehrmacht during World War II, held as a prisoner of war by the Soviet Union, and returned home weighing only 40 kg (88 lb)?
Did you know that a 2019 Iranian drama tells the true story of Abdolhamid Rigi , a member of the Jundallah terrorist group who killed his wife on the orders of his brother ?
Did you know that according to Buddhist texts, Sumedha decided to become the Buddha while lying in the mud in front of his teacher ?
Did you know that Aleksandr Bibikov commanded his forces at the Battle of Berezina from a sleigh?
Did you know that bailiffs who heard champion bubblegum-blower Susan Montgomery Williams popping gum in a courthouse hallway thought a .38 caliber pistol had been discharged?
Did you know that the 2019 Peterborough recall petition led to the first successful recall of a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Massachusetts Bay settler Robert Coles was sentenced to wear a red letter "D" for drunkenness, which some scholars have argued later inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne 's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter ?
Did you know that the Nubra River rises from the Siachen Glacier , the second longest non-polar glacier in the world?
Did you know that Fields Medal -winning mathematician Klaus Roth performed so poorly on the Mathematical Tripos that his tutor suggested he take "some commercial job with a statistical bias"?
Did you know that The Trials of Shazam! was meant to update the Captain Marvel character for a modern audience?
Did you know that explorer Guo Kun led the construction of China's first Antarctic research base , parts of which have been declared Historic Sites and Monuments in Antarctica ?
Did you know that the B-side to Chris Sievey 's 1983 single " Camouflage " contained code for the song's music video for the ZX81 home computer?
Did you know that John Rutherford Ryley was a surgeon in a lunatic asylum in 1869 and a patient in one in 1870?
Did you know that Washington State Route 142 once included the largest prestressed concrete bridges in the state?
Did you know that novelist Ismith Khan 's relative obscurity may reflect the fact that he was not based in London, the "literary capital" of the English Caribbean?
Did you know that when several of the small bivalve molluscs Lasaea rubra occupy the same rock crevice, they are likely to be clones ?
Did you know that Mongolian-Chinese actress Yong Mei won the Silver Bear at the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival for her portrayal of a mother who lost her only son?
Did you know that George Bernard Shaw wondered why Douglas Guthrie excluded osteopaths, herbalists, and homoeopaths from his History of Medicine ?
Did you know that on the day Bill Aylett was first elected to the Australian Senate , he knocked down a voter with his car?
Did you know that Soviet admiral Yuri Panteleyev was appointed a Companion of the Bath by the British for his role in supporting attacks against the German battleship Tirpitz ?
Did you know that more than twenty species of cetaceans have been stranded on the mudflats of Bahía Lomas ?
Did you know that Mary Stuart Fisher , a Temple University professor of radiology who was named Physician of the Year in 1996, was discouraged from following her chosen career path by her father, a physician himself?
Did you know that Luciano Burti 's 111 G crash at the 2001 Belgian Grand Prix led to a ban on creating holes in racing helmets for drinking tubes and radio communication wires?
Did you know that the motto of Midleton College , Spartam nactus es, hanc exorna , is a mistranslation of a line from a Greek play by Euripides ?
Did you know that George Backhouse Witts read the Riot Act on a hill in Gloucestershire?
Did you know that the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island banned automobiles for more than a decade starting in 1908?
Did you know that Watford 's appearance in today's FA Cup Final is their first since 1984 ?
Did you know that Kyrgyzstani author Tugelbay Sydykbekov won the Stalin Prize in 1949 for the novel People of our Time , which simultaneously embraced Soviet-style communism and traditional culture including Islam?
Did you know that according to a US Supreme Court decision , the Fourth Amendment does not always apply to searches at the border ?
Did you know that the 1919 Australian federal election was the first to use preferential voting ?
Did you know that sturgeons are ancient fishes, widely sought after for caviar and more critically endangered than any other group of animal species?
Did you know that the Disher Challenge Cup , an annual rowing race, is named after Clive Disher , who rowed for the winning Australian eight in the 1919 Henley Royal Peace Regatta ?
Did you know that although measles was declared eradicated from the United States in 2000, more than 500 people there have been diagnosed with the disease so far in 2019?
Did you know that South African Willem Botha adapted the 2008 Latvian Eurovision entry as an Afrikaans song for the Springboks rugby team, and helped to produce the 2013 Belarusian Eurovision entry?
Did you know that Shah Jahan II 's food, clothes, and meetings were decided by the powerful Sayyid brothers who had chosen him as the Mughal emperor ?
Did you know that the girls of the Mädchenkantorei Limburg joined a women's choir to perform sacred choral music by contemporary composers at a 2019 concert in Limburg Cathedral ?
Did you know that Wenona Giles helped 59 people in the Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya, earn a Certificate of Completion in Educational Studies from Canada's York University ?
Did you know that the Arlington Museum of Art occupies a former J. C. Penney store in downtown Arlington, Texas?
Did you know that Xiong Zhaoren , whose battle experience was adapted into two films, lived to 107, the longest among China's founding generals?
Did you know that for the first six months that Janis Ian performed the song " At Seventeen ", she closed her eyes because she was afraid the audience would laugh at her?
Did you know that some ancient trees of the olive cultivar Bidni have been recognised as "national monuments" in Malta ?
Did you know that after Chief Justice Xiao Yang implemented reforms requiring all capital punishment cases to be reviewed by the Supreme Court , death sentences in China dropped by 30% in a year?
Did you know that the journal Minnesota History covers topics ranging from the Dakota War of 1862 and cholera in the state to root beer stands of the Midwest ?
Did you know that Australian rules footballer Haneen Zreika is the first Muslim to play in the AFL Women's ?
Did you know that the deepwater crinoid Notocrinus virilis broods its young in pouches on its arms?
Did you know that Emil Spiridonov , commander of the Soviet Pacific Fleet , was among the sixteen admirals and generals killed in the 1981 Pushkin Tu-104 crash ?
Did you know that Michael Jordan broke one of the unwritten rules of baseball ?
Did you know that in 1987, Royal Society of Canada fellow Kathryn Brush was one of the first women to be hired for a full-time position in art history at the University of Western Ontario ?
Did you know that El Drago Milenario , located in Parque del Drago , Tenerife , is the largest and oldest known specimen of Dracaena draco ?
Did you know that the remains of missing Israeli soldier Zechariah Baumel were discovered in a cemetery in the Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus , Syria, nearly 37 years after he disappeared in the 1982 Lebanon War ?
Did you know that Saint Petersburg's Red Square is now Alexander Nevsky Square ?
Did you know that the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius co-ruled with his adoptive brother Lucius Verus in the first joint rule between Roman emperors, and later co-ruled with his own son Commodus ?
Did you know that the Georgetown Neighborhood Library houses the collection of its predecessor library established by George Peabody in 1872?
Did you know that a nine-day-old citizen of the United States , Archie Mountbatten-Windsor , is seventh in the line of succession to the British throne ?
Did you know that the premise for the comic book Sleepless came to writer Sarah Vaughn when she was trying to sleep?
Did you know that Vice-Admiral Georgy Stepanov of the Soviet Navy was sentenced to ten years in prison for passing technical secrets to the Allies ?
Did you know that after winning the 2001 Austrian Grand Prix , driver David Coulthard refrained from spraying champagne on the podium out of respect for Ilmor Engineering 's Paul Morgan , who had died the day before?
Did you know that the dancer and cabaret artist Hedi Schoop emigrated to California with her husband, the composer Friedrich Hollaender , where she created and manufactured pottery ?
Did you know that the top trumps in Knüffeln , the centuries-old national card game of Frisia , are the five "Old Ones"?
Did you know that Nawab Ahmad Ali Khan was the only ruler of the Malerkotla State who had his name inscribed on coins?
Did you know that actress Chloe Howman compared her Casualty character Rita Freeman to a Jack Russell Terrier ?
Did you know that Colonel Pavlos Kouroupis was the first commanding officer defending Cyprus at the start of the Turkish invasion and is considered the first missing person of the conflict?
Did you know that the Maybrat language of West Papua traditionally uses a base-5 counting system?
Did you know that D. J. Butler worked as a corporate attorney for more than ten years before beginning his career as a speculative fiction writer?
Did you know that the early study of the geology of China led to the idea of a changeable climate and that drinking dissolved fossils was good for your health?
Did you know that Wolfgang Meyer , who recorded Mozart's Clarinet Concerto on a historical basset clarinet , played his last concert with jazz saxophonist Peter Lehel ?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court case of Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital held that federal agencies cannot promulgate retroactive rules without express authorization by Congress ?
Did you know that a player once danced with Canadian hockey referee Fred Page at center ice after scoring a goal?
Did you know that the Canadian ice hockey show Coach's Corner has been described by one of its hosts as "six minutes of psychotherapy for athletes"?
Did you know that POW/MIA activist Ted Sampley discovered that the Vietnam War Unknown Soldier was in fact Michael Blassie ?