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Did you know that Wingfield W. Watson , an Irish immigrant to the United States, became a religious leader of the Strangites and wrote several publications in support of their beliefs?
Did you know that musicians 5ive , Alesha Dixon , DJ Luck and MC Neat , East 17 , Electric Swing Circus , Sigma , and Sister Sledge all pulled out of the pro- Brexit concert Bpoplive after learning it was political?
Did you know that in Mexico, crema is sold directly to consumers by ranches that produce it?
Did you know that Canadian football player Troy Alexander was selected in a bonus round of the 1995 CFL Draft as the fourth overall pick?
Did you know that the New Zealand mushroom Cortinarius cucumeris smells strongly of cucumber ?
Did you know that Sally Brampton was The Sunday Times ' s agony aunt ?
Did you know that the website Football Leaks reveals transfer fee, wage and contract information about famous footballers ?
Did you know that John Ernuszt , who was born into a Jewish family in Vienna , was buried in a chapel dedicated to the Holy Virgin in Buda ?
Did you know that postdoctoral researcher unions have successfully negotiated for a minimum salary, paid maternity leave, and just cause protections for discipline or dismissal?
Did you know that after Mourad Laachraoui won a gold medal at the 2016 European Taekwondo Championships , the Flemish taekwondo federation dubbed him "Europe's king of the lightweights"?
Did you know that Holy Ghost! 's extended play Crime Cutz was influenced by Russian disco records that member Alex Frankel found on eBay ?
Did you know that Mary Field Garner was the last living acquaintance of Joseph Smith and the oldest Utah resident when she died at age 107?
Did you know that the Montreal Laboratory was initially located in a house where bathrooms were used for offices, with papers and books stacked in the bathtubs?
Did you know that Isa ibn Muhanna , the commander of the Bedouin of Syria, was praised for securing the Mamluk victory over the Mongols at the Second Battle of Homs in 1281?
Did you know that Peter Martyr Vermigli's best known work , the Loci Communes , is a compilation of excerpts from his biblical commentaries published after his death?
Did you know that Wangkhei Phee , a fabric woven by women of Manipur , is made of fine white cotton yarn with a closely-woven texture and is "fully transparent"?
Did you know that businessman Xia Jiantong went to university at the age of 14?
Did you know that Geraldine Roman is the first openly transgender woman elected to the Congress of the Philippines ?
Did you know that Pachycorioolithus is a kind of fossil egg native to China that is notable for having a three-layered eggshell with an unusually thick external layer?
Did you know that according to one commentator, a recent United States Supreme Court ruling will "cast a shadow over equitable tolling cases for years to come"?
Did you know that in 1971, "Anthrope Agapa" (Humankind Love Each Other), an album by Greek pop group Poll , sold 200,000 copies, a record unsurpassed by any Greek band since then?
Did you know that in Seeds of Change: Five Plants That Transformed Mankind , Henry Hobhouse "altered the way we understand modern history"?
Did you know that 1–13 Arundel Terrace in Brighton consists entirely of Grade I listed buildings ?
Did you know that current Liga de Fútbol Profesional president Javier Tebas is a Real Madrid supporter?
Did you know that members of the Welsh churches Holy Trinity Church, Sarn , St Nicholas' Church, Church Stoke , and St Andrew's Church, Presteigne all voted against joining the Church in Wales in order to stay with the Church of England ?
Did you know that in May 1926 investigator Rose Mackenberg testified before Congress about fraudulent mediums with her mentor, Harry Houdini ?
Did you know that δ 34 S values in certain Archean pyrites suggest that sulfate-reducing organisms were present 3,470 million years ago ?
Did you know that Peter Martyr Vermigli was allegedly challenged to a duel with a double-edged axe by Theodore Bibliander over the doctrine of double predestination ?
Did you know that NASCAR drivers Joey Logano , Ryan Blaney , and Brad Keselowski were hired to assist in developing the video game NASCAR Heat Evolution ?
Did you know that the song " Ständchen " (Serenade), by Richard Strauss, begins with an appeal to creep out quietly and ends with a climax of expecting a rose to glow from the rapture of the night?
Did you know that Sigismund Ernuszt , Bishop of Pécs , was accused of embezzlement in 1496, and murdered for his wealth in 1505?
Did you know that Seema Malaka , a 19th-century Buddhist temple in Colombo constructed on platforms in a lake, slowly sank into the water but was reconstructed in 1979?
Did you know that Ben Affleck won the Golden Globe and BAFTA for Best Director for Argo , but did not receive an Academy Award nomination , though the film won the Oscar for Best Picture ?
Did you know that widgiemoolthalite , which is composed in part of nickel , was first described by a man named Nickel ?
Did you know that Ryan Patterson is the first male South African gymnast to qualify for the Summer Olympic Games in over 50 years?
Did you know that the original Dhar iron pillar must have been almost twice as high and at least 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lb) heavier than the iron pillar of Delhi ?
Did you know that Steve Alexandre taught French at Laval Liberty High School after retiring from the Canadian Football League ?
Did you know that in the stealth video game Space Marshals , players can unlock gear and weapons such as shotguns, crossbows and axes, based on their performance in each level?
Did you know that Vassar College 's Ely Hall once housed the largest collegiate swimming pool in the United States?
Did you know that after the announcement of 1979 Revolution: Black Friday , a conservative Iranian newspaper accused game director Navid Khonsari of espionage, and members of his development team took on aliases?
Did you know that Amanda Barnes Smith allegedly healed her son's shattered hip by divine inspiration after the Haun's Mill massacre ?
Did you know that the Haskell Manufacturing Company produced the material for the first airplane made with moldable plywood ?
Did you know that Barbara Tsakirgis worked at archaeological excavation sites in Sicily for her doctoral thesis on the subject of Hellenistic houses at Morgantina ?
Did you know that Chicago Justice 's backdoor pilot from Chicago P.D. was based on a true story?
Did you know that the bell in the tower of St. Joseph's Catholic Church is the only item saved after the first church building burned down in 1902?
Did you know that Chet Trail is the only person to be on a World Series roster despite never playing in a Major League Baseball game?
Did you know that Facebook released a Tor hidden service at facebookcorewwwi.onion ?
Did you know that Mike Agostini was the first track and field athlete from Trinidad and Tobago to win a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games ?
Did you know that the first women's shelters in the United States were established by grassroots volunteers in the 1970s?
Did you know that in the rhythm video game Give It Up! the player must complete levels by jumping over obstacles to the beat of a song?
Did you know that Claudius Hieronymianus built a temple to the god Serapis at Eboracum (present-day York ) in the early 3rd century AD?
Did you know that women from Saint Kitts and Nevis seeking abortions often travel to other Caribbean countries to remain anonymous?
Did you know that in the Moving Pictures webcomic, World War II is used solely as a backdrop to tell a "fucked up love story"?
Did you know that the Old Ship Hotel is the oldest hotel in Brighton ?
Did you know that Alita: Battle Angel has been repeatedly delayed by James Cameron 's work on Avatar and its sequels?
Did you know that Canadian football player Dave Albright made no tackles as a rookie before setting the league record for most tackles the following season?
Did you know that Whadjuk Noongar woman Corina Abraham claims the construction of Roe 8 in Perth, Western Australia , will impinge on an area closely associated with Noongar dreamtime ?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court 's recent ruling in Sturgeon v. Frost began as a dispute about a hovercraft , but "the stakes in this case are potentially huge"?
Did you know that The Torist , a dark web site, is a literary review that can only be reached through Tor ?
Did you know that Canadian football linebacker Jesse Alexander was nominated for the Presidents' Trophy as the nation's best defensive player, but played only two games of professional football?
Did you know that the romantic comedy film 5 to 7 , about a young man who falls in love with a married woman, was inspired by a couple who had a "terribly civilized" open marriage ?
Did you know that Ethel V. Ashton 's 1941 post office mural at Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania was featured in a 2009 documentary?
Did you know that when the binary search algorithm was assigned in a course for professional programmers, 90 percent of the programmers failed to provide a correct solution?
Did you know that the star-shaped Manjarabad fort , built in 1792 by Tippu Sultan , was patterned on the military forts developed by the French architect Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban ?
Did you know that Robert Todd Carroll started his skeptic's journey as a seven-year-old doubting Santa Claus ?
Did you know that only South Africans are allowed to be issued Springbok colours ?
Did you know that the Welsh footballer Trevor Ford once stepped in as a replacement fielder for Glamorgan County Cricket Club during a match?
Did you know that the Pigot Diamond was the largest diamond in England at the turn of the 19th century but its location today is unknown, although a popular legend says it was crushed to powder?
Did you know that Justin Timberlake 's " Can't Stop the Feeling! " became the 26th song to debut at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 ?
Did you know that during World War II, approximately 500 Jews were transported from the Winschoten railway station via the Westerbork transit camp to Nazi concentration camps , where most of them were killed?
Did you know that Mattie Edwards Hewitt was described as "one of the best known and most lyrical garden photographers of her day"?
Did you know that the 2016 Uttarakhand forest fires affected about 3,500 hectares (8,600 acres) in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand , claiming seven fatalities?
Did you know that rather than accept his appointment as a bishop in Cyprus , the Christian saint Demetrian is said to have fled his home and hidden in a cave?
Did you know that many villages were named after a profession in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary , indicating that the villagers were required to render a specific service to their lords?
Did you know that on volunteering for service in the First World War , England rugby captain Ronnie Poulton declared that he "would be a skunk to hold back"?
Did you know that " On, Brave Old Army Team " was named one of the "top 25 college fight songs " by William Studwell ?
Did you know that in his proposal for Commentaires sur Corneille , Voltaire described the dramatist Pierre Corneille as the Homer of the French language?
Did you know that while performing on tour in Europe during World War II, Janie Thompson sang with Tony Bennett ?
Did you know that the 1972 film Chi l'ha vista morire? featured George Lazenby in a performance complimented by critics?
Did you know that when a train carrying newspapers derailed in the Little Falls Gulf Curve crash of 1903 , two people believed their lives were saved because they were cushioned by bundles of newspapers?
Did you know that the Central Acropolis of the ancient Maya city of Tikal , built during the Late Preclassic period , served as a residence for Tikal's royal families?
Did you know that the principal character Tux Dog in The Problem Solverz was developed while its creator Ben Jones was in grade school?
Did you know that in 1930, at Effendi's request, Euphemia Eleanor Baker toured incognito, mostly dressed in a black chador , to photograph locations associated with the origins of the Babí and Bahá'í Faith ?
Did you know that the Asian rice gall midge causes a disease known as silver shoot or onion shoot in rice?
Did you know that South Korean singer Yohan Hwang won the first season of I Love OPM in 2016?
Did you know that S/2015 (136472) 1 is the only known moon of the dwarf planet Makemake ?
Did you know that RAAF Northern Command was going to be an area, then became a command, then became an area, and then became nothing at all?
Did you know that David Cohen , deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency , received a recommendation from Alan Dershowitz for his first job out of law school?
Did you know that today's Scottish Cup Final between Rangers and Hibernian is the first contested by two teams not in the top division ?
Did you know that Yezi auditioned at LOEN Entertainment after the agency noticed her singing and dancing videos, which were the most popular videos on Cyworld ?
Did you know that the Farmers Cricket Club Ground in Saint Martin, Jersey , is scheduled to host five matches in the 2016 ICC World Cricket League Division Five between 21 and 28 May?
Did you know that the Empathy Quotient can be used to screen for autism spectrum disorder ?
Did you know that in 1951, birch dieback disease was estimated to have killed two thirds of the birch trees in Maine ?
Did you know that jockey Corey Lanerie said he knows the Churchill Downs racetrack "better than anybody"?
Did you know that despite the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi's neutrality during the American Civil War , many Hawaiians enlisted in the military regiments of other states?
Did you know that for campaigning against indefinite psychiatric imprisonment for opponents of the regime, Vladimir Bukovsky was confined for years in Soviet psychiatric prison-hospitals , labor camps, and prisons?
Did you know that Arsenal goalkeeper Dan Lewis blamed a greasy shirt for letting in the only goal of the 1927 FA Cup Final , gifting victory to Cardiff City ?
Did you know that South Korean girl group Twice portray characters from famous films in their music video for " Cheer Up ", including Roman Holiday , Chungking Express , and Scream ?
Did you know that Virginia Cutler completed her master's degree despite being widowed, raising two small children alone, and breaking her back?
Did you know that Trefelin BGC 's women's football team broke away from the club after two years in the Welsh women's top division ?
Did you know that the announcement trailer for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare received over two million dislikes and is the second most disliked video on YouTube ?
Did you know that Sword Art Online character Sinon 's glasses were created as the authors felt there were not enough characters in the series with glasses?
Did you know that Jieyang Prison in Guangdong was the first prison in China to implement a video conferencing system for inmates and their family members?
Did you know that baseball player Ryan Boldt , who is naturally left-handed, taught himself to throw with his right arm after having surgery on his left arm at age 10?
Did you know that Mamluk Sultan Baibars built two bridges near the towns of Jindas and Yibna in the outskirts of Ramla , which have survived more than seven centuries?
Did you know that at the age of 18, Robin McCall became the youngest woman to qualify for a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race?
Did you know that while adult red pumpkin beetles consume the leaves and flowers of the plant, their larvae eat the roots, stems and parts of the fruit in contact with the soil?
Did you know that Yang Hongying , whose books have sold more than 50 million copies, is known as "China's J. K. Rowling "?
Did you know that Hisashi Eguchi abandoned the serialization of his manga Stop!! Hibari-kun! after fleeing to a hotel room?
Did you know that Sitric II may have co-ruled Viking Northumbria with Olaf Cuaran ?
Did you know that all eleven tracks from Busker Busker 1st Album charted on the Korea K-Pop Hot 100 and Gaon Digital Chart , including six in the top ten?
Did you know that the Anatolian crested newt is a cryptic species , only shown to be distinct by genetic analysis ?
Did you know that during the Welsh Premier Women's Football League 2015–16 season, Llandudno Ladies were one of only two North Wales teams in the league?
Did you know that Dina Kawar , a Jordanian Christian , was the first Arab woman to preside over the United Nations Security Council ?
Did you know that the song "Cupid", from Oh My Girl 's self-titled debut album , features drumline percussion and " bubblegum cheerleader chants"?
Did you know that Nikolaus Hillebrand , who as a boy was a member of the Regensburger Domspatzen , recorded with them as a soloist on Bach's St John Passion in 1979 and Dittersdorf 's Requiem in 2009?
Did you know that a goal of the National Strategic Computing Initiative is to combine big data methods with supercomputing technology usually used for physical simulations ?
Did you know that the Psychopathic Personality Inventory examines eight personality traits commonly found in psychopaths ?
Did you know that Marianne Appel , a WPA post office muralist, was later a Muppet designer for The Jim Henson Company ?
Did you know that the 1899 Sewanee Tigers won five road games in six days, all by shutout over Southern college football powers?
Did you know that a prostrate cultivar of the swamp she-oak was named for its resemblance to Cousin Itt ?
Did you know that curve-shortening causes every smooth simple closed curve to become convex and then near-circular before it shrinks to a point ?
Did you know that a skeleton found at Auldhame in 2005 may belong to Olaf Guthfrithson , king of Dublin and Northumbria ?
Did you know that the Bank of California Building in downtown Portland, Oregon , has been described as being in the style of an Italian Renaissance palazzo ?
Did you know that Laura Wolvaardt made her Women's One Day International cricket debut for South Africa at the age of 16?
Did you know that the tunicate Phallusia mammillata accumulates vanadium in its blood cells?
Did you know that in 1931, John Polando and Russell Boardman set a flying distance record of 5,011.8 miles (8,065.7 km)?
Did you know that the next main entry in the Battlefield series after Battlefield 4 is Battlefield 1 ?
Did you know that graffiti by artist Heba Amin which appeared in an episode of the television series Homeland included phrases in Arabic such as " Homeland is racist"?
Did you know that the Amara War Cemetery in Iraq contains the graves of three Victoria Cross recipients from the First World War?
Did you know that Canadian football player Tony Akins returned two punts exactly 65 yards for touchdowns in 2000?
Did you know that the Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio short story " The Painted Skin " has been praised for its "powerful theme and the sheer gruesomeness of its detail"?
Did you know that Netty Herawaty began acting at age 13 and was married within a year?
Did you know that Josephine Nesbit , an American army nurse and second-in-command of the Angels of Bataan , was credited with their survival through internment at Santo Tomas ?
Did you know that human activity has helped the gray encrusting sponge to disperse across the Pacific?
Did you know that S.S. Held 's 1931 novel The Death of Metal was an inspiration for works by Ross Lockridge and perhaps David H. Keller ?
Did you know that the crash of Sonicblue Airways Flight 604 bankrupted Sonicblue Airways ?
Did you know that Paralympic snowboarder Carl Murphy competes using a specially designed carbon fibre prosthetic leg ?
Did you know that when viewed from above, the choreography of Oh My Girl 's " Closer " forms the shapes of the astrological signs in order to highlight the song's cosmic imagery?
Did you know that when the office of Poet Laureate of Washington was established in 2007, it was proposed to pay the incumbent with a firkin of beer?
Did you know that Victoria Hamilton has appeared in three Jane Austen adaptations, most recently as Maria Bertram ?
Did you know that the Cavell Nurses' Trust began with funds gathered through an appeal during the First World War and became the UK's "largest benevolent fund for nurses"?
Did you know that racing driver Jeff Burton broke a 175-race winless streak by winning the 2006 Dover 400 ?
Did you know that the GSI Mariner , a Canadian research / survey ship , was built in Edmonton and trucked to the Hay River in sections to be reassembled for launch on Great Slave Lake ?
Did you know that former Kentucky Senator Walter Arnold Baker once advised the parliaments of Tomsk and Nizhny Novgorod on writing constitutions?
Did you know that in The Play of Wit and Science , Wit wins Science's heart by slaying the monster Tediousness?
Did you know that Sian Williams became the first professional player in the Wales women's national rugby union team , after the Royal Air Force granted her elite athlete status in 2016?
Did you know that Garo Paylan was one of the first ethnic Armenians to serve as a member of the Turkish parliament in decades?
Did you know that the Grade I listed building 56 Artillery Lane in London is now used as a free art exhibition space?
Did you know that in 2016, Ross Greer became the youngest ever Member of the Scottish Parliament , elected at the age of 21?
Did you know that Shaphee Lanphee , a traditional fabric of Manipur protected under the GI registration , was in the past used by the King to honour soldiers for their bravery?
Did you know that physician and diplomat Edward Stevens may have been Alexander Hamilton 's half-brother?
Did you know that the silk dudou was the early-modern Chinese equivalent of the corset , used to flatten women's breasts?
Did you know that Canadian football player Marcus Adams left the Rough Riders to join the Roughriders ?
Did you know that Syrian dissident and human rights activist Nizar Nayyouf won the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize while in Mezzeh prison ?
Did you know that the River Trave was declared Germany's 2016/17 "Riverscape of the Year" by the Friends of Nature ?
Did you know that Mexican director David Pablos earned his academic degree from film school with a short film that won an Ariel Award ?
Did you know that chahan , a Japanese fried rice dish, may have originated from Chinese immigrants who arrived at the port of Kobe in the 1860s?
Did you know that Max Reger 's Nachtlied ( Night Song ) appears on the recording The Best of the King's Singers ?
Did you know that the Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles were occupied at various periods and a small hoard of Roman coins was found in one?
Did you know that Muhammad Ali has qualified to box for Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that South Korean girl group Oh My Girl was denied entry to the United States when they flew to Los Angeles for Pink Ocean ' s album cover photoshoot?
Did you know that sociologist William Chambliss concluded that conflict between social classes is the fundamental force in capitalist societies?
Did you know that in 2015, the Oregon Department of State Lands closed Crump Lake to the public because drought had reduced the lake’s water level exposing the lakebed to looting by cultural artifact hunters?
Did you know that Indian gender equality activist Trupti Desai has successfully campaigned for women to be allowed entry to various religious places?
Did you know that films featuring Matt Damon have collectively earned over $2.9 billion in North America?
Did you know that South African rower Sandra Khumalo competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics just two years after taking up the sport?
Did you know that when threatened, the megascolecid worm Octochaetus multiporus squirts a luminescent fluid from its mouth?
Did you know that Jacky Morkel scored four tries in five test matches on the Springboks tour of 1912–13 ?
Did you know that the Welsh Church (Burial Grounds) Act 1945‎ restored the legal right for the Church in Wales to look after burial grounds after they had been doing so unofficially?
Did you know that Druze chieftain Ismail al-Atrash established his own sheikhdom out of territory he captured from the Hamdan clan ?