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Did you know that when Virginia Grayson won $20,000 in the Dobell Prize for drawing, she said she would use the money to get her " ute fixed "?
Did you know that the Javan ferret-badger visits picnic sites to scavenge for food, and has been hand-fed biscuits?
Did you know that King Rögnvaldr Óláfsson was assassinated by a knight named Ívarr and his accomplices?
Did you know that the Swiss magazine Der Kreis was the only gay magazine available in Europe during World War II and the Nazi regime ?
Did you know that Cambridge had a female cox for the first time in its history in the 1985 University Boat Race ?
Did you know that Tony Henry once accidentally sang "my penis is a mountain" in Croatian ?
Did you know that former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton 's memoir Hard Choices is so titled because that is how she frames the foreign policy situations encountered during her tenure?
Did you know that Departures was the first Japanese submission to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ?
Did you know that two Philadelphia Phillies pitchers phoned Jonathan Pettibone to try to convince him to sign with the team?
Did you know that Melchior Hoffmann probably composed Schlage doch, gewünschte Stunde ( BWV 53), not Bach ?
Did you know that Bissau-Guinean Zinha Vaz was arrested and detained after an argument with President Kumba Ialá , who offered her the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs months later?
Did you know that in 1872 the newly-elected English Conservative Party Member of Parliament Edward Wells denounced the Ballot Act as "positively un-English"?
Did you know that Alfred V. Verville designed the Verville-Sperry R-3 Racer , which set a world speed record in 1923 and was called one of the "Twelve Most Significant Aircraft of all Time" by Popular Mechanics magazine?
Did you know that although J. R. R. Tolkien translated the Old English poem Beowulf in the 1920s, he did not like the result so it was published only posthumously in 2014 as Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary ?
Did you know that the World Bank 's first loan to China's power sector was for the Lubuge Dam ?
Did you know that Halo: The Master Chief Collection includes a remastered version of Halo 2 to coincide with its tenth anniversary?
Did you know that women's fashion boutique Giorgio Beverly Hills had a reading room, bar, and pool table to help men "pass the time"?
Did you know that Ofcom received 260 complaints about Lady Gaga 's live performance of " Do What U Want " on the United Kingdom's The X Factor ?
Did you know that newly-elected Romanian MEP Mircea Diaconu has appeared in over 60 films, managed a theater, published a novel, and taken part in a revolution ?
Did you know that Little David 's first record, The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress , was named for a line spoken by Flip Wilson 's character Geraldine ?
Did you know that Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation candidate Amar Nath Yadav mustered a quarter million votes in the Siwan seat in the 1999 election?
Did you know that Lieutenant Colonel Terry Lakin invited his own court-martial to attempt to force Barack Obama to release the original version of his birth certificate ?
Did you know that Singapore used to have a frozen pork hotline ?
Did you know that Janet Greig and her sister Jane , both doctors, were founding members of Melbourne's Queen Victoria Hospital and inductees of the Victorian Honour Roll of Women ?
Did you know that the American Civil Liberties Union condemned government use of the Draganflyer X6 ?
Did you know that Rudolf Henke was elected to the Bundestag in 2009 after receiving more votes than incumbent federal health minister Ulla Schmidt ?
Did you know that the video game Freedom Planet has not yet been released and is not part of an existing franchise, but has already been promoted on T-shirts?
Did you know that the customers of Michael Rainey 's boutique Hung On You included The Rolling Stones , The Beatles , and The Kinks ?
Did you know that the 1984 University Boat Race was postponed by a day after Cambridge hit a barge and sank during the warm-up?
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Did you know that the offices of the Antigua and Barbuda newspaper Outlet were torched in 1998, following the publication of an article on a secret arms deal?
Did you know that the Canadian Labour Congress president Dennis McDermott was the founding chairman of the Commonwealth Trade Union Council ?
Did you know that due to enemy action in World War I, one set of expensive epigraphic illustration plates for The Indian Antiquary had to be sent from London to Bombay three times?
Did you know that the present town of Ashford in Kent , England, originates from an original settlement established in 893 AD by inhabitants escaping a Danish Viking raid?
Did you know that in his boutique Blades , Rupert Lycett Green 's customers included Mick Jagger , the Marquess of Hartington and the Earl of St Germans ?
Did you know that the 1982 Atari 2600 game Lost Luggage features terrorist suitcases?
Did you know that the release of the Moto E caused the website of online retailer Flipkart to crash?
Did you know that Neon Steeple is the first solo release by Crowder , which he recorded after the break-up of David Crowder Band ?
Did you know that Belgian anti-Zionist politician Laurent Louis was censured for antisemitism and Holocaust denial after making the quenelle gesture in parliament ?
Did you know that the Oregonian Building , completed in 1892 in Portland , Oregon, was the first steel-framed skyscraper west of Chicago?
Did you know that Reverend George Lloyd , archaeologist and Anglican curate , was so outspoken that he received an assassination threat?
Did you know that Dupee Shaw 's delivery may have been the first pitching wind-up , created "a genuine sensation" and led baseball writers of his day to call him "a monkey, a mountebank and other harsh names"?
Did you know that a footbridge proposed to link Grand Central Plaza with Sha Tin railway station was embroiled in controversy for allegedly bad feng shui ?
Did you know that Lala Achint Ram was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India , which drafted India's constitution?
Did you know that the song " A+E " was written whilst waiting for someone to come out of the A&E ?
Did you know that the newspaper Labour Spokesman shares its building with the Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party and the Trades and Labour Union ?
Did you know that according to the Susquehanna River Basin Commission , the watershed of North Branch Mahantango Creek is one of the highest-quality watersheds in the lower Susquehanna River watershed?
Did you know that a critic of Dishaster said that the game was "as bad as its unfunny title implies"?
Did you know that bacteriologist Sara Branham Matthews was considered to be one of the "grand ladies of microbiology"?
Did you know that Ken Baumann 's book on the SNES video game EarthBound was the first title published by Boss Fight Books ?
Did you know that Los Zetas crime syndicate founder Galindo Mellado Cruz was recently killed in a gunfight in Mexico?
Did you know that Below Paradise by Tedashii explores his efforts to come to grips with the death of his young son?
Did you know that Seattle Mariners CEO Howard Lincoln posed for the Norman Rockwell painting The Scoutmaster ?
Did you know that David Tennant founded London's Gargoyle Club , with lavish interiors by Henri Matisse , and whose regular patrons included Fred Astaire , Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud ?
Did you know that Jackie Tavener is one of only four players in Major League Baseball history to steal second, third and home in the same inning on more than one occasion?
Did you know that the album Tunnel Rats by the hip-hop collective of the same name featured a more mainstream and diverse production style than previous albums?
Did you know that William Stadiem 's book on Frank Sinatra was based on thousands of pages of notes taken about Sinatra's everyday life by his valet George Jacobs ?
Did you know that state-dependent memory suggests that if you forget what you did when blind drunk , you could get drunk again and remember it?
Did you know that Nawrahta Minsaw , the first Burmese ruler of Lan Na , was also an accomplished poet in the yadu style?
Did you know that the Japan release of Saints Row: The Third had the veins removed from its Penetrator weapon—a three-foot long phallus bat—due to regulatory restrictions on depictions of genitalia ?
Did you know that "Baggböleri", the Swedish derogatory term for deforestation, is named after Baggböle on the Ume River ?
Did you know that the upcoming video game Halo 5: Guardians features a new game engine for the series ?
Did you know that Milan Puskar Health Right , a system of free clinics in West Virginia that handles nearly 4,000 patients a year, originally operated out of a Baptist church?
Did you know that the film Death in the West contains what is believed to be the first recorded admission from a tobacco company representative that smoking causes health problems?
Did you know that London's Burlington Gardens is the site of the first Abercrombie & Fitch store in Europe?
Did you know that Robbie Williams was inspired to write Rudebox 's hidden track, "Dickhead", after playing The Mitchell Brothers ' " Routine Check " to death?
Did you know that in 1988 Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Abdul Ghafar Lakanwal defected to the United States?
Did you know that at various times the ground sloth , Billy the Kid , Geronimo , and astronauts could be found in what is now the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument ?
Did you know that Bartholomäus Sastrow 's autobiography does not give the birth dates of his children?
Did you know that the Fountain of Ahmed III in Üsküdar , Istanbul , features a inscription by Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III , copied from his own calligraphy?
Did you know that Zhang Shichuan made China's first feature film, first martial arts film , and first sound film ?
Did you know that Fawlty Towers character Basil Fawlty sang " Don't Mention the World Cup " to dissuade fans of England's 2006 FIFA World Cup team from mentioning the Second World War while in Germany?
Did you know that some England players allegedly sang " Aye Aye Ippy The Germans Bombed Our Chippy ", despite the FA not wanting to support any anti-German songs?
Did you know that Sir Wolseley Haig fought dacoits in Burma before becoming a Scottish herald ?
Did you know that the events of Bloody Sunday are being recreated at the Edmund Pettus Bridge for the upcoming film Selma ?
Did you know that Kashmiri politician and poet Abdul Sattar Ranjoor‎ was assassinated by militants when he was 73?
Did you know that Thomas Elfe , a contemporary of Thomas Chippendale , was the most successful furniture craftsman in Charleston in the eighteenth century?
Did you know that at approximately 568 feet (173 m), the proposed Skyscraper is expected to be the tallest roller coaster in the world when it opens in 2016?
Did you know that " Yasss Bish " is a bounce and drill song with a trap beat?
Did you know that Milan Miskovsky and James Donovan convinced Cuba to release over 1,000 insurgents captured during the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion ?
Did you know that 16 biblical scenes are cast in bronze on the Romanesque Bernward Doors , including Cain's murder of Abel ?
Did you know that Borka Pavićević is a Montenegrin dramaturge who founded the Centre for Cultural Decontamination ?
Did you know that Moonbird eats horseshoe crabs' eggs, and has flown further than the distance to the Moon?
Did you know that professional baseball player "Prince" Oana was falsely advertised by his promoters as a full-blooded Hawaiian royal?
Did you know that as the new US Representative to the UN Human Rights Council , Keith M. Harper is the first Native American to achieve the rank of US Ambassador?
Did you know that Ohio State retired Les Horvath 's jersey number 22 in 2001, six years after his death?
Did you know that the Dutch women's magazine Beatrijs for Catholic readers made its photos and patterns more modest by adding collars to low necklines and lengthening skirts?
Did you know that Georges Méliès filmed a "pre-reenactment" of Edward VII's coronation more than a month before the actual event took place?
Did you know that Gustav Rosén sent apples from northern Sweden to newspaper editors in the south to show that grass was not the only thing that grew "up there"?
Did you know that when twin fetuses lock together during childbirth, the first twin is sometimes decapitated to save the second?
Did you know that Mozart Distillerie claims to use "soundmilling" – playing the music of Mozart 380 times into their chocolate liqueurs?
Did you know that in the early 1980s, a team of surveyors discovered the World War II-era Avro Anson Memorial near Clackline, Western Australia , which had been overgrown by shrubs and trees?
Did you know that celebrities desired to appear on The Adventures of Ellery Queen although their solutions to the mystery were usually incorrect?
Did you know that publicity about its outing club led to one university receiving 300% more applications for admission?
Did you know that Robert M. Bond , a lieutenant general in the USAF and decorated American veteran of the Vietnam War , was killed in a 1984 crash in Nevada while flying a Soviet-built MiG-23 ?
Did you know that Doncaster Knights ' promotion to the 2014–15 RFU Championship was the first time a rugby team returned to the RFU Championship after being relegated for just one season?
Did you know that a Rolling Stone readers' poll ranked Made in Japan the sixth best live album of all time?
Did you know that Schloss Warthausen has been the home of famous historical personages like authors Christoph Martin Wieland and Sophie von La Roche , and painter Johann Heinrich Tischbein ?
Did you know that the 1946 drama film Her Sister's Secret was briefly banned in Ireland?
Did you know that Polish-American philosopher and sociologist Florian Znaniecki coined the terms culturalism and humanistic coefficient ?
Did you know that film director Wilfrid North was blinded in 1913 by a cannon explosion on a movie set?
Did you know that " The Summons " includes 13 questions asked in the voice of Jesus?
Did you know that the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters had not lost a game in the 2014 PBA Commissioner's Cup , but were defeated in three games by the San Mig Super Coffee Mixers in the finals series ?
Did you know that a T-shirt with Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and Volkswagen logos on it was created in homage to Meridian Dan 's German Whip ?
Did you know that in 1966, Men in Vogue included a photoshoot by Michael Cooper entitled "Girls dress men to suit themselves" with Brian Jones dressed by Anita Pallenberg ?
Did you know that Jitan Ram Manjhi was asked to resign the day after he was sworn in as Bihar's cabinet minister in 2005?
Did you know that to make his single " Good Kisser " "less X-rated", Usher changed the lyrics to remove the sexual innuendo?
Did you know that Marten Woudstra was one of four men who formed the committee that eventually produced the New International Version of the Bible?
Did you know that allegations that lepers , Jews and Muslims were conspiring against the Christians of Europe sparked international hysteria in June 1321 ?
Did you know that Dutch zoologist C. A. W. Jeekel is credited with launching the "modern era" of millipede taxonomy ?
Did you know that the video game The Idolmaster One For All sold out in Akihabara the day after its release?
Did you know that Korengal examines the military life and experiences of the same men who were in Restrepo ?
Did you know that the compilation album Underground Rise, Vol. 1 features about thirty-five rappers, and was recorded almost entirely over a single weekend?
Did you know that the Thomas Elfe House is the oldest house in Charleston that is open to the public?
Did you know that an annual carnival at Verrès Castle celebrates the time the lord and lady came down to town to dance with the local youth?
Did you know that Kinross Gold built the Dvoinoye Gold Mine at a cost of US$360 million?
Did you know that the camera of the LG G3 smartphone has an autofocus system that uses technology originally intended for robotic vacuum cleaners ?
Did you know that punter Pat O'Donnell recorded more bench press repetitions at the NFL Scouting Combine than first-overall draft pick Jadeveon Clowney ?
Did you know that the Germany–Poland border after WWII mostly follows the Oder–Neisse line , dividing several towns?
Did you know that the University of Mississippi Field Station originally had 220 experimental ponds and was once a fish farm ?
Did you know that around 100 years ago, the steaming process in Lancashire cotton mills made workers fear for their health?
Did you know that before Oscar Dystel made Bantam Books America's largest publisher of paperbacks, he worked on psychological warfare in World War II?
Did you know that despite being The Rolling Stones ' business adviser and financial manager for nearly 40 years, Prince Rupert Loewenstein preferred the music of The Beatles ?
Did you know that before they moved to their current home of Odsal Stadium , Bradford Northern spent 26 years based at Birch Lane ?
Did you know that Indian freedom fighter and politician N. M. R. Subbaraman was known as "Madurai Gandhi"?
Did you know that Ontario Highway 23 was extended from Highway 8 to Highway 7 as part of a Depression -era relief program?
Did you know that the Nazi Sonderdienst formations included men who did not know German and required translation by their native commanders?
Did you know that on the album Tunnel Vision , Tunnel Rats leader Dax Reynosa responded to claims that his group was too aggressive with the line "I pull a pistol out my pocket and I cock it"?
Did you know that Eric A. Walker continued as a professor at Cambridge University and published more books after being lobotomised ?
Did you know that Cassandra Pickett Durham was the first woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S. state of Georgia ?
Did you know that the ideological concept of a primary stage of socialism explains the use of capitalist methods in the Chinese economy by the Communist Party of China ?
Did you know that the father of Iran's nuclear program , Akbar Etemad , had said that neither Israel or the US are in a position to attack Iran?
Did you know that Cuenta Conmigo by Jerry Rivera won the Lo Nuestro Award for Tropical Album of the Year and outsold the highest selling salsa album at the time?
Did you know that American writer and actor Henry Howard Paul became famous in Great Britain after appearing on stage with his wife ?
Did you know that the magazine Man About Town , in advertising itself, declared "that a fool and his money are soon parted"?
Did you know that Fred Stanfield was dealt in "the most one-sided trade in NHL history"?
Did you know that the U.S. House Select Committee on Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi is the fifth House committee to investigate this matter?
Did you know that chief justice Thomas Balmer was once the managing partner of American law firm Ater Wynne ?
Did you know that the live extended play MTV Unplugged by Thirty Seconds to Mars features musicians from the Vitamin String Quartet , a gospel choir and the contribution of the band's fans?
Did you know that in 1966 Indonesian ambassador Djawoto was granted political asylum in China, following the mass killings of 1965–66 ?
Did you know that the mobile tie-in game Saints Row 2 has a carjacking minigame where the player earns more money for driving at high speeds to scare their captive passenger?
Did you know that Sri Lankan Tamils commemorate 18 May, the day when the civil war ended, as Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day ?
Did you know that Templeton Thompson combines her interests in horses and country music in songs such as "When I Get This Pony Rode"?
Did you know that China's Qing dynasty (1644–1912) bestowed the title Marquis of Extended Grace on a member of the former Ming imperial clan who presided at ceremonies at the Ming tombs ?
Did you know that The Sun Also Rises is the first version of Hemingway 's novel en pointe ; The Sun Also Rises increases the story's death count; and The Sun Also Rises is known for its award-winning sound design?
Did you know that Sadie Houck was blacklisted by the National League for being "addicted to drink" despite being acknowledged as "one of the best short stops in the country and a thorough ball player"?
Did you know that the Neighbours plane crash was nominated for Best Storyline at the 2006 Inside Soap Awards ?
Did you know that in the last ten years, Lisa Kewley has won a Hubble postdoctoral fellowship, the Annie J. Cannon Award , the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize , and been elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science ?
Did you know that the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " Our Man Bashir " was based in part on James Bond films , something Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was not happy about?
Did you know that while Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 was poorly received critically in comparison to Close Range: Wyoming Stories , one of the short stories in the collection won the 2004 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction ?
Did you know that a Dachau concentration camp survivor recognized Major General William P. Levine nearly 40 years later because Levine had carried him in his arms?
Did you know that the national quality award phenomenon grew out of the Total Quality Management movement of the 1980s?
Did you know that the four miles of stacks aisles in Harvard 's 3.5-million-volume Widener Library are so labyrinthine that one student felt she ought to carry "a compass, a sandwich, and a whistle" when entering?
Did you know that Crown Princess Yaza Datu Kalaya is the subject of some of the "most beautiful poems in Burmese literature" by her nephew and husband Natshinnaung ?
Did you know that Martin Luther created the Pentecost hymn " Komm, Heiliger Geist, Herre Gott " by adding two stanzas to an earlier German version of " Veni Sancte Spiritus ", keeping its melody?
Did you know that Gopal Kalan Tandel defeated Narayan Fugro in the first Lok Sabha election for the Daman and Diu seat ?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Zelda destroyed 95% of Marshall Islands ' crops?
Did you know that German silent film actress Hedda Vernon was 28 years old when she played the role of a 15-year-old girl in a film?
Did you know that the northwest tower of St James' Church, Handsworth , used to be its western tower?
Did you know that the rusty silky oak had different everyday and taboo names in the local Dyirbal language ?
Did you know that Alajuela Province , Costa Rica, is home to gothic, neo-classical, art deco, and neo-colonial churches, including a church constructed with sheet metal ?
Did you know that David Ames auditioned for another Holby City character prior to winning the role of Dominic Copeland ?
Did you know that " I will sing with the spirit " was composed by John Rutter for the Royal School of Church Music?
Did you know that Rudolf Nadolny , a German diplomat, replied that the conversation had just begun after Adolf Hitler declared it had finished?
Did you know that fires in Sundsvall and Lilla Edet , Sweden, broke out on the same day as the Great Fire of Umeå ?
Did you know that Romeo and Juliet (2013) was the first Broadway theatre adaptation of William Shakespeare's play since 1977?
Did you know that Jean Bellette is the only woman to have won the Sulman Prize more than once?
Did you know that in the Caribbean, a small octopus mimics the bursts of swimming activity of the plate fish ?
Did you know that France and Estonia were the first countries to contribute troops for the EU peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic ?
Did you know that the seemingly unremarkable Catt family – father Ronald "Scott" Catt and his children, Hayden and Abigail – pulled off several bank robberies in Oregon and Texas ?
Did you know that astronomer Adelaide Ames joined the Harvard College Observatory as a research assistant because she could not find any jobs in journalism?
Did you know that the novel Mira, Mirror is written from the viewpoint of a mirror?
Did you know that Harvard Business School professor Charles M. Williams survived the sinking of the USS Lexington by swinging from a line onto the deck of a rescuing destroyer ?