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Did you know that an interactive exhibit about the life and work of David Hawkins was called "Cultivate the Scientist in Every Child"?
Did you know that at the establishment of Bahía Portete National Natural Park , Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos said, "Biodiversity is to Colombia what oil is for the Arabs"?
Did you know that Sophie Molineux won the inaugural Betty Wilson Young Cricketer of the Year Award at the 2017 Allan Border Medal Ceremony ?
Did you know that historical comet observations in China as far back as 12 BC have been used to study changes in the brightness of Halley's Comet ?
Did you know that poems by Martin Greif inspired music by Max Reger , Alban Berg , Anton Webern , and possibly Gustav Mahler ?
Did you know that by royal edict, only members of certain families could be masters in the guild for makers of Limoges enamel ?
Did you know that at 14 years of age, Minami Itahashi was the youngest person to win a springboard diving event at the Japanese national championships?
Did you know that New York's Constitution Marsh , an Important Bird Area , is adjacent to what was once "the most cadmium polluted site in the world"?
Did you know that King Razadarit once sent Queen Thuddhamaya in a golden litter to one of his top commanders, despite her objections?
Did you know that Laguna del Maule is a volcanic field in Chile that has been inflating at a rapid pace during the last decade?
Did you know that the Superfest International Disability Film Festival is the longest-running disability film festival in the world?
Did you know that the Sulaymi commander Abu'l-A'war led the Arabs to a major naval victory over the Byzantines in the Battle of the Masts ?
Did you know that Carlos Fernández Gondín fought against Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista and the United States in the Bay of Pigs Invasion , and afterwards helped found the Communist Party of Cuba ?
Did you know that the drawing of Lucifer from the Divine Comedy illustrated by Botticelli depicts the whole story of canto XXXIV, and shows Lucifer's geographical location in Hell?
Did you know that the English peace campaigner Betty Tebbs was arrested at the age of 89 for participating in anti- Trident protests?
Did you know that high school teacher Gertrude Hull tutored Douglas MacArthur in preparation for passing his entrance examination to West Point ?
Did you know that the variegated oil beetle was used as a treatment for rabies in the 19th century?
Did you know that the victims of the Kragujevac massacre in Serbia included 144 high school students?
Did you know that the Canadian government invests millions of dollars in First Nations communities to close the digital divide in Canada ?
Did you know that Charoen Krung Road was built because foreign consuls complained of not having a road for their carriages in Bangkok ?
Did you know that Robert Boyd missed out on the scoop of a lifetime but won a Pulitzer Prize in the process?
Did you know that the character Komui Lee in the manga series D.Gray-man is based on the author 's boss?
Did you know that emotional lability can be seen in conditions such as personality disorder , bipolar disorder , ADHD , and alcohol intoxication, or after a stroke ?
Did you know that despite being shot in the back and witnessing atrocities as a child soldier in South Sudan, Deng Adut is now a defence lawyer in Australia?
Did you know that George Drumm wrote " Hail, America " while riding the New York City Subway ?
Did you know that Carlos Enrique Díaz de León , president of Guatemala for two days, once refused a bribe of US$200,000?
Did you know that a 2011 takeover of the Universidad Autónoma Intercultural de Sinaloa in Mexico by protesting students lasted for two months?
Did you know that the composer Peter Janssens subtitled his Menschensohn ( Son of man ) a " Sacro-Pop-Musical "?
Did you know that you can go directly from Aqueduct Racetrack to Manhattan , but not directly back?
Did you know that Elijah, archbishop of Nisibis , befriended the Abbasid vizier and recorded their conversations in his Book of Sessions ?
Did you know that some specimens of the fossil egg Macroolithus have been found with embryos of oviraptorid dinosaurs inside?
Did you know that under the 1850–1903 Oudh Bequest , six million rupees were transferred from the Indian kingdom of Oudh to the Shia holy cities of Najaf and Karbala ?
Did you know that Tilo Medek set Lenin's Decree on Peace for speaking voice and four percussionists, and wrote an opera based on a Böll novel ?
Did you know that the Precordillera Platform in Argentina may have originally broken off from rocks that are now in the southeastern United States?
Did you know that in the late 1970s Beryl Rawson used computers to analyse the family life of Roman slaves?
Did you know that the Big Sur Land Trust pioneered the "conservation buyer" method of preserving land, saving thousands of acres in Big Sur from possible development?
Did you know that scholars have debated whether the mysterious Third Murderer in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth was Macbeth himself?
Did you know that visitors to the collection at The House of Houdini can gain admittance only by decoding a secret message on their admission ticket?
Did you know that Christopher R. W. Nevinson was described by Charles Lewis Hind as "among the most discussed, most successful, most promising, most admired and most hated British artists"?
Did you know that the Chinese variety store Miniso was co-founded by a Japanese designer and a Chinese entrepreneur?
Did you know that Jain figure Bahubali is said to have meditated motionless in a standing posture for a year, during which time climbing plants grew around his legs?
Did you know that stockpiles of United States Marine Corps weapons and equipment are stored in caves in Norway as part of a Marine Corps Prepositioning Program ?
Did you know that Pasang Lhamu Sherpa , one of the first Nepali women to climb K2 , was named after the first Nepali woman to climb Everest ?
Did you know that during the Wilcox rebellion of 1889 , Robert Napuʻuako Boyd was shot and wounded in the head, but survived to testify against his fellow conspirators?
Did you know that Scott McCloud 's webcomic The Right Number requires readers to zoom in on each panel to view the next one?
Did you know that Patrick Eagar took photographs at 325 Test matches , including 98 Ashes matches ?
Did you know that TLC member Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes threatened to wear black tape over her mouth on the music video for " Creep " because she opposed the song's lyrical content?
Did you know that democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz was toppled by a CIA-sponsored coup in 1954 ?
Did you know that the 1953 Chinese painting The Founding Ceremony of the Nation was modified and even repainted, as some of those depicted were purged from government and later rehabilitated?
Did you know that William T. Greenough is called a "towering figure in neuroscience" for showing that the structure of the brain changes throughout one's entire life, and not just in infancy?
Did you know that a documentary on Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen 's troubled 1972 concert tour was completed in 1974 but released theatrically in 2017?
Did you know that Koh-i-Sultan volcano in Pakistan last erupted approximately 90,000 years ago and still displays fumarolic activity?
Did you know that St. Peter's Church, Colombo , was previously used as a banquet hall by the Dutch?
Did you know that a megaflood from ancient Lake Atna 17,000 years ago may have contributed to the devastation caused by the 1964 Alaska earthquake ?
Did you know that Sandra Tayler wrote Hold on to Your Horses to help her daughter "visualize and control her impulsive ideas"?
Did you know that the Ras Al-Khair Power and Desalination Plant in Saudi Arabia is the world's largest hybrid desalination plant?
Did you know that Compendium ferculorum by Stanisław Czerniecki is the first cookbook written originally in Polish?
Did you know that the anti-cancer drug ixazomib can be metabolized by at least eight different enzymes ?
Did you know that Red Army commander August Kork served as an Imperial Russian Army staff officer in World War I?
Did you know that Estocolmo is the first Argentine television series to be premiered by Netflix ?
Did you know that injury denied Lorne Crerar a full international cap as a player, but 20 years later he took part in two Rugby World Cup Finals as a judicial officer?
Did you know that from the 9th to the late 11th centuries, the droungarios of the Imperial Fleet headed the main fleet of the Byzantine navy , stationed at Constantinople ?
Did you know that siderography , a process to produce counterfeit-resistant banknotes, was submitted for an 1817 Bank of England contest in an era when English banknotes were known as "filthy rags"?
Did you know that Cho Hŏn , a Joseon dynasty official and righteous army leader, died in the Imjin War ?
Did you know that the catalogue of compositions by Francis Poulenc , published in 1995 by Carl B. Schmidt, contains Concert champêtre , FP 49 , inspired by the harpsichordist Wanda Landowska ?
Did you know that Yamuna Eri , a Sri Lankan monument in Jaffna , is so named for the sacred waters added to it from India's Yamuna River in the thirteenth century AD?
Did you know that Giovanni Antonio da Brescia probably made the first print of Laocoön and His Sons , the famous statue excavated in Rome in 1506?
Did you know that Goethe was present at the French victory in the Battle of Valmy and judged it to be the beginning of "a new epoch in the history of the world"?
Did you know that the 1960 crime film Private Property was "condemned" by the National Legion of Decency ?
Did you know that Jaffna kingdom lost sovereignty over Mannar Island after the first invasion by the Portuguese in 1560 ?
Did you know that Czech-Israeli food technology researcher Zdenka Samish said that every fruit and vegetable can be made into jam?
Did you know that Thompson Snell & Passmore holds the world record for being the oldest continually operating law firm still in existence?
Did you know that the white-headed robin-chat is the only African robin with an entirely white head?
Did you know that the bisexual journalist Edith Shackleton Heald was W. B. Yeats ' mistress, and lived with the openly lesbian artist Gluck for 32 years?
Did you know that the Oriental Desert Express is equipped with shovels to help clear sand off the railroad tracks?
Did you know that while English composers often combine "Mag and Nunc", Arvo Pärt set his Magnificat for Berlin and his Nunc dimittis later for the Edinburgh Episcopal Cathedral ?
Did you know that the Revolutionary Communist Party of India (Tagore) fell out of favour due to its isolation from other left-wing groups?
Did you know that according to historian Stefan Winter , al-Makzun al-Sinjari is "perhaps the most prominent individual in Alawite history"?
Did you know that Wesley Snipes had been interested in portraying the Black Panther in film for more than 20 years, before Marvel Studios officially announced Black Panther in 2014 with Chadwick Boseman in the role?
Did you know that the East German actress Sonja Kehler , who was known for singing Brecht , taught acting in Denmark?
Did you know that approximately 80% of residents of Lusaka , Zambia , live in kombonis ?
Did you know that crab apples were regarded as talismans against Wen Shen , the Chinese god of pestilence?
Did you know that the ancient Clattern Bridge was a medieval football goal and scolds were ducked there too?
Did you know that the bass Thomas Thomaschke appeared as Wagner's Hunding at La Scala , as Mozart's Sarastro in Glyndebourne , and recorded Bach's Mit Fried und Freud with Harnoncourt ?
Did you know that " to rob Peter to pay Paul " means to eliminate one debt by incurring another?
Did you know that Major General James N. Post III flew over 4,000 hours in the F-16 Falcon ?
Did you know that female dusky bushbabies carry their infants in their mouths and sometimes "park" them on branches near their nest holes?
Did you know that the oldest bar in Arizona, The Palace Restaurant and Saloon in Prescott, played host to Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday in the late 1870s before they moved on to Tombstone?
Did you know that a monument on Chenail Island honours the families that lived there before much of the island was submerged?
Did you know that Vanda Hybnerová was named Best Actress in a Play at the 2004 Thalia Awards for her performance in Proof ?
Did you know that a critic of the didactic comic strip Goofus and Gallant observed that the "obnoxious" Goofus may appeal to children more than the "do-gooder" Gallant?
Did you know that after being granted a wildcard entry, Australian high diver Rhiannan Iffland went on to win the 2016 Cliff Diving World Series championship in her rookie year?
Did you know that the extinct maple Acer taggarti was first described from 13 fossils, 6 of which were fruits?
Did you know that All India Gorkha League leader Deo Prakash Rai was denounced as a communist agent and deported from Malaya in 1950?
Did you know that Gwen Stefani and Justin Timberlake 's song " What U Workin' With? " was first revealed through a surprise post on Timberlake's Instagram account?
Did you know that Hugh de Beauchamp is considered to be the first feudal baron of Bedford?
Did you know that Ted Meines assumed the identity of a deceased minister to avoid arrest in the Netherlands during World War II ?
Did you know that Woody Harrelson 's Lost in London became the first film broadcast into theaters live?
Did you know that Alex Vincent 's role in Cult of Chucky (2017) is his first principal role in the franchise since Child's Play 2 (1990)?
Did you know that economics professor Carolyn Shaw Bell established a model that sent a disproportionate number of students at Wellesley College into careers in economics and business?
Did you know that Llullaillaco is a historically active volcano and the highest archaeological site in the world?
Did you know that the 1859 by-election in Dunedin , New Zealand, was won by James Macandrew , who had precipitated it with his resignation from office?
Did you know that in 1999 Lucy Dudko hijacked a helicopter to break out her lover from Silverwater Correctional Complex in Sydney ?
Did you know that myriad recipes for corn chowder began circulating in U.S. cookbooks after a recipe for the dish was published in the Boston Cook Book in 1884?
Did you know that Lucius Caesennius Sospes probably received the cognomen Sospes ("safe and sound") from an event in his childhood?
Did you know that adult pumpkin beetles feed on the foliage of cucurbits , sometimes cutting and removing circular discs?
Did you know that Egyptologist Caroline Ransom Williams supervised the reception and installation of the Tomb of Perneb at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ?
Did you know that Richard B. Wright was nominated for the Governor General's Awards and the Scotiabank Giller Prize for The Age of Longing (1995), but eventually won both for Clara Callan (2001)?
Did you know that Jackie Evancho is set to become the youngest performer ever at Café Carlyle when she performs songs from her new album Two Hearts in April?
Did you know that Ron Hackenberger is selling his collection of 700 vehicles, including over 250 Studebakers ?
Did you know that the Sierra de las Quijadas National Park contains a Lagerstätte -type fossil site, particularly famous for its pterosaurs ?
Did you know that the publication of Earl Mazo 's series of exposés on election fraud in the 1960 United States Presidential Election was stopped following the intervention of Richard Nixon ?
Did you know that the soprano Leonore Kirschstein appeared as Alice Ford, with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Falstaff ?
Did you know that President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent a congratulatory telegram upon the opening of the Bonfils Memorial Theatre in Denver ?
Did you know that Joaquín Vargas Gómez opened a restaurant in a retired North Star DC-4 parked near the Mexico City International Airport ?
Did you know that use of the code phrase " London Bridge is down " will signal the death of Queen Elizabeth II ?
Did you know that Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton used liquid methane experimentally to power a bus?
Did you know that the Revolutionary Communist Party of India attacked the Dum Dum Airfield in 1949?
Did you know that in Mozart's early Piano Concerto in B-flat major , two oboes play in the outer movements, and two flutes instead in the Andante?
Did you know that warning signs and rotating shift work are forms of administrative hazard controls ?
Did you know that Spencer Weisz was the Most Valuable Player of the 18-under basketball competition of the 2013 Maccabiah Games ?
Did you know that the yellow mangrove is very similar to the Indian mangrove , but the two can be distinguished when in fruit?
Did you know that Ken Vining was acquired by the Chicago White Sox as part of the White Flag Trade ?
Did you know that the ancient Romans used to bathe a sacred stone in the waters of the Almone on March 27?
Did you know that Rosel H. Hyde was the first chairman of the Federal Communications Commission to be reappointed, and the first chairman to be appointed by a president of a different political party?
Did you know that the DVD release of Final Destination 3 has a feature called "Choose Their Fate" that acts as an interactive movie , allowing viewers to alter the course of the film's story and the fate of the characters?
Did you know that, in 1525, Charles V ordered the conversion of his Muslim subjects in the lands of Aragon , despite having sworn an oath not to do so?
Did you know that sociologist James D. Wright co-authored a 1983 study which showed that approximately 1% of privately-owned guns in the United States were used in crime?
Did you know that the historic characters in Françoise de Rimini , the last opera by Ambroise Thomas , include not only Francesca da Rimini , but also Dante and Virgil ?
Did you know that the English inventor Paul Rapsey Hodge built the first steam fire engine in the United States?
Did you know that Captain James Cook thought the now-extinct Tahitian Dog of the Society Islands tasted like English lamb?
Did you know that the population of Marysville, Washington , grew five-fold from 1980 to 2000?
Did you know that Mel Olson commissioned music from John Rutter for his choirs in Omaha, Nebraska , and traveled to England to discuss his specific wishes with the composer?
Did you know that the mythological events of the kuni-yuzuri may be rooted in real historic events?
Did you know that despite being severely wounded in the American Civil War in 1864, Armistead Burwell became licensed to practice law five years later?
Did you know that King John's Hill , near Alton, Hampshire , is topped by an unusually small Iron Age hillfort , and is thought to have been the site of a hunting lodge of King John ?
Did you know that Mr. Trash Wheel removed 19 tons of garbage from Baltimore's Inner Harbor in one day?
Did you know that an autonomous underwater vehicle deployed by the MV Havila Harmony during the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 discovered a shipwreck?
Did you know that American diplomat Herbert Reiner Jr. played a key role in capturing Mahatma Gandhi 's assassin Nathuram Godse in 1948?
Did you know that when the Beethoven Orchester Bonn was founded as a professional orchestra in Beethoven 's hometown in 1907, Richard Strauss conducted his own works?
Did you know that the Detroit version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship was one of at least 22 NWA World Tag Team Championships that existed between 1949 and 1991?
Did you know that pastor brothers John Blair and Samuel Blair both received their theological education at the Log College ?
Did you know that during the Trunajaya rebellion , rebels overran Mataram 's royal court at Plered and took at least 300,000 reals from the treasury?
Did you know that Chris Bertish is the first person to complete a stand-up paddle board crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, a 7,400 km (4,600 mi), 93-day journey that put him into The Guiness Book of World Records ?
Did you know that Zeynab Begum was one of the most influential princesses of Iran's Safavid dynasty ?
Did you know that Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery is buried in the graveyard of the Church of the Holy Cross in Binsted ?
Did you know that the American contralto Margarethe Bence appeared as Marcellina at the Salzburg Festival , as Erda in Bayreuth , and in a premiere at the Schwetzingen Festival ?
Did you know that the extinct Polynesian Dog never became feral because of the scarcity of food in the forests of Polynesia?
Did you know that Robert Lyster Thornton returned to Berkeley in 1942 to assist with the development of the calutron ?
Did you know that the spotted imperial pigeon 's specific name carola is derived from the name of a daughter of the ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte ?
Did you know that Edward Hutchinson Synge described a theory for a near-field scanning optical microscope in a letter to Albert Einstein fifty years before various corporations sought patents on the technology?
Did you know that K. B. Sainis is the Indian representative to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation ?
Did you know that Izydor Borowski was born in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth but later rose to the rank of general in Qajar Iran ?
Did you know that Arthur Mailey 's best Test bowling figures of 9 wickets for 121 runs has been the Australian cricket record for 96 years ?
Did you know that the opera Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen ( Murderer, Hope of Women ) was based on a play by an expressionist artist and was performed with stage set and choreography by a Bauhaus artist ?
Did you know that John Blair , who served four times as acting governor of the Colony of Virginia , resigned his life appointment in 1770 so he would not be acting governor a fifth time?
Did you know that banana pasta is lower in calories and fat, higher in protein, and less expensive to produce than whole wheat pasta?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano Tanja Ariane Baumgartner has portrayed such characters as Schoeck's Penthesilea , and Cassandre in Les Troyens ?
Did you know that American folklorist J. Mason Brewer broke the color barrier at the Driskill Hotel when he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters ?
Did you know that the blob sculpin is the first egg-laying, deep sea fish known to provide parental care?
Did you know that field goals in rugby union , which were worth the same number of points as tries , were abolished in 1905?
Did you know that Indonesian Muslim cleric Hasyim Muzadi said that the September 11 attacks were a "tragedy of humanity" and must not be turned into a religious conflict?
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln's "immense" hearse was escorted by 160,000 people as it was drawn through New York City?
Did you know that classical scholar Miriam T. Griffin believes that the Roman emperor Nero was hounded by fear, panic, and persecutory delusions at the end of his reign?
Did you know that convicted murderer David Martin Long was on life support two days before he was executed?
Did you know that Sébastien Bourdais won the 2017 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg after starting in last place?
Did you know that Y. D. Sharma established a genomic library of Plasmodium vivax , a protozoan parasite, at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi?
Did you know that the title of Edna O'Brien 's book, The Little Red Chairs , refers to performance art commemorating the 11,541 victims of Radovan Karadžić ?
Did you know that Canadian football player Dave Amer played as a quarterback, running back, slotback, and tight end at various points in his career?
Did you know that Guillotière Cemetery in Lyon , France, was mistakenly bombed by the American military during the Second World War?
Did you know that the Sacramento Valley Development Association built a life-sized bear out of prunes for the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair ?
Did you know that Narinder Kumar Mehra identified that a subtype of the serotype HLA-DR2 made humans susceptible to diseases such as leprosy and tuberculosis ?