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Did you know that artist and academician Władysław Łuszczkiewicz , who taught and inspired Poland's national painter Jan Matejko , gave private art classes for free to struggling artists?
Did you know that Bach composed two cantatas with similar music at the same time: Ihr Tore zu Zion , BWV 193 , to celebrate the new town council on 25 August 1727, and the secular BWV 193a for 3 August that year?
Did you know that Matty Blair scored the winning goal for York City in the 2012 Conference National play-off Final , which saw the club return to the Football League after an eight-year absence?
Did you know that theatre music can be traced to the very origins of theatre in Ancient Greece ?
Did you know that despite his strong interest in education, Matthew Oram was not appointed Minister of Education , but became Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives instead?
Did you know that a Cardinal, three Browns, a Dupree, and a King have all played for the Minnesota Timberwolves ?
Did you know that during his life, Saint Nicetas the Patrician specialized in "healing men tormented by sexual desires"?
Did you know that when Nadia Santini 's restaurant Dal Pescatore was awarded three Michelin stars in 1996, she was the first female chef in Italy so honored?
Did you know that the Gibraltar Diamond Jubilee Flotilla was inspired by the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant ?
Did you know that 2012 Australia Paralympic sailor Matthew Bugg had to deal with his father's boat colliding with his during a race?
Did you know that 1928's Lily of Java was the first Chinese -produced film in Indonesia?
Did you know that Jeff Civillico simultaneously jogged 26.2 miles (42.2 km) and juggled three balls at the Walt Disney World Marathon to raise $5000 for a special needs non-profit organization?
Did you know that the Tsarap River , a tributary of the Zanskar River in Ladakh , is fed by the Lingti, Yunan and Sarchu rivers at Sarchu and by the Kargyag river at Purne?
Did you know that the work of Jimmy Robinson was mistaken for that of Led Zeppelin 's Jimmy Page ?
Did you know that Teen Wolf actor Colton Haynes will play Leona Lewis ' love interest in the upcoming music video for her new single " Trouble "?
Did you know that former Olympic volleyball player Ruth Lawanson has been a coach at five different colleges?
Did you know that the British regime converted a fort, constructed by the Dutch in 1602, into Rajahmundry Central Prison in 1864?
Did you know that Grade 1B 2012 Australia Paralympic equestrian Joann Formosa competes without the use of stirrups?
Did you know that the Civil Guard of the Philippines was a local gendarmerie police force organized under the Spanish colonial government?
Did you know that Stanisław Baranowski Spitsbergen Polar Station is named after the Polish glaciologist Stanisław Baranowski who died in a coma following an accident at the Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station ?
Did you know that Doctor Quicksilver took a break from his lucrative medical career to sail the seas, capture ships, and raid South America?
Did you know that Ottla Kafka , the youngest and dearest sister of Franz Kafka , died in the Holocaust because she divorced her Catholic husband?
Did you know that Mike Hoolboom 's Letters from Home was based on a speech by LGBT activist Vito Russo ?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic swimmer Taylor Corry made her national team debut at the 2011 Global Games where she earned eight gold medals?
Did you know that the deluxe version of Coheed and Cambria 's album, The Afterman: Ascension , will give a song-by-song experience using a hardcover coffee-table book ?
Did you know that Finnish priest Kalervo Kurkiala , a chaplain in the Waffen-SS , believed that military service was good for "country boys" and for "numerous bookworms and spoilt sloppy idlers"?
Did you know that Sir Richard Hadlee took fourteen of his five-wicket hauls against Australia in Test cricket , and was the first bowler to reach 400 Test wickets ?
Did you know that Michel Roux was "over the moon" and "disturbed" in equal measure to hear that his son Alain Roux wanted to become a chef at the age of 14?
Did you know that in 1356, the Golden Bull stated that mining rights or Bergregal were held not by the Holy Roman Emperor but by the seven prince-electors as his territorial lords?
Did you know that volleyball player Lori Endicott was named the best setter of the 1992 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that the worst aviation accident to have occurred on Cuban soil resulted in 171 deaths when the aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff?
Did you know that the Belarusian Alexander Barankov was given political asylum in Ecuador in 2010 but risks extradition back to Belarus?
Did you know that the Deccan Chargers cricketers , who finished last in the first season of Indian Premier League , became the champions of the second season ?
Did you know that in 2007, French chef Anne-Sophie Pic became only the fourth woman to win three Michelin stars ?
Did you know that in Gibraltar , a mole 's elbow is a site of control for the harbour?
Did you know that Norwegian Olympians Øistein Saksvik , Tor Torgersen and Pål Benum all won national championships in 5,000 and 10,000 metres ?
Did you know that the Armenian Heritage Park is a memorial park in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, dedicated to the victims of the Armenian Genocide ?
Did you know that volleyball player Janet Cobbs set nine school records at North Dakota State University ?
Did you know that the 2007 Spanish Historical Memory Law mandated the removal of the symbols of Francoism from public buildings?
Did you know that Job Edward Lousley took over thirty years to write and publish the Flora of the Isles of Scilly ?
Did you know that Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories conducted more than one-third of all toxicology testing in the United States before it was discovered to have engaged in extensive scientific misconduct?
Did you know that Fifi Young , known for playing mother figures, acted in 86 films in 34 years?
Did you know that George Kontos was named Illinois ' high school baseball player of the year in 2003?
Did you know that, although street food did not become popular in Thailand until the early 1960s when the urban population began to grow rapidly, by the 1970s it had "displaced home-cooking"?
Did you know that Shelton State Community College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama , is named for J. P. Shelton , who lobbied for the building of trade schools in the area?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic goalball player Michelle Rzepecki introduced children with visual impairments in Bolivia to goalball ?
Did you know that the land now comprising the Knox Street Historic District in Albany, New York , was originally a nursery for the first successful American strawberry cultivar ?
Did you know that the number of murders in Jamaica dropped 20% during Mark Shields ' first year as Deputy Police Commissioner of the Jamaica Constabulary Force ?
Did you know that the 2011 Micronesian parliamentary elections were the first to feature female candidates?
Did you know that the Roberts House in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania , built in the 1790s, is the last remaining building from Jefferson College ?
Did you know that Arab-Israeli Ahmed Dabbah will become Israel's record-breaking 17th non-Jew in the current Knesset (Israeli parliament)?
Did you know that " A Million Miles Away ", performed by Rihanna , impacted the Spanish Singles Chart in November 2009 , three and a half years after the initial release of A Girl like Me ?
Did you know that the Indonesian film Whips of Fire featuring a strong, independent female character was held up for a year by the censors?
Did you know that pioneer dentist Leonie von Meusebach–Zesch held mobile dental clinics for Inuit children and once crawled across thin ice to save her sled dogs from drowning?
Did you know that out of the 56 cricketers who have played for Kings XI Punjab , Shaun Marsh has scored the most runs ?
Did you know that pioneer American aviator Charles K. Hamilton , the "crazy man of the air", survived over 60 crashes, only to succumb to the effects of tuberculosis ?
Did you know that after MGM ' s rights to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 's Night Flight expired in 1942, the film was not shown again until 2011?
Did you know that Édgar Morales Pérez , the mayor-elect of Matehuala , San Luis Potosí , was assassinated before taking office?
Did you know that the Shah of Iran used public sympathy resulting from a failed assassination attempt to call for a Constituent Assembly in 1949 to increase his royal power?
Did you know that the video game Symphony generates Galaga -style gameplay based on the player's choice of music?
Did you know that All Saints Church, Hollingbourne , England, contains memorials by John Michael Rysbrack and the Culpeper needlework , a 17th-century embroidered funeral pall ?
Did you know that Laborintus II , a collaboration between Mike Patton and Ictus Ensemble , is only the third recording of the titular piece since its composition in 1965?
Did you know that in 1578 Reverend Francis Marbury , the father of Anne Hutchinson , was called by the Bishop of London an "ass, an idiot, and a fool", then sent to Marshalsea Prison for two years for his impudence?
Did you know that Molde FK did not want to send Martin Høyem on loan to Hønefoss BK , because the two clubs were scheduled to meet in the semi-final of the 2005 Norwegian Football Cup ?
Did you know that Freedom House recently downgraded Djibouti's human rights status from "partly free" to "not free"?
Did you know that Roman Chatov painted the silk scarf that caused American dancer Isadora Duncan 's accidental death?
Did you know that the University of Minnesota Libraries holds the world's largest collection on Sherlock Holmes and his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ?
Did you know that Abdulredha Buhmaid died three days after being shot in the head during a peaceful protest in Bahrain ?
Did you know that the upcoming Doctor Who episode " The Power of Three " was partially inspired by the story of the MSC Napoli ?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic swimmer Katherine Downie takes her yellow duck pillow to competitions for luck?
Did you know that Betty Jane Watson created the role of Laurey in the first London production of Oklahoma! ?
Did you know that the media and the crowd at the 1996 Irish Champion Hurdle were more enthusiastic about Danoli finishing in third place than Collier Bay winning by a head?
Did you know that the Bristol Naturalists' Society of Bristol , England, celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2012?
Did you know that for the film Samaantharangal (1998), Balachandra Menon worked on nine aspects of the film-making and also won the National Film Award for Best Actor at the 45th National Film Awards ?
Did you know that Operation Head Start , the predecessor to Operation Chrome Dome , was based at Loring Air Force Base ?
Did you know that the tunnel beneath Parson's Lodge Battery originally carried a railway built to take stone to improve the Gibraltar Harbour ?
Did you know that Russian military stations Krona and Krona-N are named after the crown of a tree ?
Did you know that painter Leopold Pilichowski was known for his commitment to social commentary and psychological depictions of Jewish themes in a heavily industrialized environment?
Did you know that fossils of the extinct snakefly family Mesoraphidiidae are known mainly from the Northern Hemisphere?
Did you know that British hand-cyclist and defending Paralympic champion Rachel Morris may miss the 2012 Games after being hit by a car while training?
Did you know that the Boston Caucus , of which American patriot Samuel Adams was a leader, was an early example of the " smoke-filled room " in politics?
Did you know that Bryant and May matches were responsible for a thinning of Bottom Wood during the Second World War?
Did you know that Ruth Norman wore brightly colored clothing in an attempt to imitate the attire of extraterrestrials?
Did you know that about one-third of Iowa 's population lives along the I-80 corridor?
Did you know that in 1634, Boston innkeeper Samuel Cole established the first tavern in the Massachusetts Bay Colony , which was featured in Longfellow 's play John Endicott ?
Did you know that the 1994 National Convention of New Sudan outlined a civil political administration for the areas held by SPLA guerrillas?
Did you know that although her character had been dead from the beginning of the series, Sheryl Lee was asked to return for " Episode 3 " of Twin Peaks ?
Did you know that Elena Arzak was named the best female chef in the world in 2012 by Restaurant magazine?
Did you know that philosopher Gottfried Leibniz referred to Gervase of Tilbury 's 1214 encyclopedia Otia Imperialia as a "bagful of foolish old woman's tales"?
Did you know that Professor Pepper could make ghosts appear but could not make it rain despite the use of swivel guns, rockets, and a land mine?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Leanne Del Toso played able-bodied basketball prior to being diagnosed with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy ?
Did you know that Jeffrey Tambor was nominated for two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor for portraying George Bluth, Sr. on the comedy Arrested Development ?
Did you know that in June 2012, the Ocean Village Marina hosted the Gibraltar Diamond Jubilee Flotilla ?
Did you know that satellite Kosmos 2481 was launched by a rocket called Rokot ?
Did you know that Ratna Asmara was the first female film director in Indonesian history?
Did you know that Pemberton Point is home to the first commercial urban wind turbine in North America?
Did you know that a design for a courtyard by Philip Tilden was compared to a "Spanish brothel"?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympian Kelly Cartwright climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in 2009?
Did you know that Marblehead Harbor , the birthplace of the predecessor of the U.S. Navy , was also the birthplace of Marine Corps Aviation one hundred years ago today?
Did you know that Mark Kharitonov was awarded the first Russian Booker Prize in 1992 for his novel Lines of Fate ?
Did you know that a television station's sting operation led to the banning of five Indian Premier League cricketers ?
Did you know that the German Central Library for the Blind , founded in Leipzig in 1894, is the oldest library of its kind in Germany?
Did you know that Hideo Fukuyama was the first Japanese driver to qualify for a NASCAR Winston Cup Series championship race?
Did you know that Halcyon , the upcoming album by Ellie Goulding , was recorded in a barn ?
Did you know that the Olympic Flame once burned at 2,000 degrees Celsius to ensure that it stayed alight under water ?
Did you know that an episode of the 2012 nature documentary series A Year in the Wild featured Britain's largest national park, the Cairngorms ?
Did you know that the Spanish expedition to Formosa was a campaign mounted in 1626 by the Spanish based in Manila, Philippines?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair tennis player Ben Weekes has played piano at the Sydney Opera House ?
Did you know that American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey wrote her new single " Triumphant (Get 'Em) " while her husband Nick Cannon was in the hospital for kidney failure ?
Did you know that, when it opens in 2013, Outlaw Run at the Silver Dollar City amusement park is to be the only wooden roller coaster with inversions ?
Did you know that the subantarctic whaling station of Grytviken welcomed the South Georgia Survey by housing expedition members in the local jail?
Did you know that 2012 Paralympic swimmer Aaron Rhind trains with Australian Olympic swimming medalist Adam Pine ?
Did you know that the manuscript collection known as the Cetinje chronicle begins with text about Skanderbeg ?
Did you know that Mariah Carey 's song " Mine Again " was nominated at the 2006 Grammy Award ceremony for Best Traditional R&B Performance ?
Did you know that the bones of infants with parastremmatic dwarfism look "flocky" on X-rays ?
Did you know that John Harrison Clark , a reputed outlaw from the South African Cape , settled alone in modern-day Zambia in 1887 and in the early 1890s became the local people's chief ?
Did you know that Mirgissa was the largest of eleven forts built between the second and third cataracts during the reign of Senusret III ?
Did you know that Queensway Quay Marina in Gibraltar features a wharf developed in 1736 to allow "better victualling of men-at-war"?
Did you know that water polo player Elsie Windes won two Olympic medals with the United States team?
Did you know that " Episode 1 " of Twin Peaks has drawn comparison to the 1990 film The Grifters ?
Did you know that François Dominique Séraphin developed and popularised shadow plays in 18th-century France?
Did you know that Full Moon was the most successful local film ever released in the Dutch East Indies ?
Did you know that several works in the filmography of David Lynch have been collaborations with Mark Frost ?
Did you know that Metra Chairman of the Board Larry Huggins once withdrew himself from consideration for his current role because he felt it was a Republican position?
Did you know that the documentary The Rubber Room claimed that troubled teachers were being held in reassignment centers by the NYC Department of Education ?
Did you know that P. C. Sreeram is an alumnus of the Madras Film Institute ?
Did you know that 1960s decor employed a "psychedelic intensity" with colors and styles which were influenced by India, Spain, and the Mediterranean?
Did you know that most of Margaret Bernadine Hall 's works have disappeared, but her painting Fantine hangs in the Walker Art Gallery , Liverpool ?
Did you know that Chinese Olympic gold medalist and flagbearer Xu Lijia nearly died at age 12 and missed the Athens Olympics because of a tumor?
Did you know that Danny Gatton 's 1991 album 88 Elmira St. featured a version of " The Simpsons Theme ", with the added sound effect of a fart ?
Did you know that the flash fiction short story " El emigrante " by Luis Felipe Lomelí has only four words?
Did you know that in 1904, Joseph R. Burton (R-KS) became the first United States Senator to be convicted of a crime ?
Did you know that around 20 buildings and more than 40 monuments will be built in Skopje , Macedonia , as part of the Skopje 2014 project?
Did you know that United States water polo player Tumua Anae won the NCAA championship in 2010 and Olympic gold in 2012?
Did you know that T.B. was a three-wheeled cyclecar manufactured by the aircraft department of Thompson Brothers from 1919 until 1924?
Did you know that former Columbus, Georgia mayor B. Ed Johnson helped found the Miss Georgia USA beauty pageant?
Did you know that there is a marina in Gibraltar which is between a mole and a runway ?
Did you know that Venetian architect Girolamo Sartorio , the brother of composer Antonio Sartorio , designed the first German public opera house, the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg?
Did you know that during the American Revolutionary War , HMS Kingfisher served in the Burning of Norfolk and the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet , and was ultimately burnt by her own crew to avoid capture?
Did you know that Mutsuko Miki created teacups from the soil of Japan, North Korea, and South Korea to promote "harmonious relations" between the three nations?
Did you know that India ranked first in the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games medal table ?
Did you know that before 1978, Idaho state senator Reed Budge had not missed a senate sitting in 12 years?
Did you know that the mineral rapidcreekite was discovered in Yukon , Canada, in 1983?
Did you know that Croatian sports shooter Giovanni Cernogoraz , gold medalist in men's trap at the 2012 Olympics , works full time as a waiter at his father's restaurant in Novigrad ?
Did you know that a cognitive vulnerability is an erroneous belief or thought pattern that is believed to predispose a person to psychological problems?
Did you know that the statue of George IV which stands in Trafalgar Square was originally meant to be on top of the Marble Arch ?
Did you know that the roots of the Bahraini uprising stretch back to the 1920s?
Did you know that after screenwriter Sarah Williams approached Ecosse Films about making Becoming Jane , the company hired Kevin Hood to further develop its script?
Did you know that British singer-songwriter Pixie Lott co-wrote the song "You Broke My Heart" for Alexandra Burke ' s debut studio album Overcome in 2009?
Did you know that the 48th Georgia Infantry Regiment of Confederate Lt. Colonel Reuben Walker Carswell was in a brigade commanded by Carswell's mentor as a lawyer, Brigadier General Ambrose R. Wright ?
Did you know that an axe from the collection of the new Märkisches Provinzialmuseum in Berlin was used to execute Max Hödel after his attempt to assassinate the Kaiser ?
Did you know that Indonesian director D. Djajakusuma is credited with saving a traditional dance form?
Did you know that Liga Geral dos Trabalhadores de Angola , an exiled Angolan trade union linked to FNLA , received funding from the AFL–CIO during the 1960s?
Did you know that Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night starred Phil Hartman in one of his final acting roles?
Did you know that Garima Chaudhary represented India as the country's sole judoka at the 2012 Olympics ?
Did you know that Chilean authorities conducted a "psychological autopsy" to try to explain why an antiquities dealer killed and decapitated two people in the town of Lolol in July?
Did you know that collinsite was discovered in British Columbia and named for the director of the Geological Survey of Canada ?
Did you know that Amos Chapman has been inducted into the Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame this year for his actions which saw him awarded the Medal of Honor in 1874?
Did you know that The Bear Bryant Show regularly preempted live coverage of National Football League games that aired during the same time in Alabama ?
Did you know that Albertus Soegijapranata , Indonesia's first Catholic bishop, was born a Muslim?
Did you know that Taylor Brook won the Lee Ettelson Composer's Award with a piece for violin accompanied only by a drone that is 14 cents flat of F ♯ ?
Did you know that the Portland , a restored 1947 sternwheeler based in Portland, Oregon , was the last steam-powered tugboat built in the United States?
Did you know that just before the invasion of Poland , members of the German minority from Deutscher Volksverband were trained in sabotage by the Abwehr agents arriving in Poland from Germany?
Did you know that United States water polo players Annika Dries and Melissa Seidemann won the NCAA championship in 2011 and Olympic gold in 2012?
Did you know that Canadian entrepreneur Brian Wong became one of the youngest persons ever to receive venture capital funding at the age of 19?
Did you know that the Shimōsa Plateau , which occupies most of northern Chiba Prefecture , Japan, is home to Narita International Airport ?
Did you know that the 2010 album Mondo Cane by Mike Patton was conceived during the singer's time in Bologna ?
Did you know that the National Hero of Indonesia Mas Mansoer declared interest forbidden ?
Did you know that " Overpass Light Brigade " is an activist collaborative public art project where "holders of the light" stand over roadways at night with lighted letters to spell out messages?
Did you know that 2012 Australian athletics Paralympian Katy Parrish trains with Tim Matthews in Melbourne, Victoria ?
Did you know that Oevaang Oeray was the first ethnic Dayak governor of West Kalimantan ?
Did you know that the racehorse Amiable won two British Classic Races in 1894 despite having severe stringhalt that made her look like she was "walking on hot bricks"?
Did you know that the foundation of Napata 's Temple of Amun is attributed to the Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III ?
Did you know that a character in Pixar's Ratatouille was based on French chef Hélène Darroze ?
Did you know that Impressionist , Vorticist , Pre-Raphaelite , Expressionist , Surrealist and Cubist painters became First and Second World War camoufleurs ?
Did you know that Tim Jorgensen set a new Division III college baseball record with 70 career home runs ?