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Did you know that HD 179821 , a bright star in the Aquila constellation, is a supernova candidate?
Did you know that a mid-1930s attempt to generate electricity at Cobscook Bay was abandoned, but a new tidal power generation method succeeded there in 2012?
Did you know that poet William Neville made himself a cloak of linen and buckskin which was supposed to render him invisible ?
Did you know that the Piping Plover , which numbers 12–13 thousand , has its very own census?
Did you know that in 2011, Victoire Pisa became the first Japanese-trained Thoroughbred racehorse to win "the world's richest race", the Dubai World Cup ?
Did you know that 13th Avenue , a commercially successful Orthodox Jewish shopping district in Brooklyn , New York , has 18 banks in the space of 10 blocks?
Did you know that Mount Sage National Park , the British Virgin Islands 's first national reserve, was acquired in 1964 following a grant provided by Laurance Rockefeller ?
Did you know that Cheyenne artist Bently Spang satirized anthropologists' depictions of Native Americans as a "lost culture" with a museum exhibit showcasing ordinary objects?
Did you know that the fourth-century Byzantine mosaic discovered in Maryamin , in central Syria , is one of the few artifacts that give an indication on how the organ instrument was used in antiquity?
Did you know that Palestinian Christian Vera Baboun , Bethlehem 's first female mayor, holds a master's degree in African-American literature ?
Did you know that Sir Marmaduke Constable was the great-grandfather of the poet, Henry Constable , author of Diana , one of the first English sonnet sequences ?
Did you know that the third season of Cheers has a new psychiatrist , a pregnant waitress , a romantic childless triangle , and a dead coach ?
Did you know that a part of Antarctica nearly double the area of the United Kingdom was named Queen Elizabeth Land to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II 's Diamond Jubilee year ?
Did you know that Christina Aguilera wore a "cinched in corset" designed by The Blonds for her performance of " Let There Be Love " at the 2012 American Music Awards ?
Did you know that the Tiger of Mysore did not have his meal until he heard the bell of the Srirangapatna Ranganatha temple , one of the Pancharanga Kshetrams ?
Did you know that in the video game Long Live The Queen , players must keep a princess alive until she turns 15 and can be crowned?
Did you know that in 1999, the racehorse El Condor Pasa became the Japanese Horse of the Year without running in any races held in Japan?
Did you know that French disc jockey David Guetta co-wrote and co-produced Rihanna 's song " Right Now "?
Did you know that Lady Henry Somerset scandalised 1870s society by revealing her husband 's homosexuality, but was later voted the best choice to be the United Kingdom's first female prime minister?
Did you know that the first Legislative Assembly of Madras State was constituted in May 1952 ?
Did you know that Hans Severus Ziegler proposed the name " Hitler-Jugend " (Hitler Youth) for the Nazi youth movement?
Did you know that the village of Cold Spring, New York , rejected a thousand-dollar offer for the Richard Upjohn -designed The Grove as "insultingly low" despite restoration estimates a thousand times that?
Did you know that Frederick Morrell Zeder became chief engineer of Studebaker Automobile Company at the age of 28?
Did you know that the South Korean Cyber Terror Response Center raided Korean Google offices over concerns about Google Street View ?
Did you know that the upcoming video game Monster Monpiece includes artwork of re-imagined legendary creatures from more than 50 artists?
Did you know that the New Year's Day carol " Levy-Dew " was a part of a Welsh water-blessing ritual?
Did you know that Vannevar Bush 's use of the torque amplifier solved a problem with the ball-and-disk integrator that Lord Kelvin found when he first thought of the differential analyser over 40 years earlier?
Did you know that an internet video by conservative blogger Bill Whittle criticizing the Occupy Wall Street movement has been viewed more than 2.4 million times on YouTube since October 2011?
Did you know that Armenian King Varazdat was one of the last Ancient Olympic champions in boxing ?
Did you know that One Direction band member Louis Tomlinson thinks that their video for their new song " Kiss You " is "pure stupidity"?
Did you know that some Hindus believe that the great ancestors of the world roam the universe as four naked five-year-old children?
Did you know that the Spanish nobleman and soldier Luis Bravo de Acuña played a key role in improving the defences of Gibraltar in the 17th century?
Did you know that despite the destruction of its forest habitat, the Angel's Chameleon has adapted to life near roads and villages?
Did you know that "Pan-Arab heartthrob" Bashar al-Shatti from Star Academy writes religious music as well as television and cartoon scores?
Did you know that voting in Marjeyoun-Hasbaya in the 1968 Lebanese general election was marred by heavy rains?
Did you know that Jalsha Movies is a 24-hour Bengali movie channel of STAR India that started on 16 December 2012?
Did you know that before it was moved to the opera house , the post office in Jamestown, Ohio , sometimes changed locations once per week?
Did you know that the Anza seismic gap on the San Jacinto Fault Zone has potential for a magnitude 6.5 earthquake?
Did you know that before the success of his debut LP, 2 , Canadian musician Mac DeMarco participated in medical experiments for money?
Did you know that Ernst Hechler , a bomber pilot during World War II , was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross as a U-boat commander?
Did you know that the Samuel N. Patterson House survived the destruction of most of its neighborhood in the 1974 Xenia tornado ?
Did you know that French explorer and adventurer René de Segonzac was accused of the murder of a fellow army officer?
Did you know that the sermon regarded as the "first set-piece confrontation of the English Reformation " was preached on Christmas Eve 1525 at St Edward King and Martyr on St Edward's Passage , Cambridge?
Did you know that Sandra Eisert was the first White House picture editor, and later designed the cover photo for the 1988 Monsters of Rock Tour ?
Did you know that former Sri Lankan cricketer Chaminda Vaas 's eight wickets for 19 runs against Zimbabwe in 2001 are the best bowling figures in One Day International cricket ?
Did you know that Edward Clark , the only British student of Arnold Schoenberg , conducted the first British performance of his teacher's Chamber Symphony No. 1 , and also invited Schoenberg to conduct his Gurre-Lieder for the BBC ?
Did you know that the Lebombo cycad is endangered , with only about 5,000 plants remaining in the wild?
Did you know that Guo Shengkun , a former metal executive, has been appointed China's Minister of Public Security despite having little legal experience?
Did you know that during sampling in 1991, a geologic formation near Tukgahgo Mountain was informally named "Chilly"?
Did you know that since retirement, Bill Madia has been appointed a presidential advisor at three universities, vice president of SLAC , and the director of a company?
Did you know that the first stop in Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad 's 1997 tour of Africa was to build relations with Malawi ?
Did you know that August Agbola O'Browne was the only black participant in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944?
Did you know that the Church of St Bartholomew, Yeovilton , was declared redundant and then became the Fleet Air Arm 's Memorial Church?
Did you know that Maling Kutang , filmed in under a week, included a gorilla costume and "magic" underwear and panties?
Did you know that Ramón Homs is a para-alpine LW6/8 classified standing skier who lost his arm in a motorcycle accident?
Did you know that the Jeff Kimball House was originally a farmer's home, even though it was built in town, not on the farm?
Did you know that the first successful oil well in Baku was built by Ivan Mirzoev , an ethnic Armenian ?
Did you know that although Cape Cod Expressway was planned to run from New York City to Provincetown, Massachusetts along many state and federal highways, it was never built?
Did you know that filmmaker Benny Brunner won a special commendation at the 1991 Prix Europa for A Philosopher for All Seasons ?
Did you know that the first phase plug in a horn loudspeaker was developed in the 1920s by Bell System engineers?
Did you know that Anna Hempstead Branch was called "the Browning of American poetry"?
Did you know that in 2010, a man from England was convicted on child pornography charges for purchasing books, including The Age of Innocence , from a mainstream bookshop?
Did you know that a disused quarry in Rio Grande da Serra is claimed to be the largest in South America?
Did you know that Shana Madoff met her future husband Eric Swanson when he was investigating whether her uncle Bernie Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme ?
Did you know that the 1891 Te Aroha by-election was the third unsuccessful attempt by New Zealand ornithologist Walter Buller to enter Parliament ?
Did you know that Norwegian goalkeeper Olav Dalen kept a clean sheet in his first two matches in Tippeligaen ?
Did you know that Rihanna 's song " Love Without Tragedy / Mother Mary " features references to Marilyn Monroe and James Dean ?
Did you know that Thomas Hogg was accused of fathering piglets because they resembled him, which was allegedly proven when the mother sow became aroused by him?
Did you know that Josef Brown originated the role of Johnny Castle in the stage adaptation of Dirty Dancing ?
Did you know that a tower clock at Bhadra Fort was the first electrical connection of Ahmedabad ?
Did you know that actor Patrick Stewart made his debut as a director with " In Theory ", an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation ?
Did you know that para-alpine skier and blind sailor Carme García has trouble living in Vigo , Spain , because of the occasional lack of streets with sidewalks?
Did you know that Heath Chapel in Shropshire is described as being the perfect example of a rich little Norman chapel?
Did you know that miners cautiously used a long iron rod when they thought they were near a house of water ?
Did you know that a tugboat used to sit at the bottom of the approach to the Bourne Bridge until it was demolished to make way for a parking lot of a pharmacy ?
Did you know that a lawsuit by Sir William More brought the first Blackfriars Theatre to an end?
Did you know that life story work can be beneficial to adults with dementia ?
Did you know that Miami-based producer Ish Ledesma was the lead songwriter for two different one-hit wonder bands in the 1980s?
Did you know that prior to its racing career, the Thoroughbred racehorse Birmingham sustained a serious injury and was initially ordered to be destroyed?
Did you know that the 1993 romance novel Just This Once was authored by a computer in collaboration with its programmer?
Did you know that A. M. Sipahoetar is credited with writing the first biography in Indonesian ?
Did you know that the pathogenic bacteria Salmonella bongori , which can cause diarrhea , was originally found in a lizard in Chad in 1966?
Did you know that American black metal band Black Anvil took a year to write their debut album but only a weekend to record it?
Did you know that in the 2006 book Before the Dawn , author Nicholas Wade argued that humans continued to evolve after they left Africa , which gave rise to human races ?
Did you know that Indian cricketer B. S. Chandrasekhar 's bowling figures of six wickets for 38 runs against England in 1971 was noted the "Indian Bowling Performance of the Century" by Wisden in 2002?
Did you know that the scientist Ernest Gibbins was speared to death by tribesmen who believed he would use their blood samples for "white man's witchcraft"?
Did you know that after losing in the 2010 Philippine senatorial election , Grace Riñoza-Plazo joined a coalition of groups which opposed the continued use of automated voting machines in that election?
Did you know that the Georgia aster is a relict species of the historic post oak – savanna ecosystem?
Did you know that Ben Orloff set school records in college baseball for career hits , runs scored , and games played at the University of California, Irvine ?
Did you know that in The Godfather , the "offer" that cannot be refused is not an offer at all, but is instead a throffer ?
Did you know that the stream that is the main source of water supply for the city of Sweetwater, Tennessee , gets much of its flow from groundwater ?
Did you know that Sir Robert Clark 's teddy bear is thought to have been the only one to have parachuted behind enemy lines and then survive as a prisoner of war ?
Did you know that the Brain Activity Map Project has the goal of mapping the activity of every neuron in the human brain in ten years?
Did you know that the positions and orientations of markings on the megalithic stone circles in Central India , may have been used to indicate the movements of astronomical objects ?
Did you know that pagans and Christians lived together under Byzantine rule in the Syrian village of Burj Qa'i between the mid-fifth and mid-sixth centuries CE?
Did you know that David Zurawik of The Baltimore Sun described the pilot of Boy Meets World as "something an adult doesn't feel ashamed of watching"?
Did you know that St. Ouen once played Celtic aided by guest players from Southampton ?
Did you know that King Martin of Aragon wanted to ensure the accession of his illegitimate grandson, Frederic of Luna , but died from laughter before he could do so?
Did you know that the Church of the Holy Ghost in Tallinn was the first church in Estonia to worship in Estonian ?
Did you know that in order to remove a rival general from the capital, the Abbasid vizier Ahmad b. al-Khasib sent him to attack the Byzantine Empire ?
Did you know that American football player Reggie Dunn set an NCAA record with four kickoff returns for touchdowns in a season?
Did you know that Leona Lewis said that her song " My Hands " was the "perfect fit" for the Final Fantasy XIII theme song?
Did you know that Newton Corner has at various times been a commuter rail depot, a trolley station, and now a busy bus stop?
Did you know that the first Philippine expedition to Mount Everest was compared to "putting a Filipino on the Moon"?
Did you know that the poet Hawad inserts altered letters into his writings to create space within them?
Did you know that the 1909 College Football All-America Team included Henry Hobbs , Hamlin Andrus and seven other players from an undefeated Yale team that outscored opponents 209–0?
Did you know that the ship hanging in the church of Kollafjørður , Faroe Islands , was donated by the parents of a 25-year-old son who drowned in Iceland ?
Did you know that the humanistic coefficient is a major element in the sociological theory of Florian Znaniecki ?
Did you know that Charlotte Mary Sanford Barnes ' play Octavia Bragaldi moves the Kentucky Tragedy from 1825 to 15th century Milan?
Did you know that there are theories that New Zealand was originally settled by Egyptians or Greeks ?
Did you know that coronal clouds from the Sun can damage electric devices, even destroy whole grids, when they reach Earth?
Did you know that for a Manhattan Project experiment Albert Stevens was secretly injected with what was expected to be a lethal dose of plutonium , and paid for providing samples of his urine and feces?
Did you know that the Torre de los Adalides in Algeciras was destroyed by the Spaniards during the Spanish–American War as they thought the Americans might use it as a landmark or base of their own?
Did you know that David Carson had never heard of Star Trek when he moved to America, but five years later directed the film Star Trek: Generations ?
Did you know that My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult vocalist Groovie Mann called the band's 1991 album Sexplosion! an open-ended fantasy for the listener?
Did you know that drug lord Héctor Delgado Santiago punished the local transit police and forced them to patrol on foot for pulling him over ?
Did you know that the 2013 Tripura state assembly election recorded the highest percentage of voter turnout ever in India?
Did you know that composer Francesco Berger wrote music for plays by Wilkie Collins , which were produced by Charles Dickens and performed at his private theatrical parties?
Did you know that the Second Baptist Church in Mechanicsburg, Ohio , was built on the site of a cemetery?
Did you know that Malcolm Brodie reported from 14 FIFA World Cups – more than any other journalist?
Did you know that Australia had its own Flying Corps during World War I ?
Did you know that after hatching, Sphecodopsis cuckoo bee larvae use their long sickle-shaped mandibles to destroy any other eggs or larvae around them?
Did you know that micrometeorites contribute most of the extraterrestrial material that comes to Earth?
Did you know that Joseph G. Sanders served as a captain in the Confederate Army during the US Civil War , then switched sides to become a lieutenant in the Union Army ?
Did you know that in the early 19th century, during Ottoman rule, al-Lataminah was the principal village of the district of Hama ?
Did you know that following a paragliding accident that left Teresa Silva a paraplegic, she went on to create a disability sport organisation and is working to qualify for the 2014 Winter Paralympics in alpine skiing ?
Did you know that " I Don't Give A " contains insight into a day in the life of Madonna ?
Did you know that Quaker preacher and author Bathsheba Bowers believed she could not die, so she had to be carried away from an Indian attack?
Did you know that Bono counts off the song " Vertigo " with "one, two, three, fourteen!" in Spanish?
Did you know that a charity hockey game held to benefit former player Bill Heindl, Jr. in 1980 was the only occasion that hockey legends Bobby Orr and Wayne Gretzky played in the same game?
Did you know that Mallory Hagan compared the ideals of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic to those of the Miss America pageant while promoting its third season finale ?
Did you know that Baltic German painter Carl Timoleon von Neff built a manor house in Muuga , Estonia , to house his personal art collection?
Did you know that the extinct legume Hymenaea allendis is the second Hymenaea species described from Mexican amber?
Did you know that Carman Barnes ' scandalous novel Schoolgirl , published when she was only sixteen, led to her being expelled from school?
Did you know that Tilly Edinger founded paleoneurology ?
Did you know that whilst more than half of the high-rises in Christchurch , New Zealand, have been demolished since the earthquakes , the city's tallest building has survived?
Did you know that Onésime Dorval was the first certified teacher in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan ?
Did you know that Bourgueticrinida is an order of crinoids that nearly became extinct in the Permian-Triassic extinction event ?
Did you know that Rick DiBernardo returned to the National Football League less than one month after he retired?
Did you know that in Singapore administrative law , it is illegal for a public authority to fetter its discretion by sticking rigidly to a policy?
Did you know that in the first 16 years of her acting career, Lillian Lawrence appeared in over 300 operatic and 500 dramatic roles?
Did you know that Operation Copperhead saw M. E. Clifton James posing as Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery in the build up to D-Day ?
Did you know that Amanda Carter , the oldest member of the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics , played for the team before Amber Merritt , its youngest, was born?
Did you know that Khawabi , a village and medieval castle in northwestern Syria, was captured in the early 12th century by the Crusaders , who assigned its governorship to a local lord?
Did you know that conductor Roland Bader recorded late choral works by Max Reger , including his Hebbel Requiem , and the First Symphony by Richard Wetz ?
Did you know that Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria burned to death while preparing a fireworks display for his sister-in-law, Empress Maria Theresa ?
Did you know that the Oświęcim Chapel in Krosno is associated with a legend of romantic love between Stanisław Oświęcim and his sister Anna?
Did you know that in July 1963, Syrian colonel Jassem Alwan led an unsuccessful Nasserist -backed coup against the new Ba'athist -dominated government , resulting in his imprisonment and death sentence?
Did you know that the English Cocker Spaniels Luckystar of Ware , Exquisite Model of Ware and Tracey Witch of Ware each won Best in Show at Crufts on two occasions?
Did you know that the literary works of Friedrich Gorenstein thematize political and social dilemmas in Stalinist Russia?
Did you know that Puerto Rico 's diverse musical heritage influenced Ivy Queen 's Christmas composition of " Vamos a Celebrar ", which includes the traditional sound of the plena ?
Did you know that Hadassah Weisel, founder of the Yad Eliezer poverty-relief organization, managed a food collection and packing operation for 1,800 needy families out of her 2½-room Jerusalem apartment?
Did you know that Virology is the first English-language journal to focus on viruses ?
Did you know that in 1928, Central Bank of Norway governor Nicolai Rygg pressured an opposition leader to file a vote of no confidence against the Cabinet ?
Did you know that Bach composed his cantata Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe , BWV 22 , as an audition piece for the post of Thomaskantor in Leipzig, displaying a "sheer range of forms and musical expression"?
Did you know that fullback "Elmer the Great" Schwartz led the 1930 Washington State Cougars football team to the 1931 Rose Bowl against Alabama ?
Did you know that prehistoric structures on Whalsay include the Neolithic Benie Hoose , Pettigarths Field Cairns and the Standing Stones of Yoxie , and the Iron Age Huxter Fort ?
Did you know that the Guam Museum , which is slated to move to a permanent home in 2014, has been housed in temporary locations since its destruction during World War II ?
Did you know that the Federal Writers' Project 's Slave Narrative Collection included interviews, conducted primarily between 1936 and 1938, with more than 2,000 former slaves?
Did you know that Hazel Pritchard , nicknamed the "Girl Bradman ", faced the first ball in women's Test cricket ?
Did you know that the Lion Pagoda , a Treasure of South Korea, is one of Hwaeomsa 's four stone pagodas?
Did you know that Ethel Scull 36 Times was Andy Warhol 's first commissioned portrait of the 1,000 or so he created?
Did you know that Wang Min was named one of "China's top future leaders to watch" by the Brookings Institution ?
Did you know that the Thema Fund , a Bernie Madoff feeder fund, reported a rate of return of 8% during 2007, as competing funds fell 39%?
Did you know that the Australian shrub Isopogon anethifolius is named for the resemblance of its leaves to dill ?
Did you know that famed speculator Jacob Little , the Great Bear of Wall Street, died a broken man after making and losing several fortunes?
Did you know that the steamer Inishtrahull was missing seven days before being confirmed sunk off the coast of Kilkee , County Clare , Ireland?
Did you know that the design of the Gedser wind turbine was considered seminal for the modern wind industry?
Did you know that Dale Steyn made his One Day International debut for African XI during the 2005 Afro-Asia Cup , and is the highest five-wicket haul taker for South Africa in test cricket ?
Did you know that Kenneth Biller wrote the episode that introduced the Borg into Star Trek: Voyager ?
Did you know that Yemen has one of the highest execution rates in the world ?
Did you know that 27 of the 33 consensus members of the 1900 and 1901 College Football All-America Teams , including John Hallowell , Robert Kernan and Crawford Blagden of Harvard, James Bloomer and Henry Holt of Yale, Ralph Davis of Princeton and Sanford Hunt of Cornell, played for Ivy League teams?