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Did you know that when Welsh magistrate Marmaduke Gwynne went to read the Riot Act to Howell Harris , he ended up being converted by the evangelist?
Did you know that Richard Hastings, Baron Welles attended the coronation of Richard III only three weeks after Richard had beheaded Hastings' brother, William ?
Did you know that Serbian rightist theologian and sociologist Nebojša M. Krstić died in a car accident in 2001, which his followers interpreted as a politically motivated assassination ?
Did you know that though Lilis Suryani performed multiple patriotic songs, she also made veiled criticisms of President Sukarno ?
Did you know that funds for the upcoming action-thriller Snap Shot , starring Danny Trejo , were raised through the website Kickstarter ?
Did you know that a CIA plot to overthrow the Syrian government failed when some officials turned over their bribes to the Syrian intelligence service?
Did you know that cancer and nausea are associated in about fifty percent of people affected by a malignant neoplasm ?
Did you know that American professional soccer player Camille Levin helped Swedish club Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC win the 2013 Svenska Supercupen Women ?
Did you know that in 1460, the Ottoman sultan rewarded Ali Bey Mihaloğlu for his success in the battle near Baziaş by appointing him as sanjakbey of the Sanjak of Vidin ?
Did you know that the recall of Colorado Senate President John Morse was the first recall of a state official since recall was established in Colorado in 1912?
Did you know that the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Q Who ", which introduced the Borg , won two Emmy Awards ?
Did you know that Raemer Schreiber was responsible for the development of nuclear rocket propulsion ?
Did you know that archaeologists at Le Cailar in southern France have unearthed about thirty human skulls ?
Did you know that Rainham Hall is hailed as having such an "outstanding level of significance" that even its vases are Grade II* listed?
Did you know that Polish jurist and activist Józef Wybicki wrote the national anthem of Poland while serving in the Polish Legions in Italy ?
Did you know that a community garage in Vauvert helps customers receiving social support with the costs of repairing their vehicles?
Did you know that when alarmed, Banded Quail may run into the undergrowth but sometimes fly off, scattering to confuse the predator ?
Did you know that many of the workers that joined the 1899 Christian Workers Union of Sweden did so in response to hikes in membership fees in other unions?
Did you know that in the memorial window of the church at West Wickham , Sir Henry Heydon is depicted as a kneeling skeleton?
Did you know that sculptor Douwe Blumberg was until 2000 a professional horse trainer for 18 years, and since then has received numerous awards and over 200 commissions, including America's Response Monument ?
Did you know that Tang Shaoyi , the first prime minister of the Republic of China , was assassinated at his home on Route Ferguson , now designated a National Historic and Cultural Street?
Did you know that the Secondary School Mathematics Curriculum Improvement Study of the 1960s and 1970s sought to end the separate yearly teachings of algebra , geometry , trigonometry , etc. in American high schools?
Did you know that advertisements for the 1940 film Melati van Agam emphasised the writer's credentials as a journalist, in order to appear more modern?
Did you know that the script for the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode " The Pirates of Orion " originated from a story by an 11th grader from East Meadow High School ?
Did you know that the Ritz-Carlton luxury hotel in the Cayman Islands comprises two buildings set on either side of the boulevard that runs parallel to the Seven Mile Beach and linked by a catwalk?
Did you know that the Worcester Sharks lost their all-time leading goaltender, Alex Stalock , to the San Jose Sharks just before their 2013–14 season ?
Did you know that the purpose of Verbrennungskommando Warschau was to dispose of the evidence of a systematic campaign of mass murder after an uprising ?
Did you know that from October 1967 ( 1967-10 ) onwards, Transportes Aéreos Nacionales and LANICA operated a BAC One-Eleven on a joint basis?
Did you know that both Stefan Heggelund , a conservative , and his girlfriend Hadia Tajik , a social democrat , were elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 2013?
Did you know that Kjeller Airport , established in 1912, was the first airport in Norway?
Did you know that because American Christian missionary Hulda Stumpf protested against female genital mutilation in Kenya, she was killed and perhaps ritually cut in retribution?
Did you know that Leopold Mozart vacated 9 Getreidegasse in Salzburg in 1773 but was in constant touch through letters with his landlord during the Mozart family grand tour between 1763 and 1766?
Did you know that Lectionary 313 and Lectionary 315 were purchased by Baroness Burdett-Coutts , a philanthropist?
Did you know that Lady Mary and her sister Pansy had few childhood friends as they wore such out-of-date clothes?
Did you know that the Douglas C-124 Globemaster II involved in the Tachikawa air disaster crashed into a watermelon patch, with all hands lost?
Did you know that Njai Dasima , the first talkie produced by Tan's Film , was based on the same novel as their first production three years earlier?
Did you know that HMS Flamborough was the first Royal Navy vessel to be stationed off the British colony of South Carolina ?
Did you know that Sun King Brewing won eight awards, including four gold medals, at the 2012 Great American Beer Festival ?
Did you know that Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini described his third novel, And the Mountains Echoed , as "kind of like a fairytale turned on its head"?
Did you know that Józef Piłsudski's cult of personality succeeded in making him one of the most popular figures in Polish history ?
Did you know that the Mersey Match Factory was the first building in the United Kingdom to be constructed using the flat-slab concrete technique?
Did you know that Franciscus Pahr supervised the rebuilding of Uppsala Castle and designed its garden plan?
Did you know that Grave Circle B in Mycenae , Greece , was the burial place of the 17th–16th century BC Mycenaean ruling families?
Did you know that Momčilo Gavrić was the youngest soldier-participant in World War I, and the youngest lance sergeant in the world?
Did you know that Isa ibn Shaykh al-Shaybani ruled a short-lived bedouin state in Palestine , governed Armenia for the Abbasids , and finally became ruler of Diyar Bakr , where he was succeeded by his son Ahmad ?
Did you know that in response to the worst fire on Upton Heath for 35 years, the Dorset Wildlife Trust formed Heathwatch to monitor this important reserve?
Did you know that the Melody Inn has hosted an estimated 7,000 musical acts since 2001?
Did you know that Dom José Alves Correia da Silva ordered Sister Lúcia to write down the Third Secret of Fatima ?
Did you know that when King Gustav III of Sweden visited Övedskloster Manor , he is said to have exclaimed "Too royal for an ordinary citizen!"?
Did you know that according to Sam Lansky from the website Idolator , Christina Aguilera 's 2013 song " We Remain " is similar to works of Ryan Tedder ?
Did you know that the death of Prince Imperial Pedro prompted his father, Pedro II of Brazil , to become indifferent to the empire's fate?
Did you know that the yellow-necked mouse may enable seedling beech trees to grow in locations away from the parent tree?
Did you know that the removal of magic was one of the ways in which the film Dasima was made more modern than the source material?
Did you know that Norm Benning singlehandedly made the 2013 Mudsummer Classic a success by nearly getting wrecked three times?
Did you know that the design of the Mission Valley Viaduct on Interstate 805 was inspired by the Mission San Diego de Alcalá and recognized by the American Society of Civil Engineers ?
Did you know that the Irish nationalist Purcell O'Gorman was caricatured in Vanity Fair by " Ape " as "The Joker for Waterford"?
Did you know that the Caliph al-Mu'tadid managed to halt the decline of the Abbasid Caliphate during his reign, but at the cost of a huge bureaucracy and some 80% of expenditure going to the army?
Did you know that chef Gordon Ramsay has opened or operated restaurants in South Africa, Italy, Japan, Qatar, France and Australia in addition to the United Kingdom and United States?
Did you know that the first costume that actress Jeri Ryan wore in the fourth season of Star Trek: Voyager was so tight it caused her to pass out?
Did you know that Russian painter and art historian Fedor Solntsev is considered one of the founders of modern Russian icon painting canon ?
Did you know that the common starfish can detect the odour of the predatory common sunstar and take evasive action?
Did you know that the Dutch band Rubberen Robbie is known for a parodic compilation of old Dutch hit songs, and for their pronunciation of the Leiden dialect?
Did you know that Martín Berasategui holds more Michelin stars than any other Spanish chef?
Did you know that the cinematographer for The House of Discord was nearly fired after he attempted to recreate the glow of a fireplace?
Did you know that the Colombo fortnightly Alamat Langkapuri was the world's first Malay language newspaper in Jawi script ?
Did you know that Maribel Domínguez is captain and all-time leading scorer of the Mexico women's national football team and plays for the Chicago Red Stars in the National Women's Soccer League ?
Did you know that during Vivekananda's stay in California , he opined that Jesus was a Yogi ?
Did you know that Michael Kum is the thirty-first richest person in Singapore, with a net worth of $750 million?
Did you know that a reviewer of the film Go Go Tales said that "all anyone wanted to talk about was the sequence in which Asia Argento 's exotic dancer tongue-kissed a dog onstage"?
Did you know that the authors of GI Brides drove nearly 13,000 miles around America in 2012 searching for surviving war brides?
Did you know that the statue of Roman Dmowski , father of Polish nationalism , has proven to be one of the most controversial monuments in Warsaw ?
Did you know that when the 1967 Alabama Crimson Tide football team lost to Tennessee , it ended a 25-game unbeaten streak that stretched back to their 1965 season ?
Did you know that pre-release cover versions are common in the UK because songs by big acts get weeks of airplay before being released?
Did you know that Nivatogastrium nubigenum is commonly known as the bubblegum fungus?
Did you know that a concrete mural by Pablo Picasso was damaged in the 2011 Norway attacks ?
Did you know that in the early 1900s, numerous sewers discharged into the stream that provided the main water supply for the community of Montgomery, Pennsylvania ?
Did you know that Kristoffer Olsson was offered a trial at Chelsea , but failed to attend, and later went through two trials before signing for Arsenal ?
Did you know that the pilot episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was the most watched first episode of a drama series in the United States for nearly four years?
Did you know that five Arabian oryx from the San Diego Zoo were released into Oman 's Jiddat al-Harasis desert after the species had become extinct in the wild?
Did you know that although Guan Liang was one of China's first oil painters, he was known for his traditional ink paintings portraying Peking opera characters?
Did you know that the success of the Ferko String Band would ultimately result in the launch of Bill Haley 's career?
Did you know that Cheng Wai Keung , the thirtieth richest person in Singapore, is the Chairman of Wing Tai Holdings, a garment company-turned-real estate firm?
Did you know that the Bengali anthology Sangeet Kalpataru (1887), edited by Narendranath Datta and Vaishnab Charan Basak, was republished in 1963 as Sangeet Sadhanay Vivekananda O Sangeet Kalpataru ?
Did you know that Robby Mook became involved in politics when he tried out for a school play?
Did you know that Pullman-Standard 's Super Dome was the first full-length dome car to enter service?
Did you know that Bikini Kill 's Kathleen Hanna wanted to have the documentary film The Punk Singer feature women as experts?
Did you know that St Ambrose's Church, Speke , claims to be the first Roman Catholic church in England to be completed to a rectangular plan with a free-standing altar?
Did you know that there are three living and two extinct species of badger in the genus Meles ?
Did you know that early in his career, film editor Gene Ruggiero often skipped work to play golf?
Did you know that in the 2013 high school elections in Norway the Conservative Party became the largest for the first time since 1987?
Did you know that it is owing to Sir John Paston that we have an account of a famous tournament in England between Paston's friend, Earl Rivers , and the Bastard of Burgundy ?
Did you know that What Remains is Tony Basgallop's first whodunit television series?
Did you know that Gloria Long Anderson , a chemist and school administrator, was appointed by President Richard Nixon to serve on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting 's board?
Did you know that the groom was not always a willing participant in a knobstick wedding ?
Did you know that in 2010, the Metropolitan Museum of Art held an exhibition for Xie Zhiliu to commemorate the artist's 100th birthday?
Did you know that supergroup 8in8 , featuring Ben Folds , Amanda Palmer , Neil Gaiman , and Damian Kulash , tried to write and record eight songs in eight hours with the help of their Twitter followers?
Did you know that the first issue of the Singapore Tamil weekly Singai Nesan commemorated the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria ?
Did you know that the horn stalkball fungus grows on decomposing horns and other animal remains?
Did you know that Namath: From Beaver Falls to Broadway interviewed Suzy Kolber , who was asked by the film's subject to be allowed to kiss her?
Did you know that the Altai Snowcock and other species of Snowcock live above the tree line in mountain ranges in Asia?
Did you know that HMY Alberta carried Queen Victoria back to the British mainland after her death on the Isle of Wight in 1901?
Did you know that the Rigveda dictum Bahujana sukhaya bahujana hitaya cha ("for the happiness of the many, for the welfare of the many") was advocated by Gautama Buddha and Swami Vivekananda ?
Did you know that Irish cricketer Kevin O'Brien holds the record for the fastest century scored in a World Cup ?
Did you know that writer Chris Sheridan , who has received three Emmy Award nominations for his work on Family Guy , initially feared that writing for it would end his career?
Did you know that Sidaz Jack , the winner of the 2013 English Greyhound Derby is the son of two-time winner Westmead Hawk ?
Did you know that the museum in Geology Hall at Rutgers University displays a Ptolemaic-era female Egyptian mummy ?
Did you know that British charity SARbot UK use remote-controlled robots to perform underwater search and rescue missions?
Did you know that Lie Kim Hok 's Tjhit Liap Seng ( Seven Stars ) amalgamated two European novels?
Did you know that the place where Sarah Wesley lived in Marylebone with her teetotal Methodist husband Charles Wesley is marked with a plaque on a pub wall?
Did you know that the eggs of the Black Guineafowl are reddish-brown but its nesting habits are unknown?
Did you know that John Chuang , the co-founder of chocolate manufacturer Petra Foods, is the twenty-second richest person in Singapore, with an estimated net worth of $965 million?
Did you know that " Know It All Ed " (November 26, 1999), the first episode of the second season of Danny Antonucci 's hit Cartoon Network series Ed, Edd n Eddy , was considered a highlight episode of its season by DVD Talk ?
Did you know that utilitarian genocide was defined in 1975 by genocide scholar Vahakn Dadrian ?
Did you know that according to legend, the hermit Xu You was offered the royal throne by Emperor Yao , but he declined and even washed his ears out in embarrassment?
Did you know that Emil Reich became well-known to London high society by giving lectures on Plato at Claridge's Hotel ?
Did you know that the location of the Józef Piłsudski Monument in Warsaw has been criticized by its designer?
Did you know that the European free-tailed bat can be recognised by the sound it emits in flight?
Did you know that during 1942, the fairly new HMCS La Malbaie was transferred from both the Western and Mid-Ocean Escort Force due to mechanical issues?
Did you know that geneticist Florence Margaret Durham bred 6,983 guinea pigs for her study of whether daily doses of alcohol had hereditary effects?
Did you know that the primary building of the St. Jacobs Farmers' Market , Canada's largest year-round farmers' market , was built in the late 1970s and destroyed by fire in 2013?
Did you know that director Robert Wise personally selected Ettington Hall for exterior shots in the 1963 horror film , The Haunting ?
Did you know that the 1981 Entumbane Uprising threatened to cause a fresh civil war in Zimbabwe barely a year after the end of the Rhodesian Bush War ?
Did you know that for season nine of How I Met Your Mother , a cast member— Cristin Milioti —is being promoted to the main cast for the first time in the show's history?
Did you know that chef Gordon Ramsay was allowed to open a restaurant at Claridge's hotel because his father-in-law agreed that it would serve breakfast?
Did you know that Oregon judge Harl H. Haas, Jr. used to help babysit Rush Limbaugh ?
Did you know that the World Access for the Blind has helped over 7,000 blind people to use human echolocation ?
Did you know that brown bear numbers are declining in Fairy Meadows ?
Did you know that the Verre in Dubai was Gordon Ramsay 's first restaurant outside Great Britain?
Did you know that the 1942 film Duke of the Navy was an attempt to make a "light funster" out of Ralph Byrd ?
Did you know that as of 1999, Little Shamokin Creek is the only creek in the Shamokin Creek watershed where fish can survive?
Did you know that Little Red Wagon Foundation founder Zach Bonner 's story was selected from among a pool of 6,000 candidates and made into the 2012 docudrama Little Red Wagon ?
Did you know that Pavel Rychagov , a Commander of the Soviet Air Forces , was executed as part of the purge of the Red Army in 1941 ?
Did you know that out of about 20,000 Clarno Formation fossils, only 5 were from the extinct dogwood Cornus clarnensis ?
Did you know that the former manor of Gladsaxehus in Sweden was once bequeathed to become a nunnery of Dominicans , but Queen Margaret preferred it to remain a strategic royal fief ?
Did you know that in May 1942, HMCS Halifax rescued three surviving crewmen of the American trawler Foam that was sunk by Nazi submarine U-432 south of Halifax itself?
Did you know that toy designer Janese Swanson wrote her doctoral thesis on gender issues in product design?
Did you know that in January 1948, during the civil war in Mandatory Palestine , the Palestinian Arab residents of Ijlil al-Shamaliyya pledged neutrality with the Haganah , but left the village months later?
Did you know that in the 1930s, Maurice Yvain 's operettas were translated and performed in Germany, Hungary and Austria as well as on Broadway where Ta Bouche was presented over a hundred times?
Did you know that for many years, Jørgen Olufsen's House was known as Ellen Marsvinsgaard even though Ellen Marsvin, Christian IV 's mother-in-law, never had any connections with it?
Did you know that Indian Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda asserted that " Buddhism was the fulfilment of Hinduism "?
Did you know that Clitocybe albirhiza , Floccularia albolanaripes , Geopora cooperi , Hygrophorus goetzii , H. marzuolus , H. purpurascens , Lentinellus montanus , Ramaria magnipes and Tricholoma vernaticum are snowbank mushrooms ?
Did you know that the character Nilkantha Bagchi in Jukti Takko Aar Gappo (1977) and Meghe Dhaka Tara (2013), resembled film director Ritwik Ghatak 's personality?
Did you know that in 1983, the Irish Thoroughbred Stanerra became the first European-trained racehorse to win the Japan Cup ?
Did you know that Keri Rosebraugh incorporates discarded wood, paper, and other re-purposed trash into her mixed media artworks?
Did you know that on 3 October 1963, the Honduran military overthrew its civilian government ten days before a scheduled election?
Did you know that horses fed hay containing the toxic fluids of crushed old-fashioned potato beetles can get horse colic or even die?
Did you know that Pavel Fedorovich Zhigarev was the Commander of the Soviet Air Forces during the entirety of Operation Barbarossa ?
Did you know that the episode " Shades of Gray " was created as a clip show for Star Trek: The Next Generation and was later described by a critic as "god-awful"?
Did you know that wildlife cameraman Eric Ashby , nicknamed "The Silent Watcher", refused to film tame animals?
Did you know that the 3 October Festival in Leiden , Netherlands , features a free meal of herring and white bread handed out in the Weigh House ?
Did you know that historian Stanley Mordaunt Leathes and physiologist John Beresford Leathes were the sons of Hebrew scholar Stanley Leathes ?
Did you know that combining computer animation with live action, Adhisaya Ulagam 3D was the first 3D Indian film that featured dinosaurs?
Did you know that when Edinburgh Trams commence service in May 2014, it will have been fifty-eight years since the closure of Edinburgh's previous tramway ?
Did you know that the sound effects for Motocross Mania 3 have been criticized for making car crashes sound like water bottles being crushed?
Did you know that scramble competition is one of the causes of the large population swings experienced by the field vole ?
Did you know that Eknath Ranade , who founded the Vivekananda Kendra in Kanyakumari , was honoured as a Karmayogi ?
Did you know that more than fifty pharmacies in North Dakota deliver pharmaceutical care without a pharmacist present using telepharmacy ?
Did you know that Ed Gagnier , the first gymnast to represent Canada at the Olympic games, later coached three NCAA national championship teams at Iowa State ?
Did you know that the trailer for the Japanese horror film Henge was described by a reviewer as "a minor work of art"?
Did you know that the 1912 short film A Cure for Pokeritis was about a woman who arranged a fake police raid on her husband's weekly poker game?
Did you know that sociologist Kenneth A. Bollen has been listed in the ISI Highly Cited database of "highly cited researchers" in the Social Sciences category?
Did you know that during the 1984 European Cup Semi-Final between Liverpool and Dinamo Bucharest , Graeme Souness punched Lică Movilă in the face, breaking his jaw, but it wasn't seen by the referee?
Did you know that the Pied Wheatear often perches on a bush or rock, bobbing its tail up and down while looking around for insects?
Did you know that " genius " has not been a term used in IQ classification since 1937?
Did you know that for the first time in 20 years, the Portland Pirates will not be playing in Portland for their 2013–14 season ?
Did you know that an airplane formerly owned by Hermann Göring was used to transport delegates to the founding congress of the African Democratic Rally ?
Did you know that Ryszard Siwiec , protesting the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia , was the first political protester to commit suicide by self-immolation in Central and Eastern Europe ?
Did you know that William Blake 's character Spectre , which represents unchanging reason in his spiritual mythology , may have been inspired by the poet William Cowper ?
Did you know that the directors of Chipotle Mexican Grill 's short film The Scarecrow took inspiration from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and Metropolis ?
Did you know that India's 1996–97 series in South Africa was Sachin Tendulkar 's first overseas Test tour as captain?
Did you know that Mind Games is one of a record-setting six television shows that filmed in Chicago in 2013?