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Did you know that on his first day filming " Pot of Gold ", Glee newcomer and The Glee Project winner Damian McGinty was shoved into a locker 25 times?
Did you know that Vic Flowers is considered as the unofficial leader of the Barmy Army ?
Did you know that political novice Julie Hardaker beat the experienced incumbent Bob Simcock in 2010's contest for the mayoralty of Hamilton , New Zealand?
Did you know that publisher Meridian4 compared the video game Wasteland Angel to honey badgers and even used a video of badgers to promote the game?
Did you know that poorly treated wastewater from raceways used in aquaculture can result in outbreaks of red tide ?
Did you know that a white audience gave the black power sign and Little Richard is said to have "openly embraced androgyny" in Let the Good Times Roll ?
Did you know that the 893 Ardabil earthquake is a 'fake earthquake', created due to a misreading of the original Armenian reports for the 893 Dvin earthquake ?
Did you know that MercyMe 's song " Finally Home " was written after lead singer Bart Millard heard the group's guitarists improvising on an acoustic guitar riff?
Did you know that studio executive Mo Rothman persuaded Charlie Chaplin to return to the United States in 1972, which restored Chaplin's public reputation and popularity?
Did you know that a new Chinese unmanned aerial vehicle could be used for relaying targeting information for ballistic and cruise missiles to destroy enemy ships?
Did you know that the Goethe–Schiller Monument in Syracuse , dedicated 100 years ago today, was the last of 13 US monuments honoring Friedrich von Schiller , the German "poet of freedom"?
Did you know that bees and wasps can be trained to detect explosives, illegal drugs, cancer, and pregnancy?
Did you know that Max Bell went from making $35 per week at a Calgary newspaper during the Great Depression to owning Canada's largest newspaper syndicate in 1965?
Did you know that the Turnhalle building in Windhoek lent its name to a conference , an alliance , and two political parties?
Did you know that "king of the paparazzi" Felice Quinto was shot with an arrow in the course of his duty?
Did you know that the extinct wasps Dryinus grimaldii and Dryinus rasnitsyni are distinguishable by the modified claws on their front legs?
Did you know that a Danish vagabond named Eiler Larsen became famous as "The Greeter" of Laguna Beach, California ?
Did you know that the city of Coimbatore in India was constructed by a 9th century Irula chieftain named Covan ?
Did you know that Man With A Mission is a Japanese alternative band whose members wear wolf masks on stage?
Did you know that Dominica , Barbados , Solomon Islands , and Saint Kitts and Nevis were among ten nations that only won one bronze medal in the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games ?
Did you know that when J J Cahill Memorial High School was built, the first students carried their books and furniture there by themselves?
Did you know that poet Teofil Lenartowicz described heaven as looking like a Polish village?
Did you know that upon his retirement in 1998, Peter Joslin was among Britain's longest-serving police officers, having served for 44 years?
Did you know that the Presidential Council for Minority Rights , a Singaporean body that ensures laws do not discriminate against racial or religious minorities, has not issued an adverse report since its creation?
Did you know that Russian poet Stepan Shevyryov was a founder of the "poetry of thought" movement?
Did you know that coral aquaculture may be becoming an effective tool for restoring coral reefs , which have been declining around the world?
Did you know that Carl Rettenmeyer found hundreds of mite species that live on army ants, including one that acts as an extension to the foot whilst sucking blood?
Did you know that on 24 September , pro-Gaddafi forces launched a raid on the oasis town of Ghadames , held by the National Transitional Council and home to a UNESCO World Heritage Site ?
Did you know that Il sogno di Scipione , an opera by Luca Antonio Predieri , was first performed in 1735 to celebrate the birthday of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor ?
Did you know that the Aidanfield subdivision in Christchurch was developed over the last decade to raise funds for a Catholic order ?
Did you know that Titiek Puspa 's stage name was given to her by President Sukarno ?
Did you know that baritone Konrad Jarnot recorded lieder by Richard Strauss , including Four Last Songs ?
Did you know that Maurice Fernandes captained the West Indies cricket team to their maiden Test victory?
Did you know that the video game Iron Grip: Marauders changed from an isometric to a perspective camera during open beta ?
Did you know that the reaction of the public to a 26-foot-tall statue of Marilyn Monroe has been criticized as "juvenile"?
Did you know that A Letter to Momo is the first Japanese anime film to be showcased at the Warsaw International Film Festival ?
Did you know that Prussian statesman Georg von Vincke , known as one of the great orators of contemporary German politics, fought a duel with Otto von Bismarck ?
Did you know that the only fossil of the extinct moth Baltimartyria sat on a paleoentomologist ' s desk for a number of years before being described in 2011?
Did you know that despite being with five different teams during the 2004 NFL season , cornerback Mike Echols did not appear in any games?
Did you know that Kasper Twardowski 's 1617 erotica, banned by the Bishop of Kraków , was rejected by the poet himself as immoral?
Did you know that former BBC Newsround reporter Lucy Mathen is now an ophthalmologist , and has launched a volunteer group aimed at eradicating cataract blindness in India?
Did you know that the German war film Der Stern von Afrika portrayed the combat career of Luftwaffe fighter pilot Hans-Joachim Marseille ?
Did you know that an ongoing outbreak of listeriosis associated with cantaloupes is now one of the three worst U.S. outbreaks of foodborne illness in the past 40 years, as measured in number of deaths?
Did you know that Ifeany Otounye of the Turks and Caicos Islands set a new national record for long jump in the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games ?
Did you know that the "intellectual poet" Chairil Anwar enjoyed stealing and womanizing?
Did you know that following their win in the 1980 Garden State Bowl , the Houston Cougars did not win another bowl game until their victory in the 2008 Armed Forces Bowl ?
Did you know that the sans-serif typeface Neutraface is the subject of a YouTube parody video of Lady Gaga 's song " Poker Face "?
Did you know that Faroese folk hero Nólsoyar Páll had to illegally sell 2,600 knitted sweaters to try to open direct trade with his country?
Did you know that the newspaper vending machine was invented by George Thiemeyer Hemmeter in 1947?
Did you know that Bert V. Royal , who wrote the high school comedy film Easy A , did not attend high school?
Did you know that Dick Cogan , a former Major League Baseball player, organized the Hudson River League and was a player-manager for one of its teams?
Did you know that the world's highest webcam is capable of streaming live HD video of the summit of Mount Everest?
Did you know that the vaccine MVA-B has been found to create a resistance to HIV in 90% of the Phase I testers?
Did you know that the SS Robert E. Peary was built and launched in only 4 days, 15 hours and 29 minutes, faster than any other Liberty ship ?
Did you know that the brown-tinted and shaky camerawork of Under the Tree was considered "sometimes near-nauseating"?
Did you know that professional wrestler Frank Stalletto once claimed to be a lookalike for country music star Billy Ray Cyrus ?
Did you know that in 1933, a mostly Jewish boarding school escaped Nazi Germany and re-opened as Bunce Court School in Kent , England, ultimately saving the lives of hundreds of children and several teachers?
Did you know that Bernice Lake , the chief architect of Anguilla 's constitution, was the first Eastern Caribbean woman to be appointed Queen's Counsel ?
Did you know that common law rules of natural justice do not require public authorities to give reasons for their decisions?
Did you know that the Cleveland Rosenblums , owned by department store owner Max Rosenblum, won the first championship of the newly formed American Basketball League in 1926?
Did you know that Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville 's 1805 novel Le Dernier Homme ( The Last Man ) was the first work of modern speculative fiction to describe the end of the world?
Did you know that even though stab wounds occur four times more often than gunshot wounds , there is a lower mortality rate ?
Did you know that the 1981 Garden State Bowl was the first bowl game Wisconsin participated in that was not the Rose Bowl Game ?
Did you know that the majority of blue spiny starfish reproduce sexually in winter, but asexually in the summer?
Did you know that Brian Eisner led the University of Michigan men's tennis team to 18 Big Ten Conference championships in 30 years as the head coach?
Did you know that mules were used to help transport the 7,200 tiles in the Miró Wall from Spain to Germany?
Did you know that Arizona Territorial Chief Justice Edmund Francis Dunne was made a count by Pope Leo XIII ?
Did you know that the mintbush Prostanthera stenophylla grows in sandstone pagodas?
Did you know that Finland's Lasse Virén won the gold medal and set a world record in the 10,000 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics , despite falling onto the track about halfway through the race?
Did you know that the North geomagnetic pole is not the same as the magnetic North Pole , and that a compass points at neither?
Did you know that Bill Lange led the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball program to its first ever NCAA Tournament appearance in 1941 ?
Did you know that Bach included stanzas from four funeral hymns in his cantata Christus, der ist mein Leben, BWV 95 (Christ, he is my life)?
Did you know that Somerset all-rounder Craig Meschede ' s first wicket in first-class cricket was that of Sachin Tendulkar ?
Did you know that David M. Friedman's book A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis was described as "embarrassingly europhallocentric"?
Did you know that in August 1990 FC Bayern Munich lost in the first round of the cup at amateur side FV 09 Weinheim ?
Did you know that French Napoleonic General François-Xavier Donzelot showed his appreciation for the return of his library by the British by reserving a seat at his table for any captured British officer?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Greta was described as a "bomb that did not explode"?
Did you know that most of the provisions of Alabama HB 56 , considered the toughest anti- illegal immigration law in the United States, recently went into effect after surviving a legal challenge?
Did you know that fairyflies include the smallest known insects, smaller than a single-celled Paramecium ?
Did you know that Victor Pascall of Trinidad was considered the best left-arm spinner in West Indies cricket during his career?
Did you know that it has been said that the opening chorus of Bach's cantata Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 99 , "would still work perfectly well if the vocal parts were entirely removed"?
Did you know that due to the sexually explicit content of Saman , Ayu Utami ' s debut novel, her mother refused to read it to her father?
Did you know that Nnamdi Azikiwe was concerned about a possible "Pakistan" emerging in Nigeria ?
Did you know that Thomas Edison hoped to make furniture, refrigerators, and pianos using the concrete he developed but it was instead used to make the Yankee Stadium ?
Did you know that the Tamil film Dakshayagnam was the first talkie based on the story of Daksha ?
Did you know that Leonard Reiffel helped Enrico Fermi build a cyclotron , studied launching a missile at the Moon , and won a Peabody Award for his radio show?
Did you know that the Alaska Veterans Memorial honors all the main branches of the United States Armed Forces, as well as the Merchant Marine and the Alaska Territorial Guard?
Did you know that Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl was known as the "court painter" to United States President Andrew Jackson ?
Did you know that the star IRAS 17163-3907 , the closest yellow hypergiant ever found, is said to resemble a fried egg ?
Did you know that the Polish poem " Murzynek Bambo " has been criticised for its portrayal of black people?
Did you know that Cecil Newton, Sr. attended two NFL training camps without making the team, but both of his sons have played in the NFL?
Did you know that the Australian contribution to the Battle of Normandy in 1944 included ten Royal Australian Air Force squadrons and hundreds of personnel posted to Royal Air Force units and Royal Navy warships?
Did you know that the first letter in its name stands for "open," but the openness of the ODB++ CAD -to- CAM data exchange format is disputed?
Did you know that educator Anna Essinger , ordered to fly the swastika on Hitler's birthday, planned a day-long outing for her school , leaving the flag to fly over an empty building?
Did you know that the design of the Dronningegården residential complex in Copenhagen was shaped by the shortage of materials during World War II?
Did you know that Bhaskaracharya Tripathi , a Sanskrit poet, won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit in 2003 for his poetry work Nirjharini ?
Did you know that the Martin Ryerson Tomb is one of three mausoleums designed by famous architect Louis H. Sullivan ?
Did you know that the Striped Honeyeater 's primary food source is insects, not honey or nectar?
Did you know that Pink Floyd , Rod Stewart , and Maria Callas have all performed in Verona's Bra ?
Did you know that although he is of European descent, Richard Nunns is regarded as the foremost authority on Māori musical instruments ?
Did you know that the Bergmann Hotel , an historic building in Juneau, Alaska , was built in 1913 by Marie E. Bergmann as a home for local miners?
Did you know that twice-married Indonesian singer Dewi Persik announced earlier this year that she had officially become a virgin again following a pilgrimage to Mecca ?
Did you know that J. Wesley Gephart gave up his law practice with a governor to run a railroad and two blast furnaces ?
Did you know that the entire global population of the Owens pupfish was once contained in two buckets?
Did you know that the male Pahrump killifish turns blue during spawning ?
Did you know that Redjuice added cat ears to Guilty Crown ?
Did you know that MercyMe 's song " So Long Self " broke the record for most first-week adds on the Christian AC radio format?
Did you know that despite witnessing the event from the bench , Arizona Territorial Chief Justice John Titus declined to bring charges against a prosecutor who tried to kill a criminal defendant in open court?
Did you know that the plant Spigelia genuflexa bends down to bury its own seeds ?
Did you know that more than 50 of John Mennie 's drawings of his life as a prisoner of war were donated to the Imperial War Museum ?
Did you know that the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage does not allow traditions that violate international human rights?
Did you know that the extinct planthopper Emiliana was described from a single 47 million -year-old wing?
Did you know that a quarter of Symonds Street Cemetery , one of New Zealand's oldest cemeteries, was destroyed by the construction of the Auckland Southern Motorway ?
Did you know that the Tempera , built in 2002, was the first oil tanker designed to break ice by going astern ?
Did you know that Jake Stenzel has the 21st-highest batting average in Major League Baseball history?
Did you know that the Sint Servaasbrug in Maastricht has been called the oldest bridge in the Netherlands , and was built in the 13th century to replace a Roman bridge that gave its name to the city?
Did you know that HealthGrades proprietary ratings of U.S. healthcare providers are free to view, but providers pay licensing fees to publicize their own favorable ratings?
Did you know that finds unearthed at the Israelite Tower in Jerusalem 's Jewish Quarter attest to the Babylonian sack of the city in 586 BCE ?
Did you know that for the last 186 years the rulers of Russia succeeded each other in the bald – hairy sequence?
Did you know that the Jipe tilapia is endemic to Lake Jipe , whose main water sources descend from Mount Kilimanjaro ?
Did you know that E. W. Middlemast wrote a letter recommending Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan for a job?
Did you know that the Armed Boats Squadron Dubrovnik provided a resupply route to the city of Dubrovnik during its 1991–1992 siege ?
Did you know that Democrat Harry D. Boivin was elected Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives at the age of 33, becoming the youngest person ever to hold that office?
Did you know that golden frogs are often mistaken for bronzed frogs ?
Did you know that the function of the Gorgon and panther reliefs (Gorgon pictured) on the pediment of the Temple of Artemis in Corfu is believed to be apotropaic ?
Did you know that, after going bankrupt as Receiver General of Finances for Paris, Pierre Perrault developed the theory of the hydrologic cycle ?
Did you know that Haydn's oratorio The Creation is structured in three parts, the first two about the creation as narrated in Genesis , the third about Adam and Eve in Paradise ?
Did you know that Brian Jamieson received several citations for reconstructing The Big Red One ?
Did you know that the blushing tricholoma fungus formed a fairy ring in Germany which was 80 m (260 ft) across and contained an estimated 10,000 mushrooms?
Did you know that in his early life, David Hoberman couldn't walk on cracks, and had to touch poles ?
Did you know that Cox & Barnard of Hove , England, made stained glass windows for a Canadian church from shards of glass collected by an army chaplain from war-damaged churches across Europe?
Did you know that the Indonesian romance Layar Terkembang has chapters with no dialogue?
Did you know that the Pōmare Dynasty ruled the Kingdom of Tahiti from 1788 to 1880?
Did you know that the extinct sweat bee Halictus? savenyei was the first fossil bee from Canada to be described?
Did you know that in 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt became honorary president of the American School Hygiene Association , a Progressive Era organization dedicated to school children's health ?
Did you know that Qatar's Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser was elected to preside over the 66th UN General Assembly ?
Did you know that in 2009 Entertainment Weekly listed X as one of 20 "black sci-fi icons"?
Did you know that the Portland Youth Philharmonic , the oldest youth orchestra in the United States, has had only five conductors since its establishment in 1924?
Did you know that Historic Masters is a vinyl record label which continues to issue rare 78 rpm opera discs on a regular basis?
Did you know that Robert V. Bruce won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1988?
Did you know that as many as 80,000 benthic animals were found living on a single stem in a bed of the kelp species Laminaria hyperborea ?
Did you know that Mei-Ann Chen was the first woman to win the Malko Competition, the "world's most prestigious prize for young conductors "?
Did you know that Russell Howarth of the Minstermen had a trial with the Toffeemen in 2002?
Did you know that U2 's song " Exit " was used in the defence of Robert John Bardo at his trial for the murder of Rebecca Schaeffer ?
Did you know that doctor and author James Le Fanu has associated Darwinian evolution with materialism ?
Did you know that the handpainted Changzhou comb was a desired object among Chinese royalty during the Southern and Northern Dynasties over 1500 years ago?
Did you know that the flesh of Tricholoma argyraceum has a floury and rancid taste?
Did you know that Codex Ravianus , Toletanus , Theodulphianus , Legionensis , Sangallensis 63 , Sangallensis 907 , and minuscule 918 contain the spurious biblical text Comma Johanneum ?
Did you know that the compilation album Puros Trankazos features a song about not killing someone lately?
Did you know that the term eternal life is not explicitly defined in the New Testament ?
Did you know that before John Collee became a screenwriter, he practised medicine in places including Gabon, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, and the Solomon Islands?
Did you know that Eighty Five East Ridge is a major aseismic ridge in the Bay of Bengal that may have formed over a short-lived hotspot ?
Did you know that there were only seven copies of Miró's lithograph series that was printed in Barcelona in 1944?
Did you know that, at the age of fourteen, Elizabeth Edmondson was told that she had broken a world record while swimming at Beatty Park ?
Did you know that after a nervous breakdown Miró started art classes, where he met and painted his friend Vincent in a style that resembled Van Gogh 's?
Did you know that John Palocaren 's students included spiritual teacher Eknath Easwaran , bishop George Alappatt , and EMS Namboodiripad , head of the world's first freely elected communist government?
Did you know the following the federal recognition of the Seminole Tribe of Florida in 1957, some traditionalist Florida Seminoles formed the separate Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida ?
Did you know that Liu Huang A-tao was the first former Taiwanese comfort woman to sue the Japanese government for compensation and an apology?
Did you know that the Great Church of Antioch was still standing after the earthquake of 526 AD , but was destroyed seven days later by the resulting fire?
Did you know that the scoring in Bach's cantata Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62 , based on Luther's chorale for Advent , is said to be simple because Advent was a "season of abstinence"?
Did you know that although the Cornell–Princeton lacrosse rivalry spans 73 games and dates back to 1922, the teams did not meet in the post season until the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship ?
Did you know that the Rajaji Hall in Chennai , India , was constructed to commemorate a British victory over Tipu Sultan in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War ?
Did you know that Paralympian Daniel Fitzgibbon was named Sailor of the Year with a Disability in 2008, 2009 and 2011?
Did you know that The Who 's " Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand " has been interpreted as a song about masturbation ?
Did you know that many German communists fleeing Nazi persecution who initially found refuge in Moscow's Hotel Lux were killed in Josef Stalin 's purges ?
Did you know that Bulbophyllum nocturnum , first described in 2011, is the only orchid species known to flower at night?
Did you know that Grand Parade won the 1919 Epsom Derby despite 33 to 1 odds and a treacherous track?
Did you know that both the number and magnitude of foreshocks and aftershocks of the 1969 Yangjiang earthquake were unusually small, considering the size of the mainshock?
Did you know that near the Poplar River , a locomotive , briefly used for logging , lay abandoned for 20 years before being sold for scrap?
Did you know that Reinhard Febel composed an opera on Caspar Hauser , Sekunden und Jahre des Caspar Hauser , which premiered in 1992 at the Opernhaus Dortmund ?
Did you know that skippers , lycaenids and honeybees visit the flowers of Dampiera purpurea ?
Did you know that smallmouth bass , introduced into Crescent Lake , have spread to every major lake in the upper Poplar River watershed of Minnesota ?
Did you know that the Miller's Tower at Formakin House is dated " 1694 DL ", with DL standing for "damned lie", as it was built in the 1900s?
Did you know that trying to escape Hurricane Katrina , award-winning writer Jesmyn Ward and her family got stranded in a field full of tractors?
Did you know that Winter: Five Windows on the Season by Adam Gopnik was the 50th Massey Lecture and occurred on the 75th anniversary of the CBC ?
Did you know that the Pioneer Youth League of British Guiana was banned by the British colonial authorities in December 1953 ?
Did you know that Jacque LaPrarie , Eric Hochberg , Tom Tarver , Mike Stephans , and Chas Dodd all led the Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team in passing yards?