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Did you know that meanness is a personal quality whose classical form, discussed by many from Aristotle to Thomas Aquinas , characterizes it as a vice of "lowness", but whose modern form deals more with cruelty?
Did you know that the 13th-century Welsh nobleman Tudur Hen was the direct ancestor of the House of Tudor , and introduced the name to the line?
Did you know that development of the Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital in Vaughan, Canada, was delayed four years because of a land use dispute?
Did you know that Herbert L. Packer proposed two models for the U.S. criminal justice system, crime control and due process , which became influential in criminal policy debates?
Did you know that five schoolchildren and their leader's assistant died in a blizzard in the 1971 Cairngorm Plateau Disaster when they failed to reach the Curran shelter in the Scottish Highlands ?
Did you know that Zohreh Tabatabai coordinated with more than 100 heads of state to plan the United Nations ' Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration?
Did you know that Tokyo-born archeologist Carl Whiting Bishop served in U.S. naval intelligence during World War I?
Did you know that the 2008 AMP Energy 500 saw a record-breaking 28 race drivers leading at least one lap in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series ?
Did you know that The Simpsons episode " The Burns Cage " takes its name from The Birdcage , a film starring Simpsons voice actor Hank Azaria ?
Did you know that American painter Edith Emerson was the curator and director of the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia for over 30 years?
Did you know that the Hindu text Natya Shastra is an ancient encyclopedic treatise on the performing arts ?
Did you know that one doughnut shop chain uses an estimated one billion disposable cups per year, enough to circle the Earth twice?
Did you know that wide receiver T. J. Acree was a walk-on in college but went on to play in the Canadian Football League ?
Did you know that " The Royal Welch Fusiliers " is the only march written by John Philip Sousa for a British Army regiment?
Did you know that the couple Janie and Victor Tsao started Linksys in their garage, and sold it for half a billion dollars?
Did you know that the Woodstock Observer was the second attempt to establish a newspaper in Woodstock, Vermont ?
Did you know that Ottoman politician Mehmet Celal Bey is known as the Turkish Oscar Schindler for having saved many lives during the Armenian Genocide ?
Did you know that In for a Penny, In for a Pound is regarded as just the third album by a jazz composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music ?
Did you know that David A. Shirley was the first chemist to become the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ?
Did you know that the Primrose International Viola Archive at Brigham Young University is said to be haunted?
Did you know that the Darkhuang gong's cultural usage in Mizoram is as a dowry gift demanded by the bride's parents?
Did you know that the Lafayette Welcoming Parade of 1824 has been described as "New York's first all-out welcoming parade"?
Did you know that Elspeth Beard was the first English woman to ride a motorcycle around the world?
Did you know that Meghan Trainor considered " Dear Future Husband " to be one of the strongest tracks on Title ?
Did you know that steamed banana cake is found in Chinese cuisine , Indonesian cuisine and Vietnamese cuisine ?
Did you know that Denis Smith suffered so many broken bones, he was named in the Guinness Book of Records as the most injured man in association football?
Did you know that despite winning the 2008 UAW-Dodge 400 , Carl Edwards was penalized 100 drivers' points for a loose lid on his car's oil reservoir encasement?
Did you know that the Battle of Tulgas is also called "The Battle of Armistice Day "?
Did you know that on 14 April 2016, 15-year-old Jenna Jones and 16-year-old Emily Beecroft were named as members of the 2016 Australian Paralympic Team ?
Did you know that Conair Aviation Flight 448 , a flight meant to fight wildfires, inadvertently started one?
Did you know that the footballer Ray Jones , who died at 18, was described as Queens Park Rangers ' own Wayne Rooney ?
Did you know that The Electro-Magnetic and Mechanics Intelligencer was the first newspaper printed on a press run by electricity?
Did you know that Humira Saqib started educating the women of Afghanistan through her magazine Negah-e-Zan on their rights and to "tell women that we have great ideas, and the ability to make those ideas a reality"?
Did you know that Boudewijn Zenden scored a penalty kick for Middlesbrough in the 2004 Football League Cup Final , despite slipping over in the process?
Did you know that The Indigo Book is a public domain version of the Bluebook ?
Did you know that Sahwat al-Khudr is named after an ancient Byzantine church in the village dedicated to Saint George , who is known to Muslims as "al-Khudr"?
Did you know that Emily Temple-Wood says she will create a Wikipedia article about a woman scientist for every harassing email she receives?
Did you know that the Beeching cuts resulted in the closure of Groeslon railway station in Wales, despite the expansion of the station 17 years earlier?
Did you know that in order to move to Los Angeles to be an actress, Emma Stone prepared a PowerPoint presentation to convince her parents?
Did you know that Starbreeze Studios was once working on a video game set within the Bourne universe?
Did you know that NSA cryptanalyst Dorothy Blum was using the Fortran programming language three years before its public release in 1957?
Did you know that in The Boy Next Door the main character receives a first-edition printed copy of Homer 's Iliad ?
Did you know that despite being removed from the 1992 Honduras Olympic team and Olympic Village , Polin Belisle still competed in the Olympic marathon ?
Did you know that paleontologists cannot determine whether Dispersituberoolithus , a type of fossil egg , was laid by a bird or a non-avian dinosaur ?
Did you know that with over 50 million copies in print, the Maxwell House Haggadah is the best known and most popular Passover Haggadah among American Jews?
Did you know that Gérard Lhéritier 's career took off when he discovered balloon mail ?
Did you know that during Passover , some people use matzah as a substitute for traditional pizza crusts?
Did you know that in times past, the head of the household would go out to the street to say Ha Lachma Anya , thus inviting poor people to join him at the Passover Seder ?
Did you know that L'Shana Haba'ah is sung at the end of the Passover Seder ?
Did you know that common hogweed was originally the main ingredient of borscht ?
Did you know that the ruler of the Banu Kanz , a mixed Arab - Beja tribe, regulated the Fatimid Caliphate 's diplomatic and commercial relations with Nubia ?
Did you know that Swedish writer Eva Alexanderson translated works by Umberto Eco , Simone de Beauvoir , Albert Camus , Jean-Jacques Rousseau , and Fyodor Dostoyevsky ?
Did you know that the Harmony Gold Mine Cricket Club A Ground holds the record for some of the lowest scores by the Free State cricket team ?
Did you know that the tomb of Henry VIII 's ancestor at St Gredifael's Church was vandalised by pilgrims who thought it had healing powers?
Did you know that Svetoslav Roerich , one of the recipients of the Padma Bhushan award in the 1960s , is the only artist whose three portraits are displayed at the Central Hall of Indian Parliament ?
Did you know that the library at Queen Mary University of London was named after an expert in Welsh history, Caroline Skeel ?
Did you know that a collection of light bulbs was bought by General Electric in 1912 for $10,000 and by 1931 was valued at over a million dollars?
Did you know that blueberry sauce can be used to prepare blueberry Martinis ?
Did you know that, with 6000 members, Central Jamaat-e Ahl-e Sunnat is Norway 's largest mosque ?
Did you know that Iris timofejewii is a rare and endangered iris threatened by overgrazing?
Did you know that Derick Adamson won the 1984 and 1985 Philadelphia Marathons ?
Did you know that Shuangyu , an international entrepôt used by Portuguese, Japanese, and Chinese traders and smugglers, was destroyed by the Ming dynasty in 1548?
Did you know that Gerri Major was the first African American woman to announce programs on commercial radio?
Did you know that the 14th-century tower of St Mary's Church, Caldicot , was not completed until the 16th century?
Did you know that after death of Muhammad al-Mahdi 's father, al-Mahdi appointed Uthman ibn Sa'id al-Asadi as his representative, making al-Asadi the main link between al-Mahdi and the Shia community?
Did you know that Marshal Lin Biao attempted to flee China from Qinhuangdao Shanhaiguan Airport , but was killed when his plane crashed in Mongolia?
Did you know that Interstate 97 is the shortest 2-digit mainline Interstate Highway and only intracounty 2-digit Interstate in the contiguous United States ?
Did you know that the art historian Graham Reynolds wrote the catalogue raisonné of the works of John Constable ?
Did you know that Gobioolithus is a type of fossil bird egg that often contains embryos with well-developed wings?
Did you know that Peregrin Saxon was the first Bishop of Bosnia to reside in Bosnia since Ponsa was driven out by heretics a century earlier?
Did you know that Joe's Steaks + Soda Shop in Philadelphia changed its business name in 2013 because the name it had used for 64 years was controversial?
Did you know that in the United States, Grand Theft Auto III was the best-selling game of 2001, and the second best-selling game of 2002, behind only its sequel ?
Did you know that the name of Maenan Hall , a Grade I listed building near Llanddoged , Wales, means "place of the big stone" in Welsh ?
Did you know that biologist Katherine Sanford was the first person to successfully clone a mammal cell in vitro ?
Did you know that the Hindu mythical beast Supratika – Bhagadatta 's elephant – nearly killed Bhima during the Kurukshetra War ?
Did you know that in a 2014 Sussex Cricket League Premier Division match against Horsham , Philip Salt scored 200 not out from just 129 balls ?
Did you know that city officials in Plymouth, Minnesota , opposed the idea of a 240,000-square-foot (22,000 m 2 ) Walmart Supercenter replacing the Four Seasons Mall ?
Did you know that South Korean politician Choo Mi-ae has been compared to Joan of Arc ?
Did you know that the detective fiction writer Soeman Hs is considered a pioneer of the Indonesian short story for his collection Kawan Bergeloet ?
Did you know that Orange Is the New Black is the first series to receive Emmy Award nominations in both the comedy and drama categories?
Did you know that environmental and children's rights activist Rosemary Edna Sinclair was named Miss Australia 1960?
Did you know that after the Sudeten German Party was banned, its followers in areas that remained in Czechoslovakia regrouped as the German People's Group ?
Did you know that rags-to-riches colonial Virginia slave owner Samuel Gist owned as many as 1000 slaves, most of whom were freed after his death?
Did you know that St Tewdric 's axed or speared skull is purportedly buried under the altar of St Tewdric's Church ?
Did you know that the pilot of Carson Air Flight 66 flew his plane while intoxicated?
Did you know that Ursula K. Le Guin 's Hugo and Nebula award-winning 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness is set on a fictional planet whose people are neither male nor female for most of their sexual cycle?
Did you know that Seán Kinsella is regarded as Ireland's first celebrity chef ?
Did you know that Strauss composed the cantata Taillefer , based on a romantic medieval tale and set for three soloists, an eight-part choir, and a large orchestra, for the centenary of the Heidelberg University ?
Did you know that during the attempted theft of George Washington's head , the body of Bushrod Washington was accidentally decapitated?
Did you know that in 1970, Prince Charles became the first heir to the British throne to complete a university degree ?
Did you know that cell biologist Ruth Lehmann studied maternal effect genes in fruit flies ?
Did you know that many people believe there is no such thing as Welsh food ?
Did you know that FEMA 's " Other than a Plan D Situation " file includes draft legislation to waive penalties for the late-filing of income tax by persons residing in cities destroyed by nuclear attack?
Did you know that the student body at Kennebec Valley Community College grew from 100 to 3,300 during Barbara W. Woodlee 's nearly three decades as president?
Did you know that Campaign 972 attacked Paksong 15 minutes after a ceasefire ended the Laotian Civil War ?
Did you know that Minna Salami , a woman journalist of Nigeria, is actively participating on African women's issues through her award-winning blog called MsAfropolitan ?
Did you know that All Saints' Church , which was attended by Jane Austen when she lived in Southampton , was destroyed in the Second World War?
Did you know that the WWE Women's Championship was created because female wrestlers felt that the former Divas Championship diminished them to "eye candy"?
Did you know that John Logie Baird 's Telechrome was the first single-tube color television display, and could also display stereoscopic (3D) images?
Did you know that historian Howard Henry Peckham discovered that American Revolutionary War deaths were much higher than previously assumed, totaling about 25,000?
Did you know that during the Industrial Revolution , the Welsh coal industry was at the forefront of the development of new mining technologies ?
Did you know that more than 10 wrestlers have worn the Espanto mask, including Espanto I , Espanto II , Espanto III , Espanto IV and V , Los Hijos del Espanto , Espanto Jr. , his son Espanto Jr. , and Mini-Estrella Espantito ?
Did you know that the Malator is known locally as the " Teletubby house"?
Did you know that the Atari 2600 game Adventure contained the first well-known instance of a video game Easter egg ?
Did you know that despite indicating willingness to renew his contract with a Portuguese club, Portuguese footballer Rúben Fernandes signed with a newly promoted Belgian one instead?
Did you know that Octaware Technologies is India's first company claiming Sharia compliance that has been approved for listing on the Bombay Stock Exchange ?
Did you know that early in her career, Emma Stone won the Young Hollywood Award for Exciting New Face?
Did you know that the New York City Subway is the largest rapid transit system in the world by number of stations, with 469 stations in operation?
Did you know that Li Ye , a Taoist nun and courtesan renowned for her beauty and talent in poetry, was executed for treason?
Did you know that St Mary's Church forms part of the name of Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch ?
Did you know that conservation biologist Leela Hazzah began a program teaching Maasai hunters to protect lions instead of hunt them?
Did you know that Jerusalem's first printing press was established in the Armenian Quarter ?
Did you know that Indian nationalist Santi Ghose assassinated a British magistrate when she was 15 years old?
Did you know that the large pre-Columbian Maya city of Cihuatán , in central El Salvador , was destroyed by a massive fire within 150 years of being founded?
Did you know that in 1953, Philipp Meyer became the first former Nazi Kreisleiter elected to the West German Bundestag ?
Did you know that an 18th-century recipe for the vegetarian Glamorgan sausage references the use of pork as an ingredient?
Did you know that Chen Run'er was recently appointed Governor of China's Henan Province, despite the prediction of his downfall by a Radio Free Asia columnist?
Did you know that Ralph Milne worked as a casual labourer in the same season that he played for Dundee United in the semi-final of the European Cup?
Did you know that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk worked in the Neo-Baroque Sarmadzhiev House in Sofia , Bulgaria and his office has been preserved as a small museum?
Did you know that Bu Xiaolin , her father Buhe , and her grandfather Ulanhu have all served as Chairman of Inner Mongolia ?
Did you know that the Flag of the Church in Wales was adopted following the split of the Church in Wales from the Church of England?
Did you know that Phillip Adams , an Australian farmer, co-holds the record for the most medals won at the Commonwealth Games ?
Did you know that according to chef Fergus Henderson , drinking a Black Velvet at Sweetings "puts you in the mood for romance"?
Did you know that Dr. George Fell , a pioneer of life-saving mechanical respiration techniques in the 1880s, also had a role in designing the first electric chair used for an execution?
Did you know that Bertha Badt-Strauss was one of the first women in Prussia to receive a doctoral degree?
Did you know that in order to film a scene for the " Give It All " music video , the film crew was forced to sneak into a local zoo?
Did you know that a Newfoundland dog serves as both a mascot and a rehabilitation animal for Australian military personnel detained at the Defence Force Correctional Establishment ?
Did you know that Vasile Moga was the first Romanian Orthodox bishop of Transylvania in over a century?
Did you know that the species name of the ant Dolichoderus pinguis is taken from the Latin word meaning "fat"?
Did you know that the first test match of rugby union 's professional era was played during the 1995 Wales rugby union tour of South Africa ?
Did you know that conceptual artist Maria Anwander French-kissed a wall at MoMA without authorization?
Did you know that the former motte-and-bailey Barland Castle is thought to have originally been called "Bernoldune", the name changing gradually over the following centuries?
Did you know that Drishyam became the second film to show for 100 days in the UAE , after Titanic (1997)?
Did you know that Jennifer Lopez described the concept behind her song " Ain't Your Mama " as "very empowering"?
Did you know that the second Horn Island Light was destroyed in the 1906 Mississippi hurricane , killing the keeper and his family?
Did you know that Nisha Ayub has said she could be stripped naked and killed, but her transgender identity could not be taken from her?
Did you know that Donald Knuth 's analysis of the linear probing strategy for resolving collisions in hash tables has been called "a landmark in the analysis of algorithms"?
Did you know that Welshmen are sometimes called sheep shaggers ?
Did you know that the Arena México 60th Anniversary Show celebrates the completion of Arena México in 1956, the largest venue ever built specifically for professional wrestling ?
Did you know that Matthew N. Levy has been referred to as "the father of neurocardiology "?
Did you know that the Brooke Bond Taj Mahal Tea House is Hindustan Unilever 's first tea restaurant business?
Did you know that a line in the single " Game On " by the Welsh band Catatonia appeared in one of the tracks on their original demos ?
Did you know that the extinct ant genus Paraneuretus is known from amber and compression fossils?
Did you know that according to a former editor of The Observer , Nora Beloff "had one of the most distinguished careers any woman has had in British journalism"?
Did you know that an Earnest performance necessitates the rhythmic smashing of forty dinner plates?
Did you know that The Sound of a Flower is based on the life of Jin Chae-seon, who became Joseon 's first female pansori singer in 1867, when women were forbidden to perform on stage?
Did you know that the Gerard Behar Center , today a major arts centre in Jerusalem , was the site of the 1961 trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann ?
Did you know that the shell of Incognitoolithus , the largest known North American fossil bird egg from the Eocene , bears possible peck-marks from a predatory bird?
Did you know that the medical geneticist Meena Upadhyaya has developed tests to diagnose more than 20 genetic diseases?
Did you know that the Thoroughbred Spark was a gift to Samuel Ogle from Lord Baltimore regifted from the Prince of Wales ?
Did you know that Turkish journalist and playwright Nezihe Araz was fired from her newspaper job because a photo attached to her report showed an Arab man urinating, which angered the King of Iraq ?
Did you know that Aardvarks struck the communists during Operation Phou Phiang III ?
Did you know that Rhian Edwards ' debut book of poetry was named the Wales Book of the Year ?
Did you know that the female southern masked chafer beetle attracts a mate by emitting a volatile chemical ?
Did you know that when her uncles sought to take her land and send her to a nunnery, Hawys Gadarn took an audience with Edward II and returned with English troops to take back her castle?
Did you know that the 2016 documentary film The Smart Studios Story was crowdfunded at under $125,000?
Did you know that Subhashni Raj of Fiji participated in the protests at the 2009 United Nations Climate Talks in Copenhagen?
Did you know that Pu Songling wrote of a man and his hibernating dragon ?
Did you know that Major General Carlos Brewer asked to be demoted to colonel so he could command combat troops during World War II, because he was too old to command a division as a general?
Did you know that the previews of Spec Ops: The Line , a game that depicts Dubai in a state of destruction, were banned in the United Arab Emirates ?
Did you know that Lin Duo , the new governor of China's landlocked Gansu Province, was a navy submariner ?
Did you know that " Road Rage " by the Welsh band Catatonia was nominated for best song at the Q Awards , the Brit Awards , and the Ivor Novello Awards ?
Did you know that Dame Lesley Fallowfield was the UK's first professor of psycho-oncology ?
Did you know that in promos for the series finale of Veronica Mars , The CW billed it as a season finale , even though the series had already been cancelled?
Did you know that Japanese Emperor Hirohito had a Liverpudlian cousin named Paddy Murphy ?
Did you know that chestnut pie dates back to the 15th century in Italy, having been documented in an early cookbook written by Bartolomeo Platina ?
Did you know that Argentine president Raúl Alfonsín sponsored the Trial of the Juntas against the leaders of the National Reorganization Process military dictatorship?
Did you know that the Brighton Herald , latterly based at 2–3 Pavilion Buildings in Brighton, was the first newspaper in England to report Napoleon's escape from Elba?
Did you know that Ace Air Flight 51 crashed in the same area as a 2010 plane carrying nine people including U.S. Senator Ted Stevens and former NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe ?
Did you know that the commoner-born Theingaba successfully established himself as the first king of Toungoo during the last years of the Pinya Kingdom ?
Did you know that apart from matte- chamfered edges and an inset stainless steel rear Apple logo, the exterior design of the iPhone SE is nearly identical to that of the iPhone 5S ?
Did you know that Judge Guido Calabresi believes close cases lead to slippery slopes ?
Did you know that the regimental band of the U.S. Army 's 369th Regiment (the "Harlem Hellfighters Band") is credited with introducing jazz to Europe during World War I?
Did you know that Dara Nusserwanji Khurody established the Aarey Milk Colony and introduced affordable toned milk in Mumbai?
Did you know that over a dozen pre-teen soldiers served supply and communications duty during Operation Phou Phiang II ?
Did you know that in 1932 Margareta Suber wrote Sweden's first lesbian novel?
Did you know that Basang , a former slave, was the only woman leader in the Tibet Autonomous Region for more than two decades?
Did you know that Saputangan , a film that follows a man who restores his beloved's eyesight, was banned in Singapore ?
Did you know that rather than accept an appointment as bishop, Father Louis de Barth told Archbishop Leonard Neale that he would burn the papal bull nominating him and flee to the wilderness?
Did you know that Vanderbilt athlete Oliver "Doc" Kuhn helped start the athletics program at the University of Tampa and led the effort to plant podocarpus trees in downtown Tampa ?